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In this fall issue of Partnerships, we are pleased to feature case studies that highlight effective collaborations with both local and global connections To stimulate your own research, teaching, and planning strategies for the new year, we invite you to read Baxter and Marshall's account of the infrastructure, development, and success of an oral history project with a local museum featuring the voices of Chinese-Americans and Chinese-Canadians. You will find innovative practices and suggestions for how people, politics, and connections are forged in Malm, Prete, Calamia and Eberle's article of a community-campus partnership to produce an annual arts festival. Moving beyond the local to the global scene, Long and Campbell demonstrate how strategic and practical support for an international service-learning program rested on a tripartite collaboration. Finally, Dumlao reviews what is being recognized as the first edited volume on research for international service-learning. Taken together, these articles elaborate on diverse approaches for building and sustaining strong civic ventures.
To make this issue of Partnerships possible, many people provided valuable time and support to the authors. Our new editorial board made policy decisions and new reviewers strengthened the intellectual base for meaningful and timely feedback to authors. We also welcomed Mark Congdon as editorial assistant and Susan Ladd as copy editor.
In 2013, we invite you to look for a special issue dedicated to North Carolina Campus Compact's Civic Engagement Institute theme, Becoming Citizens, Becoming Community.
Also in 2013, work will commence on another special issue to be published in 2014, Teaching Democratic Thinking. Inspired by a three-year long research seminar of the same name at Elon University, special guest editors Stephen Bloch-Schulman and Patricia Rogers with editorial assistance from Maggie Castor will be soliciting abstracts due in February. Look for details to be posted soon on our home page.
Spoma Jovanovic
With this issue of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement you will notice some significant changes. We say thank you and farewell to several important partners who provided essential leadership in our first few years:
Technical editor Dr. Norman Clark at Appalachian State University who helped realize the vision of his faculty development initiative team to create a fully online, peer-reviewed journal that contributes to strengthening higher education partnerships and engagement;
Appalachian State University which hosted the journal since its inception in 2009, ensuring reader and write accessibility;
Dr. Beth Warner at Elon University who helped us make the transition between editors; and
Dr. Rebecca Dumlao at East Carolina University who served as the first Book Editor.
We are pleased to announce:
Our new editor is Dr. Spoma Jovanovic, Associate Professor in Communication Studies (Community, Ethics and Social Change) at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). Spoma received NC Campus Compact's 2012 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award for her commitment to integrating service-learning into her curriculum, to training other faculty in service-learning, and to sustained, service that has impacted her community and profession. Spoma will pursue the journal's vision and engage increasing numbers of faculty and leaders in developing the journal.
Dr. Cathy Hamilton, Director of the Office of Leadership and Service-Learning at the
University of North Carolina, Greensboro joins the editorial board as book editor. A longtime supporter of the Compact, Cathy is well-networked and will ensure faculty and staff have opportunity to contribute to the journal, and that all readers will be introduced to the most recent and helpful publications promoting engagement partnerships.
UNCG is now hosting the journal on their website. We appreciate all the work of their technical team headed by Stephen Dew, Tim Bucknall, Richard Cox, and Kristen Ross in making this challenging transition.
North Carolina Campus Compact is committed to strengthening Partnerships and its contribution to the field. Spoma will be at the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLCE) fall conference to share more about the journal – look for her there, September 23-25 in Baltimore, MD! Do not hesitate to contact Spoma or me with your questions or ideas. We thank those who have submitted manuscripts, and hope you will share your research and practices that will inform and improve critical partnerships, connections, and collaborations to deepen impact.
In this issue, you will read more about the partnerships our authors have engaged with for their service-learning programs. The articles showcase the impact of social justice-orientation in teacher training, the specific needs of the health profession service-learning curriculum, and reflections on program management to understand how views of surpluses and deficits affect campus-community partnerships.
Looking forward to new Partnerships!
Lisa Keyne
Executive Director, NCCC
The power of student experiences in service-learning courses may be one of the many reasons faculty and academic personnel remain committed to its integration throughout the curriculum. This edition of Partnerships provides a glimpse into the various experiences that students have as a result of their participation in service-learning courses. From the article written by students regarding their eye-opening experience of 'community;' to an Urban Studies program that reaches beyond its comfortable boundaries and develops transformational partnerships across the university and community that enhances overall student learning. In addition to these articles, there are others in this edition that provide further exploration into the power of service-learning to impact cultural trends; focus on work with homeless veterans, and an article that illuminates the professional experiences of service-learning alumni.
Since 2008, I have had the pleasure of serving as editor of Partnerships. As my time comes to an end I am thankful for the partnerships I have had with reviewers, guest editors and many others that have contributed to the start of this publication. Special thanks is extended to Dr. Norman Clark for his willingness to always patiently assist in bringing the publication to launch and to Dr. Lisa Keyne for her constant commitment to the vision of seeing Partnerships become an international service-learning and civic engagement journal of excellence. Without the constant support of so many I could not have managed these last few years. I am confident that Partnerships will reach a higher readership than anyone could have ever imagined as it moves to a new editor. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of this journal's earliest beginnings.
Departing Editor, Tracy Y. Espy
This issue of Partnerships is timely. The world around us changes almost daily as does the landscape of higher education. Twenty-First century educators are faced with the task of preparing students to be proficient in their academic disciplines within the broader context of a global society. Our current issue provides several articles that focus on the significance of international service learning and student involvement. What began as a special issue of Partnerships led by Dr. Cynthia Wood, Appalachian State University, has resulted in a number of fascinating articles that engage the reader on such topics as international service- learning's impact on host countries, the importance of ethics in cross-cultural service learning relationships and the power of lessons learned through the cultivation of international civic engagement partnerships. Though not specifically related to international service- learning, we have included an article that provides relevant insight into the importance of educating service-learning students about stakeholder involvement and how that involvement ultimately affects both the community and those serving in the community.
A special thank you to all of our authors, book reviewers, editors (Dr. Rebecca Dumlao, East Carolina University) and journal manager (Dr. Norman Clark, Appalachian State University) for their efforts in making this publication happen. Stay tuned for the arrival of our spring 2011 edition where the focus will be on innovative experiences in service learning.
Tracy Espy, Editor
Dear Journal Readers,
This second issue of Partnerships highlights the celebration of an icon in the service-learning community, Mr. Robert Sigmon. Reading through the two invited articles will provide insight into Sigmon's passion about the value of partnerships between communities and workplaces as well as a wonderful interview by Dr. Lisa Keyne, highlighting the inspiring life of this gifted service learning pioneer. Additional articles featured in this issue build upon Sigmon's important work and highlight topics such as social entrepreneurship, a new theoretical model for development of university-community partnerships and the reciprocity among service-learning constituents. Future publications will highlight International Partnerships and Campus-Community Partnerships highlighting student voices.
Tracy Y. Espy Ph.D.
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The field of acupuncture/Oriental medicine has seen a tremendous amount of growth since first bursting on the scene in the West some 30 years ago. Understandably, much of the growth in this field has centered around establishing training and licensing programs, as well as forming a basic infrastructure of regulators, professional organizations, and suppliers of both materials and information. As this initial "big bang" has begun to wane, the AOM field seems to be entering a phase of reflection as leaders seek to re-evaluate and refine current positions on such areas as training standards and the operation of key organizations. Many involved in the AOM field have begun trying to better understand the history of Oriental medicine, as re-evaluating training and practice standards often involve opinions regarding faithfulness to the "true" or "original" theories/practices of the founders of this healing art. Even those not interested in re-evaluating current policies tend to find the subject of the history of Oriental medicine fascinating on its own accord.
During the time AOM began making a name for itself in the West, a handful of scholars began undertaking a systematic study of Chinese medical classics and other sources of information relating to the history of Oriental medicine. One such scholar is Dr. Paul U. Unschuld. As director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Munich (with degrees in Chinese studies, pharmacology, public health, and political sciences), he has distinguished himself as one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Chinese medicine. Author of several highly regarded books, his most recently published work, Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text, is the world's most detailed and in-depth analysis of the multiple factors that lead to that most famous of Chinese medical classics. Anyone desiring to understand the roots of Chinese medicine would benefit from studying this work. His actual translation of the Su Wen is scheduled to be published sometime next year.
