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Joyce Harris, community outreach manager at Education Northwest, received a lifetime achievement award from the Portland Human Rights Commission on Dec. 2 at the Emily G. Gottfried Human Rights Awards ceremony.
REL Northwest and the Institute of Education Sciences have released a study examining online credit recovery through the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), Montana's state public virtual school. MTDA provides online education opportunities to Montana students through courses taught by licensed Montana
A new report from REL Northwest examines the strategies used by six Montana schools with higher than average student passing rates in online credit recovery courses offered by the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA). The report finds that successful schools provided instructional support, consistent
These guides provide districts with guidance for accurately and consistently entering students' names into school, district and state databases.
10-State Study Finds Current Policies Not Addressing Common Reasons Community College Transfer Students Lose Credit
A new study by Education Northwest examines the complexities community college students face when they transfer to four-year institutions. The 10-state study offers a new framework for understanding the multiple policy approaches that address how credits transfer, how they are applied to a major or
Education Northwest Community Outreach Manager Joyce Harris and two others have won the 2016 awards for public service given annually by the University of Oregon Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management and the department's advisory council. Harris will be honored in a ceremony on May...
Study Finds High School Grades More Predictive of Students' College Academic Performance Than Standardized Tests
A REL Northwest study of developmental education (remedial, noncredit bearing courses) and college readiness of first-time students at the University of Alaska found that high school grade point average (GPA) was more predictive of students' success in college English and math courses than SAT, ACT
U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici—whose Congressional district stretches from the west side of Portland all the way to the Oregon coast—spoke with Education Northwest staff...
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What seemed to be the inevitable ascension of Matt Flynn as the Raiders starting quarterback is now an open question.
Terrelle Pryor thrust himself into the conversation Friday night by bringing the Raiders back from the dead in a 34-26 preseason loss to the Chicago Bears at O.co Coliseum.
Pryor scored on a 25-yard scramble and hit a clutch 19-yard touchdown pass to sixth-round draft pick Nick Kasa as the Raiders rebounded from a 27-3 deficit to get within 27-20 after three quarters.
By the time Matt McGloin took over in the fourth quarter, Pryor had given coach Dennis Allen and offensive coordinator Greg Olson something to think about, as much by Flynn's struggles as by Pryor's playmaking ability.
Asked afterward if he would consider Pryor as the potential Week 1 starting quarterback, Allen said, "I think we'll have to take a look at it. I don't think Matt played well. Terrelle came in and gave us a spark. I'm not going to make any decisions tonight.'
Flynn was 3-for-6 for 19 yards, had two interceptions _ both on throws that weren't close _ and was getting resounding boos from the home crowd.
"That's the game of football,'' Flynn said. "That's what happens when you have passionate fans that expect a certain level of performance.''
Pryor had 37 yards rushing on three carries and completed 7 of 9 passes for 93 yards and a touchdown.
Upon entering the game with 6:52 left in the first half, Pryor also initially struggled. He threw high for for Streater on a third-and-11 play to Rod Streater that should have been intercepted by Bears safety Chris Conte, who dropped the ball.
Late in the half, Pryor's 26-yard completion to Mychal Rivera set up Sebastian Janikowski for a 58-yard field goal.
In the second half, against the Bears' second-team defense, Pryor scrambled to his left and lofted a 19-yard jump pass to Streater for a first down. He later raced around right end for the 25-yard score.
Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 30-yard field goal after a Josh McCown fumble got the Raiders within 27-13, and then the former Raiders quarterback threw an interception to Joselio Hanson, setting up more Pryor heroics.
Sacked for an 11-yard loss earlier in the series, and faced with third-and-16, Pryor threw a perfect seam pass to Kasa at the goal line for the touchdown.
"I just want to go out and compete,'' Pryor said. "To me, that's just what I do. That's how I expect to play. My teammates stepped up and made a lot of plays for me.''
Neither quarterback was interested in entering a debate as the Raiders begin a short week heading into their final preseason game at Seattle Thursday night.
Flynn, who was the presumptive starter in Seattle last season only to lose the job to Russell Wilson, was asked if he had jeopardized a potential starting position with the Raiders.
"I'm not sure,'' Flynn said. "I'll go out, keep busting my tail and look t oplay better. Week No. 3 in in the preseason is not going to affect me in the long run.''
Said Pryor: "I'm not looking to get into who is going to start. We've got a lot of things to fix and we're going to fix them together.''
In trailing 27-3 at the end of the first half, the Raiders were actually worse than they were the week before in New Orleans, where they were down 23-7 at halftime. Chicago outgained the Raiders 252 to 92 and a 14-4 edge in first downs.
Quarterback Jay Cutler was 12 of 21 for 142 yards and a 32-yard touchdown to Matt Forte, and Forte also rushed for 76 yards on six carries. Former Raider Michael Bush had scoring runs of 10 yards and one yard.
The first-half highlight for the Raiders was the return to action of cornerback D.J. Hayden, who had not played since last November after rupturing a blood vessel to his heart in a practice at Houston.
Hayden gave up his first completion (a 22-yard pass to Brandon Marshall), made his first tackle and broke up his first pass.
"No question he was rusty,'' Allen said. "It was good to get him on the field. He got a lot of firsts out of the way tonight.''
— McGloin, who played the fourth quarter, was 7 of 14 for 128 yards, a 5-yard touchdown to Jamize Olawale and two interceptions.
— Streater went out with a concussion on the 15-yard catch from Pryor in the third quarter. Brice Butler and Usama Young left the game with hamstring strains, and Hanson had a groin injury.
— Janikowski kicked a 58-yard field goal off the dirt at the end of the second half and was wide right in the first half from 49 yards.
— Jacoby Ford raced 62 yards with a kickoff return after Josh Cribbs mishandled his first attempt and fumbled the second, with the Raiders recovering.
— Running back Darren McFadden has a minor shoulder injury and could have played if it were a regular season game, Allen said.


