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If acceptance in the United States was a major and necessary part of the Beatle phenomenon, there is no doubt that what some call "Girl Group" music was a crucial and perhaps determining factor in that acceptance. The harmonic, lyrical, and arrangement-related aspects of this music may have been the most significant influence on the early Beatles and contributed greatly to their commercial acceptance in America.
Lyrically, the themes as you'd expect revolve around manic-depressive romantic themes: the joy of new love, the sadness of love lost, the alternating jealousies and ecstasies of puberty. But just as the occasional trick chord or modulation gave Girl Group music an additional level of sophistication beyond its root forms, so too the lyrics often broke new ground by raising social and class issues previously unheard of in American pop music, certainly something the Beatles did as well.
Arrangement, for lack of a better word, is the area where Girl Group music is most easily distinguished from other pop forms. As a vocal-based phenomenon, the most important instrument was always the human voice, usually that of a black female with gospel power and soul emotion. The presence of an often equally powerful set of background singers, enacting various internal and external roles (a Greek-like chorus of friends, good and bad angels of the conscience, and so on) added variety and allowed the songs to present situations from more than one point of view simultaneously. Given the Beatles' three strong voices and their clear affection for this music, it's no surprise that so many of the memorable early Beatles hits feature strong harmonies, often with call/response and alternating viewpoints.
Beyond the vocals, however, other facets of Girl Group arrangement, specifically production techniques pioneered by Phil Spector and Shadow Morton, abound in the Beatle oeuvre. Those echoed handclaps, tambourines, little obbligados playing the melody in the middle, the use of realistic sound effects, all have their beginnings among the Girl Groups. Doubled instruments (for example, piano and harmonica playing the exact same thing to produce a "new" sound) was a Spector technique developed for girl groups, later expanded and mastered by both the Fabs and the Beach Boys. Spector was Brian Wilson's idol, and it is safe to say that without Phil's Girl Group records there would never have been the Beatles or Beach Boys so many have come to know and love.
It's probably important at this point to emphasize that we are NOT talking about Motown here. The contrasts are several and substantial: Girl Group music was happenstance, unplanned, tossed off all around the country by independent, fly-by nighters for the most part, whereas Motown was the consciously created product of a single record company. Motown promoted individual stars, and sought to reach a "crossover" audience, where Girl Groups were usually nameless and often faceless. Smokey Robinson's work with the Marvelettes is a sort of bridge between the two, and there's some overlap, but the Supremes/Four Tops era is the approximate cutoff when Gordy's company stops doing one sound and starts doing another.
This distinction is best supported by anecdotal evidence. Girl group records were often the only one ever produced by a given label. Some hits of the era are the actual demo tapes, as in the case of "He's The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget," or overdubs onto demo tapes, like the Shirelles' "Baby It's You" with keyboard break by Burt Bacharach. Lineups and lead singers changed on the spot, along with group names, lyrics, you name it, it was basically chaos.
In contrast, Motown became a machine dedicated to turning Diana Ross into the tan Judy Garland, going the Sammy Davis route of full crossover. This strategy had severe adverse impact on the careers of some of Motown's most talented artists, Florence Ballard and Martha Reeves perhaps suffering the most. Tours were well-organized, coordinated to support albums and singles, slickly packaged with dance steps and the like; everything was planned.
Consider those two songs, the ones that really started it all: "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand." The Girl Group influences abound on these songs: strong harmonies, use of the 1645 progression with variants, incidental percussion, romantic topics, and most of all a "sound" clearly identifiable as building upon what the Girl Groups had already done. It was almost too easy for your average New York area teenager to embrace this music, building as it did on what was already happening.
And there's a lot more overlap; even the Beatles' covers reflect an immense Girl Group influence. First off, the Beatles consistently covered girl group material, as has often been noted elsewhere: the Cookies' "Chains," the Shirelles' "Boys" and "Baby It's You," the Donays' "Devil in His/Her Heart," the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman." Beyond that, the Beatles also covered the same material that almost every Girl Group covered, things like "Twist and Shout" and "Shout." From the Girl Group fans' point of view, then the Beatles were a triple threat. They wrote and performed originals in the style, covered hits from the style, and covered the songs that the Girl Groups covered. Masters of the milieu, all the way.
In many ways, too, the Beatles were the answer to a vision embodied in Girl Group music. While it's easy to dismiss the Crystals or whatever as insubstantial, commercial groups that put out mindless romantic pap for the teenage masses, it's also highly inaccurate. For example, a revolt against Teen Idol images was already clearly under way before the Beatles arrived, and shows itself plainly in such numbers as "He's a Rebel" and "He's Sure the Boy I Love." And who better to personify this unlikely antihero than someone like John Lennon in England, or Phil Spector in the United States? These women realized that Fabian wasn't the answer pretty early in the game.
Similarly, there was a consciousness of social issues that predated didactic late Sixties admonitions about brotherhood and love. The Crystals' "Uptown" and the aforementioned "He's Sure the Boy I Love" presented a vision of the "outsider" male, impoverished and sans pompadour, but still worthy of affection. And throughout this music there is an abiding cooperation between white and black American artists, whether singers, songwriters, producers, or players. The roster of Phil Spector's contributing talent, for example, reads as a race-blind Who Is, Was, or Will Be Who of American culture: Lenny Bruce, Billy Preston, Sonny and Cher, Ike Turner, Dr. John, Leon Russell, an unbelievable list. Along those lines, note too that women took center stage for really the first time in pop music, and not just in front of the mike: songwriters like Ellie Greenwich and players like bassist Carol Kaye (an incredibly gracious person, legendary for her work on the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, who has given me much musical encouragement and is still out there playing and teaching at www.carolkaye.com) were prominent in the sound as well.
