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Jerome Harris is a highly underrated musician. Just the fact that he's a proficient doubler on bass AND guitar; he's been a regular on the former with Jack DeJohnette and the latter with Sonny Rollins. Add to that he's got a wonderful singing voice, and has also recorded 4 albums as a leader. Harris initially went to Harvard with the intent of being a psychiatrist, but ended up being swayed by the call of professional music. He's a native and resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. When we toured Europe last year with Mr. DeJohnette, I had the opportunity to sit down with Harris to pick his brain a bit about music.
GC: How do you approach playing bass with Jack DeJohnette,
if you had to explain it to somebody?
JH: (laughs)
GC: Because I don't think it's conventional, I don't think
it's avant-garde necessarily but I don't think it's conventional…is it
something that you could explain to somebody or do you just use your instincts?
JH: I can certainly explain it to an extent… I am fairly
conscious, there is certainly some instinct and unconscious stuff going on too,
obviously. I'll preface it with this… there as a period, some years ago, when I
had run into Jack and we had done a little bit of playing with Sonny Rollins
and he has a thing for trying to find out what some newer people on the scene
are up to, so he would call folks and have them come up to his place and play.
And he did that with me for a while, maybe like once a year, and it would be
with different musicians each time. It took me some years to feel like… I mean,
every time I would go up there, I would leave and say "man, I'm the saddest
motherfucker on the planet, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, I'm mad, I
can't play with this cat!" (laughs). I realized, partially consciously and
partially unconsciously, how to listen better to him. How to hear into what
he's doing a bit. And one thing was…you know how some drummers play in easily
countable phrases and everything is kind of squared off and some people are
even kind of gymnastic with that? There like, okay, this is going to be a 4,
and this is going to be a 6, and everything is obvious like that. And there are
other people, like Elvin, who do that to an extent but also are playing feel
and shapes and phrases that are not so squared off and so obvious. And
sometimes it might be more like a feeling, like they might play some fill that
has 9 in the time of 4 or something, but they're not necessarily counting it to
be metronomically precise, they're just kind of feeling this gesture, but it's
all in the time. Jack does that a lot. So I had to relax and keep my counting
going but relax my relationship to it. I also had to learn to really trust that
he was playing it where he wanted it and that 90% of the time it was actually
metronomically correct in terms of the meter, but on a micro level it might be
more free. So I noticed that I was originally really holding the ONE TWO THREE
FOUR, really holding onto that, and he would play something that didn't feel
like it was so easily countable in that way and I would get scared and then I
would stop counting, and I wouldn't trust that he wasn't going to come in on one,
but he would, but I wouldn't be there! Being aware of the metric frame or grid
but knowing that there's some degree of play, of looseness, in how Jack
interprets that and how he manifests it. And thinking about that and noticing
that and trying that stuff consciously allowed me to get more of a sense of "oh
I kind of feel what he's doing, hear what he's doing" and so it made it much
easier for me to play with him. And that realization came over time, some time
of feeling like "oh I'm not making it, what the hell am I doing" and really
thinking about what I was doing. And there was some unconscious process of
learning to hear someone, learning to feel what they're doing. And that's with
everyone – soloists, rhythm section. So I had to go through a certain amount of
that too, and I'm so thankful that Jack heard something in me enough that he
would furnish opportunities for me to play with him, to learn that stuff, to go
through that experience.
GC: I was noticing last night, the tune we play called
"Miles", it's a funk tune, but the way that it ends up being played is not in a
way like Parliament Funkadelic where there's one thing happening over and over
and it's pure repetition. There is a decided lack of repetition yet there is
this running theme and a groove, but it's more like the groove of bebop where
there's this continuous conversation and continuous change, it's shifting over
time. How do you think about that as a bass player? If you had to explain that
to a student? Don't play the same thing all the time, but still groove. What
advice would you give?
JH: Well I'll tell how I think of it and things that I would
say to a student grow out of how I think of this stuff. I think about a lot of
stuff in continuums. So we're talking about this kind of thing, a funk groove –
maybe towards one end of the continuum you've got some bass figure that repeats
(sings repetitive bass line) and other things are happening but it's pretty
much a static phrase that's repeated. Towards the other end of the continuum,
you could say it's a melody, just a stream of ideas and a lot of change. I try
to choose – and this, again, is partially conscious and partially unconscious –
to pick where I think the music needs to be along that continuum. How much to
repeat? What to repeat, and how much to not repeat? So instead of playing some
figure, like a 2 bar long figure that's repeating, maybe think in terms of like
a 4 bar or 8 bar thing. That might be just enough repetition just to give a
sense of the bass part supporting the groove and establishing some cycle
feeling but to not be stuck in that "every bar must be the same" thing. And it
could be different pitches but a similar number of notes. If I repeat it, you
could hear that it's a cycle, but it's this 4 bar thing. And you can take that
principle and say "okay, instead of the repetition being at the 1 bar level, it
could be at the 2, 4, 8 bar" and you could have all kinds of variation in the
elements that do repeat so you're approach more the melody type structure of
having less repetition and more new material or variation happening. And on
that tune "Miles" I definitely try to find what feels good right now. I'll play
something, and if what everyone else is doing is such that I feel like it needs
some anchor, then I'll repeat something. It might be the rhythmic figure, it
might be pitches, it might be register, because the bass functions differently
in it's lowest octave than it does two octaves above that. So I might drop down
and play some root stuff down low, and
then go back up high and then come back down – that kind of repetition can set
up enough feeling of anchored-ness and rooted-ness that it feels like a groove in
the way that we normally think of groove. And so that's a lot of what I do and
choosing to do some interacting, jumping into the conversation, and then
throwing some gravy in the mashed potatoes – something to give some anchor to
it. And it's really how much I do the anchor thing versus the melody thing
really varies from moment to moment over the course of the tune, what section
of the tune. Certainly when we're playing the melody, that's kind of a composed
thing so I reel it in there because that's the way that section functions in
the whole span of the tune, it's a refrain. So I make that refrain feel like I
refrain. Sometimes I'll come up with some other little figure but I do keep it
more typically supportive for that section because it seems like that's part of
what that section is about, is laying that signature figure down.
