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Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Posted On July 6, 2016 December 18, 2022 In Music History
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Marvin Gaye was a singer/songwriter from Detroit who was signed under Motown Records during the 60s and early 70s.
Motown was known for its unique brand of music that had a pop influence to it. Artists under the label such as Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Jackson Five, The Four Tops and The Temptations to name a few, followed that genre and style of music mixed with pop, gospel and orchestral blends. The music they produced was feel-good and uplifting. However, it was Marvin Gaye who ultimately ended up being 'the top male recording artist under the record label during the 60s.'
Marvin Gaye was unique and quite different in the way he eventually viewed the world.
During his Motown days in the late 60s, Marvin was looking for a partner with whom he could sing and it was Berry Gordy, the head founder of Motown Records, who picked Tammi Terrell, another singer signed to Motown Records at the time to be Marvin Gaye's partner. The pair quickly became great friends and together they sang powerful duets about love and relationships such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Your Precious Love," and "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing," written by Ashford & Simpson. Gaye and Terrell made quite a name for themselves in the short time they were together. However, Terrell became ill not long after their pairing and was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Marvin took the news very hard and gave up live performances with touring for a while. It is believed that the loss of his dear friend was a catalyst that fueled his "What's Going On" album. The stories of being in the war told by his younger brother also influenced Marvin and caused him to change his views, image and the music he sang about.
Events such as 'the shootings of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy as well as the violence in Detroit at the Democratic National Convention and at Kent State University' strongly affected Marvin.
He went from singing about love songs and relationships to singing about socially conscious situations happening in the world like race, war, violence, protests and politics. He wanted people to look and see what was happening in the world. He wanted people to understand that war and violence were wrong and what we needed to solve our many struggles was love.
Unfortunately, Marvin's stand on social and political awareness created an uncomfortable feeling for the top heads at Motown Records, specifically Berry Gordy. It went against the company's image and they felt like if they released that album it would no doubt flop and most likely cause negative backlash since they thought it was more like a protest album. It certainly didn't suit the image of the previous albums they had released. Marvin assured them that it wasn't the case and they simply needed to give it a try. He was very stubborn over the matter, refusing to make any more music, which instigated a silent battle between him and Motown over the release of his album. In the end, it was Marvin's stubbornness that eventually won out and got the album released.
The success the album and the single "What Going On" received was tremendous at that time. They sold 100,000 copies on the first day. Because of the different nature of the album, Marvin was able to touch people on a deeper psychological and emotional level.
The lyrics of his songs were inspiring, moving and powerful. They opened up people's hearts and minds and brought awareness to issues that were otherwise 'watered down,' in terms of seriousness and an innate need to make a change.
I felt that the songs on What's Going On, flowed nicely into each other, painting a story that needed to be told. The lyrical content of songs like "What's Going On," "Save The Children," and "What's Happening Brother," stayed true to discussing the hardships of violence and the terrible things happening in the world. Then, there were powerful songs like "Wholy Holy" and "God Only Knows" that spoke of love for your fellow man and spiritual awareness.
The mixtures of horns, strings, bass and percussion that made up the instrumentation of the various songs on the album were nicely blended with the vocals and gave the album a soothing, soulful flavor. You could feel the emotions expressed in each song.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the What's Going On album. It wasn't my first time listening to it, but it was nice hearing these songs again and being reminded about what they stood for and how their importance and influence transcended through time. The single even became an iconic song performed by various popular celebrity artists after the events of 9/11. Marvin Gaye was definitely an innovative and 'forward-thinking' artist of his time.
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On – References
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Edmonds, B. (2001, December 7). What's Going On by Ben Edmonds: part two | Books | guardian.co.uk . Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian | guardiannews.com | The Guardian . Retrieved April 16, 2012, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/dec/08/extract1
Howard, D. (2004). Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers And Their Maverick Recordings (First ed.). Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation.
Moss, C. (2009, January 29). What's Going On: Marvin Gaye's Liberation from the Motown Sound. PopMatters. Retrieved April 17, 2012, from http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/69381-whats-going-on-marvin-gayes-liberation-from-the-motown-sound/
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Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 on Feb. 1 with an ambitious plan of spending about US$500 billion to boost an economy reeling from the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the minister outlined financial plans for the nation of 1.3 billion people, the big question emerged as to how India will overcome the current fiscal deficit of about 9.5 percent between revenue and expenditure, the highest since India entered the free market in 1991.
The budget aims to boost the financial sector, cheering up business groups and stock marketers in the absence of new taxes. But it is unlikely to offer a lifeline to the two-thirds of Indians classified as poor as they live on less than $2 a day.
Unemployment has soared to more than 9 percent and about 85 million more have fallen below the poverty line due to the pandemic.
The new budget is not encouraging for vital sectors like health care and education. Both have been allocated far fewer resources than necessary to meet the basic needs of millions of the poor.
The already low education budget has been further slashed this year by 6.13 percent to $9.3 billion in 2021-22. The allocation was about $9.9 billion the previous fiscal year.
The cut in the allocation shows a government policy that aims to privatize and commercialize the education sector. But it has hit hard both the rural and urban poor.
Millions of poor children lack distance-learning facilities due to the digital divide as schools have closed because of the pandemic and opted for online classes. These children face risks of dropping out and becoming child laborers.
The budget ignores the responsibility to bring them back to school. Already, about 25 percent of children, mostly from low-income families, don't go to school, according to UNICEF.
According to government data, India had some 32 million students aged 6-17 drop out of school in 2018. Experts predict the number to double after the pandemic-induced closure of schools.
