This volume on Language, Migration and Social Inequalities: A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work appears at a time when linguists concerned with the social meaning of language are asking questions arising from its role in a changing social, economic and political context (Blommaert, 2005; Duchêne & Heller, 2012) and searching for new conceptual and explanatory frameworks to answer these questions (Coupland, 1998, 2010). The institutions and workplaces described here are all realms where the daily lives of migrants are regimented and controlled. They are also illustrative sites for looking at ways social inequality is (re)produced and challenged. Language in these contexts includes a focus on multilingualism and on normative modes of talking in the dominant language. Both sites play a central role in processes of categorisation and legitimation of migrant groups as well as in exercising agency in the organisation of and access to resources. Language, it is argued, is key in selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes as well as being the object of organisational responses to these wider institutional processes. It is through language that the complex relationship between the material and symbolic capital of migrants is played out on a local scale, as power institutions of the nation-state interact with the globalised economic order.
This book examines how social and political changes brought about by transnational migration and the new economic order, which are themselves the outcome of globalisation, produce new ways of regulating language and establishing what counts as 'linguistic capital' (Bourdieu, 1991). An explicitly critical ethnographic sociolinguistic stance provides an account of the overt and covert ways language and institutional practices address core questions concerning power and the place of migrants in various national contexts.
Specifically, the new conditions resulting from globalisation force us to reconsider the articulation between language, migration and institutions. In terms of language, the shift to the tertiary economy and so to the increased number of jobs in the area of services has made communication and language key. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how this actually works in various national, occupational and institutional contexts. Linguistic marketplaces are currently being shaped by global forces beyond the control of the individual. In many contexts and geographical spaces, there are new demands on competence in the dominant language. But in many other spaces, single language speakers no longer can get by in their local daily lives in the same way as they did in the past. Here, multilingualism and knowledge of more than one language have become almost a requirement.
Many of these changes affecting the heightened role of language are connected to migration and the manner in which people are mobile today. Migrants in the past tended to have limited connections with their country of origin, as travel was more expensive and contact was difficult to maintain. The internet, along with the inexpensive communication technology now available, has created improved means for migrants to communicate more frequently with family and friends all over the world almost instantaneously. Close-knit networks are facilitated and sustained because of the new ways migrants communicate and are in contact with each other through frequent travel. This in turn has led to the growth of new businesses and services to meet these new requirements.
The linguistic and cultural diversification of national populations in countries around the globe has led to the creation of a wide variety of services that target these new citizens as clients or receivers of welfare. Institutions such as those providing health, legal assistance, consumer goods and social services, to mention just a few, are facing new linguistic and communication challenges. These are also sites where control, selection and regimentation of these newcomers take place. Institutions are places where we can still encounter contradictory ideologies and practices concerning language. In some organisations, especially from public sector institutions, traditional ideologies connect a national language with institutional identity (see Allan, this volume). Here, social processes of exclusion are carried out on the basis of a person's competence and linguistic performance which can be identified and traced to localised micro-level social practices (see Codó et al., this volume). However, in the private sector, multilingualism related, for example, to the marketing of consumer products constitutes an added value and contributes to the way private enterprises make a profit (Piller & Takahashi, this volume).
There is a constant and complex dialectic between what a host society considers to be regimented (language being one of the terrains on which control can be imposed) and the way migrants' linguistic resources can serve economic interests which benefit either large institutions or small-scale minority ethnic businesses. The regulation and the capitalisation of language work goes hand in hand with the blurring of boundaries between the state, the NGO and the private, or between the local and the ethnic businesses (see Sabaté on locutorios, this volume). This is a dynamic that invites us to constantly question the way language operates as an instrument of power across and beyond institutions. New conditions of language use and new forms of interests (re)produce new and old forms of inequalities and resistances to them. These are always based on the value that certain languages and varieties of language have over others – the hierarchisation of languages – which endows some with added value within particular domains of use. This critical stance can seem overly abstract, bleaching out the speakers from their speech. But inequalities of language are also embodied in speakers' experience of linguistic regulation and capitalisation. They are positioned by these processes but they also actively engage in resisting them. For this reason, in order to challenge the notion of migrants as victims and to focus on their active agency, we have included a separate section on resistance.