GC: You are known as a bassist and a guitarist, it's a rare
double. It's almost like if you had someone who ran the 200 meters and also did
the mile. It's so different. How do you separate the two, or how do you see
yourself in that sense? When you're a bassist, do you just play the bass? How
do you negotiate that?
JH: It's funny, some of it is really easy and some of it is
really hard. Even though I started on guitar before I started playing bass,
playing guitar has a bunch of different challenges that I find physically
daunting and part of me feels like "man, I should only be play guitar" to have
a shot of doing that stuff well. And part of it is if you're playing in
different styles, different genre languages… they're all so specific and call
for really different skills if you're going to do them at the level of people
who do them professionally. I mean, just playing chords on the guitar in the
way I'd like, being able to have flexibility and spontaneously and accuracy in
voicings and harmonic material – I mean, that alone is like a lifetime. You
know, you've got Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Metheny, Alan Holdsworth, it's like, what
the hell! So I do what I can. The easy part I guess is that I kind of think of
it all as just music. Okay, so you're soloing, you play single lines on the
guitar, you pay single lines on the bass, there's some physical difference of
course. I play guitar with a pick mostly, bass guitar I almost never play the
pick unless it's some metal gig or something (which nobody ever calls me for
that). I like the sound of fingers. So there's physical difference, but you're
still trying to construct melodies. I think about what a pianist plays. Pianists,
particularly if they have some experience playing solo, know how to comp for
themselves, how to play supportive stuff in the bass register while they're
playing melody and chords, so when I'm playing bass I'm thinking about playing
bass. I'm not playing the guitar, I'm not in the guitar's register, and there's
role stuff in the ensemble that is fun to do and I enjoy doing that so I play
the bass. And when I'm playing guitar, you're doing more chordal stuff and
often soloing more, although in a way the bassist is soloing all the time. So I'm
doing that. And certainly they inform each other. Experience of playing with
inner voicings moving, voice leading that you deal with when you're playing a
chordal instrument certainly informs how I play bass. You know, melodic
thinking and such. And certainly when I'm playing guitar I like to hear and
feel the bass player. Part of my ear is just kind of drawn to the low registers
because I do that, I spend a lot of time doing that.


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What is a woman permitted to uncover in front of other women and mahrams?
The Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas issued a statement on this matter, which reads as follows:
Praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon all his family and companions.
The believing women at the beginning of Islam were extremely pure, chaste, and modest, which was the blessing of belief in Allaah and His Messenger and following the Qur'aan and Sunnah. Women at that time used to wear concealing garments, and it is not known that they used to uncover themselves when they met one another or when they met their mahrams. The women of this ummah followed this mode of behaviour – praise be to Allaah – generation after generation until recently, when corruption and impropriety entered the way women dress and behave for many reasons, which we do not have room to discuss here.
Because of the large number of questions that have been sent to the Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas about women looking at women, and what women should wear, the Committee is telling all Muslim women that women are obliged to have an attitude of modesty, which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) described as being part of faith and one of the branches of faith. One aspect of the modesty which is enjoined by Islam and by custom is that women should cover themselves, be modest and adopt an attitude and conduct that will keep her far away from falling into fitnah (temptation) and doubtful situations.
The Qur'aan clearly indicates that a woman should not show to other women anything other than that which she shows to her mahrams, that which she customarily uncovers in her own home and when doing housework, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"…and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or their sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothers or their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their (Muslim) women (i.e. their sisters in Islam)…"
[al-Noor 24:31]
If this is the text of the Qur'aan and this is what is indicated by the Sunnah, then this is what the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the womenfolk of the Sahaabah used to do, and the women of the ummah who followed them in truth until the present day.What was usually uncovered in front of the people mentioned in this verse is what women usually uncover when they are at home and when doing housework, which is difficult to avoid, such as uncovering the head, hands, neck and feet.
With regard to going to extremes in uncovering, there is no evidence in the Qur'aan and Sunnah that this is permissible. This is also the way that leads to a woman tempting or being tempted by other women, which happens among them. It also sets a bad example to other women, as well as being an imitation of kaafir women, prostitutes and immoral women in the way they dress. It was proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever imitates a people is one of them." Narrated by Imam Ahmad and Abu Dawood. In Saheeh Muslim (2077) it is narrated from 'Abd-Allaah ibn 'Amr that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw him wearing two garments dyed with safflower, and he said, "These are from the clothing of the kuffaar – do not wear them."
It is also narrated in Saheeh Muslim (2128) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There are two types of the people of Hell whom I have not seen: people with whips like the tails of cattle, with which they beat the people, and women who are clothed yet naked, misguided and leading others astray, with their heads like the humps of camels, leaning to one side. They will not enter Paradise or even smell its fragrance, although its fragrance may be detected from such and such a distance."
The meaning of the phrase "clothed yet naked" is that the woman is wearing clothes that do not cover her, so she is clothed, but in fact she is naked, such as when she wears a thin dress that shows the colour of her skin, or a dress that shows the outline of her body, or a short dress that does not cover part of her limbs.
