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How many records has Led Zeppelin sold?
March 27, 2013 in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
I've come acroos many different numbers/ranges. Some sources claim that the band has sold only up to 200M records, while some of them claim the number to be as high as 300M or even more. What we know for sure is that Led Zeppelin has sold a minimum of 135.6M records (certifications).
By the way, Nielsen Soundscan, which is probably the most reliable source for album sales, claims that Zeppelin has sold over 25 million albums/records in the US since 1993. Source: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-led-zep-road-kennedy-center-205104385.html In 2012, the band sold approximately 840,000 records (http://www.spin.com/articles/led-zeppelin-streaming-music-service-spotify-rdio-rhapsody-deezer)
My question: how many records has Led Zeppelin sold overall?
Edited March 27, 2013 by Geezer
Tatty73 15 posts
Pagesbow 8 posts
SuperDave 5 posts
fishhead
Location:Barrie, Ontario, Canada
I would love to know this too Geezer. Hopefully someone can drill down and get the answer. May need Steve Jones on this one?
GeorgeC
Location:The land of the Ice and Snow, and Maple Syrup
For a variety of reasons, worldwide record sales of any artist are hard to tally with precision.
Since the band's work is and was released by a US label, you can take the reasonably accurate RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) figures for US sales and expand from there. The numbers I have offered in LZ FAQ are between 250 and 300 million records, tapes, and discs sold around the planet.
Upon announcing the ECHO award in late January, the press materials handed out to journalists cited a figure of 200 million copies. I must admit it's a question that has interested me, I just haven't had the time to sift through the available literature, I think an acceptable figure could be compiled with the existing materials. First resources that come to mind of course are wikipedia, I have in mind statistics of all time record sales and I do recall seeing Michael Jackson on top of those and Céline Dion, for some reason, not very far behind and I think also the Scorpions, I apologise for the innacuracy of this, I'm reconstructing everything from memory, but what I did want to say is that it'd be an interesting task to compile such data, a good approach could be aggregating the individual data for each of the albums.
I read it's closer to 350-400 million worldwide. They sold ALOT. Biggest and best rock band ever. Jones said in Germany during Celebraton Day promo's that he still makes so much off Zep royalties to this day that he could never spend it all. Only time I heard Jones give some info on the Zep money legacy.
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Thanks for replying. I believe that the band has sold up to 250M records. I love that Page biography, by the way. Great work.
I read it's closer to 350-400 million worldwide.
I don't think so. 400M is a bit too stretched out. Edited April 8, 2013 by Geezer
Some interesting stats I've come across with.
1- The Beatles: 480,000,000
Albums – 350,000,000
Physical Singles – 110,000,000
Digital downloads – 15,000,000
Music Videos – 4,000,000
2- The Rolling Stones: 285,000,000
Physical Singles – 70,000,000
Music Videos – 5,000,0000
3- Queen: 260,000,000
Music Videos – 12,000,000
4- Pink Floyd: 235,000,000
Physical Singles – 8,000,000
5- U2: 219,000,000
6- Bee Gees: 203,000,000
Digital downloads – 5,000,000
7- Led Zeppelin: 191,000,000
8- Eagles: 191,000,000
9- Abba: 190,000,000
10- AC/DC: 173,000,000
Digital downloads – 0
Fleetwood Mac: 147,000,000
Beach Boys: 147,000,000
Edited April 8, 2013 by Geezer
ZEPFAN17
Great question and great thread,Its interesting seeing the breakdown of how well each band did.
Great Sombreo
Location:Prescott, AZ
I find this hard to believe that Led Zep is number 7? And I'm not saying this as one of these forums deranged members. The Beatles are number one in sales, etc. true. But In the not to distant past, it was reported that Led Zep had just passed Elvis (who is not on the list here) in all time record sales, which puts Led Zep at number 2 of course. Where was this list from?
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4051176#p4051176
I've been told that the list was compiled by an "expert". By the way, where did you read that Zeppelin passed Elvis in record sales? I don't think that's necessarily true.
This list has them 5th....
Artist Country of origin Period active Release-year of first charted record Genre Total certified units
(from available markets)[Notes] Claimed sales The Beatles United Kingdom 1960–1974[4] 1962[4]Rock / Pop[4]
Total available certified units: 250 million[show]
600 million[26][27]Elvis Presley United States 1954–1977[28] 1954[28]Rock and roll / Pop /Country[28]
Total available certified units: 203.3 million[show]
600 million[31]
500 million[32]Michael Jackson[Note 2] United States 1964–2009[33] 1971[33] Pop / Rock / Dance /R&B[33]
400 million[41][42]
300 million[44][45]Madonna United States 1979–present[46] 1982[46] Pop / Rock / Dance[46]
275 million[49][50]Led Zeppelin United Kingdom 1968–1980[51] 1969[51] Hard rock / Heavy metal[51]
The column for Certified Sales above includes markets, the databases of which contain certifications representing figures of 100,000 and more.
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In America alone, Zep are (apparently) fourth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists_in_the_United_States
Number Name Nationality Years Active Genre Certification
in millions 1 The Beatles UK 60s Rock / Pop 177 2 Elvis Presley U.S. 50s-70s Rock and roll / Pop / Country / Gospel 134.5 3 Garth Brooks U.S. 80s-10s Country 128 4 Led Zeppelin UK 60s-80s Hard rock / Heavy Metal / Blues rock / Folk rock 111.5 5 Eagles U.S. 70s-10s Rock / Country rock 100 6 Billy Joel U.S. 70s-00s Rock 81.5 7 Pink Floyd UK 60s-90s Progressive rock / Psychedelic rock / Space rock 74.5 8 Elton John UK 60s-10s Pop / Rock 72 9 Barbra Streisand U.S. 60s-10s Pop 71.5 AC/DC Australia/UK 70s-10s Hard rock 71.5 11 Michael Jackson U.S. 70s-00s Pop / R&B / Rock / Soul / Dance 70.5
fenderbass
Location:The 12th Planet
the celebration dvd says over 300 million records sold . that should be a good answer
Aspensound
Location:Corner of the alley and the street
Ditto, that must be from good source.
It was reported on a radio station in FL.
Zeppelin hasn't surpassed Elvis in sales. Zeppelin has up to 140M certified sales and Elvis has up to 205M certified sales. Edited April 19, 2013 by Geezer
The RIAA has certified 111.5 million in U.S. ranking them 4th, however this number hasn't moved in about 6 years , which i believe an inventory has not been taken in quite a while. How it's updated etc., i have no idea
MonkeyOnMyBack
Location:Winter Park, FL
Madonna??? Good lord.
Led Zeppelin II has sold 2.45 million copies in the US since 1991.
Edited April 27, 2013 by Geezer
You really should check out the Led Zeppelin thread on ukmix http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=28054 It is not official, but a hell of a lot of work has gone into tracking down various information from Music Trade Magazines, Recording Associations etc and also using other artists known sales to determine ball park figures for Led Zeppelin.
I personally think they are in the range of 150m to 160m albums worldwide. USA is completely out on it's own for the band, they are not as big anywhere else as here. Breaking down each album to one unit, unlike the RIAA, I believe they are either just shy of 100m US sales or just over. I'd say the next biggest territory is either the UK or Canada, I don't know much about Canada, but in the UK they are around 10m, I used to work for the MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society) and have seen shipment figures for all Led Zeppelin albums from 1997 onwards, they shipped around 4.5m between 1997-2013, LZIV shipped around 550k alone in this period. France is around 4.5m-5m Germany about the same maybe slightly more.
