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Studies on the history of education in Kenya show that Christian missionaries brought the initial Western education, spreading out to become the single system in Kenya by 1920. Over the years, the responsibility for development of education in Kenya resides with the Government. However, the administration has delegated the responsibility for the establishment and most of the financing of primary schools to local authorities, with the aim of providing a system of primary education that is responsive to local needs and stimulate local initiative.
The Government is responsible for establishing the curriculum, administering the certificate for Primary Education and ensuring that instruction is of an adequate quality, and assumes full responsibility for the financing of all expenditures on primary education in County Council areas (Nyachieo Bogonko, 1992, pp. 18-19).
"When the Education Act was hammered out in 1968 giving the government control of the missionary-founded schools and conceding to the churches merely the rights of sponsorship, education was to undergo its first major crisis since independence. It is a crisis from whose effects the country is still reeling thirty years later as the century draws to a close. Many schools run by religious brothers, sisters and priests, and characterised by law and order, efficiency and cleanliness were put in local hands. The modest contributions from overseas, assiduously saved and carefully spent, began to dry up. Many religious brothers and sisters had worked without pay, save for a living allowance. With the new arrangement after the Education Act, instructors were paid a full salary. In many schools, a major financial crisis ensued" (Njoroge, L. M., 1999, p. 234).
The second major crisis the education system was to undergo happened in the mid-eighties when President Moi's Government introduced abruptly a new education system known as 8-4-4 (8 years of primary education which was meant to be terminal for the majority, 4 years of secondary education and 4 years of university education) that stressed self-reliance and required heavy investments both from the Government and parents. The 8-4-4 education system still remains controversial and was too ambitious for the resources available; as a consequence it has not achieved yet some ofits aims. The third major crisis started in the late 198O's when the Government, under pressure from international donors, introduced the Structural Adjustment Programme, which took the shape of "cost-sharing" for educational and health services that
previously were free. This measure, coupled with the poor performance of the economy affected dramatically the enrolment in primary schools in Kenya, which by the late years oflast century
stood just above 80%. Possibly as a result of the third crisis, private primary education experienced a remarkable growth because parents are willing to spend money to guarantee their children access to some of the few public secondary schools that feed the public universities. University education is still the best option for upward social mobility in Kenya but this state of affairs does not seem fair from the point of view of distributive justice and the common good.
Foster Middle School is located in the eastern portion of the Tulsa Public School District in Tulsa County. Foster currently serves approximately 616 students in grades six through eight. The student populace is 23% Caucasian, 34% Hispanic, 29% African American, 9% American Indian, and 4% Asian. About 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced lunch. Foster has always been a culturally diverse school, but they have experienced a significant change in membership distribution over the last few years with their Hispanic population increasing from 7% in 1999 to 34% in 2007. Today approximately 32% of the students are bilingual with Spanish as the primary language spoken. Approximately 17% of Foster's students are on an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), with the majority served in co-teaching inclusion programs.
The Mission of Foster Middle School is in line with Tulsa Public Schools mission, vision, and beliefs, which is "to provide a quality learning experience for every student, every day, without exception". Their beliefs help them to achieve this mission, and they are: "Everyone can and will learn, High expectations yield high results, Families and communities are essential partners in the education process, Every employee is personally responsible to model ethical behavior, exhibit a strong work ethic and to achieve high performance, Every individual has dignity and worth, A diverse community of learning requires a variety of educational opportunities, Quality learning experiences require:
An effective teacher in every classroom;
An effective principal in every school;
A challenging curriculum;
Adequate resources;
Continuous improvement in every classroom, office and department;
Shared accountability among students, teachers, administrators, staff, parents and community;
A safe, secure, non-threatening, comfortable environment".
The neighborhoods served by Foster range from low-income housing projects to single family homes. Currently, 70% of the student body qualify for free and reduced lunch, a tremendous increase from 2000, where only 47% of the student body qualified. About 30% of the families in this area are single parent families, and in more than half of the two-parent families both parents work, so many students are unsupervised after school and are not learning to study at home. Accordingly an increasing number of Foster's students demonstrate conditions associated with stress and poverty, such as slowed learning, impassivity, quick tempers and problems defining personal space.
All of these factors negatively influence student academic performance and rob students and parents of their enthusiasm for learning. Last year every subgroup made adequate yearly progress in math, which contributed to Foster making adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the 2006 - 2007 school year. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires schools to make AYP two consecutive years to be removed from "Needs Improvement" status. Foster is still designated a Year 3 School Improvement School. Ensuring that every child is successful at school in spite of family circumstances or current level of performance has become the goal driving decisions and actions for the 2007 - 2008 school year.
Math -All Students
State Math Target
Yes, No
or SH(Safe Harbor)
Reading - All Students
State Reading Target
Yes, No or SH(Safe Harbor
Foster Middle school aims to comply with the NCLB elements. For example, they have before and after-school tutoring and students give up electives for math and reading remediation during regular school hours as a way to increase instructional time. They have a quarterly incentive for 100% attendance. They also adopt best practices, by implementing and utilizing Marzano's instructional strategies, Multiple Intelligences, Bloom's, and Cooperative Learning. They also have a site instructional facilitator who helps with peer coaching and mentoring, to help meet professional developmental needs. They have also established after-school and during school opportunities to increase parent involvement, like the PTA meetings, parent-teacher conferences, PTA bingo nights, classroom visits, and parent individual and team conferences.
