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This paper argues on behalf of a posthuman future that is intimately tied to the use of human enhancement technology. It presents three principal justifications for enhancement, which focus on functionality, creative expression, and the ritual of re-making the self through biological modification. Collectively, these aspirations articulate the values surrounding posthuman life and the pursuit of biocultural capital.
When Christopher told me I would have the opening slot for the conference, I thought there was some merit in trying to deliver a polemic that would set the tone for our subsequent discussions. In part, this is why I decided to consider arguing on behalf of a posthuman existence, as it seems to me to be the most crucial dimension of what we need to consider, in order for this debate to have any merit. After all, if we are not prepared to embrace a posthuman life, then we may as well go home. That's not to say we all need to embrace own inner posthuman for the project of posthumanism to have merit. Rather, if we conclude that posthumanism is a topic of no political or social urgency, then its currency as a contemporary debate is lost. Indeed, within some applied context, this is catastrophic, as it is a way for the professions to dismiss or ignore the long term implications of their work.
I want to present the case for thinking of ourselves as already posthuman and consider that the pursuit of human enhancements are a defining feature of that life. One of the rather awkward questions one faces upon making such a statement is 'when exactly did we become posthuman', either that or, scholars conclude we have always been posthuman, or – even worse – we have never been human.
Other moral philosophers critique the idea of humanness at all as a defining characteristic of our species, utilizing the concept of 'personhood' as a non-speciesist, richer interpretation of the sentient condition, even affording similar moral status to animals, when they exhibit such intellectual capacities. Alternatively, some scholars appeal to such ideas as 'dignity' or capacities to experience certain second order psychological states, such as shame or embarrassment, as indicative of our uniqueness.
Moral philosophers have each employed these ideas to argue about a number of beginning and end of life issues, such as infanticide or assisted suicide. Indeed, bioethics has broadly been a place where this debate has found considerable traction, as many authors find themselves debating the merits of life and the conditions that give it value.
You might conclude already that, then, the debate about posthumanism need not be about human enhancements at all. Indeed, the literature outlines a much more complex set of relationship and behaviors that interpret the posthuman condition as intimately tied to discussions about our place within the ecosystem, rather than our identity as technological agents. Posthumanism may also be about the way in which human communities recognize the moral status of certain kinds of lives or lifestyles. For example, I think Chris Hables Gray's appeal to 'Cyborg Citizenship' is crucially about the way that societies fail to give legitimacy to certain forms of sexual identity. We live in a world where still society is reticent to acknowledge the value of certain lifestyles and so posthumanism may be seen as a rejection of certain prejudices and be a project principally about the promotion of freedom of lifestyle. Indeed, I had a conversation last week about whether the contraceptive pill was a human enhancement or not. I think it is and we can debate why later, if you like.
I anticipate that many of the papers we hear over the next two days will explain just how much more complex is our relationship with posthumanism than we first imagined. When I think of this relationship, I draw on what Jacques Ellul refers to as la technique – that complex arrangement of technics, techniques and technologies through our humanness is made and remade. In this sense, being posthuman is to operate within this complexity and to navigate through it, for better or worse.
Nevertheless, there seems something crucial to me about the human enhancement debate, as a defining characteristic of posthumanism and I don't think I'm alone in making this case. Even authors who reject posthumanism as a worthy direction for humanity, recognize that this mau be the long term goal of Western science – Steve Fuller may talk to us more about that later (but that doesn't mean I consider Steve as someone rejects his inner posthuman. Steve's on Twitter for goodness sake.).
Recognising the human species as a 'work in progress' is inextricable from this project. However, it's crucial that we understand the many ways in which human enhancement takes place and the broad social and cultural fascinations we may have with it. In this respect, I think we can identify at least three crucial trends that explain the pursuit of HE.
First, we can talk about the functional benefit that arises from human enhancement. Good examples of this are laser eye surgery, cognitive enhancers and gene transfer.
Second, we can discuss enhancements as a form of creative expression, as a way of exploring new aesthetic experiences. For example, we might look to make up as an early form of this, then to cosmetic surgery as a more radical and permanent change.
Third, we can talk about enhancements as rituals, as ways of marking out ourselves from others or as part of a community. Scarification, tattoo, and body piercing may be like this. More recent examples may 'bagel heads' in Japan.
There are examples that fit across these three types in different ways. For example, the use of LSD or other lifestyle drugs like ecstasy may be ways of trying to access new kinds of physical or mental experiences that could be seen as engaging all three of these parameters. If you take ecstasy when going to a nightclub, you might be seeking to enhance your capacity to dance all night.
Of course, many of these examples seem quite close to the present day. There is nothing controversial about laser eye surgery or body piercing.
Collectively, I want to talk about these values as indicative of how people pursue the accumulation of biocultural capital throughout their lives. Drawing on Bourdieu, it is apparent that we seek to enrich our lives today by modifying ourselves. We may have done this in the past by education or leisure. Each similarly reconfigures our mental and physical capacities, hopefully improving our lives by providing greater health or making us feel more capable.
Of course, there is no guarantee that they will, but we shouldn't be too worried this. Those who argue against human enhancement, like Michael Hauskellar, seem to require us to have certainty over whether our choices will lead to an improvement in our circumstances. I can't guarantee that. I can't guarantee that your being able to run faster by genetically increasing your proportion of fast twitch muscle fibre count will mean that your life will be better off over all. Similarly, I can't guarantee that having television, motor cars, or the telephone makes the world a better place or being human any richer. But we shouldn't place too much stock in the critique from certainty. Most of what we do in life is a risk. We exercise judgment as to whether something will improve our lives in some way, or not and we for it. Sometimes it works out, other times it doesn't. If you have a tattoo, there's no guarantee that you won't regret it when you are 60 years old.
So, why do I think the pursuit of HE is crucial to the case for posthumanity? Going back to the start of my talk, I wanted us to begin this inquiry by asking into the merit of a posthuman life. If we seek to live as posthumans, what ought that entail? How will we justify employing that term, rather than simply conclude that humans have always been on this trajectory – that what defines our species is this endless pursuit of pushing back the limits of biology and nature?
