OLimpic moments...In the words of my super-hero Dexter (from Dexter´s lab) "that´s not science"

With their long tradition of transparency in the long run and opacity in the short term, Queen Victoria´s diaries go on-line with occassion of the Diamond Jubilee, Victoria remains the longedt-serving monarch in Britain history. Maybe 120 years from now we will be able (optimistically) to review the diaries of HM EII (and the conclusion of the Murdoch enquiries too)

Obese children everywhere salute you, captain, oh captain!

On the death of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau I want to remember Malcolm Walker notes to the Naxos edition (8.111300) of his 1952-1955 recording including Mahler "Kindertotenlieder" and "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" and Schumann "Liederkreis". There is always something "special" about Fischer-Dieskau whether it be an awareness of the text, an inflection or the sheer musical quality which makes his singing stand out. And John Steane in The Grand Tradition (1974) said "the depth of insight and strenght of personality behind it have made him not merely a singer much heard in public, but also one who influences the course of singing and the practice of his own contemporaries"

Tonight, while some of us (the illiterate) will be watching the Champions League final match (Bayern vs Chelsea), a lot of cultural activities on display commemorate the Night of the Museums in Cartagena. From music to literature I could recommend a selection of ancient filmations of the military and social history of the place. Remember that Cartagena is called the "three-milenary city" because of its foundation by the carthagenians three centuries B.C. although of course earlier setlements can be traced.
But today is 19th and of course we present this month Dr.J. Award ex-aqueo to petriciat for her nice comment to the Fred Astaire post and Martin Llade (radio Clásica) http://www.rtve.es for his program" Todas las mañanas del mundo" that provides many of the musical chronologies herein collected

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Released: May 17, 2012

Explaining Why Minority Births Now Outnumber White Births

by Jeffrey Passel, Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn

The nation’s racial and ethnic minority groups—especially Hispanics—are growing more rapidly than the non-Hispanic white population, fueled by both immigration and births. This trend has been taking place for decades, and one result is the Census Bureau’s announcement today that non-Hispanic whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S. for the first time.

The bureau reported that minorities—defined as anyone who is not a single-race non-Hispanic white—made up 50.4% of the nation’s population younger than age 1 on July 1, 2011. Members of minority groups account for 49.7% of children younger than age 5, the bureau said, and for 36.6% of the total population. The findings are included in the bureau’s first set of national population estimates since the 2010 Census, when 49.5% of babies under age 1 were minorities.

Hispanics are more than a quarter of the nation’s youngest residents, according to the new population estimates, accounting for 26.3% of the population younger than age 1. Among other major non-Hispanic groups, the share for whites is 49.6%; for blacks, 13.7%; and for Asians 4.4%.

The long-term result of these changes among younger age groups is that non-Hispanic whites are projected to become a minority of the population (47%) by 2050, according to Pew Research Center population projections. (Census Bureau projections say the change will occur in 2042). Hispanics, already the nation’s largest minority group, are projected to continue to account for most population growth by that year.

Population Patterns

Underlying these changes is the rapid growth of minority groups compared with non-Hispanic whites. Results from the 2010 Census showed that racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s growth since 2000. Most of that increase from 2000 to 2010—56%—was due to Hispanics. Non-Hispanic whites, though still a majority of the nation’s population, accounted for only 8.3% of its growth over the decade.

Minorities accounted for 93.3% of the nation’s population growth from April 1, 2010 (Census day) to July 1, 2011, according to Census Bureau data released today. Of the total population growth of 2.8 million during that period, the total increase for non-Hispanic whites was only 192,000.

Another important part of the explanation for changing birth patterns is that minority populations are younger than whites, so are more likely to be having and raising children. There are notable differences by race and ethnic group in median age, the age at which half a group is younger and half older. The national median age in 2011 was 37.3.

Non-Hispanic whites have the oldest median age, 42.3, in 2011, according to the population estimates. Hispanics have the youngest, 27.6. Non-Hispanic blacks (32.9) and non-Hispanic Asians (35.9) also are younger than whites.

Related to their younger age profiles, racial and ethnic minority groups also include a higher share of women in the prime child-bearing ages of 20-34. Fully a quarter (25%) of the nation’s Hispanic women are in this age group, according to the population estimates, compared with fewer than one-in-five non-Hispanic whites (19%). For non-Hispanic blacks and Asians, the share is 22%.

