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The Many Voices of NRC
—Arthur M. Noxon, PE
Originally appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Interior Construction.
ASC TubeTraps
—Bryan Southard
Originally published in audiorevolution.com August, 2001
ASC Tube Traps - Creating A Listening Studio
—Ann Turner
Originally published in the abso!ute sound Issue 112, 1998
The ABCs of ASC's Tube Traps
—Jon T. Gale, August 1998
Originally published in Audiophilia Online Magazine, 1998
An Incredible New Sound for Engineers
—Daniel Sweeney, November 1997
Tour de Germany
—Marcel Schaal, 1997
AES Papers
Technical papers by Arthur M. Noxon, PE, presented at various AES Conventions.
These are the first two articles written by Art about room acoustics and corner bass traps. The first paper introduces the TubeTrap, shows how it is designed and how it is used in rooms. The second paper takes a look at how room modes are managed by corner bass traps.
Listening Room - Corner Loaded Bass Trap
Presented at the 79th AES Convention, October 1985
Room Acoustics and Low Frequency Damping
Presented at the 81st AES Convention, November 1986
These next two papers were written in response to the difficulty in accounting for the satisfaction from TubeTrap use when doing traditional, steady state room mode analysis, pink noise and tone sweep evaluation of room acoustics. Articulation accounted for the dynamic aspects of room acoustics. The first paper covers the details of MTF testing and the second paper looks at MTF as a global concept in performance spaces.
Articulation and the Small Room
Presented at the 85th AES Convention, November 1988
Articulation-Prerequsite to Performance
Presented at the 87th AES Convention in NY, October 1989
The next two papers are about acoustic spaces for recording. TubeTraps led recording engineers to discover that lots of very early reflections produce a better, more manageable sound than the traditional, reflection-free, dry studio recording. The first paper introduces the concept of a sampling room, highly reflective with a fast RT60. The second paper introduces the free standing QSF version of Haas Saturated recording approaches the same subject from a generalized overview.
Controlled Reflection Isolation Booth
Presented at the 83rd AES Convention, October 1987
Sound Fusion and the Acoustic Presence Effect
Presented at the 89th AES Convention, September 1990
This last AES paper by Mr. Noxon addresses the hot field of acoustic diffusion. It introduces the concept of coherent and incoherent diffusion, how to measure it and what each type is good and not good for.
Correlation Detection of Early Reflections
A discussion of various forms of diffusion and their effects on the listener.
Presented at the 11th AES International Convention, May 1992
This AES paper presents the results of a successful collaboration between Arthur, the authors who are audio engineers from Croatian Television and our Italian TubeTrap factory, Acoustica Applicata.
Room Acoustics For Eurovision 1990
With the addition of TubeTraps a large music hall with a long reverb time was successfully converted to a television production stage.
—Ivan and Silvije Stamać
From the President's Desk
Articles by Arthur M. Noxon, PE.
Home Theater Acoustics
A five-part article in Home Theater magazine, October 1993 - February 1994
► Volume 1 | PDF version - How the Distraction Factor of the Room Is Important.
► Volume 2 | PDF version - Common Home Theater Acoustic problems.
► Volume 3 | PDF version - How Resonant Modes Create Sound Cancellation.
► Volume 4 | PDF version - Speaker Positioning For Maximum Sound.
► Volume 5 | PDF version - Flutter Echo/Flutter Tones In the Home Theater.
Modes, Modes and More Modes
A detailed discussion concerning home theater acoustic priciples originally published in the October '05 edition of Home Theater Builder Magazine. Written by Arthur Noxon, PE, Licensed Acoustic Engineer
History of Sound Fusion Recording
We're proud to announce that the June 2007 issue of EQ Magazine features an article by Mr. Noxon covering the history and development of our Quick Sound Field system.
Announcing a Cure for Reflectophobia
ASC President and Founder Arthur Noxon takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how modern recording engineers can no longer rely solely on the FX rack to get their music to be completely full of acoustical life. Originally published in Audio Media Magazine, October, 2003.
Room Acoustics: Audio's Final Frontier
A roundtable discussion on room acoustics, equalization, and DSP-based room correction originally published in The Absolute Sound, October/November, 2004.
The Chain Is As Strong As Its Weakest Link
An article written for the first Hong Kong Hi-Fi Show, 1993
Trapping Bass In Your Project Studio
Art Noxon spills all his secrets in this detailed examination of the physics behind bass trapping in the studio.
Written for db Magazine, November 1991
The Wall in the Desert
From a lecture given at the Hi-End Audio Show in Milano, Italy, 1993
Product Reviews
ASC Product reviews in various print and online magazines.
TubeTrap Review by John Acton
—John Acton
John reviews TubeTraps for Positive Feedback Online.
Optimizing ASC Tube Traps
—J. Peter Moncrieff
Originally published in IAR Hotline! Issue 56, 1989
Your Room: The Final Link
—J. Peter Moncrieff
Originally published in IAR Hotline! Issue 39, 1985
Room Acoustics - The Final Frontier
—Roger S. Gordon
Positive Feedback Online
Mr. Gordon recounts his experiences in setting up TubeTraps for increased imaging and a wider, deeper, more clearly delineated soundstage.
SubTrap Review by Ed Mullen
Published in Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity, 2005
—Ed Mullen
Raise It to Get Down
SubTrap Review in Home Theater Magazine, 2005
Music In the Round
—Kalman Rubinson
SubTrap Review in Stereophile Magazine
Beyond the Thunderdome
TubeTrap Review in Sound and Communications Magazine, 1991
—Daniel Sweeney
ASC StudioTrap Review
Performing Songwriter, January 2004. Mitch Malloy demonstrates the power of the Quick Sound Field, a pattern of TubeTraps for recording incredibly life-like sound.
StudioTrap Follow Up Report
Performing Songwriter, May 2004. A few months after Mich Malloy's review, Fett reports on his experience with the Quick Sound Field.
Peter Moncrieff's IAR Reference Rooms
The Trappings of Success?
A review of ASC's StudioTrap.
From the original Sound on Sound review from February 1999
ASC 5.1 AttackWall
Create The Right Sonic Environment - And Take It With You
—Bobby Owsinski
Acoustic Sciences Corporation Studio Traps
Stereophile Magazine , December 1998
—Jonathan Scull
Attack Wall Acoustic Treatment
Audio Media , November 1998
—Michael Cooper
Treat Yourself
Home Theater, February 1998
—Brent Butterworth
California Brisson and the Soundroom of Doom
Stereophile Magazine, May 1997
—Wes Philips
Equipment Reports: ASC Tube Traps
Stereophile Magazine, April 1986
—J. Gordon Holt
Church Articles
Articles written by ASC Staff for various magazines.
Church Acoustics - Unnoticed Means a Successful Job
—Arthur M. Noxon, PE
Originally featured in Church & Worship Technology, March, 2008
Usually, working with churches is pretty hard. But one day I got the dream call. It went something like this: Hi. We had some vandals start a fire and our church was smoke damaged. It was covered by insurance and the entire inside of the church needs to be removed and resurfaced. We figure we can use this money to do the acoustic job we always needed, and still get the painting done. So what do we do?
