I am studying multivariate statistics and I don't understand the meaning of Jacobian of the transformation for pdf of function of random vectors.
If I have a random vector, let's say bivariate, (X,Y) with joint density f(X,Y) I know how to find the joint pdf of (U,V) with U = g(X,Y) and V = h(X,Y) I did a lot of exercises and I can easily calculate joint pfd of functions of random vectors.
The formula for joint pdf of functions of random vectors involves the determinant of the Jacobian matrix of inverse functions. In the univariate case I understand that I have a derivative because the pdf is the derivative of the CDF. In the multivariate case why the determinant of the Jacobian?
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Champion Kieran's show their class but Templemore will test them to limit in final
St Kieran's College 3-19; St Brigid's 1-9
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Eoin O'Shea (St Kieran's College) finds his path blocked by a St Brigid's Loughrea player
The semi-final hurdle was cleared with relative ease, but St Kieran's College were still taking things easy as they geared up for another senior All-Ireland hurling final.
The reigning champions showed their skill to power their way past St Brigid's College of Loughrea in Tullamore, but as far as mentor Tom Hogan was concerned their biggest test lay ahead in the form of final opponents Our Lady's of Templemore.
"From early in the year Templemore were put out as favourites to win the Harty Cup and the All-Ireland," he said. "They have a number of players who featured in last year's Tipperary minor team so they have a lot more experience than us, but you never know. Work-rate and ambition adds a lot to the equation too. We're looking forward to the challenge facing us on Saturday."
That feeling of a team facing a tough task is mutual in Templemore.
"It is going to be a huge challenge," said Our Lady's mentor Tom Byrnes. "We have a chance, and we will give it our best shot.
"Belief has a lot to do in situations like this," he added. "We played St Kieran's twice this year in challenge matches. They wiped the floor with us the week before we played the Harty Cup quarter-final. That result fairly grounded our lads for the rest of the season."
If the qualities of the Kieran's team had been measured in Tullamore, then surely the results would have been off the scale. While St Brigid's were bright in the opening stages, using their pace to put pressure on Kieran's, once the Kilkenny side found their rhythm they proved unstoppable.
In a 17-minute first half purple patch they roared into the lead, helping themselves to 1-9 without reply as they tore into a commanding lead.
Captain Adrian Mullen was central to that run, grabbing 1-5. His goal was the centrepiece of that haul, the Kieran's captain gathering Ted Drea's 18th minute hand-pass and rifling it past netminder Brendan Lynch.
By half-time Mullen had scored 1-8. Kieran's were 1-13 to 0-3 in front. Things were already looking grim for St Brigid's.
Once St Kieran's shook off the shackles - no easy thing considering the threat posed by a Loughrea side ably led by Dylan Towolawi and Donal Mannion - they took the game by the scruff of the neck. The pressure was on them bur Kieran's responded, something the practically all-new team have done with merit all year.
"We haven't mentioned last year's performances at all," Hogan said when speaking of the current crop. "It's a different experience for different players; you just get on with it. It's a new team, and these guys want to make their own bit of history if they can. We're in the final now, so all we can do is to perform to the best of our ability."
Hogan's fellow selector Michael Walsh echoed those sentiments before the Leinster final, stating how the pressure had been kept off the players.
"All we ask the players to do, every time they go out onto the field, is to play to the best of their abilities," he said. "If their performance is good enough to win a match that's great; if it isn't that's fine too once they leave everything on the field. That's all we ask of them.
"Nothing was expected from this group of players," he said. "The fact we won the Leinster championship was a bonus. After that we simply said we were going to try and get to the All-Ireland final. We're in it, now we'll see what happens."
Hogan was happy with how Kieran's coped with the Brigid's threat in that first half.
"We played with the wind in the first half and straight away there's pressure on you because you have to build up a lead if you can," he said. "We saw them last week against St Colman's and saw they were a running team who would put pressure on you.
"Our backs were excellent in that game; they've been the foundation of the team. They were able to keep them to three points in the first half, which was a great cushion. I know that didn't guarantee a win, but gave us some breathing space."
Mention of the backs brought up Martin Keoghan who, along with captain Adrian Mullen, played in last year's All-Ireland win. With one at either end of the field the players, Hogan reckoned, have been invaluable to the rest of the team.
"They're exceptional," he said of the duo. "They're two great players who are outstanding hurlers. For this team to have those two guys on the team it's excellent as we have one in the backs and one in the forwards. They're quiet guys, but they let their hurling do the talking."
Semple Stadium is a happy hunting ground for Hogan and selector Philip Walsh, who led Kieran's to successive Croke Cup wins over Ard Scoil Ris in 2010 and 2011 in Thurles, but he played down the role of the mentors.
"We're all just cogs in the wheel" he said of his fellow selectors. "That's what it's all about."
That said, they have worked hard assembling a team which has steadily improved with each performance.
"Every team is different," he said. "It's very hard to compare sides really, but at the start of every year we look for lads who have a bit of character, lads who are willing to work hard and we try to blend a team from that.
"We tried to do that in the Leinster League (they reached the final, where they were beaten by the CBS). Hopefully, as the championship goes on, if you're lucky enough to progress, you have a chance to get the mix right.
"That's what we do every year," he said by way of explaining the mentors' role. "It's a great privilege for us to be involved - you have some very good players and potentially some Kilkenny senior players there. It's great to be there to see them at such an early stage in their career."
And it keeps them coming back for more.
"Of course," he said with a smile. "It's my passion too."
With a 13-point safely secured by half-time Kieran's seemed out of sight in the semi-final. St Brigid's tried their best to get back into the game, raising their supporters' spirits with some points from Conor Molloy (0-3) and Ronan Glennon, before Dylan Towolawi blasted the sliotar to the net in the 46th minute, but Kieran's weren't about to let them back into the game.
A barrage of late scores flowed from the Kilkenny school, with Eoghan Moylan (0-2), Ciaran Brennan and Daithi Barron leading the way. It got even better when Brennan skinned his marker and drilled home a second Kieran's goal from close range in the 53rd minute, before Adrian Mullen completed the rout with a blistering shot that rocketed to the net little over 60 seconds later.
SCORERS: St Kieran's College - Adrian Mullen (2-9, 0-5 frees); Ciaran Brennan (1-2); Eoghan Moylan (0-4); Daithi Barron (0-3); Ted Drea (0-1). St Brigid's Loughrea - Dylan Towolawi (1-2); Conor Molloy (0-4, 0-2 frees); Damian McGlynn, Ronan Glennon, Donal Mannion (0-1 each).
Paths to the final
Leinster quarter-final
St Kieran's 0-14, Borris VS 1-9.
Leinster semi-final
St Kieran's 1-18, St Peter's Wexford 1-7.
Leinster final
St Kieran's 1-14, CBS Kilkenny 0-13.
Harty Cup last 16
Our Lady's Templemore 6-27, Árdscoil Bandon 0-3.
Harty Cup quarter-final
Our Lady's 3-14, CBS Thurles 1-10.
Harty Cup semi-final
Our Lady's 1-15, CBS Nenagh 0-14.
Harty Cup final
Our Lady's 2-22, St Colman's 1-6.
All-Ireland semi-finals
St Kieran's 3-19, St Brigid's 1-9.
Our Lady's 0-24, CBS Kilkenny 2-15.
The panels
St Kieran's College - Dean Mason (Ballyhale Shamrocks), Tommy Ronan (Graigue-Ballycallan), Michael Carey (Young Irelands), Luke Murphy (James Stephens), Ben Lawlor (James Stephens), Martin Keoghan (Tullaroan), Killian Egan (Graigue-Ballycallan), Ted Drea (Young Irelands), Diarmuid Phelan (Danesfort), Evan Shefflin (Ballyhale Shamrocks), Eoghan Moylan (Dicksboro), Eoin O'Shea (O'Loughlin Gaels), Daithi Barron (Thomastown), Ciaran Brennan (Bennettsbridge), Adrian Mullen (Ballyhale Shamrocks), Dylan Simpson (Tullaroan), Shane Donohoe (James Stephens), Jesse Roberts (Graigue-Ballycallan), Sean Ryan (Graigue-Ballycallan), Brian Staunton (Thomastown), Robert Butler (James Stephens), Padraic Mullen (Danesfort), Paddy Bolger (Clara), Ross Whelan (James Stephens), Shane Dawson (St Lachtain's), James Phelan (Lisdowney), Ciaran Hogan (Graigue-Ballycallan), David O'Carroll (Lisdowney), Dylan Aylward (Ballyhale Shamrocks), Conor Hackett (Danesfort), Andrew Parsons (James Stephens), Ryan Scanlon (James Stephens), Mark Nolan (Dicksboro), Conor O'Keeffe (Danesfort), James Bergin (Clara).