Brief Summary of Research
With the No Child Left Behind federal mandate, teachers and school administrators are challenged to provide the best instruction possible in Mathematics. It compels the mathematics teacher to provide high quality instruction to learners of all classifications of students, be they mentally handicapped, English as a second language, or behaviorally disordered. Numerous researches have established the fact that student's success especially in Mathematics, depends to a great extent on the effectiveness of the teaching they receive.
Anna Graeber, in her article, Mathematics Instruction Across the Grades: What Consultants should know (2005), asserts that in order for mathematics teaching to be effective, it has to incorporate the three learning principles that the National Research Council (NRC) articulates. The first of these principles is that the instruction needs to engage the student's initial understanding in order to change their preconceptions. Secondly, in order for students to develop competence in mathematics, they must have factual knowledge, an understanding of mathematical concepts and facts, and be able to organize what they learn in a way that will facilitate retrieval and application. Thirdly, she reports that NRC recommends a "meta-cognitive" approach to teaching, to assist students define and monitor their progress in achieving learning goals.
Graeber (2005) through the research that she did, reports that most programs that have been successful in instructing mathematics were building on students' previous knowledge, providing them with opportunities to discover and practice multiple ways of solving problems, and also asking students to provide explanations. Kramarski, Mevarech & Arami, (2002) in their study found this to be true, and defined it as meta-cognition. They found that students tremendously improved, when they were put in small groups and asked to reason mathematically through every problem. They did this by answering a series of questions designed to focus on:
"(a) Comprehending the problem (e.g., "What is the problem all about"?);
(b) Constructing connections between previous and new knowledge (e.g., "What are the similarities/differences between the problem at hand and the problems you have solved in the past and why?" ;
(c) Using strategies appropriate for solving the problem (e.g., "What are the strategies/tactics/principles appropriate for solving the problem and why?"
(d) Reflecting on the processes and the solution (e.g., "What did I do wrong here?"; "Does the solution make sense?")" (p. 4).
In this way, the students remain engaged and they are able to apply what they learn to their outside life. Meaning is attached to the mathematical tasks they face (Graeber, 2005).
Cooperative learning has been widely acknowledged by researchers as an imminent way of improving students' academic and social performance. In their article Teacher Interventions in Cooperative-Learning Mathematics Classes, Ding, Piccolo, Kulm, & Xiaobao (2007) say that for teacher-intervention strategies to be effective, they should "(a) adapt teacher instruction to students' needs, (b) focus on cognitive and meta-cognitive aspects, and (c) combine teacher and peer resources." They believe that teachers should not only focus their attention on the functioning of the group in the cooperative learning classrooms but should also give attention to the individual student's mathematical thinking. Students should be encouraged to explain to each other and to the teacher as well.
The diversity of students in classrooms is increasing on a daily basis, a phenomenon that requires teachers to use diverse teaching strategies in order to cater for all the students' needs. Furner, Yahya, & Duffy (2005), believe that setting high expectations and providing strong support for all learners are key elements. They advocate for teaching strategies that integrate multiple intelligences to accommodate learners' differences, including English Language Learners (ELL), and special education students. They provide a list of twenty strategies that need to be incorporated into the instruction of mathematics, which incorporate the Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) approach which supports the teaching of acquiring language.
Inclusion of students with learning disabilities is one of the major concerns of many researchers today. One of the barriers to inclusive education is believed to be teachers' negative attitude. DeSimone and Parmar (2006) did a research to investigate how Middle school mathematics teachers' thinking about inclusion affects students' learning. According to this study, most teachers are not opposed to inclusion of students in mathematics classrooms in middle schools; however, they struggle with finding ways to increase the motivation and attention of the included students. This is because a lot of them feel that they are inadequately prepared to handle the learning needs of included students. In most of the schools where inclusion of students is practiced, the teachers say that collaborating with other professional like special education teachers and guidance counselors helped them a lot. When working together as a team, teachers felt more confident in meeting the challenges of their mathematics inclusion classes (DeSimone & Parmar, 2006).
Description and Evaluation of Curriculum/Field Experience
My field experience consisted of review of the Oklahoma's PASS document (Priority Academic Student Skills), Tulsa COUNTS, Tulsa Public Schools Mathematics Initiative, and Foster Middle School's Improvement and Achievement plan; I interviewed the principle, and the head of the mathematics department at Foster Middle school; and I observed six different mathematics classroom instructions. My aim was to assess the classroom culture, the instructional activities, the focus of the program on accommodating learners' diverse needs, and to observe the practices that were being applied to enhance student learning.
Assessment of Program Focus
The Mathematics program at Foster Middle School reflects the goals set by Tulsa Public Schools (TPS), which are in turn aligned to Oklahoma's Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS). TPS have designed a guide for Middle School Course of Study, which describes the basic curriculum at each grade level. The main focus for the mathematics program at Tulsa Public Schools is to intensify the students' knowledge of numbers, computation, estimation, measurement, geometry, statistics, probability, patterns and functions, and the fundamental concepts of algebra, by focusing on relevant content in each of these areas.
