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The Spinners – "It's A Shame"
May 17, 2010 May 19, 2010 by thedailyrecord, posted in Motown, Song Review
The Spinners – "It's A Shame," Pop #14, R&B #4
The Spinners had been absent from the charts for five years when "It's A Shame" came out in June, 1970. In fact, the Detroit quintet had only two hits in their 10-year history up till that point.
The group came to Motown when Berry Gordy hired Harvey Fuqua and bought his Tri-Phi label. Fuqua was an essential part of Motown's artist development, nurturing a young Marvin Gaye and singing Tammi Terrell.
By 1970, the Spinners were considered collateral damage from the Tri-Phi takeover, serving mostly as road managers and chaperones for more successful groups. Their hunger for a hit was a natural match for another Motown artist's desire to spread his wings.
When Gaye wanted to show his independence, he wrote and produced two hits for the Originals. Now Stevie Wonder looked at the Spinners and wanted to do the same.
"It's a Shame" was written and produced by the same team responsible for Wonder's most recent hit "Signed, Sealed and Delivered." Wonder's musical and romantic relationship with Syreeta Wright continued to blossom and Lee Garrett once again contributed to the composition.
The song opens with a hypnotic guitar hook, but it's the Spinners' harmony vocals that cement the number as a soul classic. The lyrics speak of heartbreak, but the delivery is effortless and graceful.
The performance was so stellar that few artists have attempted to cover "It's a Shame." The song instead lives on as a sample, appearing in songs by R. Kelly, Sounds of Blackness, Lethal Bizzile and Monie Love.
Tagged Harvey Fuqua, Hitsville U.S.A., Marvin Gaye, R. Kelly, Sounds of Blackness, Spinners, Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright, the Originals, Tri-Phi records2 Comments
Jr. Walker and the All Stars – "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)"
December 30, 2009 December 30, 2009 by thedailyrecord, posted in Motown, Song Review
Jr. Walker and the All Stars – "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)," Pop # 4, R&B # 1
"What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" was Jr. Walker's second chart-topper and first since 1965's "Shotgun," but the two songs couldn't have been more different. While "Shotgun" was a raw roadhouse rumble with the horn dominating the vocals, "What Does It Take" was a smooth love song designed to drive traffic to the bedroom.
Although Walker penned many of the All Stars' best numbers, like "Shake and Fingerpop," "Hip City" and "Last Call," he handed the reigns over to the songwriting and production duo of Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol in a bid for greater pop success in the late '60s.
On paper it looked like a solid decision. Fuqua and Bristol were trusted entities. The latter discovered Walker, and the former gave Walker his first record deal. When Fuqua's Harvey Records were purchased by Motown, Fuqua, Bristol and Walker became part of the Hitsville family.
While Fuqua and Bristol were successful in taking Walker back to the top of the charts, they did it by depriving Walker of his signature sound. The great saxophone that propelled so many All Stars singles was relegated to anonymous responses that could have been handled by any session player. Walker has overcome his initial microphone shyness to deliver a credible vocal, but his delivery his hardly distinct. All the right elements may be in place, but the product is competently forgettable.
Any thoughts that Walker strayed too far from the sound that made him great are reinforced by Kenny G's 1986 cover featuring Bristol on lead vocals.
Tagged Harvey Fuqua, Harvey Records, Hitsville U.S.A., Johnny Bristol, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, Junior Walker, Kenny G, soul music4 Comments
David Ruffin – "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)"
David Ruffin – "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)," Pop # 9, R&B # 2
Former Temptation David Ruffin stuck pretty close to his old band's template on his solo debut. The Harvey Fuqua/Johnny Bristol song was slated to be the Tempts' next single, but Ruffin was able to sweet talk taking the song with him when he was fired. With backing vocals provided by the Originals, the song sounds enough like the Temptations casual listeners could be forgiven for thinking the news of Ruffin's departure was nothing but a bad dream.
The lyrics also deal with the frequent Temptations theme of lost love. Like he did in "I Wish It Would Rain" and "Since I Lost My Baby," Ruffin ruminates over how a promising relationship soured and what to do with the loneliness and ache.
A Top 10 pop hit that just missed the top spot on the R&B charts, "My Whole World Ended" was a promising start to Ruffin's new career. Unfortunately, the problems that plagued him in the Temptations continued to haunt. Because he wasn't a songwriter, Ruffin was dependent on others for material, and Ruffin's erratic behavior and continued drug use didn't endear him to many Hitsville songsmiths. Ruffin caused further problems when he started forcing his way onstage during Temptations concerts. Fans were ecstatic to hear the old singer deliver the hits, but the group, with new member Dennis Edwards, was less than enthused.
Despite these problems, Ruffin maintained a decent solo career. Although he never matched the success of "My Whole World Ended," he had several minor hits peaking with another Top 10 smash on 1975's "Walk Away From Love."
There was a flurry of immediate covers after the release of "My Whole World" in early 1969. The Chi-Lites, Kiki Dee and the Spinners all recorded interpretations of the song within 18 months of its initial release.
Tagged David Ruffin, Dennis Edwards, Harvey Fuqua, Hitsville U.S.A., Johnny Bristol, Kiki Dee, My Whole World Ended, the Chi-Lites, the Originals, the Spinners, The TemptationsLeave a comment
Edwin Starr – "Twenty-five Miles"
November 30, 2009 August 27, 2010 by thedailyrecord, posted in Motown, Song Review
Edwin Starr – "Twenty-Five Miles," Pop # 6, R&B #6
If the horn arrangement on "Twenty-Five Miles" sounds like something out of the Stax studio, that's because it is. Motown songwriters Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol based their number on the obscure Wilson Pickett song "32 Miles Out of Waycross (Mojo Mama)" written by Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler and recorded in 1967.
It's little surprise Fuqua and Bristol turned to a Pickett number when looking for material for Edwin Starr. Like Pickett, Starr was a strong baritone who sang from the throat. And like fellow Motown family member Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops, Starr's voice was seeped in the Southern style.
Unlike, Stubbs, however, Starr didn't have a string of hits under his belt, which made him a bit of an outcast at the label. A Detroit native who somehow escaped Berry Gordy's eagle eye for talent, Starr's biggest hit. to date was the 1965 song "Agent Double 'O' Soul" recorded on the Ric-Tic label. Three years later, when Motown purchased Ric-Tick in 1968, Starr joined the Hitsville stable.
"Twenty-Five Miles" opens with Benny Benjamin's athletic drumming and he stays front and center as the funky scoutmaster that keeps Starr's (and everyone on the dance floor) feet relentlessly moving. The bass line echoes a horn line that has become a staple of marching and pep bands across the country. The listener never learns what happens when Starr reaches his destination, but the energetic vocals definitely prove that getting there is half the fun.
Although "25 Miles" was a Top 10 hit, it often been overlooked when acts mine the Motown catalog. For nearly 20 years, Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band were the only group to cover the song. Their version was released several months after Starr's as an album track on "In the Jungle, Babe." In 1989, UK dance outfit the Cookie Crew sampled "25 Miles" on their hit "Got to Keep On." Australian boy band Human Nature covered "25 Miles" on their 2005 release "Reach Out: The Motown Album."
Tagged Atlantic records, Bert Berns, Edwin Starr, Four Tops, Harvey Fuqua, Hitsville U.S.A., Jerry Wexler, Johnny Bristol, Levi Stubbs, Southern Soul, Stax, Wilson Pickett2 Comments
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
August 26, 2009 August 27, 2010 by thedailyrecord, posted in Motown, Song Review
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Pop # 19, R&B # 3
Marvin Gaye found his greatest early success as a duet partner. The 1964 album "Together" was his first album to chart, and his duets placed in the Top 20 with a consistency that eluded him as a solo artist. Unfortunately, Gaye's soul partners, Mary Wells and Kim Weston, both left Motown for (allegedly) greener pastures shortly after collaborating with Gaye. As established Motown solo artists, pairing of Gaye with Wells and Weston made sense. The teaming of Gaye with Hitsville newcomer Tammi Terrell, however, was inspired.
Terrell arrived at Motown in 1965 after bouncing from Scepter Records, where she recorded as Tammy Montgomery, James Brown's Try Records and the Chess Records subsidiary Checker. Her initial Motown singles didn't much fare better than her previous efforts, but "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" took both her and Gaye's careers to a new level.
Motown's new singing pair was paired with the songwriting team Berry Gordy hired to replace the gradually exiting Holland-Dozier-Holland squad. Husband and wife Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson came to Gordy's attention in 1966 with their No. 1 hit "Let's Go Get Stoned" for Ray Charles. (Ironically, "Stoned" was Charles' first single after leaving rehab for his heroin addiction.)
"Mountain was a heck of a debut for both Ashford and Simpson and Gaye and Terrell. It's obvious from the few seconds of spoken introduction that the signers have great rapport and their voices dance perfectly on the chorus. Although Gaye and Terrell sound like they're giggling from the same care-free piano bench, their vocal parts were actually recorded separately. Terrell felt like she hadn't rehearsed the lyrics enough to record with Gaye, so after some coaching with producers Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol she cut her part alone.
Although Fuqua and Bristol had helmed dozens of Motown hits, "Mountain" doesn't have the expected Hitsville sound. The most obvious explanation is that Ashford and Simpson were an "outside" songwriting team and that Holland-Dozier-Holland were on their way out. It also highlights that when people talk about the "Motown sound" they are often talking about Holland-Dozier-Holland's signature production style. Holland-Dozier-Holland's defection not only deprived Motown of its greatest songwriting team, but also Gordy's vaunted "sound of young America."
As one team of stars left, another was being born. The success of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" helped transform Gaye into one of Motown's biggest and most enduring performers, whose brightest days were yet to come.
Tagged Ashford and Simpson, Berry Gordy, Harvey Fuqua, Hitsville U.S.A., Holland-Dozier-Holland, Marvin Gaye, soul music, Tammi Terrell1 Comment
The Marvelettes – "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game"
July 29, 2009 August 27, 2010 by thedailyrecord, posted in Motown, Song Review
The Marvelettes – "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game," Pop # 13, R&B #2
The Marvelettes gave Motown its first No. 1 hit with "Please Mr. Postman," but that was way back in 1961. But that was five years before "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" came out – a lifetime in pop music. The interceding years weren't too kind. The group found some follow-up success with "Beechwood 4-5789," but lost a founding member, and famously passed on "Where Did Our Love Go," which became the Supremes' first No. 1 hit.
By the mid-'60s, the Marvelettes had lost another member. Only the success of greatest hits and live albums were keeping the band tethered to the Motown roster. Then Smokey Robinson entered the picture.
Robinson penned "Don't Mess With Bill," the comeback single for the now-trio. His pen also produced "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," sung by Wanda Young, wife of Miracles' guitarist Bobby Rodgers.
The lyrics are straightforward, but what makes the song is Young's slinky singing and an equally elastic performance from the Funk Brothers. Check out the great guitar performance holding the whole song together and the great and rare Motown harmonica solo to appear outside of a Stevie Wonder or Shorty Long album.
The Marvelettes found a Top 10 hit with their next single – a remake of Ruby and the Romantics' "When You're In Love" – before losing another singer. They carried on with some success, but a full-scale comeback was quashed when the remaining members decided not to follow Berry Gordy to Los Angeles and Young's pregnancy. After the Marvelettes dissolved, singer Ann Bogan joined New Birth, a soul outfit founded by former Motown staffer Harvey Fuqua.
"The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" has been covered by Ella Fitzgerald, Raconteur Brendan Benson, Jerry Garcia, Blondie and Massive Attack. A reggae cover by Grace Jones reached No. 87 on the R&B charts in 1980.
Tagged Blondie, Bobby Rogers, Ella Fitzgerald, Grace Jones, Grateful Dead, Harvey Fuqua, Hitsville U.S.A., Jerry Garcia, Marvelettes, Miracles, New Birth, Please Mr. Postman, Smokey Robinson, soul music1 Comment
Soulsville sings Hitsville
