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Initially, the group was comprised of three brothers — Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson — plus cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine. They became one of the hottest and most successful groups of the 1960s, credited with inventing "California rock" and "sunshine pop" — and along with the Beatles — pushing the envelope on a new and imaginative front of songwriting and musical arrangement.
What follows here is Part 2 of a longer companion article that explores the Beach Boys' early music and their history. This piece focuses on six of their songs from the 1963-1966 period. The full versions of all six songs are offered below in self-contained music players. They provide good examples of the Beach Boys' early sound, featuring exceptional harmonies and good production values. The songs also serve as historical windows into the Beach Boys' talents and biography during the 1963-1966 period. Subjectively selected, these six songs are meant as a Beach Boys' sampler, and readers are encouraged to visit Part 1 of this article for further background and introduction, and also to explore Beach Boys' music beyond these six offerings.According to Billboard, in terms of single and album sales, the Beach Boys are among the top-selling American bands of all time. Worldwide they have sold an estimated 70 million records (an estimate that is likely on the low side).
Between 1961 and 1988, they turned out thirty-six Top 40 hits, more than any other U.S. rock band. They also produced 56 songs that charted in the Top 100. Four of their songs were No. 1 hit singles.
Rolling Stone placed the Beach Boys at No.12 on the magazine's 2004 listing of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time." New compilations of Beach Boys' music have appeared as recently as 2009. Currently on Amazon.com there are more than 100 offerings of various Beach Boys' recordings.
Here below, are six of their songs from the 1963-1966 period: "In My Room" (1963), "Don't Worry Baby" (1964), "All Summer Long" (1964), "When I Grow Up" (1964), "The Warmth of The Sun" (1964), and "God Only Knows" (1966).
Sept-Oct 1963
"In My Room"
In September 1963, with the Beach Boys' third album Surfer Girl, one of the songs included was the Brian Wilson tune, "In My Room," co-written with Gary Usher.
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"In My Room"-1963
"In My Room" is a song that brought out Brian's talents for melody and arrangement — a song which some at the time regarded as a stunning advance in production and harmony, especially for a group that had only been recording for two years. "In My Room" was released in mid-October 1963 as a single.
In the 1950s and 1960s, high school kids of that day, if they were fortunate enough to have a bedroom of their own, regarded it as their sanctuary and private place. Brian Wilson knew that experience vividly for himself and his brothers, and was able to communicate the "special place" sentiment of that private quarter for millions of other kids at the time."I had a room, and I thought of it as my kingdom," Brian would later say. "And I wrote that song, very definitely [with the feeling] that you're not afraid when you're in your room. It's absolutely true." Later in 1990, Brian told another story related to this song and how the Beach Boys' Wilson brothers learned their craft, in part, in their bedroom: "…When Dennis, Carl and I lived in Hawthorne as kids, we all slept in the same room. One night I sang the song 'Ivory Tower' to them and they liked it. Then a couple of weeks later, I proceeded to teach them both how to sing the harmony parts to it. It took them a little while, but they finally learned it. We then sang this song night after night. It brought peace to us. When we recorded 'In My Room', there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse…and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights…"
"In My Room" was released as a single in October 1963 and remained on the Billboard Top 100 chart for eleven weeks, peaking at No. 23, although some charts and city surveys placed it higher. United Press International (UPI) had a weekly music survey in those days, which ranked it a No.17. In Boston and Seattle "In My Room" went to No. 1; in San Francisco, No. 2. It also reached the Top Ten in several other cities, including Washington, DC, Houston, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Columbus, Ohio.
Singer David Crosby — no slouch when it comes to good harmony himself, and who performed memorably with The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young — is an admirer of this Beach Boys song. "'In My Room' was the defining point for me," Crosby explained to one reporter. "When I heard it, I thought: 'I give up; I can't do that, I'll never be able to do that'." Rolling Stone magazine named the song No. 209 on its November 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Rock n Roll Songs of All-Time."
March-May 1964
"Don't Worry Baby"
In early 1964, the Beach Boys were having a pretty good year. This was an exceptional time for rock music generally. A prolific period of terrific "girl group" songs had just gone by — a genre that was still going strong with Martha and Vandellas and the Supremes.
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"Don't Worry Baby"-1964
It was also a peak time for the Beatles' rise in America — the British group that would dominate the charts in 1964. But the Beach Boys held their own in this period and then some as they turned out several songs that had exceptional harmonies, novel arrange- ment, and excellent production. Among these was "Don't Worry Baby."Brian Wilson co-wrote this song with Roger Christian, an Los Angeles radio disc jockey of the 1960s who did some song writing for the Beach Boys and other groups. "Don't Worry Baby" is a tender ballad showcasing Brian singing lead in his falsetto voice. The song was first released on the Beach Boys' March 1964 album, Shut Down Volume 2, and then as a single in May 1964. Unfortunately, it was released on the B-side of the Beach Boys' first U.S. No. 1 hit, "I Get Around," in June 1964, somewhat over- shadowing it. Still, "Don't Worry Baby" managed to reach No. 24 on the Billboard charts on its own merits. The same single was released about a month later in the U.K. "Don't Worry Baby," however, almost did not become a Beach Boys' song.
Brian Wilson had always been quite taken with the "wall-of-sound" production techniques of early 1960s studio whiz Phil Spector. Wilson was especially enamored of the sound Spector was getting on some of his "girl group" songs, such as "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, which Wilson played incessantly when it first came out in 1963. According to some accounts, Wilson had written "Don't Worry Baby" partly in answer to that song, and had in fact gone to Spector's production studio in L.A. offering the song as a response to "Be My Baby." Spector did not accept the song, to the good fortune of history and the Beach Boys.
Among other credits, "Don't Worry Baby" is said to have influenced John Lennon's 1980 hit, "(Just Like) Starting Over," and is also used prominently in the 2006 film thriller, Déjà Vu. "Don't Worry Baby" is listed among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll." It was also ranked 176th by Rolling Stone magazine in its November 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
July 1964
"All Summer Long"Another 1964 song by the Beach Boys that has outstanding sound and production values is "All Summer Long" written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. However, this song was not released as a single in 1964. It was first heard on the Beach Boys' July 1964 album by that same name, All Summer Long, their sixth studio album. The song "All Summer Long" was the second track on the album.
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"All Summer Long"-1964
In the U.K., the song was later released as a single in February 1965, but did not become a top hit there. Even in the U.S., apart from being on the album, the song did not become that well known, making it perhaps one of the more neglected Beach Boys' songs of that era, yet still among their best work. One noteworthy fan of the song is film-maker George Lucas, who gave it some notice when he used it as background music over the end credits of his 1973 film, American Graffiti, his ode to the happy days of early 1960s' rock 'n roll.In a review of this song for AllMusic.com, Donald A. Guarisco found it to be one of the classic examples of "sunshine pop" and of Brian Wilson helping to create the California Myth — "an idyllic dream world of sun, surf, and fun that created a potent mental escape hatch for many listeners."
The lyrics of "All Summer Long" tell a story of a happy summer of sharing between a guy and his girl. Yet the lyrics seem almost secondary to the song's smooth musical power, its upbeat tone, and a kind of "take-you-away" easy listening. The harmonies are outstanding, and the buoyant instrumentation includes piano and some perfectly positioned xylophone. The All Summer Long album hit No. 4 on the Billboard charts and had a 49-week stay there. This also occurred during the peak of the 1960s "British invasion" of the U.S. music scene.
