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Search for an Alternative Paradigm to address the Multi-dimensional Global Crisis
International workshop organized by
the World Academy of Art and Science and the Library of Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt -- June 5 & 6, 2013
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Search for an Alternative Paradigm to address the Multi-dimensional Global Crisis
International workshop organized by
the World Academy of Art and Science and the Library of Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt -- June 5 & 6, 2013
Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search For New Paradigm, Alexandria, June 2013
Concept of the Conference
The Issue
The world faces an unprecedented dilemma. Expanding opportunities are emerging side by side with intensifying problems. The proliferation of money, technology, education and global interdependence which have been the main drivers of global development is accompanied by rising levels of financial instability, pollution, unemployment, inequality, arms proliferation and social unrest. Humanity seems driven by mutually exclusive, contradictory goals leading to apparently insoluble problems. Piecemeal sectoral solutions are transparently inadequate.
The Question
Today, the world faces multiple crises of unprecedented scale and seriousness. These crises share common attributes. They all transcend narrow disciplinary boundaries, thus defying solution by partial, sectoral approaches. They are all global in nature and cannot be fully addressed without coordinated actions by the international community. Approaches to resolving the challenges are subject to conflicting claims, priorities and interests. The lack of significant progress on addressing these issues in recent years has raised doubts about the collective capacity of the human community to effectively address them. There is presently no consensus as to whether real, effective solutions are possible and what those solutions should be. Is there any way in which apparently mutually contradictory goals of prosperity, security, sustainability and social justice can all be realized?
Trieste Meeting
Following up on recent articles on this topic in Cadmus Journal, an exploratory discussion was held on March 7 at Castle Duino near Trieste. Among many valuable insights, discussants identified as serious impediments the limitations imposed by the present social construction of knowledge, i.e. the way we perceive and frame the issues, and the tendency to examine complex interconnected issues as if they can be understood in isolation. Stress was placed on the need for new thinking and integrated, value-based theory in the social sciences. The obstacles posed by the current system of international institutions founded on the principle of national sovereignty, the absence of institutional mechanisms for humanity to exercise legitimate rights, and the gap between the rapid pace of technological change and the slower rate of cultural evolution were also emphasized. The increasing speed and reach of global communications, the shift in emphasis to Human Capital intensive development strategies, and the growing prominence of social networks were cited among a list of game-changing emerging trends.
Alexandria Event
As the next step in this process, the Library of Alexandria and the World Academy collaborated with a small group of like-minded organizations and individuals to identify the core elements of an integrated perspective, comprehensive strategy and detailed policy framework capable of addressing the multiple challenges through a more fundamental paradigm change.
The Alexandria workshop addressed the following broad issues:
Search for an Alternative Paradigm to address the Multi-dimensional Global Crisis
International workshop organized by
the World Academy of Art and Science and the Library of Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt -- June 5 & 6, 2013
June 5, 2013
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Session 1: Introduction
Issue: Is there any way in which humanity can realize the apparently conflicting goals of prosperity, security, sustainability and social justice?
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Session 2: Economy & Employment
Issues: How can global food security, full employment and abolition of poverty be achieved within a decade? How can the necessary financial resources be generated and mobilized to achieve the goals of global development?
Moderator: Garry Jacobs
Report on Geneva conference
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Coffee Break
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Session 3: Energy & Ecology
Issue: How can global living standards be raised to middle class levels without depleting or destroying the environment or depriving future generations of the capacity to sustain these achievements?
Moderator: Jakob Von Uexkull, President, World Futures Council, WAAS Fellow
Report on Geneva conference – Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International
6:00 pm
Departure to Hotel
June 6, 2013
9:00 am –10:45 am
Session 4: Human Capital
Issue: How can humanity fully tap the potential of a human-capital and social-capital based strategy for global development?
Moderator: Dr. Aly Eldean Hilal, Professor of Political Sciences, Cairo University
Report on Geneva conference – Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Member, WAAS Board of Trustees and former Rector, UN University
11:15 am – 1:00 pm
Session 5: Governance & International Security
Issues: How can we evolve a global cooperative security system that permanently eliminates war and the threats posed by WMD? How can we design and implement system of global governance capable of implementing necessary measures to achieve the other five goals for the welfare and well-being of all?
Moderator: Mutaz Qafisheh, Professor of Law, the Hebron University, Palestine, Israel and WAAS Fellow
Report on Geneva conference – Winston Nagan, Professor of Law, University of Florida, & Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Session 6: Elements of a New Paradigm
Issue: On what essential ideas, principles, values, strategies, policies, and institutional mechanisms should the new global paradigm be founded?
Moderators: Ismail Seregeldin & Garry Jacobs
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Closing session followed by a Coffee Break
Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search For New Paradigm, Alexandria, June 2013
Conference Participants
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis is a Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Panteion University, Athens, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State Technological University for Plant Polymers, Active Member of the The Club of Rome, Founder and President of the Hellenic Chapter of the Club of Rome, Founding Member of the Middle East Division of Learning Without Borders, Member of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, the Balkan Political Club, the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome, the International Bioethics Society etc. She is also Commissioner on The Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, Founding Member of the Balkan Academy of Sciences, New Culture and Sustainable Development and Co-Founder of the International Science Foundation, Scholarship Trustee for the Hellenic Canadian Association. She has also served as Vice-President of the International Bioethics Society, Honorary President of the Association Members and Coordinator for the Mediterranean Region of the "Life in Space" project, and Vice President of the UNESCO-MAB Hellenic National Committee. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Barnard College (B.A.), New York University (M.S.) and the University of Athens (Ph.D.)
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, currently President of the Brazilian Chapter of the Club of Rome and a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science, recently retired as Vice President of the Club. Prof. Gurgulino de Souza was appointed to the Council of the United Nations University (UNU) in 1986 and was selected by the UN Secretary General as UNU's Rector the following year. He served in Japan (1987-1991 and 1992-1997) in the truly global and interdisciplinary University, was a Special Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO (1988-1989) and Vice-Rector of UNILEGIS, of Brazil's Federal Senate. He worked for 16 years as Rector of the Federal University of São Carlos, S. Paulo, and as Director of the Department of University Affairs in the Ministry of Education, Director of the National Research Council (CNPq) and, by Presidential appointment, was a Member of the Federal Council of Education, both in Brasilia. Earlier he was Professor Emeritus of Physics at the State University of São Paulo, Brazil, and conducted research work in the Department of Physics at the Universities of Kansas (USA) and S. Paulo, and worked in the Department of Scientific Affairs at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC (USA) and helped set-up its large Regional Programs of Science and Technology.
Gerald Gutenschwager
Gerald Gutenschwager, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA; Scientific Fellow, Department of Regional Planning and Development, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. Formal education and experience have focused on research, education and administration in relation to planning, international development, urbanization, and health. These concerns have prompted investigations and experiments in social theory,planning theory, educational gaming and simulation, social change, time budgets, the political economy of health and the philosophy of social science.Additional research has focused on modernism and postmodernism as expressed in social theory, urbanism and architecture. Practical work experience has ranged from a city planning department in the U.S. (Chicago) to an extensive tenure with public and private agencies and offices overseas in Athens, Greece.Teaching experience has ranged from junior high to graduate school and with students from all of the continents over a sixty year period since the 1950s. Publications include numerous articles, reviews and presentations, as well as two books: The Political Economy of Health in Modern Greece (1989), Athens, Greece: The National Center of Social Research (in Greek), and Planning and Social Science; a Humanistic Approach (2004). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, also published in Greek by The University of Thessaly Publications, Volos, Greece.
Robert Horn
Robert Horn is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Robert Horn, who was originally trained as a political scientist, has a special interest in public policy strategy, organisational learning, and knowledge management, and art. He founded and was, for 20 years, CEO of an international consulting company, Information Mapping, Inc.
Today, he concentrates on "Social Messes" (aka "Wicked Problems"). He pioneered dealing with such messes through interactive visual analyses with task group workshops using large, visual "Info-Murals" on such issues as global climate-change, energy security, nuclear-waste-disposal, NASA's research, and mega-flu pandemic.
Horn is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), and has taught at Harvard and Columbia and consulted for clients such as Boeing, Dupont, AT&T, HP and other Global 1,000 companies as well as the British Foreign Office and the UK nuclear waste disposal agency. He is a member of Global Business Network and a fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Futures Forum. He has received lifetime achievement awards from two international research organizations.
He is also the initial explorer of the semantics of putting words and visual images together in his book, Visual Language: Global Communications for the 21st Century.
Garry Jacobs
Garry Jacobs is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; Managing Editor of Cadmus Journal; and Vice-President, The Mother's Service Society, a social science research institute based in India. Earlier, Mr. Jacobs served as Executive Director and Member Secretary of the International Commission on Peace & Food. He is a researcher, author and consultant on the process of economic and social development as well as a management consultant to firms in a wide range of industries in the USA, Europe and India on strategies to elevate corporate values, accelerate growth, and improve profitability. He is co-author of several books and more than 100 articles on the process of corporate growth, economic and social development, psychology, peace, security and international affairs. Mr. Jacobs was elected to the Academy in 1995 and has also served as the chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee and chairman of the Committee on Peace & Development.
