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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
North Carolina going bad for Obama
A sharp turn against him with independent voters is what's causing Obama problems in the state. Last month they narrowly gave him good marks by a 47/46 margin but now only 36% are happy with him while 62% disapprove. Obama's approval with Democrats is 77%, generally on par with what it's been over the course of his time in office. And even though receiving only 5% approval from Republicans is pretty bad for Obama it's also nothing new- he's had little crossover popularity with GOP voters since the day he took office.
Obama's declining popularity also means he's not doing as well in head to head match ups against possible Republican opponents for next year. He is now tied with Mitt Romney at 45%. Although the margins were usually small he had led Romney all eight previous times PPP polled a match up between the two of them in the state. The key here is again those independent voters- they give Romney a 17 point advantage at 50-33.
Obama does lead the rest of the Republican field but with the exception of Sarah Palin his advantages are modest: he's up 3 against Michele Bachmann at 46-43, 4 against Herman Cain at 46-42, 5 against Tim Pawlenty at 46-41, and 8 against Palin at 50-42.
The reality for Obama is worse than those topline numbers indicate. In all of the match ups the vast majority of undecideds disapprove of the job Obama's doing- it's 84% against Palin, 83% against Pawlenty, 81% against Cain, 77% against Bachmann, and 74% against Romney. In all likelihood most of those undecideds would not be in Obama's camp if they really had to vote today but are on the fence at this point while they wait to see who the GOP nominee is. If their votes broke the same direction as their feelings about the President that would leave him trailing all of them except for Palin.
If there is a saving grace for Obama it's that voters don't respond well to any of the Republican candidates on a personal level either. Bachmann has the best favorability numbers but it's still a -8 spread at 34/42. She's followed by Cain's -12 at 24/36, Romney's -15 at 32/47, Pawlenty's -21 at 19/40, and Palin's -22 at 35/57. The Republicans' poll numbers all have two things in common: independents dislike them and Democratic voters are more unified in disliking all of them than Republicans are in liking them. If the GOP had an appealing set of candidates Obama would likely be in a far worse position in the state.
This is the third key swing state in the last week, along with New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, where we've found Obama with under water approval numbers and struggling in head to heads with Romney. Obama's poll numbers have seemed to go bad every summer since he went to the heart of the American spotlight and they usually see some recovery- he'll have to hope that will be the case again this time around.
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Right now people are not paying attention to politics. However the economy stinks. Thus people are naturally blaming the incumbent President. Once the 2012 campaign gets in gear, people will take a look at the GOP candidates and prefer Obama as the lesser of two evils. So far, people don't like the GOP candidates.
- July 13, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Out of your last 7 GOP primary polls that include all candidates (UT, NH, TX, NM, OR, MT and FL), Ron Paul has polled better than Tim Pawlenty in 6 of those 7 polls and polled better or same with Herman Cain in 5 of those 7 polls.
Will you begin to include Ron Paul in the head to head matchup with Obama or will you drop Pawlenty and/or Cain in the head to head matchup? - July 13, 2011 at 4:29 PM
Wait until we see how this debt ceiling fight plays out. After McConnell's cave, it looks like Obama's going to come away the winner on that one which didn't seem like the case for months.
- July 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- I Am Iron Man said...
I'm curious as to what the favorable ratings are for the Republican candidate among those who are "undecided." I know they mostly are unhappy with Obama... but they must not be pleased with the Republican candidate too if they aren't in their camp. Or perhaps it's a matter of not knowing them yet? In that case; I don't think Michele Bachmann's numbers will be getting any better. The more people learn about her, the worse she will do.
- July 13, 2011 at 6:04 PM
Obama is going lose North Carolina in a 55 to 45 type fashion.
- July 13, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Of course Obama's approval is sinking - the country is failing, people are out of work, the rest of the world hates us more than they did before, we're so far in debt there's no hope on the horizon, and our president is constantly lecturing us. Obama's performance will drag down the rest of the NC Dems, including bff Anthony Foxx.Making NC the "heart of the re-election campaign" was a desperate mistake. Not only will Obama lose, the rest of the Dems will, too. Let's hope we can survive two more years until we can turn this train around.
- July 13, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Bob Diamond said...
It appears that Bev Perdue and Anthony Foxx are on about the same path as Obama. Either they are not able to read the tea leaves, or they don't think that the rest of us understand that these tough times require real leaders, not political hacks, in those offices. It looks like they are both leaving their doors wide open for Pat McCrory and Scott Stone. The 7 veto overrides are more than enough evidence to indicate that the political climate is quickly changing in North Carolina.
- July 14, 2011 at 5:35 AM
Is there any surprise the numbers are falling?
Consumer confidence down, unemployment up, national debt at historic levels, and with no plan on how to correct.
It's the same with Gov. Perdue and Mayor Foxx. Bad economy with no plan.
The good news is we can start to make a difference (at least locally) this November by getting rid of Foxx and electing Scott Stone. - July 14, 2011 at 7:21 AM
It will be interesting to see how Obama's numbers in North Carolina affect local races -- Pat McCrory's numbers for governor are looking better than ever, and DNC-host Charlotte promises an interesting mayor's race with Republican Scott Stone establishing some solid support early in his campaign.