Aug-Sept 1964
"When I Grow Up""When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. The song was recorded over two sessions in early August 1964 at Western Recorders studio in Los Angeles. An instrumental track was recorded first with the vocals overdubbed several days later.
The instrumental track, arranged by Brian Wilson, features Carl Wilson on lead and rhythm guitars; Al Jardine on electric bass guitars; Brian Wilson on acoustic piano and harpsichord; Carrol Lewis on harmonica; and Dennis Wilson on drums. Mike Love and Brian Wilson share the lead vocals with backing by all five members of the group.
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"When I Grow Up"-1964
"When I Grow Up" was released as a single on August 24th, 1964 with "She Knows Me Too Well" on the B side. It rose to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 7 on the Cash Box list. It also spent two weeks at No 1. on Canada's national RPM chart (i.e., RPM Magazine, "Records, Promotion, Music"). The song was also released on the group's 1965 album, The Beach Boys Today!
This song was rarely performed live by the Beach Boys. However, on their first British tour in 1964 they did perform it, as well as "I Get Around," on the U.K. TV show, Ready Steady Go.
"When I Grow Up" is one of those Beach Boys songs in which Brian Wilson takes on some of his own and his teen audience's psychological concerns — namely facing adulthood and growing up. It is a simple song about a young teen thinking about what he'll be like in the years ahead as he grows older, with a background refrain of the boys in chorus counting off the ascending years — credited as an "effective hook" by All Music reviewer Matthew Greenwald. Greenwald adds that the song is: "Buttressed by a fine series of harpsichord runs — clearly thought of during the songwriting and not the arranging process — an early example of Brian Wilson thinking about arrangements during the song's construction." This song was a precursor of things to come in Wilson's later arranging of more complex Beach Boys' music. In recent years, "When I Grow Up" has also been used in the opening credits of the cable TV show, Men of Certain Age, a U.S. comedy-drama about three best friends in their late forties dealing with the realities of middle age. The show premiered on TNT in early December 2009 starring Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula.
Mar-Nov 1964
"Warmth of the Sun""The Warmth of the Sun" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. It was first heard on the Beach Boys' March 2nd, 1964 album, Shut Down Volume 2. Later released as the B-side of the "Dance, Dance, Dance" single on October 26th, 1964, "The Warmth of Sun" charted at No. 8 in the U. S. and No. 24 in the U.K. Brian Wilson produced both the song and the Shut Down Volume 2 album. He also sang lead vocals on the song.
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"The Warmth of the Sun"-1964
Although it is commonly reported that "The Warmth of The Sun" was written on the evening of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and was inspired, at least partly by that tragic event, it appears there is somewhat more context to the song's origins and writing. Mike Love and Brian Wilson had begun working on the song before November 22, 1963, and both had been involved in love relationships that had soured — personal experiences which appear to have figured into the song's phrasing and its central message.
Brian Wilson at that time had just broken up with his first serious girlfriend. And Mike Love had also noted in one account of writing the lyrics from the perspective of a changed relationship: "Yes, things have changed and love is no longer there, but the memory of it is like the warmth of the sun…"
In November 2013, fifty years after he an Brian worked on the song, Mike Love wrote a piece at the HuffingtonPost.com recounting how the two put the song together, describing a session at Brian's house on the evening of November 21st, 1963: that the focus of the song was about lost love and its lingering effect, and that a hurtful love experience, though painful, was still worth it. During this session – which ended at 2 a.m. by Mike's account (i.e., on November 22nd) – there was deep sadness that permeated the session, or, as Mike has noted in other accounts, "a very mystical, eerie feeling associated with writing the song before we went to sleep." Later that morning, according to Mike, after they had slept following their session, they learned about JFK's assassination.
"… In the weeks that followed," Mike writes, "that song written in the wee hours of November 22nd was recorded in a studio charged with emotion. I'll never be able to hear or perform that song without recalling the loss of President Kennedy fifty years ago…." And again, in a 2016 YouTube.com podcast with former Los Angeles disc jockey, Wink Martindale, Mike Love, answering a question about the JFK connection, states: "…[W]hen we did record the song a couple of weeks after we [wrote it ] it was charged with that extra emotion that that event [i.e., the assassination ]…embodied in us. But we didn't change the lyrics to conform to that horrible event. But definitely the emotion of that time and that incident were with us when we recorded…."
Brian Wilson had stated in earlier liner notes of writing the song, along with Mike, "in honor of President John F. Kennedy." In his 2016 biography written with Ben Greenman – I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (DeCapo Press) – Brian also stated that the song was written on the day of the assassination and in response to it. Yet, one article at Forgotten Hits.com explores the writing of this song in some detail, with somewhat differing accounts as to when and where, since the Beach Boys were performing at the time in Marysville, California. In any case, the song may well have been dedicated to JFK, or offered in his honor, but its content appears to be about being at peace after losing, and learning from, a love relationship. "The Warmth of the Sun" was recorded in January 1964.
The Beach Boys' "The Warmth of the Sun" is also featured on the film soundtrack for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), starring Robin Williams, a soundtrack which also includes two other Beach Boys songs, "I Get Around" and "Don't Worry, Baby".
May-Sept 1966
"God Only Knows""God Only Knows" is a song from the Beach Boys' May 1966 album, Pet Sounds. It is one of the group's most widely recognized songs and was composed and produced by Brian Wilson, with lyrics by Tony Asher. Carl Wilson sings the lead on the song. It is a popular love song — about a guy pledging his love to his lady; also known by the full line, "God only knows what I'd be without you."
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"God Only Knows"-1966
Musically, the song — coming from the Pet Sounds oeuvre — is more technically sophisticated than much of the earlier Beach Boys' work, or that of other pop groups in the mid-1960s. The song has a complicated melodic structure and layered vocal harmonies which some have described as "brilliantly arranged." In producing the song, Brian Wilson also used instruments not typically used in rock compositions, including the harpsichord and French horns, heard in the introduction.
Wilson also took other risks with this song, as it was one of the first to use the word "God" in its title. There were fears at the time — 1966 — that using such a title would hurt the song's radio airplay and that it would also bring religious group protest, some of which did occur. On the other hand, there were also concerns that given the song's religious-sounding title, the hipper kids of that day might reject "God Only Knows" as "too square."Laura Barton, writing about the song years later for The Guardian newspaper of London in 2009, observed that the use of "God" was perfectly appropriate, given "the jump into the unknown required to fall in love" in the first place. It echoes "the leap of faith necessary to believe in God," she wrote. And other lyrics in the song, she added, also cite "godly creations: the stars above," "the world that turns," and that "life that goes on" — all affirmations of faith and belief at some level.
The song's biggest fans, in turns out, are other musicians. Former Beatle Paul McCartney has called it one of the greatest songs ever. Jimmy Webb, an American pop music composer known for songs such as: "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston" and "MacArthur Park," is also a fan of this song, calling it "a bow to the baroque that goes all the way back to 1740 and J.S. Bach." Webb adds that the song represents "the whole tradition of liturgical music that I feel is a spiritual part of Brian's music. And Carl's singing is pretty much at its pinnacle — as good as it ever got." One TV use of "God Only Knows" as background music riled up at least one fan who charged "manipu- lation" and "rape" of the song's brilliance.Bono, the frontman for the Irish rock band U2, spoke in praise of the song's string arrangement during Brian Wilson's October 2006 induction into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame, calling that part of the song "fact and proof of angels."
