The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox on Sept. 10, 2017, part of this season's opening weekend of performances.
Bill Simer remembers the goosebumps.
After years helping raise money and rallying the Spokane community around the Spokane Symphony's effort to buy and restore the classic Fox Theater, reopening weekend had finally arrived. After a symphony show with opera star Frederica von Stade, and a "Community Day" to show off the newly reborn space, pop-jazz legend Tony Bennett was on stage Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. And he was letting Simer and the rest of the audience know how special the space — originally opened in 1931 — still was.
"He was commenting how many communities didn't have the will to do what Spokane did," Simer recalls. "He said many communities just tear these places down. Then he said, 'Let me show you just how good the acoustics are in here.' He turned off his mic and he sang a cappella, without any amplification, and it gave you goosebumps. It was so amazing."
Simer, now a CPA and partner at Eide Bailly Spokane, grew up going to movies at the Fox. It was a "dark and dreary place," he says, but still special. Years later, he was on the symphony board when the orchestra was performing in the Spokane Opera House, finding its schedule squeezed by an increasing number of touring Broadway shows coming to town. The symphony board got wind that the Spokane Club was negotiating to buy the building from Regal Cinemas, with thoughts of turning it into a parking lot. After some public outreach and negotiations with the Spokane Club, the symphony gained the rights to buy the place. "The only problem was," Simer says, "we didn't have any money!"
Grants, donations and loans together made the restoration of the Fox Theater a reality, a massive effort that eventually made the Spokane Symphony owners of the Art Deco space that in its early years hosted live performances by the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra and (of course) Bing Crosby in addition to decades of movies. This fall the Fox celebrates 10 years since its restoration was completed, with November designated "Celebrate The Fox" month, giving Spokane an opportunity to reacquaint itself with a community gem that was nearly lost forever.
"When you think about a $31 million project, it was a big lift for this community," says Simer, one of the co-chairs of this fall's 10th Anniversary Gala. "It's interesting, when the theater was first finished between 1929 and 1931, the country was in a real financial malaise with the Depression. And when we finished it in 2007, the country was again in financial doldrums and that made it more difficult. It was a lot harder to raise money, and frankly, it was a lot harder to run a theater because people weren't spending money on concerts and going out as often. So it presented challenges not unlike the challenges the theater had when it was first opened."
Joan Degerstrom remembers the windows.
When the Fox Theater first opened on Sept. 3, 1931, downtown Spokane was packed with people celebrating the city's Golden Jubilee, a party that included the debut of what was Spokane's first air-conditioned building.
"I was there at the opening and they had people standing in the intersection there," the 93-year-old Degerstrom recalls. "I was about 8, and I was excited to see a new theater like that. My folks and my little brother were with me."
Degerstrom's family couldn't go in, but they stared through the large windows with thousands of fellow Spokanites, agog at the pageantry. She spent much of her childhood walking to the Fox from her house on 17th Avenue: "In those days kids could walk downtown safely, and [movies] cost a dime." She remembers that the seats along the right aisle had earphones for people hard of hearing like her grandmother, "and they didn't play the movies so loud as they do now."
Degerstrom was a fan of everything from the pulpy double features they'd show most weekends — "they'd show, like, an A movie and a B movie, and then they had newsreels because there wasn't TV or anything" — to special events like Around The World In 80 Days, "big movies that were sort of special." An avid Shirley Temple fan, Degerstrom remembers that "one time, on her birthday on April 23, they had a great big huge cake and showed a couple of her movies."
Since the restoration, Degerstrom has been a Spokane Symphony season-ticket holder, and the Fox Theater she now enjoys is remarkably similar to the one she first saw more than 85 years ago.
The original Fox cost $1 million. Its Art Deco design came from architect Robert Reamer, the man who designed Yellowstone National Park's stunning Old Faithful Inn as well as Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater. The murals covering the lobby walls were done by artist Anthony Heinsbergen in an "Under the Sea" theme that becomes clear as one climbs the stairs from the "underwater" lobby to the "sea level" mezzanine and the scenes change from water plants to castles and clouds. Inside the theater, the ceiling evokes a night outside, with nine light fixtures representing the nine planets (yes, Pluto still counted in 1931) as well as forest scenes and "stars" dotting the ceiling.
At some point, all the colorful blues, greens and pinks of the original theater were covered in a layer of red, as it became a multiplex with its balcony divided into two small screening rooms. The restoration not only peeled the red paint off — as well as years of accumulated popcorn grease and cigarette smoke — but gave the original murals new life with a refurbishing by the original artist's own son. The capacity was reduced from about 2,300 seats to 1,600 so a sound booth and lounge area could be added.
Degerstrom sees a few details in the restoration that only someone like her, here from the beginning, might recall. The restrooms upstairs had filmy curtains that she misses, and she wishes that they'd taken out a couple more rows of seats during the restoration: "I don't even know how tall guys can sit there!"
"It's too bad they never took any color pictures of the theater" back in the early years, Degerstrom says. "They're all black-and-white. I remember when I first went in when they renovated it, the blue carpet. I thought, 'That's wrong.' It was never blue! The pattern, it's the exact pattern, but it was not blue. Otherwise, they did a fantastic job."
Eckart Preu remembers the first sound check.
The Spokane Symphony's conductor and music director, starting his 14th season, had taken over as the restoration campaign was underway, but had to wait a few years to take the symphony's 70 musicians inside their new home.
"Before we played the first concert or first rehearsal, we had these sound checks with just the orchestra, and then just the orchestra and the chorus, just to see what the kinks were and how it would sound. Just that experience of intimacy that we all had there together, it was incredible."
Preu credits the Fox with making the Spokane Symphony grow artistically in ways that would have been impossible elsewhere. Every building is different, new or old, and the musicians have to rise to the challenge no matter where they play. With the Fox, Preu says, "we just got so lucky."
"You're only as good as your instrument," he says. "As the musicians are depending on the quality of their individual instruments, the orchestra is dependent on the hall that we're playing in.
"What this hall does for us, it asks us to play more variety of colors, more extreme dynamics and difficult articulations. It allows us to do all these things we couldn't do before. It kind of redefined the way we play together, how we approach a score, how we learn it, how we play it. It's really a whole different ballgame."
The improvement for the musicians equates to an improvement for the audiences, who now get to hear the power of the symphony from all points in the room. To Preu, the restoration of the Fox and the symphony finding a permanent home is more significant than simply the saving of an architectural treasure and concert hall.
• Nov. 3, 10th Anniversary Gala with special guest Thomas Hampson, a Champagne reception, dinner, a poem written for the theater by Washington Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, dancing.
• Nov. 4-5, Overtures and Arias with Thomas Hampson. The Spokane native and Grammy-winning baritone gave the final performance at the old Fox before it went dark for the restoration, and was a vocal supporter of the project.
• Nov. 11, The Mambo Kings present Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improv.
• Nov. 12, Tours of the Fox from 1-3 pm. Lobby and theater open and free to the public. A $5 history/architecture/art and behind-the-scenes tour is also available.
• Nov. 30, The Nutcracker opens its annual run, as more than 75 local dancers join the Santa Barbara, California-based State Street Ballet and the Spokane Symphony for the holiday favorite.
Visit spokanesymphony.org for more information.


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UCL and the University of Toronto team up to understand chronic pain in children
Doctors at the two partner institutions have joined forces to investigate an under-studied area of research
*Update 04/03/2020: Dr Moayedi received a $100,000 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, on which he is principal investigator and Dr Walker is a collaborator. In addition, Dr Moayedi is a co-investigator and Dr Walker is a consultant on a $9 million multisite NIH HEAL Grant in pediatric musculoskeletal pain. Other outputs from their research include publication in PAIN Reports (5(1):e807, 2020 and posters at the 7th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain (May 2019) and IASP World Congress on Pain (2020).
UCL has teamed up with the University of Toronto to investigate chronic pain in children, in a bid to contribute to what academics at the partner institutions say is an under-studied area of research.
Dr Suellen Walker (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health) has partnered with Dr Massieh Moayedi (University of Toronto's Hospital for SickKids) with support from the UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds, to investigate the mechanisms of paediatric chronic pain, which affects a reported 15-20% of children and young people worldwide.
UCL and University of Toronto: Understanding chronic pain in children
Major world centres
There is a need for research into chronic pain in children as the impact of pain and the types of medical conditions associated with it can differ from adults. UCL and the University of Toronto are uniquely placed to carry out this research. Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the largest paediatric hospitals in the UK, while SickKids is the largest paediatric hospital in Canada, and both have a strong commitment to research and close links with related academic institutions.
