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Can Virtual Reality Fix the Workplace?
The struggle to create a digital alternative to the analog office.
By Cal Newport
Not long ago, I decided to try to write an article in a virtual world. This was not the first time I had this idea. In the spring of 2016, a student in the computer-science department at Georgetown University set up an HTC Vive virtual-reality rig in a conference room and offered to give demonstrations. I volunteered and was impressed by the experience. He started me in a mad scientist's laboratory, cluttered with equipment and whizzing gadgets. I crouched down, looked under a desk, and inspected the pipes connecting a sink to the wall. The next demo featured an underwater world. At some point, a whale swam overhead. I remember being startled when I looked up to see it so close and apparently so large—my first moment of convincing virtual presence.
The timing of this demo was fortuitous. Earlier that year, I had published a book,"Deep Work," that was a mix between a manifesto and an instruction manual on the importance of undistracted focus. During this period, I was thinking quite a bit about ways to enhance concentration; this explains why, soon after my experience with the Vive, I wrote a speculative essay about how virtual reality could aid creativity: "Imagine, for example, that when it comes time to . . . tackle a new chapter in your science fiction novel you can place yourself in a quiet room in a space station with a rotating view of the galaxy twinkling outside your window." A captivating virtual environment, I argued, would help us resist the "addictive appeal of inboxes and feeds" and potentially access "massive amounts of deep work-fueled productivity." I even gave this concept a suitably techno-optimistic label: immersive single-tasking.
My excitement level was high, but my options to act were limited. The system that the student had demonstrated was expensive and required the virtual-reality headset to be tethered to a powerful computer. The setup was also complicated: the student had to place and calibrate infrared sensors around the room. As a young professor with small kids at home, I lacked both discretionary time and income, and it didn't seem practical to become involved in experiments in virtual productivity.
Then the technology improved. Last May, I wrote an article for The New Yorker about the power of novel environments to improve concentration. I reported on Peter Benchley's escaping the distractions of his attractive carriage house in Pennington, New Jersey, to instead work on "Jaws" in the back office of a nearby furnace shop, and Maya Angelou's retreating to hotel rooms, where she would remove the artwork from the walls. Describing these examples of analog immersion got me thinking again about the potential of digital tools to create the same kind of productive cocoon. A bit of Googling revealed that in the half decade since I wrote about this topic, virtual-reality systems have become significantly cheaper and more powerful. For less than three hundred dollars, you can now purchase an Oculus Quest 2, a fully self-contained headset that can be used right out of the box. Also, I was clearly not the only one thinking about applying virtual reality to the realm of work. The Oculus app store now boasts an entire section dedicated to productivity. It was finally within my reach to test whether immersive single-tasking had potential. So, a few weeks ago, I bought an Oculus, downloaded a popular productivity app called Immersed, put on the headset, and decided to go to work.
When you launch the Immersed app, you're taken to one of several available virtual rooms. For my experiment, I choose a gable-roofed lodge with exposed wood beams and views of forested hillsides on all sides. This space is furnished with a combination of couches and wooden tables, which face rectangular fire pits that crackle when you get close. The feeling of immersion that the headset provides is startling. The room is presented in a wide field of view in stereoscopic 3-D that gives a convincing sense that some objects are farther away than others. As you move your head, the view shifts seamlessly to follow. From a technological perspective, these effects are hard-won. When I look out to the hills beyond my virtual lodge, I'm actually staring into an LCD panel, roughly the size of a standard smartphone, positioned just a few inches from my eyes. A pair of hybrid Fresnel lenses bends the light rays coming in from the display into parallel angles, easing fatigue and tricking my brain into perceiving the light as having originated from farther away. A collection of four outward-facing sensors on the exterior of the headset continually maps the room to help calculate where exactly my head is positioned in space. This information feeds into a powerful Qualcomm chip, known as the Snapdragon XR2, which re-renders the scene seventy-two times a second, altering the view presented to each eye to create a simulated stereo vision. All of this complexity must dovetail just right for me to forget, even if only for a few minutes, that I'm sitting on a worn chair in my office, next to a potted plant that I need to water and a desk cluttered with papers.
The signature feature of Immersed is the ability to replicate screens from your personal computer in the virtual environment. Using handheld controllers, you can reach out and grab a screen, move it to a different location, and stretch it to your desired size. For my experiment, I position a screen that is mirroring the word processor open on my laptop above a virtual table and expand it to the size of a large flat-panel television. Now it's time to write. I bring my real laptop over to my chair. In my headset, I see its screen hovering in front of me. A soft rain begins to fall on the digital mountains. I take a moment to think of something appropriate to commemorate this first step into virtual productivity, eventually writing a sentence: "As I type the first draft of this article, I am sitting in a high-ceilinged room." The key word here is "eventually," as the literal first letters I type are: "Vzzs. K ]]."
With the headset on, I cannot see my keyboard and my fingers aren't properly lined up. The Immersed app anticipates this issue and offers a clever solution: a mode in which you can teach the outward-facing sensors on your headset to recognize your hands and your real keyboard, providing a rendering of both inside the virtual world. As someone who was new to this technology, however, I struggled with the steps required by the calibration routine and ultimately gave up. The virtual keyboard wasn't the only advanced feature that I failed to master. Immersed offers extreme flexibility for setting up displays. You can create several different virtual monitors, and, through the proper use of your controllers, you can push, pull, expand, tilt, and rotate each surface to an exact position. The subtle controller movements required for this manipulation eluded me. I eventually settled for crudely shoving my main screen until it landed in a reasonable position.
