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Bienvenue to the French Language
Update August 2023
Resources & Course Materials (3:46)
You already speak French (5:30)
Understanding what's happening in English in order to understand what's happening in French (5:41)
Your accent: Say it with your chest (4:19)
Your first words (4:23)
Words for when it's awkward and you don't know what to say (3:34)
Emphasis: Don't hit those French syllables like you do in English (2:58)
Sounds to make you sound fluent (0:45)
Greetings: Never forget to say Bonjour
Study Notes
Greetings : Never forget to say Bonjour (5:28)
That moment when your full convo consists of ça va (8:13)
The Bisous™ (1:59)
ER Verbs: You're gonna have to take these Frenchies to the ER cuz your French is about to be sick
Study Notes
I, you, he/she, we, y'all, they (4:19)
Conjugation and Infinitives: big words to explain what you're doing now (13:52)
L'élision: Make that E an apostrophe (12:49)
La liaison: It's all the buzz & don't forget to strap on that BOOT! (16:58)
Les devoirs (6:49)
Longer Sentences: Speak like a real human
Study Notes
Making your sentences worth listening to (8:57)
Verlan (12:38)
Il faut, ya fool! (11:27)
Combining two verbs (10:17)
Les devoirs (11:24)
Negation: The French art of saying non
Study Notes
The Ne...pas sandwich (8:58)
I think therefore I am (confused) (11:39)
Turning your No into Never, Nothing, No one, Nowhere, etc. (13:03)
Si se puede! (6:56)
Les devoirs (14:39)
Questions: The answer will still be non
Study Notes
The 3 ways to ask a simple question (9:35)
Asking more interesting questions (9:24)
Throwing on the ça, non, and si for emphasis (5:32)
Les devoirs (9:47)
You: Letting people know the who, where, and what
Study Notes
Hi. My name is. What? My name is. Who? (20:41)
I didn't ask to be born, but I'm from... (5:43)
I'm a (job). (9:38)
Les devoirs (17:43)
Gender: She's here to stay
Study Notes
Le, Las, Les, Un, Une, Des (18:42)
Adjectives and all their endings (6:30)
Order in the court! Placing your adjectives where they should be placed. (6:30)
Changing up the order of your words, so you sound more like a real French speaker (3:02)
Les devoirs (9:54)
Pronunciation & Alphabet: Lots of letters, and none are pronounced (but at least it looks pretty)
Study Notes
The ABC and Çs in French (20:26)
How to get your English-speaking mouth to make French sounds (16:36)
Words that don't mean much, but that are thrown into sentences which then throw you off (5:49)
The hardest words to pronounce in the French language (9:20)
Les devoirs (6:13)
Numbers 0-1000: 70 is where life gets fun
Study Notes
0 - 69 (8:56)
70, 80 - 100 (9:38)
Above 100 (10:55)
You're literally not your age (12:01)
Adding on -st -nd -rd and -th (5:51)
Prices: Eurobout to go broke (10:02)
Les devoirs (6:32)
Time, Days of the Week, & Months: It's all a construct anyway
Study Notes
The week starts on Monday (18:00)
The past, the present, and the future (18:43)
The months and seasons go by... (13:50)
It's 19 o'clock (12:35)
It's 19:43 (6:17)
Les devoirs (6:00)
Possession: Taking what's yours
Study Notes
Ma chérie d'amour (11:46)
Why do we say granddaughter and grandson? (8:44)
The beautiful union of the masculine and feminine (4:04)
What's mine is not yours ! (19:00)
Les devoirs (5:39)
Annoyingly necessary irregular verbs you must master
Study Notes
Être & avoir (9:39)
Faire (7:41)
Prendre (3:19)
Vouloir & Du, De la, Des (5:48)
Pouvoir, Arriver à, & Avoir le droit (9:53)
Aller & Le Futur Proche (3:51)
Savoir & Connaître (2:47)
Devoir (5:17)
Voir (3:15)
Venir (3:14)
Il y a (10:11)
The Past, Present, and Future of these irregular verbs (1:58)
Les devoirs (9:04)
In, at, on & Geography: Cuz you can't be in if you can't figure it out
Study Notes
The In crowd: Who knew there would be so many ways to say in? (4:44)
Chez qui ? (7:10)
À + le = au (and all the others) (6:17)
I'm in/going to a foreign country! (5:41)
I'm coming from a foreign country! (4:31)
Directions: Straight isn't so easy after all (6:34)
The other kind of straight: LGBT vocab (5:08)
Where things are in relation to other things (6:11)
Les devoirs (5:44)
This, That, and the other: it's like this and like that and like this and uh...
