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"This woman cleans our school," said Porfirio Holguin, the president of Advancing Communities by Educating and Serving (ACES), the Dominican service organization hosting the Bucknell team. "We're going to have her house torn down before it falls, and you'll help us pour a new foundation."
Two days later, on a hot afternoon, the students returned to the location, climbing an uneven stone pathway to the remains of the house — now a pile of broken wood and twisted corrugated roof. A hen and her chicks explored the trench that workers had dug for the new foundation. The Bucknell students got to work, mixing and pouring concrete as curious children gathered around and neighbors eagerly offered their porches as respite from the heat.
The project was one of many that the students of the Bucknell chapter of ACES performed during their weeklong service trip. The only student-run international service organization on campus, ACES Bucknell raises funds to support its work, educates campus about the situation in the Dominican Republic and travels to Santo Domingo every spring break.
On its first full day abroad, the group piled onto a bus with about 10 Dominican volunteers and rode to the village of Salinas, about three hours west of Santo Domingo, near Haiti. After a breakfast of eggs, rice and plantains, the students fanned out into classrooms that had been turned into makeshift treatment rooms. There, they handed out medications, birth control and toys to the hundreds of people that turned out for the event. They also assisted doctors and dentists in treating patients, some of whom had never before received medical care. In the schoolyard, the volunteers played with children and read aloud, translating English-language children's books into Spanish.
"I knew this would be the first time in years that many of these community members would see a dentist or have access to medical supplies, contraceptives and toys," said ACES Bucknell member Katelyn Tsukada '12. "Our small group of Bucknell students was present, actively providing supplies and energy to people who needed our care." || Read more of Tsukada's impressions of the trip
Later in the week, the ACES Bucknell team handed out about 200 bags of beans and rice to residents of one of the poorest communities in Santo Domingo.
"The food outreach was both exciting and tragic," said co-leader Kristen Ronca '14. "It was awesome being able to directly hand people in need the food we purchased through fundraising instead of just sending off a check. At the same time, though, we had to watch as people were turned away since our supplies were so limited." Ronca, who participated in last year's trip as a first-year student, said it was difficult to go back to the same community for a second time and see the same hungry faces.
The Bucknell students spent two days volunteering at the ACES school, where they played with the children, talked with them in English and Spanish, and painted the exterior walls of the building.
"Four years ago, we poured the foundation for the school," said ACES Bucknell president Phil Kim '12. "Now, thanks in large part to a lot of fundraising on campus, the school is fully staffed and operational. There's a computer room with high-speed internet access, and construction on the third floor — which will be a rooftop recreational area — is almost complete." The school serves about 200 students ranging in age from 5 through 18. Twenty-five of the ACES schoolchildren have their annual tuition of $200 paid by Bucknell individuals and organizations through the group's Educate-a-Child program, which trip co-leader Paul Allegra '13 developed last year.
For many of the ACES Bucknell participants, the highlight of the trip was a Friday commencement ceremony in which the Bucknell team presented diplomas to about 20 young women graduating from a 12-week jewelry-making course.
"Learning and perfecting this craft is so crucial for the future of these girls, so that they can go out and find work and be able to provide for their families," said co-leader Daniela Calcagni '13. The trip was Calcagni's third, and she plans to return next year. "Education helps to establish a foundation to break the cycle of poverty. The graduation ceremony we attended was more than just a celebration. It set a precedent for the entire community and demonstrated that hard work, coupled with motivation and a desire to learn, leads to success."
Back at the ACES house in the evenings, the students held hours-long discussions about their experiences, reflecting on the many causes of poverty and its possible solutions, and discussing how they might raise awareness back on campus.
"In a mere week, we experienced poverty, pain and emotional conflict too gripping to forget," said Allegra. "I believe the group gained a broadened understanding about life outside of the affluence of the United States. The students have taken with them transformative experiences that will influence their opinions on race, gender, sexuality, class systems and so many other facets of life."
Allegra said the ACES Bucknell trip evokes in its participants a commitment to morality, diversity of thought and civic engagement. "I am confident that this trip will influence many individuals to do amazing things with their lives. My hope is that everyone does a trip like this, not only to understand the world in which we must coexist, but to also understand themselves."


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The Lotus F1 Team were at Brands Hatch yesterday doing some promotional filming. Although I did go and took some photo's on my camera phone
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Ah, bartender-training courses. Get a bunch of young people in a room, equip them with bottles of artificially colored water, and make them memorize such classics as the Sex on the Beach, the Fuzzy Nipple*, or the Where the Fuck Did I Park My Car?. Then, grade them on speed and teach them to juggle!
I think we're ready for something more serious than that. Since 2006, though, the Beverage Alcohol Resource (BAR) team has happily provided that. BAR's intensive five-day program aims to match the rigor of a Master Sommelier program. The brains behind it are Dale DeGroff, Doug Frost, Steven Olson, F. Paul Pacult, Andy Seymour, and David Wondrich, each of whom has many years of experience in the spirits industry. I like to say this is like taking a cooking course from Thomas Keller, Alice Waters, and Dan Barber–the BAR guys are that well regarded in the spirits world.
Conducted once yearly in New York City, the BAR program runs you through the whole of cocktail artistry:
- How spirits are distilled
- Spirit categories (gin, vodka, tequila, rum, whisk(e)y, etc.)–how they're distilled, aged, filtered, and so on
- History of mixology
- Classic cocktails
This program is so rigorous, from what I understand, that when it's time for a blind tasting, it's not enough to say, yeah, this is an aged cognac. No, you need to identify it by brand. If you can't tell your Remy Martin VSOP from your Hine Antique XO, well, sorry chum. Or as Richard Dawson would have said, "XXX."
Did I mention the price of the BAR program? $3,500.
Now, don't get me wrong. This is a great program, and some of the country's best bartenders have graduated from it. I would start to name names here, but I know some of these people personally, and I don't want to leave anyone out. But it's not for everyone, and the BAR team knew that. In partnership with Pernod Ricard, then, they came up with BarSmarts, a study-at-home program. You start by studying the supplied materials, laid out in four modules. At the end of each module, there's a quiz you need to pass before proceeding.
BarSmarts is available in two expressions, Advanced and Wired. The differences between these are small but worth mentioning.
Advanced is open only by invitation. With a special invitation code, you can lock in a spot by registering online. Wired, on the other hand, is open to all comers. Advanced costs $65; Wired, $45. Advanced gets you a printed workbook, a set of instructional DVDs, and a bar kit with tools selected by DeGroff. Wired gets you those same bar tools, but (and this is the crucial difference) everything's done online. You study online, you watch the videos online, and using a special interface, you even "mix" drinks online. (I haven't completed Wired, so I don't know exactly how this works.)
The other major difference between Advanced and Wired is that the former concludes with a feature called BarSmarts Live. You gather together with the others who completed the course for a day with the BAR founders. The day starts with a morning of further instruction and discussion. After breaking for lunch, it's exam time–both written and practical. The written exam includes 100 multiple-choice or true/false questions, taken from the material covered in the workbook.
The practical exam includes a blind tasting in which you identify a spirit. (For example, you might have four glasses of brown spirit, and you'd have to say which is aged rum, which is bourbon, which is scotch, and which is cognac.) Finally, one of the BAR guys will approach each student and ask for three specific drinks, chosen from a list DeGroff assembled of 25 drinks every bartender should know.
