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Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (pt. 2)
Posted on August 8, 2015 by Matt
Dear Matthew:
I'm not sure I'm sold on recordings of classical music.
Don't get me wrong — this is a heck of a piece of music. The last movement is particularly striking. Everyone knows 'Ode to Joy', but we're really only familiar with the main hook of it, and the final fifth of this piece is spent doing all kinds of interesting things to that hook — and, as you'll recall, I love musical recontextualizations.
But the problem I was having while listening to this was this: I kept losing focus. Maybe the problem was, as previously discussed, that I'm doing it wrong — I was doing more mindless data entry as I listened. Even so, my mind kept wandering in the quiet parts.
Maybe it's a function of the way music is recorded. I'm sure you'll agree that dynamics make music interesting — a song that does the same thing at the same volume all the way through is probably going to get boring after a while. In my experience, classical recordings feature pretty huge dynamic range. I don't want to get into a whole debate about sampling rates and bit depth, but the salient point is this: I listened to this recording on a set of studio monitors in a soundproof radio studio, and I found myself constantly adjusting the monitor volume. I had to turn it up to hear the quiet bits, but I'd have to turn it back down for the loud bits to keep things at a comfortable volume. It's like that thing when you're trying to watch an action movie and you have to crank it to hear the dialogue, but then something explodes and your neighbours call in a noise complaint.
So maybe the problem is that I should be using headphones? You're a headphone guy — do you find you have this problem? Don't get me wrong, I love a good pair of headphones, but it seems pretty limiting to have an entire genre of music that you can't listen to on speakers without deafening yourself. Say what you will about the loudness war, but at least I can listen to (most) modern albums without riding the volume knob the entire time.
It's a bit of a copout to write off an entire segment of the Western musical canon for something like that, but the fact remains that most of the rest of the symphony still didn't really grab me. Has pop music ruined my attention span? Am I still having that kneejerk 'ew, classical' reaction that young people have to most things their parents like?
I would really like to think it's not either of those, so the only thing I'm left with is that maybe recordings just aren't the best way to experience a symphony. I can't help but think how much more impressive this sort of music would be in a giant concert hall directly in front of the 50+ people performing it. It's the same problem I have with live albums in general: it's a losing battle to try and capture the live experience in a recording, especially if sonically superior studio versions already exist. With a few exceptions, I really don't like live albums.
You pointed out in a real-life discussion that a major problem with live classical music is that quality can be hugely inconsistent, and having a good experience hinges entirely on living near a good orchestra. That may be true, but isn't that true of any live music experience? You'll only see big international rock shows if you live near/visit a city big enough to warrant a tour stop. The sound guy might have an off night and ruin the entire show with awful mixing.
I don't know. Again, this symphony is full of some seriously impressive music. But the entire idea of a symphony — of getting 50+ people to play an hour-long song in a giant concert hall on, let's face it, some totally ludicrous instruments — it's insane. It's a spectacle. It seems like some of that spectacle is lost when all you have is an audio recording.
But hey, this piece did stir something in me that I had completely forgotten until this week: when I was a kid, I'm almost positive I had Beethoven Lives Upstairs on VHS. Only 90s Kids Will Remember Beethoven Lives Upstairs.
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Posted on August 2, 2015 by Matthew
I have been looking through my past assignments to you and I've discovered a flaw in my approach.
From the start of this project, each of us has been trying to guide the other into unfamiliar musical territory. As you've pointed out a couple of times, we've generally been providing fairly non-standard entry points. That's to be expected given how nerdy we both are, and it's part of what keeps this so interesting.
But as I scanned our oeuvre thus far, I couldn't help but think that my assignments have been borderline perverse. Nobody has ever suggested Van Der Graaf Generator as a possible 'in' to prog — let alone Magma. And, even my assignments drawn from the pool of 'standards in their genre' — Red and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady come to mind — have tended to be the sort of music that's become standard specifically because of how it plays against the conventions of its genre.
This all goes double for my approach to classical music, so far. Come to think of it, I haven't assigned you anything that can even be called 'classical' without some heavy qualifications. (Bartok, maybe. But even that's a stretch.) Perhaps I ought to defer a bit more to the broader public's notions of 'the essentials.'
Yes, I like the sound of that. You need a firm grounding in the basics, Matt. You need 'core repertoire.' You need something that is, for us classical concert hall types, utterly standard to the point of monotony.
You need Beethoven 9.
(You can tell a real classical type by whether they refer to symphonies by cardinal or ordinal numbers, i.e. 'Beethoven's Ninth' vs. 'Beethoven 9.' Incidentally, that's the same way you can tell an old-school Doctor Who nerd from a Nu-Who fan: 'the Ninth Doctor' vs. 'Nine.' In either case, both options are acceptable nomenclature.)
What shall I say about Beethoven 9? Well, I suppose the most important point to bring up is that there's more to it than 'Ode to Joy.' That may seem obvious. But then, that melody is so synonymous with the phrase 'Beethoven's ninth symphony' that it may indeed come as a surprise for some that the 'Ode to Joy' doesn't even crop up until over 45 minutes into the piece.
And when it does, it's one of the most gratifying moments in all of music.
To my ears, even the most familiar parts of Beethoven 9 don't have the whiff of mould about them that, say, Vivaldi's 'Spring' does. Or Beethoven 5, even. I can't begin to speculate as to why that is, or if it's true for anybody except me. But for all of my bluster about how the classical repertory is strangling the modern concert hall and silencing living composers, I would never question the common wisdom that this symphony is one of the best things ever accomplished by a human.
A colleague of mine, who isn't really that much of a classical music person, once opined that Beethoven 9 is the best piece of music ever written because anybody can listen to it and enjoy every part of it. It isn't my personal favourite piece, nor even necessarily in my top ten. But I find it hard to disagree with my colleague's assessment. In modern parlance, Beethoven 9 is chock full of hooks.