The budget allocation for education ranged between 2.8 and 3 percent of GDP from 2014 to 2020. Educationists call it grossly insufficient for 250 million students in schools and 34 million in higher institutions. They suggest that the allocation must double at least 6 percent of GDP to make quality education accessible.
By the government's own estimate, some 287 million Indians are still illiterate, accounting for 37 percent of the world's total illiterate people. Under these circumstances, is it not absurd to slash education funding?
The health sector has long been underfunded, receiving only some 1.2-1.5 percent of GDP from 2014 to 2020, which is the lowest among the world's major economies. The public health system collapsed in 2020 when Covid-19 hit the nation, exposing the sector's decades of neglect.
Amid huge criticism, the government decided to boost the health sector by allocating about $30 billion, which is a rise of 137 percent from the previous year. It is still insufficient as it accounts for about 1.3 percent of the national GDP, which means the poor millions will struggle to access health services.
With nearly 11 million infections and over 154,000 deaths, India stands as the second worst-hit nation after the US. It was not unexpected that the government would allocate $4.8 billion for what is dubbed the world's largest nationwide vaccination drive.
The bulk of the health budget is meant for improving a poor health system that is gasping for life as India continues to battle the pandemic. That is not enough to support poor people in rural and urban areas where tens of thousands suffer and die each year from communicable diseases like diarrhea, dysentery, viral hepatitis, jaundice and malaria.
Each day an estimated 25,000 people die in India, while 40 percent of deaths are from non-communicable diseases like cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological problems.
The poor suffer badly as state-run facilities are inadequate and often inaccessible. Private health care cost up to seven times more than public facilities.
Children remain most vulnerable. UNICEF says some 1.4 million children die in India before their fifth birthday due to malnutrition and diseases, including diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria, making it one of the world's highest child mortality rates.
How can a government neglect the vital sectors — health and education — if it aims to build a stronger nation? It is time religious and civil society groups raised their voice against this neglect of millions of poor, who make up the majority in India.
The federal government, run by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014, entertains one core goal: to assert Hindu hegemony in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully advanced this unbecoming agenda, which had also meant persecution and suppression of religious minorities.
Christian missioners, who introduced modern medicine and education in India, built up and ran institutions independently. Christian groups continue to help millions through their vast network of health and education institutions, without which both sectors would collapse. But the government looks unfazed by such a prospect. Maybe the neglect is part of a plan.
Pope Francis insists the Catholic Church is "of the poor and by the poor." If so, the church leadership in India is morally bound to stand up against the neglect of the health and education sectors for the sake of the illiterate and sick millions.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official editorial position of UCA News.
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Wanted: Three matrimonial-bound couples to tie the knot in Cape Breton greenhouse
David Jala | Posted: Oct. 21, 2021, 1 p.m. | Updated: Oct. 21, 2021, 4:10 p.m. | 4 Min Read
Fawn Memories Event Company owner Natalie Fawns, shown above with two-year-old son Emmett, juggles motherhood, family life, a full-time job and a side business that offers event rental pieces and a date-specific day of pop-up weddings. CONTRIBUTED
SYDNEY, N.S. — A Cape Breton respiratory therapist is trying to breathe new life into her side business by offering couples on a limited budget the opportunity to have a well-appointed wedding at an affordable price.
Natalie Fawns calls it a pop-up wedding. In fact, if everything comes together, it will be three weddings on one day. All will take place at staggered times on the same day and at the same venue. According to Fawns, who operates Fawn Memories Event Co., the couples opting to tie the knot will be able to save money by cost-sharing certain aspects of their weddings.
"I'm not a wedding planner and will never be, but this pop-up wedding idea is about planning a traditional wedding but on a smaller scale," she explained.
"It's simple but it comes with all the finer details. Essentially, it's a condensed version of a larger-scale wedding. It's pre-planned but not by a wedding planner, but instead by me and the other vendors I am working with on this."
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Wedding day, which Fawns has tagged "Let's Knot & Say We Did" is Sunday, Dec. 5. The venue is a greenhouse at the Mabou Gardens on Grand Lake Road. Along with Fawn Memories and the garden centre, the initiative also includes justice of the peace Rob MacNamara, CDM Photography, musician Cam Hollohan, Trinity's Florals and Mise en Place Catering. Available wedding times are 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Hailing from Ontario, Fawns made her way to Cape Breton after training to be a respiratory therapist.
"I wanted to work in critical care, but in order to do that full time, I had to move because the position was so saturated in Ontario," she explained.
"I also wanted to come down and check out the east coast for a while before I went back. But I never went back."
Ironically, Fawns is not married. However, she does have a common-law partner, a two-year-old son named Emmett and a 13-year-old stepson. The family resides in Sydney River.
She said the seeds of a business idea were planted several years ago while she was surfing social media feeds.
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"I had some antiques already sitting around so I just slowly started renting them out to people who wanted to incorporate them in their events. It just kind of snowballed into what I'm doing now."
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Aside from its unique pop-up weddings venture, Fawn Memories offers event rental pieces and services for weddings, design projects, photoshoots, private parties and corporate events. The company inventory includes lighting systems, tableware, vintage furniture and plenty of other items that can be utilized to accent an event. A gold skeleton has even been used as a charcuterie board.
"And we're always adding new items to our inventory – if a couple wants something unique and if it is available I will pick it up if I can," said Fawns.
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David Jala is a business reporter at the Cape Breton Post.
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As we noted in Fair Copyright Canada and 100,000 Voters Who Don't Exist back in 2009, the legitimate desire by governments to use the Internet to engage with the governed is to be admired. But there have been incredible and probably illegal uses of the Internet to overwhelm elected officials with faux communications that reek of Google-style misinformation and central planning in the hive mind of the Googleplex.
We saw this again with the Article 13 vote in Europe last week with what clearly seems to be a Google-backed attack on the European Parliament for the purpose of policy intimidation. That's right–an American-based multinational corporation is trying to intimidate the very same European government that is currently investigating them for anticompetitive behavior and is staring down a multi-billion dollar fine.
