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Dead Dish: What Happens if DirecTV Loses NFL Sunday Ticket?
August 31, 2020 Topic: Technology Blog Brand: Techland Tags: DirecTVNFL Sunday TicketNFLSatellite TVDish Network
What would that mean for DirecTV? Probably nothing good. Any slipping of its exclusivity would likely cause the service is bleed even more subscribers, as both residential and business customers realize they can still get the valuable NFL package through other means.
by Stephen Silver
AT&T is in talks to sell its DirecTV subsidiary, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The satellite TV company has been bleeding subscribers, including over 800,000 in each of the year's first two quarters, while the CEO who presided over the merger has retired and the company has clearly moved on to other priorities, from the launch of HBO Max to the rollout of 5G.
What does DirecTV still have going for it, for whichever private equity firm or other entity ends up purchasing it? The service still brings in cash from its remaining subscribers, while it also maintains exclusivity for NFL Sunday Ticket, the pro football league's package of out-of-market games. In the U.S., for as long as there's been Sunday Ticket, it's only been available on DirecTV, so if you want it, you pretty much have to remain a DirecTV subscriber. This has kept a lot of households, and also bars and restaurants that show the games, on the DirecTV subscriber rolls.
Could that be coming to an end eventually? The current exclusive deal between the NFL and DirecTV extends through 2022, as the government insisted on that deal being in place as a condition for its approval of the AT&T/DirecTV merger. However, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said that he would prefer Sunday Ticket become more widely available.
So, once the exclusive deal is up, the NFL could essentially kick off a bidding war as to who gets Sunday Ticket, which could include every single deep-pocketed tech or entertainment company: Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, Disney, Apple, and more. Many of them, including Disney, Comcast, and Fox, are already in business with the NFL.
Also, Sunday Ticket could become available non-exclusively, allowing users to get the package multiple ways. That's how the equivalent packages, including MLB Extra Innings, have worked for the last few years, although Extra Innings for the first five years of its existence was also exclusive to DirecTV.
What would that mean for DirecTV? Probably nothing good. Any slipping of its exclusivity would likely cause the service is bleed even more subscribers, as both residential and business customers realize they can still get the valuable NFL package through other means. And the possibility of that happening is likely factored in to the negotiations currently taking place over the purchase of the service.
In recent years, DirecTV has been offering Sunday Ticket to consumers in areas where DirecTV is not available, as well as those who meet certain other conditions. The website TV Answer Man reported earlier this summer that the availability has been increased to additional markets, although DirecTV recently denied any changes in the availability to Variety.
Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The National Interest, is a journalist, essayist and film critic, who is also a contributor to Philly Voice, Philadelphia Weekly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Living Life Fearless, Backstage magazine, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver.

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With a generational pitch, Rubio looks to bridge GOP divide
The Florida senator's role in the immigration reform debate damaged his standing among conservatives. But he still has a plausible path to the nomination.
By JAMES HOHMANN
Marco Rubio's case for the GOP nomination is simple. He believes he can emerge as the consensus candidate who bridges the divide between the Republican establishment and tea party activists. And the 43-year-old believes that the conservative grassroots is ready for "Something New," which not coincidentally is the name of a Swedish dance song that played Monday night at the end of his presidential campaign kickoff rally in Miami.
Rubio has decided his odds are good enough that he's willing to give up a second term in the Senate.
With a thousand supporters chanting "Marco" at Freedom Tower, the son of Cuban immigrants invoked his inspiring personal story — suitable for framing as the embodiment of the American Dream — and showed he will inject a youthful vigor to the field.
"We Americans are proud of our history, but our country has always been about the future," he said. "We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them."
Rubio battles Bush in quest for money
ANNA PALMER
Rubio's strategists believe that the GOP base is in no mood for a coronation. So they plan to aggressively court support from both movement conservatives and establishment leaders exhausted by the idea of another Bush and drawn to the appeal of a relative newcomer – the son of a bartender and hotel maid – and his promise of "a new American Century."
"I have heard some suggest that I should step aside and wait my turn," Rubio told the crowd. "But I cannot, because I believe our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake and that I can make a difference as president."
Rubio strategists intend to compete in all four early states and can outline a plausible path to victory in each. The recent tour to promote his campaign-style manifesto, "American Dreams," provided a head start by generating good crowds and positive buzz.
He'll be in New Hampshire on Friday for a state GOP-sponsored cattle call. He has events planned in Iowa and South Carolina before the end of April, and a possible visit to Nevada is in the works.
Rubio tells donors he is running for president
ALEX ISENSTADT and MARC CAPUTO
Rubio's youth provides a not-at-so-subtle contrast with both Hillary Clinton, 67, and Jeb Bush, 62, who served as Florida's governor when Rubio was in the state House. The senator himself noted Clinton's entry into the race during his announcement speech.
"Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday," he said. "But yesterday is over, and we are never going back."
Rubio spoke of a generational choice, framing the race just as some of his allies and other boosters have in ecent weeks.
"I think Rubio is the one," influential conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News recently. "If the theme is new and old, I think he's got a chance to be the sort of Kennedyesque one."
Other Republicans compare Rubio to Barack Obama, both favorably and unfavorably: a first-term senator with few concrete accomplishments, with an ability to inspire and capable of turning the page after an unpopular president.
Why Marco Rubio couldn't say no
MICHAEL GRUNWALD and MARC CAPUTO
Rubio is less confrontational and more temperamentally suitable for party elites than Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, his two Senate colleagues who already announced. But other than his sponsorship of the comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, which damaged his standing among conservatives, Rubio's voting record is nearly identical. Since arriving in 2011, he's voted "no" on legislation as often as almost any other Republican.
Unlike Paul, he worked from his first days in the Senate to carve out a specialty as a hawk on foreign affairs – which has become an asset with the rise of Islamic extremism in the Middle East. Rubio manged to name-drop Cuba, Iran, Israel, China and Russia during his 15-minute speech.
The decision to move ahead with a presidential bid is colored by a strong belief in Rubio's circle that there is no strong GOP frontrunner.
The dark horse role — and the big wager on a campaign that breaks in his direction late in the primary season — suits Rubio, as long as he can raise enough money to remain among the top tier of candidates. This allows him to avoid the level of scrutiny faced so far by Bush or even Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whom Rubio's team views as out of his depth on foreign affairs.
GOP targets Hillary's years at State
MICHAEL CROWLEY and NAHAL TOOSI
There's good cause for Rubio's confidence in his strategic plan. He frequently points to his long-shot experience entering the Florida Republican primary for Senate in 2009 — when he was at three percent in the polls against Charlie Crist, a sitting governor who had the GOP establishment and major donors behind him. Over time, Rubio gained so much ground on Crist that the then-governor dropped out before the primary to avoid a drubbing.
Early polls, which show Rubio in single digits, have obscured an important facet about Rubio's 2016 candidacy: his high personal favorability numbers, and the fact that voters often pick him as their second choice.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last month reflected that upside among the rank-and-file. More Republicans, 56 percent, said they could back Rubio than any other candidate, including Bush (49 percent). Only one-quarter in that survey said they could not back Rubio, compared to 42 percent for Bush.
Iowa might be the hardest of the early states for Rubio to win. The caucuses have lower turnout, and opposition to anything perceived as amnesty is particularly strong. Rubio denies his immigration reform bill offered amnesty; his allies feel that most of the other top candidates are also soft on the issue – including Bush and Walker – and that the issue will be on the backburner by the time the first GOP votes are cast.
Rubio announces he's running for president
A big part of his pitch, even if implicit, was that as a Hispanic from Florida he is more electable in a general election. In Spanish, he recalled an old line his father used to tell him: "In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could."