The 200m let alone 300m is just not possible if counting every album as 1 unit, 200m could maybe be achieved if you multiply multi disc sets, but there is just no way possible to get to 300m.
Edited July 2, 2013 by Tatty73
I've done the research and I think they've sold 180-190 million records (albums, singles, DVDs).
They have actually Soundscanned over 25m since Soundscans inception in May 1991. http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-dec-16-2012-albums-one-direction-160909600.html Although in it's early days Soundscan did not have 100% coverage, so some retailers were untracked and there are also things such as One Stops that (to this day) do not report sales to Soundscan, on top of this there would also be shipments from Music Club sales.
SoundScan has always had more than 90% coverage, and Zep has never been a big seller in Music Club sales, so I think SoundScan's report that they've sold 25+ million albums from May 1991 to December 2012 is as accurate as it gets.
Edited July 2, 2013 by Geezer
I know all of that stuff. I'm actually registered on UKMix.
SoundScan has always had more than 90% coverage, and Zep has never been a big seller in Music Club sales, so I think SoundScan report that they've sold 25+ million albums from May 1991 to December 2012 is as accurate as it gets.
Who are you on UKMIX, I am Jimmypages59?
Where are you getting your information from about Music Club sales? I believe they were a great seller through Music Clubs and Military Bases, and the allowance of Music Club Freebies and Military Base Sales by RIAA, to go towards certification, is the main reason for the Huge Certification rises in the 1990's.
Nice to see you over here.
I thought someone over there told me Zep never was a big seller through music clubs.
This is a very informative article.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-led-zep-road-kennedy-center-205104385.html

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You can't 'feel' race, but can you 'feel' female? On Rachel Dolezal, Caitlyn Jenner, and unspeakable questions
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by Meghan Murphy
I think I can safely assume most of us have, at this point, followed the story of Rachel Dolezal, the former President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane and a white woman who claimed to be black.
The reasons behind her choice to represent herself as a black woman, as an adult, are not entirely clear — some have speculated that she suffers from mental illness, that she has some kind of addiction to victimhood, is a compulsive liar, or is suffering from body dysmorphic disorder. At Al Jazeera, Jennifer Wilson wonders if, perhaps, Dolezal felt the pull of identity politics, that is the idea that one must have personal experience with any given issue or culture in order to speak to it, have an opinion on it, or be an expert in the field:
…one must wonder whether Dolezal, despite her decades of work advocating for black women's rights and racial equality, felt that she would never be taken seriously discussing black feminism if she was known as just some white girl from Montana.
Whatever the reasons, the widespread outrage at the idea of a white woman posing as a black woman, as though race is a performance or a costume one puts on or takes off, is wholly justified. Dolezal's deception granted her positions of power that could and should have gone to actual black women, in a community where few opportunities for women of colour are available and where a history of discrimination and segregation is ever-present.
Jenée Desmond-Harris writes, for Vox:
What Dolezal is accused of is more than just the basis of a thought exercise about race. Many people are deeply offended by the idea that someone whose family suffered none of the horrifying systemic racism African Americans endure would seem to so gleefully immerse herself in and enjoy the trappings of black culture.
For members of an oppressed group who have suffered and continue to suffer without the option of simply identifying their way out of marginalization, the choice to adopt the identity of a member that group displays a deep lack of understanding of systemic oppression.
Alicia Waters explains, for The Guardian:
If blackness can simply be worn or performed, then every white woman with a weave and a cause, every white girl with a snap and a little attitude, can supplant the lived experiences of what it is to become a black woman: the journey of discrimination, the camaraderie of sisterhood, discovering the deep sense of responsibility and weight of the world, and ultimately finding the inner strength and acceptance that can only be built through struggle.
Rachel Dolezal may have perfected her performance of black womanhood, and she may be connected to black communities and feel an affinity with the styles and cultural innovations of black people. But the black identity cannot be put on like a pair of shoes. Our external differences from the white majority might be how others categorize us as black, but it's the thread of our diverse lived experiences that make us black women.
Both people of colour and women are othered in a society that positions the white man as both neutral and the default human to which all the rest are compared to, institutionalizing a hierarchy.
Because of this reality, as well as because some of the language Dolezal uses to describe her self-identification is similar to that used by some transgender people, it didn't take long before the comparisons between Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner began.
On TODAY, Dolezal told Matt Lauer that her "self-identification with the black experience" began when she was a very young child. "My life has been one of survival," she said. "And the decisions I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive."
Dolezal believes herself to be black, despite having lived most of her life as a white woman and Jenner believes she has "a female brain," but moved through the world for 60-odd years as a white man. Jenner says she first began to try on women's clothing when she was about 8 years old and said to Diane Sawyer that, while the two of them may not share all the same "parts," what they had in common was that they both "identify as female."
"I'm not doing this to be interesting. I'm doing this to live," he told Vanity Fair.
Now, race and gender are not the same thing. On CBC's The Current, Nikki Khanna explained that, while race is a social construct, we understand it to be based on heritage, ancestry, as well as physical appearance. It is, in part, because gender is not seen as something one inherits, that it is viewed as more "fluid" than race. Both may be cultural constructs, but they are constructs that ensure the maintenance of oppressive hierarchies and have material consequences that cannot be escaped as easily and some might like to believe.
Therefore, the question of identity and what it means to take on the identity of a member of an oppressed group, despite context for said membership, seems an obvious one to think about in both cases. Beyond that, it's hard to miss the similarities in Jenner and Dolezal's assessments of their own identities and the discourse surrounding both.
Whether accidentally or intentionally, Waters' analysis outlines some of the questions many have about certain discourse around Jenner's narrative:
Dolezal managed to put on an identity – that of a black woman – in a way that renders invisible the experiences that actually forged for us our identities as black women. She presented to the world the trappings of black womanhood without the burden of having to have lived them for most of her life.
Can the same be said of Jenner? She has not, after all, had any of the experiences women have that make us women, in this world. She hasn't lived as a woman for most of her life. What is "camaraderie of sisterhood" built on, if not solidarity with women who've shared in your struggles?
While I don't believe any of us (even scientists) fully understand transgenderism, because masculinity and femininity are categories males and females are forced into, the fact that transgender people exist is unsurprising. Many cultures recognize a "third gender" and, in fact, the gender binary is not natural or something that feels comfortable for most people. Rather, it is hugely restrictive. Women and men alike perform masculinity and femininity yet I doubt any of us absolutely relate to either category. These performances are learned and we engage in them for our own survival, as well as because it is what we know and have known our whole lives. People like to claim that girls gravitate towards dolls and boys towards trucks or that women are "naturally" more nurturing than men, thereby "proving" a "female" or "male" brain exist, but this has been disproven time and time again. We have no idea what a world without gender roles would look like, though feminists have been working towards one for some time.
All that said, gender is not, simply, a performance. It isn't something we have the ability to escape. Women cannot simply "perform" differently in order to escape their place in the hierarchy. We cannot choose to escape the tyranny of male violence and power. When we talk about gender as "fluid," we fail to acknowledge the material reality of women in a patriarchy.
At Huffington Post, Zeba Blay argues that what Dolezal did "plays into racial stereotypes and perpetuates the false idea that it is possible to 'feel' a race." While Jenner may have transitioned for her own survival, the notion that one can "feel female" remains problematic for similar reasons that the idea of "feeling" a race is. It perpetuates the stereotype that femininity is something that exists deep within us — in our souls and minds. If it didn't, to say that one "feels female" would mean nothing but "feeling human" or "feeling like a human that has female body parts."
