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Rumor: Huawei to manufacture upcoming T-Mobile myTouch devices, bound to gain popularity
The latest rumors around the interwebs claim that the next myTouch devices are in the works and are being manufactured by Huawei. The manufacturer is currently mostly known for its low- to mid-end affordable smartphones. But this is something Huawei is trying to change, and surely, this will be a great opportunity to clean its name.
The company is currently trying to become a player in the high-end Android device market. Without much hype, Huawei is releasing devices like the Huawei Ascend D Quad and the Huawei Ascend P1, among others, which compete with the best smartphones in the market. But the lack of advertising is slowing down the company's climb.
Becoming part of a successful, popular myTouch line will surely give the manufacturer a boost. (These devices include the U8680 and the U8730). It is also rumored that both devices are exactly the same, except one comes with a slide-out physical keyboard.
As for specs, we don't know much, other than that the phones run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and have a WVGA (480×800) resolution. Let's hope they have some good surprises, though, as the myTouch legacy has included some awesome devices in their time.
Surely, the devices will reap the fame and popularity the other manufacturers have sown. At the same time, Huawei will have to live up to certain expectations. We'll have to wait and see what comes out of this, but based on aesthetics, these phones don't look exactly like your dream device.
While the build quality looks rather solid, the screen looks smaller than 4 inches. Many users would be disappointed to see a WVGA, non-Android 4.0 device released. The devices are rumored to launch in late Spring. By then, the world will be filled with Ice Cream Sandwich goodness.
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Satoshi Furukawa, an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, played a one-man game of baseball at the International Space Station a few weeks ago. He only managed two outs, but to be fair, he was pitching, batting, and fielding in outer space at the time.
Furukawa, along with two other astronauts, landed safely in Kazakhstan yesterday, where gravity unfortunately makes this kind of baseball impossible.
Note: The video's a little choppy. It was shot in outer space. Also note: Furukawa did not add the Star Trek theme song to his game. That's on us.
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This is a version of the Open Source RepRap (technically a GPL'd RepStrap) modified to print on Ponoko's service by diamondage.co.nz and to use more frequently available components. This is designed for the experimenter and for the moment there are no build instructions beyond those already existing for Ian's original design at bitsfrombytes.com.
It includes many experimental features: 2 extruders with a manual swap mechanism, a gear motor option for the Z axis, lasercut bearing races, ball-chain throughout instead of belt, NEMA17 and NEMA23 motor mounts and some thickened parts that I found to be too breakable in 4.5mm acrylic.
Cut the beds in 8mm P3, the 5mm parts in 4.5mm P3 and the 3mm parts in 3mm P2 acrylic.
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An oldie but a goodie, this shot for the Diesel Jeans "Dirty Denim" ad campaign features a pair of naughty octogenarians. And was created with 2 lights (not including the 4 light bulbs in the wall sconces).
Camera: Hasselblad 503CW with 80mm lens and Kodak EPP 100 transparency film, set on tripod 10 feet back. Shot at 1/60, f8, ISO 100.
Lighting: Erwin uses a very simple but effective lighting setup to direct our focus to grandma's hijinks (while managing to make the jeans look pretty good too). One small softbox at f5.6 1/2 is boomed above and slightly in front of grandma's head (and angled towards her) from the right. Another softbox at f5.6 is boomed above and in between the couple (and aimed toward grandpa) from the left. Just the slight bit more light on her helps to lead our eye to grandma first. The wall sconces were shot as a separate frame with a long exposure (2 seconds) and then composited into the final image.
Comments: The couple spent most of the morning arguing over whether to listen to Benny Goodman or Glen Miller on the turntable Erwin had rented especially for the occasion. By the time they finally started shooting, Grandpa was worn out and took an impromptu nap, which happened to work out okay. The glasses were intentionally filled with real, rye whiskey instead of cola.


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It's May, so I'm going to do what I do every May–remind you of a rare disorder that I suffer from–Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month.
You can read my posts from previous years (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) for details on what EDS is and how it has affected my life.
The Cliffs Notes version is that Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is a connective tissue disorder. My body makes bad collagen–super stretchy, slow to bounce back, slow to heal. And collagen is all over your body–skin, internal organs, tendons, ligaments.
I was diagnosed in my late twenties. Diagnosis can take many forms–ultimately I had genetic testing. But the first tier of diagnosis is the Beighton Test. If you score 4-10, it's likely that you have EDS. I scored a 9.
What is it like to live with EDS? It rather sucks most days, and on a really good day I forget about the pain and limitations. That's my ultimate goal with EDS–to forget for an hour or two. Every day I am in pain. Every joint hurts–every one. I get dislocations regularly–mostly ribs, shoulders, knees, fingers, and wrists. What causes the dislocations? Moving…like getting out of a chair. I even dislocate joints in my sleep. Other symptoms include easy bruising, difficulty getting numb or knocked out with anesthesia, adrenaline spikes leading to difficulty sleeping, allergies to tons of stuff, slow healing from cuts and bruises, and really messed up digestion all the time. It's all encompassing and very tiring.
There is no cure for EDS. The first center for Ehlers-Danlos research has opened at Towson Hospital's Genetics Program in Baltimore. Stem cell research holds the most promise for treating the disorder at the DNA level, though today I read an article about spider venom being used for chronic pain treatment. Since chronic pain is a big part of EDS this is definitely of interest to me, but dang yo…spiders. *shudder*
I currently do not take any pain medication at all (beyond the occasional ibuprofen). In the past I have taken pretty much any opiate painkiller that exists…they all have horrendous side effects including making you incredibly stupid and unfocused (at least they did for me). As such, I've sworn off those things for good.
If you've been following me for a while, this is not the first time you're hearing about EDS. If you're annoyed, you can stop reading now 🙂 But seriously…I do this every year to raise awareness, as trite as that might sound. The more people who know the symptoms to look out for (look below), the more EDS-sufferers who can get a timely diagnosis and treatment. It took me years of ER visits, specialist appointments, and genetic testing before all was finally revealed about what was wrong with my body. I don't want that scenario to happen to anyone else.
To learn more about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, check out the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation and the Ehlers-Danlos Network. Or just ask me!


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It's been a rough year for Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant.
Apart from a chronic inability to catch the football, to not misplay punts, and to remain healthy, Bryant has been placed on a set of rules for off-field conduct. According to BlackSportsOnline.com, now part of the USA Today Media Group, Bryant violated one of the basic terms of his double secret probation.
Dez was out past midnight, even though he's questionable for Sunday night's game at Atlanta with a hip injury.
Given that the Cowboys insisted that they didn't impose the rules on Bryant and that he imposed them on himself, it'll be interesting to see what happens next.
Will Dez fine himself? Bench himself? Suspend himself?
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Jesus' Response to the Title Question
Tensions weigh heavily on us human beings—modern ones in particular; I am no different. A while ago I sat in the privacy of my library struggling with the tension of God's sovereignty and human responsibility, wanting desperately to find a clean resolution. Finally, I prayed, "Lord why couldn't I just go back in time and ask you or even Paul the direct question and get a straight answer?" He would show me only a little later I needn't go to all that trouble; Jesus already answered the question. Let's go back together to circa 29 C.E., shall we, and listen in….