Selectors: Tom Hogan, Philip Walsh, Michael Walsh.
Our Lady's Templemore - Eoin Collins, Sean Ryan, Padraig Campion, Eoghan Ryan, Eanna McBride, Paddy Cadell, Aidan O'Meara, Diarmuid Ryan, Jack Ryan, Ray McCormack, Brian McGrath, Jerry Kelly, Andrew Ormond, David O'Shea, Lyndon Fairbrother, Martin O'Connell, Fintan Purcell, Gearoid O'Connor, Shane Doyle, Neil Quinlan, Jason Gilmartin, Delacy Byrne, Matthew O'Sullivan, Thomas O'Farrell, Stephen Nolan, John Ryan, James Devaney, Shane Lowe, Stephen Frend, Aaron Ryan, Rory O'Dwyer, Michael Egan O'Brien, Stefan Maher, Darragh Sweeney, Alexey Harty, Dean Lawlor, Thomas Hennessy.
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IssueDecember 2005 - January 2006
03 Dec 2005 Comment by The Mole
One of the most disturbing features of the recent commemoration for the people who were killed in the London bombings on 7 July was that the event was specifically a religious service.
It's bad enough that public events of that sort are so frequently sectarian in this way, hence excluding so many people - including many of those affected, whom the event is allegedly for. But in this case, it was even more inappropriate: here was an example of mass murder, with the perpetrators declaring that their reason for the killings was their commitment to their irrational religious beliefs, and the commemoration of the victims was designed to reinforce exactly that mentality.
It would be almost as sick to mark a sudden upsurge in deaths caused by cars by holding a commemorative Grand Prix.
Which brings to mind an interesting statistic, to put the London bombings into a kind of context. There was an understandable, and largely universal, revulsion about all the horrible deaths caused by what were once-in-a-blue-moon atrocities. Yet the number killed by those bombs on 7 July is almost exactly the same as the number of human beings killed by British motorists every single week. By the time you're reading this issue of Peace News, there will have been 22 more "7 July's" on Britain's roads since the bombings - deaths which were no more inevitable than were those on 7 July in London.
Last month, The Mole revealed how the recent, and excellent, Freedom to Protest conference was largely funded by the government. It was money awarded to the McLibel Two by the European Court of Human Rights when it ruled that they had been denied their right to freedom of speech and to a fair trial: Helen and Dave had decided to recycle the money in a good cause.
This has prompted news of another similar instance. Last year, some anti-monarchy campaigners won damages from the Metropolitan Police in London, after they sued over having been harassed and stopped from leafleting. Some of the cash has since been used to fund a new "Rough Guide to being arrested" (ie, keep your mouth shut, etc). So it's good to know that next time the Met can't bamboozle someone into incriminating themselves, it'll be thanks to their colleagues having overstepped the mark (in fact several marks) on an earlier occasion.
The latest example of a public service being made worse by adherence to the mantra of "choice and competition" is the postal system. Apparently, when postage prices are changed next year, they will relate to the size of a letter as well as its weight. Can you imagine the scenes in post offices when every item has to be measured as well as weighed?
Yes, of course it's bonkers - it's yet another example of the service being made worse because of the break-up into competing companies. And naturally, it's the ordinary "small user" who will bear the brunt of higher prices (as will small publications like Peace News, which is seriously threatened by the change); big companies with larger mailings will be able to save money under the new pricing scheme.
If you were thinking that there's supposed to be a watchdog to regulate postal services, forget any idea that they're on our side: they say it's a wonderful example of "liberalisation".
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by Mike Marino & His Restless Soul
© Copyright - Michael T. Marino / Restless Soul Records (888295965439)
Vintage Rock for a New World - for those with both a Heart & Mind...!
Genre: Rock: Heartland Rock
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8. When Did We Become Strangers
9. Inspiration from Pain
10. Baby It's You
11. Restless Hearts
12. Give Us This Day
13. What Do We Do Now (Reprise)
14. Mind Field
Nostalgia is a thrust to relive or, once again, feel a fleeting happiness spurred on by a time or place in one's life. For Heartland Rock - singer-songwriter Mike T. Marino, processing nostalgia has been a way to make sense of the world both externally, epitomized by the drastically changing American landscape, and internally, in terms of longing for a feeling of warmth and belonging that slipped through his fingers as a child.
Though musically influenced initially by the British Invasion, Mike's songwriting roots are firmly planted in the American Heartland. His journey through the roots of American music started with his love of the Blues and then migrated into the Folk/Country Influenced Rock of the California West Coast Sound.
Mike has currently released four acclaimed albums of roots rock that alchemize the optimum balance of Rock, folk-rock, blues, and alt country. His work shifts between literal and metaphorical perspectives as it chronicles the American countryside getting paved over by the modern industrial complex. Mike's music furthers the compassionately critical Americana dialogue pioneered by artists such as The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Flying Burrito Brothers, CSN&Y, The Eagles, and The Band.
Previous entries in his catalog have been praised by No Depression Roots Journal, Paste Magazine, National Reviewer Keith "Muzikman" Hannaleck and the esteemed UK publication Blues Matters. He's been the featured artist pick on Philly's WXPN 88.5 FM, received the ASCAP Plus Emerging Artist Award for extended plays, and placed as a semi-Finalist in both the Great American Songwriting Contest and The Dallas Songwriting Competition.
Mike spent his formative years growing up on a small South Jersey farm. The quaintness of the community, and the purity of the environs made an indelible impact on him as a person and as an artist. "I was born a Shadow Boomer on the cusp of two worlds, the progressive 1960s and the farm life that predated that. I watched a lot of that life erode away over the years," he shares.
"Erosion" represents the message Marino has been honing for many years...
The erosion of the American Heartland & Culture lamented in song from the perspective of a Shadow Boomer at the end of the line...
A life spent witnessing the fabric of America wither & fade away a little more with each passing year... Go Ahead, Google "The End of rural America" ...
The demise of the small family farmer to Corporate Farms & GMO's, the fading of traditional values & the constant erosion of the American Heartland & frontier of The Wild West... Is this truly the End of the Innocence - or the beginning of Theodore Rozak's "Technocracy" gone mad...?
Perhaps somewhere between George Orwell's Big Brother Mind Control of "1984", & Huxley's more sedate "Brave New World" - where the powers that be use the "pleasurable distractions" to seduce the masses into loving their servitude...
Have you hugged your I-Phone today for the latest media frenzy...?
Be careful what you wish for!
What would these great writers think of modern society today? The masses embracing the Digital-Techno world for quick convenience all at the expense of true freedom...
It makes a dreamer imagine the bygone days of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's - On the Road...
Oh, to be lost in the Heartland of old America...
Is anyone listening anymore? Does anyone care, - lost in this modern urban techno-infatuated, cyber world....? Well, they better if they can begin to appreciate what the Great Generation that won WWII gave to us.
As the pendulum swings what is this generation passing on to America's future generations, & what's the message? What have we learned from history as more of our traditions & values dissolve along with the rural landscape?
Medicated up & dumbed down... Welcome to the new Millennia...


