Few things help us truly understand an era quite like the music it produced. And while some hit songs are defined and shaped by the times that created them, others have lived on long beyond their heyday. Admit it, there's nothing quite like music from the 1970s. Here's a list of your favorite top one-hit wonders of the '70s, along with the wild stories that accompany their legendary tunes. So dust off those bellbottoms, say good night to your pet rock, and hop on your extremely uncomfortable water bed — let's take a journey back to the era of funk, disco, and rock and roll.
It's safe to say that there's no chance you haven't danced to this. It's simply an impossibility. But before funk one-hit wonders Wild Cherry conquered the charts in 1976 and made hips sway, they were a hard rockin' band that just couldn't catch a break.
The idea for the song came when they were playing at a club to a less than responsive audience. Someone shouted the now infamous line at them. Band frontman Rob Parissi was listening, and the idea stuck. All it took was a genre shift!
This one-hit wonder is just that special and widely known that you're bound to recognize it from the first two seconds. That's the mark of true songwriting gold. It features what is known in music as the 'Oriental riff,' instantly defining something as East Asian in the American imagination.
One-hit wonder singer Carl Douglas had a wildly successful hit with this 1974 single. It capitalized on the popularity of Hong Kong kung fu movies, whose greatest star, Bruce Lee, had just passed away. You can't really detect the accent, but Carl Douglas is from Jamaica.
Even if the oddly-named British band Mungo Jerry are remembered as one-hit wonders in music history, they're probably not too sad about it. After all, their debut single "In the Summertime", released in 1970, is one of the top singles of all time.
Snatching the top space on music charts around the world, it's been splashed all over film and television spots. But besides the carefree, almost goofy nature of the tune, there's one big request we have. Those intimidating mutton chops? Please don't try to bring that look back.
R&B crooner Frederick Knight wrote this tune, having in mind teens who were chitchatting on the phone as his inspiration. It was intended to be sung by singer Stacy Lattisaw, until she signed on with a different label. In came Anita Ward.
Anita Ward became a one-hit wonder as her 1979 version of the song snatched up the spot on Soul Singles charts and the Billboard Hot 100. Listeners interpreted its lyrics as being suggestive, which rubbed Anita the wrong way — her background was in the church.
This disco one-hit wonder has appeared in so many films, TV shows, and other pop culture references that it's practically dizzying. Cheryl Lynn's 1979 disco tune was enormously successful well beyond the era that created it. So what does she have in common with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross?
Several years before her song hit the airwaves, Cheryl Lynn had gained a major start in her music career by performing in the stage version of The Wiz. As her song climbed the charts, the film version with Jackson and Ross was just being released.
Orchestrated by master producer Sylvia Robinson, the impact that "Rapper's Delight" had on the music world is nothing short of earthshaking. This was rap music's introduction to the mainstream, exported from the streets of the Bronx. And it all began one fateful night in 1978.
Disco giants Chic were playing onstage in New York with Blondie and The Clash. In the middle of Chic's disco hit "Good Times", rapper Fab Five Freddy brought his pals and leaped onstage, and they started freestyling. The result is the one-hit wonder that began a whole new era of music.
Sure, "Afternoon Delight" has some lovely harmonies, but that's not why people took to it. The lyrics were naughty enough to get the point across the giggling listeners, but took enough poetic license (can we call it that?) that it was still radio-friendly.
It skyrocketed (get it?) to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 and the band even got its own show. The song received four Grammy nominations, but winning two of those Grammies couldn't resuscitate them. Apparently, the award Best New Artist has a career-killing reputation to it.
Today, you know it from lady's shaving razors commercials, and you know it from the Bananarama version. And if memory serves, you'll know the original version from 1970. But did you know the band that sings this ode to a Roman goddess (or…"godness"?) is Dutch?
If that accent sounds a bit peculiar, and if you noticed some of the pronunciation is a bit off, now you'll know why. This psychedelic song that bids farewell to the groove of the '60s shot to the top of the charts in nine countries.
With all due respect to Free, having just one hit single was probably not crushing for them. After all, they're one of the best-selling blues rock groups in Britain. They disbanded shortly after getting that hit single, but with a cool 20 million albums sold worldwide – no big deal!
They wrote it in the student union building on campus at Durham University in northern England. Free found incredible success at a ridiculously young age: the youngest member, bass player Andy Fraser, was just 17 years old when he and his band became one-hit wonders.
With such a positive, kindhearted message, you couldn't help but enjoy this 1970 hit. It appealed to listeners of a wide array of genres. After all, this was the Vietnam era, with turmoil back home and overseas. Listeners needed to hear those sweet words.
The Five Stairsteps may have been one-hit wonders, but they had something very unique about them that made them stand out from their peers. The entire band were all siblings, products of the Chicago soul scene. Singer Alohe would later leave the group for a very '70s reason: finding enlightenment.
That one sure brought us back. But just wait for these next nostalgia trips coming up ahead!
Have you ever had this song's simple chorus pop into your head while watching a magic show? Well, we certainly have. Pilot was Scotland's finest, and their hit sold almost one million copies. It was certified gold less than a year after having been released in 1974.
Though "Magic" climbed to #5 in the US, their next hit "January" was only a big deal in the UK. There's a chance you've heard this without even realizing it: the song took off once again in 2007 when it was used for a Pillsbury commercial!
This pained song, which certainly played in your head through all of your past breakups, is actually a cover. While it's by no means the first one of its kind, it was without a doubt the most memorable and the most commercially successful.
Scottish rock band Nazareth's power ballad made it to the Top 10 in the US. It also made #1 in Norway and the Netherlands. Lead singer Dan McCafferty squeezed every ounce of emotion he could out of the tune with his gritty yell over what's actually a fairly soft song.
Long before Gloria Estefan gave this tune a seriously spicy Cuban makeover, New York singer Vicki Sue Robinson had herself a big hit back in 1976. She toured the nation to promote her song, as it quickly ate up the disco charts at home and abroad.
This one-hit wonder singer didn't have any more chart toppers, but she certainly spent her time well. She backed up Irene Cara on the hit tune "Fame", and spent the 1980s working alongside such A-list artists as Cher and Michael Bolton. Not too shabby!
That opening guitar riff is just unforgettable. It's a song that has been number 1 three separate times through three separate artists, but the original one was from Norman Greenbaum. He says he saw Porter Waggoner singing gospel on TV, was inspired, and thought he could definitely do it.
He penned it in just 15 minutes and hey presto, a one-hit wonder was born. But the funniest part is the singer's own background. For a famous hippie ode to Jesus, Norman Greenbaum was actually raised in an Orthodox Jewish home!
The title says it all. In 1975, this weepy song was practically impossible to escape. Though the singer, Brazilian Morris Albert, would face copyright backlash for improvising on a tune written by French composer Loulou Gasté, the public didn't seem to mind.
"Feelings" has been covered across the ages by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Julio Iglesias. It's taken on its own life as one of the greatest ballads of the '70s. Nina Simone, playing it live at Montreux, remarked on how sad someone must be to have to write such lyrics.
Haven't seen your favorite '70s one-hit wonder on the list? Have no fear — it's right up ahead.
From the look of things, French singer Patrick Hernandez had quite the stage presence. With his big, bouncy hair, snappy suits, sassy hand gestures, and a penchant for dancing with a cane, it seemed he would have a big future in the business.
Despite his disco groove going to No. 1 on the charts in 1979, he was destined to become a one-hit wonder, but of his own accord. After his song's success, Hernandez opted to part ways with the music industry. Regardless, we're still dancing.
It's got that unforgettably simple but catchy three-chord riff that's in exact rhythm with the drums and bass, and we can't get enough. The top song of 1979 was an easy No. 1, and they had another single lined up called "Good Girls Don't." But then came the backlash.
The Knack had some serious haters who quelled their triumph. They were accused of being 'Beatles rip-offs', and people thought the song was creepy and referring to underaged girls. "San Francisco artist Hugh Brown launched a 'Knuke the Knack' campaign,' and the band was resigned to one-hit-wonder status.
With that glimmering, sunny, shimmering guitar reverb, we all remember this 1974 tune for all the wrong reasons. Once you pay a bit of attention to the lyrics, you realize it's actually a real bummer of a song. Why oh why does everything have to end?
It's actually a translation of French-language crooner Jacques Brel, whose original version was also, unsurprisingly, rather gloomy. Terry Jacks recorded the tune with his wife. So, this one-hit wonder was written by a Belgian, translated and reworked by an American, sang and popularized by a Canadian.
With its snide, almost taunting tone, "Video Killed the Radio Star" made the top of the singles charts in 16 different countries across the globe. Though it crushed the charts when it came out, this one-hit wonder had another reason for its longevity.
British New Wave group The Buggles covered this immensely popular tune, and their weird spacey video accompanying the 1979 single became the very first music video ever shown on MTV. Some overly sensitive viewers apparently thought it was overly violent because a television blows up in the clip.
What a scandalously good tune! And who but Billy Paul could make something so wrong sound so beautiful? Never has infidelity had so much soul to it. "Me and Mrs. Jones" closed out 1972 at No. 1 on the charts, and that was just the beginning.
The single was certified platinum, selling two million records. Billy Paul managed to snag a Grammy for his hit, and though he had other singles afterward, all were eclipsed by this one's success. Trivia time: younger generations will definitely remember Turk singing this one on Scrubs, repeatedly.
Did you find yourself singing along without even hearing the song? You'll definitely remember these next hits.
Sure, being crooner Pat Boone's daughter certainly gave her the right kind of boost. But this song, and Debby Boone's career, as a result, took on a life of their own. Nothing before it had spent so long at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
If you can recall, this song was originally from a film with the same title, starring the lip-syncing Didi Conn, who played Frenchie in Grease. Debby's 1977 cover won the Best New Artist Grammy, as well as an American Music Award.
Could this 1978 song be any more straightforward about its message? She likes going out, she likes partying and dancing, and she wants you to enjoy it just like her. Don't let her radically short, punk rock blonde hair fool you, because Alicia Bridges is a disco queen.
You can almost hear a sly wink in her saucy, full voice. Surprisingly, she's a reluctant hero of her genre. One-hit wonder Alicia Bridges didn't much care for disco, so she just wasn't interested when approached to do a full disco album.
First things first, because you know it's the first thing that popped into your head: that gruesome scene from Reservoir Dogs will forever influence the way we hear this 1973 one-hit wonder. But seriously, how can you not know this song?
Scotsmen Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan recorded it, debuting on Top of the Pops on the BBC in 1973. Behind the scenes, the tune featured the assistance of legendary songwriting pair Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the dynamic duo that had helped propel Elvis to stardom.
Some one-hit wonders are successful because of the atmosphere that created them, or a genre that was once popular. Then there's that rare song that breaks the mold. You know this song, your friends know this song, the entire world knows this song, and what's more, it never gets old.
It may not be entirely fair to label Don McLean a one-hit wonder, but his follow-up singles couldn't even touch the massive success of this epic tune. McLean proved that not only could a song over eight minutes become the stuff of legends, but that we could learn all the words.
Wipe away those tears, if you can. "Cat's in the Cradle" is that song that will make you tearfully call up your dad to remind him you love him. Its haunting lyrics mean that no matter what time of day you hear it, it will strike a chord in your heart.
Chapin's wife Sandy wrote the poem that inspired this 1974 hit, and it was about her first husband's relationship with his politician father. But as time went on, Harry Chapin came to realize he was expressing his own fears about his relationship with his son.
Tearing up from the memories? You'll definitely get a kick from these next songs.
If you want an incredible slice of home-cooked Americana, look no further. You can just feel the ghoulish flames licking off of the violins in this 1979 hit song, because there's such fast and furious fiddling, you'd swear they're on fire.
The song employs a classic story of a boy being dared to a fiddling match with the Devil himself, with his evil adversary being totally surprised. Most recently, a viral video featured a man playing in tune with a washing machine whose rhythm totally matches the song.
Modern audiences all know Minnie's daughter, funny gal and Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph. This sugary 1975 song was written to soothe her young daughter. Minnie had a formidable vocal talent as a coloratura soprano, but only gave us a taste of it here.
Written by her and her husband, and soaked with calming sounds like chirping birds, it was a perfect vehicle to show off Minnie's incredible four octave range. Tragically, the singer passed away from cancer just a few years after her song made waves.
Few songs could be so hauntingly wistful, let alone a one-hit wonder. Move over, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, because this song has arguably the greatest saxophone solo of all time. Just ask Lisa Simpson. And its guitar solo even influenced Slash's in "Sweet Child o' Mine".
Scotsman Gerry Rafferty was a member of Stealer's Wheel, which had yet another one-hit wonder themselves, but as a solo artist, there was no topping this legendary tune that hit charts worldwide in 1978. How much does this one take you back?
ABBA weren't the only ones making a splash in the 1970s. As the name would suggest, "Hooked on a Feeling" was indeed sung by a Swedish rock group. In fact, it was made by mashing together two cover songs, one Swedish and one American.
The "ooga-chaka" opening to the song would later take on a life of its own, long after the single went number one in 1974. It accompanied that weird dancing baby from the Ally McBeal TV show that would become one of the world's first viral videos in the 1990s.
It's like the Beach Boys turned nasty. It's been sung in concert by groups as giant as U2 and Red Hot Chili Peppers, it's appeared in films from Eurotrip to The Wolf of Wall Street. Chances are, you know this ridiculously energetic song without even realizing it.
Knowing French is not going to help you understand the bizarre lyrics. Belgian rocker Plastic Bertrand wanted to spoof the new genre known as punk. Stealing charts across Europe, this one-hit wonder was a rare instance where a French song also saw success in the US.