Someone said to Him, "Lord, are those who are saved a few in number?" But He said to them, "Struggle earnestly to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. From the moment the master of the house got up and secured the door, you also will begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open the door to us!' And answering he will say, 'I don't know where you are from.' Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!' And he will say, 'I don't know where you are from. Go away from me all of you that does unjust deeds!' The wailing and the gnashing of teeth will be there, whenever you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you are those cast outside. And they will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and they will recline at the dinner table in the kingdom of God (Luke 13:23-29)."
The question and Jesus' answer concern the eternal salvation of humankind. And Jesus clearly locates this salvation as the kingdom of God; all who come and dine together with Christ in His kingdom are counted as those who are saved. As I have discussed earlier, our salvation is to stand in the kingdom of God, in Christ.
How do we come to stand in His kingdom? Notice carefully, Jesus doesn't give a number—many or few—of those who will be saved; nor does Jesus say only a few who had been chosen before the beginning of time will be those who stand in His kingdom; nor does He say, "don't worry, everybody will be saved." What does He say, then? He says, "struggle-- literally like a warrior in battle, or an athlete straining toward the prize—yes, earnestly struggle to enter by the narrow door!" What is the basis of this struggling? To continuously surrender your whole self in trust to the will of God: to believe in Christ unceasingly.
Jesus tirelessly calls us to repent (turn away from trusting in ourselves and the world and trust God, alone)--to be in a continuous state of believing in Christ. Why should we agree to this? Because the kingdom of God has come. How do we know the kingdom of God has come? Because Jesus has been raised from the dead and rules His kingdom at the right hand of the Father. Jesus said,
"And if I am raised up from the earth, I will draw all people to Myself (John 12:32)."
The kingdom of God has come because Christ is alive. Therefore, God calls each of us by putting this question before us, "Who then shall be your king?"
Notice how Jesus describes here the character of those who shall remain outside the kingdom—that is, those who answer God's call with, "I will be my own king." They are a people who have put their faith in rituals and institutions and the camaraderie of people who also profess Christ (i.e., "we ate and drank in your presence"). They are a people who put their faith in their doctrines and knowledge of Christ (i.e., you taught in our streets). When Jesus first spoke on the subject of the narrow door leading to life, but the broad door leading to destruction, he further described people taking the broad path as those who will say to Him,
"Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy by your Name, and by your name cast out demons, and by your name do many miracles (Matt. 7:22)."
All these people are serving their selfish-ambition by invoking the name of Christ. Some do so to check off the box labeled eternal security on their life to do list, where professing the name of Christ is nothing more than a get-out-of-jail free card to them. Others invoke the name of Christ in a so-called intellectual attempt to sate the nagging feeling there is meaning in the universe even though they are certain there is no meaning. In his book Escape from Reason in Trilogy, Crossway Books (1990): p. 241-242, Francis Schaeffer explains it this way,
"Neo-orthodoxy seemed to have an advantage over secular existentialism because it uses words that have strong connotations, as they are rooted in the race—words like resurrection, crucifixion, Christ, Jesus. These words have the illusion of communication….One hears the word Jesus, one acts upon it, but the word is never defined. The use of such words is always in the area of the irrational, the non-logical. Being separated from history and the cosmos, they are divorced from possible verification by reason downstairs, and there is no certainty that there is anything upstairs."
None of these people or of the many others we might uncover through Jesus' descriptions of them has surrendered him or herself to the kingship of Jesus. And Jesus rightly says of them, "…I never knew you, depart from Me you who work lawlessness (Matt. 7:23)."
So, then, what does it mean, "struggle to enter through the narrow gate?" Jesus says,
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the person who is doing as a consistent practice the will of My Father who is in heaven (Matt. 7:21)."
So what is the will of the Father (i.e., God)? Jesus says,
"This is the work of God [i.e., the work God expects us to do], that you believe continuously in(to) Him [Jesus] whom He [God] sent (John 6:29)."
As we have seen, believing as Jesus describes here is not a simple confession of Christ, nor is believing intellectually acceding to Christ. No, believing is a continual trust validated by an objective obedience of Him.
Because Jesus is who He is and has demonstrated such ineffable love towards us, we struggle and labor in love for Him by loving the same way He loves us. We struggle because to love this way goes counter to all the present world stands for and rewards, so we encounter relentless resistance both from without and from within ourselves. We labor because the kingdom of God has come, and as true believers we are kingdom dwellers; and as kingdom dwellers we are to be about the work of the kingdom: to be a light and a salt to a tormented, angry, disillusioned, and lost world (Matt. 5:13-16). And we do this by acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before God because only in Him can we do this.
Paul expressed this tension that is no doubt weighing on you at this point succinctly as follows,
"Therefore, my beloved ones, just as you always heard, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, accomplish the salvation of yourselves [i.e., Paul is telling us to live as the kingdom dwellers we are] with fear and trembling [i.e., in the humility of complete subjection of our whole selves to Christ]; for God is the one who is working continuously in you both to desire and to effect for [His] good pleasure [i.e., because by standing in Christ we know what really needs to be done, why it needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and we have the desire and the wherewithal to do what needs to be done, and we will be forgiven should we fall short] (Philippians 2:12-13)."
The apostle John describes the tension this way:
"But the one who is practicing the truth comes to the light in order that it is made evident that the person's deeds are deeds that have been done in God (John 3:21)."
Jesus describes the beauty of the tension of the righteous relationship we have with God, in Christ this way:
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it shall be opened to you; for everyone who is asking, is receiving, and the one who is seeking, is finding, and to the one knocking it shall be opened (Matt. 7:7-8)."
Notice how the verbs begin as present tense imperatives (i.e., we must respond to the risen Christ) and are then reiterated in the present tense indicatives (actually participles and indicatives). The present tense in the Greek means the actions occur continuously. The volleying of present tense verbs (e.g., asking/receiving and seeking/finding) powerfully portrays the translational nature of God's love flowing between God and His image-bearers as they walk together in the kingdom relationship.
God has placed before each of us the gift He had preordained in Christ from all eternity. It is an eternal, righteous relationship, and therefore a clear tension of God's sovereignty and human responsibility. It ceases to be the relationship God has prepared for us if we believe it only comes to us as totally passive recipients—such as one sleeping on a roof top, who is suddenly awakened, as if from a bad dream, surprised by some influx of enlightenment and transformation. Ironically, people ultimately cling to this understanding--even though it is usually couched as the only way God can be glorified is if He does absolutely everything--so they can remain in control of their lives. It is a key reason, I think, why purveyors of this theology are some of the most unloving people I know.
On the other hand, it is also not about us laboring to impress God, as if the kingdom principles were cast as examples to aspire to, but God will ultimately reward us for doing our best. This too is self-serving and delusional because the kingdom of God is totally the work of God--a pure gift as an act of perfect love through the faithfulness of His one and only, unique son, Jesus the Christ. We cannot build the kingdom for ourselves, nor can we build it for God; to believe otherwise is to hold to our original conceit that we can be god.
