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The Echo of the Culture Wars in the Obama-Clinton FightNews at Home
I've been trying to figure out the philosophical predicates of the opposition to Obama's candidacy—as attentive readers of HNN will know—and I've noted that the opposition coming from the Left is deeply rooted in Enlightenment values or discoveries, particularly in the correspondence theory of truth (which tells us that ideas are the copies and words are the transcriptions of an external reality).
So I think it might be worth going further down this genealogical road, as a way of emphasizing just how hegemonic the Left has become, of mapping its present political contours, and of predicting its political future.
I don't want to corroborate the paranoia of right-wing talk radio by implying that the American Left is a monolithic movement for socialism. It's not—it's no less divided against itself than the Republican coalition that elected (sort of) the malingerer-in-chief, George W. Bush. Like the New Right, its intellectual reach exceeds any political party, program, or voting bloc; there are self-appointed libertarians, for example, who vote for left-wing Democrats, and there are avowed socialists who vote for the reactionary Ralph Nader. Unlike the New Right, however, the Left has a solid purchase on the future of American politics—maybe a franchise.
Even so, a large part of the American Left opposes Obama, just as a large part of the Right opposes McCain. Why? I sense that the opposition to (the enthusiasm of) Obama's supporters derives from the Enlightenment notion that rhetoric as such is the enemy of truth-telling, particularly in politics but also in other areas of discourse. I sense that the opposition wants more attention paid to "material realities," as they are called, and less attention paid to linguistic ornamentation.
According to the Enlightenment logic of this opposition to Obama, if we looked through the candidates, rather than at them—rather than at their surfaces—we would be better able to have an informed opinion, and would know that Clinton was the better candidate. We would know that she has real experience and solid programs, while he has only empty rhetoric, just words.
According to the same Enlightenment logic, grace, rhythm, timbre, timing, style, gesture, expression, etc., all the qualities we look and listen for in, say, a singer, should be overlooked or forgotten when we evaluate a politician. By this rigorous accounting, we're supposed to be looking through the person as if he—or she—is not there. We're supposed to be reading the lyrics, not listening to the song and meanwhile watching the singer.
Aside from the mere impossibility of such extreme abstraction from the living, breathing human being who is right there in front of you—or, to put it another way, aside from the mere imbecility of looking past the person who's talking (or singing) to you—there is another difficulty, and it goes like this. The man or woman who is the candidate or the senator or the president is the interpreter and the voice of the policies written out by clerks like us. He can't phone it in, and she has to sell it. As president, he or she will also be the embodiment of America abroad.
Why, then, would we want to repress his or her bodily presence in the name of something deeper, something more programmatic, more truthful, more substantial? To get down to dangerous cases, why would we want to insist that Obama's race—or Clinton's gender—has nothing to do with our choices? Don't we want to make history with our choices?
Well of course we do, unless we pretend to be color-blind, or pretend to be immune to centuries of misogyny We always pay close attention to the performer and the performance, because we don't read lyrics, we hear music. In fact, we respond to the music even when we don't get the lyrics, whether they're complicated ("Like a Rolling Stone") or unintelligible ("Louie, Louie") or meaningless ("Tutti-Frutti"), or, lest this litany place me beyond the pale of the present, all three: try on Amy Winehouse.
In hearing the music—in your hearing, except it's not—a world elsewhere suddenly appears. It's a strange place removed from where you are right now, with all its quotidian idiocies and attendant atrocities, and it feels both familiar and bizarre: it makes you feel both home and alone, all at once. You can probably dance to it. You might even be able to play along. Either way, you're identifying with something you're not.
That's why rhetoric is never empty, and why music has no limit. Both make us listen in a very particular way. In your listening, your expectations are aroused specifically, by gestures, intonations, and generic codes, like when you hear, say, country music, and you know that tragedy is impending, you know that hope is improbable but necessary, you know that resignation is your role in this desperate life. Or when you hear the blues, and you know that the impending tragedy will be turned to comedy—not humor, comedy—with that last lyrical riff, that last satisfying chord in the familiar progression.
Or when you listen to a sermon or a symphony in silence because you know that's the proper response to the performance of the preacher or the maestro. You know what to do before you get to the church or the auditorium. The sounds you hear first elicit and then confirm your expectations—sometimes with delightful surprises attached, usually not.
But here's the thing. Which space, what sounds, do the candidates create? What are you going to do with Hillary Clinton? Her experience and competence and grim resolve and hard work and late hours—also her finger-pointing, and I don't mean this metaphorically, I mean her signature gesture on stage—tell me that she's going to do something for you. She can deliver the goods because she's been through and been toughened by the culture wars. She has solid programs, not empty rhetoric and flowery speeches, and that, for you, is at it should be. She's not cool, but she understands the material realities of our time.
Now when I ask, "What are you going to do with Hillary Clinton?" I don't mean to return us to the question of who'd you rather have a beer with. Neither Democratic candidate strikes me as the kind of person you'd want to meet at the local bar—she's too busy, he's too edgy. They'd both be looking over your shoulder for more important patrons. In electing a president, we're not looking for a friend, we're looking for a leader.
By asking the question, I mean to suggest instead that listening in silence is the proper response to Clinton's utterance because we know she doesn't need our help. We know that her experience and competence and grim resolve and hard work and late hours will grind the Republican bastards down.
Obama does need our help. He needed our enthusiasm to lift him in the polls and to alert the press to the weird possibilities of his candidacy. He needed our money in those small but numerous doses that eventually exceeded the resources of the big donors Clinton still depends on.
But the truth contained in all the accusations of "empty rhetoric" is that Obama needs our response to make political sense of his unfinished journey—as an individual and a leader—and we need him to make cultural and psychological sense of our unfinished journey—as a people and a nation.
We don't mind that he's relatively inexperienced because we are, too, especially when it comes to imagining an America that is neither color-blind nor color-coded, but is just colored. He's the Rorschach test onto which we have projected our best hopes and worst fears, and that, for us, is as it should be. We're moved by the music he makes. Listening in silence is not an option when he speaks. We're not reading the lyrics until the next day, so when you tell us that they make no sense—you say they're unintelligible or meaningless—we say, "Yeah, but you can dance to it."
I'm trying to say that the Obama campaign is a new instance of the call and response refrain that periodically convulses and renovates American culture, from the Great Awakening to punk rock and hip-hop by way of the ring shout, the "sorrow songs" and the blues. Obama's political performance is, in fact, reminiscent of a rock star, as many mystified commentators have noted, from George Packer to David Brooks to Gideon Rachman, usually on their way to complaining that the content of the speeches they heard is somehow platitudinous, and eerily forgettable. No point in denying it. Do you remember the lyrics when you leave the concert?
But the truth contained in their mystification is that we are thinking with our bodies as well as our minds when we listen and respond to both Clinton and Obama, and that, for all of us, is at it should be. We can't abstract from our embodied selves any more than we can abstract from the candidates as living, breathing human beings—not any more than we can treat each other as disembodied minds with no markers of our origins, our histories, the markers that, like it or not, are always already available for scrutiny and categorization by another person.