Lest you think Wired is any less rigorous for lacking the live exams, another difference between Advanced and Wired is in the quizzes I mentioned earlier. In Advanced, the quizzes are 10 questions each, and you need to answer 8 correctly before you can advance to the next module. In Wired, though, there are 25 questions per quiz, and you need to get 20 of them right before you can move on.
The Live event has already happened twice this fall, in LA and SF last month. This Tuesday (11/3), it runs in New York, and then next month, it'll happen in Vegas. I'm excited because I'll be attending the New York event. I leave for the city tomorrow morning and return Wednesday afternoon.
BarSmarts Wired is not currently available, but it'll be offered again starting February 1, 2010. After registering, you'll have 30 days in which to complete the course.
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As someone who is offers massage services to sport dogs and dogs with mobility problems, I can truly say that if the right person is performing the massage, it can enhance the quality of life of your companion. I would also caution that there is not a lot of available classes and many people are taking classes online. Buyer beware.
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RENEE LANES living room had been transformed into a spa. Candles twinkled on the coffee table; lavender oil scented the air; lilting guitar music played softly on the stereo. Grace, Ms. Lanes 2-year-old caramel-colored toy poodle, leaped onto the sofa and, in response to Ms. Lanes cooing invitation (Want to lay down for Mama?), got into position for her evening massage.
Ms. Lane took a deep breath and began making long stroking motions down the length of Graces back with her palms. With her thumbs, she kneaded the tissue around the dogs delicate shoulders, and then began working her way toward the muscles in the dogs legs. By the time the 20-minute massage session was done, Grace had entered a state of canine bliss, eyelids drooping, tongue lolling.
Grace absolutely loves it she just turns into a puddle, said Ms. Lane, 43, a public relations and business development consultant in Edgewater, N.J. I want to keep her around as long as I can, and I think its going to keep her healthy. She helps reduce my stress, so why shouldnt I reciprocate?
That is a question that a number of dog owners and even some cat owners have been asking themselves, buoyed by a belief that pet massage confers the same benefits as human massage: increased circulation, improved digestion, strengthened immunity, stress relief, comfort at the end of life and muscle relaxation after a hard day (even if it was spent at the dog park).
Some pet owners scoff at this idea. Whats wrong with regular old petting? they ask. And many veterinarians say that evidence of its benefits is flimsy. Nonetheless, pet massage workshops have flourished in recent years at pet stores, dog day-care centers, veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, massage schools and holistic institutes like the New York Open Center in Manhattan, where Ms. Lane and more than 75 other dog owners took a one-day class last summer.
People realize more and more that whats good for me, including massage, is probably good for my animal, said Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, an animal massage therapist and teacher in Wellington, Fla., whose book Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual is considered the standard text.
Today, you also have the baby boomers whose kids are gone, Mr. Hourdebaigt said. They have more time and money, and its easy for them to spend a couple hundred bucks on a massage seminar for their dog. The animal benefits, the benevolent action makes them feel good. Everybodys happy.
By most estimates, only a few of the nations pet dogs and cats which the
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at 78.2 million and 86.4 million, respectively are fortunate enough to receive massages. But the numbers may be growing. The International Association of Animal Massage and Bodywork, a professional group in Toledo, Ohio, now has more than 500 members, up from just 200 in 2007. And a survey of more than 1,200 pet owners across the United States and Canada by the American Animal Hospital Association in Lakewood, Colo., found that the number who were pursuing alternative therapies for their animals including acupuncture, massage, chiropractic and herbal medicine rose to 21 percent from 6 percent between 1996 and 2003. (It may still be rising; the survey was discontinued after 2004.)
Many pet owners interested in massage hire professionals to perform the treatment. But the D.I.Y. approach in which pet owners like Ms. Lane learn the techniques themselves also seems to be gaining in popularity, as Mr. Hourdebaigt maintains. At the Northwest School of Animal Massage in Fall City, Wash., 170 people took the basic amateur workshop last year; eight years ago, only 24 people enrolled. At the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in Colorado, enrollment in a similar class has jumped 30 percent in the last two years.
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YouMail debuts its business product for enterprise
Enchanced voicemail service also announces that it has four million users
In an effort to become the premium voicemail service in the enterprise space, YouMail has debuted the Business Edition of its popular app.
The new Business Edition will be offered to employers for $6.99 a month per user, but is launching with a price of $4.99 a month, the company announced Wedneday
It contains exclusive features that the regular YouMail service does not include, such as:
- Smart Business Greetings, which takes YouMail's "smart greeting," which greets callers by name and makes it so that, in the Business version, it will include the user's full name, company, and other optional information, such as e-mail address.
- An Enhanced Mailbox, which gives the Business inbox virtually unlimited storage, and makes it effortless to combine, organize, and manage voicemail from both the office and cell phone in one place.
- Voicemail to Email, which allows Business users to have their voicemail sent to email, along with wav or mp3 attachments, in a format of their choosing. They can also choose to automatically send carbon copies of important voicemail to colleagues or assistants to handle for them.
- The business service is also advertising free and includes accessible professional support, including a permanent access number that can be given out directly to clients and customers if desired.
The reason that YouMail decided to launch a business edition of its app is simple: it is because these were not features that the regular YouMail user would need, YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in an interview.
"The typical user typically does not need to copy their voicemails to multiple people, or to put a company name in their voicemail. Putting those features into the regular service would not have been good for the typical user."
The business model for the product is based on Dropbox, Quilici said, in that it is a service for the consumer that has been brought into the workplace. Once employees of a company like the service, YouMail can employ the Yammer model, and work directly with management to bring them a good rate on bringing the service to the entire workforce.
In addition to its new business product, YouMail has also announced that it has over four million registered users. In addition, YouMail has registered users from over 150,000 different businesses and enterprises, working in over 15,000 different occupations, and with up to multiple thousands of YouMail users active within a single enterprise.
Founded in 2007, Irvine, California-based YouMail is a mobile voicemail app that seeks to make the experience better for the caller with features that include personal greetings, which address the caller by name; and automatic texts that explain why the person did not answer the call.
On the receiver side, it allows users to block people in a feature called "Ditchmail." Users can even submit which numbers are from telemarketers, so the service will block that number from calling any of its other users in the future.
The app is available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 8, and Windows Phone 7.
Focusing on the caller side of the experience is that separates YouMail for any other voicemail service, says Quilici, including Google Voice, though its biggest competitor is "inertia," or the resistance to change. The way that YouMail has gotten people to adopt it is by word of mouth; the company has done no marketing. It simply offered a better product than the standard voicemail that came with mobile devices.
The philosophy of the company is to answer every call that a company misses, Quilici said, and to make it more comfortable for users to not have to always answer the phone.
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It's been quite a bull market run over the past four years, even though it hasn't felt much like a bull run. By looking at specific companies, you can still find value in some of the top sectors moving forward, writes Roger Conrad of Personal Finance.
By the end of the 1990s, chasing growth stocks' momentum was many investors' strategy of choice. Companies with reliable revenue and low debt had enjoyed their best run in history. But by that time, few paid attention to dividends or value, which had been popular early in the decade when fear rather than greed was the dominant market emotion.
The good news is, we're about as far away from that kind of bubble as is possible. There's still value to be had in many corners, but after nearly four years of good times, you won't find it unless you take a bottom-up approach—i.e., scrutinize companies' underlying businesses on their own merits.
