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Blues Note Riffs is a free video lesson that will teach you a few standard riffs using the blues scale. We'll learn a lick and then learn other places on the neck where we can play it. In the video we will use the audio jam track "Am blues", which is track 4, from the Let's Jam! Blues and Rock CD. Once you finished the lesson if you want to learn more Stevie Ray Vaughan style licks, try our Classic Blues Licks lesson.
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Let's review the Blues Scale in the key of A. Remember you can use this scale over major or minor chords. It all depends on the sound you are going for.
Heres the first riff using the A Blues Scale.
I can play this riff in another position.
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It was a horrible prospect that threatened to transform the sport but appeared to be a brilliant story. The Dream Football League (DFL) would turn into a journalistic nightmare.
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Prefix and Number
Required Courses (Both Tracks)
Phil 5301
Applied Philosophy (repeatable as a prescribed elective with different emphases)
Phil 5302
Dialogue (repeatable as a prescribed elective with different emphases)
Required Courses (Thesis Track)
Phil 5399A
Phil 5399B
Prefix and Number
Philosophy Elective Courses
(12 hours, thesis-track; 21 hours,
Phil 5301
Applied Philosophy (may be repeated for credit as a prescribed elective with different emphases)
Phil 5302
Dialogue (may be repeated for credit as a prescribed elective with different emphases)
Phil 5303
Philosophy of Technology
|Phil 5304
|Philosophy of Language
|Phil 5304
|American Philosophy
|Phil 5320
|History of Ethics
Phil 5322
Professional Ethics
Phil 5323
Environmental Ethics
Phil 5324
Meaning of Life
Phil 5325
Philosophy of Sex and Love
Phil 5326
Philosophy of Sport
Phil 5327
Medical Ethics and Bio-ethics
Phil 5327
|Major Work or Theme in Ethics
Phil 5351
Philosophy of Education
Phil 5355
Philosophical Theory of Science
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Phil 5388
Problems in Philosophy (may be repeated for credit with different emphases)
Phil 5395
Internship in Applied Philosophy
PHIL 5301 - Applied Philosophy
PHIL 5302 - Dialogue
PHIL 5303 - Philosophy of Technology
PHIL 5322 - Business and Professional Ethics
PHIL 5323 - Environmental Ethics
PHIL 5324 - Meaning of Life
PHIL 5351 - Philosophy of Education
PHIL 5388 - Problems in Philosophy
Philosophy 5301 and 5388 may be repeated for credit. This minor is designed to support other graduate programs.
Tips for MAAPE Thesis
A Few Words About MAAPE Thesis Proposals
Some Helpful Tips for Students in the MAAPE Program.
Tips for MAAPE Students Spring 2014
Greetings! Applied Philosophy is one of the emerging fields in the discipline, and the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University-San Marcos is pleased to offer a master's degree in Applied Philosophy and Ethics.
Graduate Advisor:
Audrey McKinney
Assistant Graduate Advisor:
Craig Hanks
Chair of the Philosophy Department:
Vince Luizzi
Coursework requirements:
All students are required to take Phil 5301 (Applied Philosophy) and Phil 5302 (Dialogue). Phil 5301 and Phil 5302 can be repeated (one time) for credit.
Six credit hours of coursework ("free electives") must be chosen from cognate fields other than philosophy (e.g., Anthropology, English, History, Political Science, Sociology, Women's Studies) and require approval by the Graduate Advisor. The two courses will be drawn from a single discipline or will collectively comprise a coherent area of applied study.
Students will choose either the thesis or non-thesis option. The thesis option is especially recommended for students planning on pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy.
Thesis option. Students on the thesis track are required to complete 30 hours of coursework and to take Phil 5399A (Thesis) and Phil 5399B (Thesis). (Phil 5399B may be repeated, but only six hours of thesis coursework can be counted toward the degree.)
Non-thesis option. Students choosing not to write a thesis are required to complete 33 credit hours, compile a portfolio of their coursework, and successfully participate in an exit examination.
IA positions:
A limited number of Instructional Assistant positions are available each year, and students in the MAAPE program and the MSIS program in Sustainability are eligible to apply. IAs typically assist the instructor of record in the large sections of Philosophy and Critical Reasoning and Ethics and Society. Applications for the position of IA are accepted in the spring semester. (For the due dates for applications, see the Graduate Advisor or Departmental Chair.) The IA position may be renewed for a second year given satisfactory performance. IAs are required to be enrolled in 9 hours of graduate coursework each semester of their employment and, during their first three semesters in the IA position, must enroll in Phil 5100 (Practicum in Teaching Philosophy). Phil 5100 does not earn graduate credit.
IAs are expected to undertake with diligence their responsibilities both as IAs and as students in the MAAPE program; failure to do so will result in a review by the department's Personnel Committee. The Graduate College requires that an IA maintain a 3.0 cumulative GPA, and the Departmental expectation is that an IA achieves a 3.0 each semester.
Certificate in Professional Ethics:
Students in the MAAPE program may earn the six-hour Certificate in Professional Ethics by taking Phil 5322 (Professional Ethics). Either Phil 5301 (Applied Philosophy) or Phil 5302 (Dialogue) can be used to fulfill the remaining three credit hour requirement.
To be enrolled in the Certificate Program, you need to submit an application (and a $10 fee) through the Graduate College. After completing the required course work (with a 3.00 average in the two courses), you will also need to submit an Application of Completion. Links to the application forms may be found at: http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Prospect_Students/Pgms_Apps/TXST_Cert.html
Independent Study Courses (Phil 5388):
Phil 5388 courses serve primarily as independent study/directed reading courses when students have a specific area that they wish to study in greater depth than typically offered by a course. Sometimes as well students take Phil 5388 to have the opportunity to attend an upper-level undergraduate course and undertake additional work under the guidance of the course instructor. In either event, a student must secure permission from the supervising instructor in advance before being able to enroll in the course.
Online Courses:
At present, both Phil 5301 (Applied Philosophy) and Phil 5322 (Professional Ethics) are offered online each Spring and Fall semester as well as during some summer sessions. Other courses including Phil 3323 (Environmental Ethics) are offered online occasionally as well.
Applying for Graduation:
As you embark on your final semester's work in the MAAPE program, keep in mind the need to formally apply for graduation. Typically, the deadline for the application is the eighth week of classes (e.g., before Spring Break during the spring semesters). For further details and the deadlines for the present semester, see the Graduate College website: http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Current_Students/Graduation.html
Further information on both the thesis and non-thesis tracks may be found at the Department of Philosophy website (www.txstate.edu/philosophy/). Do not hesitate to consult with the Graduate Advisor, Chair, or other faculty if you have any questions about the program.
