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Northrup, King and Company seed laboratory, 1917. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard.
Northrup, King and Company seed separator/cleaner, 1917. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard.
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James, Sr., Henry
Henry James, Sr. 1811-1882
American philosopher and theologian.
The father of two more famous sons—novelist Henry James and psychologist William James—Henry James, Sr., was an influential and original thinker who challenged many of the religious and social mores of his era. Regarded during his lifetime as an eccentric and bold author, lecturer, and critic, James was deeply influenced by the writings of eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg and nineteenth-century social theorist Charles Fourier; the former helped shape James's views on God and human nature, while the latter helped inspire his ideas about human fellowship. James believed above all in spiritual freedom, rejecting organized religion, which he felt overemphasized the importance of the individual and promoted sectarianism rather than universal solidarity. This was a fairly unpopular view at a time when such denominations as Christian Science and Methodism were gaining strong footholds in the United States. In addition, he was staunchly opposed to the romantic idealizations of the individual advocated by many of his contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. James considered an emphasis on the self—especially thinking highly of oneself—as one of the greatest of evils. Only by destroying this self-righteousness, he insisted, could one be "re-born" into society and thereby achieve communion with God.
Biographical Information
Born in Albany, New York, on June 3, 1811, James grew up under the strict rule of his father, William James, a wealthy merchant and staunch Presbyterian who had emigrated from Ireland in the late 1700s. Early on, the younger James developed a distaste for Presbyterianism, resisting his father's belief in an angry God who instilled fear in his followers. When the younger James was twelve or thirteen, he suffered the amputation of one of his legs after it was severely burned when he attempted to stamp out a fire. The long period of painful and isolated invalidism that followed seemed to affect the youth profoundly; according to biographers, the formerly spirited young man became increasingly introspective during his convalescence. In 1828 he entered Union College in Schenectady, New York, enjoying the liberal religious atmosphere before graduating two years later. He then briefly studied law in Albany. Following his father's death in 1832, he inherited enough money to support himself for the remainder of his life, and in 1835 he abandoned his legal career in favor of studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, an ardently Presbyterian institution. However, he left the seminary just a few years later, dissatisfied with the school's strict piety and determining to devote himself to the study and expression of his own philosophy. In the late 1830s he traveled to Europe, where he became acquainted with the writings of eighteenth-century Scotsman Robert Sandeman, one of Fourier's disciples and the founder of an obscure religious sect dedicated to primitive Christianity. In part to acknowledge the influence Sandeman had on his thought, James edited Sandeman's controversial Letters on Theron and Aspasio (1838), which denounced the church clergy. In 1840 he married Mary Robertson Walsh, a devout churchgoer and the sister of one of his friends. Throughout the next two decades the Jameses moved between New York—where their first two sons (William and Henry, Jr.) were born—and various European cities. During one of their trips to Europe in the 1840s, the elder James became intrigued with Swedenborg's teachings. In fact, it was Swedenborg's writings that helped him overcome the emotional and spiritual collapse he suffered in 1844 during one of his longer periods of residency in Europe. This collapse is what he referred to as his "vastation," a stage that, according to Swedenborg, leads to the rebirth of the soul. During the 1840s James was also greatly inspired by the philosophy of Fourier, a social reformer who believed as did James in the solidarity of humankind. Continuing to move restlessly with his family during the early 1860s, James finally settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1866. Eventually fathering five children, he was a dedicated family man who believed in providing his children with a strong moral and intellectual background. He afforded them access to international travel, private tutors, experimental schools, and an academically stimulating home environment; in the decades before his death his household was often the site of fervent discussions among such eminent figures as Henry David Thoreau and Emerson. James suffered the death of his wife early in 1882, and he died soon thereafter, on December 18, 1882, in Cambridge.
Major Works
James was the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of treatises, pamphlets, letters, essays, and reviews. He treated such subjects as philosophy, metaphysics, politics, wealth, literature, and education, although many of his works are defenses of his theology. During his lifetime he published four full-length volumes outlining his thought: Christianity, the Logic of Creation (1857), Substance and Shadow (1863), The Secret of Swedenborg (1869), and Society the Redeemed Form of Man (1879). Of these, most critics regard The Secret of Swedenborg and Society the Redeemed Form of Man as his best. The former outlines James's belief in humankind's dependence on God, while the latter documents his thoughts on his spiritual breakdown as well as his vision of Christianity as a call for a new social solidarity. Other significant works include Spiritual Creation (1882), unfinished at the time of his death and later published by his son William, and The Nature of Evil (1855). In addition to the theme of theology that runs through his works, James's use of superlatives, his adeptness with language, and his use of obscure phrases mark his writing. Distinguishing his works also is his sense of humor, seen by some as grossly inappropriate but by others as charming. This charm, scholars have noted, is also evidenced in the hundreds of letters he exchanged with his formidable circle of acquaintances. Unfortunately, many of these private papers were destroyed by relatives soon after his death. Biographers have speculated that James's "indelicate" nature combined with the highly public controversies that often surrounded him prompted this destruction. In fact, James caused himself and his family considerable embarrassment as early as 1849, when he published his first major work, Love in the Phalanstery, a translation of Victor Hennequin's Les Amours au Phalanstère, a French tract on marriage. Proposing a new social order in which human sexuality would be freed from conventional laws, the work prompted critics to brand James as a libertine.
Critical Reception
During his lifetime, James's works neither attracted a considerable number of readers nor enjoyed a large measure of critical understanding; commentators found his works obscure and doubted the intelligibility of his writings. Scholars have suggested that his subject matter was partly to blame for his unpopularity at a time when discussions of theology were rapidly going out of fashion. Moreover, treatises emphasizing humankind's need for community and man's reliance on God were often disregarded during an intellectualized age that celebrated the self. Many nineteenth-century critics did, however, praise James's style, calling it fresh, unconventional, entertaining, and eloquent. James was a "writer of extraordinary vigor and picturesqueness" and a "formidable master of English style," wrote E. L. Godkin, prominent journalist and founder of The Nation. Almost immediately after his death, James's reputation fell into obscurity, and his work was overshadowed by that of his sons William and Henry, Jr. Commentators who did study the elder James continued to find fault with his writings, characterizing his arguments as overly metaphysical rather than logical, and criticizing his tendency to restate his theology in several of his works. (James himself admitted that he had trouble expressing himself adequately.) It wasn't until the 1930s that a serious revival of interest in James's scholarship developed. In 1934 Austin Warren became the first critic to produce a full-length biography of James, and in 1951 Frederic Harold Young published the first full-length treatment of James's philosophy. Contemporary critics have claimed that James has been undeservedly eclipsed by the reputation of his sons, and have begun to regard him not as a weak, eccentric figure as some earlier critics had, but as a powerful presence who made a strong impact on his children, especially William and Henry, Jr. "It is owing to James's restless intellectuality that three of his children—William, Henry, Alice—are remembered today," wrote biographer Alfred Habegger in 1994. "For better and worse, he was responsible for their larger-than-life tensions, abilities, ambitions, achievements." Although contemporary critics have continued to commend James's striking and often startling rhetoric as well as the vigor and wit of his writings, his rich and varied diction, and his romantic style, his works have never found a popular audience.
