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The Faces' Ian McLagan's 11 career-defining tracks
Ian McLagan on his top 11
Having just completed a handful of festival dates with the latest incarnation of the Faces, keyboard legend Ian McLagan returns to centre stage with a month of solo shows in the UK and Ireland. Controversy still surrounds the decision to enlist Mick Hucknall in the continued absence of Rod Stewart, but Mac feels the revised Faces line-up, which also features former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock in place of the late Ronnie Lane, treat the band's legacy with respect.
"The thing is that Rod's voice isn't what it was, he had surgery on his vocal cords a few years ago and it's changed the way he sings," says Mac. "We had some rehearsals a couple of years ago and basically had to re-learn all the songs in different keys to accommodate Rod. Ron Wood had to put heavier strings on his guitar and tune everything down, and we all agreed that it just wasn't the same.
"That's not to say we'll never play with Rod again, never say never. If at some point in the future he's really up for it, and we can all get comfortable with the changes to the songs, there's no reason for us not to get back out there.
"We always knew it would work with Mick, and I think he's surprised a lot of people. He's a rocker at heart, and was a Faces fan from way back when, so he already knew the songs inside out. He's been singing them in his bedroom since he was a kid!
"Glen is someone I've known since the late 1970s; my old friend Mick Ronson called me up to play keyboards for this band he was producing, Rich Kids, who were Glen and Midge Ure. I did a tour with them and kept noticing Glen throw a few familiar bass riffs into the songs – it turned out his all-time hero was Ronnie Lane, he'd actually taught himself by playing along to Faces records.
"That's why he's such a natural fit; having any old bass player, regardless of how talented they are, wouldn't work as well. Glen really gets the magic and the sensuality of the Faces, he slots in perfectly with me and Ron."
Mac talked to MusicRadar about his favourite 11 tracks out of the hundreds he's played on over the years.
Ian McLagan tours the UK and Ireland throughout August, full details at ianmclagan.com
Tin Soldier - Small Faces
"It's probably the greatest ever Small Faces song. Steve Marriott's voice is fantastic, he's really at the top of his game – and my piano playing is really great, haha! I got to do so much on that track, I'm playing a Wurlitzer electric piano, a grand piano and a Hammond. Steve also got to double-track his guitar, there are tons of overdubs. Most of our early records were done on the run, we'd be in the studio for no more than a couple of hours before racing off to a gig somewhere.
"That was the luxury of moving from Decca to Andrew Oldham's label Immediate, we were given plenty of time to work on material and all of us opened up as musicians, it was very rewarding. There's a song by my heroes Booker T & The MGs called Carnaby Street, and I always thought Steve borrowed a bit of it for Tin Soldier, but I only found out a couple of years ago that their song was recorded after ours – they nicked from us!"
Pineapple And The Monkey - Faces
"This is on the Faces' debut album, First Step, it's really us playing at being Booker T & The MGs. It's a fantastic instrumental, written by Ron Wood. I still play it at my own gigs, and the last time I was in London at the Jazz Cafe Ron was in the audience. Some people were disappointed that I didn't ask him up on stage to jam, but I wanted to play the song for him, it was my way of thanking him for coming up with such a great song, such a great groove."
Stay With Me - Faces
"The Faces' first big hit single, and I can't thank Glyn Johns enough for helping us knock it into shape, he's a brilliant producer and engineer. There's a lot going on in this one, loads of tempo changes. We'd do that a lot, but always thought it might not work as well if you're trying to get a song into the charts, we always worried that radio wouldn't play it.
"Other musicians have complimented me for the sound I get out of the Wurlitzer but I didn't do anything except play it. Glyn went round the band, tweaked everything to match what he heard in his head, and created a classic. It's as much his song as it ours."
Love Lives Here - Faces
"A beautiful song, written by Ronnie Lane, on the third Faces album, A Nod's As Good As A Wink. I get to weave piano and organ together, so it's a very satisfying sound for me personally, but I especially like it because of the way Ronnie and Rod sing the vocal together.
"It's a pity there are so few songs where they're both singing, because I always thought there was something really emotional about that blend. Every time I hear this song it takes me back to the old days, it triggers a lot of memories for me."
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
"The Rolling Stones go disco. This is one of two songs I play on from the Some Girls album, the other is their cover of The Temptations' Just My Imagination. The thing about the Stones is that they tend to have songs lying around for a few years waiting for a home. I know they did a few different versions of Some Girls previously, there's one with Billy Preston on keyboards, but I've never heard it.
"We also had a go at Start Me Up during the Some Girls sessions, and that didn't finally appear until a couple of albums later. I was only with them for a weekend in the studio, but it was very work intensive – beds were made but not slept in.
"It was a thrill for me to play with them, and I went on to do a couple of tours later on. They've always been my favourite band, I actually booked them for a few gigs in the early days when I was still at art school."
Me And The Boys - Bonnie Raitt
"This is from the Bonnie Raitt album I played on, Green Light, in 1982. It was originally done by NRBQ, who Bonnie really turned me on to. I remember her tour manager didn't like them much, but she struck a deal with him saying she'd give the band and crew a day off in New Orleans for each gig he booked NRBQ as her opening act. He promptly went and booked them for 17 shows!
"We had a real blast in New Orleans, and Bonnie surprised me by flying my wife in from Los Angeles. She's a wonderful person and a great guitarist, there's a really authentic blues feel to what she does. She's a real star and she shines a bright light on others, she does a lot to give less successful musicians a leg-up."
When It Don't Come Easy - Patty Griffin
"This is by one of my favourite singers, Patty Griffin. I've toured with her and played on a couple of her albums; this song is on her 2004 record Impossible Dream. She's a huge talent, very soulful, so much more than just a country singer, which is probably how most people view her. Mind you, that's changed a bit after the Robert Plant album she's on, Band Of Joy.
"I saw the gig they played in Austin last year, and Patty went out of her way to make sure myself and Robert met up – I hadn't actually seen him since about 1971. I'm always in awe of Patty whenever I play with her, sometimes I actually forget to play my parts because I'm too busy watching her! I first discovered her when I was part of Billy Bragg's band, The Blokes, and she opened for us. I'd be at the side of the stage every night, totally enamoured by her."
Annie - Ian McLagan
"I recorded an album of Ronnie Lane songs in 2006, to mark what would have been his 60th birthday. This is a beautiful track, it's got a really great atmosphere to it. It's not unlike Love Lives Here in mood, but it's very difficult for me to sing because I don't have the gentle tone that Ronnie had, so I tend not to do it live anymore. You have to respect the song and give it up if you can't do it well."
Debris - Ian McLagan
"Forgive me for nominating another one from my album of Ronnie Lane songs, Spiritual Boy. This one first appeared on A Nod's As Good As A Wink, but it's the later version that really gets me emotional. Ronnie wrote it for his dad, who was a lovely, lovely man, and I find myself thinking about both of them when I do it myself. I put cellos on it, slowed it down a bit, and I'm really proud of the way it turned out. I'd like to think Ronnie would have been too."
An Innocent Man - Ian McLagan
"This is from my own album, Never Say Never. It might seem a bit egotistical to choose a song I wrote myself, but this one is very special to me. I play it at every one of my gigs, sometimes with the band but often just by myself. I'm glad that my wife, Kim, got to hear it before she passed away. She really loved it, and in some ways it's about her, so I always think of her when I'm playing it.
"It's really about being in a kind of prison, about being sentenced to something you've no control over, and it's sort of how I feel now – I'm still here but Kim isn't with me. At first it was difficult to perform it on stage, I would have to play it over and over again at soundchecks until I stopped crying, I needed to get the tears out of the way before the gig."
Freeway View - James McMurty
"This is another recent one, by James McMurtry on his album Just Us Kids. He's a very dear friend of mine and a great writer, as is his father, the novelist Larry McMurtry. James puts together very complex songs, and he really knows Texas, the out-of-the way parts of the state that no one ever goes to. He brings them to life in his music. Each song is a novel in itself.
"I don't want to sound big-headed, but I'd actually forgotten I played on this song, and I heard it on the radio in Austin once and thought 'now that guy can really play the piano' – and it was me! I'll balance that by saying there's more than a few when I think 'Oh god, that organ sounds awful', and it's also me."
Ian McLagan tours the UK and Ireland throughout August, full details at ianmclagan.com


