Which song written by the Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933 was marketed as 'Hungarian suicide song' as it was mistakenly believed to have inspired hundreds of suicides?

Rezső Seress | Possecomitatus's Weblog Wouldn’t they be angry If I thought of joining you? Gloomy Sunday With shadows I spend it all My heart and I Have decided to end it all Soon there’ll be candles And prayers that are said I know But let them not weep Let them know that I’m glad to go Death is no dream For in death I’m caressin’ you With the last breath of my soul I’ll be blessin’ you Gloomy Sunday Dreaming, I was only dreaming I wake and I find you asleep In the deep of my heart here Darling I hope That my dream never haunted you My heart is tellin’ you How much I wanted you Gloomy Sunday (“Gloomy Sunday” (from Hungarian “Szomorú Vasárnap”, IPA: [‘somoruː ‘vɒʃarnɒp]) is a song written by the Hungarian self-taught pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933. According to urban legend, it inspired hundreds of suicides. When the song was first marketed in the United States, it became known as the “Hungarian suicide song”. There is no systematic substantiation for such claims, as it is not documented where any such allegations appear in press coverage or other publications of the time. Numerous versions of the song have been recorded and released. Michael Brooks wrote in the program notes for the 10-CD set, “Lady Day” – the Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944: “Gloomy Sunday reached America in 1936 and, thanks to a brilliant publicity campaign, became known as The Hungarian Suicide Song. Supposedly after hearing it, distraught lovers were hypnotized into heading straight out of the nearest open window, in much the same fashion as investors after October 1929; both stories are largely urban myths.”)


What is the musical term for a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of an instrument?

String Music Terms | Musical Terms | String Instrument Music Terms Search Glossary of String Music Terms Welcome to our Glossary of String Music Terms where you can get the basic knowledge of terms used in the string music profession. These string music terms are the names of instruments: Violin: The violin or “fiddle” is a string instrument which is played with a bow.  It is the smallest member of the string family of orchestra instruments.  The violin has 4 strings.  The names of the strings are E, A, D and G. The violin is very similar to the viola, but the violin has plays higher pitches.  The violin comes in fractional sizes 1/64 to 3/4 and of course the 4/4  size violin.  Shop for Violins under $1000.   Shop for Violins over $1000. Viola: The viola is a little bit bigger then the violin. The viola string instrument is measured by inches no fractions like the violin. The viola is available in 14″ – 17.5″ but if you need a smaller viola, it is possible to put viola strings on a violin.  The viola has four strings which are A, D, G and C.  Shop for Violas under $1000.  Shop for Violas over $1000. Cello: The cello is much larger then the violin or viola.  It is played sitting down but is still a bowed string instrument.  The strings on the cello are A, D, G and C but sound one octave lower then the Viola.  Cellos are available is 1/10 – 4/4 sizes. Shop for Cellos under $4000.   Shop for cellos over $4000. Bass: The Bass is the largest instrument in the string family.  It is played standing or sitting on a tall stool.  The bass is also commonly called the string bass, double bass, stand up bass or acoustic bass.  The strings on the bass are G, D, A and E.  Basses are available in 1/8 – 4/4 sizes.  Shop for Basses. These String Music Terms are parts and accessories for string instruments: Bow: A violin bow, viola bow, cello bow or bass bow is made of wood and have horse hairs which pull the strings to make a sound.  There is rosin that is applied to the horse hairs to make them sticky enough to grab the string.  Shop for Bows. Rosin: Rosin is made of tree sap which has been cooked into a solid so that it may be rubbed on the hairs of a bow.  Shop for Rosin. End Pin:  The Cello End Pin or Bass End Pin is a metal rod that comes out of the bottom of a cello or bass to support the instrument.  It rests on the floor allowing the cello or bass to be suspended and easier to play.  When the Cello or Bass is put away the end pin conveniently slides into the body of the instrument for storage. Violins and Violas do not have end pins. Fittings:  The fittings of a string instrument include the Pegs, Bridge, Tail Piece, Chin Rest (on violins and violas), or End Pin (on cellos and basses).  A string instrument that comes “set up” with have all of these parts included. Chin Rest: A Violin Chin Rest or Viol Chin Rest is an accessory that usually comes as part of the fittings of the violin or violin.  The chin rest helps the violinist hold the violin in place on the shoulder by using just the head and not the hands.  The name chin rest is actually a misnomer because the JAW is the body part that goes in the chin rest not the CHIN.  WE should call it the JAW REST.  😉 Shoulder Rest:  A violin or viola shoulder rest is used to help support the violin or viola on the musicians shoulder.  The added support helps in holding the violin or viola without the hands.  Cellists do not need shoulder rests. There are many different shoulder rest options available.  Shop for Shoulder rests . Rock Stop: A Cello Rock Stop or Bass Rock Stop is a type of end pin anchor that goes on the floor to keep the end pin from slipping.  Violinists and Violists do not need Rock stops.  There are many different rock stop options available. Shop for Rock Stops. These String Music Terms are techniques that string players use: Vibrato: Vibrato is an expression that string players (like vocalists) can add to music.  The pitch is fluctuated rapidly but subtly.  Vibrato can be used to add warmth and character to all types of music. Accent: An accent in sheet music looks lik


Which famous Irish traditional song about a highwayman (usually in the Cork and Kerry mountains) was given a rock veneer by the rock band Thin Lizzy?

Music Gates: Thin Lizzy-Whiskey in the jar Thursday, May 26, 2011 Thin Lizzy-Whiskey in the jar Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. The two founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums. Thin Lizzy are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Thin Lizzy's de facto leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs. He was one of the few black musicians to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and the first black Irishman to do so. Thin Lizzy boasted some of the most critically acclaimed guitarists throughout their history, with founders Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including country music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, "far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack". Allmusic critic John Dougan has written that "As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition." Van Morrison, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were major influences during the early days of the band, and later influences included American artists Little Feat and Bob Seger. "Whiskey in the Jar" is a famous Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, with specific mention of Cork and Kerry counties, as well as Fenit, a village in Kerry county. It is about a highwayman, or perhaps a footpad, who is betrayed by his wife or lover, and is one of the most widely performed traditional Irish songs. It has been recorded by numerous professional artists since the 1950s. The song first gained wide exposure when the Irish folk band The Dubliners performed it internationally as a signature song, and recorded it on three albums in the 1960s. Building on their success, the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy hit the Irish and British pop charts with the song in the early 1970s. The American metal band Metallica brought it to a wider rock audience in 1998 by playing a version very similar to that of Thin Lizzy's with a heavier sound, and won a Grammy for the song in 2000 for Best Hard Rock Performance. " The above text is a mashup from Wikipedia." Posted by


Which Swedish pop group went through the names 'Kalinin Prospect', CAD (Computer-Aided Disco) and Tech-Noir before settling on their present name as nobody could remember their previous names?

Learn and talk about Ace of Base, Ace of Base, Arista Records artists, English-language singers of Sweden, Europop groups Clara Hagman Julia Williamson Ace of Base was a Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren , Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren . They released four studio albums between 1992 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making them the third-most successful Swedish band of all time, after ABBA and Roxette . Happy Nation , also called The Sign , is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, and was certified nine times platinum in the United States. [6] It was the first debut album to produce three number 1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart: " All That She Wants ", " The Sign ", and " Don't Turn Around ". [7] Following the formal departure of singer Linn in 2007, the band performed a series of concerts as a trio in Europe and Asia between 2007 and 2009. Jenny Berggren revealed in November 2009 that she would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the band to focus on a solo career. [8] In 2009, Jonas and Ulf recruited two new female vocalists, Clara Hagman and Julia Williamson, and released The Golden Ratio in September 2010. [9] Clara and Julia departed from the group in 2012, [10] and in March 2015, a compilation album called Hidden Gems featuring unreleased songs and b-sides from the group's inception through 2005 was released, with promotion for the album being handled solely by Jonas and Ulf. Contents Formation[ edit ] Ace of Base formed in Gothenburg , Sweden. In 1987, following a number of years as part of a new romantic and punk covers band called G Konrad, Jonas Berggren formed a band with two friends, Johnny Lindén and Niklas Tränk, for a school project; his sisters Malin, called "Linn", and Jennifer, called "Jenny", joined as singers. The new band went through several names: Kalinin Prospect after an avenue in Moscow; CAD (Computer-Aided Disco); and Tech-Noir, French for black technology, after a nightclub in the film The Terminator . [11] They toured the clubs of Sweden with self-written material, techno inspired by the likes of The KLF and Snap! . Johnny left the group in 1989, and Niklas made his departure known by failing to appear at a performance, instead attending a Rolling Stones concert on the other side of town. [12] Jonas asked his friend Ulf Ekberg to stand in for Niklas. The new quartet sought a new name to make a fresh start. Linn was reported to have said: "No one could pronounce the name of the group and nobody could remember it." They settled on Ace of Base after Ulf was inspired by the music video for the Motörhead song " Ace of Spades ." [13] However, the band continued to struggle to gain any recognition, partly due to the preference of heavy metal over techno in their home town, according to singer Jenny. [14] In 1991 they responded to a newspaper ad by producer John Ballard, who was looking for new talent. He was somewhat unsure about their potential, but did pass them on to Klas Lunding at Telegram Records, who helped them record an early demo for the song " Wheel of Fortune " in their newly renovated studio. A Jamaican reggae band resided in a studio next door to theirs, leading to a collaboration of ideas. [13] This resulted in a fusion of reggae with pop which became the band's trademark sound. "Wheel of Fortune" did not convince Telegram to sign the band, and other labels in Sweden still showed no sign of interest. The demo was eventually sold for a small price to the independent Danish label Mega Records in March 1992. [15] "Wheel of Fortune" was re-recorded and released as a single in Denmark in May, but it failed to chart. A small-budget music video was shot and directed in a small studio by Viking Nielsson [16] and in September, after two failures, the single finally charted. International success and Happy Nation/The Sign (1993–94)[ edit ] Main articles: Happy Nation and The Sign Ace of Base was influenced by Kayo's "Another Mother" to write and compos