The alternate argument would be that both race and gender are simply superficial qualities achieved through synthetic interventions like plastic surgery, bronzer, a wig, or a weave.
The very least we should be able to admit to is that we are in a bit of a pickle as far as the discourse surrounding these two individuals go.
Beyond the question of a "female brain" or a "male brain" is the larger one of social categories and hierarchies that oppress entire groups of people. I cannot, for example, simply identify my way into the upper class. I also cannot simply choose to start living as an Indigenous woman. The context for my existence, history, and life experience is attached to the fact that I was born a working class white female in Canada.
So it's difficult, when we see race and class as categories that one cannot simply identify our way in and out of, to know what to make of someone like Jenner, who lived her whole life as a rich, white man, until recently. She may believe she felt like a woman on the inside and will likely learn what it is like to move about as a woman, now, but she was treated and socialized, for her whole life, as a man with a great deal of privilege.
When people say, of Dolezal,
[She] passed for black for a number of years, but she cannot undo her past. She was born into a white family, grew up as a white child, attended Howard University as a white woman. She can't erase—or re-race—all those years that she experienced the world as a white girl and woman.
I wonder whether they would say the same of Jenner? Can she "undo her past?"
Beyond that, the question of what "feeling female" means remains. It might, arguably, make more sense to say that one does not "feel" like a man, as defined by the gender binary, than to reinforce the idea of brain sex by saying one "feels like a woman on the inside."
To be clear, I have little interest in challenging Jenner's sense of self, chosen name, or how she chooses to present herself or live her life. I am not against transition if it makes a person feel happy or feel more comfortable. I do not wish for anyone to suffer or be forced to live in a way that makes them deeply unhappy. I also acknowledge that I have no idea what it is like to be transgender. From what I gather and from what I guess, it is hard. Transgender people are subjected to abuse, violence, and discrimination and suffer in ways no one should. I can't say what it means to be transgender because it is apparent that various transgender people have different experiences and understandings of what being transgender means to them.
That said, I asked my friend and ally, Aoife Emily Hart, who is white and identifies as a transwoman, what it means to her. She said, "Being a transwoman isn't about being 'female' as an essential sex, but is a way of recalibrating my body and social presentation to soothe both the unbearable agony of sex dysphoria and to enable my personality to emerge. I was born male, medically and socially transitioned to a transwoman, and now live happily." She adds that, for her, transition was never about being a woman. "It was about being me, Aoife."
Jaqueline Sephora Andrews, a black transwoman, told me, "I really can't say that I always felt like a woman because I really don't know what it means to 'feel like a woman.' I have had wishes of being a woman, and it did, at one time, cause severe depression. Even now, honestly, it still is a wish, but I still accept my biology." She, like Aoife, says she suffers from sex dysphoria.
While I may not know what being trans is like, on a personal level, I do know is what it's like to be a woman. The reason I know what this is like is not because of some innate sense — because of a feminine essence or feeling that exists inside me — but because I know what it is like to be treated like a girl, then a woman, from birth. Because I was told I was female and what that entailed. I am aware that the way I move around in this world has been shaped by socialization in a patriarchy. I know how I have been treated by men because I am a woman. I know that I learned being pretty and thin is the most important thing and that I should desire marriage and children. I learned how not to take up space, physically and in all other ways. I learned how to flirt, engage with, and relate to men, as a woman. I learned to be careful not to hurt or offend others and that to ask for what I want or to say what I really think is not an attractive quality for me to display. I know what it's like to feel looked-at, to feel afraid in public (and private) spaces, and a myriad of other things, many of which I'm likely not even fully conscious of. But all of this was learned over time. When I was a young child, I played with trucks, wore sneakers, hated pink, and had short hair. I did not desire "femininity" until I learned I should.
There is no need to compete at the game of who-is-most-oppressed with regard to these issues; there is a great deal of oppression and suffering in this world, whether it be through patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, or capitalism — enough to go around, you might say. Certainly we should be able to acknowledge that sexism, homophobia, racism, classism, and transphobia all hurt people, but also acknowledge and understand that women's particular experiences in this world are shaped by a particular kind of oppression that begins the moment we emerge from the womb and that this oppression is not "natural." We are not born neutral. Even the women I know who intentionally avoid traditional displays of femininity cannot escape the oppressive confines of gender. Certainly the political category of "woman" matters for these reasons.
At the same time, it matters to be trans in a world that has created a binary wherein there is only "masculine" or "feminine." That room must exist in between and outside those categories is necessary if we ever dream of living outside their confines. What I'm asking is not that the suffering and real lives of transgender people be ignored, but that we acknowledge that context, history, and socialization are real and also matter. That when little girls are taught to be pretty and polite, to not take up space, to spend their lives on a diet, to be desirable but also that they will be punished through that desirability, those experiences matter and happen to us because we are born female. That we learn to understand our sexualities only in relation to what men want matters. That we learn our bodies are not ours, but public commodities, matters. That we learn our boundaries are "rude" and that they will be violated matters. That we must fear those we depend on (or even love) for our survival matters. That we learn to put ourselves last and to "sit down and shut up" matters. That we learn solidarity with men will get us further than solidarity with women matters. We aren't fighting against trans people, we are fighting for our lives and the right to speak about our lives, bodies, history, and oppression, as a class. We are also fighting against the notion that either femininity or masculinity are innate parts of our beings, an idea that reinforces male power and female subordination.
When Jenner — a wealthy, white Republican — came out as Caitlyn, the pressure women felt to embrace her sexualized, objectified performance of femininity as something vaguely liberating and empowering was hard to swallow for many of us. Jenner likely has suffered in ways that I cannot understand, but I and my feminist sisters who were raised and socialized as women and are fighting against the very notions of femininity we are told to celebrate have suffered because of the ways Jenner's (and, of course, many celebrity women's) image is being presented and in ways I'm not sure she understands. Simply, femininity and objectification aren't "good" for women.
I don't have all the answers to many of the questions I and others are asking with regard to connections between Rachel Dolezal's cooptation of blackness, as a white woman, and Jenner's new identity. But surely those of us who were born and raised as female have the right to define and discuss that experience and our movement, as we have done for over a century now, as we see fit. While I am happy to fight alongside transgender and male allies to end male violence and misogyny, I am less happy to be told what it is, in this fight, I should celebrate as liberatory and even less happy to be told what defines womanhood by someone who only just chose to start living as a woman now, at 65. Her gender identity was kept secret, which is something I imagine would feel torturous, but that does not erase male privilege and does not translate to being socialized and oppressed as a woman. That fact, without making any arguments for or against Jenner's chosen identity or feelings about who she truly is, matters when it comes to talking about womanhood and what it means to be a woman in a patriarchy and to have femininity forced upon you from birth.
I want people to be free to be who they are and to feel happy in their own skin. This is why I choose not to dispute how individual trans people want to live. But I also want to be able to fight back against a system that says I am less-than because I was born female. Not to imagine that reality out of existence by pretending gender socialization isn't real and a primary way in which women are systemically oppressed, throughout their lives. I also don't want to romanticize and glorify femininity and worry that narratives like Jenner's do just that.
The fact that Dolezal felt all she needed to do to be "black" was to get a perm and a tan and to begin identifying as part of the black community, as though history and social contexts that maintain and perpetuate systemic racism don't factor in, and that she thinks by choosing to identify as black makes it so, begs a number of questions. If we acknowledge that women are an oppressed group, under patriarchy, some of these same questions we are asking about Dolezal come up, with regard to folks like Jenner.