Alexander Likhotal
Alexander Likhotal is the President of Green Cross International. He holds doctorates in Political Science from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (1975) and in History from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, USSR Academy of Sciences (1987). In addition to an academic career as a Professor of Political Science and International Relations, he served as a European Security analyst for the Soviet Union leadership. In 1991, he was appointed Deputy Spokesman and Advisor to the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. After Mr. Gorbachev's resignation, Professor Likhotal served as his advisor and spokesman and worked at the Gorbachev Foundation as the International and Media Director. Having joined Green Cross International in 1996, he is actively involved in furthering sustainable development agenda.
Winston Nagan
Winston Nagan is the Sam T. Dell Research Scholar Professor of Law, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, Founding Director, Institute for Human Rights, Peace and Development and Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts. Prof. Nagan is a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science and the Editor-in-Chief of Eruditio Journal, an e-journal published by the Academy. A member of the Editorial Board of Cadmus Journal, Winston Nagan is also the International Editorial Advisor for the Journal of Law and Politics. He served as Chairman of Amnesty International USA (1989-91) and as a member of the Board (1986-92). He also served as President of Policy Sciences Center, Yale Law School (1986-1991) and on numerous groups of international experts on issues related to human rights, biodiversity, indigenous rights, and traditional knowledge. Winston Nagan is an alumnus of the University of South Africa, where he did his B.A (Law), Brasenose college, Oxford, where he got an M.A (Juris), Duke School of Law where he did LL.M. and later Yale School of Law, where he obtained his Doctorate degree in law.
Ruben Nelson
Ruben F. W. Nelson is Executive Director of Foresight Canada – a Canadian not-for-profit dedicated to nurturing the practice of the next generation of strategic foresight at a high professional level. He is Canada's most experienced teacher and practitioner of strategic foresight and futures research. In 1960, he Co-Chaired what may have been the first formal futures conference in Canada. In 1976, he was one of the founders of the Canadian Association of Futures Studies, and subsequently its third President. He has served as Treasurer and a member of the Executive Board of the World Futures Studies Federation. His primary research interest is in the long evolution of human consciousness, cultures and civilizations. He is particularly interested in the emergence, flowering, decline and transformation of the modern/Industrial form of civilization and the possibility of the emergence of a truly post- modern/Industrial form of civilization. His formal training is in philosophy, political theory and theology.
Ljudmila Popovic
Mila Popovich is a young scholar associated with the University of Colorado at Boulder, whose doctoral work focuses on the issues of woman's migrations and subjectivity within globalization processes. She is a Junior Fellow at the World Academy of Art and Science, where she serves on board of the Membership Communications Committee. She is an Associate Expert on Gender Issues and Humanities within the Seventh Research Framework Programme at the European Commission. Additionally, Popovich is an Associate Editor for the "International Journal of the Humanities," and a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education," of the Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade. Equally invested in the critical work as well as creative, she has published on a range of interdisciplinary topics such as international cinema, nationalism and women's issues, new economic paradigm and global crisis. On the creative side, she has been publishing poetry both in her native Montenegro and in the U.S., as well as performing as an international dance artist. As an activist, Popovich is engaged in the environmental and women's issues in her resident community of Denver, Colorado.
Mutaz Qafisheh
Mutaz M. Qafisheh is a Professor of International Law and Legal Clinic Director, Hebron University, Palestine. He holds a PhD in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is a practising international lawyer, advising a number of international organizations, including the UN and the PLO. He has formerly worked as Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Beirut and Ramallah; Regional Director, Penal Reform International, Middle East and North Africa, Amman; Director, Security Sector Reform, Birzeit University; Director, Legal Education, Palestinian Law Schools, Jerusalem; Legal Advisor, Palestinian Parliament; Co-Founder, Human Rights Program, Al-Quds-Bard Honors College, Jerusalem and New York. His twenty-five studies include: Palestine Membership in the United Nations: Legal and Practical Implications (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013); The International Law Foundations of Palestinian Nationality (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008); 'Article 1D: Definition of the Term 'Refugee,'' in A. Zimmermann, ed., The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary (Oxford 2011); 'The Dilemma of Legislative Reform in Line with International Standards on Gender Equality in the Islamic World: The Case of Palestine', International Journal for Legislative Drafting and Law Reform (London 2013); 'The Ability of the Palestinian Legal System to Secure Adequate Standards of Living: Reform or Failed State Duty,' Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge 2013).
Ismail Serageldin
Ismail Serageldin is the Director of Library of Alexandria, and also chairs the Board of Directors for each of the Library's affiliated research institutes and museums. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts which includes the Institut d'Egypte (Egyptian Academy of Science), US National Academy of Sciences (Public Welfare Medalist), the American Philosophical Society, TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World), the Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is former Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR, 1994-2000), Founder and former Chairman, the Global Water Partnership (GWP, 1996-2000) and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), a microfinance program (1995-2000) and was Professor of the International Chair Savoirs contre pauvreté (Knowledge Against Poverty), at Collège de France, Paris, and Distinguished Professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dr.Serageldin has also served in a number of capacities at the World Bank, including as Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (1992-1998), and for Special Programs (1998-2000). He has published over 60 books and monographs and over 200 papers on a variety of topics including biotechnology, rural development, sustainability, and the value of science to society.
Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull is a Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Chair, World Future Council. He is the founder (1980) of the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'. He is a co-founder (1984) of The Other Economic Summit and a past Member of the European Parliament (1987-9) where he served on the Political Affairs Committee. He is a patron of Friends of the Earth International and a member of the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations. He served on the UNESCO Commission on Human Duties and Responsibilities (1998-2000). He has also served on the Board of Greenpeace, Germany, and on the Council of Governance of Transparency International. He lectures widely on environment, justice and peace issues. He is also a recognised philatelic expert with publications including 'The Early Postal History of Saudi Arabia' (London, 2001).
|Aly Eldean Hilal
Professor of Political Sciences, Cairo University, Ex-member of the Shoura Council. He chaired the Political Science Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture, member of the board of Directors, the National Center for Social Studies and editor in chief of the quarterly journal Al Nahda (Renaissance). He served as Egypt's Minister of Youth (1999-2004), Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University (1993-1999) and Director of the Center of Political Studies and Research at Cairo University (1986-1993). He was a member of: the UN Special Experts Group on Disarmament and Development (1979-1980), the ACLS/SSRC committee on the comparative study of Moslem Societies (1988-1991), Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS (London) for nine years (1983-1992) the UN Expert group on the Economic Aspects of Disarmament and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDER) (1991-1992). He was a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, Calgary Univ., Univ. of California at Los Angeles, and Princeton Univ. His publications in English include: Islam and Power, Egypt and the great powers, Islamic Resurgence in the Arab World, The future of the Arab Nation, Egypt's Economic Potential, and Foreign Policies of the Arab States.
|Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo and a prominent human rights activist in Egypt. Ibrahim founded the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. He has been criticized for accepting international funds to promote civil society and election monitoring in Egypt, and for suggesting that the United States should condition its aid to Egypt on improvements in the country's human rights record. Ibrahim is currently working with the Arab Democracy Foundation in Doha to promote philanthropy and Arab investment in development. In this interview, Ibrahim speaks about his involvement in the promotion of human rights and civil liberties in Egypt. He also shares how Islam has impacted his work and the work of others in human rights development.
|Nadine Mourad Sika
Nadine Mourad Sika is an assistant professor of political science at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Before joining AUC, she was visiting scholar at the Political Science Institute of the University of Tübingen in Germany and assistant professor of political science at the Future University in Egypt. She is currently consultant to the UNDP; a member of the Board of Directors of Partners in Development, an independent Egyptian think tank; and a contributing author to International Democracy Watch's "First International Democracy Report" in 2011. Dr. Sika received a Ph.D. in comparative politics from the University of Cairo.
Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search For New Paradigm, Alexandria, June 2013
Conference Papers & Presentations
Papers/ Presentations
Background Papers
Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search For New Paradigm, Alexandria, June 2013
Ideas, Principles & Values for a New Paradigm
This report presents ideas discussed at the WAAS international conference at UN in Geneva and the Library of Alexandria workshop in June 2013. They represent an initial, incomplete set of guidelines for evolving a new global paradigm to address the multiple challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. This document is intended to serve as a basis and stimulus for further discussion.
