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What Would Donald Trump Say About Your Content Creation?
The question "What would Donald Trump say about your content creation" is an interesting angle to look at the subject from, isn't it?
Whether you love him or hate him, there's no denying that Donald Trump gets people talking.
And not just because of the comb over.
He's brought a number of highly polarising topics to the forefront, and got everyone's attention and got people talking.
Of course, many people feel he goes way too far with some of the things he says and does.
Others rally around him because they like the fact that he's willing to say what a lot of other people, even a lot of other politicians, would like to say but don't have the cajones for because they're afraid.
What would Donald Trump say about your content creation?
Your fired!? Hopefully not.
Nevertheless, although this is a completely politically neutral site, and is not an endorsement for the Trumpster, here are things you can learn from The Donald about creating awesomely engaging content and raving fans.
Trump is an Igniter
DT knows how to ignite a crowd, a debate, an entire nation. You gotta have a spark if you're going to ignite a fire and The Donald is as sparky as they come.
For an example of how fired up people get about DT, see this article "Jindal: Trump is a madman who must be stopped:"
Regardless of how you view his ideas and opinions, he definitely knows how to ignite a subject and get people fired up and fully engaged in the discussion.
That's what great content should do too.
Creating awesomely engaging content means that you need to be willing to really let it all hang out there in the open, just flapping in the wind. (That's quite a visual, ain't it?)
With the micro attention spans that people have nowadays, you'd better be sure that your content grabs readers by the throat, shakes them up, and draws them into your world so deeply that they just can't help but want more.
Otherwise you may as well pack it all in and go home. Or if you are at home, pack it all in and go to bed.
Trump is opinionated
DT is never wanting for an opinion. Just ask him and he'll tell you straight up what his opinion is of any person or any subject.
And there's no concern for political correctness. He simply expresses his opinion and doesn't seem to give two hoots about what anyone thinks.
Good or bad, you asked for it and now you've got his opinion.
Great content igniters are not afraid to express their opinions about things, even if doing so results in some backlash.
I'm not suggesting you go out of your way to offend people's sensitivities to simply bait readers to click or join your email list. Not at all.
But if you have an opinion that goes against what many people feel is conventional wisdom and you have evidence to support it, you should be willing to put it out there and let the chips fall where they may.
Great content has to stand out from just the ordinary, and one of the ways to accomplish that, to really create engaging content, is to give people an opportunity to look at a subject from a perspective they've never considered before.
Awesomely engaging content has to take a stand for something. It needs to be opinionated!
Trump is unfiltered
As I've already mentioned, "there's no concern for political correctness." What you get from The Donald is pure and unfiltered.
What does that mean for creating engaging content for your readers?
It means writing in your natural, unfiltered voice.
Finding your voice is a critical part of content creation.
You've gotta create a connection between yourself and the people you're writing for, the people who are gonna come to your site and read your stuff.
That means being, at least to a major extent, unfiltered.
Think about what we view people who are always super careful about how they say things, who are always trying to find just the right words when they're conversing with you, or answering a question you've asked, or trying to give you some feedback.
I know that I'll often say to a person like that, "You'd make a great politician."
Get my point?
Most politicians are completely filtered. They're not saying what they're really thinking. So the voice you hear when they're speaking is not their real voice.
A great takeaway from Mr. Trump and for your content creation is to throw away the filter.
Use your own voice when writing your content and people will feel connected with you because you're being real.
Trump has bad hair and he doesn't care
How many jokes have you heard about Donald Trump' s hair over the years?
Does he care? He sure doesn't seem to and has even admitted that his hair is odd looking.
When Rosie O'Donnell made fun of Trump's hair on The View, he simply didn't care. His response was to tear her to pieces.
Trump's hair is one of his signatures, it's like a special Trump trademark. He could have changed his hair years ago, he certainly has enough money to have any style of hair he wants.
But if he changed his hair now, what would the public think? How would people feel? It would likely be a pretty odd thing to see him with "normal" hair.
The bottom line is that Donald Trump doesn't care what people think about his hair and in fact it has been talking point for years. And that's all that he cares about. That people are talking about him.
So, how does that relate to your content?
What's unique, and perhaps somewhat odd about your content and or the services and products you're offering to your readers?
Are you a little quirky? That can be a good thing. It can become a part of your trademark or your branding.
So don't let some negative feedback about what you're doing, selling, or writing get you off point.
If you're getting a reaction from people because of your content, or your quirkiness, or because in some other way your unique or different, that can be a very positive aspect of you and your content to play with and promote.
If you're getting a reaction, even if some people are making fun of you, it means that they're engaged with you and what you've got to say or share with them.
And that's a good thing.
So, what would Donald Trump say about your content creation?
Hopefully not "You're fired!"
But you can learn a lot from The Donald about creating content that ignites, is opinionated, unfiltered, and very unique, even, at times, in a quirky kind of way.
A lot of people relate to Donald Trump. He has his own tribe. And he definitely stands out from the rest of the individuals he's currently running against.
So take some lessons from Trumpster. He's a master promoter and marketer. He's created a very well known brand. And love him or hate him, he attracts eyeballs and gets people engaged.
That's what great content creation should do too!


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10 Things That Happen to You After You Quit Smoking
September 13, 2017 | Health | No Comments|
Smoking is one of the most common but also very bad habit that damages your health. There are many threats on the health that smoking is causing and you need to know them.
If you are smoker you should definitely think about changing your lifestyle and your habits, which should include quitting smoking. Many people don't think about quitting smoking, but the benefits you will feel will be immediate.
Here are the main reasons why you should quit smoking:
- Once you quit smoking in the first ½ an hour your blood pressure will stabilize
- The next 8 hours the level of CO2 will decrease by 50% which is important for normalizing the level of oxygen.
- In the first two days you will manage to remove the nicotine from the body, and your sense of smell and taste will normalize again. This is great for reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases
- In the next 72 hours your energy level will increase and the air passages will be cleared
- In the next two weeks the blood flow will improve and it will continue for 10 more days.
- In the first 3-9 months your lungs will increase their capacity by 10%, and the problems with breathing will be reduced.
- By quitting smoking you will also decrease the risk for heart attack by 50%
- People that quit smoking also reduce the risk of stroke
- After 10 years the risk of developing lung cancer is also reduced and it equals to those who don't smoke
- In 15 years there is reduced risk for heart attack

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I'm one of those folks who always thinks people I meet for the first time look like someone famous, although it may be at the D-list level.
It never fails I'll tell Newscoma, "Hey, didn't you think so-and-so looked just like Mr. Whipple from the Charmin commercials or that chick could have been the twin sister of the third dancer on the left in the WHAM video from 1986."
However, I don't see holy images in my lunch nor the trees outside my home nor the oil spill in my driveway.
Apparently, I'm in the minority on this though.
The Chicago Tribune has compiled a dozen images of everything from scorched paneling to grilled cheese to bark to pretzels that supposedly have been blessed by images of the Virgin Mary, Muhammad and Jesus.
I'll show you one, but you have to go here for the rest.
Ta da – I present to you the famous Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese samich.


