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By Summer Festival Guide| 2018-11-18T19:46:11+00:00	April 27th, 2013|Categories: Festivals, T in the Park|Tags: DIIV, Foy Vance, Hurts, Jack Savoretti, James Skelly, Johnny Marr, Milo Greene, Steve Mason, T in the Park, Willy Mason|0 Comments
They played the very first T in the Park back in 1994 in their former incarnation Glass Onion, headlined in 2000 and 2005, and now the mighty Travis are set to return to Kinross to play T in the Park's 20th year celebrations in what is set to be a poignant homecoming show for the band and audience alike. Festival organisers DF Concerts and founding partner Tennent's Lager have today added an array of top acts to the T in the Park bill, with the Glasgow four-piece plus Hurts, Johnny Marr, James Skelly, Jack Savoretti, Willy Mason, Foy Vance, Steve Mason, Milo Greene and DIIV joining the festival line-up over 12th – 14th July.
Festival organisers have also revealed today which days each act is playing, with the weekend of the year fast taking shape.
Travis are huge favourites with the T in the Park crowd, and their previous performances (including 2 showstopping headline sets) are widely regarded as some of the greatest moments of the festival's 20 year history. After the top 10 success of their debut album Good Feeling, they achieved global success with the seminal, 9 x platinum-selling follow-up The Man Who, which hit the top of the UK album charts. Their much loved back catalogue is packed with classic hits, which have earned them BRIT Awards for Best Album (The Man Who), Best British Group (2000 and 2002) and Ivor Novellos for Best Contemporary Song (Why Does it Always Rain on Me?) and Best Songwriter (Fran Healy). After a temporary hiatus, they make their much anticipated return with their 7th album later this year and are sure to receive a hero's welcome when they make a long-awaited return to the festival in July.
Manchester Electro-pop duo Hurts were hailed by the BBC's Sound of 2010 as ones to watch and since then have gone on to achieve global success. Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson have released two critically acclaimed albums, Happiness (2010) and Exile (2013) packed with melancholic 1980s-inspired electro-pop gems, and were a huge hit with the crowd when they played T in the Park in 2010 and 2011, and are set to make a welcome return this July.
Recently crowned NME's Godlike Genius, Smiths legend Johnny Marr is also heading to Kinross forT in the Park's 20th year celebrations. As one half of one of the most influential British songwriting partnerships of all time, he challenged pop conventions with The Smiths' giant, euphoric tunes, and his 30 year career has seen him perform with groups including The Cribs and Modest Mouse. Revered by music fans and critics alike, he has been bestowed with Q Magazine's lifetime achievement award, Mojo's Classic Songwriter Award, the Ivor Novello Inspiration Award, and of course, Godlike Genius by NME.
On his first solo-adventure since The Coral's hiatus, James Skelly has enlisted the help of The Intenders and is due to release debut album Love Undercover this summer. The Coral have been a big favourite of T in the Parkers in years gone by, and their frontman is sure to thrill fans when he reprises some of their greatest hits in Kinross this July, as well as showcasing his new material.
English-Italian singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti released his third album Before the Storm last year to a raft of rave reviews. His catchy guitar tunes are sure to go down a storm with the T in the Park crowd when he makes his debut in Kinross this July.
US singer-songwriter Willy Mason's debut album Where the Humans Eat, which featured the classic Oxygen, won him major critical acclaim and a legion of fans. Having recently toured with T in the Park headliners Mumford & Sons, he released his third studio album Carry On in December and is set to play the festival's 20th year celebrations this July.
Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance made a big impression with his 2012 release The Melrose EP, and is set to follow it up with his new album Joy of Nothing this summer. Celebrated for his thought-provoking, powerful lyrics and spine-tingling vocals, he's been hailed as one of the finest song-writers to emerge from Northern Ireland in recent years.
Fife-born Steve Mason, formerly of The Beta Band is now a solo artist in his own right, with his 2013 release Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time winning critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian. It's sure to be a special moment when he plays on home soil with his solo debut at T in the Park this July.
Also announced today are LA pop-outfit Milo Green, who bring their harmony-drenched, folk-tinged pop to Kinross. Describing their sound as cinematic-pop, they released their self-titled debut album earlier this year.
DIIV created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut EP Sometime. With Zachary Cole Smith at the helm, the Brooklyn four-piece's debut album Oshin blends classic kraut, Creation-records psychedelia, and late-80s Seattle influences to great effect.
Festival Director Geoff Ellis said: "Travis have given us some epic performances at T in the Park over the past 20 years, including at our very first outing back in 1994 and incredible headline sets in 2000 and in 2005. They've been there since day 1, and it really does feel like they are part of the fabric of T in the Park. We're absolutely thrilled that they'll be joining us for our 20th year celebrations – it wouldn't have felt quite right without them. They're one of Scotland's all-time greats with some massive tunes, and the sound of 85,000 voices singing along to their greatest hits in Kinross this July will be quite a poignant moment.
"Johnny Marr is a true legend and we're honoured that he'll be joining us for our 20th year celebrations, alongside all the other great acts announced today. It's going to be a great weekend."
George Kyle, Head of Sponsorship at Tennent's Lager, said: "T in the Park's 20th year celebrations are shaping up to be very special indeed. Throughout the festival's 20 year history, Travis have been firm favourites with the crowd – it'll be fantastic to see them back on home soil, and I'm sure they'll be a real highlight of the festival weekend."
Over 85,000 festival-goers per day will descend on Kinross over 12th – 14th July for the 20th year ofT in the Park, which will feature performances by some of the hottest acts on the planet, including headliners Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and The Killers, plus Stereophonics, Calvin Harris, Kraftwerk, Frank Ocean, Snoop Dogg, Foals, alt-J, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club, Phoenix, Jake Bugg, The Lumineers, Frightened Rabbit. My Bloody Valentine, Twin Atlantic, The View plus many more still to be announced.
