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[pttedu]

5 Things To Avoid While Starting An Electrician Career In The US

Read about some 5 common things that an aspiring electrician must avoid while starting an electrician career in the US.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, often regarded as a Founding Father of the United States. He rose to prominence as editor of The Pennsylvania Gazette and author of Poor Richard's Almanack before winning scientific renown for experiments with electricity. He also played a major role in the American Revolution (1765-1789).

Apprenticeship in Boston

Benjamin Franklin was born on 17 January 1706, in the house his parents leased on Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts. He was, as noted in his autobiography, the "youngest Son of the youngest Son for five Generations back" (46). His father, Josiah Franklin, had emigrated to Boston partially because his older brothers received all the family inheritance in England. Josiah was a well-respected chandler with 17 children across two marriages; Ben was his tenth son and fifteenth child, born to his second wife, Abiah Folger. Ben learned to read at an early age and his father sent him to Boston Latin School, with the intention that he one day join the clergy. But after two years, Josiah was forced to pull Ben out of school due to lack of money. Instead, Josiah arranged for twelve-year-old Ben to be apprenticed to his elder brother James, a printer.

Ben quickly showed an aptitude for the printing trade and, in his free time, read voraciously and refined his writing skills. In 1721, James Franklin founded The New-England Courant, only the third newspaper to appear in Boston. When James invited readers to contribute to the paper, 16-year-old Ben took the opportunity. In 1722, he penned 14 satirical essays under the pseudonym 'Silence Dogood,' presented as a middle-aged widow. As Dogood, Franklin satirized Massachusetts society: he mocked the haughtiness of Harvard College students, questioned the purpose of women's hoop petticoats, and suggested changes to funeral eulogies. Dogood's irreverence soon made her essays the talk of the town, and Franklin listened with pleasure as James and his friends tried to guess the writer's identity. When James was briefly arrested for publishing material critical of the colonial governor, Ben took over the paper, using Dogood to advocate for free speech.

Young Ben Franklin at the Printing Press

Charles E. Mills (Public Domain)

James was released from jail a month later on the condition that he not print or publish work in The New-England Courant. To circumvent this, he publicly stepped aside as publisher and let Ben run the paper, although James intended to keep managing things behind the scenes. To support the ruse, James publicly released Ben from the terms of his apprenticeship, although he had him sign a secret agreement in which he promised to fulfill the terms of his original indenture. Subsequently, the brothers often quarreled over the direction of the paper, and James became jealous upon discovering Ben was the author behind Silence Dogood, while Ben believed himself to be James' intellectual superior. In 1723, Ben left home and fled to New York City; although this broke the terms of the secret agreement, he was confident that James would not go to the authorities for fear of revealing his own duplicity. Franklin briefly stayed in New York but, after failing to find work, he moved on to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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[lboogie1906]

Le Sony’r Ra, or Sun Ra (May 22, 1914 - May 3, 1993) jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and cosmic philosopher remains an influential and controversial figure in jazz history. He is remembered for his Astro Black Mythology which incorporated aspects of ancient Egyptian philosophy and science fiction, as well as his contributions to avant-garde jazz and afrofuturism.

He was born as Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham. Composing original music and poetry by age twelve, he played in several bands before receiving a scholarship to Alabama State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes, he quit school, claiming to have had a visionary experience in which he traveled to the planet Saturn and was told to stop attending college. He assembled a band for rehearsal purposes only. He went by the name Sonny Blount. He was a conscientious objector and was briefly imprisoned during WWII.

He played piano for various musicians and singers, among them Fletcher Henderson, Gene Ammons, and Billie Holiday. He became interested in outer space and ancient Egyptian mythology, reading voraciously and developing his philosophy that incorporated science fiction, ancient Egypt, and music. He legally changed his name to Le Sony’r Ra.

After forming the Space Trio with Pat Patrick and Tommy Hunter in 1952, He assembled a larger band that he named the Solar Arkestra. Under his direction, the Arkestra began as a hard-bop big band but was soon incorporating free improvisation and experimenting with primitive electric keyboards. He demanded precision and discipline in his musicians. He and the Arkestra moved to New York City and settled in Philadelphia. He recorded at least 1,000 compositions on over 120 albums, many for his company, El Saturn Research, which he co-founded.