We have always done that, but if you look at the industries that guard against these posthumanist aspirations, they still endeavor to stay at the top of the slippery slope, claiming that there are such things as biostatistical norms that explain why medicine should be used only for repair or therapy. They don't.
Furthermore , we live in a world where such things as dwarf corn exist and where 66% of all cotton is genetically modified. Next year, the first commercial space flights will take place, while the 'bottom billion' people are still trying to get above the poverty line.
There is no selfless justification for pursuing longer, healthier lives, while millions of people barely have the resources to promote a healthy-ish lifestyle, or any reasonable expectation of living a long life. There is credible no system of justice that can reasonably argue that a broad social system that fails to protect fundamental needs is justified in trying to raise the upper level of human functioning. Indeed, the biggest collective human enhancement would arise from engaging more people in the democratic process, or in society generally. Providing greater chances to perform as citizens in a world where less than 20% of an electoral register turn up to vote would be a major enhancement for society ,the value of which is beyond measure.
But neither should we assume that these systems of human enhancement would be jeopardized or frustrated by their biotechnological counterparts, or vice versa. We should be vigilient over how such systems are used mosrly because of their efficiency, which may lead to us medicalizing certain problems or prioritizing a quick fix, rather than the best fix.
Yet, societies are moving targets. We edge closer to 9 billion people. James Lovelock – of Gaia theory – thought the planet should be able to sustain just 1 billion. So, we can't look at the increase in people suffering as an explanation for the world having been made worse.
Neither can we assume that enhancements would benefit only the privileged few, as is commonly assumed. Some research that indicates that the larger benefits to enhancing IQ, for instance, are for those at the lower end of the income scale. Quite simply, being smarter improves your life.
But there are no guarantees that human enhancement will bring us happier lives as individuals. Being an 'unhappy Socrates' may be the consequence of our pursuit of betterment.
We ought not get too carried away with the idea that human enhancement is a project that seeks to pursue perfection or control. It is more likely to bring us more opportunities to screw up our lives, than greater certainty about it being better! But, I would rather have that opportunity, than to leave things to chance.
We do have to wise up. Last week, I had a conversation with a nutritional scientist and a dedicated body builder. The body builder asked the scientist which supplements he should be using to bulk up. He went through a list of the ones he had tried and, after each one, the scientists said 'waste of time' or 'does nothing at all'.
So, it's important we are not ignorant about what actually does what it says on the tin. We need to understand the limits of science and technology and the way that enhancement technologies operate within an unregulated commercial system that and may promise things it cannot deliver, yet. Genetic tests for performance genes claim to identify whether you are more likely to be good at one kind of sport over another, but presently they have no predictive value. Laser eye surgery promises High Definition vision, but only if you are lucky. Modafinil may boost your cognitive alertness, but only in certain situations and not necessarily in situations of high demand. In this sense, it may enhance your humanness, but may not be an enhancement of the human species as a whole.
I'm conscious of having just spent 20 minutes explaining the value of HE, but the last 5 telling you that nothing actually works and it may not be worth the bother! That's not really how it is, but my main point is that we should not conclude that you can just download a mobile app for enhancement. (Although already people with prosthetic limbs are controlling them with mobile apps.)
Rather, any form of body modification operates within a complex system of experiences that determine the value we attribute to it and derive from it. Moreover, we can't expect enhancements to be universally sought, unless they are broadly pure biological dimensions, such as the pursuit of making our gums and teeth healthier by using fluoride in our tap water. When HE is like this, then it can be justified on the basis of promoting public health – and many examples may eventually be like this. After all, the WHO talks less about health and illness as a distinguishing factor in health care rationing decisions and much more about 'well being'. Furthermore, doctors and scientists talk now of ageing as a disease. These shifts in belief systems are intimately tied to the human enhancement project. Recognising that life cannot be just about the alleviation of suffering is a crucial part of this.
So, the language of our posthuman future is already embedded into the professions, which previously just made us well, rather than 'better than well' as Peter Kramer's patient put it when describing her state of health when using Prozac. The project of modern medicine has always led us towards human enhancement because of our desire to stave off death and promote freedom throughout life. Freedom from ill health or the debilitating limits of our bodies is, therefore, the principal justification for human enhancement and the most important argument on behalf of posthumanity. The expansion of this commitment to the eradication of all suffering is a logical step, but we ought not presume to achieve this, or that life would be better if we could remove all of it. I'm not convinced that a life without suffering would be well lived. However, I do think we can shift the kind of suffering we experience away from that associated with biological illness and disease. Unlike Martha Nussbaum, I don't believe in the goodness of our fragility.
In due course, the twenty first century may be likened to the swinging sixties, not for its sexual liberation, but for its anthropomorphic liberation. However, it's important to remember, that the conventional explanation for the sexual revolution misleads us. For while many have tied it to the birth of the contraceptive pill, others point out it was the discovery of penicillin bringing about greater freedom from disease that was more crucial.
For the present day, it may not be the radical transhumanist technologies that usher in a posthuman present, not the botox parties, the cosmetic surgery, or the life extension. In other words, it may not be the pursuit of immortality that allows us to live forever
Instead, it might be the least technological innovations, like DNA biobanks for stem cell harvesting, or selecting out disabilities through PGD. It might be granting certain civil rights that gives birth to a posthuman generation, a generation less worried about the 'yuck factor' of biotechnological change; more willing to donate their organs to those in need; more likely to give blood.
This is my kind of posthuman future and throughout all of it, there is no loss of humanity one can presume. If anything, we will become more morally conscious agents.
"Bioethics" is codespeak for EUGENICS.
Where did humans come from? The experts tell us only 2-6% of our DNA is required or used for physiological functions. then what is the other 98% for? DNA is just programming code. Are we a hybrid genetically altered species?
The techno-immortalists and digital utopians are hard at work creating the Human2.0 right now! The experts in NEUROSCIENCE tell us our ubiquitous connection to the Web and Internet (how many people SLEEP with their smartphones?) has already literally "rewired" our brains; we are Internet junkies and addicts, and get very agitated when unplugged from our electronic drug! See the new IRONMAN 3, the cyborg dream come true!
