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The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It is a standardized measure of demand for natural capital that may be contrasted with the planet's ecological capacity to regenerate.[1] It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to supply the resources a human population consumes, and to assimilate associated waste. Using this assessment, it is possible to estimate how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody followed a given lifestyle. For 2007, humanity's total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.5 planet Earths; that is, humanity uses ecological services 1.5 times as quickly as Earth can renew them.[2] Every year, this number is recalculated to incorporate the three-year lag due to the time it takes for the UN to collect and publish statistics and relevant research.
Although the term ecological footprint is widely used and well known,[3] it goes beyond the metaphor. It represents an accounting system for biocapacity that tracks how much biocapacity there is, and how much biocapacity people use. Calculation methods have converged thanks to standards released in 2006 and updated in 2009.[4]
The first academic publication about the ecological footprint was by William Rees in 1992.[5] The ecological footprint concept and calculation method was developed as the PhD dissertation of Mathis Wackernagel, under Rees' supervision at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from 1990–1994.[6] Originally, Wackernagel and Rees called the concept "appropriated carrying capacity".[7] To make the idea more accessible, Rees came up with the term "ecological footprint", inspired by a computer technician who praised his new computer's "small footprint on the desk".[8] In early 1996, Wackernagel and Rees published the book Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth.[9]
Ecological footprint analysis compares human demands on nature with the biosphere's ability to regenerate resources and provide services. It does this by assessing the biologically productive land and marine area required to produce the resources a population consumes and absorb the corresponding waste, using prevailing technology. Footprint values at the end of a survey are categorized for Carbon, Food, Housing, and Goods and Services as well as the total footprint number of Earths needed to sustain the world's population at that level of consumption. This approach can also be applied to an activity such as the manufacturing of a product or driving of a car. This resource accounting is similar to life cycle analysis wherein the consumption of energy, biomass (food, fiber), building material, water and other resources are converted into a normalized measure of land area called global hectares (gha).
Per capita ecological footprint (EF), or ecological footprint analysis (EFA), is a means of comparing consumption and lifestyles, and checking this against nature's ability to provide for this consumption. The tool can inform policy by examining to what extent a nation uses more (or less) than is available within its territory, or to what extent the nation's lifestyle would be replicable worldwide. The footprint can also be a useful tool to educate people about carrying capacity and over-consumption, with the aim of altering personal behavior. Ecological footprints may be used to argue that many current lifestyles are not sustainable. Such a global comparison also clearly shows the inequalities of resource use on this planet at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
In 2007, the average biologically productive area per person worldwide was approximately 1.8 global hectares (gha) per capita. The U.S. footprint per capita was 9.0 gha, and that of Switzerland was 5.6 gha, while China's was 1.8 gha.[10][11] The WWF claims that the human footprint has exceeded the biocapacity (the available supply of natural resources) of the planet by 20%.[12] Wackernagel and Rees originally estimated that the available biological capacity for the 6 billion people on Earth at that time was about 1.3 hectares per person, which is smaller than the 1.8 global hectares published for 2006, because the initial studies neither used global hectares nor included bioproductive marine areas.[9]
A number of NGOs offer ecological footprint calculators (see Footprint Calculator, below).
Ecological footprint analysis is now widely used around the Earth as an indicator of environmental sustainability.[citation needed] It can be used to measure and manage the use of resources throughout the economy. It can be used to explore the sustainability of individual lifestyles, goods and services, organizations, industry sectors, neighborhoods, cities, regions and nations.[13] Since 2006, a first set of ecological footprint standards exist that detail both communication and calculation procedures. They are available at www.footprintstandards.org and were developed in a public process facilitated by Global Footprint Network and its partner organizations.
The ecological footprint accounting method at the national level is described in the Footprint Atlas 2010[14] or in greater detail in the Calculation Methodology for the National Footprint Accounts.[15] The National Accounts Review Committee has also published a research agenda on how the method will be improved.[16]
There have been differences in the methodology used by various ecological footprint studies. Examples include how sea area should be counted, how to account for fossil fuels, how to account for nuclear power (many studies[weasel words] simply consider it to have the same ecological footprint as fossil fuels),[citation needed] which data sources used, when average global numbers or local numbers should be used when looking at a specific area, how space for biodiversity should be included, and how imports/exports should be accounted for. However, as new footprint standards emerge, the calculation methodologies are converging.[citation needed]
In 2003, Jason Venetoulis, Carl Mas, Christopher Gaudet, Dahlia Chazan, and John Talberth developed Footprint 2., which offers a series of theoretical and methodological improvements to the standard footprint approach. The four primary improvements were that they included the entire surface of the Earth in biocapacity estimates, allocated space for other (i.e., non-human) species, updated the basis of equivalence factors from agricultural land to net primary productivity (NPP), and refined the carbon component of the footprint based on the latest global carbon models.[17][18]
Studies in the United KingdomEdit
The UK's average ecological footprint is 5.45 global hectares per capita (gha) with variations between regions ranging from 4.80 gha (Wales) to 5.56 gha (East England).[11] Two recent studies have examined relatively low-impact small communities. BedZED, a 96-home mixed-income housing development in South London, was designed by Bill Dunster Architects and sustainability consultants BioRegional for the Peabody Trust. Despite being populated by relatively "mainstream" home-buyers, BedZED was found to have a footprint of 3.20 gha due to on-site renewable energy production, energy-efficient architecture, and an extensive green lifestyles program that included on-site London's first carsharing club. The report did not measure the added footprint of the 15,000 visitors who have toured BedZED since its completion in 2002. Findhorn Ecovillage, a rural intentional community in Moray, Scotland, had a total footprint of 2.56 gha, including both the many guests and visitors who travel to the community to undertake residential courses there and the nearby campus of Cluny Hill College. However, the residents alone have a footprint of 2.71 gha, a little over half the UK national average and one of the lowest ecological footprints of any community measured so far in the industrialized world[19][20] Keveral Farm, an organic farming community in Cornwall, was found to have a footprint of 2.4 gha, though with substantial differences in footprints among community members.[21]
Early criticism was published by van den Bergh and Verbruggen in 1999;[22] another criticism was published in 2008.[23] A more complete review commissioned by the Directorate-General for the Environment (European Commission) and published in June 2008 provides the most updated independent assessment of the method.[24] A number of countries have engaged in research collaborations to test the validity of the method. This includes Switzerland, Germany, United Arab Emirates, and Belgium.[25]
Grazi et al. (2007) have performed a systematic comparison of the ecological footprint method with spatial welfare analysis that includes environmental externalities, agglomeration effects and trade advantages.[26] They find that the two methods can lead to very distinct, and even opposite, rankings of different spatial patterns of economic activity. However, this should not be surprising, since the two methods address different research questions.