Identity can be an individual thing. But systemic oppression, whether it be through race, class, or gender, is not simply about individual feelings or how one chooses to present or express themselves out in the world. It is not a personal matter or a personal choice. And as complex as these issues are and as much as I struggle with them, myself, this is something that must be acknowledged within political movements.
The way in which the political and activist landscape has been overtaken by identity politics, by which I mean both that we tell one another we have no right to speak to particular issues unless we have direct experience with whatever it is we are commenting on (i.e. "You may not have an opinion about the sex industry unless you identify as a sex worker") as well as the trend of individualizing absolutely every experience and obsessing over our own personal feelings above all else (for example, "Taking sexy selfies makes me feel empowered, ergo self-objectifying is empowering because I feel it and because I say so") has had a detrimental impact on movements, particularly the feminist movement.
If gender identity is an individual, personal thing, as we are told, is gendered oppression no longer a social issue but rather a malleable choice?
In a scene from Orange is the New Black, Sophia, played by Laverne Cox, speaks with her son, Michael.
We are not simply individuals floating around in personal bubbles among other individuals. Society is real and so are systems of power. Both must be acknowledged in order for us to confront them.
If "the black identity cannot be put on like a pair of shoes," can womanhood?
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There are several benefits to doing online yoga videos. We list them here.
Learning online really is no big deal. All it calls for is a little will power and determination and you can effortlessly pick up the basics. The key is practice.
It's important to note that should you have a known health condition, you need to be aware of it and then look for any specific yoga poses or routines that could help. However, if your condition is severe, it's always advisable to seek the opinion of your doctor or physician.
Apart from that, learning yoga postures via online yoga videos, meditation, and relevant breathing exercises is super simple. If you do have any doubt, try visiting a yoga studio once or twice just to see how they are inclined to perform the different Asanas.
The first benefit of practising yoga online through Lily Fit is the ease of availability. These days, all it takes is the sheer desire and an internet connection. Gone are the days of having to get dressed up and travel great distances to find the perfect guru in order to learn yoga.
Now you can apply yourself and learn everything you need to know about the practice of yoga from the comfort of your own home, saving a good deal of time and money. This is an excellent option for people who live in areas where yoga instruction and group classes are few and far between. It's also great for people who tend to travel a lot and can't commit to specific classes at set times. When you're learning yoga online, time and location don't matter.
Speaking of scheduling, learning yoga online offers fantastic flexibility that gym classes just can't match. You can fit the practice into your schedule, whether it is 2PM or 2AM. Online yoga can fit effortlessly into your existing schedule, making it perfect for busy working people, stay at home parents, and anyone else that already has a schedule that cannot be interrupted.
A third benefit to learning yoga online is that the atmosphere promises a more rounded educational experience. In days gone by, people would learn under their local yoga instructors and would have to trust that they were learning everything they needed to know.
However, with today's online courses, students are guaranteed that they will cover all they need to know when it comes to application, technique, and philosophy. This is a far more standardised approach and a big improvement on older methods.
Finally, learning yoga online makes learning the poses and techniques the sole focus. Often students feel like they've done their bit just by showing up to a class and they put a lot of pressure on the instructor to impart their knowledge without putting in too much work. Online yoga does away with that mind-set. As an online yoga student, you will enjoy a sense of ownership over your own experience.
Yoga is deeply personal, so having a solid inner understanding, right from the beginning, is something that is sure to benefit you for the rest of your life. While others may try to teach you a bit of yoga here and there, it's up to you learn and apply it and make it a part of your lifestyle.


While researching material for this blog I came across this informative article which explains thirty traits of an empath. If you suspect you are one, I highly suggest giving this a read.
In 1999, I found out I was an empath after enrolling into the Polarity Healing Arts School in Topanga CA. In one of our first classes, the teacher performed a table demonstration on a student. This man had grown up in a war environment and as a child had been subjected to random bombings and attacks. This childhood trauma was buried in his system. The teacher was able to locate the energy of his trauma by tuning into his para sympathetic nervous system. The teacher asked those of us watching, how we were doing.
Tears were streaming down my face and when I described how I'd suddenly become emotional, the man yelled at me saying he didn't want me to pity him. Yet, when I tuned in to see where the emotion was coming from, I understood it to be a reaction from his system to mine; triggered by my own childhood experiences. It had nothing to do with me pitying him.
This initial experience was a pivotal revelation, motivating me to learn how to master my own empathic nature and not be a victim of it. In my healing practice, which I've developed over a period of sixteen years, I'm able to use my empathy constructively, in order to go to unknown places to reveal and help heal unconscious wounds. This means locating past, ancestral, other lives or present wounds. Once the session is over I detach from my client with the understanding of what is mine and what's theirs.
Empaths make excellent healers yet many pay a heavy price. By not being 'trained', empathic healers can quickly become overwhelmed and sometimes physically ill by taking on the energy of their clients. Being grounded, aligned, neutral and healthy is essential for empaths when facilitating sessions.
In my practice, I screen potential clients to decide if it's in our highest good to work together. My methods are extremely unorthodox, and for those who don't believe in the effectiveness of my work, as the practitioner, it can have a negative impact. Sometimes it happens, that when after seeing a client who is skeptical, I become debilitated. It's as if my system experiences a short circuit and the session 'back fires'. This happened to me recently and I was out for two weeks with chronic back pain. Needless to say it was a strong reminder for me to take my self care seriously. This means regular clearings, sessions from other practitioners, time off and setting a clear intention in having a healthy reciprocal relationship with my clients.


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A new bacterium found in RMS Titanic
An interesting news article was published today in The Chronicle Herald. Researchers at Dalhousie University discovered a novel bacterium, BH1, isolated from rusticle specimens taken from the RMS Titanic, and have deposited the culture with the ATCC in Manassas, Virginia.
While it is not available for distribution to the community yet, an analysis of its known gene sequence data indicates that it belongs to a category of bacteria called Halomonas. Because Halomonas species are typically halophiles, they are usually found in water sources with high salinity levels, such as the Dead Sea and even within the frigid waters of Antarctica. Halomonas can also inhabit deep-sea sediment, deep-sea waters affected by hydrothermal plumes, and hydrothermal vent fluids.
BH1's exact "biocorrosive ability" is not clear yet. However, discovery of BH1 provides a tool for comparison and aids in identifying the potential microbes within the communities that contribute to the overall biocorrosion process(es).
The full article can be found at http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/497160.html
Stalking the Wild FeOB
March 11, 2006. It was a dark and stormy night. No, that's a lie. It was a sunny morning, calm, and unusually warm for mid-March.
Six of us met at Tall Timbers Marina, loaded dive gear into the IMH research boat Roper, and set forth upon the mighty and beautiful Potomac River to hunt the elusive iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) on a steel shipwreck near the Piney Point oil terminal.
The FeOB is a nasty little beast. It eats shipwrecks — but we were ready for it, armed with sample tubes and collectors.
Our fearless team included Dr. Susan Langley, the Maryland state underwater archaeologist; Project Chief Scientist Todd Plaia, a microbiologist from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a non-profit biological research institution in Manassas, Virginia; Brian McMillan and Ted White, volunteer divers from Adventure Scuba in Chantilly, Virginia; and Dr. Richard V. Ducey and David Howe, IMH volunteers.
