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Literally following instructions
For some time, I've been increasingly feeling like we suffer from the warm, fuzzy, everything-is-wonderful syndrome. We pat each other on the back when it's deserved, but also when it's not, and though this accomplishes what it sets out to–we feel good about ourselves–it also breeds mediocrity. This spills over into our classroom philosophies as well. Are we really helping our students achieve their potential with language or are we unintentionally filling in the gaps and overlooking errors they make because comprehensibility alone is the goal? I subscribe to Underhill and Scrivener's Demand High ELT, which looks at "ways of getting much greater depth of tangible engagement and learning" and in a recent conversation with my colleague, Katherine Anderson, she reminded me of a great activity that pushes students to be better.
Do you ever think about how much you learn to understand the way your students communicate? There are a lot of times that we are overly forgiving of what our students say or write because we know what they mean. It can come to a point where we regularly accept the wrong word, collocated phrase, or grammar (and have you ever found yourself actually making that error yourself in their presence?). Try turning the class around and having students tell you what to do. The twist is, do what they suggest literally. They'll quickly come to realise that not everyone is going to be so forgiving.
Literal instructions example
Because my classes could be in any building throughout campus, available technology in the classroom itself is a crapshoot. Some have ceiling-mounted projectors; some have smart consoles connected to the internet; some have nothing but a blackboard. More often than not, it's the latter. In these cases, I need to carry a projector, laptop, extension cord and speakers to the classroom. Though I'm rather adept now at hooking it all up within a few minutes, why not turn it into a high demand communication exercise?
Plop all the equipment down on the desk and ask students to tell you how to connect it all together in order to watch clips of a TV show or movie for the lesson. It, however, depends on students instructing you on exactly how to do it. Keep in mind, you must do exactly what they suggest.
Students: Open the laptop and turn it on.
Teacher: OK. But it won't turn on.
Students: Put the electricity into a wall.
Teacher: I'm not an electrician. I can't do that.
Students: Hmm. Put the string into a wall.
Teacher: The string? <You pull a string from your clothes, for example, until students realise that's the wrong word.>
Students: Cord. Bring up the cord into a wall.
Teacher: Oh. Bring up the cord? <Point to the cord and speak to it kindly> You're a good cord. Do you want to be a good wall one day? You have to practice really hard at being flat and solid.
Students: Plug the cord into the wall!
Teacher: Oh! <Plug the cord into the outlet.>
You can see what I mean here. Often for time's sake, we forgive the incorrect language our students use because we know what they mean. Depending on the task, this can give them the impression that what they use is acceptable, a false security they may quickly realise when frustrated communicating outside the classroom. It's about helping learners realise that are capable of producing better language for context and comprehensibility. It's about our realising that overlooking their errors is actually a detriment to our students' progress.
Keep in mind that the vocabulary and grammar required in the task should have been earlier taught and practised. Keep in mind that it's not aiming to be impossibly difficult.
In the end, students will get a little frustrated, laugh and push themselves to try harder. Plus, who doesn't think trying to bring up a cord to be a good wall is funny? =)
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phil wade says:
I like it. I've been there. I carried video players a lot and those allegedly portable OHP suitcases.
I love that activity, very good for describing processes and showing students their weaknesses. They need the language to do something and it becomes very clear when they don't have it. I use a similar management simulation with different levels of hierarchy giving and following orders.
Yes, we are too soft but I've never liked it and so have always had a bit of a reputation for being tough or 'demanding'. I REALLY hate all that "oooooorrrr" rubbish. And talking about students like they're babies. I also hate teachers talking down to their students or laughing about them. Low level does not = stupid. Any student above 18 is an adult and should be respected but challenged. I've had many who ask "why?" and lots of questions because they want to improve, they don't want "it's OK". Others notice when you let things go and ask. They think you're 1)lazy or 2)have poor English and don't notice the errors. I had a colleague like that who was tooo friendly and her class revolted and said her English level was too poor to teach.
Now I'm not saying cane the students but push them and if they have problems help them a bit. No spoonfeeding with constant support and handouts. Get them to do stuff on their own. I often say "X I think you have a problem with….work on it over the weekend and tell me how it went on Monday". This means they need to use their grammar/vocab…books/sites. A lot of students say "nobody's ever said that to me before" and initially are shocked but I say that I'm honest and that's what they need to do, after all, they are adults.
seburnt says:
You're right – students crave correction. Students deserve to be told that they need to work on this or that area. Students are often babied too much. It's one lesson in this EAP program I work in that I learned early on: don't spoonfeed them because if you do, they will be in for a rude awakening during their first year.
Still, it's not about discouraging either. We do need to foster an environment where students are willing to take risks with what they've learnt. It, however, is our job to not allow those risks to fossilise if wrong.
DaveDodgson says:
I like doing this kind of thing, not out of any desire to push my students harder but simply because it appeals to my sarcastic side. A common transference issue with Turkish students is the use of 'open' and 'close' when 'switch on' and 'switch off' are needed. So, when a student suggests I 'open the light', you'll often find me standing on a chair underneath the bulb looking for some kind of handle. More often than not, that leads to someone producing the correct 'switch on' form (also adaptable to computers, projectors, telephones and cameras).
I've also applied the 'literal meaning' tactic (with a dollop of sarcasm on the side) when students are mixing tenses (e.g. Me – 'How was your holiday?' Kid – 'Great! I am in America' Me – 'Is this a hologram call?' ;-)). Far from being traumatised, they find it funny and it usually leads to self-correction/clarification – always desirable.
seburnt says:
Haha, Dave! I completely get the sarcasm angle you approach this activity at! I'm sure that this activity appeals to that side of me as well, being a lover of dry humour myself…
Lu Bodeman says:
I loved the post, and it really struck a chord with me. I have this one student, in particular, who loves to say "you know what I mean, teacher" every time she states something in class (errors included). And of course, most of the time I do, and eventually let it slide.
