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FOR SALE OR LEASE - Located less than 1-mile from US-36 Hwy. Industrial/warehouse space featuring 34,530 square feet located on a 3.72-acre lot. The building is zoned M-1, and the parking lot is zoned C-1. The property was formerly operated as a grocery store. The building can be divided into multiple lease units and also build to suit. The parking lot can be purchased separately with the possibility for pad site development. The building features 14' ceilings (ceiling height to bottom of joists measures 15' on north side and 13' on south side), a loading dock and drive-through door on the west side, 3-phase electrical with 2000 AMP–120/208v, 2" water service line, 6" fire service line, a sprinkler system that has been certified and is up to code. 2022 UPDATES: New exterior paint, metal sheeting and insulation added to front of building, canopy roof and metal caps replaced, 12' front overhead door installed, some plumbing and electrical work done. 2020 UPDATES: Main roof replaced.
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You can use web services and authentication methods to connect other applications to Mahara. Depending on the type of integration you are seeking, you may be able to simply set the connection up in Mahara itself. In other cases, some development work may be needed.
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) allows learning applications like learning management systems (LMS) to talk to each other and exchange information in a standard way making it possible to easily connect the systems without extensive configuration each time.
At the moment Mahara supports LTI for authentication purposes.
The following describe how you can connect Mahara to some learning management systems via LTI.
In order to use LTI for authentication purposes, you need to complete the setup on Mahara as well as on the LMS.
Instructions are provided for Canvas and Moodle later one. If you use a different LMS, please check that documentation on how to set up an LTI connection.
You need to ensure that LTI is enabled for your Mahra site. You do that by activating it in the Plugin administration.
The LTI plugin is enabled when there are no warning signs on the plugin page and the text at the top reads "The LTI API is enabled".
You can enable LTI for an institution as site administrator. Institution administrators cannot set up LTI for their own institution.
Go to Administration → Extensions → Web services → External apps.
Application: Give your application that you want to connect a name. This is an identifier that only you need to understand.
Choose the institution in which you want to set up the application.
Select "LTI integration" from the drop-down menu.
Click the Add button to generate the consumer key and secret.
If your institution does not already have the "Web services" authentication method, it will be added automatically.
if you want to see more options and make a decision on them.
At the moment, you can only choose to have users created automatically when they log in via LTI for the first time. Setting the switch to "Yes" is typically a good thing because then any user from your LMS can go into Mahara directly without having to have an account set up beforehand.
See further down for information on using LTI with another authentication method.
Users log in via Mahara first and only then via LTI.
Users log in via LTI first and then via Mahara.
The first case, users log in via Mahara initially, is the easier one as you don't have to adjust their account settings manually. If users log in via LTI first, their authentication method needs to be adjusted so that they don't end up with two accounts.
Technically, you can use any authentication method that you have available in Mahara as second authentication method for LTI, including MNet. However, since MNet doesn't allow you to log in via the Mahara homepage and LTI is a replacement for MNet, this authentication method is not mentioned as one to be connected.
You can set the SAML authentication method as parent authentication method to LTI. That allows people to log in via SAML or LTI and be put into the same account.
This is currently only possible for SAML authentication but not for LDAP / Active Directory or a third-party authentication method.
next to the LTI app on Administration → Web services → External apps.
Institution: The institution for which you created the LTI app is listed.
Auto-create users: Flip the switch to "Yes" if you want to allow anybody who has access to the LTI link to create an account automatically.
Parent authority: Select the authentication method that should be the parent to LTI thus allowing people to log in directly via both and be in the same account.
Your users can log in via Mahara and the LMS.
Ensure that the authentication method that your users shall use is set up for your institution.
Make sure that you have web services set up as authentication method as well for your institution.
Complete the setup of the integration on your LMS of choice.
Ask your users to log into Mahara first, set up their accounts manually or via a CSV file, synchronize their accounts via LDAP, or have accounts auto-created by SAML on first login.
Log in on the Mahara homepage.
Your account is set up if it doesn't already exist.
Click the link that takes you into your portfolio. You can often find that link in the course in which you are asked to create a portfolio or on your profile page in your LMS.
You get access to the same account that you had already set up on Mahara.
If you want your users to log in via LTI first and then Mahara, you need to change the authentication method of the users to make the second authentication method, i.e. internal, LDAP, SAML or IMAP, the primary one. If you don't do that, a second account will be created.
The following describes the work flow and includes the steps that you need to take in order to allow a user to log in via both authentication methods if they logged in via LTI first.
Your users go to the LMS and click the link to the portfolio, which creates an account for them.
If you leave things here and don't continue with the next steps, and your users log in via the Mahara homepage, they will have a second account created.
Change the authentication method of the user to the non-LTI one. In the case of single sign-on via the SAML plugin, you will also need to provide a remote username.
You can learn how to change the authentication method for internal and LDAP accounts and for accounts that require a remote username.
You can set up the LTI connection to Mahara either for all your courses in Canvas or for a single course.
The advantage of setting up the connection for your entire instance of Canvas is that your teachers do not have to set up the connection themselves and everybody connects to the same instance of Mahara and to the same institution.
If you want to ive more control to what institution in Mahara your learners shall connect, you can set up the LTI connection on the course level.
You can choose to set up the connection via the Edu App Center or via manual configuration. The manual configuration allows you to open Mahara in its own window rather than within Canvas.
When you set up Mahara via the Edu App Center, your Mahara instance is opened as iframe within Canvas reducing the space you have available to view Mahara. You will always see the Canvas navigation around it as well.
For security reasons, Mahara prevents being embedded as iframe in another website. If you want to use the Edu App Center and not set up Mahara manually (just slightly longer setup time), you will need to disable a security feature on Mahara, which is not recommended. You can do so by adding $cfg->sameoriginframes = false; to your config.php.
If you want to have Mahara opened in a separate window, you can follow the setup instructions for that.
Click Settings in your Canvas site or course.
If you choose to put the link in your site, all courses will have the link in their navigation. If you decide to put the link only into your course, only your course participants will be able to access Mahara.
Click the Apps tab. You have access to the Edu App Center.
