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Links For April 2014
Posted on April 14, 2014 by Scott Alexander
Why did a secretive and moderately unethical giant Korean corporation purchase a big tract of land on the Canadian tundra, declare it was for an unspecified agricultural project, and then never grow any crops there? Hint: they recently bought a very well preserved mammoth specimen and sent it to one of their cloning labs.
The weird story of how a UFO cult built a clinic to surgically reverse female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso, and how they accuse the Catholic Church of thwarting them. Bonus: the head UFO cultist at the clinic was my college genetics professor.
Tips For Surviving If You Find Yourself In An English Folk Ballad (h/t Peter Scott)
There's a lot of talk about Bitcoin use in Kenya. While it's a little bit of an exaggeration to say that one third of Kenyans have Bitcoin wallets, the country's combination of reliance on a mobile-phone based money-transfer service and high level of cross-border remissions makes it very fertile ground for cryptocurrency use. Also, how come Kenya can have a mobile-phone based money-transfer service and we can't?
Awareness Weeks where speakers and artists earnestly tell people not to stigmatize certain groups may result in increased stigma of those groups, especially self-stigma. This does not surprise me. (h/t Kate Donovan)
Norway's army, like America's, has a problem with sexual harassment. Their solution was to encourage "a common mode where gender stereotypes had disappeared, or at least are less obvious" by making men and women share rooms and encouraging similar hairstyles. Norwegian women report a major decrease in sexual harassment.
This seems very implausible, but I include it because the study seems sufficiently meticulous: people have more positive emotions towards words typed primarily with the right hand. This must explain why everyone hates stewardesses but loves lollipops.
Article finds that 90% of academic papers are never cited, suggests up to 50% are never read by anyone except their authors and the peer reviewers. [EDIT: Likely exaggerated]
Study finds that 100% of children don't like clowns, think they are scary. If this is true, how did clowns even come to exist? Was there this period when everyone thought clowns were happy and funny, and then some people put them in horror movies and made jokes about how scary they were and ruined them for the rest of us? Or were clowns always scary, but for some reason the circus industry was so bad at responding to market incentives that they adopted them anyway?
No, the government can't save $400 million by changing its font.
Legalization of medical marijuana does not seem to increase, may decrease crime. I look forward to seeing a similar study of recreational marijuana in a couple of years, but in the meantime there's always poorly controlled reports.
13th century philosopher Robert Grosseteste theorized physical mechanisms by which the ten nested crystal spheres of the universe might form. Scientists put his theories to the (mathematically simulated) test and find that small variations in the initial parameters can produce anything from ten crystal spheres to unstable spheres to infinite spheres to spheres that interlock through each other. Getting the ten nested spheres of our own (medieval vision of the) universe requires very careful fine-tuning. Then again, so do our own physical theories.
Laws are changing soon to permit Kickstarter style crowdfunded investment in new companies for as little as $100. I feel like this should be bigger news and in the long run might be one of the most important economic events of the decade.
Article: Science Compared Every Diet, And The Winner Is Real Food. So it is a combination of obvious – "real food" is better than "processed food" – and useless – what is "real food"? Is pasta real food? A turkey and cheese sandwich? A home-made cookie? For those of us who can't eat apples straight off the tree three times a day, give us a little more guidance, please.
A Redditor wants advice on how to meet new people. But instead of posting on r/socialskills, he accidentally posts on r/socialism. The results are exactly what you would expect.
The Thirty Most Unnecessary Uses Of Quotation Marks In History.
Costs of sequencing a genome have been dropping even faster than Moore's Law for computer chips. Not sure how worried we should be about the pace seeming to level off in recent years.
Garden path sentences are one that momentarily mislead your language parser, for example "The girl told the story cried". When you get to "cried", you realize something must have gone wrong somewhere and have to double back and try alternate interpretations of the structure until you realize it meant "The girl [who was] told the story". They're a cool way to observe the hidden mechanisms of your brain at work. Here are twenty-one of them.
There's a big debate in medical education between the people who think residents need strict limitations on the number of hours they can work to protect them from exploitation and to protect their patients from sleep deprivation-related mistakes – and the people who think dammit, I worked hundred hour weeks and that's the only way to turn someone into a real doctor. The former group is in the ascendant now, but they've been dealt a big blow with a recent study finding limited duty hours do not improve patient safety. Meanwhile, even under the "strictly limited duty hour" rules, I worked seventy-five hours last week.
Scientists discover brain area that causes Catholicism.
RAINN, the most important anti-rape charity, comes out against the concept of rape culture. In some sense, I agree. On the other hand, I think their position that it is all due to individual rapists being jerks is, while technically correct, denying the idea that people are influenced by a culture at all. I think my position would be that, while there is not a deliberate nationwide culture of excusing or promoting rape the way some people would have it, cultural factors affect the incidence of that crime the same as of every other type of crime and need to be considered. Also, in the process of investigating this I discovered that the largest organization for fighting false rape accusations really likes RAINN and urges all its members to donate to them. This is heartwarming in the same way as those pictures of cats and dogs snuggling with each other.
Oxytocin, previously lauded as the "cuddle hormone" and the "trust hormone", reveals its dark side as a study finds it makes people more likely to lie to help a group. This comes a few years after a study finding that it can make people more racist. Overall this isn't as big a conflict as people seem to think. It seems to active a sort of innate moral system, but the innate moral system just wants you to protect your in-group no matter what, which comes at the cost of broad principles (like honesty) and the out-group (like different races). Not especially paradoxical. But it does mean that my biggest nightmare has come true – someone has figured out a way to condemn cuddling as racist.
If we are to believe charts, the incidence of autism has more than doubled – not since 1900, or 1970, but in the last fourteen years, so that now 1/68 kids gets born with autism. But are we to believe the charts? The CDC finds that half the children born with autism now have normal or above-average intelligence, compared with only a third ten years ago and probably an infinitesmal fraction fifty years ago, which means probably people are more willing to diagnose it even absent severe limitations. I continue to get extremely annoyed that we use the same condition name to cover everything from such profound mental retardation that many of those who have it never learn language or are able to live without constant supervision to people who are slightly geekier than average and can find a few sensations they don't like on a checklist. This seems possibly medically correct but socially prone to exactly the pathological and interminable debates we actually find ourselves in.
I've long suspected that obesity is partly genetic, and now we have probably found one of the genes involved. Seems to be involved in carbohydrate digestion, and and can change your odds of being obese by up to eight times. And it's a copy-number variant, which is interesting because I've seen studies suggesting a lot of interesting things (eg aggression) are copy-number variants, and most modern genetic testing attempts don't pick that up (they are limited to SNPs). If copy-number variants turn out to be really important, that could rescue some of them "none of our genetic testing ever finds genes that have a large effect on interesting psychosocial things even though we know they're there" problem.
I've talked about how many promising medical ideas just sort of sit there, either unresearched or unadopted. Here's an article in ACP Internist where an Idaho doctor suggests we add bacteriophage therapy to that list.
It's generally assumed that lifting women out of poverty will also save them from violence because they will have more options. But in at least some cases, women who are wealthier or better-educated than their husbands are at greater risk of violence than poorer and less educated women. Ozy adds: "This is true in the US too, but might be reporting bias."
Article confirms the obvious – children identified as "gifted" early on then grow up to become successful people who discover inventions, run businesses, or make amazing works of art. One might argue that the vast majority of value coming from an education system comes from what it does for gifted kids – giving them that tiny extra push they might need to cure cancer, invent nuclear fusion, or become the next Shakespeare will have more positive impact than a million construction workers becoming slightly smarter construction workers. And there's a lot of evidence that even small interventions to help these children have spectacular effects – gifted children who are allowed to skip grades are 60% more likely to get doctorates and patents, and more than twice as likely to get STEM Ph.Ds, than a control group of equally gifted children who weren't. And so in response to this state of affairs, schools: don't let gifted children skip grades, refuse to stratify children by ability because it might offend someone, and allocate less than 1/2000th the funding for gifted education as it does to special education for low performers. China cannot take us over quickly enough.
Poooossibly related: according to the survey of student boredom 98% of kids are bored in school and 66% bored every day, including 33% bored because the work is too easy and 25% bored because the work is too hard.
Anagrammatron somehow finds tweets that are anagrams of each other.
Boycotting people and organizations who are intolerant of homosexuals may be illiberal, it may have chilling effects, and it may alienate exactly the people you are trying to convince – but at least it works, right?
Libertarian Police Department. This might be the closest I have ever come to literally ROTFL.
One of my old articles, Who By Very Slow Decay, ended up on Reddit recently. And some of the comments by other medical people managed to horrify even me, who wrote the original.
You know the paper's going to be good because it's called Biomarkers and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes. And sure enough, they find that higher levels of creatine do better in the labor market, even when controlling for everything else. And I just heard from some of my psychiatrist friends that there are a couple of preliminary studies finding creatine to be pretty effective against depression (warning: everything is effective against depression in preliminary studies).
Researchers who discovered Ecstasy causes Parkinson's disease retract their finding after realizing they accidentally used meth in the study instead of Ecstasy. I have a lot of respect for them for admitting it. Also, apparently meth causes Parkinson's.
Slate Star Codex reader Thomas Eliot has a Kickstarter up for a Cthulhu-themed board game which you may check out and donate to if it suits your fancy.
You know how they found that caloric restriction increased lifespan, and then they found that it didn't, and then they found that actually it did, and then they found that actually no it really didn't? Well, now it does.
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Nate Gabriel says:
The worst punctuation sign I've seen just said "Our Saviors Lutheran Church." It changes the meaning to a major departure from Christian orthodoxy, meaning it can only be called APOCRYPHAL APOSTROPHE APOSTASY.
JTHM says:
Both of the links in the paragraph about Who By Very Slow Decay ending up on Reddit just link to the post on your own blog. Did you mean for one of the links to point to Reddit?
Scott Alexander says:
Damn so the diet that's hardest to eat is the one that causes the most weight loss?
adbge says:
Bit of a nit. The "most papers are uncited" meme is, as far as I can tell, a myth. I spent some time in R with some citation data a few weeks ago confirming this. This conclusion is backed up by this report on the UK's science performance, which finds that it's more like a third of papers go uncited.
Following your link, the article ends with:
*UPDATE — March 18, 2014: We originally implied that the Faraday story was true, but, according to Snopes, that is not the case. There is also disagreement on the numbers cited from the University of Indiana study.
Digging into the linked "disagreement on the numbers," I find (emphasis mine):
Evans' assertion on the increasing concentration of citations reflects a widely held belief (Hamilton 1990; 1991) that most scientific articles are never cited, a common lore that comes back periodically in the literature (e.g. Meho, 2008; Macdonald and Kam, 2007). Though several empirical studies have challenged this belief (Abt, 1991; Garfield, 1998; Pendlebury, 1991; Schwartz, 1997, Stern, 1990, Van Dalen and Henkens, 2004)…
All of which I'm too lazy to pursue further.
That most papers (as of late, at least) are cited is echoed by their own findings:
Indeed, whereas citations received were concentrated on 10% to 20 % of published papers at the beginning of the last century and on about half of all papers at the beginning of the Seventies, in 2005, the last year for which we have a complete two-year citation window, citations were distributed among 80% of published papers in MED, 60% of papers in NSE and 55% of papers in SS.
Except for the humanities, about which no one seems to care:
In fact, only the broad field of HUM behaves differently, as it does with regard to several other aspects of scholarly communication, such as collaboration (Larivière, Gingras and Archambault, 2006) and the use of serials (Larivière, Archambault, Gingras and Vignola-Gagné, 2006).
From the study's graphics it looks like maybe 17% of humanities papers are cited after 5 years.
Searching more broadly, this paper reports "The median number of Google Scholar citations is 2 to 3." A little high, but the paper also notes that Google Scholar is not that hot at indexing humanities research, maybe explaining the skew.
So probably the typical paper is cited once-ish.
"Bit of a nit" is a good curse that I will attempt to use in the future.
Vaniver says:
Are you disambiguating "cited by their author" and "cited by someone else"?
Douglas Knight says:
Although there are conflicting standards, the effect is in the opposite direction: people who claim to exclude self-citations are the ones that claim that there are more citations.
The claim that 90% of papers are not cited has no source or methodology. It is probably a fabrication. The paper that claims that most non-humanities papers are cited makes that claim after excluding first author self-citations. It is phrased in opposition to Evans, who does not seem to exclude self-citations.
Huh, thanks. I always assume at least one of the links I post will turn out to be wrong, but I'm surprised it was this one.
novalis says:
Pretty sure it was occasional SSC commenter AJD who told me this: it turns out that The Star Spangled Banner contains a garden path sentence: "Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?"
AJD says:
It's true!
nydwracu says:
That took me a while.
Even better than the drinking song thing.
we use the same condition name to cover everything
What is the alternative? Asperger's was introduced specifically to combat this problem. Did it work? I don't know, because everything, such as that CDC post, gives numbers for autism spectrum, presumably because they want the biggest number possible. That people reading press releases are confused by this seems like a small cost. In fact, I have heard that it did work and all the increase in diagnosis of autism proper is in people who also diagnosed as mentally retarded, thus not increasing the pool of people who are diagnosed with something (excluding Asperger's).
SNPs: actually, the statistical significance of SNPs is not taken to indicate direct causal action. In most cases, it is probably that the SNP is in linkage disequilibrium with the causally relevant change. But that change could be anything, including a copy number variant.
The study of smart kids is not at all obvious. The point is not that smart kids become smart adults, but that the measurement of intelligence works very far out on the scale. The kids who are 1 in 40,000 at age 13 remain measurably more productive than the mere 1 in 10,000 group.
Sorry for likely ignorant questions, but why is SNP-linkage a good way to check for copy-number variants? Is it because the first person to get a certain copy number had a certain SNP, and so this link is preserved? But don't copy-numbers change pretty quickly, and more than one time? Aren't most SNPs common, so that it would be the first person to get the copy-number, plus a million people who didn't have that copy number?
What percent of copy number variations do you think are are detectable through SNPs? (I would be happy with an answer within an order of magnitude). What do you think the sensitivity and specificity of those SNPs is?
Yes, that is the meaning/use of linkage disequilibrium. So, yes, the faster the rate of mutation, the worse it will work. In particular, it won't work as well for CNV as for other mutations, but I don't think CNV is that fast. Yes, the typical SNP used is 1%, pretty common. I don't know any numbers for what the linkage disequilibrium actually is between a typical gene and its nearest SNP, let alone how much you can predict using several SNPs.
I guess this is tangential, but when they look at a small population of related people, like from a single town, or even the big town of Iceland, then there has been less time to reach equilibrium, so these methods work better. SNPs should be close to perfectly predictors of the rest of the genome. At least, that's what Decode says. And when they have done studies of samples from a single town, the SNPs additively predict height and IQ with accuracy matching previous measurements of additive heritability.
Konkvistador says:
On education see the main points of Charles Murray's book Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
1. Ability varies
2. Half of the children are below average
3. Too many people are going to college
4. The future of America depends on how they educate the academically gifted
And yes not so much schools but the entire culture of education Western society has created systematically ignores and denies these.
http://youtu.be/hmTr2EMt66c
Doug S. says:
Half the children are below the median, but this does not necessarily mean that half the children are below average – if the IQs of the people in a group of four 105, 105, 105, and 85, three-quarters of the group have above average IQs. There are lots of things that cause brains not to work properly (blunt force trauma, Down's syndrome, etc.), so it's likely that there are more people with severe disabilities dragging the average down than there are geniuses pulling the average up.
I find life is much more pleasant if I assume that everyone means "median" by "average." And many of them do! Not to mention that half the time mean doesn't make sense.
Kibber says:
Isn't IQ normally distributed?
"China cannot take us over quickly enough."
Accelerationism with Landian characteristicis.
Could you elaborate? I found a short wikipedia article on accelerationism and am not sure what Landian means.
ozymandias says:
Land is, I assume, Nick Land. You can find his blog over on the sidebar, it is named Xenosystems.
James James says:
Accelerationism is people who want capitalism to accelerate because they think it will collapse and they want to bring forward the collapse of capitalism.
Nick Land wants capitalism to accelerate because he thinks it won't collapse, and he identifies capitalism with a sort of singularity.
Yeah, I probably was accidentally channeling him there. It's a nice break from my usual hobby of accidentally channeling Eliezer.
Daniel H says:
Thanks for the link to the signs, I found them quite "amusing".
(warning: everything is effective against depression in preliminary studies)
This would have been useful to know when you were doing the Two Truths and a Lie dermatology quiz. I'm now re-lowering my confidence in Botox as an alternative antidepressant.
Is this something like the possibly-apocryphal story about changing the lighting at some factory, where it's the fact that someone's trying to make things better that makes people feel better, not what they're actually trying?
Alcohol is probably effective against depression in preliminary studies.
Geirr says:
>Is this something like the possibly-apocryphal story about changing the lighting at some factory, where it's the fact that someone's trying to make things better that makes people feel better, not what they're actually trying?
en.wikipedia.org/Hawthorne_Effect
Probably not, because a lot of these studies are placebo-controlled.
JPol says:
I'm pretty sure that dominant (numbers-wise) feminist views don't hold that things like rape culture or patriarchy are deliberate. I can't tell if you're adding that they do, but it's a common enough view that it seemed useful to mention.
I am aware that feminists say "We do not believe rape culture is deliberate", even as every example they give of it is deliberate and every definition they give of it involves deliberate action.
This doesn't seem to me much different from an equivocation tactic common to every political group, like when religious people who are put on the spot say "We believe God is just another name for the urge to goodness inside all of us," and then when they're not on the spot praying for their sick children to get well and threatening that unbelievers will burn in Hell.
I certainly don't think feminists believe men are sitting together in some smoke-filled room and plotting ways they can trivialize rape more.
I do think that they believe rape culture comes from deliberate decisions by men not to care about rape. The examples you can find on any "What Rape Culture Is" website are things like (and I am copying these from one such): "Blaming the victim (she asked for it!)" and "trivializing sexual assault (Boys will be boys!)".
Which seem to fall within any definition of deliberate action other than the most outrageous and impossible ones like the aforementioned smoke-filled room.
Compare to "theft culture". I don't think anyone has claimed that America is a "theft culture", but there are certainly aspects of our culture that make theft much more common here than it is in, say, Japan. And it has nothing to do with evil people grinning and saying "Ha ha, theft, well, I bet the victim was asking for it. I don't believe theft victims are really human anyway so I'm not going to care!"
That is the distinction I'm trying to make between "deliberate" and "non-deliberate"
I don't understand what connection you think you're drawing between such examples of what rape culture is and "deliberate decisions by men not to care about rape". (In general people don't make "deliberate decisions" about what not to care about to begin with.)
Ialdabaoth says:
And it has nothing to do with evil people grinning and saying "Ha ha, theft, well, I bet the victim was asking for it. I don't believe theft victims are really human anyway so I'm not going to care!"
This has absolutely not been my experience. As a lower-class poor white person, I have personally had the following arguments made to my face, by police officers and other authority figures:
– Well, you shouldn't own such an expensive computer if you can't afford to live in a low-crime area (never mind it's several years old, I bought it used, I assembled it myself by hand, etc.)
– You probably just left your door open. Yeah, you said you didn't, but people around here don't bother to protect their things since they know they can just buy more with their welfare checks.
– If you don't want your things to get stolen, you should buy an alarm (in an area where alarm companies contract at ridiculous premiums due to the crime rate).