No, solely because of whom Christ is and His great love for us, we, in the light of God's all sufficient grace, repent and love Him by obeying Him. To do this is to stand in the kingdom of God, and therefore squarely within the tension of God's sovereignty and human responsibility; it is that simple.
If we stand back and examine ourselves and we see persons striving to bring justice by freely forgiving others, by making amends for those things people have against them, by giving without expecting payments in return, by using both their spiritual and physical resources to restore others, by celebrating the beauty and prosperity of others instead of lusting after them, by seeking to restore others while keeping the persons' own weaknesses always in view, by seeking peace and eschewing all violence, by seeing others as God sees them, by praying unceasingly for God's kingdom to come and His will to be done, by acting in integrity, and by loving all people--whether friend or enemy—just as God loves all people, then we are truly struggling to enter through the narrow gate. If not, we are attempting to crash the party Jesus describes at the consummation of His kingdom. And Jesus says all such pretenders will be cast outside where there is wailing and the gnashing of teeth--sober words, indeed.


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If you've lived in Hawaii and have frequented Honolulu then you more than likely have passed by Pee Wee Drive Inn during a drive down South King Street. I've lived in Hawaii all my life and have passed by Pee Wee's more times than I could possibly remember. Surprisingly, I have never eaten at this famous old time Hawaii favorite.
Located at 1602 South King Street, Pee Wee Drive Inn has been serving locals since Nobuo Watanabe opened up the eatery in 1966. Although Watanabe has since passed away and there has been management changes (Watanabe sold the business in 1996), Pee Wee continues to serve the local style food that it has become known for.
Having never eaten at Pee Wee's before, I decided to forgo the regular food flare freely available at other plate lunch hot spots. I indulged in a mini chicken adobo plate (US $5.50). I have had my share of chicken and pork adobo having grown up in a Filipino household, so I know how good adobo tastes. For the untrained, adobo is a filipino dish, of either pork or chicken, that "is slowly cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaf, and black peppercorns, and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterwards to get the desirable crisped edges."
My chicken adobo plate was ready in less than five minutes, very fast indeed. It came with a scoop of rice and a side of corn (you get to choose a side of either corn, mac salad, or greens). I have to admit though, that the chicken adobo plate was a bit lackluster. Each bite I took made me long for my grandma's authentic adobo dishes. The chicken adobo at Pee Wee's tasted more like shoyu chicken with a small splash of vinegar. It was not "adobo" enough for my liking!
Next time maybe I will try the chicken katsu plate and see how it compares to L&L's herelded katsu plate. I know for sure that I won't be ordering the adobo plate again! All in all, the plate that I had was sub par, but the service was quick and efficient. The parking can be a mess if you go during rush hour lunch times, so I suggest you go during off hours if you just want to test the place out. The ambience is great, there are a few tables and chairs outside. It's a rustic experience that'll make you'll feel as if you're back in 1966.
Pee Wee Drive In
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Masters in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
The M.A. program in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies emphasizes advanced language training as the foundation for research on East Asian cultures. The philosophy of the M.A. program is to provide students with a solid foundation in one or more East Asian languages in addition to broad opportunities for cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary studies of East Asian traditions and modernities. Coursework concentrates on the humanities, including history, literature, religious studies, anthropology, linguistics and the arts, as well as social and cultural anthropology and sociology. Students progress through a sequence of mandatory core seminars that provide a shared foundation in key methodological and theoretical issues in the academic study of East Asia.
2 MA Tracks: Plan 1 and Plan 2
Two tracks of study are available. The academic track (Plan 1) is designed for students who will go on to pursue the Ph.D. The professional track (Plan 2) is for students who will go into careers in business or government or combine their M.A. with other professional degrees. Students in Plan 1 write a thesis; students in Plan 2 take a comprehensive examination.
- Academic Track, PLAN 1
Plan 1 is the academic track, intended for students who go on to pursue the Ph.D. It requires a total of 60 units of coursework in Chinese, Japanese, or East Asian Cultural Studies, and 12 units of thesis work. The 60 units will come from a combination of graduate or upper division courses on the country of specialization, advanced modern language, classical language, and courses outside the country of specialization. The thesis should demonstrate the student's ability to do original research using sources in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
- Professional Track, PLAN 2
Plan 2 is intended for students who will go on to careers outside of academia. It requires 64 units of coursework in Chinese, Japanese, or East Asian Cultural Studies, and 8 units for the comprehensive exams (a total of 72 units). The 64 units will come from a combination of graduate or upper division courses on the country of specialization, advanced modern language, classical language, and courses in other departments (economics, communications, etc.) commensurate with the student's career goals. Under this plan, a comprehensive examination is substituted for the thesis. Candidates will be examined in two fields to be determined in consultation with an advisory committee.
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The final deadline for receipt of ALL applications is December 20.
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We strongly suggest that M.A. students decide by the end of the first year which track they are going to pursue. The first year is designed for the student to "explore†their interests in various courses/subjects/areas/faculty to work with; in the second year, students focus their energies on the particular interests they have identified.
Students must take a minimum of 24 units of graduate level course work (courses #200 and above). Most students take more than 24 units. There is no limit on upper division course work, or on courses taken outside the Department. We encourage students to take some courses relevant to their interests in other departments (e.g., History, Anthropology, Political Science, Global Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature, etc.).
In general, graduate students take 3 courses per quarter. At that rate a student would finish the Program in exactly 6 quarters (2 years), allowing time for an MA thesis or exams at the end.


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Pitbull, a Billboard Top 20 artist and a spokesperson for Bud Light, can include a song called "Everybody F***s" on an album without incident. Yet visual evidence of that asterisk-altered title often inspires giggles, judgment and scorn.
In an effort to present the people who work in porn as just that—people—Deborah Anderson's documentary, "Aroused," features interviews with 16 female adult film stars. It begins Friday at Landmark Century Cinemas.
One of the film's subjects, Kayden Kross, is one of the world's most successful adult film stars, and she has more on her mind than what someone might expect from a person who does what she does for a living.
Kross, 27, has written for Complex magazine, guest-starred in two episodes of FX's "The League" and appeared repeatedly on the G4 Network. She also reads Philip Roth novels, can't handle films like "The Evil Dead" remake, and is writing a non-fiction book about her work to reflect the human side of the business.
"I want it to be no big deal," she says of her industry on the phone from L.A. "It's just another facet of life. We're all sexual creatures."
Do you feel like you or anyone else involved in "Aroused" had any reservations about participating once it became a platform to go behind the scenes?
No, not at all. Behind the scenes of adult [films] I think almost always puts us in a more positive light than whatever was assumed. So any chance we get to show that world in a way that isn't slanted or biased toward making it look like the stereotypical thing you expect from porn--any opportunity is good for us. And I don't think there's a single girl in the film who has had any reservations or any regrets about being a part of it. I think they've only been more surprised and seen more come from it than they expected.
