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AI: The momentum mindset
Glean insights from 1,100 C-level business and technology executives around the globe—from 13 industries and seven countries—surveyed by Accenture Strategy on AI's adoption, use and role in driving enterprise value.
While companies know AI is a critical piece of their competitive strategy moving forward, less than half say they have deployed fully sustainable AI programs that are delivering benefits as planned.
AI leaders demonstrate that the stumbling blocks to AI, when approached correctly, become enablers to value rather than inhibitors.
Accenture Strategy surveyed 1,100 executives across the globe to gauge AI adoption, the technology's use in the enterprise and its role in driving value. Our results show that companies know that AI is a critical piece of their competitive strategy moving forward. However, less than half (45 percent) say they have deployed fully sustainable AI programs that are delivering benefits as planned.
That leaves 53 percent of companies in pilot mode or early stage adoption, not yet reaping benefits. The remaining 2 percent are not even in the starting blocks. Across industries and geographies, we see a significant deployment gap. Despite companies' acknowledgement of AI's strategic importance and its impact on their business, many are stalled in making it a key enabler for their strategy.
AI: Disruption or opportunity?
Leaders versus laggards
From the early stages of AI adoption and beyond, many companies are either stopped in their tracks or significantly delayed due to several obstacles that range from data, to talent, to the technologies themselves. For instance, almost half of all companies cite data issues, while four out of 10 say they lack AI expertise. When addressed, each of these perceived stumbling blocks becomes a key enabler of AI benefits.
Those who view AI as building a new long-term capability have the best chance to transform their organizations for competitive advantage.
The way in which companies handle these potential obstacles spells success or failure—rapid incremental progress versus corporate paralysis. Leaders and laggards seem to struggle in fairly equal measure, but leaders dive in and course-correct as they go. Laggards allow uncertainty to bring them to a halt.
Accenture's video shows how to drive AI momentum, which is critical to corporate strategy, with two-thirds identifying AI as a top strategic priority. See more.
Creating the AI momentum mindset
With AI—as with any new transformative technology—there really is no ideal ready state anymore. Most companies must begin to build AI capabilities into their business as they're maturing, rather than taking a wait-and-see approach. Leaders do not get to competitive differentiation by refusing to take a risk or hesitating to transform. Our research shows that leaders who are deploying AI to their strategic advantage are doing a few common things right:
Leaders understand AI is more than just a tool or technology.
The majority of companies we surveyed recognize that AI will disrupt their industry. The true value of AI lies in building a foundation of capabilities that accelerate AI opportunities inside and outside the organization. The winning mindset sees AI as more than just a technology.
Leaders experiment and learn.
The more data companies feed AI over time, the smarter it gets. This fact eliminates some of the advantages fast followers have reaped with previous technologies. There is no better time to start than now. With fewer than half of companies having a sustainable AI program, the competitive window of opportunity is still open.
Leaders turn obstacles into opportunities.
Data quality and availability issues can stall AI, but they don't have to. Leaders use these challenges to fuel an AI-driven insight capability. They do not shy away from a continuous, iterative approach.
Finding a more agile way of approaching AI—from making momentum a priority to flipping obstacles to opportunities—may be what is necessary to place your company among the leaders in unlocking new sources of growth from AI. A few organizations are already on their way, driven by their strategic business objectives. If you act now, your company can still meet—or even better, beat—them there.
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City of London to review Skyscraper Policy
Posted on 9 September, 2015 by Neil Bird
In the wake of the Walkie Talkie's Carbuncle Cup award, the City of London is about to review its policy regarding tall building development bdonline (Building Design) reports.
Many have expressed concern about the impact of skyscrapers on London's skyline, with calls from some quarters for a halt to the number of towers being granted planning permission.
On the other hand, developers and planners point towards London's growing population, claiming that tall buildings are the only solution to the need to provide more business and residential accommodation.
Now, concerns over plans for a tower almost as tall as The Shard next to the Cheesegrater have prompted one councillor to speak out against the 'laissez faire' approach to planning in the City.
