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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Nia Vardalos as "Toula Portokalos"

Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (Nia Vardalos). Still unmarried at 30 years old, she works at Dancing Zorba's, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (Michael Constantine) and Maria (Lainie Kazan). After taking a job at her aunt's travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller (John Corbett), a teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn't sure which will be more upsetting to her father, that Ian is a foreigner or that he's a vegetarian.

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Screen Actors Guild Awards (2002)NominatedOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

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  • 1. Raggle Taggle Gypsy - (featuring Nickel Creek)
    2. Jordan Is Hard Road to Travel - (featuring John Hiatt)
    3. Hick's Farewell - (featuring Allison Moorer)
    4. Shady Grove - (featuring Tim O'Brien)
    5. Girl I Left Behind, The - (featuring John Prine)
    6. Rosc Catha Na Mumhan / Arkansas Traveler / The Wild Irishman - (featuring Jerry Douglas)
    7. Lambs in the Greenfield - (featuring Emmylou Harris)
    8. Moonshiner / I'm A Rambler - (featuring Joe Ely)
    9. Wild Mountain Thyme - (featuring Don Williams)
    10. Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe - (featuring Chet Atkins)
    11. Bandit Of Love / The Cheating Waltz - (featuring Carlene Carter)
    12. Squid Jiggin' Ground / Larry O'Gaff - (featuring The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
    13. Three Little Babes - (featuring Patty Loveless)
    14. The Fisherman's Hornpipe / The Devil's Dream - (featuring Doc Watson)
    15. Talk About Suffering / Man Of The House - (featuring Ricky Skaggs)
    16. Lily of the West, The
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  • Credits
    ProducerPaddy Moloney

    The Chieftains: Kevin Conneff (vocals, bodhran); Matt Molloy (flute); Paddy Moloney (tin whistle, Uillean pipes); Sean Keane (fiddle); Derek Bell (harp, keyboards, tiompan).
    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Jeff Hanna (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Ibbotson (guitar); Jerry Douglas (resophonic guitar); Bela Fleck (banjo); Jimmie Fadden (harmonica, drums); Edgar Meyer (bass).
    Additional personnel includes: John Hiatt (vocals, guitar); Tim O'Brien, Christopher Thile (vocals, mandolin); Nickel Creek, Sara Watkins (vocals, fiddle); Allison Moorer, Patty Loveless, Rosanne Cash, Ricky Skaggs (vocals); Jeff White (acoustic guitar, mandolin); John Leventhal (acoustic guitar); Chet Atkins, Doc Watson, Merle Watson (guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Caroline Lavelle (cello); Martin O'Connor (accordion); Matt Rollings (piano); Glenn Worf (upright bass); Kenny Malone, Shannon Forrest (drums); Caroline Goodgold, Deborah Lyons, Margaret Dorn, Teddy Thompson (background vocals).
    Includes liner notes by Robert K. Oermann.
    The successor to the phenomenally successful DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD, this mixed-bag collection of folk perennials and newer material features the same cast as the former album in much of the same folk-meets-country setting. A welcome result of the hugely successful O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? movie soundtrack, this pair of albums brought together the Chieftains and a plethora of country artists in a meeting of old and new worlds, a physical manifestation of the cultural cross-pollination that has been ongoing between Europe and America for centuries.
    Here, as on the former album, old-timers such as Doc Watson, Don Williams, John Prine, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band share equal time with such comparative newcomers as Allison Moorer and Patty Loveless, whose reading of "Three Little Babes" is a highlight. Sadly, FURTHER DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD features what was to be the last performance of Chieftains member Derek Bell, who died shortly after the album was completed.

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What Kind of World

  • 1. What Kind of World
    2. Bad for Me
    3. Light of Day
    4. Happy Most of the Time
    5. Keep Me
    6. Pretty Baby
    7. Here in the Deadlights
    8. Met Your Match
    9. Thru the Ceiling
    10. No One Else But You
    11. Come On
    12. On the Fence
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    Released to coincide with his son's second birthday, Brendan Benson's 2012 album What Kind of World is the singer/songwriter's fifth studio effort and first for his own record label, Readymade, which Benson officially launched in 2011 and first used on his Wellfed Boys demos from the '90s. Recorded in Nashville, the follow-up to 2009's My Old, Familiar Friend once again showcases the Raconteurs member's unique brand of melodic pop and guitar-based rock. Featured on the album are guest appearances by such similarly inclined Benson associates as the Posies' Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, as well as songwriting collaborations with country singer Ashley Monroe and Readymade signee Hines Young. What Kind of World includes the leadoff single "Bad for Me."

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  • This documentary follows two combat veterans who deal with their lingering issues in very different ways. One creates a rock opera about his experiences, while the other enters into intense therapy sessions.
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Natalie Portman has been watching Westerns as research for 'Jane Got a Gun'.

The 32-year-old actress - who stars as lead Jane Hammond - is excited that the new American movie will star a female protagonist and has been immersing herself in old Westerns to make sure she gets a feel for cowboy culture.

She explained: ''I love Westerns and you don't often get one with a great female protagonist, so this is very exciting. Plus I had a great excuse to watch a lot of old Westerns as research.''

The brunette beauty watched Fred Zinnemann's 1952 flick 'High Noon' and award-winning Irish-American director John Ford's hit films to help her prepare.

She told HELLO! magazine: ''I saw 'High Noon' and all the John Ford movies - It was great fun.''

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Based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical, "Nine" features an all-star cast of Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, and Kate Hudson. The story centers on Guido Contini (Day-Lewis), a gifted Italian filmmaker who develops writer's block at the age of 50. Looking for some help, he calls on all the women in his life from both the past and present.

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Cation Names and Formulas

Metallic atoms hold some of their electrons relatively loosely, and as a result, they tend to lose electrons and form cations. In contrast, nonmetallic atoms attract electrons more strongly than metallic atoms, and so nonmetals tend to gain electrons and form anions. Thus, when a metallic element and a nonmetallic element combine, the nonmetallic atoms often pull one or more electrons far enough away from the metallic atoms to form ions. The positive cations and the negative anions then attract each other to form ionic bonds.

Predicting Monatomic Cation Charges

The atoms of the noble gases found in nature are uncombined with other atoms. The fact that the noble gas atoms do not gain, lose, or share their electrons suggests there must be something especially stable about having 2 (helium, He), 10 (neon, Ne), 18 (argon, Ar), 36 (krypton, Kr), 54 (xenon, Xe), or 86 (radon, Rn) electrons. This stability is reflected in the fact that some metallic atoms form cations in order to get the same number of electrons as the nearest noble gas.

