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Saturday, September 30, 2006
PRC to LDN
A: Dusk "Mantis (Blackdown remix)" [Keysound Recordings]
B: Blackdown "Mantis (VI3 mix) [Keysound Recordings]
(Buy a promo or listen to clips: here)
Throughout the early part of this decade, a single repeated message emerged out of the background noise and hum of daily data. China was growing. Very, very rapidly. While this decade has been dominated by the US's interaction with the Middle East, few people have daily contact with the region. By contrast, over a period of several years, disproportionate number of friends or contacts began mentioning China. An architect described vast contracts for whole chunks of cities. A new media journalist highlighted the growing Chinese online market. A distance learning expert described the building of tens if not a hundred world class academic institutions. Anyone who followed politics mentioned the possibility that China could grow to superpower status, a welcome counterbalance to American unilateralism. As this decade unfolded the background noise grew into a hum: it was the noise of China growing.
The message wasn't restricted to academic, mainstream media or architectural routes. It also began appearing through the hardcore continuum too. My passion for Wiley and Jammer's "Sinogrime" (© Kode 9) experiments, Horsepower and Kode 9's "Sinodub" excursions, documented here (scroll down to the post 'Fukkaz'), coincided with a time when there was a strong sense to me, as 2step collapsed and drum & base rotted, of the need for new sonic avenues. Around 2003 I suddenly saw a perfect yet lesser trodden path wandering between Missy Elliot's "Get Ur Freak On," Timbaland's "Indian Flute," Photek's "Ni Ten Ichi Ru," the Jammer/NASTY mix CD for Deuce, Loefah's "Monsoon remix," Kode 9's "Fukkaz," Wiley's "Shanghai," Horsepower's "Sholay" up to Plasticians "Japan" (actually made from Chinese samples) and Forensix's recent "1st Dynasty" [NB: the "Sino-" prefix was always clumbsily inaccurate, referring to anywhere "East-ish," be it India, China, Japan, Thailand or more - just no nations bordering the Black Atlantic]
People perceive dubstep as having drifted out of 2step garage, in comparison to grime's shift, but in those days around the turn of the millennium there was a definite feeling that rejection was as powerful a tool as inclusion, in order to move on. This manifested itself to me a rejection of lots of the sonic clichés surrounding genres persisted with: drum & bass's Amen tear outs and sickly Rhodes chords, house's fake warmth and hip hop's reliance on tired funk/jazz/soul loops. That feeling, of the need to seek out new sonic cornerstones with which to build from, persists to this day.
I was lucky enough, while working at Deuce, to come by a CD of Chinese instrument samples. Loefah once mentioned a sample CD that he and the Mystikz went thirds on that produced a large number of their early classics, "Conference" included. This Chinese sample CD has been similarly central to Dusk and I.
Normally a track by us gets written, by us together, in a fairly similar linear fashion:
Loops>>variations>>arrangement>>mixdown>>mixed master
But we'd long talked about writing music in non-linear ways. About two years ago now, possibly more, Dusk played me a loop he couldn't finish. It had a great bassline with this sweet Chinese melody. He'd called it "Mantis." Last summer, while spending time on California's Pacific rim, I revisited that loop. I added more Chinese instrumentation and darker gongs – and a track began to emerge, but without the original melody. It's my mix of Mantis, a remix of a track that doesn't exist, started because of a perfect melody I didn't even use.
At the beginning of this year Dusk and I sat down and deleted the entire track. Left only with the sounds, we began writing a completely new one together. Out of a remix of a track that didn't exist came a new collaboration by both of us, "Mantis VIP" (available on my 4Bristol mix, and a track that I do hope to put out properly someday). Then, determined to use that perfect melody, I returned solo to "Mantis VIP," again deleted the track and began again. The result was "Mantis VI3" – the Sino-signature sound appears at the end. So far removed from Dusk's original loop, we couldn't really call it remix. The meandering pathway taken to get there seem somehow pleasing.
Dusk "Mantis (Blackdown remix)" >> Dusk + Blackdown "Mantis VIP" >> Blackdown "Mantis VI3"
The first and last part of the Mantis trilogy will now make up the third release on Keysound. Following on from the first two releases, the artwork (keysights) will reflect our London surroundings, just like the looped keysounds that each of our tracks sit emerged in. A recent digital camera disaster that killed my own camera so, unable to take the artwork shots myself, I recently set off with a friend Simon into the most Chinese part of our surroundings, London's China Town, for visual inspiration. The following gallery was the result:
It's also interesting that, long before it was finished, Dusk chose the name "Mantis" for the tune(s). By co-incidence, it turns out there is a Chinese mantis, (Tenodera aridifolia sinensis) and two styles of Chinese martial arts.
Insect: Chinese Mantis
The following is quoted from the Wikipedia entry for the Chinese mantis:
"The Chinese mantis looks like a long and slender praying mantis, with different shades of brown. The adult has a green lateral line down its wing. It is typically larger than most other mantises, growing up to 15 cm (6 inches) in length. Their diet consists of caterpillars, butterflies, wasps, bees, crickets and moths. Like other mantids, they are known to be cannibalistic."
Martial Arts: Northern Praying Mantis
The following is quoted from the Wikipedia entry for Northern Praying Mantis
"Northern Praying Mantis is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis after its province of origin. It was created by Wang Lang and was named after the praying mantis, an insect, the aggressiveness of which inspired the style. Shaolin records document that Wang Lang was one of the 18 masters gathered by the Shaolin Abbot Fu Yu (1203-1275), which dates him and Northern Praying Mantis to the Song Dynasty (960–1279)."
"The mantis is a long and narrow predatory insect. While heavily armoured, it is not built to withstand forces from perpendicular directions. Consequently, its fighting style involves makes use of whip-like/circular motions to deflect direct attacks, which it follows up with precise attacks to the opponent's vital spots. These traits have been subsumed into the Northern Praying Mantis style, under the rubric of "removing something" (blocking to create a gap) and "adding something" (rapid attack)."
"One of the most distinctive features of Northern Praying Mantis is the "praying mantis hook": a hook made of one to three fingers directing force in a whip-like manner. The hook may be used to divert force (blocking) or to attack critical spots (eyes, face, acupuncture points). These are particularly useful in combination, for example using the force imparted from a block to power an attack. So if the enemy punches with the right hand, a Northern Praying Mantis practitioner might hook outwards with the left hand (shifting the body to the left) and use the turning force to attack the enemy's neck with a right hook. Alternately, she might divert downwards with the left hook and rebound with the left wrist stump to jaw/nose/throat."