T IN THE PARK 2013: ARTISTS ANNOUNCED SO FAR
FRIDAY: MUMFORD & SONS | CHASE AND STATUS | CALVIN HARRIS | KRAFTWERK | EMELI SANDE | PHOENIX | THE COURTEENERS | JAKE BUG | OF MONSTERS AND MEN | KENDRICK LAMAR | RUDIMENTAL | THE PROCLAIMERS | EVERYTHING EVERYTHING | HAIM | IMAGINE DRAGONS | STEVE MASON | JAMES SKELLY | JACKMASTER & JOY ORBISON | TRIBES | FIDLAR | MILO GREENE | EATS EVERYTHING | BO BRUCE | SILICONE SOUL | SONS & LOVERS
SATURDAY: RIHANNA | THE SCRIPT | SNOOP DOGG | BEADY EYE | DIZZEE RASCAL | ALT-j | THE LUMINEERS | MY BLOODY VALENTINE | FRIGHTENED RABBIT PALOMA FAITH | TWIN ATLANTIC | TRAVIS | THE VIEW | NOAH AND THE WHALE | DEACON BLUE | KE$HA | RICHIE HAWTIN | LAURENT GARNIER | THE FRATELLIS | MILES KANE | MODEST MOUSE | VILLAGERS | DERRICK CARTER X MARK FARINA X DJ SNEAK (b2b) | DAUGHTER | SLAM | LAWSON | GABRIELL APLIN | JAMES ARTHUR | WILLY MASON | PALMA VIOLETS | KODALINE | PEACE | THE STRYPES | CLAUDE VON STROKE | BRITISH SEA POWER | NINA NESBITT | FOY VANCE | JACK SAVORETTI | DIANA VICKERS | SWIM DEEP | THEME PARK | LUCY SPRAGGAN | THE ORIGINAL RUDEBOYS | THE VIRGINMARY'S |
SUNDAY: THE KILLERS | STEREOPHONICS | DAVID GUETTA | FRANK OCEAN | FOALS | YEAH YEAH YEAHS | TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB | RITA ORA | LABRINTH | EDITORS | HURTS | AZEALIA BANKS | FRANK TURNER | HOT NATURED | OCEAN COLOUR SCENE | DISCLOSURE | BASTILLE | JOHNNY MARR | TOM ODELL | LITTLE MIX | LOCAL NATIVES | CHVRCHES | BEN KLOCK 7 MARCEL DETTMAN (b2b) | SETH TROXLER | TYLER, THE CREATOR | THE 1975 | ADAM BEYER | MODESTEP | EARL SWEATSHIRT | THE HEAVY | NINA KRAVIZ | TRASH TALK | LEWIS WATSON | LUCY ROSE | DIIV | JOSH RECORD


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Report: Israel to free prisoners in exchange for info on missing IDF soldier
Por 23/04/2012
Israel's Justice Ministry is reportedly planning to grant amnesty to two convicted prisoners, and monetary compensation to another, in exchange for information regarding the location of a missing Israel Defense Forces soldier's grave, according to sources at the Justice and Defense Ministries.
According to the prisoners, the grave is that of Majdi Halabi, an IDF soldier from the Druze village of Daliat al-Carmel who has been missing since 2005, when he disappeared while attempting to hitchhike to his base.
However, it is not clear whether the information promised by the prisoners is reliable or if the body in question is that of Halabi.
The deal was revealed by Channel Two News on Sunday night. According to the report, Ami Palmor, the head of the Justice Ministry's amnesty division, has already signed the unusual amnesty agreement, which is contingent upon locating the body of the missing soldier.
Under the agreement, a convicted murderer sentenced to life in prison and a convicted drug dealer would be released from prison, in exchange for a map marking the alleged location of Halabi's grave.
According to information from the Justice Ministry, the source of the information is another prisoner, who is currently serving two consecutive life sentences for two separate murder convictions.
His appeal is expected to be heard by the Supreme Court in November. Under the deal, he would hand over information about the location of the soldier's body in exchange for funds to cover his legal appeal, which would be provided by the state.
According to a legal source, however, the latter prisoner is demanding additional benefits, including monetary compensation, in exchange for handing over the information.
Majdi Halabi's family reacted skeptically to the reports on Monday, saying they had not received any concrete information about any such deal.
Nazmi Halabi, Madji's father, told Haaretz, "They are always getting us worked up about some prisoner giving information. We don't know if the information is accurate or inaccurate, and the whole issue is being investigated. We are being updated and waiting for the investigation, and we still don't know for sure whose body is it. Nobody told us anything."
Halabi said the defense establishment had contacted the family ahead of the report's broadcast on Sunday evening. "They called us so that we wouldn't be surprised. They said there would be an item on the news and that there is a gag order. They didn't tell us anything about the identity of the missing soldier," he said, adding that the family had experienced a sleepless night on Sunday.
"The prisoners look out for own interests. As far as we are concerned, our soon is still alive. That is our hope and that is what keeps us going, until it is proved otherwise," Halabi added.
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William Wing was the son of William Wing and Sarah Harris.
William was born on Sunday 6 April 1800 in South Mimms, Middlesex.
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Former Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt died Monday at the impressive age of 96 at a health care facility in Virginia. Through his near-century of life, Laxalt always championed American causes and conservatism, while embodying what it means to be an American and believing in underdogs when others didn't.
I remember interning on Capitol Hill in the summer of 1977 and, as I was walking down the hall of the Russell Senate Building one day, another intern nudged me, pointing to Laxalt walking toward us and said, "there is the nicest guy in the Senate." He was right.
On that sweltering day, Laxalt was the picture of cool, wearing a seersucker suit and black cowboy boots. In later years, we became friends and he took a deep and abiding interest in my books about President Ronald Reagan and was always helpful.
Laxalt first became acquainted with the future president when the two men were neighboring governors Laxalt in Nevada, Reagan in California. There, they hit it off and formed what became an alliance and friendship that endured as long as both lived.
During their gubernatorial tenures in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they worked together to create the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to protect the beautiful Lake Tahoe. Though the agency's results were "mixed," according to biographer Lou Cannon, "Reagan and Laxalt gave it a chance." Typical. They were both eternal optimists.
While Reagan retired from politics after declining to seek a third term as governor, Laxalt went national; he was elected in 1974 to the Senate as his state's junior senator by fewer than a thousand votes, defeating then-Lt. Gov. Harry Reid in 1974.
Laxalt won that race despite disgraced President Richard Nixon's scandals draped around the Republican Party. Laxalt's victory was almost a miracle, with Watergate and Republican corruption and incompetence hanging over the heads of every candidate the party fielded. Paul was re-elected again in 1980 with nearly 60 percent of the vote.
Laxalt's friendship with Reagan never faltered. Even as president, when Reagan sent Laxalt a letter, he always signed it "Ron." And Reagan made many, many references to their friendship in his speeches, diaries and other writings.
"Paul Laxalt is both his closest friend and most trusted advisor," said one aide. Indeed, Laxalt unabashedly supported Reagan in his 1976, 1980, and 1984 presidential runs, and regularly took on causes close to Reagan's heart.