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Long Live Intellectual Property Rights!
In a recent STR column, Roderick Long argues that, "Either intellectual property means slavery, or it means nothing at all." I would beg to differ.
Let us view the question from the standpoint of the right of individuals to voluntarily engage in private contracts with others. This right is taken as being one of the core inalienable freedoms by virtually all people of a libertarian bent, I believe.
Now suppose that I've written a program which enhances photographs by making the dark areas brighter, without washing out the bright areas (I have, in fact, written such a program). Certainly it's a fine and wonderful thing if I choose to share that program freely, either in executable or source code form, as a gift to the world. But only a statist would claim that I have a moral or legal duty to do so. If I decide to keep the algorithm and everything that flows from it secret, and take them with me to the grave, that is my right.
If I wish to share the program, yet not give it away, one option would be to invite others to send me their photographs, enhance them, and return the enhanced photos, either free or for a fee. I might offer the service for free until a large enough pool of people want more of it, then charge.
Suppose Bill, whose photos I've enhanced, says, "I'd rather run your program myself, so I can fix pictures on the spot instead of waiting for you to do them." I say, "Well, Bill, I'm afraid that if I send the executable to you, you'll run off copies and give them to others. Then I lose all ability to make money from this thing I've invented."
What's Bill going to answer? Perhaps something like this: "I promise I won't pass a copy of your program along to anybody else, if you'll just share it with me." I respond, "Will you back that promise, in writing, with a large monetary penalty if I can show that you've violated this agreement?" Bill: "Yes I will."
Would Mr. Long make the resulting contract non-binding by government decree? That strikes me as absurd. It is perfectly reasonable and valid for two people (or, by extension, two companies or other entities) to come to such an agreement. I get a lump sum of cash, am relieved of future work on Bill's photos, and Bill gets to enhance his own pix. I can continue to offer enhancement services, and may, if I find willing buyers, sell additional copies of the program under similar terms.
In my view, it is to the benefit of everyone if such contracts are possible, and, when necessary, are backed by whatever mechanism of enforcement the two parties have agreed upon. I need hardly add that no one forces Bill to sign; he may choose to use my services under my terms or forego them. Or, he may decide to try to write, or otherwise acquire, a different program which produces similar, perhaps better, results, and cut me out of the picture. If, on the other hand, Bill voluntarily agrees to contract with me, who is Mr. Long, or anybody else, to say that the contract should not be honored?
The same reasoning applies to other forms of intellectual property: prose, poetry, music, whatever. What's that I hear you say, that books and music aren't "the same" as software? They are different in detail, not in principle. To take Mr. Long's own example, suppose I read you my latest poem. But before I do so, I ask, "Will you agree not to pass this on?" and I wait for your affirmative answer before proceeding. Voila, we have a contract.
Do you object that books and music aren't sold with such an agreement? They most certainly are; it's called copyright law. Now, we might agree that copyrights are a clumsy way to approach the problem, and that people should be left to negotiate their own terms on a case-by-case basis. But this in no way negates the solid principle behind what copyright laws protect.
Some forms of intellectual property are much easier to steal than the source code of my example program, especially if I offer only enhancement services. But the fact that it is easier does not make it any more legitimate. Theft made easy is not theft made moral.
It is often said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. I wonder whether those who argue that intellectual property rights are "slavery" have never had a creation of value stolen from them. Or is it, even worse, a lust to get something for nothing? Whatever the motivation, the assertion is nonsense.


