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Moelis Investment Bank Launches Blockchain Firm for Crypto Venture Deals
Moelis & Co, an investment bank founded by billionaire Ken Moelis, announced Monday to launch a global group focusing on venture deals in the blockchain and digital asset industry.
The investment bank, led by former UBS dealmaker and billionaire Ken Moelis, has created a new team of dealmakers who will work on transactions with cryptocurrency and blockchain firms.
The new team will be headed up by John Momtazee, Moelis' co-founder and global head of media investment banking.
The New York-based investment bank has also hired longtime venture investor Lou Kerner as a senior adviser to the group.
Speaking of the development, Momtazee said the so-called 'crypto winter' has not deterred Moelis. The executive added: "We love the timing. We think that to pile in on good days and say, 'Here we are, ready to help,' feels less genuine than when there's a challenge. Any disruptive technology is going to have volatility."
Momtazee said the blockchain group will work with other industry teams across the nearly two dozen Moelis offices around the globe.
He acknowledged that the interest within the firm has also been substantial as he said 30% of managing directors at the bank have crypto wallets. "I suspect that the junior bankers and mid-level bankers actually are more active. This is a young person's world," Momtazee further said.
Moelis has already been advising on deals in the industry. In June, the bank was hired by crypto lending firm Voyager Digital Ltd., which recently filed for bankruptcy and reached out to several potential strategic partners for revival efforts.
The bank also worked with clients such as Ripple Labs Inc. and CipherTrace, which was acquired by Mastercard Inc last year.
Ken Moelis has personal exposure to crypto after becoming an investor in blockchain firm Paxos in December 2020. Last year, he likened the crypto industry to the 1848 Gold rush.
Pulled Deals Amid Market Volatility
Moelis is starting its blockchain and cryptocurrency venture deals at a time when venture funding in the industry has declined, and the Bitcoin price has crashed to more than 70% of its peak price of more than $68,000 last November.
With the crypto market crash, founders in the space are struggling to hold on to investors who are currently trying to minimize their risk and scale back their funding rounds.
Venture capitalists appear to maintain their funding initiatives despite the crypto market meltdown. This year, crypto firms have raised over $17 billion, a figure of $14 billion less compared to the total value of $31 billion recorded in 2021.
Amid the market turmoil, the VCs are cautiously approaching investment deals to avoid the vulnerabilities associated with the crypto industry.
The ongoing market turbulence has forced several crypto firms, such as Three Arrows Capital (3AC) and Voyager Digital, to file for bankruptcy while others have to restructure their operations as they try to navigate the stormy market.
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Since completing the NLN Sim Leaders (inaugural class of 2010), I was fortunate to serve as a site team leader at one of the 10 sites of the NCSBN National Simulation Study. The experience of that study has propelled our team to understand what it means to form a dedicated simulation team grounded in theory-based simulation and debriefing methods; a principal recommendation of the NCSBN report.
I have most recently enjoyed spending time working with organizations from Latin America on establishing simulation programs in nursing and medical schools. I am grateful for the opportunity to share with colleagues internationally. Our body of knowledge today, compared to what it was 10 years ago, is astonishing. There is so much enthusiasm by faculty and administrators alike, they want to get it right the first time and I help them avoid some of those pitfalls.
2. What do you see as significant trends or gaps in simulation and technology in nursing education, from your perspective as an expert in these areas?
The growth related to increased use of simulation has created an opportunity for skills in simulation center administration. Managing the resources of a successful center should not be an afterthought. A single faculty champion is no longer enough to sustain a high-quantity and high-quality simulation program.
When you combine knowledge created from research, certification & accreditation standards, and the experience of so many people, you have a very broad and deep base of knowledge. Organizations that want to engage learners in simulation have a much clearer path today when compared to 10 years ago.
Technology is unfolding so fast now that innovators in simulation are shifting their thinking; from looking for ways to apply a new widget into the sim environment; to creating widgets to meet our learners needs in simulation.
3. What insights can you share related to the value of simulation and technology in nursing education for health care organizations now and in the future?
It is a grand time to be in the field. There is enough experience out there where growth in quality of education using simulation and technology is more possible than ever before. Sim educators are beginning to ask tough questions about both educational approaches and the physical tools that are being employed. As a result of understanding the essence of why we do, value of simulation increased.
4. What advice do you have for simulation educators in the context of today's health care and learning environments?
Go beyond the mechanics of scenario implementation. Understand that the needs of learners and thoughtful consideration should be incorporated into every aspect of the simulation experience.
How can I find a simulation course to take?


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Home/Press Release/Baltimore Based Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Group Announces Two New Locations
Dr. Lance Miller joins Mid Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic to open two new locations in Baltimore. The addition of these two clinics expands Mid Atlantic's footprint to nine locations in Greater Baltimore and two Washington DC area locations.
BALTIMORE (PRWEB) AUGUST 18, 2022
Mid-Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic, a leading Chiropractic and Physical Therapy practice, today announced two new office locations in the Baltimore, Maryland area. The new locations; 5670 The Alameda, Suite A, Baltimore, MD 21239, and 3401 Erdman Avenue, Suite A, Baltimore, MD 21213 will add to the company's Baltimore area clinics. Mid Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic now has 9 Baltimore, Maryland area locations and continues to add to their growing team of healthcare professionals.
According to CEO, Dr. Marc Gulitz, the expansion has been planned for some time. "Our vision has always been to serve all of Central Maryland, and then expand throughout the State and Region. We are excited about adding the two locations which create better access across Baltimore communities, along with our referring Doctors and partners. We're also committed to expanding our team and creating healthcare jobs throughout Maryland."
Mid-Atlantic Spinal Rehab specializes in the care of acute injuries caused by automobile or work related accidents. Adding these new locations is a strategic move that expands access to care for residents of Baltimore City. By expanding patient care access points Mid Atlantic plans to reach tens of thousands more Maryland residents.
"Given the number of residents, and referring partners in the Baltimore Metro Area, and the surrounding communities," says Dr. Gulitz, "we expect these new locations to quickly grow in patient visits, and staff."
"These will be a fantastic locations for us. We're looking forward to being able to host opening events for our team and partners at an appropriate and safe future date. We're always looking to expand our reach and are currently working on additional sites around the State of Maryland."
- CEO Dr. Marc Gulitz
About Mid-Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic
Mid-Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic specializes in the rehabilitation of acute musculoskeletal injuries, such as those commonly experienced in auto accidents and work related injuries. Our healthcare providers work alongside primary care physicians, pain management physicians, physical therapists, orthopedists, and neurologists to manage care, and provide positive outcomes for patients. Founded in 2012, Mid-Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic is one of the fastest growing practices in the Region. For more information visit the website at http://www.midatlanticspinalrehab.com
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ThoughtWorks proud to show its support for Stonewall Charity's Diversity Champions programme
July 25, 2013 - London, UK
ThoughtWorks joins forces with Stonewall charity to become part of employers' forum to promote employee diversity and equality
Global technology consultancy ThoughtWorks is pleased to announce that it has joined the Diversity Champions programme for Stonewall, the UK's leading charity in the LGB (Lesbian Gay Bisexual) campaigning sector. With a primary focus within the UK, the charity is now beginning to work on an international level.
A member of the Equality and Diversity Forum, Stonewall promotes equality in the workplace with a specific focus on sexuality. The charity is renowned for its campaigning, particularly with its Diversity Champions programme, and continues to work towards raising public awareness of changes to employment regulations. The programme consists of Britain's good practice employers' forum on sexual orientation, and offers support and advice to over 600 organisations that are part of it. As well as a focus on the workplace, Stonewall also researches homophobia in schools with its Education for All campaign and most recently raised awareness of civil partnerships.
"More businesses need to recognise the difficulties that minority groups can face within the workplace. This includes discrimination due to perception of sexual orientation and gender identity," said Suzi Edwards-Alexander, Global Head of Recruiting of ThoughtWorks. "Stonewall has seen this lead to harassment and missing out on promotions, pay rises and even dismissal within some work environments. At ThoughtWorks we strive for equality and are proud to stand against any form of discrimination, and that's why we hope that gender identity also becomes part of Stonewall UK's remit."
"We are delighted to become part of this programme with such a significant charity and campaigner for equal marriage," continues Suzi Edwards-Alexander. "Equality and inclusivity for all are really important to ThoughtWorks. Joining Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme is another step towards being a most inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone."


