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The third generation Volvo XC70 is more refined than ever with a comfortable and luxurious appearance that's combined with top-class flexibility and an expressive design. The XC70 is a sophisticated and elegant car for an active urban life. Come the weekend and it transforms into a rugged partner for all kinds of exciting adventures.
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High Entropy Alloys V
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Development of High Entropy Alloy Foam with Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity and High Strength
Kook Noh Yoon, Je In Lee, Eun Soo Park
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Recently, high entropy alloys (HEAs) have received lots of attention as a new metallic material due to their superior properties including relatively high strength and low thermal conductivity. Furthermore, metallic foams generally exhibit low thermal conductivity due to their air-filled pores. Thus, it is possible to understand that HEA foams may show ultra-low thermal conductivity by cocktail effect of each material, while maintaining the promising properties of HEAs such as high strength and so on. In the present study, we first report HEA foam which is fabricated by dealloying process, selective dissolution, through galvanic coupling in phase separating FeCoCrNi-Cu HEAs. In particular, we will systematically assess property correlation between thermal conductivity and yield strength depending on the porosity. Indeed, we develop novel HEA foam with ultra-low thermal conductivity and high strength, which might be successfully applied as a heat shield material in harsh environment.
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A Computational Investigation on Diffusion in High-entropy Alloys
A Critical Review of High Entropy Alloys and Related Concepts
A Highly Fracture and Fatigue Resistant Al0.3CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy
A Multifaceted Approach to Analyze the Serration Behavior in High Entropy Alloys and Other Material Systems
Adaption of Metal Injection Molding to Quinary High Entropy Alloys
Aluminum Diffusion in High Entropy Alloys
An In Situ TEM Observation on Thermal Stability of High Entropy Alloys
Application of a High Accuracy Diffusion Kinetics Formalism to High Entropy Alloys
Atomic-level Disorder and Defect Dynamics in Concentrated Solid-solution Alloys
Atomistic Modeling of Solid-solution Structures of High Entropy Alloys
Atomistic Simulations in a Model FCC High Entropy Alloy: Effects of Annealing
Bringing High-entropy Alloys Close to High-temperature Applications: Single Crystal Growth, Microstructure Characterization, and Mechanical Tests
Carbides-induced Hardening of CoCrFeMnNi Family of HEAs
Combinatorial Design of High Entropy Alloys: Discovery of a Novel Single BCC Solid Solution
Complex Structural Factors Governing Unique Properties of FCC High Entropy Alloys Studied by Theory and Experiment
Composition, Temperature, and Crystal Size Effects on the Mechanical Response of AlCoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy
Constitutive Modeling of CrMnFeCoNi High Entropy Alloys
Corrosion-resistant Nobility of AlxCoCrFeNi High-enthropy Alloys
Creep Strength, Deformation, and Fracture in Single Phase High Entropy Alloy
Deformation Characteristics and Thermomechanical Processing of Complex Concentrated Alloys
Degradation Behavior of High Entropy Alloys – Corrosion, Erosion, and Wear
Design of High Entropy Alloys for Turbine Applications
Design of Light-weight High-Entropy Alloys
Design of Novel Precipitate Strengthened Al-Co-Cr-Fe-Nb-Ni High-entropy Alloys
Design of "High Entropy Alloys" (HEA) with Optimal Combinations of Stability, Density, Strength and Ductility
Development of High Entropy Alloy Foam with Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity and High Strength
Dynamic Behavior and Grain Refinement of AlxCoCrFeNi High-entropy Alloy
Effect of Process Changes in the Manufacture and Mechanical Properties of High Entropy Alloys
Effects of Preparation Methods on the Microstructures and Properties of High Entropy Alloys
Elastic Properties of High-entropy Alloys from First-principles
Electronic and Lattice Heterogeneity in High-entropy Alloys
Experimental Demonstration of Isotope-free Simultaneous Measurement of Self- and Inter-diffusion Coefficients
Fabrication of High-entropy Refractory Metal Carbides
Fatigue Behavior of High-entropy Alloys
Formations, Thermodynamics and Elasticity of High-entropy Alloys
Hardening Mechanisms in High-entropy Alloys
Hexagonal Close-Packed High-entropy Alloys: The Effect of Entropy
High-entropy Alloys Properties and Short- and Long-range Ordering Predicted via Electronic-Structure-based Thermodynamics
In Situ TEM Investigation of the Thermal, Mechanical, and Corrosion Stability of High Entropy Alloys
Interatomic Potential Function Development for the FeNiCoCr High Entropy Alloy
Investigation of Equiatomic AlNbTiMoV and AlNbTaTiV Alloys for High Temperature Applications
Investigation of High Entropy Alloys based on Continuum Dislocation Dynamics
Irradiation Resistance of Low Activation High Entropy Alloys
Irradiation Responses of High-entropy Alloys at Elevated Temperatures
L-101: Exploring the Effects of Grain Refinement in Non-equiatomic High Entropy Alloys
L-102: High Throughput Exploration of High Entropy Alloys for High Temperature and Nuclear Applications via Diffusion Multiples
L-103: Liquid Phase Separation in Equiatomic High-entropy Alloys Containing Copper
L-104: Microstructural Investigations of a Nanocrystalline TiZrHfNbTa High-entropy Alloy
L-105: Positron Annihilation Study on Equiatomic Multicomponent Alloys
L-107: Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Refractory High Entropy Alloys
L-108: Synthesis of High-entropy Metal Diborides and Fluorite Oxides
L-109: Thermal Properties of Entropy Stabilized Oxides
L-110: Thermodynamic Approach for Designing New FCC High Entropy Alloy
L-111: Thermomechanical and Nanoindentation Study of High Entropy Alloys Derived from Equilibrium Solidification
L-113: Microstructures and Properties of As-Cast AlCrFeMnV, AlCrFeTiV, and AlCrMnTiV High Entropy Alloys
L-86: Annealing Twin Evolution and Grain Boundary Engineering during Recrystallization in CoCrFeNiMn High Entropy Alloys
L-87: Atomic-scale Homogenization in an fcc-based High-entropy Alloy via Severe Plastic Deformation
L-88: Construction of Pseudo Binary Phase Diagram in FeCoCrNi-Cu High Entropy Alloy System
L-89: Hydrogen Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of CoCrFeMnNi High-entropy Alloy: Role of Pre-strain
L-90: Mechanical Properties of Entropy Stabilized Oxides
L-91: Precipitation in High-entropy FeNiMnAlCr Alloy
L-92: The Fabrication and Oxidation Behavior of High-entropy Refractory Metal Carbides
L-94: Microstructure and Properties of the VNbMoTaW High Entropy Alloy Prepared Powder Metallurgy
L-95: A Combinatorial Assessment of AlxCrCuFeNi2 (0 < x < 1.5) Complex Concentrated Alloys: Microstructure, Microhardness, and Magnetic Properties
L-96: An Assessment of the Lattice Strain in the CrMnFeCoNi High-Entropy Alloy
L-97: Deformation Behavior and Solid Solution Hardening of Al-containing Refractory High-entropy Alloys
