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Anti-Muslim content controversy: India Facebook's policy chief resigned
News / By John
Ankhi Das, Facebook's head of policy in India, has resigned. She did so after a controversy in India over a Facebook 'hate speech' or hate speech that began two months ago.
The Wall Street Journal has accused Facebook of being lenient with supporters of the ruling BJP, who allegedly violated Facebook's policy on hate speech in their anti-Muslim posts. ۔
The newspaper also alleged that the controversial decision to do so was made by Ankhi Das and that he was leaning towards the BJP.
Facebook has denied all the allegations, saying it does not support any political party. However, the controversy has made matters worse for Facebook in India, the company's largest market. Ajit Mohan, Facebook's business head in India, had to appear before an Indian parliamentary committee after the controversy, where he was asked tough questions.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Ajit Mohan said that Ankhi Das had resigned from his role in Facebook "to work on his interest in social welfare". He also wrote that Ankhi Das, one of the first employees of Facebook in India, played a "key role" in the development of Facebook in India. Ankhi Das's name made headlines in August when a report in the Wall Street Journal accused Facebook of questioning an anti-Muslim posts newspaper by a member of parliament from the ruling BJP. Deleted after being picked up, not before.
Ankhi Das was at the center of the controversy as it was his decision not to delete the posts. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ankhi Das had told employees that "taking action against violations committed by members of Prime Minister Modi's party will have a detrimental effect on Facebook's business in India."
According to the newspaper, no action was taken against similar hateful posts of three more persons who were supporters of the BJP, despite indications that the company had violated its own policy.
In another report, the Wall Street Journal alleged that Ankhi Das was in fact a supporter of Narendra Modi and the BJP and used derogatory words about the opposition in private messages. However, Facebook denied allegations that it favored any political party, saying the messages were presented in isolation from the background. Ankhi Das started working for Facebook in October 2011. She was the head of the company's public policy in India. Prior to Facebook, she was Microsoft's head of public policy in India, where she began work in January 2004.
Ankhi Das did his MA in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi between 1991-94.
In addition to working in a high position on Facebook, at the same time, his name was listed as a columnist in both Narendra Modi's website and his app. In other words, Ankhi Das is a contributor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's website and app and writes articles for him. However, despite being associated with the app since April 2017, there appears to be only one article titled, "Prime Minister Modi and the New Art of Governance."
It is also important to point out that Ankhi Das has been writing for the media. His name is also included in the list of columnists of the English newspaper Indian Express. She has also written for the Indian edition of the Huffington Post, an American website.
On November 24, 2018, on the tenth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, Ankhi Das wrote an article in the Indian Express entitled, "Nine Platforms for Violence."
"Facebook promises that it will not allow people who promote extremism to use its platform," he wrote. "We have removed 140,000 pieces of material this year that contained information about terrorism," she added. In this article, she says, "They have the techniques and tools to identify al Qaeda and its supporters, which is why ninety-nine percent of the Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked material can be identified before it can be identified." It was removed.
In other words, his article gives the impression that Facebook was active in publishing or exploring material related to terrorist activities and that it was effective in cracking down on such material. ۔
The main point of contention that started in August was that some kind of content was published on Facebook in India which could be considered as hateful. However, Ankhi Das opposed the removal of this content.


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Milošević je priimek srbsko-črnogorskega izvora kot patronimik iz imena Miloš; v Sloveniji se pojavlja tudi oblika Miloševič.
 Andrija Milošević (*1978), črnogorski igralec
 Ante Milošević, hrvaški arheolog
 Borislav Milošević (1936–2013), črnogorsko-srbski politik in diplomat; brat Slobodana Miloševića
 Božidar "Boki" Milošević (*1931), srbski klarinetist (tudi sin Milan - v Kanadi)
 Branko Milošević (1932–2000), srbski (vojvodinski) filmski in TV-režier in scenarist
 Branko Milošević (*1964), hrvaško-avstralski nogometaš
 Dejan "Danny" Milosevic (*1978), avstralski nogometaš srbskega rodu
 Dara Milošević (1902–1987), srbska igralka
 Domagoj Ivan Milošević (*1970), hrvaški politik
 Dragoljub M. Milošević, slovenski matematik
 Dragomir Milošević (*1942), bosansko-srbski vojaški poveljnik in obsojeni vojni zločinec
 Dušan Milošević (1894–1967), srbski atlet in olimpijec
 Đorđe Milošević (*1933), baletni plesalec (vojvodinsko-bosanski)
 Federico Millosevich (1875–1942), italijanski mineralog (po njem imenovan Milloševičit)
 Goran Alexander Sjöström Milošević (*1992), švedski nogometaš (mdr. v Turčiji)
 Iva Milošević, slovenska glasbenica
 Iva Milošević, srbska gledališka režiserka
 Jovan Milošević (1895–1959), črnogorski dirigent, skladatelj in glasbeni pedagog
 Jovan (Jovica) Milošević (1929–2013), črnogorsko-slovenski arhitekt
 Lavinia Miloșovici (*1976), romunska telovadka (gimnastičarka)
 Marija Milošević (*1965) srbska poslovna ženska; hči Slobodana Miloševića
 Marko Milošević (*1974), srbski avtomobilski dirkač, poslovnež in zločinec?; sin Slobodana Miloševića
 Mata Milošević (1901--1997), srbski gledališki in filmski igralec, režiser in pedagog
 Milan Milošević - Šumenko (*1934), srbski igralec
 Milenko Milošević (*1976), bosansko-srbski nogometaš
 Milivoje (Mića) Milošević (*1930), srbski filmski režiser, scenarist (dokumentarnih filmov) in likovni kritik (novinar)
 Miljan Milošević (*1985), črnogorsko-ameriški igralec
 Miloje Milošević (1923–1968), srbski arhitekt in konservator
 Miloš Milošević (1870–1940), srbski pedagog (drug? = jezikoslovec) ?
 Miloš Milošević (1937–1968), srbsko-ameriški igralec, telesni stražar in dvojnik Alaina Delona
 Miloš Milošević (*1972), hrvaški plavalec in trener (srbskega rodu)
 Miloš Iljin Milošević (1920–2012), hrvaško-črnogorski znanstvenik, zgodovinar, arhivist, polihistor, pesnik, glasbenik, muzikolog
 Miroslav Milošević (*1986), srbsko-avstrijski nogometaš
 Momčilo Milošević (1889–1975), srbski pesnik, pisatelj, dramatik, gledališčnik, potopisec, prosvetno-kulturni delavec in založnik
 Nada Milošević-Đorđević (*1934), srbska literarna zgodovinarka in folkloristka, univ. profesorica
 Nikola Milošević (1929–2007), srbski filozof, literarni teoretik, univ. profesor, esejist, publicist, politik in akademik
 Olga Milošević (*1937), črnogorska operna pevka mezzosopranistka
 Petar Milošević (~1850–1883), poveljnik uporniške vojske v "Timoški buni"
 Petar Milošević (1930–2002), srbski arheolog
 Petar Milošević (Milosevits Péter), srbski literarni kritik, teoretik in antolog na Madžarskem
 Predrag Milošević (1904–1988), srbski skladatelj, dirigent, glasbeni pedagog in pisec
 Radomir Milošević (1923–?), baletni plesalec, vodja mariborskega baleta 1954/55
 Radomir Milosević Ceđa, srbski igralec
 Raša Milošević (1851–1937/39?), srbski radikalni politik, prevajalec in publicist
 Savatije Milošević - Vojvoda Savatije (1876–1905), srbski hajduk in četniški poveljnik
 Savo Milošević (*1973), srbski nogometaš
 Sima Milošević (1896–1943), črnogorsko-srbski zdravnik, partizan in politični delavec, parazitolog
 Slađana (Aleksandra) Milošević Hagadone (*1956), srbska novovalovska pevka
 Slavko Milošević (1908–1990), srbski nogometaš in trener
 Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), srbsko-jugoslovanski politik in diktator
 Velimir Milošević (1937–2004), srbski pesnik, esejist in literarni kritik
 Vesna Milošević (*1955), srbska (jugoslovanska) rokometašica
 Vida Miloševič Arnold (*1941), slovenska socialna delavka, predavateljica (praktičnega dela)
 Vladimir Miloševič (*1940), brigadir Slovenske vojske, veteran vojne za Slovenijo, poveljnik TO v Mariboru
 Vladimir Milošević, srbski pianist
 Vlado Milošević (1901–1990), bosenski (banjaluški) etnomuzikolog, folklorist in skladatelj
 Vlado Miloševič (*1968), slovenski nogometaš