I was honored to have the opportunity to ask Dr. Unschuld a few questions regarding more than 30 years studying various aspects of Chinese medicine history.
Matthew Bauer (MB): Could you tell us how you became interested in the study of the history Chinese medicine?
Paul Unschuld (PU): In the 1960s, while I studied at the Munich University School of Pharmacy, I was quite interested in international relations. With the Cold War tensions easing a bit in Europe, the fighting between China and the Soviet Union caught our attention. As I was quite fluent in Russian, I thought I should study Chinese to be able to read information from their side, too, so I enrolled in Chinese language courses. After graduation, in 1968, my wife and I applied for a grant to visit Taiwan (the only part of China accessible to a West German at the time) to improve our spoken Chinese. With our pharmaceutical background, we thought it would be most appropriate to research the situation of medical care and pharmaceutical supplies in Taiwan. We knew little of Chinese traditional medicine when we arrived, but met a scholar, Dr. Na Qi, who introduced us to the history of Chinese pharmaceutical literature and the current status of Chinese traditional pharmacy on Taiwan. He also informed me of the works of the eminent Japanese researcher of Chinese traditional medical and pharmaceutical literature, Dr. Okanishi Tameto, who I had a chance to meet in Kyoto a few years later, shortly prior to his passing away.
It soon became evident that to understand the presence of Chinese traditional medicine, one needs to understand the past. During our one-year field research on Taiwan (1969-1970), I interviewed more than a hundred physicians and pharmacists of Chinese traditional medicine. Many conflicting interpretations of past developments and of the essence of Chinese medicine came to my attention. Also, structural peculiarities, such as the doctor-patient relationship in Chinese traditional medicine, and the fact that physicians often are employees of pharmacies, raised our interest and led us to devote more time to historical research. My wife used the time in Taiwan to study the beginnings of the Chinese pharmacology of systematic correspondences during the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. A Yuan dynasty materia medica, Wang Haogu's Tangye Bencao, was the focus of her dissertation. I concentrated my research on the current situation of Chinese traditional medicine in Taiwan, and it was only after our return to Germany that I took the lead, outlined in my wife's dissertation (namely to trace fundamental conceptual changes in Chinese medicine to similarly fundamental changes in the sociopolitical environment), to examine larger time sections of Chinese medical history. This eventually led to my Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. If I had played with the thought of becoming a specialist in Sino-Soviet relations before we went to Taiwan, being back in Munich, a future devoted to the history of medicine in China appeared much more fascinating.
MB: A central theme of your work is the importance of considering the cultural environment in which medical theories develop, also known as the "external history" of medicine. Could you elaborate on this?
PU: Medical practitioners may decide what they want to be: mechanics or intellectuals. The mechanic views the body as a machine that, every now and then, requires repair. He does not need to know much about the mental condition of his patients, and he does not bother much why he does this or that. He has learned that one intervention will be able to deal with problem "A," and another intervention will successfully cure problem "B."
The intellectual healer follows a different course. He wants to know why biomedicine has arrived at its current notions of the origin and nature of disease, and at therapeutic interventions derived from them. He wants to know what the essential difference is between different health care traditions, and he wishes to have arguments (and be able to voice these arguments) as to why he prefers one approach over another. The intellectual healer may realize that one type of health care is good for a certain portion of his clientele, while the mental set-up of another portion of his clientele requires a different therapeutic approach.
To be able to understand the paths Western and Chinese traditions of health care have taken, it is essential to study the cultural environments in which they have developed. Medicine cannot be understood without its external history. Anybody who criticizes biomedicine for whatever shortcomings or deficits it has - and it has many - and wishes to change things or create a better medicine, will end up as a Don Quixote if he does not take the cultural environment, or external history, of medicine into account. An awareness of the close links between the conceptual foundations of health care traditions and their cultural environment makes one understand, first, that medicine cannot change without changes in the world view and/or existential experiences of a given population, and, second, that certain patients cannot be successfully treated by means of therapies legitimated by a world view that is not their own. What it comes down to is the following: to study the cultural history of human reactions to existential threats such as illness and the danger of early death means to study the essence of the human condition. To reach an understanding of the human condition and assist one's patients to overcome episodes of disease, or to prevent disease - that is the difference between an intellectual physician and a mechanic.
MB: Could you expand on why you focus much of your work on comparing the history of Western and Chinese medicine and how important you believe it is for advocates of Chinese medicine in the West to understand these subjects?
PU: Why do I teach medical students the history of European and Chinese medicine? Medicine develops not only with its cultural environment, it also develops amidst a political arena. Anybody who grew up in a Western society and develops an interest in Chinese traditional medicine is confronted with an import from a foreign culture. How does he or she know whether the product taught by his teacher, whether Chinese or Western, is genuine? How does he or she know whether the literature offered reflects true Chinese medicine, or the views of some more or less ill-informed writer? It is a fact that more than 95 percent of all literature published in Western languages on Chinese medicine reflect Western expectations rather than Chinese historical reality. Bestsellers are usually written by those who know no Chinese, have no access to Chinese medical history, and have never - or at best for short periods - been to China.
There is, I wish to emphasize, nothing wrong with these books, as they were informed by visions of an ideal health care presumably developed in China. As such, these books tell us something about what is lacking in Western biomedicine, and what is expected by many as a remedy to cure an ailing Western health care system. This way, these books fulfill an important function. They suggest ways to improve or circumvent biomedicine, and offer ideas and strategies that may be helpful for many. Nevertheless, while they reflect Western yearnings, they fail to reflect the historical truth of Chinese medicine. Chinese medical history is, indeed, a huge treasure box, and given that TCM has selected only parts of its contents, serious historical research may turn up many more.
MB: (Laughing) The publisher of my forthcoming book will be happy to hear that I meet two and perhaps all three of your criteria for a bestseller. Seriously though - what advice would you have for individual practitioners who wish to learn more about the history of Chinese medicine and for acupuncture/ Oriental Medicine schools who want to include that subject in their curriculum, especially at the level of the recently established Doctoral degree program?
PU: Unfortunately, there is very little available in Western languages on the history of Chinese medicine. No research institute exists in the West where the history of Chinese medicine is researched systematically over an extended period of time. Nevertheless, the body of scholarly works on the history of Chinese health care traditions is steadily growing. Don Harper's profusely annotated translation and analysis of the Mawangdui manuscripts is indispensable for an understanding of the pre-conditions of the subsequent emergence of Chinese medicine in the Han era. Kim Taylor's book Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China is required reading if one wishes to understand the politics behind the formation of TCM. Paul Buell has published a dietary work from the Mongol dynasty, A Soup for the Qan with most informative annotations, and Nigel Wiseman has contributed the most reliable translation available of Zhang Ji's Shanghan Lun of the late Han dynasty.
I myself have conducted my own research partly to meet the interests of my students, some of whom attend medical school; others are in Chinese studies. Thus, I have offered initial studies of the history of Chinese pharmaceutical literature, of the history of ideas in Chinese medicine, and of several seminal texts, such as the Nanjing of the 1st century AD, Xu Dachun's "On the Origin and Further Development of Medicine" of the 18th century, the ophthalmological treatise "Essentials on the Silver Sea" of perhaps the 15th/16th century (together with J. Kovacs), and together with H. Tessenow and J.S. Zheng the introductory volume to the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen translation project. This book (Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text), together with the Nanjing translation, may be my most important contribution to the emerging picture of the beginnings of Chinese medicine in the Han era. Anybody who is interested in knowing the true historical origins of Chinese medicine should read this introductory volume to the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen project. It is only with this background in mind that one is able to reach an informed judgment on what early Chinese medicine may contribute to our health care needs today.
Also, I have shown, in Chinese Medicine in Historical Objects and Images, the value of material objects as sources for a more comprehensive understanding of Chinese medical history. It should be hoped that more will be published. For the time being, however, readings from these books will be very helpful to learn more about the history of Chinese medicine.
At present, I am working on a revised edition of Introductory Readings in Classical Chinese Medicine. This reader offers a wide selection of most informative texts from two millennia of Chinese health care traditions.
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Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008)  was an American songwriter and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy's Motown labels during the 1960s. He has been credited as one of the creators of the Motown Sound and of the late-1960s subgenre of psychedelic soul.