Advocacy against Google's interests on artist rights and copyright issues (not to mention human trafficking, advertising illegal drugs and counterfeit goods) can no longer be just about making a good argument to policy makers. It has to anticipate that Google will pull these DDOS-type stunts capitalizing on what seems to be the element of surprise.
Except there shouldn't be any surprise.
There is a real problem with policy-by-DDOS governing. For example, Cass Sunstein, then the Administrator of the Obama Office of Management and Budget, issued a memo in 2010 to the heads of executive branch departments and regulatory agencies which dealt with the use of social media and web-based interactive technologies.
The European Parliament would do well to take a page from Sunstein's thinking and limit the amount of anonymous contact that anyone can have with MEPs when the European Parliament is suffering a DDOS-style attack.
The European Commission needs to launch a full-blown criminal investigation into exactly what happened on Article 13, particularly since there is another vote on the same subject coming in September. Properly authorized law enforcement acting swiftly can set sufficient digital snares to track the next attack which surely is coming while they forensically try to figure out what happened.
Advocates need to understand that Google is a deadly force and this is the endless war. Good arguments are clearly not enough anymore, particularly as long as the government and law enforcement do nothing to protect democratic values from bully boy tactics.
The Voting Dead: White House memo questions if anonymous comments can be used in making policy?
If you followed the Copyright Office request for public comments on the DMCA "notice and takedown" safe harbors, you will probably be aware of reports that a group called Fight for the Future generated 86,000 comments to the Copyright Office in approximately 36 hours. I will give even money that it will turn out that investigation will reveal that most of those comments were fake.
One reason I'd make that bet is because they look fake. Many were anonymous or pseudonymous and there's really no way to know who or what submitted those comments. And that's why there's a question about whether this kind of public comments can be used at all for policy making.
But another reason I'd make the bet is because we've seen this kind of thing before–and no one ever checks.
Recall that we were very suspicious of Industry Canada's use of anonymous public submissions over the Internet in the public "consultation" on copyright reform in Canada held in 2009. For mysterious reasons, Industry Canada bureaucrats charged with administering the consultation failed to implement even the most rudimentary controls to screen or qualify these anonymous public submissions.
And then there was an incident in 2007 involving an EFF "petition" against the RIAA. When you click on a "see signatures" link you are taken to a page full of 5 or 6 digit numbers all in columns and rows. What was this? There were literally a couple hundred number sequences, like little serial numbers, all arranged in neat columns and rows under the heading "Those Who've Taken a Stand Against the RIAA!" like you're at the Tomb of the Unknown or something (no pun intended). It's like you would have expected to see names, but instead you see numbers. And when you click on the numbers, the links point you back to the same page you were on when you clicked the link.
I tried clicking a few other numbers and the same thing happens. Then I finally happen to hit on one that actually shows a few names, names like "O. Online Poker", "T. Texas Holdem", "P. Poker Rooms", towns like "Google, CA" (must be Stanford?), "Świnoujście, ME", "f, MA", "Beverly Hills, LA", "Beverly Hills, MI", Dubai, "SCOTLAND!!, AK", and my personal favorite "J. Travolta, Los Angeles". And then there's "r. little boys" of "George, AL". No comment.
It's a short hop from fake views of online adverts to fake anything else, including fake signups to a public consultation on regulations.gov.
A process that allows an organization like Fight for the Future to collect submissions of a form letter and then submit them all at once unnecessarily inserts a gatekeeper into the public comment process. But it is the kind of thing you would do if you wanted to avoid anyone collecting the address information on your favorite robots.
The anonymous and pseudonymous "signers" of the Fight for the Future form letter are not that different from a casual online poll. As former Canadian Minister of Industry Clement learned the hard way, online polls or their equivalent do not make for good policy as that system is inherently unreliable.
I'm not the only one who thinks so. Cass Sunstein, then the Administrator of the Obama Office of Management and Budget, issued a memo in 2010 to the heads of executive branch departments and regulatory agencies which dealt with the use of social media and web-based interactive technologies. If the Copyright Office followed the memo's proscriptions, it would likely rule out the use by the Copyright Office of online form letters such as the Fight for the Future webforms.
As one source noted, "[A] million Americans can Digg or retweet [or Reddit] an important blog post, but government officials shouldn't use that popularity as an indicator of the post's value. That's not always a bad thing considering that a dedicated group of like-minded people can game a casual voting system." Or the Copyright Office's public comment process–and it must be said that since Regulations.gov hosted the online comment process, that would rule out any other form letter responses to any consultation for the whole of the federal government as hosted by regulations.gov.
And I think Sir Martin Sorrell would agree that there's no more dedicated group of likeminded people that a bunch of robots. So if you didn't before, you get the idea about why Mr. Sunstein had reservations about using online petitions to make policy.
Mr. Sunstein—who some might call something of an Internet evangelist—is clearly trying to establish best practices for the U.S. government to allow the government to benefit from the good of using the Internet to further legitimate policy making goals while avoiding the bad. Avoiding the bad includes a prohibition on basing policy decisions on the use of information that is or could be gamed in the formation of public policy by "a dedicated group of like-minded people." And the gaming can be done before or after the fact, and the "like-minded people" can be outside—or inside—the government.
It is not a very large leap to imagine a truly Orwellian world where the government finds that the public supports its policies because it uses information that its anonymized supporters intentionally game or are encouraged to game to produce the desired result. As we noted in Fair Copyright Canada and 100,000 Voters Who Don't Exist , the legitimate desire by governments to use the Internet to engage with the governed is to be admired. But if the process is selectively managed by bureaucrats with an agenda or groups like Fight for the Future (funded in part by mega-lobbyists the Consumer Electronics Association), it is to be greeted with considerable caution if not outright suspicion.
At least when they count the votes of the dead in Chicago, there was a somewhat real voter registration at some point.
The Onion's spoof on TED is hilarious. We ask you to watch this one on social media. Ask yourself how many times have you watched these people pitch on the flimsy "value propositions" of social media.
Then ask yourself why is it so funny? Because you know it to be true.
Now think about the SOPA campaign and ask yourself why it was that Cass Sunstein of the Obama Office of Management and Budget wrote a memo prohibiting the use of social media for policy making by executive branch departments.
Except for SOPA, of course.


