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TL,DR: Polygyny is the lesser of evils when compared to adultery. Polygyny is not promoted anywhere in the Scripture, but neither is it condemned. It is presented here only as an alternative to divorce apologetics.
Sometimes I get asked, 'What about this situation or that situation?' And rather than present a list of hypothetical remarriage scenarios, I would like to try to answer the questions with the examples recorded in the Scripture. In the Bible we find a variety of situations that differ according to gender, nationality, position and Grace. Christians who are already involved in remarriage need to have good information, and so I would like to approach this subject not as an endorsement of second marriage or polygamy, but to address the concerns I am sometimes confronted with.
As a generalization, Twice Married Always Married doesn't work as well as Once married always married. There are a couple of reasons for this:
Because it could only apply to some men. [i.e. victims of no fault divorce]
Because some/many of the examples in the Bible only have the status of concubine not wife, and these poor women don't fare so well, compare Sara and Hagar.
Having said that I believe that some second marriages are just as valid as first marriages, and in that context Twice Married Always Married does work. And these marriages require the same level of commitment as any other marriage. If only death can break the marriage covenant then some remarried men are polygamists whether they believe it or not. Call it polygamy, or call it remarriage there is some of it in the lineage of Christ. And while it isn't endorsed anywhere in the Scripture, nor is it recorded as a sin per se.
I realize that in many western countries polygamy is illegal, and as Christians we must uphold the laws of our country. This alone is reason enough to forbid polygamy. But it is not my intention to endorse or forbid polygamy, rather to examine what the Scripture says and how this bears on some second marriages. Any study of divorce and remarriage should address the topic because it does play a part in forming a biblical understanding of the subject.
It becomes necessary at this point to reveal some of my theological bias, I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. And furthermore I believe that if it were possible for the Lord to save a polygamist in the Old Testament, I believe that it is possible to save a polygamist in the New Testament. I am well aware of the "one wife" stance that the apostle Paul established and I agree wholeheartedly with it, but it doesn't exclude polygamists from salvation, only from holding church office. No doubt many would disagree with my thinking here but please let me explain. It is important to give the benefit of the doubt to the marriage wherever possible, and when a man has married more than once I would assume he has more than one wife. Unless he divorced his first wife to remarry his second wife.
Polygamy or remarriage
One observation I would like to make is that the champions of divorce and remarriage nearly always forbid polygamy, preferring to whitewash adultery rather than even consider the fact that some men might have more than one wife. They just don't want to go there. They often wheel-out feeble arguments against it and don't even bother pursuing the subject. Both schools of thought [Calvinist and Dispensationalist] dismiss polygamy for different reasons:
Dispensationalists tend to fall back on the old argument; 'what-God-permitted-in-the-Old-Testament-[polygamy],-He-has-now-forbidden-in-the-New-Testament'. And then fail to present a convincing argument to support their position. Ignoring the 'Same yesterday today and forever' argument that the Calvinists so dearly love.
And the Calvinists tend to avoid the topic, perhaps because it will create an obvious hole in Chapter 24 of the Westminster Confession. John Murray didn't address the subject in his book 'Divorce', and yet I believe it is impossible to do justice to the subject without dealing with the examples of polygamy recorded in the Scriptures. Jay Adams deals with polygamy in the context of remarriage, but doesn't explain the differences between the two.
Which begs the question, 'What is the difference between polygamy and remarriage?' And the answer is defined by various factors:
The difference between men and women. It's possible that a man can have more than one wife and still be saved, but a woman cannot.
Divorce. The examples in Scripture of polygamy show that men didn't divorce one wife to marry another, rather they accumulated wives and maintained them all. This is not permitted in most western countries these days, for good reasons.
Sometimes there isn't a difference, in other words polygamy is remarriage in some cases. If only death can break the marriage covenant then some second marriages equate to polygamy even though a divorce may have occurred. Under these circumstances polygamy is called remarriage. But this tends to cause confusion between good remarriage and evil remarriage, and some folks like to condemn all remarriage.
The first mention of polygamy in the Bible is Lamech, and it is worth noting that he is a descendant of Cain. The context here is about all we have to go on in regard to this practice, and it ain't good. Just the fact that it is mentioned in the lineage of Cain is an indicator that it is associated with the children-of-a-lesser-god, not synonymous with damnation, but certainly not the practice of the godly either. It is worth mentioning that Lamech didn't divorce one wife to marry another, rather he just had two wives. So Lamech does get 'first mention' status, and casts the practice in a shadow. Contrast this with the example of Adam and Eve as God's model and it looks even worse.
The next polygamist of note would have to be Abraham. And what a contrast to Lamech. The Scritpure records the names of three of Abraham's wives, Sara, Hagar, and Keturah, Abe also had concubines: Gen 25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son… Saints don't get much godlier than Abraham, but consider how much grief was the result of Abraham and Hagar's polygamous union. Not only did the child of the flesh 'wild-man-Ishmael' make problems for Isaac, and later Israel, but even today much of the antagonism between Arabs and Jews can be explained by the overtly anti-Jewish propaganda coming out of Islam. This is not a glowing testimony for polygamy, nor does it damn Abraham.
Esau and Jacob are the next examples of polygamy and they are both interesting and ironic for the following reasons:
Consider that polygamy in this family has become generational. What begun with Abraham is now common amongst his descendants.
Esau was an enthusiastic polygamist [Gen.26:34], and it seemed to be to spite his parent's desires. Gen.28:8-9
Jacob was given a charge not to marry a local Hittite girl, but to get a wife from his mother's family in Padan-aram, only to return with two wives and two concubines! I realize that Isaac & Rebekah's objection was not with polygamy, but rather the habits of the local girls, but both Esau & Jacob became polygamists for very different reasons. Esau, because he was evil. And Jacob, because he was tricked into polygamy by his father in law. Every parent wants the best for their children, and I'm sure that Isaac and Rebekah wanted their boys to have good marriages. Instead Esau was womanizer, and Jacob inadvertently had four wives.
It is with the example of Jacob and Esau that we can see one of the main reasons why polygamy is not the practice of Godly people. Esau was a man of unbridled passions, it seems that he denied himself nothing when it come to women. And so he indulged himself at the expense of others around him. I'm sure his wives hated the practice, it was obvious that his parents hated the practice, and I sure that even he didn't like the problems it created for him. But he was a slave to his lust and it showed itself in his polygamous relationships.
Heb 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. In this context we can see what is politely called 'polygamy', is really just Esau's lust. Paul uses Jacob and Esau to represent election and reprobation in Romans chapter 9. Their characters are here reflected in their reasons for their choice of women, Jacob only wanted one wife not four. And Esau was both profane and disobedient to the wishes of his parents.
Some say that Moses was a polygamist, but the case for this is weak. Who is the Ethiopian woman whom he had married ? [Numbers12:1] It is difficult to say for sure, it could be Zipporah, or it could be her predecessor, or it could be a second wife. But the Scripture doesn't say with any certainty. And I ain't sticking my neck out on this one. But Moses did have some interesting things to say concerning the subject, not the least of which would be:
Deu 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
This verse places restriction upon future kings concerning polygamy and money. I doesn't forbid multiple wives for the general populous but it does restrict the practice, Solomon ignored this command and the result speaks for itself. Moses also gave other regulations concerning polygamy:
Deu 21:15-17 Suppose a man has two wives and loves one more than the other. The first son of either wife is the man's first-born son, even if the boy's mother is the wife the man doesn't love. Later, when the man is near death and is dividing up his property, he must give a double share to his first-born son, simply because he was the first to be born. (Contemporary English Version)
I realize that this passage of Scripture is dealing with the 'right of the firstborn', but it is interesting to note that one wife is preferred to the other. I can almost hear the feminists shrieking in horror at the very thought of such a situation, but this is typical of what we find in any polygamous relationship. Consider that Jacob loved Rachel, not his other wives. And it is to be expected that any man with more than one wife will have a preference between them. And this shows another reason why polygamy is not the practice of Godly people. And I think this is the main objection to polygamy in both the world and the Church. In the world, because it is politically correct to forbid such arrangements, and in the Church, because 'serial monogamy' [read adultery] is much easier to peddle than polygamy.
This thing gets worse in the marriage of Elkanah to Peninnah and Hannah [1st Samuel chapter 1]. Not only did Elkanah prefer Hannah, but Peninnah mocked Hannah because she had no children! I suppose it was jealousy that made her do it, but what a miserable situation for poor Hannah, hardly anybody's concept of marriage. It makes you wonder why women would get involved in such a marriage, perhaps they had no choice back in those days? But Samuel was the child born of that marriage, and what a blessing he was to Israel. Perhaps it is worth mentioning that God used Hannah's miserable situation to do a great work in Hannah and Israel.
Again both of these examples Deut 21:15 & 1Sam 1:4-6 highlight some of the problems that occur with polygamy, the natural preference of husband and the subsequent problems this causes. How sour was Abraham's household when Sara and Hagar were fighting? When you consider these problems will always arise in such situations it is no wonder that most countries have laws forbidding polygamy. How many women would put up with the suffering Hannah endured? God blessed her for her faith and perseverance but she is the exception-not-the-rule. Many men would fancy the thought of a harem but it comes with other costs that are much less appealing to say the least. I realize that this point has little or no bearing on second marriages in the context of this study, but it does help form a basic understanding of what goes on in any polygamous relationship.
The next polygamist of note would be David, he had multiple wives and his eye for women certainly got him into much trouble. He seemed to be ok until he got involved with Bathsheba. What began in adultery ended in a polygamous marriage, David was able to marry Bethsheba because her husband was dead. David had him killed. He would have fared much better if he had never gotten involved with her, but Solomon was the child born from that marriage and God used Solomon like none other. However once again we find like-father-like-son, and if David had an eye for women, Solomon had eyes bigger than his stomach.
1Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Wow! One thousand women! It is the most blatant disregard of the warning that Moses gave that could be imagined, and it comes as no surprise that this arrangement caused much problems for king Solomon. I suspect that Solomon had this many wives only for the sake of prestige and or lust, what kind of life would these poor women have had? The sad result speaks for itself.
But it would seem that not all children born of polygamous marriages repeat the practice. As far as I can tell Samuel only had one wife and he was the son of a polygamist. Joseph had only one wife even though his father had two wives and two concubines.
"The Husband Of One Wife"
The Apostle Paul often used the term, "the husband of one wife" (1Tim. 3:2, 1Tim. 3:12, Titus 1:6). We are told that because of these verses the New Testament forbids polygamy, I would contend that these verses forbid remarriage and polygamy for those men holding Church office. But for those men not holding Church office there is no specific prohibition against polygamy [except perhaps common sense]. I hasten to add that God's original model for humanity is one Eve for one Adam. I am not advocating polygamy but I believe that what Paul intended was that anyone holding an office in the Church must not be divorced and remarried. But nowadays we find that, "the husband of one wife" has been reduced to serial monogamy, or one wife at a time, i.e. remarriage is ok, just don't have two together. Hardly a high standard for a Bishop or a Deacon, in fact that is the same standard that most secular governments require of their citizens! [This point is best illustrated by J. Carl Laney in his book 'The Divorce Myth' page 96]
From this study we find at least three reasons why polygamy is not endorsed anywhere in the Scripture [in no particular order]:
People like Esau indulge their lust using polygamy as a veil, this problem is largely hidden today with the arrival of serial monogamy.
The natural preference of the husband and the resulting problems this causes in the relationships, ie miserable marriage.
The bad example it sets for all, and particularly for the children born from such practice, these children are likely to follow in the footsteps of their parents.
It's no wonder that polygamy has never been accepted as a practice in the Christian Church. Remarriage has gained wide acceptance but polygamy remains a strange enigma that some saints of old got away with, like biblical bandits the testimony of these men adds a dimension of complexity to this topic that is only rivaled [reflected] by human sexuality itself.
One caveat. To those men who are the victims of no fault divorce and would consider remarriage or who already are remarried I would say this:
1stly) Original marriage vows must be kept, if the first marriage vows forbid remarriage then don't remarry. Carrying the cross in these circumstances means living celibate. If you're not sure what your original marriage vows were, then ask the church or state representative that married you, they keep records.
Deut. 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
2ndly) If you live in a country that has no fault divorce [almost all of the western world does] then I would encourage you not to remarry.
There is no endorsement for polygamy in the Bible, in fact those who had multiple wives usually suffered for it. It seems that it was the unwilling polygamists who came out most unscathed from the practice. Jacob never intended to have more that one wife, and David got involved in remarriage as an indirect result of Saul's stupidity. And no doubt that is precisely why some polygamists managed the practice well and others didn't. This type of complexity makes polygamy even less appealing particularly when attempting to formulate doctrine. And I suspect this topic is often left undone because it does get somewhat 'messy' when approached from a puritan point of view, however I believe it is less messy than what is commonly presented as divorce and remarriage apologetics.
When attempting to write this summary I realized that the way it is presented in the New Testament is probably the best was to address this difficult subject.
Luke 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Mark 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
To those inquiring Christians who are involved in a second marriage, I would encourage you to consider prayerfully your situation against the examples above. This makes it clear that God hates divorce, and especially when it is done for the reason of remarriage. To those men who are the victims of this crime [divorce] I would encourage you to take heart from the fact that God hasn't ruled out all remarriage in the Bible. If history repeats then there will be circumstances similar to what happened to Jacob and David.