"God Only Knows" — a popular selection for weddings — has also found its way into contemporary film and television. It is heard, for example, near the end of the 2003 British romantic comedy Love Actually, a film about the different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories starring Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson and others. The song has also been used in films with Christian themes, such the 2004 TV drama Saved. During 2006-2009, the song was used as the primary theme song for Big Love, the American TV drama on HBO (Tom Hanks, executive producer) — a series about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah who practice polygamy, starring Bill Paxton and others. "God Only Knows" ran as Big Love's musical theme for the first three seasons, or more than 30 episodes. Some fans of "God Only Knows," however, were not happy with the song's use in this series. One writer, Adam Baer, at the Glass Shallot blog, observed, for example:
"…[B]y attaching a song like this to a manipulative soap opera like "Big Love"… the producers of the show have attached fictional scenes and pictures and characters and themes to this song. When we hear "God Only Knows" now, it's hard for watchers of the show to separate it from "Big Love." It's just too famous and so-called "absolute" a song for it to be victimized by such semantic manipulation…."
"Look: We (fans) don't own the song any more than "Big Love" does–in fact, we own it less because "Big Love" likely paid Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys a princely sum to use the music. I know that. But we also don't broadcast to the world images of our lives–or worse, our lame narratives–with "God Only Knows" in the background. We don't rape the song of its absolute brilliance–of its ability to mean something different to different people–and render it a semiotic aid for one particular narrative that needs a lot of help…"
In London, on the other hand, Laura Barton of The Guardian, praising "God Only Knows" in a 2009 review, found at least one TV use acceptable. Calling the song "one of those shimmeringly perfect love songs," she pointed to its use in a lost adolescent love scene in the American TV show Wonder Years (1988-1993) as being perfectly apropos, where the song was simpatico with the on-screen drama of the principal character losing the long-loved girl next door. Beyond this, Barton also observes of the song generally:
"God Only Knows" is not just about the "billing and cooing" of love, as one critic put it, but also its highs and lows; the trepi- dations of love; its terrors and rewards…
"…Considering the fact that this is a song about devotion, its opening line has always been unsettling: 'I may not always love you,' Wilson sings, a sudden cloud of uncertainty in the music's clear blue sky. Yet it is of course this very line that makes 'God Only Knows' truly extraordinary. This isn't just a love song. It isn't just about the billing and cooing, the early doveish days of courtship; it's a song that recognizes the fact that falling in love is somehow terrifying, that you go into that love blindly, as Wilson put it, but that in that blindness you can see that you are who you are because of someone else."
"God Only Knows" has also been rated highly in several "greatest song surveys" by music magazines such as Mojo. Some have also named it the best song of the 1960s. Rolling Stone placed the song at No. 25 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
More background on the Beach Boys and their music is found in Part 1 of this article, "Early Beach Boys." See also the film trailer and story at "Love & Mercy," the 2015 film about Brian Wilson, his musical genius and his troubled soul. For more music stories at this website visit the "Annals of Music" category page. Thanks for visiting — and if you like what you see here, please make a donation to help support the research and writing at this website. Thank you. — Jack Doyle
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Mr. William G. Johnson for appellant. [227 U.S. 518, 519] Messrs. H. Prescot Gatley, Samuel Maddox, and Barry Mohun for appellees.
Mr. Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant is the owner of a lot of land on the north side of Wyoming avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, northwest, in the District of Columbia. The appellees own the adjoining lot on the west. The appel- [227 U.S. 518, 521] lant constructed on his lot a brick dwelling, the front of which was placed 40 feet from the avenue. He located the main west wall of the dwelling about 3 feet inside of the line of his lot. This wall was about 40 feet long and three stories high. About 5 feet back of the front end of this wall the appellant projected a semihexagonal bay window, the west wall of which-about 8 feet long and extending through the height of the first story-was placed upon the line of the lot so that approximately one half the thickness of the wall was put upon the appellees' land. The appellant called this west wall of the bay window a party wall, and claimed the right to construct it in part upon his neighbors' land by virtue of the building regulations of the District of Columbia. The appellees protested against this use of their property, and brought this suit in the supreme court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the maintenance of the wall on their land. The court entered a decree in their favor, requiring its removal. The decree was affirmed by the court of appeals and this appeal is brought. 34 App. D. C. 480.
The act of June 14, 1878, chap. 194, 20 Stat. at L. 131, authorized the commissioners of the District of Columbia to make 'such building regulations for the said District as they may deem advisable,' and provided that these should have the same force within the District as if enacted by Congress. Among the regulations promulgated by the commissioners was the one approved by President Washington on October 17, 1791, relating to the location of party walls, which was recognized as in force and was 'published for the information of builders.' (Building Regulations, 62, set forth in the margin. ) The land in question
Sec. 62. The 4th section of the building regulations, No. 1, approved by President Washington, October 17, 1791, quoted below, is recognized as in force, and is published for the information of builders. The inspector of buildings has no official duty as to the enforcement of this regulation, as the matter is one of private rights between parties:
1.This court has jurisdiction. District Code, 233, act of March 3, 1901, chap. 854, 31 Stat. at L. 1189, 1227; United States ex rel. Steinmetz v. Allen, 192 U.S. 543, 556 , 48 S. L. ed. 555, 560, 24 Sup. Ct. Rep. 416; New Mexico ex rel. McLean v. Denver & R. G. R. Co. 203 U.S. 38, 47 , 48 S., 51 L. ed. 78, 84, 85, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1. As the appellees challenged the validity of the regulation if it applied to their property, as was insisted by the appellant, the case was one in which there was drawn in question the validity of an authority exercised under the United States. The question was a substantial one, and was directly presented, its determination being required unless the appellees succeeded upon one of the other issues. To justify a review of the decision under the act governing this appeal [227 U.S. 518, 523] it is sufficient if the validity of the authority is drawn in question, irrespective of the conclusion reached by the court below. Baltimore & P. R. Co. v. Hopkins, 130 U.S. 210, 222 , 32 S. L. ed. 908, 912, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 503. The appeal brings the entire case here. See Horner v. United States, 143 U.S. 570, 577 , 36 S. L. ed. 266, 269, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 522; Penn Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. Clustin, 168 U.S. 685, 695 , 42 S. L. ed. 626, 630, 18 Sup. Ct. Rep. 223. In this view, it is unnecessary to pass upon the conflicting contentions with respect to the amount involved.