"Dit-dit-dit-dot. In his novel Howard's End, E. M. Forster refers to which Beethoven composition as ""the most sublime noise that ever penetrated into the ear of man.""?"

Project MUSE - Music in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Howards End: The Conflicting Presentation of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics Music in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Howards End: The Conflicting Presentation of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics Gemma Moss Abstract Scholarship on Forster and music has tried to resolve contradictions in the texts: biographical information is recruited to produce readings that are consistent with his documented musical preferences and political opinions. This article analyzes music in A Room with a View and Howards End to explore the presence of receding nineteenth- and emerging twentieth-century approaches to music. The different and contradictory ways music is presented can be understood as competing notions of what music is and means. This discussion uses T. W. Adorno’s writing on Beethoven and Mahler to analyze the different guises in which music appears in Forster’s novels to show that music is a site of conflict. Residues of nineteenth-century aestheticism are contained in the depictions of “sublime” music, while at other times music is shown to be a product of existing material conditions. Keywords E. M. Forster, Beethoven, Mahler, Walter Pater, Pierre Bourdieu, A Room with a View, Howards End, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. All sorts and conditions are satisfied by it. Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come—of course, not so as to disturb the others—or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the music; or like Tibby, who is profoundly versed in counterpoint, and holds the full score open upon his knee. 1 FORSTER’S CHARACTERS experience Beethoven in different ways; they have individual and distinct responses to his music. Music’s “sublime” nature—calling up notions of transcendence and beauty—allows “all sorts” to be “satisfied” by it, yet the word “noise” sits in curious contrast with the sublime, undercutting the notion of music as something transcendent to suggest that it is, ultimately, mere sound. This article analyses music in A Room with a View and Howards End to explore the presence of receding nineteenth- and emerging twentieth-century approaches to music. The different and contradictory ways music is presented can be understood as competing notions of what music is and means. This is related to a wider cultural shift occurring at the start of the twentieth century as composers and writers were, as Josh Epstein claims, “digesting, not annihilating” their musical and artistic inheritance. 2 To date, scholarly work on Forster and music tries to resolve contradictions in the texts: biographical information is recruited to produce readings that are consistent with his documented musical preferences and political opinions. This discussion uses T. W. Adorno’s writing on Beethoven and Mahler to analyse the different guises in [End Page 493] which music appears in Forster’s novels to show that music is a site of conflict. Residues of nineteenth-century aestheticism are contained in the depictions of “sublime” music, while at other times music is shown to be a product of existing material conditions. Adorno identifies a transition in forms of musical and artistic production in the early twentieth century: one that rejects the structural unity of nineteenth-century thought epitomised by Hegel and Beethoven, moving towards the articulation of a newly fragmented subjectivity produced by industrialisation and capitalism. For Adorno, Mahler’s compositions exemplify the difficulties of composing at the turn of the twentieth century, and his music contains a paradox: the knowledge that “the determining musical tradition of Europe” is “losing its hold” and must be left behind, combined with a resistance to any “purely mechanical” approach to music and a struggle to continue composing in a way that is “music


Which British musician who worked on engineering projects as Paul McCartney's 'Wild Life' and Pink Floyd's' The Dark Side of the Moon' also started an eponymous progressive rock band that was active between 1975 and 1987?

Artist Shop Domestic Titles - The Latest Releases ARTIST SHOP DOMESTIC TITLES Videos All Things Must Pass: The Story of Tower Records DVD $17.99 Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with 200 stores, in 30 countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made an astounding $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. Directed by Colin Hanks, and featuring music icons like Dave Grohl, Elton John and Bruce Springsteen, All Things Must Pass is a feature documentary film examining this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder Russ Solomon. Ayreon - The Theater Equation Blu-Ray $18.99 Ayreon is the brainchild of producer Arjen Lucassen and composed of a superstar cast of progressive rock musicians. Contributors include James LaBrie (Dream Theater) and Anneke van Giersbergen (solo artist, Devin Townsend Project, The Gentle Storm, ex-The Gathering). This is a truly special moment for Ayreon, as they had never performed live before in 20 years. The make up of the group consisted of too many active touring artists. Over the course of four sold-out shows in September 2015 Ayreon had their first and last ever performances. On the last night they filmed a performance of their legendary album 'The Human Equation' in Rotterdam. Beach Boys - The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds Classic Album DVD $16.99 Beach Boys - The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds Classic Album Blu-Ray $22.99 The latest addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of The Beach Boys ground breaking album Pet Sounds, which celebrates it's 50th anniversary this year. Pet Sounds was recorded in late 1965 and early 1966, about a year after Brian Wilson had withdrawn from playing live with The Beach Boys in order to concentrate on composing and studio work. While the rest of the band were out on tour, Brian Wilson worked in the studio creating multi-layered compositions with painstaking attention to detail utilizing orchestration, sound effects and unusual instruments. When the band returned from tour they went into the studio to add their trademark complex vocal harmonies. - The new direction of the music caused some consternation within the group and the program explores the band's relationship at this time as well as the creation of the music through interviews with all the surviving Beach Boys and others involved in the creation of the album. The US press didn't know what to make of the album at first, although it later became acknowledged as both important and influential. In the UK the album was immediately acclaimed and commercially successful, peaking at No. 2 in the albums chart and remaining in the Top 10 for 6 months. Pet Sounds is now universally regarded as one of the finest albums of the sixties and thoroughly merits it's place in the Classic Albums series. Beatles - Beatles: Scream And Shout DVD $17.99 Six months after their triumphant first U.S. visit in February, 1964 which included their live American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show The Beatles returned to the States for their first full-fledged North American tour. Starting on August 19, 1964 in San Francisco, they traversed the country. Playing to a half-million fans, breaking attendance records and causing mass hysteria wherever they appeared. By the time the tour ended in New York City on September 20th, they'd performed 32 shows at 25 venues in 24 cities - all in just 31 days. Bowie, David - Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World DVD $13.99 Only true legends of rock music are known by one word. As with "Elvis" everyone knows the name of the most creative and influential rock artist of all time: BOWIE. Bowie was in a state of permanent revolution, constantly re-inventing his persona and sound.


Can you connect the singer Bobby McFerrin with the mystic Meher Baba?

Retro Action, February 22, 1989: "Don't Worry, Be Happy", Glee Fans: A Cappella Wins The Grammys | TakePart Retro Action, February 22, 1989: "Don't Worry, Be Happy", Glee Fans: A Cappella Wins The Grammys Feb 22, 2011· 1 MIN READ Originally from Baltimore, Oliver lives and writes on a quiet, tree-lined street in Brooklyn. McFerrin&39;s father, Robert, was the first African-American member of the Metropolitan Opera. Sara, his mother, was a Broadway soloist. (Photo: Reuters/Kimberly White) Okay, I'll admit it. I don't watch Glee. Or any show where Nick Lachey is a judge. But as a recovering a capella enthusiast, I can tell you with some confidence that there is only one thing that has ever made it cool. His name? Bobby McFerrin. It was on this day at the 1989 Grammys that the long-respected jazz vocalist reluctantly became a pop star overnight when upbeat hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" took home awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Pop Performance. The song, which featured an overlayed McFerrin on every vocal part, was inspired by the teachings of Meher Baba, an Indian mystic and spiritual leader who chose to stop speaking for the last 44 years of his life. "Whenever you see a poster of Meher Baba, it usually says 'Don't worry, be happy,' which is a pretty neat philosophy in four words, I think," said McFerrin in a 1988 interview with USA Weekend Magazine. Which is not to say the ten-time Grammy winner is going to let you walk all over him. Upset at the song's unauthorized use during George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, the singer announced publically that he would vote against Bush in protest (the campaign later desisted from further use). So will acapella ever rule the Grammys again? I wouldn't hold your breath. But you can still take the edge off those post-holiday weekend blues with the reigning champ:


Which collection of orchestral movements were composed by George Frideric Handel in 1717 at the request of King George I? These are also his best known work.