The sixth to eighth grade mathematics staff at Foster Middle School utilizes ongoing assessment procedures to implement the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test (OCCT), and the Standard District Curriculum Assessments. Based upon these tools and in conjunction with teacher-made tests, observations and student portfolios, goals for instructional emphasis at the sixth grade Mathematics are: Patterns & Algebraic Reasoning/Order of Operations - 1.2, Measurement/Compare and Convert Units - 4.2, and Measurement/Estimate measurements - 4.3. Goals for instructional emphasis at the seventh grade Mathematics are: Algebraic Reasoning/Properties - 1.1, Algebraic Reasoning/Linear Equations - 1.2, Number Sense/Integers - 2.1. At the Eighth grade level, the goals are: Algebraic Reasoning/Equations - 1.1, Measurement/Estimate Surface Area/Volume - 4.1, Data Analysis and Statistics/Central Tendency - 5.2.
It is universally agreed that skills continue to be an important part of any mathematics program. Research shows that skills are long lasting when students have developed them through the use of thinking strategies, rather than rote learning. The Mathematics program at Foster Middle School supports the use of strategies and the development of skills in the following ways: Carefully sequenced activities, Easy-to-manage materials that promote visual thinking, ongoing reinforcement of skills through various activities, and thorough assessments.
Lessons are planned by the teachers to teach the benchmarks that are part of each PASS standard. Assessments are given periodically throughout the school year to assess the students' mastery of the benchmarks. If the concepts are not mastered, then the skills are taught again, either in a class setting or tutorial session. These assessments are designed to prepare the students to be successful on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests (OCCT's) and help Tulsa Public Schools teachers plan their instruction.
At Foster Middle School, the teachers design their lesson plans on a weekly basis, based on the pacing calendars provided by Tulsa Public Schools. The teachers then write down on the classroom boards, the objectives of the week for students to copy into their agendas. This serves two functions, the students know what to expect for each class and they are to discuss with their parents their agendas; and it also helps the teachers to stay on focus with the objectives in order to adequately cover the curriculum. I observed this to be a very good strategy as it helps the children and the students to manage their time effectively in the classrooms. The parents are also invited to be a part of the learning process of their children.
Assessment of Program's Ability to Accommodate Learner's Diverse Needs
Students with learning disabilities are provided a special education student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) which states whether he/she takes OCCT's or if he/she takes the alternative assessments. Special education students who are expected to take the OCCT's are given teacher developed assessments and benchmark assessments for the Standard District Curriculum at their grade placement in order to be prepared for the state assessments. The regular education teacher tests the special education students, with assistance from the special education teacher, who is involved in identifying and providing appropriate accommodations. Consequently, students with an IEP are to be exposed to the same curriculum as in the regular mathematics course. Modifications are made according to the IEP and teachers are to use a variety of strategies, including curriculum and instructional adaptations, peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and layered curriculum to deliver the content.
Foster Middle School has inclusion classes where students with IEPs are taught in the same class with other children. The mathematics teacher is assisted by a special education teacher and a school counselor. This allows for a one-on-one between the teachers and the students to ensure that each of the students understand the concepts. The counselor also assists with any behavioral issues that may come up among the students. The teachers use different strategies to make sure that the students understand the concepts, including the use of calculators at selected times to ensure competency with various skills, the Smart Board to illustrate concepts, and students are allowed to check out the textbook on compact disc for additional assistance. Peer relations were also encouraged, especially with English Language Learners (ELL) students.
From my interviews with the Principle and the head of the Mathematics department, they both agreed that the program has been a tremendously help to the students with learning disabilities. However, at the beginning of the implementation stages, the teachers had negative attitudes towards this program. They felt inadequate, and were not sure if it's going to work or not. With time however, the teachers have come to appreciate the program.
Assessment of Instruction
For instruction practices in the Mathematics classrooms to be effective, it is recommended to include activities which require the students to be engaged in creating and solving problems both individually and as a group. The instructional methods should allow use of learning tools such as concrete models, fraction manipulatives, algebra tiles, geoboards, calculators, and computers to enhance learning through differentiated instruction (Zolkoski & Guinn, 2007). Emphasis must be on using mathematics to solve problems as well as on mathematics as an enjoyable activity. Students must be provided strategies for solving mathematics problems including text preview, prior knowledge activities, vocabulary development, and graphic organizers. The overriding goal behind any mathematics problem-solving activity should be to foster active, engaged, independent thinkers.
Teachers need a deep understanding of the mathematics they teach, i.e., concepts, practice, principles, representation, and applications to support effective instruction. A teacher's conceptual understanding of mathematics can affect classroom instruction in a direct and positive way. The mathematics teachers that I observed at Foster Middle school were confident and enthusiastic about the content they were teaching. They were well prepared for the lessons they were teaching and kept the students engaged throughout the class period.