Core Concepts
Energy & Ecology
Human Capital
Governance & Security
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Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search For New Paradigm, Alexandria, June 2013
Conference Photos
Garry Jacobs, Winston Nagan & Heitor deSouza
Ismail Serageldin, Garry Jacobs & Winston P. Nagan
Mutaz Qafisheh, Ismail Serageldin, Garry Jacobs, Winston Nagan,
Librarian, Ismail Serageldin, Garry Jacobs & Winston P. Nagan
Winston Nagan, Heitor deSouza, Aly El Din Hilal, Robert Horn,
Winston Nagan, Heitor deSouza, Aly El Din Hilal
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis, Mary Gutenschwager, Gerald Gutenschwager,
Heitor deSouza, Aly El Din Hilal, Robert Horn, Alexander Likhotal
Left to Right: Winston P. Nagan, Gerald Gutenschwager, Garry Jacobs, Robert Horn, Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Ruben Nelson, Agni Arvanitis, Jakob von Uexkull, Ljudmila Popovic,


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I wrote the first three stories on this list using an external keyboard hooked up to my ThinkPad. That move came courtesy of the busted keyboard that stopped responding to certain keystrokes–including Enter, Backspace, 8 and h–sometime between my going to bed the night before SXSW and my getting on the first flight to Austin. That did not add to the business-travel experience.
3/11/2012: Tip: Avoid hiccups in Safari browsing, USA Today
I'm glad this column's format doesn't require using a specific reader's name, because this problem comes from my own experience with Apple's browser. (The day after this posted, Apple issued a 5.1.4 update to Safari that, as far as I can tell, doesn't do much to solve the problem.) In the rest of the column, I offer a reminder that I too often leave out of pieces on privacy: If something online is sufficiently interesting, people will take a screengrab of it and share that image, regardless of whatever privacy settings once protected that item.
3/12/2012: Windows 8: The Shock Of The New, And The Old, Discovery News
I wanted to like Microsoft's upcoming replacement for Windows 7. I still do. But blowing up a smartphone interface, Metro, to laptop-screen dimensions seems like a fundamental mistake. So does making touchscreen gestures critical to so many routine actions. Yes, many of my peers in tech journalism–see, for instance, ZDNet's Ed Bott–have been far more positive about Windows 8. But most of those reviews were done on touchscreen tablets loaned by Microsoft , while I installed the Consumer Preview release alongside Win 7 on a non-touchscreen laptop.
3/13/2012: Smartphone Battery Life Goes South By Southwest, CEA Digital Dialogue
Forgive me for writing yet another rant about lame smartphone battery life–but my experience at the conference set a new low. And I wasn't alone in this dilemma. The night after I wrote this, I found myself at a bar next to a spare power outlet. I plugged in my travel power strip and soon had people coming up to me with dead or dying phones, offering to trade a drink ticket for one of the remaining outlets on the strip.
3/16/2012: Which Apps Might Outlive SXSW, Discovery News
In retrospect, I could not have picked a much worse time for this post to go up–on the morning that Apple's new iPad arrived, and only hours before the news of Mike Daisey's duplicity would break. What was I thinking? Anyway, I do like how this piece turned out, so please read it when you get bored of reading about tablet computing and journalist standards–if not sooner.
3/18/2012: Tip: A cautionary tale about syncing, USA Today
I wasn't sure this reader's question about unexpected BlackBerry contacts syncing would be relevant enough until Andy Baio wrote a great piece for Wired.com about the perils of giving too many third-party apps access to your Web services. That inspired me to pivot from one person's glitch to the larger issue of being too generous with access to our data. The balance of the column, a reminder to check for alternate software keyboards on an Android device, came about because commenters on my Boing Boing review of the Samsung Galaxy Note asked why I didn't tell readers to switch from Samsung's obnoxious keyboard.
Since I've now posted this summary on a Sunday two weeks in a row, I'm going to continue with that schedule. I trust that you all are okay with that. Also: If you don't want to wait until the end of the week to see where I've been writing and/or find my Twitter feed too noisy, I've set up a tumblr blog under my LLC's name, Prose Hacking, where I link to each story I've written more or less in real time. This is probably a misuse of tumblr, but–hey, I needed to develop a minimal level of competence with that platform, and I needed to do something with the domain name I registered for my company.

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Napoli homers in 9th, Red Sox edge Yankees
Red Sox 2, Yankees 1
Mike Napoli hoped Masahiro Tanaka would make a mistake. The New York Yankees ace sure did — he twice shook off his catcher, then threw a pitch the Boston slugger could handle.
Napoli stung Tanaka by hitting a solo home run with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting Jon Lester and the Red Sox over the Yankees 2-1 Saturday night.
"What an idiot!" Napoli was heard exclaiming on Fox television microphones as he high-fived teammates in the dugout.
Napoli later said he didn't mean any disrespect, adding he was "surprised" Tanaka didn't throw his tremendous split-finger fastball.
Napoli had struck out in his previous two at-bats, was down 1-2 in the count this time and was having all sorts of trouble with Tanaka's diving splitter.
"He had me where he wanted me," Napoli said.
Tanaka, however, preferred to throw a fastball. Napoli lined it the opposite way, into the first row of the seats in right field.
Napoli, who also homered off Tanaka at Fenway Park in late April, raised his right arm as he rounded first base and clapped his hands as headed for second.
Tanaka, the top winner in the majors and the AL ERA leader, turned to watch the ball sail, twisting his body when it cleared the wall.
"It was the worst thing I could've possibly done," Tanaka said through a translator.
Tanaka wanted to take a different approach than catcher Brian McCann.
"He asked for a splitter and for a slider, and I shook off both of them," he said.
Tanaka said he intended to throw a fastball out of the strike zone to set up a breaking ball.
Instead, Napoli hit it out of the park. His third home run in five games, and 10th shot overall, flew far enough reach the short porch.
"Power hitters are going to have the ability to hit to all fields. We all know that right field here is not very forgiving," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "Last night, they hit one in the first row. Tonight, we did."
The Red Sox won for just the third time in nine games. The victory made the defending World Series champions 37-44 at the midpoint of the season — it's the first time since 1997 that Boston has been under .500 at the halfway mark.
Lester (9-7) held the Yankees hitless until the sixth. He gave up an unearned run and five hits in eight innings, striking out six and walking two.
Koji Uehara pitched a perfect ninth for his 17th save in 18 chances.
Tanaka (11-3) allowed seven hits in a complete game, striking out eight and walking one.
The Yankees lost for the fifth time in seven games. Tanaka dropped consecutive starts for the first time in the majors.
The matchup between Lester and Tanaka shaped up as a pitchers' duel, and it certainly was. Lester improved to 13-6 lifetime against the Yankees, including a loss to Tanaka in Boston on April 22.
Lester and Uehara came through for a Red Sox team that has scored three runs or fewer in 12 of its last 14 games.
Napoli did his part, too, tagging Tanaka.
"He pitched pretty well to Nap all night," Lester said. "I'm guessing Nap put a pretty good swing on that ball right there. Luckily, we're in Yankee Stadium and not anywhere else and that ball goes out."
An odd sequence ended the Yankees eighth. Jacoby Ellsbury tried to steal second with two outs and the fans cheered when catcher David Ross' throw skipped into center field. As Ellsbury headed toward third, however, the crowd began to realize strike three had already been called on Mark Teixeira.
Earlier in the inning, second baseman Dustin Pedroia made a nifty pickup and glove flip to start a double play on Derek Jeter.
Ross homered in his second straight game, launching a drive far over the left-field fence in the third. Tanaka muttered to himself as Ross rounded the bases.
Lester, who threw a no-hitter against Kansas City in 2008, held the Yankees hitless until Brett Gardner bounced a leadoff single up the middle in the sixth.
Lester's bid was extended with two outs in the fifth when Yangervis Solarte was called out on a video review, taking away an infield single.
Pedroia opened the next inning with a single, and tried to test the arm of Ellsbury, his former teammate. The Yankees center fielder made an accurate throw and Pedroia was called safe, but he was ruled out after New York challenged the umpire's decision.
The Yankees scored in the third when Brian Roberts reached on shortstop Stephen Drew's error, Solarte was hit by a pitch, Gardner sacrificed and Jeter had an RBI grounder.
NOTES: Of Boston's last 14 games, 10 have been decided by one run. The Red Sox are 6-4 in those games. ... The Red Sox are 26-26 at the new Yankee Stadium. ... Boston OF-INF Mike Carp (right foot) has started his rehab assignment at Triple-A Pawtucket. ... Yankees LHP CC Sabathia (right knee) made his first rehab start, pitching 2 1-3 innings for Class A Tampa and giving up two runs on three hits and a walk vs. Dunedin.


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If you have not heard of Aquaponics before then you are probably wondering what it is. We have a basic explanation of what Aquaponics is to better grasp the entire concept of the system. Aquaponics is basically the union between aquaculture (the rearing of aquatic animals) and hydroponics (the growing of plants without the soil) that grows fish and plants in a single unified system. And here's a 5 ways why Aquaponics is an improvement over hydroponics.
The waste of the fish serves as an organic food source for the plants and the plants, in turn, serve as a natural filter for the water to safely keep the fish. The third important elements in an Aquaponics system are the microbes or the nitrifying bacteria as what they call it as well as composting red worms that flourish in your growing bed media. They function to convert ammonia from the fish waste to nitrites and from nitrites to nitrates. They also convert solids to vermicompost that in turn become food for your plants. You can learn more about this in our aquaponics cycling article.
With the combination of these two systems, it's clear to see that Aquaponics takes advantage of the advantages of each system and eliminates the disadvantages.