Principal Works
Letters on Theron and Aspasio: Addressed to the Author [editor] (letters) 1838
Remarks on the Apostolic Gospel (treatise) 1840
What Constitutes the State? A Lecture Delivered before the Young Men's Association of the City of Albany (lecture) 1846
Tracts for the New Times, No. 1, Letter to a Sweden-borgian (letter) 1847
Love in the Phalanstery [translator; from Les Amours au Phalanstère by Victor Hennequin, 1847] (treatise) 1849
Moralism and Christianity; or, Man's Experience and Destiny (treatise) 1850
Lectures and Miscellanies (lectures) 1852
Love, Marriage, and Divorce, A Discussion between Henry James, Horace Greeley, and Stephen Pearl Andrews 1853
The Church of Christ Not an Ecclesiasticism: A Letter of Remonstrance to a Member of the Soi-Disant New Church (letter) 1854, revised edition, 1856
The Nature of Evil, Considered in a Letter to the Reverend Edward Beecher, D.D., Author of "The Conflict of the Ages " (letter) 1855
Christianity, the Logic of Creation (treatise) 1857
The Social Significance of Our Institutions: An Oration Delivered by Request of the Citizens of Newport, R.I., July 4, 1861 (speech) 1861
The Old and New Theology,...
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SOURCE: "James on the Nature of Evil," in The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Vol. LIX, No. 1, July, 1855, pp. 116-36.
[In the following review of The Nature of Evil, Clarke examines James's doctrine of evil, finding the author's theories inadequately developed and therefore impossible to comprehend, and concluding that James ultimately fails to solve "the problem of evil. "]
[The Nature of Evil] is a remarkable book by a remarkable man. Mr. James is remarkable because he combines, in no small degree, the qualities of a seer, a metaphysician, and a poet. His spiritual insight, or intuitive glance at spiritual realities, is penetrating, and gives solidity to his books. They possess an internal substance which differences them from the writings of metaphysicians who, like Brownson and Bowen, for example, dwell mainly on the forms of thought and their external relations. Again, Mr. James is a metaphysician, with an intellect full of force and with great penetrating power, though, as it appears to us, in its order more synthetic than analytic. Again, his rhetoric flows in a stream of life through the book. His words are not the current coin of logic, passed from hand to hand till it is worn and has lost all sharpness of impress, but they have a power of their own and a life within themselves. Known by his former writings as the great Antinomian of our day, hating moralism as...
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SOURCE: A review of The Secret of Swedenborg, in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, December, 1869, pp. 762-63.
[In the following unsigned review, the critic provides a favorable overview of James's treatise The Secret of Swedenborg. The critic predicts, however, that the work will disturb some readers who might oppose James's belief that humans are creatures of God and that their existence depends entirely on Him.]
[In The Secret of Swedenborg] Mr. James rejects the idea of a Supreme Being, who, having created the heavens and the earth, and set life in operation according to certain universal laws, has ever since been resting and enjoying himself. Our author aims to show, from what he believes about the inspired philosophy of Swedenborg, that God is now and ever was the striving, self-devoted Christ, loving his creatures supremely, and living for them; and he teaches that the creature exists only and continually from the Lord, and that whatever conception of human freedom involves the notion of a completed and independent existence is false. Nature is the implication of man, and spirit is the fact; matter is illusory and insubstantial; a reflex, a shadow cast from the essence of another and real world. Nature is divine because God includes it; but, though full of God, it does not include him,—a point at which the Swedenborgian philosophy diverges finally and forever...
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SOURCE: A review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, in The Spectator, Vol. 58, No. 2986, September 19, 1885, pp. 1237-39.
[In the following unsigned review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, the critic offers a brief assessment of James's philosophy and contends that the volume is valuable not only for its content but also "as a psychological study of a very unique mind. "]
[The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James] is a book of considerable interest, though more, perhaps, as a psychological study of a very unique mind, than for the speculations which it contains.
The late Henry James, the father of the well known Henry James, the American novelist, was during his life more or less of a celebrity in his own country as an eccentric and bold thinker. His somewhat mystical books, especially his Society the Redeemed Form of Man, the Secret of Swedenborg, and various essays in the North American Review and other periodicals, have been read and studied with an interest hard to imagine in so realistic an age. The present volume consists of posthumous writings, some of them fragmentary, edited by one of his sons, from whose Introduction we confess that we have derived a somewhat clearer understanding of his father's thoughts than it was possible to attain from the writings of the author himself....
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SOURCE: An excerpt from Notes of a Son and Brother, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914, pp. 155-212; 213-47.
[The second son of Henry James, Sr., Henry James, Jr., was a novelist, short story writer, critic, and essayist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is admired as a lucid and insightful critic and is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the English language. In the following excerpt from his autobiographical volume Notes of a Son and Brother—published at a time when the elder James's works had largely been forgotten—James, Jr., offers his impressions of his father, portraying him as an absorbing and immensely humane figure.]
We took his "writing" infinitely for granted—we had always so taken it, and the sense of him, each long morning, at his study table either with bent considering brow or with a half-spent and checked intensity, a lapse backward in his chair and a musing lift of perhaps troubled and baffled eyes, seems to me the most constant fact, the most closely interwoven and underlying, among all our breaks and variations. He applied himself there with a regularity and a piety as little subject to sighing abatements or betrayed fears as if he had been working under pressure for his bread and ours and the question were too urgent for his daring to doubt. This play of his remarkable genius brought him in fact throughout the long years no ghost of a...
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SOURCE: "Religion versus Morality According to the Elder Henry James," in The International Journal of Ethics, Vol. XLII, No. 3, April, 1932, pp. 289-303.
[Perry was an American philosopher and biographer whose two-volume biography of William James won the Pulitzer Prize for that genre in 1935. In the excerpt below, he argues that James, Sr., was an antinomian, or one who believes that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use because faith alone is necessary to salvation.]
Morality and religion are related in many ways. For example, each may be taken as the sanction of the other—belief in God as a foundation for morality, or the moral law as a proof of God. These aspects of the question I omit altogether. The point to which I wish to direct attention is the relation between the moral life and the religious life. In some sense it is doubtless true that when the moral life reaches its highest stage of perfection it passes over into the religious life. We have a set of terms such as "saintliness," "piety," "blessedness," "spirituality," which suggest that this form of life is super-moral. Now, granting this, our question is as follows: Should we think of the religious life as consummate, perfected morality; or should we think of it as something distinctly different, which supersedes morality? Shall we say that on some level of spiritual growth religion is opposed to morality, or...
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SOURCE: "The Philosophy," in The Elder Henry James, The Macmillan Company, 1934, pp. 189-218.
[In the excerpt below, Warren discusses James's philosophy, examining in particular the relationship between the spiritual and the social.]
Whenever the eye falls upon one of Mr James' pages,—whether it be a letter to a newspaper or to a friend, whether it be his earliest or his latest book,—we seem to find him saying again and again the same thing; telling us what the true relation is between mankind and its Creator. What he had to say on this point was the burden of his whole life, and its only burden. When he had said it once, he was disgusted with the insufficiency of the formulation (he always hated the sight of his old books), and set himself to work to say it again. But he never analysed his terms or his data beyond a certain point, and made very few fundamentally new discriminations; so the result of all these successive re-editings was repetition and amplification and enrichment, rather than reconstruction. The student of any one of his works knows, consequently, all that is essential in the rest [William James, in The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James].
