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Joy o'clock Debuts with Beautiful "Delusion"
Almost every single K-pop album, even the mini-albums and EPs, has at least one ballad. Often it is one ballad too many — the songs that sell the albums are usually the dance tracks and the ballads can sometimes feel like autotuned filler that we know could not be adequately performed live in front of an audience. For this reason, Joy o'clock's decision to debut with a ballad is an unusual choice, and upon first listen to "Delusion" (also translated as "Illusion"), I girded myself to be bored to brokenhearted tears by just another sad love song.
The song is a lyrical and haunting narrative of a man's regret after a breakup. In that sense, the track is very standard fare. Where it departs from the norm is that it is composed by Joy o'Clock's two members Dason and Yong-hyun, and it's clear from the composition that they are real musicians with a classical interest in the music itself. This is most evident in the strong piano accompaniment to the standard ballad strings.
This is a song and music video that will reward the patient listener. While they aren't the lookers we've come to expect from male groups like EXO, Vixx, Super Junior or even H.O.T. (when they were still H.O.T.), they more than make up for this by being genuinely capable singers. The kind of singers that I would pay to go and see in concert just to hear their voices, even if they couldn't sing or didn't look like Choi Siwon when they took their shirts off. Their voices have none of the thinness that we've come to expect from K-pop hotties but are instead very fully and complete with an admirable vocal range, reminiscent of 4MEN.
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The style of the song itself is reminiscent of old school 1990s R&B when Boyz II Men owned the airwaves. Even the music video recalls an old classic by Boyz II Men, "Water Runs Dry." In that video, the Boyz sing about the end of a relationship while standing on white sand, the colorful sea nowhere in sight. It's not a particularly subtle interpretation of what happens when the water runs dry, but it still managed to be affecting. On this waterless "beach" (desert), they are joined by a small string orchestra which has the intended effect of highlighting the particularly sorrowful cello in the song:
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Joy o'clock similarly situate themselves in a space that is evocative of sand and sea, this time with a very sizeable grand piano. This set is spliced with scenes that purportedly show the heartbreak of a man and a woman who have parted ways, and the man looks especially torn up by the whole thing. Like the song itself, I expected to be bored by the video and was pleasantly surprised by the ways in which it intrigued me, even though it didn't do anything particularly special. The acting is high quality: the facial expressions from the man are believable. Again, this isn't a Super Junior or EXO video: it's not flashy, there's no dancing to speak of, and I think one of the guys compliments his all black outfit with Converse All Stars. But the production style is chosen to use this as a strength, and it works. Everything seems very human, very down to earth, and very relatable. We've all been there. This is a feeling and a duo that maybe we can identify with.
Despite its plain mentality, the video's cinematography is beautiful, and the colors of the beach scenes are rich and engrossing. The director aimed to capture yellows wherever they existed, and this created a certain visual continuity of the before heartbreak and after heartbreak scenes — even when going from beautiful sunsets to a grey day on the beach, there is this background, a certain color, that refuses to go away, just like the man's feelings of love for the girlfriend he's lost.
Overall, Joy o'clock has put their best foot forward, although perhaps not quite joyously. With such a strong start, they've raised the bar for future releases. I am very curious about their capacity for expanding beyond basic balladry. But even if they can't, I think we can fully expect to see them on a drama OST very soon.
Song: 3.75/5
MV: 3/5
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Tags: Joy o'clock, MV Review
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These collections of poems were inspired by authors that we had read in our Writing in an Endangered World class this semester. Within my anthology I used authors Linda Hogan, Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry to inspire my work. All of their work that was used was from The EcoPoetry Anthology edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. Each of their poems brought back memories from the past, and each of my inspired poems have a memory from my childhood. Our Writing in an Endangered World class inspired me to be more environmentally conscious. Each poem within my final project raises awareness of the condition of the land in some way shape or form. It speaks of the land being fragile and if we don't take care of it we will destroy it. The idea of the poems invoking a memory of my childhood only makes me want to protect the environment more. When I get older I want my children to be able to experience the world like I experienced it. I don't want them to only be able to experience from old pictures on their phones. By saving the environment we enable our future generations to be able to experience the world like we did when we were young. The environment is a beautiful place and as a society we have to come together to protect and preserve it for the sake of all the future generations who have yet to experience it.
All I wanted was a pony.
the flowers, and past the trees.
and feel the power pump through her veins.
to a large and powerful horse.
in her footsteps. I walk her to the water and place her down gently.
This Little Birdy birdy greets all who pass by.
Sitting alone eyes closed in the middle of the forest I'm silent.
the mischief of the forest. Will she want to keep peace with me?
All the bunnies, the foxes, and squirrels too.
Let them be unharmed and let the darkness protect them.
as the seasons change so does his presence.
Warm and comforting in the crisp fall air, bursting with color.
But fragile and aged as the days get shorter and winter approaches.
Led her to his home. He was a bear.
Old man in the fur coat, Bear! come out!
Die of your own choice!
Who rules in the mountains, Bear!
Cornered him in the rocks.
– I think I'll go hunt bears.
with a handful of rice!" (491).
Winter is coming and Mr. Bear is almost full.
As she kisses Mr. Bear on his nose.
and my parents drink beer. Toasty warm under the star lit sky.
wondering what's out there, whose watching us.
The glimmer of the moon shines down upon us.
to cool off my entire body.
A huge moon on it all, it too much.
its like he's reach out his branches begging the Cougar not to pounce.
All of a summer's day. (495).
Adding bird seed to the feeders.
As well as things. (496).
No stronger bond then that of a mother and her fawn.
veins on the back of the hand.
Each inch rippld, every grain a wave.
Mom's pouring cocktails, while my aunt and uncle chat.
while we roast marshmallows, and stare up at the endless sky.
as if I am rounding the human corners. (336).
were covered in shriveled, wet worms and mud.
I took my sandals off and went barefoot.
as I jump onto the platform of the dam.
but a place to be young and free for my friends and I.
hit our skin with a feeling of simplicity.
I feel a sense of content knowing this is home.
yet I loosen your skin and then I fly into the night.
only pale fingers searching, without eyes.
but they could not approach a human holding their nest.
made by the moment-by-moment creation of care.
by degrees, acres, even the smallest atom.
and how I waited, how I watched. (337).
would go unnoticed if I never moved it.
Only try to fix it.


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[Comic Review] The League of Extraordinary Batkillers — Batman #35
If Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns proved Batman was capable of standing his own against Superman, then Mark Waid's Tower of Babel arc in JLA showed how much further he could take it.
Scott Snyder's Endgame, the current Batman story arc beginning this issue, takes it one giant step further with the Dark Knight being ambushed by the members of the Justice League. There's no warning, no planning, and no explanation until the very last page which will have readers anxiously waiting out an entire month to get their hands on the next issue to see what comes next.
Bruce Wayne has been seeing terrible visions of his own death as a result of the a Cassandra strain of Crane's fear toxin which removes the brain's natural reaction to dying in a dream by waking up. After a conversation with Alfred and Julia Pennyworth about Batman's new highrise headquarters, Gotham City, and removing the remaining vestiges of the Owls, a visitor arrives.
The surprise isn't the fact the visitor is Wonder Woman, or that she comes crashing through the window. It's what she does when she tackles the injured Wayne, slams him headfirst into the floor, then flies him away over the park where he escapes. Wonder Woman seems incredibly focused on killing Wayne, prompting him to call for plan "Fenrir."
Fenrir involves a "Justice Buster" suit that incapacitates Wonder Woman, Flash, and Aquaman in that order through varying but very effective methods. When the big bad Blue makes his appearance, the true threat behind the Justice League of Batkillers is revealed, and to say it's bad news would be equivalent to losing an arm and calling it a flesh wound.
