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The bill passed by a vote of 65-28, and includes a provision of the Transportation-Treasury Appropriations bill providing temporary relief from Federal Prison Industries' (FPI) status as an exclusive source for products and services. Efforts had previously been underway in Washington to provide legislative relief to federal departments required to purchase items such as laundry services, textiles, furniture etc., from FPI.
Included in the omnibus federal appropriations bill passed by the Senate is a provision giving government contracting officers the authority to determine, based on product quality and delivery schedule, whether FPI or a private sector competitor offers best value on a potential half-billion dollars in products and services"I am very pleased that Congress finally became aware of the urgency of this matter by passing such relief," said Ken Tyler. "After working on this endeavor specifically for close to 17 years with numerous professional organizations, I now remain confident that this long awaited legislated action will soon become permanent. FPI UNICOR have been ripping off government agencies and the American taxpayer for entirely to long.""This represents a major step in our efforts to reform a fundamentally flawed system, but Congress must continue to work toward a permanent solution," said Roger Cocivera, Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA) Interim President and CEO. "TRSA urges Congress to pass the House-approved H.R. 1829, a reform bill that eliminates FPI's mandatory source status over the course of five years and provides for much-needed inmate rehabilitation programs. More and more often, our members are being subject to this fundamentally flawed arrangement where taxpayers are required to fund a government system that exploits prison labor to unfairly compete for marketplace opportunities and jobs."
"I am pleased that this legislation is being passed. I have always felt that the practice of government or state facilities utilizing inmates to compete with the private sector is totally unfair," said Ron Weinstein, president, Laundry Today. "When inmates have served their sentences, if they are trained in laundry jobs, then our industry should make an effort to hire and assist them in their transition as they join us in the workplace."
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Hamilton Engineering Awarded U.S. Patent For Companion Water Heater CWIS™ Design
LIVONIA, Mich. — Hamilton Engineering was recently awarded a U.S. Patent for their Cold Water Injection System (CWIS™) contained within their Companion™ Water Heater and optional on all of their hot water storage tanks. The CWIS™ insures the highest efficiency possible in the water heating system by ensuring all of the coldest water enters the heater first, while eliminating any flow restriction or pressure drop on the hot water being supplied to the laundry so common with other instantaneous or on demand water heaters.


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The Bank of Japan's recent monetary easing methods had no impact on falling Japanese stocks, making events at the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank even more important to Japan.
By David Turner
Institutional investors in Tokyos cosmopolitan Otemachi financial district are these days showing as much interest in the pronouncements of central bankers in Frankfurt and New York as in the utterances from the nearby Bank of Japan (BoJ) and possibly even more.
While investors around the western world wait with bated breath to see if the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank are prepared to keep bolstering their economies with massive asset purchases or refinancing operations, the BoJs revelation that it was buying trillions of yen of extra assets failed on Friday to prevent a further fall in the stock market.
Traders underwhelmed response to the BoJs move confirms how the course of Japanese markets is being governed more by events elsewhere particularly in the euro zone than by the increasingly impotent central bank.
This was underlined by economists nervous reaction to Fridays disappointing numbers for Japans export-focused manufacturing sector an unusually key part of the economy for Japan since underlying long-term growth in domestic demand is low. Government data showed that manufacturers planned to cut production by 4.1 percent in May, and Aprils survey of manufacturing purchasing managers by Markit Economics showed a fall in export orders. Tokyo woke up to a rather chilly rain this morning, and the set of data released this morning was no better, said Takuji Okubo, Asia chief economist at Société Générale in Tokyo. Judging by manufacturers production plans, they do not seem to have much hope for rising export demand.
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152 daguerreotypes document the contribution this medium has made to American art and culture. The exhibition is arranged thematically--portraits; landscapes; and cultural and social relationships. Nearly three quarters of the works have never been published.
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Correlates of grief among older adults caring for children and grandchildren as a consequence of HIV and AIDS in South Africa (HTML)
Boon,Hermien; Ruiter,Robert A.C.; James,Shegs; van den Borne,Bart; Esu-Williams,Eka; Reddy,Priscilla
Journal of Aging and Health 22(1): 48-67
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Over the past few years, older people have becomethe main caregivers for their sick adult children and orphanedgrandchildren due to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. This articleaims to investigate the scope of care provided by older people,with a specific focus on the experience of grief due to multiplelosses and its correlates.
Quantitative interviewswere conducted among 820 isiXhosa speaking caregivers of 60years and older in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
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Should the US have a national biometric ID card?
Immigration reform efforts are rekindling interest. However, the cards also raise tough questions about cost, practicality and cultural change.