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William Paterson University Unveils Preakness Hall, Part 1 of $31 Million Renovation Project
Wayne, NJ, October 4, 2017 — Arthur Augustyn reports in NJBIZ that William Paterson University officially opened its new academic building, Preakness Hall, which was partially funded by New Jersey's "Building Our Future" bond act.
The state contributed $7 million to the project with an estimated overall cost of $31 million for renovating and updating key academics facilities on the William Paterson campus.
Preakness Hall replaces the university's 50-year-old Hunziker Wing and has been modernized to include kinesiology laboratories, 14 smart classrooms with 133-inch high-definition projectors, a 90-seat auditorium, a writing center and faculty offices for the Departments of English and Philosophy. Continue reading
At BioNJ Roundtable, Biopharmaceutical Executives Share What's Behind Drug Pricing
Newark, NJ, October 3, 2017 — Vince Calio reports on NJBIZ that it's no secret that biopharmaceutical companies have become the target of heavy criticism from politicians and consumers due to high drug prices, especially at a time when health care reform in the U.S. has become a hot-button topic.
The topic is especially of interest in New Jersey, given that some of the state's largest employers are biopharmaceutical companies including Kenilworth-based Merck; Johnson & Johnson, headquartered in New Brunswick; and Celgene, located in Summit. Continue reading
NJ Tech Council's James Barrood on 'Blockchain: Changing the World, Starting in New Jersey'
New Brunswick, NJ, September 28, 2017 — NJ Tech Council President and CEO James Barrood writes in NJBIZ on the topic of blockchain:
By now, you've probably heard that "blockchain will change the world." Notwithstanding massive recent hype, it almost certainly will. And its impact will be even larger right here in New Jersey, because we're at the heart of many of the industries it's likely to transform.
The web is now packed with introductions to blockchain, but here's the minimum you need to know. It offers a powerful new way to track value, transfer ownership, and confirm transactions securely, without a centralized authority to supervise, act as a bottleneck, or charge high fees for doing so. Continue reading
HINJ Named Among 'Best Lobbying Firms' in NJBIZ's First Readers Rankings Survey
New Brunswick, NJ, September 20, 2017 — The HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) was among the New Jersey companies, organizations and universities named in NJBIZ's inaugural "Readers Rankings" survey.
In a special supplement published with NJBIZ's September 18 issue, HINJ was named as one of the "Best Lobbying Firms," along with Gibbons PC, Princeton Public Affairs Group and Public Strategies Impact LLC, with which HINJ tied for #3.
HINJ member companies Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co., along with Rutgers University, were reader-ranked as the "Best Life Sciences Companies." Continue reading
Montclair State Designated 'Public Research' University; Readies Launch of $22 Million Computer Science Facility
Montclair, NJ, September 5, 2017 — Vince Calico reports in NJBIZ that Montclair State University, after being designated a Public Research University by Gov. Chris Christie in July, is preparing to launch a 40,000-square-foot computer science facility in the fall of 2018, and is setting its sights on other major expansion projects.
The school is on a roll in terms of academic prestige: Christie signed legislation July 21 giving Montclair State the Public Research University designation just one month after the college was ranked among the best schools for the money by Money Magazine.
In addition to the prestige, the new designation allows Montclair State to once again enter into public-private partnerships to construct new facilities and make financial aid available to hundreds of more students. Continue reading
Hackensack Meridian and NJ Innovation Institute Cut Ribbon on Agile Strategies Lab, First Health Care Incubator in State
Newark, NJ, August 28, 2017 — Anjalee Khemlani reports on NJBIZ that Agile Strategies Lab — a partnership between Hackensack Meridian Health and New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) — held a ribbon-cutting August 15, officially opening the first incubator for health care in New Jersey.
The incubator, which Khemlani first reported on March 9, is located in Newark. It is being funded by $25 million from the health system and is designed as a space where a "Shark Tank"-like expert panel will hear pitches that aim to solve health care issues. Continue reading
NJ Lawmakers Establish Legislative Manufacturing Caucus to Fund Expansion of Technical and Vocational Schools
Trenton, NJ, August 19, 2017 — Vince Calio reports in NJBIZ that vocational and technical workers in the state are set to get a large boost from the government.
State lawmakers on August 15 created the Legislative Manufacturing Caucus, which will work over the next year to create legislation that would issue municipal bonds to fund the creation and expansion of technical vocation schools in the state.
Those schools are generally designed to train workers without four-year college degrees for careers in manufacturing, and give them a path to a four-year degree. Continue reading
Robert and Laura Garrett Gift $2.65 Million to Endow Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian Med School Dean's Post
Hackensack, NJ, August 3, 2017 — Anjalee Khemlani reports in NJBIZ that Hackensack Meridian Health co-CEO Robert Garrett and his wife, Laura Garrett, have provided a $2.65 million gift in honor of the new Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine's founding dean, Dr. Bonita Stanton.
Dr. Stanton was appointed to the Robert C. and Laura C. Garrett Endowed Chair for the School of Medicine Dean.
"Endowed chairs are among the highest honors conferred in academia, and the $15 million in support of endowments at Hackensack University Medical Center reinforces its role as one of the top-ranked academic medical centers in the country," the health system said in a statement. Continue reading
Partnership Between Drug and Glass Companies Means More Jobs for New Jersey
Vineland, NJ, August 2, 2017 — Bill Gallo, Jr. reported on NJBIZ that a collaborative effort among giants in the pharmaceutical and glass industry will mean new jobs in South Jersey, officials say.
Drug manufacturers Merck and Pfizer have joined with Corning Glass in creating a new, stronger glass packaging for injectable drugs, Valor Glass.
Corporate officials say Corning is making an initial investment of $500 million and creating 1,000 new U.S. jobs as the first part of a planned investment of $4 billion and 4,000 new high-tech jobs. Continue reading
Sixers Innovation Lab in Camden Officially Opens to Entrepreneurs; Four Companies Taking Space
Camden, NJ, July 19, 2017 — Vince Calio reports in NJBIZ that the Sixers Innovation Lab Crafted by Kimball officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 18 at the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers' training facility in Camden.
The 8,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Innovation Lab is located at the base of the 76ers' business operations facility.
It is opening its doors with four startup companies that will receive coaching and guidance from Seth Berger, the lab's managing director. Berger is also the founder and former CEO of startup sneaker and sports apparel company AND1. Continue reading