Okay, enough eulogizing. You need context. This is Beethoven's final symphony. It is the only one that he wrote during what's thought of as his late period, premiering a full decade after his eighth. It was the first symphony of note to use voices and text — the 'Ode to Joy' is a setting of a poem by Schiller. There's no overstating what a massive deal that was. Wagner would later interpret this as Beethoven proclaiming that instrumental music had run its course, and he used that interpretation to justify his decision to only write operas (or Gesamtkunstwerken, if you insist).
A quick word about the recording I've chosen: it's a classic performance from 1962, by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. Karajan was an old Nazi (no, an actual Nazi — though his sincerity has been questioned) who led the Berliners with an iron fist and a contemptful scowl for over three decades. By the end of his career, he'd shaped the orchestra into a slick monolith that sounded the same in Debussy as in Wagner. But early on, he made some recordings that are still considered the gold standard. This is one. (And for what it's worth, it has sold massively well, over the years.)
Beethoven and Karajan were both angry, serious and unpleasant men, but this music is none of those things. It is effervescent and powerful, and has no desire to alienate anybody but rather to reach everybody. I hope it reaches you.
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John Luther Adams: Become Ocean (pt. 2)
I don't think you're going to like this post.
Become Ocean is fine. It's pretty. It's interesting enough to listen to it ebb and flow, to build from silence to full blast and back again. But in the end, I have the same reaction to this piece that I did with the only other classic drone record I've listened to — Sleep's Dopesmoker* — and it's a question we've both posed on this blog before: What is this music for?
One thing this blog has caused me to examine about myself is the ways I like to experience music — and how that might affect my tastes more broadly, in a way I hadn't really considered before. I think there might be a medium-is-the-message sort of component here, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to try to unpack it.
Generally, I listen to new music in only a few specific settings: while commuting and/or exercising (these have been one and the same for a while now, since I bike to work and almost everywhere else); while doing primarily rote and/or visual tasks, like cleaning or organizing or photo editing; or while playing the popular computer game StarCraft II. I also like to listen to music while I drive, cook, and do certain computer-based tasks, but I don't like these situations for brand new music because I can't devote enough attention to it and/or there's too much background sound.
What I like about commuting/exercising, sorting/editing and StarCraft is that they don't take a lot of processing power, or at least not all at once. (Not at my StarCraft skill level, anyway.) I find I can almost never listen to music while I 'work', because my work generally either involves writing and thus consumes essentially all of my available brainpower, or involves working with audio and thus precludes music listening altogether. I usually don't even listen to music when I'm just surfing the internet, because I either won't absorb what I'm reading or I won't absorb the music, so I've realized at this point in my life that it's a lost cause to try and do both. And even StarCraft isn't perfect; if a skirmish gets particularly heated, I'll completely lose the thread of whatever I'm listening to for a few minutes.
Now, what these situations all have in common is this: while listening to the brand new music, there is something else that is actively demanding at least partial attention from me. With the rote/visual tasks or the real-time strategy, I'm diverting at least some attention away from the music, and sometimes all of it for brief periods. Commuting/exercising is probably closer to ideal, particularly when public transit is involved, but while this avoids the problem of concentration lapses, you're also competing with other sounds. Cars, people, wind noise if you're on a bike — all of it makes it harder to pick up on details in the music.
The more I think about this, the less of a coincidence I think it is that my favourite music tends to be energetic, driving, loud, bizarre, cerebral, and other similar adjectives — my favourite music tends to be stuff that really commands attention. I think this may be due at least in part to the types of situations in which I generally consume music, combined with my obsessive personality. (I'm one of those people who keeps entire albums despite only really liking one song, and I almost always prefer to listen to entire albums versus songs on shuffle or in a playlist or whatever.) In other words, I think my taste is at least somewhat affected by the use I see the music as having for me. Simply put, I seem to generally want music I can bob my head to while doing other things.
So, with that in mind, let's consider my original question about Become Ocean a bit differently: What can I use this music for? It's not rhythmic enough for bike riding. It doesn't work for StarCraft at all. It's far too droney and atmospheric for the bus. What I ended up doing was listening to it at work where, as you know, I'm currently doing some glorified data entry, so it worked well enough for that. But really, I find that music like this is of only limited utility to me. There's only so much data I have to enter, only so many photos to edit. And besides, rote tasks like that are great opportunities for music that is too cerebral — some lyrically dense rap, say — for more attention-demanding situations. For me, this music falls into the same category as bands like Mogwai or múm: bands I really like, but whose music I really only ever listen to in specific situations, like at three in the morning on a deadline and I need something besides the silence to keep me clinging to consciousness.
I don't know, maybe it's my fault. Maybe I'm not approaching the music on its own terms. I mean, this piece clearly isn't meant to be a workout mix, or a video game soundtrack. I'm sure it's spectacular live. And I realize that it's incredibly selective and hypocritical of me, given that one of my favourite musicians recently released an EP of moody space music, and I love it. But even though it's selfish, the reality is that this kind of music is of limited use to me just because of how, why, and where I tend to listen to music, and I think that might be why I find it hard to get especially excited about.
All of this is to say: it's fine music. But I think I understand your response to the Micronauts a lot better now.
But hey, speaking of workout mixes and long compositions, I think you'll really like your next assignment.
*OK, I guess it's kind of obvious what a record called Dopesmoker is for.
Posted on July 20, 2015 by Matthew
Dear Matt,
I'm still reeling from my unexpected reaction to the Offspring. I'm assigning you orchestral music to rebuild my sense of self.