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The New New Capitalism
By Timothy SpanglerSeptember 20, 2012
Free Market Revolution by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook
Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
DOES CAPITALISM NEED a moral defense? Do capitalists need a moral philosophy?
George Gilder's book, Wealth and Poverty, was originally published in 1981, in a world much different from the one we encounter today. The threat of Soviet and Chinese communism loomed large. Japan seemed to be doing capitalism much better than America. Europe was wrestling with the consequences of excessive statism. At the dawning of the Reagan era, Gilder laid out a comprehensive detail-rich series of arguments that attempted to provide a rousing defense of pure capitalism, of the sort that had been lost under decades of government expansion in the US.
In 2012, the world looks considerably different.
Technology has fundamentally changed the way information and data moves from point to point, both in our day-to-day lives and in the business and financial world. Perhaps more importantly, the last 25 years have also seen belief in the discipline of market forces surpass its more obvious philosophical rivals. After decades of stalled growth and the accumulating byproducts of repression, a long list of totalitarian states that professed Marxist ideas, but ultimately made do with militarized garrison states, set aside their past mistakes and began taking steps towards open markets. Some even argue that capitalism no longer needs defending, having been adopted as the reigning economic approach by policy makers in all parts of the globe.
Capitalism prioritizes productivity over distribution and envisions an "open system" with innovation as a key component, regardless of the destructive power that it inevitably unleashes. Failure is an unavoidable feature of human existence, and rather than hide it or dissemble it away, capitalism acknowledges and accepts the risk of failure as crucial to achieving wider aims.
But the recent global financial crisis has given free marketeers a number of awkward questions to answer — questions about how markets operate in the real world, especially when governments and too-big-too-fail financial institutions begin to act in ways that shift losses away from those who have incurred them and onto the backs of others.
Gilder, a moral philosopher at his core, has returned to revise Wealth and Poverty at a time when the "golden years" of the Reagan Administration have receded far enough into the background to have obtained an ivory-carved sense of inevitability. The "new normal" that was established during those eight years have not yet been systematically rejected despite two turns in the White House by notionally populist Democratic successors. This "new normal" continues to be the base case for many (but not all) in 2012 when evaluating economic policy, tax reform and financial regulation.
To Gilder, capitalism is much, much more than simply the "least bad" system available to us. Capitalism is something more moral and more effective than the alternatives.
The 1981 edition of this book was a key component in the Reagan revolution that was about to unfold. As such, Wealth and Poverty will always hold a position of historic importance. Thirty years later, the Obama administration has begun to shift the direction of the country back towards the Keynesian consensus that held on both sides of the Atlantic for several decades. As a result, Gilder now seeks to re-introduce his thoughts to a new generation of questioning readers.
Interestingly, his original opening sentence was stunningly prescient. "The most important event in the recent history of ideas is the demise of the socialist dream." Many readers at the time could be forgiven for believing that socialism in the Soviet block and across the Far East was alive and, if not actually well, at least stable and evolving at its own internal pace. Today, the sentence needs little in the way of elaboration or explanation. The bipolar philosophical standoff of the second half of the twentieth century is now consigned to history. But the assertion that follows continues to strike an uncomfortably awkward note. "The second most important event of the recent era is the failure of capitalism to win a corresponding triumph."
The fact that the market economy works is not enough for Gilder. As billions of people have turned away from the socialist dream in the past 30 years, Gilder wants more than a reluctant acceptance of capitalism. In the face of the Obamacare and the Occupy movement, the Enron collapse and the Madoff debacle, Gilder has updated Wealth and Poverty to make his case for free enterprise and free markets relevant to the twenty-first century. In sum, Gilder believes that he and his supply-side comrades were ultimately too timid in their arguments and their aspirations. "All these years later," he now writes, "it has become clear that we were not radical enough."
To Gilder, the free markets and government operate at the expense of each other. As government grows, the market is stifled and suffers. By expanding the power of the markets, governments will be beaten back to their smaller, more limited size.
The Tea Party, representing millions of Americans disenchanted with "Big Government", seems to agree.
In an attempt to provide a broader philosophical underpinning for the skepticism at the heart of the Tea Party movement, Yaron Brook and Don Watkins have turned to the work done during the last century by controversial writer and thinker Ayn Rand. Rand's legacy since her death have been mixed, but even her critics cannot deny her impact continues to this day, as politicians and businessman and commentators continue to name-check her with surprising frequency.
I can still remember reading The Fountainhead in eleventh grade, when our English class stepped bravely away from the established syllabus to read Rand's roman-cum-exposition. The lure of a potential cash scholarship for the winner of an essay contest sponsored by her eponymous society was perhaps too great a temptation for our teacher to withstand. In hindsight though, this perhaps says more about the state of California public education in the mid-1980s than about the appropriateness of Randian philosophy as subject matter for impressionable 17-year-olds.
In Free Market Evolution, Brook and Watkins use Rand's writings to attempt to explain a host of problems currently facing America, both political and economic. The welfare state and overregulation are clear targets, but time is also set aside to analyze the 2008 housing crisis and other less obvious topics. Like Gilder, Brook and Watkins want to provide champions of capitalism with a defense of the system.
Critics of capitalism are quick to blame free markets for the current global financial crisis, which we are slowly and tentatively coming to grips with. The Occupy movement, now in forced hibernation so as to not distract unduly from President Obama's re-election campaign, was able to capture the world's imagination, if only for a short time, in order to make the case that the current economic approach was flawed. Unfortunately, the Occupiers failed to provide any direct or memorable message that viewers at home could take away.
But the feeling that there is something not quite right about the current consensus lingers on. For Brook and Watkins, the answer is more markets, not less, and less government, not more. They make the familiar case that rational beings pursuing their long-term self-interest are better decision-makers than a distant government filled with bureaucrats subject to distraction or corruption.
Establishing the morality of capitalism provides an added buttress to the defense of the market system, which is especially useful when evidence contraindicates belief in the inevitable success of markets. Although many "market failures" can be readily explained away as actually being "government intervention failures," there is an obvious appeal for free marketeers in having a general defense on philosophic grounds, one that provides a foundation for their assertions in these debates.
Steve Forbes has come out as a big supporter of both books, writing the foreword of Wealth and Poverty and contributing a pull-quote full of praise for Free Market Revolution. The two-time former Presidential candidate and magazine publisher has well-burnished credentials as an advocate of flat taxes and limited government. In Forbes' eyes, Wealth and Poverty is one of the greatest books ever, on par with The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
The report published by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission published in 2011 laid the blame for the meltdown squarely at the feet of people, not the system as a whole, noting that, "The crisis was the result of human action and inaction." People made certain decisions, or went to great length to avoid making certain decisions. These people worked in the investment banks and commercial banks, and in the regulatory institutions. They created arcane investment structures or they entrusted their saving to sellers of arcane investment structures. People made mistakes and now people are paying for those mistakes. As a long bust now appears to be settling in after the much-heralded "Long Boom", some may question whether such a dynamic and innovative financial system is actually worth the full price that is being paid for it.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act seeks to plug holes in a regulatory system that suffered a series of stinging criticisms for the manner in which it failed to limit, or even adequately acknowledge, the scale of the problems that became evident beginning in 2008. Unfortunately, huge portions of Dodd-Frank remain unimplemented, and the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to fall behind on its Congressionally imposed timetable for adopting the required rules and procedures.
Making promises in legislation that regulators can't fulfill on the ground, on a day-to-day basis, is perhaps the worst thing that can be done to insure investors are protected. An investor who thinks that a regulator is watching out for his or her best interest, who naively believes that someone "up there" is actually reviewing filings and processing whistleblower tips and following up on red flags that arose in inspections will be deeply disappointed, and potentially grievously harmed, when the truth is later revealed that staff at the regulator was in fact doing nothing like that at all.
When Dodd Frank was first passed, even some of its most ardent champions warned that delegating so much of the details to existing regulators was potentially a grave mistake. Two years later, we continue to wait and see how the new regime will actually look.
When the next financial crisis occurs, as it inevitably must, will it be seen by the next generation of commentators and pundits and think tanks as a failure of market participants to comply with the rules of the road, or as a failure of the last round of government intervention to accomplish what was promised?
One wonders what Ayn Rand would have made of private equity funds and hedge funds if she was writing her thick novels today. Champions of these new capitalists portray them in glowing terms, as turnaround experts who rescue companies from the brink of collapse and save many jobs at the cost of some painful restructuring, or as financial rocket scientists who are able to identify temporary inefficiencies in the market and take profits from their ability to locate and monitor these brief glitches. Perhaps Rand would now set her book in Greenwich, Connecticut, or Geneva, Switzerland or the fashionable streets of Mayfair and St James in London.
Gilder recognizes private equity and hedge fund managers as new species of entrepreneurs, who have risen up to do battle with oligarchic banks, smothered in government regulations. These funds were among the first to realize that the AAA ratings being hung around the necks of mortgage-backed securities were undeserved. Contrasted with the ignorance that he identifies within the large financial conglomerates (ultimately bailed out by the government), these financial innovators look heroic.
Gilder's view of the underlying causes of the 2008 financial crisis are philosophic and categorical, not simple technical missteps and regulatory blind-spots. "The great divorce of knowledge and power, information and finance, entrepreneurial realities on the ground and cantilevered paper towers in the sky was complete and cataclysmic." The scapegoating of certain investment firms holds little water for Gilder. The challenges facing the economy are large in scale and broad in effect. In that regard, he has something in common with his more progressive critics.
Four years on from Obama's election in 2008, the President's most ardent supporters, including those who anticipated a new "New Deal," are quietly disappointed that the progressive agenda has not fully surfaced in his first term. Perhaps a second term is needed to allow Obama to put his purported progressive credentials fully on show. In the meantime, his re-election team continues the attacks originally crafted by Republican primary challengers earlier this year. Private equity is supposedly nothing more than vulture capitalism, and those who practice these dark arts are greedy and self-interested job destroyers.
Not all of capitalism's various faces look equally appealing at first glance. Unfortunately, moving the debate towards larger issues such as the morality of capitalism and the proper role of government in a free society rarely makes an impact on the next day's news cycle. Ad hominem attacks and inflammatory accusations riddled with words such as "greed" and "tax dodger" are much more effective.
To Gilder, however, capitalism is about optimism.
Even in the face of the global financial crisis, Wealth and Poverty makes its arguments positively and unashamedly. Capitalism is labeled "the supreme expression of human creativity and freedom," and Gilders points out again and again that "free economies climb spirals of mutual gains and learning." Gilder argues against the conception of economics as a "zero sum game," where every dollar of profit invariably comes from the wallet of an unemployed single mother struggling to pay for groceries for her newborn baby. He recognizes that markets can produce "huge disparities" that appear at first glance to "defy every measure of proportion and propriety," but that eventually the rising tide lifts all boats.
Interestingly, Gilder's altruistic morality of capitalism sparked a fierce rebuttal, in 1981, from no less than Ayn Rand herself, whose more atheistic approach had no room for such generosities.
His new prologue gives a succinct, but comprehensive, rundown of his views of the causes of the financial meltdown, putting them in the context of a broad supply-side and neo-conservative literature that precedes this particular crisis. He attempts to re-contextualize his book's main themes for the information age that has sprung up in the intervening years. His stress is repeatedly on the value that entrepreneurs bring the economy at large. "An economy can only grow if its profits are joined with entrepreneurial knowledge."
The chapters that follow continue along the path Gilder embarked on three decades ago. Leading thinkers from various ages and countries are introduced and critiqued. He alternates deftly between philosophical speculation and the granularity of economic statistics. An enthusiastic defense of the principles of supply-side economics are provided to readers brave enough to dive into the detailed argumentation, and well as repeated discussions of Keynesian ideals.
Gilder does not shy away from controversial topics, such as race, gender and class. As a result, the book rambles freely across a broad field of subjects, each eventually tying back into one or more of his major economic themes. Gilder is hunting big game in Wealth and Poverty and is willing to patiently work through each component and consequence methodically.
Wealth and Poverty, however, is not a book which is designed to change people's minds. Instead, for those inclined to believe in the primacy of the economic over the political (or the cultural), Gilder provides a detailed intellectual foundation to support this approach, and thus performs an admirable service. Like the authors of Free Market Revolution, Gilder attempts valiantly to turn belief in an economic theory into a wider philosophical system, one that can sustain adherents across a broad array of life experiences. But some less-receptive readers will find that making secular saints of entrepreneurs and financiers populates a relatively sparse celestial display. In 2012 the touchdown lines are not quite where they were in 1981, and the force of Gilder's arguments, which were so powerful three decades ago, don't compel the same sort of ground-shaking effect today.
Brook and Watkins' attempt, although more modest than Gilder's, is set comfortably within the current frames of debate now unfolding. Free Market Revolution is clearly more of a call to action, peppered with relatively current pop cultural references, its narrow task to re-affirm that big government "just feels wrong." Many of the same post-War thinkers are referenced, and in many ways the two books complement each other — one a large dense and highly ornamented Wagner opera, the other a memorable Broadway show with tunes you can hum during the cab ride home.
Brook and Watkins maintain their heroine's distrust of Gilder's belief in altruism, and make it evident that the market is ultimately superior to all other social endeavors. When the authors turn from recounting the problem to outlining the solution, however, the path they carve through the dense forest of red tape and misaligned incentives and the alphabet soup of government agencies leads to a similarly comprehensive set of beliefs. They offer to give the reader the means to live their entire lives more fully and more rewardingly in chapters on "The Morality of Success" and "The Nobility of the Profit Motive," "Rethinking Selfishness" and "Selfishness Unleashed." Along the way, Rand's wider philosophy on individualism is introduced in bit-sized chunks, alongside recent anecdotes from business and technology.
Despite the difference in tone and line of attack, Free Market Revolution is similar to Wealth and Poverty in that it sees the intellectual justification of market economics as a key that opens the door to wider applications of these ideas in daily life. Both books hope to enlist the reader in a consistent and comprehensive resistance to the progressive forces of government expansion led, in their eyes, by President Obama and his attempts at redistributionist policies. And both see their economic policies as part of a larger, all-encompassing belief system.
Even someone as repeatedly amazed by the power of the market to allocate scarce resources, drive innovation to unimagined heights, and ensure the continued production and distribution of increasing varieties of goods and services, as indeed I am, does not necessarily need to look to capitalism for a philosophy that can be applied across the range of all human endeavors.
The market doesn't explain why I love my three mischievous and exhausting children so much. It doesn't explain why I find bonfires at the beach so aesthetically fulfilling. And most importantly, it doesn't explain why the best comedy to ever run on American broadcast television — namely "Arrested Development" — was cancelled after just three seasons.
For these important issues (and countless more), we must look elsewhere.
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Timothy Spangler is a commentator, lawyer, and academic who divides his time between Southern California and the United Kingdom. The two decades he spent working on Wall Street and in the city of London have given him unlimited access to the inner workings of the global financial markets, and the economic trends that that are driving international affairs in the 21st century. Timothy has appeared on CNN, CNBC, BBC, and Sky News, and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Economist. He also writes the award-winning blog, "Law of the Market," dedicated to covering the politics of Wall Street regulation and the regulation of Wall Street politics (www.lawofthemarket.com and @lawofthemarket).When not contemplating the ridiculous and absurd aspects of finance and politics around the world, Timothy follows the rising and falling fortunes of Fulham Football Club in the English Premier League, and beyond.
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No trace of passengers believed to have fallen off cruise ship
(CNN) -- Rescue crews scoured the waters off Australia's eastern coast Friday for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.
The 30-year-old man and 27-year-old woman were reported missing when the Carnival Cruise ship Spirit docked in Sydney on Thursday morning, CNN affiliate Seven Network reported. The first clue came when they didn't claim their luggage.
Maritime officers reviewed surveillance video from the ship and determined that Paul Rossington and Kristen Schroder went overboard Wednesday night.
Authorities believe the couple fell about 150 kilometers (93 miles) off Foster, New South Wales.
"We believe that they were up mid-deck, which is halfway up the side of the ship, which is quite a way to fall," said Detective Superintendent Mark Hutchings of the New South Wales Police Marine Area Command.
The couple was sharing a cabin and traveling with family and friends on a 10-day Pacific Island cruise.
Carnival has been plagued by a series of high-profile incidents recently.
In February, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, with passengers reporting overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
On a March cruise, the Carnival Dream lost power, and some toilets stopped working.
CNN's Tina Burnside and Ric Ward contributed to this report.