Something you said in the movie was interesting, about how when you were younger you didn't have the courage to give a book report but now you answer questions you called intimate, personal and almost offensive. Where do you draw the line as far as when something becomes offensive?
Leading questions are most offensive to me. The most annoying and also most common leading question people will ask, and they're doing it for comedic effect—and maybe it is funny and we just take it personally—but they'll say something like, "So, when did your uncle molest you?"
Seriously, that happens more than you can possibly imagine. That's a very, very common thing people say. And of course that's offensive. Or they'll say, "So, when did your dad abandon you?" They just assume that there [are] some very serious issues and they want to make a joke of it [for] their audience. It's petty and it's mean, and there's no reason to do that. A porn star, they're not going out and [trying] to shove their stuff on people. [Laughs.] Our content is taken from us and put on the Internet and downloaded illegally. We're not pushing it on people who don't want to watch it; if anything we're trying to control who watches it because we're still trying to monetize it. So when people go out of their way to come and attack us where we are ... We're ignoring you; you should ignore us. [Laughs.]
Maybe I'm naïve, but I find it shocking that someone would be so insincere when bringing up something so serious, whether they want the answer or not. I guess you're kind of numb to it now.
Yeah, of course. You become numb to it quickly. Not numb; I don't want to say numb. You learn to just not react because when you do react, you've given them exactly what they wanted. And I've reacted before. I've walked off radio shows where that happened, or they'll twist it to make it seem like you just can't handle it or whatever. It happens very, very often, but when you learn to expect it, you just also learn to quickly end that exchange and move on to the next thing. It usually happens where there's like a barrage of interviews at some convention and there's always that one or two little news sources or radio shows or podcasts or whatever they were who are just looking for a reaction.
For a while in "The Girl Next Door," Emile Hirsch's character expects Elisha Cuthbert's character to be the porn star persona he sees on screen. In "Aroused," an agent says the actresses do become their personas. How much do you think that's true, and how much do you feel that expectation from people?
Honestly, the movie "The Girl Next Door" is not the one that people bring up in my experience. The one that people bring up is "Boogie Nights." I think "The Girl Next Door" did a better job of portraying what porn is like, if it's like anything, than "Boogie Nights." I think "Boogie Nights" portrayed just a different era, and obviously again with the Hollywood treatment. I don't know that either of them [is] close to what it's really like. Really porn is a gathering of very different people. We all come in for different reasons and stay in for different reasons. You don't have to be an exceptional character in any direction to do porn. It's a basic enterprise; anyone can do it. So when people expect that there's some crazy interesting story or character behind every persona, it's just rarely the case. [Laughs.]
I was reminded about what people used to say about Marilyn Monroe and if her onscreen persona became her real persona—the question of who was the real person there.
I just read this book, a Philip Roth book called "Sabbath's Theater." It's about this puppeteer who toward the end of the book, he doesn't know whether the emotions he's displaying he's displaying for the reaction he can get out of the people or because they're real emotions. He gets to the point where they're kind of one and the same. Anyone in any industry, whether you're in sales, you're in entertainment, you name it, people project a certain thing to succeed and then align their characters with that. There's always a divide between when people are quote-unquote on and when they're off. But I think the longer you're in it and the longer you are something, the more you align in your true, unaltered world with that persona.
Do you ever get the feeling that some of the men you work with deal with the same judgments? It seems like people don't really judge guys that much and all the pointed fingers are for the women.
Of course, men deal with their own things, but it's definitely not that because if you look at the general stereotypes, it's good for men to be virile and for lots of women to want them and want to have sex with them and it's OK to have emotionally detached sex with people. And you look at women and that's not OK. The exact opposite. And women should hold back and make people work for it. It's an old way of being, but it's the way that little boys and little girls are raised to think, so when they grow up and they become one or the other, it's just what we stick to for some reason even now.
Can you imagine a time when a woman being in this business would not come with a stigma? What has to happen first?
I don't think it's possible to have a man or a woman, anyone or any gender in between to be in any industry in the spotlight and not have a stigma. There will be a stigma in one direction or another. Can I imagine a time when this particular stigma is not attached? Yeah, of course; everything changes. But there's always going to be something. You're standing on a stage and people are looking at you and they need to pass judgment. That's how our brains file things away. We have to have these convenient judgments to land on. There's too much information in the world not to.
What do you see as the stigma for Hollywood?
The stigma is basically either untalented fame seekers ... or very talented, very serious, perfect people that [other people] then try to find flaws in.
You guested on "The League" along with Seth Rogen. What's a funny story that comes to mind when you think of doing that?
I was on twice. On the first one—the thing that was funniest was just, [the show incorporates] improv so you never know what they're going to say. Everyone behind the camera can smirk [laughs], but everyone in front of the camera can't. And some of the stuff that they say is so sharp and so good and so strong that it takes every fiber of your being not to let the corner of your mouth tilt up. To just do anything [not] to laugh. I remember at one point I turned beet-red in the face just holding my breath trying not to laugh. [Laughs.] You just can't control it.
On the second one I didn't actually see what clip made it so I don't know if they used it. But there was one point where Seth and the other guy were going back and forth and the other guy lowered the boom down into my mouth and starts treating it like a blow job, and so because you're supposed to keep going with whatever's happening I started blowing the microphone and it turned into this very long, drawn-out thing. [Laughs.] The [improv] comments that came from that ... They're geniuses. They're just comedic geniuses.
Do you think people will be surprised about what you're saying in your book and that it will pull the curtain back? What do you expect the reaction will be?
There's no sense of [trying] to pull the curtain back and show the little man operating the machine. The porn curtain is pulled back; we're pretty transparent. [Laughs.] ... The thing that we don't show in porn is the humanity, the relationships. And I think that's the thing that people are the most curious about. It's not just, "How do you be in love in a healthy relationships and it's just two adults both working in porn?" It's, "How are you healthy adults in porn going home to your family at Thanksgiving?" and "How are you a healthy adult with healthy friendships or a healthy adult with children or with the intention of children down the road?"
You're living on the outskirts of society being in an industry like porn. When you look at societal outcasts, it's almost assumed that any ties that they have to other people are severed when they're really not. If anything, they're strong in a different sense because they have to be created that way. They're not traditional relationships. But for us, the focus of the book is on my relationships, watching close friends and their relationships and trying to help people navigate through life with this big mark on their forehead.
In "Aroused," some of the women refer to risks and situations that have made them uncomfortable. Have you had situations that were uncomfortable, and do you feel like you can stop that from happening?
It's hard for me to comment on that because I've always been in contract. And being in contract you have certain—how do I put this—I have more power than a girl who is independent over what I'm doing in porn ... I basically can say yes or no to literally any detail of my shoot. And no, it's never uncomfortable for me because I know that at the end of the day they're more interested in a long-term relationship with me and creating a name that they can hopefully get a lot of fanbase around for a long period of time. So there's definitely a [win-win] situation here in making sure I'm comfortable.
