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Burnout Syndrome: Mark Fisher From the Future
Author: Taylor Dorrell
In the wake of Burnout Syndrome (work caused stress/alienation) becoming mainstream, it's worth reflecting on Mark Fisher's writings connecting mental health to the post-Fordist workplace.
For history to become what it always was, symbolism must be established in the future. The effects of neoliberalism and the post-Fordist workplace have only recently started to gain a kind of general consensus. Although symbolism can be initiated prior to an event (fiction, cyberpunk, etc.), for thinkers and media to reflect in the face of an overabundance of events is to start the first step of glancing back at the 'vanishing'¹ moment whose symbolism will only emerge concretely in the future as what 'will have been'². While it's unclear where the late Mark Fisher is on this spectrum of concrete reflection on the symbolism and historicity of our time (he quotes many who have speculated before him), his thoughts on the neoliberal induced mental health crisis is a good spot to jump into as The World Health Organization's updated definition of Burnout Syndrome (linking cynicism and distance from work to the workplace) in the International Classification of Diseases — ICD-11 — is making its way around the major news outlets. Although this is only a small step towards connecting mental health to the post-Fordist workplace, to understand the case being made by Fisher and how it relates to the real (burnout syndrome becoming mainstream as being connected to the workplace), it'd be beneficial to first walk through the differences between Fordism and post-Fordism.
For Fisher, a good example highlighting the differences between fordism and post-fordism is the differences between the gangster movies of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese (between 1971–1990) compared to more contemporary gangster movies (Fisher uses Heat as an example). The ideology evolves from the 'families with links to the Old Country' to the 'rootless crews' prepared to abandon everything at a moments notice. The 'old fashioned' ideology prioritizes certain characteristics like family relations, respect, and religion, while the 'newer' ones cut through all of this to survive most efficiently. Fisher highlights the new ideology by quoting Neil McCauley in Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat: "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." The 'traditional' gangster's way of life is challenged in the new field where "Family ties are unsustainable in these conditions…" Fisher goes on:
Like any group of share-holders, McCauley's crew is held together by the prospect of future revenue; any other bonds are optional extras, almost certainly dangerous. Their arrangement is temporary, pragmatic and lateral — they know that they are interchangeable machine parts, that there are no guarantees, that nothing lasts. Compared to this, the goodfellas seem like sedentary sentimentalists, rooted in dying communities, doomed territories.
This 'no long term' is echoed in the post-fordist career models in which jobs are increasingly more and more temporary. The long term hierarchical fordist model "obligation, trustworthiness, commitment — are precisely those which are held to be obsolete in the new capitalism…" Jobs no longer promise a hierarchical ladder to climb over decades, but a day to day struggle to maintain income. If the gangs held on to permanence, they'd be quickly confronted with the wave of individuals whose only permanence is the lack thereof. The connection to family is then challenged: "The situation of the family in post-Fordist capitalism is contradictory, in precisely the way that traditional Marxism expected: capitalism requires the family (as an essential means of reproducing and caring for labor power; as a salve for the psychic wounds inflicted by anarchic social-economic conditions), even as it undermines it (denying parents time with children, putting intolerable stress on couples on couples as they become the exclusive source of affective consolation for each other)." Those who have surrendered their ideology and lifestyle to reflect the conditions in which they hope to interact with and succeed in are then at a great advantage.
This post-Fordist ideology is also projected into the visuals of everyday life. Fisher observes the places in which the Scorsese and Coppola scenes are set compared to Heat. The organic and flamboyant social spaces ("All the local color, the cuisine aromas, the cultural idiolects…"), as opposed to the non-places in post-fordist movies; "… polished chrome and interchangeable designer kitchens, of featureless freeways and late-night diners… a world without landmarks, a branded Sprawl, where the marketable territory has been replaced by endlessly repeating vistas of replicating franchises." It's natural that the movie Heat starts at a train station and ends at an airport. Both the family and physical landscape have shifted significantly in the transition from the fordist to post-fordist workplace. "The ghosts of Old Europe that stalked Scorsese and Coppola's streets have been exorcised, buried with the ancient beefs, bad blood and burning vendettas somewhere beneath the multinational coffee shops."
The act of comparing gang depictions in film highlights the process and responses to critiquing capitalism, as many argue that we prefer the post-fordist workplace to the fordist workplace. In using the gang as a reference point, we see that there is no angle to create a wholly preferential state. Regardless of the ideology of gangs in social relations, the medium is inherently flawed. Even if we can sympathize with the individuals, 'ethical' gangs would hardly be seen as any kind of objective solution to alternative social relations. Although Fisher is highlighting the differences and in some cases the benefits of fordism in Capitalist Realism, his book is nonetheless arguing that 'the medium is the message'³. Movies (Fisher mentions Wall-E) can be no more explicitly critical of what capitalism holds in store for us, yet we act as though everything will work out (what Slavoj Zizek calls cynical fetishism). The liberals will fight for ethical capitalism, the conservatives will fight for neoliberal capitalism, but the medium will nonetheless remain. Thus capitalism, the call to reform and change capitalism, and cultural attempts to 'expose' capitalism, are all mediums that are now ingrained within the ideology of capitalism and support this phenomena of capitalist realism ("there's no alternative").
To examine these different aspects of how capitalism and neoliberalism have ingrained themselves so foundationally in our culture and social relations is to offer a brief introduction into how our mental health is in jeopardy. The machine like act of working 9–5 in a factory of machines is now subtly submerged in daily life, labeled as 'flexibility'.
Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems. To function effectively as a component of just-in-time production you must develop a capacity to respond to unforeseen events, you must learn to live in conditions of total instability, or 'precarity', as the ugly neologism has it. Periods of work alternate with periods of unemployment. Typically, you find yourself employed in a series of short-term jobs, unable to plan for the future.
Although there was a desire to escape the lifelong factory job, the results of post-Fordism birthed a new wave of issues. Fisher brings up the connection between the 'boom and bust cycles' of Capitalism and bi-polar disorder arguing that "Capitalism both feeds on and reproduces the moods of populations. Without delirium and confidence, capital could not function."
This link between context and mental health is essential. To contain mental health to exclusively biological ends, excluding any possibility of politicized causation, would largely benefit a system that is potentially causing these issues. Especially when the system would profit off of selling medication to cope as Fisher points out. This also supports the individualized culture, "it reinforces Capital's drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry)." It's interesting seeing the connection between a sort of Sartrean individualized free will and neoliberal Capitalists. As Existentialism starts from an atheistic foundation to create the bridge to free will, Neoliberalism starts from a market morality foundation that labels an individual's conditions as a product of their own lack of 'working hard'.
By attaching the systems at play behind a mental illness, Fisher is following the same steps as Marx did with commodity fetishism. As Marx attached the labor and laborers involved in producing and distributing a commodity, Fisher attaches post-Fordist working conditions to mental illness. Fisher is recognizing that mental health may be a symptom of these systems (or an element of a system, as Zizek would say).
If one were to make of this an oversimplified debate between two opposing sides, it would appear that we are in a battle between individualized free will and determinism. However, as Fisher brings to light the data that appears to link the increase of psychiatric and affective disorders in countries that display what Oliver James calls 'selfish' capitalism and as this Burnout Syndrome becomes more mainstream, it appears that this link is now becoming too strong to dismiss and not a simplified matter at all. If the present seems too complex to make sense of, perhaps peace can be found in the idea that symbolism will be attached in the future. It's only now that we can look back at the past 40 years of research on Burnout Syndrome⁴ and use the very recent mainstream implementation as a support of the Real to the writings of someone like Mark Fisher.