Laxalt provided the essential first push that conservatives needed to mount a counter-offensive to the Panama Canal Treaty in 1977, the single most important issue for America in that year. Reagan, again, was by his side.
Though the treaty was approved by one vote in the Senate, Laxalt and Reagan mounted an impressive grassroots-inspired campaign that hit at every American's hearts. Laxalt was the linchpin for it all.
Throughout Reagan's three presidential runs (1976 being a loss by the slimmest of margins, beaten at the GOP convention by the unelected chief executive, Gerald Ford), Laxalt, who served as national chairman of all three campaigns, was constantly by Reagan's side, giving much-needed and often-heeded advice.
How close were the two men? At the 1980 GOP convention in Detroit, both Reagan and his wife Nancy wanted Laxalt for the vice presidential slot. They both detested the idea of picking George H. W. Bush (the obvious and best choice) and fought tooth and nail with aides for Laxalt. Only at the end did the Reagans reluctantly settle on Bush.
When Reagan defeated Carter in that November 1980 landslide victory, no small part of the credit went to Laxalt's friendship and sage advice. Laxalt admitted that, because of their closeness, he could criticize and advise "Ron," as he still called the chief executive – in ways that others in politics could not.
Sometimes, he personally delivered bad news, instead of other aides who feared presidential anger. And sometimes their friendship almost got Reagan into permissible misfortune.
When there was a brief boomlet to draft Laxalt for president in 1987, I was proud to have been involved in the planning and execution. I never, ever remember anyone bad-mouthing Laxalt, something many had by then come to think impossible in post-Watergate Washington.
Laxalt was proud of his daughter, Michelle, his long-time confidant, Tom Loranger, his grandson, Adam, (a graduate of the Navy Academy and now a candidate for governor of Nevada) and, of course, his lovely wife Carol. Their home was always open to strangers and they held a big Christmas Party each year to gather gifts for "Toys for Tots" with the US Marine Corps.
Throughout his life, Laxalt remained loyal to conservatives, even in the face of disappointment. When Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona ran unsuccessfully in 1964 for president against the popular incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson, he faced a withering barrage of Democratic accusations of war-mongering, nuclear-warfare, and racism.
So, too, was Laxalt. Although he typically remained behind the scenes, Laxalt helped form, pitch, and win many championships for the GOP. I've lost a good friend and America has lost a war hero, a veteran of World War II, and a great national leader.


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I've been holding onto a program, passed out at church a while back, because of a part of the sermon that touched a chord. I had to grab a pen and write down what was said because I knew I'd want to circle back around to it someday – and maybe even share it?
Whether you are particularly religious, or spiritual, or not – and I never mean to "preach" here – I thought this was worth a few thoughts.
The sermon was entitled "Commitment and Compassion" and I won't get into the message per se or the scripture, but the following statement stuck with me.
We've all had promises made to us, and subsequently broken. Disappointing to say the least. One of the biggest being broken promises made when two people exchange vows at their wedding.
Perhaps promises should not be made so easily, unless you're sure you can deliver?
Anyway, in relation to this sermon, the message to drive home was that maybe the promises are not broken, or cancelled – maybe they're just delayed a bit. If the promise of "happily ever after" isn't delivered by your spouse, does that necessarily mean you can't be happy?
If I'm waiting for another person to gift me my "happily ever after", boy am I gonna be in for a huge let down. I think I'll be working on my "happily ever after" myself, and if getting there is delayed a bit – so be it.
– – – but you're all by yourself? Be brave!! Earlier in the summer I accomplished my "50 state goal" of having traveled to all 50 states. I know, it took me a while, but hey – it still feels great.
Next goal?? Well, guess it involves crossing large bodies of water!! So when I saw this article from Travel and Leisure, I knew I had to read it, save it and most importantly "share it"!! Who's with me??
It was my first birthday "divorced", and I decided to take a trip so being "alone" wouldn't feel so "alone" at home. It was 2008, June, and hot in Texas so clearly I was headed north.
I'd seen advertisements for The Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island, Michigan. June was their Lilac Festival – It had been in a movie, it looked beautiful and perfect. I made a reservation for a week. After all, traveling eats up a whole day on the front end and the back end.
What brings me down this walk on memory lane you say?
When cleaning out the other day I came across a small (really small) journal of sorts that I'd only written in two pages. One page had a list of yarn colors for a needlepoint pillow I had done, guessing that my reasoning was if I ever wanted to do a companion piece, I'd know which colors of wool yarn I'd used. Pretty sure they don't even make that yarn anymore, LOL!
The other page was full of short, random thoughts and questions that I'd obviously written on the first couple of days of that trip to Mackinac Island back in 2008. Clearly journaling didn't last long for me. But reading through these thoughts, and wondering what on earth I must've been thinking was entertaining at this point of my life's journey.
I'm a people person, I had hated being alone. I tried to find someone to go on this adventure with me. There was no one interested in going on the trip with me whether due to the time of the year, the cost, the distance . . . or maybe just me?
Some thoughts are clear, some I'm struggling to remember what I must've meant, but thought it would be interesting to share them with you. My closest friends know I can be really random at times, this certainly helps their case.
Have I mentioned it's cold?
Barbara from yesterday, from Alabama, just said hello, that's nice – are things looking up?
Really rough waters, is this a lake?
And then the writing ends. I did make it to the island, and I did eventually fill up my days with activities and had no time to write any more random thoughts. As I look back, I'm proud of being brave, of going it alone, and discovering that even though I prefer to have a pal – I don't have to have one.
I sense from those notes the pain I was feeling at the time, but I don't regret it because you have to go through the darkness to find the dawn, to find the light once again.
Here it is 10 years later, and I'm still taking trips alone because I'm no longer going to "wait"! Because what it tomorrow does't come?


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Allie Marie Evans as Cadence in 47 Hours to Live
by Sean Parker February 28, 2021, 9:10 pm
Soho Horror Film Festival's Shockdown Saturdays' second feature, 47 Hours to Live, marked the end of week four and the halfway point of the festival's events. Concluding their theme of "Ghost in the Machines" this week, these twisted tales of horror showed us not to trust the machine we so often hold in the palm of our hands.
