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Historical Perspectives
Today's Challenges
Case Study Initiative
America's Interfaith Infrastructure
First Encounters: Native Americans and Christians
Establishment or Tolerance?
The "Free Exercise" of Religion
African Religion in America
"Alternative Altars"
Catholic and Jewish Immigrants
Asians and Asian Exclusion
Parliament of Religions, 1893
God's Melting Pot
The Right to Be Different
Xenophobia: Closing the Door
A Three Religion Country?
A New Multi-Religious America
From Diversity to Pluralism
Parliament of Religions, 1993 and Beyond
Stereotypes and Prejudice
Not in This Neighborhood! Zoning Battles
Violence and Vandalism
Cooperation at the Grassroots
Encounter in the Courts
Encounter in the Public Schools
Encounter over the Curriculum
School Holidays? Prayers?
Encounter in the Public Square
America's Growing Interfaith Infrastructure
Common Cause in Social Action
Sharing Prayers, Sharing Space
Hospitals in a New Era
The Case Method and Pluralism
America's Interfaith
Pilot Report
Interfaith Organizations
Since its first appearance, some critics have rejected the language of the "melting pot." To them, freedom meant, most fundamentally, the freedom to be oneself, with all one's differences and particularities. In the wake of the most intensive decades of massive immigration to America that brought an unprecedented diversity of people to American shores, there were those who argued that the distinctive ways of immigrant communities did not need to be melted down or stripped away for them to become Americans.
At the forefront of these thinkers was Horace Kallen, an American Jewish scholar, who published a provocative essay in a 1915 edition of The Nation called "Democracy versus the Melting Pot." Here he argued that the very idea of America as a melting pot contradicts the premise of American democracy: the inalienable right to be different, to follow the lights of one's own conscience. In contrast to the melting pot, Kallen eventually coined the term "cultural pluralism" to describe what America is and should be. By 1924, he had refined his thinking into a book entitled Culture and Democracy in the United States.
Kallen argued that the "melting pot" often meant assimilation into Anglo-Saxon American identity. But as he looked at the Scandinavians in Minnesota, the Germans in Wisconsin, and the Irish in Boston, he did not see evidence of a melting pot. He saw a distinctive process of Americanization that, at the same time, preserved cultural uniqueness. He observed that, after a period of economic assimilation into American life, many immigrants began to identify once again with their distinctive cultural heritage. It was now not a disadvantage, but an asset to identify with that culture. The fact that Scandinavians in Minnesota created a Scandinavian Society or Germans supported the translation of German classics was not evidence of fragmentation, but of a very American kind of freedom. "Americanization has liberated nationality," Kallen wrote. Rather than a melting pot, America can be a "nation of nationalities."
To be sure, immigrant groups must be loyal to certain democratic principles but, within those constraints, Kallen argues, there is no reason that immigrant peoples should not be able to maintain their identities, cultural expressions, religious beliefs, and even languages. In his 1916 essay, "The Meaning of Americanism," he wrote: "Democracy involves, not the elimination of differences, but the perfection and conservation of differences. It aims, through Union, not at uniformity, but at variety, at a one out of many, as the dollars say in Latin, and a many in one. It involves a give and take between radically different types, and a mutual respect and mutual cooperation based on mutual understanding." This is, indeed, his vision of cultural pluralism: the consensus of different cultures to recognize and respect one another, to communicate with one another, to work together if possible, and to agree to peacefully disagree if not. Kallen wrote primarily of America's ethnic groups, but his views apply equally to the religious communities so often the bearers of ethnic or cultural identities.
Kallen describes cultural pluralism as a "symphony." America, he argued, should not try to become homogenous, singing in unison. Rather, it should be "a multiplicity in a unity, an orchestration of mankind." As in a symphony, each instrument sounds on its own, in harmony but not in imitation of the others. The instruments together, sounding in harmony and not in unison is, in Kallen's view, the true expression of the American ideal. "But the question is," he poses, "do the dominant classes in America want such a society?"
It became clear in Kallen's time that many Americans did not want such a society. Black-white segregation was still the rule, and even Kallen did not address the issue in his early discussion of cultural pluralism. The anti-foreign born, nativist sentiment of America increased, especially after World War I, with many pointing to embattled Europe as prognostic of what could happen if difference flourished unchecked. By 1924, immigration from Asia and from Eastern and Southern Europe was effectively closed. Theories of racial superiority thrived. Insecurity, fear, and the desire for religious certainties gave rise to Christian fundamentalism and gave new life to the Ku Klux Klan. During the 1920s, Jews and Catholics were the primary targets of its agitation.
Despite this spate of nativism, the "right to be different" has persisted in America as a strong, even inevitable, concomitant of religious freedom and freedom of conscience. In a democratic pluralist society, the right of groups and individuals to their own conscience is balanced by a strong commitment to a common civic and political culture—to play in the orchestra, so to speak. Every religious community has experienced the tensions between maintaining the cherished particularities of its own religious and cultural "music" and learning to play in the orchestra of a more complex nation of peoples. Catholics, for example, have developed and maintained a strong parochial school system in order to foster faith among young American Catholics. Orthodox Christianity has also cultivated rather than converged national and cultural traditions as immigrants from Greece, Russia, Serbia, Albania and Bulgaria did not unite under a common roof in America but maintained strong lines of distinction in their churches, each ecclesiastically linked to their several home Patriarchates. While Reform Judaism has become increasingly "American" in its timbre, Orthodox Judaism has kept its own distance from "mainstream" American culture, as has the Lubavitcher movement.
In the early decades of the twentieth century African Americans developed their own black nationalist movements. Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement of the 1920s kindled a new spirit of African identity among black Americans. The recovery of African-American Islam also began in this period with Noble Drew Ali, whose Moorish Science Temple, launched in Newark in 1913, encouraged urban blacks to claim their Islamic roots. W.D. Fard and his successor Elijah Muhammad gave rise to the Nation of Islam in Detroit in the 1930s, claiming a separate black Muslim identity as a "nation" within the U.S.
For some such groups, commitment to a distinctive religion or culture created a sharper tension with the participatory engagement of pluralism. They were faced with a question: Is American pluralism strong enough to provide space even for those who wish to maintain their own separate identities? This has been a crucial and continuing question for Native peoples and African Americans and has been raised anew for groups like the Amish, the Hutterites, and the Lubavitchers.
The Amish, for example, have tried consciously to resist any assimilation, seeking to preserve their German-speaking culture and maintain a lifestyle in which pacifist Christian values dictate clear gender roles, strict parent-child relations, and a strong ethic of simple living. Some of the landmark religious freedom cases decided by the Supreme Court have concerned them. In 1972, the Amish's right to withdraw their children from formal education in the public schools after the eighth grade was upheld, despite the state of Wisconsin's requirement that formal schooling be continued into high school (Wisconsin v. Yoder). For religious reasons, the Amish would rather remain apart from the symphony Kallen describes, or perhaps sound their note from a distance.