During his 25-year career, Whitfield co-wrote and produced many enduring hits for Motown artists, including "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", "(I Know) I'm Losing You", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Cloud Nine", "I Can't Get Next to You", "War", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", "Smiling Faces Sometimes", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". Whitfield worked extensively with the Temptations as a producer and songwriter, producing eight of their albums between 1969 and 1973. He then started his own label, Whitfield Records, in 1975, which yielded the Rose Royce hit "Car Wash". Alongside his Motown lyrical collaborator Barrett Strong, he was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2004. He wrote or co-wrote 61 hits on the UK charts and 92 on the US charts.

Early life and education

Whitfield was born and raised in Harlem, New York, and spent much of his teen years in local pool halls. In his late teens, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, so that his father could join his sister and work in her husband's chain of drug stores, Barthwell Drugs.  He attended Northwestern High School.

Career
At 19, Whitfield began frequenting Motown's Hitsville USA offices for a chance to work for the growing label. Founder Berry Gordy Jr. recognized Whitfield's persistence and hired him for the quality control department, which determined which songs would or would not be released. Whitfield joined Motown's in-house songwriting staff, co-writing the Marvin Gaye hit "Pride & Joy", the Marvelettes's "Too Many Fish in the Sea" and the Velvelettes's "Needle in a Haystack". He took over Smokey Robinson's role as the main producer for the Temptations in 1966, after his "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" performed better than Robinson's "Get Ready" on the pop charts.

The Temptations
From 1966 to 1974, Whitfield produced virtually all of the Temptations' music, experimenting with sound effects and other production techniques. He found a songwriting collaborator in lyricist Barrett Strong, the performer on Motown's first hit record, "Money (That's What I Want)", and wrote material for the Temptations and other Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, both of whom recorded Whitfield-produced hit versions of the Whitfield/Strong composition "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". The Gladys Knight & the Pips' version was the best-selling Motown single so far, but it was surpassed a year later by Gaye's version. In 1969, Whitfield won three BMI Awards for the songs "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "I Wish It Would Rain," and "You're My Everything."

"Psychedelic soul"
After Temptations lead singer David Ruffin was replaced by Dennis Edwards in 1968, Whitfield moved the group into a harder, darker sound that featured a blend of psychedelic rock and funk heavily inspired by the work of Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic. He added contemporary song topics, moving from love songs to the social issues of the time, such as war, poverty and politics. The first Temptations single to feature this new psychedelic soul style was "Cloud Nine" in late 1968, which earned Motown its first Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance by a Duo or Group, Vocal or Instrumental).

The psychedelic soul records Whitfield produced for the Temptations and other artists such as Edwin Starr and the Undisputed Truth experimented with and updated the Motown sound for the late-1960s. Longer songs, distorted guitars, multitracked drums, and inventive vocal arrangements became trademarks of Whitfield's productions, and later of records produced by Motown staffers he coached, including Frank Wilson. But friction and antagonism grew between Whitfield and the Temptations; the group hated how Whitfield put more emphasis on the instrumentation instead of their vocals, and that he was writing fewer romantic ballads for them.

Whitfield often recorded notably different versions of songs with different artists in search of a hit, and did so successfully in the cases of Edwin Starr, with "War" (1970; originally recorded by the Temptations), and the Undisputed Truth, with "Smiling Faces Sometimes" (1971; also originally by the Temptations). "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (1972) was done first by the Undisputed Truth, before Whitfield rerecorded the song with the Temptations for a longer, more definitive (and massively successful) version. The Temptations' version earned a second Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for Whitfield and the Temptations, and Whitfield and Strong shared the songwriters' award for Best Rhythm and Blues Song. The single's instrumental B-side earned Whitfield and arranger Paul Riser a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance,

One of Whitfield's last major hits at Motown was Yvonne Fair's "It Should Have Been Me" (1975), a song he had written in 1963 and recorded originally with Kim Weston.

