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The Authorized Anthropology of Compton Kids | Hip Hop Grew Up
good kid, m.A.A.d. city: The Authorized Anthropology of Compton Kids
1. ?Sherane A.K.A. Master Splinter?s Daughter? [Prod. Tha Bizness]
?My tactics of being thirsty probably could hurt me? Grab my momma?s keys, hopped in the car, then oh boy? ? Kendrick Lamar
Bavu: ?Let me just get something off my chest. The attention to creative detail that allows Kendrick Lamar to rep his city as an anthropologist is amazing. Sure, he?s telling his story, but this is literally a movie about Compton kids.
We?ve accepted Rick Ross and 2 Chainz as merely entertaining us, not to be taken seriously. And here comes a kid a decade younger than them, using all the resources in the world to make some very deep art. The poetry and production go neck-and-neck on this album, down to the skits, eq?ing, recording techniques, etc.
GKMC starts with a cunning, sophisticated intro to a cunning, sophisticated album. ?Sherane? basically breaks down into three parts. First, we hear some young kids accepting Jesus as their savior ? interesting. Second, Kendrick?s first raps form a colorful narrative that establishes the setting for the album ? typical Compton teenage life [and thirst]. Third, an unabridged voicemail message from his parents ties everything together ? ghetto kid borrows mama?s van to get laid. This is multi-layered like OutKast, and definitely a movie intro.
Easy: ?This is the scene at the very beginning of a movie before any theme music or credits roll. ?You get to meet the main character and get an idea of the dilemma he?ll spend the next 90 minutes [or in this case 66 minutes and 56 seconds] trying to solve. ?Like you said, Kendrick is a sophisticated storyteller and this first track gives you a great preview of what to expect lyrically and sonically from his short film ? then the intro credits and theme song roll in the form of track #2 ?
2. ?B*tch Don?t Kill My Vibe? [Prod. Sounwave]
?I?m trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love / you?re trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does / ? / you can remain in a box / I?ma break out and hide every lock? ? Kendrick Lamar
Samples ?Tiden Flyver? by Boom Clap Bachelors
Easy: ?I thought it was ironic that a video surfaced last week showing Andre 3000 sitting in the studio with Kendrick and Dr. Dre listening to this track.? The album, and this song in particular, hints at what a solo Andre 3000 album might sound like. ?This album will be studied and decoded for years to come because it has layers and plenty of intricate, personal encoding. ?Kendrick left ample room for interpretation.
To me, this song sounds like his letter to the rest of the Hip Hop community. ?Whereas the ?bitch? in the ?bitch don?t kill my vibe? refrain could be interpreted as a misogynistic reference about a woman distracting him; I take it to mean that he?s separating himself from all the other rap that?s being promoted and fed to the masses.
It also sounds like he?s telling the powers that be, from radio program directors to record labels, to stay out of his way as he works to build a new sound and style within Hip Hop. ?He has a lot to say and offer and on this track he?s telling everyone to give him the time and space to get his complete vision out. ?And the ill part is that he?s saying that he?s fine, even happy, with being alone if no other artists feel the need to push the art and culture in a new direction.
Bavu: Plus this song was set up as much as possible with the skit that precedes it. Yet ?Kill My Vibe? deviates from the overall movie concept the most of any song, since it seems to be in the present tense. Thankfully, it comes early enough in the album to introduce us to Kendrick?s artistic bent without throwing everything out of sequence. Technically, it marries his father?s statement to his mother with Kendrick?s present mentality. Musically, it put me in a ?featuring Devin the Dude and Andre 3000? vibe. Lyrically, this is up-to-date commentary from the director/narrator that digresses by the final bridge duet with a female voice [3:45].
3. ?Backseat Freestyle? [Prod. Hit-Boy]
?All my life I want money and power / Respect my mind or die from lead shower? ? Kendrick Lamar
Bavu: ?Random teenager bars. ?A Milli? energy. When you?re the best rapper on your block, your freestyles are largely shaped by what the homies want to hear. The homies are your core audience. This makes sense in context, while as a standalone song it?s awfully random!
Kendrick exudes raw rapper energy with an overview of his range of vocals and flow. I?ve been listening to his last few releases, and this song includes most of his range except the somber, half-crying style. If ?Backseat? wasn?t clearly set up as a teenager-freestyling-in-a-car scene in this script, I?d have a harder time appreciating it. But sandwiched between the outro of Track 2 and ?The Art of Peer Pressure,? this is apt screenwriting.
What happens around 2:15, does he get possessed or what?
Easy: I don?t know if I should call this song a guilty pleasure or not. ?It?s riddled with all the language and images that deserve a Parental Advisory sticker, but it fits into his story neatly and sounds so damn good. ?I?m not sure how deliberate of an artist Kendrick Lamar is yet, but this comes off as one of two things ? 1. A direct bite of Lil Wayne?s ?A Milli? flow or 2. A warning shot to all mainstream emcees that even though he?s a thoughtful poet, he can still use multiple styles to beat them at their own game. ?I want to believe it?s the latter.
4. ?The Art of Peer Pressure? [Prod. Tabu]
?I hope the universe loves you today / ?cause the energy we bringing sure to carry away a flock of positive activists and fill their body with hate.? ? Kendrick Lamar
Easy: This track is one of many honest observations that Kendrick delivers about his youth, and urban culture. ?Every confused youth of every race and background can relate to it. ?Even though I?ve grown past some of the emotions and sentiments he expresses in this song, I have vivid memories of my rolling days.
