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Дэ́ниел Пе́мбертон (; род. 3 ноября 1977, Великобритания) — английский композитор. Номинант на премии «Золотой глобус», «Эмми» и BAFTA.

Жизнь и профессиональная деятельность
В 2013 г. Дэниэл завершил работу над созданием культового музыкального оформления к фильму Ридли Скотта «Советник» (2013). Саундтреки к данному фильму записывались на студии «Эбби-Роуд» в Лондоне. Помимо работы с Ридли Скоттом, он также создавал музыкальное оформление к таким всемирно известным картинам, как «Стив Джобс» (2015) Дэнни Бойла  и «Агенты А.Н.К.Л.» (2015) Гая Ричи.

В 2014 году Пембертон стал победителем фестиваля World Soundtrack Awards в номинации «Открытие года», а в 2016 году был номинирован на премию «Кинокомпозитор года».

Дэниэл Пембертон дважды был номинирован на премию «Золотой глобус»: в 2016 году – музыка к кинофильму «Стив Джобс» в номинации «Лучшая музыка к фильму»; В 2017 году – в номинации «Лучшая песня» за саундтрек «Gold», написанный им совместно с Игги Поп, Danger Mouse и режиссёром Стивеном Гейганом к фильму «Золото».

Последние работы Дэниэла Пембертона включают в себя саундтреки к следующим кино- и анимационным фильмам:

 «Человек-паук: Через вселенные» (премия «Оскар (премия)», 2019) (режиссёры: Боб Персичетти, Питер Рэмзи и Родни Ротман);
 «Иллюзия любви» (Франция, номинант на премию «Золотая пальмовая ветвь») с Марион Котийяр в главной роли (режиссёр: Николь Гарсия);
 «Большая игра» (режиссёрский дебют Аарона Соркина) с Джессикой Честейн и Идрисом Эльбой в главных ролях;
 «Золото» (кинокомпания The Weinsten Company; режиссёр: Стивен Гейган) с Мэттью Макконахи в главной роли;
 «Уотергейт: Крушение Белого дома» – политический триллер с Лиамом Ниссоном в главной роли (режиссёр: Питер Ландесман; продюсеры: Ридли Скотт и Том Хэнкс);
 «Меч короля Артура» (режиссёр: Гай Ричи).

Более ранние работы:

 «Экстрасенс» с Ребеккой Холл и Домиником Уэстом в главных ролях (режиссёр: Ник Мёрфи);
 «Танцуй отсюда!» – английская комедия от создателей «Зомби по имени Шон» с Ником Фростом в главной роли;
 «Спецотряд Призрак: Альфа» – короткометражный фильм от обладателей премии «Оскар» – Франсуа Ало, Гервэ дэ Греци и Пьетро Скалии;
 «Кровь» с Полом Бетанни и Марком Стронгом в главных ролях (режиссёр: Ник Мёрфи; продюсер: Сэм Мендес);
 «В страхе» (кинокомпания «Film4») c Элис Энглерт в главной роли (режиссёр: Джереми Лавринг);
 «Соучастник» с Дэвидом Ойелоуо в главной роли (режиссёр: Найал МакКормик).

Кроме того, Дэниэл Пембертон участвовал в музыкальном оформлении короткометражного научно-фантастического фильма Гарета Эдвардса «Factory Farmed».

Он также является автором музыкального сопровождения для отмеченных наградами телесериалов и фильмов, таких как: «Игра», «Жертва», «Послы», «Пип-шоу», «Отчаянные романтики», «Прыжок из космоса», «Оккупация», «Жёны заключённых», «Чёрное зеркало», «Мой безумный дневник», «Пригород в огне», «Адская кухня», «Great British Menu», «Хиросима», «Армия плохих ребят», «George Orwell: A Life in Pictures», «Жёлтый дом», «Грандиозные переезды», «Дирк Джентли», «Наполеон», а также к первым сериям возобновлённого в 2010 году сериала «Вверх и вниз по лестнице». Дэниэл Пембертон также является создателем музыкального оформления к таким видеоиграм, как «LittleBigPlanet», «Kinect Adventures!», «LittleBigPlanet 2», «The Movies»  и «TrackMania Turbo».

Некоторые из созданных им музыкальных тем к фильмам вошли в его альбом «TVPOPMUZIK», выпущенным в 2007 году под псевдонимом «The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra», в то время, как саундтреки к видеоиграм – преимущественно к игре «LittleBigPlanet» – вошли в его альбом «LittleBIGMusic».

В ноябре 2016 году Дэниэл Пембертон совместно с BAFTA выступил в Альберт-холле.

Музыка к кинофильмам

Фильмы

Телесериалы и документальные фильмы

Короткометражные фильмы

Дискография
 «Bedroom» ( , 1994)

Саундтреки
 «Большая игра» (Sony Classical, 2018);
 «Все деньги мира» (Sony Classical, 2017);
 «Уотергейт: Крушение Белого дома» (Filmtrax Ltd., 2017);
 «Меч короля Артура» (WaterTower Music, 2017)
 «Золото» (BMG, оригинальная музыка, 2017);
 «Иллюзия любви» (Les Productions Du Tresor, 2017);
 «Стив Джобс» (Backlot Music, 2015);
 «Агенты А.Н.К.Л.» (Watertower, 2015);
 «Игра» (Moviescore Media, 2015);
 «Танцуй отсюда!» (Decca Records, 2014);
 «Советник» (Milan Records, 2013);
 «Кровь» (Moviescore Media, 2013);
 «Прыжок из космоса» (1812 Recordings, 2012);
 «Дирк Джентли» (Moviescore Media, 2012);
 «Прыжок из космоса» (1812 Recordings, 2012);
 «Экстрасенс» (Moviescore Media / Screamworks, 2012);
 «Отчаянные романтики» (1812 Recordings, 2012);
 «LittleBIGMusic» (1812 Recordings, 2011);
 «Преследователь Тоби Джагга» (1812 Recordings, 2011);
 «Вверх и вниз по лестнице» (1812 Recordings, 2010);
 «Kinect Adventures» (1812 Recordings, 2010);
 «Monster Moves: Songs + Sounds» (1812 Recordings, 2009);
 «Heroes and Villains: Attila the Hun / Napoleon» (Moviescore Media, 2009);
 «TVPOPMUZIK» (1812 Recordings, 2007);
 «Доисторический парк» (1812 Recordings, 2006).

Ссылки

Дэниэл Пембертон  о написании музыки к к/ф "Советник" Ридли Скотта в "Music Music Reporter"
Дэниэл Пембертон , статья Пола Морли, «The Guardian» (2009)]
Дэниел Пембертон о своем творчестве на Think Work Play

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Void-scaping
Veronika Neukirch
Exhibition: 15-24 April 2021
Opening: Thursday, 15 April, 11am-9pm
Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is proud to present "Void—scaping", the Solo Residency Exhibition by Veronika Neukirch, celebrating the re-opening of the gallery. Please join us on Thursday, 15 April from 11am-9pm — Bookings for the Opening, as well as for a visit during the exhibition can be made here.
Veronika Neukirch is an artist that knows no boundaries. Her practice embodies and embraces everything as material and subject to place us, to disrupt, imposing a perspective that insists on confrontation, as well as introspection. Over the past three months Veronika has investigated, experimented and played with 'space' as a material to manipulate and cultivate. Her Solo Residency Exhibition Void—scaping invites visitors to look beyond the objects and see what is typically unseen. Veronika has successfully wrestled the volume of the Solo Residency studio into submission and animated the negative space as a place to experience, to inhabit and created exquisitely hand-crafted ceramic creatures and support structures that conjure human vulnerability, as well as setting up a relationship to the enormity of space. Huge monoliths frame further sculptural shapes: 'scapes' that the spirited beings nonchalantly confront and frolick within.
This is an installation that endeavours to capture the Romantic notion of the fundamental chasm between inner and outer space, between the finitude of external matter and the infinity within, between inconsequential fragility and ungraspable vastness. Gratefully, Veronika incorporates humour as her Gestalt and we gleefully join and follow her playful creatures into the unavoidable abyss.
Veronika Neukirch (b. 1986, Germany) has been based in London since 2005 and has been the 15th Solo Resident at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop. In 2019 she graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture, was the recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Trust Sculpture Award and went on to become a Lecturer in Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Veronika completed her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (2013) and briefly studied at University of the Arts UdK Berlin. She has exhibited, taken part in artist residencies, worked as occasional art writer and curated widely in the UK, Europe and Southeast Asia.