L-98: Development of Lightweight High Entropy Alloys using a CALPHAD Approach
Local Texture in a Swaged CrMnFeCoNi High-entropy Alloy
Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of CoCrFeNiTi-based High-entropy Alloy Additive Manufactured Using Selective Electron Beam Melting
Mechanisms Underlying the Remarkable Strength and Toughness of CrCoNi-based Medium- and High-Entropy Alloys at Ambient to Cryogenic Temperatures
Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Behavior of a Non-equiatomic High-entropy Alloy Reinforced by Nanoprecipitates
Microstructural Response of High Entropy Alloy under Extreme Environments
Modeling Fundamental Properties of High Entropy Alloys
Modeling Slips in Slowly Deformed High Entropy Alloys and Comparison to Experiments
Nanomechanical Behavior and Nano-indentation Size Effects in High Entropy Alloys
Nanoscale Phase Separation in Al0.5CoCrFeNiCu High Entropy Alloys, as Studied by Atom Probe Tomography
New Deformation Twinning Mechanism in Equimolar Multi-component Alloys with Low Stacking Fault Energy
Novel Precious Metal High Entropy Alloys – Design, Structure and Mechanical Performance
On the Damage Tolerance of the High-entropy Alloy CrMnFeCoNi in the Range Room Temperature to Liquid Nitrogen Temperatures
On the Influence of Crystal Orientation and Testing Temperature on the Local Mechanical Properties of High Entropy Alloys
Ordering Effects and Dislocation Structures in High Entropy Alloys: A Computational Approach
Partial Chemical Ordering of Body Centered Cubic High Entropy Alloys
Phase Prediction via Ab-initio Monte Carlo Simulation for High-entropy Alloys
Phase Stability of the CrMnFeCoNi High-entropy Alloy
Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in A3S and Cantor's HEA Alloys Investigated by In Situ TEM Straining Experiments
Pre-osteoblastic Cell Responses to High-entropy Alloys
Precipitation Strengthening Effects in Powder Metallurgical High Entropy Alloys
Predicted Properties of NiFeCrCo Based HEAs from First Principles
Predicting Structural and Chemical Properties of Mo-based Refractory High-entropy Alloys
Radiation-induced Segregation in Ni-based Concentrated Solid Solution Alloys
Recrystallization and Grain Growth in High Entropy Alloys
Short Range Order in a BCC V-Nb-Mo-Ta-W High Entropy Alloy
Size Effects and Thermal Stability of High-entropy Alloys: Single Crystalline vs. Nanocrystalline
Small Angle Neutron Scattering Study of HEA Microstructure Evolution with Temperature and Applied Magnetic Field
Stability of Ordered Precipitates in Face Centered Cubic based High Entropy Alloys-Al 0.3 CoFeCrNi and Al 0.3 CuFeCrNi 2 and their Effect on Mechanicalproperties
Stress State, Strain Rate and Temperature Sensitivity of Alx(CrCoFeNi)1-x High Entropy Alloys (HEAs)
Strong Grain-size Effect on Deformation Twinning of an Al0.1CoCrFeNi High-entropy Alloy
Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of a Lightweight AlTiVCr High Entropy Alloy
Structural Transition in High Entropy Alloy CoCrFeMnNi under High Pressure
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Magnetic High Entropy Alloys
The Design of Creep-resistant High Entropy Alloys for Elevated-temperature Applications
The Oxidation of an Equimolar FeCoNiCrMn High-entropy Alloy in CO/CO2 Mixed Gases at 973K (700oC)
The Serrations of TiZrTM1TM2 (TM=Hf, Mo, Ta, V and W) High Entropy Alloys: An Integrated First-principles Calculation and Finite-elements Method Study
The Strengthening Mechanisms for a Family of High-entropy and Equiatomic Solid-solution Alloys
The Study of Fatigue Behavior in Refractory High Entropy Alloys
Theoretical Investigation of Structural and Electronic Properties of Entropy-stabilized Oxides
Uncovering Micro Mechanisms during Tensile Deformation for an Outstanding High Entropy Alloy via In Situ Neutron Diffraction
Uncovering the Dislocation Dynamics Leading to Planar Slips in High-entropy Alloy Nanopillars
Understanding and Designing High-entropy Alloys using a Cluster-plus-Glue-Atom Model
Unusually Low and Spatially Varying Stacking Fault Energy in Equimolar Multicomponent Alloys
Using a Large Scale Modelling Technique for Selection of HEAs Containing Atypical Elements
Weldability and Welding Solidification of an HEA Alloy
Weldability of Single-phase and Multi-phase High Entropy Alloys
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Here are pyrotechnics of the keyboard, but with only a camera to "play the tune." To make this film, Norman McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the sound track. These he then moved, in multicolor, onto the picture area of the screen so that, in effect, you see what you hear. It is synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word.
Call for Applications
Netmage 11, an international live media festival which takes place in January 2011 in Bologna, Italy, is seeking applications for their live media floor. The main section of their program, the live media floor is a platform for "generating and/or mixing images and sound of every type and format." Download the application here. Deadline is September 20, 2010.
Infinite Stream Loop (from the series Laps) (2010) - Art of Failure (Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont)
Infinite Stream Loop is an audio stream traveling through the world wide web since the 1st of july 2010
The field of research "Laps" focuses on generating sensible representations of Internet by using it as a broadcasting space. The spatial and geographic properties of the Network are highlighted by broadcasting audio streams that travel and reverberate trough the web. Listening to these audio streams by using specific processes* allows to make audible an infinity of transformations that modify the sound as it circulates on the web. These alterations are comparable to a form of erosion caused by the network space - they are a key to allow different mental representations of this digital topography.
*Very low buffers and no error corrections
PROCESS | A sound is sent out over the network and goes through several locations on the web. Captured at the end of a loop by the original transmitter, the sound is played and then resent out with no additional modification through the web.
SOUND MATERIAL | To emphasize the changes caused by the network, the sound used for the startup is deliberately very simple - pure silence.
SPACE | Similar to a physical & resonant space, the Internet network is here used as a broadcasting space where sound gets more elaborated. The audio signal is modified by the inner properties of the network and becomes an acoustic signature of this space.
ERRORS | The audio transmission process used here allows to keep all the distortions of the original material that occurred during the process (artefacts, transmission errors, missing data...).
TOPOLOGY | The geography of the network is in perpetual motion. Web user's actions have a direct impact on the features of this "resonant space" - the sound that one can hear through Laps constantly crystallises the activity of part of the ...
Homebrew Electronics
Homebrew Electronics is a new series on the Rhizome blog. For these posts, I will be conducting studio visits with artists and inventors who create unique electronic instruments.