What are the problems with the conventional soil-based gardening?
- The weeds that grow unceasingly
- The soil-borne insects that thrive
- The amount of water needed
- The strenuous digging, the back strain and the bending
- The raccoons, the bunnies and other pests
- The wisdom demanded with soil-based gardening such as knowing when and how to fertilize, when to water the soil and knowing the composition of the soil
These problems can be solved with Hydroponics; however, Hydroponics in itself has its own fair share of problems.
- Classic hydroponic systems depend on the meticulous application of costly and synthetic nutrients that are made from the blending together of a mixture of trace elements, salts and chemicals. In an Aquaponics system, you are only feeding your fish with affordable fish feed, some food scraps and the food that you consume or grow yourself. Read also our Aquaponics vs Hydroponics article to know the pros and cons of each system.
- The strength and potency of this mixture has to be monitored carefully together with its pH level using high-priced meters. If you have an Aquaponics system you only need to carefully monitor your system during its first thirty days. As soon as your Aquaponics system has been established, all there is left for you to do is to assess your ammonia and pH levels on a weekly basis or check to see if your fish or your plants appear stressed.
- The water found in hydroponic systems are required to be cleared regularly since the chemicals and salts build up over time and this can be very harmful to your plants. Doing so can be very difficult if not inconvenient since you have to consider the location where you will be disposing your waste water. In an Aquaponics system, you will never have to replace your water all you need to do is to top it off whenever it evaporates.
- Another problem that classic hydroponic systems face is the fact that they are predisposed to certain diseases called root rot or pythium. This particular type of disease does not occur in Aquaponic systems.
The issues you'll commonly encounter with Recirculating Aquaculture
- The tank of a recirculating aquaculture can become polluted with fish waste and this can give off high levels of ammonia. It is for this reason that water needs to be discarded at a rate of ten to twenty percent of its total volume inside the tank every single day. This means you'll be using a considerable amount of water. Once again, if you are using an Aquaponics system you will never have to discard your water.
- The discarded water is channeled into open streams and the domino effect continues on as it destroys and pollutes waterways.
- Since a recirculating aquaculture is an unhealthy milieu for your fish they inevitably become predisposed to diseases and they are often treated with medications like antibiotics. The preponderance of fish disease in an Aquaponic system is very rare which makes it advantageous for your fish and your plants as well.
How Your Aquaponic System Changes Everything
- If you do waist-high Aquaponics gardening it will eliminate back strain, weeds and small animal access to your garden.
- It will recycle resources perceived as waste by other systems. In an Aquaponics system, you won't have to worry about toxic run-off, which you will experience with aquaculture or hydroponics. Learn also why aquaponics is totally organic in one of our articles 5 Ways Aquaponics is an Improvement Over Hydroponics.
- In an Aquaponics system, you are only required to use only 1/10th of the water as compared to soil-based gardening and even lesser amounts of water than recirculating aquaculture and hydroponics.
- Watering is a fundamental aspect of an Aquaponics system. You cannot overwater or underwater it.
- Another important aspect of an Aquaponics system is fertilizing. Fertilizing is needed but you cannot over fertilize and you should not under fertilize.
- You will also cut back on gardening chores. Significantly, there are even some gardening chores that are eliminated completely. Your Aquaponics growing has the capacity to concentrate on the pleasurable tasks of feeding your fish and nurturing and harvesting your plants.
Most systems use toxic chemical solutions and dirt to grow plants. This isn't the case if you have an Aquaponics system. In a typical Aquaponic system, you will use very nutritious fish waste containing all the necessary nutrients needed for your plants to grow optimally. Instead of discarding water, your Aquaponics system uses the plants and the media where they grow in cleaning and purifying the water. After cleaning and purifying it, the water is returned to the fish tank. You can reuse the water in the tank indefinitely and the only time you'll need to replace it is if gets lost through evaporation or transpiration. There are two main ways of Aquaponics growing that are commonly applied today.
- The Raft-Based Aquaponics Growing System: This system makes use of a foam raft that floats in a channel filled with water that contains fish waste. The water has gone through a filtration process to remove solid wastes. The raft has holes this is where plants are placed so their roots can hang freely beneath the surface of the water. This is the most appropriate technique for growing salad greens and other low-nutrient plants.
- The Media-Based Aquaponics System: This is the second method wherein plants are grown inert planting media such as coir, expanded clay pellets and gravel. The media gives the ammonia-based waste (biological) and the solid waste (mechanical) filtration. Therefore, this method requires lesser maintenance compared to raft-based systems. Massive, fruiting plants are grown successfully in this type of system compared to rafts.
- Hybrid Aquaponics: The hybrid Aquaponics is the third method and this method is actually a combination of both the raft-based Aquaponics growing system and the media-based Aquaponics system. In this system, the media beds act as the pre-filter for the solid waste before the water goes into the raft systems. This hybrid system is the main focus of DIY Aquaponics System since it provides high productivity, low maintenance as well as planting flexibility.
The History of Aquaponics
- Way before the Aquaponics was named in the 1970s the Aztec Indians were already growing plants on rafts afloat the late around 1000 A.D
- Modern times Aquaponics came out from the aquaculture industry when fish farmers were looking for ways to raise fish while lowering their reliance on water, land and other resources.
- Customarily the fish were raised and kept in netted pens on ocean coastlines and in large ponds but in the last three decades progress has been made in RAS or recirculating aquaculture systems.
- The nice thing about recirculating aquaculture systems is that fish can be stocked heavily. You can stock a pound of fish for every one gallon of water. Therefore, it uses only a small portion of space and water to grow the same number of fish in netting based systems and in large ponds.
- The disadvantage though is the significant amounts of waste water that accumulates.
- There were researches done in the 1970s on using plants as a natural filter. It began with Doctor James Rakocy at the University of the Virgin Islands.
- The first ever large-scale commercial Aquaponics facility called Bioshelters is located in Amherst, MA. It was established in the middle of 1980s and is still in operation up to this very day.
- The origin of home based Aquaponics was in the early 1990s and it was owed to Tom and Paula Speraneo of the S&S Aquafarms located in West Plains, MO. Both Tom and Paula attentively refined a distinct media bed growing technique that was bespoke for smaller systems. They produced a how-to manual that eventually became a springboard to a lot of home-based systems all over the world.
- There is a growing interest in home Aquaponics in Australia because Aquaponics was found to be a part of a solution to deal with the poor soil conditions and drought that Australians have to constantly deal with.
- Joel Malcom was the one who led the movement by initiating a popular forum called Backyard Aquaponics. He was also the one who created and sold Aquaponic systems that were designed for homeowners. Murray Hallam of Practical Aquaponics later joined Joel Malcom. Hallma also runs a forum and his is known for his series of interesting DVDs concentrating on Aquaponics.
- The Aquaponic Gardening Community was founded in January of 2010. This community has long since been the biggest online place for Aquaponics all over North America.
- The book entitled Aquaponic Gardening created by Sylvia Bernstein was introduced in September of 2011 at the first yearly Aquaponics Association Conference in Florida. It was also at that time that the very first comprehensive guide was made available. It included how to design, build, start and maintain a media-based Aquaponics system. Within thirty days the book Aquaponic Gardening became the best selling book in gardening on Amazon. Furthermore, in less than a year the book was printed 4 times and was able to sell around thirty thousand copies worldwide.
- At the Aquaponics Association Conference in Florida, the Aquaponics Association was officially formed with Gina Cavaliero of Green Acre Aquaponics as well as Sylvia Bernstein of the Aquaponic Source as the founder and inaugural Chair and Vice Chair. The mission of the Association is to endorse and encourage Aquaponics and to continue holding yearly conferences so that Aquaponics aficionados and practitioners all over the world can gather together every year to trade ideas and learn from one another.
- Since the Aquaponics Association is boosting their focus on commercial farming, two years ago in August, the first ever Aquaponics Fest was held purposefully for school and home Aquaponics gardeners.


