If the famous Beach Road Prawn Mee is in East Coast Road, it should not be surprising to find the popular Lorong 33 Geylang Claypot Rice in Beach Road. After selling claypot rice in Geylang Lorong 33 for more than 30 years, Geylang Claypot Rice closed its doors last year, leaving many loyal customers disappointed. The good news is that Lor 33 Geylang Claypot Rice has re-opened with a nicer dining environment in Beach Road.
The new claypot rice restaurant occupies a few shop units in Beach Road, opposite the Concourse. It is brightly lit and has simple colourful decorations. The restaurant has a contemporary retro look. It is a clean and pleasant dining space.
Lorong 33 Geylang Claypot Rice is obviously famous for its claypot rice cooked over charcoal. However, it offers many other zichar dishes like prawn paste chicken and salted egg pork ribs. The new restaurant in Beach Road has a fairly extensive zichar menu. Below are pictures of the order chit which lists the current items available and the prices.
We visited the new Lor 33 Geylang Claypot Rice in Beach Road for dinner a few days after it opened. We ordered a small Claypot Rice ($15) and Egg Fu Rong ($10). Service charge, but not GST, will be added to the bill.
There were a number of customers who arrived after us but got their food first. It was not because they were regular customers or because of any mix up in the kitchen. They had simply called ahead to place their orders. We were advised to call about 20 minutes before arriving at the restaurant so that the claypot rice would be hot and ready to eat when we reach the place. The restaurant manager passed us a "secret number" on a small slip of paper (picture below) for us to call before our next visit.
After a wait of about 30 minutes, our food arrived. The rice, with Chinese sausages, salted fish, chicken and other ingredients, had a pleasing aroma when the claypot lid was removed before us. The small claypot was rather large and the portion of chicken was quite substantial. The small claypot rice could be shared by 2 or 3 persons.
The waiting staff added in the black sauce and mixed up the rice with the ingredients. The dish looked even more appetizing. There were crispy bits od rice stuck to the sides of pot. The chicken was cooked just right and was moist and flavourful. We also liked the generous portion of Chinese sausages.
The Egg Fu Rong was egg fried with onions, vegetables and prawns. It was quite nice eaten with the chili sauce provided.
Overall, our claypot rice dinner at the new Lorong 33 Geylang Claypot Rice restaurant in Beach Road was nice. The staff was friendly and helpful. We are glad that we can now get good charcoal cooked claypot rice and zichar dishes in a pleasant dining environment. We will be happy to eat at Geylang Claypot Rice in Beach Road again and we must remember to use the secret number to call ahead.


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Effect of the Sulfur Concentration on the Optical Band Gap Energy and Urbach Tail of Spray-Deposited ZnS Films
Sema Ebrahimi 1
Benyamin Yarmand 1
Nima Naderi 2
1 Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC)
2 Semiconductors, Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC)
Zinc sulfide (ZnS) films were deposited through a simple and low cost spray pyrolytic technique using mixed aqueous solutions of zinc nitrate and thiourea. The structural and optical properties of these films were investigated as a function of initial (Zn:S) molar ratio in the precursor solution, which varied between (1:1) and (1:3). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed that wurtzite zinc oxide (ZnO) and cubic ZnS phases formed in the film prepared by the equal molar ratio of zinc to sulfur ions and with increasing sulfur content in the precursor solution, only single cubic ZnS phase was appeared. The transmittance spectra measured by UV-Vis spectrophotometer indicated that with the increment of the sulfur content, the transmittance of the films increased in the visible and near infrared regions about 50% and the absorption edges shifted to shorter wavelengths. As a result, the band gap energy (Eg) increased from 3.43 to 3.72 eV and the band tail width (Eu) decreased from 553 to 259 meV, which is due to the phase composition and the decrement of structural defects. By extracting a linear relevance between the band gap energy and width of the band tail of ZnS, the optical band gap at Eu= 0 was estimated to be 3.977 eV.
spray pyrolysis
zinc to sulfur molar ratio
band gap energy
width of Urbach tail
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Volume 3, Issue 4 - Serial Number 11
Accept Date: 07 January 2018
Ebrahimi, S., Yarmand, B., Naderi, N. (2017). Effect of the Sulfur Concentration on the Optical Band Gap Energy and Urbach Tail of Spray-Deposited ZnS Films. Advanced Ceramics Progress, 3(4), 6-12. doi: 10.30501/acp.2017.90759
Sema Ebrahimi; Benyamin Yarmand; Nima Naderi. "Effect of the Sulfur Concentration on the Optical Band Gap Energy and Urbach Tail of Spray-Deposited ZnS Films". Advanced Ceramics Progress, 3, 4, 2017, 6-12. doi: 10.30501/acp.2017.90759
Ebrahimi, S., Yarmand, B., Naderi, N. (2017). 'Effect of the Sulfur Concentration on the Optical Band Gap Energy and Urbach Tail of Spray-Deposited ZnS Films', Advanced Ceramics Progress, 3(4), pp. 6-12. doi: 10.30501/acp.2017.90759
Ebrahimi, S., Yarmand, B., Naderi, N. Effect of the Sulfur Concentration on the Optical Band Gap Energy and Urbach Tail of Spray-Deposited ZnS Films. Advanced Ceramics Progress, 2017; 3(4): 6-12. doi: 10.30501/acp.2017.90759

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Production Exclusive
Production Exclusive – Developments in Movie Adaptation of John Green's "Paper Towns"
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With the adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars just months away from hitting theaters, Fox 2000 Pictures has likely seen that fans want more movies based on Green's novels. Deadline is reporting that the production company has started development and will be adapting Green's 2008 novel, Paper Towns.