Tips for Non-thesis Track MAAPE Students: Exit Examination and Portfolio
Students on the non-thesis track must turn in a portfolio of their work and take an oral exit examination. Typically this is done during your final semester of coursework.
Exit Examination
To prepare for the exit examination, identify the three papers you have written while in the MAAPE program that you believe best demonstrate your critical reasoning abilities as well as your detailed knowledge of one or more areas of applied philosophy or ethics. Review these papers with care: at least initially the faculty participating in the exit interview will focus on these works and related philosophical issues, though faculty are also free to ask any questions relevant to your course of study in the program.
Make sure to put copies of the three papers in your portfolio and explicitly indicate that they are the ones you have chosen for the exit interview.
Portfolio. In addition to the three papers you have identified for the exit interview, your portfolio should contain all of your written work (papers, essays, examinations) that you have done for the MAAPE degree as well as a listing of your course grades. You should include a short overview essay describing your progress in the program and discussing how your work addresses at least some of the six outcomes we have set up for our program.
The six outcomes we hope that students in the MAAPE program achieve are:
Advanced knowledge of major theories and theoretical debates in Applied Philosophy and Ethics (MT)
Advanced knowledge of relevant literature in the student's area of concentration (KC)
Advanced knowledge of relevant literature in the student's chosen cognate field (CF)
Ability to apply relevant philosophical analysis to "real world" situations (RW)
Ability to engage in productive, theoretically‐informed dialogue (D)
Ability to choose methodologies and texts relevant to the student's areas of concentration (RT)
Mark relevant portions of the works you include in the portfolio to highlight ways in which your work exemplifies the outcomes.
Remember to identify explicitly the three papers for the exit examination; place them in a separate area of the portfolio.
Thesis tips for MAAPE thesis-track students: Phil 5399A
Before signing up for Phil 5399A, the first of two thesis courses, you will need to have approval from a member of the graduate faculty who has agreed to serve as the director of your thesis committee.
Identifying a thesis advisor: Your thesis advisor is the single most important person you will work with in developing your thesis, and you should select your advisor from the graduate faculty with as much care and foresight as possible. Your choice of advisor should be guided by a consideration of: 1) who has the appropriate experience and expertise to guide your project (and whose research and teaching interests are best suited to your research topic), and 2) who is someone you believe you can work well with, someone whose mentoring style will be conducive to nurturing your philosophical development. Start looking for an advisor early in your time in the program: meet faculty, attend dialogues and departmental events, read the work of faculty members, talk with other students in the program (especially those who are well into their own thesis work) and attend thesis defenses. Once you have decided with whom you would like to work, make an appointment with the faculty member, discuss your project, and request that she
or he serve as your advisor.
Early in the semester during which you are enrolled in Thesis A, you should:
• In consultation with your thesis advisor, determine what graduate faculty might serve as your two additional committee members. At least two members of your committee (including your advisor) must be members of the Philosophy Department. You may have committee members from other departments.
• Prepare an abstract of your thesis project (accompanied by an annotated bibliography) to show to the potential committee members.
• Secure agreement from the chosen faculty to serve on your committee.
• Develop a draft of your thesis proposal in consultation with your thesis advisor, ideally within the first 6-8 weeks of Thesis A. (See "A word (or two) about MAAPE thesis proposals".)
Once you have a full draft of the proposal, all of your committee members should review and comment upon the draft. You will then revise the draft and craft a final version. (NOTE: be sure to allow sufficient time (generally, about two weeks) for your committee members to review your work.)
When your committee as a whole has agreed to your proposal, download the "Proposed Thesis Research" form from the Graduate College : http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Thes- Diss_Info/T-D_Forms.html After the form is signed by each of your committee members and the Chair of the department, turn it in to the Graduate College.
The latter part of the Thesis A course should be devoted to constructing at least one chapter of the thesis.
Remember that a full draft of the thesis must be provided to your committee members before midterm of the semester in which you are enrolled in Thesis B (Phil 5399B) and expect to graduate. If you do not meet the deadlines, it will be necessary for you to re-enroll in Phil 5399B the following semester. DO NOT PLAN ON HAVING A THESIS DEFENSE SCHEDULED DURING EITHER OF THE SUMMER SESSIONS. If you do not complete your thesis in the spring semester, you should expect to enroll in Phil 5399B again in the fall.
You'll need to address the following questions in your thesis proposal: What is the main claim you will be exploring and defending in the thesis? What are the methodologies you will be making use of? What arguments will you be putting forward? What is important about the claims you are making?
A helpful template for your thesis proposal is:
The final version of your proposal should be 8 to 15 pages and be formatted in accordance with either MLA or Chicago (Turabian) guidelines. (A very helpful resource, RefWorks, is available through the university library: http://www.library.txstate.edu/about/departments/ref/refworks.html)
Caveat: Producing a thesis proposal and the thesis itself is a prolonged and painstaking task not to be undertaken by the "faint-hearted" (or undisciplined) student. DON'T choose to write a thesis simply because you plan to go on to doctoral work in the field. Though you will need a writing sample when applying for doctoral programs, an excellent one can be developed from a course paper or in an independent study course. You do not need to have written a thesis in order to be a strong candidate for a PhD program, and not having written a thesis says nothing about your likely success in doctoral studies. Consider whether the additional coursework you would undertake as a non-thesis track student might better prepare you for your future graduate studies than would writing the thesis.
And do recognize that you are not ready to engage in a thesis project if you just have a general idea of an area of inquiry that you'd like to pursue (or an idea or two that you might like to develop). We strongly suggest that all thesis-track students develop a firm grasp on their topics prior to taking Phil 5399A. You can do this by devoting a course paper or papers to your topic or by undertaking an independent study (Phil 5388) with a member of the graduate faculty well-versed in your area of interest.
1 Any research involving human subjects (e.g., questionnaires, interviews) must be approved in advance by the Texas State University IRB (Institutional Review Board). You (and your advisor) must complete online training before submitting your proposed study for IRB approval. For further information see "Tips for MAAPE students".
