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R.I.P. Pete Seeger
American folk music icon Pete Seeger passed away at 94, reports the New York Times. Money quote:
"My job," he said in 2009, "is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet."
Pete was an activist-singer, standing up for common folk and on the side of the underdog his whole life. I saw Pete in concert many times, always captured by his infectious joy and the power of the music he shared. Pete sang hope. Pete sang justice. Pete sang love. And Pete always made sure everybody sang along.
Here's what Arlo Guthrie said on his Facebook status:
I usually do a little meditation and prayer every night before I go to sleep - Just part of the routine. Last night, I decided to go visit Pete Seeger for a while, just to spend a little time together, it was around 9 PM. So I was sitting in my home in Florida, having a lovely chat with Pete, who was in a hospital in New York City. That's the great thing about thoughts and prayers- You can go or be anywhere.
I simply wanted him to know that I loved him dearly, like a father in some ways, a mentor in others and just as a dear friend a lot of the time. I'd grown up that way - loving the Seegers - Pete & Toshi and all their family.
I let him know I was having trouble writing his obituary (as I'd been asked) but it seemed just so silly and I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trite or plain stupid. "They'll say something appropriate in the news," we agreed. We laughed, we talked, and I took my leave about 9:30 last night.
"Arlo" he said, sounding just like the man I've known all of my life, "I guess I'll see ya later." I've always loved the rising and falling inflections in his voice. "Pete," I said. "I guess we will."
I turned off the light and closed my eyes and fell asleep until very early this morning, about 3 AM when the texts and phone calls started coming in from friends telling me Pete had passed away.
"Well, of course he passed away!" I'm telling everyone this morning. "But that doesn't mean he's gone."
About the Author
Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).
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Thanks, Lisa. Pete Seeger was an American bodhisattva.
He also said, "Every baby should be born with a banjo." He was right about that, too.
Seeger sang the right songs at the right time (at any rate, if you were labor liberals like the people in my neighborhood, and most of our parents had his records). But he wasn't born into that life (his father was an academic).
I'm also leery of sloganeering, and a lot of the "punchlines" in some of his songs struck me that way. But a lot of those "protest songs" are like that.
On the other hand, Seeger was a happy and inclusive communist (before he renounced communism), and a happy commie was kind of a novelty; most are argumentative and never met a political question they couldn't subdivide into into a schism. When criticized later in life for his support of Stalin, he readily agreed he was wrong.
He wrote a few good songs. He lived simply. He was proud of his little book about how to play the banjo. He was a good Unitarian-Universalist who believed God transcends denominations and creeds and is manifest wherever there is love, kindness, and peace.
And there are worse things that you can do with your life than spend it having a real good time singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4H0k8TDgw
First Things has re-printed a 2010 article about Seeger and the folk music movement. What amazes me is that First Things doesn't fault Seeger for being a (naive) Stalinist. Times have indeed changed. May he rest in peace.
The Midnight Special, a folk-and-other-stuff radio program that has broadcast from Chicago since the 1950s, is running a two hour Pete Seeger tribute special this Saturday from 4-6 pm Central Time. More info, including web broadcast links, here.
I love the notion of the prayer-communication Arlo Guthrie presents...I, too, snag ina large concert with Pete Seeger and our Community Choir and have a picture of the two of us (I wasa nobody who shouldn't even have been permitted to sing!) on our refrigerator... one of my personal wonderful moments...Thanks for sharing Arlo's very personal sense.
If you've ever read Pete's testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, it was a thing of great power, delivered in his usual simple style. He didn't take the 5th Amendment as many did. Nor did he "name names," as others did. He told the Committee members that they should be ashamed of themselves for asking an American citizen what he believed, who he knew and what he thought. Or as Pete put it:
"I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. I will tell you about my songs, but I am not interested in telling you who wrote them, and I will tell you about my songs, and I am not interested in who listened to them."
You have to love the line about "I might be a vegetarian" Pure Pete Seeger.
Although The Star Spangled Banner may be our national anthem, thanks to Pete Seeger's life Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land is our national song.
It's good to remember that Woody Guthrie wrote this song in critical response to Irving Berlin's God Bless America - Woody was tired of hearing Kate Smith belting it out on the radio.
This Land is Your Land sings of a decidedly different vision of America, and a decidedly different political ethic for America:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
This is the song that we Americans should be singing instead of the SSB.
As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing,"
But on the back side, it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
See also "Commentary" article by Jonathan S. Tobin,
"It should be understood that his youthful infatuation with Stalinism was neither superficial nor a passing fancy. To his shame, he toured the country singing protest songs from 1939 to 1941. But he was not protesting the Nazis nor did he support those fighting them. Rather, he was part of the CP campaign conducted at Moscow's behest that sought to combat any effort to involve the United States in World War Two. The Hitler-Stalin Pact had made the Soviets Germany's ally until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union brought them into the war. Seeger remained a party member until the 1950s and even long after he abandoned it, he continued to refer to himself as a communist with a small "c" rather than an upper-case one.
"To many liberals as well as the stalwarts of the old left, this is nothing for which he should apologize. Liberal revisionism has transformed the vicious Communism of this era from an anti-American and anti-democratic conspiracy into a romantic expression of support for human rights. As such, Seeger and many of his comrades were able to bask in the applause of subsequent generations rather than having to atone for having been a proud apologist for one of the worst criminals in history as well as for the mass murder and anti-Semitism that was integral to Soviet communism. While isolationists like Charles Lindberg and other apologists for Hitler never lived down that association, Stalinists like Seeger had a rough time in the 1950s but were ultimately honored for their disgraceful behavior.
"That is infuriating, and for many conservatives like Pajama Media's Ed Driscoll, unforgivable. The honors showered on the elderly Seeger serve only to deepen the bitterness of those who not unreasonably believe the adamant refusal to tell the truth about this chapter of Seeger's life—both in the news media and in documentary films about him—undermines our ability to take a full measure of the man, and is an insult to all those who take seriously the eternal struggle against the enemies of freedom.
"And yet there is more to Seeger than these two inconsistent narratives. As historian Ron Radosh, a former banjo student of the singer as well as an indispensable chronicler of Communism, movingly wrote in 2007 in the New York Sun, Seeger had, by the end of his life, finally understood the magnitude of some of his earlier errors. As Radosh wrote, Seeger admitted that he was wrong never to have protested Stalin's tyranny and atoned in part by belatedly writing a song denouncing the gulag.