I'll be considering this with greater care, and looking at ways on how to create greater awareness of how important it is to work harder, in order to achieve more. Excellent idea on plugging in the 'electricity'. :)
seburnt says:
It's very easy to let it slide, Lu. I do it. Your colleagues do it. You do it. We all do it sometimes because it can be easier than trying to reexplain things over and over. Of course, flipping the instructions this way tends to drive the point more home to students. Let them try outside of class and they'll realise not everyone knows what they mean.
Margaret Hurley says:
Great approach. It works for more than English — I remember a similar tactic used by a computer programming instructor. He required the class to give instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; he had come prepared with the ingredients, and proceeded to follow all instructions literally. Quite a mess. And a very memorable lesson.
seburnt says:
I can see this being useful almost anywhere, particularly in TESL classes too. New teachers tend to explain things poorly, simply because they aren't in the habit of doing so to our audience. Simplifying verbose instructions is an acquired skill, obviously not only for language teaching.
DaveDodgson says:
This discussion has also reminded me of an activity I used to use when teaching adults designed to get them to pay more attention to instructions (I take no credit for it – I found it in a book and I'm sure you've heard of it before ;)
The whole thing sentred around the first instruction which said something like "Please read all of the işnstructions carefully before you do anything else". There then followed a series of increasingly bizarre instructions ("stand up and turn around three times", "shout out 'I love English!'" and so on) before the last one said "Now that you have read all the instructions carefully, give this paper back to your teacher".
They hated me when I told them they were only supposed to read and not actually do any of that stuff!! I should use that with my young learners once school starts again :)
Anthony Gaughan says:
This is something which resonates with me. I gave a talk at IATEFL 2012 called the Se7en Deadly Sins of ELT in which one of the "sins" I attacked was the common feeling that telling learners that what they just said was "wrong" in some way was to be avoided. So when I saw JIm Scrivener and Adrian Underhill debuting DHT I felt like a general tide was turning and a few of us were catching the same wave, so to speak.
But in particular your post makes me think of Long's interaction hypothesis, the reworking of Krashen's input hypothesis, which suggested that morphosyntactic development occurred as a response to negotiation for meaning (by which he meant those moments when communication breaks down due to ambiguity and speakers are forced to resort to greater precision – and as a result need to leverage greater grammatical accuracy – in order to get the job done.)
The problem with this idea – which has gained currency in ELT circles, as Krashen's ideas gained currency before it, despite their being demolished by linguists at large, is that – surprise, surprise – learners don't resort to the kind of negotiation for meaning that Long's hypothesis depends on. Classroom research by Foster, Foster and Skehan and others have reliably shown that such negotiations that do occur rarely if ever hinge on morphosyntax, and often are lexically dependent. Further, what more often happens is that learners scaffold – or accommodate – the interlocutor's weakness. In other words, they do what normally socialised humans do – they collaborate.
So your idea of "playing things literally" is a fun way of overriding this natural human trait and thus allowing a chance for Long's hypothesis to operate. Time will then tell whether such negotiations actually bootstrap general performance over time.
seburnt says:
Hmm. I haven't heard of Long's interaction hypothesis though it would make sense if I just heard it out of the blue. I can see how in actuality, listeners and speaker negotiate together to understand meaning. Of course, this assumes that the listener gives the speaker the time of day. Not everyone is so patient.
All in all, I believe the tide is turning in certain circles towards what you, me, Scrivener and Underhill are starting to propose. Check out some of the comments in Ceci's post for example: http://cecilialcoelho.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/hi-my-name-is-cecilia-and-i-am-a-recaster/#comments =)
Nastya says:
One could extend this to drawing images of what a student is saying. For example, they say 'I play IN a guitar'. You retort: 'that's a problem' and draw a tiny figure inside a huge instrument. They laugh and correct themselves: 'play ON a guitar'. You respond: 'poor guitar!' and draw a figure literally sitting on the instrument. They'll laugh again and work a bit harder to arrive at something less damaging for the player and the instrument.
seburnt says:
Sure, Nastya. Sounds like a great variation of the idea.
James Taylor says:
I agree with you Tyson with a caveat. As you know from my blog, I'm not scared of making my students work, both in terms of effort and the thinking involved, and like you I don't like to let mistakes slide just to make things easier.
The activity you feature above is a fun way of making the students really think about what they are saying, but I think it has to be carefully executed. You need to have a pre-existing good relationship with the students so they trust you and will allow you to push them. And I would worry about it going on too long. If not carefully managed, it could become irritating for the students.
You say at the end "who doesn't think trying to bring up a cord to be a good wall is funny?" and I think the answer is not many people, but still some people nonetheless. I imagine my old Portuguese teacher used to think a similar thing about playing pop songs in the lesson. "Who doesn't enjoy singing along with music" she might have asked herself. Well, the answer was me, for various reasons I found it annoying, pointless and frustrating.
So in short, I do like the activity and the ethos behind it, but I think it needs to be carefully carried out.
seburnt says:
Good points, James. Execution is important as with all tasks. You do need to know when to help out and when it's just not going anywhere. I'm not sure I'd equate the general enjoyment of humour with the love (or lack thereof) of singing along to pop songs.
James Taylor says:
But you didn't mention the general enjoyment of humour, you mentioned a specific example! You're probably right, most people would find it funny, I was just trying to offer a warning that often things we think are universal are not as popular as we think. But it was just a small point and shouldn't detract from the main point that the activity is an example of a very appropriate shift in the right direction.
seburnt says:
Right, key word: example. ;P Haha, in all seriousness, you're totally right. We can't assume everyone likes everything we like.
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Wanda Bolton-Davis is the wife of our pastor here at the St. John Church. The Illinois native and mother of three also serves as a teaching pastor and ministry director at the church.
