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Chinese Room Argument
The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment of John Searle (1980a) and associated (1984) derivation. It is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence (AI)---that is, to claims that computers do or at least can (someday might) think. According to Searle's original presentation, the argument is based on two key claims: brains cause minds and syntax doesn't suffice for semantics. Its target is what Searle dubs "strong AI." According to strong AI, Searle says, "the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind, rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states" (1980a, p. 417). Searle contrasts strong AI with "weak AI." According to weak AI, computers just simulate thought, their seeming understanding isn't real understanding (just as-if), their seeming calculation is only as-if calculation, etc. Nevertheless, computer simulation is useful for studying the mind (as for studying the weather and other things).
Table of Contents
- The Chinese Room Thought Experiment
- Replies and Rejoinders
- Searle's "Derivation from Axioms"
- Continuing Dispute
- Summary Analysis
- Postscript
- References and Further Reading
1. The Chinese Room Thought Experiment
Against "strong AI," Searle (1980a) asks you to imagine yourself a monolingual English speaker "locked in a room, and given a large batch of Chinese writing" plus "a second batch of Chinese script" and "a set of rules" in English "for correlating the second batch with the first batch." The rules "correlate one set of formal symbols with another set of formal symbols"; "formal" (or "syntactic") meaning you "can identify the symbols entirely by their shapes." A third batch of Chinese symbols and more instructions in English enable you "to correlate elements of this third batch with elements of the first two batches" and instruct you, thereby, "to give back certain sorts of Chinese symbols with certain sorts of shapes in response." Those giving you the symbols "call the first batch 'a script' [a data structure with natural language processing applications], "they call the second batch 'a story', and they call the third batch 'questions'; the symbols you give back "they call . . . 'answers to the questions'"; "the set of rules in English . . . they call 'the program'": you yourself know none of this. Nevertheless, you "get so good at following the instructions" that "from the point of view of someone outside the room" your responses are "absolutely indistinguishable from those of Chinese speakers." Just by looking at your answers, nobody can tell you "don't speak a word of Chinese." Producing answers "by manipulating uninterpreted formal symbols," it seems "[a]s far as the Chinese is concerned," you "simply behave like a computer"; specifically, like a computer running Schank and Abelson's (1977) "Script Applier Mechanism" story understanding program (SAM), which Searle's takes for his example.
But in imagining himself to be the person in the room, Searle thinks it's "quite obvious . . . I do not understand a word of the Chinese stories. I have inputs and outputs that are indistinguishable from those of the native Chinese speaker, and I can have any formal program you like, but I still understand nothing." "For the same reasons," Searle concludes, "Schank's computer understands nothing of any stories" since "the computer has nothing more than I have in the case where I understand nothing" (1980a, p. 418). Furthermore, since in the thought experiment "nothing . . . depends on the details of Schank's programs," the same "would apply to any [computer] simulation" of any "human mental phenomenon" (1980a, p. 417); that's all it would be, simulation. Contrary to "strong AI," then, no matter how intelligent-seeming a computer behaves and no matter what programming makes it behave that way, since the symbols it processes are meaningless (lack semantics) to it, it's not really intelligent. It's not actually thinking. Its internal states and processes, being purely syntactic, lack semantics (meaning); so, it doesn't really have intentional (that is, meaningful) mental states.
2. Replies and Rejoinders
Having laid out the example and drawn the aforesaid conclusion, Searle considers several replies offered when he "had the occasion to present this example to a number of workers in artificial intelligence" (1980a, p. 419). Searle offers rejoinders to these various replies.
a. The Systems Reply
The Systems Reply suggests that the Chinese room example encourages us to focus on the wrong agent: the thought experiment encourages us to mistake the would-be subject-possessed-of-mental-states for the person in the room. The systems reply grants that "the individual who is locked in the room does not understand the story" but maintains that "he is merely part of a whole system, and the system does understand the story" (1980a, p. 419: my emphases).
Searle's main rejoinder to this is to "let the individual internalize all . . . of the system" by memorizing the rules and script and doing the lookups and other operations in their head. "All the same," Searle maintains, "he understands nothing of the Chinese, and . . . neither does the system, because there isn't anything in the system that isn't in him. If he doesn't understand then there is no way the system could understand because the system is just part of him" (1980a, p. 420). Searle also insists the systems reply would have the absurd consequence that "mind is everywhere." For instance, "there is a level of description at which my stomach does information processing" there being "nothing to prevent [describers] from treating the input and output of my digestive organs as information if they so desire." Besides, Searle contends, it's just ridiculous to say "that while [the] person doesn't understand Chinese, somehow the conjunction of that person and bits of paper might" (1980a, p. 420).
b. The Robot Reply
The Robot Reply - along lines favored by contemporary causal theories of reference - suggests what prevents the person in the Chinese room from attaching meanings to (and thus presents them from understanding) the Chinese ciphers is the sensory-motoric disconnection of the ciphers from the realities they are supposed to represent: to promote the "symbol" manipulation to genuine understanding, according to this causal-theoretic line of thought, the manipulation needs to be grounded in the outside world via the agent's causal relations to the things to which the ciphers, as symbols, apply. If we "put a computer inside a robot" so as to "operate the robot in such a way that the robot does something very much like perceiving, walking, moving about," however, then the "robot would," according to this line of thought, "unlike Schank's computer, have genuine understanding and other mental states" (1980a, p. 420).
Against the Robot Reply Searle maintains "the same experiment applies" with only slight modification. Put the room, with Searle in it, inside the robot; imagine "some of the Chinese symbols come from a television camera attached to the robot" and that "other Chinese symbols that [Searle is] giving out serve to make the motors inside the robot move the robot's legs or arms." Still, Searle asserts, "I don't understand anything except the rules for symbol manipulation." He explains, "by instantiating the program I have no [mental] states of the relevant [meaningful, or intentional] type. All I do is follow formal instructions about manipulating formal symbols." Searle also charges that the robot reply "tacitly concedes that cognition is not solely a matter of formal symbol manipulation" after all, as "strong AI" supposes, since it "adds a set of causal relation[s] to the outside world" (1980a, p. 420).
c. The Brain Simulator Reply
The Brain Simulator Reply asks us to imagine that the program implemented by the computer (or the person in the room) "doesn't represent information that we have about the world, such as the information in Schank's scripts, but simulates the actual sequence of neuron firings at the synapses of a Chinese speaker when he understands stories in Chinese and gives answers to them." Surely then "we would have to say that the machine understood the stories"; or else we would "also have to deny that native Chinese speakers understood the stories" since "[a]t the level of the synapses" there would be no difference between "the program of the computer and the program of the Chinese brain" (1980a, p. 420).
Against this, Searle insists, "even getting this close to the operation of the brain is still not sufficient to produce understanding" as may be seen from the following variation on the Chinese room scenario. Instead of shuffling symbols, we "have the man operate an elaborate set of water pipes with valves connecting them." Given some Chinese symbols as input, the program now tells the man "which valves he has to turn off and on. Each water connection corresponds to synapse in the Chinese brain, and the whole system is rigged so that after . . . turning on all the right faucets, the Chinese answer pops out at the output end of the series of pipes." Yet, Searle thinks, obviously, "the man certainly doesn't understand Chinese, and neither do the water pipes." "The problem with the brain simulator," as Searle diagnoses it, is that it simulates "only the formal structure of the sequence of neuron firings": the insufficiency of this formal structure for producing meaning and mental states "is shown by the water pipe example" (1980a, p. 421).
d. The Combination Reply
The Combination Reply supposes all of the above: a computer lodged in a robot running a brain simulation program, considered as a unified system. Surely, now, "we would have to ascribe intentionality to the system" (1980a, p. 421).