As a Catholic, who also attends services at a Southern Baptist megachurch — and revealed in his 2012 memoir that he was a Mormon for a time during his childhood — he'll have the opportunity to compete hard for social conservatives.
Rubio nodded to social conservatives throughout the announcement speech. He started by saying he decided to run after months of prayer and ended by requesting prayers. In between, he invoked God's call for courage in Joshua 1:9 and said he is not afraid of what's ahead because he knows that the Lord travels with him wherever he goes.
Rubio will also pursue establishment-oriented voters who are unenthused about Bush and view other candidates are not hawkish enough. The thinking is that Cruz, Paul, Ben Carson, and others divide up the remaining conservative bloc.
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Top Iowa Republicans note that Rubio does not need to win the caucuses to win the nomination – the last two nominees did not – but that he would be well positioned if he finished in the top three.
New Hampshire, which goes a week later, is central to Rubio's strategy. Jim Merrill, the GOP operative who spearheaded Mitt Romney's 2012 primary win in New Hampshire, is now on Team Rubio. [Several other Romney 2012 alums are working for Rubio too, including political director Rich Beeson.]
Rubio plans to spend a lot of time doing the kind of town hall meetings that allowed John McCain to win in 2000 and 2008 – taking questions and mixing it up with voters.
"Rubio needs to peak late, not early," said a New Hampshire Republican. "For the next six months, his goal should be to get into most people's top three choices … Let some of the others have their month, then fade."
The Nevada caucuses follow New Hampshire. Rubio spent a big chunk of his childhood in Las Vegas, and he still has as much family in the Silver State as the Sunshine State. His electability pitch could resonate in a perennial swing state that currently has a Hispanic Republican governor.
Clinton outreach effort frustrates supporters
GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
South Carolina is the last of the four early states allowed to vote before March 1. Much of Rubio's inner circle cut its teeth in the state with the first Southern primary, including campaign manager Terry Sullivan and senior strategist Heath Thompson, who led George W. Bush's South Carolina effort in 2000.
Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator who now runs the Heritage Foundation, was one of the first national players to endorse Rubio in 2009. Rubio has cultivated a friendship with popular GOP Sen. Tim Scott during their years in Congress, and Rubio's even taken his family on vacations in the Palmetto State.
Several states will vote during the first two weeks of March, but their delegates are awarded proportionally – limiting anyone's ability to run away with the nomination.
March 15 is the first day that states can award their delegates as winner-take-all. If Rubio comes out of South Carolina strong, or if Bush stumbles and does not catch fire, he'd be very well positioned for that next stretch.
The only question then would be whether Rubio has the cash to compete with the other survivors.
"We won't have the most money," said a senior Rubio adviser, "but we'll have enough."
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Hold On To Your Heartstrings, Here Come The Mother's Day Ads
If you're the sort of person who forgets Mother's Day every year, then online advertising has you covered. Advertising loves celebrating mums almost as much as it does sporting events and the festive season – and not without good reason.
From brands as diverse as Procter & Gamble and Dove, plenty of mom-themed adverts have seen massive sharing success in recent years, not to mention inspiring more than a few appreciative phone calls home.
With US Mother's Day coming up this Sunday (yes, it really is that close), this year's crop of mom ads look no less ready to tug heartstrings.
This year we have already seen some sterling Mum appreciation from Knorr and jewellery brand Pandora, in the form of spots 'Flavour of Home' and 'The Unique Connection' respectively. In a fit of surprising serendipity, these two ads play on a similar theme: the unmistakable, nostalgic associations children have with their mothers.
Pandora's effort, a simple but effective stunt in the Dove mould, finds blindfolded children picking out their mum from a group of women. It may look a little bit like a surreal police line-up, but the stripped-back messaging means the ad has been shared over 200,000 times since release.
Meanwhile, 'Flavour of Home' is a rather more high-concept affair, charting the long-distance connection between Carmen, who trains huskies in Finland, and her mother, who lives at home in Portsmouth, England.
Directed with beautiful restraint by documentarian Nanette Burnstein, the ad culminates in an unsuspecting Carmen being served dinner, only to realize she's eating her mother's unmistakable home cooking. An international sharing hit, across both YouTube and Facebook Video, 'Flavour of Home' uses food to convey the same idea: that unmistakable quality which makes Mom mom.
As you can tell from these spots, Mother's Day advertising tends to be highly sentimental. As with so-called 'Dadvertising', brands often put explicit focus on family, warmth and feelings of nostalgia.
Online videos with positive emotional outlooks tend to share better than negative spots, and so this goes some way to explaining the popularity of this sort of advertisement. Even humorous ads like CardStore's classic 'World's Toughest Job' tap into a collective sense of joy and appreciation, whether you have your own kids or just remember what a nightmare you were to raise.
But that doesn't mean parental adverts succeed on the basis of being manipulative. On the contrary, there are as many innovative, exciting Mother's Day adverts as there are moms (well, probably not, but you get the idea).
Case in point, Wells Fargo's beautiful spot finds a same-sex couple teaching themselves sign language in order to communicate with the child they'll soon adopt. It's an incredibly simple short, ornamented with a gentle piano score, that pushes certain boundaries while managing to be a charming portrayal of stepping into parenthood.
Similarly, several recent ads have attempted to use the popularity of Mum-based advertising to draw attention to political and social causes. 'Mum and Maids', a controversial PSA by a Singapore-based not-for-profit, explores the culture of domestic help in the country by asking maids to answer questions about the children they look after. Cut together with interviews of those children's mothers, the experiment reveals that 74% of 'maids' know more about these children than their parents do.
Produced to encourage Singapore families to give domestic workers their legal days off, the same humanitarian spirit dominates in UNICEF's 'A Tale of Two Mothers'. A narrative depiction of the 'vaccination gap' that persists between the richest and the poorest in society (particularly in LEDCs), the ad finds two mothers striving to procure vaccination for their children.
So while Americans organize flowers for Sunday, rest assured that this year is already offering a fine crop of (surprisingly political) 'Mumverts'. So even if you can't find a decent present, there's always a YouTube link to remind Mum how much you care.
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Turkey widens Khashoggi search, denies giving US tapes
AFPPublished October 19, 2018
Protesters holding portraits of missing journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi with the caption: "Jamal Khashoggi is missing since October 2". —AFP
An aerial view of the Belgrade Forest in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 where the focus of investigation has now been shifted by Turkish investigators. —AP
Turkey on Friday widened the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after his visit to the Saudi consulate, searching a forest in the city.
Ankara also denied giving any audio recording to US officials from the investigation about Khashoggi, a former royal insider who moved to the United States after becoming a critic of the current House of Saud leadership.
US President Donald Trump acknowledged that Khashoggi was likely dead even as his fate remained unclear 17 days after he vanished.
Pro-government Turkish media have provided a steady stream of claims that Khashoggi was tortured and decapitated by a Saudi hit squad inside the consulate, although Turkey has yet to divulge details about the investigation.
But the controversy has already put the kingdom — for decades a key Western ally and bulwark against Iran in the Middle East — under unprecedented pressure amid reports it is scrambling to provide an explanation to take the heat off its rulers.
It is also a major crisis for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a favourite of the Trump administration who has portrayed himself as a modernising Arab reformer, but whose image and even position at home could now be gravely undermined.
Forest search
Istanbul's Belgrade forest became a target of the investigation after police focused on the vehicles which had left the consulate on the day Khashoggi disappeared, NTV channel reported. At least one vehicle is suspected to have gone to the forest.
The forest, a vast area and sufficiently remote for even locals to regularly get lost there, is nearly 15 kilometres (over nine miles) away from the Saudi consulate.