Fertility

The changing profile of the nation’s youngest residents also stems from the fact that some groups, especially Hispanics, have higher numbers of children than do non-Hispanic whites. One illustration of this difference is in the “total fertility rate,” or the number of children the average woman is predicted to have in her lifetime, based on current age-specific birth rates. For the U.S. as a whole, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of American Community Survey data, the number is 2.0. (American Community Survey data in this posting come from a Pew Research Center analysis of the 1% sample of the 2010 ACS Integrated Public Use Microdata Series [IPUMS])

Among Hispanics, the total fertility rate is 2.4. For non-Hispanic whites and for non-Hispanic Asians, it is 1.8. Non-Hispanic blacks (2.1) have higher fertility than whites but lower fertility than Hispanics.

Immigration is an important contributor to higher birth rates among Hispanics, because foreign-born women tend to have more children on average than U.S.-born women. Most growth in the Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010 was due to births, not immigration, a change from the long-time pattern. But most births to Hispanic women are to those born outside the U.S.

Interracial Relationships

Social change, not just demographic change, also is driving recent birth rate trends. A rising number of multiracial babies is being born to couples that include one white parent.

Rising rates of intermarriage explain some of the trend. Among newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites married someone who was Hispanic or of another race. That was nearly triple the rate in 1980. In a 2009 Pew Research Center survey, 29% of whites said they have an immediate family member or close relative married to someone of a different race; this compares with 50% of nonwhites who said the same.

Survey data indicate that the public increasingly accepts and approves of intermarriage and interracial dating.

Census Bureau Methodology

The Census Bureau estimates released today are not the nation’s official birth numbers, which come from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The latest final NCHS birth data that is available is for 2009. As the Census Bureau explains in its estimates methodology, it calculated the share of births for the nation’s race and ethnic groups based on 2009 data from the NCHS, along with some more current data from individual states.

Because there are differences in the race categories used by the NCHS and Census Bureau, the Census Bureau adjusted the NCHS data to be consistent with its own categories. The bureau calculated origin-specific birth rates for 2009 using its own population estimates for that year, then applied them to the estimated 2011 adult population to obtain its results.

Demographics of Motherhood

Although the Census Bureau report does not provide data on demographic characteristics of mothers, a Pew Research Center report based on other data shows that there are marked differences in age, education and marital status among mothers of different racial and ethnic groups.

Among black and Hispanic mothers, births peak among women in their early 20s. For white and Asian mothers, births peak among women in their late 20s and early 30s. Looking at educational attainment differences among groups, most white and Asian mothers are college educated, while most Hispanic and black mothers are not.

In 2009, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, 41% of births were to unmarried mothers, but the shares varied for different groups: 53% for Hispanics, 29% for non-Hispanic whites and 73% for non-Hispanic blacks.

If minorities are now a majority is obvious that majority is now in minority, isn´t it? so I wonder, will now WASPs be able to apply for federal funds and "positive discrimination"? Will the etnic minorities now a majority in a posiiton to fund those benefits? Didn´t God create all men equal?

Just the other day (14 or q5th according to time difference) twenty-five years ago Margarita Cansino (Rita Hayworth) died. She was a spanish dancer of course, whose father was born at Castilleja de la Cuesta (Sevilla). Her was a premature (69 years) but perhaps "timely" death as dementia had grabbed her some time before.
A woman who married such men as Orson Welles or Prince Ali Khan can only be compared to Ava Gardner both in beauty and life (and finally decadence, sadly)

Painted from Memory
Studio album by Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
Released	29 September 1998
Recorded	1995-1998
Genre	Pop
Length	52:07
Label	Mercury
Producer	Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello chronology
Extreme Honey (1997) Painted from Memory (1998) The Sweetest Punch (1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.0/10)[2]

Painted from Memory is a collaboration between Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. It was released September 29, 1998 on Mercury Records, a division of Universal Music Group.

The collaboration commenced with "God Give Me Strength", a commission for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart, directed by Allison Anders and starring Illeana Douglas. Apparently pleased with the result, the pair expanded the project to this full album, the first for Costello after an absence of two years, and for Bacharach after an absence of 21 years. Lyrics and music are co-credited to both Bacharach and Costello.

