The design of a system reveals the purpose of the system. Each component of a system is like a piece of a puzzle. The people who have been marketing the redesign of our health care system can say anything they want – but the components of it and the way those component pieces work together tell the real story. The real purpose of the "reform" is experimental genetic medicine using the entire American population as potential research subjects. The first clue was nationalized medical records. The costs and benefits of it don't compute. As "reforms" have progressed since they began this effort, the evidence has only made this Analyst's conclusion more certain and I challenge anybody to prove me wrong.
Neither Hillary Care nor Obama Care were about health care. They were about health insurance and universal coverage. Health insurance was a backdoor pathway to the electronic medical record for the Human Genome Project – genetic engineering on the U.S. population. Claims history provides enough information for the foundation of a system centered around the use of your medical records for research purposes. The government already had control of the health care and records of the active military population, the inactive military population (VA), the elderly through Medicare, the disabled and poor through Medicaid and Indians through the Indian Health Service. The working population whose employers provided health insurance could be brought into the Public Health genomic research system. The only remaining populations were small businesses and individuals that didn't quality for any of the other programs. The requirement to buy health insurance brought them (their medical records) "into the system".
If that sounds outrageous, just follow the timeline – the Human Genome Project was kicked off in 1990 and the first inquiry into a national system of computerized medical records was requested by Congress was also in 1990. The nation's telecommunications system was opened up to the public in 1991 and the government's Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) was created in 1993. In a 1992 radio address, President Bush outlined his plan for funding the automation of claims information for health insurance.
The problem with what he said is that most of the claims filing by that time was almost certainly being done electronically for most providers – if not by the provider himself, then by a claims billing service for providers. How do I know that? From personal experience in the IT business that included health insurers, personal experience with PC's (beginning 1985) and most importantly because the incentives for the doctors and insurers were in alignment for it – the claims were more accurate and could be immediately processed, doctors who submitted claims electronically were paid faster and the technology to do it was not that expensive relative to the benefits.
This system will not save any money. On the contrary, it will cost a lot more than is already being spent on the health care system. The money will be taken out of actual health care and will be shifted to the technology corporations and IT people. The focus of health care for providers will become the system – not the patient because they must answer to the system – not the patient.
In 1993, on Day 6 of the Clinton Administration, Bill Clinton announced the formation of a Task Force on Health Care Reform chaired by his wife, Hillary Clinton. The Task Force was "charged with formulating legislation that would take strong action to control health care costs while providing Americans with the security of knowing that their fundamental health care needs will be met". (First 100 Days). Ira Magaziner was selected as co-chair of the Task Force. In this video he said that he read a lot of health care plans from different groups. Apparently they with they being Bill Clinton and Ira Magaziner chose the plan of the Jackson Hole Group because he mentioned Managed Competition and this American Prospect article confirmed it. Managed Competition was a system designed by Alain Enthoven. In 2014, I wrote an analysis of Enthoven's Managed Competition Plan which became the Obama Care Plan that was passed into law. Hillary Clinton's part in the original project was to assist with writing the legislation to make it happen.
This video includes Ira Magaziner and Congressman John Dingell talking about health care reform on March 1, 1993. The full video can be viewed on C-Span.
As I listened to Ira Magaziner, I realized that the problem they were trying to solve was not anything to do with health care per se. They were trying to fix the problem of cost shifting. There are two sides to the con game of compounding interest. Compounding interest and compounding costs. The compound interest keeps the economy moving like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. The other side of the ledger – compounding costs is due to cost shifting to make up for the magic money produced through compounding interest.
This con game works great up until the point when there no place to shift costs that doesn't draw blood. It's like a shell game in which to continue the growth curve requires that costs are shifted to some other sector of the economy which may or may not destroy the sector depending upon the criticality of the sector. Health care is essential so when employers with the help of congress removed their business from the insurance market to improve their own bottom lines, costs went up for the entire rest of the economy. Research and expenditures in advances in health care only exacerbated the problem. Schumpter called it creative destruction but the only thing creative about it is the official explanations for destroying segments of the economy. Because it is cost shifting, it's not always obvious from the outside where the problem resides. The example Hollywood gave us with the buggy whip factory was pure propaganda to give people the idea that what is being destroyed is old and dying… but that's not really true with a mature economy with the parasitic system of compounding interest and cost shifting.
The "creative logic" behind the relatively recent snafu of Obama Care which was just a sequel to Hillary Care – different characters, same story, is that instead of focusing on episodic "sick care", they were going to focus on wellness. Insurers were mandated to pay for all kinds of "preventative benefits" – basically providing health care to the healthy. Why? It's cheaper and it gives the illusion that you are getting something for your health insurance premium dollars – even though you're not. To this point, there is no real solution to the cost shifting in health care. Most of the costs are generated by the sick, the disabled, the elderly and the poor. Here is where the convergence between Human Genome Project and shifted costs of the health care system come into play. The solution to cost shifting is to turn the costs which are liabilities into assets. How do you do that with health care for the sick, the disabled, the elderly and the poor? You monetize them by donating their bodies to medical science for applied genetic research which is what the plan is for the U.S. health care system and that came straight from the mouths of people at the NIH, Dr. Douglas Woods from the Mayo Clinic, groups such as Research!America and many more. The "reformed health care system" since 1990 has been about designing a system that would accommodate experimental genetics research (personalized medicine) on the American population.
That's the logic. Now prove me wrong.
I just heard on Infowars that President Donald Trump is going to roll out "his fix" for health care reform to replace Obama Care in March of this year. If the focus has anything to do with technology, then that will mean they are just putting new wrapping paper on Obama Care/Hillary Care. They will just be taking away the mandate. Aside from that, the design of the system will be the same and the populations that I identified to be monetized will become the victims of it. They are just useless eaters anyway right?


Drug detox is a necessary procedure for people who are addicted or physically dependent on certain substances. Methadone is an opioid that can be used for such purposes. It allows for the gradual reduction of drug intake, so that the patient can get back to living a sober life.
However, being an opioid itself, methadone can also cause addiction for people who abuse it.
Today we're going to talk about methadone, particularly the effects of misuse—and what addicted individuals can do to get better.
Methadone is a prescription drug that is often sold under the brand name Dolophine. It can be used to treat people who are dealing with opioid dependence. It can also help patients suffering from moderate to severe pain.
On top of these, methadone can be used for maintenance therapy.
For detox purposes, methadone can have gradual or rapid effects—the doctor will prescribe the proper dosage based on the patient's needs. It is recognized in the medical industry for its benefits.
But because of its euphoric effects, it's also a popular drug amongst illicit users. It doesn't help that methadone is more accessible compared with other illicit substances.
Methadone, being a potent drug, can produce intense effects even for those who are taking it at pharmaceutical doses. It is important that patients take the exact dosage prescribed and report any side effect that occurs because of it.