"Ultimately, as with all artists of every stripe, history will judge Seeger more for the quality of his music than his politics. As Paul Berman wrote today in the New Republic, songs like If I Had a Hammer or Where Have All the Flowers Gone, not to mention We Shall Overcome, will deserve to be sung a hundred years from now no matter what Seeger believed about communism. His legacy is far messier than most of the tributes will admit. But to listen to his vintage recordings or those of the groundbreaking folk group "The Weavers" to which he lent his tenor voice and banjo is to hear a great artist and a genuine voice of American culture. It is that Pete Seeger, and the not the sanitized liberal icon or the Stalinist front man, who will be remembered."
I liked that he was always playing benefits concerts until he wasreally, really old. And they weren't benefits for the hotshot, big ticket causes, but fundraisersfor the the little guys.
It is hard to pick a favorite of his songs, but "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" will always be my choice.
The repeating refrain: "When will they ever learn" is prophetic.
"We Shall Not Be Moved" . It was a staple at the various housing marches/rallies, when I was young.
In my youth my Catholic Elementary school offered guitar lessons for which I enrolled. One of the songs we learned was "This Land Is Your Land" The mimeographed version we received for practice (and the very fact that it was mimeoed gives an idea of how long ago this was) contained that verse. It generated several protests to our Pastor who stepped in and banned the playing and singing of not only the verse in question but the song. We were told that it didn't show the proper respect for private property! I always offer a brief prayer for the good Sister who taught us to play when I hear "ThisLand is Your Land" I'm sure her life wasn't too easy when those calls began coming into the rectory. For what its worth, she was transferred at the end of the school year and guitar lessons were dropped as an option the following September.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.
These verses, and the one Tom Blackburn sent in, were sung when Seeger and Bruce Springsteen performed the song at the Lincoln Memorial during Obama's 2009 inauguration.
In reading over the article about him in the NY Times, I was surprised at how many of the songs which became iconic in the '60s were written by him, and at the same time how much his own career was formed long before the '60s. If I Had a Hammer, Turn Turn Turn, We Shall Overcome, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, and more, were all his songs, with inspirations culled from folk traditional sources.
The folk revival did indeed have some radical roots, but to confuse what is essentially American populist progressivism with Stalinism is to elevate mistaken political pieties of a particular era (which passed) into THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN which can never pass away. The sin against capitalism, which is the sacred dogma of some people.
If you look at Pete Seeger's lyrics, what they appeal to is American traditional pieties that were not completely extinguished by consumerism and cynicism. The reason they proved stirring is that there is a message within them that touches a chord of truth that transcends the Soviet system, which laid claim to a certain idealism and cruelly betrayed it. The hopes remain human, though, and these are what the music conveys. This is palpably the reason why people could go on singing them for causes such as civil rights, and the movement against the Vietnam war, and more, without ever being enamored of communist ideology. Justice, freedom, and love are core American values. War is a terrible, recurring tragedy. Hope that endurance and solidarity will ultimately win the day for the oppressed is something that people want to believe in, and his music gave that hope a voice.
Gabe Huck once wrote (I am told) that we are a people awash in music, but deprived of song. With the demise of the folk revival, what sort of song do we have in America? Music is a product we buy and consume. The cult of performers has replaced the "movement song." How economically profitable. How socially impoverishing. But that's another discussion.
Rest in peace, Pete Seeger. You did what you could.
Thanks very much for that, Rita.
Here's another nice piece about Seeger:
I think you nailed it!
I went to university in the Land of The John Birch Society and that influence tended to permeate a lot of the student thinking in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
To discover Peter Seeger, his songs, his social outlook and to see the influence that he had on subsequent iterations of folk singing in the 1960s was a true breath of fresh air.
His music gave another level of critical thinking to my slighlty impoverished repretoire of the time. But, as he sang: The Times They Are (Were) A' Changing."
Eternal rest, grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace. Amen.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful (and not so faithful) departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Jim McCrea, you do know that "Times They Are A Changin'" was written by Bob Dylan, not Pete Seeger, right? In 1963.
Yes, Rita, I did, but the song was appropriate to what was happening then and to me. I remember Pete singing it and only incidently Dylan doing so.
Got it.
Gabe Huck once wrote (I am told) that we are a people awash in music, but deprived of song. With the demise of the folk revival, what sort of song do we have in America? Music is a product we buy and consume. The cult of performers has replaced the "movement song." How economically profitable. How socially impoverishing. But that's another discussion.
What a great observation! Perhaps that's one reason why people tend to hold on to their traditional hymns? Church is one place you're encouraged to hear music and sing along without anyone hitting you up for money (um, well, mostly).
Jean, yes! Traditional hymns are the one holdout against this shift. Church is one of the ONLY places where song still has this role that it has enjoyed in traditional societies and in movements: For free, for everybody, and giving voice to deeply-held common values and beliefs.
Pete Seeger was always ready to come out for causes he believed in. I remember a concert/rally at Mercy College during the Vietnam War when he brought the house down with an impassioned " Bring Them Home!" He had a way of giving his audiences the words for what they were feeling, and he knew how to bring them to their feet. One of his legacies here in the Hudson valley is certainly his signature campaign to clean up our beautiful but polluted river. He did his best for years to persuade communities along the river to take more responsibility for it, and gradually the message has gotten across. He is irreplaceable ,and will be greatly missed.
"One of his legacies here in the Hudson valley is certainly his signature campaign to clean up our beautiful but polluted river.'
I remember his Clearwater sloop stopping at the river towns along the Hudson in the fall selling pumpkins to fund the clean-up of the river.
Rita and Jean: the only other occasions I can think of in which people sing instead of consume music are the national anthem at sporting events, and Christmas caroling (which probably isn't all that common, but we used to do it in our more frivolous days). I went to summer camp a couple of summers as a kid but I don't think we even sang campfire songs.
Peter Seeger and Irving Berlin both had a commercial side, of course; and there is nothing wrong with that, as artists should make a living wage, too. But they both, in their own ways, earned their money in a way that enabled communal mediation: Berlin by publishing his compositions as sheet music, so the family or club pianist could sit down and plunk through "God Bless America" or "There's No Business LIke Show Business" and get people to gather around and sing along; Seeger by adapting roots music that itself was written for communal singing and wasn't difficult to play. Seeger's stuff was unslick, while Berlin's was the epitome of slick, yet they both lended themselves to communal mediation.
I watched some of the Grammys on Sunday night, and I am not sure that I heard much that would lend itself to communal singing. Today's musical artists do put out the occasional anthem that makes people want to sing along - Katy Perry's "Roar" and Lorde's "Royals" are a couple that come to mind. But what people are singing along to is the commercial recording as a sort of soundtrack. It's a different dynamic.
