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The students in Bridget Ebenhack's science classes have an opportunity that administrators hope will become available to more students at Hilliard Darby High School.
They can choose assignments from a "learning menu" that caters to various learning styles: Worksheets. Video projects. Study guides. Research projects. Lab work.
"I like having the freedom to learn the way I learn best," sophomore Amber Clark said. "I tend to learn through a song or Powerpoint presentation instead of a study guide."
Learning menus are the latest way to personalize the learning experience for students, joining classes that are blended with online course work or project-based lessons.
Learning menus give students frequent opportunities to decide how they'll meet class requirements.
"Each menu attempts to incorporate activities from the multiple intelligences that students possess — allowing them to learn in a way that they are comfortable and confident with and, hopefully, enjoy more," said Ebenhack, who phased in the approach with her science and biology classes last school year.
For each unit, Ebenhack gives students a learning menu that includes concepts they have to master and a point goal for their assignments. They can choose options to reach their total. Projects, making a Powerpoint presentation or video, for example, are worth more points than filling out a worksheet or writing a study guide.
Teachers in Bexley, Pickerington, Reynoldsburg, South-Western and Whitehall have adopted similar ideas.
At the start of the school year, students in Rob Adams' biology class at Franklin Heights High School take a survey that measures whether they learn best through sight, sound, speech or other means.
With each unit, students can choose from assignments that cater to their learning styles.
In a lesson about animal interactions, for example, students could read passages from a textbook, create a skit about organisms, write a song or poem or make a table that summarizes animal interactions.
That's helped students, including those who have special needs, said Jaime Stewart, a Franklin Heights assistant principal.
"We are seeing more and more kids picking things that are going to be a challenge," she said. " They are moving forward and doing things that they never have tried before."
When third-grade teachers at Whitehall's Kae Avenue Elementary noticed that students were struggling to complete their homework, they decided to give them choices to work on their math, spelling, reading, science or social studies skills.
"Anytime the kids have a choice, it gets them more interested in their own learning," teacher Amanda Cote said. Teachers rolled out the options to students last week.
At Hilliard Darby, five teachers have adopted learning menus so far, but school leaders and students hope more will follow.
Sophomore Olivia Wile never had an interest in science until Ebenhack's class.
She remembers lessons about the transfer of energy and the cell membrane because she set them to songs from Katy Perry, Olly Murs and Jay-Z.
"When you spend as much time on it and it's something you're proud of, it sticks in your head," she said. "You're going to learn about it better than if you're doing a worksheet."
She already has another Katy Perry song in mind for a future assignment.


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Boost Immunity With Zinc
Zinc is required for cell reproduction, tissue growth and repair and aids in converting food to fuel. By grace of running's wear and tear and calories burned, runners deplete zinc stores more rapidly than their less active peers. And recent studies link zinc depletion in endurance athletes with a compromised ability to fight off illness and infection.
This is especially true as we age, when certain cellular processes, such as antibody production, tend to be less efficient, particularly after age 70. A basic multivitamin containing about 15 mg of zinc will satisfy your zinc needs.
Keep Up the Calcium
While running's high-impact stress strengthens bones, it also puts them at risk. Like iron, traces of calcium, which is crucial for bone building and strengthening, can be lost in sweat. Intense training can lead to hormone declines that increase susceptibility to osteoporosis, or a frequent precursor—milder, age-related declines in bone mineral density known as osteopenia.
While it's primarily associated with women, studies show that male endurance athletes of any age may experience testosterone deficits that make them prone to the disease. Maintain healthy testosterone levels by getting enough calcium and calories for your activity level. While the RDA is 1000 mg per day for adults, athletes should aim for between 1000 and 1500 mg, says Roberta Anding, RD, a nutritionist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. "Milk, yogurt and cheese are top calcium sources," says Anding. But if dairy is not your thing, fortified juices, tofu and cereals are another way to get your calcium quota.
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As you age, you produce less stomach acid, making the absorption of certain vitamins, particularly vitamin B12, more difficult. Known to play an essential role in energy production, B12 is also integral in maintaining a healthy nervous system and forming red blood cells. Sandon recommends beef, salmon, eggs and dairy products as the best sources of B12, and suggests that people over 50 and vegetarians take B12 supplements.
Fight Inflammation With Omega-3s
"Omega-3 fatty acids help to reduce inflammation," says Gidus. That's great news for runners, who are frequently exposed to exercise-induced inflammation. Omega-3-rich foods reduce post-run joint tenderness, asthma symptoms and stiffness. Ironman triathlete Joseph Maroon, MD, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pittsburgh, concluded from several clinical studies that omega-3s are as effective as prescription medication in relieving arthritic pain.
"Fatty fishes like herring and salmon are the best sources," says Gidus. "If you can't fit that in your diet, look for a supplement from fish (preferable) or flax-seed oil."
This article appeared in our April 2009 issue.
Wendy McMillan is a runner and writer living in Boulder, Colorado.


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Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic now than neuroscience. Rex Jung is a neuropsychologist who puts the two together. He's working on a cutting edge of science, exploring the differences and interplay between intelligence and creativity. He and his colleagues unsettle long-held beliefs about who is creative and who is not. And they're seeing practical, often common-sense connections between creativity and family life, aging, and purpose.
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is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He's a Distinguished Senior Advisor to the Positive Neuroscience Project, based at the University of Pennsylvania.
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When the crush of a beige cubicle and endless meetings deaden creative impulses, a newborn baby girl prompts an explosion of creativity — and the celebratory, enthusiastic person the author's dream job had taken away.
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Read The New Yorker article on brainstorming that Rex Jung and Krista discussed in the show, which includes discussion of MIT's Building 20 — and scholarship on brainstorming curated for further reading:
» Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth
» The Liberating Role of Conflict in Group Creativity: A Cross Cultural Study
» Influence and Persuasion in Small Groups
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"Inside Out" is an image of an MRI brain slice digitally tattooed onto a picture of the photographer.
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If you liked this story, Fresh Air did a show this week on a nearly identical topic. Dave Davies interviewed Jonah Lehrer on his new book Imagine, and touches on many of the same issues that Krista did with Rex Jung. I happened to listen to the podcasts back-to-back and it was a little freaky, not realizing beforehand that the topics were the same.
Because our brain stores information based on invariant patterns and is this prediction machine. This is based on the work of Jeff Hawkens. It seems to me that creativity is about the mis-storing based on invariant patterns. I often find some of the most creative people also have ADD or what I call inattention. Which seems to me prevents this Stove Piping that Rex Jung is describing.
I am challenged by the anti-brainstorming notion. I wonder about how it is executed and facilitated. Often I find the best way to generate the best ideas is to have a group take time on their own to ideate before they share the ideas. When they share it, I find it generates even more ideas once they begin to hear others thoughts.
I am a serial entrepreneur and help elevate leaders become stronger leaders thru executive coaching.
Brainstorming as we know it
Brainstorming as we know it is hardly the best way to generate new ideas. A lot of challenges in the process, including:
1) lack of preparation of the participants in a brainstorming session hinder the flow of creative ideas;
2) introverts and extroverts have different ways to approach a problem/opportunity and, hence, a potential solution or idea. Extroverts usually take over most of the "air time", while introverts, regardless of the quality of the ideas they might have in their minds, stay in the back of the room afraid of participating because of this frightening scenario and
3) ideas are a comprehensive construct that is the result of our experiences, stories, other previous ideas, failures, successes, learning and wisdom. When we subject all of those sources of idea-creation information to the limitations of a "brainstorming" session, most likely whatever is on top of our memories and consciousness is what will come up.
We need to have the time to dig deep in our conscious minds, to then have the opportunity to share those thoughts with others and produce even better and greater ideas.
This process is part of a concept that I am creating called "The Evolving Mindset".
Could it be that the condition of "transient hypo-frontality" is the portal designed through which God can communicate with us? The path for "clear small voice"? "Be still, and know"?
I have not listened to the
I have not listened to the show yet, but wanted to respond to your posting. I am fascinated by the topic. I started writing, creatively, 6 years ago. And little by little learning to trust myself to yield into something greater. I am very close to God, but it seems more intimate than God, even though I belief a piece of God is within. There seems some lovely hugeness that wishes to dance its own language into poetry, prose poetry, or prose. And to do it with me. As I have learned to co create, trust it, integrate it, my writing is amazing. (Not the kind of writing I am doing in this moment. People clap and gasp when I read it. I have had 10 of my poems published in a women's quarterly and another 5 accepted for another quarterly. (The only ones I have submitted) . I find this ride quite extraordinary here in my 78th year. I wonder if the aging brain that surrenders to less functioning then yields more easily to this creative force... all in caps. And that is the Greater Self of me, who I am behind the personal, personality self, the little one I am writing to you.
Of late I find myself wondering what civilization -- presumably a construct driven by intelligence and creativity -- is "for." The question behind that is "what drives creativity and intelligence -- and what are they for?" Your celebration and exploration of these two qualities opens that discussion for me. Thank you for going well beyond the "pop ideology" that the everyday mind usually deploys in response to creativity and intelligence -- the rhetoric that values "thinking outside the box" only as a route to business advantage, and lionizes Einstein because of the atom bomb, but sees him as a kind of alien whose brain must be kept in a jar for study. Cultural ambivalence toward intelligence and creativity is an index of their potential to gift and to disrupt. Too often the ambivalence hardens into suspicion and hostility.