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GUEST CRITIC #26: Murder on the Orient Express
Fellow Chicago critic Jeff York is a delight to talk to on any and all topics, but our movie chats have become truly special. Jeff was able to view and review Kenneth Branagh's remake of Murder on the Orient Express. He's a self-professed fan and cover-to-cover expert on the Agatha Christie source novel and the previously celebrated 1974 film adaptation. His review will do better informative service than mine ever would.
2017, GUEST CRITIC, MOVIE REVIEW, Social Media, SPECIALDonald Shanahan November 9, 2017 Guest Critic series, Guest Column, guest review, Guest Critic, guest critic, Jeff York Caricatures, Jeff York, The Establishing Shot, CIFCC, Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle, Examiner.com, Albert Finney, Kenneth Branagh, caricature, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, Murder on the Orient Express, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Daisy Ridley, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfieffer, Willem Dafoe, Lucy Boynton, Derek Jacobi, Sergei Polunin, 1974, 2017, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don ShanahanComment
MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the "Page 2 Screen" podcast talking 20 years of "L.A. Confidential"
I joined Jeff York recently as his guest for a special 20th-anniversary 35mm screening of 1997's Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential at the storied Music Box Theatre as part of the Noir City Chicago Festival. As an added treat, author James Ellroy was in the house to kick things off with an expletive-laden bang. After the screening, he and I hunkered down in Frio Gelato near the theatre to share our admiration and examination of Curtis Hanson's masterpiece.
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1902Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.
Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.


In 2016 Adept Corporation was listed at position number 33 of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Central Pennsylvania.
2006 was the first year Adept Corporation was recognizes as one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Central Pennsylvania coming in at position 16.
Sponsored by Central Penn Business Journal, the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies program identifies the region's most dynamic companies that have made significant contributions to the strength of our local economy.
Adept Corporation continues to grow in the PVC Extrusion Industry. In 1991 Adept began to produce extrusion tooling for companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 2000 Adept moved into the Profile Extrusion Business supplying accessory profiles to extrusion companies and window fabricators.
Adept continues to develop innovative and aggressive processes to extrude small profiles at higher rates holding down costs and improving quality. Adept's cutting edge extrusion technology has made us one the nation's top accessory extruders.
Over the past 10 years Adept has continued to be am ong the fastest growing companies in our area. In 2007 we were number 33 of the top fifty growing companies. In 2008 we were # 31, in 2011 we were number 44 and in 2015 we were back at number 16 of the Fifty Fastest Growing Companies in Central Pennsylvania. Again this year 2016 Adept will be among the companies with the fastest growth.
Congratulation to the Adept Corporation for emphasizing quality and service to their customers in the US and Canada.


The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is heading to Shanghai for the first time!
The famous Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is heading to Shanghai for the first time ever!
The world's most iconic lingerie fashion show, and the famous Victoria's Secret Angels who walk the runway, will be traveling to China's biggest metropolis for the upcoming annual fashion event.
Among the Angels who will be heading overseas for the big show are returning superstars Adriana Lima, Behati Prinsloo, Alessandra Ambrosio, Bella and Gigi Hadid, Jasmine Tookes, Candice Swanepoel, and Stella Maxwell, to name just a few.
The show will also feature a few new faces who will be walking the coveted runway for the first time.
As fans have come to expect, the show will include interviews with the Angels as they walk the iconic pink carpet, a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to bring the show together, several model profiles and performances from some big-name musical guests, who have yet to be announced.
The decision to hold the show in China comes after the brand opened their first flagship store in Shanghai back in February.
This year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show airs Nov. 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Last year, the show took place in one of the most stylish cities in the world -- Paris, France. ET traveled with the Angels as they flew to the City of Light for an inside look at the star-studded show.
Star Sightings: Amber Rose Sweetens Up, Jessica Alba and Cash Warren Enjoy Date Night & More!


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«Дорога без конца» — песня советского и российского певца Альберта Асадуллина. Стихи поэтессы Татьяны Калининой на музыку Сергея Баневича, прозвучавшую в фильме «Никколо Паганини».

В исполнении Асадуллина стала лауреатом песенного фестиваля «Песня-84» и прозвучала в заключительном гала-концерте в канун 1985 года. Заключительный трек диска-гиганта «Всё это с нами было» 1987 года.

История создания
Сергей Баневич стал работать над музыкой к «Никколо Паганини» по рекомендации Юрия Темирканова, с которым они ранее ставили оперу «История Кая и Герды». По воспоминаниям композитора, мелодия, которая потом легла в основу песни, сопровождала путешествия Паганини.

Согласно Татьяне Калининой, идея сделать из этой музыки песню родилась в народе — композитору приходило множество писем со стихами: «Я спросила Сергея Петровича, о чём должны быть, по его мнению, слова. Он ответил мне: о судьбе артиста, не всегда очень счастливой, о пути художника. Я ответила, что слова "судьба" и "путь" не очень укладываются в ритм музыки, а вот слово "дорога" как раз подходит. Так возникли формула и образ "дорога без конца", из которого выросло всё остальное».

