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Do you like your orange juice organic or regular, with or without calcium, or with minimal or maximal pulp?
How about your toothpaste? Is it the herbal variety with added fluoride, the cavity-busting option with baking soda or the original formula with flavor crystals?
Or maybe the thought of having to select any of those options is keeping you out of the grocery store entirely--you'd rather scrape by on what's still in the house. Although an explosion of consumer choices may mean we sometimes get exactly what we want, too many choices can also overwhelm us to the point where we choose nothing at all, and in the worst-case scenarios, may even erode our well-being, finds a fresh line of research by psychologists critically examining today's marketing climate.
"The presumption is, self-determination is a good thing and choice is essential to self-determination," says Barry Schwartz, PhD, a Swarthmore College psychologist and author of "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" (Ecco, 2004). "But there's a point where all of this choice starts to be not only unproductive, but counterproductive--a source of pain, regret, worry about missed opportunities and unrealistically high expectations."
In fact, some researchers find that too much choice can actually lead people to take less positive risks in making selections and to use simplifying strategies in lieu of more considered choices.
That said, psychologists also are studying ways to help people choose more wisely, so their visit to the commodity jungle becomes an informed journey that maximizes self-determination rather than undermines it.
When less is more
Social psychologists Sheena Iyengar, PhD, a management professor at Columbia University Business School, and Mark Lepper, PhD, a psychology professor at Stanford University, were the first to empirically demonstrate the downside of excessive choice. In a 2000 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP, Vol. 79, No. 6), the team showed that when shoppers are given the option of choosing among smaller and larger assortments of jam, they show more interest in the larger assortment. But when it comes time to pick just one, they're 10 times more likely to make a purchase if they choose among six rather than among 24 flavors of jam.
Next, Iyengar sought to examine consumer choices with higher stakes to see if a greater investment in the outcome meant people would make different or better choices. In a study under review at JPSP, she and Wei Jiang, PhD, a finance professor at Columbia Business School, analyzed retirement-fund choices--ranging from packages of two to 59 choices--among some 800,000 employees at 647 companies.
"With 401(k)s, people are given enormous incentives to participate through tax shelters and employer matches," Iyengar comments. "So, essentially, if you choose not to participate, you're throwing away free money."
Instead of leading to more thoughtful choosing, however, more options led people to act like the jam buyers: When given two choices, 75 percent participated, but when given 59 choices, only 60 percent did. In addition, the greater the number of options, the more cautious people were with their investment strategies, the team found.
Relatedly, too much choice also can lead people to make simple, snap judgments just to avoid the hassle of wading through confusing options--which ironically can sabotage a company's marketing plan, finds social psychologist Alexander Chernev, PhD, of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In a paper in press in the Journal of Consumer Research, Chernev found that when people were offered variants of the same brand of toothpaste--cavity-prevention, tartar-control and teeth-whitening types, for instance--they tended to switch to another brand that offered a single option.
"If you introduce a product just for the sake of introducing a new product," says Chernev, "you can end up with several products that target the same customer. The customer has no idea how to decide and may therefore switch to another brand that doesn't require making tradeoffs."
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Luckily, research also suggests some coping strategies for the mega-choice milieu we find ourselves in. In a 2003 JPSP paper (Vol. 85, No. 1), Chernev reports on four studies where he finds that the bigger the assortment, the harder it is for people to choose, except under one condition: when they enter with an articulated preference.
In that case, they often choose what Nobel Laureate Herb Simon, PhD, first referred to as a "satisficing" option: the first decent choice that fits their preference as opposed to exhaustively scanning all options until finding the perfect, or "maximizing" one.
Indeed, satisficing seems like a good overall strategy for choosing, Schwartz believes. In a 2002 paper in JPSP (Vol. 83, No. 5), he and his colleagues found that people who strive for maximization are more prone to depression and perfectionism, more likely to compare themselves negatively with others and more prone to regret than those who use satisficing strategies.
Such maximizers should learn from satisficers, Schwartz advises: Study the options, then settle on something you feel good, if not perfectly, about; let informed sources like Consumer Reports choose for you; don't compare your acquisitions to others'; and don't wallow in regret--since, in the long run, people feel worse about inaction than action, finds research by Cornell University social psychologist Tom Gilovich, PhD.
The result?
"You may do slightly less well objectively, but you'll feel better about the results," Schwartz says. "Then you can take all of the time you would have spent choosing breakfast cereal, jeans, toothpaste and dental floss," he says, "and nurture the things that really make you happy."Tori DeAngelis is a writer in Syracuse, N.Y.
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26 September 2013Wildlife in forest fragments more vulnerable to extinction than previously thought Species living in rainforest fragments could be far more likely to disappear than was previously assumed, says an international team of scientists.In a study spanning two decades, the researchers witnessed the near-complete extinction of native small mammals on forest islands created by a large hydroelectric reservoir in Thailand."It was like ecological Armageddon," said Luke Gibson from the National University of Singapore, who led the study. "Nobody imagined we'd see such catastrophic local extinctions."The study, just published in the leading journal Science, is considered important because forests around the world are being rapidly felled and chopped up into small island-like fragments. "It's vital that we understand what happens to species in forest fragments," said Antony Lynam of the Wildlife Conservation Society. "The fate of much of the world's biodiversity is going to depend on it."The study was motivated by a desire to understand how long species can live in forest fragments. If they persist for many decades, then this gives conservationists a window of time to create wildlife corridors or restore surrounding forests to reduce the harmful effects of forest isolation.However, the researchers saw native small mammals vanish with alarming speed, with just a handful remaining – on average, less than one individual per island – after 25 years. "There seemed to be two culprits," said William Laurance of James Cook University in Australia. "Native mammals suffered the harmful effects of population isolation, and they also had to deal with a devastating invader – the Malayan field rat."In just a few years, the invading rat grew so abundant on the islands that it virtually displaced all native small mammals. The field rat normally favors villages and agricultural lands, but will also invade disturbed forests."This tells us that the double whammy of habitat fragmentation and invading species can be fatal for native wildlife," said Lynam. "And that's frightening because invaders are increasing in disturbed and fragmented habitats around the world.""The bottom line is that we must conserve large, intact habitats for nature," said Gibson. "That's the only way we can ensure biodiversity will survive."'Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years after forest fragmentation' by Luke Gibson, Antony J. Lynam, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Fangliang He, David P. Bickford, David S. Woodruff, Sara Bumrungsri & William F. Laurance was published on 27 September 2013 in Science and is available at www.sciencemag.org (doi: 10.1126/science.1240495).CONTACT:STEPHEN SAUTNER: (1-718-220-3682; email@example.com)JOHN DELANEY: (1-718-220-3275; firstname.lastname@example.com)
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How does the Slowloris DoS differ from a regular octopus attack?