"There are relatively few research hospitals in the world focusing on pain in children," said UCL's Dr Walker. "So to bring two of the world's major centres together is a huge benefit as we have access to clinical populations that are quite unique."
Dr Moayedi added, "While there has been increasing research that includes neuroimaging to understand chronic pain in adults, there has been much less research in the use of imaging to improve understanding of mechanisms of chronic pain in children. There are about five studies, and these do not encompass a broad range of causes of chronic pain. We tried to do a meta-analysis to inform our study, but at this stage, there just isn't the data."
Complementary specialities
Another advantage of the collaboration is that it pools the researchers' respective areas of expertise in child health. Dr Walker's UCL team focuses on neuropathic pain, while Dr Moayedi and the Toronto team focus on non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain. Part of their collaborative research focus will be on assessing the differences and commonalities between different types of chronic pain.
"I have a clinical background but have had a joint clinical academic role for many years. In our Chronic Pain Clinics, children are seen by a multidisciplinary team that includes a pain clinician, psychologist, physiotherapist, nurse specialist and other health care providers as needed. Our research similarly brings together investigators with different expertise and techniques to more fully assess the pain and its impact.
"Massieh's experience with MR imaging and pain matches well with our co-investigator Chris Clark, who is Professor of Imaging and Biophysics at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, and has extensive experience using MRI to evaluate changes in the brain throughout development and related to disease in children," said Dr Walker.
Dr Madeleine Verriotis, Senior Research Associate at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, spent a week in Toronto and said: "I've used various techniques previously, including scalp electroencephalography and functional near-infrared spectroscopy, but I've not used MR imaging before so I have been learning from Chris' team. In addition to this, looking at different analysis methods with Massieh has been extremely helpful for us to proceed with analysis here."
Similarly, Dr Moayedi and the team from SickKids are benefitting from Dr Walker's expertise in Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) in a paediatric population.
Explaining the motivation behind their collaboration, the team point out that early intervention is vital. According to Dr Moayedi, "If these kids can't go to school and participate in usual activities, it can affect their mood, which makes their pain worse, and it becomes a vicious circle.
"So the whole point is to break this cycle – where we can intervene, and both improve function in childhood, but also reduce the risk of pain persisting into adulthood. The brain can adapt but the longer pain persists, the harder it can be to reverse that effect."
Dr Walker agrees. "That's been the huge advantage of the collaboration – being able to apply this specifically to child health. Childhood and adolescence are important times for the maturation of the brain's connectivity and function."
Shifting the culture
The researchers are hoping that their joint work will both propel the science and change the thinking around paediatric pain. "One of the problems with chronic pain is that pain is, by definition, subjective; but imaging and QST and the additional measures that we're using (assessing quality of life, mood, etc.) can help us to more clearly identify changes in pain processing and its impact.
"Adult chronic pain has been poorly understood, but since the 1980s and 1990s that culture has started to shift – imaging studies have been important for demonstrating associated changes in the structure and/or connectivity of regions in the brain," said Dr Moayedi.
Initially, the researchers were concerned that it would be difficult to find enough children to take part in the research, but they have found children to be keen participants.
Dr Moayedi, who has worked also on pain studies in adults, notes: "Kids are often a lot more willing than adults are." The teams at UCL and Toronto also recognise the need for further education regarding pain for patients and families, as well as for health professionals.
Continuing collaboration
A year on from receiving their UCL-University of Toronto matched funding, the collaboration is going from strength to strength. Joint meetings have allowed the two institutions to share protocols and match their approaches before combining the data – but they say there is more work to be done.
"I'm applying for a Canadian Institute of Health Research grant,* which focuses on musculoskeletal pain but brings in Suellen as a Co-Principal Investigator," said Dr Moayedi. "This UCL-UofT fund was a catalyst for us, because it was an opportunity to loop in the pain community at UCL. Had the fund not been there this collaboration wouldn't have happened."
"It also meant that when an opportunity came up for a joint PhD, we already had a collaboration that would fit with that. Massieh is co-supervisor with Madeleine and Chris Clark for our PhD student who will go to Toronto for six months," said Dr Walker.
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Shocking reports this year on staff wellbeing and mental health have revealed a culture of bullying, harassment and intimidation across the civil service and related areas.
The annual civil service staff survey report has recorded an increase in work-related stress and mental health issues. This week, a further report carried out by Dame Laura Cox QC into bullying and harassment of staff working at the House of Commons revealed a toxic culture of sexism, bullying and harassment of staff working in the department spanning a number of years.
In conjunction with TUC Education at Newhaven college, PCS has designed a one-day workshop which we are encouraging all PCS regions and nations to offer. The course will raise awareness among all union reps, and give them the confidence and tools to challenge management where change is not forthcoming.
For more details on forthcoming dates of PCS Sexual Harassment courses check our events page.
We also want to hear from branches/workplaces who have been involved in campaigning to improve working conditions and have successfully challenged bullying and discrimination.


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The Property Illusion
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With a Little Cunning, You Can Make Your Home Seem Much Bigger Than It Really Is. We Look At How.
We all know the little tricks that can make a room seem bigger. Painting the walls white, for example, or placing mirrors in strategic spots. But what if you could make your home seem a full 30 per cent larger than it actually is?
Alan Waxman, director of luxury property developer Landmass, thinks this is perfectly possible. Certainly he should know – transforming property in London's prime areas is his speciality. And the secret, he says, is getting the floorplan right. When he renovates a property, this is probably the job to which he devotes the most time.
'If you see a floorplan and it makes sense, you know that hours and hours have gone into it,' he says. 'When things are beautifully executed they look simple, but that simplicity is the ultimate design – that's the luxury you can't buy.'
'Attention to detail when it comes to the shade and the type of paint is paramount.'
So if you want to truly make the most of your home, it's worth changing the configuration of the rooms, rather than splashing out on fancy kitchen worktops.
'A lot of developers chuck money at the specifications but if the space planning's not right, it just doesn't work,' says Waxman. Sadly, there are no short cuts to getting that right. 'It's very much a process,' he says. 'It might take 20-odd goes.'
Study the floorplan of a Landmass property and you'll see that they tend to be very open, with large, relaxed living areas and spacious master suites.
'The more open plan you can leave the living spaces, the better,' says Waxman, who would always plump for three large bedrooms, each with a good-sized en-suite, over five smaller bedrooms – and his upscale clients feel the same way. 'More and more people want quality space,' he says. 'There are more single people, more couples without kids and more people downsizing – especially in prime areas.'
He concedes that there's sometimes a case for adding the extra bedroom, saying that, 'in locations where families buy because they need somewhere to live, then in some cases it may be better to squeeze in an extra bedroom. But if we're talking about trophy areas where people have more disposable income, they're looking for quality space. After all, the ultimate indulgence is to have a 4,000 square foot one-bed flat.'
But even (especially?) in prime central London, space is squeezed. So for inspiration, Waxman travelled to the Monaco Boat Show to see how designers manage interior space on the mega-yachts.
'I thought, "These guys are the best at what they do, so if we could learn from them, it gives us an edge,"' he says. And what did he learn? 'The boats that had the real wow factor were the ones that had a continuation of colour on the walls and floors,' he says. 'The ones that tried to chop and change had no fluidity, and the space looked all broken up.'
So these days Waxman will use the same flooring for the stairs as the floor. He'll also use the same wall colour in every room, bar the bathrooms.
'No developer has done that in a prime property in recent years,' he says. 'But the builders of old used to do the whole property in magnolia. They had the right idea, but the wrong strategy.'
As you'd expect, simply coating the walls in white emulsion won't cut it.
'Attention to detail when it comes to the shade and the type of paint is paramount,' says Waxman. 'It's tricky, because London's houses are historically tall and skinny, and flats have lots of rooms, both of which can make them feel cramped.' But Waxman has no problem with this, saying, 'It's the perfect palette for us to work our magic.'
Landmass London – www.landmass.co.uk
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Song popularized by Glenn Miller
This article is about the big band-era song popularized by Glenn Miller. For other uses, see In the Mood (disambiguation).
{{Infobox song | name = In the Mood= Inmood2-1-.JPG | alt = | type = single | artist = Glenn Miller and His Orchestra | album = | B-side = I Want to Be Happy | released = 15 September 1939 | format = 10" 78rpm | recorded = 1 August 1939 | studio = | venue = | genre = Big band, swing | length = 3:40 | label = Bluebird | writer = Wingy Manone (c), Andy Razaf (w), Joe Garland (a)
"In the Mood"
Single by Ernie Fields
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Wingy Manone (c), Andy Razaf (w), Joe Garland (a)
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(1959) "Begin the Beguine"
"In the Mood" is a popular big band-era No. 1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. It topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S.[citation needed] and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade. "In the Mood" is based on the composition "Tar Paper Stomp" by Wingy Manone. The first recording under the name "In the Mood" was released by Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra in 1938.