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Does Someone Have to Go? Three employees are on the chopping block in this new episode of the reality series. 9 p.m. Fox
Anger Management It's splitsville for Charlie and Kate (Charlie Sheen, Selma Blair) in this new episode. 9:30 p.m. FX
Beyond Scared Straight Four at-risk girls sample life behind bars at Oneida County Correctional Facility in Oneida, N.Y. in the series' season premiere. 10 p.m. A&E
Hannibal The mad doctor (Mads Mikkelsen) schemes to withhold a diagnosis from Will (Hugh Dancy) in this new episode. 10 p.m. NBC
Rookie Blue Andy (Missy Peregrym) is partnered with Swarek (Ben Bass) on a bank-robbery case on her first day back with the squad in this new episode. 10 p.m. ABC
2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee Alex Trebek takes his final turn as master of ceremonies when young spellers compete the finals in Washington, D.C.. 5 p.m. ESPN
The Day Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story Richard Schickel examines the filmmaking style of director Clint Eastwood. 5 and 8 p.m. TCM
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text: Roger Schreiver Posted August 24, 2005 The Secret of Eurasia - The Key to Hidden History and World Events by MEHMET SABEHEDDIN Beneath the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface. — A.E. Waite1 Have secret societies and occult brotherhoods been active behind the scenes of world events for thousands of years? Do these guardians of secret wisdom shape the growth of human consciousness and influence the destiny of nations? Are hidden masters of occult knowledge empowering and infiltrating certain political, cultural, spiritual and economic movements, in fulfillment of an ancient plan? Could it be that man's great upheavals, wars, and revolutions, as well as his pioneering discoveries in science, literature, philosophy and the arts, are the result of a 'hidden hand'? Can we decode history and find the mysterious interface between politics and occultism, thereby uncovering the real movers and shakers in our modern world? The German philosopher Oswald Spengler warned of a "mighty contest" between groups of men of "immense intellect" who the "simple citizen neither observes nor comprehends." Back in 1930 Ralph Shirley, the editor of the London Occult Review, Britain's leading journal of esoteric sciences, endorsed "the suspicion that the ranks of occultism are secretly working for disintegration and revolution. Positive proof in the shape of a group of occultists working with this objective in view recently came under the notice of the present writer." Major-General Fuller, a former disciple of Aleister Crowley, who had links to British military intelligence, wrote about an insidious force using "Magic and Gold" striving "to gain world domination under an avenging Messiah as foretold by Talmud and Qabalah." Fuller's former chief Crowley worked as a secret agent for both Britain and Germany, although his British handlers noted his 'unreliability' warning he should only be used in espionage operations with the utmost care. During the First World War the German Foreign Office secretly requested the occultist Gustav Meyrink to write a novel blaming the Freemasons of France and Italy for the outbreak of war. Madame Blavatsky believed the Catholic society of Jesuits had transferred their headquarters from the continent to England where they plotted to plunge man into passive ignorance and institute "Universal Despotism". The founder of the Theosophical Society, a woman of immense intellect and first hand experience of secret societies, warned: Students of Occultism should know that while the Jesuits have by their devices contrived to make the world in general, and Englishmen in particular think there is no such thing as Magic and laugh at Black Magic, these astute and wily schemers themselves hold magnetic circles and form magnetic chains by the concentration of their collective WILL, and when they have any special object to effect or any particular and important person to influence.2 The French Revolution, one of Europe's most important political upheavals, was largely the work of Masonic lodges dedicated to the overturning of the monarchy and an end of the established Catholic religion. In Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), John Robison showed that the political clubs and correspondence committees during the revolution, including the famous Jacobin Club, sprang from these Masonic lodges. The influence on history of mysticism, the occult and secret societies is generally dismissed by Western academics. Mainstream historians choose to ignore this aspect because they believe it has no real significance to world politics. In fact it is only through acknowledging the role and influence of the 'occult underground' that important world events can be fully understood and placed in their real historical perspective. Atlantism Verses Eurasianism Secret societies and the teachers of occult wisdom consistently trace their origins back to the very dawn of civilisation. Within Judeo-Christian culture, the secret schools speak of Adam, Seth, Moses and the Patriarchs as initiates of a divine wisdom carefully passed from one generation to the next. Other occult groups look back beyond ancient Egypt and the Mystery schools of Greece, to the lost continent of Atlantis. Still others trace their lineage to Sumeria or Babylon and the mysterious plains of Tartary. Examining mankind's myths, legends and arcane stories we encounter countless references to a vanished primordial civilisation. The brilliant French metaphysician Rene Guenon wrote of a great Hyperborean culture that flourished around the Arctic Circle and of its outposts Shambhala in the East and Atlantis in the West. Plato wrote of Atlantis, describing it as the heart of a great and powerful empire which, due to the indiscriminate mixing of "the sons of God" with "the children of men," suffered "violent earthquakes and floods" and "disappeared beneath the sea". According to occult tradition, Atlantis came to an end after a lengthy period of chaos and disaster brought about, in the words of Madame Blavatsky, because the "Atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians." Atlantis was destroyed by a conspiracy of evil magicians who had seized control of the mighty continent. Long before the final end of Atlantis, great migrations took place to different centres of the earth. In one legend we are told of a righteous remnant journeying from the Arctic Circle to Shambhala, in the remote fastness of Central Asia. Other legends suggest Atlantean survivors established the ancient Egyptian civilisation. Victoria LePage, the author of one of the most comprehensive studies of Shambhala explains how Atlantis and Shambhala are more than mere geographic locations: In folklore Atlantis and Shambhala are implicitly linked together as charismatic images of heart's desire, two shining mirages that lie on the farthest horizon of human longing, unattainable, always receding as we reach for them; at best no more than ideal states of consciousness never realized. But their association seems to have a far more real and historically concrete basis than that. Initiatic tradition affirms they have both genuinely existed, one in the western sea, the other in the eastern mountains, as lynchpins of what was once a network of Wisdom centers located on a great power-grid extending around the globe. Further, Shambhala still exists within a framework that awaits reactivation.3 In order to identify the historical activities of secret societies we need to appreciate the origin of a most powerful idea. Occult lore speaks of Shambhala as the positive centre of the Brotherhood of Light, and Atlantis the negative centre of the evil magicians, the Brothers of the Shadow. Wherever we look we see the division of secret societies and occult endeavours into these two opposing 'Orders'. All occult movements and teachings inevitably serve either the "Order of Eurasia" or the "Order of Atlantism", with their respective symbolic centres of Shambhala and Atlantis. Concealed behind a multitude of different forms and represented by an array of unsuspecting agents of influence, these two centres – Shambhala and Atlantis – represent two different impulses in human evolution. Viewed from the perspective of sacred geography, in our present historical cycle, Atlantism is the triumph of the most destructive and diabolical elements in the civilisation of the West. One modern authority on sacred geography and geopolitics observes: Sacred geography on the basis of "space symbolism" traditionally considers the East as "the land of Spirit", the paradise land, the land of a completeness, abundance, the Sacred "native land" in its fullest and most perfect kind. In particular, this idea is mirrored in the Bible text, where the eastern disposition of "Eden" is treated. Precisely such understanding is peculiar also to other Abrahamic traditions (Islam and Judaism), and also to many non-Abrahamic traditions – Chinese, Hindu and Iranian. "East is the mansion of the gods", states the sacred formula of the ancient Egyptians, and the same word "east" ("neter" in Egyptian) meant at the same time "god". From the point of view of natural symbolism, East is the place where the sun rises, Light of the World, material symbol of Divinity and Spirit. The West has the opposite symbolical meaning. It is the "country of death", the "lifeless world", the "green country" (as the ancient Egyptians called it). West is "the empire of exile", "the pit of the rejected", according to the expression of Islamic mystics. West is "anti-East", the country of decay, degradation transition from the manifest to the non-manifest, from life to death, from completeness to need, etc. West is the place where the sun goes, where it "sinks down".4 Russia & the Magical Universe Russia, geographically the largest country on earth, occupies a unique position in the study of human history furnishing us with a window into the world of secret societies, occult teachers, and subterranean political currents. Ideas and practices drawn from magic and the occult have always been a part of Russian life. In the sixteenth century Tsar Ivan IV consulted magicians and was aware of the occult significance of the precious stones set in his staff. His reign was the culmination of the dream of building a prophetic, religious civilisation in the Eastern Christian tradition of Byzantium. Surrounded by secret orders of apocalyptical monks, Ivan saw himself as heir to the Israelite kings and attempted to transform Russian life in accord with his magical view of reality. Ivan was convinced the Russian nation had a special mission to accomplish, nothing short of the redemption of the world. In 1586, Tsar Boris Godunov offered the huge salary of 2000 English pounds a year, with a house and all provisions free, to John Dee, the English magus and spy master, to enter his service. Dee's son Dr. Arthur Dee, who like his father was an alchemist and Rosicrucian, went to Moscow to work as a physician. Mikhail Romanov, the first Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, allegedly ascended the throne with the help of Dr. Arthur Dee and the British Secret Service. Before their rise to power the Romanovs were accused by their enemies of practising magic and possessing occult powers. The legendary Count of Saint Germain, described as an alchemist, spy, industrialist, diplomat and Rosicrucian, became involved in several political intrigues in Russia and was, according Nicholas Roerich, "a member of the Himalayan brotherhood." In 1755 he traveled throughout Eurasia to study occult teachings, and