For Horace Kallen and those taking up the banner of cultural pluralism, the right to be different and to sound one's own distinctive note comes with the responsibility to participate in the symphony. Indeed, participation is the very premise of participatory democracy. But while civil participation has its legal obligations, cultural participation cannot, of course, be constitutionally required. What makes the orchestra work is the energy and engagement of all its diverse players, whose commitment to making music springs from a participatory spirit of good will toward the whole.
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"Democracy Versus the Melting Pot," Horace Kallen, 1915
Horace Kallen, a Jewish scholar and writer, began a decade of writing about the issues of American identity in the face of massive immigration with this piece, published in two parts, in The Nation. The full collection was published in 1924, as Culture and Democracy in the United States. During the time this article was published, America was receiving the largest influx of immigrants in history, and "Americanization" programs were one response to enabling the assimilation of so many diverse peoples into "American" culture, which Kallen insists is basically the Anglo-Saxon culture of New England. He saw the Americanization programs as being primarily in the interest of old Anglo-Saxon business classes and antithetical to the real spirit of democracy. In response to the "melting pot" image of the day, which Kallen rejects, he proposes "cultural pluralism." This essay also responds critically to a book by Edward A. Ross, The Old World in the New, describing the dangers lurking in massive immigration and advocating the halt of immigration—a view which eventually won out in 1924.
All the immigrants and their offspring are in the way of becoming "Americanized" if they remain in one place in the country long enough—say, six or seven years. The general notion, "Americanization," appears to denote the adoption of English speech, of American clothes and manners, of the American attitude in politics. It connotes the fusion of the various bloods, and a transmutation by "the miracle of assimilation" of Jews, Slavs, Poles, Frenchmen, Germans, Hindus, Scandinavians into beings similar in background, tradition, outlook, and spirit to the descendants of the British colonists, the Anglo-Saxon stock.
…It is summed up in the contemporary representative "average" American of British stock—an individualist, English-speaking, interested in getting on, kind, neighborly, not too scrupulous in business, indulgent to his women, optimistically devoted to laissez-faire in economics and politics, very respectable in private life, tending to liberalism and mysticism in religion, and moved, where his economic interests are unaffected, by formulas rather than ideas. He typifies the aristocracy of America. From among his fellows are recruited her foremost protagonists in politics, religion, art, and learning. He constitutes, in virtue of being heir of the oldest rooted economic settlement and spiritual tradition of the white man in America, the measure and the standard of Americanism that the newcomer is to attain.
…To the dominant nationality in America, nationality, in the European sense, has had no meaning: for it had set the country's standards and had been assimilating others to itself. Now that the process seems to be slowing down, it finds itself confronted with the problem of nationality, just as do the Irish, the Poles, the Bohemians, the Czechs, and the other oppressed nationalities in Europe. "We are submerged," writes a great American man of letters, who has better than any one I know interpreted the American spirit to the world, "we are submerged beneath a conquest so complete that the very name of us means something not ourselves…I feel as I should think an Indian might feel, in the face of ourselves that were."
…It is in the shock of confrontation with other ethnic groups and the feeling of aliency that generates in them an intense self-consciousness, which then militates against Americanization in spirit by reinforcing the two factors to which the spiritual expression of the proletarian has been largely confined. These factors are language and religion. Religion is, of course, no more a "universal" than language. The history of Christianity makes evident enough how religion is modified, even inverted, by race, place, and time. It becomes a principle of separation, often the sole repository of the national spirit, almost always the conservator of the national language and of the tradition that is passed on with the language to succeeding generations. Among immigrants, hence, both religion and language tend to be coordinate: a single expression of the spontaneous and instinctive mental life of the masses and the primary inward factors making against assimilation.
…At the present time there is no dominant American mind. Our spirit is inarticulate, not a voice, but a chorus of many voices, each singing a rather different tune. How to get order out of this cacophony is the question for all those who are concerned about those things which alone justify wealth and power, concerned about justice, the arts, literature, philosophy, science. What must, what shall this cacophony become—a unison or a harmony?
…Immigrants appear to pass through four phases in the course of being Americanized. In the first phase they exhibit economic eagerness, the greed of the unfed. Since external differences are a handicap in the economic struggle, they 'assimilate,' seeking thus to facilitate the attainment of economic independence. Once the proletarian level of such independence is reached, the process of assimilation slows down and tends to come to a stop. The immigrant group is still a national group, modified, sometimes improved, by environmental influences, but otherwise a solitary spiritual unit, which is seeking to find its way out on its own social level. This search brings to light permanent group distinctions, and the immigrant, like the Anglo-Saxon American, is thrown back upon himself and his ancestry. Then a process of dissimilation begins. The arts, life, and ideals of the nationality become central and paramount; ethnic and national differences change in status from disadvantages to distinctions. All the while the immigrant has been using the English language and behaving like an American in matters economic and political, and continues to do so. The institutions of the Republic have become the liberating cause and the background for the rise of the cultural consciousness and social autonomy of the immigrant Irishman, German, Scandinavian, Jew, Pole or Bohemian. On the whole, Americanization has not repressed nationality. Americanization has liberated nationality.
Hence, what troubles Mr. Ross and so many other Anglo-Saxon Americans is not really inequality; what troubles them is difference. Only things that are alike in fact and not abstractly, and only men that are alike in origin and in spirit and not abstractly, can be truly 'equal' and maintain that inward unanimity of action and outlook which make a national life. The writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were not confronted by the practical fact of ethnic dissimilarity among the whites of the country. Their descendents are confronted by it. Its existence, acceptance, and development provide one of the inevitable consequences of the democratic principle on which our theory of government is based, and the result at the present writing is to many worthies very unpleasant. Democratism and the Federal principle have worked together with economic greed and ethnic snobbishness to people the land with all the nationalities of Europe, and to convert the early American nation into the present American state. For in effect we are in the process of becoming a true federal state.
…We are, in fact, at the parting of the ways. A genuine social alternative is before us, either of which parts we may realize if we will. In social construction the will is father to the fact, for the fact is nothing more than the concord or conflict of wills. What do we will to make of the United States—a unison, singing the old Anglo-Saxon theme "America," the America of the New England school, or a harmony, in which that theme shall be dominant, perhaps, among others, but one among many, not the only one?
…The common language of the commonwealth, the language of its great political tradition, is English, but each nationalist expresses its emotional and voluntary life in its own language, in its own inevitable aesthetic and intellectual forms. The common life of the commonwealth is politico-economic, and serves as the foundation and background for the realization of the distinctive individuality of each nation that composes it. The "American civilization" may come to mean the perfection of the cooperative harmonies of "European civilization," the waste, the squalor, and the distress of Europe being eliminated—a multiplicity in a unity, an orchestration of mankind.