Calculating the ecological footprint for densely populated areas, such as a city or small country with a comparatively large population — e.g. New York and Singapore respectively — may lead to the perception of these populations as "parasitic". This is because these communities have little intrinsic biocapacity, and instead must rely upon large hinterlands. Critics argue that this is a dubious characterization since mechanized rural farmers in developed nations may easily consume more resources than urban inhabitants, due to transportation requirements and the unavailability of economies of scale. Furthermore, such moral conclusions seem to be an argument for autarky. Some even take this train of thought a step further, claiming that the Footprint denies the benefits of trade. Therefore, the critics argue that the Footprint can only be applied globally.[27]
The method seems to reward the replacement of original ecosystems with high-productivity agricultural monocultures by assigning a higher biocapacity to such regions. For example, replacing ancient woodlands or tropical forests with monoculture forests or plantations may improve the ecological footprint. Similarly, if organic farming yields were lower than those of conventional methods, this could result in the former being "penalized" with a larger ecological footprint.[28] Of course, this insight, while valid, stems from the idea of using the footprint as one's only metric. If the use of ecological footprints are complemented with other indicators, such as one for biodiversity, the problem could maybe be solved. Indeed, WWF's Living Planet Report complements the biennial Footprint calculations with the Living Planet Index of biodiversity.[29] Manfred Lenzen and Shauna Murray have created a modified Ecological Footprint that takes biodiversity into account for use in Australia.[30]
Although the ecological footprint model prior to 2008 treated nuclear power in the same manner as coal power,[31] the actual real world effects of the two are radically different. A life cycle analysis centered on the Swedish Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant estimated carbon dioxide emissions at 3.10 g/kWh[32] and 5.05 g/kWh in 2002 for the Torness Nuclear Power Station.[33] This compares to 11 g/kWh for hydroelectric power, 950 g/kWh for installed coal, 900 g/kWh for oil and 600 g/kWh for natural gas generation in the United States in 1999.[34] Figures released by Mark Hertsgaard, however, show that because of the delays in building nuclear plants and the costs involved, investments in energy efficiency and renewable energies have seven times the return on investment of investments in nuclear energy.[35]
The Swedish utility Vattenfall did a study of full life cycle emissions of Nuclear, Hydro, Coal, Gas, Solar Cell, Peat and Wind which the utility uses to produce electricity. The net result of the study was that nuclear power produced 3.3 grams of carbon dioxide per KW-Hr of produced power. This compares to 400 for natural gas and 700 for coal (according to this study). The study also concluded that nuclear power produced the smallest amount of CO2 of any of their electricity sources.[36]
Claims exist that the problems of nuclear waste do not come anywhere close to approaching the problems of fossil fuel waste.[37][38] A 2004 article from the BBC states: "The World Health Organization (WHO) says 3 million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution annually from vehicles and industrial emissions, and 1.6 million indoors through using solid fuel."[39] In the U.S. alone, fossil fuel waste kills 20,000 people each year.[40] A coal power plant releases 100 times as much radiation as a nuclear power plant of the same wattage.[41] It is estimated that during 1982, US coal burning released 155 times as much radioactivity into the atmosphere as the Three Mile Island incident.[42] In addition, fossil fuel waste causes global warming, which leads to increased deaths from hurricanes, flooding, and other weather events. The World Nuclear Association provides a comparison of deaths due to accidents among different forms of energy production. In their comparison, deaths per TW-yr of electricity produced (in UK and USA) from 1970 to 1992 are quoted as 885 for hydropower, 342 for coal, 85 for natural gas, and 8 for nuclear.[43]
Footprint by countryEdit
The world-average ecological footprint in 2007 was 2.7 global hectares per person. The average per country ranges from over 10 to under 1 global hectare per person. There is also a high variation within countries, depending on individual lifestyle.
. . . the average world citizen has an eco-footprint of about 2.7 global average hectares while there are only 2.1 global hectare of bioproductive land and water per capita on earth. This means that humanity has already overshot global biocapacity by 30% and now lives unsustainabily by depleting stocks of "natural capital"[44]
See alsoEdit
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- ↑ Ewing et al. 2001. Global Footprint Network. Retrieved on 25 February 2001.
- ↑ Data Sources. Global Footprint Network (2010-06-05). Retrieved on 2012-03-17.
- ↑ United Nations Environment Programme UNEP reports. [1]
- ↑ http. //www.footprintstandards.org. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
- ↑ Rees, William E. (October 1992). "Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out". Environment and Urbanisation 4 (2): 121–130. doi:10.1177/095624789200400212.
- ↑ Wackernagel, M. (1994) (PDF). Ecological Footprint and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: A Tool for Planning Toward Sustainability (PhD thesis). Vancouver, Canada: School of Community and Regional Planning. The University of British Columbia. OCLC 41839429. https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/7132/ubc_1994-954027.pdf?sequence=1.