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As I understand Octopus is a genre of attack where as slowloris is specifically against a web server using half state http requests. You wouldnt therefore be using a slowloris attack against, for example, an IRC server application layer but could still be employing an attack which comnes under the octopus heading.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Head Men's Lacrosse Coach Dave Urick said that each of his 15 seniors have a different role. Some play their roles during the week at practice, others play their role on gamedays. On Saturday, all 15 of his seniors played and three of them accounted for eight goals as No. 5 Georgetown used an eight-goal second half en route to a 12-8 win over UMass in front of 2,054 fans at the Multi-Sport Field Saturday afternoon.
"They're an element of our program that we rely on heavily," Urick said of his senior class. "Brendan Cannon, Craig Stevenson, Clayton Hall, Jerry Lambe - those are great players and get a lot of playing time and recognition, and I certainly have warm fuzzy feelings for all those guys. But the guys that are in a lot of ways the heart and soul of any team are the Rob Dubas's and the Chris Early's and the Sean Bailey's - guys that are going through the program for four years who don't play all that much on Saturday afternoon. They play a lot on Monday through Friday, and a lot of that time is spent on the other team's plays and trying to simulate what the other team does."
This year we have a lot of seniors and everyone has a different role. Sometimes that role is on a Saturday afternoon, and sometimes it's on Monday through Friday when we're preparing."
The Hoyas led 4-2 at the break and scored four times in the third quarter to open an 8-3 lead. Taking advantage of a man-up opportunity, Zach Rodgers scored with one second left in the third and the Minutemen strung together three-straight goals in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter to pull within 8-7.
Senior Brendan Cannon (Haverford, Pa./The Haverford School), who scored a game-high four goals responded 37 seconds after UMass cut the lead to one. Taking the ball from behind the net, Cannon sped past a defender and beat him to the top of the crease, took a shot past another UMass defender and gave GU a 9-7 lead with 9:23 to play. Classmate Andrew Baird (Baltimore, Md./Loyola Blakefield) scored with 5:16 to play to push the lead back to three goals. He used a spin move to push past a defender on the right side and then took a low shot that beat UMass goalie Doc Schneider, who made 20 saves on the day.
Senior Dan D'Agnes (Manhasset, N.Y./Chaminade) increased GU's lead to 11-7 with 3:11 to play when he took a shot over two defenders and beat Schneider high. Cannon scored the final goal for the Hoyas, pushing the lead to 12-7 with 1:15 to play.
UMass had jumped out to a 2-1 lead early in the second quarter after the second of two goals from Tim Balise, the latter coming with 14:32 to play in the first half. The teams battled back and forth for seven minutes until GU sophomore Andrew Brancaccio (Chevy Chase, Md./Georgetown Prep) tied the game with 7:21 to play. Sophomore Craig Dowd (East Northport, N.Y./Northport) gave the Hoyas the lead for good with an unassisted tally with 4:59 to play and Cannon fed Baird with 2:35 to play as the Hoyas took a 4-2 lead into the half.
Georgetown took a 5-2 lead on a goal from Todd Cochran (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga), 1:31 into the third quarter. Cannon made it 6-2 on a slick shot inside the right post just 1:20 later. Fred Federico broke UMass' scoreless drought of 19:46, and Georgetown's 5-0 run, with a laser to cut the lead to 6-3.
Georgetown long-pole Barney Ehrmann (Baltimore, Md./Gilman) scored to make it 7-3 Hoyas with eight minutes left in third. The Hoyas moved it to 8-3 on Cannon's rebound quick stick with seven minutes in the third. As time expired in the third quarter Rodgers ripped home a low liner into the right corner for the 8-4 score after 45 minutes. That goal began a run of four tallies in a row for the Minutemen before Cannon and Baird helped to close out the win on Senior Day.
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Issue 1.01 | Mar/Apr 1993
Sure. We all need to learn much more, much faster, and much better; not just to get ready for work, but to keep up with the electric changes and explosion of information that permeate our increasingly checkered careers. Moreover, learning is the work that two-thirds to three- quarters of US workers now get paid to do, and is, in fact, the central production process of the imminent knowledge-age economy.
But schooling has become an obstacle to the kind of learning the modern workforce needs. Much of what the public widely believes about the function and value of schooling is not only wrong, but often the opposite of reality. Humans are genetically designed to be active learners; passively absorbing knowledge from an "expert" teacher just doesn't work. Research proves that the most effective human learning actually takes place in the context of real-life experience, not in classrooms. More than 99 percent of what the average American now learns in a lifetime is not learned in any classroom.
As the growing unemployment of our most schooled workers demonstrates, academic success is at best irrelevant and may even be harmful to working productively in the real world. The exploding information base and intelligent tools of the modern economy make thinking skills far more important than the memorization of facts or rote exercises. And, in contradiction to the one-dimensional notion of academic "aptitude" that's valued in the bogus currency of measures such as IQ or SAT scores, people have at least seven independent kinds of intelligence, or talent, and a dozen or more distinct yet effective "styles" of learning.
But schooling is still necessary for "socialization," right?
Nope. Research shows that many if not most of the actual socializing effects of schools are harmful: The losing majority of students get wounded self-esteem, while the "excellent" few percent of students get a false sense of superiority and security.
Think about it. In what other domain of work or social life is a premium placed on your ability to sit in rows of desks in a room, be talked at for 40 or 50 minutes, and then, when a bell rings, to walk down a hall to another room to repeat the same experience again and again during the day?
The good news is that a new wave of technology I call "hyperlearning," or HL for short, offers a technological replacement for today's educational morass.