1–2. Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 1: Freud's Papers on Technique, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 159
3. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, McGraw-Hill, 1964
4. Linda V. Heinemann1 and Torsten Heinemann, Burnout Research: Emergence and Scientific Investigation of a Contested Diagnosis, Sage Open journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo, 2017
Note: All Fisher quotes are from Capitalist Realism


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Patchogue hate-crime murder trial to begin Thursday
By SUMATHI REDDY sumathi.reddy@newsday.com Updated March 17, 2010 10:18 PM
One was a 37-year-old immigrant who worked at a dry cleaners, sending money to his mother in Ecuador and dreaming of the day he would return home. The other was a 17-year-old high school student, a popular athlete who had hopes of going to college and continuing to play sports.
Suffolk police say that, on the night of Nov. 8, 2008, Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death by Jeffrey Conroy, who authorities say was part of a group of teens who regularly went out looking for Latinos to harass. The death, and the international attention it drew, cast a harsh light on Patchogue and, in a larger sense, Suffolk County.
More than 16 months later, Conroy, now 19, will stand trial in a Riverhead courtroom on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, both as hate crimes, the only one in the group to face those charges. His is the first trial among a group of seven former Patchogue-Medford High School students charged in connection with Lucero's death; four already have pleaded guilty to first-degree gang assault and await sentencing.
At the trial, Conroy's attorney, William Keahon of Hauppauge, is expected to raise questions about ambulance response time and the way Lucero was transported to the hospital.
By SUMATHI REDDY sumathi.reddy@newsday.com

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The Ostend Historical Museum De Plate.
Langestraat 69, 8400 Oostende.
A description of the "DE PLATE" is not possible without a word about the museum.
The highly rated collections of the museum were started when alderman A Liebrecht took the initiative to let an old shop in the Kerkstraat in Ostend and opened an folklore museum. The building was demolished in 1902 for the purpose of extending the adjoining primary school named: Albert School.
The museum was relocated in a building in the Maria-Hendrika Park which also housed the curator.
The museum was dosed down when the Great War started in August 1914 and did not reopen until 1932, which to say the least, were not the most prosperous years (Or the museum collections.
On Whitsun 1932 the museum was reopened,. yet again in a new location, this time in an old fortress, the so called "Fort Napoleon", under the drive of the town archivist Carlo Loontiens.
However, the start of the Second World War, in May 1940, was the spoil-sport. Due to the occupation of the fort by German forces, the museum collections had to be moved out They were stocked in the cellars of the then new Ostend Courthouse.
Town archivist and later co-founder of the Historical Society. Frank Edebau, in 1948 opened on basis of the collections, a small museum in the Royal Gallery (Koninklijke Gaanderijen). This again had to be soon vacated when the reconstruction, after war damage, was commenced. The collections were then initially stored in the attic of a school in the Witte Nonnenstraat. When this was taken in use again after repair of war damage, the collections had once again to moved, and were stored in an old warehouse on the waterfront of the old commercial basins.
There exposure to the bad weather elements and "loose fingers" took their toll.
After the founding of the Historical Society. it took the initiative to move the collections to a more protected and safer place in the newly built Cultural Palace in the market place .In 1963, with the co-operation of the town council, a museum was opened in the "Chez Pan", a vacant area annexed to the communal theatre. At this occasion the collection of the society was added to the collection of the city.
Knowing of the eminent demolition of the theatre and adjoining buildings, to dear the way for the erection of the "skyscraper": "Europacenter", the collection had to move again. This time the town council allocated space on the second floor of the new Town Hall, where, in 1966, the museum reopened for the fifth time. In 1970 the museum was relocated again, this time to the first floor of the Cultural Palace in the market place. However, to the dismay of the society, on the 10th of January 2000, the museum had to close its doors, and the collections removed from the building.
The seventh chapter in this century old story was commenced, when the town council, on the insistent demands of the society. rented the former royal residence in the Langestraat 69, and assigned the building to the Historical Society. for the purpose of housing the historical museum. After many difficulties , the museum was opened to the public on Saturday the 9th of February 2002.
The museum is still in full development. As yet only the fishery section, carts and borrows, Ostend historical, the "fisherman's public house" and "fisherman's family dwelling", is open to visitors, as well as the former "night accommodations room", where the first queen of the Belgians died in.bed in October 1850. The general management was formally lead and directed by Mr. Norbert Hostyn, art historian and curator of the town museums, until 2008. From 2009 .the cultural department of the town council took over. The daily running of the museum is in the hands of the Royal Folkloric and Historical Society De Plate.
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is country located in the north of Australia and is the bigger part of the mainland New Guinea which is the province of Indonesia West Papua is part of. PNG is the second biggest island in the world after Iceland and its jungles, rivers and animal and plant life are prestine and virgin.
The 'land of the Unexpected' Papua New Guinea is known for its diverse culture, pristine environment with its virgin forest, untouched marine life, and countless ancestral practices are well and truly alive.
There are more than 800 languages in Papua New Guinea. Each language is represented by a culture and tribe. What one expects to see would be different because each language would present a totally different culture from the next. Many tourists who come to Papua New Guinea get more than their money's worth. They are firstly greeted with the beauty of the vast rainforest and pristine water falls that make up the country. The people who are sometimes and rightly described as replica of their environment are diverse in their complexion, stature and built represent the different parts of the country they come from. Their dances, songs, arts and crafts reflect their diverse cultural and tribal back ground.
Port Moresby, the Capital city of Papua New Guinea is the gateway to the unique country. Port Moresby is the home of famous Mekeo dancers who in their colorful attire welcome visitors to the beautiful country. The famous Sepik carvers are not difficult to miss. They sell their crafts that depicts their ancestral spirits. Outside the capital, the Miline Bay Province presents untouched corals reefs for divers. The World War 2 relics are abundant in Rabaul, Lae and Popondeta. Trekkers will find famous Kokoda Trail (the famous WW2 battle field of the Australians and Japanese) not only unforgiving, but a life time experience.
In the highlands, Papua New Guinea has its own Mt. Everest- the Mt. Wilhelm, about 14 000 feet high. The place is treacherous with steep hills with fast flowing rivers and steep gorges. Expect the unexpected, people live there, make their gardens and have homes built on the rugged mountain sides. They practice rituals and carry on with their daily chores without any fuss of outside world.
People of the islands of Manus and New Ireland can give to the visitors their share of tribal power. They call the sharks with their simple traditional power and the communication techniques that connect fish and human which only these people possess. The crystal clear white sandy beaches and clear blue seas enable those who want to sunbath or snorkelling to enjoy the sunshine of the tropics.
The cost of visiting many destinations in South Pacific are be budget friendly due to many factors. One may be that of local currency's devaluation. In Papua New Guinea the local currency, kina is now (at the time of writing is 0.3567 to 1 US$. There are hotels and eco-tourist guest house everywhere which are affordable. Many hotels and guesthouses for tribal and cultural tourism can be seen here http://www.pngtourism.org.pg/. Fiji is known for eco tourism, however, Papua New Guinea because of its diverse culture and its unique flora and fauna is slowly picking up eco tourism industry which you can see here http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/pacific/papua-new-guinea. Different locations in Papua New Guinea are connected by air. See www.airnuigini.com for bookings. Tribal and cultural tourism is awakening phenomenon in the South Pacific and Papua New Guinea can offer the best in the South Pacific.
A teacher from Papua New Guinea, English is my sixth language and love to write articles using my sixth language.
Excellent posting and very informative, Jak. Thank you.
Thank you. The west part of Papua is just same.
Thank you. I could have shown picture, I had problem uploading on to the page. It is paradise untocuhed.