With an independent girl, new companies hire her every day and there's no win-win in the long term with her. It's just about getting that shoot that day, right then. So I can see how it would be likely that an independent girl might end up in a situation where she's not comfortable, but the production company wants X, Y or Z.
The places where I've been uncomfortable, and this again relates back to what I'm trying to capture in the book, has been the emotional thing. Where you show up to set and you just broke up with your boyfriend and your boyfriend is the person you're having sex with that day. Or worse, you show up to set [laughs] and your boyfriend's there and your ex-boyfriend is the person you're having sex with that day. That gets complicated.
And it's one of those things where when you're booking 6, 8, 10 weeks in advance who you're working with—especially when you're working with a small group of people, and you're attracted to those people, it's very likely that at least a short-term little fling might arise. So you don't know 10 weeks out, if you say I want to work with this person on this movie on this day, what the emotional aspect of that is going to be. [Laughs.] It can get crazy.
How do you deal with that?
How do you deal with that? I had one scene where I had broken up with this person that I was with for a long time and I hadn't seen him and I didn't know quite where we were, and we go to the scene and I think everything's fine and then it's not fine. [Laughs.] I started crying. I couldn't help it. This was a person I was in love with and I still cared very much about him.
I could tell that he was pretty messed up about it, too. So what do you do? Do you call off a day that's going to cost the company you're with thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars when you're the one that put yourself in the situation? It's weird. I have a close friend who she's dating someone in the industry and works with him on almost every movie that she's in. One time they got in a fight that morning—not a domestic violence fight, but definitely one of those knock-down, drag-out fights. [Laughs.] And they needed to have an anal scene right then. [Laughs.] So that's weird. That's hard. That's funny, right? It's funny. [Laughs.] There's really no way to look at it other than, "OK, you kind of put yourself there." That's incredibly awkward and strange, but really [you have to] laugh. It's funny.
Does that turn anyone off to those relationships?
Does anything ever turn people off of relationships where they're so crazy about each other that they're actually sort of temporarily insane? It's like cocaine. [Laughs.] Nothing's going to turn you off of a crazy relationship where it's all sexual attraction.
What's a reaction you hope people have when they walk out of "Aroused"?
I hope they feel better for porn. For what porn is. My favorite thing to see when people interact with me, especially when they're women who don't have any concept of porn, just know that it's dirty and it's bad and they don't want their boyfriends watching it, my favorite thing is when I interact with them and at the end of the day they're like, "Oh, yeah, porn's no big deal." Really, that's what I want porn to be.
On Chicago: "I have been there a few times. My first time there was just a New Year's Eve quick vacation. I've been there for a couple shoots. I think I bought one of my favorite little art pieces. I've been in and out of Chicago a number of times. More layovers than anything."
On her Philip Roth kick and a book that should be made into a movie: "I just finished 'American Pastoral.' That is by far my favorite of his books. I've been reading a lot of nonfiction lately, so they wouldn't make good movies. I think you could really do something crazy awesome with 'Sabbath's Theater' just because it's so much in the mind of the main character and you start losing sense not of reality in general but his reality. He doesn't know what is him and what is him acting in a world because of response. I think we can all relate to that. We've all been there where you've gotten angry, you've been happy or you've cried and maybe you've bumped it up a little more because there's an audience. That audience could be your mother because you're trying to get pity or your girlfriend or your boyfriend because maybe you [bleeped] up or maybe a kid because you want them to know how happy you are that they did something that really is not benefiting your life in any sense but they're so proud. Then I think there's a greater question: Is that wrong? Is that a lie? Are we all just manipulative sociopaths who are performing to the world, or are we really genuinely experiencing these feelings?"
Why she had to walk out of the new "Evil Dead": "When I think something's going to jump out at me—I tried to explain this to my boyfriend. He's a big TV junkie. Most people when they watch gore and blood and gunfire, they're kind of immune to it because they've been watching it so much. I don't watch TV so I don't have that desensitized ability to just sit through anything. [Laughs.] So when you put me in a movie where [bleep]'s going to jump out at me, I am not going to [sit through it all]. I can't; I'm way too sensitive to television. [Laughs.] ... Literally if I watch TV it's because I'm passing it in an airport and it's on the news or it's because my boyfriend's watching it downstairs and I went into the kitchen. Any contact I have with television is accidental. ... I remember watching it a little bit as a teenager and I think part of it--first of all, I'd rather read a book any day of the week than do anything else, or I'd rather write or I'd rather do something that in some sense makes me feel like I'm creating. With TV, I'm so conscious of the minutes that are going by where I'm not doing anything that I stress on that rather than what I'm watching. It's not enjoyable."
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Hornets' Monty Williams rips NBA's concussion policy
CHICAGO (AP) — New Orleans Hornets coach Monty Williams blasted the NBA's protocols for determining when a player can return from a concussion, a day after No. 1 draft pick Anthony Davis suffered a mild one.
Williams unloaded before Saturday's game against the Chicago Bulls, saying, "Now, they treat everybody like they have white gloves and pink drawers and it's getting old. It's just the way the league is now."
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His comments came on the heels of Davis leaving Friday's win over Utah after taking an inadvertent elbow to the head from teammate Austin Rivers in the first half. A Chicago product, Davis stayed back in New Orleans to be examined and did not accompany the team on the trip.
He cannot return until he completes a series of tests to determine if he's fit to play.
"It's a man's game," Williams said. "They're treating these guys like they're 5 years old. He desperately wanted to come (to Chicago), but he couldn't make it."
Concussions and the long-term effects of repeated blows to the head have become a hot-button topic in sports the past few years, most notably in the NFL. Other leagues have also taken steps to make the games safer, but Williams apparently thinks the NBA has gone too far.
Asked what he doesn't like about the concussion policy, he said, "I'm not saying I don't like it. We've got to protect the players, but I think the players should have more say-so in how they feel. I'm sure I had four or five concussions when I played, and it didn't bother me. The NBA is doing what's necessary to protect the players, but this is not the NFL. You don't get hit in the head that much. I understand it. But as a coach, I'm a baby about it. I want my guys ready to play."


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Is it worth transcribing for publication any more?
I entered the genealogical community in the digital age. Straight transcribing of documents or records seems like a dicey prospect to me. The problem is if you choose a large project to transcribe, will an organization have it scanned and indexed before you finish your transcription project? That means you need to very carefully select the project you are willing to take on.
The Alternative to Simple Transcription
I believe the wave of the future where genealogists can make the most impact is with value-added projects. These are projects where you are forced you analyze or refine the original raw data and present that new grouping for publication.
For instance, consider warning out notices in early New England record books. It might not be worth transcribing the entire record books because they are already microfilmed and are potential (albeit much later) targets for scanning projects. However, it may be worth extracting the warning out notices that randomly fall within the text of the record books. This too has its pitfalls. If the entire record book is scanned and indexed then others can find what they need quickly from the index. To make this effort truly value-added it would be good to provide further information on the people listed in the warning outs rather than simply what is found in the record books. Perhaps information from vital or census records would add just the needed content to make your content unique.