When Rev. Wanda first moved to the Dallas area in 1983, she aided her husband in the work of the church by serving as Minister of Music, starting the Social Service Ministry and founding the Annual Women's Retreat. This was all while working as a social worker in the field of adoption.
Rev. Wanda has a heart for God and His people and possesses a strong passion for discipleship. This passion led her to write and self-publish a discipleship guide called, "Victorious Disciples." The release of the book also served as the foundation for Victorious Disciples Ministries Inc., a discipleship, mentoring, and leadership development ministry. Victorious Disciples has been implemented in churches all across the United States, Bermuda, Africa, and beyond since its inception in 2004. To learn more, visit www.VictoriousDisciples.org.
Rev. Wanda holds a bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation Science, a master's degree in Social Work, a Master of Divinity degree from Truett Theological Seminary, where she was selected as their Minister of the Year in 2005, and she is currently pursuing the Doctor of Ministry degree at Talbot School of Theology.
Being the First Lady of a mega church is a full job in itself, but Rev. Wanda has managed to always go beyond the call of duty, making great strides of her own within the church and beyond. She has served as Honorary Chairperson and Task Force Member for the American Heart Association, Chairperson for the Alumni Association of the School of Allied Health Sciences at U.T. Southwestern.
In addition, Rev. Wanda is also on the Truett Theological Seminary Advisory Board and in August 2005, led a ministry team to Africa where they ministered to thousands and implemented Victorious Disciples in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2006, she received the Esther Award at the First Ladies Conference hosted by the Urban Alternative and Dr. Lois Evans, wife to renowned bible teacher and author, Dr. Tony Evans.
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Though I've used Skype's [4] free video chatting service on and off for years, I recently purchased Skype credits for the first time to make international calls, so this morning's announcement [5] from Comcast caught my attention.
The cable giant will soon launch a service that allows its subscribers to use Skype on their TV sets.
Subscribers will be able to make and receive Skype video and audio calls on a TV while watching content at the same time. They'll also be able to accept incoming calls during a TV show.
The service will be delivered via a Comcast adapter box, a video camera, and a specially designed remote control that will allow customers to text on Skype as well as control their television.
Comcast says trials will begin in the coming months, but didn't release which markets will be included. Details on pricing weren't released.
Microsoft announced last month [6] plans to acquire Skype for more than $8 billion.
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January 20, 1970, 8 items; Letters (1835-1846) to M. C. and Margaret Bogey. Deposited by Mrs. G. T. Richardson, New Bern, N.C.
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On November 2nd, 2009; The Founder and President of READ- DrAntonia Neubauer - was felicitated by Nepal Tourism Board for her outstandingcontribution in developing rural tourism through literacy.
Sharing her motivation for establishing libraries invillages of Nepal,Dr Neubauer said that the trekking guide inspired her to set up a library inNamche village in 1981. She added that it was due to inspiration from a guidethat she understood the importance of education in Nepal's villages. Sheexplained that READ is about educational, economic and community development asa whole. National Planning Commission former vice-president and Emeritus boardmember of READ Nepal Dr Mohan Man Saiju said READ has been identifying tourismpotential destinations and establishing libraries at those places so as toproduce skilled human resources which can deliver standard services totourists visiting the country. "The libraries have not only developed readingculture in Nepal but alsohelped in disseminating information to tourists visiting Nepal," said
Nepal Library Association president Bhola Kumar Shrestha. He added thatliteracy is one of the important millennium development goals set by thegovernment.
During the ceremony, there was a presence of the CEO ofNepal Tourism Board, Press and Media and READ Nepal well wishers. The news waswidely covered by Nepalmedia.
This is a great honor for READ to berecognized by the government body of Nepal.
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We received this wonderful note from Daniel and Evgeniya, who recently returned from their 10-day "Magic of Machu Picchu & Lake Titicaca" customized journey with Myths and Mountains. In the spirit of travel, we thought it would be nice to share their experiences with all of you, our adventurous fans. Enjoy!
Dear Allie,
I am very sorry that I found time to reply only now but as a young mother of a very active eight months old baby I think I have an excuse :)
On behalf of my husband and myself I would like to thankeveryone and especially you for a WONDERFUL trip to Peru. We fall in love with thisbeautiful country. We really enjoyed every moment of being there. The Machu Picchu was amazing and powerful place to be. We got big supply of energy in this mysterious place. I liked the Machu Picchu but the floating islands on lakeTiticaca impressed me themost. When we disembarked from the boat I was able to sayonly: " WOW!!!!" . I wished wecould spend overnight on theislands to get better the culture and thelocal people.
The Peruvian people are veryfriendly and helpful. I like that they are not importunate on the markets. We bought so many good things. I am not a shopaholic but I couldn't stop myself of buying nice stuff there. :) The Peruvian food was absolutely delicious. Finally we tried guinea pig we didn't havetime to do it in Ecuador. We found top end restaurantin Cusco and tried there ravioli with guinea pigand alpaca steak. Where else in theworld you can try such exoticfood? I think nowhere, in Cusco only.
I left my opinion aboutour guides and hotels on the commentpage.
Also I want toshare our story on Titicaca with you. We really enjoyed it at the end but... how it all happened.
The first two hours ofkayaking were enjoyable and pleasantdespite the wind blowing againstus. The third hourwe began to be tired but we almostdidn't stop to take a rest. Thefourth hour I got horrible painin my arms but I the thoughtthat I can"t leave my husband alone, really motivated me to continuerowing. After four hours of kayaking we finally reached theisland. We were exhaustedbut happy. :) For therest of the day and whole night I have experienced the worst pain in my life. I couldn't move my arms at all. The nextmorning I was absolutely fineand happy.
We want to come back to Peru in few years to do Inca trails andspend few days in the jungle and will do it with your company for sure.
Once again, thank you very muchfor the great time we havehad on the land of Incas and unforgettable memories that will be inour hearts for years to come.