Your discussion with Dr. Jung opens a deeper window into these qualities as distinct-but-inseparable aspects of mind. Perhaps they exist, first and foremost, to be themselves and to build a Gestalt that supports their continued survival. In exchange, perhaps as a kind of symbiosis, they offer some compensation for mortality by enriching the experience of life for all who can accept them as natural and human. For those who cherish intelligence and creativity, the main challenge is to make benign and constructive contact that nurtures them for as long as possible.
I teach art to children with Cerebral palsy at HMS school.and Sculpture to blind and legally blind students at Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is great to hear what we do in creative process can make some physical change in the brain.When he explained practicing repetitious juggling made change in the brain, made me think repeating to paint or make sculpture can give permanent positive physical effect in children's brain. I know brain can store so much, I have 92 years old blind student who is colorist in her sculpture. She uses color paper and paste to color her sculpture. She has not seen color since she was 8 years old.She has vivid memory of farm life from before she lost her sight. In her case creating is her reason to live. I would love to see MRI image of her brain when she thinks of color.and invent ideas for new sculpture.
Regarding the discussion about the source of MIT's Building 20's creativity: my father David L. Bobroff, a physicist, worked in Building 20 for a number of years right after WW II. His explanation for its creativity was in part that the building had been thrown up so quickly during the war that its scientists were allowed to do whatever they needed to the building itself. The building was no architectural gem. So if physicists wanted to try an experiment that required, say, wires running from a lab on one floor to somewhere on another floor, they were welcome to rig it up however they wanted to, drilling holes through ceilings and walls or whatever - because everyone expected that scientific experimentation would create exciting progress for human beings. So it was partly that freedom for scientists and engineers to remake their environment experimentally that was key - something like kids' dream of being free to play messily and creatively together.
I do also remember the wonderful friendships my father had with his international colleagues, who used to come to our house on weekends. He was happier during those years, I think, than any time I knew him afterward.
So fun hearing of your father
So fun hearing of your father's joy and happiness! And how sad that his life let go of that and let it "run away".
I truly appreciate the On Being segment and Krista's bringing to listeners information about the news, thinking and people who speak to the humanistic side of living which promotes infintessimly more important dialog than the typical news we are forced to absorb. The interview with Rex Jung introduced to me ideas about how my brain works in creative mode, but that I have not known how to express. And, Krista's voice is as melifluous as her marvelous ability to connect to listeners - I so enjoy her interviews.
Homosexuality and creativity in the arts seem to coincide so often, I wonder if they share a neuro-anatomical basis? Consider the links below on art, music and their apparent synchronicity with same-sex orientation. While it might be easy to attribute the creativity of gay persons with social pressures and sensibilities driven by tensions within identity, I wonder if a clue to understanding homosexuality could be found in Dr Jung's research into the brain and the creative process?
Thanks to this episode with Rex Jung, as well as several other public radio shows I listen to (including RadioLab and Soundcheck) I got ideas for this personal essay I wrote on the brain, memory, and my mom, who recently died of brain lymphoma.
The Blue-Eyed Man in a Suit
I've written quite a bit about my mom over the last year. Other pieces I'm proud of include these:
Mom, 1938-2011
Eating Sushi at Stoplights (published in Crate Literary Magazine)
And the eulogy I read at her funeral:
Thank you for your show. I enjoy it very much and it gives me a lot to think about in my life.
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Brain plays an vital role in
Brain plays an vital role in every step of our life. All the creative things should be done only by brain.
It's too bad that Rex Jung
It's too bad that Rex Jung doesn't know any assertive people, or any people that thrive in a brainstorming environment. I still consider it the best possible dynamic group process for generating new ideas, and have been involved in using it successfully many many times.
It's too bad that Rex Jung doesn't know any assertive people, or any people that thrive in a brainstorming environment. I still consider it the best possible dynamic group process for generating new ideas, and have been involved in using it successfully many many times.
The assertives do indeed "thrive" in the brain-storming environ, but generally, top-notch ideas aren't produced. You end up with the "best" of the "so-so" ideas bandied.
The elusive but coruscating, "ground breaking" idea will come from the silent loner of the group. Why? He/she's been thinking and pondering while the assertives are busy being assertive.
Try this: after the brain-storming session has convened, sit down and over a cup of coffee have a tete-a-tete with the reticent guy or gal for the really "great leap forward" idea.
The assertives do indeed
The assertives do indeed "thrive" in the brain-storming environ, but generally, top-notch ideas aren't produced. You end up with the "best" of the "so-so" ideas bandied.
The elusive but coruscating, "ground breaking" idea will come from the silent loner of the group. Why? He/she's been thinking and pondering while the assertives are busy being assertive.
Try this: after the brain-storming session has convened, sit down and over a cup of coffee have a tete-a-tete with the reticent guy or gal for the really "great leap forward" idea.
I really enjoyed listening
I really enjoyed listening the Rex Jung's perspective and insight regarding intelligence and creativity. I hold his opinion in high regard because he has looked at both sides in great depth. Being in neuroscience teaches how the brain works and functions while being involved in events such as the "Special Olympics" adds a whole different element.
I think that no matter what level of intelligence we are at, creativity is the factor that makes life enjoyable and purposeful. Jung stated, "it is human characteristics that provides meaning in life" and I couldn't agree more. My sister works in a nursing home and her daily goal is to make the residents' day better. She has found that by simply playing a game, doing an activity or even talking about life events changes the moods and outlook of those she comes in contact with. There is so much "intelligence" that still exists within the patients in every nursing home, but when they are no longer allowed to exercise "creativity" all is lost.
steve jobs developed more his
steve jobs developed more his ornery side for the purpose of a creative vision because he had to. he worked not with a paint brush or writing instrument but thru thousands of people who were inclined to wanting to remain in their comfort zones, that he had to challenge for results. those who understood that were those who were his best employees who understood this dynamic.
What a great way to start my
What a great way to start my Sunday morning. Just caught the end of this interview on VPR and was really moved by what Jung had to say. This was one of the best interviews I've ever heard, in part because of the quality of the conversation and in part because of what I'm personally struggling with right now. I was so impressed with Krista's questions and Rex's perspective, insight and wisdom - he is truly wise. I especially loved his description of a beautiful mind and the impact his experience with Special Olympics athletes had on him. I can't wait to pursue this topic further and explore Jung's work I also feel very lucky to have happened upon "On Being" and plan to make that part of my routine.
I am writing this as I listen
I am writing this as I listen now to your interview with Dr. Jung on creativity. It is very interesting. Brain development is always of interest to me, especially in the area if dyspraxia.
I would like to request your assistance in ridding our society of the use of the "R" word to describe persons who face daily challenges with intellectual/ development disabilities (IDD). As the mother of a son who faces life with IDD it is hard for me to hear the "R" word used as a description. My son does face life with intellectual disabilities but is physically very capable and in some ways creative as he deals with life. He is a long distance runner in Special Olympics, even serving as a torch runner and cauldron lighter for the National Games in Lincoln, NE in 2010. He has by no means reached his full potential intellectually but thanks to his continued training programs at the age of 28, he is working hard to get there. I have no doubt that his brain continues to develop.
THANK YOU for the morning on
THANK YOU for the morning on Creativity - I LOVE YOUR SHOW! I listen almost every week - and always garner jewels...thank you for helping me to grow in such delicious ways!
Listening to your talk with
Listening to your talk with Rex Jung allows me to clearly see once again how mesmerized we are by science and the accumulation of facts, and how it somehow winds up being taken as the form of knowledge par excellence. Our subjectivity about it is endlessly reinforced, making us believe that science truly has all the answers, or that there is very little which we can't figure out scientifically, given time. We are in a such a deep materialistic trance that we can't seem to snap out of it, and perhaps this kind of hard-wiring, as a seeming result of this over-emphasis, is very difficult to undo. Rejecting this outward focus, many have been turning more inwardly - via meditative practices, more spiritually oriented exercises and body work like yoga and chigung, and doing self-inquiry via advaita satsangs - and are thus consciously moving away from this paradigm. Hopefully this activity by more recent generations represents a more selective trend towards an expanded sense of reality, and an even more noble gesture of what our evolution is producing… if we allow it to unfold.
It would be of interest to
It would be of interest to have you interview Even Alexander, a neurosurgeon, who has a different conclusion on continuation of consciousness after brain death, in opposition to the neuroscientist you had on your program tonight. Alexander wrote a book, after his own NDE, called Proof of Heaven.
I agree, it would be
I agree, it would be interesting to interview Eben (spelled with a b) Alexander on this topic. I am a neuroscience major and I have read a lot of books regarding what happens to the brain after death and Proof of Heaven is a unique book that stands out in my mind. Eben is a neurosurgeon himself so he discusses a lot of clinical aspects of this. He does have a Wikipedia page, I will post the link below if anyone is interested in reading more about him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben Alexander author page
Creative, novel and useful is
Creative, novel and useful is the best way to describe your show. Your playlist is a nice addendum.
