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Showbiz Analysis with The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward
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Music legends don't come along every day, so I am always thrilled when one decides to take a moment to share his or her journey with me. But when Justin Hayward, the legendary Moody Blues' guitarist and vocalist joined me for my podcast Whine At 9, I was happily caught off guard. Gifted musicians specialize in making magic for their audiences, and Hayward is no exception. However, Hayward's wisdom, unique sensitivity, eloquent disclosure, and artistic passion made me feel as though I'd been chatting with a dear friend who happened to be a philosopher– oh yeah, and a rock icon. No doubt, these characteristics have been a driving force in his career longevity and the continued synergy of The Moody Blues. In a revealing conversation, Hayward shared with me his journey with the band, the mystery behind writing hit songs, the inspirational conflict behind Nights in White Satin, and a solo tour that will precede the upcoming "Moodies" tour.
Watch a video of Justin Hayward' s solo performance of Nights in White Satin here.
It is difficult to imagine The Moody Blues as a startup, but when Justin Hayward joined the band in 1966, there was no flashy stage show or fleet of tour buses. Says Hayward, "Suddenly I found myself in the band. And off we went– You know really with no money, but we did have a van that we could put our equipment in. Actually– I was the only one with an amplifier at that time, but we made due. And we went to Belgium and got some gigs. And that's how we started really." And while some fans may believe that the infamous group quickly rose to fame, the climb to the top wasn't an especially speedy one. "Success didn't happen overnight, that's for sure," notes Hayward. "And the next big milestone really was recording our own material. Because when I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues– I think the rest of us were. The two guys who were good at it had left (the band). And anyway, I was persuading the other guys to include some of my songs in the set, and so was Mike (Pinder). But then our break came about a year later when we'd written a stage show which was all our own material and we were doing that on stage. And we got to record that for Decca (Records). And that became an album called Days of Future Passed with (songs) Nights in White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon. But still, the success and any royalties and any fame or fortune took maybe 5 years. Even Days of Future Passed, even though it was released in 1967, it didn't get to #1 in America until 1972. So through those '60s years, we were pretty kind of hard up."
The Moody Blues - The Polydor Years[/caption] The Moody Blues' 8-disc set, The Polydor Years (1986-1992) will be released November 25, 2014.
Hayward, who penned many Moody Blues' hits, including Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, and Your Wildest Dreams, seems to have the golden touch when it comes to creating music that touches the vulnerability, pain, happiness, and dreams most of us experience. Does he have a secret to making these poignant connections? Hayward barely pauses, "There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened– I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key. But you know, as well as I do, that any kind of writing like that is sort of 3% inspiration and then 97% hard work– of finding the spark first of all which is in that 3% inspiration. And the idea and the first kind of magical theme of it. And then working on how to complete it and how to make that an entity and a real song. So I can't say there's any secret to it, but it is mysterious." Hayward admits that he doesn't want to analyze the components of a great song, but he decribes his writing experience as "an odd thing". The musician can't help but shake his head and laugh a bit about the situation. "It's like having a room in your house that nobody else can go in– without that room it (life) would be very incomplete. And that's rather disturbing."
The inspiration for Nights in White Satin, one of Haywards' most legendary songs, has long been attributed to a tumultuous relationship and break-up. Hayward admits that pain can be a catalyst for creativity. "There is definitely a feeling that you can take out of pain and loss and sorrow– that is a kind of a well for (you) lyrically and musically. Once you've touched that sort of desperation of pain and loss, then it stays with you and you can always relate anything that you're talking about to those days of kind of grief and loss." Adds Hayward, "With Nights (in White Satin) in particular– Yes, I was at the end of one big love affair, which– was over that period when I was 19-20. It was just one big love affair that I thought I would never recover from or have again– and maybe I haven't had again curiously enough. And (I was) at the beginning of another one (love affair), which also had my head spinning. So I think Nights is a series of random thoughts by a boy who's at the end of one love affair and the beginning of another. But there curiously seems to be quite a lot of truth in it, which I never really realized or thought about until I've been analyzing it."
This month, Justin Hayward will be singing Nights in White Satin again, along with other hits and acclaimed music from his solo albums Spirits of the Western Sky, and the recently released Spirits…Live – Live At The Buckhead Theater, Atlanta (now also available on DVD), when he hits the road for his solo tour. The intimacy of the solo tour seems like a perfect match for the pensive artist and his work. "Spirits of the Western Sky, the album that I had out last year, was such a big part of my life. It took over my life for about 2 years. And in it I was expressing and revealing things that, for me, were very emotional and very important— just about people around me, people that I loved, people that I loved that didn't know I loved them." Hayward calls this touring experience the "perfect compliment" to the bigger, louder, electric Moody Blues' 2015 tour which he embraces with equal enthusiasm. "I've got used to the road. And having that bit of magic in a room with a group of people is something that I never want to give up. It's a kind of drug. I get hooked on that." And so do we.
Watch a video of Justin Hayward's solo performance One Day, Someday (Spirits Live) here.
Listen to Nancy's interview with Justin Hayward here, on iTunes, orStitcher Radio.
Nancy Berk, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, author, comic and entertainment analyst. The host of the showbiz podcast Whine At 9, Nancy digs a little deeper as she chats with fascinating celebrities and industry insiders. Her book College Bound and Gagged: How to Help Your Kid Get into a Great College Without Losing Your Savings, Your Relationship, or Your Mind can be seen in the feature film Admission starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.