July 10, 2009 August 27, 2010 by thedailyrecord, posted in Album review, Motown, Stax
Rare was the time Berry Gordy would let Motown artists record songs outside of the Hitsville catalog (and its lucrative publishing). Fortunately, Jim Stewart at Stax did not have the same stipulation. Thanks to the 2007 compilation "Soulsville Sings Hitsville: Stax Sings the Songs of Motown Records" soul fans have at least one direct barometer to use in the never-ending debate of Stax vs. Motown.
Rivalries and arguments aside, "Soulsville Sings Hitsville" is a great 15-song collection that casts many soul nuggets worn out by oldies radio in a new light. Soul fans from either side of the Mason-Dixon line will find a lot to enjoy here. And now for the 15-round battle in the head-to-head match of Stax vs. Motown.
Round 1: – "Stop! In the Name of Love"
Margie Joseph vs. the Supremes
The Supremes took this song to No. 1 in 1965 and made it one of their defining songs. Margie Joseph adds a lengthy monologue and a completely new arrangement that transforms the song. They lyrics are about the only element these versions share. Although it's hard to top Holland-Dozier-Holland production, Joseph accomplishes the feat by making the song her own and having an infinitely better singing voice than Diana Ross.
Winner: Stax
Round 2: – "I Don't Know Why I Love You"
David Porter vs. Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5
David Porter made his name as half of the Porter-Isaac Hayes hitmaking machine in the '60s before striking out on his own in the '70s. His version of "I Don't Know Why" easily tops the Jackson 5's reading. Michael Jackson just isn't old enough to put the necessary grit in his vocals and ends up practically shouting the song. The gold medal here, though, goes to the co-author and original performer Stevie Wonder. Released as a single from his 1968 album "For Once In My Life," the song peaked at No. 16 on the R&B charts. Wonder's vocals simmer, building in intensity until they boil over at the 1:40 mark. Wonder sings so hard he's almost out of breath as the great arrangement continues to build until the only options are to explode out of the speakers or fade out. Faced with potential lawsuits from music lovers, the track ends just under the three-minute mark.
Winner: Motown
Round 3 – "You've Got to Earn It"
Staples Singers vs. the Temptations
One of the Staples Singers' biggest hits, this song is so closely identified with the group that I didn't even know the Temptations recorded the original. This Smokey Robinson-penned number was released in 1965 on the b-side of "Since I Lost My Baby." The Tempts version is serviceable, but aside from Eddie Kendricks' lead vocals isn't that memorable. The Staples version trumps on every level: Mavis Staples great singing, the spectacular arrangement featuring a signature descending horn line and harmonica, and the soulful playing and support of Pops and Yvonne Staples.
Round 4 – "Can I Get a Witness"
Calvin Scott vs. Marvin Gaye
In the NFL, when a play is challenged and the officials go under the hood for review, there must be incontrovertible evidence to overturn the call. So goes it with covers. It is not sufficient to merely equal the original recording, the burden of the cover is to surpass the original. Calvin Scott does a good job putting his twist on one of Marvin Gaye's earliest hits, but he doesn't add anything to it either. Take pity on Scott, however – topping Gaye is no small feat.
Round 5 – "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"
Mar-Keys vs. Four Tops
Although some session credits are available, the Mar-Keys kind of became the catch name for whoever was playing with the Memphis Horns. Some of their cuts ended up on Booker T. and the MGs or Isaac Hayes albums, some were added to Bar-Kays releases and others credited to the Mar-Keys themselves. The Mar-Keys' 1971 version of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" is one of the numbers that has fallen through the cataloging cracks – Stax historians aren't really sure who played on it. However, one fact is indisputable: this track rocks. Andrew Horn blows a mad sax solo with enough grit and soul to match Levi Stubbs' incomparable voice, while the rest of the musicians strip the sheen laid by the Funk Brothers on the original Motown recording. That said, the Four Tops version became one of their defining performances for good reason. The decision here comes down to preference: the dirtier R&B of Stax or the polished soul of Motown. I like 'em both.
Winner: Push
Round 6 – "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Isaac Hayes vs. Jackson 5
Isaac Hayes and the Jackson 5 both released their interpretations of Clifton Davis' "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1971. The results couldn't be more different. The pain in Hayes' deep voice pits him as a grown man with life experience against a bunch of talented kids acting their hearts out. In the weeks following the death of Michael Jackson, the J5 performance has become an unofficial tribute to their singer. It's a fine sentiment, but, as Mos Def would say, this is grown man business. Hayes wins, no contest.
Round 7 – "My Cherie Amour"
Billy Eckstein vs. Stevie Wonder
In the 1940s, Billy Eckstein's orchestra was one of the first large bop combos in jazz, providing an early home for Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the '50s, Eckstein's smooth voice influenced up-and-coming soul singers like Sam Cooke and Solomon Burke. Eckstein dabbled in both soul and jazz in the 1960s, even popping up on a couple Motown LPs. Although his career was pretty much over by the '70s, Al Bell was able to coax the legend to cut a few albums for Stax. Unfortunately, Eckstein's 1970 delivery of "My Cherie Amour" borders on parody and sadly resembles Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors' version of "You Are the Sunshine Of My Life" that may be found on the Golden Throats series.
Round 8 – "Oh, Be My Love"
Barbara Lewis vs. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Barbara Lewis actually got her start as a teen soul singer in early '60s Detroit before finding greater success on Stax. Based on this number, it's odd that Berry Gordy passed on Lewis at a time when he was seemingly signing every promising young singer in the city. Lewis' voice is a perfect fit for the Motown sound. Then again, maybe it's for the best Lewis didn't join the Motown family. Chances are she would have ended up another in the long line of promising female talents discarded in the wake of Diana Ross. Lewis does a fine job with this interpretation of a 1967 Miracles b-side penned by Smokey Robinson. Unfortunately, the original version could not be located for comparison.
Winner: No decision
Round 9 – "I Hear a Symphony"
Booker T. and the MGs vs. Diana Ross and the Supremes
On paper, this looks like a slam dunk: Remove Ross' weak vocals and replace it with one of the tightest, funkiest groups of the day. But somehow, the MGs' performance just doesn't add up. The melody just doesn't sound complete coming only from Steve Cropper's guitar and Booker T. Jones' organ can't replicate the fullness of the Funk Brothers playing. The Supremes' version is definitely more than the sum of its parts, and a testament to the acumen of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team.
Round 10 – "Chained"
Mavis Staples vs. Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye took a break from cutting duets with Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell to lay down this funky number in 1968. The backing vocals and atmosphere give the track a live feel and the sax break is as close to the Stax sound as Motown gets. Mavis Staples cut her version a year later. She more than holds her own against Gaye's vocals, and the arrangement is just as energetic. Both versions can pack the dance floor, yet are just different enough to stand on their own. Why choose one performance when you can have both?
Round 11 – "Ask the Lonely"
John Gary Williams vs. Four Tops
John Gary Williams cut several sides for Stax/Volt as a member of the Mad Lads until he was drafted in 1966. When Williams got out of the military, he wasn't exactly greeted with open arms. His former group had carried on in his absence, and found Williams' replacement to be much easier to work with. Stax owner Jim Stewart pressured the group to take Williams back and he recorded with the Lads until 1972. That year, Williams was finally able to go solo. He released only one album, which included covers of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," the Spinners and this reading of "Ask the Lonely." The smooth sax solo that opens this song and Williams' vocals foreshadow the Quiet Storm movement. Williams arrangement and delivery may have been ahead of it's time, but it's not nearly enough to wrestle the title away from Levi Stubbs' gut-busting performance on the original.
Round 12 – "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
Soul Children vs. Stevie Wonder
The success of "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" – it spent six weeks at No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1970 – gave Stevie Wonder a great deal of leverage when he renegotiated his contract with Motown and gained the artistic control that birthed his spectacular output later in the decade. "Signed" was the first single 20-year-old Wonder produced; his arrangement is so good you can get lost in the various instruments. There isn't much that can be improved on Wonder's version and the Soul Children's slowed-down gospel interpretation falls flat in the face of his triumph.
Round 13 – "Someday We'll Be Together"
Frederick Knight vs. Diana Ross and the Supremes
Diana Ross' name is coupled with the Supremes on the label of "Someday We'll Be Together," technically making it the ensemble's final No. 1 hit before Ross started her solo career. Peeling back the label and examining the musicians' chart, however, one can see that the song was actually a dry run for Ross' solo career. Supremes Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, who replaced founding 'preme Florence Ballard, are nowhere to be found, but even if they did they probably wouldn't have been able to help. The song, co-written and produced by Harvey Fuqua, is a mess. The strings are way too syrupy, and the backing vocals are over-performed. Everything on the track is over-produced. Perhaps this was an effort to make Ross' thin vocals sound more emotionally relevant, but even that is a failure. It does sport a great guitar line, though. Frederick Knight vaults over this ridiculously low bar, but he doesn't exactly salvage the song. His strings are more restrained, the arrangement slightly more funky and the vocals greatly improved, but the song itself – which predates Fuqua's time at Motown – is far from memorable.
Round 14 – "I Wish It Would Rain"
O.B. Clinton vs. the Temptations
"I Wish It Would Rain" is one of the most devastatingly heartbreaking songs in the Motown catalog. Mourning his lost love, David Ruffin lays his soul bare for all to see. Topping this soul masterpiece would be quite a challenge – so O.B. McClinton didn't even try. Dubbed the "Chocolate Cowboy," McClinton was an oddity on the Stax label. His singles only charted on the country charts, with his slower tempo, pedal steel-backed version of "I Wish It Would Rain" peaking at No. 67 in 1973. His is a noble attempt, but the song works better in R&B than it does country.
Round 15 – "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
The Bar-Kays vs. Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips
The wah wah guitar solo that punctures the Bar-Kays' version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" just past the four-minute mark eclipses anything Gordy had imagined at Motown (save Rare Earth) and points Stax down the very odd path of Iron Butterfly and the acid rock of the early '70s. This version draws on the spirit of Isaac Hayes' Oscar-winning "Shaft" and steers close to CCR's lengthy, jammed-out rendition. I'm not sure if this actually tops the performances Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight took to No. 1 a little more than a year apart. The versions are so different; it's comparing apples and oranges. Enjoy them all.
Final score: Stax 4, Motown 7.
The winner in this (the only) bout is overwhelmingly Motown, but Hitsville has an incumbent's advantage of making Stax tackle its material. Listening to the Supremes tackle the Emotions, Levi Stubbs sparring with the Otis Redding songbook , the Temptations doing Sam and Dave and Norman Whitfield and Holland-Dozier-Holland applying their touches to Hayes/Porter and MGs arrangements would not only be a fantastic delight, but likely tip in favor of Soulsville. Sadly, we'll never know. As a consolation prize, we have this compilation to bridge two very different and influential approaches to soul music.
Tagged Al Bell, Andrew Love, Bar-Kays, Barbara Lewis, Berry Gordy, Billy Eckstein, Booker T and the MGs, Calvin Scott, Charlie Parker, Cindy Birdsong, David Porter, Dexter Gordon, Diana Ross, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Kendricks, Four Tops, Frederick Knight, Funk Brothers, George Harrison, Gladys Knight, Golden Throats, Gomer Pyle, Harvey Fuqua, Hits, Hitsville U.S.A., Holland-Dozier-Holland, Isaac Hayes, Jackson 5, Jim Nabors, Jim Stewart, John Gary Williams, Levi Stubbs, Mad Lads, Mar-Keys, Margie Joseph, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wilson, Mavis Staples, Memphis Horns, Michael Jackson, Miracles, Mos Def, My Sweet Lord, O.B. Clinton, Signed Sealed Delivered, Smokey Robinson, Soul Children, Soulsvill, Soulsville U.S.A., Staple Singers, Stax vs. Motown, Stevie Wonder, Supremes, TemptationsLeave a comment