Even if you miss a dose, do not take higher doses to make up for the skipped dose.
Common side effects include bleeding gums, blood in urine and stools, blurred vision, dry mouth, dizziness, sweating, fainting, nausea, weight gain, vomiting, and seizures.
Effects of methadone abuse may vary from person to person. But just like other drugs, it can cause tolerance, dependence, and addiction if misused for a long time. The risk of developing these problems increase as someone takes larger doses—a habit that is associated with recreational use.
When a person becomes tolerant, the person begins needing more and more of the drug just to get the same euphoric effects. With dependence, the problem becomes a bit more difficult to handle. At this point the body has grown used to the drug's presence, meaning it won't function properly if the user doesn't take methadone. Quitting the drug abruptly can cause intense and unpleasant withdrawal.
Once a person spirals into addiction, quitting becomes extremely difficult. They compulsively crave for methadone, even when the adverse effects are setting in. Methadone can cause sexual dysfunction, respiratory problems, lack of coordination, and the inability to make good decisions.
Methadone is a beneficial drug—it can help people get over their dependence on opioids. But for those who misuse this substance, they may need some other form of treatment. Once abused, methadone can cause the exact same problem.
Methadone abuse treatment centers are designed to manage the effects of opioid withdrawal. The patient will undergo detox that is supervised by medical professionals. In no time, the user can stop relying on methadone.
Relapse is a common thing. This is why most detox facilities often offer programs that educate patients on how to cope with their cravings. These cognitive therapy sessions and behavioral techniques can help them adjust to their drug-free life.
Since every patient is different, no two treatment methods will be exactly the same. It's going to be a personal journey for them.
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Goodgame Studios, Germany's leading developer of gaming software, released a major update for its successful farm simulation game, Goodgame Big Farm. With the introduction of appearances, the browser game's more than 40 million registered players now have, for the first time ever, the possibility to change the looks of existing buildings! This will give farms a fresh and much more individual visual style as players will be able to choose from various appearance sets.
Appearances are collected and stored in the inventory. They can either be bought or gained during events. Each building needs to be assigned its own appearance to complete the fresh look. The first available set is "Back to the Roots", which gives the buildings a very natural and rustic style. More unique appearance sets will follow soon – and they will give farmers even more freedom to build up their dream farms.


The thought of living within walking distance of Cornwall's beautiful coastline is enough to make me want to pack my bags. This property, which is on the market with @Aucoot, combines its fantastic location in Bude, just a few minutes walk from Crooklets beach, with a stunning light-filled home designed by Hogarth Architects.
Located on Ash Row, this six-bedroom home is part of an award winning development of four houses designed under Hogarth Architects' development wing Hogarth Homes.
Aside from the location and sea views, highlights in this house include the open plan and light-filled living area and dining-kitchen – a space that has been designed for social living.
As Hogarth Homes writes of this development on their website, the idea behind the Ash Row project was to take a fantastic site in a prime seaside location, and then build homes that would make you feel as if you were on holiday from the moment that you walk through the door.
Each of the houses was built to high sustainability standards, and the contemporary design references the Victorian row houses and beach huts that are typical of this area.
The open plan living space is placed at the top of this house to draw in those sea views and make the most of the light. The living area features a woodburner with a long-shuttered concrete shelf that provides log storage below – a nice detail – and there's also a study area and a terrace from which to enjoy those views.
The kitchen and dining space includes a sleek white Poggenpohl kitchen with a large island forming a great work zone - and also creating a flow of space as you move around this open plan area. There are nice details like the beamed ceiling and the bright punches of colour – as seen on the terrace too – but the overall aesthetic is simple and understated, where the constantly shifting coastal light creates the drama in the space.
The two lower levels of the house, on the ground and first floor, contain the six bedrooms, including an ensuite master bedroom on the first floor, and there are also hand-crafted bunk beds that kids would love in the family bedrooms.
And these levels are accessed via a striking bespoke staircase made in laser-cut steel and birch-faced ply. It's details like this that set this house apart.
This feels like such a vibrant and social living space, yet at the same time, with these airy volumes and light palette, this would also be a serene home to retreat to at the end of a busy day.


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Swimming...and fifteen-year-old Tracy Caulkins of the United States won two gold medals and set a?
GV PAN Women's 200 metres individual medley in progress, with Tracy Caulkins (USA) winning in world record time.
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GV PAN Men's 200 metres freestyle in progress, with W. Forrester (USA) winning.
SV ZOOM OUT TO GV PAN Men's 100 metres breaststroke in progress, with W. Kusch (West Germany) winning.
SV PAN Men's 100 metres backstroke in progress, with Robert Jackson (USA) winning.
Women's Individual Medley: Tracy Caulkins (USA), 2m 16.30 secs (world record); 2. Mary-Joan Pennington (USA), 2m 18.34 secs; 3. Ulrika Tauber (East Germany), 2m 18.34 secs. Men's 200 metres freestyle: 1. W. Forrester (USA), 1:51.02; 2. A. Gaines (USA), 1:51.10; 3. S. Kopiakov (USSR), 1:51.33. Men's 100 metres breaststroke: 1. W. Kusch (W. Germany), 1:03.56; 2. G. Smith (Canada), 1:03.60; 3. G. Moerken (W. Germany), 1.03.62. Men's 100 metres backstroke: 1. R. Jackson (USA, 56.36 secs; 2.P. Rocca (USA), 56.69 secs, 3. V. Kuznetsov (USSR), 57.41 secs.
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Background: Swimming...and fifteen-year-old Tracy Caulkins of the United States won two gold medals and set a world record on Sunday (20 August) in women's events at the world swimming championships in West Berlin. She broke her own world record in the 200 metres individual medley final, and was a member of the winning team in the women's four by one hundred metres medley relay. Two American men also won breaststroke and backstroke sprint titles.
SYNOPSIS: Here's the women's 200 metres individual medley in progress. Tracy Caulkins led almost all the way. The American girl had entered in five individual and two team relays in the championships. Some observers, including Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals at the Munich Olympic Games, thought she was taking on too much in her first major championships. But her time of two minutes fourteen points seven seconds clipped just over a second off her own world record, set earlier this month.
More success for the United States in the men's 200 metres freestyle. The winner, William Forrester, took an early lead that he never surrendered. His time of one minute, 51 point 02 seconds was a world championships record -- by jut two hundredths of a second. Forrester's team-mate, Ambrose Gaines, overhauled two rivals in the final to finish second from Surgey Kopliakov of the Soviet Union.
In the men's 100 metres breaststroke, Walter Kusch, considered a veteran at 24, won the gold medal, also in championship time. In previous championships, Kusch had swam in the wake of Olympic champion David Wilkie, of Britain, and his countryman, Gerald Moerken, the world record holder, who finished third in this race behind Kusch and Graham Smith of Canada.