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Before you take on a large transcription project in the hope of publishing it, think about how you can ensure that your project will be worth the effort in the event that someone digitizes it before you finish.
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Excellent post Marian, designed to get us thinking! Your reasoning is exactly why I chose many years ago to extract information from records, organize them and place them on my website for free.ReplyDelete
I like to take bits that genealogists aren't aware exist (just like your Warning Out notices) such as one set I had for almshouses in New York. Those almshouse records gave names of inmates and their immigration details! Some gave ships' names and dates. It was amazing.
A huge job but I extracted all the immigration details and organized it for my website at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ny_alms1819.shtml
That to me is a really value-added way to develop a project that is useful to the genealogical community
I work in a particular corner of transcribing -- Spanish-language records having to do with colonial Florida. Of course, the first obvious "value-added" aspect would be furnishing translation along with the transcription. However, there's another niche within that niche -- doing new transcriptions and translations of that which has already been done -- many of them in the 1930s and 1940s -- in which you find mistakes that need correcting. There are also some translations in which some material was left out from the original. For instance, some marriage records in St. Augustine, FL, were transcribed, but in most cases the names of the witnesses to the marriages were left out. These witness could be family or close friends, and the information deducible from these could be important.ReplyDelete
I think there is still a lot of opportunity left in transcription, translation, and "value-added" projects.
Great post, and very thought-provoking.
I have a large collection of land deed extract books from Upcountry SC - these are great because indices to these kinds of records usually just index grantor/grantee, whereas these books have all the names listed in the deeds as well as the description of the land and any unusual information contained in the deeds.ReplyDelete


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Fortunately, its roar is worse than its bite
Few things look scarier than a gelatinous mass with tentacles twisting in the Bay.
Chesapeake swimmers endure sea nettle stings in summer. But few have been stung by a lion's mane jelly, the world's largest known jellyfish species. Lucky for us, these jellyfish are seasonal inhabitants of the Bay from November to March.
"They are very temperature-dependent, as they thrive in cooler waters," says David Moyer, Calvert Marine Museum curator of Estuarine Biology.
Lion's mane jellyfish prefer northern latitudes — the Arctic Ocean and northern Pacific.
But they tend to travel. The species in our waters is planktonic, meaning it goes where the currents take it.
"Its presence in our water is entirely the result of prevailing water currents bringing them into the Bay," Moyer says.
They come when oceanic conditions are optimal for dispersing them here and it is cool enough for them to survive.
Thus, says Moyer, "the chances of spotting a Lion's Mane Jellyfish in the Chesapeake Bay are rather good but unpredictable."
You'll know one if you see one.
"They're unlike the other species of jellies that we get in that they are more easily seen with their characteristic lion's mane-like appearance of the tentacles and feeding arms dangling beneath their orangey bell," Moyer says.
The largest one recorded had a bell diameter of seven and a half feet and tentacles 120 feet long. Fortunately, the Lion's Mane roar is bigger than its bite. A sting causes only an itchy rash and mild burning sensation.
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Top Three Mistakes Tech Entrepreneurs Make
Reshma Sohoni, partner at startup accelerator Seedcamp, tells us the three most common mistakes technology startups make in the early stages: not dealing with the big issues, inefficiency, and failing to understand the commercial drivers of their business.
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The climax of Coronation Street's controversial right-to-die plot pulled in millions more viewers last night and prompted an increase in calls to The Samaritans.
A peak audience of 10.6 million viewers saw Hayley Cropper take an overdose after giving up her struggle with incurable cancer - two million more than last Monday's episode which peaked with 8.6 million viewers.
Actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who joined the soap in 1998 to play the Street's first transsexual, won the hearts of the nation with her on-screen romance with cafe owner Roy, played by David Neilson.
The Samaritans, who worked with ITV on developing the storyline, said calls to its helpline went up by almost a third yesterday compared to the week before.
The charity's chief executive Catherine Johnstone said: ''We are pleased that the Coronation Street production team acted responsibly by consulting with Samaritans about this controversial storyline.
''Our two decades of experience of advising the media about issues surrounding the portrayal of suicide led to Hayley's death and the devastation of her partner Roy being handled in a sensitive way.
''The inclusion of Samaritans' contact details at the end of the episode was helpful in encouraging those who were affected by the programme to get in touch.
''Our initial results show that calls to our helpline between 5pm yesterday and 5am this morning were 30% higher than during the same period last week, although these are only partial figures.
''While some of this increase may have been a result of the Coronation Street storyline, we are also aware that calls to Samaritans are heavier than usual at this time of year. January is a tough month for many people, with the bills from the Christmas and New Year holidays falling onto the doormat.
''There is also a tendency among some people not to focus on their problems over the festive season, but they will often be struggling with them again once the holidays are over.''
The figures do not include people getting in touch via text or email.
The storyline is being played out as former lord chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton launches a bid to legislate on the controversial issue with his Assisted Dying Bill, which would enable terminally-ill patients to request assisted dying, subject to a range of safeguards.
Care Not Killing, a campaign group opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide, said the soap was ''in great danger of normalising an occurrence that is actually very rare indeed''.
But right-to-die campaigner Jane Nicklinson, whose husband Tony suffered from locked-in syndrome and died in 2012, said the show handled ''such a sensitive subject well''.
Mrs Nicklinson, who has continued the legal fight started by her husband, said: ''You have done our cause proud. Brilliant performance. Nobody should have to suffer.''


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AT&T has renewed its contract to host Blizzard's online titles – including Diablo II, StarCraft and World of Warcraft – for the next two years. The company's hosted WoW and the Battle.net service for Blizzard for the past nine years. "We've been pleased with AT&T's service over the years, and we're confident in their ability […]
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Oprah's not going to be happy about this one.
Kitty Kelley, the woman who's made a career out of skewering celebrites in unauthorized tell-all books, has set her sights on Oprah Winfrey.
Crown Publishers announced Thursday that Kitty Kelley's 544-page, unauthorized "Oprah: A Biography" will be released April 13. The first printing will be at least 500,000 copies.
Kelley is known for gossipy and unflattering -- but best-selling -- celebrity books. She has also written about Frank Sinatra (linked him to the mob), Nancy Reagan (linked her to Frank Sinatra) and the Bush family (linking George W. Bush to cocaine.)
Kelley says she has high regard for Winfrey, but also felt committed to writing the truth. Kelley says she devoted the past three years to examining Winfrey's life. She says she came away "full of admiration for her accomplishments and fascinated by her complexity."
Crown says Kelley conducted 850 interviews for the book.
It will be the first tell-all published about the talk show queen. Though Kelley has earned a reputation as somewhat of a sensationalist, she's never been successfully sued for libel and never made a retraction.
Then again, she's never faced down Oprah, either.


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Our standard for July 2017 will be Caravan - by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington (1936).
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Caravan)
If you're in the US, enjoy your Independence Day festivities!
God, is that the one that goes at 100 mph? I think mine will be a sedate caravan!