Auditorium Acoustics
—Arthur M. Noxon, PE
A four-part article originally featured in Church & Worship Technology, 2002
The traditional church is half auditorium and half recital hall in design. It needs to clearly present speech and yet a few minutes later in the service it needs to support engaging congregation singing. A new style of church service has evolved. The emphasis is on understanding the sermon and less on congregational singing, it is the church auditorium. Here as a study series to better understand the design strategies behind church acoustics.
Auditorium Acoustics 101: The Quieter, the Better
Auditorium Acoustics 102: Reflections Make All the Difference
Auditorium Acoustics 103: Speakers Make Sound, Acoustics Clean It Up
Auditorium Acoustics 104
The Art of Church Acoustics
—Tim Bott
Originally featured in Church & Worship Technology, March, 2004
Faced with fire and smoke damage, the New Life Center in Springfield, Oregon approached ASC President Art Noxon and gave him a blank canvas to design an ideal acoustic space. The result is a beautiful looking - and sounding - sanctuary that provides acoustic zones for the praise band, choir, speaker cluster, mixing board, and congregation. Read about a great example of how ASC works with our clients to provide balanced acoustic solutions, custom-designed for the specific needs of the space.
Cry Room Acoustics
A traditional cry space is common in many churches, but how often are they used? Art Noxon discusses the different ways to build a cry facility for children and families that can solve all of the necessary noise issues but still allow full participation in the worship community of the church.
—Arthur M. Noxon, PE
Originally featured in Church & Worship Technology, October, 2001.
BIG Church Acoustics
—Tim Bott.
Originally featured in Church & Worship Technology, April, 2004
Voicing The Church
—Arthur M. Noxon, PE.
Anyone can run calculations and toss acoustics into a church Santcuary. However, voicing a church is a skilled art. The church wants to be bright yet clear sounding. This means we add as little acoustic material as possible and carefully position it so as to best control only the problem reflections.
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At this weekend's press junket for Ninja Assassin, I participated in a roundtable interview with 87 Eleven's Kim Do Nygen. If you're not familiar with 87 Eleven, they do stunt coordination, fight choreography, action direction and stunt performing in some of Hollywood's biggest movies. Some of their projects are Iron Man 2, The Expendables, Watchmen, The Bourne Identity and Tron Legacy… just to name a few. Check out their website for the entire list. It's impressive.
So when we spoke to Kim Do Nygen from 87 Eleven this weekend, we were able to get him to talk briefly about working on Tron Legacy and how their company got involved. If you are anxiously awaiting next years cup of awesome that is Tron Legacy, hit the jump for his brief comments.
Question: How involved were you in Tron Legacy or some of the other projects you guys are working on?
Kim Do Nygen: I worked on Tron as one of the main stunt team for it. I really can't say much about it. I'm part of the main bad guys.
They showed us a clip of somebody in the light scenes flipping and kicking…did you either shoot that demo or demos like that for how the guys are going to move?
Kim Do Nygen: Yeah, the owners were brought the script…they wanted a certain style. Actually, they wanted ultimate Frisbee guys to begin with and then my bosses said well you might want this instead. We did a demonstration for them and they loved it.
The thing about the footage that I found is it looks like The Matrix meets Tron. It's like this really cool looking film and the 3D stuff looks incredible. Obviously you have seen stuff, what's been your take on what you've seen?
Kim Do Nygen: It's going to be…you know I didn't grow up…I wasn't old enough to watch Tron at a theater but it feels like when Tron came out it was like this is crazy and new and I think this movie will be the next innovative thing people look at and it's like back then all over again in this present time.
It's very impressive to see you do that flip kick from a standing position. How hard is it to do those in the special effects suits that you have to do to do Tron?
Kim Do Nygen: It makes it difficult. They're heavy. But you've got to do it, you're the stunt guy. You work with it and they find a way to make it mold right to your body.


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New Yorkers now have something constructive to do with the cellphone's photo and video cameras.
As of yesterday, New York City's 911 and 311 (that's for dumb things like, there's a lot of traffic on the BQE this morning, do something~!) phone numbers can accept photos and videos taken from cellphones. It used to be that being able to send in text message tips was considered forward-looking, but this really could help out this city.
For example, someone sees an evildoer breaking into a car. They can take a cellphone of the person, along with the car's license plate and make and model, and send that out to 911.
Or, if there's an unsightly pile of garbage all over your street, take some video with your phone then fire it off to 311.
Now, New Yorkers are still encouraged to actually call 911 and 311 if something urgent is happening, since that's the fastest way to reach the authorities. Think of the cellphone-provided material as a neat extra, but not something that replaces a good old fashioned phone call.


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In late July, protesters in southwest France entered two testing fields growing genetically modified commercial maize, and destroyed 6 to 10 hectares of the plants.
In another field in the same region, Greenpeace activists cut a giant version of the universal danger sign for "contamination" through the maize.
After French courts ordered the removal of a Web site listing the locations of GM maize fields across the country, protesters have begun marking the fields themselves.
They have threatened to continue doing so unless an official register of GM fields is made publicly available. Destroying crops in this manner could result in a five-year prison sentence or a fine of 75,000 euros ($96,000). The demonstrators plan to reimburse farmers for the value of the damaged crops.
Between 1999 and 2003, the European Union banned GM food imports. In 2006, the World Trade Organization ruled this a violation of trade rules. Last year, 500 French hectares were planted with GM crops, a figure that may soar to 10 times that amount by the end of this year.
Science Daily August 2, 2006
Although Americans may be feeling a little wary, at best, about the spread of genetically modified (GM) crops, many Europeans make no secret about their disdain for such Frankenstein foods. A mere mention of the words Monsanto or genetic engineering provokes a fight.
Contrary to the claims of industry proponents, GM crops have not been proven safe. The regulatory framework governing them was fatally flawed from the start; it was designed to expedite product approval at the expense of safety considerations.
The approval of GM crops uses a principal called 'substantial equivalence,' which is intentionally vague and ill-defined. It gives companies complete license to claim that transgenic products are 'substantially equivalent' to non-transgenic products, and hence 'safe.'
Actually, there have been very few credible studies on GM food safety. And what findings there are already give cause for concern.
In one of the few systematic investigations on GM food ever carried out, 'growth factor-like' effects were found in the stomach and small intestine of young rats that ate GM plants. There have also been other studies that raised serious safety concerns.
Much of what little protesting is being done about GM blight in America, however, flies under the consumer radar. Some food companies have shelved GM concoctions due to legal obstacles thrown their way by a few consumer groups.
I am convinced that the GMO issue may be one of the biggest threats to the future health of the world and very few people are aware of the danger. Industry has been able to hoodwink the vast majority of the public on this important topic. It is likely my next book will address this topic.
Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped the use of GM products in some 75 percent of the processed foods you'll see at a typical grocery store near you. To protect your family's health from GM foods, please review a short list of tips I posted earlier this year on how to avoid them:
- Reduce or eliminate processed foods. There are many reasons why processed foods are not optimal for your health — for instance they often contain trans fat, acrylamide and little nutritional value — so avoiding them will not only help you to cut back on the amount of GM foods you are consuming, but will also boost your health.