And another gold for the United States, this time in the men's 100 metres backstroke. Robert Jackson won in 56 point 3-6 seconds, clipping more than a second from his own championship record. His team-mate Peter Rocca, took the silver, also breaking the former record.
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Spaghetti Eating Race
A comical item about a spaghetti eating race between men with handlebar moustaches and showgirls!
Surf Racing - U.S.A.
A surfing race takes place over 35 miles from Santa Catalina to Santa Monica. America (USA).
Polo Match - Santa Monica
Male Hollywood film starts take part in a polo match, their captains, Ginger Rogers and Joan Crawford, watch from the side. Santa Monica, America (USA).
20 Rounds Draw
McAllister and Tracy fight it out at International Boxing Contest in Croke Park, Ireland.
American comic trio The Jesters impersonate famous US radio singing stars.
O'leary, Tracy And O'leary
O'Leary, Tracy and O'Leary, comedians and dancers, perform singing and slapstick routine
Earnest Shannon Aka Ernest Shannon
Impersonator Ernest Shannon does impressions of various stars.
2-Way Wrist Radio
Demonstration of new 2-way wrist radio as used by Dick Tracy. America.

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Utpalendu Chakraborty (b. 1948)
Bengali director, musician and novelist. Born in Pabna Dist. (now Bangladesh). Was influenced in early youth by his uncle, Communist writer Swarnakamal Bhattacharya who wrote Chinnamul and Tathapi (both 1950). Master's degree in modern history from University of Calcutta (1967) and associated with CPI(ML)- led student agitations. Published emphatically emotive short stories in anthology Prasab under the name of Swaranamitra. Worked as informal teacher among the tribals of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until ill health forced his return to Calcutta (1971). Taught at higher secondary school. First film was 16mm documentary Mukti Chai made during the Emergency, campaigning for the release of political prisoners. Subsequent features, made with reluctance given his often-declared mistrust of both state and private funding agencies, continue his emphatic discursive style. Worked for TV (inc. Chaturtha Panir Pather Yuddha, Shatabarshe Mohun Bagan); also made a documentary on S. Ray.
FILMOGRAPHY: 1977: Mukti Chai (Doc); 1980: Moyna Tadanta; 1982: Chokh; 1983: Debabrata Biswas (Doc); 1984: Music of Satyajit Ray (Doc); 1985: Debshishu; 1986: Aparichita (TV); Rang (TV); 1988: Bikalpa (TV); 1989: Phansi; Janani (TV); Dwibachan (TV); Sonar Chheye Dami (TV); Chhandaneer; 1994: Prasab.


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H.B. 56 is the most recent—and most extreme—in a wave of anti-immigration laws conservative state legislatures have passed and conservative governors have signed into law. Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL) put his pen to H.B. 56 on June 9, 2011.
H.B. 56's sponsors argue that the law is designed to make every aspect of life unbearably difficult for undocumented immigrants living in Alabama. So it should come as no surprise that when U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn rejected an array of legal challenges mounted against the law and allowed a number of the most extreme provisions to go into effect on September 28, it triggered an urgent moral and humanitarian crisis. Thousands of kids failed to show up for school and thousands more have called in to the emergency hotlines established to help people affected by the law.
Here we examine the law from all sides, taking a look at the status of legal challenges, the fear it's breeding, the anti-immigration activism behind it and similar laws, and the electoral harm it's likely to inflict on its conservative backers.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit on August 1 to block the law as an unconstitutional interference with federal policy, and stakeholder organizations like the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama challenged the law on a variety of additional constitutional grounds. But deviating from federal district judges who reviewed and enjoined similar measures in Arizona, Utah, Indiana, and Georgia, Judge Blackburn left in place many of H.B. 56's harshest provisions.
Among the extreme measures Blackburn allowed to stand was the H.B. 56 provision making it a crime to be undocumented in the state. She also permitted implementation of the provision requiring all schools to check the immigration status of their students and to report that information to the state. The judge apparently saw no issue with forcing public school officials to become immigration enforcement personnel even though every child has a constitutional right to public education regardless of immigration status.
Those two provisions are temporarily blocked on emergency appeal to the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. But they weren't blocked before contributing to the hostile environment that led thousands of students to not show up for school and drove Latino families to flee the state.
Unfortunately the 11th Circuit failed to stop other deeply troubling measures from being implemented while the legal appeals continue. The infamous "papers please" provision previously blocked by federal courts in Arizona, Utah, and Georgia, for example, is now the law in Alabama. That provision requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they suspect is undocumented and to indefinitely detain certain immigrants.
Also still intact is the H.B. 56 provision that makes most contracts entered into with undocumented immigrants null and void, which leaves undocumented immigrants no recourse to combat, for example, unscrupulous employers or landlords. In addition, the court upheld the provision making it a felony for undocumented immigrants to contract with any governmental entity, including for basic services such as running water.
In all likelihood, the Supreme Court will ultimately be called on to decide the central question of whether states are—as we strongly believe—constitutionally barred from pursuing these policies.
Even if the Supreme Court will have the last word, the legal wrangling will take time to wend its way to a final resolution. In the meantime, communities across Alabama are feeling the harm flowing from this state-sanctioned discrimination. Reports of mistreatment, harassment, and abuse are already pouring in to emergency hotlines.
To take one example, undocumented immigrants in the state are blocked from accessing the protection of the courts. A judge recently advised one woman that if she sought a restraining order against her domestic abuser she would be asked to prove her immigration status at the end of the hearing. Parents are too scared to go to work and children are too scared to go to school for fear they will be picked up by the police and deported.
And the fear is not confined to undocumented immigrants. According to a 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report, 53 percent of undocumented immigrants live in mixed-status families, meaning with some legal immigrant or citizen members. So H.B. 56 is making life extraordinarily difficult for all immigrants in the state.
Families with Hispanic surnames are afraid their water and utilities will be shut off unless they can prove their immigration status. Police roadblocks are springing up near Latino-frequented places of worship. And tellingly, the first person picked up as a result of the new law was a legal immigrant, illustrating the potential for H.B. 56 to be used to terrorize anyone who looks vaguely foreign, not just those without status.
Indeed all people in Alabama who appear to be foreign are now under suspicion of being without status, and they are required to carry their papers at all times or risk being detained by the police. Some immigrants already decided to leave the state, while others will most certainly go deeper underground, attempting to avoid all contact with authorities.
This systemic marginalization calls into question our commitment to some of the nation's most basic values. And it raises the obvious question: Why would a state pursue such policies?
Anti-immigrant initiatives continue to flourish in conservative state legislatures. They are benignly described as an expression of frustration with the federal government's inability to control immigration. But their manifestation in extreme measures promoted through scare tactics points to something more pernicious: crass partisan politics.