You talk and the statement
You talk and the statement that the brain structure changes reminded me of Jiddu Krishnamurti. I quote him here:
" Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. So I would say insight is the total absence of the whole movement of thought as time and remembrance. So there is direct perception. It is as though I have been going North for the last ten thousand years, and my brain is accustomed to going North, and somebody comes along and says, that will lead you nowhere, go East. When I turn round and go East the brain cells have changed. Because I have an insight that the North leads nowhere.
I will put it differently. The whole movement of thought, which is limited, is acting throughout the world now. It is the most important action, we are driven by thought. But thought will not solve any of our problems, except the technological ones. If I see that, I have stopped going North. I think that with the ending of a certain direction, the ending of a movement that has been going on for thousands of years, there is at that moment an insight that brings about a change, a mutation, in the brain cell."
Questioning Krishnamurti, p 165
In my teens, I received a
In my teens, I received a brain injury that twisted and tore my corpus callosum. I think Sujata's point of view best illustrates the creative process. It's the openness that breathes inspiration into the spirit. Not struggling and controlling outcomes like a downhill skier controlling his momentum and direction (to create novel connections) --which is something brainstorming secretly tries to stumble into.
I thought this show was
I thought this show was interesting, but I think you might get a richer, more broader perspective on creativity and the brain by interviewing Iain McGilchrist, whose book "The Master and the Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" puts recent brain science in literary, philosophical, and cultural historical perspective. He knows what Jung knows and lots more, and with McGilchrist one encounters a creative élan and synthetic imagination that one does not find so much in this show's interviewee.
As a composer, I too am
As a composer, I too am fascinated by the creative process. Krista, I thoroughly enjoyed your interview w Rex Jung. Toward the end of the podcast he stated that the personal residue we leave with this planet and community are "as close to immortality as your going to get." May I suggest he check out the book "Proof of Heaven," recently published by one of his neuroscience colleagues, Dr. Eben Alexander. Dr. Alexander's account of his "death" experience might cause Dr. Jung to reconsider his take on immortality. Krista, thanks for the fabulous, insightful work you do!!
Awesome site!
Awesome site!
I'm a professional musician
I'm a professional musician with a strong interest in neuroscience, so many of Krista Tippett's shows are right up my alley, since she obviously digs this subject area. Regarding Steve Jobs and his personality… It is clear that most leader types (and this includes "stars" in the world of entertainment, music, art, etc.) have immense egos. The huge ego is a necessity for the leader to be a leader, if you know what I mean. The strong ego often comes along with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which many, many of these people have in spades. (I have certainly seen this among many musician colleagues over the years.) If you have studied this disorder you know that the person is basically a "bulldozer". It is unfortunate, but as I said, it sort of comes with the territory!
I would like to be in direct
I would like to be in direct contact with Dr. Jung to share ideas. I am a public intellectual who is thinking deeply and independently about the mind for non-scientists as a unique animate autonomous machine broadly analogous to a computer. I am 96 yeas young with a very creative mind. I introduced computer law to the world in 1960, which includes various legal ramifications of the use of computers. I now would like to introduce the law of the modernly perceived mind as such a machine, to consider relevant legal ramifications of the updated perception. I hope that I am striking a responsive chord with you..
Ideas have been, and can be,
Ideas have been, and can be, the solution of almost every human problem. As an artists-I'm obsessed with following this research. Thank you for putting it out there!
Because I have a dear friend
Because I have a dear friend who has help introduce me to your site, I once again have used my beautiful mind to investigate more of what I am. Thank you so much! May you be mindfully well. I look forward to watching some of your videos and many more.
I listened to 'creativity and
I listened to 'creativity and the everyday brain', an interview with Rex Jung. One of the first things he discussed was that intelligence is not linked to creativity. Someone can be very intelligent and have little creativity, while another can be extremely creative yet not very intelligent. This made me think of a youtube video about Derek Paravicini, a man that is mentally retarded and blind that has extreme musical talent and can play whatever he hears on the piano. Rex explains that with intelligence, the more brain mass and connectivity we have, the more intelligent we will be. However, the less connectivity and brain activity is what creates creativity. Much of the creative process is found in the frontal lobe, so the myth about the left brain (logic) and right brain (imagination) is not necessarily true. Both sides of the brain are necessary for creative thinking. Humor is a large indication of creativity. Many of the same mental process for creativity are used for humor.
Rex explains that creativity is both novel and useful. Art, music, dance, and other creative activities are seen as great things in our world. Yet we have to shut down our intellectual thinking in order to be creative, but this doesn't mean our creativity is useless. Most of the times we are making our brain concentrate on specific things, like when we study for a test. However for creativity, we actually let our mind wonder, the less we are trying to achieve a specific goal the more creative we will be. Thinking about my own life I see how this is true. I play guitar, and often while trying to make songs I have an idea in my head of how it should sound. The song never sounds good in the end. When I am super bored and just pick up the guitar for something to do I find myself playing a 'new song' that is ten times better than anything I have tried to write. When I stop thinking about what I'm playing and just play what pop into my head is when I come up with my best musical creation. This has to do with this creative process that Rex is talking about, the less activity in our brain, the more creativity we show.
Great pictures...
Great pictures...
A huge Thank You to Dr. Jung
A huge Thank You to Dr. Jung and Krista Tippett. As a graduate student in Clinical Psychology, I found this conversation as insightful and exciting as any I've heard on OnBeing before. It's my new favorite.
I would be particularly interested in hearing Dr. Jung's thoughts on the supposed relationship between creativity, hypofrontality, and neuroticism, an idea that he humorously labeled "neuro-mythology" in this conversation. The belief that creativity and misery go hand-in-hand seems common both in- and outside of scientific circles.
In fact, that chronic hypofrontality (emphasis on "chronic") may be a correlate of anxiety and depression is not a new idea in clinical research. If transient hypofrontality (emphasis on "transient") is a correlate of creativity, perhaps further research will reveal that hypofrontality mediates the relationship between creativity and neuroticism, thereby giving credibility to the common notion that with genius comes misery.
Again, thanks for sharing this wonderful talk. Best of luck to Dr. Jung in his line of research!
I am an artist and know many
I am an artist and know many many creative artists. Just from an observational point of view (knowing artists for over 50 years now)creativity and suffering - often physical suffering - go hand in hand. Not always, but often. I don't know if they/we are neurotic but many do have neurological "issues". I myself suffered from trigeminal neuralgia for 7 years before a successful brain surgery. I have nerve issues/pain in a new and different way now. For people who have suffered huge traumas like pain, family, violence etc. doing art and just letting themselves simply get taken into their drawing (for example) is hugely healing. Works for very little kids, prisoners, vets, and in grief too.
I've been studying/filming
I've been studying/filming people under deep hypnosis for the past 6 years. Subjects are chosen for their belief that they can't be hypnotized, or that they're skeptical about an afterlife or past lives in general. I've worked with a number of hypnotherapists trained by Michael Newton, but in a nutshell, each therapists asks roughly the same questions over a four to six hour period. The results are remarkable in their consistency. (I've got a doc and a book called "flipside" which details the process. I've also corroborated the results with the case work of Dr. Helen Wambach, who did the same kind of studies in the 1960s. People talk about creativity during these sessions, talk about their own path and journey to it over many lifetimes. Everyone has their own path - but some of the answers are fascinating. I've heard that "creative energy is located near healing energy in the universe, and we call upon it to help and heal others." That the act of creating something is of value unto itself - that the energy behind the creation of the work (book/song/painting/whatever) uses quantum energy, some part of your intent and energetic makeup to create the object,and everyone who hears it/sees it/experiences it accesses your intent. "Every thought action word or deed contains your energy and that can be a healing one." I've heard that "comedy is the quickest way to heal or change a person's disposition; tears work but they require catharsis." I also heard, and am still working on "It doesn't matter whether the work itself has success, the effect on the universe is the same." Once a person creates something and it moves out like a wave into the universe, according to this one account, its the same energy whether others experience it or not. (gives hope for all my projects gathering dust). Finally, that we choose our lives, choose the best medium for us to express ourselves - it may be through banking, or teaching - it doesn't need to be "creative" per se to have the same effect. If you've signed up as a healer, you can do that in a myriad of ways. It's worth noting that the idea of consciousness existing outside the brain is echoed in near death studies, can be found explained by Dr. Bruce Greyson in his "Is Consciousness Created by the Brain" talk on youtube, is part of post materialist science, including neuroscientist Mario Beauregard's "Brain Wars," Gary Schwartz's PhD's work on ESP. They all point to the same research, that consciousness is not confined to the brain, and it's not confined to one particular lifetime. So when you add that to the mix "Oh, I've had a few lifetimes doing the same kind of work" you get a clearer picture of the genesis of creativity. My two cents.
Playground Duty
Playground Duty
There are no tennis nets
only the metal frames
placed next to each other
She is only a little higher
than the end of the frame
her long black hair
tied in two bunches
with effort and concentration
she turns a handle of
the frame around and around and around
There is no product
only curiosity
and repeated action
a joy in the moment
the pleasure of doing
without an end in mind
When?.........I ask you
when did you last do
something like this ?