Study Notes
This! That! These! Those! (4:02)
This one! That one! These ones! Those ones! (5:33)
Which? Which one? Which ones? (5:41)
Les devoirs (6:07)
IR Verbs: The IRritation begins
Study Notes
IR Verbs: This issssss itttttt (14:21)
RE Verbs: Prepare for a shit show. They're REdiculous and pREblematic.
Study Notes
RE Verbs that keep the D (5:44)
RE verbs that drop the D (3:22)
RE verbs that are just REndom (4:00)
Les devoirs (5:14)
Comparatives & Superlatives : Doing the Most 101
Study Notes
Plus...Moins...The art of judging when no one asked (16:23)
Doing the most with the least | Nouns (3:22)
Doing the most with the least | Verbs (1:29)
I just got a mysterious box (7:29)
I'm gon' love you Better (9:02)
Just when you thought it couldn't get Worse (7:08)
As...as (3:43)
Cuz I'm both! The whole, entire, and all of it. (7:05)
Les devoirs (6:41)
Direct Objects: Getting directly to it
Study Notes
Bish who do ya love ? (7:39)
When you do direct objects, but then you don't really do direct objects (5:55)
Les devoirs (9:10)
Qui, Que, & all your questions
Study Notes
Qui, que, and come again? (10:57)
Ce qui & ce que, suckers (10:53)
Turn that De into a Dont (6:07)
Les devoirs (6:13)
The end of the beginning (of Level One)
Behind the Scenes (4:01)
Certificate of Completion
Advancing to Level 2
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The latest data on the history job market for the 2001-02 academic year provides some evidence that the profession is suffering from the recent economic downturn and budget cutting at the state level, as a number of jobs posted last year were cancelled by university administrations and junior faculty jobs took a slight dip. However, many key indicators remain quite positive, as the overall number of job listings for historians reached unprecedented heights, departmental listings in the new AHA Directory of History Departments indicate a slight gain in the number of full-time faculty, and the number of new PhDs is leveling off.
Overall, the number of job openings advertised in Perspectives rose for the sixth year, but openings for junior faculty (at the instructor or assistant professor level) actually fell 5.4 percent from the year before. The total number of job listings was inflated by an increase in the number of openings limited to senior scholars, nonacademic positions, and fellowships offering more than $25,000 per year, which rose 2.9 percent to 982 from 954 openings the year before(Figure 1).1 Among these positions, there were 70 postdoctoral and research fellowships (up from 49) that offered a livable income but no long-term job prospects, as well as listings for 59 jobs for PhDs outside of higher education (up from 31 last year).
Looking more specifically at the openings for new PhDs in the academy, the trends appear exceptionally uneven both across the nation and among different field specializations. Viewed by the location of prospective jobs (Figure 2), the contraction appears to be hitting hardest along the East Coast, as job openings fell 19 percent in the Northeast and 23 percent in the Southeast. In contrast, available jobs gained ground in the rest of the country, and did particularly well along the Pacific coast, where the number of jobs rose 18 percent.
A similar differentiation appears when one looks at the geographic area specializations being requested in the ads (Figure 3). Openings in Asian and Latin American history were up by over 18 percent, while postings for every other geographic area declined, by as little as 4.4 percent for specialists in U.S. history to as high as 42 percent for historians of Africa.
For the second year, we also analyzed the listings for any mention of particular field specializations (Figure 4). Even though it does not differentiate between primary, secondary, and "preferred" areas of specialization, this tabulation does provide a more detailed indicator of how many advertisers were seeking a particular field of specialization.
The most notable change from the prior academic year was a decrease in requests for broad thematic specializations such as social, political, and cultural history. Departments seemed much more specific about the types of history specialists they wanted this past year. Since we have only last year to compare it to, and the numbers in all but the largest categories are fairly small, it is difficult to say whether this sort of fluctuation is the norm.
Survey of Advertisers Points to Conflicting Problems
A survey of search committees who advertised jobs in Perspectives last year suggests that the recent budget cutting at many universities did have an impact on the academic job market for historians. But the survey also pointed to another problem (although a problem with more positive connotations), as search committees in a number of fields reported a growing problem on the supply side. A number of departments complained that they could not hire the candidate they wanted because the available jobs seemingly exceeded the number of qualified (or at least "desired") candidates.
To elicit information on reported budget cutting and hiring freezes in history departments, staff sent a survey to everyone who advertised a position in the Employment Information section of Perspectives last year, asking how many applicants applied for the position, whether the position was filled, and the status of the hire. Unfortunately, the responses to the surveys about senior and nonacademic openings were inadequate for reliable analysis. However, we did receive responses from over 54 percent of those advertising positions open to junior faculty (409 of 757). Since these closely represented the subject fields advertised and the institutional types doing the advertising, we feel comfortable making them the focus of analysis.
The most notable finding from the surveys was that just over 20 percent of the advertised positions (85 of 409 responses) for junior faculty were unfilled as of this fall. This marked a significant increase from similar surveys conducted over the past 6 years, in which around 12 percent of all advertised positions went unfilled.