Tabling a question at this week's planning committee meeting Patrick Streeter asked what 'pointers' had been given to the developer of the building due to replace the Aviva Tower at No 1 Undershaft.
Calling for a reassessment of policy, Streeter described the current building as 'good, appropriate and well-spaced' before claiming that planners are allowing skyscrapers to become 'crammed in' like 'passengers in a rush-hour tube'.
"It's getting out of control. The City should take a pause to rethink," he said. He also proposed the pedestrianisation of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe to relieve the 'claustrophobia in the air'.
Responding to Streeter, chief planning officer Annie Hampson refused to discuss the pre-application discussions being held with the developer of the proposed new tower (Aroland Holdings) due to commercial confidentiality.
However, she insisted that the impact of the growing number of tall buildings in the City had not been ignored, saying it was being looked at 'very closely'.
Committee chairman Michael Welbank said that Streeter had 'raised important issues' and pencilled in a review of the City's tall buildings policy at the committee's next meeting on October 6.
The proposed replacement for the Aviva Tower will be significantly taller than the Cheesegrater and the building due to replace the stalled Pinnacle office tower, making it the tallest building in the City. At a reported 304m it will be just shy of The Shard (309m) at London Bridge.
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Sunita|Parbat
Sunita Bogati was born in 2041 in Majphant VDC of Parbat district. There are eight member in her family. Her eight members' family fully depend upon farming It is very difficult for them to meet their both ends. Despite difficulties Sunita completed her high school level and admitted to +2 in a nearby college .Her father always supported her in study. At the age of 19 she got married to Mr.Mahendra of Maygdi district. Mr. Mahendra is also from a farmer's family. His family depends on farming and they cultivate vegetables and sell them in a nearby market. After marriage sunita lost her father and mother in-law in a quick interval. After in-laws d eath the joint family of Mahendera separated and there is no income source of Mahendra to maintain his family. Tensions and uncertainties inflicted in her life. The burden of the family further increased as two children born to them. He decided to go abroad for employment, but it was not so easy. Finally they postpone the idea of going abroad and decided to stay in the village for vegetable farming. Due to lack of fund she cannot start her farming as she wished. The commercial bank did not provide loan as they have not sufficient collateral in their name. They got entangled in to a web of hardship, freedom from which could only be found till Sunita meets a NESDO Nepal Staff. It was a sheer chance that matured into success. After listen everything about NESDO Nepal from the branch manager, she felt motivated to become a member of NESDO Nepal. Then she attained the 7 days pre-group training in her village along with other 14 women. After completing the training she takes Rs.20000 loan for vegetable cultivation. She invest the amount in vegetable cultivation that paid up and encouraged her to make more investment in vegetables. Then she took Rs.30000 loan and gradually her loan celling increases to Rs.150000 as per the volume of her business. She prepared organic manure out of domestic waste, unusable parts of fruits and vegetable, debris in kitchen. She used the organic manure in her vegetable which improve the soil fertilities at the same time increase the vegetable production. Now they cultivated various types of vegetable and it also create an employment opportunity for her husband. The demand for their vegetable increase in the market as they use organic manure. Her spirit and believe in herself were raised with NESDO Nepal by her side. Now her family lived in a house that has been well-furnished and has improved latrine facilities. Her two children going to an English boarding school with faces beaming with smiles. The days of old sufferings are now just memories. The Success of Sunita earned for her an elevated status in the locality.
