Edmonton, Canada – August 11, 2011 – Music for seniors can be a great source of happy memories. Music is appreciated universally and it's an excellent form of therapy. Individuals tend to like the music they grew up with best and seniors can now experience the songs of their youth with a Melodic Memories sing-along.
The Melodic Memories series is available on DVD and include songs for seniors for all occasions. The series is available on VHS while copies last. The DVDs are more than just songs – they've been likened to the next best thing to a live performance.
DVDs are easy for staff and volunteers of care facilities, or home caregivers, to use in a variety of settings and each song is paced to promote and encourage participation for everyone. Lyrics are clearly displayed in black print on a white background at the bottom of the screen. One-hour videos are divided into 30-minute sessions.
Melodic Memories provides complete lyrics for each song on all the DVDs of music for seniors that can be accessed and printed from the firm's website. A free demo is also available on the site. Individuals can register to receive the Nursing Home Activities Resource newsletter which has activities and resources available for activity directors and individuals that care for seniors.
The unique musical creations of Melodic Memories will put a smile on the faces of seniors when they experience the music of their youth through the popular DVDs. The music for seniors in the sing along series offers an entertaining option for healthcare facilities, nursing homes and similar venues. Professionals can utilize the DVDs as part of their treatment for patients with Alzheimer's and dementia. The DVDs also make a thoughtful gift for individuals that allows seniors to revel in their glory days.
Located in Edmonton, AB, Canada, Melodic Memories can be reached toll free by phone at 1-877-219-2287, or by fax at 1-780-463-3375 and by email through the website contact form.
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Elton John Talks To Julian Lennon About His Latest LP
The pair also discussed Lennon performing his father's classic song 'Imagine' for the first time
Rhian Daly
Julian Lennon Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Elton John interviewed Julian Lennon in the latest episode of his Rocket Hour radio show on Apple Music, talking to the musician about his latest LP, Jude.
Lennon, the son of The Beatles' icon John, will release the new record in September to coincide with what would be his mother's birthday.
"I literally didn't think I was doing another album," Lennon told the host John. "I really didn't. I thought that that was it. But I started digging into a box of old tapes of mine from 30 years ago, in fact, when I used to live in LA, and found all these old songs that weren't right for previous albums or just weren't quite finished.
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"That got me on a roll in updating them, reproducing them. Some of the songs, I mean, still have the original vocals on from my back bedroom in my home studio 30 years ago in LA. So that got the ball rolling to get into doing this new album again."
The stars also discussed Lennon's first-ever performance of one of his dad's most iconic tracks, "Imagine." Lennon played the track live for the first time as part of Global Citizen's Stand Up For Ukraine fundraising campaign on April 8.
IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD
"I thought that was incredibly brave and incredibly beautiful moment to actually do that song," John told him of the performance. "And you chose things exactly the right moment and you did a beautiful job of it. I can't think of anybody that I know who's seen it, who was just not blown away by it. And I have to congratulate you because that's a hard, bloody thing to do."
Lennon replied, saying he had been "dreading the day" that he would perform the track because he had said he would "only actually sing it if it felt like it was the end of the world, in many respects".
"After watching what's been going on over the past couple of years, and especially recently with Russia and Ukraine, the people of Global Citizen said, 'Got anything up your sleeve?'' he explained.
"And I've been watching the horrors on TV, as we all have. I just felt this is it. Once I'd said, yes, I went, 'Oh my God, how am I going to do this, that honors it, and is different and is my own take, but still respects it in every way, shape, or form.'"
Lennon added that his version of "Imagine" will be released as a single "in some way, shape or form very soon," with donations from sales and streams going to refugees both in Ukraine and around the world.
"Imagine" has long been a song that artists and listeners turn to in times of turmoil, with notable performances of it coming following 9/11, courtesy of Neil Young, and after the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, via Coldplay. John Lennon had described the track as "an ad campaign for peace" and wrote it in the midst of the Vietnam War, kickstarting its long and storied journey as an enduring protest anthem.
In 2020, its legacy was highlighted again as the classic song re-entered the Billboard Hot Rock Charts in the days after the coronavirus pandemic brought normal life to a halt. Streams increased week-on-week by 7 percent, while download sales rocketed by 138 percent, reflecting the comfort the world still finds in its calls for harmony.
Buy or stream John Lennon's GIMME SOME TRUTH: The Ultimate Mixes.
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Situated in the fishing village of Morro Jable on the island of Fuerteventura, this is a modern and conveniently positioned apartment and studio complex. The apartments are modern, spacious and bathed in lots of natural light.
Situated 300 metres from Fuerteventura's Saladar Beach, Palm Garden Apartments offer an outdoor pool, a buffet restaurant and a 24-hour reception. Each apartment has a furnished terrace with sea views.
Situated in the heart of the vibrant Costa Caleta resort, the Villa Florida Apartments provide a perfect base for a relaxing holiday in Fuerteventura, offering spacious and well equipped accommodation with a traditional Spanish feel. Within the complex you'll find a great pool area surrounded by sun loungers where you can soak up the sun and unwind.
These attractive bungalows and apartments are located 200 metres from the beaches of the Costa Calma. The complex has 2 swimming pools and a nice terrace. The Bahia Calma is situated in the south of the tropical island of Fuerteventura.


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using Gallery.Common.Security;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Gallery.Common.System
{
    public sealed class EnvironmentSettingsProvider : SettingsProvider
    {
        //Called the first time a setting is requested.
        public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection config)
        {
            base.Initialize(this.ApplicationName, config);
        }

        public override string ApplicationName
        {
            get
            {
                //Implementation according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8eyb2ct1(v=vs.110).aspx
                return Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name;
            }
            set
            {
                //Intentionally left blank
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The method is called for all settings when a setting is accessed for the first time.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="context"></param>
        /// <param name="collection">Contains all defined settings (retrieved via reflection)</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public override SettingsPropertyValueCollection GetPropertyValues(SettingsContext context, SettingsPropertyCollection collection)
        {
            string groupName = Convert.ToString(context["GroupName"]);
            SettingsPropertyValueCollection settingsPropertyValueCollection = new SettingsPropertyValueCollection();
            foreach (SettingsProperty settingsProperty in collection)
            {
                SettingsPropertyValue settingsPropertyValue = new SettingsPropertyValue(settingsProperty);

                SpecialSettingAttribute specialSettingAttribute = settingsProperty.Attributes[typeof(SpecialSettingAttribute)] as SpecialSettingAttribute;
                if (specialSettingAttribute.SpecialSetting == SpecialSetting.ConnectionString)
                {
                    settingsPropertyValue.PropertyValue = ApplicationEnvironment.Current.ConnectionStrings[settingsProperty.Name];
                    //TODO: Refactor this in a separate method.
                }
                if (specialSettingAttribute.SpecialSetting == SpecialSetting.WebServiceUrl)
                {
                    //TODO: Do we need to treat these settings somehow?
                }

                //Default naming scheme for settings: <GroupName>-<PropertyName>-<Environment>
                KeyValuePair<string, string> appSetting = ApplicationEnvironment.Current.AppSettings.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Key == groupName + "-" + settingsProperty.Name);
                if (appSetting.Key != null)
                {
                    settingsPropertyValue.PropertyValue = EvaluatePropertyValue(appSetting.Value);
                }
                settingsPropertyValueCollection.Add(settingsPropertyValue);
            }
            return settingsPropertyValueCollection;
        }

        public override void SetPropertyValues(SettingsContext context, SettingsPropertyValueCollection collection)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }

        string EvaluatePropertyValue(string value)
        {
            string[] values = value.Split('#');