Fox also seemed to like the team that worked on The Fault in Our Stars movie. It was announced yesterday that screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will once again be penning the script, and producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will also be returning. There is currently no director signed on to the project.
A cover of "Paper Towns" (photo via JohnGreenbooks.com)
John Green will be an executive producer on this project along with Neustadter and Weber. In some other interesting news, actor Nat Wolff, who portrays Isaac in Fault, has been cast as Quentin.
Paper Towns follows Quentin, a young man who shares a strange connection with his neighbour Margo. As kids, they found a man who committed suicide in a local park. Margo ends up distancing herself from Quentin. until one night when she drags him out on a crazy adventure of revenge. The next morning she has vanished and Quentin takes it upon himself to search for her.
Nat Wolff (photo via IMDb)
Sounds like it is going to be one big reunion on set! What do you think of this news? Are you looking forward to hearing more casting and production news for Paper Towns?
Sources: Deadline, IMDb and JohnGreenbooks.com
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Movie Exclusive – "Entertainment Weekly" Releases New "Divergent" Stills
This week's edition of Entertainment Weekly has a major feature on the upcoming Divergent adaptation that fans will surely love to read. EW has recently shared some more amazing new images from the highly awaited film! We have been very spoiled this week initiates!
These new images give us a deeper look at the character relationships between Tris and the other Dauntless initiates. There are also some new images of Tris working hard during training sessions. Plus, some of the photos show the detail put into the set construction, props, and costumes.
Take a look at some of the stills in the gallery below and be sure to check out the rest on Entertainment Weekly.
Divergent is directed by Neil Burger and stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ashley Judd, Ray Stevenson, Tony Goldwyn, and Jai Courtney.
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"Entertainment Weekly" Reveals Exclusive "Divergent" cover
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Entertainment Weekly has revealed the most recent cover for a special edition of the magazine. This issue is going to have some exciting exclusives from the Divergent movie adaptation. The cover, of course, features Shailene Woodley and Theo James as their characters Tris and Four.
A major part of the feature is going to focus on the importance of a strong box office performance and how the Divergent series could be the next major young adult franchise.
There will also be interviews with some of the stars of the franchise, exclusive photos, and some behind-the-scenes coverage. Be sure to pick up a copy when it hits newsstands later this week.
Additionally, EW released another exclusive still featuring also featuring Woodley and James. In this new still, Tris and Four seem to be taking a break from training and having romantic moment.
What do you think of the new cover and the exclusive still? Will you be buying this edition of the magazine? Do you like reading behind-the-scenes information and articles? Do you think Divergent could be the next big young adult franchise? Share what you think in the comments below!
Sources: Entertainment Weekly (cover article), Entertainment Weekly (image)
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Exclusive New "Divergent" Still of Shailene Woodley and Theo James
People released a new exclusive still from the Divergent adaptation featuring Shailene Woodley and Theo James.
In this new still, Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) seem to be having a private moment, which most likely happens after an intense action scene as Tris has a visible wound on her shoulder.
Divergent is directed by Neil Burger and stars Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Tony Goldwyn, Ashley Judd, and Kate Winslet. The release for this highly anticipated film is only a few weeks away (March 21, 2014). Stay tuned for a review Luminaries!
Are you looking forward to the Divergent adaptation? What do you think of this exclusive new image? Who is your favorite Divergent character?
Source: People.com
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Movie Exclusive – "Divergent" Sequel Finds a Director
Summit Entertainment recently announced that they have officially found a director for the second movie in the Divergent series. Just as with the book series, the sequel will be called Insurgent.
The studio has decided that director Robert Schwentke will helm the next instalment. Production on Insurgent has been pushed ahead and it is already set to be released on March 20, 2015. Due to this tight scheduling, the studio, unfortunately, is not able bring back director Neil Burger, as postproduction on the first film will be conflicting with preproduction for the sequel.
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Schwentke and Akiva Goldsman will be working on the script based off of a draft that was previously written by Brian Duffield. Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher will also be producing Insurgent and representing Red Wagon Entertainment.
Divergent will be hitting theaters March 21, 2014 and stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ashley Judd, Ray Stevenson, Tony Goldwyn, and Jai Courtney.
Theo James and Shailene Woodley in "Divergent"
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Casting News – Tom Hardy Officially Signs on to Elton John Biopic "Rocketman"
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There have been rumors circulating for months about Tom Hardy potentially be playing Elton John in a biopic entitled Rocketman. Yesterday, it was announced that the talented actor had officially signed on to this biopic and he was indeed cast as Sir Elton John.
With this news , some production details also came to light. Rocketman will be released in the U.S. by Focus Pictures and it will tell Elton John's amazing story, starting with his childhood and then his rise to fame. The singer is going to record some of his biggest hits to match different emotional moments in the film.
Michael Gracey will be directing the film and Academy Award nominee Lee Hall will be writing an original screenplay. Production on Rocketman is set to start filming in fall 2014 and there are no details on a set release date yet. Be sure to check back in for more as early production on Rocketman continues!
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According to an article on Entertainment Weekly, James is not being portrayed as your typical Cinderella and there will be some subtle changes to the story. In the classic story of Cinderella, she and the Prince (Richard Madden) first meet at the ball. In Branagh's version, Cinderella meets the Prince before the ball, but he lies and tells her that he's a palace employee.