Search for "mahara" in the search field.
Click the Mahara app that is presented to you. You are taken to a screen that shows you more information about the app itself.
Click the Add App button to start the configuration.
In order to add the connection to Mahara, you need to have set up Canvas as external tool in Mahara for your institution because you require the consumer key and consumer secret.
Name: You can decide what you want to call the app. The name you choose here will be the one displayed in your course navigation.
Consumer Key: Paste the consumer key from Mahara for the LTI connection that you set up earlier.
Shared Secret: Paste the consumer secret from Mahara for the LTI connection that you set up earlier.
Launch URL: Paste the URL of your Mahara instance.
Click the Add App button to finish the setup.
Click the Close button or the Close icon to abort the setup.
The app appears in your course navigation when you refresh the page.
Click the app to be authenticated in your Mahara instance.
If you already have an account in the institution in Mahara with the email address you use in Canvas, you are taken to that account.
If your email address does not yet exist in Mahara and you allowed for automatic account creation, an account will be set up for you.
If your email address exists in Mahara but you are not a member of the institution for which you set up the Canvas integration, you receive an error message and will need to become a member of that institution before you can log in via Canvas.
The manual setup of the connection to Mahara is also easy.
Click the View App Configurations button.
Click the App button to add your Mahara app manually.
You add the details for your Mahara instance in the pop-up window.
Configuration Type: Select "By URL". The configuration parameters are available in your Mahara instance.
Click the Submit button to finish the setup.
Click the Cancel button or the Close icon to abort the setup.
Tool name: Give a name that your teachers will recognize.
Tool description: This field is optional. Providing a description will help your teachers to identify the tool more easily.
Default launch container: Choose "New window" or "Existing window". Do not choose to embed Mahara. That will not work as you are not allowed to embed Mahara into other websites. Furthermore, it will reduce the space that you have available to work in Mahara.
Secure icon URL: If you don't want to display the regular Moodle icon for external tools, you can provide a link to your favorite icon. It is recommended that you provide one that sits on your Mahara site and has the dimensions needed by Moodle for best results.
Force SSL: You can use LTI in Mahara only via SSL (unless you have a test instance). Tick this box to ensure that the connection is done via SSL only. That requires that Moodle also runs over SSL, which is recommended.
Click the Save changes button to accept the configuration or the Cancel button if you want to abort setting up the tool.
You do not have to make changes to any of the other settings on the page.
If Mahara was already set up as external tool on the site level in Moodle, a teacher only needs to select it when adding the "External tool" activity in Moodle.
Activity name: Give your activity a title.
Preconfigured tool: Select your Mahara instance from the drop-down menu. It may not be called "Mahara". Certain fields are not editable when you choose this option as they are determined by the existing site-wide configuration.
Click the Show more… link if you want to make some additional changes.
Click the Save and return to course button to be taken back to your course page, click the Save and display button to launch into Mahara immediately, or click the Cancel button to abort adding Mahara to your course as activity.
You can set up the connection to Mahara also on the activity level in Moodle without having preconfigured it first on the site level. This can be beneficial if your course is the only one connecting to a specific Mahara site that other courses should not have access to.
If everyone should have access to the same Mahara site, setting up a preconfiguration on the site level is advised though.
Activity description: Provide a description of your activity. This field is optional.
Preconfigured tool: Select "Automatic, based on tool URL".
You could use the "Tool URL" field, but since web services in Mahara only work over SSL (unless you have a developer instance), choosing the "Secure tool URL" is recommended.
Launch container: Choose "New window" or "Existing window". Do not choose to embed Mahara. That will not work as you are not allowed to embed Mahara into other websites. Furthermore, it will reduce the space that you have available to work in Mahara.
You can set up the connection to Mahara via LTI through the built-in "Basic LTI Tools" in Blackboard.
An administrator needs to set up an LTI tool before it can be added to a course.
When you are in the Building Blocks area, select LTI Tool Providers to start setting up the connection to Mahara.
On the next screen, click the Register Provider Domain button.
Provider Domain: Enter the URL of your Mahara site.
Provider Domain Status: If you want to use the LTI connection, you should select "Approved".
Default Configuration: You can decide whether to provide a separate configuration for each instance in which you want to use LTI in a course or set it globally.
Set separately for each link: Use this option if you want to connect to different institutions in one Mahara instance. Note that you will need to provide the consumer key and secret each time you want to add an LTI building block to a course.
Set globally: Use this option when everyone shall enter the same institution in Mahara. You do not need to provide the consumer key and secret when a link to Mahara is added in a course as it is set here.
Tool Provider Key: Paste the consumer key from Mahara for the LTI connection that you set up earlier.
Tool Provider Secret: Paste the consumer secret from Mahara for the LTI connection that you set up earlier.
Tool Provider Customised Parameters: Enter the following parameter: wsfunction=module_lti_launch.
Never: No user data is sent.
Send user data only over SSL: User data is sent encrypted. This option is the preferred option for production sites. The web services in Mahara require that an SSL connection is established unless you are connection to a site that is not in production mode.
Send user data over any connection: You can choose this option because web services in Mahara require an SSL connection when in production mode. This option is useful for testing purposes as your testing instance may not have an SSL certificate.
User Fields to be Sent: Select, which user fields you want to send across to Mahara.
Role in Course: Currently, Mahara ignores this field.
Name: The first name and last name are sent to Mahara.
Email Address: The email address of the person clicking the LTI link is sent to Mahara.
Show User Acknowledgement Message: You can require anyone clicking the link to acknowledge that they are getting set up on Mahara. This can be useful if you want to provide a special message upon logging in.
Message Text: Enter the text for the "User Acknowledgement Message".
Click the Submit button to continue or click the Cancel button to abort the changes.
When you are back on the LTI Tool Providers screen, make a right mouse click on the Mahara URL and select Manage Placements in order to create a placement for your courses. On the following screen, click the Create Placement link.
Label: Give your connection a name that is displayed to students and teachers in the course.
Description: You can enter a description for the connection.
Handle: Give the placement a unique name. It does not appear in the course navigation.