The best values are always in unloved sectors that investors have abandoned because they look bad from 30,000 feet. Sector affinity and aversion have become particularly pronounced in recent years, as exchange traded funds have proliferated. Stocks in a sector get bid up and sold off in unison to a much greater extent than was possible in the past.
One sector that's taking hits now is energy, the subject of our second article. But I see many positive trends in energy, which is why I'm adding a new energy company to the Income Portfolio: super oil Total (TOT).
Energy has been in an uptrend since 1998, when oil prices bottomed at less than $10 a barrel and natural gas last sold for less than a buck per million British Thermal Units. However, global growth worries and the North American shale boom have raised doubts about energy companies from wellhead to burner tip.
Energy still has a lot left in the tank. With large and reliable companies such as Total underwater for the year and featuring growing yields of 6% and up, you get plenty of bang for the buck while still playing it safe.
The 2008 crash provides the best possible crucible for determining companies' reliability and safety in the worst possible environment. Nearly every company's stock lost ground during the worst of that crisis. But companies that held it together as businesses then are very solid bets to do so in a future crash.
As noted above, revenue reliability comes in handy during a crisis. Some investors (as well as regulators) were surprised that regulated gas, electric, and water utilities demonstrated this reliability in 2008. But their strengths won't be so easy to ignore the next time around, especially since nearly all have spent the last four years cutting debt and operating risk.
Energy midstream companies also sailed through 2008, thanks to long-term contracts with major oil and gas producers. Management has ensured similar resiliency in any future crisis by never building unless revenue is assured beforehand in writing.
However, once you get past these obvious safety sectors, you're well advised to exercise considerably more discretion among companies. For example, Income pick Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T) are increasingly grabbing market share in the US, even as smaller rivals such as Sprint (S) post larger losses. Real estate has been a disaster for many US REITs and banks, but others have scored big by adding valuable assets at the expense of their weaker rivals.
Pharmaceutical and consumer staples companies are generally thought of as enjoying recession-proof businesses. But here again, revenue reliability has boiled down to how individual outfits have secured demand by making products indispensable—and not every company has succeeded.
The starkest intra-sector contrasts are no doubt in the natural resources business. Master limited partnership Linn Energy (LINE), for example, has locked in prices for all of its expected oil output through 2016, and through 2017 for gas. Even in the extremely unlikely event that oil fell to $20/bbl, Linn would still make its baseline revenue
Meanwhile, BHP Billiton (BHP) produces a range of resources from multiple sources serving a multitude of markets. These are among the highest percentage bets in their industries, come what may.
Just as important as revenue reliability is debt, and particularly what's coming due in the near future. If lawmakers in Washington DC fail to reach an accord on spending and taxes and the economy plunges off the fiscal cliff next year, the resulting economic contraction and credit crunch will almost surely have done their worst by the end of 2013. Therefore, companies that aren't absolutely compelled to access credit markets between now and the end of 2013 should be immune.
On this score, entire sectors are potentially vulnerable. The mortgage REIT sector, for example, is particularly dependent on credit markets, as the wave of bankruptcies in 2007-2008 can attest. Nonetheless, companies across a wide range of industries have immunized themselves from near-term credit refinancing worries, including many that operate in capital intensive and highly leveraged sectors.
In corporate America, the new "cool" is to be fiscally conservative. That suits me just fine, as I search for bargains in a market where investor fear is still creating value.
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With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world-the largest-ever youth group in history-the report says there has never been a better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics.
However, failure to seize this opportunity to train them more effectively for the workplace, and to be active citizens, could lead to widespread disillusionment and social tensions.
The report says that young people make up nearly half of the ranks of the world's unemployed, and, for example, that the Middle East and North Africa region alone must create 100 million jobs by 2020 in order to stabilize its employment situation. Moreover, surveys of young people in East Asia and Eastern Europe and Central Asia-carried out as research for the report-indicate that access to jobs, along with physical security, is their biggest concern.
Far too many young people--some 130 million 15-24 year olds--cannot read or write. Secondary education and skill acquisition make sense only if primary schooling has been successful. This is still far from being the case and efforts have to be reinforced in this area. In addition, more than 20 percent of firms in countries such as Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Estonia, and Zambia, rate poor education and work skills among their workforce as 'a major or severe obstacle to their operations.' Overcoming this handicap starts with more and better investments in youth.
"Most developing countries have a short window of opportunity to get this right before their record numbers of youth become middle-aged, and they lose their demographic dividend. This isn't just enlightened social policy. This may be one of the profound decisions a developing country will ever make to banish poverty and galvanize its economy," says Emmanuel Jimenez, lead author of the report, and Director of Human Development in the World Bank's East Asia and the Pacific Department.


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Texas woman recognized for 80 consecutive years with church
CHIRENO, Texas – An East Texas woman has been recognized for her 80-year unbroken membership in her church.
Lilly Stone joined the Chireno United Methodist Church in 1933, when she was 8 years old. The Daily Sentinel in Nacogdoches reports that Stone was recently awarded a plaque signed by the church's bishop and district superintendent honoring her longtime membership.
Stone says, "It was a shock. I really didn't know how long I had been a member. I didn't think about it."
Stone joined the church while living with her grandmother, whose house abutted the church's parsonage.
Stone celebrated her 88th birthday on Thursday.
Chireno is a town of about 400 people located about 200 miles southeast of Dallas.


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Matt Drudge and others have been digging up instances over the years when Newt Gingrich has criticized Ronald Reagan. (Nowadays, of course, Newt takes credit for pretty much everything the Reagan administration accomplished.) Pete Wehner has unearthed another one, that was recorded by our own Steven Hayward. I wonder whether Steve forgot about it:
One Gingrich quote is particularly revealing and hasn't, to my knowledge, yet been highlighted. But in Steven Hayward's wonderful book, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Hayward quotes Gingrich as telling the Wall Street Journal that Reagan was "in some danger of becoming another Jimmy Carter." That is about as wicked a rhetorical blow as one Republican could level against another. And this statement came after Reagan's first term, in which he achieved historically important reforms.
Hayward recounts one White House meeting late in the second term, after Gingrich laid out complaints about important things the administration had left undone. President Reagan put his arm around the young Georgia congressman, according to Hayward, and said in his typically gentle fashion, "Well, some things you're just going to have to do after I'm gone."
The story is, as Pete says, an illuminating one. It illustrates the contrast between a man who has the right temperament to be president, and a man who doesn't.
STEVE adds: No, I hadn't forgotten about this, and I've been meaning to write a post here all day about this, and responding also in part to Elliott Abrams' National Review Online article yesterday about Newt's criticisms of Reagan. There's more to this story it seems to me, but I need to look some things up; stay tuned.