            //Handle encrypted config values.
            if (values.Length == 2 && values[0].Equals("AES", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
            {
                CryptographyProvider cryptographyProvider = ApplicationEnvironment.Current.CryptographyProvider;
                if (cryptographyProvider == null)
                {
                    string message = "An encrypted config value was found but no cryptography provider is available.";
                    throw new InvalidOperationException(message);
                }
                //TODO: How should we react if we cannot decrypt a value for strange reasons?
                byte[] encryptedBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(values[1]);
                byte[] plainBytes = cryptographyProvider.Decrypt(encryptedBytes).ToArray();
                return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainBytes);
            }
            //Handle all other values.
            return value;
        }
    }
}

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Describe the type of student who should attend The University of Texas at El Paso. Why?
The University of Texas at El Paso is located on the border between America and Mexico we have a large Hispanic population. Any student can come here we're very friendly and very welcoming. We have an especially good engineering programs or anybody who wants to study engineering please come on down.
The type of student that should attend The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is one who is determined to succeed. Let's face it, UTEP is not the biggest or most known university in the country so students who attend UTEP have a desire to become forces to be reckoned with. These students want to relentlessly push their limits so that one day, when they're looking down from the top of the mountain, they can scream to the world that they are the products of The University of Texas at El Paso.
A focused individual that is able to divide time between his/her studies and work,friends and family.
Any students who is willing to continue their education and extend their knowledege. I believe any student is welcome to attend the university, with a diverse city the university welcomes any students.


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Q: Cant save forms to models django i cant save my forms to a models into my database the code work smoothly no errors but if  i check in django admin its not save to my database model can you help me
 here my code :
forms.py
class InstagramUsernameForm(forms.ModelForm):

   class Meta:
       model = InstagramUsername
       fields = ('nama_orang','username','nama_depan')

   nama_orang = forms.CharField(max_length=20)
   username = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Instagram.objects.values_list("username", flat=True))
   nama_depan = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Instagram.objects.values_list("nama_depan", flat=True))

models.py
from django.db import models

# Create your models here.
class Instagram(models.Model):
    nama_depan      =  models.CharField(max_length=100,blank=True,null=True)
    nama_belakang   =  models.CharField(max_length=100)
    username        =  models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

class InstagramUsername(models.Model):
    nama_orang = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    nama_depan = models.CharField(max_length=100,default='')

    def __str__(self):
        return self.nama_orang

views.py
def create2(request):
    akun_form = InstagramUsernameForm(request.POST or None)

    if request.method == 'POST':
        if akun_form.is_valid():
            akun_form.save()
        return redirect('sosmed:awe')
    else:
        print(akun_form.errors)
    context = {
        "akun_form":akun_form,
    }

    return render(request,"sosmed/awe.html",context)

awe.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>awe</title>

<form method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}

awe

{{ akun_form.as_table }}

    <button type="submit">Create</button>
</form>

cant save forms to django models

A: values_list returns a list of tuples, rather than model instances, when used as an iterable.
so  use .all() method instead of values_list()
 username = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Instagram.objects.all())

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#LifeList Time! Join us for a blog hop!
« DIY-Care: Accentuate the Positive Blog Hop!
I'm joining several of my bloggy friends, including Yuz at Not Just About Wee and Andrea B at Good Girl Gone Redneck in compiling a Life List.
I think a Life List is great exercise in reflecting on Dreams and Realities, checking to see if my reality has enough soaring dream!
Relationships: Keep on being happy with my dear husband and fantastic son!
Relationships: Keep up with my IRL friendships!
Relationships: Keep up my on-line friendships!
Expressive art: Finish some scrapbooks I started a while ago!
Expressive art: Gardening: Continue with building up my garden!
I am always inspired by other people's goals. It gives me great ideas (and a reminder to dream big).
Hi Ann – It was a fun blog hop, I haven't done anything like this for a long time. It also made me realize that I had achieved quite a few things on my list and also that I had re-sorted my priorities as I matured. It felt good!
Kathy Morelli recently posted..#LifeList Time! Join us for a blog hop!
Wonderful goals Kathy–or future Dr. Kathy??
I would love to live in Paris–or anywhere different for that matter. Definitely shoot the video–I'm amazed at how many people are drawn to video–myself included. I think many poeple are tired of reading ebooks, and you can't beat the personal connection when you view the face behind the voice/written words.
Hey Linda – I have a plan developed for the video, but it is expensive. But it s/b fun! Someday, I will live in Paris for a bit, I loved it when I was there on vacation. Such a beautiful city and I loved the citizens..they were so polite!


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Q: What is the meaning of 'live a little' and 'I am not feeling it anymore'? I heard these 2 phrases from Netflix, but I did not find exact explanations of them.
Could anyone tell me how to use these phrases?
Thanks a lot.

A: "Live a little" means, "Enjoy your life a little more."  See:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20a%20little
For example, if someone works too hard or spends all their time taking care of other people, or if you feel they're too serious and are not enjoying their life, you might tell them, "Live a little!"
Without more context, it's hard to say what "I'm not feeling it any more" is referring to specifically, but the implication is that the speaker used to be excited about something or someone but is not feeling that excitement any more.  They could be referring to a person they used to love, a job they used to love, or anything else that used to make them feel joy or excitement but no longer does.
Both expressions are informal and would typically only be used in speech or written dialogue, or perhaps a personal letter.  The second expression might also occur in someone's journal or diary.


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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.