Malcolm Gladwell talks about the law of criminal concentration.
He says that crime and suicide (on the Golden Gate bridge) are coupled and do not result in displacement.
(40:50 min) Of the 515 people who attempted suicide on the Golden Gate bridge, only 25 attempt again in another way.
(42:40 min) Most police deny that the law of criminal concentration exists. They deploy stop-and-frisk too broadly. There are no "bad neighborhoods". There are only "bad blocks".
Stanford has established itself as the epicenter of computer science, and a farm system for the tech giants. Following major scandals at Facebook, Google, and others, how is the university coming to grips with a world in which many of its students' dream jobs are now vilified?
At Stanford University's business school, above the stage where Elizabeth Holmes once regurgitated the myths of Silicon Valley, there now hangs a whistle splattered in blood. More than 500 people have gathered to hear the true story of Theranos, the $9 billion blood-testing company Holmes launched in 2004 as a Stanford dropout with the help of one of the school's famed chemical engineering professors.
..But the endless barrage of negative news in tech, ranging from Facebook fueling propaganda campaigns by Russian trolls to Amazon selling surveillance software to governments, has forced Stanford to reevaluate its role in shaping the Valley's future leaders. Students are reconsidering whether working at Google or Facebook is landing a dream job or selling out to craven corporate interests. Professors are revamping courses to address the ethical challenges tech companies are grappling with right now. And university president Marc Tessier-Lavigne has made educating students on the societal impacts of technology a tentpole of his long-term strategic plan.
.. Because membership costs $21,000 per year, the career fairs tend to attract only the most renowned firms.
Stanford's computer science department has long been revered for its graduate programs—Google was famously built as a research project by Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin—but the intense interest among undergrads is relatively new. In 2007, the school conferred more bachelor's degrees in English (92) than computer science (70). The next year, though, Stanford revamped its CS curriculum from a one-size-fits-all education to a more flexible framework that funneled students along specialized tracks such as graphics, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. "We needed to make the major more attractive, to show that computer science isn't just sitting in a cube all day," Mehran Sahami, a computer science professor who once worked at Google, said later.
The change in curriculum coincided with an explosion of wealth and perceived self-importance in the Valley. The iPhone opened up the potential for thousands of new businesses built around apps, and when its creator died he earned rapturous comparisons to Thomas Edison. Facebook emerged as the fastest-growing internet company of all time, and the Arab Spring made its influence seem benign rather than ominous. As the economy recovered from the recession, investors decided to park their money in startups like Uber and Airbnb that might one day become the next Google or Amazon. A 2013 video by the nonprofit Code.org featured CEOs, Chris Bosh, and will.i.am comparing computer programmers to wizards, superheroes, and rock stars.
From this meeting sprang the student organization CS + Social Good. It aimed to expose students to professional opportunities that existed outside the tech giants and the hyperaggressive startups that aspired to their stature. In its first year, the group developed new courses about social-impact work, brought in speakers to discuss positive uses of technology, and offered summer fellowships to get students interning at nonprofits instead of Apple or Google. Hundreds of students and faculty engaged with the organization's programming.
Many students find it difficult to pinpoint a specific transgression that flipped their perception of Silicon Valley, simply because there have been so many.
For Facebook it was not only the Russian meddling, but also last year's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, which showed the company's carelessness with user data.
At Uber a 2017 blog post by Susan Fowler detailed a workplace rife with sexual harassment, which only compounded growing criticism of the way the company treated drivers and local governments.
Studies investigated how Apple's iPhone was becoming addictive among children, causing increased risks of depression and suicide.
Microsoft, employees signed a petition protesting the company's contract with ICE.
At Google, 20,000 workers walked off the job last November because of the unsavory manner in which the company paid off an executive accused of sexual harassment.
Students repeatedly bring up Facebook as a company that's fallen out of favor.
Uber, with its cascade of controversies, now has to "fight to try and get people in," according to junior Jose Giron.
And Palantir, the secretive data-mining company started by Stanford alum Peter Thiel, has also lost traction due to Thiel's ties to Trump and worries that the company could help the president develop tech to advance his draconian immigration policies. "There's a growing concern over your personal decision where to work after graduation," Sun says.
The concerns are bigger than which companies rise or fall in the estimation of up-and-coming engineers. Stanford and computer science programs across the country may not be adequately equipped to wade through the ethical minefield that is expanding along with tech's influence. Sahami acknowledges that many computer science classes are designed to teach students how to solve technical problems rather than to think about the real-world issues that a solution might create. Part of the challenge comes from computer science being a young discipline compared to other engineering fields, meaning that practical examples of malpractice are emerging in real time from today's headlines.
The school's deep ties to the Bay Area's corporate giants, long a much-touted recruitment tool, suddenly look different in light of the problems that the industry has created. At the January career fair, members of Students for the Liberation of All Peoples (SLAP), an activist group on campus that aims to disrupt Stanford's "culture of apathy," handed out flyers that urged students not to work at Amazon and Salesforce because of their commercial ties to ICE and the United States Border Patrol. (Employees at the companies have raised similar concerns.) "REFUSE to be part of the Stanford → racist tech pipeline," the flyer reads, in part.
While Stanford's computer science program has had an ethics component for decades, this course marks the first time that experts in other fields are so directly involved in the curriculum. About 300 students have enrolled in the course, including majors in history, philosophy, and biology. It provides an opportunity for the techies and fuzzies to learn from one another, and for professors removed from the Valley's tech culture to contextualize the industry's societal impacts. In the course overview materials, the moral reckoning occurring in the tech sector today is compared to the advent of the nuclear bomb.
The course's popularity is a sign that the gravity of the moment is weighing on many Stanford minds. Antigone Xenopoulos, a junior majoring in symbolic systems (a techie-fuzzie hybrid major that incorporates computer science, linguistics, and philosophy), is a research assistant for CS181. She wasn't the only student who quoted a line from Spider-Man to me—with great power comes great responsibility—when referencing the current landscape. "If they're going to give students the tools to have such immense influence and capabilities, [Stanford] should also guide those students in developing ethical compasses," she says.
The tech giants continue to consolidate power even as they face withering criticism. Facebook's user base growth accelerated last quarter despite its scandals. Uber will go public this year at a valuation as high as $120 billion. Apple, Amazon, and Google are all planning to open large new offices around the country in the near future. And for all the optimistic talk of working at ethically minded startups among students, creation of nascent businesses is at roughly a 40-year low in the United States. Small firms that enter the terrain of the Frightful Five are typically acquired or destroyed.
Impact is the word that I heard more than any other while on campus. It's how students framed their decision to go to Stanford, to pursue a career in computer science, to do good in the world after graduating. It's a word that Hoffman used to describe his Blitzscaling class, and one Holmes used to explain to students why she dropped out of school. "I had the tools that I needed to be able to go out and begin making this impact," she said. It's the currency of Silicon Valley, that people spend for good and for ill.
The ability to create impact with a few lines of code has long been what separated software engineers from the rest of us, and turned the Valley into a self-proclaimed utopia of young rebels using technology to save the world from its older, antiquated self. But that's not the image anymore. Now aspiring engineers draw a comparison between their chosen profession and investment banking. The finance industry wrecked the world a decade ago because of its misunderstanding of complex, automated systems that spun out of control—and its confidence that someone else would ultimately pay the price if things went wrong. You see this confidence in Zuckerberg's incredulous response when anyone suggests that he resign, and in Google CEO Sundar Pichai's initial refusal to testify before Congress. And you can see it at Stanford, where the endowment has never been higher, the fundraising has never been easier, and the career fair is still filled with slogans vowing to make the world a better place.
If the caravan proceeds by foot, during the period of its journey 16,800 Americans will die from drugs.
In the period of the caravan's journey, perhaps 690,000 Americans will become homeless, including 267,000 children.
In the period of the caravan's journey, 8,850 Americans will die from guns, including suicides and murders.
In the period of the caravan's journey, perhaps 9,000 Americans will die from lack of health insurance (people die at higher rates when they're uninsured, although there's disagreement about how much higher).
Maybe the real "National Emergy" is drugs, homelessness, gun deaths and lack of health insurance?
.. the issue isn't really even immigration. Rather, it's fearmongering. Scholars have found that reminding people of dangers makes them temporarily more conservative, so this kind of manipulation can be an effective campaign tactic.
Remember the 2014 midterm elections? This is a replay. In the run-up to voting, Republicans ratcheted up fears of a "border crisis" with terrorists sneaking in from Mexico to attack us, plus alarm about Ebola and the risk that the outbreak in West Africa could reach America.
In the 2014 elections, Republican candidates ran hundreds of ads denouncing the Obama administration's handling of Ebola. News organizations chronicled this "debate," but in retrospect they were manipulated into becoming a channel to spread fear — and win Republican votes.
.. Yet Ebola, like the Central American caravan, is a reminder of the distinction between grandstanding and governing.
.. Obama's technocratic Ebola program — working with France and Britain, plus private aid groups — may have worried voters, but it was effective.
.. the Ebola virus was contained and eventually burned out. Good governance often turns out to be bad politics, and vice versa.
.. Perhaps the approach with the best record is aid programs to curb gang violence in countries like Honduras, to reduce the factors that lead people to attempt the dangerous journey to the United States. Yet it's not tangible and doesn't impress voters. So Trump instead is talking about an expensive wall and about cutting aid to Central America, even though this would magnify the crisis there and probably lead more people to flee north.
.. I fear that we in the media have become Trump's puppets, letting him manipulate us to project issues like the caravan onto the agenda.
.. Trump is right that, although there's no evidence of it, "there could very well be" Middle Easterners hiding in the caravan. It's equally true that the Easter Bunny "could very well be" in the caravan. Speaking of Easter, Jesus Christ "could very well be" in the caravan.
First, the Caravan won't make a bit of difference to America.
Nearly 30 years ago, the author William Styron outed himself in these pages as mentally ill.
.. why, he asked, were depressed people treated as pariahs?
.. Readers were electrified by Mr. Styron's confession in part because he inhabited a storybook world of glamour. After his novel "Sophie's Choice" was adapted into a blockbuster movie in 1982, Mr. Styron rocketed from mere literary success to Hollywood fame. Meryl Streep ..
.. Mr. Styron had never wanted to become "the guru of depression." But after his article, he felt he had a duty to take on that role.
.. His famous memoir of depression, "Darkness Visible," came out in October 1990.
.. Mr. Styron's curiosity about his own mind, and his determination to use himself as a case study to understand a mysterious disease, that gave the book its political power. "Darkness Visible" demonstrated that patients could be the owners and describers of their mental disorders, upending centuries of medical tradition in which the mentally ill were discredited and shamed.
.. His book became required reading in some medical schools, where physicians were finally being trained to listen to their patients.
.. In the 1990s, bookstores were crowded with mental-illness memoirs — Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind," Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" and Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation," to name a few. You read; you wrote; you survived.
.. When he revealed his history of depression, he inadvertently set a trap for himself. He became an icon of recovery. His widow, Rose Styron, told me that readers would call the house at all hours when they felt suicidal, and Mr. Styron would counsel them. He always took those calls, even when they woke him at 3 in the morning.