As Congress grapples with new efforts at immigration reform and the best way to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., the very controversial idea of a national identification card has once again come to the fore.
The Wall Street Journal reports a bipartisan group of senators is exploring the possibility of requiring anyone working in the U.S. to carry a "high-tech identity card that could use fingerprints or other personal markers to prove a person's legal eligibility to work."
The Journal says while the lawmakers aren't calling for a so-called "biometric" ID card and are open to other options, several have supported the concept in the past. Their goal, says the paper, is to "ensure that employers can learn the legal status of all new hires quickly," while preventing illegal immigrants from tricking the system by using made-up or stolen identification data.
The costs of setting up such a system are just one of the obstacles facing a biometric national ID card. "It's going to be a challenge for small business," says Stephen Haag, a professor-in-residence at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, who specializes in business information and analytics.
"The steep cost of initial implementation, especially if you go the biometric route -- of capturing a biometric identification on everyone who is legal -- would take years," he says, "and hundreds of millions of dollars."
Haag notes the use biometric ID systems is already common outside of national security and intelligence work. For example, fingerprint scans are being used to identify seasonal and annual pass holders at Walt Disney (DIS) theme parks and as an entry device at some university dormitories.
Should a biometric ID card become a reality, Haag envisions a new micro-market emerging, of companies creating portable employee-verification systems that would offer their services to other businesses. "Something along the lines of...these trucks driving around now that do all the shredding that guarantee all of your sensitive documents will be 100% shredded," he says. "I think it would be cost-prohibitive for small business to acquire and maintain the hardware and the software necessary to do it themselves."
The major stumbling block, he believes, would be getting Americans to accept what amounts to a major cultural change. Most ID cards, like your driver's license or green card, explain "who you are." But biometric ID examines the very personal "what you are," as defined by a fingerprint, iris or palm scan, or other invasive methods. And Americans are traditionally not comfortable with that level of scrutiny.
Haag believes that, if done correctly, biometric ID could certainly have an impact on the use of undocumented workers and immigration. But another issue is whether small business would consider such ID cards worth their while.
"Small-business owners are going to look at this and say 'alright, what's the odds of getting caught if I have an illegal worker, and how much is that going to cost me?'" he says. "And they're going to weigh that against, 'how much does it cost me to abide by the regulations?'"
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It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to recieve a mark on thier right hands or on thier forheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Revelations 13, Verses 16 &17
16 SS #'s , 4 alias's, sealed college records, a fake , photoshopped BC (using 1990's technology on a 1960 document ).
It's OK for him to blend into smoke.
No vetting , no forthcoming info, the media lies and covers for him
BUT we do have free condoms , all that transparency and ONLY 6 TRILLION more in Debt.
Thank you Barrack, I mean Barry , I mean Harrison, I mean ----
How can a country sink so low so fast?
People are seriously considering requiring citizens of the land of the free (hah!) and the home of the brave to carry an ID so that they can ask Big Brother's permission to work. What a shame.
If the government made half an attempt to enforce the current laws, we wouldn't have an immigration problem. Most people working illegally are using fake IDs that are easily spotted at the Federal government level. When one SSN has 50 jobs paying taxes through it, it's time to visit their employers. Arrest the "workers" for fraud and deport them. You don't have to prosecute the employers - just don't allow them to deduct the wages paid to illegals as an otherwise legitimate business expense.
The state of New Mexico gives D.L. to illegals and because of that the citizens of New Mexico will probably have to get passports to travel by air to other parts of the USA. Homeland Security has given them a 6 month reprieve before this will happen. Susanna Martinez, a Republican, is trying to get this law changed, but the majority ruling democrats are fighting her. Think about it, American citizens forced to get passports to travel by air WITHIN their OWN country, because illegals are given a driver liscense.
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | ||||
Studio album by Public Enemy | ||||
Released | June 30, 1988 | |||
Recorded | 1987 Chung King Studios Greene St. Recording (Manhattan, New York) Sabella Studios (Long Island, New York) |
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 57:51 | |||
Label | Def Jam/Columbia | |||
Producer | Chuck D, Rick Rubin (exec.), Hank Shocklee | |||
Public Enemy chronology | ||||
Singles from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back[1] | ||||
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released in June 1988 by Def Jam Recordings. Public Enemy set out to make the hip hop equivalent to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, an album noted for its strong social commentary. Recording sessions took place during 1987 at Chung King Studios, Greene St. Recording, and Sabella Studios in New York City. Noting the enthusiastic response toward their live shows, Public Enemy intended with Nation of Millions to make the music of a faster tempo than the previous album for performance purposes.[2]
The album charted for 49 weeks on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 42. By August 1989, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of one million copies in the United States. The album was very well received by music critics, who hailed it for its production techniques and the socially and politically charged lyricism of lead MC Chuck D. It also appeared on many publications' year-end top album lists for 1988, and was the runaway choice as the best album of 1988 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll, a poll of the leading music critics in the US.[3]
Since its initial reception, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back has been regarded by music writers and publications as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.[4][5][6] In 2003, the album was ranked number 48 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the highest ranking of all the hip hop albums on the list.