Alabama is a case in point. If the state were truly frustrated by the economic impacts of undocumented immigration, it would have adopted a balanced policy guided by the state's fiscal and economic interests. Such a policy, for example, would have encouraged undocumented workers and their employers to pay their full share of taxes and required employers to provide health insurance to their workforce.
But instead of a policy designed to ensure that everyone pays their fair share, Alabama declared a war of attrition against immigrants in which the objective is to make these residents vanish. Virtually every economist will agree that purging a substantial portion of your productive population will lead to economic loss and contraction. As such, it cannot be credibly argued that these attrition initiatives are designed to advance the state's economic interests. Severe economic costs are already documented in states such as Arizona and Georgia where most of the harsh provisions were blocked and only a small percentage of immigrants left the state.
The only plausible explanation for the continued advance of these initiatives, then, is the politics of division. These state initiatives did not organically materialize in response to local frustrations and they fail to provide a solution to legitimate concerns that exist with our broken immigration system. State-level conservative activists, working in concert with national anti-immigrant organizations, orchestrated them. The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a membership organization for conservative state legislators, pushed out these initiatives to legislators around the country. Anti-immigrant groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR—an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center classified as a hate group—then actively promoted them.
Their strategy is simple but effective. The nativist groups use their grassroots operations to whip local restrictionists into a frenzy and incite fear and confusion in the general population. Then ALEC arms conservative legislators in those states with model anti-immigrant legislation purportedly designed to respond to this groundswell of nativism.
It's a win-win for xenophobes and conservative legislators. Hard-line immigration restrictionists get the platform and policy change they covet while conservative legislators are rewarded with an energized segment of voters. This enables the legislators to protect their seats temporarily in the face of shifting demographics and a changing electorate.
All told, six conservative states have now enacted ALEC's model legislation designed to make life miserable for immigrants: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah. Conservative majorities controlled both chambers of every one of those state legislatures as well as the governorships.
So ALEC and its anti-immigrant allies won some battles at the state level. But are they dooming conservatives to lose the war in the process?
Alabama's H.B. 56 and related state measures clarified in the starkest possible way conservatives' willingness to sacrifice long-term electoral power in exchange for short-term political self-preservation. How else can one explain the continued demonization of Latinos, the fastest-growing segment of the American electorate? By choosing to alienate 16 percent of the American population they appear ready to spend a long cold winter in the electoral wilderness.
The numbers speak for themselves. Latinos comprised 9 percent of all voters in 2008, and in every month since then around 50,000 Latinos turn 18 and are eligible to vote for the first time. Latinos will be an even more significant percentage of the electorate by 2012 in key states such as New Mexico (42.5 percent), Texas (33.7 percent), California (27.1 percent), Nevada (17.3 percent), Florida (19.2 percent), and Colorado (13.4 percent).
These voters have the power to swing elections. In Indiana, where immigrants accounted for only 2 percent of the electorate, Sen. Barack Obama received 24,000 more of their votes than Sen. John McCain, which gave Obama the 1 percent margin needed to win the state. Likewise in Nevada, where polls prior to the 2010 election gave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) little chance of winning re-election, Reid ended up winning another term with 90 percent of the Latino vote and helped secure Democratic control of the Senate.
And Latinos care deeply about immigration reform and the way our leaders talk about it. Why? Because 53 percent of eligible Latino voters know someone who is undocumented, while 25 percent know someone who is facing deportation or has been deported, according to a recent Latino Decisions poll. Given their personal connection to this issue it is unsurprising that immigration reform ranks consistently as one of the top issues that Latino voters care about in America.
It is perplexing, then, that conservative candidates and legislators continue to bash immigrants against the backdrop of increasing Latino electoral clout. But regardless, conservatives will be confronted with a choice as Latinos become an ever-more important segment of the population: Rein in their restrictionist base and embrace the demographic shift under way or face electoral oblivion.
They will have to decide whether they stand on the side of Alabama—of criminalizing students and driving them from their schools—or whether they stand for the American Dream. They will have to decide whether they stand on the side of racial profiling and ethnic animosity or whether they stand for fairness and equal protection.
Alabama confronted these choices before. Now the conservative movement must decide whether they stand with the ghost of Bull Connor or for the vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a momentous choice—and Latino voters will be watching.
Marshall Fitz is Director of Immigration Policy and Angela Kelly is Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at American Progress.


With the news about Apple and servers, people are wondering what Apple is up to. If you hadn't heard, Apple recently created a server farm in North Carolina. Now, because Apple is mostly a hardware company, people are beginning to wonder why they did that. Here are some estimates.
Apple has always depended on iTunes to bring attention to iPods. Perhaps in the future a faster iTunes is in order. The rumors have also been circulating about a more social iTunes. Maybe a better cloud version will be part of the updates.
This idea has become increasingly apparent with Apple's latest move to purchase Lala, a online music collection service.
Maybe in the next couple of operating systems, Apple will release an attempt at a cloud operating system. With the latest announcement of Chrome OS, an operating system that will rely heavily on the cloud, I wonder if Apple is aiming to do the same thing. What would happen if Apple's Lion would be in the cloud?
The ability to access your operating system from anywhere has been seen in the school system and some businesses. An Apple operating system in the cloud would be a fascinating idea that seems like the future of operating systems.
Finally, MobileMe, Apple's service that provides syncing your entire account to computers, iPhones and the cloud. But with the service, we can finally connect the dots. Imagine if your MobileMe account ($99 per year at the present time) was your account for accessing your cloud operating system and iTunes music collection online? Suddenly, most of your world at Apple is online, accessible from anywhere. I think I just blew my own mind.
What do you think of the possibilities of Apple in the cloud? Let us know in the comments.
*The announcement of the said to be Apple tablet in January may be running a version of a cloud operating system, a thought that could be just the beginning of Apple's future in the cloud.
*Microsoft is on the same path to cloud operating systems.
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If you ever look up the names of all of the different cats you will find the following. A) The over arching category is Felidae. B) There are a ton of cats in the Felidae family. C) The entire list can be found here.
Why am I bringing this up? Because Apple uses the Felidae family to name its OS releases and it seems to be running out. Here is what I think the future will bring.
Now, here is my impression of what the future of the Apple OS will be.
Wild Cat– Expanding the features of Snow Leopard and beginning to integrate the iPhone OS with the Tablet OS and OS X. You can see that Apple is trying to make the entire Apple world come together. This OS will do the trick.
Clouded Leopard– Likely? Maybe, but most likely under a different name to prevent too much cheesiness, Clouded Leopard will be Apple's take on Cloud OS. With Google coming in with the Chrome OS, an entry in cloud operating systems, Microsoft and Apple will have to enter the race.
White Lion– Introducing brand new awesome tech. This OS will feature full functioning touch integration to use on the tablet, iPhone and laptops. Input will also include voice and touch (drawing and hand writing recognition). With the newest MacBook Pros, you can use the track pad to draw Chinese characters. Apple is on the road to hand writing integration.