A companion album, The Sweetest Punch, was made concurrently by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, released in 1999 on another Universal label, Decca Records. It consists of jazz arrangements of the Painted From Memory songs done by Frisell and his studio group. It features vocals by Costello on two songs, and by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson on two songs, one of which is a duet employing both.

Costello had long been a Bacharach fan, and had recorded several Bacharach songs, beginning with "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," released on a 1978 Stiff Records compilation Live Stiffs Live. Costello would also cover "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" for the soundtrack to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

"I Still Have That Other Girl" won a Grammy Award in 1998 for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" for Bacharach and Costello.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 1999 limited edition bonus disc 2 Charts 3 Documentation 4 Live 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.

1. "In the Darkest Place" – 4:19
2. "Toledo" – 4:35
3. "I Still Have That Other Girl" – 2:46
4. "This House Is Empty Now" – 5:10
5. "Tears at the Birthday Party" – 4:38
6. "Such Unlikely Lovers" – 3:24
7. "My Thief" – 4:20
8. "The Long Division" – 4:15
9. "Painted from Memory" – 4:12
10. "The Sweetest Punch" – 4:09
11. "What's Her Name Today?" – 4:08
12. "God Give Me Strength" – 6:11

[edit] 1999 limited edition bonus disc

1. "This House Is Empty Now" (live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 27, 1998)
2. "I Still Have That Other Girl" (live at Shibuya Hall, Tokyo, February 10, 1999)
3. "In the Darkest Place" (live at the Athenaeum, Melbourne, February 16, 1999)
4. "Painted from Memory" (live at the Athenaeum, Melbourne, February 16, 1999)
5. "What's Her Name Today?" (live at Shibuya Hall, Tokyo, February 10, 1999)

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1998	The Billboard 200	78

[edit] Documentation

Prior to the recording of the album, Irish film producer Phillip King proposed to Costello that a film should be made to document the process.^[3] The resulting film, Because It's a Lonely World, was produced by King's company, Hummingbird Productions;^[4] the title, taken from the lyrics of "What's Her Name Today?", was also originally a working title for the album itself and part of a promotional tagline for the album.^[5] The hour-long documentary originally aired in the UK on Channel 4 on December 26, 1998,^[6] and in the U.S., Bravo, which was then expanding its original programming lineup during the midst of a major advertising campaign,^[7] aired it on October 20, 1999.^[8]

[edit] Live

Following the album's release, Costello and Bacharach performed songs from the album together at only a limited number of venues. One of these comprised a second-season episode of the American public television program Sessions at West 54th, later released on VHS. Also at this time, however, Costello began playing a different style of live concerts, accompanied by only longtime keyboardist Steve Nieve on piano. In 1999, Costello subsequently embarked on the Lonely World Tour, performed in this style with Nieve receiving equal billing; songs from Painted from Memory were a prominent part of the setlists on this tour.

Songs from the album remain in both Costello and Bacharach's live repertoires. A rendition of "God Give Me Strength" closes Costello's 2004 orchestrated live album My Flame Burns Blue, while some of Bacharach's current concerts with regular singer John Pagano also incorporate "God Give Me Strength".

[edit] References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Pitchfork Media review
3. ^ Kelly, John (December 19, 1998), "Calling the tune", The Irish Times: 63 
4. ^ "Hummingbird Productions". Screen Producers Ireland. http://www.screenproducersireland.com/index.php/spi/production_companies/companies/hummingbird_productions. Retrieved 2007-11-19. 
5. ^ Dominic, Serene (2003), Burt Bacharach, Song by Song, Schirmer Trade Books, ISBN 0-8256-7280-5 
6. ^ "When Elvis met Burt", The Irish Times: 56, December 24, 1998 
7. ^ Fruitkin, Alan James (October 4, 1999), "Bravo beefs up for fall", Mediaweek 9 (37): 14, ISSN 1055-176X 
8. ^ Schoemer, Karen (October 28, 1999), "Because It's a Lonely World", Rolling Stone (824): 111, ISSN 0035-791X 

[edit] External links

• Karen Schoemer The Odd Couple, originally from Newsweek 10 May 1998, online on bacharachonline.com

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Today is the 84th birthday of Mr. Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello is a bit younger.

Frederick Austerlitz (Fred Astaire) was born on May 10th, 1899.
W.G. Sebald published Austerlitz in 2001

The way of all flesh