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By John Nardolillo
The new UCI sports team is generating quite the buzz. No it's not football; the Anteaters remain undefeated, untied and untried since 1965 in that department. In this sport the battles are not fought on the gridiron but on a rather different grid, the World Wide Web.
The world of competitive gaming, better known as esports, has established markets globally and nationally and has set its sights on our humble campus. UC Irvine announced the launch of an esports initiative, complete with a 3500 square foot facility, 80 personal computers, a live-broadcasting studio and scholarships for potential "e-athletes."
Backed by Riot Games and iBuyPower, two esports pioneers and PC gaming authorities, the advent of a UCI team has drawn mixed feelings from those who worry that it might breed some sort of reputation for our school as Video Game U, or take attention away from our "real" sports teams.
But where do computer game competitions find the audacity to even call themselves sports? As a sports journalist, something entirely different comes to mind when I think of "sports."
To me, sports entail some sort of athletic endeavor in which competitors strive to achieve excellence.
I watch sports to see human beings perform superhuman feats, like Barry Bonds socking dingers to the moon, Steph Curry pulling up from Mars and Kobe Bryant dragging his zombified corpse up and down the floor of the Staples Center pouring in 60 points in his career finale out of sheer Mamba will. The physical and mental grind combined with the desire to be the best in one's field is something that should be admired. It's poetry to me, and something about wires and computers and Summoner's Rifts somehow doesn't fit the rhyme scheme. I don't bear any ill will towards esports, it just doesn't mesh with my idea of sports entertainment.
However, major media outlets like ESPN seem to be on board, as they are (in)famous for televising events that have no physical element beyond basic motor skills and expandable stomachs such as poker, hot-dog eating and 8th graders spelling words like cymotrichous (sp).
ESPN2 recently broadcasted the Heroes of the Storm championship, a League of Legends-type game amid sanctimonious twitter explosions lamenting the sports entertainment bar being lowered to Cousteau-like depths. This shift in programming bodes poorly for the sector of the American sport viewing public that wants to see, hear, eat and breathe FOOBAW all year long. Fans in America are touchy when it comes to sports; they treat them as sacred, with many employing purist attitudes while gripping at the Johnny-come-latelies to PLAY THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY. Well, here's a solution that's seemingly foreign to content consumers of all types in this day and age who make a hobby of being offended—DON'T WATCH IT or DON'T READ IT. It's not like the Super Bowl has been relegated to ESPN 8 The Ocho in the time slot after dodgeball and before 600 cup beer pong. This town is big enough for the two of us.
As for me, nostalgia plays a huge part in my love of sports. I remember seeing Hank Aaron's name in baseball record books from the time I learned to read, and I remember Jordan's Bulls rewriting history in red and black ink. Those moments were special to me. STOP THREATENING MY CHILDHOOD. However, I slowly learned to deal, and to put things in perspective with regards to eras and cultures so I can enjoy watching people compete for the title of GOAT in whatever field they choose.
In a sports culture presently defined by sweeping change, whether it be the vast overhaul of the NFL rulebook, implementation of instant replay in pro baseball or the rising dependence on the three-pointer in the NBA, you'll be hard-pressed not to adapt to the coming change in whatever form it takes. Nothing you fall in love with will stay exactly the way it was when you found it.
The fact remains: esports are popular, and their massive audience is growing larger. For the League of Legends world championships in 2014 South Korea filled an OUTDOOR SOCCER STADIUM originally built for the 2002 World Cup. That kind of impressive viewership will only see prize money, advertisements and investments skyrocket in the very near future.
In 2015, the global esports market stood at roughly $750 million. It is projected to more than double in the next two years, meaning the top earners who made north of 1.7 million in 2015 alone will see some serious paydays in the future, and more gamers will consider this route as a viable career.
Even betting and fantasy, which is synonymous with sports nowadays, has managed to carve out a subsection of the market totaling $55 million.
This movement is just getting started, and we purists and nostalgia addicts are going to have to live with it and make the best of things.
I will admit that the appeal of esports does rely on two things in particular that align it with the traditional representation of sport in my eyes: Teamwork and competition. It may lack helmet-to-helmet collisions and pants-shitting tomahawk dunks, but at its bare bones it's just another undertaking of excellence, humans doing things humans shouldn't be able to do. The top e-gamers strive to achieve the crown in a different way than I'm used to, but they can be admired just the same for their dedication, drive and ability. If they make millions of people watching happy, more power to 'em, maybe it's worth checking out.
If they can incorporate a wild-card race and have Bill Walton do color commentary, it'd honestly be hard to keep me away.


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Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000), which was certified diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries. Last year, Linkin Park launched their new single Heavy after three years a gap. People all over the world had their own opinion regarding the song. Some said, "it's nice"; some added, "it's nice, but it is not like Linkin Park".
Will Rivitz, Co-founder and EIC of The Princeton LP, said, "Heavy" doesn't really sound like a Linkin Park song. It's too muted, the frantic despondency of Chester Bennington's wail discarded in favour of sedate melancholy. Rather, its emptiness is more aligned with Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. The Ohioans have mastered the particularly neutral form of angst shown here, with a discography chock-full of songs rendered potent by the emotional trauma buried shallowly under a veneer of calm. "Heavy" is trying to be relatable by bursting at its glassy seams with despair; that's absolutely twenty-one pilots' way of artistry. Which is why "Heavy" is such a disillusioning song. It's misanthropy and angst, but it's not their misanthropy and angst — or even a misanthropy and angst they can reasonably lay claim to as their own. It's the deadened sadness of twenty-one pilots and the Insta-ready moodiness of Kiiara and Julia Michaels, nothing more. Before, when Linkin Park had dulled their rage, it was in a new direction, as with the early-2010s albums and their seething, mechanical ambience. Now, it's in a direction already explored by other musicians — musicians who have, ironically enough, achieved their own success by taking a page from the originators.".
He added, "Of course, Linkin Park wasn't the originators of their style — other bands had been tossing around rap-metal combinations for about a decade, with varying success — but they were the first ones to perfect the nu-metal formula. Korn was too weird, Slipknot was too aggressive, Deftones was too unapproachable. Linkin Park got it — their music was a perfect blend of accessibility, anger, simplicity, and catchiness. Theirs was a then-unique misanthropy which allowed the listener in, saying that the kid who stumbled out of the CD shop with the insectoid album cover wasn't alone. The band's particular blend of everything that gave nu-metal its heft was fiercely original. Their success blazed a path for legions of followers, all of whom would diversify and deepen the band's perfect presentation of emotion."
There's no space for Linkin Park's older brand of angst anymore, so they need to create a new one. If that creation hinges too heavily on the work of those around them, the band might find that all the real estate is gone — and with it, what's made them special over so many years. If their magic is really gone then it might be the time to bid farewell !!!


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Yesterday I gave you a glimpse of me in the back yard.
I was banished out there while the cable man was here.
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Writing lesson #26 is full of experiments and writing. Lots of rolling, pushing, and pulling will be going on during this week. Your scientists will predict, experiment, review their findings, and summarize their investigations. This week is all about seeking answers, drawing observations, and discussing their decisions. The world of force and motion is at their feet.
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NRG Zane Spinner set includes the cards Crumble to dust, Spin-o-Rama, SnowBlind and Diameter coated. Crumble to dust requires 300 sp earth and opponent discards a face-up crown card. Spin-o-rama requires 200 ice and spinner is placed on the side and if your spinner spins for longer, reclaim a lost weapon. Snowblind requires a golden weapon and 200 ice sp and opponents ice sp is reduced by 100. Diameter coated requires 500 ice sp and a crown and discard a crown card to avoid losing after any spin. He has a rarity of one star and the tooth on the scythe is whiter than the rest of the scythe.
An NRG instruction manual was accidentally put into NRG Jay and it was in only different languages so this is the best translation even though I am certain of the crumble to dust, Spin-o-rama and requirements because of the images.
- Could you scan smaller sections of it, or at least take pictures of the individual sections, because I can't read anything, and I'm pretty sure that also applies to other editors here.--188.8.131.52 01:07, July 5, 2012 (UTC)


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Henderson Huggins Interview (Unedited)
Alabama Music Office.com goes into our studios to interview Henderson Huggins.
Henderson Huggins is a native of Holt, Alabama. He began piano lessons at a very young age at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, moving on to become a noted stylist in multiple genres. He crossed the country with several different bands in the 60's and 70's, doing session work in recording studios and backing artists such as Sam and Dave and Johnnie Taylor. Off the road in recent years, he has become a popular blues arranger and professional piano tuner, as well as playing organ and serving as Minister of Music at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in his present home town of Tuscaloosa.
In 2007 Henderson Huggins played in the movie, Honeydripper, (piano double for TYRONE PURVIS, played by Danny Glover). Comprised of some of the South's most accomplished blues and soul musicians, the Honeydripper All-Stars will be playing special performances in conjunction with the screening of the new John Sayles film, Honeydripper. The band features Henderson Higgins on piano, Arthur Lee Williams on harmonica, Dr. Mable John providing vocals, and Gary Clark Jr. on guitar.
Featured in a forthcoming film by director John Sayles, this intriguingly eclectic group includes performers from all over the country: veteran Chicago saxman Eddie Shaw, young Texas guitarist Gary Clark Jr., Mississippi harpist Arthur Lee Williams, jazz pianist Henderson Huggins from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Detroit-bred singer Mable John, a former Raelette who recorded for both Motown and Stax in the 60s -- her sassy "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" was a hit for Stax in '66 -- and now lives in LA.
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Henderson Huggins album review:
It is very hard to believe but Henderson Huggins has never recorded before In God's Hands (We Three Productions). In God's Hands is a collection of 8 black gospel tracks written by Kenne Walker and Henderson. Most in Tuscaloosa, Alabama know Henderson as the piano tuning man. He was the blind piano player in the movie, Honeydripper. This soulful gospel offering was co-produced and engineered by John Hall. In God's Hands has been a long time in coming but well worth the wait.-Jerry W. Henry