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Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 2003
0385408188 | 0-385-40818-8 | 978-0385408189 | 978-0-385-40818-9
What on earth is Bill Bryson doing writing a book of popular science–A Short History of Almost Everything? Largely, it appears, because this inquisitive, much-travelled writer realized, while flying over the Pacific, that he was entirely ignorant of the processes that created, populated and continue to maintain the vast body of water beneath him. In fact, it dawned on him that "I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on". The questions multiplied: What is a quark? How can anybody know how much the Earth weighs? How can astrophysicists (or whoever) claim to describe what happened in the first gazillionth of a nanosecond after the Big Bang? Why can't earthquakes be predicted? What makes evolution more plausible than any other theory? In the end, all these boiled down to a single question–how do scientists do science? To this subject Bryson devoted three years of his life, reading books and journals and pestering the people who know (or at least argue about it); and we non-scientists should be pretty grateful to him for passing his findings on to us. Broadly, his investigations deal with seven topics, all of enormous interest and significance: the origins of the universe; the gradual historical discovery of the size and age of the earth (and the beginnings of the awesome notion of deep time); relativity and quantum theory; the present and future threats to life and the planet; the origins and history of life (dinosaurs, mass extinctions and all); and the evolution of man. Within each of these, he looks at the history of the subject, its development into a modern discipline and the frameworks of theory that now support it. This is a pretty broad brief (life, the universe and everything, in fact), and it's a mark of Bryson's skill that he is able to carve a clear path through the thickets of theory and controversy that infest all these disciplines, all the while maintaining a cracking pace and a fairly judicious tone without obvious longueurs or signs of haste. Even readers fairly familiar with some or all of these areas of discourse are likely to learn from A Short History. If not, they will at least be amused–the tone throughout is agreeable, mingling genuine awe with a mild facetiousness that often rises to wit. One compelling theme that appears again and again is the utter unpredictability of the universe, despite all that we think we know about it. Nervous page-turners may care to omit the sensational chapters on the possible ways in which it all might end in disaster–Bryson enumerates with cheerful relish the kind of event that makes you want to climb under the bedclothes: undetectable asteroid colliding with the earth; superheated magma chamber erupting in your back garden; ebola carrier getting off a plane in London or New York; the HIV virus mutating to prevent its destruction in the mosquito's digestive system. Indeed, the chief theme of this sprightly book is the miraculous unlikeliness, in a universe ruled by randomness, of stability and equilibrium–of which one result is ourselves and the complex, fragile planet we inhabit. –Robin Davidson
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Justin is a dancer with extensive experience in regional theater, cruise lines, and auditioning in New York. We talk EPA/ECCs, dance classes, swing tracks, and audition prep. He works awesome gigs and dreams of Broadway!
Celebrate the slings and arrows of pursuing an artistic life in NYC with The Artistic Pursuit Podcast. Join your new friends and mentors Caralie and Daniel for fun conversation with pros & amateurs alike as they break down barriers, demystify the theatrical industry, and more!
DANIEL is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and holds a degree in Theater Performance from Louisiana State University. In New York he has performed at Here, The Bridge Theater and Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios, the McKibbin Lofts in Bushwick, and an apartment on 145th street in a site specific production of The Glass Menagerie. He has directed works for FringeNYC, the Duct Tape and A Dream festival produced by Roots and Wings Theatrical, and The Barrow Street Theater's reading series. He has served as artistic director for Renegade Shakespeare Co. in Baton Rouge and Royal Jelly Entertainment in Brooklyn.
CARALIE is a technical recruiter at Flatiron School (a WeWork Company). Before entering into tech, she was a Talent Manager at Davis/Spylios Management in New York City representing actors in theater, film, and television. She has freelanced as a casting assistant and associate and served as Casting and Programs Director of the Off-Off Broadway Company Roots and Wings Theatrical. As a writer her plays have been produced in Tongue and Cheek's Plus 1 Fall Festival, LSU's Outworks Festival, Duct Tape and Dream Festival, Going to Tahiti Reading Series, and Artistic New Directions' Go Solo Festival. As a performer she's worked on multiple Off-Off Broadway shows as well as Swine Palace in Louisiana. She has a B.A. in Theatre Performance from LSU.
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REI Adventure: Part 2; Zipplining and Cerro Chato Hike
Our Adventure continues as we head off to do some zipplining 600 feet above the canopy!!! The next day we head off for a long hike over the Cerro Chato Volcano. There is a lagoon in the crater. Lauren, Jared, and Jeramy swim across. We finish the hike in a way that I have never done before and assuring (as if it was needed) that REI adventure trips are amazing. We round the last corner of our hike and stroll onto a working farm/ plantation/ hotel. There infront of us is a pool, a buffet lunch of fajitas, and a cooler full of ice cold beers. Good way to end a long hot hike.Read More


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Former state Rep. Kent Grusendorf will return to a Travis County courtroom again in early January when the school funding trial resumes, ready to put on his case for more efficiency in the public schools of Texas.
The former Arlington Republican shared his perspective in this recent San Antonio Express-News story.
Most Texas schools sued the state on claims that state lawmakers are not providing adequate funding to meet academic standards or that the funding is unequal. Courts have ruled in the past that school districts must have substantially the same amount of revenue for equal taxing effort.
The funding gap has grown dramatically over the years.
Grusendorf does not focus on the equity aspect of school funding.
"There's probably not anyone in this courtroom who grew up poorer than me," Grusendorf says. "Without an education, where would I be today?"
He grew up in Avoco, near Stanford, and did not have electricity until he entered the first grade. His mom, without a high school education, was widowed with three children and pregnant with a fourth child.
"I was raised on red beans and corn bread,' Grusendorf says.
Grusendorf, a conservative Republican, credits 250th district court Judge John Dietz for his handling of the trial.
"I've never seen anybody as focused on the issues as he seems to be on this. I have a great deal of respect for him," Grusendorf says. "He's smart, a hard-working judge and he appears to be very fair. He appears to me that he's the kind of guy you want on the bench.
"In a judge you want somebody who's going to be fair and diligent and who takes his work seriously. And I give him an A-plus on all three of those," he says.
The Texas Constitution highlights the purpose of public education in Art. 7, Sect. 1 as necessary to preserve the liberties and rights of the people.
"It's not to put in place a school system," Grusendorf says. "It's to protect the rights and liberties of the people. In order to do that, we established a system of educating our kids."
Grusendorf said he would not be sitting in the courtroom were it not for school children.
"I am not nearly as sympathetic toward institutions as I am toward kids," said.
Grusendorf's only child committed suicide while a high school senior more than 30 years ago.
"You never get over it. It's tough. I can be driving down the highway and start balling," he says. "We all care about everything they do when you are raising a child. And after something like that, you spend a lot of time analyzing what you did wrong."
Grusendorf, who has been watching public education in Texas for more than 30 years, is discouraged by the state's slow embrace of technology..
"I think we have made some real progress on accountability, but I think we are still one or two decades behind in the use of technology in education versus other professions," he says. "Everybody else is using technology to improve productivity and efficiency. In education, we are barely scratching the surface when it comes to technology."
Grusendorf's legal team will call several education experts after the trial resumes on Jan. 7. The key witness will be Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Hanushek"s research covers the areas as the impact of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, equity and efficiency in school finance, and class size reduction along with the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development. Others include Paul Hill from the Center for Reinventing Education; Allan Park from the Justice Foundation of San Antonio; and Don McAdams, founder and president of the Center for Reform of School Systems and former school board member for the Houston ISD.


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If you have The New iPad then certainly by now you've fallen in love with that densely packed screen. It's absolutely gorgeous and what better way to take advantage of all those pixels than to use it as a secondary display for your Mac or PC? That's what I've been doing, and though the experience isn't perfect, it definitely is gratifying to see my MacBook sharing a desktop wirelessly with my multipurpose iPad. Unfortunately the feature isn't built in to iOS or OS X — at least not yet — but with a handy little App for iOS called Air Display you can expand or even mirror your desktop with the greatest of ease.
Air Display is available on the App store for $9.99. Simply download it to your iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone then head over to avatron.com to download the companion app for OS X. Once installed, a new icon will appear in the menu bar of your Mac. From here you can turn the Air Display service on, which acts as the conduit between your iOS device and Mac. You can also enable settings such as Turn Air Display On or Off, Auto Connect, Select The Device You Would Like To Share Your Display With, and Access Preference.
After installing Air Display on the iOS device you wish to use as a second display, you will then be able to access the device from the drop-down menu on your Mac. Selecting the iOS device from the list will initiate the connection wirelessly, and just like that, your iPad transforms into a fully functioning second display for your Mac. Additionally you can control your Mac using the touch screen of your iOS device allowing you to take your Mac with you around the house or office.
I highly recommend you check out this App. It's been recently updated to support the Retina display of The New iPad and has become a great asset to my box of Apple tools.


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How to customize Forrest CSS WYSIWYG-style
Intended Audience
Users who want to customize the Forrest look and feel or simply experiment with changing certain CSS-styles settings to see what happens.
A major part of Forrest's look and feel is controlled by a few CSS style sheets. Since Forrest allows you to override these settings, changing the CSS is a quick and easy alternative to creating (and maintaining) a whole new skin.
You'll learn how to use free tools to change and experiment with styles in a WYSIWYG way, so that you can immediately see what effect changing a CSS property will have on the look and feel of your Forrest.
To follow these instructions you will need:
- Browser-access to the Forrest-site you want
to experiment with. Starting with a new 'forrest seed' site is
good for your first attempt.
NoteYou can even experiment with Forrest's core skins CSS. Please send patches if you enhance something.
- The current version of the free Mozilla Firefox-Browser installed on your system. If you don't already use it, you can download it from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
- The Firefox-PlugIn EditCSS. It downloads
and installs in just a few seconds from the
Install-Link at http://editcss.mozdev.org/
NoteWith standard security settings in place, Firefox will pop up a line at the top of the window because this site has by default no permission to install plugins on your computer. Click "Edit Options" and then "Allow" to change that, then click on the Install-link again. Don't forget to close and restart Firebird when the installation is finished.
