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'Jed Zeppelin': They're Country, But Raised on Rock 'n' Roll
It might seem odd that Eric Church's song titled "Springsteen" reached No. 1 on Billboard's country-music chart this summer, but it really shouldn't. More than ever, country artists are channeling the rock of the 1970s and '80s.
Though Nashville traditionalists don't fully approve of all the rocking, Mr. Church is nominated for more Country Music Association Awards than anyone else this year, with the ceremony set for Thursday. "Springsteen" is nominated for song of the year.
It's not just about Bruce. On country radio these days, it's easy to hear echoes of Bad Company, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Joan Jett. For music fans raised on the straightforward guitars and ragged drumbeats of classic rock, the latest country music has a familiar ring.
"What you're hearing is a change in the way country songs are mixed," says Brian Philips, president of Country Music Television. "You're hearing dirtier guitars, turned up louder in the mix. The rhythm section is more prominent. The drums are heavier. The vocal is a little more defiant. It's a rock mix. It's very different from what you would have heard in Nashville a decade ago."
Rock and country have fed on each other since before Elvis Presley showed up at Sun Studio, of course. What's different now is that today's country stars grew up in a world when rural America was less isolated than before. Country traditions abide in some quarters, but for these artists, rock—even heavy metal—was the currency.
Randy Houser's summer hit "How Country Feels," with its power-chord and kick-drum opening, sounds eerily like AC/DC's "Highway to Hell." The first bars of Thomas Rhett's "Something to Do With My Hands" evoke Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady." Lady Antebellum's "Friday Night" is very "Jessie's Girl" (Rick Springfield). Love and Theft's summer hit "Angel Eyes" channels Tom Petty. Dierks Bentley's raucous "5-1-5-0" pays homage musically to the Eagles' "Life in the Fast Lane," though its title is a nod to Eddie Van Halen, who used "5150" (a California police code for somebody acting crazy) to name his guitar and a Van Halen album.
"We joke and make up names in the studio, like Jed Zeppelin," says Ronnie Dunn, formerly of country duo Brooks and Dunn and now a solo artist who recently released the single "Let the Cowboy Rock." Brooks and Dunn's work included a remake of the 1973 B.W. Stevenson classic "My Maria." Their hit "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk out of the Girl" sounded like the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up."
"That's what we were going for," says Mr. Dunn. "I tell people my ultimate fantasy for a band is where the Stones meet Merle Haggard."
Superstar Kenny Chesney has a song, "I Go Back," where he recalls his passionate younger days listening to the Steve Miller Band, John Mellencamp and Billy Joel. In July, Mr. Miller joined Mr. Chesney onstage during an Oakland concert, and they performed the classic hits "Rock'n Me" and "The Joker" together. The Dixie Chicks famously covered Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." Oklahoma good ol' boy Toby Keith, on his 2011 album "Clancy's Tavern," performs Three Dog Night's laid-back "Shambala."
In the song "Springsteen," which has the solemn vibe of Mr. Springsteen's "I'm on Fire," the singer-songwriter Mr. Church recalls his own teenage glory days listening to the radio.
"When I grew up, yeah, I listened to country music," says Mr. Church, 35, who was raised in small-town North Carolina. "But if you were going to a football game, rock 'n' roll was playing in every car and every truck. You were listening to everything from AC/DC, Metallica, all the way to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mellencamp, Springsteen, Seger, Petty."
Mr. Church figures the first song he learned to play on guitar might have been "Born to Run," or maybe "Jack and Diane."
"I went to an AC/DC concert in an amphitheater, and it just damned near changed my life," he remembers. "Guys with their fists in the air. The raw energy of rock 'n' roll is something no one else has been able to duplicate. In our show, we try. There's a lot of Iron Maiden in what we do."
Country lyrics have evolved, too. They remain rich in confessional narrative and honky-tonk wordplay, though increasingly there are fewer tales of woe, more attitude and gratitude. Often the down-home words contrast with the guitar-amped sounds. Mr. Houser's "How Country Feels" kicks in on the highway-to-hell riff, then cuts down a dirt road to heaven: "You never rolled in the hay/Never thrown it in four-wheel/Climb up on in here, girl/Let me show you how country feels."
"They're almost overcompensating these days for kind of injecting even metal influences into some of the country songs," Mr. Dunn observes. "They'll overwork the lyrics to testify that they are country: 'I've got my dog on my seat in my truck, on the dirt road, in the backwoods.' It's almost like you catch yourself apologizing for rocking out."
If today's country music sounds like 1970s rock, another reason may be because what passed for rock during that musically diverse era was infused with twang. Bad Company were considered hard rockers, but listen to 1975's "Feel Like Makin' Love" again some time. It doesn't sound like the electronic pop that's on rock charts these days, and if newly released it would be most likely to get airplay on a country station. You could say the same about many hits from the Eagles, Grateful Dead, Neil Young, the Band, the Doobie Brothers, America, Bob Seger, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Ronstadt and, of course, Southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. Bad Company weren't the only Brits to cowboy up. A good slice of the Stones' fertile early-1970s period was country, and the Who gave voice to country-style violin (in "Baba O'Reilly") and banjo (in "Squeeze Box"). Country's plaintive steel guitar accents Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." And the quirky '70s hit parade featured countless country-flavored novelties: "Convoy," "Afternoon Delight," "Still the One," "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Angel of the Morning," "The Cover of the Rolling Stone," "Delta Dawn," "Dueling Banjos."
Country's spread into rock territory has coincided with a geographic incursion. Country is thriving where you'll never find a hayseed. In Philadelphia, where venerable rock station WYSP last year became another major-market rock casualty, country station WXTU is having its best run ever.
