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999 11/2/19 at Reggies
Saturday night over in the Music Joint side of Reggies it was a very special evening if you are an old punk rock fan as first wave British punk band, 999, headlined a show there. Forty years is a really long time to wait for a mostly active band to return to Chicago but that is roughly how long it had been since 999 last played this city!
First up was Big Blood. This was a three piece, lo-fi garage rock type of band. The singer/guitar player had two microphones set up in front of him: a standard one and one made out of an old telephone receiver that did the distorted style vocals. Their songs were decent but they seemed a little green, it could be they aren't used to playing many shows or perhaps they are just a very inexperienced band but there was a bit of sloppiness to them. They played for a half hour.
Next up was a somewhat obscure but excellent old punk band, The Clap. Dating back to 1978, The Clap are an East Coast punk band that put out an excellent 7″ in 1980 and has put out occasional releases over the years, including a new one that came out recently. These guys were a ton of fun and played their early material along with some newer tracks. Their sound takes influences from both the early British and New York punk bands and their old school punk style sounds as good today as it did back in 1980 when they released their first single. The crowd loved them too and while most of the audience probably wasn't familiar with them before Saturday night, plenty of them walked away a fan. Their 45 minute set was excellent!
Punk legends, 999 took the stage next. The lineup featured original members Nick Cash and Guy Days, along with their bass player of the past 30 years, Arturro Bassick. Original drummer, Pablo LaBritain was unable to do this tour so they had someone fill in for him for these shows. The band picked up their instruments and got straight to work by opening with a sing along favorite, "Boys In the Gang" and sing along the audience did. Cash often held the microphone out to the crowd to help sing the choruses and the people loved it! The band delivered one classic 999 song after the next and they sounded as great as ever.
The set was a veritable greatest hits collection and really showcased how many truly great and catchy songs the band created over the years. Highlights included "Inside Out", "Feeling Alright With the Crew", "Titanic Reaction", "Lil Red Riding Hood", "Emergency" and of course, "Homicide". People danced, sang, and drank, and the band just kept belting out the hits. After playing nearly an hour, they left the stage for about two minutes before coming back for a three song encore which included "I'm Alive' and "Boiler". It was an amazing set, proving that more than four decades in, the band is still an incredible live act that still has a lot to offer (they even have a new album coming out in early 2020). Four decades was a long time to wait for them to come back, but it was totally worth it!
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Vor genau einem Jahr habe ich mit dem Kurs [Einstieg in C#](/einstieg-csharp/) begonnen. Das war die Grundlage für die Neuausrichtung von LernMoment.de. Seitdem ist das Angebot wesentlich mehr fokussiert auf Einsteiger in die professionelle Softwareentwicklung.

Die Reaktionen, Rückmeldungen und gemeinsamen Projekte haben mich einfach umgehauen. Ich kann es immer noch nicht fassen, dass sich in dieser Zeit fast 400 Abonnenten in [LernMoment's YouTube Kanal](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5jCUQ6IPHtQP5r4y9byCqA) angemeldet haben. Noch viel unglaublicher finde ich die Gesamtwiedergabezeit aller Videos. Diese liegt bei knapp 144000 Minuten was unglaublichen 100 Tagen entspricht. Für YouTube-Stars sind das sicherlich Peanuts, aber mich überwältigt es einfach, dass meine Erklärung tatsächlich Leuten beim Lernen hilft.

Hier geht es allerdings nicht um mich, sondern um dich. Ich möchte einfach **Danke sagen** für die vielen Videos die du geschaut hast, für die Kurse die du gekauft hast und vor allem für deine aktive Teilnahme an den Kursen, auf YouTube und hier im Blog. Gemeinsam werden wir es schaffen, dass die Softwareentwicklung in Zukunft wieder ein Stück professioneller wird.

Zu dieser **Geburtstagsparty gebe ich einen aus**. Dazu habe ich mir etwas ganz besonderes ausgedacht. Du bekommst 2 Wochen lang jeden Tag etwas neues von mir. Ich habe **neue Videos, Artikel, Kurse und noch einiges mehr** für dich vorbereitet und hoffe, dass für dich etwas passendes dabei ist. Ein Geschenk brauche ich nicht, aber du würdest mir eine riesige Freude machen, wenn du diese Seite, oder Artikel / Videos die dir besonders gefallen in deinem Netzwerk teilst.

Zu den Geburtstags-Spezials >>

Neben den kostenlosen Artikeln, Tutorials und Videos die ich als Dankeschön vorbereitet habe, biete ich dir meine Online-Kurse zum **Geburtstags-Spezial-Preis** an. Die Angebote wie auch den Übersichtsplan wann welche Artikel, ... im Rahmen der LernMoment's Geburtstagswochen erscheinen findest du in den folgenden Abschnitten.

Mir bleibt nur dir zu danken für deine Unterstützung. Damit du auch in den kommenden 12 Monaten viele interessante Dinge über professionelle Softwareentwicklung lernen kannst, habe ich schon eine lange Liste an Themen die ich für dich aufbereiten werde. Dabei werden natürlich die Themen C# und GitHub bedient, aber ich bin auch an einem (für mich) ganz neuen Themengebiet, welches ich unglaublich spannend finde.

Vielen Dank und viel Spaß mit dem neuem Material

Jan von LernMoment.de

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An idea of the meeting is to unite the groups working on cosmology from University of Szczecin, Albert Einstein MPI Golm, and DESY Zeuthen. This is one-day meeting. The idea is to have more informal talks appended with the extensive discussions. People interested in joining may contact the chair organiser (Mariusz.Dabrowski@usz.edu.pl) about the attendance.
9.30 - 10.00: A. Alonso-Serrano " Black hole information flux"
10.00 – 10.30: G. Aquaviva "Emergent scenario from the Bekenstein bound: some implications"
10.30 - 11.00: D. Oriti "Possible resolutions of the cosmological singularity in quantum gravity"
12.30 – 13.00: J.-L. Lehners "Gravitational path integrals and the early universe"
13.00 – 13.30: M. Dąbrowski "Cosmological measurement of the speed of light"
13.30 – 14.00: K. Leszczyńska "Varying constants driven baryogenesis"
15.00 – 15.30: A. Nilsson "Probing Horava-Lifshitz cosmology"
15.30 - 16.00: T. Bautista "Non-local effective actions in Weyl-flat spacetimes"
16.00 - 16.30: S. Farnsworth "Spinor driven cosmic bounces and their cosmological perturbations"
16.30 - 17.00: S. Choudhury "Inflation to large scale structure: EFT all the way"
Abstract: We illustrate the general ideas and recent results in group field theory condensate cosmology, a framework in which cosmological dynamics emerges as the hydrodynamics of the microscopic quantum gravity degrees of freedom. We then focus on the fate of the classical cosmological singularity, in this context, and discuss two ways in which it may be resolved. We also discuss some conceptual and physical issues associated with this resolution and with the whole framework.
generalized uncertainty principle) modify the Hawking flux when we approach the Planck size.
Title: Emergent scenario from the Bekenstein bound: some implications.
Abstract: The Bekenstein bound states that the entropy of a system contained in a certain volume is bounded from above by the entropy of a black hole with corresponding surface area. We relate such universal bound to the existence of fundamental degrees of freedom and provide model-independent considerations about their features. In particular, both geometry and fields propagating on it are seen as phenomena emergent from the more fundamental dynamics, in analogy with many examples in condensed matter physics. An immediate consequence is that, even though the fundamental evolution is considered unitary, the fields develop an entanglement with the spacetime geometry, hence leading to an effective non-unitary evolution on the emergent level. We exemplify some consequences of this scenario by providing a toy-model of black hole evaporation, in which the entanglement between geometry and fields is interpreted at our low-energy scales as an effective loss of information in Hawking r adiation.
Abstract: The covariant renormalization of composite operators in the action leads to Weyl anomalies. Consequently, in the quantum effective action, operators exhibit an anomalous dependence on the conformal factor of the metric, which can have interesting consequences for (A)dS and cosmology. In this talk I will show how both this dependence and the full quantum effective action can be easily determined for classically Weyl invariant theories on Weyl-flat spacetimes. The result re-sums the spacetime curvatures of the corresponding Barvinski-Vilkovisky expansion.