Public Enemy's 1987 debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show, while acclaimed by hip hop critics and aficionados, had gone ignored for the most part by the rock and R&B mainstream,[7] selling only 300,000 copies, which was relatively low by the high-selling standards of other Def Jam recording artists such as LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys at the time.[8] However, the group continued to tour and record tirelessly. "On the day that Yo! Bum Rush the Show was released [in the spring of 1987], we was already in the trenches recording Nation of Millions," stated lead MC Chuck D.[9]
With It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the group set out to make what they considered to be the hip hop equivalent to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, an album noted for its strong social commentary.[10] As said by Chuck, "our mission was to kill the 'Cold Gettin' Dumb' stuff and really address some situations."[10] In order to ensure that their live shows would be as exciting as those they played in London and Philadelphia, the group decided that the music on Nation of Millions would have to be faster than that found on Yo! Bum Rush the Show.[11]
It wasn't that we took records and rapped over them, we actually had an intricate way of developing sound, arranging the sound. We had musicians like Eric Sadler... Hank Shocklee, the Phil Spector of hip hop. You've got to give the credit as it's due, if Phil Spector has the Wall of Sound Hank Shocklee has the Wall of Noise.
Public Enemy initially recorded the album at Chung King Studios in Manhattan, but began to have conflicts with the engineers who were prejudiced against hip hop acts recording there.[13] The group then began recording at Greene St. Recording where they were much more comfortable.[10] Initially, the engineers at Greene Street were also apprehensive about the group, but eventually grew to respect their work ethic and seriousness about the recording process.[10] Recorded under the working title Countdown to Armageddon, the group ultimately decided on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back instead, a line from their first album's song "Raise the Roof".[14] The material was recorded in 30 days for an estimated $25,000 in recording costs,[15] due to an extensive amount of preproduction by the group at their Long Island studio.[15] The album was completed in six weeks.[16]
Rather than touring with the rest of the group Eric "Vietnam" Sadler and Hank Shocklee would stay in the studio and work on material for the Nation of Millions album, so that Chuck D and Flavor Flav would have the music already done when they returned.[9] When the group began planning the second album, the songs "Bring the Noise", "Don't Believe the Hype", and "Rebel Without a Pause" had already been completed.[11] The latter track was recorded during the group's 1987 Def Jam tour, and the lyrics were written by Chuck D in one day spent secluded at his home.[17] Instead of looping the break from James Brown's "Funky Drummer", a commonly used breakbeat in hip hop, "Rebel Without a Pause" had Flavor Flav play the beat on the drum machine continuously for the track's duration of five minutes and two seconds.[17] Chuck D later said of his contribution to the track, "Flavor's timing helped create almost like a band rhythm".[17] Terminator X, the group's DJ/turntabilist, also incorporated a significant element to the track, the renowned transformer scratch, towards the its end. Named for its similarity to the sound made by the Autobots in The Transformers, the scratch was developed by DJ Spinbad and popularised by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Cash Money, and Terminator X had honed his take on the scratch on tour.[17] The group was satisfied with its sound after having removed the bass from his section of the track.[17]
According to Chuck D, Hank Shocklee made the last call when songs were completed. "Hank would come up with the final mix because he was the sound master... Hank is the Phil Spector of hip-hop. He was way ahead of his time, because he dared to challenge the odds in sound."[14] This was also one of the details which Chuck felt to be unique to the time and recording of the album. "Once hip-hop became corporate, they took the daredevil out of the artistry. But being a daredevil was what Hank brought to the table."[14] It was decided amongst the group that the album should be exactly one hour long, thirty minutes on each side. At the time, audio cassettes were more popular than CD's and the group didn't want listeners having to hear dead air for a long time after one half of the album was finished.[18] The two sides of the album were originally the other way around, the album beginning with "Show Em Whatcha Got" which leads into "She Watch Channel Zero?!" This instead became the start of side two, or the "Black Side." Hank Shocklee decided to flip the sides just before the mastering of the album and start the record with Dave Pearce introducing the group during their first tour of England.[14][18]
Music and lyrics[edit]