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I apologise in advance for the lack of my own photos in this post – I hadn't actually planned on writing about where we stayed on our recent visit to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Watford, but then it crossed my mind that it might actually be useful information for anyone planning a visit.
A lot of people (who aren't local) will visit via a planned coach tour or as an excursion when staying in London. These are both great options, but we decided to do our own road trip as it gave us more freedom in terms of our travel plans. When we realised that there would be a 3 hour drive each way (without taking any traffic into consideration) we knew we would need to stop overnight somewhere.
Our chosen spot was the village of Kings Langley, which is a cute spot with a pretty high street and a selection of nice-looking shops, restaurants and cafes. It's very small and nothing much seemed to be going on there, but at only 10 minutes' drive away from the Warner Brothers Studio Tour it was pretty perfect.
We stayed in the Premier Inn at Kings Langley, which was everything we needed it to be – easy to reach after a hard day's Pottering, reasonably priced at £57 per night, and the room was decent with a giant bed, a bath and a TV. It is also next door to The Young Pretender, a nice country pub and carvery restaurant, which we made sure we experienced! Breakfast was not included in the price of the room (I don't think it ever is with Premier Inn) but for £9 you can enjoy the buffet breakfast at the same pub.
However, we decided to try something different for breakfast. A fried breakfast the morning after a carvery dinner (and in my sister's case, a chocolate frog) didn't appeal to us. We went in search of something healthier and that's how we found a little gem on the high street. Fred and Ginger Coffee is a tiny, cute, and very popular independent coffee shop, where for £5 we got a healthy breakfast of granola with fruit salad and yoghurt, a hearty slice of rustic brown toast with a choice of condiments, and a pot of tea. The décor in this place is bright and contemporary but with rustic farmhouse touches. It's not very big considering its popularity and the tables were all full so we sat at the bar seats alongside the large open windows. It's also dog friendly, which I think is great for a small village like this. It was a great find!
I'd recommend all of these places, and although it may not be a typical holiday spot, Kings Langley was definitely the ideal spot for our road trip to Potter.


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Q: Can I create a standalone (not ran in browser, having full trust) application with Moonlight? I look forward to develop a WPF MVVC application which is to be ran both on Windows with .Net Framework and Mac/Linux with Mono.
As far as I understand the only part of of WPF implemented in Mono is Silverlight as Moonlight.
As far as I've read it is possible to develop a standalone application with Silverlight 3, but is it possible with Moonlight 2?

A: Moonlight supports out-of-browser but with restrictions: this is currently a manual process, not yet automated, and without a GUI (c) Miguel de Icaza.
But I think using Moonlight as standalone GUI application is not very good idea. Because first of all it's is client side technology for web sites with many strict restrictions. So it will be impossible to do something serious (like accessing files) using standalone Moonlight.
Look at GTK#. It might be more useful for you.

A: What you describe sounds possible.  Moonlight 2 is reported to have out-of-browser capability.
There is much in WPF that is not available in either Silverlight or Moonlight.  Your WPF implementation will need to avoid those UI elements that are not available in Silverlight/Moonlight.Microsoft has done some work in the area of creating applications that can be multi-targeted at WPF and Silverlight.  Their Prism library supports this.  The issues that you face should be similar.
If your application is capable of running in the Silverlight out-of-browser sandbox it might be easier to target Silverlight on Windows and Moonlight on Linux/OSX.  If not, you will need to make sure that access to the needed resources are available from Moonlight on the Linux/OSX platforms.

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On Wednesday the 4th of April, last day before the Qingming holiday the winner of the Spring Season Photo Competition at Newton, Hui Xin campus was selected.
Parents had sent in photos of flowers, plants and trees around our beautiful grounds over the past week in a chance to win 3 English children's books. This morning, K1 teacher and amateur photographer Mr. Milos Albreht looked at all the submitted photos and selected the winner, Mr. Li Feng Xu from N-304 who had captured a gorgeous photo on the North side of campus, featuring the beautiful pink peach blossoms in the foreground with the green's and campus train-station in the background.
We received a lot of beautiful photos of our campus flowers in the competition and wish to thank all parents for participating.


Fly by visit that turned into the highlight of the day.
So glad we decided to make a visit here. It is so interesting for adults and children both. Loved the Brief Encounter references and the little gift shop.
GREAT REMINDER OF "BRIEF ENCOUNTER"!
Fabulous coffee, end to a very interesting experience of days gone by. Great for fans of David Lean & his Brief Encounter.
Great postcards sum up the film in 4 photos.
Stopped here enroute home. Had a cuppa tea, strong hot and sweet. Looked at some gorgeous cakes, two minutes on the lips two years on the hips. Bought some great postcards 4 for £1.60 they summarise and encapsulated the film wonderfully.
Get quick answers from Carnforth Station Heritage Centre staff and past visitors.
Both are separate, but I'd check their website for details, and also agree with previous post about how the staff are really friendly and knowledgeable.
How long should I allow to enjoy the facilities? I am planning a visit with a party of 14 to visit the Heritage Centre early to mid afternoon on a Saturday in September 2017. Thank you.
The visitor centre does not need that long. An hour to hour and a half would be all you need plus any time for the cafe.


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This 9-Year-Old Made A Music Video To Explain His Autism & Tell His Classmates He's A "Kid Just Like You"
Sometimes it can be hard for kids to understand why a classmate may get very upset when things don't go as planned or why he doesn't answer their questions right away. At one North Carolina elementary school, that student was George Yionoulis. But, now, his peers have a better handle on what makes George George, thanks to the music video the 9-year-old made to explain his autism. But it's not just the 21 fourth-graders at Douglas Elementary sharing a classroom with George who are benefitting from his creative, engaging, and — most importantly — informative video. Nope, having racked up tens of thousands of views on YouTube, the video is a viral sensation that can teach us all a thing or two.
George originally decided to put together the video — which includes home videos and pictures of George and features songs he wrote and performed as "DJ Geo Yio" — to help his classmates better under his autism. But George's mom was so impressed with the six-minute final product that she shared it on Facebook and YouTube last week, according to CBS News. And the fact that it is now accessible to anyone with an internet connection is great news, because George truly did a beautiful job of showing viewers, especially young ones, that "I'm a kid just like you."
In the video, titled "My Autism," George shares some of the things he loves: making music, drawing, art, Harry Potter, tacos, Minecraft, the video game My Singing Monsters, and dancing. The kid loves to dance. In fact, video snippets of him dancing are a common thread throughout the video. That and his autism, of course. "I have this thing called autism," he says in the beginning of the video, after he's introduced himself.
Like a lot of other kids with autism I might not have been looking, but that didn't mean I wasn't listening. Speaking of listening, I can hear a lot of things and sounds all at the same time, which sometimes makes it hard to focus on any one sound or thought. That's why it may take a little more time to answer you when you ask me a question.
George also explains in the video that he tends to get upset and frustrated when something unexpected happens or when he makes a mistake. Another thing that might set him apart from his classmates is that, as he explains, "when I get very excited about something, I flap my hands or bounce up and down." He also takes the things other people say literally, so, he says, if someone tells him to keep his eyes peeled, for example, he thinks that's pretty gross. So, here's what he wants people to know about communicating with him: "If you're very specific when you talk to me, everybody wins."
I'm a kid just like you. Cause all us kids are different in our own ways, right? ... Don't be afraid to come ask me about [my autism]. No, seriously, it's OK. Just come ask me about it. I like having fun, just like you, so if you ever see me playing by myself, it doesn't necessarily mean that I don't want to play with you, too. I always want to play with you.
This video truly has the power to do wonders for the way our society may view people with autism. It's also a great way for kids who have autism, like George, to know that they're not alone. Kudos to George for being so open and honest about his life in such a fun and endearing way.