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I want to know what happens to the battery (does it charge/discharge/stay constant?) when the device is in bootloader or recovery mode. In both of these modes, a USB may or may not be connected.
If the battery does charge, could that possibly be a feature that could be a result of the installed recovery/bootloader, or could the charging feature be hardware dependant?


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Hyperdimension Neptunia
This unique RPG takes place in the hyperdimensional world of Gamindustri, where monsters run ammock, summoned by the evil Arfoire. Goddesses, who are personified video game companies and consoles, are fighting to protect this precious land. Follow Neptune, with her friends Compa and IF, in her quest to save the mysterious Histoire!


text: Limited edition laser print of ink drawing in the "Dish Play" series done in 2016 signed & numbered by the artist. The artwork is approx. 5 x 7 inches on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of acid free card stock which fits nicely into a frame of the same size. Run of 45.


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I'm pretty sure...that anyone has the capablitlity to do any skill. If someone is good at translating, music, writing etc. This does not really mean they have a special talent. They have learn't, practiced and studied in their chosen field; mixed with various environments and experiences throughout their life, culminates in their thinking and personality. If this is the case then we can see(especially in todays technologically advanced society) that we really aren't that different you and I. Whether you are paralyzed or fully functioning.
We all probably recieve compliments now and then. I know I do. "Wow. Your so good at that." or "You look good today." or "Your such a good...". "How do you...?"
Are these really necessary? This comes from a recent experience I had. There is someone who likes to play music. So I invited them over to my place. I showed them how I make music etc. He really couldn't get past the fact that I made this music by myself. Come on. So I showed him how I made it etc... then it dawned on me that everyone "is" really capable of doing any task if given the proper environment and such.
So. We have a Baker. The best Baker in the world. Better than any other baker, but we could be that baker too (if need be)
I guess in the past, for example: a violin maker, would choose students in whom he saw potential. Well...that potential is in each and every person I think; that goes for practice as well.
Later Gator