As I learned when I spoke Renji Bijoy, the founder and C.E.O. of the company that created Immersed, at least a third of the thousands of active monthly users on the app are software developers, and many more work in similar information-technology fields—a demographic that appreciates the type of advanced features I struggled to deploy. As he explained, these power users particularly enjoy the ability to add five different virtual screens in their Immersed environment, which is more than can be found in all but the most over-the-top real-world offices. In a demonstration video that I came across on YouTube, an Immersed user positions three large monitors in a semicircle around his seat, then adds a fourth above, angling downward from the ceiling, where he can see it when he tilts his head back. Immersed not only makes such environments possible, it also makes them portable. "Software engineers love to sit on their couch, or porch, or in their hotel, and have all their screens with them," Bijoy said.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, multiple startups had been investigating the use of virtual reality to improve remote co-working. This plan makes sense: sharing a virtual whiteboard with three-dimensional avatars seems closer to in-person collaboration than a phone call or video conference. The problem, Bijoy explained, is the hassle involved in booting up a virtual-reality rig every time you needed to meet: "The friction was enough that people would just say, 'Let's jump on Zoom real quick. That would be quicker.' " Bijoy wants to instead persuade people that they should spend all of their workday in virtual reality, not just when they need to interact with other people. If you already have the headset on, it's easy to virtually collaborate. The hard part, of course, is convincing people that, when it comes to their regular work, staring through Fresnel lenses at an LCD screen a few inches from their eyes is somehow superior to a normal computer on their normal desk. Providing the type of over-the-top virtual monitor setups that power users crave has turned out to be a good start. Returning to the original purpose of my experiment, I was heartened to learn that thousands of users are spending nontrivial amounts of time each day working in a virtual world, as this finding validates some of my predictions from 2016. It still, however, falls short of my full vision. The animating goal behind immersive single-tasking was to use technology to change the rhythm of work itself. I want to enter virtual environments not just to gain access to more computer screens but to escape the freneticism of the screens that I already have.
As I talked to Bijoy, I described to him my vision for an advanced version of an app like Immersed. In this vision, the virtual environment is separated into different spaces for different types of work. Perhaps you begin in something like a pleasant café, where multiple large monitors make it easier to check e-mails and update your calendar. But then, when it comes time to work deeply on something demanding, you move to a new space—perhaps a virtual recreation of E. B. White's spartan writing shed, overlooking Allen Cove in Brooklin, Maine, or Captain Nemo's study on the Nautilus—where you face only a single, floating screen, on which all you can do is write. Later, if you need to brainstorm, you can retreat to a simulated activity with no screens at all, such as wandering the empty halls of MOMA or tossing rocks into Walden Pond.
The idea wouldn't be to spend your entire day in virtual environments. After checking your e-mail and Slack, or focussing on something deep, you might take off your helmet to meet with real people in a real conference room, or enjoy lunch with a colleague. I'm interested in broadening what's possible during the periods in which you're already alone and using technology to increase productivity. Virtual reality could take the overlapping onslaught of information that we currently squeeze into the limited real estate of a laptop monitor or smartphone display, and spread it back out, over both time and space, returning us to a more human rhythm of tackling one thing at a time, each in an environment that's conducive to the effort. For certain élite slivers of the knowledge sector—Oxford dons enjoying ornate, dust-worn libraries, or artists retreating to the solitude of a studio—this type of cognitive breathing room is already possible, implemented in the real world at considerable expense. Virtual reality could make something like this richer experience of work more widely available. Bijoy listened politely to my pitch. He appreciated the idea but underscored its complexity. "We're not there yet," he concluded. But we're certainly closer now than we were five years ago.
When I mentioned my virtual-reality experiment to people I know, several reacted with an instinctual discomfort. Perhaps they were reminded of a recent video, in which Mark Zuckerberg, performing with the mechanistic mannerisms of a cyborg running outdated software, introduces his vision for a virtual-reality "Metaverse." In the video, he selects an outfit to wear from a virtual mannequin, then teleports to a space station where he plays cards with a robot and a human friend who is inexplicably floating face down. Not surprisingly, this pitch fell flat. Few seem eager to spend their free time in a Facebook-sponsored, evil nerd panopticon. And that video, of course, is just one layer in the thicker patina of silliness that covers so much of virtual-reality boosterism, with its emphasis on the fantastical and its easy dismissal of analog experience.
What differentiates immersive single-tasking from this more speculative futurism is its concentration on office productivity, a context that's already inextricably cybernetic. The reality is that the way we currently toil, with our lives so mediated by the demands of cramped screens and incessant in-boxes, is undeniably unnatural. Is an experience like the app I described to Bijoy really any more artificial than checking e-mail a hundred times a day, or spending seven straight hours staring at Zoom? When it comes to knowledge work, we long ago stumbled into the digital wastes east of Eden. Now that we're here, we should be open to whatever might help us regain some clarity.
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He served at the GSD from 1847-1858. First building was erected in 1848, the number of students had increased to fourteen. It was named after O.P. Fannin, the first teacher. The name of the school "Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb" was changed to Georgia Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
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What was the first American School for the Deaf?
American School for the Deaf. West Hartford. The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States. What's more, the school became the first recipient of state aid to education in America when the Connecticut General Assembly awarded its first annual grant to the school in 1819.
When was the first American Deaf School founded?
The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States. It was founded April 15, 1817, in West Hartford, Connecticut, by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Dr. Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc and became a state-supported school later that year. It was also the second and present site of Hubbard's school.
What are some deaf colleges?
Here are the most well-known colleges for the deaf in the United States: 1. Gallaudet University. Located in Washington, D.C., Gallaudet University is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the world.
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MACCABEE ISRAEL: Reasonability and reality, are they mutually exclusive?
Reasonability and reality, are they mutually exclusive?
With regard to Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East in general. It is useful to take all of the issues, and classify whether they realistic and reasonable.
Let's take the right of return. It is neither reasonable nor realistic to expect Israel to agree to it. Therefore, should be dropped from the agenda.