It came down to the last second with a three-point shot for the Hamilton Lady Broncs as they won a loser-out contest against Corvallis Friday morning 47 to 46. The Lady Broncs stayed alive in the Western A Divisional basketball tournament. By quarters, the Corvallis Lady Blue Devils were in the lead much of the game. At the end of one quarter they led 13 to 8, at the half it was 23 to 20 and at the end of the third quarter, Corvallis led 37 to 34. But, at the very end of the game, a 3-point last ditch effort brought the Lady Broncs the win.
Corvallis is now out of the tournament and Hamilton will face the loser of this evening's Butte Central-Browning game. The Saturday morning game will be at the Hamilton Middle School gym on South 5th in Hamilton. The 9:30 a.m. game will be broadcast at 1240 AM KLYQ, www.klyq.com, on your cellphone with the free KLYQ app, and on your smart speaker at home with the KLYQ skill. We'll also have the Hamilton Broncs versus the Dillon Beavers Friday night at 8 p.m.


Increasingly alarmist headlines regarding possible publication of league tables have set back rational debate on practice information by decades. Such debate is essential and long overdue.
There is no doubt that patients require more information than they have at present regarding services offered in general practice. Since the outcomes and quality data covers most aspects of general practice, everything from clinical outcomes through practice organisation to patients' views, the information they receive must of necessity be drawn from some of these areas.
The practice leaflet describing when you can't see your doctor and when not to call him/her gives no useful information to prospective or current patients.
Health minister John Hutton did not suggest he had any intention of publishing league tables of quality data. What he did say was in his view the Freedom of Information Act would probably require disclosure.
But I do not believe there is any clarity around the legal extent of necessary disclosure. In small practices and small communities, for instance, publishing raw data could well lead to identification of individuals which would breach the Data Protection Act.
What we require is a constructive and informed debate on what information patients require, what can be legally and reasonably provided and how it is best presented.
It is too early to start manning the barricades.


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COP 21 Agreement
Lapo Pistelli Vice-President ENI.
The agreement reached in Paris last December by more than 10.000 delegates representing 195 countries bears historic importance. For the first time, such a number of nations agreed on the fundamental need of limiting global temperature to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, going as far as to "pursue efforts" to keep them below 1,5°. Moreover, they agreed on the concept that rich countries should help poor ones to meet their de-carbonization goals.
On a political and diplomatic standpoint, this is a brilliant success – even brighter as it comes at a time of increasing international uncertainty and scarce cooperation among countries. In particular, we are talking about a great achievement of the French diplomacy and his chief, Laurent Fabius, who chaired negotiations few weeks after the Paris terrorist attacks, and met their goals thanks to a dynamic, global and creative approach.
Looking backwards, we understand further the importance of the Paris achievement. Previous climate deals – the last of which in Copenhagen, six years ago – inevitably failed in uniting such a collection of world powers, falling short of engaging them with concrete vows on how they will act to curb their polluting emissions. As the world order shift towards an increasing multipolar fashion, China, India and Russia joined a resolute Obama-led US and the EU to take on climate change, and this was no easy prediction at all.
Besides this realization, however, it might be useful to consider few elements that could harm the climate deal while it unfolds in practice.
Primarily, besides an amusing yet powerless "peer review" mechanism, there is no clear international enforcement structure to make countries effectively match their original pledge over the years to come. Most importantly, all pledges remain "nationally determinate" and therefore weak, as they depend upon the willingness of each government to abide by its promises. In many countries, it is easy to imagine how parochial interests and the desire of winning political support at home could easily alter the initial commitment.
Secondly, and crucially, the sum of all pledges might not be enough to hinder global warming under the 2° threshold. Many analyst argue that even where we stand now there is a high risk of hitting a 3,5° increase between 2020 and 2030. Under current post-agreement conditions, the UN body organizing the summit forecasts a fall by 56bn tonnes of CO2 by 2030: to prevent any increase above 2 degrees they should be 100 times higher.
To reach our two-degrees aspiration we shall strengthen our response, establishing a clear link between goals and policies that apply globally, drive meaningful on-the ground results and set firm deadlines.
Renewable energies are too expensive and currently not capable of replacing hydrocarbons in the international market. Carbon-based fuels are and will remain a reality in the upcoming years, as well as in the longer run. Most authoritative studies on the evolving energy mix acknowledge that even in a 2°C scenario, fossil fuels will still account for more than two thirds of our energy needs in 2030. By then, wind and solar energies combined will have reached a mere 6% worldwide.
Right now the feasible priority is to foster a gradual, economically sustainable transition from high-carbon energy forms like coal to the cleanest possible alternatives; and this must be done without hobbling industries or unfairly penalizing consumers by creating price spikes in fuel. Natural gas is not only more environmental than other carbon-based fuels, but it is also ultimately more economical. By promoting natural gas over other carbon-based fuels, we are more likely to avoid the kinds of unintended consequences that have afflicted some European countries.
The willingness coming out of the COP21 to promote de-carbonization, and to do so on a global and coordinated scale, is definitely a step in the right direction, as it shows the comparison of Germany and Great Britain's recent plans to cut-emissions. While German lawmakers championed highly subsidized renewables with no limits on coal consumption, British ones backed renewables while actively promoting a switch from coal to gas via new outcome-oriented Energy Performance Standards, without rewarding any specific fuel choice. In Germany, cheap US coal, driven out of its own market by the domestic shale gas boom, ultimately undercut cleaner-burning gas. As an outcome, Great Britain reduced emissions four times more than Germany.
To reduce carbon consumption in a cost-efficient manner, we need policies that use natural gas to fully price in the cost of carbon, thereby harnessing the market in driving smart energy choices.
Such a model creates a win-win solution for both policy-makers and energy companies and providers: natural gas has the potential to satisfy a substantial portion of the world's energy needs over the coming decades, while the companies' shareholders will thank them for prioritizing long-term growth and value-creation over short-term quarterly profits.
Under these premises energy companies could gradually become standard-bearer of climate change themselves, by promoting their own comprehensive emissions-cutting policies and procedures, which should span both strategic and operational decision-making. These measures could include a self-imposed carbon price that feeds into the evaluation of capital investment proposals and rigorous environmental management systems focused above-all on energy-efficiency. ENI has already embarked on this endeavor, by cutting emissions by 27% over the last 4 years, setting the goal of reaching flaring zero within 2030 and limiting our presence in the Artic to relatively low-risk ice-free areas.
Moreover, thanks to their very structure and composition, energy companies are better placed to play a major role in boosting research and in engaging lawmakers and regulators to promote the sustainable transformation of our industry. For instance, ENI is currently part of Oil & Gas Climate Initiative, a privately funded group that is setting the stage for the establishment of effective, binding international standards that are applied consistently across advanced and emerging countries alike. These and similar actions are essential for any program hoping to overcome the fragmentation that characterizes the current policy landscape. They would also reduce unfair competitive distortions between countries.
Paris is showing us the way, but the climate agreement is just the end of the beginning. Governments are drawing up the groundwork in which all players have to cooperate to achieve a sustainable and more equitable model of energy consumption. To tackle the issue of global warming successfully, we need to act with courage and shared commitment, with readiness to take on factionalism and vested interests. This is no easy task, and work will be long and hard. Nevertheless, we must hold in mind that there is no way back: we owe future generations a better and cleaner future.