A look into next year: WMF Product Roadmap (was: Britannica -> Wikipedia -> ?. Technology Disruption and how we organize for the future).
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This presentation will review the WMF's product roadmap for user-facing features. We will go through the major feature areas of the website + mobile, what's in plan for next year, and why we at the Foundation are working on them. The lens we will use for this discussion is the user experience. We will cover how Visual Editor, Discussion Systems, Onboarding, Mobile, and Multimedia fit together to help grow and diversity our editors.
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Brad Thor's message for Pamela Geller's critics: You are pansies
By: Benjamin Weingarten
TheBlaze
Author Brad Thor is not one to mince words when it comes to defending free speech and challenging jihadists.
So it should come as no surprise that during an in-depth interview in connection with his forthcoming "Code of Conduct," when the topic of Islamic supremacism versus the West came up — and in particular the Garland, TX shooting — sparks were going to fly.
Listen to what Brad had to say below, and for a sneak peek at the creepy enviro-globalist agenda at the heart of "Code of Conduct," Brad's assessment of the threats to the homeland and how to take it to Islamic supremacists and his endorsement for president in 2016, you can skip to the full interview here.
The First Amendment exists to protect speech you don't agree with. It actually is there — if all that was worthy of protection was speech everybody agreed with, we wouldn't need the First Amendment. OK.
So you don't have to agree with what Pamela Geller is doing, but my G-d, Pamela Geller is doing more to help reform Islam than any pansy on the left or right who is criticizing her.
And I don't care who criticized her. I don't care who it is: You are weak, and you're a pansy for not standing behind her.
It makes no sense to me that you would not support someone who is trying to bring about reform in one of the most dangerous ideologies since Nazism. And it actually predates Nazism, so I can't say it's since Nazism.
Title: Code of Conduct
Author: Brad Thor
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This idea that Pamela Geller somehow deserved what they got — and she's making it worse for people. You know I heard people say "Well why provoke all Muslims?" She's not trying to provoke all Muslims. She's trying to provoke a discussion.
And moderate Muslims should not be offended by the depiction of their Prophet Muhammad. They can say it's in their book … Islam is the only major world religion that has not had a reformation. Judaism has. Christianity has. Islam has not.
And … I would encourage you to please link to probably one of the best articles ever written about the West and how we are pandering to fundamentalist Islam. It was actually — I don't know that you do a lot of links to the Huffington Post — but it was on the Huffington Post and it was written by Sam Harris, who is on Bill Maher a lot. And Sam's an agnostic.
And Sam wrote a great article called "Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks." And he talks about the fact that we have allowed a protected space to be carved out in the public square where every other group is expected to debate rationally on the playing field of ideas, except for Islam.
We can go ahead and talk about Catholicism, Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, but we can't critique and discuss the tenets of Islam. And that's because we are hamstringing ourselves.
And Islam needs more attention, more criticism, not less. If we don't criticize Islam and put pressure on Islam, how do you expect reformers and again moderates to have the wind at their backs, the wind in their sails to have them do the work that needs to be done? Because we as non-Muslims can't affect any change.
All we do, like I said, we get our civil liberties eroded.
It's longer lines at TSA for those of us who can't reform Islam.
We need to do everything we can to help reform it. And reforming Islam means we have to draw attention to all its failings.
It's only when people are shown "Hey, the house is full of termites," that maybe they're gonna stop spending money on cable and tons of beer, and start applying the money to fixing their own house.
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Taking it to Islamic Supremacists
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10 Troubling Aspects of President Obama's 'Countering Violent Extremism' Summit
The White House's "Countering Violent Extremism" summit is barely underway, yet the message is already clear: the conference is politically correct — and far worse — a charade.
And that is a charitable interpretation.
Its sponsors are engaging in intentional obfuscation (e.g., saying "violent extremism" is the enemy), as well as peddling ineffective and ill-considered policy proposals (more community "empowerment"). The conference will effectively aid and abet America's increasingly ascendant jihadist foes.
Violent extremism is not an enemy, it's a euphemism. Terrorism is not an enemy, it's a tactic.
Reviewing the Obama administration's summit preview, here are its 10 most disturbing aspects:
1. Contrary to its big government ethos, the Obama administration asserts that national security should be driven by the people, not the state.
(Image source: BuzzFeed)
According to the White House preview [emphasis mine]:
Really at the core of our approach is that the government does not have all the answers in combatting violent extremism. It is, at its core, a bottom-up approach. It puts communities with civic leaders, with religious authorities, with community power brokers, teachers, health providers, et cetera, in the driver's seat. They know their citizens best. They are the first line of defense to prevent or counter radicalizing forces that can ultimately lead to violence. And so our approach is to really embrace and empower what local communities can do. So we've been working with our federal partners and our local partners to put in place this approach over the past couple of years.
Again, this is not about government, especially the federal government. The federal government doesn't have all the answers. This is about building a comprehensive network to fight back against violent extremism. And we are explicitly recognizing the role that civil society plays, the private sector plays, and that families, et cetera, can play in countering violent extremism.
Who knew the Obama administration had so much respect for and faith in civil society?
Yet of course, this faith turns out to be dangerously misplaced as…
2. The groups the president wants to empower are those who may pose the biggest threat.
As Patrick Poole noted in an extensive report for TheBlaze:
In December 2011, the White House issued the "Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States" – the local partners, of course, being Islamic organizations, including those cited by the Justice Department as working to aid foreign terrorist organizations. All national security and law enforcement agencies on the federal, state and local level would now have to consult these groups and rely on "local partners" as a matter of policy. And as made clear in Salam al-Marayati's Los Angeles Times op-ed, Islamic groups complaining about counter-terrorism policies or training would disrupt government efforts to "counter violent extremism" gave them an implicit veto over counter-terrorism policies. [Los Angels Times link added for context]
Why should we care about this 2011 report?
A senior Obama administration official noted in previewing the summit that the report details the very efforts the administration will be hawking during the three-day event.
Local partners such as the Council on American-Islam Relations — an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas funding trial in history — has advised members of the Muslim community not to work with the FBI, and religious leaders to lawyer up as opposed to working together with law enforcement when it comes to potential jihadists. On the eve of the summit, CAIR is reportedly calling for the Department of Justice to "protect those who act in good faith to prevent violent extremism by engaging with [Muslims] considering it in order to dissuade them."
A partner of perhaps higher standing is the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), a group linked to numerous jihadis and jihadi-sympathizers, that is reportedly the primary liaison between the Muslim community and law enforcement in countering violent extremism. The Boston program will be one of the three held up as a success story during the summit, despite the ISB's Islamic supremacist efforts.
Looking to the heart of Muslim communities, according to the Mapping Sharia project, imams in over 80 percent of 100 randomly surveyed representative mosques in America recommended the study of violence-positive texts. The correlations with these texts are disturbing, as illustrated below:
(Image Source: Sharia Adherence Mosque Survey: Correlations between Sharia Adherence and Violent Dogma in U.S. Mosques)
In Pew's extensive 2011 report on Muslims in America, 21 percent of those polled indicated there was a great deal or fair amount of "support for extremism among Muslim American;" 19 percent did not indicate that "suicide bombing/other violence against civilians is justified to defend Islam from its enemies;" only 70 percent indicated that they viewed Al Qaeda "very unfavorably."
As leaked Department of Homeland Security documents reveal, the second highest concentration of people designated as "known or suspected terrorists" by our government reside in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn's population is 96,000, and it has the highest percentage of Arab-Americans of any city in the country.
In light of these figures, and the fact that jihadist groups worldwide claim they are at war with America, having committed over 25,000 attacks in the name of Allah since Sept. 11, 2011, one must ask, what exactly is the rationale behind leaving self-policing to Muslim communities when these are the very places from whence jihadists spring?