While that sounds quite appalling in the present climate of budget cutting, the reasons search committees gave for not hiring someone suggest a more complex picture, and one that highlights significant disparities among the subfields of the discipline. The budget ax seemed to fall hardest on African history, where 17 percent of the respondents said their search had been cancelled for budgetary reasons. Latin American and European history fared little better, as around 8 percent of the positions in those fields were reported cancelled. In comparison, U.S. history did fairly well, as "only" 4.5 percent of the responding institutions told us they could not fill their position due to budget cuts or hiring freezes.
This stands in marked contrast to the fields of Asian and Middle Eastern history, where the more pressing problem seemed to be the lack of a sufficient number of suitable applicants for available jobs. Perhaps not surprisingly, given recent events, none of the positions in Middle Eastern history were reported cancelled, and fully one-third of all positions went unfilled due to a lack of qualified applicants or because one or more of the selected candidates turned down the offer. Similarly, while 6 percent of the Asian history positions were cancelled, a much larger proportion of the positions (25 percent) went unfilled because the search committees couldn't find someone to take the job.
In contrast, only around 5 percent of the positions in European and Latin American history went unfilled for lack of a suitable or willing candidate. The responses in U.S. history add another small wrinkle, as almost 15 percent of the positions went unfilled due to a lack of candidates, often because they were seeking a specialist in a particular field of racial or ethnic history (African American or Hispanic and Latino American history).
For almost all of the positions that went unfilled (83 percent), the departments reported they would reopen the search-half of them in the current academic year. The response rate was similar among those cancelled for budgetary reasons and those without an acceptable candidate. Most (61 percent) said they would re-advertise the position in the current academic year.
On a more positive note, in almost every field the number of applicants per position is down markedly from two previous surveys conducted among advertisers in 1995-96 and 1999-2000 (Figure 5). On average, the number of applicants has declined 15 percent from the survey conducted just two years ago. And even in fields with significant disparities between jobs and new PhDs-particularly 20th-century U.S. and modern European history-the average number of applicants is down by over 20 percent.
On one of the persistent questions people put to us-about how many people from non-history departments are competing in the history job market-the results were rather surprising. Just over 12 percent (42 of 324) of the newly hired received their PhD from a program other than a history department. The largest number-though only 3 out of that 42-had received their PhDs from American studies programs.
Long-Term Trends Remain Positive
Many of the broad indicators we look at for signs of the future are also quite positive. Information submitted for the 2002-03 Directory of History Departments indicates that departments did not experience a contraction in the number of full-time faculty, and actually enjoyed a net increase overall. At the same time, the proportion of the faculty members in history departments who are now approaching retirement now stands at the highest point in six years. Meanwhile, on the supply side, the number of new admissions to history PhD programs continues to decline, and the numbers of new history PhDs is leveling off.
Perhaps the best news is evidence of modest growth in the number of full-time faculty, despite the recent problems in the economy and state budgets. Among the 621 departments listed in both this and last year's editions of the Directory, the number of full-time faculty actually increased, although by a modest 0.8 percent (Figure 6), as almost all of the retiring senior professors were replaced with assistant professors, and a number of other departments hired replacements for positions left vacant in the prior year.
While the Directory listings do not provide specific evidence about the terms of employment, our survey of search committees suggests that most of these hires were to tenure-track appointments. Just over 90 percent of the faculty hired at the assistant professor level were brought in on the tenure track.
As we noted last year, the profession is in the midst of a large wave of retirements from history departments. As indicated in Figure 6, just over 6 percent of the faculty at the full and associate professor left their jobs last year. While just under a third of them left for jobs at another college or university, the great majority were retiring permanently from full-time teaching. This is reflected in the large number of faculty listed in the "Emeritus Faculty" category, which has been the fastest growing segment for the past six years, and now accounts for 14 percent of the historians listed at departments in the Directory.
Despite the large outflow of senior faculty over the past six years, the proportion of faculty in their late 60s (and thus likely to be near retirement) has actually increased over the past six years. As of this fall, we estimate that 22.4 percent of full-time history faculty members were over the age of 66, up from 17.9 percent six years ago.2 This cohort encompasses faculty hired during the sudden sharp increase in hiring in the late 1960s and very early 1970s, which accounted for more a third of all history faculty as recently as six years ago.
Since the current wave of retirements is likely to continue and so many colleges and universities are experiencing economic hardship, we were particularly interested in any signs that the history departments are retaining and refilling vacated budget lines. Certainly the slight increase in the number of full-time faculty is a very positive indicator. However, the respondents to our survey of search committees added a note of caution about the future.