So what Muslim women have to do is to adhere to the guidance followed by the Mothers of the Believers (the Prophet's wives) and the womenfolk of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them), and the women of this ummah who followed them in truth, and strive to cover themselves and be modest. This is farthest removed from the causes of fitnah and will protect them from the things that lead to provocation of desires and falling into immorality.
Muslim women must also beware of falling into that which Allaah and His Messenger have forbidden of imitating kaafir women and prostitutes, in obedience to Allaah and His Messenger, and in the hope of attaining the reward of Allaah, and for fear of His punishment.
Every Muslim must also fear Allaah with regard to the women who are under his care, and not let them wear things that Allaah and His Messenger have forbidden, such as provocative clothes, or clothes that are revealing or tempting. He should remember that he is a shepherd and will be responsible for his flock on the Day of Resurrection.
We ask Allaah to set the Muslims' affairs straight, and to guide us all to the straight path, for He is All-Hearing, Ever-Near and Ever Responsive. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, 17/290
It also says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah (17/297):
What a woman is permitted to uncover in front of her children is that which is customarily uncovered, such as the face, hands, forearms, feet and so on.
And Allaah knows best.

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My great great grandmother Ruth Ann Stolebarger Travis |
Here is what I know:
Ruth Ann Stolebarger Travis was sixty-one when this photo was taken in 1893. She was born on June 3, 1832 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and was a redhead.
The first trace I find of her family is in Union, Huntingdon County, PA in the 1830 Federal Census, though her eldest brother Ephraim is said to have been born there in 1823. Ruth's other siblings were Thomas (1825), Almira (1842) and Martha (1843).
In 1843, Ruth moved with her parents and siblings to Jefferson County, Iowa. Her father John Stoalabarger passed away soon thereafter and her mother married Samuel Berry in 1846 and had one more son, William (1849).
Ruth Ann married Abraham Travis on March 20, 1852 in Fairfield, Iowa. On May 6, 1852, the newlyweds moved to Sidney, Iowa and, by all accounts, lived a wonderful life there as one of the town's pioneer families. Ruth Ann was extraordinarily lucky in that all twelve of her children lived into adulthood and none predeceased her.
To the town's great sadness, she passed away on June 23, 1901 at the age of 69. Her obituary stated that her funeral was so well attended that townspeople were forced to stand outside in the hot street, straining to hear the eulogy.
There is a lot of mystery surrounding Ruth Ann's parents. Her father John is said to have been born in the Upper Rhine area of Germany c.1800, but, to my knowledge, no one has ever found any documentation of this. Additionally, her mother Sarah's maiden name is unknown.
One of the biggest problems in researching this family is the name "Stolebarger." It is a very difficult name that was spelled differently on virtually every record. The most common spelling seems to be Stoalabarger, but I have also seen it as Stolebarger, Stolabarger, Stulebarger, Stuhlberger, Stuleberger, Stulabarger, Stella Barger and more! Furthermore, I have not been able to find a record of anyone with a similar name on any passenger records at all! I sometimes theorize that the name was originally something more traditionally German, like Stahlberger. Unfortunately, that hasn't led me anywhere either.
For now, I am just very happy to have such a good photo of her from so long ago.


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A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2.
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Chyna Parks |
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Full Name |
Chyna Ann Parks |
Nickname(s) |
The Musician (by everyone) |
Gender |
Female |
Date of Birth |
January 6, 1999 |
Resides in |
San Francisco, California (2011-2013) |
Occupation |
Musician |
Eye Color |
Warm brown |
Hair Color |
Black (Season 1) |
Family |
Cameron Parks (brother) |
Romances |
Hudson (crush) |
Friends |
Olive Doyle |
Enemies |
Susan Skidmore |
age |
11 (Season 1) |
School |
Webster High (former) |
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Chyna Ann Parks is the main protagonist of A.N.T. Farm. She is a bright, bubbly preteen/teen who is an exceptional musical prodigy and was formerly in Webster High School's A.N.T. Program. She plays 40+ different instruments, preferring to play the guitar, violin, and piano. She is also an amazing singer, even placing 2nd place in the 2011 America's Got Talent competition. Along with her friends Olive Doyle and Fletcher Quimby, Chyna navigates the trials of being in high school at a young age. Currently, she attends Z-Tech Prodigy School in Palo Alto, California.
She is portrayed by China Anne McClain.
Chyna Parks is an African-American teenage girl of average height with full lips and warm-brown skin. In Season 1, her hair is straight, black, and shoulder-length in a bob. In Season 2, her hair becomes much longer and bone-straight with colorful highlights (in some episodes, she has brown, red, or purple highlights or none at all). In Season 3, her hair becomes curly, and she has black ringlets with auburn-colored tips. Her fashion sense consists of colorful cardigans, shoulder-padded jackets, solid tees, graphic tees, platform shoes, wedges, boots, blue jeans, black pants, colorful pants, colorful tights, black tights, and khaki pants. She rarely wears dresses. Her main fashion colors are red, blue, pink, and purple; however, she wears all colors as long as they match. Chyna's accessories consist of neutral-colored necklaces and earrings and colorful rings and bracelets. Her style is based on girly things, a love of music, and rockstars.