The first ten minutes of every class that I observed at Foster Middle School, were dedicated to reviewing concepts previously taught and clarifying any misunderstandings students had. This was done through use of 'warm up or bell-work' tests. Teachers observed students during independent work time to determine their understanding of the concepts. After this, the teacher then presented new concepts to the class, and gave them lots of drilling questions to make sure that the concepts were grasped. In some of the classes I observed, the teachers used various games, like Bingo, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, among other games. These activities engaged the students' attention, and kept them actively involved in the learning process. Assignments were also graded in class, to determine the level of mastery each student had attained, and a quiz or teacher-made test were completed by the students to determine the students' proficiency with the skills taught earlier in the week.
Foster Middle School aims to develop a learning community based upon respect and dignity. They believe that this is the keystone that nurtures academic success. Their goal is that every student will develop skills and behavioral abilities that assure a positive, safe and caring learning community for all members of the school. Students and staff are expected to embrace the 7 Community Guidelines and Life Skills as part of their daily interactions. In the classrooms that I observed, students were encouraged to cooperate with each, and to treat each other as they expect to be treated. Most of the students were very cooperative, and had good behaviors. The teachers that I observed had good management skills. Most of them said that they had prepared power point presentations on classroom rules and procedures, which they shared with the students on first day of the school year. With a lot of practice and reiterations, the students knew what was expected of them and the consequences to the bad behaviors in class. This had helped to maintain a positive classroom atmosphere that was conducive for the students to learn.
Application of Best Practices to Improve Student Learning (1.5 page)
The Principle at Foster Middle School, said that the teachers use various teaching strategies such as graphic organizers, technology, challenging and current curriculum, and various teaching practices (Marzano's instructional strategies, Bloom's Taxonomy, the Multiple Intelligences, etc.) to maintain effective classroom instruction" (Principle). The teachers are expected to indicate which practice they intend to use for the lessons, whether Marzano's, Bloom's or the Multiple Intelligences.
From the research that I did, a lot of researchers advocate for cooperative learning in mathematics teaching (Ding et al, 2007. Foster Middle School, has implemented this very well. The students are encouraged to work together. In one of the class that I observed, the teacher encouraged the students to consult with each other first during independent work time. Then if both could not understand, they could ask the teacher. This was very helpful, especially with the ELL students, some of who have not mastered the English Language.
Foster Middle School has also earned a good name where use of technology is concerned. The use of the Smart board software has indeed helped to improve student learning. Teachers are able to use the internet field and mathematic soft ware to provide students with activities that keep them attentive and engaged, and that apply to daily life situations, as recommended by Furner et al (2005).
Implementation of Research-Based Professional Development Programs
Foster Middle School is committed to the professional growth and development of its faculty and new staff member. They have Site delivered math curriculum training; they devote 5 days solely to professional development in different areas, including mathematics. The teachers are also expected to attend training provided by the Tulsa School District. These training lessons include the following topics: classroom management and student discipline strategies, outreach to parents, diversity and multicultural education and other components as required for school improvement. The teachers are also encouraged to attend professional development workshops, classes, and conferences in order to learn new strategies, techniques, and teaching styles in order to remain effective so that the curriculum is both challenging and enjoyable to learn.
Mathematics is said to be a vital academic skill and a critical part of academic learning. This is why there is a nationwide call to improve the mathematics program and to improve the preparation of mathematics teachers. Foster Middle School has taken this seriously, as is evidenced by their goals and the execution of those goals.
Some of the mathematics teachers at Foster Middle School have college degrees in mathematics, which indicates that they are academically qualified for what they do. Most of them are passionate not only about what they teach, but about the children as well, a quality that the Principle told me he looks for when interviewing potential teachers. This enthusiasm is a key element in their classes, as it provides an energy that invites and allows the children to be a part of the learning process. This was a very good quality that I admired at this school.
The environment of every office is mostly created by the administration. I found the environment at Foster Middle School to be positive, and this reflects the School's Principle's character. An ORU alumni himself, He is very welcoming, and was willing to help me with anything that I needed to complete my project. I could sense his love for the students, and admiration for most of his faculty. He said that he knew God has blessed him with a good faculty and that inspires him to serve even more. Most of the teachers that I spoke with had good comments about him. They all agreed that he was very supportive, and believed that all things are indeed possible. All of them said that he allows them to be flexible with the curriculum and instruction, for the best interest of the students.
Being a mathematics teacher requires more than the content knowledge. A love and passion for the students and for teaching is undeniably a vital ingredient in the profession. This has a tremendous effect on the classroom environment; which in turn affects the learning of the students. Most of the students do not have a good attitude towards mathematics, and so this puts the teacher at a very challenging position. It demands the teacher to inspire and impart his/her enthusiasm to the students. It requires a lot of extra preparation time, to look for activities that will engage the students for effective instruction. I was inspired by some of the teachers that I met at Foster Middle School.


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Science does not support many of the claims.
That's according to a new study published in the science journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience from a team of Florida State University researchers.
Neil Charness, professor of psychology and a leading authority on aging and cognition, teamed up with Wally Boot, associate professor of psychology, and graduate student Dustin Souders to test the theory that brain games help preserve cognitive function.
