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MUSIC'S MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS; ; THEY'RE NOT THE SUPERSTARS, OR EVEN THE STARS. THEY'RE THE INDUSTRY'S; TOP-DOLLAR STUDIO MUSICIANS, THE ELITE WORKHORSES WHO BACK UP THE ROCK; AND JAZZ GROUPS, AND MAKE THE RADIO; AND TV JINGLES BOUNCE. AND IF THEY'RE LUCKY, THERE'S TIME FOR SOME; ART ON THE SIDE
How does one session musician pick another to play on his album? For instance, was drummer Steve Gadd his first call? \"Steve Gadd is the only call in New York as far as I'm concerned,\" he replied. \"First, I've played with him a lot and he knows exactly what I like. Rapport is everything when you have a limited amount of expensive time in the studio. Second, since these were my tunes, I needed help tightening them in ways I couldn't articulate. I look to Steve Gadd for ideas, arrangements, everything. He's like a great editor that you trust completely with your creative life.\" Today Gadd is working for Terumasa Hino, a popular Japanese jazz- rock cornet player who records in New York \"because that's where the best musicians are,\" according to the producer from Tokyo's Flying Disk label. After checking in with session leader-arranger Leon Pendarvis and electric guitarist John Tropea, Gadd sits in front of his six drums and four cymbals and begins to warm up, effortlessly sending a tough, vulcanizing, rock-steady thunder through the cavernous studio. Originally a jazz-based percussionist from Rochester, today Gadd is the drummer of choice with the upper echelons of pop; Steely Dan, Streisand, Paul Simon and Rickie Lee Jones are a few of his most recent sessions. Since the drummer is the keystone of most recording bands,SOLID BOX Gadd's stamina and prowess have become almost legendary. Till now the world of the studio pro has been obscure; John Tropea, Patti Austin, the Brecker Brothers, [Eric Gale], and Margaret Ross are hardly household names, although they are several of the most heard musicians in the world. Some of their obscurity might be lifted in singer Paul Simon's new movie, One Trick Pony, in which [Richard Tee], Steve Gadd, and other session players have speaking roles, basically playing themselves - hard-working master musicians shuttling between coasts, pockets full of money, but always looking over their shoulders, slightly nervous that this next call for a studio date might always be their last.
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Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
\"Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild.The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.\" -- Amazon.com.
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Oxygen in the Solar System
Volume 68 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry reviews Oxygen in the Solar System, an element that is so critically important in so many ways to planetary science. The book is based on three open workshops:Oxygen in the Terrestrial Planets, held in Santa Fe, NM July 20-23, 2004;Oxygen in Asteroids and Meteorites, held in Flagstaff, AZ June 2-3, 2005;and Oxygen in Earliest Solar System Materials and Processes (and including the outer planets and comets), held in Gatlinburg, TN September 19-22, 2005. As a consequence of the cross-cutting approach, the final book spans a wide range of fields relating to oxygen, from the stellar nucleosynthesis of oxygen, to its occurrence in the interstellar medium, to the oxidation and isotopic record preserved in 4.56 Ga grains formed at the Solar System's birth, to its abundance and speciation in planets large and small, to its role in the petrologic and physical evolution of the terrestrial planets. Contents:IntroductionOxygen isotopes in the early Solar System - A historical perspectiveAbundance, notation, and fractionation of light stable isotopesNucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of oxygenOxygen in the interstellar mediumOxygen in the SunRedox conditions in the solar nebula: observational, experimental, and theoretical constraintsOxygen isotopes of chondritic componentsMass-independent oxygen isotope variation in the solar nebulaOxygen and other volatiles in the giant planets and their satellitesOxygen in comets and interplanetary dust particlesOxygen and asteroidsOxygen isotopes in asteroidal materialsOxygen isotopic composition and chemical correlations in meteorites and the terrestrial planetsRecord of low-temperature alteration in asteroidsThe oxygen cycle of the terrestrial planets: insights into the processing and history of oxygen in surface environmentsRedox conditions on small bodies, the Moon and MarsTerrestrial oxygen isotope variations and their implications for planetary lithospheresBasalts as probes of planetary interior redox stateRheological consequences of redox state
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A more realistic timetable for withdrawal
The Democrats, who recognize that victory in Iraq is unachievable, have reason on their side. They must craft a solution that pulls centrist Republicans with them to avoid the \"Who lost Iraq?\" curse and achieve a course correction that saves lives and limits the damage to America's strategic position. All of Iraq's neighbors, and most Iraqis, want Washington to specify when US forces will leave. Sometime between now and the end of time, as Jon Stewart parodied the administration's position, isn't specific enough. The Democrats, however, go too far in the opposite direction. A complete drawdown by March 2008, per the Senate, or September 2008, as the House prefers, is too soon. Every day that US troops remain in Iraq drives up the cost of gains already made: the elimination of Saddam Hussein and the opening of a door, however narrow, to democracy. The fact is that America must plan its departure from Iraq without achieving many of its goals. The tragedy of the US intervention is compounded by the need to trade the lives of more American soldiers for the time needed for an orderly withdrawal that doesn't leave Iraq completely in the lurch. The sooner the administration and its opponents grasp this nettle, the better.
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