We asked respondents to estimate how many retirements they anticipated in the next five years, and how many of those retirees they could replace. Eighty-one percent of the 303 departments that ventured an estimate thought that at least one member of their faculty would retire in the next five years, averaging out to almost three retirements per department.3 However, they were not terribly optimistic about their ability to replace all of their departing faculty. Just over 11 percent (34 responses) said they were too uncertain to even offer a provisional estimate of how many faculty they could replace. Another 15 percent of the respondents expected that the retirements would result in a net loss of one or more faculty from their department. Despite that finding, however, respondents who offered an opinion estimated they could replace 91 percent of their retirees.
Not surprisingly, given recent budget cutting at the state level, respondents at public colleges and universities were significantly more pessimistic, expecting more than three times as many lost positions as private institutions.
Further Improvements on the Supply Side
On the supply side of the equation the news is far better, as the number of new students admitted into PhD programs, the number of students in the programs, and even the number of dissertations in progress all fell again last year.
The number of new graduate students admitted to history PhD programs declined last year, falling to 2,388 new students admitted in the fall of 2001. Admissions reached their peak ten years ago, when 3,320 students were admitted and have declined every year since. It should be noted that last year's decline came in spite of the intentions of the departments, who collectively had hoped to admit almost 100 more students. The disparity between the programs' estimates for admissions and the number of students actually admitted suggests some reluctance among prospective history students to enter PhD programs in the current climate. Perhaps because of the recent declines and shortfalls in admissions and signs of improvement in the job market, departments reported that they hope to reverse that trend fairly sharply this fall. PhD-granting history programs estimated that they would admit 2,560 new students into their programs this year.
PhD-granting history departments reported 11,359 "actively enrolled" graduate students in their programs last year, down 2 percent from the year before and 15.4 percent from its peak of 13,429 in the 1995-96 academic year. At the same time the number of history dissertations reported to the AHA as "in progress" fell 2 percent to 3,760-the third annual decrease and the smallest number since the AHA began systematically collecting this information in 1997-98.
These declines have yet to have a direct impact on the number of new PhDs produced, which was essentially the same as it was the year before. Since it takes an average of over eight years to complete a history PhD, the production of new PhDs has lagged well behind the trend in admissions and enrollments.
—Robert B. Townsend is assistant director for research and publications at the American Historical Association. Directory Editor Liz Townsend assisted in the tabulation of data from the new edition.
1. The AHA has been categorizing the field specializations for job openings since the academic job market began its decline in 1991-92. See Susan Socolow, "Assessing Trends in the Job Market," Perspectives 32:5 (May/June 1993) and Robert Townsend, "Academic Job Opportunities Better than Expected in 1997," in Perspectives 36:7 (October 1997), 9.
2. This is calculated on the basis of a simple tabulation of the number of faculty who received their PhDs more than 31 years ago, and assuming an average age at the time of degree of 32, based on data from the annual Summary Report: Research Doctorates in the United States and the last survey of Humanities Doctorates in the United States, conducted in 1995.
3. Ninety-three percent of the respondents answered the question, but the number tabulated is significantly smaller than the total number of respondents because a number of departments had more than one position listed last year.
4. Nell Irvin Painter asserted in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education ("Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception," 15 December 2000) that many black faculty often felt that their white colleagues did not respect their intellectual ability. Minority graduate students may be experiencing a similar phenomenon.
5. Townsend, "Status of Women and Minorities in the History Profession," 19.
6. Lynn Hunt, "Democracy and Hierarchy in Higher Education," Perspectives, 40:4 (April 2002), 7.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
Is Prog Rock Really Progressive? A New Book Discussing the Progress in Progressive Rock Music
Is Prog Rock really progressive anymore? How do the current Prog bands feel about the genre and its legacy? Do they feel that there is progress in the music they perform? Different Prog artists/bands are being interviewed and answer 5 questions about the current status of the Progressive Rock and its culture. This exploratory research focuses on exploring the present and the future of a music genre that survived through the years due to its innovative nature.
While most of the previous Prog books focus on historical facts of the genre, this journalistic effort is a self-criticism of the genre through the looking glass of modern and active Prog musicians. The book starts with an introduction to Prog Rock by VIAJERO INMÓVIL Records (Argentina) and the rest of the material is divided into chapters that include the musicians' answers to the following discussion themes:
1. What is progress in Progressive Rock?
2. Is Progressive Rock really progressive?
3. Accepting other music genres as progressive music
4. Next step for the progress of Progressive Rock
5. Technology and Progressive Rock
The participating Prog artists/bands that are being interviewed: Aisles, Anubis, Ant-Bee, EchoTest, Evership, Karakorum, Kotebel, Life After Mars, Light Freedom Revival, Lars Eric Mattson, Liquid Orbit, Magenta, Mouth, Process of Illumination, RTFACT, Robert Berry, Seven Impale, Soul Enema, Sproingg, Terra Collective, Time King, Wobbler, Yang.