The metallic elements in groups other than 1, 2, or 3 also lose electrons to form cations, but they do so in less easily predicted ways. It will be useful to memorize some of the charges for these metals. Ask your instructor which ones you will be expected to know. To answer the questions in this text, you will need to know that iron atoms form both Fe2+ and Fe3+, copper atoms form Cu+ and Cu2+, zinc atoms form Zn2+, cadmium atoms form Cd2+, and silver atoms form Ag+. The image below summarizes the charges of the ions that you should know at this stage.

Monatomic Cation Names

The names of monatomic cations always start with the name of the metal, sometimes followed by a Roman numeral to indicate the charge of the ion. For example, Cu+ is copper(I), and Cu2+ is copper(II). The Roman numeral in each name represents the charge on the ion and allows us to distinguish between more than one possible charge. Notice that there is no space between the end of the name of the metal and the parentheses with the Roman numeral.

If the atoms of an element always have the same charge, the Roman numeral is unnecessary (and considered to be incorrect). For example, all cations formed from sodium atoms have a +1 charge, so Na+ is named sodium ion, without the Roman numeral for the charge. The following elements have only one possible charge, so it would be incorrect to put a Roman numeral after their name.

The alkali metals in group 1 are always +1 when they form cations.

The alkaline earth metals in group 2 are always +2 when they form cations.

Aluminum and the elements in group 3 are always +3 when they form cations.

Zinc and cadmium always form +2 cations.

Although silver can form both +1 and +2 cations, the +2 is so rare that we usually name Ag+ as silver ion, not silver(I) ion. Ag2+ is named silver(II) ion.

We will assume that all of the metallic elements other than those mentioned above can have more than one charge, so their cation names will include a Roman numeral. For example, Mn2+ is named manganese(II). We know to put the Roman numeral in the name because manganese is not on our list of metals with only one charge.

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There is only one common polyatomic ion. Its formula is NH4+, and its name is ammonium.


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Gamma-Ray Bursts:

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short (a few milliseconds to several minutes), very intense flashes of gamma-rays associated with stellar scale events at cosmological distances. Based on their prompt emission properties, GRBs are divided in long/soft and short/hard bursts. The majority of the former events is associated with the deaths of especially massive stars (Figure right). The origin of the short/hard events is still not completely settled, but general arguments tend to the coalescence of binary compact objects.

In addition to the prompt gamma-ray emission, GRBs exhibit slowly fading X-ray, optical and radio afterglows. These originate when the ultra-relativistic ejecta plow through the interstellar medium surrounding the progenitor.

The anti-coincidence system of SPI onboard INTEGRAL (Figure left) consists of 91 Bismuth Germanate and provides a quasi-omnidirectional field of view with a 0.3 square meter effective area between ~80 keV and ~10 MeV. Since December 2002, SPI-ACS has been an important member of the 3rd Interplanetary Network of Gamma-ray burst detectors, which provides burst localizations using the triangulation method.

The First INTEGRAL SPI/ACS GRB catalog contains a total of 374 GRB candidates detected from Oct. 2002 to Jan. 2005 (AR et al., 2005, A&A, 438, 1175).

A regularly updated SPI/ACS trigger list can be found here.

X-ray Flashes and Host Galaxies:
Before the launch of the Swift satellite, accurate GRB localizations were sparse. In 2003, I followed up on a HETE-2 detected event, called GRB030528, with near-IR photometry and optical spectroscopy (AR et al., 2004, A&A, 427, 815). The afterglow was seen in the K-band and a detailed study of the underlying host revealed a distance of z=0.782 (Figure right, AR et al., 2005, A&A, 444, 425).

GRB030528 was originally classified as a so-called X-ray Flash (XRF) based on its soft observed prompt emission spectrum. The knowledge of the distance allowed to demonstrate that an observer frame classification can be missleading, due to the redshift effect. Indeed, the rest frame spectral properties of GRB030528 were very similar to the ones of the poster-child GRB030329.


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Contract with America: Republican Sucker Bait

"Today, GOP congressional candidates were summoned to Washington and given a battle plan. However, as NBC's Lisa Myers tells us tonight, it is long on promises and short on sound premises."
- NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, September 27.

"A cheap-trick wish list written by Republican members of the House."
- U.S. News & World Report Co-Editor Michael Ruby, October 3.

"The ploy would be a political coup, except for one problem: Gingrich's list is just a collection of GOP golden oldies that pander to the public's desire to get something for nothing - the balanced budget amendment, a middle-class tax cut, a capital gains tax cut, term limits, the repeal of some Social Security taxes along with the marriage penalty and tough welfare reform... Small wonder that Senate Republicans, who recognize that leadership occasionally requires taking responsibility, have decided to pass up this contract."
- U.S. News & World Report Assistant Managing Editor Gloria Borger, October 3.

"The Republicans have no shame at all. Bob Dole, for example, bailed out the Reagan administration in 1982 by restoring a lot of the tax money that had been lopped off. We'd probably have a five-times-higher deficit otherwise, and this `Contract with America' is nothing but gimmicks and silly stuff, and nobody can govern with it."
- National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg on Inside Washington, October 1.

"What this contract says is you can have hot fudge sundae for every meal and still lose weight. It's a fraud and there's a whole lot of Republicans who already are starting to forget where they were September 27."
- Wall Street Journal Executive Washington Editor Al Hunt on CNN's Capital Gang, October 1.

Fantastic First Family

"In less than two years, Bill Clinton had already achieved more domestically than John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush combined. Although Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan often had their way with Congress, Congressional Quarterly says it's Clinton who has had the most legislative success of any President since Lyndon Johnson. Inhale that one...The standard for measuring results domestically should not be the coherence of the process but how actual lives are touched and changed. By that standard, he's doing well."
- Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter, October 3.

"Hillary Clinton, like Eleanor Roosevelt, had already done a great service. Unlike Barbara Bush, she got involved. She has taken stands. She has been a leader. It's too bad, of course, that there is not health care legislation this year, but that is Congress's failure, not Hillary Clinton's. Her role has been a success. She awakened the nation. She educated the nation. She enlightened the nation....For when a nation gets two leaders for the price of one - a Franklin and Eleanor, a Bill and Hillary - it can tackle twice as many problems, find twice as many solutions, make twice as much progress."
- Former NBC News President Michael Gartner in his USA Today column, September 27.

Ollie North! No Stars!