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Charness, who's also the director of FSU's Institute for Successful Longevity, said an increasing number of people believe brain training helps protect them against memory loss or cognitive disorders.
"Brain challenges like crossword games are a popular approach, especially among baby boomers, as a way to try to protect cognition," Charness said.
That popularity has turned the brain-training industry into a billion-dollar business. Brain games are available online and through mobile apps that typically sell for about $15 a month or $300 for lifetime memberships. But advertising for this rapidly growing business sector has sometimes used inflated claims. The Federal Trade Commission fined one brain-training company $50 million for false advertising, which was later lowered to $2 million.
The FSU team's study focused on whether brain games could boost the "working memory" needed for a variety of tasks. In their study, they set up one group of people to play a specially designed brain-training video game called "Mind Frontiers," while another group of players performed crossword games or number puzzles.
All players were given lots of information they needed to juggle to solve problems. Researchers tested whether the games enhanced players' working memory and consequently improved other mental abilities, such as reasoning, memory and processing speed.
That's the theory behind many brain games: If you improve overall working memory, which is fundamental to so much of what we do every day, then you can enhance performance in many areas of your life.
The team examined whether improving working memory would translate to better performance on other tasks or as the researchers called it: "far transfer."
In short, no.
"It's possible to train people to become very good at tasks that you would normally consider general working memory tasks: memorizing 70, 80, even 100 digits," Charness said. "But these skills tend to be very specific and not show a lot of transfer. The thing that seniors in particular should be concerned about is, if I can get very good at crossword puzzles, is that going to help me remember where my keys are? And the answer is probably no."
Charness has spent much of his career the past 45 years trying to wrap his brain around the way the mind functions and how it ages. With the senior population continuing to grow — 45 million Americans are 65 or older — Charness understands their concerns about preserving brain function and remaining independent.
"People have real concerns about loss of cognition and loss of memory as they age, so they do all kinds of things to try to stave off cognitive decline," Charness said.
Charness noted that other research finds aerobic exercise, rather than mental exercise, is great for your brain. Physical exercise can actually cause beneficial structural changes in the brain and boost its function. He predicts "exer-gaming," which combines exercise with brain games, will increase in popularity in the 21st century.
"I wouldn't come away from our article totally discouraged," Charness said. "It's another piece of the puzzle that we're all trying to assemble. It's discouraging in the sense that we can't find far transfer and that seems to be a fairly consistent finding in research. But if your real goal is to improve cognitive function and brain games are not helping, then maybe you are better off getting aerobic exercise rather than sitting in front of the computer playing these games."
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Citation: Evidence for Narrow Transfer after Short-Term Cognitive Training in Older Adults
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 28 February 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00041
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Shielding a Fender Classic '70s
Stratocaster MIM - Page 1
Here are some pics of a recent shielding job I
did on a Fender Classic '70s Stratocaster that apparently came un-shielded as
you can see on the lower left corner control cavity where there is some SKU info
stuck onto the wood. It has a clear coat over top which means it probably wasn't
shielded and it did buzz and hum a lot. I also installed a new set of Fender
Custom Shop '69 pickups to get the true '69 vibe. The body on these MIM (Made in
Mexico) Strats are Ash, as were most original early CBS 70s Strats and it has
more of a Jimi "Mojo" to it than several other Strats I have, because of it's
spanking brightness, sustain and fat tone. I
worked beginning at around 9PM and until around 5AM installing the
copper foil tape that you can get at
Stewart MacDonald which I now kind of wish I would have used the shielding
paint because this stuff is tough to work with (at least for me it was). It has
very sharp edges that sliced up my fingers as I cut and pressed it into the
corners. One thing I used was a wooden chop stick to help get it into the
corners. After taping all the cavities I soldered a piece of cloth covered wired
between the output jack cavity and the control cavity and then from there to the
control pot to activate the ground shield as told to me by some great guys on
Fenderforum.com After installing the pickups and copper foil I had to take
it apart several times to find where it kept shorting out by something touching
inside and shorting out. Had to check continuity across the tape and found a few
spots where it read 0.01 instead of 0.00 so I slathered a thin layer of solder
across the 2 pieces of tape and that fixed that (see last couple pics on Page
3). One other thing I did was get a couple of 1"
neodymium boride magnets from Stew-Mac and used their
instructions and a
polarity tester to reverse the polarity of the middle pickup to get
humbucking in position 2 & 4 since vintage pickups don't come that way. I
built a Mickey mouse jig out of a scrap piece of wood to hold them in place
while I slid the pickup through them. Worked like a charm! (See pics on page 3
for pics).