Batman #35 is designed for maximum impact, and Snyder's story bounces forward, backwards, and even slows to a crawl without losing steam. Once Wonder Woman enters the picture, the issue kicks it into top gear, becoming a showcase for Batman to prove he doesn't need to crawl back to his mansion to lick his wounds, devise a plan, before coming back to finish the mission ninja style. Within minutes and after a brutal shellacking, Wayne's suited up, the locale is covered in a foggy gas, and he's ready to take down some of the most powerful beings on the planet as an army of one. Snyder's script covers the bases with great surprises that don't stretch logic. The methods Batman uses to dispatch the Justice League don't feel farfetched — rather, they seem pretty appropriate for their intended targets.
The dialogue also suits its speakers with a little bit of bending that makes you wonder whether they're possessed or going insane. Diana Prince's formal warrior speak sets the tone for Wayne's very bad day after he's challenged, and Arthur Curry sounds like he's about to slap Wayne with a gauntlet before heading into a jousting match. As for Superman, Clark Kent's condescension drips with creepiness, especially when he tells us who we should really be afraid of.
The script alone would make for an awesome prose story, but the visual team won't take a backseat. Greg Capullo's pencils look like they're trying to outdo themselves with page after page of dramatic tension and grand designs. The Justice Buster suit looks very much like a bat — a robotic and menacing one at that — and one the Hulk would need a Bat Buster suit to outdo. The expressions convey the story Snyder's writing, and Capullo doesn't neglect the visual qualities of the characters — from Wonder Woman's confident stances to Superman's relaxed and powerful hovering posture.
Danny Miki's inks on tops of the pencils are precise like incisions, and there's clear separation between clean and dirty surfaces with a level of detail that doesn't come with a rushed hand. The polish and detail are incredible and worthy of the Batman legacy.
When it comes to colors, FCO Plascencia excels. Even a quick glance over the various panels brings your eyes to the bright and recognizable costumes that highlight each page. There's a lot of grays to work with due to the fog, but Plascencia doesn't let it overpower the visual story. The lighting is beautiful, and the palette has a great aesthetic that's easy on the eyes.
The Batman title in its New 52 phase has produced plenty of great moments that have kept fans coming back month after month. It's been a consistent top-10 seller and for good reason. The creative team has hit a stride that continues producing quality issues that set the bar for what superhero comics should be. Some may argue it's the title itself that sells the comic, but I'd be the first to stand up for the names in the credit section.
What comic wouldn't sell with Snyder, Capullo, Miki, and Plascencia on the cover?
Batman #35 (2011)
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Words: Scott Snyder
Pencils: Greg Capullo
Inks: Danny Miki
Colors: FCO Plascencia
Letters: Steve Wands
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Nowadays it's impossible to envision Sydney without seeing the Opera House in your mind, but the famous landmark wasn't constructed until 1959.
Before the Opera House existed, shows were held at the Sydney Town Hall, but the bustling city quickly outgrew that venue. In an effort to create a larger gathering place for the arts, the Opera House was proposed.
An international competition was hosted to find an architect to design the building that would become the focal point of the harbor. The winner was Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect, who went on to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his work.
On October 20th, 1973, Queen Elizabeth of Australia opened the doors of the Opera House for the first time.
The projected cost of the Opera House was $7 million. It cost $106 million by completion.
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The Sydney Opera House was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2007.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won his final Mr. Olympia body building title in 1980 in the great hall.
Utzon's design was initially rejected by three of the competition's judges.
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Assimilating the sounds of an electric keyboard within improvised music is one challenge which many pianists have tried to meet over the past three or four decades. Perfect for coloration or to set up Funk or Fusion grooves, the amplified piano can also be used more cerebrally, bringing novel impulses to unexpected contexts. Each of these almost identically constituted trios goes this route; yet sonic instigation is dealt with in a singular fashion.
As familiar with so-called avant-Rock and Klezmer music as various streams of Jazz, drummer Zeno De Rossi has played with musicians as different as guitarist Marc Ribot and trumpeter Enrico Rava. Although the sounds on Kepos come from various sources, the Italian drummer and his associates – tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Francesco Bigoni plus Giorgio Pacorig on Fender Rhodes – work consistently throughout. Material ranges from originals to group instant compositions to treatment of songs by Robin Holcomb and Vic Chesnutt. But the patina of sameness that hangs over all of them may be great for band consistency, but takes time to warm the blood.
Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin is as versatile as De Rossi, having worked with everyone from Paris-based saxophonist Alexandra Grimal to fellow countryman, drummer Teun Verbruggen. Formed to explore Dumoulin's compositions, despite its name, The Red Hill Orchestra is a trio which matches the keyboardist with two well-travelled Americans, drummer Dan Weiss and tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin. Tone amalgamation from the three while elaborating the CD's dozen tunes appears more total than what transpires among the Italian three.
De Rossi's crew ping-pongs among Rock, improv, psychedelic, folk, Jazz and outer space influences on its CD, with the twists and turns sometime difficult to reconcile. The version of Vic Chesnutt's "Forthright" for instance, comes across as a Country-Rock instrumental devoid of Jazz feeling. In contrast, with its keyboard dusting, pinched reed slurs and irregular percussion inserts, "Funis Ambulans" sounds like an off-centre lullaby. Additionally, the 30-second "Don't Sit under the Apple Tree with My Banjo on Your Knee", whose title may be longer than the performance itself, is properly other-worldly, but is more of a throw-away than an intermezzo. "I Met Einstein in a Dream", is similarly spacey as well as psychedelic, but the relaxed drumming from De Rossi and Bigoni's flexible reed lines make a more lasting impression than the theme itself.
Much more engaging are those tunes where the trio expresses its Jazz and/or Jazz-Rock influences in full. For instance "This is Always" casts Bigoni's tenor saxophone lines midway between Ben Webster and Stan Getz and proves that the trio can swing even with a theme taken slower than slow. Keyboard textural buzzing plus a shuffle beat give a unique tint to "Deep Dead Blue", which could be a left-of-centre variant of Gene Ammons playing "Angel Eyes" – if you can imagine an Italian clarinetist not a Chicago saxophonist in that role. On the Rockier side, "Shades of Bill Frisell" doesn't much sound like its dedicatee, unless fuzz-tone-like keyboard licks, riffing sax lines and an unvarying beat are how De Rossi hears that guitarist's music. More fascinating is "Pitula", which cleverly defines how opposite attractions can meld, with an exposition divided among gooey keyboard licks, breathy, laid back saxophone riffs and anvil-hard drum smacks.
With the De Rossi trio's disc teetering between magnificent and mundane due to its eclecticism, The Red Hill Orchestra scores more decisively, but that's because its performances are more consistent, if perhaps too steadfast. With most tunes hovering in an atmospheric, zone, it appears that Dumoulin's textural strategy is moistly languid; Weiss's to not upset the placidity except for the occasional rim shot; and Eskelin is left to vibrate tones in a distinctive style that refers to both Ammons and Getz. Chromatic motion isn't at a premium throughout, and to move the sounds out of a consistent groove takes some effort. There are some differences though. "Said a Blade of Grass" has the saxophonist's extended vibrations enlivening variations on a shifting near-baroque étude from the electric pianist. And while "Inner White" features no ProgRock echoes, the saxophonist's straight-ahead note spinning still attempts to harden the keyboardist's laid back comping.
Judging from the identically titled "Sea Green" tracks which introduce and conclude Trust, Dumoulin probably conceived of the session as a suite-like program with gentle lapping asides throughout. That goal may have been reached, but some of the eclecticism expressed by De Rossi could have been better for this session, just as a more focused program would have strengthened Kepos. Both CDs suggest avenues for electric piano invention, but both are a bit flawed.