In your response to my Brooklyn Rider assignment, you thanked me for starting you out with a quartet, since it lacks the flash of a soloist or the bombast of an orchestra. And, while I may chafe at those characterizations of venerable art music genres, you're clearly right on both counts. I mean, the first ensembles that we could recognize as orchestras developed in the only place where they feasibly could have gathered the forces: 17th-century Central European royal courts. It doesn't get more bombastic than that.
But at the same time, thank god that art is like that sometimes. Occasionally, when you put a creative genius at the helm of truly massive forces, great things happen. I don't want to live in a world without Ben-Hur, or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, or BioShock Infinite or any of the other great decadent works that obviously had huge amounts of money poured into them. I think that the symphony orchestra is one of the best things that humans have ever invented. And, the fact that the logistics and finances of it dwarf those of a chamber group is part of the appeal.
To wit, here is the greatest contemporary argument for why orchestras are still a good idea: John Luther Adams' Become Ocean.
Adams has been the composer of the moment since he won the Pulitzer for Become Ocean last year. He's lived in interior Alaska since 1978, and all of his music is written as a response to that landscape. This is a guy who used real-time data taken from the position of the sun in the sky, the fullness of the moon, the presence of minor seismic events, and the strength of the Aurora Borealis to produce a computer-driven audio installation at the University of Alaska.
But, as conceptual as Adams' music can get, it never veers into territory that makes it unappealing to listen to. It's powerful, cerebral stuff — but never obscurantist. Adams cites some frightening figures as influences: the player piano innovator Conlon Nancarrow, stochastic musician Iannis Xenakis, and that arch-avantgardist John Cage.
But possibly his most important influence was Morton Feldman, who practiced a sort of alternative minimalism that focusses on creating spare, spacious music rather than the driving rhythms of Steve Reich and Terry Riley. For my money, his Rothko Chapel is one of the most gorgeous pieces of the 20th century. And Adams' music sounds a lot more like Rothko Chapel than anything by Cage or Xenakis.
(Around this point, it's traditional to explain that there are two well-known American post-minimalist composers named John Adams. John Luther Adams is not the guy who wrote the hit opera Nixon in China. That's John Coolidge Adams. He got famous first, so he doesn't need to use his middle name in his credits.)
Become Ocean is Adams' reflection on the rising sea levels caused by climate change. As Adams put it himself, in one of the more succinct program notes you're ever likely to read: 'Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.'
Clearly, instrumental music is a strange medium by which to approach such specific themes. But, Adams isn't being didactic in this piece. He's doing what modern composers do best: expressing vague notions, sensations and anxieties by way of sound.
The work is a single, 42-minute composition (I know, I know, I know) for large orchestra. It is purely textural music — I believe that when I first discussed this album with you, I described it as 'drone music for full orchestra.' I basically stand by that. But as with the inventor of drone music, Richard Wagner (not trolling, listen to this), Adams employs a wealth of textural effects that intermingle to bring the music to crashing peaks and tense troughs — brought to life beautifully in this premiere recording by the Seattle Symphony and their brilliant musical director Ludovic Morlot.
Certainly, Adams would never deign to incorporate anything so vulgar as a melody. But I think that the side of your taste persona that's into droney electronic music (a taste attribute that we share) will also appreciate this different sort of droney music — a drone made more vibrant for being played on acoustic instruments and orchestrated by a master. Feel free to zone out during this music. It's approachable on a number of different levels of attention.
One of these days, I'll assign you some proper core orchestra rep. But as much as I love Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Brahms, they're not coextensive with what is erroneously called 'classical music.' John Luther Adams is, to me, just as central to that tradition. I hope you enjoy this.
P.S. This New Yorker profile of Adams by Alex Ross is one of my favourite pieces of music journalism. Just, as an aside.
Bryce Dessner & Sō Percussion: Music for Wood and Strings (pt. 2)
Posted on June 18, 2015 by Matt
You're right — this is pretty good.
I have to admit, though, that it wasn't quite what I expected from a group that describes themselves as a percussion ensemble. I mean, I get that a dulcimer or dulcimer-like instrument is technically percussion in that you play it by hitting it, but there aren't really any drums to speak of on this record. Which was a bit disappointing, because I love me some drums.
I don't really know or care that much about the National. I think I listened to their album Boxer in undergrad once when it was the hot new thing that all of my indie rock friends were into, but I don't remember it doing much for me. So, I can't really say if this is 'in keeping' with Dessner's earlier work or anything. But what makes good indie rock and good minimalist percussion ensemble music seem to be pretty different worlds. I guess I could give the National another go? I mean, a lot of people like them, so they have to have some redeeming qualities, presumably.
I do definitely see the minimalism you're talking about. This isn't a concerto or a suite or anything — this is definitely one 35-minute-long song. It's always fun to hear a leitmotif come around again, to hear a familiar sound being recontextualized again and again. (In fact, a lot of the reasons I enjoyed this pieces are reasons why I like Bleep to Bleep so much. I'm not sure how you'll feel about me saying that.) And whatever mode the piece uses (you'll have to tell me this part, it's been literally more than a decade since I did any music theory) is very dynamic and epic-sounding.
Aurally, this piece reminds me a lot of an Icelandic band called múm, if you're familiar with them at all. I can't really say why, because now that I listen to them side by side they're actually quite different. But they have similar characters, if that makes sense? I don't know. They're both the kind of music I like putting on at three in morning when I'm up late working on something in my dimly lit room and the rest of the world is asleep.
The main other type of music I go for in that situation? Post-rock. Are you into post-rock at all? Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, that sort of thing? In fact, I put it to you that Music for Wood and Strings is, itself, a post-rock song. I put it to you that this is the kind of music Mogwai would make if you gave them Dessner's chord sticks. I think I know what your next assignment is.
Well, your next next assignment. Confession: while I do definitely love M.I.A. and did want to assign her, Kala also doubles as a setup for your next assignment. I hope you're ready for some soothing island rhythms…
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Matthew
Let's have a change of pace. This week, you'll be listening to something brand new.