The theme of this volume, language and social inequality, is not new to the field of sociolinguistics. This area of inquiry has always addressed, to different degrees, issues of linguistic inequality in examining the relationship between language and social life. Although taking different ontological and epistemological stances (Moyer, 2008), both variationist, language system-focussed sociolinguistics (Labov, 1963, 1966) and practice-based, culturally and ethnographically informed sociolinguistics (Gumperz & Hymes, 1972) are concerned with the way in which language indexes, or points out to, social phenomena and ideologies beyond their denotative meaning. Labovian correlational studies showed that variation and linguistic differences were regular and patterned and that stigmatised varieties served as stereotypes, identity markers or indicators of social group categorisations. While variationist sociolinguistics had shown the significance of the indexicality of the language system, Hymes and Gumperz started not with structuralist systems but with speakers and their communicative practices, drawing on the functional approach of Jakobson (1960) and Pierce (1977) and on the linguistic philosophy of Austin (1962), Searle (1969) and Grice (1989).
For Gumperz and Hymes, only an activity and practice-based view of language can account for linguistic diversity and multilingualism and any other approach, 'feeds into monoglot ideologies of language standardisation (...) and (...) into oppressive language and educational policies' (Gumperz & Cook-Gumperz, 2005: 271). Their concern with the linguistic production of social inequality stems from this approach of cultural difference in understanding, linking the fine-grained detail of the poetics (Hymes, 1981) and rhetorics (Gumperz, 1982a, 1999) of language use to social categories and powerful ideologies. Gumperz's interactional sociolinguistic theory (Gumperz, 1982a) explicitly focuses on the communicative dimension to racial and linguistic discrimination when interpretation or inferencing strategies in ongoing conversations are not shared by interlocutors from different sociocultural backgrounds. Interactions for Gumperz are, therefore, the substance of social relations of power and are where linguistic ideologies are played out (Eerdmans et al., 2003: vi; Gumperz, 1982b).
Hymes and Gumperz were laying down their pioneering theories at a time when the nation-state, communities and class and ethnic categorisations were treated as unified, integrated and fixed systems (for example, Gumperz's notion of 'speech community', which he has subsequently critiqued (Gumperz & Cook-Gumperz, 2005; Rampton, 2000). Relationships between language use and social labelling and processes of belonging and exclusion seemed more straightforward than they do today. The connection of language to theorisations of power and to a wider social, political and economic order were not a question of concern (Gal, 1998). Today, with the social and economic changes brought about by globalisation and the instabilities of late modernity, such concerns can no longer be ignored and require more wide-ranging ethnography as well as more detailed and nuanced understanding of interpretive processes.
During this period, the role of linguistic ideology in understanding the relationship between language and social stratification was also being developed, much of it linked to American linguistic anthropology and to the early work of Gumperz and Hymes. The central role of ideology in understanding language in the social world began with Silverstein's innovative paper (Silverstein, 1979) and his later assertion that language must be studied by looking at the interaction between form, use and ideology (Silverstein, 1985: 220). Globalisation and mobility in the late modern context gave the notion new urgency, as the rash of anthologies on linguistic ideology attest (Kroskrity, 2000; Schieffelin et al., 1998).
Recent studies have drawn together some of the apparent dichotomies between a neutral notion of shared cultural knowledge and one of contestation, and between an explicit consciousness and articulation of language and one that sees linguistic ideology in embodied practices. For example, Kroskrity (2000) has disputed these dichotomies, arguing, with Giddens (1991), that speakers of a language will always have ideologies embedded in their relatively automatic conduct and that such apparently neutral concepts as shared cultural knowledge will always be derived from the interests of a group, whether it is the taken-for-granted knowledge of state policies on standards in language or of small communities of people struggling to have their voices heard and creating alternative modes of working and managing their lives.
The critical perspective of this book draws on the sociolinguistic strands mentioned above, on linguistic ideology and on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992; Wodak, 1996). Language is considered a practice as well as a resource that can have both symbolic value and exchange value in a market economy (Bourdieu, 1991) and where knowing the right kind of language or variety can enable access to desired resources such as jobs or to public and private services provided by the state (i.e. airline businesses, health, education). This book also owes a debt to recent critical sociolingistic studies (Blommaert, 2008, 2012; Coupland, 2010; Heller, 2002; Jaffe, 2009; Scollon & Scollon, 2004) which argue, drawing on Giddens, that the sites we study are permeable and constantly influenced by other events, institutions, discourses and groups which flow across each other (Hannerz, 1996; Marcus, 2005). In contrast to studying a set of workplace or institutional interactions as relatively autonomous events with some background context added, the contributors attempt to make linkages across sites, activities and social actors, examining some of the ways in which discourses circulate and are recontextualised (Bauman & Briggs, 1990; Linell, 1998) and spatial, temporal and physical environments rework and reconnect social actors and their talk and text.
