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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 1, 2008) - Help make history this Saturday afternoon when the ETSU women's basketball team hosts the Kennesaw State Lady Owls at 2 p.m. in the Atlantic Sun Game of the Week inside Memorial Center. The Lady Buccaneers are looking to break their all-time attendance mark of 1,117 fans, which was set last season versus
This season the NCAA has challenged all 32 women's basketball conferences to a "Pack the House" night, and the ETSU marketing department and Mountain States Health Alliance have teamed up to create the slogan "02-02 at 2: Two Teams, One Fight...Women against Heart Disease," which aligns with the Lady Buccaneer/Kennesaw State contest on Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. inside Memorial Center.
The competition began Jan. 1 and runs through Feb. 17, and the object is to come up with a creative marketing plan and sellout or increase your previous year's single-game record attendance. The Lady Bucs have registered for the challenge and will look to sellout or break last season's mark of 1,117 fans when they play host to the Lady Owls.
Fans unable to attend the game can watch via the live video streaming accessed at ASun.TV or by clicking the link located above.
For more information on Saturday's game see notes below or click on the game notes link above.
The Lady Owls have been led by Greteya Kelley (12.8ppg) and Britteny Henderson (13.2ppg/7.9 rebounds). Kelley leads the A-Sun in steals, while
Turnovers plagued the Black and Gold in their first two years in the league and this season KSU has done a much better job taking care of the ball and are stifling teams with pressure defense. Coming into this weekend's game, the Lady Owls rank in the top three in the A-Sun in Assist-to-Turnover Ratio. A large reason for the turnaround has been the play of point guard Ashley Johnson, who is third in the conference in that category.
As a team,
The Series
The Lady Owls are one of four teams in Atlantic Sun play that ETSU has a perfect mark against. The Lady Bucs are 4-0 lifetime against
More About Monday's Win at JU...
The Lady Bucs' 80-74 victory over Jacksonville on Monday was ETSU's fourth consecutive win, marking its longest winning streak of the season ... the victory also snapped JU's 17-game home win streak, which was the second longest winning streak in the nation ... JU also had its program-record 10-game win streak come to an end as well ... senior Michele DeVault sank a career-high six threes as she opened the game a perfect 4-for-4 ... the win also put the Lady Bucs into a tie for first with the Dolphins, both at 6-1.
Where the Lady Bucs Rank In the A-Sun
The Lady Bucs rank first in six statistical categories among conference games only. ETSU leads the league in scoring offense (75.1), scoring margin (+15.0), three-point field goal percentage (.414), assists (17.3), steals (14.9), and turnover margin (+4.9).
Home Sweet Home
Despite being 5-3 at home this season, the Lady Bucs have enjoyed a home court advantage throughout the past couple years. Since the start of the 2005-06 season, ETSU has won 25 of its 33 (.758) games played in
Where's the Scoring coming from?
44 percent of the Lady Buccaneer 1,414 points scored this season has come inside the paint (606 points). However, only 18 percent of ETSU's points are coming from beyond the arc (258 points), leaving the remaining 40 percent of the scoring coming either at the free throw line (21 percent, 302 points) and the remaining 17 percent (248 points) of the scoring coming from longer jumpers.
Money in the Bank...
Should the Lady Bucs hold the lead with 5:00 left in the ball game and hold their opponent under 60 points, it is safe to say ETSU will win the contest. ETSU is 10-0 when leading after 35 minutes mark, and 5-0 when not allowing over 60 points.
A Look Ahead
Before embarking on yet another
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Four-time Emmy Award winning comedian Greg Fitzsimmons has just written one of most hilarious and unexpectedly moving Irish American memoirs in years. He talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about his career, his success and lifelong his unstoppable urge to behave badly.
If stand-up comedy is the bottom rung in the entertainment ladder, then memoirs must be the lowest rung of the publishing world. But that's just fine for comedian Greg Fitzsimmons, 44, the four-time Emmy Award winner.
"Memoirs have become the lowest form of writing, which is exactly why I was drawn to the genre," Fitzsimmons told the Irish Voice during a recent interview.
Lifelong shame and guilt (and pointless attempts to impose them on him) drive his raucous and unspeakably funny new book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox (Simon & Schuster).
Constructed around a series of increasingly angry (and unintentionally hilarious) letters from his outraged teachers, Fitzsimmons' book is a classic Irish American coming of age tale about a bright kid who keeps asking increasingly awkward questions of his shocked elders, and then has the charm and smarts to elude the consequences (usually).
But underneath the brittle surface there's a lot of heartache and darkness in this story too.
Fitzsimmons' disciplinary reports were called Irish Merit Badges in family, and his parents would often howl with laughter at their contents.
"Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons," one begins, "Greg was loitering in the hallway when I walked by on my way home. Greg began openly mocking me by making fun of my last name (i.e. 'The grass looked very Dewey this morning,' 'Dewey have any homework?' and 'Are we going to learn the Dewey Decimal System?') It is disrespectful to address a teacher in such a manner, and I think its best to bring this to his parents' attention."
With material like this to draw from, is it any wonder he's a comedian?
"The way my parents reacted to school letters that were supposed to cause shame and bringing down the hammer was unusual, because to them it was a badge of honor. It meant their kid was independent and free-thinking and he fought back," Fitzsimmons says.
By laughing at these letters -- even though there were times when they'd get mad -- his parents taught him valuable lessons about conformity.
"Don't do it so much that you fail in life, but to succeed in life and not do it is not success. There has to be some element of you didn't play by all the rules and you still managed to be successful," he says.
Fitzsimmons grew up in Tarrytown in Westchester County, New York, the area where Don Draper of TV's Mad Men commutes from each episode. He won his four Emmys as a producer/writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show at the start of the decade. Fitzsimmons also has his own radio show on Howard 101, the Sirius satellite radio channel programmed by his friend Howard Stern, who also wrote the foreword for his book.
That Irish spirit of defiance has marked his book, his career and his life. Starting out as a stand up, he'd play schools and colleges, and when a stuffy official told him what he could and could not talk about it always set him off.
In fact, for Fitzsimmons that kind of censorship was useful because it made his job easier. "When you tell me not to do something then you're really keying it up for me, and I enjoy it so much more," he says.
"Don't be a wiseacre out there," a school principal counseled him before a high school prom gig in Indiana once when he was starting out. That command grated on every one of his anti-authority Irish impulses.
"It's one thing to be told don't be a wise ass but now you're using a phrase that highlights the fact that you're a big nerd. That's irresistible," he says.
Responding to this provocation, Fitzsimmons invited the graduating class back to his motel for a keg. He celebrated the glories of cocaine, and he even joked about having sex with his grandmother. The angry protest letter to his agent was in the post before the curtain fell.
"It all started with that angry prom letter," says Fitzsimmons. "I really was hurt by it at first. It really bothered me that the principal wrote it. Only because I thought the show had gone so well.
"So receiving this letter was like another failed attempt, even after years, for them to control me. But only later when I started reading it to the audience on stage the crowd started dying. I didn't realize how funny it could seem to other people."