Under Hank Shocklee's direction, the Bomb Squad, the group's production team, began to develop a dense and chaotic production style that relied on found sounds and avant-garde noise as much as it did on old-school funk.[7] Along with a varied selection of sampled elements, the tracks feature a greater tempo than those of the group's contemporaries.[19] Music critic Robert Christgau noted these elements and wrote that the Bomb Squad "juice post-Coleman/Coltrane ear-wrench with the kind of furious momentum harmolodic funk has never dared: the shit never stops abrading and exploding".[20] As with the group's live performances, Flavor Flav supported Chuck D's politically charged lyrics with "hype man" vocals and surrealistic lyrics on the album.[21][22]
On the album's content, music journalist Peter Shapiro wrote "Droning feedback, occasional shards of rock guitar, and James Brown horn samples distorted into discordant shrieks back the political rhetoric of lead rapper Chuck D and the surreality of Flavor Flav".[21] Ethnomathematics author Ron Eglash interpreted the album's style and production to be "massively interconnected political and sonic content", writing that "[the Bomb Squad] navigated the ambiguity between the philosophies of sound and voice. Public Enemy's sound demonstrated an integration of lyrical content, vocal tone, sample density and layering, scratch deconstruction, and sheer velocity that rap music has never been able to recapture, and that hip-hop DJs and producers are still mining for gems".[19]
We took whatever was annoying, threw it into a pot, and that's how we came out with this group. We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it. That's still our philosophy, to show people that this thing you call music is a lot broader than you think it is.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Shocklee noted that the album's dynamic sound was inspired by Chuck D's rapping prowess, stating "Chuck's a powerful rapper. We wanted to make something that could sonically stand up to him".[16] Of his own contributions to its production, Shocklee cited himself as being the arranger and noted that he had "no interest in linear songs".[15] When using records for sampling, Shocklee stated that he'd sometimes put them on the ground and stomp on them if they sounded too "clean."[15]
Hank referred to Chuck D as being the person who'd find all the vocal samples, Eric Sadler as "the one with the musical talent," and noted that his brother, Keith Shocklee, "knew a lot of the breakbeats and was the sound-effects master."[15] Shocklee's sentiments were reinforced by Chuck D while explaining the group's working methods during production. "Eric was the musician, Hank was the antimusician. Eric did a lot of the [drum] programming, [Hank's brother] Keith was the guy who would bring in the feel."[9] For his contributions to the production side, Chuck stated that he "would scour for vocal samples all over the Earth. I would name a song, tag it, and get the vocal samples."[9] Chuck D also noted the productiveness of Sadler and Shocklee's differing approaches to the creative process. "The friction between Hank and Eric worked very well. Hank would put a twist on Eric's musicianship and Eric's musicianship would put a twist on Hank."[14]
Some production mistakes were kept for the album. The breakdown in "Bring the Noise" in which the kick-drum sample from James Brown's "Funky Drummer" plays solo was a mistake.[15] Apparently, the wrong sequence came up in the SP1200 sampler and Shocklee decided not only to keep it but to have Chuck rewrite his rhyme to fit the pattern.[15] The album itself was mixed with no automation, instead being recorded on analog tape and later painstakingly mixed by hand.[15] This is a significant fact due to its nature as being one of the more intricate albums of digitally sampled music.[15] Asked years later if replicating the number of samples used on the album would be possible [due to increased clearance costs for copyrighted material], Hank Shocklee said while possible, it would be far more expensive than at the time to do so.[24]
Throughout the album, Chuck D delivers narratives that are characterized by black nationalist rhetoric and regard topics such as self-empowerment for African Americans, critiques of White supremacy, and challenges to exploitation in the music industry.[25] "Caught, Can We Get a Witness?" directly addresses the issue of sampling in hip hop and copyright violation from a perspective that supports the practice and claims entitlement due to "black ownership of the sounds in the first place".[25]