What distinguishes this volume is that the contributors are all grappling with similar questions about the economic and institutional regimentation of migrants and the manner in which this form of power, control and selection that goes on in the sites studied is carried out and resisted with language in its various modes and modalities (Kress, 2010). Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe (Vertovec, 2009; Urry, 2007) pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states still rely on for defining their physical boundaries, their language and identity as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. Furthermore, the new social order resulting from neoliberal economic practices (Harvey, 2005), globalisation (Blommaert, 2012; Coupland, 2010) and outsourcing, as well as the dislocation of work and the expansion of marketplaces, is also challenging traditional ways the nation-state has organised its control over the people who have typically travelled to a new country looking for work or better life chances. These issues and the role of language are the linking threads of all the contributions that appear in this volume.
The focus on migrants, who are the protagonists of this book, requires a further caveat explaining to what category of people this term applies. The definition of immigrant has technically been used to refer to a person who enters or settles in a region or state to which he or she is not native, but the general understanding the word has acquired is more specific, namely, a person from the developing world settling in a more developed area, typically in the Western world. This act of essentialising that typically gets (reproduced by using the word immigrant or immigration is substituted here for the term migrant that we use to refer to any mobile citizen who migrates or is mobile for various reasons such as work, leisure, asylum or some other reason. Migrants, for our purposes, refer to air hostesses, clients at a call shop or a health clinic, undocumented citizens, highly qualified documented citizens, ethnic minorities who are second-generation migrants, children at school, as well as skilled and unskilled workers participating in an informal economy. The reasons and circumstances that have led those people to be migrants does not fit under the traditional immigrant label, which is imbued with such negative and stereotypical associations. Our emphasis is on understanding migration as a social process of mobility that stems from a wider and more global political and socio-economic order.
While migration has existed throughout history, there are certain new features that are important to understand in the lives of present-day migrants. Changing one's place in a physical or geographical space, whether it is just once, several times or on a regular basis, is only one dimension in which today's migrants are mobile. As Urry (2007: 47) points out, one can also be mobile along corporeal, geographical, virtual, imagined and communicative dimensions. For migrants arriving in a new place, knowledge of local language varieties as well as of the appropriate interactional and interpretative strategies is key for negotiating access to work as well as to social ser vices and resources. However, the lack of valued linguistic resources does not render migrants as passive subjects under the control of powerful social agents. As Ahearn (2012: 278) notes, a socioculturally mediated capacity to act, along with strategies to contest and resist, as the chapters in Part 3 on resistance illustrate, is always an option open to migrants.
Excerpted from Language, Migration and Social Inequalities by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer, Celia Roberts. Copyright © 2013 Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer, Celia Roberts and the authors of individual chapters. Excerpted by permission of Multilingual Matters.
Language, Migration and Social Inequalities is a welcome addition to the growing literature on language and globalization. This volume can be easily incorporated in an upper-level undergraduate or graduate course in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Chapters can be regrouped to reveal different issues...All in all, this volume offers a productive way into examining the intersections of language, migration, and social inequality especially in late-capitalist social democratic states.


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AFFiRiS AG: Parkinson's Vaccine - Worldwide First Clinical Study in Vienna
by Jennifer Levin |
Jun 7, 2012 8:02am
VIENNA, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The worldwide first clinical trial for the development of a Parkinson's vaccine has now been started by AFFiRiS AG. The vaccine called PD01A is directed against alpha-Synuclein, a protein considered causing the onset and progression of the disease, and is currently being tested on Parkinson's patients in a Phase I trial. The vaccine holds out the prospect to deliver a causative treatment of Parkinson's for the first time. Its potential for success prompted the US-American Michael J. Fox Foundation to generously support the development of PD01A financially. Taking place in Vienna and involving up to 32 patients, the primary endpoints of the trial are safety and tolerability of PD01A.