In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, the recording was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry which consists of recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
In 1999, National Public Radio (NPR) included the 1939 Glenn Miller recording in its list of "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century".[1][2]
Glenn Miller's "In the Mood", with "I Want to Be Happy" on the B-side, became the best-selling swing instrumental.[3][4]
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Arrangement[edit]
"In the Mood" starts with a saxophone section theme based on repeated arpeggios that are rhythmically displaced; trumpets and trombones add accent riffs. The arrangement has two solo sections: a "tenor fight" or chase solo—in one recording between Tex Beneke and Al Klink—and a 16-bar trumpet solo by Clyde Hurley.[5] At the end of the song, a coda climbs triumphantly, then sounds a sustained unison tonic pitch with a rim shot.[3]
"In the Mood" was an arrangement by Joe Garland based on an existing melody. Lyrics were added by Andy Razaf. The main theme with repeated arpeggios rhythmically displaced appeared under the title "Tar Paper Stomp" and was credited to trumpeter Wingy Manone.[6] Manone recorded "Tar Paper Stomp" on August 28, 1930 in Richmond, Indiana and released it as a 78 single for Champion under the name Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs. It was re-released in 1935 by Wingy Manone's Orchestra.[7]
Horace Henderson used the same riff in "Hot and Anxious", which was recorded by his brother Fletcher Henderson on March 19, 1931 for Columbia under the name the Baltimore Bell Boys. Don Redman recorded "Hot and Anxious" for Brunswick in 1932.
Under copyright laws, a tune that had not been written down and registered with the copyright office could be appropriated by any musician with a good ear. Manone raised the similarity between "Tar Paper Stomp" and "In the Mood" to Joe Garland and to the publisher Shapiro, Bernstein, and Company of New York.[8] Manone also discussed the issue in Down Beat magazine.
"Tar Paper Stomp" was copyrighted on November 6, 1941 as a pianoforte version by Peer International.[9]
The first recording of Joe Garland's version of "In the Mood" was made by Edgar Hayes and his Orchestra in 1938 with Garland participating. It was released as a B side to their recording of "Stardust" for Decca. On this recording there was a baritone saxophone duet rather than a tenor saxophone battle. The riff had appeared in a 1935 recording by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band entitled "There's Rhythm in Harlem" which had been composed and arranged by Garland. Before offering it to Miller, Garland sold it in 1938 to Artie Shaw, who chose not to record it because the original arrangement was too long. But he did perform it in concert.[10]
Artie Shaw's version was over six minutes long and met a lackluster audience response.[8] Jerry Gray arranged Shaw's version. The band later performed a shorter version. The Hayes recording was over three minutes in length to fit on one side of a 78 record.
The song was sold in 1939 to Glenn Miller, who experimented with the arrangement. The author of the final arrangement is unknown. One possibility is Eddie Durham because he wrote other arrangements on the same day that "In the Mood" was recorded. Other possibilities include pianist Chummy MacGregor, who was Miller's chief arranger, John Chalmers, and Miller himself. According to an account by MacGregor, "all they used of the original arrangement were the two front saxophone strains and another part that occurred later on in the arrangement."[11] Both MacGregor and Miller were involved in creating the final arrangement: "MacGregor mentioned that additional solos were added to the original arrangement and he wrote the finishing coda. Miller probably edited some of the arrangement along with MacGregor."[11][12]
Two editions of the sheet music are in circulation. The 1939 publication credited to Garland and Razaf is in A♭ and has lyrics beginning, "Mister What-cha-call-em, what-cha doin' tonight?" The 1960 reprint credited only to Garland (with piano arrangement by Robert C. Haring) is in G and has lyrics beginning, "Who's the livin' dolly with the beautiful eyes?"
The personnel on Miller's recording included Al Mastren and Paul Tanner on trombone; Clyde Hurley, Legh Knowles, and Dale McMickle on trumpet; Wilbur Schwartz on clarinet; Hal McIntyre on alto saxophone; Tex Beneke, Al Klink, and Harold Tennyson on tenor saxophone; Chummy MacGregor on piano; Richard Fisher on guitar; Rowland Bundock on double bass; and Moe Purtill on drums.[13]
Other versions[edit]
1939 sheet music cover, "Introduced by Glenn Miller", Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., New York
In February 1944, the Glenn Miller RCA Bluebird 1939 studio recording of "In the Mood" was released as a V-Disc, one of a series of recordings sent free by the U.S. War Department to overseas military personnel during World War II. A second version recorded by Glenn Miller's Overseas Band in 1945, was released in May 1948. A new recording by Glenn Miller with the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was broadcast to Germany in 1944 on the radio program The Wehrmacht Hour.[14]
This piece of music was not new in Europe. The first Swiss record of "In the Mood" were released in April 1940 by Teddy Stauffer und seine Original Teddies in Zurich.[15] Another interpretation was made by Ernst van't Hoff in February 1941 in Berlin.[16]
Other musicians who have performed "In the Mood" include Benny Goodman in November 1939 on the Camel Caravan radio program, Ray Anthony, Frankie Carle, Casa Loma Orchestra, Xavier Cugat, Al Donahue with Paula Kelly on vocals, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, The Four King Sisters with Alvino Rey, Harry James, Bert Kaempfert, Nappy Lamare, James Last, Joe Loss, Sid Ramin, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Doc Severinsen, Artie Shaw, The Shadows, and John Williams with the Boston Pops Orchestra.[17]
In 1951 a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester played "In the Mood", one of the first songs to be played by a computer, and the oldest known recording of digitally generated music.[18]
In December 1959, the rendition of "In the Mood" that Ernie Fields and his Orchestra recorded peaked at number 4 by means of the Billboard popular hit parade and number 7 by means of both the Rhythm and Blues [19] and the Cash Box hit parades.
In the winter of 1977, a novelty version by the Henhouse Five Plus Too employing the sounds of clucking chickens entered the U.S. Pop Top 40: (Billboard No. 40,[20] Cash Box #37[21]).
John Lee Hooker said that "In the Mood" was the inspiration for his song "I'm in the Mood" which became a No. 1 hit on the R&B Singles chart.[22]
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List of 1930s jazz standards
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^ NPR 100. The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
^ a b Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854. Tape 2, side A.
^ Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 185–186. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
^ Oliphant, Dave (15 June 2010). "Hurley, Clyde Lanham, Jr". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018. With Miller Hurley was recorded playing perhaps the orchestra's most famous solo, the one for trumpet on Miller's 'In the Mood'.
^ Updike, John (2009). The Widows of Eastwick. Ballantine Books. pp. 262–. ISBN 978-0-345-51751-7. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ "Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs". www.redhotjazz.com. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ a b Sullivan, Steve (4 October 2013). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-0-8108-8296-6. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1942. pp. 112–. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ Rickert, David (27 December 2005). "Glenn Miller: In the Mood". All About Jazz. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ a b Flower, John (1972). Moonlight Serenade: A Bio-discography of the Glenn Miller Civilian Band. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. pp. 79–81. ISBN 0-87000-161-2.
^ Grudens, Richard (2004). Chattanooga Choo Choo: The Life and Times of the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra. Stonybrook, New York: Celebrity Profiles Publilshing. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-57579-277-4. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ Jasen, David A. (1 June 2004). Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song. New York, New York: Routledge. pp. 1–. ISBN 1-135-94900-X. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ In the Mood (U.S. government German-language broadcast recording). learnnc.com.
^ Heiner Bontrup, E. Dieter Fränzel: Wiederentdeckung einer Swing-Legende. Die Ernst Höllerhagen Story. Ein Jazzmusiker zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Wirtschaftswunder. Mit Diskographie 1934−1955. Nordpark, Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-935421-42-3, p. 141.