Now as for of the settlements. I believe creating them was a huge mistake Some might find it reasonable for Israel to tear down settlements, and move its citizens back to Israel proper, but it certainly not realistic, not even close.
My colleague and friend Dr. Shmuel Itzhak says that Jews should be able to live anywhere in Judea and Samaria. He further believes that these settlers should remain citizens of Israel, and be allowed to vote in Israeli elections.
In a recent article in the New York Times, a prominent member of the Likud party, Danny Danon , proposed that Israel occupy all of the land known as Samaria. He further states that Jews living there be allowed to vote, and Arabs not have the right to vote in Israeli elections.
I propose that if parts of Samaria are included into Israel, then Arabs living there should be allowed to vote. That is how it is in Israel right now. That is why Israel is a democracy. However, this would risk a Jewish majority in the State of Israel.
I for one, would not take this risk.
One idea, is to allow some of the larger settlements to remain in Israel proper, and that these Jews of course, be Israeli citizens, and have the right to vote in Israeli elections.
In the land that may be ceded to Palestine, all Arabs should have the right to participate in their own elections. Jews living within these agreed upon borders, also have the right to vote in Palestinian elections. This is how they do it in Israel today. This, in my opinion, it is both reasonable, and realistic.
As to the issue of a Palestinian state, I believe that this has already been decided. That is to say, both Israel and the United States have agreed that a Palestinian State must be created.
However the question is how will this state be created, by negotiations or through illegal Unilateral actions at the UN.
It is my expectation that if the Palestinians do ask the UN general assembly to recognize a Palestinian State this resolution will have overwhelming support.
Again I say that neither Israel, nor the United States will have any say in the matter. This is reality and must be faced. Why is this important? It is important to have world opinion on our side. Isn't that the goal of The Association for the Political Defense of Israel?
I would like to speak of the events of the last few days, President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu met and discussed all of these matters and many more. After they're meeting they had a press conference, I believe, that Netanyahu was the clear public relations winner.
He faced Obama, and lectured him on the right of return and the Israeli 1967 borders. He very correctly told our president that Israel can not have borders that leave the country 9 miles wide. His arguments were reasonable and realistic.
Obama accomplished something that I didn't think was possible. He made Prime Minister Netanyahu look like a reasonable man. Putting it more bluntly, he made Netanyahu look good, and himself not so good.
The next day, the president modified his stance enough to have mollified the AIPAC audience.
Finally, It is nether useful nor responsible to resort to name-calling with people who may not agree with you.This is counterproductive, and just not right.
For example referring to president Obama as an empty suit, is neither reasonable nor real. To call Jews such as those who work at the newspaper Ha'aretz self-loathing Jews, or Quislings, is slanderous, and inaccurate.
Calling our president Muslim, is not only unreasonable, unrealistic, it is just plain foolish. Disagree with him, blast him for views you consider to be contrary to the welfare of Israel, but criticize in fact, not his motive. If you think his policies are wrong, don't vote for him. Campaign against him. This is reasonable and realistic. Keep in mind, that he is the President of the United States, not of Israel.
As for the far left this out in California, and other campuses, you may properly call them anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic. This is very realistic. These same people think that the president was wrong in killing Osama bin Laden, and not putting him on trial in the United States. This is unrealistic, unreasonable, and any other adjectives that you could think of to describe these views.
Not allowing Bin Laden the right to be put on trial, is very unreasonable in the highest sense of the word. Reason shows us that the right to be put on trial is indiscriminate, & once it does discriminate then democracy & freedom go down the drain, potentially. This is important. Look at Israel's handling with the old Nazi Eichmann, he was put on trial. This is the way it should be, always. This comment is written by someone with center-right views on Israel's policies, and a Zionist through-and-through.
I can understand a few reasons why they didn't put him on trial. But I still think they should have. Especially since it was the US, where there is supposed to be due process of sorts. I think anonymous is right.


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Album Review: The Mavericks — 'Hey! Merry Christmas!'
Hey! Merry Christmas!
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What I love about The Mavericks is you always know what to expect from their music. You're always going to get something radically different than you could even imagine, which has been even more true with their most recent albums. Hey! Merry Christmas! is no exception, and only proves, once again, that Raul Malo can sing anything and everything, regardless of style.
The album opens with a joyous ode to the season, "Christmas Time (Is Coming 'Round Again)," with follows in the company of "The Most Wonderful Time of The Year" and "Happy Holidays." The listener is transported to another place and time, in classic Mavericks' style.
"Santa Does" and "I Have Wanted You for Christmas" are both excellent in their own ways, whether celebrating the omnipresent one in the red suit or tributing a love that has endured through the generations. The album's first ballad, the beautifully sparse "Christmas For Me (Is You)" is a revelation, with Malo committing to record a spellbinding R&B and jazz style vocal you have to hear to believe.
The R&B and jazz influence continues on "Santa Wants To Take You for a Ride," a sensual and slinky double entendre that works, despite objectification. The mournful "Christmas Without You" is in more of a traditional Christmas style and finds Malo engulfed in Christmas cheer he can't enjoy while also mending a broken heart. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a cover of the classic, which is well executed, but a bit too bombastic for my ears.
The title track, which appears next, swerves the album out of its detour into the emotional wrought and back into the light. It's not my favorite song on the album, but it is very, very well done. "One More Christmas" is unremarkable at best, while the closing number "Happy Holiday," which Andy Williams made famous, has been given the most eccentric treatment I've ever heard. The song, which typically exudes brightness and joy, has been stripped bare to reveal an almost suicidal underbelly I can only regard as interesting.