Graduate Faculty
Barcenas, Alejandro, Assistant Professor, Lic., Universidad Central de Venezuela; M.A., Ph.D., University of Hawai'i at Manoa. (History of Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Asian Philosophy (Chinese, Japanese and Buddhist philosophy), Aesthetics, Political Theory)
Fischer, Robert, Assistant Professor, B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo; M.A., Trinity International University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. (Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Applied Ethics)
Fulmer, Gil, Professor, B.A., Ph.D., Rice University (Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics)
Geuras, Dean, Professor, B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. (Analytic Philosophy, Ethics in Public Policy)
Gordon, Jeffrey, Professor, B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. (Existentialism, Phenomenology, Meaning of Life)
Hanks, Craig, Professor, B.A., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., Duke University (Philosophy of Technology, American Pragmatism, Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics)
Hutcheson, Peter, Professor, B.A., University of West Florida; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. (Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion, Descartes, Hume)
Joy, Glenn, Professor, B.A., Seattle Pacific University; M.A., Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin. (Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Classical Utilitarianism)
Lewis, Holly, Assistant Professor, B.A., State University of New York; M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D., European Graduate School (Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Media Theory, Gender)
Luizzi, Vincent, Professor, B.A., University of Rochester; J.D., Boston University School of Law; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Ethics, Philosophy of Law, American, Pragmatism, Social and Political Philosophy, Professional Ethics)
Marquez, Ivan, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; M.A., Ph.D., University of Indiana Bloomington. (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy, Evolutionary Complexity and Systems Thinking, Early Analytic Philosophy, Pragmatism)
McKinney, Audrey, Associate Professor, B.A., University of Delaware; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Environmental Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Sexuality, Philosophy of Film)
Raphael, Rebecca, Associate Professor, B.S., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago (Biblical Studies, Classics, Literary Criticism, Religious Studies)
Yuan, LiJun, Associate Professor, B.A., Shanxi University; M.A., Nankai University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy)
Associate Graduate Faculty
Benedikt, Amelie, Senior Lecturer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., The University of Texas at
Austin. (Existentialism, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy, Ethics)
Carson, Jo Ann, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Texas State University; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin (Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Language, Applied Philosophy, Theory of Dialectic/Dialogue)
Gilbertson, Eric, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Texas Lutheran University; M.A., University of Houston; Ph.D., Cornell University (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy)
Mehta, Binita, Senior Lecturer (Indian Philosophy and Religion, Comparative Mysticism and Aesthetics, Platonic Philosophy)
Kanon, Eli, Lecturer, B.A., Texas State University; M.A., University of Mississippi; Ph.D., Florida State University (Environmental Ethics, Logic, Metaethics)
O'Connor, Robert. Lecturer, B.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin. (Ethics, Applied Philosophy)
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FOR NEW IAs: If you are interested in working as an Instructional Assistant in Philosophy, please submit this application, along with all supporting documents, to the Department of Philosophy office (102 COMAL).
Spring Application Deadline: April 1st
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While there are lists circulating that show which Best Buy retail stores will carry the Palm Pre, the Best Buy website shows that it's not yet available and will carry an $800+ price tag without a two-year contract with Sprint. That will effectively kill all non-Sprint related buys. Meanwhile the Google Mobile Blog reflects that Google will have a very prominent place on the Pre:
Palm Pre phone's webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts to Palm Pre.
We're big fans of Palm Pre phone's universal search feature. Just start typing a query from the home screen (no need to launch the browser). If your query doesn't match any contact info or the name of an application on your phone, you'll be prompted to search either the web with Google, local places on Google Maps, articles on Wikipedia, or Twitter.
But the Pre apps store apparently is quite limited right now in its offerings. This was a point of negative criticism among otherwise generally positive reviews from several device pundits over the past couple of days. Sprint and Palm are apparently not concerned believing that now that they have built it the developers will come. (If it sells the developers will probably come.) Yet there's still reason to question that assumption. Recall Skyhook's developer survey:
56% of all developers surveyed will port their app to other platforms. Developers are most interested in Android. 58% of non-Android developers plan to port to that platform, while 40% of non-iPhone developers plan to port an app to that platform. 26% will port to RIM, and 20% will port to Windows Mobile.
Developers are least interested in Palm and Symbian, with only 8% and 9% of developers planning to port their applications to those platforms, respectively.
And CNET offers more anecdotal evidence of the same attitude:
"My sense is that this will lead to Apple increasing their lead in the market even more," said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, a small developer that creates applications exclusively for the iPhone. "It will be a tremendous challenge for Apple's competitors that are trying to build their own application stores to get traction with developers, because we're in no rush to work on other platforms."
Without a healthy selection of apps the Pre probably cannot be competitive with the iPhone long term.
If we had to assign a letter grade to the early reviews of the Pre, it would be a strong "B" or "B+". The early Boy Genius review, the David Pogue (NYT) review and now the Walt Mossberg (WSJ) review published today all offer good and bad. Mossberg and Pogue are mostly positive, saying the Pre is a "credible challenger" to the iPhone and and "elegant contender." In fact, Mossberg blesses the device as the "best competitor" to the iPhone that he's seen so far.
The Palm app store is a weak link that Mossberg focuses on especially as a deficiency vs. the iPhone. But the Pre is unique among iPhone challengers in that it has the same "multitouch" on screen experience, which could violate Apple's IP/patent (but that's a decision for others).
Much is made by keyboard lovers of the Pre's physical QWERTY keyboard. However, what's interesting is that the same was said of the G1 and now the HTC G2/Ion/Magic, which is an advance but still no iPhone, has eliminated the physical keyboard. I too was a virtual keyboard detractor until I lived with the iPhone Touch for awhile. Now I wouldn't go back to a phone with a physical one.
But wait, I will be going back . . . I'm going to try and get a Pre as a Sprint customer. Indeed, the Pre has keep me from jumping ship to AT&T for the iPhone. I hope that Sprint's strategy to create fake scarcity (to build buzz and demand) doesn't prevent me from getting my hands on one in the next couple weeks. My loyalty to Sprint is thin.
USAToday's Ed Baig offers another positive review of the Pre.
The much touted Nokia response to the iPhone, the N97, went on sale (pre-order) today in the US market -- without a carrier and the all important carrier subsidy. The phone, which costs more than $700, has received high marks, lots of horsepower (32GB) and functionality. But without a carrier subsidy it's pretty much DOA as a mainstream device.
I've argued in the past that no subsidized smartphone can consider pricing itself above $200 given:
While all these devices would cost much more if purchased without a contract and carrier subsidy, almost nobody will be doing that. Consequently, you're not going to see people buy the N97 when so many other strong choices exist -- and are much cheaper.
Rather than a super high-end phone as a way back into the US market, a better strategy for Nokia is to sell cheaper smartphones that offer good user experiences for less. It has toyed with this idea. Nokia could potentially own the lower end of the market and better compete that way.
In one sense Apple is in a race against time, as well as competitors such as Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Windows Mobile. If it retains its exclusive deal with AT&T it maxes out its addressable market -- those AT&T subscribers willing to upgrade to the iPhone and those non AT&T subscribers willing to switch for the iPhone. Meanwhile those other competitors continue to improve their products and push more devices into the market. There's a point at which they become good enough or better in specific areas to preempt potential iPhone demand.
