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Statik Selektah and Termanology's '1982' Is a Classic
Duo Soars with Broadly Complete Album
|By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
BeatTips Rating: 5/5
The uncompromising creativity of 1982 splashes at you like a golden razor, slicing away your angst for what mostly purports to be hip hop/rap music these days. In fact, not sense Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele, or Gang Starr's Moment of Truth have I heard a more defiant, well-balanced, and self-defining album in hip hop/rap.
There is an aggressive freedom within 1982. This album roams confidently (decisively) where it wants. Indeed, 1982 is not an overtly ambitious medley of varying tunes for everybody. On the contrary, 1982 is clearly for somebody. It's for me. And if you like boots-in-the-speaker hip hop/rap music along with an occasional "smooth operator" boom bap selection, then it's for you. But if you incline towards contrived "emo" tracks or clumsy Southern bounce knock-offs, you're at the wrong parade. 1982 is a street hop convention, wherein there's a celebration of two of the rawest and coldest fundamentals of the hip hop/rap music tradition: beats and rhymes. It's also a magnificent lesson in musical balance, as the milder cuts on the album enhance the range and depth of an otherwise hardcore LP.
BeatTips Rating Breakdown
Favorite Joints
"Still Waiting"
This is my absolute favorite joint from 1982. A classic song that actually reminds of me of how eloquently Bruce Springstein and Billy Joel accurately deliver the day-to-day "common man" vibe of a working class "joe" with big dreams. Termanology is at his best here, offering up a confessional rhyme jaunt that leaves you cheering for him and Stat to hit it big.
"I'm still waiting for my day/I'm still waiting to par-lay with hell-a loot/I'm still waiting ti' my moms livin' better, too/shit, cuz my life's still raw/I'm twenty-somethin' years old and I'm still poor."—Termanology
As for the beat, Statik Selektah demonstrates his superb ear for soulful samples and his master-touch chopping. What's especially dope is how Stat handles the track overall. His treatment of the primary sample is precise. Rather than cloud it with a schizophrenic drum framework (something a less skilled beatmaker would most likely have done), he anchors it with a steady kick-snare pattern, while beefing up on the cymbals.
"Life Is What You Make It" ft. Saigon and Freeway
A deceptively simple arrangement that draws you into the rhythmic prisms created by the beat and each rhyme flow. I particularly like this joint because of Saigon's work on it. And the beat for "Life Is What You Make It" is currently my favorite from 1982. Using a three-note bass sample, the beat drags and pulls with one of the illest swing qualities I've heard on a beat in recent years.
With this song, intellect and social scholarship take center stage. I dig songs that teach and uplift without preaching.
"The World Renown"
This joint is proof positive that beats inspire flow, and the iller the beat, the iller the rhyme—well, at least that's how it is when there's a capable lyricist on the beat. Fortunately, Termanology proves to be more than capable here. Term uses "The World Renown," the first cut of the album, to announce that he's entered a new lyrical zone of complexity, flow, and stylistic machismo.
As far as the beat, once again, Statik Selektah shows off master art-craftsmanship. The beat simmers. At the center is a soul-jazz fusion sample that's surgically chopped (one of Stat's best traits), but not over-extended the way many "auto-choppers" of today like to often do. And the drum framework is a silhouette of smoothness. Each individual element is tucked well, with the bongo punch of the snare and the casual lift of the kick grounding the whole beat in a soul lounge essence.
"People Are Running"
This joint is bare-bones creativity at its finest! On some other-world storytelling shit, Term comes off with deftly penned imagery, offering up an apocalyptic view of what amounts to be the hood through a Matrix lens. And Stat anchors the vocals with an eerie and deceptively simple beat. "People Are Running" features a kick-snare pattern that's steady yet remarkably chaotic, seemingly ready to break fool at any moment. And the 8th-bar mark drum roll is nasty, proving that Statik Selektah is most at home when he explores what he can create with his custom drum sounds. "People Are Running" is hauntingly fresh hip hop/rap music, and fortunately, like most of the cuts on 1982 it's not encumbered by a useless hook.
"You Should Go Home (for breakdown, see Sureshot Singles below)
Sureshot Single(s)
"You Should Go Home" ft. Bun
Dig it, most so-called "for-the-ladies" contraptions usually lean towards the superficial "baby-I-need-you" schlock. But this isn't the case with "You Should Go Home." Here, Statik creates a beat that cooks and bangs just as much as it conjures up that obvious "R&B" feel. The rumbling bongo pattern, flanked by snare brushes "on the 2's," both sub-frameworks shrouded by a tempered hi-hat scheme: genius! The entire measure of the song shuffles with a swing quality often only found with a great traditional live drummer. "You Should Go Home" wonderfully displays Statik Selektah's range as a beatmaker/producer.
Also, the rhymes that grace "You Should Go Home" are not the typical "R&B" filler, either. Termanology proves that he knows how to temper his tone and flow, without sacrificing his subject matter and delivery. And Bun B doesn't just show up making am appearance, on the contrary, he sounds comfortable and confident, completely at home with the tapestry and scope of the beat.
Finally, I'm compelled to point out that ordinarily, I dislike hearing an "R&B" type joint on a hardcore album, but 1982 is no ordinary album, and "You Should Go Home" isn't your average hip hop/rap-"R&B" hybrid—it's both magnetic and catchy. In fact, I anticipate that "You Should Go Home" is going to pick up heavy radio traction.
Sleeper Cuts
"Wedding Bells" ft. Jared Evan
"Wedding Bells" puts you in the mind frame of Color Me Bad's "I Wanna Sex You Up," one of the hardest hip hop/rap influenced joints of all time. But while "Sex You Up" features the sappy sing-pleading of a 90s urban boy band, Termanolgy's dead pan rhymes about a guy with "conflicting" thoughts on marriage makes "Wedding Bells" glide into a whole new zone.