Last week, I met with cousins Brian and Leon Dewan of Dewanatron at Leon's apartment/workshop in New Rochelle, NY. I first encountered their whimsical, one-of-a-kind instruments at a solo exhibition at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn a few years ago. Not only do they produce and exhibit their own instruments, they use them in performances and in recordings as well. They split the labor evenly - Leon builds the circuits for each instrument, and Brian crafts the consoles that contain them at his home in Catskill, NY. Despite their jetlag from a recent trip to Los Angeles (Brian had screened his film strips at the Museum of Jurassic Technology's theater), the Dewans gave me a thorough walkthrough of their work, patiently explaining how each of their creations functioned.
The Dewans use the Dual Primate Console quite a bit in their performances; it also made a starring appearance on their album Semi-Automatic. Built for two operators (or "primates"), each side provides four rhythmically independent voices, which can be programmed using a rotary telephone dial.
They got the idea to use a rotary telephone dial in this fashion from antique Language Lab Machines, which also integrate telephone dials into their interface. The rows of switches control the voices, and Nixie bulbs lining the top of the instrument indicate the different voices selected by the telephone dial. These bulbs were produced from the 1950s through the 1970s and were a precursor to LED displays.
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Internationally renowned OFFF festival convenes in Paris, France, from today until the 26th at La Grande Halle De La Villette. Born from art collective/art agency Inofffensive, the festival stakes its claim as being the "vanguard of the avant-garde" for digital culture, with a simple mission - to earn "some money by doing commercial works and then spending it on crazy, commercially suicidal art projects." In keeping this ethos, speakers/performers range: from French artist Patrick Jean, to street art bloggers Wooster Collective to former New York Times art director Steven Heller.
Befittingly, in its tenth year of inception, OFFF looks to reflect on the zeitgeist of nostalgia. Titling this year's show "Nostalgia for a Past Future", the festival hits upon a key problem for any designer that John Berger lays out in Ways of Seeing: the promise of the future sold by capitalizing on the longing for the past. Yet, heightened by the speed with which trend cycles move (and even more so with the speed of digital culture), for OFFF this issue is circumvented when we forgo trying to recreate narratives of the past and approach nostalgia as a tool for communication.
So, what can we expect?
In the Processing Pixels workshop, Daniel Shiffman looks to transform the treatment of pixels by reconfiguring the relationship between the coded information and its pixelated representation.
Patrick Jean will give a talk about his work in the Openroom. Inspired by the aesthetic of late 80s/early 90s video games, Jean has made a name for himself across the Internet with the video "PIXELS".
Bleep Labs have come to the fore with its Thingamaboop instrument. Playful from inception, Thingmaboop, embedded with Arduino programming capabilities, is modulated by movement, light sensing LEDs, and is amenable to most synthesizers. In addition to a demonstration ...
MUTEK 2010 / Montreal
Montreal in June is an explosion of festivals. MUTEK, the annual festival of "digital creativity and electronic music," is one of the most intriguing. The focus of the festival, now in its eleventh year, is on live experimental electronic music. This year's MUTEK sported an impressive roster -- electronic supergroups like Matmos and Mouse on Mars; cutting-edge UK dubstep producers such as Ikonika; and notable German DJs like Dixon, Henrik Schwarz, and DJ Koze.
One of the most anticipated live sets at MUTEK was a rare performance by the trailblazing British group Nurse with Wound. Nurse with Wound is a difficult act to pin down. The band, a revolving cast of characters helmed by the shadowy Steven Stapleton, has been in existence, in some form or another, since 1978. Some call Nurse with Wound "industrial music," but that's a bit of a misnomer. The band does bear some similarities with crusading British bands like Throbbing Gristle, Coil, and Current 93, but their music -- disorienting sound collages, ambient drones, tape edits, noise -- is defiantly anti-genre. Perhaps a better way to describe Nurse with Wound is through their artistic inspirations -- Dada sound poetry and French musique concrète, Futurist rhetoric and Surrealist cinema. The band's third album, released in 1980, was titled "Merzbild Schwet," a reference to Kurt Schwitters and his "Merz" philosophy and series of works; Side One was titled "Futurismo"; Side Two was titled "Dada." (Interestingly, many other musicians of the time were referencing Kurt Schwitters -- Faust, Brian Eno, and later the Japanese noise artist Merzbow -- the "Merzbau" being one of Schwitters' most famous works.)
Nurse with Wound played a haunting set in a dark auditorium against a sinister black-and-white film backdrop. Ambient drones were punctuated with harsh, sudden crashes -- reminiscent of ...
Golden Shield Music (2009) - Marco Donnarumma
Golden Shield Music is a generative composition for eight audio channels. [...] The work is inspired by the Golden Shield Project, sometimes referred to as the 'Great Firewall of China'. [...] Golden Shield Music collects the twelve website's IP that are most screened by the Golden Shield. Therefore IP numbers are listed in a text file which feeds an automated MIDI polyphonic synthesizer. The latter translates each IP in a single note formed by 4 voices with a specific velocity. Resulting notes are ordered by the amount of pages the Golden Shield obscured for each IP address: the website's IP obtaining the highest page result on Google.com becomes the first note of the score and the others follow in decreasing order. Data organizes the musical notation, establishing an abstract relationship between Internet information and musical algorithms which sounds harmonious and "handcrafted".
soundw(e)ave (2004) - Christy Matson
[Jacquard Woven Cotton, Each 34" x 54"]
Interview with Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson is an artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, transmission, and sound. Her work presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the passage of time and the evolution of nature and the cosmos. Technology often factors into this line in her practice, where it is used to bring about an awareness of its own restrictions as well as our limited ability to sense and experience natural cycles and movement. She is currently showing History of Darkness in the group exhibition "Cage Mix" at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, up until September 19, 2010. Her series "Every Night About This Time" also opens this weekend at the Whitstable Biennale.


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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons face the Indianapolis Indians in the second game of a four-game set from Victory Field (7:05 p.m.). The Herd dropped the opener of the series last night to Indy, 3-1. Buffalo is now 1-4 on their eight-game roadtrip that began with a 3-1 series loss in Louisville. After the series against Indianapolis, the Bisons return home for a four-game series against Pawtucket, July 28-31.
vs. THE INDIANS: The Bisons are 1-4 against the Indianapolis Indians this year. The Indians took three of four games from the Herd at Coca-Cola Field from June 6-9. The two teams split the season-series a year ago, 4-4. Buffalo has a .533 winning percentage (49-43) against Indianapolis since returning to the International League in 1998.
CENTURY MARK: OF Jesus Feliciano became the fourth hitter in the International League to reach the 100-hit mark this season. Feliciano has hit in 18 of his 20 games this month, averaging .321 (25-78). He's only eight hits behind the league leader, Gwinnett's INF Barbaro Canizares. Overall, his .308 batting average ranks 9th in the IL. He also leads the Bisons with 36RBI this year.
WELL DESERVED: LHP Jonathon Niese will be promoted to the Mets tonight to start for New York against Houston. The southpaw has been almost unhittable of late for the Bisons. In his last seven starts, Niese is 5-0 with a 0.73ERA. He has allowed just four runs on 34 hits in his last 50.1 innings of work (42 strikeouts). Niese leads the International League with two shutouts.