^ "In the Mood", Orchester Ernst van't Hoff, Polydor 47522, Matrix number 8925 GD-2, produced in Berlin, February 1941
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^ BBC World 17 June 2008, "Oldest computer music unveiled"
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 201.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, February 19, 1977". Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
^ The Very Best of John Lee Hooker. Rhino Records R2 71915. Liner Notes, Pg.7
Library of Congress essay on the National Recording Registry
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Timeline of members, 1938–1942
Number one hits
"Wishing (Will Make It So)"
"Stairway to the Stars"
"Moon Love"
"Over the Rainbow"
"The Man With the Mandolin"
"Blue Orchids"
"Tuxedo Junction"
"The Woodpecker Song"
"Song of the Volga Boatmen"
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
"Elmer's Tune"
"A String of Pearls"
"Moonlight Cocktail"
"(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo"
"That Old Black Magic"
Up Swing (1944)
Smoke Rings (1944)
Glenn Miller (1945)
Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II (1947)
Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954)
The Glenn Miller Carnegie Hall Concert (1958)
Pure Gold (1975)
Marion Hutton
Jack Lathrop
Ernie Caceres
Dorothy Claire
Paula Kelly
The Modernaires
Skip Nelson
Al Klink
Al Mastren
Paul Tanner
Toby Tyler
Tommy Mack
Frank D'Annolfo
Howard Gibeling
Jimmy Priddy
Wilbur Schwartz
Stanley Aronson
Hal McIntyre
Jimmy Abato
Gabe Galinas
Hal Tennyson
Benny Feman
Babe Russin
Skip Martin
Johnny Austin
Lou Mucci
Bob Price
Charlie Hill
Legh Knowles
Mickey McMickle
Clyde Hurley
Johnny Best
Zeke Zarchy
Charles Frankhauser
Alec Fila
Bill Graham
Steve Lipkins
Allan Reuss
Arthur Ens
Dick Fisher
Bobby Hackett
Bill Conway
Chummy MacGregor
Bob Spangler
Cody Sandifer
Frankie Carlson
Maurice Purtill
Rollie Bundock
Tony Carlson
Trigger Alpert
Doc Goldberg
Jerry Gray
Harry Warren
Mack Gordon
Army Air Force
band alumni
The Crew Chiefs
Addison Collins Jr.
Johnny Desmond
Peanuts Hucko
Norman Leyden
Artie Malvin
Ralph Patt
Mel Powell
George Siravo
Charlie Spivak
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
125 Jazz Breaks for Trombone (1927)
Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging (1943)
List of songs written by Glenn Miller
Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
The Glenn Miller Story (Decca) (1954)
Glenn Miller Orchestra (1956–present)
Glenn Miller Time
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United States National Recording Registry recordings
Glenn Miller songs
Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
Songs written by Andy Razaf
American jazz songs
1930s jazz standards
Swing jazz standards
Benny Goodman songs
Bluebird Records singles
Jazz compositions in A-flat major
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Café-Au-Lait is French for coffee with milk. So basically this is what they look like: flat, light tan to brown flat spots. Their sizes are very variable, from 2cm to 20 cm in diameter. Up to 13% of the population has one or more of these spots. They may appear at birth or soon after and increase in numbers in subsequent years.
These spots are caused by an increase in melanin content with the presence of giant melanosomes.
To have a few such spots is totally normal. However, if there are 6 or more Café-Au-Lait spots in children or adults, and they are at least 15 mm in diameter in patients older than 5 years or over 5 mm in children younger than 5 years, it could be the sign of a disease known as neurofibromatosis, an inherited autosomal dominant disorder. This disorder can be highly variable in its expression, with members in the same family showing differing degrees of severity. Other features are required to make this diagnosis and some people may have multiple spots without having the disease.
The response to laser can be very variable. Sometimes 2 treatments can remove the spots completely, while other cases may need 5 or 6 treatments.


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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS AGGREGATION
Hip-Hop and Experimental Jazz Fusion Contest
Contests will create a 3 to 5 minute rap (to their own beat) on the topic Duo Pandemic (Racism/COVID-19) and submit their recording (ENTRY FORM) no later than midnight December 7, 2020.
After the 1st round evaluation, out 6 semifinalists will receive $100 each. The contest will then distribute 6 new original beats for semifinalists to choose from to begin work recording their same rap over new background beats for the second round. The 6 new original beats provided will consist of 4 original Hip-Hop background beats to choose (one) from, as well as 2 Experimental Jazz background beats from which to choose one for the CONEST SEMIFINALS CONCERT.
Semifinalists
Semifinalists will all perform in a virtual concert on Friday April 23, 2021 at 7:30pm. Two contest winners will be selected at that event.
Prize and Final Concerts
The 2 contest winners will each receive $500 and perform their rap to the Experimental Jazz beat in a 2nd virtual concert - along with the ensemble Hesterian Musicism on Friday April 30, 2021 at 7:30pm.
For more information contact rapforceacademy@gmail.com
HIP HOP CONGRESS, Rahman Jamaal Mc, Executive Director
Founded in 2001: The Hip Hop Congress mission is to use Hip Hop culture to inspire young people to get involved in social action, civic service, and cultural creativity. Its Chapter Program develops chapters at universities, high schools and in communities. HHC chapters engage in a range of activities promoting hip hop culture on their campuses or in their communities. Its Artist Program is designed to help artists pool resources, sell music and take advantage of all the opportunities the music industry has to offer without giving away the rights to their works in return. It strives to create an international web of resources and contacts for its artist members. As a national and international organization dedicated to its mission, Hip Hop Congress has chosen Education as a central initiative promoted by its artists, chapters, partners, and donors. As the educational system continues to fail American students (particularly low-income and students of color), more and more institutions are looking to independent contractors and consultants for alternative curriculum to address the current education crisis. The addition of Urban Arts into outreach at youth centers and events, as well as generational shifts in educators is becoming all the more common and effective in reaching youth in need. HHC is constantly looking to work with those developing programs that utilize Hip Hop as a positive motivational and academic tool.
Porter College
Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc.
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Hallöchen, I'm a 25 year old Geeky Lover in Magdeburg, Germany. Why am I a Book Lover? I'm addicted. Yep I admit it, I can't live without books. I read at least 150 books a year and yes, my bookshelves are exploding. At the moment I read mostly in English because the books aren't as expensive and I don't have to wait so long for the translation- I am so greedy. I prefer Paranormal Romance, Erotica, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction and nearly anything in between. A few of my favorite authors are Megan Hart, Stacia Kane, Joely Sue Burkhart, Deidre Knight, Ilona Andrews, Gena Showalter, Lauren Dane, Jeaniene Frost, Devon Monk and Victoria Dahl. Why geeky? I love all those little gadgets that promise to make our lives easier and even the ones that are just funny or cute. I have more things with an USB port than most men and I'm really proud to be able to say that! I adore science fiction movies and series and my mission is to spread this love throughout the female population. You girls just don't know what you are missing. *wink* I will try to hold back with my Star Wars and Star Trek jokes but I will probably fail miserably. So may the books be with you!
I am the German ambassador to this multi-national network.
Bonjour, I am The HEA Lover (Happily Ever After). I'm French, but you will only find books in English on my shelves. I became obsessed with books only a few years ago, I can honestly say that until college I just hated reading! I'm still discovering my tastes. I began reading fantasy, which quickly turned to Urban Fantasy (which just blew me away) and a few years ago I was introduced to Historical and Paranormal Romance, of course now I'm addicted to them all. Some of my favorite authors are Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Jocelynn Drake, Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Molly Harper, Karen Marie Moning, Jennifer Ashley, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Linda Robertson, Jaye Wells and Jim Butcher. I love Happy Ever After endings, which might explain why I fell in love with romances *winks*. Yes, I know many Urban Fantasy novels don't have a straight up HEA's, but I am optimistically expecting that when I get to the end of the various series I'll have a lot of HEA's to cheer about. See, I'm not hard to please, give me a good HEA and I'll be in heaven.
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Hi, I'm Amanda-Lee AKA The Winged Lover. I'm an 18 yr old Aussie girl who is addicted to reading, so much so that I push what I should be doing (usually college study and actual work) aside just so I can finish a book. Reading is my guilty pleasure, and there have been many time when I have chosen books over people (even when they are trying to have a conversation with me).
I am always looking for new books to read and often have found entire series that I love just by looking around the blogosphere. I have always LOVED vampires (way before Twilight was even an idea) and now that the paranormal scene has come back I am loving all the new creatures that are coming out of the dark corners. My favourite genres are Fantasy (my current favourite sub-genre being Urban Fantasy), Romance (I love all of it's sub-genres), Horror, Suspense and YA revolving around Teen Issues.