Chyna is typically upbeat and optimistic when her friends have a problem. She can usually be seen cheering up her friends, family, and classmates with reassurance and resolutions. Chyna adores helping others and being a charitable person in general. This desire to constantly aid others has cultivated an uncanny ability to formulate outlandish plans to fix problems. For example, in "fraudulANT," Chyna successfully breaks into a high-security art museum with her friends and retrieves Fletcher's painting that was stolen by Zanko, who took credit for the artwork. Another example of the great lengths she goes to help those she cares for is in the episode "modeling assignmANT." In that episode, she pretends to be a high-fashion magazine editor, arranges a fake hot-air balloon picnic, lies about Cameron's physique, and manages to get a famous model to transfer to Webster High School so the two can date. Chyna consistently goes above and beyond the standards to aid people.
Chyna is also a very positive, cheerful girly-girl. This girliness can be noticed by her locker decorations, mannerisms, and fashion style. Her cheeriness occasionally causes excitable episodes when meeting celebrities. One such moment of excitement is when Sequoia Jones says she will be following Chyna around for role research, to which Chyna jubilantly jumps up and down at. One more episode is shown when she meets the famous girl group Trifecta (who she manically greets) and the famous singer Madame Goo Goo (who she gawks over). Chyna's positivity can be shown when she tries to make the best of dire situations, like when she was trapped in Z-Tech by Zoltan Grundy's holographic clone during Christmas Eve.
Chyna is very confident, outgoing, and self-assured. She loves trying new things like trying out for the cheerleading squad in "participANTs," quickly agreeing to go on tour with the girl group Trifecta, and playing on the volleyball team in "early retiremANT." She takes any chance to present her musical talents, sometimes to the point of being seen as a show-off by some, like Lexi Reed. She helps get others, like Olive Doyle, to emerge from their introverted shell and mature with her zest for doing new things. She can sometimes get insecure when she is insulted, but she quickly shakes off any feelings of unworthiness and shoots back a sharp retort. These exchanges typically happen with her main rival, Lexi. She also becomes insecure and shaken-up when Principal Skidmore is around, whom she despises and fears.
Even though Chyna is sweet and friendly, she can be very snarky, sassy, and snappy when annoyed or pushed too far. This attitude is shown in "the replacemANT" when she gets into a confrontation with Olive as the new history teacher after the latter gives her detention for "talking back" (Chyna stated that she was four months older than Olive). Her sarcasm is usually reserved for dimwitted and goofy people, like Cameron, Darryl, and Fletcher. Her sarcasm and retorts prove that Chyna is witty, too.
Chyna is a very intelligent girl for her age. Along with being a musical prodigy who is masterful at composing songs and playing instruments, she can write large, important speeches (like in "idANTity crisis"), is a straight-A student, remember giant dance routines and songs like "Go" ("chANTs of a lifetime"), and create grandiose schemes to help herself and others. However, she does struggle in math and does not perform well in academics while under pressure ("intelligANT"). She is a pretty good history student, minus the occasional missing permission slip ("the replacemANT").
Character History
Season 1
In TransplANTed, Chyna walks in and feels wowed by her new school. When she walks into the A.N.T Farm, she meets Gibson; the weird teacher at the A.N.T Farm. After, Chyna meets Olive Doyle, a girl with an eidetic memory, Angus Chestnut, a computer genius, and Fletcher Quimby, an artistic genius who develops a crush on her immediately. In her music class, she meets Lexi Reed, a popular girl who grows to dislike Chyna, and Paisley Houndstooth, Lexi's best friend, who isn't bright. She also meets Mr. Zimbaldi, the music teacher. There, he allows her to play the violin in front of the class, making everyone acknowledge who she is.
Later on, she and her friends go to Lexi's party, trying to prove she's not a little kid. The three attempt to look more mature by changing their style. Before this, Chyna tells her dad that she's studying with Olive and Fletcher since he wouldn't let her leave. They sneak out using her bedroom window, leaving wax sculptures in her room as decoys. She tells her friends not to act like little kids at the party. When she tries to fit in with the big kids, her brother Cameron embarrasses her by spilling some of her secrets. After, the ANTs accidentally ruin the stereo, making everyone angry at them. So Chyna sings Dynamite for them replacing the now broken stereo. After finishing her song, her dad comes to the party, takes her home, and grounds her. Later at the end of the episode, she sets up all of her music equipment and has lunch with Olive and Fletcher.
In ParticipANTs Chyna and Olive have to join activities. When the two of them
try out for cheerleader, only Chyna gets in, causing Olive to be alone. Soon, Chyna discovers Lexi made her be a cheerleader so she could sabotage Chyna's audition. She apologizes to Olive, explaining to her she was right about Lexi just using her and ends up winning the audition, instead of Lexi.
In The PhANTom Locker, Olive moves into Chyna's locker, thinking a ghost is haunting her locker. Chyna, annoyed of Olive, tries to convince her that ghosts aren't real and that her locker isn't haunted. Olive learns that Chyna only did this so she could move back to her previous locker, causing her to get mad. In the end, they make up.
In SciANTs Fair, Chyna spent no time studying, knowing for a fact that she'll fail her test. When she gets an A, she believes that the teacher is giving ANTs extra credit, making her feel guilty about not failing. So, she does a horrible project, thinking of receiving an A, but ends up failing, learning that everyone got As because the teacher was too lazy to mark the tests.
In StudANT Council, Chyna gets tricked by Olive into running for Student Council. Learning what will happen to her if she won, she tricks Olive back into running. The two have a little war on how the other one should win. In the end, they make up and apologize to each other.
In Bad RomANTs, Chyna and Fletcher help track down Gibson's old girlfriend, Sophie, only to learn that his girlfriend was in jail.
In The InformANT, Chyna wants to be like the other girls, have the village bag. Since it was too expensive, her dad gives her a bag, that wasn't very pleasant. She then figures out a way to gain cash by using gift cards from pudding cups. When her dad finds out about her using the village bag, he sends one of his police friends to discover if she were shoplifting.