Maybe with belly-dancing. Not by me :-)
Caravan i lived in one for 5 months still not as good as Django,
remember its Diminished kids, not 7b9 watch this space
[QUOTE=fuzzthebee;784797]I've chosen to do the funkified (lots of "jamming" type silliness):
fuzzybee very cool like a lot, i would make the beginning a tad longer was just just getting into it and you launched, a good groove the drum/beat feels a pinch behind the beat, not criticism tidy up a pinch, remix it get it out there, boy, rename it avoiding royalties call it "A home on wheels" kidding really nice lines on geetar, hey no silliness there, if Grant green had done something like that people would go cool.
PC programms and apps i am not good with,
what tempo is that track at??????
just a couple of lo-rent ideas Jamey Aebersold backing slowed up/down, Amazing Slow downer cool for that & pitch stuff android maybe Mac,
All i meant is the groove is ever so slightly behind the beat, hey i am being very picky. thats all not critism,
Check REG532 he did a Misty as mamo you know Reg groove Uncle
whilst cooling one Errol Garner (incredible) playing Laura on BBC Jazz 1965 anyway i hear Oh my Goodness ...................
i whizz over to my son, he says Dad did you hear that, i said yes, rewind YT, @ 1.47 as i heard a chromo diminished line travelling downwards, then a thought like my Daughter "I see I want " only my line is " i can hear i'll steal "
Then remembered you guys Practical Standards Caravan , and thought you guys check it out and weave it into your Caravan, but make a game of it enjoy it. beautiful line, just modify it to suit. but that is the nucleus or a start point.
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"Jazz is like life...it goes on longer than you think, and as soon as you're like 'oh, I get it,' it ends."
--The Ghost of Duke Ellington
Here's my late night take! Just having fun with a new Gretsch. Inspired by... you know who
Oh, you only like fast stuff! If you want fast, try this. If you can stand it :-)
If it's not that then maybe check Flash and/or Java updates.
*(In my case I was using Firefox with those two apps on it but it wouldn't play Soundcloud even after I'd disabled them. Maybe some digital residue or something. So I used Edge which was already on the machine with W10. Then no problem. On other sites you'll get ads but JGO Forum is thankfully free of them so it makes no difference. In any case, disabling things is tiresome).
another fast one:cheers Tomek
SLOW music
50 Shades of Guitar
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I liked that. I don't think it's easy. Good bass and drums too
It's something Charlie Christian did on dominants in minor keys - important minor of the dominant going to minor tonic, for instance Em on A7 going into Dm - listen to his solo on I Found a New Baby... Wes may have got the idea from there and run with the ball...
An interesting approach to Caravan I hadn't really considered.... Thanks for flagging up this recording.
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It's whole tone on dominant, right? Neat trick.... Whole tone is just a short step away from melodic minor....
Db, C, Bb, Ab, E, Eb, Db, C.
F G Ab Bb C Db Eb E
How Wes came up with that line is anyone's guess - the tetrachord H-W-H (E-Eb-Db-C) is a very common trope in jazz lines though, especially on the 5th like this.
To me, it sounds like a "simple" Gm vamp (6/9 with M7 or m7), plenty of G blues scale, followed by a bar or two of some kind of C7#5b9#9 etc. The Gm sounds tonic and doesn't reveal itself as a iim7 until the C7alt. At least that's how I hear it.
Much of the sound of Wes's playing on dominants (to me) is the preferential use of those minor and major sounds on dominant sounds with a 4th/11th degree on the dominant - so Dm7, Fmaj7, Dm11 etc on G7 for instance. Basically he wants all dom7s to be 7sus chords! How 60's :-)
Contrast this to Charlie Christians heavy use of the m6/m7b5 sound, or the use of melodic minor modes on the dominant etc...
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Yo! I loved it. But it is bloody tricky. I mean you can't just play F harm all the time... but when you try something else it goes a bit funny - never mind six bars of C7? multiple times. And if I hit that Fm on time I quietly thank heavens above... and promptly forget what I'm supposed to be doing next :-)
Actually, I've got couple more but I didn't want to hog the place. In due time
Okay, I hear what you say. I'll give it a shot.
Oh god, does that mean, like, 12 bars of C7?????!!!
(But I think as other players will agree or have mentioned many times - playing around with that kind of Gm dorian style arpeggio on C7 and bits of it such as Gm7, Bbmaj7 etc... Kind of avoiding too much use of the E (leading note) - really gives the Wes sound to me... Everything sus!)
As an aside - interestingly something I was told recently refers to Gospel vocal harmonisation in which everything is harmonised with the notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 of the scale in parallel with the melody to be harmonised. Obviously that results in V7sus - I and IV-I style cadences, and I wonder if that churchy/souly connection was there with Wes? The way that also links up with modal stuff is interesting too. Anyway, one for another thread.
Thanks for this exploration BTW. I find this type of thing really interesting, checking out recordings for ideas and so on.
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Of course it's possible that your interpretation is how was thinking, but the whole tone scale had been pretty mainstream in jazz for a few decades by this point and I tend to think whole tone because of the influence of Barry Harris who himself was influenced by Bud Powell and Monk who used it heavily. Whole Tone scales with chromatic neighbours are part of the material us Barry-ites are meant to practice (looks shifty.)
To me Bb aug + C aug = wholetone. The whole tone scale includes the tritone sub 7#5 chords among others.
In any case this is a lick that is used practically verbatim in Wes's solos of this era.
Anyway, so called Reg Minor (it's such a pain in the arse that there is no short standardised name for simply playing the notes from the minor key over the dominant chord of that key) is for me always going to be the default interpretation because it's pretty much the most diatonic and I tend to always go to diatonic as a default in my own changes playing.
Taking a key centric analysis this line (Db, C, Bb, Ab, E, Eb) has only one accidental when compared to F natural minor (F G Ab Bb C Db Eb) which is the E. This is the same accidental (natural 7 of the key) that pops up again and again in bop lines often with the b7 as well... Eb against C7 is pretty common, for instance.
Very often you have the descending S T S tetrachord E Eb Db C or 7 b7 b6 5. It's a real bop cliche.
I have no idea how they were thinking of this as it fits so many different interpretations. But it's not that far away from the prevailing key. That said running 7 b7 in a row does seem a slightly odd thing to do if you are thinking diatonically. I don't think it's something you'd find in say, Bach, but I might be wrong.
The use of the b2 melodically as enclosure also pops up and then that pushes you more towards the tritone sound unambiguously (and Berklee-ites would say 'altered scale' and others might say 'H-W dim')
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I did that track at about 3 in the morning so it is a bit dreamy. I'd probably do it better first thing. But, as I said, I've played the damn thing so-o-o many times now.
Do you just do pentatonics on the bridge? The melody's mainly a sus/69 feel. I did a bit of that, then standard mixo stuff, then combined them.
So you basically ignored the b9 sound?
See, that was my problem, I thought it absolutely needed the Db or it wouldn't sound like a caravan :-)
Sorry, fuzz, I was, but I'd lost it. Long day, little sleep. Let's start again...