may even have visited Tibet. It is said that while studying occultism in Central Asia the Count was introduced to the secret rites of Tantric sex magic which provided him with a technique to prolong his youth. He also engaged in spying operations against the notorious British India Company. Saint Germain founded two secret societies called the Asiatic Brethren and the Knights of Light. As early as 1780 he warned Marie Antoinette that the French throne was in danger from an international conspiracy of 'Brothers of the Shadow'. Rumours continued to circulate for many years after his alleged death that Saint Germain was still alive working behind the scenes in European politics or studying occult doctrines in Central Asia. West Meets East Occult powers seem to be a matter of national temperament… Russia tends to produce mages – men or women who impress by their spiritual authority; no other nation has a spiritual equivalent of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, or even of Rozanov, Merezhkovsky, Soloviev, Fedorov, Berdaev, Shestov. Certainly no other nation has come near to producing anyone like Madame Blavatsky, Gregory Rasputin or George Gurdjieff. Each is completely unique. — Colin Wilson, The Occult The process of synthesis of the occult traditions of East and West is seen in the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and the author of the magnus opus The Secret Doctrine. Born Helena von Hahn, the daughter of a Russian military family and cousin to the future Russian Prime Minister Count Witte, she is a true emissary of the Eurasian Order. Nevill Drury says of the Russian occultist: Her main contribution to mystical thought was the manner in which she sought to synthesise Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, thereby providing a framework for understanding universal occult teaching.5 Madame Blavatsky traveled throughout Asia and Europe, joined Garibaldi's national revolutionary militia, fighting in the battle of Mentana, in which she was severely wounded. In the late 1870s, shortly after the publication of her first book Isis Unveiled, a compelling indictment of contemporary Western religion as spiritually bankrupt, she moved from the United States to India where the headquarters of the Theosophical Society remains until this day. In 1891 the future Tsar Nicholas II, in the company of the mystic Eurasian scholar Prince Ukhtomsky, visited the headquarters of the Theosophical headquarters at Adyar. Prince Ukhtomsky's description of the society is revealing: At the insistence of H.P. Blavatsky, a Russian lady who knew and had seen much, the idea sprang up of the possibility, and even the necessity, of founding a society of theosophists, of searchers for the truth in the broadest sense of the word, for the purpose of enlisting adepts of all creeds and races, of penetrating deeper into the most secret doctrines of oriental religions, of drawing Asiatics into true spiritual communion with educated foreigners in the West, of keeping up secret relations with different high priests, ascetics, magicians, and so on.6 Madame Blavatsky wanted to unite Central Asia, India, Mongolia, Tibet and China, in order – with the involvement of Russia – to create a grand Eurasian power able to oppose British ambitions. Traveling across India Blavatsky agitated against British rule and found herself accused by the colonial authorities of being a Russian spy. Prince Ukhtomsky saw support for Eurasia in the "readiness of the Indians to group themselves under the banner of the strange northern woman." He believed Madame Blavatsky had been forced to leave India by "the suspiciousness of the English." As early as 1887 H.P. Blavatsky had become a topic of debate in "mystic Petersburg" and received the prestigious support of Ukhtomsky's friend the mysterious Tibetan Dr. Badmaev, soon to become notorious for the favour he received at the Russian imperial court and his relationship with Rasputin. Madame Blavatsky's sister insisted that the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev had recognised the young Helena's psychic gift, and admonished her to use her powers with discretion, as he felt sure they were given her for some higher purpose. Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, a scholar of comparative religion and a Gnostic Bishop, reminds us that Blavatsky, was a true daughter of Mother Russia. Some feel that her life and character correspond strongly to the archetype of the traditional Russian wandering holy person, known as the staretz (literally 'old one'), denoting a wandering, non-clerical ascetic, or pilgrim, who travels about the countryside, exhorting people concerning spiritual matters, sometimes in a decidedly unorthodox manner.7 After H.P. Blavatsky's death in London in 1891, the Theosophical Society came under the firm control of the English occultists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, a confirmed British imperialist. The Eurasian orientation given to early Theosophy by H.P. Blavatsky was compromised by the influence of British Masonry and Leadbeater's esoteric High Anglicanism. In the great struggle of the magicians the Eurasian impulse found new historical agents in the West, among them the celebrated French magus Papus. Grand Battle of the Magicians When the 19th century will have come to an end, one of the Brothers of Hermes will come from Asia to unite humanity again. — Nostradamus Papus, together with Oswald Wirth and De Guaita, dreamed of uniting occultists everywhere into a revived Rosicrucian brotherhood, an international occult order in which they hoped the Russian Empire would play a leading role as the bridge between East and West. Papus was the pseudonym of Dr. Gerard Encausse (1865-1916), a disciple of Joseph Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1910), an initiate of the French Gnostic Church and often the instigator of many of the occult groups of his time. One of the most famous turn-of-the century occultists, he was the founder of the Hermetic School in Paris, which attracted many Russian students, and directed the leading French occult review, L'Initiation. Papus was also the head of two secret societies, the L'Ordre du Martinisme and the L'Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix. When the Russian Tsar and Tsaritsa visited France in 1896, it was Papus who sent them a greeting on behalf of "the French Spiritualists," hoping that the Tsar would "immortalise his Empire by its total union with Divine Providence." This greeting was reminiscent of the hopes of mystics at the time of Tsar Alexander I's Holy Alliance. Papus made his first visit to Russia in 1901 and was introduced to the Tsar. He quickly set up a lodge of his Martinist Order in St. Petersburg with the Tsar as the president of the "Unknown Superiors" who controlled it. The historian James Webb says Papus "was merely reviving a devotion to a philosophy that had flourished in Russia at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries before being suppressed." As the foremost student of Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Papus knew of the key role to be played by Russia in unifying Eurasia and her occult destiny as the Empire of the End, the outward manifestation of the enigmatic power of 'Northern Shambhala'. Through Papus the Imperial family became acquainted with his friend and spiritual mentor Master Philippe (Nizier Anthelme Philippe). A sincere Christian mystic, he was given rank and honours by the Russian Tsar, and maintained contact with the imperial court until his death in 1905. Papus returned to St. Petersburg in 1905 where it was rumoured he, in the presence of the Imperial couple, evoked the spirit of the Tsar's father, Alexander III, who offered practical advise on handling a political crisis. Both Master Philippe and Papus played an important political role at the Russian court. They not only advised the Tsar on affairs of state but maintained contact with influential Russian initiates of the Martinist Order, among them two of the Tsar's uncles and numerous relatives. The German occultist Rudolf Steiner, who had his own disciples among the German General Staff, followed the mission of the two Frenchmen, disturbed by Papus' "extensive influence in Russia". A strong advocate of the alliance between France and Russia, Papus warned the Tsar of an international conspiracy aimed at world domination. He believed that the vast Russian Empire was the only power capable of thwarting the conspiracy of the 'Shadow Brothers'. He also urged the Tsar to prepare for the coming war with Germany, then being engineered by sinister forces in Berlin. According to one account, he promised the imperial family that, the Romanov monarchy would be protected as long as he, Papus, was alive. When the news of his death reached Alexandra in 1916, she sent a note to her husband (at the time commanding the Russian armies at the front in World War I) containing the words 'Papus is dead, we are doomed!'8 Papus promoted his Martinist Order as a counter to the Masonic lodges which, he believed, were in the service of British imperialism and the international financial syndicates. From his papers it is known that he furnished documentation to the Russian authorities about Masonic activities in Russia and Europe. Papus condemned Freemasonry as atheistic in contrast to the esoteric Christianity of the Martinist Order. He castigated "our epoch of scepticism, adoration of material forms, so vitally in need of a frankly Christian reaction, independent of all priesthoods." Shortly after returning from his first visit to Russia in 1901, a series of articles appeared in the French press for which Papus was largely responsible. They warned of a "hidden conspiracy" the existence of which the public was totally unaware and of the machinations of a sinister financial syndicate trying to disrupt the Franco-Russian alliance. The public is blind to the real forces of history: It does not see that in all conflicts whether arising within or between nations, there are at the side of the apparent actors hidden movers who by their self-interested calculations make these conflicts inevitable…. Everything which happens in the confused evolution of nations is thus prepared in secret with the goal of securing the supremacy of a few men; and it is these few men, sometimes famous, sometimes unknown, who must be sought behind all public events. Now, today, supremacy is ensured by the possession of gold. It is the financial syndicates who hold at this moment the secret threads of European politics… A few years ago there was thus founded in Europe a financial syndicate, today all-powerful, whose supreme aim is to monopolise all the markets of the world, and which in order to facilitate its activities has to acquire political influence. The Papus inspired articles in Echo de Paris revealed the role of the British Secret Service, which was exposed as being behind British Freemasonry, to isolate and weaken Russia. In France British agents concentrated on anti-Russian propaganda, while in Russia they used "financial trickery" to infiltrate all levels of society. Every effort was required "to preserve the Russian Emperor – so loyal and so generous – from the evils… [of ] the syndicate of financiers… which at present controls the destinies of Europe and the world." Source: http://www.geocities.com/integral_tradition/key.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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One of our readers spotted this Toyota truck in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn. Nothing says, "America, Chuck Yeah!" like a picture of Chuck Norris on the tailgate of a truck.