- A basic understanding of CSS and access to a good CSS-reference. Tutorials and Reference can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/.
Open your Forrest
Start your Firefox Browser and open the Forrest you'd like to work on/play with.
The page you have pointed to will show up in Firefox's main window.
Open the EditCSS-Sidebar
Select View-Sidebar-EditCSS from Firefox's main menu to open the EditCSS sidebar.
The EditCSS sidebar will show next to the main window and load all the styles from the main page.
Change any CSS
Change any style you'd like to experiment with or add new settings and styles of your choice by simply editing the text of the sidebar.
EditCSS pushes any change you make in the sidebar right back into the style-settings of the main window, so that effects will show right away.
How to save changes?
Since it takes a few explanations to apply the changes to your Forrest, I've made this the topic of yet another HowTo called "Howto change and extend Forrest-CSS"
Feedback and further development of this How-To
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Yes, there just happens to be a giant heart-infested holiday coming right around the corner that many consider to be the biggest date night of the year. In its honor I have rounded up a short list of restaurants where the ambience is such that couples mooning across the table at each other are as much a fixture as dimmer switches and candlelight.
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I admit, I lean a little Italian-heavy on this subject—but hey, it's not my fault. Those two dogs bumping muzzles from opposite ends of a spaghetti noodle are just way too convincing.
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Regardless, these hot spots have some of the sexiest tables in town and each has its own way of turning up the heat. Some may be doing special Valentine's Day menus and seatings—check in soon with individual restaurants for specials and reservations.
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Boat Street Cafe
With its gently twinkling lights, generously-spaced tables and air of seclusion, it's easy to feel like you, your love and the velvety French country pâté sitting between you are the only things that exist in the whole world. boatstreetcafe.com
The cozy quarters, offbeat décor, charmingly quirky waitstaff and ravioli dishes named 'Happy Sausage Pillows' may just make you want to go home and do something cozy, offbeat, and charmingly quirky involving happy, sausage, and pillows. bizzarroitaliancafe.com
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Refined seasonal Northern Italian fare in a casual neighborhood setting make this a local go-to spot for a candlelit dinner at its outposts in both Wallingford and Bellevue. cantinettaseattle.com, cantinettabellevue.com
Greenwood's beloved vegetarian mainstay delivers on both sumptuously seasonal and local fare as well as an ooh-la-la atmosphere thanks to proprietors Kathryn Neuman and Michael Hughes' shared background in painting and art. carmelita.net
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La Bête
We're talking layers of pure romance here, where exposed-brick and wrought-iron Old World charm mingle with come-hither background music and a meat-heavy menu to bring out the sexy beast in all of us. labeteseattle.com
If the words "James" and "Beard" turn you on, chef Johnathan Sundstrom's award-winning food will have you ooh-ing and ahh-ing with its eclectic mix of intriguing culinary artistry. Just make sure Chef isn't the only object of your affection. larkseattle.com
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La Rustica
Sometimes I like to divide the world of couples into two different camps: those who know about West Seattle's hidden date night gem, and those who don't. You may be elbow-to-elbow with the other pairs who patronize the Alki lair of love for its classic Northern Italian deliciousness and oozing charm, but you're all part of the same club, so who cares. larusticarestaurant.com
Le Grand Bistro Américain
Scott Emerick (of Madrona's dearly-departed Crémant) helms the kitchen at Kirkland's Carillon Point French bistro, assuring that the meal you experience here is every bit as enjoyable as the stunning Lake Washington view. bistrolegrand.com
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Wallingford's most eye-catching Thai restaurant has that most masterful ability to transport you to another place. The food is a cut above your average Thai (the normally humble Pad Thai gets a very royal tableside presentation here), the cocktails are refreshingly elegant and it's one of the most affordable date nights around. maythaiseattle.com
Monsoon East
For fans of Eric and Sophie Bahn's sophisticated Vietnamese fare, the Eastside version, which trades the pristine air of the Capitol Hill location for a warmer, more romantic vibe, is the place for lovers. Start with some selections from the raw bar to set the mood setting on "sexy" from the get-go. monsooneast.com
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When it comes to date night, there's nothing like eating off the same plate to make you feel closer. Jerry Traunfeld's herbacious Indian thali-style dinners marry Northwest ingredients with an exotic flare for the perfect combination of comfort and adventure. poppyseattle.com
Walrus & The Carpenter
Had enough with the subtle innuendos? Then spend your V-Day night slurping down the ultimate of all aphrodisiac foods (well, that are legal in the U.S.) at Ballard's raw oyster palace. Start your evening by ordering the Mustache Ride from the cocktail menu, just to make sure we're clear what's going on here. thewalrusbar.com
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Trivia Mondays @ Unmapped w/ Trivia Mafia!
October 22, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Start the week off right with Trivia Mondays at Unmapped hosted by JD! Bring your crew and compete for bar tabs and other semi-fabulous prizes. Trivia starts at 7:30pm and runs about two hours. Best of all, it's free to play! See you there!


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Sorry. Gotta take a "me" moment in this month of celebrating mostly other people's poetry. Poetry Breakfast is one of my favorite online journals, and they honored me by publishing one of my poems this morning. You can read it on their site along with other fine poems (and follow their site to get a poem for breakfast every morning) or read it here.
I lost summer somewhere
in the wildflowers, woke
to trees blushing at my disregard,
wind hurrying the clouds along.
I should have seen the signs.
I watched geese abandon their twigged
April nests, pin-feathered goslings
ripple ponds listless with July. Now they rise
gray against the gray sky, skeining south
before first snows.
I'll stay here, I tell them. I'll air out
cedared cardigans, chop carrots
for the soup tonight, cross
the threshold of the equinox,
try not to stumble.
Sarah Russell
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The New SPIRITFIT APP is designed to monitor and record your workout data through an integrated Bluetooth 4.0 module that is compatible with most iOS and Android mobile devices.
Simply download the SPIRITFIT APP, set up the account, pair with your SPIRIT FITNESS equipment, then you're ready to track your workout schedule, design your workout plan, and set your workout program.
All of your personal profile and exercise data will be stored in your mobile device. During your workout you can watch a movie, catch up on news, and check your email while the SPIRITFIT APP continues to record your exercise data in the background.
The SPIRITFIT APP also communicates with Fitbit, iHealth, RECORD, MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and other open source training apps so you can continue using the fitness apps that you are familiar with and keep all your workout history in one safe place.


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I am sharing a few little projects today.
First up is my tag no 5 for the 12 tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie style. You can find all the details for this challenge by clicking the link.
here. Her tag is much longer, so she could fit much more on, but I also used some lace and a poinsettia flower. The central image is one of the beautiful designs from Nicecrane, Happy Christmas by Bowley DSC, love this vintage black and white image. I cut it with a Spellbinder die.
Here are some details still.
The tag challenge is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique and doesn't close until December 22, so there is still plenty of time to play, even though Linda is up to tag 6 already.
While playing with the Nicecrane images I decided to also make a couple of little gift bags, using one of my new Sizzix Tim Holtz dies
I used images from the Vintage Christmas Cards set, mounted them on a Spellbinder die cut and then attached them to the bags with a little tag.
Quick, easy and fun to do, and a great little gift to have on hand (filled with a few cookies) for little visitors at Christmas time.
Well, that's it. Hope everyone is having a good week. I'm rather busy right now, so it will be quiet here for a few days, but I'll try and get around to see what you are all up to.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard unveils attack drone
Iran unveiled on Friday an unmanned attack aircraft it described as its most sophisticated drone to date that can reach much of the Middle East, including Israel.
Revolutionary Guard chief, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, called the missile-carrying plane a "strategic asset" for the military to protect Iran's borders.
The military says the Shahed-129, or Witness-129, has a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles), a 24-hour non-stop flight capability and can carry eight bombs or missiles capable of hitting both stationary and moving targets.
Iran frequently makes announcements about strides in military technology, but it is virtually impossible to independently determine the actual capabilities or combat worthiness of the weapons it produces.
"Our scientists, through scientific struggle, have built Iran's most strategic unmanned plane," Jafari said in remarks posted on the guard's website on Friday. He said the drone was designed and built using entirely home-grown technology.
State TV showed video of the drone flying. It said Jafari has ordered mass production of the unmanned plane.
"This smart technology (drone) can do the job of thousands of soldiers, military posts and border guards ... and protect the security of the borders," the website quoted him as saying.
Jafari also said Guard experts have finished reverse-engineering a top secret CIA RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Iran captured intact in December 2011. Iran has also claimed to have captured at least three American ScanEagle drone aircraft that violated the Iranian airspace.
Jafari said an Iranian copy of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone will be built soon.
"In the near future, you will hear good news on the building of an Iranian replica of the RQ-170," he said.
A senior Revolutionary Guard commander, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said the Shahed-129 was capable of monitoring for up to 200 kilometers.
Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard's aerospace division, said the attacking drone has also civilian uses such as taking aerial photos for agricultural and environmental purposes.