- ↑ Wackernagel, Mathis, 1991. "Land Use: Measuring a Community's Appropriated Carrying Capacity as an Indicator for Sustainability"; and "Using Appropriated Carrying Capacity as an Indicator, Measuring the Sustainability of a Community." Report I & II to the UBC Task Force on Healthy and Sustainable Communities, Vancouver.
- ↑ William Safire, On Language: Footprint, New York Times Magazine, February 17, 2008
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Wackernagel, Mathis & Rees, William (1996)"Our Ecological Footprint" (New Society Press)
- ↑ [2] or [3] Living Planet Report 2008 outlines scenarios for humanity's future. Global Footprint Network. Retrieved: 2009-02-15
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chambers, N. et al. (2004) Scotland's Footprint. Best Foot Forward. ISBN 0-9546042-0-2.
- ↑ Global ecosystems 'face collapse' BBC News. Retrieved: 2007-05-18.
- ↑ Global Footprint Network "Ecological Footprint: Overview." Retrieved on August 1, 2007.
- ↑ Ewing et al. 2010. Global Footprint Network. Retrieved on 21 January 2011.
- ↑ Ewing et al. 2010. Global Footprint Network. Retrieved on 13 June 2011.
- ↑ A Research Agenda for Improving National Ecological Footprint Accounts Retrieved: 2007-11-11[dead link]
- ↑ World in Motion: The Globalization and the Environment Reader, Venetoulis and Talberth (2009), edited by Gary Kroll and Richard Howard Robbins
- ↑ "Redefining the Footprint (footprint 2.0)" in Sustainable Development: Principles, Frameworks, and Case Studies, CRC, Routledge (2010).
- ↑ Findhorn eco-footprint is 'world's smallest' Sunday Herald, August 11, 2008."A new expert study says the multinational community's ecological footprint is half the UK average. This means Findhorn uses 50% fewer resources and creates 50% less waste than normal."
- ↑ Tinsley, S. and George, H. (2006) Ecological Footprint of the Findhorn Foundation and Community. Moray. Sustainable Development Research Centre, UHI Millennium Institute.
- ↑ Radical Routes (2006) How to work out your Ecological Footprint. Leeds. Radical Routes Ltd. Available to order or download on the Radical Routes web site
- ↑ J.C.J.M. van den Bergh and H. Verbruggen (1999). "Spatial sustainability, trade and indicators: an evaluation of the 'ecological footprint'" (PDF). Ecological Economics 29 (1): 63–74. http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/98105.pdf. [4][5]
- ↑ Fiala, N. (2008). "Measuring sustainability: Why the ecological footprint is bad economics and bad environmental science". Ecological Economics 67 (4): 519–525. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.07.023. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921800908003376.
- ↑ Analysis of the potential of the Ecological Footprint and related assessment tools for use in the EU's Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/natres/studies.htm
- ↑ http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/national_reviews. More specifically, reviews by nations include Switzerland – http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/21/03/blank/blank/01.html (technical and descriptive report). Eurostat – http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-AU-06-001/EN/KS-AU-06-001-EN.PDF Germany – http://www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/3489.pdf Ireland – http://erc.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/displayISO19115.jsp?isoID=56#files DG Environment – June 2008: "Potential of the Ecological Footprint for monitoring environmental impact from natural resource use" available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/natres/studies.htm United Arab Emirates – Al Basama Al Beeiya Initiative http://www.agedi.ae/ecofootprintuae/default.aspx
- ↑ F. Grazi, J.C.J.M. van den Bergh and P. Rietveld (2007). "Welfare economics versus ecological footprint: modeling agglomeration, externalities and trade". Environmental and Resource Economics 38 (1): 135–153. doi:10.1007/s10640-006-9067-2.
- ↑ Planning and Markets: Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson. Pam.usc.edu. Retrieved on 2012-11-08.
- ↑ Lenzen, M., C. Borgstrom Hansson and S. Bond (2006) On the bioproductivity and land-disturbance metrics of the Ecological Footprint. University of Sydney, ISA Research Paper, June, 06, in collaboration with WWF. Retrieved: 2007-06-04.
- ↑ Loh, J., R. Green, T. Ricketts, J. Lamoreux, M. Jenkins, V. Kapos and J. Randers (2005). "The Living Planet Index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 360 (1454): 289–295. doi:10.1098/rstb.2004.1584. PMC 1569448. PMID 15814346. http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/w7vhc82hykd03gly/fulltext.pdf.
- ↑ Lenzen, Manfred & Murray Shauna A. (2001). "A modified ecological footprint method and its application to Australia". Ecological Economics 37 (2): 229–255. doi:10.1016/S0921-8009(00)00275-5.
- ↑ Questions and Answers, Global Footprint Network
- ↑ Vattenfall 2004, Forsmark EPD for 2002 and SwedPower LCA data 2005.
- ↑ Energy Analysis of Power Systems accessed 20 October 2007
- ↑ Electric Power Industry CO2 Emissions accessed 20 October 2007
- ↑ Hertsgaard, Mark (2011) "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- ↑ nuclearinfo.net. Greenhouse Emissions of Nuclear Power
- ↑ David Bodansky (June 2001). "The Environmental Paradox of Nuclear Power". Environmental Practice 3 (2): 86–8. doi:10.1017/S1466046600002234. http://units.aps.org/units/fps/energy/bodansky.cfm. "(reprinted by the American Physical Society)"
- ↑ Some Amazing Facts about Nuclear Power (August 2002). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ↑ Alex Kirby (13 December 2004,). "Pollution: A life and death issue". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4086809.stm. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ↑ Don Hopey (June 29, 2005). State sues utility for U.S. pollution violations. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ↑ Alex Gabbard. Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ↑ Nuclear proliferation through coal burning — Gordon J. Aubrecht, II, Ohio State University
- ↑ Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors.