Avoid clustering when team fighting against a Shyvana, as Shyvana's abilities become AOE in her ultimate dragon form.
Play more aggressively when you see that Shyvana's fury bar is low. This means that she is not able to use her ultimate anytime soon.
Shyvana does not have any CC abilities, making her fairly easy to kite.
Champions that can slow Shyvana or speed up themselves and either kite or outdamage her while her Burnout is not active are great picks against Shyvana. Examples of such champions are Kha'Zix, Aatrox, Kennen, Swain, Lulu, and Kayle.


I'm in the middle of a short paper (for class!) on Michael Billig's Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious. Verdict on the book: essentially negative. But that's a topic for another time. I've come neither to praise nor blame, but to bleg.
I'm looking for "off the cuff" answers to the four (or five) questions below the fold. The point is to get a (very unscientific) sense of how "people" think of psychological repression. Feel free to answer whether you've read Freud or not (Sigmund or Anna or both); whether you're in psychology or psychiatry or not; and whether the conception of repression you have in mind is Freudian or not. If you have read Freud, and/or are professionally in psychology or psychiatry, please indicate that. And feel free to answer any or all (or I guess, none) of the questions.
I have added a postscript to my post from last month, "What If Most of the Findings Published in Psychology (and Medicine and Biology and…) Journals Are False?" The postscript describes some promising new developments in the battle against replication failure.
What If Most of the Findings Published in Psychology (and Medicine and Biology and …) Journals Are False?
The "Open Science Collaboration" was an ad hoc collection of 270 research psychologists assembled by social psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia through his Center for Open Science, "a non-profit technology company providing free and open services to increase inclusivity and transparency of research." The three journals in question were Psychological Science, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Assignment of articles to replication teams was constrained both by chronological order of publication (to prevent cherry picking or other bias in selection of studies) and by the interest and expertise of the replication teams. Researchers with the appropriate expertise to conduct particular studies were actively recruited. Significantly, the authors of the original studies were consulted and critiqued the replication designs and provided the original stimulus materials where possible.
Thus, although some of the replication failures must no doubt have been due to inadequacies in the designs of the replication studies, it is unlikely that this accounts for the bulk of the replication failures, as some have suggested. Even if 15% of the replication failures resulted from flawed designs, the remaining replication failures would still amount to over half of the original studies. And even if half of the replication failures are thus flawed, the implication would still be that over 30% of what you read in an elite psychology journal is false. Feel any better?
Nor is it any good to claim, as some have, that replication failure is actually a good thing, because it teaches us all the fine specifications and nuances required to generate a given effect. That replication failure can lead to greater insight into the nature and causes of an effect is noted by the Open Science Collaboration and indeed by nearly all commentators on this topic that I have read in the past few days. The trouble is that that is not the sort of replication failure we are confronting.
To begin with, let us note that the replications attempted by the Open Science Collaboration were not so-called conceptual replications; i.e., attempts to generalize an effect to slightly different conditions or applications. For example, consider the well-known finding that self-control is a general but limited resource that can be depleted like a rubber band–driven propeller. Suppose that this finding was originally demonstrated by an experiment in which hungry participants were either allowed to eat from a tray of sweets or asked to resist the available sweets and eat radishes instead. Subsequently, the two groups are set to solve difficult—indeed, unsolvable—puzzles. Sweet eaters persist at the puzzles significantly longer than radish eaters, which is explained by the experimenters as being due to the radish eaters having depleted their self-control earlier when they were resisting sweets. Now, a conceptual replication of this original experiment would attempt to extend or generalize the finding by changing the conditions somewhat, say by asking participants to count backwards by threes while annoying loud music plays instead of resisting sweets, or to squeeze a stiff hand grip for as long as they can instead of persisting at puzzle-solving.
Such a replication, if successful, would demonstrate the operation of the putative psychological process in novel circumstances, and it would teach us something about the conditions governing the operation of that process. And if unsuccessful, we would begin to learn something about the limits to generalizability of the underlying process. But this is not the sort of replication that the Open Science Collaboration authors were attempting. Rather, they were attempting to obtain exact replications; i.e., as the name implies, replications in which the exact conditions of the original study are duplicated as closely as possible. In such conditions, the same result, if valid, should usually be observed.
Of course, a failure of exact replication still might only mean that the conditions determining the original result are insufficiently understood—that the original conditions had features whose importance for generating the effect wasn't realized and therefore weren't duplicated in the replication attempt. However, there are two problems with this suggestion. First, in many cases it would gut the result of much of its interest. In the self-control example, for instance, the discovery that self-control is a limited resource only for puzzle-solving, not for other forms of work, seriously limits its practical and even theoretical interest. Again, in clinical trials, failure to replicate the efficacy of some treatment may seriously restrict or even altogether destroy its value.
But this is assuming that the original effects can be eventually replicated somehow, only under less general conditions than originally supposed. The more serious worry is that this might not be so, that the original result is simply a mirage that eventually turns out not to be replicable at all. And indeed, this is precisely the phenomenon that has come to be observed, with increasing alarm and in a variety of fields, not just psychology, over the past ten to fifteen years. For example, in 2005 epidemiologist John Ioannidis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association a study examining the fate of all the original clinical medical research studies published between 1990 and 2003 that had garnered 1000 or more literature citations. There were 45 such studies that had found a positive effect. Of these, 7 (16%) were contradicted by subsequent studies, 7 (16%) were able to be replicated only with a clinical effect half the size of the original study or less, 20 (44%) were replicated, and 11 (24%) remained unchallenged (in many cases probably because they were too recent for follow up studies to have been completed). Thus, even in medicine, and the most prestigious medicine at that, about a third of studies have serious replication problems (and over 40% of those for which replication was attempted). The affected studies are important research. Among the major studies that were flatly contradicted by subsequent replication attempts were the "finding" that hormone replacement therapy reduces the risk of coronary artery disease in postmenopausal women and the "finding" that vitamin E reduces the risk of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. In every case, the replication studies used larger sample sizes and stricter controls than the original studies. Thus, the replication failures are not likely to be due to laxity in the replication attempts.
Lehrer gives further examples, and see also the papers cited in Yong (2012), Spellman (2015), and Lindsay (2015). Thus, the replication problem is not really new and not restricted to psychology, though I have the impression it is best documented in psychology, biology, and medicine. What distinguishes the Open Science Collaboration article is not the worry that many or even most new research findings are false, but its presentation of direct experimental evidence to this effect. In short, the epidemic of replication failures appears to be a problem of disappearing findings, not the normal, healthy, "wonderfully twisty" path of scientific discovery. It is the radical diminution or disappearance altogether of findings that turn out to be largely illusory. Cognitive psychologist Jonathan Schooler, who was alarmed to discover this problem in his own research and honest enough to acknowledge it, calls it "the decline effect." Notably, in so calling it he follows J. B. Rhine, the famous pioneer of research in parapsychology, who also was frustrated by the tendency of his own positive findings to disappear over time.
Now, ungracious reactions to unwelcome results are nothing new in the history of science, and the point is not to single out Bargh but to highlight just how tenuous may be the hard evidence that backs up even the most celebrated findings in a culture that discourages replication. If the Florida effect has never been exactly replicated but only conceptually replicated, and if the conceptual replications have never been exactly replicated either, and if over half of attempted exact replications fail, then how sure do we have a right to be that there is really any such thing as the Florida effect? I want to stress the importance of this question. The Florida effect is not just a psychological curiosity, an isolated finding to which we can take an easy come, easy go attitude. The underlying principle which the Florida effect is taken to illustrate—the breadth and power of associative memory to unconsciously influence our conscious thought processes and behavior—has become one of the architectonic principles of cognitive psychology in the past couple of decades. This is its role in both Haidt's and Kahneman's theories, for example. Clearly, it is critically important that the findings that support such principles be facts, not illusions.