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Audry "Bo" McCarty, 76, of Kingsford Heights, Indiana passed away Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Audry was born February 16, 1943 in Kentucky to Oscar and Thelma (Reynolds) McCarty.
Audry was a truck driver for Howmet. He served his county in the United States Army and was a member of the American Legion Post 434 in Kingsford Heights.
Audry leaves behind Pamela Vitale of Hanna, Indiana; two daughters, Poppie Lynn (Walter) Upton of West Virginia and Ashley (Carl) Crittendon of Kingsford Heights, Indiana; a son, Anthony R. McCarty of Bristol, Indiana; 11 grandchildren; three sisters, Delphine Walton and Zinda (Ed) Beerwart both of Hanna, Indiana and Kathy Alfrey of Kentucky; two brothers, Calvin "Pete" (Tina) McCarty of Knox, Indiana and Benny (Jo) McCarty of Kentucky. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Mary (Phyllstene) Briggs; and brothers, Harold, Leander and Kenny McCarty.
Cremation services have been entrusted to Frank L. Keszei Funeral Home, Essling Chapel, 1117 Indiana Avenue, La Porte, Indiana. A military memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 2019 at the American Legion Post 434 in Kingsford Heights, Indiana.
Please leave prayers, condolences, and memories with family at Essling Funeral Home.com.


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After dropping previous singles "Hear My Voice" and "Over Again" last year, and playing a bunch of sold out homecoming shows across the country, Hein Cooper is back again from writing in British coastal towns, Canadian mountains, and cinematic French chalets with latest single "Like That" – the most recent taste of what will be the prolific singer-songwriter's just-announced second album 'Underneath It All' (set for release June 14).
Now, he gives you something else AGAIN. A new taste of what to expect off his upcoming second album 'Underneath It All'.
"Like That" offers another uniquely sounding taste off Hein Cooper's just-announce second album. Recognising layers of acoustic guitar, a smooth synth, a crisp backbeat, and his soaring vocals, but this is something new. Showcasing his ability to craft music that draws from sounds and experiences around him as he travels the world into an emotive and melodic moment in time.


As of Friday, the Christmas season officially starts.
This Thursday, as in recent years, Thanksgiving Day is really the start. That is when the Black Friday sales kick off in earnest. Some even started weeks ago. If you eat fast and don't go for an extra piece of pie, you could be one of the first in a store opening Thursday afternoon.
Most stores, however, open early Friday, Black Friday, with buys meant to attract shoppers before they spend all their money elsewhere.


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1001 Inventions to launch in Abu Dhabi
November 2011 launch at inaugural Abu Dhabi Science Festival
1001 Inventions, the award-winning global initiative about the history of science in Muslim civilisation, to introduce its new interactive exhibition at the inaugural Abu Dhabi Science Festival in November 2011.
The free educational showcase, which was recently crowned "Best Touring Exhibition", will welcome visitors at the Abu Dhabi Corniche from 19th November to 24th December 2011.
Following successful residencies in London, Istanbul, New York and Los Angeles, where it has attracted a combined audience of more than 1,500,000 visitors, the 1001 Inventions touring exhibition is launching a bi-lingual Arabic-English touring exhibition in response to public demand.
The new exhibition will be an anchor attraction within the Abu Dhabi Science Festival (ADSF), which is held under the patronage of His Highness Gen. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
The Abu Dhabi Science Festival, is organised by The Abu Dhabi Technology Development Committee (TDC), the Abu Dhabi Government entity charged with supporting the elevation of Abu Dhabi to a world-class center for science, technology and innovation.
His Excellency Ahmed Al Calily, Director General of TDC, said: "The Abu Dhabi Technology Development Committee is proud to announce the Abu Dhabi Science Festival, a world-class annual event which showcases the fun and excitement of science and technology to the young people of the Emirate in a creative and new way. Abu Dhabi's vision is to build a knowledge based society and is investing heavily in technology industries to achieve this. This in turn requires a scientifically literate society and a well equipped talent base; this festival is one of the efforts that will help build this talent base."
(From left to right) Prof. Mohamed El-Gomati, Vice Chairman of 1001 Inventions and FSTC
& H.E. Saif Mohamed Al Hajeri, Tawazun & The Abu Dhabi Science Festival mascots
& H.E. Dr Mugheer Al Khaili, Abu Dhabi Education Council
Speaking on behalf of 1001 Inventions, Professor Mohamed El-Gomati, Vice Chairman of 1001 Inventions and FSTC commented: "Muslim Civilisation has a proud legacy of invention and innovation, spanning more than a thousand years, whose impact on Science and Technology can still be seen all around us today. Using authenticated historical research and spectacular edutainment techniques, 1001 Inventions brings that heritage to life in order to inspire young people to exceed the achievements of the past and build a better future."
"Our exhibitions in Europe and the USA have been a global sensation. They have won dozens of international awards, including the 'Best Touring Exhibition' prize at the Museums and Heritage Awards earlier this year. Our educational films have won 'Best Film' recognition at numerous festivals, including Cannes and the New York Film Festival.
Professor Mohamed El-Gomati, Vice Chairman of 1001 Inventions and FSTC (Centre)
& Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, Chairman of 1001 Inventions and FSTC (Right)
"Since the launch we've received requests from all over the Arab World expressing a desire for 1001 Inventions to provide material in Arabic. In response, we have produced an upgraded and updated 1001 Inventions exhibition. We anticipate that this new customised version of 1001 Inventions will be as popular in the Middle East as it has been in the US and Europe."
Fady Jameel, President of ALJ Community Initiatives International (ALJCI) commented: "ALJCI is proud to partner with 1001 inventions in the new Arabic-English version of the 1001 Inventions exhibition, and we're very excited about the partnership with Abu Dhabi Science Festival, which will bring this ground-breaking touring exhibition to a new audience. ALJCI is passionate about inspiring young people to become the scientists and engineers of the future, and supporting educational initiatives like 1001 Inventions is a core activity of our international philanthropic programme."
The Abu Dhabi Science Festival will be a major annual event and its inaugural edition will run over nine days and takes place from 18th to 26th November 2011 at different prominent locations around the Emirate, including the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and the Abu Dhabi Corniche. In organizing this city-wide festival TDC is collaborating with 1001 Inventions and the Edinburgh International Science Festival as Programming Partners.
The 1001 Inventions exhibition will launch at the Abu Dhabi Corniche on the 19th of November 2011 and welcome visitors, free of charge, until the 24th of December 2011.
About Abu Dhabi Science Festival
The Abu Dhabi Science Festival is a major science popularization initiative that TDC is driving to support the building of Abu Dhabi's world-class talent base as part of its overarching mandate to help develop Science, Technology and Innovation in Abu Dhabi. The event is presented by TDC and Tawazun in association with Dolphin Energy.
In organizing this city-wide festival TDC is collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), as the festival's Education Partner, as well as 1001 Inventions and the Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF), as Programming Partners. The collaboration with ADEC, the festival's education partner, ensures alignment with Abu Dhabi's education reforms as well as the engagement of Abu Dhabi's school children and education community. The festival is also sponsored by Total and GHC.
The nine-day event aims to spark the curiosity of the Emirate's youth in science, technology and innovation (STI) and will encompass over 150 of the world's most exciting informal science learning experiences, including interactive exhibits, fun workshops and spectacular shows. The festival will cover different fields of STI including robotics, archaeology, aeronautics, physics, biology and chemistry, with the experiences designed to excite young people about the wonders and fun of science and technology whilst stimulating their inquisitive learning skills.