Shanta|Walling
Shanta Khand was born in Marlangkot VDC of Syangja District. The entire family of Shanta depends upon her father for living. As a farmer it is very difficult for Santa's father to maintain his seven members' family. As we know poverty irresistible traveller and so it has its reaches to all area including Marlangkot VDC. Due to poverty Shanta was unable to continue her study. At the age of 20 she got married to Chandra Bahadur of jogithum VDC of Syangja district. Her husband did not have any formal education to look for a good job nor is he a skilled worker in any trade. He could not find any employment in the locality or around. That drove him for sundry places to earn something for the family. He then took a loan from the local money lender and go to abroad for earning. But life is not a bed of roses. After spending sometimes in abroad he returns to Nepal with a small amount of money, hard to repay his early loan. Now Shanta felt that Poverty is a perpetual reality for her .She had no idea that this can ever be confronted or eliminated. The burden of the family further increased as a child born to them. Shanta wants to undertake a move that promises a secure future. One day an official from NESDO Nepal passed a piece of information about the p rospect of some amount of loan to start a business. Next day she met the NESDO Nepal Staff and asked for help. The branch Manager clarified every things to Shanta .Shanta has come to learn how to combat this menace with the assistance from an organization like NESDO Nepal. Shatnta understood that she could start a small business in which she has some skill while the family members can also lend some useful hands. The domestic meeting ended up with a "yes" for the receipt of a loan from NESDO Nepal. Then she asked for Rs.20000 loan which was dully granted. After receiving the loan she started a small poultry business. Her husband also help in her business. As her business paid-up, she took additional loan of Rs.150000/ for the expansion of her business. Her business gradually increase and she opened a fresh house in walling market where her husband selling the chicken and meat. In addition to that she started trading of some grocery items from a Kirana stores opened in his house. From then on it's a story of success rolling on. It is surprising and heartening to observe her spiral success. Shanta is now a well-known person in the locality. Now she lives a life of comfort. Memories of sheer hardship still haunt her from time to time. Now her son doing fairly well in the school. Now Shanta is a source of inspiration for the poor people of the locality. It is the strong determination and willpower of shanta which makes her what she is today. Shanta's talent of entrepreneurship has now brought smiles to many.


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3 Chords & the Truth: Once in a blue moon
There's a moon out tonight, and it's blue.
Once in a blue moon comes out to about -- on average -- once every 2 1/2 years. That's how often you get two full moons in the same month.
In my native south Louisiana, we'd call that lagniappe. A little something extra.
AND IT occurs to me that's how often you'll find something like 3 Chords & the Truth . . . something as wonderfully diverse, broad-ranging, quirky and sometimes surprising as this here little musical venture on the Internet. The goal here is to always give you a little something extra.
Just like a blue moon.
Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang,
Ba ba ding a dong ding . . . blue moon.
And, boy oh boy, are you going to get your blue moon's worth this week on the Big Show.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Along with the sunshine. . . .
If there's a better country-pop song than "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden," I don't know what it might be.
And now both artists responsible for this masterpiece in 2:55 are gone. Writer Joe South died in 2012. The woman who had the smash hit with it in 1970, Lynn Anderson, died last night.
From The Tennessean in Nashville:
Country singer Lynn Anderson, best known for her classic recording "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden," died Thursday night of a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She had been hospitalized for pneumonia following a trip to Italy. She was 67 years old.
Lynn Rene Anderson was born Sept. 26, 1947 in Grand Forks, N.D., and raised in California. She came from a musical family: Her parents Casey and Liz Anderson were both songwriters; the latter penned the Merle Haggard hits "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" and "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive."
Ms. Anderson's debut single, a duet with Jerry Lane called "For Better or for Worse," was released in 1966, when she was just 19 years old. It failed to chart. However, later that year her single "Ride, Ride, Ride," cracked the country charts, and its successor, "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" was a Top 5 hit.
For two years during the late 1960s, Ms. Anderson was a regular on the popular "Lawrence Welk Show," an outlet which exposed her to a nationwide audience. "It was appointment viewing," said WSM DJ and Grand Ole Opry announcer Eddie Stubbs. "Lynn Anderson really helped expand the boundaries of country music because there wasn't a lot of (it) on network television at that time."
Ms. Anderson wed producer/songwriter Glenn Sutton in 1968. He produced several of her hit songs—and wrote some too, including "You're My Man" and "Keep Me in Mind"—but the couple would divorce in 1977.