In a statement yesterday, Branagh was explaining how happy he is with his cast by saying: "With Lily James we have found our perfect Cinderella. She combines knockout beauty with intelligence, wit, fun and physical grace. Her Prince is being played by Richard Madden, a young actor with incredible power and charisma. He is funny, smart and sexy and a great match for Cinderella."
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''EEM Cutoff Cover'' has also proven robust and sufficiently accurate (RMSD less than 0.003e compared to the ''EEM Cutoff'' of comparable cutoff radius), and is the method of choice for biomolecular complexes of tens of thousands of atoms and higher.
The only notable issue which may arise with the ''EEM Cutoff Cover'' approach is when the molecular system contains atoms for which there are no EEM parameters. Unlike the ''full EEM'' and ''EEM Cutoff'' approaches, these atoms are not entirely ignored here. Specifically, they contribute to the pivot selection step, and may be selected as pivots.
This problem is enhanced when some atoms are missing (e.g., missing H atoms). At the end of the EEM Cover calculation, the atoms which appeared to be connected only to these problematic atoms will also not have atomic charges, even if they have EEM parameters, due to the nature of the EEM Cover approach.
Anyway, the principle oriented solution would be to correct the pivot selection scheme so as to ignore the atoms without EEM parameters, consistent with the full EEM and EEM Cutoff approaches. However, this would mean full testing and benchmarking of the corrected algorithm, and I am not really looking forward to that :) Moreover, as David pointed out, this is unlikely to happen in cases where H are present, since it solely affects atoms which are connected only to atoms without EEM parameters, and not connected to any other atoms.
ACC implements one classical EEM formalism, along with two additional modifications. We give a brief description of each below. Please refer to the literature for a more in-depth description of EEM and examples of applications (e.g., [1][2]).
1 EEM
2 EEM Cutoff
3 EEM Cutoff Cover
In order to solve this system of equations and calculate the atomic charges for all atoms, the following terms need to be known:
While in the EEM Cutoff method ACC generates one fragment for each atom in the molecule, this further approximation generates fragments only for a subset of atoms. The algorithm by which this subset of atoms is obtained ensures that each atom in the molecule will eventually contribute to at least one fragment. In other words, the entire volume of the molecule is covered, and the method is thus termed EEM Cutoff Cover.
In EEM Cutoff Cover, the subset of fragment generating atoms is obtained in such a way that:
EEM Cutoff Cover has also proven robust and sufficiently accurate (RMSD less than 0.003e compared to the EEM Cutoff of comparable cutoff radius), and is the method of choice for biomolecular complexes of tens of thousands of atoms and higher.
The only notable issue which may arise with the EEM Cutoff Cover approach is when the molecular system contains atoms for which there are no EEM parameters. Unlike the full EEM and EEM Cutoff approaches, these atoms are not entirely ignored here. Specifically, they contribute to the pivot selection step, and may be selected as pivots.
↑ Ionescu C-M, Geidl S, Svobodová Vareková R, Koca J. Rapid Calculation of Accurate Atomic Charges For Proteins via the Electronegativity Equalization Method. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2013, 53 (10), pp 2548-2558. DOI: 10.1021/ci400448n
↑ Svobodová Vareková R, Geidl S, Ionescu C-M, Skrehota O, Bouchal T, Sehnal D, Abagyan R, Koca J. Predicting pKa values from EEM atomic charges. J. Cheminf. 2013, 5, 18.
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I bought The City of Brass after looking at all the hype on social media. To be honest, it was a difficult read because it took me 2 weeks to finish. I found it a bit challenging to keep up with the characters. I am glad I got over with this book but it wasn't so bad.


In a shocking turn of events, a fan reached Varun Dhawan's residence and waited for a couple of hours to meet the actor and when the actor couldn't turn up, she threatened to kill his girlfriend, Natasha Dalal.
This is when the security decided to call the cops and a complaint was lodged at Santa Cruz police station last night. However, an FIR will be lodged only after Varun record's his statement. "It was alarming for us because usually, fans don't get so aggressive. We informed Varun sir, who panicked. She kept saying, 'I will kill Natasha.' After the woman refused to leave even after 45 minutes, we had to call the local police station", confirmed the source.


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The disconnect between what people know about how the Internet (and by extension social media) "works" (choices, behaviors, options, etc.) and what people use the Internet (and social media) to accomplish (tasks) is underrated and massive.
Part of the disconnect comes from a lack of interest and caring about how the world of communication (and the tools in it) work, not only for the people with whom we are immediately communicating but also for the people not part of the communication.
Part of the disconnect comes from distractions that exist in the world of social interactions between people, and differing filters of awareness and attention. Individuals pay attention to all kinds of things that other individuals believe are unnecessary, irrelevant, uninteresting, or even unknowable. And then, because the human mind seeks order out of chaos, individuals, make judgments, create attributions, and create frames and boxes for language and ideas that further the disconnect.
Part of the disconnect comes from a lack of curiosity and even a lack of education about what to pay attention to. Lack of curiosity is endemic in discussion around the Internet (and social media) because our communication tools have prioritized lack of curiosity as the "new normal" in social interactions. Lack of education comes about when the market responds to a lack of curiosity as a new standard, and then complies by providing less nourishing meat (education) and more easily digestible milk (displays where people advance by how well they kiss).