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Howdy, I'm The Cornered Lover. I am 29 and 1/2 years old. I've been happily married for almost five years to my wonderful husband. We've been together a total of 11 years but don't have any kids yet. We do have 5 dogs and 2 horses. I just got back into reading a little over a year ago in Nov. of 2008. What started me down that slippery slope back to being a book addiction you ask…….Twilight! Yes, I have to admit, I LUV LUV LUV the series. It was such a cute story and I couldn't put it down. It reminded me why I loved reading so much as a kid. There was no turning back from there. The next book I picked up was the Black Dagger Brotherhood by: J.R. Ward. OMG! Best series ever! I hadn't read any romance novels before that one and for those of you who have read this series, you can imagine how much blushing I did while reading that series. That is where my passion for Romance was born. Even though Romance is my favorite genre, I try to keep an open mind about what to read. I do prefer to have at least a little touch of Romance in a book/series and I also like to have at least a touch of paranormal in everything I read. I do have to admit though western romance…..for some reason just doesn't pique my interest…..and I'm a country gal! *G* My favorite genres to read are currently: Romance, Paranormal Romance, ANYTHING HIGHLANDER ( *wink wink* I do luv me some Highlanders), Urban Fantasy. I may have to give m/m Romance a go soon. It just sounds so tempting that I can't resist giving it a try!
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Some people need coffee first thing in the morning. I need to read. ^_^ Take away my books and I start to get twitchy! I'm Alisha, and I'm the Needy Lover, from (mostly) sunny Northern California. For as long as I can remember, reading has been a major part of my life. From my first book—Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time—to the scores of National Geographic mags I inhaled as a child, I've been fascinated by the vastness of the world and the possibilities that lie beyond it. Science fiction (and the speculative) is my first love, but I love all sort of reads: humorous nonfiction, historical fiction, trivia, travel tales, epic fantasy, dystopian fic, horror, literary fiction, mystery, and on and on. And an element of romantic intrigue never hurts. ^_^ I love the writings of Orson Scott Card as much as I do the works of Jane Austen, and I'm always looking for new themes and methods to discover. Outside of books, I'm a crafty kiddo and a baking fiend; come up with a cupcake idea and I'll test it out! I'm also addicted to traveling the world and living in as many exciting places as I can. And inexplicably, I enjoy watching blockbuster action flicks almost as much as I enjoy a good book.
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My name is Anna and I live in Greece!I have studied Psychology – which is cool! – and since I got a degree I have been unemployed – which is not so cool!-. As I said,I live in Athens with my fiance but I was born in Volos,a really beautiful city in Central Greece but with unfortunatelly little opportunities in everything, so, I moved!
I love coffee and I love chocolate! I can skip a meal but never my morning cup of coffee! I also love travelling and I dream of the day I get to visit as many places as possible in the world! Meeting new people and new cultures so different from your own always fascinated me beyond words!
I love reading books since I can remember myself!I would get to sleep,with school the other day,and I would get a book and a flashlight under my covers and read!
I read almost everything that catches my interest and suits my mood!From Fantasy to Contemporary Romance!My favorite genres are YA, Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance and some of my favorite authors are Jeaniene Frost, Richelle Mead, Karen Marie Moning and J.K. Rowling who is plainly amazing! Recently I got acquainted with Jennifer L. Armentrout as well and let me say you I really love her work!
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Hi, I'm Marlene and I'm a biblioholic. I fully admit that I'm addicted to reading. And caffeine. Not necessarily in that order. (Instant human, just add tea. Or Diet Coke) I currently live in Seattle with my husband and the four cats who own us, but we are professional nomads. In the last ten years, we've moved from Chicago to Anchorage (Alaska) to Tallahassee (FL) back to Chicago to Gainesville (FL) to Atlanta to Seattle. We used to have over 4,000 books. But we started the big switch to ebooks last year, and I've become a major ebook advocate, so we're down to 2,500. What do I read? I started with The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek and Pern, but now, I'll read anything with a really good story.
I still love science fiction and fantasy (I get a membership in Worldcon every year just to vote on the Hugos!) but I also read mysteries, especially historical mysteries, and I love romance. But I really go for the things in the spaces in between, so science fiction romance, and urban fantasy and paranormal romance and steampunk absolutely float my boat. And I don't just read great stories, I play RPG videogames like Final Fantasy and Dragon Age because I love being inside the story. And I'm not just an amateur biblioholic, I'm a professional. I'm a librarian!
Hello, hello, hello! I am a snarky Dragon Lover who has recently relocated to The Arctic Tundra. But don't worry about me! I have fingerless gloves and the accompanying dexterity necessary to turn pages. I started reading novels in second grade when my parents grounded me from TV. By third grade they were grounding me from books. I spent my three years of law school flitting all over the U.S., living entirely out of luggage, and one of my bags was always filled with books. (Airport Security people find such blatant and aggressive literacy suspicious. They were constantly dusting me for bomb residue.) Some would describe me as obsessive with my books. But have some people ever tried to annotate Jane Lindskold's Brother To Dragons, Companion to Owls? …. Some people might have a point.
I almost exclusively read speculative fiction. I'm pretty open-minded within the genre, giving my attention equally to science fiction, fantasy, horror, urban fantasy, and YA – but I generally need a fantastical or speculative element to reel me in. Favorite authors include Sheri Tepper, Terry Pratchett, Connie Willis, Mira Grant, Robin McKinley, Phillip Pullman, Doris Egan, Maria V. Snyder, Adam Troy Castro, Ulysses Silva, J.M. McDermott, Kage Baker….oh wait, those are just authors I can see from this corner of my room.
I am the Alaskan Delegate to this International Book Congress. (FYI, to non-USians in the audience, a delegate is a non-voting member of Congress. Much like a Guest Reviewer. They have the power to vote on their particular assignments, but no sway over general policy.) Yes, I also happen to be a huge socio-political nerd. How did you guess?
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The Logic of Long Distance
connecting running and philosophy
Suzy Favor Hamilton -- An Attempt to Understand
By Jeff Edmonds - December 22, 2012
It's with more than a bit of hesitation that I offer some thoughts on the news of the day in the running world. The tendency to analyze the lives of people we do not know seems to me to be one of the most odious tendencies in contemporary culture -- it reduces lives which are always more complex than they seem and usually more incomprehensible than we would like to admit to simple and usually quite stupid narratives.
But I guess at a certain point, famous people are reduced to simple narratives. This is the price of fame.
Before you read this, I'd encourage you to read this piece written by Brooks Johnson, "But for the gRACE OF GOD." He actually knew Suzy as a person and athlete.
"Fear? If I have gained anything at all by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
--J. P. Sartre
Can you imagine what it takes to be the top runner in the country? To stand on the line and beat all comers? To not just be good, but to be the best? What…
Hansons' Marathon Method and Pfitzinger's Advanced Marathoning -- the two aspects of marathon training
On the message boards at RunningAhead, there have been a ton of recent threads about the new Hanson's Marathon Method, most of them comparing it with Pfitz' "old reliable" Advanced Marathoning. One of the smartest posters on the board (the guy solves Rubik's Cubes while marathoning) bhearn put together a comparison of the different marathon approaches that is truly excellent. If you are looking to get more intelligent about your marathon training, bhearn's summary of the similarities and differences in these two fundamentally sound approaches wouldn't be the worst place to start.
The most interesting aspect of bhearn's analysis is his comparison of the total mileage done at various intensities in the two plans over the course of a training cycle. He breaks it down in terms of the classic physiological moments of VO2max, Lactic Threshold, and MP (sometimes called Aerobic Threshold.) I am stealing his chart and pasting it below:
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Two Takes on the Newtown Tragedy
It seems to me that there have been two primary types of reactions to this week's school shooting in Newtown as people struggle to make sense of this awful event. The first is a secular reaction: many people look to make sense of it in terms of certain social, cultural, or psychological problems. The cause of the massacre is our access to and infatuation with guns. Or perhaps it was a case of a mental illness inappropriately diagnosed and dealt with. This sort of explanation of the event turns us to re-examine our failures as a society and leads us to political debates about how to restructure society or certain policies in order to eliminate or reduce the chance of this happening again.
The second sort of reaction is a religious reaction. I have seen just as many people speaking about this event as an instance of pure evil, as evidence of our fallen condition, and of the original sin that will always plague humanity. The cause of the massacre is explained as a consequence of huma…
Baby News, and Some Reflections on Equality
First off, apologies for the delay in posting. I have a good excuse, maybe the best excuse, as my daughter was born a little over two weeks ago. Since then I've been too caught up in life to reflect on it. I have been able to get out for a few runs, and man is it nice.
One of my philosophical friends who is a mother herself, sent me this John Dewey quote when she heard of our good news, which I thought was nice:
"A baby in the family is equal with others, not because of some antecedent and structural quality which is the same as that of others, but in so far as his needs for care and development are attended to without being sacrificed to the superior strength, possessions and matured abilities of others. Equality does not signify that kind of mathematical or physical equivalence in virtue of which any one element may be substituted for another. It denotes effective regard for whatever is distinctive and unique in each, irrespective of physical and psychological inequalities…
Listening to the Body: Neuroscience and the Art of Training
By Jeff Edmonds - November 11, 2012
If you want to frustrate a new runner and come off as an elitist prick on message boards, there is a quick and easy path. Tell them to listen to their body. Long time runners are always offering this little nugget of wisdom, and new runners are always saying: what the heck does that mean!