It is time to ask: What explains the decline effect? How can it happen that so many carefully produced experimental findings evaporate? Our epidemiologist Ioannidis proposed an answer in a second, quite famous (3259 citations) paper also published in 2005, spectacularly titled, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False." The paper was published in a medical journal (PLoS Medicine), and Ioannidis seems to have genetic association studies very much in mind, but he does not qualify his claim that "it can be proven that most claimed research findings are false" by restricting it to any particular field or set of fields. This would be an amazing result, if it could really be proved, but I do not find Ioannidis's argument, such as it is, very persuasive. He presents a set of statistical formulas, whose derivation he does not bother to present, and—much more importantly—whose assumptions he does not justify or even discuss. (The presentation of formal "results" ex cathedra, before which we are apparently supposed to prostrate ourselves like so many Medes before the Basileus, is an irritating feature of supposedly hard science journals. But I suppose it is déclassé to complain.) Nonetheless, the argument is interesting, which (besides the fact that it has apparently been influential) is the reason I take the trouble to comment on it.
Ioannidis's analysis is a bit more complex than what I have described, of course. In particular, it includes a factor for study power, which I am neglecting. But what I have described is the meat of the matter. It depends essentially on the factor Ioannidis calls R, the ratio of actual to possible relations among variables of interest to a given scientific question. Moreover, R does not have to be particularly small to start causing trouble. Suppose that rather than R = .00001, as in the previous case, we have only R = .1. Then, in 100,000 random tests, we should on average encounter 10,000 actual relations and 90,000 nonrelations. If we take the traditional α = .05 significance level as our false positive rate (instead of the .01 of the previous case), then we can expect 4,500 false positive results from our 90,000 nonrelation tests. Even assuming perfect power to detect the actual relations, 4,500 / 14,500 of our positive results, nearly a third, are false.
This is a clever point, which I admit I never thought about before. It is basically the problem of base rate neglect applied to the context of scientific research (see also Tversky and Kahneman, "Evidential Impact of Base Rates," in Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky, eds., Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, 1982: 153–160). But I said I do not find it particularly persuasive. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, it could fairly easily be accommodated by using Bayesian statistics instead of traditional null-hypothesis statistical testing. For another, if this were a serious problem—if today's typical published study had R = .01, for example (much less R = .00001)—then successful replication would practically never happen. But it does. Many studies are successfully replicated, and let us remember that the decline effect is so named just because effect sizes tend to shrink, not instantly disappear altogether. Thus, Ioannidis's analysis does not account for the pattern of positive findings and their subsequent decline that we frequently observe.
More importantly, there are good reasons to think that R is usually not small. It may be small indeed in exploratory research of the kind Ioannidis seems sometimes to have in mind. In the practical example he provides, the investigators do a whole genome study to discover whether any of 100,000 genes are associated with susceptibility to schizophrenia. Thus, assuming perhaps 10 genes may be thus associated, we have R = .0001, and obviously this is quite a problem. (And it's hard to believe for just this reason that genetic association studies really use traditional null-hypothesis statistical testing, but Ioannidis would know about this much better than I would.) But a great deal of research, and most of the sort I am concerned about, is not blindly exploratory in this manner.
For example, consider once again Bargh's Florida effect. What is R liable to be in this case? How did Bargh decide on the design of his experiment? Was his research question, "What would make people walk slower than usual?", and did he then choose to test age-related word priming at random from among several hundred possible variables? Certainly not. Rather, he most likely started from the hypothesis that associative memory is a pervasive cognitive structure capable of influencing almost any conscious process. This would be a hypothesis he had strong reason from previous research to suspect is true. From this hypothesis it would follow that semantic priming for aging might associatively affect almost any other process, including walking. Thus, an empirical finding that age-related word priming induces slow walking, which is quite startling a priori, helps confirm a hypothesis whose prior probability (in the Bayesian sense) is not particularly low. In Bargh's experiment, then, plausibly a hypothesis with a relatively high prior probability (i.e., a relatively large R) is supported by evidence with relatively low prior probability. This is just the sort of condition that makes for strong confirmatory power, which is how Bargh's experiment is usually interpreted. Most research in cognitive psychology—and I should think in most experimental science per se—is generated in this manner, not in a blind exploratory fashion. If so, then Ioannidis's clever problem is not a serious threat to most research.
But if Ioannidis's suggestion does not explain the decline effect, what does? Of the ideas I have surveyed, just two seem really plausible. Both can be summed up by the same word: bias.
The first source of bias is forcefully illustrated in a 2011 paper by Simmons, Nelson, and Simonsohn, "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant." The authors name four aspects of research design which investigators typically adjust on the fly, even though such adjustments can seriously increase the risk of obtaining a false-positive result. One of these is the choice of sample size. It is not unusual for an investigator, after collecting a certain number of observations without obtaining a significant result, to collect another round of observations in the hope of obtaining one. This procedure significantly increases the probability of obtaining a false-positive result, but it may not be mentioned in the methods section of the article where the results are reported.
Another flexible aspect of research design is the choice of dependent variables. It is not unusual for more dependent measures to be collected than are reported. The danger of this should be obvious. Imagine that in the Florida effect study, for example, besides walking speed, the investigators also asked participants to estimate the ages of people shown in photographs, measured the time participants spent putting on their coats after the experiment, and asked participants to estimate the weight of a heavy object by lifting it. If these other measures are not found to be significantly related to age-related priming, it may not be reported that they were ever collected. Yet it is clear that the investigators have in effect performed four experiments, not just one. So the risk of a false-positive result is increased by a factor of four, unbeknownst to the reader of the article in which the positive result is reported.
The other two flexible aspects of research analyzed by Simmons et al. were the use of covariates (which may sometimes be employed with little theoretical justification although they significantly alter the strength of the relation between the independent and dependent variables) and the reporting of subsets of experimental conditions (for example, if a treatment was administered at low, medium, and high levels, any of the three possible pairwise comparisons [low–medium, medium–high, or low–high] might produce a significant result even when the linear relation between the three [low–medium–high] does not).
The authors ran a computer simulation in which 15,000 random samples were drawn from a normal population and flexibly analyzed according to the four practices they examined. When all four practices were combined, a significant "publishable" result was produced 60.7% of the time at the .05 level, and 21.5% of the time at the .01 level.
It should be noted—and stressed—that the use of these flexible, discretionary practices in the search for significant relations (and other practices, such as the elimination of "outliers" from a dataset and the mathematical transformation of variables) does not necessarily imply any sort of fraud or malicious intent on the part of the investigator. The practical reality of designing and conducting a study is almost always considerably messier than the model of logical scientific reasoning and methodology presented in the final report. It is common and accepted practice for design and analysis decisions to get made as a study proceeds. (For empirical evidence that the practices studied by Simmons et al., as well as other questionable research practices, are in fact commonplace, see John, Loewenstein, and Prelec, 2012.) Unfortunately, as Simmons et al. show, the sorts of discretionary decisions described here, in conjunction with an investigator's powerful interest in finding a significant result, can result in a false positive rate far higher than .05. Most investigators probably have little awareness of this impact of their discretionary decision making on the quality—the credibility—of their results.
