Nintendo Wii – Mii Channel Theme – Jazz Cover || insaneintherainmusic (feat. Gabe N. & Chris A.)

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As the era of a new Nintendo console dawns upon us, I think it’s time we looked back at a jazzy piece of music that we’ve all hummed along to at some point: the Nintendo Wii Mii Channel theme. Insaneintherainmusic’s jazz cover / remix of the Mii Channel, featuring Berklee saxophonists Gabe Nekrutman (alto) & Chris Allison (bari).

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I’m amazed at how many people seem to know the Mii Channel theme! Throughout the week, when friends of mine have asked which cover / remix I’ll be doing this week, they’ve been able to hum or sing the Mii Channel theme back to me. It’s really strange to me that the Mii Channel theme is this ubiquitous… but it’s not so strange when you listen to it. It’s catchy as heck! I really hope you enjoy the grooves I superimposed in this Mii Channel remix, and I hope you enjoy the saxophone solos! I brought in Gabe and Chris, who both did a great job with their parts.

If you were wondering… yes, some of the changes are from Chick Corea’s “Spain”. What a fantastic composition.

I arrange, record, and produce jazz covers / remixes of video game music every other Saturday morning at 9:30 AM PST/ 12:30 PM EST on my YouTube channel! My channel combines my loves of jazz and video game music, creating covers and remixes you’ll enjoy.

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Equipment:
TENOR SAX
Model: Selmer Super Action 80 Series II
Mouthpiece: Eugene Rousseau Studio Jazz Mouthpiece SJ5
Reeds: Vandoren 2.5 Reeds
Ligature: Francois Louis Ultimate Ligature
INSTRUMENTS
Tambourine: LP Rhythmix Tambourine (Brass Jingles)
Keyboard: Casio CDP-220R
Piano: Ivory II American Concert D – Synthogy
Rhodes: mda Epiano
Bass: Trillian – Spectrasonics
Drums: Superior Drummer 2.0 (Avatar Kit + Roots Sticks SDX)
GEAR
Sax Mic: Blue Bluebird
Preamp: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i w/ 18-55mm lens
Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015
DAW: Reaper
Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
PLUGINS
FabFilter Pro-Q
FabFilter Pro-C
FabFilter Pro-L
FabFilter Saturn
Delay: ReaDelay
Reverb: Ambience (Smartelectronix)
Reverb: Valhalla Shimmer (ValhallaDSP)

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Georgia Primary Advisory Questions and Results

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Working on a list of ballot questions which were placed on county primary ballots on June 9. I’m looking for the other questions placed on the ballot in 10 remaining counties.

There were 19 counties which had county-level party primary advisory questions on June 9, out which 7 had Democratic entries.

Forsyth by far had the most Democratic advisory questions with 11 questions. Cobb came in second with 6 questions, followed by Oconee and Walton which had 5 each, Dawson with 4, Glynn with 3 and Upson with 2. Clayton and Harris also had the most Republican questions with 8 each; Hart with 7; Barrow, Columbia and Rabun with 5; Forsyth and Glynn with 4; Brantley, Gordon, Henry and Jackson with 3; Union with 2; and Lincoln with 1.

Republicans had at least 6 counties where “2nd Amendment sanctuary county” questions were placed on the primary ballot. A few counties had Republican ballots replete with anti-immigrant language, including anti-sanctuary city, pro-border wall, anti-immigrant-student, anti-driver’s-license-for-immigrants, and so on.

Democrats had their own red-meat questions, ranging from climate change, pre-k education, Medicaid expansion, election reform and immigration reform.

A notable question was one asking Henry County Republicans on whether to legalize marijuana, which was supported at 51%. At least two counties asked Republicans on whether to legalize casino/horse/sports gambling, neither of which were affirmed.

Another notable exception was in Forsyth County, where one party question ended up on both primary ballots: “Should the County invest in beautification projects such as median landscaping, mast arms for stop lights, and upgraded signage similar to John’s Creek, Alpharetta, Roswell and Sugar Hill?” It was supported on both ballots.

A few may have legislative impact at the county level, with Cobb’s Democratic question 11 asking for a county non-discrimination ordinance (in lieu of Georgia’s lack of a civil rights law) being supported 97.41%.