TDC is partnering with a number of leading Abu Dhabi universities and higher education colleges such as Emirates College of Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi University, Higher Colleges of Technology - Abu Dhabi Women's College and UAE University from which the students will be selected, giving them a unique opportunity to participate in this world-class science festival and help the visitors make the most of their experience at the event.
About 1001 Inventions and FSTC
1001 Inventions was created by the academic Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). Based in Manchester (UK), its mission is to raise awareness of the contributions the Muslim world has made to building the foundations of modern civilisation. FSTC works very closely with academics, researchers and experts in the field, in order to raise widespread public awareness about the achievements of Muslim civilisation (and other connected civilisations). Further information is available on FSTCs popular website MuslimHeritage.com
1001 Inventions is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of a thousand years of scientific and cultural achievements from Muslim civilisation from the 7th century onwards, and how those contributions helped build the foundations of our modern world.
About ALJCI
Construction of the new 1001 Inventions touring exhibition was sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI). ALJCI is the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the ALJ Group, which is a Toyota automobiles distributor in 13 different countries. ALJCI plans and operates numerous global programs, such as poverty-alleviation initiatives, artistic and educational projects and technology innovation grants, including a long history of scholarships for students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For further information about Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives visit www.aljci.org
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'Beauty and the Beast': Why Dan Stevens Shot the Ballroom Dance Scene Wearing 10-Inch Platforms
Choreographer Anthony Van Laast explains why Stevens had to be put on stilts and dance on 10-inch platforms for the iconic scene.
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The ballroom dance scene is perhaps the most iconic scene in "Beauty and the Beast." To accomplish this and the other musical scenes in the live-action adaptation of one of Disney's most famous animated features, director Bill Condon enlisted the help of choreographer Anthony Van Laast, whom he had worked with on the 2014 Broadway revival of "Side Show." "I was very nervous because I knew what an iconic piece it was," Van Laast told Dance Network. "I knew the film very well and I knew the musical very well, so the challenge was to try and look at it again and find a way of reinventing it."
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The cast had to go through a musical theater boot camp before they started shooting the film. According to Van Laast, Emma Watson — whom he had worked with on the "Harry Potter" films — rehearsed for three months, while Dan Stevens spent three months getting his dance moves on point. However, preparing for the scene proved to be a bit of a challenge, since Stevens had additional challenges.
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"We had to put Dan on stilts and dance on 10-inch platforms, so their eye level would be correct," Van Laast explained. "Otherwise, if they danced together, her eye level would be wrong and his eye level looking down at her would be wrong all of the time. Even though he was dancing in a suit covered in dots (motion capture), he still had to dance in 10-inch platforms. We worked very hard. The rehearsal was very intense to get Dan into that position to be able to do that."
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However, when the time came to shoot the scene, Stevens nailed it. "The day we filmed, they did it all the way through and the whole studio burst into applause," the choreographer said. "It was an exciting day and they both felt like they achieved something special."
"Beauty and the Beast" will hit theaters May 17. Watch Watson and Steven's ballroom dance scene below.
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The crew of Challenger, lost on January 28, 1986. Credit: NASA.
Posted on January 28, 2013 December 23, 2015 by Nancy Atkinson
Remembering Ron McNair and the Challenger Crew
Today is the 27th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. On January 28, 1986, mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when a O-ring failure in one of the solid rocket boosters allowed hot combustion gases to leak from the side of the booster and burn through the external fuel tank, causing an explosion exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing the crew and destroying the shuttle.
On board was a crew of seven. Here, we remember especially physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to fly to space. This video is part of StoryCorps, a national oral history project, that you can hear on NPR (National Public Radio) in the US. StoryCorps records the stories of people — usually everyday people — and archive them at the Library of Congress. But this story is about someone famous; someone who kept his eyes on the stars and dreamed big dreams. McNair also few on the STS-41-B mission in 1984. Ron McNair's brother, Carl, tells the story of how Ron was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina.
Please take a few moments to remember the crew that lost their lives on that day:
– Francis R. Scobee – Mission Commander
– Michael J. Smith – Pilot
– Gregory B. Jarvis – Payload Specialist 1
– Christa McAuliffe – Payload Specialist 2
– Judith A. Resnik – Mission Specialist 1
– Ellison S. Onizuka – Mission Specialist 2
– Ronald E. McNair – Mission Specialist 3
CategoriesSpace Flight, Space Shuttle TagsChallenger Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle
6 Replies to "Remembering Ron McNair and the Challenger Crew"
Lorin Ionita says:
Hats off to the police officers. So sad that a dream ended with a disaster, but kudos to him for realizing his dream.
delphinus100 says:
Hear, hear.
David Mead says:
Beautiful, the McNair scholarship program has helped so many students realize their dreams.
Woodrow Wotan says:
DARN YOU, U.T. Didn't wanna cry today.
Aqua4U says:
AM STILL ticked off at the final decision to launch that shuttle! The solid rocket engineers said NOT to launch because of the extremely cold weather! But instead were 'over ridden' by top officials at the Regan White House and NASA! After all.. that shuttle had to go up! It WAS in his planned State of the Union Address that night! Hubris or simple disgrace? ACK! Shhhhh… not polite to remind… and no body wants to remember?
Peristroika says:
Great little story, yeah, I was worried too that the police would follow suit. May Ron always be remembered.
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Take Back Your Time: How to Maintain Focus in the Wake of Success
Bishop Joseph Warren Walker, III, Author, No Opportunity Wasted: The Art of Execution
Remember when you were young and hungry, with the future just beyond your doorstep? Each day was an opportunity to fulfill your purpose, to achieve your dream. You ate, breathed and slept success – when you slept at all. There were 24 hours in a day to move you closer to your goal. Why waste a minute?
I love to recall those early days, not only because they were so invigorating, but because they remind me of how I got where I am today – with discipline, focus, drive, and the capacity to devote the vast majority of my time to my vision.
When I started out, I was twenty-four years old and determined to bring an historic but moribund institution back to relevancy. I was committed to not just carry on tradition, but to see it thrive; to make it into something greater, touching people on a global scale. I was driven, and I made it happen. Twenty-five years in, I now preach to a congregation of more than 30,000, manage a team of 60 people, and have authored nine books. I am married to a remarkable woman – a neonatologist – who is my partner in all things. We have two young children who are at the center of our lives. But success – and the determination to keep building on it – has brought challenges. One of the biggest is maintaining focus when control over those 24 hours is no longer exclusively mine.
As the leader of your organization, it is likely that you too, have others who now share your vision. They command your attention, guidance, and collaboration. They also command your schedule. It is easy to feel stretched too thin. So how do you maintain focus when you're constantly pulled in different directions? By taking back control over each one of those hours, making them count, and enlisting your team in the effort. In doing so, you give yourself the opportunity to recharge, assess, plan and forge ahead.
You know the sensation, not only that you're running out of time, but that you have none to begin with. Our inboxes are overflowing, social media constantly beckons, and we are so overbooked with meetings that they begin to blur together. It all leaves little room to focus on your vision, which is what got you where you are today. So you must make room.
So first, think about regularly scheduling meetings with yourself in which to avoid distractions and reconnect with your purpose. Disconnect in order to reconnect – step away and clear out the emotional clutter.
Next, put a high price on the time you do have to give. If you aren't the dictator of your time, others will dictate to you. It may be difficult to imagine scheduling every minute of your life, but by doing so, you avoid the pitfalls that come from allowing others to co-opt your calendar. Also, respect the true parameters of your appointments, always accounting for things like travel time, check-in or set-up. In this way, you'll be less likely to run behind or have to steal time from one thing to give it to another.