Availability: Choose to make the placement available or not. If you select "No", you can prepare the placement, but your students will not see it.
Type: The type decides how students can interact with the tool. Choose "Content Type" and select the "Tools" option.
Icon: You can upload a custom icon for the placement to identify it more easily. The icon needs to have the dimensions 50 x 50 pixels.
Tool Provider URL: Enter the URL of your Mahara site.
Click the "Mahara" placement in your course navigation.
Select the Mahara LTI tool. Note: You may have given it a different name than is displayed here.
Name: You can change the default name if you want to display a different one.
Colour of Name: Choose the color of the link in the course.
Description: Enter a description if you like that is displayed to the students and teachers in the course.
Permit Users to View this Content: Decide whether students and teachers can see the link in the course.
Track Number of Views: Decide whether you want to include the clicking of the link in your reporting.
Select Date and Time Restrictions: Enter a date and time if you want to make the link available automatically at a specific time.
Your link is now ready to be used. Students and teachers in the course can log into Mahara via it.
For security reasons, Mahara prevents being embedded as iframe in another website. However, it seems that there is no setting in Blackboard to allow Mahara to be opened in a new window or on top of the Blackboard site. If that is the case for you, you will need to disable a security feature on Mahara, which is not recommended. You can do so by adding $cfg->sameoriginframes = false; to your config.php.


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Crotalus willardi Meek, 1905
Crotalus
Crotalus willardi
Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake in English
Víbora-cascabel bigotuda in Spanish
Willard-Klapperschlange in language.
willardi in English
Anderson, J. D. (1962) A new subspecies of the ridge-nosed rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi, from Chihuahua, Mexico.: Copeia 1962 (1): 160-163
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
Barker, David G. (1992) Variation, Infraspecific Relationships and Biogeography of the Ridgenose Rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi. In Biology of the Pit vipers, edited by Jonathan A. Campbell and Edmund D. Brodie.: Selva, Tyler, Texas, pp. 89-105
Beaman, K.R. & Hayes, W.K. (2008) Rattlesnakes: Research Trends and Annotated Checklist. In: Hayes et al. (eds), The biology of rattlesnakes.: Loma Linda University Press, pp. 5-16
Bezy, Robert L. and Charles J. Cole (2014) Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico.: American Museum Novitates (3810): 1-24
Bryson, R.W. (2007) Fotopirsch auf Gebirgsklapperschlangen.: Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 32-37
Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. (1989) The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America.: Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Crother, B. I. (ed.) (2012) Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition.: Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
Davis MA, Douglas MR, Webb CT, Collyer ML, Holycross AT, Painter CW, et al. (2015) Nowhere to Go but Up: Impacts of Climate Change on Demographics of a Short-Range Endemic (Crotalus willardi obscurus) in the Sky-Islands of Southwestern North America.: PLoS ONE 10(6): e0131067. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131067
Degenhardt, William G.; C. W. Painter, and A. H. Price (1996) Amphibians and reptiles of New Mexico.: Univ. New Mexico Press, 431 pp.
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Harris, H. Jr., R. S. Simmons (1976) Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 12 (1): 5
Hartman, Frank A. (1911) Description of a little-known rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi, from Arizona.: Proc. US Natl. Mus. 39: 569-570
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4 idols drew netizens' attention for their sexy outfits on SBS Gayo Daejun stage
Irene, Hwasa, Kai, Momo went to the top of the search because of their bold sexy outfits than ever before.
Irene (Red Velvet)
Red Velvet's leader is the most surprising idol last afternoon with an off-shoulder shirt, showing off her bare shoulders and collarbone and a full bust. The public was surprised at Irene's boldness on stage.
Irene reached the top of the search for her beautiful face, classy visuals at the end of the year event. However, fans were worried because the female singer's outfit was quite tight and it might not be suitable for performing on stage.
Red Velvet performs at SBS Gayo Daejun
Kai (EXO)
EXO's Center had an extremely hot solo dance performance with Love Shot. The SM star takes off his shirt to show off the 6-pack abdominal muscles that burn the eyes of the viewers. Kai also wears gun accessories which created a bad boy image and the sexiness that is hard to resist.
Kai wore a crop-top but did not lose his masculinity because of his attractive charisma. The EXO member is one of the sexiest male singers on stage.
Kai's solo dance
Hwasa didn't seem to pay attention to the controversy at the Japanese MAMA awards ceremony and continued to wear a bold outfit which showed her figures and made of see-through material. The Mamamoo members make netizen shocked because of lingerie-like costumes.
Many people worry that Hwas's shirt will be in trouble because it is too fragile. Hwasa has always proved her own bold personality without caring about the uncompromising criticism from anti-fan.
Hwasa wore sexy outfits with the lack of fabric
Momo (Twice)
Twice has a Christmas themed performance and wore red-toned outfits. Momo's off-shoulder shirt is quite revealing
The design could make Momo's chest revealed when she was dancing too hard on SBS Gayo Daejun's stage.
Source: iOne
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Used to be criticized for her look, JooE shuts down antis with her visuals
2018 SBS Gayo Daejun: These 2 groups were suspected of lip-syncing the whole time


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Q: How to check if file is in use? I have c++ application and I need to know if one file is in use by anyone. I'm ok with running any shell command, but I don't want to run lsof command for this purpose, since I think I can't safely assume that lsof will be available on all OS, or can I safely assume that?

A: You can assume that lsof ships on all macOS and you can also check the existence of that command before you call it, logging a nice friendly error message and or log message as you see fit if you want to code defensively.
You could also ask on a code-focused site what API exist to check for file existence if you want to go into specific C++ code (which would be off topic here), but from your question assuming you can call any command line tool, your overall design is fine to execute in a C++ program on macOS.