In 1970, Ms. Anderson moved from California to Nashville, and signed with Columbia Records. In October of that year, she released what would become her signature song, and one of country music's classics. The lilting "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden," penned by Joe South, became a worldwide hit with its immediately recognizable intro and catchy lyrics. In the U.S., it spent five weeks atop the country music charts and crossed over to the pop charts as well. The recording also netted Ms. Anderson a Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy Award, and in 1971, the Country Music Association named her Female Vocalist of the Year. Over the last four decades, "Rose Garden" has been covered numerous times by a wide variety of artists including k.d. lang, Martina McBride, Suicide Machines and Southern Culture on the Skids.
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3 Chords & the Truth: It's a smash!
Did you hear the big news?
The Big Show is a BIG SMASH! And we're not talking about what happens to your fedora when you accidentally sit on it, either.
No, the kind of "smash" we're talking about when we're talking about 3 Chords & the Truth is the good kind of smash . . . as in "smash hit." As in "smashes down the boundaries of excellence in music programming."
Yes, in that respect, your favorite music podcast is indeed a smash.
THIS WEEK, we'll be doing more of our customary smashing of barriers that dictate what you can and can't do with a music format. And we'll be smashing any notion that you might guess what we'll be doing next -- or playing next on the Big Show.
That's the Big News about 3C&T all wrapped up in a petite promotional package. And the big news is, of course, very good news.
Even more succinctly, let me put it this way: Give the Big Show just 90 minutes of your valuable time, and we'll give you an entire world of music. Sound fair? Good. We'll meet you over at the podcast player.
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Ads that will embarrass y'all in 60 years
For the hell of it, I've been going through some mid-1950s editions of Television magazine, immersing myself into an archival wayback machine.
Trade advertising was fascinating then -- at least to me -- sometimes dry, sometimes cute, occasionally sophisticated . . . and too often, through the clarifying lens of 2015, horrifying.
Let's just say my little "wayback" exercise is a quick and effective manner of coming to grips with how a culture you were reared in -- and, frankly, didn't think much about at the time because people never see the forest for the trees -- actually was pretty horrifying in many ways.
IN THIS CASE, looking back at 1955 and 1956 through the lens of a television camera, we see a culture that was both deeply racist, quick to stereotype and completely hung up on the glories and nobility of "the Lost Cause." We see a culture dedicated to whitewashing (both literally and figuratively) its defining narrative and embracing an identity that you could sum up as They Who Give the Finger to the Yankees.
The South's past: Not forgotten because it's not really past.
Of course, to be fair. one Minnesota TV station had a trade ad touting itself via the ugg-a-mug stereotypical language of the American Indian, but you have to admit that the South set the standard for casual bigotry in the United States. We Southerners leave our subtlety at the door.
NOW, this has me thinking about matters not of the past but of the future.
My wondering goes something like this: When future generations of Americans -- or whomever -- look through the cultural output of post-millennial America, what things will horrify them that we hardly think about at all? Which of our cultural assumptions will testify against us and our age?
You know, sort of like watermelon-eating black children, branding yourself with the Confederate battle flag or the "gallantry" of Nathan Bedford Forrest?
Labels: 1950s, 1955, 1956, advertising, bigotry, broadcasting, journalism, media, race, racism, stereotypes, television, Television magazine, the South, TV
3 Chords & the Truth: A minute better
The last couple of weeks, the Big Show has run a minute long.
I interpret this as there being just too much spectacular stuff to fit in a mere 90 minutes of 3 Chords & the Truth.
You know that great Billy Eckstine album I was telling you about earlier on the blog? We're leading the show with the best cut. This is called "getting off to a fast start."
And then we don't let up a bit -- a great number, recorded live in 1987, from the late tenor-sax great Stan Getz. And then after that. . . .
WELL, we don't need to lay waste to the mystery of this edition of the Big Show, do we? No, we don't.
Not knowing what's next is half the fun of it all -- am I right?
Anyway, it's another good 'un, and you just might want to make 3 Chords & the Truth appointment listening. This is called "the smart thing to do."