AFFiRiS AG announced today the start of the Phase I study of its Parkinson's vaccine candidate PD01A. This vaccine represents the first agent worldwide aiming at disease modification of Parkinson's rather than addressing symptomatic improvement only. PD01A targets a protein called alpha-Synuclein (alpha-syn) which plays a key role in the onset and progression of Parkinson's. The vaccination aims to educate the immune system to generate antibodies directed against alpha-syn. The trial will be conducted at the Confraternität Privatklinik Josefstadt in Vienna and will involve up to 32 patients.
Dr. Walter Schmidt, CEO of AFFiRiS, comments on the progress of the Parkinson's project: "Worldwide, for the first time immunotherapy is applied for the treatment of Parkinson's. It is a so-called "First-in-Man" and "First-in-Kind" trial, because PD01A is the first medication worldwide aiming for clinical efficacy by modulating the metabolic pathway of alpha-syn. Even in its preliminary stages this new treatment concept was highly appreciated, as the renowned Michael J. Fox Foundation assented financial support to a total of USD 1.5 million. Hence, this is one of the few projects outside of the USA considered worthy of support by the foundation."
This recognition is remarkable as the vaccine-candidate of AFFiRiS has the potential to treat the cause of Parkinson's for the first time. Since the approval of L-DOPA some 50 years ago, any other therapeutic intervention followed the same concept: the substitution of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Accordingly, all medications for Parkinson's so far can impact on the symptoms only, but none of them can modify the course of the disease.
Based on today's scientific understanding, Parkinson's is caused by deposits of pathological forms of alpha-syn in the brain. A reduction of the brain's alpha-syn aggregates is believed to have a beneficial impact on the progress of the disease. PD01A shall accomplish that upon the induction of antibodies that are targeting alpha-syn, to neutralize its toxic impact.
Dr. Frank Mattner, CSO of AFFiRiS: "PD01A is based on our AFFITOME®-technology, which already identified our lead vaccine developments in the field of Alzheimer's. This technology delivers not only a single vaccine for the treatment of a certain disease but a whole pool of product candidates with excellent safety profiles and exactly fine tuned specificities. Therefore, we apply our strategy of "clinical maturation", meaning that we investigate several vaccines against a certain disease in clinical testing to ensure that the best vaccine for humans will be developed."
About AFFiRiS AG (as of June 2012):
Based on the company's own patent positions, AFFiRiS develops tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions with urgent requirement for new treatments and attractive market volumes. Alzheimer's is the current lead indication. A license and option agreement for the Alzheimer's vaccine programme was concluded with GlaxoSmithKline in October 2008, triggering an up-front payment of EUR 22.5 million. The contract envisages (milestone-dependent) payments of up to EUR 430 million. An initial milestone payment of EUR 10 million was made in October 2009 followed by EUR 3.5 million as announced in February 2011. AFFiRiS currently employs 85 highly-qualified staff at the Campus Vienna Biocenter in Vienna, Austria (http://www.affiris.com).
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Daiichi Sankyo comes up far short in avian flu vaccine effort
Daiichi Sankyo says it still unable to fulfill a government mandate to be able to produce enough H5N1 flu vaccine to fight an epidemic in Japan.
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WuXi Biologics says it will build a dedicated facility to manufacture a commercial vaccine product for a client in a $3 billion contract.
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While we were sorting out the stuffs we have to store, hubby suddenly blurted out to me the time when he was selecting engagement rings to give to me. He said that the person who helped him to pick the ring insisted the white gold one but he prefers yellow gold instead. When he bought the ring, he asked himself if he is really sure of himself. We haven't seen each other for 2 years and then all of a sudden he is willing to give me a ring in his first visit.
When he visited me in United Kingdom for the first time, I did not expect him to give me a ring. I don't have a clue what will happen. I was thinking it will be a getting to know you more period. If we feel that we love each other and cannot live to be separated for long, then he will go to Philippines and we proceed for the engagement. But it was all so sudden. We knew that the 2 years of having a long distance online relationship is enough and it is time for us to be together forever, so he asked my hand for marriage and gave me the ring he picked to my surprise; then the rest is history. I am glad that for 6 years, 2 years of long distance online relationship and 4 years of marriage, we are still going strong. I couldn't ask for more in my life right now.