I think that neuroscience can help explain.
Neuroscientists have confirmed what we have long known -- that there is an important difference between hearing and listening. In this nice little piece by Seth Horowitz, a Brown University neuroscientist, we learn that the auditory sense is quantitatively almost 10 times faster than the visual sense. In other words, our reactions to what we hear are less processed and more instinctive than our reactions to what we see. Horowitz describes the auditory sense as the human "alarm system" that operates constantly, even while asleep.
To balance that constant guardedness, we have something like "volume control" -- a way of turning up importan…
Just Run, Baby!
"He who lives as children live -- who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance -- remains childlike. "
F. Nietzsche, "Daybreak"
"The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars." -- J. Cash
Back when I was in graduate school, one of my professors (a Freudian psychoanalyst whose primary mode of pedagogy was delicately nudging and spinning thoughts as, perhaps, a mineral collector does late at night, hopeful that an old crystal lit from just the right angle might gleam with a new shade of light) told me something that stuck with me. He said quite matter-of-factly after one of us had made some sort of comment about childhood: "Remember that childhood is an adult concept."
This professor's point was the relatively simple but often unthought truth that children have no need for the concept of childhood. Childhood is a concept constructed in response to adult life which therefore ma…
Mile Repeats as Religious Experience
By Jeff Edmonds - October 29, 2012
"There is a state of mind, known to religious men, but to no others, in which the will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. In this state of mind, what we most dreaded has become the habitation of our safety, and the hour of our moral death has turned into our spiritual birthday. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present, with no discordant future to be anxious about, has arrived. Fear is not held in abeyance as it is by mere morality, it is positively expunged and washed away."
-- William James, "Circumscription of the [Religious] Topic"
Last Wednesday, around 6:15pm at Rose Park track, as the long shadows of the afternoon had just faded into the half-light of evening, I had a religious experience.
Or at least I think I did.
The Rose Park track is a brand new state of the art red…
Blood in the Heartland: The Adidas Invite
[Editor's note:] I had just put on my flats for that most glorious of runner's runs, the October morning tempo. The brilliant fall leaves out my window brought to mind the flashing of spikes and the copper taste of hard effort that we runners associate with the season. I opened the door and was slammed by the stench of stale whisky. There was a bottle laying there with a note stuffed inside. In the bushes were scattered loose papers. Apparently the good doctor RVT had dropped by during his daily stupor and left me a gift.
I picked up the bottle, shook out the note, and deciphered the scrawl:
"If Weldon and Robert are too shaken by our Fear fiasco where we had to tell Various lawyers to climb back in their ambulances and read up on Defamation law, we can always shop this piece down our Purple Cow pipeline to fellow Eph Tim Layden at Sports Illustrated. I'm sure they have a battery of lawyers bigger than Penn State's attorneys in the Paterno pool."
It took me a…
Race Report: 2007 Flying Monkey Marathon
In anticipation of the best (and toughest) marathon around, the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon, which takes place in about five weeks, I thought I would publish an old race report that never made it up on the blog. If you don't know about this marathon, you have to visit the website and check it out. The marathon takes place in my favorite place to train in Nashville -- Percy Warner Park. It is sublimely hilly, nicely shaded, and a kind of shelter from the two things we deal with as runners in the city -- heat and traffic.
These things are great, but what makes the race truly special is the community of runners that attend the race, the great potluck, the local beer. Race director Trent Rosenbloom pours a ton of energy into doing it the right way. It's a celebration of what we love about running -- namely, working hard then eating and drinking with friends afterwards. This report was not from my best race or fastest race -- just from an ordinary plain old race. Hope you …
Racing Season, Election Season, and the Role of Intuition in Making Some Sense Out of It All
"In the great boardinghouse of nature, the cakes and the butter and the syrup seldom come out so even and leave the plates so clean. Indeed, we should view them with scientific suspicion if they do." --William James, "The Will to Believe"
One of the reasons I so admire James' view on things is that I think he's got his epistemology right. He understands that as knowers, thinkers, and understanders of reality we are vastly limited. Experience is pretty much chock full of uncertainty, vagueness, chance, and openness. Things hardly ever come out even or add up exactly. The truest confirmation of this fact is the feeling of pleasure that we get when our preconceptions about what's about to happen are actually fulfilled. If we were good predictors of the future and had a clear and firm grasp on reality, that satisfaction would be unwarranted.
The attitude of science -- by which I mean no more and no less than the attitude of intelligent inquiry -- is therefo…
Philosophy, Running, and Life Beyond Justification
By Jeff Edmonds - September 25, 2012
The question "what is philosophy?" is perhaps most expressive of the temperament and ambitions of philosophers. We are simultaneously proud of our ability to ask this question and ashamed that we have to ask it. We are proud of the question because it shows that we take critical inquiry so seriously that we apply it even to the very task of critical inquiry. And we are ashamed of the question because it implies that we don't really know what the heck we are doing, that philosophy is simply an expression of confusion. Which, of course, it is.
Like most questions, this one has many different answers. Speaking personally, I love reading and engaging in philosophy because it gives me a chance to think newly and differently. So, I tend to think of the task of philosophy as primarily imaginative and speculative. My favorite philosophers challenge ordinary ways of seeing, and give us new ways of approaching problems. This has probably been apparent in my writings on this blog.
On Running and Habit
"The greatest thing, in all education, is to make the nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. ... For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague." --William James, Principles of Psychology, "Habit"
Runners are creatures of habit. What looks like tremendous willpower to the non-runner is (we secretly know) simply routine for us. We get ourselves caught up in the rhythm of training, and all of the habits we have set up carry us almost inexorably towards our goals. The difficulty of training is always only beginning and maintaining -- once we are out the door, we are guided by habit. In this sense, habit is the runner's best friend, especially as we embark on a project toward goals. To become a runner means establishing habits.
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All of my readers will be familiar by now with Paul Ryan's lopping an hour off of his marathon time. Runners don't like this, especially because Ryan laid claim to the holy grail of recreational running -- the three hour marathon. We know what it takes to run under three hours in the marathon. It's a pretty sacred line to cross as flippantly as Ryan did.
Whether Ryan was oblivious to the sacredness of that line or whether he chose to say he ran in the 2:50s because of that sacredness is something we will never know for sure.
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
"Now put the foundations under them." --Thoreau
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Lime Petroleum participates in carbon capture and storage project in Norway
OSLO,11 November 2021 –Lime Petroleum AS ("Lime") has entered into an agreement with Nautilus Carbon Services AS to participate in the first phase of a larger project involving several other joint-industry project partners, which aims to secure a storage site in the Norwegian Continental Shelf where CO2 can be injected and safely stored permanently. This project is in line with the global goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Phase I of the project will include research and development work to outline and describe the methodology and possible locations for a CO2 storage site. Upon completion, a decision will then be made to initiate Phase II, the goal of which is to secure the award of an exploitation licence on the Norwegian Continental Shelf with an application to the authorities.
Mr Lars Hübert, Chief Executive Officer of Lime, said, "With Lime's acquisition of 33.84 per cent interest in the producing Brage Field, it is timely and opportune that Lime participates in such a project that will progress Lime's ESG* objectives and help the company gain a foothold in the emerging CCS** value chain."
The Net Zero 2050 road map describes how rapid increase in CO2 capture requires development of geological storage locations. A main assumption reaching the goals by 2050 is that 95 per cent of the captured volume needs tobe stored in such geological formations. Technology progress is likely to reduce the cost of capturing CO2 in the near future from power generation (also blue H2 from natural gas), industrial processes, energy from waste, and possibly DAC (direct air capture). All these industries generate CO2 volumes exceeding, by orders of magnitude, the Scope 1 emissions from the oil and gas industry.
According to International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, there are currently 51 existing and operational Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) facilities in Europe with a target of 50 MTons/year in 2030. Ultra-high CO2 injection and storage rates are key to meet the Net Zero 2050 goals. According to the Net Zero goals (IEA, 2021), the global capture needs to be around 2 GTons/year in 2030, reaching nearly 6 GTons/year in 2040 and in 2050 the total captured CO2 is 7.6 GTons/year.
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As of Friday afternoon, November 16 in the US (10:00am Saturday AEDT), the California fires are responsible for the deaths of 66 people, with hundreds more missing.