Whitfield Records and later years
In 1975, Whitfield left Motown, following its move from Detroit, to form his own label, Whitfield Records. His first act was the Undisputed Truth, whom he had convinced to leave Motown, followed by Rose Royce, Willie Hutch, Yvonne Fair, Nytro, Mammatapee and Junior Walker. The Undisputed Truth scored their second biggest hit in 1976 with the disco song "You + Me = Love", their first single on Whitfield Records. Norman Whitfield had an international smash hit in 1976 with Rose Royce's "Car Wash", issued on MCA Records. Rose Royce (whose members were originally Edwin Starr's backing band while at Motown) went on to record three more popular albums, and had two huge UK hits with "Wishing on a Star" (1977) and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1978), but could never top the success of "Car Wash", which served as the theme song to the 1976 motion picture Car Wash. The Car Wash soundtrack won Whitfield a Grammy Award for Best Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special. He also composed the theme song for the 1977 motion picture Which Way Is Up?, performed by Stargard. He produced soul group Masterpiece in 1980.

In the early 1980s, Whitfield began working as a producer for Motown again, helming the Temptations' 1983 hit single "Sail Away" and the soundtrack to The Last Dragon.

On January 18, 2005, Whitfield pleaded guilty for failing to report royalty income he earned from 1995 to 1999 to the Internal Revenue Service. Facing charges of tax evasion on more than $2 million worth of income, he was sentenced to six months of house confinement and a $25,000 fine. He was not imprisoned because of health problems such as diabetes.

During his last months alive, Whitfield was bed-ridden at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for diabetes and other ailments. Whitfield fell into a coma, briefly improved, but eventually succumbed to diabetic complications. Whitfield died on September 16, 2008. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Discography

Selected singles production/songwriting credits
 1963: "Pride & Joy" – Marvin Gaye (US #10, US R&B #2)
 1964: "Too Many Fish in the Sea" – The Marvelettes (US #25, US R&B #5)
 1964: "Needle in a Haystack" – The Velvelettes (US #45)
 1964: "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" – The Velvelettes (US #64, US R&B #21)
 1964: "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" – The Temptations (US #26, US R&B #11)
 1966: "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" – The Temptations (US #13, US R&B #1, UK #21)
 1966: "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" – The Temptations (US #3, US R&B #1, UK #18)
 1966: "(I Know) I'm Losing You" – The Temptations (US #8, US R&B #1, UK #19)
 1967: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #2, US R&B #1), also recorded by Marvin Gaye (US #1, US R&B #1, UK #1)
 1967: "You're My Everything" – The Temptations (US #6, US R&B #3, UK #26)
 1967: "I Wish It Would Rain" – The Temptations (US #4, US R&B #1), also recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #41, US R&B #15)
 1968: "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)" – The Temptations (US #13, US R&B #1)
 1968: "The End of Our Road" – Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #15, US R&B #5), also recorded by Marvin Gaye (US #40, US R&B #7)
 1968: "Cloud Nine" – The Temptations (US #6, UK #15)
 1968: "The Nitty Gritty" – Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #19, US R&B #2)
 1969: "Friendship Train" – Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #17, US R&B #2)
 1969: "Runaway Child, Running Wild" – The Temptations (US #6, US R&B #1)
 1969: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" – Marvin Gaye (US #4, US R&B #1, UK #5), originally recorded by the Temptations
 1969: "I Can't Get Next to You" – The Temptations (US #1, US R&B #1, UK #13)
 1969: "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down" – The Temptations (US #20, US R&B #2)
 1970: "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)" – Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #35, US R&B #3), also recorded by the Temptations
 1970: "Psychedelic Shack" – The Temptations (US #7, US R&B #2, UK #33)
 1970: "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" – The Temptations (US #3, US R&B #2, UK #7)
 1970: "War" – Edwin Starr (US #1, US R&B #3, UK #3), originally recorded by the Temptations
 1971: "Smiling Faces Sometimes" – The Undisputed Truth (US #3, US R&B #2), originally recorded by the Temptations
 1971: "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" – The Temptations (US #1, US R&B #1, UK #8)
 1972: "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" – The Temptations (US #1, US R&B #1, UK #8), originally recorded by the Undisputed Truth (US #63, US R&B #24)
 1973: "Masterpiece" – The Temptations (US #7, US R&B #1)
 1973: "Law of the Land" – The Temptations (UK #41), also recorded by the Undisputed Truth (US R&B #40)
 1973: "Let Your Hair Down" – The Temptations (US #27, US R&B #1)
 1974: "Help Yourself" – The Undisputed Truth (US #63, US R&B #19)
 1975: "It Should Have Been Me" – Yvonne Fair (US #85, UK #5), also recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips (US #40, US R&B #9)
 1976: "Car Wash" – Rose Royce (US #1, UK #9)
 1976: "You + Me = Love" – The Undisputed Truth (US #48, US R&B #37, UK #43)
 1976: "I'm Going Down" – Rose Royce (US #70, US R&B #10)
 1976: "I Wanna Get Next to You" – Rose Royce (US #10)
 1977: "Ooh Boy" – Rose Royce (US #72, US R&B #3, UK #46)
 1977: "Wishing on a Star" – Rose Royce (UK #3)
 1978: "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" – Rose Royce (US #32, UK #2)

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Heat wave. Nine day work week with only two hours of free time. Berlin. Summer! Skiing is highly unlikely this week, but fortunately I have a backup sport: biking. I used those two hours to tour around the city on two wheels. Berlin is a great city to bike in, and there is plenty to see. I've been here many times, but this is the first time that actually got to see the Berlin wall.
My Berlin experiences aside, I wanted to talk about biking as the chosen transport method for city vacationers in general. Not many tourists realise it is an option. Bikes can be rented in most places - from your hotel, from the city bike rental system, or from specialised shops. In Berlin, I took a bike from my hotel for 20 €, but shops around the city were offering 10 € for daily rentals.
And how nice it is to use a bike! Driving is pain in all cities, let alone those foreign to you. Busses and metros are crowded. Taxis are expensive and not always easy to get. And you are stuck inside a vehicle, not experiencing the city. With a bike, you can stop anywhere, smell the city and experience its weather, see the parks, ... all while getting a some exercise and keeping the city air clean.
Berlin was an easy city to bike in, plenty of routes along the Spree, the Tiergarten, for instance. Here's the route that I used. On some areas there are bike lanes or paths, elsewhere you are mixed in with pedestrians. In general, all the paths were good for the exploring tourist, but not necessarily meant for the high-speed sports biker. Taking it easy and slow is good advice in most cities. In Paris, there is an extensive network of bike paths, but the city has narrow streets, a lot of traffic, and some of the paths are on the streets. A shared bus and bike lane requires a careful biker. But Paris does have an excellent bike rental, city bikes are available on almost every street corner. And the daily rent is almost nothing, under 2 €.
In New York, there are some bike paths on the streets. I can recommend these for the tourists that look for extreme experiences, but not for others. Central Park is an easy place to bike in though. However, my favourite route is along the Hudson river. You can ride safely from the southernmost tip of Manhattan to the north end, while going through parks and stopping at tourist sights such as the Battery Park, WTC site, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and others. A round trip from Battery Park to Inwood Hill Park can be 50 kilometers, so there are surprisingly long routes. Bike route maps are available here.
Beijing is another interesting city for bike explorations. Albeit a large city, with often bad air quality. My recommendation is to get on a guided biking tour, and visit places such as the Tianamen Square or Beihai park.
The right way to cool off after a biking tour is to visit a Biergarten. The one that I had the opportunity to enjoy was Cafe am Neuen See, an open-air restaurant and beer place. What strikes me most about these German beer heavens is their size. Cafe am Neuen See is huge, and always full of people.
Oh, the route to the Great Wall would be a nice tour!