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Can you help us find Geordie veterans to pay tribute to their fallen comrades?
The Royal British Legion are looking for soldiers who took part in D Day to join a series of trips to remember those who died.
But there is no database of survivors and they have asked for the Chronicle's help in locating them.
Rowena Rowlands, head of travel at the Legion, is in charge of the project.
She said: "I am Head of Travel for the travel arm of the Royal British Legion, Remembrance Travel, and I'm currently on a mission to find every single surviving D Day veteran
"The Treasury is enabling a series of free-of-charge tours for D Day veterans to return to Normandy and pay their respects to their fallen comrades.
"The tours are being funded by the Treasury and will enable a D Day veteran to return with a family member and carer on a six-night tour.
"The 2017 tours will take place in March, April, May and September and will give Normandy veterans - now mostly in their 90s - the chance to revisit the Normandy beaches, cemeteries and memorials."
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The tours will be accompanied by a medic and a guide from the Royal British Legion.
The tours will depart from London and will include Eurotunnel from Dover to Calais, accommodation, visits to Pegasus Bridge, Juno, Sword, Gold beaches, Arromanches, and war memorials, plus visits to personally specified cemeteries too.
Rowena said: "Sadly, there is no database of D Day veterans so we're calling on the goodwill of the media and general public to spread the word.
"So, if you do know a D Day veteran, please do let them know about our free tours.
"Normandy veterans wishing to benefit from this tour need to apply to our tour operator, Arena Travel on 01473 660800, or visit www.arenatravel.com/journeysofremembrance .
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Back in 1995, printing company Quad/Graphics didn't let its employees in Saratoga, New York, access the internet. But that didn't stop the workers from figuring out a way to get online during business hours.
The employees dialed long distance — that was a thing back then — to a free dial-up internet service called Libraries Without Walls that was offered through the Southern Adirondack Library System and used their library cards to log on. Over a span of 18 months, they surfed a total of 1,770 hours and racked up $23,000 in phone bills.
Unsurprisingly, Quad/Graphics wasn't happy. So the company asked the library system to give it the names of the employees who used the service. The library refused and when taken to court, a judge backed it up.
The incident underscores the lengths to which librarians go to protect patron privacy. But the world has gotten more complicated since the days of dial-up. As National Library Week kicks off, librarians face tough questions on how to balance the benefits of electronic resources with the library's commitment to privacy.
The new technology environment is at odds with the traditional role libraries have played as champions of privacy. Librarians stood up to the US government over requirements in the 2001 USA Patriot Act to share records with law enforcement. They designed policies that require that records of the books you've checked out are deleted as soon as you return them. And they've pushed every US state to adopt protections for patron records.
E-books and audiobooks, now standard at libraries, make protecting privacy harder. Titles are usually provided through private companies, which can access your data. And today's software can create more comprehensive records about you than a simple list of the books you checked out.
Library apps let you borrow e-books and audiobooks without leaving home, which makes it easier to access a library's collection. They also create a list of everything you're reading.
Some of the apps, such as Libby by e-book publisher Overdrive, keep a record of your borrowing history that's linked to your library patron ID number, though not your name. Overdrive CEO Steve Potash says the app collects the least amount of personal information possible.
"We have to be held up to extraordinarily high standards," Potash said, in order to get the trust of the nation's libraries.
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What is obscene? Why cracking down on pornography is so difficult — but so necessary
Wednesday | December 25, 2019 | 01:00 AM
By: Brian Fraga
In a recent letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, four congressional Republicans are calling on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to declare the prosecution of obscene pornography to be a top criminal justice priority.
They argue that the internet and other emerging technologies are fueling "an explosion of obscene pornography," adding that it coincides with increased rates of violence toward women, human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.
"Fortunately, U.S. obscenity laws exist that, if enforced, can ameliorate this problem," declares the letter, dated Dec. 6, which was signed by U.S. Representatives Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Jim Banks of Indiana, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri and Brian Babin of Texas.
Standards of obscenity
The representatives are correct in that obscene speech is not protected by the First Amendment, and that some of the more extreme, violent and disturbing forms of pornography might meet the legal definition of obscenity. But decades of court rulings pertaining to freedom of speech, shifting community standards and lingering memories of overzealous prosecutors have complicated the issue and dampened the political will to prosecute pornographers.
"One of the reasons why governments have pretty much given up on prosecuting violations of obscenity laws is that the legal definition of obscenity is vague and references the standards of local communities," said Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Garnett told Our Sunday Visitor that since the internet has made available sexually explicit material from communities across the world, determining what is obscene according to one community's standards is not as clear-cut as when the U.S. Supreme Court developed its obscenity-related precedents in the early 1970s.
"The court's doctrines regarding pornography and obscenity were, obviously, crafted during a different time, when the cases had to do with magazines and movies, not webcams and online videos," Garnett said.
Also, while the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that obscenity may be prohibited, not all sexually explicit expression meets the legal definition of what is obscene.
"In other words, some of what most people would regard as pornographic is nevertheless protected by the First Amendment," Garnett said. "In addition, even efforts to prevent minors from accessing sexually explicit material have to be carefully crafted, the court has said, so that they do not impose restrictions on adults' First Amendment right to access such material."
A public health issue
Aware of the existing First Amendment case law that protects sexually explicit material on free speech grounds, anti-porn advocates in recent years have sought to reframe pornography as a public health issue. They cite research that suggests pornography fuels the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children, promotes the sexual abuse of women and fosters an unhealthy view of sexuality, especially as children ages 11 and younger are increasingly being exposed to pornography. At least 13 state legislatures have declared pornography to be a public health crisis.
"Now we have peer-reviewed research and medical science that shows this content is a public health issue, particularly for young people whose brains are not fully developed," said Donna Rice Hughes, president and CEO of Enough is Enough, a nonprofit that focuses on making the internet safer for children and families.
The letter from House Republicans cited an internet safety pledge, crafted by Enough is Enough, that President Donald Trump signed as a presidential candidate in August 2016. In signing the pledge, Trump vowed to appoint an attorney general who would enforce existing federal obscenity statutes to stop the explosion of obscene porngoraphy.
Hughes told Our Sunday Visitor that the pledge calls for the aggressive prosecution of obscenity statutes because the demand for extreme forms of hardcore pornography is fueling child pornography and human trafficking.
"We see many victims of trafficking depicted in this kind of content," Hughes said. "An example of failed policy has been the past administrations that have tried to tackle human trafficking and child sex abuse without prosecuting the obscenity laws, which absolutely makes no sense."
Difficult to prosecute
Since the 1970s, a deep reluctance has set in at the state and federal levels to investigate and prosecute adult, hardcore pornography, even the kind that depicts violent, deviant and disturbing content. In 2011, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ended the Department of Justice's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, which President George W. Bush formed in 2005.
Some anti-porn advocates note that President Barack Obama's administration did not initiate enforcement against adult-obscenity cases during his tenure, but Mary Graw Leary, a law professor at The Catholic University of America, told Our Sunday Visitor that the same pattern pertains to several past administrations.
"I think a mistake that is often made is to think that the failure to crack down on obscenity means that the feds don't care, and I don't think that's the case," said Leary, who argued that federal prosecutors tend to be hesitant to spend resources on prosecuting adult obscenity cases that are difficult to win.
"One of the reasons they are (difficult) to win is that we have a history of some rogue prosecutors going after what we would call literature today. It wasn't always the best reputation to have to go after obscenity," said Leary, who added that legally defining what is obscene has become increasingly difficult.
On the other hand, prosecuting a child pornography case is an easier decision.
"If I were a prosecutor and I have cases in front of me where actual children are being tormented, I'm going to prioritize that, because all I have to show is that the victim is a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and I can get a conviction," Leary said.
A global scourge
Under Barr's leadership, the U.S. Department of Justice has made several busts related to child pornography. In October, federal agents arrested more than 300 people in connection to an international child pornography investigation.
"The good news is that this administration has been very aggressive in tackling the sex-trafficking industry and the child sex abuse images that are running rampant online," Hughes said.
Child pornography is a global scourge. A New York Times investigation in September indicated there were 18.4 million reports of child pornography on the Internet last year, which included 45 million photos and images of children being sexually abused.
"We are in the midst of a child obscenity crisis. There is so much child obscenity going on all over the internet everywhere," said Leary, who believes that framing pornography as a public health crisis could be an effective strategy.
"I think it underscores the massive damage that child pornography is causing our society, and that the damage can't just be attacked through the criminal law, just like drunk driving was attacked through also looking at it as a public health issue and a vehicle safety issue," Leary said, adding that pornography today is not the "softcore" variety that older generations who grew up with Playboy Magazine may envision.
"If people were really aware of the level of misogyny and violence, and horror, they would want this stuff stopped," Leary said. "Nowadays the pornography is so horrible that I do think there is real value in saying we can go forward on some of these cases, and that everybody would find that (pornography) violative of the law."