On the surface, "Wedding Bells" is light and humorous, as Term rhymes, "I might bring you a rose/but then I'm stripping ya close/wanted the kid to propose/sorry I'm dippin', I'm gost." Then there's Jared Evan on the chorus singing (masterfully), "She's hearing wedding bells." But listen beneath the surface and you'll hear how seriously Statik Selektah has approached this whole "new jack swing" aesthetic. The sound simply doesn't feel like 2010. Instead, it carries the good vibe nuance of the "new jack swing" sound of the early 1990s. Some might think Stat and Term were taking a chance with this joint, considering how much of 1982 is hardcore. But I beg to differ. "Wedding Bells" isn't only a refreshing change of pace, it's a great example of music makers exploring (and committing to) a variety of their musical interests and influences.
Perhaps on any other Stat and Term album, "Wedding Bells" would stand out as the cold-handed hip hop/rap, R&B-tinged joint. But "You Should Go Home" so powerfully commands that slot that "Wedding Bells" may be slightly overlooked by some. It's a shame, though, because "Wedding Bells" has an entirely different feel and scope than "You Should Go Home." Moreover, "Wedding Bells" has a special power: if you listen closely it will beam you back to 1991.
"Thugaton 2010"
"Thugaton 2010" is stick-up kid background music. Eight bars of it will have you amped up and ready to go rob somebody, even if your name is Becky and you're from Long Island. What's more, "Thugaton 2010" features M.O.P. on a slower tempo beat, a rarity for sure, as most M.O.P. features are usually up-tempo, high octane affairs. Indeed, the beat for "Thugathon 2010" is a deceptively subdued masterpiece. Brilliant, Stat!
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Final Analysis
1982 is an impressive collection of high-grade quality hip hop/rap music.
In addition to the standard fare of male hip hop/rap bravado, this album contains songs with a variety of topics. "Wedding Bells," one of two joints certain to appeal to the ladies, is a cleverly made tune about mis-perceived relationships. "The Hood Is On Fire" and "People Are Running" eloquently describe the perilous and claustrophobic nature of life in the ghetto. "Still Waiting" vividly captures the anxieties of an artist dealing with everyday life while trying hard to make it in the face of uncertain success. "You Should Go Home" is a monster of a mainstream hit that bangs and stays fresh after frequent repeat listens. "Freedom" is a sobering scholarly effort and uplifting anthem that makes you reflect on the social obstacles that face people of color. "World Renown" and "Life Is What You Make It" are songs that aggressively celebrate quality complex lyricism... 1982 is loaded!
While I dig the fact that each song on 1982 executes its aim, what I appreciate more is the fact that there are no gaps in focus or any haphazard attempts at styles and sounds that do not favor the duo or their featured guests. Instead, Statik Selektah and Termanology navigate their collective influences in a manner that registers well with the overall ambition of the album, which I gather was to simply offer the most sincere representation of the pair's skills and genuine interests. In fact, Stat & Term openly embrace their influences. Which doesn't mean that they try to be or even mimic their stated inspiration. Instead, they orchestrate the best of themselves—influential references and all. Thus, any direct comparisons of 1982 to any album by Gang Starr or Pete Rock & CL Smooth (both duos explicitly mentioned in 1982's intro) misses the point and scope of 1982, entirely.
And while Statik Selektah's beats continued to demonstrate why he has quickly risen to the 1st tier of today's beatmakers/producers, I was pleasantly surprised by Termanology's rhymes. On past efforts, I found Termanology's rhyming to be average at best. But his lyrical command on 1982 has forced me to recognize him as a solid lyricist, one with serious depth and much poetic imagination.
Why Statik Selektah and Termanology's 1982 Is Undoubtedly a Classic
Overall, what makes an album a classic? Illmatic, perhaps my most favorite hip hop/rap album of all time, was a collection of abrasive street cuts; it contained no so-called "radio friendly" joints or any "for-the-ladies" selections. And despite what some might want to say otherwise, by 1994, the year Illmatic was released, the radio was already on the road to the "top 8 at 8" pop induced format that it is now. Thus, one of the things that makes Illmatic a classic to many is it's defiantly hardcore street stance. And what about Dr. Dre's The Chronic? Another classic, and another one of my favorites. But unlike Illmatic—an album who's track listing I know verbatim—, I honestly struggle to name any song off of The Chronic beyond "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" and "Let Me Ride." Then there's 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', an album that MANY hip hop/rap music journalists failed to initially dub a classic, despite it's obvious appeal both under— and above ground.
Even a superficial listen of the three aforementioned classic albums by Nas, Dr. Dre, and 50 Cent, respectively, tells you that there is no exact science to coming up with a "classic." But if there's a quality that all three albums share, it's their defiantly personal nature, flying in the face of conformity. Statik Selektah & Termanlogy's 1982 shares this same quality (as does The Left's Gas Face; BeatTips.com's review coming next week). At a time where many (if not most hip hop/rap acts) are scrambling to conform—and in many cases, scrambling to openly bite (carbon copy) the sound of their more "successful" contemporaries—, Statik and Term opted for a different, but well-established course.
For 1982, Statik Selektah and Termanology combined to formulate an album that was at times, intellectually interesting and socially engaging; and at all times, musically rewarding. And they did it all using the guide set forth by a number of hip hop/rap's important stalwarts, most notably Gang Starr and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. What's more impressive, however, is the fact that Stat & Term deliver a classic using their own ingenuity: They stand defiantly on their own apparatus of honest music making.
As such, 1982 is an album full of hip hop/rap's best aesthetics. The intentional absence of useless hooks are welcome. The range and high quality nature of the beats are inviting; from beat to beat there are sharp examples of the beatmaking tradition's most fundamental characteristics. Termanology's successful reach for the upper tiers of lyricism are encouraging. The mesh of high profile features is impressive and well-used. Even the song arrangement of the LP (a subtle but important variable in a good album's equation) should be applauded. Thus, 1982 is not only aesthetically pleasing, it's an album worthy of serious MusicStudy.
I've long maintained that one of the best "self-preserving" qualities of the hip hop/rap music tradition is its self-defiant nature. Hip hop/rap music is no longer a surprise guest at the big ball. It has arrived by every metric that you can imagine, and now it permeates sharply through American culture as well as major cities around the globe. Moreover, hip hop/rap has gained widespread acceptance as both a formidable entertainment sub-industry and as a serious academic discipline. But despite hip hop/rap's ascent into the mainstream as well as the upper crusts of society and even high art circles, in its fundamental essence, hip hop/rap still speaks loudest to the "common classes". That Statik Selektah & Termanology have a strong grasp of this component of hip hop/rap is what makes 1982 so engaging, encouraging, and of course, refreshingly enjoyable. Classic work.