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SR Technics signs a 12-year contract with Philippine Airlines
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SR Technics and IAA launch Material.Monetary.Solutions to provide added value to SR Technics's engine customers
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Welcome to the ACU Literature LiveJournal Community. This is the place where you will be able to share your insights and experiences with around 200 on-campus students all studying literature. It is great to have you on board and as soon as your LiveJournal addresses are available they will be posted right here in this space. All students will then have a chance to get to know you and interact with you on-line.
Oh I really love Michael Leunigs paintings too! Especially the nice colourful ones. One in particular I might talk about in my L.J this week, relates to one of the innocence poems we looked at in yesterdays tutorial.


Hard-hitting former politician Ann Widdecombe will be visiting Melton on March 3 as part of her first ever national theatre tour.
Her Strictly Ann: An Evening With Ann Widdecombe show promises to be an evening of entertainment, enlightenment and controversy.
Ann will lift the lid on life in Westminster and will share behind-the-scenes gossip from Strictly and other best-loved TV programmes.
"The show is split into two halves. The first part involves me talking mainly about all the things I have done since leaving Westminster, and then after the interval it's up to the audience to decide the talking points, as we move to a question and answer format," said Ann.
The ex-Tory MP is also happy to talk - as indeed she does in her autobiography which she will be signing on the tour - about the roots of her conversion to Catholicism in 1993, or her deeply held views on abortion and gay marriage.
Ann said: "I don't want people to think that this show is some sort of party political broadcast.
"First and foremost it's a night of comedy; it's entertainment.
Tickets for Ann's show at Melton Theatre are £23.


Selling over $100 million in sales for their first revolutionary headset for gamers, Kingston Technology Inc. has become a product favorite in the gaming industry. Aiming to exceed those sales with their new Stinger headset, Hyper X, Kingston Technology has teamed up with us to create a unique marketing campaign.
Building a modern one page site for social media platforms such as Snapchat, we designed a modern, cutting edge site that can easily be screenshot and shared with friends. Implementing Google Analytics tracking code with event triggers throughout the site, we have integrated all interactions with our designs to be converted into trackable data. As winners of the gold MarCom Award for Hyper X's online marketing campaigns, Kingston technology is continuing to reach new heights.


Do you enjoy woodworking? Is it something you've attempted before, or are you presently doing woodworking projects? It doesn't matter the type of woodworking you're interested in, this article will help you. Learn more when it comes to this art form by reading this article.
Anytime that you begin a new project you must consider your safety first. Be certain you always have the right safety equipment, and use your tools properly. Don't take guards off the power tools. You could get hurt if you do this.
Use the right wood for your project. Some pieces require a durable hardwood, while others can be done with a softer type of wood. Always research the type of wood you want to work with before you get started on your new project.
When you're working out a budget, you have to think about itemizing the new tools you may have to purchase. This is simple to overlook when creating that budget, but one that is necessary. But, if you need certain items, they can break your budget if you aren't diligent about remembering you need them.
Gel stains make staining furniture items easier. Liquid stains are prone to running, while gel stains tend to stick. Gel stains are much thicker so they give more consistent coverage.
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Don't guide your saw with your fingers when cutting narrow pieces of wood. The smart thing to do is to use another wood piece to push your wood up to the saw. That way, you will keep your fingers safe and intact.
Each shop needs a stair gauge. Typically, they are used for the layout of stair jacks, but they can also be used to clamp down the carpenter's square. Doing so converts the carpenter's square to a tool that can be used with a circular saw. When you use this square, you'll cut perfectly straight every time.
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Q: PCA dimensions question I read this quote in some lectures about PCA:
" Also, since n points in a p-dimensional space defines
a linear subspace whose dimension is at most n−1, we would find that p−n+ 1
eigenvalues are zero."*
For context, this is about the eigendecomposition of the sample covariance matrix $S = \frac{X^T X}{n-1}$ where $X$ is an n x p matrix with n less than p. The quote seems to say that p - n + 1 of its eigenvalues will be zero, but I thought that p - n of its eigenvalues would be zero (because the number of non-zero eigenvalues of S is equal to the rank of S, which is less than or equal to n?
I am confused because I thought that n points in a p-dimensional space define a linear subspace whose dimension is at most n.
Can anybody point out the mistake?