- Read produce and food labels. GM soybeans and corn make up the largest portion of genetically modified crops. When looking at a product label, if any ingredients such as corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu (to name a few) are listed, there's a good chance it has come from GM corn or soy, unless it's listed as organic.
- Buy organic produce. Buying organic is currently the best way to ensure that your food has not been genetically modified. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms, produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs.
- Look at produce stickers. Those little stickers on fruit and vegetables contain different PLU codes depending on whether the fruit was conventionally grown, organically grown or genetically modified. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers, organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine, and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.


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"When I was diagnosed, the doctor asked me if I knew what leukemia was and I didn't know. The more people that know, the better."
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The conventional view in financial planning is that if something is free, it's usually worthless. If we want consumers to really value planning, we need to charge for it. Yet the caveat, as expressed by author Chris Anderson in his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is that bundling free solutions with a paid product or service is an entirely legitimate business model, and a surprisingly robust one.
In fact, the classic "freemium" model of giving away an initial product or service while being paid for a complementary or supporting solution may actually help grow your business and allow you to gain even greater adoption in the process. This suggests not only that offering free financial planning over the past several decades has been a good business model, but also that it may have even helped to gain adoption and acceptance of planning in the first place.
On the other hand, the reality is that advancements in technology are beginning to undermine the products and asset management services that have classically been the financial engine of the planning business model.
From declining commission rates on products to the decline of commission-based products, coupled with new threats to the pricing of asset management from robo advisors, the trend suggests that the free-planning-plus-paid-financial-products-and-services model may be on its way out.
The landscape is already shifting: Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard have begun to deliver their solutions (packaged together with free financial planning) directly to consumers.
Anderson makes the case that incorporating free elements into a business model is far more robust than we commonly assume. Whether it's Gillette giving away razors more than a century ago to sell a lifetime of blades or modern-day cell hone carriers giving away phones in order to sell ongoing voice or data plans, Anderson makes the case that the free components of a business model aren't going away soon, and in fact are something to build around.
The essence of free as a business model is the cross-subsidy — the idea that even if one product or service is free, it supports the growth and sale of another.
For many advisors, the fact that planning has been given away to support the sale of other financial products and services has undermined its value. As the prevailing view goes: How will consumers ever truly value financial planning as long as we treat it like the free toaster you get when opening a bank account? The basic concept: If we want consumers to really perceive value in financial planning, it needs to be priced and paid for directly.
Anderson says that the model of giving something away (as part of a broader business model) doesn't necessarily make it worthless. After all, if it didn't have any perceived value to consumers, it wouldn't work as a free product to support a cross-subsidy in the first place. A free newspaper with valuable content is sought out, supporting its advertisers, while a free newspaper with worthless content isn't read by anyone, and loses its advertisers.
In fact, one virtue of the free model is that it can actually fuel growth of the perceived value of the service. For instance, the market capitalization of Google has approached $500 billion, built predominantly around its advertising businesses that succeed because of the tremendous adoption of Google's free apps, from its search engine service to offerings such as Gmail and Google Maps.
A key point here is that Google never would have had such adoption in the first place if it had charged for those services directly. Google's success isn't just a story of advertisers who cross-subsidize free solutions, but of an explosive growth in the adoption of those solutions and the creation of loyal users because they were free.
Similarly, one might make the case that, if financial planning had been a separate service that was separately paid for over the past decades, it would have been used by far fewer people, which would have limited its word-of-mouth growth, favorable public perceptions in the media and more.
While one might make the case that financial planning has succeeded in part because its freemium model allowed it to reach a wider initial audience, a significant challenge in today's environment is that the free aspect of financial planning was possible only because of the strength of the product and service solutions that cross-subsidized it. If selling financial products or services becomes less lucrative, the freemium model may be undermined.
And, in fact, that may already be happening. As technology continues to commoditize elements of the financial services industry, there is likely to be downward pressure on AUM fee structures.
As the profitability of these product and wealth management service models are being undermined, the freemium financial planning model will be as well.
The increasing pace of industry conversations about unbundling financial planning fees and alternative retainer-fee-based business models may be less about a hunger for consumers to pay for financial planning and more an imperative as the free-financial-planning-paid-by-products-and-AUM-fees approach continues to disintegrate, and the profitability of products and AUM fees faces a potential decline.
Notably, Anderson points out that the nature of models based around free is that they do change over time dynamically. As the world changes and breakthroughs takes products and commodities that were previously scarce and make them prolific, entirely new business models arise.
A key tenet of Anderson's book is that, in the digital world, the price of anything built around bits will inevitably move toward zero. As computing power, storage capabilities and Internet bandwidth continue to double every 12 to 18 months, any solution that is purely technology-driven will see its price decline continually.
As Google Maps replace Garmin navigation devices and discount brokerages replace stockbrokers, it is possible that robo advisors will replace many of today's portfolio management solutions (not necessarily the people who prepare and deliver financial advice, but the actual implementation of the portfolios themselves).
The implication of these trends is that, while human advisors do provide value in a financial planning relationship, the business model to deliver it may soon have to be rebuilt. The rapid evolution from scarcity to proliferation invariably creates new scarcities, as well. For example, Waze personalized traffic reports for those getting otherwise-free navigation services, and was ultimately sold to Google for $1 billion.
The irony of innovation, however, is that it's not always apparent what exactly is becoming abundant and what will become scarce and desirable (and therefore able to command a value premium).
Notwithstanding the technological pressures on much of the investment management industry, the reality is that distributing financial services products remains highly profitable, especially for the companies that manufacture and distribute the products.
This means that there may still be enough money in financial products to continue to maintain a "planning for free and paid for the products" model instead. After all, the steady decline of the commission-based model in financial planning didn't lead to an explosion of paid-for financial planning alternatives. Instead, it led to the rise of the AUM model.
Accordingly, in the near term it seems that the next evolution of the free-based financial planning model may simply be a shift to financial product manufacturers "in-sourcing" their financial planning solutions and offering free to consumers directly, implemented with their own proprietary products.
In other words, the coming innovation in financial planning business models may amount to just cutting out the independent advisor as a middleman, while firms that sell financial products offer their own free-financial-planning-plus-product solutions directly to consumers.
On the other hand, if the price of investment management services and financial products is ultimately moving toward zero, then perhaps the financial planning business model of the future is not to give away the planning and get paid for the financial products and investment management, but to give away the products and investment management and get paid for the planning.
What would it mean if we managed AUM for free and got paid for planning, instead of the other way around?
After all, one of the most common scarcities across most business models is that, while information or a product may be abundant, the ability to apply a customized solution for your individual circumstances remains a scarcity.
In fact, this is a cornerstone of many freemium models today: The standardized out-of-the-box solution is free (or at least very low cost), but getting a customized version adapted for your personal needs has a cost.
In fact, one of the key value propositions for financial planning has always been about its focus on adapting generic planning (and investment and insurance) strategies for the client's personal circumstances, needs and goals.