The disconnect is massive and troubling, for two reasons:
In the market's breakneck race to monetize every human interaction and behavior, combined with the alarming reduction in human economic productivity, we have a recipe for a society and culture where the very tools of educating, enlightening and uplifting are being monetized and controlled by a select few individuals—or organizations.
Which would be fine if those individuals and organizations were angels, but like most people, they're just people.
The second reason is economic in that we have prioritized facility and adaptation as ways to get ahead in a world of Internet-based (and social media based) communications where competition for attention and awareness is fiercer than ever. But if the average individual is non-curious (or too disinterested or disconnected to care) about where their future dollars to pay their future electric bills are going to come from, then we have opened society to the wavering whims of every political, social, cultural, and economic demagogue (both individual and organizational) promising to make such important decisions "simple."
"Simple" of course meaning, "Simple in a way that works for me, my power base, and my tribe, and creates distractions, confusion, disillusionment, and disengagement, for you, your power base, and your tribe."
A standard of anti-intellectualism comes from a standard of non-curiosity, which combined with the disconnect between people and how they use their new communications tools, leads to the creation of a world of communication, rhetoric, persuasion, and power, we should all be wary of.
To resist the new standard, we need to fight to establish access to education about how to use our new social tools across the disconnect, eliminate distractions as a way to encourage disillusionment and disengagement, and re-establish curiosity about the unknown (or about blind spots) as an alternative "normal."
Otherwise, the conflict outcomes could be disastrous for everyone.
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Akira Kiteshi: From Dubstep To Disney
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Tommy Forrest is discovering mainstream success — without compromising the hardcore sample-mangling that has made Akira Kiteshi an underground hit.
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It's late 2010. I'm sitting in the cinema with my friend Nat. We are connoisseurs of dance movies. Disney's Step Up 3D is dazzling us with fancy footwork and many objects poked quite needlessly out of the screen. During the most crucial dance-off, I literally squeak — because 'Pinball' by Akira Kiteshi comes on. How did the House of Mouse come to be so ice cool? And how did a self-confessed "little Scottish bloke living in a little town" emerge from the dubstep/glitch-hop underground to become a major Disney picture soundtrack star?
Tommy Forrest, the man behind the eyebrow-wobbling bass, is now a full-time musician and performs around the world, recently rocking the USA, Germany and Holland. Akira Kiteshi began in 2007, when Forrest started a post-rock experimental project where he played all the parts. Trying to secure a cool name for the project, he chose 'Akira Takeshi' but mis-typed it when a little worse for wear, whereupon Akira Kiteshi was born. In Forrest's own estimation, the early incarnation of the project was "absolutely awful", and he soon moved into making electronic music, pioneering the distinctive blend of dubstep bass and glitchy beats he has since made his own. "Although I started by doing post-rock, since 1997, I was massively influenced by Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Leftfield and stuff like that. I was also really into jazz, funk and hip-hop. Jazz and funk are my number one love, I'm a big crate-digger. The riff element in my music comes from techno and trance."
The Human Element
Much of Akira Kiteshi's distinctive sound is down to the fact that Tommy Forrest eschews conventional DAWs in favour of the Renoise tracker, and uses a considerable amount of outboard.
The role of human timing within electronic music is central to the Akira Kiteshi sound, as Forrest elaborates. "A lot of the current electronic music is missing that. It hasn't got a human feel because a lot of the producers don't play anything in real time, it's all in 16ths or eighths, gridded, quite sterile."
Whatever period of Akira Kiteshi you sample, whether it's the early frenetically glitchy dance tracks or the more recent expansively cinematic material, Forrest's integration of human and machine is palpable. There is, even in his most robotic tracks, an irresistible funk going on around the hard-sequenced elements. "I feel that we spend the whole day listening to un-gridded sounds. Your ears are more accustomed to those sounds, so a lot of my tunes have this mechanical/human hybrid timing. You add your own timing. When you add something that has a shuffle, as a human, you never add it in the same way as cranking up the shuffle fader in Fruity Loops or whatever. It's still gridded, it's not a human shuffle: I'm a drummer as well, so timing is very important to me, in the way the song has a feel. I think it's also because I do as much as possible on outboard gear as well. I use the sequencer on my [Akai] MPC2000 and then that's a different feel to the computer sequencer. I'll also play a lot of stuff in in real time. I normally use an [Korg] MS10, I've got two of them. They've got a great low end."
Forrest's working method is to enter his studio every day and simply work until something inspires him, whether that takes two hours or 12. "I've got about 10 different ways I start tunes off, but the majority of my inspiration comes from listening to music. I'll sit down and listen to a load of reggae, funk and jazz and eventually I'll hear something that I like and then load that into the Akai 950, start a tune. Normally, after two hours, I'll know if it's good or not. And, oh yeah, I'm ruthless, I'll just junk it if it's shit, not even save any sounds."
Quality control is key here. "Yes, it is about ruthlessness. There's a new member to Akira Kiteshi, Chris Hall, who I've written with for around 10 years. He's a phenomenal musician. When we're working on something, I'll say something is shit and reach for the delete button and he'll go, 'No, no — that's got potential!'"
Samples often form the initial inspiration for his tracks, but Forrest very rarely leaves them recognisable. This is partly because of his love of mauling samples, and partly for very sound financial reasons relating to clearance. "Sampling is such a creative process. I had a huge phase of writing hip-hop music and that's what teaches you sampling. Every track on the new album has samples in it, but they're so manipulated you wouldn't know it, using granular synthesis or whatever. There's a track on the album which has a long sample from [he names a big rock band] but you'd never know it! And don't print their name, I don't wanna get sued!"