Investigators already conducted two searches of the consulate and a nine-hour search of the consul's residence this week. The Saudi consul, Mohammed al-Otaibi, abruptly left Istanbul for Riyadh on Tuesday.
Pro-government daily Sabah on Friday published new CCTV images of some of the Saudi team arriving in Istanbul and reported that two of the men landed in the city on October 1.
Previously, local media said the 15 men arrived in Turkey on the day that Khashoggi went missing via two private planes, which then returned to Riyadh via Egypt and Dubai.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu did not reveal probe details but promised to share information in due course "in a transparent manner".
"It is out of the question for us to share this or that information with any country," he said during a visit to Albania's capital, Tirana.
'No tape given'
The key potential piece of evidence in the investigation is an alleged audio tape whose existence has been reported by pro-government media. They say it proves Khashoggi was tortured and then killed.
ABC News on Thursday quoted an unnamed Turkish official saying US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heard the audio tape and was shown a transcript of the recording during his visit to Ankara.
But Pompeo said he had neither "seen" nor "heard" a tape and had not read a transcript during the visit to Ankara where he held talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Cavusoglu.
Read: 'This has not been business as usual in my country': excerpts from Saudi journalist Khashoggi's writings
Cavusoglu on Friday also denied the claims and said it was "out of the question for Turkey to give any kind of audio tape to Pompeo or any other US official".
Earlier Trump said he now believed Khashoggi was dead and warned of "very severe" consequences should Saudi Arabia be proven responsible.
"It certainly looks that way to me. It's very sad," Trump said when asked if he believed that Khashoggi is no longer alive.
'Prevent whitewash'
The New York Times reported that Saudi leaders could blame General Ahmed al-Assiri, a top intelligence official close to the crown prince.
Previously US media said Saudis were preparing a report that Khashoggi's death resulted from a botched interrogation, in a bid to limit the global backlash against Riyadh and damage to the crown prince.
As Washington seeks to avoid a long-term rupture with its ally Riyadh, Pompeo told Trump the Saudis should be given "a few more days to complete" an official probe.
But four prominent human rights and press freedom groups urged Turkey to demand a United Nations investigation to prevent a "whitewash" of the alleged crime.
The furore has also blown a huge hole in next week's Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh. It was meant to showcase Prince Mohammed's plans for reform but has now been hit by a stream of big name cancellations including US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
JamalKhashoggi
Man linked to MBS was at Saudi consulate when Khashoggi vanished
US, Europe shun Saudi conference over journalist Khashoggi's disappearance
Jamal Khashoggi case
MBS is on the fast track to oblivion after his fast track actions on several fronts, probably, the latest being too fast for his own self.
Zubairi
Turkey denies giving the tapes to the US. Sticky wicket, Old Boy. A very sticky diplomatic wicket.
Anti-Corruption_Pakistani
Because of Khashoggi's disappearance, Saudis are in deep waters and will struggle to come out without US help. This incident is a typical example of bad decision, unethical and dictatorial behavior - it would be interesting to see how Saudi get out of this self created political mess in the near future.
Ahsan Gul
Pakistan and our citizens must stop taking any sides or writing any comments. It is not a matter of opinion as opinions sometimes do more damage than good.
Hajji
The Turks needs to upload the audio / video to youtube so the whole world can see / hear what was done to Jamal Khashoggi before the investment conference. I will be selling a lot of my stocks based on who attends the conference.
When people think of themselves as invincible, their downfall start!
ahamed
Why does KSA need more days to 'frame' a response to this tragedy?
Dark days will come to MBS
Absolute power corrupts
Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
I wish I am wrong which I am not. Till this point of time it is established that the journalist did enter Saudi Consulate but did not come out and Saudis say he ha not been killed so what happened to him is the most baffling question of the century and I say he 'vanished in air' be accepted to end all speculations and let us attend to other problems and issues instead engaging US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in particular and rest of the world in general on just one person. Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
Muqali Khan
Saudis could not bear the heat of criticism, hell would be unbearable.
k k tiwari
Turkey definitely knows as of now what happened inside embassy but may bargain
Afbab
This seems is trape for mbs either by turkey or his beloved cousines


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Using Oscarmetrics to Rank The Eight Best Picture Nominees' Chances
I love to use Oscarmetrics to determine winners at the Academy Awards. Most writers who cover awards season love to talk about the inside information they get, and I just sit here and use my numbers to out-predict them. Not only do I not have the access that most award season writers have, but that information either tends not to be accurate or that information just seems to confuse the situation. I have been extremely accurate in my predictions the past couple of years once I have learned the ins and out of the system. If you had listened to me last year when I told you to bet on Birdman for Best Picture and Best Director in mid-January when Boyhood was the favorite or to bet on Eddie Redmayne when Michael Keaton was the favorite, then you would have won a handful of shekles.
2016 has been a crazy Oscar season, and one that hasn't felt so up in the air since 2006 when Martin Scorsese and The Departed snuck in under the wire to steal the entire she-bang. On one hand, that leaves me feeling the least confident I have in a while in my selections; however, on the other hand, that means the betting is ripe for the taking. So if you would like to bet on the Best Picture Oscar race, here is my helpful guide:
8) Brooklyn
Brooklyn does not have: an Oscar or a Director's Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Best Director (two keys necessary for a Best Picture win), an Oscar nomination for Best Editing (surprisingly, but not really, necessary for a Best Picture win), a BAFTA nomination for Best Picture, or a Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) nomination for "Best Picture". Further, it only has three total Oscar nominations. To the film's credit, it is an acting nomination for Saoirse Ronan and a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, both of which are good nominations to have if you want to win Best Picture, but the few total nominations it has plus the minuscule buzz there is surrounding the film means that Brooklyn unfortunately is not really in contention- which is a shame because it is a great film.
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2016 Oscar Preview: Best Cinematography
- Ed Lachman (Carol)
- Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight)
- John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)
- Roger Deakins (Sicario)
SHOULD BE HERE: Maryse Alberti (Creed)
Former Hitfix.com and current Variety writer Kristopher Tapley creates a list every year of the best shots in film of the year. Wouldn't you know it, Creed ended up at the very top of the list. Almost everyone currently nominated for an Academy Award earned a spot on Mr. Tapley's list, but one of the very best films of the year ended up at #1. I personally would have gone with the oner fight scene in the middle of the film- a piece of technical mastery that instantly rose to the top as one of the best fight scenes in the history of cinema (not a hyperbole)- but that's just me. Alberti's camera work in Creed is just incredible, much like everyone who worked on the film, and her nomination would have not only made the Oscars not so white, but would have been well deserved.
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, 2016 Oscar Preview, Academy Award Nominations, Academy Awards, Best Cinematography, Creed, For Your Consideration, Trivia Night
2016 Oscar Preview: Best Soundtrack
Unfortunately, the Best Soundtrack Oscar does not exist. It is a fake category that I first heard about from Alex Pappademas on Grantland, and an idea that I have loved ever since. Mr. Pappademas proposed adding a category to recognize the use of previously already existing songs in film. For the past two years since I have been doing these Oscar Preview posts, I like to throw in a Best Soundtrack post as well. Music and movies have become an indelible part of our culture and the music supervisors that are able to blend the two together deserve to get awards for what they do. I love writing these posts because I am firm believer in the addition of this category. There already is a Best Score category, so why not add one more category to honor those who successfully use original music to score their film?
Click here if you want to read more about why The Academy should add a Best Soundtrack category.