There?s a line in the chorus where he says ?Really I?m a sober soul but I?m with the homies right now ? Really I?m a peacemaker but I?m with the homies right now.? ?That line pretty much summarizes the psyche of young black males being taught and raised by each other. ?I wish he would have done more with the music that starts this song. I could listen to that intro as an instrumental on repeat for hours. ?The soundtrack of this entire song is another example of this album finding its balance as a lyrical and musical picture book.
Bavu: Agreed. This is one of those classic Cali hood movies, a sociological piece. I can relate as well. My mama used to tell me I had too many friends, who couldn?t all possibly be my real friends. Also, the same things that I?d said I?d never do, I eventually did ? with the homies. Some call it groupthink, Kendrick Lamar calls it the art of peer pressure. Try one drug with the homies, and you can mess around and take extra drugs ? true story.
As much as people say music has no effect on young people, Kendrick references ?bumping Jeezy? as something that impacts their attitudes. This message won?t fall on deaf ears, the youngsters will receive this. As for us grownups, we?ve learned through experience how important our peer group is. This is one of my favorite GKMC songs.
5. ?Money Trees? featuring Jay Rock [Prod. DJ Dahi]
?It go Halle Berry, or hallelujah / Pick your poison tell me what you doin? / Everybody gon? respect the shooter / But the one in front of the gun lives forever? ? Kendrick Lamar
?Samples ?Silver Soul? by Beach House
Bavu: ?This is Down South riding music, a catchy song with multiple hooks. ?Ya bish? is its own hook, for example. Lyrically, this is a nice summation of the environment the Good Kid is growing up in throughout this album as short film. Like Jeezy earlier, E-40?s ?Big Ballin? With My Homies? is cited as music that programmed their minds, but does not represent their reality.
This is definitely soundtrack music, again illustrating Kendrick?s teenage environment. Jay Rock, who has somehow become the underdog of Top Dawg Entertainment, has a great cameo verse here. Someone recently argued with me that ?the one in front of the gun lives forever? is pure guff. It may be a theological statement by Kendrick, or about remembering dead homies, how witnessing a murder is a permanent memory, how killers live on like zombies, etc. Either way, I think this poet chose his words carefully.
Easy: ?This is one of my favorite cuts on the album. ?It might be my Southern rap roots, but the beat is the star on this track. ?It?s heavy enough to talk tough on, but open enough that Kendrick has time to finally space out his lines so the audience can catch every word. ?I thought it was an important ingredient to this project to slow things down at some point, because Kendrick?s flow can be relentless to a fault.
I hope he finds a way to include tracks like this on his future projects ? it works. Oh, and salute to Jay Rock. ?He stood up on this track. ?I think it was only fitting for him to get this look, seeing how TDE?s early missteps with his debut created the environment that birthed the machine that is Kendrick Lamar.
6. ?Poetic Justice? featuring Drake [Prod. Scoop DeVille]
?love is not just a verb / it?s you looking in the mirror / love is not just a verb / it?s you looking for it maybe ? breathe slow and you?ll find / gold mines in these lines.? ? Kendrick Lamar
Samples ?Anytime, Anyplace? by Janet Jackson
Easy: This song wasn?t that great to me as a standalone piece. ?But it?s essential for the part it plays in the story. ?I think it sets up the arc of Kendrick?s story of growing up as a good kid in a mad city. The movie Poetic Justice was definitely a coming of age story. ?It was set in California and featured Tupac Shakur, one the greatest emcees to ever rise from the West coast Hip Hop culture and a definite influence on Kendrick Lamar. ?For those reasons, the sample of Janet Jackson ? who also starred in that movie as the character Justice ? is fitting.
Drake?s cameo is an afterthought. ?I?m sure Kendrick decided it would make sense to have Drake on this song because it?s essentially a love/lust narrative. ?The greatest part of this track was not the song, but the interlude that ends the track. This interlude, set up by the song, best illustrates the danger of being a good kid who is not gang-affiliated in a mad city overrun by gangs. It sets up the second half of the film and album perfectly.
Bavu: That interlude, like the song itself, takes us back to Sherane?s house. Horny young Kendrick gets charged up by gang members and his life is threatened as a result of typical teenage behavior ? chasing girls. But first ?Poetic Justice? takes us back to him trying to bed her.
As for the actual song, I?m a sucker for a good R& B sample. I?ll be seeking out this instrumental. Kendrick Lamar has Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and all the resources in the world at his disposal. So he?d be a fool not to put Drake on the player track, after all Drake has done for him. But this is still a Kendrick song, so it may be a bit complicated for radio.
7. ?good kid? [Prod. Pharrell]
?Track attire just tell you I?m tired and ran away / I should ask a choir what do you require / To sing a song that acquire me to have faith / As the record spin I should pray / For the record spin I should pray / For the record I recognize that I?m easily prey / I got ate alive yesterday? ? Kendrick Lamar
Bavu: ?Loving Pharrell?s vocal interpolation of a Roy Ayers classic, first of all. This could pass for a Dre beat. I love when Kendrick gets into this ?Rigamortis? flow pattern where it sounds like he has no room to breathe, yet you can hear every word.