Jim P,
Even at ball games, the National Anthem is sung by a soloist nowadays. Although I suppose one could sing along, how many do? Of course the National Anthem is a tough tune, with a wide range.
On the other hand... Here's another example. Happy birthday is not a tough tune. Yet in many restaurant chains today, the waitstaff comes out to "sing" (or shout out) a birthday ditty (which the patrons don't know). OK, I know it is because of copyright, but there goes another song that everybody used to sing, replaced by something else done by a select few, who are employed by the establishment to do it.
It always pleases me to hear Happy Birthday sung spontaneously in restaurants. People who don't even know the birthday person will join in. It's the last song everybody knows and feels it's their role to sing. But it shouldn't be the only song we feel that way about.
"O Canada" has easy-to-remember lyrics and a singable melody. Why do our northern neighbors understand the fine art of composing a national anthem and we don't?
Folk music :) I especially liked his songs The Bells of Rhymney and Turn Turn Turn as sung by the Byrds.
Though "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore" is pretty awful.
We had a CD mix for the car- "Jukebox From Hell" It had that song, long with classics like "Who Let the Dogs Out". Bad songs that get in your head and just won't get out.
Angela, the last "O Canada" in the Canadian national anthem is almost as hard to get as "the rockets' glare." For me, anyway. But no one ever said I can sing.
Rita, I've noticed transplanrted New Yorkers at spring training baseball games like to sing the National Anthem one line ahead of the rest of the crowd.They are, for example, at the dawn's early light while everyone else is stall oh saying can you see.
And Jim P, Irving Berlin is hardly the epitome of slick. You are thinking of Jerome Kern. Berlin's most memorable stuff can be played confidently by beginning ukulele players,
He died the very day I was utilizing some gospel songs and spirituals in class (e.g., We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Mary Don't You Weep), and so I played his renditions as well. (Which wasn't exactly fair to him, since his versions pale in comparison with, say, the Ward Singers). My little one sings a lot of the same songs he sang, so this stuff does live on.
(BTW, if O Canada has a singable melody, it's because it's a Mozart rip-off. Also, the lyrics are complicated as all hell).
The only time I saw Pete live was a cold snowy night in CT where he was doing a benefit for a local church. He was maybe 75 at the time, there were maybe 200 people in the church hall, but by the end he had us all up and singing like there were 2000. Just Pete, his banjo and his guitar. And he made it fun. Joked with those who weren't joining in. Encouraged everyone. It was a wonderful evening of song, stories and fellowship in the broadest meaning of the term. One thing I remember was there was no big introduction. He more or less just walked to the front of the hall and started singing.
Rita - great point about Happy Birthday. Regarding copyrights: I refuse to believe it's not in the public domain. Unless the restaurant is utilizing it for commercial purposes or printing the music and lyrics, I wouldn't worry about it. Here is the eminent legal authority Wikipedia on this issue:
The combination of melody and lyrics in "Happy Birthday to You" first appeared in print in 1912, and probably existed even earlier.[1], pp. 31–32None of these early appearances included credits or copyright notices. The Summy Company registered for copyright in 1935, crediting authorsPreston Ware Orem and Mrs. R.R. Forman. In 1988, Warner/Chappell Music purchased the company owning the copyright for $25 million, with the value of "Happy Birthday" estimated at $5 million.[6][7] Based on the 1935 copyright registration, Warner claims that the United States copyright will not expire until 2030, and that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to Warner. In one specific instance in February 2010, these royalties were said to amount to $700.[8] In the European Union, the copyright of the song will expire no later than December 31, 2016.[9]
The American copyright status of "Happy Birthday to You" began to draw more attention with the passage of the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Act in Eldred v. Ashcroft in 2003, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer specifically mentioned "Happy Birthday to You" in his dissenting opinion.[10] American law professor Robert Brauneis, who extensively researched the song, has concluded that "It is almost certainly no longer under copyright." [1] In 2013, based in large part on Brauneis's research, Good Morning to You Productions, a documentary film company, sued Warner/Chappell for falsely claiming copyright to the song.[4][6]
Jim, I knew about that lawsuit in 2013, and I don't believe it is decided yet. You are morally right, but the legal position is not so clear. Warner certainly believes it's under copyright, and I understood that this is precisely why the restaurant chains do not allow their employees to sing the song as their agents -- because they would be legally liable for copyright violation.
I just thumbed through my OLD collection of dusty LPs and there are four (4, mind you!) of the Weavers with PS in tow.
But now that I am a devotee of Hip Hop and Rap ........
When people stop singing together the community is in trouble.
Song kept Wales together and the language alive, in large part due to its choirs. Here's a whole stadium of 'em singing. In Welsh. Even the jocks. Some in harmony:
Before racing to canonize Mr.Seeger, the dyed-in the-wool, unrepentent communist, one should peruse the following followed by a little humor.
Pete Seeger remembered:
Tom Lehrer's take down of folk music
To the extent that Pete Seeger sought to advance Soviet policy in order to undermine the United States, that's deplorable and worth noting, even in the wake of his death.
At the same time, perhaps it could be noted that American culture proved stronger and better than Communism. If Pete Seeger propandized communism, he also, in a sense, helped preside over the failure of communism in the US. In the labor movement, universities, coffee houses, Communism ultimately was not able to put down lasting roots, and liberal politics went off in more quintessentially American directions. I'm sure this gave him food for thought in the last decades of his life.
Jim P. ==
While it's true that in the universities Communism never did take hold, the old political accusations of the far right against academe have had lasting effect. The loyalty of college professors to American ideals is still suspect in many quarters, and the far right still seems to assume that most college profs are at least socialists. However, somehow or another the right also has succeeded in painting the professors not as socialist egalitarians, but, most ironically, they paint the professors as elitists. Go figure.
"American culture proved stronger and better than Communism."
You might reconsider if you check out the CV, associations and background of NY City's new mayor Bill de Blasio and his band of supporters
They are now called Progressive
Discussion is getting close to just providing links to the Washington Times or the Drudge Report...
As Pete sang in his Letter to Eve (about needing a new Garden):
Oh oh, pacem in terris mir shanti salaam heiwah.
I know this post has rolled off the first page and am not sure if anyone is checking back anymore.
At Deacon's Bench blog, Greg Kandra provides a link to an interview that Pete Seeger did in the early 1970s. Good stuff.


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Why does there have to be a singularity in a black hole, and not just a very dense lump of matter of finite size? If there's any such thing as granularity of space, couldn't the "singularity" be just the smallest possible size?