Feature distinctiveness is a measure representing the uniqueness of objects' features. Previous research found links between noun feature distinctiveness and age of acquisition (i.e. nouns referring to objects with relatively unique features are learned earlier). The present work investigates the links between feature distinctiveness and age of acquisition in verbs. Using high-dimensional vector space modelling, noun and verb feature distinctiveness was represented as Manhattan distance between word nodes. Both nouns and verbs showed negative correlations between feature distinctiveness and age of acquisition (words of more distinctive objects learned earlier), suggesting a general distinctiveness bias. This effect was stronger for nouns. An investigation of child directed speech (CDS) from the CHILDES corpus showed a correlation between child directed word frequency and feature distinctiveness for nouns (featurally distinctive nouns are more common in CDS), but not for verbs. The possible link between distinctiveness in CDS and age of acquisition effects is discussed.


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I think it was the cinnamon that kept putting me off using it as I am not a fan of the scent or flavour of cinnamon in large amounts – it can tend to be overpowering. Think shopping mall and the cloying smell of a Cinnabbon baking shop – tooooo much.
I soaked the brush for 5 minutes in a nice bowl of plain tap water then I was ready to start. A new lathering technique today from mantic59 – HERE Look at the results!!
Note: Scheermonnik soaps were on the verge of being lost to shave-world as the original guy was shuttering production. This would have been awful as they are top class soaps and top class fragrances. Luckily he handed his soaps and business to a new owner who has not only continued to supply the original 4 frags but also introduced a scentless soap called "Puur" with no perfume. Perfect for those of us with allergies or sensitive skin.
I need to complete my collection by buying a 1778 beau Brummell and a Puur. if you have not got a Scheermonnik in your den – buy one now. You won't regret it.
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Officer charged with causing death by careless driving
Adefela Olowoselu
A PC has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
This follows a police collision in Whitton Road, Hounslow, on 1 November 2019 in which a pedestrian died.
PC Daniel Francis, 33, attached to the West Area Command Unit, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 7 December.
The Metropolitan Police said: "Our thoughts remain with family and friends of Andrew Brown, 23, who sadly died in hospital following the collision."
The charges follow an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and a referral to the Crown Prosecution Service.
The MPS has fully co-operated at every stage.
PC Francis, who was the driver of a marked police car, remains on restricted duties at this time.
Misconduct matters will be considered at the conclusion of criminal proceedings.
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Supermarket COLD STORAGE, Price Survey at Marina Bay Sands! Beer is Sxpensive but Snacks are Cheap?
Update: 2020/3/14 12:16
A supermarket in Singapore "Cold Storage". It is a supermarket in shopping centers mainly in urban areas, but I found it on the way to the MRT station after having a meal at the food court of Marina Bay Sands, so I went in a little and checked the price and lineup!
1 Cold Storage Specialty Marina Bay Sands
2 Typical souvenir? Chocolate
3 Japanese bread and chicken rice
4 Japanese beer is cheap!
5 more expensive urban stores
Cold Storage Specialty Marina Bay Sands
The cold storage I visited is a store in the basement of Marina Bay Sands. It is on the way to the MRT station from the food court Rasapura MASTERS.
Business hours are 9:00 ~ 23:00. It is convenient that they are open until 0: 00 on Friday and Saturday and open until late at night. But it looks like a big convenience store rather than a supermarket.
We also sell vegetables and fruits, but there are few kinds, and most of them are dried or ready-made. It's a store like Seijo Ishii in urban areas.
There were also many tourists (Japanese) looking for souvenirs. Because of the location, local people may not come. What bothers me is the price …. Let's take a look at various things.
Typical souvenir? Chocolate
First of all, the chocolates displayed in the store. This is from HEDIARD (Ediard), a French and Paris maker, and as you'd expect from a designer brand, it costs $24.9.
M & M's 15 packs of the same chocolate is $6.5, which is quite reasonable! I think this is a good buy.
Is KitKat and Snickers almost the same as buying them in Japan? Luxury goods are said to be expensive in Southeast Asia, but it is not necessarily so in Singapore.
Japanese bread and chicken rice
Next is the bread corner. But almost all of them are sweet buns with chocolate, blueberries and bananas.
When I looked closely, I was surprised to find that all of them were made in Japan. Food boutique "Natural yeast bread" series. The price is almost the same as Japanese convenience stores, but is it so popular? …?
I also found a retort chicken rice with a Singaporean flavor.
It is not sold in Japan, and it can be preserved, so it might be good as a souvenir. Even so, $7.9 is quite expensive.
Japanese beer is cheap!