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A kidney for Christmas: Pennsylvania mother in search of an organ for her 16-year-old son
Sam Ruland
Business cards are often a tool for networking — listing job qualifications, contact information, maybe what school someone received their degree from.
But for Alex Kepner and Jennifer Fink, the black and white lettering printed on the small rectangular card stock could literally save a life.
Alex is in Stage 4 chronic kidney disease. They're trying to keep him off dialysis, but his kidneys aren't doing well. He needs a transplant. It's the ultimate Christmas wish.
He's on the waiting list for a cadaver transplant. But it could be a long wait. Plus, cadaver organs don't last as long as live organs, his mother said.
She's willing to do anything to find her 16-year-old son a donor.
"Got kidneys? Want to share with Alex Kepner?" the business card reads. There's also a picture of Alex on it — he's wearing his big, square glasses and his nose and mouth are covered by a surgical mask. He's flashing a peace sign at the camera.
Also on the card, is a phone number for the Penn State transplant team: 717-531-6092.
'It's not good'
At first, there were no words. Just some long stares and a deep embrace between mother and son.
"All I heard was, 'It's not good,' and my brain slowed down," Fink remembers of the day Alex was diagnosed. "I couldn't even focus on what the doctor was telling me, and I never expected it to be this."
They told Fink that Alex's kidney function falls between 14 to 18 percent.
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"'What? I don't understand this,' I remember saying," Fink recalls. "He was just supposed to be getting bloodwork done so he could start on an anxiety medication. This didn't make sense."
The doctors couldn't tell Fink why her son's kidney function was so low. It turns out it didn't make sense to them either. The condition is so rare for someone so young that Alex is now part of a case study investigating.
It would have been easy to break down at that moment, Fink admits — to let the direness of the situation kick in, paralyze her like she feared it would. But she knew it wasn't the time for that.
"I wanted to be strong for him," Fink said. "That's part of any parent's job, I guess. Make sure that you put on a show for your child."
So, she tried to listen hard to what the doctors were telling her. She may not have understood all the big, scary words they were saying, but that didn't matter. She would listen and Google later if she had to.
"It doesn't really hurt that bad," Alex snuck in as his mother was reciting his medical chart. There was no bitterness in his demeanor. "I get tired pretty easily, but I know it's going to get better…even if it has to get worse first."
For now, Alex is continuing with his normal routine. He's a junior at Dallastown Area High School, which for him entails balancing homework, friends and playing Dungeons & Dragons with his mom — "yeah, we're both huge nerds," Fink laughed.
It was her son's tenacity and resilience that inspired Fink to take matters into her own hands.
"All the medication is doing is buying time right now," Fink said. "And I'm not really OK with that. As a parent, I need to feel like I'm doing more — I have to."
They realized the business cards and social media could help spread the message.
"I hand them out, I hang them up. Anywhere you can drop a business card, I drop them — window sills in businesses," Fink said. "Just so they can look at my kid's face."
No one in their family is eligible to be a donor.
They're looking for someone to give Alex the chance at a continuing a "normal life pattern," his mother said.
Dialysis, Alex said, "literally changes everything you do."
STORY CONTINUES BELOW GALLERY.
And so they wait.
The mother-son duo sits in their Red Lion home, prepared if Alex needs to go into dialysis.
"If you have no other alternative, you have to deal with it," his mother said of dialysis. But they hold out hope. They know dialysis would be tough on the 16-year-old.
As of now, Alex said, he doesn't feel all that sick. That's one of the hardest parts.
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"It's so hard to explain how I feel because I don't feel sick, yet they tell me it's there," he said.
Alex is on the autism spectrum, so his mother worries that he doesn't always know how to process his pain. She worries that something could go wrong and he wouldn't know to speak up.
Even if he doesn't feel that terrible, Fink said, she's noticed some changes. A lot of things have "slowed down" for him. His kidneys aren't flushing all the toxins out like they should, she added.
They've been on the transplant list since last September, but that wait can be anywhere from three to six years for a cadaver organ. His blood type is O+ and his insurance will only cover donors in Pennsylvania.
"I'll do almost literally anything I have to to get the message out," Fink said.
Someone who responds to the business card will have an opportunity to give someone the gift of life. Without this transplant, Alex's health will continue to deteriorate.
They haven't found a donor yet. But they have had support. Hershey Medical Center has received over 20 calls from people interested in donating a kidney to Alex, Fink said. And for that, she's grateful.
"I want to thank everybody who had responded to us," she said. "It's restored some of my faith in humanity."
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Mumford and Sons go electric on new album, Wilder Mind
British folk rockers also announce new tour dates, including Gentlemen of the Road Stopover shows with Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, and My Morning Jacket
by Michelle Geslani
on March 02, 2015, 9:55am
Mumford and Sons have announced their new album. The follow-up to 2012's Babel is titled Wilder Mind and due to hit shelves on May 4th via Glassnote Records.
Details of the highly-anticipated LP — including the tracklist and cover art — were prematurely posted on iTunes earlier today, and have since been confirmed on the band's website. The 12-track effort includes song titles like "Tompkins Square Park", "Monster", "Snake Eyes", and "Hot Gates". Below is the skyline-filled artwork.
A teaser clip posted on Facebook last week suggested that the band's music would be taking more of an electric direction. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the band confirmed such a sonic evolution, revealing the new album will feature "U2-sized guitars, synths, spacey mellotrons, and even some drum machines."
"We felt that doing the same thing, or the same instrumentation again, just wasn't for us," explained frontman Marcus Mumford. "We've got a broader taste in music than just that." Added bassist Ted Dwane, "None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of Babel 2. It was always going to be different." Below, watch a new teaser trailer for the album.
Wilder Mind marks the end of Mumford and Sons' hiatus, which they took in 2013 after extensively touring behind Babel. They'll return to the stage for a headlining appearance at Bonnaroo and have also announced new round of Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers with Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, and My Morning Jacket.
Wilder Mind cover:
Wilder Mind Tracklist:
01. Tompkins Square Park
03. The Wolf
04. Wilder Mind
05. Just Smoke
07. Snake Eyes
08. Broad-Shouldered Beasts
09. Cold Arms
10. Ditmas
11. Only Love
12. Hot Gates
13. Tompkins Square Park (Live) *
14. Believe (Live) *
15. The Wolf (Live) *
16. Snake Eyes (Live) *
* = deluxe version
Mumford and Sons 2015 Tour Dates:
06/05-06 – Seaside Heights, NJ @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover *
06/11-14 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
06/19-20 – Waverly, IA @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover *
07/03 – Gdynia, PL @ Open'er Festival
07/09-11 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
07/10 – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive Festival
07/31-08/01 – Aviemore, UK @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover *
08/07-09 – Squamish Valley, BC @ Squamish Valley Music Festival
08/14-15 – Walla Walla, WA @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover *
08/21-22 – Salida, CO @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover *
08/28-30 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/28-30 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers:
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
June 5th + 6th – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Dawes, The Very Best, Jenny Lewis, Little May, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Waverly, Iowa, USA
June 19th + 20th – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, The Maccabees, The Very Best, Rubblebucket, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Aviemore, Scotland, UK
July 31st + August 1st – Mumford & Sons, Primal Scream, Simian Mobile Disco, Ben Howard, Lianne La Havas, The Maccabees, Jack Garratt, Honeyblood + more TBA
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
August 14th + 15th – Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, The Vaccines, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Salida, Colorado, USA
August 21st + 22nd – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Dawes,
Jenny Lewis, The Vaccines, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
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The Music Hall and New Hampshire Public Radio present the next Writers on a New England Stage on Feb. 2
Writers on a New England Stage: Thoughtful Conversations To Warm Your Winter Nights
By PATRICIA MCLAUGHLIN & AYTAJ ISMAYILOVA • JAN 4, 2021
The Music Hall and New Hampshire Public Radio kick off 2021 with a series of virtual Writers on a New England Stage events. Three separate literary conversations with esteemed authors will focus on a personal reckoning with race in New Hampshire; economic misunderstandings and how that impacts our society; and thoughtful questions around end-of-life care and what that means for living and dying. The latest round of author talks include New Hampshire-raised cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, and renowned NPR host Diane Rehm. These three distinct conversations continue the beloved series' mission of bringing renowned authors and thinkers to New Hampshire audiences, and connecting with literary fans in a new platform for a new year.