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Dietary guidelines incompatible with global targets
A team of researchers, including the University of Adelaide, has found most dietary recommendations provided by national governments are incompatible with global health and environmental targets such as the Paris Climate Agreement, and are in need of reform.
In the paper, published in The BMJ, University of Adelaide Health and Medical Science Honours student Luke Spajic worked alongside researchers from the Livestock, Environment and People program at the University of Oxford, and Harvard and Tufts Universities in the United States.
The researchers extracted the recommendations from the dietary guidelines of 85 countries including Australia. They modelled the recommendations against global health and environmental targets, including the goal to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third, and the agreement to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius.
For comparison, the impacts of adopting the World Health Organization (WHO) global dietary recommendations, and the more comprehensive and ambitious recommendations of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, were also examined.
Mr Spajic said they found that, on average, adoption of national dietary guidelines was associated with a 15% reduction of premature mortality, and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 13%.
"However, a third of guidelines were incompatible with the global health agenda on non-communicable diseases, and between 67% to 87% were incompatible with the Paris Climate Agreement and other environmental targets," Mr Spajic said.
"Taken together, 98% of national guidelines were incompatible with at least one global health and environmental target, meaning that even if the whole world followed them, we would still fail to meet the targets governments have signed up to."
Mr Spajic said that he was not all that surprised by these findings, as many national dietary guidelines in the study had not been updated for some time and did not include recommendations around environmental sustainability.
"In Australia, our dietary guidelines were last published in 2013, and absent from those are recommendations that factor in environmental sustainability," Mr Spajic said.
Adoption of the WHO recommendations was associated with similar health and environmental changes as many national guidelines. However, adoption of those of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, was associated with a third greater reduction in premature mortality, more than three times greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and general attainment of the global health and environmental targets.
In Australia, adoption of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, could lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 86%, and a reduction in premature deaths of 31,000 (compared with 61 and 29,000).
Mr Spajic says that Australia's national guidelines could be both healthier and more sustainable.
"We urgently need to update our national dietary guidelines to reflect the latest evidence on healthy eating," Mr Spajic said.
"The impact of recent drought and bushfires in Australia has also added to the argument for environmentally sustainable recommendations to be included in our national guidelines."
"In Australia, we found that placing stricter limits on red meat and dairy would provide the greatest environmental benefit, and increased recommendations of whole grains, nuts and seeds, as well as further limits on processed and red meat would have the biggest impact on health," he said.
Dr Marco Springmann from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, who led the study says more ambitious guidelines on red meat and dairy would be a good starting point, however the guidelines are not a solution in themselves.
In the study, less than half of all countries with national food based dietary guidelines fulfilled any of their recommendations, and no country simultaneously fulfilled all recommendations.
"Food policies also need to encourage us to eat closer to national guidelines, and this includes investment in targeted public health campaigns that communicate what healthy and sustainable eating looks like," Dr Springmann said.
The study also highlights the need for national food guidelines to be reviewed more frequently and compared to global health and environmental targets.
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By Wendy Francis
Paperback. Audiobook & ebook, 336 Pages
May 5th 2020 by Graydon House Books
The drama is hot and the drinks are flying in Wendy Francis's witty, warm, and quirky family drama, BEST BEHAVIOR (Graydon House; May 5, 2020; $17.99 USD). Heartfelt and relatable, Francis cleverly portrays the nuances of a less-than-perfect but more-than-loving blended family in all its messy glory.
Meredith Parker and her husband Joel have been dreading the weekend of their twins' college graduation. Not only does it mean that Dawn and Cody are flying out of Meredith's nest to live in Chicago and North Dakota, but it also means Meredith will have to deal with her insufferable ex-husband, Roger, his pompous parents and his new wife Lily, so young she could be the twins' sister! But Meredith is willing to be the Jackie O. of college graduations. She can handle that for three days, can't she?
Meanwhile, Dawn, who has spent a lifetime cleaning up after her 'golden boy' brother, discovers a mess even she may not be able to get Cody out of. He's been acting weird last the few weeks of school; picking up smoking, breaking up with his girlfriend, but this... this is definitely a problem. She needs to figure out what's going on with her twin before he really ruins his life.
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On Thursday morning, the temperature outside is seventy-one degrees and climbing while Meredith Parker considers which of a thousand recommended places she would like to visit before she dies. Not that she's anticipating dying anytime soon, but she needs a distraction. She figures she has already seen at least a handful—Yosemite (breathtaking, as advertised), Niagara Falls (overrated in her opinion ‒ and cold), and San Francisco (lovely, with a charming hippie vibe). It's the exotic locales that have eluded her over the past forty-six years, places like Tahiti or Rome or the Swiss Alps. Although, come to think of it, Meredith doesn't really care for skiing, so she can probably cross the Alps right off her list. But Rome would be nice—all that history and pasta—and wine! A cheap fare must be available on one of those best-deal websites, if she searches long enough. Yes, she's fairly certain she can persuade her husband, Joel, that Rome should be their first-ever international destination, the new green pin on their Where Have You Been? map that hangs on the wall in the den. That is, of course, once the kids have settled into their new homes.
And with the thought of her children's imminent departure, Meredith's throat tightens. What's the use? she thinks. No number of mental hijinks will make her forget the real purpose of today's trip. She, Joel, and her mother, Carol, are tracing the familiar route up from New Haven to Boston, as they have dozens of times before, the trees beyond the window zipping by in a curtain of emerald green.
But this weekend will be different.
Because this weekend marks the twins' college graduation, an event that seemed impossibly far away only a few years ago, even a few months ago. Tomorrow her babies, the ones she used to cradle in each arm, will accept their hard-earned diplomas and officially step out into the great wide beyond, otherwise known as Adult Life.
Last night, when she'd gone to her neighborhood book club, the room had been abuzz with excitement over the upcoming weekend. "You must be bursting with pride!" her friend Lauren exclaimed. "I can't believe that Cody and Dawn are already graduating. It's so exciting." And Meredith had nodded, as if she, too, were in a state of shock over this improbable fact.
It's true that she couldn't be prouder of the twins, but the moment is bittersweet. Soon, Cody will be off to Bismarck, North Dakota, to teach high school history, and Dawn is headed to Chicago to work at an advertising firm. Her kids will be so far away, they might as well be moving to Bangkok. Even though she knows it's irrational, Meredith is racked by the feeling that after this summer she might never see her children again.
Admittedly, she is at a corner, or more specifically, at a crossroads in her life. Images of a two-year-old, chubby Cody racing into her arms or of a young Dawn asking for "one more good-night tuck-in" swim through her mind. She can still feel those small arms wrapped tightly around her, the love so palpable she used to think her heart would leap from her chest to theirs. How is it possible that her babies are graduating from college this weekend?
With Lauren's comment, Meredith had cast her gaze around the book group (who, truth be told, rarely ever discussed the book at hand) and realized with a start that the difference between her own life and that of her friends' suddenly stretched before her like a giant yawning chasm: Meredith was about to say goodbye to her kids once and for all, while her neighbors still had years of child-raising ahead of them.
Lauren had offered her an affectionate pat on the shoulder, as if she could read Meredith's thoughts, and handed over a generous pour of chardonnay, which Meredith accepted gratefully. Maybe, she allowed herself to consider, Lauren was right. Maybe the graduation weekend would be exciting, as pleasing as a perfectly folded fitted sheet. Tuck this person into that corner, that person over there, smooth it, smooth it, and everyone would get along swimmingly.
Given her patched-together, hybrid family, though, Meredith sincerely doubts it. Her ex-husband, Roger, will be bringing Lily, his new wife of six months. And as fine as Meredith is with the idea of Roger's remarrying after all these years, his new marriage somehow feels forced, as if he has just purchased a new set of golf clubs that he's eager to show off to the rest of the family.
"I know. It's crazy, right?" Meredith had managed to get out after swallowing her wine. "The twins are officially all grown up."
Lauren, a corporate attorney, has two young girls, six and eight, whom Meredith adores and dreams of kidnapping one day (she tells herself it wouldn't really be kidnapping, though, since they're all neighbors, and obviously she would do Lauren the courtesy of asking before moving the girls into her own home.). As it is, she helps out with the girls whenever she can, usually after school when Lauren works late and Meredith is already back from her shift in the NICU. The girls have her pegged for a softy and know full well that she will buy them ice cream, bake chocolate chip cookies on a whim, and watch every terrible mermaid movie that's available for streaming. They call her "Auntie," which makes her heart swell and break simultaneously.
Some days she wishes she and Joel had tried for their own children way back when, even though the timing was off—they didn't meet till Meredith was in her late thirties—and there would have been a considerable age gap, more than a decade, between a new baby and the twins. But at least she would still hear young voices in the house, would have someone to ferry to ballet practice or help with a book report. As exhausting as it could be some days (that Taj Mahal built out of marshmallows for fifth grade nearly killed her), she misses the maternal responsibilities she was once counted on for, feels the lack like an unfamiliar brittleness settling into her bones.
Theoretically, she understands that the twins flew the coop four years ago when they left for college. But that was different. The kids continued to call every Sunday night, and she and Joel could drop by on the odd weekend. Luckily, both children had decided on the same college in Boston, making spur-of-the-moment visits ridiculously convenient. But traveling so far away for jobs where she might see them only once or twice a year for Thanksgiving and Christmas? She honestly doesn't know how—or if—she can handle it.
Thankfully, no matter what faults she and her ex-husband, Roger, might have had as a couple, their kids have turned out all right—better than all right—and Meredith lets herself relax slightly with this thought now. Dawn, hands down her most difficult child during the teenage years, has blossomed into a bright young woman. Gone are the days when Meredith's every comment would prompt an eye roll from her daughter. And despite an unfortunate hiccup with the Administrative Board last year, Dawn has managed to pull off graduating with honors. Meanwhile, Cody (Meredith's lips part into a smile when she imagines him striding across the stage in his gown) is graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Not only that, but he set the school record for all-time rushing yards this fall, leading his football team to their best season in fifteen years. Cody has become a rock star on his small New England campus, and as his mother, Meredith can't help but feel a bit smug. After all, she was the one who whipped up protein shake after protein shake and lugged him to hundreds of high school practices. She was the one who allowed her lovely den to be transformed into a weight room filled with smelly sneakers and barbells for four years.
If she knows one thing deep in her bones, it's that she is a good mom, one who has raised hardworking, resilient children. She imagines holding her breath as they parade across Bolton's commencement stage, much as she did when they took their first ungainly steps across the kitchen floor, Cody wheeling ahead in wide, determined strides and Dawn following a few paces behind, her tongue twisted into a tight coil of determination. Meredith is enormously proud of them, and, quite honestly, of herself. She didn't abandon her kids like Roger did, when he'd seen fit to put his penis where it didn't belong. But that was nearly ten years ago, water under the bridge—more of a tepid stream wandering through her mind these days than a charging river.
Excerpted from Best Behavior by Wendy Francis. © 2020 by Wendy Francis, used with permission by Graydon House.
Wendy Francis is a former book editor and the author of three novels: The Summer Sail, The Summer of Good Intentions, and Three Good Things. Her essays have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Washington Post, Yahoo Parenting, The Huffington Post, and WBUR's Cognoscenti. Born and raised in the Midwest, she now lives outside of Boston with her husband and son.
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Q: Gridview updates within an Updatepanel What is the best way, using ASP.NET and C#, to tackle the following problem?
I have a database containing a companies table, product table (each company has multiple products, though the tables aren't linked), and a details table.
What I'd like is to display the companies table. Selecting a company reveals the products table for that company. Selecting a product reveals a details table.
I'd like to place this all inside an update panel, so that only this part of the page updates, and was wondering what the community thought was the best approach.
I'm wondering, currently, whether it's possible to programmatically change the datasource of a single gridview. Or perhaps it would be best to have multiple gridviews and change visibility?
Or perhaps gridviews are not the way to go? I don't know.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