Bring The Renoise
Akira Kiteshi's music may be cutting-edge, but they still love tape! Tommy Forrest's long-term musical collaborator Chris Hall (right) is now a full part of the act.
Forrest also attributes part of his distinctive sound to his software of choice: the affordable 'tracker' DAW, Renoise. "To be honest, I think a lot of it comes from the timing in Renoise. I've dabbled in studios with everything, Pro Tools, Logic, but in my own studio, everything has been done with Renoise. That's how I started pottering around with music: mod trackers on the Amiga. And even now, I still sequence a lot of my stuff on an Atari STFM. That's 'cause there's nothing in an Atari, none of the bloatware that loads up on modern PCs. Having said that, the timing in Renoise is pretty tight because it's not CPU-intensive as a program."
Where others would baulk at the learning curve involved in using a tracker, and demand an immediately transparent program, Forrest sees learning to use a music application as no different to becoming adept on any conventional instrument. "When I did 'Pinball', that was one of the first accessible tunes I did in Renoise and you can hear the learning process there. I'd used trackers before but there's lots more you can do in Renoise: VSTs, effects."
Forrest embraced the learning process of mastering Renoise and in turn let this take his music in new directions. "Now that I've got to the album, some of the tracks have micro-edits going on, crazy re-triggering modulation things going where you can hear that I've obviously learnt more in Renoise. But the album is not a dubstep album." I ask whether this move away from strictly dancefloor-friendly tunes was a conscious decision. "Well, when I started the album, I made the choice, not to name names, but am I going to be like someone that is basically writing an album that is 12 single tracks or am I going to go back and listen to an album like [Leftfield's] Leftism, which I think has a lot more longevity?"
Look Out For Flying Shoes
Though he's concerned to make Akira Kiteshi's album more than just a selection of singles, Forrest is also at pains to point out that he is no elitist, and has nothing against the current generation of dubstep superstars. "I think the people who diss Skrillex, Rusko and the other big artists, who call them 'brostep' or whatever, are completely missing the point. Dance music needs artists like that. I've seen people like James Blake live and people like Reso, and no disrespect at all to James Blake, but I know which gig I had more fun at. It was the one where I was literally throwing my shoes at Reso's head! So, you need that kind of release. I'll stick up for Skrillex, I think he's a phenomenal producer. I do think he's at the point where he should try something new, perhaps do a track which doesn't immediately tear your head off. But, yeah, amazing producer!"
The current storming of the pop charts by dubstep has polarised opinion amongst lovers of the genre. Some decry the pop producers as sell-outs, while others see anything that brings new listeners to the genre as good. And then you have Forrest, both undeniably of the underground and someone who makes obviously commercially successful music. "I love subtlety in tracks. A lot of what I do is balls-out, but if you listen to it multiple times, there are lots of things that I stick in there, small touches that you'll hear. So, in terms of influences, I like people who have that subtlety: Leftfield, Underworld, Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, who are my fellow Scots and are simply phenomenal." So you feel there's room for layers, for depth in even the most accessible music? "Absolutely! Taking a more modern artist, Flying Lotus will do something 10 times and you'll hear something different each time. Anything that has that element I really enjoy, which is why I love Reso's stuff as well."
But there is one area in the more commercial arena that Forrest thinks has suffered lately: the build. "I'm a sucker for the build-up in a tune and I definitely think it's one of the things that's lacking in a lot of dubstep now. You'll have your intro, a breakdown and then it drops into the main riff. Whereas, I like that ridiculous build which comes from clubbing in the '90s. It was all the build, big 909 snare rolls that went on for two minutes. It has become untrendy to put a build in a tune, but it still works on the dancefloor. If you listen to 'Ming The Merciless', it does the build with the vocal and then when it drops, I've seen dancefloors go absolutely mental. It's all about the foreplay — the build-up's the most important part!"
Entertainment For All
Tommy Forrest DJ'ing: "I'm terrible for jumping around behind the decks and looking like a right tit, but I'm having a good time and people feed back off that."
Electronic music is notoriously problematic when it comes to live performance, but a cursory scan of the Web will yield many glowing reviews of Akira Kiteshi's gigs. Again, Forrest feels that this is a neglected area in the current scene. "The most important thing when I was putting a live set together with Chris was to make it interactive. To me, there's nothing worse than watching a guy with a cap on, huddled behind a laptop, not looking at the audience and hitting a few buttons on a controller. The Akira Kiteshi live sets are a lot more interactive. Chris is an amazing turntablist, he did the DMCs a few years ago. He'll be doing live scratching, I'll be playing things over that and it's properly live, as you can tell when we fuck up!"
So, is it the show or the spontaneity that is important? After all, quite a few electronic superstars essentially perform to a fixed backing track. "When I go to see an electronic act, the act part is quite important. If you go to see a DJ, you want to see someone who's into it, who's waving their arms round and having fun, doing all the clichéd DJ things that we do. That inspires me when I'm on the dancefloor, having a shimmy. If they're having a good time, I'm gonna have a good time too! When you go and see the Prodigy or, like we were saying, Skrillex, there's energy there. It's become too trendy to just stand there and look like you're doing sweet FA. It happens more with the 'deeper' types of music. If you're going to do the deeper, more sparse type of dubstep or IDM, it's quite trendy to stand there and act like you're a king. I can't be bothered with all that: you're there to have fun and entertain the crowd. I'm terrible for jumping around behind the decks and looking like a right tit, but I'm having a good time and people feed back off that."