2.Upon the merits, we need not go beyond the point on which the court of appeals rested its decision. The court held that the wall placed on the appellees' land was not a party wall. In the building regulations a party wall is defined as 'a wall built upon the dividing line between adjoining premises, for their common use.' The fundamental idea is that of mutual benefit. It is manifest that not every sort of construction projecting over the boundary, although it may form part of the exterior wall of a building, can be called a party wall. Instead of being for the common use, it may be merely an injurious protuberance. And whether or not a particular structure comes within the District rules is a question the decision of which by the court of appeals should be accepted unless there is plain error. Here we have the wall of a bay window 8 feet long projecting from the main wall of the house. Save for this short projection the main wall is set back 3 feet within the building line. The ends of the bay window wall are splayed as is usual in such cases, and while it appeared that they could be chiseled out in order to make right angles, the testimony was that if the adjoining owners desired to build in connection with the wall it would cost as much as to erect a new wall of the same dimensions. Taking the entire construction into consideration, it would seem to be merely the case of an encroachment on the adjoining property rather than that of a wall built on the dividing line, for mutual advantage. After reviewing the facts, the court of appeals [227 U.S. 518, 524] summed up the matter by saying: 'It could serve no such purpose to appellees as is contemplated by the regulations of the District authorizing the construction of party walls. . . . Appellees can derive no such benefit from it as the servient owner is entitled to receive as compensation for the taking and occupation of his land. It constitutes a nuisance rather than a benefit.'
We find no reason for disturbing the decree.
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Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced an agreement developed with mobile platform companies including Apple, Google, Research In Motion, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, to ensure that all mobile apps will offer privacy policies that users can read before downloading the app.
Although the plan technically only applies to apps in use in California, it will affect the global marketplace by making privacy policies visible to all users who download apps through the Android Marketplace, the App Store or any of the other platforms hosted by the participating companies.
Just 5 percent of all mobile applications offer a privacy policy, according to a study conducted by TrustE and Harris Interactive. (A developer survey conducted by the Future of Privacy Foundation found that one-third of apps offer such policies.) Even those that do have such policies often make the information available to users only after they have downloaded the app, which is when most programs grab data from the user's phone.
At a press conference in San Francisco announcing the agreement, Harris explained that it had previously been somewhat unclear to developers and platform providers whether the California Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires any "web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet" to "conspicuously post its privacy policy," applied to mobile apps.
"There's been a question," Harris said, and "we have resolved that." Harris added that developers should be "on notice" that the state was prepared to enforce the newly clarified law, effective immediately, against both developers and platform providers that fail to comply.
"We take a great deal of pride in the technology that was born in our backyard," Harris said. "There's no desire on any of our parts to slow down what's potentially life-changing and world-changing technology. But we also shouldn't have to accept false choices" between privacy and access to innovation.
In a statement, Jules Polonetsky, director of the Future of Privacy Forum, agreed. "Apps can only provide innovative services to consumers if they use personal information responsibly," Polonetsky wrote. If they surprise consumers, he said, "they risk losing access to user data. The California agreement will ensure that consumers are protected and that the app environment continues to flourish."
The policy is, in some ways, symbolic. It will not limit what apps can grab from smartphones, which can include device ID numbers, email addresses, location, personal contacts and calendar entries. It simply requires apps to inform consumers, who, in fact, may not read such notices. Several privacy advocates and experts contacted by IDG News Service agreed that full resolution of the mobile privacy issue will have to include buy-in from platform operators and app developers, consumer education and potentially regulation.
The attorney general's announcement comes amid privacy controversies involving the social networking app Path, which is based in San Francisco, and Google, which was discovered by a Stanford graduate student to be tracking users' browser habits on the iPhone despite Safari's no-tracking default settings. Talks with the platform companies began in August of last year.
Asked how her office came to focus on mobile privacy, Harris said, "We all use apps." California also has "very tough rules against invasion of privacy," she said, "and those protections apply not only to intrusions by government but also by corporations."
Harris twice declined to comment on her office's position on Google's iPhone tracking.


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The Challenger has become the backbone of the worlds' most esteemed corporate fleets. An aircraft built in response to the needs and absolute necessities of pilots and business leaders alike, for today and tomorrow. By design, it provides corporate and government leaders with the widest - and indeed, one of the quietest - cabins in the industry, in which passengers can work or rest in total comfort and tranquility. It is also designed to ensure that the Bombardier Challenger aircraft, and those who fly in them, continue to stay ahead of all others.


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Here is a quiz about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drawn up on our national holiday honoring our critically important leader in our so recent history.
Granted, these questions do not tend to focus upon his crowning earthly achievements, in leading the movement for Americans of African descent, for their natural rights to be fully respected. Rather, these address facts that it seems may be at risk of being swept under the rug, in casual treatments – facts that are also quite relevant to know in our time.
You may wish to try your hand at it and you may share it freely with others. Actually, please do.
1. What was his profession of belief and spirituality?
2. What was his vocation?
3. Of what political party was he a member? (Hint: the civil rights party in U.S. history, not the party historically associated with the KKK, nor of Planned Parenthood eugenicists whose founder authored "The Negro Project.")
4. When people of the other party sought to deny him his right to keep and bear arms, what famous organization stood up for him publicly and specifically?
5. What U.S. President signed and enacted the King holiday?
6. Did Dr. King stand up for a two-state solution on behalf of a nation to be called "Palestine" or was he a Zionist?
7. Which political school of thought (seven letter word) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ did King condemn with these words? "This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself."
8. He was given an award from Planned Parenthood in 1996, when that group addressed abortion negatively in public, as it followed its overall strategy for public relations and expansion. His wife gave a speech in acceptance of the award. In King's own writing, did he show he thought abortion was a reasonable measure for general birth control, or did he oppose it?
9. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, how did he say he dreamt that you or I, or for another example, Barack Obama should and should not be judged in America?
10. The 2008 Democratic National Convention was arranged for Barack Obama to deliver his acceptance speech in a large, outdoor stadium in Denver, Colorado, on the 45th anniversary of King's, historic and cherished "I Have a Dream" speech. Much was made of this coincidence and of the elaborate staging involved. Obama did refer to that speech at the end of his own. In his speech, how many times did Obama honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in referring to him by name? (Hint: it was the same number of times he did today, when he gave his second inaugural address on this, our Martin Luther King Day.)
1. Being "renewed in knowledge, in the image of [his] Creator" and thus, a joint heir of Jesus Christ, reunited by his sacrificial death for our sins and by his resurrection to God the Father in Heaven. Short answer: Christian.
2. Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
3. The Republican Party
4. The National Rifle Association
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Zionist
7. Marxism
8. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposed abortion (by Alveda King, by Derrick Evenson).
9. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Know what? I don't intend to cite sources for the other answers. You should do some of the work too, shouldn't you? The words are there for using in Web searches.
And are you speaking out, or are we being quietly enslaved?


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Five years after the events of the Babylon 5
series, a technomage named Galen predicts an
imminent attack by the Drakh, the old allies
of the Shadows. Through dreams, a thief, a captain,
and a president are brought together to head them
off. The president is John Sheridan. Because of
his irrational behavior, Sheridan's friends begin
to wonder about his sanity. It's up to all of them
and two prototype battlecruisers, the Excalibur
and the Victory, to stop the fleet and their
This movie was the set-up for the fallow-up series
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Daniel Mauritzson is a toy designer at BRIO, working out of BRIO's R&D unit at the headquarters in Sweden. He draws the first lines on a blank piece of paper when a new toy is about to be designed, and he tracks the idea all the way through to the final prototype ready for production. This can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months.
"What is the most important thing going through your mind when you design new toys?"
"We have four key rules that I base my work on. Toys should be safe to play with, they must comply with BRIO's high quality standards, they must be intuitively easy for the child to understand – and they must help the child grow through play."
"How do you know that when you design a new toy, it will be compelling to children when it's done?"