Bernstein Research analysts have issued a note that argues that addressable market would expand dramatically (double) if Verizon were to get access to the iPhone or some similar Apple-made handset in the future. This is what I argued some time ago in less precise terms. However Apple has reaffirmed its near-term commitment to AT&T (but there are suggestions of talks between Verizon and Apple).
Since Google's developer conference I've been using the G2/Ion they gave away. It's a significant (hardware and software) improvement over the G1. Here's a preliminary mostly postive review from Wired.
I'm not doing any systematic testing, rather just using it in my daily life. What I've found so far is that the virtual keyboard is considerably harder to use (for me) than the iPhone's. And the screen and Internet experience are not as "crisp" as on the iPhone. Still, in the absence of the iPhone it would be very impressive and probably the best handheld Internet device in the market.
I would put the G2/Ion in the good enough category. And the Storm 2 will probably satisfy some of that iPhone envy (that the Storm did not) among Verizon users. Finally the Pre has already prevented me from switching to AT&T to get the iPhone. We'll see once I get my hands on one whether it keeps me there.
Related: ZDNet compares the Pre to the G1.
Acer, maker of the popular Aspire netbook, has said it will release an Android-powered netbook in the US in Q3. According to Reuters:
Acer was the first PC vendor to officially announce that it was making Android PCs, weeks after it said it planned to launch smartphones -- mobile phones packed with advanced computer-like capabilities -- on the same platform later this year.
There's already a Chinese Android netbook apparently. But this would be the first major OEM to offer one and in a Western market. The fact that Android is open-source means that the computer could be cheaper than comparable Windows XP-based netbook. However, carrier subsidies (AT&T and Verizon) are driving down the cost of netbooks to $99. In the UK mobile operator O2 offered a netbook for free with a service contract.
We'll have to wait and see how it stacks up performance-wise against Windows. If it does it will represent a strong challenge to Microsoft in this emerging and fast-growing segment of the market. As the conventional laptop and PC desktop markets have suffered in the recession so have Microsoft's profits. However the company says that it today owns about 90% of the netbook market, which is actually more than its PC OS share according to Net Applications.
In the context of discussing a range of "major announcements" that we would be hearing about this year involving Android devices, Google CEO Eric Schmidt previously said (during the Google Q1 earnings call):
On the netbook side, there are a number of people who have actually taken Android and ported it over to netbook or netbook-similar devices. So we think that's another one of the great benefits of the open source model that we've used. We're excited that that investment is occurring. And again, largely outside of Google, which we think is great.
Google is banking on the browser and The Cloud as a replacement for desktop software. At the Google I/O event last week the company talked at length about HTML 5 and the impressive capabilities it brought to the browser.
Research firm ChangeWave has done an analysis that shows the iPhone to be a critical factor in AT&T's success and in its ongoing battle with Verizon. Absent the iPhone AT&T would probably not be holding up quite as well. Below are some charts supporting the thesis. Look at the higher future intent to switch to AT&T in the first chart compared with lower customer satisfaction for AT&T in the second (vs. Verizon):
Part of the explanation may reside in the difference between populations answering the questions (existing customers who have experience with the carrier vs non-customers who do not). But it's got to be about the iPhone.
In contrast to AT&T's satisfaction numbers, among so-called smartphones the iPhone is highest rated according to JD Power & Associates. Here's what ChangeWave has to say:
Note that dating back to the period just before the original Apple (AAPL) iPhone rollout, AT&T has managed to stay in first place in terms of future demand.
A coincidence? Not likely.
But the big question going forward is how long can AT&T keep its exclusivity agreement with Apple and ride the iPhone's coattails? While the current deal is set to expire next year, AT&T is in talks with Apple to extend it until 2011.
Apple has affirmed its relationship with AT&T publicly. However there are also suggestions promoted by Verizon itself that the iPhone or an Apple handset might make its way to the carrier in the next year or so.
Verizon is fighting back with the BlackBerry Storm (and within six months the Pre).
Nokia spent over $8 billion for Navteq so it should want to leverage LBS. According to the WSJ:
Nokia Corp. is striving to integrate location-based functionalities with other services and social applications available through its handsets, Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Wednesday.
"The phone knows where you are. It might know where you're going or what you're going to do," said Kallasvuo at the All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.
However Nokia won't have any real advantage with LBS given the general emphasis on location across mobile platforms. So it won't materialize as a differentiator in fact. At the D event Kallasvuo also demonstrated the N97, not yet in the US market. Here's how Barrons summarized the demo:
He's going to do a Demo of their newest handheld computer, the N97, not in the marketplace yet, but coming soon. Will be in the U.S. 5MP autofocus camera. Home screen has collection of widgets. With weather info. Uses GPS to pick out where it is. Facebook feed real time. Email. AP news ticker. Widgets on the Ovi store, their version of the App Stpre. Can post photos, tag them, upload them to Facebook or Twitter or Flickr. Has 32 GB internal, plus micro SD card. Plays MP3s, AAC music tracks. Stereo speakers. Has built in FM transmitter, so works on any radio. In email, there is text to speech. Can read one email, or all of them. Also speech to text to respond. Maps functionality includes 3D, and turn by turn directions. Ovi store will recommend appropriate applications based on relevancy from data on SIM card. Twitter client. And full QWERTY physical keyboard. Browser plays Flash natively on the Web. Can play video in most formats. Can do video chat, with video camera on the front.
Here's our earlier post on the N97.
Despite the fact that Nokia is the leading handset maker in the world and continues to enjoy strength in markets outside the US it's in trouble. A range of rivals continue to attack its position with increasing success. It has talked about re-entering the US market with cheap smartphones (not the N97) and that's a good strategy in my view. By contrast the N97 is not a low-end device; the unsubsidized price is apparently a whopping €550 ($695).
Unless carriers are willing to subsidize the N97 and bring the cost down to less than $200 it won't have a chance regardless of its features and capabilities.
Verizon has announced that it will be selling the Palm Pre within the "next six months." The company also said that the BlackBerry Storm 2 will be released in a similar time frame. This is bad news for Sprint and takes some of the wind out of the carrier's promotional sails (and perhaps Pre sales too).
Boy Genius Report has some first "hands on" impressions of the Pre (which are mixed).
Like others at the Google developer event yesterday I got my hands on an HTC "Magic," coming to T-Mobile in the US later this year (the company gave them away). It's currently available through Vodafone in the UK. The Magic has a virtual keyboard, which isn't as good as the iPhone's. However the phone is otherwise impressive. Here's a more complete review from PC World.
Meanwhile Google's Andy Rubin has said that by the end of this year there will be 18 and possibly 20 Android handsets in the market globally. According to Google there are almost 5,000 Android apps (compared with nearly 50K on the iPhone).
