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SGA debates possible funding for a new parking structure
Cameron Koch
Student Government Association hosted an open forum on priority registration as part of their regular weekly meeting on Tuesday, also discussing two pieces of legislation.
Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, along with University Registrar Freida Eggleton, attended the meeting to answer any questions SGA or students had.
The new policy has already gone into effect for registration for spring classes.
The new system breaks priority registration into two categories, on determined by need and another based on benefit, referred to as Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Students who qualify for priority registration can only register for up to 16 credit hours. They will then have the option to add more credit hours during open registration.
Seniors and graduate students still register before those with priority registration and are not subject to the 16 credit hour limit.
Emslie spoke on why the changes to the system were made, as well as addressing concerns about Honors registration and registration for all students with disabilities.
A bill calling for a study into the feasibility of a new parking structure on campus by Parking and Transportation Services was also debated.
The bill in its current form also states the new structure would be funded by raising the price of Housing parking permits by 50 percent, from the current $90 to $135, with the revenue going directly towards the new structures construction. The price change would only occur after a new parking structure is deemed a possibility.
"This is the main concern of all the freshman study body have voiced to us over and over again, is the lack of convenient parking on campus," resolution author Jody Dahmer said.
"This is the one issue that every student has experienced, every student has had a problem with parking in the past," he said.
Dahmer said he and the two other senators who drafted the bill, Josh Knight and Jay Todd Richey, did not want to raise tuition for all students, as not all students have a car on campus.
"This is only raising parking permits for students who wish to buy the Housing permits…this is mainly for Housing students who want a place to store their cars on campus, to have a place that is convenient to access at all times."
Dahmer said the $135 is below that of other larger universities in Kentucky, saying housing permits at the University of Louisville are $140, and $248 at the University of Kentucky.
Senator Chris Costa voiced his concerns on the language of the resolution.
"Until a feasibility study is done all the money and the parking permits…I see the argument you are trying to make but I feel like it is a couple steps ahead and a too soon to even be talking about that," Costa said. "Let's focus on getting them [PTS] to do a feasibility study and then looking at the results."
Costa said he supported the resolution for the study, bud didn't want the permit pricing to be set in stone.
"I don't want Student Government backed into a corner, I don't want students backed into a corner with $135 floating around out there," Costa said. "I don't want some hard and fast number. A feasibility study could take six months, eight months. A lot can change in that time. I don't feel comfortable setting numbers in anything that is semi-concrete."
The resolution was tabled as a result of the debate.
A bill to fund two of four KwikBoost charging stations for the purpose of students being able to charge their electronics such as iPhones or laptops was also discussed, altered slightly, and ultimately tabled.
The bill states one of the stations would be located at the Glasgow campus. The other three are to be put in Helms-Craven Libraries.
SGA previously decided to change the location of one of the charing stations to the Commons at Cravens, but decided to veto the bill to consult with their partner, WKU Libraries.
An older version of a bill was presented to the Senate at the meeting, prompting Costa to recommend the bill be tabled until the Senate could be presented with the up to date and edited version, as to vote on the bill then would be in violation of the constitution.
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Though there had been a war waged there only 6 moths ago the new Union had brought light back to a semblance of normal very quickly. Rebuilding the city, known as Boston, as a symbol of the new established peace had been a first priority. The other countries had been unified years before and had already had the full force of the Union established in them. All resistances had been squashed except in America. Where once individual rights had been valued higher than almost anything the people would just not give up. It was a thorn in the side of the Union but mind washing was being perfected and it couldn't come soon enough as far as Loren was concerned. He had been to nearly every body of land on the planet and he wanted to be done with the nonsense here. All the other rebellions had ended in weeks or even days but this…this place was different. He had been here nearly 4 months and from what he could see it was still in full swing. His shows squeaked ever so slightly against the shiny floor as he walked down the hall to the lab. The man in his cell had finally cracked and he wanted to see if she, Dr Tyler, had the next try for the mind washing serum ready .
Ic: Brit sat perfectly still as she watched the dark green liquid in the vial boil. It was her third variation of the serum. She used the long forceps to remove the vial from the heat. The liquid would cool quickly and soon be ready to test. She pushed her glasses back up and looked at the other substances she was working on. She had vials in here that could kill in seconds of dissolve almost any substance.
Brit careful stuck a syringe into the vial and extracted a few CC of the green liquid. She put the lid back on the needle. "its ready."
"Its not as strong as the last so it wont turns the subjects brain to mush," she said. "It should work. I would like to come, watching the subjects reaction will help me perfect it."
Nicholas straightened his suit as he walked into the Union offices. It wasn't hard to walk through there anymore, he'd been working with the Union since their arrival in Boston.
River Tripp gripped the hilt of the knife tightly. Locked hilt to hilt with Scott, her leg swept out and knocked him back, landing on his back. His knives remained up and she laughed. "Good," she offered him a hand up. "Let's get some food, yeah?"
"Yeah," he agreed with a grin. "Have you heard from-"
"No, he hasn't been in contact. But he has to be careful, they're monitoring everything."
Scott nodded. The Union sure got in the way of everything.
He tapped the vile gently, "you may want to wait till the next time." He looked from the green liquid to her.
Hearing voices down the hall he took acdeep breath and picked up his fork. He wasn't hungry but letting food go bad wasn't an option.
"Then I need you to record the results," she said as she handed him a file. "I need pulse, pupil dilation, and if there are any visible reactions such as foaming at the mouth or yellowing of the skin."
River and Scott walked in, seeing Greg already at the table. "Good morning sir," Scott said, out of respect for the man's rank. But his voice was jovial. He truly enjoyed being in the resistance.
"How goes the fight?" River asked the elder.
"of course." Loren said looking around, "where is your assistant?"
Greg looked up forcing a smile, "it goes."
"What assistant?" Brit asked as she turned back to the vials that were still cooking. "Its just me."
Audrey shook her hair out and tried to wipe the dirt off her face. Hiding from the Union, squatting in abandoned buildings, didn't agree with her. She wanted running water again. She wanted real food, and she definitely wanted to be outside during the day. This was awful.
"As it must," River nodded. Scott brought back two plates of the mess Greg was eating and River took one, sitting at the table across from the other man.
Liam sat at his console, typing consistently. For the past two weeks he had been working on pulling up city plans and each building plan. There had to be some way to trace the resistance.
Nicholas popped his head into the office. "Hello, I'm looking for Dr. Tyler?"
River ate quickly. "I should make sure the others are awake. Can't let them sleep the day away." she said before excusing herself and going to wake the other members who lived in the HQ.
"If they have the assistant must have gotten lost," she said as she removed another vial from above the flame. She smiled faintly as she looked at the bright pink liquid. "This can turn almost anything to stone by changing its molecular composition." Brit looked at the door. "I'm Dr. Tyler, what do you need?"
"Sorry, I was just informed. I've been reassigned as your assistant. I was working with Dr. Temple, but they've had to juggle us around. So here I am." Nicholas's voice had a slight british accent as he spoke.
Brit looked him up and down. "Name?" She asked. No one ever told her when things were changing. Dr. Temple would not be happy about losing his assistant.
"Nicholas Pole," he replied. "My papers, if you'd like a look," he offered his official badge and certifications, which each union worker was required to carry.
Brit placed the vial in a holder and looked at the papers. "I hope you have steady hands, Mr. Pole." She said as she handed the papers back. "The chemicals I use can be very dangerous is not handled correctly."
"Of course," he nodded. "Dr. Temple wouldn't have dealt with me otherwise." He tucked the papers away.
"The jackets are over to the left," Brit said. "The gloves are there also." She added a few things to an empty test tube. "I only have a few rules in my lab but they must be followed. 1, do not mix any chemicals without asking me first. 2, you are here to do whatever I need, without question. and 3, you do not discuss what I am working on with anyone." She looked away from the test tube to him. "understood?"
"Absolutely," he agreed. He pulled on a jacket and a pair of gloves. "I am yours to command, Doctor." A flashing smile was on his lips as he said this.
Brit looked back at the test tube. "What were you helping Dr. Temple with?" She asked as she slowly added a few drops of a black liquid to the substances in the test tube.
"He was working in a confidential capacity to aid with interrogation." Of course he couldn't come right out and say it. But Dr. Temple had been working with the long sought after "truth serum".
"So the rumors are true." She said with a faint smile. "He'll never find the right combination," she said, mostly to herself. She liquid started to bubble. "Do you know that this is?" She asked him.
"I'm afraid I wasn't given much information on what you were working with," Nicholas replied. "So no, I do not."
Audrey had to risk it. She had to go outside. Though it was morning and bright sunlight shone through the streets, she had to find something to eat. Hopefully she could do it quickly. She stepped out onto the street, glad to see it deserted, before hurrying to an alley, then off to find food.
"Its something I've been working on for a while." She stuck a thin glass stirring rode in a pulled out one drop of the liquid. She let it drop onto the table. It quickly ate through the metal table, leaving a smoking hole. "It can eat through almost anything, except glass."
James carried another bucket of water to the small garden he had made. It was hidden on all sides to prevent it from being raided, but that meant it needed extra care to thrive.
"And what would be the use for that?" he asked, watching the smoking table.
She heard the sound of footsteps, a group of them, approaching behind her. She spotted a loose board in the fence along her side and she slipped through the opening, pushing the board back into place before the footsteps passed her.
Tevon grinned his lap top buzzing to life. it had taken him nearly three days to get it charged after moving from place to place. he hated hopping like this but it was what it was. Rubbing his hands together like a child in a candy shop. he thoroughly enjoyed screwing with the Union. it was the only thing that was well normal. Hacking into the Union internet was hard the first time but now it was easy peasy. pinging the signal off of several routers around the city it would be nearly impossible to find him through tracking his signal. He had never finished high school but he was better than any of the techs he had met even at the university. he grinned as he maneuvered his way into the Union server. he looked through a few of the computers then stopped at one. the information being looked at were schematics...that was...odd. he thought.
"I don't ask," she said simply. "I simply make what I am asked to. But don't touch it, it can eat through your skin." She set the vial back in its holder.
"Don't move," James said after the footsteps passed.
Liam tapped through the schematics and stopped on one. He compared the pictures of the building with the schematics. Something was off. He flagged it. He'd send someone to investigate once he was through the rest of the buildings assigned for today.
"Understood," Nicholas agreed. He would stay away from that one.
Audrey froze. She didn't realize someone else was there. What if it was a union? She'd been doing so well, had been safe for a month.
Brit looked from the vials in front of her to him. "I never requested an assistant," she said. The only other way for her to get one was if someone were to request she be given one. But who would do that?
"Turn around, slowly," James ordered. He picked up the rake at his feet.
Nicholas shrugged. "I was merely told to report here," he said. "If you would like, you could ask the department, but I have no knowledge of why I was assigned here." That was a lie, but it was a good one. He was a good liar.
Audrey did so, putting her hands up in front of her. What she saw was heartening. He clearly wasn't union.
Liam continued through the work, but found nothing. When he went back to the flagged file, his eyebrows quirked together. It had been corrupted. Fingers flying across the keyboard, he searched for the original file. He slipped a drive into the computer, a tracing program. It would trace the file, looking for any changes or additions. Hopefully, it could tell Liam who corrupted it.
Brit looked at him for a moment. "Then I guess I'm stuck with you." She looked back at the vials. "There is a file at the end of the table, read it. It details what I'm working on."
"Who are you?" James asked, lowering the rake slightly.
Nicholas nodded and slipped the file off the table. Reading the first page, he looked back up at her. Surprise colored his features. "This is... I thought this was a rumor. You're actually working on it?"
"My name is Audrey Rites," she replied. "I'm not union. Please, I'll leave. I just needed somewhere to hide."
"I've almost finished it," she said not looking up from what she was working on. "I've changed the formula slightly since we started testing it."
"James," he said, lowing the rake the rest of the way. "Not union."