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South Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Hub
The Mungo Foundation is a key provider of Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services in the South of Glasgow. We deliver the service from our Recovery Hub in the Gorbals and work with individuals and families at a variety of places and times in local communities.
We offer a warm and professional welcome.
We recognise everyone's journey is different, if you are experiencing problems because of alcohol and drug use we can support you on the road to recovery.
Whatever your goals, if these are to safely reduce drug or alcohol intake or to be abstinent, we can help, will work with you in a person centred, recovery outcome focused way.
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This blended learning course has two parts - Part 1 is to be completed online Part 2 (skills practice and testing session) must be completed with the instructor within 30 days
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L to R: Sayumi Michishige, Rika Ishikawa
Shortly after W's inception, Tsunku I guess wanted to make another duo unit, but this time base it around environmental concerns so to kind of make due and make a "save the oceans and trees" but, Ecomoni came into view in 2004 and released a song just for a concert for an environmental festival called "Help!! ~Ecomini no Achii Chikyuu wo Samasunda!~ (which was later covered by Morning Musume). They also ended up collaborating with Aya Matsuura (though this was after they almost broke up) in a Hamtaro-themed release called "Tensai! LET'S GO Ayayamu". After that, they've done surprise performances up til 2007…though technically they can still perform as they're both still performing elsewhere.
Style of Music:
Well, considering they have only two tracks and both are VERY different songs stylistically….Help!! is a poppy song with some rapping and bad engrish and Eco no Waltz…is well a waltz what do you need? More randomness?
A live performance of their song Help!! ~Ecomoni no Achii Chikyuu wo Samasunda!~. Yeah this song is pretty meh because of the engrish throughout.
Overall: Ecomoni was the start of the environmental-themed units and at first the idea was pure and nice, but personally we have Charmy and Sayu and two overly cuties, yet crap vocals making songs a bit disheartening. Still, one of the more interesting units (and would've been great to see them return because of SATOYAMA and SATOUMI…you'd think they'd be the best of both worlds right?).


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The DAVID LAUGHTON estate was listed in a record book housed at the Archives of Michigan, St. Clair County, Record of Proceedings 1835-1838:
(Page 46) Estate of David Laughton, Deceased
Twp. of Clay, St. Clair County [Territory of] Michigan
3 August 1836
Jacob Harsen applied for Letters of Administration on the estate of David Laughton, lage of the County of Cook in the State of Illinois, deceased
Jacob Harsen of the Township of Clay as principal and William Harsen and Francis Harsen of same place, sureties
This David Laughton mentioned in treaty?
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Construction Management or Construction Project Management is the overall planning, coordinating and controlling of a project from start to finish in conjunction with the client. Construction management is a type of contract between the client and contractor, whereby the contractor plays the role of a project manager, representing both the client and the sub-contractors involved. Similar to project management, construction management requires the use of industry knowledge, skills and techniques to ensure that a project is completed successfully. Construction management consists of time and quality management, cost allocation, procurement capabilities, risk management, contract administration and communication proficiency.
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The Pair side table collection consists of three variations of a pair of tables, one table overlapping the other. The solid lower base table is inspired by a ceramic pot, and the higher overlapping table stands light on three feet. The overlap creates a storage on the base table, but when desired the base table is placed besides the higher table, providing, often at times, a much appreciated additional surface.


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Like most field recordists I use the metering the manufacturers give me on field recorders, and that's fine for most stereo and binaural applications. But it does have its limitations, particularly for mono compatibility. Unlike a studio situation in the field you are recording what is out there, the only thing you can change is your physical location and the direction you are facing. Des Coulam of soundlandscapes had the concept of the sound map and using that has helped me with with urban field recordings. With bird recording it's simple – get as close as you can to the bird without disturbing it 😉 If using a directional microphone then you want to position the interference in the dead zone of the mic.
Most people on the Internet seems to listen in stereo, there aren't going to be that many PC users hooking the output of their audio card into their 1950s valve gramophone. So binaural urban field recordings are going to be fine because if anyone listens they will be listening in stereo and most likely using headphones, which is a great mix. You get decent results even from highly reverberant recordings like the South Kensington Station pedestrian tunnel.
The trouble with binaural is you end up with a lot of out-of-phase signals, the classic ball of string on a goniometer studio display. With the pedestrian tunnel I tried to keep the busker central while recording, and this is serviceable in that recording. Nevertheless there are a few places where the ball of string stretches out horizontally, and mixing the signal to mono worsens the tone of the recording – the echo that was character now become colouration.
Birds are harder in binaural stereo
They are higher in pitch, and they also aren't in a horizontal plane.
I tried hard to keep this Robin central
but I didn't think about the vertical plane at all. You don't, normally, because when you are recording people or anything else they are usually in front of you 🙂
- it was about 5m away in a tree, the vertical angle was about 45 degrees.
There's about 270 degrees phase shift, hence the round goniometer display. The dominant frequency is about 4kHz, working out the path length that corresponds to that, from
velocity=frequency x wavelength
so λ=v÷f , ie λ = 330/4000 = 0.08m or 8 cm. A 90 degree phase shift would be picked up from a 2cm path difference between my ears and the robin's bill. To try and reduce this I need to be a lot more careful about orientating my head to the bird; I'm glad we don't normally use binaural recording for birdsong from individuals[ref]as can be heard in this poor recording, it's hard to get enough discrimination against background noise with binaural. That's just not what binaural is about, but it excels at, say a rook roost or a starling roost[/ref]
Unfortunately the Telinga parabolic microphone system, in particular the DATmic also has this, because there is a baffle between the two stereo sides. One of the nice things about the Telinga is that you get the background in stereo and the wanted sound in mono.
With this swallow recording this seems to hold at the start, but drift off
It was recording using a Telinga dish and DATmic at the WSRS Ennerdale field recording meeting. The bird was sitting on a phone wire just outside the bunkhouse, I was on the first floor so roughly level with the bird about 2m away aiming out of a window. It was a handheld, snatched recording – you have to seize the moment sometimes. And I probably let the dish drift slightly.
We don't use phase information, or interaural time differences above about 1.5kHz
Sitting at home I can hear the difference between the first part and the second part – the first part of this clip has better definition. But it isn't easy to get this right in the field by ear alone. It appears that high-frequency stereo location above 1500 Hz is by intensity rather than phase – there seems to be some sort of phase-locking mechanism that improves low frequency discrimination by interaural phase. Which is just as well since low frequencies are masked less by the head.
Although I knew that we use both phase and intensity to derive the stereo image I didn't appreciate the frequency dependence. This is also used in MP3 encoding, so I need to learn more about that to be able to MP3 encode field recordings better – they would lend themselves well to joint stereo modes.
This means I am sunk as far as getting the robin's song in phase by ear. I'm just not going to hear it – I need some kind of gizmo to show me this visually.
As to whether this is practically useful in the field is another matter. Birds have a nasty habit of moving, I'm guessing a robin won't move enough while singing to pick up an extra 2cm path length, but I don't know.
Display technologies
A smartphone might be man enough in the processing FLOPS department to show the oscilloscope goniometer display directly, which is the non plus ultra of stereo display. But
- I'd need to write the app
- I only have an iPod touch and
- the audio in is mono only
The scope display is too much to tote around, while I do have a DS0203 digital scope, the user interface of that is fiddly and terrible. It's acceptable on the bench and there are times you just need an isolated scope, but it would be maddening in the field.
There are three other types of stereo phase display I know of.
One is the sort of thing described in Westhost's Project 135 – Stereo Phase Correlation meter. I've never seen one of these.
At the BBC they tended to measure the sum and difference levels and display these. It's possible to do that using a single LED display by running the L+R signal to one log display and the L-R signal to another, and using bicolour LEDs, green to the L+R and red to the L-R. If you see red then there's too much out of phase data.
The last is the Frank Fox 'The Box' using a square of LEDs. Oy vey – £450, I don't think so. To go that way I need to work out how they do it, and preferably make it smaller…
The obvious place to start is with Rod Elliott/Westhost's Project 135 – Phase Correlation Meter. It's relatively simple and looks easy to make.