The latest Mobile Metrics report from AdMob (reflecting usage across its network) features a comparison of smartphone handset share vs mobile Internet browsing and usage. Here are the top-level data:
In other words, the iPhone and Android represent much more mobile Internet activity on the AdMob network than their respective handset shares, while Symbian, RIM, and Windows Mobile under-index relative to their shares in the handset market.
Here are some of the charts in the report:
The following includes HTML browsing (per Net Applications) from mobile handsets:
Putting aside the specific definitions of the categories in the chart above (Mobile Web vs. HTML), we can see how users are interacting with their devices and the mobile Internet. Clearly iPhone and Android owners are more engaged vs others. Some of this is self-selection and some of this is about the usability of the Internet on these devices. As an aside, it would be interesting to see the Storm broken out within the BlackBerry data to determine whether that device in particular was showing usage patterns different than other RIM handsets.
While the AdMob network is not synonymous with the mobile Internet it is directionally consistent with usage trends more broadly.
Nokia's N810 Tablet was too expensive and ahead of its time. And from what I can tell the device was not a commercial success (I might be wrong). But a purported successor (the "Rover") may gain traction. We're entering an era of mobile tablets, or at least a period where consumers will have lots of options for mobile IP-connected devices. There are all kinds of rumors of Apple developing a tablet and Android tablet rumors abound as well.
Mobile tablets will sit between smartphones and netbooks and may be sold like mobile phones with data contracts. This is the key: the connection.
After the demise of my Windows Mobile phone, I opted for a cheap Sanyo candy bar phone (as I await the Pre) and an iPod Touch for mobile Internet access. I have to rely on WiFi, which isn't as much of a problem as I initially thought. But the two devices are acceptable to me and I don't have to deal with the problemmatic iPhone phone.
As I wrote on Screenwerk in late 2006:
While there's no single scenario for mobile, many people are operating under the assumption that people want an all-in-one device. Some people certainly do and will. But seeing the new Sony VAIO UX mobile PC made me think again about a "two device" world in which people use "Device A" for browsing the mobile Internet and a phone for conventional voice communication.
There's something enormously challenging about getting the form factor right for an all-in-one device: the right-sized screen, a full keyboard, as well as a phone that works and is comfortable to use. There are probably a range of devices and mobile tablets coming (e.g., Sony Reader) that will be preferable as mobile Internet devices vs. a Treo or Blackberry. Some of them will undoubtedly be phones as well or have WiFi calling capabilities.
Tablets will be more like netbooks than smartphones in terms of the Internet experience. However tablets may bring the apps stores onto a larger screen (e.g., the rumored Apple tablet). The Nokia tablets are like big smartphones with a slide-out keyboard and will undoubtedly access the Ovi store. As an aside, it will be interesting to see how some of the next-generation tablets will address the keyboard/data entry challenge. Obviously they'll have touch screens. The Kindles for example have a physical keyboard on the device.
All these devices will also operate as phones (via Skype or equivalents). These connected, non-smartphone devices are thus something of an unanticipated "end-around" around voice fees in some sense.
I suspect within three to five years the mobile market will look like this:
Owning the iPhone is expensive and Sprint is planning to exploit its competitive advantage around data pricing (apparently) as one of the key marketing angles for the new Pre, due out June 6 in the US. As an aside, I'm generally annoyed by the faux shortages that Sprint hopes will boost demand and buzz for the device.
According to Engadget, which got a copy of an internal Sprint Pre launch guide the relative pricing of competitors' data plans is one of the key points. Of course Sprint has been pushing this angle more broadly for some time.
Source: Sprint/Engadget
The hardware and software comparison points in the table above (i.e., layered contacts, NASCAR content) are unlikely to win converts. Indeed the Pre may stop the post-paid subscriber bleeding (as will a Samsung Android phone expected later this year) but I don't believe you're going to see any big defection from AT&T and Verizon to Sprint to get the Pre. Sprint and Palm are hoping that such predictions are proven to be wrong.
However the cost of data-plans will get attention and may be a successful hook for those contemplating upgrading from a feature phone and considering one of the other carriers for a G1 or iPhone.
Related: O2 will distribute the Pre in the UK. And the WebOS Palm EOS (Centro successor) is reportedly coming to AT&T in the second half of 2009. Getting this device to market quickly will help Palm if early Pre sales fail to live up to the hype.
UK directory and local search site Scoot, which embraced Twitter recently on behalf of its local advertisers, has added an iPhone site. It uses icons and location-awareness to find the nearest business in the given category. From the release:
Scoot uses the iPhone's GPS capability to locate the user, then find the nearest cafe, bank, restaurant, petrol station and much more. "It's so quick and easy to use when you're on the move", said Sue Barnes, Scoot's managing director. "There's no need to type anything in: you just open the app and tap the relevant icon – cafe, for example. Scoot will then show your nearest cafes with name, address, phone number and distance from your current location.
The mobile user can tap the 'More' button on each business listed to see further information such as descriptions, opening times, payment methods, special offers/coupons, pictures and even videos. They can see the business on a map, get directions, click to call or view their website. Your browser may not support display of this image.
The application includes a number of standard icons as the default, representing some of the more popular business categories within the Scoot UK business directory. These include banks, cafes, car repairs, chemists, dentists, doctors, drinks, estate agents, food, hospitals, hotels, newsagents, petrol stations, post offices, supermarkets, special offers and favourites. However, the user can easily customise the application by using the simple on/off toggle button to add search icons for more categories or even their favourite brands. Scoot will be adding more categories and brands in future releases of the application.
Earlier this week Gartner released its Q1 handset numbers. What they show is that conventional mobile phones are off almost 9% YoY and smartphones are up almost 13% YoY:
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 8.6 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year.
Nokia continues to feel pressure and lose share in a much more competitive environment:
Global handset sales
Smartphone sales
Source: Gartner
If smartphones are 13% - 14% of the market today, we can expect them (depending on pricing) to become 20% - 25% in five or six years. That will mean much more mobile Internet engagment. But it also means that 75%+ of the market will still be on lower-end phones. Lots will happen in the next five years in the mobile market, including the introduction of new tablets, continued growth of netbooks and other IP-connected devices. So it's very difficult to predict mobile user behavior.
But it's safe to say that most people will not be on these high end devices. Marketers and publishers should be mindful of that.
So it's official: The Palm Pre will be available on June 6 and cost $199 with a two-year service agreement and rebate. Here's the Palm statement:
Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6. Sprint announced that it will be available nationwide in Sprint stores, as well as at Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. The webOS-based phone will retail for $199.99 (after rebate and service agreement).
The Palm Pre will provide access to all of the exclusive content on the Sprint Now Network, including Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile Live. More details about Sprint's service plans and retail channels can be found on the company's website.