A young author's first book must compress between its covers a complete transcription of his experience and his theories. James never outgrew this adolescent...
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SOURCE: "Father and Son: Style and Criticism," in The Thought and Character of William James, Vol. I: Inheritance and Vocation, Little, Brown, and Company, 1935, pp. 125-45.
[In the following excerpt from the first part of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Thought and Character of William James, Perry assesses James, Sr. 's literary style and his critical methods and theories. The critic also discusses the elder James's influence on his son William, both personally and professionally.]
[For Henry James, Sr.] the most natural form of art, if art it can be called, was talk. Of all the arts, unless it be dancing, talk is the directest and most contemporaneous form of expression, the least detached and externalized. It is infused with bodily heat: like a blush or a gesture it reflects the feeling and the insight of the moment as it passes. The style of the natural talker is emphatic and mobile—meant to be listened to, with a brief and constantly shifting focus of attention, and not designed for contemplation. When this style is transferred from the spoken to the written word, it takes on an aspect of exaggeration, so that while James's talk was full-blooded, his writing at times seems plethoric. Nevertheless, as representing style of this intensely vital sort, he ranks high among English writers, despite the forbidding character of his subject matter. It is doubtful if Carlyle or Melville...
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SOURCE: '"Father's Ideas,'" in The American Henry James, 1957. Reprint by John Calder, 1958, pp. 51-82.
[Anderson is an American critic, educator, and editor. In the following excerpt, he contends that Henry James, Jr. 's published reminiscences of his father prove the son's in-depth understanding of his father's philosophy, and that the younger James subsequently employed his father's beliefs in his fiction.]
In 1885, the year of the publication of A Little Tour in France and the serialization of The Bostonians, Henry James received copies of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James from his brother William. The father they both admired and cherished had died in 1882. In his letter of thanks and appreciation Henry Junior is forthright about what had been called, in the family circle, "father's ideas." Referring to the extracts William had selected from their father's work, he writes: "It comes over me as I read them (more than ever before,) how intensely original and personal his whole system was, and how indispensable it is that those who go in for religion should take some heed of it. I can't enter into it (much) myself—I can't be so theological nor grant his extraordinary premises, nor throw myself into conceptions of heavens and hells, nor be sure that the keynote of nature is humanity, etc. But I can greatly enjoy the spirit, the feeling, and the manner of the...
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SOURCE: An introduction to Henry James, Senior: A Selection of His Writings, American Library Association, 1974, pp. 3-29.
[In the following essay, Gunn provides an overview of James's life and philosophy, discussing his theology, his relationship to prevailing nineteenth-century views, and his influences on his sons William and Henry.]
On May 30, 1850, Edwards Amasa Park of Andover Theological Seminary preached an important sermon in Boston's Brattle Street Meeting House before the Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts on "The Theology of the Intellect and That of the Feelings." Though his subject may have been suggested to him two years before when his theological colleague from Hartford, the more famous Horace Bushneil, made use of a similar distinction in an address also delivered at Andover on the relation between "Dogma and Spirit," Park's title reflected an opposition which, in the American tradition, had found its chief exponent a century earlier in the person of Jonathan Edwards and which, in the European tradition, went all the way back through Friedrich Schleiermacher and Martin Luther to the Bible itself. Park was hardly insensible to the importance and magnitude of this legacy, but his chief purpose was less to establish or defend it than to interpret its consequences, to show how each kind of theology needed the other to do full justice to...
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SOURCE: "The Bostonians and Henry James Sr.'s Crusade against Feminism and Free Love," in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1988, pp. 323-42.
[Habegger is the author of the full-length biography of James entitled The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. (1994). In the following essay, he argues that Henry James, Jr. wrote his novel The Bostonians (1886) in reaction to his father's involvement with the free love movement and his encounters with the radical press.]
There are some books that seem ugly, dull, and all wrong to contemporary readers and then strike a later generation as brilliant and right and presently get enrolled, in the canon of all-time greats. We generally trust that this sequence of events represents the triumph of taste over local prejudice—even for those books the local society would seem best situated to make sense of, realistic fiction. But what if someone wrote a realistic novel about us which we all felt to be cranky and off, and a hundred years later we were waked up in our graves and informed that this book was regarded as the authoritative mirror of our lives? Would we take it lying down?
At the end of World War II Philip Rahv brought out the first twentieth-century edition of a novel that fell flat when first published one hundred years ago, The Bostonians by Henry James. One of the reasons Rahv...
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What did Henry James Jr., born in 1843, make of his father's views on sex, love, and marriage? The son was obviously too young in 1852 and '53 to confront these views, although it is clear that he was uneasy about his father's contradictions and weaknesses. Twenty years later, however, when the father once again got himself embroiled in a public debate with Stephen Pearl Andrews on free love, and once again bespattered himself, Henry Jr. was old enough to understand.
The episode began in 1872, when the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was accused of committing adultery with Mrs. Tilton. A correspondent from St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote Henry James Sr. and pressed him to comment on Beecher's apparent infidelity. James, who was now famous for his "philosophy of marriage," as E.L. Godkin called it, replied by rehearsing his now standard argument that marriage stimulates men's spiritual growth by confining desire. Unfortunately, his letter contained a passage that was so indiscreet it could easily be construed by readers as a confession: "I marry my wife under the impression that she is literally perfect, and is going to exhaust my capacity of desire ever after. Ere long I discover my mistake."
The correspondent was Harvery Y. Russell, and he worked for the St. Paul Daily Press (Stern). He got James's letter printed in his paper and then sent a clipping to Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly in New York. This journal,...
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Further Reading
Emerson, Edward Waldo. "Henry James." In The Early Years of the Saturday Club: 1855-1870, pp. 322-33. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
An anecdotal account describing how James formulated his religious and philosophical views. Also portrays the vivacity and affection of the James household and depicts the elder James's associations with such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edmund Tweedy, and Thomas Carlyle.
Habegger, Alfred. The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994, 578 p.
Full-length biography of James in which the critic details James's life and analyzes the domestic environment in which William and Henry, Jr., were raised.
——"Henry James, Sr., in the Late 1830s."New England Quarterly 64, No. 1 (March 1991): 46-81.
Purports that from late 1837 to 1840 James involved himself with the most radical aspects of the Scotch-Irish Protestant movement, leading to the "fanatically devout state of mind that attended his courtship of Mary Walsh."
Lewis, R. W. B. "Henry James, Sr.: The Endangering Self." In The Jameses: A Family Narrative, pp. 37-70. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
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Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Beatles' 'Butcher Cover' Album Fetches More Than
A mint copy of the Beatles'
infamous "butcher" cover for the now-deleted 'Yesterday and Today' collection,
still in the shrink wrap, has fetched a staggering $15,300 on eBay.
'Yesterday and Today' was
put together by the group's U.S. record company from leftover tracks that had
been excised from their two most recent U.K. LPs, three songs from an upcoming
release and a single. It immediately drew the ire of the Beatles, who put a lot
of work into the sequencing of their albums. In retaliation, they submitted a
brutal cover image, in which the band appeared in butchers' smocks covered with
raw meat and body parts from baby dolls.