The thought went around and around
and around
and she never knew
how intently I watched her
With due respect, as I was
With due respect, as I was listening to this episode on Creativity and the Everyday Brain with its "transient hypo-frontality" and other such plumbing or electrical engineering concepts, the image that came to mind was that of an enquiry about wildlife being conducted in the meat department of a supermarket. Creativity explained would no longer be creativity just like "art" cannot be computer generated in its etymological meaning which is a synonym of "yoga".
Hello, I am a huge fan of
Hello, I am a huge fan of yours! I can't always catch your show but did manage to tune in for the last 15 minutes tonight. I'm going to listen to the entire thing tomorrow, but already I want to thank you. Thank you 1) for being a great interviewer, listener, questioner and thinker 2) for getting such engaging guests and 3) please send a big thanks to NPR to have a show like yours (and a few others too). I am not a 'church person' but am 'religious' in a sort of way. I can always relate to your show tho, and always find it a joy and really heart/thought provoking. Just wanted to let you know. K
May I ask concerning Krista's
May I ask concerning Krista's question on communities centered around people with disabilities (and my interest in particular, mental retardation). I would like to investigate this topic and request the name of the individual mention (sounded like Jon Vaniar, Marsh Movement).
In appreciation, Dorothy
I am a bit at odds with the
I am a bit at odds with the description used here for creativity. Why is "useful" one of the pinnacles of this endeavor? How one defines "useful" makes all the difference. As an artist, I find that if I adhere to this standard that my ideas must be useful, my creativity shuts way down.
I love your show, Krista.
I love your show, Krista. Thank you so much.
I am troubled that a neuroscientist would so highly praise IQ tests. IQ tests are not reliable, do not give consistent results, and have been shown again and again to reward practice, like anything in life.
This is one of the most
This is one of the most pernicious mythologies out there - but keeps rearing its head from time to time. Indeed the opposite (in every instance) is true and very well documented in the experimental literature. I would recommend Stuart Ritchie's excellent and highly readable book Intelligence: All That Matters () - showing the best evidence that IQ is one of the most reliable, consistent, and important measure of human behavior that humans have developed. Take a look (if you dare) ;)
The most interesting thing
The most interesting thing Jung talks about is the idea of groupthink, or brainstorming in groups. I studied in sociology and psychology that these hinder ideas as the people in the group are likely to conform to what benefits the group and can lead to radical ideas as many of the group members will not oppose others for fear of being outcast be the others. Mr. Jung expands on this and says that the quality of the ideas are greater when done individually because the person is not trying to please the others or group members, but instead they "push the envelope."


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Since the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011] runs concurrently with the System x Technical University, attendees are allowed to mix-and-match. I attended several presentations regarding server virtualization and hypervisors.
- Hypervisor Architecture
Matt Archibald is an IT Management Consultant in IBM's Systems Agenda Delivery team. He started with a history of hypervisors, from IBM's early CP/CMS in 1967, through the latest VMware Vsphere 5 just announced.
He explained that there are three types of Hypervisor architectures today:
- Type 1 - often referred to as "Bare Metal" runs directly on the server host hardware, and allows different operating system virtual machines to run as guests. IBM's System z [PR/SM] and [PowerVM] as well as the popular VMware ESXi are examples of this type.
- Type 2 - often referred to as "Hosted" runs above an existing operating system, and allows different operating system virtual machines to run as guests. The popular [Oracle/Sun VirtualBox] is an example of this type.
- OS Containers - runs above an existing operating system base, and allows multiple "guests" that all run the same operating system as the base. This affords some isolation between applications. [Parallels Virtuozzo Containers] is an example of this type.
The dominant architecture is Type 1. For x86, IBM is the number one reseller of VMware. VMware recently announced [Vsphere 5], which changes its licensing model from CPU-based to memory-based. For example, a virtual machine with 32 virtual CPUs and 1TB of virtual RAM (VRAM) would cost over $73,000 per year to license the VMware "Enterprise Plus" software. The only plus-side to this new licensing is that the "memory" entitlement transfers during Disaster Recovery to the remote location.
"Xen is dead." was the way Matt introduced the section discussing Hybrid Type-1 hypervisors like Xen and Hyper-V. These run bare-metal, but require networking and storage I/O to be processed by a single bottleneck partition referred to as "Dom 0". As such, this hybrid approach does not scale well on larger multi-sock host servers. So, his Xen-is-dead message was referring to all Hybrid-based Hypervisors including Hyper-V, not just those based on Xen itself.
The new up-and-comer is "Linux KVM". Last year, in my blog post about [System x KVM solutions], I mentioned the confusion over KVM acronym used with two different meanings. Many people use KVM to refer to Keyboard-Video-Mouse switches that allow access to multiple machines. IBM has renamed these switches to Local Console Managers (LCM) and Global Console Manager (GCM). This year, the System x team have adopted the use of "Linux KVM" to refer to the second meaning, the [Kernel-based Virtual Machine] hypervisor.
Linux KVM is not a product, but an open-source project. As such, it is built into every Linux kernel. Red Hat has created two specific deliverables under the name Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV):
- RHEV-H, a tiny ESXi-like bare-metal hypervisor that fits in 78MB, making it small enough to be on a USB stick, CD-rom or memory chip.
- RHEV-M, a vCenter-like management software to manage multiple virtual machines across multiple hosts.
Personally, I run RHEL 6.1 with KVM on my IBM laptop as my primary operating system, with a Windows XP guest image to run a few Windows-specific applications.
A complaint of the current RHEV 2.2 release from Linux fanboys is that RHEV-M requires a Windows server, and uses Windows Powershell for scripting. The next release of RHEV is likely to provide a Linux-based option for management server.
Of the various hypervisors evaluated, KVM appears to be poised to offer the best scalability for multi-socket host machines. The next release is expected to support up to 4096 threads, 64TB of RAM, and over 2000 virtual machines. Compare that to VMware Vsphere 5 that supports only 160 threads, 2TB of RAM and up to 512 virtual machines.
- Linux KVM Overview
Matt also presented a session focused on Linux KVM. While IBM is the leading reseller of VMware for the x86 server platform, it has chosen Linux KVM to run all of its internal x86 Cloud Computing facilities, as it can offer 40 to 80 percent savings, based on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Linux KVM can run unmodified Windows and Linux guest operating systems as guest images with less than 5 percent overhead. Since KVM is built into the Linux kernel, any certification testing automatically benefits KVM as well. KVM takes advantage of modern CPU extensions like Intel's VT and AMD's AMD-V.
For high availability, in the event that a host fails, KVM can restart the guest images on other KVM hosts. RHEV offers "prioritized restart order" which allows mision-critical images to be started before less important ones.
RHEV also provides "Virtual Desktop Infrastructure", known as VDI. This allows a lightweight client with a browser to access an OS image running on a KVM host. Matt was able to demonstrate this with Firefox browser running on his Android-based Nexus One smartphone.
RHEV also adds features that make it ideal for cloud deployments, including hot-pluggable CPU, network and storage; service Level Agreement monitoring for CPU, memory and I/O resources; storage live migrations to move the raw image files while guests are running; and a self-service user portal.
IBM has been doing server virtualization for decades. When I first started at IBM in 1986, I was doing z/OS development and testing on z/VM guest images. Later, around 1999, I started working with the "Linux on z" team, running multiple Linux images under PR/SM and z/VM. While the server virtualization solutions most people are familiar with (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen) have only been around the last five years or so, IBM has a much deeper and robust understanding and long heritage. This helps to set IBM apart from the competition when helping clients.
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Thankful Part IIIPosted Monday, November 19, 2012, at 4:26 PM
Getting closer and closer to Thanksgiving, and I'm running out of time.
This weekend, I"m grateful that my son came home from college to spend time with his family. he is my youngest, and I"m so happy that he still enjoys coming home more than not. I know a lot of kids his age, and younger, and of course older, have much 'better things to do' than spend time with the ole family unit. I've been blessed that my kids have always been happy to spend time with the 'ole family unit' they've brought friends …. friends who've become my 'other children by another mother'. I love them all. Mine was the house that the kids filled up the living room floor, and there were squabbles as if siblings….. and then huge piles of pancakes in the morning, right before a day of play. I'm sooo Thankful that Joey …of his own volition, goes to his Grandparents to harass them some too…..and they do love to be harassed by him. He works on their computer, mows lawn when possible and does other handiwork for them.
I am thankful that when Joey comes home, he and Wayne like to spar a bit, and Joey learns new ways to 'take' an opponent. No one better to learn this stuff from, than a Lehto. If any of you knew the Lehto men when they were boys…. you knew to 'look out"! So, sometimes when Joey is "losing the match" he's learning 'life skills" also!
When Joey arrives, the nephews and nieces come out of the wood work. Joey 'trained/brainwashed' Bryce as soon as Bryce could talk. "Joey is the coolest uncle"! Just as Bryce he will tell you! Jessica brought Jilly and Bryce over shortly after they discovered Joey was in town, and while Joey laid on the living room floor, they mauled him, walked on his back, head, fingers, all while he played possum. Then, to their squeals of delight, he 'woke up' and 'got them"! Toooo much fun!