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[Editor's note: Just in time for the midterms, The Washington Post has relaunched our online politics section, including a nifty interactive map by Kat Downs (lead), Dan Keating, Karen Yourish and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso. The map starts off on House races but also tracks Senate and Governor races. It's zoomable, panable, has a time slider for past election results. The original linework was generalized using MapShaper.org with manual adjustments to blend in detailed urban districts with more generalized rural districts, resulting in smaller file size, quicker load time, and less ambiguity on which district is which. Please email us with questions or suggestions.]
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Will Republicans take control of the house in 2010? Use this map to track all 435 House races, analyse past election results, and drill down to district level data. Post reporters Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza will weigh in regularly on the 25 races you need to know about. SOURCES: Federal Election Commission, U.S. Census Bureau.
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Farmers should take extra precautions so drifting herbicides do not create unintended consequences on neighboring fields and farms, according to agricultural researchers.
The researchers found a range of effects — positive, neutral and negative — when they sprayed the herbicide dicamba on old fields — ones that are no longer used for cultivation — and on field edges, according to J. Franklin Egan, research ecologist, USDA-Agricultural Research Service. He said the effects should be similar for a related compound, 2,4-D.
"The general consensus is that the effects of the increased use of these herbicides are going to be variable," said Egan. "But, given that there is really so much uncertainty, we think that taking precautions to prevent herbicide drift is the right way to go."
Farmers are expected to use dicamba and 2,4-D on their fields more often in the near future because biotechnology companies are introducing crops genetically modified to resist those chemicals. From past experience, 2,4-D and dicamba are the herbicides most frequently involved in herbicide-drift accidents, according to the researchers.
Because the herbicides typically target broadleaf plants, such as wildflowers, they are not as harmful to grasses, Egan said. In the study, the researchers found grasses eventually dominated the field edge test site that was once a mix of broadleaf plants and grass. The old field site showed little response to the herbicide treatments.
Herbicide drift was also associated with the declines of three species of herbivores, including pea aphids, spotted alfalfa aphids and potato leaf hoppers, and an increase in a pest called clover root curculio, Egan said. The researchers found more crickets, which are considered beneficial because they eat weed seeds, in the field edge site.
The researchers, who report their findings in the current issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, did not see a drop in the number of pollinators, such as bees, in the fields. However, the relatively small size of the research fields limited the researchers' ability to measure the effect on pollinators, according to Egan.
"That may be because pollinators are very mobile and the spatial scale of our experiment may not be big enough to show any effects," Egan said.
Farmers can cut down on herbicide drift by taking a few precautions, according to Egan. They can spray low-volatility herbicide blends, which are less likely to turn to vapors, and use a nozzle design on the sprayer that produces larger droplets that do not easily drift in the wind.
Egan also recommended that farmers follow application restrictions printed on herbicide labels and try to spray on less windy days when possible.
The tests were conducted on two farms in Pennsylvania. One field edge site was located near a forest and alfalfa field. The old field was an acre plot near Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research farm.
Egan worked with Eric Bohnenblust, doctoral candidate in entomology; John Tooker, assistant professor of entomology and extension specialist, and David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, all of Penn State, and Sarah Goslee, U.S. Department of Agriculture ecologist.
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Released alongside iHome's iStand, the iConnect is an iPhone-ready keyboard with a built-in dock that allows you to sync and charge your iPhone/iPods automatically from the peripheral.
There are different two versions of the keyboard built for Windows and Macs, and although they both contain two USB ports, the Mac's version has extra keys that allow you to quickly access applications such as iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari and Front Row. For $150, you can purchase the iConnect sometime this summer. [Lifeworks via CNet via iPodNN via Technabob]


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Motherhood is a full-time job with responsibilities that range from caretaker to home chef, which is why Mother's Day is hardly enough time to thank the mothers in our lives for everything they do. Making the day memorable is certainly a good start, and there are plenty of ways to do just that. For instance, assemble an assortment of homemade dishes and beverages for a celebratory brunch.
With a hint of vanilla and some added pineapple, a fresh pitcher of Orange Juice Plus goes above and beyond orange juice of the commercial variety. A Bellini or Sparkling Champagne Smoothie is a refreshingly delicious way to incorporate a champagne toast into your day.
Any of the following recipes makes a great addition to your brunch spread:
- Chocolate Hazelnut Spread: Offer toast, fruit, or crepes to accompany this creamy mix of chocolate and hazelnuts.
- Potato Cheddar Breakfast Bake: A breakfast casserole is essential to any brunch. Try this easy-to-make bake.
- Apple-Raisin Cracked Wheat Cereal: With whole kernel wheat, apple, raisins, and cinnamon, this cereal offers whole grain goodness in every spoonful.
- Waffles: These light, fluffy waffles come together quickly for a weekend family breakfast. Serve with your favorite fresh fruit syrup.
- Pancakes: Top these fluffy, whole-grain pancakes with a fresh fruit syrup, also made in your Vitamix.
- Vanilla Custard Sauce: This basic dessert sauce is perfect on fruit, topping cake, or included in your favorite trifle recipe.
- Strawberry Syrup: Create your own fresh strawberry syrup, perfect for homemade ice cream, pancakes, crepes, or waffles.
- Bellini: With a fresh peach, peach schnapps, and champagne, this Venice native is one of Italy's most popular cocktails. Garnish with a peach slice or cherry.
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A good reminder that neither the Church nor its members chooses who will be evangelized and saved. God's grace invites very soul. The question is: are we on board with the effort?
27. Evangelization will also always contain – as the foundation, center, and at the same time, summit of its dynamism – a clear proclamation that, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, who died and rose from the dead, salvation is offered to all (people), as a gift of God's grace and mercy.[Cf. Eph 2:8; Rom 1:16. Cf. Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaratio ad fidem tuendam in mysteria Incarnationis et SS. Trinitatis e quibusdam recentibus erroribus (21 February 1972): AAS 64 (1972), pp. 237-241] And not an immanent salvation, meeting material or even spiritual needs, restricted to the framework of temporal existence and completely identified with temporal desires, hopes, affairs and struggles, but a salvation which exceeds all these limits in order to reach fulfillment in a communion with the one and only divine Absolute: a transcendent and eschatological salvation, which indeed has its beginning in this life but which is fulfilled in eternity.
Salvation is begun by the events of evangelization. But evangelization itself is but the start of a "transcendant and eschatological" journey. What does that mean? Certainly not that believers are absolved of a certain urgency, an initiative to cast our nets. But we don't have to rely on the finished product coming from our own hands either. The mystery of salvation might require we sponsor no conversions to Christ, but that we plant a lot of seeds, knowing that some of that effort will take root and others will reap for the Reign of God. The ultimate realization of the Reign of God will be realized not even if or when every human being acclaims Christ, but when we gather in the final fulfillment of God's plan–whatever that looked like.


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Acting Secretary Blank met with a group of Brazilian CEOs to hear their
priorities for doing business with
the U.S. and to propose possible areas for close collaboration
with American businesses. One area in which U.S. and Brazilian firms can
work together is on infrastructure development, which is one reason why Acting Secretary
Blank is currently leading a trade mission of 20 U.S. firms in a wide range of
infrastructure industry sectors to Brazil, Colombia and Panama. These companies
offer everything from cutting-edge technologies to top-notch services in
engineering, management consulting, and more -- and they are well equipped
to help Brazil meet its robust goals for infrastructure improvements.
Acting Secretary Blank emphasized the importance of a strong bilateral investment relationship -- many global manufacturers, including some in Brazil, are now looking to return manufacturing operations to the U.S., to expand operations here, or to invest in the U.S. for the first time. That´s because there are a host of factors that make America a very attractive place to do business: low domestic energy costs and a stable supply of energy, high labor productivity, strong research institutions that can serve as partners in developing new products, intellectual property protections, and a stable business investment environment.
Foreign-based companies that invest directly in the U.S.economy create high-quality, well-paid jobs for American workers by building new facilities, provide for research and development and growing warehouses, sales offices and service centers. That is why the Obama Administration launched a new program in 2011, housed at the Department of Commerce, to increase investment in America: SelectUSA. This fall, SelectUSA will lead the first-ever "Investment Summit," in Washington, DC from October 31 to November 1, which Acting Secretary Blank encouraged the Brazilian CEOs to attend in order to gain insights on how to start or expand operations in the United States. This Investment Summit will bring together international companies and U.S. economic development leaders from many states and communities to highlight the numerous and increasingly-attractive benefits of investing in the United States.
SelectUSA provides information assistance to the global investment community, serves as an ombudsman for investors, and advocates for U.S. cities, states, and regions competing for global investment. It serves as a single point of contact at the federal level for investors and economic development organizations to provide counseling on investment attraction strategy, how to start a business, access federal resources, and/or navigating U.S. Government regulations.
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May 5, 2017, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Join us as we celebrate Shabbat with the Shir Atid Youth Choir, Cantor Eichaker and UH Artist-in-Residence, Rick Recht, during our lively Shabbat Alive! service. Rick is one of the most celebrated Jewish musicians of our time playing family concerts, religious school concerts and teen concerts throughout the United States and Abroad.
