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Save The Frogs Day is the world's largest day of amphibian education and conservation action. Our goal for the 4th Annual Save The Frogs Day (April 28, 2012) is 200+ events in at least 30 countries -- you can help make this happen!
Conceived and coordinated by SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger, Save The Frogs Day has been officially recognized by the Governors of Virginia and North Carolina, and the Mayors of Santa Cruz, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Save The Frogs Day receives worldwide publicity and has been featured on CNN Worldwide TV and on the front page of Le Monde, the largest newspaper in France. Save The Frogs Day also receives widespread support from other nonprofit groups, such as the National Wildlife Federation (one of the world's largest environmental groups), who is an official partner of Save The Frogs Day.
Please help fund our Save The Frogs Day efforts so that we can expand the reach of our amphibian conservation efforts and educate hundreds of thousands of people about the importance of protecting the world's remaining amphibian populations.
Your donation will allow us to:
(1) Provide grants to event organizers in developing countries who have already proven their ability to organize highly successful Save The Frogs Day events.
(2) Promote Save The Frogs Day through our website, mailing list, social networks and our list of journalists, TV news anchors, and radio hosts to ensure maximum reach.
(3) Create free educational materials for teachers and students (e.g. slideshows, posters, fact sheets, videos).
(4) Fund a major rally at California's state capitol building to raise awareness of the state's inaction stopping the annual importation of millions of non-native bullfrogs.
(5) Organize a Save The Frogs Day 5K fundraising race in downtown Seattle, which will bring in not only publicity and new supporters but also a large influx of donations.
(6) Save The Frogs Day fundraising is also our primary means of funding our other projects, such as giving free educational presentations in schools, getting frog legs out of restaurants, stopping the detruction of critical frog habitat, and getting schools to stop dissecting wild-caught frogs.
Learn all about Save The Frogs Day at www.savethefrogs.com/day -- Thanks!
"Congratulations because Save The Frogs Day has become an icon in conservation around the world!!! Thanks for such inspiring work!!!"
-- Dr. Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Assistant Professor; Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies; Javeriana University – Bogota, Colombia

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Money From Nothing?
This is the fifth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
The ancient alchemist and modern Wall Street capitalist have much in common. The latter has achieved the modern equivalent of the alchemist's dream of turning cheap metals into gold. He creates money out of absolutely nothing and wholly free from exertion or the inconvenience of producing anything of real value.
Making money with no effort can be an addictive experience. I recall my excitement back in the mid-1960s, when Fran, my wife, and I first made a modest investment in a mutual fund and watched our savings grow magically by hundreds and then thousands of dollars with no effort whatsoever on our part. We got a case of Wall Street fever on what, by current standards, was a tiny scale.
Of course, most of what we call magic is illusion. When the credit collapse pulled back the curtain to expose Wall Street's secret inner workings, we learned the extent to which Wall Street is a world of deception, misrepresentation, and insider dealing on a breathtaking scale. It was such an ugly picture that Wall Street's seriously corrupted institutions stopped lending even to each other for the simple reason that no one trusted the other guy's financial statements.
Much of what Wall Street celebrates as financial innovation involves borrowing to inflate the value of financial assets to create collateral to support more borrowing to further inflate the assets to create more collateral… Whether you call it a loan pyramid or a Ponzi scheme, it is a form of theft.
A responsible Federal Reserve would have raised interest rates to dampen asset bubbles like the tech-stock bubble of the 1990s and housing bubble of the 2000s. Instead, captive to Wall Street interests, it pursued cheap money policies to encourage and facilitate ever more borrowing by speculators to keep the bubbles growing.
Academics who never learned the difference between real wealth and phantom financial wealth published scholarly articles celebrating the discovery of the secret of effortless wealth creation. Back in 1997, I came across an article in Foreign Policy by John Edmunds, then a finance professor at Babson College and the Arthur D. Little School of Management, titled "Securities: The New Wealth Machine" [pdf]. This is a defining quote:
Historically, manufacturing, exporting and direct investment produced prosperity through income creation. Wealth was created when a portion of income was diverted from consumption into investment in buildings, machinery and technological change. Societies accumulated wealth slowly over generations. Now many societies, and indeed the entire world, have learned how to create wealth directly. The new approach requires that a state find ways to increase the market value of its stock of productive assets. [Emphasis in the original.] … An economic policy that aims to achieve growth by wealth creation therefore does not attempt to increase the production of goods and services, except as a secondary objective.
The thesis was so absurd that on first reading I thought it must surely be some sort of joke or parody intended to expose the irrationality of the exuberance surrounding the inflation of financial bubbles. In his 2008 book, Bad Money, the journalist and former Republican Party political strategist Kevin Phillips notes the Edmunds article was widely discussed on Wall Street and implies that it may have inspired the securitization of housing mortgages.
System Failure? Look Upstream
Why it's important to address our economic problems at their Wall Street roots.
Contrary to the Edmunds "logic," an asset bubble—real estate or otherwise—does not create wealth. A rise in the market price of a house from $200,000 to $400,000 does not make it more functional or comfortable. The real consequence of a real estate bubble is to increase the financial power of those who own property relative to those who do not. Wall Street encouraged homeowners to monetize their market gains with mortgages they lacked the means to repay except by further borrowing. It then converted these toxic mortgages into worthless toxic securities and sold them to the unwary, including the pension funds that many of those who borrowed against their inflated home values counted on for their retirement.
Why do we tolerate Wall Street's reckless excess and abuse of power? In part, it is because so many people of influence have bought into the Edmunds fallacy. If you have difficulty understanding "economist speak," it may be because you are in touch with reality.
[Next: Good Debt, Bad Debt]
The ideas presented here are developed in greater detail in Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine web store — where there are 3 WAYS TO GET THE BOOK and a 22% discount!
- Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine web store.
More by David Korten:
Real wealth or phantom assets? David Korten explores the difference between the kind of wealth that makes life better and the phantom wealth created by financial speculation.