The specific rules for this category have been a bit flimsy over the years. I've "nominated"films that have a great original soundtrack like Frozen and Begin Again; however, I've realized that those nominations go against the spirit of this category. The purpose of the Best Soundtrack category is to nominate films that effectively incorporate already existing songs. Therefore, if your film is full of songs that are eligible for a Best Song Oscar, you're out. I have also decided that music created by the artist that's the source of the film and/or biopic is out. N.W.A. and Kurt Cobain made some incredible music over the course of their careers, but Straight Outta Compton and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck NEEDS to feature their respective artist's music. While those films of course have incredible soundtracks consisting of already existing music (Montage of Heck especially which features unreleased versions of Cobain's music and different versions of his songs so fucking well) they also violate the spirit of this category.
So with all of that being said, here are my personal nominees for the Best Soundtrack category:
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Room and The Benefits of the Oscars Nominating Films That Make No Money
Even in a year that saw Guardians of the Galaxy and one of the Hunger Games films being released, the highest grossing film of 2014 was American Sniper. Despite earning multiple Oscar nominations last year including a Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor nomination, American Sniper's only win came for Best Sound Editing. This of course caused outrage among conservatives claiming that Hollywood was out of touch with "the real America".
That being said, it wouldn't be an unfair criticism of The Academy to say that they're out of touch with the vast majority of the movie going public. Jurassic World, Furious Seven, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, grossed a gazillion dollars between the three of them in 2015 (rough estimate), and have a combined 0 Oscar nominations. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the highest grossing domestic film of all time, and it didn't earn a Best Picture, Best Director, Best anything Actor, or Best Screenplay nomination. The original Star Wars is the second highest grossing domestic movie all time when adjusting for inflation, and did earn a Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay nomination in 1977, but lost all three to friggin' Annie Hall.
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominations, Academy Awards, For Your Consideration, Room, Trivia Night
#OscarsSoWhite: Does The Academy Have A Race Problem? Part II
The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag was born in 2014 after the 2015 Oscar nominations were released. The Academy failed to nominate an actor or director of color which led many of us to ponder the state of this seemingly antiquated institution. I even chimed in on the issue wondering if The Academy had a race problem last year. Last year, I felt as if the lack of nominations for people was not the fault of The Academy, but basically the result of Hollywood's latent racism. I didn't feel as if it was The Academy's fault that they weren't able to nominate quality from people of color that wasn't there (and frankly even if The Academy did nominate Selma, the larger lack of quality to choose from still remains).
However, that argument just doesn't hold as much water today where, for the second year in a row, the Oscars are still so white. There most certainly is still a lack of opportunity for people of color to tell their stories, but there were plenty of deserving nominations for people of color at this year's Oscars and plenty of ways to make the Oscar nominations more diverse while still honoring craft and talent.
Labels: #OscarsSoWhite, Creed, For Your Consideration, Idris Elba, Oscar History, Oscars and Race, Straight Outta Compton, Trivia Night, Will Smith
Brooklyn: The Most Charming Film of 2015
Maybe because I saw Brooklyn immediately after watching the incredibly dark and somewhat boring The Revenant and Room, or maybe because Brooklyn is just a great film that stands on its own in its own right, but I really enjoyed this film. Brooklyn is a romantic tale starring Saoirse (rhymes with inertia) Ronan as an Irish immigrant coming to America in the early 1950's. A girl with lots of potential, but no promise, Ronan's Ellis hops on a boat to find a better life for herself in New York City. She gets a job at a local retail store and eats up meeting a nice and incredibly charming Italian boy played by Emory Cohen. The two meet and fall in love. There's not a whole not to the story itself, but it's the execution that makes it so exquisite.
Part of the charm of Brooklyn is that there's very little that goes wrong. Normally tension and drama are necessary for a story to work, but the lack of it in Brooklyn that makes it so endearing and watchable. You see Ellis grow stronger as she comes into her own in The Big City, and you see how that affects her relationship not only with Cohen's Tony, but with her housemates. Ellis lives in a boarding house, and the scenes where Ellis and her housemates (most notably the banter between the characters played by Emily Bett Rickards and Eve Macklin and the Den Mother played by Mary O'Driscoll) eat dinner are some of the best parts of the film. Brooklyn is a film about living and enjoying your life, and by having these characters grow and charm their way into your hearts, you'll love it from not giving you the normal melodrama you'd expect from a romantic movie.
Brooklyn is what Nicholas Sparks adaptions should aspire to become; romantic without feeling cheesy or forced. A film where you root for the main characters to get together and where you know the main characters will get there without being forced to watch unnecessary obstacles. There most certainly are obstacles to Ellis's and Tony's relationship, that's the entire third act of the film, but it feels earnest and earned in Brooklyn.
Ultimately, Brooklyn is a film that will just make you happy. It's pleasant and enjoyable, and I'm glad it got nominated for Best Picture. The original intent of expanding the Best Picture nominees was so that great tent pole films like The Dark Knight wouldn't get snubbed. Ironically, the big tent pole film of 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road, probably would have gotten a Best Picture nomination no matter what and it's the smaller Brooklyn that ended up being the beneficiary of The Dark Knight Rule. Brooklyn is the reason that I love being an Oscar competitionist. It's the type of film I wouldn't have probably seen normally, and I film I would strongly recommend to all.
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Labels: 2015 Movie Reviews, 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominations, Brooklyn, For Your Consideration, Trivia Night
The Underrated Spotlight? How 2015's Best Film Feels Like Its Fading Fast
Prior to The Golden Globes, Spotlight was the front-runner to win Best Picture at the Oscars. It is this fuel that caused 19 out of the 21 "experts" at GoldDerby.com to predict Spotlight to win the Golden Globe for Best Film (Drama). The other two "experts" predicted Mad Max: Fury Road. Throughout the entire awards season, Spotlight had already been anointed the winner. Sometimes being the Top Dog early works out well as shown by 2011's The Artist. Sometimes it's better not to pique early as we saw with Boyhood last year. Unfortunately, Spotlight is starting to feel more than Boyhood than The Artist. As Spotlight came out with exactly zero wins at The Golden Globes and as The Revenant and even Mad Max: Fury Road feels like it's gaining steam, I fear that Spotlight is going to be one of those great movies that history ends up leaving behind thanks to getting shut out come award season. Sure Spotlight did earn plenty of top tier Oscar nominations such as Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and of course Best Picture, but it still feels like it is being left out of the conversation. (And for the record, Boyhood also earned all of those nominations last year and its only winner was for Award Season favorite Patricia Arquette for Best Supporting Actress.)
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominations, For Your Consideration, Spotlight, Trivia Night
The Big Short and Adam McKay's Hatred of Big Banks
Before The Big Short, writer/director Adam McKay has made five films: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Stepbrothers, The Other Guys, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Outside of the plethora of semi-colons and Will Ferrell, the one thing these films all have in common is that they're fairly broad, slapstick, goofball comedies.
Then McKay did something incredible and out-of-the-ordinary, he made The Big Short starring four Oscar nominees (and a movie not starring Will Ferrell). The Big Short is based upon the book by Michael Lewis and it earned 5 Oscar nominations including a Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay nod for McKay and a Best Picture nod for the film itself. Let's put this into perspective, a film made by the guy who started Funny or Die and the director of Stepbrothers has an Oscar nomination and made an Oscar nominated film, wrote an Oscar nominated script and directed an Oscar nominated performance. It would not be false advertising to say "From Oscar nominated director Adam McKay comes Anchorman 3: The Legend Finally Comes To An End." Yet despite all of the surprises, The Big Short is a great film and the only person who could have made it great was Adam McKay.