What surprised me was the price of beer. The 330 ml can of our local beer Tiger Beer is just $4.3! It's about twice as much as in Japan, but at FairPrice in the suburbs the same supermarket in Singapore sells a pack of 6 for $15.9, so the urban stores are still quite expensive. (Reference → Singapore supermarket FairPrice assortment)
Imported beer also costs the same. Other than that, every beer costs around $4, which is by far the most expensive.
But only Asahi Super Dry is cheap at $2.8! Come to think of it, Super Dry was available at the bar counter at the Esplanade Concert Hall, so maybe it's especially popular in Singapore? I'm curious about "bargain" but …。 (Reference: Esplanade Concert Hall Kankoki!)
more expensive urban stores
So, I took a quick look at Cold Storage in Marina Bay Sands, and it turns out that urban stores are still more expensive. It is convenient that it is open until late at night, but the store itself is small, so if you are looking for a souvenir or a bargain, you should visit a large supermarket in the neighborhood.
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Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Korngold – Bruno Walter knew them all: musicians who sought refuge from the henchmen of the Nazi Party in the New World and found artistic fulfillment there. And they all knew him and his meteoric rise to success at all the great houses in Europe. Formed by working with Gustav Mahler in Hamburg, under whose wing he rose from répétiteur to Chorus Director and then to Kapellmeister, Walter took on further posts as Chief Conductor in Vienna, Munich and Leipzig where the talented artist matured to become a true maestro.
Just when the aged Walter was wanting to retire into private life, Columbia motivated him to record several symphonic works – including Beethoven's Symphonies – at a time when stereo recording, with its previously undreamt technical possibilities, was just dawning. Even without any knowledge of the still existent recordings of the rehearsals of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, the final recording reflects the lifelong experience and meticulousness of the great conductor. In a taut and relaxed manner, and certainly not mellowed with age, Walter brings the scores to glow. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra weaves a web that holds the formal symphonic components together with sophistication and richly contrasted, whereby the conductor's love for tonal detail manifests itself in easily identifiable instruments.
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Pop into POPS
Jul 01, 2022 09:00AM ● By Kelly Stemcosky
A singer and an orchestra walk onto an ice rink…It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but it's what audiences will be treated to during a free pops concert offered by Endless Mountain Music Festival on Sunday, August 7, at 2:30 p.m. Two for the Road—Corning POPS!—at the Corning Civic Center Plaza Ice Rink features a newcomer to EMMF, Anthony Nunziata. The critically acclaimed singer and songwriter is a recent winner of Album of the Year from Broadwayworld, which calls him "an explosion of love and entertainment."
Stephen Gunzenhauser, EMMF's founder and artistic director since the festival's inception in 2006 (seven concerts in eight days for the inaugural season), also sings Anthony's praises. "Anthony, every eight months or so, is coming out with new CDs, and they sell like hotcakes. He's a wonderful singer and is somehow able to connect with any audience," says Stephen, adding with a laugh, "He's doing this as a favor to me."
Stephen is always scouting new talent to bring to EMMF, and has been known to tap old friends in the process. As Anthony explains it: "I did a private concert this past Christmas in Lancaster and he (Stephen] was there. It was actually an event honoring him and I was brought in as sort of a surprise performance. And immediately, he said, 'Oh, Anthony, you know, I really want to have you in the festival this summer.' So since then, we've been talking about putting together a program."
Stephen's friend's performance is part of a dedication to another friend of more than thirty years. Cornelius O'Donnell, a beloved chef and fixture in the Corning area, as well as a long-time Mountain Home contributor, passed away last September. "This will be a wonderful dedication. I hope everyone comes and celebrates the wonderful life he led, a man who always had a smile on his face," says Stephen.
Anthony's goal for the performance, and his work overall, is simple: write great music and tell great stories. "I went to school for journalism, and I also trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade for many years in New York City. I've found that's just who I am, like how I'm talking to you right now, is how I'm going to be on stage. In between songs, I just sort of dive into moments from my life, or talk about things that happen during the show, so even if people are familiar with my songs, they'll always get a different show from me. And that's exciting for me because we're all there to just experience it in the moment. I've always been someone who just loves to connect with people. If I can do that through my music, that's doing part of what my mission is for being here."
That clear mission has helped Anthony build up quite a résumé: two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops symphony orchestra, a part in the Netflix film The Last Laugh starring Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss, and original songs featured on MTV, Comedy Central, CBS News, NBC News, and Good Day NY. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is currently using Anthony's "The Gift Is You" as an anthem. Anthony wrote the song in honor of his mother's battle with breast cancer; she's now cancer free.