Pinball Wizardry
None of this, of course, answers the original question: how did music as leftfield as Akira Kiteshi's end up in a Disney film? "Basically, Ian Merchant, who runs Black Acre Records and is kind of my manager, rang me and said, 'I've had Disney on the phone, they want to use 'Pinball' in a movie.' And I pictured this dubstep tune being in some kind of animated story involving bears. Then there was this huge delay, months went by. Then we'd get a call saying they still wanted to use it, we'd get excited and then nothing for months. At one point they cut it out of the film and we were devastated. Then one morning I woke up and they said they'd posted a clip on YouTube, I sat there bleary-eyed and saw it, this pivotal scene. And I was thinking — how did this happen? But of course, I went to see it in the cinema too!"
So that's how to get your cutting-edge electronic music in a Disney film. Any other advice for aspiring producers? "In terms of the business, the best advice I was ever given was to treat everyone the same. Because you do meet the same people on the way down as on the way up. So if you're nice to someone on the way up, chances are they'll be nice to you when you're having a shit time and not doing very well. And they might be big at this point. I think that's a pretty important piece of information — don't become a diva! It's a job, a great job, but it's a job. You wouldn't go into Standard Life and start throwing stuff around and having a strop, being a diva!
"Then, in terms of production, just learn what you've got. If you're starting out on Fruity Loops or Acid, learn it as best you can, learn it inside and out. Listen to people you love and don't be afraid to rip them off. That's what I did. My first tracks sounded like really, really shitty Aphex Twin and in that process, you learn how things work. It's exactly the same as rock bands covering songs."
Finally, Forrest has an admirably pragmatic, even sceptical attitude to both his own success. "I'm this little Scottish guy in this little town and, unless I'm out touring, I'm quite sheltered from what's going on, what's causing a vibe. When I used to DJ out, when Akira Kiteshi first started, I never used to play my own tunes because I have horrific self-doubt. Everything I write is shit in my own mind, I've never handed in a track that I'm actually happy with. It's normally my wife that says 'Send that in, do it' — she's a better producer than I am! I don't write music for other people, it's something I have to do, it's like breathing. It's the first thing I think of when I get up in the morning and the last thing I think of when I go to bed. I don't imagine it inspiring anyone because, to me, it's this little guy sitting in a room.
"There are a lot of producers out there at the moment who are very popular and they can't produce for shit, you can tell. What they are popular for is an image, which is all very well, but that doesn't have longevity. If Akira Kiteshi falls flat on its tits tomorrow and I'm out of a job, I know that I can walk into a recording studio and mic up a band and stick them on to tape. Really, just learn as much as you can. In music, every day is a school day!"
Tape & The Art Of Noise
The secret weapon in the Akira Kiteshi mix arsenal is tape. "I mix to tape because I love the sound of tape," says Tommy Forrest. "I've grown up with tape, Otari MTR90s, machines like that. The early stuff was mixed to an old TEAC quarter-inch reel-to-reel, but now I've got a one-inch 16-track that I can bounce stems to if I want and mix back out of. I just like the sound of tape, I never remove noise from anything."
For Forrest, noise definitely does not annoy. "It's nice in music to have a bit of hiss, if it's a sample to have a bit of record crackle. It's a very homely sound to me. Take, for example, 'Transmission' — there's an awful lot of noise on it, because I use an old Seck desk, because I love the EQ on it! You can hear the noise pumping because there's a lot of side-chaining going on, and at the end you get this ridiculous noise coming in, but I love that!"
Akira Kiteshi's Guide To The Ultimate Dubstep Bass
On first listening, it's Akira Kiteshi's mastery of bass that is most apparent. From slow, groaning swells to stuttering, psychotic riffery, Tommy Forrest effortlessly mangles bass into continuously inventive and surprising new shapes. What's the secret?
"The key is resampling. It's all about resampling. I'll start off, maybe in [NI] Reaktor or Massive or the MS10, and then I'll sample it. Then I'll record it into Renoise. Then I'll resample it again from within Renoise to add more effects to it. I love that old sampler thing that when you pitch up, the modulations will get faster as well. Also, I'm terrible for compression. I will squash the shit out of everything. You need to do this if you're using a lot of formant filters, you need to tame them down. So that's the high section done. Then I'll record in a sub-bass sound, normally a sine or a triangle [wave]. I'll mix the two together and render that file down, so I can carry on manipulating the sound. And that's how I get those not-quite-right bass sounds where, when they pitch up, the wobble time will completely change. That's the secret: resampling, resampling, resampling!"
Akira Kiteshi Selected Gear List
Renoise tracker.
NI Reaktor & Massive soft synths.
Atari ST1040 computer.
Tascam MS16 16-track tape recorder.
TEAC X3 quarter-inch stereo tape recorder.
Seck 1882 MkII mixer.
Korg MS10 (x2), MS2000 and Microkorg synths.
Korg ER1 MkII drum machine.
Akai MPC2000XL and S950 samplers.
Novation Drumstation drum machine.
Novation BassStation Rack synth module.
Roland TR606 and TR909 drum machines.
Roland MC202 synth/sequencer.
Casio CZ101 synth.
Moog Little Phatty synth.
Emu ESI32 sampler.
Clavia Nord Rack II synth module.
Stylophone and Stylophone Beat Box.
Fender Rhodes electric piano.
Hayman 40/40 bass.