George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel The Water Music in Three Suites                   Complete    Handel's Water Music is a collection of short orchestral pieces composed to serenade                   King George I of England during a boating party on the Thames river in 1717. The music is grouped into three suites, each                   featuring different instrumental colors and having its own distinct character. The individual movements that comprise these                   suites include overtures, fanfares, instrumental arias, and dances. Tracks:  1.     The Water Music Suite I Overture 2.     The Water Music Suite I Adagio e staccato 3.     The Water Music Suite I Allegro, Andante, Allegro 4.     The Water Music Suite I Allegro 5.     The Water Music Suite I Air 6.     The Water Music Suite I Minuet 7.     The Water Music Suite I Bourree 8.     The Water Music Suite I Hornpipe 9.     The Water Music Suite I Allegro 10.   The Water Music Suite II Allegro 11.   The Water Music Suite II Alla Hornpipe 12.   The Water Music Suite II Minuet 13.    The Water Music Suite II Lentement 14.    The Water Music Suite II Bourree 15.    The Water Music Suite III Sarabande 16.    The                   Water Music Suite III Rigaudon 17.    The Water Music Suite III Minuet 18.    The Water Music Suite III Gigue 19.    Handel’s Early Career 20.    Listener’s Guide to The Water Music Suite I Movements                   I & II 21.    Listener’s Guide to The Water                   Music Suite I Movement III 22.    Listener’s Guide to The Water Music Suite I Movements IV – VI 23.    Listener’s Guide to The Water Music Suite I Movements VII – IX 24.    Listener’s Guide to The Water Music Suite II Movements                   I – V 25.    Listener’s Guide to The Water                   Music Suite III Movements I – IV 26.    Handel in England    George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach                   and Domenico Scarlatti, in the central German city of Halle. His family was not musical, and Handel’s father initially tried to discourage                   his son’s musical interests, hoping that he would pursue a more dependable career in law. Handel, however, displayed                   not only an exceptional talent but a strong will, developing his skill as a keyboard player despite paternal objections. When                   Handel was just 10 years old, during a visit to a relative employed at the court of Johann Adolph, Duke of Weissenfels, his                   playing on the organ made such an impression that the Duke financed the boy’s music studies.  Handel seems never to                   have considered seriously his father’s wish that he study law. In any event, music soon claimed him. At age 17 he obtained                   a position as organist in one of Halle’s principal churches. A year later, in 1803, he departed his native town and for the next three                   years worked in Hamburg, the German city most devoted to opera. Like many composers of his day, Handel was eager to make his mark in the                   theater, and he was fortunate to obtain employment as a violinist and harpsichordist in the opera orchestra. The harpsichord                   was the most important instrument in opera, which attests to Handel’s skill as a player. His experience of many contemporary                   operas encouraged him to write several of his own.  Handel’s stay in Hamburg whetted his appetite for opera and he soon realized                   that he would do well to seek knowledge of that genre at its source. Accordingly, he set out for Italy in the autumn of 1706. During the next


Which controversial 1992 song by the punk band Body Count was co-written by the group's vocalist Ice-T and provoked a national debate about freedom of speech in the US?

ICE T - Artists Agency Germany -     Although considered as one of Westcoast rap's leading figures, Rapper Ice T was actually born Tracy Marrow on February 16, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Ice T has said that his father gave him a girl's name in order to "teach a brother to fight." When he was in the third grade at school his mother died of a heart attack, then only four years later he then lost his fahter to a heart attack. After his father died, he went to live with his aunt in South Los Angeles' (more often referred to as South Central) Crenshaw district. South Central was were he became infatuated with the ways of "ghetto street life", eventually joining with one of the many sets of the infamous street gang, the Crips, as an affiliate of the "West Side Rollin 30s Original Harlem Crips".    Ice T attended Crenshaw High School, and it was during his time there that he became obsessed with rap music, often reciting his rhymes for classmates. After leaving high school, he joined the U.S. Army. He has stated that he did not enjoy the experience, saying, "I didn't like total submission to a leader other than myself." After leaving the army in 1983, Ice had intentions of starting a career in rap, but he once again became involved in the street life, first as a jewel thief then later as a pimp. A car crash in 1985 was the turning point in Ice-T's life, he decided to abandon the street life and became more focused on rapping.    Ice-T began his extremely long career within rap by recording raps for various studios on 12", tracks which were later compiled on "The Classic Collection" and also featured on disc 2 of "Legends of Hip-Hop". His first rap was in 1982, entitled "The Coldest Rap"; this was also the first hip hop record to use the words "nigga" and "ho," although few recognize this early record as a record of "gangsta rap". His first official "gangsta rap" record was in the form of "6 in the Morning", one of the first gangsta rap records recorded. Ice said he was influenced by the Schooly D record "P.S.K.", which is considered by many to be the first ever gangsta rap record (as it lionized the Philadelphia gang, Park Side Killers).    His stage name, Ice-T, was originally his street moniker, styled after the famous ex-pimp turned author Iceberg Slim. In an introduction to the 1996 Canongate Books reprint of Iceberg Slim's 1969 autobiography 'Pimp', Ice T explained: "Although I never met the man, Iceberg Slim was to have a profound effect on my career and life... Like him, I wanted to be somebody who didn't just die there out on the streets. I wanted to be able to document some of my experiences, and that's what I've been trying to do in my music for the past decade. I took my rap name in tribute to him, and I've never regretted it. He was a real hustler."    All of Ice-T's records on Warner Brothers spell his name Ice-T, while the spelling without the hyphen is more often used on more recent records, whilst his earliest 12" shows the spelling Ice "T". Most recently, on his 2006 release "Gangsta Rap", he routinely refers to himself as "Iceberg" rather than "Ice-T", a nickname also used in the 2004 video game "Def Jam: Fight For NY", which has an Ice-T character, and in the 'story mode' section of the game, the character based on him says, "You cannot defeat the Iceberg, punk".    Much of Ice-T's music is politically aware, like that of Public Enemy and more recently Tupac Shakur (2pac), although the political content within his raps has declined with time. Ice-T's "Killers" in 1984 includes comments on the death penalty, on nuclear war and on gang warfare. In 1986, "Squeeze the Trigger" was a seven-minute long political release by Ice-T, which later appeared on "Rhyme Pays". Ice-T's career saw comments on racism, police brutality, domestic violence, drug abuse, alcoholism, prison conditions, war and censorship. He was one of the very few rappers to condemn homophobia on tracks like "Straight Up Nigga" and "The Tower". He also condemned anti-white bigotry amongst blacks on


The first album by the rock group Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) was named after a chapter in which children's classic?

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According to Opera America, what 'flutters' to the no.1 spot in the list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America?

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:00:00 -0400 600 Video: Metropolitan Opera Musicians, Staff Perform 'Meet the Mets' http://www.wqxr.org/story/video-metropolitan-opera-musicians-staff-perform-meet-mets/
Before the New York Mets took on the Kansas City Royals in game one of the World Series Tuesday night, about two dozen musicians and workers from the Metropolitan Opera gathered that morning on Lincoln Center Plaza to perform the Mets' fight song "Meet the Mets."

Joining members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus were stagehands, security workers and one special guest: Mr. Met.

"The organization was really supportive of the Mets and it just worked out perfectly that we're the Met and they're the Mets," said Susan Spector, a Met Orchestra oboist who organized the rally.

The "Meet the Mets" arrangement featured quotes from operas including Die Walküre, Seigfried, Lohengrin and Carmen. "If I had another day, we'd had something from Lulu in there," joked trumpeter and arranger Peter Bond, referring to the Alban Berg opera which opens next week.

Any Yankees fans at the Met? "Not that dared to show up," laughed Jason Haaheim, a timpanist who was playing a snare drum. Watch:
 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:00:00 -0400 http://www.wqxr.org/story/video-metropolitan-opera-musicians-staff-perform-meet-mets/ Lucerne Festival to Spotlight Women Conductors in 2016 http://www.wqxr.org/story/lucerne-festival-spotlight-women-conductors-2016/
Summer music festivals are rarely noted for being on the vanguard of social or cultural change. But after the BBC Proms gained much attention for its "glass ceiling"-breaking moment in 2013, when Marin Alsop became the first woman to conduct its Last Night concert, it was perhaps inevitable that other festivals would take up the issue.