Results: Seems
much more quiet than it was but no more quiet than a 2004 Highway 1 Strat or a
2005 American Series Strat but this one was noisy because it had no shielding at
all. HOWEVER! reversing the polarity of the middle pickup gave me dead silence
in position 2 & 4 with nothing but pure tone for days. This project was
definitely worth doing as this '70s Strat with Olympic white Ash body, maple
neck with large headstock like Jimi's and CS '69 pickups now has that same kind
of Mojo. To top it off, I put on a set of Fender 150L Gauge Nickel wound strings
.9 - .42 the same kind Jimi used and they have this snappy, twangy feeling like
no other strings I've ever played. Now if I could just play as good as Jimi I'd
be set! ;-)
Sound Clips
Here's a few sound clips messing around to demonstrate the tone. I'm plugged
into a little vintage 1965 5 watt Supro amp
along with a Fulltone OCD overdrive set on around 11 o'clock on gain for just a
tad of fatness, plus an analog Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man echo and a
Sweet Sound Ultra Vibe (Uni-Vibe clone) on "Hey Baby" to get that sound. Also,
on the CS 69 Shielding-Reverse Polarity demo, notice the slight hum/buzz in
position 1-3-5 but how it goes quiet on positions 2 & 4 thanks to the magnets
flipping the polarity and switching the leads! Here's another project that I did
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Beware the Braiwnashing part 1
How does the WORLD Brainwash people into believing that having Soldiers and Armies are a good thing.?
Make Hundreds of movies where ALIENS or MONSTERS attack our planet and Make them the bad guys and then show in the movies how Suddenly all
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The scariest Movie that out ranks all other scary movies ever made is still in the making - you are playing your part right now. it's about earth being destroyed and abused and mutilated by loving caring human beings (no one ever admits they are evil, yet the world only shows us everyone is evil) , all the animals are abused, tortured and used for profit, all plant life is being abuse and used for profit, earth is more than half way dead already, and yet everyone is simply sitting back...
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Fear of Snakes biting me and self forgiveness.
Fear of Snakes biting me and self forgiveness.
I work witha lot of animals on the farm, some are snakes, others are lizards (big one's)and some are our normal daily farm companions such as the dogs or cats and the parrotswe have.
When I workwith the animals I have this constant expectation/fear that the animal will suddenly attackme or harm me.
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I do not feel like doing it right now and Self Forgiveness.
A week ago I had a cool point to write about,as I wanted to write about the point I sat down at my PC and I looked at myscreen and I said to myself in my mind as back chat, "
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My Story with gaining Muscles and the Physical design.
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This is the Line and possession with Self forgiveness.
In my mindI have created right and wrong, good and bad, instead of what is best for alllife in all ways.
Through thisjudgment in my mind as what is good and what is bad I have created a line, ainvisible line that only exists in my mind.
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Oil and the situation 101 basics.
Oil and thesituation 101 basics.
Fossilfuels took up to 5 million years to become what we consume in 0ne year.
The modernway of life is dependent on this fossilized sunlight in all we do, from plasticto turning on your light.
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I am God. removing brainwashing.
I am God.LOL, ok! So when I was still a Christian wayback, like 6 years ago at the age of 16, I would have never ever dared myselfto even consider myself as God. Or saying anything like this –
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String quartets seldom take their names from living composers; more often they pay homage to established figures of the past. So it might seem a bit presumptive for Krzysztof Penderecki to have a quartet named after himself. Mr. Penderecki has led a somewhat uncertain career after occupying the vanguard of the experimental Polish school of the late 1950's and 60's. He has written sprawling quasi-Mahlerian symphonies and stylistically jumbled stage works. He is not well known for his chamber music.
But the Penderecki Quartet -- Jerzy Kaplanek and Piotr Buczek, violinists; Yariv Aloni, violist, and Paul Pulford, cellist -- happens to be a fine ensemble, technically solid and musically accomplished. Its program on Sunday afternoon included a cleanly articulated, warm-toned rendition of the Mozart Quartet in G (K. 387) and an expansive, Beethovenian treatment of the Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor (op. 13).
The afternoon's Penderecki factor was a recent String Trio, receiving its North American premiere. The two-movement work began with a set of cadenzas separated by rapid, dissonant declamations for all three players, a pattern reminiscent less of early Penderecki than of Witold Lutoslawski. The style was Modernist in orientation, even Bartokian at times, tightly structured but curiously anonymous. Mr. Penderecki himself was on hand and said some words after the vigorous, expert performance by Mr. Kaplanek, Mr. Aloni and Mr. Pulford.
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There is no denying the appeal of a stadium gig. Rock bands like Muse and Foo Fighters can fill stadiums time and time again, creating unforgettable spectacles. From the opening song 'Uprising' at Muse's 2010 Wembley gig, the atmosphere was electric. I hardly was given the option to jump or not because I was already being thrown about the third row along with the bustling of thousands of excited fans. There were stages rising into the sky, gymnasts spinning on balloons... This kind of scale could not be achieved in an intimate arena. "You wouldn't go to see bands like U2 in an intimate setting anymore", says Founder & CEO of Muzcentric Nenad Todorovic, who then adds, "the scale of the sets and lighting on their 360° tour works best in a large arena". It's true, that tour sure wouldn't have worked in The Kentish Town Forum. And while these giant sets are profitable too (The 360° tour made over $736 million, selling over 7.2 million tickets), many small arenas are closing down, such as Edinburgh's famous Bongo Club.