The GMOS have already altered our DNA programming. So the creation of the techno-transcendentalist immortal cyberangels is well under way…or perhaps we should say, the UBERMENSCH Superman, a la Nietsche ..and of course the eugenics dreams of the 3rd Reich!
@Renegade: Hitler was also a vegetarian. Let's ban that.
There is a dichotomy between genetics and mind. This article seems to be blurring the line. The human genome is pretty definitive. The human mind (i.e. mind within the human brain) seems less definitive. Mind generally, as contained for instance in a AI, or a dolphin, is even less definitive.
At what point does mind stop being referred to as "human?" Heck, I've even seen the minds of kids huffing paint fumes referred to as non-human. What will an enhanced human mind be referred to as (for instance enhanced by a synthetic neocortex extender), human or non-human, mechanical or biological?
@ Renegade..
You sound passionate about your concerns of future neo-nazi dystopia and totalitarianism - and sure enough, we should all be concerned about this, and help keep a watchful eye, and voice our concerns, at every "turn" of unfolding future events.
But I want to ask you, "sincerely".. do you really see Trans-human and techno-progressive ideology as insidious?
Bioethics is not an evil in itself, yet the politics applied may lead us in the wrong direction - although I would suggest that this path is, regardless, still of forward trajectory, and merely available in drifting either "left" or "right" off balance and from the middle way, (that's where the politics and debate comes into play)? I'm not saying that the pharaohs still do not hold all the aces, (in the short term), yet these few are the minority.
What and who will further drive and dictate the abundance and want of any technological innovation, bioethics, end of disease, organ implants and improvements, longevity and even uploading and other VR scenarios? - it will be the masses? Longevity drugs for the rich and the few is not a money maker? Drugs to overcome aged diseases for the few is not a money maker? It's "mass market" that will demand the supply of these innovations, and this cannot be denied to the mass market?
It may take some time, yet once folks find out their diseases and ills, and poverty and suffering can be cured, they will "demand" these as rights to life and liberty?
And let me ask you one final question also..
Even if you are adverse to any or all of these advancements, bio, genetic or machine - do you really think that application will result in you being less of a Human?
Seems that your mind, (not even your brain), is the be and all of your very being and identity, Self and soul - this will not change even protected within a shiny chrome Cylon physique - or will it? Only you can answer this question?
I have no problem with human enhancement in principle. Indeed despite our name we have no visceral reaction of yuck factor. The problem is that the discourses of the post human movement are similar to the 'Taylorism of the self' practiced by the quantitative self movement.
They are founded in a particular western world view and internalize the values of western modernity in particular instrumental rationality as described by Max Weber. Controlling and ordering of humanity on rational grounds. Applied to society this leads to the iron cage of impersonal efficiency which traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control. Applied to our very bodies and souls we can only guess what it means.
As well as ushing in a totalising disenchanted world view it also might be dangerous on its own terms. The most likely enhancements will entail optimizing our selves for a particular social, economic and physical environment. They will increase the complexity of society and create a tight coupling between survival of the species and the continued existence of a complex technically sophisticated society. As Tainer notes in 'The Collapse of Complex Societies' this may be increasing the likelyhood of catastrophic failure.
How do posthumans survive and reproduce if a catastrophe means they end up back in stone-age conditions?
We need to consider the balance between efficiency, robustness and antifragility. Concepts like heterogeneity and strength through sustainable autonomy or small decoupled groups rather than continuing the trend towards a totalizing economic hive mind.
In short my accusation is not that posthuman movement is too radical but rather that it's social imagination is limited and that it has become stuck in the world view of the American self help industry and the Californian ideology.
To add to Cygnus' statement:
The old canard of "only the rich will get the goodies" of future transhuman tech, the combination of the profit motive and Moore's Law will work to prevent exactly that. There's only so many millionaires to sell to, so the desire to expand markets drives the need to expand accessibility through lower prices (see only…everything)
If anything, transhuman tech, if allowed to expand access organically, not shaped, levered, nudged, repressed or mandated by power structures, will be the strongest protection against the sort of totalitarianism Renegade fears. Kinda hard to go for judenrein when the juden in question can push right back. Hard for one thug to terrorize 100 citizens when any one might be packing super strength and bulletproof skin. Hard for Terminators to get traction when any Joe Random can be Iron Man. All the most vicious mass deaths that are directly tracable to human action can be summarized as "maniac who considers people faceless interchangable units gets enough guys to enforce his view with force; get with the program or die". The way to prevent the destruction of the weak by the strong is to eliminate weakness by powering them up. Colt's Maxim writ larger.
The place of bioethics is not to repress, but to protect person rights.
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Many years ago, Vandolph Quizon, after being selected Most Popular Child Star, got his tongue so twisted trying to say the name of the organization that he gave up midway in his speech and ended up thanking "the people behind Guillermo Memorial Park."
The Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inc. was set up decades ago by a Bulacan businesswoman named Corazon Samaniego. She named it in honor of her late father, Guillermo Mendoza, once a Bulacan town mayor and philanthropist.
Every year, Mrs. Samaniego puts up the Box-Office King and Queen Awards to recognize the most popular people in the entertainment profession. Proceeds from the TV rights and gate receipts go to a fund used to send poor students to school from Bulacan.
On March 19 at the RCBC Plaza, the most popular on TV and in the movies will again be honored in ceremonies to be aired live by ABS-CBN. It will no longer be called Box-Office King and Queen Awards, but simply Box-Office Entertainment Awards.
There will also be revisions in some of the categories. The organization, for instance, has done away with the Mr. and Miss RP Movies titles. In its place are Film Actor and Actress of the Year.