We can't look through each other. Or rather, we need also to look at each other, to remind ourselves of the disconcerting, unmistakable particularity of every unruly individual we meet. The reciprocity born in this field of vision—it is not the fabled "logic of the gaze"—produces the risk of equality and the possibility of social movements that make a difference.
That possibility now resides in Obama's campaign precisely because his rhetoric requires his audience and constituency to complete his phrases, to respond to his call. We're supposed to be dancing, not just listening—we're supposed to be performing as well as hearing the words or reading the lyrics. We're supposed to be a concert in the old-fashioned meaning of the word.
Now thinking with our bodies would seem to be a way of acknowledging the most basic of material realities. But the wonderful irony of the current, and clearly urgent, opposition to Obama is that it recapitulates the Left's fierce opposition to its own liberal kind in the 1990s—it recapitulates the fierce opposition to the "linguistic turn" that led us down the path of post-structuralism, away from the "material realities" that disfigure our lives.
You remember those culture wars on the Left, don't you? They started in the 1980s and early 1990s with the furious response from avowed feminists to the semiotic definitions of gender developed by Joan Scott and Judith Butler. Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, two political theorists who trained in the Frankfurt School of "critical theory," claimed, for example, that Butler's account of gender formation robbed women of their political capacities.
Let's look at some other examples of left-wing frustration with the "linguistic turn" of post-structuralist, post-modernist thinking in the late-20th century. Having done so, we will be in a position to understand that the so-called culture wars were mostly domestic squabbles—they were largely in-house arguments about the future of liberalism—until the very end of the century, when they spilled out into party politics. As Roger Kimball put it in the second edition of Tenured Radicals (1998), "the real battle that is now shaping up is not between radicals and conservatives but between radicals and old-style liberals."
Our first example is from 1995, when Alan Sokal, a physicist from NYU, embarrassed the editors of Social Text by writing a hilarious parody of post-structuralist prose for a special issue on the "social construction of nature." The day the issue came out, Sokal revealed his hoax in a magazine devoted to the cultural politics of academe. Like Lynne Cheney, Sokal believed in a fixed "external reality" governed by scientifically proven laws of motion—and like the editors of In These Times, a socialist newspaper published in Chicago, he believed the academic Left had lost its way when it made the "linguistic turn."
As a dedicated activist who lent his time and money to many progressive causes, Sokal wanted to show that the Left was wasting its time on esoteric, trivial pursuits insofar as it was not concentrating on the "material realities" of poverty at home and abroad, but was instead just doing things with words, offering up empty rhetoric.
Our next example is from 1997, when Richard Rorty, a red-diaper baby and a bona fide liberal, followed the lead of Roger Kimball and, at Harvard's invitation, delivered a withering critique of the Left that had taken over the universities. Like many right-wing critics of the same political tendency, Rorty called it the Cultural Left, but the story he told was a tale of decline and fall from the glory days of the New Deal, when the Old Left—a coalition of labor unions and intellectuals—invented the welfare state. First the New Left repudiated these predecessors; then its constituents went to graduate school, became professors, and taught their students how to hate their country. This Cultural Left spent "all its time talking about matters of group identity, rather than about wages and hours"—talking, that is, about something other than "material realities."
Yet another example of left-wing culture wars is from 1999, when the eminent philosopher and ardent feminist Martha Nussbaum went after Judith Butler in the New Republic, courtesy of Leon Weiselthier (another old-school materialist who now worries that Obama's happy talk of "change" distracts us from the obvious constraints of the real world). Here again the issue was the evasion of "material realities" and the erasure of individual agency supposedly navigated by the "linguistic turn." Nussbaum's blistering attack on Butler recalled the remarks made a decade earlier by Benhabib and Fraser, but its angry emphasis on those "material realities"—the phrase is used eight times in a seven-page piece—finally makes it sound like a parody of the vulgar Marxism once peddled by Communist Party hacks.
The critique of "tenured radicals" was, then, an intramural sport on the Left in the late-20th century. It was most definitely not a vast right-wing conspiracy—but it was in many ways conservative, because it sought to rehabilitate Enlightenment notions of individualism, agency, transparency, and objectivity.
So maybe Antonio Gramsci was right, after all, in saying that the "relation between commons sense and the upper level of philosophy is assured by 'politics.' " Certainly there is an echo of the left-wing culture wars of the 1990s in the great divide over the merits of the Democratic candidates. Certainly the common sense of their different campaigns and different constituents can be mapped onto philosophical differences, and vice versa.
On the one hand, we witness a strenuously Enlightenment model—a campaign— demanding that we focus on "material realities" by looking through the candidates, by abstracting from their language, their rhetoric, and their embodied presence. On the other hand, we have a model—a campaign—assuming we have already taken the "linguistic turn," and asking us to look at the candidates as well the substance of their programs.
Either way, liberalism wins. Either way, so does the Left.
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James Livingston - 3/5/2008
I'm bewildered by paragraphs 1-3 because I'm not accrediting her "experience," but thereafter I'm in complete agreement. Your "comment" is an important essay that could stand alone here at HNN.
My worries about Clinton are advertised over at the blog today, you may be interested: www.politicsandletters.com.
Jim Cane - 3/5/2008
While I do agree with most of what you say here, I think that there are a few points where this falls a bit flat.
First, it appears that you take for granted that the Clinton campaign's rhetoric of "experience" actually corresponds to concrete reality, and that conversely, Obama really is "unprepared" in comparison. This is simple rhetoric, and when called on it recently, the top campaign staff couldn't come up with an example of Clinton being "tested" when asked by someone from Slate. Their response? Her life story.
In other words, the notion of Clinton's superior experience is based on 1. her campaign repeatedly proclaiming that it is so; and 2. her personal experience not answering the phone at 3am, but her personal narrative. If we accept that somehow Obama's campaign is representative of the linguistic turn, then its difficult to see how the Clinton campaign is not based on that same linguistic turn, despite its own claims to be grounded in the concrete.
Second, and following the above, if we accept your analogy that Obama "needs us" as part of a call-and-response, the Clinton campaign seems based upon something not as appealing: deference. To follow your musical metaphor, Hillary Clinton is not a gritty Bruce Springsteen, but prog rock or Whitney Houston on a Coke commercial. We are supposed to be amazed (but not necessarily moved) at her competence; we are supposed to see the superiority of her abilities and just sit back and enjoy the ride.
And its here that I think the far more substantive difference between the two resides, and one that becomes clear if you compare Clinton's and Obama's writing, speeches, campaign strategies, and (yes) their respective formative experiences in politics. Hillary doesn't "need" us, because she is in a position of power, because she has essentially always been in a position of power, and because she envisions politics essentially as the arena of those who hold power. Her appeal resides in that (we hope) 1. she is competent; and 2. she is on the side of the angels; and 3. we can trust her to stay on that side.