The wreck may be part of the tank barge STC 410 which exploded at the terminal on December 20, 1986, while discharging a cargo of JP-4 jet fuel for Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Nicknamed "the Puzzle Pile," the wreck stands 19 feet tall in 60 feet of water. It was found in 2002 by the NOAA survey vessel Bay Hydrographer, and consists of a confused jumble of heavy steel plates and pipes.
We "live-boated" the dives. Susan and Dave stayed dry to handle the boat and marker buoys and to tend the divers as they cheated death for science.
The first two sets of dives were made in moderate current on a flood tide. We missed the wreck both times, probably because the marker buoy dragged despite two 10-pound mushroom anchors.
The third set of dives was successful. Brian and Ted made the first dive of that set. They reconnoitered the site, tied and blew a small lift bag on the wreck as a second marker, and collected samples of ambient water and existing rust on the structure. After they surfaced, Todd and Rick made the second dive and placed six FeOB collectors on the site. Each collector carries three small plates of a known alloy of new iron. They will be recovered and analyzed after a measured period of immersion — whenever Todd says and the weather allows.
The water salinity was determined by a refractometer to be 15 parts per thousand, about half the typical salinity of seawater. The water temperature was 46° F (7.8° C) on the surface. Visibility was typical for the Potomac: several feet on the surface, and several inches near the bottom.
Analysis of the samples will take some time. We will post the results. Still, it was an excellent start to the 2006 diving season. Six hours on the water, Todd got what he wanted, and everyone who wanted to get wet got wet.
IMH Announces FeOB Research Project
IMH is working with American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) of Manassas,
Virginia, George Mason University, the Maryland Historical Trust, and the
Naval Historical Center, to study iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) on
Chesapeake shipwrecks. A copy of the research design will be posted on this site in the near future.


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Quick! This early Cyber Monday deal has taken £220 off a huge 4K Panasonic TV
By Alan Martin 28 November 2020
Huge 65-inch Panasonic drops to £679 in super Black Friday TV deal
(Image credit: Panasonic TX-65GX580BZ)
With coronavirus still keeping us Brits confined to our homes, having a big-screen TV has never felt more important. And as the Cyber Monday deals begin to mount up, here's a big screen TV that'll make the most of all the shows you'll be bingeing over Christmas.
The 65-inch Panasonic TX-65GX580BZ is just £679. It usually sells for £899, but this deal makes for a saving of £220.
Panasonic TX-65GX580BZ: was £899 now £679 @ Amazon
A 65-inch 4K TV without breaking the bank, the Panasonic TX-65GX580BZ wasn't bad value at £899, but is an absolute steal at £679. With a crisp 4K picture, and support for HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision, your shows will look fabulous whether you're kicking back with a 4K Blu-Ray or streaming from the built-in Netflix and Amazon Prime Video apps.
As well as being a whole lot of screen for your money, the TX-65GX580BZ supports HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision to ensure that you're fully immersed in whatever you're watching.
As well as Freeview Play with built-in BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 and My5, there's also streaming stalwarts Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube, so you won't exactly be short of content to consume.
If £679 is still a bit too rich for your blood, but you can't see yourself settling for a smaller screen, then it's worth turning your attention to John Lewis and the £499 Samsung UE65TU7100. It's a 2020 4K TV that usually sells for £619, saving you £120 for Cyber Monday.
Samsung UE65TU7100: was £619 now £499 @ John Lewis
A cheaper but still formidable option, this 65-inch 4K Samsung TV offers a crisp 4K image with support for HDR10. Plus, Samsung's Tizen OS is not short of streaming apps, with everything from Apple TV Plus to Now TV supported, you won't be short of things to watch for your bargain £499 cost of entry.View Deal
While there will clearly be cutbacks for a cheaper TV, the Samsung set still has a lot going for it, including HDR10 and support for smart assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant. And there's no shortage of streaming apps thanks to the widely supported Samsung Tizen operating system. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus, Now TV, BT Sport, Disney Plus – you name it, it's in there, meaning there won't be any need to get any additional HDMI-hogging streaming hardware.
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By Jimmy Carter
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I HAVE been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world. So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries.
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It is simply self-defeating for any community to discriminate against half its population. We need to challenge these self-serving and outdated attitudes and practices - as we are seeing in Iran where women are at the forefront of the battle for democracy and freedom.
Clementine Ford: Jimmy Carter was right
Carter's message: the fight continues
I understand, however, why many political leaders can be reluctant about stepping into this minefield. Religion, and tradition, are powerful and sensitive areas to challenge. But my fellow Elders and I, who come from many faiths and backgrounds, no longer need to worry about winning votes or avoiding controversy - and we are deeply committed to challenging injustice wherever we see it.
The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by former South African president Nelson Mandela, who offer their influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. We have decided to draw particular attention to the responsibility of religious and traditional leaders in ensuring equality and human rights and have recently published a statement that declares: "The justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, as if it were prescribed by a Higher Authority, is unacceptable."
We are calling on all leaders to challenge and change the harmful teachings and practices, no matter how ingrained, which justify discrimination against women. We ask, in particular, that leaders of all religions have the courage to acknowledge and emphasise the positive messages of dignity and equality that all the world's major faiths share.
The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures to justify the superiority of men owe more to time and place - and the determination of male leaders to hold onto their influence - than eternal truths. Similar biblical excerpts could be found to support the approval of slavery and the timid acquiescence to oppressive rulers.
I am also familiar with vivid descriptions in the same Scriptures in which women are revered as pre-eminent leaders. During the years of the early Christian church women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets. It wasn't until the fourth century that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant positions within the religious hierarchy.
The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world. This is in clear violation not just of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, Moses and the prophets, Muhammad, and founders of other great religions - all of whom have called for proper and equitable treatment of all the children of God. It is time we had the courage to challenge these views.


What Makes a First-Time CEO Vulnerable?
In many respects, this should be expected given the career path of a vast majority of CEOs. Many start their career in sales or operations. The salesperson learns how to generate sales, while the operations person learns how to reduce costs and become more efficient. Those who are good at selling or operating are often promoted to manager, where they learn how to manage both sales and costs, along with the added responsibility of learning how to lead others.
Many, if not all, typically attend courses on leadership, but few take a finance or accounting course. Prior to climbing to a CEO position, a manager's entire career is focused on the P&L. Since most companies don't make it a prerequisite to understand all the financial statements, the CEO candidate often only knows one half of the equation of what drives shareholder value. This is reinforced by the overwhelming bias toward discussing only earnings in the news media and in brokerage research reports.
By the time an executive is considered for the CEO position, there is an expectation that somehow they must understand what all the financial statements mean, including the balance sheet. It is the balance sheet that completes the puzzle on what drives shareholder value.
Consequently, as the executive makes the transition from a business unit leader to a first-time CEO, there is often a rude awakening that what they thought was "profit" was never a true measure of profit. The profit measure that they managed for so many years neglected to take into account the total cost of capital, which includes the cost of equity. This cost of equity represents shareholders' expectation of getting a return on the capital they've invested. Shareholders expect CEOs to invest their capital in assets that will generate a minimum return of profit greater than what they would have achieved in a similarly risky investment.
A first-time CEO, who is adept at negotiating capital budgets, has never been held accountable for generating a return on those assets. It is, therefore, critical that CEOs and boards ensure that a succession plan includes the appropriate financial training for rising stars, so that they not only understand the income statement, but also understand the balance sheet and the economic importance of capital investment, cash flow and how it drives shareholder value.