As in an orchestra, every type of instrument has its specific timbre and tonality, founded in its substance and form; as every type has its appropriate theme and melody in the whole symphony, so in society each ethnic group is the natural instrument, its spirit and culture are its theme and melody, and the harmony and dissonances and discords of them all make the symphony of civilization, with this difference: a musical symphony is written before it is played; in the symphony of civilization the playing is the writing, so that there is nothing so fixed and inevitable about its progressions as in music, so that within the limits set by nature they may vary at will, and the range and variety of the harmonies may become wider and richer and more beautiful.
But the question is, do the dominant classes in America want such a society?
[From Horace Kallen, "Democracy Versus the Melting Pot," The Nation 100, no. 2590 (18-25 February 1915), 190-94, 217-220.]
Americanization Division on the "Melting Pot" Phrase, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, 1918
From this article, it is clear that the Americanization Division of the Bureau of Education heard and tried to respond to the critique of the "Melting Pot" idea and even suggests dropping the term.
"Foreign-born misunderstand this and other terms, report discloses—Urge their elimination from current affairs."
Washington, D. C.: Following the campaign of the Americanization Division of the United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, to eliminate from current use such insulting names for foreign-born persons and their children as "Dago," "Wop," "Sheeny," etc., a drive has been begun by the division after a conference with its Committee of Racial Advisors to eliminate also terms like "Little Italy," "Ghetto," "Jewry," and "Melting Pot."
Since Israel Zangwill produced his famous play "The Melting Pot," that term has been generally used to convey the idea that America is the land in which all the races of the world are slowly being melted into a new race and a new nationalism. To the native-born American the term has no unpleasant meaning, abut to the foreign-born, the Americanization Division has found, it suggests the kind of melting down which means to them the sacrifice of their native culture and character. For this reason, concludes the division, it would be better to drop the term and substitute one which convey the idea not of the destruction of what is rich and desirable in European culture, not a process of burning down, but rather the building up of a new civilization which, being a blend of all the cultures of the earth, will be the higher Americanism of the future.
In the same way it would be well, suggests the Americanization Division, if other terms of a similar nature were struck out of current use and substituted by ones of a slightly different color.
"In talking with men of different races now resident in this country," says a report of the division, "we have noticed that the word colony is not always kindly received. They would much rather that we spoke of the 'Armenian community' or of 'our fellow citizens of Polish birth,' if we have to refer to them separately at all. The present habit of publicly locating them 'across the railroad track,' or 'in the immigrant quarter,' or in the 'Ghetto,' 'Jewry,' or 'Little Italy' is properly resented by them and greatly retards the friendly relations and cooperation for mutual good citizenship which true Americans desire. Sometimes they say: 'We are more American than those who could not help being born here, because we deliberately chose this country as our country above all the countries of the world, even about the land of our birth.'"
"Let the word be passed along," concludes the report, "that all men are Americans who try to live American."
As part of its work along this line the Americanization Division recently published a "code of honorable names," which was circulated largely among the schools and boys' clubs throughout the country.
[From Americanization Division of the Bureau of Education, "Americanization Division on the 'Melting Pot' Phrase," Americanization Bulletin 1, no. 6 (Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, 1918), 7]


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Hayate the Combat Butler - Season 3 Episode 6
Silver Week has arrived but Nagi has no interest to set to Las Vegas and retrieve her late father's possessions, rathering to spend the day with Hayate instead. Later she pays a visit to the Violet Mansion, just to find that Ruri is alone there. Unable to leave when it starts raining, Nagi manages to have Ruri confess that her true intention is to obtain the elusive "Black Camellia", a treasure believed to be in possession of the Sanzenin family and Nagi asks her grandfather by phone about it. However, Mikado refuses to say anything beyond the fact that the treasure was stolen 13 years ago and she breaks her smartphone in anger. When the rain worsens into a storm, the two girls struggle to keep the house by themselves when Ruri saves Nagi from being hit by a large tree branch carried by the wind. When the storm passes, Hayate appears at the mansion and he gets a call from Mikado who reveals to Nagi that the Black Camellia was stolen by her father.
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The sculpture as seen from the center of the park enjoyed by labyrinth walkers.
The Abstract Sculpture, a split dodecahedron, at the Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway was reconfigured on Sunday morning, April 7, 2013. The reconfiguration is the first time the sculpture has been changed since the park was dedicated in May 2012.
The sculpture and its annual reconfiguration celebrates the immigrant experience – symbolic of all who were pulled apart from their country of origin and came to these Massachusetts shores, establishing themselves in new and different ways.


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I had so much fun on my trip to Canada, where I spoke at Doreen Penner's women's conference, Walk Into Your Blessing. I took the Canadian Via train and the U.S. Amtrak train coming back home, and had many divine appointments on the trains. This is part 6 of my Canada Trip Blog Series. You can read part 5 here.
As I shared in Part 2 of this blog series, I told Ray that for my birthday in 2012, all I wanted to do was ride on a long distance train. I wanted to try something new, to savor the experience of having a nice dinner on a train, to take beautiful pictures of the scenery ~ and to write on the train.
I bought a pretty, flowered journal at one of Canada's Dollaroma stores and wrote in this on the train trips.
The man who I wondered if he was an "angel" had advised me to check my luggage before I got on the Amtrak train for Seattle. I'm so glad that I listened to him. I winded up going up and down a lot of stairs to get to the train station.
When I awoke that morning, my plan was to take the bus again to get to the train station. My departure time was 6:55 a.m., and I checked out of the hotel in Vancouver about 5:30 a.m. to get to the train station in plenty of time. But the buses didn't come to that particular stop by my hotel that early.
I prayed walking down the dark streets of Vancouver. It was quiet and a little unnerving. I went inside a building, and asked for directions to get to the station. When you listen to too many voices, you become confused. This is what I've shared with my coaching clients. Listen to God's voice and maybe one or two good mentors, whom you trust, in order to succeed.
The morning was stressful and hectic. Finally two security guards told me how to get to where I needed to go. I took the Canadian Sky Train Waterfront, then the Sky Train to Main Street. The Sky Train is like a subway above the streets.
Some of the escalators weren't working in the buildings to get to the Sky Trains, so I had to carry (lift) my luggage. At one point, I was almost crying from the adrenaline and the stress of hurrying to get to the Amtrak train station on time.
At the hotel, I had lightened my load, throwing away a book, some lotions, and other unnecessary things. I had tried to pack light for this trip, but I still had too much with me. Next time I am packing much lighter! I also realized that me being overweight was slowing me down a lot. What do you need to let go of in order to run this race more freely? What is hindering or stopping you from your purpose?