There are many styles of Northern Praying Mantis some hard, some soft, some rare, some common, including Seven Star Praying Mantis Boxing and Secret Gate Praying Mantis Boxing. For more information: check Wikipedia.
Martial Arts: Southern Praying Mantis
The following is quoted from the Wikipedia entry.
"Despite its name, the Southern Praying Mantis style of Chinese martial arts is unrelated to the Northern Praying Mantis style. Southern Praying Mantis is instead related most closely to fellow Hakka styles such as Dragon and more distantly to the Fujian family of styles that includes Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Wing Chun."
"Southern Praying Mantis is a close range fighting system that places much emphasis on short power techniques and has aspects of both the soft and internal as well as the hard and external. As in other southern styles, the arms are the main weapon, with kicks usually limited to the hip and under."
"Like Wing Chun and Xingyiquan—other styles created as pure fighting arts—Southern Praying Mantis has relatively no aesthetic value, unlike its northern counterpart and many other styles. Southern Praying Mantis is informed by traditional Chinese medicine."
"Though the origins of Southern Praying Mantis may be contested, what is indisputable is its association with the Hakka people of inland eastern Guangdong. The traditions … maintain that their respective founders Chow Ah-Nam and Som Dot created their styles after witnessing a praying mantis fight and defeat a bird."
"However, the traditions of the Chu family branch contend that the name "Southern Praying Mantis" was chosen to conceal from Qing forces its political affiliations by pretending that this esoteric style of Ming loyalists was in fact a regional variant of the popular and widespread Praying Mantis style from Shandong."
A long time supporter of dub and now dubstep, broadcaster/journalist Steve Barker now lives in China. Several months ago, during an email exchange, he recommended an essential compilation The Hugo Masters: An Anthology of Chinese Classical Music. As a music fan, there's little more satisfying than a recommendation of an entry point into an unknown and exciting field, like say Buzz' Relics compilation is to Detroit Techno or Metalheadz' first collection is to drum & bass. So while I wait for Amazon US to deliver my copy of The Hugo Masters, I asked Steve if he'd share a little of what he's learned about the music of the PRC. This is Steve Barker's guide to the entry points of Chinese music…
Steve Barker: "A few clues can be offered up to the naïve foreigner about to explore the world of Chinese music which, for pure convenience here, we can split up into traditional, modern interesting stuff and pop. Let's forget the pop which makes up around about 99.8% of what is easily accessible, most of this is 'cantopop', a syrupy Chinese derivative of Western pop originating largely in Hong Kong but now transplanted just about everywhere in Asia. Approaching traditional music the first stumbling block is Peking Opera, usually served up for the tourists, this is culturally dense and totally impenetrable, swerve around it."
"For the virtually inclined a trip to the excellent site of Hugo records in Hong Kong will yield a stunning treasure house of exotic delights http://www.hugocd.com – I find I can't get this from Beijing at the moment but Amazon stocks plenty of their material. For an overview there are some nice sets but to dive right in go for the historical recordings of ancient Qin music, particularly the stuff from Sichuan. The GuQin (pronounced GooChin) is seven-stringed zither without bridges, the most classical Chinese instrument with over 3000 years of history. It is literally called Qin yet commonly known as "GuQin" where "gu" stands for ancient. Confucius was a master of this instrument."
"When I first heard this sound I was struck by the similarity to slide guitar from Texas and Mississippi. There's a whole bunch other instruments that can be found described on the many websites covering traditional Chinese music, my only other advice would be go for the solo albums then the sonics can be better appreciated, then move on to group playing."
"If you are in Beijing then there are two easy options. Don't go to the nearest record store unless you need bootleg Beyonce. Go to Wanfujing, the main shopping street – there's a subway stop there, where you will find the English Language Bookstore, three or four floors up there's an excellent selection of traditional music. Better still is the shop by the gate of the Beijing Music Conservatory, down by the South Second Ring Road, nearest subway stop Fuxingmen."
"Without spending too much time on modern stuff there a couple of great portals into China, first up is from Laurence Li who's based in Shenzhen near HK, he runs Global Noise Online with lots of links into other sites in-country and its all in English - http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/ . The other contact is Yan Jun in Beijing who runs an improvisatory music night at the Dos Kolegas Bar in Beijing every Tuesday without fail; it's called Kwanyin Waterland – after the female Buddha. Yan Jun runs the Sub Jam label and you can find him at http://www.subjam.org/ - he's also producer, poet, fixer, journalist and all round good egg - an essential top man."
"Perhaps the most remarkable purchase I have made whilst in Beijing is a collection of 8 CDs by Sichuan folk music archivist and musician Huan Qing who is currently living in Dali, Yunnan. Compiled by Huan over several years there's Yangtze River Workers' Folk Songs, Ancient Songs of the Hani People, Sichuan Folk Artists, Yunnan Nu and Wa Minority, Yunnan Lisu, Yunnan Naxi Bamboo Flute, Yunnan Yi People, and Tibet Street Musicians. This last one was recorded by Zhang Jian of fm3 and put out on Sublime frequencies http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com. You pay around 15 quid for this stunning selection from the Sugar Jar Workstation in
Dashanzi-798 Art District. Good luck!"
Steve Barker - BBC/On The Wire (www.onthewire.uk.com) and the Wire (dub column).
"China has a population of 1.3 billion people: one quarter of humankind is Chinese."
-- Hugo De Burgh, "China: Friend or Foe?" (Icon). Buy it here.
The final piece in the confluence of Sino-influences in my life came with the impulse buy of Hugo De Burgh's primer "China: Friend or Foe." The fact was, despite all this hype about China, I knew very little about the vast country and have little opportunity to visit it in the foreseeable future. De Burgh's book was a revelation, so I'd like to share selected quotes from it:
Internal geography
"Chinese provinces are as large as European countries, often with larger populations, and with histories and languages distinct from their neighbours'. Canton Province (Guangdong, adjoining Hong Kong) has 79 million people, Xinjiang is the size of Western Europe with a population of 19 million, and Sichuan has 87 million."
"China is recognised as a rising power. It is establishing itself as an important factor for most countries. Yet this does not amount to a challenge to US dominance, because it is constrained by its poverty, domestic discontent, geopolitical vulnerability, dependence on foreign resources, and its leaders' beliefs about China's history and its relations with foreign powers over the last 150 years. How the world reacts to China's rise may do more to determine its influence than China's rise itself."