It doesn't even matter that the truck was built by a Japanese company. Chuck Norris' glaring mug is all you need to see to know that this truck (and possibly its owner) is a) manly, and b) as American as a bacon-covered .50-caliber machine gun.
Where's my spray gun? I think my Subaru needs to get Chucked over. (Hat tip to Brian!)
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Abstract: How can organizations innovate and break with conventions without losing their legitimacy? Organizing for legitimacy (serving tradition and convention) often contrasts organizing for innovation and is often perceived a choice between two evils. This paper suggests that leaders can reconcile the legitimacy-innovation tension by combining and addressing them as two complimentary processes. An ethnographic case study depicts how shared leadership in a highly successful filmmaking company, confronts the legitimacy-innovation tension and, based on a combination of 'out-of-fashion' and contra-intuitive actions, their search for new solutions makes them balance between being a rebel or an outlaw. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8392
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Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic A.A.S.
A unique partnership with Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare
This unique A.A.S. degree program, a partnership between HCCC and Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare provides the paramedic student the education necessary to function in an out-of-hospital setting as an emergency medical services professional. Trauma from motor vehicle collisions and the like, as well as medical emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes, all demand professional pre-hospital emergency medical attention. Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) gives immediate and often life-saving emergency medical care to these patients while on-scene and during transport to medical facilities. Successful graduates will be eligible for New York State Certification as well as certification with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.
Paramedics have fulfilled prescribed requirements by a credentialing agency to practice the art and science of out-of-hospital medicine in conjunction with medical direction. Through performance of assessments and providing medical care, their goal is to prevent and reduce mortality and morbidity due to illness and injury. Paramedics primarily provide care to emergency patients in an out-of-hospital setting.
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Paramedics are responsible and accountable to medical direction, the public and their peers. Paramedics recognize the importance of research and actively participate in the design, development, evaluation and publication of research. Paramedics seek to take part in life-long professional development, peer evaluation and assume an active role in professional and community organizations.
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To be eligible, students must be at least 18 years of age, be enrolled full-time in the College's EMT/Paramedic program and maintain current NYS Department of Health certification as an EMT Basic or greater level provider. All certifications must be current and maintained throughout the duration of the housing contract with the FFD. Students participating in the program are required to maintain enrollment at HCCC and be in good academic standing. The FFD will select up to four students each year.
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Sheryl Crow and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein have each been granted three-year restraining orders against a man accused of harassing them.
Phillip Gordon Sparks was ordered to temporarily stay away from the "All I Wanna Do" hit maker last month after he claimed Crow had stolen money from him and reportedly threatened to harm the star in a series of angry posts online.
It emerged this week that homeless Sparks had targeted Weinstein after becoming convinced the Hollywood producer had teamed up with Crow to rob him and destroy his life.
In a California court on Tuesday, a psychiatrist testifying on Crow's behalf called Sparks "dangerous," and a judge granted the singer as well as Weinstein a three-year restraining order.
Sparks has been ordered to refrain from contacting the singer, her family, her manager and other employees until 2015.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
VividOutline (Create a Speech Outline as the first step in the planning for a persuasive presentation).
We teach the Vivid Method for Public Speaking.
Vivid's brand essence: An incredibly clear message with nothing superfluous.
'It's easier than you thought to be a great communicator.'
1. We teach people to think clearly about communication, and show them that with a method to prepare your speech/presentation, anyone can be engaging and persuasive.
2. When people see that this IS possible with the Vivid Method, they come alive. They engage others effortlessly, in their own natural style. Their energy is increased automatically because we have removed the obstructions.
Relaxed business people who understand that communicating persuasively makes them a lot more effective.
They want their key messages (for presentations and important conversations) ready at any time. The use iPhones and Blackberries. They use a lot of apps so the icons needs to be easy, obvious and branded the same as other Vivid products and services.
An online tool creates Speech Outlines very quickly. An iPhone App allows the user to access their Speech Outlines - anytime, anywhere.
This project is to 1) create the icons for the soft buttons at the bottom of the iPhone screen. They are called 'tab bar tabs'.
And 2) create a 'Post-it note page curl' image for iPhone page.
A crude mockup is attached.
Here are Apple's guidelines:
- "The icon you create for navigation bars is used as a MASK to create the icon you see in the application." So black and white is all that is needed.
- "Don't include a pressed or selected appearance with your icons."
- "Give all icons in a bar a similar visual weight."
- Background is transparent
* Need 2 versions of each button. Dimensions:
- Normal resolution 48 x 32 pixels
- High resolution 96 x 64 pixels
Icons required:
1. Back symbol (arrow pointing left)
2. Overview (numbered bullets w/ line)
3. number 1 (helvetica)
4. number 2 (helvetica)
5. number 3 (helvetica)
6. number 4 (helvetica)
7. Recap (bullets w/ line possibly with lightening bolt to indicate 'fast')
8. Message (circle represents message, arrow shows message getting into the mind of the listener)
1a. Back symbol (Filing cabinet)
2a. Chunk Headings (numbered bullets w/ line)
3a. Key Points (bullets w/ line)
4a. Message (as above)
1b. Post-it note page curl for top right hand corner. (See mockup)


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PowerPoint Timer Animation Template Circle
Editable PowerPoint timer animation effect. Great for use as a break timer or a game response timer in an instructor-led course environment. Multiple styles of the timer are available (samples below). Customize the timer for your own desired time. The templates uses built-in PowerPoint animations. No outside programming or tricks.


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The fallout over antenna problems on the iPhone 4 appears to have reached the top offices of Apple's hardware division.
Mark Papermaster, the top executive of the company's mobile devices, has left the company. The New York Times first reported the sudden departure Saturday and said Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed Papermaster has left the company but didn't say whether he was fired or left on his own.
His picture has already been removed from Apple's site.