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• Box-Office King – Vic Sotto
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• Prince of Philippine Movies & TV – Richard Gutierrez
• Princess of Philippine Movies & TV – Angel Locsin
• Male Entertainer of the Year – Ogie Alcasid
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• Most Popular Loveteam – Mark Herras and Jennylyn Mercado
• Most Promising Male Star – Jose Manalo
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• Most Popular Child Performer – BJ "Tolits" Forbes
• Most Popular Child Performers (cast/ensemble) – Cast of Mga Angel Na Walang Langit
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Home List of Titles The sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to individual sources of gravitational waves
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/92840
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- Title
- The sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to individual sources of gravitational waves
- Author(s)
- Yardley, D. R. B.; Hobbs, G. B.; Jenet, F. A.; Verbiest, J. P. W.; Wen, Z. L.; Manchester, R. N.; Coles, W. A.; van Straten, W.; Bailes, M.; Bhat, N. D. R.; Burke-Spolaor, S.; Champion, D. J.; Hotan, A. W.; Sarkissian, J. M.
- Abstract
- We present the sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by individual supermassive black hole binary systems in the early phases of coalescing at the cores of merged galaxies. Our analysis includes a detailed study of the effects of fitting a pulsar timing model to non-white timing residuals. Pulsar timing is sensitive at nanoHertz frequencies and hence complementary to Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We place a sky-averaged constraint on the merger rate of nearby (z > 0.6) black hole binaries in the early phases of coalescence with a chirp mass of 10^10 M(.) of less than one merger every 7 yr. The prospects for future GW astronomy of this type with the proposed Square Kilometre Array telescope are discussed.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 407, no. 1 (Sep 2010), pp. 669-680
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Data analysis methods; Galactic evolution; Gravitational waves; Parkes Pulsar Timing Array; Pulsars
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- Wiley-Blackwell
- 1365-2966
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- Copyright © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation copyright © 2010 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript of this paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
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"We're makin' MONEY, baby!"
When you hang out with Kid 'N Play, the Fun Guys of rap, you hear that over and over: It's a joke that breaks the tension, a slick slogan that punctuates a point, a hip-hop cri de coeur bellowed with satirical abandon. Watch these two guys, decked out in baggy jeans and matching gold Rolex watches with pave diamonds, ducking in and out of a waiting limo, making deals on their cellular phone. They're whisked from their publicist's office to a well-known Manhattan restaurant for lunch, from a TV studio to a radio station, at each stop hyping their new movie, House Party 2. Make no mistake, Kid 'N Play are makin' money, baby, and havin' the time of their lives doin' it.
Kid 'N Play had already carved out a niche as upbeat, soft-core rap stars when filmmakers Reginald and Warrington Hudlin tapped them for their 1990 comedy House Party, the story of middle-class black teenagers who throw a wild party when their parents are away. Kid 'N Play's first two albums, 2 Hype and Funhouse, had sold nearly 1.5 million copies combined, and their videos had sold MTV viewers on their hip-and-happy images: Kid (Christopher Reid) had That Hair, a six-inch-high flattop fade that meant he could never be lost in a crowd, and Play (Christopher Martin) had a slicker, lover-not-a-fighter persona. But when House Party, which cost only about $2.5 million to make, grossed more than $28 million, it helped set the stage for the wave of black films that followed and catapulted Kid 'N Play to a whole new level of fame. Suddenly they were a highly marketable duo with crossover appeal, and along came the Sprite commercial, the now-canceled NBC Saturday-morning cartoon, and the MTV comedy specials.
With the inevitable House Party 2, a $4 million production that jumped straight to number one at the box office on its opening weekend, and a new, grittier album, Face the Nation, in the stores, Kid 'N Play are now out to prove that they're more than rappers with a high school kid's comedic edge. In a symbolic break with the past, Kid's high hair has been replaced by a marginally tamer tangle of dreadlocks. Play wants to spend more time building up the custom-clothing business and hair salon he owns in their old stomping ground, East Elmhurst, in New York City's borough of Queens. They may be having fun — and making money — but they are plotting their futures with meticulous care.
It's easy to imagine Kid and Play as childhood friends: Play was tough and street-smart; the more articulate Kid was book-smart but cool enough not to let everyone know it. Growing up in East Elmhurst, a rough neighborhood in the shadow of Shea Stadium, Play was notorious as the son of a narcotics dealer known as "Skull" who later became a minister.
"I was very lucky," admits the 29-year-old, who wears a black satin jacket with his company's "IV Plai" logo on the back and digs at his cuticles with a large pair of scissors. He and Kid are sitting in a small, airless conference room at the Terrie Williams Agency, the publicity firm that handles such clients as Eddie Murphy and the Hudlin Brothers.
"Being from the streets, I used to dabble I used to stick people up a long time ago with a sawed-off shotgun," Play says bluntly, not pausing to notice the effect his words have had on his listener. "I'll never forget one particular time when I knew God was in my life. Me and another gentleman — he's incarcerated right now — wanted to get money to go to a rap concert. We went in the vicinity of where all the white people lived, and that night, for some reason, I still don't know why, when it was time to load up the gun I said, 'No, we don't need to load it. When people see this thing, they know it's real.'
"We ran up on a lady and I put the gun to her body and she chose to struggle. She hit me with the gun and it went up to her head and by accident my finger clipped the trigger and it went off. Time just stopped. Me and my friend just looked at each other because we knew what could have happened — she would have been a goner and I would have been caught in no time. That's one of the things I can look back on and realize I was saved."
Kid has been sitting quietly during this story, popping cherry Certs one after the other and twisting locks of his hair. His childhood eerily echoes that of his character in the House Party movies. His mother, who was white, died in a car crash when he was 9 (Kid was in the backseat), and he went to live with his father, a black Jamaican who was a strict disciplinarian not unlike the film's Pop.
"When I read the script, I asked Reggie Hudlin, 'What up? Did you know me beforehand?"' says Kid, who refuses to give his age but says he's a bit younger than Play.
While Play dropped out of high school, Kid attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, then graduated from Lehman College, where he majored in English. By the mid-'80s, Kid and Play had rapped together at parties for years, but were discouraged by the chances of making it. Then "Kid and I were listening to a live remote on the radio from the Apollo Theater," says Play. "Friends of ours were performing on the show. We knew we were just as good, if not better. I remember saying, 'We're gonna do this."'


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.