"A crucial part of my job is to watch how children play, and to understand how children think and react. Therefore my colleagues and I spend a lot of time testing new toys by observing how children use them, and we try to learn from this before we complete a design. This is incredibly exciting because you are always surprised. Children's imagination is a marvellous world."
"What does it mean to you that toys should help children grow?"
"It's important to distinguish between entertainment and growth. For BRIO, toys are not about entertaining or pacify children. A successful toy is able to stimulate the child's imagination and be part of the child's growth through play – even at different ages. Take our famous toddler wobbler, for instance it can be used to help the child learn how to walk. When the child is a bit older, the child might use the wobbler to store different objects. And later in the child's development, it's used to transport other toys. It should be possible to use toys at different levels as the child grows. We think a lot about these things."


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AUGUSTA, Maine — Outgoing Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster plans to investigate claims that "dozens of black people" who were unfamiliar to municipal officials voted Nov. 6 in rural Maine towns.
Webster, who will step down Dec. 1 after four years as Maine GOP chairman, first mentioned the questionable voter activity 16 minutes into a 21-minute interview Tuesday with Don Carrigan of WCSH-TV in Portland.
"In some parts of the state, there were dozens of black people who came in to vote," Webster said. "Nobody in town knew them."
When Carrigan pressed Webster to identify the towns, the Maine Republican Party chairman only specified that they were small rural towns.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Webster told the BDN that he plans to send "several thousand" postcards with a photo of the State House to the addresses of voters who registered on Election Day as a way to investigate potential voter fraud.
"They'll go out in first-class mail," he said. "I don't expect people to respond to the question. The concept behind this is to see if they are returned. This is a reasonably inexpensive effort by me to settle the question" of whether people travel to Maine communities to vote fraudulently.
If cards come back as undeliverable, Webster believes it will prove his theory that people travel to Maine to vote fraudulently.
The Maine Republican Party paid for the postcards and postage, Webster said.
"One of the reasons people think there's a problem is that they don't know these people when they come in to vote," he said. "Several pockets in the state had unusually high numbers of new voters, and the selectmen and town clerks did not know who they are."
Webster bristled at the notion that his probe is racially motivated.
"It's not about being black or Spanish or Chinese," he said. "Every election I hear that hundreds of unfamiliar people come in to vote. It's unfortunate that people will use the issue of being black. If you lived in a small town, you would know that if [an unfamiliar] black person or Chinese person comes to vote, it would seem odd."
Maine People's Alliance communications director Mike Tipping issued a statement Wednesday condemning Webster's actions. "First it was union members, then it was college students, now it's African Americans," Tipping wrote. "Every one of the outlandish and offensive claims Chairman Webster has made in an attempt to restrict voting rights has proven to be completely untrue. I look forward to the day, coming very soon, when he is no longer given a public platform to launch his conspiracy theories."
Webster has crusaded against alleged voter fraud throughout his tenure at the helm of the Maine Republican Party. In July 2011, he produced a list of 206 college students from out of state as grounds for a voter fraud investigation by the Maine secretary of state's office. In September 2011, Secretary of State Charlie Summers reported that investigators turned up no fraud resulting from Webster's list.
In June 2011, Webster also accused Democrats of stealing elections and busing people to the polls to sway outcomes. No charges resulted from that allegation.
Webster said he planned to send postcards to voters who registered on Election Day two years ago, but that the plan fizzled amid the euphoria over Republican victories in legislative and gubernatorial elections.
In the interview with Carrigan, Webster also labeled presumptive Maine Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, a socialist and said that Maine will have the "most liberal legislature in the country" when Democrats return to majority status in January.
He told Carrigan he believes Democrats "represent Portland" and that "Republicans will start winning elections when people who drive trucks start voting Republican."
State Rep. Richard Cebra, a Republican from Naples who could not seek re-election because of term limits, has emailed Maine Republican Party state committee members to express his interest in succeeding Webster. State Rep. Beth O'Connor, R-Berwick, who lost her re-election bid this year, also has been mentioned as being interested in the position.


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Purple Party FOTD4:53 PM
I've still been sick lately so today I'm going to post a rather old FOTD (you'll notice my older hair) that I never got around to posting. Unfortunately, since it was from a while ago, I don't actually remember what products I used but I will try to remember what I can. I typically take a photo of the things I used to help remember but I happened to forget this time. FOTD fail. T.T
Anyhow, I loved this look so much that I'm going to post it anyway. This is a nice go-to party look. In fact, I actually did wear it to a party and I was generally pleased. If you have a purple or black prom dress, this would also work for prom too.
I believe I used NYX purple shadow on the lid with the highlight color from the "NARS" palette. I applied NYX Morocco to the bottom lash line as well as for outer-v definition. I also applied white shadow from a Revlon quad to the inner corners. MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack was on the upper lid and smudged onto the lower lashline too. I topped the eyes with Shisem falsies. Since this look was eye-heavy, I kept the lips neutral with a nude lipgloss.
Smiles Ü
A close-up
And my outfit: Oversized white top - Forever21, Fuscia tank - Wet Seal, Jersey scarf - Urban Outfitters, Black skinny jeans - Sirens, Leopard-print slingbacks - VanEli
Coming soon are tutorial videos for "Dolly Eyes" makeup and Japanese-style curls. And Mineral Magic Cosmetics have been generous enough to sponsor some AWESOME giveaways that I'll be showcasing in the near future! Who doesn't love freebies, right? Really awesome, really soon. :)
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hey Jen,ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting up where you got the clothes from. Great posts as usual. I love the clothes pics too!!
Love your eyes, your hair and your outfit! :) you are one gorgeous gal :)ReplyDelete
you look so pretty! the purple looks nice on youReplyDelete
Gorgeous purples on you!ReplyDelete
Hi :) Love the look, hair and outfit! it's screams out sasssssy :)ReplyDelete
I'm following your blogger
ooo purple! i love it :) your eyes and lips are very balanced.ReplyDelete
aww you look so cute when you smile in photos :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 28, 2009 at 6:49 AM
Beautiful! Makeup, outfit & style!ReplyDelete
Hey Jen,ReplyDelete
Where do u get Sirens jeans and what size in them do u wear? They look super cute :)
ghettoflower: The sirens were from the "Florida Mall" in FL. The store was called Sirens...I think they have stores in Canada too but not anywhere near the Midwest. :( I wear size 00 in their jeans though. They run really nice and small with a low rise.ReplyDelete
Hi Jen,ReplyDelete
I've been following your blog and it has been really helpful. I wanted to ask you a question that isn't directly related to this post though. I use eyelid tape like you, and I was wondering if you've experienced judgment because you use it. And if yes, how you've reacted. I think there are mixed feelings out there about the use of eyelid tape, esp among the Asian community. I understand that my use of the tape is a personal choice and that people should keep their opinions to themselves, but, it would be interesting for me to know how others who use it feel about the issue. Thanks!
Elizabeth: I've actually had a lot of people ask me this on my blog. Honestly, I don't get asked about it because most people don't notice. The majority of people I encounter day-to-day haven't been exposed to eyelid tape and really don't know I'm wearing them. Most of the Asians in my life already know I wear them and are either supportive, don't mind, or don't notice. Actually, a very large number of extended family have also been through the tape/glue or surgery process so I grew up with the idea that it wasn't really controversial.ReplyDelete
If someone were to ask, I would be totally honest. To me, it is just makeup. I get double lids when I wear false eyelashes sometimes too, so should I not wear them to preserve my single eyelid? I like double lids because makeup is easier to apply and I can be more creative with it, not to mention I don't have eyelashes falling into and scratching my eyes all the time. My eyeliner and mascara doesn't smudge. It does feel like a practical thing for me, and if it didn't have these benefits I wouldn't wear it. I don't think I look that different anyway!