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After the First World War Einstein made contributions to the development of quantum theory, including Bose-Einstein statistics and the basics of stimulated emission of radiation from atoms (which was later used to develop lasers). He gave the nod of approval that led to the rapid acceptance of Louis de Broglie's ideas about matter waves but he never came to terms with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.[1] The Copenhagen has become the more popular and standard interpretation.[2]
According to the Heisenberg Principle, the moment at which a measurement takes place is the moment at which the randomness lying at the heart of quantum reality expresses itself.[3] Up to that point, everything is fine. Amplitudes change in a completely predictable, and more importantly, calculable way. The observer changes the state of what is being observed. Outcomes can be predicted according to governing probabilities, but the actual outcome cannot be known in advance.[4]
This was something Einstein could not live with. Einstein, as a determinist, felt that the world is a structured and rigid web where effects follows cause and all things should be predictable, given the right information. Einstein acknowledged that quantum theory works but he did not like the philosophy behind it. If whether or not, for example, Niels Bohr, Einstein's quantum physics counterpart, were to throw a book across the room Einstein would be able to predict the outcome of Bohr's "choice." Einstein would of course say that choice is the wrong word to use; rather, the brain is a complex machine with cogs whirring round to produce a predictable action. The basis of Einstein's view was a philosophical conviction that the world did not include random events: an objection summed up in Einstein's widely quoted saying, "God does not play dice."[5] Bohr is reported to have responded to Einstein with the witty reply, "Don't tell God what to do."
Strict [or hard] determinism may be the only way to avoid the implication from quantum mechanics and experiments such as the delayed choice experiment.[6] This experiment suggests that quantum communications occur instantaneously across any distance, or even travel backwards in time.[7] The determinist is not yet defeated, quantum mechanics comes with a state of collapse and that seems to be linked to measurement. Whatever measurements are, they are very specific situations and probably linked to what happens when a particle bumps into a measuring device.[8]
Einstein played a prominent role in the early development of quantum mechanics, particular in his philosophical approach to it. How one interprets quantum mechanics will shape the answer to the question of determinism and free will. Empirical testing does not seem to be enough to provide a satisfactory answer; rather, it how the data is interpreted. Einstein's approach to the rejection of genuine random events has been an influence of the contemporary debate. It has been argued that Einstein's determinism is correct, but it may be a mistake for him to base it on random events. Randomness is not sufficient for determinism to be true; a lack of causality would be sufficient. Even with the delayed choice experiment there seems to be a lack of causality, if anything it would be backwards causality. The free will proponent must be careful not to appeal to any ignorance for a lack of explanation of such quantum events. Einstein's reason for determinism (randomness) does nothing to advance his case. If anything, quantum experiments such as the delayed choice experiment only show that there is randomness in the world, not that there is purposeful, free agency. All quantum mechanics entails is that there are random events in the brain (or whatever) that yield unpredictable behavior, which the agent is not responsible.[9] Thus, it seems to be the case that Einstein's philosophy of determinism has persevered.[10]
[1] Kenneth William Ford, The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 117.
[2] At this time there are at least ten regularly cited interpretations of quantum physics varying in interpretation of wave collapse, determinacy/indeterminacy, superpositions, and Schrödinger's equations.
[3] The equation: (change in x multiplied by the change in px is greater than or equal to half of Planck's constant). For a given state, the smaller the range of probable x values involved in a position expansion, the larger the range of probable px values involved in a momentum expansion, and vice versa. The key to the expression is the greater than or equal to because it places a limit on how precise the two measurements can be. The principle is relating and for the same state ( signifies change, h, h-bar, is the Planck constant). Heisenberg's target was causality. The Copenhagen interpretation adopted this principle. Jonathan Allday, Quantum Reality: Theory and Philosophy (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009), 247-248.
[4] Jonathan Allday, Quantum Reality: Theory and Philosophy (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009), 100-101.
[5] Allday, 101.
[6] If photons are fired through the experiment one at a time (firing photons at a wall with two holes and a photon detector on the other side of the holes), they will build up an interference patter on the other side, as if they had gone through both holes at once and interfered with themselves. If the experiment is set up so that detectors monitor which hole the photo goes through, the photon is indeed observed to be going through only one hole, and there is no interference pattern. If a detector is set up not at the holes but intermediate between the two holes and the back wall detector screen then it may be possible to see which route a particular photon took after it had passed the two holes before it arrived at the screen. Quantum theory says that if we choose to turn this new detector off and not look at the photons, they will form an interference pattern. But if we look at the photons to see which hole they went through, even if we look after they have gone through the hole, there will be no interference pattern. The delayed choice comes into the story because we can make the decision whether or not too look at the photon after the photon has already passed through the hole[s]. The decision made seems to determine how the photon behaved at the time it was passing though the hole a tiny fraction of a second in the past. It seems as though the photons have some precognition about how the set-up of the experiment will be before it sets out on its journey. This has also provided credence to the metaphysical concept of backwards causation. John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, and Jonathan Gribbin (Q Is for Quantum: Particle Physics from A-Z. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), 102-103.
[7] This is most notably accepted by the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics. Gribbin, 104.
[8] Allday, 102.
[9] Predictability may be equivalent to randomness, not a lack of causality. Louis Pojman, Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2006), 229-230.
[10] Recalling Einstein's epistemic method, he based all of his philosophy and work on the ontological status of the universe. He did not seem to indicate an immateriality to the mind. Einstein's influence is limited only to the physical aspect for the substance dualist. Here is where the substance dualist and the scientific theologian must resume the dialogue.


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List of Super Hit Evergreen Hollywood Movie of All Times
List of Hollywood's Super Hit Comedy Movie of All Time
There are thousand of Hollywood movies in the library of Hollywood . But few films make history . Many times we think for make our movie video library with Hollywood Super Hit Evergreen English Movies. But we don't know that which films are best for movie library.
Here are list of some Hollywood movie which are beyond the time. These films are evergreen. Its mean that when you see these films you will find some thing new always. These films became super hit due to its direction, cinematography, acting, good background music etc. Actually a movie gets superhit by the mixture of all above. If any thing will loose then film would not be hit. In this list only those films are listed who are life time hits. I lifted many of films which were hit at the time of release but those films are not for liable for all time hit.
I mentioned some films also here which have grossed highest in the box office. These films are very unique and you will enjoy every time when you watch them.
List Of Super Hit Movies who made mile stone for Hollywood Movie Industry.
Movie Name: Beverly Hills Cop (Year: 1984)
Produced by: Paramount
Movie Name: Home Alone (Year: 1990)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Tootsie (Year: 1982)
Produced by: Columbia Pictures
Movie Name: Blazing Saddles (Year: 1974)
Produced by: Warner Brothers
Movie Name: Mrs. Doubtfire (Year: 1993)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Three Men and a Baby (Year: 1987)
Produced by: Touchstone Pictures
Movie Name: Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Year: 1999)
Produced by: New Line Cinema
Movie Name: Meet the Fockers (Year: 2004)
Produced by: Universal Pictures
Movie Name: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Year: 2002)
Produced by: IFC Films
Movie Name: Porky's (Year: 1982)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Home Alone 2 (Year: 1992)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Look Who's Talking (Year: 1989)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Bruce Almighty (Year: 2003)
Produced by: Universal Pictures
Movie Name: Big Daddy (Year: 1999)
Produced by: Columbia Pictures
Movie Name: The Waterboy (Year: 1998)
Produced by: Touchstone Pictures
Movie Name: 9 to 5 (Year: 1980)
Produced by: 20th Century Fox
Movie Name: Coming to America (Year: 1988)
Produced by: Paramount Pictures
Movie Name: Stir Crazy (Year: 1980)
Produced by: Columbia Pictures
Note- There are different between Super Hit Movie on Box office and Evergreen Hit Film. All super hit films can not be evergreen films. So you can not find some of movie here which were hit or super hit on box office in the time of released, because those films were super hit for that time but not evergreen. Those films do not attract now. Those films are outdated for now.
So , I leaved many super hit film name. But if you feel that some evergreen films are missing in this list then please write it on comment box.