ROSTER MOVE: RHP Brandon Knight has been released from his contract as the veteran intends on pitching in the Korean Baseball Organization. With Buffalo, Knight was 4-9 with a 5.06ERA in 20 games and 14 starts. Recently, he had found a role as the team's closer, converting each of his last three save opportunities. Knight leaves the Herd 3rd on the staff in strikeouts (80).
DL DWINDLING: Another name has come off the Herd's disabled list. INF Mark Kiger has been activated and was transferred to Binghamton (AA) today. Kiger missed 54 games with a left hand strain. He played just two games for the Bisons before getting injured, going 0-4 at the plate.


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Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall says he hopes to ramp up production of the single-engine, stealthy F-35, made by Lockheed Martin, but he will only do so if adequate progress is made in testing on the troubled program.
Production is slated to go as high as 44 aircraft in fiscal 2014 and then 66 aircraft in 2015 for the Pentagon -- up from 29 -- if all goes well. Testing thus far has been marred by propulsion problems, durability issues with some F-35 parts and faulty helmets. The tailhook for the F-35C carrier version is also a problem.
"The big decision for me on the F-35 will be the decision on the FY 15 budget: Do we ramp up or not?," Kendall told reporters at a speech during the Credit Suisse/McAleese Defense Programs conference March 12. "I put two years of flat [production] into the budget last year and I did it as a compromise between stopping entirely and the current plan at the time. That had a big impact on Lockheed. A lot of business slid off on that. I don't want to do that again. I want to get the rate up if I can."
Lockheed Martin, however, must deliver on its flight testing and software programs.
"If they stay on track, then we are going to go head and ramp up. The fate of the program is in Lockheed's hands."
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program executive officer, says the per-unit price is coming down with each progressive low-rate, initial production (LRIP) contract; the contractor is in LRIP 5. However, the aircraft in LRIP 4 is slated to cost about 7% more than those in the previous lot, Bogdan says.
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Genuflect: late Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu, knee, and flectere, to bend. Date: 1630. 1.a. to bend the knee. b. to touch the knee to the floor or ground especially in worship.
I have a theory that prayer is the answer to itself. The very fact that we're praying means we're already receiving what our hearts long for. To open ourselves to reality. To move away from isolation and toward communion. To die to self-reliance and come alive in wonder and mystery. Acknowledging our vulnerability, we're in solidarity with every other sick, suffering, broken person in the world. With our heads bowed, our ears are closer to our hearts. On our knees, we're the same height as children.
I once stayed at a Catholic retreat house where something seemed off. Why was there no body on the cross? Why had the Penitential Rite, the Intercessionary Prayers, the Responsorial Psalm—thePsalms!!!— been excised? The Mass had been sanitized and euthanized. The Mass had beenemasculated. After awhile it dawned on me that at no time during Mass did the members of the community kneel: nary a genuflection before or after Mass; not during the Eucharistic Prayer or Agnus Dei (the chapel had no kneelers, so none of us could kneel except on the floor).
One afternoon I crept into the chapel, peered beneath the pews and spied the tiny holes on either end that had once held screws. Just as I'd suspected, they had taken out the kneelers. They had taken out the kneelers. This resistance to kneeling, in conjunction with the whole liturgically-diluted, inert atmosphere of the place, struck me as disturbing and even dangerous. What were we there for but to worship, to give thanks, to kneel before Someone greater than ourselves? What lover of Christ, before a re-presentation of the Crucifixion, would not instinctively be moved to assume a posture of grief, sorrow, awe, praise, trembling supplication? Where was the blood, the anxiety, the majesty, the sublime paradox, the resurrectional joy?
I'm the first to admit I sometimes over-react but I think this is a serious point. I'm weak but I'm not so delicate that I can't understand that Christ, in agony on the cross, is a reflection of the human condition. I don't need to be shielded from the knowledge that before the Resurrection comes a long, painful journey. I kneel because someone else consented to tell, live and die the truth. I kneel because for a long time I knelt before nothing but my own desperate self-centered desires and I lived in the fires of hell. I kneel to ask for help because I want to be able to welcome the next shipwrecked soul who stumbles, dazed and bleeding, onto shore.
I kneel because I know that someday—maybe today—I'm going to die.


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Early in my experience as a psychotherapy client I received the therapeutic counsel that "Secrets keep you sick." As scared as I felt when I identified and then disclosed secrets to my therapist, I saw the healing power that came as as a result. I worked hard in therapy. I realized how much material I had kept secret, even from myself. I learned the power and value of deep insight, as I recalled forgotten events, experiences, and emotions. I committed myself to make the most out of my therapy and that counsel about not keeping secrets proved to be of great personal value. I felt real relief at finally knowing myself and then at allowing someone else to know me to the bone.
I saw some smart and helpful therapists along the way. It is not a stretch to say that psychotherapy very likely saved my life. It definitely improved my life and my regard for myself. But, like most people who have been on either or both sides of "the couch," I didn't expect complete healing of everything. I accepted on-going self-doubt, neuroses, bouts of insecurity, and inner triggers and over-reactions as part of being human. I've kind of accepted, like Jack Nicholson does in one of my favorite movies, that this is "As Good As I Gets."
Now, after twenty-five years of being a psychotherapist and some thirty-five years since I first entered therapy as a client, I'm questioning some basic assumptions about the institution of psychotherapy. And it is because of that counsel about not keeping secrets, that I have begun this questioning.
Psychotherapy can help people to acknowledge their own history of unmet needs, hurts, and trauma, and the resulting emotions. It also can help us to acknowledge the pain of friends and family who take the risk to share themselves deeply. Of course that is good and can be helpful. But the institution of psychotherapy also serves to enable a sick, isolating society to remain so. We get patched up enough in our therapist's office that we can continue to hide the depth of our on-going life challenges from our day-to-day community. That hour in a therapist's office takes the edge off of our pain and loneliness. So upon walking out the door we are able put on a happy face more effectively. We limp along, individually and collectively, and keep our status as card-carrying members of The Culture of Pretend.
Secrets DO keep us sick. Our secrets keep us strangled with shame. One of the most potent healing effects of twelve-step group recovery work is that people reveal to one another the fact of their addictions and dysfunctions. AA meetings begin with introductions and acknowledgement of each person's addiction to alcohol. Those repeated revelations of the fact of one's addiction breaks the back of toxic shame. Recovering addicts do not hide, at least from each other.
So I might introduce myself in a similar manner.
Hello, I'm Sally and I'm a survivor of The Culture of Pretend. Hello, I'm Sally and I'm sad and lonely. Hello, I'm Sally and I have little contact with my family of origin. Hello, I'm Sally and I'm ashamed about sexuality. Hello, I'm Sally and I have issues around money and self-esteem; I'm panicked about climate change; I feel grief over the loss of community; I struggle with my weight and aging body; I regret mistakes I made in the parenting of my children. I'm Sally and I've spent hundreds of hours in therapy and I still have wounding and dysfunctional patterns that haven't healed. I'm Sally, I'm 57 years old and only in the last six years have I learned to communicate clearly, honestly, and effectively with a mate and a small handful of friends.