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As common as it is today to speak of the relative "height" of musical pitches or of the sense of "vocal space" as it opened up by particular recording techniques, we did not always understand sound to be spatial. How did it become so? In Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (MIT Press, 2021), Gascia Ouzounian (Associate Professor of Music, Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor, Lady Margaret Hall) explores the answer, drawing on episodes drawn from the history of stereo technologies in the nineteenth century through to visual representations of and in sonic environments today. Ouzounian takes the reader from early innovations in the laboratory study of stereophony to the mobilization of the human hearing sense during World War I. Her account covers spectacular demonstrations of new sound-reproducing technologies in the inter-war period, the applications of new psychoacoustic theories of spatial hearing in both peacetime and in war, and right up to the 21st century, as the relation between sound and space are interrogated in contemporary sound installation art and radical interventions in the urban soundscapes of modern-day Beirut, Lebanon. This entry into sound studies and the history of technology deals with an array of historical, instrumental, and artistic cases in the long history of spatial sound. The reward of following its broad purview is a rich web of connections that disclose sound and listening as a long-fruitful site not only of aesthetics but also of the ethics of space and place, thereby opening up further study in the intersection between sound studies and sonic urbanism.
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Q: Multiple output from reducer, banded sum So I want to do a sum by buckets for a key. I have a data looking something like:
<a> <1, 10>
<a> <2, 12>
<b> <4, 12>
<a> <1, 20>
<a> <3, 21>