"I think people are surprised how well country does in the Northeast," says Natalie Conner, the station's general manager.
Country-music sales trail behind rock and R&B, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But country's 5.6% increase in album sales in the first half of 2012 (over 2011) was a bigger rise than any other genre.
Pollstar says the highest-grossing concert tour of the summer was Mr. Chesney and Tim McGraw's tour together, which featured their new duet, titled "Feel Like a Rock Star," of course. The tour reached $96.5 million in gate receipts and sold one million tickets, according to Pollstar. Their two football-stadium shows in Foxboro, Mass., broke the sales record for a New England country-music event. Mr. Chesney broke the New York/New Jersey record in 2011.
Bill Flanagan cultivated the long-shared DNA of rock and country when as an executive at CMT he created the "CMT Crossroads" TV series, pairing country artists with rockers. In one episode, Taylor Swift rocked out with Def Leppard.
"It seems totally incongruous," Mr. Flanagan says, but he traces a direct line: Ms. Swift grew up listening to Shania Twain, whose producer (and ex-husband) Mutt Lange also produced the classics by Def Leppard and AC/DC.
"When the series began, we assumed it would be young rock artists wanting to work with older country artists like Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson. It's actually worked out the other way," Mr. Flanagan says. "Now it's Keith Urban getting to play with his hero John Fogerty. Ninety percent of the country artists we talk to ask if they can do it with Springsteen. We had to create a No-Bruce Zone."
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John M. McGrath, a young Navy pilot who was captured in 1967 after being shot down over Vietnam, vividly presents a straightforward and compelling tale of survival, of years of suffering, and of the human will to endure. During the era of the unpopular Vietnam War few issues united the American people as did the emotion-laden problem of POWs and MIAs. When the peace treaties were finally signed and the POWs returned to American soil, the nation was collectively relieved by their safe return. A self-taught artist, the starkness of McGrath's drawings underscores his remarkable and moving chronicle of the lives of these prisoners, who were constantly in peril, attempting to survive a brutal captivity almost unimaginable in civilized times.
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Do the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee actually believe their orchestrated response in taking the words of President Barack Obama completely out of context when they retort that one's ultimate achievement of success on the professional level is to be attributed solely to the efforts of said individual.
However, although the successful individual does perhaps deserve the lion's share of the credit, those who have assisted in the process also positively contributed on the individual's path to ultimate success.
Those who may have contributed along the way most probably would include parents; teachers; clergy; associates; mentors; customers; financial institutions; local, state and federal government entities, etc., and, above all, what can be ultimately accomplished without the blessing of the good lord?
Stating one's professional success can be attributed solely to the individual is egotistical, self-aggrandizing and delusional.
In the case of Gov. Mitt Romney, how successful would he, himself, have been without all the advantages which were made readily available to him as a result of his ultra-successful father, George Romney, who was the very wealthy chief executive officer of American Motors, governor of the state of Michigan and served as our nation's secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Nixon administration during his long and very successful professional life.
Undoubtedly, doors were opened to the current Republican presidential candidate as a result of his heritage on a professional level to the extent enjoyed by very few in our nation's history.
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If such is indeed the case as it pertains to candidate Romney, himself, then to whom may he be referring?
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BELLAIRE – The Bellaire Local Board of Education wasn't ready to move on an emergency levy during its regular meeting here Monday....
I would be more likely to be happy with a sales tax. At least then every one pays instead of just taxing people who own property or a previous attempt to tax only those with a job. Deadbeats who don't even try to work who have children in the school system would have to pay as well.
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Enrollment numbers aside, the state system of funding is broken. I suppose all of you will rue the day when a sales tax is imposed to cover school costs, huh?
You are all crazy if you expect the levy efforts to stop. THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE UNDER A SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I suppose they could hope for a better educated electorate that applies pressure in the right places but that's a pipe dream.
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How much longer do the tax payers have to be harassed? What part of the word NO don't you understand? As the above commenter said...your arrogance is a large part of the reason people have had enough. We all have bills and mortgages and car payments and the dollar just doesn't stretch that far anymore. And for those who will say give up eating out and entertainment, well, if you want to give them up, then do so. Your last sneak attack was nauseating enough. How much did the special election cost?????????
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"A lot of people don't comprehend" we said NO!!! 8.25 is ridiculous to begin with. The last sneak attack was your best shot to jam it thru and it failed. QUIT HARASSING THE VOTERS.
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"A lot of people don't comprehend we need the money to pay off existing loans, buy buses, to buy technology and restore needed programs..."
Duh! You have to pay bills? Well, I never realized that.
The arrogance displayed by these people is a large part of the reason for the continued levy failure.
No more levies on the ballot! Case closed. If after 5 attempts, you haven't learned the meaning of NO, perhaps YOU need to go back to school.
There ARE other options. One of them might save almost $100,000 per year. :)
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I remember playing Warcraft 3 but I do not remember a scene with Arthas' death. In contrast the lore tells us that every Death Knight died before they become what they are. So did Arthas die before he became one?
No, in Warcraft universe they are three generation of death knights.
First generation (or DK of Old Horde) were made by Gul'dan of slain warlocks of Shadow Council. Souls were merged by fallen warriors of Stormwind. This DK were more like necromancers - spellcasters. The most known DK of first generation is Teron Gorefiend.
The second generation of DKs from Lich King itself. Arthas was the first DK of the second generation. Difference between first and second generation is that Lich King's DKs were brute warriors and not so much spellcasters. The key to become DK was to give your free will (soul) and not your life. In War 3 expansion, after Frozen Throne was damaged and Lich King was losing his power, Arthas was gaining back his human nature.