- ↑ Rees, William, "The Human Nature of Unsustainability", in Heinberg, Richard and Leich,Daniel, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century Sustainability Crisis, Watershed Media, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9709500-6-2
Further readingEdit
- Rees, W. E. (October 1992). "Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out". Environment and Urbanisation 4 (2): 121. doi:10.1177/095624789200400212. http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/4/2/121.
- Rees, W. E. and M. Wackernagel (1994) Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: Measuring the natural capital requirements of the human economy, in Jansson, A. et al.. Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability. Washington D.C.:Island Press. ISBN 1-55963-316-6
- Wackernagel, M. (1994) (PDF). Ecological Footprint and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: A Tool for Planning Toward Sustainability (PhD thesis). Vancouver, Canada: School of Community and Regional Planning. The University of British Columbia. OCLC 41839429. https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/7132/ubc_1994-954027.pdf?sequence=1.
- Wackernagel, M. and W. Rees. 1996. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-312-X.
- Wackernagel, M; Schulz, NB; Deumling, D; Linares, AC; Jenkins, M; Kapos, V; Monfreda, C; Loh, J et al. (2002). "Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy" (PDF). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (14): 9266–71. doi:10.1073/pnas.142033699. PMC 123129. PMID 12089326. http://www.pnas.org/content/99/14/9266.full.pdf.
- WWF, Global Footprint Network, Zoological Society of London (2006) Living Planet Report 2006. WWF Gland, Switzerland. (downloadable in 11 languages via http://www.footprintnetwork.org/newsletters/gfn_blast_0610.html)
- Lenzen, M. and Murray, S. A. 2003. 'The Ecological Footprint – Issues and Trends.' ISA Research Paper 01-03
- Chambers, N., Simmons, C. and Wackernagel, M. (2000), Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability. Earthscan, London ISBN 1-85383-739-3 (see also http://www.ecologicalfootprint.com)
- Raudsepp-Hearne C, Peterson GD, Tengö M, Bennett EM, Holland T, Benessaiah K, MacDonald GM, Pfeifer L (2010). "Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why is Human Well-Being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?". BioScience 60 (8): 576–589. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.8.4. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/bio.2010.60.8.4.
- J.C.J.M. van den Bergh and H. Verbruggen (1999). "Spatial sustainability, trade and indicators: an evaluation of the 'ecological footprint'" (PDF). Ecological Economics 29 (1): 63–74. http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/98105.pdf.
- F. Grazi, J.C.J.M. van den Bergh and P. Rietveld (2007). "Welfare economics versus ecological footprint: modeling agglomeration, externalities and trade". Environmental and Resource Economics 38 (1): 135–153. doi:10.1007/s10640-006-9067-2.
- Ohl, B., Wolf, S., & Anderson, W. (2008). "A modest proposal: global rationalization of ecological footprint to eliminate ecological debt". Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 4 (1): 5–16. http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol4iss1/0707-016.ohl.html.
External linksEdit
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- Global Footprint Network Ecological Footprint : Overview
- Earth Overshoot Day Day on which humanity starts consuming more than nature can regenerate in that year.
- Myfootprint.org: Ecological Footprint Quiz by Center for Sustainable Economy - covers all countries and is not flash based
- Footprintcalculator.org: an interactive, flash-animated, Footprint calculator for individuals (now applicable to 15 countries world-wide)
- WWF "Living Planet Report", a biannual calculation of national and global footprints
- Answers to common Footprint questions
- GTZ's conservation and development series "Sustainability Has Many Faces" A Big Foot on a Small Planet? Accounting with the Ecological Footprint – Succeeding in a world with growing resource constraints. Plenty of additional materials are available via http://www.conservation-development.net/Projekte/Nachhaltigkeit/DVD_10_Footprint/files/Links/index-e.html
- Ecological Footprint Earth Encyclopedia – http://www.eoearth.org/
- Life Cycle Assessment, introduction
- Independent directory of service providers, databases, tools for LCA/Carbon footprint and related
- Best Foot Forward Ecological Footprint experts
- PE INTERNATIONAL White paper Environmental Footprint
- Ecological Footprint 2.0
- Ecological Footprint Cartogram
- UK charity specifically dedicated to sustainable development linked to ecological footprinting
- 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
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I have a baby cockatoo, that's not even 12 months old yet, and he's starting to have fits. Everyone in the world knows of Black Saturday (7th February 2009)- I live in that state.
First off I thought that the fits were heat related, as that was when they had started- but now that the heat has subsided, he's been having a fit every few days- Last night he had 2 fits- one about midnight, then another about 3-4am. That has prompted me to be here now.
His body contorts on his perch, until he falls off (I was able to catch him first time last night- as I have put his perch on the wall and it bangs when he's fitting), his little toes scrunch up where it looks painful, then his body will go rigid, his wings will go out and he tries to walk (this is when he finally hits the ground). When I hold him he forces his body up and outwards.
His breathing fastens and the force he uses to breathe in, he makes squawking sounds- It is better now- his first few fits, I had to start him breathing again.
When he finally settles down- after about 5 mins that feel like an eternity- he's disorientated. He looks around like he has no idea where he is- he recognises me, I tell him to give me cuddles (his favorite thing to do).
The days of his fits, he's very slow at moving- he still eats etc.
I HAVE TO STRESS HE DOES HAVE BEAK AND FEATHER DISEASE- but I cannot link these fits to the disease.
The rest of the time he is happy! He sings and dances, loves cuddles and kisses, plays... He's normal the rest of the time- I just don't know what to do about these fits- and what it is he's lacking to create them.
I give him a multi vitamin called Soluvet.
He's a mummy's boy, and I am really attached to him- so if anyone has any ideas on what these fits are, and any advice on how to get rid of them, I will be very grateful!
(I have taken him to vet- but they are pretty useless)
Thanks for your time!
I have done a lot of thinking, and the clostest thought is that I started to give him cornflakes (as the heat made him refuse to eat for days)- and thought and thought on if that could create these fits- as they had started very soon (within a day) after that. I have stopped giving them to him, no more fits yet!!!