– lemme guess, your friends do drugs, don't they? Somebody just stole all this to support their habit, unless you pawned it all to support YOUR habit and you think you can get away with reporting it stolen.
I don't think that distinguishes America from Japan.
Vladimir Slepnev says:
I might be stating the obvious, but there's nothing difficult about finding tweets that are anagrams of each other. You just need to use the magic of hash functions.
Let's say you have a million tweets. For each tweet, let F(tweet) = the sum of all letters in the tweet (like a=1, b=2 and so on), G(tweet) = the sum of squares of all letters, and H(tweet) = F(tweet)+1000*G(tweet). Then sort the tweets in order of increasing H(tweet). When you find some pairs of tweets with the same value of H(tweet), you just need to check if they're anagrams. That should be much quicker than checking all possible pairs.
Probably the most efficient choice is something fancy along the lines you suggest, but the simplest reasonable choice is to sort each tweet.
"do wands have recoil?" → " ?aacddeehilnoorsvw"
"who discovered anal" → " aacddeehilnoorsvw"
huh – "code" tags don't preserve multiple spaces.
Eric Rall says:
For longer messages, it would be more efficient to build a frequency table of each message (count how often each letter appears) rather than sorting. Frequency tables can be built in linear time of the length of the string, while sorting is O(n log n) at best. Tweets are short enough that computational complexity might not matter much, though.
Andrew Ducker says:
Faster to calculate _and_ it would take less space. If you only include basic punctuation and don't care about case then you're talking about,say, 30 characters, each one of which can occur between 0 and 140 times.
Total number of options is 140^30 (2.4*10^64)
Which you can store in 214 bits. Or 27 bytes.
That's way smaller, and faster, than sorting.
Not worth the hassle for hundreds of tweets, but if you're sorting through millions of them…
<code> means "this element is computer code". <pre> means "don't squeeze whitespace in this element".
(And yes, unfortunately Slate Star Codex doesn't have <pre>.)
I think we will have to agree to disagree about what "mean" means.
gwern says:
[Never mind, Knight pointed out sorting works.]
And Eric Rall pointed out a more efficient method! :->
Clown makeup is designed to make a cartoonish face readable from a distance, in the context of a circus where the kids are sitting in the rafters a good way from the performers. But nowadays clowns have morphed into close quarters performance, so of course the effect is ruined. Also, kids have top notch visual acuity so they can see the caked on makeup, the poking bristly hairs, the wrinkles, etc…
I recall reading an article on a highly successful children's entertainer, a clown who wore no makeup and had no particular tricks or routine, he just had an excellent rapport with kids.
http://es.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/22ovx9/please_dont_hate_me_but_can_somebody_explain/ <- guy asks r/fitness to explain macros and gets a lesson in programming instead
Are you talking about The Great Zucchini? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801434.html
Yes! That's the exact article I was looking for but couldn't locate. Thanks!
Randy M says:
"You know the paper's going to be good because it's called Biomarkers and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes. "
Is this the kind of study where they pick 20 biomarkers to study, and it turns out that, against all odds, 1 of them is significant at 5% confidence?
I mean, "against all odds."
They didn't have that many biomarkers to check, but IIRC they claim to adjust for multiple-comparison.
J. Quinton says:
Huh. I read "The girl told the story cried" as "The girl *who* told the story cried".
Speaking of the way culture can affect people:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mafia-mobsters-are-more-sensitive-familycentred-and-less-selfish-than-other-criminals-9262482.html
Are you so sure that's what's going on? I can think of a few ways it could be something else. Ranked in decreasing order of subjective plausibility:
1) They're Sicilians. If hbdchick is right, this matters, since Sicilians are less outbred than other (especially Northern) Italians. Where are the other criminals from?
2) Different selection effects. People who commit non-Mafia crimes are more likely to have personality traits that incline them toward criminality. This may not be true for the Mafia—wasn't it passed down in families at one point? (I can't get to Wikipedia right now.)
3) Maybe psychopaths are less inclined to join the Mafia, or are filtered out somehow. But I don't know how that would work.
St. Rev says:
4) Known Mafiosi are punished more harshly for similar offenses, so the median incarcerated Mafioso is less psychopathic. That is, the non-Mafiosi have committed worse offenses to get the same treatment.
Given that the site which claims the Koreans are cloning a mammoth also has this absurd article on eight-winged chickens made from spliced spider dna:
http://www.imgism.com/arkansas-8-wing-chicken-shows-food-scientists-are-going-too-far/
I'm not really buying it.
Sigh. Well, at least I had a couple of hours of believing it might really happen. I guess I will have to up my game from my usual strategy of Googling "[title of article] debunked"
.i e'u ro lojbau jufra cu pavysmu .i ja'o ba'e no purdi ve klama pe'a jufra cu lojbo .i ku'i uinai ro lojbo jufra cu se nonysmu fi lo na'e lojbo zo'o .i ji'a su'o lojbo jufra cu nandu ke stura te facki ta'onai
Translation: Well, you know, all Lojban sentences are unambiguous (lit. having exactly one meaning). So, there are really no "garden path" sentences in Lojban! Sadly, however, all Lojban sentences are meaningless (lit. having exactly zero meanings) to non-Lojbanists. 🙂 And some Lojban sentences are hard to parse anyways.
suntzuanime says:
Garden path sentences are often unambiguous. AFAICT there's only one way to read "The girl told the story cried" that's syntactically successful. It's just that *partway* through the sentence, you do not expect it to mean anything like the (unambiguous) final reading.
I read it as the story crying and did not find the intended parse until Scott pointed it out. You might not call that "syntactically successful" because it is missing a "that," but I think most people don't notice this parse for semantic reasons.
I would indeed call it syntactically unsuccessful because it is missing a "that". The interesting thing about garden path sentences is how people will engage in syntactically incorrect parses in preference to syntactically correct ones that would force them to change the semantic relationships they've built up on the basis of a partial sentence.
It may be that Lojban has a more specific property; that as you are parsing a sentence the in-progress parse tree built in your mind is guaranteed to be correct as far as it goes.
But this particular case demonstrates a difference in how Lojban grammar works; in English, "The girl told…" could mean either that the girl is the one doing the telling, or that the girl was descriptively told something, depending on how the rest of the sentence structure goes.
In Lojban, as you add each word, I think that its relationship to the word before it is established conclusively at that point, usually because Lojban insists on structural words:
le nixli cu te lisri – The girl tells a story…
le nixli poi ve lisri – The girl that was told a story…
But I'm not sure if this is universally true for the entire Lojbanic grammar.
Actually, nevermind; as soon as I posted the above, I thought of a counter-example:
blabi zdani – White house…
This could end in a couple of different ways:
blabi zdani gerku – White-house dog (a dog that has something to do with a white house)
blabi zdani bo gerku – White house-dog (a white dog that has something to do with a house)
Ken Arromdee says:
Is it impossible to write a Godel-undecideable statement in lojban?
Lorxus says:
How do you mean? I mean, {na nei} is pretty funny, but it resembles the Russell or Cretan paradox more than anything else.
(For reference, {na nei} translates to "this sentence is false".)
It's actually quite easy to do so, since you don't even need to come up with a Godel numbering; as Lorxus shows, Lojban has the same capability for circular reference as your typical natural language.
Additionally, although Lojban has a structure similar to predicate logic, it's not generally intended to be used as a formal proof system. it's entirely possible to make statements in Lojban that are ambiguous in the traditional boring natlang ways, e.g. "Which girl exactly are you talking about?"
I overstated the case in saying that all Lojban sentences are unambiguous; they are *gramatically* unambiguous, but semantics are still tricky sometimes.
Thank you for providing the translation, I was about to rot13 that.
.ua .ue .ui do jbopli .i mi co'e .i .e'ucai mi'o tavla .i srana cmene ki'u mi lorxu zo'ocu'i
Also, attempted backtranslation of your commentary to keep my Lojban fresh:
[suggestion] Every Lojban language utterance is one-meaninged. I can conclude from this that ABSOLUTELY NO "garden route" (maybe should have used {ve muvdu}?) sentences are Lojbanic. However, (sadface) every Lojbanic utterance is no-meaninged for the non-Lojbanic, lol. Plus, at least some Lojbanic utterances are difficult to structure-find, (LIKE THIS ONE) at any rate.
.i .ie e'udai mi'o casnu .i mi ta'e zvati pe'a la'o .cy. FreeNode IRC #lojban .cy. .i fi'i ko .e'u vitke
I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, which puts all the vowels on the left side. In relation to the QWERTY effect, I compared a piece of writing I'm in the middle of editing to Eliezer's The Simple Truth. I predicted that I would use 'I', 'O', and 'U' less, since they're Dvorak-left but QWERTY-right, and that, perhaps to make up for it, I would use 'A' and 'E' more (nb. 'A' is found in the same location in both QWERTY and Dvorak).
Turns out, relative to Eliezer and Scott, I use 'A' less and other vowels more.
primality says:
I remember reading that Eliezer uses Dvorak, so he's probably not your best choice for a control group.
You are correct, and he was using when he wrote The Simple Truth.
Adding the most upvoted LW article, I find that Dvorak users use A less and U more; the other letters are mixed. Overall, this seems to be negligible evidence against QWERTY effect for word choice.
You already know this, but it bears being pointed out for the sake of your readers. High functioning autism can come with it's own struggles, and just because someone isn't severely autistic doesn't mean they aren't disabled. I wish you'd made it clearer in the post that there's a whole massive realm of levels of disability in-between very severe autism and autism that is so mild it causes no problems. A lot of high functioning autistics struggle to get help because people dismiss them as being so smart that they can't be really disabled.
Of course, I've always seen "disability" in a very Foucaultian sense, myself – "disability" has less to do about how well you can function, than with how much sympathy and support your culture wants to afford you.
Ultimately, autism and schizophrenia are the kinds of conditions where it's reeeally hard to convince the world that you shouldn't just drop dead.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed with that comment, especially since Scott's a psychiatrist. There's a reason autism got grouped under one umbrella in the latest DSM – because as best we can tell, it's the same pattern of brain development that causes many of the same challenges. No one would say 'why are we saying people with an IQ of 180 and the symptoms of depression have the same disease as people with an IQ of 70 and the symptoms of depression'? but that's almost what's Scott is doing here.
My first reaction was 'yikes, I definitely wouldn't want to be a high-functioning autistic person in Detroit. Capable of passing for neurotypical, even for passing in limited contexts as charismatic and funny? You're a geeky person who can pick some sensory sensitivities off a checklist.'
And, you know, likely to be misdiagnosed with ADHD or OCD or severe social anxiety or all three, because everyone knows autistic people act weird and you're (capable of presenting as) perfectly normal.
This happened to me, so I might be a bit bitter here.
All right, here's where I'm coming from.