The river meanders on in different directions, depending on the day, depending on the storm.
Hello, I'm Sally and I have secrets.
I love my work as a psychotherapist. I feel honored to bear witness to the courage of people who unpack their secrets and their shame in front of me. In the safety inside the walls of my office, people get a taste of the health and freedom to be who they are. I work consciously to create that safety. I disclose to my clients that I too am human and continue to have "issues." I work to help people understand the connections between their past history and their current problems, so they understand where their "issues" come from, and so that they can treat themselves with more patience, kindness, and compassion. I love my work because I see it alleviates some of the suffering, including some of the suffering of toxic shame.
In recent years I've grown uncomfortable with the institution of psychotherapy and have begun to call into question the ultimate value of this work. While I create a safe place for people to unpack their secrets, I also simultaneously and unwittingly, collude with the Culture of Pretend. I make it easier for people to cope with, instead of confront, this culture that breeds shame and dysfunction. I send people out the door with their baggage somewhat lightened, repacked in a more orderly fashion, perhaps with some more space where before there had been shame. But, when they hit the street, they likely continue to keep their secrets packed away in that baggage. They continue to hide the fact and details of both their past and on-going suffering. They pick up more unspeakable experience and it gets added to the load. And thus the Culture of Pretend reigns on.
I am trying an experiment. With others in my local community, I'm exploring the idea of creating a "conscious conversation" group, to meet on a weekly basis. It is not a support group for people who share a common dysfunction or addiction. It is not a therapy group for people who are trying to get over a diagnosed neurosis or character disorder with a professional therapist on hand. It is a group interested simply in seeing what happens if we show up and learn to speak honestly, and to listen in turn respectfully, with the intention not to fix, to heal, or to advise, but to understand and to connect. And ultimately to tap into the deeper wisdom that is possible, such as I've experienced with groups who stay the course.
As I was thinking about how to create this local group it occurred to me that the best way would be to personally invite people to it, rather than to send out an email invitation or to put up a flyer at the bookstore. I thought about some of the people I might approach. And I got scared. I got scared because of my own shame that I even want and need such a group.
These are some of the shame-based questions that went through my head:
What will people think of me? Will they think I'm lonely and pity me? Will they think me weak and unfit? Will they wonder if I'm trying to start a cult? Will they just be confused by the whole notion? Or will people feel offended by the idea that I want to start a group for "conscious" conversation because that implies that what I experience in my day-to-day interactions is "unconscious" conversation?
Those questions arise because in the Culture of Pretend we aren't lonely or wounded or in need. Despite the years of therapy and the healing I've experienced, there still resides in me a deep fear that I'll be seen as wrong, sick, and needy because I am not satisfied with the quality of human connection and interaction that is available outside of therapy or weekend workshops. It's not enough for me. So I've doubted myself and wondered if I'm odd and damaged? If what is available in terms of intimate community is not enough for others, would there not already be something in place?
I began to think about conversations regarding this subject I might have with people. Could I ask if they had ever been in therapy and who they currently turn to when they are sad or angry or scared? Could I suggest that all is not well in this community? As I sat with that idea I felt a cold damp chill come over me. What if I'm the only one? What if everyone else is doing just fine?
I know this fearful and shameful inner territory. It's as old as I am. It began in my family of origin. It's why I no longer have much contact with them. No one in my family talks about how they actually feel. Since I was very young we all circled up psychically around my mother who, with her incessant talking and obsessive housekeeping, is one of the most anxious and compulsive people I've ever met.
In this regard an old saying from the South comes to mind:
"If Mama's not happy, ain't nobody happy."
That rings frighteningly operative for my family. To keep Mama happy, the overriding family rule was to orient around her and her needs, weaknesses, and dysfunctions. There were other specific, unspoken, but very effective corollaries to that general rule:
"Don't talk about Mama's craziness," "Don't feel anything about Mama's craziness," and "Don't try to do anything about Mama's craziness."
In other words, keep Mama's craziness and your feelings about Mama's craziness a big secret.
As a result, our family was emotionally isolated. We didn't talk with each other and we certainly didn't talk with anyone outside the family. We cut off from our own selves, our own experience. With no safe place to talk and to feel, we shut off access to our own gut responses to the situation. We numbed out and sought refuge in our big brains, in school achievement, in compulsive work, in food, and in some cases in numbing depression. This situation persists in the rest of my family to this day.
Most families have secrets, and most people keep those secrets because, like our family, they have no place that feels safe to unpack them. The exceptional individual or family may visit a therapist's office on occasion, or, with luck, participate in a self-help recovery group. For members of The Culture of Pretend, the closed doors of a paid professional or support group provide almost the only places to be fully who we are, to speak freely about our experience, and to feel the depth of our feelings. While therapy provides partial relief from shame and isolation, it does not allow us deep connection and honesty in our larger community. We continue to hide much of our experience from one another. That keeps us individually and collectively, sick. The community becomes a collection of individuals who are walking around, acting happy, but toting lockboxes full of secrets. Secrets keep us sick as individuals. And sick individuals hiding from one another do not make a healthy, honest, loving community. And sick communities make a sick American culture, The Culture of Pretend.
Here are some keys with which to unlock the American box of secrets:
More than 10% of Americans are being treated for depression. That comes to 1 in every 8 Americans, and mental health officials believe that the condition is still under-diagnosed and that 1 in 5 should be treated. www.wrongdiagnosis.com/news
About 28 to 30 percent of the population has either a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder. That's almost a third of our population. www.surgeongeneral.gov
And as a whole we are incredibly isolated.
"A quarter of Americans say they have no one (my emphasis) with whom they can discuss personal troubles, more than double the number who were similarly isolated in 1985. Overall, the number of people Americans have in their closest circle of confidants has dropped from around three to about two." www.washingtonpost.com
Clearly you and I are not alone in our loneliness and the fact that we have "issues." And I know I suffer less acutely than many members of the Culture of Pretend. I do have more than two people I can confide in and I'm not depressed or anxious to the degree that would warrant a major diagnosis. So I'm one of the lucky ones. Yet, even though I do not suffer as much as many, I still suffer.
Think about it. A third of the population suffers with either a diagnosable mental disorder or an addiction, and a quarter of the population has not even one person in whom they can confide. People of The Culture of Pretend are troubled, isolated and collectively stuck in our shame. As a result, we habitually and routinely hide these things from each other. It seems many, if not most of us, have lost both the inclination and the skills to establish a network of honest, intimate relationships. We don't even think to imagine what that might feel like.
Why do we hide?
Think about sitting with someone you know but with whom you are not intimate. Think about not hiding, about acknowledging that you have "issues" with any number of things: anger, helplessness, sadness, fears, family problems, relationship struggles. What do you expect will be the response from the person with whom you are talking?