What is the proper role and social function of a bank? The answer starts with getting the question right.
It's time we the people declare our independence from the money-favoring Wall Street economy.


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Big Apple given second chance to embrace Beltran
NEW YORK -- This city, this passionate and often fickle baseball market, has been awarded a mulligan, a second chance to treat Carlos Beltran properly, with respect and esteem. And we probably can marvel about him once in a while, too. Nearly nine years after Beltran's first steps with the Mets, the five boroughs and their satellite communities, which once reveled in the exploits of three extraordinary center fielders and later cheered Bobby Murcer, Bernie Williams, Lenny Dykstra and Mookie Wilson, get an opportunity to make amends to the former center fielder who will serve as the Yankees' right fielder come spring.
Let's not screw it up this time.
NEW YORK -- This city, this passionate and often fickle baseball market, has been awarded a mulligan, a second chance to treat Carlos Beltran properly, with respect and esteem. And we probably can marvel about him once in a while, too. Nearly nine years after Beltran's first steps with the Mets, the five boroughs and their satellite communities, which once reveled in the exploits of three extraordinary center fielders and later cheered Bobby Murcer, Bernie Williams, Lenny Dykstra and Mookie Wilson, get an opportunity to make amends to the former center fielder who will serve as the Yankees' right fielder come spring.
Let's not screw it up this time.
We treated Beltran harshly during his tour with the Mets, 2005 through July 27, 2011, demanding more of him than what could rightfully have been expected. Such is the curse of most players -- Derek Jeter being the exception -- whose contract total reaches nine digits. A switch-hitting center fielder in New York must deal with the legacy of No. 7 Mickey Mantle as well. We afforded Beltran zero slack. Our mistake.
Beltran was a good, occasionally great player in those years. Inertia challenged him in 2005. Free agents don't routinely shine in their first seasons in new surroundings. But his 2006 season was smashing. With Carlos Delgado in place to provide protection in the batting order, he produced at a level never reached by Lenny, Mookie, Murcer or even Bernie. He was in the "Willie, Mickey and the Duke" stratosphere -- 41 home runs, 116 RBIs, 127 runs, 38 doubles, 18 steals, a .388 on-base average and a .594 slugging percentage in 140 games.
And what do we recall of his 2006? What is the focus of our image of him from that season?
"Called strike three."
That lethal breaking ball from the hand of Adam Wainwright, the final moment of the '06 NLCS, became Beltran's identity in New York. The backwards K -- if you keep score that way -- became his scarlet letter. A player with an exceptional glove and brilliant offensive statistics, a player who would place fourth in the MVP balloting that year, was stained by one instant in a game, albeit a critical one.
A reminder: The Mets didn't lose their playoff series against the Cardinals because Beltran kept his bat in the holster on a hellish, two-strike curveball. Recall the bottom of the sixth inning, a half-inning after Endy Chavez's astonishing catch had spared them, the Mets had the bases loaded with one out. They needed a sacrifice fly to take a 2-1 lead. Jose Valentin struck out. Chavez popped out.
Recall the top of the ninth, when Yadier Molina hit a two-run home run that had nothing to do with Beltran. But Aaron Heilman, the man who surrendered it, seldom is held accountable for the two runs it produced. His name rarely is mentioned in the same sentence as Mike Torrez, Ralph Branca, Dennis Eckersley, Ralph Terry and the other victims of iconic home runs. Even Heilman wondered about that.
"I'm not hoping to be remembered for that home run," he said the following spring. "But I did give it up, and we lost because of it. I don't remember Carlos playing a role in that."
Yet Carlos Ivan Beltran has been spelled with an invisible (and perhaps backwards) K in these parts for too long. Get over it. And remember that the Mets were going to win Game 2, they were going to win the game that Chris Carpenter had started, until the seventh inning, when macho-man Mota, aka Guillermo, shook off Paul Lo Duca twice and threw the fastball that Scott Spiezio couldn't wait to crush. Mota didn't lose the game -- Billy Wagner did on a home run by So Taguchi -- he merely lost the series.
Beltran was innocent and remains so, even on appeal by the prime-time alarmists who always felt obligated to fix blame on somebody and create a villain. Why not Heilman? "They've got to blame the guy who makes the most money," Beltran said Friday afternoon at the Stadium.
He was in the South Bronx to make a transition that, he acknowledged, he always had hoped to make -- from non-Yankee to Yankee. He said he had been a Yankees fan as a kid in Puerto Rico; Bernie had been his guy. Wonder how Beltran wound up in center and switch-hitting?
Now, he is where his dreams had put him. Even though his numerical identity had to change, he's pleased as the punch he adds to the batting order. Beltran is the newest Yankees' No. 36 -- Coney, Steve Balboni and Johnny Mize won't mind. He wore 36 in 1998 and '99 with the Royals. But he's been No. 15 (Royals, Astros, Mets, Giants) or No. 3 (Cardinals) ever since.
Thurman Munson and The Bambino wouldn't give up their numbers for the new guy. Beltran accepted a windfall, the second of his career, instead. He's more concerned about other numbers now.
It was the work of Thurman and the Babe, Joe D. and Yogi, Mickey and Whitey, Reggie and Guidry, Paulie and, yes, Bernie, Derek and Mo that persuaded Beltran long ago that he should play some part of his pretty darn good career in the Bronx. Last summer, he said, reporters asked him whether he had thought about a place in a different Empire State city -- Cooperstown. The Yankees, with their revitalized batting order, will afford him more plate appearances -- the order ought to turn over often -- so he can enhance his HOF-hopeful resume.
He's also here to win. That too would help his candidacy. And now we get to see his talents all over again here in the Big City. Perhaps we'll revise our evaluation of him. Probably, we will. Beltran is a genuine star who prospers in the spotlight. He did score the Mets' lone run in the game his strikeout ended, incidentally. He doubled in the first and scored on David Wright's hit. He has hit 16 home runs and driven in 40 runs in 51 postseason games. And allegations that he was a soft player have faded -- appropriately -- after the need for three knee surgeries. And recall that jolting catch he made at the wall in the World Series.