In our first short, Hide and Seek, Emma (Julia Robbins) is left in charge of her younger sister Chloe (Eve Foley) after their mom (Mindy Smith) goes out for the evening. The two girls settle in for a night of junk food and scary movies. A power outage cuts their night short and gets Chloe sent to bed, but for Emma, a terrifying evening of cartoon bunny horror is just beginning. An augmented reality game on her phone triggers a search for something hiding in the house. Hide and Seek is a fun short with suspenseful twists and a great ending that I could certainly see directors Thomas Nichol and Andrew Gleason expand upon. It's a pretty original concept for the genre to take an app like Pokémon Go and instill sinister notions, especially when parents are so apt to hand their children their phones while not always knowing what they're doing with them.
Peyton Kennedy in Selfie
The follow-up short, Selfie, proved just as fun as a social media celebrity, Sarah (Peyton Kennedy), deletes all of her apps during a moment of self-crisis. Looking to restore her actual self over that of her perfect online persona, the audience watches as she deletes every trace of what Sarah has invented to be the perfect version of herself. Her "Selfie" app takes on a life of its own, literally, as the Barbie-esque image Sarah created comes to life to delete her instead. Selfie's lesson here may be to be careful what you put out on social media because it may come back to haunt you, and, for Sarah, it surely does. What John Poliquin has created in Selfie is a creepy short film of Frankenstein level proportion, where the monster and monster maker are one and the same.
I was rather excited for our second feature today, Patrick Johnson's 47 Hours to Live, a movie that titularly made it known that death was specifically one hour less than two days away. I'm a big fan of Japanese tech horror films like Kairo (Pulse) and One Missed Call, and this film looked like an ambitious American take on modern technology, where your phone can act as an Ouija board. The film is about two outsiders, Cadence (Allie Marie Evans) and Rose (Annie Hamilton), who find inseparability after reciting an incantation they find on the internet that summons a demon to kill you in just under two days. What the audience ends up getting is a bit of a muddy film that seems unsure of what its ultimate goal is.
I'll admit that right from the start I was getting a very off-putting vibe from 47 Hours to Live, a lot of it generally in the writing. Within the first few minutes, a beautiful blonde woman, Cadence, traveling with a guitar in the passenger seat of her mini cooper nearly gets into two accidents while driving in the rain glued to her social media apps, an act that just upsets me in general. Yes, I am guilty of having done that, but after one near-miss, I become overly cautious, like I've been issued an existential warning. And yes, this is a nit-pick for sure, but adding to it was the way the movie then setup Candace's character while infusing the film's plot.
Rose (Annie Hamilton) and Cadence (Allie Marie Evans) in 47 Hours to Live
Part of the reason Cadence almost gets into the first accident is because she gets called a "slut" over Instagram for having accused an unknown person of rape. I can understand the film's setup, but I felt it was a little less than gentle with how it presented itself, and it only got worse in this exposition when a school teacher soon insinuates the same thing. This brusque treatment of the character's initial introduction is also blindsided with the presentation of the film's core plot: two teenagers desperately try to avoid their fates by trying to get drivers to lend them their phones.
There are some cool moments, and that helped 47 hours to Live draw me back in. Bugs started coming out of Rose's phone, solid surfaces became flexible and gooey as Rose fought her way out of a bathroom, and, in one awkwardly-placed dialogue, a great back and forth on the phrase "speak of the devil" really showed some interesting promise. Some of these ideas are well executed, but the issue becomes that they don't flow together entirely well, like an album with a few good songs on it that just doesn't seem to play well as a complete piece of work. As the film continues, it becomes more detached, going around in circles without any real peril and hanging itself up on social themes
47 hours to Live then becomes pretty convoluted, with long stretches in the film in which the characters trade turns of demon haunting. A chunk of the film offers little sense of urgency with relatively flat dialogue that then causes the acting to suffer at times because of it. Generally, it aims to be a J-horror film and, from the initial look of it, I was priming myself for 47 Hours to Live to be more like Countdown or maybe One Missed Call by way of It Follows, but it never becomes that kind of fast, reactionary fun. In fact, as the girls begin investigating the mystery behind the webpage that doomed them, the movie basically falls into the template of The Ring, as they think they can outwit their fates.
Alexandria DeBerry as Lila in 47 Hours to Live
Still, even as the film moves forward it isn't completely bereft of interesting material and, at some point, I was wondering why I so badly wanted to know what was going to happen. The movie gives you the idea that a belief in something makes that thing true. A great example of this is the Slenderman story that Rose tells at the party, concluding that the Slenderman must be real if the two girls who murdered their friend had gone crazy after seeing the photo of Slenderman. I mean, that's one hell of an idea. The film also impresses this idea onto Cadence, who has fallen into a pattern of sleeping around, believing that she is what everyone's calling her. Add in the fact that there is a history of people who have been dying after playing the 47 Hours game, and I began to wonder how the movie was going to combat this ideal and help the characters restore the essence of their former selves. I had this need for that part of the plot to manifest itself into a lesson for the bullies and judgmental teachers out there, but unfortunately, the film never makes a point of this, arguably creating unnecessary drama.
I think most of us extinguish our ideas of reality when settling into supernatural horror films, expecting the evil overtones to provide us more fun than anything, but the writing and editing in this film make it hard to take seriously when character arcs aren't fully resolved. Maybe 47 Hours to Live will one day claim a spot in the "so bad it's good" category of our hearts like Tommy Wiseau's The Room does for a lot of people or Eric Kripke and Stephen Kay's Boogeyman does for me (I will die on this hill). 47 Hours to Live will hopefully be primed for future groups of friends getting together to have a beer and argue over the thought processes of these high schoolers' motivations. These characters become relatively predictable that you could guess the ending of the film after about twenty minutes of meeting them. Sure, they're bullied, and that's why we're rooting for them, but if I'm considering options for these characters that they don't explore until the third act, what does that say about the film, and then what does it say about its characters?
Annie Hamilton as Rose in 47 Hours to Live
Though Shockdown Saturdays are now officially half over, the fun will continue throughout March. Plus there are many fun interactive events to be a part of like next week's "I Spit on Your Grades" podcast taping or the virtual Murder Mystery Zoom Party happening in two weeks. If you'd like to be a part of the festival, all you have to do is become a member of the festival's Facebook page and click the links in the announcements section when the films are released on Saturday. All showings are based on local time in Soho, England—check with their website and Facebook page for times (often they leave the links open until Sunday at midnight). The festival is free, but Soho Horror Film Festival is operating solely on viewer support donations and entirely without sponsors. So, if you like what you see, I'd strongly encourage you to support them so we can all indulge in future events.