Capitol Records ended up
printing roughly 750,000 copies of the album with the image before widespread
complaints forced a recall. 'Yesterday and Today' was subsequently reissued
with a far less inflammatory shot of the Beatles gathered around a piece of
luggage. The album went out of print once the original versions of the Beatles'
albums were released on CD.
The copy of 'Yesterday and
Today' that recently went up for sale and drew 31 bids was produced in 1966 at
a factory in
Capitol Records executive, who provided documentation on its authenticity.
McCartney Sponsors Sumo Wrestling Tournament
Paul McCartney recently
sponsored the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in
NME is reporting that the
album cover artwork for McCartney's most recent effort, 'New,' appeared on
flags and bamboo billboards throughout the stadium. He also caught the action
at the
the Yafuko Dome on Nov. 15th.
"Bizarrely, Macca really got
into sumo wrestling when he first toured
took his crew to one of the matches when they were over there recently and was
explaining to everyone the rules and the scoring and how it all worked."
According to Japan Times,
Hakuho, one of the most successful sumo wrestlers ever, defeated Toyoshima in
the match, which helped him keep pace as one of the tournament's leaders. But
it was McCartney who stole the show with his presence. The crowd chanted "Paul,
Paul" when he was spotted after the show.
McCartney has not always
been so warmly welcomed by the sumo wrestling community. In 1966, the Beatles
caused controversy in
played the venue – was seen by some as offensive to the sport, which holds a
sacred place in Japanese society.
Mercury's Collaboration with Jackson to be Released
Freddie Mercury's duet with
the late Michael Jackson could soon be released.
Queen members Brian May and
Roger Taylor have confirmed that the 1983 collaborations are being finished by
the band.
May told Mojo magazine:
''There's more in there than we thought, in the Queen source archive. I'm a
little nervous of saying there's an album there, but there's certainly a few
tracks ... We've found some Freddie vocals, some demos.''
Mercury and Jackson worked
together 30 years ago in
record further tracks.
May said: ''We thought we'd
exhausted everything that was around and could be worked on. But since then a
number of things have come to light from various sources that we'd just plain
forgotten about, including the stuff with Freddie and Michael Jackson.''
The guitarist compared the
project to Queen's 1995 album 'Made In Heaven,' released four years after
Mercury's death. As with those tracks, Queen are taking Mercury's unused takes,
cleaning them up, and adding original music. "If we find an analogue
24-track of Freddie singing something that never got finished, the first thing
we do is ... make [a digital] copy at the highest resolution you can," May
said. "Then we start weaving our tapestry."
Drummer Roger Taylor said no
one could decide what to do with the tracks so the Queen musicians stepped in. ''They've
been hanging around for years and years and Michael's estate haven't really
been able to make their mind up about what to do with them. So we suggested we
finish them and see. They're pretty good - one of them is great.''
May Succeeds In Stopping Badger Cull
Brian May's long-running
campaign to stop a cull of badgers in the U.K. has become a success. The British
government announced on Nov. 29th that they have put an end to the practice in
Earlier in the week,
according to Vintage Vinyl News, May filed an "extremely urgent" High Court
Judicial Review Claim through his Save Me organization. In the motion, the
group said that an eight-week extension of the mass slaughter, which had been
granted in October by Natural England, was "unreasonable" and ran contrary to
their scientific advisor's advice. Despite the court originally ruling against
May, the National Farmers Union, who were behind the cull, gave in to May and
said that it will end immediately, three weeks ahead of schedule.
May's campaign to stop the
badger cull began in August 2012, when he wrote a piece in the Daily Mail
saying that the cull would have little impact on stemming the outbreak of
bovine tuberculosis in
called 'Badger Swagger' to raise awareness of their plight.
In a statement on Save Me's
website, May said, "Now that the failure of this whole shameful badger cull
shambles can be seen so clearly seen, in spite of many moves of the goalposts,
it must be time to abandon the concept, and get on with the only strategy which
can ultimately succeed in eradication of bovine TB – vaccination of badgers and
other wildlife, and prioritization of work to license the vaccine for cattle.
The whole country will get behind this: David Cameron only needs to press the
Van Halen Working On New Album
During a recent interview
David Lee Roth revealed that Van Halen are in the early stages of working on a
new album.
"I was up at Edward's
house, maybe three days ago…and we're starting to put music together. Not to
give away exactly what the package will be, it's gonna be about 18 months, I
"We start way, way, way
in advance, 'cause we are eminently art-centric, which is a really fancy way of
saying we really do generate all the artwork, the graphics, etc.," he
"We don't hire out and
have somebody design a bunch of album covers for us and then choose.... we
start from scratch ourselves. Same thing with the merchandise - if you buy a
t-shirt, that was designed, literally, in my living room. On and on... stage
design, lighting rig, putting the show together - it takes about a year and a
half, 18 months, because any idea that you have is 85 phone calls. Anybody can
go, 'I got an idea, it's a stage that's shaped like, uh, like a square on top
of a circle'. Great, my question never was, 'were you able to dream up a stage
design', my question is, 'are you prepared to do the 87 phone calls that are
about to follow now, to make sure it came out the way we decided'. And then
there's another 80 phone calls that are gonna follow that because we have to
figure out how to take the f**kin' thing apart and put it in the trucks and
buses. And, and, and. So if you really want to generate the ideas from scratch
and bring them all the way to the finish, you're gonna have to learn a few
other languages, and you're gonna have to speak those over a lot of extra phone
calls. And that's usually the break point for most artists."
Guitarist Issues GN'R Ultimatum
Current Guns N' Roses
guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal has run out patience with the way the band's
plans affect his solo career.
Axl Rose's outfit tend
towards last-minute decisions about touring, while most other acts prepare many
months ahead of time. That leaves Bumblefoot faced with either cancelling solo
engagements or not making them at all – and he says that's got to stop.
He tells Radio Future (via
Blabbermouth): "It seems like the running gag was, 'If you want Guns N' Roses
to hit the road, all you have to do is book your own tour. They'll book one at
the same time and you'll have to cancel yours.' I could be planning something
for next April, then Guns will book something on March 31 for April. Suddenly
you're in this situation where you have to choose."
Bumblefoot – who joined in
2006 and appears on their last album, 'Chinese Democracy' – cites the example
of a solo tour he'd planned for a previous January and February. GN'R made
their own plans forcing him to change his – but then things changed again and
everything was scrapped.
"The changes came at a very
big loss," he says. "It also came at a detriment to my name. You book something
with agents and promoters, and their biggest concern is you're going to cancel
because Guns is going to book something. When you do that, they're going to be
very reluctant to book again. I can't let that happen any more."
He's also unhappy that his
own musical work has fallen into the background after having released nine
albums and a live
growing," he says. "As soon as I joined Guns it's like everyone hit 'delete' on
everything I did. Even after 20 years of putting out music people say, 'Oh, I
didn't know you sang. I didn't know you did other things.' That's not right;
that's not good – I've put out more music than Guns."
Bumblefoot underlines that
he doesn't have any problems with mainman Rose, and he's still hoping GN'R will
be back in action next year.
"I'm trying to work
something out with management so I don't have to choose. Because if I do have
to choose, I'm choosing my own life. I have to. If I'm going to be painted into
a corner where I have to choose between Guns and the rest of my life, and if
they're not willing to help me keep the two functioning together, then I'm
Collins Considers Genesis
Phil Collins is thinking
about coming out of retirement – and he says a Genesis reunion is possible as a
The singer and drummer
retired in 2011, explaining: "I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to
my two young sons on a daily basis."