- July 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Dustin Ingalls said...
I love all the Scott Stone hacks who've been directed to our blog to post their talking points on an irrelevant topic.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:15 AM
It is clear that NC is looking for a different kind of Change. We've seen it here lately with the actions of the NC House and Senate and we've seen the expected response from our Gov Bev. I look forward to November and expect that the majority of elected democrats in NC this fall will be visitors to our State at the convention. I applaud the moderate Dems and Republicans who tow the line for us independents who want a balance of social programs and limited government.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- wt said...
I don't know who Scott Stone is, but he definitely won't beat Ron Paul for mayor of Charlotte.
- July 14, 2011 at 11:19 AM
The general consensus is that "the road to the White House leads through NC", but the fact is NC voters do not have an opportunity to choose presidential candidates because of our late primary. We watch contenders visit nearby SC, but we don't necessarily become engaged until later in the process. And indeed, some candidates who still may run have not declared yet, so as far as the race for a Republican candidate goes, it is too early to accurately gauge who NC voters would support. However, we know who we DO NOT support, and that is our current president, Barack Obama. His presidency had been a total disaster, even surpassing the dismal reign of Jimmy Carter, which I would have found hard to believe at one time. While North Carolinians may be waiting to commit to the presidential race, we have no reservations about who to support for more local races. Pat McCrory would not have vetoed the bills that the NC General Assembly tried to pass this session to begin correcting the bad policies of over 100 years of Democratic control. As Governors go, Beverly Perdue has been just about as disappointing as Barak Obama. Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has expanded government and done nothing to help our local economy. His claim to fame has been bringing the DNC to Charlotte, but whether that will be a boom for our economy or a bottomless money pit remains to be seen. Early indications point to the pit. As for NC going bad for Obama, well, Obama went bad for NC first.
- July 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Well, who let out the dogs. Enough "we hate Obama-ites" here to gag a maggot. Obama is playing the hand he got dealt well enough. He is more attractive than all the Republican tea party White Peoples candidates so far. I thought this was some type of neutral site, but I guess it is very much rightward leaning. We will see what happens.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- NRH said...
"I don't know who Scott Stone is, but he definitely won't beat Ron Paul for mayor of Charlotte."
Comment WIN. - July 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM


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1. These are the words which Moses addressed to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the desert, in the Arabah facing Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
2. It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea.
3. It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses told the Israelites everything that Yahweh had ordered him to tell them.
4. He had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei.
5. There, in Moab beyond the Jordan, Moses resolved to expound this Law. He said:
6. 'Yahweh our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
7. Move on, continue your journey, go to the highlands of the Amorites, to all those who live in the Arabah, in the highlands, in the lowlands, in the Negeb and in the coastland; go into Canaan and to Lebanon as far as the great River Euphrates.
8. Look, that is the country I have given you; go and take possession of the country that Yahweh promised on oath to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to their descendants after them."
9. 'At the same time, I told you, "I cannot be responsible for you by myself.
10. Yahweh your God has increased your numbers, until you are now as numerous as the stars of heaven.
11. And Yahweh your God is going to increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he has promised you.
12. So how can I cope by myself with the bitter burden that you are, and with your bickering?
13. From each of your tribes pick wise, shrewd and experienced men for me to make your leaders."
14. You replied, "Your plan is good."
15. So I took your tribal leaders, wise, experienced men, and appointed them to lead you, as captains of thousands, hundreds, fifties, tens, and as scribes for your tribes.
16. At that same time I told your judges, "You must give your brothers a fair hearing and see justice done between one person and his brother or the foreigner living with him.
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18. And on that occasion I gave you instructions about everything you were to do."
19. 'So, as Yahweh our God had ordered, we left Horeb and made our way through that vast and terrible desert, which you saw on the way to the Amorite highlands, and arrived at Kadesh-Barnea.
20. I then said, "You have now reached the Amorite highlands, which Yahweh our God has given us.
21. Look, Yahweh your God has given you this country. March in, take possession of it as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has said; do not be afraid or discouraged."
22. Then you all came to me and said, "Let us send men ahead of us to explore the country; they shall report to us which way we ought to take and what towns we shall come to."
23. This seemed good advice to me and I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
24. These men made towards the highlands and went up into them; they reached the Valley of Eshcol and reconnoitred it.
25. They collected some of the produce of the country and brought it down to us; and they made us this report, "Yahweh our God has given us a fine country."
26. You, however, refused to go up there and rebelled against the voice of Yahweh your God.
27. You muttered in your tents, saying, "Yahweh hates us, and that is why he has brought us out of Egypt, to put us into the Amorites' power and so destroy us.
28. What kind of place are we making for? Our brothers have discouraged us by saying that the people are stronger and taller than we are, the cities immense, with walls reaching to the sky. And we have seen Anakim there too."
29. 'And I said to you, "Do not take fright, do not be afraid of them.