Finally, treat your time like the precious commodity it is and insist that those around you to do so as well. That means no one gets on your calendar without your permission. You might be thinking, "I am far too busy to approve all appointments," but that's probably because you currently don't. Every one of those appointments should have an agenda, which will in turn help with staying on time. Even schedule your family time, so that no one else may encroach upon it.
Most importantly, schedule time to refuel and breathe. After all, the easiest way to lose focus is to not have any time to tend to it.
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As client deaths prompt lawsuits, rehab exec quits job to run for LV Council
By: Dana Gentry - January 11, 2019 12:25 pm
Dave Marlon, Candidate for LV City Council Ward One. Campaign photo
Newly-announced Las Vegas City Council candidate Dave Marlon stepped down this week as Regional Vice President for Nevada of American Addiction Centers, a national drug and alcohol rehab giant, and CEO of Desert Hope and Solutions Recovery, the Las Vegas company he founded.
Marlon resigned to "pursue public service opportunities…" according to a statement from AAC's corporate office in Nashville.
"I quit because I felt compelled to serve others. I chose to pursue public service," he told the Current via a campaign official.
Marlon is running for the Ward One seat being vacated by Lois Tarkanian, who is term-limited. Her daughter-in-law, Amy, told the Current last year that Marlon would run only if she decided not to enter the race. Amy Tarkanian has not returned numerous messages and calls since Marlon's announcement.
Also planning to run for the seat – Councilwoman Tarkanian's assistant, Robin Munier, former Las Vegas staffer Brian Knudsen and businessman Sherman Avery Ray.
"Marlon founded and built one of the most successful addiction recovery centers in the country in the heart of Southern Nevada," says his city council campaign website. "The long time Las Vegas resident, after successfully addressing his own struggles with substance abuse, realized that he was uniquely suited to help others confronting addiction."
His departure comes amid the discovery by the Current of at least four deaths in less than two years at AAC's Las Vegas facilities and two related lawsuits and one filing pending. None of the suits name Marlon individually.
AAC says its death per patients treated ratio is ten times better than the industry average, though AAC has not provided data to substantiate the claim as of publication.
"AAC's Compliance Department found that, for the most recent full five-year period, sentinel events at the company's facilities occur at a rate of one death for every 4,274 discharges – 10 times less frequent than the industry average shown in a 2010 SAMHSA study, which was one for every 422 client discharges," says an AAC website to which the Current was referred by the company.
A sentinel event is defined by the Joint Commission, an accreditation group, as "an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury."
"The company successfully treated thousands of patients over more than 11 years," Marlon, who declined to be interviewed beyond answering written questions submitted to his campaign, said in a statement to the Current. "During that time the percentage of patients who were treated for the most deadly, powerful addictions, heroin and fentanyl, skyrocketed. AAC wasn't the cause of these; it was the place to find a solution."
AAC has been the target of a number of wrongful death lawsuits nationally. The company's stock has plummeted from a high of $43.56 a share in June of 2015 to $2.25 Friday.
Asked if his departure from AAC has anything to do with the company's problems, Marlon declined to say.
Connor Johnson committed suicide by hanging himself at AAC's Desert Hope facility in Las Vegas on November 28, 2016, according to the Clark County Coroner. A negligence lawsuit has been filed against AAC by Johnson's parents.
"Defendants failed to take basic, minimum precautions to protect residents like Connor from self-harm, ignoring the safety measures that a reasonable person would find most obvious. Specifically, Defendants allowed Connor to maintain unfettered possession of his leather belt despite knowing that just one month earlier he was hospitalized after being found with a leather belt around his neck," the suit alleges.
Marlon declined to say what steps the facility took to ensure Johnson's safety, given his history of suicide attempts.
"While I can't comment on specifics, I can tell you addiction is a horrible disease and misguided vilifying of the helpers makes getting help even harder," Marlon said.
Joseph Nicolosi, 25, died in February 2018 of multiple drug intoxication, according to the Clark County Coroner. Nicolosi was a client at Resolutions, a sober-living home operated by AAC.
April Leeming was 33-years-old when she died in September 2018 at AAC's Desert Hope rehab facility. The cause and manner of her death remain undetermined, according to the coroner.
"AAC cannot comment due to patient privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and federal regulations that require confidentiality for people seeking treatment for alcohol and drug addiction," the company said in a statement.
AAC and Solutions also face a wrongful death suit filed last year by the mother of 23-year-old Cody Arbuckle, who died from an overdose of anti-diarrhea medication during a 19-day stay in one of Solution's treatment homes. Solutions billed Arbuckle for close to $50,000 following his death.
AAC, one of the nation's largest treatment companies, says 60 percent of its clients remain sober after a year. That's twice the industry standard, according to AAC's website.
But critics contend for-profit rehab programs have little incentive for patients to succeed, but rather to fail and return, even multiple times a year.
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations of widespread wrongdoing in the rehab industry, including allegations of a scheme that "creates an incentive for relapse and profit rather than treatment and, ultimately, sobriety" and noting that "[M]ultiple articles highlight individuals known as 'body brokers' or 'patient brokers' who are treating men and women fighting opioid addiction as a commodity."
AAC has denied allegations of patient brokering.
Las Vegas is a favorite recovery destination for the millions of Americans who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, but the state's lack of regulations makes vital information about rehab facilities hard to come by.
"Sentinel events are notified to Joint Commission and the state at licensed facilities," Marlon wrote in response to a question about whether deaths should be reported to regulators.
He declined to clarify his response when notified by the Current that only medical facilities are required to report sentinel events.
"For Solution's Recovery, the death would necessarily be reported to the coroner's office, but there's not a requirement for reporting elsewhere," said Martha Framsted, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
Nevada law requires non-medical rehab facilities to report disasters including fires to the state, but not the deaths of patients. Client deaths, which are only reported to the coroner, often go unnoticed by the public and undisclosed by the facility, as is the case with Solutions and Resolutions.
Under Marlon's direction, Solutions Recovery opened a number of in-patient homes, where clients remained for weeks or months at a time, travelling daily to counseling and 12-step meetings throughout the valley.
Solutions' website advertised "luxury amenities" at its treatment homes.
A July 2015 inspection report from the State of Nevada revealed less than luxurious conditions at 3141 Pioneer Way, one of the homes owned by the company, and where 23 year-old Cody Arbuckle would be found dead two years later.
Observations by the state included multiple holes in ceilings, dirty conditions and damage to walls and doors:
"The dining room carpet had dirt/debris and large stains. – The backyard had an accumulation of mattresses, full trash bags, ciggarette (sp) butts on the ground on the south side of the yard near the trash cans. … Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure the kitchen was maintained. The first aid kit must include, without limitation: (e) A shield or mask to be used by a person who is administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. On 7/9/15 in the afternoon, the House Manager was not able to locate a shield/mask. This was a repeat deficiency from the initial state licensure survey dated 1/23/14."
Inspectors also found the facility failed to meet tuberculosis testing requirements for five out of ten clients as well as its Director of Patient Care.
State inspections of other Solutions homes revealed similar conditions, as well as furniture blocking exits, and "several piles of tree branches in the backyard and a pile of pipes." The facility was instructed to formulate a correction plan but not sanctioned by the state.
Marlon last year attributed the state of disrepair to a $2 million renovation.
A spokesman for AAC says the company is moving away from the individual home model fostered by Marlon in favor of an institutional setting.
Marlon is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. He was arrested in 2012 when his wife at the time claimed domestic violence, the result, Marlon says, of her alleged addiction.
"My former wife was in recovery at the time. She suffered a serious relapse," Marlon said in a statement to the Current. "I used a textbook approach and flushed her drugs down the toilet. She called the police and claimed domestic abuse. I was never charged and the records were sealed."