In a wee housekeeping note, you'll notice that we've made just a few format tweaks in honor of this being episode No. 301 of the program. The biggest tweak is this: After more than 7 1/2 years, we're getting a new primary opening theme. Let's just say Gruppo Sportivo's Superman spoke to my radio-guy soul the other day.
THAT'S about it for this week. Just listen . . . and just have fun here in 3C&T land.
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Cool jazz on a hot summer's night
Was anybody better than Billy Eckstine?
Several were as good but none better, I don't think. And this 1959 stereo version of Eckstine's 1958 Billy's Best album makes for fine listening on a hot, steamy Midwestern eve.
Hell, it would be just as wonderful on a frigid winter's night on the Plains, too.
So this was tonight's musical selection here in the Revolution 21 studio here in Omaha, by God, Nebraska, deep into the dog days of summer, with state-fair season still a month away and college football a little further out than that.
UNLIKE many vinyl aficionados, I have nothing in particular against compact discs or good-quality digital audio files. But, damn, there's really nothing like putting an old LP on the turntable, basking in that particular smell of aged cardboard and paper. Nothing like holding the record sleeve in your hands and dreaming of your lost youth . . . or the days when jazz ruled the western world and you were yet a glimmer in your mama and daddy's eyes.
Maybe you can't hold this '50s classic of American popular music in your own two hands, but you can always listen to 3 Chords & the Truth and dream sweet dreams about a culture at its zenith that's just showing off.
Because it could.
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iGet taken back . . . and so does the iMac
I'm 18 again. And cool.
This was my afternoon listening -- during which the memories and the cool tunes came flooding back -- before there almost wasn't an episode of 3 Chords & the Truth this week. There almost wasn't a show this week because I finally took Production iMac to the Apple Store last night to get its recalled, big-ass "fusion drive" replaced with a brand-new, not-recalled version of the same.
The original hard drive seemed fine to me, but the email from Apple said they'd determined that my hard drive and others just like it were at risk of the computer version of cardiac arrest. Production iMac would need a transplant.
So as a PC veteran who has replaced my share of hard drives . . . and everything else . . . I was figuring along the lines of bring the thing in, go have cup of coffee, pick the thing up, go home. Unfortunately, while Apple products Just Work, they cannot be Just Fixed. Because cool design, or something like that.
THREE to five days, the verdict was.
"Well, then, I'm sunk. This is my work computer," I appealed.
"Let me check," the Genius Court said.
"There goes this week's show," your host groused during the wait.
As it turns out, the sentence was amended. Twenty-four to 48 hours in the shop, with no credit for time not served.
Under Apple's "good time" law, however, Production iMac was paroled early this afternoon -- a presumably rehabilitated digital audio workstation. (By the way, I can't say enough good about the Mac's "Time Machine" data backup. In less than an hour, the iMac was just as it was before. No hassle, no drama.
Windows boxes are all about the drama. I spent a night and part of a day trying to get our Dell laptop to work and play well with the studio equipment and digital audio interface. It was touch and go.
Actually, it was more like cuss and scratch your head.
But the Mac is back, and I'm not subjecting myself to the W-word anymore. Not in the studio, at least.
All is well in the world, the Big Show goes on, and you'll get to hear you some Gruppo Sportivo, too.
Labels: 3 Chords & the Truth, Apple, computers, First-World Problems, iMac, LPs, music, New Wave, Revolution 21, vinyl
Life is worth living again
As the Playboy-reading kid said as a cheerleader came flying through his bedroom window as Faber College's homecoming parade went horribly wrong . . . "Thank you, God!"
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3 Chords & the Truth: 300 and counting
Three hundred.
Thrice five score.
Three hundred episodes of 3 Chords & the Truth . . . and counting.
That's a lot of shows. I've loved doing every one of them -- even when I had a clunky, outdated digital audio workstation (that's computer to you and me) that I fought with all the time. I won't tell you what I called that Windows monstrosity; this show is PG-13 at its bawdiest.
But now I have a souped-up, giganto iMac, and it's all gravy now. Even more fun. And I hope you have as much fun listening as I do playing great -- and highly eclectic -- music for you on the Big Show.