30. Yahweh your God goes ahead of you and will be fighting on your side, just as you saw him act in Egypt.
31. You have seen him in the desert too: Yahweh your God continued to support you, as a man supports his son, all along the road you followed until you arrived here."
32. But for all this, you put no faith in Yahweh your God,
33. going ahead of you on the journey to find you a camping ground, by night in the fire to light your path, and in the cloud by day.
34. 'Yahweh heard what you were saying and in his anger swore this oath,
35. "Not one of these people, this perverse generation, will see the fine country I swore to give your ancestors,
36. except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it. To him and to his children I shall give the land he has set foot on, for he has been perfectly obedient to Yahweh."
37. Yahweh was angry with me too, because of you. "You will not go in either," he said.
38. "Your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will be the one to enter. Encourage him, since he is to bring Israel into possession of the country.
39. And your little ones too, who, you said, would be seized as booty, these children of yours who do not yet know good from evil, they will go in; I shall give it to them and they will own it.
40. But, as regards yourselves, turn round, go back into the desert, towards the Sea of Suph."
41. 'In reply, you then said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh our God. We shall go up and fight just as Yahweh our God has ordered us." And each one of you buckled on his arms and equipped himself to march up into the highlands.
42. But Yahweh said to me, "Tell them this: Do not go up and fight. I am not with you. Do not let yourselves be defeated by your enemies."
43. So I told you, but you would not listen, and you rebelled against the voice of Yahweh; presumptuously you marched into the highlands.
44. The Amorites, who live in that country of hills, came swarming out against you like bees, pursued you and beat you from Seir to Hormah.
45. On your return, you wept in Yahweh's presence, but he would not listen to your cries or pay attention.
46. That was why you had to stay at Kadesh as long as you did.'

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text: Gideon's Army of Three Hundred 1Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 4And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 5So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. 6And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. 8So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley. Gideon's Dream 9And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. 10But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: 11And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. 12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. 13And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. 14And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. Gideon Defeats Midian 15And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. 23And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites. 24And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. 25And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan. King James Bible Text courtesy of BibleProtector.com Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission Bible Hub |


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Hubble celebrates 27 years with two close friends [heic1709]
20 April 2017
This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different looking spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 was imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image brilliantly captures their warm stellar glow and brown, mottled patterns of dust. As a perfect demonstration of Hubble's capabilities, this spectacular view has been released as part of the telescope's 27th anniversary celebrations.A close galactic pair. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Mutchler (STScI) |
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I've heard about 12V, 24V and even 5V LED tape lights, what's the difference?
12V and 24V are the standard for most single colour or colour changing LED tapes.
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What is voltage drop? It's the distance in which an LED light strip can be powered from one end without the light degrading or "trailing off" in brightness. 24V carries further than 12V before a noticeable brightness drop is visibly seen.
Another key difference you'll notice between 12V and 24V is the "cut points", these are the points in which an LED tape can be cut and are typically indicated by copper pads. With 12V the cut points are usually smaller allowing for a precision fit whereas 24V are usually wider.
So you could say 24V LED strip lights are good for long distance straight runs when you may only be able to feed from one end and 12V are better for smaller lengths where a "precision fit" for the light result is needed.
So what about 5V, what's the deal?
5V LED tape lights are usually associated with flexible Digitial pixel LED strip lights. These come in either single colour, RGB or RGBW and allow individual control over each LED. They can be controlled by SPI or DMX LED drivers or controller receivers. And then pixel mapped by frontend software such as Madrix, Light Jams, ELM or other such software.
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As we're sure you're aware, nothing excites us here at MusicRadar like a bit of music-making innovation, particularly when it's going on right on our doorstep.
Last month we met up with new Bristol-based hardware developers nu-desine, a small company started with help from Bristol's Media Sandbox initiative. The company are currently in the process of developing their first instrument, the AlphaSphere, and we were curious to take a look.
The AlphaSphere is a spherical, pad-based tactile instrument that utilises MAX MSP software and can interface with MIDI devices. The surface of the instrument is covered with 48 pads that respond to pressure to trigger samples or control parameters such as pitch, volume and oscillation. We spoke to nu-desine founder Adam Place to find out some more.
"It's based on an original concept I had when I was studying in Japan," Adam tells us. "Really it's about bringing electronic production away from computers and back to an instrument that anyone can play.
"We've gone through quite an intensive five month process of looking at different materials and different ways of developing this. Eventually we found the ideal material [for the AlphaSphere's pads]. It was originally developed for robotics about five years ago, but no one ever found a proper application for it."
nu-desine currently has one working prototype of the AlphaSphere, and at this stage is looking for musicians to get involved by providing feedback and support (which is where our trusty MusicRadar community - i.e. you lot - come in).
"We're just interested in what people think about this, where it can go, that's the kind of development process that is going to happen.
"We're sure musicians like those reading this have got some input and we really want that involved in the developmental process. We really want to see what you make of it and what you think could happen."
Check out their video below to get a better look at the AlphaSphere and visit nu-desine's IndieGoGo site to read about how they're looking for support.
"I think there are a number of people who are going to be interested in using the AlphaSphere," Adam tells us, "developers, musicians who want to get involved in the programming of synthesisers and sound design.