A: I achieved one level of nesting easily with the ListView, which was great because it gave me full control over the UI so I could create the nesting process easily, I could devote two TR tags per entry, the first contains the details, and the second contains the drop down panel.  You could easily next two-three levels of panels.  You can easily setup multiple Lists to create the nested structure.  I wrote JS script to show/hide the panels.
That I found worked for me.
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Review: EXO's New Album
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Released on November 2nd, South Korean and Chinese boyband, EXO, has returned to the music scene with their fifth album, Don't Mess Up My Tempo, after over a year of hiatus. They have already broken records with the album surpassing 1 million pre-orders, making this album EXO's fifth million sellers and earning them the 'Quintuple Million Seller' title. This album also marks the return of Chinese member Lay, who was unable to participate in the previous album. He can be seen in both Korean and Chinese music video, but his vocals are only featured in the Chinese version.
Their title track 'Tempo' released both in Korean and Chinese is a fusion of old-school hip-hop and dance that catches the audience's attention and keeps them on their feet. Along with the addicting chorus and impressive verses which allowed the rappers Chanyeol and Sehun to shine, EXO has once again proven their immense vocal ability all throughout the song. They continue to surprise the listeners with brave directions and unexpected turns, from the electro, double-time chorus to the unexpected yet marvellously done acapella in the bridge which was carried out by Suho's soft vocals at the forefront along with the rest of the member's harmonies. The song is overall a joyride, much fitting to their music video and shows the public that EXO has returned with a brand-new era.
The album within itself is cohesive yet each song is still different from each other, ranging from songs such as Ooh La La La which has a soft Latin flair to it to Sign which is a song more heavily electronic and dubstep influenced. Each song presents its own vibe, but it never clashes with the other so listening to this album from start to finish is refreshing but not too overwhelming.
Not only are each song impressively produced, but their concept of each song linking to each member's superpower, a concept which they've had since debut and continue to dedicate to, highlights each of the song's lyrics and brings it to the forefront. With songs such as Oasis and its lyrics 'with this burning thirst, we'll go further'and 'past this red desert, we find the oasis', this obviously highlights Suho's power to control water and gives a nice touch to each song. It also allows the fans to feel nostalgic as each member recollects their powers to which they had since debut and connect it to their new songs.
Don't Mess Up My Tempo is overall an album of well-produced songs and has ticked all the checklist of what makes a pop song good, with their catchy hooks, amazing vocals and strong rapping, it's no wonder that EXO continues to gain success. Their constant experimentation means you're never going to hear a song similar to their previous ones, yet they still have a style that continues to flow through in each album so whenever you hear a song, you'll instantly know that it's EXO. Being a seven-year-old group, it's easy to get stuck in the middle of producing new music or keeping their old style, but as always, EXO has managed to outrun that problem and release new music that fits their style perfectly.
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Tanzanites unique position in the gemstone kingdom, that once this stone is mined out , those fortunate enough to own a top grade stone will indeed be in the enviable position of holding a treasure worthy of heirloom status.
Tanzanites are an extraordinary gemstone – one of the world's rarest precious gems, they are both lesser known and deeply loved by those in the know. There is only one source in the world for Tanzanite, that being Tanzania. The supply of Tanzanite stones is also becoming increasingly depleted, if not extinct.
Tanzanite's are cut into various shapes, however the round brilliant cut gives the deepest colour saturation and scintillation, the stone having prismatic qualities.
At Guthries Jewellers we source our clients exquisite Tanzanites direct from the mines, giving you the opportunity to acquire a stone specific to your desired requirements at a distinct advantage.
Many of the Tanzanites we source are of a significant size and of an exceptional beauty – this lends itself to a bold design that focuses on simplicity, the more simple the design the more the centre stone will stand out such as the ones below.
In a cushion cut we love draping Tanzanites with diamonds. The design below uses baguette cut diamonds to achieve this look but we could also use multiple layers of small round diamonds, pear shaped diamonds, or a mixture of both.