Basically, just be confident and do what makes you feel happy and comfortable. They are your eyes and it isn't hurting your or anyone else to wear them, so why not? BTW, if people pull the "trying to be westernized" card just ask them if white women get their lips plumped to look more black. :P
- AnonymousMay 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I don't believe it when people say they like eyelid tapes/glue because it's more practical. taking the time to buy or make them, and put them on every morning and to take them off is not really that practical...ReplyDelete
People wear them because it enhances appearance, because they think double eyelids are prettier than single eyelids.
Personally I wore them for a month myself. No one said anything or judged me, but putting on tape every morning made me feel quite worthless. So I stopped. Of course I don't think anyone else who uses eyelid tape/glue is "worthless", and I don't think there's anything wrong with tape/glue. It's a person's choice. I still think double eyelids look better, but I guess I judge myself more harshly than others so personally I would never wear them again.
Like Jen said, if you feel good about it and are confident about it, you won't be phased by what anyone else says. In my case, it lowered my self esteem whenever I put them on so I stopped. Do what feels right to you.


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jOBS, the biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend, and the reviews are coming in.
The film stars Ashton Kutcher as Jobs, and Steve Gad as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Based on Ross Miller of The Verge's review, it sounds like the biopic is mediocre at best.
Miller says: "It's not quite the academy award-winning epic fans might be hoping for, but it's far from a disaster."
Here's a summary of Miller's review:
- It has an independent film kind of feel.
- The movie starts to drag in the second half.
- Kutcher "nails the mannerisms" of Jobs as an orator.
- Kutcher "delivers a surprisingly effective performance" as "Jobs the Businessman."
- Kutcher isn't quite as convincing when he portrays "Jobs the Emotional."
- The movie as a whole sometimes oversells a dramatic moment, instead of just letting it naturally unfold.
- jOBS has impeccable production and costume design. "The offices and fashion play to each era — big glasses, bigger hair, slacks worn high..."
- It's a very safe film. "It's not destined to be the Great Jobs Biopic."
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By Climate Central
A mid-winter cold snap has hit much of the country, but these episodes are becoming less frequent with climate change. Low temperatures and ample snowfall are a must for winter recreation — an industry that contributed more than $20 billion to the national economy in the 2015-2016 season. These conditions are under threat from warming winters, according to a new report from Climate Central.
Snowfall trends in these U.S. cities
Warming is affecting regional snowfall patterns differently, but from the 1970s to 2010s, 57 of the 107 analyzed weather stations saw the average annual snowfall trend downward by at least an inch. The biggest losers were Flagstaff, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Casper, Wyoming — all historically snowy Western cities that are getting drier overall. Since the 1970s, annual snowfall has dropped by a total of 48, 31, and 29 inches in those cities, respectively.
Winter temperatures in these U.S. cities
However, warming of the Great Lakes has hindered ice formation and increased the evaporation that fuels lake effect snow. Annual snowfall totals in Marquette, Michigan; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Youngstown, Ohio have climbed by respective totals of 68, 33, and 30 inches in the last half-century. Trends have also climbed more than 10 inches in Northeastern cities like Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, as a warmer atmosphere leads to more heavy precipitation events where it is still cold enough to support snow. Still, future warming will mean fewer days below freezing and more rain than snow, as shown in our 2016 report, "Meltdown."
Snow-friendly temperatures are declining across the country. In the last half-century, winters have warmed by more than 2°F in 78 percent of the 244 cities analyzed. Seventeen cities have warmed by more than 5°F, led by a 7°F increase in Burlington, Vermont. And according to Climate Impact Lab, every state in the contiguous U.S. will see fewer days with below-freezing lows by midcentury, shortening winter recreation seasons.
Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions would limit these effects. In Colorado, the nation's top winter sports economy, unchecked emissions would cause 34 fewer below-freezing days per year by the 2040-2059 period, compared to the 1981-2010 average. But if the world meets its Paris Agreement pledges to reduce emissions, Colorado could save 8 snow-friendly days per year. For the state's 43,000 winter recreation jobs, a salvaged week could make a major difference.
Methodology: Average winter (December through February) temperature and total annual (July through June) snowfall trends were calculated for 1970 to 2018 using data from the Applied Climate Information System. Local snowfall trends were calculated for stations with at least 10 inches of average annual snowfall, fewer than 10 percent of missing daily data, and at least five years of data in both the first and last decades of the study period (criteria based on Kunkel et al. 2009). The projected number of days with a minimum temperature below 32°F (under RCP 8.5 and RCP 4.5) are multi-model averages obtained from the Climate Impact Lab. More information about the methodology can be found on their website.
This originally appeared on Climate Central.


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Justice, Mercy and Grace
"...the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11
There are three words that came together at Calvary:
- justice
- mercy &
- grace.
Justice is getting what we deserve. Mercy is not getting what we deserve. Grace is getting what we don't deserve.
But wait a minute; grace is more than that! It is grace that gives at great cost to the giver. It is not cheap. Grace cost the life of God's Son. Jesus gave freely of Himself in agony and blood.
Did you know that grace has to chase us down? If God didn't run faster than us, we would never be saved! Grace seeks to give to vile and wicked people that which they don't deserve and can never deserve.
Are you a grace-giver? Find someone today and do a favor for them – something for which they couldn't possibly repay you. Perhaps it will even be for a stranger you will never see again.
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Each day you will begin with a nugget from one of his messages, a reading from God's Word, and a place to write your "Spiritual concerns and prayer requests." Order your copy today.
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New Species of Mayfly Discovered in India
Scientists have discovered a new species of mayfly in the southern Western Ghats, a mountain range along the west coast of India. In fact, this is the first time that any mayfly belonging to the genus Labiobaetis has been collected in peninsular India.
The new species, called Labiobaetis soldani, "is named in honor of Dr. T. Soldan for his substantial contribution to the understanding of the Ephemeroptera of Palaearctic and Oriental realms," according to the authors of a study that describes the new mayfly in the Journal of Insect Science.
The larvae have light-brown heads with light-yellow antennae, and they grow to be about 4-5 millimeters in length. Adults are also about five millimeters long, and the males and females both lack hind wings.
Labiobaetis soldani is closely related to Labiobaetis pulchellus, which has been described from Sri Lanka in the larval stage. However, it can be differentiated from all other Labiobaetis species described from the Oriental region by several morphological differences.
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– A new species of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge, 1987 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from the southern Western Ghats in India, with comments on the taxonomic status of Labiobaetis


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Our state in life is where we live out our vocation; it is the path by which we journey to Heaven. God has called each of us by name to Himself. In baptism we each received a share in the divine mission and a responsibility to be faithful to that mission. When a man and a woman answer God's call to the vocation of marriage, they agree to live out this responsibility together as man and wife, and if blessed by children, then also together as father and mother. The obligation of their baptismal calling expands in a particular way to include the sanctity and salvation of their children and one another.