Medicaid Expansion Comes to Oklahoma, Hopefully to Missouri Next Month

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The successful Oklahoma vote on Medicaid expansion, State Question 802, may be a resounding success, but it was overestimated in how wide the margin would be between Yes and No. Pollsters predicted a 60-40 Yes vote, but it barely passed at 50-49. A few points, and how they apply to the Missouri Medicaid expansion vote on August 11:

  • That those 7 counties in which Yes was the majority only sustained half of the total statewide Yes vote. 49% of the Yes vote came from all of the other 70 counties in the state, even the border counties. So that is another reminder that land doesn’t vote, and campaigning to the cities in a state where the urban population at the last census was 66% is not a good idea.
  • That the vote largely reflected income patterns across the state, a bit more so than urban-rural setting. Research is showing that the richest 200 precincts in the state voted in the minority for SQ802, while the poorest 200 precincts voted in the majority for the same, even as both groups of precincts are largely split between urban and rural precincts.
  • That voter suppression played a role in the final vote. Besides the antagonism of Governor Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma Republicans and Americans for Prosperity against the initiative, this primary was impacted by the Oklahoma Legislature passing new requirements for notarizations on absentee ballots, even after the State Supreme Court threw out the requirement as unconstitutional. There’s also the fact that 200k less Oklahomans turned out for this primary than the 2018 primary, when Oklahomans voted 60-40 in favor of medical marijuana.

Also, a crucial minority of Republicans voted for Medicaid expansion, pushing #SQ802 over the top in a state where Trump won 60-30 and Stitt won by more than 10 points. This result shows that the support for these ballot initiatives has swingier, more elastic votes among both party bases than how they vote in elections.

So this brings me to Missouri, which will vote on Medicaid expansion on the August 4 gubernatorial primary ballot. Missouri has a higher urban-to-rural population ratio than Oklahoma, the same as Idaho (which also passed Medicaid expansion 60-40 in 2018), and has had a similar tendency to vote for progressive measures such as nonpartisan redistricting and medical marijuana. But Oklahoma’s razor-thin margin shows that advocates for Medicaid expansion must work for this vote this month. Also, Missouri has the same requirements about absentee voting as does Oklahoma, and the same Republican legislative opposition against Medicaid expansion.

I have family in the St. Louis area, and their health would stand to gain from a Yes vote.

Affirmation LIVE: Black Lives Matter Roundtable Dialogue

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Please join members of the Affirmation community for a roundtable discussion on Black Lives Matter. This event is organized and facilitated by Fred Bowers, a leader in Affirmation for over 20 years, a former member of the executive committee, and recipient of the Mortensen Award. He will be joined by several panelists, including Leader of Affirmation People of Color Melissa Malcolm King, for what is sure to be an enlightening and motivating discussion highlighting the important intersectionality of the LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter movements and the responsibility we all have to work for equality, justice, and liberation.

SUBMITTING QUESTIONS

A portion of this event will include Q&A. All questions for the panel must be submitted via email. There will be no live chat or commenting access for this event. Questions can be submitted using the form on the website event page or to blmdialogue@affirmation.org. Questions can be sent prior to or during the event.

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This event will be live-streamed to Facebook, YouTube, and our website at live.affirmation.org. A recording of the event will be available on Facebook, YouTube, and our website.

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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own

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“In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis.” —Cornel West
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James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?

We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. From Charlottesville to the policies of child separation at the border, his administration turned its back on the promise of Obama’s presidency and refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others.

We have been here before: for James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair.

In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews—with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is a scholar who speaks to the black and blue in America. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities and reveal complexities, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for hope. He is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Cornel R. West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. He is best known for his classics Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He is the host with Tricia Rose of a new podcast, The Tight Rope.
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Option: More Blue Self-Governance

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Here’s my feeling about D.C. Statehood and P.R. Statehood.

This is the weakest bid to expand Blue self-governance and representation in the Senate. The Douglass Commonwealth may become a thing if Dems win the Senate, and it would be nice to have the Douglass Commonwealth in the Union, but Puerto Rico is still split heavily between the conservative statehood movement, the liberal (enhanced)-Commonwealth movement, and the left-wing Independence movement. And since their legislature just voted to take LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination protections out of their Civil Code, there’s no guarantee that P.R. will vote for Dems much.

American liberals in the contiguous 48 have shown ourselves to be either arrogant self-sniffers in the Blue states or selfish masochists in the Red states who don’t want to split off into their own states and govern themselves, when doing so could help win 60% of the Senate and help re-write the Constitution.

Instead the Blue staters pride themselves on their Blue state status and don’t want to divvy up some of that power for the Union’s sake, and those of us in red states are shit out of luck.

When are we going to save the Constitution? When are we going to take the Senate seriously and make the necessary sacrifices of clout and comfort to move the Senate forward? When are we going to stop being flaming hypocrites, fight for our own self-governance and tell the GOP to fuck off and die?