MR urography comprehensively evaluates the urinary tract in a single examination that does not use ionizing radiation (Grattan-Smith and Jones 2008; MD et al. 2010; Vivier et al. 2010b; Jones et al. 2011; Zhang et al. 2013b; Boss et al. 2014; Claudon et al. 2014). MR urography utilizes both static and dynamic imaging, taking advantage of the intrinsically high spatial and contrast resolution to provide high-resolution anatomic images. Additionally, dynamic imaging after administration of intravenous contrast medium is used to obtain functional information about the enhancement, concentration, and excretion of the kidneys using both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The signal changes related to perfusion, concentration, and excretion of the contrast agent can be evaluated sequentially as the contrast agent passes through the renal cortex, the medulla, and then into the collecting systems. Urinary tract anatomy is assessed using a combination of both T2-weighted and contrast-enhanced images. MR urography is similar to intravenous urography but has greater intrinsic contrast, spatial, and temporal resolution. The functional information obtained is comparable to renal scintigraphy but with the important distinction that anatomic images allow the signal originating from the renal parenchyma to be separated from those originating in the collecting system. As a result, the analysis of signal intensity versus time changes in the renal parenchyma can be isolated from those occurring in the collecting system.


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NEBRASKA CITY – Nebraska City and Dunbar firefighters are battling a house fire near the Hayward Elementary School this morning.
Firefighters were dispatched to 1320 Third Corso at 8:51 a.m., where a 129-year-old, two-story house was on fire.
County records indicate the house was purchased in November by John Staab.
Firefighters trimmed a tree in front of the house to get the 105-foot aerial ladder in place. Dunbar firefighters were called for mutual aid.