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Music at the school is progressing nicely and the school choir is proving to be a success.
On the Parent/Teacher Interviews afternoon families and staff were treated to a music performance from our students with Mr Bryce at the helm. All were delighted and most impressed. The primary did a rhythm pattern with cups and the senior girls sang in a choir.
In Term 3 again the students in primary performed a song about learning to read music notes with all the children dressed in character to match the name of a note. Year 7-8 performed an amazing rhythm pattern set in the classroom scene, with slapping and clapping patterns on text books and knees. High School girls gave a lovely rendition of a couple of songs and a hymn.
Term 4 the students practised hard for a bigger performance. The primary learning three songs with rhythm and chant. The "dog song" with dogs in costumes was delightful. The high school choir of boys and girls did three songs in harmony, and Year 7-8 performed a comedy song. Well done students- we look forward to more music at the Awards Day 2015.


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George Lincoln Rockwell and members of the American Nazi Party attend a Nation of Islam summit, 1961
George Lincoln Rockwell and members of the American Nazi Party attend a Nation of Islam summit in 1961.
American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell, flanked by two members of the party, listening to Malcolm X's speech at the Black Muslims meeting held at the Uline Arena. This is an amazing, very powerful shot.
Not just from a historical point of view, but also photographically very strong, you can almost feel the tension. The guy on the left looks like he's not overly happy to be present, whereas the guys in the middle and rightfully believe they're in the right.
In 1961, Elijah Muhammad, founder of the black supremacist Nation of Islam, met with Ku Klux Klan leaders at the Magnolia Hall in Atlanta. Although they had different ideas about the skin color of the master race, they shared the belief that blacks and whites should stay separate.
The following year, Muhammad invited American Nazi Party chief George Lincoln Rockwell to attend a Nation convention, even though Rockwell had often called blacks "the lowest scum of humanity". Rockwell became enchanted with the idea of a coalition; Nazis and Black Muslims could be allies since they both sought the same goal—separation of the races.
On Sunday, June 25, 1961, Rockwell and ten troopers attended a Black Muslim rally at Uline Arena in Washington. They watched in awe as convoys of chartered buses unloaded hundreds of passengers outside the arena and the Muslim vendors made a killing on official souvenirs and literature. The Nazis were frisked at the door of the arena by several well-dressed but stern-looking Fruit of Islam guards—the Gestapo of the Nation of Islam.
A special guard greeted Rockwell, said into his walkie-talkie that the "big man was coming now", and escorted them to seats near the stage in the center, surrounded by eight thousand Black Muslims. They were encircled by black journalists, who wanted to know Rockwell's thoughts.
He told reporters he considered the Muslims "black Nazis". "I am fully in concert with their program and I have the highest respect for Mr. Elijah Muhammad". Rockwell pointed out his only disagreement with the Muslims was over territory. ''They want a chunk of America and I prefer that they go to Africa".
The Nazis were very impressed with the professionalism and stagecraft of the event, especially the Fruit of Islam guards, who maintained their positions throughout the lengthy program despite stifling heat in the auditorium.
After several introductory speakers, Malcolm X stepped to the microphone to deliver a talk entitled "Separation or Death". "Muslims are not for integration and not for segregation". Looking up at the audience as if to beg the question, he asked what they "were for". The audience shouted "Separation!". Rockwell and the troopers vigorously applauded. Later when the audience was asked for donations and Rockwell contributed $20.
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So true. I absolutely echo everything you just said. The fact that there are still such ignorant people in 2015+1 just means we need to do more in order to abolish "whiteness". Like my professor Saul Goldblatt said in my freshman year studying black history and gender studies:
"European gentiles should be led to intermarry with African gentiles so that they can be weakened genetically, culturally and politically."
That is ultimately what we, as antifascists should strive for, just ask my wife.


Thinking about research in the context of older people and mental health (OPMH) requires a level of complexity perhaps not seen in other areas of adult focused research. This seminar will be developed around the two key concepts. Firstly, older people: Who are they? Are they different to other adults? How does the researcher's perception of old age affect what they do and do not do? Where does the life course fit in? Secondly, mental health: What is it and can it be defined in old age? What about delineation of different mental illnesses? Integrating these two concepts is a challenging but exciting task. This seminar aims to explore current evidence and knowledge of OPMH with reference to the critical questions such as those outlined above that must be applied to interpret evidence in a meaningful way.
Elizabeth is employed as a lecturer in mental health at the University of Salford and is a registered mental health nurse. Her clinical experience has been gained as a staff nurse (inpatient service for people with severe dementia and an acute assessment ward for older people), a research nurse, a ward manager (acute inpatient care including older people) and a lecturer practitioner. Her education and research interests broadly relate to contemporary recovery concepts, evidence based practice, mental health and ill health in later life, long term mental ill health, life course, age discrimination and dementia. In 2012, she completed a PhD entitled 'A biographical narrative study exploring mental ill health through the life course.


Incandescence: the quality or state of being glowing or luminous; marked by brilliance especially of expression; characterized by glowing zeal. That's how Webster's defines incandescence. ALVA Gallery simply uses two words: Gigi Liverant, and is pleased to announce a new exhibition.
Gigi Horr Liverant has painted in oils and pastels for more than twenty-five years in an ongoing exploration of the dramatic effects of both natural and artificial light. Her early work investigated color-drenched still life subjects, later evolving into mysterious and mystical images that explored the phenomena of nocturnal illumination. Recent work has expanded both palette and subject matter to celebrate the chroma of morning and afternoon light. Liverant's subjects are selected for their design elements and relationship to their environment, while color choices reveal her emotional response to the subject. In addition to the pastels for which she is so well known, Gigi Liverant has developed her unique imagery in large-scale oil paintings. Her work is recognized for its emphasis on luminous color, spontaneous surface texture and notable composition.
Liverant attended Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including First Prize Connecticut Women Artists, Best in Show Connecticut Pastel Society, and the Diane Bernhardt Gold Medal Award at the PSA Annual Exhibition in 2000. She is a Pastel Society of America Master Panelist and a Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society. Liverant has also been awarded important national and regional commissions including the Cow Parades in both New York and West Hartford, the Whale Trail in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island and murals at multiple locations of the Connecticut Savings Bank. She is much sought after teacher and lecturer in the Southeastern Connecticut area.
Liverant's work is included in important public and private collections including Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College, Three Rivers Community College, and New Haven Paint and Clay Club. Gigi Liverant lives and works in Colchester, Connecticut.