Likely it will be one of two things. This person will nervously change the subject or rapidly start suggesting solutions, offering advice so that you no longer have to feel unhappy or confused or stuck. Both responses reinforce toxic shame. The first response sends a message that you accidentally broke the code of silence and pretense and need to be rescued from the shame of that by a rapid change of topic. The second sends a message that your problems are simple, that the person has advice that will help. Therefore your suffering results from some way you are inherently inadequate.
People don't want to reinforce shame with either message. Most people genuinely want to be helpful, either by rescuing you of the shame of having exposed yourself or by offering well-meaning advice. But neither response is truly helpful. Truth is the listener does not want to admit that, down deep, she or he also feels helpless or sad, scared or stuck or enraged. The person doesn't want to have to feel upset for either of you. So quick advice is offered. And advice provides a good distraction from the uncomfortable feelings of both speaker and listener. It relieves both of the challenge to "sit with" uncomfortable feelings. We accept this kind of interaction as normal social discourse. It's kind of insane. But because it's very difficult for most people to "sit with" emotions, we don't.
What makes it feel so awful to "sit with" our emotions is that heaped on top of those emotions are large doses of shame. We have an ingrained story in the Culture of Pretend that tells us that we shouldn't feel angry, or sad, scared or helpless. And if we happen to experience one of those "negative" emotions, it should last only very briefly. We should get some advice, and get on with it. We should be happy. After all we live the American Dream. We are the bright, beautiful children of rugged immigrants, noble working class, or good middle- or upper-class families. Our folks struggled to give us a good life. We are well-educated and well-fed. It's not pretty or appreciative to feel or express these so-called "negative" things. So we hide what we feel. We pretend we've got it covered.
That is just a story however. There's a more accurate story we could start to tell. Here is how I would tell it:
America is part of Empire and our way of life "peaked" many decades ago. There's much to feel "negative" about, much in our personal and collective past and much in our present. Americans are not happy. The Culture of Pretend is simply that, pretense and fluff. Life for most people is not good or easy. And if one's life circumstances happen to be better than others', those circumstances ultimately exact a horrific cost to the non-human and indigenous worlds that Empire has exploited to supply us with our comfort. And the truth is, even with our "comfort," we are not happy or fulfilled, only comfortable.
Freud, bless his limited, cigar-smoking, neurotic, Austrian self, had some wise ideas. One of his wise ideas was this:
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
That has always rung true for me. So how, in fact, are Americans doing with those cornerstones of our humanness?
On the work front things are not so good.
"According to a recent survey, job dissatisfaction is widespread among workers of all ages across all income brackets. The study found that only half of all the workers are satisfied with their jobs. Worker satisfaction has declined across all income brackets over the last nine years (click here for more on this study). Surveys over the past 40 years have shown that 40% to 50% of workers would change their line of work, if they could." www.careerkey.org
The survey was reported in 2007. So that study addresses only the part of the population that currently has a job. Our collective pain in the arena of work has increased hugely with skyrocketing unemployment since the economic meltdown of 2008.
And despite what the Culture of Pretend would have us believe, Americans are not doing so hot at love either:
"The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world. Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Sixty-seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce." www.mediate.com
And further,
While almost a half of marriages in Australia end in divorce, the half that don't are apparently not much happier according to a recent study.
The British firm Seddons surveyed 2000 married couples and found that the majority are dissatisfied and only stay together for pragmatic reasons. The survey found that:
· 59% of the married women would leave if they could find financial security elsewhere.
· 51% of the men thought their marriages were 'loveless'.
· Over 50% of the couples had thought seriously about divorce
· 10% wished they had married someone else.
· 37% said they stayed together for the sake of the children.
· 30% stayed because they could not deal with the 'massive upheaval' of separation.
· 35% thought their marriage was about to 'turn stale'.
It seems likely that with divorce rates similar to Australia, the survey statistics would be mirrored in Britain, the US and other Western countries. www.ultimate-self.com
I am not surprised by these studies. I have had my share of sorrow around relationships over the years and I count myself extremely fortunate that I found work that I've loved and could pursue in balance with the rest of my life for much of my adult life. Most people hold little hope to have work that they both love and that pays the bills, and would consider themselves extremely lucky if they did.
Where is My Tribe?
As a people, Americans who feel, feel deep dissatisfaction. But we are not bound together, in ways earlier tribal peoples were, such that we can help one another address that dissatisfaction. We are isolated and trapped in the Culture of Pretend. We don't talk about these things openly and so we can't solve them collectively. Most people feel unhappy in one or more areas of their life, in work, in love, or in both. But because we live in The Culture of Pretend we fear we are the only ones suffering. It's become a deadly spiral:
The more isolated and ashamed I feel, the less likely I am to talk about it. The less I talk about it the less likely I am to know that I'm not alone, that I can reach out for acceptance and support. The less acceptance and support I get, the more helpless and ashamed I feel. The more I feel ashamed, the more I hide. The more I hide, the more everyone else hides. The more we all hide, the more helpless and ashamed we all feel.
Members of the Culture of Pretend run a never-ending race between shame and isolation. We hide most of our difficulties from most of the people in our lives. The hiding arises from, and reinforces, shame. Both the hiding and the shame become intractable parts of a self-reinforcing loop. And we all lose in this race, even those of us who do not currently suffer acutely. Because we're all missing out on having our tribe, our clan, our village. We collectively miss out on the richness of loving community: giving and receiving the very love, support, honesty, and understanding that would help ourselves and our neighbors.
Enter "learned helplessness."
Learned helplessness describes the condition of a human being or an animal that has learned to behave helplessly in the face of pain even when the opportunity is present to alleviate the pain by changing the unpleasant or harmful circumstances.
"Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation (Seligman, 1975)". ~Wikipedia
The "learned helplessness" studies which began in the late 1960's went loosely like this: a dog is placed in a closed cage. The cage is shocked a number of times. At first, of course, the dog tries to escape from the cage, fighting and howling. But after a period of unpredictable, inescapable shocks the dog gives up and becomes passive in response. We can surmise that the passivity arises from an inner blunting of the pain, a shut-down of the normal feeling stimulus-response pattern. The dog becomes psychically, perhaps physically, numb in an effort to cope with the inescapable pain of the shocks. Then the door to the cage is opened. The dog is shocked again, repeatedly. However, because of "learned helplessness," even though there is now an escape, even though the dog could freely leave the cage, she does not. She has "learned" that nothing she does will change the situation. She has learned that the best way to cope is to blunt the feeling of the shock, go passive, and so suffer less. Thus the opened door, the way out, becomes irrelevant in the face of "learned helplessness."
Learned helplessness is directly tied to our beliefs regarding the source of our difficulty. We remain caught in learned helplessness when we attribute the problem either to
1) what we believe to be our own irresolvable inadequacies, or to
2) what we believe to be outside forces beyond our ability to change.