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Your Cool Vanity Plate With a Swear Word Is One Step Closer to Going Away For Good
Lori Voornas
Lori Voornas Published: June 9, 2021
Reddit via eagerland
Uh oh. The Maine Senate unanimously voted to get rid of obscene license plates.
Vanity plates and all license plates are state-owned property, so why did Maine let you go basically nuts with whatever you wanted? Well, plates go under Maine's motor vehicle law, which changed in 2015. It only lets the Secretary of State reject messages that suggest an association with a public institution, are duplicative, or 'encourage violence or may result in an act of violence or other unlawful activity.' That basically opened the door for pretty much anything else. Right now, the number one complaint heading into the Secretary of State is about vanity plates.
The first vote of many is in books and it's all about getting rid of plates like this one.
According to News Center Maine, Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Cumberland, is sponsoring the bill. He says that if this gets signed into law, the state could refuse some vanity plates, and could also require people to stop using the plates they have, but you would be able to appeal.
Other states do this so don't get your panties in a bunch over violating your First Amendment rights - Maine's Attorney General has said it does not.
It ain't over yet with more votes and hurdles to pass - but it looks like the fun is over for your vanity plate that went above and well beyond!
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What was Dante doing lost in the wood so dark in the first Canto of Inferno in the Divine Comedy?
He must have done something bad, something he felt remorse for, right? He's an adult after all. We all have those pangs of a bad conscience.
The more important question is what are we doing we we are? What kind of decisions have we made to be where we are today? And, are we happy with those decisions? Are we proud of them?
The professors in my course on Dante's Divine Comedy made an interesting point: Dante the character on this journey is looking for guides, much like Dante, the writer, is looking for literary guides.
The writer looks for models and sources and direction. For example, Virgil's Aeneid gives Dante idea for stories (Dido and Aeneas) and geography (the entire underworld comes from him). He also looks to Augustine for influence, and two now lessor known writers, the Roman poet Statius and an early Christian historian named Orosius.
This got me thinking. What do we look for when we seek out guides?
Some people may look to pure heroes as life guides. They will seek out people like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Ghandi or Helen Keller or Cesar Chavez. These people have done incredible work, and some of them have left amounts of large bodies of work that people can mine to find information.
But do these heroes help you like a guides? One problem with being a hero is the humanity can be stripped from them, and their positive characteristics are expanded. They look less than people and more like...icons. Can you learn life lessons from a statue?
Other people find people who have been through great struggles to help show them the way. Perhaps that is why Christians still follow st. Augustine. Steven Jobs was a person who lost many things and made a remarkable comeback. As did James Dyson and Willie Nelson, who both struggled and persevered. Some people want that — to learn from those who at one point lost but learned from it and came back.
We are all on life's journey, and each of us look for inspiration to help make sense of it. Picking a set of guides probably tells a lot more about this than we care to admit.
Dante, the writer, looked to his guides after he was exiled from the city and culture he loved. He began writing the Divine Comedy when he realized he wasn't going to return to Florence, the professors argue. Perhaps he began writing as a meditation on longing and exile and used the time to prepare the project to be able to find guides well versed in those issues.
And then he move, and then I moved as well.
To suffer a loved one's long death is not to experience a single traumatic blow, but to suffer a thousand little deaths, tiny pinpricks, each a shot of grief you hope will inoculate against the real thing.
For some, grief is a dull and unrelenting ache that fades—or doesn't. But for many of us, grief is something else. Grief is resilience.
My mother died two years ago, and today I'll be at a tennis tournament. I tell myself that this is what she would have wanted. But that's most likely not the case. She wouldn't have wanted me to travel to UAE to work in the first place. I know that because she told me as much. But she was on her death bed, and my moving date was months away. I just told her, "we'll talk about it later." I knew that later would never come.
What began as a trip home ending in my mother's death. She had been sick for years, and we knew that she was falling, we didn't know how fast she had fallen. And how difficult it was for her to keep fighting.
Like the author, my grief was also quite normal. It wasn't a wave of despair. I was not hit and knocked over unable to function. It was something more sneaky, persistent that kept at me. That continues to gnaw at me still. It comes in the weirdest times, this grief, like experiencing something and thinking what would my mom think about this? Most of the examples are from a life lived where she would not know what exactly to say. She would just sit and smile.
But this level of grief continues. And those longings continue. And that is what I guess she would want. To remain part of my life in even the most quotidian of times. She had long ago stopped trying to oversee what I thought and did and how I behaved. She was used to behaving as a mother of an adult child. She felt I was strong enough to fly, and she had other burdens. Maybe it was my other siblings who needed more guidance and she maybe it was because she was responsible or some of her family, too. I don't know if she completely accepted it, but she played the role.
And so grieving her death has become a very strange process. A hole in my life appeared where I didn't know I had an appendage before. I had moved out of my home state more than two decades before. We continued to speak weekly, sometimes every other week. Like anyone else, I would not know the bond that existed until she was gone. Would I have changed a thing? Probably not.
I miss you, mom. I always will. It just comes out in weird ways.
The writer Patricia Lockwood is noting her experience with the internet.
A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind. My interest was not academic. I did not care about the Singularity, or the rise of the machines, or the afterlife of being uploaded into the cloud. I cared about the feeling that my thoughts were being dictated. I cared about the collective head, which seemed to be running a fever.
How do you get into the internet? You have to be alive. Or recently alive, that would be helpful. Sometime during the advent of the WWW, a someone may as well say. For the internet—like the supercharged media before it—collapses the past until a permanent present. Only the internet does it from a much larger scope. A billion times larger.
Everything happens on the same day. And it's today. Over and over.
I was listening to an interview with Sam Esmail the creator of Mr. Robot, talk about his first professional break in the movie industry. It wasn't a big break, but he became so good at producing those extras (director interviews, etc.) the box movie sets that came out about a decade ago, he was promoted with a bump in pay, got a salary (he had been working hourly before) and received health insurance. It was a great place to work, he said, and he witnessed a lot of five-, ten- and twenty-year employee anniversaries.
He liked the work enough, and it was easy. Esmail could imagine himself staying there, getting old and loving life. But he went home at 6 pm every night and wrote until 2 am. He wanted something better, and he didn't mind getting out of this comfortable life with a good network of co-workers to get that.
I didn't come right away, but his talent was eventually noticed.
I don't have nearly success as Esmail, but I do see what he was after — and what he was willing to give up. Just about anyone who has lived overseas for some time has most likely left very safe and comfortable places, jobs where they've felt they belonged and could stay, to keep pushing further. Whether it was to expand the boundaries of their professional lives or their personal lives, they felt they had to leave a nice job or a nice town to get that done.
Many years ago we left Eugene Oregon to pursue a different style of life. We were very comfortable there, had finally gotten good jobs (after graduate school at the University of Oregon), which is harder to do than you think. We had a lot of good friends. But we wanted to live overseas, and we didn't have too many reservations about leaving. We were a lot younger then and we didn't know that certain sets of friends only come around a few times (if you're lucky) in your life.
We've lately been thinking about Eugene for a few reasons. One of our very good friends we met there (who stayed) recently passed away. So we reconnected with her family (which we knew well) and our friends who also remained. We thought about the great times we had with our friend Megan, and even though we could catch up quickly with her, we were very separate from her life. Secondly I also have a friend from a different part of my life who is currently working in Portland but who is interviewing in Eugene for a job at the U of O. (My guess is he would stay at their Portland campus).
There is part of me who can see us still living in Eugene, with a lot of friends, a cute little house with a yard and a garden and a nice little store at the corner where we could drink fancy northwest beer. It's a nice thought, one I think about often when I get sick of living here, or the UAE traffic or whatever. What I like about it is I know it will never come true. No disrespect, but I wouldn't have loved life in Eugene.
My life hasn't been perfect, but I am on the way to meeting more goals — especially the cloudy, misty goals you kind of set with yourself but never verbalize — than if I had stayed in comfortable Eugene. As nice as that town was, we wanted something different.
Life, of course, comes at you weird. Who knows what would have happened. Maybe I would have created a hit show.
Conglomeration can be good for business, but it has generally been bad for journalism. Media companies that want to get bigger tend to swallow up other media companies, suppressing competition and taking on debt, which makes publishers cowards.
Once I was shown what to look for, I could see the beveled edges that the Neanderthals had crafted. One tool in particular stood out: a palm-sized flint shaped like a teardrop. In archaeological parlance, it was a hand ax, though it probably was not used as an ax in the contemporary sense of the word. It had been found near the bottom of the trench, so it was estimated to be about seventy thousand years old. I took it out of its plastic bag and turned it over. It was almost perfectly symmetrical and—to a human eye, at least—quite beatiful. I said that I thought the Neanderthal who had fashioned it must have had a keen sense of design. McPherron objected.
The past, even more than the present, will be fought over, remapped and attempted to be fashioned to fit the shape of whatever argument we're trying to make.
We have to worry in the same for those who claim the future. But futurologists have fewer details to spar over, which may be why we can make more things up. One idea about the future, or at least prognostication, is the black swan: The unknown, abstract, imprecise event that completely comes out of the blue. It's such a surprise we really only see it when we're looking back. For many people the Sept, 11, 2001 attacks came out of the blue; they only saw the signals leading up to the attack in hindsight.
Can we have a black swan in the past? What if the hand ax is not a hand ax, but something else completely? Could a single item, a solitary find, possibly change the entire narrative we have for neanderthals?
Of course, we do know the story. We ended up here, and I guess there are no other examples of what we think as a hand ax being used for something completely different. But that doesn't mean those things aren't there.
If our contemporary history is a fight over competing narratives, we also have to worry that ancient histories—biological, ecological, anthropological—is also a series of theories fighting for supremacy. In a good story, we put in parts that fit. We don't always care about telling the truth.
Some people never run out of things to say.
Saul Bellow once wrote to Bernard Malamud, "a novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay."
He was a great letter writer. I am not a great letter writer. Whether it be the time I live in or the lack of time I put in these letters or the fact I sometimes run out of things to say.
I think about public anger as generally a modern phenomenon, perhaps since back the American revolution or more possibly the French. We have to remember that Rome during Seneca's time had conquered a good portion of the world and they didn't do it because they loved travel. They had bloodlust.
What they didn't have is anger, Seneca argues. At least the good Romans didn't succumb to those irrational forces.
"But," argues he, "against our enemies anger is necessary." In no case is it less necessary; since our attacks ought not to be disorderly, but regulated and under control. What, indeed, is it except anger, so ruinous to itself, that overthrows barbarians, who have so much more bodily strength than we, and are so much better able to endure fatigue? Gladiators, too, protect themselves by skill, but expose themselves to wounds when they are angry. Moreover, of what use is anger, when the same end can be arrived at by reason? Do you suppose that a hunter is angry with the beasts he kills? Yet he meets them when they attack him, and follows them when they flee from him, all of which is managed by reason without anger.
Seneca equates anger with a lack of rationality or discipline. Once that indiscipline enters into people, it's very hard to control.
Next, if you choose to view its results and the mischief that it does, no plague has cost the human race more dear: you will see slaughterings and poisonings, accusations and counter-accusations, sacking of cities, ruin of whole peoples, the persons of princes sold into slavery by auction, torches applied to roofs, and fires not merely confined within city-walls but making whole tracts of country glow with hostile flame. See the foundations of the most celebrated cities hardly now to be discerned; they were ruined by anger. See deserts extending for many miles without an inhabitant: they have been desolated by anger.
As I said before, the surprising aspect of reading Seneca is he describes his world as so similar to ours. Perhaps it is confirmation bias, but when we talk about all things Roman the conversation eventually seeks out a US equivalent to some ancient fact. How much can we translate Seneca's worries of anger in his time to the modern context?
We have anger issues in the United States. In fact, anger and vengeance has defined our relationship with the 21st century. As the wounds slowly heal, and the wars slowly fade away, it may manifest itself in other ways. Which direction will it go?
In the first place, it is easier to banish dangerous passions than to rule them; it is easier not to admit them than to keep them in order when admitted; for when they have established themselves in possession of the mind they are more powerful than the lawful ruler, and will in no wise permit themselves to be weakened or abridged. In the next place, Reason herself, who holds the reins, is only strong while she remains apart from the passions; if she mixes and befouls herself with them she becomes no longer able to restrain those whom she might once have cleared out of her path; for the mind, when once excited and shaken up, goes whither the passions drive it.