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Janine "Lady J" Nash
Janine Nash
Born and Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Janine Nash…aka…Lady J is a lyricist, poet and singer with over 10 years of performance and studio experience. She has been a background vocalist for Barrington Henderson (lead singer for the Temptations); and The Rose Brothers. She has performed as an opening act for Kirk Whalum; Howard Hewitt; Bloodstone and Slave. As a writer she has penned songs with former Earth, Wind and Fire guitarist, Sheldon Reynolds and member Ralph Johnson. One of her written pieces appears on the recently released "Devoted Spirits CD, "The Answer".
Born October 11th, Lady J is true to her birth sign…Libra. Balance and Harmony are very important and is reflective in her lyrics.
Lady J's live performances blend soulful R&B with thought-provoking spoken word/poetry…delivering significant messages with a seductive vibe. Her sets have been described from "Unique & Soul Stirring" to a "Quiet Revolution". "She makes a sincere and intimate connection with her audience as though they were sitting in her living room".
"Shades of J", the title of her debut CD, is also the name of her performance band which consists of Co-writers and & Producers Don Manor (Guitar/Keyboards) and Eric Bolden (Drummer).
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International Festival Buenos Aires Jazz 2016
Between November 23rd and November 28th, 2016, the International Festival BUENOS AIRES JAZZ 2016 (BAJ.16) presents a program of concerts by national and international artists, offering the best of jazz in all its forms.
The opening night at Usina del Arte, on Wednesday, November 23rd, at 8.30 pm, will be starred by The Cookers, one of the most prestigious jazz groups, made up of Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, David Weiss and Donald Harrison.
The program of BAJ.16 will be divided into different sections:
International Concerts: Apart from The Cookers who will perform at the opening concert, the closing, in turn, will feature the exceptional duo of Portuguese singer Maria João and Brazilian guitarist Guinga. This year's programming also spotlights on French jazz, featuring the group led by clarinetist Louis Sclavis, the Peirani & Parisien duo and the quintet of Omer Avital, in addition to performances by Tamarindo; the trio of Tony Malaby, William Parker and JT Bates, an essential band on the New York scene; great Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana, and the irreverent group known as Edi Nulz, with its large doses of rock riffs and indie spirit, among many others.
A series of solo and due piano concerts will be held at the Golden Hall of Teatro Colon, and a series of piano trio performances at Usina del Arte..
Chamber Jazz Concerts: held at the Chamber Hall of Usina del Arte, presenting Argentine-French quartet Todos los Pájaros, great Argentine pianist Lilián Saba, performing music by Bill Evans; Ben Van den Dungen Quartet, a high-energy hard-bop Dutch band; the formidable quintet led by Chilean Roberto C. Lecaros, and Relojeros (ya no quedan), a quartet featuring some of the best local jazz talent, led by pianist Ernesto Jodos and Spanish bassist Javier Moreno Sánchez..
"Cruces" (Crossings): Meetings between international and local artists, at the intimacy of Thelonius Club, Cafe Vinilo and Bebop Club.
Open Air concerts: In this edition the Open Air concerts held at the Amphitheater of Parque Centenario. will include the Jazzology series; the Big Band of Conservatorio Manuel de Falla, Francisco Fattoruso Group, Comotto Plays Hendrix, Gillespi and his band, Mariano Loiácono Swing Octet. among others.
"El Aula" (The Classroom): open classes, clinics, workshops and ensemble classes, all at Usina del Arte, including: Ensemble Workshops by Greg Burk and Andrew D´Angelo; drums workshop by Billy Hart; different clinics by: Ramesh Shotham, Christian Ramond and Jarry Singla; William Parker; Tony Malaby; Mariano Loiacono; Louis Sclavis, La Bomba de Tiempo, Agustin Fernandez; singing workshop by Joey Blake.
Jazz & Cinema: This section will showcase four great films about giant artists of jazz.
Usina del Arte: Av. Pedro de Mendoza y Caffarena
Anfiteatro del Parque Centenario: Av. Ángel Gallardo y Leopoldo Marechal
Teatro Colón Golden Hall: Libertad 611
Café Vinilo: Gorriti 3780
Thelonious Club: J. Salguero 1884
Bebop Club: Moreno 364
Bower of Barrancas de Belgrano: 11 de Septiembre 1901
Carlos Gardel Cultural Center: Olleros 3640
Julian Centeya Cultural Center: Av. San Juan 3255
Paid concerts and workshops:
For the Opening and Closing concerts, for the international concerts at the Golden Hall of Teatro Colon, and for the sections Cruces and El Aula, tickets will be on sale from November 14th online though the Festival´s Website or at the following ticket offices:
*Tu Entrada: Av. Corrientes 728, Monday to Friday 10am to 8pm, Saturday 2pm to 8 pm
*Usina del Arte: Caffarena & Pedro de Mendoza, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 12pm to 9pm
Free concerts at Usina del Arte and Cultural Centers:
Free tickets will be given out 1 hour before the event at the Information Stand of each venue (2 per person)
Amphitheater of Parque Centenario and Bower of Barrancas de Belgrano: The admittance to the concerts programmed at the Amphitheater of Parque Centenario and Barrancas de Belgrano will be free, on a first-come first-served basis until completing the seating capacity.
The rest of the activities and concerts in the Festival are free of charge until reaching the maximum capacity of the venues and don't require advanced tickets.
For more information, purchase of tickets and daily schedules, visit Buenos Aires Jazz 16 official website.


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Our Twitter feeds and searches and Tweetdeck display panels are just fine for everyday purposes, but for special occasions–conferences, meetings, professional development, and, perhaps, classes, you may want to dress up your feeds.
Tagboard (https://tagboard.com/) is a cross-network aggregator, grabbing hashtags from Twitter, Facebook, Vine, Google+, and Instagram to create a visual mosaic. Use it as a search tool or create a community by facilitating better conversation with administrative tools. Click on "latest" for updates. Create a tagboard to cultivate or customize boards for your favorite hashtags with banners, buttons and specified settings.
Twitterfall: After signing into your Twitter account, Twitterfall allows you to watch tweets as the drop on a screen. A suite of sophisticated features allow you to filter for location, adjust speed and size, exclude words, select language, eliminate retweets, load Twitter lists, display in full width or presentation mode, and add a heading.
Visible Tweets updates tweets every five minutes in a spectrum of colors, in your choice of letter-by-letter, word cloud or rotation displays–a great backdrop for a meeting.
TweetBeam is a beautiful, interactive Twitter visualization. Tweets load real-time on a wall of avatars. Click on avatars to reveal their recent tweets. You may create and customize a wall for any topic, hashtag, or your own timeline.