In ReplicANT, she likes a new ANT named Nigel, causing Fletcher to grow jealous of her affections toward the ANT.
In ClairvoyANT, she tricks Cameron into thinking he's psychic and makes him--believing he's psychic and goes a little overhand with his 'predictions'.
In ManagemANT, Chyna gets her big break with a music producer named Hippo after Cameron puts a video of her singing, but the drawback is, is that this producer is making her do things she doesn't find appealing.
In PhilANThropy, Chyna accidentally ruins Gibson's job but tries to save it with the Save Gibson fundraiser.
In FraudulANT, Chyna makes Fletcher give one of his paintings to Zanko, his hero. They soon discover that Zanko actually keeps the painting, placing it into a gallery, claiming it as his own. Because of this, she helps him get his painting back.
In The ReplacemANT, Chyna makes Olive become the history teacher after ruining the previous history teacher's job.
In MutANT Farm, Chyna walks in as Medusa and experiences her first day and at a Halloween party she ruins the stereo and turns the MutANTs to humans and ends up saving the party by singing Calling All the Monsters.
In cANTonese Style Cuisine, Chyna meets Madame Goo Goo (a spoof of Lady Gaga), after Madame Goo Goo hears her sing, but she loses her number in a fortune cookie. She, along with Olive, Fletcher, and Angus, go to the Chinese restaurant and try to retrieve the number back.
In IgnorANTs Is Bliss, Principal Skidmore makes her write a speech for the open house but she loses it and has her third fight with Olive.
In Slumber Party ANTics, she hears Lexi talking about a slumber party so she and Olive decide to have one.
In America Needs TalANT Chyna gets picked with Lexi to go to LA for a reality television show called America Needs Talent. But Lexi wants to know what song she is going to sing so she could humiliate her, but Chyna discovers this and tricks her instead.
In SANTa's Little Helpers, Chyna and her friends make jack in the boxes for the orphans, but when they find out Skidmore's plan, they rig the boxes. When they find out Skidmore will leave them at the orphanage, they try to sneak into the orphanage to get the boxes back.
In Some EnchANTed Evening, after Chyna learns that Fletcher has a crush on her so she lies that she has a boyfriend.
In PerformANTs, Chyna goes to a wild concert with Olive, Fletcher, and Angus after Lexi tells her about a Goth concert after she sneaks to do the concert and beats Lexi for the seventh time.
In PatANT Pending, Chyna suspects Olive and Fletcher are dating but after competes with olive and have their fourth fight, and apologize.
In Ballet DANTser, she meets the new A.N.T who has violence issues so she tries to help her and beats Lexi for the eighth time.
In Body of EvidANTs, Chyna feeds to much food to Olive's Flur-bot and ends up killing him by mistake.
Season 2
In Creative ConsultANT, she suspects Sequoia is stealing her life but discovers Sequoia was practicing for her new movie role.
In InfANT, she, Olive, Fletcher, and Violet help a two-year-old baby find a talent, but they soon find out that Skidmore was just tricking them into babysitting her nephew.
In FANTasy Girl, Chyna helps to get money for the dance but she lies to a man, by saying Fletcher was dead, just to get more money.
In Modeling AssignmANT, she disguises herself as a 43-year-old magazine worker to help Cameron get his dream girl.
In ANTswers, Chyna plays a prank on Principal Skidmore, leading to her removing internet, thus making Chyna getting the idea of the ANTernet.
In The ANTagonist, Chyna gives advice to Fletcher to make a funny cartoon but ruins the advice by making fun of olive.
In EndurANTs, Chyna and the other ANTs travel to Australia for the A.N.T convention and finds out Fletcher has gone missing; so she has Tazmanian Neville, Olive, and Angus Go look for him at the outback.
In AmusemANT Park, She and Cameron waste money so they use Olive's dolls for prizes to earn money.
In ContestANTs, Chyna and Lexi team up to win 1,000 dollars.
In ConfinemANT, Principal Skidmore locks Chyna, Olive, Fletcher, and Angus at the ANT Farm because they were considering cancelling the art and music programs.
In IntelligANT, she competes in the academic decathlon because she had the highest IQ, due to Angus changing Olive's IQ results.
In SignificANT Other, she agrees to go on a date with Fletcher to make him stop asking her out, but when Lexi tells him the truth, makes him upset, causing Chyna to write a song for him.
In MutANT Farm 2, she falls in love with a human boy that she couldn't be with because she was a MutANT and he wasn't.
In Detective AgANTcy, she hides her tubas, trumpets, and saxophones to help her dad become a detective but catches Skidmore turned them into her statue.
In ScavANTger Hunt, Chyna and the gang have to do a scavenger hunt to see who gets a week off school and it's the eleventh time Chyna beats Lexi.
In ChANTs of a Lifetime, Chyna goes to L.A with Trifecta but goes back home because she misses everyone and it's the 12th time she beats Lexi
In Early RetiremANT her Granny comes to visit but becomes her principal.
In InfluANTces she appears in 3 periods of time 1930s as Ella Fitzgerald, 1960s as Aretha Franklin, and in 1980s as Janet Jackson. In the end, she sings Exceptional.
In IdANTity Crisis she gets chased and transformed by the A.N.T minions.
In RestaurANTeur she feels happy that Olive finds a boyfriend, but when she finds out he's a jerk, Chyna tried to tell Olive, which put their friendship at risk.