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Where to Download iTunes for 64-Bit Windows
Run the 64-bit version instead of the Windows Store version
Sam Costello
Sam Costello has been writing about tech since 2000. His writing has appeared in publications such as CNN.com, PC World, InfoWord, and many others.
Updated on June 27, 2021
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If you're running a 64-bit version of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista, the standard version of iTunes that you download from Apple or Microsoft is 32-bit. You need to download the 64-bit version of iTunes to take full advantage of your more-efficient computer.
Running a 64-bit operating system on your computer is smart: it enables your computer to process data in 64-bit chunks, rather than the standard 32 bits, which leads to better performance. Get that same performance from iTunes by downloading the 64-bit version.
iTunes Versions Compatible With 64-bit Editions of Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista
Download current or older versions of iTunes 64-bit directly from Apple:
iTunes 12.10.11 (this is the current version of iTunes for 64-bit Windows)
iTunes 12.4.3 for older video cards
There are other versions of 64-bit iTunes for Windows, but these aren't available as downloads directly from Apple. If you need an older version, check OldApps.com, a site that hosts old versions of software that the original makers don't provide anymore.
Apple never released a version of iTunes that was compatible with the 64-bit edition of Windows XP Pro. While you might be able to install iTunes 9.1.1 on Windows XP Pro, some features such as burning CDs and DVDs may not work.
What About 64-Bit Versions of iTunes for Mac?
There's no need to install a special version of iTunes on the Mac. Every version of iTunes for the Mac has been 64-bit since iTunes 10.4, which was released in 2011.
The Future of iTunes and Apple Music for Windows
In June 2019, Apple announced that it was retiring iTunes on the Mac. On all versions of the macOS released since then, iTunes has been separated into three programs: Music, Podcasts, and TV.
Things are different on Windows. On Windows, iTunes still exists and the three separate programs haven't been released. That means that you can't get the Apple Music app for Windows, but don't worry: You can subscribe to, and use, the Apple Music streaming service through iTunes for Windows. Apple has not announced a roadmap for ending iTunes for Windows and releasing stand-alone desktop apps on the Microsoft platform.
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What Are Jet Streams & How Do They Affect The Weather
All surf is generated the weather.
Even the texture of waves in a wave pool are impacted by the wind despite them being generated by a machine.
Which brings us to jet streams and their impact on the weather.
There are a total of 4 primary jet streams.
2 are polar jet streams that reside near the north and south poles.
The other 2 jet streams are closer to the equator. These are referred to as the polar jet streams and the subtropical jet streams respectively.
Jet streams can reach speeds of up to 275 miles per hour, moving weather patterns with them.
This can have a big impact on the waves we surf, the air temperature, and the water temperature.
What Are Jet Streams
How Fast Do Jet Streams Move?
Where Are Jet Streams Located?
Why Is It Called The Jet Stream?
What Is Happening To Jet Streams?
Why Does The Jet Stream Dip?
What Happens When The Jet Stream Moves South?
Jet streams are narrow bands of wind with a strong force and flow at a fast speed all across the planet, moving from west to east and sometimes shifting to a north to south flow.
Earth isn't the only plane that has jet streams.
Jupiter and Saturn also have jet streams which also move west to east.
The jet stream air currents have an average speed of 110 miles per hour.
In some cases, they can travel up to 250 miles per hour when the air masses are more dramatic.
They're prone to traveling west to east every season because of the way the earth rotates on its axis.
They move at such a high and powerful rate that they can carry the weather with them.
Jet streams are located in the middle and upper part of the atmosphere, known as the troposphere, about five to nine miles above the Earth's surface.
This is also where airplanes fly, which can cause them to fly in jet streams.
As a result, most planes flying west to east can travel at a faster rate than planes traveling east to west.
Jet streams are significant because they have the ability to influence our weather patterns throughout the year.
For example, it affects cool-season moisture in the state of California and affects summer fire conditions.
Meteorologists continuously monitor jet streams to predict the weather forecast each season.
They tend to shift and are often stronger in the winter months because the temperatures vary the most during this time between the Arctic and tropical air masses.
The jet stream got its name in 1939 when a German meteorologist called it "strahlstromung," which literally translated to "jet stream". He used the term in a research paper that he wrote.
A Japanese meterologist, Wasaburo Ooishi, originally discovered the jet stream. Ooishi relied on multiple weather balloons to track the movement of the jet streams that were present directly above Mount Fuji.
The jet stream is currently changing due to warmer air that is currently present at the North Pole.
This is causing the jet stream to move northward.
However, it has also been found to move east to west, which is known as the zonal flow.
NASA scientists expect global temperatures to continue to increase in the coming years and for some seasons to start sooner in the year and last longer than normal.
These changes in temperature can have a direct impact on the jet stream and how it functions.
The jet stream occasionally dips during the winter season when the upper atmosphere starts to change direction and moves south to north.
It loses some of its strength during the summer season and goes north when more heat is present.
The jet stream has a pattern of moving south in the winter and pushes a lot of air mass around.
It can move a weather system to a new area and even prompt them to stall at times.
It also brings the colder masses with it, leading to cold air outbreaks when it dips south.
This causes the temperature to drop 20 to 30 Fahrenheit degrees lower than normal.
As the air mass starts to moderate, the temperatures begin to return to normal after a few days.
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Deep, melodic and soulful sounds from the analogue realm! Crafted with classic hardware synths and drum machines this essential collection channels all that's great about the hey-day of house music! Inspired by house classics from the likes of Frankie Knuckles, Joe Smooth, Marshall Jefferson and Masters At Work, this one is a stone-cold classic in the making.
Loaded with deep house drums, retro mono basslines, classic epianos, organs and strings, rich analogue synth leads and arps, lush pads and more, this one is loaded with timeless classic house inspiration that will never let you down.
This sample pack is available in industry-standard 24-bit Wav, Apple Loops and Rex2 formats. All loops are are tempo-synced at 124bpm and key-labeled where applicable.
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With all the technological advancements and cutting-edge technologies associated with the gaming, handheld game consoles arguably still remain the most widely used portable gaming devices. These mobile gadgets offer the gaming functionality of home gaming consoles packed in a compact case and available on the go. Check our review of the best 5 handheld gaming consoles to choose the best digital companion to have fun with on the road!


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Bermuda Dunes es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Riverside en el estado estadounidense de California. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 6.229 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 759.6 personas por km².

Geografía
Bermuda Dunes se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo, la ciudad tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  0.00% es agua.

Demografía
Los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $51,082, y los ingresos medios por familia eran $62,453. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $43,900 frente a los $31,654 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $29,343. Alrededor del 6.9% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 The Desert Sun, Coachella Valley Newspaper
 Bermuda Dunes Airport

Lugares designados por el censo en California
Localidades del condado de Riverside