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The Rebels put three girls in the double figures. Kayla Radel led ML-WR with 20 points, Adri Jusczak had 15 points and Taylor Miller had 14 points. Shaelyn Halverson, with a three-pointer, had seven points. Hayley Johnson and Holly Mattison each added two points.
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Ericsson Files Net Neutrality Comments with the United States FCC on July 17, 2017.
Ericsson filed comments in support of the FCC's proposals to roll back the more onerous aspects of Net Neutrality rules put into place under Chairman Wheeler's FCC. Ericsson focused on 5G in particular, and the differentiation it can offer for different traffic types. Ericsson's Jared Carlson and Kelley Shields lead the response team.
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The current framework risks impeding online innovation and investment. The open internet must permit operators to deliver differentiated user experiences. But the amorphous general conduct standard and the categorical prohibition against paid prioritization foreclose that. Network slicing is one example of what is at stake. Each customized network slice matches the level of delivery complexity required by different supported services. Providers can use network slices as their services dictate and as their customers demand, including in ways that cannot yet be imagined. Broadband regulation can and should account for and promote these sorts of benefits.
Net neutrality regulation and Title II reclassification threaten network investment, as found in the NPRM, the Nineteenth Report on mobile competition, and other studies. Ericsson's own experience confirms these trends. As detailed in an attached declaration, after the 2015 Order, wireless carrier CAPEX spending dramatically decreased. While this negative revenue trend was attributable to more than one factor, the adoption of the 2015 Order cannot be ignored.
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The highly competitive nature of the mobile services marketplace warrants limited regulation. Wireless is proof that under a "light touch" regulatory approach, the internet can thrive. Until 2015, in the absence of strict net neutrality regulation and Title II classification for mobile wireless operators, competition grew, usage surged, prices dropped, and there were no signs of systemic consumer harms. Because competition is greater today, the case against net neutrality regulation and Title II reclassification is even stronger now.
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Who To Drink, Virginia Miller for the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Or, as Steven Liles put it, "4 Old Guys, and a Young Gal, You Should Get a Drink From Before They Die."
I was honored to be included in the list of awesome bartenders! Here are the questions Virginia sent and some expansion on my answers.
Erik Ellestad first landed on the cocktail map in 2006 with his blog, Savoy Stomp — during his off hours as a tech engineer he began working his way through the classic Savoy Cocktail Book, one recipe at a time. This led to monthly gathering and demonstration Savoy Cocktail Book Nights at revered Upper Haight cocktail hotspot the Alembic since 2008, and bartending at chic SoMa Chinese restaurant Heaven's Dog since its opening in January 2009. He's an expert on classic recipes; his technically-minded side informs his precision and sense of balance.
I started getting involved in online cocktail related forums, including DrinkBoy and Webtender, in the early 2000s. Joined eGullet.org in 2005. In June of 2006, I started the Savoy Stomp topic in the Spirits and Cocktails forum on eGullet, documenting my efforts to sequentially make every single drink in the Savoy Cocktail Book. For a while in this period, I also served as one of the hosts of that forum. Later in 2006, I started a personal blog with similar content to the Savoy Stomp on eGullet.org. Eventually, keeping both in sync got to be too much of a drag, and I moved the Stomp entirely to my personal blog, savoystomp.com.
1. Please list for me what bars you're tending at currently and how many years you've been bartending.
I work at Heaven's Dog and help host Alembic Bar's monthly Savoy Cocktail Book Night. However, I am most well known for the blog project I began in June of 2006 to make and document every cocktail in the Savoy Cocktail Book. The Alembic staff and I have been doing the Savoy Nights together since November of 2008 and I've been bartending at Heaven's Dog since we opened in January of 2009. I also work part time for the University of California, here in San Francisco, as a Unix Systems Administrator.
2. Where are you from and how does that influence your bartending style and taste?
I'm an honest hard working boy from a small town near Madison, Wisconsin. Other than developing my taste for beer, cheese, and Old-Fashioned Cocktails, I don't think growing up in Wisconsin particularly affected my bartending. However, the 10 years I spent as a line and prep cook while living in Madison, definitely affected both the way I approach cocktails and how I prioritize tasks while bartending.
3. What is your area of expertise or obsession: a spirit, cocktail style, category or region of drink?
Pre-prohibition American beverages, bars, and taverns. Almost all my real favorite cocktails go back to the 19th, early 20th Centuries, or before, and most of the books I most enjoy reading are about that period as well.
4. What do you drink most during off hours?
To be honest, now that I've nearly finished the Savoy Cocktail Book Project, I've been taking a bit of a break from drinking cocktails. You'll most often find me drinking beer or wine. I have a special interest in small producers and natural process products.
5. What cocktail are you making lately that is exciting you, whether your own or someone else's, recipe?
Inevitably, people ask regularly for "bartender's choice" or "something you have been working on".
Since you can't say, "Well, I've been working on being a more engaging host," or, "I've been working on my wine service and knowledge," I try to learn a new or classic cocktail a week, so I have an easy answer to the question.
This week I was inspired by Leopold's Navy Strength Gin to perfect the Inca Cocktail.
Inca Cocktail
3/4 oz Leopold's Navy Strength Gin
3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz Carpano Antica Itailian Vermouth
3/4 oz Manzanilla Sherry
teaspoon Small Hand Foods Orgeat
1 dash Orange Bitters
Add ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into a small cocktail glass and garnish with an orange twist.
6. What are your current favorite off-hours hangouts for food or drink?
There are many awesome cocktail bars in this city, too many to list really. But, since I live in Bernal Heights, the places I get to most often are in my neighborhood: Gialina for pizza, Papalote for Burritos, Front Porch for Soulful American food, and Ichi Sushi, for, well, awesome Sushi. If my wife and I are splurging, we'll go out to Bar Tartine, Bar Jules, or Commonwealth. Other than the bars I work in, you'll find me at Rock Bar waiting for a table at Front Porch, Glen Park Station waiting for a table at Gialina, St. Mary's Pub or Royal Cuckoo on the way to Ichi Sushi, and Wild Side West.