Other reports had suggested
he was unable to perform due to back problems caused by years of bad posture
while drumming. The damages allegedly resulted in Collins having to tape his
sticks to his hands.
Now, speaking to German
press via the Guardian, Collins says: "I have started thinking about doing new
stuff. Some shows again, even with Genesis. Everything is possible. We could
tour in
there yet."
Collins adds that he ignored
pressure from his manager to do more work – but he's been motivated by the fact
that his sons, 12 and 8, want him to return to the stage.
Collins played his last show
in 2010, but his most recent appearance with Genesis was in 2007. Later plans
to stage classic album 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' with Peter Gabriel were
shelved after the original frontman felt the project was growing out of
Thin Lizzy Guitarist Recalls On-Stage Injury
Former Thin Lizzy/current Black
Star Riders guitarist Scott Gorham has recalled the "absolute bar-none worst
thing" that ever happened to him on stage.
He severely injured his leg
during a Thin Lizzy show after a jump went wrong – but he was on so much
cocaine that he didn't know how much damage he'd done, and went back to finish
the performance.
Gorham doesn't say when the
incident took place, but he's remembered performing a number of shows with his
leg strapped up during 1981′s
He tells Total Guitar: "I
made a move, something I did a hundred times with Phil. I'd jump on the drum
riser, play with Brian Downey a bit, do a big leap off, land, and Phil and I would
be doing our thing.
and I just crumble on the floor. I couldn't get up; I'm looking at my guitar
tech going, 'You've got to help me here.' Two guys unceremoniously drag me off
stage behind my amps. I'm sitting there going, 'Oh man, I guess I just
dislocated my knee. I'm okay now!' I was coked up to the eyeballs – feeling no
Things got worse when Gorham
went back on. He climbed onto a monitor and heard a sickening cracking noise,
and looked down to see his skintight trousers were filling with blood. He once
again needed help climbing down – but remained on stage for the last 40 minutes
of the show.
"As soon as we came off they
took me straight to the emergency ward," he remembers. "They told me I'd ripped
my kneecap off. The next half of the tour Darren Wharton had to put me in a
wheelchair and wheel me through all the airports.
"It was so painful it was
unbelievable. It was a real game-changer; I never want to go through that again."
R.E.M.'s Buck and McCaughey
Guest With
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and
Scott McCaughey joined Pearl Jam on stage to perform a cover of Neil Young's
'Rockin' In The Free World' at
Pearl Jam also brought out
Carrie Brownstein (currently on
'Portlandia'), Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney during the cover.
The onstage reunion marks the first time all three members of Sleater-Kinney have
performed together since 2006.
Happy Hanukkah! Billboard's List of the Top 30 Jewish
In honor Hanukkah, Billboard
magazine has compiled a list of the Top 30 Jewish Musicians, based on the
impact they've had on the charts over the years.
The top three spots on the
list go to Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand. Also making it into
the top 10 are Simon & Garfunkel at #10 (interestingly, Paul Simon also
made the list as a solo artist, at #13). Rockers making the list include Chris
Stein of Blondie, Van Halen's David Lee Roth, the members of the J. Geils Band,
and Mark Knopfler.
Billboard's Top 30 Jewish
1. Billy Joel
2. Neil Diamond
3. Barbra Streisand
4. Pink (her mother is
5. Barry Manilow
6. Paula Abdul
7. Neil Sedaka
8. Maroon 5′s Adam Levine
9. Michael Bolton
10. Simon & Garfunkel
11. Helen Reddy
12. Taylor Dayne
13. Paul Simon
14. Carly Simon
15. Herb Alpert
16. Susannah Hoffs of The
17. Rap superstar Drake (his
mom's Jewish)
18. Chris Stein of Blondie
19. Van Halen's David Lee Roth
20. Bette Midler
21. Carole King
22. Lesley Gore
23. Eric Carmen
24. The J. Geils Band (four Jewish members)
25. Bob Dylan
26. Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
27. Steely Dan's Donald
28. KISS (Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons)
29. Lenny Kravitz (his dad's
30. DJ/Producer David Guetta
Garth Brooks Covers Classic Rock on New 'Roots'
Country superstar Garth
Brooks' new eight-disc box set, 'Blame It All on My Roots,' released on
Thanksgiving Day, features four discs of covers, two of which are packed with
his favorite rock songs.
The disc titled 'Classic
Rock' contains 11 tracks, including Lynyrd
Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama,' Free's
'All Right Now' and 'Life in the Fast Lane' by The Eagles. But he doesn't neglect the ballads, covering Elton
John's 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' and Bob Seger's 'Against the Wind.' Another 11-song disc, called 'The
Melting Pot,' is devoted to folk-rock and country-rock, with Simon &
Garfunkel's 'Mrs. Robinson' sitting alongside 'Operator' by Jim Croce and
'Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight' by James Taylor.
Brooks leaves plenty of
space for his country roots, devoting an entire disc to country classics and
another to soul. The other two CDs contain 33 of his biggest hits.
It All on My Roots' is available exclusively at Walmart


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Broccoli Cheddar Soup
I know, second soup of the week. What can I say, I'm a little bit obsessed with soup right now :) It's just that time of year I guess, so hopefully you're not sick of the soup ideas. But if so, just bear with me, something indulgent and chocolatey is coming tomorrow!
If you've ever been to Panera, you've probably had their broccoli cheddar soup. I suspect it's probably one of their most popular menu items. And for good reason, it's delicious! This winter I really wanted to try a homemade version, one that didn't require me to change out of my pjs and drive 15 minutes to stand in line for. There are quite a few variations floating around the web, and I don't have any particular reason that I chose this one over the others, but I'm glad I did. It's become one of my favorite lunch options (no way is Shane touching this soup so it's out for dinner) and reheats really well so one batch will feed me for quite a few days. While most people are content to eat bread or rolls with their soup, I've developed a really bad habit of dipping potato chips in this one. Working hard to break myself of that...
I've made this broccoli cheddar soup on several occasions, and finally remembered to get some photos the most recent time so I could share it. A couple notes - first, don't use pre-shredded cheese. It just won't melt as well and you'll probably be disappointed. (I probably should have mentioned that when I posted the cheddar ale soup too.) Also, the recipe calls for pureeing the soup here, and as you can probably see, I like mine pretty smooth, but you could definitely keep it chunkier if that's your preference. The flavor is pretty close to the cafe version, and this alternative is definitely cheaper too. Gotta love that :)
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
from FoodNetwork.com
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 small onion, diced
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups half-and-half
3 cups low-sodium chicken broth
2 bay leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
4 cups broccoli florets
1 large carrot, diced
8 oz (about 2 1/2 cups) grated sharp cheddar cheese
Add the butter to a large saucepan or Dutch oven set over medium heat. Once melted, add the onion and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the flour to the pan and cook for 3-4 minutes (or until golden), whisking frequently. Gradually add the half-and-half, whisking constantly - the mixture may look lumpy at first, but it will smooth out. Stir in the chicken broth, bay leaves and nutmeg. Season to taste with salt and pepper then bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, uncovered, until thickened, about 20 minutes.