It is not only investigators who are biased in favor of significant results. Journals provide a second important source of bias. As I mentioned earlier, journals, and especially the more prestigious journals, want to see positive, exciting, novel results. In psychology, many of the best journals simply do not publish exact replications, whether successful or not. In view of the problem with experimenter bias just described, this obviously has the potential to create a very faulty body of "results." It is not hard to see how a spectacular result, like the Florida effect, once published, might be quickly "supported" by a barrage of conceptual replications, which, in view of the problems of experimenter bias just discussed, might not be too hard to come by. And so excitement and confidence builds around the Florida effect, even though (let us suppose) neither it nor any of its conceptual replications has ever been exactly replicated, because the journals are not interested in exact replication, despite the danger this presents that research programs and major theories in psychology might be constructed on illusory basic findings.
Over time, of course, findings that once were novel and exciting become orthodoxy and therefore fair game for revision and even attack. Novelty and excitement can now be had at their expense. So the biases in their favor become relaxed and research supporting them declines. It might even become interesting to show that they can't be exactly replicated. The decline effect sets in.
How serious is the replication problem? Speaking for myself, I wasn't much concerned until I began reading the articles on which this post is based. Until the Open Science Collaboration published their article last August, the arguments and complaints of the stats and methods heads were mostly theoretical and mostly indistinguishable from what any trained psychologist has been hearing from such people since the first year of graduate school. Everybody says they hate null-hypothesis statistical testing and ridicules the arbitrary .05 level, and everybody knows that a criterion of α = .05 for statistical significance means one in every twenty findings (on average) of a "significant" result is false. But null-hypothesis statistical testing goes on because it is easy to understand and perform, and as for the likelihood of false positives, what is the alternative? Halt research? So initially I wasn't inclined to pay too much attention to navel-gazing meditations on the supposed crisis roiling psychological science for the past five years.
But what I realize now is that the decline effect is different. It is one thing to issue warnings about problems that might result from less-than-pristine research methods. It is quite another to document empirically that a wide swath of research findings, including some that are highly cited, is in fact evaporating. What makes the Open Science Collaboration article so important is that it presents the first hard evidence that exact replications are unobtainable for many and perhaps most research findings published in top psychology journals, so that the methodologists' worries about the potential of questionable research methods to produce false results needs to be taken a great deal more seriously than psychologists have been inclined to do up to now. If most of what is getting published in Psychological Science and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and The Journal of Experimental Psychology is false, then we have a genuine crisis.
The latest issue of Psychological Science has an editorial promising to take the replication crisis seriously and improve reviewing standards at the journal. What would have been more comforting is if the author had simply issued a new set of concrete requirements. (Simmons et al. suggest such a set, which would do for a start.) The good news is that I don't think this problem is going away. People seem bound to keep pushing on this, and as long as people keep pushing, serious change is bound to come. Stay tuned for further developments.
The latest APS Observer has a banner across the cover trumpeting "Psychological Science's Commitment to Replicability." (APS is the Association for Psychological Science.) Inside is a two-page interview with PS's interim editor D. Stephen Lindsay—author of the PS editorial I mentioned at the end of my post. On first reading, I found his remarks as underwhelming as I had his editorial. There is the same emphasis on urging researchers to do better, as though brave resolutions to hold ourselves to stricter methodological standards will be sufficient to change behavior in the face of strong institutional incentives to publish exciting results (and none at all to embrace strict methodological standards). This seems particularly obnoxious and unrealistic coming from a senior scientist with nothing much at stake, to the extent that the advice is directed to students, postdocs, and junior faculty who are struggling to have any career at all.
There is also the same notion that readers can protect themselves against questionable research by watching out for studies with small sample sizes, surprising results, and p values too close to .05. This, when the root of the problem is "p hacking" methods of the kind described by Simmons et al. (2011), such as reporting only a subset of the dependent measures collected and continuing to collect data until a "significant" effect appears. As Simmons et al. show, the effect of these techniques is to vastly inflate the effective p value and in many cases to practically guarantee that at least some publishable result will be obtained. Yet, if the questionable techniques are not reported, there is no way for the reviewers or readers to know they were employed.
I have become so pessimistic about this situation as to think there is really no way to re-establish the credibility of psychological science but to start publishing exact replications in leading journals like PS. And very soon after my post was up, I regretted that I had not made the conclusion stronger, to the effect that if Lindsay were serious, he would move to start publishing exact replications in PS, since nothing less would fix the problem.
Fortunately, in just the past few days I have learned of two encouraging developments that are making me feel a whole lot better. First, PS has a program of "Open Practices" badges that can be awarded to articles whose authors conform to certain open science guidelines. There are three badges: Open Data, indicating that all the study data is permanently available in an open-access repository; Open Materials, indicating that all the study materials are likewise available, and also that the authors have provided complete instructions sufficient to enable outside investigators to perform an exact replication; and best of all, Preregistered, indicating that the design and data analysis plan for the study was preregistered in an open-access repository.
Preregistration of studies is a great idea, because nearly all the jiggery-pokery involved in p hacking would be prevented if an exact plan for data collection and analysis were published in advance of conducting a study. The Open Science Framework is the leading organization known to me that promotes and provides facilities for preregistering studies. The trouble, of course, is that it's merely voluntary. That's why something like the badge system in PS is good news. It provides a way for researchers to get credit for doing things right—or well—and a way for readers to gauge the methodological quality of articles. The badges appear on the title pages of the articles and in the journal table of contents. The latest issue of PS has Open Data badges for 7 of 13 articles and an Open Materials badge for 1. The previous issue had 6 Open Data and Open Materials badges out of 15 articles. No Preregistration badges, which is not surprising—that's a very tough standard. Seems like not a bad start (the program is in its second year). Odd that Lindsay didn't mention this program in his interview and gives it only the briefest of mentions in his editorial. I learned about it only because it is featured in the current edition of the weekly email that PS sends to APS members.
The second new development is that APS has launched a new type of journal article, the Registered Replication Report (RRR), which reports attempts to exactly replicate key findings. Target findings are identified by their influence and by their theoretical and practical importance. Study design and data collection protocols are developed in collaboration with the original authors when possible and preregistered, and data collection and analysis is performed by multiple institutions. The results across institutions are then meta-analyzed in an attempt to provide a definitive measurement of the effect size. So the RRR represents a formal, resource-intensive effort to exactly replicate a key finding.
Only two RRR's have been completed so far. The first, published in Perspectives in Psychological Science last October, successfully replicated Schooler's finding that verbally describing a person one observed commit a simulated bank robbery caused worse performance at recognizing that person in a lineup. Schooler's effect is one of the vanishing effects featured by Lehrer in the New Yorker article I cited in my post. The successful RRR replication comes with caveats: The RRR effect size (16% worse recognition than controls) is considerably reduced from what Schooler originally found (25%), and the effect is only observed when there is a 20 minute delay between witnessing and verbally describing the event. Verbal description immediately after the event had minimal effect (4%).
The second RRR, to be published in the next issue of Perspectives, examined an effect in which behavior that was described imperfectively (what the person was doing) was interpreted as being more intentional and was imagined in more detail than if it was described perfectively (what the person did). This replication failed.
Replication failure is unpleasant. But the fact that it's now being done, even on such a limited scale, is good news in the long run for restoring the credibility of psychological science.