Lion– The final, most polished of the Cats. This will most likely be like Snow Leopard with the amount of features and pricing. After all, this will be the "service pack" of White Lion.
What do you think will happen when there are no more cat names? What other animals do you think represent Apple? What other animals have plenty of varieties? Dogs? Do you think it will be animal? What about plants? Let us know your thoughts on the future of the Apple OS in the comments.


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Is Scream Queens set for a second season?
Is Scream Queens about to survive its own gory end?
After a rise in the ratings, it appears the Fox freshman comedy/horror show will be spared from getting the axe. That is according to Ryan Murphy himself.
Fox has not yet officially renewed the series, but Murphy revealed he has already pitched story ideas for season 2 and executives are excited about seeing it.
However, don't expect all the characters from this season to survive.
"I just pitched to FOX the second season, which everybody loves the idea of it and the conceit is three or four cast members survive," Murphy said. "The last episode the mask comes off the Red Devil and you find out who that person was and why they did what they did and the story is done. You'll never go back to it."
Murphy has already begun to look at who to cast in a possible season two, which seems extremely likely at this point. The American Horror Story creator is already getting requests from actors, actresses, rock stars, pop stars to appear on Scream Queens. Including one big name.
"Lady Gaga wants to appear on Scream Queens," Murphy said. "She watches it, she loves it."
So if you are a fan of the hilariously bloody Scream Queens, it looks like the show will return for a second season for more killings and hilarious wit.
Scream Queens airs Tuesdays on Fox.
What do you make of a possible season season for Scream Queens? Would you like to see Lady Gaga on the show? As always, comment below or tweet us @RealityBoxTV to give us your thoughts on Scream Queens.
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LIN Media announced Blumenthal, EVP/Television, will retire at the end of they year after a distinguished 30-year career with the company. Jay Howell, the Company's current VP/Regional Television, has been named Blumenthal's successor. Effective 1/1, Howell becomes VP/Television.
Blumenthal launched his broadcasting career in 1970. He worked in virtually every department at WTWO-TV in Terre Haute and WRTV-TV in Indianapolis before partnering to develop an advertising agency, commercial syndication and animation studio. In 1983, Mr. Blumenthal was recruited by LIN Media to be the Local Sales Manager for WISH-TV in Indianapolis, and in 1994, to be the President and GM of WOOD-TV and WOTV-TV, both located in Grand Rapids, MI. He returned to WISH-TV as President and General Manager in 1999 before being named Regional Vice President for LIN Media in 2002. In 2005, Mr. Blumenthal was promoted to Vice President Television and then a year later, was promoted again to his current position. Following his retirement, Blumenthal will provide consulting services to the company.
"Scott's deep understanding of television news, programming, sales and community engagement, coupled with his decisive leadership, has contributed enormously to the growth and success of our Company," said Vincent Sadusky, President and Chief Executive Officer of LIN Media. "His retirement culminates a long and successful career in broadcasting and is certainly well-deserved. Scott has done a great job preparing Jay for a smooth transition and giving him the tools he needs to continue evolving our television stations for the future."
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Where Is Sarma Melngailis Now? How the Bad Vegan Is Making Good On Her Debts
Jessica Sager
Where is Sarma Melngailis now? The titular Bad Vegan has largely flown under the radar since her high-profile arrest, trial and prison sentence—but the Netflix phenomenon brought her back into the zeitgeist in a big way. From plant-based wining and dining with the likes of Alec Baldwin, Tom Brady and Gisele to getting busted via a Domino's order to actually eating drumsticks in the big house, the disgraced restaurateur has been around the block and back again. Find out what she's up to now—and if she's repaid her many employees the huge sums owed to them from her days as the "vegan Bernie Madoff."
Where is Bad Vegan's Sarma Melngailis now?
In 2017, Melngailis pleaded guilty to theft and fraud charges and spent four months behind bars, The New York Timesreported. In May 2018, Melngailis filed for divorce from Strangis after she was released from prison. She confessed that she had an affair with her attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, only finding out that he was married and had a family when The New York Postreported on it.
Her good vegan recipes live on: From March 25 through March 27, 2022, former Pure Food and Wine chefs Nikki Bennett and Missy Maidana are offering a pre fixe menu from the shuttered eatery through PostMates.
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Where does Sarma Melngailis live?
According to The New York Post, Melngailis currently resides in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with her rescue dog, Leon. As far as we know, Leon isn't currently immortal, despite Strangis' promises to Melngailis. Melngailis told Netflix's Tudum, "Having Leon around me is extremely grounding. If I'm worried or upset, I sometimes hold his face and look in his eyes and tell him that everything's going to be okay, which makes me feel better. In effect, I'm reassuring myself. Some dogs get anxious when their guardian leaves the house, but for us, it's the other way around. Leon is fine; I'm the one who gets anxious being away from him."
The adorable pit bull recently celebrated his 12th birthday.
Melgailis is still sensitive about the potential immortality of her beloved pet. She called out Netflix for a viral ad mocking the idea, which you can see below.
She wrote on Instagram, "I'm sick. On behalf of dogs and the humans who love them. And on behalf of anyone psychologically abused. Please see my Twitter to hear the audio on this clip, for which the word disturbing is far too mild. The audio is… making a joke out of me. This is how @netflix markets #badvegan? By mocking me, and worse… by luring people to click via… pet immortality? How is this ok?? @netflix you made this. I wish I could ask all those who signed off on this to explain it to me so I understand. Was there a room full people laughing while the audio was scripted? And everyone was just cool with this?"
What is Bad Vegan doing now?
Melngailis is currently focused on telling her story, but she'd love to open a restaurant again someday. She told The New York Postin 2019, "If there was some magical opportunity to open the same restaurant in the same place, I would do it in a heartbeat. I think New York would take me back."
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Did Sarma get paid for Bad Vegan?
Melngailis did, in fact, get paid for Bad Vegan, but she pointed out on her website that it was for a specific reason—and that the reason wasn't personal profit.
"It's standard practice—to say nothing of journalistic integrity—that subjects do not get paid for participation in documentaries, at least not the reputable ones," she wrote on her website after Bad Vegan was released. "In my case, however, and at my insistence, the producers made an exception so that I could pay the total amount my former employees were owed—amounts that accrued after my disappearance in 2015. Of all the harm and the many debts resulting from my downfall, this portion weighed heaviest."
She added more context about her deal with the streaming giant and how it impacted her former employees.
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"I was relieved once this payment went through, but that was just a small part of what remains outstanding," she concluded. "I want to be clear that I'll keep working towards addressing it all—one way or another—eventually."