Fitzsimmons' mother saved all the nasty letters. "It's almost as if she knew that one day I'd be a comedian," he says.
"Those letters are gold. Stand-up comedy is really like a memoir. You go up and tell stories about your life. We're storytellers. I felt like if I can communicate my own story best with a memoir then that's what I need to do. Maybe it will surprise people that there's so much more to see here than they expected to find."
But if you buy the book -- and if you like a laugh you really should -- don't expect linear stories about where he grew up and how he became a comedian.
"It's a stand up comedian's memoir, but it won't be placed in the comedy section of the bookstore. I want to appeal to the Irish. If you can win them over then everyone will follow. If gay guys are the ones people follow into real estate, then the Irish are the ones they follow into books," Fitzsimmons reckons.
The McCourts wrote books that lured you in with the lowered expectations of memoirs, Fitzsimmons says, and then they blew you away with a narrative that was so well written, so heartfelt and so tragic and comic that you couldn't help but respond.
"To me it was like saying, 'Hey we're Irish, we're not snobs, we don't stand on ceremony or proper etiquette. We don't belong to private country clubs. We're about putting it all out there, our humor that is.'
"Most people don't know the other side of it. They don't know the deep feelings that exist there too. People don't really know that there's this love behind it all."
As well as the deep love for his family and friends, there's his limitless curiosity too. In the book Fitzsimmons' endless curiosity leads him into scrapes, one after another, and some more surprising than other.
In college he takes a walk into Fenway Park in Boston at 4 a.m. to resolve once and for all if he has any latent homosexual tendencies (it turns out he doesn't). That makes for a great stand-up story, but it also indicates an uncommon fearlessness.
"I feel like life is finite. What feels right is to explore and to challenge and the truth lies right up against crossing lines into danger and asking the questions that no one else is asking," he says.
"The only way you can get to the truth is to peel away all the pretence, and I think the same things go sexually. How do you know you're not gay? Every time you hear about these anti-gay people you hear six months later they were (****) someone in a van. Of all the issues you could put your energy behind, why this?"
The suspicion that there's a gap between what people say and do is a very Irish awareness. Like his friend and fellow standup Sarah Silverman, Fitzsimmons feels both the Irish and the Jews share an underground voice that's different to the one that's presented to the world.
"The reason why the first comedians here were Jewish is because they came to this country and no one would hire them. Stand-up comedian was one of the lowest, most looked upon things you could do," he says.
"The Marx Brother were saying f*** you. The Irish share a similar story but their comedy comes much more out of storytelling. But there's an understanding between them both culturally and experience wise in this country."
Asked what he wants people to know about his memoir Fitzsimmons deadpans instantly, "It could have been better."

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HAMBANTOTA - Ajantha Mendis took six for eight, the best figures in ICC World T20 history as Zimbabwe were overwhelmed by 82 runs.
What one Mendis began, another finished as Sri Lanka handed Zimbabwe a thumping 82-run loss at the Mahinda Rajapaka International Cricket Stadium. Brendan Taylor was quite categorical about his team's chances a day before the tournament opener.
"If we bat, bowl and field to our potential, we'll give ourselves half a chance of beating Sri Lanka," he said, and those words turned out to be prophetic in the worst possible way. After putting Sri Lanka in, Zimbabwe bowled the wrong areas, had a complete shocker on the field and never quite recovered.
If Jeevan Mendis injected Sri Lanka's batting with verve, it was Ajantha Mendis, playing his first match in eight months after recovering from a back injury, who ensured that Zimbabwe performed no batting miracles.
Dilshan Munaweera, making his Twenty20 International debut, opened with Tillakaratne Dilshan, and threw his bat at almost everything.
Munaweera swished and missed early on while Dilshan was more selective and thereby effective.
As early as the fourth over, there were indications of the kind of evening it would be for Zimbabwe when a run-out opportunity was fluffed.
In the sixth over, Malcolm Waller dropped the first of two catches, putting down a sitter at midwicket off Munaweera.
Fortunately for Waller, Munaweera did not do much damage, setting off for an imaginary single, only to be sent back. He lost his bat mid-pitch and was comfortably short.
Zimbabwe then had a golden chance to give Sri Lanka a scare when Mahela Jayawardene, fresh at the crease, seemed to struggle to pick the legspin of Graeme Cremer.
Trapped plumb in front, Jayawardene only got as far as the thirty-yard circle when Rod Tucker, the umpire, motioned for the batsman to stay on as he checked for a no-ball.
Sure enough, Cremer had cut the side crease, and Jayawardene was reprieved.
There was some consolation for Cremer when Dilshan (39) shaped to cut and was caught behind, bringing Kumar Sangakkara and Jayawardene together with the score on 75 for two.
Jayawardene, who had flirted with danger more than once, got into a mix-up with his good friend, and Sri Lanka slipped to 82 for three.
Zimbabwe then got themselves back into the game, as Sangakkara was forced to consolidate in the company of Jeevan. At the end of 15 overs, Sri Lanka had reached only 120, but by then the enterprising duo of Sangakkara and Jeevan were well set.
Attacking the ball constantly and running hard between the wickets, Sangakkara protected the partnership, keeping the tempo without attempting any outrageous shots.
Mendis was fluent against spin and pace, and cut loose with a mowed sweep of Cremer that was quickly followed by a biff over long-off.
Elton Chigumbura then found himself at the receiving end, flicked for a flat six over the long boundary over square-leg and then tickled fine for a boundary.
When Sangakkara (44) finally fell, run out trying to retain the strike in the final over, his runs had come at the surprisingly high strike-rate of 169.33, given that he only managed two fours and a six. The fourth-wicket partnership of 94 had all but taken the game away from Zimbabwe.
Mendis, unbeaten on a 30-ball 43, ensured that Sri Lanka ended on 182 for four, a score that hardly looked likely earlier in the innings.
Zimbabwe's chances of putting up a fight rested on one of the top order playing the innings of his life, but that's not the easiest thing to do against a spin bowler with a bagful of tricks.
After doing the hard work of seeing off Lasith Malinga, Vusi Sibanda played down the wrong line to Ajantha and had his middle stump pegged back.
Off the next ball, Taylor overbalanced just a fraction, and when the ball turned enough to beat the outside edge, Sangakkara whipped the bails off in a flash.
Ajantha was denied the hat-trick, but a back-of-the-hand delivery was good enough to castle Hamilton Masakadza. Ajantha's first spell read 2-1-3-3, and it only got better by the time the game ran out.
Zimbabwe's lower order had no answer to him and his figures of six for eight seriously improved on his career-best six for 16, against Australia at Pallekele in 2011.
Combined, Ajantha and Jeevan Mendis returned nine for 32 as Zimbabwe imploded to 100 all out. — ICC
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New Randy Travis Recording Surfaces
A raw demo of Randy Travis singing a song called 'Childhood Sweethearts' has surfaced on YouTube. The song was co-written by singer Bonnie Paul, the woman who previously provided updates on Travis' health.