Альберт Асадуллин регулярно исполняет эту песню на концертах:

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Q: URLENCODING in a url problem I'm using a service where about each hour their server is contacting mine like this:
/check.php?id=1&name=anonyme&country=us

So I pick up the information like this:
$id = @$_GET['id'];
$name = @$_GET['name'];
$country = @$_GET['country'];

Great, everything works just fine. But when the name has a space on it let's say:
/check.php?id=1&name=MR Anonymous&country=us

Then in php I can only pickup the ID and the First part on the name which is 'MR'. And I can't get the other values (country, etc..) they stay empty because of that space.
I have contacted the company that sends this information, I told them maybe it's their problem and they said no, I just have to URLENCODE my URL..
I still think it's their problem not mine, because when I see the Apache logs I see a space on their URL, they should fix that space. (Because when I use the same URL in any browser, that space turn into  %20, that isn't the case with the company)
Is it my problem? Or their problem? How to fix it if it's mine?

A: Raw spaces are not allowed in URIs (even though some clients and some servers can error recover when asked to deal with them).
You do need to urlencode the data.

A: I think they (the other server) will need to urlencode() the data before sending to your server, and then you will urldecode() it.

A: If they are making those requests to your server (and you have no control over those requests), then it's definitely not you at fault.
Spaces in URIs are prohibited. Apache does allow them, but PHP gets confused and takes the part after the space as the protocol.
You can accomodate this problem by appending $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] to $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], removing everything after the last space and then parsing this URL (see parse_url and parse_str). The best, however, would be they fixing their requests.

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Q: FFmpeg remove black border on bottom of video? I am pretty happy with this command. It takes three image inputs. Adds a fourth white background input that sets the size of the video and acts as a canvas.
The three inputs go through the scale filter then create three new outputs.
The new outputs are connected to the canvas, there is an overlay set (in the UI the user can position images on an x and y coordinate). Then three new outputs are created. I am structuring it this way so transitions are easier to manage.
Then on the final three outputs, I use the first one to transition into the second one. Then connect the third output to the transition.
I think I am not getting the 1080x1080 box because I have forgotten to place the transition outputs back onto the blank canvas, but I am not sure how to do that. Here is the command.
ffmpeg
    -i "0.jpg"
    -i "1.jpg"
    -i "2.jpg"
    -f lavfi
    -i color=c=white:s=1080x1080
    -filter_complex "

    // scale
    [0:v]scale=1330:1989[out1],
    [1:v]scale=1588:2381[out2],
    [2:v]scale=1144:1717[out3],

    // overlays
    [3:v][out1]overlay=-125:-454:enable='between(t,-0.5,5.5)'[out101],
    [3:v][out2]overlay=-340:-1093:enable='between(t,4.51,10.5)'[out102],
    [3:v][out3]overlay=-32:-13:enable='between(t,9.51,15)'[out103],

    // transitions
    [out101][out102]gltransition=duration=1:offset=4.51[vt0],
    [vt0][out103]gltransition=duration=1:offset=9.51[main]

    "
    -map "[main]"
    -ac 2
    -vcodec libx264
    -preset veryfast
    -crf 27
    -pix_fmt yuv420p
    -vb 20M
    -t 00:00:15
    out.mp4

Here is a link to the result https://storycreatoruploads2.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/f0eb5120-5511-11ea-8afc-05bd6ece194b you will see it's not sized correctly, there is a black square at the bottom.
Any way to get the image to fill the 1080x1080 square? Also, am I thinking about my command correctly?
Cheers


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Here's a different look at spiritual healing. It is more of health is a manifestation of the spirit point of view.
Thanks Welles! I just finished...This is a very interesting and helpful article. It is well worth a careful and thoughtful read. I am thinking long and hard about my own way of being now.
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That makes me happy, Sandy. Oh wow look at my cells!
I must say you have such lovely and happy cells my friend!


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The 2018 Team championships ended successfully last night at the Thoedosia Oko Hockey stadium.
13 teams and 66 players participated in this year's event; the highest so far. The tournament was played in 7 round swiss format. Most teams consisted of 4 players and a reserve with a compulsory female on either board two or board three. The duration of the play was 20 minutes to complete the game. All games were played in one day.
Knightmares Chess Club for the second time in a row snatched the prestigious trophy from the favorites "Osu Chess Club", which proves their determination and strong cohesion as a team.
Congratulations to Knightmares for winning gold with 6 wins and 1 loss. Dreamfort B for winning silver with 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and Osu for claiming bronze medal with 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Robi's Chess Chess, KNUST Chess Club, Mentors Chess Club, Legon Chess Club, DPS Chess Club, Indian Association Chess Club and University of Health and Allied Sciences Chess Club.
We wish to thank all teams for participating and wish all teams who did not place better luck next year.


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Escota puede referirse a:

 Escota, localidad española que junto con su vecino Artaza forman el concejo de Artaza-Escota del municipio de Ribera Alta, (País Vasco).

 Escota, término náutico que hace referencia a la cuerda que sujeta las velas y que permite modificar el ángulo de las mismas respecto del viento.

 Escota, nombre alternativo de la Escocia, que en arquitectura, es una moldura cóncava y corrida, compuesta de dos curvas de diferente radio, siendo normalmente el arco inferior el de mayor tamaño.


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Jennifer Lopez Shares Heartfelt Video Captured Right Before Super Bowl Halftime Show: Watch
Jennifer Lopez shared a video that captured various heartfelt and exciting scenes before hitting the Super Bowl Halftime stage. Watch it on Billboard.
Jennifer Lopez performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium on Feb. 2, 2020 in Miami. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Jennifer Lopez had an important gig as co-headliner of the Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show that took place Sunday night (Feb. 2) at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium. Following Shakira's epic set, Lopez took the stage to continue the party, singing hits such as "Jenny From The Block" and "Waiting For Tonight."
One of the memorable moments of her performance was when her 11-year-old daughter Emme Muñiz got onstage to kick off the 1999 hit "Let's Get Loud." Their performance brought awareness of the humanitarian crisis at the Southern border when dark patches of the field were illuminated by several neon structures with children caged inside.
Following her and Shak's much talked about performance, Lopez shared a two and a half minute video that captured various heartfelt and exciting scenes before she hit the stage.
Vote for the Best Moment in Shakira & Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl 54 Halftime Show
The black-and-white clip, directed by Jason Bergh, shows sweet moments from Lopez and her daughter hugging tight to praying with her dance team. "Keep us calm and safe! Help us to get through this," she says. "Lord Jesus Christ, thank you and we are so grateful because we are going to rock this stadium!"
On Instagram, Lopez dedicated her Halftime show to girls around the world. "All I want my girls, the little girls on stage with me and all over the world to know is how to use their voices and be proud of everything they are," she wrote. "We are proud to recognize that all of us together is what makes this beautiful country truly great."
Watch the entire video below.