*This quote is from page 40 of https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/view_material/37962

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Back in 2000, I co-wrote an article about the process by which judges were chosen for panels on the US court of appeals and the process by which the panels were assigned cases. See Neutral Assignment of Judges at the Court of Appeals.
The fundamental question was whether cases were assigned to panels in a neutral manner. The question arose because there was, as the paper chronicled, a clear example of non-neutral assignment that arose out of the Civil Rights era in the 1960s. The conclusion of the paper was that there was no failsafe method that ensured neutral assignment, although the 10th Circuit used a computer program that came the closest (and left a paper trail of any changes made to panel assignments).
The decision [by the DC Circuit] was made deliberately by the judges of the circuit. Chief Judge Edwards indicated that the change was primarily motivated by the convenience of the parties. He also noted, however, that it had the potential affect of inducing settlements. As he noted: "It occurred to us that this false assumption [that panel composition permitted prediction of the outcome] might lead some parties to settle their claims to avoid certain panels. We were happy to accommodate those who might thus settle their cases and thereby reduce our caseload." Letter from Harry T. Edwards, Chief Judge, D.C. Circuit, to Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr., Sept. 24, 1998. It should be noted that Judge Edwards also indicated that the judges were unaware whether early notification in fact actually produced more settlements. Id.
The Eighth Circuit disclosed the identity of the panel "at the time the briefs have been filed a month or so in advance." No other panels disclosed the identity until a few weeks before oral argument and, in some cases, not until the day of oral argument.
We revisit all of this because of a recent article disclosing changes in this approach. According to an article in the National Law Journal, three circuits disclose the identity of the panel the day of argument (4th, 7th & Federal) while the others provide a bit more notice. The article includes a table that shows the disclosure date for each circuit.
Most interestingly, the article noted that the DC Circuit had abandoned its practice of disclosing at the time the case is assigned to a panel and replaced it with a 30 day advance notice period. See DC Circuit Manual, Disclosure of Panels and Dates (rather than disclosing panel "in the order setting the case for oral argument" the "composition of the merits panel will be posted on the Court's internet site, usually 30 days before the date of oral argument, and will not be disclosed before that time").
We will discuss the possible reason for, and consequences of, the changes in the next post.


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Q: Products can't be added to cart I'm busy developing a Magento 2 theme. Now I updated my local and production server to Magento 2 (the latest release from yesterday). Since this version I get this error when I try to add a product to the cart:
We can't add this item to your shopping cart right now.

This is a general error, so it's hard to find out what the real error is here. I checked all standard stuff, like if the item is in stock etc. I disabled my theme to check if it's something in my theme, but the error was still thrown after this.
In the log file I did find this error:
main.CRITICAL: Exception message: Each getter must have description with @return annotation. See Magento\Tax\Api\Data\TaxDetailsInterface::getSubtotal()

If I open this file, I see this:
/**
 * Get subtotal
 *
 * @return float
 */
public function getSubtotal();

This does look like a fine annotation to me. I have this on multiple installations now.
Does anyone have the same error?

A: Checkout in Magento 2 relies on Magento REST Web API to retrieve data.
All methods exposed as Web API must have proper @param and @return annotations (including Data interfaces which are referenced in annotations of service method).
Magento\Tax\Api\Data\TaxDetailsInterface::getSubtotal() has proper annotation, but for some reason on your installation \Zend\Code\Reflection\Method\Reflection::getDocBlock() does not see these annotation in \Magento\Framework\Reflection\TypeProcessor::getGetterReturnType(). Try to debug locally in this direction.

A: We can't add this item to your shopping cart right now is a generic message which hides some internal exteption.
Please see the exception log in the var/log directory or set a breakpoint in the code point where the message is generated.

A: After a deep search on the web for "We can't add this item to your shopping cart right now" on the detail page, you can look into the following:

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*OPcache

*Cookie session

*TIMEZONE!!!!!!!! on your server setting

Believe me, the timezone will kill all the session and so you will end up with the cache problem, whether you have setup OPcache and Cookie.
Those people that fixed the cache and get the fix should be because they are located in the US.
I have tried almost all the method that I can found on google and the community, ended up with the timezone setting problem...
not because of the formwork, not because of the plugin and code.
Of course, there might be something went wrong in other places, but please try to change your server timezone and magento timezone, make them sync and reboot the server, it should work like charm!
Cheers!

A: After a long time searching we found out that OPcache caused this error. We switched to another cache module, now everything works perfect.

A: I ran into same satiation after importing products. By following these step i get it fixed

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*php bin/magento cache:clean

*php bin/magento cache:flush

*php bin/magento indexer:reindex

A: I found the solution
Go to
/vendor/magento/zendframework1/library/Zend/Cache/Backend
and edit the file.php
Search for 'cache_dir' => null,
and replace it with
'cache_dir' => 'var/cache',
DONE!
For us it worked well.


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Brian Foley (born 1934) is a retired Australian racing driver. He was active from the late 1950s through to 1974. Foley competed in Touring Car, GT and Sports Sedan categories and also contested numerous production car endurance races. His career highlights included a victory in the 1965 Lowood 4 Hour, second place in the 1967 Australian Touring Car Championship and a third-place finish in the 1965 Armstrong 500, all three attained driving a Morris Cooper S.

Early career
Foley started racing in the late 1950s, subsequently driving a variety of cars from the British Motor Corporation including Austin A30, Austin A40 Farina, Austin Lancer, Austin-Healey Sprite and Morris Cooper S. He placed ninth in Class C in the 1960 Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island driving an Austin Lancer for the B.M.C. works team. The following year Foley placed third in the 1961 Australian GT Championship driving an Austin-Healey Sprite.

Australian Touring Car Championship
Foley contested the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971. His best finish was a second place in  1967 driving a Morris Cooper S.

Bathurst 1000
Foley contested the Bathurst 1000 (and forerunners) each year from 1960 to 1971 and again in 1974. Highlights included a win in Class A in the 1961 Armstrong 500 driving a Studebaker Lark and third outright (and a Class C win) in the 1965 Armstrong 500 in a Morris Cooper S.