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Q: Multi parent form I've a vb .net winform that is show by others forms. I've frmA.vb, frmB.vb, frmC.vb and frmD.vb.
This all forms can call frmItem.vb.
frmItem.vb allows the user to select an item from a Database, this item is sent by calling a Set Property on the parent.
i.e.
I open frmA, click on button (something like:)
  fi = new frmItem(frmA) 'frmItem has 4 New() methods, frmA.. b... c and d
  'i need to pass the correct parent.
  fi.showModal()

So, when i add an item, it calls
  fA.addItem(item_id)

It works OK, my doubt is about optimization, because i've duplicated frmItem; one copy managed frmA and frmB, and the other one, frmC and frmD.
i.e.
in frmItem1 when i've to sent the item, i use:
private fB as frmB
private fA as frmA

if parentFrmA is nothing then
   'Is frmB
   fB.addItem(item_id)
else
   'Is frmA
   fA.addItem(item_id)
end if

And, on frmItem2:
private fC as frmC
private fD as frmD

if parentFrmC is nothing then
   'Is frmD
   fD.addItem(item_id)
else
   'Is frmC
   fC.addItem(item_id)
end if

If i modify frmItem1, i've to modify frmItem2 and viceversa, because they should look and act like one.
All four forms, have the same Set Property, but like they're differents forms, i can't use a unique Form class in frmItem.
Is the posibility that one form, can manage multi parents in an easy way??
If you need more info, let me know. Thanks

A: I can't completely follow your example since, well, I think it's just hard to follow.
But in general, it sounds like these child forms should just be raising an event that the parent form is listening for.  That way, you can separate your concerns a bit and not hardcode these dependencies.
You can try making your own EventArgs class to follow best practices:
Public Class ChildFormEventArgs
  Inherits EventArgs

  Private _ItemID As Integer

  Public Sub New(ByVal itemID As Integer)
    _ItemID = itemID
  End Sub

  ReadOnly Property ItemID() As Integer
    Get
      Return _ItemID
    End Get
  End Property
End Class

Your child forms would have a public event and you would raise it when ever this "added" thing happens:
Public Class Form2
  Public Event ItemAdded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ChildFormEventArgs)

  Private _ItemID as Integer

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    RaiseEvent ItemAdded(Me, New ChildFormEventArgs(_ItemID))
  End Sub
End Sub

And then your parent form is the one listening and can act accordingly:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  Using testForm As New Form2()
    AddHandler testForm.ItemAdded, AddressOf ChildForm_ItemAdded
    testForm.ShowDialog(Me)
    RemoveHandler testForm.ItemAdded, AddressOf ChildForm_ItemAdded
  End Using
End Sub

Private Sub ChildForm_ItemAdded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ChildFormEventArgs)
  '// do something here.
  '// sender is the child form that called it
  '// e is the event arguments that contains the ItemID value
End Sub

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This move has led to a few notable changes, the biggest being changes in user interface that have appeared during the move from Google Places to Google+ Local.
As you can see above.... the page includes lots of useful information, however, the structure is questionable and not what we would call a user friendly interface.
The new Google+ Local pages are certainly an improvement on Google Places. The content is better structured and the interface is more user friendly. It's more engaging for users with a selection of images prominent at the top of the page. Users and businesses can also navigate to and from other Google+ services visible on the left hand side.
Gone is the gold star rating system and in is Zagat reviews. Reviews are now ranked out of a score of 30, and there are sub sections of the review process such as quality, facilities, services and other industry relevant categories.
Zagat reviews have a strong reputation and the new system may help Google rank businesses better than they did before. However, the jury is still out in regards to user experience. From a user perspective, there is no easier way to analyse a company's service and reputation than viewing a star rating system.
Below is an example of Zagat reviews in search results, not quite as eye catching as the previous gold star rating system.
From a user perspective the switch over is a big improvement on Google Places. However, there is still a lot of work to be done on Google's part. There are some niggling issues with the new listings. One example that demonstrates this is the fact that there is no way of knowing if a business has been verified or not, and there seems to be a number of duplicate listings...which while not a new issue, is one that still needs fixing.
We know Google is working on merging accounts, but until this happens confusion will remain for small business owners who manage online marketing in-house.


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A disease of the eyes that commonly affects people who are over the age of 55 years old is called macular degeneration. It occurs when the retina of one or both of the eyes starts to break down in the center. This condition is dangerous because it significantly impairs the vision and quality of life of those who have it, especially if they don't receive medical attention right away. So it is very important that those who have a high risk of developing this eye disease take the time to learn more about the symptoms, vision signs, risk factors, and treatment methods that are available for it.
Information. There are two different types of macular degeneration. The first type is called non-neovascular or dry macular degeneration. The second type is neovascular or wet macular degeneration. While both types of the condition cause eye problems, wet macular degeneration leads to the most vision loss. That is because a person usually starts out with dry macular degeneration as an early stage of the disease. Then, as the disease progresses, it turns into the wet form of it, which means that an excess amount of blood will start to leak from the formation of new blood vessels underneath the retina.