In my time as a Mavericks fan, I've come to enjoy their 1990s output more than their more recent stuff. Maybe it's because I'm a fan of Don Cook's signature production style or I just like their country stuff better, but I've had a difficult time embracing their latest works. But I have to say I really enjoy Hey! Merry Christmas! There are some excellent original tracks on here that add a bit of punch to the holiday music market and make this album well worth checking out if you haven't heard it yet.
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Album Review: Aaron Watson — 'An Aaron Watson Family Christmas'
An Aaron Watson Family Christmas
Country traditionalist Aaron Watson has been promising his fans a family Christmas album for a while now, and in 2018 he finally got it released. The ten-track album, which features Watson singing with his wife and three children, mixes eight holiday standards with two original songs.
One of those originals, "Lonely Lonestar Christmas" is the only song Watson wrote for the album. The mid-tempo ballad, about a sad sack who is facing Christmas alone, has a surprisingly humorous tone for the subject matter. The fiddle and mandolin prominently featured throughout is a nice touch, too.
The second original, "She Starred At Him All Night" comes from the pen of Drew Womack, who rose to fame with Sons of the Desert in the late 1990s. The song retells the familiar story of Mary and Jesus Christ, with Mary in awe of this miracle boy she created. The track has good bones and a pretty melody. The lyric, which Womack drowns in lazy repetitiveness and Christmas signifiers, leaves much to be desired.
Watson's take on "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is charming, with his children (Jake (age 12), Jack (age 10) and Jolee Kate (age 8)) adding a nice assist to keep the song playful and fun. Jolee Kate takes the lead on "Christmas Time Is Here," a traditional ballad, while her brother Jack joins in for a nice recitation about halfway through. Jake joins his dad for a fun rendition of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer."
Watson's wife Kimberly joins him on two songs. The first is the oft-covered and recently ridiculed "Baby It's Cold Outside," which has always grated on my nerves. The other, "Jingle Bells," is an excellent take on the song. Kimberly's breathy vocal doesn't work for me on the duet at all, but she adds some nice harmony to the latter.
The family comes together for 'A Watson Family Greeting' to close the album. It's their take on "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," which is elongated by instrumental beds of lovely ribbons of fiddle. Watson does much of the heavy lifting himself, with his kids joining in by the end. It comes complete with a 'hidden track,' a recitation by one of his sons.
Watson handles the final two songs solo. "The Christmas Waltz" and "Silent Night" are both excellent and two of the album's highlights.
Watson describes the album as "Sinatra on the farm," which fits the album perfectly. He sticks to his wheelhouse wonderfully, resisting the temptation to veer into big band territory. I highly recommend checking this one out, as it has its considerable charm, although I probably won't be revisiting it much. Don't get me wrong, I love it for what it is, but the contributions by kids, while cute, don't really lend themselves to repeated listenings, year-after-year.
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My Kind of Country Turns 10
Most of you probably know this already, but for the past seven years, I've been a staff writer for My Kind of Country. In honor of the blog's 10th anniversary, I wrote the following reflection editorial:
Do you remember where you were exactly ten years ago? Barack Obama has just defeated John McCain to win his first of two-terms as our 44th President. The United States was beginning to feel the effects of the Great Recession. On our radios, a hot new group out of Georgia was dominating the charts. This week in 2008, Zac Brown Band logged their first of two consecutive weeks at #1 with their debut single "Chicken Fried." On the album's chart, it was Taylor Swift's just-released Fearless, logging its third consecutive week at #1, with no signs of slowing down.
In the country blogosphere, J.R. Journey launched My Kind of Country. Our little blog was born ten years ago tomorrow on Dec. 8, 2008. On that day, J.R. wrote:
Welcome to the My Kind Of Country blog. Here, you will find reviews, editorials, and discussions about the country music we love – our kind of country. The idea is simple: rather than write lots of negative reviews about the new music that's coming out – because let's face it, much of what comes out of Nashville and your country radio dial is crap – we are going to write about the music we love. The music that moves us, drives us, and makes us laugh and cry; the music that touches us. Not that we will spend our time posting fangirl gushes about a select group of artists that are among our favorites. To the contrary, we intend to post about the music we love and tell you why we love it, and of course, how we think it could be improved upon.
It's been an ambitious mission from the start. Erik wrote our first album review, a glowing critique of LeAnn Rimes' Family, on Dec. 10. Our first spotlight artist? Oh, that was Miss Leslie and her Juke-Jointers in January 2009. Through the years we've seen many writers retire their individual perspectives on country music, from our friends Erik, Rainbow, Chris Dean, Megan Morrow, and Razor X to our fearless leader himself, J.R.
I won't begin to assert I'm an historian on all things MKoC. I joined the team in June 2011 after I had become enamored with their Spotlight Artist coverage of Emmylou Harris in April. After reading a few of their reviews, I digitally downloaded her solo albums from the 1970s and composed a post on my own blog, entitled "New Artist Obsession: Emmylou Harris." I had included a link to their coverage, which garnered the attention of J.R. and Razor X. I had no idea how impressed J.R. would be with my work, nor was I gunning for anyone's attention. Shortly thereafter he sent me an email and asked me to join the team, an honor I accepted happily and excitedly. My first post was a single review for Julie Roberts' "NASCAR Party" that ruffled a few feathers with her publicity team. I then contributed two single reviews to their Randy Travis coverage that month, among other reviews, and was off to the races.
But this isn't solely about me. My Kind of Country has and always will be about a passionate group of fans sharing their thoughts and perspectives on country music with a critical ear. Two of our longest contributing writers, Razor X, and Occasional Hope, became members of the team in Feb. 2009. Razor's first post, "Rediscovering Forgotten Gems" found him taking a look back at albums, with a focus on Randy Travis, he had the urge to revisit. Occasional Hope introduced herself to readers through "Finding Country," in which she shared how she came to love country music. Paul W. Dennis joined just before I did in 2011. The 9513 had just shuttered and J.R. asked him to continue his Country Heritage series with us. His first post was "Country Heritage: Gary Stewart – A Short Life Of Trouble (1944-2003)."