Searle responds, in effect, that since none of these replies, taken alone, has any tendency to overthrow his thought experimental result, neither do all of them taken together: zero times three is naught. Though it would be "rational and indeed irresistible," he concedes, "to accept the hypothesis that the robot had intentionality, as long as we knew nothing more about it" the acceptance would be simply based on the assumption that "if the robot looks and behaves sufficiently like us then we would suppose, until proven otherwise, that it must have mental states like ours that cause and are expressed by its behavior." However, "[i]f we knew independently how to account for its behavior without such assumptions," as with computers, "we would not attribute intentionality to it, especially if we knew it had a formal program" (1980a, p. 421).
e. The Other Minds Reply
The Other Minds Reply reminds us that how we "know other people understand Chinese or anything else" is "by their behavior." Consequently, "if the computer can pass the behavioral tests as well" as a person, then "if you are going to attribute cognition to other people you must in principle also attribute it to computers" (1980a, p. 421).
Searle responds that this misses the point: it's "not. . . how I know that other people have cognitive states, but rather what it is that I am attributing when I attribute cognitive states to them. The thrust of the argument is that it couldn't be just computational processes and their output because the computational processes and their output can exist without the cognitive state" (1980a, p. 420-421: my emphases).
f. The Many Mansions Reply
The Many Mansions Reply suggests that even if Searle is right in his suggestion that programming cannot suffice to cause computers to have intentionality and cognitive states, other means besides programming might be devised such that computers may be imbued with whatever does suffice for intentionality by these other means.
This too, Searle says, misses the point: it "trivializes the project of Strong AI by redefining it as whatever artificially produces and explains cognition" abandoning "the original claim made on behalf of artificial intelligence" that "mental processes are computational processes over formally defined elements." If AI is not identified with that "precise, well defined thesis," Searle says, "my objections no longer apply because there is no longer a testable hypothesis for them to apply to" (1980a, p. 422).
3. Searle's "Derivation from Axioms"
Besides the Chinese room thought experiment, Searle's more recent presentations of the Chinese room argument feature - with minor variations of wording and in the ordering of the premises - a formal "derivation from axioms" (1989, p. 701). The derivation, according to Searle's 1990 formulation proceeds from the following three axioms (1990, p. 27):
(A1) Programs are formal (syntactic).
(A2) Minds have mental contents (semantics).
(A3) Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics.
to the conclusion:
(C1) Programs are neither constitutive of nor sufficient for minds.
Searle then adds a fourth axiom (p. 29):
(A4) Brains cause minds.
from which we are supposed to "immediately derive, trivially" the conclusion:
(C2) Any other system capable of causing minds would have to have causal powers (at least) equivalent to those of brains.
whence we are supposed to derive the further conclusions:
(C3) Any artifact that produced mental phenomena, any artificial brain, would have to be able to duplicate the specific causal powers of brains, and it could not do that just by running a formal program.
(C4) The way that human brains actually produce mental phenomena cannot be solely by virtue of running a computer program.
On the usual understanding, the Chinese room experiment subserves this derivation by "shoring up axiom 3" (Churchland & Churchland 1990, p. 34).
4. Continuing Dispute
To call the Chinese room controversial would be an understatement. Beginning with objections published along with Searle's original (1980a) presentation, opinions have drastically divided, not only about whether the Chinese room argument is cogent; but, among those who think it is, as to why it is; and, among those who think it is not, as to why not. This discussion includes several noteworthy threads.
a. Initial Objections & Replies
Initial Objections & Replies to the Chinese room argument besides filing new briefs on behalf of many of the forenamed replies(for example, Fodor 1980 on behalf of "the Robot Reply") take, notably, two tacks. One tack, taken by Daniel Dennett (1980), among others, decries the dualistic tendencies discernible, for instance, in Searle's methodological maxim "always insist on the first-person point of view" (Searle 1980b, p. 451). Another tack notices that the symbols Searle-in-the-room processes are not meaningless ciphers, they're Chinese inscriptions. So they are meaningful; and so is Searle's processing of them in the room; whether he knows it or not.
In reply to this second sort of objection, Searle insists that what's at issue here is intrinsic intentionality in contrast to the merely derived intentionality of inscriptions and other linguistic signs. Whatever meaning Searle-in-the-room's computation might derive from the meaning of the Chinese symbols which he processes will not be intrinsic to the process or the processor but "observer relative," existing only in the minds of beholders such as the native Chinese speakers outside the room. "Observer-relative ascriptions of intentionality are always dependent on the intrinsic intentionality of the observers" (Searle 1980b, pp. 451-452). The nub of the experiment, according to Searle's attempted clarification, then, is this: "instantiating a program could not be constitutive of intentionality, because it would be possible for an agent [e.g., Searle-in-the-room] to instantiate the program and still not have the right kind of intentionality" (Searle 1980b, pp. 450-451: my emphasis); the intrinsic kind. Though Searle unapologetically identifies intrinsic intentionality with conscious intentionality, still he resists Dennett's and others' imputations of dualism. Given that what it is we're attributing in attributing mental states is conscious intentionality, Searle maintains, insistence on the "first-person point of view" is warranted; because "the ontology of the mind is a first-person ontology": "the mind consists of qualia [subjective conscious experiences] . . . right down to the ground" (1992, p. 20). This thesis of Ontological Subjectivity, as Searle calls it in more recent work, is not, he insists, some dualistic invocation of discredited "Cartesian apparatus" (Searle 1992, p. xii), as his critics charge; it simply reaffirms commonsensical intuitions that behavioristic views and their functionalistic progeny have, for too long, highhandedly, dismissed. This commonsense identification of thought with consciousness, Searle maintains, is readily reconcilable with thoroughgoing physicalism when we conceive of consciousness as both caused by and realized in underlying brain processes. Identification of thought with consciousness along these lines, Searle insists, is not dualism; it might more aptly be styled monist interactionism (1980b, p. 455-456) or (as he now prefers) "biological naturalism" (1992, p. 1).
b. The Connectionist Reply
The Connectionist Reply (as it might be called) is set forth---along with a recapitulation of the Chinese room argument and a rejoinder by Searle---by Paul and Patricia Churchland in a 1990 Scientific American piece. The Churchlands criticize the crucial third "axiom" of Searle's "derivation" by attacking his would-be supporting thought experimental result. This putative result, they contend, gets much if not all of its plausibility from the lack of neurophysiological verisimilitude in the thought-experimental setup. Instead of imagining Searle working alone with his pad of paper and lookup table, like the Central Processing Unit of a serial architecture machine, the Churchlands invite us to imagine a more brainlike connectionist architecture. Imagine Searle-in-the-room, then, to be just one of very many agents, all working in parallel, each doing their own small bit of processing (like the many neurons of the brain). Since Searle-in-the-room, in this revised scenario, does only a very small portion of the total computational job of generating sensible Chinese replies in response to Chinese input, naturally he himself does not comprehend the whole process; so we should hardly expect him to grasp or to be conscious of the meanings of the communications he is involved, in such a minor way, in processing.