He and the Arkestra embarked on numerous tours, including visits to the West Coast, the UK, Europe, and Egypt. He was appointed as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, teaching a course entitled The Black Man in the Cosmos. He and the Arkestra filmed the movie version of the album Space is the Place. He and his Arkestra continued to rehearse and tour throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[popentertainmentconcertreviews]

Two Friends, NOTD & Deerock – Skylight Stage at the Mann – Philadelphia, PA – June 17, 2023

A Night on Planet Two Friends

Two Friends – aka Eli Stones and Mathew Halper – are known for their “Big Bootie Mixes” and their bi-annual festival “Big Bootie Land.” Stones and Halper are longtime friends and musical collaborators. The dance-pop duo has listeners ranging from college kids to grown adults. The pair’s viral remixes of popular songs such as “Mr. Brightside” and “I Miss You” helped them break out into the global dance music landscape.

Their current headline tour, Planet Two Friends, made a stop at the Skyline Stage in Philly on June 17th. The first opener Deerock created a fun atmosphere as fans arrived at the show. He understood the crowd, shouting “Go Birds!” The set ranged from an original song titled “I Remember” to a remix of “Mine” by Taylor Swift.

The second opening act of the night was NOTD, a Swedish pop-dance duo. They brought another level of energy to the night as they took to the stage. The peak was the moment Tobi jumped into the crowd of fans. Their mix of “Unholy” by Sam Smith hyped up the sea of people waiting in excitement.

Finally, it was time for Two Friends to take the stage. Right before they came on, the screen behind the stage displayed Two Friends themed trivia questions. It unified the crowd of fans as they talked amongst themselves in anticipation.

The graphics, lights, and stage design were very on point with the theme of the tour, Planet Two Friends. The intro video made it feel like you were inside of a spaceship. When the duo appeared, they popped out from a UFO where they performed from most of the show. Amongst the lasers and smoke cannons, the UFO even got raised in the air in the middle of the set.

The chemistry between the duo is impossible to miss. It was clear that they were having the time of their lives on stage. Their stage presence was felt by the whole crowd, as the two of them ran around the stage and stood on top of their UFO during their mixes.

They played a number of hits, from “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” to “Electric Love” and throwbacks from “Candy Shop” to “Clarity.” Two Friends also played some original songs including, “Looking at You.”

All in all, this show was a ton of fun. Both Eli and Mathew’s energy was unmatched, not to mention the fans dancing the entire time. Two Friends have a handful of shows left on their summer tour and it would be a shame to miss out on a great night out.

Emily DiMarcangelo

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: June 19, 2023.

Photos by Emily DiMarcangelo © 2023. All rights reserved.

[moviemunchies]

Well, I absolutely loved the first movie, so I was super-pumped for this one!

After the last movie, Billy and his foster siblings have been working as Philadelphia’s superheroes, thought the city isn’t always appreciative. But the daughters of Atlas, hespera and Kalypso, are now free from the realm of the gods, and they don’t appreciate how the Wizard Shazam stole the power of the gods, much less that he gave that power to children. Using the reforged wizard’s staff, they resolve to steal back that power and avenge the gods on an ungrateful human race.

It’s nice to see the Shazam family with more to do as heroes; still, it feels that we don’t get enough of them. We get enough that they’re all still distinctly different, recognizable people, and I appreciate that, but I thought we could have done with more development. There are tantalizing bits of information on their lives outside of the Plot (Mary apparently gave up college to help support the family??). We barely get Billy outside of his superhero form in this movie, which is a bit disappointing too.

I’ve seen it argued quite a lot that even in the first film, Billy and his superhero form feel like two different people. I understand that complaint, but I understood it as “In adult superhero form, Billy doesn’t have the inhibitions that he does as a kid, and acts a bit wilder because he can.” That being said, I definitely see that argument holding more water in this movie–especially because we see so little of Billy outside of his superhero form.

After seeing this, I would argue that SHAZAM! might work really well as a television series? That way, you can have time dedicated to all of the family characters and none of them feel short-changed.