We also have a little plot hole about Frostmourne. The lore says that anyone who is killed by the sword, his soul will be trapped inside, yet Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, after she was raised from the dead, managed to get both her soul and free will back.
The best evidence that you don't have to die to become DK is in third generation of DK or Ebony DK. These DKs are playable and when you select any living race to be DK you get their attributes and abilities. If you create a human DK you'll get human abilities and not undead ones.
Source - http://www.wowpedia.org/Death_Knight
There is a quest added in WoW in Wrath of the Lich King which, among others, in fact do show Arthas was a living death knight. In short, during the battle against Illidan he realized his own hearth is his greatest weakness (he was bleeding after the duel), so he rips it off his chest and throws it in Naz'anak - The Forgotten Depths below Icecrown Citadel. In the quest when player finds out the hearth, it's still pulsing, so, we could conclude that it also was pulsing when it was in Arthas chest (and along with bleeding), I would say this is a strong evidence Arthas was in fact alive when he turned into Death Knight.
Arthas hearth - http://www.wowwiki.com/Pulsing_Crystal
However, I'm not anymore so sure about third generation of DKs are they living or undead. In the very intro of the class, it is said player did lose his life. In fact, some people on offical forums and fan site are stating these DKs are brought back to life (reanimated). Also, the most of the RP players in WoW consider DK as undead. However, there are also in-game material which are stating otherwise. For example, flavor text in the DK talent Lichborn says - "Draw upon unholy energy to BECOME undead for 10 sec." So all in all, if we are take everything into account - lore, cinematics, gameplay, apperance, mehanics we could say that they aren't either alive nor undead, but something in-between (and have the ability to step from one side to another).
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From a 2007 blizzcon transcript with Chris Metzen and Alex Afrasiabi.
As far as I can remember, there is no specific scene shown, in where he dies. It seems that he more and more turns into a Death Knight, maybe in this transformation, death has occured somewhere, but without any noticeable changes or events.
From the wowwiki entry of Arthas Menethil
So one could argue that when the spirits fused that the old Arthas died. But it's a special case in my opinion since he merges with the Lich King and is no ordinary death knight.
So he didn't die due to a wound or any other injury.
Remember the end of the human campaign when Arthas is mentioned to have wandered into the desolate wastes of northrend. In this he loses his sanity and all of his free will as he is now enslaved by the Lich KIng.
Arthas was the last of the undead champions to be created as after all you saw that most of the undead units have been stolen from orc and human units .
His manifestation a death knight on his shadowy steed is believed to be his own favourite horse whom was killed in battle. He has the ability to raise dead so lets presume he did it. But his sudden teleportation in front of Tichondrious at the beginning of the undead campaign suggests that he was summoned by TIchondrious to receive instructions on his first missions.
TIchondrious was carrying out archimonde's will through arthas by ensuring that Kelthuzad is ressurected to begin the summoning as he is the only undead sorcerer powerful enough to understand Medivh's spellbook.... But I hate tichondrious for leaving arthas to fend for himself in the last undead mission because his help would have been much appreciated in fending of the wizards. Ha in the end arthas kills tichondrious through Illidan to set the stage nicely for TFT
Maybe you missed the fine point when tichondrious explains to arthas "how Froustmourne devoured his soul making him a slave of the LIch king ". ..... yes.. that shold wrap this answer up


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6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lie Out in the Open
Hey, why spend Halloween giggling your way through a haunted house full of plastic skeletons and fake corpses when you can go find the real thing? After all, around the world you'll find all sorts of places where you can stumble across a massive field full of half-buried or half-sunken bodies, their lifeless skulls staring up at you from the realm of the dead. So why not go pick up a real-life curse from ...
#6. The Smoked Corpses of Papua New Guinea
Have you ever been at someone's house, noticed that they had their grandpa's ashes on display in the living room, and thought that was a little too morbid? Then stop reading. Don't look at the following photo. Seriously, don't.
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Dude, what the hell is wrong with you?
That's how the Kuku-Kuku people of Aseki in Papua New Guinea remember their grandpas -- when they're feeling nostalgic over a lost relative, they simply look up at the smoked corpses watching over their village from their comfy wooden gallery and say, "Oh, wait, there he is. Hey, Gramps!"
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"You're, uh, looking well."
And yes, we said "smoked corpses." As in they hold the dead body over a fire, then wait until the smoke sucks out the moisture and adds some antibacterial magic that imbues it with the yummy flavor of mesquite. But they're not still doing this today, right? They totally are! When a tribe member kicks the bucket, sometimes their relatives go for Christian burials, and sometimes they just throw the bodies over the fire for smoking. To quicken the process, the relatives repeatedly stab the body to milk out its fluids, and they draw out the soft, easily decomposable organs through an anal spigot.
Dwayne Tauschke, Vice.com
The corpse's face was completely stoic until they got to the butt part.
Some of these smoked bodies are put away in caves, but others (presumably the prettier ones) find themselves perched way out in the open. The Kuku-Kuku use the very bamboo frame that supported the body while it hung roasting over the flames to carry it to the cliff top. Then the frame goes on supporting the mummified body as it gazes upon the village below. And the best part? You can absolutely run into this morbid spectacle while visiting the region -- check out this otherwise unremarkable tourist video that turns interesting three and a half minutes in, as they come across the smoked corpses:
After that, the body stays up there, at least until the relatives decide to bring it back down to take part in some village celebration or like a grandson's 10th birthday party or something. At least we hope that's all they take the corpses down for, because besides preserving their dead, the Kuku-Kuku reportedly engage in cannibalism. And yet the anal spigot still sounds like the worst part.