There had been speculation that the Pre might be more aggessively priced to boost demand. But, disappointingly, not so.
It's very unlikely that the Pre, despite its appeal and buzz, will win many converts to Sprint, which has been losing roughly a million subscribers a quarter. More likely it will prevent some defections to Verizon and AT&T. By contrast Sprint's pre-paid unit Boost Mobile's $50 unlimited plan has proven enormously successful and may be the growth engine for the company in the near term -- so much so that it's opening 50 new retail locations in 2009.
With other carriers such as MetroPCS and Virgin Mobile trying to go head to head with Boost in pre-paid, that price war threatens to bleed over to the post-paid market. We can only hope so.
Sprint is very bullish on the Pre:
"It's the highest confidence I've ever had going into a device launch that this is going to be a blockbuster," said Kevin Packingham, senior vice president for product and technology development at Sprint. He noted that he expects to know quickly whether the device has captured consumer enthusiasm. "I'm pretty sure we'll know within the first week."
For Sprint's sake -- but especially for Palm's -- I hope he's right that it will sell well.
What's very clear is that the Internet is fast being "mobilized." What's not as clear is how the various competing devices will fare over the long term. Right now both smartphones and netbooks are hot. Netbooks are slightly hotter than smartphones, because they seem really cheap by comparison to conventional laptops. And now netbooks are being sold like phones.
Verizon joined AT&T recently in offering a smartphone-like deal to potential subscribers. It's selling the new HP Mini for $199 (after a rebate) with a two-year agreement that costs $40 per month for the IP connection. Yet RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie believes that despite the rise of netbooks smartphones will win because of their form factor:
"Form factor is a personal preference but it's got to be something that lasts the better part of the day and you can hold up to your ear and clip onto your belt," he said in response to our question about his vision for future products. "Those are a very tight systems constraints for a netbook."
And, if a phone's dimensions seems too cramped for the increasingly sophisticated media, entertainment and business services offered, Balsillie said this: "If you want richer keyboards and richer displays you can just use peripherals and bluetooth."
Along those lines, products like Redfly turn a smartphone into a CPU. Useful though it may be there's something that strikes me as awkward about the device. Admittedly, however, I haven't used one.
Then there's this related development: the personal WiFi node from Novatel Wireless, the MiFi. Unlike a dongle, it allows multiple devices to connect to the Internet. However, it costs $100 and $40 per mo (from Verizon). Consumers are not going to own smartphones, netbooks with plans and personal hotspots at the same time because of cost. They will be forced to make choices.
Along those lines, we recently asked consumers whether they would prefer a smartphone or a netbook as their mobile Internet device (if the price were identical). Here's what they said:
As I've argued before, once the connectivity problem is solved then lots of new mobile Internet devices can come into being.
Nokia wants to be a player in the US market again. However the handset OEM is facing fundamental challenges as it tries to get back in the game here. For example it doesn't having billing support from carriers for its Ovi apps store. Despite having potentially lots of apps, the absence of simplified billing will be an initial (if not long term) problem for Nokia.
Nokia will also be hard-pressed to compete at the high end of the smartphone market. The US market is now the most competitive in the world for smartphones and the dominance of RIM and the iPhone is not likely to be successfully challenged in the near term by Nokia. In addition, any smartphone costing more than $200 (with subsidy) is dead on arrival as a mainstream device.
Price is a huge driver or barrier to adoption -- often unappreciated by those writing about mobile issues.
What then can the company do? It can pump out low-end smartphones (or smartphone-like phones) that are inexpensive. Getting handsets into the hands of US users is the first order of business and right now the only way to do that is to offer phones that are priced around $100 or so.
Related: AT&T considering lower-cost iPhone plans.
Last week Google announced barcode scanning for products on Android phones (right now the G1 in the US and Magic in the UK):
After you've installed the application, go back to Product Search in your browser and tap on the 'Scan Barcode' button again. Select "Use by default for this action" and tap on the Barcode Scanner option. After the app opens, center the red line over the barcode and hold the phone steady. When the barcode is read successfully, you'll see a Google Product Search results page back in the browser.
This is not to be confused with ShopSavvy for Android, which also uses barcode scanning and offers local store inventory data. Barcode scanning apparently doesn't work right now on the iPhone because of the quality of the camera (at least that's my understanding).
One of the things that I've been thinking for a long time is that the camera will eventually be used as a "search" tool -- as a way to obtain information more quickly and directly than keying in queries or even using voice. It remains to be seen but movement is in the right direction; there remains a bunch of work to be done on "infrastructure" issues, regarding standardization and pre-installed software.
But here are the forms camera-based search will eventually take:
All of these leverage the camera's ability to take in information and then potentially deliver very exact or complete data on the back end, beyond what a user could independently get with a conventional search approach.
It's potentially quite compelling as a user experience and could trump conventional search in many different scenarios. But it also illustrates the larger point that "search" on mobile phones is going to be a multi-modal experience, rather than a uniform one as on the PC. In as few as five years we're simultaneously likely to have:
The use cases will be both device specific and situational. One way to compete in mobile search is to push into these non-traditional realms more aggressively.
An online survey of 4,000 US mobile users (ages 12 to 64) conducted in January 2009, by Frank N. Magid Associates, found that 51% said they were accessing some type of mobile Internet content on a weekly basis. The study claims to be representative of the population as a whole. If so, that would mean roughly 135 million users in the US are going online at least weekly from their handsets.
In march comScore reported that more than 63 million people were using their handsets to go online at some point during a given month. Thus the Magid numbers emerge as the most aggressive in the market (if extrapolated to the larger mobile population).
Other findings from the Magid survey:
Some of these findings are relatively obvious given that price is a big factor in mobile Internet access and usage, and online social networking is still skewed slightly younger. Here's the smartphone ownership breakdown according to their data . . .
Millenials (18% own smartphone)
Gen X-ers (10% own smartphone)
Boomers (8% own smartphone)
Though the numbers aren't broken out in the release, price/cost and no perception of need are inhibitors. Lack of perceived need and cost uncertainty are the factors we've also found in our surveys regarding why people don't access the mobile Internet:
Source: LMS/Opus Research (3/09)
Among the rumors circulating in the run up to Apple's developer conference in June, there are rumors that the iPod Touch will get a camera at some point in the near future (September). Even if Apple foolishly stays with AT&T exclusively in the US for iPhone distribution, I suspect a "back door" to expanded distribution will be in making the Touch and the iPhone barely distinguishable over time.