The singer/songwriter/actor/storyteller is coming to the area by way of Nashville, a move he made during the covid pandemic. "I was living in Manhattan for quite some time and I had been looking to do a move for a bit. When the pandemic hit, I think it made a lot of people sort of reassess where we need to be. I just asked myself 'Where do I need to be to further fulfill my deepest desires and passions?' I made the move to Nashville at the end of October 2020 and just sort of dove right in."
The pandemic also inspired the album that earned Anthony Album of the Year from Broadwayworld. "I had written so many original Christmas songs during the pandemic, because that's what you do to make yourself feel better, so I released a Christmas album in December of 2021 of all original songs."
Anthony has several new singles coming out this summer, which will be available on Spotify and Apple Music. As for what audiences can expect from his live performances, Broadwayworld says, "Nunziata captures the authentic songwriting passion of a young Billy Joel combined with the soulfulness of Ed Sheeran," and "It's like somebody took James Ingram and Celine Dion and this man, Anthony Nunziata, was born." The Chicago Tribune calls him "a winning combo of a beautiful tenor voice and comedic flair" and the Huffington Post dubs him "a nearly impossible combination of talent, stage presence, and charisma."
His EMMF performance in Corning, accompanied by a horn section, drummers, and flutists, will be no exception. "My performance there is going to entail a mix of Broadway, classic pop songs, and some of my original songs as well, so it's going to be sort of a representative of the crossover music that I do. I know Steve has some amazing orchestral pieces planned as well. We're just going to give folks a great eclectic mix of music for music lovers of all ages."
This is the first POPS concert in Corning, but, if attendance at past concerts at the Wellsboro Johnston Airport are any indication, to say they are very popular is an understatement. So, pre-registration for both events (the Wellsboro Johnston Airport concert is Sunday, July 24, at 2:30 p.m.) at endlessmountain.net/program-schedule is requested.
"Pops concerts are basically music that is newer," says Cynthia Long, EMMF's executive director. "We get maybe 500 to 600 people who come to these. People get the opportunity to meet the musicians after the concert, so the festival is all about the experience. I think the audience appreciates getting to be up close and personal to the musicians who come from all over the world."
Arts & Leisure, People & Life July 2022 Kelly Stemcosky


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Michigan Basketball
John Beilein Announces Billy Donlon, Saddi Washington as Coaching Staff Hires
John Beilein and the Wolverines have filled their assistant coaching vacancies.
By Anthony Broome@anthonytbroome May 4, 2016, 3:08pm CDT
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Michigan Basketball has hired Billy Donlon and Saddi Washington to fill its two assistant coaching vacancies, the program announced on Wednesday afternoon. The news was first reported by ESPN's Jeff Goodman earlier in the day.
Beilein had this to say in the statement released:
"We are forever grateful for the fine work that LaVall Jordan and Bacari Alexander brought to our program over the past six years," said Beilein. "Their departures, however, have opened up a great opportunity for our staff to grow. Billy Donlon and Saddi Washington are exactly who I felt we needed to be able to continue our success and compete for more Big Ten championships.
"I have known Billy for almost two decades, and I love his passion and IQ for the game. He has tremendous experience as a player, assistant and head coach at the Division I level. Improving our defense is a huge goal for us, and defense is one of Billy's specialties. He is also excellent in skill development, and that has been a key to our success at Michigan. I am excited to have Billy join our staff, the athletics department and this University.
"Saddi and I have known each other since his days at Western Michigan when I coached against them. We have also talked a lot of basketball in my nine years here at Michigan. Saddi is an outstanding teacher of the game, and I love that he can coach multiple positions. He has established great relationships as a recruiter both in and out of the state of Michigan. His poise and presence remind me of LaVall, and I know he will be a great asset to our program."
Donlon joins the staff after spending the last 10 years at Wright State, the last six of which were spent as head coach. He was also an assistant at UNC Wilmington from 2002-06.
Washington spent the last decade as a member of Greg Kampe's coaching staff at Oakland, where he was the associate head coach the last three seasons.
Both men replaced LaVall Jordan and Bacari Alexander, who left the program last month for head coaching vacancies at Milwaukee and Detroit, respectively.
This story is developing.
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