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Home » Tech » Epic Games acquires Rock Band maker Harmonix
Epic Games acquires Rock Band maker Harmonix
Epic Games has acquired Rock Band and Dance Central maker Harmonix Systems, GamesBeat has learned.
Epic has been on an acquisition binge during the past year, as it has raised well over $1 billion to invest in the metaverse, and Harmonix has content that should put it further on that goal. Based in Boston, the company has been devoted to making music video games for decades. Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wants to build the metaverse. Update: Epic Games has confirmed the deal.
The metaverse is the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. And Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wants to build it as an open platform. Meanwhile, Harmonix's games will help Epic with adding musical elements to Fortnite (which is Epic's defacto metaverse platform).
Here's what our own Jeff Grubb wrote about Harmonix back in 2014:
Alex Rigopulos founded Harmonix is 1995 with Eran Egozy. While attending MIT, the two co-developed an algorithm that could generate music on the fly and started considering how they could use that for games. In 2001, the company teamed up with Sony Computer Entertainment to create Frequency, a rhythm game that has players traveling down an octagonal highway of musical notes. The studio followed up Frequency with 2003's Amplitude.
"Harmonix has always aspired to create the world's most beloved interactive music experiences, and by joining Epic we will be able to do this at scale," said Rigopoulos, who is chairman, in a statement. "Together we will push the creative boundaries of what's possible and invent new ways for our players to make, perform and share music."
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Over the next several years, the company released more music-based hits like Karaoke Revolution before breaking out with the novel smash hit Guitar Hero. That game came with a plastic guitar controller that required players to strum and hit buttons along the neck in time with onscreen prompts. It caught on with a huge audience well beyond typical gamers.
Harmonix went on to developer two more Guitar Hero games before publisher Activision moved development to its Neversoft and Vicarious Visions studios. That prompted Harmonix's most ambitious release, Rock Band, which took the idea of Guitar Hero and turned it into a local multiplayer game with multiple people on different instruments and vocals.
Rock Band became a hit party game. Harmonix developed and released multiple sequels and sold hundreds of different songs as downloadable content. After Rock Band 3 in 2010, however, the market for music games with plastic instruments dried up. The studio moved on to Kinect-controlled motion games like Dance Central, which performed well for Microsoft's Xbox 360.
The company is now attempting to bring music concepts into several different genres as it looks for ways to remain relevant on consoles as well as PC, smartphones, and tablets. Since then it has worked on titles like Fuser, Drop Mix, SingSpace, and more.
Today, Epic and Harmonix talked about their possibilities.
"Music is already bringing millions of people together in Fortnite, from our emotes to global concerts and events," said Alain Tascan, vice president of game development at Epic Games, in a statement. "Together with the Harmonix team we will transform how players experience music, going from passive listeners to active participants."
Harmonix has a track record of creating fun and engaging music experiences designed for everyone to enjoy. Epic said that as it works to build the metaverse, this expertise is needed to reimagine how music is experienced, created and distributed.
The Harmonix team will collaborate closely with Epic to develop musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite while continuing to support existing titles including Rock Band 4. Here's another post on Harmonix's blog for more details.
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Fury at Karen Bradley's response to Breast Cancer clinic closure concerns
Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley
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The Secretary of State, Karen Bradley's response to concerns over the future of Breast Clinic Services in Craigavon has been branded 'scandalous'.
Ulster Unionist Cllr Julie Flaherty slammed Mrs Bradley's response to Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council's Notice of Motion voicing concern over the service's possible closure.
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The council had unanimously voted to write to Karen Bradley pointing out the 'devastating effect' any closure would have on constituents and calling for it to be retained at Craigavon.
In response the Secretary of State said: "While I am sympathetic to the concerns of patients in the Southern Trust Area, I am also mindful of the wider circumstances that gave rise to the proposal for three concentrated breast assessment service locations. The Chief Medical Officer, Dr Michael McBride, has advised that over the past five years there have only been two months in which the 14-day breast assessment target has been met. This is an unacceptable situation that puts patients across NI at greater risk, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
"As health is a devolved matter, any steps to amend service provision must be taken by the Department of Health. I note that you have also written to Richard Pengelly; I would advise you to present him with detailed evidence of why you feel the consultation process is flawed if you have not already done so," she said adding that locally elected ministers in the Assembly should be taking the healthcare funding decisions.
Cllr Flaherty was unimpressed and said: "It is clear to me and many others that our health infrastructure is slowly disintegrating and in the end will collapse unless something drastic is done and done now.
"There has been no accountable leadership in the local health service for over two years. Breast cancer patients and those in recovery are continuing now to have to fight for the retention of a local service - will now again be directly impacted by the total abdication of political leadership in Northern Ireland. This is a scandal in our own time.
"The current political situation in this country is a total disgrace and utterly scandalous. I am disgusted,"


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I was looking for a solution and this is working perfectly! Thanks for sharing the code with us!
I have been provided with this example of similar use of the registry. It may be a useful addition to place with the example above.
! From the example I could get the desired result!
processor_name = "ERROR:Cannot open registry key"
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There is a lot of useful information in the registry and hopefully these examples may help others.
I have been considering defining program configuration settings in the registry, which could be a good next step. It basically needs a few capabilities, such as put, get, create and delete.
Does anyone have some documented examples plus guidelines for safe use ?
My understanding is that the Registry was invented to solve a problem with a plethora of INI files - but you can create and read INI files with fairly standard Fortran facilities, and Clearwin+ even has a helper function, %ss. Accessing the Registry, and doing it safely, is much more involved.
%ss and the extensive support for the now abandoned helpfile format are hangovers from the norms of Windows when Clearwin+ was invented: Windows 3.1 if I remember correctly.
After seeing how Plato uses the registry, it looks to be a good way of storing program settings in a standard and reliable way.
It would certainly be an improvement from when Windows 7 stoped us using the .ini files in \windows.
The few examples I have seen recover text values from entries that are known to exist. Handling errors and creating values is the next important step.
REG is an interesting alternative to the reporting program I have, although when I first obtained the program, I was probably more surprised to find out that all this information existed in the registry.
It might be worth looking at GetPrivateProfileString etc. These functions are simpler to use and provide a mapping into the registry.
My registry usage is for user identification for delivered SW.
The software deploy tool I use allows the user to enter some data, and also has the user input the specific product key and registration code for their copy of the SW.
The registry is updated as part of that. When/If the user upgrades the SW later on, these values are presented to the user (so they don't have to type them again). I use a couple of the reg keys on the splash screen at the start of the program, and internally to mark certain data as being "owned" by this particular user.
As an aside, there are a few WIN32API calls I intend to check out (and use) to make the user's life easier. There is a LOT of good functions there!
Great product, Paul, et. al!
Just to clarify, it is GetProfileString etc. that provide a mapping to the registry whilst GetPrivateProfileString etc. continue to use an ini file. ini files can no longer be written to the "Program files" folder. If you write to this folder then the output is diverted to the equivalent "roaming" folder.
I presume that your 'no longer' relates to Windows 8 et seq. ?
It was probably Windows 7 or maybe Windows Vista.