Such a policy of course is only baffling if you are of the belief that jihad is an Islamic tenet, and that Islamic supremacist ideology is what animates the vast majority of the world's "violent extremists."
But of course…
3. According to the administration there is no profile of a "violent extremist."
Returning to the transcript:
[I]n the United States there has been violent extremists that come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and so the agenda for all three days is going to show a wide array of speakers and participants from all backgrounds who combat radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism in its many forms.
…In terms of the phrase "vulnerable community," I think one is that we want to be clear that the evidence doesn't show that there's any particular community, there's no profile that we can point to say this person is from this community, is going to be radicalized to violence.
4. The administration thinks a key focus should be on non-Muslim terrorist groups — like those in Colombia.
Per the preview:
Q: I'm just wondering, in light of the current events that Andrea Mitchell and others mentioned during this call, almost all of those involves Muslim extremism. And I get that the phrase for this three-day event is "violent extremism." Might some critics think that you're avoiding the world "Muslim" as though extremists in the Islamic communities are the focus — or are they not the focus? That's my question.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: …I think obviously we want to be taking into account the current concerns that different countries are facing. But as I think will be clear from the variety of presentations and case studies that are mentioned — to include some of the media that we have organized to help catalyze the discussion that features some of the longer-running terrorist threats that people sometimes forget about in the current context, such as the FARC in Colombia, which is now in negotiations, but has been a designated terrorist organization for some time, responsible for countless acts of violence.
I think we will see through the complexity of the discussion that violent extremism is a broader trend…I think we'll see in the context of the meeting itself the diversity that reflects the reality of recent history.
5. The administration disavows a link between jihadism — a word it won't use — and religion.
This image made from a video released Sunday Feb. 15, 2015 by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. Later in the video, the men are made to kneel and one militant addresses the camera in English before the men are simultaneously beheaded. The Associated Press could not immediately independently verify the video. (Image source: AP)
Per the administration preview:
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Let's be clear. We recognize that violent extremism spans many decades and has taken many forms. But we all agree that the individuals who perpetuated — who perpetrated the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere are calling themselves Muslims and their warped interpretation of Islam is what motivated them to commit these acts. They're not making any secret of that, and neither are we.
But we are very, very clear that we do not believe that they are representing Islam. There is absolutely no justification for these attacks in any religion, and that's the view of the vast majority of Muslims who have suffered huge casualties from the likes of folks like ISIL or al Qaeda. So you can call them what you want. We're calling them terrorists.
6. The administration continues its "mea culpa" campaign, attributing radicalism to economic, social and political disparities — but not religion.
Per the White House preview [emphasis mine]:
The final panel will focus on secure and resilient communities, and it will, in particular, begin by looking at the role of civil society, particularly youth and women preventing violent extremism. It will look at community-police relations and community-security force relations as a critical element of prevention. And it will finally broaden that conversation to address social, economic and political marginalization, including the effects of integration of minority communities.
Based on all we have observed from this White House, do you think that the onus will fall on law enforcement to work on "improving relations" with "violent extremist" communities, or vice-versa? Reports on the Minneapolis countering violent extremism pilot program, one of the three that will be presenting at the summit, indicate that its Somali Muslim community mistrusts law enforcement because it fears being spied upon. Does this give you confidence in cooperation from a neighborhood that has produced over a dozen known jihadists in recent years?
The notion that "marginalization" and poor integration in minority communities is the root cause of jihadism, as echoed by State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf is a canard. Not only are there very wealthy families from the bin Ladens to the Saudi royals who drive jihadism worldwide, but conversely practically every group that has ever succeeded in America came to this country poor and marginalized, yet did not resort to strapping bombs to themselves or chopping off heads.
None of this is even to mention the fact that Muslims, other ethnic and religious minorities and the most important minority, the individual, has at least historically had more freedom and opportunity in America than in any other country in the world. Perhaps the White House wishes this forum to be a vehicle for revisiting Ferguson.
7. The administration wants to rehabilitate and reintegrate violent extremists.
Clearly the recidivism rate for Guantanamo Bay detainees has not sunk in to the collective mind of the public, as the White House continues:
The third session focuses on weakening the legitimacy and the resonance of the brand of violent extremism. So that will include a panel on strategic communications, social media. It will include a discussion of how non-violent religious issues and education can be elevated as a matter of international and local-level concern. And it will look at best practices with regard to rehabilitating and reintegrating violent extremists.
Note that this is also in keeping with the Obama administration's efforts through Eric Holder's Justice Department to treat terrorism as a criminal matter.
8. The Obama White House has regularly partnered with and enabled "violent extremists," without whom a countering violent extremism summit would not be necessary in the first place.
One of the more unbelievable indications of the Obama administration's willful lack of self-awareness is that it has regularly partnered with the "violent extremists," aiders, abetters and sympathizers with whom theoretically this summit is about countering.
The administration is currently negotiating with Iran on its nuclear program — the largest state sponsor of terror in the world.
Several weeks ago the White House met with the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization whose 1991 strategic memorandum on North America called for a "grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
In Libya and Syria we have armed jihadists to our own great detriment.
How can a president who so frequently makes common cause with, and whose interventions overseas have so consistently aided jihadists, have any credibility in countering violent extremism?
9. The summit's very name tells us how fatally flawed the exercise is.
Little exemplifies better how ill-equipped America is to deal with the threats facing her than the fact that the Obama administration wants us to believe that we are fighting "violent extremism."
As many have said in recent weeks, if you cannot identify your enemy, you cannot defeat it. By not having the moral clarity, or even worse by exhibiting such cowardice in creating a mushy phrase like "violent extremism," which not only obscures the enemy from the American people, but allows the Obama administration to associate all sorts of other peoples with jihadists is shameful.
Islamic supremacists are at war with us. It is quite evident we are not at war with them.
10. Finally, the key issues crucial to understanding the nature of, and means of best countering Islamic supremacism are not going to be addressed.
Were the summit actually to identify Islamic supremacism as the enemy, as the Center for Security Policy's recent Defeat Jihad Summit illustrated, we might examine issues among many others including:
The Islamic doctrine that animates jihadists both Shitte and Sunni, and the goals, tactics and strategies set forth therein
The global funding of the jihadist support architecture
Activist groups
Educational institutions including America's Middle East studies departments
Media organizations
Other agents of influence
Jihadist infiltration of American political institutions
The undefended borders through which jihadists are surely entering
Legal immigration policies including visas for religious leaders, student visas and immigration from jihadist areas worldwide
Iran's efforts to infiltrate South America
Radicalization in prisons
We should seriously consider the aforementioned 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum on its mission in North America:
The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.
…A mission as significant and as huge as the settlement mission needs magnificent and exhausting efforts. With their capabilities, human, financial and scientific resources, the Ikhwan will not be able to carry out this mission alone or away from people and he who believes that is wrong, and God knows best. As for the role of the Ikhwan, it is the initiative, pioneering, leadership, raising the banner and pushing people in that direction. They are then to work to employ, direct and unify Muslims' efforts and powers for this process. In order to do that, we must possess a mastery of the art of "coalitions", the art of "absorption" and the principles of "cooperation."
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Of Double Standards and Triple Homicides: Media Malpractice and the North Carolina Murders
On the night of Sept. 11, 2011, three men were brutally murdered in Waltham, Massachusetts — their throats slashed and bodies covered in marijuana.