HL is not a single device or process, but a universe of new technologies that both possesses and enhances intelligence. The "hyper" in hyperlearning refers not merely to the extraordinary speed and scope of new information technology, but to an unprecedented degree of connectedness of knowledge, experience, media, and brains - both human and non-human. The "learning" in HL refers most literally to the transformation of knowledge and behavior through experience.
Hyperlearning is weaving the fabric of a new economy out of four key technological threads:
* First is the "smart" environment, where every artifact you touch or are touched by - cars, houses, toilets, clothes, tools, toys, whatever - is endowed with its own intelligence. The special significance of this intelligence is that it increasingly includes the ability not only to aid humans to learn, but to actively participate in the process of learning itself.
* Second is what my colleague George Gilder calls the "telecosm" - the growing broadband communications infrastructure that makes all knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. For both human and non-human learning, the telecosm makes the "best and brightest" available everywhere.
* The third thread is a kit of "hypermedia" software tools needed to navigate through a knowledge-dense universe. In relation to multimedia, hypermedia is an expanded, multi-dimensional version of a book index. Hypermedia provides the technical bridge that leads the user away from informing and toward understanding.
* The fourth and last thread in the matrix of HL technology is brain technology, a broad category representing the application of biology and other sciences to thinking and sensing systems. In a sense, brain tech is the "wild card" in the HL deck. It contributes much of the basic science and technical tools that underlie the other three areas of hyperlearning technology. But it also offers a growing potential for biotechnology that can alter the learning process from the inside out.
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via Shocker! Internet Votes Cat as New Monopoly Piece.
This is what happens when you let the Internet choose.
Hasbro let fans decide on a new token for the game (and which of the old tokens to boot) on Jan. 9. The voting closed Tuesday night. The result: The iron is out and a new character, a cat, is in.
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North Koreans Forced to Cannibalize Their Own Children
via Starving North Korean parents 'eating their children' | The Sun |News.
HUNGRY parents in North Korea have been caught eating their CHILDREN to avoid starvation, according to reports.
One father is said to have been executed by firing squad for killing his two kids for food.
And it has sparked fears there could be further cases of cannibalism in the country.
The Sunday Times told how undercover reporters recorded several horror stories from inside the poverty-stricken nation.
They included one man who dug up his grandchild's corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh.
Thousands of North Koreans are feared to be starving to death while their chubby leader Kim Jong-Un regularly dines on banquets.
It is claimed that more than 10,000 people could have died from in the provinces south of the capital Pyongyang alone.
Hat Tip: Mark Levin
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Is GQ's 'Hottest Women' List Racist?
via GQ Publishes Offensive "Hottest Women" List | Love + Sex – Yahoo! Shine.
GQ just released their "The 100 Sexiest Women of the Millennium" issue featuring Beyonce on the cover as "Miss Millennium." Flip through it and you'll find the obvious nods to Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian, and Katie Holmes. But this year, the lad mag has included some ethnic specific categories that have some people raising their eyebrows. Examples:
• "Hottest Indian Chick": Freida Pinto
• "Hottest Pregnant Sri Lankan": M.I.A
• "Hottest Italian Chick": Monica Belluci
• "Hottest Chinese Chick": Zhang Ziyi (sometimes credited as Ziyi Zhang)
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While there may not be anything inherently wrong with saying someone is a "Hot Chinese woman" the seemingly arbitrary racial call-outs have people squirming. For example, why did the magazine deem Beyonce "Miss Millennium" but not "Miss African-American Millennium?" Mila Kunis was included in the top three hottie picks but the magazine didn't mention her Ukranian roots. And why was Kim Kardashian lauded for her performance in her 2007 sex tape but not labeled "Hottest Armenian Porn Star"?
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Amazon Editor's Pick: Andrew Klavan's A Killer in the Wind
Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. He started taking drugs and soon began to form hallucinations…a dead child prowling the streets of New York…a beautiful woman named Samantha who would have given him the love he always wanted—if she'd only been real.
Now Champion is a small town detective, chasing burglars and juvenile delinquents, hanging out at the local tavern where he is romancing a waitress. The ghosts and hallucinations are finally behind him as he begins to rebuild his life. Then one night Champion is called to examine the body of a woman who has washed ashore. Yet when he looks at her face, he sees that it's Samantha, the woman he dreamed about long ago…a woman who doesn't exist.
Suddenly, Champion is haunted again, only this time it's by a team of expert killers who want to make sure he never finds the truth: the truth about the dead child who wanders through his imagination; the truth about the lover who inhabits his dreams; and the truth about a killer who has been on the run — in the wind — for a lifetime. The ghosts of the dead are all around him, and Champion has to find out who murdered them, fast, or he could become one of them himself.
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Nurse Duped by Radio DJs in Kate Middleton Phone Prank Commits Suicide
via Jacintha Saldanha: 'Excellent nurse' who took Kate Middleton hoax phone call found dead in suspected suicide | Mail Online.
A nurse who transferred a prank phone call from two Australian radio presenters about the Duchess of Cambridge has died in a suspected suicide – two days after being duped.
The body of Jacintha Saldanha, who was working on the switchboard, was found at an address yards away from King Edward VII Hospital, where she worked, just before 9.30am today.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge issued a statement saying they are 'deeply saddened' by the tragedy and said they had not made a complaint, adding: 'Their thoughts and prayers are with Jacintha Saldanha's family, friends and colleagues at this very sad time.'
'On the contrary we offered our full and heartfelt support to the nurses involved and hospital staff at all times.'
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Anti-American Gangnam Style Star Also Rapped About Murdering US Soldiers and Their Families
via K-pop star PSY once advocated 'slowly and painfully' killing US soldiers | Twitchy.
The lyrics of the anti-US song performed live by PSY and several other popular Korean singers in 2004 (shortly after the US invaded Iraq) were first translated into English two months ago on CNN's iReport:
싸이 rap :
이라크 포로를 고문해 댄 씨발양년놈들과
고문 하라고 시킨 개 씨발 양년놈들에
딸래미 애미 며느리 애비 코쟁이 모두 죽여
아주 천천히 죽여 고통스럽게 죽여
PSY Rap:
Kill those f***ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill those f***ing Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully
PSY's anti-American views weren't discussed when the K-Pop star appeared on Ellen.