There are some problems with this, even from a very pragmatic point of view. Her backroom deals on healthcare reform failed because she could not build public pressure for their approval. Her vote on the Iraq war reveals that she is either not nearly as intelligent and competent as she claims, or (more likely, if we take a look at the debates of the moment) she made a calculated move to favor her political position. Either way, this actually signifies something far greater than what the Obama campaign is claiming, since it is not just a question of judgment, but of trust. This cuts to the core of the underlying message of her campaign, which you portray pretty nicely: if we simply hand authority over to her, what guarantee do we have that we won't have a term dominated by well-intentioned but top-down and failed reforms? What guarantee do we have that she won't simply make decisions -- like invading a sovereign nation -- based not on principle, not on our interests, but on what is best for her? (That she and most other democrats paid far more attention to polling reports than to the NIE report before the vote for war is not a good precedent here.)
In looking at the Obama campaign, and his general conception of politics, something very different appears. If it is "call-and-response" and he "needs us," that strikes me as having far greater potential for accountability, for actually building public pressure to overcome a political rhetoric dominated by fear, innuendo, and unnecessary polarization. The potential with Obama is that on an issue like healthcare, he could build the bottom-up public pressure that Bill Clinton could not. There is a potential that he would have a cushion of support to counter right-wing claims of softness in an international crisis, as well as a healthy fear that a more mobilized public would turn against him if he turns against them.
At worst, we would get someone who renegs on all of that and governs like -- well, like Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Finally, there is the underlying social shift of which the linguistic turn is a manifestation: not just the far greater fluidity and fragmentation of what might have been coherent collective subjects in the mid-20th century, but the breakdown of the organizations that helped shape those collective identities and that were important in carrying out their politics. Part of the last 20 years has been the floundering of the Democratic Party as organized labor has become progressively weaker, and as appeals to cultural issues began to trump appeals to class. In practice, this meant that Democrats lose the ideological *and concrete* organizing institutions of labor, but have nothing to replace them. Republicans, in turn, gain something similar to what the Democrats lost: Churches.
On this terrain, the Obama campaign *might* signify not just the erosion of the Republican lock on Churches (he criticizes homophobia just as convincingly from the perspective of secular notions of citizenship and equality as he does from the perspective of the Sermon on the Mount), but the mobilization of sections of the public in a far less organized fashion than what unions could turn out, but a public that is growing rather than declining. And this is important: on the drive in today I heard an interview with one of my (red) state's uncommitted superdelegates, who said that his decision will come down not just to who he thinks will beat McCain, but who will be more likely to bring voters to the polls to win back the state legislature.
And where I live, looking at this question from a purely pragmatic and "reality-based" perspective, this is not something that Hillary Clinton can do.
James Livingston - 3/4/2008
Drafted? Hello? You mean, like back in the late-19th century, when money didn't matter in politics? Not. Ask yourself, and be honest now, when was that golden age of American politics, before or after money and media contaminated elections?
Maybe the 1850s? OK, what happened thereafter? The 1890s? Ha. Not even the 1790s qualify.
C'mon, "Larry," you can't be a conservative if you're this cynical about public opinion and normal political discourse. You're supposed to trust the people, remember?
Read more Dewey. He read the popular rituals of politics as "some of the most poetic features of our American life."
Lawrence Brooks Hughes - 3/4/2008
I'm afraid I never listen to either one, so have missed the "music." It seems to me neither Mrs. Clinton nor Mr. Obama have any qualifications at all to be President of the United States, other than their obvious ability to game the system and claw their way into the finals. I doubt if they are the first people many intelligent Democrats would choose for finalists. Your effort to make this a conflict between great historical cross-currents falls apart because of the way the candidates are chosen, i.e., via a sordid money chase among a dozen people, all with outrageous arrogance and supreme egoism, all pandering to different groups on the basis of sex, race, and a willingness to buy votes. Neither of these two was drafted, neither is better qualified than the other, and their contest is not worth agonizing over.
They are both nearly incompetent, both without substance, and both can accurately be described as opportunists. If one of them becomes POTUS and does something of lasting value, it will be an accident, and not the result of aptitute or sublime talent, or the noble evolution of leftist dogma! They are more likely to do lasting damage, of course, which is why most Americans will opt for McCain.
James Livingston - 3/3/2008
Absolutely agreed. The same split has no left/right valence, which is why I was trying to say that the left-wing critique of the "linguistic turn" was conservative.
William L Ramsey - 3/3/2008
This is a fascinating article, and it helps me think about the "culture wars" in new ways. Yet at the same time isn't a similar dynamic at work on the right between opponents of McCain and his more centrist supporters? My sense is that many conservatives are very committed Enlightenment advocates, and their coalition with the Fundamentalist wing of the Republican Party is quite complex, if not bizarre.
James Livingston - 3/3/2008
Agreed on the music metaphor--I stretched that thing as far as I could. Even so, it still works for me, because the performative issue is paramount in the great divide between Obama and Clinton supporters: just as it was in the great divide between the Butler and her critics in the 1990s.
By my accounting, the mainstream media just are liberal, left, whatever. The New Right is, well, right about this. Nothing wrong with that liberal tilt, unless journalists feel they have to tack right to satisfy the radio hounds and their enablers at FOX. The big debate is still about the future of liberalism, and it's conducted in the pages of the most prestigious newspapers and journals.
Jonathan Dresner - 3/2/2008
I think there's a lot of interesting ideas here, but I'm not convinced. The music metaphor and the intramural argument both, it seems to me, miss the mark in small but important ways.
On the music metaphor, there is a deep, ongoing debate about the sound/lyrics dichotomy (or spectrum, which seems more appropriate) in which a lot of people across the political spectrum fall on the supposedly Enlightenment/Left "lyrics matter" side. Music is not one thing: it ranges from (among other things) folk music for dancing, folk music for expressing joy, folk music for expressing outrage or telling stories, (and pop music, for what it's worth, covers the same spectrum and lyrics matter about the same amount: i.e. sometimes), music without words (some of which is narrative, and some of which isn't), music with words where the meaning has been removed or transformed (most Opera falls in to this category for American audiences, I suspect). Performance matters, yes, but there are pieces in which even pretty weak performers can shine and arouse, and pieces which even strong performers have difficulty carrying off.
Music metaphors rarely help, in my experience.
The recasting of the culture wars as an intramural Left conflict is entertaining, and the fracturing of the left is an interesting story, but to ignore the role of mainstream media in fostering conflicts, the stake of conservative/right figures and institutions in fueling the conflict, driving wedges, etc. is to raise it to a level of abstraction which does great violence to the actual history.
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Running Firefox in Windows 8's new tile-based user interface has been a long-time goal for Mozilla, and the fruits of that labour can now be seen when installing this special Nightly build of Firefox, codenamed "Elm".
The build effectively installs two versions of Firefox, the "classic" desktop version, and the metro browser. The latter is of most interest here, and in order for users to access it, you'll need to make Firefox the default browser, plus assign any defaults to it when prompted – typically after first launching it.