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Adam McKay, For Your Consideration, Michael Lewis, The Big Short, Trivia Night
Anomalisa vs. Inside Out: The Race for the Best Animated Film of 2015
Coming into 2015, Pixar Animation Studios was having a creative dry spell. Since 2010's Toy Story 3, Pixar released Cars 2, Brave, and Monsters University. While all of those films did make over $190 million, they were not as revered or in the same ballpark as Pixar's other classics such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, or The Incredibles. 2015 changed things for Pixar- not only did it allow The Good Dinosaur to come and go, but it saw the release of Inside Out. Inside Out is a children's film, yet it's so thematically rich and unbelievably creative that it automatically vaults itself into the discussion for one of Pixar's all time best. The film helps explain complex concepts to children while not diminishing story or characters and still remains interesting and wonderful to adults. The movie also makes you cry at the death of imaginary pink elephant made out of cotton candy. I think Inside Out is a work of brilliance and you can easily see why it's the Oscar front runner for Best Animated Film.
Yet as good of a film as Inside Out is, I don't think it touches a candle to Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa. I have Inside Out as my 6th favorite film of 2014 at 3.5 stars, but Anomalisa is solidly in my top five at #3 with 4 stars and could very easily move up to #1 as the longer I think about it the more I love it. Inside Out is a great animated film, Anomalisa is a great film period.
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Anomalisa, Best Animated Film, Charlie Kaufman, For Your Consideration, Inside Out, Pixar, Trivia Night
How The Dark Knight Helped Mad Max: Fury Road's Oscar Hype
In 2008, the greatest American film of all time was released: The Dark Knight. It was a cinematic wonder. Not only was it an amazing achievement for the superhero and action genre, but it was an amazing achievement for film in general. Director Christopher Nolan pushed and changed the boundaries of what an action film can do and should look like. Further, at the time, it became the second highest grossing domestic movie ever behind Titanic. Yet when the Oscar nominations were announced, Christopher Nolan wasn't nominated for Best Director and the film did not receive a nomination for Best Picture. The film did receive five nominations and ended up with two wins which isn't nothing, but we all knew that The Dark Knight deserved more recognition than it received. The Academy knew it as well, and the next year it announced a rule change making up to ten films eligible for Best Picture as opposed to the hard and set rule of solely five films. The thinking was that if 8 - 10 films were eligible to be nominated for Best Picture in 2008, The Dark Knight would have earned a Best Picture nomination. To me that thinking is a bit silly because The Dark Knight should have been in the Top Five no matter what; however, this Oscar rule in the wake of The Dark Knight's snub has at minimum helped pushed the stodgy old white male thinking of what an Oscar movie should look like and has at maximum helped bring more prestigious exposure to films that were otherwise considered "genre films".
Labels: 2016 Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominations, For Your Consideration, Mad Max Fury Road, The Dark Knight, Trivia Night
The 10 Best Singles of 2015
10) "Downtown" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
9) "Elastic Heart" by Sia
8) "Uma Thurman" by Fallout Boy
7) "Hello" by Adele
6) "Ex's and Oh's" by Elle King
5) "Hotline Bling" by Drake
4) "Here" by Alessia Cara
3) "Confident" by Demi Lovato
2) "Can't Feel My Face / In The Night" by The Weeknd
1) "Style / Blank Space / Wildest Dreams" by Taylor Swift
Labels: Alessia, Demi Lovato, Drake, Sia, Singles, Taylor Swift, The Best Singles of 2015, The Weeknd, Trivia Night
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Queens is so diverse, there is nothing unusual about an imam giving a talk on "The Essence of Islam." Unless it's in a Synagogue, at a Holocaust memorial service, that is.
Rabbi Michael Weisser of the Free Synagogue of Flushing likes making the unusual commonplace, so he has invited his "friend and partner in interfaith outreach" Imam Shamsi Ali to a special interfaith Yom HaShoah or Holocaust memorial observance.
Imam Ali is the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center in Manhattan, as well as mosques in Jamaica and Astoria. He is also a founding member of the Imams' Council of New York.
He will be attending Sabbath evening services at the temple, at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard in downtown Flushing on Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m.
After speaking on the topic, the imam and rabbi will be available to engage "in a timely and topical interfaith dialogue." The public is invited to attend.
The Free Synagogue is located at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard, between Sanford Avenue and Main Street. All are welcome. Free on-site parking is available. Please call 718-961-0030 or visit www.freesynagogue.org for more information.


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I was in a bad mood the other day, so Husband sent me out of the house to get some fresh air and a gallon of milk. In one of the aisles of the grocery store, I saw a little boy sitting in a shopping cart.
I smiled brightly and waved.
He held up a package of wooden spoons.
I made expressions indicating I approved of his treasure.
He was still winking when he made a sort of clicking noise with his mouth. Then I heard a tremendous explosion, masterfully improvised, as he fired his makeshift weapon at my face.
My eyes went from soft, wide doe-eyes to the razor-thin slits of an angry snake as I registered the betrayal.
He appraised me with a look of smug victory.
But instead I kept on walking. Walking, walking down the aisle with my milk and my tattered clothing dragging behind me, walking right by his mother who didn't seem to mind that my virtual brains were splattered all over Aisle 7. Which is too bad, because he's likely to do that again, and I'm one of the saner individuals at my supermarket.
This was supposed to be part of my Tuesday Tease series of lazy photo posts, but then it suddenly became Friday. No problem—I changed the title to Friday Freeze. Seemed apt. Then Friday came and went. Now it's Saturday. Saturday Sneeze strikes me as too disgusting of a post title to be paired with a bowl full of yellow snow, so you're stuck with the outdated title (and an image in your mind that you probably wish you didn't have). You're welcome!
In my forthcoming cookbook, there are several recipes for homemade snow cones. And by homemade, I do not mean pouring a package of powdered Kool-Aid over the snow. While the Internet assures me that this is a perfectly delicious way to enjoy snow cones, the Internet disappoints me sometimes. After experimenting with various homemade syrups, I came up with some excellent alternatives using seasonal winter fruits like citrus, pears, and quince (pictured is tangelo). I stored them in jelly jars in the refrigerator and then waited for the snow to come.
And waited and waited and waited. Mind you, this was last winter (2011/2012). The winter before that (2010/2011), we got 80 inches of snow. Last year, nothing. Well, maybe a few dustings here and there, but only enough to make one pitifully small grassy snow cone flecked with dirt and debris. Not appetizing. I thought about driving up to the mountains with a cooler. Instead I pulled out the blender. Bad idea. You can't make snow cones with a blender. Not with my blender anyway. Not unless you like soupy slush cones studded with frequent whole nuggets of ice. Yuck!
Finally, I broke down and bought a cheap $20 shaved ice machine. It worked well for testing purposes, producing an acceptable snow-like accumulation in small quantities. But I had yet to try my syrups over the actual cottony stuff from the sky. Until recently, that is. And, oh, it's such a treat!
Following up on my trip to Philly, here's a peek into the photo shoot for my cookbook, Wintersweet. Above are food stylist Ricardo Jattan and his assistant Curt working on that day's recipes. Below is Steve Legato, photographer extraordinaire. The shoot took place in his spacious, light-filled studio.
How it worked was this: Ricardo and Curt would make the selected recipes (about 40 in all) in the studio kitchen. Amanda, the book's art designer, coordinated with Mariellen, the prop stylist, to select the right plates and props from several tables' worth of platters, bowls, plates, trays, and linens. Ricardo, a successful movie production designer who does food styling in his spare time, would artfully arrange the dessert on the chosen serving vessel, selecting just the right honey-roasted pear to feature (known as the "hero"). That includes making sure the caramel drips seductively in all the right places and the nuts are scattered attractively. It's trickier than it looks. Here Amanda is razzing Ricardo for trying to sneak an unwanted mint garnish into one of the shots.