We did treat him unfairly his last time through -- the reporters, the columnists, the drive-time alarmists, the fans and even his owner. Beltran deserved better. And now it appears he's in position to get it.
Marty Noble is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Sometimes, particularly when I am playing or practicing a lot I suddenly am reminded of what a miracle I hold in my hands! The guitar has such expressive and sensual qualities sometimes it's almost hard to comprehend! Also, what happens is when we get so "deep inside" our instrument, we sometimes forget to "step back" a bit, and really reflect on just how wonderful it is, and what it really does mean to us!
This is very important, because in the end I feel that it still helps us to become better players to look at our guitars as great companions, and as truly the miracle that they are. I find so many things about the guitar truly fascinating; for example, how is it that we all end up with our very own sound that moment we really start to play? I mean, sure, I can imitate B.B. King, Buddy Guy, or any number of other players, but I'd be hard pressed to actually sound like they really do! I have had to do this identity "game" by guessing who a guitarist may be, and I even surprise myself at how good I can be at identifying a certain player by his/her touch. Sometimes, it may be just a slight turn of the hand, a certain vibrato, or some natural pitch shift that triggers me being able to identify a certain player, but it certainly is a sign of a well-tuned ear to be able to do this!
Finding your own "voice" on the guitar is a real challenge, but at the same time, a very natural progression that evolves over time. In a way, it's something that you needn't even worry about. The guitar and you will continue to develop a closer and closer relationship to the point you may hopefully reach a day like I did, once when I was about 17 or 18, when I realized I was at "one" with my guitar! What a moment that was…imagine realizing that you've just reached that amazing feeling of being able to truly "speak" through your instrument. Definitely a revelation, for sure! These are the moments we, as guitarists, live for, and I find that these kinds of wonderful moments will continue to happen for you, as long as you really open yourself to the instrument, and all of its wonderful qualities.
So, the next time you pick up that guitar of yours, remember to appreciate its beauty, its voice, its expressiveness and most of all, simply appreciate it for all it can do and mean to you! These lovely sensual creatures allow us to be their "keepers" for a very special time while they "pass" through our hands…let's treat them with that same "respect" they give us!
There is one thing for sure, we are always going to have good and bad gigs during our developing, and even advanced years! It just never seems to fail that the statement that "just when you thought you paid your dues, you get another bill!" always holds true for all of us! The main question is how we can always turn the negative into the positive, and most of all, make "every gig count." This means that we must take away from each situation something that we have learned, or that has made us grow as players and people. In any case, I have certainly found that almost every gig I have ever done has helped me grow as a player….after all, many times we have to "dig deep" for the value of a particular gig to us, and what it means to our style and development as a player. For example, even though we may totally despise the music we may have to play at a certain gig, it may be just the thing we needed to make us think a little differently on the guitar, and to make us focus on another aspect of playing we may've never thought of.
Today I had to give a lesson that dealt largely with acoustic Bluegrass guitar, and I realized what an extreme discipline it can be. I was teaching my student a very specific version of Bury Me Beneath the Willow, a great traditional piece. This was a version by none other than Clarence White, one of my favorite guitarists, and it was lovely, but very hard to dissect properly. I realized I had to dig back into my early country roots to find out just where I had developed an ability to play this way, and I realized I had played many a Bluegrass festival in the early '70s, and had done a lot of research when I wrote my 3rd book, "Nashville Guitar." This was what gave me a great foundation in those wonderful seminal tunes of early Bluegrass, and what Maybelle Carter had so pioneered.
I may have not had too many gigs back then that warranted me playing this style, but I nonetheless absorbed it for sure. So, in essence, the "gig" I did back then to get this stuff under my belt was to research and write my book. A tedious task for sure, but one that gave me a lot of mileage on the car without ever leaving the garage! Of course, back in those days, I was playing with folk/Bluegrass artists such as John Herald, Happy and Artie Traum, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney and others, which exposed me to a lot of that kind of sound. I guess being so young, I was absorbing it all like a sponge, and everything I ever heard or played somehow eventually came through my fingers!
But no matter what the gig may be, don't ever be discouraged. I have done some of the truly craziest gigs in history, like sitting in front of a church in Manhattan wearing a Hawaiian outfit, playing lap steel guitar, with nobody caring to listen…but you know what? I learned the night before, along with my girlfriend, who played rhythm with me, and entire catalog's worth of wonderful Hawaiian pieces! So yes, the gig was horrible, but the learning curve for it was something I'll always be thankful for! Take this attitude with you wherever you go in music, and you'll be so much better for it!
It's always a pretty difficult search to find proper band mates for yourself for many reasons: It's important to be sure to have players of just the right level of proficiency for you to match up with, and of course, with the proper attitude towards you and each other. This doesn't mean that you should be afraid to have players who are better than you, but they must be the kind who are patient, and understand that this is also to help make you better, as well. If you are a medium-ability player who's playing in a band of better musicians than you, it's important that your role be understood and well-defined. In the same way, the reverse must also be true…you must be patient with other in the band who may still need to learn more. They need to feel that they are a part of the process, and that they are "included" in as much as possible, as opposed to just being told what to do!
If you look at many of the most successful bands of the past who have really made it big, there was always a happy balance between the band having it's all-important leader setting tone for the music, and the contributions of the other players. This is very true in groups such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, with their obvious leader, John Fogerty, The Lovin' Spoonful, with John Sebastian, and the Byrds with Jim (Roger) McGuinn. Other big groups that had more of a democratic approach were such bands as The Band, The Beatles and maybe even The Rolling Stones. There's something to learn from all these diverse groups, but there's no question that even after incredible success, there were always feuds and real inter-personal problems that got in the way. What you want to do is be a peace-keeper, and try to head off as many as these problems as you can, before they escalate.