It is also a little disappointing that after the last movie’s mid-credits scene, this movie is not about the schemes of Mr. Mind the evil caterpillar. Supposedly there was a draft of the script in which Mr. Mind was responsible for opening the realm of the gods, but as it is he has nothing to do with anything. I sort of get wanting to save him for something bigger, or deciding that it didn’t work for the story quite yet, but considering the entire premise is that these are kids that become superheroes, one might think that they might rush to get to the point while the child actors are still children?

Still, this movie still gets the tone of the original movie, so it’s loads of fun to watch. There’s lots of humor! The idea of kids as superheroes is still hilarious, as each of these kids decides to do different things with their powers and their lair. And it’s great to see what they do in this completely strange situation, where goddesses and mythical creatures start menacing their city.

Also, the Wizard comes back! And he has a lot more to do, and he’s delightful to watch on screen.

The fight scenes are pretty good. Obviously, they’re not like John Wick style martial arts fests, but as superhero action scenes, they’re good! Again, we’re watching a bunch of kids with superpowers, and they use those powers the way that you might expect them to. If I have a complaint with them, it’s that I don’t think electricity quite works the way it does in this movie.

The ending includes a pretty gratuitous deus ex machina, and I don’t know how I feel about that? It’s not entirely out of nowhere, but it’s quite obviously a stretch for that to happen to resolve everything. I’m also not fond of the way it was spoiled in a lot of marketing material right as the movie came out (and neither was the director!).

I can’t help but strongly suspect that this movie was hurt by a lot of the behind-the-scenes drama at Warner Brothers and DC. This movie was supposed to release a year ago, and now it’s part of a universe that’s officially canceled. The director was assured that technically, there’s no reason that Shazam shouldn’t be incorporated into the new DC cinematic continuity, but I have my doubts it’ll come to fruition, especially considering that this one didn’t do well in theaters (the lack of good marketing, and the announcement of canceling its continuity didn’t do favors).

AND the biggest profile villain of the hero (Black Adam) was given a spin-off movie with a big-name action star, who appeared to have no plans to crossover. The Rock was more interested in seeing his character fight Superman–something we’re unlikely to see now that the DC movie universe is rebooting (in part due to that film failing to make back enough money with its massive marketing campaign).

So while I found this movie enjoyable–good action scenes, fun characters, great humor–I guess I was really hoping for a big last hurrah for the series in its second installment. And this isn’t really that. If you were a big fan of the first movie, like I was, you’ll probably enjoy this one as well. But I can’t say you’ll enjoy it as much, partly for reasons that are not really this movie’s fault.

[nightlyteaandpaper]

A Typical Love Triangle (Chapter 1)

Hello! This is the first chapter of my short story.

A young woman welcomes home an old friend from high school as she tries to get her life after graduating from college.

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Eva stood at the bus stop with the ticket in hand. She had been there for over 2 hours, waiting and watching for the one traveling bus that mattered—the Greyhound. It was coming down from Philadelphia and her friend said it would arrive around 10 in the morning, but 10 in the morning had come and gone and Eva was still standing at the bus stop, alone. She was beginning to think that the workers at the terminal thought she was a vagrant, bouncing from city to city, unable to find her footing. The way they eyed her as they passed, the suspicion in their glares…Eva just shrugged it off. It would all be worth it when she could wrap her arms around his chest, and he brought her in for one of those full-frontal hugs that made her feel small and safe.

                A ding on her phone shook her from her thoughts. Another job position had turned her down—that would be a 20 in the last 5 days. Eva didn’t understand what she was doing wrong; she went by the book: she graduated high school and went to community college, so she didn’t have to pay too much out of pocket at university. She worked her way through university, picking up odd jobs to make ends meet and dancing between research projects and projects for school, and when she graduated from university, she expected her efforts to be rewarded with some sort of financial compensation… but six months later, Eva was still working her job at the café. The only change for her was going from part-time to full-time.

                “Cold weather we’re having,” a young man said to her. Eva didn’t see him sitting next to her on the old, wooden bench. Though he was bundled up by layers and layers of clothing, she could still see his red nose crinkle. He was smiling.  

                “Real cold,” she smiled back.

                Another ding.

                Almost there.

                Eva’s heart jumped to her throat, her legs bouncing up and down, feeling like static was running through her veins.

                “Waiting on someone?” The young man said.