I want to sum by the key, but also but in a way that I may get sums only for a certain bandwidth of the second term in the tuple. Say if I say my bandwidth is 2 I wish to have this output:
<a> <3>
<a> <4>
<b> <4>

I was able to do this using reduceByKey by first mapping the values to the list and then iterating and checking lists. However this would require going O(n^2) times for every key where n is the number of values per key.
Just wondering if there is a easier way to do this in spark. Tried doing aggregations, but it boils down to the same thing, I believe.
UPDATE
So this is what I did.

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*Map each value as a list to get something like:

<a> <[1,10]>
<a> <[2,12]>
<b> <[4,12]>
<a> <[1,20]>
<a> <[3,21]>

*Call reduceByKey, this for two entries say <a> <[1,10]> and <a> <a[2,20]> and if the second int difference is <2 I sum the first one output something like <a> <[3,10]> by adding the first int and keeping the lower of the second. When the next entry comes <a> <[1,20]> since |10-20| >2 I add the tuple to the list and output <a> <[(3,10),(1,20)]> then the next one gets me <a> <[(3,10),(4,20)]>

*Finally I just map this to get key and the first value of the tuple

Hope this makes sense. I find it kind of inefficient since the lists must fit in memory and in the first case for each key with n initial values reducing is O(n^2).

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Tom Steyer is not running for Senate, and that's a good thing
Now the billionaire climate activist can focus on electing other climate hawks and fighting fossil-fueled disinformation campaigns.
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Tom Steyer, billionaire anti-climate change activist, announced Thursday afternoon that he will not be running for the open Senate seat in California in 2016. The seat is currently held by Barbara Boxer (D), leading climate hawk and ranking Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Steyer — who retired from his hedge fund, divested his personal holdings of fossil fuels, and launched the NextGen Climate Action super PAC to take out climate-denying politicians — publicly mulled jumping into the Democratic primary. Instead he has left the field to frontrunner California Attorney General Kamala Harris and her likely challenger, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
You might expect your climate change correspondent to be disappointed. But this is actually a cause for celebration. In the Senate, Steyer would have been one of 100 members and without any seniority. He would have been limited — by personal political considerations, if not legal ones — from making full-throttled attacks on Republican Senate candidates who block climate action. His NextGen Climate apparatus, which includes advocacy groups as well as the PAC, would have been effectively neutered.
Instead, Steyer will be free to invest in combatting fossil fuel-backed misinformation campaigns and electing more climate hawks. His money and leadership will be needed, given the huge amounts that self-interested pollutocrats like the Koch brothers will be spending on the other side. The most important race in 2016 will be the presidential campaign. If President Obama is not succeeded by a climate hawk, all the progress of his regulatory proposals could be halted. Steyer alluded to that in his statement Thursday when he noted "the imperative of electing a Democratic president."
California progressive and climate activists are inclined to agree. Prior to Steyer's announcement, some of them expressed trepidation about his potential campaign. He would be a super-rich white man running against a woman of African-American and South Asian heritage. The Senate currently has plenty of rich white men and only one woman of color. Harris has the support of the California and national Democratic establishment, and considerably more political experience than Steyer. Steyer would likely have lost, blown tens of millions of dollars that could have been better spent elsewhere, and kneecapped NextGen Climate.
Now the big question is whether Steyer will make a future bid for another political office — the California governorship will be up for grabs in 2018, and the state's other Senate seat might be as well.
"Steyer's/NextGen's work has opened up a huge space for Democratic politicians to take strong positions on climate, and continuing on that path is a wise choice," says R.L. Miller, cofounder of Climate Hawks Vote, a California-based national super PAC that endorses congressional candidates with a record of climate leadership. "We hope that the national media won't automatically assume that everything he does is a setup for a 2018 run for governor, when Jerry Brown's term expires, or California's other Senate seat if Dianne Feinstein decides to retire. Such a drumbeat of speculation would diminish NextGen's advocacy for strong climate candidates across the country."
Miller is confident that Harris would be a climate hawk in the Senate based on her record as attorney general. "I'm favorably impressed with Kamala Harris," says Miller. "Her office has intervened, on the pro-climate side, in a San Diego County transit plan that would encourage cars over more climate-friendly transit alternatives. She's been highly critical of a Chevron refinery expansion plan."
This doesn't mean Climate Hawks Vote is endorsing Harris. When the field has taken shape, the PAC will examine all the candidates. Villaraigosa also took climate-friendly positions as mayor of Los Angeles, especially by working to expand the city's historically anemic mass transit system. And other candidates may yet get in the race.
But, as Steyer realized, the battlefield will be much larger than any one Senate race. And when it comes to electing climate hawks, California's seat will be the least of his worries.
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Europe is going through a period of change. Parties described as populist and/or nationalist are strengthening their positions in many nations. A sceptical stance towards the EU, best reflected in the result of Great Britain's referendum on leaving the EU, is not a rare sight these days. Countries like Portugal, Spain, and Greece had to resort to introducing drastic austerity measures. The European integration process proceeds at varying speeds across different countries; EU members, like Romania and Bulgaria, are unlikely to play a more than marginal role in that process in the near future. In short, Europe faces challenges on various levels and is searching for answers.
The 38 Goethe Institutes and their partners (including theatres, art centres, non-profit organisations, universities, civic associations and citizens' initiatives) have decided to step up to the challenge. Together, they will try to conceptualise questions around the theme of freedom, focusing on specific topics that constitute local points of contention, and transforming these thoughts into relevant projects.
The Freiraum project (German for open, or free, space) was launched at a meeting in Warsaw in early December 2017. Through meetings, round-table debates, and some luck, all 38 participating organisations formed up into 19 pairs. Individual pairs of cities now have a year and a half to exchange opinions and experiences, and to understand the issues facing the given partner city.