"Rebel Without a Pause" exemplifies the faster tempo that Public Enemy intended for the album,[17] while incorporating a heavy beat and samples of screeching horns,[26] the latter taken from The J.B.'s' "The Grunt" (1972).[25] According to Ron Eglash, such effects of sampling exemplify the "sense of urgency" given to the messages of the album's tracks, "to heighten the tension of the mix", while Chuck D's message is "one of total resistance that was readily accessible through [...] the confrontational sounds of bass, groove, and noise."[25] Lyrically, it eschews the traditional verse/chorus—verse/chorus song structure, with 12 bars of Chuck D's aggressive rapping, punctuated by Flavor Flav's stream of consciousness ad-libs.[17] Public Enemy-biographer Russell Myrie writes of the track's significance, "It matched 'I Know You Got Soul' in terms of its innovation and its breathtaking quality. It increased the tempo for Public Enemy, something they would do repeatedly during their forthcoming masterpiece [...] The faster tempo was important as it would heighten energy levels at their shows. Most important of all, it sounded fresh. It was some next level hip-hop. Chuck and Hank rightly felt it could stand alongside the best rap records of the time."[17]
Some of the song titles make reference to other works from popular culture. The title of the song "Party for Your Right to Fight" is a rearrangement of the Beastie Boys' 1987 hit single "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)."[27] The vocal sample of hip hop DJ Mr. Magic stating that his show would play "no more music by the suckers" was used on the song "Cold Lampin' with Flavor" after having been recorded from Magic's radio show by Flavor Flav.[28] Magic had dissed the group with the line when he mistakenly embroiled them in the WBAU-WBLS radio war.[28]
Commercial performance[edit]
In its first month of release, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back sold 500,000 copies without significant promotional efforts by its distributing label Columbia Records.[29] It peaked at number 42 on the U.S. Billboard Top Pop Albums chart and at number one on the Top Black Albums chart.[30] It spent 49 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums.[31]
On August 22, 1989, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of at least one million copies in the United States.[32] Since 1991, when the tracking system Nielsen SoundScan began tracking domestic sales data, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back has sold 722,000 additional copies as of 2010[update].[33]
Critical response[edit]
Despite a divided reaction towards its controversial lyrical content, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back received positive reviews from music critics upon its release.[34] Rolling Stone writer David Fricke described the album as a "Molotov cocktail of nuclear scratching, gnarly minimalist electronics and revolution rhyme" and complimented its "abrupt sequencing and violent sonic compression of rapid-fire samples, slamming-jail-door percussion, DJ Terminator X's tornado turntable work and Chuck D's outraged oratory".[35] In a 1988 article, Los Angeles Times writer Robert Hilburn wrote that the album incorporates some of the dynamics of early rap records such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" (1982) and Run–D.M.C.'s "Sucker M.C.'s" (1983) with the "radical, socially conscious tradition of groups like the Last Poets".[8] Hilburn commended Chuck D for his rapping on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, writing that he "isn't afraid of being labeled an extremist, and it's that fearless bite—or game plan—that helps infuse his black-consciousness raps with the anger and assault of punk pioneers like the Sex Pistols and Clash".[36] Los Angeles Daily News gave the album a "B" and compared its musical "rage" favorably to that of rapper Schoolly D's Smoke Some Kill (1988).[37] Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised the album for its production and compared its symbolic value to hip hop music at the time, stating:
Where most rappers present themselves as funky individualists, beating the odds of the status quo, Public Enemy suggests that rap listeners can become an active community, not just an audience. Although it overreaches, It Takes a Nation jams urban tension and black anger into the foreground; it reveals the potential for demagoguery as well as the need for change. 'Whatcha gonna do/ rappers not afraid of you', Public Enemy demands, and in 1988 it sounds like something more than idle entertainment.[38]
Despite writing that it "sounds powerful, fresh and galvanizing", Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post found its lyrical content inconsistent, stating "Aurally, 'Nation of Millions' is intoxicating; Hank Shocklee and Carl Ryder's bold production will likely prove among the most distinctive of the year, not just in rap but in any pop genre. For their work to pack the political wallop they crave, however, the members of Public Enemy need to think for themselves, not just attach themselves to the thought of whichever black nationalist is currently drawing big crowds".[39] It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was included on several critics' end-of-the-year album lists.[34] It was ranked number one on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll of 1988,[40] as well as number three on Voice critic Robert Christgau's list.[41] In an article for the newspaper, Christgau described It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back as "the bravest and most righteous experimental pop of the decade—no matter how the music looks written down (ha ha), Hank Shocklee and Terminator X have translated Blood Ulmer's harmolodic visions into a street fact that's no less edutaining (if different) in the dwellings of monkey spawn and brothers alike (and different)".[42] Christgau later gave the album an "A+",[20] indicating "a record of sustained beauty, power, insight, groove, and/or googlefritz that has invited and repaid repeated listenings in the daily life of someone with 500 other CDs to get to".[43]