Dang Richard, you've managed to scrape the valve covers on turns?! You must have been leaned way over! I'm impressed.
It was really a shock when it first happened. After that, I moved my upper body more into the turn to keep the bike more upright as suggested by ChrisL. I got a lot of mountain road practice on my trip last summer.
And so ... what do you plan to do for fun when this project is done. I admire your mechanical competence and perseverance but you lost me just after the ...DMC subframe...All this for a side car, but what I really want to know, does it come with a plow?
I don't know what the next project may be. For me, this is both a relaxing and challenging activity. And I have not heard of a plow option though. If you want to plow with your motorcycle, you could try this. A 3WD rig in the snow..


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US Intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned Trump about the dangers of COVID-19
by Aaron Rottenberg | April 28, 2020
Us intelligence agencies warned Donald Trump more than a dozen times about the dangers of COVID-19 in daily news materials during January and February, the Washington Post reports.
According to current and former officials who spoke to the newspaper, daily reports compiled by the intelligence community for the President contained warnings about the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, as well as claims that Chinese officials were hiding the extent of the virus and the number of deaths from it.
Meanwhile, the publication's interlocutors noted that it seems that the President did not take these warnings seriously.
In particular, they reported that Trump refused to form a White House task force on coronavirus until the end of February.
Besides, sources of the newspaper said that Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger called for the termination of air traffic with Europe back in February. Meanwhile, trump implemented this step only in March.
Earlier, US media reported that US intelligence agencies began collecting information about a new type of coronavirus that appeared in China back in November. The alleged intelligence became known to the President on January 3 during a daily briefing.
Meantime, Donald Trump said during a press conference at the White House that he learned about the severity of the coronavirus only "shortly before" the US imposed travel restrictions on China, which took effect on February 2.
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Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group
The Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group (YYAMH-G) is a group of invested partners dedicated to understanding the transition to adulthood among socially and economically marginalized populations of youth and young adults, and learning how to make the transition more successful for more young people. More specifically, we draw on the expertise of individuals from across the United States and beyond to develop the following: 1) knowledge, 2) practice approaches, and 3) implementation strategies. We utilize mixed-method research and community-based participatory research methods. Our collaborative work is guided by noted scholars and consultants in the central area(s) of our research, namely child and adolescent mental health, child welfare, prevention, early intervention and prevention of psychosis, treatment engagement programs and strategies, multi-component treatment intervention(s), social isolation and connection, and advocacy and social justice.
To improve the lives of marginalized populations of youth and young adults with mental health challenges, and improve the lives of those around them.
We are dedicated to achieving four goals:
Decrease unmet mental health need among youth and young adults
Improve outcomes for youth and young adults with mental health challenges
Decrease mental health stigma
Develop intervention tools to assess for and intervene with youth based on mental health narratives
We work to achieve these goals by executing the following objectives:
Research:Conduct systematic and rigorous mixed-methods research
Dissemination: Develop, disseminate, and study the implementation of efficacious interventions
Advocacy: Support communities (i.e., professionals, families, and young adults) in managing the transition to living well with a mental illness
Current Group Members
Michelle R. Munson, LMSW, PhD | Director/Faculty
michelle.munson@nyu.edu | (212) 992-9731
Dr. Munson is a Professor at NYU Silver. She has professional interests in mental health services research and intervention development and testing, and her work centers on adolescents and young adults. Dr. Munson's research seeks to understand how society's structural conditions and social relationships, through both verbal and non-verbal communication, shape young adults' decisions to seek (or not seek) professional mental health services. Her research and scholarship also seeks to develop, refine, adapt, and test engagement and treatment interventions for adolescents and young adults with serious mental health conditions.
James Jaccard, PhD | Faculty
jj76@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5906
Dr. James Jaccard is a professor of social work with a long history of collaborating with social work and public health to help resolve significant behavioral health challenges among youth and young adults within complex organizations and low-resourced communities. He is an expert in attitude change, decision-making and communication strategies, among others.
Kiara Moore, PhD, LCSW | Faculty
km162@nyu.edu
Kiara Moore, PhD, LCSW is an Assistant Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work. . Dr. Moore's areas of specialization are mental health services and marginalized youth during the transition to adulthood. Dr. Moore's work examines major barriers to treatment, such as access, stigma, and health decision-making among youth of color, youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and LGBTQ youth. Her research aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the complicated processes by which young people's identities shape their participation in mental health care and to apply those insights to improving service use through a culturally-responsive intervention.
Andrea Cole, PhD, LCSW | Research Scientist
arc482@nyu.edu | 212-992-6658
Andrea Cole, PhD, LCSW is Research Scientist with the Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Research Group. Andrea completed her PhD at NYU Silver School of Social Work in 2017. Her research interests include youth and young adult trauma, exposure to community violence, intervention research, and implementation science.
Melissa L. Bessaha, PhD | Faculty
melissa.bessaha@stonybrook.edu
Melissa Bessaha is an Assistant Professor of social work at the SUNY Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. Her research centers on mental health and wellbeing during the transition to adulthood. Her research aims to inform culturally responsive interventions and policies that promote mental health and higher education equity among underserved and immigrant youth and young adults.
Luis Ramirez | Doctoral Student
luis.ramirez@nyu.edu | 212-998-4783
Luis Ramirez is a PhD student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. He joined Dr. Munson's Staying Healthy Feeling Good project in 2015 as a research assistant. His areas of interest include LGBTQ issues, sex work, and the mental health consequences of stigma and oppression.
Rei Shimizu | Doctoral Student
rs3432@nyu.edu
Rei Shimizu is a doctoral student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. She has a clinical background in trauma-focused therapy for survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the United States and Japan. Her research interest is in health behaviors, specifically focusing on decision making related to food preferences and eating behavior and its intersections with trauma for low-income women.
Aaron Rodwin, LMSW | Doctoral Student
ahr324@nyu.edu
Aaron Rodwin is a PhD student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. Aaron's research interests focus on mental health services and interventions, serious mental health conditions, risk and resilience, positive youth development, and social determinants of health. Aaron has a particular interest in the use of innovative intervention strategies that harness music, creative arts, and technology in a therapeutic capacity as a culturally responsive vehicle to foster engagement, empowerment, and well-being in clinical practice.
Redell Creary | Research Staff
rcreary@iclinic.net
Redell Creary is a Peer Support Specialist at the Institute for Community Living. He is also an artist and cartoonist. And he has enjoyed working with NYU to develop the position of Recovery Role Model Mentor for transition-age youth and young adults
Lindsay Marie Hylek, Research Assistant
lmh2212@columbia.edu
Lindsay Hylek has BA in Psychology and Anthropology from Colby College and is currently pursing a MSW at Columbia University. She is also an Integrated Trauma Studies Program candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Prior to joining YYAMH-G, she was a Research Assistant in Colby's Personality Lab, MGH's Depression Clinical and Research Program, and OHSU's Translational Research of Adolescent Change Lab. She is particularly interested in 1. the impact of developmental trauma on the transition to adulthood and 2. holistic approaches to youth and young adult mental health treatment, including the use of expressive therapies, yoga and meditation, and ecotherapy.
Kristin Pleines, LCSW, DSW
kp1984@nyu.edu
Kristin Pleines, LCSW, DSW has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults impacted by trauma, particularly domestic violence. She completed her DSW at NYU Silver School of Social Work in 2019. Kristin is interested in enhancing mental health services for high-need populations. She is especially interested in trauma-informed care as well as trauma-informed supervision of clinicians and staff.
Former Group Members
Angel Amaro
aa6179@nyu.edu
Angel Amaro is a second-year MSW candidate at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). He is currently part of the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy program at CUSSW and will intern at The Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry reunifying foster care youth with their families. Angel worked extensively with individuals whom were homeless and diagnosed with mental illness and is interested in working with Latinos with Serious Mental Illness.
Kamilyah Cooper, LCSW
kamilyah.cooper@nyu.edu
Kamilyah Cooper, LCSW is an alumna of NYU Silver School of Social Work. For over a decade she has worked with young people of color who have severe and persistent mental health diagnoses. Her previous experience has been centered on combining her two passions: destigmazting mental health diagnoses in marginalized communities and working with young people of color who have experienced trauma.