Despite the gruesome nature of the crime, which one investigator described as "the worst bloodbath" he had ever seen, the national media would have never reported on this story, let alone identified the Jewish religion of at least two of the slain, had Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Muslim and close friend of the third victim, not carried out the Boston bombing.
In fact, in spite of Tsarnaev's ties to the victims of these yet unsolved murders, to this day articles almost specifically de-emphasize the date of the crime, the fact that as the same investigator described it, the victims' wounds were akin to those of "an Al-Qaeda training video," and the religion of the slain.
Contrast this story with the horrific news that three Muslims were murdered execution style in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Suzanne Askar, right, rests her head on the shoulder of Safam Mahate, a student at North Carolina State University, as they stand next to Nida Allam, far left, during a vigil for three people who were killed at a condominium near UNC-Chapel Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Craig Stephen Hicks appeared in court on charges of first-degree murder in the Tuesday deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Al Drago)
Unlike in the Waltham triple homicide, this story was explicitly reported as I just laid it out – a man killed three Muslims – a man, mind you, who many reports neglected to note is a militantly anti-religious atheist progressive.
In spite of the fact that stories ran across practically every major publication, with articles from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal referring to a triple murder of Muslims, social media exploded, with individuals appalled that the crime was somehow being ignored.
The #MuslimLivesMatter hashtag, adopted from the #blacklivesmatter hashtag created in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases went viral, signaling presumably that people believe atrocities are being carried out against Muslims en masse.
The juxtaposition of these two stories is instructive when it comes to today's media.
While we might excuse the media in the case of the Waltham homicide for originally ignoring the date, nature of murder and religious identity of the victims, given their involvement with marijuana and law enforcement's original public hypothesis that the murder was drug related, it is telling that these facts continue to be largely ignored in coverage of the murders.
Conversely, in the case of the Chapel Hill murders, religion was explicitly injected into the story from the start, leading many readers naturally to ascribe an anti-Muslim motive to the triple homicide. Meanwhile, local police believe the murders stemmed from an altercation over a parking space.
It is ironic that in the wake of President Barack Obama's remarks about a "random" attack by a Muslim terrorist on a Kosher supermarket — note that the White House will not call it a jihadist attack on Jews — in the case of the victims in North Carolina, again from the start they were identified as Muslims. Randomness is clearly in the eye of the beholder.
French police officers storm a kosher grocery to end a hostage situation, Paris, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Explosions and gunshots were heard as police forces stormed a kosher grocery in Paris where a gunman was holding at least five people hostage. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
In any event, can you think of another case where the media identified the victim(s) by religion?
Can you think of another case where the media identified the victimizer(s) by religion?
In recent instances of Muslim crimes against non-Muslims, whether an axe attack on New York Police Department officers in New York, a beheading in Oklahoma, or the systemic rape and abuse in Rotherham, almost universally the media initially and often ultimately excludes details about the Muslim identity of the attackers.
Instead we are left with euphemisms for the perpetrators, such as that they are "North African" or "Asian."
In the case of the Middle East, where Western media reports are notoriously anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish, we get stories about Israelis killing two Arabs in a mosque, only later to include the minor detail that these two Arab terrorists were killed in an act of self defense, and then only after they terrorists had murdered five Jews in a synagogue.
One case among all others perhaps best illustrates the media's unwillingness to put truth above narrative. In one of the most egregious and egregiously neglected stories of all, as we reported last year, Anders Breivik — the Nordic terrorist responsible for killing 77 people and injuring 319 more in a July 2011 rampage in Sweden — by his own admission committed a false-flag attack meant to discredit the counterjihadists and Zionists with whom he claimed allegiance. To this day, almost no others outlets have reported on this.
While journalists should not be selecting and/or framing stories to fit their own worldview to begin with, it would be one thing if these narratives had some basis in fact. But frequently, the evidence directly contradicts the story that the media would like to paint.
In America, according to the most recently available FBI hate crime statistics, it is Jews, not Muslims, who are the most discriminated against of all religious minorities, disproportionately targeted in a staggering 60 percent of all religion-based hate crimes, a rate four times as high as that of Muslims.
In Europe, the Jewish population has continued to plummet precipitously, with Jews from France to Great Britain leaving as anti-Semitism and Islamic supremacism have increased, sentiments that are inherently interrelated.
In Israel, it suffices to say that were its enemies to lay down its arms tomorrow, there would be peace; if Israel were to lay down its arms tomorrow, it would be blown to pieces.
Keen watchers of the media will note that a similar pattern of narrative-setting in reporting occurs in the coverage, or lack thereof, of black-on-white or black-on-black versus white-on-black crimes, and/or cop-on-civilian versus civilian-on-cop killings.
To adopt an Orwell saying, when it comes to the media, some victim(s)/victimizer(s) are more equal than others.
Identity matters only insofar as it serves a political narrative.
These journalistic sins of omission and commission, used to craft a political message, are antithetical to the truth-seeking purpose of the profession.
With the special rights and protections granted to the press comes an obligation to soberly and objectively inform the citizenry.
Today in America, and throughout the West, this obligation is being disgracefully dishonored.
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For years I had a wreath on the front door of our previous home. It was made of long tree branches shaped into a medium size ringlet. A little angel with a gingham dress sat inside the wreath and welcomed everyone that came with a smile. When it came time to take the wreath down for the move, my front door and porch felt so cold and unwelcoming.
My new home needs an inviting wreath for the front porch and I think this one from AnnaHailey is just perfect. The yarn and felt flowers scream warmth while the initial adds personalization and whimsy.
Hi everyone! Hope your holiday weekend was safe and enjoyable! Yesterday, we took the kids and visited Kirk's Grandmother who is 98 years old. She stays very positive and continues to be an inspiration for me. As we talked yesterday, I really wanted to laugh as she described the story of a young woman and her daughters. The "young woman" was 82.
We also spent the weekend transplanting perennials from our old house to our new home. Of course we picked the hottest day to do this! But nevertheless, we filled our car with plants and planted them almost immediately. Hopefully, they will thrive in their new homes. There are still so many left – mostly hostas.
With all of our work, we didn't get much time to rest. Today will also be a day of running around as we prepare to leave for our trip to Mackinac Island. We will be leaving tomorrow and won't return until the end of the week. I will post when possible but most likely they will be short. Can't wait to get to the boat that takes us to the island!
Today I'm loving the elegant mixed with relaxed version of shabby chic design – especially the chic portion. It has been said that shabby chic design originally started in Great Britain in the large country homes. Since then the style has emerged into many different forms. Take a look at these versions… The plum colors in this photo is absolutely divine! The hats above add the "relaxed" feel to this very fun yet elegant cabinet.
Wouldn't you love to have this craft space? I imagine that this work area is tucked in a little quite corner of the house. But really, what more do you need? I have a tiny room that holds all of my craft supplies and am so glad to have such a place for my creative things.
What else do you think of when you hear shabby chic? I think of birdcages and chandeliers.
Well, I must go now to prepare for my trip. I hope to check in soon!
Summer officially arrived this week! For me, that means warm weather, fruity frozen drinks, flip flops, blooming flowers, spending time at the beach, and of course, lots of shopping! Isn't it wonderful to be a girl?
From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Gourmet Soap, Large Pink Peony Flower, Marimekko Pillow Cover, Cupcake Pin Cushion, and Cupcake Wrappers.
The gourmet soap was described as "An innocent, fresh, lightly floral, sparkling and fruity blend…" – sounds almost good enough to eat! The large peony is so natural and would be lovely either pinned in your hair or on a light summery cardigan. Peonies have to be one of the most gorgeous flowers. Hopefully my transplanted peonies survive and bloom half as nice as the one above (so far no buds!).
I have had cupcakes on my mind this week and by complete accident came across the cupcake wrappers. These are such a popular choice for adding to the presentation of cupcakes – I would guess that even badly decorated cupcakes would look good! I really need to utilize the decorating tip I bought this weekend and try my hand at decorating cupcakes.