Exit question: Will anyone in the mainstream media ask PSY if he still supports killing US soldiers and their family members?
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Glenn Beck Teams Up With Vince Vaughn For Documentary Reality Show
via Glenn Beck, Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley launch reality show – Yahoo! News.
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Glenn Beck is launching a reality show with Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley to find great documentary filmmakers.
Vaughn is one of Hollywood's highest profile conservatives, and a recent Ron Paul supporter. Billingsley, a producer and director who often works with Vaughn, is celebrated this time of year for his childhood role in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
The new reality show, called "Pursuit of Truth," will air on Beck's TheBlazeTV. It will feature documentaries submitted to the show as it seeks "the world's next great documentary filmmaker." Twenty competitors will see the ultimate prize of financing and worldwide distribution.]
"I am proud to announce that Vince Vaughn and I are going to be the executive producers," Beck said on his Wednesday radio show, according to Politico. "That should make everybody's head spin. What the hell is Vince Vaughn doing with a crazy man? I know, that's what my friends say. Glenn, what are you doing with the crazy man Vince Vaughn? Yes. It's great, isn't it? I love it."
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Netflix and Disney Tie the Knot
via UPDATE: Netflix Shares Soar After Announcing Disney Deal – Deadline.com.
PREVIOUS, 10:55 AM: Today's deal will make Netflix the first pay-TV window for live-action and animated feature films from Disney beginning with 2016′s theatrical releases. A separate catalog agreement also was made. The pact begins with Disney films released theatrically in 2016; direct-to-video titles will hit the service beginning next year. Disney titles haven't been available on the online movie service since the February, when Netflix's deal with Starz — which included rights to stream newer Disney and Sony movies — expired after negotiations broke down.
Beverly Hills, Ca. and Burbank, Ca. –December 4, 2012—Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq:NFLX) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) today announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run live-action and animated feature films from The Walt Disney Studios.
Beginning with its 2016 theatrically released feature films, new Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disneynature titles will be made available for Netflix members to watch instantly in the pay TV window on multiple platforms, including television, tablets, computers and mobile phones. Also included in the agreement are high-profile Disney direct-to-video new releases, which will be made available on Netflix starting in 2013.
Separately, Disney and Netflix have reached agreement on a multi-year catalog deal that today brings to U.S. Netflix members such beloved Disney movies such as "Dumbo," "Pocahontas" and "Alice in Wonderland."
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Counterculture Conservatism: Pete Townshend, Self-Confessed 'Neo-Con'
via Pete Townshend's political confession: "I'm a bit of a neocon" | Power Players – Yahoo! News.
If you ask Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey about political messages behind the The Who's music, they'll be quick to tell you the band steered clear of mixing politics and music. But when these rock legends sat down with ABC's Jonathan Karl to talk about their work for teens with cancer, they didn't shy away from talking about both politics and music.
Townshend, who described himself "a bit of a neocon" politically, said he was surprised that Mitt Romney lost the election to President Obama.
"I thought he [Romney] was throwing the money in such buckets and I thought Obama looked, looked tired," Townshend said of the presidential election.
While Townshend said he mostly tries to stay out of politics, he thought the election's outcome was good in the sense that it provides consistency in the midst of an economic recovery. "You need a continuum now I think," said Townshend.
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'Few of Those Who Are Single, Irreligious, and Economically Challenged Before Age 30 Will Stay That Way…'
via The Not-So-Liberal American Future – The Daily Beast.
Of course it's too early to determine with any certainty whether the same maturing process will work its magic on youthful Obama cadres from 2008 and 2012, but there is some indication that the shift has already begun. As the hope-and-change candidate of four years ago, Obama swept voters between 18 and 29 by a truly stunning margin of 34 points, 66 to 32 percent. Four years later, a significant portion of those true believers had moved into the 30- to 45-year-old segment of the population, a group that chose Obama with a much more modest majority of 52 percent. It was exactly the same percentage, by the way, that he received from the same age group four years before.
Chait suggests that the progressive inclinations of this year's under-30s will remain steady and unshakable as the years pass, citing polling data showing 33 percent of young voters calling themselves liberal in 2012, compared to 25 percent of the larger electorate. But that's a reflection of their circumstances as much as their ideological commitment. People under 30 are disproportionately single, religiously uncommitted, and earning incomes below the national median. Such voters combined to deliver Obama's margin of victory.
Among the unmarried, who make up 41 percent of the electorate, Obama won by a margin of 24 percent. Among the 17 percent who say they "never" attend religious services, he won by 28 percent. And with those earning less than $50,000 a year, who comprise 41 percent of the voting public, he enjoyed a 22-percent edge.
The most salient point about all these characteristics is that, like youth itself, they count as temporary: the statistics show that few of those who are single, irreligious, and economically challenged before age 30 will stay that way as they progress through middle age and beyond. And it's no accident that Romney won big majorities of those groups—the married, the religiously engaged, and the economically prosperous—associated so clearly with the middle aged and the middle class.
Chait expresses admiration for the 59 percent of young voters who agreed with the statement that "government should do more to solve problems" and assumes that this opinion stems from thoughtful analysis of the issues of the day. But it's at least as plausible that the youthful preference for activist government stems from the relatively small number of those between 18 and 29 who've ever been asked to pay for such initiatives. IRS figures indicate that they are vastly under-represented among the bare majority of Americans who pay personal income taxes, and even more under-represented among those who pay at the highest rates. It's also safe to assume that under-30s include a substantial number who benefit directly from subsidized student loans, either as current students or as recent graduates struggling with debt.
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$141.3 Million Opening For Twilight Finale
via Weekend Report: 'Breaking Dawn' Ends 'Twilight' Franchise on Strong Note – Box Office Mojo.
The fifth and final Twilight movie opened to an outstanding $141.3 million this weekend, though that wasn't quite enough to set a new record for the popular franchise. Meanwhile, Skyfall had another strong weekend and Lincoln over-performed in its nationwide debut; as a result, the Top 12 earned around $237 million, which makes this the sixth-highest-grossing weekend ever.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2′s estimated $141.3 million ranks eighth all-time and fourth in 2012 behind The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games. Among Twilight movies, it wound up slightly ahead of predecessor Breaking Dawn Part 1 ($138.1 million), but a tad below New Moon's franchise-best $142.8 million. This makes Twilight the first franchise ever to have three movies earn over $130 million in their first three days.
