 | Dionne Warwick I'll Never Love This Way Again Million Seller Dionne Warwick was planning to quit the music industry entirely after her tenure ended in 1977 for Warner Brothers Records and use her music education to teach on the University level. In 1978, Clive Davis, legendary producer and head of Arista Records told Dionne "You may be ready to give up the music business, but the business is not ready to give you up." She would soon sign with Arista and would enjoy one of the biggest comebacks in the history of popular music. In 1979, I'll Never Love This Way Again", a huge international hit, ended Dionne Warwick's five year dry spell in the most spectacular fashion. The tune peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, #6 in Canada and #13 on the Billboard Magazine R&B Chart. The tune won Warwick a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the tune Déjà Vu won for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, the first female vocalist to win in both categories in the same year. The tune received the RIAA Gold Award for sales of over 1 million copies and her Arista debut album, Dionne, reveived the RIAA Platinum Award for album sales of over 1 million copies. Cheryl Ladd had previously recorded this Richard Kerr-Will Jennings composed song as "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again" in 1978, and Clive felt that Dionne could turn it into a blockbuster hit. Clive paired Dionne with producer Barry Manilow with one proviso on the project: they had to record "I'll Never Love This Way Again". Dionne love the tune but initially expressed reservations to Clive about working with Manilow, not because she didn't love Barry's music, her reservation was based upon his unique sound and Dionne stated she didn't want to become Dionne Manilow. The minute Dionne and Barry rehearsed together, the magic struck and Dionne was completely at ease. The album Dionne was critically acclaimed and Dionne was praised for her virtuosity. A bit of trivia: Dionne completed her Masters Degree from the Hartt College of Music and in 1989 she completed her studies at Hartt leading to a doctorate in Music Education. Warwick held series of lectures on popular music in the 1990s at Harvard and several other Universities in the USA. Warwick's doctorate was earned, not by honorary bestowal, but by completing the requisite course work at Hartt. |
 | Managing Stress and Psychosomatic Disorders Through Meditation Google Tech Talks April, 23 2008 ABSTRACT This practical session on meditation teaches the technique of awakening the subtle energy from the position of the nervous system and the energy centers using positive affirmations to attain self-realization. Objectives: •Understand the mechanism which causes stress in life and at work •To gain control and mastery over stress •To release the energy for living a creative and satisfying life. •To optimize one's potential and resources at work •To understand the changes that take place post meditation. •To empower others around us. Benefits of meditation: •Improves health, memory and concentration •Enhances communication and inter personal skills •Relationships become harmonious •Problem solving skills and creativity are enhanced •Peace of mind, contentment & joy are felt from within. This transformation takes place naturally and spontaneously through the awakening of the energy centers. She will conclude the session by going through research findings on meditation and stress management. No mats are required. This meditation is performed while sitting on a chair. Speaker: Dr Villy Doctor Ms. Villy Doctor has a doctorate in "Psycho-Biological Changes that take place through Meditation." She ran a counselling and vocational guidance center where she helped people deal with problems like drug abuse, alcoholism and personal plus business stress. This is where she saw the difference meditation makes. She has spent several years studying diff. forms of meditation. She runs regular meditation workshops in Mumbai, India. She has also held these workshops for UConn Health Center (Conneticut), Nokia (Dubai), Yoga Center (New York), Tata (India), Bhabha Atomic Center (India) and other companies in India. She has conducted seminars for children in several schools to help them improve their concentration and also to help them cope with different emotional problems. |
 | Inside Red China - 1957 The first film by an American in China following the Communist victory in 1949. In 1957,after serving in the US Army at NATO Supreme Headquarters in Paris, Robert Carl Cohen was working for the Doctorate in Social Psychology at the Sorbonne when, defying the US State Department's "travel ban," he traveled across Siberia to film throughout China for NBC-TV. His reports were televised on the "Huntley News" & the "Today Show." |