Melissa Villodas, LMSW
mlv269@nyu.edu
Melissa Villodas, LMSW is currently a PhD student at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Melissa is an alumna of NYU's Silver School of Social Work and a former YYAMH-G member. She has clinical experience working with individuals with mood disorders in foster care and integrated health care settings. Her research interests include youth and young adult identity formation and its effect on mental health wellness during the transition to adulthood. Additionally, she is interested in policy improvement for marginalized youth and young adults in urban communities of color.
Xiuyun Miao
xm515@nyu.edu
Xiuyun (Sharon) Miao, BSW, is an MSW candidate at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She is a member of Phi Alpha National Honor Society for Social Work - Pi Pi Chapter. She will start her second-year field placement as a social work intern at Mental Health Bridge Program at Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. Her research focuses on children and adolescent's mental health, in particular, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) treatment for youth.
Shelly Ben-David, PhD, MSW
sbd268@nyu.edu
Please see Shelly's profile at: https://socialwork.ok.ubc.ca/person/shelly-ben-david/.
Hyunsoo Kim, PhD, MSW
hyunsoo.kim911@gmail.com
https://welfare.dongguk.ac.kr/wiz/contents/introduction/introduction1/popup_more_info.php?home_id=welf&handle=13&submember_id=1
https://welfare.dongguk.ac.kr/
http://web.dongguk.ac.kr/mbs/kr/index.jsp
We have a wide variety of projects underway at the YYAMH-G. Please feel free to click on the links below to read more about any of these projects, and/or contact us regarding any of this work.
Young Adult Engagement Project, aka 'Just Do You'
Bridging the Gap, 5-Year Project w/National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Progressive Early Psychosis Support and Intervention (PEPSI)
Cornerstone, aka 'Providing Consistency in the Midst of Change'
Mental Health Decision-Making in Low-Resourced Communities, aka 'Staying Healthy/Feeling Good'
Making the Transition to Adulthood Mixed Methods Research Project, aka 'got moods
New Study in Journal of Adolescent Health: Study Provides a Fresh Look at Mental Health Preparedness and Service Use among Older Adolescents in Foster Care
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Special Issue
Dr. Kiara Moore Awarded NIMH Diversity Research Supplement
International Meetings on Youth Mental Health
Dr. Michelle R. Munson Appointed Jewish Board's Saul Z. Cohen Chair
NYU Professor Michelle Munson to Test Meta-Intervention
Cornerstone program for transition-age youth with serious mental illness
Ben-David, S., Amaro, A. & Munson, M.R. (accepted for publication, in press). Experiences of psychosis among transition-age youth attending an outpatient clinic in a low-resourced community. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Narendorf, S.C., Glaude, M. & Munson, M.R., Minott, K. & Young B. (accepted for publication, in press). Adaptation of a Mental Health Treatment Engagement Intervention for Older Foster Youth. Child and Adolescent Social Work.
Munson, M.R., Katz, C.C., Okpych, N. & Courtney, M.E. (accepted for publication, in press). Mental Health Management among Older Youth in Foster Care: Service Utilization and Preparedness. Journal of Adolescent Health.
Moore, K., Camacho, D., Lopez, L. & Munson, M.R. (2020). A Qualitative Investigation of Engagement in Mental Health Services Among Black and Hispanic LGB Young Adults. Psychiatric Services, e-publication online first, 1/21/2020.
Moore, K., Camacho, D. & Munson, M.R. (2020). Identity Negotiation Processes Among Black and Latinx Sexual Minority Young Adult Service Users. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 32(1), 21-48.
Raghavan, R., Munson, M.R., & Le, C. (2019). Toward an Experimental Therapeutics Approach in Human Services Research. Psychiatric Services, 70(12), 1130-1137.
Munson, M.R., Narendorf, S.C., Ben-David, S., & Cole, A. (2019). A Mixed Methods Investigation into the Perspectives on Mental Health and Professional Treatment among Former System Youth with Mood Disorders. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(1), 52-64.
Ben-David, S., Cole, A., Brucato, G., Girgus, R. & Munson, M.R. (2019). Mental health service use decision-making among young adults at clinical high-risk for developing psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 13(5), 1050-1055.
Cole, A.R., Ramirez, L., Villodas, M., Ben-David, S. & Munson, M.R. (2019). "I want to rise above it all": Perceptions of the neighborhood among young adults living in public housing. Children and Youth Services Review, 103, 63-69.
Ben-David, S., Cole, A., Brucato, G., Girgus, R. & Munson, M.R. (2019). A conceptual model of mental health service utilization among young adults at clinical high-risk for developing psychosis. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 42(1), 17-25.
Munson, M.R., Narendorf, S.C., Ben-David, S., Cole, A., & Floersch, J. (2018). Integrated, Overwhelmed, and Distanced: Narratives of Mental Health among Young Adults. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 9(3), 413-430.
Narendorf, S.C., Munson, M.R., Ben-David, S., Cole, A., & Scott, L.D., Jr. (2018). Race and Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward Help Seeking among Marginalized Young Adults with Mood Disorders: A Mixed Methods Investigation. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 41(4), 277-289.
Munson, M.R. & Jaccard, J. (2018). Mental Health Service Use: A Communication Framework for Program Development. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 45(1), 62-80.
Scott, L. D. Jr. Hodge, D. R., White, T., & Munson, M. R. (2018). Substance use among older youth transitioning from foster care: Examining the protective effects of religious and spiritual capital. Child & Family Social Work, 23(3), 399-407.
Cole, A.R., Jenefsky, N., Ben-David, S.B., & Munson, M.R. (2018). Feeling Connected and Understood: The Role of Creative Arts in Engaging Young Adults in their Mental Health Services. Social Work with Groups, 41(1-2), 6-20.
Ben-David, S.B., Cole, A.R., Spencer, R., Jaccard, J., & Munson, M.R. (2017). Social Context in Mental Health Service Use among Young Adults. Journal of Social Service Research, 43(1), 85-99.
Munson, M.R., Cole, A. Jaccard, J., Kranke, D., Farkas, K., & Frese, F. (2016). Just Do You: An Engagement Intervention for Young Adults Utilizing Recovery Role Models. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 43(4), 542-563.
Munson, M.R., Brown, S., Spencer, R., Tracy, E., & Edguer, M. (2015). Supportive Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood among Former System Youth. Journal of Adolescent Research, 30(4), 501-529.
Munson, M. R., Lee, B. R., Miller, D., Cole, A., & Nedelcu, C. (2013). Emerging Adulthood among Former System Youth: The Ideal Versus the Real. Children and Youth Services Review, 35, 923-929.
Munson, M. R., Jaccard, J., Smalling, S. E., Kim, H., Werner, J. J., & Scott, L. D., Jr. (2012). Static, Dynamic, Integrated and Contextualized: A Framework for Understanding Mental Health Service Use among Young Adults. Social Science and Medicine, 75(8), 1441-1449
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Garrett, Frelinghuysen and NJ GOP allow terrorist gun buys
Several years ago, New Jersey adopted a law restricting persons on the Federal no fly list from purchasing firearms. The measure passed almost unanimously in the Legislature.
Sussex County's Alison McHose was one of only two members who voted against it.
It's the law in New Jersey. However, without a Federal mandate, it doesn't mean much. A suspected terrorist can easily purchase a weapon elsewhere and bring it into New Jersey. Clearly a Federal ban is necessary. Unfortunately, there isn't one. As a result, in the past ten years, out of 2,233 persons on the terrorist watch list who tried to buy guns, 2,043 succeeded. Unless they have already been used in massacres like that in San Bernardino, these weapons are still out there, in the hands of terrorists.
A Republican Representative, Peter King of New York, proposed legislation to stop selling guns to suspected terrorists on the no fly list. King's GOP colleagues killed the bill. That includes each and every GOP member of New Jersey's congressional delegation, including Scott Garrett and Rodney Frelinghuysen. They were all in were in on the kill.
Democrats are making Garrett's obedience to the NRA on the matter an issue in Fifth Congressional District. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running radio ads calling out Scott Garrett for his folly.
FYI -- Chris Christie is among the New Jersey Republican politicians falling over themselves to please the NRA. Earlier, Governor Christie signed the New Jersey bill banning gun sales to terrorists. Now, Presidential candidate Christie has backed off efforts to keep weapons out of terrorist hands. He's calling President Obama's call to action, "absurd".
Scott Garrett Gun Control Rodney Frelinghuysen
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Garbage Detail Autobiographical Coffee Table Book
February 21, 2017 8:54 AM M Fund
Garbage will recount their career in a new autobiographical coffee table book, This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake, out July 4th via Akashic Books.
The book, written by journalist and former Rolling Stone contributor Jason Cohen, will also include original pieces from all four members of Garbage – Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker – plus an array of never-before-seen photographs.
"We were starting to forget what we wanted to remember," Manson said of the impetus to put the book together. "Twenty-two years is a long time to keep track of the magic and the madness."
This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake is available to pre-order in several formats. A limited edition bundle, for instance, includes a hardcover copy of the book, a custom collectible box and a 12-inch vinyl record featuring six previously unreleased live recordings of "Milk," "You Look So Fine," "Cup of Coffee," "Bleed Like Me," "Beloved Freak," and "Even Though Our Love Is Doomed."
Along with their new book, Garbage will embark on a co-headlining North American tour this summer with Blondie, starting July 5th at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California. Garbage released their last album, Strange Little Birds, in 2016.
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Leszek Stefan Guzicki (ur. 19 stycznia 1917 w Warszawie, zm. 23 lutego 1984 tamże) – polski ekonomista i działacz polityczny, wykładowca Politechniki Warszawskiej, poseł do Krajowej Rady Narodowej i Sejmu Ustawodawczego (1945–1952).