All the best ,
Daniel and Evgeniya
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Returning to Guayaquil from a week in the Galapagos, we intrepidly rented a car to explore the Ruta Del Sol - Ecuador's coastline. After my first trip to Ecuador I returned home talking about the ruleless roads of Ecuador and vowed to NEVER drive in this country. Here I was a year later on my honeymoon boldly renting a car. Carpe diem. After checking in at the car rental counter, the kind girl said she didn't have the mid-sized car we reserved and was going to have to upgrade us to an SUV. Hallelujah I thought. A bigger car equals more safety. After completing the paperwork, we headed out towards the car. The scariest part was about to begin; getting out of city of Guayaquil. The attendant must have felt sorry for us, or maybe he thought we were crazy, because the sweet and helpful man got in his own car and we followed him to the highway. Exiting Guayaquil we felt the fear dissipate and we kicked back and turned on the I Tunes. Driving in Ecuador turned out to be a breeze.
After 45 minutes of enjoying Bob Marley and driving through desert with tumbleweeds blowing across the road, we were at the beach and cruising the Ruta Del Sol (Road of the Sun).We stopped at a roadside stand for our favorite local dish of humitas, which are similar to corn tamales, and a coca cola. We continued along the Ruta Del Sol, hugging the coastline, crossing over from arid desert to lush jungle, passing through dusty villages, palapa style restaurants and homes, honking at cows and waving at the bicycling children. The long stretches of beach, sandstone cliff line and the rolling waves reminded us of our native Northern California coastline. The views were breathtaking.
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Over the years, some fascinating games based in the Wild West have come about, featuring heroes riding tall in the saddle and wearing cowboy hats to signify that they mean business. While some have fared better than others (like Paradox's fascinating but limited Lead and Gold for PlayStation 3), developers have no doubt tried their darndest to capture the essence of the likes of Sergio Leone and other influences to create the best "Wild West" experience.
With that, we've picked our five favorite Western games, ones featuring rootin' tootin' cowboys and unlikely heroes as they take justice into their own hands. I'm sure some of you won't be 100 percent pleased with the picks (sorry, no sign of Mad Dog McCree here), but we guarantee that each of these games offer plenty of gun play and innovation, and even some poker on the side, if that's what you're into. Mount up.
5. Gunsmoke (Capcom/arcade, NES)
Before players were able to control a cowboy in a traditional role, Capcom introduced this upward-scrolling shooter, one that features a cowboy taking the law into his own hands as banditos and other bad guys try to fill him full of lead. Featuring a three-way bullet shooting system and occasional power-ups (including, of all things, a near-invincible horse), Gunsmoke introduced plenty of shoot-em-up fun for the NES generation. Now if there's just some way Capcom could bring this back in HD format.


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Today, Sharona Alperin is an upmarket real estate agent in Los Angeles, but in 1978 she was the 16-year-old inspiration behind the hit song that now serves as the intro to her web site — naturally called www.mysharona.com. The song bestowed lasting fame on a Beatles/Brit Invasion-inspired LA band who took their name from the title of a 1965 Swinging London film by Fab Four director Richard Lester: The Knack... And How To Get It.
Comprising singer/guitarist Doug Fieger, lead guitarist Berton Averre, Prescott Niles on bass and Bruce Gary on drums, the Knack embarked on their date with destiny when 26-year-old Fieger got the hots for Alperin after being introduced to her by his unwitting girlfriend. Indeed, he and Averre penned the number at the apartment that Fieger and said girlfriend shared.
"Berton had this basic guitar and drum riff lying around for a long time, even before the Knack got together," Fieger would later recall. "He played it for me and I really liked it. I said we would do it someday, but I didn't know how we could use it at the time. Then, at the same time the Knack started, I met a little girl named Sharona, whom I fell in love with. When I would think about Sharona, Berton's riff came to mind. So, Berton and I got together and worked out a structure and a melody and the words."
Yeah, those words, in which Fieger admits to having 'Such a dirty mind / Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind'. Many critics were not amused, but Sharona was evidently wooed, and within a year she was in the studio when the song was committed to tape.
"I thought she looked about 14," remarks David Tickle, who engineered the session that Sharona attended. "She was there when we tracked the backing vocals."
Tickle has worked with Prince, Blondie, U2, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Joan Armatrading, Toni Childs, Split Enz and 4 Non Blondes during a 30-year career that has taken him from Guildford, Surrey (southwest of London), to the Hawaiian island of Kauai by way of Los Angeles. However, the route that bridged the three-year gap between his first work assignment and that with the Knack was a fairly circuitous one, involving a cruel setback, some lucky breaks and a pretty weird coincidence.
A keyboard player in his school covers band, Tickle was just 16 when he began as a tape-op on May 31st, 1976, at Central London's Zodiac Studios (later acquired by producer Tony Visconti and renamed Good Earth). Hired by an engineer named Mike Cooper, Tickle took over his job behind the MCI console when Cooper departed three months later, and he was soon recording material by the likes of Liverpool Express and the Swinging Blue Jeans. However, within just six weeks of his appointment as a fully fledged engineer, David Tickle was the next employee to part company with Zodiac.
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"I met this guy who was out of work, an engineer called Colin Thurston, and I felt kind of bad for him so I got him a job as our studio manager," he recalls. "Then we got this fabulous booking with Tony Visconti and David Bowie — they were working on Bowie's Low album — and Colin told me 'You're not engineering any more. You're gonna have to tape-op.' I said 'Why?' and he said 'I'm demoting you.' I couldn't believe it. I'd got the guy a job and now he was demoting me. Well, I lasted about a day. He just snagged the whole project from underneath me, and while he ended up working on that record I left the studio and felt totally despondent and confused. I didn't know what to do, so I went to the studio where Colin had last worked, where he'd been fired, TPA (Tin Pan Alley) on Denmark Street, and as they still hadn't filled his position I ended up getting his old job."