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Some unsolicited advice for Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ahead of next week's big Capital Markets Day gathering: Scrap the company's Meego OS and forge a Windows Phone 7 hardware alliance with Microsoft. Otherwise, prepare to be eclipsed once and for all by the upstart rivals that have already bested you in the smartphone space.
That's the gist of Berenberg Bank analyst Adnaan Ahmad's open letter to Elop and former colleague Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "[Stephen] announce an EXCLUSIVE deal with your ex-colleague, Steve: you get access to their Windows Phone 7 (WP7) intellectual property scot-free and access to the US market where your share has dived to the low single-digit level, and in so doing cut your bloated handset business R&D budget by at least 30 percent," Ahmad writes. "Get rid of your own proprietary high-end solution (MEEGO)–it's the biggest joke in the tech industry right now and will put you even further behind Apple and Google. Focus your high-end portfolio around WP7, and over time you can take the cost down (that's Steve's job and cost base) to get this into the mid-range market. Push your Symbian solutions into the low-to-mid-range smartphone market as quickly as possible to defend market share versus Android's upcoming lowered cost ecosystem."
An interesting, albeit unoriginal, idea, particularly coming as it does after Elop's assertion that Nokia "must build, catalyze and/or join a competitive ecosystem" to effectively compete in the handset industry. And it has its merits–for Microsoft, access to Nokia's massive global market share, and for Nokia, the ability to go to market with an OS that isn't a joke, as Ahmad notes. That said, while Microsoft is certainly a valuable ecosystm partner, it's not yet all that valuable in the mobile space. But it could be.