"I have never been in treatment or recovery," Erin Marlon told the Current, via email. "I've never had any drug and alcohol related problems or charges. No DUIs, arrests, anything."
Note: This story has been updated with comment from David Marlon's ex-wife.

As client deaths prompt lawsuits, rehab exec quits job to run for LV Council

by Dana Gentry, Nevada Current
January 11, 2019

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Since the hospital had long since run out of high intensity lamps for the operating theater, this is what was used when operating on a patient… apparently it is quite dark inside a human! From the upcoming Through The Infirmary project.
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HOUSTON, Texas (September 3, 2015) – On August 31, 2015, Management Controls' Track Software and Forecaster applications went live at Marathon Petroleum Corporation's Galveston Bay Refinery. This is the first site to go live as a part of Marathon's enterprise-wide partnership with Management Controls, Inc.
Marathon has chosen to employ all three Track modules - labor, equipment and materials - for greater transparency within their contractor spend. Forecaster has been implemented ahead of Marathon's upcoming turnaround, scheduled for January 2016, and will give Marathon real-time, daily forecasting and reporting throughout the project. This implementation also includes multiple interfaces between Track, Forecaster, SAP and Marathon's access control system, Lenel.
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It is therefore essential to have a careful prior planning stage for these major projects. This is a task that needs to be handled solely by the Project Manager, who must take "ownership" of the project to carry out the steps according to the deadline. In the planning stage, the PM takes into account all the factors that will directly affect the quality of the project: customer deadline, number of files, format, text complexity, available resources, steps to implement, additional steps. All these variables determine planning. Typically, this planning is done before starting the project. However, some agencies have already charted a preliminary planning from before the project is started, as it is often useful when quoting a translation project.
Whether you plan the project just before starting the translation project or when quoting the project for the client, careful planning for these large projects that require many steps and resources is essential.
There are tools that can be very useful to carry out proper planning. One of them, for example, is MS Project. This is a very easy to use, similar to an Excel spreadsheet. MS Project allows you to list in a spreadsheet all the steps involved in a translation project (translation, editing, proofreading, DTP, for example), which, in turn, can be linked in ways that they are dependent on each other, following basic formulas. Thus, the project can be planned in the best way depending on the resources available and the steps to follow.


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Adele wins Emmy Awards 2022 for 'Adele One Night Only'
Singer, Adele was nominated for Emmy Award 2022 for the Creative Arts section in 'Adele One Night Only'
Adele took home her first Emmy on Saturday night, getting closer and closer to making show history.
In fact, during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2022 the singer of cult brai such as " Someone Like You ", " Rolling in the Deep " and " Skyfall " was awarded an Emmy Award Outstanding Variety Special for her event Adele One Night Only realizzo and broadcast on CBS.
A recognition that leads her to be very close to winning the highly coveted status of EGOT: that is, an artist who in the course of her career has obtained Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, the only award still missing from the already very rich showcase trophies of the English pop star.
The One Night Only special received numerous awards during the evening, also winning other awards such as the one for Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Direction of a special.
After the triumph of Saturday evening, the singer of " Hello " appeared on her social channels to celebrate this latest milestone with her fans.
Adele at Emmy Awards 2022
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"How happy I am," she began on Instagram next to a photo of her that portrayed her next to her first Emmy.
"I am honored to receive this award. Good luck to all the people involved in the project and a lot of love to all the other candidates ", concluded the singer.
She who upcoming year, at Tony Awards 2023, could join the elite of 17 artists who have been competent to get Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, and Tony, among which the names of Rita Moreno of West Side Story, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend stand out.
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Ormond Beach Observer Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 7 years ago
And the 'wrestle' is history: Making Ormond a wrestlng 'powerhouse'
by: Observer Staff Staff
Greg Schwartz and his wrestling club might one day make Ormond Beach a wrestling powerhouse, but they need some help to get there.
BY MATT MENCARINI | STAFF WRITER
I don't know how Greg Schwartz does it.
He coached football and wrestling at Seabreeze for 16 years before stepping down as the head coach of the latter, after receiving a promotion to assistant principal at South Daytona Elementary School.
He also happens to be the president of the Ormond Beach Pop Warner program. And if that weren't enough, he runs a wrestling club for kindergarten through eighth-graders in the Ormond Beach area.
The club is his way of trying to turn Ormond into a wrestling "powerhouse," which he says would be possible with a little city support and funding (for wrestling mats and training space).
But that has its obstacle
"It's tough,"Schwartz said. "There's not a lot of people that have wrestled in the area. We're not in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, you live and breathe wrestling."
In places like Pennsylvania and Iowa, wrestling is as big as baseball, football or basketball, and wrestling teams are stocked with freshman who have wrestled for years.
Here, wrestling seems to take a backseat. And Schwartz wants to change that.
Most of the wrestlers in his club are third-, fourth- and fifth-graders, although he also has one wrestler in seventh grade, and a pair of brothers who are 5 years old.
"Really, with that group, it's more having fun and playing," Schwartz. "When they're in the room, it's keeping it fun because they're 5 (years old)."
But isn't that the best way to develop a child in any sport?
I can't remember not having fun playing baseball, soccer, football or basketball when I was younger. I don't think I would've kept playing if my first experience wasn't about learning and enjoying the game.
If the wrestling club sounds like something you or your child might be interested in, or if you think you could help in any way, send Schwartz an email: [email protected].
I, for one, think the more youth sports programs focusing on fundamentals and fun, the better for the athletes and the community.
Plus, youth programs produce the future high school stars.
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Weyerhaeuser Company has developed a modified kraft pulp fibre to be used to generate lyocell fibres for textiles and non-woven products. The innovation marks the first time the high yield kraft pulping process has been used to produce pulp for use in manufacturing lyocell.
A man-made cellulosic fibre made from wood pulp, lyocell uses a closed loop direct solvent spinning process. "A modified kraft pulp has a higher yield, due to a higher level of hemi-cellulose," said Marian Herz, product line market director for Weyerhaeuser's pulp business. "The higher yield can lead to lower fibre supply costs for lyocell manufacturers, when compared to the cost of today's dissolving pulps that are used for lyocell manufacturing."
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Chicago music legend Philip Cohran was born Philip Thomas Cohran on May 8, 1927, in Oxford, Mississippi. His parents, Frankie Mae Green Cohran and Philip Thomas Cohran, who had ancestral ties to Rust College, sent their only child to the Oxford Training School and later to school in Troy, Missouri. Cohran attended Vashon High School in St. Louis, but graduated from Lincoln University Laboratory High School in 1945. Music teachers Ruby Harris Gill and Lewis A. Laird identified chemistry major Cohran as a Lincoln University prodigy. Drawn increasingly to music, Cohran played trumpet with a number of groups in the St. Louis area during the late 1940s.
In 1950, Cohran joined Jay McShann's touring swing band, playing with Charlie Parker and Walter Brown. He recorded with McShann for Houston's Peacock Records where he backed up Big Mama Thornton and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Drafted that year, Cohran trained Naval bands at Annapolis, Maryland. Discharged in 1952, Cohran moved to Chicago where he studied the Schillinger system and played with Jimmy Bell and Walter Perkins. For the balance of the 1950s, Cohran was a part of Sun Ra's cutting edge Astral Infinity Arkestra where he played trumpet, zithers and harp on recordings such as Rocket Number Nine and We Travel the Spaceways. Cohran remained in Chicago when Sun Ra moved to Montreal in 1962, and briefly joined the Nation of Islam. A remarkable autodidact, Cohran amassed a huge library of books and media. His studies and research on science, health, history and music made him a community guru.