"While the written language can be used by all Chinese, the spoken languages can vary as greatly as do European languages. Over 70 per cent of the population, living north of the Yangtze and in certain north-western parts of southern provinces, speak a form of Mandarin (Putonghua), albeit with local dialects. By contrast, the languages of South China are mutually incomprehensible. They include the Wu languages of Shanghai, Xiang in central and southern Hunan, Gan in Jiangxi, Northern and Southern Min in Fujian, Yue (including Cantonese) in Canton Province and part of Guangxi, and Hakka, the language of various people scattered in various parts of China. Standard Putonghua (Mandarin) … is always that of administration."
"The Chinese written language unites all Chinese; until recently, it was used in common with linguistically quite different Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese too, since it is ideographic rather than alphabetic. What that means for practical purposes is that even when people cannot understand each other's speech, they can communicate in writing, writing which each will pronounce completely differently. In theory, any spoken language such as English might be written in Chinese, though, as with Japanese, it would need to acquire grammatical particles and the ideographs would be given an English sound."
Armed forces
"The People's Republic of China (PRC) has frontiers 136,700 miles long, and its coastline measures 111,850 miles. The PRC is contiguous with fourteen countries, with three of which – India, Vietnam and USSR – it has had military clashes with in the last 50 years… Western military experts believe that, not withstanding [recent] advances, China probably does not have the capability to succeed in an attack on Taiwan [the Republic of China], let alone challenge the USA… The USA spends nearly eight times [on defence] what China does."
Human Rights
"People are still subject to an approach to human beings learned from the Soviet Union in the 1930s by a Party which, in its pursuit of total power, abandoned all civilised values."
"Conventional media can be divided into three types: first, the core Party and government organs, such as the People's Daily or New China News Agency; second, those still closely controlled by the Party and State, but not the core, such as the China Economic Times; and finally, those that are technically 'fringe' and completely dependent upon the market, yet may – as with the influential Caijing, a bi-weekly journal, or the Xin Jing Bao – be leading media. The fringe media are not as closely watched as their counterparts in the other categories of media and therefore have more leeway. Government organs still retain ultimate ownership of probably all media operations and can shut them down at will."
Central Government
"Foreign observers of government have often been convinced either that China is about to disintegrate because the centre cannot control the desire of the localities to do their own thing, or that China's economic growth is making the Chinese State so powerful that it poses a mighty threat to the rest of the world. The first fails to take account of the centre's ability both to hold on to key powers and to renew its institutions such that it could keep authority over the regions, while the second diminishes or ignores the problems with which the centre has to contend, and which lessen its ability to exert central power."
"By tradition, China thought of itself as the centre of world civilisation; thus, defeat by foreign powers [including England] in the 19th century, and subjection to their rules and demands for territory or resources, were seen as humiliating violations. As awareness of China's relative under-development grew, pride in Confucian civilisation gave way to an angry resentment against both that civilisation and against 'the West' (including Japan)."
"Until foreigners challenged, defeated and humiliated their country, most Chinese believed that China was the only civilisation. Today it is common to find people that consider China surrounded by enemies, selectively interpreting the history of the past 200 years in order to present their country as unique, not so much as civilisation but as victim. Observers argue that this is a very important component of modern Chinese identity, of nationalism, and a political factor of great power."
"[China] is an economy of peasants freed from their chains…[and they] work crazily. With their labour and much ingenuity, China has become a leading force in many sectors from nothing… It has the fastest-growing economy and is expected to have surpassed Japan by 2020, re-establishing the centrality of China in Asia, and to have surpassed the USA by 2039."
"The cumulative results of these [economic] changes have included and overall improvement in living standards; it is generally thought that 400 million people have been lifted out of poverty"
"Fifty thousand miles of three-lane highway were under construction in 2005, the size of the entire US interstate network; whereas these works too 40 years in the US, China plans their completion in five. Twenty-six Chinese cities are installing underground railways. There are 30 nuclear power stations on order."
"Everywhere in China you come across pockets of the diverse and immensely rich culture – of music, the plastic arts, calligraphy, theatre, shadow puppetry, story-telling or whatever – that the foreign travellers used to dilate upon in wonder when they visited in the early years of the 20th century. But today there are, it seems, but pockets.
"Young students that sell xun [a kind of traditional flute that the author has encountered being sold] prove that culture is not just for the old, but to be honest, their contemporaries are more likely to be in a club sweating … to the sound of the electronic production of some dance music company in Los Angeles. The Cultural Revolution ripped traditional culture out of the lives of several generations; the government has been too preoccupied to shore it up, and commercial interests have provided globalised substitutes for mass consumption. In clothing, music and appreciation of the arts, things Chinese are for the elite."
"The government is proud of the greater freedom afforded to religion since the 1980s, and points to Article 36 of the Constitution, which stipulates: 'Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief.' There are thought to be about 250 million Taoists, 100 million Buddhists and around 30 million Christians."
"On 25 April 1999, the government began to persecute a then little-known 'way' called Falungong, when 10,000 of its followers assembled to protest against a dismissive press article. This movement of practitioners of exercises traditionally associated with Taoism and of believers in a mixture of ideas both Christian and Buddhist, had until then been tolerated to the extent that many people in responsible positions had been happy to be associated with it, even though its leader was based in the USA. It was the demonstration that Falungong could mobilise so many people, without the security services being aware of its operations, that shocked the government into repression."
"Transnational corporations claim that they are 'glocal' rather than local, that they respond to, and fit in with, local cultures. Nevertheless, to observers they are engaged in attempting a cultural transformation of China, deploying 'a worldwide system of image-saturated information technologies to attract customers, including children.' Among the results is the prevalence of commercially marketed celebrations … [that] all provide opportunities for spending and diminish the specialness of traditional Chinese festivals. Whereas in rural Cantonese society, celebrations of longevity were important features of family life, they are now being superseded by celebrations of youth."
"Marketisation [has reduced] government interference in many ways: traditional markets have re-emerged, prices have been largely deregulated, and peasants will not in future be required to produce crops as stipulated by the government in its attempt at food self-sufficiency. Most of China's peasants had been producing crops which are much more successfully produced in land-rich countries, such as the UK and USA with their large farms and fewer farmers. Where China has the advantage over them is in the production of people-intensive crops such as fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants… The corollary of this is that China now imports huge quantities of grains, particularly from the USA, which it must pay for in the export of people-intensive products, particularly to South East Asia. While these policies are showing signs of working, the gap between the urban and rural areas has continued to widen (in 2003, average urban income was over three times rural), causing dissatisfaction."