In a tweet, she explains how the cut came to be. "It's about my mom and dad," Paul writes, adding that she was pushing her son in a stroller with one hand while she talked to Travis on a phone in the other. "We spoke for three hours writing it, I never jogged so fast one-handed."
According to Paul, Travis recorded the demo on his tour bus in Canada about five years ago. She released the song in 2011 and cut a music video for it later. Other songs by Paul include 'It Was Love, Now It's War.'
Travis, 54, is recovering after suffering a stroke last summer. Recent photos show him in a wheelchair, but looking alert and happy. No official statement about the singer's health has been released since August.


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Tirana, Albania : Albania's new Socialist premier says former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will assist as an adviser in Albania's efforts to join the 28-nation European Union.
Edi Rama said today that Blair would be "personally, totally and voluntarily" advising the Albanian government and helping with his "extraordinary experience and political geniality."
Speaking at a briefing in Tirana, Blair said "the big challenge with the government today is getting things done."
Rama, who was sworn in as prime minister last month, has promised to create 300,000 jobs and reduce poverty. A recent survey shows one in seven Albanians live on less than $2 per day.
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The Wabash College Music Department will present a faculty recital concert at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, February 18. The concert will take place in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center and is free and open to the public.
The afternoon music will include Wabash College flute instructor Emily Stanek and harpist Grace Bauson.
The program includes, Carl Nielsen's The Fog is Lifting, op. 41; Francaix's Cinque piccolo duetti; Katherine Hoover's Winter Spirits; Ian Clarke's The Great Train Race; Marcel Grandjany's Rhapsodie-Works for solo harp; and Jacques Ibert's Enre'acte for flute and harp.
Emily Stanek is the flute instructor at Anderson University and Wabash College. She is the second flutist with the Lafayette Symphony and the former principal flutist with the Akron Symphony in Ohio. She performs regularly with the Muncie and Anderson Symphonies. Stanek has performed recitals throughout the United States, including New York, New Jersey, Ohio, California, and Maine. Stanek is the winner of numerous competitions, including the National Flute Association Orchestral Excerpt Competition and the San Diego Young Artist Gold Competition.
Grace Bauson, a Doctor of Arts student in harp performance, received her Master of Music degree in 2007 from the University of Toronto, where she held a Fellowship during her studies with renowned harpist Judy Loman. She also studied in Austria with Adelheid Blovsky-Miller at the University of Vienna and with the legendary Lucile Lawrence at Tanglewood. Bauson began harp study at the age of nine under Elizabeth Richter, with whom she continued her undergraduate education at Ball State. The recipient of a National Merit Scholarship and a Young Artist Award, she graduated magna cum laude from Ball State with a Bachelor in Music in harp performance in 2005. Bauson won fourth place in the 2004 Anne Adams National Harp Competition and was a national finalist for a Fulbright Award in 2005. In 2008 she was a semi-finalist in the William C. Byrd International String Competition and a winner of the Ball State University Graduate Concerto Competition.


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Daft Punk Is (Finally!) Playing at Our House
Even for robots, eight years between albums is a long time, and now everything on the radio sounds like Daft Punk did nearly a decade ago. How are the gods of digital planning to get ahead of the global EDM wave they helped create? By going analog—new album, new sound, new collaborators. But have no fear: The helmets remain the same
They are rusty at being Daft Punk. They've been gone for a long time. Since their last proper studio release, 2005's Human After All, they've done just a handful of interviews—three, maybe four, tops—and they're badly out of practice. They're still answering questions like Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, instead of like Daft Punk, which is a problem, because they'd prefer that you not think of them as people at all.
That's partly what the robot helmets are for. It's why you've never seen their faces.
"I remember when I was a kid, I would watch Superman, and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows," Bangalter says. "We always thought as we were shaping this thing that the fantasy was actually so much more exciting than the idea of being the most famous person in the world."
It's a Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, and the two men are seated, sans disguises, outside at a café on La Brea. They're talking about their kids (two each), the vagaries of the California wildlife that haunt Bangalter's house up in the hills (deer and coyotes, mostly, though recently he lost a night of sleep to the hooting of what he's pretty sure was an owl), and a bunch of other things they'd really rather not discuss—a bunch of things they will later try to take back—because finally, after eight years, there is a new Daft Punk record.
It's called Random Access Memories—they whisper the title across the table, because it's February and no one else knows this yet, and because with Daft Punk nearly everything is a secret. The record is only Daft Punk's fourth in sixteen years, not counting the soundtrack work they did on Disney's 2010 sequel to Tron, and the first that the two men, who recorded their first three albums at home (two in Bangalter's bedroom, one in his living room), have made in a proper studio. It's a big and lush and opulent '70s-disco record, glamorous in places and almost mournful in others, like something a heartbroken vacuum cleaner might drive around to at night in Detroit. It's got choirs and flutes and some of the same guys who played on Thriller and Off the Wall, and Panda Bear from Animal Collective, and Nile Rodgers from Chic, and a gang of other collaborators—Italian disco god Giorgio Moroder, "Rainbow Connection" guy Paul Williams, pianist Chilly Gonzales, house titan Todd Edwards, the Strokes' Julian Casablancas, Pharrell Williams singing about sex and ancient Greek mythology. It sounds like it cost about a million dollars to make, if not more, an estimate they don't deny but also won't confirm.
More to the point, Random Access Memories is a calculated departure from past Daft Punk records, even for Daft Punk, a band that, over the course of its lengthy reign as the most well-known and critically revered dance-music act on the planet, has made a point of never making the same record twice. Only a handful of people have heard the album so far, but the two men already seem resigned to the possibility that no one will like it.
"In Scream 2, they have this discussion about how sequels always suck," Bangalter says. In this scheme, Random Access Memories might as well be Scream 4. "The thing we can ask ourselves at some point is like: We're making music for twenty years. How many bands and acts do you have that are still making good music after twenty years? It always sucks—almost always, you know?"
And de Homem-Christo, who has said maybe a few dozen words up to this point, most of them about salad and directed at our waitress, peers over the golden top edge of his sunglasses and says: "So our new album is supposed to really suck."
Since you're probably wondering: They look not unlike a couple of guys in a rock band. Bangalter, 38, is tall, slightly rumpled, bearded, hair thinning, handsome in a cinema-studies-professor kind of way—he's funny, good with eye contact, palpably eager to make himself understood. Today he's wearing fashionable motorcycle boots, black jeans, an unstructured suit jacket, and a big drapey scarf, perfectly tied, framing a neat Daft Punk pyramid of bare chest. De Homem-Christo is one year older, and a lot shorter. He has long stringy metal-guy hair and weary pale eyes, and his black boots have gold spurs. Everyone calls him Guy-Man.
Bangalter talks a lot—about art, and technology, and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, which he loves. De Homem-Christo barely talks at all, which is disconcerting at first and then sort of fascinating. Later I'll give the two of them a ride home in my car, and from the backseat, de Homem-Christo will break character to beatbox the hard-hitting percussion break in Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It" when it comes on the radio, a sublime and unexpected moment, like watching a goat yell like a man. It's always been like this: Bangalter is the guy who generates the raw material, the one who more often has his hands on the actual instruments; de Homem-Christo is the group's editor, its taciturn enforcer.