Can foods create seizures???
I am searching for a well recommended avairian at the moment- he loves the car, so big long trips he'll love!!!! And distance will be no drama for me!
I will ask for blood tests to be carried out to make sure of what is creating them for him to be treated. As I said, I'm really attached to him, and it devestates me when he goes through that.
At the moment he's loving going to sleep on his own special chair in Mum's room!! (More cuddles than sleep sometimes!)
By the way- It's nice to meet you!!!!


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It's up to either party to educate the public with regards to their respective platforms, courses of action, and vision of the future. And if they don't give us something to vote for, can they really expect us to keep voting against something else?
Should Initiative 71 become law, our people, our families, and our communities will be freer from the threat of incarceration by the heavy hand of a federal government for which we did not vote and against which we have no democratic recourse.
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Barack Obama deserves credit for delivering on his promise to shrink the deficit -- a promise that Mitt Romney and his tax cuts would surely have violated -- but Americans have to ask themselves whether they really want a smaller government.
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It is a sorority of sorts.
Every month, women with ties to the Austin music industry grab a bite to eat to share what's happening in their worlds, and after three years, their circle continues to expand.
Wednesday about 50 members of Women in Music Professional Society (WIMPS) gathered at Romeo's on Barton Springs Road in South Austin.
"WIMPS is sort of like the sorority I never had. It's great. We get together. All the sisters get together," singer and songwriter Shelley King said.
Each month, the ladies of WIMPS gather to meet each other, often for the first time.
"There's always at least 50 to 80 women here, and it's different women every month," King said.
Gina Chavez is a Latin folk music singer and songwriter. She said the connection of the group is unparalleled.
And after three years, diversity is key to attracting new women of all ages, at all stages in the business.
"All these connections are so much easier to find when you're face to face, versus on the web or a phone call," area entertainer Leticia Rodriguez said.
These meetings are a chance for the women to network, plug upcoming gigs and even rally support for an issue, all for the cost of lunch.
Nancy Coplin co-founded WIMPS.
"Come and eat. Come grab a bite and talk about yourself. How much fun is that?" she said.
It's a fun, valuable experience with the potential to further careers.
WIMPS is a volunteer organization. The women meet the third Wednesday of each month, either Threadgill's or Romeo's in South Austin.
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- Dom Larue Saint-aubin Vieilles Vignes 2005 Product #28212 (In Stock)
Didier's old-vine village cuvee surprised even a fan like me – it's very classy and wildly complex, changing constantly as your sit with the glass. Generous aromas feature brown butter, burre blanc, crushed mint, and a savory note that reminds one of lobster stock. The flavors follow the nose and while there's plenty of ripe orchard and stone fruit here, the overall impact is more savory than sweet. The fruit picks up a red tinge – cherry? – with air to go with dashes of fresh almond, marzipan, dried honey, and a saline note that reminds you of the sea. Lovely, mouthwatering, and brilliant with lobster or shellfish of any kind!
- Dom Larue Blagny 1er Cru Sous Le Puits 2002 Product #28214 (In Stock)
Yes, I know it's "just" Blagny. But, if you taste this blind you'll be more likely to name it a top premier cru from the best sites in Beaune after at least wondering if it could be a top Morey St. Denis! Dark red fruit, fresh turned earth, a touch of coffee, and plenty of earthy spice aromas well up from the glass. In the mouth, it's luxuriously textured, a mouthful of crushed, red fruited, velvet with accents of spice, dark flowers, and more. A line of iron minerality runs through the core with still firm, if nicely soften, tannins giving support and fruit and earth and floral perfume flavors pumping out on the very pretty finish. Great showing here to drink now and for another 5+ years.
- Dom Larue Saint-Aubin 1er Les Combes 2006 Product #21438 (In Stock)
My choice of this set for drinking right this very minute, although another 5 years in the cellar won't do any harm. Everything I love in the rich, luxurious, 2006s with oodles of smoky pear, soft apple, spice and mint aromas and flavors and just the right touch of chalk on the end. A bit of caramel and fresh butter come out with air in this mouth-coating, but very fresh, white Burgundy.
- Dom Larue Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Murgers des Dents de Chien 2009 Product #24551 (In Stock)
The "teeth of the dog" vineyard lies in the southern part of St. Aubin, on the border with Puligny-Montrachet and not far from Montrachet. The five separate vineyard parcels (about 4 acres total) were planted at different times, with the oldest vines dating from 1947 and 1964. Vinified in oak (20% new) with 10 months on the lees.
I under-estimated this wine a few years ago – it's very impressive now and will only get better. Aromas of rich orchard fruit, iodine, and fresh chervil lead to rich golden fruit, butter, caramel, and salty mineral flavors. Generous but still very precise, this finishes long and lovely with lingering pineapple, hazelnut, and spice flavors lingering on and on. A definite "buy" for now and the next 10+ years.
- Dom Larue St Aubin 1er Les Combes 2002 Product #16628 (In Stock)
Olvier tells me that Didier wasn't crazy about his 2002 Les Combes at first, fearing that he'd harvested too late and lost some freshness. But a decade+ in cellar has done this nothing but good, delivering a rich, savory, white that seems more like 1er Cru Chassagne than Saint Aubin. Aromas of toasted nut, mint, verbena, caramel and consumme show at first, but turn to more fresh cut apple and tangy pineapple with air. The texture is very rich and creamy, but the fruit flavors remain nicely fresh over the mature notes of grilled nut, caramel, and beef stock. Dried caramel and chervil flavors play nicely on the long finish where just the right touch of acidity keeps things pure and clean.