The Fabs' arrival in New York as documented in the Apple video reveals some interesting little tidbits. Note that "Navy Blue" by Diane Renay is playing on the radio; and the ubiquitous self-promoting Murray the K, who was a Girl Group guy before the Fabs came along. 'Twas Murray who anointed the Ronettes as he did the Beatles, giving them their first break as go-go dancers. It's no surprise, then, to note how often the Fabs toured with Girl Group acts, including Mary-My-Guy-Wells (1964) and the Ronettes (1966). The book "Girl Groups (The Story of a Sound)" by Alan Betrock, a primary source for this piece, has a most suggestive photograph of Paul McCartney with Estelle of the Ronettes looking very cozy and interested.
On a personal note, let me say that a lot of what I write here is not just conjecture and research, it is experience. I was 13 in 1963 and lived a half hour from New York. My friends and I inhabited the wrong side of town, clearly delimited by railroad tracks. We went seamlessly from listening to the Ronettes to following the Beatles and the other British beat groups who played this style of music. It seemed a natural progression and the obvious thing to do.
When the Beatles capture America on the first Ed Sullivan appearance, it is with an undeniable Girl Group approach. Besides Those Two Songs, they also play "This Boy," a 1645 variant with very strong harmonies, and "Twist and Shout." It's hard to imagine any music that four Englishmen with guitars could play that could be more accessible to the American, especially New York area, teen population of 1964. Other prominent songs of this period are equally influenced by the Girl Group sound: "Please Please Me," "From Me To You," "Thank You Girl," "There's A Place," "All My Loving," "If I Fell," "It Won't Be Long," and "Hold Me Tight" (Phil Spector produced a cover of that last one in early 1964). Secondary and unreleased material includes the demo version of "I'm In Love," "One After 909," "Hello Little Girl," "P.S., I Love You," "Misery," and "Do You Want to Know a Secret." There are five Girl Group covers on the first two albums, far exceeding those of Chuck Berry or any other discernible influence.
While Paul's compositional contribution in this area is small relative to John's, it's important to note the importance of his backing vocals and bass playing. McCartney had the perfect voice, under George Martin's sophisticated guidance, to meet and exceed the requirements of Girl Group harmony. Driven to do something interesting to get attention while John was on lead, Paul did some of his best work in a secondary role; John in contrast was almost always considerably less busy on Paul's tunes. And let's not forget Hazza in the middle, blending perfectly with his mates to create ensemble work challenged only by other top-notchers like the Beach Boys.
Those background voices, besides adding variation to the vocals and providing esthetically pleasing moments, are strong contributors to the content. In songs such as "Devil in Her Heart," "Baby It's You," "You Can't Do That," "You're Going to Lose That Girl" and many others, the chorus acts as a social context, playing the role of the other teenagers in the crowd (besides the speaker, love object, and rivals), commenting on the action and widening the perspective.
As mentioned earlier, one of the Spector/Girl Group trademarks were those little noises, fills, riffs and so forth that helped distinguish one song from another within the limited harmonic vocabulary of the day. Ringo excelled at this trick, something that poor Pete Best never really caught on to. John Lennon's famous triplets-over-fours were a Girl Group trick (listen to "Don't Ever Change" from the BBC tapes), and the tambourines on "Revolver" descend from the triangle on "It's My Party."
Of course, the Beatles had other important influences and went on to create new forms, sounds, and lyrical themes. Nevertheless, a strong Girl Group influence remained present throughout their time together and beyond. The roster of songs that rely on Girl Group harmonic progressions, lyrical themes, and arrangements is extensive and irrefutable even in the middle and later periods. Let's see, quickly...: "Eight Days a Week" (harmonies with that extra little Beatle/Martin twist), "Every Little Thing," "I Feel Fine," "No Reply," "Nowhere Man" (truly extending the lyrical envelope), "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" (George on lead vocal), "The Night Before" (Paul and the same topic as the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," from the boy's point of view), "Another Girl," "Ticket To Ride," "What You're Doing," "Tell Me Why" (the most formulaic piece of Lennon's Girl Group-style cuts), "Help!" (note those backing vocals that expand the realm again), and the unreleased "answer song," "That Means A Lot."
Still, there will be more: it's there in "When I Get Home," "Yes It Is," "Day Tripper," "You Won't See Me," "Girl" (backing vocals with dirty words!), "The Word," "Rain," "Here There and Everywhere," "Got to Get You into My Life," and "She Said She Said." Over time, the influence lessens in the psychedelic/backwards era, and is diminished as Lennon and McCartney generally withdraw from one another's work and stop singing together. Still, it's a contributing element to "Good Morning Good Morning," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "With A Little Help from My Friends," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Sexy Sadie," "Hey Bulldog," "Revolution," "Something," "Oh! Darling," "Octopus's Garden" and "Because." Many of these songs have extremely formulaic structures or passages, vocal hooks, arrangement tricks, and so forth that go all the way back to the earliest Girl Group influences. It's a thread throughout without a doubt.
That the Beatles were conscious aficionados, conoisseurs even, is borne out by more than the BBC tapes and the touring schedule. Fact is, the stuff the Beatles covered was often pretty damn obscure even here in the USA, and probably more so in the UK. "Devil in His Heart" and "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" did not sell a lot of copies, yet the Beatles executed exacting and elaborate arrangements of those tunes.