WELL, this week we have another highly eclectic and hugely fun program for you to mark the Big 300th episode. We start out with a "revolutionary" set in honor of Revolution 21, the umbrella under which your humble musical smorgasbord keeps its powder dry. Dry gunpowder is important when you're aiming for a music explosion, don't you see?
Then we have some more smorgasbord, and then some classic soul, and then . . . well, why dispel all mystery about this episode of 3 Chords & the Truth.
Needless to say, it's a good 'un.
Set a spell, take your clothes off . . . NO, THAT'S NOT RIGHT . . . PG-13, REMEMBER? Let me try this again.
SET A SPELL. Take your shoes off. Y'all have fun now, y'hear?
Clothed. Absolutely clothed. Family show here on the Internets. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Last evening's vintage listening
Here's a glimpse at my vintage listening for last night -- Billy Vaughn and his orchestra goes Hawaiian back in 1959.
Well, contrary to Dot Record's sloganeering, this LP represents not "the greatest sound on records!" but rather, "Really great, but still no RCA Victor release from the same era."
I know this because I'm a nerd.
A vintage record nerd, with geek tendencies.
ACTUALLY, this LP was amazingly clean and unworn, despite its vintage. It sounded new, even after all these decades.
The vinyl itself was a little warped but still played flawlessly. And the album still was in the Sears and Roebuck plastic wrap.
I can almost see, a half century and six years past, the music going 'round and 'round on something like this . . . right out of Sears' 1959 Christmas catalog. Musical satisfaction guaranteed.
Labels: 1950s, 1959, albums, big band, Billy Vaughn, culture, easy listening, geekery, LPs, music, records, Sears
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Southern Exposure, the site of our closing night dinner, recently launched a new project by artist Allison Smith entitled, The Cries of San Francisco. The installation will be up in the galleries, but if you plan on being in SF for an extended period of time, you may want to check out one of the numerous public events planned during the show's run.
The following is from the SOEX website, where you can also find out more about this project: "The Cries of San Francisco is a project by Allison Smith in collaboration with Southern Exposure that invokes the historic tradition of street peddlers hawking their wares with melodic songs and calls as a means of offering up social revelations on the temporal employments, habits, and callings of nearly 70 Bay Area artists, craftspeople, and other urban workers. The Cries of San Francisco takes the form of a public art event centered around Mint Plaza, a sculptural installation and a series of events at Southern Exposure and a publication chronicling the project.
Image: Allison Smith as the town crier, via SOEX.


In early 2012, St. Philomena and St. Clare de Montefalco are to move forward as cluster partners to develop and to submit a plan to cluster and eventually merge to the Regional Moderator no later than June 30, 2012. The cluster plan should be implemented when a current pastor is no longer available, if a replacement is not available to be assigned, or when either parish begins to experience a net operating deficit. The plan should commence with models for initial collaboration including plans for shared programming, outreach and administration, for clustering/merging the parishes, and/or closing buildings and planning for the sale of property, along with a timeline for the merger.


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Q: Dances with Wolves - Does movie title really tells the whole story about the movie? A very famous movie title "Dances with Wolves". I just to make sure does name of the title covers the whole story or just an English Phrase.

A: "Dances with Wolves" does not cover the whole plot.  That would be impossible. No title "covers the whole plot", not even long descriptive titles like "Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone" (This title doesn't "cover" Ron, Hermione, Hogwarts or Voldemort, for example)
"Dances With Wolves" is the name of the main character of the movie, it doesn't "cover" any of the events of the movie (although some Native American names may have a specific meaning related to the actions of a person).  It is not a common phrase used in English. My understanding of the is that "Dances" is verbal, and the meaning of the name is "He is a person who dances with wolves".

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Browsing Arthur Friedheim Library of the Peabody Institute by Title
Arthur Friedheim Library of the Peabody Institute
Park Band
Baltimore's Municipal Music program supported the all-white Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and summer music concerts by Park Bands. In the summer of 1922 the Board of Estimates made a small appropriation to provide Òcolored ...