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With four seconds left in the first half, Fredonia/Brocton senior quarterback Trey Swartz heaved up a pass to the endzone with his team trailing 7-0 to the Newfane Panthers.
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Videogames > Platforms > PSP > Silent Hill Origins review Rated 7 out of 10 By Gamesweasel on December 15, 2007
I've always been a fan of the Silent Hill games as they're a survival horror game without the corniness of Resident Evil – in a way they tap into some deep fear of mine and leave a bad taste in my mouth well after I've put down my controller. This new one on the PSP charts Silent Hill before all the other games and goes to explain some of the reasons why things are like they are in those foggy streets full of oddly shaped creatures.
The game starts off at a cracking pace. You're a trucker making your way through the town when you have to perform an emergency stop to avoid running someone over in the road. You then end up running into a burning house to rescue a burned child on the floor. Something's not right about this crispy critter and you suddenly wake up in the streets of Silent Hill on another creepy adventure into insanity.
If you're used to the games it's familiar faire. You wander the streets, enter buildings, then explore the dark corridors fighting nasties and solving puzzles. As usual there's some annoying exploring as you wander round looking for all the items you need to solve a puzzler and you constantly have to refer to the map to get your bearings round the similar looking locations.
New to this one is the ability to switch into the alternate rusty-coloured world by looking into mirrors. Unfortunately, this takes away some of the frights as you always feel in control, whereas in other games it was like being trapped in a nightmare you just had to sit out.
When it comes to fighting you can use your fists or a number of melee weapons like crowbars, drip stands and even TV sets to bash into the faces of your enemies. Ricky Hatton could have done with one of them in the big fight the other day. There are also guns to find but you won't be using them as much as in Silent Hill 3.
The presentation of this game is once again sky high, with creepy characters, odd camera angles and one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while. They recommend at the start of the game you play this with the lights off and headphones on. I agree with this as if you play it on the bus with no sound you won't get any of the atmosphere which is integral to enjoying the game.
As with previous games it has its flaws but there's something that keeps you playing 'til the end. It gets a very good 7 out of 10.
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Increased rice exports a short-term fix
Sam Eaton May 21, 2008
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KAI RYSSDAL: Crude's not the only commodity in the news. There was another dismal outlook on food prices this week from the World Bank, rice in particular. But supply shortages in Asia have forced Japan and several other big rice producers to reconsider their recent export bans.
From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk Sam Eaton reports.
SAM EATON: In a region of severe rice shortages Japan is the exception. Inside a series of vast, air conditioned warehouses the country has amassed about a million and a half tons of imported rice, mostly from the U.S. The reserve has its roots in a World War II rice shortage that traumatized the nation. But with rice prices nearly tripling over the last year, Japan's emergency reserve is starting to look a lot more like hoarding.
SIMON MAXWELL: We have to be really careful not to talk ourselves into a panic about food prices because there is enough food in the world provided we manage it properly.
That's Simon Maxwell with the London-based Overseas Development Institute. He says releasing even some of that rice, as Japan is now considering, would help ease prices, especially in places where the poor spend up to 80 percent of their income on food.
The World Bank is calling on exporters to release up to a million tons of rice. Vietnam, the world's second-largest rice exporter, said today that it may lift its recent ban on overseas shipments. And Japan has already agreed to sell some of its surplus to the Philippines.
But Harvard University economist Ken Rogoff calls these fixes the political equivalent of a gas-tax holiday.
KEN ROGOFF: It's a gesture that is clearly aimed to please particularly poor people, but it's very, very temporary. It's not a big gesture.
Rogoff says hoarding may be partly to blame for rice's record price tag. But he says the fundamental problem remains: Global demand for nearly every major commodity has outstripped supply.
I'm Sam Eaton for Marketplace.
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Ullapool group celebrate £37,000 funding award for Christmas light display
Ullapool's Christmas light display attracted between 600 and 700 people last year.
An Ullapool project looking to expand the village's Christmas light display has been awarded more than £37,000 from the People's Projects fund.
The Light Up Ullapool Project was one of three projects in the north of Scotland region to win an award from the fund.
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The Ullapool Fire and Light Fund will receive a total of £37,820 from the People's Projects – which is a partnership between the National Lottery Community Fund, The National Lottery, ITV and STV.
The festive project will look to expand the group's Christmas creel 'tree' display to create a winter lights display throughout the village including schools and nursing homes and deliver a winter market involving local producers and performers which will help strengthen community ties and resilience.
The Ullapool Fire and Light Fund was one of three winners from the north Scotland region and will receive an award of £37,820.
Speaking to the Free Press after the announcement, Ullapool Fire and Light Fund Committee member, Gordon Wink said: "We knew it was being announced, so a few of us from the committee went to a local hotel and watched it on the big screen there. It was quite exciting.
Describing the undertaking involved in organising the display, Gordon said: "It's a huge effort on a lot of people's behalf – what we have done in the past is begged, borrowed and asked for equipment – such as the creels which for the last few years have been kindly donated by fishermen. But that might not always be the case.
"We'll be having a meeting in the next few weeks and just see what string are attached – such as do we have to spend it all in one year. It would be nice to have some money in reserve as these lights getting a fair battering in the winter time and these commercial ones are not cheap."
Last year around 600 to 700 people attended the switch-on of the Christmas lights in Ullapool which includes a Christmas 'tree' made up of creels.
"It is just the way that the ferry leaves the pier, it does a nice little pirouette in the loch, turns on its lights and blasts its horn three times and that's the sign for us to turn the lights to be turned on," said Mr Wink.
"It's quite impressive really for such a small village and I believe the Highland Council have cancelled the Christmas lights in the likes of Dingwall, who are not getting anything at all now."
Commenting on the committee's plans for the display, he added: "We want to expand it slightly and take in the care homes – because they were asking. We even have the primary school do a few things for us, so it is good to see the kids getting involved.
"Hopefully we'll get more people interested. The response to the creel tree was brilliant – that is set in stone every year and is now the centrepiece."
By Adam Gordon
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Relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms and help one lead a better quality of life. Relaxation techniques can help in many ways like slowing heart rate, lowering blood pressure, slowing down the breathing rate, improving digestion, reducing the activity of stress hormones, reducing muscle tension, improving concentration, sound sleep and so many benefits.
The last few centuries have seen a change in the way of life, change in the social system and other systems. This has brought about a dispersion of human energies and dispersion of ideas at all levels. This has resulted in the loss of harmony in the body and the mind causing accumulation of tensions. These tensions amass in different layers of human personality. They accumulate in the muscular, emotional and mental systems.
Five relaxation techniques described hereunder can definitely help you to get rid of stress. You can practice any of these techniques as they are quite simple to do and can be done by all.
Mindfulness means maintaining an awareness of the thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment of the present moment. Instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, mindfulness encourages awareness of a person's existing surroundings. Sit comfortably either on chair or park bench or on a meditation cushion. Focus and follow your breath as it goes out and as it comes in. Draw your attention to the physical sensation of breathing like the rising and falling of your belly, or your chest. Choose your focal point, and with each breath, you can develop an idea that I am breathing in, I am breathing out. Do not strain. Bring your mind's attention to the present moment. Become aware of his surroundings, the sights, sounds, and even the smells that you may experience. Notice how your body feels right now, become aware of your thoughts and emotions. That's the practice of Mindfulness Meditation.
Lie down flat on your back in Savasana on a Yoga Mat. Keep the hands on the sides quite relaxed. Take a few long and deep breaths. Relax all the muscles of the body by rotating the awareness from top of the head to the tip of the toes. Scan and relax each part of the body one by one, like the head, the shoulders, the arms, the forearms, the wrists, the fingers, thighs, legs, ankles, toes, knees, elbows, the waist etc. Bear in mind the picture of calmness and strength. This physical relaxation refreshes a man completely relieving him of all accumulated stress.
Sit or lie comfortably in Savasana with eyes gently closed, body relaxed and if possible spine in straight line with the head. Become aware of the body and relax all muscles and joints completely. Think of anything that is pleasant. Think of snow-capped mountains, sacred Ganges, a lovely sunset, a beautiful stream falling from a height, an infinite blue sky, vast ocean or beautiful Taj Mahal. Next, imagine that the whole world and your body is are floating like a straw in this vast ocean of spirit. Feel that you are in touch with the Supreme being. Feel that the life of the whole world is pulsating and vibrating through you. Feel that Lord Hiranyagarbha, the Ocean of life, is gently rocking you on His vast bosom. You will experience immense mental peace, mental vigor, and mental strength.
In this simple and powerful mindfulness technique, you take slow and deep breaths. Breathing awareness disengages your mind from distracting thoughts and sensations. The best way in this form of relaxation technique is to observe the impact of breath on the abdomen and back muscles. As the abdominal muscles and back muscles expand on every inhalation, the navel goes up. Similarly, on exhalation, the navel comes down. you can either observe the movement of navel minutely for a particular period of time. Alternatively, you can also count the movement of navel in reverse order, say from 54 to 1.
Although human beings can bestow their love on family members or friends. surplus emotions still remain, which produces frustration and discontent. Through bhakti and repetitive prayers, these emotions can be channeled to a higher object, which is beyond relativity and the mundane world. This higher object may be a guru, a god, an incarnation or a saint. By directing one's emotion to this higher object, it may be possible to dedicate all love and devotion to him, as he is infinite in nature, while other people are finite. This will help release emotional stress. It has to be acknowledged that man's love is boundless, therefore it cannot be totally absorbed by finite surroundings.
Sit at a clean, calm and secluded place comfortably on a blanket or a meditation mat. Either repeat the name (Japa) or pray to the Lord (higher object) repeatedly, filled deep with feelings of gratitude and emotions towards Him. You can even sing in His praise or meditate on Him. Develop an attitude of oneness with Him. Sit for a comfortable period of time. This method of relaxation may be especially appealing if spirituality is meaningful to you and you are sensitive and emotional.
You can choose any one technique that suits you best. Try to practice for at least 30 minutes a day, although even just a few minutes of complete involvement can help. But the practice of longer time periods of these relaxation techniques can yield better results for you and help reduce stress levels.