He?s driving the main themes home again, now in a laid back, mid-album mood. ?If it?s not the gang culture causing trouble for Kendrick, it?s the cops. So he can?t win for losing when it comes to flashing red and blue clothes or lights. The third verse takes me back to ?ADHD? on Section.80 as well. But this song is just an intro to the next joint, which gives us tirelessly frantic street imagery and eventually traditional Compton Hip Hop ? ?m.A.A.d city?.
8. ?m.A.A.d city? featuring MC Eiht [Prod. Sounwave and Terrace Martin]
?seen a light skin nigga with his brains blown out / at the same burger stand where [censored] hang out / now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it / but ever since that day I been looking at him different? ? Kendrick Lamar
Easy: This is my favorite record by a west coast emcee since Game?s ?It?s Okay (One Blood)? for many reasons, the first of which is the flip. That?s the simplest way to describe what happens on this track at the 2:35 mark. ?The second reason is because I can easily see this track being the highlight of Kendrick?s live show. ?And the third reason is because MC Eiht pops up on here spitting his own style of spoken word before proceeding to rip his verse.
The A-section reminds me of Lloyd Banks ?Beamer, Benz, or Bentley? beat. ?I?m assuming that Kendrick has heard dead prez?s ?Malcolm Garvey Huey? because he borrows their flow on the A-section of this track. I also liked the spoken word Kendrick kicked at the end of the track. The line ?Compton made me an angel on angel dust? is powerful imagery. ?This album is full of lines that point to Kendrick being more a poet than a rapper. Personally, I feel like Hip Hop is in desperate need of more poets and less rappers. This song and album represents hope.
Bavu: I pretty much lose the plot of the movie/album at this point, and just hop in Bobby Dixon?s Beretta and ride to my high school on this one. The intro is a crunk setup, but the dominant B-section is pure Compton nostalgia, MC Eiht and all. Plus it?s sandwiched by spoken parts by both emcees. This track is a two-for-one, like Track 10.
I like how Kendrick?s voice sounds all worn out on this one in the old school section, as if by the end of high school he was really tired of the drama. In another 10 minutes or so, every character in this story will feel that way.
9. ?Swimming Pools (Drank)? Extended Version [Prod. T-Minus]
?Some people like the way it feels / Some people wanna kill their sorrows / Some people wanna fit in with the popular / That was my problem? ? Kendrick Lamar
Bavu: ?The cautionary tale about alcohol abuse as a commercial single, like ?I?m on One? with content more like ?Why I?m Not On One?. It?s a very heady song for such a contemporary pop sound. Fits well in the album sequence, where alcohol is a normal way to escape.
Then shots ring out, and one of the homies is murdered.
Easy: Screenplay writing at its best. ?You mapped it out perfectly. ?At the end of Track 8 (?m.A.A.d. city?) the homies console Kendrick with liquor after he got jumped trying to go ?get some? from Sherane. ?This track makes me reflect on all the reasons we drank so heavy as youngsters. ?We poured up to celebrate, to mourn, to write, to listen, to love, to hate. ?It?s amazing that any of us make it out of those years free of addiction. ?And like you alluded to, alcohol abuse leads to erratic and irresponsible behavior and, in this case, it leads to a shootout ?
10. ?Sing About Me? [Prod. Skhye Hutch and Sounwave] / ?I?m Dying of Thirst? [Prod. Like]
?see my hormones just run away and if i could get ?em back to where they used to be / then i?d probably be in the denim of family gene that showed women how to be woman? ? Kendrick Lamar
Samples ?Maybe Tomorrow? by Grant Green
Easy: Lyrically, this track is masterful and one of the best examples of Kendrick?s knack for storytelling. ?He compliments his 5-mic verses with a melodic and catchy chorus that proves Kendrick Lamar is destined to be more of the next Andre 3000 than the next Nas. ?On the surface, this track could be interpreted as Kendrick?s plea to be remembered for his music, but it?s much deeper than that. He only spends a portion of the third and final verse speaking on his own aspirations. ?He spends the first two verses tying together stories he told on Section.80 and GKMC. Then at the [7:30] mark another ?flip? happens.
?return of the student that never learned how to live righteous / but how to shoot it? ?? Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick spends the B-section of this track setting up the conclusion of his story. ?At some point, the Good Kid in the album?s narrative decided that there was more to life than hanging out with the wrong crowd. ?I would say the track ?m.A.A.d. city? was the turning point, but that?s debatable. ?K. Dot?s flow is liquid swords on this B-section as he paints a vivid picture of the culture and divided psyche of kids attracted to the violence of the streets and the hope of religion. ?I imagine this is what The Roots were attempting to do with their last album undun.
Bavu: The way the first narrative verse ends in an abrupt shooting, and the second a gradual fade out, is high definition cinema. Kendrick is addressed by relatives of former song characters who both presumably die. So ?promise that you will sing about me? seems to correspond with ?the one in front of the gun lives forever?. Hmm. Kendrick pulls it all together in first person, breaks it down and sings that smooth hook again.
We?ve gone from ?Swimming Pools? of alcohol to a murder to dying of thirst in about seven minutes. The Compton kids are exhausted. After the flip, the movie starts resolving, and Kendrick still has great taste in music. The sound has gone deep and solemn for a sad hangover. And everyone confesses their sins and gets led to Jesus by a Maya Angelou sounding lady; it?s the first scene of the album from another angle. Full circle. Roll the credits.