Speaking of Jessica, I'm grateful for her in so many ways…. really too many to count. It started out that she makes my son so happy. That in itself would have been enough…. to see my son in love with a good woman, who loves and is devoted to him in return. To know that they can have a 'FOREVER" life together, is just a warm feeling in my heart. God works in mysterious ways….. Jessica fought Cancer for years as a child, no doubt, because her love was waiting for her. Along with me. Even more no doubt, because I needed the Grandchildren she has blessed me with. To watch the lives of these children actually enter the world, is an amazing experience. And then to watch them grow and develop into these little people, well, there really are no words to put that proper feeling in place. Jessica and I share so much in common, to the love of our family, which is now the same, to love of children and making sure they have rich and saturated lives. Add to it, the loves of horses, and the recipe is perfect for all of the above.
She and Evan trust me with their little bundles of life…. and no reason not to…. I'd guard them with my own if the need arose. She thinks that she is blessed to have been welcomed into this family, where love abounds…..I continue to tell her, we were not complete til she came upon us. Actually, I suppose this is the Circle of Life,…not complete til we're all together.
Evan and Jessica will be hosting Thanksgiving Dinner this Thursday. As we all sit down to the table to hear Jilly say Grace, I will be thanking my Lucky Stars and God above, that my life is so blessed, with such family as ours. I hope you all do too.
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Cheri, I"m glad you have been in her life, and now that you are sharing her with me!
Thanks Bonnie!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Nov 26, 2012, at 8:57 AM
It never fails to give me goosebumps when I read/hear someone give praise to someone who is so near and dear to MY heart. I have watched Jessica blossom since she entered your family. She seems whole now. She's been through a lot that's true. She has beat the odds more than once. But I also believe that God kept her here for a reason...He had so many gifts yet to give her.
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The Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) is found from Cape Cod to Uruguay, occurring especially in estuaries. It is a beautifully colored crustacean with bright blue claws--the mature female's claws are tipped in red--and an olive to bluish green carapace. The Blue Crab is a commercially important species and is popular with recreational crabbers as well. (Gosner 1978; Lippson and Lippson 1997). The Greek and Latin roots of its scientific name translate to "savory beautiful swimmer".


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Pamuk, Orhan
Orhan Pamuk 1952-
Turkish novelist and screenwriter.
The following entry presents an overview of Pamuk's career through 2003.
Regarded as Turkey's leading postmodern writer, Pamuk is one of the few internationally recognized authors in the field of Turkish letters. The unique position of Turkey, located on the geographical and cultural border between Europe and Asia, provides the context for Pamuk's fictions, which draw from both Eastern and Western cultural and religious traditions. His novels are often viewed as lyrical allegories, portraying a modern Turkey caught between the push to become a secular, westernized state and the pull of fundamentalist Islamic movements striving to maintain traditional Turkish culture. Pamuk is also known for utilizing self-conscious, experimental narrative forms which have drawn comparisons to the works of such postmodern authors as Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Salman Rushdie. Pamuk's writing has sparked controversy in the Muslim world, where both fundamentalists and leftists have taken offense to its depiction of the Islamic religion. However, his novels continue to be best-sellers in Turkey and have garnered a growing international readership.
Biographical Information
Pamuk was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 7, 1952. His father was a university teacher and civil engineer, and Pamuk grew up in an affluent, secular household. He attended Robert College in Istanbul and later enrolled at the University of Istanbul, where he graduated with a B.A. in journalism. Until the age of thirty, Pamuk lived with his parents, who allowed him to concentrate on his writing by supporting him financially. His first novel, Cevdet Bey ve ogullari: roman (1982) was completed when Pamuk was twenty-six, but the work was not published until four years later. Pamuk has refused to release an English translation of Cevdet Bey ve ogullari—an unauthorized English translation has circulated through literary circles—and his second novel, Sessiz ev (1983), has only been translated into French. Beyaz kale (1985; The White Castle) was Pamuk's first work to receive an official English translation—all of his subsequent novels have been translated as well. In Turkey, Pamuk has developed a reputation for his secular religious and political beliefs and his marked opposition to fundamentalist religious movements. Pamuk was an outspoken defender of novelist Salman Rushdie during the 1980s, after Iran's Ayatollah Kohmeini called for a death sentence on Rushdie in response to the author's novel Satanic Verses. During the 1990s, Pamuk attracted criticism from Turkish politicians for his public denouncement of Turkey's role in the Kurdish war and the country's overall treatment of the Kurdish people. In 1991 Pamuk composed the screenplay for Gizli yüz: senaryo, a film directed by the critically acclaimed Turkish director Ömer Kavur, which follows a photographer searching for a lost love. Pamuk's works have received numerous awards and accolades, including a nomination for the Prix Medici for best foreign novel in 1988 for Sessiz ev, the Independent Award for foreign fiction in 1990, and the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Benim adým kýrmýzý (1998; My Name Is Red).
Major Works
The development of Pamuk's literary style has echoed the course of developments in Western literature during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, moving from Realism to Modernism to Postmodernism. Cevdet Bey ve ogullari is written in the tradition of nineteenth-century Realist fiction and traces developments in modern Turkish history and culture through the story of three generations of a wealthy family. The narrative concerns a successful businessman in Istanbul whose descendents fail to live up to his expectations. Only his grandson, who becomes a well-known painter, achieves a level of success equal to his own. Cevdet Bey ve ogullari takes place in the early twentieth century, during a period in which the Ottoman Empire ended and the modern Turkish republic was established. Pamuk's second novel, Sessiz ev, is written in the style of literary Modernism and has been compared to the modernist novels of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. The events in Sessiz ev unfold during a period of violent social and political upheaval in Turkey between 1980 and 1981. Narrated alternately from the point-of-view of five different characters, Pamuk builds his story around a small Turkish village where three siblings spend a week visiting their ailing grandmother. With The White Castle, Pamuk made the transition from Modernism to experimental postmodern fiction, setting his tale in seventeenth-century Istanbul. The novel opens with a young, unnamed Italian scholar being captured by pirates and forced to become the slave of Hoja, a Turkish astrologist. The two main characters function as doppelgangers, mirroring traits in each other and serving as fictional representatives of traditional literary representations of their respective nationalities, Ottoman and Venetian. The Italian scholar—the Venetian—comes to symbolize the embodiment of Western culture and knowledge, while Hoja, the Ottoman, represents the dominant Eastern social and cultural traditions. As the story progresses, the divergent characteristics of the two protagonists merge together and, by the novel's conclusion, the two men have seemingly switched identities. Kara kitap (1990; The Black Book) is also written in an experimental, postmodern prose style with scholars describing the work as a metaphysical detective story. Set in Istanbul between 1979 and 1980, a young lawyer named Galip wanders the streets, searching for his missing wife Ruya—whose name means "dream." Ruya's half-brother, Jalal, has also disappeared, though his daily newspaper column continues to be published. Pamuk alternates chapters narrated from Galip's perspective with chapters consisting of Jalal's newspaper articles. The protagonist's endless searches through the labyrinthine streets of Istanbul come to represent a philosophical and metaphysical quest for the self and the divine. As Galip's quest continues, the lines between his self-identity and Jalal's identity begin to blur, and the novel concludes with Galip finding himself writing Jalal's newspaper columns. In addition to the central narrative, The Black Book also includes an encyclopedic array of esoteric references to both Eastern and Western religious and literary doctrine.
Pamuk opens Yeni hayat (1994; The New Life) with the line: "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." Narrated in the first person, the plot centers around Osman, a university student who reads a book titled The New Life, which draws him into a quest for personal transformation. Osman begins searching for a beautiful woman named Janan—whose name means "soul mate" whom he discovers has also read the book. During the course of an extended bus trip, which has been compared to the convoluted, metaphysical tales of Jorge Louis Borges, Osman locates Janan only to quickly lose her again. Meanwhile, Osman learns that readers who have become devoted to The New Life are being killed off by a secret organization opposed to its teachings. Resembling the conclusion of The Black Book, Osman's identity eventually seems to merge with the author of The New Life, raising doubts about who originally wrote the book. Pamuk's sixth novel, My Name Is Red, follows a small group of court artists assigned to illustrate a text for the Sultan of Istanbul during the 1590s. Combining stylistic elements of a murder mystery, a romance novel, and a novel of ideas, Pamuk relates My Name Is Red from the first-person point-of-view of over a dozen different characters, including such improbable narrators as a dead man, a dog, a tree, and a coin. The main narrative is broken into two overlapping storylines—a mystery involving the murders of two artists and a love story detailing a man's pursuit of the childhood sweetheart whom he was forbidden to marry in his youth. However, the thematic center of My Name Is Red consists of the philosophical discussions among the artists regarding the significance of art to society and culture. Pamuk utilizes these discussions and confrontations to provide commentary on the conflict between artists trained in the Islamic tradition and the realism of Western representational art. In 2002 Pamuk released Kar (Snow), a novel focusing on current Middle Eastern politics and the continuing conflicts between the Kurds, Islamists, and Jacobin nationalists.