Season 3
In TrANTsferred, she sings Stars Aligning for the Z-Tech audition but doesn't get in. To get Zoltan to change his mind Chyna performs Stars Aligning with all 47 instruments she can play and ends up getting in.
In IndependANTs, she argues with olive for the fifth time because she thinks olive's rules are stupid and ridiculous.
In animal husbANTry, she and her friends are supposed to take care of Seth's animals but messes up.
In secret agANT, she falls in love with Dixon Ticonderoga a spy prodigy but fights with Lexi. This is the thirteenth time she beats Lexi. In the end, it was all a trick, because Olive was dating him.
In past, presANT, and future, she travels to the 1980s to save the future.
In angus' first movemANT, she and Angus had a conflict for the ringtone and Angus treats Chyna like a jerk.
In Unforeseen circumstANTs, she is upset that Kennedy doesn't like her so she tries to help her with Fletcher's party.
In pANTs on fire, she eats a truth serum which makes her tell the truth and some trivia is revealed. Then she eats a salad which makes her lie and argue with Olive.
In product misplacemANT, she leaves her phone at a restaurant and needs to know how to get it back from Hashimoto.
In uncanny resemblANTs she writes a song with Madame Goo Goo
Chyna's Quotes
Chyna: (Chyna walks into Webster High School) Oh my gosh! Dad look at this place! Lockers instead of cubbies! Driver's Ed instead of kiddie bikes! (bumps into a cute boy) Him instead of...... what was I talking about?
Darryl: So who are your friends?
Chyna: Oh uh, dad (points to Olive and Fletcher) this is Olive and Fletcher. My friends are here to... do homework. |
Olive Doyle (best friend)
Olive and Chyna are best friends and are always there for each other. Chyna helps Olive fit in to High School and grow up. Both treat each other like sisters. (See Cholive)
Fletcher Quimby (best friend/ex-boyfriend)
Chyna and Fletcher are really close. Even though Fletcher likes her, Chyna only likes him as a friend. (See Flyna).
Lexi Reed (frenemy)
Both come together at times. (See Chexi)
Cameron Parks (brother)
They don't interact much but love each other a lot.
Darryl Parks (father)
Chyna and Darryl have the closest father-daughter relationship on the show. He loves her more than Cameron.
Roxanne Parks (mother)
Roxanne loves Chyna. They don't interact much but still love each other a lot.
Kumiko Hashimoto/Kennedy Van Buren (classmate)
Kennedy hates Chyna and sees her as a boyfriend stealer. Chyna tries to form a truce with her but Kennedy doesn't appreciate her at all.
Background Information
- Chyna can play 47 instruments. She plays guitar, piano, violin, trumpet, saxophone, flute, cello, harp, bagpipes, French horn, Theremin, drums, harmonica, and the spoons, she "sings a little", and much more.
- She appears to be right-handed.
- She claims she thinks she is better with her guitar.
- The triangle is one of the only instruments she can't play.
- She is taller than Cameron even though Cameron is older than her.
- In Season 1 she has fully black hair. But in Season 2 her hair is still black but with hard to see brown streaks which turn into noticeable blonde streaks. She also has a red streak in detective agANTcy. In Season 3, she has black hair with a blonde hombre.
- She hates eating chicken.
- She sweats when she eats apples.
- She hates museums.
- She is seen to be very clever when it comes to plans.
- She sees Olive as a sister.
Chyna appears in all 62 episodes of A.N.T. Farm.
Although, one can argue that she appears in 60 episodes, since none of the regular universe characters actually appear in mutANT farm 1 or 2.
Season 1
- 1. transplANTed
- 2. participANTs
- 3. the phANTom locker
- 4. sciANTs fair
- 5. studANT council
- 6. bad romANTs
- 7. the informANT
- 8. replicANT
- 9. clairvoyANT
- 10. managemANT
- 11. philANThropy
- 12. fraudulANT
- 13. the replacemANT
- 14. mutANT farm (Mutant Chyna only)
- 15. cANTonese style cuisine
- 16. ignorANTs is bliss
- 17. slumber party ANTics
- 18. america needs talANT
- 19. sANTa's little helpers
- 20. you're the one that i wANT
- 21. performANTs
- 22. some enchANTed evening
- 23. patANT pending
- 24. ballet dANTser
- 25. body of evidANTs
Season 2
- 1. creative consultANT
- 2. infANT
- 3. fANTasy girl
- 4. modeling assignmANT
- 5. ANTswers
- 6. the ANTagonist
- 7. endurANTs
- 8. amusemANT park
- 9. contestANTs
- 10. confinemANT
- 11. intelligANT
- 12. significANT other
- 13. mutANT farm 2 (Mutant Chyna only)
- 14. detective agANTcy
- 15. scavANTger hunt
- 16. chANTs of a lifetime
- 17. early retiremANT
- 18. influANTces
- 19. idANTity crisis
- 20. restaurANTeur
Season 3
- 1. trANTsferred
- 2. independANTS
- 3. animal husbANTry
- 4. secret agANT
- 5. past, presANT, and future
- 6. angus' first movemANT
- 7. unforeseen circumstANTs
- 8. pANTs on fire
- 9. product misplacemANT
- 10. uncanny resemblANTs
- 11. mutANT farm 3
- 12. feature presANTation
- 13. finANTial crisis
- 14. silANT night
- 15. unwANTed
- 16. meANT to be?
- 17. the new york experiANTs
- Her locker is filled with sparkles and purple things as seen here.
- Her favorite color is purple on the show and in real life.
- Chyna sings every time there is a problem.
- She is mostly seen playing the guitar, even though she can play 47 instruments.
- She rejected Cameron's friend request on Wolf Pack.