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2. Eat vegetables for lunch and dinner. Seriously stop acting like an 8 year old and just do it. Opt for a salad or soup for lunch instead of the sandwich, eat a lot of colourful veg for the dinner and less spuds, pasta or rice. Bonus points for breakfast veggies.
3. Go to bed half an hour earlier than usual. I'm sure whatever is on tv isn't that good anyway. You can record it if you really want.
4. Eat a hand sized portion of protein at each meal. Men can have two. 3 eggs, meat, fish, 3 tbsp of Greek yogurt, scoop of protein powder, cup of beans/nuts will all do the job as a portion.
5. Drink lots of water. Hardly groundbreaking stuff and I'll not sell a book on the back of that recommendation but just do it anyway.
6. Call your parents (if you are lucky enough to still have them) and ask them about their day.
7. Get outside for 30 minutes. I'm not talking about doing yoga along the babbling stream or anything, just get out, get some fresh air and plug yourself out for a while.
8. Give three people genuine compliments. 'That frock you are wearing is lovely' 'you're hair is looking so clean this week' are not good examples. Please think of better ones.
10. Do one thing that has been on your mind for ages. Something that you have been meaning to do for a long time. It will be a great weight off your shoulders even if it's just a small thing. I certainly have a long list that I can immediately tackle.
11. Give yourself a challenge to target. Aim to do 10 full press ups by January. Do a 5k race by the end of the year. Run a marathon in 2016. Climb Kilimamjaro during lunch. Whatever, it doesn't matter. Nothing focuses the mind like a challenge with a deadline.
12. Eat a few pieces of fruit. Go mad and try something different like a kiwi, a melon or a peach.
This workout can be done at home or in the gym.
You just need a set of dumbbells. Each circuit only takes 8 minutes to complete so you can have a great workout in 35-40 minutes.
No excuses, just give it a go!


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Q: What is the proper format for code for this datetime.strptime function? I have a python program that ingests and processes data, yet one field is not converting properly. One piece of data comes in as a string of java.time.OffsetDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC) and we use strptime to create a datetime object. Here is the simplified code:
$ python

from datetime import datetime

# source string format: (java.time.OffsetDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC))
date_string = "2021-06-28T19:47:27.510670082Z"

# this works yet is not in the source format
date_string = "2021-06-28T19:47:27.510670"

datetime_object = datetime.strptime(date_string, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')

print (datetime_object)

Results in this error
ValueError: unconverted data remains: 082Z

What is the proper format code to create the datetime object?

A: Just use dateutil. You have time in ISO 8601 format with setting of timezone
    from dateutil import parser

    # source string format: (java.time.OffsetDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC))
    date_string = "2021-06-28T19:47:27.510670082Z"

    datetime_object = parser.parse(date_string)
    print(datetime_object)  # 2021-06-28 19:47:27.510670+00:00

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Пе́тру (, ) — румунське чоловіче особове ім'я. Походить від грецького імені Петр (, Petros, «камінь, скеля»). Аналог українського імені Петро. Поширений у Румунії та Молдові. Інші румунські форми — Петре (), Петру (). Від імені походять патроніми Петреску (), Петрішор (), Петріке (Petrică) тощо.

Особи
 Петру I — воєвода молдавський (1375—1391).
 Петру II — воєвода молдавський.
 Петру III — воєвода молдавський.