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/**
 * @see Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_TestCommon
 */
require_once 'Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/TestCommon.php';

/**
 * @see Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql
 */
require_once 'Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php';

/**
 * @category   Zend
 * @package    Zend_Db
 * @subpackage UnitTests
 * @copyright  Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
 * @license    http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd     New BSD License
 * @group      Zend_Db
 * @group      Zend_Db_Adapter
 */
class Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_MysqlTest extends Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_TestCommon
{

    protected $_numericDataTypes = array(
        Zend_Db::INT_TYPE    => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        Zend_Db::BIGINT_TYPE => Zend_Db::BIGINT_TYPE,
        Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE  => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'INT'                => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        'INTEGER'            => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        'MEDIUMINT'          => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        'SMALLINT'           => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        'TINYINT'            => Zend_Db::INT_TYPE,
        'BIGINT'             => Zend_Db::BIGINT_TYPE,
        'SERIAL'             => Zend_Db::BIGINT_TYPE,
        'DEC'                => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'DECIMAL'            => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'DOUBLE'             => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'DOUBLE PRECISION'   => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'FIXED'              => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE,
        'FLOAT'              => Zend_Db::FLOAT_TYPE
    );

    /**
     * Test AUTO_QUOTE_IDENTIFIERS option
     * Case: Zend_Db::AUTO_QUOTE_IDENTIFIERS = true
     *
     * MySQL actually allows delimited identifiers to remain
     * case-insensitive, so this test overrides its parent.
     */
    public function testAdapterAutoQuoteIdentifiersTrue()
    {
        $params = $this->_util->getParams();

        $params['options'] = array(
            Zend_Db::AUTO_QUOTE_IDENTIFIERS => true
        );
        $db = Zend_Db::factory($this->getDriver(), $params);
        $db->getConnection();

        $select = $this->_db->select();
        $select->from('zfproducts');
        $stmt = $this->_db->query($select);
        $result1 = $stmt->fetchAll();

        $this->assertEquals(1, $result1[0]['product_id']);

        $select = $this->_db->select();
        $select->from('zfproducts');
        try {
            $stmt = $this->_db->query($select);
            $result2 = $stmt->fetchAll();
        } catch (Zend_Exception $e) {
            $this->assertType('Zend_Db_Statement_Exception', $e,
                'Expecting object of type Zend_Db_Statement_Exception, got '.get_class($e));
            $this->fail('Unexpected exception '.get_class($e).' received: '.$e->getMessage());
        }

        $this->assertEquals($result1, $result2);
    }

    /**
     * Ensures that driver_options are properly passed along to PDO
     *
     * @group ZF-285
     * @return void
     */
    public function testAdapterDriverOptions()
    {
        $params = $this->_util->getParams();

        $params['driver_options'] = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY => true);

        $db = Zend_Db::factory($this->getDriver(), $params);

        $this->assertTrue((boolean) $db->getConnection()->getAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY));

        $params['driver_options'] = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY => false);

        $db = Zend_Db::factory($this->getDriver(), $params);

        $this->assertFalse((boolean) $db->getConnection()->getAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY));
    }

    public function testAdapterInsertSequence()
    {
        $this->markTestSkipped($this->getDriver() . ' does not support sequences');
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteColumnAs() accepts a string
     * and an alias, and returns each as delimited
     * identifiers, with 'AS' in between.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteColumnAs()
    {
        $string = "foo";
        $alias = "bar";
        $value = $this->_db->quoteColumnAs($string, $alias);
        $this->assertEquals('`foo` AS `bar`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteColumnAs() accepts a string
     * and an alias, but ignores the alias if it is
     * the same as the base identifier in the string.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteColumnAsSameString()
    {
        $string = 'foo.bar';
        $alias = 'bar';
        $value = $this->_db->quoteColumnAs($string, $alias);
        $this->assertEquals('`foo`.`bar`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifier() accepts a string
     * and returns a delimited identifier.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifier()
    {
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier('table_name');
        $this->assertEquals('`table_name`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifier() accepts an array
     * and returns a qualified delimited identifier.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierArray()
    {
        $array = array('foo', 'bar');
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($array);
        $this->assertEquals('`foo`.`bar`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifier() accepts an array
     * containing a Zend_Db_Expr, and returns strings
     * as delimited identifiers, and Exprs as unquoted.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierArrayDbExpr()
    {
        $expr = new Zend_Db_Expr('*');
        $array = array('foo', $expr);
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($array);
        $this->assertEquals('`foo`.*', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifer() escapes a double-quote
     * character in a string.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierDoubleQuote()
    {
        $string = 'table_"_name';
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($string);
        $this->assertEquals('`table_"_name`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifer() accepts an integer
     * and returns a delimited identifier as with a string.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierInteger()
    {
        $int = 123;
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($int);
        $this->assertEquals('`123`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifier() accepts a string
     * containing a dot (".") character, splits the
     * string, quotes each segment individually as
     * delimited identifers, and returns the imploded
     * string.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierQualified()
    {
        $string = 'table.column';
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($string);
        $this->assertEquals('`table`.`column`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteIdentifer() escapes a single-quote
     * character in a string.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteIdentifierSingleQuote()
    {
        $string = "table_'_name";
        $value = $this->_db->quoteIdentifier($string);
        $this->assertEquals('`table_\'_name`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * test that describeTable() returns correct types
     * @group ZF-3624
     *
     */
    public function testAdapterDescribeTableAttributeColumnFloat()
    {
        $desc = $this->_db->describeTable('zfprice');
        $this->assertEquals('zfprice',  $desc['price']['TABLE_NAME']);
        $this->assertRegExp('/float/i', $desc['price']['DATA_TYPE']);
    }

    /**
     * test that quoteTableAs() accepts a string and an alias,
     * and returns each as delimited identifiers.
     * Most RDBMS want an 'AS' in between.
     */
    public function testAdapterQuoteTableAs()
    {
        $string = "foo";
        $alias = "bar";
        $value = $this->_db->quoteTableAs($string, $alias);
        $this->assertEquals('`foo` AS `bar`', $value);
    }

    /**
     * Ensures that the character sequence ":0'" is handled properly
     *
     * @link   http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2059
     * @return void
     */
    public function testZF2059()
    {
        $this->markTestIncomplete('Inconsistent test results');
    }

    /**
     * Ensures that the PDO Buffered Query does not throw the error
     * 2014 General error
     *
     * @link   http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2101
     * @return void
     */
    public function testZF2101()
    {
        $params = $this->_util->getParams();
        $params['driver_options'] = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY => true);
        $db = Zend_Db::factory($this->getDriver(), $params);