Chandan Reddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and M.S. from Michigan State University. His primary research interests are Data Mining and Machine Learning with applications to Healthcare Analytics and Social Network Analysis. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Transportation, and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in leading conferences and journals. He received several awards for his research work including the Best Application Paper Award at ACM SIGKDD conference in 2010, Best Poster Award at IEEE VAST conference in 2014, Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICDM conference in 2016, and was a finalist of the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Competition in 2011. He is serving on the editorial boards of ACM TKDD and DMKD journals. He also served as the PC Co-Chair of ASONAM 2018. He is a senior member of the IEEE and life member of the ACM.
Machine Learning for Survival Analysis, Presented at SIGKDD 2017.
Platforms and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics, Presented at BigData 2015.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare, Presented at SIGKDD 2013 and SDM 2013.


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wonderful staff and exceptional services. Very clean rooms with all the ameneties, everything you need within walking distance.
"Lake Michigan is Waiting Right Outside Your Door."
Stayed here on a whim. Originally liked the place. Rooms were clean, & had space . We didn't know that checkout was at 10am, so we took our time in the am. At 10:20, housekeeping literally POUNDED on the door and said "checkout was at 10, you have to get out." We apologized, packed up & left. When we got home we found an extra pillow in the car. The kids brought their own pillows & must have grabbed theirs by accident. I get a voice mail saying "This is Debbie from the motel, you just left and took one of our pillows. I will pursue you until it is returned." I called Debbie, she said the next room also took pillows. I don't know them, we weren't with them, & I don't appreciate threatening voicemails. She could have simply asked for the pillow, & we would have happily sent it back. Instead, my family will not return to this motel. We visit Ludington every summer, & planned to stay there from now on. This is NOT how you treat a potential loyal customer over a simple mix-up.
This place has a great location right across the street from the beach and pier. The management is new and the staff is very friendly and aim to please. The place isn't real new or updated but it's comfortable and clean. Great sunsets and close to shops and restaurants. I would definitely stay here again, you can't beat the location.


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Former Israeli President Shimon Peres Dies
September 28, 2016 Industry
Tel Aviv, – The former Israeli prime minister and president, Shimon Peres, has died aged 93.
He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and his condition improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday. He died in a hospital near Tel Aviv early on Wednesday. He had been in the intensive care unit of the Sheba Medical Centre after suffering a major stroke on 13 September.
Peres served twice as the country's prime minister and once as president. He retired from his role as president in 2014.