Well, if the Fabs didn't kill it, then who did? Unfortunately, it's time for the American music business to grab a mirror. Who put out all those cheap imitations of the Beatles rather than devote time and energy to the good music they were already producing? Who mismanaged the careers of excellent artists, putting out predictable clone followup records that noone bought?
Consider as a mismanagement example the career of Darlene Love. Hardly anyone knows who she is today (although she's still to be seen as Danny Glover's wife in the "Lethal Weapon" movie series), yet here's a list of the songs she sang lead on in the Girl Group heyday: "He's A Rebel," "Zip a Dee Doo Dah," "He's Sure the Boy I Love," "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts," "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry," a great gospel "Chapel of Love" that was never released, "Not Too Young to Get Married," "Wait Till My Bobby Gets Home," and "Fine Fine Boy." The lead vocals on those cuts are soulful and powerful, yet Darlene remains an unrecognized talent by the general public, all of whom know who Diana Ross is. From another angle, my "Marvelettes' Greatest Hits" CD has Smokey Robinson's name on it about 10 times for his various songwriting and production roles, but nowhere, not once, does it list the names of the women who sing.
Knee-jerk followups too often guaranteed failure by concentrating too hard on specific and insignificant details of the first hit rather than on overall quality. Little Eva has a dance hit, so give her another dance tune ("Turkey Trot"); oops, we missed, she's dead. Diane Renay had "Navy Blue," so she is our nautical artist. "Kiss Me, Sailor?" No thanks. The list goes on and on. This is what happens when the business is controlled by people who don't listen to the music and don't give a damn about it, which has been the rule rather than the exception all along in this culture.
Those who point the finger at the Fabs and their compatriots forget that lots of Americans managed to flourish in the Sixties. Folk, then folk-rock emerged into the mainstream, bringing Dylan and the Byrds and a whole new genre to the fore. These sounds both influenced and reacted to what the Beatles were doing, to the mutual benefit of both. Acid rock and classical rock added to the mix, and of course the Beach Boys produced outstanding work in the middle Sixties. The Four Seasons wrote, played, and sang, put out a great streak of hits, and weren't British. And let's credit Berry Gordy with succeeding at what he set out to do: Diana Ross did become the tan Judy Garland. The world simply moved along to new ways of doing music, and left the haphazard methods of Girl Groups in the dust.
The Invasion didn't stop Motown, Lesley Gore, the Shangri-Las, and several British females (Dusty Springfield, recently deceased and an immense talent, comes immediately to mind) from having hits after 1964. Carole King went on to great success as a songwriter for the Monkees and Aretha Franklin, and as a solo artist. Phil Spector was far from done, producing quality hit records with Ike and Tina Turner, the Righteous Brothers and the Checkmates ("Black Pearl").
The sleaze side of the business was another factor. Plenty of artists and songwriters got ripped off by the proverbial cigar-chomping whomevers. Payola had already stained the industry, but the distribution channel was particularly corrupt and totally insensitive to what teenagers would consider good art. One can certainly imagine that records by black performers in those days were not distributed as widely or in the same way as what was considered "white" music; there was still racism reminiscent of how Elvis and Pat Boone were preferred and promoted over Little Richard and Chuck Berry in the Fifties.
No, the Beatles didn't kill the Girl Groups. They respected them, covered them, toured with them, hired their best producer -- and, like others, went beyond them. Girl Groups passed away in the natural progression of music, though maybe at an early age because of greedy and incompetent management on the business side. All of which is in some ways sadly reminiscent of how the Beatles, too, passed like all things must from the musical scene...


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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Kevin Martin finished with 28 points, as the Houston Rockets slipped past the Los Angeles Clippers, 97-92, at Staples Center.
Luis Scola added 22 points for the Rockets, who have won four in a row. Shane Battier provided 13 points, 10 boards and seven assists in the victory.
Clippers rookie forward Blake Griffin posted his 17th consecutive double- double with 24 points and 18 rebounds. However, he missed a potential game- tying three in the closing seconds, as Los Angeles had a three-game win streak broken.
The Rockets took an 88-78 lead when Martin drilled a three-pointer with 4:17 to play, but the Clippers rallied and scored the next six points.
Scola followed with a jumper, but at the other end Baron Davis kicked the ball out to the top of the arc for Griffin, who made the trey to bring the Clippers within 90-87 with 58 seconds left.
However, Kyle Lowry answered with a key basket for Houston. He tossed up an off-balance layup while being fouled in the paint, and made it. Though Lowry missed the free throw, the bucket put the Rockets up by two possessions with only 39.7 seconds left.
The Clippers still got a chance to pull even, despite Lowry's layup making it less likely. Following Griffin's bank shot, Martin got to the line and made his first attempt. He missed his second shot, though, and Griffin got the rebound.
After a timeout, Al-Farouq Aminu had the ball on the left side of the court and rose for a three-pointer. Scola was whistled for a foul on the shot, and Aminu made all three foul shots to bring LA within 93-92 with 18 seconds to play.
Two Martin free throws later, the Clippers had the ball with the chance to tie. They worked the ball to Griffin on the left wing, but his shot was off the mark, and Houston got possession after the ball went out of bounds. Martin made two foul shots with 1.8 ticks left to seal the victory.
"Tough game, a good win for us," said Houston head coach Rick Adelman. "They made it interesting at the end, but we held on to get the win."
Houston built a big lead in the first quarter, only to blow it. Scola's layup with 4:13 remaining capped a 13-3 run and gave the Rockets a 27-11 advantage. But LA countered with a 15-1 run, and was within 32-28 moving to the second quarter.