- Dom Larue Blagny 1er Cru Sous Le Puits 2010 Product #28012 (In Stock)
Blagny is the AOC for red wines produced from the 1er cru vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet and Meursault, and this comes from the Puligny vineyard Sous Le Puits, "under the well" at the top of the hill. This is seriously good and really fun to drink. Bold aromas of crushed black fruits with hints of spice and crushed mint. Silky and dark with oodles of crushed raspberry, black tea, white mushroom, and spicy, woodsy, flavors. Firmly mineral and long and lingering with fantastic tannin – sweet, silky, smooth. A bright, mouthwatering, approachable 2010 with fine cellar potential.
- Dom Larue Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Sous Le Puits 2011 Product #27725 (In Stock)
Didier makes several Puligny Montrachet, but this is always one of my very favorites. This fine 1er Cru vineyard sits at the very top of the hill just under an old well and looking down into Meursault. The old vines (planted between 1951 and 1982) on deep clay/limestone soils always give a wine that marries Puligny's precision with Meursault's rich, buttery, depth. Once again, just 20% new oak.
Maybe it's just the name – "Sous Le Puits" means "under the well," a reference to an abandoned water source at the top of the hill – but I always think "rainwater" when I smell and taste this wine. It's very intense right now and wants a little air to show all it has to give. Aromas of sweet lemon, almond paste, chalk and fresh rainwater lead to a creamy but very focused and intense mouthful of sour apple, white peach, nutmeg and fresh almond with a brothy-like salinity. For now the action is really on the back-palate and finish where crunchy pear, tangerine and thyme flavors explode and power on through the chalky, zesty, finish. I like this now with ocean fish or even shellfish but it will get creamier, nuttier and richer over the next 5-8 years.


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Curled Up With a Good Kid's Book - A Sioux Falls based site, featuring reviews of children's literature.
The Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum
Greetings from Sioux Falls - A fun site showing the past and present of Sioux Falls through Postcards and other photographs.
Museum of Visual Materials - A unique, hands-on museum in downtown Sioux Falls.
Sertoma Butterfly House & Marine Cove
Siouxland Libraries and SL Kids
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation
Other Local Homeschooling Groups
The Natural Learning Network of South Dakota
Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators (SECHE)
Living Legacy Academy (Cooperative Group Classes)
The South Dakota Department of Education Alternative Instruction Page - Includes laws, responsibilities, and the PDF of the exemption form.
The South Dakota Legislature - Follow the legislative session, find your state representatives, and make sure your voice is heard when it comes to topics that affect your family.
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Cricket Magazine Group - Producing high-quality, nonfiction magazines for young readers since 1980. Titles include Babybug, Ladybug, Click, Spider, Ask, Cricket, Cicada, Dig, Odyssey, Calliope, Faces, Cobblestone, Footsteps, and Appleseeds.
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May 17-18, 2013, Baltimore, MD
Application deadline: February 12, 2013
The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), the Orthopaedic Research Education Foundation (OREF), and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) are again offering an expanded version of their long-standing, successful grant writing, networking, and career development workshop, with an emphasis on clinical trials. Through this workshop, new investigators have developed the skills and learned the strategies to successfully secure funding for clinical, translational, and basic science research.
Attendees who elect to submit a draft research plan will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced musculoskeletal researcher who will provide mentoring, discuss funding strategies, and offer recommendations so essential for a successful academic career. All attendees will meet senior investigators who manage highly successful research programs funded by the NIH, DOD, VA, and private foundations, and who have served on NIH study sections.
A session on networking will enable early-career investigators to effectively collaborate among their multidisciplinary peers and senior counterparts. Professional relationships forged at this workshop will continue to develop afterwards, as the assigned mentors will provide assistance in grant application preparation beyond the workshop until grants are funded.
The keynote speaker is Richard Lieber, PhD, University of San Diego, whose research laboratory has been supported primarily by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lieber will join the workshop via Skype with a presentation entitled "Key Strategies for Successful NIH Funding", giving advice on the marketing aspect of applying for grant funds.
The program is open to junior faculty, post-doctoral researchers, clinical fellows, and residents with a commitment to pursuing an academic research career. Basic science and clinical investigators (PhD, MD, MS) with or without training awards are invited to apply.
The workshop will take place on May 17 – 18, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. The application deadline is February 12, 2013, and proposals for faculty review will be due on March 22, 2013.
Workshop fee: $595.00 (includes registration fee, 2 nights of hotel stay, syllabus, and other workshop materials)
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Megan Fox fear of germs is not keeping her from her man
By Shari Weiss | 3:28 pm, May 26th, 2010
When magazines release interviews with top stars, it's always a field day for inventive rumor mongers.
There's nothing better than taking an actual quote from a hot actress…and spinning it into a completely false story.
In a chat with Allure, Megan Fox admitted she has obsessive compulsive tendencies, especially when it comes to germs.
"This is a sickness," she says of her germophobia.
Cue this alarm-sounding headline in the National Enquirer: "Megan Fox's germophobia takes toll on relationship."
Uh, when did Fox say anything about the illness affecting her years-long relationship with Brian Austin Green?
She didn't.
But that doesn't stop the supermarket tab from quoting a so-called "insider," who claims fears are so strong, "some days she even keeps her distance from Brian because she worries he's going to give her germs that might make her sick."
She "keeps her distance" from the boyfriend with whom she lives and is often photographed hugging and kissing?
A source close to the couple laughed off the story, acknowledging the actress' germophobia but telling Gossip Cop the Enquirer's "reporting" isn't true.
Gossip Cop wishes the Enquirer conquered its factcheckingophobia.
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Mesa is throwing out bids for a disputed city bus service contract after irregularities were found in the bidding process, officials said this week.
The city had asked for additional information from one of two finalists for the contract, but didn't allow either company to redo the oral interview part of the city's bid evaluation process.
That could have created an unfair process, said Joe Padilla, a Mesa assistant city attorney.
Mesa will exercise its option to extend the current bus contract with ATC of Oak Brook, Ill., for up to a year and seek new bids.
In January, Mesa officials requested bids for a new contract because the one with ATC expires in July. The new contract is for seven to 10 years, and is worth about $5 million a year.