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Trevor Lawrence leaves Clemson with his legacy more than secure
1:14 PM ET Trevor Lawrence departs Clemson as one of its greatest players: A national champion, a record setter, a winner through and through. That he is the best player available for the 2021 NFL draft has never been disputed — not this year, not the year before, and not the year before that, when
Tide's Smith: Heisman 'in the past,' focus on OSU
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CFP chief: No schedule changes for Bama-OSU
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Alabama receiver Smith wins Heisman Trophy
7:56 PM ET The nearly three-decade drought of wide receivers failing to win the Heisman Trophy ended when Alabama senior DeVonta Smith was presented the award during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday night. Smith is the third player from Alabama to claim college football's most prestigious award and the first receiver to win it since
Hand him the Heisman: DeVonta Smith should end the award's WR drought
7:00 AM ET There is no better season than 2020 — a pandemic season that saw shortened and staggered schedules affect the Heisman résumés of many top players — to hand the trophy to a wide receiver. Alabama star DeVonta Smith just won't be the one to say it. Fresh off seven receptions for 130
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Day expects QB Fields to play in CFP title game
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Texas QB Ehlinger says he's entering NFL draft
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Time to rethink Sydney Modern – Have YOUR say
By Judith White
The NSW government is on the brink of making another expensive blunder in arts policy, and it's time for concerned citizens to speak out.
On 15 November the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) revealed the final design for the massively ambitious expansion plan known as Sydney Modern, and at the same time lodged a development application (DA) for it as a State Significant Development. By lodging as a State Significant application (more than $10 million) the AGNSW is hoping to get the nod, as happened at Barangaroo.
Unveiled by NSW Arts Minister Don Harwin, the design will remain on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until 15 December. As part of the DA process, during that time members of the public can make submissions about the plan on the Department of Planning website.
The announcement of the design was accompanied by a fanfare of publicity. The new building, pronounced the Gallery, would transform the institution into "one of the world's great museums". Really?!
But not everyone is buying it. ABC TV news that night interviewed both David Chesterman, architect of the land bridge over the Cahill Expressway, and Clive Austin, chair of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Garden (for more on them see my previous blog 'Criticism grows over Gallery expansion plan'). Both expressed concern about the loss of green space. Even the environmental impact statement accompanying the DA warns of "moderate adverse heritage impact" on the RBG.
The next day The Sydney Morning Herald published an angry letter from respected museum consultant Kylie Winkworth. She said in part: "What is 'unbuilt land' for the development ambitions of the Art Gallery of NSW, is part of the Royal Botanic Gardens for everyone else. This precious parkland has hung on in Sydney for more than 200 years. It must be defended from any more development, whether the project is commercial, cultural or tourism…; parks belong to the people of NSW not the government."
Reader Diana Simmons also weighed in, seizing on a fatuous comment about the site from Gabrielle Upton, the hapless Minister for the Environment, Local Government and Heritage (there's a piece of casting for you). "It's a piece of open space which is not being used," Upton said.
"Open space is open space," Simmonds retorted. "Non-used space where someone can walk through or sit for a while and contemplate… The Botanic Gardens has been described as 'the lungs of the city'. We need to breathe, don't we?"
Green space and cultural infrastructure
The issue of green space is an important one, but it's an argument the Coalition Government has a track record of ignoring – think WestConnex. And the loss of open space is far from the only problem with the Sydney Modern extravaganza.
Green space under threat
It takes more than a building to make "one of the world's greatest museums". It takes a great collection and a clear artistic direction. While the AGNSW collection contains many much-loved works, it is not yet an international attraction; and as for artistic direction, this is precisely what has suffered in the four-and-a-half-year obsessive pursuit of Sydney Modern. The Gallery's 2018 program, announced at the same time as the DA, is decidedly lacklustre. Headlined by an over-inflated Brett Whiteley drawings show, it has been termed "threadbare" by eminent Sydney art critic John McDonald.
Nothing in the plans released so far suggests that resources will go into curatorial excellence rather than bricks and mortar. On the contrary, the NSW Government is continuing its punishing "efficiency dividend" – an annual spending cut which cripples the staff budget of cultural institutions.
The business case for Sydney Modern remains shrouded in secrecy, but the government appears to have accepted it. In June it allocated $244 million of the cost, with the bulk of funds to be available only after the 2019 state election. How the project will then be completed, as promised, by the Gallery's 150th anniversary in 2021 is anyone's guess. Arts Minister Don Harwin nonetheless blithely claimed this week that the expansion would inject more than $1 billion into the NSW economy.
Such an approach is far behind the best thinking internationally. It's like sticking with coal in the face of climate change. Since the global financial crisis of 2008-9 the tide has turned against the building of expensive galleries with no adequate forward planning. Adding his voice to those documented in my book Culture Heist is British author and broadcaster Jonathan Meades. He gave an address to this year's annual dinner of London's Royal Academy in which he denounced the seizure of power by "a managerial caste which exercises patronage, commissions rather than creates, edits rather than makes, inflicts its off-the-peg taste, does deals and builds empires".
In a more recent piece on 'The Bilbao Effect' for The Spectator, Meades wrote scathingly about "staggeringly expensive new buildings that assuage the vanity of cities and their bosses". Even the Guggenheim in Bilbao, which set the trend for new infrastructure 20 years ago, has done nothing to revive the local economy. "The economic beneficiaries of 'regeneration'," Meades continued, "are limited to, initially, the construction industry and, subsequently, the tourist trade. There is no more drip down from these projects than there is from supply-side tax breaks."
Closer to home, the arts policy of the NSW government seems to be limited to ill-considered knee-jerk splurges of expenditure to suit particular political purposes – the proposed relocation of the Powerhouse being a case in point.
As Kylie Winkworth told Culture Heist this week: "The crying shame of all this is that the government is making the biggest investment in Sydney's cultural infrastructure in more than a generation, but the merits of each project are far from clear. And the reports which should justify the rationale for the funding decisions are mostly secret, especially when it comes to looking at opportunity costs and options."
In the case of Sydney Modern, the investigation of alternative locations and the current business case for the project both remain secret; and there is no undertaking from government to increase recurrent funding. That will be a headache handed to the next administration after the State election in March 2019.
Call for a broader view
The call for submissions about the DA for the new building is an opportunity for everyone who cares about the culture of our society to demand a rethink of arts policy.
Rather than bowing to powerful lobby groups, NSW needs an overall cultural policy based on what is required. As Kylie Winkworth sees it: "After the billions are spent NSW will still have no museum for NSW history, no Aboriginal cultural centre, no design museum, and no museum about Aboriginal contact history and migration and settlement since 1788. None of the missing links in Sydney's cultural infrastructure, nor the entrenched cultural inequalities in funding for Western Sydney and regional NSW are addressed in the government's cash splash. Instead this is about giving money to the projects advanced by the big men on certain boards and trusts… this is why Sydney is a cultural loser."