Searle counters that this Connectionist Reply---incorporating, as it does, elements of both systems and brain-simulator replies---can, like these predecessors, be decisively defeated by appropriately tweaking the thought-experimental scenario. Imagine, if you will, a Chinese gymnasium, with many monolingual English speakers working in parallel, producing output indistinguishable from that of native Chinese speakers: each follows their own (more limited) set of instructions in English. Still, Searle insists, obviously, none of these individuals understands; and neither does the whole company of them collectively. It's intuitively utterly obvious, Searle maintains, that no one and nothing in the revised "Chinese gym" experiment understands a word of Chinese either individually or collectively. Both individually and collectively, nothing is being done in the Chinese gym except meaningless syntactic manipulations from which intentionality and consequently meaningful thought could not conceivably arise.
5. Summary Analysis
Searle's Chinese Room experiment parodies the Turing test, a test for artificial intelligence proposed by Alan Turing (1950) and echoing René Descartes' suggested means for distinguishing thinking souls from unthinking automata. Since "it is not conceivable," Descartes says, that a machine "should produce different arrangements of words so as to give an appropriately meaningful answer to whatever is said in its presence, as even the dullest of men can do" (1637, Part V), whatever has such ability evidently thinks. Turing embodies this conversation criterion in a would-be experimental test of machine intelligence; in effect, a "blind" interview. Not knowing which is which, a human interviewer addresses questions, on the one hand, to a computer, and, on the other, to a human being. If, after a decent interval, the questioner is unable to tell which interviewee is the computer on the basis of their answers, then, Turing concludes, we would be well warranted in concluding that the computer, like the person, actually thinks. Restricting himself to the epistemological claim that under the envisaged circumstances attribution of thought to the computer is warranted, Turing himself hazards no metaphysical guesses as to what thought is - proposing no definition or no conjecture as to the essential nature thereof. Nevertheless, his would-be experimental apparatus can be used to characterize the main competing metaphysical hypotheses here in terms their answers to the question of what else or what instead, if anything, is required to guarantee that intelligent-seeming behavior really is intelligent or evinces thought. Roughly speaking, we have four sorts of hypotheses here on offer. Behavioristic hypotheses deny that anything besides acting intelligent is required. Dualistic hypotheses hold that, besides (or instead of) intelligent-seeming behavior, thought requires having the right subjective conscious experiences. Identity theoretic hypotheses hold it to be essential that the intelligent-seeming performances proceed from the right underlying neurophysiological states. Functionalistic hypotheses hold that the intelligent-seeming behavior must be produced by the right procedures or computations.
The Chinese experiment, then, can be seen to take aim at Behaviorism and Functionalism as a would-be counterexample to both. Searle-in-the-room behaves as if he understands Chinese; yet doesn't understand: so, contrary to Behaviorism, acting (as-if) intelligent does not suffice for being so; something else is required. But, contrary to Functionalism this something else is not - or at least, not just - a matter of by what underlying procedures (or programming) the intelligent-seeming behavior is brought about: Searle-in-the-room, according to the thought-experiment, may be implementing whatever program you please, yet still be lacking the mental state (e.g., understanding Chinese) that his behavior would seem to evidence. Thus, Searle claims, Behaviorism and Functionalism are utterly refuted by this experiment; leaving dualistic and identity theoretic hypotheses in control of the field. Searle's own hypothesis of Biological Naturalism may be characterized sympathetically as an attempt to wed - or unsympathetically as an attempt to waffle between - the remaining dualistic and identity-theoretic alternatives.
6. Postscript
Debate over the Chinese room thought experiment - while generating considerable heat - has proven inconclusive. To the Chinese room's champions - as to Searle himself - the experiment and allied argument have often seemed so obviously cogent and decisively victorious that doubts professed by naysayers have seemed discreditable and disingenuous attempts to salvage "strong AI" at all costs. To the argument's detractors, on the other hand, the Chinese room has seemed more like "religious diatribe against AI, masquerading as a serious scientific argument" (Hofstadter 1980, p. 433) than a serious objection. Though I am with the masquerade party, a full dress criticism is, perhaps, out of place here (see Hauser 1993 and Hauser 1997). I offer, instead, the following (hopefully, not too tendentious) observations about the Chinese room and its neighborhood.
(1) Though Searle himself has consistently (since 1984) fronted the formal "derivation from axioms," general discussion continues to focus mainly on Searle's striking thought experiment. This is unfortunate, I think. Since intuitions about the experiment seem irremediably at loggerheads, perhaps closer attention to the derivation could shed some light on vagaries of the argument (see Hauser 1997).
(2) The Chinese room experiment, as Searle himself notices, is akin to "arbitrary realization" scenarios of the sort suggested first, perhaps, by Joseph Weizenbaum (1976, Ch. 2), who "shows in detail how to construct a computer using a roll of toilet paper and a pile of small stones" (Searle 1980a, p. 423). Such scenarios are also marshaled against Functionalism (and Behaviorism en passant) by others, perhaps most famously, by Ned Block (1978). Arbitrary realizations imagine would-be AI-programs to be implemented in outlandish ways: collective implementations (e.g., by the population of China coordinating their efforts via two-way radio communications), imagine programs implemented by groups; Rube Goldberg implementations (e.g., Searle's water pipes or Weizenbaum's toilet paper roll and stones), imagine programs implemented bizarrely, in "the wrong stuff." Such scenarios aim to provoke intuitions that no such thing - no such collective or no such ridiculous contraption - could possibly be possessed of mental states. This, together with the premise - generally conceded by Functionalists - that programs might well be so implemented, yields the conclusion that computation, the "right programming" does not suffice for thought; the programming must be implemented in "the right stuff." Searle concludes similarly that what the Chinese room experiment shows is that "[w]hat matters about brain operations is not the formal shadow cast by the sequences of synapses but rather the actual properties of the synapses" (1980, p. 422), their "specific biochemistry" (1980, p. 424).
(3) Among those sympathetic to the Chinese room, it is mainly its negative claims - not Searle's positive doctrine - that garner assent. The positive doctrine - "biological naturalism," is either confused (waffling between identity theory and dualism) or else it just is identity theory or dualism.
(4) Since Searle argues against identity theory, on independent grounds, elsewhere (e.g., 1992, Ch. 5); and since he acknowledges the possibility that some "specific biochemistry" different than ours might suffice to produce conscious experiences and consequently intentionality (in Martians, say), and speaks unabashedly of "ontological subjectivity" (see, e.g., Searle 1992, p. 100); it seems most natural to construe Searle's positive doctrine as basically dualistic, specifically as a species of "property dualism" such as Thomas Nagel (1974, 1986) and Frank Jackson (1982) espouse. Nevertheless, Searle frequently and vigorously protests that he is not any sort of dualist. Perhaps he protests too much.
(5) If Searle's positive views are basically dualistic - as many believe - then the usual objections to dualism apply, other-minds troubles among them; so, the "other-minds" reply can hardly be said to "miss the point." Indeed, since the question of whether computers (can) think just is an other-minds question, if other minds questions "miss the point" it's hard to see how the Chinese room speaks to the issue of whether computers really (can) think at all.