7. What musical style or band/musician keeps you pumped and motivated during those late bartending nights – or most encapsulates your bartending style?
I need to write up a whole post about how obsessed I've become about restaurant playlists! But the core of the playlist I've come up with for Heaven's Dog is the box set of Stax/Volt Soul singles from 1959 through 1968. In addition, I like to throw in some Ska, Reggae, African, and Brazilian music.
I wish there was some way, though, that you could say pick from a certain set of songs from 5-7, another from 7-10, and a final one from 10-midnight.


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Christina Sarich wrote:Our religions institutions are now (and have been) used by the crumbling powers-that-be to divide us. We separate ourselves not just as fundamentalists, but also as 'believers' in dogma of every flavor.
Then - there's science. Truly a 'religion' in its protectionist fervor, and hell-bent on upholding the discordant, outdated, simply false projections that are supported by institutionalized information parsing. It is upheld with tactics no less pernicious than organized religious institutions.
Questioning is the most important aspect of science, and that is a direct threat to authority, and ironically scientists and the science institutions have become authorities and churches. They have become our priests of the modern era. Whatever the priest with the biology hat says must be true about life. Whatever the priest with the physics hat says must be taught as facts. . . Science is no longer serving the purpose of discovering truth. It has become the main method of control. Governments have always kept people in line by collaborating with certain institutions. It used to be organized religion, where there basically was no difference between state and religion. Now, there is no difference between science and state. Why? Because of where the funding comes from.
judging from my experiences at other forums, you are quite religious in your approach. Belief is not knowledge.
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text: Radiology/Imaging Methods Neuro-Imaging In Neuro-Oncology, imaging is a fundamental component of patient care. It is often essential in initial diagnosis, monitoring of treatment, and surveillance following therapy. At St. Joseph Hospital, we understand that regions as complex as the brain and spine require equally complex imaging. That is why we have developed a state-of-the-art imaging department with leading-edge technology and an array of sub-specialized radiologists. Whether it is CT, MRI, MR spectroscopy, or PET/CT, your neuro-imaging team is dedicated to excellence. At St. Joseph Hospital, world class care begins with a world class team. Technologies available at St. Joseph Hospital include: CT Scan CT (CAT) scan is a noninvasive medical test. CT imaging combines special x-ray equipment with sophisticated computers to produce multiple images of the inside of the body. These cross-sectional images can then be examined on a computer monitor. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide much greater clarity and reveal more details than regular x-ray exams. Intravenous injection of a special iodine-based dye reveals more information about the tissues, even permitting non-invasive road-maps of the blood vessels, "CT angiograms". This dye may not be safely given in some patients with kidney disease. Also some patients may be allergic to the iodine in the dye. If you have a history of allergic reaction from a previous dye injection, you should check with your doctor prior to the exam. MRI The MRI examination poses almost no risk to the average patient when appropriate safety guidelines are followed. Although the strong magnetic field is not harmful in itself, medical devices that contain metal may malfunction or cause problems during an MRI exam. There is a very slight risk of an allergic reaction if contrast material is injected. Such reactions usually are mild and easily controlled by medication. MR Spectroscopy Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions. MRI uses a powerful magnetic field, radiofrequency pulses and a computer to produce detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone, and virtually all other internal body structures. MRI does not use ionizing radiation (x-rays). Detailed MRI images allow physicians to better evaluate parts of the body (such as the brain and spine) and certain diseases that may not be assessed adequately with other imaging methods such as x-ray, ultrasound or computed tomography (also called CT or CAT scanning). Performed in the MRI scanner, MR spectroscopy utilizes the principles of magnetic resonance to detect specific molecules in tissue. Primarily used in brain imaging, MR spectroscopy can provide additional information about brain abnormalities to help differentiate between diseases. PET Scan Positron emission tomography (PET) scan is one of the newest imaging technologies and allows molecular or metabolic imaging. Most often, it is used in cancer to evaluate for spread or recurrence of disease and ensure that the most appropriate form of treatment is selected. A PET scan may be combined with computed tomography (CT) and even magnetic resonance (MRI) to provide an anatomical and functional view of the disease. By exploiting unique features of cancer such as elevated sugar metabolism, doctors can better differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells, even when the cancer is too small to detect by conventional imaging.


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Conlay described in $\textit{Isolated Invariant Sets and the Morse Index (1976)}$ the bases of what would be known as Conley Index Theory.
For the sake of simplicity let's think of vector fields defined on manifolds (a more general situation is enough by just considering locally compact spaces). Im going to pose a few basic notions needed for the question so even someone who is not familiar with the topic may give an answer.
A set (in the phase space) is called invariant if it is the union of solution curves. It is isolated if it is the maximal invariant set in some neighborhood of itself. A compact such neighborhood is called an isolating neighborhood for the invariant set.
An isolating neighborhood is an isolating block if the integral curves through each boundary point of the neighborhood goes immediately out of it in one or the other time direction.
And finally:
The $\textit{(Conley)}$ index is the homotopy type of the pointed space obtained from a block on collapsing the set of exit points (points in the boundary where integral curves go out the neighborhood) to one point.
Well, I've read that when we have an isolating block, say $N$, that has no exit points, we would have to collapse the empty set $\emptyset$ to one point (?), so there's a convention that the resulting space is $$(N \bigcup \lbrace \star \rbrace, \star)$$ that is, the disjoint union of the space $N$ and an external point, all of it pointed at that external point).
So the questions are
- Why this convention makes sense (apart from that $\textit{it just works}$)? Is that the natural way of defining the operation "collapse to a point'' when all you have to collapse is $\textit{nothing}$ (i.e. $\emptyset$)?
- Is there a bigger frame where we don't need this convention because a more general rule contains it as a particular case?


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Mike, it's easy to disagree with you on this because your entire concept is based on ignoring simple facts in the game.
Pot, this Kettle. Pot, this is Kettle. Over
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You're black. Over.
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Making people take responsiblity[sic] for themselves is a very good way to encourage people to take the legal and correct course.