Legacy and influence[edit]
Professional ratings | |
Retrospective reviews | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [44] |
Robert Christgau | A+[20] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [47] |
Slant Magazine | [48] |
Sputnikmusic | 5/5[49] |
Widely regarded as the group's best work, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back has been claimed by various publications and writers as one of the greatest and most influential recordings of all time.[4][5][6] Upon the album's remastered reissue in 1995, Q hailed It Takes a Nation as "the greatest rap album of all time, a landmark and classic".[46] Also upon its reissue, Melody Maker called the album "bloody essential" and commented that "I hadn't believed it could get harder [than YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW]. Or better".[46] NME dubbed it "the greatest hip-hop album ever" at the time, stating "this wasn't merely a sonic triumph. This was also where Chuck wrote a fistful of lyrics that promoted him to the position of foremost commentator/documentor of life in the underbelly of the USA".[46] Mojo stated upon the album's 2000 European reissue, "Responsible for the angriest polemic since The Last Poets....[they] revolutionized the music, using up to 80 backing tracks in the sonic assault....to these ears PE sound like the greatest rock'n'roll band in history".[46] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 48 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, making it the highest-ranked of the 27 hip hop albums included on the list.[50] Time magazine hailed it as one of the 100 greatest albums of all time in 2006.[51] Kurt Cobain, the lead guitarist and singer of rock band Nirvana, listed the album as one of his top 50 favorite albums in his Journals.[52] In 2006, Q placed the album at number seven in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".[53] As of June 2010, It Takes a Nation of Millions is ranked as the top album of 1988 and the seventeenth greatest album of all time at AcclaimedMusic.net.[54][55] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at #3 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s" behind Michael Jackson's Thriller and Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain.[56] The album ranks Number 2 in the list of best records of the 20th century of German music magazine Spex.[57]
In his 2004 book Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power, Ron Eglash commented that a sonically and politically charged album such as Nation "can be considered a monument to the synthesis of sound and politics".[19] In 2005, New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music hosted a two-day retrospective called "The Making of It Takes a Nation of Millions."[15] It featured a producers' panel that reunited Hank Shocklee, captain of the Bomb Squad, with the Chairmen of the Boards from Greene St. Recording.[15] When asked in 2008 if the album would still be considered as radical if it were released two decades later, Chuck D said he felt it would "simply because it's faster than anything on the radio right now. And yeah, it's radical politically... because it's not really being said a lot. You want it to not be radical, but it is because it's totally different from Soulja Boy."[12]
Public Enemy performed the album in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.[12] Music from the album has been sampled by various artists over the years, including (though not limited to) the Beastie Boys ("Egg Man"),[58] Game ("Remedy"),[59] Jay-Z ("Show Me What You Got"),[60] Jurassic 5 ("What's Golden"),[61] Madonna ("Justify My Love"),[62] and My Bloody Valentine ("Instrumental B").[63] The album is broken down track-by-track by Chuck D in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.[64]
The information regarding accolades attributed to It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is taken from AcclaimedMusic.net.[65]
Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
About.com | USA | 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums[66] | 2008 | 2 |
10 Essential Hip-Hop Albums[67] | 2008 | 2 | ||
Adresseavisen | Norway | The 100 (+23) Best Albums of All Time | 1995 | 41 |
Aftenposten | Top 50 Albums of All Time | 1999 | 4 | |
Alternative Press | USA | Top 99 Albums of '85 to '95 | 1995 | 6 |
Amazon.com | The 10 Best Albums by Decade | 1999 | 1 | |
The Anarchist | UK | The 33 Best Albums Ever | 1997 | 4 |
BigO | Singapore | The 100 Best Albums from 1975 to 1995 | 1995 | 29 |
Blender | USA | The 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time | 2002 | 11 |
500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die | 2003 | * | ||