Critical Reception
In Turkey, Pamuk's novels have become best-sellers, appealing to mass audiences despite their denouncement by Islamic fundamentalists. Internationally, Pamuk has attracted an increasingly broad readership with critics hailing him as the first modern Turkish writer to break away from the form of the popular "village novel"—pastoral, sentimental novels set in rural Turkey. Such commentators have lauded Pamuk's embrace of atypical and postmodern literary techniques, arguing that his novels embody a unique narrative voice. Pamuk's acknowledgement of Turkey's mixed cultural heritage of Eastern and Western influences has also drawn praise, particularly due to the country's sensitive political atmosphere between secular and fundamentalist groups. However, some reviewers have criticized Pamuk's novels for their heavy-handed symbolism, repetitive plots, and contrived characterizations. British scholars have also faulted the English translations of Pamuk's works—primarily by translator Güneli Gün—for their overuse of colloquial American idioms. Several American critics have countered these claims, asserting that the British reviewers are only objecting to the use of American, rather than British, terminology. In her own assessment of Pamuk's contribution to Turkish literature, Gün has commented that, "Pamuk is the champion of educated New Turks who yearn for a legitimate place in the world of ideas. His work meets the West on its own terms, resonating with philosophic and aesthetic concerns that go beyond national boundaries."
Principal Works
*Cevdet Bey ve ogullari: roman (novel) 1982
†Sessiz ev: roman (novel) 1983
Beyaz kale: roman [The White Castle: A Novel] (novel) 1985
Kara kitap [The Black Book] (novel) 1990
Gizli yüz: senaryo (screenplay) 1991
Yeni hayat [The New Life] (novel) 1994
Benim adým kýrmýzý [My Name Is Red] (novel) 1998
Kar [Snow] (novel) 2002
*Though never translated in English, Cevdet Bey ve ogullari: roman is frequently referred to as Cevdet Bey and His Sons.
(The entire section is 84 words.)
Mary Warner Marien (review date 12 April 1991)
SOURCE: Marien, Mary Warner. "Catch a Turkish Story Star." Christian Science Monitor 83, no. 96 (12 April 1991): 13.
[In the following review, Marien examines Pamuk's recurring theme of "the limits of the imaginary" in The White Castle.]
Although he is not yet 40, Orhan Pamuk has emerged as Turkey's leading novelist. Moreover, despite the intimately Turkish nature of his settings and subject, he has come to enjoy an international reputation.
Pamuk's books have been translated and issued by many of Europe's prestigious publishing houses. Last year, Carcanet, the trend-sensitive British publisher, sponsored a translation that has just been...
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Paul Berman (review date 9 September 1991)
SOURCE: Berman, Paul. "Young Turk." New Republic 205, no. 11 (9 September 1991): 36-9.
[In the following review, Berman evaluates the portrayal of East/West conflicts in The White Castle and asserts that Pamuk is an "extravagantly talented" author.]
Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle begins with a preface signed by one Faruk, explaining that the story to come was dug up from a seventeenth-century archive in a village outside Istanbul, has been rendered into modern idiom, and should not be weighed down with too many speculations about contemporary politics and East-West relations—which is, of course, a backhanded invitation to try out precisely those...
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Keith Hitchins (review date autumn 1991)
SOURCE: Hitchins, Keith. Review of The White Castle, by Orhan Pamuk. World Literature Today 65, no. 4 (autumn 1991): 764.
[In the following review, Hitchins explores how issues of identity and the nature of reality affect the narrative in The White Castle.]
The white castle, a Christian fortress in Poland which is besieged by Muslim Turkish armies, appears briefly toward the end of Orhan Pamuk's novel [The White Castle]. It represents the unattainable at all levels of human endeavor, whether an individual's inner quest for self-understanding or the confrontation between opposing civilizations. In his first work to be translated into English, Pamuk, a...
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Güneli Gün (essay date winter 1992)
SOURCE: Gün, Güneli. "The Turks are Coming: Deciphering Orhan Pamuk's Black Book." World Literature Today 66, no. 1 (winter 1992): 59-63.
[In the following essay, Gün—the English-language translator of The Black Book—addresses the question of why Pamuk appeals to Western readers more than other contemporary Turkish authors.]
Orhan Pamuk takes his own portrait of the artist very seriously indeed—as he well should. After all, he's being touted as Turkey's new literary prodigy, putting in a timely appearance on the world literature scene. Turkish literature buffs ask one another: how come? After all, there are other Turkish writers who are as...
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Orhan Pamuk and Judy Stone (interview date 19 December 1994)
SOURCE: Pamuk, Orhan, and Judy Stone. "Orhan Pamuk: 'Enigma Is Sovereign.'" Publishers Weekly 241, no. 51 (19 December 1994): 36-7.
[In the following interview, Pamuk discusses his writing career, the critical reception of his novels in Turkey, and his views on Turkish politics.]
Orhan Pamuk is nothing if not ambitious. All he wanted to do in his new novel, The Black Book, he says, was to write a huge, richly textured narrative that would capture the schizophrenic angst of Istanbul, a city in a country straddling two continents. He thus joined the search for an answer to the perennial Turkish question he defines as: "Are we European? Or are we...
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Richard Eder (review date 25 December 1994)
SOURCE: Eder, Richard. "The Quest." Los Angeles Times Book Review (25 December 1994): 3.
[In the following review, Eder compliments Pamuk's examination of personal and national identity in The Black Book.]
[In The Black Book,] Orhan Pamuk's braided mysteries coil around the story of a plodding husband who searches for his restless wife through Istanbul's serpentine streets and historical memory. Once it was the Ottoman Empire's Constantinople and before that, the Byzantine Empire's, and long before that, the ancient Greek Byzantium.
For Pamuk, author of the warmly praised The White Castle, the city is a suffocating midden of 2,000...
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Phoebe-Lou Adams (review date February 1995)
SOURCE: Adams, Phoebe-Lou. Review of The Black Book, by Orhan Pamuk. Atlantic Monthly 275, no. 2 (February 1995): 113-14.
[In the following review, Adams lauds Pamuk's accomplishment with The Black Book, calling the novel exciting, imaginative, and intelligent.]
On a winter day in Istanbul, Galip comes home from his languid law practice to find that Rüya, his wife and also his cousin, has run away. He assumes that she has taken refuge with her half-brother Jelâl, a widely read newspaper columnist, but Jelâl is also missing, from both the paper and his formal address. Galip goes sloshing through slush and grime in search of the errant pair. The novel...
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Guy Mannes-Abbott (review date 7 July 1995)
SOURCE: Mannes-Abbott, Guy. "Ancient and Modern." New Statesman and Society 8, no. 360 (7 July 1995): 41.
[In the following review, Mannes-Abbott applauds Pamuk's writing style and his success in representing "the texture and complexity of life in contemporary Istanbul" in The Black Book.]
The Borgesian style is the literary equivalent of the Duchampian in visual art: an identifiable set of formal assumptions, which still remain curiously dissident. When The White Castle, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's only other novel in English appeared in the US, it was properly compared to Borges and Calvino. The Black Book is like a 400-page extravaganza by...
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Robert Irwin (review date 7 July 1995)
SOURCE: Irwin, Robert. "Tales of the City." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4814 (7 July 1995): 2.
[In the following review, Irwin describes The Black Book as a "metaphysical parable" about cultural and individual identity.]
According to Turkish folklore, the Simurgh is a bird with a name but no body. In the thirteenth-century Conference of the Birds by the Persian poet Farid al-Din al-Attar, the Simurgh, which nests on the equally legendary Mount Kaf, becomes the object of a mystical quest—a quest which ends in self-discovery for its participants. The Black Book, the second of Orhan Pamuk's books to be translated into English (it was...
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Philip Glazebrook (review date 19 August 1995)
SOURCE: Glazebrook, Philip. "Turkish but No Delight." Spectator 275, no. 8719 (19 August 1995): 32.
[In the following review, Glazebrook argues that The Black Book is ultimately an unsuccessful novel due to its weak narrative and underdeveloped characters.]
In so far as this sprawl of a novel [The Black Book] is a narrative at all it tells the story of a Turkish lawyer's search for his wife. She may have left him for her older half-brother, his cousin, a journalist whose famous daily column appears to overshadow Turkish life. The search takes him among the clues and dead ends and street furniture of a labyrinthine vision of Istanbul, the city which...
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Patrick Parrinder (review date 5 October 1995)
SOURCE: Parrinder, Patrick. "Mannequin-Maker." London Review of Books 17, no. 19 (5 October 1995): 22.
[In the following review, Parrinder comments that The Black Book combines elements of the "postmodern detective novel" with aspects of the "dysfunctional family saga."]
A winter evening in Istanbul in the late Seventies. Political murders, disappearances and torture are daily events, and a military coup seems to be in the offing. Galip, a young lawyer whose speciality is defending political prisoners, returns home to find that his wife Rüya has left him. His instinctive response is to pretend that nothing has happened—Rüya is simply too ill to...