A bunch of autistic people, including some I know, talk about how anyone who wants to "treat" or "prevent" autism is an evil oppressor who is going out of their way to persecute a perfectly legitimate alternate way of looking at the world. That some people like big parties, and other people like trains and math, and the psychiatric profession is a conspiracy by the people who like big parties to pathologize the people who like trains and math and make them seem inferior.
Then I go to work and I see someone who has never spoken a word of English and is covered in scars from banging their head and limbs against sharp objects. And when I try to treat this person, or prevent more people from ending up like this, I get yelled at for being an evil oppressor.
High-functioning autistics probably have the opposite problem – that they mention they're autistic to explain some otherwise weird sensory abnormalities, and everyone assumes they're mentally retarded or dangerous or have no human emotion.
This is what I mean when I say that the autism umbrella is medically accurate but socially unfortunate.
A couple of links which contend that the entire increase in autism rates is diagnostic substitution. One is a paper where adults of all ages were randomly (?) sampled and evaluated, and found similar rates of autism-spectrum disorders at all ages.
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=211276
Conclusions Conducting epidemiologic research on ASD in adults is feasible. The prevalence of ASD in this population is similar to that found in children. The lack of an association with age is consistent with there having been no increase in prevalence and with its causes being temporally constant. [emphasis mine] Adults with ASD living in the community are socially disadvantaged and tend to be unrecognized.
Discussion of the paper, and some other issues:
http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/06/08/fish-antidepressants-autism-and-a-problematic-research-premise-2/
Oooh, the "sample different ages" technique is a good one and hadn't occurred to me.
(unless of course rates of autism or penetrance of autism changes with age)
Do we know anything about autism disorders which provides evidence for rates increasing with age? Previous studies have shown lower autism rates in older cohorts, so unless there were studies showing that, say, kids in school were developing autism symptoms during their school years, it seems the null hypothesis would be that autism does not increase with age.
Except maybe for people who study economics at GMU.
I recall seeing Tips For Surviving If You Find Yourself In An English Folk Ballad on your LJ many moons ago.
I want to know if appropriate changes in the parameters of Grosseteste's model made the spheres bounce to the left and and to the right.
I once sat through a calculus lecture in which the professor derived the formula for the volume of the unit ball in N dimensions and demonstrated that it goes to zero as the number of dimensions goes to infinity.
He ended the segment with the line "So, if you ever meet a creature from the 23rd dimension, its balls are really small."
Do we need to revoke his math license?
Even after clicking through to the original (review) paper, the "processed food is bad" claim appears to be pure author opinion, not based upon the work reviewed in the paper, at least not in any rigorous way.
Meanwhile, the calorie restriction issues appears to be dueling methodology problems. In one case, "comparing a little calorie restriction to a lot", and finding that "a lot" doesn't help. In the other, you have monkeys being feed a high-sugar, apparently unhealthy food, and finding that monkeys who are allowed to eat as much monkey-candy as they like don't live as long.
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I can personally say that I never found clowns scary myself. I think I just found them amusing like I was meant to.
And there's a lot of evidence that even small interventions to help these children have spectacular effects – gifted children who are allowed to skip grades are 60% more likely to get doctorates and patents, and more than twice as likely to get STEM Ph.Ds, than a control group of equally gifted children who weren't."
This is the opposite of what I would expect. How do we reconcile this fact with the thing where kids who are old for their grade end up doing much better in life than the kids who are young ?
According to natural experiments, children who are older do better in sports, but children who are younger do better academically. I don't think that there has been any study of "in life."
"According to natural experiments, children who are older do better in sports, but children who are younger do better academically"
This one does not match what I was taught in my recent Economics of Education class, and a large chunk of this class was a survey of the literature on topics like these. I have no idea about the sports part, but students who are old-for-grade tend to do better on the academic tests, certainly once you've taken selection into account – age-at-test is a very important (/confounding) variable in this literature. Selection mechanisms vary across countries (in some countries it's mostly the 'slow' students that start late because their parents are advised to wait another year, in other countries it's rather the smart parents who want to give their child the best possible start in life and so delay their childrens school entry because they know that older students tend to get better grades – note that it's almost always problematic just to compare the outcomes of students who are old-for-grade and young-for-grade without taking selection effects like these into account), making comparisons across countries difficult, but the 'a child who's almost 7 will tend to do better in school than his classmate who's only just 6' is a pretty universal finding. A finding which is hardly surprising, given how much children develop during their schoolyears. Effects like these have caused some debate e.g. about the German tracking system, because it's obvious from the data that students who are old-for-grade have better educational opportunities on average than do their classmates, calling into question the fairness of the applied sorting system.
"I don't think that there has been any study of "in life.""
People have studied stuff besides academic outcomes in these contexts, but it's not a topic which has received a lot of attention:
"There are widespread myths about the psychological vulnerability of gifted students and therefore fears that acceleration will lead to an increase in disturbances such as anxiety, depression, delinquent behavior, and lowered self-esteem. In fact, a comprehensive survey of the research on this topic finds no evidence that gifted students are any more psychologically vulnerable than other students, although boredom, underachievement, perfectionism, and succumbing to the effects of peer pressure are predictable when needs for academic advancement and compatible peers are unmet (Neihart, Reis, Robinson, & Moon, 2002). Questions remain, however, as to whether acceleration may place some students more at risk than others."
Natural experiments deal with confounders. I'm not going to dig them up, but you could try wikipedia for the basic facts not covered in your class. It is not very positive about sports. Academically, older children do better than others in the same grade, but do worse than those of the same age in the higher grade. I took "in life" to refer to long term measures, which are necessarily hard to study.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
"Natural experiments deal with confounders." I know, but I assumed others didn't. Perhaps a majority of the included papers were dealing with IV models, RD-designs or similar – I tried to motivate why such methods are necessary in my comment.
Your comment incidentally gave me an 'unpleasant person'-vibe because you seem to be Othering me, so my part of this discussion ends here.
How do we reconcile this fact with the thing where kids who are old for their grade end up doing much better in life than the kids who are young ?
Without controlling for IQ, kids who are older for their grade are mentally more prepared to actually learn the material. They're also socially more advanced, and slightly bigger, which would compound the beneficial effects of being more socially advanced. And social skills are the only thing anywhere as important as intelligence in predicting lifelong outcomes.
and slightly bigger
In my own anecdotal experience, this accounts for the majority of the effect.
Also, in my own experience, being put forward a grade or two would have helped me IMMENSELY. But then, I was consistently performing 3-4 grade-levels ahead of my classmates academically, AND was consistently mistaken for someone 2-3 grade-levels behind my classmates physically.
Also, how come Kenya can have a mobile-phone based money-transfer service and we can't?
Paypal doesn't work on smartphone browsers?
A PayPal account isn't a good substitute for a physical credit card in meatspace transactions. PayPal is popular among meatspace merchants for their own accounts, because it can accept regular credit cards with a cheap phone dongle. But there's no quick convenient way (that I know of) to transfer money from a customer's PayPal account, even if they have a smartphone and the PayPal app.
This may change as more phones get NFC support.
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You haven't linked How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession, which has recently floated to the top of Reddit, so I wonder what your take is on the grim picture painted there.
I actually just read that today.
All the doctors I met in Ireland were like the doctors in that study and seemed very unhappy and told me to get out of medicine.
Most of the doctors I have seen in America seem very happy so far. I know somewhere on the bottom of that comment thread someone pointed out the survey they used for "9/10 doctors" was SUPER sketchy.
But I mostly know older doctors (ie those senior enough to be teaching residents, who probably have it a little better), Michigan doctors (I think things might be more old-fashioned in the flyover states than on either coast) and psychiatrists (I think all specialists are doing better than GPs).
So far I am sort of managing to enjoy residency, despite as far as I can tell it being strictly inferior in every way to non-residency real doctoring. I think this bodes well.
I would not, from personal experience, urge other people not to go to medical school.
I do have the huge advantage that my parents helped pay the vast majority of my medical school tuition, and so "crushing debts" are not a problem for me. But even a resident's comparatively miniscule salary is pretty good and I don't feel like debts would be a terrible burden on me right now. Medicine also pays absurdly well if you are willing to practice in a middle-of-nowhere place like Idaho and if debts were a big problem for me I would probably take that option for a while.
Thanks, Scott! I guess the moral is, if you want to be a doctor, aim for being a specialist, and if you want to be a GP, aim for rural Midwest :).
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>maidenhead
2) Onward the revolution, accidental comrades?
3) At the moment, I am laughing at Libertarian Police Force. I anticipate crying and then eating a heroic and lethal dose of orgasmium in 15 years from the same stimulus.
4) >Who By Very Slow Decay
Good fucking gods. I have gained somewhat of a new respect for my dad – a neuroradiologist steadily moving into administration. Also, a newfound desire for cryonics. Also also, failing that, eating a heroic and lethal dose of orgasmium in probably roughly 70 years.
naath says:
Mobile phone money> AIUI MPesa is… well it's a horrible security nightmare mess and additionally charges pretty hefty fees (compared to the fees I'm used to in the UK anyway). In Kenya it has been widely adopted largely because Kenyans have a severe lack of other ways of sending money around.
A few banks in the UK seem to be starting to try out the idea of sending money by text message; I'm hoping it will go well, I'm not sure how popular it will be, although if it does work it'll be another nail in the coffin of the cheque.
John Maxwell says:
"One standard deviation increase from the average level of creatinine is associated with 6.8% increase in earnings." Just skimming the biomarker paper, but that seems like a pretty big effect.
Re: Garden path sentences, anytime I read anything about them, I think "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."