                Eva couldn’t bother taking her eyes off her phone. “Yeah, an old friend of mine,” she said. Almost there.  He was almost here. She almost already smell the small hint of patchouli and clove wafting around her, engulfing her.

                “Same,” the young man said. “I’m waiting for my girlfriend; she’s supposed to be here by now, but…” he shrugged. “There was an accident on the road, and it looks like they are running late.”

                That explains why the bus had yet to show up when it was supposed to.

                “Coming down from Philadelphia?”

                The young man nodded. “You?”

                “Yeah,” Eva nodded.

                They sat like this, exchanging small words with each other. The winter chill seemed to turn a bite, but the bus stop was right in front of the heated terminal building; every time someone opened the door, a blast of warm air came rushing toward the two of them. His name was Larry, and he was from Baltimore just like Eva was. When he asked for her name, Eva quickly said "Alice."

                “Alice,” he repeated. “Pretty name. My girlfriend’s name is Alexandra.”

                “Oh, how nice,” she said.

                Steam came bellowing toward them as a black bus pulled slowly in front. The sound of decompression and the sliding doors told Eva all she needed to know. Waving aside the steam, she watched as person after person stepped off the bus.

                Electricity coursed through her. She stuffed her hands in her coat pockets, not because of the cold but because if she squeezed herself tight enough, she could control how excited she was. She was going to explode, shooting off into the stratosphere, and won’t come back down until next winter.

                It’s been 10 years since she saw him last. 

                10 years since she hugged him.

                10 years after he graduated and left, never looking back at their small city that didn’t hold enough for me.

                10 years since she called out—

                “Jasper!”

[fenrislorsrai]

Although many cities, including Vienna, Philadelphia, and São Paulo, use regenerative braking to some degree, Barcelona is among the few to use it so extensively and the first to tap it for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Utilizing energy that is otherwise lost as heat when a train slows can significantly reduce a transit system’s energy consumption. (Other efforts, such as optimizing the settings for Barcelona’s semi-autonomous trains and using AI to optimize the ventilation in each car, have further reduced energy needs by double-digit margins.) With the adoption of MetroCHARGE, 33 percent of the energy used by the trains comes from regenerative braking, or enough to power 25 subway stations, said Jordi Picas, who leads the project and is director of metro systems at TMB. In subway systems that don’t deploy regenerative braking, “there’s so much energy that’s not being used, and not only is it lost, it also generates heat that spreads inside the tunnels and increases the temperature,” he said. Since implementing regenerative braking, the temperature in Barcelona’s subway system has decreased by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Given that a single train costs about $6.6 million and has an average lifespan of 35 to 45 years, it’s essential that transit operators include them in medium- and long-term planning, he said. - - -

Cities like New York — which has the world’s fifth-largest metro system, with 472 stations and 665 miles of track — could see significant energy savings from regenerative braking due to the sheer scale of its subway network, said Ahmed Mohamed, director of graduate studies at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. In a 2018 study, Mohamed and his team found that the Metropolitan Transit Authority, or MTA, which runs New York’s subways, could cut its energy consumption by 35 percent if it adopted regenerative braking system-wide and used the electricity it generates to power trains and station amenities. As of 2022, just half of the city’s trains use the technology, according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, although any new trains are required to have it. However, “there’s not necessarily a strategic plan for how they can be used for energy saving,” Mohamed said, adding that the MTA, which would not make anyone available to comment, favors regenerative braking because it requires less maintenance than conventional friction brakes.

Meanwhile in New York

Also New York:

NYC murders down, traffic deaths up and NYPD OT tops $1 Billion: Mayor’s report

The report pointed to an increased NYPD presence across several fronts. Enforcement of minor summonses like fare evasion and open container law violations have increased by 34% since last fiscal year, totaling 180,000, and by 210% since three years prior, before Adams took office. Summonses for drinking in parks and on stoops in particular rose by 13,000 since last year and by a whopping nearly 57,000 since fiscal year 2021.  Major felony crimes are slightly down since last year, largely driven by a 15% decrease in murders and an 18% decrease in shootings, but still up overall from pre-Covid — and grand larceny auto, robbery and felony crime in housing developments all increased from the year before. The stepped-up police presence across the city has come at a cost, with the NYPD paying out record overtime. This year, the number broke $1 billion for the first time.