The Rockets stretched their lead back to double digits, however, and buckets from Patrick Patterson and Martin in the final 81 seconds gave Houston a 56-43 advantage at the break.
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Staples Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. have pulled their advertising from Don Imus' radio show in the wake of the furor caused by his comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team (left).
The two companies on Tuesday added to the fallout that began when the now-suspended radio show host called the players "nappy-headed hos" on his April 4 show.
"Because of the recent comments that were made on the program it did prompt us to take a look at our decision to advertise on the program and we have decided to stop advertising," Staples spokesman Paul Capelli said Tuesday night.
"Once we became aware of the comment, we sort of stepped back and took a look at it," he said, declining to disclose the dollar amount of the advertising involved. "We weren't on today and are not planning on being on going forward.
"I can't speculate on what we might do in the future," he said.
P&G spokesman Terry Loftus said the company pulled ads from the show as of last Friday. Another sponsor, Bigelow Tea, said in a statement posted on its Web site that the remarks have "put our future sponsorship in jeopardy."
Calls for the radio host's dismissal have been growing, including from groups such as the National Organization for Women and the National Association of Black Journalists.
The 10 members of the Rutgers team spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about the on-air comments, made the day after the team lost the NCAA championship game to Tennessee.
Some of them wiped away tears as their coach, C. Vivian Stringer, criticized Imus for "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, abominable and unconscionable." The women, eight of whom are black, called his comments insensitive and hurtful.
"It kind of scars us. We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to change that," said Matee Ajavon, a junior guard. "I think that this has scarred me for life."
The women agreed, however, to meet with Imus privately next Tuesday and hear his explanation. They held back from saying whether they'd accept Imus' apologies or passing judgment on whether a two-week suspension imposed by CBS Radio and MSNBC was sufficient.
Several players said they wanted to ask him why he would make such thoughtless statements.
Junior forward Essence Carson said she had done some research on Imus and his past inflammatory and derogatory statements about other people.
"Just knowing that this has happened time and time before, I felt that it might be time to make a stand," she said Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show.
"He doesn't know who we are as people," Carson said. "That's why we are just so appalled with his insensitive remarks, not only about African-American women, but about women as a whole."
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was asked if the president thought Imus' punishment was strong enough, but said it was up to Imus's employer to decide any further action.
"The president believed that the apology was the absolute right thing to do," Perino said Tuesday.
Imus has apologized repeatedly for his comments. He said Tuesday he hadn't been thinking when making a joke that went "way too far." He also said that those who called for his firing without knowing him, his philanthropic work or what his show was about would be making an "ill-informed" choice.
MSNBC has said it will watch to see whether Imus changes the tenor of future programs.
The radio show originates from WFAN-AM in New York City and is syndicated nationally by Westwood One, both of which are managed by CBS Corp. (MSNBC, which simulcasts the show on cable, is a part of NBC Universal, which is owned by General Electric Co.)
Insults are nothing new on his show, where Colin Powell was once called a "weasel" and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was referred to as a "fat sissy."
Rutgers' coach said Wednesday that he crossed the line with her team. She first heard about the remarks as she was leaving a celebration honoring the players' success in making it to the NCAA championship game. When the players should have been taking congratulations they were getting calls about Imus' insults instead, she told "Today."
"I've heard so many other talk show hosts speak on this, they say that's the way our society is," Stringer said Wednesday. "You know what? The society is the way it is because adults don't take leadership roles."
"We need to be shining examples of what should be," Stringer said. "No one is right in speaking about any person in such a derogatory way.
Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana in Piscataway, N.J., contributed to this report.
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While I don't condone what IMUS said, the "so called" furor, FUELED BY FOX is exactly what they wanted (to get advertisers to cancel and thus quite possibly get the show cancelled) and ONCE AGAIN they come in the back door.
Are we that moronic in America that we can't see what this network of buffons is up to ? Not just with IMUS but with anyone and everyone who doesn't preach and tow the Murdoch party line
Be ASHAMED AMERICA….BE VERY ASHAMED:
I so agree with you. Anyone who watched IMUS, know's he is such a good person, and donates so much money and TIME to worthy causes and sick kids. His show bashes everyone..everyone, no color barrier, no gender barrier, everyone. Especially he bashes the pResident bush,and cheney, who he calls war criminals. so it seems like without Imus around, no one is left to bash this putrid administration. I am not saying he is right, and I turn him off 10 times during each show, I even take offense, especially with some of his staff……but this seems like a 'swiftboat' style attack that just swept over the media way to fast for it now to have been planned. and I point to FAUX news..here is that link and see what ann coulter said about DARFUR..and did not make waves. Well, I did manage to send it to Olberman, MSNBC, several websites..etc http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2007/04/ann-coulter-makes-fun-of-darfur.html
Truth 101 is so correct, but it never occured to me. This whole entire fiasco could well be organized by Fox. The payoff is clear: it takes down the highest ratings of MSNBC, and MSNBC had just caused CNN to fire their morning lineup to compete with Imus; Fox certainly does not care about minorities or they could never back Bush; by taking Imus off the air they have harmed African Americans because Imus works raising millions to help sick children-half of them black! He and his wife take sick black children into their own home. Would a true racist do that?
I absolutely agree with you. My God who gets bashed more on that show then BIll and Hillary. He dumps on everyone, thats the beauty of it. My nephew was lucky enough to do an internship with Imus and the entire time he was there Imus referred to him as the "fat intern". You take it in the manner it is meant.