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Rare and exceptional opportunity to own 1.42 acres in a secluded setting on Cramond Road in Brookline's Estate area. This incredible property with mature trees, rolling lawn and perennial flowers, offers privacy in a spectacular location minutes to Boston. Built in 1950, this Georgian Colonial-style 4,227 sqft house, consists of seven bedrooms, six and one half bathrooms, and a two car garage.
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December 8, 2016—Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, was featured in a segment for KPCC that discussed the implications of Donald Trump's choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. Horowitz was also interviewed by KCRW on Pruitt's possible impact on California.
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1963 and 1964 Cadillac
The 1963 Cadillac styling was tastefully simplified with a more prominent grille, new outer body panels that eliminated busy sheetmetal sculpturing, and lower-than-ever fins above a restyled rear end bearing tall taillight/backup lamps.
The 1963 Cadillac got important alterations to its 390-cubic-inch V-8, the first major revisions to the engine in 14 years. Horsepower remained at 325. Cylinder size was unchanged, too, as were valves, rocker arms, heads, compression (still 10.5:1), and connecting rods. But everything else was different: a lighter, stronger crankshaft; a stiffer block weighing 50 pounds less; accessories relocated to improve service access.
While all this did little for performance, the revised 390 was smoother and quieter by far. And performance was already good. The typical '63 Cadillac could reach 115-120 mph, do 0-60 mph in 10 seconds, return about 14 miles per gallon, and was near-silent at high speed. In fact, many testers judged Cadillac superior to the vaunted Rolls-Royce when it came to refinement.
Prices rose only slightly for the 1963 Cadillac line, which remained an excellent value in the luxury class.
Standard features expanded to include self-adjusting power brakes and a manually operated remote-control driver's door mirror. Eldorado added a six-way power seat. Power windows, available since the 1940s, were now standard for all models save the entry-level Series 62 sedans and coupes. Power vent windows were newly available. So were vinyl roof coverings, a "formal" styling add-on then fast spreading all over Detroit.
Remarkably, a 1963 Cadillac Series 62 still cost as little as $5,026; the 1963 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz was only $6,608. With all this, GM's finest set another model-year production record, topping 163,000 units.
The 1964 Cadillac lineup got some revisions inside and out. Styling was updated with lower tailfins that created an unbroken beltline, accentuating the length of a body that was already considerably long. Grilles gained a body-color horizontal divider bar; and taillamp housings were reshaped.
More significantly, the 390-cubic-inch V-8 was bored-and-stroked to 429 cubic inches, good for 340 horsepower. Another new extra-cost convenience arrived for '64 in the form of an automatic heating/air-conditioning system that maintained a set temperature regardless of outside conditions. Unit volume kept climbing, reaching near 166,000 for the model year.
On the next page, learn why Cadillac boasted record sales numbers in 1965.
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- Consumer Guide New Car Reviews and Prices: Road test results, photos, specifications, and prices for 2007 Cadillacs and hundreds of other new cars, trucks, minivans, and SUVs.
- 1950-1959 Cadillac: Cadillac symbolizes the optimism of a swaggering America with soaring tailfins and Elvis-era glamour.
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Global Press Institute
Where do you get news? Do you trust newspapers and radio in your community? Bruce Gulland and Colin Lowther look at an organization training local reporters.
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Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Bruce Gulland.
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And I'm Colin Lowther. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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"African stories should be told by Africans. I think that it what is important with GPI. We are community reporters. We know our local communities. We communicate with them every day. My name is Nakinti Nofuru. I am a reporter for GPI."
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Nakinti Nofuru talked about her work with GPI in a video. She is a reporter in Cameroon for the Global Press Institute or GPI. GPI is different than most news organizations. They provide training and jobs for women. These women, like Nofuru, become high quality reporters. They share important news from their communities with the rest of the world. Today's Spotlight is on the Global Press Institute.
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Christi Hegranes is a young woman from the United States. In 2004 she was working as a reporter in Nepal. But she saw that she was not the best person to write stories about Nepal. There were local women who had a lot of knowledge about what was happening in their communities. Hegranes said in a press release:
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"I saw that no matter how much I knew about Nepalese culture, I would always be a foreigner. I would always face a space that I could not cross in the social, historical and political situation of reporting. It seemed clear that those most able to report the news were the local people, not a woman from the West."
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Hegranes left her job and began a new organization. She called it the Global Press Institute. Her goal was to train local women in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. It is often difficult for women to find work that pays them well. And in these areas women did not have the opportunity to be trained as reporters. GPI could train and employ them as reporters. They would be able to have a good job.
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In 2006, GPI began training women. GPI uses a particular method in their training. The women learn how to write good stories from story coaches. These are people who teach good story writing skills. The women also learn to take photographs to publish with their stories.
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An important part of reporting is to make sure that the facts are correct. GPI trains reporters to research everything carefully. The women learn how to find good information sources for their stories. For example, a source can a person the reporters talk to, to find out what is truly happening. Sources can also be documents and other materials. By finding good sources, the reporters produce news that is very local but also of very high quality.
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For example, Ivonne Jeannot Laens is a GPI reporter in Argentina. She wrote a popular story about a group in Argentina called "Make It Sound." This group teaches people to make musical instruments from garbage that people have thrown away. This story shared interesting community news that people often do not read. Often, international reporters cannot understand what is happening on a community level. News organizations are also using fewer international reporters. This means that people around the world are not hearing many important stories. Christi Hegranes explained to Forbes magazine:
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"I founded GPI to create a new way forward for the decreasing field of international reporting. Most newspapers have closed their foreign offices. The few that remain cost a lot of money to operate. They are limited in their ability to write about anything other than war, disaster, poverty, and disease. The idea of GPI is simple: to train local people. They understand the social, historical and political situation of a place. They can provide low-cost, high-impact news coverage for local and global readers."
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Today, GPI has trained more than 130 women as reporters. The women are in 25 different countries around the world. The Global Press Journal publishes the women's stories. GPI also has more than 50 major international publishing partners. These news organizations share stories from GPI reporters. And they are having a very big effect.
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GPI reporting provides a wider way to see the world. People learn more about what is happening in other places. This awareness can even make people want to make changes in their communities. It also helps to keep open and honest communication between people in different countries. Paige Stoyer is the photo editor for GPI. In a GPI video she says:
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"GPI is a change-maker on many levels. It makes change globally because it is changing how international reporting works. It is also a change-maker in the individual lives of the women that it trains and employs to be reporters."
Voice 1
GPI also provides fair pay for women who may not be able to make enough money doing other work. The women then use this money to help themselves and their families. They gain more power in the community. Manori Wijesekera is a GPI reporter in Sri Lanka. In a GPI video she explains how reporting for GPI changed her life:
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"I think GPI sees the world very differently and I value that. GPI has given me an identity but much more than that. I think GPI has given me a sense that there is something out there that I can actually do, something that I can work toward"
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GPI is changing lives around the world. If you would like to read stories from GPI reporters, you can visit our website. You will find the link to the Global Press Journal there. We end our program with reporter Nakinti Nofuru from Cameroon. She tells GPI how it has made her life better:
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"GPI has turned my whole life around, completely! It is like a total new life. I feel so special. I feel so grateful. I feel like a specialist thanks to my editors. Whenever I write a story I am hoping to see comments, I am hoping to get responses from people. And when I see them I feel so happy!"
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Very nice program I learn a lot God bless you spolight
GPI organization has created a new, unusual way employing the women and training them as local reporters. Through their stories, videos, pictures, many people around the world have a possibility to learn about different, unknown places and see the interesting news they cannot often read. The most important fact is the women have been successful and they are able to do the useful, meaningful work now.
Thanks for a great article!
Normally, I get news in the newspapers, radio and internet. Sometimes I don't believe
in some news because they are manipulated, and don't tell us the trust.
Хорошая программа , но почему-то не стал идти текст на английском. И никак не могу вернуться к прежней подачи материала .Что можно или надо сделать ?
Юртй - I am sorry but I do not quite understand your difficulty. We only speak English. I believe that you had a difficulty accessing the text. I do not know why. can only suggest that you try again.
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Dear fellow Husker fans,
I know, I know I hear it from the loyal readers. Where were you last week? I thought of writing something up after OSU but by the time the thought came up Bill Moos was hired on as AD. So I spent the week looking into the new AD and listening/reading articles from people who are smarter to me into this whole deal. A couple things hit me the most when looking into things. #1 is that he is 66 and this looks like to be his last stop before retiring back to a ranch in Washington. I am thinking we can expect 5-6 years of his leadership at the most. #2 is this is his first big gig outside of the Pacific Northwest which I find interesting. #3 is that he has made 1 hire for the big cash cow program of the athletic dept, Mike Leech as HC of the Washington St. football team.
So, how does one approach this deal. Yes, there is a swirl of gloom around Lincoln. The last 2 games feel like piling on in a situation that is bad enough already. I was thinking this thing through and decided to look at it three ways, from worse to best. So lets roll it.
First, NU finishes with 6 wins or less. In this regard I am positive that Riley is fired from everything I have read. Now, you're new AD has his first big move being hiring a new HC by Dec. 8th. Why Dec. 8th might be your question and the easy answer is this new HC needs to be able to try and rebuild the recruiting class. Also, there is the deal of what assistants are kept and who is brought in. Not exactly a good situation.
Second, NU finishes with 7 or 8 wins. In this deal there is a bowl game adding a month of practices which we all know is a good thing. This is also a deal on how the PSU game goes and how the bowl game goes. There is a way that due to the current situation it still works out that Riley is fired. Now it's not highly likely but it could happen. Again, there would be the whole deal of can a HC be hired by Dec. 8th. Also, have to remember the rebuilding of the recruiting class has to be quicker due to the early signing period/
Third, NU wins out with 9 wins. Riley keeps his job for another year. This is best case scenario and to be honest I hope it works out this way. There are reasons for this. The first is I don't think you want a new AD to be picking a new HC for the big program 2 less than 90 days after he is hired. This isn't a deal where a HC is moving up in the world and you may promote from within. The way this works is a firing and starting over, again.
9 wins works in that it delays the things for a year and that's ok. If next year is as bad as it could be, nothing is going to stop a firing. Now, as a fanbase we have to acknowledge a few things. First off, Nebraska is not a destination school right now. Take a look at your list of dream head coaches and basically cut it down to realistic chances of getting said head coach. People, as of the past couple days Scott Frost has said he prefers to stay in Florida. That has to speak volumes when the favorite son is saying no. That's like if Osborne said no to the HC job back in the 70s. Our football world is a scary thing to look at right now with plenty of changes. However, this is ok, As a fanbase as whole we can weather whatever storm is to come if we understand a few things. First, this is football, not life. The sun will rise again Sunday even if Nebraska loses. Secondly, in terms of football we want the same thing, a successful program. Our differences lie in the fact we have different ideas on how that goal is reached and that is ok. Third, we have to respect those differences. I am sure there are still folks out there clamoring for Bo. There are folks that are saying things wen downhill when NU chose Bo over Pelini. There are folks that say the move to the Big 10 was wrong while others are saying it was right. There are probably those that say it stared going downhill when Solich was fired. We are humans and as humans we have different opinions. The key is to know that and respect it. Finally, this is college football, not pro. These are 18-22 year old young adults. They will make mistakes, we all do. The key is to learn and grow from said mistakes. We have to watch and listen to the games. Look for improvements and find that star of the game. This is college football, enjoy it, don't wallow in misery.
I can't think of much else this week. I was looking at my blogging here before writing today and found I am closing in on my 100th blog post. I was wondering if you, my loyal readers had any ideas or questions you wanted answered as together we celebrate that milestone. If so, send me a message or leave a comment in the comments section. God bless and Go Big Red.
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I'm not feeling well today, but i managed to finish my class before i went home and have a nice sleep. It all started when i reached my office. My head was very dizzy, but i keep on teaching since i have two class today. It's not as painful in the first class, but after i finished my first class, it became worst. I had some rest for about one hour before my second class at 1.30 PM started.
I really enjoyed the second class, so i didn't feel anything back then (only dizzy i guess). I think i should get some sleep right now. Tomorrow i don't have any class to teach, so probably i will just rest at home.