Greko FA80 guitar.
Sonor S Classix Studio One drum kit.
Koch Studiotone amp.
Joe Meek compressor.
Focusrite compressor.
Earthworks SR25 microphones.
Neumann U89i microphone.
Hammond organ with Yamaha rotating speaker.
Technics SL1210 MkII turntable (x4).
Yamaha NS10 monitors.
Genelec 8020a monitors with 7060b subwoofer.
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[Via Satellite 07-07-2015] U.S. telco giant AT&T expects to connect nearly half of all new U.S. passenger vehicles this year, and to have more than 10 million vehicles on its network by the end of 2017. By the first quarter of 2015, the company added 684,000 connected cars, and is intensely researching ways to expand the capabilities as it gains traction. The connected car is a high profile opportunity for the telecommunications industry and a growing market that the satellite industry has pursued with interest in recent years.
AT&T established an emerging device organization in late 2008, and began connecting the Carwings telematics system in the Nissan Leaf electric car early on. Over the past several years, the company announced partnerships with eight automakers: Audi, BMW, GM, Ford, Tesla, Nissan, Volvo, and Subaru. Through these agreements and other efforts, AT&T is building out its connected car platform to reach an ever-increasing number of devices.
"We envision a future where the connected car is integrated seamlessly into other parts of our lives, like the smartphone, wearable, and even the home. In the future, you could have one phone number for all your devices — and all those devices would be seamlessly connected to each other. With this level of integration, you could send and receive texts, check an email, open the garage door, monitor blood pressure, adjust your home's temperature, record and watch TV, unlock your car, check your car's diagnostic information and more from your personal device, from your car or at home," Robert Hyatt, director of business development at AT&T, told Via Satellite.
While the satellite industry has made significant strides in aviation and held a long-time presence in maritime, cellular service providers largely dominate the connected car market. Hyatt said there are similarities between these markets and the automotive sector where satellite could be influential.
"We do see parallels and interdependencies between these markets. For example, we see an opportunity for automakers to track the location of cars shipped overseas via satellite, and upon arrival in their destination port, the cars can be activated on the cellular network for interactive services like precision tracking of location and/or over-the-air software updates," he said.
AT&T currently offers automakers a global SIM platform that provides wireless connections in more than 200 countries and territories. Hyatt said the company does not have anything to share on connected car via satellite connectivity at this point. Last year AT&T entered an agreement to purchase U.S. satellite pay-TV giant DirecTV. In a June 29 SEC filing, the company said it "expects that the merger will be consummated shortly."
AT&T previously established "innovation centers" — AT&T Labs and the AT&T Foundry — to develop new capabilities to promote safe driving and productivity. In January 2014, the telco opened the AT&T Drive Studio to focus on connected car research and ideation. AT&T collaborates with other companies at the 5,000 plus square foot facility on future connected car ideas.
"One thing we learned early on is that one size does not fit all when it comes to connected car," explained Hyatt. "Each automaker has different priorities for the connected car. Through our work at the AT&T Drive Studio and AT&T Foundry, we are able to collaborate with automakers, as well as technology partners and developers, to bring to life the experience and future of the connected car as car designers envision it and do so at an accelerated pace."
AT&T sees Europe, the U.S. and East and South Asia as frontrunners for connected car adoption, with the U.S. becoming a standout market. In a study with Ericsson, AT&T found that among customers likely to purchase a car in the next five years in the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Japan, and China, half of surveyed drivers would switch brands to get connected car services, and 72 percent would delay a car purchase by a year if it meant their preferred brand would have connected car services by then. In the U.S., 67 percent of drivers indicated they would probably or definitely buy connectivity or Wi-Fi service if available in their car. Machina Research Principal Analyst Jeremy Green told Via Satellite that the U.S. is part of the largest connected car market today according to the firm's research.
"In terms of regions, North America still dominates, followed by Europe — with Asia-Pacific showing fastest growth," he said. "We estimate 41.6 million connected cars (that's cars with a built-in, connected vehicle platform) were sold in 2014, growing to 100.7 million by 2016."
Hyatt added that consumers are also increasingly aware of connected features like roadside assistance, navigation and real-time traffic, remote start, streaming music, usage-based insurance tracking, and Wi-Fi hotspots. Among early adopters, Millennials and Generation-Y consumers are showing the highest interest for connected music services. Hyatt said audio services such as podcasts and audio books skew slightly older in their draw, and that safety services like automated roadside assistance finds greater appeal to families and an older demographic. He noted connectivity in the car is becoming more significant for all demographics.
"The connected car is already becoming an important factor in consumers' car-buying decisions, and it's only getting more competitive for automakers to capture customers globally through connected car solutions," said Hyatt.
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Lord Wilson faces new drug charges
Lord O. Wilson, 30, Oshkosh, whom authorities previously called the leader of the city's largest heroin ring faces new drug-related charges.
Lord Wilson faces new drug charges Lord O. Wilson, 30, Oshkosh, whom authorities previously called the leader of the city's largest heroin ring faces new drug-related charges. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/1KGaRGd
Nathaniel Shuda, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 1:57 p.m. CT Sept. 28, 2015 | Updated 5:06 p.m. CT Sept. 28, 2015
Lord Wilson appeared by way of video conference with his attorney before the Hon. Bryan Keberlein, Winnebago County Court Commissioner. Lord O. Wilson was charged Monday in Winnebago County Circuit Court with two counts, both as subsequent offenses, of selling less than 1 gram of cocaine. According to the criminal complaint, Wilson sold $100 worth of crack cocaine Aug. 13 to a confidential informant of the Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group Drug Unit. The sale amounted to 0.7 grams, including the packaging. The confidential informant also positively identified Wilson in a photo lineup as the person who sold the drugs.(Photo: Joe Sienkiewicz / Oshkosh Northwestern Media)Buy Photo
A 30-year-old Oshkosh man whom authorities called the ringleader of the city's largest heroin-trafficking operation faces new drug-related charges after being released from prison in May.