Passport of Arthur Friedheim
United States. Department of State (1924-07-11)
Passport of Arthur Friedheim (and of his wife, Madeleine), with a visa and a stamp from British passport control.
[Pencil drawing]
Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943 (2011-04-07)
Pencil drawing of a bookplate by Joseph Schillinger illustrating his theories about the "Mathematical Basis of the Arts". Graphite pencil on paper.
Pencil drawing by Joseph Schillinger illustrating his theories about the "Mathematical Basis of the Arts". Graphite pencil on paper.
Pennsylvania Avenue
From the end of World War II and for a period after desegregation, Pennsylvania Avenue was the major business and entertainment center for Baltimore's African American community. The Avenue was a musician's Paradise with ...
[Photograph of Frances Schillinger]
Unknown (2011-04-12)
Undated photograph of Frances Schillinger (née Singer), presumably taken after her marriage to Joseph Schillinger.
[Photograph of Joseph Schillinger]
Undated photograph of Joseph Schillinger, presumably taken after his marriage to Frances Schillinger (née Singer).
Undated photograph of Joseph Schillinger with a music box, presumably taken after his marriage to Frances Schillinger (née Singer).
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Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 (1920)
Bound volume of personal photographs relating to Enrico Caruso's private life and depicting his travel, family and friends. Although Caruso did not take all the photographs, he selected and arranged them in this volume.
Photographs II-B
[Photographs of Joseph and Frances Schillinger]
Three undated photographs; two of Joseph Schillinger and one of Joseph and Frances Schillinger (née Singer) together, presumably taken after their marriage.
[Photographs of Joseph Schillinger]
Undated photographs of Joseph Schillinger; smaller photograph may have been taken for his passport while the larger photograph was presumably taken after his marriage to Frances Schillinger (née Singer).
Undated photographs of Joseph Schillinger; top photograph depicts Schillinger playing the piano and bottom photograph depicts Schillinger playing the organ. Presumably these photographs were taken after his marriage to ...
Places (Sounds and Stories Online Exhibit)
Porgy and Bess
Gershwin changed the title of the opera to Porgy and Bess so that Anne Brown would share equal billing with baritone Todd Duncan. The premiere took place on October 10, 1935, at New York's Alvin Theatre. (Photo courtesy ...
Postcard
Cowell, Sidney Robertson (1958-05-09)
Postcard from ethnomusiologist Sidney Robertson Cowell to Frances Schillinger, asking about the Rhythmicon [the first electronic rhythm machine built by Russian inventor Louis Theremin]: "could a composer afford to buy it? ...
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(ZHP/Warsaw) – Every four years delegates from all over Poland gather at the National Congress of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego (ZHP, the National Scout Organisation in Poland) in order to decide about the most important issues concerning their association. This year's Congress took place in Warsaw, the country's capital city at the beginning of December. And for the first time all parts of it were live broadcast by ZHP's own professional TV station ZHP360!
And that is exactly the reason behind ZHP360, the recently created first professional TV Station run by the Polish Scouts and Guides.
"Each day, we started with a breakfast show at 8am, just like the real professionals from the Polish National TV, and for two hours our own cheerful 'anchor girls' made sure the audience was well informed with background stories about a variety of topics concerning ZHP. Later during the day, the live broadcast from the plenary hall began, which also included interviews with key Leaders and guests. And the programme continued throughout the day until 10pm. The busy days ended with a team meeting before everybody fell into their beds at midnight for a couple of hours of sleep." A total of 70 hours of material were the results of the combined efforts and you can still watch them on the ZHP360's website.
So, what are the conclusions looking back on these very busy and challenging days in Warsaw?


Have you always wanted to take a cruise, but a few concerns have been a hangup? Let's debunk the most common cruise travel myths once and for all.
Accidents can occur anywhere, but to the contrary of the myth, cruise travel is statistically safer than air travel—the golden benchmark for safety. If you as a passenger use common sense and are mindful of your own personal safety, you'll have nothing to worry about onboard.