#5. Mexico's Refreshing Mayan Sacrificial Pools
One reason the Chichen Itza site of Yucatan, Mexico, is popular with tourists is the abundance of cenotes -- basically, nature's swimming pools. Some are small and cloudy, like in a community gym, but others are as big and majestic as Olympic pools. One of these, Cenote Sagrado, appears to be a happy destination for the whole family:
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Who says leaves and vines don't improve a pool? Well, other than our homeowners association.
And if you listen to people who've been there, it's exactly what they seem to think it is -- a helluva place for taking a dip with the kids, thanks to its clear blue, mineral-rich water. Nope, nothing sinister here. That is, until you dive down, look around, and come across this guy chilling at the bottom:
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"Que pasa?"
Oh, and he's not alone. Far from it.
It turns out that you can find the remains of hundreds of people in these cenotes, so you can thank dem bones for all those minerals on your skin. You might be thinking that the safety conditions in this place leave a lot to be desired, but don't worry, they didn't exactly slip and fall: Most bodies were placed here intentionally, having been killed centuries ago by the Mayans in human rituals in the name of Chaak, the rain god. We're pretty sure that if you pee in this water, Chaak shows up and cuts your dick off.
Uli Kunz, via Spiegel.de
See, there's the petrified dong of a victim right there.
The Mayans believed that killing in Chaak's name ensured plentiful rains and a bountiful harvest. Usually, they would kill a victim and then drop the body into the cenote, sometimes cutting the heart out from the man's chest first, presumably out of pure force of habit. Other times, they'd chuck the victim in alive and watch him flail about in the water. Most would drown, but if one didn't and managed to return safely, he'd be considered a new divine courier and would spend the rest of his life in glory.
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"If you're swimming in the doom pool, I dropped my keys in there a week ago ..."
And as for that paradisiacal "clear blue" tone in the water? That's partly because the Mayans would paint their victims, both dead and alive, with a pigment that we now call Maya blue, a mysterious, vivid dye that lasts for centuries without fading and that scientists studied for years without determining how it was made. In fact, so much pigment entered Cenote Sagrado that the bottom of the cenote now contains a layer of blue sludge -- a 14-foot-thick layer of makeup from the sacrificed dead.
Hope you didn't swallow the water!
#4. The Hanging Cliff Coffins of Asia
The landscape of the Yibin District of Sichuan Province in southern China is undeniably jaw-dropping -- for instance, check out this magnificent cliff:
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If you're not going "Damn, that's one sweet-ass cliff" right now, you have no soul.
Pretty, right? But wait, what are those black things attached to the cliff? Are those announcement boards? In a way, yeah. The most morbid announcement boards in history. Take a closer look:
The announcement is just "everyone dies," over and over.
Those are real coffins with real corpses inside on the side of the cliff, and we have the Bo people of southwestern China to blame for this equal parts baffling and nightmarish vision. The Bo were lost to the annals of time when they got themselves steamrolled by the Ming Dynasty, and as a result much of their history is unknown. Today they're mainly remembered for their unexplained ability to place heavy coffins constructed from solid logs of hardwood hundreds of feet high on vertical cliffs in an era when humans were just beginning to figure out how to effectively explode each other. Why did they do it? The only people who know are on those cliffs.
On the plus side, if you're killed by one of these falling on you, there's a coffin right there.
While there were once tens of thousands of these coffins, today only a few hundred remain -- meaning that, yes, thousands upon thousands of them have tumbled from the cliffs over time. And China isn't the only place you might find yourself strolling through a horrifyingly literal version of "It's Raining Men," because the people of Sagada in the Philippines practice the same ritual to this day.
Greg Goodman, Adventuresofagoodman.com
"Let's throw some chairs up there, too. Sumbad might want a place to kick back."
Continuing a tradition spanning over two millennia, when an elderly Sagadan is about to kick off, he gets down to the task of carving himself a receptacle for his earthly remains. Once the inevitable day arrives, he hops inside (probably not of his own accord) and his family takes the newly filled coffin to the cliffs so that their dearly departed may join his ancestors there. Sometimes the coffins are hung in much the same fashion as the ancient Bo ritual; other times they stack them up inside the entrance of caves like li'l Eddie Gein's Lincoln Logs:
Jojo Nicdao, Salon.com
"Look, Mom, it's a fort!"
And because the area is unregulated and tourists are assholes, over the years quite a few people have decided to yoink a fibula or three as souvenirs. If circumstances ever find you there, we'd recommend keeping your distance. You know, to show some damn respect, and also because you never know when someone might be watching.
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Wash, rinse, make art, repeat
by Kai Hsing
Can social change start at your local laundromat? We take a look at how one nonprofit is looking to rebuild communities by putting art into your laundry basket.
Sometimes an innovation is more successful because of where you're trying to do it than how, or the realization that finding the right field to play on is as important as the finding the right game to play.
There are plenty of public art programs or organizations that provide arts experiences and education in public spaces, but at a time when drastic budget cuts in school systems across the country means the complete elimination of many arts programs in public schools, it seems that the need can never be met. Since 2008, the New York City Department of Education found that 32 percent of students in the system received absolutely no arts education, only 29 percent of middle schoolers are provided the minimum arts education as required by the state of New York, and only 4 percent of New York City elementary schools were even equipped to provide the minimum arts requirements.