It's important to understand the context in which statements like "there must be a singularity in a black hole" are made. This context is provided by the model used to derive the results. In this case, it was classical (meaning "non quantum") general relativity theory that was used to predict the existence of singularities in spacetime. Hawking and Penrose proved that, under certain reasonable assumptions, there would be curves in spacetime that represented the paths of bodies freely falling under gravity that just "came to an end". For these curves, spacetime behaved like it had a boundary or an "edge". This was the singularity the theory predicted. The results were proved rigorously mathematically, using certain properties of differential equations and topology.
Now in this framework, spacetime is assumed to be smooth - it's a manifold - it doesn't have any granularity or minimum length. As soon as you start to include the possibilities of granular spacetime, you've moved outside the framework for which the original Hawking Penrose theorems apply, and you have to come up with new proofs for or against the existence of singularities.
Actually there are no singularities inside the black hole. It is just a mathematical special point on the coordinate system, which does not correspond to any real-world singularities.
The event horizon of a black hole is just an impenetrable barrier on which the time is frosen so nothing can pass it. In another model the black hole as a whole behaves as a viscous liquid with quite limited density (the density decreases as the BH's mass rises).
See Carter 1968 for why rotating black holes that have incoming disturbances may not have a singularity at all.
A stationary non - rotating hole will have a singularity. But no one thinks that these exist in nature. But with rotation that singularity 'shrinks' to a ring. The set of paths that hit the singularity is shrunk to a mathematical 2D plane from 'all directions' with the Swarzschild Soln. Then with incoming 'noise' it may be that there are no paths - geodesics - that lead to a singularity.
All exact solutions of General Relativity are done with asymptotically flat space, which does not exist in the real world. So while the theory of GR admits singularities, in a real classical GR world they likely don't exist.
Carter actually always talks about a singularity, but one with no paths to it. No ouchy at the end of a path. With no paths to a singularity - is it really there? I would think not, and as Carter points out, others do too. (Lifshitz and Khalatnikov).
For any experiments a spherical Black Hole behaves the same way as if its mass was uniformly distributed over its surface or uniformly distributed over its volume or concentrated in its center. These variants are indistinguishable.
It is impossible to find exact distribution of mass inside a black hole because it has no internal structure, due to holographic principle (if it had, it would be possible to transfer information out of black hole via gravitation waves).
Because otherwise general relativity would contradict itself. The event horizon of a black hole is where not even light can escape. Below the horizon all photons must fall. In relativity theory all observers measure the speed of light the same, c; that's a postulate of the theory. Then all physical things (including observers) at and below the horizon must fall and keep falling, lest they measure the speed of light emitted upward to be something other than c. If you could stand on a very dense lump of matter of finite size at the center of a black hole, and pointed a flashlight upward, the photons would somehow have to fall to the ground (without moving upward at all) and you wouldn't measure the speed of light to be c in the upward direction. The theory would be broken. The singularity is the "can't fall further" point and the theory becomes inapplicable there.

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tanker27 wrote:So I know there some kind of formula to the Steam sale madness on when you should pull the trigger to buy, I just dont know what it is.
I was once a "release day" gamer, but you are literally punished for being one these days, given that the "GOTY" or "Ultimate" editions that come 3-6 months later offer all DLC's, all extras, less bugs. The exception of course are MP titles...but ugh, MP titles are the worst offenders for "consolization".
paulWTAMU wrote:I gotta say though, I really dislike the "Big Picture" mode on Steam, at least as far as browsing goes.
lilbuddhaman wrote:Why get dishonored now at $45 when you could get all the other titles you missed at $5-10 and then get dishonored in Feb for $5-10 ?
RealWolf wrote:The rule is to only buy daily deals & flash sales until the last day. Newer games have less chance of getting the bigger discounts, but you know Dishonored is going to be 25% off through January 5th, so you might as well wait and see if it goes any cheaper between now and then.
superjawes wrote:In the light of THQ's bankruptcy, I do recommend picking up Saints Row: The Third. It is a whole lot of fun.
That's surprising to me. Mission design was unique, the voice acting was better than most and the game was constantly reminding me how to have fun. And who doesn't love playing a Japanese game show with automatic weapons?tanker27 wrote:superjawes wrote:In the light of THQ's bankruptcy, I do recommend picking up Saints Row: The Third. It is a whole lot of fun.
Got it in the Humble Bundle. I was bored after a few hours. :/
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Hard to pass up!
True, but those who do pass it up will probably pay $10 during the July game and play the exact same game.
I'm sure you noticed already but Dishonored is currently $29.99 (50% off).tanker27 wrote:For instance I want to buy Dishonored, right now its -25% at 44.99. Is that the best its going to get? How long should I wait to purchase it?
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After watching in 2012, Hawks' Vaccarelli ready to answer call
Woodland High sophomore Coby Vaccarelli is accustomed to taking advantage of opportunities.
So when sophomore tailback Sean McAllen went down with an injury Tuesday night, Vaccarelli was summoned to the offensive role in the second half.
Vaccarelli responded with three rushing touchdowns, two in the third quarter, to help the Hawks to a 47-21 victory over Morgan in the Class S state football quarterfinals. Woodland will play in Saturday's semifinals at 2 p.m. against Bloomfield at Wolcott High.
"Coby got a little taste by scoring a touchdown against Seymour (last week), and he was ready to go in that situation," said Woodland coach Tim Shea. "He did his job and that was what was expected out of him."
McAllen left the game Tuesday with what were thought to be concussion-like symptons. Shea said Wednesday that McAllen had not been fully evaluated yet, and his status for Saturday's game was not yet known.
In 2012, Vaccarelli earned a starting role as a freshman at cornerback and also saw considerable time as a role receiver to complement Hawks standouts Anthony Scirpo and Rahmi Rountree.
Through the first five games last season, Vaccarelli was the third-leading tackler on the team and also among the team leaders in receptions.
It's been quite a year for Vaccarelli, who watched idly by from the sidelines during last season's CIAC postseason, unable to play due to a midseason serious right knee injury.
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Now that is all behind him.
"Coby is really excited to be in the playoffs this season and doesn't mind making up for what he missed out on last year," said Shea. "We had to hold him back and tell him to be patient. But once the season started, he was ready to go. You would never know that he had an injury by the way he plays."
Just like when Vaccarelli was an incoming freshman.
"When we were in our first few series at the UNH camp (in the summer of 2012), I looked at Chris Moffo (Woodland's defensive coach) and said, 'That's our corner,'" recalled Shea.
Mr. Automatic: Over the past two seasons, Southington senior place-kicker Kyle Smick has converted 106 of 108 PAT kicks.