There are also times when it seems that all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit right away, and band members just seem to "click" together, both musically and personally. This is a rare occurrence, but not uncommon, when young player "fall together" into a musical situation, usually after enthusiastically talking about the possibility of having a band, and starting to play together. This is always an exciting time, and a great moment in the development of young players in general.
So make a diligent effort to find the right players to be with, and don't settle for bad when you can have better….also, be sure to never underestimate what a young musician who really wants to play with you can contribute, regardless of their level of ability. Everyone deserves a chance to be heard, including you!
You'd have to be living in a cave somewhere to have missed the fact of how much the music industry, among many other creative fields have changed these days. The older concepts of getting a record deal with a "major label" have certainly shifted, and the idea of going in a much more independent direction with your music has really take hold of most of us! It's not to say there aren't any major "deals" to be had out there, but the record labels, or what's left of them, must be much more selective about who they sign and put money behind, since the buying public has also so radically changed from what it was before.
In the end, it still all really boils down to talent, and if you've got it, just how you are prepared to proceed with "making it" in your career. In the days when I was starting out, it was hard for me to chart a clear course for my actions, so I would rather take the more natural approach of "let's see what happens" as I kept on weaving in and out of being a sideman "hired gun", a studio player and a solo artist. Add to that, being a columnist, an author of 12 books and an entrepreneur who started Hot Licks, and you've a recipe for having a very scattered career and schedule! I always did believe though, in "spreading" myself around, so that the perception of the public was that I was a truly well-rounded artist who was not putting all his "eggs in one basket!" In this manner, I recorded solo albums for 5 different labels, wrote books for around 6 different publishers, wrote for 3 or 4 different magazines, ad of course played for countless different artists.
These days, I find myself with my own independent record label, booking tours and gigs on my own, producing my daughter Lexie's second album, and just generally doing all kinds of things soloistically. It has really become an accepted thing for the younger generation, but for us older players who went through the decades on the 50s, 60s and 70s, when the "big deal" was what we still shot for, the new reality of 2010 is something totally new and different to embrace.
There are blessings in this new order of things however…such as the fact that we can much more easily track record sales, downloads and more thanks to everything going digital…it's easier to mix and record now than ever before, and one can promote themselves on entities such as Facebook, Myspace and of course, our own websites. This gives bands and solo artists far more control than before, and allows us the chance to really stay on the "pulse" of the music scene, and how we fit into it. I love for example, that I can use the internet to actually track radio airplay of my records, something that was only a mystery just a few years back!
So try to stay on top of the "changing face" of the industry, but above all, and through all the changes, stay true to your talent, and try to avoid the syndrome that so many fall into…that of feeling like they must keep following trends, only to end up always one step behind!
One of the truly most exciting things that ever happened to me in the world of music was when I also started my writing career. It all happened in a rather un-assuming way, when in or around 1970 Happy Traum asked me to write a section in his book "Flatpick Country Guitar" about my unique "pedal-steel" style string bending positions. I was so excited to actually be published and seen in a book, and of course, at the young age of only 19, it was really quite a thrill.
Around that time, I had also started to teach privately and at Eddie Simon's (Paul's brother) Guitar Study Center in New York City. I received a call from Happy and also Oak publications that they wanted me to do a section about slide guitar, another area of my expertise, in a three-part book that was to be about Pedal Steel, Dobro and Slide Guitar. Well, I certainly was excited about this proposition, and the first thing I was anxious to tell the editor in our initial meeting was that number one, these should all be separate books! They were unnecessarily grouping these three instruments and styles into one very expensive book, and I felt they all really deserved their own full-length books. Not only that, but the players out there would not need to get all three at once anyway!
Well, needless to say, I had a great meeting with Jean Hammons, the editor at that time, and walked out with not only a deal to write "Slide Guitar", but I had convinced them to sign me for 2 other books, "Nashville Guitar" and "Blues Guitar!" Keep in mind now, I was only all of 20 years old, and was just on a cloud when I walked out of that meeting! It was a chance to already document, at a very young age, a lot of the unique techniques and knowledge I had garnered in a really very short time! Of course, this lead to other things, like writing a ten-year successful column for Guitar Player Magazine called "Hot Guitar", articles and much more!
I guess what I getting at here is that writing about one's abilities is a great thing because it'll only make you more aware of what you are really all about and what makes music "tick" in general. I know I loved how when I was first doing research for my Slide Guitar book, I loved looking up and finding all the great recordings by early slide players I hadn't really know about yet, and learning about their incredible styles! I was quickly acquiring knowledge about greats such as Charlie Patton, Bukka White and Tampa Red, all powerful and important musicians whom I had yet to hear of! Oh yes, and when I went to write the music for the book, all I knew was where the "G" note was, I figured out the rest on my own! It also gave me an early glimpse into what made me tick, because somehow, by the age of 20, I had already gotten to master several techniques that were totally unique to me, that I had to take apart to really understand! This all helped enormously with my own teaching, and as we all know, the more you give, the more you get! So, if you want to, maybe you'll be inspired now to go on and do a little writing of your own. Lord knows there are a lot more outlets for you these days!
The one thing to keep in mind while shopping for a guitar is that it must be fun! Far too many people are put off by the shopping experience in music stores, especially stores where the salesman has an "attitude" problem. It's up to you, and whomever you may be shopping with to overcome this problem, and take charge of the situation. I used to enjoy walking into a music store where they had the attitude like "who's this kid?" and literally turn it into a performance, where I would hold the entire store spellbound with guitar sounds they had never heard before! This is a great way to "humble" anyone who's giving you a difficult time, but of course, we can't all do this!
Still, the attitude you need to assume is one where "they have to come to me", showing you literally, how much they need to sell you a guitar. A good and perceptive salesman is certainly very important in this process, which I learned the first time I bought a truly great guitar, my 1952 Les Paul, from Eddie Bell's guitar shop in NYC! First of all, the guitar I had on special order from Manny's, around the corner, busted the nut as soon as I bend a string! I went around the corner, and was not too impressed with what Eddie Bell's had, but just as I was leaving, the salesman, thanks to "divine intervention", said, oh, have you seen our 1952 Les Paul? Well, I had not seen it, as it was hanging in a glass cabinet that I missed, but boy, was he right to show me that guitar! I suddenly knew what a really fine guitar felt and sounded like, not to mention that it was $250 cheaper than the guitar I rejected at Manny's!