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2018 In Review December 11, 2018 3:16 PM By Jeff Yerger
In late 2017, alternative rock radio returned to New York City for the first time in six years. 92.3 FM made the switch from pop to rock, which at the time was welcome news since NYC already has a behemoth in Z100 for top charts, and like with the city's sports teams, there's only a real need for one of the same thing.
A press release promised "an expertly curated playlist with local, informed discovery." Having grown up listening to the station back when it was K-Rock, I was happy a channel like this was back for the masses, and there was even a small (but naïve) part of me hoping that maybe they'd play some cool stuff like borderline radio-friendly "indie" artists like Courtney Barnett or the War On Drugs. Hell, I even would've taken the new Paramore record. Alt-radio still likes those guys, right?
So, on its first day of existence, did 92.3 FM live up to my nerdy pipe-dream for a mainstream radio station? Reader, it did not.
Instead, it was more of the same. The station's first block of songs was as follows: Foo Fighters' "My Hero," MGMT's "Kids," Vance Joy's "Lay It On Me" and — you guessed it — Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." That's right — they couldn't wait 20 minutes to play another Dave Grohl-related song. If that's your thesis statement as an alternative radio station, you might as well be branded as classic rock.
Maybe it's not all 92.3 FM's fault though. It's an indication of where radio rock is today: too infatuated with its own history, and too stubborn to be different. Those programming the format revere heroes like Grohl, Chris Cornell, or even Billy Corgan, yet they never stop to think how or why those guys became who they are in the first place. Instead, mainstream rock finds itself in the middle of an existential crisis, barely noticed at the big party, but trying to fit in anyway. (Meanwhile, the indie kids are having the most fun in the basement.)
That's not to say rock artists haven't been at least trying to stay relevant in the mainstream. For many reasons tracing back decades — iHeartRadio buying up and homogenizing stations, the rise of first iPods and then streaming, demographic shifts, etc. — a significant chunk of rock radio playlists now comprises bands angling to become pop's next "alternative" crossover hit. And not all of them are small-font festival bands with major-label contracts.
Pop-punk veterans like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco, for instance, spent 2018 like Steve Buscemi trying to pass as a high school kid, hanging out on the Hot 100 chart with Ariana Grande and Drake. But hey, you gotta give credit where it's due. Panic! At The Disco (or should I say solo-artist Brendon Urie) scored their biggest hit ever this year with "High Hopes," their first top 10 single since they were writing sins, not tragedies. Both bands have somehow managed to outlast their peers and have successfully adapted to the mainstream sound over the years.
Of course, with that adaptation, they have become a mutated shell of what they used to be. FOB and P!ATD may still technically identify as rock, but they're staying the hell away from rocking. Why? Because rock is a losing business. They're not dummies. If the kids want something like Marshmello or Post Malone, then that's what they'll get because that's what sells. Such hybridization, in which genre parameters become so blurred that rock ceases to be recognizable as rock, is how you get the likes of Twenty One Pilots, lovelytheband, and Imagine Dragons — all of whom had a big year in 2018.
But you know what also sells? Nostalgia.
Nostalgia was the biggest story in rock in 2018. It's always been a hot commodity, and there is a certain comfort in looking back. While the good memories fade, the feelings remain. For many of us in 2018, good feelings were hard to come by, and as parts of the world around us burned by wildfire or was washed out by the sea, memories were all that remained. We have come to yearn for the days when it didn't feel like we were always on the brink of destruction. Just as Disney has been hell-bent on recreating its classic movies recently, rock cashed in this year on our vulnerable needs for the "good old days," perpetuating a stubbornly recursive cycle that we've already heard before.
Weezer was the biggest name to dive head-first into the well of nostalgia. Again, give the band credit; their output may be insufferably bad lately, but in a month, they'll be releasing their third album in three years. And you know what? People are still eating that shit up! Can't knock the hustle, I guess? That said, none of those albums have or will produce a bigger song for Weezer than their cover of Toto's "Africa," released in May of this year in response to a fan petition on social media that went viral.
As if we haven't heard enough of Toto's bro-drinking anthem already, Weezer's "Africa" cover their biggest hit since "Beverly Hills" in 2005. Of course, cashing in on other bands' success is nothing new. As you've surely seen in Tom Breihan's excellent The Number Ones column this year, artists have been doing it for years, reworking old songs time and again. But this wasn't even a rework. It was as straight-up as a cover can be. And what started out as kind of a joke on social media turned into a crossover hit that peaked at #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Alternative Songs chart. Visually, they took the backward fixation even further by parodying their own "Undone (The Sweater Song)" video and recruiting "Weird Al" Yankovic for good(?) measure. In just about every way, "Africa" embodied the meme-ification of rock music. What next? Are they going to cover "All Star"? Oh God, they're going to cover "All Star," aren't they?
Then there was Greta Van Fleet. Oh, Greta Van Fleet, you beautiful young hippie children. Remember when you were a kid and fantasized about getting up on stage at your high school talent show and just ripping into a Jimmy Page solo as your classmates stare and swoon in awe of your god-like guitar wizardry? It wasn't just me, right? RIGHT? Well, Greta Van Fleet is currently living that dream, quite literally. If they sounded any more like Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins would be asking to drum for them.
Be that as it may, the kids from the land of the ice and snow (Frankenmuth, MI) have racked up three #1 hits on the mainstream rock charts over the past nearly two years. In October, they released their debut album Anthem Of The Peaceful Army, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200. Of course, this opened the door to people like that one uncle to proudly claim that "Rock is back!" at Thanksgiving before proceeding to talk to you about the first time they saw Rush live. Only time will tell how long this fad will last. I mean, didn't we already try this with Wolfmother? At least those guys had cool cover art. Anyway, call me when GVF discover the Velvet Underground.
Even the music-related movies from this year went heavy on the nostalgia. A Star Is Born, while disappointingly not about 2018 breakout celebrity Gritty, recalled the days when rock bands mattered and pursuing a music career was an attainable goal (ha!). It also produced a top 10 rock ballad for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper with the "AHHHHHHH HAA AHHHHAHHHHH" song. Not too shabby for a fourth remake.
One of the other most talked about movies of 2018 was Bohemian Rhapsody, another trip down memory lane that poses the question, "Hey, remember when Queen played Live Aid?" and answers by replying to itself, "That was awesome." Also, the soundtrack to the film reached #3 on the Billboard 200, and has stayed in and around the top 10 since. Yes, it's a testament to the timelessness of the music they created, but are there still that many people out there who still need to hear "We Will Rock You"?
We all want to be one of the Strokes, but both Julian Casablancas and Alex Turner are savvy enough to know that this doesn't have to be it. Their two bands — the Voidz and Arctic Monkeys, respectively — both released two of the strangest, daring, and best alternative rock releases of the year, eschewing any desire to get back into the ring in order to follow their weirdest tendencies.
Each album was a grower in its own way. Virtue was anti-Strokes in every way — sometimes pointedly and literally. Casablancas even took his name off the bill, a move that was surely calculated to rid the album of any unnecessary baggage. He then trolled listeners by putting the most Strokes-y sounding song, "Leave It In My Dreams," first on the album before diving deeper into a bat-shit world of prog-rock, metal, punk, funk, and whatever the hell "QYURRYUS" is. The whole album is a power move to rid listeners of any premeditated notions of what a Strokes record should sound like. The end does in fact have an end; Virtue is Casablancas' way of telling us to move on.
He isn't the only one. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a whole other kind of crazy endeavor. Each subsequent Arctic Monkeys release has built and improved upon the previous record's sound and lyrical magnitude. AM was a masterclass in riff-heavy rock and roll combined with an R&B groove and Turner's confidently unique turn of phrases. The mainstream seemed to finally begin catching on in a big way. You had the feeling that the band was building up to something huge, and Arctic Monkeys could've been the first "traditional" rock band since Kings Of Leon to break the glass ceiling rock has built for itself. Instead, they dropped a sci-fi lounge album about living on a colonized and gentrified moon. It's one of the most surprising things I've heard from a rock band in years. It's a left turn on a road where almost everyone else is staying straight, and it rewards repeated listens.
Unfortunately, the mainstream seems like it is no longer able to embrace weirder albums like these, even from seasoned and proven veterans. As Tony Soprano once said, "'Remember when' is the lowest form of conversation." Much of 2018 was spent reflecting on the so-called "glory days" of rock and roll. At some point, when do we stop relying on the past and start using it to shape the future?
2019 marks the beginning of the end to a bizarre and tumultuous decade, and as it has been, rock remains in a questionable state of existence. Is it better off now than it was 10 years ago? Who will make the next big crossover hit and what will it sound like? Will it come from Kevin Parker, a man flush with pop sensibility AND credibility? Will 2019 be more than a brief inquiry into the 1975? Will the women-led indie acts currently ruling year-end lists — the likes of Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy, and Mitski — finally get a crack at heavy rotation on stations like 92.3? Any of that would be an upgrade from what we've been hearing lately. For now, as 2018 comes to an end, rock is like the narrator of "The Ultracheese," the closing track off Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino: just a loner in the present future, who can't stop longing for what once was.
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Recruitment, social media, workforce trends
8 Reasons Why Recruitment of Employees Needs to Change
by Ira S Wolfe July 20, 2011 Recruitment, social media, workforce trends 2 1505
Recruitment is undergoing a change. You can thank technology for part of the change. But much of the credit must be given to social media. The change isn't just cosmetic or incremental. It's revolutionary. However and whenever you look at it — Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter — the growth stats and usage is phenomenal. People are talking, 24/7. Word of mouth is spreading like wildfire.
But management at most organizations, particularly human resource professionals and recruiters, fail to grasp the importance of social media and engaging and building talent communities. Why are so many companies not adjusting to this reality?
The primary reason in my opinion is ignorance or as renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow described it – unconscious incompetence. Many senior and middle managers just don't know what they don't know. They equate social media to Facebook and Twitter and say "they just don't get it." Neither did the leaders in Egypt, Iran, and Yemen and look what happened to them. Social media isn't just about sharing feelings and gibberish. Beneath all the noise coming from social media is a fundamental change in the way we communicate. And recruiting is about communication. It's about branding, marketing, and public relations.
A second reason management and recruiters fail to adjust is a mindset that time is on their side. What's the rush? The experienced leader thinks that he or she has seen things like social media come and go, and the business weathered the storm without being the first to jump on the bandwagon. But that was when we lived in a world where yesterday's news was tomorrow's headline. Today we're talking real time coverage all the time.
Social media is changing everything. Social media isn't like the keypad replacing the rotary dial on the phone. It's not about the fax replacing mail delivery. It's not about the PC replacing the typewriter. Social media isn't a tiny step of innovation but a giant leap in how we communicate. Social media also highlights how quickly innovations pervade our daily lives compared to just the gradual changes just a few decades ago.
For example, while it took nearly 38 years to get 50 million TV viewers, it only took 3 years to have 50 million tuned into an iPod…and nearly 200 million new members joined Facebook in 2010 alone. Traditional forms and methods of recruiting are becoming the 8-track relics of finding and hiring new employees. The 8-track might still work but no one is buying them.
Let's get to the point. Social media is not about putting butts in seats. A recent article on the ERE website describes the situation perfectly.
"Social media will not lead to immediate mass new hires or pipeline. It is a vehicle to take people on a journey. A journey that people will board at different junctures. But when reaching the destination, the goal is that they are either someone who wants to work for your company or that they are a Brand Ambassador. Brand Ambassadors are people who may not want to work for you, but they engage in your community, participate in discussions, sing your praises to friends and act as a champion of your brand." (Source: ERE.net)
The current global recruitment landscape is changing. The Perfect Labor Storm is real – a war for talent is the result. The ERE article offers 8 reasons why recruitment of employees moving forward will never be the same and businesses need to respond to the change today.
1. Talent is geographically mobile and happy to move for the best job;
2. Talent is more demanding, not only in pay but career progression and training and development;
3. The experienced talent pool is shrinking in volume;
4. The convergence of talent, as recruiters fighting in a smaller talent pool attract candidates across different sectors;
5. The graduate pool is scarily becoming "less skilled" as graduates come out of universities with watered-down degrees, ill-preparing them for working life;
6. Talent is less loyal and happy to switch companies every two years on average;
7. Competitors are getting smarter in mapping out talent pools and attracting your staff away;
8. Recruitment agencies are failing to be creative in attracting unique talent to their databases, hence perpetuating "recruitment chess" of the same talent across companies.
The time for pondering is over. Recruitment 3.0 is not coming – it's here.
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Ira Wolfe July 21, 2011 at 12:11 am -
@Will – thanks for the comments. I have used Faceook with a few clients. I had little success with one client but a great match with another. Of course the latter client was looking for a young college grad for sales. Ultimately I'm really keen on Facebook for recruiting. But a company has to build a brand and community around their community to generate a word of mouth campaign when they announce an opening. Just using the ads will be hit or miss. I persoanlly haven't had success with Twitter but I do know others have. And from what I've seen of Google+, it will be another opportunity but along the same strategy as Facebook.
Will Russell July 21, 2011 at 12:06 am -
An interesting insight into how social media effects recruiting. Obviously LinkedIn can be great for this, but have you had much success trying other platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, for recruiting? Also will be interesting to see how it can be incorporated into Google+.