Rural China/Urban China
"Even after the colossal changes which have turned China into the world's workshop, over 60 per cent of its people still live in the countryside… That is around 900 million people. Although Deng Xiaoping's first reforms helped improve conditions greatly, the limitations of the initial privatisation have become apparent. Local officials have begun to act like the wicked landlords of communist fiction, expropriating peasant land and leasing it or selling it to benefit themselves. At the same time, these 'landlords' exploit the peasantry with innumerable different local taxes, or demand unpaid labour in lieu of tax. Revolts have become common…"
© Hugo De Burgh 2006
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Talk about a smart car.
Coming soon to a garage near you is a car that will download your work schedule and trigger your alarm clock. By the time you get behind the wheel, the car will have analyzed the morning's traffic and weather and calculated the best route to get you to the office on time. You won't even have to touch the radio - it's already playing the same station you were listening to in the house. And as you pull away, it will shut the garage door and turn off the lights.
Those capabilities are built into Ford Motor Co.'s Internet-connected Evos, a so-called concept car making its North American debut at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, the giant annual trade event that opens today in Las Vegas.
"By 2014, you're going to see nearly every auto manufacturer have a connected vehicle option,'' said Leo McCloskey, vice president of marketing at Airbiquity Inc., a Seattle firm that manages wireless communications for many models of connected cars.
About 40 percent of the cars sold in the United States last year can already connect to wireless data networks, allowing drivers to listen to Internet radio stations or get traffic reports; the next step will be cars that constantly monitor online data.
Alan Taub, vice president of global research and development for General Motors Corp., said his company's goal is "360-degree situational awareness'' - a car that can "see'' and respond to its environment.
Too much technology, however, might overwhelm drivers, posing new dangers.
"The human mind is an incredible computer, but it's limited,'' said Bryan Reimer, associate director of the New England University Transportation Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which studies, among other things, the impact of vehicle technologies on driver behavior.
Even small demands on the brain can affect the way you drive, Reimer said.
For example, research showed changes in behavior when drivers simply repeated numbers as they were read out loud. "You drive slightly differently,'' he said. "Your heart rate increases. [You're still] oriented forward, but less situationally aware.''
Reimer is concerned about the prospect of grappling with a stream of tweets and Facebook updates on a car's video screen, while also negotiating the demands of rush-hour traffic and perhaps cellphone conversations.
"It is the challenge of the auto industry, as well as regulators, to objectively assess what tasks should be safely allowed in the vehicle,'' he said. "We need to do a better job of engineering before we put all this in front of someone.''
But Jon Bucci, vice president of the advanced technology department at Toyota Motor Sales USA, said connected cars are being designed to filter out such distractions with software that blocks certain online services while the car is in motion.
"We can try to create a curated environment,'' Bucci said.
For instance, a car's dashboard screen would be programmed to block streaming videos while in motion so a driver won't be tempted to sneak a peek at a YouTube video.
"Technology can solve the problem that technology has created,'' said Mark C. Boyadjis, a senior analyst for research firm IHS iSuppli in Minneapolis.
The Ford Evos, for instance, will have a heart rate monitor that can detect stress in the driver. When that happens, the vehicle's digital instrument cluster will black out all the gauges that are not related directly to the driving at hand.
Still, cars won't get really smart or fully connected until they start talking to each other.
That idea, still in the experimental stage, would use short-range radios on a special frequency designated by the federal government, and standardize a digital language that would be spoken by all cars. Each car would broadcast its exact location, speed, and direction of travel, and would notify nearby cars of any changes.
If a car broke down and stopped, the radars on nearby vehicles could detect the problem and warn drivers to slow down. The cars would also contact police to send a squad car and a wrecker, and tell the traffic control network to generate an alternate route map to avert a traffic jam.
One reason for the rush toward increasingly connected cars: Millions of drivers have come to expect constant Internet access through their smartphones.
"The user does not want to give up their digital lifestyle when they get in the car,'' said Boyadjis.
IHS iSuppli estimates Americans bought 12.5 million cars last year, and that nearly 5 million are capable of connecting to wireless data networks.
Perhaps the first connected car system was OnStar, introduced by General Motors 15 years ago. Through a cellular telephone system built into the vehicle, the system connected drivers to human operators for navigation help and roadside assistance.
Since then, other companies have adopted similar technology. Some, like Mercedes-Benz, have followed OnStar's lead and built cellular communication into the car. Others, like the popular Sync system from Ford, rely on the driver to attach his personal cellphone to the car's computer system.
At first, OnStar was available only on certain high-priced Cadillac models. The added cost "was easier to absorb at the luxury level,'' said IHS Global analyst Phil Magney.
But OnStar is now available on low-cost cars, too. Like computers and smartphones, the system became cheaper as it was more widely adopted, Magney said.
Now, systems for connected cars are being designed to be affordable.
"Every major manufacturer is trying to develop a Sync-like system that allows you to connect mobile devices to the car'' and is low-cost, Magney added.
Ford is only one of the automakers showing connected car technology at the Las Vegas electronics show, which is where manufacturers showcase the newest computer, television, and smartphone technologies.
Cadillac is featuring its CUE system, which has a smartphone-like dashboard touchscreen that can be customized. Kia, Audi, and Mercedes are also promising to show connected car systems.
The ultimate smart car, though, would be one that drives itself, a goal that gets closer to being realized with each new innovation in automotive intelligence. When cars can observe their surroundings and talk to each other, "the autonomous vehicle is probably not too far away,'' Bucci said.
GM plans to introduce self-driving cars in the next 10 years, Taub said.
"It is coming,'' he said. "The question is when and at what cost.''
Hiawatha Bray can be reached at email@example.com.


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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Miami! (Applause.) How's it going, Hurricanes! (Applause.) Can everybody please give Lizzie a big round of applause for that great introduction. (Applause.)
It's good to see your Senator, former astronaut, Bill Nelson in the house! (Applause.) Your outstanding local Congresswomen, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Frederica Wilson. (Applause.) A good man who's going to join them in Congress, Joe Garcia. (Applause.) Congresswoman Wilson asked me to also acknowledge some outstanding young people, the Miami Northwestern Senior High School 5,000 Role Model of Excellence Project. (Applause.) Proud of you guys.
And it's good to see all of you. All of you! (Applause.) Because we've got some work to do, Miami. We've got an election to win. In just over two weeks, on October 27th, you get to start voting early. And everything that we fought for in 2008 is on the line in 2012. So I'm going to need you fired up. I need you ready to go. (Applause.) I need your help to finish what we started.