Two Winnipeg radio stations are continuing with their annual tradition to gather toys and cash donations for the Christmas Cheer Board.
CURVE 94.3 and 99.9 BOB FM kicked off the 28th Annual Christmas Miracle Toy and Cash Drive this morning from the St. Vital Centre Food Hall. The stations will be broadcasting live until 10 p.m. tonight, Friday from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Listeners are asked to stop by the mall with a new unwrapped toy or cash donation to help children in need have a wonderful Christmas.
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Pioneering Japanese teen, Rena Kawasaki (17), wins the International Children's Peace Prize 2022
Osaka-based Rena Kawasaki, aged 17, has today been awarded the prestigious 18th annual International Children's Peace Prize by Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman. Rena's pioneering work to increase child participation in politics, the environment and society in her home country and across the world, has made her the leading youth advocate in Japan.
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2022 – Rena Kawasaki (17), Japan
"My ultimate goal is not to only ensure my generation has better opportunities, but that future generations have them too."
Rena's work with the Japanese government to include young people's voices in governmental operations, by providing direct access to political representatives, has led to her inclusion within the government's major Tokyo Bay Environmental Social Governance infrastructure project, which is aimed at creating a sustainable city that combines nature and convenience over the next 50 to 100 years and will impact 37 million people in the region.
Rena's leading youth participation work resulted in her invitation to participate in the 'Niihama project', where she created a QR code that would ensure that young people's voices are incorporated in governmental decisions. This idea was adopted by the Mayor of Niihama and will impact the entire population of the city.
As the leading youth advocate in her country, Rena was also recently appointed as the youngest ever Chief Future Officer for a bio-fuelled jet company in Japan.
The International Children's Peace Prize, the most important youth award worldwide, is an initiative of the international children's rights organisation KidsRights.
The KidsRights Expert Committee selected Rena as a winner from 175 young changemaker applicants with entries from 46 countries around the world. By winning the award, she has gained an international platform through which she will share her message to inspire an audience of hundreds of millions of people globally.
The International Children's Peace Prize 2022 Winner, Rena Kawasaki
Rena Kawasaki was eight years old when she learned that there were children across the world who were unable to access education due to the political situations in their countries. Rena became determined to take action to help improve this. She began to participate in various volunteering projects to affect real change in other countries, but quickly realised that young people in Japan also face similar issues with many struggling to express individuality and express themselves.
At the young age of 14 years old, she launched Earth Guardians Japan, an organisation that aims to create a new system, allowing children to be the change they want to see in the world. One of the ways in which this was achieved was by connecting schools and local political representatives via virtual meetings. In addition, the use of an online platform called 'polichat' (a small platform) was utilised to help young people reach out directly to their political representatives when they wanted, encouraging young Japanese children to become more involved in politics and the decisions that affect their future.
Rena's organisation is also focused on aiding the environment with projects such as river water cleaning in Juso, Osaka Japan. They also run a youth project funding expo, which is a great opportunity for passionate student entrepreneurs to propose and secure investment in sustainability projects. As a result of Rena's work, her organisation is one of the few youth organisations that is officially working with the Japanese government ministry of environment to include the voice of young people in governmental operations.
Rena is known as the leading youth advocate in Japan which led to her being appointed as the youngest Chief Future Officer for a bio-fuelled jet company in Japan. Owing to this achievement Tokyo's government approached her to advise their team on reforming the city's region, which will involve Japan's biggest shopping mall organisation and powerplant company. Rena is also working on the Tokyo eSG Project, which envisages urban development looking ahead to 50 to 100 years. The purpose of the project is to create a sustainable city that combines nature and convenience and is estimated to impact the entire city of 37 million people. Rena was also invited to participate in the Niihama project where she created a QR code that would incorporate young people's voices in decisions. This idea was adopted by the Mayor of Niihama and will impact the entire population of the city.
Rena's ultimate goal is not to only ensure her generation has better opportunities, but that future generations have them too.
The International Children's Peace Prize Ceremony
The prestigious International Children's Peace Prize was launched in 2005 during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev. Since then, the prize has been presented by a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate every year. In 2022 the 18th International Children's Peace Prize was presented by Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011.
During a grand ceremony held in The Hague, Netherlands, Tawakkol Karman, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, presented the International Children's Peace Prize, the Nkosi statuette, a study and care grant for Rena's education and a project fund of €100,000.
Half of the project fund will go to the winner's theme, and the other half will be invested by KidsRights in the projects of other young changemakers fighting for children's rights.
After receiving the prestigious award, Rena Kawasaki, said: "I believe this award is an important sign for Japanese youth, highlighting that our voices are considered significant on the world stage. It gives me the further strength to fight until every voice is heard and valued."
Marc Dullaert, Founder and Chair of the KidsRights Foundation said: "Rena is an extraordinary pioneer in her country, ensuring the voices of young people are heard and converting this into tangible impact and better opportunities for both her generation and future generations.
Education and the environment are of paramount importance to Rena and are topics she sets high on the agenda, in a unique way, in her society and globally."
The International Children's Peace Prize highlights the remarkable achievements of youngsters fighting courageously for children's rights across the world. Previous winners include Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg.
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Bigg Boss 16's Shaan Abdu Rojic roams in the rolls of 7 crores, here is his car collection
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Abdu is a Social Media Influencer and Performer. He sings his own composed songs and uploads videos on YouTube. In the latest season of Bigg Boss, the name of Abdu Rojic should probably be on top of the most liked contestants. Since her entry into the house, she is not only being liked by the people of the house, but also her following is increasing rapidly across the country. Abdu is a Social Media Influencer and Performer. He sings his own composed songs and uploads videos on YouTube. We are not saying that Abdu is very fond of sports and supercars, but his Instagram account says. His account is full of posts of cars. If you are also looking to know which expensive cars they have, then you are in the right place.
Abdu Rojic has more than one expensive car
He has Rolls Royce, the most expensive car in his collection of cars. He has also specially customized the number plate of this car. He has a Rolls Royce Ghost. This car comes equipped with 6750 cc engine. The price of this car in India starts from around Rs 7 crore. The car is not only expensive, but on top of this, the number plate of this car of Abdu is also very fancy. There is no specific number in it, but it is written Abdu Rozik.
he sings his own songs
As we mentioned, Abdu is a Social Media Influencer and Performer. He sings his own composed songs and uploads videos on YouTube. He has also recently released a song named Chhota Bhaijaan. The song was released on Saturday, 8 October, since then it has been viewed more than 1 million times. In the video, Abdu can be seen in different looks of Salman Khan. In this, he has copied Salman's Wanted and Dabangg look.
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Abdu's height is 3.2 feet. He is a resident of Tajikistan. He raps in his regional language. One of his videos Ohi Dil Jor became quite viral, after which he became quite famous. He has around 48 lakh fans on Instagram itself.
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Amy and I have talked about this before, and I offer my different viewpoint here not as challenge but just as an alternative way of achieving the same end. I approach a manuscript the other way around: *not* reading it through first, in order to meet the material as a reader, which in turn triggers my editing slant. There are pre-editing, mechanically focused passes I do that address certain elements, and in the process I pick up a lot about the story as well as later things to look for. Then I start at page one and read to the end, editing and building style sheets as I go. This helps me spot breaks in continuity or credibility. Then I do an assortment of post-editing tasks to tidy up details.
When done, if time and/or contract allow, I'll turn off all tracked changes and read through again to both proof my work and capture the flavor of the book as a whole. If I did this first, two things could happen. One, I would likely miss bloopers because my mind already knows what should be there owing to familiarity with the story. Two, I might encounter time crunches and get pressed on the actual editing in order to make deadline. Though I always try to get a longer turnaround window from the author or production editor than I think I'll need, I don't always get it. This way I'm certain to cover the meat of the job, and can prevent my own memory from messing me up.
People with different brains and reading speed probably don't need to work this way. All that matters is that we get the job done to the best of our ability, and satisfy our clients.
It's always good to hear how other people work. Thanks, Carolyn!
Very helpful, Amy, thank you. And it was a pleasure to meet you at Communications Central.
Thank you, Martha. You too!
Thanks for this Amy. As a copy editor that is quite new to the field I am always looking for hints and tips. Especially those that will ultimately help me make a break into editing fiction.