Add the broccoli and carrot to the soup and continue simmering until the veggies are tender, about 20 minutes. Discard the bay leaves. Turn off the heat under the pot and puree the soup with an immersion blender (or, if you don't have one, in a traditional blender - you'll probably want to do it in a few batches.)
Set the pot over medium-low heat and gradually add the cheese to the soup, whisking constantly to melt and incorporate. Adjust the seasoning to taste then serve.
23 comments:
- MsGarlic said...
this looks great! love immersion blenders
- January 11, 2012 at 8:26 AM
- Erin @ The Spiffy Cookie said...
I too love their soup and have created a similar version at home. Just so good! And I love making soups that require my immersion blender. It's a super fun tool (kitchen-nerd). As for the frequency of soup posts, keep them coming! I am going to be posting at least one a week for awhile because there are too many I crave right now.
- January 11, 2012 at 9:17 AM
- Kayte said...
Looks delicious...that Shane is missing out on so many good things. lol I'm always obsessed with soup, I could live on soup and salad alone...which means that Shane would never want to eat with me at any time. Nice photos.
- January 11, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- Cookbook Queen said...
My all time favorite soup!! Will definitely be trying this recipe (AFTER investing in an immersion blender...seriously WHY don't I have one yet?!
- January 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Di said...
That looks really yummy! I made a broccoli soup from CI a while back, but didn't like it that much. It certainly tasted like broccoli, almost too much. It wasn't cheesy enough. This one looks more like what I was looking for. Who knows, the girls might even eat it!
- January 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Eliana said...
This has delicious and comfort written all over it Tracey. Can't wait to give it a try since I'm on a bit of a soup kick myself right now. If you have anymore good soup recipes, keep 'em comin!
- January 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Eri said...
What a wonderful combination, I love broccoli and cheese together, and I love soups! Thanks for sharing!
- January 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- Galexi Cupcakes said...
This soup is one I can get my kiddies to eat. Will definitely add it to my weekend meal, this weekend. Thanks for sharing Tracey.
Jackie - January 11, 2012 at 12:06 PM
- warmvanillasugar said...
This soup sounds so yummy! Broccoli cheddar is my favorite :)
- January 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- S.V. said...
That is my favorite soup at Panera... it's so tasty! Yours looks amazing and I think I would like mine really smooth to. I can't get the boys to eat soup for dinner but then I guess that means it's all mine.
- January 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- thesmartcookiecook.com said...
Looks delicious, Tracey. I love Broccoli Cheddar Soup. It's a very simple dish, but it's so comforting.
P.S. On an unrelated note, I finally tried out the ice cream maker I won in your giveaway and I love it! The ice cream was creamy and perfect. Thanks again! - January 11, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- Jeannette said...
YES!! i was actually just wondering if you were going to post this recipe while reading your potato soup post! looks amazing. i have to get my hands on a block of chedda and i'm good to go!!
- January 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Chels said...
Broccoli Cheese Soup is one of those childhood memories that I grew up on. My mom would always pick a can of this stuff up when I was sick and make it for me. I love it and I love and covet your immersion blender :)
- January 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM
- bakewithjill.com said...
That would be an awesome lunch! I have eaten at Panera a lot of times, but I don't think I've ever had that soup. Maybe I should just skip it and make my own.
- January 11, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- beti said...
I love the simplicity, it just looks fantastic, broccoli cheddar soup is one of my favorites
- January 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM
- amanda @ fake ginger said...
Panera's broccoli soup is the best! I definitely need to try this if it's similar. My husband won't eat it either, I'm sure. Men are so frustrating sometimes.
- January 11, 2012 at 9:49 PM
- Tessa said...
I have never tried this soup at Panera but am certainly missing that restaurant (we don't have them in Phoenix)! We used to go there occasionally to study as they usually have the coffee out where you can just refill your cup as much as you wish. Maybe, just maybe if I make this in bread bowls, I'll feel close :)
- January 11, 2012 at 11:40 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
delicious looking combination looks wonderful
- January 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Cindy said...
Hubby loves broccoli soup, this looks like a great recipe, can't wait to try it.
- January 12, 2012 at 10:48 PM
- Gloria said...
Potato chips dipped in soup is my kind of combo. I love a crunch with soup. My Hubs wouldn't eat this either...but good idea to have it for lunches.
- January 12, 2012 at 11:46 PM
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I made this today and it was fantastic!! I'm a vegetarian so I substituted vegetable broth for the chicken broth and it was still wonderful. Thank you for such a great recipe!
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I've been craving broccoli cheddar soup. Believe me, I love the Panera stuff, so I'm pretty excited to see this recipe.
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Yummmmm. This is kick butt soup. Thanks for sharing your recipe! I used Irish country white cheddar, which was a very good choice :)
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For most high school students, senior year is chock-full with college to-dos. From finalizing where you'll go and what you'll study to applying for scholarships and getting your financial aid in order, the list is quite long but what about those students who don't have their sights set on college after graduation? If you're a student at a high school in Oregon, gaining acceptance into a post-secondary institution will soon be a prerequisite for graduating regardless of your stance on obtaining a college education.
Corbett School District Superintendent Randy Trani's proposal would require each student to be admitted into an institution of higher education but they would not be obligated to attend. He went on to explain that the requirement would not stop a student from graduating since all Oregon high school graduates are eligible for spots at local community colleges as long as they apply. The district school board will vote on the proposal in December with many expecting it to pass. Interestingly enough, some are suggesting an ulterior motive for the modification: According to an editorial piece in The Oregonian, there is speculation that the proposal would help the prestigious high school maintain its current standing – fifth best high school in the nation – on Newsweek's Best High Schools list. (Having a 100-percent college acceptance rate would undoubtedly increase their ranking, even if every student was "accepted" into non-selective community colleges.) Trani is quick to discredit that claim and told the editorial board that the plan was "just one step among many we've been taking for 10 years. We want to make this change so kids have more choice." (For more on this story, click here.)
If the high school is requiring a student to be admitted into a college but not attend, what purpose do you think it might serve the student? Let us know in the comments section.
November 7, 2013
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December 5, 2013
In a perfect world, every student would have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an insatiable passion for learning. Reality check: We don't live in a perfect world and motivating underachieving students to perform well in school and on standardized tests is a serious challenge. What should educators do? The school board in Huntsville, Alabama has decided to try an approach many exasperated parents have considered: cold, hard cash for high ACT scores.
To encourage students to apply themselves while ensuring the district maintains an academic edge in the state, the school board unanimously agreed to pay students for achieving benchmark scores on the ACT. Here's the breakdown: Benchmark scores will be set and for every component of the test a student reaches a benchmark score, $50 will be earned. If a student gets an overall score of 22 or higher, they'll get an extra $100 and students will have the opportunity to earn $300 total! "The ACT is important," said Superintendent Casey Wardynski. "It's important for our kids but they may not all realize it because they're taking it junior year, or some may not think they're going to college or want to have that test under their belt for when they do choose to go to college," she added.
With another round of standardized test dates just around the corner, students are praising the initiative while concerned parents are questioning where the funds will come from and if it's a form of bribery. So, future ACT test takers, where do you stand? Do you think providing a financial incentive is right way to motivate students or not? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
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February 6, 2009
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Advanced Placement, or AP, classes are becoming more popular and more students are passing the exams, according to annual data released by the exam's publisher this week. Approximately 15.2 percent of the class of 2008 received a passing score on the AP exam, as compared to 14.4 percent of the class of 2007.