47 Hours to Live is also currently streaming in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.
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Memphis in May International Festival
September 2021–April 2022
15–17 October 2021: Beale Street Music Festival/International Week
29 September–02 October 2021: World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
28 April 2021: 901Fest
30 October 2021: Great American River Run
1977–2019, 2022–
Memphis in May Events Committees
Mack Weaver
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Memphis in May International Festival is a month-long festival held in Memphis, Tennessee. The festival, which is saluting Ghana in 2022, honors a specific foreign country every year and features many events. The Beale Street Music Festival takes place the first weekend in May and showcases an eclectic lineup of national and local musical talent. International Week is a series of exhibits, screenings, arts and performances dedicated to each year's honored country. The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest has become one of the most popular barbecue contests in the country and has been observed for 44 years. The Great American River Run Half Marathon & 5K welcomes runners of all experience levels through the streets of Memphis and along the banks of the Mississippi River, while 901Fest includes a salute to all things Memphis.
Beale Street Music Festival (BSMF)
The Beale Street Music Festival is a three-day music festival that has both a mix of big-name stars and local musical acts. Held during the first weekend of May in the city's Tom Lee Park at the foot of Beale Street, it is considered to be the kick-off event of the entire Memphis in May International Festival celebration. It typically hosts over 100,000 people during the weekend. The Beale Street Music Festival is the only program that has been held every year since the inception of Memphis in May in 1977. Its history can be traced back to the 1800s, when African-American musicians throughout the South would come to Beale Street and perform.
The Beale Street Music Festival is known for featuring an eclectic mix of genres on its lineup every year, from blues and rock 'n roll to rap and pop. The list of bands and musicians that have performed at the festival continue to grow each year, but the list includes Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ray Charles, B.B. King in '91 (d.2015, lived in Memphis), John Lee Hooker in '91, Booker T. and the M.G.'s in '99, Jerry Lee Lewis from Memphis in '03, Box Tops from Memphis in '97, Big Star in '99, Fuel from the Jackson, TN area in '04, Saliva from Memphis in '04, Willie Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Al Green in '09 (now a preacher in Memphis), Isaac Hayes from Memphis in '00 (d.2008), John Prine, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Black Crowes, Van Morrison, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, John Mayer, Journey, Nelly, Steely Dan, Allman Brothers, Santana, James Taylor, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Korn, The Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon from Nashville in '17, Paramore from Nashville in '15, 10 Years from Knoxville in '06, Soundgarden, Wiz Khalifa, Jane's Addiction, Chuck Berry, The Black Keys, Avenged Sevenfold, Alabama Shakes, Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, Neil Young, Beck, Paul Simon, Ziggy Marley, Sturgill Simpson, Aretha Franklin in '09 (d.2018, born in Memphis), Earth, Wind & Fire in '10 (Maurice White was born in Memphis and d.2016), Yo Gotti in '16, Three 6 Mafia (from Memphis) in '06, Weezer, and many more.
Every year the festival recognizes a different country, most recently saluting the Czech Republic in 2018. A week of events that typically begin the day after the Beale Street Music Fest, International Week is dedicated to a country and showcases the foods and culture of that nation. While International Week provides a learning experience for the community at large, the core is a comprehensive educational program for area youth in public and private schools throughout Memphis and Shelby County. The goal of International Week is for area students, by the time they graduate from high school, to have had the opportunity to experience the customs and cultures of 12 countries. The festival's first two honored countries — Japan and Canada – have been featured twice.[1] Perhaps most important are the trade delegates that visit Memphis and have introductions to suitable, high-level trade partners.
Honored countries
Through the years, the Memphis in May International Festival has played host to ambassadors, exhibits and performance troupes from 38 countries. The milestone twentieth annual event in 1996 honored all previous selected countries. The 2019 event honored the bicentennials of the founding of the city of Memphis and of the establishment of Shelby County. The West African nation of Ghana, originally selected for honor in 2020, is slated for focus during festivities in 2022 due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
1977: Japan
1978: Canada
1979: Germany
1980: Venezuela
1981: Egypt
1982: Netherlands
1983: Israel
1984: Mexico
1985: Australia
1987: China
1988: United Kingdom
1989: Kenya
1991: New Zealand
1992: Italy
1993: Russia
1994: Côte d'Ivoire
1995: Thailand
1996: All previous countries
1997: Brazil
1998: Portugal
1999: Morocco
2000: India
2002: Argentina
2003: South Korea
2004: South Africa
2005: Ireland
2006: Costa Rica
2008: Turkey
2009: Chile
2010: Tunisia
2011: Belgium
2012: Philippines
2013: Sweden
2014: Panama
2015: Poland
2017: Colombia
2018: Czech Republic
2019: City of Memphis & Shelby County
2020: Festivities cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021: International salute to Ghana postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022: Ghana
World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest (WCBCC)
The WCBCC started in 1978 with 26 teams. The contest drew 50 teams in 1979, 80 in 1980, and 180 teams from nine states in 1981. It has now grown to be the largest pork barbecue competition in the world.[2] More than 250 teams from 20+ states and several countries compete, and an estimated 100,000 people attend the competition. Media from around the world, including BBC and The Food Network, come to the city to cover the event.[citation needed]
Credit for the original idea of a barbecue contest goes to Rodney Baber, chairman of the Memphis in May events committee in 1977, and his co-worker Jack Powell, Tennessee's reigning chili champ at the time.[citation needed]
The original champion at the first competition was Bessie Louise Cathey, who won a $500 prize, a sizable return for her $12 entry fee. Today, the prizes for each event range from $300 to $15,000 for the main cooking competition, and from $250 to $2,500 for the ancillary contests. Today's entry fees range from $700 to $2,600 just for renting the necessary booth space, and an extra $60 per competition entry. Some teams regularly budget amounts in excess of $15,000 just for the competition and booth.[3]
In 1989, when MIM officials discovered that there was a feast in Honolulu which earned the title of "largest barbecue" in the Guinness Book of Records, they calculated the amount of food prepared at the WCBCC. The total was 55,297 pounds of pork, and thus earned the WCBCC a record in the 1990 edition.[4] Over 16 tons of pork were smoked at the 2016 WCBCC.
The 2017 World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest was the first time the event spanned four days instead of three. In addition, the Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q team became the first five-time champion of the event (2017, '14, '11, '03, '00).
No contests were held in 2020-21.
Pork Shoulder Event Judging
The competition has three official meat categories: rib, shoulder and whole hog. There is also the Patio Porkers division, which encourages up to 40 amateur teams (who have not previously won the Patio Porker division in the WCBCC) to enter.[5] Only wood and charcoal cooking is allowed at the event, no gas or any other sort of heat system is allowed to be used.[5]
Beyond those main categories, teams also compete in several other ancillary contests over the four-day event, including: Best Sauce (Tomato/Mustard/Vinegar), Frank's Red Hot Hot Wings, Kingsford Tour of Champions and Anything But (Exotic/Beef/Seafood/Poultry).