They met in the eighth grade in Paris, and for years would do anything but play music together. They'd go to movies, museums, the library, argue about Warhol and Kubrick and Kraftwerk. Bangalter's father is Daniel Vangarde, the French songwriter who wrote the supremely annoying Ottawan hit "D.I.S.C.O."; de Homem-Christo's parents were in advertising but had a thing for music, too. His dad listened to stuff like "Led Zeppelin and 'Hotel California' every Sunday," he says. De Homem-Christo's accent is so fantastically Parisian that when he says "Hotel California," it sounds like "O-tell Cal-e-forn-ya"—like another, better, more magical song. "That's what I still listen to."
_Bangalter and de Homem-Christo during their legendary
2006-2007 world tour—their first stretch of concerts
since 1997, following their first album, and their last to
To hear them tell it, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo have led disconcertingly normal lives over the past couple of decades, even as, beginning with 1995's G-funk-on-Ecstasy club smash "Da Funk" and peaking with 2001's Discovery, a brightly colored riot of classic rock and disco and rubbery, blissfully stupid hooks, they've become the objects of cultlike obsession—shadowy leaders of a congregation that numbers in the millions. They stopped playing shows in 1997 after touring for their debut album, Homework, which seems improbable but turns out to be true, and proceeded to spend the next bunch of years going down the anonymity wormhole. Early on, they appeared on a magazine cover and in a handful of press photos with their faces exposed, but by Homework, they were already wearing masks in public, or turning their backs to interviewers, or both.
They didn't so much as go out in public again as Daft Punk until 2006, when they played Coachella. "When we stopped touring," Bangalter says, "we were touring in front of, like, 900 or 1,200 or 1,800" people. Nearly a decade later, the two men walked out onto an Inland Empire stage wearing robot helmets and saw 40,000 fans staring back at them. It was "a shock, because this is really virtual, you know? We were not prepared."
The experience made them even more grateful that they'd chosen to do things the way they had. The costumes granted them a measure of freedom that their friends, people like Kanye West, had long since lost. It's what allowed the two of them to sit out here on the sidewalk, sipping strawberry lemonade, while Daft Punk was out in the ether somewhere, fighting crime, playing music, or doing whatever superheroes do when their alter egos are somewhere else.
"It's much easier to start with the control embedded in your personality, you know?" Bangalter says.
I ask if, like Clark Kent, who aspired to a normal life he could never really have, they ever feel trapped by the decision to put on superhero costumes all those years ago—that they have to be these robots now, whether they want to or not. Actually what I ask is:
_Is there ever a moment where you're like, "I have to put on the fucking cape again"? _
De Homem-Christo, confused, turns to his bandmate. His English is very good but prone to occasional breakdowns in response to stupid questions. "Fucking what?"
Bangalter switches to French—C'est comme, "Ah, merde, encore on met la cape de super-héros." C'est comme les mecs qui sont—then turns back to me: "No."
"No, we don't," de Homem-Christo says.
Daft Punk, they say, is something that happens only when they want it to. Superman has to be Superman all the time.
"We work a lot," de Homem-Christo says, "but we are not in the superhero costume—"
"Every day," Bangalter says.
"Every day," de Homem-Christo says.
We get up from our table, wander past some menswear stores and an open-air lot selling giant plastic figurines—a dragon, a big fiberglass Marge clutching a big fiberglass Maggie. Everyone we pass looks like they've illegally downloaded at least one Daft Punk album, possibly all three. No one gives them a second look.
They say it's hard to talk about the new record without talking about the old ones. "Homework, we did it, and it was a way to say to the rock kids, like, 'Electronic music is cool,' " Bangalter says. "Discovery was the opposite, of saying to the electronic kids, 'Rock is cool, you know? You can like that.' " Human After All—noisy and dense and a little bummed out, like something they wanted to be done with in a hurry—was about questioning the craft and seemingly effortless pleasures of the first two. It was a deliberately imperfect record, like a Jackson Pollock painting, or, says Bangalter, "a stone that's unworked."
For a while, around 2005, they quit writing music altogether. They made Electroma, a wordless road movie about two helmet-wearing robots who long to be human and ultimately self-immolate out on a California salt flat. (Variety: "If auds thought Gus Van Sant's Gerry and Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny were slow and pretentious, they should get a load of Daft Punk's Electroma.") They started touring again, stood at the center of a gigantic blinking pyramid in front of hundreds of thousands of people, kept at it through the 2008 Grammys, where they performed "Stronger" with Kanye, and then stopped before anyone had time to get used to their presence. Skrillex, the 25-year-old dubstep wunderkind who in many ways has inherited Daft Punk's mantle as the mainstream-crossover dance musician of the moment, told me that seeing Daft Punk perform in Los Angeles in 2007 "is when I realized I really wanted to make dance music."
Eventually they tried to make a new album using laptops, but gave up because everything they wrote felt lifeless. "Those tools were very good at many things," Bangalter says, but they were worthless in terms of "generating emotion as musical instruments."
The entire time they were expecting, even hoping, to be made irrelevant. Electronic dance music had never been more popular—has never been more popular than at this very moment—but to their ears it sounded derivative, safe, like a wan copy of something they themselves had done a decade prior, back when they were trying to overthrow their own elders. "It's always this thing where we're constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, 'Daft Punk sucks!' " Bangalter says. "That's actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage."
We duck into a coffee shop de Homem-Christo says I should try, and I ask them what they think about Skrillex. Bangalter says he respects him for just that reason—that he isn't boring, or trying to be Daft Punk. "Here's someone that is trying to create something new and to not follow something," Bangalter says. "There's an attempt, you know?"
_The duo's early decision not to be photographed without
helmets or masks has paid off as Daft Punk's legend has
De Homem-Christo says he hasn't really heard enough of Skrillex's music, or any other kind of contemporary dance music, to say—he still mostly listens to Zeppelin, the Beatles, classic rock. He points to the speakers overhead. A Solange song, "Losing You"—bright, bounding, primary-colored pop music—is playing.
"That's good," he says.
In the end, they wound up making the "Daft Punk sucks!" record themselves. At a moment when mainstream pop has never sounded more like Daft Punk, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo went the other way, crafting a gold-plated homage to the pop music of their youth, the kind of sweet and sad and sexy sounds that ruled radio waves years before most of their fan base was even born. It's extremely impressive musically, weirdly pedantic in places—unless you think there's merit in listening to Giorgio Moroder haltingly talk about his early days as a German club warrior over a click track—and probably a little overgenerous to guys like Panda Bear, who basically gets to sneak a solo track onto one of the most anticipated albums of the past decade. I would say the disco-connoisseur-y songs outnumber the potential pop smashes by a ratio of about 4 to 1, but there are definitely a couple of potential pop smashes. I have no idea who they imagine Random Access Memories being for, besides themselves, but there is something seductive about that, the band's ability to do something so totally, breathtakingly self-indulgent—it makes you want to try to see it their way.