AP courses, typically offered to high school juniors and seniors, allow students to take college-level classes in high school and potentially earn college credit. Each AP course ends with an exam, scored on a scale of 1-5, with a score of 3 considered to be "passing" and credit-worthy by most colleges. A few high schools also offer the option to take an AP course as dual-enrollment, where students pay to earn college credit for their work completed, rather than their test score. Students can potentially shave a semester or more off their college experience through AP coursework, or AP work can free students' time in college up for more exploration of a variety of courses. Either way, many students see AP courses as a way to work towards their college goals.
Despite the benefits of AP, there are some arguments against it, as with any standardized test. For students, AP exams cost money, often have relatively low pass rates, don't guarantee college credit, aren't offered in every subject at every school, and are likely to conflict with at least one event your senior year of high school. For teachers and college administrators, there's a concern about depth of coverage, quality of instruction, and students missing out on a key part of the college experience by coming in with so many AP credits.
Advocates of AP coursework say it can help students start college planning, get excited about the subject area, and save money by shaving off a few general educational requirements. As AP grows in popularity, high schools are continuing to add courses and improve their teaching of the subject. As long as you weigh the benefits and drawbacks, AP courses are definitely worth considering. AP credit can be a way to build your resume, explore a potential college major, and jumpstart your career.
May 7, 2009
by Emily
We're now a solid week into May, and for most high school seniors, that means a switch back from obsessively worrying about making it into college to concentrating on the more immediate task of trying to make it to graduation while finalizing those all-important summer plans. Once AP exams are out of the way and college deposits are paid, it can be tempting to shift focus entirely away from schoolwork and towards enjoying your last days as a high school student.
However, an article in USA Today warns that the temptation to just coast through the last days, weeks, or even months of one's senior year of high school can carry dire consequences this year. Colleges typically request a final transcript once you've officially graduated from high school, and often include language in their admission letter saying that their decision is contingent on receiving this information. While colleges have always given this final semester at least a cursory glance, in previous years, they have tended to largely be forgiving. But as with nearly everything else in college admissions, this year may be different.
Many schools are admitting more students and adding more names to their wait lists due to a larger group of applicants and greater uncertainty about where students will end up attending college. As a result, it's more possible now than ever that some schools will overfill their freshman class, prompting them to need to rescind some admission invitations, while others may find themselves drawing extensively from the wait list, meaning students who may not have been reevaluated at all are having their transcripts scrutinized for possible acceptance into their dream school.
Students are encouraged to let colleges know if any problems have come up that might jeopardize their acceptance for fall. Your college would rather hear from you than your high school, especially if you are able to explain extenuating circumstances and how the situation has been addressed. This is generally good policy if you find yourself falling short of requirements after something's been awarded, whether it's acceptance into a program or a college scholarship. On the same note, letting schools know if something fantastic has happened your final semester of school also couldn't hurt. For example, if your GPA has jumped and you are now eligible for more financial aid at your college, contact the school and see if there is still funding. I know people who have found themselves awarded university scholarships as late as July, and every time it was because they contacted the school, explained their situation, and asked about the award.
June 9, 2009
Roosevelt University in Chicago has just awarded its first batch of full-tuition scholarships to students graduating from Social Justice High School, a school on the city's southwest side. Eight graduates from Social Justice High School earned four-year scholarships, each worth more than $80,000, for earning good grades and doing well on the ACT.
The program was announced in 2006 to give low-income students at a predominately Hispanic high school incentive to succeed in high school and go on to college. To qualify, students must earn at least a 20 on the ACT and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. The scholarships cover up to the full cost of tuition at Roosevelt for four years, minus other aid. In addition, the students will also receive housing allowances of $11,000 per year to allow them to live in the Roosevelt University dorms downtown.
Winning scholarships can hold many benefits for students beyond just financial ones. The Roosevelt University scholarships at Social Justice High School encourage students not to give up on academics and to push themselves in school. Several of the recipients retook the ACT or put in extra effort on their coursework in order to qualify for the scholarship. Winning a scholarship can also motivate students to be more successful in college, according to research into benefits of scholarships.
The Chicago Sun-Times has more information on the Roosevelt University scholarship porgram. This is just one of many generous local scholarships out there. To learn about other scholarship opportunities, you can conduct a free college scholarship search.
June 17, 2009
Did you think your high school's administrators were strict? Chances are they've got nothing on Suzanne Lukas, the superintendent of Bonny Eagle High School in Maine. During the school's graduation ceremony, a student pointed to his friends and blew a kiss to his mom when his name was called. Instead of shaking his hand and handing him his diploma, the superintendent told him to return to his seat empty handed. He still hasn't received his diploma.
The story's getting national media coverage as the student's family demands an apology and a diploma from the school's superintendent. While this story certainly appears to fall on the extreme end of things, it does serve as a good reminder to high school students to take school policy very seriously until you have that piece of paper in your hand and are literally out the door for the last time.
This has us curious, though. For those of you who have already finished high school: did you run into any incidents at your high school graduation where students' diplomas were withheld? What antics did you or your classmates get away with as high school seniors and as participants in your school's graduation ceremony?
September 18, 2009
High school seniors in a school district in Texas will receive $1 million in scholarships after their district was named the winner of this year's Broad Prize for Urban Education. The award is offered annually by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and is designed to reward notable gains in student achievement and in narrowing the achievement gap for poor and minority students. Aldine Independent School District, which serves the Houston area, won the top prize this year, after having previously been a runner up for the prize three times.
The Broad Foundation names five finalists each year and from them, chooses a winner for the $1 million Broad Prize. This year, the other finalists were Broward County, Florida (a two-time finalist); Long Beach, California (a former winner and three-time finalist); Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas; and Gwinnet County Public Schools in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
Aldine won the prize based on a number of factors. The Broad Foundation cited the district's gains in breaking "the predictive power of poverty," as the district's predominately low-income students outperformed peers of similar backgrounds on state standardized tests. The achievement gap for both low-income and minority students has been closing at Aldine, with a 14-point reduction in the achievement gap for African-American middle schoolers in math over the last four years. Other successes included Aldine's recruitment of highly qualified teachers, engagement with students, and districtwide standardization of education practices and curriculum (many poor families move around within the district, so making what is taught in each grade more uniform across the district helps them keep from falling behind).
The scholarship awards will help further the success of graduates from Aldine, with $20,000 over four years going to students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities and up to $5,000 over two years going to students who enroll in community colleges. Students at other finalist schools will also receive scholarship money: each of the prize's four finalist districts will receive $250,000 to award to their high school students.
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Ghosts of Gemini
Forgotten photos show the human face of NASA's early astronaut program.
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While conducting the first American spacewalk, on June 3, 1965, Ed White clambered around outside the Gemini 4 capsule, attached by a tether. At one point, crewmate Jim McDivitt chided, "You smeared up my windshield, you dirty dog!"
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Gemini will always be an unsung hero of the early space program: Lost (as you well put it) between "the right stuff" and the moon. Yet, in Gemini, everything we had to know for future lunar missions was learned. Rendezvous, docking, EVA, all the science of orbital mechanics, in-flight endurance, and on and on.