The Lucerne Festival in Switzerland said on Monday that it plans to spotlight women conductors as part of its 2016 edition. Eleven different women are scheduled to conduct during the monthlong event (Aug. 12-Sept. 11), including Marin Alsop (with the Sao Paulo Symphony Ochestra), Susanna Mälkki, Elim Chan, Barbara Hannigan and Emmanuelle Haïm. The latter will lead the Vienna Philharmonic, the first time that orchestra will have performed under a woman in Lucerne.

Also planned is a "Day of Adventure” featuring concerts and events led by several up-and-coming women: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Anu Tali, Maria Schneider, and Konstantia Gourzi. The conductor theme is billed as one part of a larger focus next season on women artists, including several soloists and composers.

The Lucerne Festival, which originated in 1938, last year named Riccardo Chailly as music director of its resident Lucerne Festival Orchestra. More details on the 2016 festivals (including the Piano and Easter festivals) are available on Lucerne's website. (WQXR will broadcast performances from this past summer’s event on Tuesday nights in November.)

Alondra de la Parra to Australian Orchestra

Lucerne's announcement comes after the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane, Australia on Friday named the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra as its music director, starting in 2017. It was the first time a woman been appointed to the top musical job with one of Australia’s state symphony orchestras. De la Para was born in New York, raised in Mexico City and studied conducting at the Manhattan School of Music. She posted this message on YouTube:
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By his own request, which Austrian composer was buried next to Beethoven in 1828?

Franz Schubert - Composers - Public Domain Music from Royalty Free Music.com Royalty Free Music > Public Domain Music > Composers > Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert is considered to be the last great composer from the Viennese Classical school of music and is one of the earliest innovators of Romantic buyout music . Even though he lived only 31 years, he was able to write over six hundred romantic songs, "lieder," as well as several symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, operas and many other musical works. Schubert's work is classified by its lyricism and melodic exploration. Born on Jarnuary 31, 1797 in a small suburb of Vienna, Schubert came from a family that valued education. His father was a parish schoolmaster and his mother had been a cook in a Viennese family also responsible for education of the children. The Schuberts had fifteen children, ten of which died in infancy. Schubert's father was well-respected within the community and his school was well-attended. He was also had musical talent and encouraged his children, including Franz Schubert to explore their natural abilities in that area. At age five, Schubert began to take regular music lessons from his father. At six, he entered his father's school, the Himmelpfortgrund School where he excelled in all subjects. His father taught him rudimentary violin technique, and his brother Ignaz taught him piano lessons. By age 7, young Schubert had already excelled beyond the abilities of his teachers, and he began to study with the Kapellmeister of the local church. Because these lessons mainly revolved around praise of the boy's talents rather than true technical development, Schubert took up with a local apprentice, who took him along with him when he would visit the local piano warehouse, giving Schubert a chance to practice on superior instruments. Because his early training was so sparse and insufficient, Schubert could not at this point begin to perform publicly, which was at the time the only way for him to gain renown as a respectable musician and classical music composer. In October 1808 he finally got his chance to develop his technical expertise when he was accepted as a scholar at the Convict, which was run by Mozart rival Antonio Salieri and had become the main music school in Vienna. It offered a special office of training for choristers of the Court Chapel. Schubert remained at this school until he was seventeen, but did not gain much from direct instruction, receiving much more valuable learning esxperience from the school orchestra and his fellow students, who helped the financially-strapped young musician afford supplies such as music paper. At the Convict, he also began to learn about the compositional styles of Mozart and other classical music composers, and began to visit the opera often to learn about other compositional techniques. During his time at the Convict, he was already exhibiting a flair for composition. A piano duet and some vocal pieces along with string quartets and other piano works composed during one month in 1810 showed Salieri and others that he was ripe to be formally trained in musical composition and music theory. A regular quartet party was formed at his home with family members and friends in order to explore performances of his early compositions, and it was this first amateur orchestra that informed many of his later compositions. Schubert left the Convict in 1813 and became a teacher at his father's school in order to avoid having to enter the military and continue to explore his musical career. It was at this school that Schubert endured mostly drudge-work and was not very good at his job. Still, he was able to continue to take private lessons from Salieri, who helped him grow most as a composer and pianist. Because Salieri was so active in writing and performing sacred, church music, many of Schubert's early sacred works were influenced by his teacher's, and Schubert's early prolific lieder compositions can be attributed to Salieri's lessons as well. Schubert wrote


The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time was a special issue of Rolling Stone published in 2003 which had Jimi Hendrix at no.1. Which American Southern Rock band was the most represented with 4 of its guitarists making the list?

Lists courtesy of Gordon Stephen unless stated otherwise. MOJO: THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE August 1995 Edition 1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 2. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 3. The Beatles - Revolver 4. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street 5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 7. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 8. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico 10. Patti Smith - Horses 12. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? 13. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy 14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 15. The Band - The Band 16. The Stooges - Fun House 17. Television - Marquee Moon 19. The Beatles - The Beatles 20. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 21. David Bowie - Station To Station 22. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 23. The Clash - London Calling 24. The Beatles - Abbey Road 25. David Bowie - Hunky Dory 26. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet 27. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 28. Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica 29. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust 30. The Doors - The Doors 31. Otis Redding - Otis Blue 32. James Brown & The Famous Flames - Live At The Apollo Vol. 1 33. Nirvana - Nevermind 34. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 35. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times 36. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers 37. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People 38. The Who - The Who Sell Out 39. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 40. Big Star - Third (AKA Sister Lovers) 41. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 42. Gram Parsons With Emmylou Harris - Grievous Angel 43. The Ramones - Ramones 44. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life 45. Lou Reed - Transformer 46. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way 47. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday 48. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express 49. The New York Dolls - New York Dolls 50. Moby Grape - Moby Grape 51. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 52. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 53. Joy Division - Closer 54. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town 55. The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money 56. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly 57. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 58. The Clash - The Clash 59. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 60. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 61. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything 63. The Beatles - With The Beatles 64. Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Clear Spot 65. Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! 66. Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 67. The Wailers - Catch A Fire 68. Massive Attack - Blue Lines 69. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model 70. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight 71. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book 72. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance 73. Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill 74. Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On 75. Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now 76. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 77. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 78. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns 79. The Stooges - The Stooges 80. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life 81. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night 82. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew 83. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night 84. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys 85. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen 86. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear 87. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden 88. Margaret O'Hara - Miss America 89. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 90. Steely Dan - Gaucho 91. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society 92. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis 93. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star 94. The Smiths - The Smiths 95. Muddy Waters - Hard Again 96. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 97. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle 98. Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power 99. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin(4) 100. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Skip  To Top MOJO: 100 GREAT VOICES Please note the format: Vocalist - Song (Year of release): Artist/Group -  Album* List is in alphabetical order. *Album - Most tracks are available on  the CD as listed, except for some that are on vinyl or cassette. Contact  Gordon for information. • Horace Andy - Just Say W


Which set of 30 keyboard techniques were written by Johann Sebastian Bach to reportedly cure insomnia?

New Releases - Outhere Distribution Benelux by Outhere Music - issuu August - September 2015 2 HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH Alpha Collection AT A TIME OF GATHERING MOMENTUM, ALPHA IS RERELEASING 14 SEMINAL BAROQUE RECORDINGS This series brings together the finest Baroque recordings from the Alpha and ZZT catalogues: discs singled out for honours, emblematic artists of music from that period, recordings that marked the discography... This is also the occasion to discover or rediscover universally known works as well as world premiere recordings of rarities. In the framework of these rereleases, the performers have been interviewed and bear witness to their view of the work and their recording several years later, and their fascinating remarks are taken up in the booklets (all trilingual: French, English, German). Concerning the presentation of the discs, we have opted for handsome digipacks, the covers illustrated with photographs by great contemporary artists (all at Magnum) with a dominant colour as a guiding line: for this first series, we have chosen the queen of colours, that of the gods, kings, warriors, the devil, life, violence and death... Themes omnipresent in Baroque art! Find all the infos on page 8 3 Classical Releases Total time : 48’66 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ ACC24299 SCHÜTZ, HEINRICH - Musikalische Exequien LA PETITE BANDE - KUIJKEN, SIGISWALD Heinrich Schütz composed the Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281 for the funeral of his patron Prince Heinrich Posthumus Reuß 1635/1636. Of the three parts, which were to be performed during three different sections of the funeral service, the first part, in the form of a sacred concerto for choir and soloists, is based on the numerous biblical passages which, in accordance with the instructions given by the deceased were to be recited at the coffin which the deceased himself had designed during his lifetime. This part is followed by a motet for double choir based on the text of a sermon («Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe»), and at the conclusion of the hymn of praise to Simeon («Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren»), a choir apart from the main choir intones «Selig sind die Toten» from heaven, so to speak. With this composition, written as a commission, Schuetz created one of the most artistic and heartfelt works of mourning ever written in the history of music. For his recording, Sigiswald Kuijken decided on a soloistic rendering of the individual parts, thus attaining greater transparency. In the middle parts, Kuijken uses high tenors – no altus or countertenors – who possess the specific ability to sing the middle parts over the entire tessitura clearly and with good balance, contributing great richness to the overall sound. Ac nt ACC24311 THe Accent Recordings 1979 - 1986 VAN IMMERSEEL, JOS - VARIOUS ARTISTS Jos van Immerseel is one of the leading representatives of historical performance practice today. Alongside his great commitment to Renaissance and Baroque music, he has consistently broadened his view of the classical and romantic repertoire as well. With the Ensemble Anima Eterna, founded by him in 1987 and performing on historical instruments, he has set new standards with recordings of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Poulenc and, most recently, Orff. On the occasion of Jos van Immerseel’s 70th birthday in November 2015, the present box offers a backward glance at the time when Jos van Immerseel, as the winner of many international competitions and prizes, still focussed primarily on keyboard instruments. During the late 1970s the pupil of Flor Peeters, Eugène Traey and Kenneth Gilbert began his collaboration with the Belgian label Accent, resulting in a series of solo piano recordings with works of Clementi, Mozart and Beethoven which can still stand any comparison today. Alongside this purely soloistic contribution, Jos van Immerseel was also much in demand as a chamber music partner for Octophorus, the oboist Paul Dombrecht and the countertenor René Jacobs. This retrospective is rounded off with a final Accent recording from 198