While this is undeniably a fantastic debut, there's a nagging feeling it should have done slightly better given the movie's finale status; past franchise finales like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Star Wars: Episode III -Revenge of the Sith easily had the best debuts for their series. At least Twilight didn't see much, if any, audience attrition, which is a rare thing for most franchises.
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VIDEO: New Trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful
via Watch The Full Trailer For Sam Raimi's OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | Badass Digest.
I'm pretty sure I'm down for this movie. I've been hesitant, but I really dig the new trailer. While I don't actually love the aesthetic, it's vivid and dazzling and will look wonderful in 3D, not that muddled garbage we saw in Alice in Wonderland. I'm a big fan of Sam Raimi's goofy sense of humor, and all of the actors seem to be having a great time here.
I never know what to think about James Franco – that guy is such a weird mystery to me – but he has a naturally self-pleased, humbug air about him that will serve him well as Oscar Diggs, the young Wizard of Oz. And he's in turns manipulated and assisted by three of the loveliest and most talented witches possible, with Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis turning in performances as Glinda, Evanora and Theodora, respectively.
Also, Zach Braff plays a flying monkey.
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Harrison Ford: Han Solo Should Have Died in Return of the Jedi
via Harrison Ford Wanted Han Solo To Die, Would Return For Star Wars VII | The Mary Sue.
The next logical step in a huge Disney/LucasFilm purchase announcement is who will direct and who will star in Star Wars VII. Speculation is running wild since last week but a few tidbits are slowly leaking out. For instance, Harrison Ford is apparently up for returning to his iconic role even though he really wanted Han Solo to die. This is what we get for hiring a smuggler.
The news comes via Entertainment Weekly. According to a "highly-placed source" Ford is "open to the idea of doing the movie and he's upbeat about it, all three of them are." The source is including his Star Wars co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
But Ford, who has admitted to not particularly liking Han as a character in the past, said this in a 2010 interview, "I thought he should have died in the last one to give it some bottom…George [Lucas] didn't think there was any future in dead Han toys." And in fact, that was the case, Han was meant to die in an earlier draft of Return of the Jedi. So would he insist on going out in a blaze of glory should he return?
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Will Washington and Colorado Voters Legalize Marijuana Today?
via Three states to vote on legalizing recreational pot – chicagotribune.com.
Voters in three western U.S. states go to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use in a move that could spur a showdown with the federal government, with polls showing legalization ahead in Washington and Colorado.
If voters approve the measures, the states could become the first in the country to legalize the recreational use of pot. Each of the initiatives would see marijuana taxed and would regulate its sale in special stores to adults age 21 and older.
But the prospect of legalizing pot, which the federal government considers an illicit and dangerous drug liable to be abused, has raised concerns about how to keep stoned drivers off the roads and joints out of the hands of teenagers.
A survey of 932 likely voters in Washington state released on Saturday by Public Policy Polling found 53 percent support legalization, with a margin of error of 3.2 percent.
Legalization was also ahead in Colorado, where a recent SurveyUSA poll of 695 likely voters conducted for the Denver Post showed 50 percent in favor and 44 percent opposed. The survey had a 3.8 percent margin of error.
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Susannah Breslin Reveals the Secrets in '30 Days Of Freelancing' Series
via 30 Days Of Freelancing: Day 1 – Forbes.
This month, I'll be chronicling my life as a freelancer.
This is Day 1.
TIP #1: Timing is everything.
I spend several days and one therapy session trying to figure out what to do with my Forbes blog this month.
Last month, I didn't post much at all. The month before that, I wrote about obscenity. Originally, this blog was about what happened after I got downsized.
My therapist tries to convince me that whatever I do will be good.
I wait until I have 30 minutes left in the day, EST, and then I start.
TIP #2: Work slower.
Have you heard of the slow food movement? It's part of the slow movement. Apparently, there's something called the slow work movement. Pete Bacevice is its philosopher.
I decide I'm a recovering workaholic. The slow work movement will be my Alcoholics Anonymous. I will take 30 days to become a slower worker.
In theory, if you work less, you are happier. I am not sure how to get there. But I will try.
Start the Series Now.
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Lena Dunham, Millennial Sell-Out
via 'Girls' creator Lena Dunham loses it with voting/virginity ads – Washington Times.
Not too long ago, I praised Miss Dunham's critically acclaimed HBO show "Girls" for its candid depiction of the hook-up culture. With its painfully awkward and unerotic sex scenes, the Emmy-nominated show revealed just how grim and degrading sex in the era of post-feminism has become, especially for women.
The show's message that casual sex leads to the objectification of women stood in direct contrast to the standard pop culture trope — found in shows like "Sex and the City," magazines like Cosmopolitan, and movies like "No Strings Attached" — that sex with no strings attached empowers girls.
"I felt like I was cruelly duped by much of the television I saw," Miss Dunham told the New York Times last spring on the eve of the debut of "Girls."
"I heard so many of my friends saying, 'Why can't I have sex and feel nothing?' It was amazing: that this was the new goal," she said in another interview with The Times.
Sex, in other words, is not a casual thing. To act like it is leads to the objectification of women.
That was Miss Dunham 1.0.
To Miss Dunham 2.0, women really are just sexual objects, after all. They make important decisions, like voting for president, by consulting what goes on between their legs rather than by what goes on between their ears. As she advises in the ad, "You want to do it with a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control."
Translation: The kind of guy you should have sex with (or vote for) is someone whose primary concern is not with who you are, what you want, or what you think, but with you not getting pregnant with his kid. To me, this guy sounds like a jerk. To Miss Dunham, this guy sounds like Barack Obama. This must be a joke right? "The video may be light, but the message is serious," Miss Dunham tweeted last week.
Read the Whole Thing Right Now.
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Louis Farrakhan Marries the Nation of Islam With Scientology
via The Nation of Islam Discovers Scientology :: Daniel Pipes.