Ships do move with the motion of the ocean but not nearly as much as you might think. Newer, larger vessels are more stable than their predecessors, and certain routes and times of the year are calmer than others. Consider inlet voyages or a river cruise and avoid stormy seasons if you're concerned.
Thanks to the mainstream media's undue attention given towards Norovirus, everyone has surely heard of the gastrointestinal bug, but outbreaks are statistically rare onboard, and you can protect yourself by simply regularly washing your hands.
Contemporary cruise ships tout larger cabins or at least better-outfitted ones with more-efficient use of space. Expectedly, they will not be as large as shoreside equivalents at a hotel, but they are still very comfortable, and larger suites are available for those who would prefer.
Sometimes, popular areas onboard can become busier, but there are usually plenty of other places to go for a quiet retreat. Look for higher passenger-space ratios for cruise ships with more available room per guest.
The drunken debauchery once associated with cruises has thankfully died down. They are far more intellectual now and well behaved accordingly. If you want to avoid any element of weekenders, seven-day or longer sailings are ideal.
In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. As cruise ships get bigger, the abundance of activity, entertainment and dining options rapidly expand with them. You will absolutely not be bored onboard.
Cruise ships are, in a way, destinations unto themselves, but they do still sail to actual international ports-of-call, allowing every passenger the opportunity to explore ashore or stay onboard as much or as little as they please.
There was a time when cruise travel was pricier, but with a massive amount of cruise lines and ships now in the market, per berth rates have decreased significantly, making cruising one of the best values in travel.
As the cruise industry evolves, so too does its demographic. Cruise ships do remain a great option for honeymooners, but the average age of cruisers has dropped substantially. In fact, the passenger quantity of Millennials and Generation Z is beginning to match and now exceed that of Boomers and Generation X.


Students from kindergarten through eighth grade meet and practice every day for an hands-on performing arts summer program, From the Heart. Students practice different musical style numbers for their upcoming performance on July 21.
From the Heart Performing Arts makes its Moreno Valley debut at North Ridge Elementary this summer.
Meleah Robinson and the instructors at From the Performing Arts in Moreno Valley.
For many performing arts students in Moreno Valley, the summer has been anything but boring. Instead, it has been a unique chance to meet new friends, develop their talents — and put on a showcase.
Over 100 students from the Moreno Valley Unified School District are a part of the launch of a new day camp-style arts program, From the Heart Performing Arts Center, for kindergarteners through eighth grade, held at North Ridge Elementary.
Originating in inner city schools around Los Angeles County, From the Heart Performing Arts Center is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Robinson, a producer with a diverse background in entertainment and reality TV. Last year, Robinson and her husband looked at Moreno Valley, a diverse area they felt "well needed" a lasting performing arts program for its public schools.
Students from North Ridge Elementary, Palm Middle School and Hidden Springs Elementary School in Moreno Valley were invited to participate free of cost, as well as two high school interns to help with the program, which was funded by the Moreno Valley Unified School District in its first year.
From 8 a.m. until 2:45 p.m., students decend on North Ridge Elementary for group classes and rehearsals for the final showcase on Thursday, July 21.
Along with the educational, school board-approved curriculum, From the Heart summer classes include music, art, theater and dance choreography. The curriculum is put together in a final showcase production, with everything from the script, stage set and original dances created by the students.
"We make sure everyone feels they have an important role, including the understudy parts," McNeal said.
For many students, the work feels a lot like fun.
The shyness factor was tough for some to overcome.
The showcase, themed "Camp North Ridge" and held in the multipurpose room at North Ridge Elementary, encourages students to learn about different world cultures and music genres, and features songs and dances from hip-hop and Broadway jazz, to salsa and tap.
From the Heart Performing Arts has already been given the green light to continue on in Moreno Valley next year, and is accepting volunteers and donations to help with the cause. For more information, visit http://www.fromtheheartperformingarts.com/.