The cab attendant told him that all seats were assigned. I was amused and wanted to add Divinely Assigned, but was quiet. After awhile, to break the ice, he began a conversation with small talk, saying that he had made this trip from Vancouver to Seattle many times.
When I told him that I was a writer and a speaker, his eyebrow raised and he said, "You're a writer?" I could tell he was immediately interested. He said he was a writer, too. At this point, I knew it was a God thing. He wrote children's stories, dabbled in science fiction (Ray would love that!), and had some ideas for a non-fiction book.
This man then began asking me questions about self-publishing. I shared my writing journey with him, and told him why I'd chosen to self-publish my books vs. traditional publishing. There are pros and cons to both types of publishing.
Traditional publishing can take anywhere from one to two years, and can be difficult to break into without the right connections.
To be honest, it's STILL my dream to be published by a traditional publisher. Despite the rapid changes in technology making self-publishing easier and the fact that self-publishing doesn't carry the stigma it used to, traditional publishing does offer a little more credibility for writers, unless you are Amanda Hocking.
Anyway, I shared with this man on the train that I made a decision to self-publish because I felt the message God gave me in writing the books were too important to wait. I didn't want to go to the grave with my books still inside of me. I've written five books. And I believe I have many more books inside of me!
My friend Jim Maher, a great man of God who made such an impact on me and others, encouraged me to self-publish for this reason (getting your important message out there), as he did his own books before his early death.
I'd submitted some manuscripts and was tired of rejection letters. What if nobody every published me? I wanted to get the books out there into the hands of people so they would know the truth and would be encouraged. I also wanted to physically hold my book, my baby, in my hands! I also wanted to be able to sell a product on back tables whenever I spoke.
Self-publishing gave me the freedom to accomplish my goals.
As a writer, you should do a lot of research to decide whether traditional publishing or self-publishing fits your needs best. For self-publishing, there are a lot of options available to help you get your book or ebook published.
Vervante (my book publisher), who published my book, The Hands of a Woman: Everyday Women in Everyday Battles.
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The State of Reissues 2010: Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Joe Pass
By C. Michael Bailey
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Formed by the merger of West Coast record labels Concord and Fantasy in 2004, the Concord Music Group possesses the largest catalog of recorded jazz earth-side. With such a rich basement, Concord can be expected to launch reissue series from time to time. The label's newest such program is the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series.
Original Jazz Classics was inaugurated as an imprint of the Fantasy label in 1982 with the intention of releasing jazz recordings previously available only in LP and cassette formats from Prestige, Contemporary, Riverside, Galaxy, Pablo and other labels. These releases are being 24-bit remastered by Joe Tarantino and supplied with new liner notes from prominent observers to complement the original notes.
The Original Jazz Classics Remasters series begins with five discs: pianist Dave Brubeck's Jazz at Oberlin, alto saxophonist Art Pepper's Meets The Rhythm Section, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' Way Out West, pianist Thelonious Monk's Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane and guitarist Joe Pass' Virtuoso. The earliest was recorded in 1953 and the latest 20 years later. Three of the releases sport a quartet, one a trio, and the last, a solo performance. Two of the five leaders are still living and recording.
These five releases, save for the relatively late Virtuoso, are a nice slice through 1950s jazz. There can never be too much of it, and through release programs like this one, they will always be available.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz at Oberlin
Original Jazz Classics Remastered
Dave Brubeck was already several recordings deep into his career when his quartet recorded live at in Finney Chapel at Oberlin Collage, March 2, 1953. In 1950, Brubeck suffered a near fatal accident and took some time off befor forming his quartet in 1951. The quartet took up an extended resident at San Francisco's Black Hawk Lounge and recorded several more albums before hitting the college circuit and waxing Live at the College of the Pacific (Fantasy, 1953) and then Jazz at Oberlin that same year. This was part of the period of prolonged percolation anticipating Brubeck's full breakout after joining Columbia and the release of Time Out (Columbia, 1959).
Jazz at Oberlin clocks in at a sleek five songs over 38:00, opening with an immediate break into "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)." In 1953, small ensemble jazz was still under the spell of Charlie Parker. Paul Desmond, another alto player, represented a singular voice outside of Parker's shadow. Brubeck's playing is almost delicate, as is the rest of the rhythm section, before preempting Cecil Taylor's and Don Pullen's percussive, atonal ferocity. Juan Tizol's "Perdido" is almost frantic but never threatens to lose control.
"Stardust" is a lithe ballad played transparently, while "The Way You Look Tonight" foreshadows Brubeck's keenly inventive arranging ability. "How High The Moon" reflects this same unique arranging while. A fittingly swinging coda to this brief release. New liner notes are provided by Ashley Kahn provide a historic perspective to the importance of this recording and its promotion.
Visit Dave Brubeck on the web.
Art Pepper
Meets the Rhythm Section
It is almost too good a story not to romanticize at least a little, but this particular story needs little embellishment to be compelling. Neil Tesser's new liner notes to Art Pepper's Meets the Rhythm Section give fresh perspective to producer Lester Koenig's original 1957 sleeve lines. Before this famous session on January 19, 1957, Pepper had been particularly strung out on heroin. He had been released from a 10 month incarceration in federal prison for drug charges the previous summer, and since that time had been vegetating in a narcotic garden.
As the story goes, without the saxophonist's knowledge, Pepper's live-in girlfriend, Diane, arranged with Koenig to have Pepper record with trumpeter Miles Davis' working rhythm section made up of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones, who happened to be in town with time to record. At the time of this session, Davis and his band (then employing John Coltrane on tenor saxophone) had last been in the studio recording the marathon sessions ultimately leading to the quartet of recordings for Prestige Relaxin', Cookin', Steamin' and Workin', which were eventually resequenced and released on Miles Davis: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Prestige, 2006).
Busted horn, busted life, busted attitude, and very high, an angry Pepper enters the recording studio not knowing what he is going to play and ultimately not knowing how to play several of the numbers decided upon. Tesser's notes reveal from Pepper's autobiography Straight Life (Schirmer Books, 1979) that Pepper "went blank" when asked for the first song. Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" and and Jimmy Van Heusen's "Imagination" were suggested and while Pepper was familiar with the tunes, he had never played them. That little bit of stress produced two of the more memorable tracks on the disc. Pepper, without hesitation, launched into these songs, remaking them in the same real time way Charlie Parker used for his 1947 recasting of the Gershwins' "Embraceable You."