The book was written by Vasileios Yfantis who has also authored other thematic books on Punk, Metal and music technology. Next plans for Vasileios Yfantis include the release of a Prog musical album in 2020 and a new book on melodic rock scheduled for release during the early 2021.
Product details
Paperback: 119 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 11, 2020)
Language: English
Book Distribution
Paperback version: https://www.amazon.com/Prog-Rock-Really-Progressive/dp/1548614416/
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About the author
Vasileios Yfantis has been working in the music industry for more than 20 years as a freelance music journalist. Moreover, he holds 2 Master Degrees in Information Technology and he is a Phd candidate in University of West Attica in Greece. Vasileios has presented conference papers in both Europe and Africa. The main areas of his research interests feature: Musicology, Marketing, Information Communications Technology, Digital Entertainment Industry.
1. V. Yfantis, "The Commercial Exploitation Of Color As A Consumer Stimulus" (Greek Edition), Createspace, 2013.
2. V. Yfantis, "The Lost Lyrics" (Greek Edition), Createspace, 2013.
3. V. Yfantis, "Punk Goes Science: The Academic Punk Bibliography",CreateSpace, 2014.
4. V. Yfantis, "City Streets Of Europe", Lulu, 2017.
5. V. Yfantis, "Metal Goes Science", Createspace 2017.
6. V. Yfantis, "Disadvantaged Populations And Technology In Music", Createspace 2017.
7. V. Yfantis, "Hip Hop Goes Science: Volume I", Createspace 2019.
For more information about Yfantis books, check out here: https://www.amazon.com/Vasileios-Yfantis/e/B00JNNL306
For more information about Yfantis music, check out here: https://billyyfantis.bandcamp.com/
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Preservation of Police Headquarters
The Police Headquarters Building, built in 1927 and designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell, is an integral part of our civic buildings group. Losses in the past twenty years of the Kiel Auditorium, Police court, Board of Elections, Jail and the Children's buildings have already diminished that group. The Headquarters and the adjacent Police Academy, built in 1928 and also designed by Mauran, Russell and Crowell, form a distinguished if austere pair.
The Police Headquarters is not a City Landmark, is not listed in the National Register of Historic Places and sits in a ward (the 7th) that lacks preservation review of demolition permits. All of those statuses should change, but National Register listing could be the most beneficial for the department to come up with a financially feasible plan for rehabilitation. Our ancestors had a knack for building great public buildings, and we have a knack for rehabbing them for original or new uses. Chief Isom and the Board of Police Commissioners can count on a lot of help -- and creativity -- preserving Police Headquarters.
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If he is thinking about demolition, why have there been workers all over the building for weeks cleaning and (waterproofing??) the exterior masonry?
- 9:40 PM, June 11, 2009
exquisite corpse?
- 10:10 PM, June 12, 2009
Anon: the repointing and waterproofing apparently is part of the bond issue passed a few years ago. That chunk of money is not currently sufficient for all of the stated needs of the building. I really don't see where they are going to get the money for either reno or demo/rebuild without another bond issue. Muni bonds are not exactly being snapped up like they once were. Still, the building is structurally sound, and should be a good candidate for updating. Though if I had my 'd'ruthers, City Hall would get the full reno treatment before any other civic building. 50 million USD, minimum. I am a little curious about the Chief's motivations, though. Who, or what, put this bug in his ear? Did he see the new HQ of some other metros' PD? "I want, I want!"
- 9:26 AM, June 13, 2009


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By John Gruber
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With what passes for fanfare in the PC world — exclusive interviews with a business reporter from USA Today — Dell last week announced its foray into the consumer electronics business. Most notably, the Dell Digital Jukebox (a.k.a. "Dell DJ") music player, and the Dell Music Store. Comparisons to Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store were and are inevitable.
Of course, what Dell actually announced wasn't its foray, but rather its upcoming foray. Neither the gadgetry nor music store is yet available. Nor any specifics, like, say, pricing and storage capacity. But we need no more than a glance at a promotional photo of the Dell DJ to fairly describe it as an iPod knock-off.
Based solely on this single promotional photo, I could even start taking potshots at the Dell DJ, pointing out why it's not just an iPod knock-off, but an inferior knock-off. Like its oddly bulbous form factor and front face, which strikes me as a weak attempt at making it seem smaller than it really is. (Dell hasn't released its dimensions, but I'm guessing it's bigger than the iPod in all three dimensions, most especially depth.)
Or the on-screen menu, most of the items on which use two words (good UI design encourages one-word menu names — like the iPod's). Or that they go so far as to use the word mode, which is arguably the dirtiest four-letter-word in the usability dictionary. (If you have to call it a "mode", you went wrong.)