In 1966, Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble included Amina Claudine Myers, Ajramu, Larry King, Eugene Easton, Don Myric, Aaron Dodd, Bob Crowder, Pete Cosey, Charles Hany, Louis Satterfield, Verdeen White and Maurice White. The latter three later formed the nucleus of the musical group Earth, Wind and Fire, utilizing the thumb piano sounds pioneered by Cohran. One of his 1966 concerts at 63rd Street Beach in Chicago drew 3,000 people. As founding director of the Afro Arts Theater in 1967, Cohran hosted a weekly cultural extravaganza that featured poets like, Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers and Useni Eugene Perkins; dancers like Darlene Blackburn and Alyo Tolbert; and musicians from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) that he founded with Muhal Richard Abrams. In 1968, Cohran left Affro Arts to teach at Malcom X College.
From 1975 to 1977, Cohran operated Transitions East, a Chicago South Side venue featuring music and health food. In the 1980s, Cohran twice co-chaired Artists for Harold Washington. In 1987, he composed the award-winning music for the Sky Show at Chicago's Adler Planetarium. His music has been featured in countless venues including the Chicago Jazz Festival. Honored numerous times for his musicianship and teaching, Cohran was honored with the name "Kelan" by Chinese Muslims while on tour in 1991.
Cohran passed away on June 28, 2017 at the age of 90.
Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Philip Cohran's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes his mother's family background, pt. 1
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran remembers his childhood friends in Oxford, Mississippi
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes his maternal grandfather
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran describes the history of his surname
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes his father's family background, pt. 1
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran remembers his paternal grandparents
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes his paternal uncles
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran talks about his father's education
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Philip Cohran describes his parents' marriage
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran recalls his childhood during the Great Depression
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran describes his earliest childhood memory
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes his neighborhood in Oxford, Mississippi
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran remembers his early music lessons
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes his family's decision to move to Troy, Missouri
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran describes the history of Native Americans in Troy, Missouri
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran remembers his elementary education
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Philip Cohran describes the culture of Troy, Missouri
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran recalls his music teacher at Lincoln University Laboratory High School in Jefferson City, Missouri
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran recalls his early musical influences
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes his perspective on religion
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran describes Africans' regard for musicians
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes his early career as a musician
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran describes the jazz community in St. Louis, Missouri
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran recalls his experiences in Jay McShann's band, pt. 1
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran remembers being drafted to the U.S. Army during the Korean War
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran recalls his transfer to the United States Naval School of Music
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes his travels with the U.S. Army band
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran describes his experiences of racial discrimination in the U.S. Army
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran remembers his move to Chicago, Illinois
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran describes his experiences with drugs
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran remembers his arrival in Chicago, Illinois
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Philip Cohran recalls working in a steel mill in Chicago, Illinois
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran describes Sun Ra's personality and background
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran talks about the influence of Sun Ra's philosophy
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran remembers joining Sun Ra's band
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran talks about Sun Ra's musical style
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran remembers inventing the frankiphone, pt. 1
Tape: 7 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran remembers the development of Sun Ra's music
Tape: 7 Story: 2 - Philip Cohran recalls his introduction to the Nation of Islam, pt. 1
Tape: 7 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran reflects upon the Nation of Islam's relationship to music
Tape: 7 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran talks about the symbol of the sine curve
Tape: 7 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran describes his work with Malcolm X in the Nation of Islam
Tape: 7 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran reflects upon the discipline in the Nation of Islam
Tape: 7 Story: 8 - Philip Cohran talks about his experiences in the 1960s
Tape: 8 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran reflects upon the perception of Malcolm X, pt. 1
Tape: 8 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran describes the Black Arts Movement, pt. 1
Tape: 8 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, pt. 1
Tape: 8 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran talks about his use of incense during performances
Tape: 8 Story: 8 - Philip Cohran recalls leaving the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
Tape: 8 Story: 9 - Philip Cohran remembers meeting Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tape: 9 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran describes the creation of 'Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow,' pt. 1
Tape: 9 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran talks about the origins of music, pt. 1
Tape: 9 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran recalls his performances at the 63rd Street Beach in Chicago, Illinois
Tape: 9 Story: 7 - Philip Cohran recalls founding the Afro-Arts Theater in Chicago, Illinois
Tape: 10 Story: 1 - Philip Cohran describes the programing at the Afro-Arts Theater, pt. 1
Tape: 10 Story: 3 - Philip Cohran talks about the mission of the Afro-Arts Theater
Tape: 10 Story: 4 - Philip Cohran recalls the closure of the Afro-Arts Theater
Tape: 10 Story: 5 - Philip Cohran describes the music of the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
Tape: 10 Story: 6 - Philip Cohran describes the response to the closure of the Afro-Arts Theater, pt. 1


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EXCLUSIVE – THE UNION INTERVIEW
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They're one of the best British rock bands on the live circuit and The Union are back on the road again this month.
Even better they're bringing along a new album for good measure – with third long player The World Is Yours released on Monday.
You can read a full review of that record on this very website from Sunday but first hear what guitarist Luke Morley had to say in an exclusive interview with RUSHONROCK editor Simon Rushworth.
rushonrock: You're the latest band to release an album (The World Is Yours) via PledgeMusic. Why does it work for The Union?
Luke Morley: There's lots that's good about from our point of view. For bands like ourselves that are self-financed it really works. When you're in the process of making an album and marketing it there comes a point where you have a cashflow headache. PledgeMusic allows you to have a flow of cash coming through when you need it. From the fans' point of view you can make the campaign as interactive and inventive as you like. We've had people in the studio and we just did a playback party. We've had open rehearsals and given our fans a glimpse of what really goes on. They get to see what really happens behind the scenes in a typical band scenario and we get to spend some quality time chatting to our fans – it's a lot less pressurised than your traditional meet-and-greet on the road. Everyone's a winner!
rushonrock: And you're certainly winners when you bring in more than 225% of your target – what does the spare cash go on?
LM: Well I've just bought myself another Ferrari…I wish. No, it's already spent on the marketing campaign, the tour, the merchandise and maybe the odd bit of new equipment in the studio. It's certainly not allowed to sit around or wasted. Everything that we make from the campaign beyond the initial target for the album is reinvested. But at least all of that money comes to the band and doesn't end up in the hands of a record label.
rushonrock: You offered the pre-launch listening party as a Pledge extra – did it work?
LM: It was a roaring success! It was an unusual evening for the fans who came along but a pretty normal night for me and Pete…we listened to the music and adjourned to the bar before some dinner. Then we played a little set. It was a very familiar scenario for us – get drunk and get the guitars out! It's just like the normal rehearsal environment for us but again it gives our fans the chance to see who we really are as people. It shatters the illusion of aloof rock stars – or at least I hope it does. I have to remember to hide that Ferrari in the garage! But seriously I think Pete and I are nice enough blokes and hopefully that comes across when we do things like the listening party.
rushonrock: You've only gone and delivered another 14 songs on the new album (plus the intro and outro) – you don't do things by halves do you?
LM: I think the nice thing for me is that I've got a fellow songwriter to work with. For 20 years I was doing it all on my own in Thunder and now suddenly Pete's there to share the load. He was the same in Winterville. So basically there's two of us bringing those songs to one band and we have twice as many songs! It doesn't feel as if we're overly prolific at all – it's just our normal pace. It's always a nice position to be in when you're struggling to pick the best songs for the new record.
rushonrock: Did you set out to deliver a certain set on this album?