As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveller is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.


According to a study led by Abhijeet Basoor, from St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, a checklist can help keep heart failure patients with heart failure out of the hospital and save billions of dollars. Of the patients who had been admitted for a heart problem and went through a 27-point checklist before leaving the hospital, only 2% were readmitted within a month. Of those patients whose doctors did not use the checklist, 20% were readmitted within a month. More info: usatoday.com.


In collaboration with Upper Hutt City Council (UHCC), Hutt City Council, Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust and Ngati Toa Rangitira we've produced the Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River Environmental Strategy Action Plan (The Plan).
The Plan supports how we are going to deliver the environmental, recreation, facility and appearance outcomes that your community wants for the Hutt River.
The Plan isn't an entirely new document. It's based on the foundation of flood safety and security established by the 2001 Hutt River Floodplain Management Plan and the 2001 Hutt River Environmental Strategy which has driven improvements along the river over the past 16 years.
We want to know what you think about the next chapter of improvement for the Hutt River outlined in the Plan.
Your feedback is important. The Hutt River corridor is our most visited "park" and it's where people walk their dogs, run, and cycle, picnic, fish and swim and enjoy being outside and we want this to continue.
Attend a community information evening in Lower Hutt or in Upper Hutt for an overview of the Plan and a chat with the project team over a cup of tea.
Post your ideas to us at Hutt River Environmental Strategy, Greater Wellington Regional Council, PO Box 11646, Manners Street, Wellington 6142.
The last day to provide your feedback is Friday 9 March at 5.00pm.
These meetings are your chance to get a short overview from the project team and ask any questions.
If you can't make the times let us know and we will share information with you about what happened at the meeting (insert link).
If you planning to come along please RSVP to huttriveres@gw.govt.nz to help make sure we have enough space and refreshments for everyone who wants to attend.
Your feedback will be read by the project team and used to influence the shape of the document presented to the Hutt Valley Flood Management Subcommittee for their endorsement.
Not all ideas will make it into the document however if you have any questions about what happened to your ideas when the Plan is reported to council please contact us.
A summary of all feedback received is held by GWRC as part of its public records.
We aim to publish the strategy at the end of May 2018. Implementation of the strategy continues based on the previous 2001 edition of the strategy, and projects from the new strategy have been used to help guide the structure for the 2018 to 2028 LTP.
We've broken the document up into easily downloadable chapters in the document library (top right-hand corner of your screen).
1.	What is the Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River Environmental Strategy Action Plan?
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Posted on January 11, 2020 by Mas January 10, 2020
Right at a year ago, Psychology Today published an essay which postulated that training seriously for armed self-defense was deleterious to empathy and weakened human character.
The following May, our friend David Yamane wrote this counterpoint.
I'm with Yamane on this. Read both of the above and tell us, here, what you think.
HARKEN TO DAVID YAMANE — 39 Comments
Paul H. on January 11, 2020 at 10:10 am said:
I think David says it best; "70,000 years of violence in human history suggests the opposite." That is something the first author neglected to take into account (was that by accident or on purpose?).
Roger Willco on January 11, 2020 at 10:11 am said:
If Michael Austin is so concerned with the negative impact guns MAY have on empathy, why isn't he writing about violent video games, which are mostly played by young boys? Wouldn't those games tend to decrease empathy? Wouldn't young boys be more affected by the games, than the typical older shooters would be affected by self-defense training with guns?
What about gangster rap? Don't the nasty lyrics tend to decrease empathy, and increase thuggery?
I believe the opposite of Michael Austin. I believe training for self-defense against criminals is healthy for character building. I believe it is good to hate evil. I believe it is good to hate and even kill evil people. To feel empathy for a criminal is a character flaw in my book. We should love the righteous and hate the wicked. There are Bible verses which teach us to hate evil. So, contrary to some old bumper stickers I used to see, hate is in fact a "family value."
When we think of improving the world, we tend to think of helping people through giving them things, or teaching or preaching good things to build their character. One way of improving the world would be to get rid of the evil people in it. For terms of this discussion, I would define "evil people" as first-degree murderers. I actually believe one of America's flaws is keeping first-degree murderers alive. I understand that innocent people have been executed, but if there is any doubt, suspected murderers could be left with a life sentence instead of the death penalty. The fewer evil people and criminals in the world, the better the world will be.
Now to bring politics into this. Remember that if criminals are killed, that would mean fewer votes for the Democrats. Democrats want felons to vote. Fabian Socialists want chaos in society. A good way to do that is to let mentally ill people out of insane asylums, and let crime increase. When crime increases, the citizens will clamor for bigger government. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
Here's the campaign slogan which should be adopted by the 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate; "Death to America!"
tom on January 11, 2020 at 2:08 pm said:
Bible says to hate evil…not the evil doer. That's where most Christians go wrong. Makes them come across a little blood thirsty. Don't get me wrong, I'm a proponent of capital punishment. Here's why
The Bible does call for capital punishment. It's not in a blood thirsty manner as most depict. The concept behind it is 'restitution'. Sounds a little weird at first until you get the whole picture. In the Bible, there are no prisons. The crime wasn't against 'society'. It was against a person. That person deserves justice. The Bible lays out punishment for the offense as restitution. Kill your neighbors cow by accident, you repay him a cow. Do it in a malicious manner (like theft), pay him multiple cows. Sending a person to prison does little to restore the damage to the victim. So, what do do with murder? You can't replace a life. So, the restitution is with your life.
Roger Willco on January 12, 2020 at 3:40 pm said:
Your answer is excellent. Have you heard of Ted Weiland?
Just want to make one small correction. From the New Testament we might get the idea that "God hates the sin but loves the sinner." But look at Psalm 5 verses 5 and 6. In both the KJV and the NIV it is clear that God hates sinners.
Tom606 on January 12, 2020 at 6:34 pm said:
Sorry Roger, the phrase "Death to America" has already been copyrighted by the radical Moslems. Maybe the 2020 Democrats can scream "Death to Patriotic Freedom Loving Americans!" at their Socialist rallies instead. Beto used to do a good imitation of Adolf Hitler with his wild arm gestures, but Bernie's not too bad in that area either. Tall Tale Joe just looks like he needs to take a long nap.
Strategic Steve on January 11, 2020 at 10:49 am said:
The good sheepdog does not run out and attack indiscriminately. The good sheepdog will act judiciously to protect itself, its flock, and above all, its people. Sometimes substantial force is required to deal decisively with a vicious predator. The good sheepdog need not feel guilty for recognizing a threat and doing its job appropriately. Likewise armed citizens under the law. I don't know any firearms trainer who teaches "shoot first, and ask questions later." I don't personally know anyone who trains that way, either. I am suspicious of pacifists, especially the hypocritically warlike ones, who suppose that all people are basically good.
Paul on January 11, 2020 at 11:25 am said:
So they feel that willfully making yourself vulnerable to attack increases your empathy and makes your character stronger?
Maybe. Nice theory. Bit it is more likely it will make you a victim. I'd rather not be a victim.
Jim on January 11, 2020 at 11:30 am said:
The mind game training provided with First Person Shooter games seems to be overlooked when people place the blame for ALL shootings. I wonder if there's not a somewhat sinister plan to keep the gamers pulling the trigger, after all you get mega points for racking up kills, reap the bounty and advance in the game.
Halo, Call of Duty, GTA 4,5 and no doubt other games I,m not aware of.