11. ?Real? featuring Anna Wise [Prod. by Terrace Martin]
?You love streets, you love runnin?, duckin? police / You love your hood, might even love it to death / But what love got to do with it when you don?t love yourself? ? Kendrick Lamar
Bavu: Kendrick Lamar?s ?Poetic South Central Boyz 2 Society? movie ends in catharsis. The film?s director gives you the moral of the story. After skits of welfare woes, domino withdrawal, musical healing and vibe-killing, Kendrick?s parents call dropping knowledge and inspiration. It?s not a Tyler Perry ending, but it?s all relative.
Easy: The phrase ?keep it real? is overused in rap, and music in general. ?So many songwriters claim that whatever their newest project is, ?it?s the most honest project they?ve ever done and this time around they kept it real with themselves and the audience.? ?I?m sure Kendrick Lamar noticed this trend and responded in his own way. ?It?s almost like the word ?nigger?. ?We added it to our Hip Hop vocabulary to take control of it, and in this track, Kendrick says ?I?m real? so many times as a way to redefine and repossess the word?s meaning. ?Violence and drug abuse don?t make us real ? coming into a knowledge of our spiritual purpose makes us real. A wise song from a young wise old man.
12. ?Compton? featuring Dr. Dre [Prod. Just Blaze]
?this was brought to you by Dre / now every motherfucker in here say / look who?s responsible for taking Compton international? ? Kendrick Lamar
Samples ?What?s This World Coming To? by Formula IV
Easy: Finally Dr. Dre shows up on the record. ?Unfortunately, his grand entrance gets overshadowed by Just Blaze?s production and the author of Dr. Dre?s verses. ?Now, don?t take that to mean that Kendrick and Dre fail to deliver ? they both go in and make this a classic rebuttal to Jay-Z?s ?Empire State of Mind?. ?Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre both sound confident and validated on this track. ?They sound excited that they found each other when everyone thought this kind of emceeing and executive producing was exhausted after Jay-Z?s Blueprint. There?s not enough I can say about the B-section (lots of a/b sections on this album) of this song. ?It?s fitting that one of the best albums to come out of the West since Doggystyle ends with a tribute to the Roger Troutman and Zapp sound that helped push their brand of Hip Hop to the forefront of music. ?This album short film is pure genius from beginning to end.
Bavu: I love the beat and the chorus. It?s a celebration. ?I am Compton?, he said, ?and Dr. Dre raps like me.? This is Kendrick Lamar?s torchbearer anthem, and basically the bonus track before the Bonus Tracks. Since it?s a short film and all, this is the wrap party. A toast to Kendrick; good job, kid!
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Source: http://hiphopgrewup.com/2012/10/30/the-authorized-anthropology-of-compton-kids/
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Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa: Brain physiology limits simultaneous use of both networks
ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a second look offers clues it was false.
When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathize, it suppresses the network used for analysis, a pivotal study led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher shows.
How could a CEO be so blind to the public relations fiasco his cost-cutting decision has made?
When the analytic network is engaged, our ability to appreciate the human cost of our action is repressed.
At rest, our brains cycle between the social and analytical networks. But when presented with a task, healthy adults engage the appropriate neural pathway, the researchers found.
The study shows for the first time that we have a built-in neural constraint on our ability to be both empathetic and analytic at the same time
The work suggests that established theories about two competing networks within the brain must be revised. More, it provides insights into the operation of a healthy mind versus those of the mentally ill or developmentally disabled.
"This is the cognitive structure we've evolved," said Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new study. "Empathetic and analytic thinking are, at least to some extent, mutually exclusive in the brain."
The research is published in the current online issue of NeuroImage.
A number of earlier studies showed that two large scale brain networks are in tension in the brain, one which is known as the default mode network and a second known as the task positive network. But other researchers have suggested that different mechanisms drive this tension:
One theory says that we have one network for engaging in goal directed tasks. This theory posits that our second network allows the mind to wander.
The other theory says that one network is for external attention, and the second network is for internal attention.
The new study shows that adults presented with social or analytical problems -- all external stimuli -- consistently engaged the appropriate neural pathway to solve the problem, while repressing the other pathway. The see-sawing brain activity was recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Jack worked with former Case Western Reserve undergraduates Abigail Dawson, now a graduate student at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand; Katelyn Begany, now a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley; and Kevin P. Barry, now a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Other co-authors are, from Case Western Reserve: former research assistant, Regina L. Leckie and Angela H. Ciccia, an assistant professor of psychological sciences; and Abraham Z. Snyder, MD, a professor of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jack said that a philosophical question inspired the study design: "The most persistent question in the philosophy of mind is the problem of consciousness. Why can we describe the workings of a brain, but that doesn't tell us what it's like to be that person?"
"The disconnect between experiential understanding and scientific understanding is known as the explanatory gap," Jack said. "In 2006, the philosopher Philip Robbins and I got together and we came up with a pretty crazy, bold hypothesis: that the explanatory gap is driven by our neural structure. I was genuinely surprised to see how powerfully these findings fit that theory." Philip Robbins is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri.
These findings suggest the same neural phenomenon drives the explanatory gap as occurs when we look at a visual illusion such as the duck-rabbit, he continued. The drawing of the head of the animal can be seen as a duck facing one direction or a rabbit facing the other, but you can't see both at once.