A while back, a friend had asked me if they could take a look at work on MKoC and even proceeded to print it out in order to read it (yes, I also thought that was strange). In doing so, he made a comment I've never forgotten. He said the blog had a really great title and I instantly knew what he meant. He didn't say it, but he was referring to the idea that as a group of writers we're each sharing the country music we love individually, writing pieces that reflect our love of the genre, not just getting assigned albums and singles we may or may not care enough about to compose a thoughtful post. I hadn't looked at it that way, but he was correct in every sense of the word.
I also often think about how hard it is to keep a blog going and just how many have come and gone in the ten years we've been alive. It's easy for readers to overlook the fact that our positions as staff writers aren't our full or even part-time jobs. MKoC is a labor of love we create out of passion for country music. It takes a village to keep a blog vital, which is why The 9513 and Country California have ceased publication. Engine 145 only ended once Juli Thanki received a prestigious position with The Tennessan, which has led to exciting opportunities for her in 2019. Ken Morton, Jr's That Nashville Sound is still going strong and Country Universe is still around, after 14 years, albeit in an abbreviated form.
Little did J.R. realize in his inaugural post when he wrote: "much of what comes out of Nashville and your country radio dial is crap." He never could've known the assault on the very ideals of commercial country music that was coming down the line with bro-country and whatever the heck you call what's followed in its wake. It's ironic, at least to me, that the peak years for country blogging have coincided with the continued release of literally the worst music our beloved genre has ever produced. At least we've learned there are alternatives and still some pretty awesome music being made if you know where to look.
I know this post is long, but heck, you only celebrate your tenth anniversary once. We would not be here if it wasn't for our continued passion for country music, but even more importantly, our readers. Thank you for continuing to make us and our writing a part of your lives. Please continue to comment and engage with us on our posts. We always love reading and responding to whatever you have to say.
Onward.
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George H.W. Bush attends the 1991 CMA Awards
We remember the 41st President of the United States, who has passed away at age 94. In 1991, he and his wife Barbara attended the CMA Awards as featured guests.
Upon accepting his award for Entertainer of the Year that evening, Garth Brooks famously said:
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and they call it entertaining. I know this embarrasses these two guys every time I say this, but I don't think any entertainer is anything without his heroes. I love my Georges — George Strait and George Jones — and I want to thank you guys for being so good to me. No offense, Mr. President. I didn't think about that. Sorry.
The host that evening, Reba McEntire, closed the show by inviting Mr. and Mrs. Bush to the stage. He gave some remarks:
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Aviva Sells Singapore Stake as CEO Blanc Kicks Off Revamp
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(Bloomberg) — Aviva Plc agreed to sell a majority stake in its Singapore business to a group of buyers for S$2.7 billion ($2 billion), as new Chief Executive Officer Amanda Blanc kickstarts her overhaul of the insurer.
The consortium is led by Singapore Life Ltd. and includes private equity firm TPG and insurer Sumitomo Life, according to a statement from Aviva on Friday. TPG will be the largest shareholder in the new company, Aviva Singlife, which will combine the two insurers' businesses based in the city-state, while Aviva will retain a 25% stake.
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Aviva's shares rose as much as 7.4% in London trading.
"The sale of Aviva Singapore is a significant first step in our new strategy to bring greater focus to Aviva's portfolio," Blanc said in the statement. "We continue to work at pace and are seeking to take decisive action on our portfolio with the goal of further enhancing long term value for our shareholders."
Blanc announced last month that Aviva would focus on its operations in the U.K., Ireland and Canada, signaling that underperforming units in other countries could be sold. French media reported earlier this week that the company had received a number of expressions of interest for its French business.
The sale price signals a "very strong start" to Blanc's restructuring plans, Shore Capital analyst Alan Devlin said after the announcement.
The deal is expected to complete by January. The new combined Singapore business will have a value of S$3.2 billion, making this one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia, according to a Singlife statement.
Aviva had already begun a strategic revamp under Blanc's predecessor, Maurice Tulloch, including selling a stake in a Hong Kong unit and seeking buyers for several southeast Asia divisions.


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My 2013 rcz gt was set on fire / burned last night in the drive way.
The boot catch will not operate because the electrics / engine bay is destroyed ; is there a manual boot release so I can retrieve personal items before tow truck takes it away.
I don't think there is but I maybe wrong, maybe phone your insurance company up explain the problem and see if you can use a crowbar to gain entry through either the boot or the back seat.
Nightmare! Was it deliberate? Hope you get sorted quickly.
I don't know of a manual override (I take it you've rang a Peugeot dealer?) but another thing to try is remove the rear head restraints (they pop off) and see if you can get to the cable that releases the rear seat back so you can fold it down and access the boot that way. I don't know if removing the rear head restraints will give you access, but it's worth a look, I just remember mine coming off accidentally and I *think* there may be a hole through which you can see the red handle or at least get to the cable.
Was this the car from Ireland ?
Yes you can release the fold down rear seat back by removing the rear head restraint and then hooking your finger round the bowden cable from the lever in the boot that releases the rear seat. I was glad to find this after my friend locked his wallet, passport and wife's handbag in his Jaguar XJS boot for several days while on holiday.
You might be able to remove the grille and get to the cable or release the head rest to be able to get your hand in to the boot area.


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President-Elect Obama Faces a Dangerous World
By Bridget Johnson 2008-11-05T02:09:48
As voters stepped into the polls, they came armed with their opinions, their emotions, their gut feelings, their peer pressure, their community organizers' suggestions and a variety of other decision-making tools that will never supplant bare-bones knowledge on the issues.