Think about where we've been and how far we've come. Four years ago, I told you we'd end the war in Iraq, and I did. (Applause.) I said we'd end the war in Afghanistan, and we are. (Applause.) I said we'd refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 -- and today, al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is dead. (Applause.)
Four years ago, I promised to cut taxes for middle-class families, and we have, by $3,600. (Applause.) I promised to cut taxes for small business owners, and we have, 18 times. We stabilized the banking system, but we got back every dime we used to rescue the banks -- with interest. (Applause.) And we passed a historic law to end taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts for good.
We passed health care reform, a.k.a. Obamacare -- (applause) -- so your insurance company can't jerk you around anymore, and those of you under 26 can stay on your parent's plan. (Applause.) You can't have insurance companies barring you because you've got a preexisting condition, and they can't charge more just because you're a woman. (Applause.)
We repealed "don't ask, don't tell," so nobody is ever kicked out of the military because of who they love. (Applause.)
When Governor Romney said we should let Detroit go bankrupt, we said, no, we're not going to take your business advice. We reinvented a dying auto industry that's come roaring back to the top of the world. (Applause.) And that makes a difference not just to communities across the Midwest; it's vital for our entire economy. It's something every American can be proud of.
Today, four years after the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, we are moving forward. (Applause.) After losing 800,000 jobs the month I was sworn in, our businesses have now added more than 5 million new jobs over the past two and a half years. (Applause.) The unemployment rate has fallen from a peak of 10 percent down to 7.8 percent -- the lowest level since I took office. (Applause.) So more Americans are getting jobs and manufacturing is coming back. Home values are on the rise.
Now, we know we're not where we need to be --- not yet. That's especially true in places like Florida that were so hard hit. We've still got too many friends and neighbors who are looking for work. We've got too many families who can't pay the bills, too many homes that are still underwater, too many young people still burdened with debt when they graduate from college. (Applause.)
But if there's one thing I know, Florida, it's this: We have come too far to turn back now. (Applause.) The American people have worked too hard to get to this point. After all that we've been through together, after all that we fought through together, why would we go backwards? The last thing we can afford, Florida, right now is four years of the very same policies that got us into this mess in the first place. (Applause.) I won't let that happen. We can't let that happen. That's why I'm running for a second term as President of the United States of America. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: Florida, I have seen too much pain and too much struggle because of bad economic policies that happened before we got elected to let this country go through another round of top-down economics.
The centerpiece of Governor Romney's economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut that favors the wealthiest Americans.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
THE PRESIDENT: Don't boo -- vote. (Applause.) Vote! Vote! (Applause.) Now, Governor Romney has been pitching this plan for almost a year now. He stood up on the stage in one of his primary debates and proudly promised that his new tax cuts, on top of the Bush tax cuts, would include the top 1 percent.
Now, you wouldn't know this from listening to the new, latest version of Mitt Romney. (Laughter.) He's trying to go through an extreme makeover. After running for more than a year in which he called himself "severely conservative," Mitt Romney is trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. (Laughter and applause.)
Look, what he was selling was not working -- because people understood his ideas wouldn't help the middle class. So these days, Mitt Romney is for whatever you're for. (Laughter.) Suddenly, he loves the middle class --- can't stop talking enough about them. He loves Medicare, loves teachers. He even loves the most important parts of Obamacare. What happened? (Laughter and applause.)
Now, what does he have to say, this new version of Mitt Romney, about all the things he's actually promised to do as President: Tax breaks for outsourcers -- never heard of such a thing. Saying we should cut back on teachers -- doesn't ring a bell.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
THE PRESIDENT: Don't boo --
AUDIENCE: Vote!
THE PRESIDENT: Vote!
Kicking 200,000 young Floridians off their parent's insurance plans -- who, me? (Laughter.) And when he's asked about the cost of his tax plan, he just pretends it doesn't exist -- what $5 trillion tax cut? I don't know anything about a $5 trillion tax cut. Pay no attention to the $5 trillion tax cut on my website. (Laughter and applause.)
Look, Governor Romney thinks we have not been paying attention for the last year and a half. He is going to say whatever it takes to try to close the deal, and he's counting on the fact that you don't remember that what he's selling is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.
So, Florida, you've got to let him know we remember. We know full well that if he gets a chance, Governor Romney will rubber-stamp the top-down agenda of this Republican Congress the second he takes office, and we cannot afford that future. His plan will not create jobs. It will not help the middle class. It will not speed the recovery -- it will slow down the recovery. It will not reduce the deficit. It will not expand opportunity. We can't afford it. We're not going back. We are moving forward. And that's why I'm running for a second term as President of the United States. (Applause.)
Look, America, we know that in this country, jobs and prosperity don't trickle down from the top. They grow from a strong and thriving middle class.
More tax breaks for outsourcers won't create jobs. It didn't over the last decade. You know what does create jobs? Is supporting small businesses and manufacturers who make products right here in America, who hire American workers. That's what we're championing. (Applause.)
That's why we need to stop rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas. Start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in Miami, right here in Florida, right here in the United States. That's the choice you face in this election. (Applause.)
I believe we can create more jobs by controlling more of our own energy. After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, your cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. (Applause.) And today, the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any time in two decades. (Applause.)
So now you've got a choice. My plan would cut our oil imports in half and invest in the clean energy that's creating thousands of jobs all across America right now -- (applause) -- not just oil and natural gas, but wind and solar and clean coal technologies, fuel-efficient cars and long-lasting batteries. And if you want to know how we're paying for it, one of the things we need to do is not allow oil companies to collect another $4 billion in taxpayer-funded corporate welfare every single year. (Applause.)
I will not let China or anybody else win the race for clean energy technology. I want to see that technology developed right here in Florida, right here in the United States of America, creating jobs right here. (Applause.) And, by the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that's heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. (Applause.) More drought and floods and hurricanes and wildfires -- that's not a joke. That's a threat to our children's future. And we can do something about it.
Just like I believe that we can make sure that every young person in America gets the education they need to compete. (Applause.) Education is the only reason that I'm standing here today. (Applause.) Education is the gateway to a middle-class life.
And now you've got a choice. Governor Romney says hiring more teachers won't grow the economy over the next four years; that's not the role of teachers. What about our kids over the next four years? What about our economy over the next 40 years? (Applause.) We cannot gut education to pay for $5 trillion tax cuts. We need to recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers and provide 2 million workers the opportunity to study at community colleges, and lower tuition costs for our young people. (Applause.) That's what we're fighting for. That's what's at stake in this election. That's what grows our economy. That's what we can do together. And that's what you can choose for America.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I love you, Barack!