(6) Confusion on the preceding point is fueled by Searle's seemingly equivocal use of the phrase "strong AI" to mean, on the one hand, computers really do think, and on the other hand, thought is essentially just computation. Even if thought is not essentially just computation, computers (even present-day ones), nevertheless, might really think. That their behavior seems to evince thought is why there is a problem about AI in the first place; and if Searle's argument merely discountenances theoretic or metaphysical identification of thought with computation, the behavioral evidence - and consequently Turing's point - remains unscathed. Since computers seem, on the face of things, to think, the conclusion that the essential nonidentity of thought with computation would seem to warrant is that whatever else thought essentially is, computers have this too; not, as Searle maintains, that computers' seeming thought-like performances are bogus. Alternately put, equivocation on "Strong AI" invalidates the would-be dilemma that Searle's intitial contrast of "Strong AI" to "Weak AI" seems to pose:
Strong AI (they really do think) or Weak AI (it's just simulation).
Not Strong AI (by the Chinese room argument).
Therefore, Weak AI.
To show that thought is not just computation (what the Chinese room -- if it shows anything -- shows) is not to show that computers' intelligent seeming performances are not real thought (as the "strong" "weak" dichotomy suggests) .
7. References and Further Reading
- Block, Ned. 1978. "Troubles with Functionalism." In C. W. Savage, ed., Perception and Cognition: Issues in the Foundations of Psychology, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 9, 261-325. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Churchland, Paul, and Patricia Smith Churchland. 1990. "Could a machine think?" Scientific American 262(1, January): 32-39.
- Dennett, Daniel. 1980. "The milk of human intentionality." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 429-430.
- Descartes, René. 1637. Discourse on method. Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch. In The philosophical writings of Descartes, Vol. I, 109-151. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Fodor, Jerry. 1980. "Searle on what only brains can do." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 431-432.
- Hauser, Larry. 1993. Searle's Chinese Box: The Chinese Room Argument and Artificial Intelligence. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University (Doctoral Dissertation). URL = http://members.aol.com/wutsamada/disserta.html.
- Hauser, Larry. 1997. "Searle's Chinese Box: Debunking the Chinese Room Argument." Minds and Machines, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 199-226. URL = http://members.aol.com/lshauser/chiboxab.html.
- Jackson, Frank. 1982. "Epiphenomenal qualia." Philosophical Quarterly 32:127-136.
- Nagel, Thomas. 1974. What is it like to be a bat? Philosophical Review 83:435-450.
- Nagel, Thomas. 1986. The View from Nowhere. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schank, Roger C., and Robert P. Abelson. 1977. Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
- Searle, John. 1980a. "Minds, Brains, and Programs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, 417-424.
- Searle, John. 1980b. "Intrinsic Intentionality." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 450-456.
- Searle, John. 1984. Minds, Brains, and Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Searle, John. 1989. "Reply to Jacquette." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XLIX: 701-708.
- Searle, John. 1990. "Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?" Scientific American 262: 26-31.
- Searle, John. 1992. The Rediscovery of the Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Turing, Alan. 1950. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind LIX: 433-460.
- Weizenbaum, Joseph. 1976. Computer Power and Human Reason. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
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New Twain, "Drowsy Chaperone" anchor Creede Rep's 47th season
Two National Theatre Conservatory grads have written plays that will be staged next summer as part of the Creede Repertory Theatre's 47th season, it was announced tonight. The plays are John DiAntonio's "Harry the Great," and Steven Cole Hughes' new musical for young audiences, "The Presidents," with a score by Jessica Jackson.
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"The Drowsy Chaperone"
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
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Harry the Great
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The Presidents
Book and Lyrics by Steven Cole Hughes
Music by Jessica Jackson
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We are aiming for a look that will be appealing to the target market without turning off anyone else and show that these are nice condos in a nice area, but doesn't look too expensive. There is no logo so the name can be used instead. We would prefer a fairly light design that uses relatively few thick/3d borders, lines, etc. Other than these requirements we're starting with a blank slate regarding colors and the general design concept, so show us your best! We are looking to guarantee this contest as soon as it qualifies.
We would like to develop other marketing materials later on that are based on this design using similar colors, fonts, etc so we would prefer something that translates well to other formats but is laid out to be readable and appealing on the website.
The design should include elements that can be re-used on several pages; for the homepage we will end up with 2-4 paragraphs of text (maybe using subtitles with a slight emphasis) plus a large image while other pages will use a combination of text, subtitles, lists, and small photos.
The deliverable is a one-page design to use as a CMS template.
The requirements are:
- Heading area with name
- Navigation area with 6 pages (Home, Site Plan, Floor Plans, Options, Builder, Contact) - can be on left, right, or top
- Content area for homepage including main title text, subtitle text, regular paragraph, quoted paragraph, bullet list
- One large photo to be used as part of the homepage content (we will provide the final photo) so it's more visual and one small photo embedded in text (should be laid out in a way that the photos can be removed without breaking the flow, and more small photos can be added in a similar manner)
- An image overlay showing how an image could be popped up overlapping part of the content (for example a small floor plan showing over top of the site plan)
- Share icons - facebook, twitter, print, mail (we don't need the icons designed unless you want to do this)
- One area with 3 tabs side by side (the content below this does not need to be designed as we will just show an image for the selected tab)
Deliverable files should be in PSD format or other format that can be opened in Fireworks and allows new titles to be generated by editing the text.


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After back-to-back wins restored a sliver of playoff hope to Columbus, that hope took a hit Saturday night with a 4-0 loss on the road to Supporters' Shield leader Real Salt Lake.
The Claret and Cobalt's first tally came off a deflected free kick from the foot of Javier Morales and off Kyle Beckerman just before the halftime whistle. Devon Sandoval added another six minutes into the second half, while Luis Gil and Beckerman each tacked-on a goal within the final 10 minutes of the match to down the visiting Black & Gold.
"I think [Real Salt Lake] proved tonight why they're in first place, they're a good team," defender Josh Williams said after the loss. "We didn't really get on the ball, possession-wise. We just couldn't keep track of them. It seemed like their guys were running all over the place, they're a very offensive team.
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Making things more difficult, the Crew's Captain and playmaker, Federico Higuaín, received his fifth yellow card of the season during the first half of the loss to result in a one-match suspension. Higuaín's suspension could be longer than one match after he was sent off with a second yellow near the end of Saturday's match.
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight began its competition at the Royal Henley Regatta with a victory Friday on the Thames River, advancing, along with the Crimson freshman eight, to semifinal matchups Saturday.
The varsity defeated National University of Ireland, Galway by 2.5 lengths in its first race in the Ladies' Challenge Plate competition. The Crimson's time of 6:28 was the fastest of the day in the three Ladies' Plate races, and its margin of victory was the greatest of any of the three. Harvard will face Leander Club A Saturday at 5 p.m. local time, 2 Eastern, in the semifinals.
Simon Gawlik '09, a member of Harvard's winning varsity in the 2007 Ladies' Plate, will be racing in Saturday's other Ladies' Plate semifinal as part of the Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University combined entry. His crew races a combined crew from Berliner Ruderclub of the Netherlands and Imperial College.
Harvard's freshman eight won for the third straight day in the Temple Challenge Cup event. The Crimson topped Durham University by 2.25 lengths with a winning time of 6:38 to move on to a date with Washington Saturday at 11:50 a.m. The Crimson will look to turn the tables on the Huskies after Washington finished ahead of Harvard to win the freshman event at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.