Who Introduced You to the Lord?
How did you come by your faith, whether it be weak or strong, new or old? Where and when did you first come to encounter Jesus and his glorious Gospel? For many of us, the answer might be, "I first came to know Jesus in my home, from my father and mother." This is not the case for everyone, but it is the general plan of God that our first witnesses for and teachers of the faith are our parents who share the good news of salvation with their children. For this reason, the family is referred to as the Domestic Church.
"Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. The Church is nothing other than 'the family of God.' From the beginning, the core of the Church was often constituted by those who had become believers 'together with all [their] household' (cf. Acts 18:8). When they were converted, they desired that 'their whole household' should also be saved (cf. Acts 16:31; Acts 11:14). These families who became believers were islands of Christian life in an unbelieving world." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1655)
This is no accident; it is the will of God that Jesus Christ was conceived of woman and born into a family where he was lovingly raised and received experiential knowledge as he matured from infancy to adulthood. Everything Jesus received from that family experience is an example for us to follow. Nothing of his life is to be neglected by us as if it were irrelevant to our lives. The same is true of every word written in Sacred Scripture.
What You Should Desire for Your Children Above All Else?
Just how deeply do we parents desire that our children, along with ourselves, should also be saved?
You see, each Christian is called to be "salt" of this earth where too many things have soured and a "light" in a world too often filled with darkness.
Note what the catechism says above: "These families who became believers were islands of Christian life in an unbelieving world."
Such is the both the dignity and obligation of Christians, to become witnesses to an unbelieving world and to form families; domestic churches that are islands of Christian life.
Our state in life is where we live out our vocation; it is the path by which we journey to Heaven.
God has called each of us by name to Himself. In baptism we each received a share in the divine mission and a responsibility to be faithful to that mission. When a man and a woman answer God's call to the vocation of marriage, they agree to live out this responsibility together as man and wife, and if blessed by children, then also together as father and mother. The obligation of their baptismal calling expands in a particular way to include the sanctity and salvation of their children and one another.
"In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers of living, radiant faith. For this reason the Second Vatican Council, using an ancient expression, calls the family the Ecclesia domestica [Domestic Church]. It is in the bosom of the family that parents are 'by word and example . . . the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children. They should encourage them in the vocation which is proper to each child, fostering with special care any religious vocation.'" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1656)
On a personal note, I grew up in the 1950s-1960s. I raised my children in the 1980s-2000s. Without falling into a sense of false nostalgia, I believe I can say that in relative terms, my childhood took place in a much simpler and safer time compared to the time of my children. And today, the world has become even more complex and more "alien and even hostile to faith." Therefore, our responsibility to lead our children to Salvation is one of great urgency and it is critical that we understand these obligations of our vocation.
"It is here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and all members of the family exercise the priesthood of the baptized in a privileged way 'by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, and self-denial and active charity.' Thus the home is the first school of Christian life and 'a school for human enrichment.' Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous – even repeated – forgiveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one's life"—cf. Mt 11:28. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1657)
When I recall my childhood, the specific occasions remembered are those times and events that, at the time, held special relevance to me.
It is difficult to predict what an adult will one day remember of his childhood. But know this, children are like video recorders, capturing everything. One day, when the need arises, an adult will pull from his memory banks examples to serve him in time of need. Will these memories serve him well, leading him to life or will the wrong message and example be there, leading him to wrong and destructive choices?
I was blessed with good and holy parents; I can only hope, now that my children are grown, that they are able to say the same about me.
Too often in our families, the handing on of the faith falls upon the shoulders of our mothers. And may God richly bless those holy women who have been faithful to the good God by introducing the faith to a new generation.
But, fathers, we must ask ourselves where we are in this most important of responsibilities entrusted to us by God. The witness to faith is not nearly so strong within the family if mother and father send mixed messages to their children.
What memories are we, as fathers, making for our children?
Seven Lessons Fathers Should Teach their Children
This is not a comprehensive list, but I would like to share a few lessons I have learned as a child, as a father and in my diaconate that I believe are crucial.
1. Teach by Word and Deed
Do our words match our examples? You have heard it said that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. I would like to modify that. You can never, over time, fool your children even some of the time. Children seem to have a built-in detector for hypocrisy. Fathers, do you think that you can teach your children to love and honor their mother if you don't love and honor her in both your words and actions? It's not going to happen. Nor will you likely succeed in any area if your words and actions do not match. So, fathers, teach by word and deed.
Going to Mass, making a novena or praying a family rosary was never a chore for my mother. These were joyful expressions of her love for Jesus, His Blessed Mother and His Church. Even in later years as I struggled to maintain and grow my faith, the memory of the example given me by my mother served as an anchor keeping me from crashing against the rocks of the pagan culture of my college years. I may not have demonstrated that to her at the time, but it is true nonetheless.
One thing I always knew—my mother was praying for me. And deep in my heart, I knew that my father who had died when I was a sixteen-year-old was praying for me too. He was not Catholic, but he supported my mother's efforts at every step. At that time, I retained the sense of the importance of God because God was important to my parents. They taught me this by their deeds. And I could feel their prayers. Because they taught my sister this too, I knew she also was praying for me. My life's experience and the example of my family have taught me to never discount the power of prayer.
2. Be a Family of Prayer
This leads me to the topic of prayer. One of the great errors of our time is the failure of the individual Christian to advance in the prayer life and of the family to pray together. We are never going to truly know God until we become people of deep prayer and our children are not going to learn from their parents how to pray until they see them in fervent, urgent, persistent, faithful, expectant prayer—praying alone, praying together as husband and wife, and praying together with the entire family.
No, we are not going to always feel like praying. And the devil is going to throw up obstacles, making us feel like we have no time to pray. Nor will our children always want to pray. But we must be faithful to God in our efforts to pray. And in this, fathers should take an active and leading role.
First, fathers need to commit to their own prayer life and that means more than simply reciting vocal prayers. We must practice meditative prayer – the Church teaches that this expression of prayer is a neccessity for the beginner – pondering in our hearts the events in the life of Christ and His Holy Family, reflecting on the lives of the saints, praying the scriptures, and thinking about the persons of God and the truths entrusted to the Church.
Second, pious practices such as grace before and after meals, a morning offering, blessing ourselves when driving past a Church where Christ is sacramentally present, offering a "Hail Mary" when seeing an ambulance or firetruck speeding down the road, all serve also as teaching moments for our children.
Third, fathers should encourage the family to come together on a regular schedule to pray a family rosary. This is a great way to introduce your children to the practice of prayer. There are endless ways to practice prayer as a family.
My previous pastor told the story of how his vocation to the priesthood developed in spite of all the obstacles he encountered on the road to ordination. He has vivid memories of his family praying an evening rosary together daily. But he remembers something more. After all had turned in for the night, he would hear, and sometimes look into his parents bedroom to see his parents (father and mother) praying together at the end of the day when none of the children were watching. This told him that prayer for them was really important. Their example provided him the fortitude to answer his call.
3. Make the Home a Place of Peace, Hope and Love
Peace and concord in the family is so important, yet it seems to be under fire more than ever. We are told in Scripture to be of one mind, yet members of families today seem to each have their own life and wants. Especially in these difficult economic times, the tendency is to allow worry and anxiety to permeate the home. Do you bring the troubles of work home to fester within the home? Do your children think that your work is more important than they are?