What song was written and performed by Billy Joel to underscore the plight of fishermen on Long Island?

The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel Songfacts The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel Songfacts Songfacts This song is about the fishermen in Oyster Bay, Long Island, which is near Joel's home. Written from the perspective of a struggling fisherman, the song is accurate in its description of the various places the vessel would travel. The song brought a lot of attention to the challenges these fishermen faced and the hard work they put into their jobs. Joel owned a boat at the time called "The Alexa." It was named after his daughter, Alexa Ray. Like her father, Alexa is also a musician. >> Suggestion credit: Sloan - Port Washington, NY Boating is one of Joel's favorite hobbies. He often makes nautical references in his songs, and his personal management company is called Maritime Music. The Vineyard mentioned in this song is Martha's Vineyard. Billy Joel had a house on the Vineyard, but sold it when he was divorced from Christie Brinkley. People from the island of Martha's Vineyard are known as Islanders: "There ain't no island left for Islanders like me." Joel's boat captain at the time tells us: "The 'downeaster' referred to is merely a style of lobster type fishing boat used widely throughout the northeastern United States. It was not invented by any one company or person. It describes a boat built in, or in the style of those built in, "downeast Maine." These were hardy, seaworthy boats with long open back decks and small working cabins. While they were used for many different types of fishing and modified even into yachts, they were designed for lobstermen. As for Billy's use of it in the song, it actually came from me. I worked for him (as his boat captain) at the time and Billy called me one night looking for a three syllable word describing a working fisherman's boat. We tossed around several different manufacturers' names but settled on 'downeaster' because, like the song, it was generic and wouldn't be claimed by anyone, while still being very descriptive of what he was talking about. Although I was never given any literary credit, I have always been proud to know that I was able to help write a song I love. Aside from that word, I also managed to help him phrase a few other lines." This was released as the third US single from the Storm Front album. Joel donated the proceeds from the single to the fishermen of Oyster Bay.


A famous remark often attributed to Brian Eno is that while only a few thousand people bought a record of this band, almost every single one of the purchasers was inspired to start their own band. Which influential rock band was Eno referring to?

Snow In Berlin: Laughing Stock Snow in Berlin The Sunday Times: 24th January 1999 Not Mad About The Boys Channel 4's new satire Boyz Unlimited presents a worrying picture of how boy bands are squeezing out grown-up music, says Andrew Smith. Comedy writer Richard Osman decided that he wanted Boyz Unlimited, his six-part satire on the crazy world of boy bands, which begins on Channel 4 next Friday, to be played straight. After all, this was not an area that needed to be camped up. It was camp as a scoutmaster's tent peg already. The songs would thus be chosen for his hopeful quartet as if they were a real group - except for one, which, for the purposes of the plot, he wanted to be a mind-blowingly inappropriate cover version. He racked his pop-saturated brain, without finding anything quite horrid enough, until one day his joint musical director Ian Curnow called out of the blue with the answer. The solution was to be found in Dr Hook, the insipid 1970s groaners whose baffling trademark was their singer's eyepatch and beard, and who are best known for the famously execrable When You're In Love With a Beautiful Woman. That was a bad song, but not their worst. Hook had another called A Little Bit More, a schmaltzy ballad that would make even Celine Dion cringe, and a very real contender for the title of Worst Song Ever, Ever . "It was perfect," Osman enthuses, sitting in a nondescript meeting room at the Soho headquarters of production company Hat Trick. "I thought, hell, this would be an awful thing to release - let's do it." So they did, and Osman was mighty pleased with the result. Until Curnow called again a few weeks ago to inform him that 911, a real boy band, were releasing their own reading of the same song and that it was likely to be at the top of the charts the following Sunday. To make matters worse, Osman contends that the fictional Boyz Unlimited's version is better. Reality: don't trust it, kids. Interestingly, Boyz Unlimited is the second satire on the music business to appear on our screens in recent months. The other was Brian Elsley's racy The Young Person's Guide To Becoming a Rock Star, and the view it afforded of the business was remarkably of a piece with Osman's. Managers are clueless thugs, record companies staffed by cocaine-addled airheads. The would-be stars are likably deluded ingenues who are quickly denuded of all illusion and/or principles in the rush to fame and fortune. It's a funny picture, though not necessarily a pretty one, and for most of those entering the fray, it is reasonably accurate. At 27, Osman has first-hand, or at least close second-hand, experience, because his brother is Mat Osman, the bass player in Suede. Although he claims not to have drawn directly on their career, he will allow that being around them has given him an insight into the way the industry works. "It's different with them because they don't really play the game," he says, "but it has helped me to see the arbitrariness of it all. I mean, poor old Brett Anderson (Suede's singer), he's got this public image of being this foppish middle-class ponce, when all he is is this working-class boy who's worked his arse off and happens to be able to write brilliant pop songs. He's put through the wringer, when Damon Albarn, who is a foppish, middle-class ponce, is accepted as hard-working man of the people. There are many lessons learnt from the way Suede have been treated in my armoury." Boyz Unlimited is acute and enjoyable, and far more barbed than Osman likes to admit. Some of us will be selfishly hoping that it serves another purpose, too. When the writer had approached Hat Trick and Channel 4 with his idea in 1997, their only concern was that, by the time it could be transmitted, the fad for teen pop would have passed. Osman assured them that it wouldn't have, and he was more right than he could have dreamt. The recently released list of last year's best-selling albums contains shockingly little original rock or electronic music. It is the blandest list of records anyone could have seen for at least 10 years, popula


1. The A is the outermost of the large, bright ones. 2. The B is the largest, brightest, and most massive. 3. The C is wide but faint and located inward of the B. 4. The D is the innermost and is also very faint. 5. The E is the second outermost and is extremely wide. 6. The F is the outermost discrete one and very active. 7. The G is very thin and faint and is halfway between the F and the E. What are we talking about?

Rings of Saturn : Wikis (The Full Wiki) Galileo's work Galileo was the first to observe the rings. Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings in 1610 using his telescope , but was unable to identify them as such. He wrote to the Duke of Tuscany that "[t]he planet Saturn is not alone, but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor change with respect to one another. They are arranged in a line parallel to the zodiac , and the middle one (Saturn itself) is about three times the size of the lateral ones [the edges of the rings]." He also described Saturn as having "ears". In 1612, the plane of the rings was oriented directly at the Earth and the rings appeared to vanish. Mystified, Galileo wondered, "[h]as Saturn swallowed his children?", in reference to the myth of Saturn 's consumption of his children to prevent them from overthrowing him. [3] They reappeared again in 1613, further confusing Galileo. [4] Early astronomers used anagrams as a form of commitment scheme to lay claim to new discoveries before their results were ready for publication. Galileo used smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttauiras for Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi ("I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form") for discovering the rings of Saturn. [5] Ring theory and observations Robert Hooke noted the shadows (a and b) cast by both the globe and the rings on each other in this 1666 drawing of Saturn . In 1655, Christiaan Huygens became the first person to suggest that Saturn was surrounded by a ring. With a telescope far superior to those available to Galileo, Huygens observed Saturn and wrote that "It [Saturn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic." [4] Robert Hooke was another early observer of the rings of Saturn, and noted the casting of shadows on the rings. [6] In 1675, Giovanni Domenico Cassini determined that Saturn's ring was composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division . This division is a 4,800 km-wide region between the A Ring and B Ring . [7] In 1787, Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the rings were composed of a large number of solid ringlets. [2] In 1859, James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated that the rings could not be solid or they would become unstable and break apart. He proposed that the rings must be composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting Saturn. [8] Maxwell's theory was proven correct in 1895 through spectroscopic studies of the rings carried out by James Keeler of Lick Observatory . Physical characteristics The dark Cassini Division separates the wide inner B Ring and outer A Ring in this image from the HST 's ACS (March 22, 2004). The less prominent C Ring is just inside the B Ring. The dense main rings extend from 7,000 km to 80,000 km above Saturn's equator, with an estimated local thickness of only 10 meters, [9] and are composed of 99.9 percent pure water ice with a smattering of impurities that may include tholins or silicates . [10] The main rings are primarily composed of particles ranging in size from 1 centimeter to 10 meters. [11] The total mass of the rings is about 3 x 1019 kg. This is a small fraction of the total mass of Saturn (about 50  ppb ) and is just a little less than the moon Mimas . [12] There have been recent claims, as yet unverified, that this is an underestimate due to clumping in the rings and the mass may actually be three times this figure. [13] While the largest gaps in the rings, such as the Cassini Division and Encke Gap , can be seen from Earth, both Voyager spacecraft discovered that the rings have an intricate structure of thousands of thin gaps and ringlets. This structure is thought to arise, in several different ways, from the gravitational pull of Saturn's many moons. Some gaps are cleared out by the passage of tiny moonlets such as Pan , [14] many more of which may yet be discovered, and some ringlets seem to be maintained by the gravitational effects of small shepherd satellites (similar