I can remember the feeling of real triumph as me and my Dad left that store with this wonderful '52 gold top. I went home, happily played that guitar all night, maybe even slept with it, and was never the same since. This is the kind of rewarding experience you should feel when you get that first, or subsequent guitar for sure. The Les Paul was not my first, but there was something about that experience that set it apart from the others that made it far more memorable to me.
So when you go to that store, know what you're looking for, and also, leave yourself open to whatever in that store may captivate and charm you…..you never know just how rewarding that little shopping spree may turn out to be! Happy guitar hunting!
This particular blog is a little bit different than many of my others, since it deals with the actual psychology of being not only a guitarist, but an artist as well! As artists, and that is what you should be aspiring to become, we tend to have a lot of times when we set goals for ourselves that are almost too high. The end result of this striving for excellence can sometimes result in some real artist "misery" on our parts, and can often simply be the result of just trying too hard, or caring too much.
If it starts to get into your head that something's wrong, and you're not living up to your own expectations, you can set up a scenario that will feel like something you may never overcome. I believe it's healthy to have big goals in music and personally, and it can certainly lead to great things, but you must never really "beat yourself up" over things that you must go through in your growing process. For example, if you have a bad night playing, which is something we've all had, don't linger on it; try to put it behind you, and look forward to learning from it, and growing as the result. One of the most "toxic' things I have ever felt is when I get into a "funk" about my own playing, or when a personal problem may take itself onstage with me. This can even be something as seemingly un-related as a fight or problem with a girlfriend backstage, just prior to stepping in front of the public. I have walked onstage literally trembling from what may have been going on backstage moments before. This is something thousands of performers have gone through for years, and there is a kind of art to being able to put this stuff behind you, even if it's temporary!
So the bottom line is to not let things get to you too much. The process of making music and baring your soul onstage is really enough of a burden to have to carry for yourself, and for your listening audience without letting other stuff get the best of you! Be true to your feelings, especially as an artist, and always be sure to separate the professional from the personal, and you'll be okay! It's only music, and it's only art, and it's only life!
Now, the title here doesn't mean how I'd like you to treat me, although that certainly couldn't hurt! But what I am talking about is showing a good deal of respect and deference to your teacher, especially if he or she is someone of great experience, who is a true veteran of teaching. The road of music is a long, often hard one, and the seat that teacher occupies can sometimes be a hard-earned one. One that is full of a lifetime of trials and errors, tribulations, successes and failures, and the situation of you two sitting together can be a volatile one for the teacher as much as for you.
Obviously, a lot of these kinds of thoughts come from my own experiences, and yes, there have been times, albeit rare, when I have felt not enough or basically no respect from my student! This can be very disheartening, and can take the wind out of my sails real quickly. And what does this all lead to? Simply the fact that then no learning will take place, at least none of any consequence, for sure. There's nothing worse than a teacher who is broken-hearted and not respected, and a student who pays no attention, nor any respect.
The best situation is a healthy "give and take" that occurs between student and teacher, resulting in a good rapport that is always a healthy exchange of ideas and concepts. The kind of situation that keeps the teacher on his toes just as much as the student is on his toes! After all, there has to be an "edge" to what is going on during a guitar lesson, and there must be a good set of challenges for the teacher and the student. I know that I love teaching all levels of players, but my favorites are the lessons where I have a real challenging student, who pushes the limits of what I know. This invariably always stimulates my ideas, my playing and my thinking, and I love to keep having to come up with more and more creative things to teach!
So, of course, be good to your teacher, be kind, be respectful but most of all, be a stimulating person to teach. After all, you AND the teacher should always be wanting to come back for more!
Sooner or later, as a guitar player, you're going to really have to hone your skills as a performer. I know that from the beginning, I was always aware that the "performing" aspect of what I was doing was just as important as the guitar skills I was learning themselves. The truth is, the more we learn to play, the more we should want to "show our wares" to the public, and to be able to be relaxed in a public situation with our guitar playing.
If we are having a good time onstage, there is no question that the audience can sense it, and they just follow right along with you. Just look at bands like the Beatles….their infectious good feelings and relating to one another onstage immediately translates to the crowd, who could just never get enough of them, period! They had great performing skills, and even some "old school" moves and charms, but mainly, they exuded confidence with a capital "C"! If you can do that, you will always walk away from a gig feeling more complete, and much more satisfied. You certainly don't want to leave any "doubt" up there, and you want the audience as well as yourself to be totally satisfied.
I experienced this the other night with a solo show I played up in Cooperstown, NY, where I had a great rapport with the crowd from the opening note. It just seemed that they were as "with" me when I talked, as much as when I played. This connection between the crowd and myself really helped spur me on to doing an even better show for them than I ever anticipated! In the long run, this is the kind of feeling you should be striving for whenever and wherever you play, and I certainly hope it's a feeling you get to experience fully.
I always try to tell students that the audience can literally "sense" everything that is going on with you when you are up there. In fact, they can pick up on things and emotions that you won't even realize you are projecting. With time and experience you'll be able to predict these kinds of situations, and to use them to your advantage. And let's face it, when you are happy up there, everybody's a winner


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A Vietnamese search team reported finding a door thought to be part of a missing Malaysian Airlines airliner on Monday as questions continued to swirl about lax security that allowed people with stolen passports to board the flight.
A Vietnamese team in a low-flying plane spotted an object that appeared to be one of the plane's doors, Vietnam's state-run Thanh Nien newspaper said, citing the deputy chief of staff of Vietnam's army, Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan.