"[The movie Quiz Show's] arrival has already provoked a favorite American question: when did we as a nation lose our innocence? It's an absurd question, of course, that assumes a homogeneous 'we.' (Ask a Native American that, and you'll get a very early citing)...Neck high in '90s cynicism, it's hard to believe the tremors these scandals provoked. What's a vicuna coat next to Iran-Contra? Except by then the country was so blase about governmental deception it could barely rouse itself to outrage. In the '50s, Ingrid Bergman was blacklisted from Hollywood for having a baby out of wedlock. Today, Oliver North makes hash of the Constitution and it jump-starts his political career."
- Newsweek's David Ansen, September 19.

More Disastrous Reaganomics

"The temptation to be really snide and sarcastic about the `Contract with America' that House Republicans unveiled last week is almost unbearable. Here's what they want us to believe: They can cut taxes, 'restore' defense spending, and balance the federal budget in eight years...Seems to me that's what the public was told by candidate Ronald Reagan and his advisers in 1980 - back when the federal debt was $900 billion. Look what's happened since. The federal debt's now $4.5 trillion and heading higher."
- Commentary by USA Today reporter Mark Memmott, October 3.

"Why are the Republicans, who generated so many new ideas a decade ago, suddenly reaching backward on economic issues? One possible answer, analysts say, is that the GOP is, in effect, hoping to bribe the electorate - by appealing so directly to the public's interest in lower taxes that other issues, such as the nation's fiscal solvency, fall away....GOP critics say another possibility is that the chief architects of the House compact... are betting that voters have short memories. They may assume that few will recall - let alone care - that the Reagan experiment with supply-side economics quadrupled the federal deficit and left average Americans saddled with higher taxes."
- Washington Post reporter Clay Chandler, October 2.

"The problem is that the contract's main idea has already been tried and discredited. House Republicans are now pledged to tax cuts, increased defense spending, and a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Sound familiar? `This was a dopey political move,' [Rep. Fred] Grandy says. `We were holding the high ground on welfare, foreign policy, so why would we go back and shoosh down the Laffer Curve? This is like giving the Democrats a nuclear weapon.'"
- Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter, Oct. 10.

"There's no question it was the Reagan tax cuts that led to the deficit."
- CBS Washington Bureau Chief Barbara Cochran on C-SPAN's Journalists Roundtable, September 23.

Reality Check:
"Since 1980, aggregate federal tax revenues have grown 111 percent. Had revenues grown at the rate of inflation, the government would have collected $225 billion fewer dollars in 1992. Congress spent the additional money, and then some....The Republican record 1980-92: Social welfare spending rose 44 percent. Defense spending rose 30 percent."
- From The Right Data, by Ed Rubenstein.

The Latest Ted Commandments

"I'm happily going to the Russian embassy tonight, you know. Yeltsin's in town. He's the one that's proposing let's cut back on nuclear weapons. Why don't we get rid of nuclear weapons? Instead of telling North Korea that they can't have nuclear weapons or we'll come bomb them if they make them - what a dumb thing. We the big, rich guys can have them but they can't. That is a double standard that just doesn't cut it."
- CNN owner Ted Turner at the National Press Club, September 27, shown by C-SPAN.

"I know we talk a lot about human rights in the United States, but other countries could hit the ball right back across the net and say to us and say `Well, what about the right to have a home?' We have a large homelessness problem in the United States. Other countries don't have as large a problem."
- Turner to the PAN Asia cable and satellite conference, quoted in The Boston Globe, October 2.

Marilyn Quayle: Self-Righteous Divider of People

"In the Republican convention of '92, the message was not inclusive, it was exclusive. It wasn't a unifying idea, it was a wedge idea, it was dividing people, it was much more self- righteous. When Marilyn Quayle got up and said, basically condemned women who out to work, you know, I had the picture sitting there in the hall and thinking, all of these women sitting there about to go to work in their beauty parlors and their offices saying, `Thanks a whole lot, Marilyn, if I were married to, you know, an heir of a newspaper fortune, I'd like to stay home too, but I can't afford to, I've got to go out and work.'"
- U.S. News & World Report Senior Writer Steven Roberts during September 7 panel discussion carried by C-SPAN.

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One can assume that any remotely serious film that casts Johnny Knoxville in the lead role has essentially packed it in, given up, and consigned itself to the supermarket "Video Special" bins around the country. Such is the case with "Daltry Calhoun," which has the unfortunate distinction of using a flashback scene to open the movie, making it appear that when it moves to "present day," Knoxville has aged backward.

Let me explain: In the opening flashback, Daltry is living with a baton-twirling teenager and trying to wrap his mind around fatherhood. Then we're transported into the present and meet a Daltry that looks younger than in his flashback. In the present, Daltry's opened up some kind of sod business in a place called Duckville, Tennessee. So along comes May (Elizabeth Banks) and her daughter June (Sophie Traub) into Calhoun's world to re-introduce him to fatherhood.

Now, I must admit to being a little distracted at one point during the movie regarding something not having to do with the movie, but I don't really think I missed anything. Anyway, I knew that May was sick and dying, but one second she was standing there and the next minute June was crying about her death. I'm all for shortening things in movies these days, but I don't think the director has heard of the concept of "transition." Obviously, the rest of the movie is about Daltry coming to terms with his daughter and saving his business. The point of the movie is to capture all the cute dialogue we associate with the South that doesn't entail insulting minorities. So it's a bit limited.

I watched about five minutes of a featurette on the DVD featuring director Katrina Holden Bronson and executive producer Quentin Tarantino. It's basically a festival of mutual backslapping, with lots of footage of Bronson dealing with her actors and Tarantino walking around the set like Zeus. It's amazing anyone can attach so much importance to a film that never got into theaters.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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Writer/director Wes Anderson is teetering on the precipice between humorous and interesting on one side and bizarre and meaningless on the other. Perhaps it's this very teetering that makes his films interesting to his fans, but as he ventures further and further away from telling an actual story, and closer to merely exploring the bizarre behavior of some randomly odd cast of characters, his movies become increasingly pointless.

"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is one such picture. There may be people who enjoy existing in this world of a third-rate oceanographer in the mold of Jacques Cousteau, but I liken it more to being at a party with a bunch of people you don't know and don't really want to know. They all seem weirdly interesting, but at the end of the day, their problems and lives don't really link up to anything real.

To me, Anderson has been struggling for ideas and compelling storylines since "Rushmore" and getting progressively less interesting. Essentially, he seems fascinated by viewing the mundane through the lens of some wacky situation. To me, it just seems mundane and plays like the ramblings of a pot smoker. The ramblings are funny when you're on the weed, but to everyone else they just seem like the observations of a loser.