"But I also think it's going to bring musicians who are more classically instrumentalists towards electronic sounds and electronic music and I think that's really exciting. We'll see what happens, but I see the AlphaSphere as something that could unite the two.
"The next step for nu-desine and the AlphaSphere is to get more funding to develop this further. We want to get this out there to people and start taking it around and develop a limited run to kind of test the waters.
"We want to see who might be interested in getting hold of one and having a go with it, building a community of developers and musicians who will be instrumental in the development."


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The Yale Law Journal has published a short essay that I wrote in response to an article by Robert Litt, General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age. Mr. Litt uses EFF's NSA Spying case Jewel v. NSA and the Klayman v. Obama case, where I argued as amicus, as examples, so it seemed only reasonable that EFF reply. It's here and it's only 10 pages long:
Protecting the Fourth Amendment in the Information Age: A Response to Robert Litt
In the article, I agree with a couple of Mr. Litt's observations about how the Fourth Amendment, as currently interpreted, is not suited to the digital age. But, as you might expect, I disagree very sharply with how he'd like it to change.
Specifically, Mr. Litt and I agree that the Fourth Amendment's current "reasonable expectation of privacy" test and the third party doctrine do not work well and should likely be dispensed with for digital search and seizure. Where we disagree, though, is that Mr. Litt removes the reasonable expectation of privacy without offering a replacement, leaving just a balancing test where the people being affected by surveillance have to show that they were individually harmed by the government's activities but the government only has to show potential benefit from its surveillance. Mr. Litt likens his formulation to an insurance policy, which protects its holder even when no claim is filed.
Additionally, within the doctrine this shift would also eliminate the core protections against general warrants which are one of the reasons the Fourth Amendment exists at all, as well as the presumption that searches of content are "per se" unreasonable. So while the "reasonable expectation of privacy" formulation is a problem, we need to search for suitable, privacy protective replacements, not just eliminate it entirely.
Mr. Litt agrees that the third party doctrine, where the government claims that your data in the hands of third parties like your ISP or Facebook or Google or Amazon simply loses all Fourth Amendment protection, should go. On that we agree. But he proposes something worse: that computer searches through masses of data—like those done by the NSA when it searches through the data carried on the fiberoptic cables via its Upstream program at issue in Jewel v. NSA—just shouldn't count for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. I call this the "human eyes" thesis. The idea that no search or seizure occurs until human eyes actually see your communications. I point out why that proposal, variations of which the government has made and lost in other contexts, is dangerous.
On both points, I note that a better place to start than Mr. Litt's suggestions is the Necessary and Proportionate Principles, an interpretation of international human rights law written by an international team of privacy advocates and attorneys and signed on by over 400 organizations, international experts, politicians and political parties around the world. Updating the Fourth Amendment is critically needed, but as I say in the piece:
What is clear is that if we are going to address where the Fourth Amendment should be in the digital age, we must do better than a free-form balancing test where the government will always be perched on the heavy end of the scales, and where the substitution of computers for humans somehow eliminates our Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable seizures and searches of our most private communications.


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The other day, media blogger Jim Romenesko wondered whether
was the "Best Washington Post
Correction Ever." It might have been one of them. It noted, in confused
language and without apologizing for it, that the paper had run a
story about a Catholic priest's denying communion to a Maryland woman at her mother's
funeral because of her sexual orientation, and had accompanied the story with a
picture of the wrong lesbian.
This raised a question for Talmudists,
Aristotelians, and Marxists:
Could two gay ladies, looking exactly
alike, wearing exactly the same glasses, living in exactly the same state, and bearing
exactly the same name, be seen, metaphysically speaking, as the same
We know now, thanks to Mr. Romenesko again,
that the Post is vastly more
philosophically perplexed than that first correction might have suggested. For the misidentified party of the
first part turns out not actually to have been the misidentified party of the second part, but rather an altogether different misidentified party of the third part, and here, in case there's any confusion, is the Post's second correction:
Sarah E. Reece, director of the
Academy for Leadership and Action of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
was misidentified as Barbara Johnson in a photo caption that appeared with a
March 15 Metro article. She was identified as a different Barbara Johnson in a
March 16 correction of that photo caption.
The priest has since been punished
by the Archdiocese of Washington. But where is the Post's
own higher authority, ombudsman Patrick Pexton? He has yet to issue a mea culpa, or better yet a series of
them, to the LGBT community and the world at large, begging pardon for the newspaper's extreme
insensitivity to issues both gay and gender, suggesting his colleagues undergo some aggressive
diversity (re)training, and promising that, to his
perspicacious eyes at least, all lesbians do not look alike.
Looking forward to the fawning.


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Being Perfect
Anna Quindlen is an author, journalist, and opinion columnist. She originally delivered this speech as the commencement address to the class of 1999 at Mount Holyoke College.
I look at all of you today and I cannot help but see myself twenty-five years ago, at my own Barnard commencement. I sometimes seem, in my mind, to have as much in common with that girl as I do with any stranger I might pass in the doorway of a Starbucks or in the aisle of an airplane. I cannot remember what she wore or how she felt that day. But I can tell you this about her without question: she was perfect.