There are roughly 17 million (or so) iPhones that have been sold on a global basis. But when the iPod Touch, which runs almost all the iPhone apps, is added in the number jumps to over 37 million. While some people see the iPod Touch as an iPod with apps, others (including me) see it as a stripped down iPhone without AT&T. You can buy an iPhone and use it exclusively as a WiFi device today but it costs hundreds more than buying the subsidized iPhone with an AT&T contract.
The two principal user experience differences between the iPhone and the iPod Touch are: no camera and no mic (as well as no phone service) available to the latter. However, with an available mic-enabled headset or earphones, the Touch can become a phone via Skype, Fring or Truefone -- today. That assumes a WiFi connection of course.
Though an embedded mic is not part of the rumors I suspect that will eventually come to the Touch as well. That would enable the device to function more natively like a phone and to take advantage of voice search apps that currently don't work on the Touch.
As always these are rumors and we've got to wait to see what happens. However, I suspect the devices will almost converge in terms of their functionality over time, athough Apple will keep the products distinct in some ways to perserve a separate identity in the market.
Accoarding to Nielsen survey data captured from 1/09 to 3/09, (presented by Fierce Wireless), here are the top selling touch-screen smartphones in the US:
This is contradicted by NPD Group assertions that the BlackBerry Curve outsold the iPhone in Q1. The data above also suggest that iPhone sales would be much greater if it were available through other carriers -- Verizon in particular.


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WOW!I LOVE IT!! I'M IN LOVE ABOVE ALL OF THE BIG BLACK HOUSE...DID YOU MAKE IT BY YOURSELF OR DID YOU TAKE THE TEMPLATES SOMEWHERE? THANKS.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much Silvia for your kind words! The black house is mad of heavy felt and I found it at The Dollar Tree (shhhhh) lol...Delete
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Adorable little details, and I love the colors.ReplyDelete
Thanks Chris - so appreciate the kinds words 8)
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Love, love, love the googly eyes! Great idea! Thanks for sharing at the Pomp Party! Hope to see you back next week!ReplyDelete
So super cute! Love the googly eyes! So glad you shared your party decorations at Gettin' Krafty!ReplyDelete
This is so great!!! You should link this up to The CSI Project because the challenge is Washi Tape.
Love this party!!! Pinning!
Hi Mel!! Thanks so much for linking up to Bird's Party Linky!!
Those googly monsters are so adorable!
No wonder your party was featured!! :)
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I don't know if anyone uses papercut but we have been using it for a little while and I have just discovered one of the best things in the world in the programme Scripting. This has done 2 things 1 means I dont have to have printer for staff and printer for pupils and staff can control pupils printing without having to give any sort of printer admin.
you can use this and change groups no. of pages etc if you need to. Also there is a hyper-link in the student mesage box so that teachers can click on it to get to the release console but atm it does not work but have been informed that hyperlinks will work with next version 11.5. A very nice peace of software.
I'll have a play with that. Thank you
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Stuffed, stir-fried or in soup, we love to eat fungi. But would you want to cook up a wood woolly foot, poison pie or fairy parasol? Celebrate autumn's arrival with a free series of Darwin Centre Live talks foraging in the world of mushrooms and including a cookery demonstration by Antonio Carluccio.
From Puff Balls to Poison Pies
Sunday 12 September
They're not plants or animals and though some taste great others will kill you. Explore the wild, weird world of fungi with members of the British Mycological Society.
Fantastic Fungi Live from Nottingham
Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 September
Join the UK's top fungi experts as they get together for the big fungi meet. The Darwin Centre Live team will be linking live to Nottingham so that you can speak to them and find out more.
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From Japanese delicacies to the British fry-up, we love to eat fungi. Join Antonio Carluccio, celebrity chef and author of The Complete Mushroom Book, to discover which fungi are safe to eat, watch him cook live and taste the results.
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Let's face it. Atheism isn't classy any more. Gone are the witty people and instead you fuckers are stuck with people like me who swear and spell things incorrectly.
I read this article through the Catholic Herald's link on it.
Apparently we aren't what we used to be. We haven't replace the titans of "atheist thought". We don't have a "modern day Nietzsche". We lack the great thinkers that were household names. That our once "mighty" stable of intellectual debaters has been replaced by what can only be described with the euphemism of "Maths Debaters". That the god-bashers du jour have nothing of significance to say about life.
How do we determine our morality? Did we make it? Is it intrinsic?
After all, either there is an intrinsic "truth" to the way we live our lives or we impose our order and rules on "nature" to civilise it.
But this last simply cannot be true. There is meaning in the universe which we discover, and which we do not create. Well, how did that meaning get there?
I don't think this is a stupid question.
I think it's a cognitive bias. The meaning we see are no different from the portents of augurs. We see what we want to see in the Universe. It's the double rainbow viral video. To us it is the refraction of sunlight in a specific way through rain. To him it's the most beautiful event EVER.
Again, we are "egocentric" creatures. We like to think we are the centre of everything. That our world revolves around us. Hell if you are a believer in astrology then the stars themselves move in order for you to get lucky with that hot thing from checking and accounts.
The meaning of life is to survive.
It's just that humans can do that with style. We can create value and do things other than survive. Survival for us is easy so we survive in style. We fulfil our lives through a variety of ways. Money and Power? Relationships? Experiences? Objects? And indeed Spirituality and Religion.
I think religion is a fantasy but it does help people feel "happy and fulfilled".
As for contemporary barbarism? I assume that's a casual dig either at poor people, Islam or the Visigoths are on the move again.
We kind of have to deal with these two topics separately. Let's first deal with the Catholic Herald's main argument. Because the Catholic Herald has a more political agenda than the Spectator article.
The Chief Rabbi speaks of the threat of contemporary barbarism. He is right about that. But if we are to build civilisation, or to reinforce it, we have to have agreed foundations, and where are we to find them, unless in some shared metaphysical belief? This metaphysical belief does not have to be in God, but it does have to be in some shared value. It must at least be based on an admission that values, absolute values, exist.
The difference between our viewpoints is simple too.
The foundation of civilisation has always been the people who live within it. A shared metaphysical belief or "Religion" has however been the cause off the cessation of a lot of civilisations.
Values are not absolute. Thou Shalt Not Kill?
Unless it's ordered by a duly stated authority.
Absolute Morality is rigid, inflexible and unfair. It does not take into account circumstance. It is a hammer and when the law is a hammer all crimes are nails.
No, I am afraid the foundation of society is human beings and the moral framework we utilise is the notion that all human beings are equal and have the same will to happiness and prosperity as each other. So we must treat each other as we wish to be treated and that requires laws.
The law and human society pre-date modern religion. Laws are there to help us survive. Laws change and are mutable.