Listening to the Shabad within is the Surt-Shabad technique of Guru Nanak Devji enumerated in Shree Guru Granth Sahebji . Shabad in Guru roop is ever with the Sikhs . they only have to keep their surt (conscious awareness) within and listen to the Anhad Shabad . The intuitive guidance of the Shabad Guru is always available to them as HE is ever present.
The sehsa (doubt) a sikh has to remove during Simran efforts is that Waheguruji HIMSELF are shabad swaroop in SGGSji and as Shabad Guru are ever accessible within. Waheguruji is all around in the creation and are the substance of creation as well. HE is player on bothsides. We as jyote swaroop have to go across our ego to be one with HIM.
More has been written on this topic in the eBook titled "Anhad Shabad :the celestial sound within" in pdf form ,which is available for download at the ebook links space on this blog page.
how to listen this shabad???
- Sit in a quite place.Relax your body , close the eyes and shift awareness within.
- Keep your focus of attention inside your head at a spot which is near top of mouth cavity and behind the eyes. This spot gets choosen intutively.
- Listen for the sound and it would definitly be heard.
hello please tell me who is the bhai sahib who sings Jap Man Mere Govind Ki Bani shabad that you posted there, and how i can find more shabads from that bhai sahib.
How to hear the anhad shabad? Is it only through reciting 5 shabads of radha soamis, or can gursikhs do it too? Does it have to be during amrit vela?
The shabad 'Jap Man Mere Govind Ki Bani ' has been sung by Bhai Saheb Apardeep Singh ji. You can download more of his Shabads from AKJ site .
Hearing of Anhad Shabad is very much possible by a GurSikh.In fact The path of Sikhee leads to it and further beyond.The Sikh's Guru Is Shree Guru Granth Sahebji - a Shabad Guru. The Sikhs Guru within him/her is the Shabad which is coming from IkOankar.Even Guru Nanak Devji revealed in 'Sidh Ghosht" that his Guru is Shabad.
Guru Sahebji were one with the Shabad- Parbraham Roop.
The path starts with Simran,awareness of oneness- a very very small glimpse of IkOankar , feeling of Hazuri.
There is a whole Bani - 'anand " in SGGSji refering to Anhad Shabad and many other references.For this one has to first commit to acceptance of SGGSji as Guru and follow the gurbani's guidance.
Does one have to focus on the location you have suggested in an earlier comment in order to hear the Shabad? What about focusing on the heart or navel areas?
To hear the Shabad we have to focus inwards behind the eyes where the breath strikes. When we do simran and hear it then the awareness is pulled within at this spot. The naval and heart areas may not give the desired experience.The celestial sound is heard with awareness focused within .
I've been hearing this for many years and have found little information on it. It prompted me to research binaural beat technology and to identify the frequencies. What I have found is that each frequency carries a positive emotion or state of mind: comfort, cheer, alertness, concentration and general wellbeing (bliss). I've come across the words 'naad, 'unstruck melody', 'primal sounds', 'unstruck celestial music' in the SGGS and yesterday the words "Panch Shabad" and decided to do another search. It brought me here. Thank you for writing "Anhad Shabad - The Celestial Sound Within", Gurmit Singh Ji. I am grateful that I can finally identify what it is.
I am impressed with the length and clarity of your blog but more so with the pyar with which you have written the blog and the further comments. God Bless!
Dear Gurmit Singh ji, i have been practicing listening to the Shabad (sound within) for more than 3 months everyday for about 15 minutes or more but have not been able to hear it.
Does it take longer time than that?
Hearing of the Shabad is just HIS grace. SHABAD GURU when does kirpa it happens. No specific time limit.
The Simran pulls the awareness inward.
Place the surt at a point behind the eyes , just above top of mouth cavity. It is not a physical point.
The minds thought flow does not matter, just keep coming back towards a quite state of being. The emotions cloud the mind. Quite the emotions.
Faith means knowing that Shabad Guru is very much there and so is the Sound. The faith then becomes the truth.
Faith has to be based on Gurbani words. The doors then begin to open.
Quite often questions are asked in anonymous mode in a very crisp way.
No back ground or details are given. Then with no other option the reply is intuitive. It would have been better if email had been sent withj details as some gursikhs do .
Answers to spiritual questions are Guru guided and a share.
In the process of spiritual progress we transform our self. It is not a question of just a change. but is a transformation. A life that is to be lived at a different level and meaning.
The world view is changed from materialistic view to seeing and feeling a living pulsating presence of The MOOL - our origin.The boundaries then appear different.
The Shabad is in all creation. The Hidden then begins to appear in perception.
Gurbani is the way. We have to know How? Gurbani words repeated change our thoughts and perception. Gurbani words bring forth the higher state of mind - where feelings and perception is different. The Gurbani words are trans formative.All this is simran.
The hearing of shabad is a natural corollary that is automatically there when all else is right.
Just be patient and follow gurbani words. Read slowly. Let these vibrate in the mind. Look for proper meaning, it would come intuitive guidance.
Guidance of Shabad Guru is always there.


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The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival has unveiled its full 2016 program, featuring 31 feature films and 25 shorts.
The festival will open with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's offshore-detention documentary Chasing Asylum, fresh off its Hot Docs international premiere.
Also featured is Michael Graversen's Dreaming of Denmark, which follows a teenager who has spent his adolescent years in Denmark after fleeing his native country of Afghanistan.
The festival will close with the Australian premiere of Sundance award-winner The Bad Kids, an immersive dive into America's most pressing education problem: poverty.
Another highlight is documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile, which follows various musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music in the region. The film features Damon Albarn (Blur), Brian Eno and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the band Songhoy Blues.
Prison Songs, Australia's first-ever musical documentary, shares the stories of the inmates of the notorious Berrimah Prison in Northern Territory through the songs they helped create.
First-time filmmaker Nanfu Wang's Hooligan Sparrow follows human-rights activist Ye Haiyan as she seeks justice for six elementary school girls who have been sexually abused by their principal.
Beats of the Antonov, winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, paints a vivid portrait of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains people while also depicting stories of survival in the face of a prolonged civil war.
This year's arts program will feature the works of renowned artist Alex Seton in Someone Else's Problem, a sculpture installation on the issue of asylum seekers, which will be accompanied by Seton's immersive soundscape, Odyssey, presented at Dark Horse Experiment space.
And for the first time ever, the festival sets foot in Footscray for HRAFF Goes West, which will include Seeking Refuge, an afternoon of discussion presented in partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, showcasing the stories of our newest Australians; and May Day: Activism, a celebration of activism through a unique and conversational exhibition and event program.
This year the festival also teams with Melbourne-based outfit Hear My Eyes, co-presenting a screening of Patricio Guzmán's Berlinale Silver Bear-winning The Pearl Button with live score by local musician Mick Turner of The Dirty Three.
HRAFF will also join forces again with the Melbourne Cinémathèque to co-present three retrospective pieces that examinepostcolonialism through French New Wave and African heritage with the presentation of Ousmane Sembéne's Black Girl and Borom Sarret, and Jean Rouch's Petit á Petit.
Local emerging filmmaking talent will be showcased in the Australian Shorts session, including Nulla Nulla starring Wayne Blair and Khan Chittenden. This year's festival will feature three International Shorts sessions, including two sessions themed around War + Conflict and Love + Intimacy, featuring the Academy Award-winner for Best Short Film (Live Action), Stutterer.
The CineSeeds program, designed to engage young audiences aged 5 – 18 with human rights issues through film and live performance, returns this year with two films: Ernest & Celestine and Girl Rising. Ernest & Celestine is a heart-warming animated tale of cross-cultural friendship narrated by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez.
Other highlights include thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller and Thomas Mann and winner of the the 2015 Sundance best screenplay award, which explores abusive behavior in the prison system based on an experiment conducted in a simulated jail; and This Changes Everything, directed by journalist-filmmaker Avi Lewis and produced in conjunction with Naomi Klein's best-selling book of the same name about the vast challenges of climate change.


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Bemidji State's New Rink Named After Legendary Coach Peters
Former Bemidji State coach and CHA commissioner R.H. "Bob" Peters will have the rink at the new Bemidji Regional Event Center when it opens in the fall.
Robert H. Peters Rink will be christened Oct. 15 when Bemidji State's men's and women's teams open play at the $60 million, 4,000-plus-seat arena.
Peters coached the Beavers from 1966 to 2001, then served as CHA commissioner for eight years.
He led the program's transition from NAIA to NCAA Division III, then to Division II, then to Division I in 1999.
In that time, the Beavers won 13 national championships. Peters ranks fifth on the NCAA coaching victories list with 744.
The Bemidji (Minn.) City Council unanimously approved the naming at its meeting Monday.
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The Best Kind Of Dark Horse: 670 HP Roush Mustang!
Roush Performance is a name singularly associated with modifying your ride for maximum performance. Their 670 horsepower "RS3" or "Roush Stage 3" high-performance mods to this 2015 Mustang make for an absolutely blistering ride on an already wild pony, putting it just shy of the Shelby in terms of the perfect synergy between power, performance, and style.