A: My friend, you might use lsof, or the builtin 'fuser'.
sudo fuser -fu [FILEPATH AND FILENAME]

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The purpose of this research was to develop and administer a series of treatments that resulted in evidence of Visual Problem Solving ability changes and increased levels of visual differentiation in children. Piaget has posited the possibility of a lag in the exhibition of new percepts in observable form due to psychomotor limitations. Gibson and Gagne have described various components of visual perceptual growth that emphasize first hand experiences in the environment and a problem solving orientation as possible perceptual affectors. A series of Visual Problem Solving tasks were constructed that employed the medium of photography and encouraged children to closely attend to stimuli in the visual array.The sample utilized in this investigation was comprised of 75 students equally divided between three intact second and third grade level combined classroom groups at the Burris Laboratory School, Muncie, Indiana. The three groups were assigned to experimental or control group status by use of a table of random numbers. One group received Visual Problem Solving training that stressed Perceptual Principles; a second group received Visual Problem Solving training that emphasized the traditionally taught Visual Elements of Design; and a third group served as a control which received no specific training or treatments. The subjects in all three groups were pre- and post-tested using the Children's Embedded Figures Test (CEFT) and the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT) as measures of visual perceptual functioning. In addition to these standardized instruments, a rating scale was developed expressly for this study. The Dunn Photographic Rating Scale (DPRS) was employed for measurement of possible visual information handling differences between Groups 1 and 2 with regard to photographic activities.The data collected during this research was subjected to multivariate analysis of variance and covariance. Correlation coefficients were computed to evaluate possible relationships between the measures and to obtain estimates of instrument reliability. An alpha level of .05 was employed to test the null hypotheses. Review of the data led to the following conclusions:Subjects receiving treatments that emphasized Visual Problem Solving in conjunction with Perceptual Principles achieved significantly higher results on the Children's Embedded Figures Test than subjects in the other two groups.Analysis of data obtained from subject performance on the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test was inconclusive.Photographic performance as measured by the Dunn Photographic Rating Scale uncovered significant differences between the Perceptual Principles Group and the Elements of Design Group. The Perceptual Principles Group achieved significantly higher levels throughout the five treatments.The most important general finding in this investigation concerned the facilitating effect between Visual Problem Solving methodologies and photographic activity by children. Increases in visual perceptual performance by Perceptual Principles Group 1 provided strong support for instructional strategies that seek to guide children in the formation of higher order visual rules, and contiguity in the application of these guidelines. The evidence tentatively suggested that the photographic medium may have provided a form of visual perceptual activity that increased the mobility of the perceiver, thereby increasing the perceiver's first hand experiences with the environment and ability to isolate visual data. In addition, the lack of emphasis on psychomotor development engendered by the photographic medium was considered to be of value in eliciting new percepts in visual form.


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Michael, Brother of Jerry By: Jack London (1876-1916)
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY
Very early in my life, possibly because of the insatiable curiosity that was born in me, I came to dislike the performances of trained animals. It was my curiosity that spoiled for me this form of amusement, for I was led to seek behind the performance in order to learn how the performance was achieved. And what I found behind the brave show and glitter of performance was not nice. It was a body of cruelty so horrible that I am confident no normal person exists who, once aware of it, could ever enjoy looking on at any trained animal turn.
Now I am not a namby pamby. By the book reviewers and the namby pambys I am esteemed a sort of primitive beast that delights in the spilled blood of violence and horror. Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution chamber and the lazar house, to the battlefield and the military hospital. I have seen horrible deaths and mutilations. I have seen imbeciles hanged, because, being imbeciles, they did not possess the hire of lawyers. I have seen the hearts and stamina of strong men broken, and I have seen other men, by ill treatment, driven to permanent and howling madness. I have witnessed the deaths of old and young, and even infants, from sheer starvation. I have seen men and women beaten by whips and clubs and fists, and I have seen the rhinoceros hide whips laid around the naked torsos of black boys so heartily that each stroke stripped away the skin in full circle. And yet, let me add finally, never have I been so appalled and shocked by the world's cruelty as have I been appalled and shocked in the midst of happy, laughing, and applauding audiences when trained animal turns were being performed on the stage.
One with a strong stomach and a hard head may be able to tolerate much of the unconscious and undeliberate cruelty and torture of the world that is perpetrated in hot blood and stupidity. I have such a stomach and head. But what turns my head and makes my gorge rise, is the cold blooded, conscious, deliberate cruelty and torment that is manifest behind ninety nine of every hundred trained animal turns. Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained animal world.
Possessed myself of a strong stomach and a hard head, inured to hardship, cruelty, and brutality, nevertheless I found, as I came to manhood, that I unconsciously protected myself from the hurt of the trained animal turn by getting up and leaving the theatre whenever such turns came on the stage. I say "unconsciously." By this I mean it never entered my mind that this was a programme by which the possible death blow might be given to trained animal turns. I was merely protecting myself from the pain of witnessing what it would hurt me to witness.
But of recent years my understanding of human nature has become such that I realize that no normal healthy human would tolerate such performances did he or she know the terrible cruelty that lies behind them and makes them possible. So I am emboldened to suggest, here and now, three things:
First, let all humans inform themselves of the inevitable and eternal cruelty by the means of which only can animals be compelled to perform before revenue paying audiences. Second, I suggest that all men and women, and boys and girls, who have so acquainted themselves with the essentials of the fine art of animal training, should become members of, and ally themselves with, the local and national organizations of humane societies and societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
And the third suggestion I cannot state until I have made a preamble. Like hundreds of thousands of others, I have worked in other fields, striving to organize the mass of mankind into movements for the purpose of ameliorating its own wretchedness and misery... Continue reading book >>
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The agricultural livestock field will have to undergo systematic changes to cope with food security and sustainability problems in a climate-changed world, according to a new report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences.
By the year 2050, demand for animal protein is predicted to go up significantly as the global population reaches between 9 billion and 10 billion people. Meat and egg consumption is expected to increase 73 percent from 2011 levels, and dairy consumption will likely go up by 58 percent. In order to meet the rising demand, animal scientists will need to develop more sustainable production practices, while also dealing with climate change's effects on yields and on animal and human well-being, explained the report's authors.
In addition to climate change, the nearly 300-page report addressed a broad range of other factors affecting future sustainability and food security, including landscape degradation, pest control and the spread of disease.
"The simple broad message of this report is that too much research has been siloed or fragmented into specialty sections," said B.T. Turner II, Gilbert F. White professor of environment and society at Arizona State University and member of the committee. "We need a systems-based approach."