"In a Oct, 2014 interview to The Guardian, Prof. Peter Piot said the following. What's the missing word? ""In 1976 I discovered ... - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy."""

The Nation August 12, 2014 by The Nation - issuu issuu Lagos nurse tests positive to Ebola NEWS Page 5 •Cases now 10 •177 under watch •Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper ? VOL. 9, NO. 2936 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Polls: Jonathan insists on heavy security NEWS Pages 4&8 •Killer squad on the loose? LAW Page 25 TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH N150.00 Draft constitution splits conference as North’s delegates meet A WHERE ARE THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15? SIX-YEAR single term for the president and governors, 50 per cent derivation and the scrapping of the 774 local councils. These are some of the highlights of the draft constitution presented yesterday to National Conference members in Abuja. But the draft constitution, given to members along with the draft proposal of the conference for their review before discussion starts tomor- SOME OF THE HIGLIGHTS OF THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION •Six-year single term for the president and governors •50 per cent derivation •Scrapping of the 774 local governments From Yusuf Alli, Abuja row, did not go down well with the northern delegates who will meet today in Abuja. The meeting will decide on whether to confront the leadership on the draft constitution or boycott the confer- ence’s final leg. Most Northern delegates were shocked that a draft constitution was “smuggled” into the agenda of the conference, in spite of the persistent denial by its leadership. One of the Northern delegates, who spoke anony- mously, said: “It was shocking to hear that a draft constitution is being circulated to members. We have summoned an emergency meeting of Northern delegates for Tuesday (today). “The Northern delegates are angry that extraneous is- sues are being brought into the agenda of the National Conference. “If the government had made up its mind from the beginning, there was no basis for bringing 492 Nigerians for the conference. “Our meeting might also take a firm decision on whether to go ahead with the conference or boycott its final stage. We cannot be used for selfish purpose.” Continued on page 4 •INSIDE: WASSCE RECORDS 31% PASS P6 SON RELIVES ADE-AJAYI’S LAST MOMENT P5 North to Jonathan: get girls out by Oct. or forget 2015 ‘Probe attacks on Buhari, killings of Shi’ite men’ 16 would-be female bombers, trainer arrested From Kolade Adeyemi, A From Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna P RESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan got yesterday an ultimatum from the North – bring back the Chibok girls and stop Boko Haram or forget 2015. The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a deadline – October- for the conditions to be met. For over three months, more than 200 girls abducted by the fundamentalist Boko Haram sect have been in captivity. Eleven of their parents have died, following the trauma. The government says it knows where the girls are, but it is being careful not to do anything that will put their lives at risk. The thinking of the elders is that the military can defeat the Boko Haram terrorists – if, indeed, the government wants to subdue the sect. “We are convinced that most of these conflicts are being engineered to weaken the North politically and economically by interests which intend to exploit such weaknesses for electoral benefits,” the NEF said yesterday. The forum spoke in Kaduna through two ‘ Continued on page 4 If President Jonathan fails to end the insurgency, Nigerians will be left with the only conclusion that he has forfeited his right to ask for their mandate beyond 2015 ’ •THE FEAR OF EBOLA: Passengers, wearing protective face masks and hand gloves push trolleys loaded with PHOTO: AFP personal effects upon arrival at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos…yesterday. Kano MAN believed to be training female bombers was arrested yesterday in Kano. Also arrested with Ibrahim Ibrahim were 16 girls who security agents said were being trained as would-be bombers. Sources in Kano said the teenage girls were arrested when security men swooped on the place where they were being trained following a tip-off. Joint Task Force (JTF) officers carried out the raid. Ibrahim is believed to be a traine


"In a letter written in 1924, who wrote ""You will be interested to hear that I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula"" and transformed our view of the universe forever?"

Full text of "Some Mysteries of the Universe" See other formats VIYSTERI  OF T UNIV   7y    some   mysteries   of the    universe    W.R.CORLISS   WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK MOORE   SOME MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE   WILLIAM R. CORLISS   EDITED BY  PATRICK MOORE   ADAM & CHARLES BLACK LONDON   this edition 1 969  a. and c. black ltd  4, 5 and 6 soho square london wi  © 1967, 1969 william r. corliss sbn: 71360933 8   The illustration on page 143 by permission of Clyde Tombaugh.   INTRODUCTION  Astronomy is an ever-changing science. During the past few decades, many questions have been answered ; but as soon as one problem is solved, a host of new ones arise to take its place. The more we find out, the more we are forced to realize how little we really know.  Most books written for laymen content themselves with giving a broad general survey of astronomical ideas. Mr. Corliss, however, has approached matters rather differently, and has selected a few of the most fascinating puzzles, dis- cussing them in considerable detail. The fact that he cannot answer all the questions asked is not his fault; as yet, the answers remain to be found. But I feel that his thought- provoking book will arouse wide interest, and that both beginners and more serious students will benefit from reading it.   Armagh, 1968   PATRICK MOORE   PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY  THE WHITEFRIARS PRESS LTD.  LONDON AND TONBRIDGE   CONTENTS   CHAPTER  i no beginning, no end  2 quasars — at the brink of infinity  3 measuring the age of the universe  4 checking up on einstein  5 how a star works  6 the solar system's eleven-year pulse  7 jupiter's wandering red spot and other idiosyncrasies  8 the canal question  9 the case of the missing planet io those lights on the moon  ii the search for life beyond the earth  INDEX   PAGE I  25  41  53  72  89  108 126  145 161 184 21 1   CHAPTER I   NO BEGINNING, NO END?   On starry nights who hasn't looked up and wondered where the stars end? And, if there is an end to them, what the mysterious partition is like, beyond which there is truly neither atom nor the faintest ray of light. Ever more powerful telescopes find no end to the star fields that seem to sweep toward infinity. Perhaps there is no beginning and no end to space; perhaps time, too, is boundless.  Such all-encompassing thoughts demand a free-wheeling branch of science. Cosmology is its name. This highly specu- lative discipline deals with beginnings and ends, the size of the universe, its rhythm and structure, and the laws that des- cribe the motions of whole galaxies as well as the smallest atoms of interstellar gas. Of all the sciences, cosmology paints the biggest picture with the thinnest paint. Because its facts are few and "soft", cosmology is torn by warring schools of thought, each with voluble champions. This makes cosmology an exciting frontier of science.  To be more specific, today's cosmology tries to answer the following questions:  How big is the universe?  How old is it, and what has been its history?  How is matter distributed throughout space?  Are terrestrial physical laws applicable to the far galaxies?  Whence comes the energy to run the universe?  Are the different chemical elements present in the same proportions throughout the universe?  Thinly concealed behind these questions are two of the oldest   2 SOME MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE  queries of reflective man : where did we come from and where are we going?  Missing from the list are all questions involving why. Cosmology, like any true science, would be content merely with an accurate and aesthetically appealing description of the cosmos. The why transcends pure science but not the mental ambition of man. The role of science was expressed with precision by Newton:  "Natural philosophy consists in discovering the frame and operations of nature, and reducing them, as far as may be, to general rules or laws — establishing these rules by obse


Oklo in Gabon, Africa is the only known place in the world where what reaction occurs naturally?