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What is campus rape culture?
Understanding an international problem within a South African setting
Elisabet le Roux
In 2016 the Vice Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa publicly acknowledged that a rape culture exists at SU and stated that "'rape culture' goes beyond criminal acts or legal aspects. It reflects a general culture of disrespect and the acceptance of the harassment of women as the norm" (Stellenbosch University 2016). SU is not the only South African Higher Education Institution (HEI) where campus rape culture has been receiving explicit attention. 2016 and 2017 saw, at various South African HEIs, a series of high profile attacks and student protests against campus rape culture and institutional responses to it. At Rhodes University, for example, the 2016 Reference List protests (where students listed eleven alleged rape perpetrators and distributed the list on campus) drew headlines across the world.
Campus rape culture
The term 'rape culture' emerged in the 1970s (Harding 2015). In academic literature, rape culture denotes an interrelated spectrum of sexual violence, as well as the normalisation and social acceptance of these practices within the society (Burt 1980; Lonsway & Fitzgerald 1994,1995). Buchwald et al. (2005: xi) defines it as "a complex of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and support violence against women…" and highlights that rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women that is presented as normal. 'Rape culture' is thus not (only) about rape — heteropatriarchal micro-aggressions are also able to intimidate and limit movement and function of women (Prieto et al. 2016). Rape culture thus refers to a culture of male violence and aggression towards women — a culture that is played out in daily life in different ways. But while the term has been around for more than four decades, it remains contentious to this day, with detractors often arguing that it overstates and overdramatises the problem (Harding 2015).
The phenomenon of campus rape culture arguably leapt into public consciousness with the study of Koss et al. (1987) on the prevalence of rape for women during their college years (Wooten & Mitchell 2016). But over the past four decades various studies have shown that women at HEIs are at a high risk for attempted or actual rape (Baum & Klaus 2005; Fisher et al. 2000; Karjane et al. 2005). For example, in a 2015 study of 3863 American students, 25% of male students admitted to rape or attempted rape, while one in three men said that they would rape a woman if there were no consequences for doing so (Messina-Dysert 2015). Wooten (2016:48) notes that recent studies from the USA show that "campuses are failing disastrously to effectively address sexual violence". Federal legislation was passed in 2013 that is meant to specifically tackle sexual violence at HEIs, and a national task force was set up in 2014 (Henriksen et al. 2016).
But research and recognition of campus rape culture is not limited to the USA. The Australian Human Rights Commission in 2017 launched a national report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities, which was based on a national independent survey conducted at all of Australia's 39 universities (Australian Human Rights Commission 2017). In the same year Universities UK launched a report, in response to a request from the universities minister, entitled "Changing the culture: Report of the Universities UK Taskforce examining violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students" (Universities UK 2017). While research reports, legislation and taskforces do not necessarily mean that adequate steps are being taken to address the issue, it does show that there is growing awareness of the problem.
South Africa and campus rape culture
Part of the challenge in responding to campus rape culture in South Africa is that very little empirical research on campus rape culture has been done at South African HEIs, which means that understanding of the phenomenon is not adequately contextually grounded and relevant to the unique, intersectional factors that shape its emergence in different spaces. In South Africa factors such as gender, race, and socio-economic ability all intersect to create a space that threatens women.
HE is often form a closed community with their own norms, structure and practices that can become an intensified microcosm of wider society, with opportunities to either reproduce or reshape embedded social practices for a new generation of thought leaders. It is argued that, when a rape culture exists within the wider society, this easily 'spills over' into HEI spaces, and a sexually violent culture then becomes a normal part of campus life (Wooten & Mitchell 2016). However, campus rape is more than just a mirroring of wider society. South African students suggest that bonding trust is often prioritised especially in residences, and entrenched initiation rituals can lead to reiterations of harmful masculinity and femininity (Collison 2017). Social identity theory argues that individuals want a positive social group identity and that, in order to create and sustain such an identity, they will engage in beliefs and behaviours that enhance the in-group's status and prestige, while discriminating against the out-group(s). While a person has a both a personal identity and a group identity (although these can of course be the same), under certain conditions group identity and ethics can replace individual identity and ethics (Milillo 1006; Meger 2010). Sexual violence can serve as a way of affirming the power of the in-group, while disempowering the out-group (Milillo 2006). Sexual violence can also actively promote group cohesion (Forster-Towne 2011). Sexually violent activities can therefore be created and maintained on campuses in order to foster group identity and cohesion.
Already in 1985, the link was made between campus rape culture and what is now recognised as harmful masculinity (Walsh 2015). Masculinity exists within the structure of gender relations, and as a concept it cannot exist except by contrasting it with femininity (Connell 1995, 2002). In this relationship masculinity is, per definition, inherently superior and dominant in relation to femininity. Hegemonic masculinity creates a social system — patriarchy — that supports and enforces the privileging of masculinity and men. Sylvia Walby (1990:20) defines patriarchy as "a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women".
Research suggests that the ideologies underpinning practices of dominating violence have to be recognised and reshaped if such practices are to be interrupted longer term (Anderson 2004; Klaw et al. 2008). South Africa, unfortunately, has a history of socio-religious reinforcement of hierarchical social orders and identities in relation to colonisation, race, and sexuality as well as gender. Patriarchy supports, facilitates, and enforces gender inequality, is present in both the private and public sphere, and has proven to be impossible to eradicate. This is the case within all cultures in South Africa. Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs accurately grasped the comprehensiveness of the patriarchal project when he called it "one of the profoundly few non-racial institutions in South Africa" (Zalesne 2002:147). The dominance in South Africa of gender constructs that support patriarchy and are conducive to gendered violence should not be underestimated — South Africa is internationally notorious for its high levels of sexual violence (Gqola 2015).
Campus rape culture and religion
Religion has been shown to be influential in problematic forms of gender construction, and in sexual violence ideologies of male domination/female submission. It has been shown that, without critical engagement, religion most often perpetuates gender inequality, providing religious justification for patriarchal injustices. The role of religion and its potential impact on rape culture has been theorized in the American context in particular (for example Anderson 2004, Messina-Dyart 2015). Sacred texts such as the Bible play a key role in ideas about men, women, and the relationship between them (Exum 1995). This also resonates strongly in the African and South African context, where local feminist theologians have identified patterns of patriarchy underpinning religious ideas and institutions (Le Roux 2014; Nadar & Potgieter 2010; Maluleke 2009; Pillay 2015). Here one sees male dominance 'sanctified' and male headship interpreted as a divine order that reinforces a hegemonic masculinity where men are "wired by God to be king" (Pillay 2015:65). A key aspect of this research is the idea of complicit femininities that support and enforce patriarchy (Nadar & Potgieter 2010). At the same time, especially African scholars are conducting research on not only complicit gender constructs, but also transformative gender constructs, thus exploring the potential and ability of religion to transform harmful aspect of culture (including rape culture).
Unfortunately, the current debate, both politically and academically, on campus rape culture generally ignores religion. But on a campus such as Stellenbosch, where just over 93% of the 31 854 students enrolled in 2017 voluntarily identified as religious, the role of religion should not be overlooked when studying the attitudes and beliefs around gender and power. Religion can be a driver of action and behaviour within society, and can be used to create order, stability, and cohesion (Weber 1930, Berger 1969, Hervieu-Léger 2000). In relation to campus rape culture, these abilities can be used both for the 'good' and the 'bad': while religion can be supporting and enforcing harmful gender constructs that are conducive to campus rape culture, it can also be influential in transforming harmful gender constructs and creating a society that is safe and equal for both men and women. This is why, in an upcoming empirical study to be conducted at SU, we will look more closely at the religious underpinnings of gender constructs and campus rape culture.
Campus rape culture is not only a South African problem. On the contrary, research across the world has ensured that this phenomenon is receiving increasing attention — but not nearly enough. In the South African context, at least part of the reason why campus rape culture is not receiving the attention it needs, is due to it being located within a country that is already rife with gendered violence.
While many of the underlying factors of campus rape culture on South African campuses and rape culture within South Africa in general are the same, one should not lose sight of what is unique. For example, at SU it appears that harmful in-group cultures that develop in university residences can be particularly conducive to the development of rape culture. Addressing campus rape culture thus requires one to understand and be sensitive to the unique particularities of how patriarchy and gender inequality is embodied and enforced within a campus community.
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is Research Director at the interdisciplinary Unit for Religion and Development Research at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is a sociologist working within the field of faith and development, mainly within the Global South. Doing research internationally for governments and global faith-based organisations, she has a particular interest in the intersection between religion and sexual violence. Her work internationally includes the study of faith community responses to developmental issues in conflict-affected settings, patriarchy within faith communities, and interfaith peace and conflict. She can be contacted at eleroux@sun.ac.za
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Jennifer Lucy Hochschild (* 1950) ist eine US-amerikanische Politikwissenschaftlerin und Professorin an der Harvard University Sie amtierte 2015/16 als Präsidentin der American Political Science Association (APSA). Sie ist durch ihre kritischen Beiträge zu den Themen Rasse und Rassismus bekannt.