JIM ABRAHAM on January 11, 2020 at 2:10 pm said:
What a milksop.
ABRAHAM JIM on January 11, 2020 at 8:30 pm said:
My reply was to the original article, not to your comment to the same. Not sure how it was misapplied.
jim on January 14, 2020 at 1:29 pm said:
Understood. I think most of us that would follow this questioning typically ask what's the agenda behind it, or the collective thinking of today. Whos paying the freight. I always question the games that give rewards for killng take-overs, heists robbery.
Young minds that train "In the Game". Pull the trigger hundreds of times, and run over pedestrians… This is the wrong MIND training for young people, but it works. And the kids just love it!!!
larryarnold on January 11, 2020 at 10:55 pm said:
As I recall, the first first-person shooter game was Doom, which launched in 1993.
1993 also happened to be the peak year for criminal violence in the U.S. The violent crime rate been dropping ever since. (Check the FBI.)
I doubt "violent video games" caused the drop in violence; correlation is not causation. But I can say that they haven't caused the predicted "rising tide of violence," because as the number of people playing first-person games went from zero to zillions, the violence tide has ebbed.
Archer on January 13, 2020 at 12:34 pm said:
Wolfenstein 3D came out in 1992, a year before Doom. Stylistically they are very similar (being created by the same people).
It should be noted that in Doom the player engages alien demons and zombies, but in Wolfenstein 3D the player mostly engages living humans (Nazi soldiers and officers, but still arguably human).
I had never realized the timing of the release of these FPS (First-Person Shooter) games and the peak and subsequent decline of violent crime, even though I knew both happened around the same time. It seems quite possible that the rise in popularity of FPS games gives a psychological "release" to people who might otherwise choose real-world violence, and therefore are a net benefit to society. (I'm not claiming it is so, just that it's possible.)
The people who claim that violent video games should be banned, censored, or restricted because it "desensitizes minds" toward violence, are running against more inconvenient facts than just the First Amendment.
As a long-time fan of FPS games (I played both Wolfenstein and Doom when they came out), I can tell you this: It never leaves your mind that this is a game. It is not real. Nobody in their right mind plays Grand Theft Auto and then thinks it's OK to yank a women out of her car to steal it, pull an AK rifle on responding officers and kill them all, and then blow the helicopter out of the sky with a bazooka (or that just changing your clothes will heal all your wounds and fool police). Again, it's a game; it is not real, and the players know it.
And if you ask any gamer how many points they earned on GTA, CoD, or Halo, they'll laugh at you; FPS games, by and large, are mission-based and not scored, and have been for a LONG time. Keeping up with the "bodies for points" argument just proves that the people who want FPS games restricted have never played them. Just like how most of the people who want guns restricted have clearly never used them and don't know how they work.
Because at the end of the day, it's never about gun control or game control; it's always about people control.
this is a game. It is not real. Nobody in their right mind plays Grand Theft Auto and then thinks it's OK to yank a women out of her car to steal it, pull an AK rifle on responding officers and kill them all, and then blow the helicopter out of the sky with a bazooka (or that just changing your clothes will heal all your wounds and fool police). Again, it's a game; it is not real, and the players know it. {{{ BULLSHIT}}} Young people play these first person shooter games, Repetition repetition, GTA games have a perfect plan to Desensitize young peoples minds. They do sell very well though so you could say YEAH SUPER we love to kill, blow up armored cars, race fast, and if people die, to bad its only a game. Anyone that thinks that this is not impacting young minds is truly disconnected with reality.
Archer and Jim,
My guess is that some minds are adversely impacted by games and movies. These people would probably become criminals anyway, but why should we help them along?
I remember hearing that the author of "The Godfather," Mario Puzo, purposefully made the gangsters in that first movie look as though they led unattractive lives. It worked on me. There was the family, a wedding going on, and there they are in the back room worried about business. Yuck! Those gangsters always have to worry about getting whacked, by the enemy or by their boss! I am not attracted by that life at all, but some people are. They want to be gangsters. They think the life of a "made man" is glamorous and easy money. "Made men" get respect.
Look at how popular gangs are in inner cities. Broken families don't help. You can work at some low-paying job, or join a gang, sell drugs and get bling. Easy money, the quick buck. Very tempting to some minds.
Since America is supposed to be about freedom, I always default to having as few laws as possible. But good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things, and use America's freedom and lax penalties to have their way. The few bad people ruin the freedom which should be enjoyed by the majority.
TN_MAN on January 11, 2020 at 12:59 pm said:
What we see in these two essays is an almost perfect illustration of the left-wing / right-wing division in the human mind. As I have noted before, there is a subconscious "setting" in the human mind that tells each individual how much to "trust" humanity as a whole. This setting varies from person to person and is, I would argue, set by genetics and childhood experiences. In adulthood, it tends to harden into a fixed position.
An individual with a high trust setting tends to automatically "trust" other people and tends to feel, at the most basic level, that humans are "Good". An individual with a low trust setting will tend to be distrustful of others, especially strangers, and will tend to believe that all humans have a capacity for evil.
The authors of these two essays are displaying their built-in trust settings. Dr. Michael Austin clearly has a high trust setting. This leads him to believe that:
1) Humans are inherently "Good" therefore the carrying of arms for self-protection is unnecessary and even counter-productive.
2) To reinforce this belief, he rationalizes that training with arms is actually harmful in that it may suppress empathy for others and create a "kill reflex". As someone with a high trust setting, he is overflowing with empathy for others.
Dr. Austin further writes" "When we are encouraged to see others, be they military enemies or other members of our own society, as morally inferior, they are dehumanized and thereby easier to kill. This can be done through racist epithets, as was the case in Vietnam and Iraq. It can also be done by seeing the enemy as evil, as morally inferior and deserving of death."
This is, if I may say so, a hypocritical statement given that Leftists, such as Dr. Austin, are some of the worst offenders in this regard. Consider that the American Left routinely dehumanizes their political opponents by branding them with labels such as Racist, Homophobe, Sexist, deplorable, gun nut, religious nut, climate criminal, etc. Indeed, by giving the examples of the use of racist epithets, in Vietnam and Iraq, Dr. Austin (himself) is dehumanizing gun-owners by implying that they also have racist motives.
David Yamane, on the other hand, clearly has a low trust setting. The central point, in his essay, is to dispute Dr. Austin's implicit assumption of the "Goodness" of mankind. For example, with this point:
"Far from being a feature of human nature, our contemporary psychological resistance to killing is profoundly social. As Steven Pinker has documented exhaustively, violence has declined in human history not because our nature has changed, but because we have evolved social structures (e.g., the centralized state that monopolizes legitimate force) and cultures (e.g., recognizing universal human rights) that limit inter-personal violence."
Clearly, a point being made AGAINST the assumption of the inherent goodness of mankind.
Who is correct? For most people, it will depend upon their own trust settings. People who share Dr. Austin's high trust setting will "feel" that he is correct. People with low trust settings will favor the arguments of David Yamane.
I would point out, however, that there is an objective way of deciding who is correct. If Dr. Austin is correct that firearms training can harm a person's character, then one would expect a tendency toward violence and crime from those who have such training. Similar to the old "blood will run in the streets" arguments against expanded concealed carry laws, one would expect increased violence which would be documented by the crime statistics for people with firearms training.