Papermaster's role will be filled by Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh hardware engineering, Dowling said.
Apple hired Papermaster in January 2009 to lead development on the new iPhone. He spent 25 years at IBM before he went to Apple. IBM sued him, saying a non compete agreement kept him from joining Apple. The case went to court and was settled after Papermaster testified he didn't have any trade secrets.
The reception problems on the iPhone 4 have been widely-reported and Apple has given a fix in the form of a rubber wrapper around the edge on the iPhone.
Some tech watchers noted Papermaster's absence at a press conference Apple held in the wake of the tech glich.


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New BCS coordinator says officials will do a ``thorough'' evaluation of plus-one format
NEW ORLEANS -- BCS officials are going to have some serious discussions in the upcoming months about going to a plus-one format, which could create a four-team major college football playoff.
Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford, the new coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series, said Monday he intends to lead a "thorough" evaluation of the plus-one format. The BCS must determine in the next nine to 12 months what format it will use for the 2010 season (2011 bowls) so it can negotiate a new television deal.
Swofford takes over this year for Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive as the public face of the BCS.
Swofford and Slive, speaking to the Football Writers Association of America, said there was increased support among conference commissioners and university presidents for having serious discussions about the plus-one, which would set the national championship game matchup after the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta bowls have been played.
Top-ranked Ohio State and No. 2 LSU were to play in the BCS national championship Monday night.
Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese and Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe have also said they'd like to look deeper into a plus-one.
Big Ten commissioners Jim Delany and Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen have said the university presidents they work for are opposed to moving the BCS to a plus-one, in part because it could make the Rose Bowl less attractive.
The Big Ten and Pac-10 have a contractual relationship with the Rose Bowl.
"Not withstanding that opposition, we will continue to discuss and evaluate the plus-one or formats of interest brought by others that come to the table," Slive said. "Fully understanding that in the final analysis that it comes down to each conference deciding what format it prefers."
Commissioners from all 11 major college football conferences will meet in Miami in April and the plus-one will be a topic.
"I think we would be remiss if we didn't have that discussion in full and play it out and see what the ramifications of it are in great detail," Swofford said. "To see if there are unintended consequences there. What are the pluses, what are the minuses? Really drill into it so we can have the right kind of information.
"Evaluate it in a thorough way and ultimately make a decision. You don't know unless you have that discussion."
Both Swofford and Slive said if a plus-one was adopted, they would support seeding the top four teams after the regular season and playing No. 1 vs. No. 4 and No. 2 vs. No. 3 in bowl games, essentially creating two national semifinals.
Rose Bowl officials have said they are wary of any change to the BCS that would lessen the significance of their game or make it more difficult for them to line up the their traditional Big Ten-Pac-10 matchup.
"That's a definite hurdle," Swofford said. "I don't know if it's the biggest, but it's significant."
The winner of the semifinals would play a week later in the BCS national championship game.
Had such a format been used this season, it still would have left several teams -- including Georgia and Southern California -- with a good case to be playing for a national title out of the mix.
Ohio State would have played No. 4 Oklahoma in one game and LSU would have played Virginia Tech in the 2-3 game. Both Virginia Tech and Oklahoma lost their bowl games.
Georgia and USC finished fifth and seventh in the BCS standings, but had impressive victories in their bowl games.
Currently, the BCS championship game matches the top two teams, using a combination of poll rankings and computer ratings, after the regular season. The other four BCS bowl matchups are made with no regard to pairing the remaining highest ranked teams.
The BCS is in the middle of a four-year, $320 million contract with Fox that runs through the 2009 season and 2010 bowls. The BCS will begin negotiating with Fox on another deal in the fall. Fox has exclusive negotiating rights with the BCS.
Chuck Gerber, executive vice president of college sports for ABC and ESPN, said if the BCS opens negotiations, ABC would be interested in reacquiring the television rights to the BCS.
ABC had the BCS until the 2006 bowls.
ABC still has the rights to the Rose Bowl, a deal that runs through 2014. Gerber said ABC's deal with the Rose Bowl would not stand in the way of the BCS changing to a plus-one.
"If the Rose Bowl wants to do this, we'll make it work," he said.
That's a big "if."
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Avenue is a 3-star hotel in Amsterdam, only 1150 ft from Amsterdam Central Train Station. It features free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour front desk and rooms with a free buffet breakfast.
The rooms at Avenue Hotel have satellite TV and pay-per-view movies. Each of the simply furnished rooms is also air conditioned and comes furnished with a work desk.
Dam Square, featuring the Royal Palace and Madame Tussauds, is only a 5-minute walk away. Hotel Avenue offers a packed lunch service and tour desk for guests exploring the local area.
The breakfast buffet is served daily and features cereals, bread and warm dishes such as eggs. The St Jacobsstreet cafe offers a selection of newspapers to read and serves drinks including fresh draft beer.
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Swim 2019
Distance: 3.8 km The swim course takes place at Playa Grande, Puerto del Carmen, the main tourist resort of the island. It is a two-lap course with a short running passage of about 20 m on the sand between the two laps. The Cut Off time is 2 hours and 20 minutes after the race start. Remember to attach your timing chip before passing through the official beach exit from the transition zone to register a time - without this you will be disqualified. Wetsuits are compulsory, and athletes may warm up next to the start area. The water is approximately 64 to 66 F (18 to 19 C). Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote Organization reserves the right to make changes to this course.


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Lightning Sign Free Agent RW Michel Ouelletby Staff Writer / Tampa Bay Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed free agent right wing Michel Ouellet (wuh-LEHT) to a one-year, two-way contract today, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced. The forward also played for the Lightning during the 2007-08 season.
Ouellet Profile
- Height: 6' 0"
- Weight: 203
- Shoots: Right
- Born: March 5, 1982
- Birthplace: Rimouski, QC, Canada
- Drafted: PIT / 4th (124th overall) / 2000
Ouellet, 6-foot, 203 pounds, has spent the previous two seasons in Europe. Last year he played in 39 games for the Hamburg Freezers of the German Elite League, notching 11 goals and 28 points. He ranked fourth on the team in points and was also tied for third for assists and fourth for goals. In 2009-10, Ouellet skated for Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss Elite League, recording a goal and five points in 11 games.
A native of Rimouski, Quebec, Ouellet has played in 190 career NHL games with the Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks. During that time he has amassed 52 goals, 27 power-play goals and 116 points. Ouellet played in 64 games with Tampa Bay during the 2007-08 season, registering 17 goals and 36 points, both the second-highest totals of his career. That season he led the Bolts in plus/minus rating with a plus-11 and was fourth in goals. Ouellet has played in five Stanley Cup Playoff games, all with Pittsburgh in 2007, notching two assists.
Originally drafted by the Penguins in the fourth round, 124th overall, at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, Ouellet has played in 228 career AHL games with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Manitoba Moose, amassing 84 goals and 184 points during his AHL career. In 2003-04, his first in the league, Ouellet finished first among rookies with 30 goals and fifth among first-year players with 49 points to lead his team in both categories. He has also played in 33 career Calder Cup Playoff games, recording four goals and 17 points.
Ouellet played four junior seasons for the Rimouski Oceanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. In 224 career games with the Oceanic, Ouellet tallied 125 goals and 299 points.


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Thousands of drivers overcharged by new DFW parking system
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - Thousands of drivers leaving Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport have been overcharged due to technical errors during the first two weeks of a new $56 million parking control system.
Airport officials say some problems involved scanners not properly reading toll tags, leading to overcharges when wrong times for entry or exit are recorded.
The airport says all overcharges will be reimbursed within 10 business days.