Oklo Reactor – Mounana, Gabon | Atlas Obscura Please separate multiple addresses with commas. We won't share addresses with third parties. Subscribe me to the Atlas Obscura Newsletter Many people think nuclear power is an invention of mankind, and some even think it violates the laws of nature. But nuclear power is in fact a naturally occurring phenomenon, and life could not exist without it. That’s because our sun (and every other star for that matter) is itself a giant power plant, lighting up the solar system through a process known as thermonuclear fusion. Humans, however, generate power through a different process called nuclear fission, which releases energy by splitting atoms rather than combining them as in the fusion process. No matter how ingenious our race may seem though, even fission reactors are old news to Mother Nature. In a singular but well-documented circumstance, scientists have found evidence that naturally occurring fission reactors were created inside three uranium ore deposits in the west African country of Gabon. Two billion years ago, the uranium-rich mineral deposits became flooded with groundwater, setting off a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. The energy that was subsequently released then raised temperatures enough to begin boiling away the water, but when the mineral deposits eventually cooled down the nuclear reactions would start back up again. By examining the levels of certain isotopes of xenon gas (a byproduct of the uranium fission process) in the surrounding rock, scientists have determined the natural reactor proceeded in this start-stop fashion at intervals of about two and a half hours. In this manner, the uranium deposits in the Oklo region of Gabon created a natural nuclear power plant that operated for hundreds of thousands of years until most of the fissile uranium was depleted. While a majority of the uranium at Oklo is the non-fissile isotope U238, only about 3% needed to be the fissile isotope U235 for the chain reaction to start. Today, that percent of fissile uranium in the deposits is around 0.7%, indicating that the deposit had sustained reactions for a relatively long period of time. But it was this exact characteristic of the rocks from Oklo that first puzzled scientists. The low levels of U235 were first noticed in 1972 by employees of the Pierrelatte uranium enrichment facility in France. During routine mass spectrometry analysis of samples from the Oklo mine, it was discovered that the concentration of the fissile uranium isotope differed by three thousandths of a percent (%0.003) from the expected value. This seemingly small difference was significant enough to alert authorities, who were concerned that the missing uranium could be used to develop nuclear weapons. But later that year, scientists found the answer to the two-billion-year-old secret: the world’s first, and only natural, nuclear reactor.


The Flammarion engraving that can be frequently seen on book covers sought to illustrate what belief system?

Since Day 1 you have been told:. What to do, What to think, - ppt download Presentation is loading. Please wait. Since Day 1 you have been told:. What to do, What to think, Published by Ashlee Rhoda Boyd Modified about 1 year ago Embed Similar presentations More Presentation on theme: "Since Day 1 you have been told:. What to do, What to think,"— Presentation transcript: 1 Since Day 1 you have been told: 2 What to do, 6 What to believe, 7 They have you perfectly in a box to keep you “safe” 8 The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"). [1] The engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut. It has been used to represent a supposedly medieval cosmology, including a flat earth bounded by a solid and opaque sky, or firmament, and also as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge. The caption that accompanies the engraving in Flammarion's book reads: [1] A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch... [1]( Flammarion, Camille (1888). L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire. Paris: Hachette. p ) According to Bruno Weber and to astronomer Joseph Ashbrook, [4] the depiction of a spherical heavenly vault separating the earth from an outer realm is similar to the first illustration in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia of 1544, [5] a book which Flammarion, an ardent bibliophile and book collector, might have owned ( Joseph Ashbrook, "Astronomical Scrapbook: About an Astronomical Woodcut," Sky & Telescope, 53 (5), pp , May 1977.). [1] Flammarion, CamilleL'atmosphère: météorologie populaire Joseph Ashbrook [4]Sebastian MünsterCosmographia [5]Sky & Telescope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engravi ng ).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engravi ng Would it, could it, be possible that whomever originally engraved this piece would have known of Ezekiel’s wheels found only in the Holy Bible? How could the “islanders” around Matlock Island in the Caroline Islands have the same story of being able to crawl beyond the dome? Could this artist have talked to similar Island folk and was fascinated enough to draw this image. Or was this a first hand experience (1544 AD?) from the artist who had to represent this image in an engraving? 9 Context in Flammarion's book In Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, the image refers to the text on the facing page (p. 163), which also clarifies the author's intent in using it as an illustration: Whether the sky be clear or cloudy, it always seems to us to have the shape of an elliptic arch; far from having the form of a circular arch, it always seems flattened and depressed above our heads, and gradually to become farther removed toward the horizon. Our ancestors imagined that this blue vault was really what the eye would lead them to believe it to be; but, as Voltaire remarks, this is about as reasonable as if a silk-worm took his web for the limits of the universe. The Greek astronomers represented it as formed of a solid crystal substance; and so recently as Copernicus, a large number of astronomers thought it was as solid as plate-glass. The Latin poets placed the divinities of Olympus and the stately mythological court upon this vault, above the planets and the fixed stars. Previous to the knowledge that the earth was moving in space, and that space is everywhere, theologians had installed the Trinity in the empyrean, the glorified body of Jesus, that of the Virgin Mary, the angelic hierarchy, the saints, and all the heavenly host.... A naïve missionary of the Middle Ages even tells us that, in one of his voyages in search of the terrestrial paradise, he reached the horizon where the earth and the heavens met, and that he discovered a certain point where they were not joined together, and where, by stooping his shoulders, he passed under the roof of the heavens... [6]Volta


British physicist David Deutsch is regarded as the father of what field of science which is certain to see more interest as the scale of the world's need for data processing increases?

Particle Physics | theDiagonal Mike Leave a comment Is the smallest, lightest, most ghostly particle about to upend our understanding of the universe? Recently, the ephemeral neutrino has begun to give up some of its secrets. Beginning in 1998 the neutrino experiments at Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory showed for the first time that neutrinos oscillate with one of three flavors. In 2015, two physicists were awarded the Nobel prize for this discovery , which also proved that neutrinos must have mass. More recently, a small anomaly at the Super-Kamiokande detector has surfaced, which, is hoped, could shed light on why the universe is constructed primarily from matter and not anti-matter. From Quanta: The anomaly, detected by the T2K experiment, is not yet pronounced enough to be sure of, but it and the findings of two related experiments “are all pointing in the same direction,” said Hirohisa Tanaka of the University of Toronto, a member of the T2K team who presented the result to a packed audience in London earlier this month. “A full proof will take more time,” said Werner Rodejohann , a neutrino specialist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg who was not involved in the experiments, “but my and many others’ feeling is that there is something real here.” The long-standing puzzle to be solved is why we and everything we see is matter-made. More to the point, why does anything — matter or antimatter — exist at all? The reigning laws of particle physics, known as the Standard Model, treat matter and antimatter nearly equivalently, respecting (with one known exception) so-called charge-parity, or “CP,” symmetry: For every particle decay that produces, say, a negatively charged electron, the mirror-image decay yielding a positively charged antielectron occurs at the same rate. But this cannot be the whole story. If equal amounts of matter and antimatter were produced during the Big Bang, equal amounts should have existed shortly thereafter. And since matter and antimatter annihilate upon contact, such a situation would have led to the wholesale destruction of both, resulting in an empty cosmos. Somehow, significantly more matter than antimatter must have been created, such that a matter surplus survived the annihilation and now holds sway. The question is, what CP-violating process beyond the Standard Model favored the production of matter over antimatter? Many physicists suspect that the answer lies with neutrinos — ultra-elusive, omnipresent particles that pass unfelt through your body by the trillions each second. Read the entire article here . Send to Kindle Mike Leave a comment Something’s up. Perhaps there’s some degree of hope that we may be reversing the tide of “dumbeddownness” in the stories that the media pumps through its many tubes to reach us. So, it comes as a welcome surprise to see articles about the very, very small making big news in publications like the New Yorker. Stories about neutrinos no less. Thank you New Yorker for dumbing us up. And, kudos to the latest Nobel laureates — Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald — for helping us understand just a little bit more about our world. From the New Yorker: This week the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their discovery that elementary particles called neutrinos have mass. This is, remarkably, the fourth Nobel Prize associated with the experimental measurement of neutrinos. One might wonder why we should care so much about these ghostly particles, which barely interact with normal matter. Even though the existence of neutrinos was predicted in 1930, by Wolfgang Pauli, none were experimentally observed until 1956. That’s because neutrinos almost always pass through matter without stopping. Every second of every day, more than six trillion neutrinos stream through your body, coming directly from the fiery core of the sun—but most of them go right through our bodies, and the Earth, without interacting with the particles out of which those objects are made. In fa


The modern-day cattle breed of 'Heck' came about when it was attempted to bring back what extinct species?