Scholars quoted in this article
Kecia Ali is an Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University where she teaches a range of classes related to Islam. She writes on early Islamic law, women, ethics, and biography. Her books include Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2006), Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010), and Imam Shafi'i: Scholar and Saint (2011). She is also a member of the Duke Islamic Studies Center Advisory Board.
Abdeslam Maghraoui is associate professor of the practice of political science at Duke University and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science. His research and teaching address questions about democracy, governance, transparency and political ethics in North African and the Middle East.
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A joint venture with the Penn State Smeal College of Business' Center for Supply Chain Research. Cosponsored by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
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This program covers improvement opportunities for internal process alignment as well as externally through key strategies between trading partners. Topics include:
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- Evolution of collaboration and its contributions to supply chain excellence
- Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR)
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- Integrated business planning (IBP) and integrated business management (IBM)
- Industry case study on strategic supply chain partnerships
- Trading partner collaboration and the state of logistics outsourcing
- Executive perspectives from major consumer products company
- Revisiting challenges of supply chain collaboration
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This program is designed for individuals responsible for coordinating efforts to align supply chain and organizational strategies, supply and demand, and supply chain and trading partners across multiple firms. It would also benefit those who manage key external resources that are essential to the success of any supply chain (e.g., transportation, warehousing, 3PL/4PL, information technology, etc.). The program is particularly useful for providers of logistics services who may choose to attend along with customers with whom they aspire to have better organizational alignment and improved business relationships. This is a required course for those pursuing a Professional Certificate in Supply Chain Leadership.
How can better collaboration develop new solutions, identify potential risk, and improve execution? Find out in this article co-authored by Steve Tracey, Executive Director of the Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State for Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine.
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- Enhance customer service, reduce stock outs, and improve product line ROIs
- Implement proven collaborative methodologies like CPFR, S&OP, and IBP/IBM within your organization
- Develop productive trading partner relationships and strategies
- Access, analyze, and understand disparate data sources and emerging trends in product management
- Understand how to successfully implement supply chain strategies relating to collaboration, alignment and synchronization
Download: Read about effective implementation practices of an S&OP program in a brief article written by Penn State Senior Instructor Chris Norek in Logistics Quarterly.
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Alignment and Synchronization with Supply Chain Partners
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- Benchmarking your firm's alignment for integrated business performance
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Mr. William A. Eisele, Global Account Manager for Whirlpool Corporation, Penske Logistics, Inc.
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Albert Einstein said common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18. It is also a result of some pervasive and extremely stupid logical fallacies that have become embedded in the human brain over generations, for one reason or another. These malfunctioning thoughts--several of which you've had already today--are a major cause of everything that's wrong with the world.
5The Historian's Fallacy
You'll Hear it As:
"Hey I heard Lisa tried to stab you! You should have known that ho was crazy!"
How It Screws Us:
Remember that time you decided to jump off your roof and do a back flip into your little brother's kiddie pool? Remember how all your friends thought it was a great idea and it was going to be so cool? And do you remember when you regained consciousness three months later in the hospital, how suddenly they all laughed at you and said you should have known better? Congratulations, you were bitch-slapped by the Historian's Fallacy.
The problem is, there is something about our brains that just won't let us put ourselves in the other guy's shoes. We're the fat guy on the couch screaming about how LeBron James "choked" because he took that bad shot instead of driving the lane. We're all convinced that, had we been in the same situation, we would have made the right decision; the Titanic wouldn't have sank, the stock market wouldn't have crashed and the PlayStation 3 wouldn't have been priced at $599.
The moment we see their mistake in hindsight, we tell ourselves what morons they must have been. The problem, of course, is that when your reaction is to shake your head, laugh and call them dumbasses, it keeps you from learning from their mistakes.
It Gets Worse...
To see this happening on a grand scale, just open a history book, or watch the news. George Santayana famously warned in 1905 that, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and people have spent the last hundred years ignoring him. It's not so much that we don't remember the past, it's that here in the future everything they did looks retarded.
What were they thinking?
People don't realize that given the exact same set of circumstances and foreknowledge as Hitler in 1941, we would have invaded Russia, too. If we had been Sylvester Stallone in 1985, we would also have made Over The Top and married Brigitte Nielsen.
4The Nirvana Fallacy
You'll Hear it As:
"You gave that homeless guy a sandwich? Ha! Like that's really going to fix poverty!"
How It Screws Us:
The Nirvana Fallacy is when you dismiss anything in the real world because you compare it to an unrealistic, perfect alternative, by which it pales in comparison. It wouldn't be a problem, except it keeps us from getting anything done.
"We were GOING to write an album, but...Nevermind." The Nirvana Fallacy.
For instance, procrastination can happen for a lot of reasons--you drank too much the night before, or you're feeling uninspired, or it's your first time doing gay porn and you're having second thoughts--but one of the most common reasons we procrastinate is fear that the end result won't live up to the "perfect" idea in our heads. Think about the writer friend of yours who has never actually written anything, because they're "waiting for the right idea" for a book to come along.
This is why people wind up living in their parents' basement--waiting for the perfect job, the perfect girl, the perfect friendship--before committing to anything.
If you're not full of that kind of self-doubt, don't worry, there are plenty of assholes willing to supply it for you. Any incremental improvement on someone else's part is mocked as some kind of deluded hypocrisy, because anything short of perfect is not worth doing, so you might as well do nothing, like them. "Ha! You're drinking a Diet Coke with your hamburger? Like that's really going to make a difference!"
"A wedding dress. Right. Like THAT will attract a guy. You're pathetic."
It Gets Worse...
Politicians use this to attack any idea they don't like. "Sure, your plan is helping millions of families in poverty. But I found examples of people abusing it! So we might as well scrap the whole system!"
Or, you'll hear radical political types on the Internet say, "I'm not voting for any of those guys! They're no better than Bush! They're all corrupt agents of the NWO! I'm staying home until you can show me a perfect, incorruptible, intelligent politician who believes the exact same things I do!"


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Hepatitis B and C infection in international travelers
Johnson DF, Leder K, Torresi J. J Travel Med. 2013 May;20(3):194-202. doi: 10.1111/jtm.12026. Epub 2013 Apr 4.