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Po ukończeniu szkoły średniej w rodzinnej Warszawie uczył się ekonomii w Wolnej Wszechnicy Polskiej. W 1937 znalazł się wśród członków założycieli Klubu Demokratycznego w stolicy, a dwa lata później Stronnictwa Demokratycznego. Działał w Sekcji Młodych Klubu Demokratycznego (1937–1939). Podczas II wojny światowej kontynuował nielegalnie naukę w Szkole Głównej Handlowej. Stał na czele związanego ze Stronnictwem Polskiej Demokracji Ruchu Młodzieży Demokratycznej. Redagował dwie gazety związane z tym ruchem: "Mosty" oraz "Młodą Demokrację". Był jednocześnie żołnierzem Gwardii Ludowej, następnie zaś oficerem Armii Ludowej. Podczas powstania warszawskiego walczył w Zgrupowaniu pułku Baszta na Mokotowie. W 1944 został członkiem Koła Młodych przy Krajowej Radzie Narodowej. Był jednym z sygnatariuszy deklaracji Centralnego Komitetu Młodzieży uznającej Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (1944). Został posłem do KRN. W 1945 wybrano go na wiceprezesa okręgu warszawskiego Stronnictwa Demokratycznego, w którym reprezentował frakcję opowiadającą się za marginalizacją Stronnictwa oraz podporządkowaniem go PPR i PZPR. W wyborach w 1947 uzyskał mandat posła do Sejmu Ustawodawczego w okręgu Przasnysz. Zasiadał w Komisjach Morskiej i Handlu Zagranicznego oraz Skarbowo-Budżetowej. Po odejściu z aktywnej polityki poświęcił się pracy naukowo-dydaktycznej. Został wykładowcą Politechniki Warszawskiej. Kierował Zakładem Polityki Gospodarczej i Stosunków Międzynarodowych w Instytucie Nauk Ekonomiczno-Społecznych PW. Zmienił przynależność partyjną, wstępując do Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej.

Zmarł w 1984 po krótkiej chorobie, został pochowany na cmentarzu Powązkowskim (kwatera 149-2-24).

Odznaczenia
Odznaczony m.in. Krzyżem Grunwaldu, Walecznych i Partyzanckim (za działalność wojenną), a także Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (1946), Medalem 10-lecia Polski Ludowej (1955), Złotym Odznaczeniem im. Janka Krasickiego i Pamiątkowym Medalem z okazji 40. rocznicy powstania Krajowej Rady Narodowej (1983).