The conversation lineup:
Tuesday, February 2 at 7 p.m., award-winning author, podcast host and Black culture critic Rebecca Carroll presents her new book Surviving the White Gaze. Carroll grew up in rural New Hampshire, experiencing a painful struggle as a minority in an overwhelmingly white culture. Surviving The White Gaze is her stirring and powerful memoir recounting her path from that childhood to forging her own identity as a Black woman in America. Carroll has been the host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll, a cultural critic at WNYC, and a critic at large for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, and she is the author of several books about race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw.
Tuesday, February 23 at 7 p.m., renowned NPR radio host and bestselling author Diane Rehm presents her new book When My Time Comes. The book is a candid, compassionate consideration of the Right-to-Die movement, seen through the lens of the death of Ms. Rehm's husband. Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU 88.5, the NPR member station in Washington, D.C. She was hired as an assistant producer and later became the host and producer of two health-oriented programs. Diane became a broadcasting legend through her hosting of The Diane Rehm Show, distributed by NPR from 1979 to 2016, when it had a listening audience of two-and-a-half million. She now hosts a podcast for WAMU-NPR, On My Mind.
Tuesday, March 2 at 7 p.m., Nobel Prize winner and The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman with his new book Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future. Krugman explores the concept of zombie economics – misunderstandings about economic principles that linger and persist – and how those misunderstandings inform debates around health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, and Social Security, among other topics. Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as an Op-Ed columnist. He is a distinguished professor in the Graduate Center Economics Ph.D. program and a scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center at the City University of New York. In 2008, Paul was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory. Paul currently lives in New York City.
NHPR's All Things Considered host Peter Biello will be in virtual conversations with the authors on the outlined dates. All events will be held via the Crowdcast platform. The literary conversations are part of Writers on a New England Stage, a partnership of The Music Hall and New Hampshire Public Radio. Ticket packages vary by event, but they all include access to the live stream, the virtual author discussion, and Q&A. For tickets, call the Box Office at 603-436-2400, or purchase online.
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I am currently Head of Northern and Eastern Europe Energy Origination at Morgan Stanley, based out of London – which means I help large corporate clients manage their exposure to energy prices. I've been in this role at Morgan Stanley and previously Barclays for the past eight years, before which I worked in investment banking at Barclays in Frankfurt, Germany.
The best thing about my job is working with people of diverse, multi-cultural backgrounds. I spend a significant amount of time traveling across Europe to meet with clients. Cultural differences and diverse ways of seeing the world is not only really exciting, it's what makes the world beautiful in my opinion.
It gave me the confidence to aim for anything – and the financial springboard to take the most daring option which presented itself. A good example was when I graduated from CSU in 2005 and had a great job opportunity at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Instead, I took an option which scared (but excited) me much more – a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany, which has turned out to be one of the most important life choices I've made.
Another important role the Boettcher has played in my life is as a link back to our great State of Colorado, along with a strong sense of wanting to give back.
Through volunteer work here in London, I've become a strategic advisor to NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), the UK's largest children's charity, with whom we have partnered to build the UK's first Child's House – a hugely important social effort to help kids who have suffered sexual abuse. Working with the NSPCC also led me to take part in the London Marathon this year (my first) – another hugely enriching experience.
I have also recently accepted a position with the AgIndustry Leadership Council at CSU under Dean Ajay Menon, where I hope to marry three passions of mine – agriculture, technology and finance.
Make sure you love and are motivated by what you do. That's first. If you can, try to match that (or at least elements of that) with something you're good at and what's valued in the marketplace. I've found that being valued and recognized for something you do helps keep your fire burning. If you can do what you want, where you want, with the people you want – you've hit the sweet spot of modern life, and even just two of those is fantastic. And the great thing is that it's out there.
Given current events on this side of the Atlantic, I'd have to say Winston Churchill. I'd love to understand his views on the UK and the European Union and what he would make of recent political developments around the world. It seems to me the world will continue to change at an ever-increasing pace, with its natural ups and downs, and the real challenge will be to continue working together. The 'how' and 'to what extent' will be the interesting questions.


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The Flight Attendant, season 2, Kaley Cuoco is everywhere
The Flight Attendant , season 2, is a voyage of discovery and acceptance from Kaley Cuoco. Cuoco plays an alcoholic flight attendant who gets caught up in a dangerous situation. She can barely cope with normal life. The crazy things that happen to her make for a wild ride.
Kaley Cuoco plays multiple versions of herself in The Flight Attendant . These alternate Cassie's are the good, bad, depressed, self-hating, successful, smart, stupid, and negative internal voices in her head that accompany her and comment on her every move. She struggles every minute of every day to stay sober. Add the CIA, and the North Koreans, and other bad guys who are out to get her into the mix and her struggle becomes epic and overwhelming.
If it's possible to be both manic and grounded, this series is that.
I'd like to refer you to my review of season one of The Flight Attendant , but for some reason I don't understand, I didn't write one. I know I watched it and found it inventive and creative. Season 2 is a manic chase to figure out what is happening to her and who is making it happen. There are many faulty clues and plot twists along the way.
When the season begins, Cassie is claiming a one year of sobriety pin in AA. Her sponsor is played by Shohreh Aghdashloo! Her friends Annie (Zosia Mamet) and Max (Deniz Akdeniz) are visiting her place in L.A. looking to relocate. Cassie's had a steady boyfriend for the last 6 months named Marco (Santiago Cabrera).
Life is good, right?
Wrong. The CIA is sending her on flights to do little errands for them. Those errands land her in a lot of trouble. Right off the bat she discovers that someone is pretending to be her to frame her for several murders.
The CIA people include her fellow flight attendant friend Shane (Griffin Matthews), the regular agent from the CIA office Benjamin (Mo McRae), and the boss over them all, Dot (Cheryl Hines). It's hard to tell if they are helping her or making things worse. Trouble there.
Cassie's friend Megan (Rosie Perez) has been hiding from the North Koreans for a year. When she calls Cassie for help, Cassie goes. More trouble there.
As part of Cassie's AA steps, she and her brother Davey (T.R. Knight) call on their mom (Sharon Stone). Big trouble there.
Cassie befriends another flight attendant, Grace (Mae Martin), who puts swords and photos of herself in an army uniform on the wall in her house. And I mustn't forget the AA chick, Jenny (Jessie Ennis), who says she wants to do a true crime podcast about the dead guy Cassie woke up next to in season one. You guessed it, more trouble.
All these things are happening fast, simultaneously, and they tumble into Cassie's internal self-talk from all the parts of her personality. It makes for a frantic pace. Kaley Cuoco is simply fabulous at every bit of it. It's a hard slog to prove who's framing her and to learn to love and accept the imperfect parts of herself.
Even though the pace is wild and funny, I thought Cassie's journey was a brilliantly done effort to describe and explore alcohol addiction and recovery. If it's possible to be both manic and grounded, this series is that.
Silver Tree and Jennifer Phang directed most episodes. Both seasons are on HBO Max.