The Woolsey Fire in and around Malibu, California, has tragically claimed three lives and destroyed 616 structures.
The fire, which started near Thousand Oaks, soon reduced the Malibu Creek State Park to ashes and forced the evacuation of around 250,000 people including Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian West, Kourtney Kardashian, Rainn Wilson, Alyssa Milano, Gerard Butler, Camille Grammer, Scott Derrickson, Robin Thicke and many more.
The blaze has burned 98,362 acres so far. It is now 69 per cent contained, according to CalFire's November 16 (November 17 AEDT) update.
Separately, a fire burning in Northern California's Butte County known as the "Camp Fire" has been blamed for the deaths of 63 people, while an estimated 600 others are reportedly missing. That fire has burned 142,000 acres and destroyed 9,844 homes, 336 commercial properties, and 2,076 other buildings. The fire is 45 per cent contained, according to CalFire.
Click through to see which celebrities have lost their homes in the Woolsey Fire.
On November 15 (November 16 AEDT), The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille shared before-and-after photos on Instagram after her home had been completely destroyed by the Woolsey Fire.
"This is what's left of my home," she wrote of a photo of the aftermath (pictured, on right). "We can replace/rebuild our home but we can't replace people we have lost. I lost my [assistant] of 20 plus years Scott two days before the fires. I'm still grieving and will continues to do so. He was family to me."
She also shared heartfelt message of gratitude for the firefighters risking their lives for others.
"So, to those out there that are yelling at officials and firemen why their houses weren't saved let's put things in perspective here. You are alive. You are safe. Let's thank the firefighters for saving as many lives during this terrible disaster. We are here to help others and gather to rebuild what has been lost. Here are some pics of what is left of my house and memories from the past. I will keep these memories and hold them in my heart forever. Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas, Halloween, and charity events I hosted at my house. My family home will remain in my heart as I start to rebuild anew wherever that will be. My heart is with my family and friends. #malibustrong#woolseyfire I [love] Malibu!! My home always!!"
Grammer Meyer, initially posted this devastating photo of her Malibu mansion ablaze.
"Sadly my house couldn't be saved. The courageous firefighters were able to save my cars and personal items recovered from my home. I thanked the fire chief and his team of firemen for all of their hard work. He took the time to explain what happened and I'm grateful for all of their hard work trying to save my home. Sad we lost our home but grateful that my family is safe. Luckily we quickly evacuated our house yesterday after a patrol car drove up the street announcing mandatory evacuations. I'm grateful for my lovely neighbours and friends who kept me informed and for their help this evening. Thank you all for caring #woolseyfire#malibu. Special thanks to Fire Chief Rash and his brave team of firefighters."
Singer Robin Thicke opened up about the tragic fires -- including the loss of his own home -- in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on November 13 local time (Wednesday morning AEDT).
"It's funny, you see movies, [and] you'd think there would be one doll left over, or a book of course, something. [But] it's just rubble," the 41-year-old said of the home he shares with his girlfriend, April Love Geary. "There's nothing left."
Geary, posted this heart wrenching photo to her Instagram Story announcing that "[their] house is gone."
Upon returning to his home, actor Gerard Butler found it reduced to ashes.
Sharing this heartbreaking photo, the 48-year-old wrote on Instagram, "Returned to my house in Malibu after evacuating. Heartbreaking time across California. Inspired as ever by the courage, spirit and sacrifice of firefighters. Thank you @LosAngelesFireDepartment."
On November 13 local time (Wednesday AEDT), Butler confirmed that his home was "partially destroyed".
"I was one of the lucky ones, my home was only partially destroyed," he tweeted. "A lot of people lost everything and will have to rebuild from scratch."
On November 13 local time (Wednesday AEDT), 28-year-old Australian actor Liam Hemsworth shared a devastating photo of the home he once shared with partner Miley Cyrus. "It's been a heartbreaking few days," he began in an emotional social media post.
"This is what's left of my house. Love. Many people in Malibu and surrounding areas in California have lost their homes also and my heart goes out to everyone who was affected by these fires. I spent the day in Malibu yesterday and it was amazing to see the community pulling together to help each other out in any way they can."
He continued, "Malibu is a strong community and this event is only going to make it stronger. Thankful for the all the great local guys that helped keep smaller fires out around my property. I love u guys. I love you Malibu. Thank you to all the hero firefighters around California. It's going to be a journey to rebuild. Stay strong all. To help/donate visit @malibufoundation and @happyhippiefdn"
Miley Cyrus has lost her home in California's Woolsey Fire.
She shared the sad news on Twitter on November 12.
"I am one of the lucky ones. My animals and love of my life made it out safely & that's all that matters right now," she wrote. "My house no longer stands but the memories shared with family & friends stand strong. I am grateful for all I have left."
She urged her followers on Twitter and Instagram to donate.
Renowned horror film director Scott Derrickson posted several photos of his home on fire and the catastrophic aftermath.
"We lost our home last night to the #woolseyfire, but we are all safe and that's the important thing. Will be offline for awhile," he first wrote on Instagram.
The 52-year-old Doctor Strange director also expressed his gratitude at the outpouring of support he has received since losing his home.
"Just a quick update to say that I'm overwhelmed by the incredible outpouring of love and support. Thank you to everyone who messaged me, and for the dozens upon dozens of you who offered us a place to stay. We are blessed and grateful to be safe and so loved."


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MY STORY: From English to Basketball, This Extraordinary Teacher Taught Me Everything I Know
by Nishi Malhotra September 5, 2016, 1:54 pm
My tribute to an extraordinary teacher who made a life long learner out of me.
In the mid-1960s, a new school called St. Mary's High School opened its doors to the children of Indian Railways employees in a small government colony at the edge of Lucknow. It made no difference to me initially because I was attending Nursery in the Montessori school right behind my home. However, one day, humiliated at being made to stand in front of an assembly that pronounced 'shame, shame' on those of us who had entered the school five minutes late, I came home crying. My father, in an attempt to pacify me, semi-seriously mentioned that perhaps I would like to go to the new "English" school in our neighbourhood.
And thus began my 11 years of schooling in a place where I met an extraordinary teacher who changed me forever.
A new school is sometimes able to afford children the kind of attention that is perhaps never available to those who enter a large, even reputable and established institution. Class sizes are small, enthusiasm on the part of teachers high, parental involvement welcome, and the excitement of breaking new ground palpable on the part of everyone who wishes to see a new venture succeed. I thrived in this environment, made all the more conducive by the Principal who patiently guided each tiny hand learning to write the alphabet and dandled on her knee recalcitrant children whom nothing could please.
The school soon settled down though, the way all schools do, into a humdrum existence of English and geography lessons, classroom murmurings and recess ruckus, teachers who came and went, days of sunshine and of gloom.
Nothing extraordinary in fact happened at St. Mary's until the arrival, sometime when I was in Class 8, of a Sister Benedicta on transfer from St. Mary's, Kathmandu.
How, from being just the English teacher, she slowly became a part of every single thing we enjoyed doing in school, I cannot say. What I do remember is that in the 1970s, provincial little Indian schools barely kissing the suburbs of major towns did not expose their students to out-of-the-ordinary sports and subjects like softball, watercolour painting, portrait drawing, skit writing, throwball, handball, debating, elocution, etc.
Yet, with Sister Benedicta, we began the process of exploring all these dimensions to education.
Along with her job as English teacher to all the senior classes, she took the initiative to set up and run a complete sports programme in the school – Olympian for its day and age.
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I discovered that I was capable of running (and sometimes even winning) a 400m race, doing high jump and long jump, clearing hurdles, and playing a good defensive position in basketball. After school, many of us would cycle home, down a quick snack, and race right back to help Sister Benedicta who was busy poring over some book that might illuminate her about the exact dimensions of a throwball court.
Armed with buckets of chalk powder, we would proceed to the playground to measure and mark pits and tracks, returning home reluctantly because it was time for us to do our homework and for her to go to evening prayers.
One day, at recess, I found Sister Benedicta painting wildflowers in watercolour. She invited me to try my hand at it but I shyly expressed my ineptitude to her.
The very next day, she appeared in class armed with charcoal pencils, sketchpads, and some books on portrait drawing.
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Where and how she sourced all her information – given our limited school library and the fact that we were miles from the nearest bookstore in town – is a subject of much curiosity for me till today. But if a pupil showed even the faintest interest in something, one could rest assured that Sister Benedicta would find a way of getting enough information on the subject to start him or her on the journey.