Department of Infectious Diseases; Department of Medicine, Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV) cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the rise in international travel over the last three decades, many travelers are at risk of HBV and HCV infection.
METHODS: This review focuses on the epidemiology of HBV and HCV in international travelers, the modes of transmission, and the prevention of infection in travelers.
RESULTS: The risk of HBV and HCV infection varies widely and depends on the prevalence of the destination country, the duration of travel, and the activities undertaken while abroad. Travelers commonly undertake high-risk activities that place them at risk of both HBV and HCV infection. Poor uptake of preventative health measures and poor adherence to health recommendations are also common. The monthly incidence of HBV infection for long-term travelers to endemic countries ranges from 25 to 420 per 100,000 travelers. HBV infection can be prevented through timely vaccination of travelers. HBV vaccination is safe and efficacious with protective levels of antibodies achieved in >90% of recipients. Information regarding the risk of HCV acquisition is scarce and until recently was limited to case reports following medical interventions.
CONCLUSIONS: This review demonstrates international travelers are at risk of HBV and HCV infection and provides evidence-based information enabling health practitioners to provide more appropriate pre-travel advice. HBV vaccination should be considered in all travelers to countries with a moderate to high HBV prevalence (HBsAg ≥ 2%) and the risk and benefits discussed with the individuals in consultation with the health practitioner. There is no duration of travel without risk of HBV infection. However, it is apparent that those travelers with a longer duration of travel are at greatest risk of HBV infection (ie, expatriates). Travelers should also receive advice regarding the modes of transmission and the activities that place them at risk of both HBV and HCV infection.
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Health economics, care delivery, and buildings of the future were each top of mind to the more than 40 CEOs, owners, designers, and management consultants who offered a take on the future of healthcare in a recent industry survey.
DPR Construction conducted the year-long study through in-person interviews and online surveys to gather the insight and filter the results into its "Future of Healthcare" report, including 10 areas of change projected to impact what's on the healthcare horizon, from reimbursement changes and electronic medical records to patient-centered care and evidence-based medicine.
They include:
- Hospitals will be smaller and more integrated at many levels.
- Systems will be changing.
- Outpatient systems will be the focal point for growth.
- Specialty areas will focus on those that are most profitable.
- Technology/data intensity will be crucial.
- The economy and availability of capital will be limiting.
- Renovation and adaptive reuse will increase.
- Sustainability expectations are changing.
- New delivery methodologies and best practices are being embraced.
- Demographics are a top concern, aging staff and patient populations .
Hamilton Espinosa, DPR's national healthcare group leader, describes how the trends that emerged from the data will shape how future building projects unfold, starting with the ramifications of healthcare reform's accountable care organizations and changing reimbursement models.
Hamilton Espinosa, DPR
Reform realities
To start, a pay-for-performance system will mean hospitals and health systems will be held more accountable than ever. "Each organization is going to have to do a better job of tracking their performance and how they provide certain services," Espinosa says. "They need their facilities to be better tools to allow them to deliver that care in a more cost-effective manner."
Some examples can be found in smart patient room design to prevent falls, materials specified to support infection control, and infrastructure created to power electronic medical records.
And depending on the outcome of November's presidential election and the subsequent future of reform, the study indicates that lean operations will also be an important component of absorbing the additional costs associated with potentially 32 million newly insured Americans.
IT upgrades
Improving the delivery of care goes hand in hand with offering patients technology that supports that care. Beginning with electronic medical records and on to hybrid ORs, "Technology is growing at such a huge rate, the last thing we want to do is build a new hospital and have it not sized right from an infrastructure standpoint to accommodate future technology," Espinosa says.
Also on the technology front is personalized medicine—for example, offering patients the ability to track their heart rate on their smart phone and send the data right to their doctor's own mobile device. But all of that digital information is going to need a home of its own.
"Some hospitals need to build data centers because they have all this information, but where are they storing it? You have HIPAA patient privacy rules and regulations, so how is this information being tracked and monitored? Does a hospital need to build its own data center?" Espinosa says. For large healthcare systems, the answer will likely be yes. However, for one-off hospitals or small community-based systems, a better option may be a collocation facility, he adds.
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It's roasting hot outside, but if you're planning your fall garden, you have a challenge. That's because some cool-season annuals and vegetables need really chilly temperatures to germinate. If lettuce and spinach, or pansies and violas, are on your wish list, try sprouting them in the refrigerator.
Place seeds of pansies, violas, even spinach and lettuce, between a folded sheet of moistened paper towel (Be sure to place a label with the plant's name in the towel with them). Carefully slide the moistened paper towels into a plastic zipper bag and place the bag on a flat surface in the fridge. In 3 or 4 days, roots will begin to appear from the seeds. At this point you can gently plant the sprouted seeds individually in small pots. Place the pots in a cool, sunny spot on a windowsill or in the garden. Keep them watered and watch them grow. Your plants will be garden-ready in 6-8 weeks.
Looking for a more traditional approach to sowing cool germinating seeds? Use small, shallow containers like tomato or strawberry clam shells from the grocery store. Fill them 1/3 full with a seed-sowing medium, such as Miracle-Gro� Seed Starting Potting Mix and sprinkle the pansy or viola seeds on the surface. Cover the containers with a sheet of moistened newspaper to provide the darkness and moisture the seeds need to sprout. Then place the containers in the refrigerator.
Check on the seeds every 3 days. Keep the soil and newspaper moist but not soggy. The seeds will quickly begin to sprout roots. Take the containers out of the fridge as soon as you see evidence of root growth. The roots will be tiny white shoots sprouting from the pointed end of the seed. Place your containers in a cool, sunny spot until the seedlings have 3 leaves. At this point, they can be transplanted into small pots.
Keep new transplants shaded on the north side of the house or under a shade tree until they sprout several more leaves. At this point, they can be gradually brought into brighter light. As temperatures begin to moderate in late September and October, the plants can be placed into their winter position in the garden.


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Where There Is No Vision
Lyndia Grant | 3/3/2010, 11:10 a.m.