I'm not great at math here, but this seems like you could probably take some of the money you were spending on cop overtime enforcing fare evasion and SPEND IT ON TRAINS and get a return on that investment for the next 35-40 years.

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA.

My point of putting them all together here is partially just so New Yorkers can yell at their mayor and representatives in a constructive way. "Stop spending money on cops cracking down on fare evasion!" "well, how are we supposed to recoup the money from fare evasion?" "Finish installing regenerative breaking on the subway system!"

hyperspecific things like that can sometimes throw people for a loop on the standard arguments. No, it doesn't solve the fare evasion issue (and honestly its a public service, FUND IT LIKE ONE, making it free and funding it that way would be more effective!!!) but it DOES reduce operating cost for the next 35-40 years which just attacks the budgetary issue from a different angle.

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Part 2 - Go West: African American Lives and Westward Migration Performance from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

Monday, August 12, 2024 | 8:00 p.m. Southeast Community Center, Alex Pitcher Pavilion and Amphitheater, 1550 Evans Ave, San Francisco

Join artist Trina Michelle Robinson for an artist talk (pt 1) followed by a special performance (pt 2) featuring her new video work Go West!

Projected onto the exterior of the Southeast Community Center’s amphitheater and accompanied by musician Christopher Lowell Clarke and dancer Audrey Johnson, Go West looks at the migration of Black people to California from not only the South, but also the East coast and Midwest. Using the large-scale projection as a metaphor for taking up space, this piece celebrates the drive felt by so many to travel far from home in search of new opportunities, adventure, and also to simply rest.

A conversation between Robinson and author, curator, and educator Jacqueline Francis will take place inside the Alex Pitcher Pavilion prior to the performance. Refreshments provided.

This program is organized in conjunction with Praxis of Local Knowledge, a group exhibition featuring four artists, including Robinson, creating work that explores their ancestral stories and grappling with these memories today. The exhibition is on view through Saturday, August 17, 2024 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery.

Artist Bios Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco based visual artist. Her work has been shown at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, and New York’s Wassaic Project and is currently included in the prestigious triennial Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She had a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian Affiliate, as part of their Emerging Artist Program 2022-23. Robinson is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and her print series Ghost Prints of Loss is included in the book Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? published in 2023 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. She previously worked in print and digital media in production at companies such as The New York Times T Magazine, Vanity Fair and Slack before receiving her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022.

As a storyteller, she traveled the country telling the story of exploring her ancestry with The Moth Mainstage at Lincoln Center in New York, in addition to touring with them on stages in San Francisco, Portland, OR, Omaha, NE and Westport, CT. Her first story aired on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour in 2019 and her second in earlier this year. trinamrobinson.com

Christopher Lowell Clarke is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Christopher's professional performance experience includes playing with the East Coast Jazz Festival Fish Middleton Rising Star Band in Baltimore, Carnival Cruise Lines Main Orchestra and Jazz Chair, the Johnny Nocturne Band at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy, his own quintet at the Fillmore Jazz Festival in San Francisco, and the Contemporary Music Orchestra at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also performed with Eddie Marshall and Holy Mischief, the Marcus Shelby Big Band, the Howard Wiley Quintet, and the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. Christopher currently serves as a teaching artist for SF Jazz/Oakland Public Conservatory After School Jazz Program, Oakland Public Conservatory, SF Jazz’s Jazz In Session Program, Oaktown Jazz Workshop, and the Lafayette Summer Jazz Camp. Christopher has released several albums, including The Swooper (Lifeforce Records 1018) and multiple albums with bassist Dewayne Oakley on Naki-Do Records. christopherlowellclarke.com

Audrey Johnson is a queer, Black, mixed-race dance artist and plant worker with roots from Detroit, Michigan/Anishinaabe land, currently based in Oakland, CA/Ohlone land. Audrey’s performance, choreographic, and teaching work experiments with improvisation and embodied time travel, in refusal of colonized time and space. She has shown performance work in the San Francisco Bay Area and Detroit, and has performed in the companies of artists Gerald Casel, Jennifer Harge, Biba Bell, Detour Dance, Stephanie Hewett, among others. As an educator, she has taught dance as embodied practice at community spaces, dance centers, and youth programs, and is a current faculty member with the LINES BFA Program through Dominican University. She holds a BFA in Dance from Wayne State University and was a co-founder of Collective Sweat Detroit. audreyjohnson.space