Or the Dell DJ's scroll wheel, which looks sort of like the scroll wheel on a mouse, and which is therefore so obviously less usable than the iPod's dial as to be laughable. (You can scroll through long lists with an iPod using one continuous circular motion with your thumb; with a DJ-like scroll wheel, you're forced to scroll in short strokes, picking up your thumb each time, repeatedly, which wastes half your effort.)
No, I could take those potshots today, but I won't. Instead, for the sake of argument, let's concede that the DJ is (1) on equal footing with the iPod in terms of size, features, and usability; and also (2) that it's a bit cheaper — say, US$100 less for a comparable model.
Guess what: Dell is still fucked.
Such thinking is utterly contrary to PC-industry conventional wisdom. But PC-industry conventional wisdom, especially the kind put forth by Wall Street analysts, is nearly always wrong — at least regarding Apple. Here's the gist of the conventional wisdom:
Apple Computer is an innovative company. Every few years, they come out with something incredible: well-designed, elegant, attractive, and original. But also expensive. And after Apple shows the way, more efficient companies come along and create knock-offs that are almost as good as Apple's original, but cost a lot less. The knock-offs wind up dominating the market, while Apple is relegated to niche status, succeeding only with customers who are willing to pay a premium for a slightly better product. While Apple is busy striving for perfection, its competitors are striving for sales.
That sounds about right, no? This sort of thing just keeps happening to Apple, and it's probably going to happen again with the iPod. And it's unfair, because the rest of the industry would still be back in the fucking command-line Stone Age if it weren't for Apple.
But it's totally wrong. Well, except for the bit about the Stone Age, which is probably true.
At best, the aforementioned conventional wisdom is an accurate assessment of a single case: the market for personal computers with graphical user interfaces. Admittedly, that was a market that wound up being worth tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars. No argument, Apple blazed that trail but blew the chance to occupy a large segment of the market.
But to what other markets has this formula applied? PDAs come to mind, meaning the Newton. But the Newton wasn't beaten by inferior knock-offs — it was beaten by superior knock-offs. Newtons cost $1000 (or more) and weren't even close to pocket-sized. Hypothetically, Apple could have produced a pocket-sized Newton that cost $500 and easily synched with your Mac, digital-hub-style. But they didn't. Apple's Newton epitomized the difference between superior technology and a superior product.
The iPod is a superior product.
It's long been my belief that Apple's mid-1980s management grossly underestimated the potential market for personal computers in the business world, and that this underestimation was at the root of their failure to establish a larger market share.
The idea behind the Mac was that smart creative people could accomplish amazing things with the right computer. All previous computers had been oriented toward technical nerds; the Mac was oriented toward creative nerds. What I think Apple's management foresaw was a computer industry comprised solely of niches. Your smart creative types would be using Macs, the accountants would be using DOS PCs, and some propeller heads would be using Unix.
In 1975, the market for personal computers was around zero. By 1980, it was small but growing fast. By 1985, it was big — at least by the standards of the previous ten years — and Apple had a big chunk of it. But within another decade, almost everyone in America with a desk job would have a computer on that desk.
Apple missed this, and marketed the Macintosh to individuals and small groups (and schools). The Wintel PC industry, in the large, took the opposite route, and marketed toward large corporations. Apple succeeded in terms of making the Mac successful in the markets they targeted; they failed in terms of seeing how big the corporate market really was.
Dell, as much as any PC maker, exemplified this corporate focus. The Dell brand stands for computers that are just like the other guys', except a little cheaper. This brand message was and is hugely popular with corporate bean counters.
But this doesn't do Dell a bit of good in the consumer electronics market. Corporations buy computers for their employees, but they don't buy MP3 players. The iPod's brand — and Apple's — is strongest with individuals. Which is exactly the sort of brand that's needed to sell portable music players.
The Macintosh wasn't the first GUI, but it was the first useful one. In the same way, the iPod wasn't the first portable MP3 player, but it might as well have been. Earlier ones that were small enough used solid state memory, measured only in megabytes. (Somewhere in the back of a cabinet drawer in our home office lies my wife's 128 MB Rio, which held a whopping 11 songs; it hasn't been touched since a certain someone bought her an iPod.) Ones with hard drives were too big to carry easily, and also lacked a useful way to navigate hundreds or thousands of songs.
But the iPod is not merely an engineering and usability success. It's also a marketing success. Everyone knows what an iPod is, and what it does. And everyone knows that they're cool.
Andy Warhol said:
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke and, just think, you can drink Coke too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
The iPod is the Coca-Cola of music players. It's not an expensive computer peripheral — it's a low-cost luxury item. For $500, anyone can buy the best MP3 player in the world, the same one used by the world's most famous, most talented music stars — like Moby, Beck, and Shaq.