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Cancer metastatic gene
Aggressive variants of prostate cancer - Are we ready to apply specific treatment right now?
Cancer metastatic gene
Cancer Treat Rev. In most cases, prostate cancer essentially depends on androgen receptor signaling axis, even in castration-resistant setting, and hence may be targeted by second generation hormonal therapy. However, a subset of patients bears androgen-independent cancer biology with a short-term response to hormonal treatment, early and extensive visceral metastases, low PSA levels and poor outcomes.
Identification and specific management of these rapidly fatal malignancies is of an unmet medical need since their classification and utilized therapeutic regimens vary significantly.
Unfortunately, molecular pathways have not been sufficiently elucidated yet in order to provide an effective targeted treatment with a prolonged response. Lack of diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for these cancers makes successful counteractions against them even more sophisticated.
Cancer metastatic gene
In this comprehensive review, we aimed at summarizing the current body of literature reporting on causal molecular machinery as well as diagnostic and therapeutic concepts of aggressive prostate tumors and draw clinically relevant conclusions for the up-to-date sensible disease management.
Int J Mol Sci. Attention is accorded to their potential in anti-cancer therapies as single agents or adjuvant treatment.
Herby, we evaluated the in vitro effects of a panel of natural compounds with focus on caffeic acid phenethyl ester CAPE and Kaempferol for the treatment of human colon cancer. Modifications in gene expression were investigated through microarray and detection of existing mutations and finding of new ones was done with the help of Next Generation Sequencing NGS.
Moreover, there are pathogenic mutations that are no longer found upon treatment with CAPE and Kaempferol.
Medic specialist Oncologie medicala Cancerul este un termen folosit pentru a defini afectiuni maligne in care celule anormale se multiplica intr-un mod necontrolat si continuu, putand sa invadeze tesuturile sanatoase din jur. Celulele anormale provin din orice tesut al organismului uman si pot sa apara oriunde in corp. Afectiunile maligne cauzate de aceasta inmultire necontrolata sunt in numar de peste Din punct de vedere clinic, cancerul reprezinta un mare grup de boli care variaza prin modalitatea de debut, rata de crestere, diagnostic, detectabilitate, potential de invazie, metastazare, raspuns la tratament si prognostic. Dificultatea termenului cancer consta in aceea ca este incarcat de semnificatii, inevitabil, negative.
Chirurgia Bucur. In Romania, surgery was at the forefront of therapeutic options.
Metastaza – Ce sunt metastazele canceroase
Nevertheless, current data shows that in fact, a large number of patients are still referred to surgery in various stages of diagnosis and treatment. It was noted that recommendations may differ, in spite of the wide dissemination of the literature data. Works published so far, discussing the role of surgery in LACC treatment shows a lack of consensus.
Cancerul de san - ce este si cum il prevenim?
On top of that, late enrolement to RT and low acces to specialized centers are the problem. Performing surgery not only allows the evaluation of the pathological response to chemo-radiotherapy, but also achieves a better local control. In conclusion, there is still a place for surgery within locally advanced cervical cancer treatment options.
Gene Therapy of Bladder Cancer and Colorectal Metastasis in the Liver
More trials need to be carried out cum se vindecă condilomii order to confirm the findings and establish high levels of confidence for each piece of information provided.
Several lines of evidence support the observation that polyphenols have preventive and therapeutic effects in prostate cancer. Moreover, prostate cancer is ideal for chemoprevention due to its long latency.
We propose here an equilibrated lifestyle with a diet rich in polyphenols as prophylactic attempts to slow down the progression of cancer metastatic gene prostate cancer or prevent the occurrence of the disease. In this review, we will first summarize the molecular mechanisms of polyphenols in prostate cancer with a focus on the antioxidant and pro-oxidant effects, androgen receptors ARkey molecules involved in AR signaling and their transactivation pathways, cell cycle, apoptosis, angiogenesis, metastasis, genetic aspects, and epigenetic mechanisms.
The relevance of the molecular mechanisms is discussed in light of current bioavailability data regarding the activity of polyphenols in prostate cancer. We also highlight strategies for improving the bioavailability of polyphenols.
- Primele simptome ale helmintiei pentru adulți
- Metastaza - Ce sunt metastazele canceroase | Cancer
- Mureşan F. M.D, PhD, - Google Scholar Citations
- Biopsy and FNAC are invasive procedures, especially in the case of deeply located tumors, and may present severe complications such as infection, bleeding, or inflammation.
- ioana berindan neagoe - Referințe bibliografice Google Academic
- Aceste exemple pot conține termeni colocviali.
- Metastaza - Ce sunt metastazele canceroase | Cancer
- Papilom pe spate
We hope that this review will lead to further research regarding the bioavailability and the role of polyphenols in prostate cancer prevention and treatment.
Sunbed use legislation in Europe: assessment of current status. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. Young women are the most frequent users, therefore, there is an increasing concern about the regulation of sunbed use.
The questionnaire was sent to Euromelanoma coordinators and to designated coordinators out of the Euromelanoma network. Roughly one-third of the countries does not have a restriction for minors.
Subscribe What is EndoPredict? EndoPredict is a 2nd generation multi-gene breast cancer recurrence test for pre- or postmenopausal women newly diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. Created for the purpose of highly accurate assessment of 5 to year risk of distant recurrence of the disease EndoPredict combines into an unique indicator EPClin score gene expression with clinically pathological features providing outstanding prognostic performance that will ensure the healthcare professional that chemotherapy is or is not required to accompany endocrine treatment. Considering these aspects, realizing that the cancer has a high or low risk of recurrence can help patients and doctors decide if chemotherapy after surgery is or is not necessary to accompany endocrine therapy.
In the vast majority of cases, the number of licensed or closed tanning centres is unknown. In order to limit the access of young people to sunbeds, a more strictly enforced regulation is needed, as well as regulation regarding advertisement, and location of tanning centres, in addition to health promotion campaigns that target the vulnerable population of young women seeking its use for improved cosmesis.
Since the use of sunbeds is known to be a risk factor, which can be easily avoided, costs of malignant melanoma attributable to sunbed use are modelled in the present study. Calculations were based on a cancer metastatic gene literature research.
For countries with cancer metastatic gene available information on cost-of-illness the gross domestic product, health expenditures and gross national income served as a basis for extrapolation of costs. International comparison was enabled by adjusting costs by the national purchasing power parity.
In total, in approximately new cases of melanoma have been induced by sunbed use in the 31 included countries, which corresponds to 5. It illustrates the contribution of exposure to artificial ultraviolet light in the economic burden of malignant melanoma.


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When is a Profit not a Profit?
AMD recently released their quarterly financial reports, and things were pretty stellar for the company as compared to previous performances. Questions were raised though about their competitiveness in the CPU market with Intel starting to churn out significant numbers of 32 nm parts. We look at their past performance, their current standing, and where they sit when looking towards the future.
"Can I have some more please?"This past week AMD released their Q2 numbers, and just as Intel had a very positive report, AMD is following suite. Q2 is typically a poorly performing quarter, oftentimes lower than Q1 due to the usual overflow of commerce from the busy Holiday season. Q3 is usually stronger, primarily due to "back to school" spending. So that often leaves Q2 eating the dust of the rest of the year.
Two days before AMD posted their results, Intel showed off their record quarter. Many were confused if AMD would see the same type of boost that Intel had or not. As it turns out, the market was very good to AMD.
Revenues for AMD were $1.65 billion for the quarter, well above the expected $1.55 billion most analysts were predicting. AMD also reported that margins had grown up to 45%, which is well above what AMD has seen for the past several years (it once hit a low of around 28% over a year ago). Depending on what articles have been read, there was some confusion if AMD had pulled out a profit, or had swung to a loss. The truth of the matter is, they did both.
Accounting abuses have been common over the past couple of decades (and longer), and the financial industry as adopted what is known as G.A.A.P., or "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles". Reporting under G.A.A.P. gives consistent results that can be compared between companies which could have materially different markets. Most companies also report non-G.A.A.P. results as well, which take into account differences in valuation which are not explicitly defined under G.A.A.P.
Using G.A.A.P. AMD suffered a $43 million loss due to a $120 million charge connected to continued ownership and participation of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Cash on hand has stayed relatively constant from quarter to quarter, with a slight dip due to this loss. However, AMD was able to reduce its long term debt by approximately $206 million by buying back of Senior Convertible Notes that were due in 2015. AMD expects to continue to work down their long term debt over the next few quarters, and appears to balance that out with achieving a small profit as compared to reporting larger profits while keeping debt static.
Non-G.A.A.P. reporting shows a profit of $83 million, or $0.12 cents per share. This is of course above the $0.06 per share that many analysts were projecting. While it would have been nice for AMD to show a profit in both G.A.A.P. and non, it has been a particularly strong quarter for AMD.
Breaking It Down
The compute group had the lion's share of revenue, coming in at $1.21 billion. This includes all CPUs and chipsets, plus other odd products that AMD releases under this umbrella. The graphics group contributed $440 million to the grand total, which is a record for this group under AMD.
On the CPU side AMD has seen a brisk uptake of its Athlon II series of processors on both the desktop and the notebook. Notebook growth has been very, very strong for AMD due to its combination of rich featureset (DX 10.1 support, accelerated HD video playback), competitive power consumption, and relatively low cost. The introduction of the 6-core desktop processors in the previous quarter helped to jumpstart the high end offerings from AMD, though overall ASPs (average selling prices) were down, actual products shipped were up. AMD also saw a boost from the introduction of the 800 series of chipsets, who's SATA 6G support has turned into a significant checkbox feature for OEMs, as well as the close bundling of USB 3.0 support for motherboards using the 800 series chipsets.
Propus is the chip used in the Athlon II X3 and X4 processors. It is relatively small for a quad core, and apparently still has decent margins though they are selling at sub $100 prices.
The graphics side has undoubtedly been the star performer for AMD. While the graphics technology in chipsets is relegated to the compute section when reporting financials, the standalone graphics chips have proven to be quite strong. The basis of this strength is of course being the first to offer top to bottom DX11 based parts. Unfortunately for AMD, production of these parts since last Summer has been constrained. In other words, AMD left a lot of potential revenue on the table due to demand that they were not able to satisfy with the supply at hand. Even with the influx of DX11 cards from NVIDIA at the high end, demand for AMD graphics chips are still at a near all time high.
Servers were a disappointment for AMD, and they appear to have lost marketshare to Intel in this very important sector. AMD was hoping for better, but some of its major OEM partners were unable to put out good quantities of products based on the Opteron 4000 and 6000 parts. Of greater import is that of new Magny-Cours based products that have finally been released in decent quantities for Q3. This higher margin part is aimed at 2P and 4P servers, with a focus on compute density and low power consumption per core. AMD expects an uptick in marketshare due to these parts being readily available in Q3 of this year.
Future Products and their Potential Impact
AMD announced that it had successfully taped out its next generation high performance server and desktop processor core, codenamed "Bulldozer". This product will be showcased architecturally at the Hot Chips conference later this summer, though actual product announcements and specifications will be unveiled closer to the actual introduction in 2011. It typically takes between 9 to 14 months for a product to be released to retail from tapeout. For example, in January of 2008, AMD announced that it had taped out its first 45 nm quad core processor, which later was introduced as the "Shanghai" based Opteron in October, 2008. This then saw release on the desktop as the Phenom II X4 940 initially in January, 2009.
A high level diagram of what Bulldozer will bring to the market.
Bulldozer is big news, as it is a big step away from the Athlon/Phenom architectures we have been seeing since 2004. From a high level view, each core will actually consist of two integer execution units and a single 256 bit SSE/FPU unit. So an "8 core" chip will actually contain 4 SSE/FPU units. AMD believes, and rightly so, that most CPU workloads are integer in nature. The improved 256 bit SSE unit should be able to handle the floating point operations much more efficiently than the previous 64 bit unit in the Athlon 64, and the 128 bit unit in the Phenom series. It should be able to pack 4 x 64 bit single precision floats (SSE), or potentially 2 x 80 bit traditional x87 instructions.
While AMD has not exhaustively gone into the Bulldozer architecture, it is not a stretch to imagine that this will get the Fusion treatment sooner rather than later. A Bulldozer with a high performance GPU with 480 steam units could potentially be a floating point/parallel processing monster with high integer performance. Much of this depends on the software infrastructure which would allow workloads to utilize those attached stream units, rather than rely solely on the SSE/FP units of the CPU.