You operate from the incorrect assumption that people are willing to take responsibility for themselves. The majority of people in the world today care for little more than themselves, their next meal, and their next good time. Unless you plan to re-educate the entire world on the benefits of responsibility then your argument here is entirely untenable.
If policing normal users was cost beneficial to the entertainment industry, why don't they offer to foot the bill? Since they are "losing" so much money due to piracy and since they believe that eliminating piracy would force users to purchase content and thus bring them back to their former profit levels this should be the obvious solution.
1) I don't think Mike or any of the serious commenters here have ever suggested BitTorrent is all sunshine and flowers. It is a great technology that can and has been used for good business purposes.
2) BitTorrent is full of file traders because that is what it is for.
3)All analogies break down, but your blaming BitTorrent for copyright infringement is like blaming interstate highways for drug abuse because people use them to smuggle drugs.
Sweet, a This only works because he's big comment. I thought those died out from the ridicule they always engender a while back. Thanks for bring this one back. Dark Helmet, care to take this one?
It's called chainsaw surgery.
"Why shouldn't these musicians make money on their music?"
Turn the question around. "Why aren't these musicians making money on their music?" Show the inquisitor the creative accounting systems that labels use to ensure musicians do not get any money.
Then say to them " The real question should be 'What can musicians do to make more money?'" and bring out examples of not only big name acts like NIN, but medium sized acts like Jill Sobule et al, and then the many smaller local acts that use technology to really connect with their fans and build a loyal fan base that supports them.
Of course, you always trot out Metallica (Napster, Bad!) who is just now recovering from their misguided attack on technology.
Og and that awful rock wheel thingy
Pirate ghosts
I somewhat agree. If the average internet user can do these things then a simple search would reveal the photo and video evidence. Unfortunately this is not aimed at the average internet user. Those under 30 are very capable in this regard, however this demographic doesn't go to the Washington Post for their news.
The demographic served by the Washington Post (and most traditional newspapers) is the one that was accustomed to going to these papers when that was all that was available. This demographic tends to be less capable in search techniques and thus any help a website or newspaper can provide to get these people to the source of information should be given.
Newspapers which are led and driven by those who believe that newspapers are the final arbiter of truth cannot point their users outside themselves without failing in their own eyes. Until they realize this they will continue to descend into irrelevance. Those who point this out are, to varying degrees, helping these newspapers regain their dominant position by pointing out their flaws. When the old guard either changes or is replaced the many voices crying for change from these behemoths will prove to have been helpful.
You've obviously never tried to book him for a transatlantic voyage.
Nice, we could crowd-source a post or two!
The only way they can compete with me ...
I believe you mean The only way I can think of to compete with me ... which only shows that you haven't thought very much about it.
IF you could build a better site that still used all of TechDirt's free content, you would get neither a mea culpa nor a lawsuit. You would get traffic - that is, until the folks at the content originator figured out what you were doing that was drawing their audience away and did something better to draw them back. It's called competition and it's how the business world operates under capitalism.
The eyeballs got there long before the music did. YouTube's success came initially from people uploading videos of themselves. Only later did those same users decide to use it to share music they liked. Hence, the eyeballs were there before the music, and because of those preexisting eyeballs, the music profits. You should really research your points before you assume an untenable stance.
The main difference here is that YouTube makes it's money off user eyeballs, which it pays for, not recording companies' music, which fans upload. YouTube isn't profiting off the backs of the recording industry, rather the recording industry is profiting off the back of YouTube. By you're own logic, the record companies owe YouTube substantial money.
YouTube is all about people. After all, the name means "YOU on the Tube". It is record companies that try to hold YouTube hostage. YouTube doesn't charge it's users to view the videos, it charges it's advertisers to access its users. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?
That's why so many companies hope their ad campaign goes viral.
You could open this up to us insiders. You know we aren't going to spam and it's an additional RtB
because no one will post any camera phone photos of BluRay discs online


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In fact, the 3 inch touchscreen on the ST95's back looks bigger due to the body's smaller size.
There's only two buttons on the back of the camera for accessing the playback menu and the home menu, which makes the camera look more streamlined. The home button provides access to the many shooting modes such as program, smart auto, scenes and video.
There's three pages of options in the home-button menu, isn't in any logical order that we can see, and some of them might be better placed in the scene mode options such as Magazine, Night, Close-up, Beauty shot, Vignetting and Photo filter.
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Hi Denny, I am sorry, but I have to voice some criticism of this project. Over the past two years, I have become increasingly wary of the excitement over large numbers of triples in the LOD community. Large numbers of triples don't mean don't necessarily mean that a dataset enables us to do anything novel or significantly useful. I think there should be a shift from focusing on quantity to focusing on quality and usefulness. Now the project you describe seems to be well-made, but it also exemplifies this problem to a degree that I have not seen before. You basically published a huge dataset of numbers, for the sake of producing a large number of triples. Your announcement mainly emphasis on how huge the dataset is, and the corresponding paper does the same. The paper gives a few application scenarios, I quote "The added value of the paradigm shift initiated by our work cannot be underestimated. By endowing numbers with an own identity, the linked open data cloud will become treasure trove for a variety of disciplines. By using elaborate data mining techniques, groundbreaking insights about deep mathematical correspondences can be obtained. As an example, using our sample dataset, we were able to discover that there are signicantly more odd primes than even ones, and even more excitingly a number contains 2 as a prime factor exactly if its successor does not." I am sorry, but this sounds a bit overenthusiastic. I see no paradigm shift, and I also don't see why your findings about prime numbers required you to publish the dataset as linked data. I also have troubles seeing the practical value of looking at the resource pages for each number with a linked data browser, but I am also not a mathematician. I am sorry for being a bit antagonistic, but we as a community should really try not to be seduced too easily by publishing ever-larger numbers of triples. Cheers, Matthias Samwald -------------------------------------------------- From: "Denny Vrandecic" <email@example.com> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:01 PM To: <email@example.com> Subject: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud > We are happy to announce that the Institute AIFB at the KIT is releasing > the biggest dataset until now to the Linked Open Data cloud. The Linked > Open Numbers project offers billions of facts about natural numbers, all > readily available as Linked