        // Set default bound value
        $customerId = 1;

        // Stored procedure returns a single row
        $stmt = $db->prepare('CALL zf_test_procedure(:customerId)');
        $stmt->bindParam('customerId', $customerId, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $stmt->execute();
        $result = $stmt->fetchAll();
        $this->assertEquals(1, $result[0]['product_id']);

        // Reset statement
        $stmt->closeCursor();

        // Stored procedure returns a single row
        $stmt = $db->prepare('CALL zf_test_procedure(:customerId)');
        $stmt->bindParam('customerId', $customerId, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $stmt->execute();
        $result = $stmt->fetchAll();
        $this->assertEquals(1, $result[0]['product_id']);
    }

    /**
     * @group ZF-11304
     */
    public function testAdapterIncludesCharsetInsideGeneratedPdoDsn()
    {
        $adapter = new ZendTest_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql(array('dbname' => 'foo', 'charset' => 'XYZ', 'username' => 'bar', 'password' => 'foo'));
        $this->assertEquals('mysql:dbname=foo;charset=XYZ', $adapter->_dsn());
    }

    public function getDriver()
    {
        return 'Pdo_Mysql';
    }

}

class ZendTest_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql extends Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql
{
    public function _dsn()
    {
        return parent::_dsn();
    }
}