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For animal scientists, that would mean greater integration of environmental, economic and social sciences into their studies, starting in the very early stages of their research, said Mo Salman, a member of the committee and professor of veterinary epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University.
For instance, research on reducing the amount of methane produced by cattle could involve not only animal nutritionists to evaluate different feed rations, but also agricultural economists needed to predict the demand for beef and dairy, and atmospheric scientists to look at the local and global effects of greenhouse gas emissions.
Social scientists could also help define cultural norms that make it harder for the community to understand and accept certain research or management practices, according to Bernard Goldstein, the committee chairman and professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
The report offered a wide range of recommendations for how the animal science field would need to change to sustainably meet growing global demands for animal protein.
In the United States, the committee recommended more research on developing climate change strategies that were both adaptive and mitigative. These strategies would take into account agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants affecting nitrogen and carbon cycling. The committee members also recommended more research on water efficiency, since about 98 percent of animal agriculture's water use comes from producing feedstuffs.
While organic farming has been put forward as one way to produce food in a more environmentally sustainable way, the committee rejected widespread adoption of the farming practice because it did not consider it possible at this time to scale up organic production to a commercial scale.
Much of the existing animal science research has focused on the United States. However, some of the greatest changes in agricultural production will have to happen in developing nations, and a substantial portion of the report was devoted to animal scientists' role in addressing food security on a global scale.
Demand for animal protein is supposed to increase rapidly in the developing world in the coming decades due to population growth and higher per-capita income, with some of the greatest demand increases in China, Southeast Asia and Africa. Poultry and eggs will be particularly important sources of food, accounting for 50 percent of the increase in global animal protein consumption within the next decade.
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At the same time, an estimated 2.5 billion people are predicted to move into urban areas by 2050, representing a 90 percent increase in the urban population in Africa and Asia.
"As a result, the potential for agricultural production to meet the demands of a growing urbanized population in the developing world is a topic of serious concern," the report's authors wrote.
To meet the demand, the committee recommended more widespread adoption of intensified farming practices, like those used in the United States. This would also include introducing controversial technologies like the use of growth hormones in dairy cattle and some antimicrobial use in feed to increase production rates.
While it may take a decade or more before the animal science field can fully transition to a more integrative approach, some committee members expressed optimism that research would become more integrated.
"I think the future is very bright," Salman said. "I think the entire research community is in favor of working together."
Animal science researchers could relatively quickly transition to looking at complete systems from "conception to consumption," Salman said. Yet long-term change within the field would have to start with funding agencies, including private-sector funding agencies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he said.
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The committee specifically called for the creation of a joint task force organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the recently formed Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR), Goldstein said.
The proposed task force would include representatives from federal agencies, academia and the private sector.
"If you can get these groups to come out and create a strategic plan, that would reverberate through the industry and the USDA," Turner said.
The agency is in the process of reviewing the report, and it was still too early to say whether a task force may be created, said Damon Thompson, director of communications for the USDA Research, Education and Economics Mission Area.
In a statement released last week, Catherine Woteki, the USDA's chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics, said the report emphasized the urgency of the agency's investments in scientific and agricultural research, as well as education and extension programs.
"This National Academy of Science report highlights the importance and need to increase animal science research and our investment in meeting future animal protein needs, both domestically and globally, through sustainable agriculture," Woteki said. "It also emphasizes the need to revitalize our research infrastructure."
Funding for the report was provided by the USDA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, the National Pork Board, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Tyson Foods Inc., and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association.
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Bob Edwards, Working in His Office
This week on SummersTime, Charlie gets to turn the tables on National Radio Hall of Fame inductee Bob Edwards! After 30-years at National Public Radio, and almost 25-years hosting its flagship program Morning Edition, he left that organization to create the first satellite-radio-produced public radio program, The Bob Edwards Show, and later its companion show Bob Edwards Weekend, the first-ever satellite radio program to be sold to terrestrial stations. Bob talks about his career, his satellite radio program which is ending this week, and even a little Old-Time Radio talk!
For those of you who heard our interview on the final Bob Edwards Weekend, there are a few more questions and answers, and even some clips from Bob's (and my) favorite interviews! First airing is September 28th at 6:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 Pacific with repeats throughout the week!
SummersTime is the Radio Once More show hosted by father-and-daughter team Kate and Charlie Summers. Their goal is to pick awesome Old-Time Radio shows that they share with each other, and then play them for you, too! Airtime schedule is posted both at the SummersTime website and at Radio Once More!
Here's another promo for the show with some clips to whet your appetite!
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Kate starts things off with Strange Wills, I present two WOR audition shows presenting Superman, she works on The Big Story, and I make a sandwich with The Wonder Show!
We Have a Special SummersTime Next Week!
On next week's SummersTime, Charlie gets to turn the tables on National Radio Hall of Fame inductee Bob Edwards! After 30-years at National Public Radio, and almost 25-years hosting its flagship program Morning Edition, he left that organization to create the first satellite-radio-produced public radio program, The Bob Edwards Show, and later its companion show Bob Edwards Weekend, the first-ever satellite radio program to be sold to terrestrial stations. Bob talks about his career, his satellite radio program which is ending next week, and even a little Old-Time Radio talk!
Be sure to join us for this special program!
Here's a promo for the show with some clips to get you started!
Filed under: Old-Time Radio — Charlie Summers @ 12:07 pm
This week, we're going to the theatre! Kate takes the afternoon off school for Matinee Theater, I repeat myself with Encore Theater, she is struck with Four Star Playhouse, and I make it short with NBC Presents: Short Story!
Kate tempts the Diary Of Fate, I join The Line Up, she joins the masses with Vox Pop, and I ride the range with Luke Slaughter!
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Filed under: Old-Time Radio — Charlie Summers @ 2:33 pm
This show marks the beginning of our third year doing the show! Kate enjoys a The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, I remember Lauren Bacall by playing an episode of Bold Venture, she takes a snapshot with Crime Photographer, and I remember announcer Don Pardo from something other than Saturday Night Live by playing an episode of Barry Craig!