I would point out that studies of people with concealed carry licenses, who (by definition) have training and access to firearms, shows them to be extremely law-abiding. Indeed, several studies show that their crime rates are much lower then those of the average citizen. They are even lower than those of police officers.
This is flat-out contrary to the expectation that should arise if Dr. Austin was correct in his arguments. It makes a strong case that the arguments of David Yamane are the correct ones.
I believe you have your "trust settings" reversed. It seems to me that Dr. Austin is saying that he does not trust people to train with and carry firearms because they will be ethically damaged, whereas Mr. Yamane is saying that most people can be trusted with the tools to protect themselves.
It's your "left wing" that says people must rely on government because they can't be trusted to make good decisions, while your "right wing" trusts individuals to run their own lives.
Personally, I think the "right wing" is just as likely to call for more government control, only over different issues. Therefore I don't trust either of the mainstream parties. Count me libertarian, which is neither.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one is looking, even when doing the wrong thing is legal. (Aldo Leopold)
@ larryarnold – "I believe you have your 'trust settings' reversed."
Not at all. The concept goes as follows:
1) A certain percentage of the population, due to genetics and childhood experiences, develop high trust settings in adulthood.
2) A high setting causes the individual to have a subconscious, inherent belief in the basic "Goodness" of mankind. To inherently trust other people. How else can one explain such actions as President Obama (notoriously left-wing) giving the Iranians $150 billion and expecting that it would buy peace rather then fuel terrorism?
3) Such a belief causes a paradox (in the real world) because it conflicts with the manifest presence of Evil in the World. In other words, if one believes in mankind's inherent "Goodness", how does one account for Evil. The world should be a paradise if mankind were actually inherently "Good" as indicated by a high trust setting.
4) To resolve this logical paradox, the rational part of the mind, of a high-trust person, shifts the blame for evil to social or environmental factors. A belief is created which says that the inherent "Goodness" of mankind is corrupted by worldly influences such as racism, sexism, poverty, addiction, capitalism, ecological destruction, weapon proliferation, etc.
5) This directly leads to the classic, Left-Wing Worldview that Big Government Power is the answer to evil. A powerful central government can modify society to implement "Social Justice". The concept is to use the massive power of government to mitigate all of the negative factors, listed in (4) above, so as to nullify their destructive effects. To fight racism and sexism with Government Civil Rights Programs. To create anti-poverty programs. To fight addiction with Government drug treatment programs, To fight capitalism with socialism. Government programs to protect the environment. Government Anti-gun and anti-weapon programs, etc. Basically, the entire left-wing program that we have seen played out in Washington, D.C. over the last century.
6) People with high trust settings are, therefore, directly sent to the left-wing political program by their subconscious trust setting. In it's ultimate manifestation, it leads to a Utopian belief and dream. Because, you see, if people ARE inherently GOOD and if the negative effects of society can be MITIGATED by means of Big Government Power and Programs, then the result would be paradise (or, as LBJ put it, a "Great Society"). Mankind's goodness would shine forth unchallenged by the world's negative effects and a peaceful, bountiful paradise would be created here on earth. One would not have to die to get to heaven. It would be right here and now. Created on Earth by a benevolent Big Brother Government.
You see why left-wingers love Big Government so much and why they are appalled by Right-Wing individualism. It runs counter to their path to the left-wing Utopian paradise that they are trying their utmost to create! It is not only counter-revolutionary but counter-paradise. It is working for Evil in their view.
So, your view that left-wingers "don't trust" the people with firearms is not the way the left looks at it. Say, rather, that the left believes that firearms are harmful, negative influences on mankind and that the human race would be better off if they were eliminated and their possession outlawed by Big Brother Government. It is for our own good, don't you know?
That is the way a leftist would view it. You are not seeing it clearly because you are not a leftist yourself. Your trust setting is not high enough to think as a leftist thinks. You don't really believe in the ultimate "Goodness" of mankind. Your trust setting is low and you are distrust of mankind. You believe that all people of capable of evil. Not merely because they are forced to do evil by social circumstances but because they can be Bad People. Leftists don't believe in Bad People. They only believe that society can force weak-willed people to do bad things.
Steve S on January 11, 2020 at 1:57 pm said:
How does that explain that CCW holders are some of the most law abiding citizens?
Also sounds like someone that has never had anything bad happen to them (by a person). The old "liberal is a conservative that hasn't been raped".
Tom Moszak on January 11, 2020 at 2:04 pm said:
Austin is full of short sighted agenda driven shallow thinking.
David E Dale on January 11, 2020 at 2:19 pm said:
This is precisely why PhD level nonsense exchanges are more appropriate for totally "academic" settings. The "real world" exists as fact not assumptions colored by mindset. No one wants to "stall" their airplance and endanger lives on board or on the ground. We train pilots to be able to recognize the circumstance that they find themselves in and take appropriate action. Military pilots have the advantage of egress systems and life support equipment for when "all else fails". I fully understand the cowardice/fear that limits human beings responses. Go ahead, don't pull that ripcord. Take all of the next seven seconds you want.
John on January 11, 2020 at 2:41 pm said:
Those that refuse to prepare to resist evil ( and those that refuse to resist evil) serve society poorly.
To answer "Who is correct?" Of course, I am!
Tommy C. Sewall on January 11, 2020 at 2:41 pm said:
I suppose this is the converse of the issue of soldiers dying while never firing a round because they could not bring themselves to kill another human. The commonality between gc1.0 and gc2.0 is that in 1.0 you know when you pull the trigger you are going to kill -an animal and in 2.0 you know if you pull the trigger you are going to kill -a human animal. It should also follow from each that you know when not to pull the trigger. Sorry, I know it's trigger press and we don't drop the hammer much anymore. I'm from gun culture 0.0.
Kevin Snith on January 11, 2020 at 4:49 pm said:
"To the extent that the Gun Culture 2.0 instills in people a willingness to kill, it can be harmful to their character."
Dr. Austen must also understand that his wife has all the equipment necessary to be a prostitute, and being in possession of such equipment, must instill in her a willingness to practice such activities, as the equipment is with her all the time and must, therefore, certainly influence her thoughts and actions.
Penrod on January 11, 2020 at 6:08 pm said:
"A Virtue Ethical Case for Pacifism" was cited. I don't think there are any convincing arguments for pacifism. Pacifism, so far as I can see, is a supremely selfish, utterly narcissistic philosophy.
Pacifism elevates one's self-regard as a 'moral, ethical' person above the wellbeing of not only one's self, but above the well-being of one's spouse, one's children, and all other innocent people threatened by unprovoked violence.
'I shall not lower myself to the rapist/murderer's level by using countervailing violence' has no purpose I can identify as other than narcissism to an extraordinary degree. 'My regard for my virtue is more important to me than my children's lives' is hardly a mark of empathy.
Penrod,
I'm trying to imagine how a pacifist would respond to an assault. One tactic may be to outrun the assailant, which would produce an acceptable outcome. Another way to resist an assault, while staying true to pacifist principles, may be to restrain the attacker until the police arrive. The pacifist could than claim he put a stop to the evil action, without harming the misguided human attacker.
Obviously this second tactic sounds good in theory, but would rarely be successful in practice.
A third tactic might be to allow the attack, and accept the consequences as God's will. However, if that pacifist was the head of a family, he would neglect his duty to his family members if he did nothing when they were attacked. Pacifism is for dreamers.
TW on January 11, 2020 at 6:13 pm said:
Yes, I agree with David Yamane. One thing that stood out to me was that training allows you to perform self defense actions while not having to think about "how" to do them. That releases cognitive resources for making the necessary ethical decision to shoot or not. Therefore, training does not instill a robotic response to a threat all the way through to trigger pull. It only instills it up to the trigger pull moment so the rest of your brain can be used to "decide" if the "situation" actually warrants the "trigger pull".
William Hohman on January 11, 2020 at 6:48 pm said:
The author of the article in psychology today is another example of a putz with a PhD. He's describes self defense training through his myopic and biased observations. He has no ability to realize his self imposed, limited perspective.
After reading Dr. Austin's essay, I'm reminded why PhDs are so exhaustively hard to get.
It takes a LOT of professional academic training and conditioning to instill a sensible working-age high school graduate with the critical thinking skills of a preschooler.
WR Moore on January 11, 2020 at 7:08 pm said:
I would be deeply interested in Dr. Austin's commentary on empathy for 2 sub groups of people: those who find it greatly entertaining to get drunk with their buddies and then beat the tar out of each other and those who find great satisfaction with visiting violence on random others.
I've seen several "investigative" TV pieces where the talent tries to interact/de-conflict situations in LE training situations. After they get "attacked" by the role player they tend to change their views on what may be necessary to resolve a situation.
StevefromMA on January 11, 2020 at 9:30 pm said:
As a Ph.D. psychologist with fifty years experience in that field and as a shooter, I would disagree with Dr. Austin. I don't believe humans are inherently either bad or good, though genes may push them to be impulsive, fearful, anxious, delusional, etc, often modifiable by interactions as they grow. The end result can be someone devoid of empathy who sees others as either tools to be used or obstacles to his needs. The best test of goodness or evil is when facing an individual and seeing if he is a lethal threat to another. As one of my pistol instructors said, before you squeeze the trigger you need to be certain that the planet will be better off without this person. I agree with TW that we want to become automatons to the point of giving us the the time to make that decision.
Linda Pendleton on January 11, 2020 at 9:30 pm said:
Excellent response by David Yamane. Articulate responses to a rather biased article by Psychology Today. I thought the article was condescending to lawful gun owners.
I believe that in the majority of Lethal Force Encounters the psychological impact of having to take a life has a profound impact not just on civilians but on LEO's as well. I have talked to LEO's that were involved in shootings and the general response was that they hated to have to take a life but that it was either "him or me" moment or in the protection of innocents.. The sad part of these encounters is the backlash of the "armchair quarterbacks, anti gun liberals and the media and in LEO's cases the fear of being thrown under the bus by their own administration that paint the LTE survivor in a bad light or are looking to charge them with a crime for defending themselves, love ones or innocent civilians. The repercussions of a LTE can be endless. It's not a decision one takes lightly.
Training and practice are an absolute must to be proficient in the use and handling of firearms. I choose to be a "Sheepdog" I will never choose to be a victim.
If that makes me a card carrying member of the "Gun Culture" so be it.
Dear Linda, thank you for speaking out. Yours is the only female voice on this thread so far, a voice I was hoping to hear. You probably meant to say "LFE" rather than "LTE" to represent "Lethal Force Encounter." No biggie, F and T are catty-corner on QUERTY. I happen to have met for sure five murderers who can be called "LFE survivors," only two of which were taken into custody and imprisoned. One of the others was actually murdered himself. None of the murderers gave any of their victims the ghost of a chance to defend themselves. I hope that the murderers' clear lack of empathy for victims cancels any expectation of empathy for the murderers from anybody. For the Sheepdog, practice makes perfect. Therapy helps overcome any PTSD. Go Dogs!
Tionico on January 11, 2020 at 10:05 pm said:
r. Yamane very astutely pointed out that Austin's little meme about the training drils redicing respect for human life is a very narrow interpretation of the drills. Austin seems to attribute evil to the tool itself, and thus also to they who would learn to better use that tool. Bu the seriously errs in both cases.
Last month we tragically watched as one man, who was not very fast on his draw when confronted with the reality of a man whith a shotgun clearly intending to kill him. Seens it took him about three seconds from awareness of the threat life and getting his own handgun onl to the low ready position on its way up to alighing with the threat. He lost that one. Simultaneously we also saw another man who correctly ideitified the same threat and began to move to position as he drew his weapon, and from quite distance and in only about two seconds more time than the first victim had, neutralised the threat. One cannot help but wonder how differently that would have ended had the first gentleman to begin his drawstroke had comprehehded the threat a second sooner had practiced his draw to the point it was two seconds faster, and his aim to automatically come up onto target as he sqeezed the trigger.
But Austin woulld have us believe participating in that sort of "advanced training" would have hurt the man's character. Perhaps.. but I dareay it would have, at absolute most, hurt his character massively less than that shotgun blast did.
As I looked at Austin's sorces, and the periodical for which he wrote the piece, I could not help but realise those sources fit only too well with the sot of thinking he reveeals and prootes in his piece. Psychology Today Gimme break. And Truth about Guns? Help us, we are under attack!!! Here we have a case of a sheltere academic who is out of touch with reality, and working to further pollute the minds of his peers. Mr.Yamane did a sterling job of setting him straight. As to whether he DOES get himself sraightened away remains to be seen. The very fact he even ubished the rebuttal gives some hope toward that end. I have to give him high marks for that move. Few of his contemporaries would do that.
ABRAHAM JIM on January 12, 2020 at 8:46 am said:
Excellent blog post with excellent comments. Real enlightened education is going on at this website.
I want to comment on Dr. Austin's remark about soldiers being trained to kill during a war. Sadly, not all enemy soldiers deserve to be killed. This was especially true in WWI.
In our wars in the Middle East, we target horrible people who criminalize their own people when not fighting our soldiers. In Vietnam and Korea we were protecting Capitalists from Communists, who were the aggressors. WWII was a fight of good against evil empires who wanted to dominate the world. But the only problem with WWI was that Germany invaded Belgium, France and Russia. Those soldiers were ordered to invade by their leader, Kaiser Wilhelm. In WWI I see the world leaders as evil, because they drafted their young men to go fight, but the young men were just doing their duty, following orders. Even Hitler himself was in that war, yet he was not a Nazi. The Nazi party had not been formed yet. So, when a WWI soldier took aim at the enemy, he could be pretty sure he was aiming to kill someone who would not be a criminal in a civilian context.
In self-defense, an innocent person is never targeted. In war, sadly, they can be.
Little story here about the disparity between psychological theory and real world experience. There may be a better way to phrase that.
Some decades ago, Pennsylvania passed the Lethal Weapons Training Act. If you were going to carry firearms for a paycheck in PA, you had to go through the training course, which also included an MMPI and an interview with a couple of psychologists to make sure you were stable and had appropriate "values" (my term).
My grad level Psych prof was on the board that developed the testing and, in class, noted that the belief of the board was that high level verbal facility was preferable as it should lead to an enhanced ability to resole situations without the use of force. Being a vet, he was, shall we say, not entirely convinced of this.
After about 5 years, they reviewed the psych interview results and discovered a disparity on a couple questions between those with certain life experience and others. These folks viewed those questions not as "Should I shoot?", but "Can I safely make the shot?" As a result, they had to add followup questions to determine previous life experience to prevent false test failures.
Third paragraph: "resole" should be "resolve". My proof reading skills are included in those things that aren't what they used to be.
My apologies for straying from the main point of the article. Too many weapons have stayed parked in their holsters with moldy old ammo decaying year after year. The beholder is clearly not contemplating the possibility of defending him or herself with it.