LM: As far as I'm concerned there are no set rules. I suppose as a band we could go completely digital and release more music more often exclusively for download. That works for dance artists, in particular, but the rock fan has always favoured something a bit more traditional and something physical. Our fans like a package that they can hold. They like the artwork and the physical aspect. But funnily enough I don't think that goes as far as a demand for our music on vinyl. Fans of The Union aren't that fussed about a vinyl release right now – they seem happy with the deluxe editions that we specialise in. That's not to say it won't happen in the future. But vinyl is very expensive to produce without a guaranteed return.
rushonrock: You use a choir to complement Pete's vocals again on this album – is there a chance we could see this in the live arena?
LM: It's not actually a full choir! It's just two young ladies – but they are both from Wales. They were an accidental discovery as we were putting together the last record and they were so good we've brought them back! On the second album we were recording down in Wales and we'd booked a couple of backing singers to come over from London but they let us down at the last minute. So I literally went on Google and typed in 'backing vocals Cardiff'. Their names popped up and I gave them a call on the off chance they might be ok. We didn't have high expectations but we thought it was worth a punt – at the very least we'd only have to pay their petrol! When we met them we were actually quite nervous. They were only 22/23 and we really didn't know what was going to happen. But within minutes it became clear they were actually better than the two girls who should have been there. So they're back. And their voices do blend very well with Pete's. In terms of taking them on the road – we'd like to. When we were first putting The Union together we did talk about creating a Fleetwood Mac-style band dynamic and I think our sound lends itself naturally to that concept. I think if things continue to go well for us and we move up to bigger venues then it's something we'd take a serious look at.
rushonrock: Last time out you opted for a co-headline tour with The Answer that allowed you to play bigger venues – this time you're headlining and you've downsized. Is it a difficult decision either way?
LM: Personally I'd rather play a smaller venue that's absolutely rammed than a bigger venue that might sell more tickets but still not sell out. I'd much rather demand outstripped supply because we'd like to tour again in the UK later this year. And at the same time I don't want to go to the well too often. It's so important to us that the gigs have a good vibe. Playing live and getting our music heard on the radio are still the priorities where The Union is concerned. I still believe they're the best opportunity we have to grow as a band and so the more tours we can do and the more places we can play the better. If that means playing smaller venues then it's not a problem – there's no rush to get too big too fast where touring is concerned.
rushonrock: You've been a fan of Pete Shoulder for many years now but is the new album his most consistent and confident performance yet?
LM: I think that's what happened is that over a period of years Pete has become more assured and more focused. Maybe before The Union he felt he was out there on his own a bit more – even fronting his last band. At least where the music was concerned. Hopefully the fact that I'm a grizzled old pro means he can lean on me and look at the way I go about things. I've made plenty of mistakes over the years so he doesn't have to. I've got so many things so badly wrong as a musician that there's a benefit in that where Pete's concerned. Then there's our writing relationship – it's matured and grown really well to such an extent that we're both completely comfortable with what each other brings to the table. That all contributes to how good he sounds on the new record. But the biggest reason he comes across so well on The World Is Yours is that he's been doing this job for a while now and he's had a bit of success. He's being himself and growing into the role.
rushonrock: Of course The Union isn't your sole focus in 2013 – there's the small matter of Thunder opening up an arena tour with Whitesnake and Journey…
LM: Well Danny and I agreed last year that we'd roll out the old band for a few festival shows in summer 2013. We let our agent know our intentions and word got around. In the end the promoter running that tour came back to us and offered us the opening slot. We checked that we weren't going to be the oily rag of the tour and made sure we'd be treated ok! Once those assurances were given we didn't think twice. It'll be a 40-minute blast through the hits and we can't wait. We've also got a few festival slots in the book in Europe and there's the chance of a couple of UK festivals too.
rushonrock: How about High Voltage – if it's happening again this year?
LM: Well I actually mentioned that to the guy who organises it a few weeks ago and he said he wasn't sure whether High Voltage would happen or not this summer. Let's wait and see.
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The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly used, well studied, and controversial pesticides on the planet. Much of the controversy involves the effects of atrazine on wildlife, particularly amphibians, and the ethically questionable decision making of members of industry, government, the legal system, and institutions of higher education, in most cases in an effort to "bend science," defined as manipulating research to advance economic, political, or ideological ends. In this Critical Perspective I provide a timeline of the most salient events in the history of the atrazine saga, which includes a multimillion-dollar smear campaign, lawsuits, investigative reporting, accusation of impropriety against the US Environmental Protection Agency, and a multibillion-dollar transaction. I argue that the atrazine controversy must be more than just a true story of cover-ups, bias, and vengeance. It must be used as an example of how manufacturing uncertainty and bending science can be exploited to delay undesired regulatory decisions and how greed and conflicts of interest—situations where personal or organizational considerations have compromised or biased professional judgment and objectivity—can affect environmental and public health and erode trust in the discipline of toxicology, science in general, and the honorable functioning of societies. Most importantly, I offer several recommendations that should help to 1) prevent the history of atrazine from repeating itself, 2) enhance the credibility and integrity of science, and 3) enrich human and environmental health. FULL TEXT


Essex (Blur, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode) is een belangrijke Engelse broedplaats voor muziek, en de jonge energieke gitaarband Nothing But Thieves geldt momenteel als de nieuwste grootste belofte. Het vijftal maakt breed uitgespannen, dynamische stadionrock met machtige riffs. De stemacrobatiek van zanger Conor Mason doet overigens meteen denken aan een zekere Matthew Bellamy. Nothing But Thieves' debuutalbum Ban All The Music komt 16 oktober uit, en precies een maand later mogen ze Rotown plat spelen. Grijp dus de kans om ze nog in een kleine intieme setting te zien, want Nothing But Thieves lijkt erop gebrand te zijn grote dingen te bereiken.
Essex (Blur, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode) has always been a vital sanctuary for some of the best British music, which is likewise the case for upstarts Nothing But Thieves, who bring a fresh sounding brand of alternative rock. This fivesome employs a dynamic, heavy melodic guitar sound with resounding riffs to boot. Not to mention frontman Conor Mason's incredible vocal range, which often recalls a young Matt Bellamy. Nothing But Thieves's debut LP Ban All The Music will be released October 16th, and exactly a month later they will show their chops here at Rotown. Better be quick to get your tickets in advance and witness Nothing But Thieves in a smaller, more intimate venue, because this band is bound for greatness sooner rather than later.


It's that time of the year where the holidays are poppin' and you're reminiscing on your past year to plan for the new year. Looking at my 2017, 10 out of my 12 goals that I wrote down, I've accomplished!
So I've definitely learned that the power of writing your goals down and manifestation. I've been over creating a New Year's Resolution because it's hard to stick to them, I usually forget, and honestly it's just boring. Instead of creating boring New Years Resolutions, make it fun and come up with theme words for the year!
With each word, I pared an affirmation to explain how to I want each word to work within my life for the next year.
I want to flourish in all aspects of life. What I think, plan, and touch, I want to grow to become great.
Elevating means putting myself in a better position than I was yesterday. Everything that I do will be done with importance and be very impressive.
This year will be a completely different journey and wherever I go and whatever I do, I want to truly enjoy that moment so that it prepares me for the next. Journey also means travel.
With whatever I do I want to go in with full confidence. I want to be able to make my own decisions and be confident that whatever I choose is the best decision for me.
You get it? I feel that this exercise is fun and gives more personal depth to the goals that will be made and will hopefully keep you on track of them as well. Coming up with a theme will give more wiggle room for all things that are and are not planned.
As long as you're sticking with your theme then you should be in great shape to grow within the new year.
Try this exercise with a friend and make each other accountable! Come up with your theme words for the year along with your affirmations and goals before Christmas to plan ahead for the year.
Share some of your words with me below and let's speak our goals into existence together!
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