Kate joins The Free Company, I join the sleuth for an Adventures of Ellery Queen, she listens to someone she met with Ethel & Albert, and I try to matriculate in The Halls of Ivy!
SummersTime August 11, 2014 [119:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This week we remember Patricia "Pat" Hosley, who passed away at the age of 90, by playing programs from the Golden Age in which she starred. We play an episode The Brighter Day, one from X Minus One, of course we play an episode of The Adventures of Archie Andrews, a Cavalcade of America, and we close with an episode of The Magnificent Montague.
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Kate makes a Forcast, I get a house call from Dr. Tim, Detective, she walks the night with Rocky Fortune, and I laugh at the Eddie Bracken Show!
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Kate becomes the sidekick of The Blue Beetle, I let it ride with Double Or Nothing, she learns about The City, and I Meet Miss Sherlock!
This week, Kate has some Adventures In Research, I spend an Hour of Mystery, and she goes Behind the Mike!
AOL is Blocking the Digest again…
Filed under: General, Old-Time Radio — Charlie Summers @ 12:25 pm
Sorry, AOL users, but they are yet again blocking the Digest. Not sure what a, "Remote Protocol Error" means, but all subscribers using AOL missed issue #66. Info on retrieving that issue, once AOL gets its act together, is available at the bottom of every issue.
Peg Lynch - A Video Tribute
Filed under: Old-Time Radio, Television — Charlie Summers @ 4:06 pm
We spent Tuesday afternoon laughing.
Kate and I have been looking at video footage of Peg Lynch, performing, chatting, and otherwise entertaining from various conventions around the country. I come away from this with the realization that the woman doesn't appear to be able to tell a bad story, or a story badly. Indeed, I'm going to be hard-pressed to choose what we're going to run on next week's SummersTime to honor her…we watched the footage and laughed most of the afternoon. Kate was even able to find the performance recording of Ethel and Albert with Bob Dryden as Albert from the 1995 Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, as well as video with Jess Cain and Arthur Anderson performing Albert.
Here, from the final Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention in 2012, with our thanks to Chairman Bob Burchett, is Peg Lynch; first telling a story about receiving an interesting letter from a fan, and then performing one of her classic Ethel and Albert scripts with Bob Hastings as Albert.
Thank you, Peg.
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Peg Lynch, Writer and Star of Early Situation Comedy, Dies at 98
From The New York Times: Peg Lynch, Writer and Star of Early Situation Comedy, Dies at 98
Thank heavens Kate got to meet this amazing woman. I will be posting a tribute later this week with some video and such, as soon as I get a few permissions and the clips together.
SummersTime for the week of 06/30/2014 - Special Live Edition!
It's a special live edition of the show, recorded at the 2014 Nostalgia Expo in Blue Ash, Ohio! Our guest this week is Jon Provost, best known for portraying Lassie's best friend, Timmy! And not only do we hear the complete interview, but we'll also listen to the Lux Radio Theater version of his first film, "So Big," and an episode of the late-40's series starring Lassie!
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RIP Alice Anderson
October 23, 2004; Alice Anderson accepts the Allen Rockford Award from husband Arthur Anderson and Jay Hickerson
Craig Wichman reports that Alice Anderson, wife of Let's Pretend and Mercury Theater star Arthur Anderson, passed away yesterday morning.
Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention attendees all knew Alice…she was frequently at the registration table, and otherwise at Arthur's side, taking care of the mundane so Arthur could concentrate on the art of performing and directing old-time radio performances. She was an amazing woman, always ready with a smile and encouraging word, yet fiercely protective of Arthur. I sometimes joked that we invited Arthur every year just so we could spend some time with Alice.
She was short of stature, but a huge presence at the convention. She will be remembered.
It's a special live edition of the show, recorded at the 2014 Nostalgia Expo in Blue Ash, Ohio! Our guest this week is Beverly Washburn, and not only do we hear the complete interview, but we also hear her rehearse the Jack Benny Program playing Mary Livingston, an aired episode of the Benny show where he runs into her on the street, and even an edited version of Family Theater!
RIP Joe Franklin
Filed under: Old-Time Radio, Television, Radio Today — Charlie Summers @ 3:09 pm
At the FOTR microphones in 2007: Will Jordan and Joe Franklin
Everyone who met Joe Franklin, who passed away yesterday, has a story about him to tell. This is mine, although it's probably valid for hundreds if not thousands of other people, too.
I spent a lot of years volunteering at the Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention in Newark, NJ. One of the things I did was act as assistant to Fred Berney, he of Satellite Media Production, who videotaped the convention for posterity. Since the videographer "ran the room," it was their responsibility to make sure everything was working and the dais was prepared for each panel throughout the day. In that role, I frequently spoke with Joe, who brought The Joe Franklin Show to the convention each year. (It is thanks to Joe that I can honestly say, "I shot Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara," every time I see one of them on television.)
At every meeting, I would say something clever like, "Hello, Mr. Franklin, great to have you with us again this year," to which he would inevitably respond with, in his lightening-fast delivery and unabashed New York accent, something like, "Hey, hiya Charlie, haven't seen you in a while…how'ya been, Charlie?"
Now look, I'm not an idiot. I know he was grabbing my name from a quick glance at my convention name tag. I understand intellectually that he didn't know me from Adam, and was just doing a schick he performed countless times every day.
And I didn't care. For a moment, the great man knew me. And I was on top of the world.
Now if the guy could take a nobody like me and make him feel that important, imagine what he could do to someone who actually mattered. That is exactly how Joe Franklin became Joe Franklin…how he managed to have the great and the small show up in his studio and spend some time chatting and trading quips.
Joe is one of the many things I desperately miss with the end of the FOTR convention. And now, we'll all miss Joe. But thanks, Mr. Franklin, for making me feel so d*mned special.
First up, Kate goes to the White House with Mr. President, I become an expat as An American in England, she turns the Lights Out, and I enter the Author's Playhouse!


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Q: android Update location even when app is in background I have an app that uses Google Maps geofencing. (Whenever the user crosses into a fence, it triggers a PendingIntent which handles the event)
The issue is, I can't seem to get my app to update location in the background.