- Her dad doesn't let her say 'butter' because it has the word 'butt' in it.
- She wants to be friends with Lexi.
- In the episode Modeling assignmANT, Chyna reveals that she's 12 years old, meaning she had to have been born in the year 2000.
- In Ballet dANTser, she says that she can't play the triangle
- Her real-life sisters were supposed to be relatives of the character at China's request, but the script for the episode couldn't be rewritten in time.
- She and Paisley are very good friends.
- It is stated by Lexi that Chyna is always trying to steal her spotlight.
- She is a musical prodigy in the A.N.T. Farm.
- Her favorite girl band is Trifecta, as shown in ChANTs of a lifetime.
- She likes joining clubs with her best friends and is shown to be joining lots of them.
- When Lexi broke her nose, Chyna replaces her for Lexi's Play. (ChANTs of a lifetime)
- The first song she sings (Other than the theme song) is Dynamite.
- Olive Doyle and Fletcher Quimby are her closest and best friends. They were the first ANTs to befriend Chyna.
- She bites her toenails
- She doesn't like watching staring contests.
- She always beats Lexi.
- Chyna hates chicken.
- She is older than Olive by four months.
- She's never kissed anyone, as revealed by Cameron Parks in transplANTed.
- She is always there for her friends.
- She seems to ship Folive, as she was happy they are now dating. (meANT to be?)
- She seems to un-ship Flyna.
- She is a lot like Liv Rooney from Liv and Maddie, as both ship their best friends and their crush, Chyna ships Folive and Liv ships Miggie.
- The band Trifecta from ChANTs of a lifetime are China Anne McClain's real sisters and "Go" is one of the band's songs.
- Chyna is somewhat similar to Jessie Prescott from Jessie.
- China Anne McClain is in all 62 episodes, but regular universe Chyna doesn't actually appear in MutANT farm 1 or 2. She does appear in MutANT farm 3 where she meets the alternate Chyna/Medusa.
Photo Gallery
To view the Chyna Parks photo gallery, click here.
v • e • d Characters |
ANTs |
Chyna Parks | Olive Doyle | Fletcher Quimby | Angus Chestnut | Violet | Benny | Svetlana | Nigel | Kennedy Van Buren | Dixon Ticonderoga |
Teens |
Lexi Reed | Cameron Parks | Paisley Houndstooth | Vanessa LaFontaine | McKenna | Sequoia Jones | Tazmanian Neville | Abigail Timmons | Keith | New kid | Annabelle | Hayley | Legan | Taffy & Envelope |
Adults |
Henry Gibson | Susan Skidmore | Darryl Parks | Roxanne Parks | Hippo | Mr. Zimbaldi | Madame Goo Goo | Zoltan Grundy | Winter Maddox | Mr. McMillan |


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Example: an interval type¶
We will extend the Numba frontend to support a class that it does not currently support so as to allow:
- Passing an instance of the class to a Numba function
- Accessing attributes of the class in a Numba function
- Constructing and returning a new instance of the class from a Numba function
(all the above in nopython mode)
We will mix APIs from the high-level extension API and the low-level extension API, depending on what is available for a given task.
The starting point for our example is the following pure Python class:
class Interval(object):
A half-open interval on the real number line.
def __init__(self, lo, hi):
self.lo = lo
self.hi = hi
def __repr__(self):
return 'Interval(%f, %f)' % (self.lo, self.hi)
def width(self):
return self.hi - self.lo
Extending the typing layer¶
Creating a new Numba type¶
As the Interval
class is not known to Numba, we must create a new Numba
type to represent instances of it. Numba does not deal with Python types
directly: it has its own type system that allows a different level of
granularity as well as various meta-information not available with regular
Python types.
We first create a type class IntervalType
and, since we don't need the
type to be parametric, we instantiate a single type instance interval_type
from numba import types
class IntervalType(types.Type):
def __init__(self):
super(IntervalType, self).__init__(name='Interval')
interval_type = IntervalType()
Type inference for Python values¶
In itself, creating a Numba type doesn't do anything. We must teach Numba
how to infer some Python values as instances of that type. In this example,
it is trivial: any instance of the Interval
class should be treated as
belonging to the type interval_type
from numba.extending import typeof_impl
def typeof_index(val, c):
return interval_type
Function arguments and global values will thusly be recognized as belonging
to interval_type
whenever they are instances of Interval
Type inference for operations¶
We want to be able to construct interval objects from Numba functions, so
we must teach Numba to recognize the two-argument Interval(lo, hi)
constructor. The arguments should be floating-point numbers:
from numba.extending import type_callable
def type_interval(context):
def typer(lo, hi):
if isinstance(lo, types.Float) and isinstance(hi, types.Float):
return interval_type
return typer
The type_callable()
decorator specifies that the decorated function
should be invoked when running type inference for the given callable object
(here the Interval
class itself). The decorated function must simply
return a typer function that will be called with the argument types. The
reason for this seemingly convoluted setup is for the typer function to have
exactly the same signature as the typed callable. This allows handling
keyword arguments correctly.
The context argument received by the decorated function is useful in more sophisticated cases where computing the callable's return type requires resolving other types.
Extending the lowering layer¶
We have finished teaching Numba about our type inference additions. We must now teach Numba how to actually generated code and data for the new operations.
Defining the data model for native intervals¶
As a general rule, nopython mode does not work on Python objects as they are generated by the CPython interpreter. The representations used by the interpreter are far too inefficient for fast native code. Each type supported in nopython mode therefore has to define a tailored native representation, also called a data model.