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Knowing how to drive shareholder value goes beyond taking a generic finance course. Knowing how to truly measure and make decisions that create value comes from "doing". Not unlike riding a bike, telling someone that the handle bars are for steering, the pedals propel the bike forward, and the seat is for sitting, doesn't mean someone will know how to ride a bike.
3) Coaching them in the field in real-time to solve real-life operating decisions that will impact the balance sheet and ultimately the value of their business. Like riding a bike, it requires practice, but by having a coach you can help minimize the scrapes and bruises while increasing the learning curve.
4) The final and most profound step in helping a manager know how to create value is by linking incentives, management practices and reporting toward generating a true measure of profit. This final step will not only create a deep bench of candidates that will know exactly what drives shareholder value on their first day as a CEO, but also will create a culture of ownership where they get to share in the value that they actually create.
Marwaan Karame :For more than 19 years, Marwaan Karame has been an adviser to CEOs and CFOs on how to create value through strategic and financial planning, capital structure, process improvement, cost reduction, pricing, incentives, and M&A transactions. Prior to joining Fortuna Advisors, he worked for DLJ/CSFB in Investment Banking, Stern Stewart & Co., Xerox, and his own company, IDG Capital Group and Economic Value Advisors.


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Biografia
È nato a Puerto del Rosario, da padre taiwanese e madre spagnola.

Carriera

Club
Ha iniziato a giocare in Spagna. Dal 2008 al 2010 milita nel , disputando la prima stagione in terza serie e quella successiva in quarta serie. Nel 2010, passa al , in terza serie. Nello stesso anno, si trasferisce all', in quarta serie. Sempre nello stesso anno, passa al , dove rimane per tre anni di seguito, prima di trasferirsi all', in quarta serie.

Nel 2016, si trasferisce in Cina, al , militante in massima serie. Qui vi rimane per due stagioni (2016 e 2017). Nel 2018, passa al , dove i primi due anni (2018 e 2019), gioca in seconda serie, e nel 2020 ha l'occasione di giocare, di nuovo, in massima serie. Per la stagione 2021, viene acquistato dal , formazione militante in seconda serie.

Nazionale
In possesso della doppia cittadinanza, taiwanese da parte del padre e spagnola da parte della madre, opta per la nazionale asiatica, con la quale debutta il 3 settembre 2015, in Iraq-Taipei Cinese (5-1), incontro valido per le qualificazioni al campionato mondiale di calcio 2018.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 13 febbraio 2021.

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale taiwanese

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TV ReviewsEntourageSeason 8
Entourage: "Home Sweet Home"
Steve Heisler
EntourageSeason 8
What is an episode of Entourage with a decent story, some real stakes, and a notable lack of boobs? I'm not quite sure—maybe this is all a dream Scott Caan's chin is having—but I do know it's not "bad." Sure, this is the show that started out as a legitimately entertaining skewer of the Hollywood lifestyle, morphed that skewer into a palm-shaped one for which to apply sufficient handjobs, then dropped the tool altogether and awaited death's sweet embrace, with boobs. All the while, though, it was clear Entourage was just shy of decentness; a few tweaks here, a few compelling storylines there, could have turned the show around. It didn't want to, though, and last season was like a "Movie Of The Week," broken up into half hour segments, and boobs.
Maybe Entourage finally has a sense of humor about itself, though, because a large part of "Home Sweet Home" involves Vince—fresh out of rehab where that one hot girl was like, "You're hot"—getting all hopped-up on a movie idea that involves the Chilean miners and their dog. "He's pitching a 'Movie Of The Week,' " Billy Walsh snarls at one point (or maybe it only sounds like he's always angry). The rest smartly focuses less on Vince's star power/career, and more on rebuilding the friendship his own MOV destroyed last season. In fact, Eric is pissed at Vince for not calling him about exiting rehab, and Vince is angry at E because he can't differentiate work and friendship. What is this, season two? It should have been—this is important shit that hasn't yet come out as succinctly for some reason.
Meanwhile, Drama frets over the house; Vince is coming home, and he doesn't want a single substance around, be it alcohol, pot, or something more intense (like BATH SALTS!!!). Turtle, other than slimming down slightly, is still just Turtle. He's still dating eye-bleed girl—oh, and you all thought I forgot about Heroes; think again! Mwa hahahahahahaha—and still slinging Avión…and still getting propositioned for threesomes. And by "still," I mean, "fuckin' Turtle." E is stressed about everything; Lloyd is stressed that everything will make Ari stressed. All told, things are pretty much the same.
There's one notable difference, though, and it has to do with Ari's marriage. In that, there isn't one. He spends the episode hanging out with his kid—who won't go to school until Ari comes home—then heads to the house to discuss some things with his ex-wife. But it turns out she's been seeing someone. (And why shouldn't she? She's gorgeous and wealthy.) And much like Jeremy Piven's real-life rejection(s), Ari Gold is left to face the fact that he no longer has a wife. But rather than act/yell up a storm/yell, Ari just slinks away—over to Vince's party and onto younger poon, much like Jeremy Piven himself. Heroes reference count: two.
There's a very somber air surrounding "Home Sweet Home", as evidenced by the fact that Vince can't even be happy with a busload of beautiful women, waiting to be transported to a movie star party like migrant laborers to a fence building…place. But you know, "somber" is at least different than previous Entourage's. Even when things have gotten bad, there's usually some sort of jolly news to bring things around; or, another option, the bad news came right at the end of an episode, and as soon as it sinks in, we cut right to credits. This time around, the episode had a decent build on its own, and set the tone for what'll hopefully be the most real-stakes-y season in Entourage history. Because geez, a show can not subsist on boobs alone. But what do I know? This is the eighth fuckin' season.
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Artsmark - Inspiring young people through the arts and culture.
At WGSG we are committed to the pursuit of excellence and supporting the development of our students to achieve their maximum potential in all aspects of life. We recognise that achievement can be measured in many forms and across all disciplines. The Artmark quality principles reflect our values, ethos and vision. Our motto of 'in pursuit of excellence' identifies our focus on resilience and character. We are committed to supporting all of our students to have the confidence to accept challenge, embrace change, celebrate diversity and accept that failure is a natural part of learning on the path to success and achievement. We are a community that celebrates success, achievement and effort alongside a belief that the right mindset makes anything possible. The arts are of equal value to all other areas of the curriculum in supporting the hopes and dreams of every student.
Silver Arts Award
Congratulations to the below students who have achieved the Silver Arts Award, a Level 2 qualification. The qualification has two units – Unit 1: arts practice and Unit 2: arts leadership. The Silver Award involves achieving an arts challenge, reviewing arts events, researching artists and arts organisations, and delivering an arts leadership project.
The students worked individually for their challenge improving their creative skills, from song writing to 3d clay portraiture, horse event photography to acrylic painting.
Most students ran a club for their leadership unit – art and ukulele clubs are still running. Some others worked with the visiting artist Clare McEwan to design a banner for the wall outside the Connell wing. They priced and pitched the idea and it may well be an ongoing project to celebrate the 60th year of WGSG next year.
All students worked incredibly hard and demonstrated great creative innovation, dedication and maturity – well done to you all. Laura B, Eloise H, Ella R, Sidney O Cristiana W of 10C, of Damilola O of 10B, Aayesako A of 9C, Jasmine B, Verity S, Charlotte H of 9A, Odie-Grace U, Maia Z, Isabelle S of 9B, Charlotte H 9H, Rubie L, Mica M of 9O.