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Background and release

"Sunday Morning" was written by Gwen Stefani, Eric Stefani, and Tony Kanal. The song was written by Eric Stefani prior to his departure from the group, who left due to creative differences in the beginning of 1995. Because of his absence, Gwen Stefani resumed the role as a songwriter which resulted in ultra-personal songs that described her personal and romantic life. Songs written during this period were anticipated for inclusion on Tragic Kingdom (1995), the group's third studio album and first with Interscope Records since their debut, No Doubt, in 1992. The material on Tragic Kingdom documented Stefani's former relationship with Kanal, which had lasted seven years. Kanal referred to "Sunday Morning" as his favorite No Doubt song in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1997.

For the commercial CD single released created to promote the single, none of them were held in the United States. Instead, promotional copies were sent to radio stations for airplay in that country. The copy included both the radio edit and album versions of "Sunday Morning". A promotional VHS single was created by Interscope Geffen A&M Records. Other promotional releases as CD singles occurred in France and Spain that used the radio edit and album version, respectively. On May 27, 1997 in Australia and Sweden, the CD maxi single featured the single plus No Doubt (1992) track "Get on the Ball" and live versions of Tragic Kingdom album tracks "Just a Girl", "Don't Speak", and "Hey You". The Philippines promotional cassette single includes an identical track listing on both the A-side and B-side. A two-part CD single series released in the United Kingdom in 1997 includes "Sunday Morning", the official music video as a CD-ROM feature, and live versions of their songs "By the Way", "Different People", "Oi to the World", and "Tragic Kingdom". The promotional Japanese CD maxi single uses previous single "Excuse Me Mr." as the opening track and follows with "Sunday Morning", and live versions of "Just a Girl" and "Don't Speak".

Composition and lyrics
"Sunday Morning" has been described as a ska and ska punk song. It contains elements of reggae music and was compared, musically, to the style of typical Motown releases. Rolling Stones Chris Heath compared the sound of "Sunday Morning" to English singer Kim Wilde's 1981 debut single "Kids in America". The song was produced by Matthew Wilder, the executive producer for Tragic Kingdom Instrumentation consists of Kanal on Bass, Adrian Young on drums and percussion, Tom Dumont on guitar, Eric Stefani on piano and keyboards, and Phil Jordan on trumpet.

According to the official sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, "Sunday Morning" is set in common time and has a moderately fast tempo of 157 beats per minute. The key of the song is in E major, with Stefani's vocal range spanning one octave from B3 to C5 in scientific pitch notation. The song opens with an extended instrumental and then follows chord progressions of E-C#m-E-C#m in the verses. Heath described the sound transition after the introduction as "a thumping combination of Motown and pop cheese".

According to the liner notes of the group's 2003 greatest hits album, The Singles 1992–2003, Stefani brainstormed the lyrics to "Sunday Morning" after speaking with Kanal through a bathroom door while at his parents' house in Yorba Linda, California. She later revisited the lyrics and edited them to describe a breakup. Chris Heath from Rolling Stone described the song as "one of the meanest" on Tragic Kingdom and summarized the lyrical content as "Girl used to go out with boy and act pathetic and over-dependent, but now the tables are turned". Rather than taking on the persona of a victim, Stefani plays the conqueror; as heard in the song's bridge, Stefani thanks her ex lover and remarks: "Now you're the parasite!"

Critical reception

Professional critiques of "Sunday Morning" have been largely positive, both at the time of its release and retrospectively. Partridge, writing for Billboard, singled out Stefani's role as a songwriter, praising her ability to write after "constantly gaining and losing the upper hand in her romantic adventures". Mike Boehm from the Los Angeles Times stated that "Sunday Morning" is an example of "the band's improved craft" on Tragic Kingdom and complimented its ability to correlate well with the conceptual themes of the album.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the album, a panel of critics from The A.V. Club reanalyzed Tragic Kingdom. Annie Zaleski from the publication admired the track in addition to "Happy Now?" and "Excuse Me Mr."; she noted that all three of them "have just the right amount of pep". Alex McLevy was critical of Tragic Kingdom but wrote: "Luckily, 'Sunday Morning' is there to remind you just how good the band can be when it gets the recipe right." Marah Eakin, also from The A.V. Club, claimed that the single aged well despite being two decades old. She also described it as her favorite song on the parent album. In a poll held by Rolling Stone in 2016, Brittany Spanos asked her readers to vote on "The 10 Best Gwen Stefani Songs". "Sunday Morning" took fourth place and Spanos' consensus stated: "Stefani is a powerhouse on the raucous, bitter single. [...] From the moment Adrian Young's opening drum solo builds up, the song grows more and more massive and searing."

Chart performance
"Sunday Morning" was not released as a commercial single in the United States and therefore was ineligible to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Despite its minimal commercial impression, the song charted on Billboards Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart. The single peaked at number 35 during the magazine issue of June 20, 1997 and spent four weeks on the chart altogether. It became the fourth single from Tragic Kingdom to appear on the chart and is the group's lowest charting entry to date. Partridge reflected on the song's mediocre impact on the record charts positively, writing: "[it] didn't chart as high, but the damage was done. Gwen was a major celebrity, No Doubt was on its way to becoming one of the decade's biggest bands."

In Canada, the single entered the RPM Top Singles chart at number 91 during the week of May 19, 1997. Its position improved weekly before reaching a peak of number 33 in it its tenth week. It also was ranked within the country's Adult Contemporary and Rock/Alternative songs charts, where it peaked at positions 41 and 21, respectively. The single achieved significant success in Australia, where it entered the ARIA Singles Chart. It debuted at number 45 during the listing ending June 1, 1997 and rose to its peak position at number 21 in its sixth week. In total, the song charted for nineteen consecutive weeks in Australia. At the annual year-end tally in 1997, "Sunday Morning" was listed as the year's 84th most successful song. It also received a gold certification from the ARIA that same year for shipments of 35,000 copies in that country.