Blow Up | Italy | 600 Essential Albums | 2005 | |
Channel 4 | UK | 125 Nominations for the 100 Greatest Albums | ||
Robert Christgau | USA | Personal 10 Best Albums from the '80s | 1990 | 8 |
The Courier-Mail | Australia | 50 Defining Rock Albums | 2005 | 42 |
Dagbladet | Norway | The Best Albums of the Century | 1999 | * |
Dance de Lux | Spain | The 25 Best Hip-Hop Records | 2001 | 1 |
Robert Dimery (General Editor) | — | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | 2005 | * |
Discoplay | Spain | The 50 Best Albums of All Time | 1997 | |
Eggen & Kartvedt | Norway | The Guide to the 100 Important Rock Albums | 1999 | |
Ego Trip | USA | Hip Hop's 25 Greatest Albums by Year 1980–98 | 1 | |
Entertainment Weekly | The 100 Greatest CDs of All Time | 1993 | 33 | |
Expressen | Sweden | The 100 Best Records Ever | 1999 | 66 |
The Face | UK | Albums of the Year | 1988 | 9 |
Fast 'n' Bulbous | USA | The 500 Best Albums Since 1965 | — | 80 |
Gear | The 100 Greatest Albums of the Century | 1999 | 14 | |
The Guardian | UK | The 100 Best Albums Ever | 1997 | 20 |
Joe S. Harrington, Blastitude | USA | The All-Time Top 100 Albums | 2001 | 27 |
Helsingin Sanomat | Finland | 50th Anniversary of Rock | 2004 | * |
IE | USA | 50 Great Albums, a Rock Time Capsule | 1999 | |
Juice TV | Australia | The 50 Best Albums of All Time | 1997 | 19 |
KCPR DJs | USA | Top 100 Records from the 80s | 2002 | 43 |
Kitsap Sun | Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years | 2005 | 53 | |
David Kleijwegt | Netherlands | Top 100 Albums of All Time | 1999 | 47 |
Les Inrockuptibles | France | The 100 Best Albums 1986–1996 | 1996 | 44 |
50 Years of Rock'n'Roll | 2004 | * | ||
List by Asian Critics | — | 100 Essential Albums | — | |
Melody Maker | UK | Albums of the Year | 1988 | 28 |
All Time Top 100 Albums | 2000 | 17 | ||
Mojo | The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made | 1995 | 76 | |
Tom Moon | USA | 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die[68] | 2008 | * |
Paul Morley | UK | Words and Music, 5 x 100 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2003 | * |
Musik Express/Sounds | Germany | The 100 Masterpieces | 1993 | 92 |
The 50 Best Albums from the 80s | 2003 | 3 | ||
Muzik | UK | The 50 Most Influential Records of All Time | * | |
Top 50 Dance Albums of All Time | 2002 | 19 | ||
New Musical Express | 40 Records That Captured the Moment 1952–91 | 1992 | * | |
Albums of the Year | 1988 | 1 | ||
All Times Top 100 Albums + Top 50 by Decade | 1993 | 9 | ||
Top 100 Albums of All Time | 2003 | 29 | ||
New Nation | Top 100 Albums by Black Artists | — | 3 | |
Nieuwe Revu | Netherlands | Top 100 Albums of All Time | 1994 | 34 |
NPR | USA | The 300 Most Important American Records of the 20th Century | 1999 | * |
OOR | Netherlands | Albums of the Year | 1988 | 4 |
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Track listing[edit]
Album produced by The Bomb Squad. All songs written by Carlton "Chuck D" Ridenhour, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, and Hank Shocklee, except where noted.
- "Countdown to Armageddon" – 1:40
- "Bring the Noise" – 3:46
- "Don't Believe the Hype" (Ridenhour, Sadler, Shocklee, William "Flavor Flav" Drayton) – 5:19
- "Cold Lampin' with Flavor" (Sadler, Shocklee, Drayton) – 4:17
- "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" (Ridenhour, Norman "Terminator X" Rogers, Drayton) – 4:31
- "Mind Terrorist" – 1:21
- "Louder Than a Bomb" – 3:37
- "Caught, Can We Get a Witness?" – 4:53
- "Show 'Em Whatcha Got" – 1:56
- "She Watch Channel Zero?!" (Ridenhour, Sadler, Shocklee, Richard "Professor Griff" Griffin, Drayton) – 3:49
- "Night of the Living Baseheads" – 3:14
- "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (Ridenhour, Sadler, Shocklee, Drayton) – 6:23
- "Security of the First World" – 1:20
- "Rebel Without a Pause" (Ridenhour, Sadler, Shocklee, Rogers) – 5:02
- "Prophets of Rage" (Ridenhour, Sadler, Shocklee, Drayton) – 3:18
- "Party for Your Right to Fight" – 3:24
Credits adapted from Allmusic.[69]
- Assistant production – Eric "Vietnam" Sadler
- Engineering – Greg Gordon, John Harrison, Jeff Jones, Jim Sabella, Nick Sansano, Christopher Shaw, Matt Tritto, Chuck Valle
- Executive production – Rick Rubin
- Mixing – Keith Boxley, DJ Chuck Chillout, Steven Ett, Rod Hui
- Photography – Glen E. Friedman
- Production – Carl Ryder, Hank Shocklee
- Production supervisor – Bill Stephney
- Programming – Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee
- Scratching – Norman Rogers, Johnny Juice Rosado
- Turntables – Johnny Juice Rosado, Terminator X
- Vocals – Harry Allen, Chuck D, Fab 5 Freddy, Flavor Flav, Erica Johnson, Oris Josphe, Professor Griff
Chart (1988)[30] | Peak position |
Netherlands (MegaCharts)[70] | 40 |
UK Albums Chart[71] | 8 |
US Billboard Top LPs | 42 |
US Billboard Top Black Albums | 1 |
Region | Certification |
United Kingdom (BPI)[72] | Silver |
United States (RIAA)[73] | Platinum |
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- ^ a b Shapiro, pp. 304–306
- ^ Hess, Mickey, 2007, Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 176.