Hochschild machte ihr Bachelor-Examen 1971 am Oberlin College und wurde 1979 an der Yale University zur Ph.D. promoviert. Anschließend war sie Assistant Professor für Public Policy Studies and Political Science an der Duke University und danach Assistant Professor an der Princeton University, wo sie zur William Steward Tod Professur of Public and International Affairs aufstieg (1998 bis 2000). 2001 wechselte sie an die Harvard University.

Hochschild wurde 1996 in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Mit Nathan Scovronick: The American Dream and the Public Schools. Oxford University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0195152786.
 Facing up to the American dream. Race, class, and the soul of the nation. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1995, ISBN 0691029571.
 Thirty years after Brown. Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C. 1985, ISBN 0941410498.
 The new American dilemma. Liberal democracy and school desegregation. Yale University Press, New Haven 1984, ISBN 0300031130.
 What's fair? American beliefs about distributive justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1981; ISBN 0674950860.

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 Jennifer L. Hochschild, H.L. Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor
 Harvard Kennedy School: Jennifer Hochschild

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Politikwissenschaftler
Hochschullehrer (Princeton University)
Hochschullehrer (Harvard University)
Präsident der American Political Science Association
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1950
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Q: How to join a group call with telethon? I want to manage my group call with python code.
First I have to join the group call automatically, but What should I put in InputGroupCall as parameters?
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
from telethon import functions, types

with TelegramClient(name, api_id, api_hash) as client:
    result = client.invoke(functions.phone.JoinGroupCallRequest(
        call=types.InputGroupCall(
            id=0, # What should I put here?
            access_hash=0, # What should I put here?
        ),
        join_as='My_name',
        params=types.DataJSON(
            data='What should I put here?'
        ),
        muted=True,
        video_stopped=True,
    ))

A: Params is payload for WebRTC part. So you can try to fake it, but you will be disconnected for inactivity (because you need to send audio/video data). The other way is to use WebRTC client for Telegram Group Call to join. After joining you can use another MTProto methods related to Group Calls.
You can find WebRTC client for Telegram here: https://github.com/MarshalX/tgcalls. It works with Telethon and Pyrogram.

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REMEMBER THAT WHITE HOUSE conference in 1997 about the new brain research and what it portends for child-rearing? Educators and researchers from many fields chatted with the president and first lady about early childhood. The message was loud and clear: New brain research reveals that the ages 0 to 3 are critical for a child's development, and without an enriched environment and maximum stimulation, children will never develop their full potential.
Well, now comes the debunking. John T. Bruer, president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, argues in "The Myth of the First Three Years" that we have been way oversold on 0-to-3.
The popular understanding of the first three years of life has come from a variety of sources, including a Carnegie Corporation report titled "Starting Points," the Rob Reiner Foundation's I am Your Child campaign and a thousand articles in parenting and general-interest magazines about these "critical" years.
Rob Reiner spoke for the establishment when he warned: "If we want to have a real significant impact, not only on children's success at school and later on in life, healthy relationships, but also an impact on reduction in crime, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, child abuse, welfare, homelessness, and a variety of other social ills, we are going to have to address the first three years of life. There is no getting around it. All roads lead to Rome."
But do they? Bruer reviews the neuroscience and begins by noting that very few of the studies that form the basis for claims about 0-to-3 are new. Many are 25 or more years old. It is true, Bruer writes, that the young brain experiences a "fit of biological exuberance" in the early years after birth.
Babies' brains create trillions of synapses during this period; by age 2, a child has more synapses than an adult does.
But many journalists and advocates have misrepresented the meaning of this research. They have jumped to the conclusion that more synapses are better than fewer, and that synapse creation is dependent upon environmental stimulation.
In fact, Bruer says, synapse creation seems to be governed by our genes.
Following the burst of synapse creation, there is a pruning phase during adolescence when the brain eliminates a great many. Neuroscientists are not sure why this happens, but they do find in monkey experiments, for example, that some skills are not mastered until the pruning process is complete.
The care that all but the most abusive or neglectful parents give their offspring is more than sufficient to provide the kind of stimulation the developing brain requires. Hanging interesting mobiles over the crib won't hurt, but it won't help either.
Is there anything parents should be particularly careful about in their infants and toddlers? Yes. Make sure your child's senses are working properly. There is research to suggest that if a child is hard of hearing, or having vision problems, his brain may have processing difficulties that can last a lifetime. Beyond that, affectionate attention is wonderful for many reasons, but it will not create super-brains.
Why debunk the myth of the first three years? Bruer explains that unnecessary guilt is being foisted upon conscientious parents, and perhaps unwise government programs are being funded. Learning is a lifelong process.
Our brains are capable of great resilience. If policy-makers become convinced that most important doors slam shut after age 3, we may be giving up on millions of children who are fully capable of overcoming a poor start. Or we may divert resources from programs for older children or adults.
Bruer does not explore the question of why this myth caught on so readily.
The intersection of science of journalism is often a bloody crossroads. The best reason to debunk the 0-to-3 is not because it may lead to bad policy, but simply because it does seem to be a myth. "It isn't what we don't know that kills us," Mark Twain once remarked, "it's everything we know that ain't so."