Bryce Dessner is the guitarist from The National (the band, not the newscast), a group that I think you and I have about equal experience with — that is, not much. However, Dessner has been on my radar for a while in his other capacity as a composer. He's written music for the Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can, and even the LA Phil. Nothing I'd heard of his really hit home — until this past May.
Music for Wood and Strings is a 35-minute composition for the New York percussion quartet Sō Percussion. Sō is a group with a similar spirit to our old friends Brooklyn Rider. They fall broadly under that nebulous umbrella of 'art music' — they're a bunch of Yale grads — but they've got a sense of adventure and a penchant for working with composers on developing new repertoire. (I'm especially fond of their recording with Canadian composer Nicole Lizée.)
This collaboration with Dessner has the added dimension of being written for entirely new instruments. Dessner and the instrument maker Aaron Sanchez (from the DIY pop duo Buke and Gase) designed a contraption that they've creatively named the 'chord stick.' It's kind of like an amplified hammered dulcimer that you're meant to approach much more as a percussionist would than a guitarist. Sō strikes their four chord sticks with everything from drum brushes to the pink erasers at the ends of lead pencils.
I'm not going to say a whole lot more, because I'm still processing this music myself. I have to say, though: a few listens in, I'm totally sold. This is the best new music I've heard all year. You'll recognize a distinct influence from minimalism, but composers of Dessner's relatively recent vintage tend to use the innovations of people like Steve Reich and Michael Nyman as one ingredient in a more complex stew.
I think you're going to like this. I've already recommended it to a few people, and I've only had positive responses. I wonder how your first impression will compare to mine?
Michael Nyman & Motion Trio: Acoustic Accordians (pt. 2)
Posted on May 7, 2015 by Matt
This is good shit.
Seriously, I enjoyed this album way more than I thought I would. I mean, I didn't think I wouldn't like it, but I didn't expect to be totally floored by it, either. Where I'm having trouble, though, is quantifying exactly why.
Maybe it's the Baroqueness. I'm not a hugely informed classical listener, as you know, but Baroque stuff has always been my favourite. Of the 'rock stars' of the classical pantheon, Bach has always been the one I'm most into. When I took piano lessons as a kid, my favourite pieces to play were always from List A — the Baroque repertoire. This is even reflected in a lot of the modern acts I'm into — Ratatat and Justice both smack of this stuff, and it's my favourite feature of their music. I also like a lot of music that is definitely influenced by minimalism — Daft Punk spring immediately to mind, but there are certainly others.
Maybe it's the playing of Baroque music on instruments other than what I'm used to hearing Baroque music on. An epiphany I've had over the course of writing this blog is that one thing I'm really into in music is recontextualization — I love picking out samples, I enjoy clever and unexpected mashups entirely too much, and I have enormous respect for good DJs (there aren't many). I love music that takes something familiar and twists it in an unexpected way. That's certainly what's going on here. It reminds me of what little Wendy Carlos I've heard. (Mostly just the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. But apparently she and Weird Al did an interpretation of Peter and the Wolf, and I now desperately want to hear it.)
But what specifically is it about Baroque music that's so compelling? Why am I so into it? What is the source of its driving rhythm and energy? What magical switches is it flipping in my brain with its complex, mathy harmonies and incredibly satisfying modulations and resolutions? I'm seriously asking. I've heard about Mozart's brilliance and Beethoven's intensity and whatever else, but I've never gotten a satisfactory answer to a question that I didn't realize was bothering me so much until I sat down to write this: Why is Bach so damn good?
Also: while listening to the bonus Michael Nyman Band piece from The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover I couldn't shake the mental image of the cartoon characters in Victorian garb trying to be inconspicuous in a funeral procession. I am confident that it improved the listening experience significantly.
Michael Nyman & Motion Trio: Acoustic Accordions (pt. 1)
Posted on May 4, 2015 by Matthew
Let's not bury the lead, here: this week, you'll be listening to neo-classical minimalism played on accordions.
Alright. Now, let's take a few steps back. Michael Nyman is an English composer whose career took off in the 70s. I think of him as England's response to Philip Glass. Both are generally classified as composers of 'minimalist music,' though Glass disdains the term. Nyman is thought to have coined it.
Minimalist music, to oversimplify ludicrously, uses small amounts of musical material animated by obvious patterns. It can yield strikingly varied musical results, depending on the bag of tricks possessed by a given composer. Steve Reich does minimalism by way of phasing. Glass does it (in spite of himself) by way of additive and subtractive processes. Nyman tends to do it by swiping bass lines and chord progressions from the likes of Purcell and Mozart and just repeating them over and over again with textural variations. The source material makes it feel more 'classical' than any of the other minimalists, but it still has the same directness and drive.
Nyman writes a lot of music for his own band, which has a really distinctive sound that informs the way he composes. A big part of that sound is that they do not play in tune, to such an extent that I can only assume it's deliberate. Their terrible intonation gives the impression of a troupe of Saturday morning cartoon characters having found themselves in a Victorian novel and trying to act naturally. It's fascinatingly grotesque.
The esoteric little album I've chosen for you this week does not feature the Michael Nyman Band, but I feel that you should know what they sound like, just for context. So, I'm appending a 12-minute prelude to your assignment proper. (After last week's tripartite Amon Tobin marathon, I feel no guilt whatsoever.) That prelude is the tremendous funeral march, Memorial.
Like most of what you'll be listening to this week, Memorial appeared in a film by Peter Greenaway, a director that Nyman collaborated with on 11 films. Greenaway's directorial sensibility is so painterly that in the movie Memorial appears in — The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — he had his actors wear different costumes in different rooms so that they'd fit the colour scheme. His movies represent a perfect blend of the very modern and the very Baroque, making Nyman the perfect musical counterpart.