 | Science, evolution, and creation: Ali G vs Kent Hovind Leave your comments at the longer version of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaaJA6mDWE ==Video description:== Da Ali G Show does science. Ali G (Sasha Baron-Cohen) invited (now federal inmate and tax cheat) creationist Kent Hovind to discuss evolution. The show erroneously lists Hovind as a "Dr," but his "doctorate" was earned from an unaccredited diploma mill. For more Hovind videos look at ones made by http://youtube.com/ExtantDodo and for answers to Hovind's misinformation see: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/ ==Youtube controversy:== Eric Hovind [Kent's son] has been using false copyright claims to get youtube to pull negative material. I guess Hovind's son has gotten tired of Kent Hovind's lies getting exposed on YouTube. So his son lied and claimed he owns the copyright on videos in an effort to silence his critics: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/09/youtube_dmca ==Convicted felon== Read about Hovind's 58 felony convictions: http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2007/FL/789_kent_hovind_sentenced_to_ten_y_1_24_2007.asp ==Audio of Hovind lying in jail== Listen to the Kent Hovind jail recordings played at his sentencing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7MxW4htxo This one in particular has Eric Hovind plot with Kent to hide assets from the government: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQTgn06WslE ==Comments== Comments are closed since no one is offering anything new. |
 | Munir & Omar Bashir- Maqam Rast This clip shows Iraqi Oud master Munir Bashir (1930-1997)and his son Omar Bashir playing in the Arabic scale of Rast. Munir Bashir had a doctorate in musicology from Budapest, and was in constant rebellion against the misinterpretation of this music and it's use for commercial ends. He has been credited with restoring credentials to a music that has become debased through bending to the tasters of colonial nostalgia. Clip is from: http://www.mikeouds.com/ |
 | The Devils Deception in the New World Order - Abdullah Quick The struggle between evil and good has been going on since the creation of Adam. Modern society with its secret power structures and invisible governments is only a reflection of the original evil force. Dr Quick analyzes the New World Order and globalization in the light of Islamic sources and understanding. This is the second in a series given in Melbourne, Australia. Abdullah Hakim Quick was born in the United States of America and accepted Islam in Canada in 1970. He pursued his study of Islam at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia where he graduated and received an Ijaza from the College of Da'wah and Islamic Sciences in 1979. He later completed a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in African History at the University of Toronto in Canada. His thesis was an analysis of the early life of Sheikh 'Uthman Dan Fodio, a great West African Scholar, Mujaahid and social activist. Shaykh Abdullah has served as Imam, teacher and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years he contributed to the religious page of Canada's leading newspaper. He has travelled to over 51 countries on lecture, research and educational tours. Presently he is a senior lecturer on the history of Islam in Africa at The International Peace University South Africa in Cape Town and a member of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Shaykh Abdullah is also the Director of the Discover Islam Centre (Cape Town) and Ameer of the Dawah Coordinating Forum of South Africa. Today's world is in need of innovative rethinking based on original, authentic sources. Dr Abdullah Hakim provides an example of this new, progressive thinking. http://www.iisna.com/?sid=support |
 | The Brian Manzella Golf Show -episode 1 Brian Manzella, PGA Teaching Professional and Authorized Instructor of The Golfing Machine, G.S.E.D. (Doctorate Level), shares his unmatched combination of knowledge, experience, and communication skills, in an entertaining show that aims to increase you golf knowledge, upgrade your swing and lower your golf scores. Brian's web site features one of the web's largest golf forums and is located at brianmanzella.com |
 | The Signs of the Last Day - Abdullah Hakim Quick Journey into the Hereafter - Signs of the Last Day - Abdullah Hakim Quick Abdullah Hakim Quick was born in the United States of America and accepted Islam in Canada in 1970. He pursued his study of Islam at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia where he graduated and received an Ijaza from the College of Da'wah and Islamic Sciences in 1979. He later completed a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in African History at the University of Toronto in Canada. His thesis was an analysis of the early life of Sheikh 'Uthman Dan Fodio, a great West African Scholar, Mujaahid and social activist. Shaykh Abdullah has served as Imam, teacher and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years he contributed to the religious page of Canada's leading newspaper. He has travelled to over 51 countries on lecture, research and educational tours. Presently he is a senior lecturer on the history of Islam in Africa at The International Peace University South Africa in Cape Town and a member of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Shaykh Abdullah is also the Director of the Discover Islam Centre (Cape Town) and Ameer of the Dawah Coordinating Forum of South Africa. Today's world is in need of innovative rethinking based on original, authentic sources. Dr Abdullah Hakim provides an example of this new, progressive thinking. http://www.iisna.com/?sid=support |
 | Crime: The Real Internet Security Problem Google TechTalks January 24, 2006 Phillip Hallam-Baker Dr Hallam-Baker is a leading designer or Internet security protocols and has made substantial contributions to the HTTP Digest Authentication mechanism, XKMS, SAML and WS-Security. He is currently working on the DKIM email signing protocol, federated identity systems and completing his first book, The dotCrime Manifesto which sets out a comprehensive strategy for defeating Internet crime. Dr Hallam-Baker has a degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University and a doctorate in Computer Science from the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Oxford University. ABSTRACT Internet Crime is a serious and growing problem. Phishing,... |