Посилання
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Q: I am facing Manifest merger failed can any one tell.? Manifest merger failed: Attribute
provider#com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider@authorities value=(fintnessathome.cardioexcercise.firebaseinitprovider) from AndroidManifest.xml:766:13-86
    is also present at [com.google.firebase:firebase-common:19.3.0] AndroidManifest.xml:28:13-72 value=(com.fintnessathome.fintnessathomeapp.firebaseinitprovider).
    Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:authorities"' to <provider> element at AndroidManifest.xml:764:9-768:39 to override.

I am facing this issue, I got the template from my friend and i want to make some changes in the android app, it's showing this error when I execute this program.

A: Try adding the following in the gradle.properties file
android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true
android.enableUnitTestBinaryResources=false

Also, add the following code into your manifest file inside the application tag
tools:replace="android:supportsRtl,android:allowBackup,icon,label"

A: Try adding following Code in your manifest.xml
tools:replace="android:allowBackup"


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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"log"
	"os"

	graph "github.com/andrei-m/jira-graph"
)

var (
	jiraHost             = flag.String("jira-host", "", "JIRA hostname")
	initialEstimateField = flag.String("initial-estimate-field", "timeoriginalestimate", "the name of the custom field an epic's initial estimate (story points, etc.)")
	estimateField        = flag.String("estimate-field", "customfield_10031", "the name of the custom field for work estimation (story points, etc.)")
	flaggedField         = flag.String("flagged-field", "customfield_10002", "the name of the custom field for impediment flagging")
	sprintsField         = flag.String("sprints-field", "Sprint", "the name of the custom field for Greenhopper sprints")
	epicLinkField        = flag.String("epic-link-field", "Epic Link", "the name of the custom field for Epic Link")
)

func main() {
	user := os.Getenv("JIRA_USER")
	if len(user) == 0 {
		log.Fatal("JIRA_USER is required")
	}
	pass := os.Getenv("JIRA_PASS")
	if len(pass) == 0 {
		log.Fatal("JIRA_PASS is required")
	}

	flag.Parse()
	if len(*jiraHost) == 0 {
		log.Fatal("-jira-host flag is required")
	}

	fc := graph.FieldConfig{
		InitialEstimate: *initialEstimateField,
		Estimate:        *estimateField,
		Flagged:         *flaggedField,
		Sprints:         *sprintsField,
		EpicLink:        *epicLinkField,
	}

	if err := graph.StartServer(user, pass, *jiraHost, fc); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("server failed with error: %v", err)
	}
}

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The concept of the frontier among scholars has changed considerably over the past 25 years. This symposium invited historians, literary scholars, and cultural critics to revisit the famed Frontier Thesis written by Frederick Jackson Turner more than 100 years ago.
In three panel discussions, scholars explored the significance of the frontier for the study of U.S. imperialism, American culture, and settler colonialism. The conference included keynote addresses by Kerwin Lee Klein, of University of California, Berkeley (audio unavailable); and Patrick Wolfe, of La Trobe University.
The conference took place at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Feb. 25, 2012, and was convened by graduate students Erik Altenbernd (University of California, Irvine) and Alex Young (University of Southern California). It was sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute; the Research Division of The Huntington Library; the Salvatori Fund, USC Dornsife College of Arts and Letters; the Department of English, USC; the University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History; and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC.
The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History The Huntington
Erik Altenbernd and Alex Young welcome participants to the conference "The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History," held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. They are introduced by William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
The U.S. Frontier in its Global Contexts (Panel 1)
Panelists discuss "The U.S. Frontier in its Global Contexts" at the conference "The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History," held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Brian Delay, University of California, Berkeley, History; Jay Gitlin, Yale University, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders; David Igler, University of California, Irvine; Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder, Center of the American West; David Wrobel, University of Oklahoma, History; William Deverell, University of Southern California, History.
The Significance of the Frontier in American Culture after the Cold War (Panel 2)
Panelists discuss "The Significance of the Frontier in American Culture after the Cold War" at the conference "The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History," held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Krista Comer, Rice University, English; Melody Graulich, Utah State University, English; William Handley, University of Southern California, English; Enrique Lima, University of Oregon, English; Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, English; and John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California, English, American Studies and Ethnicity.
Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Studies, and the Concept of the Frontier (Panel 3)
Panelists discuss "Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Studies, and the Concept of the Frontier" at the conference "The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History," held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois, American Indian Studies, English; Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska, History, Women's and Gender Studies; Laura Mitchell, University of California, Irvine; Aziz Rana, Cornell University, Law; and Mark Rifkin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, English, Gender Studies.
Settler Colonialism in the United States and Israel/Palestine (Keynote Address)
Patrick Wolfe, of La Trobe University (Melbourne), delivers the concluding keynote address to the conference "The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History," held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012.
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