It is those beliefs that give rise to resignation, numbness, and passivity. If, instead, we were to attribute the problem to either inner or outer conditions over which we can have an influence, then we can to resist the urge to become numb and instead look for ways work to change our situation.
The persistent messages of The Culture of Pretend, spoken or otherwise, reinforce our tendencies to stay numb and passive. Most often family, friends, neighbors and the media reinforce the idea that our unhappiness is due to our own inadequacies or to forces beyond our ability to influence. So we get caught in the pattern of learned helplessness. By not talking openly about our unhappiness and dissatisfaction, by hiding those from others in our day-to-day lives, we all stay locked in a cage of shame where we continue to suffer and remain isolated.
We've lost our village, our tribe, our sense of belonging. Everyone is pretending, whistling past the graveyard, hoping no one will notice, trying to look good while actually feeling far from happy and fulfilled, and instead often distracted, numb, chronically busy, but rarely at peace.
I have never met one person who had a truly happy childhood. But even if one did have a truly happy childhood and also a rather good education with kind, decent mentors, only people who are in denial can be without sadness and horror as we stare down the exploitation and devastation of the non-human world, the wholesale theft of the native landbases and abuse of workers from third world countries, and the destruction of countless first nation cultures. And since we don't talk about the larger, global pain any more intimately than we do about individual pain, everyone is impoverished.
The choices seem to be, like the dog in the cage, to smash one's self against the wire bars of Empire or to give up in numbed exhaustion and retreat into passivity. But there are other choices.
Those choices will require that we tell the truth. And to do that will require us to take some risks.
The way out, of course, is to notice that the door is open.
The way out of our loneliness and isolation is first to look at the situation as it actually is. When we study quality-of-life and mental health statistics we realize that we are not alone, that virtually everyone is suffering, at least to some degree. With that understanding we can begin to risk talking about what our actual experience and look for others who want to escape that cage of shame as well. As we risk talking and listening to others we will create greater degrees of connection and community. We will discover how much of our depression or anxiety or general malaise is actually rooted in isolation arising from toxic shame and hiding. In turn as we investigate further, and as we hear one another's stories, we will discover that the root causes of unhappiness reside not in our personal inadequacies but in larger systemic forces.
Those forces have been at work for a long time. Empire has been about the task of destroying family and village systems, breaking down our sense of belonging and relatedness, removing opportunities for meaningful work and deep connection to a close-knit community or tribe for centuries, perhaps millennia. And that situation is escalating, especially in the US. It stands to reason that the rise of child neglect and abuse has coincided with the breakdown of vibrant, close-knit, healthy, family and village support structures. Our pain from childhood is the direct result of those breakdowns.
As inadequate as individual psychotherapy is to address the erosion of family and community, the strategy of treating depression, anxiety and other symptoms of this sad culture with pharmaceuticals alone is even worse. While those conditions often accompany neuro-chemical imbalances, we don't know that those imbalances are the cause of depression and anxiety. Just as likely chemical imbalances are the result of the toxic cocktail of life circumstances that individuals imbibe in this stressful culture: exposure to neuro-toxins, stressful work situations, difficult relationships, insecure economies, isolation, etc.
So which came first, the depression or the isolation?
Treatment of serotonin deficiency with a pharmaceutical alone carries the same serious collusion with the Culture of Pretend as individual psychotherapy. Pharmaceuticals do nothing to address the very real loneliness, isolation, and shame that come with living in a toxic culture that pushes overwork and mindless distraction in lieu of intimate family and village relationships, significant and fulfilling work, and creative individual expression.
People who lack loving support, who suffer from toxic shame and learned helplessness, flat out don't have the inner resources to gain insight and to make a creative response to their situations. They end up, like the dog in the cage, needing to shut down their neurological systems, to "depress" their feelings and reactions. All too often pharmaceutical treatment alone simply take the edge off the discomfort of that numbed emptiness of not feeling. We can imagine that a medicated dog, head down, doing whatever is necessary to simply survive, will be even less likely to notice that there is a door and that the door is open. Likewise, a medicated worker, head down, continues to keep working, numbed and confused about what actually needs to be changed in her life if real and lasting recovery is to be found.
This situation is everywhere. And the truth is, all of us, even those of us fortunate enough not to be currently suffering with acute or chronic work or relationship problems, still suffer. We, too, are cut off emotionally from the richness of a loving, honest community, and from the fulfillment we would realize by feeling deeply connected and able to offer effective kindness, support, and shared insight to our friends and neighbors.
I have a vision that as the large structures of this culture break down we will be compelled to return to more intimate connection in our neighborhoods and communities. We would do well to prepare now by forming ever more honest, intimate connections with one another. It would do much to enhance our lives currently and it would provide a safety net to catch others as they fall. It is now inevitable that economic turmoil, social and political unrest related to Peak Oil, dislocation and food shortages related to climate destabilization, and the decay of unsustainable physical and social infrastructures will coalesce to stretch the high wire of this culture beyond the breaking point.
Let this be my challenge to others in the helping professions to step into re-visioning their work, to tell the truth of the toxicity of this culture, and to help now, on the ground, to create deeper, more profound, more healing community-based structures rather than colluding in the larger system that serves only to perpetuate individual shame and helplessness.
Sally Erickson is producer of the documentary What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire.


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To embed such as this one into the forum you simply use the youtube tag and write yt in brackets []. than you write the number after the = in the youtube url. In this case 1p0626dye8w and then you write /yt in brackets.
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The history of radio in Malaya began in the year 1921 when an electrical engineer from the Johor Government, A.L. Birch, brought the first radio set into the country. He then established the Johore Wireless Association and commenced broadcasting through 300 meter waves. This was then followed by the establishment of the same association in Penang and the Malayan Wireless Association in Kuala Lumpur.
In the year 1930, Sir Earl from the Singapore Port Authority commenced its short wave broadcast every fortnight either on Sundays or Wednesdays. The same effort was emulated by the Malayan Wireless Association, broadcasting from Bukit Petaling, Kuala Lumpur, via 325 meter waves. This was followed by the efforts of Sir Shenton Thomas who opened the Studio of Broadcasting Corporation of Malaya and its transmitter at Caldecott Hill, Singapore, on 11th March 1937. The British Broadcasting Corporation of Malaya was then taken over by the Straits Settlement and became a part of the British Information Ministry better known as the Malayan Broadcasting Corporation.
Following the Japanese invasion and the end of British rule in Singapore in 1942, the Japanese took over and used the existing radio channels in Penang, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Seremban and Singapore to transmit Japanese propaganda. However, in the year 1943, the British came back into power and reclaimed the stations. On 1st April 1946, the Department of Broadcasting was established in Singapore. When emergency, caused by the outbreak of social riots was declared in 1948, it became necessary to further enhance and develop radio services.