Once done, return to the Start screen and you should see a Firefox Nightly tile appear in the list – clicking this launches the Metro UI version of the browser and allows you to preview it. At this early stage in its development, navigation is awkward – and some sections seem to require access to a touch screen.
Nightly must be set as your default browser for the tile to appear in your Windows 8 Start screen.
With a lack of documentation - you'll need to wade through the Mozilla Wiki to find out that permanently showing thumbnail previews of all open tabs requires swiping down from a narrow corner on the top left of the screen, for example - it's clearly nowhere near ready for the mainstream. Nevertheless, it's clear why Mozilla is happy to provide a public download because ultimately the browser - however clunky - does ultimately work. Even so, unless you're Mr Nosey, you might find waiting for the Metro interface work to complete and be integrated into the main Firefox build before taking it on an extensive test drive is a better option.
This Nightly build will install alongside any alpha, beta or stable version of Firefox, but will install over the top of another Nightly build. As this is code hot off Mozilla's presses, it's untested and therefore both unfinished and extremely unstable.
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The Virtual Recovery
by Paul Craig Roberts
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Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com), who closely follows the collecting and reporting of official US economic statistics, reports that consumer inflation, as measured by the 1990 official government methodology has been running at about 5%. If the 1980 official methodology for measuring the CPI is used, John Williams reports that the current rate of US inflation is about 9%.
The 9% figure is more consistent with people's experience in grocery stores.
Officially the recession that began in 2007 ended in June 2009 after 18 months, making the Bush Recession the longest recession since World War II. However, John Williams says that the recession has not ended. He says that only the GDP reporting, distorted by an erroneous measurement of inflation, shows a recovery. Other, more reliable measures of economic activity, show no recovery.
Williams reports that the economy began turning down in 2006, falling lower in 2008 and 2009, and bottom-bouncing ever since. Not only is there no sign of any recovery, but "the economic downturn now is intensifying once again." The absence of an economic recovery "is evident in the [official] reporting of nearly all major economic series. Not one of these series shows a pattern of activity that confirms the recovery [shown] in the GDP series."
Williams concludes that "the official recovery simply is a statistical illusion created by the government's use of understated inflation in deflating the GDP." In other words, the reported gains in GDP are accounted for by price increases, not increases in real output.
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This says it all. The Gooferment's politicians and bureaucrats want to fool us.
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Christopher Clark quotes this fragment from Stefan Zweig. I thought it worth sharing
the wind in the trees, the twittering of the birds and the music floating across the park were at the same time part of my consciousness. I could clearly hear the melodies without being distracted, for the ear is so adaptable that a continuous noise, a roaring street, a rushing stream are quickly assimilated into one's awareness only an unexpected pause in the rhythm makes us prick our ears. [...] Suddenly the music stopped in the middle of a bar. I didn't know what piece they had played. I just sensed that the music had suddenly stopped. Instinctively I looked up from my book. The crowd, too, which was strolling through the trees in a single flowing mass, seemed to change; it, too, paused abruptly in its motion to and fro. Something must have happened.The something was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria. Zweig's writing is so interesting- at once it combines an observation about 1914, how ordinary life was. One can almost imagine the crinolined crowds passing in front of the park, through the boulevards of 19th Century Vienna and then the 20th Century with all its horror arrived. At the same time Zweig says something important about memory and history: we remember change, the continuous strand of music is something we are acculturated too- we remember disruption not stillness. History as Gibbon put it was the record of the crimes, follies etc of human kind- I think Zweig gives us a reason here for Gibbon's statement: crime not kindness is a disturbance.


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Not sure why we haven't seen this sooner (or at least none that I've come across before), but Finger Labs has just released Rockmate, an app that allows up to 4 people compose, record and play songs on a single iPad.
Rockmate is a breakthrough music creation app. It turns your iPad into a complete music studio easy and super fun to use.
You can compose, record and play songs with up to 4 Rock players on one single iPad. Rockmate is easy to play with smart chords progressions, sounds great with separated guitar effects and in-house produced audio samples and is also fully customizable with multiple drums and keyboard styles.
Rockmate is ready to rock !
Your guitars are always well tuned, no need to carry your drum kit or to patch your keyboard. A smart metronome and a real-time looper will assist you in composing and recording your songs. Share your songs by email or iTunes sharing folders.
And by the looks of it, Rockmate doesn't appear to be a gimmicky music app. Take a look at the video demo after this space.
 Fingerlab, Rockmate, – $0.99


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Dustin Poirier
TRAINING: Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
When and why did you start training and fighting? My first fight was in 2007. I was born a fighter. I started looking into boxing before I found that I could get MMA training in my hometown. I went one day to check it out and that was a wrap – I fell in love with the sport.
What ranks and titles do you have? As an amateur I held two belts at 155lbs and I went 8-1. I actually won an 8 man tournament as an amateur in Iowa over the course of 2 days. As a pro I held three belts at 155lbs. I beat up everyone in my trailer park as well. Black Belt in jiu-jitsu. Also, I have a black belt in Rex Kwon Do and am the current and defending 3x thumb wrestling Champion of the world.
Do you have any heroes? Baby Jesus and the grown up one too
What is your favorite technique? Neck chops probably
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? This means everything to me and this is where I want to be. It's where the most talented mixed martial artists showcase their skills and I think I belong here. I'm excited and I will start my climb of the featherweight division.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I got a Doctorate from the school of hard knocks.
What was your job before you started fighting? I collected aluminum cans and picked pecans.
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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.
It's a time when luminaries from business, politics and the arts deliver wisdom (and humor) to students eager for the next stage. Susan Wojcicki recalled watching the first item uploaded to Google Video—a purple, furry puppet, dancing and singing in Swedish—with no idea what to think. Until her children saw it—and cheered. Marc Benioff shared that time he did "what all lost thirty-somethings do: travel to India."
We've pulled together memorable addresses from 2014 (with a splash from the speeches of yore). Did we miss any? Tell us what you think in the comments.
2014 Highlights
Bill Gates, founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, and Melinda Gates; together they co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Change the world through empathy. Stanford University, June 15, 2014.
"Now some people call you all nerds. And we hear that you claim that label with pride. Well, so do we."
"When were you born? Who are your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. These things were given to us."
"Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better—that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away."
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook
Stay ambitious, keep reaching, keep dreaming. City Colleges of Chicago, May 3, 2014.
"I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there—and yes this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway."
"My generation failed. We made progress, but we are still far from that 50-50 dream of mine where women will run half of our countries and companies and men will run half of our homes."
"Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard… The times when you see things nobody else sees, and fear speaking out because how can you really be right when everyone else sees it differently? But you speak out anyway, and convince everyone else."
Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft
Ideas Matter; be hardcore. USC Marshall School of Business, May 16, 2014.
"A great team, great energy and great hard work will never made up for a bad idea."
"Hardcore people are like sharks. They move forward or they die."