Further, there was significantly less automation in Gemini than in Apollo, so most of the work was done "hands on." Stick and throttle (so to speak) and just make the vehicle do what you needed it to do.
It was for just those reasons (as noted in an Air/Space Article from years ago) that many astronauts called Gemini their favorite. They really got to FLY.
I miss those days, and the political/technological gutts it took to pull it off.
bill stowe
Posted by Bill Stowe on March 22,2012 | 02:41 PM
Great new photos!
Posted by Todd Tolis on March 22,2012 | 03:00 PM
I was a young boy, born in 54, weaned on Mercury, To me, Gemini was a wonder onto itself, the first spacewalk by Edwin White, the Agena target vehicle, the link up of Gemini 6 & 7, the Soyuz hook up, lessons learned from Mercury, honed by Gemini, displayed by Apollo.
The loss of White, Grissom, Chafee on Apollo 1. All of the hard lessons, all done by hand, slide rules, whiz wheels, no GPS yet, we will not see that time again!
I am glad I had a ringside seat with Chris Kraft, Walter Cronkite, and others via a black and white TV with fuzzy, sometimes clear images of Gemini accomplishments. Aviation became my obsession, later my vocation, Gemini made it real in so many ways.
P.S. See the NASA GRIN website for more from each program.
Kevin Cogan
Posted by Kevin Cogan on March 22,2012 | 01:18 AM
Gemini is the less remembered and the most successful manned space program. A giant leap from Mercury to Apollo. Orbital maneuvers, long-duration flight, EVA, rendezvous, docking, and high-velocity reentry are achievements of Gemini.
Posted by Giancarlo Riolfo on March 23,2012 | 12:06 PM
I grew up with my father, Henry Nocke, working with the slide rule to help create and develop vehicles for the Space Program. These long ago photos are wonderful and a reminder of where we were and how we got here today.
Posted by Patricia Nocke on March 23,2012 | 04:11 PM
Thanks... for the memories! From 9/1958 - 1970 I was deaply involved in the design, development, testing & refinement w/AeroJet (Nimbus,CA Liquid Rocket Div.).
Starting w/Mercury, through Gemini (which had a wicked vib-
ation-resonance problems:actually
a "killer" for the crews),Apollo; and
finally doing the original feasability study for "the Flying
Wedge".. as NASA deemed the Space-Shuttle's "lifting-body." Although it never could more than fall: totally non-aerodynamic, a 30+
year success story. I lived and breathed that(then) esoteric era with co-workers our only confidants due to our Secret DOD clearances. Very hush-hush. Beyond all the ISP, Qn, Thrust, Temps., Spectral Density Analasys,
G'sRMS, & of course UDMH (that
fiery lethal acid...the clouds of which none of the Liquid Area Testing people With which I was proud to work..& you know who you are...Roy Larson, Ivan Corey,
Harvey Howard.. and scores more
MEMORIES take us down lanes &
byways of their own choices.
Again my thanks & "see-ya" to all
& especially those of the G.A.S.L.
crew!!! (can you still spell...
Jefferson (I.D.#61100...:=)
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Posted by Forrest Jeffcoat on March 26,2012 | 03:52 PM
I believe there were several ideas for the cause.
The first being an anti-fog compound (my personal belief on the matter)
and the second being lithium hydroxide canisters used to scrub Co2 from the air inside the spacecraft. Because Lithium Hydroxide didn't give Young a problem on Apollo 16, it's my opinion that this was not the cause.
Posted by Vincent on April 1,2012 | 11:53 PM
The wonder of photography is the capturing of time. Years later it may reveal something of the moment which we passed by. Thank you for keeping the dream alive with these refreshed images. Respectfully Submitted.
Post Script, for that reason I was lucky enough to capture the Enterprise on her final voyage to NYC. PAB
Posted by Peter A Blacksberg on April 30,2012 | 09:56 AM
I lived and breathed Project Gemini when I was a kid. Those TV pictures of the slowly reclining pad 19 gantry, Paul Haney's updates, the launch of the Titan (which seemed so quiet to me via a TV), then the week or more of knowing that two Americans flew above me.
I vividly remember the "Spirit of 76" (Gemini 7 and 6 rendezvous), the Gemini 8 emergency, how Buzz Aldrin 'got it right' with his Gemini 12 spacewalk to the Agena.
And of course there was Ed White's space walk using that ridiculous hand held thruster (Buck Rogers equipment they called it at the time).
Our space program matured with Gemini; NASA learned to fly with Gemini. What an era!
Posted by John deNeergaard on April 30,2012 | 02:04 PM
Wow, this photo of Ed looks better than the one in my copy of Air & Space magazine. In the accompanying article they refer to Lt. Colonel White as a "Ghost in the Machine", I think this a bit flippant as he very much alive in not only this photo but in the photo of his EVA in the next page in the magazine.
Posted by Jeffrey Johnson on May 8,2012 | 12:13 PM
I love this photo, it's like I'm sitting in the spacecraft looking out. Once again the high res really comes out on my mobile device! Thanks ASU researchers and NASA!
Posted by Jeffrey Johnson on May 8,2012 | 12:18 PM
"Houston, constellation Union is now visible from the spacecraft, over."
Posted by Jeffrey Johnson on May 8,2012 | 12:41 PM
Recollections of a lens designer, early manned space flight:
Gemini was the first mission to use my UV lens as a spectrograph.
John Glenn was supposed to take it on his original Mercry flight, but glass had been put in the
capsule window to "protect" him from the UV, so no transmission! In Gemini, they could suit
up and open the hatch, so it was first used there. I don't know if it was done again, but I have one
of the UV spectra photos with a message from Karl Henize, ["Your lens did a great job for us"],
the astronomy adviser for the flight.
May 14, 2012
Posted by Harry R. McKinley on May 14,2012 | 02:05 PM
Howdy, may of '60, I started working on mercury,bldg 1, white room, then we moved to bldg.101,white room,and started gemini program.new altitude chamber in bldg 103, what an improvement at st. louis plant, space program. I started going to cape on space craft 5,with a crew, we changed out pyro dummy charges, to live charges, then run some ready test,then launch crew came to pib bldg, and picked up the craft for launching. On space craft 6, we did the same thing, only 6 never launched, we then got 7 ready, it launched first, then 6. and that was the only time you seen photos of either 6 or 7 photos in space, only time 2 space crafts were in orbit at the same time, durring mercury/gemini program. I enjoyed the working on both crafts, traveling to cape, watching them launch, and then working on them for further testing at the altitude chamber, and one more thing: Every space craft was re-ready to launch,and stored in a warehouse over on grahm rd. Mr. Mac and J. Kennedy had a deal that all crafts being ready for re-launch, as to pick one for a recovery if in case something went wrong, so every space crafts,mercury/gemini where ever they are, were ready to fly again. That was the way we did things at mcdonnell air craft in the '60's. I went on to shuttle program in '77, worked on l/ pod,taking it to white sands n.m., in '78, which we fired small eng and thrusters, mac built 17 pods, 1 for testing. Another successful program.
Posted by LAWRENCE A HEDIGER, EXP.FLT.TEST MECH on July 9,2012 | 02:18 AM
Beautiful picture! I love it!
Posted by Air lover on July 13,2012 | 12:35 PM