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Spotify playlist: Psych-rockers Super Snake's songs that shaped current sound
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 25, 2017
While New Jersey psych rock band Super Snake's album, Leap of Love, was released this past February, the quintet are playing some New Jersey and New York shows in support of the album. Super Snake, which features Pete August, formerly of The Banner, and Trophy Scars' Jerry Jones, play trippy, trancelike music, and Leap of Love was produced by The Dillinger Escape Plan's Kevin Antreassian. When asked to curate a Spotify playlist for us, August focused on the music they were listening to several years ago when they solidified their lineup:
"2014 was a weird time for SuperSnake, Joe and I had just joined while the last two guitarists were being phased out. We had just finished getting the old songs that we had nothing to do with tight,played a few shows, and had just started writing new material. With Joe and I in the mix, it was basically a completely different band and we didn't really know what we wanted to do or where to start. My favorite times in the band didn't happen in the rehearsal space, they happened with us around a table with a few too many beers and god knows what else in us blasting songs saying 'Man we should do something as cool as that'. Here's a few songs selected by Jerry and I that made us feel that way."
Here's where you'll be able to catch the band over the next month or so:
5/03 Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus – with Sanhedrin, Wholewrecker
5/05 Jersey City, NJ @ Monty Hall – with Tiger Flowers and Bigbutt
5/25: Morristown, NJ @ Morristown Green
6/03: Teaneck, NJ @ Mexicali – "Bewitched Burlesque Show" with Heavy Temple
Here are the band's choices:
Goat, "Words"
Try this track at night with a Bose sound dock, your favorite white on white, and a crazy bon fire. In fact, try this whole record.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, "Cellophane" **
Another beautiful garage-psych song that lends itself to an entire collection of beautiful garage-psych songs.
Swans, "A Little God in My Hands"
John Congelton let's everyone know he is still one of the nastiest mixing engineers in the game.
Aesop Rock, "Crows 1"
Aes at his most sardonic. Maybe his darkest. Lyrical great white shark.
Pond, "Man it Feels Like Space Again"
Wait. What? Lift off.
Love and Rockets, "Haunted When the Minutes Drag"
Big influence on the vocals for "Leap of Love"
Grinderman, "Kitchenette"
Big influence on everything I do.
Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Ball and Chain"
Just tears me to shreds.
David Lynch, "Ghost of Love" **
I studied the vocal effects so hard. I wanted to get as close as I could to this track.
David Lynch (Angelo Badalamenti), "Pink Room"
The entire lyrical concept of "Leap of Love" came to me while listening to this sleazy, intoxicating masterpiece.
The Jesus and Mary Chain, "The Living End"
Find a noisier, more rocking, cool guy song than this and I'll fist fight you because you're a liar and no one likes you.
Black Sabbath, "Hole in The Sky"
What a crazy way to kick off an album? This track just really kicks you in the chest. Total influence on the verse in "Leap of Love".
Roky Erickson, "I Think of Demons"
Roky's entire catalogue including his work with 13th Floor is a huge influence on how I play guitar. He's also just a crazy motherfucker and blends pop with weirdness in such an organic way that it's tough not to love him.
Flamin' Groovies, "Slow Death"
Australia is the land of fucked up, garbage can psych bands and in my opinion these guys are on top of the heap.
Desert Sessions, "Crawl Home"
It's no secret that Josh Homme's resume is a huge influence on us. At the time, I didn't really know the guys all that well outside of my previous band playing with Super Snake from time to time. Writing with them kind of felt like what it must have felt like to be in the room making some awkward magic at a desert session. Here's a cut I love.
Rye Coalition, "22 Topless"
Cool ass rockers from Jersey City, writing bad ass riffs since the early 90's having the worst luck in the universe. Sometimes it kind of feels like we are telling their story again. I remember being at the table and putting this track on for Jerry and watching him fall out of his chair when the riff at the end kicks in.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, "Death's Door"
Jesse showed this band to me at the table when we started writing and I didn't give this record a break for a solid month.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, "US Government"
I think this band gave themselves a bad name for doing Stolichnaya commercials, but sometimes I think they do Jesus and Mary Chain worship better than the Jesus and Mary Chain does it.
Pentagram – Walk in the Blue Light
If we ever recorded "Get lost, be mine" it would probably sound a little closer to this.
** Note: these songs weren't available on Spotify, hence the YouTube link.
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Last week, YouTube TV made two big announcements regarding its live television streaming service.
One confirmed that the service had added eight Discovery-owned networks to its service; YouTube TV also promised to add the Oprah Winfrey Network later in the year.
The other confirmed plans for a price increase. Effective May 2019, the price of the service will rise to $50/month, marking a $10-15 increase depending on when a customer first registered.
Naturally, the second announcement sparked a more lively flavor of debate. Some criticized the move as either a strategic misfire or a slight against loyal customers. Noting that other streaming providers have recently raised prices, others defended YouTube's move as a business inevitability.
There is also a middle ground: there are right and wrong ways to handle even the most necessary and inevitable of price increases.
As a longtime YouTube TV customer myself, I wanted to explore the conversation. Which aspects are out of YouTube TV's control? Which aspects should have been handled better? Will any of the supposed misfires have an impact on YouTube's business?
Before diving deep into the various customer experience angles, let's acknowledge an honest reality: most of the outrage directly stems from the price increase. Customers hate paying more money, especially when they are not deriving significantly more value from the good or service. YouTube may have technically added a few more channels, but for all intents and purposes, it is now charging $50 for a service that used to cost $35 or $40.
There is obviously no scenario in which customers would have applauded the price increase. YouTube may, however, have been able to make it more palatable. Rather than initiating the hike with the next billing cycle, YouTube could have (and probably should have) announced the change for a few months down the road. Delaying the increase would not have changed the ultimate reality, but it would have represented a nice, customer-friendly courtesy.
Not simply abrupt, the announcement seems to lack transparency. By combining the announcements about the price increase and new channels, YouTube TV naturally creates the impression that the price is going up to cover those new channels. In reality, licensing for the new channels costs far less than $10. Savvy analysts, therefore, believe YouTube is actually raising the price to reduce the losses it was already enduring on each subscription. A conversation I had with a customer support representative seemed to hint at the same idea.
On the one hand, it's understandable why YouTube would avoid explicitly discussing that situation. It is neither customers' fault that YouTube was apparently underpricing its service nor their concern whether YouTube makes the optimal profit. Asking customers to help a multi-billion dollar company assist with its income statement may seem tacky.
On the other hand, the rules of customer engagement are changing. Customers increasingly consider the humanity of the brands with whom they work; honesty goes a long way in confirming that humanity.
A more transparent message would have also eliminated another issue: what if a particular customer is not interested in the Discovery lineup? What if that customer was more vociferously demanding the A&E or Viacom blocks of channels? In that customer's mind, YouTube is simultaneously ignoring their demands and forcing them to pay for channels they do not want.
YouTube's announcement also leaves another relevant question unanswered: what happens the next time it adds a meaningful block of channels? Demands for NFL Network, the A&E family and the Viacom family are not going away, which means YouTube TV will either have to leave the thirst unquenched, eat the cost of adding those channels, or pass the costs to customers in the form of another price hike. In the name of customer centricity, YouTube TV should let customers know what to expect.
Whereas the $50 price point represents a $10 increase (or 25%) over the current rate, it actually represents a $15 increase (or 43%) for "grandfathered" customers who signed up by March 12, 2018. To encourage early sign-ups (and then, presumably, to encourage loyalty over the past year), these customers were given an appealing, locked rate of $35.
While YouTube TV's terms may technically allow for the new price increase, the hike definitely runs counter to the spirit of a grandfathered rate that was supposed to apply moving forward.
And even if the idea of a permanently locked $35 price seems unreasonable, it seems quite reasonable that these early customers would continue to receive some sort of discount over the standard rate. If the list price will be $50 starting in May, why not charge the grandfathered customers $45? Why completely eliminate the recognition of their early support and lasting loyalty?
At the very least, why not directly address these customers given that they are set to feel the biggest hit once the new price takes effect?
Make no mistake, streaming TV packages offer several advantages over traditional cable. They eliminate the clutter of an additional set-top box. They feature cloud DVR technology which makes it easy to access recordings across devices. They simplify the process of sharing accounts with friends and family members. Their interfaces feature modern UX principles. There are no lengthy contracts or unclear fees.
One of the most fundamental hooks, however, is the idea that they free customers of the "group channel tax." With traditional cable providers, customers have to pay to subsidize an entire lineup of 100-200 channels even if they only watch a handful. By focusing on a smaller core of particularly popular channels, streaming providers free customers of this burden. Customers get to save money by giving up some irrelevant (or at least non-critical) channels.
Streaming providers seem to be slowly moving away from this model. They are starting to brag about the number of channels they offer, while also raising prices to pay for all the content. In essence, they are adopting the same traditional cable model they initially intended to disrupt.
At a certain point, the math will no longer work in their favor. As of next month, customers may be paying something along the lines of $75 for Internet, $50 for YouTube TV and $30 for premiums like HBO and Showtime. That $155 bill is barely cheaper than a typical cable bill, which would include more channels (including the Viacom, A&E and NFL Networks not currently available on YouTube), a more customizable DVR and more consistent live video quality.
In defending YouTube's decision on sites like Reddit, some are noting that customers were naïve to think YouTube TV was going to forever represent a way to get cable for less. These advocates are forgetting that "skinny bundles" were never about that; they were about paying a different price for a different product.
YouTube TV does not have a perfect track record. It suffered a major outage during the World Cup. It briefly defeated the purpose of its DVR by requiring users to watch the ad-supported on-demand version (rather than a recording they could fast-forward) as soon as it was available. It has occasionally run into quality issues on particular devices.
It generally has, however, excelled on the customer service front. While the live chat and phone representatives have not always had an answer, they have routinely been friendly and empathetic. They have also been very quick to offer make-goods to disgruntled customers.
The tone felt decidedly different when I inquired about the price increase. The rep was by no means rude, but his approach was definitely more curt, procedure-driven and transactional than I am accustomed to experiencing.
Despite the aforementioned points, there is one important reality to consider: YouTube TV is still a high-quality product. While other providers like DirecTV Now, Sling TV, Hulu Live and PS Vue may have advantages when it comes to certain channel selections, many contend YouTube TV offers the strongest overall combination of programming, streaming quality and usability. As their prices are also similar (if not higher), the other providers do not necessarily represent immensely attractive alternatives. YouTube TV customers, as a consequence, may not see much value in switching.
But what if another provider offered a deep discount to attract disgruntled YouTube customers? What if another provider invested in a new, user-friendly interface? Suddenly, they would become viable options. Coupled with frustration customers have over the price increase, the threat of churn would be real.
The truest takeaway, therefore, is that differentiation based on the service experience is more stable than differentiation based on price or product quality. If customers are working with a brand because they like the brand, they are less likely to consider alternatives. If they are only using the brand because of its price or platform, they are always willing to switch to someone who offers a better price or platform.