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MPs should have their Christmas break cut short so that a key Commons vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal can be held "as soon as possible", Jeremy Corbyn has said.
The Labour leader accused the Prime Minister of trying to "run down the clock" by offering MPs a choice between "the devil or the deep blue sea", in her deal and an alternative of leaving with no-deal.
His intervention comes ahead of the so-called "meaningful vote" by MPs in the week beginning 14 January – more than a month after it was initially pulled by the Government over fears they would lose it.
A host of Conservative MPs, alongside the DUP and opposition parties, have vowed to vote down the agreement in its current form over the controversial backstop arrangement to keep an open border in Ireland.
Asked whether the PM should demand parliament return a week early, on 2 January, Mr Corbyn told the Independent: "Well it is in her hands to recall parliament. I want us to have a vote as soon as possible, that's what I've been saying for the past two weeks, and if that means recalling parliament to have the vote let's have it.
"We need to have that vote so a decision of parliament can be made.
Parliament is due to return on 7 January, however it could be recalled early if Commons speaker John Bercow were to approve a formal request from the Government to bring the date forward.
Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Corbyn said it was a case of "when, not if" Labour would move a motion of no-confidence in the Government in order to force a general election, but that the party was considering its "timing".
The opposition leader has been criticised by other parties, including the SNP and Liberal Democrats for failing to push for the vote.
He added: "We've made clear it's a question of when, not if, we do a vote of no confidence in the government. Obviously we do [it] at a time when their confidence is the lowest ever, which I suspect will be after they've lost the vote."
He also refused to rule out extending Article 50 in order to prolong negotiations on leaving the EU were he to become the next Prime Minister: "Lots of things are possible, the EU has long form on reopening and extending negotiations, but let's not jump too many hoops when we haven't arrived at them," he said.