Although internet marketing and internet advertising involve professionals using the internet as a medium to promote their products, brands and services, there is still an ongoing debate as to which term is deemed to be more suitable. According to Wikipedia, online or internet advertising is described as a type of promotion that makes use of the internet to reach out to prospective customers and send them marketing messages. However, Wikipedia defines internet marketing as the process of promoting products or services over the internet.
After intensive research, online experts have come to the conclusion that the purpose of internet marketing, referral marketing ideas and internet advertising, which is to promote goods or services online, is basically the only thing that these two have in common. Ultimately web advertising and web marketing are two very different concepts. This will become clearer as you continue reading.
Internet marketing is considered to be the bigger concept, while internet advertising is just one slice of this pie. Internet marketing basically includes tools like Search Engine Marketing, SEO, Email Marketing, Content Marketing and Referral Marketing. However, Internet Marketing comes along with marketing materials. For example, any banners or ads that pops up while browsing the internet can be termed as online advertising, which is a part of the whole digital marketing strategy.
Another important point to note is the fact that although the term says Internet marketing, it does not mean that only the internet will be used during the course of the marketing campaign. Other tools like email marketing and mobile marketing may or may not be used as well. So, Internet Marketing is actually much broader and involves a lot of tools and techniques to get potential customers interested in the products or services that your business is offering. Internet advertising is not limited to only ads put up on websites. According to the experts in the industry, mobile advertising, search engine results pages, banner ads, online classified ads, blogs and media ads are termed as internet advertising. More often than not, these types of internet advertising are handled by ad server or a system that handles online advertisements.
Since internet marketing is a much larger concept, it requires a whole lot more attention than internet advertising. The responsibilities that come along with internet marketing are deemed to be much more and needs to be handled very carefully in order to make the marketing campaign a roaring success.
Since there are several different forms of internet advertising, a company or a business owner can pick one or more out and earn a lot of money. Some of the commonly used tools include Cost per View, Cost per Click, Cost per Action, Cost per Visitor and so on. Therefore, the return on investment is much more compared to internet marketing.
Internet Marketing is usually executed by using an expert or a professional to make sure that the campaign goes well. The fees of the media marketer can actually turn out to be much more than placing an advertisement online.
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Kids in the Kitchen is a national outreach program developed by The Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) developed to fight childhood obesity through educational workshops promoting fitness and healthy eating habits.
The Junior League of Galveston County is proud to support this program and partners with programs such as the Fit-N-Fun Club, a healthy initiative program in conjunction with The University of Texas Medical Branch. The committee also attends area children's festivals to promote fitness and healthy eating through fun activities.