Bronze Arts Award
Mrs O'Donnell would like us to join her in congratulating our Year 9 students who have successfully passed, and been awarded their Bronze Arts Award which was moderated by Trinity College, London. They will receive their certificates on return to school.
"The Arts Award students started their Bronze Award with me in Year 8, attending a lunchtime club. Arts Award is a nationally recognised qualification that supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through taking challenges in any art form. The global pandemic and lockdown, interrupted our plans to visit a gallery in person, and take part in an artist workshop. But, despite all of this, the students continued to work diligently over the summer holiday and on return to school in September to meet all four sections of the qualification. They managed to creatively problem solve any obstacles to completion of the award, through reflecting on virtual gallery exhibitions and sharing their skills with others remotely. I have been very impressed with their level of commitment and effort and am delighted to share the news that all ten students have deservingly passed the award". Mrs O'Donnell
Congratulations to;
Georgiana H
Ruby K
Mmesoma M
Thenujha N
Newisrael N
Dara O
Haleemat P
Connie S
Shobika S
Sophie S
'Trash to Treasure' Project & Gallery
Our Art Department welcomed local artist Wendy Smith into the school to work with a selected group of students in year 9 as part of the Artsmark project on the theme of 'Trash to Treasure'. This has been funded and organised by the Arts Council Bridge Organisation and Dartford Council as part of the Dartford Artsmark town.
This week they had two mornings to produce sculpture and installation pieces working with collected scrap materials. They worked in groups to generate ideas concerning the concepts of trash and effects on our world. The work included junk flowers, a turtle and a junk character entitled, "you are what you eat". Another sculpture was a textural 3D world and a contrasting sculpture of birds flying around a world. Others had a more abstract concept of the nature of trash including bottles filled with junk to be suspended and decaying branches with fabric draped from them. The girls responded in really thoughtful and creative ways and worked hard to complete their work within the time available.
On previous occasions they have developed drawing skills focussing on bold marker pen drawings of discarded junk items and Gelli printing - again using rubbish. This artwork will contribute to designs to go on dustbin lorries around Dartford.
There will be an exhibition of the work in the spring next year in Dartford by all the contributing schools.
As part of our Artsmark Award project students from WGSG collaborated with other local schools to create the new design for Dartford Borough Council Refuse Truck. Our students contributed gelli printing which has become the sky together with graphic line drawings of discarded objects and rubbish which were used for the impactful black and white Dartford town design. The truck has now been launched so keep an eye out for it around Dartford Town.
We were delighted when our school song, Unity was selected from very strong competition to be performed live at the SSAT National Conference in Birmingham last December. This is an extremely important event in the education calendar with national prominence and international representation. Very special congratulations go to Victoria, Marvel, Emily, Joyce, Danielle and Pelumi who were responsible for composing, recording and performing this wonderful song.
The audience feedback was overwhelming with comments including "I could listen to these brilliant girls all day" and "a beautiful performance with a message that resonates with the conference's theme & leadership". We couldn't have been more proud of them!
Pictured, the group at the recording studio and performing at the event in Birmingham
To see their performance please click below
PE Department Mural
The Changing rooms are having a mural painted by a creative group of year 9 students doing their Bronze Arts Award. The girls have consulted with the PE staff to design a mural to celebrate sports and cheer up the changing rooms. They started painting on Monday, and after another couple of hours after school on Wednesday have virtually completed one wall already. The design of silhouettes of sporting figures will continue around other walls in the changing room. The bright and pastel colours are to suggest movement and give a lively mood.
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Lots of beautiful and talented ladies have been discussed in our various articles.In this article, we will be looking into the life of one very special lady who has melted the hearts of fans the world over with her very delectable smile and vocal prowess. This article is centered on no other than the beautiful dua lipa.
Dua Lipa born 22 August 1995 is an English singer, songwriter, and model. Her musical career began at age 14 when she began covering songs by other artists on YouTube. In 2015, she was signed with Warner Music Group and released her first single soon after. In December 2016, a documentary about Lipa was commissioned by The Fader magazine, titled See in Blue. In January 2017, she won the EBBA Public Choice Award. Her self-titled debut studio album was released on 2 June 2017. The album spawned seven singles, including two UK top-10 singles "Be the One" and "IDGAF" and the UK number-one single "New Rules".
Lipa was born in London, to Albanian parents from Kosovo who had left Pristina in the 1990s. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, part-time, before moving to Kosovo with her family in 2008 lipa didn't attend college as she found her own path as a teenager. Dua Lipa is the oldest child of her parents Dukagjin and Anesa. Dua has younger brother Gjin and younger sister Rina who is a model and actress. Lipa grew up listening to her father, singer Dukagjin Lipa who was a member of an Albanian rock band called "Oda". Her given name means "love" in Albanian; it's a typical nature was cause for distaste in her youth, but she grew to "enjoy" it as it eliminated the need for a stage name. At the age of 14, her love for music grew as she began posting covers of her favorite songs by artists such as Pink and Nelly Furtado on YouTube. At the age of 15, she moved back to London with aspirations of becoming a singer. Shortly after, she began working as a model. In 2013, she starred in a television advertisement for The X Factor.
The British pop star Dua Lipa is still a relative newcomer, having just released her self-titled debut album in the summer of 2017, she and her musician boyfriend Paul Klein. Klein who makes up one-third of Los Angeles–based band LANY are undeniably in the running for music's most stylish new couple. With their matching long, lustrous hair and carefully coordinated outfits the casual red, white, and black ensembles that they recently sported to London's Ridley Road Market complement each other perfectly, they seem to have nailed the art of couple dressing in a matter of months. And though some of us may pine for matchy-matchy Canadian tuxedos à la Britney and Justin, Lipa and Klein are an exciting new addition to the long, storied history of hot musician lovers. In 2015, Dua Lipa began working on her debut album for Warner Music Group. In August 2015, she released her first single "New Love", produced by Emile Haynie and Andrew Wyatt. She released her second single "Be the One", in October 2015. "Be the One" achieved success across Europe, reaching number one in Belgium, Poland, and Slovakia, as well as charting within the top 10 in over 11 European territories. In Australia and New Zealand, the song became an airplay success, reaching numbers 6 and 20 respectively. Lipa describes her musical style as "dark pop". On 30 November 2015, she was revealed as one of the acts on the BBC Sound of 2016 long list. Her first tour in the UK and Europe began in January 2016. In November 2016, Lipa concluded her tour through Europe.
On 18 February 2016, Dua Lipa released her third single "Last Dance", followed by "Hotter than Hell" on 6 May. "Hotter than Hell" became a hit worldwide, especially in the UK, where it peaked at number 15. On 26 August, her fifth overall single "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)" was released, peaking at number 30 in the UK. It became the singer's first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number 72. "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)" also topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart] and reached number 23 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart.
In November 2016, lipa was featured in Sean Paul's track titled NO LIE. The song reached number 10 in the UK. In December 2016, In January 2017, Lipa released the single "Scared to Be Lonely" with Martin Garrix, reaching number 14 in the UK.