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In late March 2018, scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA reported that Arctic sea ice had reached its annual maximum extent. Once again, the ice cover was well below average. The four smallest maxima in the satellite record have all occurred in the past four years, continuing a decades-long trend of shrinking ice in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding waterways.
The annual maximum and minimum ice extents for the Arctic region have become steadily smaller over the past 40 years, and the percentage of thick, multi-year ice has been shrinking considerably. This thinning and retreating ice has opened the Arctic Ocean to new opportunities, but also serious environmental concerns. Shipping traffic fits into both categories.
The map above shows the average concentration of Arctic sea ice on March 17, 2018, when it reached the annual maximum. All white-shaded areas had an ice concentration of at least 15 percent (the minimum at which satellites give a reliable measurement), and span a total area that scientists refer to as the "ice extent." Ice cover peaked at 14.48 million square kilometers (5.59 million square miles), the second lowest maximum on record and 1.16 million square kilometers (448,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average. The animated line plot below shows Arctic sea ice extent in every March since 1979.
The effects of declining sea ice have rippled throughout the Arctic region and the world. Plants, animals, plankton, and people are being forced to adapt to warmer summers and winters and to more open water. Atmospheric and ocean-circulation patterns are also changing, moving the jet streams and stirring up unusual weather in the high- and mid-latitudes.
The disappearing ice is also changing the shipping industry. In August 2017, a newly designed tanker with a hardened hull became the first merchant ship to sail across the Arctic Ocean without the aid of an icebreaker. The Christophe de Margerie traveled from Norway to South Korea in 19 days, nearly a week faster than the traditional trip through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal.
It took just six months to top that feat. In February 2018, a tanker carrying liquid natural gas (the Eduard Toll) cruised through mid-winter ice cover from South Korea to Sabetta terminal (northern Russia) to France.
The map was created through a collaboration led by Paul Arthur Berkman, director of the science diplomacy center at Tufts University, and Greg Fiske, a geospatial analyst at the Woods Hole Research Center. The team mapped and analyzed more than 120 million data points compiled by SpaceQuest, a company that designs microsatellites that can monitor the track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships.
Berkman, Fiske, and colleagues have found that the mean center of shipping activity moved 300 kilometers north and east—closer to the North Pole—over the 7-year span. They were particularly surprised to find more small ships, such as fishing boats, wading farther into Arctic waters. The team also plotted the AIS ship tracks against sea ice data from NSIDC and found that ships are encountering ice more often and doing so farther north each year.
Russia, China, Canada, the United States, and Iceland are leading a flotilla of nations preparing for more shipping activity in the Arctic. The Northwest Passage through Canada and the Northern Sea Route, or Northeast Passage, north of Russia and Siberia are both valued because they could significantly shorten ship transit times between Asia, Europe, and North America. But scientists and environmental advocates have serious concerns about pollution, oil spills, and disturbances to marine life, among other possible impacts. Then there is the danger to the lives of sailors plying icy waters with poor navigation charts.
Berkman is the coordinator and lead investigator of Pan-Arctic Options, an interdisciplinary, international effort to "synthesize natural and social science research, leverage future scenario planning activities, and create geospatial maps, building common interests with practical governance options (without advocacy) that will promote sustainable development of the Arctic." The group of researchers and policy specialists provides objective information that can guide the placement of infrastructure and the management of activities such as search and rescue and pollution response.
NASA Earth Observatory images (sea ice concentration and extent) by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Ship traffic map provided by Greg Fiske, Woods Hole Research Center. Funding for the ship traffic analyses is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF-OPP 1263819 and NSF-ICER 1660449). Story by Mike Carlowicz.
As Arctic sea ice extent shrinks each year, ships are cruising farther north.
Berkman, P.A., et al. (2017) The Arctic Science Agreement Propels Science Diplomacy. Science 358, 596–598.
CNN Money (2017, September 11) Tankers becomes first to cross Arctic without icebreaker. Accessed April 10, 2018.
Global Risks Insights (2018, February 8) The drawbackjs of Arctic shipping. Accessed April 10, 2018.
The Guardian (2018, February 13) Shipping first as commercial tankers crosses Arctic sea route in winter. Accessed April 10, 2018.
Gard Insight (2015, August 28) New mandatory regulations for vessels operating in polar waters. Accessed April 10, 2018.
NASA (2018, March 23) Arctic Wintertime Sea Ice Extent is Among Lowest on Record. Accessed April 10, 2018.
NASA Earth Observatory (2016, September 16) Sea Ice. Accessed April 10, 2018.
NASA Earth Observatory (2017) World of Change: Arctic Sea Ice. Accessed April 10, 2018.
National Snow and Ice Data Center (2018, March 23) Arctic sea ice maximum at second lowest in the satellite record. Accessed April 10, 2018.
Yale Environment 360 (2016, November 17) Shipping Plans Grow as Arctic Ice Fades. Accessed April 10, 2018.