Just to remind you about some of the "big men on boards and trusts": since 1989 the board of the AGNSW has been dominated by some of the richest men in Australia. Its presidents in that time have been Frank Lowy of Westfield, his adviser David Gonski, his son Steven Lowy (who first announced the Sydney Modern plan in 2013), followed by Guido Belgiorno-Nettis of Transfield, and since January 2016 David Gonski again. Since the first announcement of the plan none has publicly declared how much they will contribute to the project; rather they have lobbied for the biggest investment of public money in NSW history.
The Upper House Inquiry into Museums and Galleries, which has begun to ask the right questions about the disastrous impact of moving the Powerhouse collection to Parramatta, has now postponed its reporting date to 1 March 2018. It's high time the committee looked at the secretive Sydney Modern plan too.
In the meantime, the NSW Government needs to call a halt to its vanity-driven cash splash projects and restore recurrent funding to cash-strapped cultural institutions across the state.
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My City vs Your City is a fascinating information widget designed by Michael Schieben. It takes data from LastFM and organises it so that you can compare the Top 10 most-listened-to artists in any two cities of your choice (as long as they're on LastFM's list of cities, and have active listeners). The clean and attractive interface then gives you a percentage overlap between the two cities.
It's almost as if someone or something has got to them. The same "someone" who commands people all over the world to wear blue jeans seems to be laying down the law, or subtly inveigling its norms into people's desires. THOU SHALT HAVE A MAXIMUM OF THREE DOMESTIC ARTISTS IN THY LASTFM TOP 10, this "something" says, UNLESS THOU ART FRENCH OR JAPANESE.
Yes, according to this widget it is only cities in France and Japan in which we find people willing to go beyond this unofficial "30% local cap", this unwritten "commandment of monoculture". Paris boasts 40% domestic artists in its list (Gainsbourg, Air, Phoenix, Daft Punk), while Tokyo charts a massive 70% of homegrown talent. That's almost complete self-sufficiency! No need to import any foreign music except the odd Beatles and Radiohead mp3!
Nowhere else can match this extraordinary Japanese achievement (which could be a fantastic blow struck for autonomy, or a kind of navel-gazing autism, depending on your perspective). Even in China -- confident, fast-growing China, which just took Japan's place as the world's second richest nation, and is on track to be its richest within ten years -- LastFM users are only tending to let one single measly Chinese track into their Top 10s.
There are, of course, two nations who listen almost exclusively to music made within their own borders: the US and the UK. No, make that three, because Japan does too. Where the US and the UK differ from Japan, though, is that they export their local culture all over the world. Nobody outside Japan is listening to Japanese music. Japanese music isn't a hegemony, and Japan is not a music hub.
I must say, I find the picture that emerges from My City vs. Your City a deeply depressing -- and sadly familiar -- one. What this widget makes visible is the same one-way cultural flow I described in (Don't want to live in a) hub and spoke world and Culture flows through English channels, but not for long. In the terms used by airlines for their route maps, culture is flowing in a clear hub-and-spoke pattern, radiating out from a strong central point, rather than in a point-to-point way.
Comparing Porto in Portugal with Porto Alegre in Brazil, I'd have hoped to see a little point-to-point cultural action going on based on the fact that these two nations share a language, Portugese. But no, neither Porto nor Porto Alegre is using LastFM to listen to anything in Portugese. If they have anything in common, it's their love of Metallica and the Arctic Monkeys. You can only "fly" from Portugal to Brazil via LA or London.
Another way to look at what's going on is to say that we live in a world in which global pluralism is "asymmetrical" rather than "symmetrical". Many are not speaking to many on a level playing-field; someone is at the centre, speaking, and all the others are ranged around that "someone", listening, and mostly inaudible, even to their immediate neighbours. In the words of the Barclays Capital slogan, this is "global reach, built around you". As long as you're an Anglo-Saxon.
According to last.fm, Mexico would not have any local artists in its Top 10 list, but that is because the music taste of the sort of people who would have a last.fm is very different from the music taste of the general population.
If My City vs. Your City could scrobble an accurate picture of what Mexicans listen to, you would see a lot more local artists. I imagine something similar might happen in China.
That being said, I'm surprised that not even Café Tacvba makes the Top 10 list, being the only Mexican band that measures up to the highest international standards in terms of creativity and production, and also being one of the most popular acts in the country.
But, there's some problems with this - eh?
Even though we're going with percentages here, could there be only 10 people in Turkey *with* the last.fm widget scobbling?
Is last.fm available in any other language, except English? I did only a quick cursory glance and couldn't find a way to change the language, although I did find the widget to change the URL to another CBS-owned site. I also know that when in Paris, it didn't change to a French interface, even though other sites (Google) do.
If this is true, it's possible that what we're seeing is what's scrobbled by anglophones, generally. Japan may be the exception, but most everyone learns English in Japan at an early age, anyways, no? Enough to use an English-interface without much problem.
I stand corrected on that one - there is a language pref - next to the design pref.
The list of Chinese options is big coastal cities and Beijing (and its satellite, Tianjin). The only exception is Changsha, the birthplace of Mao Zedong, in Hunan province, where the only Chinese entry is for a Taiwanese artist. But... as you noted, this is LastFM, not QQMusic or Baidu MP3's list. Stuff like Lady Gaga does okay in Shanghai (or Taibei), but doesn't really break into the other half of China, the vast inland region, which is still very nativist in its media consumption. I think Koreans and Taiwanese are making a lot more money and have a higher profile in Changsha (or Lanzhou, or Nanjing, or Ha'erbin) than Lady Gaga has. I think LastFM is giving a good picture of what urban elite kids are listening to in these towns, though: Wang Fei and Green Day.
A lot of Western critics think of Chinese censorship as a means of protecting the position of the Chinese Communist Party, but I think a lot of it also has to do with protecting indigenous culture, whether it's pop music or Twitter-clones or homegrown neoliberalism. Superficially, China does look pretty confident, right? But that confidence quickly crumbles in the face of any imagined meddling by outside forces (whether the United States or Uighur activists or Han Chinese who are too fond of elections). China, a lot of the time, swaggers and puts on fabulous shows for the world, but it is still deeply culturally anxious, in a way that Japan isn't. Chinese cultural critics often combine a sense of superiority with an amazing capacity for self-doubt. I think that's one of the reasons why China will continue to resist, or minimize, the influence of world monoculture.
I think the vision of liberalizing China that Western thinkers love to describe often clashes with the vision of liberalizing China that Chinese thinkers are working with. In the Western vision, China is opening up to Western ideas and influence; people are watching Prison Break and buying Nikes, embracing neoliberalism. But in the Chinese imagination, the opening up definitely does allow Western culture/ideas to enter China but the most important part is the opening of the exit gate for Chinese cultural products and ideas. Western thinkers look at Chinese culture and, viewing it through the prism of Western thought and culture, see, of course, Western thought and culture and the glorious or inglorious spread of monoculture. Chinese thinkers (except far left nationalists who are quite fond of seeing the negative parallels between the new Chinese elite and the Western elite) are a lot less likely to identify the Western DNA in ideas like neoliberalism or televised singing contests.