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import io.fabric8.certmanager.client.dsl.V1APIGroupDSL;
import io.fabric8.certmanager.client.dsl.V1alpha2APIGroupDSL;
import io.fabric8.certmanager.client.dsl.V1alpha3APIGroupDSL;
import io.fabric8.certmanager.client.dsl.V1beta1APIGroupDSL;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Client;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.extension.ExtensionAdapter;

public class CertManagerExtensionAdapter implements ExtensionAdapter<CertManagerClient> {

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    return CertManagerClient.class;
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  public CertManagerClient adapt(Client client) {
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Sagan: The most important thing at the Tour de France is the yellow jersey
Slovak prepared to sacrifice green jersey to help Contador's overall bid
Peter Sagan is all smiles (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Alberto Contador and Peter Sagan discussing the team's tactics to win the yellow and green jerseys
Alberto Contador and Peter Sagan lead the ride
Peter Sagan was back on his old Venge for the ride today (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Tinkoff-Saxo Tour de France team (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Peter Sagan's place in the Tinkoff-Saxo hierarchy at this Tour de France is such that even a caged canary seemed to garner more attention than he did during the squad's pre-race press conference at the Carlton President hotel on the outskirts of Utrecht on Thursday afternoon.
Changes to Tour de France green jersey classification confirmed
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Contador: I felt better at the 2014 Tour de France start
The canary was presented to Sagan's team leader Alberto Contador during the conference as part of a publicity stunt by a Dutch television crew, under the premise that the Spaniard was something of a bird fancier in his youth, and it prompted the photographers who had squeezed into the small meeting room to swarm around the top table and capture the moment for posterity.
When ordered was restored, and press officer Jacinto Vidarte had drily inquired if there were to be any more birds forthcoming, the questions resumed. Yet again, they were primarily targeted at Contador, who is seeking to become the first man to win the Giro-Tour double since Marco Pantani in 1998.
Tinkoff-Saxo's Tour line-up is built accordingly around Contador, with Rafal Majka, Roman Kreuziger and Michael Rogers his designated lieutenants in the high mountains and the rest of the squad expected to shepherd him through a demanding first week. Sagan, winner of the points classification for the past three years, will be left to his own devices, though he disagreed when it was eventually put to him that he was peripheral to the team's plans.
"I think I am also part of the team, I am not on the side," Sagan said. "I'm happy, it's a pleasure to ride with Alberto. We can do a very nice Tour and battle for the yellow jersey with other teams. I don't think I feel alone. We're a very good group and we want to win the Tour."
18 years have passed since a team managed to land both the yellow and green jerseys in the same Tour de France – Telekom achieved the feat in both 1996 and 1997 – and Sagan is aware that equalling Sean Kelly's tally of four green jerseys will not be straightforward. In 2012, for instance, Sky sacrificed Mark Cavendish's hopes in the competition rather than do anything to put Bradley Wiggins's overall win at risk.
Sagan would have been well-versed in his new team's July priorities before he signed on the dotted line last summer, of course, and he was quick to dispel any idea that he was unhappy with Tinkoff-Saxo's approach to the Tour.
"The most important thing at the Tour de France is the yellow jersey," Sagan said. "I think everybody knows that. Also for me, it's nice to be on a team that's fighting for the yellow jersey."
Points competition changes
Sagan's ability to score points in intermediate sprints even on mountain stages over the past three years prompted speculation that the green jersey would become his private property for much of the next decade, but his status on the Tinkoff-Saxo team and the changes to the points classification's scoring system prompted speculation that his crown would be vulnerable this time around.
On the Tour's nine flat stages, there are 50 points on offer for the winner and a 20-point differential between first and second, rather than the usual 10-point gap. The change is designed to favour stage winners and to tip the balance towards the pure sprinters, though the defending champion does not feel that the competition has been "Sagan-proofed."
"We will see because maybe the change to the points system can also be better for me. The difference is not too much and you can take points in the mountains too," Sagan said. "But now with this position in the team and Alberto, we have to see day by day how things go. Maybe it will be harder, maybe not."
When Sagan won three stages on his Tour debut in 2012 and sallied up the road in the break seemingly every other day, the points classification appeared almost to win itself. Such sparkle was markedly absent during a laboured spring campaign, though after showing some of the effervescence of old at the Tour of California and Tour de Suisse in recent weeks, Sagan struck an optimistic note on the eve of La Grande Boucle.
"It's also possible to take the green jersey, if it comes easily or if it comes by itself," Sagan said, before reiterating the obvious caveat: "But the yellow jersey is more important."
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Research-based learning is a learning format that requires the active participation of learners in self-directed processes of learning and cooperation under the guidance and scaffolding of teachers/tutors/facilitators. The use of digital media in research-based teaching and learning offers new possibilities for enhancing the self-directed learning both in individual and group facets. It also enables the development of key competences, such as information competence, ability for self-organization or the competence for solving problems, and it empowers social learning. Taking into considerations these benefits, this workshop aims to offer a broad view of the educational possibilities of digital tools for research-based learning group processes, in order to increase effective collaboration among groups, beyond physical constraints. Therefore, within the frame of the workshop, different digital tools from a range of categories (e.g. collaborative annotation, collaborative writing, pinboards, mind and concept mapping) will be explored and analyzed. After that, the participants will develop and present a brief research-based learning proposal by including some of those tools and provide feedback to the proposals of other participants. All the proposals will be collected, to share ideas among the participants.
The crises in the job market recorded in the last decade has psychological implications in particular for young people attempting to enter the professional world with higher education. It is expected from them to have high competences and great flexibility. To accomplish such expectations, educational agencies, and universities in particular, are required to re-define their educational proposals and methods. Blended courses seem to be able to offer the possibility for students to appropriate not only content but also ways to learn and work together, producing changes at the psychological level, in terms of modification of individual and collective positions. In this presentation, a blended educational model developed at the University of Bari (Italy) will be presented, reporting data and results. The model it is inspired to well-established theoretical roots – such as socio-constructivism, knowledge building, dialogism – and innovative approaches such as the "trialogical" theory. Furthermore, various pedagogical methods (such as Jigsaws, peer-tutoring, role-taking, progressive inquiry) are combined and adapted to blended contexts.