The Dizzy Gillespie songbook provided "Tin Tin Deo" and "Birk's Works." The former presents some very deft drumming by Jones and the latter a nice mini-duet between Pepper and Garland. Chambers is the anchor on which this session is tethered. Both his pizzicato and arco soloing is captured better with the present 24-bit remastering than on previous releases. Restored to this session is "The Man I Love" which had been released on the odds- and-ends collection The Way It Was (Contemporary, 1972).
Visit Art Pepper on the web.
The pianoless jazz combo was nothing new when Sonny Rollins recorded Way Out West on March 7, 1957. Benny Goodman fiddled with a clarinet, vibes and drums format in the 1940s, and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan had already made history with trumpeter Chet Baker and a pianoless quartet at the Haig in the early 1950s. Way Out West marked the first time Rollins recorded as a tenor trio sans piano. He would take this format into the noted Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958).
Rollins had ended 1956 recording with drummer Max Roach in various formats, some led by Roach, others by Rollins. Accompanying Roach to Los Angeles for an EmArcy recording date with Roach's working quintet of (Kenny Dorham, trumpet Bill Wallace, piano, and George Morrow, bass, resulted in the album Jazz in 3/4 Time (EmArcy, 1957)). Rollins booked time for a trio recording using West Coast musicians Ray Brown (bass) and Shelly Manne (drums). He did this without the knowledge of Roach, who later questioned him about it.
But that was not the only ripple of controversy surrounding Way Out West. Photographer William Claxton's famous sleeve cover of Rollins in the desert wearing a cowboy had and gun belt, a photo made at Rollins' request, prompted Lester Koenig to print a disclaimer on the sleeve cover that Rollins had authorized the photograph in an effort to meet criticism of the recording as a "scam." Some 50 or so years later, the album title, cover art and repertoire only make sense as the East Coast tenor titan comes west to record with the local talent.
The release boasts two performances of Johnny Mercer's "I'm An Old Cowhand," the alternate take considerably extended from the A side. Shelly Manne sets up a loping rhythm that is picked up by Brown. Rollins' tone is a natural resource, full and virile, teeming with life. "There Is No Greater Love" displays Rollins' pristine ballad touch and the originals, "Come, Gone" and "Way Out West," the saxophonist's sense of humor and whimsy. The remastering has sharpened Brown's bass and brightened Manne's cymbals. The edges of Rollins' rasp is accentuated, increasing the organic quality of that famous tone.
Visit Sonny Rollins on the web.
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
In December 1956, Miles Davis fired John Coltrane from his first quintet. The previous October, Coltrane had taken part in Davis' marathon recording sessions that would result in the albums collected on Miles Davis: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Prestige, 2006). Growing less reliable due to his heroin addiction, Coltrane had become a drain on Davis and was let go. That was just the thing to flip Coltrane.
Recording sporadically during the first half of 1957, Coltrane eventually came into the orbit of Thelonious Monk when the pianist was beginning his famous extended stay at New Work City's Five Spot Cafe. It was during this period that the sides that would become Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane were recorded. A mixed bag, to be sure, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane features the two musicians in quartet and octet settings. The quartet pieces—"Ruby, My Dear," "Trinkle, Tinkle," "Nutty," and "Functional"—had bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Shadow Wilson as the rhythm section. The octet pieces—"Off Minor" and "Epistrophy"—retained Ware, replacing Wilson with Art Blakey and adding altoist Gigi Gryce, tenorist Coleman Hawkins and trumpeter Ray Copeland.
In the development of John Coltrane as a soloist, Monk acted as a leavening agent, that organic thing that turned Coltrane from the hard bop tenor saxophonist into the enigmatic "sheets of sound" performer he would be thereafter. It would have been a very different Coltrane rejoining the Miles Davis in January 1958, had he not interned with Monk during this important evolutionary period, not to mention the effect it would have had on the canon what would become Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959).
Coltrane was not the only one to benefit from this collaboration. Monk also benefited. Just prior to his stint at the Five Spot, Monk had just had his cabaret card reinstated after its 1951 revocation on drug charges. The six months Monk was in residence at the club was the period when he solidified his reputation and went on to change the sound of jazz. That influence, that germinal spirit, is readily evident on Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane. Monk's compositions are unique.
Visit Thelonious Monk on the web.
Joe Pass
Virtuoso is the outlier in this series of reissues. Released in 1973, it is 20 years away from the forward-thinking Jazz at Oberlin, choosing rather to look back. It is a supreme example of the soloist's art and can only be properly compared to the solo performances of pianist Art Tatum from his Pablo period. Born Joseph Anthony Passalacqua in East Brunswick, New Jersey, Joe Pass began playing guitar just after his ninth birthday. He began to perform widely after age 14, fell in to drug addiction and spent most of the 1950s out of the spotlight.
After a two and a half year stay at the drug rehabilitation center Synanon (where Art Pepper would rehab a decade later), Pass emerged with The Sounds of Synanon (Pacific Jazz, 1962). In 1970, Norman Granz brought Pass into the Pablo fold where he stayed until his death in 1994. Virtuoso put Pass fully on the jazz map without a true peer in sight. The album is a collection of 11 standards and one original that span the depth and breadth of jazz guitar playing. Pass' technique is characterized by the near simultaneous ability to control the bass, harmonic and melodic structure of songs.
Pass possessed both an encyclopedic knowledge of the American Song Book and the ability to perform songs in different styles. Like Art Tatum, Pass is difficult to digest in a single sitting. His performances are crammed full of intelligence, humor and a bit of showing off. But hey, if you have the chops, why not use them?
Visit Joe Pass on the web.
Tracks and Personnel
Tracks: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You); Perdido; Stardust; The Way You Look Tonight; How High The Moon.
Personnel: Dave Brubeck: piano; Paul Desmond: alto saxophone; Ron Crotty: bass; Lloyd Davis: drums.
Tracks: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Red Pepper Blues; Imagination; Waltz Me Blues; Straight Life; Jazz Me Blues; Tin Tin Deo; Star Eyes; Birk's Works; The Man I Love.
Personnel: Art Pepper: alto Saxophone; Red Garland: piano; Paul Chambers: bass; Philly Joe Jones: drums.
Tracks: I'm an Old Cowhand; Solitude; Come, Gone; Wagon Wheels; There is No Greater Love; Way Out West; I'm an Old Cowhand (Alternate Take); Come, Gone (Alternate Take); Way Out West (Alternate Take).
Personnel: Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone; Ray Brown: bass; Shelly Manne: drums.
Tracks: Ruby, My Dear; Trinkle, Trinkle; Off Minor; Nutty; Epistrophy; Functional; Monk's Mood.
Personnel: Thelonious Monk: piano; John Coltrane: tenor saxophone; Wilbur Ware: bass; Shadow Wilson: drums (1, 2, 4); Art Blakey: drums (3, 5); Colman Hawkins: tenor saxophone (3, 5); Gigi Gryce: alto saxophone (3, 5); Ray Copeland: trumpet (3, 5).