Ms. Piggie - Teams dress up contestants as pigs, and then perform songs or skits on stage.
Best Booth - Booths are judged on design, originality and connection with the honored country.
T-Shirt Design - Shirts are judged on design, originality and connection with the honored country.
Sauce Wrestling - Things get a little messy with this one as teams send a representative to the wrestling ring filled with over 40 gallons of barbecue sauce.
Big Hog Run - Coined as "America's most prestigious .2K race," the Big Hog Run is a thrilling 656-foot sprint down Beale Street. Only WCBCC team members and judges are allowing to compete.
Cooker Caravan - The Cooker Caravan provides the public a behind-the-scenes look at competition barbecue by offering guided tours to teams in each championship category.[5]
Great American River Run Half-Marathon & 5K
The Great American River Run made its Memphis in May debut in 2016. The race attracts runners of all experience level, featuring half marathon and 5K distances. The race course takes runners through downtown Memphis and along the banks of the Mississippi River.[6]
The inaugural race drew over 2,000 runners from more than 30 states. Every registrant is given a race t-shirt and every finisher is awarded a medal.
The races went virtual in 2020-21.
901Fest
901Fest made its inaugural appearance at the 2016 Memphis in May International Festival. The programming for the event is centered around local musicians, artists, vendors and includes an air show and fireworks display.
^ "History". Memphis In May. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
^ Guinness Book of World Records. Guinness Superlatives. 1990. ISBN 978-0806957906.
^ [1] Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ [2] Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ a b c [3] Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Great American River Run". www.memphisinmay.org. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
Results: World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest 2016
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2018 WCBCC dates: May 16 - 19, 2018
2018 MIMGARR race: May 26, 2018
2018 901Fest: May 26, 2018
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How Rent Your Ride Is Disrupting the Car Rental Industry With a Unique Twist, as per Michael Okoye
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We've all been there, trudging back to the car after a long hard day at work, and BOOM, it hits you: a parking ticket. Cue words unprintable.
Fury, disappointment, and frustration… but no, on closer inspection, the calm is restored. Anger turns to relief and then curiosity. What is this?
Bemused car owners across Winnipeg have been the momentary victims, and long-time beneficiaries, of a marketing technique by a local start-up.
Rent Your Ride — a peer-to-peer online car rental service — has been disguising print advertisements as the dreaded fines on vehicle windshields in heavily populated areas across the city.
The company, launched in 2016, connects "hosts" who are looking to earn extra money off their vehicles with "guests" seeking to experience unique, hassle-free rentals and get behind the wheel of common, luxury, and exotic cars.
Rent Your Ride is the brainchild of Michael Okoye, and alongside providing a welcome alternative to a parking ticket, it has also become a popular respite to the unprecedented pressures brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"As Rent Your Ride came out of lockdowns," explains Director of Marketing and Business Development Aaron Badescu. "There was a huge increase in the demand for bookings as well as listings. The pandemic created a unique situation where larger car rental companies had to initially sell off their fleet to stay afloat, which has caused scarcity in available cars as the demand grew back after the lockdowns were lifted. When this happened, we saw a lot of people desperately coming to them for any car to rent."
Supplying this demand for cars, Rent Your Ride saw a 100% year-on-year increase in booking requests. Winnipeg alone generates over 120 booking requests per month.
Badescu admits the pandemic surprisingly had a positive impact on the growth of the business. Their app became a silver lining similarly appreciated by hosts utilizing the platform.
"Thankfully, the company is able to work remotely since it is an online business," he points out (Rent Your Ride operates exclusively on a website and an app). "One of the reasons for the scale is because of the economic effects of COVID. People were travelling a lot locally, and a lot of people were listing their rides to earn extra cash since they were out of jobs."
The company initiated policies for hosts and guests to conduct safe practices like sanitizing their rides before and after trips and following health guidelines. Rent Your Ride also updated the app to enhance the user experience and ramped up marketing efforts to increase brand awareness.
Reacting to such exceptional circumstances, whilst growing interest with innovative techniques, Rent Your Ride has paid hosts over $30,000 during the pandemic.
The company has amassed over 8,000 users across Winnipeg in 18 months and aims to have over 1000 listings on the platform by the end of the year.
Rent Your Ride benefits by a distinct competitive advantage: It doesn't own any of the vehicles in its fleet. Providing a quick and convenient, mutually beneficial experience, the company fosters a tight-knit community where guests can directly contact hosts for assistance. "The company can attribute a lot of growth to the scarcity of rental cars, as it has become a great alternative to rental car companies that aren't able to supply enough cars for their guests or unique cars they are looking for," Okoye says.
Still, he points out that no matter how favorable the market is, at any given moment, the supply and demand are constantly shifting, and as per Okoye, the only way for a company to keep disrupting the industry is to have a genuine product. "Even though the pandemic helped us to explode, the true success lies in our founding values. I believe that if you can create a product that genuinely helps people, your chances of success are much larger, and you will feel good doing it. That's what Rent Your Ride is all about!"
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Celebrating the Rightful Power and Dignity of Women
by Father Shay Cullen Profiles in Catholicism
We have seen phenomenal developments in the respect, status, freedom, progress and achievements of women in the modern world. They have achieved positions of power as presidents and prime ministers, holding important government and corporate positions and being inspirational, outstanding civic leaders and influencers for the good. They have shown themselves capable in every sphere of life, as intelligent and even more so in many cases than males, becoming astronauts, teachers and leaders They have succeeded in every profession and are outstanding musicians, singers, scientists, writers, poets, artists and athletes and many more.
Jasmine Harrison, 21, is now the youngest woman in the world to row solo across the Atlantic in 70 days. Chinese director Chloé Zhao, 32, became the first Asian woman to win the best director award at the Golden Globes this year. The 38-year old was the second woman to win the award and it shows they are making headway yet a long way to go for women in the movie industry.
Besides these successes in gaining status of women to live with dignity and freedom, there are the more essential attributes of great value in a woman's humanity. That is her intrinsic attitude of nurturing love and caring for others. This is coming from her vital and indispensable femininity upon which humanity depends for its continuity and survival.
It is her unique role to choose to have children, to nurture and protect and care for them and guide and develop them as authentic human beings. That is why her womanhood and motherhood is actually more precious, more important and more vital than that of her male companion.