What makes The Laundromat Project such an interesting organization is that they have brought public arts education to the most unlikeliest of places – the laundromat – and in that process have made it a successful touchpoint for those most underserved by the failure of the system. On second thought, why shouldn't the laundromat be a place to create and experience art? In a city like New York, it is one of the few places where nearly everyone in middle-to-low-income neighborhoods not only goes, but has the opportunity to run into neighbors they wouldn't otherwise. The laundromat has become the de-facto gathering place in many communities. Add to the fact that most people are generally unoccupied while there, and you have an ideal environment to engage people with art who wouldn't otherwise do so.


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My wife and I really like a neighborhood day care we recently checked out. The place seems very nice and the care providers seem to do a very good job. They are organized, appear to give a lot of attention to each child, and plan activities for the children. Our only reservation is that the providers are non-native English speakers. They have a strong accent and I assume a smaller vocabulary compared to a native English speaker. So we are concerned with whether our child would get the same level of language stimulation that they would from a native English speaker caregiver. Will spending significant amount being taken care of by a non-native English speaker speaking English impact our child's language development?
Assumption 1:
My honest opinion is that if my child spends a significant amount of time in the daycare, then I would require that the staff must speak reasonably accent-free. Children learn from what they hear, and I'd not want my child to learn incorrect grammar/pronunciation/etc. because of any staff's accents.
I'd like to point out that I'm not at all against meeting people with strong accents and spending some time with them - on the contrary, it shows the breadth of the population, which is a good thing. But my reservation is that this should not be the dominant input outside the home.
Assumption 2:
I can't really imagine that a daycare in country "A" would be allowed to be operated in language "B" unless specifically entitled to, which is not how I understand your question.
But given this, I think it would only really work if the child spends a significant amount of time in the daycare, otherwise there's not enough learning opportunity for the child and it would just be "foreign" to the child, which would in turn be ineffective and also very frustrating for the child and the caregivers.
I don't see much potential of language development here. If the caregivers speak their native tongue only among themselves, the child will understand that "foreign languages" exist (which teaches a cultural lesson) but that's about it, I don't think the child would even begin to learn the language from that.
My wife is not a native English speaker and has an accent (though lessening over time), and she is the primary care-giver during weekdays when I am at work. My son speaks like a native.
My wife's sister is a far worse English speaker and much more heavily accented (and not improving), and furthermore her husband is a non-native English speaker as well, and guess what? Her son also speaks English like a native.
Thus I don't think you have anything to worry about, because children can tell what is correct and what is not, as long as they have enough exposure to the correct thing. I realize that whether your child will get enough exposure to the correct thing is the aspect you are trying to figure out, but I think the quantity of correct exposure doesn't have to be as high as some people are saying.
I read some research lately about what kinds of language input helps children develop their language skills the best. Perhaps surprising, it was not the level of education of the parents, and not the quantity or quality of parental vocalizations. It was the amount of vocalization in response to the child's own language-like verbalizations and the lack of conflicting input (not rewarding non-language-like child vocalizations).
Generalizing, it appears that a child's language acquisition is a positive feedback loop that requires sufficient quantity of right input and generally ignores wrong input when it is not confusing. If the right inputs are provided early, then development is early. While this research point may not be directly applicable to your question, I think it sheds light on the subject, and I think, based on my own experience, that accented English is not confusing input.
My son occasionally pronounces words incorrectly, sometimes reflecting how he heard them from others (perhaps his mother). However, 90% of the time it only takes one correction by me for him to adopt the correct pronunciation.
Again, I don't think you have anything to worry about as long as you are properly interactive with your child during the time he is with you.
My experience is:
My parents-in-law are non-native speakers of our (and our child's) mother language and I see, that our child (which often spends time with them, on average maybe at least 6..24 hours per week) also adapts
to some extent (!). Our child is 3.5 years old and was and is (from my point of view) quite interested in speaking, language and vocabulary and started talking quite early.
So I think that it might have a negative impact concerning pronunciation and vocabulary/vocab/idioms usage of your child. That might depend on the amount of time, your child spends with those non-native-speaking people and surely also the age of your child.
That it also trains the child's understanding for different sounds and pronunciation, as some other answers assume, is possible. In our case it also often stimulates discussions about pronunciation with our child. But it is IMHO quite difficult to explain to your child that those people which it should respect (like his grandparents in my case or those people in your day care) are doing something "wrong".
On the other hand, a native speaker who doesn't care much about the child itself is not a better alternative, AFAIK.
Speaking from personal experience, I had a brief period where a babysitter spoke to me in another language when I was just learning to speak. My mother was surprised that I stopped speaking the few words that I had learned and started mumbling what was baby-gibberish to her. On a subsequent visit, the caregiver said, "oh, he just wants a glass of water." I had learned to speak enough of the babysitter's language to communicate with her. However, I quickly learned how to communicate with my mother again. It's probably fair to assume that, if that babysitter had continued living in the same area and my family continued to have her take care of me, I would have been a pretty natural bilingual. My English abilities were certainly not irreparably harmed and I certainly don't have the slightest accent, nor any hint of non-native speech patterns, that can be traced to that experience.
My understanding is that children raised in multilingual environments tend to have an easier time developing a broader range of communication skills. I have personally found that intentional study of foreign language in high school and college improved my understanding of English.
We are living in the US and I am a native speaker of English. My wife speaks Japanese to our son. I speak a mixture of English and mediocre Japanese. He's not quite old enough to speak intelligibly, but we fully expect to raise him bilingual. If I were a little more adventurous, I'd speak German with him and try to help him pick up three languages. We're fairly confident that my poor Japanese won't irreparably harm his ability to speak proper Japanese, though obviously I can't guarantee anything; I also had a few Spanish and Portuguese speaking caregivers who spoke English to me and I can say I didn't pick up a trace of Spanish speech patterns.