[musicblogwales]

Mei Semones Announces Debut EP 'Kabutomushi'

Mei Semones, the 23-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, announces her new EP and Bayonet Records debut, Kabutomushi, out April 5th, and shares a new single/video, “Inaka.”   “Inaka” follows the previously released “Wakare No Kotoba,” a “lovely slice of indie pop with some serious guitar chops” (Brooklyn Vegan), which also will appear on her forthcoming EP. Kabutomushi sees Semones refine her sweetly evocative blend of jazz, bossa nova and math-y indie rock, chronicling infatuation, devotion, vulnerability, and saying goodbye to some of her closest relationships, complete with sweeping strings, virtuosic guitar-playing and heartfelt lyrics sung in both English and Japanese. Throughout the EP, Semones’ straightforward vocal delivery calls to mind that of the late bossa nova great Astrud Gilberto, while also having drawn comparisons to Japanese contemporaries Ichiko Aoba and Lamp.   One of the more indie rock-leaning songs Semones has written, “Inaka” still has glimpses of jazz harmony throughout, with cinematic strings adding a romantic flair alongside Semones’ guitar lead.   “I wrote this song shortly after moving to Brooklyn in the autumn of 2022, when I was feeling defeated and exhausted everyday,” Semones says. “I’ve grown to love the city, but at the time I was idealizing losing all ambition and moving to the countryside with my partner, hence the name of the song "Inaka" which means “countryside” in Japanese. Looking back at that time, I realize the city wasn’t the issue, I was just tired.” In the video, directed by Lucas O.M., Semones starts in New York City’s Lower East Side, before taking the train to her friend’s farm in Old Lyme, CT, visualizing the track’s theme of escaping the city and moving somewhere more pastoral.  

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “INAKA”

  Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Semones began playing music at a young age, starting out on piano at age four before moving to electric guitar at age eleven. After playing jazz guitar in high school, she went on to study guitar performance with a jazz focus at Berklee College of Music. College is where she met her current bandmates, including string players Noah Leong and Claudius Agrippa, whose respective viola and violin add softness and multidimensionality to Mei’s intricate guitar work. After releasing a slew of singles and an EP in 2022, coinciding with her move to New York City, Mei and her band have since gone on to collaborate with post-bossa balladeer John Roseboro, and embarked on their first-ever tour with the melodic rock outfit Raavi.   All of the songs that comprise Kabutomushi are written and sung in both English and Japanese, with Mei wanting to stay connected to her first language through her music. The EP title translates to “rhinoceros beetle” in English, named after the horned insect that she would spot and catch in the park when visiting her grandmother in Japan growing up. Keeping things stripped-down with the help of electronic subtleties and plucked strings, Mei’s voice intertwined with her guitar come off as a poignant lullaby of treasured memories long-gone, but not forgotten, encapsulating Semones’ sonic trademarks: ornately catchy, genre-fusing compositions serving as the backdrop to tender lyrics touching on the universalities of human emotion.   Mei is embarking on a short solo tour with Bratty in the lead up to the release of Kabutomushi, with shows in New York, DC, Philadelphia, and Chicago, to name a few. Additionally, Mei has announced her record release show with full band on April 15th at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right.

Kabutomushi EP Artwork

MEI SEMONES ONLINE:  WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP

[apush-relevancy]

I will preface this relevancy post with, they would all hate me if I did this for them, because I'm not a cishet guy who supports their ideals and hates women.

This post is likely more related to the musical "Hamilton" than the actual historical figures, but what the hell have a relevancy post. To keep this short and sweet, Washington was our first president, Madison was the 4th, Franklin helped with the Declaration of Independence, Hamilton wrote a bunch of papers and got shot, Jefferson was the 3rd president, and Adams was the 2nd president. Obviously, there's more about them, but I'd rather not lose my sanity on a 500k word Tumblr post.

I couldn't guess what some of these are related to if I tried, but some are more obvious.

Madison is probably connected to brushing teeth because he was a kinda sickly guy, and obviously good hygiene would've prevented a lot of sickness back then.

Franklin is probably connected to school because of his studies of electricity, physics, and philosophy, and was actually the first president of the College of Philadelphia, among other things.