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.)
I want to use the money that we're saving from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay down our deficit, put our people back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and schools all across America. Governor Romney said it was "tragic" to end the war in Iraq. He said this in a speech just this week -- said we should have left troops on the ground in Iraq.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
THE PRESIDENT: Don't boo --
AUDIENCE: Vote!
THE PRESIDENT: Vote. (Applause.)
I think bringing our troops home to their families was the right thing to do. (Applause.)
And every brave American who wears the uniform of this country should know, as long as I'm your Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. (Applause.) And when our troops take off their uniforms, we will serve them as well as they've served us -- because nobody who has fought for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their heads when they come home. (Applause.)
And finally, yes, we're going to need to cut our deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years. And I've already worked with Republicans and Democrats to cut a trillion dollars in spending; I'm ready to do more. But we're not going to be able to get it done unless we also ask the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on their incomes over $250,000 --- (applause) -- the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was President and our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs. That's what we need to do. (Applause.)
Governor Romney has a different view. He said just a couple of weeks ago that it's fair that he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher who is making $50,000 a year.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
THE PRESIDENT: Don't boo --
AUDIENCE: Vote!
THE PRESIDENT: Vote.
He's wrong. I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. I refuse to pay for that tax cut by asking students at "The U" to pay more for college -- (applause) -- or kicking children out of Head Start programs, or eliminating health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor or elderly or disabled. That won't help us grow.
My opponent says over and over that he can cut taxes, increase military spending, close the deficit -- but the only thing he's pointed to that he's going to get rid of is Big Bird. (Laughter and applause.) This week he said, don't worry, his new tax cuts will pay for themselves. That may not sound familiar to some of you guys because you're young, but we heard that exact same argument back in 2000, back in 2001, back in 2003. That's how we went from surplus to deficit. We have heard this pitch before. We know it doesn't work. We know our plan does.
This is the choice that we now face. This is what the election comes down to. This is why I'm running for a second term as President. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: Over and over, folks like Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us that since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing -- sort of a "you're on your own" philosophy. If you can't afford health insurance, hope you don't get sick. If a company is releasing harmful, toxic pollution into the air that your kids breathe, well, that's the price of progress. If you can't afford to start a business or go to college, borrow money from your parents. (Laughter.)
That's not how we built this country. That's not what made America great. That's not who we are. That's not what we're about. Here in America, we believe we're all in this together. (Applause.) We understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us, together, as one nation and one people.
And that's what we came together to restore back in 2008 -- that sense of what we can do together. And the American people all across this country responded. You are the reason that Florida seniors right now are saving an average of $600 every year on prescription drugs -- because we passed Obamacare, because we passed health care reform. You did that. (Applause.)
You're the reason there's a working family from Hollywood that was able to save their home from foreclosure. You did that. It's because of you.
You're the reason that students in Gainesville, or Tallahassee, or here at "The U" have help paying for their college education, why veterans can go to college now on the New GI Bill.
You're the reason a young immigrant who grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported from the only country she's ever called home. (Applause.)
You're the reason why soldiers won't be kicked out of our military because of who they love. (Applause.) You're the reason why thousands of families have finally been able to say to the loved ones who served us so bravely, "Welcome home." Welcome home. (Applause.)
And so we can't be tired now. We have to keep going. If you turn away now, if you buy into the cynicism that what we fought for isn't possible, well, of course change won't happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice makes a difference, especially the young people here, then other voices will fill the void --- the lobbyists and the special interests, the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election, the ones who are trying to make it harder to vote; the Washington politicians who want to control health care choices women can make for themselves. (Applause.) They will fill the void. They will set the agenda. And they will take us backward.
And only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward. On October 27th, you can choose -- you can choose. You can choose whether we go back to the policies that got us into this mess, or you can choose to keep moving forward with policies that have been getting us out of this mess. That's the choice. (Applause.)
On October 27th, you can choose to go back to a foreign policy that takes us into wars with no plan to get out, or we can say let's keep moving forward; let's end the Afghan war realistically; let's bring our troops home in a responsible fashion. (Applause.)
On October 27th, you can agree to turn back the clock 50 years for women, and immigrants, and gays, and lesbians. Or you can stand up and say we want to keep moving forward. (Applause.) I believe that America is a country where you can succeed no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter who you love. (Applause.)
That's what's at stake. That's what's at stake in this election. That's why I'm asking for your vote. (Applause.) Back in 2008, I won, but 47 percent of the country didn't vote for me. But I didn't just dismiss 47 percent of the country. What I said was, you may not have voted for me, but I heard your voices, and I'll fight just as hard for you as I will for everybody else. (Applause.)
And I kept that promise. I have been fighting for every American to make sure they get a fair shot. (Applause.) And I have been willing to do it and able to do it, because every single day the American people have inspired me.
I still believe in you, and I need you to keep believing in me. I need you to help me finish the job. And if you're willing to stand with me, and work with me, and knock on some doors with me, and make some phone calls for me, we'll win Florida again. We'll win this election. We'll finish what we started. And we'll remind the world why the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth.
God bless you. God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)


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Va. House scraps invasive pre-abortion requirement
Feb 22, 2012, 11:44 PM
AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Amid a public uproar that prompted Virginia's governor to withdraw his support, Republican legislators on Wednesday dropped a bitterly contested proposal to require that women seeking abortions undergo invasive ultrasound imaging, likely dooming the bill.
The Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted 65-32 for an amended bill that requires only an external ultrasound, not the vaginal insertion of a wand-like device that emits ultrasonic waves that are used to create images of the fetus.
The House amended the bill shortly after Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell issued a statement opposing the more invasive procedure. McDonnell, who has been mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate, shifted ground after the proposal drew outrage from women, national ridicule from television comedians and appeals from GOP moderates concerned about the political impact in the presidential battleground state.
"Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state," said McDonnell, a socially conservative Catholic who had voiced support for the legislation last week. "No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure."
His written statement came as the House's majority Republicans quarreled over how to handle the legislation minutes before it was to be debated. House Republicans twice recessed Wednesday's session to regroup. The final vote was mostly along party lines.
The amended bill now returns to the Senate where its sponsor, Sen. Jill Vogel, said she will strike the legislation. A House version, by Del. Kathy Byron, is pending before a Senate committee.
The invasive ultrasound measure is among three anti-abortion measures coursing their way through a General Assembly where socially conservative Republicans gained control after last fall's elections. One bill would give embryos the same legal protections as persons and criminalize their destruction, outlawing almost all abortions and, critics say, some forms of contraception. Another would end state Medicaid funding for abortions sought by indigent women whose fetuses are severely and grossly deformed.