"The main tasks include sensitizing governments, public institutions and civil society on freedom of expression and freedom of the press, including through the celebration ofWorld Press Freedom Day. Notably, the Division assists UNESCO's Member States in developing standards and legal instruments for press freedom and freedom of information in accordance with internationally recognized standards, and monitors the state of the safety of journalists, including impunity as regards violence against journalists.
The Division is also responsible for mobilizing international support for the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) and, in this context, for assisting UNESCO's Member States in the development of free, independent and pluralistic media, in line with the Media Development Indicators (MDI).
Kaarle Nordenstreng and Tapio Varis, Television traffic – a one-way street? A survey and analysis of the international flow of television programme material, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Reports and Papers on Mass Communication No. 70, Paris.
This is the report of a multinational comparative study of foreign news coverage designed to explore the similarities and differences in the images of the "outside world" that each type of society projects for its members. The study included 60 daily papers published in nine countries across the world.
This article locates the globalised media system as an extension of, and an essential adjunct to, the larger expansion of the neoliberal market, characterising it as a "global oligopoly" dominated by rapidly expanding American firms, and involving consolidation and convergence. It also observes that hearteningly, progressive and anti-neoliberal political movements are emphasising structural media reform as part of their agenda.
This article is a reflection on how the "international information order" has rendered obsolete conventional patterns of international communication. It emphasises the importance of international communication theory in studying this new "global public sphere".
The author suggests that the globalisation of the media is leading to a globalised culture whose movement is towards uniformity and regimentation, without any discernible increase in the well-being of humanity. Consequently, cultures of minorities are lost and the trivial gains at the cost of the serious.
This article examines the effects of global communication on the formulation and management of foreign policy, showing that while on the one hand it constrains leaders and officials, at the same time it also provides them with opportunities to advance their goals. It suggests that the field is in need of interdisciplinary research involving both communication and international relations.
This article attempts an economic analysis of global communications. It suggests that the nature of institutional arrangements and governance regimes is better explained by the distribution of national power capabilities than by efforts to solve problems of market failure.
This paper reflects on the role of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in global communication governance. It details the history of attempts towards global communication governance under the UN system, and identifies the recognition of the role of civil society in the global governance process as a key achievement of the WSIS.
This article theorises the media space as a "market for loyalties", where competitors use communication regulation to maintain power. Using the example of media regulation in the United States to explain the theory, it suggests that this theorisation helps explain legal and political responses to the globalisation of telecommunications.
In this essay, the author examines the underlying tensions that make international agreement on a Global Communications Commission, with tough law-making and regulatory authority, so hard to achieve. Using the "market for loyalties" theory, the author suggests that law can effectively function only if there is consensus among the major competitors in this market, and postulates that media law and regulation, generally exists "for the convenience of those whom it is designed to serve".
This article discusses the implications of the Global Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) for societal regulation of the media and the role of UNESCO's new Convention on Cultural Diversity (CCD). It concludes that the liberalization of audiovisual services will prevent several media regulation measures, including support programmes for the audiovisual industry and the funding of public service broadcasting, and that UNESCO's efforts to promote and protect cultural diversity are unlikely to stop this development.
This article reviews the debate on international news flows and then examines some studies evaluating the actual state of international newsgathering, gatekeeping and transmission, the level and effects of the dominance of Western news agencies, as well as alternatives to these agencies in the developing world.
Stephen D. Reese, 'Journalism and Globalization', Sociology Compass 4/6 (2010): 344–353, 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
In this essay, the author reviews the intersection of journalism and globalization by considering the approach of the communication field to 'media globalization' within a "broader interdisciplinary perspective that mixes the sociology of globalization with aspects of geography and social anthropology". With emphasis on social practices, and specific geographical spaces, the author attempts to introduce a less media-centric approach to media globalization, which captures the changes that globalization has brought to journalism.
The article identifies three paradigms within media and globalisation discussions: media-technological, cultural and political-economic. After describing each of the above paradigms, the author calls for a "non-reductionist approach to the journalism-globalisation relationship", proposing a dialectical understanding of globalisation as a tension between the global and the local.
Marc Raboy and Claudia Padovani, 'Mapping Global Media Policy: Concepts, Frameworks, Methods', www.globalmediapolicy.net, June 2010.
The authors attempt to define the boundaries of "global media policy", conceptualising it as a domain, elaborating a consistent analytical framework, and addressing methodological implications. They also provide an overview of the conceptual journey through which the project to map global media policy has evolved.
The paper critiques the thrust of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) upon "responsible media" and "balanced flow of information", as well as criticism of the Western press by third world countries and attempts at regulation, as incompatible with American conceptions of a free press.
Using the coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the author highlights how despite being for-profit organisations, multinational media corporations have been able to retain their legitimacy with the public, largely by emphasising their supposed role as inveterate seekers of the truth, and as impartial reporters of important events.
This paper is a case study of India Ink, the New York Times' first country-specific blog. This paper examines the blog's content in order to analyze the ways in which participatory Web 2.0 tools have changed foreign coverage. Findings indicate that through interactive multimedia, crowd-sourced content, and collaboration between Indian and American reporters, India Ink is helping foreign correspondence thrive amidst drastic newsroom budget cuts.
The article presents a feminist critique of globalisation, and the role played by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems and structures in furthering patriarchy and neoliberalism. She suggests that there is a need to democratise the information sphere, and to appropriate and re-focus ICTs for the advancement of democracy and the empowerment of women.
The article intervenes in the debate over the effects of globalization on the nation-state by exploring the ways in which meanings of the global are produced through the nationalist imagination in India. Through an analysis of this process, it calls into question the post-national thesis of the globalization paradigm.
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The project Mapping Global Media Policy serves to monitor, categorize and analyze key issues, significant developments and recent trends in the governance of media, information and communication on a global level. It is an independent project initiated by the Global Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). It is hosted and supported by an academic consortium led byMedia@McGill, a research and public outreach hub based at McGill University (Canada), and including University of Padova (Italy) and the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (Hungary).