Of course, the caveat is that, to be a truly scarce and valuable service, it might not be enough to simply try to start charging for financial planning while giving away the investment management. When consumers are already accustomed to paying for investment management (albeit for less and less) and getting planning free, suddenly charging for a previously free service can meet significant market resistance. This is probably why fee-for-service financial planning has been slow to be adopted industrywide over the past decade — there are still too many competitors offering a similar service free.
In the end, it's necessary to figure out what kind of financial planning service would be unique and differentiated enough from what's already available for free. It has to be something that can be done more easily, thanks to the abundance of technology, and can still add up to a viable business model in the aggregate.
Being paid for planning and giving away investment management might be one possibility, especially if it's narrowed down to a particular niche clientele who receive financial planning services that is truly unlike others available for free.
In the coming years, we'll see which of these paths ultimately unfolds. But if there's one takeaway from Anderson's book, it's the recognition that business models based on free are not likely to go away anytime soon, even if the nature of what's free and what's paid for will evolve over time.
In fact, carefully considering what will be free and what will be paid impacts everything from the business model itself to its ability to grow and gain adoption by consumers, and beat other competitors.
Michael Kitces, CFP, is a Financial Planning contributing writer, and a partner and director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group in Columbia, Md. He's also publisher of the planning industry blog Nerd's Eye View. Follow him on Twitter at @MichaelKitces.
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Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor, television director and writer. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed, Mark Twain Tonight!, while studying at Denison University, performing as Mark Twain.[1] He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain.[2] Throughout his career, he won five Primetime Emmy Awards.[3]
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Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
February 17, 1925
|Culver Academies
Denison University
HB Studio
|Actor, director, writer
|Years active
Ruby Elaine Johnston
(m. 1945; div. 1965)
Carol Eve Rossen
(m. 1966; div. 1979)
(m. 1984; died 2010)
|National Humanities Medal (2003)
See Awards and nominations
|Military career
|United States
|United States Army
|Staff sergeant
|World War II
Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 miniseries Lincoln and 1985 miniseries North and South. He has also appeared in such films as Julia (1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997), and Men of Honor (2000).[4][5]
Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned him both Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.[2] Until Robert Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015, Holbrook was the oldest actor to receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination.[6] In 2009, Holbrook received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun.[7]
In his later career, Holbrook appeared as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), provided his voice as Mayday in the Disney animated film Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) and as Whizzer in Blackway (2015).[8][9]
As a television actor, Holbrook is known for his recurring role in and directing four episodes of Designing Women as Reese Watson, opposite his wife, Dixie Carter.[1] Later in his career, he has starred in minor roles in Sons of Anarchy, The Event, and Rectify.[5] He has guest-starred in many critically acclaimed television series such as NCIS, The West Wing, The Sopranos, ER, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, and Hawaii Five-0.[10]
In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.[11]
Early lifeEdit
Holbrook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen (née Davenport) Holbrook (1905–1987), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook Sr. (1902–1982).[1]
Holbrook and his two older sisters were abandoned by their parents when he was two years old. The three children were raised by their paternal grandparents, first in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and later in the Cleveland suburb Lakewood, Ohio.[12] He graduated from Culver Military Academy (now part of the Culver Academies) and then from Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one-man show for which he is best known, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight.[13] He also studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.[14]
From 1942 through 1946, Holbrook served in the United States Army in World War II, achieving the rank of staff sergeant and was stationed in Newfoundland.[15] In Newfoundland, he performed in theater productions such as the play Lady Precious Stream.[12]
Holbrook's first solo performance as Twain was at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954.[16] Ed Sullivan saw him and gave Holbrook his first national exposure on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 12, 1956.[16] Holbrook was also a member of the Valley Players (1941–1962), a summer-stock theater company based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which performed at Mountain Park Casino Playhouse at Mountain Park.[17] He joined The Lamns in 1955, where he began developing his one-man show.[12] He was a member of the cast for several years and performed Mark Twain Tonight as the 1957 season opener.[17] The State Department even sent him on a European tour, which included pioneering appearances behind the Iron Curtain.[12] In 1959, Holbrook first played the role off-Broadway.[16] Columbia Records recorded an LP of excerpts from the show.[4]
Holbrook performed in a special production for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair for the Bell Telephone Pavilion.[18] Jo Mielziner created an innovative audio-visual ride experience and used Holbrook's acting talents on 65 different action screens for "The Ride of Communications" with the movie itself known as From Drumbeats to Telstar.[18]
In 1967, Mark Twain Tonight was presented on television by CBS and Xerox, and Holbrook received an Emmy for his performance.[4] Holbrook's Twain first played on Broadway in 1966, and again in 1977 and 2005; Holbrook was 80 years old during his most recent Broadway run, older (for the first time) than the character he was portraying.[4] Holbrook won a Tony Award for the performance in 1966.[4] Until Holbrook retired in 2017, aged 92, Mark Twain Tonight toured the country, which amounted to over about 2100 performances.[19] He has portrayed Twain longer than Samuel Langhorne Clemens did.[20]
In 1964, Holbrook played the role of the Major in the original production of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy.[21] In 1968, he was one of the replacements for Richard Kiley in the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha, although he had limited singing ability.[21] In 1966, Holbrook starred opposite Shirley Booth in the acclaimed CBS Playhouse production of The Glass Menagerie.[22]
Holbrook co-starred with Martin Sheen in the controversial and acclaimed 1972 television film That Certain Summer.[4] In 1973, Holbrook appeared as Lieutenant Neil Briggs, the boss and rival of Detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Magnum Force, an "obsessively neat and prim fanatic" who supports the obliteration of San Francisco's criminals and who is the leader of a rogue group of vigilante officers.[23][24]
In 1976, Holbrook won acclaim for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in a series of television specials based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography.[4] He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the 1970 series The Bold Ones: The Senator.[12] In 1979, he starred with Katharine Ross, Barry Bostwick, and Richard Anderson in the made-for-TV movie Murder by Natural Causes.[1] Holbrook also had a major role on the sitcom Evening Shade throughout its entire run.[1] Early in his career, Holbrook worked onstage and in a television soap opera, The Brighter Day.[4] He is also famous for his role as the enigmatic Deep Throat (whose identity was unknown at the time) in the film All the President's Men.[25][10] Holbrook was the narrator on the Ken Burns documentary Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery in 1997.[12]
From 1986-89, Holbrook had a recurring role as Reese Watson on Designing Women, opposite his wife Dixie Carter.[26] For a short period between 1988 and 1990, Holbrook directed four episodes of the series.[4]
In 1999, Holbrook was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[27]
In 2000, Holbrook appeared in Men of Honor, where he portrayed a racist and hypocritical officer who endlessly tries to fail an African-American diver trainee.[28]
He appeared in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild (2007) and received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at the 80th Academy Awards.[2] At the time, this rendered Holbrook, at age 82, the oldest nominee in Academy Award history in the Best Supporting Actor category.[2]
The Seventh Day series which aired on Hope Channel on April 6, 2007, was hosted by Holbrook.[29]