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Malcom Howard '05 advanced to the Diamond Challenge Sculls semifinals. He easily defeated I.J. Lawson of Eton College. Jack Morrissey and the Molesey Boat Club A entry fell to Thames Rowing Club A in the Thames Challenge Cup.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Salaries in the U.A.E. Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Salaries in the U.A.E. Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message omar805Joined: 18 Jan 2003Posts: 69Location: Thailand Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject: Salaries in the U.A.E. deletedLast edited by omar805 on Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:42 pm; edited 2 times in total Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17642Location: USA Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:35 am Post subject: Yes! I started at more than this offered MA rate more than 10 years ago in Abu Dhabi. I also just read the advert and have never heard of this place. Anyone out there know anything about it? Back to top Mark100Joined: 05 Feb 2003Posts: 441 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:15 am Post subject: Those salaries are a joke. Only 44 calender days holidays as well. Back to top PaulyboyJoined: 23 Feb 2003Posts: 7Location: Czech Republic Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 10:29 am Post subject: The Abu Dhabi University is a new set up due to open in September in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. Yes, the salaries are a joke and I'm really surprised to see that. I work for HCT and the salary for faculty with a DELTA or MA is similar to what they are offering for PhD qualified staff. We also get 61 calendar days of leave. I wouldn't work in this country for that money. Back to top tcpawJoined: 14 Jun 2004Posts: 1 Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:23 am Post subject: How about these numbers - are they more normal? I was just offered 12000 a month plus the average benefit package. Is that more normal. I have a MA and 10 years of international experience. Oh, the rent allowance is 45,000 - that seems a bit low to me compared to other job listings I see.... What IS the norm at the university level? Are offered salaries negotiable? Has anyone ever had any success in negotiations? This info would be very useful. Thanks All! Back to top Ka-CHING!Joined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 102 Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject: That's a more normal salary, but check out the other discussions on this school. There are also warnings posted in the Job Information Journal. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17642Location: USA Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: tcpaw Personally I wouldn't take a job there for twice the amount you're offered. Follow kaChing's advice and check out the threads below about the horrible working conditions and mis-management. If you are starving and this is your only offer --- maybe. VS (PS: I've never known anyone who was able to negotiate any salary or benefits at the most reputable employers. Sometimes at a new place -- but it normally means desperation on their part -- and most likely you end up regretting it.) Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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The Proper Authorities is the solo musical project of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Keith Adams. Known for his work with the bands Sound Mind, Giant Wow, 1000 Watt Revival, and The Cloven Hoof Theatre, Adams created the Proper Authorities to branch out and work on his lifelong composition and performance skills.
As in past groups, he continues to experiment strongly in the modern pop rock genre with sounds and grooves that aren't usually found there. His appreciation for over-the-top arrangements is tempered nicely by his love for good hooks. His lyrics touch on a variety of subjects: matters of self; emotional snapshots in time; tragic and comic figures; and the things that we all want... or at least think that we want.
This site is your center for Proper Authorities information, songs, and more!
April 22, 2019
Who says thirteen is an unlucky number?
On May 1st, the Proper Authorities will be releasing new music for the first time in 13 years! The single "Regain Control" will be available at virtually all digital outlets (including Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and more), and a new video will be premiered on both YouTube and Facebook that same day at 2 PM EST!
A tense, fast-paced rocker full of blazing guitars and all-out drums, "Regain Control" tells the tale of a successful heist on the verge of collapse, relayed from the viewpoint of a concerned participant trying to stop his partner-in-crime from spilling his guts. This is one of several releases planned for this year. Keith really hopes this gets you excited for more to come!
January 20, 2019
At long, long last, you finally can buy Proper Authorities shirts, hoodiess, stickers, mugs, and more! (It only took a few years, right?)
We have apparel for men, women, and kids of all sizes, and a lot of neat accessories to boot. We think you'll like it, and appreciate any purchase(s) you can make. Click here to check it out, and feel free to send a photo of yourself and your new TPA swag!
Extra tidbit: Stay tuned for info about some new music projects featuring Keith Adams -- including some new Proper Authorities material for 2019!!
November 6, 2014
After a double weather cancellation of their 6th annual reunion show, Sound Mind forges ahead undaunted by its past wintery woes with the 2014 CancerFree Christmas show scheduled for Friday, December 5, 2014! Great music for a great cause — click here for more information!
December 30, 2013
After the weather cancellation of the December 6, 2013 reunion show of Sound Mind, the show has been rescheduled for February 14, 2014! Though all other details remain the same in the Nov 22, 2013 news post just below, will it now be called a "CancerFree Valentine's Day?" Check back soon for more updated information!
November 22, 2013
On Friday night, December 6, 2013, Keith Adams performs again with past bandmates Sound Mind for the 6th annual "CancerFree Christmas" reunion show! The event will once again take place at the Redmoor in Cincinnati. A fundraiser for pediatric cancer research, this reunion show will benefit CancerFree Kids. Visit the event's page for more information!
December 27, 2012
Thanks to a partnership with OnAirFM, Magnatune has now made the entire Public Service Announcement album is available to stream on YouTube, for your listening enjoyment! Take a listen to the whole playlist of songs, and there's even an instrumental version! If you like what you hear, visit the Audio page here to find out how to buy or license the music!
October 2, 2012
The new (but already successful) site iLicenseMusic is now featuring Proper Authorities music for royalty-free commercial use in media projects including videos, films, games, presentations, and more! For more information, visit iLicenseMusic.com today!
March 7, 2012
The Proper Authorities songs are now available as in-store music for restaurants, shops, hotels, bars, and more, thanks to our good friends at MoodMixes. To learn more, check out their website, MoodMixes.com, today!
February 21, 2012
The Proper Authorities' song "Today" is one of the tracks used in Radius: A Short Film, the world's first game-sourced movie. Premiering Feb. 25, 2012, Radius a is photo-animated movie about one man's search for the truth behind a mysterious red cloaked figure roaming the streets of Cincinnati. Check out the short film and a behind-the-scenes feature about its innovative, interactive production approach and more information at whatisradius.com!
October 29, 2011
For the 4th year in a row, Keith Adams and his bandmates from Sound Mind will perform at the annual "CancerFree Christmas" show, which returns to the Redmoor in Cincinnati on Friday night, December 9, 2011. This reunion show will benefit CancerFree Kids, a charity dedicated to pediatric cancer research. Visit the event's Facebook page for more information!
May 28, 2010
Interested in using some great music for your next ad, film, web, or video game project? The Proper Authorities has recently partnered with the All Night Party, a leader in commercial music licensing in the Midwest and beyond. If you are a business or a creative professional needing "The Ninth Life Jitters" for your new ad campaign, or perhaps "Devastate" for your upcoming video game, please contact Dave Davis at the All Night Party today!
November 10, 2009
Giant Wow's new album "HEY GIRL" is now available, and you can listen to and purchase it here!
April 3, 2009
Keith Adams is performing again with his band from a few years back, Giant Wow! The same crew is back, but with a few changes. Jesse Gilsinger and Robert Moore are still manning vocal/guitar and bass duties, respectively, but Keith is now a second guitar player instead of drummer. Kit duty is now under the capable reins of Kevin Sturgill.
The band's live approach provides a richer and more dynamic sound than ever before, and they plan on writing and releasing some crazier, more fun power pop sometime this year. Stay tuned!
February 18, 2009
The end of 2008 and the start of 2009 have provided The Proper Authorities with some wonderful online partnerships and opportunities.
Magnatune and Pump Audio, two of the web's most impressive sources for independent music distribution and licensing, have picked up the "Public Service Announcement" CD, getting it out there to whole bunch of new listeners. To celebrate, feel free to visit the Audio page to listen to the full album, courtesy of Magnatune!