I think of them as 13th chords, so Mixolydian, or Cm11 to F13 type stuff, to use the first part as an example. In my funk-ish one, I used 13#11 voicings, and played around with mm.
I was thinking the same except playing single notes, like C mel over F7 etc etc. But I was also hearing Dm or D sus, so I put a bit of that in too. I should play more chords, I know that :-)
hey guys, is there a poll for august yet? Ive been away for a while and can't remember which section they get posted in. Thanks!
Topic changed the format. Forum search is your friend.
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yeah not seeing anything from this year, but i do appreciate your pontification!
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The list allows us to forego a week or two of nominating and voting on a smaller subset of personal favorites.
I haven't launched August's thread, yet. Look for it on July 31. You can anticipate the next selection by looking at the JazzStandards list.
Cool, thanks M-ster-- I look forward to it!
grahambop -
Are you going to have a go at it? I wish someone would. You, Mr. Beaumont, Dirk even. Vladan would be interesting too. I want to see what others make of it!
I'm guitarless, untill September.
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Here's mine, I used fuzz's 'cha-cha' backing track:
Well done, Graham! I still think all those C7s are a bit of a pain though. Not an easy tune, I say :-)
cha-cha ha ha
As soon as I played it on a different system, I realized how sucky the mix is. Probably needs a do-over, but here's last month's tune:


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- Inspiration for contemplation: Big Sur coastline.
Dharma Travel: California seeking
Third in a spiritual tourism series.
It doesn't take traveling to remote or exotic places to escape the distractions of the outside world, I've found.
In California, regardless of denomination, dharma travel is big business. Whether 50-room or single-room hermitages, expansive prayer gardens or quaint chapels, many monasteries, abbeys and ashrams welcome the interest, involvement and support of others on a spiritual path.
When I was a child, my grandfather would threaten to send me to the Dominicans when annoyed with my endless chatter because, he assured me, they took a vow of silence. This was well recalled as I walked through the arched doors into the chapel of the Monastery of the Angels in Los Angels, where nuns support themselves by selling goods in a gift shop and accepting donations for their prayers. I walked away with a carton of homemade fudge and loaves of pumpkin bread. Because the monastery is an active cloister, public participation is limited to lay prayer services.
And, for the record, though they do spend most of their days in prayerful silent contemplation, they do not officially vow a lifetime of silence, contrary to my grandfather's implications.
On the hills and in the glens
Right in our backyard, MettaForest Monastery in Valley Center sits within an avocado grove. The monks there offer lay men and women opportunities to learn about and practice Buddhism. Daily chanting and meditation services are open to public participation, and overnight accommodations are provided for up to two weeks to aspiring practitioners.
Further north, the Benedictines at Redwoods Monastery in Whitethorn, along California's "lost coast," commune with God through nature and welcome those seeking to the same. Although their riverside Cistercian Guest House is generally filled to capacity, day trippers can visit their gift shop and leave with a jar of their creamed honey.
The Zen Buddhist PineMountain Buddhist Temple and Meditation Retreat, located in inland Ventura County at the headwaters of the Cuyama River, welcome lay sangha. Day visitors may tag along for a temple tour or participate in Sunday services. Conveniently situated a mile from the nearest cell service, Pine Mountain in Maricopa provides the quietude in which to meditate during weekend or long-term retreats. Meals here, too, are vegetarian.
Then there's the Sagely City of TenThousand Buddhas in Mendocino's Ukiah. Once through the golden gateway (known as the Doorway to the Dharma) (left), visit the book and gift store or the Jyung Kang Vegetarian Restaurant (not open Tuesdays).
The City includes schools that provide shangha and laity training, the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, and two school campuses, the Instilling Goodness Elementary School and the Developing Virtue Secondary School. It's also home to the Dharma Chinese Orchestra.
Overnight accommodations are offered only to those registered in one of the Dharma Sessions, or volunteering at a special events.
If you're looking for interfaith retreat opportunities, take a look at Santa Sabina Dominican Monastery outside San Francisco. The Tudor-gothic style monastic house and chapel now provides programs that include sessions in contemplative Judaism – they host "spiritual seekers of all traditions." Day visitors may consider attending a workshop or a Sunday afternoon concert, which begin at three.
The facility accommodates up to 57 overnight guests. Retreat occupancy rates ranges from $75-141 per night, with meals included. I call dibs on the secluded straw bale hermitage!
Serenity by the sea
Locally, the Benedictines at Prince of Peace Abbey extend their hospitality, welcoming guests to their Oceanside monastery for an $85/night donation. The gift shop and masses are open to the public daily.
You may well know about the Encinitas Retreat and Ashram Center at the gilded Self Realization Fellowship compound, which offers Sunday services, classes and retreats. You may even be aware that their meditation garden overlooking the ocean is publicly accessible to "truth seekers" of any denomination. But up the coast a few hours is one you perhaps might not have.
To use their own beautiful words, the Camaldolese monks at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur "offer people of all faiths the experience of engaging in something larger than oneself and in Someone who loves each of us infinitely." Accommodations for single men are available within the cloister, whereas those for women and couples are offered in adjacent buildings. Room costs per night in the cliff-side Guest House, or the Private Hermitages, Monastic Cottages, and Scholastica range between $110 and $250. Rates include mostly vegetarian meals.
If doing a drive-by, stock up on their brandy-dipped fruit bread (nearly as good as my mother's), Monks Coffee, and their Holy Granola. Of course, I myself never leave a monastery without purchasing a few CDs since I'm partial to chants.
As would be expected, visitors at these sexless places of divine worship – both men and women – are requested to dress modestly. Also, most don't allow pets.


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The fast-paced decision making required in so-called first-person shooter video games improves visual skills but may reduce a person's ability to control impulsive behavior, according to new research.
The findings suggest another way that violent video games can increase aggressive behavior, according to the authors of three new studies.
"These studies are the first to link violent video game play with both beneficial and harmful effects within the same study," Craig Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University, said in a Society for Personality & Social Psychology news release.
In one study, Anderson and colleagues had volunteers play either a fast-paced violent video game, a slow-paced peaceful game, or no game during ten 50-minute sessions over 11 weeks. Compared to participants who played the peaceful game or no game, those who played the action game showed increases in visual skills but decreases in impulse control.
In another study, the researchers assessed the TV viewing and video game habits of 422 people. They found that total media exposure and violent media exposure both contributed to attention problems. Violent media exposure was directly associated with increased aggression and anger/hostility, but there was no significant link between total media exposure and aggression or anger/hostility.
The studies were scheduled for presentation Friday at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology-hosted symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu.
In general, TV, movies and video games often feature rapid changes in images and sounds, which essentially trains the brain to respond to a fast pace, Anderson explained. Quick reactions are particularly important when playing violent video games.
"What such fast-paced media fail to train is inhibiting the almost automatic first response," Anderson explained.
This type of research could lead to new ways to help people control their anger and aggression, he suggested.
However, although the researchers found associations between media exposure and behavior, this does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
The data and conclusions of research presented at medical meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Source: Society for Personality & Social Psychology