On December 20, 2007, Holbrook was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work in the film.[2] In late August through mid-September 2007, he starred as the narrator in the Hartford Stage production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, a role he had once played on television.[2]
In 2003, President George W. Bush honored Holbrook with a National Humanities Medal for "charming audiences with the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain as Twain's outlook never fails to give Holbrook a good show to put on".[11]
Holbrook appeared with wife Dixie Carter in That Evening Sun, filmed in East Tennessee in the summer of 2008.[7] The film, produced by Dogwood Entertainment,[7] is based on a short story by William Gay. That Evening Sun premiered in March 2009 at South By Southwest, where it received the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and a special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast.[7] Joe Leydon of Variety hailed Hollbrook's performance in the film as a "career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night."[7] That Evening Sun also was screened at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, where Holbrook was honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, and the film itself received another Audience Award.[30]
Holbrook appeared as a featured guest star in a 2006 episode of the HBO series The Sopranos and the NCIS episode "Escaped".[4] On April 22, 2010, Holbrook signed on to portray Katey Sagal's character's father on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy for a four-episode arc in their third season, as well as appearing in additional fifth episode in the final season.[31] He also had a multiple-episode arc on The Event, an American television series on NBC, appearing in the 2010–2011 season.[1]
In 2011, Holbrook appeared in Water for Elephants.[32] In 2012, Steven Spielberg cast Holbrook to play Francis Preston Blair in Lincoln.[8] His recent films are Gus Van Sant's Promised Land (2012),[33] the animated film Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014),[34] and in the minor role as Whizzer in the drama film Blackway (2016).[9]
In 2014, Holbrook was the subject of Scott Teems' documentary Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey depicting Holbrook's long lasting career as portraying Twain.[12] It was premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival that same year.[12]
In 2016, Holbrook was cast as Red Hudmore and appeared in the final season of Bones on January 17, 2017.[35] On March 23, 2017, aged 92, he appeared on an episode on Grey's Anatomy playing a retired thoracic surgeon whose wife is a patient, and on Hawaii Five-0 later in the year.[36][37]
In September 2017, after six decades of playing the role of Mark Twain, Holbrook announced his retirement from the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight![19] Holbrook indicated that he would like to continue working on movies and television.[19]
Personal lifeEdit
Holbrook has been married three times and has three children. He married a Newfoundlander, Ruby Elaine Johnston, in 1945, and they had two children.[4] They divorced in 1965. In 1966, he married Carol Eve Rossen.[38] They had one child and they divorced in 1983.[4]
Holbrook married actress and singer Dixie Carter in 1984 and the couple remained married until Carter's death from endometrial cancer on April 10, 2010.[39]
Holbrook said of his home in Atlanta, Georgia that it has the "feel" of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, and that there is no other place to which he feels so ideally suited.[40] He also has a residence in Beverly Hills, California.[12] Holbrook had a recurring role on his wife's hit sitcom Designing Women, appearing in nine episodes between 1986 and 1989 as Carter's on-screen significant other.[4] In 2011, Holbrook's memoir, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[41]
In October 2016, Holbrook wrote a letter to The New York Times defending actor-director Nate Parker over his alleged 1999 rape of a woman and Parker's controversial film The Birth of a Nation.[42] He urged others to "move on" from Parker's past and to view the film, which was "an exceptional piece of artistry and a vital portrait of our American experience".[42]
Political viewsEdit
Holbrook has occasionally criticized the politicization of religion.[43] He is a registered independent, but leans towards the liberal end of the US political spectrum.[44] He criticized the Republican Party while Barack Obama was in office.[44]
In 2016, he castigated then-Republican-candidate Donald Trump for not having "the maturity to run the country".[16] Holbrook praised Senator Bernie Sanders as the only politician who does not "say what they think might get them elected" and praised his honesty.[45] In 2017, Holbrook again criticized President Trump, saying, "We have [Trump] who has been elected president now who is upending and destroying a great many of our American values...he's trying to distort the American dream, which he's doing every hour of the day."[46] Holbrook opposes President Trump's immigration ban while praising the protests against the ban.[46]
The local community of McLemoresville, Tennessee, hometown of his wife Dixie Carter, constructed the Dixie Theatre for Performing Arts in nearby Huntingdon, Tennessee, which features the Hal Holbrook Auditorium.[40] Upon his retirement from his Mark Twain persona, The HuffPost hailed Holbrook as "the man who has done more to keep Mark Twain on people's minds than anyone else".[47]
Awards and nominationsEdit
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c d e f "Hal Holbrook profile". Film Reference.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "Veteran actor Hal Holbrook's loving his Oscar nod". CNN.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook". Emmys. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Hal Holbrook". Biography.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook Filmography". Washington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ "Oscars: Robert Duvall Becomes Oldest Supporting Actor Nominee Ever". Yahoo News. January 15, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "That Evening Sun". Variety. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook is always up for challenging fare". LA Times.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "First-Look Photo: Anthony Hopkins in 'Go With Me' – Berlin". yahoo.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook List of Movies and TV Shows". TV Guide. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook". National Endowment for the Humanities. November 1, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i King, Susan (June 13, 2014). "'American Odyssey' chronicles 60 years of Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook: Awards". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 2008-12-08.
- ^ "HB Studio Alumni". hbstudio.org.
- ^ "Holbrook, Harold Rowe, Jr., S/Sgt Assisted". TogetherWeServed.com. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Patrick S. Pemberton (January 5, 2016). "Hal Holbrook channels Mark Twain on stage". San Luis Obispo.com. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ a b "Holyoke History Room & Archives Valley Players Collection (1941-1993). HPLA2007.527". Holyokehistory.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "New York World's Fair '64". Westland.net. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Hal Holbrook retires his award-winning one-man show 'Mark Twain Tonight!' after 63 years, cancels Oklahoma City performance". NewsOK.com. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
- ^ Malia Wollan (January 24, 2011). "Mark Twain. Now a Career for the Mustachioed". New York Times.
...has played Twain going on 57 years, longer than Samuel Langhorne Clemens did.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook". Master Works Broadway.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ Michael Shaulman (December 7, 2016). "A Lost "Glass Menagerie" Rediscovered". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^ Baker, Brian (9 April 2006). Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres, 1945-2000. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-84714-149-1. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ^ Brunsdale, Mitzi M. (26 July 2010). Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes. ABC-CLIO. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-313-34530-2. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ^ "Deep Throat is W. Mark Felt. And Hal Holbrook. And Kirsten Dunst. And . . ". New York Magazine.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ FoundationInterviews (August 15, 2018). "Hal Holbrook on working with his wife Dixie Carter on "Designing Women"". YouTube. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- ^ "On Stage: New class of theater hall of famers".
- ^ "Men of Honor (2000)". The New York Times.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook". Masterworks Broadway. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ "Nashville Film Festival". PR Web.com. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook Joins Sons of Anarchy". Cinemablend.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook Totally Owns the "Water for Elephants" Trailer". NBC New York.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ Gerhardt, Tina (December 31, 2012). "Matt Damon Exposes Fracking in Promised Land". The Progressive.