In "The Life Aquatic," Anderson is basically doing something similar to what Alexander Payne did in "About Schmidt." Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is a guy who, despite being this famous oceanographer, is approaching retirement without much to show for it personally or professionally. (As an aside, I hated "About Schmidt." There was a contingent that considered the film a dark comedy, but I personally found it way too close to reality to be funny at all. What's funny about coming to the end of your life and realizing you wasted it all? That's way too real for most people to be funny. I think people who found it hysterical were in serious denial.)

Here, the setting seems like more of a joke than anything. Zissou is making his last film and he's doing it on a broken down boat. Meanwhile, his arch nemesis and second ex-husband of Eleanor Zissou (Anjelica Huston), Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum), runs around doing his research on a giant floating hotel. The plot red herring of the film is Steve's search for the shark that killed his partner (Seymour Cassel). The real meat of the story concerns Steve's relationship with Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), who may or may not be Steve's son.

This is a continuation of Anderson's examination of father/son relationships from "The Royal Tennebaums." I'd like to suggest another subject because this one seems painfully worn out. I already watched a father in a Wes Anderson movie who was incapable of recognizing his own failures with his family. Why do I have to watch it again? The fact that this time it takes place on a boat doesn't really make it any different or any better.

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Bachmann: Obama waving ‘tar baby in the air’

I first cringed when I heard Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) say in the interview above that President Obama has proved “over and over, in spades” that he didn’t have the experience for the job. That’s one thing; after all, anyone playing a card game, or perhaps gardening, may have occasion to use the word “spade,” despite its racial double-meaning.

But “tar baby”? One can understand why that is a little tougher to take literally when used in the context of the first black president. (And it doesn’t even mean what she thinks it means.)

Referring to the Obama energy plan concerning the Keystone XL pipeline and his economic record, the former Republican candidate for the President’s job said this at about the 1:48 mark of the video above:

This is just about [waving] a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem. I have never seen a more irresponsible President who is infantile in the way that he continually blames everyone else for his failure to first diagnose the problem and second to address the problem.

The inevitable No, That Wasn’t Meant To Sound Racist™ walkback came quickly, to Politico. (Spot the anti-abortion dog-whistle!)

“The Congresswoman values all human life – regardless of race, color or creed,” Rogness said. “If you listen to the interview, Rep. Bachmann was making a point about the President’s poor understanding of oil prices, which has nothing to do with race. The President doesn’t understand the oil market and hence, has gotten himself into a sticky situation.”

That sounds more like a clarification than an apology. It’s pretty evident that she saw nothing wrong with the metaphor. (Again, the full context of the comment is above, so you can determine for yourself what you hear.)

To me, this is less about whether or not it was meant to be racist. It’s the fact that when you say “tar baby” within 500 rhetorical yards of President Obama, you can expect some blowback, and Republicans like Bachmann either are so careless and ignorant of what this kind of term means, or they couldn’t care less, period.

That fits the paradigm by which the Right has operated under for decades: racial problems are solved, at least to their satisfaction. But if one complains about the racial connotations – or in Fox Nation, merely reports the story, you bad, “left-wing Politico – it’s essentially their fault. Anti-racism is racism, per the Right. (Remember the term “reverse discrimination”? Yeah, that was fun.)

Sadly, I think it has a lot to do with what Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates articulated today (with a properly figurative, less racially weighted use of the word “tar,” by the way):

The conservative movement doesn’t understand anti-racism as a value, only as a rhetorical pose. This is how you end up tarring the oldest integrationist group in the country (the NAACP) as racist. The slur has no real moral content to them. It’s all a game of who can embarrass who. If you don’t think racism is an actual force in the country, then you can only understand it’s invocation as a tactic.

This is a very old way of you thinking. It’s what you get out of watching Buckley’s bumbling response to Baldwin–he neither regards Baldwin with any seriousness, nor the issue with any real concern. It’s a game to him. He is effectively a homer for team red. Nothing else matters.

When he refers to James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., Coates is talking about this video of their televised debate, which he posted last week. I recommend that you watch it in full to get a better grasp on just how long this kind of stuff has been going on.

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Playoffs Underway for Several Spartans

Twelve alums experience playoff hockey in ECHL, AHL

Opted to forego his final two seasons of collegiate eligibility and sign with the Ottawa Senators organization on March 10, 2011. Stayed with Ottawa's AHL affiliate in Binghamton the remainder of the season as the B-Sens claimed the Calder Cup.

2010-11 (Sophomore) Team's top scorer (33 points) and also led the squad in assists (25) Recorded a season-best seven point scoring streak over four games against Ohio State (11/12 & 13) and Notre Dame (11/19 & 20)... Scored a goal and notched an assist against Ohio State (11/12)... Recorded a season high three assists in a 4-0 victory over Ohio State (11/13).... Scored a second period tally at Notre Dame (11/19)... Assisted on Brett Perlini's game-winner and scored a third period goal at Minnesota in a 5-2 victory (11/26) ... Had two assists in each of the games at the Great Lakes Invitational (12/29-30), including on Dustin Gazley's third-period game-winner in the consolation game against Michigan Tech ... Had a pair of assists, both on Brett Perlini tallies, in a 4-0 shutout victory at Lake Superior (1/14), and had his first goal in 10 games in the 2-2 tie against the Lakers the next night ... Had an assist and was +2 in the Miami victory (1/22) ... Scored a shorthanded empty-net tally at Ohio State to seal a 2-0 victory (2/4) ... Put up three assists in the Northern Michgian series and was a +2 (2/11-12) ... Put up a career-best four-point game with two goals and two assists against Alaska (1/19), which included the game-winner ... Scored an insurance goal in a tight 2-0 victory over Bowling Green (2/26).