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Google Scholar Pioneer Reflects on the Academic Search Engine's Future
As Google Scholar approaches its 10th anniversary, Nature spoke to its co-creator Anurag Acharya
Google Scholar, the free search engine for scholarly literature, turns ten years old on November 18. By 'crawling' over the text of millions of academic papers, including those behind publishers' paywalls, it has transformed the way that researchers consult the literature online. In a Nature survey this year, some 60% of scientists said that they use the service regularly. Nature spoke with Anurag Acharya, who co-created the service and still runs it, about Google Scholar's history and what he sees for its future.
How do you know what literature to index?
'Scholarly' is what everybody else in the scholarly field considers scholarly. It sounds like a recursive definition but it does settle down. We crawl the whole web, and for a new blog, for example, you see what the connections are to the rest of scholarship that you already know about. If many people cite it, or if it cites many people, it is probably scholarly. There is no one magic formula: you bring evidence to bear from many features.
Where did the idea for Google Scholar come from?
I came to Google in 2000, as a year off from my academic job at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was pretty clear that I was unlikely to have a larger impact [in academia] than at Google — making it possible for people everywhere to be able to find information. So I gave up on academia and ran Google's web-indexing team for four years. It was a very hectic time, and basically, I burnt out.
Alex Verstak [Acharya's colleague on the web-indexing team] and I decided to take a six-month sabbatical to try to make finding scholarly articles easier and faster. The idea wasn't to produce Google Scholar, it was to improve our ranking of scholarly documents in web search. But the problem with trying to do that is figuring out the intent of the searcher. Do they want scholarly results or are they a layperson? We said, "Suppose you didn't have to solve that hard a problem; suppose you knew the searcher had a scholarly intent." We built an internal prototype, and people said: "Hey, this is good by itself. You don't have to solve another problem — let's go!" Then Scholar clearly seemed to be very useful and very important, so I ended up staying with it.
Was it an instant success?
It was very popular. Once we launched it, usage grew exponentially. One big difference was that we were relevance-ranking [sorting results by relevance to the user's request], which scholarly search services had not done previously. They were reverse-chronological [providing the newest results first]. And we crawled the full text of research articles, though we did not include the full text from all the publishers when we started.
It took years in some cases to convince publishers to let you crawl their full text. Was that hard?
It depends. You have to think back to a decade ago, when web search was considered lightweight — what people would use to find pictures of Britney Spears, not scholarly articles. But we knew people were sending us purely academic queries. We just had to persuade publishers that our service would be used and would bring them more traffic. We were working with many of them already before Google Scholar launched, of course.
In 2012 Google Scholar was removed from the drop-down menu of search options on Google's home page. Do you worry that Google Scholar might be downgraded or killed?
No. Our team is continually growing, from two people at the start to nine now. People may have treated that menu removal as a demotion, but it wasn't really. Those menu links are to help users get from the home page to another service, so they emphasize the most-used transitions. If users already know to start with Google Scholar, they don't need that transition. That's all it was.
How does Google Scholar make money?
Google Scholar does not currently make money. There are many Google services that do not make a significant amount of money. The primary role of Scholar is to give back to the research community, and we are able to do so because it is not very expensive, from Google's point of view. In terms of volume of queries, Google Scholar is small compared to many Google services, so opportunities for advertisement monetization are relatively small. There's not been pressure to monetize. The benefits that Scholar provides, given the number of people who are working on it, are very significant. People like it internally — we are all, in part, ex-academics.
How many queries does Google Scholar get every day, and how much literature does the service track? (Estimates place it anywhere from 100 million to 160 million scholarly items).
I'm unable to tell you, beyond a very, very large number. The same answer for the literature, except that the number of items indexed has grown about an order of magnitude since we launched. A lot of people wonder about the size. But this kind of discussion is not useful — it's just 'bike-shedding'. Our challenge is to see how often people are able to find the articles they need. The index size might be a concern here if it was too small. But we are clearly large enough.
Google Scholar has introduced extra services: author profile pages and a recommendations engine, for instance. Is this changing it from a search engine to something closer to a bibliometrics tool?
Yes and no. A significant purpose of profiles is to help you to find the articles you need. Often you don't remember exactly how to find an article, but you might pivot from a paper you do remember to an author and to their other papers. And you can follow other people's work — another crucial way of finding articles. Profiles have other uses, of course. Once we know your papers, we can track how your discipline has evolved over time, the other people in the scholarly world that you are linked to, and can even recommend other topics that people in your field are interested in. This helps the recommendations engine, which is a step beyond [a search engine].
Are you worried about the practice known as gaming — people creating fake papers, getting them indexed by Google, and gaining fake citations?
Not really. Yes, you can add any papers you want. But everything is completely visible — articles in your profiles, articles citing yours, where they are hosted, and so on. Anyone in the world can call you on it, basically killing your career. We don't see spam for that very reason. I have a lot of experience dealing with spam because I used to work on web search. Spam is easier when people are anonymous. If I am trying to build a publication history for my public reputation, I will be relatively cautious.
What features would you like to see in the future?
We are very good at helping people to find the articles they are looking for and can describe. But the next big thing we would like to do is to get you the articles that you need, but that you don't know to search for. Can we make serendipity easier? How can we help everyone to operate at the research frontier without them having to scan over hundreds of papers — a very inefficient way of finding things — and do nothing else all day long?
I don't know how we will make this happen. We have some initial efforts on this (such as the recommendations engine), but it is far from what it needs to be. There is an inherent problem to giving you information that you weren't actively searching for. It has to be relevant — so that we are not wasting your time — but not too relevant, because you already know about those articles. And it has to avoid short-term interests that come and go: you look up something but you don't want to get spammed about it for the rest of your life. I don't think getting our users to 'train' a recommendations model will work — that is too much effort.
(For more on recommendation services, see 'How to tame the flood of literature', in Nature's Toolbox section.)
What about helping people search directly for scientific data, not papers?
That is an interesting idea. It is feasible to crawl over data buried inside paywalled papers, as we do with full text. But then if we link the user to the paywalled article, they don't see this data — just the paper's abstract. For indexing full-text articles, we depend on that abstract to let users estimate the probable utility of the article. For data we don't have anything similar. So as a field of scholarly communication, we haven't yet developed a model that would allow for a useful data-search service.
Many people would like to have an API (Application Programming Interface) in Google Scholar, so that they could write programs that automatically make searches or retrieve profile information, and build services on top of the tool. Is that possible?
I can't do that. Our indexing arrangements with publishers preclude it. We are allowed to scan all the articles, but not to distribute this information to others in bulk. It is important to be able to work with publishers so we can continue to build a comprehensive search service that is free to everybody. That is our primary function, and everything else is in addition to this.
Do you see yourself working at Google Scholar for the next decade?
I didn't expect to work on Google Scholar for ten years in the first place! My wife reminds me it was supposed to be five, then seven years — and now I'm still not leaving. But this is the most important thing I know I can do. We are basically making the smartest people on the planet more effective. That's a very attractive proposition, and I don't foresee moving away from Google Scholar any time soon, or any time easily.
Does your desire for a free, effective search engine go back to your time as a student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur?
It influenced the problems that appealed to me. For example, there is no other service that indexes the full texts of papers even when the user can see only the abstract. The reason I thought this was an important direction to go in was that I realised users needed to know the information was there. If you know the information is in a paywalled paper, and it is important to you, you will find a way in: you can write to the author, for instance. I did that in Kharagpur — it was really ineffective and slow! So my experiences informed the approach I took. But at this point, Google Scholar has a life of its own.
Should people who use Google Scholar have concerns about data privacy?
We use the standard Google data-collection policies — there is nothing different for Scholar. My role at Google is focused on Google Scholar. So I am not going to be able to say more about broader issues.
Source: This article was published scientificamerican.com By Richard Van Noorden
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How academic researchers are opening online access and ousting profiteers
The academic world is supposed to be a bright-lit landscape of independent research pushing back the frontiers of knowledge to benefit humanity.
Years of fingernail-flicking test tubes have paid off by finding the elixir of life. Now comes the hard stuff: telling the world through a respected international journal staffed by sceptics.
After drafting and deleting, adding and revising, the precious discovery has to undergo the ritual of peer-reviews. Only then may your wisdom arouse gasps of envy and nods of respect in the world's labs and lecture theatres.
The goal is to score hits on the international SCOPUS database (69 million records, 36,000 titles – and rising as you read) of peer-reviewed journals. If the paper is much cited, the author's CV and job prospects should glow.
SCOPUS is run by Dutch publisher Elsevier for profit.
It's a tough track up the academic mountain; surely there are easier paths paved by publishers keen to help?
Indeed – but beware. The 148-year old British multidisciplinary weekly Nature calls them "predatory journals" luring naive young graduates desperate for recognition.
'Careful checking'
"These journals say: 'Give us your money and we'll publish your paper'," says Professor David Robie of New Zealand's Auckland University of Technology. "They've eroded the trust and credibility of the established journals. Although easily picked by careful checking, new academics should still be wary."
Shams have been exposed by getting journals to print gobbledygook papers by fictitious authors. One famous sting reported by Nature had a Dr. Anna O Szust being offered journal space if she paid. "Oszust" is Polish for "a fraud".
Dr Robie heads AUT's Pacific Media Centre, which publishes the Pacific Journalism Review, now in its 23rd year. During November he was at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Central Java, helping his Indonesian colleagues boost their skills and lift their university's reputation.
The quality of Indonesian learning at all levels is embarrassingly poor for a nation of 260 million spending 20 percent of its budget on education.
The international ranking systems are a dog's breakfast, but only UGM, the University of Indonesia and the Bandung Institute of Technology just make the tail end of the Times Higher Education world's top 1000.
There are around 3500 "universities" in Indonesia; most are private. UGM is public.
UGM has been trying to better itself by sending staff to Auckland, New Zealand, and Munich, Germany, to look at vocational education and master new teaching strategies.
Dr. Robie was invited to Yogyakarta through the World Class Professor (WCP) programme, an Indonesian government initiative to raise standards by learning from the best.
Dr. Robie lectured on "developing investigative journalism in the post-truth era," researching marine disasters and climate change. He also ran workshops on managing international journals.
During a break at UGM, he told Strategic Review that open access – meaning no charges made to authors and readers – was a tool to break the user-pays model.
AUT is one of several universities to start bucking the international trend to corral knowledge and muster millions. The big publishers reportedly make up to 40 percent profit – much of it from library subscriptions.