- ^ "'Planes: Fire & Rescue' Interview with Hal Holbrook". Movie Web.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ Michael Ausiello (August 16, 2016). "Bones Enlists Acting Vets Ed Asner and Hal Holbrook for Final Season". TVLine.com. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ Elisabeth Wagmeiser (March 1, 2017). "June Squibb and Hal Holbrook to Guest Star on 'Grey's Anatomy' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Exclusive: Hawaii Five-0 Enlists Hal Holbrook to Guest-Star". TV Guide. March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ "The Holbrooks Prove That Though Hal Is East and Carol West, the Twain Can Meet". People. June 6, 1977. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
- ^ "Dixie Carter, Star of TV's 'Designing Women', Dies at 70". The New York Times. April 11, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ a b "Hal & Dixie". Carroll County Chamber.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ^ "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain". US MacMillan. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ a b Hal Holbrook (October 14, 2016). "Hal Holbrook, on 'The Birth of a Nation'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook, bringing 'Mark Twain' to PAC, is ready to vent". Postcresent.com. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- ^ a b "Hal Holbrook Speaks Out Against Republican Party Leaders". LA Times.com. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- ^ "Why Hal Holbrook Wants to Keep Touring With 'Mark Twain Tonight'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ a b Chuck Williams (January 31, 2017). "Actor Hal Holbrook says Trump is trying to 'distort the American dream'". Ledger-Enquirer. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
- ^ Cindy Lovell (September 13, 2017). "Hal Holbrook Says Farewell to Legendary Mark Twain Role". Huffington Post. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^ "1959 Drama Desk Award Vernon Rice Award". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ "Obie Awards - 1959 Winners". www.obieawards.com.
- ^ "Outer Critics Circle - 1958-1959 Awards". outercritics.org.
- ^ "Hal Holbrook retires his award-winning one-man show 'Mark Twain Tonight!' after 63 years, cancels Oklahoma City performance". Newsok. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ "7 Chicago Film Critics award nominations for 'Clayton'". Daily Herald. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ "Veteran Actor Hal Holbrook Loving His Oscar Nod". CNN. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ "Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2008". MovieCityNews. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ "2007 Awards". OFCS. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ "'Into the Wild' Hears Call of SAG". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
Further readingEdit
- Holbrook, Hal (1959). Mark Twain Tonight: An Actor's Portrait. New York: Ives Washburn. ISBN 978-0-886902-72-8.
- Young, Jordan R. (1989). Acting solo: the art of one-man shows. Beverly Hills: Moonstone Press. ISBN 978-0-940410-85-5.
- Holbrook, Hal (2011). Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1-4299-6901-7.
External linksEdit
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I am a writer, new by some standards, and old by others. My first love was poetry so you will see quite a bit of it here. I started writing poetry at a young age, inspired by my grandmother–a fantastic storyteller. She gave me a love of words; words that crawled off of the tip of your tongue and found their way to the page. But most of all, she developed my imagination and drive to write.
Art for me is a journey. A travel through space and time. Never during my lifetime has anyone accused me of not having an imagination. My parents would marvel at the things I could come up with. Since I could pick up a pencil or write in a notebook, I've always had some sort of media at my disposal. Something to release the inner turmoil of my day. I knew if the day was horrible, I had a book or my art waiting for me. I dove in and escaped as often as I could.
I also had friends along the way who have guided me in the direction I've gone. People who loved sci-fi and fantasy. But most of all, Horror. David Noble, my next door neighbor, and friend, first turned me on to Clive Barker through the first volume of The Books of Blood and a book of selected works by Poe. My mother turned me on to Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I've harbored a love of this genre over the years, starting there.
I'm now branching out in a different direction. Always before, I would only show my skills to family and some friends. I was encouraged to try and get my writings and art out to the public but always felt I was never ready. Those ideas are changing. I'm ready to take this road to the next level.
I live in a small town on the banks of the Ohio River, where folklore and stories abound, mostly in the oral tradition. There is a myriad of characters and scenes in which to acquire inspiration. This has been my home since I was born and I would have it no other way.
I am a father and grandfather. I wish to leave a legacy of written material for my family someday and the public at large; for no matter where this journey has taken me or will take me, I will continue to write and draw. I long for it and desire to let my thoughts flow freely. Besides, if I don't put it down on paper, my crazy thoughts will consume me.
One last thing, I belong to a writer's group called the Write Practice. This group has been instrumental in helping me grow, as many writers there are either beginners or seasoned writers. This is a great community and I can't stress enough how helpful community is to new writers.
This site, I hope, will explain me and the way I think. If anything else, it will help for others to get an idea of what I'm doing. Thank you for reading.
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LG Electronics has unveiled its Lifeband Touch, a wearable product that mark the company's first foray into fitness tech. Showcasing at the CES 2014 in Las Vegas, the product incorporate compatibility with other devices.
The device is designed to help users take control over their health. The Lifeband Touch can wirelessly link up with LG's another wearable device, the Heart Rate Earphones, creating a wearable ecosystem.
Connected to smartphones (Android and iOS supported), the devices can transmit data to LG Fitness app, or to a number of other third party apps such as MyFitnessPal, Runkeeper or MapMyFitness.
The Lifeband Touch features a touch OLED panel to display time, biometrics, incoming calls and music controls, the built-in 3-axis accelerometer and altimeter allows the device to accurately measure key performance indicators such as distance, speed, number of steps, calories consumed and projected pace. The device also offers wireless connectivity via Bluetooth to transmit data to a smartphone or receive data from third party devices such the Heart Rate Earphones.


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I swear, as if most of the designer dogs out there weren't already bad enough. I mean, I thought that the Labradoodles were kinda cute when I first heard of them, since I know a lot of people who would like to own a large breed dog, but who can't because of allergies. Labradoodles are good for people with allergies, as they're non-shedding dogs, that aren't standard poodles.
But MAN, they're taking this designer dog crap way too far! O.o I mean for goodness sake! Crossbreed dogs, that these idiot breeders claim are "special breeds," and will sell for up to $1000 a puppy?? Give me a break! Yes, mixed breed dogs are fine. In fact, all three of my dogs are mixed. But charging an arm and a leg for such "unique" breeds, when they're only mutts, is rather unethical. :/
Hell, PJ's Pet Store sells crossbreed mutts, from puppy mills no less, for over a grand a puppy. They convince ignorant people, who don't know anything about dogs, that they're getting a great, uniquely bred dog, when in reality they're ripping people off. Not to mention a lot of their dogs tend to develop health problems later on in life. Cripes, you can go to an animal shelter and adopt a mutt that will make just as much of a wonderful family pet, WITHOUT spending a fortune. O.o They're bastardizing these poor dogs, when there are enough out there with no homes already. >:/
I'm so very tempted to write to that breeder, but I'm not going to waste my time. Idiots like this will never change, and are only looking for a profit.
iron_raptor and I were joking about my own dogs, messing around with what we would call them, if they were designer breeds. :-P Husky/Labs are fairly common. We decided Dakota should be a Lusky. And Zena, being Staffordshire/Shiba Inu cross, should be a Staffibanu. We got stumped on Barkley, since he's crossed with two different types of Shepherd, (German and Dutch) but after considering how dense he is, Raptor came up with Durrrman Shepherd. :-P Poor Barks. ;)
I hope I never meet a designer dog breeder, or they will so have a pissy wolf chewing their ankles off. O.x


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Nikki Poole, Vice President of Marketing for Morrison Healthcare has more than 10 years of experience in food service marketing. Nikki joined Morrison Healthcare in August 2012 and leads all internal and external marketing strategies. She's responsible for creating and executing Morrison's external brand, development of sales strategy, and researching and executing the latest healthcare innovations. In addition, she leads a team that supports all of Morrison's marketing needs, including patient marketing, brand development, and ensuring the brand is consistently represented throughout the business and industry. Nikki graduated from The University of West Georgia with a degree in Business Administration.