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In July of 2003, Jeremy Brown, a.k.a. DJ Reset, took apart a song. Using digital software, Brown isolated instrumental elements of "Debra," a song by Beck from his 1999 album "Midnite Vultures." Brown, who is thirty-three and has studied with Max Roach, adjusted the tempo of "Debra" and added live drums and human beat-box noises that he recorded at his small but tidy house in Long Island City. Then he sifted through countless a-cappella vocals archived on several hard drives. Some a-cappellas are on commercially released singles, specifically intended for d.j. use, while others appear on the Internet, having been leaked by people working in the studio where the song was recorded, or sometimes even by the artist.
After auditioning almost a thousand vocals, Brown found that an a-cappella of "Frontin'," a collaboration between the rapper Jay-Z and the producer Pharrell Williams, was approximately in the same key as "Debra." The two songs are not close in style—"Debra" is a tongue-in-cheek take on seventies soul music, while "Frontin' " is hard and shimmering computer music—but the vocalists are doing something similar. Brown exploited this commonality, and used his software to put the two singers exactly in tune.
Both Beck and Williams are singing in an impaired but enthusiastic shower-stall falsetto. Williams's goofy come-on—"Don't wanna sound full of myself or rude, but you ain't looking at no other dudes, because you love me"—is both musically and conceptually in sync with Beck's own daft chorus: "Girl, I wanna get with you, and your sister. I think her name is Debra." Brown's collage sounds not like two songs stitched together but one single theme song for inept Romeos everywhere. After several months of work, he completed the track, called it "Frontin' on Debra," and posted it on his Web site. With an enthusiastic push from Beck, "Frontin' on Debra" was made commercially available in October on iTunes.
"Frontin' on Debra" is an example of a "mashup," in which, generally, the vocal from one song is laid over the music from another. The best-known mashup in the United States is an unauthorized album-length project called "The Grey Album," assembled by Brian Burton, known professionally as Danger Mouse. The vocals are from Jay-Z's "The Black Album," and the musical bed is a highly processed and reorganized version of the Beatles' "White Album." Occasionally compelling, "The Grey Album" is not a great example of a mashup, because the musical bed is processed so radically that its source is sometimes not clear. One of the thrills of the mashup is identifying two well-known artists unwittingly complementing each other's strengths and limitations: bacchanalian rapper Missy Elliott combined with morose English rock band Joy Division, ecstatic Madonna working with furious Sex Pistols. The most celebrated mashups are melodically tuned, positing a harmonic relationship between, say, Madonna's voice and the Sex Pistols' guitars.
Mashups find new uses for current digital technology, a new iteration of the cause-and-effect relationship behind almost every change in pop-music aesthetics: the gear changes, and then the music does. If there is an electric guitar of mashup, it is a software package called Acid Pro, which enables one to put loops of different songs both in time and in tune with each other. Mark Vidler, known professionally as Go Home Productions, explained some other benefits of digital technology to me in London not long ago: "You don't need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don't need a record label, because it's your bedroom, and you don't need a recording studio, because that's your computer. You do it all yourself."
A legally cleared album of mashups called "Collision Course" is currently in the Billboard Top Ten. It is a sort of "Black Album" footnote, a combination of Jay-Z's work on "The Black Album" and other albums, and the music of Linkin Park, the multiplatinum rock band. "Collision Course" is not a particularly good mashup—Linkin Park's adequate rhyming and bleating vocals only detract from Jay-Z's authority and swing—but it's a good example of why major record labels have taken so long to embrace the form.
As Jennifer Justice, of Carroll, Guido & Groffman, Jay-Z's law firm, explained, "Jay's song '99 Problems' uses two huge samples and has four different credited publishers. That's before you've added anyone else's music to it, which would be yet another publisher or two. Making a mashup with that song means the label issuing the mashup has to convince all the publishers involved to take a reduction in royalty—otherwise, it won't be profitable for the label. The publishers are not going to agree to this if we're not talking about two huge artists. With Jay-Z and Linkin, it's like found money, but less well known artists might not be sexy enough or big enough." This may be true, but lawyers and considerations of profit have little to do with how mashups happen, or why they keep happening.
In April of 2000, an English bass player and MTV v.j. named Eddy Temple-Morris inaugurated a radio show called "The Remix" on London's XFM network. A remix, traditionally, was simply a song taken apart and enhanced by the addition of new elements but not actually combined with another song. Temple-Morris played remixes, many of them rock songs reworked by dance-world producers, and mashups made by friends of his like the producer Garret (Jacknife) Lee. By the end of the year, Temple-Morris was receiving unsolicited CD-Rs from people using aliases like McSleazy and Osymyso.
In October of 2001, a d.j. named Roy Kerr, calling himself the Freelance Hellraiser, sent Temple-Morris a mashup called "A Stroke of Genius," laying Christina Aguilera's vocal from "Genie in a Bottle," a lubricious pop song, over the music from the Strokes' "Hard to Explain," a brittle, honking guitar song. "Stroke" is a perfect pop song, better than either of its sources. What was harmonically sweet in the original songs becomes huge and complex in the combination. Aguilera's vocal is an unabashedly expressive ode to her sexuality, and her control over it. (She will unleash the genie from her bottle only if rubbed the right way.) The Strokes' track is compressed and jittery, as if made by hipster robots, but the chord changes are lovely. The original vocal, by Julian Casablancas, is a good rock snarl, but it is a delivery more of attitude than information. Each song targets a demographic that wants nothing to do with the other—teen-agers texting their friends while cruising the mall, and twenty-somethings drinking cheap beer in expensive New York bars—but Hellraiser brokers an amazing musical détente between the two styles. Stripped of "Genie in a Bottle" 's electronic beats, Aguilera's sex-kitten pose dissipates, and she becomes vulnerable, even desperate. The opening lines now sound less like strip-club small talk and more like a damsel pining from a tower: "I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century of lonely nights, waiting for someone to release me." After another line, she shifts into a wordless "oh, oh" that lays over the Strokes' chord changes so deliciously you can't imagine why the song didn't always do that. After hearing it twice, you can't remember when it didn't.
In fact, "A Stroke of Genius" is so good that it eventually led Freelance Hellraiser to do official remixes for Aguilera and others, and he has just completed, at Paul McCartney's invitation, an entire album of McCartney remixes. "Stroke" also inspired a fourteen-year-old named Daniel Sheldon to start a Web site called boomselection.info. "The Remix" remains England's main hub for mashups, but the rest of the world is being served through Sheldon's site and getyourbootlegon.com, a message board started by Grant McSleazy, who recently graduated to doing legitimate remixes of Britney Spears.
I visited Temple-Morris at the XFM studios in Central London in October. He is a tall, rangy man who gestures quickly and smiles almost constantly. His basic mode is deep enthusiasm and his favorite word is "love," which he uses without irony. "We get our wrists slapped by the record companies and publishing companies and whatever," he said. "But these days there's much more love, there's much less paranoia."
Temple-Morris was broadcasting "The Remix" as we talked. He moved briskly behind the console, speaking continuously to the seven or eight people in the room. In mid-conversation, he smiled, nodded, and leaned toward the microphone. The "on air" light went on without warning, and the track playing in the studio cut off abruptly.
"Love it. Want to take it out to dinner. Wanna marry it. There are some tunes, I don't know what it is, it's the rolling beat, it's that incredible bass line, it's just, there's something really, really sexy about this record. And so I thought, I've got to play you a new really sexy record that I found."
Temple-Morris proceeded to play a record that, under normal circumstances, would have seemed fairly sexy, but, following his salesmanship, sounded like the National Anthem of Sex. This is Temple-Morris's gift: he was born to the job of loving music and persuading others to love it as much as he does.
Also in the room was Mark Vidler, a.k.a. Go Home Productions, one of the more reliable mashup-makers. Once a graphic designer working for a company that made travel pillows, and long before that a guitarist in a rock band called Chicane, Vidler, too, was converted in October of 2001. "I heard 'A Stroke of Genius' on the radio and I thought, That's clever. I could do that," he said. By April of 2002, Vidler was making his own mashups. His first was called "Slim McShady," a combination of Eminem and Wings. "I created it on a Saturday, posted it on the Tuesday, and got played on the radio that Friday, on 'The Remix.' "
Vidler is responsible for several mashups that have the same uncanny brilliance as "Stroke of Genius." "Girl Wants (to Say Goodbye to) Rock and Roll" brings Christina Aguilera back to sing over the Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll." "Ray of Gob" combines Madonna's "Ray of Light" and the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen," and both Madonna and the Pistols admired it.
Mashup artists like Vidler, Kerr, and Brown have found a way of bringing pop music to a formal richness that it only rarely reaches. See mashups as piracy if you insist, but it is more useful, viewing them through the lens of the market, to see them as an expression of consumer dissatisfaction. Armed with free time and the right software, people are rifling through the lesser songs of pop music and, in frustration, choosing to make some of them as good as the great ones. ♦