If we had this conversation a hundred years ago and stood by principles at the time we would still be living in a world where I wouldn't be allowed to sit on the same seat as a white man. No. I am afraid morality progresses and the rules change. And morality is based on our understanding of how our actions interact with others and how it affects them.
Incidentally, it has to be admitted, and as a religious person I have no difficulty admitting it, that several avowed theists in our world may well be the sort of people who have no real value system whatever, or indeed may be the proponents of a system of profound 'disvalues' (as they are called). Cameron, Haig and others, in their desire to arm the Syrian "rebels", show a profound lack of common sense, as well as a failure to grasp what is at stake here; they have advanced no proper argument for their position, at least none that would sound good outside a school debating chamber, to the level of which our Mother of Parliaments has long descended.
And how would believing in a magical entity that wrote a 2000 year old book help them make this decision? Where in the Bible does it say "Don't Equip Syrian Rebels. Seriously? Those guys are cocklords.".
Equipping Rebels in Syria is a historical repeat of the Mujahadeen. Added to which "tales" of Rebel atrocities to match the Syrian government have started trickling out. What's at stake here is the lives of the people of Syria which is being systematically destroyed by the actions of a dictatorial government resulting in a "rebel group" and war between the two.
Right can never be reduced to the concept of "because I will it so." Right must rest upon some reasoning process, and must have some reference to something that is greater than ourselves. Metaphysical truths represent a break, perhaps the only break on human stupidity, and human barbarism. They hold back the tide, they command us to think again, and sometimes to stop what we are doing. To deny any such absolute truths and values is to open ourselves up the ultimate horrors of the Holocaust, to which the former Chief Rabbi alludes.
Except right isn't reduced to the will of the people. Many a time "right" has been done against the will of people.
And there is something greater than ourselves out there. You think it's god? I think it's our future. Our children and those who come afterwards. We leave the world for them and they leave it for those who follow just as our parents left it for us.
We should aspire to leave it better than we received it. Greater than ourselves? Humanity and society is bigger than one man is it not?
The very metaphysical truths that religion claims are part of the human stupidity and barbarism. It commands us to not think about what our actions really mean. The very adoption of absolute truth and values lead to the sort of Horrors of the Holocaust.
At no point during the Holocaust did the people doing it consider themselves anything but Moral Upstanding Citizens.


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Eleven years after the original release of Little Brother's seminal debut, The Listening, MySpace has done a retrospective article on the album, which includes interviews with Rapper Big Pooh, Chaundon, and yours truly. Check it out here. Peep a snippet below.
DJ Pizzo: The first time I heard of Little Brother was when Phonte sent us a demo of kinda like parody songs, like he was making fun of hip-hop tracks at the time so there would be the thug song—like "I thug, I thug, I thug!"—'cause that was so big at the time. It was a burned CD with all text written on it. We used to get demos all the time though—like literally five a day—so I threw it in this crate with the intention to listen to it later. But I guess the demo did fall into the hands of Beni B at ABB Records.
We'd done really well with Dilated Peoples releases on the site and Beni called me and told me he wanted to do this promotion where if you bought The Listening you'd get this free 7-inch which was "Atari 2600," a song that was on the initial parody rap CD. It was Phonte doing a RZA impression and this whole monologue about how the Atari was better than the new PlayStation. I didn't really know Little Brother's music at the time but I knew ABB was a trusted brand. Then once we heard the album we thought it was great.
Chaundon: I realized how The Listening was taking off once they started releasing a couple of singles on OkayPlayer and watching ?uestlove say extraordinary things about the album and hearing Pete Rock calling Phonte's house and leaving a message on the phone saying he heard the album and it's dope. Once you have people of the status that you respect that are buying into it, I knew the people will buy into it. These are people who've already made classic records so they know.
DJ Pizzo: At the time I was really tight with ?uestlove and we were always putting each other onto stuff, like at the beginning I gave him RJD2. I know that once he got behind The Listening, it kinda really took off.
Big Dho: The thing that I remember was when I started seeing Pete Rock called them or we went to Pete Rock's house, just seeing them recognized by the OGs and the legends. Those have ended up being people they've made music with. I was on the outside looking in, but seeing the looks on their faces and how they talked about it, it's a real great thing to see.
DJ Pizzo: At HipHopSite we wanted to make wood plaques for any time we sold something that made over 1,000 copies. Most times stuff would sell 100 copies, or for something really popular like on Def Jux or Stones Throw you could order 500 no problem. Little Brother was approaching 900, and one of the items that came after that was 9th Wonder's God's Stepson and I directly remember giving that to ?uestlove. Because we did so well with The Listening we struck a deal with 9th to press it up and that thing really just sold forever and ever. We had it exclusively so it was one of the biggest releases we ever had.
We never actually made the wooden plaques but The Listening definitely broke 1,000 copies on the site. For sales for us, that album was there with Madvillainy, RJD2's second album, and Eminem's Slim Shady EP.
Big Pooh: The reaction was super flattering, man. People you grew up listening to were in turn praising what you were doing. We were upcoming artists and we were hearing artists that at one point or another were at the top of the game saying these things about our music. It was a priceless moment.
"Phonte and 9th Wonder respectfully declined to be interviewed." LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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It's that time of year where area high school students put on their finest tuxedos and evening gowns. Although prom is supposed to be a night filled with dancing, experts say now is the perfect time to talk to your kids about underage drinking.
"We always worry, I think, as parents," Tami Richmond, a mother of three, said. "So I think it's always in the back of your mind. Even as much as you trust your children, you don't always know what's out there."
Parents not only have to worry about getting their children the right tux, the right dress, and the right corsage, but they also have to worry about their children's decisions. Talking to them about not drinking alcohol is just one decision Tami Richmond hopes her son makes.|
"We just kind of make it in dinner conversation or at the breakfast table or something that as we are starting our day: 'Hey by the way,' 'Have you thought about,' or 'What do you think of,' and let them give you some feedback as well," Richmond said.
The Springfield Police Department said they too will be monitoring the students, using extra patrols on duty and keeping their eyes pealed for any underage drinking.
"We're looking out for the parties, we're looking for the impaired driving, and it will be just like any other holiday weekend," Deputy Chief Cliff Buscher said. "If you're going to be driving drunk, we're going to be looking for you. Us, the county, the state, everybody is going to be out."
Police officials said the best way for students to have a safe prom is to attend the after prom parties held by the school and parent volunteers.
"As a parents, I think we just want to know that our kids are going from one place to another and they are staying someplace that is secure, safe, and allowing them to have some fun to hang out together without a lot of pressure to drink or do anything else that's inappropriate," Richmond said.
Southeast High School's prom will be held this Saturday, and the after prom party will be held at Lake Town Lanes from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Students can go bowling, win a few door prizes, and eat after prom snacks with their friends.
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