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After reading Candace Fleming's Barnum biography earlier this year, I was happy to have the opportunity to learn more about Tom Thumb, "discovered" and made famous by Barnum himself. This very accessible biography by George Sullivan, who has written more than 100 non-fiction books for young people, is a fascinating book for children or adults.
Tom Thumb and P.T. Barnum |
Because Tom Thumb and Barnum's lives were so intimiately entwined, the book provides plenty of anecdotes and background about Barnum's life as well as the "freaks" at his museum. With the extensive archival photographs and original documents, such as the text of one of Tom Thumb's scripts, we are able to easily imagine his shows, in which, among other antics, he sang, danced, and sold kisses to the ladies. Tom's popularity grew quickly, and before long his salary went up to a princely $25 per week.
Although Tom's exhibition as entertainment may seem distasteful to our twenty-first century sensibilities about people who are "different," the author is careful to put Tom's career in the perspective of the time. No conventional careers would have been open to Charley other than entertainment, and under Barnum's tutelage he because very wealthy and traveled the world, even performing for Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children. Background is also provided on dwarves throughout history, explaining how dwarves had a long tradition of serving as entertainers at royal courts and elsewhere.
Tom Thumb's Wedding in 1863 |
Readers of this book will see how Barnum fanned the cult of celebrity to maximize his--and Tom Thumb's--profits. When Tom Thumb married his miniature sweetheart, Lavinia (she was 32 inches tall, and like Tom, perfectly proportioned), it was a huge nationally covered celebrity event. During the dark days of the Civil War in 1863, The Fairy Wedding, as it was called by the press, rivaled the war for newspaper inches, and police had to put up barricades to handle the crowds waiting to see the bride and groom arrive at the church in New York. The couple and bridal party were photographed by no less than Matthew Brady, photographer to President Lincoln, and copies of the prints were mass produced as wedding souvenirs. Tom Thumb, as the author points out, was a true celebrity in a time when there were few, as well as a person who earned respect as an entertainer, not just a curiosity.
This book contains plenty of information for children looking for a biography to read either for pleasure or for a school assignment and would be a great addition to both public and school library collections. A bibliography, index, and author's notes are included.


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Today marks the third anniversary of the Save the Fraser Declaration, a declaration signed by more than 130 First Nations, which states:
We will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, or similar tar sands projects, to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon.
The proposed 525,000 barrel per day Enbridge Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline would run 731 miles (1,177 km) from Alberta, traversing dangerous, hard to access mountains, and crossing sensitive river ecosystems that First Nations in the region rely on for the salmon that thrive there, on its way to the Spirit Bear Coast.
The pipeline would terminate in Kitimat, British Columbia, where giant oil supertankers, aiming to take tar sands to Asia or elsewhere in the world, would put coastal areas at risk of tar sands spills, a significant threat given the narrow channels as well as the large waves and strong winds often experienced in the region.
The Joint Review Panel, the joint Canadian Federal and British Columbia Provincial body that has been reviewing the Northern Gateway Pipeline, is expected to release its recommendation report about the impacts of the project and whether it should be built, by the end of the year, a significant step (though by no means the final step) in making a decision about this risky project.
Today, on the third anniversary, the Yinka Dene Alliance, a group of six First Nations strongly committed to stopping the Enbridge Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline, hosted a Save the Fraser Declaration press conference in Vancouver, BC, which recommitted the existing 130 signatories and where the Stellat'en First Nation added its voice.
The event also served to launch a Solidarity Accord for non-First Nations citizens to support the unbroken wall of opposition by First Nations to stop tar sands pipelines through British Columbia. National Resources Defense Council is standing in solidarity with and prepared to continue fighting beside our First Nation colleagues in this unbroken wall of opposition, as the ramifications of the tar sands extraction that the pipeline would cause and the potential for catastrophic pipeline and tanker spills are too grave to sit idle.
The event featured major speakers including Gavin McGarrigle, the B.C. Area Director of Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union, which represents tar sands workers; Jim DeHart, the president of the B.C. Wilderness Tourism Association and Peter Robinson, the CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation, along with other speakers, videos and letters of support from prominent individuals and organizations.
The Solidarity accord reads:
WHEREAS: Representatives of more than 130 First Nations have signed the Save the Fraser Declaration.
AND WHEREAS: The future of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people is bound together by our shared reliance on the lands and waters that sustain us.
AND WHEREAS: Mutual respect and cooperation is essential to ensuring that our collective future is a just and healthy one.
AND WHEREAS: Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal would threaten thousands of existing jobs and expose communities to unacceptable risks.
NOW THEREFORE, IN RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT OF THE SAVE THE FRASER DECLARATION: We, the undersigned, say to our First Nations brothers and sisters, and to the world, that we are prepared to stand with you to protect the land, the water and our communities from the Enbridge pipelines and tankers project and similar projects to transport tar sands oil.
Some U.S. officials and media have tried to disingenuously argue that the climate impacts ofKeystone XL are negligible because if the U.S. doesn't take the tar sands, it will be extracted anyways and sent through other pipelines like the Northern Gateway. Given the tremendous andgrowing wall of opposition, these arguments could not be more false; the Northern Gateway pipeline is far from a done deal.
As the deadline for the recommendation from the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel draws close, First Nations' opposition to Enbridge is strong and growing and those Nations enjoy broad-based support from across the spectrum of Canadian and U.S. society, but have reached a critical moment when the chorus must grow louder—you can add your voice by signing Solidarity Accord.