A converted soccer player, Smick made 58 of 59 PATs this season, including all seven attempted in the Blue Knights' 52-14 win over Norwich Free Academy in the Class LL state quarterfinals Tuesday.
Smick also booted his seventh field goal of the season, a 30-yarder on the Blue Knights' opening drive against the Wildcats off a hold from Tyler Hyde and a long snap from Joe Daigle.
Southington meets Ridgefield in the Class LL semifinals Saturday at 2 p.m. at West Haven High.
A common opponent for both teams this season was Cheshire. Ridgefield edged the Rams, 17-14, in the season opener. Southington topped Cheshire on Thanksgiving, 38-6.
Correction: Senior captain Tyler Hyde scored four rushing TDs in the game on runs of 6, 11, 39 and 39 yards for Southington. Hyde's first name was incorrectly reported as Thomas in Wednesday's Republican-American.
Closing in on the streak: Ansonia (13-0) has won 41 consecutive games, dating back to the 2010 Class M state final, a 49-28 loss to St. Joseph of Trumbull at Rentschler Field.
The Chargers are now just eight wins shy of the state's all-time longest streak of 49, set by Cheshire from 1992-96.
Fairfield Prep snapped Cheshire's mark in October 1996 with a 13-6 decision in a Southern Connecticut Conference regular-season game in Fairfield.
Ansonia can make it 42 in a row Saturday when it plays Rocky Hill in the Class S semifinals at Sheehan of Wallingford.
A win for the Chargers will give coach Tom Brockett's the 99th victory of his career. Brockett is 98-7 in his eight-year tenure since succeeding Jack Hunt in 2006.
Other coaching notes: Darien coach Rob Trifone's team is playing Middletown on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Pomperaug High in Southbury in the Class L semifinals. Trifone's brother, Steve, is the athletic director at Cheshire.
In Class LL, West Haven coach Ed McCarthy, the state's winningest coach with 326, leads the Westies against Fairfield Prep on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Trumbull High. McCarthy is 326-113-9 during his tenure with St. Joseph and West Haven.
In Class L, New Canaan coach Lou Marinelli has 276 career wins in 33 seasons in Connecticut (276-90-6). His overall record from his previous stint in New York is 295-97-7. New Canaan (12-1) plays North Haven (10-2) on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Jonathan Law in Milford.
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Throughout five decades of fronting the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger has been seen as the ultimate arrogant superstar, whose sexual appetite rivals Casanova's and whose supposed reckless drug use touched off the most famous scandal in rock history.
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Janice Pullen, 54, moved back to Louisville in 2007 to be closer to her family.
But not this close.
"I live with my sister. The expectation wasn't that I was going to be here as long as I have. I'm treading," said Pullen, 54, who has been out of work for nearly five years. "Having your own space is necessary for grown people. I feel like I'm moving backwards instead of forward."
Widespread unemployment and the ego blow its dealt millions of Americans has been reality for so long that we've just grown to accept it as the new normal. As of December 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9 percent of Louisville's workforce in unemployed; that's more than 33,000 folks.
It's likely you see the faces of unemployment every day without even noticing. They don't have a typical profile or can't-miss identifying characteristic.
They're from every strata of society, age and profession. Some are just a few years out of college, others are mid-career, and still others would be approaching retirement under different circumstances.
Pullen is a 23-year Air Force veteran whose last full time job was as a clerk in Virginia. A Louisville native with family still in the River City, Pullen wanted to move nearer to her relatives. In 2007, she quit her clerk job to take a position in Louisville's healthcare industry.
The job did not work out, and Pullen soon made her way to Louisville's Office of Employment and Training. The sole paid work Pullen has held since 2007 was a six-week stint at Zappos warehouse.
In her spare time, Pullen tries to keep her spirits up by journaling, reading, crocheting and volunteering. Pullen hit a wall during the depressing job-hunting process and felt there was no point in looking anymore.
"I was disenchanted, disenfranchised and I had to stop," she said. "I just can't stay in this mode. I need to go forward."
Steve Squall, 28, was in the process of launching his personal and professional life when his graphic designer position at Café Press was eliminated last July.
"I thought I was starting a career and then I end up right back at square one," said Squall, who lives in the University of Louisville area with his fiancée. "I had just proposed to my girlfriend the previous year, then I'm sitting there going (yikes), we've got a wedding to pay for and I have no future security."
After a couple months of fruitless job searching, he changed his strategy.
With a well-employed fiancée, unemployment insurance, and some savings of his own, he wasn't facing imminent destitution.
"In a way, I've sort of been given an opportunity, so I thought, why don't I just take this time that I have and see if I can make a dream come true?" Squall said.
He's been focusing on fashion photography, and has even won an LGDA 100 Award from the Louisville Graphic Design Association for a surreal series of images depicting a high fashion wood nymph.
Squall is also using his talents for freelance product photography, and promoting "Tribe," an up and coming local T-shirt company.
"Any day I get to shoot I'm like 'man, this is great,'" Squall said. "There are times when I have five or six shoots in a week."
Still, it's a labor of love, and Squall has his moments of doubt.
"I feel like I've made some good strides toward building a career, but I haven't had that much success making money off of it," he said. "You have those days, where you're like, I'm not sure if this is going anywhere."
In Kentucky, people who qualify can collect up to $415 a week in unemployment insurance, depending on how much they made at their previous job.
If someone receiving benefits does any work for which they are compensated, 80 percent of the profit is excised from their weekly amount. For instance, if one does an odd job or contract work and gets $100, they end up with $20 on top of their weekly benefits.
But a large portion of the unemployed masses, including career contract worker Tara Bassett, don't even qualify for unemployment insurance.
The seasoned local TV personality, whose last paying job as co-host of WBKI's "Louisville Live" ended last August, used to work up to five freelance TV jobs simultaneously.
"It's definitely become more of a challenge, " she said "…so I've had to become innovative."
Bassett owns her own home in Crescent Hill, and said she lives a very low-maintenance lifestyle that has allowed her to accumulate some savings. So she had some wiggle room after losing her WBKI gig.
"I determined I was going to make the most of not working for the first time in my life," said Bassett. In the months following, she was able to dedicate her energy to caring for her dog, who was hit by a car shortly after Bassett lost her job.
She's also keeping her face out there on MetroTV, where she's been keeping close tabs on the progress of Metro Animal Services.
"It's free work," she said. "I feel very positive about it."
Not everyone adjusts to the unemployed life as smoothly.
Navy veteran Casey Turner, 55, has an extensive and varied career history. He's managed distilleries and buildings, bartended and much more. But for the past seven years, he's been chronically un- or underemployed.