2009-10 (Freshman): Appeared in all 38 games ...Skated on the top line with Nick Sucharski and Corey Tropp ... Put together a 30-point campaign, good for Honorable Mention honors to the CCHA All-Rookie Team ... Third on the team in goals (12) and tied for fourth in assists (18) ... His 30 points ranked in a tie for third among freshmen in the Rick Comley regime. David Booth had 36 points in 2002-03 ... Seventeen (8g, 9a) came on the power play ... CCHA Rookie of the Month in October, as he was the nation's top rookie scorer (4-6-10) in the eight games ... Had multiple-point efforts in his first three collegiate games ... Started his college hockey career with a six-game point-scoring streak ... First collegiate point was an assist on Corey Tropp's goal, the first of the season for MSU ... Had a goal and an assist in each of the games in the Clarkson series (10/9-10) ... Added three assists in the Maine series (10/16-17) ... Scored a pair of goals in the split at Miami (10/23-24), both coming on the power play ... Held without a point for the first game in his MSU career in the first game against WMU, but assisted on the game-winner in the second game against the Broncos (10/30-31) ... Netted the game-winning goal in a 3-0 win over Nebraska-Omaha (11/5), then assisted on Nick Sucharski's game-tying tally the next night against the Mavericks (11/6) ... Scored MSU's only goal in a 1-1 tie with Notre Dame (11/19) ... Had a three-point effort with a hand in each goal scored (1g, 2a) in a loss to Wisconsin (11/27) ... Assisted on the lone goal in a hard-fought win at Northern Michigan (12/5) ... Had a pair of assists in the overtime victory at Bowling Green (12/11), recording the primary assist on both Corey Tropp's game-tying goal as well as Torey Krug's overtime game-winner ... Had an assist and was a +3 in the Great Lakes Invitational ... Potted the game-winning tally in a 4-2 victory over Lake Superior (1/8), and added an assist the next night against the Lakers ... Had a goal and an assist in a home tie against Notre Dame (1/16), assisting on a Nick Sucharski power-=play tally in the first period in addition to notching the game-tying goal with just over two minutes remaining in regulation ... Had a goal and a pair of assists in a 5-2 win over Ohio State, including an assist on Torey Krug's gsme-winner ... Scored MSU's lone goal in a loss at Ferris State (2/19) ... Had an assist and was a +1 with a season-best two blocked shots in a 5-2 win over Bowling Green (2/26) ... Scored MSU's lone goal in a loss to Michigan in the first of two CCHA quarterfinal-round games at Munn (3/12).

Prior to MSU: Played two seasons for the Langley Chiefs of the British Columbia League for former MSU skater Harvey Smyl ... Helped Langley to a two-year record of 63-46-2-9 ... In just 35 games his final season, scored 25 goals and 35 assists for 60 points, with 22 PIM ... Ranked 17th in the BCHL in scoring despite playing in half as many games as most league leaders ... Was 21st overall in goals and 29th in assists ... Had a 63-point season the year prior in 57 games (24g, 39a, 44 PIM) ... Member of 2008 Team Canada West which captured a silver medal in Camrose, Alberta ... Selected by the Ottawa Senators in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, the 119th selection overall.

Personal: Born on April 20, 1990 in Abbotsford, British Columbia ... Son of Debi and Dean Grant ... has two sisters: Stefani played hockey and graduated from Nait University in 2007, and Carlee attends the University of the Fraser Valley ... Attended WJ Movat Secondary School from 2004-08 ... Favorite NHL team: Ottawa Senators ... Favorite NHL player is his idol Joe Sakic, because he is a good leader, a hard worker, and focused.

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Papers: Attaining The Holy Grail: How To Encourage Wider Engagement With Museum Collections Through Participation In New Media Projects

Claire Harcup, Culture Online, Department for Culture Media and Sport, and Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

Increasingly, museums and galleries are being asked by funders to reach new audiences as a condition of receiving money. This poses a problem to the sector: existing audiences are easy to reach; new audiences are much harder to get to, and are often resistant to traditional approaches. This paper shows how new technology can be used as a way not only of opening up collections to new audiences but also of engaging audiences on a deeper level than ever before through participation. Drawing on the experience and lessons learned from a raft of interactive projects, this paper looks at how to understand and define audiences, how to design virtuous circles of content that encourage and promote participation, and how to team up with the right organisations to reach target audiences.

Keywords: interactive projects, virtuous circles of content, participation, wider engagement, project design, Culture Online, plant cultures

In May 2000, the UK’s then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, signalled the Government’s intention “to encourage museums, galleries and archives to adopt a strategic approach to social inclusion.” In 2001 the Government’s Departure for Culture, Media and Sport stated that funding agreements would reflect social inclusion policy guidance and contain appropriate objectives and targets. This approach has become the norm in the UK. As part of their funding agreements, the Department asks the bodies it supports to agree to targets that will “open up our institutions to the wider community, to promote lifelong learning and social cohesion.”

The intention behind the policy is commendable, especially in the face of research, such as the “Champions of Change” study (1999), that is increasingly pointing towards the fact that cultural activity benefits individuals. However, the policy poses a problem to the sector: existing audiences are easy to reach; new audiences are much harder to get to, and often prove resistant to traditional approaches. The challenge for museums and galleries is how to find new ways of engagement. In the UK, a series of projects commissioned by Culture Online has demonstrated how new technology can help do this.

Culture Online

In 2002 the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport set up Culture Online with the aim of extending the reach of arts and culture in England to new audiences using new technology. The initiative was given £16 million over three years to commission projects to delight and engage audiences. Since 2002 it has commissioned around twenty projects, many of which are for school-age children (though not necessarily for use within schools) and those at risk of exclusion.

Culture Online projects often bring together consortia that might not have worked together otherwise, and while Culture Online was not solely established to work with museums and galleries, many of its projects have partners that are part of the sector.

Projects must delight a target audience and do at least one of the following extremely well.

  1. Increase access to things that people would not have had access to otherwise. An example might be a virtual collection drawn from a variety of institutions.
  2. Increase collaboration on the part of those who would not have participated otherwise. For example, projects might provide tools especially designed for Culture Online’s target audience.
  3. Give people information about existing services, in the real world or the virtual, that they may not have discovered otherwise.

All Culture Online projects include some degree of participation. They aim to get their audiences to do something in the real world - to create something, to submit something, to visit a theatre, museum or gallery, and so on - so that virtual interaction leads to change The advantage of this approach is that participative projects, when successful, engage with their audiences on a deeper level than non-participative ones, just as the process of creating and then viewing your own home video is a far more immersive experience than watching a television program, even though the medium may be the same.

The Benefits Of Interactivity

Interactivity offers a number of advantages over more traditional media when it comes to engagement. One of the most striking is that the more people interact, the greater the potential value that is added to the whole.  Consider Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), the on-line encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia has been put together at a speed that would make traditional publishers gasp for breath. This was possible because it harnesses the skills and knowledge of its users, allowing each contributor to add, edit and remove text. By and large, Wikipedia’s contributors do not abuse the trust that has been placed in them, and the result is a surprisingly authoritative reference source, the value of which is potentially increased with each interaction from its audience.