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Merle Rubin (review date 23 April 1997)
SOURCE: Rubin, Merle. "Turkish Best-seller Offers Parable about Reading." Christian Science Monitor 89, no. 103 (23 April 1997): 12.
[In the following review, Rubin criticizes The New Life for lacking narrative cohesion and an engaging storyline.]
Orhan Pamuk's most recent novel, The New Life, was a record-breaking best-seller in his native Turkey, which would seem to indicate a surprisingly keen appetite for contemporary fiction among that country's reading public. The phenomenon seems a little like the unexpected popularity of Umberto Eco's novels (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum) in the United States.
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Frederic Tuten (review date 8 June 1997)
SOURCE: Tuten, Frederic. "Ruined by Reading." Los Angeles Times Book Review (8 June 1997): 11-12.
[In the following review, Tuten faults The New Life for overindulging in plot contrivances and "belabored" allegorical elements.]
Under the sway of romances and tales of chivalry, Don Quixote took up lance and shield and wandered about to battle injustice and the general wrong. Her head filled with sappy love novels, Madame Bovary took to adultery and the romantic swoon. Young Dorian Gray was given the book of all mind-altering books, "a poisonous book," he came to call it, and, after reading it, he abandoned his fiancée, his closest friend and a life...
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Ronald Wright (review date 10 October 1997)
SOURCE: Wright, Ronald. "From a Breeze-Block Istanbul." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4932 (10 October 1997): 23.
[In the following review, Wright commends The New Life as an engaging novel of ideas that serves as an allegory for modern Turkey.]
In A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel observes that reading links the reader's contemporary experience with many "an early page in a distant foreign century". He then quotes from Orhan Pamuk's novel The White Castle: "You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand … you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it...
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Katy Emck (review date 31 October 1997)
SOURCE: Emck, Katy. "Turkish Delight." New Statesman 126, no. 4358 (31 October 1997): 44-5.
[In the following review, Emck comments on the overriding theme of "spiritual yearning in ideology-led times" in The New Life, calling the novel "a satire on the mystique of transformation promulgated by books."]
Given that Turks don't usually write novels, and that Turkey is in many senses a liminal place—caught between Christian and Muslim, European and Middle Eastern cultures; not quite third-world poor—this book is every bit as paradoxical as a Turkish novel ought to be. It is also the fastest-selling book in Turkish history; 200,000 copies have been...
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Vangelis Calotychos (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Calotychos, Vangelis. "Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanaki's Pasha and Pamuk's White Castle in the Global Market." In Greek Modernism and Beyond, edited by Dimitris Tziovas, pp. 243-60. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997.
[In the following essay, Calotychos offers a critical assessment of the appeal to Western audiences of The White Castle and Rhea Galanaki's Pasha, placing his discussion within the context of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and the global market for book sales.]
Like any nostos, my return to my alma mater and Birmingham invites potential scenes of repetition to recall acts,...
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David Ian Paddy (review date fall 1998)
SOURCE: Paddy, David Ian. Review of The New Life, by Orhan Pamuk. Review of Contemporary Fiction 18, no. 3 (fall 1998): 249-50.
[In the following review, Paddy praises The New Life for its postmodern examination of literature and its emphasis on contemporary Turkish culture.]
Have you ever read a book that was so overwhelming, so utterly life-changing that you had to find everyone else who has read it and force it upon those who haven't? This impulse provides the basis for Turkish writer Pamuk's latest novel: in The New Life a man, Osman, encounters a book so earth shattering that it changes his entire life. He seeks out others who have read the...
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Güneli Gün (essay date 12 March 1999)
SOURCE: Gün, Güneli. "Something Wrong with the Language." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5006 (12 March 1999): 14.
[In the following essay, Gün responds to criticisms of her use of idiomatic American English in her translation of The New Life. Gün argues that British reviewers are critical of translations that use colloquial American English rather than literary British English.]
The drubbing I received from British reviewers for my translation of Orhan Pamuk's novel, The New Life (reviewed in the TLS, October 10, 1997), gives me a chance to expose the assumptions, biases, chauvinisms that beset a former empire (in this case, the British),...
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Orhan Pamuk and Michael Skafidas (interview date spring 2000)
SOURCE: Pamuk, Orhan, and Michael Skafidas. "Turkey's Divided Character." New Perspectives Quarterly 17, no. 2 (spring 2000): 20-2.
[In the following interview, Pamuk discusses issues of Turkish identity, the critical reception of his novels in Turkey and abroad, and modern Turkish politics.]
Orhan Pamuk is perhaps Turkey's leading contemporary writer. His best-selling novels include The White Castle and The Black Book. His most recent book, The New Life, is just out. Michael Skafidas, editor of the Greek edition of NPQ, spoke to Pamuk recently in Istanbul where he lives and works in a beautiful apartment overlooking the Bosporus....
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Philip Hensher (review date 4 August 2001)
SOURCE: Hensher, Philip. "The Finest of the Foreign." Spectator 287, no. 9 (4 August 2001): 29-30.
[In the following review, Hensher discusses the lack of interest among British readers in foreign literature in translation, noting that My Name Is Red is a "dreamy, passionate," and "wonderful novel."]
The English are terrific translators, when they get the opportunity. The national literature is full of brilliant, idiosyncratic renderings of great foreign classics. If you want to consider the English epic a snark which was never quite hunted down you have to look at Pope's Iliad (the Odyssey is the work of multiple hands, and inferior),...
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Adam Kirsch (review date 2 September 2001)
SOURCE: Kirsch, Adam. "Getting Real." Washington Post Book World 31, no. 35 (2 September 2001): 13.
[In the following review, Kirsch criticizes My Name Is Red for failing to adequately convey the richness and complexity of artistic creation.]
Orhan Pamuk is the most popular living Turkish writer, both at home, where his novels are unprecedented bestsellers, and in the West, where he has earned comparisons to Borges and Calvino. As those names suggest, his books can seem postmodernist, dealing as they do in unreliable narrators and shifting identities. But in My Name Is Red, his latest novel, the flatness of the characters, the multiplicity of plots...
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Dick Davis (review date 7 September 2001)
SOURCE: Davis, Dick. "Murder and Joy." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5136 (7 September 2001): 6.
[In the following review, Davis commends My Name Is Red for transcending the "conventional limitations" of the mystery genre and creating a rich narrative that draws from both Eastern and Western cultural traditions.]
To say that Orhan Pamuk's new novel, My Name Is Red, is a murder mystery is like saying that Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery: it is true, but the work so richly transcends the conventional limitations of the genre as to make the definition seem almost irrelevant.
We are in Istanbul in the...
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Melvin Jules Bukiet (review date 23 September 2001)
SOURCE: Bukiet, Melvin Jules. "Perceptions of East and West." Chicago Tribune Books (23 September 2001): 1, 5.
[In the following review, Bukiet compliments My Name Is Red as a "meditation on authenticity and originality," describing Pamuk as an accomplished "chronicler" of the Turkish consciousness.]
Few boundaries on this planet are more distinct than that of the narrow nautical channel called the Dardanelles, which separates Europe from Asia within the nation of Turkey.
To the east lie several thousand miles of harshly variegated landscape that has given birth to harsh rulers from Genghis and the rest of the Khans to Tamerlane...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz (review date September-October 2001)
SOURCE: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. "In the Beginning was the Book." New Leader 84, no. 5 (September-October 2001): 23-5.
[In the following review, Schwartz offers a positive assessment of My Name Is Red, noting the impact of Pamuk's writing on Turkish letters.]
Orhan Pamuk is not only a superb writer, he is a cultural phenomenon. Equally at home in the traditions of ancient Islamic literature and Western postmodernism, he's the first Turkish novelist to win spectacular success in Europe and the United States. His four novels published here, of which the best by far is The White Castle (1991), are curious variations on a handful of themes: Turkey's...
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Allen Hibbard (review date fall 2001)
SOURCE: Hibbard, Allen. Review of My Name Is Red, by Orhan Pamuk. Review of Contemporary Fiction 21, no. 3 (fall 2001): 203-04.
[In the following review, Hibbard asserts that My Name Is Red explores themes that are "highly relevant" to contemporary Turkish society.]
Colors figure prominently in this historical mystery [My Name Is Red], set in sixteenth-century Istanbul, which takes us into the lives of a handful of miniaturist painters, one of whom is murdered by a fellow artist in the first chapter, narrated by the corpse itself. "Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors," we are told toward the opening of the novel in a...
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Jonathan Levi (review date 7 October 2001)
SOURCE: Levi, Jonathan. "The Plague." Los Angeles Times Book Review (7 October 2001): 9.
[In the following review, Levi applauds My Name Is Red as a "modern classic," commending Pamuk's representation of "the intense life of artists negotiating the devilishly sharp edge of Islam 1,000 years after its birth."]
Istanbul, 1591: Black, a painter of miniatures, returns to his native Istanbul from his travels into Persia and the far reaches of the sultan's empire. For 12 years he has tried to escape the vision of his beautiful cousin, Shekure, whose hand was denied him by his master and uncle, Enishte Effendi. Riding into town, Black discovers that Shekure...