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I'd say it's easier to enjoy yourself at a small arena. Blur closed the Olympics at Hyde Park, and many complained that they couldn't hear them. When I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers at Earls Court, in the 19,000-strong crowd I was quite far back and I felt detached from the experience, clapping awkwardly while realizing that I could hear my friends singing almost as much as I could hear Anthony Kiedis. And my friends weren't great singers to be honest... If you don't like where you're standing in an intimate gig, you can shove through pretty quickly, but even from the start you're going to be fairly close to the band. But have you ever tried barging through 90,000 people? By the time you'd reached the front, Coldplay would be well into their encore! Another time I was seated at a large arena for Kasabian and it was like watching it on TV, whilst the other times I've been seated at smaller venues to see Band Of Horses and Sigur Rós I've loved every minute of the gig. So I feel that at large arenas you have to be pretty far forward to enjoy yourself, whereas in small arenas due to the smaller space you're more likely to find a place and have a good time. Last night Bloc Party played at Birthdays in Dalston to 250 people, while they've also announced that they're playing at Earls Court to 19,000 in February. Given the choice of which gig to go to, I would have definitely gone to Birthdays last night.
So is there such a thing as a better type of gig? Well, both have their strengths and weaknesses so it depends on your preference. Intimate gigs provide more options for bands to see whilst stadium gigs are on a much larger scale and can create incomparable spectacles. Couple that with their ticket sales and it could be suggested that stadium gigs are in the ascendancy. The importance of intimate gigs cannot be underestimated though, as they are how many bands first engage fans and go onto greater success, as the enclosed setting helps the audience connect and the band practice their interaction with the audience. Big bands often recognize this, occasionally playing smaller arenas with a different sound like with the MTV Unplugged performances that had stadium-fillers like Nirvana, Eric Clapton and Jay-Z performing in the past.
The Live Music Act comes into force in October and will ease restrictions on pubs and small clubs, which will help the success of intimate gigs. No band starts in a stadium, so it is crucial that both types of live music thrive. Both types are enjoyable for different reasons and comparing them depends on your music preferences. It can be concluded then that both can be great experiences, because they are both able to engage audiences and remind them of the brilliance of live music.
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Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Series #8)by James Lee Burke
The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia, Louisiana, can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landrythe girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallushave to do with it?
Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But
The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia, Louisiana, can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landrythe girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallushave to do with it?
Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's pastwhile having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin.
Editorial Reviews
At once engrossing and ... convincing."Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Product Details
- 9780786889044
- Publisher:
- Hachette Books
- Publication date:
- 08/28/1996
- Series:
- Dave Robicheaux Series , #8
- Edition description:
- Reissue
- Pages:
- 464
- Sales rank:
- 151,768
- Product dimensions:
- 6.58(w) x 11.02(h) x 1.09(d)
- Age Range:
- 13 - 18 Years
Read an Excerpt
Chapter One
HER hair is curly and gold on the pillow, her skin white in the heat lightning that trembles beyond the pecan trees outside the bedroom window. The night is hot and breathless, the clouds painted like horsetails against the sky; a peal of thunder rumbles out an the Gulf like an apple rolling around in the bottom of a wood barrel, and the first raindrops ping against the window fan. She sleeps on her side, and the sheet molds her thigh, the curve of her hip, her breast. In the flicker of the heat lightning the sun freckles on her bare shoulder look like brown flaws in sculpted marble.
Then a prizing bar splinters the front door out of the jamb, and two men burst inside the house in heavy shoes, their pump shotguns at port arms. One is a tall Haitian, the other a Latin whose hair hangs off his head in oiled ringlets. They stand at the foot of the double bed in which she sleeps alone, and do not speak. She awakes with her mouth open, her eyes wide and empty of meaning. Her face is still warm from a dream, and she cannot separate sleep from the two men who stare at her without speaking. Then she sees them looking at each other and aim their shotguns point-blank at her chest. Her eyes film and she calls out my name like a wet bubble bursting in her throat. The sheet is twisted in her hands; she holds it against her breasts as though it could protect her from twelve-gauge deer slugs and double-aught buckshot.
They begin shooting, and the room seems to explode with smoke and flame from their shotgun barrels, with shell wadding, mattress stuffing, splinters gouged out of the bedstead, torn lampshades, flying glass. The two killers aremethodical. They have taken out the sportsman's plug in their shotguns so they can load five rounds in the magazine, and they keep firing and ejecting the smoking hulls an the floor until their firing pins snap empty. Then they reload with the calmness of men who might have juststood up in a blind and fired at a formation of ducks overhead.
The sheet is torn, drenched with her blood, embedded in her wounds. The men have gone now, and I sink to my, knees by my wife and kiss her sightless eyes, run my hands over her hair and wan face, put her fingers in my mouth. A solitary drop of her blood runs down the shattered headboard and pools on my skin. A bolt of lightning explodes in an empty field behind the house. The inside of my head is filled with a wet, sulphurous smell, and again I hear my name rise like muffled, trapped air released from the sandy bottom of a pond.
It was four in the morning on a Saturday and raining hard when I awoke from the dream in a West Baton Rouge motel. I sat on the side of the bed in my underwear and tried to rub the dream out of my face, then I used the bathroom and came back and sat on the side ofthe bed again in the dark.