June 10, 2007
It has been a long time coming, but finally "The Ninth Life Jitters" is the second song from the "Public Service Announcement" CD to receive a finished video treatment! Just like the "Devastate" video that came before it, Keith Adams used CGI, greenscreen, and old-fashioned elbow grease to singlehandedly bring this high-octane visual assault to life. Visit the Video page to learn more!
In non-video form, "The Ninth Life Jitters" also appeared on Charlie McEnerney's Well-Rounded Radio in Mix 005. This eclectic virtual mix tape meshes a variety of genres together using songs from indie artists across North America (and even one from Italy).
Keith Adams is also playing in the Goombas, the off-kilter, alt-fusion house band for Cincinnati's newest performance venue, the Cloven Hoof Theatre! The grand opening of this "theater of the weird" is on June 16, 2007, and it features the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus from NYC, with an opening performance by the Barnyard Burlesque and the Goombas! Stop on by, and click here to learn more!
Keith also has a few other musical projects in the works for 2007, so keep checking in for more information as it develops!
April 11, 2007
Want to download your own copy of the "Devastate" video for free? Now you can, by visiting Dovetail.TV's Talon First Records channel online! Dovetail allows you to watch all kinds of independently produced videos, and to download DVD-quality versions either for free or for a small fee. Check it out, download it yourself, and keep a look out for another The Proper Authorities video coming sometime this spring!
Also, The Proper Authorities song "Whodunit" is slowly but surely climbing the Power Pop charts at GarageBand.com! As of April 11th, 2007, it has attained a Top 20 ranking in the active Power Pop contest of reviewer picks, garnering several awards along the way! As this contest is only in round 1, please stay tuned, and please show your support if you can!
January 19, 2007
The Proper Authorities was mentioned in Cincinnati's local news and entertainment weekly magazine CityBeat in their music feature, "The Year In Your Ear," a listing of the top local CD releases of 2006! Though not one of the top 20, "Public Service Announcement" made the "Best of the Rest" list, sharing honors with some extremely good Cincy songsmiths like Ruby Vileos, Bulletproof Charm, Noctaluca, GhostMonster, and more!
Also, "The Ninth Life Jitters" has advanced to the second round of judging in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition. Semi-finalists and finalists have not yet been chosen, with the official finalist results being announced at the start of February. The list of prizes and judges is pretty impressive... let's hope the next round finds "NLJ" equally well-received!
December 8, 2006
The "Devastate" video can now be seen at Music Nation, an indie music video site with a special contest that could get The Proper Authorities on radio stations across the country. Please take a look at "Devastate" (if you haven't already) and help make some TPA noise there!
Yet another Proper Authorities tune will be a GarageBand Track of the Day! For 24 hours on Saturday, the 16th of December, 2006 (PST) "Whodunit" will be featured on GarageBand.com's Power Pop front page! "The Ninth Life Jitters" was Hard Rock Track of the Day on June 23, 2006.
The Proper Authorities' song "The Ninth Life Jitters" was recently added to the playlist at the 24/7 indie e-station Band Radio, and it can now be requested online by clicking right here! Check it out, along with an unending variety of the best independent music artists out there!
October 30, 2006
October 2006 has been a great month for The Proper Authorities and the "Devastate" video! Although it didn't win any awards in Italy's DigiFestival 2006, "Devastate" received great notice internationally, and has been featured on the home page of the festival's sister site, DigiChannel.net! Interestingly enough, though the live DigiFestival event in Florence had to be postponed, it will travel to both Venice and Milan in November and December, respectively! Salute, Italia!
Also, final winners were announced today in Broadjam's 6-Pack Challenge, a six-category music contest where The Proper Authorities came in 2nd Place in the Lights, Camera, Music Challenge with the "Devastate" video, and 15th Place (Top 20) in the overall contest! Congratulations to all the other winners as well!
And maybe the best news that October brought
is that Keith is now an uncle! On October 29th, his brother and sister-in-law
welcomed their first child into the world, a beautiful baby girl named
Keith plans on making a lullaby-friendly version of "Hypnotized" as soon as possible. ;)
August 19, 2006
Preying Lizard Music, a long time supporter of the Proper Authorities for several months, now has the #1 music channel on Tower Records' TowerPod.com with its Preying Lizard Music's Eclectic Pod online broadcast. Host and mastermind Les Lewellyn opens up this week's show (Episode 8) with the song "Devastate," so please stop by and check it out, along with the best in indie rock!
Also, "Devastate" is one of the videos that will be showcased at this year's DigiFestival, a film festival in Florence, Italy. Since one of the main goals of the festival is to promote independent film and video online, you can visit their site at DigiFestival.net to view and vote for your favorite videos. (If "Devastate" is one of them, please click here to let them know!)
June 18, 2006
Watch a 3-minute interview with Keith Adams about the making of the "Devastate" video and more! Visit the Video page here at the website to view it in either Quicktime or Windows Media format, in either high or low resolution!
June 16, 2006
As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from GarageBand.com members, "The Ninth Life Jitters" by The Proper Authorities will be Track of the Day at GarageBand.com!
For 24 hours on Friday, the 23rd of June, 2006 (PST) "The Ninth Life Jitters" will be featured on GarageBand.com's Hard Rock front page. If you get a chance that day, please check it out!
And speaking of positive reviews, The Proper Authorities received its first official press review this week! In the June 14, 2006 issue of CityBeat, "Public Service Announcement" is described as being "an album that celebrates the view from [Adams'] corner of the music world, which is danceable, hard-hitting, eclectic and selectively introspective." Click here to read more!
June 2, 2006
The Proper Authorities CD "Public Service Announcement" is now available at iTunes! Now you can download the entire CD or a few choice tunes at your convenience! Click here to learn more about iTunes, or here to get to the music!
"Devastate" is one of the featured videos in the 2006 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival taking place in Detroit, MI, June 14 - 17! Click here to learn more about this movie-and-music extravaganza and what's on the schedule!
Once again, The Proper Authorities are one of the selected artists on a Tunetank CD compilation — this time for the 2006 North by Northeast Music Festival! The song "Losing The Now" will be included this time around, in the company of a lot more great music from all around the world. Click here to learn more!
In other compilation news, The Proper Authorities were part of the University of Cincinnati's CD-ROM promotion of its brand-new MainStreet area, along with other local acts including Buckra, Bulletproof Charm, and more! MP3s of "Devastate" and "Make A Choice For Me" were included in these CDs for 1000 lucky listeners! Click here to learn more about UC's MainStreet, and Game Day Communications, who put the CD together!
April 28, 2006
The song "The Ninth Life Jitters" gets even more Honorable Mention from another songwriting contest! The Proper Authorities was one of the Top 500 winners in the 13th Annual Billboard World Songwriting Contest! (Yep, Billboard, like the trade magazine and the charts.)
Although they don't go so far as to actually list the Top 500 for some odd reason, check out http://www.billboardsongcontest.com for more info on the contest!
April 17, 2006
After months of preparation, the Proper Authorities' music video for the song "Devastate" is finally online and ready to view! This sci-fi-themed video features five Keiths, an Earth-threatening asteroid, and a spaceship with a pimped-out sound system of doom.
The website has been updated to include a Video section, and several related websites are hosting the video, with more to come. Check it out, and stay tuned for more info!