(Apparently, Greenaway is at least partially responsible for Nyman's constant Baroque references. He often requested that Nyman reference very specific pieces by composers like Heinrich Biber.)
Now. On to Acoustic Accordions. The Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players who you're more likely to find playing Penderecki than polka. This album finds Motion playing Nyman's music with the composer himself plunking along on the piano (with occasional interjections from Nigel Barr on trombone and euphonium). It mostly consists of music that was originally written for the Nyman Band and featured in Greenaway's movies.
There are two notable exceptions: Nyman takes a solo piano turn on "The Heart Asks Pleasure First," which is from the movie The Piano (very much not directed by Greenaway) and is probably his most famous melody. And, the album's final track, "Silence," actually has nothing to do with Nyman at all, except in an anxiety-of-influence sort of way. It was written by the Motion Trio's own Janusz Wojtarowicz, an accomplished composer in his own right. Wojtarowicz is also responsible for the arrangements on this album.
I have lots to say about this music. I could get really analytical. But, it strikes me that this album, obscure as it is, comes completely unencumbered by cultural baggage. So, let's run with that. I've given you the context; I'll let you supply the opinions.
As always, I do hope you like it.
Brooklyn Rider: A Walking Fire (pt. 2)
This was an interesting experience.
First of all, full disclosure: for the most part, my understanding of classical music is what I believe kids these days would refer to as 'basic'. For me, like most Canadians, classical music is the stuff that comes out of the car stereo speakers if I accidentally tune into Radio Two outside of standard commuting hours — it's not entirely unpleasant, but I don't go out of my way to listen to it. I'm not entirely uninformed — I do have my Grade 8 in piano, something I find as hard to believe as you probably do — but I'm not exactly a font of knowledge, either.
Thanks for starting me with a string quartet. It seems like the most accessible way into this sort of thing. The string quartet seems to be the least pretentious of the various classical tropes. It's not a huge orchestra with dozens of players and it's not a virtuosic soloist in whose glory you're supposed to bask. It's just four dudes. I like that. It's a familiar setup.
Quartets also seem to be the only 'hip' way to be a classical musician to anyone outside of classical circles. Even with my limited knowledge, I still know who the Kronos Quartet are. Quartets seem to be allowed to get away with a lot boundary pushing that more traditional orchestras seem uncomfortable with.
To wit: the first movement of the first piece on this record, 'The Game', is one of the more striking bits of music I've heard in recent memory. Its lilting rhythm and odd time signature drive it along as it dips its toes into all sorts of genre palettes. At times it almost felt like something you'd here in an old-timey Wild West-type saloon, at other times almost like swing jazz — in fact, it struck me as being not altogether unlike something like 'Tired of Waiting' from NoMeansNo's Wrong, in that sense. At several points in the Culai piece, there's even something that sounds pretty much exactly like a pick slide. This is cool stuff, I was thinking to myself. I can get into this.
I have to admit, though, that my interest was waning by the time the Bartók came on. Maybe it's just a result of my listening strategy? If I'd planned a little better in advance, my I could've listened to the album in three parts to avoid the fatigue that was setting in? Or I don't know, maybe my Millennial attention span just can't handle anything longer than a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus pop song.
(I actually want to talk about how I listen to new music generally speaking at some point, but here I go talking about the actual music I listened to, so I suppose it'll have to wait for another week.)
All said, this was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for when we started this project: being intrigued by something completely outside my wheelhouse. This is fun. I'm very interested to hear what else you have lined up for me.
Posted on March 16, 2015 by Matthew
Let's pick up where we left off before last week's concert excursion. You had me listen to some loud, crazy punk rock because the time had come for me to confront my fears and doubts. Now, likewise, that time has come for you.
This week, you'll be listening to classical music. (Well, nominally "classical," anyway. Someday I'll bore you with a lengthy diatribe about why that label is stupid, but I'll spare you for now.) And, just as you offered me a deeply unconventional way into punk, I'm going to be shooting you far off into the outer limits of classical — where the canon fears to tread. Well, kind of.
Your assignment is to listen to A Walking Fire, the 2013 release from the string quartet Brooklyn Rider.
You may be shocked, once you've listened to this album, by the notion that some classical music listeners would find it difficult. But you've got to understand the fundamental difference between the classical side of the music industry and the rest of it: most major classical releases contain no new music. Instead, they feature new interpretations of old (sometimes very old) music that has been recorded before (sometimes hundreds of times).
So, an album like this, where two of the three works presented are premiere recordings by living composers with unfamiliar names, is not entirely conventional. I, for one, wish that it was. Because, recordings like A Walking Fire are way easier to recommend to adventurous non-classical-fans such as yourself than, say, a recording of Mozart's 40th symphony.
So, what exactly is on this?
The first piece, Culai, is by a Russian-American composer named Ljova, who isn't enormously well known, in spite of having written for Yo-Yo Ma and the Kronos Quartet. The last piece, Three Miniatures for String Quartet, is by one of Brooklyn Rider's violinists, Colin Jacobsen. Both of these were written specifically for Brooklyn Rider, and that's kind of the point of them: they're custom-made vehicles for the explosive sound of this quartet, which is unlike any other in the world.
The work that's sandwiched in between them is different in that it's 100 years old: Béla Bartók's second string quartet. Ask any string player who the top three quartet composers ever were, and you'll probably get some permutation of Haydn, Beethoven and Bartók. Mozart and Schubert might enter the conversation soon after. Of those five, Bartók is the most recent by nearly a century.
Part of why I'm giving you this album is because I'm interested in how you'll react to the Bartók in relation to the newer music. This album demonstrates two different models of classical music: the "futureproof masterpieces" model in the Bartók, and the "music for now" model in the other pieces.
My feeling is always that music need not stand the test of time before it can be dubbed "good." It's remarkable how uncommon that opinion is in classical circles, but I suspect I don't need to justify it to you.