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- Bibliography
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- Brian Coleman (2007). Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies. Villard Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-7775-2.
- Russell Myrie (2008). Don't Rhyme For the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorized Story of Public Enemy. Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84767-182-0.
- Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- Peter Shapiro (2005). Rough Guide to Hip Hop. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-263-7.
- Murray, Forman; Neal, Mark Anthony, eds. (2004). That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-96919-0.
- Strong, Martin Charles (October 21, 2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate U.S. ISBN 1841956155.
External links[edit]
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back at Discogs (list of releases)
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back at Pitchfork Media


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Asked if he thinks he or McGwire belong in the Hall, Sosa said: ''I think so.''
''I'm not going to come here and say anything that is going to jeopardize my future,'' he added. ''But definitely time will determine everything. Right now whatever it is, it is. I am not (somebody who) is going to go out there and say anything I don't want to say. I'm waiting for my time. ... I don't like controversy. Definitely time will determine everything.''
Sosa, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied entry to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility amid suspicions their accomplishments were boosted by performance-enhancing drugs. McGwire, 10th on the career home run list, received 16.9 percent of the vote on his seventh try, far short of the 75 percent needed for election.
Sosa, who finished with 609 home runs and ranks eighth on the all-time chart, received 12.5 percent of the vote. He was among those who tested positive in Major League Baseball's 2003 anonymous survey, The New York Times reported in 2009. He told a congressional committee in 2005 that he never took illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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Sosa said he was aware of Ricketts' comments.
''They know where I am,'' he said. ''If they want to find me, they have to call me. I'm always available.''
Would he run for president of the Dominican Republic?
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Current IET membership fees by membership category including the IET qualified and registered member fee and current Engineering Council fees.
Fellow (FIET) | £160.00 |
Member with designatory letters (TMIET or MIET) | £137.00 |
Associate | £137.00 |
Students and apprentices | £20.00 |
Students and apprentices (for duration of course) | £50.00 |
Reduced fees and discounts are available to members in special circumstances. If you wish to apply for a reduced fee, please contact the Member and Customer Services Centre.
If you are interested in becoming registered through the IET you can find out more about the associated fees on the Professional Registration Fees page.
If you are professionally registered with the Engineering Council, you are required to pay the IET qualified and registered member fee. This rate includes the standard IET membership fee.
IET registered Fellows: Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers or Chartered Electrical Engineers | £192.00 |
IET registered members: Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers or Chartered Electrical Engineers | £169.00 |
IET registered Fellows: Engineering Technicians or ICT Technicians | £173.00 |
IET registered members: Engineering Technicians or ICT Technicians | £150.00 |
If you are professionally registered with the Engineering Council, or were awarded the title Chartered Electrical Engineer through the IEE, you are required to pay the IET qualified and registered member fee plus the Engineering Council registration fee below.
Chartered Engineer (CEng) | £33.50 |
Incorporated Engineer (IEng) | £28.30 |
Engineering Technician (EngTech) | £16.30 |
ICT Technician (ICTTech) | £16.30 |
CITP registrants are required to pay the following annual fees in addition to their IET membership fee:
Chartered IT Professional (CITP) | £45.00 |
Membership or professional registration certificates are provided free of charge, unless a replacement professional registration certificate is required in which case a small administration fee will be charged. For further information please visit the certificates of membership or registration page.
All the above IET membership fees and Engineering Council fees are effective from 1 January 2014.
Membership of the IET runs for 12 consecutive months from date of payment (e.g. an individual joining the IET in March 2014 would receive a renewal notice in April 2015).
Members who are employed, pay UK income tax and pay for their own membership subscription may claim tax relief on subscriptions to periodicals and their membership fees as expenses of their profession.
Reduced membership subscription rates are available to members in certain circumstances.
For more information about how to pay, please visit our payment methods page.
The IET has made special arrangements for members in the following countries:


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By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 272) of Bruce E. Tarr, Danielle W. Gregoire and Ann-Margaret Ferrante for legislation relative to ensuring the integrity of charter schools. Education.
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Status: | Referred to Joint Committee on Education |
Petitioners: Bruce E. Tarr, Danielle W. Gregoire, Ann-Margaret Ferrante