Pacific Journalism Review's Dr. David Robie being presented with a model of Universitas Gadjah Mada's historic main building for the Pacific Media Centre at the editor's workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
According to a report by AUT digital librarians Luqman Hayes and Shari Hearne, there are now more than 100,000 scholarly journals in the world put out by 3000 publishers; the number is rocketing so fast library budgets have been swept away in the slipstream.
In 2016, Hayes and his colleagues established Tuwhera (Māori for "be open") to help graduates and academics liberate their work by hosting accredited and refereed journals at no cost.
The service includes training on editing, presentation and creating websites, which look modern and appealing. Tuwhera is now being offered to UGM – but Indonesian universities have to lift their game.
Language an issue
The issue is language and it's a problem, according to Dr. Vissia Ita Yulianto, researcher at UGM's Southeast Asian Social Studies Centre (CESASS) and a co-editor of IKAT research journal. Educated in Germany she has been working with Dr. Robie to develop journals and ensure they are top quality.
"We have very intelligent scholars in Indonesia but they may not be able to always meet the presentation levels required," she said.
"In the future, I hope we'll be able to publish in Indonesian; I wish it wasn't so, but right now we ask for papers in English."
Bahasa Indonesia, originally trade Malay, is the official language. It was introduced to unify the archipelagic nation with more than 300 indigenous tongues. Outside Indonesia and Malaysia it is rarely heard.
English is widely taught, although not always well. Adrian Vickers, professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Sydney University, has written that "the low standard of English remains one of the biggest barriers against Indonesia being internationally competitive.
"… in academia, few lecturers, let alone students, can communicate effectively in English, meaning that writing of books and journal articles for international audiences is almost impossible."
Though the commercial publishers still dominate there are now almost 10,000 open-access peer-reviewed journals on the internet.
"Tuwhera has enhanced global access to specialist research in ways that could not previously have happened," says Dr Robie. "We can also learn much from Indonesia and one of the best ways is through exchange programmes."
This article was first published in Strategic Review and is republished with the author Duncan Graham's permission. Graham blogs at indonesianow.blogspot.co.nz
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Academics Knock Academia.edu's Premium Account and Paywalled Search Features
When social media site Academia.edu hit the scene in 2008, it was hailed by some scholars as an alternative to pricey academic publishing and peer-review models. Professors and researchers could use the social platform to share their work, findings and ideas—most importantly, at no cost. For some users who have recently visited Academia.edu however, things are looking different.
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The website has set up a paywalled "advanced search" option, accessible only through Academia.edu's new premium subscription, which costs $9 per month or $99 per year. The feature allows paying users to find exact keyword matches within the full-text of papers on Academia. Without a subscription, the website's search engine still retrieves articles with headlines containing the searched keywords.
While the website's existing features—including uploading and downloading articles, peer-review sessions and recommendations—remain free, the company has received backlash for its new pricing model.
"Open access to an ocean of articles without the ability to search through them is meaningless," a self-described academic mathematician wrote in a recent Hacker News thread started by Ben Lund, chief technology officer at Academia.edu. The discussion initiated in response to an article that appeared on Diggit Magazine by a university lecturer (and the publication's editor-in-chief) who discovered the blocked feature while searching for materials for his students.
Academia.edu first introduced Academia Premium and its accompanying paid search features last December. In a blog post on Medium, the company wrote that the purpose of the subscription was to "help make all scholarship and science easily and freely accessible to everyone, not just those affiliated with well-endowed institutions." Establishing a premium account was also part of the company's effort to become a more "sustainable operation," CEO Richard Price wrote in a subsequent blog post in March.
"Running any site at scale has costs and you have to figure out how to pay for that," CEO and founder Richard Price tells EdSurge. He adds that nearly 19 million papers exist and are free on the platform, and that 40 percent of users are from from developing countries with limited access to research.
Academia Premium has yet to roll out to all users. According to Price, only a "random" selection of users are currently offered the service, which also includes alerts when a subscriber's name is mentioned in an article, analytics to see who is reading an author's work, and a personal website option that creates a unique URL for someone's Academia profile.
The CEO also says premium subscription will eventually be available to all users, but is targeted for "academics themselves."
"Our most avid users are authors, the people who are building their careers in academia," says Price. "The premium features we have built so far are more useful to them."
But skeptical scholars say the perks are just another way of monetizing academic information for an elite few. "The new [premium] feature is academic class politics to a new level—and it only promotes the further stratification of the academy," Sarah Bond, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, wrote for Forbes in January.
Critics have pointed out holes in the business plan, too. "This feature isn't going to be effective for you without some rethinking. People can simply search on Google: site:academia.edu "Potterheads" and retrieve all the results," one user shared in the Hacker News thread.
Academia Premium isn't the first cost to be introduced on Academia.edu, which claims 35 million people visit the site each month. Last January, the company proposed allowing authors to pay a fee that would boost article recommendations from the website's editors. That move also garnered a slew of criticism, and the company eventually killed the idea.
This article was published in edsurge.com By Sydney Johnson
5 of the Best Education Search Engines for Academic Research
If you're performing work that requires in-depth sources, such as academic studies or a job that requires heavy research, finding quality sources can be hard. Using bad or shaky sources to prove points can cause a lot of trouble: it brings down the strength of the work as a whole and makes it harder to prove its point. Fortunately, we live in an age of easy-access information and education, and with that comes education search engines.
These specialist search engines focus less on providing general results to a search query and more on articles from academia and news. This makes them perfect choices for someone who needs solid, citable sources without much hassle. While there's nothing particularly "incorrect" about using a search engine like Google or Bing to perform research, using education search engines will make sure to bring up dependable, informative articles that you can cite with confidence in your work.
What kind of education search engines are out there? Let's take a look at five examples, each with their own fortes and ways of helping you perform top-quality research for your projects.
1. Google Scholar
Don't be mistaken; this isn't just regular Google! This is a branch off of "regular" Google searches, called Google Scholar. Instead of a general search, you can use it to search books, studies, and even court cases.
On the main page, simply enter the search terms that you're interested in looking up. Google Scholar will then go through its database and pick out relevant examples. If your research is very time-sensitive (such as technology), you can select options on the left to change how recent you want your sources to be, up to and including the current year.
If you're writing a piece that has a strict sourcing style, Google Scholar gives you template cites for its sources. Find the template that suits the style standard, then simply copy it directly into your citations to save yourself some time.
2. RefSeek
Currently in a public beta, RefSeek is a pretty solid choice for general research. It takes a more website-based approach, bringing up relevant but highly dependable websites for whatever you want to research. It's a great way to pull up multiple articles relating to a specific object. For example, if you wanted to learn about computer processors, a search brings up lots of great articles.
RefSeek does more than just searching, however; if you're studying in a specific field, RefSeek also has a "directory" page which acts as a great directory of useful websites related to education. Once you choose the category you'd like to browse, RefSeek brings up a list of productive sites to help you with your studies.
3. Citeulike
Citeulike is one of the more powerful education search engines if you're looking for papers and studies specifically. After entering a search term, Citeulike brings up all the studies it has on the topic. If an article is regarded as "trusted" by Citeulike, it will have a tick-mark next to it. You can also see groups that are interested in your search term, see quick abstracts for each article before checking the full version, and hide all the details for quicker browsing.
Once you've found a paper you think you'd like, clicking on it will bring you to its page. Here, you can see all the websites the paper can be found on, export the article to different formats, and generate a citation template for that paper. This makes Citeulike highly useful if you want solid, dependable studies to read though and cite on your work.
4. iSeek
iSeek is a powerful tool for finding studies in your area of interest. Don't be fooled by the seemingly small results list – iSeek displays results in pages of 10, and if you searched something quite scientifically popular, there's going to be a lot of pages on the topic. If the sheer amount of results overwhelm you, you have a selection of filters to apply on the left.
Each result comes with a direct link to the source, as well as an option to email results to people. The sources can also be rated out of five stars by other users which can help you locate the more important sources for your research.
5. Virtual LRC
Virtual LRC is an interesting website for research. While it operates mostly like any other engine, the real key to working with Virtual LRC is its filtering ability. There are a few categories at the top of the page after you search; by clicking these, you can filter the results using the category you selected. For example, if you search for "coffee," you can click on "News/Opinion" for general news articles about coffee, "Health/Medicine" to read about the current positive and negative health effects of coffee, or "History" to learn about how coffee came to be. This makes it quite a diverse engine that can be used to display topics in specific viewpoints.
Study Well, Not Hard
No matter how much you love or hate researching facts, making it an easier task is always welcome. If you're an avid fact-hunter, hopefully these education search engines will serve you well in your studies.
Author: Simon Batt
Source: https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-education-search-engines
AI Lends Computing Power to Academic Search Engines
Look out Google Scholar—there's a new kid on the block. Semantic Scholar, a free, online tool developed under the guidance of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, is using machine learning and other aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) to make the monumental task of parsing the scientific literature less onerous. Launched last year, Semantic Scholar can now comb through 10 million published research papers, its creators announced last week (November 11). "This is a game changer," Andrew Huberman, a neurobiologist at Stanford University not involved in the project, told Nature. "It leads you through what is otherwise a pretty dense jungle of information."
When the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) launched Semantic Scholar last November, the search engine indexed 3 million published research articles in the field of computer science. The service now searches 10 million papers in both computer science and neuroscience. "Semantic Scholar puts AI at the service of the scientific community," Oren Etzioni, chief executive officer of AI2, said in the statement. "The brain continues to mystify the scientific and medical research community and harbors some of the diseases that are the most challenging to cure. Our hope is that the field of neuroscience can benefit from AI methods to ensure the best and most relevant studies are easily queried so medical research can move with maximum speed and efficiency."
The main benefit of Semantic Scholar, which its creators say will soon be expanded to include the full biomedical literature, is that the AI-driven engine is able to understand the content and context of scientific papers, searching figures within an article, for example, rather than just listing its abstract and raw bibliographic data.
But early reports suggest that Semantic Scholar isn't yet 100 percent debugged. "Looking at 'most influential publications' sometimes gives strange results," Sam Gershman, a Harvard University computational neuroscientist told ScienceInsider. "For example, none of the most influential articles listed for [University of California, Berkeley, psychologist] Thomas Griffiths fall into his top five most cited articles."
Warts and all, ScienceInsider recently took the search engine for a spin, instructing it to rank the top 10 most influential neuroscientists based on an analysis of their citation histories.
Source: the-scientist.com