Cheryl Hines, Deniz Akdeniz, Jennifer Phang, Jessie Ennis, Kaley Cuoco, Mae Martin, Mo McRae, Santiago Cabrera, Sharon Stone, Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Flight Attendant, Women Directors, Zosia Mamet
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Q: C# Custom Object Validation Design I currently have to validate custom Field Objects for my application. Simply put, each Field object consists of information about the validation for the field, as well as the value of the field.
I am validating fields in bulk, so currently, I have a validation class, that has a method for each validation. For required fields, it looks something like this:
      private void RequiredFields()
      {
            foreach (Field field in allFields)
            {
                if ((field.Required == true) && (field.Value == string.Empty))
                {
                    field.isValid = false;
                }
            }
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Now my problem is that I feel like I should a layer of abstraction to the validation, so instead of saying:
if ((field.Required == true) && (field.Value == string.Empty))

... I would add a validation class, to accept the values and turn it into this:
if (!validater.RequiredFields(field.Required, field.Value))

If I were to do this, it would allow me to reuse the validation class without use of the field objects, and it would also allow better unit testing... However, it seems like and unnecessary layer of abstraction and also somewhat repetitive... Keep in mind, this is the most simple of all the validation.
Suggestions?

A: Why not have make Field objects responsible for their own validation?
class Field
{
    public bool Required { get; }
    public string Value { get; set; }

    // assuming that this method is virtual here
    // if different Fields have different validation logic
    // they should probably be separate classes anyhow and
    // simply implement a common interface of inherit from a common base class.
    public override bool IsValid
    {
        get { return Required && Value != String.Empty; }
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How to Make More Instagram Accounts: Instagram allows its users to upload and also modify both pictures and also video clips prior to sharing them with the world, directly from their smartphones with no real initiative. However, the ability to log in to multiple accounts at once has actually always been notably missing out on from the application. That has currently transformed, as well as right here is where we reveal you how to add extra accounts to Instagram on iphone as well as Android.
Instagram is a hugely popular social media network where individuals can edit share images and videos with close friends, as well as came from modest beginnings prior to being bought out by social media sites giant Facebook for a whopping $1bn. Extra just recently, individuals have actually begun creating alternative Instagram accounts to advertise their internet sites and also organisations, although, without very easy method to change between accounts in-app, it's a laborious.
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J MASCIS – " Elastic Days " Best Albums Of 2018
Posted: November 20, 2018 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Amherst, Best Albums 2018, dinosaur jr, Elastic Days, J.Mascis, Ken Miauri, MA, Mark Mulcahy, Zoë Randell
Near the end of Reagan's first term, the Western Massachusetts Hardcore scene coughed up an insanely shaped chunk called Dinosaur. Comprised of WMHC vets, the trio was a miasmic tornado of guitar noise, bad attitude and near-subliminal pop-based-shape-shifting. Through their existence, Dinosaur (amended to Dinosaur Jr. for legal reasons) defined a very specific, very aggressive set of oblique song-based responses to what was going on. Their one constant was the scalp-fryingly loud guitar and deeply buried vocals of J Mascis.
Sure, Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis isn't reinventing the wheel with this latest release, but that's because he invented the wheel. Where was your outrage when Thomas Edison refused to redesign the light bulb? Exactly. This here is the title track off his latest solo record of the same name, released just last week.
Like its predecessors, Elastic Days was recorded at J's own Bisquiteen studio. Mascis does almost all his own stunts, although Ken Miauri (who also appeared on Tied to a Star) plays keyboards and there are a few guest vocal spots. These include old mates Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), and Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion, etc.), as well as the newly added voice of Zoë Randell (Luluc) among others. But the show is mostly J's and J's alone.
He laughs when I tell him I'm surprised by how melodic his vocals seem to have gotten. Asked if that was intentional, he says, "No. I took some singing lessons and do vocal warm-ups now, but that was mostly just to keep from blowing out my vocal cords when Dino started touring again. The biggest difference with this record might have to do with the drums. I'd just got a new drum set I was really excited about. I don't have too many drum outlets at the moment, so I played a lot more drums than I'd originally planned. I just kept playing. [laughs] I'd play the acoustic guitar parts then head right to the drums."
Elastic Days brims with great moments. Epic hooks that snare you in surprisingly subtle ways, guitar textures that slide against each other like old lovers, and structures that range from a neo-power-ballad ("Web So Dense") to jazzily-canted West Coasty post-psych ("Give It Off") to a track that subliminally recalls the keyboard approach of Scott Thurston-era Stooges ("Drop Me"). The album plays out with a combination of holism and variety that is certain to set many brains ablaze.
J says he'll be taking this album on the road later in the year. He'll be playing by himself, but unlike other solo tours he says he'll be standing up this time. "I used to just sit down and build a little fort around myself – amps, music stands, drinks stands, all that stuff. But I just realized it sounds better if the amps are higher up because I'm so used to playing with stacks. So I'll stand this time." I ask if it's not pretty weird to stand alone on a big stage. "Yeah," he says. "But it's weird sitting down too." Ha. Good point. One needs to be elastic. In all things.
There is plenty of drumming on the dozen songs on Elastic Days. But for those expecting the hallucinatory overload of Dinosaur Jr's live attack, the gentleness of the approach here will draw easy comparisons to Neil Young's binary approach to working solo versus working with Crazy Horse.
Elastic Days (Release Date: November 9th, 2018)
J MASCIS – " Elastic Days "
Posted: October 21, 2018 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: dinosaur jr, Elastic Days, J.Mascis, Massachusetts
A couple of years before they ended their reign, J cut a solo album called Martin + Me. Recorded live and acoustic, the record allowed the bones of J's songs to be totally visible for the first time. Fans were surprised to hear how melodically elegant these compositions were, even if J still seemed interested in swallowing some of the words that most folks would have sung. Since then, through the reformation of the original Dinosaur Jr lineup in 2005, J has recorded solo albums now and then. And those album, Sings + Chant for AMMA (2005), Several Shades of Why (2011) and Tied to a Star (2014) had all delivered incredible sets of songs presented with a minimum of bombast and a surfeit of cool.
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J MASCIS – " Everything She Said "
Posted: September 23, 2018 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: dinosaur jr, Elastic Days, J Masics, Sub Pop Records
Like its predecessors, Elastic Days was recorded at J's own Bisquiteen studio. Mascis does almost all his own stunts, although Ken Miauri (who also appeared on Tied to a Star) plays keyboards and there are a few guest vocal spots. These include old mates Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), and Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion, etc.), as well as the newly added voice of Zoë Randell (Luluc) among others. But the show is mostly J's .
There is plenty of drumming on the dozen songs on Elastic Days. But for those expecting the hallucinatory overload of Dinosaur Jr's live attack, the gentleness of the approach here will draw easy comparisons to Neil Young's binary approach to working solo versus working with Crazy Horse. This is a lazy man's shorthand, but it still rings true.
J says he'll be taking this album on the road later in the year. He'll be playing by himself, but unlike other solo tours he says he'll be standing up this time. "I used to just sit down and build a little fort around myself – amps, music stands, drinks stands, all that stuff. But I just realized it sounds better if the amps are higher up because I'm so used to playing with stacks. So I'll stand this time." I ask if it's not pretty weird to stand alone on a big stage. "Yeah," he says. "But it's weird sitting down too." Ha. Good point. One needs to be elastic.
Elastic Days (Release Date: November 9th, 2018
DINOSAUR Jr – " Hold Unknown "
Posted: March 1, 2018 in MUSIC
Tags: Adult Swim's Singles Program, dinosaur jr, J Mascics
Dinosaur Jr. have shared a brand-new track titled "Hold Unknown" for Adult Swim's Singles Program.