"I encourage you to pull out your phones and go to @stevebmicrosoft on Twitter. The outline of the speech is there in case you get lost. I fit the whole thing in 140 characters, so somebody better look at that." (He wasn't joking.)
Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of Salesforce.com
Integrate business and philanthropy. University of Southern California, May 16, 2014.
"There I was, a lost thirty-something. And I did what all lost thirty-somethings do. I went to India."
"If you are going to connect your business and your philanthropy, you better make sure it's integrated deep into your culture—that it's not just something that you're going to tack on."
"When we all drove in here today, we drove through some high fences and high gates—because only a few blocks from here, are some of the most impoverished people in the world. And that's why our commitment to others is so important and everlasting: Don't let those walls be a metaphor for your own life."
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube
Recognize opportunity; face failure. Johns Hopkins University, May 22, 2014.
"Back then, only really bad things went viral—like mono."
"We opened the first video and waited—it was of a purple, furry puppet, dancing and singing in Swedish… It was probably one of the first user-generated videos anyone had ever seen. I had no idea what to think. But my kids knew what to think: they cheered."
"You can be the crazy kid in some lady's garage, going on and on and on about how you're going to change the world, and then you can go out, and actually do it."
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit
Play like you have zero lives. Carthage College, May 25, 2014.
"I am so happy to see so many of you Redditors actually manage to graduate."
"We weren't setting out to do these huge things, we were just starting with solving a problem we hoped a few other people had. No one starts out with this grand plan; no one starts out with this grand vision. We're all just hacking it; we're all just figuring it out."
"Play like you have zero lives remaining. Take every opportunity you can. Hold those people who take care of you, who treat you well, hold them close to you."
Azim Premji, founder and chairman of Wipro
Innovations come from perseverance, not brilliance. Michigan State University, May 2, 2014.
"As I look back at the past 30 to 40 years of Wipro, our company grew from about $4 million to about $8 billion today. I can hardly remember any decisive turning point that came from any single great innovation. Everything over time was steady, painstaking work. Very few innovations of big ideas can compensate for lack of hard work and perseverance."
"Too many people are trapped in efforts to do things they think will impress people around them. I have not seen this having returns in the long run."
Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of AOL
Be curious, open and flexible. Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, May 17, 2014.
"Most businesses rise or fall not because of the product, but the people. At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build."
"America itself was a startup. Two hundred and fifty years ago, America was just an idea. That idea, powered by people, passion and perseverance and by good policy and strong partnerships, led us to forge a strong and stable democracy and enabled us to build the largest and most innovative economy in the world."
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX
Take risks now. University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, May 16, 2014.
"Focus on signal over noise: A lot of companies get confused—they spend money on things that don't actually make the product better. At Tesla, we've never spent any money on advertising. We put all of the money into R&D and manufacturing and design, to try to make the car as good as possible."
"As you get older, your obligations increase—and once you have a family, you start taking risk not just for yourself, but for your family as well. It gets much harder to do things that might not work out. So now is the time to do that. Take risks now; do something bold."
Hungry for more wisdom? Here are some of the best speeches from over the years:
Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple
Believe the dots will connect; death is life's change agent. Stanford University, June 12, 2005.
"If I had never dropped in on that single [calligraphy] course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference."
"I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I still loved what I did."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single-best invention of life. It's life's change agent."
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com
We are our choices. Especially the hard ones. Princeton University, May 30, 2010.
"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they're given after all. Choices can be hard."
"When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices."
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo
Be open to change. Harvey Mudd College, May 15, 2011.
"I have always been a person with a plan… However in my case, almost none of it actually happened."
"How do you take your choice and make it great? Surround yourself with smart people, and they'll challenge you to do your very best."
"In 1999, when I was graduating, I chose to work at an unheard of, tiny startup with a ridiculous name."
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Do something you love—then challenges will have more purpose. Belle Haven Community School, June 8, 2011.
"What people talk about when they're talking about Facebook is a kid in college had an idea and all of a sudden it became this big business. It couldn't be further from the truth."
"It's not about a single moment of inspiration or brilliance, it's about years and years of hard work and practice before you get there."
"When you go home to dinner and you have the worst-tasting vegetable on your plate, you can make yourself eat it if you want. But if you instead have the option to play a game, even if it's really hard, if it's something that you like, you are going to power through it and find a way to do it. Life is like that a lot of the time—you can make yourself do challenging things that you don't like, but if you actually do stuff that you love, it's a lot easier, and takes on a lot more purpose."
Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter
Stop planning—be in this moment. University of Michigan, May 4, 2013.
"You know I have to start by tweeting this. I'm a professional so this will only take a second."
"You can't plan a script. The beauty of improvisation is you're experiencing it in the moment. If you try to plan what the next line is supposed to be, you're going to be disappointed when the other people on stage with you don't do or say what you want them to do and you'll stand there frozen."
"When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants—that's how bad it was."
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google
Friendship, not friend count. Boston University, May 20, 2012.
"People bemoan a generation who grew up living life in front of screens, always connected to something or someone. These people are wrong. The fact that we are all connected now is a blessing, not a curse, and we can solve many problems in the world as a result."
"Life is not lived in the glow of a monitor. Life is not a series of status updates. Life is not about your friend count. It's about the friends you count on."
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We are currently building a software application and I am working on a feature in which a user is able to create his own custom groups of assets for reporting. We would like to add the functionality to be able to share the group that he has created with another user.
Should the user that created the group, edit the group by adding or removing an asset, the group will also be amended everyone that he has shared it with. My concern is that anyone using the group may no longer be reporting on the assets that they thought they were.
My thoughts on this are:
- One option is to allow the user to duplicate the group and make it his own after it has been shared with him. This may result in many duplications of groups and may not be the most user-friendly.
- Another thought is that perhaps the group should stay in the same state as it was when it was shared, it is no longer linked to the owner of the original group. The owner of the group can edit the group on his side but will have no effect on the group that is being used by another user.
- Alternatively anyone who is using the shared group is informed of the change via email or through the UI.
- Or is it simply acceptable for the owner of the group to edit the group with no consequence to the people using it?
I would like some opinions on how to handle this as well as if there are generally accepted rules with sharing?


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Mr Ackland, 53, Royston, Cambs has been fitted with the Terminator-like carbon fibre mechanical hand which he can control with movements in his upper arm. The new Bebionic 3 Myoelectric hand, which is also made from aluminium and alloy knuckles, moves like a real human limb by responding to Mr Ackland's muscle twitches.
The muscles twitches in his upper arm are detected by sensors that trigger one of 14 pre-programmed grips, mirroring human movements.
The different grip patterns include a clenched fist, a pointed finger and a pincer and a lighter and heavier according to how the user tenses their upper arm.
The robotic arm is so sensitive it means he can touch type on a computer keyboard, peel vegetables and even dress himself for the first time in six years.
Mr Ackland lost his arm when it became caught in an industrial blending machine at the Johnson Matthey smelting plant in 2006.