"We are very apologetic for the whole thing," airport spokesman David Magana said Thursday. As many as 300 to 400 drivers have called the airport daily to complain about billing errors.
Beginning Sept. 4, an upgraded payment system automatically registered vehicles driving in and out of the airport complex. Drivers can process their own transactions with a North Texas Toll Authority TollTag or a credit card as they exit.
Some drivers complained about being charged for parking times after they had already left the airport.
Dallas resident Bill Woster received a $108 airport parking bill on his TollTag account after spending about 10 minutes at the airport to drop off a friend.
"I was shocked," Woster said.
Officials believe he'd briefly been at the airport a week earlier and the new system failed to read his TollTag when he exited, so when he returned days later, the system calculated the charge as if he never left.
"How many people didn't look at their toll charges every time," Woster said.
Airport officials are also going through records to catch any billing mistakes.
"We're a customer-service business," Magana said. "You shouldn't treat your customers that way, and we certainly never meant to treat them that way. It's a mistake and we're fixing it."
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Producer on Fire
Musical ability and imagination plus technical finesse in the studio have turned Jeff Bhasker's career red hot.
By Mark Small
Since 2008, when Jeff Bhasker '99 began working with Kanye West, his career has been in overdrive. Bhasker stepped into the spotlight as West's touring keyboardist, then became his musical director, and then went into the studio with him as a cowriter and producer. In many ways, West served as a mentor for Bhasker, and Bhasker returned the favor by helping the rapper develop a melodic, keyboard-heavy pop sound on such songs as "Amazing" and "Love Lockdown" on his 808s & Heartbreak album. Bhasker snared the first of his first three Grammy Awards in 2009 for cowriting "Run This Town," a hit collaboration for Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna. Two years later he won again in the Best Rap Song category for West's "All of the Lights."
Last year was a banner year for Bhasker. He cowrote and/or produced tracks for Alicia Keys ("Girl on Fire"), Bruno Mars ("Locked Out of Heaven"), Taylor Swift ("Holy Ground" and "The Lucky One"), Pink ("Just Give Me a Reason"), the Rolling Stones ("Doom and Gloom"), and more.
But his most significant project of 2012—producing, cowriting, and playing keyboards for the Some Nights album by Fun.—almost didn't happen. The then-unknown band had to jump through hoops to recruit Bhasker (who at the time was busy with A-list artists) to produce the group's sophomore outing. But for Bhasker, the gamble paid off big time. He applied his rap and hip-hop production sensibilities to the band's pop, rock, alternative, and even theatrical leanings to create a blockbuster album.
There is lots of magic in the tracks. The album's lead-off single "We Are Young" surged to number one on the charts and was further energized after it was placed in a 2012 Superbowl commercial for Chevy and in an episode of Glee. Ultimately the music and the group were nominated for six Grammys and had wins in the Best New Artist and Song of the Year categories. (The win in the latter category netted Bhasker his third Grammy.) Significantly, Bhasker's nomination in the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category for Some Nights prompted a flood of requests for his services.
To realize Fun.'s musical vision in the studio, Bhasker availed himself of a coterie of Berklee alumni, including Andrew Dawson '01, Pawel Sek '00, and Ken Lewis '91. Bhasker's manager Neil Jacobson '99 (see "Bhasker's Copilot" and "Fun. Behind the Board" on pages 15 and 16) was also key. The sessions took place in Bhasker's antithetically named Enormous Studios and Andrew Dawson's SoundEQ facility as well as bigger studios in Los Angeles and New York and orchestral sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Fun. gave Bhasker carte blanche to let his seemingly limitless imagination loose on their songs. The mixture of Fun.'s talent and Bhasker's musical and production finesse yielded music that has dominated the airwaves, despite not fitting neatly into radio formats.
These days Bhasker could fill his schedule 24/7 with production work—he's inundated with offers. But in May, he turned his focus toward finishing a solo project he will issue under the alias Billy Kraven. On it, Bhasker plays all the instruments and sings all vocal parts. Jacobson (Bhasker's manager) describes him as "one of the best singers that no one has heard." In addition to all the songs Bhasker has cowritten with superstars this past year, he's squirreled away songs he's written for his solo album. But when Beyoncé Knowles heard his tune "I Care" and asked if she could record it first, he gave in. "It's hard to say no when Beyoncé asks to record your song." Bhasker told me.
He also plans to assemble a band and tour after his Billy Kraven album comes out, but has no intention of leaving producing. The bar for new projects will continue to be set high, though. For Bhasker, the superstar status of an artist or offers of big money aren't what draw him into a project. He's determined to work only on music that engages him emotionally. His instincts are serving him well as his list of credits testifies.
Coming to Berklee after growing up in tiny Socorro, New Mexico, must have been an eye-opener for you.
It was like coming to music fantasyland. Meeting some of the people I met there was like finding a long-lost brother who liked the same things I did. I was into jazz when I came to Berklee. My first exposure to jazz was my mother playing "Tenderly" on the piano. My piano teacher had given me a tape with the Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy album by Chick Corea and Return to Forever on one side and on the other was the Oscar Peterson Trio's Night Train album. When I listened to the tape I thought, "This is it!"
Did you start out learning to read as well as to improvise?
I've always been a terrible sight reader. I learned everything by ear. I wish I could sight read better, but my strength is listening to music.
Well, having a well-developed ear is mandatory for a producer.
Yeah, listening is what it's all about. In production, you can study and go by the book, but the book was written by people who just listened. Sometimes you stop listening and look at the computer screen and see all this stuff. I just try to hear everything. When you are writing a song, I think it's better not to write it down. Just learning and memorizing it is better.
Was becoming a producer your original dream?
I wanted to become a virtuoso jazz pianist. But I didn't get all the way there; I'm not Oscar Peterson. But I did learn to use what I have and turn it into a song or some other music. You have to start living your musical life at some point and figure out what you want to say. More often than not, I only needed to do 10 percent of what I'm capable of to accomplish that.
In Kabuki Theater, they say you never show 10; you show seven or eight. You need to have 10 under the surface, but you don't show everything you've got. Likewise, you don't try to play every single thing you learned at Berklee. Make a musical statement. Sometimes that may consist of just a few notes. The point is to say something with what you've learned.
For me it was a big step to figure out what it means to be an artist. I found there were things I'd been doing naturally for years, and I had to embrace those things. After going through the training to become a competent musician, I had to go back to the childlike excitement about music. It's always important for the music to be exciting.
What was the path that led you from Berklee to L.A.?
I left Berklee in 1999, worked for a while in New York, and then got to L.A. in 2005. A track I did for [rapper] The Game was my first placement in 2004. My first tour with Kanye came after his Graduation album came out then I started working with him in the studio.
Kanye West showed a lot of confidence in you by making you his music director.
Yes. When we played live, he would stop the music and I would improvise on the piano as he would rap. I learned from being a jazz accompanist to really listen. We had this creative, spontaneous dynamic going on. In the studio, we did that when writing songs. We had a musical bond and could create together. As a rapper, he is very musical in the way he listens. He's learned so much music from all the sampling he's done. His appreciation for music and his tastes are really good. He taught me a lot about being an artist. Kanye is very good at making albums. After working on his albums, I tried to apply those ideas to the Fun. album.
I saw playing piano with Kanye kind of like playing jazz even though he's not a jazz musician. Applying things in a different way can make the music interesting. Kanye is the ultimate artist and brings his vision to life in interesting ways. He never chooses the easy way out. When we'd work on a melody and I'd say, "Hey, this note could go there." He'd say, "Everyone knows that note could go there. What's a different note that we could use to make it special?" He's never satisfied with the obvious. He wants the artistic choices, not just the ones that will work technically.