"It's maybe not 'Kill the father,'" Bangalter says. "But it's like: Things have to move on."
They'd only ever made albums at home, by themselves, and so for Random Access Memories they hired the world's finest session musicians—50-, 60-year-old guys, legends in the game—and had them play practically every note on the record by hand. And they spent a ton of cash, their own at first. "In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money," Bangalter explains. "There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know? That's what this record is about."
It's Sunday now. The two men have invited me to Daft Arts, the band's production office, to talk more about the album, and to take back a few things they've already said that they wished they hadn't—about their families, mostly, their kids, where they live when they're not here, that kind of thing. Anything personal, basically.
"We'd prefer if you said that we didn't want to talk about it," Bangalter asks quietly out in the shady parking lot. Later I'll ask Pharrell about the two men, and he'll say basically the same thing: "I feel funny divulging information, because they're like Men in Black—they'll zap you."
Even my invitation to Daft Arts is contingent on not disclosing where it's located, beyond the fact that it's on a Hollywood studio lot, beyond a gate and a security guard and up some stairs. When I walk in there's a clothes rack with a bunch of garment bags from Yves Saint Laurent dangling from it, and a bookshelf displaying a handful of souvenirs: limited-edition Daft Punk Tron action figures, a Smiths box set, and four indifferently placed Grammys. One wall is covered with a blowup photo of Earth seen from the moon—big and bright and foreboding. There's a sample on Random Access Memories, on the last track, "Contact," that is an excerpt of a conversation between mission control and Apollo 17. "The last Apollo," Bangalter says. "The last captain of the last mission."
I try to pin down a few more details about the new record, like which one of them is behind the melancholy robot voice that haunts much of Random Access Memories.
"Doesn't matter," Bangalter says.
His phone rings—there's someone downstairs at the gate who needs to get in—and he excuses himself for a moment, then returns carrying another YSL garment bag, the contents of which he won't specify.
They either will or won't tour again, will or won't make another movie—I ask a couple of times about what's next, and they're genial but evasive, and then I ask again, and Bangalter cuts me off.
"We're not going to tell you what's going to happen," he says firmly, and then smiles, really smiles, wide and open and guileless as can be.
_Zach Baron is a writer in New York. This is his first article for _GQ.


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A shocking mural depicting George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin was unveiled Friday at the Florida State Capitol. Miami artist Huong's message is "We are all Trayvon Martin."
The mural is obviously shows a man who looks just like George Zimmerman shooting a person wearing a hoodie. The mural has a mirror where Martin's face would be so visitors can see their face where the teen's was.
There are blank areas where the public can share their thoughts and even shows Martin Luther King Jr. with blood flowing from his head. Huong also joined the Dream Defenders which is a group that wants the Florida 'Stand Your Ground' law repealed.
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Thursday night the duo, in an all acoustic format where they traded off each other's songs, absolutely dazzled a crowd of 200 fans at The Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River with a 95-minute show that proved how exciting acoustic music can be. (The pair had played City Winery in Boston on Wednesday night.)
Greene, 37, has been growing into one of rock's most intriguing artists for more than a decade now, and his "sideman" gigs include stints with the last lineup of The Black Crowes, Bob Weir, and as a founding member of Trigger Hippy with Joan Osborne and Crowes' drummer Steve Gorman. Greene's well-honed vignettes and mastery of several instruments make him one of the most popular acts in roots music, and one writer has dubbed him 'The Prince of Americana." Late in October Greene, a Californian now based in Brooklyn, released his latest work, a self-produced six-song EP, "The Modern Lives, Volume 1."
Osborne is a native of Sweden whose teenage path brought him from Bob Dylan's music to Ray Charles, and eventually a career as a bluesman. Osborne left home at 16, played all across Europe and eventually landed in the United States, and has lived in New Orleans for most of the past three decades. Osborne's debut album appeared in 1988, and he's also devoted time to writing songs that other artists like Tim McGraw and Keb Mo have turned into hits. Osborne's 2012 "Black Eye Galaxy" album was considered a watershed achievement for both his guitar playing and writing, mixing rock and blues in a work that delved into the darker sides of addiction and doubt, yet portrayed the path to a certain redemption and peace. Last year Osborne released two albums, "Spacedust and Ocean Views," and "Flower Box."
Both men tour regularly with their own full bands, and both have a bit of a local connection. Greene often expresses his gratitude to Norwell's Susan Tedeschi, one of the first national artists to take him out on tour as an opening act, while Osborne has done substantial touring with the Tedeschi Trucks Band in recent years.
Thursday's 15-song set opened with Greene's evocative ballad "I Don't Live In a Dream," the sort of intelligent rumination where the singer seems to be keeping disillusionment at bay in a lopuing kind of folk-rock framework. But the presence of Osborne meant that the latter half of the song was also punctuated by his bluesy solos, bent notes and slides, all marvelously keyed to the core of the song without overwhelming it.
Greene moved to piano for an Osborne song, the heartbreaking ballad "Sentimental Times," which seemed like a message to a late friend or relative (the lyrics mention Osborne's mother), and found the Swedish singer plumbing some of his deepest and most raw emotions. But again the teamwork aspect was striking, as Osborne was all passion and vulnerability, yet Greene's melodic piano lines made it a magnificent piece of melodic grace.
A bit later, Greene sang lead on a sort of talking blues/commentary, "Don't Let The Devil Take Your Mind," while Osborne's guitar provided the subtle funk groove that fired its momentum. Greene went back to piano for Osborne's vocal turn on "Higher Ground," a stately gospel-blues that was such a testifying moment it felt like we were in a congregation. Greene switched to banjo for "Tupelo," from his new EP, a rather jaundiced view of old ghosts and attitudes that rode a weird kind of creeper groove, crafted by Osborne's throbbing guitar tones.
With Green providing banjo and harmonica, Osborne's "Tracking My Roots" became a rollicking folk-blues that seemed to encompass every American roots style. But when Greene went back to guitar, the two men created a vibrant slice of basic rock 'n' roll for Greene's "Like a Ball and Chain," which is a joyful ode to being in love. That might've been the moment when most of the 200 fans decided no one really needs a wall of amplifiers to shake the rafters.
Osborne's "Spotlight" was another wall-shaking number, with Greene on piano again as Osborne declared his love for a woman in a passionate soul-rocker. Greene's performance on his own "Shaken," was mostly solo, in the 2015 song that uses California as a metaphor for the uncertainty of contemporary life, but as he finished that bittersweet ballad his piano chords shifted to a brighter sound, and some familiar notes and chords. As Osborne joined in seamlessly, the two went into an indelible version of "Breakdown," from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But this was no common cover version, taking those well-known lyrics and melody and slowing them down for a more pensive take, at once an homage and a salute to a fallen brother.
Both musicians played slide guitar as Osborne sang "Hey Little Mama (You Got to Be Kidding Me)" a lively classic blues where he hammed it up to a fiery finish that was also a bit of satire on the form. Greene's signature tune from his early days, "Gone Wanderin'" is a neat capsule of all his influences, from Dylanesque folk-rock to more visceral Americana, and Thursday's rendition had a few folks even kicking their tables aside to get up and dance in the Narrows Center.