The newspaper said that two ships from the maritime police were headed to the site about, 60 miles south of Tho Chu island in the Gulf of Thailand, the same area where oil slicks were spotted Saturday.
Meanwhile, Interpol reported that no one had used its vast databases to check the validity of passports for the people who boarded Flight MH370 flight in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, on an overnight flight to Beijing. The Boeing 777-200ER vanished early Saturday with 239 people aboard.
In a statement Sunday, Interpol confirmed that at least two passports – one Austrian and the other Italian – that were used by passengers who boarded the missing plane were listed in its stolen and lost travel documents database. The identities of at least two other passengers listed on the flight are being investigated.
"Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol's databases," the agency's secretary general, Ronald K. Noble, said.
"This is a situation we had hoped never to see," he added. "For years Interpol has asked why should countries wait for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates."
The passenger manifest issued by Malaysia Airlines listed the names of two Europeans -- Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi -- who turned out not to be aboard the plane, according to their countries' respective foreign ministries. Both men had reported their passports stolen in Thailand during the past two years.
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PARIS — The music industry, the first media business to be consumed by the digital revolution, said Tuesday that its global sales had risen last year for the first time since 1999, raising hopes that a long-sought recovery might have finally begun.
The increase, 0.3 percent, was tiny, and the total revenue, $16.5 billion, was a far cry from the $38 billion that the industry took in at its peak more than a decade ago. Still, even if it is not time for the record companies to party like it's 1999, the figures, reported Tuesday by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, provide a psychological boost.
''It's clear that 2012 saw the global recording industry moving onto the road to recovery,'' said Frances Moore, chief executive of the federation, which is based in London.
For years, the music industry's decline looked terminal, with the record companies seemingly unable to come up with legitimate digital business models that could compete with the lure of piracy. Last year, however, digital sales and other new sources of revenue grew significantly enough to offset the continuing decline in CD sales.
''At the beginning of the digital revolution it was common to say that digital was killing music,'' said Edgar Berger, chief executive of the international arm of Sony Music Entertainment. Now, he added, it could be said ''that digital is saving music.''
Digital revenue comes in a variety of forms. Sales of downloaded singles and albums, from services like Apple's iTunes, continue to grow. More promising for the industry, however, are newer subscription-based offerings, including Spotify, Rhapsody, and Muve Music. The number of subscribers to services like those grew by 44 percent last year, to 20 million, the federation said.
Several high-profile new entrants are expected soon, including subscription services from Apple and Google, promising additional subscriber fees and licensing revenue for the record companies. Other sources of revenue, including royalties from musical performances and marketing uses of music, have also been growing.
The industry's state of health remains highly uneven around the world. Overall, eight of the 20 biggest music markets showed growth last year, but in some countries that the industry classifies as ''emerging,'' such as Russia and China, piracy remains endemic and licensed, legitimate digital services struggle.
There are also worrying signs in some more developed markets that had previously been relatively robust, such as Britain. There, the recent bankruptcy of the leading retail music chain, HMV, has prompted fears about an acceleration of the decline in CD sales.
In the United States, sales slipped slightly last year. But Enders Analysis, a research firm in London, predicted in a separate report that this year will mark the beginning of a turnaround, with revenue rising to $5.35 billion from $5.32 billion.


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Jul 6, 2014
Locke goes eight innings, Pirates complete sweep of Phillies
Jeff Locke gave up just three hits and a walk in eight innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates completed their first series sweep of the season with a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
The Canadian Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Jeff Locke spent a lot of time with A.J. Burnett last year, and then faced his mentor in a pitching matchup in Pittsburgh.
Locke got the best of Burnett on Sunday in Pittsburgh's 6-2 victory that finished off a three-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies.
"It didn't even feel like we were playing a Major League Baseball game," Locke said. "We spoke really briefly before we got in the bullpen, just told each other to have fun today, go get 'em. Pound down."
Locke gave up just three hits and a walk in eight innings, and the Pirates completed their first sweep of the season. Pittsburgh had failed to finish a sweep in eight previous tries this season.
Philadelphia was swept for the eighth time.
"I didn't know we didn't have a sweep all season," Locke said. "It feels good, especially a team like those guys over there. Especially when (Marlon) Byrd and A.J. come back again."
The Pirates (47-41) moved a season-high six games over .500, while the Phillies (37-51) fell a season-high 14 games below .500.
Locke (2-1) gave up two runs — one earned — and struck out four. He has made six straight quality starts since being recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis on June 8.
The left-hander worked mostly off of his fastball and changeup in an outing his manager Clint Hurdle called "fantastic."
Byrd gave the Phillies a 1-0 lead in the first inning with a single to left. Jimmy Rollins scored an unearned run from second after he reached base on a throwing error by third baseman Pedro Alvarez.
Alvarez leads the major leagues with 18 errors this season.
Pittsburgh responded in its half of the inning with two runs to erase Philadelphia's early lead.
Andrew McCutchen beat out a ground ball to shortstop with two outs after Burnett struck out the Pirates' first two hitters. Neil Walker followed with a single.
Against his former batterymate, Pirates catcher Russell Martin hit a two-run double to right-centre for a 2-1 advantage that wouldn't have been possible without McCutchen's hustle.
"That's my game," McCutchen said. "I go up, hit a ball on the ground, and I have an opportunity to do something with it. That's what I use my legs for and that's what I'm going to always be like."
The Pirates added another run in the third when Josh Harrison led off with a triple that split the gap in right-centre. Harrison tagged from third on a shallow fly ball from Walker to centre fielder Ben Revere and scored as Revere's throw came in offline.
Burnett (5-8) gave up three runs and five hits, walked two and struck out seven in seven innings in his return to Pittsburgh. The Pirates played a "Thank You A.J." video on the scoreboard when Burnett took the mound in the first inning
"The video caught me by surprise," Burnett said. "I don't know what to say about it. It was very moving. It was very unexpected."
Byrd hit his 18th home run in the seventh inning to draw Philadelphia within 3-2.