But the ultrasound bill provoked the most outrage and national attention.
On Presidents Day, about 1,400 people, most of them women, linked arms to form a silent human cordon along the Capitol Square walkways that legislators use between the state Capitol and their legislative offices. Some demonstrators wore shirts and stickers that derided the bill as state-mandated rape.
Aside from national news coverage, the bills crossed over into comedy and popular culture with a "Saturday Night Live" skit lampooning the measures and a withering comedic critique Tuesday by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.
The bill that was amended Wednesday had already won Senate passage on a 22-18 vote. Told of the changes to her bill, she said many questions had arisen over it, "and I don't have all the answers."
The House-approved measure would require women seeking abortions to wait at least 24 hours after undergoing the external ultrasound fetal imaging before they can have the abortion if they live within 100 miles of the abortion clinic. If they live farther, they must wait only two hours.
Like the earlier bill, the House measure does not compel women to view ultrasound images or hear the fetal heartbeat, if there is one.
Democrats were not satisfied with the amendments, arguing instead that they were worse because they did not include exemptions for certain types of miscarriages.
Republicans strengthened their grip on Virginia government when they recently took control of the state Senate, in addition to the state House and Governor's Mansion. Virginia is expected to be a battleground in the coming presidential election, four years after Democrat Barack Obama captured a state that traditionally backs Republicans in presidential contests.
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(CNN) -- "I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in 1963, but this was not the speech that would go down as one of the most important addresses in US history.
King spoke these words in Detroit, two months before he addressed a crowd of nearly 250,000 with his resounding "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963.
Several of King's staff members actually tried to discourage him from using the same "I have a dream" refrain again.
As we all know, that didn't happen. But how this pivotal speech was crafted is just one of several interesting facts about what is one of the most important moments in the 20th century in the United States:
1. MLK's speech almost didn't include 'I have a dream'
King had suggested the familiar "Dream" speech that he used in Detroit for his address at the march, but his adviser the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker called it "hackneyed and trite."
So, the night before the march, King's staff crafted a new speech, "Normalcy Never Again."
King was the last speaker to address the crowd in Washington that day. As he spoke, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out to King, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin."
Then he paused and said, "I still have a dream."
Walker was out in the audience. "I said, 'Oh, s---.'"
"I thought it was a mistake to use that," Walker recalled. "But how wrong I was. It had never been used on a world stage before."
The rest, of course, is history.
2. The march almost didn't include any female speakers, either
It was only after pressure from Anna Arnold Hedgeman, the only woman on the national planning committee, that a "Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom" was added to the official program.
It took further convincing to have a woman lead it.
Daisy Bates spoke in the place of Myrlie Evers, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP who played a key role in integrating schools in Little Rock, told the crowd: "We will walk until we are free, until we can walk to any school and take our children to any school in the United States. And we will sit-in and we will kneel-in and we will lie-in if necessary until every Negro in America can vote. This we pledge to the women of America."
Earlier, Josephine Baker, an internationally known American entertainer who had moved to France to find fame, addressed the crowd. Dressed in a military jacket draped with medals for her contribution to French resistance in World War II, she spoke in very personal terms about freedom:
"You know I have always taken the rocky path. I never took the easy one, but as I get older, and as I knew I had the power and the strength, I took that rocky path, and I tried to smooth it out a little. I wanted to make it easier for you. I want you to have a chance at what I had. But I do not want you to have to run away to get it."
Women had been central to the civil rights movement -- Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Dorothy Height and many others -- but were only included in the program that day after one woman spoke up.
3. The most prominent white speaker was called the 'white Martin Luther King'
Walter Reuther was the head of the United Automobile Workers,which provided office space, staff and funding for the march in Detroit and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He was the seventh speaker listed on the program, and shared his remarks to the crowd.
"We will not solve education or housing or public accommodations as long as millions of Negroes are treated as second-class economic citizens and denied jobs," he said.
In 1998, Time Magazine included him in its list of Builders & Titans Of The 20th Century. Irving Bluestone, Reuther's former administrative assistant, shared this popular story to explain who Reuther was at the March on Washington: "Standing close to the podium were two elderly women. As (Reuther) was introduced, one of the women was overheard asking her friend, 'Who is Walter Reuther?' The response: 'Walter Reuther? He's the white Martin Luther King.'"
4. An openly gay man organized the march in less than two months
Bayard Rustin is "the most important leader of the civil rights movement you probably have never heard of," as LZ Granderson put it in a CNN column. Not only did he organize the march in a matter of months, Rustin is credited with teaching King about nonviolence. He also helped raise funds for the Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Council.
During the time, his sexual orientation was known, and he was often in the background to prevent it from being used against the movement.
Rustin, who died in 1987, was honored with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.
5. It wasn't the first planned 'March on Washington'
Labor leader and civil rights advocate A. Philip Randolph had threatened a "March for Freedom" on the National Mall in 1941 to pressure then-President Franklin Roosevelt to provide equal opportunity for defense jobs. Randolph hired Rustin to organize part of the march, which they felt was the only way to prompt action after numerous appeals.
It worked: The march was called off after Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practices Committee, abolishing racial discrimination in hiring.
6. The march was a Hollywood star-studded event
Popular actor and singer Harry Belafonte used his star power to help bring other celebrities to the March on Washington. Besides reaching out to the stars themselves, Belafonte went to many of the studio heads in Hollywood to get prominent actors and actresses temporarily released from their duties so they could participate.
He was successful. The Hollywood list of attendees that day read like a who's who of A-listers: Marlon Brando, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster, who also gave a speech.
But having the Hollywood stars there wasn't just for show or for increased media attention. It also helped calm President John F. Kennedy's nerves about the march.
"I believe that their presence did a lot to assuage people who were preoccupied with the fact there could be violence," Belafonte said.
"One of the things that I said in my conversations with the Kennedys in discussing why they should be more yielding in their support of our demonstration was the fact that there would be such a presence of highly profiled artists -- that that alone would put anxiety to rest," he added.
"People would be looking at the occasion in a far more festive way."
7. One march worker fell asleep during MLK's speech
Back in 1963, college student Patricia Worthy took a job answering phones for the March on Washington's planning office. She had 10 phone lines to answer, and they rang from the time she walked in until she left for the day.
"I recall one day I'll never forget, I heard someone say, 'Where is this young lady who handles the phone?' And finally I looked up, and there he was -- Dr. King -- and he said, 'I want to meet this young lady. She has put me on the hold twice, and hung up on me once, and I want to know who she is.' "
Worthy said she was "so embarrassed," but then the civil rights icon gave her a hug.