Interactivity also allows levels of engagement and participation to be scaled according to the needs and wants of different types of users and, unlike almost any other medium, a low-effort interaction on the part of the user can add a lot of value for others.

Take the example of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), which invites users to write reviews of movies for other users’ benefit. This type of activity will be attractive to a certain sort of person, one perhaps who is eager to share his or her views, but not all filmgoers want to go to the effort of writing a full critique, even though they may have strongly held opinions. These individuals are not ignored in the Internet Movie Database model. They can vote on whether or not they found a review useful and, as a result of these seemingly small actions, reviews with higher approval ratings become more prominent on the site than those with lower ratings. Thus individual users are able to add value for others, and the power of multiple low-effort interactions is greater than the sum of the parts.

Interaction can take many forms – voting, creating, writing, playing, sharing, to name a few. What’s common to each is the effect it has on the users, transforming their experience from the passive to the active. Every time a user edits an entry on Wikipedia or uses a voting button to share an opinion on a review on the Internet Movie Database, a relationship has been formed between the site and the individual; a sort of ownership has been established, enriching the user’s relationship with the content – and ultimately with the content providers themselves.

Interactivity is not all about enriching users’ experience, however. In addition to allowing the museum or gallery to build up a relationship with its audience, it gives the opportunity to create a presence that goes beyond physical boundaries and to engage people in parts of its collection to which they might not normally have access because of the limitations buildings impose. It also gives the organisation a showcase, one which will get them noticed and give them credit. These benefits are well understood, but perhaps less recognised is the opportunity interactivity affords an organisation to build its understanding of its audience’s interests and behaviours, and at the same time accrue new content.

This paper outlines the key ingredients for creating successful interactive projects: defining and understanding audiences, creating virtuous circles of content, and putting together successful delivery partnerships.

Define And Understand Your Audience

It should go without saying that a project starts with the audience but, sadly, all too often audience needs languish a long way down the priority list, below the requirements of the organisation that is creating or funding the project. There are still projects in which the first questions asked is not: Who are we doing this for? and What do they want/need? but How does this fit with the structure and needs of our institution? There’s nothing wrong with a project that fits an institutional framework; it’s just that this shouldn’t be the only reason for doing it. Good projects please both the audience and the institution.

The first thing to do is to define your target audience - who are they and what are their needs? Find out everything you can about them and if you don’t know, find someone who does. Go and talk to special interest groups or outreach organisations that work with the people you are trying to reach, so you can design the most appropriate experience for them. This is what the Plant Cultures project, led by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the UK, did (see case studies below).

The result of understanding your audience in this way might mean that you have to forsake the traditional ways of thinking about your collection. This may be uncomfortable in the short-term and may well demand persuasive power to convince people within your organisations of the benefits of doing so, but ultimately it will reap rewards.

Create Virtuous Circles Of Content

Typically there are five key stages to successful interactive projects, taking the user from initial interest to the act of creating or doing something.

  1. Stimulate interest - get your target audience’s attention
  2. Engage - get them to buy into the proposition
  3. Guide - lead them to resources
  4. Communicate - get them to collaborate and/or communicate - after all, brains learn and develop in the presence of other brains, virtual or otherwise.
  5. Create/do - get them to do something in the real world

While in theory each stage leads to the next and can propel the user further on the journey that starts at a spark of interest (Engage) and ends in the creation of something new and wonderful (Create/do), in practice each stage can be thought of as a barrier - a person whose interest is stimulated by, say, a newspaper article or a television program cannot be assumed to have engaged with the central proposition behind a project related to that article or program. Used properly, however, new technologies such as the Web, interactive television and mobile devices can enable each stage by lowering the barriers between them.

New technologies can also be powerful tools in the creation of virtuous circles of content in which the things that people create or do stimulate interest in others and ultimately may lead to their creating or doing something themselves. Such virtuous circles underpin the design of many successful projects. Figure 1 illustrates how a virtuous circle of content might look.

Fig 1: Example of a virtuous circle of content

Fig 1: Example of a virtuous circle of content

Culture Online’s Mad For Arts project is a real-world example of a virtuous circle of content. Mad For Arts was a unique project that created an artistic forum for some of the most marginalised people in society - mental health service ‘users and survivors’. The first step was to seed the site with contributions that would inspire others to get involved, so the project enlisted the help of organisations that work with people who have experienced mental distress to encourage them to act as guides and critics to the art works that they found inspirational. These were uploaded to individual ‘studio spaces’ on the Web site, where they encouraged other users to contribute their own thoughts. Some of the pieces from the audience were made into films that gave new insight into how works of art can reflect or re-shape our world view, and the best of those appeared on the Community Channel, a niche broadcaster with national distribution, and Channel Five, one of the UK’s main terrestrial broadcasters. These broadcasts were seen by millions, and each contained a strong ‘call to action’ for people to participate on-line.

Ingredients Of Successful Project Consortia

The skills required to deliver interactive projects are diverse and are seldom found in one organisation, so many projects must of necessity become collaborations between a number of partners. While this can make them more complex from a project management point of view, if the vision for the project is strong enough and based in real audience needs, the advantages can outweigh the potential disadvantages. When putting together a consortium of project partners, the key disciplines that need to be covered are:

Editorial leadership - This may come from the lead organisation itself, from an outside partner or from a combination of the two. Whichever approach suits, the most important thing is that the project’s editorial leaders believe that the needs of the audience come first and are persuasive enough to bring others round to this view if necessary.

Project management - This will probably come from the lead organisation. Complex interactive projects require tight control to pull together their many elements. Make sure you employ a dedicated project manager with extensive experience. The technology-shy need not apply.

Technical expertise - If you don’t have the skills in-house, appoint a good technical provider during the early stages of planning. Many projects prove impractical or suffer from soaring costs as a result of critical decisions made early on without input from the right people.

Design - Ensure your designers consider usability as important as aesthetics; otherwise you will end up with a beautiful site or service that no one can use. Usability guru Jacob Nielsen states that after a usability redesign, sites increase desired metrics by 135 per cent on average. Also, ensure that your appointed designers have accessibility in mind at all times. Not only is there a moral obligation to make accessible sites; in many countries it is a legal requirement. Working accessibility in up-front saves time and money unpicking problems later, not to mention the reputational risk to the lead organisation if the project receives negative publicity.

Audience understanding - Don’t assume that you know and understand your audience (unless you really do). Find people who work directly with the people you are trying to reach and tap into their networks and expertise - you’ll save time, money and disappointment.