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13 Responses to Arizona's Most Toxic Assets: Redflex and ATS
Sure says:
Scottsdale selling jail space
http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Offenders-can-soon-upgrade-from-Tent-City-to-Scottsdale-jail-116883168.html
some guy says:
Glyph says:
Thanks for removing those =)
@CameraFraudAz says:
What got removed?
I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this one already.
Where are the trolls at today?? Don't you want to defend your beloved Goldman Sachs??
Ernest T. says:
fuck you ross !!!!
lol frustrated much Jay-jay boy?
ETB was on earlier suggesting that some folks here like dogs way too much. Clearly he has no valid arguements and must resort to personal insults.
Jay Armer didn't get the memo from Gandhi that we're past the ignore/ridicule/fight stages and approaching actual win.
I'd be upset too.
The peanut gallery sure is quiet today though, but I'm sure all of the trolls are in their Redflex-ATS development teams assisting with their respective relocation plans.
Pearce Claims Power To Keep Reza Out Of Capitol
PHOENIX — Immigration rights activist Salvador Reza was arrested at the Arizona state Capitol Thursday afternoon.
Reza said when he entered the building, he was approached by two men dressed in suits. He said they told him he had been barred from the Capitol and that he needed to leave. When he asked for some sort of documentation, he said he were arrested.
While Reza was being booked, a crowd of supporters gathered outside the Fourth Avenue jail, including Senator Steve Gallardo.
"He went there to confer with his elective representative, a state senator," said Reza's attorney, Steve Montoya. "He was not disrupting any hearings. To the best of our knowledge no hearings were transpiring."
Reza said he was told he had been barred on orders from Senate President Russell Pearce.
"The idea of banning someone from the state Capitol because you don't agree with an opinion on an issue is ridiculous," said Sen. Gallardo. "We demand a list from Pearce. We want to know who he's blackballed from the state legislature, why they are being barred and who they are."
http://www.kpho.com/news/26989648/detail.html
4409 — Border Patrol changing name to Inland Compliance Squad
Homeland security dna testing
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/26/news-tsa-scanner-1-2/
Ron Paul in Phoenix yesterday
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Long Quiet Highway
By: Natalie Goldberg
Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones
Here is a new collector's edition of this modern classic as you have never heard it before, read by Natalie Goldberg herself and then infused with her most personal reflections about this "magic manual" for all writers. Try these ingenious, Zen-based exercises to expand your writing skills - or just for fun.
By Krissy D.H. on 07-09-10
The Great Spring
Writing, Zen, and This ZigZag Life
What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.
The Great Failure
A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
By Mia on 04-19-18
The Art of Writing Memoir
Finding the Past in the Present
This weekend workshop, recorded live, is a primer on writing the modern memoir, which, unlike your grandmother's memoir, can be written at any age. Also, a memoir can be about just part of your life. "The more you are present, the more the past will come up and be alive," says Natalie. "Only right now can give you your past."
For right brain writers, not left brain
By Cindy on 03-01-14
Thunder and Lightning
Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
The challenge we face as writers, Natalie Goldberg says, begins with the process of turning inward and then trying to communicate what we find. From the secret of letting characters and stories "write themselves" to finding mentor sources and responding to criticism to writing's one essential ingredient, which is the mind - here are all-new Zen-based lessons and reflections, refined and proven at Natalie's acclaimed national writers' workshops.
Wild Mind
Living the Writer's Life
Writer, poet, and teacher Natalie Goldberg shows you how to unleash your "wild mind" - the true source of your creative power. In this crisp mix of memoir, teaching guide, nonfiction and poetry, Goldberg strips creativity to the essential mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive, and hungry." Natalie is compassionate, practical, and humorous. "Even if it's just a leg hanging out the window, she says, "write it down." Highlights include: provocative "try this" exercises to compel you into action, advice on how to find time to write, how to discover your personal style, how to make sentences come alive, and how to overcome procrastination and writer's block. She'll also explore the larger vision of the writer's task: knowing when to take risks as a writer and a person, learning self-acceptance in life and art.
Get to know Natalie Goldberg
By Sven Severin on 04-21-15
Old Friend from Far Away
How to Write Memoir
Your most potent writer's tool is your own mind, Natalie Goldberg says. From there springs the detail and truth that give your written words power and authenticity. Now this best-selling author introduces you to the pleasure of creating vivid memoirs of your own with Old Friend from Far Away.
Thinking about writing a memoir?
By Iray Millet on 08-14-18
Ideas and Inspiration for Anyone Who Wants to Write
By: Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg
Narrated by: Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg
Through their many best-selling books, Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron have done nothing less than deepen the way millions of us experience the art and practice of writing and creativity. Now, with The Writing Life, Cameron and Goldberg join forces for the first time in this revealing dialogue that speaks to our common search for an everyday spirituality.
Enjoyed hearing 2 perspectives from writers who have impacted me
The Artist's Journey
The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
By: Steven Pressfield
Narrated by: Steven Pressfield
On our artist's journey, we move past resistance and past self-sabotage. We discover our true selves and our authentic calling, and we produce the works we were born to create. You are an artist too - whether you realize it or not, whether you like it or not - and you have an artist's journey. Will you live it out? Will you follow your muse and do the work you were born to do?
It will give you strength
Freeing the Writer Within
The best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind offers a Zen approach to creative writing to help you find your own voice. Goldberg offers techniques for getting to the essential speech of your mind, bypassing the internal editor, and developing the confidence to trust the writer within. This workshop is about writing - it is also about helping you penetrate your life and become sane. Goldberg is a poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, and a teacher.
I hope the book is better
By Evelyn on 12-21-05
By: Annie Dillard
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.
How Odd--How Poorly Written?!?
By Gillian on 02-27-15
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
A New York Times best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction, Anne Lamott was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. As much a guide to writing as an exploration of the emotional challenges of being a writer, Bird by Bird offers a candid and often humorous look at how to tackle these varied obstacles.
A funny listen, but no writing samples to speak of
By Alice on 04-12-15
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
Many thanks for this gift
By Jessica Mayer on 01-04-17
The Book of Tea
By: Okakura Kakuzo
Narrated by: Ken Cohen
The Book of Tea is much more than a book about tea. It's a celebration of the arts and culture of Japan, and a portrait of tea ceremony, the "Way of Tea", as the pinnacle of Japanese spirituality and artistic life. Written in 1906 by Kakuzo Okakura, curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a noted scholar and art critic, this modern classic traces the history of tea from its early medicinal uses in China, through the development of Chinese tea culture, and finally to the role of tea in Japanese Zen, culture, and politics.
A moving narration of The Book of Tea
By DanielA on 01-17-16
Writing the Landscape of Your Mind
The outrageous sage of modern American writing holds a workshop on how to connect with yourself. During this workshop to benefit the Minnesota Zen Center, Natalie Goldberg weaves writing theory and Zen theory. You'll hear what audience members achieve through her now famous Writing Practice and learn how to write your way to self-discovery. Highlights include: Natalie on tackling Structure, a brand new facet of her thinking on writing not addressed in her books Bones or Wild Mind, and Natalie reading the introduction to her book Long Quiet Highway.
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
The prolific, perennially best selling author recounts his early life and writing struggles, gives advice on the crucial aspects of the writing art, and talks about his much-publicized, near-fatal accident.
Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
By Cather on 11-18-05
Embracing the Unknown
Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön presents her first live talk on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With Embracing the Unknown, she reveals how one of Buddhism's most revered texts contains essential guidance not only for understanding the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth - but also profound wisdom for living fearlessly in "the bardo of this life". Experience one of today's most beloved spiritual teachers at her best as she helps us navigate fear, doubt, and uncertainty with a compassionate and open heart.
so helpful and insightful
By debadventurer on 02-23-19
Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
By: Bill Plotkin PhD
Narrated by: Rob Grgach
Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wilderness - the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American West - but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There's a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world.
interesting ideas but nearly unlistenable
By Joseph Amie on 01-13-18
From best selling author Natalie Goldberg ( Writing Down the Bones), here is the story of her life as a spiritual seeker struggling to "free the writer within," a vividly told odyssey that takes you from the 1950s schoolyards of Long Island to the high plains of Taos to the Zen temples of Japan. Threaded with the story of Goldberg's 12-year relationship with legendary Zen master Katagiri Roshi, Long Quiet Highway illustrates the challenges - and rewards - that unfold when a Western student seeks a teacher of Eastern wisdom. As she puts it, "In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits not more or less than his or her being." In a never-before-published interview, Goldberg describes the process of finding the right teacher, and speaks out about the problems that can arise from this uniquely close relationship.
Observant and relentlessly honest, Long Quiet Highway starts out as a reflection on the people, places, and experiences that helped Natalie Goldberg discover the transformational power of writing. Soon it crystallizes into a greater work - a winding koan that cuts through sentiment to get at the truth of the spiritual life and the discipline needed to achieve it.
©2000 Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Bremerton, WA, USA
A Woman's Heart
If you like Natalie Goldberg, you will like this. I got a little tired of Natalie toward the middle of the book. Her grief was too much. I thought she should have taken a zen approach to the death of her teacher. As the story went on, however, I came to realize what was going on, and I became much more tolerant and appreciative of her gifts. She really does tell the truth, and that's a rare quality.
Escondido, CA, USA
Natalie reveals self.....
This is a marvelous biogrqaphy of Natalie's spritual and writing travels which are so much entertwined. It is told from one who struggles with the pain and joy of writing. Hearing it told in her own voice makes it even that much better. Like so many of us who thought writing would bring us great joy, Natalie has expereienced the work of writing, reminding us that it is what it is, not what we'd hoped it would be. Natalie again at her finest.
Long heavy insight
I had given this one the cold shoulder I gave up. Her next memoir "The great failure"looks back on this book and shares her experiences with Roshi in a less glamorous way. It made the second attempt on "Long quiet highway" into a beautifully imperfection of a unique and sacred experience.
Kindle Customer
Natalie Goldberg never fails to make me think about new approaches to writing and going deeper into the meaning behind all I do. Nat, if you're reading this, thank you for having the courage to say all the things I've felt and struggled with in my own writing practice.
A hands-down favorite
Natalie writes with clarity, insight, and vulnerability. Her narration of her work makes it all the more telling and beautiful. I especially loved the interview at the end.
Angela Kukhahn
Makes You Rethink Your Life
Nathalie has a way of drawing you in and making you go so far as to rethink the ways in which you are moving through this world. Without even saying so she helps you pay attention, to be present. The depth of emotion she is able to express through writing about ordinary things and experiences is absolutely breathtaking. This, and all of Nathalie's books are a "must read" if you are looking for a book that takes you on an emotional journey up and down the hills of her life and when you are finished you feel liked you've learned something. That you are now a better person, better able to be present with the people in your life that you love.
Holt, MI, USA
Good, but monotonous
I liked the story, but I think Goldberg shouldn't be the one reading it. Her tone is too monotone & I had to keep going backward to re-listen to parts I had zoned out on.


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Ohmatazawa Dam  is a gravity dam located in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for power production. The catchment area of the dam is 16 km2. The dam impounds about 2  ha of land when full and can store 90 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1914 and completed in 1917.

See also
List of dams in Japan

References

Dams in Kanagawa Prefecture