It is the mother, the source of human life, that has the most powerful influence on the early years of her child to build a sense of security, to give affirmation, to make a family bonded in strong values of trust, honesty, faithfulness and togetherness. A strong family, bonded in mutual respect and support, is the building foundation of society and nationhood. Protecting and supporting family life is a most fundamental responsibility and duty of government. Failure to do so brings disaster and serious social problems of every kind.
Mothers are hurt, pained and challenged by the unfaithfulness of men. As the sometimes irresponsible, promiscuous, morally-bankrupt, vice-prone male seeks multiple partners, the mothers are increasingly abandoned, divorced and left as single mothers to cope and fend for themselves and support their children. The huge number of single mothers that have risen to the challenge to care for their children and work part-time and full-time must give all people a sense of wonderment, reverence and appreciation of their resilience and abilities. Yet it is difficult, hard and lonely as they face a day of labour while caring for their children. Many cannot cope and children are neglected as the mother, some deprived of education, without opportunity, struggle to survive for the day.
The strong contribution of the elderly women, the grandmother in a family, is the strong pillar of support for her daughters and grandchildren continuously helping the struggling fatherless family. It is such women who need, not only the admiration, but the support, help and protection of society. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance" and that the "family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State." We know the struggle of women and mothers is not just economic. They are in need of psychological and social services to help them care for their children. The state has responsibilities to support and protect women, the family and children. It is the families all together that makes society, makes a nation possible.
How incredibly infuriating it is to see a huge number of women discriminated against, belittled, abused and made victims of domestic violence by abusive male partners. Their complaints are frequently ignored by a male-dominated state system. The lock-downs and restrictions have given rise to even greater levels of violence against women in relationships, married or with live-in partners. Before the pandemic hit the Philippines, one in every four women suffered domestic violence and with the lock down it has risen by 16 percent. An estimated 839,000 Filipina women have suffered a violent attack by an intimate partner in 2020.
The pandemic lockdown has also endangered girls and children. An increase in child sexual abuse has caused more serious concern in the national and international community of human rights defenders. The increase in online sexual streamed sex abuse shown with young women and children has hugely increased where the Internet service providers (ISPs) like PLDT/Smart and Globe Telecom failed to obey the law ((RA 9775) and install effective blocking software to hinder the spread of on-line child sex abuse. When children are subject to child abuse, their future life as an empowered active educated woman is greatly impaired. Everyone has to work together to defend, protect and promote the rights and dignity of women and children.
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Tatiana Nikolayeva, Shostakovich, and Bach
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Since I'm knee-deep in Shostakovich producing the NEC Truth to Power concert at Symphony Hall for video (more on that later,) can't help but observe that today would have been the 90th birthday of the legendary-in-the-Soviet-Union-but-dimly-known-in-the-West pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva, (1924 – 1993), one of the few Russian pianists known for playing the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
That all started in 1950, when Nikolayeva traveled to Leipzig to compete in the Bicentennial edition of the Bach competition. As her biography states:
On the jury that year was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who was greatly impressed with Nikolayeva's performances of Bach's preludes and fugues of which she could play any from memory. Shostakovich wrote his set of Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 for her between October 1950 and March 1951. Nikolayeva telephoned him every day during the period of composition, going to his home to hear him play the most recently written prelude and fugue, and gave the first performance of the complete work in Leningrad in 1952. Their friendship lasted until the day of his death, more than twenty-five years later.
Check out the Maestra at work. Stunning.
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Freaky Friday with Fryderyk
11 April 2014 12 July 2014 roedeo
16 pianists playing a single Chopin Polonaise, with even a few clams thrown in. A tour-de-force of editing, and a remarkable seven-minute-and-nineteen-second tutorial on, oh, I don't know…technique, style, fingering, cinematography, lighting, dress, culture…. Enjoy!
And a second consecutive day of referencing Liberace, too!
PS – for another mashup involving this Polonaise, check out the 24 pieces crammed into two minutes that chronicles Chopin's affinity for his favorite key signature.
Episode 73: That A-Flat Thing
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Dvorak's White Grand – The Saga of the Petrof Piano
Rummaging around in the proverbial shoebox of old photos from an old Euro vacation, i ran across a Throwback Thursday-worthy shot of me tickling the ivories on Antonín Dvořák's own ivory-colored piano.
Did Dvorak actually own this gilded white grand?
The photo was taken at the Dvorak Museum in a leafy section of Prague, in a restored Baroque mansion called – and, no, I'm not making this up – "Villa Amerika" – appropriate for the composer who became so famous in the New World, I suppose! I recall it was in a different location when I visited there in the late '90s, but today, the white piano now gets pride of place in a small concert hall on the second floor, perched below an ornate frescoed ceiling.
But it got me to wondering about the Museum and more still about its Liberace-esque gilded white grand. Did Dvorak really live there? Did he actually play that instrument? And what kind of a piano was it, exactly?
Villa Amerika – the Dvorak Museum in Prague
The White Piano at home
The answers: 1) No, Dvorak actually lived in a small place not far away, on Zitna street. But the Museum holds a lot of his various artifacts, including his viola.
2) Doubtful. Since I visited, the Museum has subsequently acquired Dvorak's actual piano, a beautiful mahogany 1879 Bösendorfer, built in Vienna.
3) The piano, it turns out, is a Petrof, the storied family-owned Czech manufacturer run by a fifth-generation descendent of founder Antonin Petrof, born just two years before Dvorak. And therein lies a tale!
It turns out that the company went into business in 1864 in the central Czech town of Hradec Králové, about two hours east of Prague, after young Antonin returned from an apprenticeship in Vienna and persuaded his father to turn their cabinet-making business into a piano factory. And the apogee of success happened for both "Tonys" at about the same time: Just as Dvorak was returning from "Amerika" and about to take up the directorship of the Prague Conservatory, Antonín Petrof is appointed by the Emperor as the court piano-builder for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
But after that the story becomes a tale of booms, busts, war, and then the advent of the Iron Curtain. In 1948, the Petrof factory was nationalized, and became a state-run factory of a profoundly diminished reputation until the Petrof family got their company back in 1993. And if you do the math, that means that the Petrof company is 150 years old this year!
Read more about the Petrof Piano Saga here: "an amazing story of courage, determination, and a family's extraordinary commitment to exemplary piano building tradition...and check out this video visit to the Petrof Piano factory below, replete with the roll call (with a few hilarious misspellings) of Petrof piano artists,including Ray Charles (who even had one in his home), Count Basie, Bill Evans, Mal Waldron, Lynne Arriale, Richard Clayderman (!), and Jacques Loussier.