Proverbs 29:18, €Where there is no vision, the people perish.€
By Lyndia Grant
Helen Keller once said, €Is there anything worse than blindness, Yes, eyesight with no vision.€ Do you know where you want to be in the next few years? Do you have a vision of becoming more Kingdom focused? Do you get a vision for the things of God, so that you can become purpose driven for God?
When you make your goals for God first in your life, when you press toward the mark He has established for your life; he will bless you in your going and in your coming. He will bless you in your personal goals too; those little things that mean so much to you. The Bible reminds us in Philippians 3:14, it says, €I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.€
Trust in God. Grab hold to those visions that cause you to do something about them, those dreams that so grip you that you cannot let them go, no matter how you try. Our lives become purpose driven in God and takes on a life of its€ own. Eyesight with no vision is a problem.
Begin to work smart, not hard by hearing the voice of the Lord who provides you with a step-by-step guide; His voice, the Holy Spirit, will surely provide the €how-to€ instructions you may need to make your dreams and visions come to pass.
Be encouraged. Set and make every attempt to reach your goals. Aspire to be what God has called you to be, and continue to ask for His wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The Bibles tells us, €You have not, because you ask not", James 4:2.
It's our fault we are not successful and don't experience Christian Success. Not God's. Christ Himself gave us the key to success by simply using the word ASK. But yet, we have a tendency to ask of others, the world, our friends, and ourselves, before we ever ask God.
A childhood friend of my family grew up in a really wonderful family. His family gave him everything he could possibly want. But he grew up and strayed away from that sheltered life, and became a drug dealer, looking for some big money, quick money. He got locked up, of course. But one day, as he sat in his jail cell, he couldn€t do anything else, so he became a born again Christian by reading his bible daily. Then he began to study the Word.
Today, he is out of jail, has been called into the ministry, is working closely with a well-known pastor, and attracting more and more young people into the church.
When I hear this young man speak today, I know that God has changed the course of his life, and I know that one day he said; €Thank God, I listened!€
Those without vision tend to want to keep up with the Jones€; you are living a copy-cat lifestyle. You look around among the people you know, to see who you can emulate. You search for what you can do; rather than begin to do that which God has inspired in your heart to do. It€s called, €Eyesight with no vision. The scripture tells us, €Without vision, the people perish.€
You focus on who you know that could possibly help you out in this situation. You forget all about your Heavenly Father, who knew you before you were ever formed in your mother€s womb. Ask God to show you what it is He wants for your life, for the success that you desire, and ask of His Holy Help, and His Holy Touch, then listen only to His voice.
God can do more in one Divine Breath, than you can in a lifetime of twenty-four hours a day, seven days each week, working around the clock. Is your Success Journey on Life Support? Are you supporting it with your life and efforts, but not God's?
Ask Him to breathe on your efforts and put some new life in your daily Christian Success walk. His Success becomes your Success. He's waiting for you to look to Him with vision.
Lyndia Grant is a speaker, call on her for your Retreats, Workshops, and other Special Occasions; Visit her website at www.lyndiagrant.com, or call 202-518-3192


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The advert features 40 of the top innovative app makers, and focusing on my GIF-ITI app
They even feature the app on apple.com,
So if you haven't already GO DOWNLOAD THE APP FOR YOURSELF NOW its free!]]>
Ultimate Ears makes by far the best bluetooth speaker around. So good for painting with- loud, tough and wetproof!!
And now they have just release a limited Edition 'Graffiti Fetish' edition!
Previous limited editions include Kenny Scarf and Skrillex.
For more details and to get yours- CLICK HERE
I painted a large section of Ipanema beach in Rio last month.
(For the record this picture is not set up- its a genuine candid shot of the work on the beach)]]>
I was invited to Mexico City to paint an installation for the large Sneaker Pimps party there.
While i was in town i got to hit a street spot in the downtown Roma district.
Painted in Brikama, Africa.
Painted in Shanghai, China.
Painted in South London, UK
Painted in Gunjur, Africa.]]>
Available now to download for free (currently just for apple, but we're working on it)
The app allows you to veiw my GIF-ITI paintings on location in real life!
You can even experience the magic at home by downloading the app and using it to see the VIEWABLE WALLS on the GIF-ITI webpage
Support this totally independent unfunded progressive art project by downloading the app and trying it out now!
READ MORE At GIF-ITI.COM HERE
Check out below a video showing some passers by getting excited to see the app working and a preview of my newest GIF-ITI creation on Redchurch Street, London>
I painted 2 new GIF-ITI piece for the festival.
The first is perhaps my most technical challenging to date…..
Here are all 8 individual paintings, i wont be posting the finished GIF yet as i have exciting news about a new APP launching soon. And you will be able to see the piece come to life with the APP! Whoop whoop!
The second GIF-ITI piece is a colaberation with artist MASER
Here is an interview i did while at Roskilde with danish site THE MEAT
Thanks to Lars and everybody in ArtZone and Graff Camp for an awesome time! #RFgraff #OrangeFeeling]]>
G九 上海 (G9 Shanghai) is a restaurant set within a dramatic triple height space that is part of main land China's first luxury department store; Lane Crawford. The central focal point of the restaurant is this huge interactive Lighting installation that cascades through the space and down my 'Grafitti Fetish' light wall:
14976 LED's
9200m of cable
956 pendant light installation
99 seats
67sqm artwork
1 Kinect camera
Make this a truly unique and luxurious art piece that can be played with and controlled from the VIP seating mezzanine.
Watch this clip>>>
I feel extremely excited to show this piece as it was a great pleasure to work with INDJ and the restaurant owner on creating this piece.