Should't you be out spotting trains?
No Iceland on the list, unfortunately. I would expect them to be above 30% threshold as well.
Yes, but I think it's a very, very interesting situation to see how the Japanese have completely bucked the global pattern here, and continue to have a healthy indigenous music scene. I hear that Japan is now the biggest CD market in the world, too; sales have not been affected by file sharing the way they have in other territories.
To answer the fascinating question of why Japan is such an outlier in terms of music consumption, I think we have to set aside the subjective question of "quality" and look instead at specific business practises and specific cultural mechanisms. France and Japan both feel their "cultural exception" strongly, but France has by and large tried to combat the virulent Anglopop stranglehold via legislation (quotas and so on), whereas Japan has used purely commercial means. This means that the "quotas" are hidden within semi-secret commercial maxims, deals and understandings.
We could call this "commercial passive aggression", and the Japanese have been remarkably successful with it. But ultimately the desire to listen to pop music from your own culture has to exist within the consumer. It's not just a matter of the convenience of lyrics in your own language -- that's not enough. There must be a sense that you're wired differently, emotionally and culturally, from other people and need a music which reflects that. There might also be a sense that the music of other nations reflects something undesireable, something those nations have in their DNA.
I think one of the most remarkable things is that Japan continues to be seen as a good ally to the West while saying, in its domestic culture markets, such a firm "no" to Western cultural products, and being the only nation in the world with both the economic means and the cultural will to form this "no" (which is still only a partial "no", a "limited yes").
Wow, Shizuoka 90% domestic! Massive! The new Sakoku!
I don't really accept that what last.fm listeners listen to has much to tell us apart from what it is that last.fm listeners listen to. Outside the US/UK and the major European cities, last.fm listeners are going to be a minuscule portion of the population that is already heaviily geared towards Anglo pop culture. For instance, when I was in Brazil, all I heard was Brazilian music and all people seemed to be interested in was Brazilian music, bar the odd Madonna CD or whatever. Walk into a random bar in Rio, and you are almost certainly going to hear Brazilian music. And yet last.fm supposedly tells a different story.
Take a quick glance at the Brazilian top 20 and you'll see that the clear majority of songs are Brazilian.
Aha, this is the first zero percent overlap I've seen: Tokyo and Stuttgart!
Another interesting application: Michael promises to program a "Me vs Your City" feature into the next release which will allow you to line up your own personal Top 10 against those of various cities, and calculate which city most closely matches your taste.
Music has proved to be very useful as a "taste filter" and "sensibility guage" in things like dating sites; now it could help you decide where in the world to live.
-because of what a few last fm listeners listen to?
Music is a big thing for me, but I've never used last fm much, it's never seemed necessary or perhaps I've never had the time. When I moved to Berlin some years ago, if there would have been any musical reason to it, it would have been with people like Patric Catani and early Cobra Killer in mind, but I doubt last fm would have reflected that. You would just as likely find them on, say, Australian lists, due to their having toured there previously when few small European bands make it that far. If I wanted to meet other people who listen to the Boredoms I'd just as soon go to New York as Tokyo. I'm not going there to look, but would last fm tell me where to find other Joemus listeners?
Isn't there a danger of measuring cities by a yardstick the US and UK kind of invented (exported pop music)? Somewhere in China there is a website comparing beansprout consumption by country. Local zealots are confirmed by the results "Right on. Go us!"; local liberals sound a more cautious note "I feel so ashamed. To dominate so flagrantly."
I don't for a moment accept that the US and the UK invented popular music. Every culture has its own popular music. Some have just had their markets swamped by (and have voluntarily embraced) Anglo-Saxon pop.
One thing we haven't mentioned is that since English is basically the world's default lingua franca, many people use pop records as a language-learning tool. Another thing we haven't considered is that the "domestic" pop consumed in Japan and elsewhere is often painstakingly exact replicas of Anglo-pop with Japanese artists and lyrics (typically Japanese lyrics on the verse, English ones on the chorus) overlaid.
Why the predominance of Radiohead though (here and on those endless Q/Mojo best music ever lists)?
I understand people all wanting to listen to the Beatles (and Lady Gaga to some extent), but Radiohead?


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In this project, students will use several different techniques to create a vase. Emphasis will be on shape and form, and learning to create a harmonious object. Organic and geometric shapes found in our lives and/or in nature will serve as inspiration.
Students will be shown how to work with slabs. They will create a detailed, textured, functional mug that will focus on symmetry. Students will learn balance through the application of a handle.
Students will be shown how to work with coils to construct a vessel. They will work with slabs and apply detail to create a mythical creature (e.g., gargoyle). Value will be taught by using cross-hatching to suggest volume, shadows, variation and increased range of gradation. Students will be encouraged to express their individuality.
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The students will be introduced to some of the best-known artists of our time and learn what Impressionism is and why it is significant. Based on a still life, the students will have the chance to use their creativity along with what they have learned to do an Impressionist style painting. The students will use acrylic paint and will learn to use both paintbrush and palette knife. They will also review the colour wheel primary, secondary, and complementary colours.


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Probiotic Overdose
Lawrence Adams
Lawrence Adams' work has appeared in the "Marquette Literary Review" and "Broadview Press." He has a Bachelor of Arts from Marquette University in writing-intensity English and classical studies, with a minor in biology, and a Master of Arts in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Probiotics Features
Several species of bacteria have beneficial effects in the human body, including Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus casei GG. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, probiotics may effectively treat vaginal infections, improve symptoms of lactose intolerance and treat gastrointestinal problems such as diarrhea and indigestion. However, more scientific evidence is needed to support the use of probiotics for these conditions.
You can incorporate probiotics into your diet through certain foods or by taking supplements. Miso, tempeh, certain types of yogurt and enriched milk products contain probiotic cultures. Probiotic supplements come in coated capsules, freeze-dried granules, powders and liquid forms. In general, a dose of probiotics is from 1 to 10 billion colony-forming units. Some medical professionals prescribe even larger doses for certain medical conditions, so consult your doctor for more information about an appropriate dose for you.
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U.C. Davis; Probiotics: The Future of Medicine; Joe Zhang
Clinical Microbiology Review; Potential Uses of Probiotics in Clinical Practice; Gregor Reid et al.; October 2003
University of Maryland Medical Center: Lactobacillus acidophilus
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Introduction to Probiotics
Cons of Probiotics
Azithromycin & Probiotics
Side Effects of Culturelle
Acidophilus & Gastritis
Heart Palpitation Caused by Probiotics
The Negative Side Effects of Probiotic Yogurt