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Swiggy's loss doubles to ₹3,629 crore, company likely to lay off 250 employees
Swiggy Losses FY22 : Big news is coming out from Swiggy, a company that provides online food delivery across the country. Swiggy's loss has doubled to Rs 3,629 crore in the financial year 2022 (FY22). In the previous financial year 2021, it was Rs 1,617 crore. The company's total expenditure has increased by 131 per cent to Rs 9,574.5 crore in FY22. Swiggy's valuation has crossed $10 billion after raising $700 million with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) during the last quarter of FY2022.
Swiggy's revenue increased
According to media reports, Swiggy's revenue has increased 2.2 times to Rs 5,705 crore during FY 2022. It was Rs 2,547 crore in FY 2021. Outsourcing support cost has been 24.5 percent of the company's total expenditure. It has increased 2.3 times to Rs 2,350 crore in FY 2021. It was Rs 1,031 crore in FY 2021.
boom in business
Swiggy has increased its spending on advertising and promotion by 4 times to Rs 1,848.7 crore during FY 2022. Swiggy had delivered 3.50 lakh Biryani orders on last Saturday i.e. 31 December 2022. At the same time, till 10.25 pm, the app sent more than 61,000 pizzas across the country. According to a survey conducted on Twitter, 75.4 per cent orders have come for Hyderabadi Biryani. After that Lucknow-14.2 percent and Kolkata-10.4 percent orders have come.
layoffs may happen
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Golden Princess Embarks on Inaugural Singapore to Alaska Cruise After Dry Dock
Golden Princess has embarked on Princess Cruises' inaugural Singapore to Alaska cruise after dry dock in Singapore. This is the first time Princess Cruises is operating a direct cruise from Singapore to Alaska, meeting growing demand from Asian passengers who want to sail on an Alaskan cruise departing from a port close to home.
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Guests can then continue on the 7-day Alaska Grand Adventure from Anchorage visiting the Hubbard Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Skagway, Juneau, before arriving in Vancouver in British Columbia. Guests had the opportunity to combine these two voyages into a 36-day sailing.
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Largest deployment to Alaska in 2018 and 2019
Recognised as the "Best Cruise Line in Alaska," taking more guests to the Great Land than any other cruise company, seven Princess Cruises ships will sail Alaska's pristine waters in 2018 on 130 cruise departures, with more than 75 percent of all voyages sailing to Glacier Bay National Park, departing from Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, B.C. and Anchorage (Whittier).
Princess Cruises is also celebrating its 50th year of sailing to Alaska in 2019 and its largest deployment of the line's fleet. The 3,560-guest Royal Princess, which will be the largest Princess ship ever to sail the region, will join six other Princess ships sailing to Alaska from May to September. In addition, guests can choose from more than 23 cruisetours while visiting Princess Wilderness Lodges and Denali National Park.
Golden Princess' dry dock enhancements
The Sabatini's specialty restaurant has changed its name to Sabatini's Italian Trattoria and has been transformed with a fresh new design and menu. Guests can also participate in onboard pasta-making classes. Guests can also enjoy an extensive range of inclusive dining options with signature dishes designed by award-winning Chef Curtis Stone featured in the main dining room.
The signature 'Movies Under the Stars' outdoor cinema has been fitted with a new screen that delivers twice the picture definition of the previous screen and improved sound, allowing 160 guests to enjoy the latest blockbusters with stunning picture quality. Aesthetic enhancements were also made to The Shops of Princess to ensure a great guest shopping experience.
Golden Princess also features the new Princess Luxury Beds developed with board-of-medicine certified sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus to give guests a restful sleep whilst at sea. Club Class Mini-Suites offer priority embarkation/disembarkation, priority specialty dining reservations, dedicated servers and other services.
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Group wants Special Prosecutor out of office
Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), a civil society group is demanding for the removal of the Special Prosecutor from office citing his inability to prosecute a single case since he was appointed in to office.
This was contained in a report copied to the President indicating that it's been over two years since Martin Amidu has been in office yet not a single case has been in court to be prosecutor.
"Our call is on the basis of his incompetence. We believe that there have been a number of issues emanating from the office of the Special Prosecutor raises questions of the competence of Mr. Martin Amid. The Special Prosecutor Office returned unused budgetary funds or unused allocations back to government coffers. It means that the government has given the office of the Special Prosecutor much money which he could even use, and they returned [it] back to the government and so the office is getting the necessary resources and support from the government but unfortunately, the output has been very minimal." says the Executive Director of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson.
Mr. Thompson also recommended that the processes under Article 146 should be invoke to impeach Mr. Amidu. He also said the office has been rendered ineffective due to lack of funds that government have not made available.
The Executive Director of ASEPA has also advised President Akufo-Addo to assess the Special Prosecutor and make a decision.
"In fact since 2017, we haven't seen a single prosecution done by the office. So why do we still keep Martin Amidu in place so we have sent a copy of our report to the president and we expect the presidency to act on the proper assessment of the office? The presidency should use its own discretion to decide if they want to keep him in office or not. Per the law, as it stands, you cannot change him and appoint a new person but because his stature is like a High Court judge, the processes of article 146 can be invoked." he said.
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2016-2017 Season / Specials / Video Games Live
All performances at 7:00pm at Landmark Theatre
Tommy Tallarico | GUEST ARTIST
Video Games Live is a multimedia concert experience featuring the best music and exclusive synchronized video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. The show combines exclusive video footage and music arrangements with synchronized lighting, solo performers, stage show production, special FX, electronic percussionists and unique interactive segments. Whether it's the power and passion of the more recent blockbusters or the excitement of remembering the sentimental classics you played growing up, it will truly be a special night to remember for the entire family.
Thanks to our concert sponsor!
Video Games Live
7:00pm | Landmark Theatre
Tommy Tallarico
Tommy Tallarico is a veritable video game industry icon. As one of the most successful video game composers in history, he has helped revolutionize the gaming world, creating unique audio landscapes that enhance the video gaming experience. He is considered the person most instrumental in changing the game industry from bleeps & bloops to real music now appreciated worldwide by tens of millions of fans. As a well-recognized on-air television personality, live performer and composer, Tommy brings his in-depth knowledge, years of experience, and love of cutting edge multimedia and video games to the masses. Tommy has worked in the gaming industry as a designer, product manager, producer, writer, games tester and heads of both music and video departments.
An accomplished musician, Tallarico has been writing music for video games for more than 23 years. He has won over 50 industry awards and has worked on more than 300 game titles; to date, they total sales of more than 100 million units and over four billion dollars in revenue. No one in the history of the video game industry has ever worked on more titles and projects. In 2008, he was enshrined in the Guinness Book of World Records with a two page feature article and interview and currently holds 3 Guinness World Records including the person who has worked on the most commercially released video games. In 2012 during the Game Developers Conference he received a Lifetime Achievement Award and is also in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for his contributions to the game industry. In 1994, he founded Tommy Tallarico Studios, the multimedia industry's largest audio production house. In video games, television, film, radio, soundtracks, toys and even on floats in the New Years Day Rose Parade in Pasadena CA, Tallarico's music has been heard by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Tommy is a cousin of rock star legend Steven Tyler (nee Tallarico) and in 2002 Tallarico's music was used as the opening song for Aerosmiths' "Girls of Summer" world tour. His top titles include Earthworm Jim, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Disney's Aladdin, Spider-Man and Metroid Prime as well as top selling popular game franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Madden Football, Mortal Kombat, Time Crisis, Unreal, Lineage, James Bond, Blitz Football, Knockout Kings, Test Drive, Scooby Doo, WWE & Twisted Metal. His score for Advent Rising has been noted as "one of the greatest musical scores of all time" by websites such as Yahoo, Gamespot and others.