Ray Charles' favorite piano brand?
Further research reveals that the Petrof pianos have long been the house-supplied instruments in the storied Rudolfinum in Prague, where their rather heavy action and even regulation was preferred by such luminaries as Rudolf Firkusny, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Ivan Moravec. (One of Moravec's great recordings: a 1963 disc of pieces by Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven, was recorded on a Petrof.)
Then there's the Petrof on display in the glittering concert hall in Prague Castle. Check out this video of violinist Josef Suk and pianist Jan Panenka playing Dvorak, natch:
But I was still curious to hear what that gilded white Petrof in the Dvorak museum sounded like. So, after a lot of interet scouring, I did come up with a grainy video containing Dvorak Romance for violin and piano, Op. 11, as well as Chopin's Ballade No. 3. Incomplete performances, sadly, but complete enough to reveal that Dvorak's white Petrov looks far better than it sounds…
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C.P.E. Bach II: Hamelin Has At It
10 March 2014 11 July 2014 roedeo
Here's another keyboard delight from C.P.E. Bach, this time a live concert performance by pianist Marc-André Hamelin, he of the ferocious talent, and seemingly limitless repertoire and musical curiosity. Check out the transition into the second movement at c. 6:00, where in the words of one of the YouTube commenters, "Dad walked in." And another reminder of what I find so appealing about J.S.'s second son: How he, in the words of German musicologist Roman Hinke, "disregards all calls for an evenly balanced symmetry."
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C.P.E. Bach I: Pletnev Plays the Keyboard Sonatas
9 March 2014 11 July 2014 roedeo
As promised, some favorites by the vastly underrated second (and in my opinion, most interesting) son of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose 300th birthday is being observed this year.
For me, any discussion of inspired recordings of CPE's works starts with Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev's recording of C.P.E.'s Keyboard Sonatas. This CD, along with Pletnev's inspired reading of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, are close to being Desert Island Discs for me. Pletnev recorded them in the mid-late '90s, and shortly afterward stopped giving recitals and playing much in order to concentrate on conducting the Russian National Orchestra. (Though word has it that he's recently gone back to playing a few select gigs in London and Switzerland….)
What I like about both discs is the way that Pletnev seems to cut through the sentimentality and preciousness that seems to affect/infect a lot of performances from this era, and uncover the passion and emotion that is embedded in the music. That, and the flashes of innovation, schizophrenia, and downright wackiness that is characteristic in music of this era, especially in the hands of CPE Bach. On the one hand, he's championing the old man's legacy and Baroque ideals; on the other, he's busting out and bending and twisting these tried-and-true forms into new shapes.
Check out "Side 1 Cut 1" on the disc:
The Sonata No. 17 in G minor. It starts out like he's paying homage to the old man's great Rage Over a Lost Penny?)
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Chopin's "Knocked Urn"
Melinda & Ethan getting their Downton on…
Still buzzing from the terrific performance at last night's "Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey," featuring soprano Melinda Whittington and pianist Ethan Uslan, playing classical, "jazz," and other standards from the 1920's in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio.
And for an encore, since it was, after all, Chopin's birthday and all, Ethan had to play one of his signature compositions. I explained to the Downton fans the title was inspired by what happened when poor Moseley the bumbling butler-turned-footman backs into an object d'art in the Crawley household….
Episode 183: Chopin's 'Knocked Urn'
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Happy Birthday Chopin; Congratulations, Hung-Kuan Chen
Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin's birthday today with a gripping performance by pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, of the two Op. 62 Nocturnes. Chen played them in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio for a special live broadcast marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Hung-Kuan Chen, one of the most respected pianists and teachers in the Boston area, is about to decamp for New York: He was one of three faculty appointments announced by the Juilliard School just a couple of days ago, joining pianist Sergei Babayan and Juilliard Alumnus (and MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner) Stephen Hough on the school's piano faculty beginning in the Fall of 2014. Nice line in the press release too:
"Raised in Germany, Hung-Kuan Chen's early studies fostered strong roots in Germanic Classicism, which is tempered with the sensibility of Chinese philosophy, earning him a reputation as a dynamic and imaginative artist."
Watch the video to witness some of those sensibilities at play. These two late Chopin Nocturnes are favorites of mine, for reasons beautifully articulated by pianist Bruce Murray in our Radio Chopin series for WDAV. Take a couple of minutes and listen to the episode here.
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Life insurance policies which pay out to an employer in the event of an employee's death.
"Dead peasant" insurance policies (also known as "janitors" policies).
This is when a company buys a life insurance policy on a rank-and-file, low-level employee – usually without the employee's knowledge – and claims the company as the beneficiary should the employee die.
The company retains the policy even after the employee leaves, and if the employee dies, the company receives a large, tax-free payout, which they then refuse to share with the family of the deceased.
This is something more and more people need to become aware of when it may concern them and the company they work for.
Interesting. I've never heard of this.
How does a person know if he or she is covered ** a policy?
It is often difficult for a person to learn whether he or she was covered ** a "Dead Peasant" policy. These insurance programs became popular during the mid-1980s and have been an available investment opportunity for large companies since that time. Prior to 2006, however, there was no federal law that required employers to disclose the policies to insured employees. Any disclosure requirements that existed before 2006 were only through state laws, which were ignored in many instances. So, the only way a person could learn about the policies was through the employer's voluntary disclosure.
Which employers bought policies on the lives of employees?
I vaguely remember hearing about this awhile back on the news but never fully understood what it was all about.
Thank goodness for the public outrage and a potential national boycot against walmart that walmart finally returned the money to Ms. Shanks.
However, dan made a good point " Is walmart really this petty that they have to sue for $460,000 when there quarterly earnings are roughly $9 billion?"
As hard as it is to survive in this economy. I have always tried to avoid shopping there. It's getting harder and harder as the economy becomes more sluggish. But I have to try to stick to my morals nd ethics.
It's all about "corporate greed"!


One of our team members went through the experience of being hospitalized due to the very poor condition of the street light, especially in poor weather conditions that reduce visibility.
IoT device will measure the current brightness of the surroundings, send information with API and change the brightness and hue of the bulb accordingly.
We are proud that our group was able to come up with an idea that could potentially benefit the city in a very short time span.
If we are to advance to the next stage, we would like to combine our current project with IoT hardware since we were not able to acquire one.