Meanwhile, Amanda and Mariellen set up the appropriate backgrounds on the set: sometimes old cabinet doors or boards, sometimes fancy papers. Steve adjusted the lights and made various other calibrations that I can't even begin to understand.
See the swirls in that napkin? Those are not accidental. This is why I will never amount to anything as a food stylist. I unceremoniously plop the napkin down right after using it to smear some ketchup across my face.
Mmmm, whoopie pies! Frankly, I was in my glory sitting back and watching everyone else do the hard work. I didn't have to lift a finger. The process was fascinating to watch, and I had so much fun. Such a nice and talented group! A huge thanks to the whole crew, as well as my editor Kristen Green Wiewora at Running Press and my agent Melissa Sarver.
I know you're probably tired of hearing me drone on and on about this, but I cannot WAIT to see this book!!
I just got back from the City of Brotherly Love. What a cool place!
It was the site of my dessert cookbook's photo shoot with Philly-based Running Press and Steve Legato Photography. Just between you and me, I wasn't going to miss that experience for all the tea in Boston's icy harbor, snow be damned, Amtrak train cancellations be doubly damned, school cancellations be triply damned. I fishtailed my way down my barely plowed street at 5 am on Monday and flung myself onto the first southbound train that came my way. Six hours later, I woke up in Philly.
This is the view from my little hotel, The Independent, which I loved (wood floors, high ceilings, close to all the great restaurants). I didn't have much daylight to work with for sight-seeing, but I did manage a fair amount of walking before and after the shoot through the Old City and Rittenhouse Square.
Philly reminds me a lot of Boston with its brick and cobblestone sidewalks in some quarters and streetcar rails grooving the pavement in others. The architecture is similar, too, with pretty little row houses lining the streets, but with more brick than brownstone and simpler, straighter lines. The urban vibe seems grittier and funkier than Boston, though, and certainly more diverse. There seemed to be painted murals around every corner. The grid system of an urban plan (roads chronologically numbered in one direction, named after trees in the other) is very easy to navigate by foot, and the drivers don't rev their engines if you're still in the crosswalk when the light is about to change. That was a refreshing change of pace.
My editor treated my agent and I to a lovely dinner at Tria, a wine bar with a welcome emphasis on cheese and probably the friendliest service I've experienced at any restaurant ever. The next night, I dined alone at Fish at the bar overlooking the open kitchen. The food was delicious: seared scallops with chorizo, cauliflower, and Marcona almonds, and monkfish with parsnip puree, lobster butter, fermented garlic, braised fennel, and radish.
The staff kept me well entertained, teasing me for missing all the important Philly sights: the Liberty Bell, Constitution Center, Independence Hall, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the latter of which seemed better known for Rocky's triumphant training scene than any art contained therein. Let it be known, however, that I did get to the Reading Terminal Market housed in an old train station, where I procured colorful farm eggs and an assortment of winter squashes for photography purposes.
But, of course, a large part of why I loved my trip so much was the photo shoot itself. It was amazing. What a fantastic, talented, and welcoming crew! They made even my most unphotogenic recipes look scrumptious, hermits included. Hermits!! The shoot deserves a post all its own, which you will soon get, but first I need to spend a little time with my family.
Know what's good over a shot glass full of snow? This stuff: Sapling. It's a maple liqueur from Saxtons River Distillery in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sweet but not too sweet, it's a nice reward after four hours of shoveling 2 to 3 feet of snow.
In the Boston area, look for it at Gordon's and Maaahty's. Thanks, Neighbors!
The 10YO and 7YO joined forces over the weekend to protest the fact that I wouldn't give them dessert after lunch. Not part of the contract, I said. It's a discretionary bonus.
10YO: Then we'll go on strike.
Me: In the real world, when workers go on strike, the whole company shuts down because there isn't anyone to do the work. But, in this case, everything stays the same. You don't do any work!
10YO: We can stop listening to you.
Me: …but then you're putting your dinnertime dessert at risk. Why would I want to make cupcakes and ice cream for a bunch of naughty boys?!
10YO: Pretend we never had this conversation.
I admit it, I take a little pride in winning these types of arguments because I know in three years or less, I won't be winning any of them and my cupcakes will no longer wield the power they once did.


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Sebastian Adams and Yseult Cooper-Stockdale perform a lunchtime recital of works for Viola and Cello. Included among the pieces will be 'my heart stopped a thousand beats'.
The Curious Cello, an interactive installation.
Dulciana Choir performs Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols along with new and old seasonal works.
Join New Dublin Voices in the beautiful surrounds of Dublin's Christchurch Cathedral as they perform a selection of seasonal choral pieces ranging from the traditional to contemporary works, including the premiere performance of Luminous Star by Irish composer Jonathan Nangle.
Join the Irish record label Ergodos on a unique musical walking trail through the city. On a winding route through the city's back streets and laneways, you'll discover music from a fascinating range of musicians and composers.
Signum Quartet present a concert of Tiny Premieres. Part of their ongoing "Quartweet" series of pieces containing 140 notes or less.
TCD Singers Presents 'Gold and Chrysoprase' Premiering the newly composed work " Christmas Carol" by Jonathan Nangle Followed by classic works from composers such as Elgar, Stenhammar, Morley, Praetorius and more.
Kirkoskammer returns to Bewley's Café Theatre, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre on Monday 17th July, sharpening its focus on our fantastic clarinetist Léonie Bluett. July's concert features a strong core of Irish and Ireland-based composers, with the premiere of a new work by Andrew Hamilton, commissioned with funds from the Arts Council, and another Kirkos outing for Kevin Volans' clarinet:solo, originally written for Léonie. This virtuosic and colourful programme will be completed by Jonathan Nangle's Particle, Johannes Kreidler's Two Pieces for Clarinet and Video and more. Léonie is currently based in Berlin but remains a Kirkos stalwart, and we're always excited to put her centre stage. She has studied at RIAM and London's Royal Academy of Music, and has won numerous prizes including Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize 2014 and Flax Trust Bursary 2013. She has played alongside Camerata Ireland, Wide Open Opera & Britten-Pears Orchestra, and regularly performs as a contemporary soloist. As always, we'll be serving complimentary wine from 7pm, with music beginning at 7.30pm.
Interactive Installations: Music, Movement and Light. 3 sound installations as part of The Ark, summer music series.
We approached a number of musicians to come up with a new idea for a music performance for children and this is your chance to see what they've come up with! You'll also get to see some interesting spaces in The Ark's neighbourhood so it will be a walking musical adventure. We are delighted to be working with our neighbours Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and the Gallery of Photography to present these 3 fun and fresh mini-concerts as part of a walking music discovery trail through Temple Bar.
Album launch of Darragh Morgan's 'For Violin and Electronics' on Diatribe Records. Features 'where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds' for violin and resonators.
Launch of Darragh Morgan's new album 'For Violin and Electronics' on Diatribe Records. The album features a recording of 'where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds' for violin and resonators.
Alex Petcu will give a recital as part of his PhD studies at the RIAM Dublin. Includes the premiere performance of 'upward into dark blue air' for percussion and electronics.
Composing the Island: Organ Music 1990-2016 This concert features Irish organ works composed by non-organists, perhaps surprisingly resulting in a series of idiomatic and virtuosic works perfectly married to the instrument.
The Contemporary Music Centre Salon Series returns this April. This year's series was curated by Irish composer Linda Buckley and it will feature a diverse and eclectic programme across six events. This concert features Sebastian Adams performing works for viola written especially for him.
A recital of new viola works written for Sebastian Adams by composers including Finola Merivale, Daniel Barkley, Jonathan Nangle, Tom Lane, Garrett Sholdice and Tyler Gilmore.