Data. > > Our accompanying peer-reviewed paper [1] gives further details on the > background and implementation. We have integrated with external data > sources (linking DBpedia to all their 335 number entities) and also > directly link to the best-known linked open data browsers from the page. > > You can visit the Linked Open Numbers project at: > <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/> > > Or point your linked open data browser directly at: > <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/n1> > > We are happy to have increased the amount of triples on the Web by more > than 14 billion triples, roughly 87.5% of the size of linked data web > before this release (see paper for details). We hope that the data set > will find its serendipitous use. > > The data set and the publication mechanism was checked pedantically, and > we expect no errors in the triples. If you do find some, please let us > know. We intend to be compatible with all major linked open data > publication standards. > > About the AIFB > > The Institute AIFB (Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods) at > KIT is one of the world-leading institutions in Semantic Web technology. > Approximately 20 researchers of the knowledge management research group > are establishing theoretical results and scalable implementations for the > field, closely collaborating with the sister institute KSRI (Karlsruhe > Service Research Institute), the start-up company ontoprise GmbH, and the > Knowledge Management group at the FZI Research Center for Information > Technologies. Particular emphasis is given to areas such as logical > foundations, Semantic Web mining, ontology creation engineering and > management, RDF data management, semantic web search, and the > implementation of interfaces and tools. The institute is involved in many > industry-university co-operations, both on a European and a national > level, including a number of intelligent Web systems case studies. > > Website: <http://www.aifb.kit.edu> > > About KIT > > The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the merger of the former > Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. > With about 8000 employees and an annual budget of 700 million Euros, KIT > is the largest technical research institution within Germany. KIT is both, > a state university with research and teaching and, at the same time, a > large-scale research institution of the Helmholtz Association. KIT has a > strong reputation as one of Germany's university of excellence, aiming to > set the highest standards for education, research and innovation. > > Website: <http://www.kit.edu> > > [1] Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Uta Lösch: > Leveraging Non-Lexical Knowledge for the Linked Open Data Web, published > in Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Fifth RAFT'2010), > the yearly bilingual publication on nonchalant research, available at > <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/linked_open_numbers.pdf>=Received on Thursday, 1 April 2010 10:30:46 UTC
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Going to the Dogs, Continued
As promised, today's parade of cakey canines features the icing-drowned cupcake pups, which in my opinion ride dangerously close to the whole cupcake-cake-concept, and are therefore worthy of all the condemnation we can heap on them. But, I digress.
First up, a creation that looks more like a doggy end-product than a dog:
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Think again. Oh, and don't you love all the effort put into decorating the cake board? Somebody's shootin' for the stars.
This one's not bad, other than the fact that it's neon pink, worried-looking, and apparently vomiting sprinkles. Huh. Come to think of it, that last bit might explain the first two issues (although then neon green would be more appropriate).
Here's my favorite: the pooch's face has slid completely off his head and onto the board! I'm guessing the decorator added those paw prints after a few customers asked why the store was selling misshapen icing ploops on a board. (Yes, "ploops". I find it to be an apt description.)
Now there's a face only a mother could love. (And only a decorator could recognize, for that matter. Seriously, would you know this thing was supposed to be a dog?)
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MADRID (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose giving Spain, France and several other euro zone states more time to cut their public deficits below the target limit of 3 percent of GDP, newspaper El Pais said on Saturday.
Citing senior Spanish and European Union sources, the Madrid-based daily said France could get an extra year, allowing it to narrow its fiscal gap by 2014, while Spain would be given one or two more years beyond that date.
France said on Saturday that it would maintain its deficit-reduction goal for 2013 regardless of any softer line from Brussels. A Commission spokeswoman declined to comment on the report.
Spain's fiscal targets are to be reassessed in February, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said last month. No additional austerity efforts are needed until 2014, he added, when more structural reforms are likely to be required.
France does not appear to need additional belt-tightening and may have room for a "softer adjustment", the commissioner also said in an interview with France's Le Monde newspaper on Friday.
But France said on Saturday it planned to stick to its 3 percent goal for next year. "Our public finance path remains unchanged as it was fixed in the autumn," an aide to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
The French government's 2013 budget is based on a 0.8 percent growth forecast for the year - more optimistic than the flat economic output predicted by Brussels and the International Monetary Fund.
European and Spanish sources had said earlier this month that Spain's fiscal path was likely be loosened to offset the country's second recession in three years.
Such decisions need a formal discussion between the 27 European commissioners as well as a political green light from euro zone finance ministers.
Spain sought support from its European partners this year for its ailing banks, hit by a burst property bubble.
Recession is also undermining government efforts to keep the public debt burden in check, and financial markets expect Madrid to seek sovereign aid sometime next year.
Madrid is to unveil new curbs on index-linked pension payouts and accelerate increases to the retirement age. Both EU demands must be met for Spain to tap international aid, lower its debt costs and fix its stricken economy.
According to El Pais, the Commission has agreed on a new Spanish deficit path of 7 percent of economic output in 2012 and 6 percent in 2013. That compares to current targets of 6.3 percent for 2012 and 4.5 percent for 2013.
Senior Spanish officials told Reuters this month the deficit would probably come in at around 7 percent at year end.
Spain's 17 highly devolved autonomous regions are broadly on course to meet their deficit target of 1.5 percent of GDP, while the central government is heading for a deficit close to 5.5 percent, including social security spending.
Reporting By Jesús Aguado and Julien Toyer, additional reporting by Julien Ponthus in Paris and Barbara Lewis in Brussels, edited by Richard Meares


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Speak out for free speech
ACLU volunteer attorney Gary Asteak represented Mr. Yamrus, and the district attorney dropped the charges. (More on the case can be found here and here.)
But now Mr. Yamrus – who lives alone with his wife – is being harassed by unidentified people who have stolen his flag (he replaced it), who make prank phone calls, and who drive by the house screaming insults and obscenities at this retired couple. It takes a lot of bravery to stand up and demand one's rights. It is an act of cowardice to harass an old retired couple with anonymous phone calls and screamed obscenities.
You can write a letter to the local papers in the Lehigh Valley to express your support for Josephy Yamrus and his stand for freedom of speech. You can send letters to the editor to the Morning Call (Allentown) at firstname.lastname@example.com or to the Express-Times (Easton) through this form.