Of the five companies that submitted bids, ATC and MV Transportation of Fairfield, Calif., were finalists.
MV Transportation, the low bidder, did not score as well on the city's evaluation as ATC, the high bidder. Accepting ATC's bid would have cost Mesa taxpayers up to $8 million more over 10 years.
A seven-member committee of officials from Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix and Valley Metro assigned points to the bids based on pricing and oral interviews.
The committee had rated MV Transportation higher, but discovered a calculation error after ATC protested. Officials asked for more information from MV Transportation, and the company added $138,000 in labor costs to its bid. ATC edged MV Transportation after the committee recalculated the bid evaluations. MV Transportation protested the decision.
Keith Whalen, MV Transportation's vice president of business development, said the company plans to bid again.
"We were very, I guess, pleased with how fair and respectful the city treated us through the entire process," Whalen said. "We were disappointed we were not successful the first time around, but we understand the action the city has taken."
John Giles, the lawyer representing ATC, couldn't be reached Wednesday.


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"Saigon. Always dreams of Saigon."A sequel to a Doom 2 Game Mod, made by Stephen "Scuba Steve" Browning, but this time released as a standalone game. It's available as a freeware download, but it can be also bought in a boxed version, which includes some extra goodies. As of now, the bonus levels included in the boxed version are now free to download off of the main site.While the original Action Doom was an attempt to bring Contra-like mechanics to first person perspective, Urban Brawl is a nod to beat 'em ups like Double Dragon. You have a pistol, but most of the time, you'll end up fighting with melee weapons like two-by-fours, bottles or pool cues.The game puts you as a grizzled veteran, living in a desolate, crime-filled quarter of the city, with only your daughter to keep you company and bring a point to your life. When she gets taken away by henchmen working for an unknown boss, you set on a quest to find her and take revenge on those responsible, while beating up tons of criminals along the way. The game is rather short, but there are multiple paths you can take, and quite a lot of interesting secrets.Its homepage is here. An add-on, Dead of Winter, was released in January 2014.
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Osho continues:
"Understanding cannot be studied, nobody can teach it to you. You have to be a light unto yourself. You have to seek and search within your own being, because it is already there at the very core. If you dive deep you will find it. You will have to learn how to dive within yourself; not in the scriptures, but within your own existence.
"The taste of your own existence is wisdom. Wisdom is experience, not information.
"Buddha renounced the world; it is reported in all the scriptures, but the report is not given in the true context. It is reported that Buddha renounced the world because he was against the world – because unless you renounce the world you cannot gain the eternal, the other world, the other shore. This is giving a totally false interpretation to Buddha's great renunciation.
"He certainly renounced the world, but not to gain anything in the other. If there is any motive in your renunciation, it is not true renunciation; it is not radical enough, it is not a revolution. It is again the same old business, the same old bargaining mind; it is based in desire and desire is the world. The world does not consist of things; the world consists of motives, desires, ambitions.
"If you renounce the world to gain something, whatsoever it is – nirvana, enlightenment, moksha, freedom, truth or godliness, whatsoever it is – if you renounce the world to gain something, it is not renunciation.
"Hence, I will not say that Buddha renounced the world to attain something. The very idea of attaining something is the world. The very idea of attaining something is to live in imagination, is to live in the future. And a man of understanding lives in the present, not in the future. A man of understanding does not really renounce the world. The world simply falls from him. The world simply becomes irrelevant, it loses meaning. His insight is such that he can see through and through the falsity of all desire – not to attain something, but seeing the futility of desire, desiring ceases. That is true renunciation.
"That's what Buddha did. In fact to say he did it is not right."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
conscious… anguish… listening… practice… playing… remember… look… analyzing… curiosity… potential
conscious… anguish… listening… practice… playing… remember… look… analyzing… curiosity… potential


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STAAR L student practice sets consist of 25 items for each STAAR L assessment and are available in the online format so that students may experience test items as they will be presented in the operational administration. There are no administration directions for the practice sets. It is strongly recommended that students complete the appropriate STAAR L online tutorial before accessing the practice sets in order to learn to use the STAAR L linguistic accommodation tools and become familiar with the online testing environment.
STAAR L student tutorials are available at the link below.
Accessing the STAAR L Student Practice Sets
The STAAR L student practice sets are delivered in the browser-based version of TestNav, TestNav 7. They do not need to be downloaded or installed. The STAAR L student practice sets use the browser plug-in Adobe Flash Player.
The practice set will launch in your default Internet browser. Supported browsers and operating systems are identified in the Minimum System Requirements document, which can be found with the Technology Information resources at Home > Resources > Information. District technology staff should assist as needed in accessing the practice sets. For additional technical assistance, contact Pearson's Austin Operations Center at 800-627-0225.
Use the links below to launch the STAAR L student practice sets.
NOTE: The practice sets are not scored, and no information about the student's responses is captured or displayed. However, an answer key in PDF format is available for your reference at the following links.


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What's NewŌĆó Fixed bug related to achievements
ŌĆó Misc bug fixes and optimizations
App DescriptionDOUBLE RAINBOWŌĆ" ALL THE WAY!
Join YouTube VFX sensation Freddie Wong on a fast paced rampage through endless levels to escape the clutches of Rico. Flower Warfare brings Freddie's hit video to life as you skillfully time treacherous jumps over spikes, toxic waste and bottomless pits while firing petals of destruction at your enemies. Rico's men will stop at nothing to end your quest for higher consciousness.ŌĆ"so fill them full of lead before you take a permanent dirt nap under the Double Rainbow!
How far can you run before it's lights out for Freddie?
ŌĆó Fast-paced action game with simple controls and addictive play!
ŌĆó Explore 4 unique zones with endless levels of vivid 3D graphics that morph and change as you achieve higher levels of consciousness!