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University of Massachusetts Amherst. All rights reserved.
George Clifford Stamper was born on October 13, 1912 in Somerville, Massachusetts to George A. and Miriam Stamper. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 1, 1943 at the age of 30 and spent a week at Fort Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. He went on to train at Camp Crowder in Joplin, Missouri until February 1944, then to Camp Reynolds in Greenville, Pennsylvania until March 1944, and finally arrived in Scotland on the S.S. Queen Mary April 6, 1944. He participated in the European Theater as a member of the 4th Special Services as a movie projectionist and served in England, France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
The majority of Stamper's letters are to the three family members that he lived with at home: George A. Stamper, his father, who is referred to as G.A.S.; Walter A. Burnham, his first cousin born in 1893, who is referred to as W.A.B.; and Ella F. Davis, who is referred to as E.F.D. Her connection to the author of this collection is unknown, but it can be surmised from the letters that she is perhaps in a relationship with Walter A. Burnham. Regardless, she is the author of nearly every letter written to Stamper by his family. There are only a handful of letters written directly by his father, who notes his poor writing abilities, and none written by Burnham; this is partly due to the fact not every letter is accounted for, but also appears to have been the norm. Stamper makes note of this in a letter written on March 20, 1945, writing, "Isn't it about time for W.A.B.'s yearly comment?"
The correspondence between Stamper and his family provides an interesting look at the duties of an atypical World War II soldier. The Special Services Division consisted of the Army Exchange Service, Army Athletic & Recreation Service, and the Motion Picture Service, to which Stamper belonged. At the height of its operation in Europe during World War II, the Army Motion Picture Service had 1,190 theaters in operation, seating a total of 789,900 people. The 4th Special Service Company is officially given credit with the occupation of Germany from May 2 to October 31, 1945. Furthermore, the company is credited with participation in four campaigns: Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, and the Rhineland. Stamper would spend a large amount of his time traveling to various units around him to show several movies a day.
Due to the heavy censorship placed on the soldiers, Stamper is unable to provide considerable details about his duties or location through most of his correspondence, he is only able to vaguely date his letters with "Somewhere in France" or "Somewhere in Luxembourg." Regardless, Stamper is very conscious of the importance of properly recording and preserving his experiences in Europe. He and his family number all the letters they write and after a length of time Stamper sends home bundles of his old mail. At certain points Stamper also sends home maps of the different countries he has been in, along with the name of the biggest town near where he was so his family could see where he has been. He also sends home the different currencies he comes into contact with during his occupation of different countries, along with a description of the conversion rate. In addition, Stamper sends home all his pay in the form of money orders, and once he receives confirmation of their safe arrival, he then sends home the receipts.
Despite the censorship, Stamper is able to discuss many fascinating observations during his time in Europe. While in France, he notes in a letter dated September 27, 1944 that he sees women with all their hair cut off as a retaliatory response for being "too friendly with the Germans." Stamper notes that the people in Metz were German sympathizers "to a great extent" and gave Allied soldiers dirty looks, as opposed to the people in Luxembourg, who "smile and say good morning." While in Czechoslovakia during May 1945, he sees huge groups of German soldiers taking themselves to prison of war camps with trucks, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles with few, if any, guards. He also notes that some of the German soldiers have rifles and most of the officers he saw still had their pistols. He and his fellow soldiers sardonically refer to such groups of marching Germans as "parades." Stamper also notes on a few occasions the severity of the destruction of many of the areas in France. In these observations he suggests that it would probably be better for them to just leave the rubble and rebuild somewhere else.
The experience of the war at home can be seen in various ways through the letters from Stamper's family and neighbors. On several occasions his family mentions the different items that are being rationed, such as oil and gas. At one point Ella Davis writes that they can get so little gas that they are considering selling their car. They also make note of the amounts of butter they are able to get, usually by the pound. Little is expressed by way of an opinion about the war itself; neighbors and family alike wish for Stamper to return soon, and particularly strong sentiments are expressed in the letters written by Stamper's father. Stamper's father works at the Red Cross tending to the furnace in a particular building, and his cousin's work is unspecified but clearly keeps him very busy, according to Davis. Davis spends significant amounts of time baking various items to send to Stamper and other family friends serving abroad.
After the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 7, 1945, Stamper spends most of his time discussing how his conditions have changed. For one, he makes note of how he and the other soldiers are being rationed better food, like fruit cake. He also begins taking an interest in sending home a series of maps detailing his personal history. It is unknown exactly how many Stamper sent back, but there were at least six. Around October 1945 is when he begins to search for ways to come home by switching into different units; however, this process is severely held up by a longshoremen strike in New York. On December 12, 1945 Stamper leaves for the United States from the port of Marseilles on a troop transport. He notes that everyone he is sailing with is desperately looking forward to "the blessed event" of going to the Separation Center to get discharged. Stamper arrived at Newport News, Virginia on Christmas Eve, and expected to head to Fort Devens within a week, according to his last letter written home.
George Clifford Stamper died on January 13, 2005 at the age of 93.
The letters Stamper wrote to his family are the only letters he authored that are part of the collection. Consequently, the substance of any of the letters Stamper wrote to his friends both during the war and after he returned must be inferred by the content of their various responses. Thus, only a limited understanding of the dynamics of Stamper's various relationships with non-family members, and what he shared with them, is available.
During the war, Stamper's friends seemed interested in sharing their various war experiences, such as one friend in the Pacific who catches an unknown disease. This friend, Freddie Warren, gives valuable insight into a common soldier's perception of what they are doing, particularly in the instances where he expresses his hope that neither of them has to carry a Purple Heart home. The various people at home that Stamper receives letters from provide for an interesting view of how the war affected the lives of those in the United States, with the most common thread between the various writers being that life goes on. Most every non-soldier Stamper receives letters from discusses the weather, how different people are in school, or how they are doing at work.
Stamper's unique position as a member of the Special Services serves as a non-traditional view of World War II. This position provides for a very sterile view of the war as expressed in his letters to his family. He takes more of an interest in recording his travels and observations than giving his opinion on the war. One of the most significant examples of this is seen in a letter he wrote on June 6, 1945, in which he literally accounts for his time by providing a detailed list of exactly where he has been from boot camp to the present. It should be noted that very few of the items Stamper sent home are actually part of this collection; the only non-letter items are a photograph of his friend William Avalon and his wife, a couple of money order receipts, some newsclippings of local news sent to Stamper by his family, and a curiously placed boating chart.
The collection is open for research.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
G. Clifford Stamper Papers (MS 463). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Purchased from Zachary Jones in April 2006.
For other personal accounts of service during World War II in the Special Collections and University Archives, see:
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Essentially, this means devs can code apps for Chrome with the same tools they use to write native apps for a PC or mobile devices.
As Liliputing's Brad Linder notes, one of the most well known NaCI apps for Chrome is probably Nextflix, which allows users to stream videos on a Chromebook, even though the service typically only supports Mac and Windows computers.
However, up until recently, NaCI was only available for x86-powered devices. Fortunately, Google recently added support for ARM-based chips in Chrome OS 25, which means we are likely to see Netflix and other NaCI apps (Quake, Doom and NaClBox) running on ARM-powered devices like Samsung's Chromebook at some point in the very near future.
"While Chrome 25 and later will support NaCl on ARM-based devices, that only covers Chromebooks and PCs," Linder explained.
"The Google Chrome browser for Android doesn't yet support any plugins or extensions, which means that you won't be able to run games, video streaming services, or other NaCl apps in a Chrome browser on your Android phone or tablet yet."
It should be noted that Mountain View remains on track to publicly release its Portable Native Client at some point in 2013, which will allow devs to code an app once, while making sure it runs on any chip architecture, such as x86 and ARM.


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The new HD screens are gorgeous, of course, if a little busy at times. (Some fonts on the scoreboard are near-impossible to read.) Everything about the outfield view has a nice symmetry to it now. (I took some video that I'll post tomorrow morning.) The new sound system is much clearer, though you don't get the full effect in the Reserve seats.
The restrooms are bright and comfortable. The kids play areas are a welcome addition, even if there's not quite enough there yet to keep most kids entertained. (My kid will likely be bored in about two minutes.) It's really nice to have full team stores on the Reserve level, but their placement makes them a bit hard to find.
New food options were plentiful and lines moved briskly. I really, REALLY like the eating areas behind the seats. I see myself using those a lot. I only noticed one new beer option (see below).
I didn't like EVERYTHING, of course. The new "host" segments between innings are awkward and feel out of place at Dodger Stadium. I get what they're going for, but maybe it needs to be implemented some other way. One of the segments even pushed the limits of political correctness, and I wonder how long before it's axed. Plus, all this stuff meant WAY less Nancy Bea. And that's just criminal. Oh, and traffic leaving the stadium was awful, even out of the normally easy to escape Academy Gate.
I ran into Stan Kasten walking the Reserve level early in the game. I told him I loved what they did with the place. I don't think I was blowing smoke, either. On the whole, I think the improvements are wonderful and appropriate. I'm sure most of the tiny gripes I have will be addressed over time.
On to the crappy iPhone pics!
The view from my seat, with Kid K's home run on the new screens.
Another GREAT addition: Vin's pre-game intro is played for the live crowd.
Tiny Clayton gets his Roberto Clemente Award.
My Frito Pie Dog on the one of the new eating areas behind the seats. I fear for the people sitting below. They're destined to get food and/or beer dumped on them at some point.
The only new beer I spotted. Nice to see a local craft, but they're charging $10 for a small and not offering a large. What's up with THAT?
Tiny Ryu's first Major League at-bat.
One of the new play areas, going unused at the moment.
I like the new signage, but miss the player photos. Are they on other levels?
Big balls.
Big bobbles, no trobbles.
The Blues Brothers' "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is the new bottom of the ninth rally song. OK, then.
My souvenir from Ryu's debut. Now a sad reminder of getting shut down by Bumgarner.