A common case of data model is an immutable struct-like data model, that
is akin to a C struct
. Our interval datatype conveniently falls in
that category, and here is a possible data model for it:
from numba.extending import models, register_model
class IntervalModel(models.StructModel):
def __init__(self, dmm, fe_type):
members = [
('lo', types.float64),
('hi', types.float64),
models.StructModel.__init__(self, dmm, fe_type, members)
This instructs Numba that values of type IntervalType
(or any instance
thereof) are represented as a structure of two fields lo
and hi
each of them a double-precision floating-point number (types.float64
Mutable types need more sophisticated data models to be able to persist their values after modification. They typically cannot be stored and passed on the stack or in registers like immutable types do.
Exposing data model attributes¶
We want the data model attributes lo
and hi
to be exposed under
the same names for use in Numba functions. Numba provides a convenience
function to do exactly that:
from numba.extending import make_attribute_wrapper
make_attribute_wrapper(IntervalType, 'lo', 'lo')
make_attribute_wrapper(IntervalType, 'hi', 'hi')
This will expose the attributes in read-only mode. As mentioned above, writable attributes don't fit in this model.
Exposing a property¶
As the width
property is computed rather than stored in the structure,
we cannot simply expose it like we did for lo
and hi
. We have to
re-implement it explicitly:
from numba.extending import overload_attribute
@overload_attribute(IntervalType, "width")
def get_width(interval):
def getter(interval):
return interval.hi - interval.lo
return getter
You might ask why we didn't need to expose a type inference hook for this
attribute? The answer is that @overload_attribute
is part of the
high-level API: it combines type inference and code generation in a
single API.
Implementing the constructor¶
Now we want to implement the two-argument Interval
from numba.extending import lower_builtin
from numba.core import cgutils
@lower_builtin(Interval, types.Float, types.Float)
def impl_interval(context, builder, sig, args):
typ = sig.return_type
lo, hi = args
interval = cgutils.create_struct_proxy(typ)(context, builder)
interval.lo = lo
interval.hi = hi
return interval._getvalue()
There is a bit more going on here. @lower_builtin
decorates the
implementation of the given callable or operation (here the Interval
constructor) for some specific argument types. This allows defining
type-specific implementations of a given operation, which is important
for heavily overloaded functions such as len()
is the class of all floating-point types (types.float64
is an instance of types.Float
). It is generally more future-proof
to match argument types on their class rather than on specific instances
(however, when returning a type – chiefly during the type inference
phase –, you must usually return a type instance).
and interval._getvalue()
are a bit
of boilerplate due to how Numba passes values around. Values are passed
as instances of llvmlite.ir.Value
, which can be too limited:
LLVM structure values especially are quite low-level. A struct proxy
is a temporary wrapper around a LLVM structure value allowing to easily
get or set members of the structure. The _getvalue()
call simply
gets the LLVM value out of the wrapper.
Boxing and unboxing¶
If you try to use an Interval
instance at this point, you'll certainly
get the error "cannot convert Interval to native value". This is because
Numba doesn't yet know how to make a native interval value from a Python
instance. Let's teach it how to do it:
from numba.extending import unbox, NativeValue
def unbox_interval(typ, obj, c):
Convert a Interval object to a native interval structure.
lo_obj = c.pyapi.object_getattr_string(obj, "lo")
hi_obj = c.pyapi.object_getattr_string(obj, "hi")
interval = cgutils.create_struct_proxy(typ)(c.context, c.builder)
interval.lo = c.pyapi.float_as_double(lo_obj)
interval.hi = c.pyapi.float_as_double(hi_obj)
is_error = cgutils.is_not_null(c.builder, c.pyapi.err_occurred())
return NativeValue(interval._getvalue(), is_error=is_error)
Unbox is the other name for "convert a Python object to a native value"
(it fits the idea of a Python object as a sophisticated box containing
a simple native value). The function returns a NativeValue
which gives its caller access to the computed native value, the error bit
and possibly other information.
The snippet above makes abundant use of the c.pyapi
object, which
gives access to a subset of the
Python interpreter's C API.
Note the use of c.pyapi.err_occurred()
to detect any errors that
may have happened when unboxing the object (try passing Interval('a', 'b')
for example).
We also want to do the reverse operation, called boxing, so as to return interval values from Numba functions:
from numba.extending import box
def box_interval(typ, val, c):
Convert a native interval structure to an Interval object.
interval = cgutils.create_struct_proxy(typ)(c.context, c.builder, value=val)
lo_obj = c.pyapi.float_from_double(interval.lo)
hi_obj = c.pyapi.float_from_double(interval.hi)
class_obj = c.pyapi.unserialize(c.pyapi.serialize_object(Interval))
res = c.pyapi.call_function_objargs(class_obj, (lo_obj, hi_obj))
return res
Using it¶
nopython mode functions are now able to make use of Interval objects and the various operations you have defined on them. You can try for example the following functions:
from numba import jit
def inside_interval(interval, x):
return interval.lo <= x < interval.hi
def interval_width(interval):
return interval.width
def sum_intervals(i, j):
return Interval(i.lo + j.lo, i.hi + j.hi)
We have shown how to do the following tasks:
- Define a new Numba type class by subclassing the
class - Define a singleton Numba type instance for a non-parametric type
- Teach Numba how to infer the Numba type of Python values of a certain class,
- Define the data model for a Numba type using
- Implementing a boxing function for a Numba type using the
decorator - Implementing an unboxing function for a Numba type using the
decorator and theNativeValue
class - Type and implement a callable using the
decorators - Expose a read-only structure attribute using the
convenience function - Implement a read-only property using the


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