We have some friends in similar circumstances to us with a pretty wide variety of results. Less social parents found that their children's speech tended to develop a bit later than parents who spent more time with people outside of home, but generally, there is no "harm" from speaking two languages to young children. Some of our friends' children are a bit willful and reject speaking the non-dominant language but will generally understand what their parents are saying without any trouble. Presumably, because few, or none, of their friends speak Japanese, they refuse to use Japanese even with their parents.
A fair number of studies have demonstrated that most children learn "code switching" and are generally able to distinguish between languages. Over time, they figure out which contexts are suitable for which language. In practice, I've found that in languages I'm most comfortable with, with the appropriate audience, I can incorporate phrases or brief interludes from the language that is most comfortable for whatever thought I wish to express, so this does not surprise me.
I am not an expert in the subject but what I have read would seem to indicate that it might have a positive effect. Assuming you are the primary care-giver, the baby will ultimately learn your language but being exposed to other languages at an early age can help exercise their comprehension skills, and advance their understanding of languages and their ability to interpret.
So, while it's not exactly the same circumstance I think it makes sense to look at the language development research around children of immigrants. What you'll find there is that the immigrants will either have very strong accents or won't be able to speak English at all while their children will be native English speakers with no foreign accent and will be native speakers of the foreign language without an accent.
I think it's clear from this that children will eventually get stuff "right" despite being around people who are doing it "wrong".
By "right" I mean the dominate forms of the language in terms of frequency (hearing native English being spoken form you, their peers, people on the street, TV, radio) and authority (you are their parents and they will accept your corrections for English over any others).
I imagine the impact is that they'll pick up a second language. I'd encourage them to speak in their native tongue.
I don't think so, if you have the ability to keep his original language. Everyone learning another language is a baby in the new language, for example I am currently talking to native English speakers online daily and for lot of hours and I'm still keeping my own language
I have been a nanny for over 40 years and retired . Recently I decided to work in a daycare center. I see all the comments about how its ok etc. I do not think so for several reasons I cannot talk to the non English speaking teacher and ask her to do something because she just stares at me and she is supposed to help me. I cannot get her to speak to the children at all and kids need that I don,t care if you speak Chinese speak to the child hold him comfort him or her. Since I have been around a lot longer than most of you grammar is important in speech .


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thought i recognised your name from years back, searched your posts and yep.. there you go. 44 posts in 7 years and still left your mark lol.
i think of myself as one of the members that was fairly active once upon a time without being really 'known'. y/n?
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A trip to India sparked a career for Amy Novak '93.
Through a Saint Mary's College program there while a Notre Dame undergraduate, Novak had the opportunity to study the role of women in the developing world and how to empower them to be successful.
"I came back from India compelled to find a career in which I could be part of a larger change and instrumental in helping people improve their livelihoods," Novak said.
Since graduation, Novak has worked with mentally ill women, immigrants, and in corporate America. Now, as president of Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota, Novak still sees her job as one that improves the lives and futures of others.
"One of the joys of working at Dakota Wesleyan is that we serve a lot of first-generation, low-income students. Every day, I encounter students who didn't think higher education was possible and are now going on to graduate, get jobs, and increase the overall economic mobility of themselves and of their families," Novak said. "It's a real privilege to be part of that process."
I had the chance to talk recently with Novak about her new job—she was officially sworn in on Sept. 27—and her hopes for the future.
What does a typical day look like for you?
It's different every day, and I appreciate the diversity. My responsibilities are split across four major areas.
I'm involved in the strategic direction of the university, so I spend time exploring our vision and how we're executing on that vision. I'm also involved in community relations—looking at the role of the small private university in rural America and asking, "How can Dakota Wesleyan better support the economic development of our region?"
Fundraising for the university is another area. I spend quite a bit of time meeting with alumni and donors and friends of the university, getting to know them and learn how Dakota Wesleyan changed their lives.
The fourth area is my commitment to staying connected with our students, whether it's meeting them for lunch, sitting in on Student Senate meetings, or gathering a small group of scholars to talk about how we might improve the university. For me, that is a pivotal part of my job—it is something I'm committed to and I'm able to be committed to at a small private institution.
How did Notre Dame prepare you for this position?
Notre Dame helped me develop strong communication skills and provided me with the ability to solve problems, innovate, research, and analyze. I'm a passionate advocate of the liberal arts, and those were skills I honed in philosophy, theology, and history classes. They were at the heart of my education and I certainly see their value in what I do today.
What are some of your goals for Dakota Wesleyan University?
We are working toward growing our enrollment. We are also striving to identify how we live out our faith commitment. We're an institution of the United Methodist Church, but open to people of all denominations, so we want to develop our curriculum in a way that helps students appreciate their faith. We hope that Dakota Wesleyan students leave with a better sense of their spiritual selves and how that calls them to look at ways to live more justly and act with greater levels of compassion and mercy in the world. Finally, we have some projects related to capital infrastructure on our campus and we are seeking ways to strengthen our overall endowment so we can continue to support our mission of educating low-income, first-generation students.
Anything else you'd like to add?
I happen to be the mom of eight children. There's a lot of discussion in our world today about balancing career and life, particularly for women, and I just think that there are new models of doing that. One of my greatest experiences, as I look back at Notre Dame, was that I learned to value family, and I learned how to balance my time.


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Canadians named Jess cannot be Alabamans named Josh (Justin? J-something-that's-not-Jess).
Canadians named Jess cannot be Alabamans named Josh (Justin? J-something-that's-not-Jess).
It stands for Josh. That was our first point of bonding.