Hamilton is connected to revision because, as his musical does show, he wrote a fuck ton of correspondence and too many Federalist essays. And, if I may interject with an opinion, I hate most of the Federalist policies. Ahem.

Jefferson might be connected to cleaning your room because---well---he's partially known just for having a ton of slaves and also his connections with some of said enslaved persons.

But that's all just my guesses, I couldn't say anything more because what the hell lmao

US History Relevancy: 4/10. Includes historical figures, but I have no idea how it connects to any historical events or themes.

It is highly unlikely that this image would be used in a future US History class as a stimulus, SAQ, or DBQ component.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

[pttedu]

How To Become An Industrial Electrician In The US

To become an industrial electrician in the US, one has to be proficient in electrical theories and have practical experience.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. William Henry Cosby Jr. (July 12, 1937) is a stand-up comedian, actor, and author. He began his career as a stand-up comic at the Hungry I in San Francisco. He landed a starring role in the television show I Spy, followed by his sitcom The Bill Cosby Show, which ran for two seasons. Using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, he created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, centering on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. He starred in about half a dozen films, and he occasionally returned to film in his career. He earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools.

He was born in Philadelphia. He is one of four sons of Anna Pearl (née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a mess steward in the Navy.

In 1965, he broke barriers when he became the first African American to star in a weekly dramatic television series with his role as a government agent on I Spy, an action-adventure series that ran for three seasons and earned him three Emmy awards. He starred in several student films including Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made regular appearances on the educational children’s series The Electric Company and Sesame Street which led to his critically-acclaimed cartoon series, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1984) and influenced his return to college to earn a BA from Temple University, and MA and Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts.

He produced and starred in the television sitcom The Cosby Show which was rated as the number one show in America. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. He produced the spin-off sitcom A Different World. He also starred in The Cosby Mysteries and the sitcom Cosby and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things.

He married Camille Hanks (1964). They have five children and three grandchildren. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi

[dertaglichedan]

He was inspired to be a software engineer by a Steve Jobs campus visit—his company just sold for $28 billion

Michael Baum’s cybersecurity software company, Splunk, just sold to Cisco for $28 billion. It might have never even existed if Steve Jobs didn’t visit Drexel University in 1983.

At the time, Baum was studying electrical engineering at the Philadelphia-based school. Jobs appeared on campus for business: striking a partnership with Drexel’s leaders to provide students with Apple’s brand-new Macintosh computers, which debuted in January 1984.

In a speech a year later, Jobs reportedly called Drexel “a pioneer for being the first university to fully incorporate the Macintosh” into students’ studies. For Baum, now 61, the experience was eye-opening.

“Steve Jobs convinced our school to become the first one to adopt the Mac for all entering students. As soon as I saw MacPaint and MacDraw, I knew I had to figure out how this worked,” Baum told U.K.-based The Gentleman Magazine in 2022.

Baum’s infatuation was “love at first byte,” he added, inspiring him to switch his major to computer science. “All of a sudden my brain went, ‘How do these work?’” Baum told the BBC in 2020. “So I went headlong into software.”

After graduating in 1985, Baum started working on his first startup, a software business called Reality Online that aimed to predict stock market performance. He sold the business to Reuters for an undisclosed amount in 1987, and went back to school to get an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Baum went on to establish himself as a serial entrepreneur, building and selling multiple software businesses before 2000. He also spent time as a Silicon Valley investor and an e-commerce executive at Walt Disney and Yahoo.

In 2003, Baum and two friends — Rob Das and Erik Swan — co-founded Splunk, a San Francisco-based company that helps companies monitor and analyze large stores of data. More recently, Splunk developed cybersecurity tools that rely on artificial intelligence to monitor machine-generated data for potential threats.

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Mütter Museum in Philadelphia Weighs Dialing Down its ‘Electric Frankness’

The Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and pathological specimens exhibited are skulls corroded by syphilis; spines twisted by rickets; skeletons deformed by corsets; microcephalic fetuses; a two-headed baby; a bound foot from China; an ovarian cyst…

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849. Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the novel Ripe, available from Scribner.

Etter's other books include The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Vice, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies in Portugal and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. She earned her MFA degree from Rosemont College.

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