"That is called perceptual rivalry, and it occurs because of neural inhibition between the two representations," Jack said. "What we see in this study is similar, but much more wide-scale. We see neural inhibition between the entire brain network we use to socially, emotionally and morally engage with others, and the entire network we use for scientific, mathematical and logical reasoning.
"This shows scientific accounts really do leave something out -- the human touch. A major challenge for the science of the mind is how we can better translate between the cold and distant mechanical descriptions that neuroscience produces, and the emotionally engaged intuitive understanding which allows us to relate to one another as people."
The researchers recruited 45 healthy college students, and asked each to take five 10-minute turns inside a magnetic resonance imager. Meanwhile, the researchers randomly presented them with 20 written and 20 video problems that required them to think about how others might feel and with 20 written and 20 video problems that required physics to solve.
After reading the text or viewing the video, the students had to provide an answer to a yes-no question within seven seconds. Each student's session in the MRI included twenty 27-second rest periods, as well as variable delays between trials lasting 1, 3 or 5 seconds. Students were told to look at a red cross on the screen in front of them and relax during the rests.
The MRI images showed that social problems deactivated brain regions associated with analysis, and activated the social network. This finding held true whether the questions came via video or print. Meanwhile, the physics questions deactivated the brain regions associated with empathizing and activated the analytical network.
"When subjects are lying in a scanner with nothing to do, which we call the resting state, they naturally cycle between the two networks," Jack said. "This tells us that it's the structure of the adult brain that is driving this, that it's a physiological constraint on cognition."
The finding has bearings on a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, from anxiety, depression and ADHD to schizophrenia -- all of which are characterized by social dysfunction of some sort, Jack said. "Treatment needs to target a balance between these two networks. At present most rehabilitation, and more broadly most educational efforts of any sort, focus on tuning up the analytic network. Yet, we found more cortex dedicated to the social network."
Perhaps most clearly, the theory makes sense in regards to developmental disabilities such as autism and Williams syndrome. Autism is often characterized by a strong ability to solve visuospatial problems, such as mentally manipulating two and three-dimensional figures, but poor social skills. People with Williams syndrome are very warm and friendly, but perform poorly on visuospatial tests.
But, even healthy adults can rely too much on one network, Jack said. A look at newspaper business pages offers some examples.
"You want the CEO of a company to be highly analytical in order to run a company efficiently, otherwise it will go out of business," he said. "But, you can lose your moral compass if you get stuck in an analytic way of thinking."
"You'll never get by without both networks," Jack continued. "You don't want to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time."
The researchers continue to test the theory, studying whether brains will shift from the social network to the analytical when students in the MRI see people depicted in a dehumanizing way, that is, as animals or objects. The group is also studying whether disgust and social stereotyping confound our moral compass by recruiting the analytical network and depressing social network activity.
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- Anthony I. Jack, Abigail Dawson, Katelyn Begany, Regina L. Leckie, Kevin Barry, Angela Ciccia, Abraham Snyder. fMRI reveals reciprocal inhibition between social and physical cognitive domains. NeuroImage, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.061
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Jerusalem's secular Israeli minority showing life
In this Oct. 12, 2012, photo an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man blows a trumpet to announce the starting of the Sabbath, Judaism's biblically-mandated day of rest, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Though most Israelis are secular, Israel?s founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country?s affairs and Ultra-Orthodox rabbis strictly govern Jewish practices such as weddings, divorces, and burials. The Ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only ten percent of the country?s population. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Oct. 12, 2012, photo an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man blows a trumpet to announce the starting of the Sabbath, Judaism's biblically-mandated day of rest, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Though most Israelis are secular, Israel?s founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country?s affairs and Ultra-Orthodox rabbis strictly govern Jewish practices such as weddings, divorces, and burials. The Ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only ten percent of the country?s population. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Oct. 12, 2012 photo an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man blows a trumpet to announce the starting of the Sabbath, Judaism's biblically-mandated day of rest, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Though most Israelis are secular, Israel?s founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country?s affairs and Ultra-Orthodox rabbis strictly govern Jewish practices such as weddings, divorces, and burials. The Ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only ten percent of the country?s population. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Hundreds of people packed a Jerusalem community center recently for what many in Jerusalem consider a subversive act: They attended a lecture on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
The seemingly harmless event, in which the popular Arab-Israeli journalist Sayed Kashua talked about pluralism and tolerance, broke a long-standing ban on holding activities in public buildings on the Jewish day of rest.
That turned Kiryat Yovel, a tranquil neighborhood in west Jerusalem, into the latest battleground in Jerusalem's protracted culture war between Jewish conservatism and pluralism.
After years of setbacks, Jerusalem's secular population has begun to push back against what many believe are heavy-handed tactics by the city's ultra-Orthodox residents to impose their religious mores on the general population. A growing number of restaurants now open on Saturday, an array of cultural events have sprouted up, and for the first time in years, a longtime exodus of secular residents for nearby suburbs appears to have halted.
"We're not against the ultra-Orthodox, we're for tolerance and integration and against intimidation. But from no public services offered on Saturdays to promoting gender segregation, the community is undermining the very basis of our democratic state," said Dina Azriel, a leader in the grassroots "Free Kiryat Yovel" initiative, which sponsored the recent lecture.
While most Israelis are secular, Israel's founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country's affairs, and Orthodox rabbis strictly govern religious events such as weddings, divorces, and burials for the Jewish population. The ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only about 10 percent of the country's population.