Let me be very clear what I mean by that. I mean that I got up every day and tried to be perfect in every possible way. If there was a test to be had, I had studied for it; if there was a paper to be written, it was done. I smiled at everyone in the dorm hallways, because it was important to be friendly, and I made fun of them behind their backs because it was important to be witty. And I worked as a residence counselor and sat on housing council. If anyone had ever stopped and asked me why I did those things–well, I'm not sure what I would have said. But I can tell you, today, that I did them to be perfect, in every possible way.
Being perfect was hard work, and the hell of it was, the rules of it changed. So that while I arrived at college in 1970 with a trunk full of perfect pleated kilts and perfect monogrammed sweaters, by Christmas vacation I had another perfect uniform: overalls, turtlenecks, Doc Martens, and the perfect New York City Barnard College affect–part hyperintellectual, part ennui. This was very hard work indeed. I had read neither Sartre nor Sappho, and the closest I ever came to being bored and above it all was falling asleep. Finally, it was harder to become perfect because I realized, at Barnard, that I was not the smartest girl in the world. Eventually being perfect day after day, year after year, became like always carrying a backpack filled with bricks on my back. And oh, how I secretly longed to lay my burden down.
So what I want to say to you today is this: if this sounds, in any way, familiar to you, if you have been trying to be perfect in one way or another, too, then make today, when for a moment there are no more grades to be gotten, classmates to be met, terrain to be scouted, positioning to be arranged–make today the day to put down the backpack. Trying to be perfect may be sort of inevitable for people like us, who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and in its good opinion. But at one level it's too hard, and at another, it's too cheap and easy. Because it really requires you mainly to read the zeitgeist of wherever and whenever you happen to be, and to assume the masks necessary to be the best of whatever the zeitgeist dictates or requires. Those requirements shapeshift, sure, but when you're clever you can read them and do the imitation required.
But nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what your friends expect, what your parents demand, what your acquaintances require. Set aside the messages this culture sends, through its advertising, its entertainment, its disdain and its disapproval, about how you should behave.
Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notions of female as superwoman and male as oppressor. Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: for me, for me. Because they are who and what I am, and mean to be.
This is the hard work of your life in the world, to make it all up as you go along, to acknowledge the introvert, the clown, the artist, the reserved, the distraught, the goofball, the thinker. You will have to bend all your will not to march to the music that all of those great "theys" out there pipe on their flutes. They want you to go to professional school, to wear khakis, to pierce your navel, to bare your soul. These are the fashionable ways. The music is tinny, if you listen close enough. Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles.
This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Because if your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Remember the words of Lily Tomlin: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
Look at your fingers. Hold them in front of your face. Each one is crowned by an abstract design that is completely different than those of anyone in this crowd, in this country, in this world. They are a metaphor for you. Each of you is as different as your fingerprints. Why in the world should you march to any lockstep?
The lockstep is easier, but here is why you cannot march to it. Because nothing great or even good ever came of it. When young writers write to me about following in the footsteps of those of us who string together nouns and verbs for a living, I tell them this: every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time,you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had. And that is herself, her own personality, her own voice. If she is doing Faulkner imitations, she can stay home. If she is giving readers what she thinks they want instead of what she is, she should stop typing.
But if her books reflect her character, who she really is, then she is giving them a new and wonderful gift. Giving it to herself, too.
And that is true of music and art and teaching and medicine. Someone sent me a T-shirt not long ago that read "Well-Behaved Women Don't Make History." They don't make good lawyers, either, or doctors or businesswomen. Imitations are redundant. Yourself is what is wanted.
You already know this. I just need to remind you. Think back. Think back to first or second grade, when you could still hear the sound of your own voice in your head, when you were too young, too unformed, too fantastic to understand that you were supposed to take on the protective coloration of the expectations of those around you. Think of what the writer Catherine Drinker Bowen once wrote, more than half a century ago: "Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty." Many a woman, too.
You are not alone in this. We parents have forgotten our way sometimes, too. I say this as the deeply committed, often flawed mother of three. When you were first born, each of you, our great glory was in thinking you absolutely distinct from every baby who had ever been born before. You were a miracle of singularity, and we knew it in every fiber of our being.
But we are only human, and being a parent is a very difficult job, more difficult than any other, because it requires the shaping of other people, which is an act of extraordinary hubris. Over the years we learned to want for you things that you did not want for yourself. We learned to want the lead in the play, the acceptance to our own college, the straight and narrow path that often leads absolutely nowhere. Sometimes we wanted those things because we were convinced it would make life better, or at least easier for you. Sometimes we had a hard time distinguishing between where you ended and we began.
So that another reason that you must give up on being perfect and take hold of being yourself is because sometime, in the distant future, you may want to be parents, too. If you can bring to your children the self that you truly are, as opposed to some amalgam of manners and mannerisms, expectations and fears that you have acquired as a carapace along the way, you will give them, too, a great gift. You will teach them by example not to be terrorized by the narrow and parsimonious expectations of the world, a world that often likes to color within the lines when a spray of paint, a scrawl of crayon, is what is truly wanted.