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Merdeka ('Freedom') Square – Lapangan Merdeka – is more than just a centrally located square in Jakarta. It is the place from where the Dutch governed the country in colonial times and where later the Indonesians proudly celebrated their independence. That is why this green square is fringed with colonial buildings, historic museums and monuments which continue to be reminders of the Indonesian struggle for independence.
In the middle of Merdeka Square stands an obelisk 137 metres in height. The tower, topped with a flame covered in 32 kilos of gold leaf, is Indonesia's National Monument. The country fought long and hard for its independence. The goggle-boxes in the National History Museum under the monument tell the entire story. A lift takes you from the museum basement to the viewing platform, where you can enjoy unparalleled views of the metropolis.
Behind it lies the former Waterloo Square, also with a monument in honour of freedom. The statue of a man slipping out of his handcuffs, cast in copper coins, symbolises the liberation of Papua. Take a walk in the area and discover a variety of colonial architecture, including the Neo-Gothic cathedral and the current Department of Finances.


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To celebrate Prince of Persia's 30th anniversary this year, I'm working with Stripe Press on a new illustrated, hardcover collector's edition of my original 'Making of' journals. Read the announcement.
The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan's 1980s journal of his life and progress creating Prince of Persia.Book Kindle eBook ePub PDF
The Making of Karateka
Jordan's 1980s journal of his life and progress creating Karateka.Book Kindle eBook ePub PDF
The first 28 pages of The Making of Karateka (PDF), as well as the first 41 pages of The Making of Prince of Persia (PDF) are available in these free samples.
About My Journals
I started keeping a journal in college, and kept it up for many years afterward. During those years I created my first games, Karateka and Prince of Persia, on an Apple II computer.
Rereading these notebooks years later, it occurred to me that others might find them of interest — even if the meant-to-be-private musings of my 17-to-28-year-old self can occasionally make me wince.
These journals are a raw, present-tense record of my journey from my parents' basement to the forefront of the rapidly-evolving video game industry.
They document the struggles, steps and missteps that brought Karateka and Prince of Persia into being and, ultimately, into the homes of millions of people worldwide.
The Making of Karateka covers the years 1982-1985, and The Making of Prince of Persia covers the years 1985-1993.
"Jordan's journals are remarkable. I so wish I had kept a similar record.
Reading them transports me back to that place and time. We all knew this was an exciting new industry, but I don't think we had any clue what it was going to turn into during our careers. There were no schools, no books, no theories covering what we were doing. Everyone was just figuring it out on their own.
Following Jordan's creative path is a great example of how to go with your own gut instinct. It's also a great inspiration, showing how persistence and determination can lead to unexpected and wonderful results."
Will Wright
Game designer, creator of The Sims
"Mechner's journals are a time machine that takes us back to an era when ambitious young creators were making strange new video games all by themselves and making up the rules as they went.
It is not a retrospective; instead, it is a present-tense diary written by the creator throughout the creation of his most influential work.
It is a humbling and inspiring record of what it was like to make one of the best video games of all time.
I love these journals."
Adam "Atomic" Saltsman
Game designer, creator of Canabalt
"Mechner's journals are a unique record from the birth of an industry, in the words of one of its pioneers — and if that's all they were, they would be invaluable. But The Making of Prince of Persia is also an unvarnished window into the creative process, with all its excitement, toil, setbacks, doubts and triumphs.
A fantastic read."
D.B. Weiss
Writer, co-creator of HBO's Game of Thrones
"When an industry is brand-new, its innovators are generally so busy creating the future that they rarely have time to document the present. Luckily, Jordan Mechner did.
With these journals, we can track the development of Prince of Persia from a few penciled squiggles to a global franchise.
For anyone aspiring to create a game — or any endeavor that takes months and man-hours — Jordan's journal is sobering and inspiring."
John August
Screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Go
The source code for the original, Apple II Prince of Persia has been released. I've also posted an explanatory technical document (PDF) which should help those wishing to study the code.


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Denny Hamlin has won the pole for the second straight year at Fontana, turning a lap of 187.451 mph in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
Greg Biffle finished second and Brad Keselowski was third in Friday's qualifying session, but they'll start at the back after engine changes.
Hamlin earned his first pole of the season and the 13th of his career. He won three last year, and has won the pole three times at Auto Club Speedway.
Biffle was right behind at 187.217 mph in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Keselowski was third, beating Kyle Busch's 187.130 mph in fourth place.
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Dubbo has been my home for 3 months and I quickly got a daily routine here, which also means that some of my top things to do don't just include tourist sights, but things that were part of my everyday.
1st place - Zoofari Lodge
2nd place - Crossfit
3rd place - Royal Flying Doctors Service
4th place - Rugby culture and the Dubbo Roos
5th place - The Old Dubbo Gaol
This was my top 5 of things to do in Dubbo. I have loved my life here, and there has been so much more to it. I love the country around the city and not to speak of the friendliest people I have ever met live in Dubbo. I'm so happy that my stay in Australia ended up being in Dubbo, and I know I'll be back to visit very soon.
Have a great week everyone! My next post will be when I'm back home in Denmark.


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Washington locals gathered at the Textile Museum for an exquisite event to celebrate the food and culture that exemplifies the very Best of Peru.
Washington Life's exclusive Best of Peru event was a huge success. The night turned out to be exactly what we had hoped; a way for the Peru community and its top associated businesses to showcase its tastes, style, fashion and design aesthetic to the loyal WL readers and followers in addition to an elite sampling of DC's Peruvian community.
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About 300 people attended throughout the evening, tasting Macchu Pisco
sours from five different mixologists (Ceiba Restaurant's "Pisco Neuvo" won our mix-off contest). Guests sampled Peruvian-inspired food from Occasions Caterers and Mio restaurant, and had a chance to see, touch, and feel products from Peruvian Connection, the Sandra Jordan Collection, and Alpaca International. Jaw-dropping luxury travel video presentations from Orient Express Peru and Hoteles Libertador were showcased throughout the night, and guests learned about the Peruvian non-profit Coprodeli; all the while being entertained by South American musicians "Mystic Warriors" from Olivera Music Entertainment in the beautiful and sophisticated setting of the Textile Museum in Kalorama. Que Bueno! The event was deftly put together by Kelley Cannon of Kelley Cannon events. Cannon ran point as she coordinated the numerous vendors and helped create the perfect event lay-out to enable guests to enjoy all of the different Peruvian vendors. There was even a raffle where Alpaca International and Peruvian Connection each gave lucky attendees luxury Alpaca products.