David Adams will perform Toccata L'homme arme in a Gala Concert in aid of the Grammar School Building Programme Featuring the choirs of Saint Patrick's Cathedral & Saint Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School (Stuart Nicholson & Áine Balfe directors) with Compere Tim Thurston and guest soloists.
As Ireland reflects on a historic 100-year milestone, take a glimpse at what the next century might hold for Irish composition. Future Composers brings together three of Ireland's most innovative new music ensembles – The Dublin Laptop Orchestra, Kirkos Ensemble, and Tonnta - to perform works by emerging Irish composers for electronics, acoustic instruments, and voices respectively, and culminates in all three groups joining forces to perform a new large-scale work by award-winning composer Linda Buckley, specially commissioned for the event. Presented by Ensemble Music, who along with the performing groups strive to present classical music in non-traditional settings. Future Composers explores the full sonic range of new Irish composition in a unique, immersive surrounding. Please note that Future composers is a standing gig, no seating.
Beata Maria is the story of the birth of Christ told from the perspective of Mary and through the music of ten composers associated with the Royal Irish Academy of Music on a text by Kevin O'Connell. Includes the work 'Gabriels Message' for tape.
"I have long been fascinated by the North - the Nordic countries, expanse of land and ocean, from residencies on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, to the vast Icelandic countryside. The title norður comes from the Icelandic word for 'north'. This programme represents many areas of interest from me, with field recording and themes of sea and winter, to music rooted in immersion and atmosphere. I certainly feel an affinity to the Irish composers featured - the sonic experimentation of Conal Ryan, the purity and harmony of Garrett Sholdice, also deeply inspired by a love of Medieval music. Includes 'Coastal Field Recordings', a work inspired by field recordings from the Dun Laoghaire to Killiney coastal region.
"The Past Presence" highlights The Dock's culture of commissioning new work, and revisits works past and new interests as part of our 10 year anniversary. Featuring composer Jonathan Nangle and artists Mark Garry, Karl Burke and Aideen Barry.
This unique event was curated by composer Sarah O'Halloran to showcase a diverse selection of fixed-media works featuring original music and moving images. Enjoy opera with animation, Irish dance with sound art, and abstract video art with ambient electronics then vote for your favorite piece.
Mary Dullea's most recent CD release on Métier Divine Art is an exciting and varied collection of premiere recordings by Irish composers. This recital marks the UK launch and will be preceded by a research seminar where Mary discusses the collaborations and the works themselves.
Come and hear New Dublin Voices perform their carols for Christmas. This year's program involves a wide variety of music, from the delightful to the solemn, from the bright and exciting to the beautiful and sublime. Take some time to get your mind into christmas, while enjoying the beautiful music that we're only allowed to singin at this time of year! We are also excited to announce that we are launching our new CD which has been produced with Lyric FM. The official launch will be the Christ Church cathedral concert on the 13th of December, but it will be available for sale at any of our Christmas concerts.
Pianist Mary Dullea, in association with the CMC, will launch her new CD "Gothic". Featuring works by Ed Bennett, David Fennessy, John McLachlan, Grainne Mulvey, Frank Lyons, Ben Dwyer and Jonathan Nangle.
The Irish Composers Collective celebrate 10 years of activity with a two day festival of music featuring past and present members. As part of the festival Ergodos will present 'I Call to You' music composed after Bach's sublime organ chorale prelude 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' (BWV 639) by Irish artists Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Jonathan Nangle and Simon O'Connor.
Joanna Nicholson (Clarinet) and Matthew Whiteside (Electronics) will perform 'our headlights blew softly into the black, illuminating very little' for Bass Clarinet and Electronics as part of Culture Night at the CMC.
Finding Music Composer Linda Buckley grew up on her family's farm just outside Kinsale, Co. Cork. It was there that her interest in the potential of sound first awakened, from the rhythmic chugging of a milking machine to the ever present rise and fall of the sea. In Finding Music, she explores what it is that compels composers to write music, and the journey they take from blank page to concert performance of a new work. A personal reflection on the creative act, she compares experiences with fellow composers John Buckley, Judith Ring and Jonathan Nangle.
Fractal Music presents Synthesis II, a series of Audio Visual works by Irish Composers.
The Riverbank children's gallery will present three of Jonathan's interactive Song Sculptures: Trip the Light Fantastic, Environmental Paving and a brand new piece created as part of the New Music Dublin Festival 'Creative Labs' series this March. These ingenious machines use a range of high and low-tech approaches to create music as if by magic, whether it's drawing energy from natural light or the movements of visitors in the space.
The Rite of Spring reimagined for string trio by fourteen of Ireland's best composers to celebrate 100 years since its notorious premiere. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has become the zero-point from which contemporary music draws its roots. 100 years on, it still has the power to shock.
In this programme of New music, video and dance from Dublin and Bucharest we present six new multimedia works by Irish and Romanian composers, musicians and performers, including three new and recent works by leading electroacoustic and mixed media composers from the Bucharest scene – Diana Rotaru, Cătălin Creţu, and Sabina Ulubeanu – and three newly commissioned works by Irish electronic composers, Jonathan Nangle, Piaras Hoban and Fergal Dowling. The programme includes Cătălin Creţu's stunning interactive video/dance piece 'Inner Dust' and a newly devised 'Ani-motions' by Diana Rotaru.
Kirkos Ensemble will perform as part of the CMC Salon Series in the National Concert Hall.
Join the dynamic Irish Youth Choir in their 30th anniversary year as 100 of Ireland's finest young singers present a tribute to all free-thinkers, free-imaginers and freesingers, past and present. It promises to be a staggeringly beautiful programme in Cork's finest choral location. Featuring music by Haydn, Mozart, Mahler, John Taverner, Giovanni Gabrieli, Arvo Pärt, Hans Leo Hassler, Lennon and McCartney, and a world premiere of a new commission by acclaimed young Irish composer Jonathan Nangle, under acclaimed artistic director Greg Beardsell.
Crash Ensemble presents 'Free State VII' Crash Ensemble will perform my piece for solo violin and electronic resonators 'where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds' as part of their annual portrait of Irish Composers.
Ergodos: I Call to You Sligo New Music Series Drawing from Bach's organ chorale prelude, Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, I Call to You features both new works and arrangements of the chorale prelude. Composers of the Programme are of the current cutting-edge in Irish composition: Jonathan Nangle, Simon O'Connor, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice.
New Sound Installation to run as part of Culture Night 2011 at the CMC.
Make Some Noise Come and play with fascinating and quirky electronic sound installations by composer Jonathan Nangle. Create your own surround-sound music and lighting using iPod Touches, play a real drumkit without touching it, discover what a can of baked beans sounds like and meet some double pendulums. Children and grown-ups will be equally addicted!


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DRAGON MASTERS has it all--dragons, Dragon Stones, a wizard, and even some magic!
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In the second book in this fully-illustrated series, Drake and the other three Dragon Masters (Ana, Rori, and Bo) continue their training. But Ana's dragon, Kepri, is sick. The wizard tries to make her feel better, but his potions are not working. Drake's dragon, Worm, must use his special powers to take the Dragon Masters across the world in search of a cure. What made Kepri sick? Will the Dragon Masters be able to save her? And what dangers will they face along the way?


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Please post your questions in related forums and not in a blog.
For getting the values, you need to create a detail layout and add your fields there. Headers Layout will be the Column Names and Detail Layout will have values.
As you said is correct.But am giving only columns also the header is not coming in the report.
As columns also not displaying in header layout.
Check the Output Expression for the layout if its set to 0 make it 1. Also, check if you have any report script attached. After all changes are done, try compiling the report again and check the results.