"Sunday Morning" also charted in several countries in Europe. On the UK Singles Chart published by the Official Charts Company, it debuted and peaked at number 50 on December 20, 1997. It became the fourth consecutive entry by the band from Tragic Kingdom, but also the lowest performing one. On the Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 chart in Iceland, the single reached the number two position. It later became the country's tenth best-selling song of 1997. In Scotland, the song reached number 42 on the singles chart. In Poland and Sweden, the song peaked at numbers 40 and 55, respectively.

Music video

The corresponding music video to "Sunday Morning" was directed by Sophie Muller and was the fifth and final video produced from Tragic Kingdom. Muller was originally asked to work with the group for "Just a Girl" in 1995, but the opportunity fell through. However, she later had the chance to direct the music video for "Don't Speak" that same year. After releasing that video, the band determined they wanted the next one filmed to use an opposite concept. During an interview with Complex magazine in 2012, Dumont spoke about the meaning of the music video for "Sunday Morning":
That video was just trying to capture that kind of really simple, silly, sweet story of our friendship. Especially coming after 'Don't Speak,' because the 'Don't Speak' video was about us fighting, and who wanted to come back to that? Both of those videos were fictional, but covered different aspects of our friendship.

Synopsis
The video opens with No Doubt beginning to perform "Sunday Morning" in a small garage. Their music captures the attention of a lonesome man (Terry Hall) strolling past them, who decides to watch them play from a nearby swing. As the song's chorus begins, Stefani sits down in a chair, changes into a leopard pair of shoes, and departs the garage in order to shop at a nearby grocery store. While she purchases several cans of tomato sauce from the store, the other band members begin preparing dinner in the kitchen. As Stefani slices a tomato with a knife, she cuts her finger and Dumont accidentally drops a kettle of spaghetti sauce on the floor. She and Dumont clean up the mess and enter the backyard to begin the meal. While eating, Dumont initiates a food fight and the others join in. The videos ends with Hall watching the group from afar.

Live performances
"Sunday Morning" was performed during the dates of their 1995–97 Tragic Kingdom World Tour. The performance of the song at the July 1, 1997 show in Anaheim, at The Arrowhead Pond, was recorded and released as part of the band's first live album, Live in the Tragic Kingdom (1997). On April 11, 1997, No Doubt served as the sole musical guest for an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The band performed the single to Leno's studio audience. At the Rock Steady Tour in 2002, No Doubt performed "Sunday Morning" after opening the concert with their 2002 single "Hella Good". Their performances from the November 22–23 and 29, 2002 shows in Long Beach at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center were recorded and featured on the group's second live album, Rock Steady Live (2003).

At the inaugural Rock in Rio USA music festival in 2015, No Doubt headlined the main stage during the first day of the event. They performed several songs from Tragic Kingdom, including "Don't Speak", "Sunday Morning", and "Excuse Me Mr.". In 2018, Stefani began her Just a Girl concert residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort Las Vegas. She performed "Sunday Morning" as the sixth song in the concert's set list. For the performance, the stage was decorated as a garage house party and accented with neon-colored objects and speakers. At the shows, Stefani wore a tank top stylized with her name in black, sports red lipstick, and her signature platinum blonde hair.

Track listings and formats

Australia and Sweden CD maxi-single
 1. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 4:14
 2. "Just a Girl" (Live) – 5:37
 3. "Don't Speak" (Live) – 5:26
 4. "Hey You" (Live) – 3:20
 5. "Get on the Ball" – 3:32

Europe CD maxi-single (Part 1)
 1. "Sunday Morning" – 4:32
 2. "Sunday Morning" (Live) – 9:20
 3. "Oi to the World" (Live) – 2:42
 4. "By the Way" (Live) – 3:54

Europe CD maxi-single (Part 2)
 1. "Sunday Morning" – 4:32
 2. "Different People" (Live) – 6:31
 3. "Tragic Kingdom" (Live) – 4:03
 4. "Sunday Morning" (Music Video) – 4:18

France promotional CD single
 1. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 4:14

Japan promotional CD maxi-single
 1. "Excuse Me Mr." – 3:20
 2. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 3:20
 3. "Just a Girl" (Live) – 5:37
 4. "Don't Speak" (Live) – 5:26

Philippines cassette maxi-single
 A1. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 4:14
 A2. "Just a Girl" (Live) – 5:37
 A3. "Don't Speak" (Live) – 5:26
 A4. "Hey You" (Live) – 3:20
 A5. "Get on the Ball" – 3:32
 B1. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 4:14
 B2. "Just a Girl" (Live) – 5:37
 B3. "Don't Speak" (Live) – 5:26
 B4. "Hey You" (Live) – 3:20
 B5. "Get on the Ball" – 3:32

Spain promotional CD single
 1. "Sunday Morning" – 4:26

US promotional CD single
 1. "Sunday Morning" (Radio Edit) – 4:14
 2. "Sunday Morning" (Album Version) – 4:26

US promotional VHS single
 1. "Sunday Morning" (Music Video) – 4:18

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Tragic Kingdom.

 Gwen Stefaniwriter, vocals
 Tony Kanalwriter, bass
 Eric Stefaniwriter, keyboards, piano
 Matthew Wilderproducer
 Adrian Youngdrums, percussion
 Tom Dumontguitar
 Phil Jordantrumpet
 Robert Vosgienmastering
 David Holmanmixing
 Paul Palmermixing
 Phil Kaffelrecording
 George Landressrecording

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

1995 songs
1997 singles
Interscope Records singles
Music videos directed by Sophie Muller
No Doubt songs
Reggae rock songs
Song recordings produced by Matthew Wilder
Songs written by Gwen Stefani
Songs written by Tony Kanal
Songs written by Eric Stefani
Trauma Records singles


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Elisabeth Magdalena « Nina » Schenk comtesse von Stauffenberg, née baronne  ( à Kaunas -  à Kirchlauter) était l'épouse de Claus von Stauffenberg, personnage clé du complot du 20 juillet 1944 contre Adolf Hitler.

Enfance

Elle eut cinq enfants avec Claus : Berthold Maria (1934), Heimeran (1936), Franz-Ludwig (1938), Valerie von l'Estocq (1940–1966) et Konstanze (1945).

Biographie
Inquiétée après l'attentat, au nom de la Sippenhaft, Nina von Stauffenberg était enceinte au moment du décès tragique de son mari. Elle donna naissance à son cinquième enfant, Konstanze, en , alors qu'elle était emprisonnée dans un centre de maternité nazi à Francfort-sur-l'Oder. Cette même année, sa mère, Anna, mourut dans un camp soviétique. Ses enfants seront placés dans un orphelinat, à Bad Sachsa, sous le nom de « Meister ».

À la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Nina fut transférée dans la province italienne du Sud Tyrol, détenue comme otage. Après la guerre, elle retrouvera ses enfants et sa famille dans la propriété familiale de Lautlingen (Bade-Wurtemberg).

Filmographie
 Walkyrie (2008), de Bryan Singer, où Nina von Stauffenberg est interprétée par Carice van Houten.

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Liens externes

Naissance à Kaunas
Naissance en août 1913
Décès en avril 2006
Noblesse allemande du XXe siècle
Noblesse allemande du XXIe siècle
Noblesse balte du XXe siècle
Noblesse balte du XXIe siècle
Décès à 92 ans