"It's been absolute desperation," said Turner, a Navy veteran. "I ended up losing a relationship, losing a home and I started drinking a lot."
In the thick of a long losing streak, he became so ravaged by alcohol and depression that he collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. Months of rigorous rehabilitation followed, and he broke out of his nihilistic funk.
"I had no choice," he said. "I would have been a dead man."
Since then, Turner has picked up seasonal work as a cameraman for Churchill Downs, and as a groundskeeper for Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, which has helped enhance his self esteem.
"I found that very honorable," he said. "People who came to pay homage to their relatives come up to us and tell us how great the place looks."
He's also pursuing a business degree, teaching a class of recovering addicts. Turner has also found healing in spoken word and performance art, and is helping to organize a May show at the Alley Theatre where people who have dealt with addiction can express themselves in any way they choose, from hula hooping to stand-up comedy.
No matter what their particular predicament, those who have found themselves struggling to support themselves need to power on and remember their true worth.
Kyle Shepherd, 38, former Media Liaison for Actors Theatre of Louisville, was unemployed for a year and a half before landing a dream job as Media Relations Manager for The Louisville Zoo.
"Unemployment messes with your head a bit. It makes you question your abilities and, to some extent, your purpose," Shepherd said. "Society defines us by what we spend our days doing and can make you feel less or more about yourself based on what you do for a living. In reality we are more defined by how we treat one another. That was my biggest lesson."


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Why was the Ether Theory refused by Modern Physics? If you please explain me, I just wanted to understand it more.
It's because the luminiferous aether was, by definition, composed out of some particles or elementary building blocks with a well-defined location in space. Consequently, it picks a privileged reference frame, the rest frame of the aether. In this rest frame, the speed of light – vibrations of the aether – could be constant, $c$.
However, things moving relatively to this aether by the speed $v$ should detect a different speed of the light relatively to them – the speed would go from $c-v$ to $c+v$, depending on the direction. However, this modification of the light speed, the so-called aether wind, was shown to be non-existent by the Morley-Michelson experiment which measured the speed to be $c$ regardless of the source and the observer. This falsifies the existence of the aether.
The equivalent but even more robust refutation of the aether came from the theory. A physicist named Albert Einstein built a whole new theory of spacetime, the so-called special theory of relativity (a picture of this physicist is often being shown by the ordinary people as well), that also assumes/guarantees that the speed of light is always constant and there can't be any privileged reference frame. Relativity has been backed by the Morley-Michelson experiment as well as hundreds of much more specific experiments.
One of the things it guarantees is that light (electromagnetic radiation) has to be made out of disturbances of the empty space, the vacuum itself, and not a localized material carrier.
It's not entirely true that ether theory was refused by modern physics, but seen as superfluous and over-complicated compared to special relativity's notion of time and space. There's a version called Lorentz ether theory which postulates that it's not possible to detect the absolute ether, and gives the same results as predicted by special relativity. Hence it's not possible to experimentally determine the difference between the two theories.
But whereas LET is constructed in an hoc way by adding time dilation and Lorenz contraction into the theory to make the ether undetectable, these follow from the two postulates of SR. So the sheer elegance and simplicity in favour of SR is why it's taken more seriously than LET.
There are a number of experiments that disproved that there exists an inertial frame against which everything is moving, and electromagnetic waves propagate, the luminiferous aether. There exists a wikipedia article that covers these questions.
There have been many attempts over the past century to answer this question, all of them incorrect as far as I can see. The most common refutation of ether (or aether) theory is based on the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment (about which there is no doubt, the experiment having been refined and repeated many times with the same null result). M-M could be excused for it, but there is no excuse for modern physicists making the same mistake. What everyone seems to forget is that solid matter is mostly "empty" space - the separation between atomic nuclei is about 10^5 times their diameter, as discovered by Rutherford in 1910. Also, we now know that the atoms are held in place by electromagetic fields, so that the lengths of the arms of M-M's interferometer would be subject to the same effects of different light (e-m field) speeds as the interfering light beams themselves. This ("Lorentz contraction") is not an ad hoc effect, but follows from the finite speed of field changes within solids, limited to the same speed as the light beams bouncing to and fro among the interferometer mirrors.
This physical explanation for Lorentz contraction is set out well by Feynman in his Lectures on Physics, Vol II, Sec. 21-6 on retarded potential effects. The only physical constraint needed to explain relativistic length and clock/time effects in Lorentz Ether Theory (LET) is that light is the fastest signal in empty space. In practice, the ether as a unique reference frame for e-m field (e.g. light) propagation can be ignored because the experimental predictions of LET are always identical with those of Special Relativity (SR). But whereas SR offers no physical explanation for relativity beyond asserting the principle, LET does, which should surely be more satisfactory for physicists! Any inertial observer can assume that the speed of light is the same in all directions around him/her, but so can any other inertial observer, and they can not all be right, as is shown by the fact that they will disagree about estimates of the timing of simultaneous events, for example! LET shows exactly how this works in terms of the speed of light as an upper limit, as was known by Poincare in his 1904 St Louis World's Fair lecture "Science et Hypothese", in which he speculated about the collapse of relativity as a universal principle if anything can go faster than light.
By about 1920, Einstein had realised his error in declaring the ether superfluous as a concept, because he had realised that a unique, universal reference frame is implied by General Relativity in which the speed of light becomes locally dependent on gravitational potential around masses, instead of being absolutely fixed in value everywhere as in SR and LET. But noone seems to have been ready for that backflip. Instead, conceptual nonsenses like "curved space" are now preferred to a straighforward dependence of light speed on position in a gravitational field!
In summary, LET = SR in all predictions, but in my view LET is superior because it contains a physical explanation (light speed in a unique inertial reference frame as an upper limit), rather than relying on a statement of a principle - how do atoms know about principles?
The next interesting question is how does "empty space" (or "ether", to give a name for the concept of a space with physical properties) control the speed of light, between and inside atoms, and as slowed down near large masses? Does Higgs Boson theory shed any light on this (sorry!)?
(See trevm42 on Youtube)
There never was really any experimental or observation evidence that the luminous aether ever existed in the first place. It was merely an invention to pave over a gap in the Newtonian model of light.
Up until the mid-19th century everyone thought that Newton's experiments with prisms and slits had conclusively demonstrated that light was a wave phenomena i.e. it behaved just like waves in water. That, however, raised the question of "waves in what?" The answer was the "aether", something that couldn't be seen, touched or measured but whose motion transmitted light just like the motion of water transmitted the force of a wave.
Basically, the luminous aether was just a concept that the era's scientist pulled out of their collective… er, hats.