Tallarico has been featured on numerous national and international television shows, appearing repeatedly on CNN, FOX and MTV. Tommy hosted, wrote and co-produced the top rated and very popular Reviews on the Run/Judgment Day television show as well as the longest running award-winning video game television show, The Electric Playground (www.elecplay.com), which has been on the air since 1997. The show is syndicated worldwide and airs daily in prime-time. The Electric Playground won the 2001 Telly Award for "Best Entertainment Cable Program". In 2006, Tommy hosted and helped to launch the worldwide Championship Gaming Series for DirecTV. His national television debut came in 1994 when he was featured and asked to guest host ABC's "In Concert" television program which included artists Peter Gabriel and Todd Rundgren. From 1991 to 1994, he headed Virgin Interactive's music and video division, and executive produced numerous video game green screen shoots for films including "Demolition Man" where he worked with Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Hollywood producer Joel Silver.
In 2002, Tallarico created the critically acclaimed Video Games Live (www.videogameslive.com), an immersive, audio and video concert experience celebrating video games. Video Games Live features music from the greatest video games performed by top orchestras and choirs around the world combined with synchronized video footage, lasers, lights, special effects, interactivity and live action to create an explosive and unique one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Video Games Live is the first and most successful video game touring concert in the world having performed over 250 shows in 25 countries on 5 continents. The debut performance was launched on July 6th, 2005 at the world famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Over 11,000 people attended making it the biggest video game concert in the world at that time (since then they have performed to over 40,000 people in places like Taiwan and China). Most of the game music played during the initial launch of the show (Halo, Sonic, Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Myst, Kingdom Hearts, Tron, Advent Rising, etc.) had never been performed live anywhere in the world. Since then over 1 million people have experienced the show live. On October 30, 2005 they broke new ground once again by putting on the very first video game concert in Canada (Vancouver). They followed with groundbreaking first ever game concert performances in countries such as Brazil, New Zealand, Spain, Mexico, England, Chile, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Wales, United Arab Emirates & France. Video Games Live was also the very first American video game concert to perform in Asia (Korea) and the first non-Japanese game concert to perform in Japan. In 2007 they were recipients of a major industry award in Brazil for "Special Breakthrough Achievement" following their performances in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo the year before. Also in 2007 they helped to launch the $1.8 billion LA Live Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles and had their national television debut on Spike TV. In 2008 they released the highly anticipated album entitled Video Games Live - Volume One, recorded at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London, the album debuted at #10 on the Billboard charts. It was the first video game compilation album to ever be released worldwide and won BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM awards from IGN.com and the Game Audio Network Guild. In 2010 a 90 minute national PBS Special was aired in over 90 million households across America. A Blu-Ray, DVD and album were released. It was the first time that music from franchises such as Mario, Zelda, Sonic and Megaman were released outside of Japan. The second album (entitled Video Games Live - Level Two) debuted at #8 on the Billboard Charts. With literally 100's of ticket buyer reviews on Ticketmaster.com, Video Games Live boasts an impressive and outstanding 4.6 (out of 5) rating. There are currently over 30,000 unique videos of Video Games Live performances on YouTube which total over 100 million views. Sponsored and endorsed by some of the top corporations in the world, the Video Games Live concert event continues to tour the world, break new ground and thrill audiences worldwide with brand new content each year.
Tallarico was the first musician to release a video game soundtrack worldwide (Tommy Tallarico's Greatest Hits Vol. 1, Capitol Records). He has released over ten video game soundtrack albums since, including the highly acclaimed James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies, MDK and award-winning Advent Rising and Earthworm Jim Anthology. Tommy was one of the first musicians to ever use live guitar and 3-D audio in a video game (The Terminator), and was instrumental in bringing true digital interactive multi-channel 5.1 surround to the gaming world. He has written, produced, performed and recorded with a wide range of talented musicians including the LA Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the English National Ballet, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the National Taiwan Symphony, the Budapest Chamber Choir, the band "Fear Factory", composer/DJ/artist BT and guitarists Dweezil Zappa and Steve Vai. He continues to work with a plethora of GRAMMY and Academy Award winning producers and engineers. He has performed and sold out shows on the biggest and most prestigious stages in the world including London's Royal Festival Hall and Hammersmith Apollo, the Olympic Park Stadium in Korea, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., WolfTrap, Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Pan-Chiao Stadium in Taipei, the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and multiple shows at the Hollywood Bowl attended by tens of thousands of fans. In 2004 he performed the grand finale music act on national and worldwide television (E! Entertainment, G4TV) with BT & Mobius 8 for the G-Phoria awards show. In 2007 he performed along with Kid Rock and the Foo Fighters during the nationally televised Spike TV Video Game Awards show.
Tommy is the founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), which is a non-profit organization educating and heightening the awareness of audio for the interactive world (www.audiogang.org). With over 2,500 members representing over 35 countries since its inception in 2002, G.A.N.G. has quickly become known as one of the strongest and best examples of helping the game industry community. Each year during the Game Developers Conference Tommy produces the annual G.A.N.G. awards revered by many as one of the best award shows in the industry. Tommy is an Advisory Board member for the Game Developers Conference, a Governor for the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS/GRAMMY's), a spokesperson for the Entertainment Consumers Association, a proud member of the International Game Developers Association and a nominating peer panel leader for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Tallarico has appeared in a myriad of magazines and newspapers, including USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Billboard, the Hollywood Reporter, the London Times, Rolling Stone, Daily Variety and the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, he helped secure official recognition of video game music by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and the GRAMMY's. Also in 1999 he co-designed the award-winning boxing game "Knockout Kings" for the Nintendo 64 with Electronic Arts which went on to win the "Best Console Sports Product of 1999" by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Tommy has consulted for Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Sony, AMD, Microsoft and Apple as well as audio companies including DTS, Dolby, Roland, THX, Yamaha and Creative Labs. He has given lectures and speeches all over the world on audio and video games which include his keynote at the 1999 Game Developers Conference, and MILIA 2000 in Cannes, France. He also teaches courses and has been the guest speaker at many schools, organizations & universities such as Yale, UCLA, USC, Berklee College of Music, Carnegie Mellon, Expressions College, Vancouver Film School & Full Sail University.
Tommy is involved in many community, non-profit, scholastic and charitable organizations which include the Hollywood Arts and GRAMMY In The Schools. In 2007, Tommy's many charitable works were recognized by the Hollywood Arts organization when they chose him as the first honoree and recipient for their now annual Dream Awards. The IDG video game industry white paper mentions Tommy (along with Bill Gates) as one of the people who contributed the most to the advancement and growth of the industry in 2003. In 2009, he received the prestigious "Ambassador Award" during the Game Developers Choice Awards which was only the 2nd time the award had ever been bestowed. That same year he was chosen as one of the Top 50 Game Industry People by Game Developers Magazine.
Born February 18, 1968 and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, he moved to Southern California on his own at age 21 to pursue a career in entertainment. Homeless with no means of financial support, Tommy was discovered in a music store and started working in the video game industry within 3 days of arriving in California. All 4 of his grandparents came to America from Italy in the early 1900's and instilled a great sense of hard work, compassion, appreciation, passion, dreaming, creativity, sense of accomplishment and love for others that he has carried with him his entire life. Tommy is a proud vegan and has been a spokesperson, supporter and contributor for many animal rights organizations. In his spare time he enjoys nature, photography, traveling, cooking, video games, comic books, being a kid and meeting new people. His popular website www.tallarico.com has received over 250 million hits by more than 10 million unique users.