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Pascal TréguerAustralia & New Zealand, etymology, music, public affairsAustralia, discriminations, Nellie Melba, newspapers & magazines, phrases, politicsLeave a comment
The phrase sing 'em muck is the advice that the Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba 1 (born Helen Porter Mitchell – 1861-1931) gave to the English contralto Dame Clara Ellen Butt (1872-1936), who was about to undertake a tour of Australia.
1 Melba, the stage name adopted by Helen Porter Mitchell, is a shortening of Melbourne, the name of the capital of Victoria, Australia, where the singer was born and made her concert debut. She gained worldwide fame for her coloratura singing, and was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1918. It was in her honour that the French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) coined pêche Melba, the name of a dessert of ice cream and peaches served with raspberry sauce or syrup, in Le Guide culinaire: Aide-mémoire de cuisine pratique (Paris: L'Art Culinaire, 1903).
—Cf. also 'to do a Melba' | 'to do a Dame Nellie': meanings and origin.
It was the English-born Australian journalist and author Harriet Winifred Ponder (1883-1967) who, in Clara Butt: Her Life-Story (London: George G. Harrap, 1928), told that Nellie Melba gave this advice to Clara Butt—as reported, for example, by The Sun (Sydney, New South Wales) of Sunday 5th August 1928:
"SING 'EM MUCK!"
AMAZING CHARGE
CLARA BUTTS IN
MELBA'S HOT DENIAL
Dame Nellie Melba
"Sing 'em muck! It's all they can understand."
That passage in Clara Butt's life story by Winifred Ponder, with a foreword by Clara Butt herself—a book that has just arrived in Australia—is attributed to Dame Nellie Melba.
Last night Dame Nellie Melba strenuously denied the allegation that she had used the words.
The incident, according to Clara Butt, occurred in a special train in England, when she was returning from Windsor Castle. With her were Kreisler 2, Melba, and Tosti 3. The subject under discussion was Kennerley Rumford's 4 Australian tour, and Melba being an Australian, was stated to be particularly interested.
"So you're going to Australia," she is credited with having said. "Well, I made £20,000 on my tour there, but of course that will never be done again. Still, it's a wonderful country, and you'll have a good time. What are you going to sing? All I can say is—sing 'em muck! It's all they can understand!"
Dame Nellie was at Her Majesty's Theatre last night, when the passage in the life story was brought under her notice.
"I am not in the habit of talking of my affairs to others, and I give the whole thing an emphatic denial," she said. "And I will take the opportunity of sending Clara Butt a cable on the matter to-morrow."
"It is interesting to note," continues the life story, "that in spite of Melba's opinion of her compatriots' taste in music, Clara Butt's experience in Australia was quite the contrary. Australian audiences proved quite as appreciative of the classical items which both she and Kennerley Rumford invariably included in their programmes, as of the more popular type of songs and ballads, and among the usual innumerable "special requests" that reached them, quite a large proportion were of such classics as Giordani's "Caro mio ben," 5 Handel's "Lascia chio Pianga," 6 "Where'er you walk," 7 and songs by Schumann and Schubert.
2 Friedrich-Max Kreisler (1875-1962) was an Austrian-born U.S. violinist and composer.
3 Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) was an Italian-born British composer and music teacher.
4 Kennerley Rumford (1870-1957) was an English baritone; he married Clara Butt in 1900.
5 The popular aria Caro Mio Ben (1783) has been ascribed to the Italian composer Giuseppe Giordani (1751-1798).
6 Lascia ch'io pianga is an aria from Almira (1705), an opera by the German-born British composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759).
7 Where'er you walk is an aria from Semele (1743), by Handel.
I will focus, not on the controversy caused by the advice given by Nellie Melba to Clara Butt, but on:
1-: The fact that the phrase sing 'em muck soon came to be applied to other domains than music.
2-: The exact meaning of muck in this phrase.
1-: The earliest transferred use of the phrase sing 'em muck that I have found is from Direct Action: Official Organ of the Australian Administration of the I.W.W. 8 (Adelaide, South Australia) of Saturday 8th September 1928:
"Sing 'em Muck"
IT'S ALL THEY UNDERSTAND.
Don't think, dear reader, that you are going to read a criticism of the controversy over Dame Nellie and Dame Clara Butt, for my time is too precious to waste on such a subject, and I would not willingly waste yours, but as the above heading so aptly interprets the attitude of the Australian press towards its unthinking public, the present is an opportune moment to combat this factor in our daily lives, in-so-far, at least, as work and workers are concerned.
For months now an intensive wage reduction campaign has been broadcasted throughout the length and breadth of the country, against the miners. The hoary old falsehoods, in new settings, have been indulged in, and now the coal barons, newspaper editors, and other panderers, have arrived at the conclusion that to save the industry "sacrifices," on "both sides," must be made.
Try to imagine, if you can, a coal baron, or a shipping magnate "sacrificing" any of his share of the good things of life, in order to assist industry, and keep from smiling if you can.
Could anything be funnier? And yet, stay! Let justice be done! Come to think of it, some coal owners have at times "sacrificed" a few hundred pounds "to assist industry," and—er—secure juicy contracts at the same time.
Strictly business, of course!
A Sydney emporium assured the public recently that "there is an honour in business that is the fine gold of it. . . . That regards honesty and fair dealing above prices and profits. . . . . etc., etc.
Another paper joins in the "Mucky" chorus, namely, that select organ of Inchcape interests, "The Daily Commercial List and Shipping News," which in its leader of Monday, August 6th, entitled, "The Miner's Plight," prefers a savage, though spurious indictment against the miners, because they dare to presume to ask for a bare existence.
"There is an honour in business . . . . maybe, but which business? Bah! "Sing 'Em Muck!"
I hope the miners will not be side-tracked, either by their officials, or the owners, into a servile body of misguided wage-slaves ready to close with any offer that may be made, and if out of your desperation an O.B.U. 9 is formed, it will bring within reach a real fighting force with which to face the "droolers" and so render useless their further attempts to "sing 'em muck."
8 I.W.W. is the abbreviation of Industrial Workers of the World.
9 O.B.U. is the abbreviation of One Big Union.
A more recent transferred use of the phrase sing 'em muck occurs in the review by Bob Evans of Alas, The World, by the English comedian Mel Smith (1952-2013) and the Welsh comedian Griff Rhys-Jones (born 1953)—review published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales) of Saturday 30th November 1985:
Three shows, all with big comic reputations and devoted fans, opened in Sydney this week. Alas, the World by Smith and Rhys-Jones at the State Cinema; Opera, Opera by The Gap, Downstairs at Belvoir Street; and, Upstairs, The Castanet Club returned to Sydney as The Giddy People.
Only the Castanets were genuinely funny.
Smith and Rhys-Jones were not. However, Alas, The World is an inspired title for their indifferently derivative brand of comedy with its sing-'em-muck mentality, lame routines and regurgitated afterthoughts from television.
2-: In the phrase sing 'em muck, the noun muck designates the popular type of songs, such as the ballads, as opposed to the classical type of songs, such as the arias—as clearly explained in the Daily Express (London, England) of Wednesday 8th August 1928:
Musical "Muck."
What did Melba say in 1906? Dame Clara Butt is quoted to the effect that the famous prima donna, acting the role of a Polonius 10, gave her this advice concerning the Australians: "Sing 'em muck! It's all they can understand." Dame Nellie now denounces this utterance as an untruth. She will have none of it. "Butt me no Butts!" is her attitude. "I never said anything of the sort."
If we may venture an opinion, the advice imputed to her was fairly sound as applied to any country, although it is the kind of advice that is better spoken than repeated in writing. After all, Dame Nellie will be longer remembered for what highbrows might unpleasantly describe as the "muck" on her programmes than for her classical selections. Tosti's "Good-bye" and "Down in the Forest" were her ace and king of trumps, and she always kept "Home, Sweet Home" up her sleeve. In the meantime we urge both ladies to be calm. Muck-raking may be the pastime of a certain type of politician, but it is not for Dames.
10 This refers to Polonius (a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet) as a busybody.
The following, from The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales) of Wednesday 22nd November 1933, confirms that muck designates the popular type of songs:
FAMOUS SINGERS.
Mr. Gravestock's Memories.
"SING 'EM MUCK" INCIDENT.
Reminiscences of famous singers were given by Mr. E. J. Gravestock in a broadcast from Station 2FC last night.
He referred to the controversy which was aroused by the publication of Winifred Pender's [sic] book, in which it was stated that the late Dame Nellie Melba advised Dame Clara Butt, when she visited Australia, to "sing 'em muck; that's all they will understand."
Mr. Gravestock said he had a vivid recollection of a supper party in Brisbane in 1924, after one of the concerts of Dame Clara Butt. Mr. Kennerley Rumford (Dame Clara Butt's husband), Miss Pender, and himself were present. After supper Dame Clara Butt recalled the incident, which led to Dame Nellie Melba's statement.
In 1907, when Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Clara Butt were on the way to London in a special train, the former said: "So you are going to Australia. What are you going to sing?"
"I don't know yet," replied Dame Clara Butt.
"Sing 'em muck," said Dame Nellie Melba. "'The Lost Chord,' 11 and that sort of stuff, the same as you have been singing to-night."
"Everybody seemed to have lost the real perspective of the incident," added Mr. Gravestock. "It happened 25 years ago, before Australia had the benefits of conservatoriums and colleges of music, and before it had been visited by world-famous musicians, and before Melba herself had brought her wonderful opera company to Australia."
11 The Lost Chord (1877) is a song by the English composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900); it was inspired by the fatal illness of his brother, the English actor and singer Frederic Sullivan (1837-1877).
In a letter published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales) of Saturday 2nd April 1988, Joan Vivian, E. J. Gravestock's daughter, gave the same explanations, and concluded:
Clara Butt was a popular singer at festivals and concerts, especially of ballads and oratorios—but not of opera. Melba also sang ballads—'My ain folk'; 'Believe me if all those endearing young charms'; 'Lo! Here (sic) the gentle lark', for instance, and recorded such "muck".
I am glad that the tradition of "singing 'em muck" is being carried on by such wonderful singers as Dame Joan Sutherland 12 ('Home Sweet Home') and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 13 ('Songs my mother taught me' and others).
12 Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010) was an Australian soprano.
13 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944) is a New Zealand soprano.
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Very early (7am) on Thursday morning I met the Louren's family at Zoo Lake in Parktown. Even though it was incredibly early everybody was full of excitement and this made for fun morning. This beautiful family of 3 had flown out from Boston (USA) for a family wedding. While they were out in South Africa they wanted photographs to capture their special family. The little girl, Katherine is very inquisitive 1 year old – she was full of energy and wanted to explore every aspect of Zoo Lake. She is a beautiful little girl and is bound to be a heart breaker when shes older with those breath taking blue eyes.We had a lovely morning walking around Zoo Lake feeding the very hungry geese, playing on the jungle gym and sitting on benches looking at the view. Johannesburg is a huge city filled with concrete and glass but every now and then there are little oases in the City that allow you to relax (even just a little).