How's that for a spot of opportunism? Intent on taking the fast track to becoming a producer, Tickle immediately set about finding bands in the Guildford area and sneaking them into TPA on weekends and in the wee small hours of the morning to record demos. The problem was that the studio clock was rigged to the power supply, so when Tickle turned this off the clock would stop, and it wasn't long before the owner figured out that surreptitious sessions were regularly taking place until five or six in the morning. The result: Tickle and TPA went their separate ways. Next, he turned down an engineering post at a small facility in Oxford named Acorn that couldn't open until it had finished constructing its own console — instead of operating as a studio the place would eventually become known as SSL.
Short stints followed at Indigo Studios in Manchester and Ringo Starr's home setup at Tittenhurst Park in Ascot, formerly owned by John Lennon. It was there that, among various assignments, Tickle honed his production skills on some demos by a New Zealand band, and thought no more about it, before landing a job as an engineer and trainee producer for the glam-pop songwriting team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Nevertheless, when Chapman heard the aforementioned demos, he vowed to sign the band once he and Chinn had launched their new American-based record label, with the intention of assigning the group to Tickle as his first full-scale production.
That would never happen — Chinn and Chapman subsequently changed their minds about the New Zealand band, named Split Enz, whereupon Tickle quit his job. He hired an attorney who, by sheer chance, introduced him to Michael Gudinski of Mushroom Records in Australia. Gudinski duly informed Tickle that Mushroom had released his demo production of Split Enz's 'I See Red' and that it had climbed to number nine on the Australian singles chart. Accordingly, having just left Chinn and Chapman because they wouldn't sign the band, he was asked to produce Split Enz's next album, and this in turn launched his production career. Things had worked out for the best, and in the meantime, Tickle had engineered several Chapman-produced albums, including Blondie's Eat To The Beat, Pat Benatar's In The Heat Of The Night and the Knack's Get The Knack.
It was partly on the strength of his then-recent US chart-topping singles with Blondie, Nick Gilder and Exile that Chapman was chosen by the Knack to produce their debut record. He'd already heard all about the band — after having been turned down by every major label, Fieger, Averre, Gary and Niles had quickly built a following on the LA club scene and caused a buzz that prompted offers from no fewer than 13 labels and a $500,000, two-album deal with Capitol.
The first of these records helped revive power pop in the wake of the punk explosion, melding catchy Beatles-type hooks and Who-tinged vitality with New Wave sensibilities, its dozen tracks being recorded in just one or two takes, with overdubs limited to a few guitar parts and backing vocals. These sessions took place at MCA Whitney in the Glendale suburb of Los Angeles, where the large room used for tracking housed a 36-input Neve console, an MCI 24-track tape machine and Altec Lansing speakers.
"The control room was maybe 20 feet by 18 feet, fairly compact, but the studio was big, capable of taking a decent-sized orchestra," recalls David Tickle, whose home setup in Hawaii has an SSL desk and a Pro Tools rig, along with Westlake monitors.
"The entire back wall — which had a warehouse on the other side — was a pipe organ; one of those organs that had all kinds of trumpets and drums and everything mechanical inside of it. It would actually play the real instruments. The kit was probably about 15 feet from that back wall, and the room's size accounted for the drum sound that you hear on tracks like 'My Sharona'. It was actually so big that the whole back half of the studio was where we created that drum sound, with the front of the kit gobo'd off.
"To the left and right of the drum kit, about 25 feet away on each side and about 12 feet high, were two Neumann KM84 microphones, while there was another KM84 on the snare. However, the big trick was the compression — the Urei 1176s that we used on the room mics — while Mike Chapman's other engineer, Pete Coleman, had the idea of putting one more mic about 10 feet above the drummer's head, right above the snare drum. That microphone, again with plenty of compression, had a lot to do with the drum sound, and so did the room, where the ceiling must have been 30 foot high.
"The night before the album sessions started, Mike Chapman said 'Tomorrow I want the biggest drum sound ever recorded.' That was his MO to get the thing going. Still, it's one thing to use room mics and quite another to have one directly above the snare. To this day I've never seen anyone else do that, but it does work, helping to capture as much as possible of the room sound around the drums by way of keying the compressors off the snare. Every time the snare was hit, the room mics would compress along with it and suck in the sound of the room."
Tickle and Coleman tag-teamed as engineers throughout the project, with Tickle taking care of most of the recording and Coleman doing the mix.
"It was all so quick," Tickle remarks. "Seven days were spent recording the album and four days to mix it... After Chapman said he wanted the biggest drum sound ever, I was so nervous I could barely sleep. I kept thinking 'How am I going to do this? This is it!' Anyway, I started dreaming and I thought 'Oh yes, use this microphone over here and the room mics out here to the left and the right,' and then I started to see the EQ on the console and thought 'Huh, let's put these room mics through the 1176s.' There I was, using the compressors in my dream!
"The next morning, when I went to the studio, my hands were all clammy, aware that I was working on a big record and wondering 'Oh shit, what should I do?' Well, I started setting up everything the way I'd seen it in my dream, with the mics out to the side, and I set up the console as well as the compressors, and then Pete Coleman arrived about an hour later and he said 'Oh, good idea, I like what you're doing here. Let's set up this one extra mic above the snare drum.' Well, within a couple of hours we had the sound we wanted. The whole thing was there, with Neumann FET 47s on the kick and tom-toms, and KM84s on the cymbals. It was a great thick-sounding maple Gretsch kit.
"You have to remember, back then people weren't using room mics. Drummers were placed inside shag-carpet booths. I'd actually experimented with the room mics and compression on the Split Enz song 'I See Red', and then, when I worked with Mike and he heard that, he loved it. As a result, I used that same technique for Blondie's Eat To The Beat at the Power Station. However, the Knack album was particularly special because of the keying of the compressors with the snare drum. That's what kind of brought it all together."