Dr. Dre, N.W.A. rapper and electronics mogul, was detained for allegedly threatening a man at gunpoint.
Dr. Dre was handcuffed outside his Malibu home Monday after a motorist initiated a private person's arrest, alleging the music mogul brandished a gun at him at the Pacific Coast Highway residence, authorities said.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies cited Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and released him. Deputies found no evidence that Dre had pointed a gun at the man, nor did they recover a weapon, officials said. Dre told deputies the man was blocking his driveway and denied making threats, officials said.
Sheriff's Capt. Chris Reed said that under the law, an individual can request a private person's arrest be made when a deputy hasn't witnessed an alleged misdemeanor crime. Dre was given the citation but not formally taken into custody.
Deputies responded to a report of a man brandishing a firearm in the 22000 block of Pacific Coast Highway about 11:15 am. The man claimed he was stopped in front of a home when the person later identified as Dre "ordered him to leave and produced a handgun."
"Due to the nature of the call, the person was searched, handcuffed, and briefly detained in a patrol car while deputies investigated the incident," Reed said.
According to the deputies, Dre was cooperative, consented to be searched and denied having a gun.
Dre told deputies the man was parked directly in front of his residence blocking his driveway when he asked him to leave. He told deputies the man left but immediately returned and parked near the same location in the center median in front of his house. Dre said he then pulled out his cellphone to begin recording the incident and the man drove away.
A source familiar with the investigation said Dre also claimed the man had followed him from a freeway where the pair had been involved in a road-rage-type incident.
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