"Covering Shakespeare" is a successor to the author's "Covering McKellen" which won the 2011 Theatre Book Prize. David Weston's opening line speaks of "a mishmash of facts and reminiscences." That may be. But one person's mishmash is another's rich and varied peregrination through personal, theatre and occasionally national history.
Benedict Nightingale, in his foreword, declared himself at a loss when seeking an adjective to capture Weston's earlier book. "Covering Shakespeare" similarly eludes genre. Among the actors and directors who parade by the score through Weston's career high and low is Michael Simkins. Like Simkins Weston is an actor with a second gift for writing. 2014 will not have produced a wider, more spirited, or simply more enjoyable theatre book. To borrow a line from "Measure for Measure" "he that hath made you hath made you fair hath made you good".
Weston divides his address to the thirty-seven plays in two parts. The second, and chunkier, part is the author's own experience, a journey of the ups and downs, reversals, joys and jolts of sixty years of a life in acting. The first, which he calls "tattle", is a digest of information on the texts. Thus, "Titus Andronicus" was a significant success for Shakespeare in his own time but went unperformed for three hundred years. In 1955 a young and bold Peter Brook directed it with the Olivier-Leigh partnership.
Weston's amiable treatment of the plays encompasses historical arcana and selected critical barnacles. Germaine Greer surprisingly sees " the Taming of the Shrew" as "not a knockabout farce of wife-battering but the cunning adaptation of a folk-motif to show the forging of a partnership between equals." That was certainly a perspective that Terry Hands took to his mesmeric 2011 production for Theatr Clwyd Cymru.
In his summary of the rehabilitation of the reviled "Titus Andronicus" he cites with caution Michael Billington. One of the most gore-soaked texts in theatre's history becomes a Billingtonian "prolonged lament for the suffering imposed by an imperialistic society." Weston approves whole-heartedly of the Guardian's critic but, unusually for a theatre member, cares less for its politics. His survey of eight critics, some now retired, includes "arguably the dullest theatre critic in the history of the world." The book also reprints some of the unpleasantnesses of Tynan, the personal cruelty to actors both unnecessary and demeaning.
Weston's index of actors is compendious. He sees some actors who rise, some who disappear and some who are lured away. An advertisement for television for a fast food chain offers £20,000 at a time when the Young Vic is paying £95 a week. Weston is third name in a war film after Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris. And then the film work simply fades away.
The book is interwoven with biography. Weston is with the National Youth Theatre at the time of its 1956 inception. Early fellow-actors include the teenage Simon Ward and Colin Farrell. Stratford is still a market town where live sheep are delivered to the main street's butcher. By the sixties Weston himself is to be seen in silk scarf and patent leather Chelsea boots at the wheel of a bright red Mini-de-luxe. At a career low point he descends to driving a shabby Ford Zodiac as a mini-cab. One of his passengers turns out to be Sir John Gielgud. They have played together in the big-budget film "Becket". Sir John has no memory of his fellow actor.
"Covering Shakespeare" has many a personal touch to it. On "Love's Labour Lost" "I thought Cole Porter's songs were the best thing in Kenneth Branagh's film." Tony Richardson has "Othello" coming on stage with a pair of Great Danes. They require the construction of a special dressing room and the most junior props ASM is blamed for the dogs' onstage farting and howling.
The main text of "Covering Shakespeare" is bookended between a brief memoir of school days and synopses of the plays. Line summaries scene by scene reveal that Iago has eleven hundred and seventeen lines to Othello's eight hundred and eighty-eight.