March 15, 2006
Winners of the 7th Annual Great American Song Contest were announced today, and The Proper Authorities was one of the Top 5 winners in the Rock / Alternative category with the song "The Ninth Life Jitters!"
Check out http://www.greatamericansong.com/winners.html for more info!
February 6, 2006
The website has finally been updated! Audio samples of the "Public Service Announcement" CD are now here online, so please let us know what you think!
January 16, 2006
The Cincinnati modern rock outfit known as The Proper Authorities has finally released its first full-length recording through the imprint Talon First Records.
The LP CD, entitled "Public Service Announcement," features 13 tracks and over 50 minutes worth of high-impact material for listeners and lovers of heavy guitar, electro textures, lush vocal harmonies, and booty-shaking grooves.
The Proper Authorities is the brainchild of singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Keith Adams. Best known for his drum and synth work for Acid Itch / Jamm recording artists Sound Mind, Adams confidently takes on all vocal and instrumental duties in this impressive debut effort. Meshing old-fashioned musicianship with technological wizardry, this relatively lo-fi production sounds anything but.
"My goal with this project was to create something in the rock realm that could actually have fun with the not-so-fun concept that we are, all of us, running out of time," says Adams. "One of the hugest motivating forces in life is the primal struggle of getting things accomplished while we have breath in us. I could easily have made it solely about the darkness and morbidity of that idea, but it was more challenging to sonically aim for the emotional dynamics that we all experience as we run against that clock."
Indeed, the tracks range in tone from adventurously playful ("The Ninth Life Jitters," "Whodunnit," "Penalty") to straight-ahead serious ("Losing The Now," "The Depth of Things," "The Way Back") to bleakly introspective ("Today," "Make A Choice For Me"). Although there is an emphasis on hook and groove, Adams gets a chance to show off some of the vocal chops that he only hinted at in earlier musical projects.
Wondering what the future has in store for him and this DIY-extreme musical undertaking, his enthusiasm for the project is balanced with a healthy dose of "come-what-may" and pride for the completed CD. "I got it done, which is saying A LOT," laughs Adams. "It's cool that my lyrics were motivational to me, if to no one else."
But the work is not over, as far as he's concerned. What's next on the horizon? A video for the song "Devastate" is due in February, remixes of various songs from "Public Service Announcement," and working on other related projects. Is there a live act in the future? "I have to admit that I get my live kicks in Giant Wow, but never say never."
The Proper Authorities have been selected to be a part of the MIDEM 2006 conference as one of the featured artists on the TuneTank compilation! This is MIDEM's 40th anniversary, and it is probably the world's largest international music industry conference today. Click here for more information on the event, the compilation, and the other musicians involved!
December 11, 2005
The first full-length CD release is ready to go and slated for a
January 2006 release. The CD, entitled Public Service Announcement,
will be released by Talon
First Records out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
This 13-track album will feature over 50 minutes of original material, some of which can be heard at the Proper Authorities MySpace and PureVolume pages. To get you ready for Public Service Announcement's release, each of those two sites has a different, as-yet-unreleased track that you can take a listen to! Don't forget to leave some comments and love at those pages!
There are two great links that I hope you will take time out to visit. One is the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the other is SendCourage.org. The former will let you donate to the continuing hurricane relief effort, and the latter lets you donate to CancerFree Kids, an organization dedicated to funding pediatric cancer research. Thanks in advance for your help.
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The Alamo
Although the Alamo fell in the earlymorning hours of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo Defenders has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of Liberty. The memories of James Bowie, David Crockett, and William B. Travis are as powerful today as when the Texan Army under Sam Houston shouted "Remember the Alamo!" as it routed Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The Alamo has been managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas since 1905. Located on Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, Texas, the Alamo represents nearly 300 years of history. Three buildings - the Shrine, Long Barrack Museum and Gift Museum - house exhibits on the Texas Revolution and Texas History. Visitors are welcome to stroll through the beautiful Alamo Gardens. Just a short distance from the River Walk, the Alamo is a "must see" for all who come to San Antonio.
The Alamo is located at 300 Alamo Plaza in downtownSan Antonio, Texas. To Reach the Alamo from U.S. 281/Interstate 37 southbound, exit at Houston Street, turn right, and proceed three blocks to Avenue E, turn left and continue to the intersection of Houston and Alamo Plaza. From Interstate 37 northbound, exit at Commerce Street, turn left on Commerce and proceed ten blocks to Alamo Plaza, turn right and continue on one and one half blocks. Parking is available at several pay lots in the vicinity of the Alamo.
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Nothing could be better than spending time with friends at home watching your favourite DVD. You might like watching an action-packed combat movie or horror movies where the slightest creak of a door or tap of a shoe will jolt your senses. Put in the screams from your girl friends and you would surely have a great time. However, a wonderful home theatre experience could only come about if you have the right speakers at home, just like the Acoustimass 5.
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Valor Fitness Economy Utility Bench
|The DG-2 Valor Fitness Stationary Bench is strong and ready for a heavy workout. Using 12 gauge steel along with a dual density seat padding, this Stationary Bench has a 3 degree tilt allowing for a more comfortable angle for shoulder workouts. Upfront foot bars allows the user to position their feet up front allowing for a slight push to keep the body firmly seated on the bench.


text: 1jomel 1 Posted July 7, 2013 The JM4 DESPERATELY needs an amp model for acoustic guitars. None currently give you true acoustic guitar sound like AUX does, but AUX can't be looped separately from the vocal. Turning off the amp model doesn't work either, because the acoustic still doesn't sound right in this input. Because of this, I can't even use my mic with it, which breaks my heart because the MIC features are AWESOME. This one change would make the JM4 the perfect tool for the 1-man band, which should be the target customer. We could even eliminate our mixers. How awesome would that be? One perfect little box for EVERYTHING! All we'd need is an inexpensive A/B switch between acoustic & electric guitars. Please go to Idea Scale, Line 6's place to submit ideas, and vote for my post (link below). Maybe they'll perfect this wonderful tool! http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/JM4-the-ALMOST-PERFECT-1-man-band-tool./495841-23508 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Arrow Electronics could be first of other company annoucements in Colorado
A pumped-up Ken Lund, head of the state's economic development office, said Tuesday after the news conference introducing Arrow Electronics as Colorado's newest Fortune 500 company that he expects more announcements in coming weeks.
Does that mean the state is going to bag PrimeStar Solar and the 400 jobs that come with its solar-panel manufacturing plant?
Lund wasn't saying.
But it's clear that we're in a battle with New York for the plant, and according to a reliable source, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is fighting like the sun-god Apollo slinging economic incentives at PrimeStar to lock down the plant for the Empire State.


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Eric Cantor seems to have moved more to the middle on immigration, according to prepared remarks the House majority leader will deliver Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington conservative think tank.
Cantor has always been in favor of giving visas to highly skilled immigrants educated in America, but today he takes it a step further, calling for legal residence and citizenship for children brought here illegally by their parents and a guest-worker program.
Cantor also says to stop making immigration a wedge issue.
"While we are a nation that allows anyone to start anew, we are also a nation of laws, and that's what makes tackling the issue of immigration reform so difficult," Cantor will say, according to prepared remarks. "In looking to solve this problem soon, we must balance respect for the rule of law and respect for those waiting to enter this country legally, with care for the people and families, most of whom just want to make a better life, and contribute to America.