I neither like nor dislike Imus – in fact I don't have time to waste watching/listening to him or others of his ilk – from what I understand he makes his living by making fun of people (you know, sometimes you've just got think "this is such a great nation") – now – I'm not sure what being "nappy-headed" means – but sometimes you need to take the speaker into consideration …. so the guy is a loud-mouthed jagoff – well – that's how he makes his living.
I'll admit to snickering a bit while Jesse Jacksons comments on what Imus had to say – consumed by his outrage and enraptured by the sound of his own voice he apparently forgot the time he refered to New York as "hymietown" – and he's an ordained minister – not a "shock jock" –
Guess it comes down to the old "let he who is without sin throw the first stone" – being a minister I'd presume that Jesse would have a working knowledge of the book from which that comes (the Bible) –
Plus – anybody recall "freedom of speech"?? Or does that only stand when it's speech that offends no one and raises no controversy – if that's the case – then it's no longer free.
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"Atomic Batteries to Power….Turbines to 'Speed." How awesome is this?!
With the prices that 50′s concept cars have been selling at you have to wonder about price comparisons between the Batmobile and if Mr. Barris had kept the car in it's original Futura form.
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The 2014 update to the #alangesohne 1815 keeps the classic design elements but in a smaller 38.5mm case. All the details, today on HODINKEE.
38.5?! It's…. perfect. PERFECT!!!
A million better people have reviewed the Seiko SRP309KI "Orange Monster" already. But that's not going to stop me today, folks. Not after the coffee I just had. The Seiko SRP309KI is an update to the Seiko SKX781. Nicknamed the "Orange Monster", they are extremely rugged dive watches with a loyal cult following. And now I know why. They're affordable, well made, comfortable, and unique.
Much has been said about the New Monsters, so to my fellow Watchthusiasts, here's what I've personally found wearing the SRP309K1 for a few weeks:
Great overall design. The new design is fresh feeling while still being faithful to the original pleasing both my purist side and that other side that always wants the new thing. My brain was going back and forth on the "Tooth" indices but on the wrist, they're surprisingly subdued and really help to create clarity within the dial but still feeling familiar.
I can't speak of it's function as a dive watch because, due to a completely rational and normal fear of the earth's mighty oceans, I would never set wrist in there. But, you know… seems like it would do the job. Good to 200m, incredible lume, easily gripped bezel, and a protected crown. Fancy point of interest: The dial was initially coloured orange as it was deemed the most legible colour under water.
The Bracelet. Great and one of the more comfortable metal bracelets I've worn. Comes extra big so it fits over a wet suit. Note: If you're sizing this at home, watch out for those collared pins. Not very difficult but tricky enough that I bragged to my wife about doing it all by myself when I was done. Need help? The great folks over at the Poor Man's Watch Forum got you covered HERE
The Movement. Updated from the 7S26 caliber to the 4R36 caliber. The 4R36, although an automatic like the 7S26, is hand wind-able and features hacking seconds.
Surprises. Alarmingly accommodating. In pictures, it looks like it would be standing on your wrist, just screaming out at passers by. While it certainly has a presence, it's not as loud as I imagined. I'm not sure you'd want to wear it to say a funeral or maybe Philippe Dufour's birthday, but it's a really great casual watch. And I imagine, very appropriate for diving. Again, If you disregard all of nature's warnings not to go in there, of course.
Overall, I really enjoy this watch. I wanted a tough watch that satisfied my watch nerdery at the same time and that's what I got. Seiko created a pretty fantastic watch yet again that your collection deserves.
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An akava'ine or 'akava'ine is a Cook Islands Māori word used to describe transgender or transsexual women in the Cook Islands.
It can also refer to women who have an inflated opinion of themselves, draw attention to themselves in ways that disrupt groupness, don't heed others advice, or who act in a self-serving or self-promoting way.[1]
The term 'akava'ine is a prefix of "aka" (to be or to behave like) and "va'ine" (woman).[2]
Antonym: 'akatāne[3] - Act like a man, have manly qualities; be a tomboy.[2]
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Sometimes the word laelae is also used, typically when implying criticism or ridicule of feminine behaviour displayed by a man, for example being described as effeminate or homosexual.[1] Laelae is the colloquial Cook Islands term; the word tutuva'ine (meaning "like a woman") is used less frequently[1] Homosexuality is illegal for males in the Cook Islands.[4]
Culturally, 'akava'ines have been around for centuries. And they've always been part of the family, part of the village, and part of the tribe. But when the missionaries came, things changed quite dramatically for everyone in the Pacific Islands, and the Cook Islands were no exception. In the 1800s they started bringing in homophobic and transphobic attitudes.[5]
Some 'akava'ine take part in the making of tivaevae (quilts), an activity traditionally done by the women of the community.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Kalissa Alexeyeff (2009). Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Cook Islands Globalization. University of Hawaii Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8248-3244-5. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ^ a b Jasper Buse; Raututi Taringa (1995). Cook Islands Maori Dictionary. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7286-0230-4. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ^ Kalissa Alexeyeff (2009). Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Cook Islands Globalization. University of Hawaii Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8248-3244-5. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ^ International Lesbian and Gay Association (2006). "LGBT World legal wrap up survey". p. 4.
- ^ Matt Akersten (12 August 2008). "Supporting our sisters in the Pacific".