Furious Road is a car survival game where your drive your armor car across a post apocalyptic world. Use machine guns and launch your rockets at anyone that get in your way, improve your weapons and over time. Avoid incoming bullets. Get into your armored vehicle and patrol the dusty roads, full of crime and hate. Kill all enemies that try to attack you, with your powerful machine gun or rocket launcher. Drive carefully, avoid enemy shots and collect power-ups to increase your car's abilities. Earn money to upgrade your weaponry. So would you be able to be a good driver and kill all enemies? Enjoy and have fun in playing Furious Road Game.
Also make sure to check out Avengers Tower Rush, SWAT 3 Game, Shadow Archers, Skate Hooligans and Chronicles of Nerdia Game. We picked up these games from our action games. So have fun.


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KISS-DU Organizes Workshop on NAAC Accreditation Process in the Context of NEP 2020
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Deemed to be University organized a one-day workshop on "NAAC – Assessment and Accreditation in the Context of NEP 2020" on 15th April 2021. KISS-DU hosted delegates from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) along with Vice-Chancellors from different universities of the state. The meet was attended in a blended mode by numerous distinguished guests and academicians.
The workshop was organised with the purpose of facilitating the institutions to assess their performance vis-à-vis set parameters through introspection and a process that involves space for participation of the institutions in the context of NEP 2020. This involves highlighting the benefits, eligibility criteria, units of accreditation among other parameters.
Welcoming the delegates, Professor Deepak Kumar Behera, Vice Chancellor, KISS-DU expressed his eagerness to take forward the NAAC Accreditation process at KISS-DU in the light of NEP 2020. Delivering the inaugural address, the chief guest Professor S. C. Sharma, Director, NAAC explained the seven assessment criteria for accreditation, focusing in particular on the different curricular aspects therein. In response to a query from the Vice-Chancellor of KISS-DU, he clarified the differences between a teaching university and research university, with regards to the accreditation process.
Speaking in turn, Professor Asoka Kumar Das, Vice Chairman, Odisha State Higher Education Council distinguished the difference of the newly formed National Accreditation Council from the original NAAC, questioning the lack therein of the Assessment aspect, which he deemed vital to the growth and development of Indian higher education institutes. He also discussed the 2020 National Education Policy in correlation to NAAC.
Professor Amiya Kumar Rath, Adviser of NAAC Bangalore shared a detailed outline of the seven assessment criteria of NAAC, spoken about in brief by Professor Sharma. These include, Curricular aspects, Teaching-learning and evaluation, Research, consultancy and extension, Infrastructure and learning resources, Student support and progression, Governance, leadership and management, as well as Innovations and best practices. Continuing along these lines, Dr. B. S. Ponmudiraj, Adviser to NAAC, Bangalore elucidated the various curriculum aspects of NAAC while addressing the queries regarding the role of research in NAAC accreditation.
This was followed by an interactive session wherein the NAAC officials clarified queries from Vice Chancellors representing various universities of the State. These distinguished guests included Professor Aparajita Chowdhury – Vice Chancellor of Ramadevi University, Professor N. Nagaraju – ViceChancellor of Gangadhar Meher University and Professor Sanjay Kumar Satapathy– Vice Chancellor of Kalahandi University. Several queries were also accepted from those attending virtually, with particular interest raised about the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the accreditation process.
The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Prashanta Kumar Routray, Registrar, KISS-DU, wherein he thanked all present for making this a dynamic and informative learning session.
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Landscape fragmentation and habitats loss caused by human activities have led to a decline cougar populations (Puma concolor). Delimiting populations and establish rates of migration between them is essential to understanding its dynamics and therefore planning conservation measures. The present study propose to use molecular techniques with noninvasive samples to evaluate the status of a population of P. concolor inhabiting in a patch of 32km2 of São Paulo State. The population size was of 6 individuals and its density ranged between 4.6 and 1.8/100km2. In addition, this population was analyzed together with other individuals of P. concolor collected in the northeast region of the state. Bayesian clustering methods were used to identify genetic populations, and Bayesian multilocus genotyping method to estimate migration rates, in order to determinate possible source-sink dynamics. Finally, two subpopulations separated by the highway SP-310 were identified. The results showed that the subpopulation located on the east of the highway behaved as source population and the another one found on west as a sink. Future researches of P. concolor populations must aim to determinate the populations structures and thereby facilitate the establishment of effective action plans for the conservation of the species.