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The Last Frontier: Antarctica's Southern Ocean
10/24/2012 09:01 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
The sun sets at the Rettenbach and Tiefenbach Glacier Ski Areas in the Alps mountains near the village of Soelden, Austria, after sunny weather day on November 3, 2010. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE (Photo credit should read CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
Mention Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and images of remoteness, vast ice sheets and large glaciers immediately come to mind. But despite the area's harsh wind and severe cold, the Antarctic is bursting with marine life.
Diving into the Antarctic's cold ocean, the intrepid explorer will witness bright-colored sea stars, oddly shaped sponges and bottom-dwelling creatures blanketing the seafloor. Strange fish with white blood containing natural anti-freeze pumping through their bodies hover in the water column. Whales breach the surface of cold, nutrient-rich waters. Meanwhile, atop the glaciers and sheets of ice, penguins, seals and seabirds dot the barren landscape. Life bustles throughout the icy region.
Many researchers refer to Antarctica and the surrounding ocean as one of the world's last frontiers. Covering an area around 1.4 times the size of the United States (14 million km2), the continent is the coldest, driest, highest, and windiest on Earth. Regardless of its remote and harsh conditions, it is tightly linked to the global system in ways that researchers say they are just beginning to understand.
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are the least explored and least understood marine regions in the world. Nearly a century after the first person reached the South Pole, the abundant life underneath the ocean's frozen surface is just beginning to be discovered.
Though we know so little, these pristine areas are threatened in ways and on a scale never seen before, warns Mission Blue Founder and National Geographic explorer-in-residence Dr. Sylvia Earle. "A few nations, a few companies, a few industries are taking on a large scale without paying a cost," Dr. Earle explained. "They are depleting what belongs to everyone, and they are doing it in a heartbeat of geologic time."
This industrial activity is putting increasing pressure on the unique and fragile ecosystem. Recent reports suggest that the ocean around Antarctica is home to nearly 10,000 species, many of which are endemic to the area and cannot be found anywhere else on Earth. And though the Southern Ocean constitutes roughly 15 percent of the global ocean, less than 1 percent is protected.
American actor and film producer Leonardo DiCaprio said, "The whales and penguins can't speak for themselves, so it's up to us to defend them."
Scientists say it is about more than protecting the charismatic whales and penguins. It is about preserving a relatively untouched area that offers insights into life, ecosystem interactions, and survival in extreme environments.
Twenty-four member countries and the European Union established the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in 1982 to regulate these frigid waters. Now more than ever, researchers, conservationists, activists, and public stakeholders are putting pressure on CCAMLR to ensure the long-term protection of the unique ecosystems that remain.
In South Korea recently, Dr. Earle told a group of people why everyone should take an interest in the ocean and what the CCAMLR members are discussing behind closed doors about the Antarctic Ocean. "If you like to breathe, you will want to take care of the ocean and you will worry about taking krill from the Antarctic Ocean -- because krill are involved in the chemistry of the ocean, which in turn effects the ability of the ocean to produce oxygen and take up carbon, that in the end drive the basic systems that make our lives possible."
Learn more about the Southern Ocean and how you can add your voice to let world leaders know that you want increased protection of the Antarctic Ocean by reading more on Mission Blue, visiting the Antarctic Ocean Alliance website, and seeing what Leonardo DiCaprio is saying about the Southern Ocean.
This post was originally published on Mission Blue
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Philip Stanley Klein has passed away
Sad news, friends. Philip Stanley Klein, the Messianic Jewish musician and friend of Chavah Messianic Radio, has passed away at the age of 76.
A few years ago, Philip had personally contributed all his music to Chavah, and his song Lord of the World quickly became one of the top-rated songs on Chavah. Philip knew about about that, and several times spoke to me how encouraging that was that his music glorified God in a big way.
In 2014, he related to me that he was struggling with cancer. Even still, he remained in good spirits, praising God. When I inquired of his health a few months back, he simply said, "I'm in the Lord's hands!"
Philip's music inspired numerous Messianic artists over the years. As recently as last year, his beautiful ballad When I Worship You inspired both a cover song and album of the same name from Jonathan Settel.
The words to Philip's hit song apply fittingly here:
"When I worship you
All my fears are gone
Everything is new
You and I are one
When I sing to You
The power of the Lord
Covers all I do
When I worship you"
May the Lord whom Philip worship and served raise him up on the day the Creator, blessed be He, deems fit. All Philip's fears are gone as he worships the Lord, no longer from afar, but in His presence.
You'll be missed, Philip Klein. Thank you, from the bottom of our heart, from all of us at Chavah Messianic Radio and the fans listening for your life of service, praise and joy in the Messiah.
Fine Chavah fans, you can support Philip's family by purchasing his music for Messiah.
Aviad Cohen has passed away
Friends, I'm saddened to announce that Messianic musician Aviad Cohen has passed away yesterday, according to a Facebook post from his family. I knew Aviad for many years; he contributed his music to Chavah years ago, and before that, I knew him through my younger brother when the two of them met in person by chance in Jerusalem.Aviad produced 4 albums for God, including 3 techno albums and 1 Scripture reading album:Hooked on the TruthFirestarterGood News to Mission ControlScripturesonics Vol. 1: The Good NewsAviad's last album, Scripturesonics, is a stirring Scripture reading album set to orchestral music. It's my personal favorite.Aviad made big splashes when he, as a conservative Jew and rapper known as 50 Shekel, came to belief in Yeshua as Israel's messiah. His public conversion made him a target for anti-missionaries and Jews who considered his belief in Yeshua to be a betrayal of Judaism.At the time of this writing, it's not clear how Aviad died. One friend says he passed a…
FAQ: How do I request a song?
Q. I don't see the song request button in Chavah. Where is it?A. It's the to the left of the play button. Click that button, and then type the name of a song, artist, or album:Click the song you're looking for, then click the 'Request' button:You're done!Chavah will play the song instantly for you. Other people listening to the station will hear the song request as soon as their current song finishes.(p.s. Don't like a song that someone requested? Thumb it down. Chavah will play something else for you, and the next time that song is requested, she'll skip sending it to you.)(p.p.s. Looking for a song, but don't quite remember the name? This is a great way to find it. Just type anything you do remember about the song, whether album, artist, or name (even if incomplete) and Chavah will do her best to find it for you.)
New music: Magen David - Elul
Shalom, fine Messianic music fans.We've added a new artist and a new album to Chavah:Magen David – Elul
This great new album was contributed by the artist, and I think you all are really going to like it.You can support the artist by purchasing their album.Shalom!
Judah Gabriel Himango
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Ferris Demographics: How Diverse Is It?
Diversity can be somewhat of a buzzword with university admissions officers and students. For the purposes of producing diversity scores, College Factual defines diversity as the most plurality. Schools that score high in diversity metrics are those with the greatest variety in ethnicity, gender, age, and geographic location of origin.
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Ferris State University sits at an average ranking when it comes to overall diversity at #1,162 nationwide.
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Ferris Overall Diversity Rank (1,162 out of 2,475)
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Racially diverse colleges allow students to meet and learn from others from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. It also means the school is working to fairly represent and support all students.
With a student body composition that is close to the national average, Ferris State University is ranked #1,737 when it comes to ethnic diversity.
Ferris Ethic Diversity Rank (1,737 out of 2,718)
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Ferris' racial diversity is on par with the national average.
Racial diversity of the faculty is below the national average.
Balanced Gender Ratio
If you feel more comfortable on a campus with a relatively equal balance of males and females, this may be the school for you.
At Ferris State University, the disparity between men and women on campus is far lower than the national average. The undergraduate student body at Ferris is equally balanced.
This university is ranked at #150 in male to female diversity nationwide. The undergraduate population is comprised of 5,939 males and 6,573 females.
Ferris Gender Diversity Rank (150 out of 2,718)
Review Male/Female Diversity at Ferris
When available, the chart below includes the male to female percentage among Ferris' undergraduate students.
The male to female ratio at Ferris is excellent.
When available, the chart below includes the male to female percentage among Ferris' faculty.
The ratio of male to female faculty at Ferris is excellent.
School Tends to Represent Students From Its Home State
Would you prefer a local college that recruits students from within Michigan? This could be a good choice for you.
We've derived the geographic diversity of each school by looking at where undergraduates lived before they attended college.
Over 90% of the students attending Ferris State University come from within Michigan. This means Ferris is below average in geographic diversity with a ranking of #1,552.
Ferris Location Diversity Rank (1,552 out of 2,525)
Learn About Nationwide Geographic Diversity
The undergraduate student body is split among 17 states (may include Washington D.C.), as shown in the chart below.
International Student Diversity at Ferris
There is a mid sized group of about 298 international students at Ferris State University representing at least 38 countries. Check out the Ferris International Student Page for more information.
What is the Age Range of the Students?
Some students prefer a campus filled with others who are a similar age to them, while some prefer a wide age range of students. Which is best for you?
The "traditional" college student is thought to be between the ages of 18-21. At Ferris State University, 49.0% of students are in the age 18 to 21 bracket, compared to the national average of 60%. We rank Ferris #977 in the nation for student age diversity.
Ferris Age Diversity Rank (977 out of 3,012)
Review Age Diversity at Ferris