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Twice each week, students at Grand County High School now have the option of fresh greens on a salad bar for lunch. And much of that produce is being provided by the Moab-based Youth Garden Project.
Delite Primus, YGP's executive director, said providing vegetables to the schools is something that the nonprofit organization has been interested in doing for a long time.
In the past, state guidelines that regulated where school districts get the food they serve prevented the school district from buying any of its food from the local organization, Primus said. However, a recent change to those regulations opened up the possibility.
"We met with Deb Rappe, the nutrition director for the schools, and expressed interest in providing produce," Primus said.
Rappe recently started offering a salad bar as an option for the high school students, and she was excited by the idea of being able to offer fresh, locally grown greens. Primus said she and Rappe have talked about what would be feasible to benefit both the schools and YGP.
"We're not at a size to provide all of the produce," Primus said, adding that currently, the YGP is providing four pounds of spinach each week.
"It was great because it all fell into place right before our greens were ready," she said.
Primus said that the first delivery of greens took place during the first week of April.
"Deb called and asked if we could bring some over," she said. "We walked it right over."
As more of the produce matures, Primus said YGP's staff will work to provide other vegetables as well.
"Right now, we are mainly focusing on veggies that can be put on a salad bar," she said.
Primus and Rappe worked together to figure out a financial arrangement that was beneficial to both organizations.
"We're providing the food at a lower cost to the schools than we would sell it to restaurants or the general public," Primus said. "But it's at a higher cost than the district would get from their normal provider. I think it's a good middle ground for both of us."
Rappe said that she is still ironing out a few issues concerning the new option of the salad bar, but the students have reacted positively so far.
"It's really nice to have the fresh greens," she said. "They're so good."
Rappe said that the school is trying out the arrangement this year, and she hopes that GCHS will be able to offer even more options on the salad bar next year.
"We've been wanting to do this for a long time," she said.
In addition to the offerings from the YGP, Rappe said she is also working with Hole Foods Farm out of La Sal to increase the amount of locally grown produce being used.
"We're pretty excited about it," Primus said. "It's a small step, but it feels like a pretty big step for the community to move towards this."
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Syphilis -- a Dreadful Disease on the Move
December 3, 2008
Until 1997, it seemed that syphilis rates were declining in Canada. However, since then, outbreaks of syphilis have been reported in every major Canadian urban centre. These outbreaks are not occurring in isolation -- parallel outbreaks of syphilis, particularly among men who have sex with men (MSM), are also occurring in major urban centres in North America, Western Europe and Australia. Before we delve into a recent Canadian report about syphilis, here is some background information.
Syphilis is the name given to a chronic infection caused by the germ T. pallidum. This disease can be spread in the following ways:
The germs that cause syphilis (called treponemes) can cause sores on the genitals, rectum and mouth. These sores can be an entry point for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to get inside the body. Once inside the body, treponemes, like HIV, can enter the lymphatic system or the blood stream. From there, in a matter of hours or a few days, treponemes can quickly spread throughout the body and reach the brain.
Primary Syphilis
In early stages of syphilis a sore can appear on the penis or in the rectum or, in women, on the cervix. In people co-infected with HIV, multiple sores can appear. Because the sores appear in hidden locations, early-stage syphilis might go unnoticed in both men and women.
Lymph nodes in the groin may become swollen, usually within a week of the appearance of the syphilitic sore. Although the sore, sometimes called a chancre, can heal within four to six weeks, lymph nodes may remain swollen for several months.
Still, early-stage syphilis can have minimal symptoms and may go unnoticed by affected people. Troublingly, treponemes have been found in the spinal fluid of people with primary syphilis, regardless of HIV infection.
Secondary Syphilis
In this stage, generally two to 12 weeks after the appearance of the chancre, symptoms of a widespread T. pallidum infection occur. Symptoms can vary considerably but the following can be common:
The skin rash can begin on the trunk but may also appear anywhere else, including on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. If the rash affects a hairy area, temporary patchy hair loss can occur. For instance, thinning of the eyebrows, beard or parts of the head can be a feature of syphilitic rash.
Painless lesions called mucous patches can appear on the wet tissues of the genitals, mouth, throat and tonsils. These lesions are teeming with treponemes and are highly infectious.
In up to 40% of people with secondary syphilis, the brain and spinal cord (CNS -- central nervous system) can become infected, with or without symptoms. In some cases, symptoms such as the following may appear:
If left untreated, neurosyphilis can develop, leading to severe complications.
The germs that cause syphilis can also infect the liver, causing liver damage or hepatitis, detected by increasing levels of liver enzymes in the blood.
Secondary syphilis can also turn into latent syphilis. In this case, no symptoms are present and the infection is only detectable with blood tests. However, despite the lack of symptoms, the disease is still eating away at the body.
Late Syphilis (Tertiary Syphilis)
In this stage of illness, any organ of the body may become slowly inflamed and affected by T. pallidum. Generally, late syphilis can affect the nervous system (neurosyphilis), the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular syphilis) and just about any organ/system where a syphilitic lesion can appear. Such solitary lesions are called gummas.
If left untreated, late-stage syphilis can eventually lead to unpleasant and dreadful complications, including the following:
Given all of these, regular blood tests for syphilis (and other STIs) are important for sexually active people who wish to remain healthy.
Different tests are available for assessing syphilis. For further information about which tests are available in your region, contact your local laboratory.
Blood tests commonly used to help diagnose syphilis include the following:
These two tests are indirect tests in that they detect antibodies produced against proteins unrelated to T. pallidum but that still occur in cases of syphilis. In people with primary syphilis or latent syphilis, these indirect tests may not always work. In such cases, where syphilis is suspected, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recommends that doctors repeat the indirect test several weeks later and also consider the use of tests that specifically assess the presence of antibodies to T. pallidum. These tests include the treponemal enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Other tests that may be useful include FTA-ABS, MHA-TP.
PCR tests are not routinely used to detect T. pallidum and they cannot distinguish between live and dead treponemes. Moreover, PCR tests are only available at specialized laboratories, including Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.
Recently, researchers in the Netherlands have suggested that routine assessment of blood for syphilis may be useful in HIV positive MSM because this disease can, at least initially, be symptom-free. This Dutch study will be the focus of an upcoming CATIE News story.
Unlike the case with many other diseases, one syphilis expert writing in an infectious disease textbook noted that "there have not been many well-controlled, carefully planned, prospective studies to determine [the best dose or length] of therapy." Current recommendations for treatment of syphilis are based on extrapolations of older data. Despite these drawbacks, an antibiotic called benzathine penicillin G is considered the gold standard of anti-syphilis therapy.
Drug Levels
Ideally, maintaining high levels of penicillin in the blood should keep T. pallidum from reproducing and still higher levels can help kill these germs. So, for treating early syphilis, high levels of penicillin G are needed for at least seven days. The most convenient way to achieve this while avoiding the issue of patient adherence is an injection of benzathine G penicillin into muscle. However, it is important to note that this dose is inadequate for neurosyphilis; indeed, levels of penicillin that can kill treponemes in the CNS are not reliably achieved with a single injection of benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units. Yet, in cases of early diagnosis, where, in theory, there are fewer treponemes, the evidence shows that treatment with a single injection of penicillin is sufficient therapy for the average person with primary syphilis.