I thought it was Josh, but then I remembered you are Josh and thought that might be weird.
It takes a while to get this pro at the racisms.
Double post but here are all the codes which have finally been "deciphered".
CEA Terminals eh? Sounds like an excuse for me to replay it.
those credits for CEA terminals are given to your halo reach rank
the end of el presador?
shame how boring this game got. Maps are shit and people don't know how to play the game.
When everyone starts out with a long-range hitscan weapon with no bloom or recoil (the DMR), things are going to get really lame really quick. Every match inevitably becomes a game of laser tag.
Well now that I'm done with Vanquish for now, I'll be playing this until Anarchy Reigns.
One meh game to the next I see.
Yeah whatever faggotwigger, go back to farming those defenseless mushrooms in the darkroot forest for your ego trip
People do that? I thought they'd just Lagstab. Calm down Kobe, then again I'd be mad if I was a lakers fan to.
No, as a Laker fan it's been a treat. "NASH TO KOBE" is no longer a videogame's world anymore.
I've watched this at least ten times now.
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i am new to jboss, and i want to enable the hot deploy feature as in tomcat. right now when making any change to the xhtml page, i rebuild the application then redeploy the whole war, which is too much.
but in tomcat the war file was extracted, and then i replace the change xhtml file only and see the change immediately.
i was wondering how to accomplish same behavior for jboss-as-7.1.1.Final, and not in eclipse.
please advise how to do that, thanks.


text: Yes you are seeing correctly this is a tutorial on "how to draw Jason Voorhees easy", step by step. As I mentioned in the Michael Myers lesson, Jason is one of those serial killers that just sends chills up your spin. He is a very cold sinister killer that has been out for revenge for years. Even though he got all those kids the second time at Camp Crystal Lake, he still finds the need to keep seeking revenge with every group of teens that comes to the lake. As you know his signature weapon is a machete so when you combine that factoid to his burliness you have one serious monster on hand. Anyways, have fun drawing Jason Voorhees easy and I will be back soon. Adios people.


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Ignition Basics - Has Your Truck Lost Its SparkWritten by on July 11, 2006 Ignition Basics And How To Improve Them Thanks To Pertronix
One of the furthest things from smart that we could do today is keep a points-type distributor in a classic truck, let alone any vehicle. With all the advances and simplifying that's been done to ignition systems in recent years, it would give us all a leg-up on performance and economy to employ an electronic distributor as the driving force in sparking internal combustion in motion. Prices have come down from what they were in the past, and you don't really need one of those big ignition boxes that look like you should be at the track instead of the 7-Eleven getting a hot dog. As the years go by and parts become more plug-and-play, the desire to adjust, fine-tune, and maintain tricky little things like point gap, dwell, and advance curves has dwindled substantially, not to mention all those who don't even know how or where to start, let alone understanding them.
Pertronix is a household name when it comes to ignitions, and it now offers an all-new polished distributor that's CNC'd from a solid piece of billet 6061 T-6 aluminum, and is part of its famous Flame-Thrower line. The cool things about this surprisingly affordable unit is that it has a roller bearing at the top and an oil-impregnated copper powder bushing at the bottom of the oversize tempered 1/2-inch shaft. With these being CNC'd by Pertronix, you won't find the mass production sloppy tolerances and years of wear that comes with some of the old standby electronic swaps.
Now that we know that its distributors are made better--what makes them work better? One of the biggest advantages to upgrading to the Flame-Thrower electronic ignition is that with a points-type ignition when the rpm climbs, it's harder to control the dwell period. What is dwell? First of all, it is the amount of angle out of 360 degrees that the points are closed in one rotation of the distributor shaft. During that dwell period while the points are closed, the coil is essentially building up voltage--known as coil saturation--to produce the next spark when the points open back up, and is therefore easy to see that as the rpm climbs that the system has to work much harder to achieve a hot enough spark. At high enough rpm, the points could actually be a governor of sorts, as they bounce off each other and cut out any real dwell period. Pertronix developed its Igniter II module to cure this problem, and is basically the electronic iteration of breaker points. This little module provides Pertronix's Adaptive Dwell Control and varies the dwell angle as needed by the engine's rpm, resulting in an average of four times more available energy between 3,000 and 5,000 rpm, as well as twice as much voltage at the spark plug. In short, that is why points are outdated. You'll never have to get near this Pertronix distributor with a piece of sandpaper and feeler gauge. Pertronix hasn't reinvented the wheel; they've just made it roll better.
The recipient of this beautiful setup is a '72 C-10 short-wide that was bought out of the local paper and is on par with what many start out with for a decently priced truck project. It runs and drives, but needs help in every area. Our first goal is to get the Goodwrench 350 running as best we can before we get to any cosmetics. It may seem like we're putting lipstick on a pig, but we want to make sure it'll get around town to pick up parts along the way, and with gas at a premium it's important to get it burning efficiently.
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Here's our prescription from Pertronix to cure our ignition woes: one billet Flame-Thrower distribution, one Flame-Thrower II coil, and one set of Flame-Thrower Custom Fit spark plug wires.Ahh, the small-block Chevy--the icon of reliability. This later Goodwrench 350 crate motor was put into service quite awhile ago by the looks of it. While we haven't a clue as to how many miles are on it, the dyno surprised us by letting us know that it's a little tired. How's 98 hp and 175 lb-ft of torque?To get started, pull the coil wire off of the coil and distributor cap so the motor can be brought to top-dead-center (TDC).Remove the spark plug from the number one cylinder, which if you're standing in front of the truck looking in, it'll be the cylinder closest to you on the right bank of the block (Fig. C).There is a tool that'll whistle when you crank the motor over and it hits TDC, but not having one, we did it the old fashioned way that consists of covering #1's spark plug hole with your finger and......With someone to "bump" the engine over bit by bit at the key, you'll feel the air in the cylinder blow past your finger at TDC and voila!