Her self-titled debut studio album was released on 2 June 2017. Its sixth single "New Rules", became Lipa's first number one in the UK. In doing so, it also became the first song in nearly two years by a female solo artist to reach the top in the UK since "Hello" by Adele in 2015. Her best selling single to date, the song has also charted in the top 10 in other territories, including number 2 in Australia and number 7 in Canada and United States, where it became her first top ten single. Dua Lipa performed at the Glastonbury Festival in June, pulling in one of the biggest audiences at the event. In December 2017, Lipa was named the most streamed woman of 2017 in the UK by Spotify. She had four singles reach the UK top 10 in 2017, with "Be the One", "Bridge over Troubled Water" (a charity single arranged by Simon Cowell for the families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in London), "New Rules" and "No Lie".
Dua lipa is worth a whopping 3,000,000 USD in the price of 2018, the British singer has a love for BMW cars. In February 2018 Lipa recorded a song called "High" with American DJ Whether in order to promote "Fifty Shades Freed" movie. The song was viewed by more than 1 million people on YouTube during first 24 hours.


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Critics of legal education raise two key questions about our scholarship: (1) How much value does it offer? And, (2) do law schools have to spend so much money to produce that value?
The answer to the second question is easy: No. We used to produce plenty of superb scholarship with typewriters and four-course teaching loads. Now that we have laptops, tablets, high-powered statistical software, and 24/7 online libraries, our productivity has leaped. Law schools could easily restore teaching loads to four courses a year while still facilitating plenty of good research. The resulting reduction in faculty size could help fund scholarships and reduce tuition.
The answer to the value question is harder. Do we mean immediate pay-off or long term influence? Do we care about value to judges, legislators, practicing attorneys, clients, teachers, students, or some other group? Does each article have to demonstrate value? Or do we recognize that trial and error is part of scholarship as well as other endeavors?
Those are difficult questions and they deserve a series of posts. For now, I'll limit my discussion to a recent paper by Jeffrey Harrison and Amy Mashburn, which has already provoked considerable commentary. I agree with some of Harrison and Mashburn's observations, but the empirical part of their paper goes badly astray. Without better method, their conclusions can't stand. In fact, as I note below, some of their findings seem at odds with their recommendations.
If Harrison and Mashburn had consulted this literature, they would have found some good guideposts for their own approach. Instead, the paper's method will make any social scientist cringe. There's a "control group" that is nothing of the sort, and the method used for choosing articles in that group is badly flawed.* There is little explanation of how they developed or applied their typology (written protocol? inter-rater agreement? training periods?). Harrison and Mashburn tell us only that the distinctions were "highly subjective," the lines were "difficult to draw," and "even a second analysis by the current researchers could result in a different count." Ouch.
Is it possible to make qualitative decisions about citation strength in a thoughtful, documented way? Absolutely. Here's an example of a recent study of citation types that articulates a rigorous method: Stefan Stremersch, et al., Unraveling Scientific Impact: Citation Types in Marketing Journals, 32 Int'l Journal of Research in Marketing 64 (2015). Harrison and Mashburn might choose a different design than previous scholars, but they need to develop their parameters, articulate them to others, and apply them in a controlled way.
Harrison and Mashburn conclude that most legal scholarship "is not regarded as useful." Even when a judge or scholar cites an article, they find, most of the cited articles "serve no useful function in helping the citing author advance or articulate a new idea, theory or insight." Application of this standard, however, leads to some troubling results.
That's true in a way, but this particular "description" didn't exist until Blume researched all of that state and federal law to create it. The court wanted to know the state of the law, and Blume provided the answer. This answer may not have "advance[d] . . . a new idea, theory or insight," but most cases don't require that level of theory. Disputes do require information about the existing state of the law and Blume assembled information that helped advance resolution of this dispute. Why isn't that a worthwhile type of influence?
I suspect that judges and practitioners appreciate the type of survey that Blume provided; analyzing the law of 40 jurisdictions requires both time and professional judgment. Blume, of course, did more than just survey the law: he also pointed out crevices and problems in the existing law. But dismissing a citation to the survey portion of his article seems contrary to the authors' desire to create scholarship that will be more useful.
A reworked method might well distinguish citations to descriptive/survey research from those that adopt a scholar's new theory. Asking scholars to limit their work to the latter, however, seems counter productive. A lot of people need to know what the law is, not just what it might be.
One statistic in the Harrison and Mashburn article blew me away. On page 25, they note that 73 out of 198 articles from their "top 100" group of journals were cited by courts. That's more than a third (36.9%) of the articles! I find that a phenomenally high citation rate. I know from personal experience that judges do pay attention to law review articles. When I clerked for Justice O'Connor, for example, she asked us to give her a shelf of law review articles for each of the bench memos we wrote. She didn't want just our summaries of the articles–she wanted the articles themselves.
But I never would have guessed that the judicial citation rate was as high as 36.9% for professional articles, even for journals from the top 100 schools. At least in judicial circles, there's a big drop-off between learning from an article and citing the article. Most judges try to keep their opinions lean, and there's no cultural pressure to cite scholarly works.
I'm not sure how to mesh the judicial citation statistic with the tone of Harrison and Mashburn's article. More than a third sounds like a high citation rate to me–as does the one quarter figure for journals in the 15-100 group.
Harrison and Mashburn urge critical debate over the value and funding of legal scholarship, and I back them all the way on that. I wrote this post in that spirit. As I note above, I don't think law schools need to spend as much money as they do to produce strong levels of excellent scholarship. I also applaud efforts to replace citation counting with more nuanced measures of scholarly value. But we need much stronger empirical work to examine claims like the ones advanced in this paper. Are Harrison and Mashburn right that most legal scholarship "is not regarded as useful"? I don't know, but I was put off by strong statements with weak empirical evidence.
* Harrison and Mashburn chose the first article from each volume. That's a textbook example of non-random selection: the first article in a volume almost certainly differs, on average, from other articles.
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law has a live webcast on July 9th at 12:30 pm eastern called "Creating a Law School e-Curriculum." The speaker will be Oliver R. Goodenough, a fellow at The Berkman Center and a Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School.
Legal practice and legal education both face disruptive change. Much of how and what we do as lawyers and how and what we have taught as legal educators is under scrutiny. Legal technology is an important factor in driving these challenges. Law schools reform their curriculums law and technology is an area that is ripe for expansion in our teaching. It also provides ample room for scholarly examination. Creating opportunities for learning how technology is shaping legal practice should be a priority for any school looking to provide a useful education for the lawyers of the present, let alone the future.
To watch the webcast, simply visit this page at 12:30 pm eastern on July 9th. If you're in Boston, the same page provides a form for you to RSVP to the luncheon.
A survey of law faculty salaries, conducted by the Society of American Law Teachers, suggests that the overwhelming majority of law schools offer summer stipends to at least some faculty. The reported stipends range from a low of $5,000 to a high of $25,000. Notably, those reports do not include any of the schools with the most highly compensated faculty; you won't find the summer salaries for schools like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, the University of Chicago, or Stanford on this list.
These summer stipends supplement salaries that already rank among the highest in the academy. They are also quite unusual in the academy; other university faculty do not receive summer research grants with the ease or regularity that law faculty do. Professors in other disciplines usually apply for outside grants if they want summer support. More often, they do without: they devote their summers to research even though they technically are unpaid during that time.
Why do law faculty need so much financial encouragement to produce research? Why aren't we encouraging our faculty to seek outside grants if they want that summer support? Summer research grants are wonderful bonuses, but they shouldn't be necessary to encourage research. People join the academy to research and teach, so that's what we should do.
A first step in reducing the cost of legal education would be to eliminate summer research grants for full professors. We could continue to award grants to junior faculty, who are seeking tenure and may bear their own student debts. For full professors, summer research grants seem like a luxury we can give up to help both our students and our institutions.