The track is the band's first new music since their critically acclaimed 2016 album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, their 11th studio album. On "Hold Unknown," frontman J Mascis sings with his typical baritone growl alongside an unfiltered, pedal-to-the-metal sound marked by hurried, melodic guitars and driving percussion.
Artists that have previously contributed to Adult Swim's Singles Program include Julia Holter, Code Orange, Brian Eno, Kevin Shields, Wavves, Ghostface Killah and more.
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DINOSAUR Jr – " Where You Been " Classic Albums
Posted: July 18, 2017 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Classic Albums, dinosaur jr, J.Mascis, Where You Been
Released in 1993, Dinosaur Jr.'s fifth studio album roars as loudly as any of its grunge-era contemporaries, but without their occasional bombast. "Where You Been" features ten terrific songs, kicking off with the yearning "Out There" and a Top 10 Modern Rock hit "Start Choppin," and never lets up from there. While J Mascis plays a dominant role – in addition to writing and production credits, his just-woke-up vocals and epic guitar solos thread through every song – this is Dinosaur Jr.'s sole Sire set with a real band behind him, as bassist Mike Johnson and drummer Murph provide the insistent rhythmic drive. While flirting with mainstream success (the collection reached the Billboard album chart), Where You Been frames a gentle outlook with alt-rock thunder, and remains a firm fan favourite.
The Word was a 1990's Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. Dinosaur Jr. performing "Start Choppin'" live at The Word 1994
DINOSAUR Jr – " Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not "
Posted: January 10, 2017 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: dinosaur jr, Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not, J.Mascis, Jagjaguwar Records
Let's face facts — in 2016 it is remarkable that there's a new Dinosuar Jr album to go ape over. After all, the original line-up of the band (J Mascis, Lou Barlow & Murph) only recorded three full albums during their initial run in the 1980s. Everyone was gob-smacked when they reunited in 2005. Even more so when they opted to stay together, as they have for 11 years now . And with the release of 'Give a Glimpse Of What Yer Not', this trio has released more albums in the 21st Century than they did in the 20th.
Last year, 2015, saw the amazing live shows Dinosaur Jr played to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their eponymous debut LP. and the songs they were celebrating are amazing enough, But essentially that was a nostalgia fest a very fine nostalgia fest too but it's the future that beckons the living. So you have to be pretty damn chuffed that the band has managed to pull another magnificent rabbit out of their collective hat.
The songs on 'Give a Glimpse...' were recorded over the past year or so, again at Amherst's Bisquiteen Studio (located in a secret nook of J's basement). The sound is great and roaring with J'Mascis various bleeding-ear psychedelic guitar touches oozing their way into the smudge-pop modeling, while Murph's drums pound like Fred Flintstone's feet, and Lou's bass weaves back and forth between proggy melodicism and post-core thug-hunch.
Of the 11 songs presented, nine are J's. Mascis he has had so many projects going at various times — from the retro glam of Sweet Apple to the metal dunt of Witch to the ostrich-rock overload of Heavy Blanket — it's always a little shocking he can compartmentalize well enough to keep his tunes with Dinosaur Jr sounding so instantly recognizable. Which is not to say they're interchangeable, it's just that he has a very idiosyncratic way of structurally assembling and presenting the songs. Even when they're not being played in concert (with amps turned to 12, and vibrating 'til they glow red).the way he hits his guitar strings has a unique quality that immediately lets you know you're listening to Dinosaur Jr.
The other two songs here were written and sung by Lou, and they're quite great as well. Although Barlow's template and palette are more mercurial and shifting (as they are with his other ongoing projects, like Sebadoh), the two here have a consonant resonance. Both songs carry the same vibe as Roger McGuinn's great early sides with the Byrds (although this has to do more with spirit than specific notes), reminding us that albums like Fifth Dimension and Notorious Byrd Brothers were among the main models for East Coast bands like the Soft White Underbelly. "Love Is…" and "Left/Right" represent the same kind of style displacement.
J Mascis' songs offer a lot of formal style moves as well. Over the last three decades, J's songwriting has continued to pursue confusion, isolation and mis-communication as its main themes (which is one of the reasons he's always been the artist-of-choice for so many misfits), but he has really worked on the craft of songwriting, and he's constantly improving his ability to convey these feelings rather than merely inhabit them. "Lost All Day" might be the most eloquently sad of the songs on 'Give a Glimpse...', but my favorite is probably "Mirror," which comes off like the best song Blue Osyter Cult song they didn't record for Agents of Fortune. The opening (and repeating) line, "I've been crawling around since I met you," branded itself onto my brain the instant I heard it. But then, "Goin' Down" (not the Freddie King tune) is a stone classic as well. And "Tiny" has the prettiest pop architecture. "Be A Part" continually makes me flash on the first time I heard "Cowgirl in the Sand." "I Told Everyone" is almost like a Bowie tribute when you hear it from another room. "Good to Know" has the record's most insane guitar solo. "I Walk for Miles" contains the most thuggish riffs. "Knocked Around" features the most elegant use of falsetto. And the whole damn thing is great. In short, on its 11th LP, Dinosaur Jr does what it has done best for the past 30-plus years, which is to remind us of the life-giving force of guitar, bass, drums and scary-big stack of Marshall amps.
Posted: December 27, 2016 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: dinosaur jr, Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not, J.Mascis
Consider, of the two bands that came from Massachusetts that formed in the mid-'80s, broke up for more than a decade, reunited and began releasing new music in the aughts. One of these groups has grown more vital, even louder with time, while the other has shown steady, middle-aged decline. Perhaps it's the fact that the best Pixies music was so tied to Black Francis' youthful, unhinged shriek, now significantly diminished with age. Meanwhile, J Mascis' creaky Dylan-meets-Young affect has been immune to the ravages of time. Perhaps you can point to the Pixies losing Kim Deal, while Dinosaur Jr's original rhythm section of Murph and Barlow remains a formidable, tightly coupled force. Of course, having an idiot-savant guitar god in your band doesn't hurt either. One is reminded that former guitar deity Eric Clapton descended into milquetoast-y irrelevance in his 50s, while Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not still hears Mascis as a purveyor of fireworks displays that would put the Zambellis to shame. In short, on its 11th LP, Dinosaur Jr does what it has done best for the past 30-plus years, which is to remind us of the life-giving force of guitar, bass, drums and scary-big stack of Marshall amps.
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After Google cut Huawei off its Android operating system, the Chinese telecom giant is seeking alternatives to keep its smartphones working. A viable option has reportedly been found in Russia.
Last month, Google and a number of US tech companies were prohibited from dealing with China's telecommunication major Huawei and other Chinese corporations. The direct order by US President Donald Trump bans American firms from supplying Huawei with spare parts or technology solutions. The step was reportedly implemented amid high security concerns after Washington accused Chinese tech companies of spying on behalf of Beijing.
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The Chinese corporation is negotiating a replacement for Android with the Aurora operating system, currently being developed by Moscow-based firm Russian Mobile Platform, Russian news outlet the Bell reports, citing an official familiar with the issue.
Huawei Chairman Guo Ping reportedly discussed the possible deal with the Russian minister of digital development and communications, Konstantin Noskov, ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
"China is already testing devices with the Aurora pre-installed," the official said.
Moreover, the subject was addressed during an official meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Chinese leader Xi Jinping the day before the business event. The two presidents reportedly discussed both an opportunity of installing the Aurora operating system on Huawei smartphones and localization of some of Huawei's production facilities in Russia.