Lord O. Wilson was charged Monday in Winnebago County Circuit Court with two counts, both as subsequent offenses, of selling less than 1 gram of cocaine. Court Commissioner Bryan Keberlein set a $1,500 cash bond and ordered Wilson not to possess any controlled substances or drug paraphernalia and to have no contact with a co-defendant in the case.
Related story: Lord Wilson acquitted of heroin, cocaine charges
According to the criminal complaint, Wilson sold $100 worth of crack cocaine Aug. 13 to a confidential informant of the Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group Drug Unit. The sale amounted to 0.7 grams, including the packaging. The confidential informant also positively identified Wilson in a photo lineup as the person who sold the drugs.
Lord O. Wilson (Photo: Courtesy of Winnebago County Jail)
Wilson and the informant met a second time on Aug. 19, when the informant bought 0.52 grams of crack cocaine, according to the complaint.
Nearly three months earlier, on May 27, Wilson was acquitted of cocaine and heroin delivery charges and released from prison. His release was based on arguments of insufficient evidence and lack of jury instructions. Back in 2013, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison and 12 years of extended supervision. He served only four years of that sentence.
Related story: DOJ won't appeal Lord Wilson's acquittal
The Wisconsin Department of Justice later denied a request from the Winnebago County District Attorney's Office to appeal the acquittal on the prosecution's behalf.
Reach Nathaniel Shuda at 920-426-6632 or nshuda@thenorthwestern.com; on Twitter @onwnshuda.
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The Supporting Female Character Is Not Behaving Again CH 17.2
After the transaction was completed, Mr.
Zhai took the ginseng and left.
After the ginseng was bought, the package was completely different.
The container for the ginseng became an exquisite box, instead of just wrapping it with an old cloth like Meng Changjin.
The ginseng was no longer hers, so it was someone else's business how to deal with it.
"Miss Zheng, please leave your contact information.
If you still have ginseng like this in the future, you can still find me." Li Xiaohua said after helping Meng Changjin deal with Mr.
Zhai.
"If I could find another one in the future, I will take it to the pharmacy." Meng Changjin watched in amazement as Li Xiaohua took out a titanium-white thing from his pocket, which had a vague impression in the client's memory.
This seemed to be a thing that could communicate remotely, equivalent to the cultivator world's voice transmission jade stone category, right
To be honest, Meng Changjin really wanted to have one.
But she didn't know if she had enough money.
Li Xiaohua followed where Meng Changjin's eyes were cast and saw the mobile phone he was holding.
He picked up the thing and waved it gently in front of Meng Changjin.
"Does Miss Zheng want to buy a mobile phone and leave a phone number"
"This thing is called a mobile phone, right Where can I buy it How much Can I afford it" Meng Changjin showed an interesting expression and asked three times.
Li Xiaohua: …
It was suffocating.
Obviously, this Miss Zheng didn't look like that person from the valley.
Still, sometimes, she unexpectedly knew nothing.
However, Li Xiaohua was quite patient.
This time, Meng Changjin's ginseng helped him to have a successful relationship with Mr.
Zhai, so Li Xiaohua was also very grateful to her.
It was just a small favor, and it didn't take much effort at all.
Li Xiaohua and Meng Changjin talked about how to buy a mobile phone and how much it costs.
He reminded Meng Changjin to get enough money and then took her to the mobile phone store in the county to buy one.
When the mobile phone store owner saw someone buying, he explained it seriously.
Meng Changjin also learned very seriously.
When she walked out of the mobile phone store, Meng Changjin felt magical holding a small mobile phone.
The things in this world were exciting.
She didn't need spiritual power to transmit sound for thousands of miles.
The person who invented this thing was a genius!
Meng Changjin held the mobile phone with a small flip cover and loved it.
After leaving a phone number to Li Xiaohua, the pharmacy's owner, Meng Changjin took Da Niu and Er Niu to go home.
When they came, she only had more than 100 yuan in her body.
When she returned, she had more than 2,000 in cash and a passbook with more than 200,000 in it.
Meng Changjin couldn't wait.
It was said that Hao Jianye had been sent to the hospital for three days and should have been discharged.
She hoped that Hao Jianye would be at home when she returned.
Then rushed to divorce to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the client.
She wanted to use the rest of the time to understand this magical world.
Meng Changjin, a rogue cultivator, could cultivate to the extent where the sword could fly.
The most important thing was to love learning.
Wasn't she also learning about medicine through various channels
No matter where she was, she couldn't stop learning.
Some things may not be used when she understood them, but she could not guarantee when she could use them.
This was called being prepared for a rainy day.
Opportunities were reserved for those who were prepared.
Meng Changjin's thoughts were very good, but when she saw the bus, she remembered the fear of being dominated by motion sickness.
Even before she got on the bus, her head started to feel dizzy.
Xiao Si looked at Meng Chang Jin's face as if her soul wanted to be out of her body.
His tail swayed, and the fish's eyes were full of schadenfreude.


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