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What's New: Christus donates land, Eureka Heights comes to Beaumont
Jacob Dick, Staff writer
Dec. 2, 2020 Updated: Dec. 2, 2020 11 a.m.
Christus Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth Hospital on Calder Avenue in Beaumont. Photo made on June 28, 2020. Fran Ruchalski/The EnterpriseFran Ruchalski, The Enterprise / The Enterprise
The Christus Southeast Texas Health System has donated some of its unused land to improve a regional medical training center.
Tyler County Hospital received a half-acre lot in Woodville that was the site of a clinic Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital operated until 1999. The building was vacant for 20 years until it was demolished last year.
The property will be used for a parking lot for the Tyler County School of Vocational Nursing, a program supported by the Tyler County Hospital District.
"We are pleased that this property will be useful to Tyler County Hospital and its commitment to educate and train the future generations of health care workers," Paul Trevino, president and CEO of Christus Southeast Texas Health Care System, said in a statement. "A donation like this proves that our mission to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ expands beyond the walls of our facilities."
The school was established in 1960 and has grown to handle as many as 72 students per semester. More than 1,300 licensed vocational nurses have graduated from the program since it was established.
Eureka Heights Brewery has expanded its reach with a new distribution deal with Del Papa Distributing Co., adding its products to stores in Jefferson County and 16 others.
The brewery has been making craft beers in Houston's Heights neighborhood since 2015 and started canning beer for wider availability last summer.
Some of its brews, such as Mostly Harmless and Mini Boss, which have been available in Houston-area stores since the brewery's origin, will now find their way to craft beer lovers across the Texas Gulf Coast after the deal that was inked earlier in the fall.
Eureka Heights is named for the fault line running through that part of Houston and has been focused on making "approachable beers" with broad appeal, according to the company.
Waitr and some of its local restaurant partners are teaming up to secure food for the Food Bank of Southeast Texas.
The Waitr Holiday Food Drive will collect non-perishable food donations until Dec. 23 at the following locations:
Casa Olé, 5898 Eastex Freeway in Beaumont; Basic Foods, 6220 Phelan Blvd. in Beaumont; Schlotzsky's, 295 Country Lane in Lumberton; Eclectic Coffee Shop, 900 S. Main St., Suite 917 in Lumberton; Happy Donuts, 114 N. Main St. in Lumberton.
After items have been dropped off at the locations, Waitr will then deliver all the collected food items to the Southeast Texas Food Bank.
Demand has spiked at food banks and pantries as the COVID-19 crisis continues, with food organizations warning they may experience a massive food shortage in the coming months.
In addition to food donations, those ordering using the Waitr app or website, Waitrapp.com, will have the option to click the donation banner to provide a monetary donation. Waitr will send those making donations a code for a free future delivery. Waitr will also match a portion of all the customers' donations.
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Marty Duane Jorgensen
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Marty Duane Jorgensen, 60, of West Fargo, ND, passed away on December 4, 2020. Marty was born on August 16, 1960 at Northwood Deaconess Hospital in Northwood, ND, the son of Ronald L. and Reva J. (Paulson) Jorgensen. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and grew up in Northwood, graduating from Northwood High School in 1978. He attended and graduated from NDSCS with an Associate of Arts Degree in Mechanical Drafting in 1980.
Marty entered the United States Navy in April of 1986 serving 20 years on active duty and 10 years in the Naval Reserves until his 30 retirement in 2016 rising to the rank of Petty Officer First Class AK2. He served during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Kosovo. Marty served aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, USS Nimitz, USS Coral Sea, and USS Abraham Lincoln. Marty's Commendations include the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Gold Star (2), Meritorious Unit Commendation, Good Conduct Award and others. After being honorably discharged he made his home in West Fargo, ND where he drove bus for Fargo Mass Transit and later on, as an Uber driver. He was also an avid penny stock and day trader always hoping to hit the "big one." In his spare time Marty enjoyed Tai Chi, good food and wine, Minnesota Viking Football, and playing in poker tournaments around the tri-state and other areas. A public interment ceremony has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 28, 2021 at Northwood Cemetery. A gathering of all friends and family will take place at The Hut Bar at its conclusion.
Family members include: Father Ronald of Northwood, ND, Sister Tammy Ree (Gavin) of LaCrescent, MN, and Brothers Daniel (Jodi-Deceased) of Halstad, MN, Mitchell (Jenn) of Hoople, ND, and Lonny (Michele) of Mayville, ND. Nieces and Nephews include: Brady, Casey, Taylor, Dalton, Grace, Gunnar, Jordan, Beau, Reeves, and Maddux.
Marty was preceded in death by his mother Reva.
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26.11.2021 17:42 News >> Germany Calls On Iran To Fully Cooperate With IAEA
Germany Calls On Iran To Fully Cooperate With IAEA
Foreign Ministry refuses to speculate on plan B if next week's Vienna nuclear talks fail.
Germany on Friday called on Iran to "fully cooperate" with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and "answer all open questions" about its nuclear program.
"We support the IAEA's call on Iran. The country must cooperate fully and extensively with the IAEA. Ensure the transparency of its nuclear program and answer all open questions," Foreign Ministry deputy spokeswoman Andrea Sasse told a news conference in Berlin.
She also expressed regret that the recent trip of IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi to Tehran yielded no results.
"In fact, there were no tangible results, as Grossi himself said at his press conference. Iran has once again failed to keep its promises," Sasse said.
Grossi said on Wednesday that the UN nuclear watchdog was unable to reach an agreement with Iran in recent talks on its role in monitoring the country's atomic program.
Speaking at a news conference at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Grossi said the negotiations in Tehran had been inconclusive.
Grossi, whose remarks came after the quarterly meeting of the agency's board, said that though he had tried to address the constraints placed on inspections in Iran after Feb. 23, major problems remain on the presence of undeclared nuclear material at specific sites in Iran and the treatment of IAEA staff in the country.
Meanwhile, Sasse refused to speculate on a plan B if the Vienna nuclear talks, set for this Monday, fail.
As negotiations on getting the Iran nuclear deal back on track are set to resume, the Iranian side is hopeful that the talks will lead the US to lift its sanctions against Tehran.
The nuclear accord was signed in 2015 by Iran, the US, China, Russia, France, the UK, Germany, and the European Union. Under the agreement, Tehran has committed to limit its nuclear activity to civilian purposes and in return, the world powers agreed to drop their economic sanctions against Iran.
However, the US, under then-President Donald Trump, unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed tough sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to stop complying with the nuclear deal.
Both Tehran and Washington continue to maintain their positions. While Iran wants the removal of all American sanctions and guarantees given by Washington not to abandon the agreement again, the US is calling for Iran to comply with its commitments.
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Book Review—Symbols of the Spirit: A Meditative Journey Through Art
By Glen Rogers, ©2019 Luna Arte Contemporáneo
Paperback, 104 pages, US$30 or 500 pesos plus US$5 shipping from glen@glenrogersart.com
You will want to savor your time with this gorgeous volume created with love and wisdom by very talented printmaker, painter and sculptor, Glen Rogers. The book is filled with Glen's beautiful artwork expertly laid out and printed in rich colors, accompanied by short text and guided meditation.
Glen's work has long been grounded in archetypal imagery—metaphysical symbols from the collective unconscious. As a young feminist artist, Marija Gimbutas' insights in The Language of the Goddess spurred Glen to walk in the footsteps of early goddess cultures. Over the next several decades Glen made spiritual and artistic pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world. On these journeys and in her art and life in between, Glen discovered and nurtured an internal resonance with sacred archetypal symbols, which then became a focus of her work. When she began authoring this latest volume, she set out to write a book about two of her favorite symbols: the bird and the lotus. Once she began, however, she quickly realized there were eight key symbols that appear again and again throughout her body of work.
In Symbols of the Spirit Glen writes a two-page essay on each of these eight symbols that have imbued such meaning and beauty into her art and daily life: the bird, circle, lotus, moon, seed, spiral, vessel and vesica piscis. She covers the symbols' historic use and meaning as well as how they came to speak to her personally. Glen includes a short meditation or experiential activity inviting the reader to connect with the energetic properties of each of the symbols: to "experience it with your heart and allow the images to become part of your visual and spiritual vocabulary." Click on any photo to enlarge it or view a slideshow.
The effect is one of pure joy and thoughtful contemplation. If you are looking for reading that nurtures the spirit, the heart, one's creativity and authenticity, you will find it here. Merely touching the rich pages deepens and calms one's breath. Keeping this book near you in your home or work space provides a quick escape from the harried world we live in.
Most Mazatlán residents have much to thank Glen for, including the First Friday Art Walks in Centro Histórico and the OMA Gallery at the airport. She owned Luna Art Gallery in Mazatlán, and currently splits her time between our city on the bay and San Miguel de Allende. Born in Mississippi, Glen holds an MFA from San Jose State University and has a long and esteemed art career. For decades she worked in public art and as a community leader. Glen has had solo exhibitions throughout the USA and Mexico plus several in Peru, and group exhibits on four continents.
Glen feels that these eight archetypal symbols offer a promise of healing and transformation, a spiritual and artistic anchor to the Sacred Feminine. She views the creation of art as meditation—a communing with a higher power. Working with ancient symbols provides a bridge to our ancestors and a heart connection to the past. Glen's experience tells us that these symbols provide healing on a subconscious level, and that once we've healed ourselves we can heal the world, because archetypes allow us to go deeper inside to find new truths to the dilemmas we face individually and collectively. Do we really need reasons more powerful than these to invest our time and talent?
Glen's record of giving back to the community and trying new things is evident in this book. Making such personal works available to everyone—artist and non-artist alike—allows us a peek into what pushes someone as amazingly talented as Glen, and in doing so inspires us to look inward as well. Meditating with Glen via these precious pages is a truly therapeutic endeavor. Contact Glento start enjoying your copy.
"The man who speaks with primordial images speaks with a thousand tongues."
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Tagged A Meditative Journey through Art, art, art book, book review, coffee table book, Glen Rogers, Language of the Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, Mazatlan, Mexico, Sinaloa, Symbols of the Spirit
Mayor Felton Thanks Expat Community
Yesterday morning during a groundbreaking ceremony in the Plazuela Machado, Mayor Carlos Felton spent a significant amount of time thanking YOU, Mazatlán's foreign resident community, for the investment and contributions you have made and continue to make in the city. He held us up as an example of how to actively engage in civic life, noting how many of us have made efforts that have transformed Mazatlán into a better place for all to live. He spoke about how foreign residents were some of the first, and most vocal, to defend Mazatlán during the years of violence and economic downturn, and how foreign investment has helped to restore many historic homes. He told a story of one expat who, during the city elections, knew all about the issues, and he also spoke at length about our friend Janet Blaser's most recent editorial in M! Magazine about recent city improvements. Here's a short video of his speech:
Glen Rogers, local artist and community leader, announced her plans to donate the design for a piece of interactive public art for the Plazuela Machado. Her design is a four-sided bronze chair with a 10-foot-tall back, decorated with cutouts of local flora and fauna. The Mayor said that they will begin looking for sponsors for the art project in the new year. Glen is the woman who started the very successful Art Walk/Camino del Arte ten years ago. In its first decade the Art Walk has grown to not only showcase a broad spectrum of local artistic talent, but also has become a monthly boon to downtown restaurants and cafés. Here's a short video of Glen talking about her new piece:
Glen Sorrie, owner of Casa de Leyendas B&B, was also on hand and spoke of his and his wife's experience moving here and opening their business. Mazatlán has a long history of foreign residents and investment; heck, the city was in large part founded by European, North American and Asia-Pacific immigrants during the gold rush days! We are blessed to live in a city in which foreign immigrants have historically been not only welcomed but embraced, and this heritage gratefully continues.
The event this morning was actually a press conference and groundbreaking ceremony (banderazo or flag waving in Spanish) for the rehabilitation of the Plazuela Machado, led by Alfredo Gomez Rubio, owner of Pedro and Lola restaurant and a key leader of the restoration of our Centro Histórico. I believe we all recall that some upgrades to the Plazuela just happened. We all know there are other areas of the city, including the main Pino Suarez Market, that could much use renovation. But, hey, we've got palm trees on the malecón, plans for an expanded city park that includes a major art museum (thank you, Neto Coppel), and soon, a new Carpa Olivera outdoor pool in Olas Altas. Refreshing the Plazuela is definitely a good thing for our city's image.
Click on any image below to view it larger or see it as a slideshow.
Glen Rogers, artists
Mayor Felton with Glen Rogers' design
Glen Sorrie of La Casa de Leyendas
The Banderazo/groundbreaking
Drawing of the planned art installation
Glen with her drawings
Alfredo with Emery and Greg
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Using the combination of floorboard, gypsum board and mineral wool batt is termed a "platform floor". There is a wide range of batt densities. If the density is too low the floor surface is able to 'bounce' and deflect much more easily. If the density is too high then the floor may be too hard and impact sound is able to transmit more easily to the residential dwelling below.
Even when resilient battens are used, continuous structural contact along the joist between the floor sub-deck and ceiling provides a strong path for sound transmission. If contact between the ceiling and the joists can be reduced, an increase in airborne and impact performance will be achieved.
One solution is to add another ceiling element to the overall construction. This can provide the extra isolation required to pass the sound testing in London. This can be achieved by incorporate resilient metal bars which are connected to the underside of the joists and mounted perpendicular (90˚) to the joist direction. If plasterboard has already been tacked to the underside of the joists you can firstly add timber batten and then add the resilient bars, also mounted perpendicular (90˚ to the batten.
One common problem is that the Joists are often spaced too far apart can result in a reduction in floor stiffness and complaints about footstep noise at low frequencies. Over-notching of joists can also lead to a reduction in floor stiffness and also potential squeaking. This can result in successful airborne and impact sound tests, however it won't stop the squeaking of the floors under the extra load imposed by people walking above.
To help with impact sound testing, timber floors often pass as the separating floors normally have a resilient floor surface or "timber floating floor". This not only assists impact sound insulation (against footstep noise transference) but also reduces airborne sound transference.
Timber floating floors must use a flanking strip to isolate the floorboards from the perimeter walls and skirting's. If flanking strips are not fitted then footstep noise can easily enter the structure via walls etc. and flank into the adjacent dwellings. In the 1980s, mineral wool was used as a flanking strip but it was difficult to turn round at the floorboard edge. It was also prone to deterioration due to compression and movement under dynamic load. As a direct result of this, 5–10mm polyethylene flanking strips were incorporated into the acoustic design and construction., They are also easier to install and do not degrade over time to the same extent.
There are many reasons why floors may fail the sound testing, such as the use of incorrect mechanical fixing can reduce the insulation performance provided by floating floor treatments and resilient ceiling bars. Using very long screws will lead to bridging of the resilient layers and noise flanking. Inserting pipes or services within a platform floor can reduce the potential acoustic performance if they are not adequately boxed. The placing pipes or cables under resilient battens can also bridge the resilient layer.
Extensive remedial works may be required to the wall/floor partitions.
There may be considerable delays to entry for occupants and subsequent accommodation costs.
Pre-conversion sound tests can both avert the risk of non-compliance and avoid damage to the existing fabric.
It's very common to run services such as electricity cables as well as water and gas pipes within the floor void. This is acceptable and should not require any additional acoustic attenuation measures. However, care should be taken to ensure that their installation does not damage the deafening material or resilient layers, which is a common cause of sound test failures.
It is strongly recommended not to run waste or rainwater pipes horizontally within a party floor. The pipes can then be boxed properly using insulation rapping and sound board boxing.
Steel columns can be a source of flanking transmission, in particular hollow steel columns. They can also provide a strong path for structural impact transmission. Pre-conversion sound tests should be able to identify whether any columns act as a significant transmission path and whether any treatment is required. It may not be necessary to treat the column in all dwellings if flanking is limited, however in many instances the columns will need to be acoustically boxed to prevent sound test failure. One such treatment for columns would be to construct a free standing metal stud partition around the column, incorporating 50mm insulation quilt and sheeted with two layers of gypsum-based board. Where columns pass through separating floors, as in old bonded warehouses, the junction between column and floor should be well sealed not only for sound insulation but also for fire. The column linings should be double lined with gypsum-based board (minimum mass per unit area 10kg/m2).
Timber beams do not significantly affect the sound insulation performance of a separating floor. However, if a beam has been installed for strengthening, the boxing around the beam may be a single sheet of lightweight board and may be fixed directly to the beam as this will result in a weak area for airborne sound insulation. This can be resolved by stripping off the boxing, packing any voids with dense mineral wool batt and re-sheeting with two layers of dense gypsum-based sound board.
We hope the above information helps you to understand the potential problems with acoustic design and pre-completion sound testing on your development. If you have a project that's needs acoustic design advice or sound testing in London, then please visit our Sound Testing website or phone us directly on 07775623464.
If it has been years since you moved into your current home and you are just now considering your options for a bathroom remodel, the current trend may seem a bit overwhelming – especially if your taste is very traditional. The good news, though, is that the décor of the newly re-modelled bathroom need not match the rest of the house, so if you are planning a bathroom remodel, don't feel compelled to also bring in an interior designer who can make the rest of your home look as modern as your new designer bathroom.
While 2017 home remodels have been all about bright colours, kitchens and bathrooms are both lighter and more austere in terms of colour scheme. Not sure you like the idea of a mostly white and grey bathroom? Then simply add a few bold black accents – perhaps even a whirlpool bath! Intermittent black floor tiles and black fixtures will also stand out boldly against a white or off-white wall, as will any bright chrome fixtures or trim. The current trend is modern chic, so play around with contrast if that's your preference.
Often, simply updating the bathroom furniture or upgrading the shower will do the job. Consider installing Hansgrohe showers which are promoted as being a source of refreshment and relaxation. Gently dousing you in water, vigorously massaging your body and washing away all your negative energy. And yes, they also get you clean.
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If you would like to be able to spend time in your conservatory all year round but are worried about problems like temperature control, privacy and high heating bills getting some conservatory roof blinds could be a really good solution and they could be far more affordable than you may first think.
At conservatory Blinds Direct they have an excellent range of high quality conservatory roof blinds at great value prices that will help you create the conservatory that you really want in no time at all, with a wide range of styles available in a choice of patterns and colours you are likely to find the right conservatory blinds to complement the rest of your home perfectly in no time at all.
Investing in some good quality, well fitted conservatory roof blinds is a great idea if you want to try and reduce the amount of energy that you home uses, being able to prevent heat loss from you conservatory during the colder months can really make a difference to your energy bills without you home feeling any colder and with some of the great prices available at Conservatory Blinds Direct you could start making savings soon and with a choice of specialist designs on offer you could even opt for fabrics that would maximise the amount of energy your could potentially save.
With a fully fitted, bespoke service, an excellent customer service team to offer any help or assistance you may need and an excellent price match guarantee you can be sure that at Conservatory Roof Blinds they will be able to offer you top quality conservatory roof blinds at a price that you can afford.
With previous customers such as the BBC and Channel Four and an impressive portfolio available to browse why not get some inspiration and take a look at the impressive range of unique and beautiful Conservatory Roof Blinds that you could get for your home? Conservatory Blinds Direct is part of the InStyle group, a well-established supplier of conservatory roof and window blinds throughout the UK. All of their Conservatory Blinds Direct products are made from the finest components and materials available, they are so confident in their products they are able to offer an industry unheard of 5 year Parts & Labour guarantee on all blinds made.
If you are looking for a great van hire deal in Newcastle, perhaps to move some furniture or collect a large item, then check out Metro Car, Van & Minibus hire, providing van hire for Newcastle, Gateshead & the wider North-East. Also offering new cars, minibuses and a wide range of vans all available for short and long term rental, all hire cars, minibuses and vans come with insurance for at least two people, with breakdown cover and unlimited mileage options.
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If the bathroom in your new home is rather small, then the first thing you will want to consider is the amount of space taken up by the vanity or any other ground-level bathroom furniture. A well-appointed bathroom is for nought if it's impossible to move around in, so ask yourself if there are ways in which to create more space. If the vanity takes up a significant amount of space at ground or waist level, consider replacing it with a narrower one with a basin above the countertop.
These increasingly popular models, available from bathroom supply companies such as Vitra bathrooms and Hansgrohe bathrooms, take greater advantage of vertical space than many of the more common designs. Many early adopters have even found the height of the basin more user-friendly in that one need not bend as far forward to rinse after brushing teeth or washing hands.
P.T. Ranson has been in the business of luxury bathroom upgrades for over 15 years. Our vast range of products, including Vitra bathrooms and Hansgrohe bathrooms, will give bathrooms of any size the facelift that they need so that you can enjoy this all-important space to the fullest and be in a good position to sell should the day ever come.