Publikacje naukowe
 Rozwój idei socjalistycznych w myśli ekonomicznej (współautor, red. Seweryn Żurawicki), Warszawa 1964
 Ekonomia polityczna. T. 1. Kapitalizm (współautor), Warszawa 1966
 Ekonomia polityczna kapitalizmu: dla studiów technicznych i rolniczych. Praca zbiorowa pod red. Stanisława Szeflera [aut. Leszek Guzicki et al.], Warszawa 1970
 Historia polskiej myśli społeczno-ekonomicznej 1914–1945 (wraz z Sewerynem Żurawickim), Warszawa 1974
 Polscy ekonomiści XIX i XX wieku (wraz z Sewerynem Żurawickim), Warszawa 1984

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Leszek Guzicki, w: Henryk Wosiński, Stronnictwo Demokratyczne w Polsce Ludowej. Cz. 3: Udział Stronnictwa w pracach parlamentu PRL w latach 1944–1968 (red. Wiktoria Beczek), Warszawa 1969, s. 55–56
 Leszek Guzicki, "Kurier Polski", nr 41 z 27 lutego 1984, s. 2 (wspomnienie)
 Leszek Guzicki, w: "Życie Warszawy", nr 49 z 27 lutego 1984, s. 12 (nekrolog)
 (oprac. Alicja Tomaszewska), Spis posłów do Krajowej Rady Narodowej 1943–1947, Biblioteka Sejmowa, Warszawa 1983
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Absolwenci warszawskich uczelni
Członkowie Klubów Demokratycznych (1937–1939)
Działacze PZPR
Ludzie urodzeni w Warszawie
Ludzie związani z Wolną Wszechnicą Polską
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Walecznych
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Partyzanckim
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Medalem 10-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni odznaczeniem im. Janka Krasickiego
Pochowani na cmentarzu Powązkowskim w Warszawie
Politycy Stronnictwa Polskiej Demokracji
Politycy Stronnictwa Demokratycznego (II Rzeczpospolita)
Politycy Stronnictwa Demokratycznego (1944–1989)
Polscy dziennikarze prasowi
Polscy ekonomiści
Posłowie do Krajowej Rady Narodowej
Posłowie na Sejm Ustawodawczy (1947–1952)
Powstańcy warszawscy
Urodzeni w 1917
Wykładowcy Politechniki Warszawskiej
Zmarli w 1984
Żołnierze Armii Krajowej
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(Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Monday signed an order withdrawing the state's National Guard troops from the US-Mexico border, saying there was not enough evidence of a national security crisis to justify keeping them there.
The Democratic governor's decision to pull back around 112 troops follows similar moves by Democratic leaders of New Mexico and California who said President Donald Trump, a Republican, had invented a crisis on the border for political gain.
"There is simply not ample evidence to support the president's contention that there exists a national security crisis at our southwestern border," Evers said in a statement, adding that securing the border was the responsibility of US Customs and Border Patrol.
The move was a rebuke to Trump, who won election in 2016 partly on a populist pledge to build a wall on the southern US border.
Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to help build the wall was central to a 35-day partial US government shutdown that ended last month. After Congress refused to grant him the funds, Trump declared a national emergency to gain money for the wall.
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Do Chickens Like Music? [Do They React Or Lay More Eggs?]
October 31, 2021 July 12, 2020 by Jeremy
If you own a flock of chickens, you may have considered putting some music on for them. Is this a good idea; do chickens like music and are there any particular genres that are best or should be avoided? With these questions in mind I decided to delve into the research. I would like to share what I managed to find with you here today.
So, do chickens like music? Chickens do like music as long as it's not too loud, or the beat is too fast. Chickens respond to music, especially if they are kept in coops or runs. Free-range chickens may or may not show an interest in music. Evidence from studies and research suggest that certain classical music song help improve egg production and increase chick growth rate.
Studies show that music affects the mental health of listeners. Both in humans, and with animals. Yes, animals respond to music too.
Listening to music has both a positive and negative impact on its listeners. If upbeat music with an excellent beat is played, it has been proven to improve well-being and for morale. Equally, heavy music can excite or even cause stress.
Chickens are not immune to these effects. This is why you need to ensure you are only every playing appropriate music is you decide to do so. To discover the types of music to play, and why you would want to do so, be sure to read on!
1 Do Chickens Like Listening To Music?
2 Learn How To Keep Chickens – The Right Way
3 What Music Do Chickens Like?
4 Do Chickens React To Music?
4.1 Calm And Curious
4.2 Indifference
4.3 Scattering And Loudly Clucking
5 Do Chickens Lay More Eggs With Music?
Do Chickens Like Listening To Music?
While each bird is their own individual with unique preferences, it appears that many chickens like listening to music.
Research conducted on day-old chickens revealed that they prefer music to random sounds.
Laying hens who are exposed to music lay comparatively more eggs than their non-music listening counterparts.
It appears that chickens kept in coops appreciate listening to music more than free-range chickens.
Free-range chickens can wander off and don't really have to sit and listen to music, never the less, many chickens like music.
You can boost the happiness of your hens by exposing them to pleasant music; chickens enjoy soothing music as much as we humans do.
Chickens are surprisingly intelligent and sensitive, so it should be of little surprise to people that they too can enjoy it when it is put on.
Of course, there are certain types that are preferable. Let's look at the best ones in the following section.
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What Music Do Chickens Like?
It appears that chickens like listening to classical music most.
Humans like pleasant sounds; these pleasant sounds are called consonant; they differ from unpleasant sounds called dissonant.
Humans enjoy harmonics, and consonant noted sound as if they were a single tone, while you can distinguish multiple tones from a dissonant note – this is related to harmonics.
Sounds are linked with preferences for harmonic relations between frequencies. Dissonant sounds are not related to harmonics.
As early as one day after birth, it seems that human babies' brains can tell the difference between consonant and dissonant music.
The question still remains whether the preference for consonant sounds is innate to the properties of the auditory system or if the preference is down to culture or personal experience.
A study was carried out by the University of Trento in Italy, to see whether the preference for consonant music was something inherent or linked to culture and personal experience.
It appeared that the best way to test this was to do it using a controlled rearing study, whereby animals are reared from birth in a tightly controlled environment; since this cannot be done with human infants.
Chickens were used for this experiment as they don't require parental care. Researchers took fertilized eggs from a neighborhood hatchery and kept them incubated in a soundproof room.
Each egg was put in its own coop on the last day of incubation so that the chicks couldn't hear one another chirps after hatching.
In each coop was a red object suspended from a string, and each chick would imprint.
Each chick was moved into the middle of the testing coop. At the end of the coop were two speakers.
One speaker played a consonant variant of a melody, and the other played a dissonant variant of the same melody.
Beside each speaker was an object identical to the one the chicks were imprinted. After listening to the melodies for more than 30 seconds, each chick had six minutes to approach one of the two sides of the coop, as the music continued to play.
The researches deliberated that since the objects were found on either side of the testing coop, the chicks would be equally motivated to approach either the right side or the left side.
The chicks approached the side of the coop, playing consonant sounds more than the one playing the dissonant sounds.
Do Chickens React To Music?
Yes chickens react to music in different ways, depending on whether they like the music or not. They might even be indifferent to music, some do not react at all.
If day-old chicks respond to music, then there is no doubt that adult birds can respond to music in a more sophisticated way.
When chickens like or dislike something, they make their feeling known. Let's discuss some of the ways chickens react to music, both positive and negative reactions:
Calm And Curious
If you play harmonious music, through a CD or if you go out with an acoustic guitar, your birds might lower their clucking, and slow down their movements and approach the source of music to sniff it.