Aurochs Project Aims to Breed Extinct Ancient Cattle - TIME Follow @TIME The only place to see an aurochs in nature these days? A cave painting. The enormous wild cattle that once roamed the European plains have been extinct since 1627, when the last survivor died in a Polish nature reserve. But this could soon change thanks to the work of European preservationists who are hoping they can make the great beast walk again. If they succeed  through a combination of modern genetic expertise and old-fashioned breeding  it would be the first time an animal has been brought back from extinction and released into the wild. The aurochs was a massive creature, standing more than six feet tall at the shoulder and weighing more than a ton. It had forward-facing horns and a white stripe running down its spine. The prehistoric animal was domesticated about 8,000 years ago, but some aurochs also remained in the wild until the end of the Middle Ages, when scientists believe they became extinct due to overhunting and loss of habitat. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009.) The hope for its resurrection now lies in its tame descendants, domesticated cattle. Here's how the process is expected to work: Scientists will first scour old aurochs bone and teeth fragments from museums in order to glean enough genetic material to be able to recreate its DNA. Researchers will then compare the DNA to that of modern European cattle to determine which breeds still carry the creature's genes and create a selective-breeding program to reverse thousands of years of evolution. If everything goes as planned, each passing generation will more closely resemble the ancient aurochs. "Everything will be put together in a genetic mosaic," says Donato Matassino, head of the Consortium for Experimental Biotechnology in Italy and one of the scientists involved in the project. "Once we have all the roads, we'll try to follow them back to Rome." (See 10 species near extinction.) Stichting Taurus, the Dutch preservationist group leading the project, is hoping a reborn aurochs could help restore the European countryside to a more natural state. To that end, the group would eventually like to replace the domesticated cattle that currently graze in Holland's nature reserves with the recreated wild cattle. "The aurochs was part of an ecosystem," says Henri Kerkdijk, manager of the project. "If you want to recreate the flora of the ecosystem, you also have to recreate the fauna." The idea came to Kerkdijk during a trip to Africa, where he was struck by the abundance of giant herbivores, even in areas where people were living. "It just bothered me that we don't have that in Europe anymore," he says. His group has already introduced English Exmoor ponies  the closest living representatives of the wild horses painted alongside aurochs on cave walls  to the Netherlands' nature reserves. "You could also talk about recreating the giant deer," Kerkdijk says. "But there, we don't have a modern animal to work from." (See the top 10 animal stories of 2009.) The current effort isn't the first attempt to resurrect the ancient cattle. The aurochs played an important role in early German culture, and in the early 20th century the Nazi government funded an attempt to breed them back as part of its propaganda effort. The result, known as Heck cattle, may to some extent resemble the ancient aurochs, says Kerkdijk, but they're genetically quite different. "We want a breed that resembles the aurochs, not only in phenotype, but in genotype," he says. Heck cattle, for example, are more aggressive than aurochs because they were bred, in part, using Spanish fighting bulls. "They will attack without a prior threat display," says Kerkdijk. "When I'm in Africa, herbivores won't attack me. They give some type of warning: Back off, one step further or you're dead meat." (See how to save the world's endangered species.) Other groups are also trying to bring different animals back from extinction through breeding. In South Africa, scientists are attempting to recreate the quagga, an extinc


Awarded to people in the medical field, what American awards are considered the country's equivalent of the Nobel Prize in that area?

University of Pennsylvania | Perelman School of Medicine | Awards by Organization Prize:                            $250,000 award, Citation, Statuette Est. Due Date:             February 3                      The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors investigators whose contributions have improved the clinical treatment of patients. Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award Prize:                            $250,000 award, Citation, Statuette Est. Due Date:             February 3                      The Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award honors men and women who have helped make possible the federal legislation and funding that supports research, and who have created public communication, public health, and advocacy programs of major importance. Award is offered every other year (odd years), alternating with Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (even years). Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science Prize:                            $250,000 award, Citation, Statuette Est. Due Date:             February 3                      This Award honors scientists whose contributions to research and scientific statemanship are of unique magnitude, and whose professional career has engendered within the biomedical community the deepest feelings of awe and respect. Scientists who have previously won a Lasker Award are ineligible for this Award. Award offered every other year (even years), alternating with Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award (odd years). A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, University of Michigan Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science Prize:                            $100,000 Est. Due Date:             February 1                   Offered annually by the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan, the $100,000 prize recognizes work in the crucial field of translational research being conducted by the clinician-scientist who has done the most to transform laboratory discoveries into clinical applications for patients suffering from disease. American  Chemical Society (ACS); Biological Chemistry Division Eli Lilly Award  in Biological Chemistry Est. Due Date:             July 1                     This award is bestowed for outstanding  work in science as related to medicine. Scientists of any country and in any field, whether non-clinical or  clinical, biochemical, biological, physical, or social, shall be eligible for  this award. An MD shall not be required. American College of Physicians (ACP) John Phillips Memorial Award Prize:                            Est. Due Date:             July 1                     This award is bestowed for outstanding work in clinical medicine.  Clinical medicine shall be interpreted to include all phases of clinical research or practice of medicine.  The recipient shall hold an MD or its equivalent medical degree.  American  College of Physicians (ACP) William C.  Menninger Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science of  Mental Health Prize:                            $10,000 unrestricted grant; Lecture at award ceremony Est. Due Date:            October 18                   The Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award is named in honor of Dr. Korsmeyer, who was the first recipient of the Award in 1998, and who passed away in March 2005.  The annual award recognizes the outstanding achievements of an ASCI member in advancing knowledge in a specific field and in mentoring future generations of life-science researchers.  Nominees must be ASCI members who are age 55 or younger on January 1 of the year of the award.  American Society for Clinical Investigation/Harrington Discovery Institute, Univ Hospitals Case Med Center Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine Prize:                            $20,000 unrestricted honorarium Est. Due Date:            August 15                   The Harrington Prize, presented by the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) an


If the Solvay Conferences of the early 1910s set the tone for 20th century physics, the Dartmouth Conferences of 1956 have similar importance for what field of science?

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What is the name of the six-letter ore from which niobium and tantalum are extracted and whose mining is said to have fueled many modern day African conflicts?

Guns, Money and Cell Phones — Global Issues The Industry Standard Magazine Issue Date: Jun 11 2001 The demand for cell phones and computer chips is helping fuel a bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The offer turned up a few weeks ago on an Internet bulletin board called the Embassy Network. Among the postings about Dutch work visas and Italian pen pals lurked a surprisingly blunt proposal: "How much do you want to offer per kilogram? Please find me at least 100,000 U.S. dollars and I will deliver immediately." The substance for sale wasn't cocaine or top-grade opium. It was an ore called Columbite-tantalite - coltan for short - one of the world's most sought-after materials. Refine coltan and you get a highly heat-resistant metal powder called tantalum. It sells for $100 a pound, and it's becoming increasingly vital to modern life. For the high-tech industry, tantalum is magic dust, a key component in everything from mobile phones made by Nokia (NOK) and Ericsson and computer chips from Intel (INTC) to Sony (SNE) stereos and VCRs. Selling coltan is not illegal. Most of the worldwide tantalum supply - valued at as much as $6 billion a year - comes from legitimate mining operations in Australia, Canada and Brazil. But as demand for tantalum took off with the boom of high-tech products in recent years, a new, more sinister market began flourishing in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There, warring rebel groups - many funded and supplied by neighboring Rwanda and Uganda - are exploiting coltan mining to help finance a bloody civil war now in its third year. "There is a direct link between human rights abuses and the exploitation of resources in areas in the DRC occupied by Rwanda and Uganda," says Suliman Baldo, a senior researcher in the Africa division at Human Rights Watch, a New York-based nongovernmental organization that tracks human-rights abuses worldwide. The slaughter and misery in the Congo has not abated since the country's president, Laurent Kabila, was assassinated in January. (Kabila's son, Joseph, was quickly appointed the new head of state.) Human Rights Watch researchers, working with monitors in the Congo, estimate that at least 10,000 civilians have been killed and 200,000 people have been displaced in northeastern Congo since June 1999. Rebels have driven farmers off their coltan-rich land and attacked villages in a civil war raging, in part, over control of strategic mining areas. The Ugandan and Rwandan rebels "are just helping themselves," Baldo says. The mining by the rebels is also causing environmental destruction. In particular, endangered gorilla populations are being massacred or driven out of their natural habitat as the miners illegally plunder the ore-rich lands of the Congo's protected national parks. The link between the bloodshed and coltan is causing alarm among high-tech manufacturers. Slowly they are beginning to grapple with the possibility that their products may contain the tainted fruits of civil war. A similar controversy, after all, wracked the diamond industry in the late 1990s, when global demand for the gems helped finance civil wars in Sierra Leone, Angola and Liberia. Since then, the international community has clamped down on the diamond trade, imposing tougher import and export regulations. But with tantalum, such regulations may be difficult to enforce. The market for the metal is based on secretive and convoluted trade links subject to few international regulations, and the ore is not sold on regulated metals exchanges. Rape of the land The first wake-up call to the high-tech industry came in April when the United Nations issued a damning report on the "illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo." After six months of field investigations, a panel of experts in the region assembled by the U.N. Security Council reported its findings. Among the most alarming of the report's allegations was that Rwandan, Ugandan and Burundian rebels had looted and smuggled thousands of tons of coltan from the