Distribution - Never assume just because you build it they will come. Interactive projects compete in a busy space, and projects need to be brought to people’s attention by those who ‘own’ audiences. Often television and radio channels or newspapers are the best way to reach an audience, but if you are targeting a small niche audience, it’s probably more appropriate to work with a special interest organisation.

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Plant Cultures http://www.plantcultures.org.uk

Fig 2: Plant Cultures home page http://www.plantcultures.org.uk

Fig 2: Plant Cultures home page http://www.plantcultures.org.uk

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, is an institution with a world-wide reputation and unparalleled scientific and horticultural expertise whose mission is to increase knowledge and understanding of plants. Its academic database and resources are second to none, but they have limited appeal to non-scientific audiences.

Together with Culture Online, Kew Gardens conceived a project to broaden the appeal of its work at the same time as collecting information that had a value to the institution itself. Both parties recognised that there was a wealth of information surrounding the cultural significance of plants that went beyond Kew’s normal remit, and that by actively seeking such information about the plants of a particular region Kew could add to its knowledge whilst simultaneously appealing to people with ties to that geographical area, as well as those interested in plants in general.

From this thinking Plant Cultures emerged - a Web site that captures stories, recipes, images and folklore associated with the plants of South Asia. To deliver what was an ambitious project, which involved not only building the site but also organising a series of content workshops around the country, a complex consortium of interested parties needed to be created, particularly since Kew did not have particularly strong links to the South Asian community. This was done by pulling together a number of diverse partners.

Fig 3: Partners involved in Plant Cultures

Fig 3: Partners involved in Plant Cultures

Lead partner - As lead partner, Kew was responsible for the project management and the editorial leadership of Plant Cultures, as well as lending the authority of its brand.

Audience owners - Bradford Community Environment Project works on the ground with people from the South Asian community. Their people brought Plant Cultures their deep understanding of the project’s target audience.

Outreach partners - Plant Cultures harnessed the combined outreach power of Kew Gardens itself, the Museum of London, Leicester City Museums and the National Museums of Liverpool. These organisations co-ordinated activities in their respective cities, including the events and workshops that helped gather evocative stories and ultimately a huge treasury of Web-based material.

Specialist partners - The British Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wellcome Library and the Natural History Museum all contributed content to sit alongside that from Kew itself. For some of the partners, this was the first time some of their material had been available to the general public.

Technical partner - In addition to its specialist expertise, technical partner NYKRIS also contributed its knowledge of the museums and galleries sector.

Media partner - BBC Asian Network scheduled a week of programming based around Plant Cultures.

Experience on the Plant Cultures project underlines the importance of working with organisations that understand the target audience intimately. Specialist partners are able to anticipate and overcome barriers that may not be obvious to those from another tradition or culture or who do not share an outlook or experience. This knowledge can prove invaluable when dealing with issues that seemingly have nothing to do with the project itself but can influence its success or failure. For example, on Bradford Community Environment’s recommendation, rail tickets were made available to female participants in an out-of-town workshop so they could choose not to be driven by a male coach driver. The provision of rail tickets allowed women to participate in the project who may not otherwise have felt able to do.

For Kew Gardens, the project has been notable for fostering new relationships. Some are external; for example, with museums and other institutions in the cultural sector and community groups. Others are within Kew: the project has helped scientists and curators communicate with staff working in IT, education and in the gardens and greenhouses. Working with NYKRIS and Culture Online’s technical team led Kew to take a pro-active approach to Web site usability and accessibility right from the start. The most exciting - and challenging - part of the project for Kew has been the project’s work on fostering, and capturing in digital form the participation of British Asian communities.

ICONS http://www.ICONS.org.uk

Fig 4: Icons home page http://www.ICONS.org.uk

Fig 4: Icons home page http://www.ICONS.org.uk

Launched in January 2006, ICONS is a virtual collection of hundreds of England’s cultural icons. Nominated by the general public, the Icons collection reflects a contemporary view of English culture and values - a living picture of a country, a people and a way of life. From Stonehenge to the red double-decker bus, from fish and chips to the humble cup of tea, the project is set to become a dynamic portrait of England.

Hundreds of nominations from the public are being registered on the site. Each quarter new icons of England will be announced, as the on-line collection grows bigger and richer in content. It is a chance for people to choose their own icon or vote for other people’s nominations and share anecdotes, photographs and memories on-line.

Icons can be navigated through different layers of content, cross-referencing from an historical, scientific, sociological or artistic angle. The objects themselves can be examined in new ways: there will be 3D viewing options, virtual magnifications, audio-visual descriptions and on-line animations.

Each object links back to its ‘home’ institution and is linked thematically to other objects in that collection. Visitors will be able to participate in a variety of related activities, including a full education program.

By featuring everyday objects and finding new significance in them, challenging the user to think about what constitutes an icon, the Icons project finds the common ground between museum and audience. Even the seemingly trivial example of the cup of tea, much loved by the British as a pick-up-me-up and comforter in times of strife, reveals itself to be the trigger for a journey through British colonial history, touching on the trade and ships that brought tea to British shores and the porcelain industry that grew up around the fashion for tea-drinking and adapted to its needs.

The project leverages the power of the virtuous circle to garner nominations from the public. National and local newspapers, radio and TV stations have all carried pieces about the project, challenging their readers to nominate their own icons for consideration. This has led to a flood of nominations going forward to the editorial committee, which will deliberate on their worthiness for inclusion in the site. The announcement of those that made it will no doubt provoke more debate and another flurry of nominations.

My Art Space http://www.myartspace.org.uk

FigFig 5: My Art Space home page http://www.myartspace.org.uk

Fig 5: My Art Space home page http://www.myartspace.org.uk

My Art Space is an interactive service that enables visitors to museums and galleries to ‘collect’ cultural artefacts using their cell phones and to create their own on-line collections through which they can share their interest, knowledge and enthusiasm about the objects and art works they find. The service, specifically designed around museum education, illustrates how the digital world of Web sites and mobile phone technologies can add value to the real world of museums, galleries and exhibitions.

Led by The Sea, a sustainable design and innovation agency, My Art Space is to be launched early in 2006 at the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, Urbis in Manchester, and the Study Gallery in Poole. Although the service is available to general visitors, it is primarily targeted at pupils studying National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3.