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JS Muroto (ARC-482) was a cable laying ship of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Development and design
It was planned in 1977 as a substitute for the aging laying ship  (ARC-481). As with its predecessor, its main task is to install underwater hearing monitoring equipment at bases, ports, strategic sea areas. For the first time, a laying device was installed on the stern to support long-distance laying work.

This made it possible to bury submarine cables in the mud instead of the conventional bare laying, which was easy to cut in the bottom trawling fishery represented by trawling nets. The vessel had sheaves on the bow and stern, and a large cable tank was installed inside the ship, and cables were laid via the cable engine.

Since delicate maneuvering was required during laying work, the propeller is a variable pitch floperer, and the bow and stern were equipped with side thrusters. In addition, the ocean observation equipment was also substantial, equipped with precision sounding, mud sampling, water sampling equipment, thermometer, satellite navigation equipment, Omega navigation, Loran C and other navigation support equipment, and was placed in the central control room to concentrate.

Controlled and route monitoring was performed. The overall ship type was similar to the submarine cable laying ship Kuroshio Maru of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and is said to be used as a reference for the design of this ship.

Construction and career
The ship was laid down on 28 November 1977 and launched on 25 July 1979 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard in Tokyo. Muroto commissioned on 27 March 1980.

She was retired on 4 April 2012 without waiting for the commissioning of the successor ship  (ARC-483). After that, in October 2012, she left Kure base for Dokai Bay, Kitakyushu for dismantling. Parts of her are on display at JMSDF Kure Museum.

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