Analyze the age range of Ferris students with the following chart.
Questions About Diversity
What do we mean when we refer to diversity in college?
The root word of diversity is from the Latin, "diversus" which means "various". Today we use it to describe an amalgamation of people, traditions, cultures and ideas. Students who express that diversity in school is important to them are looking for institutions to provide a variety of curricular and non-curricular opportunities to learn from and learn with people of different ethnicities, races, ages, abilities, sexual identities, classes, and religions.
How is Ferris doing at supporting and attracting students from all financial backgrounds?
Even a school with great ethnic, racial and geographic diversity may not be diverse when it comes to the economic backgrounds of their students. To get a better idea of how Ferris is supporting low-income students check the Financial Aid Page.
Is Diversity Important to Ferris?
In order to achieve the most benefit from diversity on campus, seek out schools that are not only promoting diversity by recruiting students and hiring faculty from minority groups actively, but are also encouraging an environment where there is confident interaction between different groups.
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Good Magic Wins Haskell and Classic Berth
Good Magic stamped his ticket to the Breeders' Cup Classic with a victory in the Haskell Invitational (G1). Photo credit: Monmouth Park).
Good Magic returned to his championship form with a flourish in easily outclassing six rivals to capture Sunday's $1 million betfair.com Haskell Invitational before a crowd of 37,186 at Monmouth Park.
The 2-year-old Juvenile Champion, idle since a fourth-place finish in the Preakness Stakes 10 weeks ago, lived up to his 1-2 favoritism by scoring a three-length victory over Bravazo. It was another six lengths back in third to Lone Sailor.
The Haskell is a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" event, with Good Magic receiving an automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday, November 3. Good Magic is the defending champion of the Breeders' Cup Sentient Jet Juvenile.
The victory in the Grade 1 Haskell capped banner days for jockey Jose Ortiz and trainer Chad Brown on the 14-race card. Ortiz won four stakes races and Brown won four races overall, with the pair combining to each capture their first Haskell Invitational.
The stakes-filled program saw a total handle of $13,395,279, an increase of five percent over 2017. On-track handle for the day was $1,965,660. Attendance also showed a five percent increase over Haskell Day a year ago.
Good Magic, the Kentucky Derby runner-up, sat a stalking second for the opening six furlongs of the mile and an eighth race before Ortiz asked him to assert himself. The son of Curlin-Glinda the Good, a $1 million yearling purchase, did just that.
"When I asked him to run I pushed the button and he was there for me," said Ortiz. "It was a really easy trip. He made it easy for me."
Longshot Roaming Union set the early fractions, taking the seven-horse field to the opening six furlongs before giving way. He was always in the sights of Good Magic, who left the field in his wake when he made his winning move.
Time for the nine furlongs over a fast track was 1:50.01.
Haskell Replay
"I am so proud of this horse," said Brown. "He put everything together today. He showed his ability, his agility and his class today. It's not easy to win these races."
Brown, the two-time defending Eclipse Award-winning trainer, said winning Monmouth Park's signature race was especially meaningful to him.
"Winning the Haskell here means a lot," he said. "To finally win this race is special. I got my start here. I took my trainer's test here the day after the Breeders' Cup in 2007. I came back a year later and had horses here. Last year we ran two horses in the (Haskell) and one was the favorite (Timeline) and didn't win, so it means a lot. You have to come with the right horse and this is a really good horse."
Owned by e Five Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables, Good Magic increased his career earnings to $2,945,000. He has a 3-3-1 line from eight career starts, with the Preakness his only off-the-board finish.
"All the credit to Chad for having him ready to come into a huge race like the Haskell off a 10-week layoff," said Ortiz. "He had him ready, 110 percent ready to go."
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Bravazo, the Preakness runner-up, stayed close to Good Magic throughout the race but was no match for Brown's charge in the stretch.
"My horse ran great. I did everything I could to get him up," said Luis Saez, Bravazo's jockey. "I switched to the left to see if I could get more out of him. I just lost to a better horse today."
Good Magic returned $3.00 to win. The exacta with Bravazo returned $9.40.
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Bigg Boss 14: Here Is Why Aly Goni Opted Out Of The Show?- EXCLUSIVE
16 September 2020, 10:37 am ·2-min read
This news will break the hearts of those who were excitedly waiting to see Aly Goni locked inside Bigg Boss 14 house. The actor, who is not only popular in the industry but also enjoys a great fan following on social media too, was offered a heavy amount to enter the show.
Aly was also an apt contestant for the show as he is often in news for his blunt statements while voicing his opinion on social media. However, SpotboyE.com has it that the actor is not participating in the show as he has bagged another big project. ALSO READ: Bigg Boss 14: List Of Contestants Who Backed Out From The Show- EXCLUSIVE
A few days back, we had exclusively informed you Aly Goni was among a few contestants who were almost finalised to enter the show but backed out at the last moment and now we get you the reason for him doing so. ALSO READ: Aly Goni Says He Supports Justice For SSR But Not Kangana Ranaut; Nakuul Mehta Takes A Dig At Her Mumbai Pok Remark
A source close to him informs us, "Aly was not only approached to be part of the show but a heavy amount was offered to him to be in the game. But he is not entering the show as he is doing a web film under a big banner and currently wants to focus on it completely."
We tried contacting Aly to take his reaction but he remained unavailable for comment.
Aly, who rose to fame by playing Romi Bhalla in Ekta Kapoor's Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, has been part of reality shows like Splitsvilla 5, Khatron Ke Khiladi: Jigar Pe Trigger and Khatron Ke Khiladi- Made In India before.
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Elon Musk Fires Back at Twitter Lawsuit
Twitter sued billionaire Elon Musk over his attempt to walk away from his $44 billion takeover bid.
Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press
filed a motion Friday opposing
Twitter Inc.'s
request to expedite a trial over his intention to terminate his $44 billion takeover.
Lawyers for Mr. Musk filed papers with the Delaware Chancery Court, their first public response to the lawsuit filed earlier this week by the social-media company seeking to enforce the terms of their merger agreement. The court should reject Twitter's "unjustifiable request to rush this," they said in their filing.
Twitter has asked the court to expedite the proceedings, citing risks from the recent economic downturn and being held in limbo by a buyer. The company requested a trial by mid-September "to protect Twitter and its stockholders from the continuing market risk and operational harm resulting from Musk's attempt to bully his way out of an airtight merger agreement."
Mr. Musk moved to terminate the acquisition last week, saying the company hadn't provided the necessary data and information he needed to assess the prevalence of fake or spam accounts and was "in material breach of multiple provisions" of the merger agreement.
Twitter has rejected that assertion and argued that Mr. Musk hasn't adhered to the terms, including violating a nondisclosure agreement and then bragging about it on Twitter.
In Friday's filing, Mr. Musk's lawyers said: "The core dispute over false and spam accounts is fundamental to Twitter's value. It is also extremely fact and expert intensive, requiring substantial time for discovery."
Mr. Musk's lawyers argued that "it is unnecessary to resolve these weighty considerations on a breakneck schedule" and asked for a trial date on or after Feb. 13 of next year, adding that the debt financing was valid until April 25, 2023.
Twitter declined to comment.
Mr. Musk has fired criticism at Twitter through a steady stream of tweets over the past several months, and his lawyers have raised specific complaints in several letters that have been made public through securities filings. But Friday's court document is the first time his side has laid out publicly a clear timeline around his concerns over data about fake and spam accounts, and included new claims about Twitter's level of cooperation on the issue.
Mr. Musk's side became concerned about Twitter's user numbers after the company announced revisions in its first quarter earnings in April, when it said it had overstated its user base for nearly three years through the end of 2021 due to an error in how it accounted for people linked to multiple accounts. The revision reduced the number of monetizable daily active users by 0.9% for the fourth quarter of last year.
In a May 6 meeting with Twitter executives about how spam is calculated, Mr. Musk 's team on Friday said he was "flabbergasted to learn just how meager Twitter's process was," and pointed to the absence of automated tools to help with the calculation.
Twitter has long estimated that fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users are spam or fake accounts, a figure Mr. Musk has disputed. In its suit against Mr. Musk, Twitter said the
CEO's attempt to abandon the transaction reflects souring market conditions that resulted in his personal wealth declining by more than $100 billion from its November 2021 peak. "Rather than bear the cost of the market downturn, as the merger agreement requires, Musk wants to shift it to Twitter's stockholders," the company said.
Twitter had said it had bent over backward to accommodate Mr. Musk's data request, including by giving him access to its so-called fire hose of near real-time tweets as well as historical tweets. His side on Friday countered that the interactions were akin to "a two-month treasure hunt of delays, technical bottlenecks, evasive answers, and, ultimately, refusals."
Twitter has said its process for estimating fake and spam accounts on its platform involves multiple human reviews of thousands of accounts sampled at random over time and that it also relies on private user data it doesn't disclose publicly—and hasn't shared with Mr. Musk—such as IP addresses and phone numbers.
Mr. Musk's side also took issue with other elements of the Twitter suit, including the company's assertion that the billionaire had disparaged the business he was planning to buy. "With the sense of humor of a bot, Twitter claims that Musk is damaging the company with tweets like a Chuck Norris meme and a poop emoji. Twitter ignores that Musk is its second largest shareholder with a far greater economic stake than the entire Twitter board," the filing states.
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Ferrah Leni Fawcett (født 2. februar 1947, død 25. juni 2009) var en amerikansk skuespiller, der især blev kendt som en af de tre "engle" i tv-serien Charlie's Angels, der blev en stort succes i slutningen af 1970'erne. Fawcett blev desuden et stilikon i popkulturen, idet hendes frisure og tøjstil dannede mode hos mange piger i perioden.