The Nation of Islam's historic role as a bridge between American blacks and Islam ended in 1975 when W. Deen Mohammed followed his father, Elijah Muhammad as leader of the Nation and immediately disavowed his father's folk religion, bringing his followers to normative Islam, the Islam of the Middle East. From then on, despite the theatrics of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation has been in a long downward trajectory. Now comes evidence, thanks to Eliza Gray writing about "Thetans and Bowties" in The New Republic, of a jaw-dropping turn by Farrakhan, 79, to Scientology; as her subtitle puts it, "America's two weirdest sects join forces."
The connection goes back seven years:
the story of how Farrakhan came to embrace it concerns a Nation minister in Los Angeles named Tony Muhammad. In 2005, Muhammad was beaten by the LAPD at a prayer vigil he'd helped organize for a young man killed in a drive-by shooting. The incident plunged him into an agitated, depressed state. A concerned friend introduced him to Scientology, which he credits with saving his life. When Farrakhan later met with Muhammad, he was amazed by the transformation and, as Muhammad tells it in an audio clip posted on YouTube, exclaimed: "Whatever you're on—I want some of it."
Five years later, things moved into high gear:
The first large-scale introduction of Scientology to Nation members took place in August 2010, when hundreds of believers from around the country traveled to Rosemont, Illinois, near the Nation's headquarters, for a seminar in Dianetics, a foundational belief system of Scientology. There, they were guided through auditing sessions—a kind of hybrid between hypnosis and confession—in which a Scientologist purges painful experiences from his subconscious in the presence of an "auditor." At the end of the seminar, Farrakhan told the group he wanted everyone in attendance to become a certified auditor.
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Annette Gordon-Reed's Devastating Debunking of A Thomas Jefferson Hack Biography
via Henry Wiencek's The Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson biography, debunked. – Slate Magazine.
Almost 20 years have passed since the publication of Jeffersonian Legacies, a collection of essays published on the occasion of the Founding Father's 250th birthday that ushered in a new era of Jefferson scholarship. What were modern Americans to make, the book asked, of the 18th-century slaveholding patriarch who could not envision a multiracial America but who nonetheless authored America's creed—a vision that has inspired people the world over? At the very least, one had to be, the book suggested, conflicted about the man.
Henry Wiencek is not at all conflicted. He loathes Thomas Jefferson. In Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, his attempted takedown of the man, the third president appears as a demonic figure warped one summer day by a sudden discovery that being a slaveholder could pay. I'll detail how Wiencek arrives at his bizarre proof of a Jefferson who suddenly becomes Simon Legree, but I should say up front that this book fails as a work of scholarship. This is surprising. I favorably reviewed Wiencek's book about George Washington, Imperfect God, and I admire The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. What happened with Master of the Mountain?
The book's tone and presentation betray a journalistic obsession with "the scoop." Getting the scoop can be the life's blood of journalism. It does not work so well for writing history, which is not always (or almost ever, really) about discovering things previously unknown. This sensibility leads Weincek astray in a number of ways. To begin with, it compels him to write as if he had discovered, and was writing about, things that had not been discovered and written about before. In truth, all of the important stories in this book have been told by others.
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Posted: June 03, 2014|
ACADEMICS at the University of Nottingham saw their groundbreaking research and innovation rewarded at an inaugural in-house awards ceremony last night.
The university staged its first Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Awards at East Midlands Conference Centre, shining a light on projects from all of its faculties and campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia.
The awards highlighted examples of the breadth and diversity of research which has had an impact on business or on society more widely.
The first award was for a project undertaken by Dr Jonathan Tallant in the Faculty of Arts, who uses principles of philosophy to help companies develop software.
Dr Tallant's research into the philosophy of time has helped Canadian company Time.ly, which produces event planning and calendar software, to develop software valued at more than £4.5 million.
The Spin-out Company of the Year award went to Prof Ted Cocking who has developed a technology which enables plants to take nitrogen from the air. Using a naturally occurring bacterium found in sugar canes, Prof Cocking discovered how to inoculate the seeds of other plants, including food crops, enabling them to also have the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen.
This technology is being commercialised through the university spin-out business Azotic Technologies, based at BioCity.
Other winners included a project by Dr Richard Bingley in the Faculty of Engineering, whose work in measuring changes in land and sea levels is helping to protect more than one million people and billions of pounds worth of property in the south-east of England.
From Medicine and Health Science, Prof Martin Green was a winner for the design and implementation of a national mastitis plan for British dairy herds.
In Social Sciences, the success of a global mentorship programme run by Dr Ulf Richter at the Ningbo campus in China, which is bringing together 100 students with business people, was recognised.
In Science, Prof David Clarke's work in the Accident Research Unit which is influencing Government road safety policy internationally, won one of the awards for Social Impact.
Student winners included Laughing Matters, a Nottingham-based venture which provides free comedy-based courses for individuals with addiction problems and mental health issues.
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He has been instrumental in establishing the university as an internationally recognised centre of research into cleaner fossil energy. His research on carbon dioxide capture has led to many contracts being established with governments and research bodies.
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Today FED EX delivered my WM Megalite. I had used it for 3 years then sent it back to the factory for 1 oz. of overfill. Cost: $38. including return shipping. Great price.It originally had good loft but boy is it ever "lofty" now. The former 30 F. bag should be good to about 20 F. which is more what I've been needing at higher elevations.
I have a Megalite that I love. I've been thinking about this option as well. Then I can stick to my Summerlite in the warmer conditions and take the Mega when it dips in the 20s.
Serendipitously, I just sent in two WM sleeping bags that I've used quite a lot in recent years for the same thing: restuff, overfill. The price you list is a bit lower than I was fearing, so hopefully this will work well for me too. I'm not sure yet how much overfill to go for (one is a summerlite, the other an ultralite); hopefully they'll be able to recommend something when they call.Overall the bags were in pretty good shape after so much use, but even after washing, drying, and maximally fluffing them up, holding either one up to a strong light source and feeling around I could still find areas now with little or no down --- those one or two feathers seemingly lost per night really add up!When I called, WM did warn me that in the holiday season they're pretty busy, so I shouldn't expect quick turn-around.