Locke threw Byrd a changeup low and inside, which Byrd sent over the fence in left field.
"He got me," Locke said. "I got ahead of him, threw a changeup, and boom, he hit it. I knew it was a home run."
For Hurdle, it was only a matter of time until Byrd would damage the Pirates.
"Byrd's a good hitter," Hurdle said. "We played with the tiger's tail earlier in the series because he had a lot of at-bats with runners in scoring position that we were able to navigate through and around."
Byrd finished 2 for 4 with two RBI.
"He's been very steady for us," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "An everyday grinder who forces the chips in. He's been one of our consistent bats."
Harrison scored again in the eighth on a RBI triple by McCutchen, who was awarded third base because of fan interference following a crew chief review initiated by home plate umpire Dale Scott.
Philadelphia reliever Justin De Fratus elevated an 81 mph slider over the plate that McCutchen hammered to the opposite field.
"I thought it had a chance," McCutchen said. "But like I've said plenty of times, you just never know what the ballpark is. Some days it'll go, some days it won't."
McCutchen then scored on a single by Starling Marte, and Jordy Mercer drove in another run with a sacrifice fly.
NOTES: Pittsburgh RHP Charlie Morton (5-9, 3.30 ERA) will oppose St. Louis RHP Adam Wainwright (1-4, 1.89 ERA) on Monday when the teams begin a three-game series at Busch Stadium. ... Philadelphia LHP Cole Hamels (2-5, 2.98 ERA) will face Milwaukee RHP Marco Estrada (7-5, 4.94 ERA) as the Phillies continue their road trip on Monday.


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The changing face of Learning!
For years, the teachers were given the role of collector of information and disseminating that information through a sage-on-a-stage classroom. However, with the rapid increase in the reach of Internet, information is now freely and easily accessible. The classroom is no longer the single source of information, thought it remains a very important one.
Voice of the Student:
Students are clearly telling us educators, that the time in class should not be spent providing them information that they can easily get elsewhere. The class hours could be more effectively used by helping them in resolving the doubts that they encountered while consuming information elsewhere (typically online), evaluate and analyze alternate views that they have encountered and finally help them connect the dots of information in creating a better understanding of a concept (information to knowledge) – addressing loosely the analysis, evaluation, creation phases of Bloom's taxonomy. This is the basic idea of a flipped classroom.
Popular Channels of Information Consumption:
We also know that students are increasingly getting their information online – 85% online, 15% from TV and even less from print. Which begs the question, why do we deliver the classroom information through a face-to-face channel, and not deliver this classroom information through an online channel, dovetailing with the other sources of information?
Creation – The First Mile Problem:
This does not seem like much of a problem, till we encounter challenges that educators across the board has in converting their classrooms to a digital format. Teachers across the world from Australia to Singapore to India to US while validating the efficacy of eLearning felt challenged by the task of creation of engaging content. Two issues come to mind:
- The word "engaging" is very important in this context. It is often difficult to gain students attention in class, and that task is made considerably more difficult when it has to be done remotely at home. The personality and the passion of the educator(so important to captivate students in a class) needs to be carried through in the digital experience.
- Educators are paid to teach, and do not have the TIME, SKILL and MONEY to create content. They needed a tool which allows them to create engaging professional content using their existing teaching skills and workflow, has a very fast create-to-publish time and use their current hardware. Without something like that this process is dead in the water.
A situation that is getting corrected everyday as we speak through tools like Adobe Presenter Video Creator which is making the process of professional looking video content easy, affordable and fast.
Engaging In Isolation:
It is well-established that different students consume information at different rates. Flipped classroom facilitates this by allowing each student to go over all the information, including classroom lessons at their own pace. The rewind button of the online content will be used heavily by the students as they navigate through the digital material. This along with own-place, own-time means we will have students consuming content in a very asynchronous manner.
But, how do we know which students have consumed the lesson content and to what extent, understood the same and to what extend? Because without that information the planning of the classroom activities remains ad-hoc and apriori – similar to the traditional classroom model, where students got the same standardized homework in the traditional model.
Classroom content which was previously consumed in a social context, will now need to be consumed in relative isolation at home. If a student did not understand something, he can raise a hand and get a clarification from a teacher or get it resolved through a quick chat with a fellow student. And most self-respecting teachers could get a sense in a traditional class, looking into the eyes of the students whether a particular line of explanation in getting through to the students or whether an alternate explanation is called for. The teacher also benefits from these Q&A as she gets an understanding which parts of the teaching is working, and which parts need tweaking. She also gets a sense as to who is understanding what.
In a flipped classroom that sense of connection is lost. While this isolation from the perspective of student is well-documented, there is a significant loss from the point of view of a teacher. In the case of a student, this "isolation" means that the student may not be able to get access to intervention at the point of need. So gaps in understanding, early on in a digital lesson may lead to increasing gaps of understanding of concepts down the road, leading to frustration and eventual drop out from the digital lesson. Students need to study in their own time and pace in an asynchronous manner, but needs their doubts clarified at the speed of a synchronous process. Can technology help without making the teacher review the "question board" 24*7 ? "Ask a Question" feature in adobe Presenter content attempts to solve this interesting problem. Over a couple of semesters, it is possible that every possible question would be in the question bank for a lesson, and using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques we should be able to deliver those answers to the students at synchronous-speed.
Take the example of a digital lesson "Expansion OF Gases" in a Physics course. A specific lesson talks about two concepts, Boyle's Law and Charles' Law. It is entirely possible that the we will have 4 segments of students – A) Understood both laws B) Understood Boyle's but not Charles' C) Understood Charles' but not Boyle's D) Have issues with both laws. To really harvest the benefits of the flipped model, it is really important that the teacher know who belongs to which group, and plan 4 sets of activities for these 4 segments. Teachers plan either a quiz at the end of a digital lesson or a quiz once they come to class to gain some insight into this segmentation. I personally do not like the second option, as there is no way to avoid the feeling that the segmentation happened as result of the quiz – nobody wants to be known a member of the last segment. Nonetheless, our "Ask a Question" actually provides richer data layer over the MCQ-type quiz, besides providing a platform for intervention.