The other big winner of the night was Cieba Restaurant who won our mix-off contest! Here is a list of the event's featured restaurants and drinks:
Mio: Spicy Macchu Pisco
The Passenger: Chiraw Mita
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A Commerce man has been arrested and charged in connection with a string of copper wire thefts in six area churches, as well as six residences, over the past two weeks.
Michael Allen Harbert, 28, 112 Loggins Trail, was taken into custody Thursday, according to chief deputy Shawn Burns.
Burns said they believe Harbert is connected to copper wiring thefts at Black's Creek Baptist, Moon's Grove Baptist, Bluestone Baptist, Liberty Baptist, Tabor's Chapel CME, and New Generation Baptist.
He is being held at the Madison County Jail on four counts of burglary, eight counts of felony theft-by-taking and four counts of criminal damage to property.
Burns said in some cases Harbert allegedly cut the wiring from a/c units and gas lines without entering the premises.
Sheriff Kip Thomas said several entire a/c units were also taken.
Both Thomas and Burns said Harbert is also a suspect in similar crimes in several different counties in the area.


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Let $X$ be a random variable distributed over, for example say, the Binomial Distribution. Then $P(X)$ is the probability of getting $x$ successful trials in $n$ total trials.
So I saw a notation that represents the mean of random variables that made me I feel sceptical about my understanding of all the notations I have known. So here's my understanding of the notations:
When it says the expectation of $X$, $E(X)$, does it mean over a long run, $E(X)$ is the likely number of successful trials? In other words, the expected value of $X$ is the expected number of successful trials we would expect in a long run?
When it says the variance of $X$, $Var(X)$, does it mean how spread out the probability of successful trials are? Like how far apart the probability between the successful trials are?
Now, here's the confusing part. I see a notation like this: $\overline { X } =\frac { 1 }{ n } \sum _{ i=1 }^{ n }{ { X }_{ i } } $ and this is called the mean of all the random variables. But it doesn't seem to make sense to me. $X$ is the random variable and carries the value that is the number of successful trials. The average of $X$ is like the average number of successful trials?
Does it then mean $\overline { X } =E(X)$?
Then, there is also the expectation of the mean of all the random variables, $E(\overline { X } )$. So does this represent the average of the average of all the random variables, which means $E(\overline { X } )=E(E(X))$? But at this point, I couldn't understand what it means intuitively. What does it mean here to say the average of the average of all random variables?
Similarly, $Var(\overline { X } )$ is also a confusing term to me. Since $\overline { X } $ is just the average value, what spread does it have?
What is the intuitive meaning of this $\overline { X } $ mean of all random variables $X$ and what does this add on to the meaning of $E(\overline { X } )$ and $Var(\overline { X } )$?


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Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre Announces Open Audition DateAuditions for MSMT 2013 season, including Crazy for You and Jesus Christ Superstar will be held Feb. 17-18 Technical positions and high school internships also available.
Monday, January 28, 2013 09:58 AM
Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre will hold open auditions for performers ages 16 and up on Feb. 17 and 18. Performers will be cast for the seasons mainstage productions: the Gershwin musical Crazy for You, performing June 12-30, and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, performing July 10-28.
The following audition details can also be found online, at www.muhlenberg.edu/smt.
Vocal auditions will be held Sunday, Feb. 17, from 2 to 6 and 7 to 11 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 18, from 7 to 11 p.m. Auditions will be held in the Studio Theatre, in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance, on the Muhlenberg College campus. Vocal audition appointments are three minutes.
Dance auditions will be held Sunday, Feb. 17, from 5 to 9 p.m. and Monday, Feb. 18, from 6 to 9 p.m., in the Empie Theatre, Baker Center for the Arts, at Muhlenberg. Dance auditions will take about half an hour. Auditioners will be taught a short dance sequence, which they will then perform. No preparation is required. Auditioners who own tap shoes should bring them.
All auditioners must register in advance and schedule an audition. All auditioners must sign up for both vocal and dance auditions. Auditioners should send an email to email@example.com before Friday, Feb. 15, indicating available dates and times within the scheduled audition, and providing a mobile phone number where the auditioner can be reached with questions.
Those without access to email should call the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance office at 484-664-3087, during regular office hours before Thursday, Feb. 14. Voice messages should contain all of the above information.
All auditioners will be assigned a time for both a dance audition and a vocal audition, and should plan to dance and sing, even if they concentrate in just one area. All performers in both shows will sing and dance.
Auditioners who live too far away from the Allentown area or who are unable to attend auditions may submit a preliminary DVD audition. The DVD should consist of a comedic monologue not more than two minutes in length, one song (see guidelines below), and a 90-second dance solo. DVDs must arrive before the audition date listed to be eligible for consideration.
Auditioners who receive a callback must attend in person to be considered for a role. Callbacks will be held the week of March 11, and will include acting auditions, reading from the script.
Auditioners for both shows should prepare a memorized vocal selection of no more than 32 bars of a musical theater song written before 1975. An accompanist will be provided for the vocal audition. Auditioners must bring sheet music in the key in which they would like to sing, with the selection indicated and any cuts clearly noted. Please no accompaniment tapes or a cappella auditions.
Non-performing opportunities are available for technicians and costumers. Carpenters, electricians, props technicians, light board and sound board operators, and stage crew are needed for productions. Costumers, first hand, stitchers, and wardrobe running crew are needed in the costume shop.
High school stage management internships are available for those who will be at least 16 years old by the time they begin working for MSMT. Interns work alongside college students and professionals from the College, and guest artists from New York, learning valuable skills that they can take back to their high school programs. Interns receive a $400 stipend for the summer.
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The Reflex Badge was an award given by the Duelling Club to students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1996–1997 school year, regardless of their house. To receive the badge, students had to win a duel without being hit by any spells.[1] The badge was a Duelling Gold Badge.
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