Other Antibiotics
Antibiotics such as doxycycline impair the growth of treponemes and are sometimes used in patients who are allergic to penicillin. Bear in mind that unlike penicillin, doxycycline does not kill treponemes and may be less effective in people with severely weakened immune systems. In cases of penicillin allergy, some experts prefer to desensitize their patients to penicillin -- a course of action suggested by PHAC. Penicillin desensitization is also recommended for cases of syphilis in pregnant women.
Another potential treatment is the antibiotic azithromycin (Zithromax). However, reports have emerged of cases of syphilis resistant to azithromycin in the United States, Ireland and recently in the province of British Columbia. All of the B.C. cases of azithromycin-resistant syphilis were in MSM. PHAC does not recommend the use of this antibiotic for the routine treatment of syphilis.
Also, the antibiotic ceftriaxone is not recommended for routine treatment of syphilis in Canada.
What About HIV Infection?
The treatment of syphilis in people co-infected with HIV is controversial. Some physicians are in favour of the same therapy that would be used in HIV negative people -- a single intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units. However, because of a number of factors, some doctors may opt for more rigourous therapy in HIV positive people. These factors can include the following:
Such considerations have prompted some physicians to use benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units, injected intramuscularly, once weekly for three consecutive weeks as treatment in HIV positive people for primary or secondary syphilis.
Alternatively, other physicians may opt for the antibiotic doxycycline 100 mg taken orally twice daily for two to four consecutive weeks. Although effective in early-stage syphilis, doxycyline has not been tested for late-stage syphilis, so syphilis experts recommend desensitization to penicillin in patients with penicillin allergy, followed by penicillin therapy. Moreover, unlike penicillin, doxycycline does not kill treponemes.
For neurosyphilis, regardless of HIV infection status, PHAC recommends therapy with penicillin G 3 to 4 million units given intravenously every four hours each day (for a total of between 16 and 24 million units daily) for 10 to 14 days.
PHAC has excellent guidelines (updated in 2008) for the management of patients with syphilis, including a penicillin desensitization plan, available at:
For further information about syphilis and HIV, see "The Story of Syphilis" in The Positive Side magazine (spring/summer 2004), available at:
Recently, doctors in the Ottawa region have been studying an outbreak of syphilis to try to better understand it. Our report on this appears in the next CATIE News bulletin.
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One last thought about going back to school. It's September and that means the cicadas are humming, the temperature is cooling and neighborhood kids are lined up at the bus stop with backpacks, lunch bags and notebooks in tow. While this movement signals the beginning of fall, it also indicates an important opportunity for you and your club.
Programmed in us since the first days of kindergarten, the first day of school is a time to reset. It has always been a time to reflect on the last school year and a time to start fresh in the new school year with an eagerness to learn. September is when you get out your new planner, map out your schedule, set your goals and go after them. Sure, we're no longer in "school," but it's a good time to think about improving yourself and your facility.
Clubs usually see their traffic pick up during this time of year. With the kids in school, stay-at-home moms have more free time to spend at the club; if there's a college in your area, you've just increased your population to pull new members from; and many in your community are back from their vacation ready to lose the five pounds they gained while lounging and eating their way through the buffet line on that Caribbean cruise. Take advantage of those new markets and cleverly incorporate the time of year. A back-to-school or back-to-basics fall fitness group training or group exercise class can ease and encourage new members into exercise.
Evaluate what your club offers, what it excels at and where it's lacking. Then map out a way to make it better. While your planner used to be filled with room numbers and exam dates, now is the time to line your schedule with conference dates and group ex class times. I can't tell you the number of times a burnt-out staff has been rejuvenated simply by going to a conference or a workshop.
It's also a good time to evaluate (or to follow the school analogy, give grades to) your staff. Last month, I switched clubs, and while my new club is a wonderful facility with a talented staff, numerous program offerings and rows of shiny new treadmills, as the saying goes, it only takes one rotten apple to ruin the bunch. For confidentiality sake, let's call this rotten apple Ted. A recent high school graduate, Ted enjoyed working out and landed a gig cleaning the floors for the club in the afternoon. A few weeks into Ted's employment, I noticed him loitering after his shift, watching other members working out and — much to my horror — laughing at those struggling to finish their workout. At first I thought he was laughing at something else. The second time I figured he knew the person. The third time I contacted the manager. Because clubs have the reputation of being only for the beautiful and fit, it's difficult enough to get deconditioned people in the gym without these members enduring heckling from an employee. After I talked to the manager, we both agreed the fellow needed to go back to "school." Hence, the club began a sensitivity training for its entire staff — Ted included.
While you may be fortunate enough not to have a Ted at your fitness facility, a little customer service training, continuing education and a look at your club's future is never a bad idea, and fall is an ideal time to do so. School's in session — what will you learn this year?


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41st & Louise Construction Starting Today
If your normal routine takes you through the state's busiest intersection at 41st & Louise in Sioux Falls, you may want to find an alternate route for the next week.
Road crews are beginning concrete repairs today (November 9) between 34th and 41st streets on Louise Avenue.
A water main broke in that area this summer, and now crews are going to replace the temporary asphalt with permanent. Crews will begin cutting the asphalt today to prepare for the work they'll start Monday/
On Friday morning, the southbound lane between 34th Street and 41st Street on Louise will be closed. That lane will re-open Friday afternoon.
But on Monday, the lane will be closed again through Thursday as they replace the road with new concrete.
The plan is to finish by Thursday or Friday.
Crews are asking you to avoid the area for the next week or so.


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Let me start by stating that I am not the intended audience for this book.
However, if I were just starting out, this book would be absolutely essential to the early stages of my social media marketing journey.
Guy Kawasaki & Peg Fitzpatrick provide a pretty realistic overview of what the social media marketing landscape is like and how to successfully navigate it today.
The Art of Social Media covers the mundane aspects of social media marketing - such as making sure your personal avatar is easily identifiable and consistent across social networks - and builds up to more advanced topics such like incorporating social media into live events & conducting Google+ Hangouts on Air.
There were other, platform specific items - such as the content on Pinterest Marketing - that I found particularly useful.
For instance, Kawasaki recommends scouring the popular pins section for content ideas to share on other social media platforms, as well as starting "secret" boards and pre-populating them with great content well in advance of launching to the public.
That might seem like pretty straight forward and simple advice, but don't underestimate it.
By taking the time to build in secret mode, you can pay more attention to creating a content rich board that makes viewers want to re-pin, like & share. Once you feel like the board is "complete", turn secret mode off, and launch to eager pinners.
Because Pinterest surfaces content based on activity, giving users plenty to look at within a board can really increase the chances of getting more interaction all around (nobody wants to look at a board with two things on it!)
But also, consider that Shopify's 2014 Year in Review found that Pinterest was the #3 source of social media orders for Shopify merchants…
...and the #2 source of social media traffic the year before...
...the sections on Pinterest in particular are extremely relevant for ecommerce founders looking to make the most of a site that has become all but synonymous with "discovery commerce".
Source: FastCo Design
Maybe it's because I'm mostly inept when it comes to Pinterest, but I found the advice here useful, straight-forward & refreshing.
This was how I felt about the content on the other platforms & ecosystems I'm not as well versed in. I found myself bookmarking new tools, exploring the platforms a little more deeply, and thinking of the ways I could incorporate them into larger plans and campaigns.
This is a good sign, and I only imagine that feeling would have been amplified were I coming into social media marketing today, feeling overwhelmed and taunted by endless status update boxes, asking their smug little questions like "What's happening?" & "What have you been up to?"