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Why is it important to measure pollination deficits?The health of pollinators may impact the sustained productivity of crops, orchards and pastures. The demise of pollinator groups can affect ecosystems on all levels as it pertains to communities of plants and animals and the natural systems they- and we – live within. In 2000, the Convention on Biological Diversity took note of pollinator declines and established the International Pollinator Initiative, which recognizes that honeybees are not the only pollinators on farms. Indeed a recent publication highlighted the critical, irreplaceable role that wild bees also play in agriculture. But more information is needed on managed and wild bee pollination services, and how they can best be synchronized to provide optimal pollination services. And, we urgently need to know more specific information on the extent and causes of pollinator declines, so that we know where we need to focus.Importance78 percent of all flowering plants in temperate-zone communities are pollinated by animals such as bees, flies and birds, and even more- 94 percent - in tropical communities, while the rest is pollinated by wind.The leading pollinator-dependent crops are vegetables and fruits, representing about €50 billion each, followed by edible oil crops, stimulants (coffee, cocoa, etc.), nuts and spices; most of these are critically important for nutrient security and healthy diets. The total economic value of crop pollination worldwide has been estimated at €153 billion annually 9.5% per cent of the total value of the world's agricultural food production.Animal pollinators such as bees affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing outputs of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, or 75 percent of all crops. Wild pollinators and managed honey bees may complement each other; in studies of sunflower pollination, the pollination efficiency of honey bee foragers was enhanced up to 5 times by the presence of wild bees.
TrendsThe global population of managed honey bee hives has increased by 45 percent during the last half century. While that seems quite positive, at the same time there has been a much more rapid (>300percent) increase in the fraction of agriculture that depends on animal pollination during the last half century. So, that means that their global capacity to provide sufficient pollination services may be stressed, and more pronouncedly in the developing world than in the developed world (Aizen and Harder 2009).Every continent, except for Antarctica, has reports of pollinator declines in at least one region/country. The losses of pollination services have been well documented in many specific instances. As managed pollinators such as honeybees face a suite of debilitating threats, the services provided by wild pollinators become even more essential.
How are FAO and its member countries contributing to the sustainability of pollinators? When pollination was recognized as a global concern, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was able to coordinate the development and implementation of a global project on pollination services. The project was developed in collaboration with seven developing countries: Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa. One of the priorities of this project – as identified by the participating countries – has been to develop a protocol to identify and assess pollination deficits from a farmer's perspective, led by FAO and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Avignon, France. This protocol has been applied in the seven participating countries, and it has been discovered that management practices to ensure abundant pollinators can increase fruit sets in mango orchards in Ghana by 35%, improve the production of mustard seed in Nepal by 25%,and increase the canola oil content in rapeseed by 8% in Brazil.In 2013, the new Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) came into force, the Biodiversity equivalent of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. While IPBES is working out its modalities (as IPBES is intended to be a science-knowledge-policy interface), the Government of Norway stepped in to take a look at the pollination deficit protocol developed by FAO, and suggested that a better understanding of how to apply it could give insight into the future work of IPBES.Thus the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment has supported FAO in 2013 to train national research partners in five additional countries to apply the protocol: Argentina, China, Colombia, Indonesia and Zimbabwe. Researchers in Norway have also applied the protocol to apples and clover in that country. In addition, as IPBES strongly supports the value of Indigenous and Local Knowledge systems as an important part of assessment, FAO has worked with the Indigenous Partnership on Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, inviting indigenous and local communities to give input on how they might differently understand and assess pollinators and pollination services from a purely scientific approach; and also how they will apply the protocol to coffee farms run by indigenous communities in southern India.
What is particularly unique about this approach? Almost all previous studies of crop pollination have measured biologically important variables such as pollen deposition, or seed or fruit set, but good, robust field data is missing for agronomic yield- the logical focus for farmers.With the Norwegian support FAO and its partners from around the world convened a "working workshop" in July 2013, in São Paulo, Brazil, where participants prepared an analytical framework and the datasets from eleven countries and eleven cropping systems (from raspberries, to rapeseed, clover, pumpkin and more) for a meta-analysis of pollination deficits. Using a common, simple protocol that can be applied and adapted to a multitude of local conditions and systems could be one way for IPBES to approach the assessment of ecosystem services. Meta-analysis is an analytical tool, as yet little used at FAO - a powerful lens through which to analyze the conclusions and outcomes from investigations carried out in many different countries and ecosystems, very much in line with FAO's core mandates. Indeed, in the recently concluded second plenary of IPBES held in December 2013 in Antalya Turkey, a fast track assessment on pollinators and pollination associated with food production was approved, and FAO's activities noted. In particular, it was stressed that "by conducting meta- analyses on these key issues IPBES could provide an overview of key subjects in ways that are useful to policy-makers".Although the complete results are still to be compiled, initial results show that ensuring optimal pollination services has a strongly positive effect on yields. On average, a 100% increase in pollinators (which is biologically quite realistic to bring about through management practices) results in an increase in yields of 24%, of pollinator-dependent crops.For more information:www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org
This FAO project was funded by the United National Environment Programme, Global Environment Facility and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment.


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To express his creative energy Pople founded the London Festival Orchestra, led by Elin Goren. He revelled in the freedom which this group of dedicated musicians allowed him. Pople's pioneer spirit and commitment to formulate his own interpretation of the works in his extensive repertoire took him to all corners of the world, from large and famous concert halls to places where no orchestras had been before, from the Berlin Philharmonie to Asuncion, Paraguay, and from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to a beachside stage in the Seychelles.
Closer to home, Pople's Beethoven cycle at the Barbican in the Hochhauser Concert Series delighted audiences and critics alike. In all his concert series Pople provided not only a platform for established soloists, but also introduced many outstanding young musicians to the spotlight, among them Tasmin Little, Bryn Terfel and Pascal Roge. In the Birthday Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall he created an anthology of all the great composers and presenting intriguing and unusual programmes combining symphonic and chamber works. The Cathedral Classics series, Pople's touring festival of music in Cathedrals, attracted broadcast by BBC TV and Radio, had its own mini-series on BBC2 and led to invitations to visit Germany and Holland. The Concertgebouw performance was televised by Dutch TV.
Pople's conducting affirms his irrepressible musical convictions and drive. He has built up an extraordinary repertoire, boasting not only a sound knowledge of the Classical and Romantic but also a strong affinity to the new. He has close ties with the music of George Benjamin, John Casken, Edwin Roxburgh, Britten, Lutoslawski, Tavener and Boulez and has commissioned thirteen new compositions for himself and the LFO.


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Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Coming Back to UMass Dartmouth
Astronaut, Navy Commander, and fighter pilot Scott Tingle is coming back to his alma mater Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 7pm at the Woodland Commons to speak with fellow alumni, students, and faculty. Tingle earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from UMass Dartmouth in 1987.
After earning a master of science in mechanical engineering with a specialty in fluid mechanics and propulsion from Purdue University, Tingle was commissioned as a naval officer in 1991 and earned his Wings of Gold as a naval aviator in 1993. He has accumulated more than 3,500 flight hours in 48 types of aircraft, 700 carrier arrestments and 54 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tingle was selected in July 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. He graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training, which included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in International Space Station systems, Extravehicular Activity, robotics, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training. Tingle was one of nine applicants chosen from a pool 3,500 for astronaut training.
The event is sponsored by the UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association, College of Engineering, and University Advancement. For more information, visit alumni.umass.edu or call 508.999.8031.


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Tofurky, a Turtle Island Foods brand, now offers meat-free Pockets. Made with organic soy, the heat-and-go, non-GMO Pockets come in BBQ Chick'n, Pepperoni Pizza and Turk'y Broccoli and Cheddar. Also new are vegan Quiche and a vegan-friendly meat- and egg-free Pot Pie.
P.O. Box 176, Hood River, OR 97031, www.tofurky.com
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Located at the point where Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties meet, Brea provides convenient access to four major airports, as well as the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Apart from the Orange Freeway (57), which runs directly through the City, Brea is but a short drive from the Riverside (91), Pomona (60), San Bernardino (10), Santa Ana (5), and Newport (55) freeways. Seven bus routes, as well as nearby train stations in Fullerton and Anaheim, provide services to local residents and commuters alike.
Airports Near Brea
Orange County Airport (SNA), 17 miles
Ontario Airport (ONT), 25 miles
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), 48 miles