The influence of the ultra-Orthodox is especially pronounced in Jerusalem, where their numbers are proportionally much larger than the national average. Jerusalem, Israel's largest city, is split almost evenly into thirds between secular and modern Orthodox residents, Muslim Palestinians, and the ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Many modern Orthodox Jews live and work with the secular population while maintaining a religious life style, in contrast to ultra-Orthodox, who choose to live in insulated enclaves.
The ultra-religious have used their large numbers and political muscle to shape modern Jerusalem. The city grinds to a virtual standstill on the Jewish Sabbath, with businesses closed, public transportation halted and few options for entertainment.
Attempts to change this status quo have prompted violent backlashes from the ultra-Orthodox, who haven't hesitated to block roads, clash with police or send tens of thousands of activists into the streets when ordered by their rabbis. In 2009, the city experienced riots when it allowed a parking lot near Jerusalem's Old City to open on the Sabbath to serve out-of-town tourists.
In recent years, the ultra-Orthodox have grown bolder, pressuring the local bus company, Egged, to operate gender-segregated lines through religious neighborhoods, attempting to separate men and women on public sidewalks and ripping down billboards with female images on them. Because of the threat of vandalism, Egged recently decided to cease all advertising on its Jerusalem buses by October 2013.
The "Free Kiryat Yovel" movement was formed after ultra-Orthodox activists were allowed to build a kindergarten that maintained a wall to separate religious and non-religious preschoolers. It took four years of petitioning the local community center to win a permit for the Sabbath lecture.
"We're in a really critical time right now, and I'm not optimistic," said Sarit Hashkes, who runs another secular rights group, called "Be Free Israel."
"What we're seeing now is cooperation of state and police officials with the ultra-Orthodox. Women are being pushed aside, and everything is pushed more to the right."
The group is behind a number of initiatives, like offering discount cards to patrons to use at restaurants that are open on the Sabbath to increase "secular buying power."
Hashkes said momentum among the secular population is percolating, but not without an equally fierce backlash. While separate sidewalks are officially banned, she said some streets were still off limits to women during the recent Jewish Sukkot holiday.
Just last week, a prominent female activist was arrested for wearing a traditionally male prayer shawl at the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, an act that police prohibit because of Orthodox Jewish sensitivities.
Anat Hoffman said police strip-searched her and jailed her overnight, releasing her only after she agreed to stay away from the site for a month. The incident occurred as she led prayers for 200 American Jewish women from Hadassah, a Jewish women's group that was celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Over the years, the growing religious influence, coupled with a high cost of living, has pushed tens of thousands of secular Jerusalemites to leave the city. Navigating a complicated balancing act, Mayor Nir Barkat, a secular, former high-tech businessman, has attempted to revive secular life in the city without alienating the ultra-Orthodox.
Barkat's office says the mayor has boosted the city's culture budgets since he was elected in 2008, quadrupling events like concerts and street festivals to enliven the city and encouraged new housing in secular areas to draw young couples and families.
"Despite a small number of friction points in the city, Jerusalem has seen a dramatic reduction in tension between the Ultra-Orthodox and secular communities in recent years," said spokesman Barak Cohen.
In a sign that secular life could be making a comeback, the mayor's office noted that enrollment in secular schools increased in the last school year for the first time in 15 years.
Naomi Tsur, a deputy mayor of Jerusalem, noted that for the first time in 15 years, there is a clear non-Orthodox majority in the city council, another sign of secular revival. Modern Orthodox schools also posted slight gains.
Whether these trends can continue remains unclear. More than 60 percent of Jewish students attend ultra-Orthodox schools, according to the Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies.
Tsur, an urban planner who has promoted coexistence among Jerusalem's diverse populations, said "a lot will hinge" on whether the secular masses turn their concerns into election issues. "People usually go to vote on 'shall we go to war with Iran,' but we need to work together on making an appealing mix that will attract young and dynamic couples to live in Jerusalem," she said.
With parliamentary elections set for January, Kiryat Yovel activist and art historian Daniel Unger thinks these issues will continue to be pushed to the back burner.
"This is a real issue that (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and others don't want to address," he says. "Instead, he keeps talking about the Iranian bomb, in hope that his people won't pay attention to the domestic social and economic issues he's ignored."
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5 Technology Trends: an Elite 8 CIO View - Insurance & Technology
With that observation in mind, we asked Mark Clark, CIO, Jackson National Life ? one of this year's Elite 8 ??for his view on a few of the technologies that are shaping the insurance industry's future:
Ubiquitous Computing: We will see everything become connected wirelessly (the internet of everything). Imagine walking through a store, pointing your phone at a device, and it instantly telling you what it is compatible with in your household. Consumer reports on that item, reviews from other users, etc. Then you get a message to turn around, the device behind you works well with the one you are looking at?
Big Data: Insurance companies tend to have their data ?siloed? into systems that make it difficult to query. There will be a large push going forward to make this data accessible by our users in extremely user-friendly ways. We?ll see big push to use this data in all sorts of decision making across the organization.
Voice Recognition: Apple?s Siri takes this to a whole differently level and this technology will become much more in demand in future applications, particularly combined with the two technologies above, it will become very powerful.
Tablet computing: Increasingly processing will move off the PC and onto tablet devices. There are many challenges in supporting this in a traditional insurance development environment. Demands for mobile and tablet applications will increase and insurance Sr. IT executives need to be ready for it.