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Press Release: Scottish Ballet Autumn Season 2014 - World premiere of The Crucible and British Premiere of Ten Poems
By Jan McNulty,
July 25, 2014 in Ballet / Dance news & information
Scottish Ballet presents
THE CRUCIBLE with TEN POEMS
25 - 27 September Theatre Royal GLASGOW | 30 September - 1 October Eden Court INVERNESS | 3 - 4 October Festival Theatre, EDINBURGH | 7 - 8 October His Majesty's Theatre ABERDEEN
THE CRUCIBLE (World Premiere)
Choreography: Helen Pickett
Music: Bernard Herrmann; Paul Hindemith, Jon Hopkins; James Horner and Krzysztof Penderecki
TEN POEMS (UK Premiere)
Choreography: Christopher Bruce
Soundtrack: Richard Burton reads the poems of Dylan Thomas
Scottish Ballet brings an evening of great text to life this autumn as the stylistic language of American playwright Arthur Miller and Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas come together in a powerful study of words in motion, in this double bill featuring the world premiere of Helen Pickett's The Crucible, and UK premiere of Christopher Bruce's Ten Poems, touring Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh and Aberdeen throughout September and October 2014.
"Dance has an ability to communicate a story without words in a way that has inspired choreographers over generations. Placing the works of Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller in the hands of two choreographers that are both passionate storytellers will ensure that this is a bill as thought provoking as it is entertaining," said Scottish Ballet Artistic Director Christopher Hampson.
THE CRUCIBLE / Choreography Helen Pickett
Secrets and lies take hold in the small town of Salem when a group of teenage girls claim to have been possessed by witchcraft. But who - or what - is to blame.
"A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!
For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"
John Proctor, Act III, in court, Pg. 105 (The Crucible, Arthur Miller)
From Californian choreographer Helen Pickett comes the world premiere of The Crucible. Based on American playwright Arthur Miller's 1953 Tony award-winning play, Pickett translates this incredible dramatisation of the Salem witch trials with her inimitable style of dance language.
A dancer and choreographer under William Forsythe, and currently Resident Choreographer at Atlanta Ballet, Pickett layers rich, evocative characterisations and lyrical story telling in her version of Miller's chilling tale of sexual sin and innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour.
"It's a fulfilling dramatic story. The play has inspired so much art, and it inspired me to choreograph the story," says Pickett. "So much in the play lends itself to being an interesting jump-off point for dance."
"I wanted to make much more of the dance scene in the forest because it's the catalyst for the story and I've set it to this great, big rave-sounding soundtrack from UK producer and electronica artist Jon Hopkins."
In fact Pickett has chosen a roster of atmospheric music to choreograph to - with climatic pieces from the motion picture soundtracks of The Twilight Zone, Vertigo, Psycho, Enemy at the Gates and Shutter Island.
I like doing collages," she says. "I bank tons of music: whenever I hear something I like, I'll buy it so I can listen to it and start thinking about what kind of movement I see in it.
"My choices may seem eclectic, but the music needs to make one feel disjointed, because I sense that discomfort in the play," she says. "The accusers are disrupting harmonious lives. Being persecuted makes you feel like you're being ripped up from the roots. So that was part of my zig-zagging into this story."
Designer Charles Heightchew Jr reinterprets the seventeenth century period costumes with a modern twist - there's swooshing robes, and boys in britches - but the palette is dusky, with flashes of chiffon to elongate Pickett's pointe work.
The Crucible is Pickett's second creation for Scottish Ballet (following The Room, inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, and premiered as part of Dance Odysseys at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2013).
TEN POEMS / Choreography Christopher Bruce
A British premiere, Christopher Bruce's Ten Poems was created for Ballet Keil (Germany) in 2009. Set to a recording of ten Dylan Thomas poems, emotively read by Welsh actor Richard Burton, the piece builds on the melodic rhythm of the famous prose as Bruce, one of Britain's most prolific and important choreographers, brings each one to life with exquisite little vignettes of story and character.
"I found the face of Richard Burton staring at me from the counter of my local music shop and couldn't resist this recording of Burton reading the poetry of Dylan Thomas. I realised at the time there was a certain degree of nostalgia involved in my purchase but, as I began to listen to the rich cadences of Burton's voice, I instantly felt the suggestion of a dance," explains Bruce.
"After weeks of listening to the CD, I chose the poems I felt would support the choreography. From the beginning I loved the musicality and rhythm of the poetry and had imagined that my work would lean towards the abstract rather than the dramatic. However, when I started work in the studio, the content of Thomas' lines made itself felt and the dance began to tell stories.
"It's not exactly a narrative ballet, but I think it says something about the poet, and his history."
Ten Poems explores the themes of lost innocence, childhood nostalgia and death in Thomas' poems, including Fern Hill and the famous Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, in this the centenary year of the poet's birth - as dancers are transported to turn of the century Wales in valley hues of gold, green and blues, designed by Marion Bruce.
Ten Poems follows 2013 successful collaboration with the choreographer, when Scottish Ballet performed his 1940s factory worker's styled piece Shift as part of the company's award-winning Dance Odysseys programme at the Edinburgh International Festival, and Bruce is looking forward to furthering this relationship. "It is important to develop a relationship with a company and, having produced Shift with Scottish Ballet last year, many of the dancers already have an excellent understanding of my particular choreographic language," he says. "I'm looking forward to developing this piece with the company in the rehearsal room."
THE CRUCIBLE features music from James Horner, Jon Hopkins, Bernard Herrmann (from The Twilight Zone, Vertigo, Psycho and The Devil and Daniel Webster), Paul Hindemith and Krzysztof Penderecki
1) Koulikov (Instrumental) - James Horner, from Enemy at the Gates (Original Movie soundtrack)
2) Insides - Jon Hopkins, from Insides Album
3) Main Title - Bernard Herrmann, from The Twilight Zone (The complete Scores of Bernard Herrmann), conducted by Joel McNeely
4) Prelude and Rooftop - Bernard Herrmann, from Vertigo (Original Motion Picture Score) conducted by Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
5) Danilov's Confession James Horner, from Enemy at the Gates (Original Movie soundtrack)
6) The Porch - Bernard Herrmann, from Psycho (Original Motion Picture Score)
7) The Devil and Daniel Webster, Suite for Orchestra: Mr. Scratch, Allegro moderato e agitato - Bernard Herrmann, from The Devil and Daniel Webster, conducted by James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
8) Trauermusik Pour Alto Et Orchestre A Cordes – Choral, Hindemith – Gerard Causse Performing, Hindemith Works for Viola
9) Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia – Allegro Moderato, Krzysztof Penderecki, Antoni Wit & National Polish Radio Symphony, Shutter Island, music from Motion Picture.
TEN POEMS features the Dylan Thomas poems: And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Fern Hill; I See the Boys of Summer; In My Craft or Sullen Art; Lament; Lie Still; Sleep Becalmed; The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower; The Hand That Signed the Paper and The Hunchback in the Park.
Theatre Royal, GLASGOW
Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 September 2014
Tickets £21, concessions available
Box Office: 0844 871 7647 atgtickets.com/glasgow
Eden Court, INVERNESS
Tuesday 30 September - Wednesday 1 October 2014
Tickets from £21, concessions available
Box Office 01463 234 234 eden-court.co.uk
Festival Theatre, EDINBURGH
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 October 2014
Tickets from £20.50, concessions available
Box Office 0131 529 6000 edtheatres.com
His Majesty's Theatre, ABERDEEN
Tuesday 7 - Wednesday 8 October 2014
Box Office 01224 641122 / aberdeenperformingarts.com
This looks brilliant.
Would love to get to see the new Christopher Bruce, such an intelligent and musical choreographer.