Michael Munevar, an ecommerce specialist, leaves a pretty thorough review you should check out in full. Here is an excerpt that sums up my experience with this book:
For new internet entrepreneurs, those last two lines are imperative, "For the most part, Guy's advice is solid, and makes sense, although from my personal experience, I wouldn't apply that to every social media situation that I find myself in."
Newcomers, it's important you realize there is enough here to give you a huge head-start, but that you must eventually adapt these processes for yourself, and dive into deeper learning more on your own.
Guy even says very clearly in the book,
"...nobody really knows how social media works— including Peg and me! No matter how smart you are, best practices always change, because the platforms change how their sites work. Therefore, everyone needs to keep experimenting."
This is true of the framework Guy provides, but also from what you'll eventually find working for yourself.
It's easy to become intimidated, but you have to remember that saying "being good at social media" is just like saying "being good at telephone." There are multiple communication platforms each with their own pro's and cons, and Guy will help get you on the right path.
Nicki Marcus sums it up pretty well:
Now, like I said earlier in this review I am not the intended audience for this book.
Looking at this from the perspective as someone who has been in this industry for a number of years, the advice wasn't earth-shattering, but it acted as a great reminder to poke my head out of the foxhole, reevaluate some of my existing strategies and perform a health-check on my own profiles & processes. That needs to count for something.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of tools I found myself bookmarking, and to be perfectly honest, I can say it was worth the $10.99 on Amazon just to have all of these tools consolidated into one place (and not one of the ignored folders sitting in my Google Docs account.)
To me, this is the perfect companion piece to Jay Bayer's "Youtility" & Gary Vaynerchuk's "Jab Jab Jab, Right Hook", as this provides you with the more technical & tactical framework for setting up your social media channels, while the other two books ignite your own creativity on how to deliver insane amounts of value over those channels.
Should You Buy It?
Were I at an earlier stage in my career, my mind would have been blown.
It's a fast and easy read that is packed with a lot of tactics that will bring more clarity to the world of social media marketing. Overall, I would recommend buying this book, especially if social media marketing seems like a tangled mess to you.
Guy & Peg point you in the right direction on where you should be spending your time, and the "Feeding the Content Monster" chapter in particular will help you to answer questions like:
- "What should I post?"
- "When should I post?"
- "How often should I post?"
- "Where do I find things to post?"
If you're not a newcomer, I'd still recommend getting it as there are quite a few tools you might not be familiar with, and it's a great primer on the platforms you may not be comfortable with yet.
About The Author
Tommy Walker is a Conversion Optimization enthusiast and Content Strategist at Shopify. Get more from Tommy on Twitter.


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What do you make of STGSTV / Danse Manatee?
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Up until STGSTV / Danse Manatee, my introduction to AC went in this order: Panda Bear - Person Pitch Strawberry Jam Merriweather Post Pavillion Feels Sung Tongs Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished / Danse Manatee ...So I kinda of worked backwards. Anyway, I've only just started to really get my head around STGSTV & Danse Manatee. First few listens just annoyed the crap out of me and I struggled to find anything to like. It felt like they were just testing the water to see what they could get away with. So, I left it for a couple of years and now I've come back to it, I've got to say it's grown on me. Interesting and quite relaxing sound scapes, and I dig their creativity. Still - not the sort of thing you'd stick on with mates round! If I had to write a 3 word review it would be: "Music for Machines!" What do you guys make of it?
STGSTV is the most emotion inducing nostalgic beautiful album ever. it's use of contrast is amazing danse manatee is just an album that is "for fun" by my terms. while the music is not as meaningful as SGTSTV, it still is a great dose of AnCo
I feel like most people work backwords I love them both
OH GOD! Am I a machine?... the only option is to join Kraftwerk. We're charging our battery And now we're full of energy We are the robots
lol claudeavecvin, I almost spat my tea out then.. oh jeez, that was funny. Wasn't meant in a derogatory way.. By "Machines" I (obviously) meant Happy robot machines full to the gunnels with yummy oil (of a pleasing viscosity) who are building The Heart of Gold Space ship. It's heartening to know people love them though, looking forward to falling in love with them.
I have fallen in love with STGSTV since August when I listened to the album non-stop. I even slept to it every night because the songs on that album conjure up dream like images of forests and faries. As for Danse, that one can be tough, especially if you haven't had the opertunity to like early Animal Collective for a good amount of time. I really enjoy the sharp contrasts on Manatee and it seems like one of those records which just says we do what we want. Every song on there is so abstract on your first listen and that makes it hard to love at first and hard for non-AC fans to take seriously. Right now I only find Hollin to be the only AC stuff I can't love (and Campfire Songs when i'm not in that kind of mood). ON second thought TTG is like a high-fi Danse. Awesome!
STGSTV is dream music. It was recorded in the lands inside your head. So was TTG. But it's nightmare music. In a good way.
I could listen to the random TTG generator all day long
i just listened to danse manatee on vinyl for the first time! gave me new respect for the album. in the singing box >
Haha, no harm done Zaphy, I knew what you meant. The level of accuracy on your depiction of our work is very frightening to say the least. I just got Danse Danse Manatee on vinyl too, Dragon!
im ok with that
I loved Spirit from the getgo, and I've loved Danse for the last month or two. It's excited me that I'm so enamored of an album many people dismiss, or, I should say, an album many claim is their least best. That means, I hope and anticipate, I'll love that which I've not yet heard (I have all their stuff: I'm waiting and haven't yet indulged in them all yet). I'm saving Sung Tongs, People, Water Curses, Prospect Hummer, and Fall Be Kind. For the famine.
@Oaken, thats a very interesting method. i guess when anco stop making music you'll be the last one laughing
Ah, well, I didn't quite mean to that extent. When I wrote "for the famine" it was an attempt at being farcical because without those I've yet to get to, I've already got quite a bit of them on rotation and It's quite enough already (and yet not even close to enough in some ways!). It'll actually go like this: in a few months I'll start listening to Sung Tongs, a couple of months after that another, and so on. It's a somewhat whimsical yet planned goal of getting each of them all to the point where they're THERE, and then having them all PRESENT, each one at some ideal realm where I can dip in anywhere in their catalogue with glee. Hmmm...let me put it like this--it's a bit like halloween candy: one can, I suppose, eat it all at once, but it's nice to have a few Snickers and Butterfingers waiting to be chomped down in early December or even into the new year. At least that's my way of looking at it. Good idea, Ticonderoga, but I wouldn't be able to wait for any real famine. It's hard enough not to try to listen to all them at once, now, right now, this second. I mean, hell, I can see them on my bookshelf about ten feet away as I write this, beckoning me. For instance, I listened to MPP about a month ago--earlier than I anticipated--and it's thus entered into the listened/listening/hereNOW category I've arbitrarily set up. And I'm damn glad it has--wonderful stuff, that. Sometime in the middle of all this the new album will come out and by then I'm sure I'll be ready for it. The upshot? I know a good thing when I see it and I want it to LAST!
back to how you said STGSTV had alot of mindless noise, i just cant comprehend this. the intro is a little crazy, but every song has a graspable melody besides untitled and everyone whistling. i dont get it! :^)
Spirit is probably my favorite Animal Collective album, so many good tunes on that one. The raw passion and their overall approach on that record is indescribable, and it is one of the few records I have loved right off the bat. April and the Phantom, Chocolate Girl, Bat You'll Fly, La Rapet, and Alvin Row take the cake for me. Some of the other shorter tracks are pretty noisy, but overall, I fucking love it to death.