The regular set ended with Greene at piano for another Osborne song, which we'd guess was titled "You Make Me Feel Alive," and it was all rumbling energy. For their encore, the pair returned with Green on banjo again for a loose and soulful romp through the gospel tones of "Nobody's Fault But My Own" sung by both, and a fine conclusion to a superb night of music.
NOTE: The Narrows Center's expansion project is underway, which means that seats are a bit closer together for the next couple weeks as construction transforms the back of the concert hall, with the ultimate aim of adding a couple hundred more seats. Work will be done by the first of the year, and the venue's cozy atmosphere and super sightlines will be preserved.


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CASTRO VALLEY — Residents could see their sewer fees go up 8 percent in July, but they still would pay the second lowest rate in the county.
Currently $21.67 a month, fees would go up to $23.42 if the rate hike is approved. The district is proposing another 8 percent rate increase for the following year, which would push the monthly rate to about $25.25.
The fee hike is needed to cover costs of some upgrades, said Roland Williams, Castro Valley Sanitary District general manager.
"While 8 percent might seem a lot, when you break it down, it's about a $20 per year increase for the average residential user, or about $1.70 month," he said.
By comparison, San Leandro charges $29.89 a month, Pleasanton, $35.57 and Livermore $39.70. Hayward's fee varies, up to $27.27 monthly, based on water usage.
Oro Loma Sanitary District has the lowest residential rate in Alameda County: $15.75 a month. That will be going up to $16.25 in July. Oro Loma serves San Lorenzo, Fairview, Ashland, Cherryland and part of San Leandro and Hayward,
CVSan's board will look at the recommendation for the increase at its meeting Tuesday, but will not take a vote until March, when a public hearing is planned, Williams said.
"We have a $25 million sewer improvement plan to make sure we have enough capacity for the next 20 years and don't have sewer overflows," Williams said.
The district also will need to pay $3 million to cover its share of upgrades at the sewage treatment plant it shares with Oro Loma Sanitary District, he said.
"The average sewer charge in Alameda County is about $500 a year, so we're a little bit more than half of that," Williams said. CVSan's current annual rate is $260.
"We have the second lowest residential sewer service rate in Alameda County," said Janette Stuart, district administrative services supervisor. About 95 percent of CVSan's customers are residential users, she said.
Castro Valley Sanitary District had raised fees for the current year by 3.5 percent, or $8 annually, from $252 to $260.
Tuesday's board meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the district office, 21040 Marshall St.
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473, follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1 or read her blog at www.ibabuzz.com/hayword.


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Jurors in Rolf Harris's indecent assault trial are continuing their deliberations for a third day.
The panel of six women and six men, sitting at London's Southwark Crown Court, are considering 12 counts, all of which the veteran entertainer denies.
Musician and artist Harris, 84, from Bray in Berkshire, is accused of assaults on four women between 1968 and 1986.
During his trial, which opened on May 9, prosecutors claimed that the entertainer was a "Jekyll and Hyde" character who had a dark side to his personality and used his fame to abuse under-age girls with impunity.
But his defence team told the jury that Harris's reputation had been "trashed" by a prosecution which did not reach the standard of criminal proof.
The first alleged victim claims Harris groped her when she was seven or eight after she went to get his autograph at a community centre near Portsmouth between 1968 and 1970.
She told the jury he aggressively assaulted her "out of nowhere" at the packed venue.
The second alleged victim claims that Harris touched her bottom when she was waitressing at a celebrity event in Cambridge, either in 1975 or 1978.
She said she saw Harris "playing up to the crowd", crouched on all fours barking at a dog before he groped her.
The third is a friend of Harris's daughter Bindi who alleges that Harris abused her from the age of 13 for several years, starting while she was on holiday in Hawaii.
She claims that one assault took place when Bindi was asleep in the same room, and Harris appeared to get "a thrill" out of it.
Seven of the 12 counts that Harris faces relate to the woman - four allege that he indecently assaulted her when she was 15; two relate to claims that he performed oral sex on her against her will before she was 16; and one relates to an occasion when he allegedly indecently assaulted her in a swimming pool when she was 19.
The fourth alleged victim, Tonya Lee, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she was abused while on a tour of the UK with an Australian youth theatre group in 1986.
The aspiring theatre star, then 15, said she "felt disgusting" after Harris groped her when he went for dinner with the group at a London pub.
Harris admits an adult consensual affair with Bindi's friend, but denies abusing her or any of the other women.
The jury began its deliberations last Thursday.
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Maria Schimek Dicker
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Rosenberg, Czechoslovakia
Maria's Jewish family lived in a Slovakian manufacturing town. When her father's match factory failed, the family of seven moved to Budapest. In her early twenties, Maria opened a flower shop, but she gave it up when she married and moved to Ujpest, outside Budapest. Maria then stayed at home to raise her five children. Her husband owned a large furniture store, and she often gave him business advice.
1933-39: I love having all my grown children gathered around me at the dinner table, enjoying my specially prepared goose and chatting among themselves. It's always special when my youngest daughter, Kato, who lives 40 miles away in her husband's town, manages to get home to visit. But I'm worried--she's told me that at night, hooligans sometimes chant antisemitic slogans at their house and bang on the windows. If only she'd return to Ujpest!
1940-44: My husband died four years ago. A few weeks ago the Germans invaded Hungary, and I was ordered to relocate to a special house for Jews that's marked with a Star of David. Now I've decided to flee and go into hiding. I've come to see my Kato one last time here in Rakospalota, where she's also been forced into a "marked house." An air-raid siren has sounded and we've taken refuge in the cellar. Someone has spotted me as a stranger and insists I leave immediately. I can't bear to say goodbye to my dear Kato.
Maria was arrested while trying to return to her old house to pick up some belongings. She was shot during a forced evacuation from the prison where she was being held.


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The Memorial Day weekend brought many visitors to the Columbia River Gorge and kept Hood River law enforcement officials on the move.
In addition to nine DUII arrests throughout the county, the most notable incident occurred on Saturday. City police were sent scrambling after a Salem man drove through a barricade at the Mt. Hood Railroad parking lot and parked his van on the tracks. The driver, Kerry Dannunzio, 32, allegedly attempted to elude city police when they arrived on the scene. Capt. Kevin Lynch said Dannunzio, who was standing near the drivers' door of the vehicle, told officers he needed to care for his 2-year-old son who was inside and then jumped behind the wheel and took off.
Dannunzio allegedly drove eastbound down the tracks until reaching the Second Street overpass where he exited the van and attempted to flee on foot, leaving his child behind. Lynch stated that Dannunzio became combative when he was caught by police and had to be physically restrained. He was lodged in NORCOR and the child was turned over to his mother, who was later located in Hood River.
County deputies were also kept busy, catching the operators of a mobile methamphetamine lab in action at Wyeth.
In addition, they broke up an underage drinking party in Cascade Locks and responded to the scene of a one car rollover accident involving alcohol on Fir Mountain Road.