Students are given the opportunity to improve their understanding and interest across a range of subject areas by connecting the physical world of the gallery to their own world of learning. They then ‘curate’ the objects they have collected, displaying them in virtual galleries on the My Art Space Web site that can be shared with the general public as well as their family and friends. By bringing the museum experience and students closer together, students can interact with museum or gallery objects in meaningful, fun and stimulating ways, and through starting their own collections are encouraged to consider the nature of curating. For many of the pupils, the excitement of using a cell phone in a learning environment breaks down the barrier that they may perceive exists between themselves and the museum or gallery’s artefacts. The risk that the experience of using the phone becomes more important than the artefacts themselves is mitigated by the fact that students are asked to give reasons for their decision to include an object in their personal collection.

Playground Fun http://playgroundfun.org.uk

Fig 6: Playground Fun home page http://www.playgroundfun.org.uk

Fig 6: Playground Fun home page http://www.playgroundfun.org.uk

Not every successful relationship between a museum or gallery and an interactive project has to have the institution as its starting point, as the example of Playground Fun illustrates. Playground Fun is a Web site that aims to revitalise the tradition of street games by inspiring a new generation of children to record and create their own versions of the games their parents and grandparents played.

Commissioned by Culture Online from Learnthings, part of the Guardian newspaper’s media group, the site is designed to exercise children’s imaginations as well as their bodies, turning Web interactivity into physical activity. Featuring colourful cartoon characters, the nuts-and-bolts information is a basis for classroom discussion about the games children know, and for developing pupils’ own games and rhymes. At the heart of Playground Fun is a game builder tool which allows children to create new games or their own versions of existing games and then to test them out in the playground, thus stimulating children’s creativity, writing and oral communication skills.

After its launch, Playground Fun teamed up with the Museum of Childhood in London as part of its summer program. The museum ran a series of outdoor activities in the grounds of the museum, based around traditional games featured on the site. In addition, it conducted a number of workshops in which children were taught how to devise and capture their own games to add to the site.

The programme was a success for all parties, demonstrating the power of combining the virtual with real-world activities. Through the Playground Fun-inspired activities the museum was able to forge a stronger relationship with its audience, encouraging many new visitors through its gates to participate in the workshops and events. As one parent put it, the program gave the children a “nice feeling about museums”. On the other hand, the program benefited the site too. Eighty-two per cent of those who took part said that they would use Playground Fun to learn more about outdoor games, get ideas for activities or create new games.

Web Design Challenge http://www.beingheard.org.uk

Fig 7: Being Heard home page www.beingheard.org.uk

Fig 7: Being Heard home page www.beingheard.org.uk

Another interactive project that strengthened a museum’s relationship with its audience is Web Design Challenge.

Culture Online came up with the idea of running a competition to encourage the Web designers of the future while engaging them with concepts of citizenship. Headed up by The Hansard Society (an independent, non-partisan educational charity, which exists to promote effective parliamentary democracy) and the Design Museum in London, Web Design Challenge was a competition to uncover the best ideas and design potential in young people between the ages of eleven and fourteen by asking them to design a Web site called Being Heard to give young people a voice in politics,.

The competition was supported by a dedicated Web site which provided tips and guidelines for teachers and pupils, in particular on the principles of good Web design. More than 500 schools registered to take part at the start of the project, which involved teams of students creating designs for their own personal home pages on a range of topics from music and sport to bullying, crime, family, religion and the environment.

Entries were judged by a panel of new media specialists as well as representatives from the Design Museum and the Hansard Society.

Each of the designers of the 200 best entries was invited to one of the Web Design Challenge masterclasses held at prestigious venues around England (including the Design Museum itself) where they received tips and guidance from leading Web designers as well as their brief for the next phase of the competition. In this phase, the young people were asked to design a Web site for other young people on the theme of “Being Heard”. Teachers were sent a resource pack to support both the ICT and citizenship features of the challenge. The winning design from this phase was then turned into the Being Heard site (www.beingheard.org.uk) run by the Hansard Society.

As well as unearthing latent design talent, Web Design Challenge has proved extremely successful in engaging young people with design in general and Web design in particular. It has achieved this by engaging its audience not with individual items of a collection but with the general ethos of the Design Museum - to promote an understanding of design in the round. However, what makes this project especially interesting is that it managed to achieve a relationship with a new audience through ICT and citizenship - routes not traditionally associated with design.

Interactive projects have the capacity to engage new audiences with museums and galleries in fresh, exciting and compelling ways, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to the design: projects need to be tailored to the particular needs and behaviours of the target audience. Nevertheless, there are a number of key principles that, if applied properly, will provide the project with a robust foundation and maximise the possibility of the enriching experience that characterises the best interactive projects. By forming a deep understanding of their target audience, creating virtuous circles of content, and putting together appropriate multi-disciplinary delivery partnerships, museums and galleries can help maximise an interactive project’s chances of success and thereby help achieve their own strategic goals.

Building on PAT 10 - Progress Report on Social Inclusion, HMSO, London (2001).

Catterall, Chapleau and Iwanaga. Champions of Change - The Impact of the Arts on Learning (1999). The US “Champions of Change” study of 25,000 students found that those with high levels of arts participation outperform “arts poor” students in virtually every measure.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport 2003-2006. Service Delivery Agreement.

Foreword to “Centres for Social Change: Museums, Galleries and Archives for All”, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (May 2000).

Nielsen, Jacob. “Return on Investment for Usability.” Jacob Nielsen’s Alertbox (January 7, 2003). http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030107.html.

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Harcup C. and Nesbitt M., Attaining The Holy Grail: How To Encourage Wider Engagement With Museum Collections Through Participation In New Media Projects, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2006: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 1, 2006 at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/harcup/harcup.html


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Signing off a short UK tour, and three days after the launch of their third studio album; The Plot Against Common Sense, Future of the Left once again prove that they are able to provide a welcome fresh take on the British live band scene.

Opening act, post-hardcore four piece Science Bastard, set the tone for the evening, injecting a fast-paced aggressive blend of vaguely constructed chaos into the somewhat unsuspecting crowd, and creating the lively atmosphere which thrived throughout the night. Female dominated art-punk outfit Fever Fever quickly followed suit, demonstrating their lively, impressive riffs and rather infectious lyrics.

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Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad; and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway.

Many well-loved composers were commissioned to write motets for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and several are published here, including George Dyson's stirring Confortare, William Harris's Let my prayer and Herbert Howells's Behold O God our defender. In addition, two pieces performed at the wedding oF the present Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are included: Paul Mealor's beautiful Ubi caritas, and Hubert Parry's epic anthem, Bless pair of sirens.

Music for Royal Occasions provides a well-rounded concert programme in itself for choral societies or community choirs. The collection offers many useful and accessible pieces for church choirs, suitable for a wide variety of occasions.

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