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On the day, Kirsten Dinn had 64 assists. Emily Bowyer had 29 kills, 30 receptions, 24 digs and 12 aces. Alice Miller had 25 kills, 19 receptions, 34 digs and 5 aces. Shelby Spence had 40 digs, 26 receptions and 9 aces. Addy Hahn had 14 kills, 6 solo blocks, and 15 digs.
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package cn.osworks.aos.core.report;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.DefaultJasperReportsContext;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.HtmlExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsAbstractExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsExporterContext;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.ooxml.JRDocxExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.ooxml.JRPptxExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.ooxml.JRXlsxExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.ooxml.JRXlsxExporterContext;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.SimpleExporterInput;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.SimpleHtmlExporterOutput;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.SimpleXlsReportConfiguration;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.SimpleXlsxReportConfiguration;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.XlsExporterConfiguration;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.XlsReportConfiguration;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.XlsxExporterConfiguration;
import net.sf.jasperreports.export.XlsxReportConfiguration;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

import cn.osworks.aos.core.asset.AOSUtils;
import cn.osworks.aos.core.exception.AOSException;
import cn.osworks.aos.core.typewrap.Dto;
import cn.osworks.aos.core.typewrap.Dtos;
import cn.osworks.aos.web.report.AOSPrint;
import cn.osworks.aos.web.report.AOSReport;

/**
 * 报表导出通用控制器
 *
 * @author OSWorks-XC
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "report")
public class AOSReportController {

	private static final String DEFAULT_FILE_NAME = "报表数据";

	// 用于支持同一个会话上缓存多个报表的参数名称,由URL传递过来。&aos_report_=会话中存储AOSPrint对象的Key
	private static final String AOSPRINT_PARAM = "aos_report_";

	/**
	 * 获取AOSPrint对象
	 *
	 * @param inDto
	 * @param session
	 * @return
	 */
	private AOSPrint getAosPrintFromSession(Dto inDto, HttpSession session) {
		String Key = AOSReport.DEFAULT_AOSPRINT_KEY;
		if (AOSUtils.isNotEmpty(inDto.getString(AOSPRINT_PARAM))) {
			Key = inDto.getString(AOSPRINT_PARAM);
		}
		AOSPrint aosPrint = (AOSPrint) session.getAttribute(Key);
		if (aosPrint == null) {
			throw new AOSException(9, Key);
		}
		return aosPrint;
	}

	/**
	 * 以PDF格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "pdf")
	public void pdf(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("application/pdf");
		AOSPrint aosPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session);
		String fileName = AOSUtils.isEmpty(aosPrint.getFileName()) ? DEFAULT_FILE_NAME : aosPrint.getFileName();
		response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + URLEncoder.encode(fileName + ".pdf", "utf-8"));
		OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
		JRPdfExporter exporter = new JRPdfExporter(DefaultJasperReportsContext.getInstance());
		exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(aosPrint.getJasperPrint()));
		exporter.setExporterOutput(new SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput(outputStream));
		try {
			exporter.exportReport();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new AOSException(e);
		} finally {
			if (outputStream != null) {
				try {
					outputStream.close();
				} catch (Exception e2) {
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 以DOCX格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "docx")
	public void docx(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document");
		AOSPrint aosPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session);
		String fileName = AOSUtils.isEmpty(aosPrint.getFileName()) ? DEFAULT_FILE_NAME : aosPrint.getFileName();
		response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + URLEncoder.encode(fileName + ".docx", "utf-8"));
		OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
		JRDocxExporter exporter = new JRDocxExporter(DefaultJasperReportsContext.getInstance());
		exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(aosPrint.getJasperPrint()));
		exporter.setExporterOutput(new SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput(outputStream));
		try {
			exporter.exportReport();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new AOSException(e);
		} finally {
			if (outputStream != null) {
				try {
					outputStream.close();
				} catch (Exception e2) {
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 以PPTX格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "pptx")
	public void pptx(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation");
		AOSPrint aosPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session);
		String fileName = AOSUtils.isEmpty(aosPrint.getFileName()) ? DEFAULT_FILE_NAME : aosPrint.getFileName();
		response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + URLEncoder.encode(fileName + ".pptx", "utf-8"));
		OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
		JRPptxExporter exporter = new JRPptxExporter(DefaultJasperReportsContext.getInstance());
		exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(aosPrint.getJasperPrint()));
		exporter.setExporterOutput(new SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput(outputStream));
		try {
			exporter.exportReport();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new AOSException(e);
		} finally {
			if (outputStream != null) {
				try {
					outputStream.close();
				} catch (Exception e2) {
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 以HTML格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "html")
	public void html(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("text/html");
		JasperPrint jasperPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session).getJasperPrint();
		// Servlet环境下使用不需要关闭。response会帮你关闭,别自找麻烦!
		// 仅限PrintWriter哦!!
		PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
		try {
			HtmlExporter exporter = new HtmlExporter();
			exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(jasperPrint));
			SimpleHtmlExporterOutput output = new SimpleHtmlExporterOutput(out);
			exporter.setExporterOutput(output);
			exporter.exportReport();
		} catch (JRException e) {
			throw new AOSException("报表输出为HTML格式时发生异常。", e);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 以XLS格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "xls")
	public void xls(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("application/xls");
		AOSPrint aosPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session);
		String fileName = AOSUtils.isEmpty(aosPrint.getFileName()) ? DEFAULT_FILE_NAME : aosPrint.getFileName();
		response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + URLEncoder.encode(fileName + ".xls", "utf-8"));
		JRXlsAbstractExporter<XlsReportConfiguration, XlsExporterConfiguration, JRXlsExporterContext> exporter = new JRXlsExporter(
				DefaultJasperReportsContext.getInstance());
		exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(aosPrint.getJasperPrint()));
		SimpleXlsReportConfiguration configuration = aosPrint.getXlsConfiguration();
		if (configuration == null) {
			configuration = new SimpleXlsReportConfiguration();
			configuration.setOnePagePerSheet(false);
			configuration.setWhitePageBackground(false);
		}
		exporter.setConfiguration(configuration);
		OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
		exporter.setExporterOutput(new SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput(outputStream));
		try {
			exporter.exportReport();
			outputStream.flush();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new AOSException(e);
		} finally {
			if (outputStream != null) {
				try {
					outputStream.close();
				} catch (IOException ex) {
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 以XLSX格式输出打印对象
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param response
	 * @param session
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "xlsx")
	public void xlsx(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
		AOSPrint aosPrint = getAosPrintFromSession(Dtos.newDto(request), session);
		String fileName = AOSUtils.isEmpty(aosPrint.getFileName()) ? DEFAULT_FILE_NAME : aosPrint.getFileName();
		response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + URLEncoder.encode(fileName + ".xlsx", "utf-8"));
		JRXlsAbstractExporter<XlsxReportConfiguration, XlsxExporterConfiguration, JRXlsxExporterContext> exporter = new JRXlsxExporter(
				DefaultJasperReportsContext.getInstance());
		exporter.setExporterInput(new SimpleExporterInput(aosPrint.getJasperPrint()));
		SimpleXlsxReportConfiguration configuration = aosPrint.getXlsxConfiguration();
		if (configuration == null) {
			configuration = new SimpleXlsxReportConfiguration();
			configuration.setOnePagePerSheet(false);
			configuration.setWhitePageBackground(false);
		}
		exporter.setConfiguration(configuration);
		OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
		exporter.setExporterOutput(new SimpleOutputStreamExporterOutput(outputStream));
		try {
			exporter.exportReport();
			outputStream.flush();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new AOSException(e);
		} finally {
			if (outputStream != null) {
				try {
					outputStream.close();
				} catch (IOException ex) {
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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