The rest of the band was recorded in the same large room as the drums, with guitarists Berton Averre and Doug Fieger standing next to each other to the right of Bruce Gary, and about 30 to 40 feet in front of him. True to their Beatles influence, they were equipped with Vox amps, each miked with a Neumann U67 about a foot away and a Shure SM57 up close.
"The Beatles' spirit was invoked in terms of their fondness for the guitar sounds, with the Vox amps and so on, but not so much with the singing and drumming," Tickle comments. "I preferred the U67 over the 87 because of its tubey quality and the bite that you get. At the same time, the 57 gives you a more direct punch out of the guitar, and since it was going to be a record with very few overdubs we wanted to make sure that each sound really stood out in a three-dimensional way. By using a couple of different characteristic microphones we were able to get that to pump out."
Prescott Niles, standing in front of the control room window, about 60 feet away from the drummer, had a little booth constructed around him to contain his bass guitar's low end, while a tube 47 was employed on his Ampeg BA115 bass amp combo.
"We also had a mic set up for Doug's vocals, although these were done separately because of the leakage," Tickle states. "Again, we used a 47."
While the 'My Sharona' guitar solo was layered in two parts, Doug Fieger insisted on recording his vocal completely dry.
"There were no effects on anything," Tickle confirms. "That's what they wanted. To get the voice thicker we would double Doug's vocal, and then when it came to the mix the latest technology available was the EMT 250 reverb. It looked like R2D2, like a little robot, and it was extremely expensive back then it cost around $32,000 — but Chapman bought one of these things and we used it on the snare drum and the vocals. Basically, it was a very, very short reverb — you could barely hear it, but it was just enough to lift the voice and the snare.
"The guys made a point about not using any effects in the mix. To a certain degree they were in control of their own destiny, and while Chapman really put the sound together he would have done more if it hadn't been for Fieger's input. That kind of tension between Chapman and Fieger was a healthy tension, and it helped cause the sound to turn out the way it did."
It was after five days of recording all the basic tracks that the sessions switched to an adjacent Neve-equipped room at MCA Whitney for the mix, as well as for the preceding addition of backing vocals. And this is where David Tickle did a star turn... well, kind of.
"When we were finishing 'My Sharona', they wanted to have a group of people sing it, so Chapman said 'Get in there, David, with the band,'" he explains. "That's when Sharona herself was there. Anyway, we did the background vocals, and what you can't quite hear is that they go 'Fuck-a-me, fuck-a-me too much, my Sharona'. That's actually what was being sung by all of us grouped around one mic. It wasn't super-loud, but it definitely lifted the song."
And clearly, what with all of the anticipation surrounding the band, the overall sense of optimism was lifting everyone's spirits.
"I was arriving at nine, 10 in the morning and leaving at midnight, and even the mix was like a party. We were mixing two or three songs per day. Pete Coleman was manning the board and I was just setting the compressors or doing whatever was needed. Four days was all it took, and that was really the band's call — 'They used to make records this way. Why can't we do it now?'"
Well, they did; not in the 17 hours that it took the Beatles to record their first album, but in 11 days and for a total outlay of less than $18,000. Certified gold within 13 days of its release on June 11th, 1979, Get the Knack went platinum on August 3rd and eventually sold over five million copies. Meanwhile, 'My Sharona' went gold within eight weeks of its June 18th release and topped the Billboard chart for six weeks through August and September. 'Good Girls Don't' subsequently peaked at number 11.
However, the much-hyped 'Big Knack Attack' headed downhill in the wake of resentment over the band's Fab Fourish references and refusal to do interviews, as well as the perceived sleaziness of their undeniably catchy songs.
"The ugly sexism of these corrupt creeps is an affront to women," carped one critic, while San Francisco artist Hugh Brown invented a 'Knuke the Knack Kit', complete with a "Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Listen to the Radio" Jaws-style T-shirt and "Honk If You've Slept with Sharona" bumper sticker.
Not that Sharona Alperin has any complaints. Indeed, according to the statement on her web site, the song that bears her name and craves her body has been of immeasurable assistance in her daily quest to help celebs find their dream homes over the past 14 years.
"'My Sharona' has had an impact on my ability to understand the entertainer's mind," she asserts. "There's something simpatico. You've got to care to the nth degree... I sell the most emotional product on the market, because a star's home is their only safe haven."