For the rest of the year we are going to attempt to do something we have never done in the history of this blog that started in 2010- post daily. Over the years we have amassed a great deal of really good content, some of which are commissioned and published pieces that we have contributed to magazines and other projects. Others are posts that have been waiting in queue to make it to the blog- eureka! Plus there are so many great timeless published posts that you have not seen, hidden in the recesses of the blog that we simply have to re-share.
The fact is, we really miss you and your interaction and we aim to flood your timeline with really great content. Today, we will share one of a series of recipes we were commissioned to create and shoot for Dubai's Food eMag DXB last year for their new year's issue. We will share two more over the next two days. These are perfect for the Christmas and New Year's Holiday season so be sure to print them and do them. Be sure to pin this post for later use. Please also follow us and tag us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to share your take on our recipes as well.
There is always roast on the Jamaican holiday table. Whether it be roast beef, pork or chicken, there is something very festive about a whole piece of meat or poultry oozing with the spicy aromatic flavours that our cuisine is known for. The secret here is using only fresh herbs and freshly grinding your spices for the most sensational flavours. Here is a great recipe to adorn your table and please your palate.
My house, though nestled in the sandy dunes of Arabia, has the smell of a tropical Jamaican Christmas and New Year wafting through the air. As a child of the tropics and Jamaican expatriate, food is my home away from home. In an instant, a smell, a taste, a sighting of a traditional ingredient or any combination of the above transforms my little Middle Eastern Villa into an idyllic tropical getaway.
For this first edition of Food eMag DXB for 2016, I am thrilled to share three recipes with you that I have created so that you can join me on my little island foodie holiday paradise. The recipes are quick, practical and call for ingredients that are readily available in the region. As a rule, I favour recipes that make for efficient use of energy and resources. In other words, less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying the company of your family and friends.
Traditionally, every Jamaican home has a roast of sorts, a sangria cocktail we call "Sorrel" and coconut in some recipe (usually in Rice and Peas). Here is my take on the representation of those three flavours- the roast, the sorrel and the coconut. Not surprisingly, allspice -a spice native to Jamaica- features prominently in two of these recipes! No surprise here for this is the queen of all spices and no Jamaican home is ever without it. In fact, a Jamaican home without allspice is like a sailboat without sails.
Join us tomorrow for more mouth watering Jamaican dishes. Until then, see recipe below. Please leave a comment and share this post.
Bring the Caribbean to your holiday table with this succulent, scrumptious Jamaican Roast Chicken recipe for Christmas, New Year's and beyond.
Finely dice the garlic and strip thyme leaves from stems and combine with black pepper, allspice, scotch bonnet/habanero, salt, oil, vinegar and mix in a small bowl.
Thinly slice the green parts of the stems of the green onions and set aside.
Rub the spice paste all over chicken, getting into every nook and cranny and the cavities as well as the neck area. Gently ease skin away from chicken in the breast and back areas and rub marinade underneath.
Tuck the sliced green onions under the skin as well.
Place the white stems of the green onions along with the stems of the thyme inside the cavity. Truss the legs together with kitchen twine. Tuck the wing tips underneath the back of the chicken so that the chicken will present nicely on the table when done.
Marinate for at least 2 hours, but overnight is best.
Bring the chicken to room temperature before cooking.
When ready to cook, preheat oven to 180C.
Roast chicken for an hour, then crank up the oven to 220 for another 5-minutes to brown.
Allow chicken to rest for at least 10 minutes before cutting. Present it whole at the table and carve tableside for extra fanfare.
Jamaican Sorrel Drink- the PERFECT Christmas cocktail!
As much as I love heat I can't believe I've never thought to make my chicken spicy! This looks delicious. I'm lucky if I manage to post more than once a week so good for you going for every day! Happy holidays.
Melinda, this isn't hot in the heat department, though you can definitely make it more so. It is spicy from the spices and herbs as well as the bit of scotch bonnet pepper.
This looks mouth watering, I bet this taste as good as it looks. Will have to copy this recipe and try it for Christmas dinner. Thank you so much for sharing this awesome recipe.
Crisly, Thanks so much for your feedback. It is really juicy and delicious and I hope you like it!
It looks juicy indeed. You just make me crave for it ?. Thank you for sharing.
This looks like such a gorgeous and delicious chicken! I love the wat you have plated it up – lovely presentation!!
Yummy and flavorful and your photos are gorgeous! I used to always make chicken for Thanksgiving. I made turkey last year though. I think I like chicken better so I will be using chicken again this year! Saving this recipe. I may have to make it for the holdiays!
This chicken looks delicious! What a beautiful spin on the roast chicken!! The pictures are lovely!
This looks really good! I want to try out your recipe.
This looks delicious! I love all the different seasonings!
This looks delicious and beautiful. I love the flavor combination!


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The new Passport Echo DVR IPG version 2.7, and the new Passport DCT IPG version 2.7 boast two new primary applications: Interactive Video Mosaic and iSubscribe™. The Interactive Video Mosaic enables the cable operator to launch custom video venues that present multiple thumbnail video insets on one screen. Viewers will hear the audio for a channel simply by highlighting a video inset with their remote. They can also get more information about the channel and program, or in the case of Passport Echo, record the highlighted show.
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► The first evacuations begin in Mariupol
On the 36th day of the Russian invasion, Kiev sent 45 buses to . on Thursday evacuate civilians blocked in the south-east port city of Mariupol, after Russia announced the entry into force of a ceasefire to allow the creation of a humanitarian corridor to the city of Zaporizhya, which is controlled by the Ukrainian army.
→ UNDERSTAND. War in Ukraine: a "catastrophic" situation for civilians in Mariupol
In the morning, seventeen buses were on their way to Mariupol, and twenty-eight others were waiting for a Russian pass to cross a bridge near the front line. The Red Cross, for its part, said it was ready to lead evacuation operations for that day on Friday. "provided all parties agree on exact terms, including route, start time and duration"†
"Our teams are on the way with pre-loaded medical equipment and supplies ready to facilitate the safe passage of civilians from Mariupol"emphasized the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Mariupol city center, today.
Complete destruction. pic.twitter.com/nDTawUBHDI
—Arrow Intel (@IntelArrow) March 30, 2022
The Russian Defense Ministry had proposed on Wednesday evening to "silent food", or a local ceasefire, from 10am (11am in Paris) on Thursday in the besieged and shelled port to evacuate civilians. Some 160,000 civilians are said to be still stranded in the city that has been continuously bombed by the Russian army for weeks. It is estimated that at least 5,000 civilians were killed in the city.
► Russian and Separatist Forces Claim Huge Military Gains
The leader of the Russian Republic of ChechnyaRamzan Kadyrov, whose thousands of men are fighting in Mariupol, assured on Thursday that 90 to 95% of the strategic port city is now under Russian control. According to him, the last Ukrainian defenders are entrenched in the metallurgical plant Azovstal, located in the east of the city. However, the fighting continues in the city center.
→ EXPLANATION. War in Ukraine: Is Russia Changing Its Military Strategy?
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's Donbass on Thursday claimed they control almost the entire Luhansk region and more than half of Donetsk. "As of March 31, 2022, in the morning, more than 90% of the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic has been liberated"said an official from this area.
Denis Pushilin, leader of the separatists in Donetsk, assured on Wednesday that"about 55 to 60%" of the territory of the Ukrainian region of the same name was under Russian control. Before the outbreak of the Russian offensive on February 24, separatists, who have been at war with Ukrainian forces since 2014, controlled about a third of each of these regions.
► Russian soldiers would leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Russian troops begin to withdraw of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which they took over on the first day of the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday. The Russian army also withdrew outside Gostomel airport, northwest of Kiev.
"Chernobyl is another area where they are starting to reposition themselves, leaving Chernobyl to go to Belarus"a senior US official who asked for anonymity told reporters. "We think they're leaving, I can't tell you if they're all gone"he added.
→ EXPLANATION. What is the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine?
That's what Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said "less than 20%" Russian troops whose advance to Kiev was prevented by the Ukrainian resistance "started to reposition itself" in the direction of Belarus.
► Vladimir Putin would be badly advised according to the Americans
Advisors to the Russian President Vladimir Poutine"being afraid to tell him the truth" about his war strategy "failed" in Ukrainesaid the director of British intelligence on Thursday.
→ RESEARCH. War in Ukraine: what Russia's friends in France are saying
"We have seen Russian soldiers – out of arms and in despondency – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own plane."said the director of British intelligence GCHQ Jeremy Fleming. And even if Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, the regime should be crystal clear about what is happening and the magnitude of these miscalculations.he estimated.
► Russian and Ukrainian GDP could fall sharply
Ukraine's economy is expected to shrink by 20% this year as a result of the Russian invasion of the country. According to projections from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) released on Thursday, Moscow will see its GDP fall by 10%.
Before the war, the EBRD expected growth of 3.5% in 2022 for Ukraine and 3% for Russia.