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Mark Hertsgaard & Thomas Yezerski
Mark Hertsgaard
Thomas Yezerski
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard on HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth and children's book author and illustrator Thomas Yezerski on his picture book for children, MEADOWLANDS. It's the inspiring story about how nature is healing itself in what was one of the most polluted places in America. Also, Maxine Kumin talks about writing poetry about nature.
All this month, we're talking with authors about the environment. Instead of Earth Day, we're having Earth Month. We're also squeezing in some poetry where we can, because April is also Poetry Month. Today, we first talk with Mark Hertsgaard. In his book, HOT, he says climate change is here, it's happening and it's too late to avoid, even if we do everything right on emissions (which we're not.) So we need to start gearing up our efforts to adapt to the changes that are coming, as well as try to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
Hertsgaard says there is much we can do to adapt – if the political will is there. Example — the "200 Year Plan" to survive climate change being developed by the Netherlands. And the Dutch government is raising the taxes to pay for it, with the support of citizens.
Of course, in the U.S., some act like taxes are theft and government is evil. But some communities, like Seattle and New York City, are making strong commitments to adaptation. And even some of the planet's poorest citizens are figuring out how to adapt — and spreading their knowledge by word of mouth.
Hertsgaard explores both the challenges and the possibilities in this terrific book. But more than that, it's a kind of cry of the heart for those, like his young daughter, who are part of Generation Hot.
Hertsgaard has written about global warming for the New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Nation. His latest blog post can be found here.
Illustrator and author Thomas Yezerski's beautiful picture book for young children MEADOWLANDS: A Wetlands Survival Story recounts the astonishing return of wildlife to one of the most polluted landscapes in America. Set in the estuary where the Hackensack River meets the Newark Bay, it describes a place that once was of pristine beauty, what happened to destroy that beauty, and how it is now coming back. Once, white cedar forests and marshlands nurtured an abundance of marine and land animals. But by the time I came to know it as a child growing up in northern New Jersey, it was a wasteland, poisoned by countless chemical plants and oil refineries.
But something magical happened after I moved away. Using the Clean Air Act (currently under attack in the U.S. Congress), the state and regional government were able to stop the toxic dumping. And the insects, fish, birds and other animals returned. In MEADOWLANDS, Yerzerski shows the web of life being rewoven, strand by strand. It's a hopeful vision, one to cradle in the mind as we gird ourselves for the challenges of the future.
Maxine Kumin
April 12, 2011 global warming, journalist, Maxine Kumin, poetryFrancesca Rheannon
About Francesca Rheannon
Francesca Rheannon is an award-winning independent radio producer. In addition to hosting Writer's Voice, she's a freelance reporter for National Public Radio and its affiliates. Recipient of the prestigious Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for reporting on substance abuse issues for her news series, VOICES OF HIV, produced for 88.5 WFCR public radio in western Massachusetts. She is also finishing a book on Provence (PROVINCE OF THE HEART) and working on a memoir of her father, THE ARGONAUTS.	View all posts by Francesca Rheannon →
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We recently spent a family weekend celebrating our great granddaughter's first birthday. Our granddaughter, Anna, had prepared her Buffalo Chicken Dip - much better and less messy to eat than wings!
It takes no time at all to put together. Then you simply bake it at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, give it a good stir to mix it well and return to the oven for a further 5 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips, celery and carrot sticks.
She very kindly agreed to share the recipe with me and I am happy to share it with you.
1/4 cup hot sauce, or to taste.
Watch Anna prepare this terrific dip!
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PRESS RELEASE | Dance Kaleidoscope kicks of with "COLE!"
Dance Kaleidoscope kicks off Ogle Center's 20th season with Indiana Bicentennial celebration event: COLE!
Dance Kaleidoscope celebrates the music of Cole Porter and Indiana's Bicentennial while addressing social issues
The Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast, southern Indiana's center for the performing and visual arts on the IU Southeast campus in New Albany, is pleased to present Dance Kaleidoscope, Indianapolis' professional contemporary dance company, and their production of COLE!as an Indiana Bicentennial Celebration event on Saturday, September 24 at7:30 p.m. in the Ogle Center's Stem Concert Hall on the IU Southeast campus, 4201 Grant Line Road in New Albany. Tickets are $29 in advance, $33 at the door, $10 for students, and are available at the Ogle Center ticket office, by calling (812) 941-2525, or online at oglecenter.com.
Supported by the Indiana Masterpiece Grant Award from the Indiana Arts Commission, Dance Kaleidoscope's artistic director, David Hochoy has honored Indiana's Cole Porter by creating a lively two-act contemporary dance piece set to Porter's most popular songs.
Act One (Ole King Cole) sparkles with nostalgia, using original musical artists from the 1920s and 30s. The music is from vintage LPs, so the singing style and even scratchy record sound becomes part of the ambience. Songs include "Let's Do It" and "I've Got You Under My Skin."
Act Two (Cole Soul) uses contemporary recordings of Cole Porter's songs. The energy and costumes are current and gritty. Songs include "Don't Fence Me In" and "Miss Otis Regrets."
While COLE! is a celebration of the music of Cole Porter, it also does not shy away from tackling social issues.
"Part one of COLE! is the Golden Age of Hollywood, the American Dream, boy meets girl, and an everything is hunky-dory feel," says Hochoy. "The second half is more aggressive, and what I hope, includes more clever ways to incorporate current social issues, such as homelessness, greed, and homosexuality…. Part two is pure contrast."
"In the beginning, two decades ago, I was nervous to showcase the two-men duet," says Hochoy. "And it was around '97 that a presenter asked me to remove the male duet, to use women instead. Decades of doing choreography, and the double standard still amazes me. We can use violence onstage, kill people and fight onstage and even have two women dance together, but show two men dancing… it's still difficult for some audiences to accept. It's just crazy. I have always used my art to push boundaries and will continue to do so. Life is rich and beautiful, encompassing many layers and forms, and it should be celebrated, everywhere."
Free parking for the event is available in the Dogwood lot directly in front of the Ogle Center and in the Hickory lot directly behind the Ogle Center from one hour prior to the start of the performance until one hour following the end of the performance. Vehicles parked in other locations and/or at other times will be subject to ticketing.
DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE presents COLE!
An Indiana Bicentennial Celebration Event
A lively contemporary dance piece set to popular songs by Indiana's own Cole Porter
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | 7:30 P.M.
The Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast
4201 Grant Line Road
TICKETS: $29 in advance | $33 at the door | $10 students
Tickets are available at the Ogle Center ticket office, by calling (812) 941-2525, or online at oglecenter.com.
Free parking in the Dogwood and Hickory lots from one hour prior to performance until one hour following the end of the performance.
For more information, call the Ogle Center at (812) 941-2525 or visitoglecenter.com.
This entry was posted in and tagged COLE!, dance, Dance Kaleidoscope, Extol, Extol mag, IUS, Ogle Center, season, social issues, students on September 24, 2016 by Brian Hyatt.