Last time around, it was Diddy warning citizens to "Vote or Die," but last year a study by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press nearly gave the world of punditry a collective heart attack. Looking at the survey somberly reminds us that these are the people who voted, volunteered, were perhaps cajoled into registering by an ambitious, compensated town crier with a clipboard.
Only 36 percent of Pew respondents could name Vladimir Putin as the president of Russia -- even when he'd been president for nearly eight years. Only two-thirds could name their own state's governor. Sixty-nine percent could even identify our vice president, even with Dick Cheney's starring role as the butt of liberal jokes. Just 37 could peg the chief justice of the Supreme Court as leaning conservative, and even fewer respondents, 32 percent, could name Sunni as the Islam branch opposite Shia. And on, and on.
Too many American voters sleepwalk through the world, and yet lined up to pick the next leader of the free world. And now, Barack Obama, you have the weight of the world on your shoulders -- a world where many of its inhabitants would like to see a weaker United States so that they can feel stronger themselves, and have won agreement from many on the American left. You have constituents and global onlookers alike who think that the reputation of the U.S. is paramount to doing the right -- even if unpopular -- thing.
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CAIML 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning


iOS/Mac: There's certainly no shortage of notes app out there, but Bear's an app that manages to toe the line between a few different popular styles, and might suit you if you need more features than plain text offers, but not as much as something like Evernote.
From a features perspective, Bear looks a lot like the recently reinvigorated Apple Notes. You organize notes in Bear using hashtags, can pin notes to the top of your list, and it supports in-line images. Bear's also geared toward coders with a markup editor that supports a number of different programming languages. As a whole, Bear supports basic Markdown for formatting text, but can also automatically format stuff like links and addresses. There's even a whole system for linking notes together.
What makes Bear a little different is its ability to work as a long-form writing tool too. It has a focus mode that hides all the cruft and just gives you a text editor to write with, and it supports exporting to PDF, HTML, and DOC when you're all done. Because of this, it manages to work for both jotting down quick ideas or to-dos, or doing more complicated writing.
Bear is free on either Mac or iOS, but if you want to sync between your devices, you'll need to shell out $14.99/year for a subscription. Still, the fact you can check it out without paying anything makes it worth a look if you need something more than Apple Notes, but don't want to go all in with something like OneNote or Evernote.


OVERALL COMMENTS: Super fun nimble board. Holds a good edge, very responsive.
SHAPE COMMENT: Awesome long drawn out nose shape with a great small fish tail.
FLEX COMMENT: The nose was too soft. While railing turns the nose would vibrate out of the line through chunder and slip out. The vibration would get bigger and bigger until it list the edge hold. Also would smack down and around on airs and such.
COMMENT ON PLAYFULNESS: Pop was low dud to the small tail but the playfulness from edge to edge was awesome!
ANYTHING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT THIS BOARD TO MAKE IT BETTER: Stuff in the nose and I'm a happy camper!


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There are two verbs with this pattern. Call is used with a day and quits to indicate that someone stops doing something.
Maybe in ten years or so when I'm not winning any more I'll call it a day and retire.
The verb make is used when indicating or asking the time.
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Lou Costello
Born: March 6, 1906
Old Time Radio, Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: March 3, 1959, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Louis Francis Cristillo "Lou Costello" (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best remembered for the comedydouble act of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello played a chubby, bumbling character. His catchphrase was "Heeeeyyy, Abbott!"
Costello was born Louis Francis Cristillo on March 6, 1906, in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Helen (née Rege) and Sebastiano Cristillo. His father was Italian (from Calabria, Italy) and his mother was an American of Italian, French, and Irish ancestry. He attended School 15 in Paterson, NJ, and was considered a gifted athlete. He excelled in basketball and reportedly was once the New Jersey state foul shot champion (his singular basketball prowess can be seen in Here Come The Co-Eds (1945), in which he performs all his own tricky hoop shots without special effects). He also fought as a boxer under the name "Lou King". He took his professional name from actress Helene Costello: "There was a girl named Helene Costello, and I took her name".
In 1927 Costello went to Hollywood to become an actor, but could only find work as a laborer or extra at MGM and Warner Brothers. His athletic skill brought him occasional work as a stunt man, notably in The Trail of '98 (1928). He can also be spotted sitting ringside in the Laurel and Hardy film The Battle of the Century (1927).
Burlesque and Bud Abbott
In 1930, discouraged by his lack of success, he hitchhiked back home but ran out of money in Saint Joseph, Missouri during the Great Depression. He took a job as a Dutch-accented comic at a local burlesque theater. Changing his name to "Costello", he went back to New York and began working in vaudeville and burlesque theaters there. Unlike many burlesque comics of the era, though, he did not use "off-color" material – an approach that continued for the rest of his career.
While working in vaudeville in the 1930s, Costello became acquainted with a talented straight man named Bud Abbott, due to an illness to his regular straight man. After working together sporadically, Abbott and Costello formally teamed up in 1936. They performed together in burlesque shows, minstrel shows, vaudeville and movie houses.
Radio and Hollywood
Abbott and Costello signed up with the William Morris Agency, which sought to enlarge the duo's stature by putting them on the radio. In 1938 they received national exposure for the first time by becoming featured performers on The Kate Smith Hour, a popular variety show. They were hugely successful, which ultimately led to their appearance in a Broadway play in 1939, The Streets of Paris, and signing with Universal Studios in 1940.