Tracks: Night and Day; Stella by Starlight; Here's That Rainy Day; My Old Flame; How High the Moon; Cherokee; Sweet Lorraine; Have You Met Miss Jones?; 'Round Midnight; All the Things You Are; Blues for Alican; The Song Is You.
Personnel: Joe Pass: guitar.
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Prices of laptops in Nigeria 2023 – Top brands, features, current prices
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AMD RadeonTM Graphics are integrated graphics.
The 1920 x 1080 resolution on the 14.1-inch Lenovo IdeaPad AMD Ryzen laptop is impressive. It has an 8GB RAM and a 1TB hard drive. It has an AMD Ryzen CPU clocked at 2.6GHz and Lenovo turbo boost.
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Run on AMD Ryzen 3 (Equivalent to intel core i3).
With the Turbo Boost System, performance is quick and potent at 2.6 to 3.4GHz.
Display: HD resolution 14.1″ 1366 x 768. LED backlit display with a low-energy consumption; Intel UHD Graphics 610.
8GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM for memory basic multitasking memory;
Storage: A 1TB HDD provides a little warehouse for keeping all of your favorite videos, songs, photos, and other items in one simple location.
WiFi 802.11AC, Bluetooth, 2 USB 3.1 Type A Gen 1 ports, 1 HDMI port, 1 USB 2.0 port.
System of operation: Windows 10 Home.
Ultra Slim Laptop.
Performance is adequate, and the HP 11.6″ Stream 11 Pro Education Edition Notebook is designed for cloud computing and teamwork. It is driven by an Intel Celeron quad-core processor with a maximum speed of 2.2 GHz, which allows multitasking.
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Intel Celeron processor.
with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 1.10GHz
Best laptops in Nigeria with 64GB.
Super Slim.
Windows 10 home.
To keep you interested and productive wherever you are, the HP 39.6 cm (15′′) laptop combines a long battery life with a beautiful and small micro-edge bezel design.
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Intel Core i5-11TH GEN, 4 cores, 6 MB L3 cache, up to 4.5 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology.
512GB SSD.
Iris Xe graphics from Intel.
Integrated.
Full HD, 15.6″.
There are a few factors to take into account while purchasing a laptop in Nigeria:
Determine your intended use for the laptop, such as for work, gaming, or entertainment, as this will assist you choose the right specifications and features.
Windows is the most widely used operating system in Nigeria, while Linux and macOS are also available on laptops.
Hardware: Based on your intended use, think about the CPU, RAM, storage, and GPU you will require.
Battery life: Because power disruptions might be frequent in Nigeria, consider a laptop with a substantial battery life.
The number of storage gigabytes (GB) that a laptop requires varies depending on the user's usage and requirements.
A laptop with 128 GB to 256 GB of storage is typically adequate for a basic user who uses a laptop mostly for word processing, email, and web browsing.
However, you could require a laptop with 500 GB or more of storage if you intend to keep numerous high-resolution images and movies as well as several apps and games.
Choosing a laptop with as much capacity as you can afford is generally a good idea because upgrading the storage afterwards may be challenging or expensive.
Depending on the quality of the product and how well it is cared for, a laptop should typically last between three and five years. Nevertheless, depending on usage and other circumstances, some laptops may survive longer than 5 years or may not last as long.
It's crucial to remember that a variety of factors, such as the quality of the equipment, usage habits, and regular maintenance, can affect a laptop's longevity. A laptop may not last as long as one that is used lightly and is properly maintained if it is used for heavy workloads or is not kept clean and well-maintained.
In addition, several parts of a laptop, including the battery and hard drive, have a finite lifespan and can require replacement before the laptop itself. A laptop's lifespan can be increased by regularly updating your software and hardware to the most recent versions, avoiding overheating, utilizing protective gear like cases, and running effective anti-virus software.
HP, one of the leading laptop manufacturers, offers a laptop for any need, from price-conscious Chromebooks to high-end corporate laptops. Given the wide range of options, choosing the best laptop for you might be challenging. To help, we've put together this helpful overview of HP's various model lines.
HP's top model series is characterized by high-end, lightweight designs that provide portable power and stunning screens.
If appealing design, brilliant displays, and top-notch audio are what you're after, HP's Envy range of laptops has plenty of style.
HP's "Notebook" range may sound basic, and that's because it is; yet, their straightforward designs provide everyday performance without breaking the bank.
If you're looking for a laptop that strikes a balance between HP's entry-level "Notebook" series and its high-end Envy models, go no further than the reasonably priced Pavilion. These mid-budget laptops come in a wide range of sizes and forms, but they all have good performance and complete feature sets.
HP's gaming brand, Omen laptops offer a respectable gaming experience for (relatively) affordable prices. They have a little more style and a lot more graphics power.
Check out HP's vibrantly colored, extremely affordable Stream laptops for a Chromebook-style notebook that still delivers Windows.
Google's Chrome OS is available in a variety of well-built laptops from the HP Chromebook brand, with prices ranging from $200 to $500.
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HP Elite Dragonfly G3.
HP Envy 13 (2021)
HP Spectre x360 14.
HP Envy 16.
HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7.
HP Pavilion 14.
HP Pavilion Aero 13.
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December 31, 2020 · David Dixon
Asia market promising for 2020
It has been a fascinating year for business aviation in Asia Pacific, bringing us into 2020 with the promise of strong growth potential in the region.
For several years, we have been discussing the possibility of Asia becoming Jetcraft's second-largest market, overtaking Europe and behind only the US. While Europe's use of light aircraft means it is likely to retain its number two position in terms of units, Asia's fleet may soon surpass it in value, as buyers here predominantly choose large, long-range jets.
The reasons why larger aircraft are favored by Asian buyers are twofold. First, the infrastructure across the continent is restricted for business aviation users. For example, there are only around 250 airports in China that cater to private jets; while the US – which has a similar landmass – has more than 5,500. The need to fly longer distances between airports demands an aircraft with those mission capabilities.
Second, these buyers' missions are frequently intercontinental, requiring a large-cabin airplane that has the range to travel from Singapore to Los Angeles, or Hong Kong to London. As the leading manufacturers all invest in their long-range programs, we're seeing significant interest in Bombardier's Global 7500, Gulfstream's new G700, and Dassault's Falcon 8X and 6X models.
With new aircraft flooding the market, more jets are being sold out of the region. At Jetcraft, we're positioned to both source a new model and take an existing asset into our inventory or handle its sale, so buyers can upgrade with ease.
The start of a new decade should bring increased buyer confidence, stronger infrastructure, and perhaps the release of even more groundbreaking new aircraft to this market. Here at Jetcraft, we look forward to seeing Asia Pacific business aviation continue to thrive.
