Islamic extremism refers to two related and partially overlapping but also distinct aspects of extremist interpretations and pursuits of Islamic ideology:
Zeyno Baran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute, argues Islamist extremism is a better term, to distinguish the political ideology from the religion.
Stacey Dooley (born 9 March 1987) is a British television personality who rose to fame in 2009 after appearing in a number of BBC Three documentaries highlighting child labour issues in developing countries.
Originally hailing from Luton, where she once worked as a shop assistant, Dooley was approached to appear in a series of proposed cutting edge documentaries for the BBC.
While taking part in the real-life series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts, she was presented as a typical fashion-obsessed consumer. However, during her appearance Dooley was shown to develop a strong interest in the nature of third world labour laws, and subsequently had her own show, Stacey Dooley Investigates, greenlit in August 2009.
The two-part special was shown on BBC Three throughout August and September 2009. It also aired in Australia on ABC2 from 2 June 2010.
In October 2010, BBC Three aired a further two programmes, the first on former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the second on sex trafficking and 'underage sexual slavery' in Cambodia. Radio Times commented on the series, "She sees the joyless expressions of girls parading before men in a bar in Phnom Penh - one girl clutches a cuddly toy. It seems a hopeless situation, especially when we learn that the children are being betrayed by their own families. But spirited, empathetic Stacey won't be thwarted, and sees a way out via a charity that gives [the children] a new purpose in life."
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David Charles Haines (born on 4 February 1956) is an English composer and songwriter. He was trained at Bristol University, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada. Haines mostly works with community music groups, amateur theatrical societies, schools, colleges and pre-schools. Haines created Singtastic to allow access to his songs which also includes downloadable teaching material. Three of his music theatre works have received professional productions and his concert songs have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performed at such venues as the Carnegie Hall in New York and London's Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room. In recent years he has written works explicitly aimed at creating enthusiasm and interest in science through song.
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Haines chooses to share his knowledge of science through song. Haines uses song to communicate his enthusiasm for the knowledge and discovery that science opens up.
Lifetime and Powers of Ten are just two expressions of that passion for science. Both are science oratorios which have been performed by choir groups made up of more than 400 multi-generational members in Devon UK and Massachusetts USA, the most recent performance having taken place on 4 April 2009 at the first San Diego Science Festival in California, USA.
The Lifetime Project
Haines is passionate about science and incorporates scientific themes into many of his works. He created the Lifetime Project to explore the science of life and evolution. The original project based in and around Teignmouth in Devon, England, involved over 500 children from 13 schools, and 50 members of a specially-formed community choir. The project included commissioning 17 songs and the collaboration of another 10 new songs. Concerts, public lectures, songwriting workshops, and artists’ workshops also made up portions of the project.
Powers of Ten
This project is a 101-minute choral work that explores the scales of the universe from sub-atomic to cosmic. It comprises 21 musical selections which are subtle and sophisticated while lyrical and engaging.
Commissioned in 1999 by Dawlish Academic Council, the Powers of Ten lead to three performances involving 9 schools and around 400 children to audiences of 1500 people.
Individual songs have been performed many times since, and in April 2008 the whole work was performed by North Cambridge Family Opera Group as part of the 2008 Cambridge (USA) Science Festival.
In December 2008 it was performed in Ivybridge in Devon, UK with two community choirs and around one hundred children and teenagers from three local schools.
A further performance is anticipated at the San Diego Science Festival 2010.
The Great Plant Hunt was in collaboration with Kew Botanical Gardens, a project funded by the Wellcome Trust. This has led to further work for Haines. He is currently negotiating an 'Artist in Residence' project for the autumn 2009. Funding has already been earmarked but the precise details of when and what are still being decided.
Camp Quest was founded in 1996 in the United States. In the summer of the 2009 Camp Quest made its first appearance in the UK. It is a summer camp specifically aimed at children from atheist families, sponsored by Richard Dawkins. Camp Quest involved children doing activities that summer camps offer, but they also had a seminar on Darwin and evolution. Haines taught campers the lyrics to several of his songs with topics related to Charles Darwin and discovery.
Tremendous Journey
Tremendous Journey is a new program of songs and readings about evolution. This set will be performed at the British Science Association Festival at Guildford and Milton Keynes Science Festival at the Stables Wavendon in 2009.
Haines has also written many musical theatre pieces for adults and children and has had many productions both here and in the USA. Many of his music theatre works - such as "Granny Galactica" and "The Chronovirus" have scientific themes similar to his other music.
Below is a list and brief description of his theatrical productions:
In early 2009 Haines launched Singtastic.com, an online music publisher offering a wide range of support materials and resources for each song featured. Singtastic.com is a unique style of online music publishing. It offers a whole portfolio of materials for each song: tutor and sing-along videos and audio tracks, video chats about the song, downloadable PDFs of the lyrics and sheet music in a wide range of formats.
The web resource is aimed at students, educators, children, and people wanting to learn more about science anywhere in the world. Singtastic is designed for educational institutions wishing to expand their cross-curricular work or for home educators seeking materials that will both inspire and inform. The site is designed to be affordable and for a low price one can access a vast amount of downloadable resources.
Darwin Jazz Suite is Haines’ first Jazz recording as well as his first CD commercially available on Amazon.com, iTunes, etc. Haines functioned as composer for the songs on this CD while Singtastic was the publisher. The Darwin Jazz Suite was performed by the Sue Kibbey Jazz Quartet. Jazz musicians Sue Kibbey (singer) and Lewis Riley (pianist) developed their jazz interpretations of some of Haines' Lifetime Songs (also known as his Darwin Songs) during the summer of 2008 and recorded the album with bassist Mike Thorn and drummer Dave Sheen in September 2008.
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Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince,Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome. Since then he has published three books on human evolution and group behavior, The Genius of the Beast, The Global Brain and The Lucifer Principle, which are informed by his ideas about what underlies the success of major rock and roll artists.
Bloom was born in Buffalo, New York to a Jewish family. He began his interest in science as early as ten years old, becoming fascinated in cosmology and microbiology, and at the age of twelve won the Westinghouse Science Award for his design with computers. By sixteen, Bloom was working as an assistant researching the immune system, at the world's largest cancer research center, the Roswell Park Memorial Research Cancer Institute. Bloom graduated from New York University and at the age of twenty-five, veered from his scientific studies to work as an editor for a rock magazine. Bloom would go on to found the largest P.R. firm in the music industry.
Jack Leo Van Impe (born February 9, 1931, though peoplesmart.com indicates a 1930 birth) is a televangelist who is known for his half-hour weekly television series Jack Van Impe Presents, an eschatological commentary on the news of the week through his interpretation of the Bible. The program airs throughout the United States, Canada, and several other countries through both religious broadcasters and the purchase of paid programming time on commercial television stations. Van Impe's website claims that he is known as the "Walking Bible" because of his extensive memorization of Bible verses. Van Impe's wife Rexella (born Rexella Mae Shelton on November 29, 1932), in Missouri, shares his TV ministry as co-host.
Jack Van Impe's parents immigrated to the United States from Belgium. Originally from Troy, Michigan, Van Impe was an accordion player as a child, performing duets with his missionary father across Michigan and other states. In 1948, Van Impe graduated from high school and entered Detroit Bible Institute, earning his diploma in 1952 and beginning his career as a preacher and evangelist as well as an extensive recording career. In an episode of Jack Van Impe Presents, Jack notes that during his years working with the Billy Graham crusades, Van Impe met his future wife, Rexella, who was an organist with the crusades. The couple were married on August 21, 1954, and started their own joint ministry.