Getting Collaboration Going:
For intervention to work, the students must participate. While, a student with doubt has an interest to post a question, it is important that the student with the answer actually takes time to answer to them. But, mere encouragement and facilitation will not help, we need to incentivize the later to participate and share. This where the participation Index becomes very useful.
A request from one of the demonstration to change the "Ask A Question" to "Post a comment/question" is very interesting. Students in the first segment may not have a need to post a question, but it would be good to incentivize them to post their comment or share relevant thought and information with their fellow students.
While we do a great job in the creation part of the story, our journey has started with the other two. Our solutions need to deliver on the needs identified above, or else someone else will. Video-tracking, introduction of the concept of "lesson concepts" tying them with quiz results , use predictive modeling to evaluate the importance of different concepts in the final result are challenges that we must plan immediately.


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Will job interviews get replaced by brain scans… or finger length scans?
April 24, 2010
Last year NextNature reported that job interviews might get replaced by brain scans within five years. But our bodies presents another biometric measure that correlates with social ability – it's in the ratio of your fingers! John T. Manning, professor in psychology, has demonstrated how his 'controversial' academic theory can be applied to individuals.
Academic science has developed a new theory about how finger length relates to human biology & behavior. A significant part of theory is focussed on the so-called: '2D:4D digit ratio', which concerns the full length ratio of only two fingers: index finger vs. ring finger. In women the length of both fingers is usuallly about equal (2D:4D digit ratio = 1.00), while in men the ring finger is usually slightly longer (digit ratio = 0.98): a tiny sex difference.
NOTICE: This tiny sexe difference has been confirmed among many ethnic populations around the world, but one should also keep in mind that the finger length differences between ethnic populations are often larger than the finger length differences between males and females.
The earlier NextNature report described that brain scans can recognize tendencies towards autism – it concerns a matter of 'hypermasculinity' of the brains. The same is true for the '2D:4D digit ratio': multiple international studies have revealed that people with autism usually have typical male-like finger length ratios (0.94 or lower). However – maybe less surprizing – the typical male-like low 2D:4D ratio also relates to athletic ability!
Professor John T. Manning of the University of Liverpool (School of Biological Sciences, Liverpool, UK) explains the link between finger length & athletic ability as follows (in the BBC's 'Secret of The Sexes'):
"Our fingers have information about how much testosterone and how much oestrogen we've been exposed to in the whomb. So, the longer one's ring finger relative to one's index finger, the more testosterone you've had. And that testosterone has an effect on the brain, and on the body. If a boy has a large amount of testosterone before birth, he is likely to be born with a very efficient heart and vascular system."
"So the longer one's ring finger relative to one's index finger, the faster one can run."
The BBC's "Secret of The Sexes" confronted the 'finger Professor' with six athletes – all 5000 meter specialists, and asked him to "predict" the outcome of the race based on finger length only. Actually, the BBC provided Manning photocopies of the athletes hands, and in return Professor Manning risked his reputation by providing the results of a race that had yet to be run.
The outcome of the experiment is unvealed "LIVE" in the video. And surprizingly… the theory appeared to be pretty accurate in practice. After Manning & the athletes are controfonted with the results Manning summarizes:
"… We've got four out of six right, but the two that are wrong were kind a quite close."
The winner of the 5000 meter race responds:
"I thought… that finger thing is bullox because there are so many variables… I am very impressed".
Manning's theory was also confirmed by the results of various studies e.g. on endurance running & sprinting speed. And in another likewise experiment finger length correctly predicted the outcome of a 100 meters race with 5 young sprinters.
In his second book – titled 'The Finger Book' – Professor Manning explains that because of the prental link with the androgens (testosterone & oestrogen), finger length studies have generally shown consequent sensible correlations with a rainbow of life issue. The tiny sex difference appears to be highly revealing, for hundreds of studies the '2D:4D digit ratio' appears to correlate with a wide range of topics that are usually also known for a typical male-female difference, including: musical ability, personality, health, and even sexual preference. More articles & reports are available at: finger length & digit ratio news.
The following three videos present more materials from the episode 'Brain Sex' of the BBC's "Secrets of The Sexes" – that relate to finger length – including social ability: in the second and third video Manning explains how finger length is related to in respective: performance in spatial-visual tasks and another typical sexe-related aspect of personality: the ability to empathize!
NOTICE: You can see the complete movie (three episodes) at: CORNEL1801.
NOTICE: Measuring the '2D:4D digit ratio' is really a matter of measuring the full length of both fingers. Two additional tips to avoid: 1 – don't try to 'judge' the 2D:4D digit ratio with bare eyes only (conscientious measurment + calculation is a necessity) 2 – one can not find the '2D:4D digit ratio' from the back of the hand, nor the tips of the fingers only.
Source picture: University of Cambridge.
In 2008 Professor Chris McManus of the University College London (Psychology and Medical Education) characterized Manning's finger research as follows:
"Chiromancy, the notorious pseudoscience that Sir Walter Scott bracketed with physiognomy, astrology and "other fantastic arts of prediction", has for two decades been creeping back into scientific favour. And John Manning is its high priest. In The Finger Book, he [Manning] writes: "I believe that the pattern and nature of our decline in middle life and the disease which will eventually lead to our death, is dependent to a large extent on our experiences as a foetus", a phrase that could almost have been written by Cheiro, the early 20th-century society palmist."
Because of the obvious association with the divination aspect of palmistry (which is still very popular in various countries such as India & Pakistan), the issue of the '2D:4D digit ratio' will probably continue to have a controversial status.
More 'Next Nature' reports? – See: www.nextnature.net.
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May 18, 2010 at 11:21 am
Such a wonderful learning i've got from your post, thanks. I did the steps for the 2D:4D measurement and i find out that i have high testosterone levels for my ring finger is taller than my index.