By contrast, Leibniz argued, purely on philosophical grounds, that light must be made of particles. Leibniz lost the argument because his hypothesis didn't have the experimental predictive power that Newton's did. However, if Leibniz's idea had been the dominate idea, the concept of luminous aether would have never been invented in the first place.
Prior to the late-19th century the idea of "subtle fluids" was evoked to explain many phenomena such as heat and electricity. That is why even today we talk of electricity "flowing" in "currents."
The history of science is filled with such inventions that paper over gaps in existing knowledge.
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Veganism makes its mark again on Top Chef with Hector winning high praise (but not the win) for his Tofu Ceviche. Here is a link to the recipe--it is really complicated (with methods I have never seen before) but I would like to give it a whirl some day. Anyone else want to give it a try?
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tofu Ceviche on Top Chef
18 comments:
- J. said...
I'm game! It looks more complicated than anything I've ever done, but that seems all the more reason to try it!
- August 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- Jain said...
Ha, that's the most horrifying recipe I've ever seen! I hope some bloggers rise to your challenge. I can't even imagine the flavors.
- August 30, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- Soja said...
I had this quite a lot, and mushroom ceviche, in Peru. It was quite common in vegetarian restaurants in Lima as the raw fish kind was a traditional dish. The recipe I was given was simple and delicious - but I'll go and have a look at this method and maybe give it a go!
- August 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- Claire said...
Interesting. I think I'd skip making the mango pearls and cilantro-mint pearls and just dice the mango (and toss with the salt and agave) and make pesto with the cilantro and mint. Then, if the dish was really tasty, I'd make the pearls the second time, just to learn the technique. Also, I'd use purchased tortilla chips the first time. I'd hate to work on a dish for hours, taste it, and say "meh."
- August 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Aaron said...
I'm so glad you posted a link to that, I was very excited to see it on Top Chef. I can't believe how complicated it is! I think I might try to just put all those ingredients together without the fancy techniques.
- August 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Charlene said...
I'm still new to the whole tofu thing so this may be pushing it for me. You first!
- August 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Sophia.Pflieger said...
The first episode of of Top Chef Las Vegas, had a Vegan dish as well. Vegan stuffed chili rancheros? I believe something like that anyway, and, the pepper was stuffed with seitan. But it was left in big chunks and the judges said it wasn't seasoned.
That contestant got kicked off though, it would have been nice on have a seitan supporter on top-chef!
- August 30, 2009 at 1:01 PM
- HaikuTofu said...
when i saw that episode i thought, "oh no, did he really just make a RAW tofu dish for omnivores?"
i was actually surprised when the judges liked it. I'm a vegetarian, and I do enjoy raw marinated tofu, but i definitely prefer it cooked. kudos to Hector with his fancy mango pearls. Maybe someday when I have a lot of time I'll try this recipe. It's far more likely that I'll make a simple tofu-based dish that is based on a more traditional ceviche.
- August 30, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- krissy said...
Did you see the all vegan episode of Top Chef masters with Zooey Deschanel? It was really cool- with the exception of dessert. That 'recipe' was lame.
She's a vegan who doesn't eat gluten or soy so it was quite interesting!
- August 30, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Caitlin said...
That tofu ceviche looked so delicious! I do really want to try this recipe out, but the techniques are so totally foreign to me. I think I can stick it out though! It was really nice to see someone make a dish that didn't include meat and receive praise for it on the show!
- August 30, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Christina said...
I don't think I'd ever go as far as he did, though some of the techniques seem interesting. I have make vegan ceviche with tofu (among other things). Here's my recipe: http://vegan-vanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/vegan-ceviche.html though the pictures are pretty blurry. Bazu has a recipe, too, which I linked in my post.
- August 30, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Vegan Epicurean said...
There are a number of methods to make the pearls. Ferran Adria of El Bulli uses a number of different techniques. Jose Andreas who trained under Adrian also likes to work in foams and airs if you are looking for more recipes. I read it a while ago, but the Alinea cookbook also must include a few recipes for the pearls since they are into molecular gastronomy.
The oil method is most predictable but is a little fiddly until you get the hang of it. I like to play in the kitchen so I have made pearls a time or two. Soy sauce pearls add an interesting caviar look. I bought a big syringe to drop the pearls into the oil, which works well.
- August 30, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- hedturtle said...
I love Top Chef, but I think it's hilarious that he made such complicated garnishes and basically did nothing to the tofu itself.
- August 30, 2009 at 10:52 PM
- Lisa said...
Yeah, the recipe should be "Lotsa Stuff (and Some Tofu)."
- September 1, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hooray for any chef who has the foresight to do a vegetarian dish, and even more so a vegan one!
Yes, I saw the Top Chef Masters vegan challenge and was happy they presented it to such well-established chefs. I wish they had vegan challenges all the time. I think it's more telling of a chef's ability, since it takes a lot more skill and creativity to make tofu taste appealing to the masses than, say, bacon.
The technique for the pearls looks interesting, and I'm glad to see it doesn't involve expensive chemicals. I might give that technique a try.
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- September 2, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- bugbear said...
Tofu Ceviche!??
LOL! hilarious!
- September 23, 2009 at 2:50 AM
- Kasia said...
Awesome, this sounds really fun :D I thought it would be some impossible molecular cuisine requiring special equipment, but it is actually a real recipe :D Sophisticated, but it sounds possible. I am really interested in how those "mango pearls" and "herb pearls" actually taste like...
- February 11, 2010 at 12:06 AM
- speedvegan.com said...
I had this dish in Hector's restaurant in Atlanta. It was beyond amazing. Did you ever get around to making it ?
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Let $\mathbb{T}_{\mathbb{Z}}$ be a $\mathbb{Z}$-module generated by Hecke operators $T_n$ acting on the space of cups forms $S_{k}(\Gamma,\mathbb{C})$ for the congruent subgroup satisfying $\Gamma_1(N)\subset\Gamma$ for some positive $N$. We know that the $\mathbb{Z}$-module $\mathbb{T}_{\mathbb{Z}}$ is finitely generated and the upper bound for the number of generators is given by the Sturm bound. When we compute some examples like for $\Gamma=\Gamma_0(33)$ and $k=2$ we get $\mathbb{T}_{\mathbb{Z}} = \mathbb{Z}[T_3]/(T_3+1)(T_3^2+T_3+3)$. In all other cases I have computed it always happens that the algebra looks similarly,i.e. $\mathbb{T}_{\mathbb{Z}} = \mathbb{Z}[T_k]/f(T_k)$ for some polynomial with integer coefficients. Is it always the case or are there any know examples that $\mathbb{T}_{\mathbb{Z}}$ as a ring is generated minimally by more than one Hecke operator ?