They only had supporting roles in their first picture, One Night in the Tropics (1940), but stole the film with their classic routines, including a much-shortened version of "Who's On First?" (a more complete version was performed in The Naughty Nineties, released in 1945). The duo became associated with the routine, in which Abbott enumerated the names of a mythical baseball team, whose members have nicknames of "Who" who plays first base, "What" on second base and "I don't know" on third, etc. This confounds Costello when they are addressed simply as "Who", "What" and "I don't know". In another baseball-related word-play routine "Slaughter the Baseball Player" ("Who's On First" full radio broadcast), they are looking to buy a baseball bat and the one available was made for Enos Slaughter, and the more sadistic "Ninth Inning Steal" routine in which Bud and Lou rob an unsuspecting person by distracting him with a sensational baseball game recounting, unaware that someone else has already robbed the intended target using the same distraction. A modified version of the "Ninth Inning Steal" is shown in the movie Pardon My Sarongwhen bus drivers Bud and Lou try to steal gas from a gas station attendant.
The team's break through picture, however, was Buck Privates, released early in 1941. They immediately became the top-ranking comedy stars in Hollywood and fans looked forward to each of their pictures as a major event. Costello's childlike demeanor was strictly acting, and he aggressively battled with the more easy-going Abbott as well as the studio. Universal upped the duo's salary, but refused Costello's demand to reverse the billing, stating that it had hired Abbott and Costello, not Costello and Abbott. Most moviegoers had never seen the duo's burlesque routines, and so their dated but hilarious material seemed fresh. Many of their films cast them as bumbling servicemen such as In The Navy and Keep 'Em Flying.
The duo made 36 films between 1940 and 1956, and were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. Among their most popular films are Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, Who Done It?, Pardon My Sarong, The Time of Their Lives, Buck Privates Come Home, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.
The team also appeared on radio throughout the 1940s. On October 8, 1942, the team launched their own weekly show on NBC sponsored by Camel cigarettes. They moved to ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from 1947-49.
In 1951 the duo became one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour (Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others) and the following year they inaugurated their own situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show. Costello owned the half-hour series, with Abbott working on salary. The show, which was loosely adapted from their radio program, ran for two seasons, from 1952 to 1954, but found a new life as syndicated reruns.
Lou Costello being surprised on This Is Your Life.
They were forced to withdraw from Fireman Save My Child in 1954 due to Costello's poor health—he had been plagued by heart problems all his life due to a childhood bout of rheumatic fever—and were replaced by lookalikes Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett. They were dropped by Universal the following year.
Costello was surprised and honored by Ralph Edwards on NBC's This Is Your Life in 1956.
Abbott and Costello split up in July 1957, after troubles with the Internal Revenue Service forced both men to sell off their large homes and the rights to some of their films. Costello then pursued a solo stand up career, including stints in Las Vegas, and sought out film projects for himself. He appeared several times on Steve Allen's television show, but most often in variations of his old routines, with Louis Nye or Tom Poston taking on the straight man role.
Family and death of son
On January 30, 1934, Costello married Anne Battler, a burlesque dancer. Their first child, Patricia "Paddy" Costello, was born in 1936, followed by Carole on December 23, 1938, and Lou Jr. (nicknamed "Butch") on November 6, 1942.
In March 1943, after completing Hit the Ice, Costello had an attack of rheumatic fever and was unable to work for six months. On November 4 of that year he returned to the team's popular radio show, but a tragic event overshadowed his comeback. Upon arriving at the NBC studio, Lou received word that his infant son Lou Jr. had accidentally drowned in the family pool. The baby was just two days short of his first birthday. Lou had asked his wife to keep Butch up that night so the boy could hear his father on the radio for the first time. Rather than cancel the broadcast, Lou said, "Wherever he is tonight, I want him to hear me," and went on with the show. No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase "The show must go on" had been epitomized by Lou that night.
On August 15, 1947, their last child, Christine, was born.
The crypts of Lou Costello and his wife Anne.
After making the film, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, Costello died of a heart attack at Doctors' Hospital in Beverly Hills on March 3, 1959, three days before his 53rd birthday. A funeral Mass was held at his parish, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks. He is interred at theCalvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. His last words as reported in the March 4, 1959 Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Evening Mirror News were "I think I'll be more comfortable," according to a private nurse who was the only person in the room with him at the time. The widely reported claim that he died in the presence of friends and that his last words were actually "that was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted" appears to be incorrect, although the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Evening Mirror News articles both note Costello eating a strawberry ice-cream soda earlier that day in the presence of his manager Eddie Sherman, making it possible that the quoted statement was uttered at that time. Anne, his wife, was at his side most of the day, but was sent home by her assuring husband only an hour before his death at 3:55pm.
That same year on December 5, Lou's widow Anne died from an apparent heart attack at age 47.
Family legacy in the entertainment industry
Costello's sister, Marie Katherine Cristillo (1912–1988) was married to actor Joe Kirk (Nat Curcuruto), who portrayed "Mr. Bacciagalupe" on the Abbott and Costello radio and television shows and appeared in supporting roles in several of the team's films.
Lou and Anne's second daughter, Carole, appeared in uncredited baby roles in several Abbott and Costello films. She went on to become a contestant coordinator for the game show Card Sharksas well as a nightclub singer. She died of a stroke on March 29, 1987 at age 49 . Carole's daughter, Marki Costello, is an actress, director and producer in film and television.
Lou and Anne's youngest daughter, Chris, wrote Costello's biography, Lou's On First, in 1981.
Abbott & Costello Show
Broadcast History: 3 July 1940 to 26 March 1949
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes
Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, Sid Fields, Iris Adrian, Martha Wentworth, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton
Producer: Martin Gosch
After working as Fred Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941, while two of their films (Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost) were adapted for Lux Radio Theater. They launched their own weekly show October 8, 1942, sponsored by Camel cigarettes.