Rats! I just bought a Badger to replace (at least in some situations) my Megalite. That cost way more than $38...I too have found my Megalite not quite warm enough in general the last couple of years, even though most temperatures are within its rated range. I attributed it to me getting old, though, not the sleeping bag.Maybe I'll look at this re/over-stuff option next spring.
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ALBANY -- The city is appealing a superior court judge's ruling that reinstated a fired Albany firefighter who challenged the city's personnel policy.
Joseph Pait was fired by former Chief James Arrowwood and then-Deputy Chief James Carswell in 2004. Pait sued the city claiming wrongful termination, and on Jan. 5 Chief Superior Court Judge Willie Lockette issued an order reinstating Pait and supporting his claim.
Assistant City Manager Wes Smith wouldn't comment on the details of the appeal but said the city's legal team feels there is a basis for their decision.
"Upon review by legal staff and our outside attorneys, they believe that the ruling in this case was not appropriate and that we would let the wheels of justice continue to roll," Smith said.
The city is asking the Georgia Court of Appeals to stay Lockette's order -- which demanded that the city reinstate Pait with all of the benefits and pay increases that he would have earned had he been employed since his termination.
The city fired Pait after he reached a deal with prosecutors in Lee County to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of theft. He was sentenced to probation and given first-offender status which, in Georgia, means that upon successful completion of Pait's sentence that his record would be cleared and he would no longer be considered having been convicted of any crime.
Pait's attorney used that to successfully argue that the city violated its own personnel policy -- which allows termination if a person is "convicted" of a felony, not a misdemeanor.
Pait also relied on a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling in another wrongful termination suit from Albany that determined department heads, but not their subordinates, are "at-will" employees and are subject to termination at any time.
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The North Oldham Little League 9-10-year-old softball all-stars team won the District 2 tourney over Valley Sports. Front row, from left, Sarah McCabe, Claire Babey, Kailey Smith, Makailyn Maikranz, Kelsey Kasisschke and Caelin Pate. Back row, Abigail Reynolds, Coach John Vorreiter, Brynna Richardson, Seneca O'Hara, Peyton Kidwell and Alexia Ganote. Not pictured are assistant coach Doug Snyder and Megan Snyder.
Oldham officials approved a contract Tuesday for engineers from DLZ Kentucky Inc. to study drainage in Pewee Valley.
Engineers will examine drainage on Ky. 362, including flooding issues along Ash Avenue and Ashbrooke and Village Green subdivisions in the past several years.
The study will be paid for with a $200,000 Kentucky Infrastructure Authority grant. The company will perform a study and analysis of the issues and host public meetings to come to a solution to the problems.
Linda and Larry Stewart of La Grange and Ronald and Brenda McAlister of Smithfield announce engagement of their daughter, Brandy Lee McAlister to Anthony Pearce Boyd, son of Sheila and Earl Frederick of La Grange and Todd and Christie Boyd of Jupiter, Fla.
The bride-elect is a 2001 graduate of Henry County High School, and graduated from Sullivan University with a degree in business management. She is employed by Papa Johns.
The groom-elect is a 2000 graduate of Oldham County High School and works for Ladyfingers Catering in Louisville.
Matthew T. Dickinson and Clayton B. Willig, both of Prospect, are among the cadets named to the dean's list at Virginia Military Institute for the spring semester.
To be named to the dean's list at VMI, a cadet must earn a 3.0 grade-point average and no grade below C.
Dickinson is a sophomore studying mechanical engineering. He is the son of Janine M. Diaz and Dean K. Dickinson.
Willig graduated from VMI and studied international studies. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell R. Willig.
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Newspapers across the Commonwealth are asking advertisers not to respond to these calls and not to give out personal information over the telephone.
Chelsea F. Carlson of Goshen was named to the honor roll at Phillips Academy during the spring semester.
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LOUISVILLE – Javanon '91 pushed its way into the U.S. Youth Soccer national championship game only to fall just short of Discoveries SC out of South Carolina 2-1 July 30.
The Javanon team had three Oldham County players – Jacob Kemper of Oldham County High School and North Oldham brothers Jordan and Paul Althoff.
Several Oldham students were named to University of Louisville's dean's list for the spring semester.
Members of the Oldham County Fiscal Court made the following personnel changes at their meeting Tuesday:
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Hannah Clore of Goshen is among the students named to the dean's list at Hanover College during the spring term.
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Actor James Earl Jones is returning to Broadway in a new production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can't Take It With You, producers said Thursday.
Scott Ellis has been hired to direct the revival, reports The New York Times. It will be performed at a Shubert Theater that will be announced later and will start previews in August. Opening night is set for Sept. 28.
As Broadway.com notes, Jones has two Tony Awards on his resume, winning for Fences and The Great White Hope. He also scored nominations for One Golden Pond and The Best Man.
Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel are producing You Can't Take It With You. Richards told the Times that the family at the center of the play will be multiracial.
You Can't Take It With You was written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman and debuted in 1936. The most recent revival was in 1983 with Colleen Dewhurst, Elizabeth Wilson and Maureen Anderman.
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XRef Objects and Memory Usage ??
By ingoStudio on Jan 10, 2006 07:09 PM
So, little intro. I like and personally use Mental Ray but at work we render with VRay to use VRay Proxy to copy (instance) an object a million times with no more memory usage then memory needed to load only one object. That way you can make a forest with a million trees from only one tree with 400 000 faces and when you render in the memory will be loaded only that one tree not whole forest (memory will become for example from 500MB for a tree to 510MB for whole forest). If you try to copy/instance that tree with out to convert it to VRay Proxy Object and when render begin MAX start loading the trees into memory but when approach about 3000 trees loaded (its depend from the faces count) and MAX crash because approach 1.7GB of virtual memory.
So, when MAX8 was become reality was read in whats new (I thing) that XRefs are rewriten from the ground in MAX 8 and two weeks ago I decide to chek if the XRef Objects work like VRay Proxy Objects. I made one sphere with up of details save as max file and import it in new scene like XRef Object. I Instanced (copy) that XRef object till count 1M Xref objects in the scene and start render. I was surprised and so happy to see when it was rendered and the memory usage is no rising (rising just a little bit from 700MB to 710MB).
All was fine till couple of days when I needed to make forest and use XRef Object but saw that memory rise to 2GB and MAX crash. I make exactly the same like two weeks before but XRef Objects dosn't work any more like VRay Proxy.