First light was still two hours away, but I knew I would not sleep again. I put on my raincoat and hat and drove in my pickup truck to an all-night café that occupied one side of a clapboard roadhouse. The rain clattered on my truck cab, and the wind was blowing strong Out of the southwest, across the Atchafalaya swamp, whipping the palm and Oak trees by the highway. West Baton Rouge, which begins at the Mississippi River, has always been a seedy area of truck stops, marginal gambling joints, Negro and blue-collar bars. To the east you can see the lighted girders of the Earl K. Long Bridge, plumes of smoke rising from the oil refineries, the state capitol building silhouetted in the rain. Baton Rouge is a green town full of oak trees, parks, and lakes, and the thousands of lights on the refineries and chemical plants are regarded as a testimony to financial security rather than a sign of industrial blight. But once you drive west across the metal grid of the bridge and thump down on the old cracked four-lane, you're in a world that caters to the people of the Atchafalaya basin -- Cajuns, redbones, roustabouts, pipeliners, rednecks whose shrinking piece of American geography is identified only by a battered pickup, a tape deck playing Waylon, and a twelve-pack of Jax.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
I ordered a chicken-fried steak and a cup of coffee and listened to Jimmy Clanton's recording of "Just a Dream" that came from the jukebox next door. Through the open doorway that gave onto the empty dance floor, I could see a half-dozen people at the bar against the far wall. I watched a man my age, with waved blond hair, drink hisI whiskey down to the ice, point to the glass for the bartender to refill it, then rise from...
Meet the Author
James Lee Burke was born in Houston, Texas, in 1936 and grew up on the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast. He attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute and later received a B. A. Degree in English and an M. A. from the University of Missouri in 1958 and 1960 respectively. Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps.
He and his wife Pearl met in graduate school and have been married 48 years, they have four children: Jim Jr., an assistant U.S. Attorney; Andree, a school psychologist; Pamala, a T. V. ad producer; and Alafair, a law professor and novelist who has 4 novels out with Henry Holt publishing.
Burke's work has been awarded an Edgar twice for Best Crime Novel of the Year. He has also been a recipient of a Breadloaf and Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. Two of his novels, Heaven's Prisoners and Two For Texas, have been made into motion pictures. His short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Antioch Review, Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years, and upon publication by Louisiana State University press was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Today he and his wife live in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- New Iberia, Louisiana and Missoula, Montana
- Date of Birth:
- December 5, 1936
- Place of Birth:
- Houston, Texas
- Education:
- B.A., University of Missouri, 1959; M.A., University of Missouri, 1960
- Website:
- http://www.jamesleeburke.com/
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I am so intrigued with the series of Dave Robicheaux novels that my wife and I leave in 2 days to visit New Iberia for a week. James Lee creates such a vivid picture of the countryside and the people in all his novels that we have to see it for ourselves.
I felt he had trouble completing this story and use "filler" to lengthen the story. But you can be sure I will read the next in the seried.
I sometimes wonder why I enjoy James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series? I mean, Dave seems to be a pretty decent guy, and he has a nice family. However, it seems that virtually everyone that Dave knows is through his law enforcement profession, and excepting the minority who hold a badge, they come off as slimy untrustworthy lowlifes that I would not want to spend any personal time getting to know. Then, after completing the next one in the series, I remember why I do it – because Burke is one h-ll of a storyteller. Burning Angel has a few intertwining mysteries running through it – or, are they merely separate aspects of the same conspiracy? (No spoilers, I leave this to the reader to determine for his or herself.) As mentioned, I don't like most of the supporting characters. I don't like the way our lead character acts when he's around these other characters, either. BUT … when I get to the end, I think "wow – that was a pretty decent story". RATING: 4.5 stars, rounded down to 4 stars.


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But the Holloway crisis raises broader issues beyond the particular prison. Like the Strangeways riot in 1989, it goes to the heart of current penal policy. Michael Howard, the Home Secretary, has some serious questions to answer.
The appalling conditions at Holloway - so bad that the Chief Inspector of Prisons cut short his inspection to make known his findings - could easily be reproduced elsewhere in the country because of changes in government policy. As a result, only an optimist could say that Holloway will prove to be exceptional in the coming years.
At the Conservative Party conference in October, the Home Secretary announced measures designed to send prisoners to jail for longer. He proposes that second-time violent and sex offenders should get life and prisoners should enjoy reduced remission. These initiatives could increase the population in jail by up to 20,000 in two years.
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Put these developments together and you could get the sort of deterioration in prison conditions that General Sir David Ramsbotham has described at Holloway.
The danger is that the Government will ignore a deterioration that could leave the prison system vulnerable to disturbances on a Strangeways scale. We now know that Holloway's board of prison visitors alerted ministers to what was going on a number of times over the past two years. The Government had, it should be said in mitigation, recently released additional funds to improve conditions. But ministers were clearly prepared to let inmates live for some time in inadequate circumstances.
The governor of Holloway must explain the management failures that took place in her establishment. But Michael Howard must also tell us, as he plans an expanded prison population, cuts in prison funding and tougher, longer sentences, how he can ensure that Holloway's misery will not be repeated across the country.
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