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The markets came back from steep losses in tumultuous trading Thursday, ending just slightly lower, as traders grappled with a veritable deluge of headlines on U.S. budget talks.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 18.3 points, or 0.14%, to 13096, the S&P 500 dipped 1.7 points, or 0.12%, to 1418 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 4.3 points, or 0.14%, to 2986.
In a sign of the breadth of the comeback, the Dow had been down 151 points at the lows of the session, falling under the 13000 mark. Still, the markets ended in the red for the fourth day in a row. Trading desks have remained fixated on the looming fiscal cliff.
Talks are set to resume after a quick Christmas break, with President Barack Obama cutting short his trip to Hawaii and the Senate coming back into session. A source also told FOX Business the House of Representatives will reconvene Sunday evening, sparking the big rebound on Wall Street. This will be the first time Congress has met for legislative action since 1970, according to an analysis by Fox News.
Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quickly doused any hopes of a quick solution on the day, suggesting the U.S. is poised to tumble over the cliff if the situation in Congress doesn't change.
"Nothing can move forward in regards to our budget crisis unless (House) Speaker Boehner and (Senate) Leader McConnell are willing to participate in coming up with a bipartisan plan," he said. "Speaker Boehner is unwilling to negotiate, and we have not heard a word from Leader McConnell. Nothing is happening."
Minutes before the closing bell Wednesday, GOP House of Representatives leadership renewed their call for action from the White House and Democrats in the Senate. After the bell, Treasury Tim Geithner issued a letter to Congress saying the U.S. is set to hit the debt limit on December 31. The Treasury will now have to take "extraordinary measures" to push that back -- likely to February, political analysts and economists say.
In a sign of the fiscal woes, the Conference Board's measure of consumer confidence slid to 65.1 in December from 71.5 the month before. Economists expected a stronger reading of 70. The group attributed part of the fall to the looming fiscal cliff.
Also on the economic front, the number of individuals filing for first-time jobless benefits fell by 12,000 to 350,000 last week, much lower than the 360,000 economists forecast. The Labor Department said claims in 19 states were estimated due to the holiday.
The Commerce Department said sales of new, single-family homes climbed 4.4% in November from October to an annual rate of 377,000 units -- the highest since April 2010. The reading was just slightly lower than the 378,000 economists forecast.
Shares of homebuilders like KB Home (NYSE:KBH) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) tend to be particularly affected by these data.
Energy markets cooled down after Wednesday's big rally. The benchmark oil contract fell 11 cents, or 0.12%, to $90.87 a barrel. Wholesale new York Harbor gasoline rose 0.2% to $2.821 a gallon. In metals, gold climbed $3.00, or 0.18%, to $1,664 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.43% to 2660, the English FTSE 100 was flat at 5954 and the German DAX advanced 0.26% to 7656.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 rallied 0.91% to 10323 and the Chinese Hang Seng edged up 0.35% to 22620.
Rich Edson contributed reporting from Washington, D.C.


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Question Everything
Copying from the Board
Reading Out Loud
Paper/Pencil Tasks
What do these all have in common?
They present obstacles to success for students with disabilities.
Do you realize that tasks you present to your students have unintended consequences? Do you consider the fact that some students can not achieve success because you have placed obstacles before them which they can not overcome? Have you really thought about that possibility?
If not, it's time to think about the educational rationale for the instructional methods you incorporate into your teaching practice. Why do you do what you do? And what obstacles are you presenting by the choices you make?
Question everything.
Let's start with the Math Minute. During a recent IEP meeting, the issue of the Math Minute (a common practice in many classrooms) arose. A student's parents brought up the point their son was only able to complete about half of the problems on the Math Minute sheet. He completed them correctly, I should add. Nevertheless, he was graded 15/30. He was penalized due to his slow processing, which was identified during his cognitive testing. The WISC-4 provides a score for processing speed so there was no denying his difficulty. Let's question this practice. What is the educational rationale for timing students using the Math Minute? If there is a satisfactory rationale, how do we accommodate for students who are slower processors or who have physical or visual disabilities that prevent them from completing all the problems in a timed scenario?
Question everything.
Can we talk about copying from the board? What is the educational rationale for this school task? Some students have difficulty with eye gaze shifting and locating their place on the board from a distance. Other students struggle with visual processing skills. The ability to copy is one of those skills that proves nothing other than to point out which students are challenged by this task. Instead, it slows down their performance and may prevent them from achieving the point of the lesson. One example is the grammar correction task. Teachers write grammatically incorrect sentences on the board; students copy the sentences and then make corrections. Many students complete this activity without difficulty but some students only have time to copy and do not have time to make the corrections. What have they learned? Let's consider some alternatives. Provide all students with the sentences printed out in advance. Or, post the sentences to the class wiki or other resource. Show students how to use the reviewing toolbar to make corrections and then email their work to you at the end of the week. No need for paper or copying.
Question everything.
Let's tackle the subject of reading out loud, even if it's only in a small group. Have you ever noticed how some students will do whatever it takes to avoid the humiliation of reading in front of their peers? When they are so anxious about the prospect of reading, how much learning is actually occurring? Instead, give students options to record their reading using Garage Band or VoiceThread or Audacity. Kids are very aware of their reading abilities. Respect their need to avoid humiliation while providing an alternative.
Question everything.
There are many students who struggle with written output and yet we require them to use the tools and methods (paper/pencil/worksheets) that limit their success. When your students struggle with spelling despite an extensive vocabulary, when your students have great ideas but can't get them down on paper, what are you doing to promote success? Do you persist in depending upon the the "old standbys?"What alternatives have you considered? Is word prediction software available on your computer (Co:Writer 6, WordQ, Write:Online)? Have you shown students how they can use Ghotit, a free contextual spell checker that can be downloaded or used online?
Question everything you do. Question every instructional method you employ. Do your methods reach every learner? Does every choice you make in your classroom lead to success for all your students? If not, I encourage you to reflect on your practice and consider using some of the tools from the FREE UDL Tech Toolkit wiki.
Some students will need additional options and this is when you need to involve the assistive technology specialist in your district. A wealth of options exist which promote student success. Don't handicap your students by limiting the choices in your classroom.
Instead, question (your instructional methods), consider (alternatives), reflect (on your professional practice and ask, is it reaching all your learners?) and finally, accommodate (for individual learning challenges).
7 comments:
- Sue said...
Looks like I will be linkiing this to my Ning too!
- 11:02 PM, September 21, 2010
- Graham Wegner said...
Thank you Karen for this excellent post. It has a two pronged focus for me - one, because my oldest son has many of the issues you describe (and then some) and luckily he has a fantastic teacher who accommodates for his learning needs in all areas, even advocating for his needs to the Physical Education teacher (who was originally happy to have him sit on the sidelines doing nothing) and two, because it makes me sit back and take stock of my own classroom practice and how without consciously doing so, I have let barriers build over time that need addressing.
- 12:44 AM, September 22, 2010
- Karen Janowski said...