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Luke Cunningham rowed for Brown University and the United States National Team. He works as a comedy writer. And he is one of three people who is allowed to make substitutions on the burger at The Father's Office.


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Jefferson Elementary's running club has…
Jefferson Elementary's running club has students rising early to reach their goals
February 8, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
&#187 BLOG: South Bay education news
It's nearly 8 a.m. and dozens of students at Jefferson Elementary School in Redondo Beach stand next to each other on a field just north of the campus.
Most are in shorts and athletic shoes, despite the cool winter breeze, and get on their marks.
When a whistle sounds, the kids make their way around a makeshift track – passing by a jungle gym, basketball courts and tetherball poles.
The Jefferson running club has gone through the same early morning ritual since October with its members amassing more than 7,500 miles.
Organizers say up to 40 runners come out each day and complete an average of two miles a week.
They collect a ticket for every lap they finish. Every five laps make a mile. Every 10 miles earns them a Popsicle. Every 26 miles earns them a marathon bracelet. At the end of the year, marathoners get to have a party.
So far there have been a total of 87 marathoners.
"At the beginning they are like, `10 miles?' but then they want to earn it," said Dana Grollman, a Jefferson parent and co-founder of the club.
Grollman and another parent, Carla Quay, decided to start the club after reading reports about the rising rates of diabetes and obesity among children.
"We thought it would be an easy way to squeeze in 15 minutes of exercise they normally wouldn't have," she said.
"We didn't know what to expect. You do it and see what happens. I've been floored by the kids who come here every day."
Students walk, jog and run across the field as Grollman, her husband Michael, Marian Clausen and Monique Newell all hand out tickets. The parents also serve as referees in case anyone tries to cut any corners, but they say the students have been good for the most part.
Vandna Hingorani said her daughter Serena, 7, finishes about four laps a day. The first grader never used to run but wants to come out all the time.
Once, when Hingorani had to drop her older daughter off at high school, Serena was concerned she might arrive too late.
"She was so upset," Vandna Hingorani said. "She saw all the kids at the field and told me to hurry up because she didn't want to miss it."
Jill Brand said she brings her daughters Julia, 10, Caroline, 7, and son John, 6, a few times a week.
"It's a good way to start the day and nice to see them get endurance, and it gets them ready to learn," she said.
It was a big day for Hannah Duba. The third-grader had just finished her first marathon and was handed a bracelet. The 9-year-old said she was happy to get her goal but, more importantly, come June she'll be going to the party.
For second-grader Kade McManus, running isn't anything new. He started in the summer, running to the beach and home with his mother. He is one of three students at the school who have finished three marathons, or 78 miles.
Kade said he started with the club as a way to get better at basketball. He says he can run down the court better and dribble the ball faster without getting tired.
The 7-year-old once had dreams of becoming the next Kobe Bryant but said he might look to try out for the Olympics instead.
"I like to run," Kade said.
"In the Classroom" is a series that focuses on what's happening at one South Bay school each week. If you know of an interesting class, teacher or program in the area, please e-mail Nguyen Huy Vu at vu.nguyen@dailybreeze.com or call him at 310-543-6627.