Abbott and Costello Children's Show
Broadcast History: 6 December 1947 to 26 March 1949
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Anna Mae Slaughter, Johnny McGovern
The American Broadcasting Company presents the Abbott and Costello Kid's Show produced and transcribed in Hollywood, and featuring the Lou Costello Jr Youth Foundation Award. Every Saturday morning on this program, some lucky boy or girl will win hundreds of dollars of valuable gifts, and the Gold Trophy for Good Citizenship!
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
Broadcast History: 17 December 1936, 9 May 1937 to 26 December 1948, and 2 October 1949 to 1 July 1956
Cast: Edgar Bergen, W C Fields, Don Ameche, Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Eddy, Clarence Stroud, Claude Stroud, Judy Canova, Zeke Canova, Annie Canova, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Langford, Marsha Hunt, Pat Patrick, Richard Haydn, Barbara Jo Allen, Norman Field
Director: Earl Ebi
Broadcast: 28th November 1945
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Andrews Sisters
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Kenny Delmar
Abbott and Costello & Andrews Sisters & Pied Pipers
Broadcast: 10th January 1946
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Andrews Sisters, Jo Stafford, Johnny Mercer, Ken Carpenter
Buck Privates
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott
Cary Grant & Shirley Temple
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cary Grant, Joan Davis, Shirley Temple, Ginny Simms, Don Wilson, Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Rise Stevens
Cary Grant, Spike Jones, Abbott And Costello
Broadcast: 7th October 1942
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cary Grant, Spike Jones
First Song – Exactly Like You (061)
Starring: Mel Blanc, Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, George Murphy, Bea Benaderet, Jane Wyman, Connie Haines, Jerry Colonna, The Pied Pipers, Harry Mitchell, Harry Bluestone, Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra, June Hutton
Guest Abbott And Costello
Broadcast: 4th January 1946
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Bill Stern
Added: Jan 06 2007
Starring: Carlton KaDell, Dick Powell, Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Dorothy Lamour, Howard Harris, Louis Vittes, Glenhall Taylor, Jean Holloway, Henry Russell
Linda Darnell & The Inkspots & Abbott and Costello
Broadcast: 2nd January 1943
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Linda Darnell, Cass Daley


Katie + Brads wedding day was such a special day! These two are so easy going, and sweet! And you guys, we got some glow on their wedding day! Thank the Lord!! It had felt like we had gone a lifetime without some golden glow. But we got it! And it did not disappoint!!
Katie has the most contagious laugh, and Brad is just so kind. I had the best time celebrating with these two!
Thank you both so much for allowing me to be apart of your amazing wedding day!!


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Q: Scala play internationalization: how to set an explicit language across all templates I've read through the documentation: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.0/ScalaI18N
and this post:
i18n error: controller and templates uses different implicit languages
and it looks straightforward to set the language implicitly from the request header if there is an implicit request. In my application I need to set the language across all templates according to a certain logic (that doesn't depend on the language in the request header). Is there a way to do that?

A: Yes, you need to add an extra implicit argument in your view like this:
@(form:Form[_])(implicit lang:play.api.i18n.Lang)

Then in your controller you add a line like this:
// this retrieves the language from the configuration,
// replace it with your own logic
implicit val defaultLang = Lang.availables.headOption.getOrElse(Lang.defaultLang)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), mother with joey. Photo taken at the Warrumbungle National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Photo taken at the Warrumbungle National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Look At Me Now Headland, New South Wales, Australia.
Mob of Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Look At Me Now Headland, New South Wales, Australia.
Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Look At Me Now Headland, New South Wales, Australia.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) - mother with joey in pouch. New South Wales, Australia
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). New England National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Easterrn Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), hit and killed by motor vehicle along a highway in South Australia.
Pacific Reef Heron (Egretta sacra). White colour morph. Also known as Pacific Reef Egret and Eastern Reef Egret. Found through Australia, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia and New Zealand. Photo Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Great Egret (Ardea alba). Found around wetlands, flooded pastures, rivers, estuaries, mangroves and reefs throughout Australia. Photo taken on the Darling River, near Menindee, New South Wales, Australia.
Coffin Ray (Hypnos monopterygium). Also known as Electric Ray, Crampfish, Numbfish, Short-tail Electric Ray and Torpedo Ray. New South Wales, Australia. This ray is capable of delivering a strong electric shock and uses its electric organs to stun prey.
Coffin Ray (Hypnos monopterygium) - burying itself in sand. Also known as Electric Ray, Crampfish, Numbfish, Short-tail Electric Ray and Torpedo Ray. New South Wales, Australia. This ray is capable of delivering a strong electric shock.
© Andy Murch / OceanwideImages.com


Are they, or aren't they? One Direction's Harry Styles is addressing rumors that he and Taylor Swift are in a budding romance.
Last week, it was rumored that Swift had told pal Justin Bieber that she was crushing on the One Direction singer after meeting him at the Kids' Choice Awards last month. From there, fans began to wonder if the twosome could be music's next great power couple. Well, it might be a little longer before things heat up between them.
Styles confirmed in an interview with an Australian newspaper that while they exchanged numbers and have been texting, nothing else is happening. "We met in America, she's very nice, yes," he told the Herald Sun. "She is very talented... She's very nice... We're friends."
Swift is one of many girls that Styles has been linked to since coming Stateside to promote the band's chart-topping album, Up All Night. Other rumored girlfriends include American singer Lily Halpern, New York-based photographer Sarah-Louise Colivet and former "Bachelorette" Jillian Harris.
It's not just the band's romantic entanglements that are making news these days. In the same interview, Zayn Malik also addressed concerns regarding a lawsuit regarding One Direction's name. The band and their management, Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment and Sony Music, was sued by a U.S. band with the same name.
"We're not changing our name," Malik assured fans, who certainly had many suggestions for the fivesome. "We don't know what's going to happen but we're not changing our name."
Do you think Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are more than friends? Leave your comment below!