Any idea why is that? Or in generally are XRef objects (or any else in MAX) work like that? How to accomplish my task, how to render million trees no matter wich render I use?
I can do it with VRay but I like Mental Ray. I notice that MR load into memory only currently rendered bucket(s) but even then in most cases is not enough the scene to be rendered.
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced on Friday that its AT&T U-verse TV would soon offer a new NFL RedZone channel to its users. The addition, which comes as the result of a partnership between AT&T and the NFL Network, will become available for U-verse TV football fans as soon as the NFL season opens on Sunday, September 13.
The new sports channel from NFL Network, NFL RedZone, provides football fans with fast access to the most important moments of NFL Sunday football. U-verse TV customers will experience each play within the red zone as soon as a team gets inside their opponent's 20-yard line. In addition, NFL RedZone also provides live look-ins and highlights from different games, so that users are kept up to date at all times.
NFL RedZone comes to users on channel 1629 as part of the U-verse HD Premium Tier. U-verse HD subscribers can benefit from the Premium Tier for an additional $5 per month. AT&T U-verse offers a series of attractive features to users, including HD-ready equipment, with an HD-ready Total Home DVR in almost every package, recording options for up to four programs, programmable DVR recordings from a mobile phone that has Internet access, picture-in-picture browse capability, the AT&T U-bar, and more.
"NFL RedZone is a new and exciting way to stay on top of Sunday football, and we're proud to kick off the NFL football season by adding this channel to our lineup. U-verse TV football fans will truly enjoy tuning to NFL RedZone to watch the touchdowns and the biggest plays as they happen on their big screen TV," said Dan York, executive vice president of content and programming, AT&T Converged Services. Kim Williams, chief operating officer for NFL Network, also stated, "We're excited to offer NFL RedZone to AT&T U-verse football fans so they can see the important plays from NFL games. U-verse TV customers across the country are going to enjoy this special channel produced by NFL Network."


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Many singers battle phlegm on the vocal chords. An instinctual move by many of us is to clear our throats. The problem is that action of constantly clearing our throats to remove that mucus is actually very damaging to our voices. Nothing wears our your vocal chords quicker than abusing them.
When you clear your throat, you are violently smashing your vocal chords together. This causes friction and your vocal chords become enflamed. They can get swollen as blood comes to them to heal them. Imagine smacking yourself on the arm or the back repeatedly. After a while your arm or your back becomes very red, warm and sore. That mucus that forms on your vocal chords is there to protect them. However it does become a hinderance for singers.
We think that to clear our voices, clearing our throat is the way to do it. However we experience many students who suffer from vocal fatigue or even loss of voice all because they are not conscious of the fact that they are clearing their throats. Here are some steps you can take to be conscious of this tick, and also how to clear your thoat without clearing your throat.
1. Gargle with warm saline solution (salt water). Simple table salt mixed with warm (not hot) water can draw mucus up from your vocal chords. Your voice needs to be clear and moist to operate correctly. Gargling for a few minutes can help eliminate the mucus that forms on your vocal chords.
2. Drink plenty of water. This is a given. All singers need plenty of water. If you drink enough water, the mucus will thin itself out.
3. Avoid fatty foods, and acidic foods. Your voice is your instrument. If you are to maintain your instrument to be healthy, your body needs to be healthy too. When you eat fatty or acidic foods, your body finds ways to eliminate that acid. Your body uses mucus to eliminate waste from your respiratory system. If you eat highly alkaline foods, water based foods, and drink less caffeine, sugar or soft drinks, mucus will thin and the body will not have a need for it.
4. Avoid alcohol. Many singers work in night clubs and bars. The temptation to drink alcoholic beverages may be present, but it will not assist the health of your singing voice. Alcohol and substance over use can lead to missing days at work, and less money. If you are a professional singer, your singing voice is part of your livelihood. Make adjustments where you need to to maintain a healthy voice.
5. Get plenty of sleep. The recommended dosage for sleep is 8-10 hours as a full time singer. Restful, deep sleep is a must as a singer. Mentally and physically you can become drained and your singing voice will suffer if you do not get plenty of good, restful deep sleep.
At True Connected Voice we are always available for one on one training and lessons, weather via Skype or if you are in Tampa FL, Orlando FL, or any of the surrounding Central Florida areas contact us today and unlock the true potential of your singing voice.
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Micaiah Behailu was born on May 30, 1977 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She earned a B.A Degree in Ethiopian Language Literature and Culture Communication.
Micaiah says: "my parents told me that i use to bounce with joy on my nanny's back listening to music when i was just an infant." Obviously, her passion for music was conceived back then.
At kindergarten age, she remembers having a small guitar that her father bought her. Who knows the role that guitar has played? Back then, she was known for singing songs from other local signers at Bethlehem public school where she enjoyed her education from kindergarten to elementary classes (1982-89 G. C). She started writing songs when she was in high scool form 1990-1994 G.C. Though in 1995 and a year later she tried to launch her first album on her own, she failed to do so due to lack of finance and experience.
Starting 1998 G.C, she worked full time and was attending night classes at Addis Ababa University for the next seven years. But Micaiah never stoped singing. Micaiah says: "I'am addicted to music." After a long journey, in April 2007 she released her first album entitled "Shemametew". It comprises eleven numbers. Eight of them are writen by her and the other three in collaboration with her producer Elias Melka.


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Kick Drop: New Balance 1500 "Made In England"
New Balance recently dropped off the latest installment in their 1500 series. The "Made in England" 1500s feature a black, grey and fiery red colorway on the low silhouette— giving your ankles some added style and room to breath a little. The "made in England" tag comes from the fact that these were constructed New Balance's Flimby Factory in the UK. The combined use of leather, pigskin suede, and mesh materials make these versatile for sport or luxury.
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I had the pleasure of exclusively interviewing Jamie Whittingham of Send Reach, he is the lead developer of Send Reach and he shared some really valuable insight into the development of their demographic auto responder.
The things Send Reach does has never been done before in email marketing, I know there are tons of auto responders services available but no one has ever taking the step to revolutionise the lagging growth of email marketing services, that is until now.
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