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Char Simons (review date 11 October 2001)
SOURCE: Simons, Char. "The Deadly Art of Portraits." Christian Science Monitor 93, no. 222 (11 October 2001): 19-20.
[In the following review, Simons comments on Pamuk's skilled portrayal of Islamic society in My Name Is Red, noting its particularly relevance after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.]
"There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward."
These words from the bestselling Turkish novel My Name Is Red, by Orhan Pamuk, ring as true in the aftermath of Sept. 11 as in the year 1591, in...
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Ian Almond (essay date winter 2003)
SOURCE: Almond, Ian. "Islam, Melancholy, and Sad, Concrete Minarets: The Futility of Narratives in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book." New Literary History 34, no. 1 (winter 2003): 75-90.
[In the following essay, Almond discusses how Pamuk blends themes of sadness and "the anxiety of identity" in The Black Book.]
Instead of being amazed that library shelves in Islamic countries are crammed full of handwritten interpretations and commentaries, all one has to do is take a look at the multitudes of broken men in the street to know why.1
All the books of Orhan Pamuk, in their own way, breathe certain...
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Further Reading
Adil, Alev. "Translating Orhan Pamuk." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5008 (26 March 1999): 17.
Adil responds to Güneli Gün's defense of her use of colloquial American English in her translations of Pamuk's novels.
Freely, Maureen. Review of Snow, by Orhan Pamuk. Cornucopia 5, no. 26 (2002): 42.
Freely evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Snow.
Innes, Charlotte. "Istanbul Expressed." Nation 260, no. 12 (27 March 1995): 425-28.
Innes offers a positive assessment of The Black Book and discusses the novel's examination of the...
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The Truth About Older Workers
I consider myself blessed to work with a diverse group of clients from countless professional backgrounds, occupations, geographical locations and industries. The love I have for professional training and development stems from the fact that I am always learning as much as I am "teaching" to those I am hired to advise.
My column this week is dedicated to telling the true story about "older" professionals who are walking amongst us in our busy offices and communities. It is completely inspired by those I've worked with in recent years who some might mistakenly cast judgment upon as being less capable. Hopefully, it will motivate you to live your work life in a way that encourages an age-friendly workplace for everyone.
Truth No. 1 – YOU might be considered an older worker without realizing it.
According to the United States Department of Labor, people aged 45 years or older could be considered an older worker. The total population of workers who fall within this category is estimated to be nearly 25 percent, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Furthermore, the bureau estimates the median age of the American labor force to be 42 years old.
Truth No. 2 – Older workers are intelligent and fully capable of learning new things.
A 2005 study from Harvard Medical School concluded that a person's I.Q. doesn't decline with age and the mind doesn't deteriorate, unless you don't use your brain. In fact, it points out that older workers retain information longer and they tend to complete training at a higher rate than younger workers.
Truth No. 3 – Older workers have good memories.
There is no direct correlation that has ever proven a link between age and memory. However, there is a proven correlation between a person's ability to remember and their levels of emotional upset or depression. It's important not to confuse the older worker's ability to remember things, with the inner turmoil they are experiencing due to being cast aside as irrelevant in our society.
Truth No. 4 – Older workers are worth the investment.
I was astonished at something I heard recently. Someone was telling me about a situation where a person in a leadership position within a highly recognizable organization stated they "weren't interested" in interviewing any "older" candidates for a position within their department because they wouldn't "be there long enough." This leader – and I use the term 'leader' loosely – even went so far as to ask the age of the person who expressed interest in applying for the opening within their department. Not only is this illegal and highly unethical, but it is based on false stereotypes.
According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average length of employment for older workers is just over ten years, as compared to just over three years for workers 25-34 years of age. In fact, Forbes Magazine recently released results of a survey stating that 91 percent of workers born between 1977 and 1997 typically expect to stay in a job for less than three years. As a hiring manager, it is highly presumptuous and misleading to base a hiring decision on your false assumptions of an older candidate's possible retirement age.
Truth No. 5 – Older workers have a lot to offer.
Where do I begin? Perhaps the best way to convey this message is to list out findings of a study released by the Department of Psychology at Portland State University. There are many areas where older workers tend to outperform their younger counterparts. These include an older worker being more likely to: help colleagues; comply with safety rules; avoid office gossip; be punctual; have low absenteeism, and have wisdom from past experiences to share.
As you contemplate what you've just read, consider how you can stop ageism in your organization and take advantage of what a mature workforce can offer. Reading these truths can be your first step towards distinguishing your personal bias from actual performance ability.
Elizabeth P. Cipolla is a regional director and senior consultant with JL Nick and Associates Inc. She is a business communications professional specializing in the areas of leadership training, creative recruitment strategies, employment branding, professional development and executive coaching for more than 13 years. Her leadership experience comes from various industries including marketing, mass media, apparel, education, manufacturing, nonprofit agencies and insurance. To contact Elizabeth, email her at email@example.com or visit JL Nick and Associates' website at www.jlnick.com.


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Artscapades Fall 2013 - Neoclassicism
Category: Classes and WorkshopsCategory: Speakers & Lecture Series
Location: Adrian Lamb Room
Robin and Jodi return for another great year of Mondy evening art appreciation lectures focused on 19th century European art. The six lectures in the series are:
All programs begin at 7:00 p.m.
- Neoclassicism: September 30
- Romanticism: October 28
- Realism: November 25
- French Impressionism: March 3
- Connecticut Impressionism: March 31
- Post-impressionism: May 5
Library patrons with hearing disabilities can nowenjoy the Library programs held in the Lamb Room by accessing the assistive listening technologyavailable. Our T-Coil hearing loop provides access to clear, crisp sound by tuning a hearing aid to its t-coil channel or by using one of our available portable hearing receivers with headphones. Please ask our staff should you need assistance with this service.


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Topic: What to do about 500 errors and "Application Error - Rails app failed"
If you've ever moved your application from one computer to another for the first time or if you've just published your new app to some shared hosting provider you're almost sure to have seen this message at least once.
What to do when you see this message (or one like it):
Step One:
Set file permissions. Do it like so: ./public needs to be set to 755
chmod 755 public
./public/dispatch.fcgi (or dispatch.cgi - but don
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This is a report on the "The Secret Website Show" as it has been avialable on-demand since midnight UK time. It will tell all about the show so please don't read this if you want to see it yourself and be surprised. It will available on-demand in either Windows Media Player or Real Player for the next week. You of course will need the Back in the US DVD and a DVD rom installed in your computer along with Flash 6.
The show started right off with a redition of "Honey Hush", one of the cover songs Paul did on "Run Devil Run" but this time Paul is on his Les Paul and does the 1st and 3rd lead guitar solos. Rusty does the 2nd lead solo and Brian is on bass. Wix and Abe are playing as well, in fact the whole band is performing the entire show. All camera shots are on the band as they are performing on-stage with the same setup of the tour. There is no audience what-so-ever.
After finishing Honey Hush, they go into a short version of some Jimmi Hendrix, "Foxy Lady", yes that's right, Paul on lead guitar.
Jumps right into a very upbeat version of "Blackbird" with the whole band. Audiences in Osaka were treated the next song and now we can see this performance as they did a great version of "Calico Skies". Paul goes back on his Les Paul doing "Honey Don't" a Carl Perkins song covered by The Beatles.
The next song was a wonderful surprise for me, and from the opening piano chords of Paul's piano, I immediately recognized it and was amazed. They performed a fantastic version of the instrumental "Celebration" from "Standing Stone" and the bootleg of the Rubert soundtrack.
A kind of jam followed with a song I guess was called "Welcome" very similar to the Welcome song when you first enter to the secret website. Paul introduces Rusty, Wix, Abe, Brian and then himself as Paul Ramone.
Another previously unheard song called "India" was performed, this must have been from the Driving Rain sessions.
The final song they played was "Lady Madonna" with Thadeus Richard on clarinet. The middle was extended a bit for an extra solo. It is speculated that this "Secret Website Show" was recorded in New Orleans as Thadeus did go up and perform this song with the band.
The video was very clean and uninterrupted on my hi-speed connection using Window Media Player, I havne't tried it yet in Real Media. All in all it was a sweatest little show as we got to hear tunes as advertised, "Never-Before-Seen Footage and Performances". As I said all songs were with the entire band and they were complete from start to finish. Thanks Paul, it was great, can't wait to see what else you have up your sleeve.


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Hardware news tagged G84
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sony Nearly Secretly Admits: Flawed Nvidia Graphics Chips Are Inside Vaio Notebooks.
[3:43 am]
Sony to Repair Notebooks with Defective Nvidia Chips Inside for Free
Monday, August 10, 2009
Nvidia Hit By Another Charge for Faulty Graphics Chips.
[2:16 pm]
Nvidia Spends Another $119.1 Million on Repairs of Faulty Chips
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Nvidia: GPU Failures Do Not Impact Sales.
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Orders Not Affected by Product Failures – Nvidia


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MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) - The dairy producer funded checkoff program continues to provide dividends for the industry. One of the reasons is a change in the way the National Dairy Board allocates funds. Local 5 Ag Reporter Mike Austin explores the dollars-and-cents of it all.
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