Anyway, the point is: classical music has lots to offer aside from the earnest pursuit of everlasting beauty. It can also be just casually awesome. That's the kind of classical music that I'm most attracted to these days, and there is plenty of it on A Walking Fire.
I think you'll find something to like in this. If not, no worries. I've got plenty of other potential classical gateway drugs lined up.
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I gave my very first workshop today on Multiple Intelligence Theory into Practice for my peers. It was a daunting and exciting challenge. I'm tremendously passionate about implementing MI theory into my teaching practice. I tried to draw a lot of good information and provide some new nuggets of information for my peers.
We had some really great discussions about the role that these intelligences play in our teaching. By identifying our own intelligence strengths we can learn how we play to our own strengths rather than that of our students. We also discussed the merits and detriments of inventorying our own students. I gained a lot of energy from listening to my peers and their positive attitude towards our discussion.
Now that I have given this workshop, it is clear that I can streamline some of the activities, strengthen others, and certainly request more time for a practical application of the strategies. I am still reeling with first timers joy and hope to do this again.
You did a fantastic job on that workshop, whether you'll take credit or not! If you got lagger #1 talking about MI in her classroom, then it's a total homerun, lady.


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Mr. Cram is a senior engineer and principal of Materials Testing and Inspection (MTI), LLC. He started MTI in June of 1994. Prior to this, Mr. Cram worked at Materials Testing Corporation as a staff engineer performing construction inspection/testing and geotechnical investigations throughout the northwest. He completed undergraduate engineering course work at Boise State University and the University of Idaho, and graduate level course work from University of Idaho and University of Missouri-Rolla, with an emphasis in Geotechnics. Mr. Cram is a member of Geoprofessional Business Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has over 29 years of construction and geotechnical engineering experience, with specialized expertise in dealing with constructability issues pertaining to challenging site soil conditions.
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Charges Will Be Dropped for 7 Johns Hopkins Students Arrested over Month-Long Sit-In Protest
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Seven Johns Hopkins students were arrested over their month-long sit-in protest in the campus' main administrative building. The students reportedly chained doors shut and covered windows, causing administrative offices to be temporarily relocated. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby says that all charge will be dropped.
According to a report from the Baltimore Sun, seven protesters at Johns Hopkins University has been arrested for their role in a month-long protest over the university's relationship with its police force. Students also expressed concern over Johns Hopkins' contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Student protesters decided to occupy Garland Hall, the campus' main administrative building on April 3. The protesters chained doors shut and covered windows. Many of the university's primary administrative officers were forced to relocate to other areas of campus.
"This is an effort to protect black, brown, queer and all marginalized people who Hopkins is actively endangering," one Hopkins student protester said.
Seven students were arrested by police after occupying the building for over a month. The students were charged with trespassing and impeding vehicle traffic. The Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby told the Sun that all of the charges against the students will be dropped.
Karter James Burnett, a student organizer of the protester, said that the protesters simply wanted to ensure that the Johns Hopkins community was safe.
"Look at the people who were arrested, who were put into cop cars, who had 80 cops surround them, when they have done nothing wrong but fight for their lives," he said. "When they have done nothing wrong but want to help the community that they have lived in. When they have done nothing wrong but wanting to make sure that their friends and faculty members and community members were safe."
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Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA
In 2020, Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA had a population of 177k people with a median age of 37.5 and a median household income of $94,077. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA grew from 174,683 to 176,861, a 1.25% increase and its median household income grew from $92,574 to $94,077, a 1.62% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA are White (Non-Hispanic) (25.6%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (25.2%), White (Hispanic) (20.8%), Other (Hispanic) (13.5%), and Two+ (Hispanic) (5.53%).
43.1% of the households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
88.7% of the residents in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA are U.S. citizens.
In 2020, the median property value in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was $568,800, and the homeownership rate was 67.6%.
Most people in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 37.1 minutes. The average car ownership in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was 2 cars per household.
Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA borders Pomona City PUMA, CA, Diamond Bar, La Habra Heights (East) Cities & Rowland Heights PUMA, CA, Yorba Linda, La Habra & Brea Cities PUMA, CA, Jurupa Valley & Eastvale Cities PUMA, CA, Upland & Montclair Cities PUMA, CA, and Ontario City PUMA, CA.
Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA is home to a population of 177k people, from which 88.7% are citizens. As of 2020, 26.9% of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA residents were born outside of the country (47.6k people).
In 2020, there were 1.02 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (45.3k people) in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 44.5k Asian (Non-Hispanic) and 36.8k White (Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
The most common non-English languages spoken as the primary langauge in households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA are Spanish (36,685 households), Chinese (Incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) (16,297 households), and Tagalog (Incl. Filipino) (5,954 households).
As of 2020, 88.7% of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.4%. In 2019, the percentage of US citizens in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was 88.8%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The 3 largest ethnic groups in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA
36.8k ± 2.1k
40.9% of the people in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA are hispanic (72.3k people).
The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA as a share of the total population.
47k people
As of 2020, 26.9% of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA residents (47.6k people) were born outside of the United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.5%. In 2019, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was 26.9%, meaning that the rate has been decreasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
16,297 households (9.84%)
Tagalog (Incl. Filipino)
43.1% of the households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language, which is higher than the national average of 21.5%. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2020, the most common non-English language spoken in households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was Spanish. 22.1% of the households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA reported speaking Spanish at home as the primary shared language between all members living in the household.
Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.35 times greater than any other conflict.
The economy of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA employs 77.1k people. The largest industries in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA are Restaurants & Food Services (5,563 people), Elementary & secondary schools (4,741 people), and Construction (4,351 people), and the highest paying industries are Dairy product manufacturing ($130,442), Beverage manufacturing ($126,626), and Car Dealers ($121,241).