[I took the time to chase this up so may as well post it as an answer.]
There is a (cuspidal) modular (eigen)form of level $\Gamma_0(512)$ and weight 2, which if I remember correctly was shown to me by Luis Dieulefait, and which has the following property: its coefficient field is the biquadratic extension $\mathbf{Q}(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})$ of $\mathbf{Q}$, but writing $f=\sum_n a_n q^n=q+\ldots$, each $a_n$ has the property that $a_n^2\in\mathbf{Z}$!
Hence the Hecke algebra at this level, even with $\mathbf{Q}$ coefficients, is not generated by one Hecke operator.
In certain cases a reason that causes the subring generated by a single Hecke operator $T_\ell$ in $\mathbb{T}_\mathbb{Z}$ to have index greater than one is the existence of exceptional primes for the normalised eigenforms $f\in S_k(\Gamma,\mathbb{C})$ (we shall say that $p$ is exceptional for $f$ if (one of) the $p$-adic Galois representation $\rho_{f,\lambda}$ associated to $f$ has small residual image, i.e., the image of $\bar\rho_{f,\lambda}$ does not contain $SL_2(F)$, for any finite extension $F/F_p$).
The special cases that I have in mind are instances of the inner twist phenomena that Kevin Buzzard has already mentioned in one of his comments, and you can see this also in level one, if I am right. Let me elaborate on that.
Let $p$ be a prime $\equiv 3$ mod $4$, and set $k=(p+1)/2$. Let $h$ be the class number of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$. The space $S_k(\Gamma(1))$ gives rise to $n=(h-1)/2$ distinct systems of mod $p$ Hecke eigenvalues so that the associated mod $p$ Galois representations $\rho_1,\ldots,\rho_n$ (which are unramified outside $p$) have dihedral image. This implies that if $\ell$ is a prime that is not a quadratic residue mod $p$, then the trace of $\rho_i$ at a Frobenius element at $\ell$ is zero.
In particular, if $n>1$ (i.e. $h>3$) then there are at least two DISTINCT systems of mod $p$ Hecke eigenvalues $(a_q)$ and $(b_q)$ such that their $\ell$-th members are equal. This implies that the integral Hecke ring $\mathbb{T}$ has more ring homomorphisms valued in $\bar{F_p}$ than the subring generated by $T_\ell$ alone does. In this case one can show that $p$ divides the index of the latter in the former.
With the previous argument you see that for almost all primes $p\equiv 3$ mod $4$ in weight $(p+1)/2$ half of the primes $\ell$ are such that $T_\ell$ does not generate $\mathbb{T}$. But what about the other half of the primes $\ell$?
By relating the traces of $\rho_i$ at Frobenius elements over primes $\ell$ that are split in $Q(\sqrt{-p})$ to the characters of the class group of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$ valued in $\bar{F_p}$ we get the following:
PROPOSITION: Let $A$ be the class group of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$. Assume that for every $a\in A$ there exists a pair of non trivial characters $\chi_i:A\rightarrow\bar{F_p}^*$, with $\chi_1\neq\chi_2$ and $\chi_1\neq \chi_2^{-1}$, such that $\chi_1(a)+\chi_1(a^{-1}) =\chi_2(a)+\chi_2(a^{-1})$. Then the integral Hecke ring $\mathbb{T}$ in weight $(p+1)/2$ and level one cannot be generated by a single $T_\ell$, for $\ell$ prime.
Few remarks: 1) The above does not say anything about the possibility of having a $T_n$ (with $n$ not prime) generating $\mathbb{T}$. In fact I think we cannot rule this out a priori.
2) Probably a little more group theoretic work can be done to reformulate the condition on the mod $p$ characters of $A$, and turn it into something nicer. I think if $A$ is not cyclic and $3$ does not divide its order then the assumption is satisfied.
3) Notice that we do not need to worry about $T_p$ generating $\mathbb{T}$ when $n>1$. In fact, since $P$ splits in $H/Q({\sqrt{-p}})$, where $H$ is the Hilbert Class Field of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$, all the $\rho_i$'s are the same locally at $p$ and one can show that the eigenvalue $a_p$ is $1$ for all of them.
An example. The cuspidal, integral Hecke ring of level one and weight $k=246=(491+1)/2$ is so that $p=491$ does not divide its discriminant. However every Hecke operators $T_n$, for $2\leq n\leq 153$ generates a subring of $\mathbb{T}$ of index divisible by $p$.
May be it could be nice to see whether the class group of $Q(\sqrt{491})$ satisfies the assumption of the proposition. I suspect it does!
[EDIT: The assumption of the proposition is NOT satisfied for $p=491$, unless I am wrong to an infinite amount. Therefore my suspicion is not confirmed. The proposition above, as far as I can tell, remains valid, although I have no example of a prime $p\equiv 3$ mod $4$ such that the class group $A$ of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$ satisfies the assumption of the proposition.
There still remains to give an explanation of the fact that $p=491$ seems to divide the index of the subring generated by $T_\ell$ in the integral, cuspidal Hecke ring of level $1$ and weight $246$. The arguments above explain such divisibility for primes $\ell$ that are non-quadratic residue mod $p$. For what concerns the other primes $\ell$, I am tempted to say that there should be a mod $491$ Galois representation arising from weight $246$ and level $1$ that is tamely ramified, reducible at $p$, and non-dihedral (may be with small image?): this in fact would cause the existence of a system of mod $p$ eigenvalues $(a_\ell)$, with $\ell\neq p$, arising from $S_{246} (\Gamma(1))$ such that its quadratic twist $(a_\ell \ell^{(p-1)/2})$ also arises from the same space.
PROPOSITION: Let $p\equiv 3$ mod $4$. Assume that
1) the class number of $Q(\sqrt{-p})$ is > 3;
2) there exists a mod $p$ representation $\rho$ of $G_Q$ arising from $S_{(p+1)/2}(\Gamma(1))$ that is tamely ramified and reducible at $p$ and it is non-dihedral;
then for every prime $\ell$, $p$ divides the index of the subring generated by $T_\ell$ in the integral, cuspidal Hecke ring of weight $(p+1)/2$ and level $1$.
When $p=2083$ I learnt from some tables that there exists an odd, $A_5$ extension of $Q$ unramified outside $p$ that gives rise to a representation of the type we want in 2). Since condition 1) is also satisfied we see that the Hecke ring in weight $1044$ and level $1$ cannot be generated by a single $T_\ell$, for $\ell$ prime.]


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