He is one of just seven people in the world to be given the arm by Leeds-based prosthetics company, RSLSteeper, as part of a four-month trial.


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Digesting Milk in Ethiopia: A Case of Multiple Genetic Adaptations – "A team of geneticists from UCL, University of Addis Ababa and Roskilde University have shown that five different alleles are found in the Ethiopian population that cause adult lactase production, one of which is newly confirmed." – h/t andrew badenoch!
Friendship and Natural Selection – "More than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and these ties tend to be with similar people. Here, we show that this similarity extends to genotypes. Across the whole genome, friends' genotypes at the SNP level tend to be positively correlated (homophilic); however, certain genotypes are negatively correlated (heterophilic). A focused gene set analysis suggests that some of the overall correlation can be explained by specific systems; for example, an olfactory gene set is homophilic and an immune system gene set is heterophilic." – via charles!
Scientists to sequence genomes of hundreds of newborns
Bone dates 'earliest northerner', say archaeologists in Liverpool – "Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Nottingham analysed a leg bone found in Cumbria and found it to be more than 10,000 years old." – [winter is coming….]
Convergent evolution seen in hundreds of genes – "Bats and dolphins may have developed echolocation via similar mutations."
Darkness in Anthropology: A Conversation with Napoleon Chagnon – "Probably the single most anthropologically unacceptable thing I did was to take 'biology' seriously…. I began using commonly known ways to 'measure' relatedness between organisms — Sewall Wright's coefficient of inbreeding and its extended concept, the coefficient of relatedness. This was very unusual in cultural anthropology. In short, I was discussing Yanomamö kinship with *the biological meaning* of kinship in mind — at a time when the vast majority of cultural anthropologists assumed that 'kinship' and 'the biological meaning of Yanomamö kinship' were, at best, only vaguely similar and any allusion to this was generally 'suspect.' But since 'kinship' was traditionally a central focus of anthropological theory, I began developing ways to show precisely, using my meticulous genealogies on the Yanomamö, that people took sides in fights according to how closely *genetically* they were related to each other and fought against people they were *less related to genetically*. Many of the most prominent anthropologists held the extreme view that 'kinship' among humans had *nothing* to do with the biological meaning of kinship as is assumed in the fields of biology, genetics, or animal husbandry. A common claim was something to the effect that 'whatever kinship among humans was about, it was NOT about biology.'" – h/t g-nice!
Penn Biologists Show That Generosity Leads to Evolutionary Success – stewart and plotkin "examined the outcome of the Prisoner's Dilemma as played repeatedly by a large, evolving population of players. While other researchers have previously suggested that cooperative strategies can be successful in such a scenario, Stewart and Plotkin offer mathematical proof that the *only* strategies that succeed in the long term are generous ones."
Confusions about race: A new installment [pdf] – from neven sesardic. – h/t holtz!
Why Do Black Women Have A Higher Risk of Death from Heart Disease Than White Women? – more atypical symptoms than white women, apparently.
How Inbred are Europeans? – now that's my kinda post! (^_^) – from jayman.
Arabs and Liberal Democracy: A Primer – @thosewhocansee.
On the Relevance of Science to Morality – "[I]ssues of morality can't be answered by scientific experiments because there are no such entities as issues of morality…. Moral emotions are part of the behavioral repertoire of several species of animals, including human beings." – helian makes me smile. (^_^)
The Clannish World of Organized Crime – "[T]he way clannishness and OC go hand in hand like described above can't be a coincidence. Rather, it makes perfect sense given the very definitions of these concepts. Clannishness is taking care of yourself and your group, often with violence, at the expense of other people and society. OC can be described in the exact same way." – oh, yes. – from staffan.
Obesity in Germany: The fault-line divides the nation again – from agnostic.
Why are we the naked ape? – "Loss of body hair was a long-term evolutionary trend in ancestral hominids and even ancestral primates, being perhaps a response to a greater need for social signaling. In ancestral humans, the selection pressure seems to have gone through three stages, initially targeting infants and only later women and then men." – from peter frost.
Are girls too normal? Sex differences in intelligence – "Girls are more normal, boys are more extreme, so there are more boys at extremes, and the more extreme the extremes, the more boys." – from dr. james thompson. – [are girls too normal? – i'm not! (~_^) ]
Spot The Alpha – heh! – from heartiste (who else?).
National stereotypes of business meetings – @steve sailer's.
Individualism and Collectivism: U.S. State Comparison – from benjamin david steele.
Racial Differences in Masculinity-Femininity? – @the occidentalist. h/t jayman!
The New Science of Mind – "Any discussion of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders must include genetics. And, indeed, we are beginning to fit new pieces into the puzzle of how genetic mutations influence brain development."
Ability to delay gratification may be linked to social trust – "A person's ability to delay gratification — forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future — may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new study…."
Bigger and healthier: European men grow 11cm in a century – bigger is better! (~_^)
A Game of Homs – "What striking about Syria is how so many people insist on speaking about it in profoundly moralistic, Manichaean terms. This is complete nonsense, given that its civil war isn't a showdown between democracy and dictatorship, but an ethnic and religious conflict. Here's a more realistic guide." – really good stuff from anatoly!
Ed West interview: debating the 'illusions' of a diverse society
America's greatest days lie ahead – provided she is true to herself – t.greer says: "Daniel Hannan(!) reviews America 3.0 and its Emmnauel Todd theory of America."
Children with behavioral problems more at risk of inflammation – "Children with behavioral problems may be at risk of many chronic diseases in adulthood including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, as well as inflammatory illnesses (conditions which are caused by cell damage)."
Slaughtered bodies stripped of their flesh – a gruesome glimpse of Iron-Age massacre at UK's largest hill fort – "Hundreds if not thousands stripped of their flesh and chopped up, say archaeologists."
Carbon dating shows ancient Egypt's rapid expansion – "The powerful civilisation of ancient Egypt took just a few centuries to build, according to a radiocarbon dating study that sets the first solid chronology for the period…. Archaeologists have assumed it developed gradually from the pastoral communities that preceded it, but physicist Mike Dee from the University of Oxford and his colleagues now suggest that the transition could have taken as little as 600 years." – see also A chronology of ancient Egypt @dienekes'.
Declassified spy photographs reveal lost Roman frontier – "Declassified spy photography has uncovered a lost Roman Eastern frontier, dating from the second century AD. Research by archaeologists at the Universities of Glasgow and Exeter has identified a long wall that ran 60 kilometers from the Danube to the Black Sea over what is modern Romania. It is considered the most easterly example of a man-made frontier barrier system in the Roman Empire." – trajan's rampart!