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One part of the educational cycle that is familiar to nearly every student in the United States is the usage of annual standardized tests. Every year, students are evaluated as to how they measure up to their peers across the country. These tests are often important for teachers who may discover that a student is falling behind in a certain area or may have a learning disability.
The Importance of SAT for College Preparations
Even more important is the discussion of standardized testing for college preparation. The SAT and ACT examinations are commonly used across the country with some parents and teachers preferring one over the other. While the ACT examination for special education students is broken into four distinct sections that must each be completed in a single sitting, the SAT examination is often preferred because it is broken into ten shorter and more manageable sections. The SAT was redesigned for the 2015 school year, and many special education teachers love the changes that have been made. Many feel that the questions and vocabulary that must be known for it are more applicable to today's post-secondary work. In addition, it is no longer all multiple-choice format but instead has a variety of answering formats.
Of course, no matter how a special education student performs on standardized tests, whether they are annual elementary or secondary examinations or college-prep examinations, parents, students and teachers must keep in mind that they are not the only evaluators of the student. Not every child is strong on tests, but all have an area in which they excel. Instead, these evaluations give educators and college entrance advisors a small look at how the child is progressing and whether he or she is prepared for post-secondary education.


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We've already heard numerous stories praising Google Glass in a clinical setting. Today, we have another such example, one in which Google's wearable may have even saved the lives of several poison victims in a hospital ED.
The story comes from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where researchers used the Glass on a test of toxicology consults, evaluating patients while a secure video feed was established with a supervising consultant.
In each of the 18 cases, the supervising consultant guided the resident by means of text messages shown on the eyeglasses. Additionally, residents had access to images of medicine bottles, EKGs and other information on Glass as they worked with the patients.
According to the researchers, 89 percent of the cases were deemed successful by the consulting toxicologist, making the encounter better through the use of Google Glass. Also, the residents reported being more confident in diagnosing cases, while the use of Google Glass changed management of patient care in more than half of the cases.
The procedure involved supervising consultant guiding the resident by means of text messages shown on the Glass.In fact, researchers reported that six patients received antidotes which they wouldn't get if the residents had not used Google Glass to support their diagnosis.
"Placing an expert at the virtual bedside of the patient has huge advantages," Peter R. Chai, MD, a Toxicology Fellow at UMass Medical School, told Medicalxpress.com. "It brings a specialist to patients that might not otherwise have access to that kind of expertise. Because Google Glass is relatively unobtrusive to patients, can be operated hands free and is extremely portable, it has a distinct advantage over traditional telemedicine platforms."
All information transmitted via Google Glass passed through the Pristine Eyesight platform, which encrypted the data.
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- The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 9, Issue 5, 1 Sep 1960, p. 539 - 540
Fundamentals of Clinical Hematology
by Byrd S. Leavell, M.D., and Oscar A. Thorup, Jr., M.D. 1st Ed., 503 + xi pp., ill. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Co., 1960. $10.00
This textbook is designed primarily for the medical student "who is being introduced to hematology for the first time while he is in the midst of a crowded curriculum." It is also intended to be of use to busy physicians and to ancillary workers as an up-to-date review and reorientation in the field. It achieves both of these aims. The style is concise, direct and factual yet readable. The material is up-to-date.
The approach is based on "comprehensive but not encyclopedic" descriptions of normal morphology, biochemistry, physiology and function of various cell lines, and of normal erythropoiesis, leukopoiesis, hemostasis, etc. These lead into the anemias, polycythemia, coagulation and disorders of hemostasis, the leukemias and therapy of leukemia and malignant lymphoma, and into other diseases of lymphoid tissues and bone marrow.
The tabulated classification of anemias introducing a major section of the book is based primarily on Mechanism of Production:(I. Diminished Erythropoiesis: A. Nutritional, B. Bone Marrow failure; II Blood Loss, acute and chronic; III. IncreasedHemolysis:A, Intracorpuscular, B. Extracorpuscular) with Causes and Diseases or Clinical Syndromes listed under coordinate headings.


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I'll begin by wishing you a belated Happy New Year and hoping that this won't be the only post from Garybuie for 2019! This feels a bit deja vue-ish I have to admit, but I always start out with good intentions and then proceed to get swallowed up by major refurbishment projects, followed by increasingly busy B&B seasons. However, the D.I.Y issues were completed before Christmas this year, so I now have until the 1st April to re-charge my batteries, with a couple of time-saving plans thrown into the B&B mix!
2018 was another busy year in terms of visitors, April now being the only month when our three rooms aren't filled pretty much every day. We also had a successful chicken breeding program, using both our incubator as well as the services of our ever helpful Silkies! Bruce was responsible for most of our season's chicks, although in other respects he wasn't the best of cockerels. He wasn't great at getting his girls to bed so many of them tended to stay out partying well beyond bedtime, perching on top of bushes blethering and being completely uncooperative when we came to usher them coop-wards.
So, it was time to go online for eggs to incubate, this time Blue-Laced Wyandottes, with a view to rearing a more authoritative rooster! You can see our lacey youngsters below, perching with some pals.
Lord Lacey (A.K.A. Denis – more on that another day!) is now our resident cockerel, besides Wee Man of course, and so far his behaviour and crowd control are impeccable!
Probably the most time-consuming aspect of running the Bed and Breakfast is the laundry. Many of our guests are ferry passengers staying just one night before their sailing. Consequently, we calculated that laundry duties probably take an average of two hours per day, sometimes still pressing bed linen as the new day's guests are arriving. We have a neighbour who runs a guest house/self-catering cottage and she sends her laundry out. She invited me to 'piggy-back' on her laundry service to see what we thought. What we thought was…WONDERFUL! The particular service didn't cater for smaller B&Bs, but this year they are, so for this season I have my own contract with them – YIPEEEE! It's amazing what a difference those couple of extra hours make. Not only is there more time to keep on top of outdoor chores, but it also means that we can occasionally get out for one of our three-hour-holidays, on the bike with some butties! And no matter what you may have read about crowds on Skye, there are still places where you won't see a soul…
Another very special outing was aboard Red Moon, a boat that can be chartered for sailings around Skye. We climbed aboard in 2017 for Kevin's birthday treat and enjoyed it so much that we did it again last summer, the weather being so much better on that occasion. To be fair it's not a three-hour-holiday as we needed to take a night off, when, after stepping on deck, we sailed and spent a night at anchor, enjoying wonderful views, food and company! Anyway, here's just a brief glimpse of Red Moon, as really she deserves a post all of her own!