Impact of Data Storage Improvements: The high speed and low costs of data storage and memory are already making previously unheard of designs feasible, with no end is sight.
[For more on this year's Elite 8 honorees' views on technology shaping the future of the insurance industry, see Go, Go, Gadget: Top Emerging Technology Tools for Insurers.]
Source: http://www.insurancetech.com/management-strategies/5-technology-trends-an-elite-8-cio-view/240009688
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Playing Cards for a Rainy Day! ? Life as a WAHM
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School vacation is coming up and many people are planning to travel with their kids. It?s great to have daytrips planned full of activities, especially if there is a lot of sightseeing and outdoor things to do that will last all day long. There are lots of great ?staycations? where you can save a lot of money. But what happens if bad weather strikes? Movies can get expensive and sitting on the sofa and armchairs while watching TV or play video games all the time gets redundant as well. Instead, why not play some card games? It?s inexpensive fun that everyone in the family can participate in. There are all kinds of games for different numbers of players and all different ages. Here are just a few:
Crazy Eights
Two to four people can play. The object of the game is to get rid of all of your cards.
If there are two players, each of them gets seven cards, but if there are 3 or 4 players each gets 5 cards.
The remaining cards are the draw pile. Turn one card over to start the discard pile.
The player to the dealer?s left must match the card?s number or suit. If you don?t have a match you can play an eight and of any suit but decide what suit it represents. If you don?t have either a match or an eight you draw cards from the pile until you get one.
The first person to discard all his or her cards wins.
Stealing Bundles
Two to four people can play.
Four cards are dealt to each player, and four cards are placed face up in the middle of the table. The first player ( to the left of the dealer) either matches one of the cards in the middle, picking it up and placing both cards face up in front of him in a stack called a ?bundle?, or he adds another card face up in the middle.
The next player has the same options plus one more: He can steal the previous player?s bundle, by matching the top card.
Play continues around the table with each player having 3 options:
???? ? matching a middle card
???? ? playing a card in the middle
???? ? stealing a bundle.
When a player runs out of cards, the dealer gives him four more from the deck. If there are no more cards in the middle, the dealer replenishes them from the deck. When the dealer?s deck is gone, the player with the most cards wins.
So keep a deck of playing cards on hand for rainy day family fun.
*Ellen is a blogger who loves playing card games on a rainy day.
Source: http://iamfe.com/2012/10/playing-cards-for-a-rainy-day/
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Wills Recreation and Sports Centre Tender ? News - Tennis NSW
Willougby Council is seeking Tenders from suitably qualified and experienced operators for the management of The Willis Recreation & Sports Centre.
The management options available at The Willis include tennis coaching and court hire, recreation / fitness programmes, multi-sport synthetic courts, catering and community function areas.
The Centre, located on a major arterial road in Sydney?s northern suburbs presently houses 13 Tennis courts, 2 Futsal courts as well as space for other community services.
Tender Documents which contain essential information and submission schedules may be obtained from?Tenderlink free of charge.
Tenders must be in the Tender Box located on Level 4, 31 Victor Street, Chatswood by?11:00am Wednesday 14 November 2012. Tenders received after the closing time will not be considered.
For more information please contact Kate Day, Willoughby Leisure Manager via mobile?0434 155 005.
Source: http://www.tennis.com.au/nsw/news/2012/10/23/wills-recreation-and-sports-centre-tender
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Scientists raise alarm over undersea methane
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In this visualization, the Gulf Stream is seen as the dark red current coming into the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico.
A changing Gulf Stream off the East Coast has destabilized frozen methane deposits trapped under nearly 4,000 square miles of seafloor, scientists reported Wednesday. And since methane is even more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas, the researchers said, any large-scale release could have significant climate impacts.
Temperature changes in the Gulf Stream are "rapidly destabilizing methane hydrate along a broad swathe of the North American margin," the experts said in a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Using seismic records and ocean models, the team estimated that 2.5 gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate are being destabilized and could separate into methane gas and water.
It is not clear if that is happening yet, but that methane gas would have the potential to rise up through the ocean and into the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse gases warming Earth.
The 2.5 gigatonnes isn't enough to trigger a sudden climate shift, but the team worries that other areas around the globe might be seeing a similar destabilization.?
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"It is unlikely that the western North Atlantic margin is the only area experiencing changing ocean currents," they noted. "Our estimate ... may therefore represent only a fraction of the methane hydrate currently destabilizing globally."
The wider destabilization evidence, co-author Ben Phrampus told NBC News, includes data from the Arctic and Alaska's northern slope in the Beaufort Sea.
And it's not just under the seafloor that methane has been locked up. Some Arctic land area are seeing permafrost thaw, which could release methane stored there as well.
An expert who was not part of the study said it suggests that methane could become a bigger climate factor than carbon dioxide.
"We may approach a turning point" from a warming driven by man-made carbon dioxide to a warming driven by methane, Jurgen Mienert, the geology department chair at Norway's University of Tromso, told NBC News.
"The interactions between the warming Arctic Ocean and the potentially huge methane-ice reservoirs beneath the Arctic?Ocean floor point towards?increasing instability," he added.
For thousands of years, permafrost has trapped Siberia's carbon-rich soil, a compost of Ice Age plant and animal remains. But global warming is melting the permafrost and exposing the soil, causing highly flammable methane to seep out. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.