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Those are so beautiful, Pat! I sure hope the folks on the Dahlia forum can help you I.D. them! My favorite has to be #2. It looks like dessert, it's so delicious! Would you say that Dahlias are easy to grow for you? Brenda |
I like two too! |
You "two" have such great taste, No. 2 is my favorite and I have no idea what it's called. Brenda. I'm on my 4th year of growing Dahlias & I don't mind telling you at first I was intimidated by a lot of people who make a big deal out of everything & that's o.k. if that's their style. Mine is KISS! I got ALL my info. and encouragement from just a few avid hobbiest on the Dahlia forum & since I do have to make adjustments for zonal conditions it took a while to get the right formula. May sound like a lot of bother but it's become a ritual for me and if I do it right, according to my mentors instructions,I reap so much pleasure/satisfaction/enjoyment, every minute of cultivating is worth it in my book. Guess you can tell I'm an avid Dahlia lover! Mikey, if I don't get a name for No. 2 let's dub her Mrs. Fetching! |
Beautiful Pat! #4 won't load for me though:( I have a catalog full of these if you give me info on the size bloom and size these grow to. You must have these planted in a better locale than mine, mine are really struggling. Apparently full sun and the OR grower have two different ideas in mind, LOL* I have 5 of the 2-3' ones planted and they're pretty much staying 6" tall. These are all my favorite colors, but I like that purple one:) |
I guess #5 to be MACALISTER'S PRIDE. If it is 5" bloom and has base color of yellow with a raspberry red that extends from mid petal all the way to the edge and makes an excellent cut flower. Am I right or wrong? |
Better ID for #5 Think it's Wildcat if it grows to 3-1/2' tall and is red and orange. Or Tahiti Sunrise at same site and is another 5" bloom on 2-1/2' plant and colors are red and yellow. Best guesses so far:) This is as much fun as IDing roses:) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wildcat
Leslie, all my Dahlias come from Connell's in Washington. I have their catalog with all these beauties in it, the problem is that sometimes the pix doesn't do justice to the real thing. Anyhoo..as I said before, I'll enjoy them and keep hoping my planting chart will show up. Just got the roses cut back again, time for their beauty treatments so that the next flush of blooms will be as lovely as all the ones before. |
I just made the mistake of checking out Connell's website...and I had to MAKE myself close the page after at least half an hour of being sucked in! LOL Very addicting, not only looking for your Dahlias, Pat, but looking at all of the beautiful flowers! Brenda |
Really LOL Brenda!! Every once in a while, I have to really get serious and start tossing catalogs or else I'd be swamped with more "stuff" than I could possibly handle. But if you need an excuse to keep anything, especially flower stuff, just ask, I'm sure I have an excuse filed away somewhere. Another surprise..the water cress is flowering, little pretty white flowers. How about that! |
Oh, yeah, I'm easily distracted when it comes to plants. There are a couple Salvia sites I have to stay away from if I don't have much time online. Otherwise, I'd have bloodshot eyes and a husband wondering what the aliens did to his wife. :D I love the watercress blooms! Small, but so pretty. And the frogs like to hang out in it, so they must think they're pretty (cool), too. LOL Brenda |
I'd sure like to entice some frogs and toads to my pond area, but I'm afraid the darn cats won't leave them be. I gave up on trying to keep fish as it did nothing but provide fish dinner for them. Pat |
I can imagine that trying to attract frogs and/or toads to your pond from the river would be like trying to lure a child out of a candy store with a lollipop, Pat...or luring me and Mom away from a nursery sale by shaking a packet of seeds. LOL Brenda |
I don't know Pat, "if you plant it, they will come" is working out pretty well for me:) Both in the way of worms and toads, LOL* Cats like to watch the toads and I like to watch the cats heads follow the toads, but if they intially tried to eat one they spit it back out soon enough. I don't think they'd like the sensation of all that jumping around in their stomaches!! Sometimes the younger ones like to chase and hold down one of the larger ones and let it go and so on, but for the most part they just ignore them. Wayne would love to have a pond with fish too, he looks longingly at them, I reminded him that not only would the cats fish but the 120 pound lab would be in there lounging to cool off. He loved going in the creek and the neighbors pond back home. He'd jump in sometimes and catch me unaware, the neighbors thought it was funny, good thing they liked Jackson. Yes, nurseries are like candy stores to me too, so is Michaels:) |
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Bailey Ferguson is hard at work in the world of art and design, trying her hand at any and all media. She's been a painter's assistant, a design intern, a freelance painter and chalk board artist, and she's currently a member of the Pirate Contemporary Art Co-op, a photographer, a letterpress studio assistant and an editor of ZeroMile, Metro State's design magazine, all while working toward her degree in Communications Design. And she still found time to sit and talk with us about nothing related to those things.
WW: What do you think is the worst non-derogatory word in the English language?Bailey Ferguson In the studio debuting her donation to the Bordo Bello skateboard fundraiser, 2010
BF: Oh, that's a good one...velvet.
WW: What is your favorite food paired with orange juice?
BF: Spirulina.
WW: Does the Categorical Imperative work in reality as a basis for moral action?
BF: That's kind of a deep question. I say no, because why would we all want to be monotonous. The world is a beautiful place because of its diversity. You have to have good and bad, you know?
WW: What are you listening to?
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WW: What gets you up in the morn?
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BF: Well, they had the train in 1909, when the movement started, which was the fastest thing back then, but I'm not sure. When was Amelia Earhart?
WW: I think the 1930s. What's your favorite mythical animal?
BF: Unicorns are fucking awesome. They're just beautiful, and there are always sparkles around and some sort of melancholy rhythm when they run by.
WW: Who can eat the most?
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The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 12, 2011, before U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Keith Strong, JOSEPH CREE MEDICINE, JR., a 26-year-old resident of Browning, appeared for sentencing. CREE MEDICINE was sentenced to a term of:
Probation: 3 years (2 years if $500 paid prior to end of the 2nd year)
Special Assessment: $50
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CREE MEDICINE was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to failure to report the taking of a threatened species and illegal possession of parts of a threatened species.
In an Offer of Proof filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura B. Weiss, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
On October 19, 2009, a Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife biologist was notified that there was a dead grizzly bear along the Two Medicine River on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The biologist and two other officials responded. Upon arrival, they found a dead grizzly bear with the claws removed from both front paws. There were several holes in the bear and a rifle casing was found approximately five feet from the carcass. The grizzly bear carcass was transported to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks lab for a necropsy examination. The examiner determined the bear likely died from hemorrhage and destruction of the lungs caused by multiple gunshot wounds.
On September 13, 2010, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent (the agent) was notified by the Blackfeet Tribe Fish and Wildlife Department (BTFWD) that an individual called saying she knew who killed the grizzly bear. The caller disclosed that her daughter's boyfriend killed the bear and gave her a claw. The agent interviewed her the following day. She said the bear was killed by JOSEPH CREE MEDICINE, her daughter's boyfriend. She disclosed that CREE MEDICINE had given her one of the claws but that she buried it and could not find it again. When asked how she knew CREE MEDICINE killed the grizzly, she responded that CREE MEDICINE told her he killed it.