According to this Wired article by Leander Kahney, Apple's brand is ranked first among American youth. Not the first computer brand, not the first gadgetry brand — the first brand, period. Regardless if you agree with the exact ranking — which is obviously debatable — there's no dispute that Apple is a brand-image heavyweight. Its brand peers are companies like Nike, VW, and Levi's.
Dell's brand peers are boring-ass, nose-to-the-grindstone companies like HP. Having a stronger brand than Creative Labs is worth something, but not much.
If the iPod is Coke, its current competition consists of nothing but store brands, those cans that just read "Cola". Dell, to be blunt, is no Pepsi. There is no Pepsi in the current digital music player market.
Which is not to say there couldn't be. Sony, if it wanted to, could produce a serious iPod rival. Imagine a Sony pocket-sized, hard-drive-based music player that doubled as a PlayStation peripheral — take your music and your saved games with you. Very cool.
But that's a big if, because Sony doesn't sell hard-drive-based MP3 players. Mini Disc MP3 players could have been enormously successful had they debuted a few years ago, but now that Sony is finally selling them, their 5-hour storage capacity seems, well, quaint. Sony, the gadget-maker, is seemingly beholden to the head-in-the-sand digital music policies of Sony, the record label.
Apple's "Rip, Mix, Burn" slogan, on the other hand, carries a clear message to music lovers: The RIAA doesn't like MP3s, but we know that you do, and we're out to make you happy, not the RIAA.
If not Sony, who?
There's Microsoft, of course. Windows integration would pose no problem, and an Xbox tie-in similar to the aforementioned PlayStation idea would set it apart from the iPod. But: (a) Microsoft seems to have little interest in non-rights-managed media formats like MP3 — and consumers have little interest in rights-managed media formats like WMA; and (b) given the amount of cash Microsoft has already lost on the Xbox, I suspect they might be a tad reluctant to push further into consumer electronics. Microsoft certainly has money to burn, but that doesn't mean they enjoy striking matches. Much like Dell, Microsoft's brand strength is with corporate bean counters.
Nokia or Ericsson, maybe. Either could make an MP3-player/mobile phone that would take up a lot less pocket space than an iPod and a regular phone.
Am I missing someone else? Another company with enough branding, engineering, and software know-how?
This idea that the iPod's position is precarious — that any day now, some cheaper weak-branded knock-off will knock Apple off its perch — is exactly backwards. The iPod doesn't just lead in market share; it leads in mind share. Any competing player that doesn't establish an iPod-caliber brand isn't even competing at all.
PC industry pundits continue to assert that Apple can't possibly succeed by selling excellent products at premium prices — that they'll inevitably succumb to mediocre products at discount prices. Tell that to Nike.
Apple isn't Microsoft — their goal isn't to sell every MP3 player. Just a lot of them.
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David Cappelleri
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Assistant Vice President for Research Innovation
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
Office: HLAB 1014
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, '98
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, '00
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, '08
Research Interests
- Multi-scale robotic manipulation and assembly
- Mobile micro/nano robotics
- Micro/nano aerial vehicles
- Micro-Bio robotics
- Mechatronics
- Automation for the life sciences
Fundamental Research Area(s)
Application Area(s)
Awards and Recognitions
- John J. Gallen Memorial Award,, Villanova University College of Engineering Alumni Society, 2013.
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2012
- Who's Who in Engineering Higher Education (WWEHE), AcademicKeys, 2012.
- Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Invitee and participant, 2011
- Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Assistant Professor Teaching Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2010
- Young Scientist Award, Association for Laboratory Automation and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2010
- GAANN Fellowship Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004
- NAI Award, Radionics, 2003
- Graduate Scholar Fellowship Award,, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering, 1998-2000
- Magna Cum Laude, Villanova University, 1998
- Academic Excellence Award, Villanova University, College of Engineering, 1998
- Meritorious Service Award, Villanova University, College of Engineering, 1998
- Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Villanova University, 1998
- National Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi
Selected Publications
Y. Long, D. Cappelleri, "Global Trajectory Tracking Control Design and Control Allocation for the Omnicopter MAV", Advanced Robotics, to appear, 2013.
W. Jing, N. Pagano, D. Cappelleri, "A Novel Micro-Scale Magnetic Tumbling Microrobot", Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 1-12, 2013, DOI: 10.1007/s12213-012-0053-1.
D. Cappelleri, N. Vitoroulis, "The Robotic Decathlon: Project-Based Learning Labs and Curriculum Design for an Introductory Robotics Course", Special Issue on Robotics Education, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 56, Issue 1, pp 73-81, February, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TE.2012.2215329.
D. Cappelleri, Z. Fu. M. Fatovic, U. Shah, "Caging for 2D and 3D Micromanipulation", Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp 115-129, December 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s12213-012-0050-4.