One of the Kent Brothers is Coming To Print!
I get asked a lot about my Kent Brothers series, and when these books will be available in print.
I have good news! A RARE GIFT, Book 2 of the Kent Brothers series, will be in print next month in the Holiday Kisses anthology, along with awesome holiday novellas by Shannon Stacey, HelenKay Dimon and Alison Kent.
I'm so thrilled to announce A RARE GIFT, Book 2 of the Kent Brothers series, has released from Carina Press!
You can purchase A RARE GIFT from Carina Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble,, Books on Board, or your favorite online retailer.
The book is also packaged as a holiday collection along with the novellas from Shannon Stacey, HelenKay Dimon and Alison Kent. You can purchase HOLIDAY KISSES from Carina Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books on Board, or your favorite online retailer.
I laughed so hard I might have broken something.
I love to cook. I don't always have time to cook, what with deadlines and all, but I do love to cook. Two of my favorite things to eat are seafood and pasta.
If you've read my books, you'll notice my characters are usually eating. Hey, I like to eat. My characters should eat too, right? There's usually always a kitchen or cooking scene in my books somewhere, or maybe a restaurant scene. I dig food.
One of the things I came up with while writing Changing the Game was that Gavin is a cook. Not just a cook, but a great cook. I found this recipe for Pan Seared Salmon Pasta with Spinach, and not only did I want to fix it, I wanted Gavin to fix it for Liz. So he did. Step by step. Liz loved it. In fact, it gave Liz a lightbulb moment and an idea Gavin wasn't too fond of. You'll have to read the book to find out what happens.
In the meantime, here's the recipe. If you make this dish, let me know what you think!
This recipe is a permanent fixture on my website, in the Look Inside The Book feature. The link is here.
Note: The Paupered Chef site has nice step by step photos of the prep and cooking process for this dish. Really awesome!
8 oz salmon fillet – The size depends on how many you're feeding. If this is a romantic meal for two, about 8 oz will do.
1/2 pound of pasta (or more if you're cooking for more people…you be the judge.
Fill a large pot with water and turn it on high for the pasta so you'll be ready to cook the pasta. This meal cooks fast and you don't want to sit around and wait for the pasta to cook. Add salt. If the water boils before you're ready to put in the pasta, turn the heat down.
Melt the butter in a pan set on medium-high. Once the butter has completely melted, foams, and begins to turn a little brown, take the fish and place it in the pan flesh side down.
Sauté the fish for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the skin has nice coloring. Cook for another 3 to 4 minutes until the middle has lost much of its redness. Don't worry about cooking it until completely done, since the fish will be placed into the sauce later in the recipe and will finish cooking if need be. You're developing a nice crust in this stage. When ready, remove the fish and place it on a cutting board.
Remove the zest from one lemon. You can use a grate or microplane to do this. Vegetable peelers work, too–make sure to use only the yellow skin and not the bitter white layer beneath it. Finely chop a handful of parsley.
Place a little more butter in the same pan as you cooked the fish, and throw in the spinach. It will seem like a ton of spinach, but it will dramatically shrink in a few minutes.
Once the spinach has condensed by half, throw in the lemon zest. Now is a good time to check the pot of boiling water, as the rest of the recipe will be done in 10 minutes. If ready, throw in the pasta.
Once the spinach looks wilted, pour the heavy cream into the pan and let it reduce for a few minutes, depending on how far along your pasta is.
Meanwhile, remove the skin from the back of the salmon (if the salmon you bought has skin on the back). It is easy to remove once it has been cooked. You can use a fork or a knife, but it's pretty easy to do it with your fingers. Be sure to get all the skin off.
Flake the fish into bite sized chunks.
Place the salmon back into the pan, then toss in a handful of parsley.
Drain the cooked pasta, and dump it into the pan. Toss it with a pair of tongs and serve right away.
I like this recipe with warm bread and a side salad. Delicious!
Just a note to let you all know that my blog will be going on a short hiatus while my web designers move all my archived blog posts from my current site to the soon-to-be-brand-new-website. As soon as I unveil the new website (hopefully very soon!!!) I'll be back on the blog.
I'm so excited by this news that I'm going to give away a copy of RIDING THE NIGHT!
To enter, tell me what you're currently reading.
I'll choose a winner on Wednesday, so be sure to come back on Wednesday to see if you've won. Contest is open to International readers. Void where prohibited. You must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
Maya Banks Sweet Temptation Winners!
Congrats to the winners! Maya's book is on sale today! Everyone should go buy it!
Welcome to Snippet Saturday, where authors share snippets of their work.
This week we're doing emotional scenes. And hey, isn't that what romance is all about? Emotion? Fun stuff!
Here's a scene from RIDING WILD, the first book in my Wild Riders series. Mac and Lily have a past…and ten years of emotional baggage to wade through together.
He didn't answer her. Of course he didn't, because there was no answer. "This is just like ten years ago." The reality of it slapped her across the face like an ice cold hand.
His voice went low and he looked away, no longer meeting her eyes. She knew Mac. That meant he was lying.
Why did this have to happen? Every time they got close something happened to pull them apart. Maybe they weren't meant to be together. Her head knew that. Logic told her that. She was on the good side of law enforcement. Mac was…God only knew what he was, but he wasn't eager to share it with her, and that meant trouble.
Maybe it was time her heart caught up to cold reality. They had great chemistry together, but beyond that, they couldn't sustain more than a couple hours worth of happiness without it dissolving into an argument. They were polar opposites in thinking and values.
Maybe her father had been right all those years ago. She and Mac didn't belong together. They had nothing in common, no shared belief systems.
He didn't believe in her.
And right now, she didn't believe in him.
She went to the door and threw open the dead bolt. Mac's hand covered hers.
She half turned, making sure he could read the expression on her face.
He stared at her, a dumbfounded expression on his face.
She turned and walked out the door.
This time, Mac didn't follow.
Guess what? I'm an App on iTunes! Okay, not me, per se, but one of my books.
If you go to the iTunes store and type in Jaci Burton in the search box, my 4th Demon Hunters book TAKEN BY SIN will pop up as an App in the iTunes store. How freakin cool is that?


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Emergency Update: Direct Relief's Response to the Syrian Crisis Continues
Syrian Refugee Crisis
By Lara Cooper August 4, 2017 11:06 AM
As enduring turmoil and devastation in Syria persist, Direct Relief remains committed to supporting health care for refugees and those living within the country's borders. Since 2011, Direct Relief has responded to the Syrian crisis by providing more than $57 million in medical aid.
Nearly 5 million people have fled Syria since the beginning of the country's civil war six years ago. Another 6.3 million are internally displaced, meaning they've remained in the country but have had to flee their homes. Within Syria, healthcare access is a challenge for people who have been displaced from their homes.
A young girl receives skin care in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Direct Relief has been supporting medical care, both within Syria and in neighboring countries, throughout the conflict. (Photo by Mark Semegen for Direct Relief)
Direct Relief continues to send essential items, like emergency health kits. The kits meet the global standard for emergency response and can treat up to 1,000 patients for 30 days. Direct Relief has provided groups like Syria Relief and Development with field medic packs, which contain an assortment of portable medicines.
Direct Relief staff pack emergency health kits, which are designed to enable a quick, effective response to disasters. (Bryn Blanks/Direct Relief)
Direct Relief has focused not only on aid to patients but also to healthcare workers inside the country. Relentless bombings of health clinics and hospitals in Syria have killed more than 800 health workers, according to the medical journal Lancet, and medicines and protective gear have been shipped to frontline health workers as a result.
Because many local hospitals and clinics have been destroyed, doctors and nurses to treat patients wherever they can. Emergency medical tents have also been sent by Direct Relief, and the tents allow a temporary space for triage care to take place.
Here are four ways Direct Relief continues to support health care in the region.
Protecting frontline health workers from chemical attacks: Direct Relief has shipped more than 10,000 doses of sarin gas antidote to protect healthcare workers and patients at risk of chemical attack inside Syria. After an April 4, 2017, sarin gas attack in Khan Sheikoun killed more than 80 people, including several doctors and health workers, groups like the Syrian American Medical Society requested antidotes and personal protective gear. Emergency health kits were also sent, each of which contained over 150 essential items like antibiotics, surgical tools, and trauma and wound care supplies. These kits went to groups like SAMS, the Independent Doctors Association, and Syria Relief and Development, all of which have medical personnel working on the ground inside Syria.
A Syrian man and his son visit a free clinic in Jordan in 2016 that was set up in partnership with the Vaseline Healing Project and the Jordan Health Aid Society. (Photo by Mark Semegen for Direct Relief)
Preventing complications from chronic conditions: Non-communicable diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, remain leading causes of death for refugees. Many refugees seek safety in neighboring countries, including Jordan, where nearly 700,000 Syrian refugees are living. Direct Relief gave $300,000 to the Royal Health Awareness Society in Jordan for their Healthy Community Clinics program, and the effort focuses on treating non-communicable diseases. Tobacco use is also common among refugees, and smoking cessation gum was donated to the Royal Health Awareness Society. Other key items to manage chronic conditions, like insulin, needles and syringes were distributed to charitable healthcare providers by Jordan's Ministry of Health.
Skin care is often neglected until conditions become serious, so proper exams and screening are critical. (Photo by Mark Semegen for Direct Relief)
Caring for skin issues: Skin conditions often go untreated and can lead to troubling health issues, such as physical pain, infection and the inability to work. To help Syrian refugees at risk of these issues, Direct Relief partnered with the Vaseline Healing Project to organize a six-day mission to treat and document skin conditions among refugees living in a high-need, rural area of Jordan. Dermatological outreach took place in the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp for people with skin-related injuries, infections or diseases.
Supporting healthy pregnancies: Pregnant women and developing babies are particularly at risk of micronutrient deficiencies. Direct Relief produces and distributes prenatal vitamins to organizations throughout the region who are providing maternal and child health services to Syrian refugees and vulnerable nationals. Mobile medical tents have also been sent, providing privacy for doctors and patients during exams.
Filed Under: Health, Syria, Unilever, Vaseline
Global Update: Medical Aid at the Border; Polio Vaccine to Nicaragua; the Syrian Conflict
As Syria Marks a Grim Anniversary, A Look Back at Direct Relief's Response
WHO: Global Covid-19 Case Count On The Rise


India's trade deficit with China was recorded at $ 46.7 billion during the April-February period of the last fiscal. Overall trade with China during the 11-month period decreased marginally by 0.87% to $ 64.57 billion. During this period, India's exports to China grew by 8.69% to $ 8.94 billion while imports from the neighbouring nation declined by 2.26% to $ 55.63 billion.