Saint (Padre) Pio of Pietrelcina wrote, "Don't worry about tomorrow because the very same Heavenly Father who takes care of you today will have the same thought tomorrow and always. . . What does a child in the arms of such a Father have to fear? Be as children, who hardly ever think about their future as they have someone to think for them. They are sufficiently strong just by being with their father." Make sure that the environment of the home provides this example for our children. Our children should be raised to believe, "Jesus, I Trust in You."
4. Live Simply, Be Caring and Compassionate, Give Generously
Love, honor and respect for one another in the home and for those outside the home should be faithfully practiced. Charity should prevail in all things. Teach them to become caring and compassionate.
In this increasingly materialistic world, we do our children a grave disservice by the excessive accumulation of possessions. We teach them to love creation more than the Creator. Resist all disordered attachments that keep you from advancing in the life of grace. Living simply allows us to live with a generosity of spirit that teaches children to care for their neighbor who is in need… remember Our Lord's teaching that when we fail to serve the least of our brethren, we fail to care for Him.
Look for ways to reach out beyond the family to assist those in need, both with your financial means and with your presence. Involve your children. Have them contribute to a charitable fund from their allowance. Involve them in preparing aid packages for the local shelter and food bank. Take them with you, where appropriate, to serve in person those less fortunate. Do not teach your children only to feel sorry for others; teach them to also support and assist them.
Most of all, be present to your children… patient and loving, firm and steadfast. Protect them from the evil of the world and help them discover their vocation from God.
5. Teach Your Children the Faith
It is simply not enough to expect the local parish or Catholic school to be the sole teacher of your children when it comes to what the Church teaches. We must take an active role as their primary teachers.
"Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the 'material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.' Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children…" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2223)
This "primary" roles means it is both before and above all others who are teachers of our children. We need to teach them in all the ways already discussed, plus we need to make sure that our children do not grow up to be doctrinally illiterate. Teach them their catechism, read the bible with them, and make discussion of heavenly matters and their role as pilgrims on this earth a natural part of the family experience. They were made for heaven, so keep their eyes fixed on their supernatural home even as you help them navigate the waters of this temporary world. Teach them the human virtues of the life of grace by which they can overcome sinful tendencies. Teach them "what a wonderful savior we have in Jesus."
6. Live the Sacramental and Liturgical Life
While the family is the first, that is, the Domestic Church, the Christian family is also a part of the larger family of God, the Church. Therefore, as parents, we have a grave responsibility to make sure that our children participate in the life of the parish, especially in the liturgical life and sacraments. As our children grow, their involvement in worship as part of the Catholic parish should be fostered through practice and education. The Mass will never be "boring" to one who has been raised to understand what it is. Assist at Holy Mass on all Sundays and Holy Days, even while traveling on vacation… even if it is very inconvenient to do so. Take your children to Confession regularly – help them prepare and teach them not to be afraid. Show them God's mercy and love. Develop in them a love for the Blessed Sacrament.
7. Practice Devotion to St. Joseph
Get to know St. Joseph. Meditate and reflect on his life and example. God did not entrust Jesus to only Mary, but also to Joseph. Find in him an example to follow and a powerful intercessor in prayer. Call on him in prayer each day as you raise your children and honor their mother.
There are many other lessons which could be included here. I hope you will share them with one another. We need to instill in our children the sense that they have been called to a high and noble purpose. Teach them to give praise and honor to God and to be grateful for His many blessings and to be good stewards of His gifts.
Our faith, our marriages, our children, these are among the greatest gifts with which God has blessed fathers. May we be found worthy.
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Back in March at Google's Cloud Next conference, the company announced plans to run its own machine learning startup competition side-by-side with Data Collective and Emergence Capital. Four months later, 10 startups, pulled from a pool of 350+ applicants, presented onstage at Google's Launchpad Space in San Francisco.
The startups vied for three prizes — a choice each from DCVC and Emergence, as well as a Built with Google award for the top startup utilizing Google's Cloud Platform. Additionally, Google provided $ 200k in GCP credits to all finalists. In advance of the competition, both VC firms committed to providing seed capital to their selections and both were involved from the beginning in diligencing applicants.
The event is in many ways the physical manifestation of GCP's strategy to cozy up with machine intelligence startups. Google Cloud still lags behind Amazon and Microsoft in usage and the company is trying to position itself as "friendly" to a class of startups that will surely generate immense amounts of data at scale that needs to be stored somewhere. Founders participating in the competition pointed to both Kubernetes and TensorFlow as selling points for GCP — and of course, the free cloud credits don't hurt.
We've briefly profiled the winners of each prize below and included a description of their reward.
DCVC's Choice – BrainSpec
$ 500K investment
BrainSpec is building its own platform that helps doctors measure brain metabolites using standard MRI equipment. Metabolites are the chemical result of cellular processes and often hold the key to understanding brain injuries, Alzheimer's and other brain disorders.
Doctors can use Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, a traditionally complex process, to perform chemical analysis of tissue to detect key indicators of these neurological diseases. BrainSpec is simplifying this technique with a web interface and cloud-based statistical analysis.
Matt Ocko, a partner at DCVC, explained his investment by speaking to the sheer market size of the problem BrainSpec is looking to address. The startup brings strong domain expertise to a product with a clear path to productization and regulatory approval.
Emergence Capital's Choice – LiftIgniter
$ 500K investment
LiftIgniter, a former TC Disrupt Battlefield competitor, wants to help businesses personalize the content they deliver to users. Today, big players like Amazon and Spotify have their own advanced recommendation systems that drive engagement, but many other businesses struggle to deliver the same demanding technology.
The team, which had experience building YouTube's machine learning recommendation system, is productizing its service around an API. The company says it has never lost an A/B test and is seeing strong traction with 1.8 million in ARR and 22 percent month-over-month growth.
The team also won an extra $ 500K in GCP credits as the runner-up for the Built with Google Award.
Built with Google Award – PicnicHealth
$ 1M in GCP credits
PicnicHealth is layering machine learning on top of its centralized digital medical record system to produce outcomes data for pharmaceutical companies and research groups.
The startup combines automated extraction with a team of human nurses to annotate anonymized records. Pharmaceutical companies in particular are willing to pay serious money for data to the extent that PicnicHealth is seeing $ 5,000 gross margins.
Patients using the consumer side of the platform retain control of their data and are in charge of entering their care providers. From there, Picnic automates record collection, analysis and releases.
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Tags: Broken software, Zope, Plone, Python
I don't know if it is Zopes problem, I don't know if it is Plones problem, but I do know that it was my problem. The problem description was simple: When entering events in plone, the time always jumped back about 10 or 12 hours. Editing these events made it jump back further...
The problem at the end was related to the way the functions in DateTime.py interpret the EST returned as the timezone. For example, this is the output of date(1):
[~] edwin@k7>TZ=Australia/Sydney date Sun Jul 30 19:33:36 EST 2006 [~] edwin@k7>TZ=EST date Sun Jul 30 04:33:30 EST 2006
So despite that the date function returns the Australian EST, the timezone EST reverts back to the US version.
And now the gory details on how to resolve this: Search for the file DateTime.py (/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py on my machine), search for the definition of the array _zmap and in there, search of the keypair 'est':'US/Eastern'. Replace the est at the beginning to something else (I made it eest), then restart the Zope daemon et voila.