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Q: How to build a search query for nested objects in spring-data elastic search? My search query looks like this:
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/imagesearchservice/images    /_search?pretty=true" -d '
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
        "must": [
           {
               "nested": {
                  "path":"tags",
                  "query": {
                    "bool": {
                      "must": [
                        {"match_all" : {} }
                      ],
              "filter" : {
                          "terms" : {
                             "tags.tagName" : ["star"]
                            }
                       }
                    }
                  }
                }
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    }
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I tried doing the following but it didnt work.
SearchQuery searchQuery = new NativeSearchQueryBuilder().withQuery(matchAllQuery())
                .withFilter(boolQuery().must(termsQuery("tags.tagName", tagNames)))
                .build();

I am using Elastic Search v2.x . Can someone please tell me how to build a search query for the above using nativesearchquerybuilder ?

A: I would do something like this:
  BoolQueryBuilder booleanQuery = new BoolQueryBuilder();
  booleanQuery.must(termsQuery("tags.tagName", tagNames));
  myElasticSearchRepository.search(booleanQuery)

Where myElasticSearchRepository is an interfce that extends ElasticsearchRepository


Would you recommend GeoOrbital Wheel to a friend?
What is the estimate retail price of the wheel? And how long can it run on a single charge?
@gttay Looks like $950 and 20-50 miles @ up to 20 mph according to the Kickstarter.
What's the difference with the Copenhagen wheel?
@ralphmartynward I think that their video did a nice job at subtly communicating some differences. Primarily, this is front wheel drive instead of rear wheel in Copenhagen design. Front wheels are a lot easier to take on and off, and they show a use case where bike is stored outside without the wheel initially. Also, this suggests that you could mix and match with a normal wheel depending on mood. To me this alone could be more appealing for some riders. Also, this has swappable battery and airless tire. But Copenhagen offers different tire sizes. Neither model seems to be compatible with disk brakes, requiring rim brakes. Overall, a move toward conveniently retrofitting existing bikes is positive for consumers, cool to see innovations heating up here - both near Boston too.
@kristofertm This is also the most simple solution I have found out there!!
This is a great solution for those who already have a nice bike! Couldn't wait for see the practical statistics on the road.


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