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BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL.
Since Barack Obama's election, we've heard it said that America had entered a post-racial era. But in a speech at the Justice Department last week, in celebration of Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder said wait, just a minute, we can't put race behind us so easily.
ERIC HOLDER: Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we average Americans simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
BILL MOYERS: A nation of cowards. Those were fighting words to many who heard or read them. And they triggered a backlash in newspaper editorials and across the blogosphere, obscuring everything else our first African American attorney general had to say.
Reactions ranged from gentle rebukes, that Holder had simply made a poor choice of words, to raging attacks on his alleged lack of patriotism. Others suggested that Holder had taken a deliberately provocative stance to create a much needed dialogue on racism.
With me is a man well suited to a discussion of Holder's speech and other matters. John McWhorter is a veteran political commentator. He's also a scholar of linguistics, schooled in the meaning and nuance of language; a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the NEW REPUBLIC magazine. He's written several books, including the best seller LOSING THE RACE, and these two published last year: OUR MAGNIFICENT BASTARD TONGUE: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF ENGLISH and ALL ABOUT THE BEAT: WHY HIP HOP CAN'T SAVE BLACK AMERICA.
John McWhorter, welcome to the JOURNAL.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Thank you very much, Bill.
BILL MOYERS: Let me say first that I want to thank you for making me comfortable splitting infinitives.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Good.
BILL MOYERS: I had two English teachers, Inez Hughes and Selma Brutsy, who would hang me by the thumbs if I did that.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Very good minded people. But that rule about split infinitives is a hoax. It's like hanging garlic in a doorway to ward off bad spirits.
BILL MOYERS: You've al-
JOHN MCWHORTER: Got to get rid of it.
BILL MOYERS: You've also made me feel good about ending sentences in a preposition if I feel the need to.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Yes, you should, for example. There's no such thing as speaking the language that we speak without putting prepositions at the end, which everybody knows. But in "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue," I discuss those and other rules where we've been taught by very well-intentioned people what, quote/unquote proper English is.
And the sad fact is that a lot of the rules that we're taught have their basis in erroneous conceptions such as that English is supposed to be about resembling Latin. And why? Why don't we want to resemble Arabic or Maori? It's just completely arbitrary based on people in a different world from ours 200 and 150 years ago.
BILL MOYERS: You do make the point that the history of language is of rules constantly being broken.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Yeah. I mean, the English language has changed so significantly over the time it's existed in that it makes you wonder why is it that for some reason about 150 years ago it became taboo for the language to change? And not just in there being new words but in terms of the grammar changing? And so we know that old English became Middle English. And Middle English became Shakespearean English. And that's a noble procession with French horns going in the background. Then somehow you get to roughly Jane Austen. And then everything is just supposed to stop. What's so special about us? The language will always keep changing.
BILL MOYERS: When did you get so interested in putting words together that you decided to make the study of language your life's work?
JOHN MCWHORTER: I became interested in language really when I was four years old. And I had this little girlfriend to the extent that you can have a girlfriend when you're four. And she was what I now know as Israeli. And we ran outside to meet our respective parents. And I was speaking English to my mother, and she was doing something else with her family and I couldn't understand what she was saying. That drove me insane. I felt like I had lost her. And I felt inadequate because I couldn't talk in this other way. And so we found out that they were speaking Hebrew. And I wanted to know Hebrew. For me that was the beginning of this loving the fact that there are thousands of other ways of doing what you and I are doing right now. And that you might be able to do it in two or three or four different ways. So nowadays, I can read in a whole lot of languages. I can speak a bunch of them badly. But the fact is that there is a science of language. You can actually get a Ph.D. in liking languages. And that's why I became a linguist.
BILL MOYERS: So why are we always asking "what did he really mean?" or "what do you really mean?"
JOHN MCWHORTER: Yeah, this is hard because we don't really mean literally the connotations of the words that we use. Any word actually has a messy kind of semantic spread into areas that you might not even find in the dictionary. Language is a very complicated thing.
When, for example, Attorney General Eric Holder says that we need to have a conversation about race, he means well. But he's not saying what those words strictly mean. The dictionary will not help there. Over about the past 20 years, saying that we need to have a conversation about race is coded. What the meaning actually is, is that, yes, there was a civil rights revolution. Yes, the signs are off the water fountain. Yes, overt expressions of bigotry are now socially proscribed. But still racism remains a very serious problem, perhaps a defining experience in a black American person's life and that we need to have a conversation about that, that obviously it's not something that nobody could miss such as the signs on the water fountains. But may I, as a black person, have a conversation with you white person about why I still feel beleaguered by racism?
The idea is that it would take a conversation. And so having the conversation about race, what is generally meant by most people who are saying that, means that black people have something to teach white people if white people would just sit and listen. And it is not a conversation in the strict sense. It's not just an exchange. But in an exchange there would also be room for white people to say, "Here's why we think you need to get over racism. Here's why we're not as racist as you might think. Here's why we're offended by this or we're weary of this." And what most people mean by the conversation would have much, much less room for that than for the teaching that black people are supposed to do.
BILL MOYERS: I was impressed by what you wrote on your blog, that as you've seen the last few years we've, in fact, been obsessed with race and that there has been, on many levels, a conversation going on, whether it's Don Imus or Michael Richards or the nooses in Jena, Louisiana, or reporters during the campaign asking those working-class-
JOHN MCWHORTER: Remember that?
BILL MOYERS: -white people if they would vote for a black candidate. I mean, do you think those added up to a frank discussion about race?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Bill, that is exactly it. If someone says and this is why I'm saying that I don't think that "let's have a conversation" means what it's supposed to mean. If someone says let's have a conversation and look at all of them that we seem to have a couple times a year when something comes up. There are black people and white people and everybody else having an exchange, talking about race. There are liberals in it and conservatives in it, people in the middle. We have that conversation all the time. And yet somehow that doesn't qualify. And the only way that I can make sense of that is that those conversations and what comes out of them, which is a kind of a centrist viewpoint that racism does exist but that it's not a main problem anymore. And this is an important distinction. It's not that it doesn't exist.
BILL MOYERS: Right.
JOHN MCWHORTER: But it's not the main problem. That apparently isn't enough. If you can look at, for example, Macaca and Don Imus and Michael Richards and the whole Obama campaign and still come out of that, take a shower, rub your eyes, and say, "You know, we never talk about race in this country," clearly you don't mean that we don't talk about it. It's that there's a certain kind of outcome that is desired. And the reason that I have written in criticism of that is not because I wouldn't be pleased if we could all somehow sit down and come to some sort of realization that would make someone like Eric Holder feel assuaged. I just don't see how it could happen.
BILL MOYERS: You said a moment ago that his speech was coded.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Uh-huh.
BILL MOYERS: What do you mean by that?
JOHN MCWHORTER: We speak in code all the time. It's part of being human. There's a certain, I want to use the right word. There's a coyness about it in saying we need to have a conversation rather than what's really meant, which is racism is still very important and you need to realize it and do something about it. And we're in an America where the president is black. We're going to need to be coyer and coyer in talking about this conversation. But in this case, although using coded language can be beneficial, talking about the conversation I think at this point leaves an awful lot of poor people still poor. And it leaves an awful lot of people with no job skills, without any. It leaves an awful lot of people who need more childcare, without childcare. They're such important problems.
You know, most new AIDS cases are black women. We've got ex-cons who don't know how to re-integrate into society. And it seems to me that that conversation about race, no matter how it came out, wouldn't solve those problems. And so let's say that you could create this conversation not, for one thing, the conversation would never satisfy certain people. And in the meantime, I'm more interested in helping people who need help.
So let's talk codedly about something else like, for example, prisoner re-entry. It's one thing to say, you know, ex-cons. People don't usually talk about it that way. You say prisoner re-entry into society programs. Let's code it to distract people from any negative feelings they have about people who spent time in prison. There is some useful coded language. Conversation about race I think is a rather idle notion.
BILL MOYERS: To what extent do you think those realities you just mentioned can be traced to racism?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Oh, that's a good question.
BILL MOYERS: Kids in prison. You know, disproportionate number of, by far disproportionate number of black kids in-prison-
JOHN MCWHORTER: Hideous. Yes.
BILL MOYERS: -disproportionate number of black people living in poverty. When we talk about those realities, do we have to talk about race anymore? Or is that behind us?
JOHN MCWHORTER: There is certainly what's called societal racism, institutional racism. White privilege is the way sometimes it's more provocatively put. And those things are there. But my question is whether or not we can eliminate those things within any time span that is less than geological. And so, yes, I know that there are arguments that there is institutional racism. But in terms of helping people who need help, it seems that they are very practical, hands-on strategies that we can use and that we can teach people to use that have a more interesting effect to me than crusading against the fact that society isn't fair.