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On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Keywords: Anthropocene, decolonization, Indigenous philosophy, colonialism
AbstractThis article argues for the importance of including Indigenous knowledges into contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene. We argue that a start date coincident with colonization of the Americas would more adequately open up these conversations. In this, we draw upon multiple Indigenous scholars who argue that the Anthropocene is not a new event, but is rather the continuation of practices of dispossession and genocide, coupled with a literal transformation of the environment, that have been at work for the last five hundred years. Further, the Anthropocene continues a logic of the universal which is structured to sever the relations between mind, body, and land. In dating the Anthropocene from the time of colonialization, the historical and ideological links between the events would become obvious, providing a basis for the possibility of decolonization within this framework.
How to Cite
Davis, Heather, and Zoe Todd. 2017. "On the Importance of a Date, Or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene". ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16 (4), 761-80. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1539.
Authors agree to publish their articles in ACME under the Creative Commons "Attribution/Non-Commercial/No Derivative Works" Canada licence. To read and review agreement, click here.


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Concert 1971 - Bruxelles - Theatre 140
02. Kobaïa (7:24)
03. Aïna (6:17)
04. Rïah Sahïltaahk (19:09)
05. "Iss" Lanseï Doïa (11:20)
06. Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk (9:36)
07. Sowiloï (Soï Soï) (6:58)
08. Mëkanïk Kömmandöh (17:19)
- Christian Vander / drums, vocals, organ, percussion
- Francis Moze / bass
- Klaus Basquiz / vocals, percussion
- Teddy Lasry / clarinet, sax, flute, vocals
- Jeff Seffer / sax, bass clarinet
- Louis Toesca / trumpet
- Francois Cahen / acoustic & electric piano
this is an easy album to review. If you are reading this you are probably familiar with the music and language of Magma. If not.. get acclainted with a copy of Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh. This album is an 'official' bootleg recorded in Brussels at Theater 140 the 12th of November 1971. The date is significant for a couple of reasons. First off this was the first public performance of Mekanik Kommandoh which of course became the basis for their landmark (and essential album of prog) Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh. Secondly as a huge fan of the fusionairy debut album Kobaia, I wanted to hear live versions of songs from that album. On both counts the album left me completely satisfied.
Being a offficial 'bootleg' I feel a word about the quality of the album should be said. It is a released bootleg so don't expect 100% perfect sound quality. This album is for probably for Magma fans only. That said the quality was never a hinderance to my enjoyment of the album. Now on to the album itself
The album contains three songs off of Kobaia. Stoah, Kobaia, and Aina. The whole of the 1001 degrees Centigrade album, and two works in the formative phases at that point. The aforementioned Mekanik Kommandoh, and Sowiloi which would turn up later on the outakes album Inedits. The one thing that really stood out between this album and the previous versions of songs I noticed, was the Rhodes Piano and it's central place in the live Magma sound. Many accoustic parts in Kobaia were played instead by the Rhodes. That took a bit of getting use to for me since part of my love of Kobaia was the great accoustic piano playing.
The highlights for me...
Stoah. Those opening vocals are impressive. Even more so in the live environment. The vocals are so massive on this album. Must have been an incredible live show.
Iss Lansei Doia. My least favorite song off of 1001 is transformed here into a favorite by a simple shift in instruments. The menacing intro riff instead of being played on the bass is instead played on the accoustic piano. Adds a whole new darker vibe to it.
Mekanik Kommandoh a showcase for Blasquiz's vocal improvisations. A fascinating listen. 18 minutes of total musical freedom.