Drones cannot take to the air unless permitted to do so. The Swiss authorities are currently seeking to create a legal framework that allows the technology to develop, while sufficiently addressing safety concerns.
As a starting point, the Swiss authorities recognize a drone as an aircraft. No authorization is required for a drone in visual contact, weighing below 30kg, at least 100m away from an outdoor crowd and with CHF1 million insurance coverage.
If a drone is an aircraft, it should operate to the safety standards of an aircraft, which require certified organsiation (airline), certified staff (pilot, crew) and aircraft design. A drone, by its nature, cannot meet these requirements. Therefore, seen from the regulatory perspective, three categories of aircraft have emerged: open (within framework); specific (not sufficiently safe, requiring safety measures); and certified (approved to accepted standards and ensures sufficient safety).
The same level of safety is demanded from all three categories, which involves looking at the framework through a holistic risk model to identify potential vulnerabilities. With drones, these are danger to third parties on the ground; mid air collision; and damage to critical infrastructure. The threats to drones come from mechanical failure, human error, collision, adverse operating conditions or datalink deterioration.
The Swiss authorities do not work in a vacuum, they follow the guidance and principles of the international body, the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JANUS). The net result, however, is an efficient one, whereby a drone operator needs a single regulatory clearance to operate within accepted parameters. That does not happen everywhere – in the Netherlands, eight separate permits are required to operate a drone.
For more information, see: bazl.admin.ch.


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Oba Samuel Olatunji Kalejaye the Controversial Oba of Iraye Remo,in Ode Remo in Remo North local Government absconded the palace on a day Journalists were to visit him, Concerning the pending event and Coronation Anniversary which he planned organize this December. An Abeokuta based High Court has Nullified his Obaship in favour of Sugbada Family, the Actual royal Family that's supposed to be the King.
After the judgement, the Oba went to Lagos only to return few weeks to occupy the Palace in controversial circumstances. He'd accepted to meet the journalists on appointment but refused to meet them, asking the journalists to meet him in an unknown location in the town. It is said that the Oba has no other abode of his in the town he rules over.
The reporters who'd arrived the Palace were surprised at the sudden change of mind and directive to meet the Traditional ruler at another Venue. The Judgement of the Court has directed the Oba to vacate the throne. Hence the King could not meet the journalists in the Controversial Palace.


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Q: How to create a gif from an image sequence without dither with FFMPEG? I'm able to create a gif from the image sequence, but I'm struggling to remove the dither from it.
This is the command I'm using to create the gif:
ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 24 -y -i image_%d.png -loop -1 "C:\Users\agetr\Documents\_tmp\__giuf.gif"

And I've tried to use the paletteuse=dither=none filter in different ways with no luck.
P.S.: I'm very new to the ffmpeg cli

A: You need to use -sws_dither none (after the -i $file argument, and before the output file). I've tried this on current git/master of FFmpeg and it works as expected, but on older builds (e.g. 4.4.1) this doesn't work. I don't know why exactly, so use a recent (5.0 or any version from 2022, if possible) version/build.