My current code looks like this
protected void createLocationRequest() {
        LocationRequest mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
        mLocationRequest.setInterval(INTERVAL_IN_MILLISECONDS);
        mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(FASTEST_INTERVAL_MILLISECONDS);
        mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);

        if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            Toast.makeText(this, "user permissions have blocked the app from getting location updates", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            return;
        }
        LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient, mLocationRequest, this);
    }

In my activity, with the change listener.
@Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "testing message, at location " + location, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

I'm getting location updates while the app is in the foreground, as evident by OnLocationChanged and my geofences both being triggered correctly. But when the app is in the background, my geofences aren't triggered until I enter the app.
I don't even need a callback, just for the phone to check it's current location.
Any way to get location updates in the background as well?


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Formula One Design Idea Could Save Open-wheel Motor Racing
While some people have dubbed it a futuristic spin on the long-held aspiration of having a closed cockpit, others believe that it is the future of safety in motor racing. It is the new concept of a closed-cockpit McLaren designed by Dutch innovator Andries van Overbeeke. The car is part of a new series of re-imagined Formula One cars he has christened "Echoes of a Nearby Future." It is a revolutionary design that has come just at the right time; i.e. at a time when open-wheel racing is struggling to survive the tests of time.
Despite the launching of a wild new aerodynamics car package for Honda and Chevrolet cars earlier in the year by IndyCar, it did not bring the anticipated success for both. And now that Chevrolet appears to have benefited more from the deal -- winning nine out of the 13 races they have participated in so far -- Honda has refused to fully renew their IndyCar contract which is expiring at the end of this racing season. To add even more pain to the experience, a piece of one of the brand new aero kits in the series detached and injured a spectator during the first St. Petersburg race and led to a legal suit.
While all this is happening, the Formula One series is also losing its international ratings at an alarming rate. In addition to fans being irked by some of the most recent engine modifications and car redesigns, racing teams have also registered their displeasure with some cash and competition issues and even threatened to quit altogether. In another twist of events, the series courted a lot of controversy when it saw some of its most renowned racers recently punching down at the all-electric young series Formula E.
Another thing is the persistent struggle that is dogging car counts at the local short tracks all over the country. Here, though open-wheel racing is being held each Saturday night, it is done on very meager funds. Most of the races here never get to have a chance for even local broadcasting, with the few that are lucky end up having their coverage getting buried under tons of other content on premium cable TV networks.
Several Threats Still Hinder the Survival of Open-Wheel Racing
Apart from grappling with popularity on all its frontiers, an even larger threat that open-wheel racing faces, as its name suggests, is safety. Unlike in stock-car racing where tires can run almost flush with the car body even if cars bang against one another, wheels in open-wheel racing are exposed and can lead to a lot of danger in case of a crash.
Innovative designers have tried to remedy the situation by coming up with safety designs like walls protected using safer barriers; compulsory head-&-neck restraints like HANS devices; and racing cars whose crashing process is more efficient and protective to both its body and the driver; etc. All these have worked to add extra layers of safety to motorsports, but they are still not sufficient because the most dangerous wrecks still occur if wheels hit against each other in a crash.
It is for this particular reason that bumper "pods" have been identified as one of the killers of open-wheel racing, quite literally. Some motorsport series have tried to keep pace with safety designs being implemented in other series by trying to cushion their cars' front and back wheels with extra protective material. Both IndyCar and Formula E cars have done this. This small transformation that is meant to help reduce the destruction caused during accidents is nevertheless arguably altering the nature of open-wheel racing.
In a real sense, however, the risk of danger arising from wheels hitting each other in case of an accident is so large that another solution needs to be sought. This is where the idea of designing a sealed and more rigid cockpit came from. Racers want to avoid a repeat of the events of the accident like the one that killed Dan Wheldon in Las Vegas in 2011.
Just recently, Nelson Piquet Jr. barely survived a bone-chilling upside-down crash during IndyCar's supporting motorsport series, while Kimi Raikkonen almost got his head crashed just a few weeks after asking Formula One organizers to make the race even "riskier". These events prompted IndyCar to decide to dial back speeds during the Indy 500 after seeing several cars go airborne during racing. And just this month, Formula One driver Jules Bianchi succumbed to injuries he had sustained last October in a terrifying accident where he had crashed into a tractor during a race. During the crash, his head had been subjected to a force that was estimated to be in the neighborhood of 240 times the force of gravity, according to official findings.
The proposal to adopt a sealed cockpit is not new, especially in Formula One. Felipe Massa, who in a 2009 race had been hit on the head by a detached spring leading to a long period of coma, is the latest professional racer to add his voice and support to this endeavor. But there is one thing that sets van Overbeeke's design from the rest of the concept car fraternity: it does not have the baroque stylings that its peers are renowned for. While its design is simple, slick and looks fast, the car also reminds one of the late '80s and early '90s pinnacle of open-wheel racing. This is the time when Formula One had fierce competitors; the IndyCar name was synonymous with premier American motorsports and full of big names, while even short-track sprint car motor races were aired live on national TV weekly. Van Overbeeke's futuristic design looks very familiar to most people. It would, therefore, be difficult to fault somebody for mistaking the sealed cockpit McLaren car with Ayrton Senna's famous McLaren MP4, or those IndyCars sponsored by Marlboro that the likes of Rick Mears and Emerson Fittipaldi drive.
Since open-wheel racing cars are already equipped with what amounts to jet fighter cockpits, it is okay to move the extra mile and seal the cockpits off if only or the safety of their drivers. This can be done without any loss of the inherent fun found in open-wheel racing; in fact its futuristic design and look may even attract new fans. Thus, though Andries van Overbeeke's McLaren design concept enables us to have a glimpse of what the future possibly holds in terms of motorsport car designs, I believe so many of us would love to see it being implemented right now, even if on any track!