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Oak Park Facelift Continues With Corporate Help
Bob Moffitt
Thursday, June 12, 2014 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
The first of three-dozen projects intended to improve the Oak Park area of Sacramento broke ground today. Community leaders gathered to celebrate new home construction near 8th Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Pam Canada is with the non-profit group Neighborhood Works.
"We were fortunate to get a partnership with Wells Fargo under what they're calling the Urban Lift Program.," Canada says. "They provided $278,600 for us to do a variety of projects. We will build a house. We will be acquiring and renovating eight more homes."
Canada says Neighborhood Works has bought and restored about 20 homes in Oak Park.
Joany Titherington lives about five blocks away from the building site and runs the local farmers' market.
"It's a beautiful thing to see the renaissance of this neighborhood," says Titherington. It really has been helpful to have families move into these starter homes. It improves our schools. It improves everything because we really are a community."
Money will also go to new bike racks and the "Paint the Town" program with 15 homes receiving new paint and repairs.
The facades of eight businesses on Martin Luther Kings Boulevard in Oak Park will also receive improvements.
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Interoute to Acquire Easynet for £402 million
Tuesday, September 08, 2015 Interoute, Mergers and Acquisitions, UK
Interoute agreed to acquire European managed services provider Easynet for an enterprise value of £402 million.
Interoute said the acquisition will enable enterprise, government and service provider customers of the merged group to access a full suite of the combined companies products and services. In addition to increased products and services, the acquisition will bring an enhanced and expanded set of skills and capability to serve both companies' existing customers and new prospects across the world. On a pro forma basis, after giving effect to the acquisition, Interoute would have had total revenue of over €700 million in the twelve months ended 30 June 2015.
Gareth Williams, Interoute's CEO commented, "These are exciting times for Interoute and our customers as we create a leading, independent European ICT provider. It's the next step in our acquisition strategy and moves us much closer to our goal of being the provider of choice to Europe's digital economy."
Mark Thompson, CEO of Easynet, commented, "I believe this acquisition will bring great benefits to both Interoute's and Easynet's customers. The combined companies can offer broader and deeper connectivity options, as well as an expanded portfolio of products and services, and the acquisition will further expand an already market-leading cloud hosting capability in Europe."
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Brother Young passed at the age of 76 and is survived by his three children and four grandchildren. He served America proudly in the Navy and had two brothers who were DU- Chip and Al.
Mr. Young was born in Pittsburgh and lived in the State College area after his retirement from an executive position at Verizon. Click here for a full obituary.


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Everything Everything Interview
Today I spoke to Jeremy from the wonderful Everything Everything. Their debut is a real treat, there are links at the bottom of the page to places where you can give it a spin! Anyway, here is how my chat with Jeremy went. For the record, he was a really nice and chatty guy:
"Two days ago we met Rolf Harris. We saw him in the car park at Bestival. As we got on to the ferry, he was at the top of the stairs waiting for us, and he said 'Here they are!' We thought, how does he know who we are?"
Jeremy Pritchard, bassist in Britain's latest (and probably only) boundary-pushing art-funk-electro-pop-indie group Everything Everything certainly wouldn't have expected to gain a fan in the Australian icon, but then again, who would?
"He has a rapper in his live set who is a big fan of us, and he introduced Rolf to our band," explains Pritchard of the encounter so mad that it has to be true. "Over the tannoy system on the ferry he sang 'Two Little Boys', and he said 'Come on Everything Everything, join in!' in the middle of it. John (Higgs, lead vocals and guitar) said, 'we need to retire, we've peaked already!'"
If anyone is saying that Everything Everything have reached a peak in their career, the comment will certainly be followed by 'so far'. After all, this is a band on the up and up. A series of attention-grabbing singles increased attention for debut album Man Alive, released in August, emerging critically lauded and currently surprising pretty much everyone who gives it a listen.
"When the press came out, it wasn't daunting. It was just surprising, the volume of positivity. We expected it to be much more 50/50."
However, some of the overly positive reports exceed Jeremy's own opinion of the album.
"A lot of the reviews that said 'This is great, this is brave and ambitious, but here are the weak points', we agreed with those more than the ones that said 'Ten out of ten'. We didn't want to make a 'perfect' record first time round, we want to grow."
He adds: "As a document of the past two years of the band I think it's exactly what we wanted it to be. There's very little in the way of compromise of what we wanted, none in fact. We're very proud of it."
The intricacy and complexity of Everything Everything's music has led to them being hailed as the pioneers of new, intelligent genre-defying pop, and is a result of the group's collaborative songwriting.
As Jeremy explains, "John has the core of every song and all of the lyrics, but everything else is open. He'll write something on his guitar, keyboard or laptop, either chords or a melody, or a whole arrangement. We always dismantle it and put it back together and try to make it human again."
Even with just the bare bones of a song, John's ambitious and offbeat tunes can sometimes be a challenge for the other bandmates to initially get their heads around.
"With 'Weights', all the rhythm tracks and the verses were mapped out, so I just had to learn it," says Pritchard. "The rhythmic scheme of that took me a while to get to grips with. Singing and playing the parts at the same time in that song was really challenging. We had a whiteboard up with this ridiculous equation on it telling us how to play the ending."
This soon-to-be-trademark complexity is never forced upon the music, though, Jeremy describing it as "visceral and natural."
"We're not trying to be awkward," he claims. "In fact, now we're trying to work away from those instincts to be complex."
The rest of the year sees the band tour the UK in a slew of dates across the country. Crucial to the tour will be the band's attempt to bring the intricacy of the album to the stage.
"I don't understand why bands use certain colours and textures on the record, and when they come to play it live go 'We'll just get the guitars out'. I'm always disappointed if I see an act that doesn't value the sounds they've used on its album," he says. "We've put them there for a reason, so we do want to play them live."
Everything Everything tour the UK in October - tickets can be found here.
Everything Everything's album 'Man Alive' is currently streaming in its entirity on their Myspace page and is also on Spotify.
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Frightened Rabbit Interview
With their summer festival round complete and a UK tour set to take place during November, I managed to speak to Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit, one of the UK's current most outstanding bands. Here's how it went...
It's been a hectic summer for Scottish alt-rock outfit Frightened Rabbit. Between Glastonbury, T in the Park and V, they have been a regular name on this year's UK festival round, they've played the major European festivals, been to America and somehow found time to also tour Australia.
"We've been really busy but it's been great actually," says frontman Scott Hutchison. "It's a perfect way to gather a new audience over a short space of time, so it's been really good for us."
The Glasgow-based five piece might not have yet achieved the commercial success they deserve, but have a huge cult following particularly from their 2008 album The Midnight Organ Fight. An intensely personal album, it charts Scott's breakdown and the beginnings of hope after a devastating breakup. It's an outstanding album, and on release received exceptional critical acclaim and worship from fans. Whilst the subject of the album was certainly a painful one, Scott explains that he's fine to play the songs live.
"Our old songs, for me anyway, when I play them live I'm acutely aware that in a lot of ways some of the songs and the material means a lot more and is more pertinent to the people in the audience," he says. "I've really let all that go, now it's a joyful experience to play them."
With a new album released this year, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, to yet more acclaim, the band felt the pressure while writing the new material. How to follow up an album loved by so many?
"I did feel pressure but it was positive – you can either let it crush you or you can try and use it to better yourself. I didn't want to make Midnight Organ Fight part two. I wanted to make a different album that couldn't really be compared to that. It brought a whole new audience to the band."
Now everything seems to be on the up, with this year including some of Frightened Rabbit's best moments as a band, with a crowd "beyond my expectations" at T in the Park and their first ever Glastonbury appearance.
"Glastonbury was special for a ton of reasons. It was the first time we'd ever been, let alone played."
However, they're not ready to leave behind the intimacy of smaller festivals and gigs.
"I always love the low-key festivals," he explains. "At the big ones there's the feeling that you're part of a revolving door of bands and it's slightly less personal. At small festivals it's much more enjoyable – you get to actually interact with people."
With an excellent live reputation, Scott promises fans "a really good, solid set and a really long one as well. We try and inject a good amount of energy and sweat into our performances and play to the crowd."
He adds: "I'm still learning how to be a frontman, and what I've learned over the summer I'll be able to bring to our shows."
Take the chance to see Frightened Rabbit in the smaller venues on their upcoming UK tour while you can, before they move onto bigger (but not necessarily better) sites when they receive the attention they truly deserve.
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The Masked Singer: Season 9; FOX Units Making a song Pageant's Early 2023 Go back (Watch) – canceled + renewed TV displays
through Trevor Kimball, January 13, 2023
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Deliver at the subsequent batch of loopy costumed celebrities. FOX has introduced a premiere date and launched a teaser video for the impending 9th season of The Masked Singer. The 8th season completed airing in November, and a vacation sing-a-long ran closing month.
A thriller making a song festival, The Masked Singer TV display is hosted through Nick Cannon with Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong, and Robin Thicke sitting at the judges' panel. The display options making a song celebrities dealing with off towards one every other with one primary twist — every contestant is roofed from head to toe in an elaborate dress, whole with a complete face masks to hide his or her identification. With every efficiency, the host, panelists, target market, audience — or even the opposite contestants — are left guessing who's making a song in the back of the masks. In season 8, 22 costumed characters took section in themed episodes together with Vegas Evening, Comedy Roast, Corridor Of Status, Muppets Evening, Andrew Lloyd Webber Evening, TV Topics, '90s Evening, Thanksgiving, and Fright Evening. Visitors integrated Donny Osmond, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Muppets, Will Arnett, Leslie Jordan, Joel McHale, Tori Spelling, Jon Lovitz, Jodie Sweetin, Carrot Most sensible, Blue Guy Team, Lance Bass, Danielle Fishel, Sheila E., and Drew Carey.
The 8th season of The Masked Singer averaged a nil.72 score within the 18-49 demographic and three.95 million audience in Fall 2022. In comparison to season six (which aired in Fall 2021), that's down through 23% within the demo and down through 12% in viewership within the are living+similar day scores (which contains DVR playback via 3:00 AM). The display selections up about 30% extra audience when the are living+7 day behind schedule viewing is factored into the combo. Despite the fact that the display's scores have dropped somewhat a little bit, it stays one in every of FOX's highest-rated displays.
Season 9 of Masked Singer debuts on Wednesday, February fifteenth. The collection will as soon as once more characteristic themed episodes and new costumed characters, together with French Rooster, Doll, Axolotl, and Moose.
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Air Force awards nearly $1 billion contract for a hypersonic cruise missile
By Aaron Mehta
The Air Force is working with Lockheed Martin to design a new hypersonic prototype. The service previously explored the technology with tests of the X-51A Waverider, shown here under the wing of a B-52 bomber. (U.S. Air Force graphic)
WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin to design and prototype a new hypersonic cruise missile, as part of a broad Pentagon push to kickstart America's hypersonic arsenal.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the "design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of all the elements of a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon" was announced by the service April 18.
The total value for Lockheed could be as high as $928 million over the course of the program's unspecified timeline. The program is known formally as the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon.
"This effort is one of two hypersonic weapon prototyping efforts being pursued by the Air Force to accelerate hypersonics research and development," service spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said in a statement. "The Air Force is using prototyping to explore the art-of-the-possible and to advance these technologies to a capability as quickly as possible."
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The other prototyping program referenced by Stefanek is the Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon. In its FY19 budget request, the Air Force asked for $258 million for the two prototyping experiments.
The service is also working on two science and technology hypersonic programs, in conjunction with DARPA. Those are the Tactical Boost Glide program, which expects to have a prototype in the 2022-2023 timeframe, and the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC.
Hypersonic flight is defined as anything about Mach 5, meaning five times the speed of sound. Such a weapon, if successfully developed, would be able to skirt past existing air defenses and hold enemy forces at risk from great ranges. Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has previously started a focus on developing the technology.
Stefanek noted the dollar amount represents the "estimated face value" for the project and is not a full commitment from the service. Money will be given out through a series of tasking orders, the first of which will come in the next few weeks.
The announcement comes as Pentagon officials, most vocally Undersecretary of Defense and Research Michael Griffin, have openly called for the need of more investment into hypersonic technology.
"The most significant advance by our adversaries has been the Chinese development of what is now today a pretty mature system for conventional prompt strike at multi thousand kilometer ranges," Griffin told the House Armed Services Committee during an April 17 hearing. "We will, with today's defensive systems, not see these things coming."
"It is time for us to renew our emphasis on and funding of these areas in a coordinated way across the department to develop systems which can be based on land for conventional prompt strike, can be based at sea, and later on can be based on aircraft," Griffin later said.
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Robert Cameron,  (29 October 1890 – 21 May 1970) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 until 1956. He was a member of the Labor Party.