President, Jetcraft Asia
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23 July 2007 � We've all seen it before: a group of high school friends on a post-graduation last hurrah embark on a road trip into the wilderness. After some marijuana is passed around and beer guzzled down (indulged by all except the reluctant, mentally scarred virgin, of course), the car gets a flat and the camera cuts to a nail belt being dragged across the road. Everyone is okay but nobody seems to know how to change a tire, so they wind up wandering through the middle of nowhere as they are picked off one by one by cannibalistic rednecks. Sound familiar?
Along with the haunted mansion and summer camp, the road trip is one of horror cinema's most used tropes, and they have served as plot devices for the majority of American horror films since the 1950s. And even though the haunted mansion and summer camp are hardly used nowadays, the road trip remains a favorite of horror cinema. Why is that? Let's take a look...0
First of all, we have to distinguish between the two types of road trips: the party trip and the family vacation. Of course there are variations on each theme, but let's separate our topics of analysis into these two broad categories. Once we define these categories we will be able to dive in and explore how they are used.
The most prolific in use is the friendly camping / party trip. It is another way to get hot young teenagers together to smoke dope, drink and skinny-dip before being impaled whilst copulating. There's nothing new here as far as slasher fare goes, but we can look a little deeper into what this trip means. The vacation with friends is a bit of a rite of passage. It is an assertion of independence in a way. These teenagers are on what is likely their first vacation without parental supervision, ensuring that they will be overdoing it as far as the debauchery goes. In this scenario, you are almost guaranteed to find four stock characters: the party guy (probably driving the car), his slutty girlfriend (smoking a cigarette the first time we see her), the party guy's friend who likes to party but is really kind of sensitive (likely to become romantically involved with our last clich�), the damaged virgin girl. Chances are "damaged virgin girl" has lost her parents recently and she "needs to come out of her shell," or so her slutty friend says.
The above characters represent various strata of teenage society who all, in one way or another, need to assert their independence in a rite of passage. This is seen in a mass of films too multitudinous to list but most recently in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre original and remakes, Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn and many others. Furthermore, the plot device is stretched to include a single gender in The Descent.
This scenario can represent some of the pitfalls teenagers face on their way to adulthood. They are beset by monsters, cannibals, a werewolf, a sexually depraved slasher, etc. and their vacation is more than ruined. Their very future is in peril and only those who make the right decisions make it out alive. I went through this in my earlier discussion on sex and the slasher so I won't dive into it here, but it certainly rings true.
The more interesting scenario, and more relatable for that matter, is the family trip. Let's face it, how many times have you been on a sex and drug-filled road trip with your friends versus a trip with your parents you never thought would end? Which inspires more fear? Personally, I cringe at the very thought of my father explaining for the countless time why peaches are better than nectarines while I bake in the sun focusing through my window like an ant under a magnifying glass.
This scenario too has four stock characters you are almost guaranteed to see: overbearing / boring father, doting / mindless mother, responsible older sister who misses her boyfriend and is disgusted by her younger brother who is either young and snotty with some form of handheld video game system or a teenager who smokes pot and listens to heavy metal in his headphones.
Dead End is a criminally underrated independent horror film that depicts this scenario very well. It is very reminiscent of a Twilight Zone episode in its tone but uses these stock characters to a very good end. And you get to see Amber Smith naked! Furthering the stereotypical situation, The Hills Have Eyes has the very same premise but adds a second sister and extended family in the form of a husband and baby. This adds the character interaction between a man, clearly dreading being stuck with his in-laws, and the overbearing father of the women he's banging. As a married man I can appreciate the husband character who is treated as a secondary masculine character on vacation and appreciated it in this film whereas I would more often identify somewhere in between the pot-smoking heavy metal kid and the mature sister. The film also takes it one step further in another matter: it serves not as a plate of victims for the monstrous cannibals, but as a declaration of war between the two clans.
This scenario is probably derived from a relatively recent "breakdown of the family unit," as somebody more conservative than I am might put it. The family is threatened by outside depravity and must do its best to survive. But in the end, those who make it out alive are members of a completely different and fractured family.
Like The Descent twisted the previous trope by changing the sexes of those involved, Severance is a horror comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead that changes the family around. In Severance, the family unit involved is composed of members of an office who are on a team-building exercise gone awry. They fit into this and not the teenager scenario because, regardless of one character's debauchery, none of them want to be there except the boss.
We all relate to being stuck somewhere at the behest of someone we cannot disobey � whether it be parents or a boss � and being absolutely mortified by it. Add in the danger of being tortured to death, and in some cases eaten, and it is only made worse.
As I finish this week's column I am on my way home from a road trip of my own. If you don't get to read this until the police recover my laptop in a few months time you can just assume the cannibalistic rednecks got to me! See you next week... I hope.
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Sometimes, we have to go way back in our state's history to find the kind of leader we would like to have again today. We nominate our first Governor Arthur Boreman of Parkersburg as this necessary role model. And we find two men, one from each party, who both possess the one attribute Governor Boreman had in spades and what we need again desperately today: fearlessness.
We'll get to the two current candidates in a moment, but first, let's give Governor Boreman his due. Here was a man whose intellect and gut instinct told him to side with the Union and defy Mother Virginia. If the Confederate armies had been able to sweep up and recapture more of the western counties that became West Virginia, you can bet that at the top of the hanging list would be the new state's Governor Boreman.
Boreman was fearless, like all those who helped form the new State of West Virginia. But he also tempered that courage with a good heart, as seen when he paid for the new state's bills out of his own personal checking account. Governor Boreman cared about our state and its people.
Currently, we're sure many voters are finding it difficult to figure out which candidate deserves their vote. We can only offer our ten cents on the matter, but in Republican Clark Barnes and Democrat John Perdue, at least each party has someone with that combination of fearlessness and love of West Virginia that Governor Boreman possessed.
Some critics are nagging the fans of State Treasurer John Perdue for running ads that show Perdue strongly identifying with those on fixed incomes who have higher electricity bills this year. What can Perdue really do about that, they ask. But one of the first rules of political leadership is showing your constituents that you're right in the boat with them, paddling together, striving to see if some solutions to a problem can be found.
We don't know if Perdue can find any irregularities among the electrical companies that serve West Virginia. But we are willing to bet that a lot of Democratic primary voters are glad to know that he is ready to be on the case.
On the Republican side, State Senator Clark Barnes of Elkins has a similar fighting spirit that many discontented Republicans and Independents find attractive. The economic news is not good, and unemployment remains high. Barnes says what every Republican candidate says, namely that he wants to create a business climate in West Virginia that creates better-paying jobs.