D. Cappelleri, P. Cheng, J. Fink, B. Gavrea, V. Kumar, "Automated Assembly for Meso-Scale Parts", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 598-613, 2011.
D. Cappelleri, G. Piazza, V. Kumar, "A Two Dimensional Vision-Based Force Sensor for Microrobotic Applications", Sensors & Actuators: A Physical, Vol. 171, Issue 2, pp. 340-351, 2011.
D. Cappelleri, A. Halasz, J-Y. Sul, T. Kim, J. Eberwine, and V. Kumar, "Towards A Fully Automated High-Throughput Phototransfection System", Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), vol. 15, pp. 329-341, August 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2010.03.003
D. Cappelleri, G. Krishnan, C. Kim, V. Kumar, "Towards the Design of a Decoupled, Two-Dimensional, Vision-Based μN Force Sensor", ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2010.
J-Y Sul, C. K. Wu, F. Zeng, J. Jochems, M. T. Lee, T. K. Kim, T. Peritz, P. Buckley, D. Cappelleri, M. Maronski, M. Kim, V. Kumar, D. Meaney, J. Kim and J. Eberwine, "Transcriptome Transfer Produces a Predictable Cellular Phenotype", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009: May 5;106(18):7624-9. Epub 2009 Apr 20. PMCID: PMC2670883.
D. Cappelleri, M. Frecker, T. Simpson, and A. Snyder, "A Metamodel-Based Approach for Optimal Design of a PZT Bimorph Actuator for Minimally Invasive Surgery", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 124:2 (354-357), 2002.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Bills receiver Cole Beasley does not plan to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and insists he will not follow rules jointly adopted by the NFL and NFLPA requiring unvaccinated players to stay clear of people.
Tweeting in response to criticism over the last 24 hours of his stance on social media, Beasley confirmed Friday he is not vaccinated and will "live my one life like I want to regardless."
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— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) June 18, 2021
"I will be outside doing what I do," he tweeted. "I'll be out in public. If your (sic) scared of me then steer clear, or get vaccinated ... I may die of covid, but I'd rather die actually living.
"I'm not going to take meds for a leg that isn't broken. I'd rather take my chances with Covid and build up my immunity that way ...I'll play for free this year to live life how I've lived it from day one. If I'm forced into retirement, so be it."
Beasley said a lot of players agree with him and but many are not established veterans. The 32-year-old who is entering his 10th season wants to represent those players, he tweeted.
Beasley tweeted that his has spoken with the players' association since initially ripping them on their agreement with the league.
The new policy applies to training camp and the preseason. It restricts unvaccinated players while allowing vaccinated players to return to near normalcy, which made Beasley think the union was not representing all the players.
Beasley tweeted Friday morning a confirmation of The Athletic's report that the NFLPA had reached out to him earlier in the day and come to an understanding regarding certain aspects of the policy.
Under the new policy, vaccinated players will also no longer be required to wear masks at the team's facility or during team travel. They will have no travel restrictions, can use the sauna/steam room and weight room without capacity limits, and can interact with vaccinated friends and family during team travel.
Unvaccinated players will be required to tested for COVID-19 daily and must wears masks in team facilities and during travel. They will also not be allowed to use the sauna/steam rooms, are subject to weight room capacity limits, and may not leave the team hotel to eat or interact with anyone outside of the team traveling party during travel.
The biggest issue for Cole is the difference between the protocols for those vaccinated and those not after high-risk exposure to COVID-19.
Unvaccinated players will be required to quarantine after high-risk exposure, while vaccinated players will not.
Beasley is entering his third season with the Bills. He had career best of 82 catches for 967 yards in 2020. He has two years and roughly $11.9 million remaining on his contract.
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You say you want to make your money go further, but how much conviction do you have to go through with it? Doubtfully not as much as these people.
In case you hadn't heard, these two dietary extremists decided a few months ago to get by for thirty days on $1 worth of food per day. They used the power of bulk buying and have the math and recipes to prove it. The fellow lost a bunch of weight, they were weak and tired all the time, and they had to blow what little surplus they had on Tang to avoid scurvy.
All of this to illuminate the fact millions of people subsist on this food budget around the world.
There are some ingredient ideas, however, that you could work into your own routine to relax your waistline and wallet.
For their hardship the two are semi-famous world travelers and have a book deal in the works. A nice trade off don't you think?


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Photos documenting this address as part of a photographic series undertaken by volunteer photographers during 2013 and 2014 for The Street Where You Live Project. This was organised through the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre and covered the postcode 3127 in the cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse.
These photos provide a snapshot of real estate in the suburbs of Mont Albert and Surrey Hills during a period of rapid change with many properties on large blocks demolished to create higher density residential development or renewal of single dwellings. At particular risk were properties not covered by heritage overlays, especially interwar housing and post 1950's housing.