In this case, however, I was convinced that I could not draw and Sister Benedicta was equally convinced that I did not know what I was or was not capable of. Well, her enthusiasm was so infectious that I diligently worked at not one but two portraits for the school's annual art exhibition.
I must have been in Class 9 when St. Mary's received an invitation to send students to a leadership camp in New Delhi. Sister Benedicta offered to accompany those students who could get parental permission to attend, and after much begging and cajoling at home, I set off, with her and one more student, to see the big, bad world outside of my small hometown.
If I was shy in school, wild horses could not have dragged me to open my mouth in front of the hip, confident, savvy kids from the best schools in Delhi, Calcutta, and Bombay who attended the camp.
Mainly, I ogled and observed, participating only in one debate where, much to my surprise, I won a small prize. But the exposure and encouragement that Sister Benedicta provided not only paved the way for my participation in future contests and forums, but helped give me the confidence to defy conventional wisdom and choose the pursuit of writing as a career over medicine and engineering (the only acceptable professions for any students considered halfway bright in that day and age.)
Education for Sister Benedicta, I always thought, meant the sense of wonderment that comes from learning, seeing, observing, and experimenting constantly. She endeavoured to stretch the horizons of her own mind and interests and creativity and showed us that we were capable of doing it too.
Today, because of her, my 'schooling' in a sense still continues… I find it natural to pick up a paintbrush, attempt a new sport, try to play an instrument, test myself in a new profession, and open myself to virtually anything that interests me, without necessarily worrying about whether my efforts shall meet with success or failure.
Enjoy the process of learning (it's often more important than the outcome), never give up without trying, and be true to yourself – these are the lessons that my favourite teacher taught me.
Sister Benedicta passed away in Kathmandu a few years ago. My abiding regret will be that I never made the journey to see her before she died and thank her for the gifts she bestowed upon me from both her heart and mind. Happy Teachers' Day wherever you are, Sister Benedicta. RIP.
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How James Joyce Shaped Brazil's New Breakout Film, Araby
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In the opening scene of Araby, a young boy named André rides a bike along a bucolic back road in Ouro Preto, a small town in the heart of one of Brazil's major industrial states, Minas Gerais. At first, the movie, directed and written by Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans, seems to hew closely to its titular inspiration of "Araby," the vastly influential short story from James Joyce's seminal collection, Dubliners. In the film, André's parents are absent, and we watch him take care of his sick brother with the help of his aunt, Márcia, who is a nurse. In both, a young boy is coming of age in a sleepy neighborhood, and the film primes itself to follow Joyce's narrative: a boy has his first unrequited love with a girl, followed by a quiet disillusionment.
But Araby instead takes a strange turn: a worker at the neighborhood factory, Cristiano, suffers an accident and is transported to the hospital. André goes to Cristiano's house to retrieve some of Cristiano's essentials. There, André finds a journal, and the proper story begins. André vanishes and Cristiano's memories — in the form of a voiceover — take control, transforming the film into a road movie that follows Cristiano's itinerant life as a laborer. He spends time in prison for a failed car robbery, finds work as an unpaid fruit picker, a road laborer, a contractor, a textile maker, and a steelworker in a factory in Ouro Preto. There is a red herring about the title, when several men from the road crew are sitting around smoking and listening to a joke about several Arabs migrating to Brazil, but otherwise the title is never directly referenced. As Cristiano's story wanders toward the present day, and toward his unexplained industrial accident, the meaning of the title, James Joyce, and "Araby" drift further and further out of view.
So why did Uchoa and Dumans decide to name their film after one of Joyce's most iconic stories and one of the most influential short stories in the English language? In an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Estadão, Uchoa references the influence of Joyce and Dubliners:
The discovery of Dubliners was, for us, very important because it crystallized an anxiety that all of us were feeling, a search that we had already embarked on. Joyce approached the universe of the proletariat in his narratives in Dubliners. This is where the plot came from, and it was an inspiration that we were already searching for. Araby grew out of our fascination with the working-class neighborhoods of Ouro Preto.
At first, Uchoa and Dumans's movie was supposed to be a short film and a closer adaptation of Joyce's "Araby," but after eight years of writing and revising only the title remained. The influence of short story is more keenly felt in the mood and sentiment of a film focused on the "common man." As Cristiano says, "I'm like anybody else. It's just my life that was a little bit different." Ouro Preto, where Cristiano finds employment at the steelworks, is in fact a UNESCO World Heritage site, known for its picturesque views and colonial buildings from Brazil's gold rush era. Yet, the film is divorced from the town's beauty and history — only showing the hardscrabble life of the Brazilians living in the nearby Bairro Operário, the factory neighborhood, perhaps not so different from North Richmond Street, the setting of Joyce's "Araby."
Like Dubliners' depiction of average life for the 20th century Irish, Araby stands out for its heartfelt portrayal of marginalized life in Brazil, something that rarely makes it into Brazilian film or television. Araby stands out especially when compared to the country's most famous film, City of God (2002). The two movies appear in stark contrast to each other. City of God shows the Brazil familiar to the outside world: sweeping vistas of Rio de Janeiro, life in the tight-knit favelas, a tale of ambition, drugs, and violence — surely a narrow reality for a country of 208 million people. Aiming for authenticity, Uchoa and Dumans asked the actor who played Cristiano, Aristides de Sousa, who, like his character, spent time working as a laborer, to help write parts of the film by keeping a notebook, just like Cristiano. In addition to Joyce, Uchoa and Dumans were influenced by Brazilian authors who wrote of the country's down-and-out peoples: João Antônio, Oswaldo França Jr., and Graciliano Ramos. Ramos's classic novel, Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), is a circular story of hope and despair that tells the story of a destitute family of workers traveling the drought-ridden backcountry of the sertão.
Both "Araby" and Araby are stories about a journey. In the short story, the journey is encompassed by a train ride: "I took my seat in a third-class carriage of a deserted train. After an intolerable delay the train moved out of the station slowly. It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river." Joyce's description could neatly fit in as part of Cristiano's voiceover in Araby as well. Near the end of the film, Cristiano experiences the most Joycean of moments — an epiphany. While working in the steelworks of Ouro Preto, he suddenly stops hearing the noise of the factory. He only hears his heartbeat and takes in the horror of the factory. It feels as if he were waking from a nightmare, and he has the insurmountable urge to go home, not just for himself but for all of them, the workers and the supervisors, to finally return home. Perhaps, like in Joyce's story, Cristiano's eyes "burned with anguish and anger."


But the Panel was spectacularly wrong about one thing: it naively dismissed Britain's inner-city gang culture as virtually irrelevant to the riots. Those who make such a case usually cite figures which show that 20 per cent of those arrested in London were gang members, reducing to 10 per cent nationally. Now I could be over-reacting but far from screaming irrelevance, those numbers seem very significant indeed. One in five was gang-involved in London, and one in ten across other cities. That should ring out as a clear warning shot to us all.
And we must keep in mind that these figures represent only a snapshot of last summer because most people involved have never been tracked down. It is estimated that as many as 15,000 people took part in the riots, but only 5,000 have been arrested and 2,000 appeared in court. We should remember that most gang members are in fact far too wily to get caught – they get away with this kind of criminal activity every day.
That's not all. Even the Panel acknowledged the correlation between rioting and high gang activity areas. Through an alliance of 300 charities the CSJ co-ordinates – many of whom are working with gang members – we have heard about the spontaneous mid-riot truces between warring gangs who united to attack police efforts. We have seen the sophisticated methods streets gangs have devised to stay ahead of law enforcement – methods which had officers chasing shadows again last August. So whilst nobody is arguing that gangs and gangs alone led the disorder, we should be quick to see their handprint on the chaos which unfolded. It is peculiar that the Panel fell silent about this.
Before the riots and since, the CSJ has long-argued that economic recovery and social recovery must go hand-in-hand. There is good reason to be hopeful that some Ministers in Government grasp this. With great purpose but without much fanfare, Iain Duncan Smith published his Social Justice Strategy earlier this month. It offered commitments to transform lives and build a ladder out for those trapped in ghettos of dependency – much of it was informed by work published at the CSJ. For all the post-riots debate about responsibility, branding and materialism, it is the Social Justice Strategy which should now become the centrepiece programme for the Coalition.
For without a reversal of the social breakdown and anarchy that characterises too much of life in our most deprived communities, we will continue to see generation after generation cut adrift. For as long as children start out in abusive and fractured families, as long as they plod along from their failing school to a life dependent on welfare, and as long as drug abuse and gangs pave their streets with tragic belonging, such rioting will pose an annual threat to our society and our economy. Regroup and rebuild by all means, but we cannot afford to forget.


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