You've said that you got a strong work ethic from your father. Can you elaborate?
He was born in India and is a medical doctor and the mayor of our town—the longest-serving mayor in New Mexico history. From him I learned about staying organized and on task. You need to make a little progress every day. You don't have to do something overnight, but if you work at it every day, you reach goals. It's really very simple. Some people at Berklee would practice for eight hours a day, for three days, and then couldn't keep up that pace. It's better to practice one hour every day religiously and get the most out of that hour. You will get better. My dad knows that progress can't stop; you have to keep going. He taught me to finish a job and do it right.
Did things start getting busy for you in 2009, after Jay-Z's "Run This Town" won a Grammy?
Actually I became really busy when I was working with Kanye. The Alicia Keys song "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart" was my first big song that I placed and produced on my own. I also did other things for her The Element of Freedom album. That was one of the first productions I did that Kanye said he thought was good.
How did you end up producing Some Nights for Fun.?
They asked me about five times to get together. Finally I said OK. They ended up singing the chorus to "We Are Young" and I said, "We need to record this tomorrow!" They completely sold me. I had been working on urban music, rap and r&b. I love all types of music and had done some pop records but nothing that was rock-oriented and theatrical like [what] Fun. was doing.
When you started the Fun. album, weren't you in the middle of another project?
I was working on an album with another artist at the time. But Fun. had the DNA of the songs when we started, and I could take it from there. They didn't play me the demos of their songs; they just sang them for me with piano and guitar. It was perfect. To that, I added a click track and then was able to add whatever I wanted.
That part went fast, but when you get to where the song is 90 percent done, the last 10 percent involved in perfecting the song becomes exponentially harder. Sometimes it can take a month to figure out what to do after not thinking about the music for a while. But it can become a house of cards at that point. If you add or take something away, the whole thing can fall apart. You're thinking, "If I add this, I can't have that, and it really needs that." It can be a nightmare—but the kind of nightmare you live for. Sometimes others will barely notice the things you are obsessing over. In the end, it's the attention you pay to all of the details that makes something special. It is not an accident that the songs on the album are special, because we put a lot of work into them.
I'm amazed at the range of things you did in the production. How long did it take to complete the record from writing to mixing?
Nate [Ruess, Fun.'s lead singer] and I finished "We Are Young" together, and he had written five more songs. I tracked those, and then we wrote a few more songs along the way. From that point to when the album was mastered was about a year.
Did you work on it steadily throughout the year?
We did it in stages. After we got the first five songs down the band came out here [to Los Angeles] and we worked together on more songs for a couple of weeks. We kind of had the songs written and they knew what they wanted those songs to be. I had total freedom to do what I wanted with them. They wanted to have the album done by the next month before their Coachella [festival] gig. We did the first bit pretty quickly, but as it was coming together, I was insistent that we not rush things. I don't think you should ever rush. Sometimes you need to have a sense of urgency, but you don't want go through things too fast. Having a sense of urgency means you stay up later and get up earlier to have the time to do the things that will take hours. After we had the first part done, I wanted to make sure every element was properly executed. That included the strings and orchestral parts, figuring out whether we needed a couple more songs, and then mixing it properly. So we had three or four stages where we worked on the album for a few weeks at a time and then I worked on it in between.
When you worked on it alone were you adding tracks or mixing?
Both. Sometimes I'd feel that the mix needed another instrument. That sense came from my arranging background at Berklee. In a lot of my work, I feel the instrumentation makes the mix. You want to able to hear everything. Some of the tracks were pretty dense so I needed to make sure every instrument was heard clearly and the sound wasn't a blob. That was a big challenge. I wanted people to hear what we had been really excited about hearing.
The track "Some Nights Intro" is reminiscent of Queen but also sounds a little like a cabaret song with the high female voice weaving in and out and the applause at the end. How did that evolve?
Nate wrote that whole song in his head. He wanted an operatic part in there, but he didn't know exactly how it would go. We used a voice sample in there at first and later replaced it with a girl singing. He also wanted it to give a nod to [cabaret singer] Bobby Short. Nate had a very clear vision of what he wanted the songs on the album to be. It was my job to realize that. The more we worked together, the more things he pulled out of me that were beyond his natural instincts. He encouraged me to add my ideas and execute.
Even though a lot of the songs were pretty complete, you were still given songwriter credits.
Yeah. I'd add a part or something. In hip-hop the producer is the musician. He gets credit for the music and the rapper gets credit for the lyrics. That's the tradition I come from. In the rock tradition, the band has the songs and the producer helps to make the record. Maybe the producer will help write a song or two and get some publishing. With Fun., we met in the middle.
Generally it's words and melody in publishing. But if you use the drumbeat to Queen's "We Will Rock You," they get publishing [royalties]. If you use the drumbeat from Billy Squier's "The Big Beat," Billy gets publishing. I used that beat for "Girl on Fire" with Alicia Keyes. But even though we changed the rhythm a little and made our own drum sounds, Billy still got paid. There is a precedent for drums and other distinctive musical parts being part of the publishing of a song. So with Fun., we defined what the publishing [rights] involved.
You created a distinctive military beat for the end of the song "Some Nights."
That was something I programmed. It's amazing how successful that song was. We loved the music, but the band didn't pick that as a single. After we won the Grammy, it was played on the radio, became popular, and was released as a single. The song has a great hook but doesn't fit the mold for a radio single. I'm really proud that our music made an impact on how music of this era sounds. For me as a producer, there was a long time when everyone wanted to make a dance song. Mumford and Sons, Miguel, Gotye, and Fun. have made an impact with different sounds. It's kind of exciting to be part of that.
What was your take on working with the Rolling Stones?
They were awesome to work with—so vibrant. I soaked up a little of what they are all about. They called the work I did "radio mixes," but I went into the studio while they were tracking with Don Was, the album's main producer. We took the files and worked with Mick and Keith separately on how we could modernize the music without it sounding like a remix. To me the "radio mix" of "Doom and Gloom" has all the Stones' energy and sounds like it is part of music of this era. There is a little stylization to it. They don't wear the clothes they wore back in their early days, so why should they have a production style like that from their early days? They wear clothes that are cool now, and I took that approach to their music. Being a producer is similar to being a fashion designer. Clothes should make you look and feel good, be the ultimate you. The production should be hip, contemporary, and speak to the times now.
How many album projects do you do in a year?
I try to be productive, but I also try to limit my work to things I really believe in. Last year I worked on tracks for Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and Pink. We squeezed a lot in. This year is more about finishing my album and picking another artist that I think could be special or different. I don't want to have a quota or anything like that. I value quality over quantity.
Now that so many people are asking you to produce their music, do you just pick the best of what's offered?
It's not always about the best, it's about what clicks. The guys in Fun. and I just clicked. I look for things that will ignite the best in both the artist and me. I try to make it easy on myself by finding someone with a vision who knows what they want to do and needs help in making it all come to life. My job as a producer is to help them realize their wildest dreams. Anyone can make a song, but it's about creating magic. You don't always create it, but you have to keep trying.
I want to work with artists, writers, and producers that can push me and that I will learn from. In life, you want to be around people who will push you to set the bar higher.
Can you talk about your upcoming solo album?
I record and sing all of my own demos and that's how my solo project came about. I started writing songs under the alias Billy Kraven so that I'd have an alter ego. I like projects to have a point or a concept. Naming a song is very important. It provides a catch phrase and sets the tone for the song. So having the name Billy Kraven gave me a tone and concept.
Is it true that you will offer the album for free?