Biografi

Farrah Fawcett blev født i Corpus Christi, Texas, og i slutningen af 1960'erne prøvede hun lykken i Hollywood, hvor hun i første omgang medvirkede i reklamefilm for blandt andet hudprodukter og shampoo. Omkring samme tidspunkt fik hun endvidere nogle småroller i forskellige tv-serier, men det var først, da hun fik taget en række modelfotos poserende i badedragt i midten af 1970'erne, at hun for alvor blev kendt. Billederne blev udsendt som plakater og solgt i adskillige millioner eksemplarer (antallet varierer med kilder mellem 5 og 12 millioner).

Karriere
Med plakaternes succes og Fawcetts erfaringer i tv-branchen var det et godt valg at indlemme hende i gruppen af Charlie's Angels, der blev en øjeblikkelig succes. Og skønt der var tre "engle", var det især Fawcett, der høstede successen i seervalg etc. Imidlertid forlod hun serien allerede efter første sæson for dog – efter et sagsanlæg – at gæsteoptræde i tre afsnit i sæson tre og fire.

Efter successen med Charlie's Angels medvirkede Fawcett i en række produktioner, der blev fiaskoer, inden hun med en optræden på teateret i New York opnåede en stor kritikersucces i dramaet Extremities i 1983. Det følgende år opnåede hun den første af tre Emmy-nomineringer, og senere blev det også til en Golden Globe-nominering og deraf følgende anerkendelser af hendes talent i et andet end hendes oprindelige rollefag, hvor udseendet ikke længere var vigtigt.

Blandt hendes biograffilm må nævnes Logan's Run (1976), The Cannonball Run (1981) og Dr T and the Women (2000).

I mange år nægtede hun trods mange tilbud at lade sig fotografere nøgen, så derfor vakte det stor opsigt, da hun i 1995 i en alder af 48 optrådte uden tøj i Playboy Magazine, hvilket blev gentaget to år senere. Desuden stod hun model for billedhuggeren Keith Edmier, der fik sine værker udstillet på blandt andet Andy Warhol Museum.

Personlige liv
Hun var i perioden 1973-82 gift med skuespilleren Lee Majors, og hun blev i den periode krediteret som Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Efter skilsmissen og indtil sin død kom Fawcett sammen med skuespilleren Ryan O'Neal, med hvem hun fik en søn, Redmond.

I 2006 fik hun konstateret cancer, som hun i første omgang tilsyneladende blev kureret for, men sygdommen brød ud igen, og den kostede hende til sidst livet.

Litteratur
 Nicolas Barbano: Farrah på færde (PS Pige-Special nr. 2, 1996)

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Eksterne henvisninger

 Farrah Fawcett på Find a Grave

Skuespillere fra USA
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