Remember yourself, from the days when you were younger and rougher and wilder, more scrawl than straight line. Remember all of yourself, the flaws and faults as well as the many strengths. Carl Jung once said, "If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance toward oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbors, for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
Most commencement speeches suggest you take up something or other: the challenge of the future, a vision of the twenty-first century. Instead I'd like you to give up. Give up the backpack. Give up the nonsensical and punishing quest for perfection that dogs too many of us through too much of our lives. It is a quest that causes us to doubt and denigrate ourselves, our true selves, our quirks and foibles and great leaps into the unknown, and that is bad enough.
But this is worse: that someday, sometime, you will be somewhere, maybe on a day like today–a berm overlooking a pond in Vermont, the lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. Maybe something bad will have happened: you will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something you wanted to succeed at very much.
And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for that core to sustain you. If you have been perfect all your life, and have managed to meet all the expectations of your family, your friends, your community, your society, chances are excellent that there will be a black hole where your core ought to be.
Don't take that chance. Begin to say no to the Greek chorus that thinks it knows the parameters of a happy life when all it knows is the homogenization of human experience. Listen to that small voice from inside you, that tells you to go another way. George Eliot wrote, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." It is never too early, either. And it will make all the difference in the world. Take it from someone who has left the backpack full of bricks far behind. Every day feels light as a feather.


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Bobby Sanabria
"Bobby Sanabria is equally adept at the swinging big band sounds of drummers Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson along with another boyhood hero, fusion pioneer Billy Cobham and timbale titan Tito Puente." – Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times
Bobby Sanabria – drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, activist, multi-cultural warrior and multiple Grammy nominee – has performed with a veritable Who's Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own critically acclaimed ensembles. His diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Charles McPherson, Mongo Santamaría, Ray Barretto, Marco Rizo, Arturo Sandoval, Roswell Rudd, Chico O'Farrill, Candido, Yomo Toro, Francisco Aguabella, Larry Harlow, Henry Threadgill, and the Godfather of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mario Bauzá.
Bobby, the son of Puerto Rican parents, was born and raised in the "Fort Apache" section of New York City's South Bronx. Inspired and encouraged by maestro Tito Puente, another fellow New York-born Puerto Rican, Bobby "got serious" and attended Boston's Berklee College of Music from 1975 to 1979, obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree and receiving their prestigious Faculty Association Award for his work as an instrumentalist. Since his graduation, Bobby has become a leader in the Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and jazz fields as both a drummer and percussionist, and is recognized as one of the most articulate musician-scholars of la tradición living today.
He has been featured on numerous Grammy-nominated albums, including The Mambo Kings and other movie soundtracks, as well as numerous television and radio work. Mr. Sanabria was the drummer with the legendary "Father of the Afro-Cuban Jazz movement," Mario Bauzá's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. With them he recorded three CD's (two of which were Grammy-nominated) which are considered to be definitive works of the Afro-Cuban big-band jazz tradition. Mr. Sanabria was also featured with the orchestra in two PBS documentaries about Bauzá and also appeared on the Bill Cosby show performing with the orchestra. He also appeared and performed prominently in a PBS documentary on the life of Mongo Santamaria and on camera in the CBS television movie, Rivkin: Bounty Hunter.
In 1993 Bobby and his nonet Ascensión released ¡NYC Aché, on the Flying Fish label (now available on Concord Records). It received worldwide acclaim and garnered four and half stars in Down Beat magazine, as well as receiving a nomination for Best Record of the Year by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD). In June 2000 Bobby released Afro-Cuban Dream… Live & In Clave!!! on the Arabesque label. Recorded live at Birdland in New York City, it features Bobby powering a big band of twenty all-stars. Critically acclaimed worldwide, it has been hailed by both the jazz and Latin music cognoscenti as a masterpiece, and was nominated for a mainstream Grammy as the Best Latin Jazz Album of 2001. Afro-Cuban Dream…Live & In Clave!!! was also nominated for the Jazz Journalists Association 2001 Award for the Best Afro-Cuban Jazz Album of the Year.
His next recording, ¡Quarteto Aché!, released in 2002, on the ZOHO label, documented Bobby's virtuosity in a small group setting and was hailed a "classic" by Modern Drummer magazine and critically acclaimed by the New York Times. It was also nominated for Best Latin Jazz recording of 2003 by the Jazz Journalists Association. He also received a second Grammy nomination in 2003 for, 50 Years of Mambo – A Tribute to Damaso Perez Prado.
Bobby and his Quarteto Aché toured Armenia in June of 2007 being personally invited by the President of Armenia and the U.S. Embassy to represent the United States in a series of concerts. Headlining in the final event, The Cascade Jazz festival in Yerevan, Armenia's capitol, the group received a thunderous ovation from the estimated 8,000 person audience which was broadcast throughout the country. His group has the unique distinction and honor of being the first ensemble ever to perform Latino oriented jazz in this country and spread clave consciousness in a unique master class that he held at the Yerevan Conservatory.