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My daughter and I just watched the Google for Gaga. I was blown away by her professionalism, her demeanor and her just general down to earth coolness.
She (my 8YO) was already a huge fan before watching this, but now she is out of her mind. I regret not taking her to the show the other night.
What's With All The Chatter?
Enterprise apps get social–and smart. This is more than merely integrating Twitter-like functionality into CRM and creating "social CRM". This is a rethink and elevation of how information flows around an organization, and where it lives. The elevation of deals to be on the same level as people is significant — in every other social platform, people reign supreme and the world pivots around them. Look for social CRM providers like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and many others to open up their platforms as well.
This means your enterprise app will be "adopting" social technologies, moving away from sending notifications via email (and cluttering up your inbox) and instead, sending updates just like everyone else on your team into the news stream. Essentially, your enterprise app will be "tweeting", with it's own "profile" and Chatter updates aggregated into one place.
What do you think? Will Chatter change the way you work, will it be a blip on your radar or will it just be mindless chatter? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.


Author(s): A.E. Bochem, J.A. Kuivenhoven, E.S.G. Stroes. Academic Medical Center, Department of Vascular Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
There is a strong need to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) beyond the use of statins that lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The inverse relationship of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) with cardiovascular disease suggests HDL-C raising therapy as a novel target. This review discusses the role of HDL-C in atherogenesis as well as the promise of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibition in CVD prevention. While genetic studies show conflicting results on correlations between HDL-C and CVD, experimental studies have yielded sufficient encouraging data to proceed with the development of HDL-C raising strategies. CETP inhibition has been shown to successfully increase HDL-C levels in man. However, the first CETP inhibitor tested in phase III trials increased mortality possibly due to torcetrapib-specific vasopressor effects. More recently, dalcetrapib did not show an effect on CVD outcome while raising HDL-C by 30%, thereby refuting the HDL-C hypothesis. Anacetrapib and evacetrapib are currently tested in phase III clinical trials and have not shown adverse effects thus far. Both compounds not only increase HDL-C by 129-151%, they also decrease LDL-C (36-41%) and anacetrapib lowers Lp(a) (17%). Combined, these effects are anticipated to decrease CVD risk and the results will be revealed in 2017.
Keywords: Atherosclerosis, HDL, LDL, cardiovascular risk, lipids, lipoproteins. cholesterol, dyslipidemia.
Affiliation:Academic Medical Center, Department of Vascular Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Keywords:Atherosclerosis, HDL, LDL, cardiovascular risk, lipids, lipoproteins. cholesterol, dyslipidemia.
Abstract:There is a strong need to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) beyond the use of statins that lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The inverse relationship of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) with cardiovascular disease suggests HDL-C raising therapy as a novel target. This review discusses the role of HDL-C in atherogenesis as well as the promise of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibition in CVD prevention. While genetic studies show conflicting results on correlations between HDL-C and CVD, experimental studies have yielded sufficient encouraging data to proceed with the development of HDL-C raising strategies. CETP inhibition has been shown to successfully increase HDL-C levels in man. However, the first CETP inhibitor tested in phase III trials increased mortality possibly due to torcetrapib-specific vasopressor effects. More recently, dalcetrapib did not show an effect on CVD outcome while raising HDL-C by 30%, thereby refuting the HDL-C hypothesis. Anacetrapib and evacetrapib are currently tested in phase III clinical trials and have not shown adverse effects thus far. Both compounds not only increase HDL-C by 129-151%, they also decrease LDL-C (36-41%) and anacetrapib lowers Lp(a) (17%). Combined, these effects are anticipated to decrease CVD risk and the results will be revealed in 2017.


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Cate Blanchett in Talks to Join Marvel's 'Thor: Ragnarok'
"Carol" star was nominated for a best actress Golden Globe on Thursday
Debbie Emery | December 10, 2015 @ 4:36 PM	Last Updated: December 11, 2015 @ 6:23 PM
Cate Blanchett is in talks to join the cast of Marvel's "Thor: Ragnarok" as a female lead, TheWrap has learned.
The casting news came Thursday, hot on the heels of Blanchett's best actress Golden Globe earlier in the day for "Carol."
The third "Thor" film will mark the Australian actress' first major comic book role and her addition was revealed a week after the Marvel Studios project hired Stephany Folsom to polish the script.
Also Read: Loki Wields Thor's Hammer in New Deleted Scene Released by Marvel (Video)
Taika Waiti, who helmed "What We Do In the Shadows," is set to direct with Chris Hemsworth returning to play the title role. Mark Ruffalo (also nominated for a Golden Globe Thursday) will reprise his role as The Hulk, while Tom Hiddleston plays Loki. Jaimie Alexander also stars.
Also Read: 'Carol' Review: Cate Blanchett Radiates Passion in Todd Haynes' Near-Perfect Masterpiece
"Thor: Ragnarok" will shoot in 2016.
Is Cate Blanchett the New Meryl Streep? 9 Actresses Who Idolize the Aussie Oscar Winner
Mara revealed that she was enamored by her "Carol" co-star when she was 13 and first watched "Elizabeth" in a recent conversation with Interview magazine: "I was like, 'Oh, my God, who is that woman?' She's just so incredible."
Also Read: Rooney Mara Was 'Terrified' to Share Screen With Cate Blanchett in 'Carol'
At TheWrap's seventh annual Power Women Breakfast LA in 2015, the "Game of Thrones" actress said Cate Blanchett inspired her approach to Khaleesi in season 1 of the HBO hit.
Also Read: Emilia Clarke Recalls 'Game of Thrones' Casting and How Cate Blanchett Inspired Her
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In an interview from 2013, the "Hunger Games" star said, "I don't know if I'd necessarily call her an idol or a role model, but someone I admire, who's an incredible actress, is Cate Blanchett."
Also Read: Jennifer Lawrence Says Katniss Everdeen Inspired Her to Write Gender Pay Gap Essay
In a Harper's Bazaar interview, the "Black Swan" actress revealed that Blanchett is her celebrity mentor, especially when it comes to parenting advice.
Also Read: Natalie Portman to Play Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 'On the Basis of Sex'
While promoting her Marvel-based Netflix series "Jessica Jones" in 2015, Taylor said she'd like to follow in the footsteps of fellow Aussie stars Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
Also Read: 'Marvel's AKA Jessica Jones' Casts Rachael Taylor
In 2003, Stiles spoke to USA Today about her role models, mentioning Blanchett, Kate Winslet and Mary Louise Parker.
Also Read: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Movie 'Out of the Dark' Lands U.S. Distribution
In an October interview with the Latin Post, the former "Vampire Diaries" star cited Blanchett and Audrey Hepburn as her inspirations.
Also Read: 'Vampire Diaries' Season Finale: Nina Dobrev's Last Episode Gets #GoodbyeElena Sendoff From Stars, Fans
In an April 2015 interview with Vogue, the "Suffragette" star mentioned three actresses she looks up to: "Kate Winslet or Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton—every time I watch them on screen, they're just nailing it."
Also Read: 'Suffragette' Telluride Review: Carey Mulligan Is the Reason to See This Masterwork
In an interview with the Editorialist, the "We Are Your Friends" actress said she sees Blanchett and Rooney Mara as her two role models.
Also Read: Emily Ratajkowski Calls 'Blurred Lines' Music Video 'Bane of My Existence'
Mamie Gummer
In an August 2015 interview, Meryl Streep's daughter cited Blanchett as her role model: "Theater has remained a priority in her life. She's been able to balance the [theater and movies]."
Also Read: 'The Good Wife's' Mamie Gummer Joins WGN America's 'Manhattan'
Hollywood stars used to cite Streep as their role model, now they want to be like Cate — including Meryl's daughter Mamie Gummer
'Carol' Review: Cate Blanchett Radiates Passion in Todd Haynes' Near-Perfect Masterpiece
By Alonso Duralde | November 19, 2015 @ 1:41 PM
'Carol' Star Cate Blanchett On Reaction to Paris Attacks: 'Also on my Mind Are The People in Beirut'
By Beatrice Verhoeven | November 18, 2015 @ 10:36 AM
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