ŌĆó Collect invincibility Power-Ups that protect you from Spikes, Toxic Waste and Bullets!
ŌĆó Game Center leader boards and achievements to compare your distance and score with your friends and the world!
ŌĆó Grab "Freddie-O's" cereal in-game for bonus points!
ŌĆó Exclusive voiceover and sound bytes from Freddie Wong himself!
How to Play:
ŌĆó Tap the bottom right of screen to jump over spikes, pits, toxic waste, buildings, bullets & other obstacles.
ŌĆó Tap the bottom left of screen to shoot enemies
ŌĆó Collect flowers to raise your level of consciousness (health). The higher your health, the more points you earn from shooting enemies and collecting cereal boxes.
ŌĆó Tap the bottom center of the screen to use a temporary invincibility power-up. This protects you for a limited time from spikes, pits, toxic waste & bullets. Watch out though, falling in pits or between buildings means instance death!
ŌĆó Collect "Freddie-O's" cereal boxes for bonus points.
Check out these other great games from Thruster:
ŌĆó Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage
ŌĆó Doodle Bomb
App Changes
December 13, 2012 New version 1.4
December 01, 2012 Initial Release


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Media's Ad/Edit Relationship Is Getting Increasingly More Hazy
ASME takes issue with Shape's May issue.
A content producer—whether a magazine editor or a network producer—would like to believe that the content they create can be distributed to consumers without input or intrusion from the advertising side of the business. It's the great ethical ad/edit divide that our collective media industry has lived and died by for years.
But that immovable boundary has in fact shifted. Examples have trickled out over the years, most recently with magazines like ESPN the Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and Scholastic Parent & Child featuring ads on their covers. Now comes a report from Mediaweek that American Media's Shape is under fire by the American Society of Magazine Editors for its May issue—featuring TV personality Ellen DeGeneres on the cover—which the group contends violates its editorial guidelines. Immediately following the cover and abutting the feature story about her are ads for Vitamin Water that include DeGeneres as the spokesperson. According to the report, DeGeneres is wearing CoverGirl makeup in the cover photo and the issue includes a CoverGirl ad with DeGeneres in it.
AMI executives defended the ad/edit execution, indicating that Shape landed DeGeneres for the cover story "long before the ad deal happened." [More defense from AMI here.] ASME CEO Sid Holt, however, says the issue appears to breach the group's guidelines. "The issues raised by the Shape piece have to do with editorial decision making," he tells FOLIO:. "Did the story run because the editor thought it was worthwhile or because the advertiser paid for it? If readers have reason to suspect that editorial decisions are being made simply to sell advertising, not only is the integrity of the publication degraded but the value of the publication to marketers is destroyed."
(UPDATE: Another example that some might argue is a transgression of the ad/edit guidelines is Playboy founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner's participation in vodka maker Stolichnaya's new "Would you have a drink with you?" ad campaign, which includes a TV spot as well as print ads that will appear in a number of publications including Playboy. For the record, though, Hefner, like other celebrity magazine execs, has appeared in a number of other campaigns over the years. Playboy tells me this latest campaign doesn't affect the magazine's editorial standpoint.)
This type of edit bending happens across media—not in just magazines. For example, I listen to New York sports talk radio station WFAN to and from work each day. The on-air personalities transition from their commentary to reading ads chock full of personal sentiment all the time.
And it happens in TV, too. I was watching the "America: The Story of Us" series on the History channel last night (yes, I skipped the Lost finale) and was confused when the program went black like it was cutting to a commercial but faded in again with a clip of a pair of historians (who were featured in the program) talking about how the American colonies initially existed for the economic benefit of England. The clip transitions to an ad for Bank of America, which sponsored the series. (Click here to see the ad.)Â
I changed the channel once I realized that the History Channel-produced segment was in fact a Bank of America ad. I was put off by it.
How many times does this same thing happen in print media? Do you notice? Do you care? ASME's Holt says that while product placement might make sense in other media when a distinction can be drawn between entertainment programming and news/information, that distinction is harder to make in print.
"Most magazine advertisers and publishers understand the value of distinguishing between ad and edit," he says. "Tens of thousands of pages are published every year that adhere to industry standards. Exceptions are just that—exceptions, not the new normal."
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Read the brief bios below to learn about Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Billie Holiday. Click on each image to watch vintage performances of these pioneers.
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) earned the title of "Empress of the Blues" by virtue of her forceful vocal delivery and command of the genre. Her singing displayed a soulfully phrased, boldly delivered and nearly definitive grasp of the blues. In addition, she was an all-around entertainer who danced, acted and performed comedy routines with her touring company. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African-American entertainer before her. Watch the seminal performance of Smith in the 1929 hit, St. Louis Blues.
African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) was a flamboyant gospel superstar who demonstrated spectacular virtuosity on the newly electrified guitar and became one of the most imporatnt singer-musicians of the 20th century. She is acknowledged as a major influence not only on generations of black musicians including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Isaac Hayes and Etta James, but also on white stars like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Watch Tharpe perform "Down By the Riverside"
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) reigned as a pioneer interpreter of gospel music whose fervent contralto was one of the great voices of this century. Both gospel and rhythm & blues had their roots in the Sanctified church, but whereas blues and R&B departed on secular paths that led to rock and roll, gospel stayed the spiritual course. Nonetheless, the influence of gospel on R&B and rock and roll, especially through such force-of-nature voices as Jackson's, is inescapable. Little Richard has cited Jackson as an inspiration, calling her "the true queen of spiritual singers." Watch Jackson singing "Amazing Grace."
Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was the pre-eminent jazz singer of her day and among the most revered vocalists of the century. Though her brief life was fraught with tragedy, Holiday left a transcendent legacy of recorded work. Her pearly voice, exquisite phrasing and tough-tender persona influenced the likes of Janis Joplin and Diana Ross, among others. Watch Holiday sing "Strange Fruit."