- ^ Walter E. Little; Patricia Ann McAnany (16 October 2011). Textile Economies: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational. Rowman Altamira. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7591-2061-7. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- Alexeyeff, Kalissa (2009). Dancing from the heart: movement, gender, and Cook Islands globalization. University of Hawaii Press
- Buse, Jasper; Taringa, Raututi (1995). Cook Islands Maori dictionary, edited by Bruce Biggs & Rangi Moeka'a, published by The Ministry of Education, Government of the Cook Islands
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- Video clip from TVNZ news (2008): Rarotongan Queens put on a performance promoting respect in Rarotonga


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The Alaska Railroad is eliminating 52 positions.
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The railroad's director of strategic planning, Bruce Carr, says layoffs are necessary because less fuel is being shipped from the Flint Hills Refinery in North Pole to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. That equates to about a $5 million loss.
The downturn in the economy is blamed. Cargo flights are a majority of the business at the Anchorage airport, and a decline in flights began in 2009.
Flint Hills officials say about the same time, crude prices rose, making it more difficult to compete with Asian suppliers. They are closing down their second jet fuel unit, which will leave only one in North Pole.


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Abstract. Column-averaged volume mixing ratios of carbon dioxide (XCO2) during the period from January 2007 to May 2008 over Tsukuba, Japan, were derived by using CO2 concentration data observed by Japan Airlines Corporation (JAL) commercial airliners, based on the assumption that CO2 profiles over Tsukuba and Narita were the same. CO2 profile data for 493 flights on clear-sky days were analysed in order to calculate XCO2 with an ancillary dataset: Tsukuba observational data (by rawinsonde and a meteorological tower) or global meteorological data (NCEP and CIRA-86). The amplitude of seasonal variation of XCO2 (Tsukuba observational) from the Tsukuba observational data was determined by least-squares fit using a harmonic function to roughly evaluate the seasonal variation over Tsukuba. The highest and lowest values of the obtained fitted curve in 2007 for XCO2 (Tsukuba observational) were 386.4 and 381.7 ppm in May and September, respectively. The dependence of XCO2 on the type of ancillary dataset was evaluated. The average difference between XCO2 (global) from global climatological data and XCO2 (Tsukuba observational), i.e., the bias of XCO2 (global) based on XCO2 (Tsukuba observational), was found to be -0.621 ppm with a standard deviation of 0.682 ppm. The uncertainty of XCO2 (global) based on XCO2 (Tsukuba observational) was estimated to be 0.922 ppm. This small uncertainty suggests that the present method of XCO2 calculation using data from airliners and global climatological data can be applied to the validation of GOSAT products for XCO2 over airports worldwide.
Citation: Araki, M., Morino, I., Machida, T., Sawa, Y., Matsueda, H., Yokota, T., and Uchino, O.: CO2 column-averaged volume mixing ratio derived over Tsukuba from measurements by commercial airlines, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 10, 3401-3421, doi:10.5194/acpd-10-3401-2010, 2010.


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Last month Green Bay Police Officer Clint Beguhn shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call. Yesterday an internal investigation said he did the right thing and cleared him for active duty.
Documents and interview tapes from that investigation reveal new information and tell us what was going through Officer Beguhn's mind in the minutes leading up to the incident.
When Officer Clinton Beguhn pulls up to 1499 Capitol Drive, he knows this isn't the first time Darold Vandenheuvel's estranged wife has called for help.
"I was looking through my peephole and he came right up to my door," she tells the 911 operator.
"She seemed to be worked up she seemed to be scared," recalls Beguhn.
She tells Beguhn and his partner Officer Marc Opicka that her estranged husband is down in the parking garage.
"When I started looking at the male, um, he had just lit up a cigarette," says Beguhn, stating that he was 20 to 30 feet away .
Opicka calls out to Vandenheuvel, "Hey what are you doing back there?"
"He's not responding to anything Opicka says, Opicka goes from saying something like "Hey man" to "Show me your hands", " says Beguhn.
There's a pillar blocking Beguhn's view, he moves in closer to get a better look.
"As officer Opicka's saying "Show me your hands", the male had a light jacket on, and he starts drawing down the zipper with his left hand very slow. Opicka starts giving louder commands to the extent of "show me your hands". He continues to draw down the zipper."
Now Beguhn has positioned himself with a clear line of sight.
"The jacket is undone he pulls the jacket open to the left. As soon as he pulls the jacket open, I can see a revolver in his waistband. His hand goes to the revolver and he starts drawing it up. As he's drawing up, I remember shooting. I couldn't tell you how many shots. I couldn't tell you if my first shot hit him or not. He goes to the left and the gun is still coming up. I remember firing as fast as I can at him and as he pulls the gun up, I can see its huge. I mean it was big!"
Beguhn fires 10 times.
"And I must have started to hit him this time because he starts leaning to the left and starts to go down. I don't know if he hit the wall behind him or what but in retrospect it took him a while to go down."
In the background on dash cam video we hear Beguhn shout to Opicka "You okay bud? take some deep breaths."
Opicka, "You alright?"
Beguhn, "I'm fine."
Paramedic"63 year old male, multiple shots, not breathing," says a paramedic.
A medical examiner's report says Vandenheuvel suffered 7 gunshot wounds in his hand, arms, chest and head.
"He goes for the weapon: he's attempting to pull it on two officers in a parking area, as he's there for what seems like a legitimate police complaint, I can't imagine there is any other reason for him to grab that fire arm other than to attempt to kill officer Opicka or myself or both," says Beguhn.
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Steve Haddock remembers every detail about his first ocean encounter with a comb jelly. The open water was a bottomless deep blue. The animal, about the size of a tennis ball, shimmered with bioluminescence. "It was just cruising along like a hover craft," says Haddock, a marine biologist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif. "Comb jellies are more alien than any aliens people imagine," he says.