«If Beale Street Could Talk».
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Even for Barry Jenkins, "If Beale Street Could Talk" was a formidable undertaking. To bring one of James Baldwin's novels to the screen is to engage with the artistry and force of a whole tradition.
Award season has kicked off! #NBR, the National Board Of Review, biggest winners are Green Book, A Star Is Born, and If Beale Street Could Talk.
Rachel Weisz (A Favorita), Glenn Close (A Esposa), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk), Nicole Kidman (O Peso do Passado) e Kathryn Hahn (Mais uma Chance).
Don't be fooled by director ' 5-foot-8-inch frame and nerdy, bespectacled appearance. Once upon a time, the Oscar winning-director was a pretty good football player who competed with and against guys who made it to the NFL.
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When are tickets available for pre-order? I know it's not an 'event' movie. But, this is an event.
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I attended an early screening of If Beale Street Could Talk, a film adaptation of James Baldwin's novel.
THE 2018 NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW WINNERS This year's awards season is officially on, and the NBR have announced its picks for the best films and performances of 2018. Here are the big winners: ~ BEST FILM: Green Book ~ BEST DIRECTOR: Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born ~ BEST ACTOR: Viggo Mortensen - Green Book ~ BEST ACTRESS: Lady Gaga - A Star is Born ~ BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Elliot - A Star Is Born ~ BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk ~ BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Paul Schrader - First Reformed ~ BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk ~ TOP 10 BEST FILMS The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Black Panther Can You Ever Forgive Me? Eighth Grade First Reformed If Beale Street Could Talk Mary Poppins Returns A Quiet Place Roma A Star Is Born ????? Are you pleased with these results? Any disappointments or surprises? Please let me know in the comments!
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News Reelz: The Oscar race is taking shape with the National Board of Review throwing in their choices for the best of the year & Green Book just made a strong case for its Oscar chances. . . The National Board of Review named Green Book the best film of the year. Green Book also took best actor for Viggo Mortensen & these wins make Green Book more of a player after what some have called a lackluster box office debut once it went wide last week. The film did receive an "A+" CinemaScore so the studio is hoping all of the recent accolades will shift its prospects. . . The National Board of Review isn't always in sync with the Oscars. Last year the Board chose The Post as best picture while the Oscar went to The Shape of Water. The Board & the Oscars haven't matched up on the winner since 2008 when they both chose Slumdog Millionaire for top honors. . . The National Board of Review gave other honors to A Star Is Born which received Best Director for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Lady Gaga & Best Supporting Actor for Sam Elliott. Other winners were Barry Jenkins for Best Adapted Screenplay for If Beale Street Could Talk, Paul Schrader for Best Original Screenplay for First Reformed, Best Supporting Actress for Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk & Incredibles 2 for best Animated Feature. . . The Board also does their top ten of the year outside of the winner & here are their picks: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Black Panther, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, If Beale Street Could Talk, Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place, Roma & A Star Is Born. . . Do you agree with the Board's choices? Do you think it's a good indicator for the Oscars? Sound off!
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The two distinguished Reginas win! Actress Regina Hall won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Actress In #SupportTheGirls. Actress Regina King won Best Supporting Actress for #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk Congrats to both for their wins at #NYFCC!
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Henry (or Henri) Padovani (born 13 October 1952) is a French musician (from the Mediterranean French isle of Corsica), noted for being the original guitarist of English rock band The Police. He was a member of the band from January 1977 to August 1977 and was replaced by Andy Summers, who had originally been part of the band as a second guitarist. Following his departure from the band, Padovani was handed the rhythm guitar spot with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, before forming his own band, The Flying Padovanis.