By the day of the march, she was so tired, she dozed off and accidentally slept through the historic march and the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Everything worked out for her in the end: Worthy had a successful career in law and academia.
8. Another hitchhiked all the way from Alabama only to have MLK check in on him
Robert Avery and two of his friends hitchhiked nearly 700 miles from Gadsden, Alabama, to Washington to participate in the march.
Avery, who was 15 years old at the time, was no stranger to the dark side of the civil rights movement. A few months earlier, he was struck by a cattle prod wielded by Alabama police during anti-segregation demonstrations in Gadsden.
The three youths arrived in the nation's capital a week before the march after three days of hitchhiking, and they were put to work making signs for the event.
At one point, King walked in and asked for them. He had been in Gadsden the night before, and their parents had asked the civil rights leader to check on them.
King sat down with the three and talked to them for about 20 minutes, asking them about their dreams, Avery later recalled.
9. 'I Have a Dream' beat JFK's 'Ask not what you can do' speech
There's no doubt that King's speech was the most memorable part of the March on Washington. It's still taught in school, and memorized by children, half a century later.
But how does it compare against other pivotal speeches by 20th century leaders, such as John F. Kennedy or Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Well, a panel of more than 130 scholars got together in 1999 to rate the best speeches of the 20th century and King's speech ranked No. 1.
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Do you pair?
Since it seems that most of us are home bakers, I was wondering if you guys pair a bread with the meal your cooking that day? My wife laughs at me as I try to pick a bread that goes well with what I'm cooking, sort of like choosing a wine I guess. I love a sour rye with beef, a Vienna with Italian cooking, a slightly sweet bread with smoked turkey, a baguette with most non-beef meals, etc. Am I the only one?


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While all nonprofits share a commitment to bettering society in some capacity, they are incredibly diverse in terms of size, focus, and type. In the United States alone there are millions of nonprofits ranging from small, community-based organizations, to cultural and educational institutions such as museums, universities and colleges (like Wellesley!) to large foundations supporting causes around the globe.
Arts Education
As a field, art education spans traditional K-12 art classrooms to university/college teaching and even to more community-oriented spaces, like museums, arts centers, and educational non-profits. This field even crosses over into healthcare in the form of vocational rehabilitation and art therapy programs.
Service Fellowships
Service is at the very heart of Wellesley's motto, and fellowships can support all kinds of service in the world: in the U.S. and abroad; for undergraduates and graduates; with structured opportunities, placement with NGOs, or "build your own" projects. This resource is by no means exhaustive, but instead aims to provide an introduction to some of the most common fellowships as well as some helpful first steps.
Wellesley Career Education Summer Internship Grants (Stipends for Student-Identified Placements)
Through the ongoing and generous support of our donors, the College is able to offer funding to support unpaid internships which students identify on their own. Many award recipients pursue internships in nonprofit organizations focused on education and other community development areas, but funding is available for opportunities in other sectors both within the United States and internationally, as well. In addition to the stipends, Wellesley Career Education staff provide ongoing professional development and career education training throughout their summer experiences.
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The clickwheel of the first iPod worked by measuring electric field disturbances in one dimension. The first iPhone touch screen functioned similarly, but in two dimensions.
This week, Microchip Technology, a large U.S. semiconductor manufacturer, says it is releasing the first controller that uses electrical fields to make 3-D measurements.
The low-power chip makes it possible to interact with mobile devices and a host of other consumer electronics using hand gesture recognition, which today is usually accomplished with camera-based sensors. A key limitation is that it only recognizes motions, such as a hand flick or circular movement, within a six-inch range.
"That's the biggest drawback," says University of Washington computing interface researcher Sidhant Gupta. "But I think, still, it's a pretty big win, especially when compared to a camera system. It's low-cost and low-power. I can completely see it going into phones."
Gesture recognition technology has advanced in recent years with efforts to create more-natural user interfaces that go beyond touch screens, keyboards, and mouses (see "What Comes After the Touchscreen?"). Microsoft's Kinect made 3-D gesture recognition popular for game consoles, for example. But while creative uses of the Kinect have proliferated, the concept hasn't become mainstream in desktops, laptops, or mobile devices quite yet.
Today, Microsoft, along with other companies such as Leap Motion and Flutter, are working to improve upon and expand camera-based technology to new markets (see "Leap 3D Out-Kinects Kinect" and "Hold Your Hand Up to Play Some Music"). For smart phones and tablets, Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon mobile device chip includes gesture recognition abilities, via its camera, but few mobile devices make use of gesture control.
Despite the six-inch distance limitation, the electrical-field controller could have some interesting advantages compared to camera sensors. "It's really complementary," says Fanie Duvenhage, director of Microchip Technology's human-machine interface division.
Power consumption is a key issue for battery-powered devices. Microchip's controller uses 90 percent less than camera-based gesture systems, the company says, and it can be left always on, so that it could be used to, say, wake up a smart-phone screen from sleep mode when a person's hand nears.
The controller works by transmitting an electrical signal and then calculating the three-coordinate position of a hand based on the disturbances to the field the hand creates. Whereas many camera systems have "blind spots" for close-up hand gestures and can fail in low light, the Microchip controller works well under these conditions and doesn't require an external sensor (its sensing electrodes can sit behind a device's housing).
Perhaps most interesting, the controller could easily go into electronics that don't have a camera, including car dashboards, keyboards, light switches, or a music docking station. In fact, Microchip Technology already sells components to 70,000 customers that make these products. Duvenhage says he imagines interesting uses in cars, such as controlling an in-car navigation system, or in medical or kitchen settings where users might not want to touch a button or screen.
The controller comes with the ability to recognize 10 predefined gestures, including wake-up on approach, position tracking, and various hand flicks, but it can also be programmed to respond to custom movements. Similar to the programming of voice recognition software, Microchip Technology built the gesture library using algorithms that learned from how different people make the same movements. These gestures can then be translated to functions on a device, such as on/off, open application, point, click, zoom, or scroll.
The precision is about the same as using a mouse, but the system has limitations. It can't yet distinguish between, say, an open hand and a closed fist, or simultaneous movements of different fingers, an area the company wants to improve.
Today, less than a year after acquiring the German startup that developed the technology, the company is making a development kit available for sale, and Duvenhage says they'll be looking to customers to see what uses they create. Microchip plans to reach mass production levels by next April, and it expects to see the first products using the technology on the market sometime next year.
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