The workforce of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA in 2020 was 77,086 people, with 45.2% woman, and 54.8% men.
The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA.
From 2019 to 2020, employment in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA grew at a rate of 2.5%, from 75.2k employees to 77.1k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA, are Other managers (2,077 people), Registered nurses (1,963 people), and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (1,882 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA.
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This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in California (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA, are Restaurants & Food Services (5,563 people), Elementary & secondary schools (4,741 people), and Construction (4,351 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA, though some of these residents may live in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2020 are Public Administration ($81,852), Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($64,748), and Professional, Scientific, & Management, & Administrative & Waste Management Services ($59,986).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2020 are Public Administration ($66,166), Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($51,106), and Educational Services, & Health Care & Social Assistance ($49,064).
As of May 2021, there are 145M people employed in California. This represents a 8.45% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in California.
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from California to other states, or from other states to California.
In 2020, the top outbound California product (by dollars) was Electronics with $407B, followed by Pharmaceuticals ($158B) and Mixed freight ($149B).
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound California products.
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2020 Value in California
Projected 2050 Value in California
104% growth
In 2020, total outbound California trade was $2.26T. This is expected to increase 104% to $4.61T by 2050.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound California trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from California to other states, or from other states to California.
In 2020, the top outbound California domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was Texas with $83.5B, followed by Arizona with $44.4B and Ohio and $43.3B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that California shares with each state (excluding itself).
Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are the senators currently representing the state of California. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
California is currently represented by 53 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
US Senators from California
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Senator from California1
Assumed office on November 10, 1992
Elected to the seat to succeed John Seymour (California politician)|John Seymour, who had been appointed to the seat after Pete Wilson was elected Governor of California.
Appointed to the seat following the resignation of Kamala Harris, who had become Vice President of the United States.
Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are the senators currently representing California.
The following chart shows elected senators in California over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
US Representatives from California
California is currently represented by 53 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for California have changed over time starting in 2008.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA in 2020 were Some college (34k), Bachelors Degree (31.9k), and High School or Equivalent (29.2k).
The median property value in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was $568,800 in 2020, which is 2.48 times larger than the national average of $229,800. Between 2019 and 2020 the median property value increased from $543,200 to $568,800, a 4.71% increase. The homeownership rate in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA is 67.6%, which is approximately the same as the national average of 64.4%.
People in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA have an average commute time of 37.1 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Median household income in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA is $94,077. In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was Cupertino, Saratoga Cities & Los Gatos Town PUMA, CA with a value of $184,672, followed by San Ramon City & Danville Town PUMA, CA and Mountain View, Palo Alto & Los Altos Cities PUMA, CA, with respective values of $170,304 and $164,769.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
In 2020, 67.6% of the housing units in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 68.8%.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
Cupertino, Saratoga Cities & Los Gatos Town PUMA, CA
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Mountain View, Palo Alto & Los Altos Cities PUMA, CA
In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was Cupertino, Saratoga Cities & Los Gatos Town PUMA, CA with a value of $184,672, followed by San Ramon City & Danville Town PUMA, CA and Mountain View, Palo Alto & Los Altos Cities PUMA, CA, with respective values of $170,304 and $164,769.
The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
In 2020, the median household income of the 50k households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA grew to $94,077 from the previous year's value of $92,574.
The following chart displays the households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
2020 Wage GINI in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA
In 2020, the income inequality in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was 0.436 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.576% decline from 2019 to 2020, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2020, 78.8% of workers in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (9.82%) and those who worked at home (8.42%).
Using averages, employees in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA have a longer commute time (37.1 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.9 minutes). Additionally, 6.68% of the workforce in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA have 2 cars.
7.89% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA (13k out of 164k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 12.8%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Males 25 - 34, followed by Males 18 - 24 and then Females 18 - 24.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA is Hispanic, followed by White and Asian.
93% of the population of Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA has health coverage, with 54.7% on employee plans, 14.8% on Medicaid, 8.41% on Medicare, 14.7% on non-group plans, and 0.409% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in California was $7,549 in 2014. This is a 4.04% increase from the previous year ($7,256).
Primary care physicians in California see 1254 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.555% decrease from the previous year (1261 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1149 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 268 patients per year.
Showing data at the state level for California. Hospitalization data for some states may be delayed or not reported.
This chart shows the number of COVID-19 daily new cases by date in California, as a 7-day rolling average, compared with the four states with the most similar number of confirmed cases.
Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio in California
Primary care physicians in California see an average of 1,254 patients per year. This represents a 0.555% decrease from the previous year (1,261 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in California in comparison to its neighboring geographies.
This chart presents movement trends over time in the state of California across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
Between 2019 and 2020, the percent of uninsured citizens in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA grew by 1.92% from 6.84% to 6.97%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Chino & Chino Hills Cities PUMA, CA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
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Today's Apps Gone Free: Movie360, Charadium II, ColorManager And More
by Tyler Tschida
Add a little flair to your home videos by applying effects in real-time with PinGuo's Movie360. We also have a Pictionary-like online multiplayer game, and a photography app that allows you to highlight specific areas and colors.
All app prices are subject to change at any time and without notice regardless of stated free duration. Price changes are solely under the control of the developers.
ColorManager Cam ($0.99 → Free, 2.7 MB): An app that allows you to control the color of your videos in order to highlight specific areas. You can change the color by dragging each of the six sliders on the right side of the screen before or even during recording. The app also allows you to snap photos, turn flash on or off, turn the mic on or off, and share your videos via email or YouTube.
ColorManager Cam is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 41 ratings.
ColorManager ($0.99 → Free, 775.1 KB): This photography app allows you to control the color of your photos to highlight specific areas. The app features a color sliding mode that allows you to remove each of the six colors separately, and a mask mode where you can erase colors manually. The app also includes undo, the ability to import photos or take new ones, and an output resolution of up to 2,600 pixels.