But then Barnes takes it one important step further, rallying his party in saying that he will stand up to the federal government anytime that it starts to intrude on our rights and privileges as West Virginians. He says it soberly, seriously--and with a manner that says he really won't back down when it comes to fighting for us. Barnes explains in his stump speech that this will begin with examining very closely the rules handed out by the Obama Administration's EPA, with its exacting standards that are hurting our coal, timber, and agricultural sectors.
Mired as we are in this protracted recession, West Virginians are reaching out for a leader who can give us our self-confidence back as a people. Perdue and Barnes are doing their best to do that, each in their own way.
Another Civil War story is instructive for times like this. Following President Lincoln's appointment of General Ulysses S. Grant to head the Union Army, Grant's tactics came under some heavy criticism. When Lincoln had heard an earful of such talk one evening, he finally put the issue to rest by saying, "But I can't let Grant go. He fights!"
Don't be surprised if the two parties nominate the two men who have shown more fight in them than all of their competitors combined: John Perdue and Clark Barnes. Vote in Early Voting through next week or on Election Day next Saturday, May 14th.


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Technical Note: Optimized JPEG 2000 compression for efficient storage of histopathological whole-Slide images
Henrik Helin, Teemu Tolonen, Onni Ylinen, Petteri Tolonen, Juha Näpänkangas, Jorma Isola
Background: Whole slide images (WSIs, digitized histopathology glass slides) are large data files whose long-term storage remains a significant cost for pathology departments. Currently used WSI formats are based on lossy image compression alogrithms, either using JPEG or its more efficient successor JPEG 2000. While the advantages of the JPEG 2000 algorithm (JP2) are commonly recognized, its compression parameters have not been fully optimized for pathology WSIs. Methods: We defined an optimized parametrization for JPEG 2000 image compression, designated JP2-WSI, to be used specifically with histopathological WSIs. Our parametrization is based on allowing a very high degree of compression on the background part of the WSI while using a conventional amount of compression on the tissue-containing part of the image, resulting in high overall compression ratios. Results: When comparing the compression power of JP2-WSI to the commonly used fixed 35:1 compression ratio JPEG 2000 and the default image formats of proprietary Aperio, Hamamatsu, and 3DHISTECH scanners, JP2-WSI produced the smallest file sizes and highest overall compression ratios for all 17 slides tested. The image quality, as judged by visual inspection and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) measurements, was equal to or better than the compared image formats. The average file size by JP2-WSI amounted to 15, 9, and 16 percent, respectively, of the file sizes of the three commercial scanner vendors' proprietary file formats (3DHISTECH MRXS, Aperio SVS, and Hamamatsu NDPI). In comparison to the commonly used 35:1 compressed JPEG 2000, JP2-WSI was three times more efficient. Conclusions: JP2-WSI allows very efficient and cost-effective data compression for whole slide images without loss of image information required for histopathological diagnosis.
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Technical Note: Utilization of open source technology to create cost-effective microscope camera systems for teaching
Anil Reddy Konduru, Balasaheb R Yelikar, KV Sathyashree, Ankur Kumar
Background: Open source technologies and mobile innovations have radically changed the way people interact with technology. These innovations and advancements have been used across various disciplines and already have a significant impact. Microscopy, with focus on visually appealing contrasting colors for better appreciation of morphology, forms the core of the disciplines such as Pathology, microbiology, and anatomy. Here, learning happens with the aid of multi-head microscopes and digital camera systems for teaching larger groups and in organizing interactive sessions for students or faculty of other departments. Methods: The cost of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) camera systems in bringing this useful technology at all the locations is a limiting factor. To avoid this, we have used the low-cost technologies like Raspberry Pi, Mobile high definition link and 3D printing for adapters to create portable camera systems. Results: Adopting these open source technologies enabled us to convert any binocular or trinocular microscope be connected to a projector or HD television at a fraction of the cost of the OEM camera systems with comparable quality. Conclusion: These systems, in addition to being cost-effective, have also provided the added advantage of portability, thus providing the much-needed flexibility at various teaching locations.
Original Article: Can text-search methods of pathology reports accurately identify patients with rectal cancer in large administrative databases?
Reilly P Musselman, Deanna Rothwell, Rebecca C Auer, Husein Moloo, Robin P Boushey, Carl van Walraven
J Pathol Inform 2018, 9:18 (2 May 2018)
Background: The aim of this study is to derive and to validate a cohort of rectal cancer surgical patients within administrative datasets using text-search analysis of pathology reports. Materials and Methods: A text-search algorithm was developed and validated on pathology reports from 694 known rectal cancers, 1000 known colon cancers, and 1000 noncolorectal specimens. The algorithm was applied to all pathology reports available within the Ottawa Hospital Data Warehouse from 1996 to 2010. Identified pathology reports were validated as rectal cancer specimens through manual chart review. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value (PPV) of the text-search methodology were calculated. Results: In the derivation cohort of pathology reports (n = 2694), the text-search algorithm had a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98.6%, respectively. When this algorithm was applied to all pathology reports from 1996 to 2010 (n = 284,032), 5588 pathology reports were identified as consistent with rectal cancer. Medical record review determined that 4550 patients did not have rectal cancer, leaving a final cohort of 1038 rectal cancer patients. Sensitivity and specificity of the text-search algorithm were 100% and 98.4%, respectively. PPV of the algorithm was 18.6%. Conclusions: Text-search methodology is a feasible way to identify all rectal cancer surgery patients through administrative datasets with high sensitivity and specificity. However, in the presence of a low pretest probability, text-search methods must be combined with a validation method, such as manual chart review, to be a viable approach.
Research Article: Convolutional deep belief network with feature encoding for classification of neuroblastoma histological images
Soheila Gheisari, Daniel R Catchpoole, Amanda Charlton, Paul J Kennedy
Background: Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children younger than 5 years old. Optimal management of neuroblastic tumors depends on many factors including histopathological classification. The gold standard for classification of neuroblastoma histological images is visual microscopic assessment. In this study, we propose and evaluate a deep learning approach to classify high-resolution digital images of neuroblastoma histology into five different classes determined by the Shimada classification. Subjects and Methods: We apply a combination of convolutional deep belief network (CDBN) with feature encoding algorithm that automatically classifies digital images of neuroblastoma histology into five different classes. We design a three-layer CDBN to extract high-level features from neuroblastoma histological images and combine with a feature encoding model to extract features that are highly discriminative in the classification task. The extracted features are classified into five different classes using a support vector machine classifier. Data: We constructed a dataset of 1043 neuroblastoma histological images derived from Aperio scanner from 125 patients representing different classes of neuroblastoma tumors. Results: The weighted average F-measure of 86.01% was obtained from the selected high-level features, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Conclusion: The proposed computer-aided classification system, which uses the combination of deep architecture and feature encoding to learn high-level features, is highly effective in the classification of neuroblastoma histological images.