Bobby's second big band CD, Big Band Urban Folktales, on the Jazzheads label, was nominated for a mainstream Grammy in 2008 for best Latin Jazz recording, his third nomination. It has proved to be his most lauded work and garnered critical acclaim for its futuristic approach to the Latin jazz big band canon. Big Band Urban Folktales also won the 2008 Jazz Journalists Award for Best Latin Jazz Recording of 2008.
"… (Mr. Sanabria) expands the possibilities, moving the sound of bands like that of (Puente, Machito), with all the heft and intricacy and clave-based dance rhythm, into the harmonically oriented sophistication of current New York jazz players. It's New York up and down, and back and forth across the last century, from the street to the mambo palaces to the conservatories."
– Ben Ratliff, The NY Times
Also available is the DVD of Bobby and his nonet Ascensión's scorching appearance at the 2006 Modern Drummer Festival currently released by Hudson Music and the CD, El Espiritú Jibaro, a collaboration between legendary trombonist Roswell Rudd, Puerto Rican cuatro virtuoso Yomo Toro and Bobby, with his nonet Ascensión, is available on the Sunnyside label. Just released is the DVD "FROM MAMBO TO HIP HOP" – A SOUTH BRONX TALE, produced by City Lore, on which Bobby was an Assistant Producer, on air personality and which was broadcast on PBS in 2006 winning the 2007 ALMA Award for Best Television Documentary. Mr. Sanabria co-produced and was in the nationally broadcast documentary, THE PALLADIUM – Where Mambo Was King," for the BRAVO network which received the award for Best Documentary for a Cable TV in 2003. Mr. Sanabria was a consultant in the Smithsonian's historic four year traveling exhibit, Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta and also featured in two of the exhibits short films.
Bobby has been the recipient of many awards, including an NEA grant as a jazz performer, various Meet the Composer awards, two INTAR Off-Broadway Composer awards, and on several occasions the Mid-Atlantic Foundation Arts Connect Grant. In 2003 he was
presented with the "Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award" by Ivan Acosta of Latin Jazz USA, in recognition of Bobby's extraordinary creative contributions to Latin jazz. Bobby was voted "Percussionist of the Year" for 2005 by the readers of DRUM! Magazine, a worldwide publication devoted to drums and percussion. His three part video instructional series, "Getting Started on Congas," originally released by DCI way back in 1995, now available through Alfred Music, set an industry standard by which all other instructional percussion videos must be judged by.
In 2006 Mr. Sanabria was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame having a permanent street named after him on the Bronx's famed Grand Concourse in recognition for his contributions to music and the arts. Mr. Sanabria has been awarded the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award by KOSA for his outstanding accomplishments in jazz and Latin music both as a performer and educator and the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Mentor Award presented to him by the Manhattan Country School for his work in the world of jazz. In 2011 the Jazz Journalist Association named him Percussionist of the Year.
Bobby has been featured as a guest conductor/soloist with the National All Star Jazz Orchestra of Calgary, Canada, The Nova Scotia All Star Jazz Big Band, The Duke University Jazz Orchestra, The Harvard University Jazz Big Band, the World Premiere of Marco Rizo's Suite De Las Americas at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, the Amsterdam Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Moravian College Big Band and the Dallas Latin Jazz Youth Orchestra. 2013 will mark the eight year in a row that he is the artist in residence at the Roberto Ocasio Memorial Latin Jazz Camp in Cleveland, Ohio. The camp provides musical instruction in the intricacies of Latin jazz performance for children 8 through 18 and is the only camp of its kind in the world.
Mr. Sanabria has written numerous articles in nationally read publications including NY Latino, Highlights In Percussion, Modern Drummer, the Descarga Newsletter, Allegro, TRAPS and Downbeat and has written liner notes for over 30 CD's. He has been featured as a subject in DRUM!, The Beat, RHYTHM – World Music & Culture, Drums On the Web, Modern Drummer, Descarga, The NY Post, The NY Daily News, The NY Times, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Jazz Improv, All About Jazz.com, and a major six page feature piece on him in the July, 2007 issue of Downbeat magazine.
Bobby was the chair of the International Association of Jazz Education's (IAJE) Afro-Cuban Jazz Resource Team, a position he held for six years. He is as an Associate Professor at the New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program and a Professor at Manhattan School of Music since 1999 where he conducts Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestras at both schools preserving and passing on the tradition as well as premiering new works moving it forward. He is a member of NARAS, LARAS, AF of M, BMI, SAG and the Universal Jazz Coalition and is on the board of The Duke Ellington Foundation and the advisory board of WHEDCO (Women's Health and Economic Development Corporation), a leading builder in the revitalization of the South Bronx. He proudly endorses TAMA drums, Sabian cymbals, Latin Percussion Inc., Remo drum heads, Vic Firth sticks and mallets and Factory Metal percussion. Bobby's commentary on classic Latin and jazz albums can be occasionally heard on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He appears in the groundbreaking 4 hour documentary on Latin music aired nationally on PBS in the U.S.A. entitled, LATIN MUSIC U.S.A. in October, 2009 which is available on DVD and is featured in the interactive website. Mr. Sanabria was a presenter at the prestigious 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival speaking about this ground breaking series.