This is an excellent response; it shows that they like the music and are curious about it. If you get this positive reaction, you should consider playing music that they like more often as it will keep them happy, relaxed, and productive.
If you are playing music and the volume is just right, and you are getting no reaction, this music is doing nothing for your birds positively or negatively, keep trying until you find a song that they like.
Scattering And Loudly Clucking
If you see this type of reaction, it's time to turn off the music; perhaps the volume is too loud. Chickens, like most animals, don't like hard rock or metal, even some pop music can be overbearing.
If there is a lot of distortion in the music, it could frighten your hens, which is not the response you want, you want your birds to enjoy listening to music as much as you enjoy listening to music.
Do Chickens Lay More Eggs With Music?
Studies have confirmed that chickens can lay more eggs when listening to music. A study at Bristol university placed chickens in both silent nest-boxes and 'musical boxes.'
After monitoring the laying hen's preferences, the hens exposed to music laid more eggs than those not exposed to music.
In fact, just a few years ago, The Happy Egg Company released an album, the first-ever for the listening pleasure of hens, to help them feel more relaxed when they lay their eggs.
Amusingly, its called Top of the Flocks. You can listen to it here for free on Soundcloud.
Your birds can enjoy tracks from Beethoven and Mozart; it turns out that when hens listen to classical music, they increase egg-laying by 6%.
The study conducted with the University of Bristol revealed that hens are sensitive to loud noises, particularly 80 decibels or more. Loud music can have a severely negative impact on their well-being. The soothing tempo of classical music is the way to go with these birds.
If your birds are not laying eggs or laying very few, You could try an experiment with your birds. In the first week, don't expose your hens to any music, take stock of the eggs produced at the end of the week.
In the second week, expose your hens to classical music, you should see comparatively more eggs in that week, some hen keepers report of having larger eggs than usual.
Some people have found that pop music has little to no effect on the egg production of hens and that rock music decreases the production of eggs and reduces the size of the eggs.
So the evidence shows that classical music helps to improve bird productivity, not only musical therapy increase egg production, it can help to increase the chick's growth rate as well.
Some people have tried music with varying success; however, the music is too changeable, and there are too many words that only distract the birds.
Music is enjoyed universally by both humans and animals, chickens included. The positive impact of music is very apparent in chickens, Especially exposure to classical music.
The positive effect is shown by the increase in the production of eggs. Chickens are sentient beings and are sensitive to sounds and notes, just like humans and other animals.
Classical music clearly has a very soothing and therapeutic effect on chickens; it's essential that any music you play for your birds is below 80 decibels.
Some chickens can fall asleep to music; it appears that music can soothe chickens to sleep. If you want improved egg-laying and sleeping patterns, gentle music helps a lot.
Music is beneficial for the overall health and well-being of your poultry birds. It's incredible how even day-old birds show a preference for music as opposed to random sounds.
Strangely, a bird that can't sing should have any interest in music, but it appears that they can tell the difference between consonant music and dissonant music.
If you have kept your chickens long enough, it's easy to discern happy clucking sounds from unhappy ones, so they do make noises to communicate with each other.
They react to noises in their natural surroundings, so it is reasonable to conclude that suitable background music would mellow chickens out.
Have fun with your flock, trying out different types of music, and seeing the different reactions from them.
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Federal grant will help state boost early ed
Minnesota joined nine states Friday in winning a piece of $500 million in federal money for early education. Nearly half of students aren't ready for kindergarten, a state study found.
By Kelly Smith Star Tribune
December 16, 2011 — 11:37pm
More Minnesota families will be able to pay for quality child care and check a rating system when they're shopping for child care providers, thanks to a potential $45 million boost from federal money announced Friday.
Scoring the competitive federal grant in Minnesota is a "game changer" for Sondra Samuels, who runs Northside Achievement Zone, a nonprofit that prepares students for school in north Minneapolis.
"This couldn't come at a better time," she said, adding that 71 percent of the children she sees aren't ready for kindergarten. "When we can give them a great head start we get a great return in investment."
The money will bolster efforts to prepare more Minnesota kids for school. Nearly half of students statewide aren't ready for kindergarten, according to a report released last month. The report also revealed that Minnesota's academic achievement gap between white and nonwhite students -- one of the largest in the nation -- begins early.
Minnesota was one of nine states to win part of $500 million in Race to the Top grants aimed at early education. The competitive race was a marathon, not a sprint, acknowledging work that states like Minnesota have already done to boost early education.
"It's an incredible opportunity," said Laurie Davis, policy director at the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, who helped write and oversee the 700-page application. "To be recognized at the federal level is a huge deal. ... This clearly was a competition to reward states that had done a lot of groundwork before the competition."
Setting a high bar
The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services launched the early learning grants earlier this year as part of the Race to the Top sweepstakes. In a conference call with reporters Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the nine states had "groundbreaking applications" that "set a high bar."
"Early learning is absolutely critical for our nation's long-term economic competitiveness," he said.
Winning states, he added, stood out for the work they've already done as well as the quality of their plans.
At a news conference, Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said the grant will help Minnesota families. "We've said all along, our children have to be ready for kindergarten, they have to start the race earlier and get to that starting line, so that they can finish successfully," she said.
Minnesota was ranked seventh of the nine and applied for $45 million -- the smallest amount of the winners. Davis said they'll be notified of the amount next week. The four-year infusion of money will begin next month, accelerating expansion of programs that the state is already piloting.
Helping local groups
White Earth, Itasca County, St. Paul's Promise Neighborhood and Samuels' group in Minneapolis will be among the first to benefit from the grant because of the high poverty among their students and the progress they have made starting programs.
Scholarships will go to families unable to afford quality child care. Parent Aware, the rating system that the state is piloting for parents to see how a child care provider rates, will expand statewide starting with northwestern Minnesota, said Duane Benson, executive director of the Early Learning Foundation. Child care centers that opt in to Parent Aware will receive extra training.
"It will impact the whole state," he said.
Minnesota applied for the grant last October along with 34 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It followed the state's failed bid in 2010 for part of $4 billion in federal sweepstakes to boost student achievement; the state didn't apply in a second round following political wrangling over measures needed to strengthen the bid.
Other state winners are California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington. Next week, winners of $200 million in grants for K-12 education reform, which Minnesota didn't apply for, will be announced.
Staff writer Jim Ragsdale contributed to this report. Kelly Smith • 612-673-4141
Kelly Smith covers nonprofits/philanthropy for the Star Tribune and is based in Minneapolis. Since 2010, she's covered Greater Minnesota on the state/region team, Hennepin County government, west metro suburban government and west metro K-12 education.
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