About the space:
G九 is a culmination of ideas that have influenced atelier I-N-D-J from the studios inception. Technology Industry Luxury and Excess collide; manifest in concrete, raw steel, black marble, shimmering gold, bright light and high art. G九 is a brash celebration for the rise of the Chinese economic super power, more so glittered with gold befitting of the Paris of the east – 上海
The notion of luxury and excess reaches it's pinnacle with a major site specific super scaled artwork by British artist INSA. A user activated Lighting installation cascades through the space terminating in INSA's trademark 'Grafitti Fetish' – an exploration of the iconography of modern aspirations: for the artist, the graffiti fetish concisely embodies the central concern of his output. The graffiti fetish pattern derives from two archetypal icons associated with contemporary femininity: high heels and curves – objects that have also become aspirational commodities. Within the undulating contours of this apparently abstract design, a two-fold vision of these icons is revealed: they simultaneously celebrate and question our consumerist ideology.
Balanced upon a lateral beam A VIP platform sits high above the banquette table, this elevated position serves as symbolic elevation of status, an exclusive position of grandeur from which to survey the space, here users are invited to engage in the light installation and art piece – a 3d depth sensing camera empowers the user with the ability to control the speed brightness and pattern of the light with simple hand gestures, In this way the light installation and art work in synchronisation controlled by a singular user.
The light installation and art work collaboration between indj and Insa marks an evolution of INSA's pioneering work with the GIF medium; whereby multiple frames are painstakingly painted photographed and animated digitally. G9 is a reversal of this process whereby the digital is manifest physically in the 67sqm art work.
So 5 days painting dawn until dusk in and out of monsoon rain showers and on the scariest swing stages ever, we painted this 8 story (120 foot) high building 4 times……
INSA x MADSTEEZ- The Worlds Largest GIF
Here is a cool short film Mr Steez put together where you see a timelapse of us painting this beast, the view from the main subway line and the most beautiful shot from a helicopter of the wall in progress- WATCH IT:
A physically and mentally challenging week, but snake blood shots and good old fashioned ego and beer drove us through it.
Thanks to Larry and Miya, Jasper and Kamea, Cherry, Elaine and Vicky and all of the people involved in POW WOW TAIWAN who help make this possible xxx]]>
Bonaroo Festival is America's largest music festival.
Located in small town Manchester,Tennessee.
One of the centre points of the festival is the Mushroom shaped water fountain, every year the festival invite an artist to paint it. I was honoured to be that artist this year.
7 days on hands and knees painting stripes is possibly wasted time, but then……
…look at all the people enjoying it!
Pictures above taken from Instagram using the search term #TheFountain #MushroomFountain #BonnarooFountain have a look at the thousands more there.]]>
I am excited to show you the very first 'GIF-ITI Lenticular'
If you enjoy my GIF-ITI experiments here is a chance to own a small piece of them, in the form of this 13 x 7.5 inches 3D Lenticular Animation Print.
Produced in conjunction with 1xRun www.1xrun.com
And available here now for a very limited time: HERE
Only $75
Edition of 75
Thank you for your support and i hope you continue to enjoy my experiments in the world of GIF-ITI….
Piece entitled: 'C'est La Vie'
2 days painting in rain and shine, 8 layers painted, a total of 72 skulls painted…….
See all of my GIF-ITI on the GIF-ITI TUMBLR PAGE HERE]]>
The New INSA BIKINIS are in the shop NOW! BUY HERE
Available in all 4 colourways:
-Hype Yellow
-Rainbow Fire
-Classic Multi
Price is £60 plus shipping.]]>
They will be available in my shop next week! Be Ready!!
Here is a look at them on location in dreamy Hawaii:
'Classic' 'Rainbow Fire'
Worn by Kelsey Kekai shot by Greg Agunias
'Hype Yellow' 'Hype Yellow'
Worn by Alyson Kintscher shot by Mike Popso]]>
Unfinished extra curricular fluro action on the beach of the north shore.
Rolled on by Hawaii 5-0……]]>


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'In the High Court of Justice' examines the records of the Chancery Division of the High Court (the post-1875 successor of the Chancery Court). This talk shows what is available and how to find your way around the documents. The recently transferred records of the Court Funds Office is also discussed and Dr Watts uses a worked example - a case over a disputed will - that was in the High Court for 49 years! The case names over 200 individuals over five generations - giving their relationship and dates and places of birth, marriage and death. The talk contains guidance on the use of these records for all users not just family historians. Dr Christopher T. Watts, FSG has nearly 40 years experience in English genealogical research, both on his own family and professionally. He recently retired after 11 years as a part-time Reader Adviser at The National Archives. He has published books, including My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman, My Ancestor was in the British Army and Tracing Births, Deaths and Marriages at Sea. He is a regular speaker in the UK and at conferences overseas.
Esta es una presentación de genealogía que enseña como empezar la genealogía, apoyada en ejemplos concretos de los linajes de Catamarca, Argentina. Da ideas sobre cómo manejar la información en una manera eficaz.
Courthouses are places where you can find answers to genealogical problems. They are a rich source of written records created as a result of the laws, the time period, and personal activities of your ancestors. The steps delineated throughout this course will assist you to be more effective as you visit courthouses in your search for genealogical information.
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October 2006
Chesky Records
This album launches Chesky's new "New York Sessions" series, recorded in the "natural acoustics" of St. Peter's Church in New York City. As it happens, David Hazeltine recorded another album with a New York theme, Manhattan Autumn, for the Sharp Nine label in 2003. Since Chesky claims to be an "audiophile" label (supporting "minimalist miking techniques"), it is revealing to compare the sonic quality of the two recordings.
Sharp Nine's Manhattan Autumn was recorded in the presumably "unnatural acoustics" of a recording studio, Systems Two in Brooklyn. It is a vivid, detailed sonic portrait of Hazeltine's trio plus Eric Alexander's tenor saxophone. Chesky's Manhattan has a slightly cloudy sound. Hazeltine's piano notes lack clean edges. Billy Drummond's drums are back too far. George Mraz' bass is loose and diffuse.
While the sound does not justify Chesky's audiophile claims, it is not so bad as to prevent enjoyment of a musically literate, tasteful, even elegant program that contains mostly standards. Hazeltine's ideas about songs like "Detour Ahead," "So in Love" and "Everything I Love" are deceptively, indirectly and ingeniously transformative. As co-leader, Mraz takes a prominent role and demonstrates that he is among the most eloquent bass soloists in jazz.