I will probably post it online. A lot of music acts have taken advantage of the Internet as an access point. People get excited if something is good and offered for free, they will often end up buying it and then other stuff that you are creating. Lana Del Rey, The Weekend, and Odd Future were all put out on the Internet. The good stuff rises to the top.
For me, it's more about getting people to hear it. I've had some of these songs for a while and I've gotten good feedback about them. It will be fun to release my songs with me singing. It will be a more pure vision of what my emotion for the music is.
I've heard that you're playing all the instruments on the album too. Will you put a tour together for it?
Playing live is an important part of being a musician and promoting a record. It's a different visceral experience having people react to your music right in front of you. As a producer making records, you can get isolated in the studio. I always try to keep a connection between live music and the record. The music should translate to a live performance. I like to put things on the record that people will react to in a live show.
It was cool playing live with Kanye and creating the show, and entertaining the people. You want people to leave your concert breathless. I'm looking forward to putting together everything I've learned—the lighting and the whole presentation for my project. I will probably start out in 100-seat halls, but you still have to put on a show and build from there. That's exciting to me.
Do you envision your future more as an artist or a producer?
It's not like I'm going solo, I'm just making another musical statement that happens to have me singing. So I'll have to do some different jobs that I'm not used to doing. But it's fun to be nervous or scared about music after getting into a groove producing or writing. It keeps you alive when you challenge yourself. This record is also an opportunity to express myself without an artist or another producer. I get to control the whole vision.
"It's about what clicks. The guys in Fun. and I just clicked. I look for things that will ignite the best in both the artist and me."


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They've been gone almost 7 months. That doesn't seem possible. So much has changed in that short time.
But the thing that never changes is how much you love them. You think that time heals it but it doesn't, it just dulls it. God gives you peace and new mercies. That is all grace amidst the calling to foster care.
As a lot of you know from Facebook (which has become my mini blog), we got a call from our old caseworker asking us to pick up C&A this past weekend. It all happened kind of quickly, so I didn't have a ton of time to process or think about it. But can I just tell you that when the door opened and they came around the corner it nearly took my breath away. There they stood in the same coats and shoes I bought them a year and a half ago. There they were. My girls.
Although they aren't really mine, they just feel like mine. At the moment, they are still hers. Everything came flooding back when I saw them. The good times, the bad times, even seeing their little faces staring in my door the night they came to us.
My heart grieves the fact that they are back in a bad spot. I absolutely hate it. It keeps me up at night. (Well that, and you know, Brooks.)
I have gone over the whole situation in my head a million times. I have sat on the phone in tears with sisters who have walked through it with me. But at the end of the day, the reality is that we are dealing with broken families, and broken stories, in a broken world. We all need Jesus so badly.
People always say, "I don't know how you give them back", and the truth is, I don't know how we do either. It is divine intervention that gets you through giving back kids that you love. There will always be a spot reserved in my heart for them. I will always come for them if called. They will always have a home waiting here if needed. And there is a part of me that will always feel like their mother.
It's hard, friends. But goodness, somehow it is all so worth it.
He didn't call us here with a promise of keeping any child. He called us here with a promise that it was going to change our lives. And it has.
We are praying for them, praying for the struggling parents, and asking the Lord to keep them safe while the county works things out. I am worried about them, but I have to trust that He's got this. I don't know how often we will have them while things are in limbo, but I think they will be back soon :).
A tad tired, but thankful for this life changing journey.
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No, Tom Gilmore said emphatically earlier this week, he cannot believe he is about to begin his 10th season as coach of the Holy Cross football team.
"It's gone by so quickly," Gilmore said. "Ten years is a pretty long time."
Gilmore's decade-spanning tenure is the longest since Dr. Eddie Anderson coached the Crusaders for 15 seasons, from 1950-64.
Every season presents challenges, and 2013 is no different. For the first time since 2005, his second year on the job, Gilmore will be trying to help HC rebound from a losing record.
Holy Cross finished with a winning record seven straight seasons before injuries, inexperience and the inability to close out games contributed to last year's 2-9 mark.
As the Crusaders prepare for today's opener at Bryant, they are (mostly) healthy, confident in starting quarterback Steven Elder, talented and deep at a number of positions, and eager to put 2012 behind them.
"I'm very optimistic," Gilmore said. "I think the team has shown a great commitment. The work ethic is as good as it's ever been. I really do think there's a hunger. A season like last year wakes you up."
Elder, who played in seven games last year as a sophomore, beat out classmate Ryan Laughlin for the starting QB spot. In addition to having better command of the offense, Gilmore said both Elder and Laughlin, who played in all 11 games last year, are much more comfortable evaluating defenses and understanding how to adjust and check out of plays.
"That experience level that we were lacking last year, we gained it and polished it up this preseason," Gilmore said.
The offensive line was in shambles at the start of last year due to injuries — the Crusaders were forced to move Jack Maliska, their best defensive lineman, to right guard — but that unit is fit to begin this year, and that should boost the offense. Senior running back Reggie Woods is out with a knee injury. Freshman Gabriel Guild will start in his place.
This will be the first meeting between Holy Cross and Bryant. The Bulldogs, who began the transition to Division 1 in 2007, played their first full Division 1 schedule last year. After an 0-6 start, they finished 4-7.
Bryant features a two-back offense and play-action passing. All-America senior wide receiver Jordan Harris caught 61 passes for 1,243 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2012, and Gilmore said he is one of the top players HC will face this year.
The Crusaders have lost their last three road openers. HC fell to New Hampshire in last year's opener at Fitton Field, the first of four straight losses to start the season.
HC went 3-8 in Gilmore's first season and averaged just less than seven wins the next seven. The Crusaders won nine games and captured the Patriot League title in 2009. Gilmore, a two-time Patriot League Coach of the Year, takes a career record of 53-47 into the season.
"We kept improving that first year and stayed competitive," Gilmore said. "Last year, a huge number of injuries put a dent in the armor, but overall, it's been a good run, and hopefully we can get it turned back around this year."
Bulldog on line
Last year as a junior, Doug Flink of Auburn emerged as a very valuable member of Bryant's offensive line.
The 6-foot-2, 280-pound Flink started all 10 games at right guard, and that's where he'll be in today's game against HC.
Flink was part of back-to-back Division 2 Super Bowl champion teams at Auburn High in 2008 and 2009.
Another Husky to watch
In addition to junior linebacker Yawin Smallwood of Worcester, who has garnered numerous preseason accolades and last week was named a team captain, there will be another local to keep an eye on at UConn this fall.
Redshirt freshman Obi Melifonwu of South Grafton, who was expected to play mostly on special teams and a backup role on defense, made his first career start at free safety Thursday night in the Huskies' opener against Towson.
Melifonwu was thrust into the starting lineup after starter Andrew Adams went down with an injury last week.
He had an impressive debut, making 11 tackles and coming up with his first interception. The first-quarter pick set up a 92-yard touchdown drive.
"I was reading the quarterback," Melifonwu said after the game, "and I broke on the ball and he overthrew it and I scooped it up."
Smallwood finished with a game-high 16 tackles, but Towson, which visits Fitton Field next week, won the game, 33-18.
"It's devastating," Melifonwu said, "but we have to come back next week and prepare for the (next) game (Sept. 14 vs. Maryland)."
Blanchflower out
Due to an undisclosed injury, UMass senior tight end and captain Rob Blanchflower of Leominster will not play in today's opener at No. 23 Wisconsin.
Coach Charley Molnar ruled out Blanchflower earlier this week.
UMass also will be without junior running back Jordan Broadnax, who has a knee injury.
The Minutemen, coming off a 1-11 season, face the Badgers for the first time.
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