Sometimes we just need reminders to reflect on our practices and to think about what we are asking of our students. Curious to know how you address removal of the barriers you have inadvertently created.
- 5:56 PM, September 22, 2010
I never really understood the timed test . It makes no sense to me, as it only provides the students with more anxiety. It shouldn't be how fast you do it, but how accurate. Another point you made is copying from the board. I agree that if students would have access to technology can see the material more clearly and will be more cautious of grammatical errors. Lastly, about reading out loud, I do not think that you could have said it any better. I agree that if children are provided with technological devices they would feel more comfortable reading and not be humiliated. We need to make our children succeed and with the right resources we can accomplish this goal. By the way, thanks for the GHOTIT information.
- 7:54 PM, September 23, 2010
- Julia said...
I completely agree. My sister has a learning disability, is deaf, and is held back by other issues as well. I have sit back and observed her teachers throughout the years. The teachers that she seems to have problems with all do not understand her needs. The most important part of teaching is learning how to help each individual student. One strategy might be a great way of learning for one student, and an awful way for another. Learning all depends on the way it is presented to you. In my sisters' case, the teachers that she has had good relationships with, understand and respect the way she needs to be taught and they respect her as a person. If every teacher put extra effort into knowing which teaching strategies would be best for each particular student and perform them correctly, our special education students would be learning so much more and enjoy their learning experience.
- 12:56 PM, September 30, 2010
Your specific examples of not just ineffective practices but truly harmful practices resonates with me. In medicine when docs are informed that a practice is harmful (such as giving children aspirin for a fever), they are expected to cease it immediately- not so much in education. I would add that if you as an educator are told to do something that you know is educationally harmful- question that authority. Great post for us all to read.
- 6:07 AM, October 01, 2010
- Elona Hartjes said...
Thank you for encouraging us to question our teaching practices. I would encourage teachers to check to see if students have IEPs. The IEPs will inform teachers about a student's strengths and needs so that when teachers are designing their lessons, they are aware of the appropriateness of certain strategies and assignments. IEPs are a great resource.
- 10:00 AM, October 26, 2010


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Anderson, longtime KTSU host, dies after aneurysm
Longtime KTSU (90.9 FM) radio host Myron Anderson died Thursday, four days after suffering a brain aneurysm during a cookout on Super Bowl Sunday, according to family members. He was 64.
Anderson spent 32 years with the station owned by his alma mater, Texas Southern University, including 30 years as host of the "Listening Back" morning show each Friday. His career at KTSU began during his days as a student in 1981, and he earned a degree from the university in 1987.
"The music, in my opinion, is some of the best music ever recorded," he said in a 2011 interview. "The artists were better because they had to be. I loved the Temptations, Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson before I saw them."
He recruited listeners, including Mayor Annise Parker, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, community activist Quanell X, longtime radio host Skipper Lee Frazier and Archie Bell, the lead singer of Archie Bell and the Drells, to submit top 10 lists of songs to play on the weekly program.
Away from the radio station, Anderson worked as an emcee, working shows featuring the Temptations, Johnnie Taylor, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, the Stylistics, Bobby Bland, Jerry Butler and others, and formed a group called the "Listening Back Temptations Lip Sync" that performed in Houston and San Antonio. He also hosted Sunday afternoon oldies parties at Club Silk and other clubs during the 1980s and '90s, and he worked with Fiesta Stores for 18 years.
James Ward, dean of TSU's School of Communications, said Anderson "will not only be missed by us but by the Houston community for his 32-year presence here at the station and his community outreach."
Anderson grew up in Houston's Sunnyside neighborhood and graduated from Worthing High School.
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When two of the world's biggest pop stars have new product to push, you can bet they'll find a big way to push it.
That's what Paul McCartney and Justin Timberlake are set to do next week with some help from Jimmy Kimmel.
The late-night host is throwing an "epic two-night concert event" (as his people put it in a press release) with free outdoor gigs by the two boy-band veterans, both on Hollywood Boulevard between Highland Avenue and Sycamore Avenue.
On Monday night, ex-Beatle McCartney will take the stage ahead of the release next month of "New," his first set of original songs since since 2007.
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Then, on Tuesday, former (and perhaps future?) 'N Sync member Timberlake will perform material from "The 20/20 Experience -- 2 of 2," the new album he's putting out Sept. 30. (Tickets are available -- or at least they were -- at JKLTickets.)
Both men, by the way, will hit L.A. fresh from this weekend's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, where they're to appear alongside Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Drake, Elton John and Miley Cyrus, among many others.
Stay tuned to Pop & Hiss for coverage of that blow-out beginning Friday, and watch the lyric video for McCartney's single "New" below.
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"Understanding the intelligent design creationist movement"
The Center for Inquiry released a new position paper, "Understanding the intelligent design creationist movement: Its true nature and goals," on May 29, 2007. Written by Barbara Forrest, the paper (PDF) examines "the ID movement's organization, its historical and legal background, its strategy and aims, and its public policy implications," arguing that, "In promoting 'intelligent design theory' -- a term that is essentially code for the religious belief in a supernatural creator -- as a purported scientific alternative to evolutionary theory, the ID movement continues the decades-long attempt by creationists either to minimize the teaching of evolution or to gain equal time for yet another form of creationism in American public schools. Accordingly, the ID creationist movement threatens both the education of the nation's children and the constitutional separation of church and state, which protects the religious freedom of every American."
Barbara Forrest is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University and a member of NCSE's board of directors; with Paul R. Gross she wrote Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press, 2004), the definitive exposé of the "intelligent design" movement's so-called Wedge strategy, recently published in paperback with a new chapter about Kitzmiller v. Dover. Forrest testified for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller trial, and Judge Jones wrote in his ruling, "Dr. Barbara Forrest ... has thoroughly and exhaustively chronicled the history of ID in her book and other writings for her testimony in this case. Her testimony, and the exhibits ... admitted with it, provide a wealth of statements by ID leaders that reveal ID's religious, philosophical, and cultural content." The Center for Inquiry seeks "to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor."


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The Dirty Tricks Of One Spyware Company Who Claims To Be Transparent
from the oh-so-transparent dept
Earlier this week, we wrote about a lawsuit between two spyware companies, after one got upset that the other was deleting its software when both were installed on the same computer. We pointed to another interview with someone from the accused spyware company, claiming his goal was "transparency, transparency, transparency" when it came to dealing with customers. Well, MSNBC has given a bit of real transparency to Direct Revenue, and the company might not like it so much. They've apparently changed their name many, many times to make it much harder for people to track them down. They've practiced all kinds of dirty and sneaky tricks from installing software without telling users, to gathering sensitive data, to hijacking affiliate fees. The company also just happened to raise a ton of VC money from some fairly well known VCs who should know better. What's amusing is that so many VCs always claim they invest in the "people," and here's a situation where it's clear the people have been less than honest countless times in the past, and still got funding. The VC weakly defends his investment by saying the company is "moving in the right direction," which suggests he knows how sneaky and underhanded the company has been and still is -- and still agreed to give them money. It certainly doesn't reflect well at all on Insight Venture Partners' reputation.


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