Melting Snow Reveals Iron Age Sweater – "A boat neck sweater made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill was a dominating fashion trend among reindeer hunters 1,700 years ago, according to researchers who have investigated an extremely well preserved Iron Age tunic found two years ago under melting snow in Norway."
bonus: Underwater volcano is Earth's biggest – "Tamu Massif rivals the size of Olympus Mons on Mars." – cool!
bonus bonus: Evidence Found for Planet-Cooling Asteroid 12,900 Years Ago – which triggered the agricultural revolution…?
bonus bonus bonus: Making Sense of the Syrian Rebels' Order of Battle
bonus bonus bonus bonus: Two years after Libya's revolution, government struggles to control hundreds of armed militias – h/t mark krikorian! see also: Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin. =(
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Car-theft epidemic at the border with Poland [and germany] – "Brandenburg police has repeatedly scolded German car owners for being naive. 'They simply park their cars in the street….'" – imagine that!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: The city that went to the dogs: With 60,000 on the streets, there is one stray for every 31 people in Bucharest
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria – heh! (~_^) – via mr. mangan, esq.
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Nursery enhancement project used biosolids from wastewater recycling projects on nursery land
American Water recently announced that Terratec Environmental, Ltd., a subsidiary of American Water Enterprises, Inc., received a 2009 Exemplary Biosolids Management Award from the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO). The award was presented to Terratec in the category of Technology Innovation and Development Activities for its nursery enhancement project.
Working with the Regional Municipality of Durham, Terratec operates an exclusive nursery enhancement project with a large tree nursery operator, using biosolids from wastewater recycling projects on six sites of nursery lands that grow trees. The project, which received a certificate of approval from the Ministry of Environment, required Terratec to develop specialized equipment and use GPS data for precise application.
The benefits of this alternate reuse option include long-term sustainability by reducing commercial fertilizer use and non-renewable commodities like phosphorus, nitrogen and fossil fuels, as well as cost savings for the nursery, estimated at more than $140,000. The project also represents a green cycle of urban renewal, as the urban population is both responsible for the biosolid origins and a beneficiary of the reuse of it through the planting of trees at homes and parks serviced by the nursery.
"The first several years of this project have proven to be very successful, and we're proud that WEAO has recognized our efforts with this award," said Terratec President Phil Sidhwa. "This process is an excellent addition to the current nursery fertilizer and soil amendment regimes, and we hope to be able to use our expertise to benefit other non-food agriculture projects in the future."
"It is important that we continue to find new ways to improve the management of biosolids within our communities in a sustainable manner. Working with innovative partners like Terratec helps everyone achieve this goal," said John Presta, director of Environmental Services for The Regional Municipality of Durham.


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Many of you have probably heard about Augie's Quest to Cure ALS, an organization created by Augie Nieto, who founded Life Fitness (see previous post called Augie Nieto's Book). Nieto was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, and he has devoted much of his life since then to find a cure for the disease. Much of the fitness industry has joined him in this effort through fundraising events at the past two International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) conferences.
Kevin McHugh, COO at The Atlantic Club in Manasquan, NJ, e-mailed me yesterday about a fundraising idea he and Patricia Laus, CEO at The Atlantic Club, have for those who can't attend the IHRSA conference to help in Augie's Quest. I thought it was a great idea, and it could go a long way in helping the organization.
The Atlantic Club is encouraging club owners and staff to create a one-day special event between Jan. 1 and March 7, 2008, to raise money for the cause (March 7 is the date of the Beach Bash for Augie's Quest at the IHRSA 2008 conference in San Diego). Ideas for an event to hold at your club are on the www.clubsforthecure.com Web site and include indoor (or outdoor) cycling events and other group exercise possibilities.
McHugh and Laus are hoping their effort will raise $3 million for ALS research.
Clubs who want to participate should go to the Web site to find out more, or contact Laus at (732) 292-4379 or [email protected] --Pam


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As we already know, the white Nexus 4 is very much real. Months after first showing up on the web, it re-appeared at Google I/O in all its glory, with June 10th tipped as a possible launch date by AndroidAndMe's co-founder Taylor Wimberly. Alongside it, according to Taylor, Android 4.3 would be unveiled as well.
While I can't confirm the date (even if the information was correct at the time of I/O, plans can change for any reason), what I can show you today are some of the press images of the white Nexus 4, model number E960W (the original Nexus 4 is E960).Read More


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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra said late Monday that it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its musicians. The agreement would end a strike that began Saturday.
Orchestra leaders said that ratification of the new contract is pending by both parties -- the Chicago Federation of Musicians and the orchestra's board of trustees. The agreement would be for a three-year contract and would take effect retroactively Sept. 17.
The orchestra said that all previously scheduled performances are proceeding as planned. A concert on Saturday was abruptly canceled when negotiations between management and the union fell through.
The strike came as a surprise to many in the classical music field. The Chicago Symphony, one of the preeminent orchestras in the world, had been locked in negotiations with its musicians over wages and contributions to healthcare costs.
On Saturday, representatives of the union rejected the orchestra's proposal for a three-year contract. The orchestra said at the time that its last offer would have made its members "among the best-compensated in a U.S. orchestra."
Music Director Riccardo Muti is scheduled to lead a concert Wednesday night. The orchestra plans to travel this fall to New York and Mexico.
Striking musicians walk out on Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti brings Chicago Symphony Orchestra to California
Detroit Symphony musicians officially vote to end strike, accept steep pay cuts


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About the EventThe 2016-2017 season hit the ground running during the Professional Advisory Committee Kick-off and Membership Drive event on September 15, 2016. Members of the legal, accounting, investment advisory, and insurance fields packed the Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel for a night of networking and socializing.
PAC members and prospects heard from Co-Chairs Samy Dwek and Jeremy Horelick who opened the program, as well as from Cathy Schwartz, Senior Vice President of the Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation and Rich Steinberg, Chair of the Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation who reported on the strides the Foundation is making through the diligent work of the PAC members by establishing new endowment funds, trusts, bequests, life insurance policies and IRAs on behalf of their clients. The evening was filled with energy, warmth and camaraderie among the group, with everyone eager to begin a new giving season.
The Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) is part of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County's Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation, which develops permanent resources to ensure the continuity of Jewish life, programs and services in our community, Israel and worldwide, through permanent endowment funds, lifetime gifts, bequests in wills, trusts and planned giving programs. At the hub of the Jewish community, the Federation serves the Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Highland Beach areas, raising and allocating funds to meet vital needs locally, in Israel and worldwide.
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Wanda Sykes is a very funny woman. The comedienne, best known for her roles on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Inside the NFL" as well as roles on "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and her own short-lived sitcom "Wanda at Large," will be bringing "a big bucket of chuckles" – her words – to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 12. But the Washington D.C. native and former National Security Agency (NSA) employee isn't all jokes all the time.
She's got serious opinions on topics like NSA information leaker Edward Snowden, the ongoing government shutdown, the state of national security and whether or not the name of the Washington football team ought to be changed. That's not to say her opinions aren't also funny, but she has clearly done her homework.
In anticipation of her comedy tour rolling through the Atlanta metro area, the 49-year-old happily married black lesbian mother of two spoke to the Atlanta Daily World's Dion Rabouin about who she is and what fans can expect from Wanda Sykes onstage and off of it.