In the early 50's, broadcasting activities in Malaya were operated from its temporary studio in Jalan Young (now know as Jalan Cenderasari) in Kuala Lumpur and later in 1956, were moved to the Federal House, Kuala Lumpur. It was here that broadcasting in Malaysia grew with the establishment of several stations throughout the country including Sabah and Sarawak. Commercial advertisements were first aired on radio in 1960. This became a new source of revenue for the Government. An interesting point to note is that 'deejays' began to use the introduction "INILAH RADIO MALAYSIA" (This is Radio Malaysia) to greet listeners at the very first time Malaysia was formed in 16th September 1963.
Broadcasting further carved another milestone when Television services were introduced on 28 December 1963 from its studio, Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Ampang. Broadcast operations then moved office to Angkasapuri Complex which began its telecast on 6th October 1969, Radio and Television were merged under the Ministry of Information. The growth of the first channel, Rangkaian Satu encouraged the second channel to be established on 17th November 1969.
It was in Angkasapuri Complex that rapid development in broadcasting for both radio and television began. Broadcast time was extended to cater to the needs of listeners from all walks of life. National Radio Channel (Rangkaian National) began its round the clock services to cater for night shift workers such as factory operators, wardens, hospital staffs, lorry or bus drivers, pick-up service operators, food courts or caterers and security guards. Today, Malaysians enjoy listening to 6 radio channels 24 hours a day in Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil while East Malaysians (Sabah and Sarawak) are tuning to radio channels in their respective native languages such as Kadazan, Murut, Dusun, Bajau, English and Mandarin via Blue Channel RTM Kota Kinabalu. Bidayuh, a dialect widely used by Sarawakians, is the main language for Blue Channel RTM Kuching. Iban and Kayan/Kenyah are dialects used in the Green Channel of the station while English and Mandarin are local dialects used for the Red Channel. Except for RTM Limbang, dialects used for the Red Channel. Except for RTM Limbang, dialects used to communicate with the listeners are as mentioned but Bisaya and Murut (Lun Bawang) are also spectacular dialects used in that channel.
Electronic media is the most important source of receiving and disseminating information because it is fast, cheap and direct to or from the clients. Knowing the fact that being laden with too much information creates adverse effects to Radio listeners or TV audience, an alternative of placing information side by side with entertainment is practised. On 20th June 1975, Radio Muzik (Muzik Radio) was launched. As the name implies, the channel allows for total entertainment in the form of songs for listeners of all ages.
Development in television is also very rapid especially in the era of Information Technology (IT). Efforts to air 80 percent local programmes and 20 percent foreign or imported programmes are taken very seriously.
April 1st 1996 marked RTM's 50 years anniversary. RTM has experienced tremendous changes and development in the field of broadcasting. 1998 was another historical year for RTM. World class sporting events were brought to Kuala Lumpur. World standard athletes came from all Commonwealth countries in the world to witness and judge Malaysia's capabilities in broadcasting. The International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) became the centre of broadcasting excellence during the Commonwealth games and RTM is the Host Broadcaster.
TV Malaysia started its early telecast on 1st March 1994 and started transmission as early as 6.00 am. TV1, The Prime Channel introduced "Selamat Pagi Malaysia" (Good Morning Malaysia). TV2, The Golden Channel, later followed by launching "Moving On Two" in December 1996. The commencement of the early morning telecasts also enable news and up-dates to be aired more frequently. RTM's News Centre which is fully computerised with up-to-date editing and post-production facilities was able to provide this service.
What could be more praiseworthy is not only that the number of listeners, viewers and revenues collected from commercial advertisements derived from airing them increasing year by year, but RTM has marked yet another milestone with the introduction of RTM's website at the end of 1995. This service which was launched by the Honourable Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed on 27th December 1995, enables listeners to tune to the TV and Radio stations via the Internet. The Internet does not lessen the role of radio and television. On the contrary, the Net can be used to enhance the functions of radio and televisyen in disseminating information globally.


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I have received a few emails asking about a good workout you can do in your hotel room while on travel or in your living room when too busy to go to the weight room. This email is from a civilian high school student who aspires to become a member of the Armed Services.
"I was trying to figure out how I would be able to work out in Germany. Two weeks is a long time without a work out. So I was wondering if you had any good workout ideas for some kind of work out I could do in my room in Germany? Thanks."
For those who are geared toward future military, active duty military members, or those who prefer a calisthenics workout, these tips are perfect for you.
The goal is to create a maintenance program that will challenge your cardiovascular system as well as your muscle endurance. Some hotels may have weight rooms with cardio equipment or even pools. If that is the case, get your cardio in the pool, or on bikes or treadmills. Otherwise, these workouts can be done with little or no equipment as demonstrated below:
The super set is a series of exercises to be repeated with no rest. For the upper body superset, simply do five to ten pushups, then roll over and rest your pushup muscles by doing ten crunches and continue on with the two different versions of pushups and crunches. One super set can be accomplished in as little as two minutes. If you repeat this particular workout five times you will have 150 pushups and 200 crunches in a ten minute period.
5-10 Super Sets 1) Pushups: 10 2) Crunches: 10 3) Wide Pushups: 10 4) Reverse Crunches: 10 5) Triceps Pushups: 10
Add 10-20 jumping jacks after before every pushup set and get some cardio benefit out of it.
Total time: 10-20 minutes
On other days you can work your legs and abs again or combine them for a full body workout.
Repeat the leg superset five to ten times depending on your fitness level: 1) Squats: 20 2) Crunches: 20 3) Lunges: 10/leg 4) Left/Right Crunches: 20/20 5) Heel Raises: 20 6) Reverse Crunches: 20
Add jumping jacks to this one and you will get winded.
The leg workout superset below is a little more challenging due to the fact that you stand up and lie down repeatedly. Some people have commented that the hardest part of this workout is the transition from one exercise to the other. As you can see, there is really no excuse not to exercise any day of the week whether you are traveling, working long hours, or staying at home with the kids. With minimal equipment and time sacrifice, we can all fit exercise in our lives and stay healthy for many years to come. Good luck.
Mix a little cardio with PT for an all-in-one workout with both cardio and muscular benefits:
- Jumping Jacks: 10 (repeat 5-10 times) - Squats - 10 (repeat 5-10 times) and/or jog or walk or bike 5:00 - Stretch - Repeat the following 4-5 times: - Squats: 20 reps - Lunges: 10/leg reps (regular, 1/2) - Calves: 30 (regular, toes in, toes out) - Bike or Jog: 5:00
Mix jogging or biking with leg exercises with this time saving workout:
- Jog 1/4 mile or bike 2:00-3:00 / stretch - Repeat the following four times: - Jog 1/4 mile on a treadmill or outside (or bike 2:00-3:00) - Squats: 10 - 20 reps - Lunges: 10 -15 reps each leg - Calves: 30 reps each leg - Stretch
Hope that gives you a few ideas of how you can maintain your fitness level while on travel, as well as how you can start a fitness plan with little or no equipment.
Stew Smith is a former Navy SEAL and fitness author certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. If you are interested in starting a workout program to create a healthy lifestyle - check out the Military.com Fitness eBook store and the Stew Smith article archive at Military.com. To contact Stew with your comments and questions, e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.