His recording, KENYA REVISITED LIVE!!!, a masterful tribute and re-working of the Machito Afro-Cubans legendary KENYA album features him conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz recording of 2009, it gave him his fourth nomination. Mr. Sanabria's big band has performed at numerous festivals including the Chicago Jazz Festival, The Verona Jazz Festival in Italy, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in NYC, to name just a few. In August of 2010 they played for over 17,000 people for Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival shattering the attendance record for any concert ever performed there. Not only was their own forward thinking repertoire featured, but with the addition of a string section, extra percussion, and six background vocalists, they performed the NYC premiere of Larry Harlow's monumental SALSA SUITE which featured vocalists Ruben Blades and Adonis Puente. Not to be outdone, Mr. Sanabria and his Quarteto Aché recently accompanied World renowned poets Martin Espada (N.Y.C./P.R.) and Cuba's legendary Nancy Morejón at the Geraldine H. Dodge Poetry Festival. Filmed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, excerpts of the performance have appeared on PBS.
In 2011 his big band headlined at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater in a concert produced by Bobby celebrating the 100th birthday of his mentor Mario Bauzá, the founding Father of the Afro-Cuban Jazz tradition. His 2011 CD, TITO PUENTE: MASTERWORKS LIVE!!! Bobby Sanabria conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, was nominated for Latin Grammy establishing this student ensemble as a shining example of the heights that can be achieved through jazz education giving him his fifth nomination. As with KENYA REVISITED LIVE!!!, partial proceeds of the sale of each CD go to the scholarship fund of the Manhattan School of Music.
As an activist he has long been a champion for the recognition of Latin jazz as a legitimate art form and its proper place of recognition in the history of the jazz continuum. In 2006 he spearheaded the campaign to restore the Latin Jazz Cruise, a weekly 2 hour radio program on Jazz 88 WBGO FM, Newark, NJ after it was suddenly taken off the air without an explanation. Organizing politicians like New York Congressman José Serrano and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez as well as fellow musicians and fans of the music, the show was successfully brought back on the air. The result has been that the station has also made Latin jazz an integral part of all of its regular day to day programming, thus expanding the audience for the genre as well as jazz in general. In April, 2011 when NARAS, the governing body of the Grammys summarily cut 31 categories, including Latin jazz, from the awards process with no rhyme of reason or any input from the 21,000 membership, Mr. Sanabria spearheaded a campaign uniting well known musicians from both the west and east coasts. It also included the general public and internationally known personalities like Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitte, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Jessie Jackson, Dr. Cornell West as well as national Latino organizations like Presente, National Institute of Latino Policy, National Hispanic Media Coalition, National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, several unions and others against this injustice. A subsequent law suit filed by Mr. Sanabria and fellow plaintiffs Eugene Marlow, Ben Lapidus and Mark Levine in New York State Supreme Court finally pressured NARAS into reinstating the category this year. For his role as an activist and his efforts in restoring the category to the Grammys Bobby has received the BORIMIX Award from the Society of the Educational Arts and the prestigious Puerto Rican Heritage Award from Comite Noviembre, the leading Puerto Rican organization in the country.
On April 30, 2012, Bobby appeared with his Quarteto Ache' with special guests Candido and Sheila E. as part of the first Annual UNESCO International Day of Jazz. The inaugural event – organized by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in partnership with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which Herbie Hancock chairs – included star-studded concerts in Paris, New Orleans and New York as well as jazz-related events in several dozen countries from Algeria to Uruguay. The New York City concert, for which Bobby was selected to represent the Latin branch of jazz, was broadcast worldwide from the U.N. and featured such luminaries as Tony Bennett, George Duke, Jimmy Heath, Dee Dee Bridgwater, Esperanza Spaulding, Christian Mcbride and many more as well as being hosted by Quincy Jones, Robert Deniro and Morgan Freeman. Bobby's dynamic appearance received the only standing ovation of the evening.
His current new big band CD released in August of 2012 on the Jazzheads label is entitled MULTIVERSE. Inspired by the writings of Mexican author Octavio Paz and the current scientific theories of multiple universes, it blurs the boundaries between jazz, Latin, funk, rock, r & b, gospel, the avant garde and even rap. Featured are spoken word artist La Bruja in an amazing first ever fusion of spoken word/rap big band Latin jazz tribute to the Father of Afro-Cuban jazz Mario Bauzá and award winning vocalist Chareneè Wade in an incredible new treatment of Over The Rainbow. MULTIVERSE has been praised by critics for its incredible multi-dimensional vision bringing the big band into and beyond the 21st century. It has been recently nominated in two categories for the Grammys: Best Latin Jazz Recording and Best Instrumental Arrangement – Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite for Ellington, giving Bobby a total of seven nominations for the coveted award.
"MULTIVERSE is a thrilling trip through the Latin jazz cosmos, directed by one of the finest percussive pilots on the planet." – Dan Bilawsky, ALL ABOUT JAZZ