He also noted, however, that "one of the big unknowns?is?the magnitude of rapid methane escape from the ocean floor, and how natural filter?systems react and affect the future ocean, its environment and the climate."
Relate: Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing methane
Another unknown is what caused the Gulf Stream changes, said Phrampus, an earth sciences PhD candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
"Multiple events can play a factor, such as changing sea level or an addition of cold/fresh water from the north," Phrampus said, adding he was?hopeful that the changes might be "reversible under their own influence."
But, he added, "we need more data to resolve this, and we are currently investigating this process."
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Recipe Of The Day: White Cheese Pasta With Lemon Oil
It's hard to beat a bowl of freshly-made pasta -- it tastes worlds apart from the boxed stuff most of us are used to. It's light, melts in your mouth and doesn't require much of a topping to make a meal out of it. This cheese pasta recipe uses freshly made pasta and tops it with cheese and lemon -- nothing more.
If you're not up to making your own freshly made pasta, which is much easier than you might think, you can often times find it in Italian grocery stores.
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Surface RT review: Microsoft tablet mixed blessing
Surface RT, Microsoft's first foray into personal computing, is a hardware success, and the company should be proud. Windows RT, the operating system that runs on it, is less of a reason for self-back-patting, however.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Romney and Obama focus on debate preparations
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing for his second debate with President Barack Obama but also taking time to tell voters in Ohio that enthusiasm for him is on the rise.
Obama was hunkering down Saturday in Virginia to go over the game plan for the town hall-style debate with Romney. But in his weekly radio and Internet address, he spoke of an industry that's critical to Ohio and to Romney's chance of victory.
"We refused to throw in the towel and do nothing. We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt," Obama said in the address. "GM is back. Ford and Chrysler are growing again. Together, our auto industry has created nearly a quarter of a million new jobs right here in America."
Romney opposed using government funds to help the auto industry go through bankruptcy. Many analysts believe the industry would not have survived if it had relied on private investment for rescue. It's an issue that has dogged Romney in Ohio, where numerous auto parts suppliers benefited from the survival of the Detroit Three automakers.
The Obama campaign also released a new TV ad narrated by actor Morgan Freeman noting the challenges Obama inherited and highlighting the president's successes, including saving jobs for American autoworkers and killing Osama bin Laden.
Romney is concluding a week of campaign rallies that saw him drawing larger, more excited crowds than he has through the fall campaign. More than 10,000 people turned out to several rallies, with the campaign saying that more people were signing up to attend events since Romney's strong debate performance last week in Denver.
"I've had the fun of going back and forth across Ohio, and this week I was also in Florida and Iowa, I was in North Carolina and Virginia. And you know what? There is a growing crescendo of enthusiasm," Romney told a crowd of thousands at a sunset rally Friday in Lancaster, south of Columbus, where he and running mate Paul Ryan appeared together. "There's more energy and passion. People are getting behind this campaign. We are taking back this country."
Saturday will be the fourth of the last five days Romney will spend campaigning in this industrial, Midwestern state ? with 18 electoral votes, it's critical to his hopes of winning the White House. His campaign swing comes as he and Republicans criticize Obama for the handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Romney accused Vice President Joe Biden of "doubling down on denial" concerning security at the diplomatic post where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. During the vice presidential debate Thursday, Biden said "we weren't told" about the Benghazi consulate's requests for additional security. Although a State Department official told Congress on Wednesday about the requests, the White House said Friday that Biden was speaking just for himself and for the president.
"The vice president directly contradicted the sworn testimony of State Department officials," said Romney, who was eager to stoke a controversy that has flared periodically since the attack. "American citizens have a right to know just what's going on. And we're going to find out."
Romney spent nearly four hours Saturday morning at a hotel outside Columbus preparing for Tuesday's debate showdown with Obama in Hempstead, N.Y. He returns to Massachusetts in the evening but first makes two campaign stops in Ohio.
After his widely panned performance in the first presidential debate, polls show Obama still holds a slim edge in Ohio. The state is crucial for Romney because his path to winning the 270 electoral college votes he needs is far narrower if he can't win Ohio. Losing here would mean he'd have to win almost all of the other up-for-grabs battleground states.
Obama was in Ohio this week, too, but he was spending the weekend in Williamsburg, Va., preparing for the debate. The president has acknowledged he needs to turn in a stronger performance when the two meet again.
Obama and top aides plan hours of practice sessions ahead of the town hall-style event, including some mock exchanges with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who is playing the role of Romney.
Campaign officials sought to keep details of Obama's preparations secret. But they said the president was working on being more aggressive in responding to Romney and calling the Republican out on issues as well as pointing out what they maintain are Romney's true positions.
While Obama has no public events planned in Virginia over the next three days, his mere presence in the state will drive some local news coverage. And he may make unscheduled visits in the Williamsburg area.
The president practiced for the first debate in Nevada, another battleground state.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen will join former President Bill Clinton at an Obama rally in Parma, Ohio, on Thursday, two days after the second presidential debate. Obama will not attend the rally. Springsteen also plans a second, separate campaign event that day.
Springsteen campaigned for Obama in 2008, but this is his first political appearance of the 2012 cycle. Clinton and Springsteen's joint appearance in Ohio underscores the importance of the key swing state. Polls show Obama with a slight lead there over Mitt Romney.
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Associated Press writer Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-obama-focus-debate-preparations-072226169--election.html
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