Image source: www.andriesvanoverbeeke.com
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Home"He really is Jewish" — Little Richard's lifelong love affair with Judaism
"He really is Jewish" — Little Richard's lifelong love affair with Judaism
Benjamin IvryMay 10, 2020Image by Getty Images
Little Richard, the rock and roll pioneer who died on May 9 at age 87, brought a galvanic charge to live performances of such songs as "Tutti Frutti," "Heebie Jeebies" and "Lucille," drawing sustained inspiration from what he considered to be a Jewish identity.
This self-definition went beyond what some writers have identified as emotional parallels between Little Richard's music and Jewish culture. Music historian Steven Lee Beeber described Little Richard's "Heebie Jeebies" as identical to the agitated feeling of pins-and-needles known in Yiddish as shpilkes. Little Richard's explosive stage shows were an extended restless leg syndrome, like a Pavlovian response to electric current. The singer himself repeatedly avowed that Jewishness played a part in this expression of energy.
In a 1972 BBC-TV interview to publicize The London Rock and Roll Show, a concert held at Wembley Stadium in August 1972, he described how other talents were inspired by him: "All of them came from me, po' little bitty me, a lil' Jewish boy, black bottom, from Georgia." The BBC interviewer Francis Fuchs, clearly nonplussed by this unsolicited remark, exhaled with an embarrassed giggle and changed the subject.
Little Richard's personal identities were wide-ranging, to put it mildly, and Judaism was more than a transitory interest. The American Jewish director Paul Mazursky, who cast Little Richard in his films "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986) and "The Pickle" (1993) noted in his memoirs that when the actor refused to shoot the former film on a Friday evening, Mazursky "figured it was a scam," but asked Little Richard's manager, who "responded with a straight face, 'He really is Jewish…"
In October 1985, shortly after the movie was completed, Little Richard was involved in a car crash. He told United Press International: "All I remembered when I awakened was I was in a Jewish hospital, and I said 'Thank God.'"
He was treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, by Dr. Edwin Gromis of the Young Israel of North Beverly Hills an orthopaedist who is still practicing. Dr. Gromis, along with an unnamed brother, also a physician, were taking care of the singer according to press reports, which may explain why he understood that it was a "Jewish hospital."
As Little Richard recovered, one of his bedside visitors was Bob Dylan, who in the 1980s was displaying interest in a return to Judaism. In December 1986, Florida's "Sun-Sentinel" reported under the headline LITTLE RICHARD HIGH ON JUDAISM that the singer "announced that he has converted to Judaism. Saying that he celebrated Rosh Hashanah while on tour in England this fall, he added, 'I've only missed going to synagogue one Saturday for the past year.' One supporter of his recent conversion was none other than Bob Dylan who, Richard said, 'spent seven hours at my bedside, talking about the importance of keeping the Sabbath' when Richard was in the hospital last year after being injured in a car wreck."
The following year, Playboy Magazine sent the film director John Waters to interview Little Richard. In response to the question "Are you Jewish now?" he said:
"There's something I prefer not saying. I will say this. I'm a believer in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I believe the seventh-day Sabbath is God's way. I believe we should eat kosher. I was invited to a party night before last. Rod Stewart's. I didn't go, because I open the Sabbath on Friday."
Persisting with the subject, Waters inquired if Bob Dylan had converted him to Judaism after the car accident. To which Little Richard only spoke of his closeness to his "blood brother" Dylan. Indeed, in his 1959 Hibbing High School yearbook in Minnesota, then-Robert Zimmerman had listed as his life's ambition "To join Little Richard," as if the singer were an evangelical movement.
Little Richard continually made this adherence a part of his stage routine, joking with a Ravinia Festival audience in 1998, according to the "Chicago Tribune" of January 2000,
"I'm the only Jewish guy in the business with a suntan."
More seriously, when the English art critic Waldemar Januszczak interviewed him, Little Richard inquired, "You're a Jew boy, ain't you?" Januszczak replied that he was of Polish origin, whereupon Little Richard insisted, as if his interlocutor were ashamed of his true origins, "Ain't nuttin' wrong with being Jewish!"
As fans familiar with his life story know, Little Richard, born in Macon, Georgia, was imbued in evangelical worship in Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) and Pentecostal churches.
In 1957, he enrolled at Oakwood College in Alabama, a black Seventh-day Adventist institution. He was ordained a minister in 1970 and was evangelizing again by 1977. His preaching underlined the importance of racial harmony, idealizing a peaceable kingdom in which beings of all origins could live together.
So Little Richard saw Judaism as not contradicting his other beliefs. During a June 2000 New York appearance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, he reminded the crowd that he was Jewish, specifying he "never works on Fridays," not even at high profile gigs such as Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Before singing the song "Old Time Rock and Roll," he asked for "two Jewish people" to join him onstage, followed by two Italians, Mexicans, Indians, and "two people who don't know what they are." This group of dancers drawn from the public clearly represented some form of essential human kinship at the heart of his world view.
He told "Rolling Stone" in May 1970, "You understand, we are all God's bouquet, we all need each other the same as the birds need air. If a man is hungry, I don't care if he's black, white, Jewish or Mexican, you don't need to go out and talk to him about his hunger. Feed that man; then talk to him about eating again and how to keep eating. I think we need to learn to live together because unity is going to make things happen, and where there's unity there is strength."
All the black churches that Little Richard was affiliated with advocated ecumenical outreach, especially after World War II, even if this was sometimes done in a proselytizing spirit. He was acutely aware of mortality due to his own brushes with death in accidents and the tragic demises of early friends and influences among African American musicians, including Esquerita, Billy Wright, and Larry Williams. One record he enjoyed citing, of the spiritual "Strange Things Happening Every Day" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe implied that for the faithful, odd occurrences were as habitual as they were in Little Richard's life and career. Yet with strength drawn in part from Jewish observance, he reconciled and integrated them into his artistry.
An AME educational website praises Mordecai in the Book of Esther for advancing Jewish well-being, concluding: "We're blessed not to be served, but to bless others who are looking for signs of hope." Insofar as Little Richard, throughout his long career, represented hope for oppressed racial, sexual, and religious minorities, he might be considered a Mordecai of American popular music.
Benjamin Ivry is a frequent contributor to the Forward.
Benjamin Ivry
Little Richard's lifelong love affair with Judaism


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