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A Conflict of Interest: University President and Johnson & Johnson Board Member
It turns out, though, that this initative has provoked debate on that campus, not so much about its possible benefits and harms, but about whether the Ms Coleman's promotion of it had to do with a conflict of interest. The debate broke out with an op-ed in the Michigan Daily:
It's clear, then, that University President Mary Sue Coleman is the architect of the Smoke-Free Initiative, which will take effect in July of 2011. The initiative will prohibit smoking on all outdoor University property. Coleman and University administrators have been embarrassingly vague about why such a ban is necessary. Instead, they keep insisting that the smoking ban will improve public health.
Interestingly enough, the smoking ban may also improve Coleman's salary.
That's because Coleman isn't just a college president. In her spare time, she moonlights as a businesswoman, sitting on the board of directors for major pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, as well as the Meredith Corporation, a magazine publisher. According to Forbes.com, her position at Johnson & Johnson netted her an income of $229,000 last year.
Among Johnson & Johnson's many marketed brands are smoking cessation products like Nicorette and Nicoderm — products that University smokers will feel encouraged to use once smoking becomes unwelcome on campus in July 2011. Indeed, administrators have already announced that smoking cessation products may be offered at discounted prices to students who are trying to quit.
Obviously, this is a sizeable conflict of interest for Coleman. Even if her Johnson & Johnson salary didn't actively influence her decision to ban smoking, it makes it substantially harder to take her at her word that the University needs this ban — especially when representatives of her administration can't come up with a specific reason for it.
But Coleman's corporate troubles run deeper than this. As the University's College Libertarians pointed out in a press release this weekend, Johnson & Johnson has an affiliated non-profit group, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which lobbies for the adoption of certain health-related policies through research and grant money. RWJF is notoriously anti-smoking, as its website explains: 'At the state and community level, we support advocacy for proven tobacco control measures, such as smoke-free air laws, funding of prevention and cessation programs and increases in tobacco taxes.'
While it's no surprise that RWJF would fight for laws that restrict smoking and lead to increased use of Johnson & Johnson products, such an aggressive lobbying force should not hold financial sway over the president of a public university. Students, faculty and staff must be able to trust that their president is working in the best interests of the University community, not a profit-motivated corporation. Even the perception of a conflict of interest is embarrassing for this institution.
And then, in another op-ed in that paper:
Granted, some of Coleman's reasons for the Smoke-Free Initiative are likely motivated by good intentions like lowering the University's health care costs. But these justifications are severely compromised by her compensation from a corporation that will likely benefit from the smoking ban. Coleman sits on the board of directors for Johnson & Johnson, from which she earned nearly a quarter of a million dollars in 2009, and holds 11,159 shares of common stock, 10,777 shares of common stock equivalent units and 7,600 exercisable stock options in the company. Johnson & Johnson is the producer of a host of nicotine replacement products, including Nicoderm and Nicorette. Coleman explains, 'the University will offer free behavioral sessions and selected over-the-counter smoking cessation products to faculty and staff, along with co-pay reductions for prescription tobacco cessation medicines (and) discounts on tobacco cessation aids.'
In other words, under the proposed Smoke-Free Initiative, the University would subsidize products made by Johnson & Johnson. The University would purchase more nicotine replacement products, likely resulting in financial gains for Johnson & Johnson and, consequently, Coleman.
In reply, a letter by Dr Robert W Winfield, University of Michigan Chief Health Officer, asserted:
Some have raised concern about the appearance of a conflict of interest between President Coleman's service on the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson, a company that produces some smoking-cessation products.
Simply put, there is no conflict. Prescription-only drugs for smoking cessation are generally considered the most effective and most widely used. Johnson & Johnson does not make any prescription-only smoking-cessation products.
A report of a meeting of the Michigan Student Association noted:
In a press release and columns in The Michigan Daily, members of the College Libertarians have identified Coleman as having an apparent conflict of interest due to her position on the board of Johnson & Johnson — a company that manufactures and markets smoking cessation products.
Kozack said if the allegations prove to be true, they could have large implications as Coleman is compensated for sitting on the company's board.
He said the main reason for the resolution and the accusation of Coleman's conflict of interest is that there is not enough information provided to the whole campus about the origin of the Smoke Free Initiative.
But in defense of President Coleman, the following appeared in the Michigan Capitol Confidential:
The University of Michigan's student newspaper - The Michigan Daily - wrote an opinion piece last week suggesting a conflict of interest involving University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman.
Coleman also earned a $230,000 salary in 2009 for sitting on the board of Johnson & Johnson. Alza Corporation, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, markets Nicorette and Nicoderm, smoking cessation products.
Three ethics experts say Coleman is not in conflict.
'She is doing a public health service,' Peter Rost, a former vice president of Pfizer who has testified before Congress on the business practices of drug companies, wrote in an e-mail. 'The possible income by J& J from this campus is completely and utterly negligible and will have no impact on J&J income statement. Same thing if she opened public health clinic for depressed students and happened to sit on board of (a company) selling antidepressants. Conflict of interest should normally have some undue influence on either party. Since that is not the case I'm not troubled.'
Aine Donovan, the executive director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College who teaches business ethics, said she didn't see a conflict.
'This is very reasonable,' Donovan said. 'Johnson & Johnson has a large range of products. This is a very reasonable position she is taking and it is a very laudable one.'
Timothy Keane, director of the Emerson Ethics Center in St. Louis, said it was 'a bit of a stretch' to say Coleman had a conflict of interest.
'Johnson & Johnson is not trying to set up shop and sell something to the University,' Keane said. 'They are not being a supplier to the University. It doesn't matter if you are a smoker or not, research indicates it is bad for you.'
A Hazy Debate
Smoke gets in your eyes. Maybe it should not be a surprise that once President Coleman's relationship with Johnson and Johnson was noted, opponents and proponents of the Smoke-Free Initative used arguments about that relationship to bolster their positions, rather than debating the smoking ban on its merits. The result, however, shows how conflicts of interest seem to always produce confusion, if not smoke and mirrors.
Most of the debate seemed to be about whether Ms Coleman would personally profit from the smoking ban, and if so, how much. For example, the second op-ed above argued, "the University would purchase more nicotine replacement products, likely resulting in financial gains for Johnson & Johnson, and consequently, Coleman." On the other hand, one expert quoted in the Michigan Capital Confidential argued that the income to J&J from the Michigan campus would be "utterly negligible," and another argued that "Johnson & Johnson is not trying to set up shop and sell something to the University."
On one hand, however much use of J&J nicotine replacement products there is at the University of Michigan, the amount is unlikely to change the profits of J&J, or the salaries or values of stock owned by its directors. On the other hand, J&J may not run a retail store at the University, but it is in the company's interest to sell more of all its products on university campuses, and everywhere else.
But in my humble opinion, the issue is not about the degree President Coleman's salary and assets derived from her position with Johnson and Johnson would be affected by a specific policy she may advocate. The issue is whether her judgments and decisions as President could be unduly influenced by her relationship with the company.
Definition of Conflicts of Interest
This provides a good opportunity to review a good working definition of conflict of interest as it applies to medicine, health care and health policy. Last year the Institute of Medicine published a thorough and well-balanced report, Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice. It defined conflict of interest (p. 6):
Conflicts of interest are defined as circumstances that create a risk that professional judgments or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest. Primary interests include promoting and protecting the integrity of research, the quality of medical education, and the welfare of patients. Secondary interests include not only financial interests....Furthermore,
The severity of a conflict of interest depends on (1) the likelihood that professional decisions made under the relevant circumstances would be unduly influenced by a secondary interest, and (2) the seriousness of the harm or wrong that could result from such an influence.But,
a judgment that someone has a conflict of interest does not imply that the person is unethical. Such judgments assume only that some situations are generally recognized to pose an unacceptable risk that decisions may be unduly infuenced by considerations that should be irrelevant.
Thus, a conflict of interest should be seen as a situation which increases the risk of bad judgments or decisions, but does not necessarily cause them, much less cause a particular bad judgment or decision. (Thus, it makes no sense to try to argue, as the experts did above, that because a person made a good decision, he or she does not have a conflict of interest.)
I assert that President Coleman has a conflict of interest. Her primary interests as President of a university are to uphold the university's academic mission, and as President of a university that includes a medical school, a school of public health, and an academic medical center, also to uphold the integrity of patient care and public health practice. Her secondary interest as a member of the board of directors of a public, for-profit corporation is her fiduciary duty to that corporation and its stockholders, which means she must "demonstrate unyielding loyalty to the company's shareholders" [Per Monks RAG, Minow N. Corporate Governance, 3rd edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. P.200.] Such unyielding loyalty to the shareholders of a pharmaceutical and medical device company clearly creates a risk of influencing judgments or actions that could affect the corporations' sales or operations, economic or health policy, or the general environment in which it operates. Many of the judgments of or actions performed by the leader of a medical school, public health school, and academic medical center could so so, and are thus at risk of being so unduly influenced.
However, that she has such a conflict does not prove that any particular judgments or decisions were made badly because of it. Conversely, that particular judgments or decisions were made well does not disprove the existence of the conflict.
So I beg to differ with all the experts cited in the Michigan Capital Confidential article. On the other hand, while the President may have a conflict of interest, it is impossible to tell how or whether this influenced her particular decision to support the Smoke-Free Initiative. Neither does it speak to the benefits or harms of such a policy. The main effect of the President's conflict of interest seems to have been to muddle the debate about the policy.
Conflicts of interests' general tendency to muddle and confuse provide one argument for their elimination. Another is that they may affect judgments and actions that are not so readily debated as, and more likely to produce bad results than smoke-free initiatives. Maybe the hazy debate about the University of Michigan Smoke-Free Initiative will lead to a clearer discussion of whether academic and academic medical leaders should also be corporate leaders.


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Since Whorf (1936), many linguists have tried their hand at corralling the restrictions on the formation of "reversative" un-verbs; cf. e.g. Marchand (1969), Dowty (1979), Horn (1988), Clark et al. (1995). Why can you unwrap a sandwich but not unrecognize its contents or unremember to toss it in the trash? Why can a snake uncoil while a painting can't unhang? If unfreeze is the opposite of freeze, why is unthaw a synonym of thaw?
The standard approach to the constraints on un-verb formation invokes Whorf's CRYPTOTYPE -- a covert category encompassing transitive verbs of covering and enclosing that rules out a wide range of possible bases and outputs of the relevant rule. Pullum (1999), for example, reckons that there are "about a dozen verbs" that allow un-prefixation, citing undo (a good deed) and unknow as examples of formations we know "intuitively" are impossible. Clark et al. (1995) exclude unbury and unbend, while Kemmerer & Wright (2002) rule out unboil and undecorate. Yet many of the verbs depicted in the literature as impossible, non-occurring, or -- as in Whorf's label for unsay and unmake -- "semi-archaic" are readily attested, even when the actions they denote may be physically irreversible.
While the Pullum/Whorf view may be extended to predict the pleonastic interpretation of source-oriented reversatives in Swedish, French, and English (unloosen, unthaw), it incorrectly limits the productivity of un-verb formation by conflating the SEMANTIC (aspectual) restrictions with the PRAGMATIC conditions on the way the world (normally) works; verbs like unsay, unknow, unboil, and unhappen are motivated precisely by the need to describe those (typically counterfactual) situations in which the tape of reality is reversed.
The pragmatic nature of the restrictions on un-verb formation is supported by a survey of contexts that favor the emergence of innovative un-verbs: advances in science and technology (as in the unerase and undelete commands, the unfriend or unlike verbs of social networking, or the unfuck program to reverse software protection), science fiction (as in time-travel scenarios), advertising copy (as in KFC's current unthink campaign), and the imagination of poets from Shakespeare (whose "un-king'd" Richard II is the unchallenged monarch of this realm) to pop songsters ("How can I unlove you?", "Un-break my heart"), whether the implausibility of a given reversal is conceded, mourned, or overridden.
Larry Horn (Yale University)
Date: 2011-05-19 13:15 - 15:00
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