Basically, I can't imagine the playing field ever being completely level. I don't know how you can create that. And this is the crucial thing. I think that descendants of African slaves in the United States are the only group in human history who have insisted that we can only achieve under perfect or near-perfect conditions. Now, for me to have said that in 1950 that would have been pushing it. But in terms of the way it is now, life is never fair. And I want to stress once again I know that there is racism in the United States. Tulia, Texas, is you know, anybody can Google that.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah.
JOHN MCWHORTER: But the fact of the matter is that when you look at the problems that the black community has, tracing them to racism has gotten so abstract that really I don't see and maybe I'm missing something. But I don't see how we could convince a significant proportion of the American population that racism was the main issue anymore.
And more to the point, if you could take away the racism right now, no more racism, it's gone. Every police officer doesn't even see color, racism's gone. The problems that we're talking about would still be there. And so I think that racism is important but not as important to address in 2009 as other things that really help people who need help.
BILL MOYERS: When we have a president of color, an attorney general of color, when we have Tiger Woods and governors of color and Oprah Winfrey and cabinet officers of color, is there still a role for an organization that calls itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
JOHN MCWHORTER: You know, that's a tough one. I you can have an NAACP that is still devoted to stamping out discrimination. They have actually recently engaged in a protest against what they view as discrimination.
BILL MOYERS: That cartoon in the-
JOHN MCWHORTER: And so the chimpanzee cartoon.
JOHN MCWHORTER: And so one might interpret the chimpanzee as Barack Obama being shot. And so the NAACP's most high-profile effort lately has been to protest that. And, okay. Now, you, Bill, and I, John, were smiling a little bit when we were going over the list of Macaca and Michael Richards and Don Imus. I think we both have to admit that once those things have fallen out of the news cycle and you look back on them a year or two later, it seems like it was kind of trivial.
You know, Seinfeld's Kramer had a meltdown on stage and used a bad word and that was all the news was for three weeks? How, how important was that in the grand scheme of how society operates, how America's going to really solve its problems? The chimp thing is going to be the same thing, you know? As we tape this today, it's still urgent. A month from now it's going to be, "Oh, yeah, that kerfuffle." I wish the NAACP would devote itself to community uplift because those are the things that are more important now.
In 1909 when the organization started I think we needed to deal with some bigotry and some racism. And that was the main issue. Black men were hanging from trees, and some women. That's what it was like then. That's what it was like in 1959. But this is 2009.
BILL MOYERS: The NAACP and Al Sharpton made a strong case that this was a racial slur, implying that Barack Obama is a monkey from the jungle. You know, I have to be honest and say I thought the cartoon was vulgar and violent. It was the violence in it. But I didn't think of it referring, alluding to Barack Obama. Does that mean I'm not sensitive enough to the caricatures of black people throughout the years?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Bill, no. Yeah, I saw it as violent, too. Like the blood, you know, I kind of felt that's a tacky cartoon. The idea that it was supposed to be Obama, I had to be taught that.
BILL MOYERS: Me too.
JOHN MCWHORTER: And, you know, if you didn't see that, my genuine question is, okay, Bill, you didn't see it. And you're probably representative of a lot of people. I don't see what problem that creates in terms of us living day by day in this society in 2009. It seems to me that whatever problem it created such as the infinitesimal chance that that cartoon might just teach some bozo to try to and not succeed in assassinating the president, in terms of degree, I think that we've got much larger problems.
And sometimes I think we have to learn not only from history 100 years ago but from history a few news cycles ago. The common wisdom, as you and I both know, not long ago was that Barack Obama couldn't win, that there was still enough racism out there that these people in diners talking about how they would never vote for a black man were going to tip the election. And, you know, they didn't. And they didn't even come close. We have to learn from that in thinking about what's out there, as it's often put. And what's most important, not what's out there. We all know what's out there. You can find it. Look for it and you'll find it. It might be next door to you. Does it matter? Does it matter in 2009? And I'm suggesting that these days it's not one of our larger problems.
BILL MOYERS: I brought a quote from the psychologist, Phillip Goff, "Psychological science has long known that words and pictures far from harmless can be the very instruments of dehumanization necessary for collective violence regardless of how innocently they are intended." Do you agree with that?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Were we ever thinking that there was going to be an America where there was nothing that we could call racism? Because we are homo sapiens and we're wired in certain ways. The idea that we could never have any biases, that we would never process people according to group, that there would never be some people who were more troglodytic on this thing than others, I don't think that that corresponds to any kind of reality. We have made amazing strides. But the idea that we could ever have none? I don't know. We'd have to be a different species. We'd have to evolve beyond. And as far as what he said about collective action, it's just a matter once again of degree and likelihood. I think we know recently because of that horrible thing that happened in Buffalo, when you get on a plane, there's a chance that, you know, something hideous might happen. But we don't consider it significant enough to not fly planes. There is a chance, I suppose, that a cartoon of a chimpanzee being shot might strike a critical mass of white people to go burn down an all-black town. There's a chance of that. I think it's so small that really we need to be thinking about things like how much money and being poured into our public schools and how that might help more black children learn how to read. I'm more interested in that. And that's how I view statements such as what that psychologist said.
BILL MOYERS: Is this kind of conflict the very kind of, quote, "conversation" that Eric Holder was saying is necessary?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Yeah, this is it. And look what's coming out of this conversation. Here we are having another one of these national conversations.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah, right.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Some people don't understand. Some people are just waving away the whole thing. I don't like that part of the conversation. Some people are taking the line of Professor Goff. That's kind of another extreme. Most of us are somewhere in the middle. And something is going to happen in a few days and on some other front that's going to push that out of the headlines. And it's going to float along. And the country is going to be exactly where it was during Don Imus and Michael Richards and Macaca and Jena, Louisiana, and the noose hung on the door at Columbia University. Each one of these things that comes up results in the same centrist position. And the election of a black president, a black president, I still get a thrill writing President Obama. He's black. He's not some other color. He's not white. It's not temporary. It's not because somebody got assassinated and he got in by accident. The black president was elected. That settles it. Many people don't like that.
BILL MOYERS: With a lot of white votes, by the way.
JOHN MCWHORTER: With a lot of white votes. And so many people don't like that that really settles the position in the middle. But that's where the conversation is always going to be.
BILL MOYERS: If you and I, John, were to have a frank conversation about race in Eric Holder's term, how would you begin it? What's the first thing you would say or ask?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Bill, to be very honest, we just had it. We are having a frank conversation about race. This is the frank conversation about race in 2009. And so, for example, I might ask you, for example, Bill, you know, here we are. I mean, frankly, I don't want to have that conversation. I have.
BILL MOYERS: You don't?
JOHN MCWHORTER: No. I have various things to do. I mean, I think I have it all the time, participating in these debates. That is the conversation.
BILL MOYERS: Do you ever get offended because you're always asked to come on television to talk about race and rarely asked to come on and talk about linguistics?
JOHN MCWHORTER: No, because this is a mission of mine. I firmly believe, I don't believe it; I know that there's nothing strange about the way I'm thinking about these things. There are many, many, many black people who think exactly the way I do. My job is to represent that in public so that I can scootch the conversation towards the center to the extent that I can. So, yeah, I understand why people are more interested in hearing me talk about this than about language. But I get to do that in various places, too. But in terms of having the kind of conversation that Holder wants, I supposed there's some questions that idly I might ask you. But I'm not sure where that would go.
BILL MOYERS: So how would you begin a conversation of a frank conversation about race with Eric Holder?
JOHN MCWHORTER: Really?
BILL MOYERS: Really.
JOHN MCWHORTER: If he was sitting in front of me right now I would say, Mr. Holder, Eric, whatever it would be, are you afraid of the prospect of black America having to move on without calling on whites to acknowledge their racism? Are you afraid of the fact that despite the nastiness of our history, despite the injustice of slave ships, the Jim Crow, and everything else, that we're at a point where even though we're still in a position behind telling white people that they're racist is no longer going to do the job. It's not that I find it unfashionable or distasteful. You're not going to help anyone doing that. Are you afraid of us really having to take responsibility for ourselves? And what's important is I would say, Mr. Holder, you know that our taking responsibility for ourselves will involve calling on the government to do things to allow us to do that. So this is not some bootstraps argument. But still are you afraid of no longer talking about racism? Why is it that when you made a speech you wanted to take that line after Barack Obama's been elected president? Isn't it time to knock this off? That is what I would say to him. And, and I want to specify. It's time to knock this off because it is not helping anyone anymore. That is what I would say to him.
BILL MOYERS: John McWhorter, I've enjoyed this conversation. And I thank you for being with me on the Journal.
JOHN MCWHORTER: Thank you, Bill. This was fun.
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