Zaphox, lovely writing, btw.
I love Spirit. it blows my mind that they both made that album when they were in high school, at my age. I cannot imagine creating something like that at this point in my life. and the sound ? god its like a dream land. Danse Manatee is terrific. I enjoy each track, Essplode is in my top 10 favorite songs by them. I can understand why its the least liked album...although I feel bad for those who can't seem to appreciate it.
JACOB!!!!!! My favorite AC albums, not true. I love all of them. I don't like the song lakablecky dress much just because its a fireworks prototype at least chord progression wise.
I love all of spirits transitions. I am not the biggest pop fan so songs like april and the phantom naturally apeal to me more thhen my girls or somat. I can appreciate their pop stuff too. At least it isn't modern shit pop with your typical C G Am F bullshit.
listening to my girls make me feel weird, like, people who dont even listen to AnCo love that song
I still likes it! You just have to listen with an open heart and not think of all those people. Just listen to what your heart says about the song.
hahaha thats exactly what i think to myself while listening!
Danse is my favorite album by them. it reminds me of an opera. at least emotionally and dynamically. all of the distortions create this fantasy soundscape. If you can imagine and commit to journeying to a place where this music exists then i think it will be better understood. Also if you think of at the end of Alvin row, the little girl says, that light didnt come back to me... my singing voice is gone. Danse is kind of the journey to find said singing voice; they go to the light child to find it and end up eventually in the singing box where they make happy music. so together they are my favorite... yes. (PS this is my first post)
Welcome! I never thought of Danse that way. It makes it so much more beautiful. Mind blown.
spirit is the testament to my childhood that makes all of its boody and challenges comingled into this emotional cocktail I drink and cry and smile simultaniuosly
glad to help! but really the first time i heard it i thought something was wrong with my computer... but now i see the noise has purpose, so its not noise
That was beautiful lylas! I wish I put more thought into my music like you do. I just kind of sit there and drool or bob my head.
the nice thing about their music is that there is material to keep it light, or get buried under, whichever you prefer in that moment.
You can't delete your own posts, it sucks. Wini - our gracious mod - sometimes cleans them up for us. But yeah, totally agree. Or sometimes both, in the case of Spirit! Buzzzzzzzz Lalalala Buzzzzzzzz.
I totally agree that Spirit and Danse are like Kid A and Amnesiac in that they kinda belong together. The second album compliments the first making both of them that much better. I really wish that I would've liked Danse at the same time I liked Spirit because I couldn't handle Danse until about 2 months after my first listen to it.
i enjoyed danse on the first listen just because I loved how strange it sounded.
I think i like songs liked In the Singing bBox, and Runnin' the Round Ball, and of course I liked Essplode all on the first listen. Songs like Ahhh Good Country and Meet the Light Child took time for me.
Lylas: Digging your Danse review and now can't wait to listen to it again =D I found Purplesage's and Ticonderoga's comments on My Girls interesting too. I always wondered what die hard AC fans thought of the more recent accessible stuff. Because I came in backwards I started with MPP. My Girls and Brother Sport were the first songs I really loved, and I haven't looked back since. However I can imagine some fans who have been there from the beginning not being overly keen on AC making music which is more accessible to conventional taste. Me, I'm really glad they did because I might not have invested the time to get into their earlier works otherwise.
don't get me wrong, i haven't been there since the beginning. i too became obsessed by mpp
The only AC albums I have ever became obsessed over were MPP and Down There, both albums basically were the only things I listened to for months.
My experiences with their albums are a bit different. I got hooked on them listening to SJ, and Holli first listen consecutively. so somewhere between the sequences: Reverend Green/Fireworks/#1 and Pride and Fight/Forest Gospel/ Theres an Arrow is where I fell in love. Outerbody experiences fit snuggly in my headphones. But everytime I tried to listen to MPP, i just couldnt digest it; it kind of sickened me. BUT after I grew into Spirit, I understood MPP; I associate the two very closely, but I have no idea why. it annoys me on a daily basis.
im a nooooobie! G.O's probably been around since their early times. Is that true GO? They've been jammin since the 90s. albums since early 2000000s. tens already passed and they getting older. ya know. i hope they still tour because i want to see them so bad
lylas, i can see what you mean by associating MPP with STGSTV. they have a similar tone at times
Stgstv is such a spring album
its more of a rocky winter album for me. with some evergreen trees thrown in there
I find it more as a nighttime album, and generally I associate it with fall. I think we are not going to get an answer where all of us agree.
its too weird of an album to really generalize to one setting i guess. i think out of every anco album, it's the one that is furthest away from all other music made ever
I think of it like fall into winter, the danse spring into summer. but i agree with peacefish, we wont all agree.
I think it of an album of mist but I can't say for sure if it's a specific seasonal mist. With a kaleidoscope of sun precipitating through at certain times, for certain intervals, surely.
I think for me it's when I start to listen to an album, I listened to april and the phantom and chocolate girl in spring so it reminds me of that time frame.
I've actually never listened to it. Just never bought it. But I feel like now is maybe the time for me to. I feel like my taste in the past few years have become more and more introverted (if that makes sense. I like to describe it like that). Spirit seems like it would fit in perfectly.


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DJ duo Bootie has put together a buttery compilation of their favorite mash-ups of the year, complete with creepy cover art. Compiled and mixed by DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D, this is perfect for you lazy assholes you are hosting a New Year's party and still don't have your music straight. You really can't go wrong playing this 22 track audio rager.
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Here's a few appetizers. Right click the song titles to download the tracks.
DJ Tripp – Just Stop Believin' (Lady Gaga vs. Journey)
Titus Jones – A Circus of Heartbreakin' Divas (Pat Benatar vs. Beyoncé vs. 3Oh!3 vs. Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera vs. M.I.A.)
Dan Mei & Marc Johnce – My Life On The Crazy Train Sucks (So What?) (Kelly Clarkson vs. Ozzy Osbourne vs. Pink vs. Daft Punk)


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6 June 2012 at 2.43pm | 12 Comments
Earlier this year myself and three others decamped to the Royal Opera House auditorium for a unique photo shoot. Unlike most of our photography sessions, this was not about capturing a perfect pirouette or dramatic moment courtesy of our artists. For this shoot, the stage and the auditorium itself were to be the stars of the show.
Our task was to photograph the view of the stage from each of the 2,260 seats in the auditorium for the website – which as you may have noticed, has recently had an extensive makeover. A major part of this design is the completely updated booking system, which now allows those purchasing tickets to see the view from - and of - the seat prior to booking. This meant that a total of 4,520 photos had to be taken.
All this had to be done throughout the night as this is the only time auditorium is empty: the rest of the time being busy with performances, rehearsals, tours and technical business. The task required a lot of stamina - and seemingly endless coffee - with the group working a total of four long and exhausting nights. Each evening we started immediately after the performance concluded and packed up to go home at 10am the following morning.
You might think this task would be tedious due to the repetitive nature of capturing the images, but strangely enough this was never an issue. In fact, I felt hypnotized by the process, and my actions became automatic and almost unconscious. Perhaps some of this was down to sleep deprivation.
You can see a short film we made about the process here:


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