Biography

Early life and punk years
Henri Padovani grew up between Algeria and Corsica from Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco. While studying Economics at Aix-en-Provence, he began listening to Jimi Hendrix and was inspired to form his own band, Lupus, made up of various school friends. He moved to London in December 1976, where a friend took him to one of Curved Air's last gigs. Though unimpressed by the performance, afterward he ended up talking with American expatriate drummer Stewart Copeland, who showed him some songs he had been writing and introduced him to the rising punk scene. After a show at the Roxy Club, Padovani decided he wanted to join a punk band and shaved off his waist-length hair and beard. He then auditioned for the band London and was offered the job.

However, when he told Copeland of his plans, Copeland petitioned him to join his own band, the Police. Copeland was already under the impression that he had convinced singer and bassist Sting to join, but despite heavy use of word-of-mouth and advertisements in musical publications, Padovani was the only guitarist he could find who was interested in punk and had actual playing ability. Copeland later recalled of Henry Padovani:

He couldn't speak much English but he'd picked up some musicians' slang and he used to say 'Where can I put my homp (amplifier)? or 'where do I put my rope (lead)?'. He knew a few chords and he was really enthusiastic and when he'd had his hair cut and stuff he really looked the part. I mean, he could play guitar better than I could and I could play guitar better than Joe Strummer... well, in those days. So I reckoned he'd be OK but I didn't figure Sting would see it that way...

With Sting on lead vocals and bass guitar, Padovani on lead guitar and Copeland doubling on rhythm guitar as well as drums, the Police recorded in February 1977 their first single "Fall Out" b/w "Nothing Achieving" which the band released on 1 May 1977. However, Sting was dissatisfied with Padovani's technical abilities, paving the way for Andy Summers, whom they met after a brief tour as part of Mike Howlett's band Strontium 90. For a brief period in July and August 1977, the Police performed as a four-piece with Padovani and Summers sharing guitar duties. Having insisted from the start that he wanted to be the sole guitarist for the band, Summers was unhappy with the situation. Padovani himself felt that the disparity in technical ability between the two of them made this an awkward lineup. The night after an aborted studio session with former Velvet Underground multi-instrumentalist John Cale in the producer's chair, Copeland called Padovani and asked him to leave the band.

Being cast out of the Police did not slow Padovani's musical career. After taking a two-month vacation in Corsica, he returned to London and was immediately handed the rhythm guitar spot with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, who at the time were far better known than the Police. The Police were actually their support act in 1977. The band's first album with Padovani, Storm the Gates of Heaven, was also his debut as a songwriter. Besides a pair of group compositions, he wrote the music for the song "Cry of Angels". After one more album, Things Your Mother Never Told You, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs split in two. Padovani remained with bassist Val Haller and drummer J.J. Johnson, and the trio recorded a final single, "So Many Ways", as simply The Electric Chairs, before management problems forced them to disband completely. During this period, Padovani and Haller took turns on lead vocals.

New directions
The collaboration among Padovani, Haller, and Johnson did not end with the breakup of the Electric Chairs. In 1980, they put together a band called The Mystere Five's, which consisted of the three of them as well as Chris Reeves, who played guitar. Marc "Frenchie" Gloder, who had no performance role in the band but wrote all the lyrics, designed the sleeves to their records, and owned the record label. All the members except Gloder did lead vocals. The group used a deliberately anonymous image, never crediting individual members. Except for a cover of "Shake Some Action" by Flamin' Groovies, all their songs were credited as being written and produced by the group as a whole.

The Mystere Five's recorded two indie singles that were released in 1980, "Shake Some Action" b/w "No Message" and "Never Say Thank You" b/w "Heart Rules the Head". Both were successful, receiving good reviews (New Musical Express called the first single "A perfect record" and later reviewed the second single as being "actually better"), high placings in the indie charts, and a good deal of radio play.

However, by the time the singles were released, the band members had moved to other projects, with Padovani having formed The Flying Padovanis. This new band released the double A-sided single "Western Pasta" b/w "Vas plus haut" (1981). The Flying Padovanis recorded an EP, Font L'Enfer, and an album, "They Call Them Crazy, before disbanding at the end of 1987.
In 1988, Henri took part in the recording of Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin's Copy Cats album which also featured Jayne County on backing vocals.
In 1988, Miles Copeland III, The Police's manager, and elder brother of Stewart Copeland, appointed Padovani as Vice President of IRS Records, a role he performed until 1994 while also managing the Italian musician Zucchero.

After a five-year sabbatical, Padovani returned to guitar playing. In 1998 he contributed to a Johnny Thunders tribute album by performing "Cosa Nostra". He recorded a solo album, À croire que c'était pour la vie, in 2007 with record producer Yves Aouizerate. The album was sung in French, and both Stewart Copeland and Sting played on the track "Welcome Home", representing the first time that the original members of The Police had recorded together since "Fall Out". Manu Katché, Steve Hunter, Glen Matlock and Chris Musto (of the Flying Padovanis) also appeared on the album.

Padovani also wrote the score for the films La Vie comme elle va (2005) and Ici Najac, à vous la Terre (2006 Cannes Film Festival official selection). In 2006 he published his autobiography Secret Police Man, recounting episodes of his lifestyle in the late 1970s and the early days of The Police.

Padovani was a judge for the spring 2011 season of X Factor in France, on the television channel M6.

In 2017 he produced and starred in the rockumentary Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!. It features contributions by Sting, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock and Kim Wilde among others. The film was directed by Lionel Guedj and Stephane Bebert.

Band reunions
The Flying Padovanis reformed in 2007 for an album made of old and new material, Three for Trouble released in May that year, followed by a tour which included an appearance at the Fuji rock festival in Japan. The band now plays regular dates in London and France.

During the 2007 The Police Reunion Tour, Padovani joined the band on stage for the final encore of their show in Paris on 29 September. The Police as a four-piece played "Next to You" from the band's first album Outlandos d'Amour.

In 2017 Padovani performed a solo gig on acoustic guitar and vocals for the Festa in Lisula in Corse. A recording of the event was later issued under the title Live in Fericy.

Discography

Studio albums

As a solo artist
À croire que c'était pour la vie – (2007)
I Love Today – (2016)
Live in Fericy – (2019)
Corsican Gumbo – (2022)

With The Flying Padovanis
Font L'Enfer – (1982)
They Call Them Crazy – (1987)
Three for Trouble – (2007)
Live at the 100 Club – (2008)

With Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
Storm the Gates of Heaven – (1978)
Things Your Mother Never Told You – (1979)

With The Police
Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (2003)
The Police (2007) (#3 UK Albums; #11 US Billboard 200)

Singles

As a solo artist
"La Vie Comme Elle Va"/"A Vous La Terre" (2004)
"Welcome Home" (Radio version)/"Welcome Home" (Album version) (2006)

With The Flying Padovanis
"Western Pasta"/"Vas Plus Haut" – (1981)

With The Police
"Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving" – (1977) (#47 UK Singles)

With Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
"Trying To Get On The Radio"/"Evil Minded Momma" (1978)
"So Many Ways"/"J'Attend Les Marines" – (1979)

With the Mystere Five's
"Never Say Thank You"/Heart Rules the Head" (1980)
"No Message"/"Shake Some Action" (1980)

Compilation albums
I Only Play R&R for Kids to Dance: Tribute to Johnny Thunder – (1998)

Videography
Reggatta de Blanc (2007)
Rock'n Roll... Of Corse! (2017)

Notes

References

External links
Myspace
Official website
CNN Interview with Padovani

1952 births
Living people
People from Bastia
The Police members
French people of Corsican descent
French rock guitarists
French male guitarists
French television personalities
French rock musicians
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
Fruits de Mer Records artists
Lead guitarists
Rhythm guitarists
French male singer-songwriters
French film score composers

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