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The microwave oven has a leading role in modern kitchens, so any malfunction can cost you valuable time or even money. Most common and most common dysfunctions that can occur are easily treatable, usually due to misuse.
To help you, we have gathered the most common reasons why your microwave may not work properly and how to deal with it.
Initially, check that the power supply cable is properly and securely connected to the socket. If it is not, remove the plug from the socket, wait for 5-10 seconds and put the plug back into the socket. If the oven is not switched on again, check if the door is properly closed and the timer has been set correctly. If there is still a problem, check if the electrical fuse has been burned or if there is a short circuit in the electrical installation of your home.
If you have tried all the above and the device is not working properly, disconnect the plug from the outlet and contact a qualified technician for inspection and repair.
This may be due to incorrect use of the oven and, more particularly, when the time is not correctly programmed per heating power level. However, to find out if this is a technical problem, place a cup of water (about 150ml) on a measuring tape and inside the oven and close the door. Activate the oven and let it work for 1 minute. If the water is not heated, you should call a technician.
Otherwise, you should keep in mind that the lower the temperature of the food when it enters the appliance, the longer it takes to warm up. The food at room temperature heats up faster than the food coming out of the refrigerator. This means that cooking and heating times are significantly different. Also, warming / cooking times and levels vary depending on the composition, the shape and the amount of food.
The glass tray in the microwave is detachable for easy hand washing or dishwasher. It is usually mounted on a rotation ring (rotors), which helps to rotate it evenly and weighed. If the microwave oven detects that the glass is not rotating, it stopped the appliance, removed the food, and removed the disc with the wheels. Then, first replace the rotation ring and then the disc on the shaft by checking that they snap the sprockets together.
Initially, turn off the device and check that the cookware you use is suitable for microwaves. Remember that metallic containers or utensils with metallic decoration or aluminum foil should not be used. If the microwave oven has metal plates or metal spits, check that they are touching the inner walls. Also, check if dirt accumulates on the microwave output cover.
If you have done all of the above checks and the problem persists, you should disconnect the plug from the power outlet and contact a qualified technician for inspection and repair.
Keep in mind that it is very important to keep your microwave always clean. When splashing liquid or internal walls splash from the food that you heat or bake, immediately wipe with a damp cloth. This ensures the correct operation and longevity of your device as well as effective power consumption.
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The Long-Suffering Soul Singer	A new book makes Otis Redding unhappier than he really was.
Paul Steinbeck
Page by Page: Book Reviews
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Mark Ribowsky	(2015, Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W. W. Norton & Company) 400 pages with endnotes, index, and photos
Like all biographers, Mark Ribowsky trades in legends. His earliest biographies focused on Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, the two best ballplayers in the history of the fabled Negro Leagues. Since then, Ribowsky has chronicled pop-culture icons of the 1960s and 1970s: larger-than-life sports figures like sportscaster Howard Cosell, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, and Dallas Cowboys head coachTom Landry; and chart-topping musicians like Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and producer Phil Spector. His latest book examines Otis Redding, the soul singer who was the face of Memphis-based Stax Records from 1962 until 1967, when he died in an airplane crash at age 26. In the Redding biography, entitled Dreams to Remember, Ribowsky hails the singer as the voice of the 1960s generation, "a prophet and a poet" who captured the hearts of young people on both sides of the color line. According to Ribowsky, Redding's music spoke to the "angst and loneliness" of the baby boomers, who were "finding [their] way beyond the racial and political conditioning of [their] forebears." Ribowsky believes that Redding was able to connect with young listeners because he too was broken-hearted and blue, and Dreams to Remember is framed as an answer to the question "[w]hy was [Redding] so lonely and alienated?" "This mystery," Ribowsky writes, "has never been satisfactorily resolved." Nor will it ever be. Ribowsky's "mystery" is based on false assumptions, and attempting to solve it will lead only to misunderstanding Redding and his music.
Plenty of research went into Dreams to Remember. Ribowsky consulted three previous Redding biographies (by Jane Schiesel, Scott Freeman, and Geoff Brown), interviewed nine of Redding's colleagues, and read hundreds of press clippings. But few, if any, of these sources support Ribowsky's contention that Redding was burdened by a "cleaved heart." In fact, those closest to the singer say just the opposite. Redding was a joy to be around, always eager to lift the spirits of his friends and family. He was beloved by everyone at Stax Records, from the executives and staff musicians to the secretaries, and as his celebrity grew, he became a favorite son in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. If the singer did indeed have a "tortured soul," as Ribowsky asserts, no one knew it—not even Redding.
Ribowsky tries to bolster his claim by subjecting Redding to armchair psychoanalysis. According to Ribowsky, the singer was constantly afflicted with "pain and despondence": "Clinically, much of this seemed clearly to have swelled as the result of his difficult relationship with [his father] Otis Sr." Redding's father was a Baptist deacon and church musician. With his father's encouragement, Redding began singing in churches, studying the piano, and playing drums. He was also drawn to rhythm and blues music, and during his teen years he visited Macon nightclubs to hear sets by local legends Little Richard and James Brown. Soon Redding decided to become a professional rhythm and blues singer, an ambition that his father did not support at first. However, when Redding's career took off, his father relented, and the two men repaired their rift: Redding Sr. even moved into a house on "The Big O Ranch," the singer's 300-acre farm near Macon.
Ribowsky's misconception is understandable—almost. For more than a hundred years, outsiders have portrayed African American music as the product of unbridled emotion and raw physicality. Dreams to Remember revives this myth, exhuming turn-of-the-century myths about blues and jazz and applying them to 1960s soul music.
In addition to psychoanalyzing Redding's paternal relationship, Ribowsky scrutinizes the singer's marriage to the former Zelma Atwood, the mother of his three children. The couple married young, and at times their relationship was strained by Redding's busy tour schedule and episodes of infidelity. But by all accounts, they overcame these early difficulties and formed an unbreakable bond that was a comfort to both husband and wife. Ultimately, the analysis of Redding's marriage does not yield the psychical clues Ribowsky is seeking. So he turns to the singer's performances and recordings, the last remaining pieces of evidence for the thesis of Dreams to Remember—that "Redding's rare ability to make a heart hurt can only have been because his own was so breakable." According to Ribowsky, album titles like Otis Blue and Pain in My Heart are proof positive of Redding's emotional state, an unrelenting despair which somehow remained hidden until the moment he began to sing. "[Redding] was too comfortable with the blues," Ribowsky writes, "and while that was good for business, even the big, blustery, carefree front he could easily unfurl … could not make his diffused burdens go away for long. Certainly, the … surfeit of pain in his songs reflected anything but carefree amusement." In other words, the personality that endeared Redding to his family and friends was an illusion. The singer only revealed his true self, Ribowsky claims, when he was on stage performing for an anonymous audience.
Ribowsky's misconception is understandable—almost. For more than a hundred years, outsiders have portrayed African American music as the product of unbridled emotion and raw physicality. Dreams to Remember revives this myth, exhuming turn-of-the-century myths about blues and jazz and applying them to 1960s soul music. To Ribowsky, Redding's romantic ballads are "pain-streaked confessions," while his uptempo tunes are virtually orgasmic: "tribal dances" of "writhing," "milking," "spitting," and "exploding"—until his audience is left "stunned and damp." (Moisture is a recurring theme in Dreams to Remember. Ribowsky has an odd habit of describing the singer's audience as "damp"; odder still, his favorite adjective for Redding is "sweaty.")
Why is Ribowsky so convinced that Redding was "a soul man unhappier than he had a right to be"? The most charitable explanation: Ribowsky loves the singer's music so much that he forgets Redding was a performer. Redding learned to sing in the African American church, and he refined his craft on the old "chitlin' circuit." These experiences taught him how to use every tool in the performer's arsenal—the voice, gestures, dance, even his stage attire—to convey the total meaning of a song, transforming music and lyrics into gripping drama. As Albert Murray and Paige McGinley have argued, many music genres are highly theatrical, none more so than gospel and blues, the styles at the core of Redding's music. And just like a dramatic actor, Redding did not have to feel miserable himself in order to tug at the audience's heartstrings. He was a masterful exponent of the rhythm and blues tradition, in which each aspect of a performance is precisely calibrated to deliver the maximum emotional impact. If Ribowsky feels a sense of catharsis after watching Redding perform "Try a Little Tenderness," he should resist the impulse to question the singer's emotional stability and instead applaud him for a job well done.
Ribowsky's faulty psychological diagnoses are not the only myths in Dreams to Remember. The author is so committed to his vision of Redding as an Aquarian messiah—bearer of the baby boomers' youthful burdens—that he depicts nearly all of the singer's music-industry rivals as imposters and scoundrels. One of Ribowsky's favorite targets is Motown Records, the label that was Stax's biggest competitor on the rhythm and blues charts. Motown singers like Smokey Robinson were "big-city cool," while Redding and his fellow Stax artists were "sweaty, Deep South church pulpit hot." In Ribowsky's view, record labels specializing in black music ought to make their studio sessions "as real and sweaty as possible." If a label interferes when African American singers are attempting to release their pent-up emotions, the resulting recordings will be inauthentic—that is, not "black" enough. It is from this perspective that Ribowsky criticizes Motown's strategy for producing crossover hits: "[Motown] built a strict producer-centric caste system in order to distill the blacker edges of blues-based music to expressly appeal to the white market, [but Stax] just let fly whatever came from the studio, where anyone could have a say in the production. As a result, the sound coming from [Stax's] studio was blacker than the famed, heavily formulaic 'Motown sound.'" Some Stax musicians liked to pretend that their all of their songs were recorded live with no overdubs, unlike Motown, and Ribowsky is happy to echo their critiques of Motown recordings as "mechanically done." He must hope that his readers will overlook the inconsistency that emerges a few pages later when he quotes Stax executive Al Bell's detailed description of the overdubbing procedures favored by Redding, who preferred to record the rhythm section first, followed by the horn section, and finally the lead vocals.
While writing Dreams to Remember, Ribowsky must have worn out his thesaurus's entry for "bad guys." Label owners and other industry professionals are attacked mercilessly, each insult more ridiculous than the last: "record industry lice," "cigar-chomping sharpies," "corporate thieves" and—the clincher—"Lucifer incarnate."
The antipathy for Motown in Dreams to Remember will shock readers who know Ribowsky's three books about Motown artists (the Supremes, the Temptations, and Stevie Wonder), in which his treatment of the label is much more even-handed. But the most jarring aspect of the present biography is the incessant vitriol that Ribowsky directs at the entire music industry, a faceless bête noire that he accuses of "abusing" Redding at every turn in the singer's career. While writing Dreams to Remember, Ribowsky must have worn out his thesaurus's entry for "bad guys." Label owners and other industry professionals are attacked mercilessly, each insult more ridiculous than the last: "record industry lice," "cigar-chomping sharpies," "corporate thieves" and—the clincher—"Lucifer incarnate." In unhinged passages like these, most readers will find it difficult to take Ribowsky seriously. And perhaps he wants his readers to bring a healthy sense of irony to Dreams to Remember. After all, Redding himself was active on both sides of the music industry. By 1967, he owned a music-publishing company and was producing records for other artists, while his longtime business partners were managing dozens of Southern rhythm and blues acts. If Redding had lived a few more years, his music-industry enterprises would have continued to expand, endangering Ribowsky's idealistic image of the singer as a hero who never "[sold] his soul, or [sold] out soul, for a formulaic hit."
Dreams to Remember is not without its redeeming features. Redding fans may appreciate Ribowsky's enthusiasm for his subject. Also to Ribowsky's credit, the book is less inflammatory than Scott Freeman's 2001 Redding biography, which was so sensational that it became the subject of a libel suit. However, readers looking for new insights about Otis Redding and 1960s soul music should leave Dreams to Remember on the shelf.
Paul Steinbeck is an assistant professor of music theory at Washington University in St. Louis. His book Message to Our Folks (2017, University of Chicago Press) is the first history of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the first in-depth study of the group's music. With Fred Anderson, he is co-author of Exercises for the Creative Musician (2010), a method book for improvisers. Steinbeck is also a bassist, improviser, composer, and recording artist.
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In speaking with Dr. Ajamu Baraka, Green Party candidate for Vice President said at the Green Party rally at the University of Maryland, about Standing Rock, the nature of revolutionary resistance and our expectations of it, I asked how he felt about the fear that people are succumbing to again in our national elections. Believing they have to choose the lesser of two evils for President again, people have been convinced that they are so terrified of one of the candidates that they completely ignore that the other is not only just as bad but actually has a track record of being worse.
In response, Dr. Baraka, a revolutionary human rights and racial justice activist for several decades, said something that I think will probably stick with me forever: "If you keep choosing the lesser of two evils, when do you ever resist? How do you resist the Right, when you are collaborating with the Right?" What we are doing is conditioning ourselves to never, ever resist; to justify it; to get used to it; to make it palatable and acceptable.
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"Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq War," the 'Daily Show' host quipped.
Jon Stewart returned to the Daily Show on Monday and wasn't about to let embattled news anchor Brian Williams off the hook.
Stewart, who was off last week, mocked the controversy surrounding the NBC Nightly News host's story about his 2003 helicopter ride during the Iraq invasion. Williams has apologized for claiming that his chopper took fire, and he is stepping away from anchoring the program for an unspecified number of days.
Stewart played a 2003 Nightly News clip in which Williams said his helicopter was not shot down, which Stewart followed with a 2013 Late Show clip in which Williams told David Letterman it did take fire.
"We got us a case here of 'infotainment confusion syndrome,' " Stewart said about Williams changing his tune on the talk show. "It occurs when the 'celebrity cortex' gets its wires crossed with the 'medulla anchor-dala.' "
Stewart posited that Williams' head turn, as seen when he spoke to Letterman, activated the so-called "celeb-rellum" in his brain. "That's known as the brain's applause center," Stewart continued. "Once that engages, there's no going back. You're in full-blown anecdote mode."
Stewart likened Williams' story to "masturbation," adding: "Self-love can be a bad habit — you probably shouldn't do it at your work desk."
The Daily Show host also took the media to task for focusing so much attention on Williams' apparent fib. "Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq War," Stewart quipped.


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