Late Spring and early summer saw some fabulous weather; dare I say that it was too hot sometimes? Yes, I dare! I'm not a hot-house plant by any means! We even had a Spanish guest who was complaining (lightheartedly!) that it was too hot and that all the travel books had advised to bring plenty of warm/waterproof clothing. Consequently, he didn't have enough tee-shirts!
Needless to say, the minute school holidays started, and our family came to stay for a week, the weather changed and didn't change back! At least our granddaughter, Holly, was happy to be dancing in the Rain!
And the kids could hide under the trees for their picnic!
But we still managed to get out and about, poking around in rock pools and finding fossils and dinosaur footprints!
And when the season was over, the big project this year was the installation, after a sixteen year wait (!), of a new kitchen! Like everything at Garybuie, stripping things back ALWAYS reveals some flaw or other. On this occasion, it was historical water damage to the floor. It was worrying to say the least when the joiner had to keep removing more and more of the flooring before he could make any progress!
Anyway, in then it was well worth the wait and I'm looking forward to cooking all those breakfasts when the new season begins!
And now that all the work is complete, there's time to catch-up on other winter tasks…
…Dottie likes to supervise my paintings…
…Hamish likes to check on any parcel deliveries…
…and Patches is in charge of temperature control!
We headed south for Christmas, enjoying the company of our family and all the gifts from Santa…
…and in particular a special gift in the shape of Sean, our fourth grandchild, who arrived in early December! His brother, Patrick, seems quite happy with his arrival so far!
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It's another dreary, cold day, despite the sun being out. It could just be that I don't feel well and my ankle hasn't stopped hurting me since I woke up this morning. I had a good dream that I woke up from, weird but good.
I planned on making Shepard's pie today but my mother is making pork chops so I will make it for tomorrow. Besides, I am not really up to being on my feet. Just making coffee killed me. I had two pieces of my cranberry cake for breakfast and that has been all I have had to eat today, so far.
My cold is quickly moving towards my lungs as my cough is getting worse. I hate being sick. My Buckeyes are losing right now so I am in a mood. This game will determine whether they will go to a championship game so they really need to win.
I got an alumni high school hoodie I have been meaning to buy but was waiting for it to be on sale. Then I found out this morning one of my high school teachers passed away last night. I feel really sad about this. She was a good teacher, always had energy that rubbed off on you. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
I also bought a couple of SE Hinton books and a DVD. Next I need to buy Christmas gifts and I will be all set. I just plan on getting gift cards for my family. I will get them tomorrow when I go to Walgreens to pick up my prescription. If I didn't feel so shitty, I'd go today. I hope I feel better tomorrow.
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Oh the wonderful education to soon take place in the Democratic Communist People's Republic of San Francisco:
San Francisco Superintendent Carlos Garcia took a first stab at putting his mark on city schools Tuesday with a plan that pushes the district to face racism and classism head on.
The district's strategic plan adopted by the school board 6-0 Tuesday night focuses on reversing the typical academic outcomes for black, Hispanic and poor students.
Yes – it is so much more important to face racism and classism (are you kidding me? I haven't heard this word much before) than do that ugly stuff like actually teaching kids to read and write and cipher. *aside* Does anybody actually know their guzintas any more? Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies knew his guzintas. Four guzinta eight two times!
So racism and classism will now be the one true focus for the young commies in training. And just what does this mean? Well, here's a few things mentioned in the article:
Each school will be judged by how well it "serves each and every student based on that school's ability to disrupt the historically predictive power of racial, ethnic, linguistic and socio-economic student attributes," according to the plan.
Successful programs would be identified and worked into other schools.
A scorecard will measure school and the district performance across a wide range of indicators including:
— "Percentage of schools that are fully integrated racially, ethnically and socio-economically."
— "Percentage of SFUSD teachers with a district supplied laptop that is functional and has current software."
— "Number and percentage of students who drop out of school between grades 6-12."
— "Number and percentage of students who vote in their local student government elections."
So somehow the number of teachers with working laptops with the latest and greatest in software will indicate whether racism is defeated in the schools? I hardly think so, and neither does anyone who wasn't taught by the idiots in the DCSPR school system apparently. It is a nice little piece of bling for the teachers – but I would certainly be interested in knowing how their possesion of a laptop with lots of cool software will make black kids and white kids (any of these left in SF schools?) and hispanic kids not hate each other in subtle and obvious ways.
So at least part of this "initiative" is to get nice toys for the union boys and girls. And can you imagine any more secure and pension-increasing position than to be on the never-ending committee that is to be tasked with defining how schools are to meet criteria that will make them "fully integrated racially, ethnically and socio-economically"? There will need to be subcommittees for race, ethnicity and socio-economic standards with sub-subcommittees based on all the different skin colors that must be accommodated. There will need to be visits to many many different locations in the United States and around the world to see how other cultures interact and define themselves ethnically and racially. More toys for the boys and girls in a never-ending search for nirvanna. Won't it be a wonderful day when you can specify just how many left-handed, lesbian, Hispanics of Central American descent are required to define your school as fully integrated? That it will never actually be able to be defined doesn't mean that spending hundred of thousands of tax dollars in a search for it shouldn't be undertaken.
Voting in school elections is certainly a great way to prevent racism and classism (?). Interesting that mandating a percentage of left-handed lesbians of Hispanic Central American descent actually be candidates isn't part of the program yet. But I'm sure that will come after the bureaucrats are done defining just what that percentage means for full integration. And making sure the little turd-producers vote in student elections means that they will get experience in understanding just how futile voting is to changing anything. The popular kids get the positions and the nerds just get laughed at – this is the lesson to be learned from voting in student government elections. And knowing this will also prevent them from voting in real elections that keep edu-crats in power is a nice side-effect.
And finally, there's a number that might actually define just how large a potential garbage collector population might exist in the future – dropout rates. What this has to do with preventing racism might say more about the prejudice in those setting up these measurements. However, civilization will always need garbage collectors so making sure that there is a big enough potential pool of applicants by ensuring that the correct percentage of dropouts are present is important for the ongoing maintenance of San Francisco.
I mean honestly – does anybody in their right mind believe that any of these measurements will reduce racism or classism? The rich kids know they are rich and the poor ones will know who has the most toys and money. The color of their skin will separate kids – it did in the past and it will in the future. Its rather hard how to keep these things from happening without blinding every child so they can't see skin color. And then taking all money from every parent in the Republic and making sure each and very person has exactly the same amount. Funny – but you wouldn't put the latter past them. And who knows about blinding every child – maybe that's what they want instead of No Child Left Behind.
The taxpayers money in San Francisco will continue to be wasted effectively according to this plan. Too bad about the poor students who will end up with a diploma they can't read. But they will be indoctrinated about how their skin color makes them a victim!