Start with their appearance: The marine animals resemble translucent balloons rigged with flashing, colored lights. Some species glow. When startled, some flash electric blue. Vertical rows, or combs, made of hundreds of iridescent, hairlike cilia run the lengths of their globular bodies (thus the name comb jellies). In some species the cilia are 2 millimeters long — 200 times the length of cilia in other animals — and they beat in coordinated waves, propelling the jellies forward, backward and diagonally in search of prey.
It's not just their appearance that is wondrous: Slice a comb jelly embryo in two and you get two half-adults that can fertilize themselves to give birth to a perfectly whole offspring. Some can reproduce while they're still larvae. Though jellies lack eyes, Haddock and his colleagues have discovered proteins that comb jellies use to sense light. Comparative biologists like to joke that on the eighth day, God created comb jellies.
Comb jellies are gelatinous like jellyfish, but the similarity ends there. In body plan, jellyfish resemble the largely sessile, almost plantlike sea anemones, corals and other cnidarians: a group that dates back at least 550 million years. While jellyfish and other cnidarians have nerve cells that form a loose network in their bodies, comb jellies have a more sophisticated nervous system with a rudimentary brain and cellular connections called synapses that are also found in flies, humans and most other animals.
Yet, detailed looks at the genomes of two species of comb jellies suggest, surprisingly, that they are the more primitive animals, and not the jellyfish, sea anemones or corals, as has long been thought. It's even possible that the sophisticated comb jelly lineage may have evolved before the brainless, gutless, muscle-less sea sponges.
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I hadn't read it, but if you are for cutting welfare at home and to other nations, we can agree. Just remember that giving the government a blank check to spend countless billions on defense is just as much about creating wasteful "shovel ready jobs" as any stupid project the Democrats propose.
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I agree. But we also know that the military will cut the wrong things.
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And just the same way a local politician says they will have to close the police and fire departments whenever anyone wants to cut a dime, so goes the military in scaring us that if we don't increase spending each year, terrorists are going to get us and win.
Republicans, and many Democrats, are upset by the prospect of so-called sequestration cuts to the nation's defense budget. Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is so alarmed that the day before the Senate took up what became the "fiscal cliff" agreement, he called a key Republican lawmaker, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to express deep concern that the cuts might go into effect. As it turned out, Congress put them off for two months.
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In order to achieve superior athletic performance you need to be efficient with your movements. In other words you need to perform the same movements as your opponent, but spending a lot less energy. This is not only true for athletes, but for first responders as well. Saving energy is the key to survival.
So how do can you become more efficient in your movements?
The key to efficiency is of course perfect technique. Haven't you ever noticed during your workouts that reps are a lot tougher when your technique breaks down? Maintaining perfect technique during high stress situations should be the goal of every athlete. Perfect technique will make you biomechanically more efficient and injury free, both vital for athletic performance (Scott Sonnon has deciphered a great training system that includes this principal, but I will get to that later).
Now perfect technique may not sound like a great revelation, but if you join it with movement complexity it will boost your athleticism by the hundreds (not sure how that works, but it sounds awesome). Tudor O. Bompa in his book Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training defines complexity as the degree of sophistication and biomechanical difficulty of a skill. Training intensity cannot only be increased through reps, weight, density or volume, but also through complexity. Learning a complex skill, like the tennis swing, golf swing or basketball lay up, may require extra work, in comparison to more basic skills, especially if the athlete possesses inferior neuromuscular coordination.
When you carry out a simple task only a small portion of your brain is used. This is why you can walk and talk on the phone at the same time, but when you carry out a complex task doing more than one thing can be overwhelming, especially if it is new to you.
According to Eniseler (2005) complexity of previously learned skills may impose physiological stress even though the skills have been mastered. This gives you or your athletes a whole new concept or variable to introduce in your training.
How to Introduce Complex Movement into Your Training
There are various ways in which you can add complexity to your training. For beginners I would go with some Hip Hop dance movements (if you like dancing), some step exercises, or any silly exercise that requires coordination (you will find a few of these on youtube).
This is how I introduce movement complexity to enhance my athleticisim. I usually training using Scott Sonnon's 4 day wave. With this protocol you have a no, low, moderate, and high intensity days. I like to do some silly coordination exercises (magic and juggling fall into this category) on my no intensity days; on low intensity days I like to incorporate some hip hop (which I'm really bad at) movements, stuff that makes me have to move more than one joint at the time and that gets my heart pumping a bit; moderate days I go with some parkour or freerunning vaults and jumps, I also do TACFIT and clubbells, this obviously depends on how I'm feeling; finally high intensity days are TACFIT and maybe (big maybe) clubbells.
Learn the difference between TACFIT and CrossFit.
A bit on TACFIT if you haven't heard of it.
Improvement is most programs is defined as an increase in variables like intensity, speed, volume, duration, etc. Tactical fitness, on the other hand, "intends to develop the motor patterns and energy systems directly impacting your ability to respond to a crisis". Tactical fitness not only works on the three dimensions, as I mentioned above, but it also adds to them the rotational aspects of pitching, yawing and rolling.
One of the aspects that separates Tactical Fitness from Functional Fitness is that the first "…emphasizes the ability to efficiently transition between movements. In other words, Tactical fitness works on sophisticating movement. A good tactical fitness program begins with basic movements that work along the whole range of motion of each joint. It then increases the difficulty by incorporating compound movements which combine two skills, and finally ends with "complex" movements that involve three or more skills. These are the three levels (e.g Recruit, Grunt, Commando) that are found in all TACFIT programs except in the TACFIT 26.