On September 15, 2010, the agent interviewed the defendant, JOSEPH CREE MEDICINE, JR. CREE MEDICINE initially denied knowledge of the killing, but admitted later in the interview to killing the bear, which he knew was a grizzly at the time he shot it. CREE MEDICINE stated he was hunting with his cousin when he (CREE MEDICINE) started walking alone near brush and had a weird feeling. About 20 yards away, a grizzly bear started walking toward him out of the brush. CREE MEDICINE said he knew it was a grizzly by its hump and largeness. CREE MEDICINE said he was afraid and shot at it with his .270 rifle. The shot grazed the bear and it continued walking toward him. CREE MEDICINE shot again and the bullet hit the grizzly. The grizzly spun around and bit the wound. CREE MEDICINE fired a third round. He then walked to the bear, which was down, and shot a fourth round, killing it. CREE MEDICINE said he cut off the grizzly bear's front claws. CREE MEDICINE walked back to the house, told his cousin about the grizzly, and they left the area. CREE MEDICINE said he did not report it because he knew it was wrong and was afraid.
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CREE MEDICINE'S cousin was also interviewed. He disclosed that he was deer hunting with CREE MEDICINE last year near Two Medicine River. The cousin recalled that he was sitting on a point while CREE MEDICINE went walking. After a period of time CREE MEDICINE returned and told him he killed a grizzly. The cousin stated he did not hear gunshots but that he could see the dead grizzly about 300 yards away. The cousin saw CREE MEDICINE with the claws and admitted that he did not report to BTFWD because he did not want to get CREE MEDICINE in trouble.
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Schoeman, Linda firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-06262007-184020 Document Title The utilisation of public-private partnership: Fiscal responsibility and options to develop intervention strategies for HIV/AIDS in South Africa Degree PhD (Public Affairs) Department School of Public Management and Administration Supervisor
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Date 2007-04-13 Availability unrestricted Abstract Strengthening health care systems in government meant cost containment and improved equity. Escalating costs and poorly constructed strategies are weakening the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in health care. This has a negative impact on value creation and internal processes as critical elements such as human capital, information and organisational capital are not aligned with strategies and roll-out plans for HIV/Aids interventions.
This research study therefore questioned the extent to which these strategies have impacted on the roll-out plans for HIV/Aids interventions, and investigated if the utilisation of public-private partnerships (PPP) resulted in applying fiscal reponsible mechanisms in health care reforms (effectively, efficiently, economically and equitably (4Es)). Trends in the new public management (NPM) movement inspired a shift towards business-like reforms and saw PPP as a mechanism that improved efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery as it offered the promise to strengthen the capacity of government policy.
The study aimed to put forward value-creating strategies and develop a best practice model that strengthened government's policy capacity by providing efficient, effective, economical and quitable service in health care and thereby improving strategies that impact on the roll-out plans for HIV/Aids. This comparative study comprised four international case studies (developed and developing countries) which presented benchmarks against which the performance of the national case study was measured. A better understanding of the influence which different ideologies had on the architecture of international and global governance structures was gained as it highlighted and compared the key issues that influenced strategies for HIV/Aids intervention between the developed and developing countries.
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Really understanding President Obama's governing philosophy and agenda doesn't require a whole fleet of investigative reporters or opposition researchers. All you have to do is take a reasonably careful look at his campaign stump speech, a collection of half-truths, misrepresentations, and distortions that are ultimately disrespectful of the American people.
"This is my last political campaign…I'm term limited," he said Saturday at Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia in remarks that were similar to others he's delivered in recent weeks. It could be. But nothing prevents Obama from trying to return to the Senate after his presidency, or from trying to run for the office again if he loses this time.
"My grandfather fought in World War II…when my grandfather came back, he was able to go to college because of the GI Bill and they were able to afford their first home through an FHA loan." There's no mention by Obama in the stump speech of his other grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, a Kenyan cook who had five wives and converted to Islam. Also, Obama seems unable to imagine that his American grandfather might have found some way to afford a home without the help of the FHA, as many Americans somehow miraculously did before the FHA was created in 1934.
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i was looking thru a old quick and easy crochet book from 1991 and seen an advertisement for a amazing star afghan square any one know where i can get it thank u Teena |
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I found this about Amazing Star Afghan: I found out that the company selling this afghan pattern years ago is still in business: JAO Enterprises Inc., P.O. Box 547, Newark, OH 43058 They have the pattern available for $3.00 plus postage. It's a very unusual pattern, as the star burst is formed without using a post stitch. I took a chance writing to them after I found their street address in the Ohio yellow pages. They sent me an envelope full of the other patterns they have too..of which I'm ordering some of them too. Hope this helps and good luck. |
do they havea phone number i can reach them as i live in idaho. or just send them three dollars for the pattern ? isn t it pretty. thank u Teena |
- Posted by donna_loomis (My Page) on Sat, Jun 13, 09 at 11:29
I have that pattern. It does not list a telephone number. But an online search yielded one: (740) 522-6545. |
thank u. Teena |
I have that pattern also. It's very easy to do! I've made one, and as soon as I finish a baby sweater, I am making the star using the sweater color for one of the colors in the star. I think mine is just going to be white, lavender, and purple. And I paid $5.99 at a yarn shop in Columbus, OH for the pattern. Hmmm, wonder if they have a yarn shop to go with the pattern designer? I'll have to check the next time I get down that way! Tami |
- Posted by donna_loomis (My Page) on Thu, Jun 25, 09 at 14:19
Actually, unless you are wanting the pattern for the knit afghan as well (which I have also made and love), there is no need to purchase the pattern. It is identical to several that are free online. Here is just one of them: |
Here is a link that might be useful: Round Ripple
- Posted by gardenlover25 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 7, 09 at 11:21
I love that star pattern. The last time I made the crocheting things is when I was in High School. I made a flower and a flower vase. But unfortunately I don't know where are they know. I will again have to start from the basic. Thanks. |
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