Cameron was born in the Hunter Region coal mining town of Minmi. He was the son of a coal-miner and was educated to elementary level at Plattsburg public school. His initial employment was as a coal miner at the Wallsend Colliery at the age of 14. He was an office-holder in the Miners' Federation prior to his election to parliament.

Following the abolition of multi-member seats elected by proportional representation at the 1927 election, Cameron won ALP pre-selection and the general election for the seat of Wallsend. This seat was abolished in a redistribution before the 1930 state election and Cameron was subsequently elected to the seat of Waratah. He remained the representative for this seat until his retirement in 1956.

On 1 January 1963, Cameron was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "in recognition of public service in New South Wales."

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Black activists stomp U.S. flag at Trump rallies
'F--- this country. This red white and blue, this sh-- is the new swastika'
By Douglas Ernst
Published April 4, 2016 at 3:06pm
Activists in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stomp on the American flag at a Donald Trump rally on April 3, 2016 (Photo: WITI-6 screenshot)
Black activists unfurled an American flag on Sunday and stomped on it during multiple rallies for presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Wisconsin.
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Malcolm X-inspired activists arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and then a second event at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis to show their contempt for the country.
"F--- this flag. F--- this country. This red white and blue, this sh-- is the new swastika," a man wearing a "F--- Yo Flag" baseball cap told a reporter for Alex Jones' InfoWars.
An anti-Trump protester in Wisconsin calls the American flag "the new swastika" (Photo: YouTube, InfoWars screenshot)
"What has Trump said about the black community that you don't like?" the reporter asked.
"I don't care for any of the politicians," the man said. "His rhetoric is very racist. [It's] probably not directed at black people, but his ties to the KKK are questionable. So are Hillary's."
The man cited no proof that either candidate was tied to the KKK.
At both rallies the protesters were confronted by citizens who opposed their tactics.
"That's our flag. That's our country," local citizen James Turk told WITI-6 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "They've got family members that died for their right to do that and there is just no gratefulness, no respect. There's no appreciation and it makes me sick. It thoroughly makes me sick. I think it's sad."
Police eventually created a barrier between Trump supporters and protesters to keep the peace. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct, the Fox affiliate reported.
Anti-Trump protesters chant outside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on April 3, 2016 (Photo: WITI-6 screenshot)
Desecration of the American flag became popular last summer with black activists in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The Eric Sheppard challenge" was created last April after cops began searching for self-proclaimed "terrorist" and New Black Panther Party activist Eric Sheppard. Police found a gun in the Valdosta State University student's unattended backpack during a series of protests, education watchdog Campus Reform reported April 30, 2015.
Supporter Erica Walker also became infamous for saying "F--- yo flag" before dancing on the American flag and sharing the video on Facebook. Other race activists used the flag as toilet paper.
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Sheppard was eventually arrested in Tampa, Florida, on May 28, 2015, and charged with with carrying a weapon within a school safety zone. He was then indicted by a grand jury on Oct. 2, 2015, but his attorney requested a change in venue in December for the forthcoming trial.
Sheppard faces up to eight years behind bars and up to $10,000 fines if convicted.
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