This added "complexity" allows you, the tactical operator, to navigate unexpected obstacles with ease and imagination. How? Well, because you have already practiced to perfection every movement there is to be made in a crisis situation. Your body won't have to do anything it hasn't done before. Your fine motor skills become more accurate, gross motor skills more efficient, and you feel less stress.
As you progress through each level, you will not only increase the number of reps, but also through complexity, and this is what separates TACFIT from every other program out there. Your body as well as your mind get one hell of a workout.
The sophistication used in all TACFIT programs come from utilizing a Russian biomechanical principle called "Component learning" which demands that each movement be a building block to the next. This allows "back-shaping" or "reverse engineering" of high level sports skills.
Carry Over into other Sports
If you take a look at some of the movements done in TACFIT you might not think there is much carry over into your sport. "Yes, it might be good for martial arts but I not one of them." Actually, in my opinion, it is better for other sports than it is for martial arts… let me explain why. Martial artists are used to doing some of these exercises while basketball, football, tennis, ping pong, and other players aren't. TACFIT will help rewire your brain and setup new and more neuron connections. This means you neurons will communicate faster between them, and your body will be able to do what your brain asks with more precision and coordination. Awesome, right? This automatically leads to faster decision making, faster movements, more focus and mental acuity I can't begin to explain how this will enhance your athletic performance.


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You cared more about your job than me.
Your last name was Cat. I mean…seriously? I had always wanted one of those family plaques that you can hang next to the main door, but i can tell you two things: I won't change my last name and that family plaque won't say The Cats. And that's why we broke up.
You're seventeen years old and you spelled "feel" as "fill."
You gave me a pair of earrings and then asked for them back, and that's why we broke up.
We broke up because you left the price sticker on my Valentine's Day gift so I would know how much money you'd spent on me.
You saw my Mensa magazine at my apartment, then spent twenty minutes explaining that I'm not as smart as I think I am because I don't have to work hard.
We broke up because you tipped less than 10%.
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True key logger resides in-between kernel and program layer, intercepting all input BEFORE it reaches specific program.
Tell me how this will protect me of a key logger installed on the system via trojan horse (meaning by typing my sudo password upon install).
And are there any other ways to install a key logger? Via root kit of course, which means that it will be again where it should be.
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Yesterday, I went a bit crazy with blog posts and blog commenting. All of what I am doing is manual, is well thought out, and has the aim to add value and/or engage people in conversation. Between yesterday and today I've commented on 10-15 blogs and written 4 or 5 blog posts. One of the initial goals is to get content on my site that I can share with an audience in forums, on Q&A sites, and on social media sites. I think that I can add quite a bit of value in the realm of SEO since most networkers out there are using and teaching outdated, "gray-hat" methods of building links. I've come across only two blogs in the industry that are PR4 and hardly any PR3s. By the looks of it, most people are not getting their traffic from the Search Engines. My time to shine
Today I signed up for SponsoredTweets.com to start testing it out to see if it will be cost effective. I set up a CPC campaign, and I'll check back Monday to see if if any Tweeters have picked it up yet.
Here are the rest of my goals for today:
- Sign up for the Empower Network (@ $125/mo. level) and start promoting it via Twitter paid ads. I'll also be putting up links to it here on my blog and it will probably become the main promotional piece on this blog.
- Begin fixing up my Facebook profile so that I can actually make something out of it and start promoting / using it next week
- Start a few new Twitter accounts so I can begin testing out some sites that allow you to quickly gain new followers ( addmefast.com, socialclerks.com, twiends.com, and roundteam.co ) I don't know how effective these will be yet, but we'll see.
- I want to blast through some of the MLSP trainings today. By the looks of it, most of the modules aren't much more than an hour long so I should be able to get through just about all of it (minus the webinars) by the end of next week. My goal it to be THE best student in the program. To learn, implement, and get results without hesitation.
And that's about it for today. The rest is just rambling
I'm also contemplating starting a few fun / helpful sites for MLMers. I'd really like to do something like SEOmoz's YouMoz, but I think that'd take a bit too much time at the moment. I'm thinking about doing a voting site like wpvote.com, to rank leaders or content…. I haven't quite thought it all the way through yet. The other idea I had was doing something a summary email for the industry which I think is probably the best one. The only issue is the same issue I have for everything else which is how to get it in front of people, fast.


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"Sometimes I'll force quit a program that isn't even frozen just to let it know not to fuck with me."
Watch as this kid finishes his lap on the track, spins into reverse, and backs into the parking space — all in one maneuver. No need to take off your helmet, you earned your right to secrecy. This is how you put Mario to shame.
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Did you happen to see last night's episode of Wheel Of Fortune? If you answered "no" because you have a life and were out doing something awesome, good for you, but if you DID watch it then you know just how mind blowing it was. Like seriously, I'm pretty sure even Pat Sajack shit his pants.
Boss Helicopter Pilot Transports Christmas Trees
'Tis the season, motherfuckers.
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This Guy Has Best Seat on the Subway
Subway myway.
Dude Has Balls: Hitching a Ride on Back of FedEx Truck
Looks like someone paid for express shipping.
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The official music video from Streeter and Murph, as seen in "Insulting The Boss With A Punk Rock Video".
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It'll make sense once you watch it.
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He's kind of a must-hire.
His miracles are amazing… from certain angles.
Fuck you, that's their name.
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You got it, boss.
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He drives the fork out of that thing.
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