 | Why the World Isn't Flat According to the conventional wisdom popularized by Thomas Friedman, countries can grow rich only by means of unfettered capitalism and pure free trade. In his controversial book, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang takes aim at this orthodoxy. Combining irreverent wit with scholarly rigor, Chang shows that nations like the U.S. that achieved their present wealth by means of economic nationalism now preach an entirely different set of policies to the developing world, via the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. Chang calls on us not only to re-evaluate the policies we promote to countries seeking to grow rich, but also to become reacquainted with our own forgotten economic history. Ha-Joon Chang has been described by one economist as "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." He teaches at Cambridge University, where he received his Master's degree and doctorate. A consultant for the Wold Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the UN and other international organizations, he was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2005. His book Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), which received the Myrdal Prize, was acclaimed by the eminent MIT economist Charles Kindleberger as "a provocative critique of mainstream economists' sermons directed to developing countries." |
 | Urban Reconstruction and Modeling for Building Virtual Worlds Google Tech Talks March, 11 2008 ABSTRACT Creating digital content for virtual worlds remains a significant challenge, especially for urban environments, which are among the largest and most complex. As display capabilities improve and audience expectations grow, procedural modeling techniques are becoming an increasingly important supplement to traditional modeling software. In this talk, we present grammar-based, image-based and interactive methods for the efficient creation of urban environments. Thus massive architectural models of high visual quality and geometric detail can be produced at low cost. Selected examples demonstrate solutions to previously unsolved modeling problems, especially to consistent mass modeling with volumetric shapes of arbitrary orientation. Furthermore, we show massive urban models with unprecedented level of detail, with the virtual rebuilding of the archaeological site of Pompeii as a case in point. Speaker: Peter Wonka Peter Wonka joined the computer science faculty of Arizona State University as Assistent Professor in 2004 after two years as a post-doctorate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2001 and a masters degree in urban planning in 2002. His research interests include various topics in computer graphics, especially real-time rendering and procedural modeling. Peter Wonka is a member of the PRISM lab (http://prism.asu.edu/). Speaker: Pascal Mueller Pascal Mueller is researcher at the Computer Vision Laboratory of the ETH Zurich (http://www.vision.ethz.ch) and CEO of the recently founded spin-off company Procedural Inc. (http://www.procedural.com) located in Zurich, Switzerland. His main interests lie in the field of computer graphics: procedural modeling, generative design, visual effects production pipelines and computer-aided media art. He developed the architectural modeling tool CityEngine and is co-developer of the multimedia engine Soundium. He has published various scientific papers including SIGGRAPH, and his body of artistic work includes videos, short movies, over fifty live visuals performances, and several interactive installations exhibited in museums like the Ars Electronica Center. Pascal Mueller received a master degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2001. For two years, he worked as a 3D artist and technical director for the Swiss production company Central Pictures. |
 | The Bloom filter Google Tech Talks November, 15 2007 ABSTRACT The Bloom filter, conceived by Burton H. Bloom in 1970, is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positives are possible, but false negatives are not. Elements can be added to the set, but not removed (though this can be addressed with a counting filter). The more elements that are added to the set, the larger the probability of false positives. For example, one might use a Bloom filter to do spell-checking in a space-efficient way. A Bloom filter to which a dictionary of correct words has been added will accept all words in the dictionary and reject almost all words which are not, which is good enough in some cases. Depending on the false positive rate, the resulting data structure can require as little as a byte per dictionary word. In the last few years Bloom filter become hot topic again and there were several modifications and improvements. In this talk I will present my last few improvements in this topic. Speaker: Ely Porat Ely Porat received his Doctorate from Bar-Ilan University in 2000. Following that, he fulfilled his military service and, in parallel, worked as a faculty member at Bar-Ilan University. Having spent the spring 2007 semester as a Visiting Scientist in Google, he is now back at Bar-Ilan University. The main body of Ely Porat's work concerns matching problems: string matching, pattern matching, subset matching. He also worked on the nearest pair problem in high-dimensional spaces as well as sketching and edit distance. |
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