"A good place to start is with the kids. One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home. I'm pleased that many of my colleagues in both chambers of Congress on both sides of the aisle have begun work in good faith to address these issues. And I'm pleased these discussions make border security, employment verification and creating a workable guest worker program an immediate priority. It's the right thing to do for our families, for our security, and for our economy.
"There are some who would rather avoid fixing the problem in order to save this as a political issue. I reject this notion and call on the President to help lead us towards a bipartisan solution rather than encourage the common political divisions of the past."
Cantor does not provide any specifics in his speech and was never too enamored with the DREAM Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for children brought to the U.S. illegally back in 2010.
However, his position today seems to indicate that the man, who controls the legislation that makes it to the House floor, is open to making illegal-immigrant minors full citizens. The key will be for what price.
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I don't know how I started receiving email from you, but I thank God for them and for what Christ does through you and for me through them. They always seem to come to me when I need them the most or to affirm something I am thinking about in Christ. Thank you. Stay bold in Jesus Christ. Keep fighting the good fight of faith as I also will.
Love you your brother in Christ.—Timothy
Just wanted to thank you for attending the Grove on the 17th. That was the first time I had been. It turned out to be one of the best birthdays I have ever had. I was 48 on the 17th. I always enjoy hearing you speak. Makes me feel good and sets a great example for my daughter Stephanie.Sincerely,—Andrew
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DOES THIS SOUND familiar? A large retail company (or bank or fast food chain) designs its customer contact positions to be filled by people who are willing, at least temporarily, to work for wages marginally above statutory minimums. It simplifies the jobs, reducing them to a series of repetitive, boring tasks that require minimal training. It makes little effort to develop either dedication to the work or loyalty to the company. The results of this strategy are quite predictable: inordinately high employee turnover and increasing customer dissatisfaction.1
Unfortunately, traditional management responses to this scenario only exacerbate the problem. High turnover reinforces the wisdom of decisions to minimize efforts in selection, training, and commitment-building activities. "After all," most managers say, "why invest in people who aren't going to stay with you? There are plenty of bodies available to fill these jobs."
This cycle produces indifferent attitudes toward customers and poor service, which translate into poor perceptions of service by the customer and lower sales. Customer dissatisfaction fuels further decreases in employee satisfaction, thus encouraging turnover. High turnover further deteriorates service, particularly where the continuity of the customer-servicer relationship is important. With the departure of each frontline employee comes the arrival of another who, at best, is just as inept. Or in tight labor markets, the customer is often greeted by a help wanted sign and an empty server position.
This self-perpetuating "cycle of failure" seems to ensure continuing deterioration of service quality, managerial headaches, and long-term decreases in sales and profits (see Figure 1). When there is an abundance of "cheap" labor, such a cycle may seem acceptable. But as we enter an era of slowed labor market growth, dramatic increases in the demand for service workers, tightened immigration policies, and increasing consumer demands for improved service, the business consequences of the cycle are increasingly untenable.
The cycle of failure also has significant individual and societal implications. According to the Department of Labor, as of 1986 there was a pool of 16 million nomadic service employees roaming from one low-paying employer to the next, experiencing a stream of personal failures with employers unwilling to invest in efforts to break the cycle.2 This group of low-tenure employees who move to new jobs with decreasing confidence and self-respect is expanding at the same time that labor markets are getting increasingly tight.


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Weekend Reading
In this weekly round-up, we scour our website for the week's best articles. This issue focuses on the Banzai madness, a Tahoe killing that took place more than 30 years ago and what the alpine lake might look like to aliens. To read the full articles and catch up on other local news, check out the Tahoe Daily Tribune's website at tahoedailytribune.com.
Racers compete in Rahlves' Banzai Tour charged down Kirkwood's Wall last weekend during the . More than 80 skiers and snowboarders raced the challenging course Sunday in an attempt to snag some prize money and make it down the course alive.John Bochenek won the men's ski category, while Tara Hines nabbed the top step in the women's ski field. Snowboarder Adam DeVargas won gold in his race and Casey Lucas took the women's snowboarding crown.South Tahoe steamrolls TruckeeThe South Tahoe basketball teams at home Tuesday. The win ensures home game playoff rights for the girls. led the lady Vikings to a 41-40 win in the final seconds by sinking two pressure free throws. The boys outscored Truckee in all four quarters for a 73-42 win.
Preliminary hearing in Swanson killing beginsThe in the 1980 killing of a South Tahoe gas station attendant began Tuesday in Placerville.Andrew Sanford is accused of killing 16-year-old Richard Swanson during a robbery of the former South "Y" Shell station on .El Dorado County prosecutors charged Sanford with murder in connection to Swanson's death in March. Sanford pleaded not guilty. Tahoe Arts Project cuts first program in 26 yearsThe Tahoe Arts Project, which brings performing arts to county schools, 0 to bring back a program the nonprofit cut this school year. The fiscal road started to get bumpy as revenue from the nonprofit's large annual fundraisers, including the Evening with the Academy Awards and the Festival of Fine Arts, dwindled.
Astronaut tweets Tahoe blueAstronaut Thomas Marshburn a photograph he took of Lake Tahoe from the International Space Station that captures the full length of the Jewel of the Sierra and the peaks of Desolation Wilderness. The query that accompanied the photo — "Hey Tahoe — how's the skiing?" Tahoe's glamorous historyManny Munoz started styling hair when Frank Sinatra roamed the floor of Harrah's Lake Tahoe and Elvis Presley electrified the town. In this , Munoz talks about cutting Barbara Sinatra's hair, receiving tips in cocaine and life in the casino corridor in the from the 1970s through the 1990s. — Compiled by Axie Navas


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Get some retail therapy at the fashion outlets and specialty stores of nearby Gyle Shopping Centre, or scale the world's largest indoor climbing wall at the Edinburgh International Climbing Centre. Cosmopolitan Glasgow is less than an hour's drive away.
With excellent transit connections, free parking and free WiFi, the hotel makes a convenient meeting site. The conference room seats 12, and the hotel can cater in lunch. Business travellers are within easy reach of central Edinburgh businesses and two miles from the Royal Bank of Scotland offices.
All hotel guests can take advantage of free WiFi and free parking, and affordable Park, Stay & Go packages are available. Start your day with the Express Start Breakfast, with hot items and continental options, included with your room. You can enjoy dinner and a 24-hour menu at the restaurant, or unwind with a drink in the stylish cocktail bar.
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This is a Burden Teddy Bear that on of my cousins gave to all of us grandkids at Grandma Smedley's funeral in 2002. The blanket that he is clutching is a piece of a quilt that she made several years ago. This guy has came in handy a time or two.
Inside the card is the following poem:
I'm not a very fancy bear,
I'm plain and rather small.
Even so, someone who loves you
Said I should come to call.
Hide me underneath your pillow
or set me on a near by shelf
and when you feel discouraged
I will do my best to help
I brought my favorite blanket,
That I snuggle when I'm sad...
It's a present from "Our" Grandma,
Made for days when things seem bad.
Our Mother always told me,
"Life's like a patchwork quilt...
Just give Jesus all the pieces,
And he'll make a pretty quilt."
Sometimes I don't see the pattern,
Sometimes he seems far away,
Then I clutch my favorite blanket
And I pray...and pray...and pray.
Though I don't have all the answers,
For I'm just a "Burden Bear"
I've been sent here on a mission
From someone who really cares.
When you see me, please remember...
You are in their thoughts and prayers.
I guess you can order something like this at Pixie Dust Gifts.


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