ADW: You've got a show in Atlanta coming up soon. Tell me about your memories and experiences in Atlanta?
Wanda Sykes: I've always had great shows in Atlanta. People really come out and support me. They are always fired up. I love the city. Last time I was there I got to go to the aquarium and…I don't know if she's in town or if she's gonna be in town, but my friend Jane Fonda is an Atlanta girl. So yeah, lot of good memories, lot of good food. I call my little tummy, my little fat roll, Esther, and she's always happy when I say we're going to Atlanta. It's always good eating in Atlanta.
ADW: You're from the D.C. area and there's some controversy about the team's name, some journalists have said that they won't even print it. How do you feel about that?
WS: I grew up a Redskin fan, but am no longer a Redskin fan. I was a fan in [former Redskins owner] Jack Kent Cooke days. I can't deal with the Redskins right now. Dan Snyder is just ugh. I do think they should change the name. I do. I mean, it's offensive and you're offending a group of people that are Native American. The Native Americans, they've been protesting this for decades, but the problem is they stand in front of the stadium and they're wearing all their traditional gear, so people just mistake them for fans. So it kind of hurts the protest.
ADW: You said you're no longer a Redskins fan, so who are you cheering for these days?
WS: Don't be upset, but I'm a Saints fan.
ADW: Ooh. That might get some people to not come to your show from around here. How did you become a Saints fan?
WS: [Laughs] Aw, it's all good. I became a Saints fan because I was doing work for "Inside the NFL" on HBO…I got to go to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl with St. Louis and the Patriots and that was my first time visiting and I just fell in love with the city. After Katrina we did a thing with the Saints where we were trying to find them a new stadium and we went to Jimmy Carter's organization, Habitat for Humanity, and asked them to build [the Saints] a stadium. But we were working with the Saints and I just fell in love with that organization and the people too. I was in Houston, Texas, doing something, and they were housing [Katrina survivors] in the convention center and I went back to visit and they were almost more concerned about me, like, "Hey, how you doing, Wanda? Are you OK?" I'm like, "You're living in the convention center and you're asking me how I'm doing?" I just fell in love with that city and then when they reopened the Super Dome for Monday night and U2 did the opening and I just said, "You know what, this is my team. I'm a Saints fan now." And that was that.
ADW: A lot of people know you from your television work, but now you're married, you've got kids, what is Wanda Sykes like today, onstage and offstage?
WS: Onstage, they can expect [to see] all those things – I'm a mother, I'm a wife, so all those problems that other parents and married people have, I have the same problems. I'll talk about being a woman, being a black woman, being a gay black woman. It's all authentic. It's all coming from my real life. So they can expect all those things. But the main thing they can expect is to laugh because above all things, I'm a comic. That's what I do, that's what I love to do. I love to make people laugh. That's my main focus and that's what I'll be bringing to Atlanta is a big bucket of chuckles.
ADW: I know that you worked at the NSA years ago and you left to pursue comedy. Can you tell me a little about your time transitioning to comedy because that's not how I imagine most comedians' stories usually go?
WS: Well, I was doing standup while I was working at NSA and it took me about three years to build up enough material where I felt like I could leave NSA and go make a living – a meek living, but a living at least – doing standup. But I had a great time working there, great group of people. I don't know if it was because they thought I was going to destroy the country, but they encouraged me to leave.
ADW: Edward Snowden, the NSA information leaker, is back in the news. I'm curious to know what you think about the situation with him because you have more insight into what goes on at NSA than the average person. What were your thoughts about that?
WS: When you work with the NSA, when you get a security clearance, you sign papers and you say that you're not going to divulge any of the government's secrets, you will protect classified information and he basically broke that promise, so he's a criminal. In this day and age, it's kind of naïve to think that the government isn't looking out for information that could harm the nation. It's like, how do you think we stay safe? And I think what he did really set us back and it really hurt the intelligence community and it has jeopardized our safety. People are like, "Oh, they're reading my email." Well, Google reads your email too. That's how they decide what ads to send you. I'd rather for my country to read my emails to keep me safe and not try to sell me some stuff.
ADW: Staying with the topic of current events, the government shutdown is happening. Even the sequester was breaking things down to bear bones, and not just government employees, but people who own souvenir shops near the national monuments…
WS: Right, yeah. I mean all the way down to cab drivers who drive tourists. It hurts everyone. It's crazy, it really is. And I blame these hillbillies who got elected to congress and they don't even know procedure. It's like, they shut the government down for something that they can't do. You don't go back and negotiate [a law]. It's a law, get over it. It's done. And they're like, "Oh, [President Obama] won't negotiate." Well, he's not supposed to, jackass. It's over. It's like, go look up "School House Rock," "I'm Just a Bill" and figure out how it works. He's a bill, Congress passes it, the president signs it, it's a law. That's the way it works.
ADW: I take from your answer that you hold the Republicans more to blame for the government shutdown that's happening.
WS: More to blame? Not more to blame, all to blame. All the blame goes to a faction of the Republican party. If [Speaker of the House John] Boehner would allow it to go to a vote right now to just pass a clean CR [Congressional Resolution], it would happen, it would pass, but he won't even let it go to a vote because he's listening to Ted Cruz and all those goofballs.
ADW: I've found that lately people are a lot more
into politics than they were even a couple years ago…
WS: I think they have to because they realize how it's affecting their lives. They're feeling it more. Before you could just go about your business like, Oh, that's gonna happen now? OK' and you didn't feel it, but now because of all the cuts and everything that's going on people are more aware, like, Wait a minute, what are they doing? What's going on?' So that's why I think it gets more attention because they're screwing up.
ADW: In your career, you've done a lot of things – TV, movies, standup. I hear from comedians all the time that standup is their favorite, that's why they do it, so I want to ask you is standup the thing that you like doing most and if so why? If not, what do you like doing most?
WS: It's definitely standup. When I first started I said, I want to be a funny standup comic. That was my goal, that's always been my goal, still is my goal and I love it because it's the most direct thing that I do to get the results I want and that's to make people laugh. That's what I love doing. It's just me out there, something comes out of my mouth, people laugh, it feels great and there's no editing, there's no any let's do it again, you're just out there. So it's still the most challenging and the most rewarding and I get the most fun out of doing it.


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Daniel Arsham for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
POSTED ON: January 5, 2012
On December 28, 2011, The New York Times profiled Cooper Union School of Art alumn Daniel Arsham (A'03) and his work designing a set for the Mercu Cunningham Dance Comapany.
Daniel Arsham was barely aware of Merce Cunningham in 2005, when he got a call telling him that he was being considered as the set designer for the next work by Cunningham's dance company. Mr. Arsham was 25 and just two years out of art school at the Cooper Union. "I knew him from my studies," he said recently, "but as a passing name." A few months later Mr. Arsham — who at first didn't even know the concept of "stage right" — was at work on the set for Cunningham's 2007 piece "eyeSpace."
"I became a student again," said Mr. Arsham, who watched rehearsals and went to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater several times in an effort to master a new medium.