Removing the cap we find that its position matches the right spot to send its spark down #1's spark plug wire. It's a good idea to mark where #1 is on the cap for reference.Well, the cap looked new from the outside and one might assume that everything it covered was in good shape, but not so. There was lots of corrosion on all the contacts, and the tip of the rotor and the points looked fried to boot.After removing all the old components it was time to drop in the goods. Lube the cam gear with some clean motor oil before installing and make sure the gasket is slid up to the collar on the distributor to keep dirt out of the lifter valley.Luck was on our side because the distributor seated on the first try. When the housing sits flat on the intake surface, you know that the bottom of the shaft mated correctly with the slot in the oil pump shaft. The slots in both will only allow things to sit correctly or 180 degrees out, which would have the rotor pointing toward the firewall. When dropping the distributor in place, turn the rotor counter-clockwise about a 1/4 inch to anticipate the turn when gears mesh.With the cap back on we find #1 in pretty much the same spot as it used to be! You'll want to mark it on the cap.Again, the outward appearance of the stock spark plugs led us to believe that they were probably fairly new and in decent shape; things looked a little different on the other side. Our goal is to have the combustion chambers burning much more efficiently to avoid our new ACDelco R45TS plugs looking as uneven as the old plugs. The gap was set at 0.045 inch before installing them.Pertronix's Flame-Thrower Custom Fit wires come in whatever lengths suit your application and are superior in many ways including having a low 500-ohm-per-foot resistance so you still get a strong spark to each cylinder.You'll want to separate the new spark plug wires by length and obviously use the longest ones for the cylinders farthest away from the distributor. Cylinders 1-4 needed the longest wires, so starting at #1 attach the new wire to the cap and route it to the spark plug at the cylinder and then followed through the 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 firing order (see Fig. C) to connect the rest.Not all coils are created the same. With the high demands from these evolved ignition systems, things need to be a bit more precise than they used to. Pertronix says that many coils will work, but that their ohm readings can vary widely. That's why Pertronix made the Flame-thrower II coil. The Flame-thrower II coils all have a 0.6-ohm rating and carry a 45,000-volt capacity to ensure a strong spark.
Aside from routing the spark plug wires, the only wiring that needs to be done is to hook up the power and ground wires that come out the bottom of the distributor and to reattach the power from the key switch, three wires. Simple.The red power wire from the distributor connects to the positive (+) terminal on the coil along with the power coming from the ignition switch. The black negative wire also from the distributor just connects to the negative (-) side of the coil after trimming the wires to the length you need.


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In terms of moving the object, you should be fine as it is 'kilachar yad' (moving in a abnormal way).
In terms of the drawer, if the muktza thing was the only or most important thing in the drawer it becomes a basis for the muktza item and is muktza as well. If there were other things in the drawer of higher importance than the muktza does not dominate and the drawer remains muttar to move. (Note that in determining the status of basis it matters what objects were in the drawer at the onset of Shabbat independent of what is there now.)


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What can be done to soften the direct light from an onboard flash? I know there are diffusers available for external flash units, but I'm not aware of such a solution for an onboard flash, such as on a Nikon D50.
Both Gary Fong and Lumiquest make diffusers for pop-up flashes (and there are probably others as well that I don't know by brand). The Gary Fong version is called the Puffer; Lumiquest's is called Soft Screen. The Luniquest Soft Screen is much larger than the Puffer, but not a lot of the diffuser screen is going to be hit by the flash at its mounting distance.
Honestly, though, the best you can say about them is that they're better than nothing. You really can't get much softness from such a small flash so close to the lens without a system of mirrors to allow room for a large enough light source, and the loss of power would probably be unacceptable if you did manage to get a really soft source. (The D50 is not exactly a low-light, high-ISO champion.) Better than nothing is better than nothing, though, so as long as your expectations aren't too high and you use the flash where spillage from the diffuser will bounce for a bit of fill, you'll get better than the pop-up alone will give you.
Take a business card with white background and position it at 45 degrees in front of the popup flash. That will redirect it to the ceiling. For most flashes you can make two small cuts on the card to slide it into position and keep it supported by the flash itself.
Here is how it looks on my Canon DSLR:
Commericially, there's the Gary Fong pop-up flash diffuser that works okay. You can also do a little bit of DIY when needed and use white paper in front of the flash. You can use that to diffuse or bounce, depending on the paper and its thickness. The Digital Photography School has an article that has some examples of the DIY options.
If I find myself in this situation, I use a Kleenex in a pinch. Just fold it over itself once, and lay it on top of the flash.
I just throw in a piece of cloth/paper on it. Handkerchief, small envelope, wax paper all work fine. Just remember to set the flash exposure compensation to properly expose the image.
I'll give you the same advice I've got when I asked about the pop up flash - don't spend any money on a popup flash diffuser, they are not very good and when you can get a new manual flash for $40 they are not worth the money (search for YN460 on eBay, there's also a TTL flash from the same company for under $70, I don't remember the model number).
Bounce it off the ceiling. Hope you have a ceiling... I've used wax paper also, you don't loose too much light that way.
The Nikon D50 has a hotshoe, get an external flash that lets you bounce.
You can read about bounce flash here.
And cool, you can use mirrors!
Don't forget flash exposure compensation. If you dial down the flash a bit and there is a bit of ambient light, you'll get less harsh direct light from the flash.