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ATLANTA, GA (BP) – It's Thursday evening, and a group boards a bus at the Georgia Baptist Convention building for several strip clubs, a few hotels and an apartment complex where human trafficking has been reported. The "Unholy Tour," jointly sponsored by Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols and the Georgia Baptist public affairs office, stretched nearly three hours instead of the scheduled two. Still, it didn't feel like enough time for various speakers to tell their stories from the front of the unmarked bus.
Among them: Kasey McClure, a former Atlanta stripper accustomed to making at least $1,000 most nights who left that world after giving her life to Christ and the birth of her daughter. In 2004 McClure established 4Sarah, honoring her daughter while providing a platform to build relationships with women in the sex industry and, ultimately, to show a way out. In the 15 years since she left the industry, McClure said, sex trafficking has proliferated. "There are three main areas now where girls go -- the strip clubs, on the street and online," she said. "Technology has made it tougher to fight trafficking. Even though sites like Back Page have been shut down, others are doing the same thing."
In addition, girls entering the sex industry are getting younger and "promised great lives, but that's not what they get." McClure recalled the impact of former Georgia Baptist public policy spokesman Ray Newman, who died in 2013 from a brain tumor. "He came onto the board of 4Sarah in 2007 and encouraged me to start a scholarship for the girls we were helping," she said. "He made a difference in my life." McClure recalled a story shared with her by Newman's widow, Gwen, in a letter. In the 1970s Ray told his wife about a young lady who he'd see walking to the club. He prayed for her to go to church one day. And one day she did. Speaking with Newman afterward, the young lady said she didn't feel she belonged there. Of course, Newman urged her to consider that, yes, she belonged. "So many times these women don't feel like they belong. But, we all belong. We belong in the body of Christ," McClure said.
Eight other women plus Echols spoke with the group, including those fighting sex trafficking through law enforcement and legal means, as well as some formerly in the industry now working through nonprofit groups to help young women get out of enslavement and others involved in programs to prepare kids to stay away from being entrapped. Echols began the evening referring to William Wilberforce. The English politician became known for his fight against the slave trade but knew he couldn't accomplish his goal of abolishing it alone.
Wilberforce believed it would take a personal experience for his peers to join in the struggle, Echols said. The commissioner told how Wilberforce would plan scenic tours of the Thames River, only for the tour to conclude at a slave ship. Its cargo may have since been discarded but the stench of death and misery remained. "Wilberforce wanted people to face the reality of the slave trade," Echols said. "My goal is to bring people in front of those like Kasey, who are trying to help women get out of this and put the bad guys away."
The tour wound its way through Norcross, the edge of Lilburn, Chamblee, and Brookhaven before reaching north Atlanta, countering the idea that this is a "big city" issue. Seedy hotels exist in small towns, too. And it's not just hotels. At one point the bus stopped near an apartment building. McClure explained how a madam (yes, it's not unusual for women to enslave other women in the sex industry) had operated from one of the residences. Looking at the apartment complex, bus riders didn't see neon signs but children's bicycles and grills on the porches. There were no obvious signs of a prostitution ring.
Later on, the bus pulled near what has become one of Atlanta's most popular strip clubs. McClure said the place has become known for prostitution, pointing to the packed parking lot that included at least one minivan. Lt. Sara Koth of the Forest Park police department and mother of two, said people are shocked to learn how prevalent sex trafficking has become and Atlanta's prominence in it. "To arrest and throw them in jail, you're feeding into the perception that they can't go to the police for help. They'll just get arrested," Koth noted.
Those victimized by human trafficking experience a tough process trying to pull out of it, she said. Often, they're drawn to re-enter a lifestyle that -- even if only for a brief time -- gave them some kind of value, as hard as that is to believe. "The victims don't always act like victims," Koth said. "It can be hard when you work to get someone out of it, you even think they made it, and then they go back to it. "You can't take that personal. You go to the next person and try to help them."
The victims, said Ryn Beasley of Atlanta Redemption Ink, literally become possessions.
"We see women who get branded by their pimp or madam. Girls have come to us with 'Pay me' tattooed on their hand or 'Snitch' on their gum line. Bar codes, a crown, anything that symbolizes they belong to someone -- it's a form of ownership," said Beasley, who worked in the sex industry prior to joining ARI.
Mike Griffin, Georgia Baptist public affairs representative, hopes more churches and pastors will take part in the Unholy Tour. Atlanta has become among the worst cities in America when it comes to human trafficking, he told The Christian Index, newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention. "It's important for churches to be knowledgeable. They should be able to educate their congregation on warning signs and dangers involved. Churches need to be able to minister to these victims.
"Overall, the tour helps show the need for better public policy regarding human trafficking and support for better law enforcement. Because of the internet and social media, it's become a problem that really knows no boundaries." McClure's faith in God's power to lead anyone out of the sex industry rests in her own testimony. "My relationship with God changed me. When I took that final step out of the club, I had all the material things I thought would better my life. But they didn't, so I thought, 'Why not try God?' "Now when I talk to girls I ask them what they have to show for themselves. They may be staying with men in an extended stay hotel and unable to buy their own food. I was making $1,000-$2,000 a night and still wasn't happy. The only thing that made me happy was stepping out on faith and depending on God." McClure's initial step of faith has led to several more. "I have a 10th-grade education, but now speak to teachers, doctors, lawyers, anyone who wants to hear me. God has opened up those doors for me because I decided to follow Him. "He's using my past to help others."
Scott Barkley is editor of The Christian Index (www.christianindex.org), newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
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An updated survey of top financial services firms finds the number of UK jobs likely to be shifted by Brexit falling by half.
The scale of the Brexit jobs exodus from the City of London has eased over the past six months, according to the findings of a survey of financial services firms.
The Reuters news agency said it returned to 119 companies, questioned in September, to check their intentions and found 5,000 roles were now due to be shifted to the EU from London by 29 March 2019, the date of Britain's EU exit.
It marked a 50% fall on the 10,000 jobs that firms had originally predicted would be lost, the survey showed.
The study found that while companies had been cheered by progress in the Brexit process, including the agreement on a transition period, firms also credited a "more conciliatory tone" from the Government.t also suggested that Paris had overtaken Frankfurt as the main destination for London-based jobs following a charm offensive by the French President Emmanuel Macron – a former investment banker.
The findings were released as the Bank of England prepared to update European lenders on the regulatory approach they are likely to face in the UK after the country leaves the EU.
The prospect of empty office blocks in the City because of Brexit has been a key battleground in the debate since the referendum campaign began amid warnings of job losses running into the tens of thousands.
The London Stock Exchange has published the highest estimate to date, of 232,000 by 2024, in the event of a "no deal" or "hard" Brexit scenario.
London is currently the world's largest financial centre.
The Government is demanding that financial services – which account for around 11% of the country's economy and is the UK's largest export sector – is included in a Brexit trade deal.
Uncertainty has forced many multi-national firms to put contingency plans in place to ensure they can continue to operate across the EU.
But the survey's findings showed banks, primarily, were now scaling back their plans – at least for now.
Deutsche Bank, which had originally examined moving up to 4,000 staff, was now only due to shift fewer than 200 workers.
The survey also suggested that UBS was currently aiming to move 200 roles after previously indicating as many as 1,500 jobs would cross the Channel.
It was a similar story at Goldman Sachs, which had considered moving about 1,000 people.
Reuters said that number had now been cut by more than half.
However, a majority of the respondents warned that their plans were not set in stone and were likely to result in further changes in the coming years.
Of the 40 banks which responded to the survey, only eight had already moved staff.
Responding to the findings, the chief executive of the financial services industry lobby group TheCItyUK, Miles Celic, told Sky News: "Firms are prepared for a variety of potential Brexit outcomes, ranging from high market access to low market access.
"Until there is certainty on the final shape of the deal, they will take action to ensure that they can continue to serve customers on and after March 29 next year.