ColorManager is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 41 ratings.
Little Big Monster ($0.99 → Free, 58.8 MB): This colorful endless runner has you switching between little and big monsters in order to avoid or destroy obstacles. Your little monster is able to jump high, but is unable to blast through barriers. Your big monster can't jump much at all, but will destroy almost anything in its path. Switch between the two by tapping on the button in the lower left corner of the screen to survive and obtain the highest possible score. The game includes three environments, an endless mode, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.
Little Big Monster is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 16 ratings.
Early Bird ($0.99 → Free, 18.9 MB): This physics-based puzzle game requires you to help the Early Bird catch the worm. What makes this title a little different than most others in the genre is that you're able to launch the bird using swipe gestures. The faster and longer the swipe, the farther the bird will fly. The game includes 168 levels, seven zones, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.
Early Bird is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 11160 ratings.
Photo Stats – infographic creator for your iPhone photos ($0.99 → Free, 28.1 MB): Visualize your photo habits with Photo Stats. This nifty app generates an infographic that allows you to view different stats about your iPhone photo library, like the most common places you took photos, most productive days and months, shutter speed, flash, ISO, and more.
Photo Stats – infographic creator for your iPhone photos is available for free today only (05/30). It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 66 ratings.
Ducati Challenge ($2.99 → Free, 157.5 MB): Speed around tracks on official Ducati motorbikes in this 3D racing game. It includes the most powerful standard models in Ducati's my2011 line, fully customizable tilt controls, multiple HUD options, two single-player modes, local multiplayer, a wide variety of tracks, TV-out support, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.
Ducati Challenge is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 22 ratings.
Charadium II ($1.99 → Free, 11.6 MB): A Pictionary-like online multiplayer game where you must take turns drawing and guessing words with your opponents. When it's your turn to draw, you're able to choose from three different words and use a variety of tools. When it's your turn to guess, you must simply be the fastest one in the room to guess correctly. The game includes three modes, full stat tracking, and achievements via Game Center.
Charadium II is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 2513 ratings.
Movie360:My Movies,My Life! ($2.99 → Free, 8.1 MB): Apply a handful of different effects to your live camera feed with this video recording app. You can choose from the 13 effects at the bottom of the screen at any time during recording. You can also pause your recording to change a scene instead of having to stop and stitch clips together. The app includes 4x zoom, three video quality options, four resolutions, and the ability to transfer videos over Wi-Fi.
Movie360:My Movies,My Life! is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 266 ratings.
Early Bird HD ($0.99 → Free, 16.0 MB): This physics-based puzzle game requires you to help the Early Bird catch the worm. What makes this title a little different than most others in the genre is that you're able to launch the bird using swipe gestures. The faster and longer the swipe, the farther the bird will fly. The game includes 144 levels, six zones, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.
Early Bird HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 5829 ratings.
Ducati Challenge HD ($4.99 → Free, 146.3 MB): Speed around tracks on official Ducati motorbikes in this 3D racing game. It includes the most powerful standard models in Ducati's my2011 line, fully customizable tilt controls, multiple HUD options, two single-player modes, local multiplayer, a wide variety of tracks, TV-out support, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.
Ducati Challenge HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 23 ratings.
Charadium II HD ($2.99 → Free, 24.7 MB): A Pictionary-like online multiplayer game where you must take turns drawing and guessing words with your opponents. When it's your turn to draw, you're able to choose from three different words and use a variety of tools. When it's your turn to guess, you must simply be the fastest one in the room to guess correctly. The game includes three modes, full stat tracking, and achievements via Game Center.
Charadium II HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 1340 ratings.
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ColorManager Cam
ColorManager
Little Big Monster
Flipscript Co., Ltd
Booyah, Inc.
Photo Stats – infographic creator for your iPhone photos
Dear Future Astronaut AB
Ducati Challenge
Digital Tales
Charadium II
Movie360?My Movies?My Life?
PinGuo Inc.
Early Bird HD
Ducati Challenge HD
Charadium II HD


SURREY — Tech talk is beginning to create a buzz at a hub in Surrey specifically developed for such activity.
Health-technology companies that have made a home in what's called the HealthTech Innovation HUB converged for a showcase event on Dec. 14.
The noon-hour gathering brought together health-related enterprises that share space at Lark Group's City Centre 1 building, on 96th Avenue near Surrey Memorial Hospital.
The HUB's second-floor space is filling with companies that share a passion for health technology.
The semi-communal HUB includes companies such as Conquer Mobile, HealthTech Connex, Neuromotion, Breathtec Biomedical, Helius Medical Technologies and several others.
City Centre 1 is the first of eight buildings planned in the immediate area by Lark Group, a development company that occupies the tower's 15th floor.
Across the street to the north, City Centre 2 is being built, and the top four floors will be occupied by Safe Software, currently located on 132nd Street in Newton.
The software development firm's 140-plus employees will move into 48,000 square feet of space at City Centre 2 in January 2018, said Don Murray, who with Dale Lutz co-founded Safe Software in 1993.
"We're excited about being there, because our current location isn't conducive to transit, which is key in (attracting) young high-tech employees," Murray said.
Rowena Rizzotti's job with Lark Group involves recruiting companies to be part of the HUB.
Taylor Byrom's fledgling Taylor Hart Designs, which makes and sells adaptive clothing for kids with special needs, is part of the HUB space occupied by Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
"It's a great place to learn and grow for a person like me who's trying to get a new business off the ground, with so many health and technology people working here," Byrom said.
Collaboration in the HUB is a key element of the enterprise, Rizzotti said.
"We create projects, we create prototypes, we create new technologies here and we work with the clinicians to help get them and validate them in the clinical environment, so they can quickly help people right away," she said.
Surrey, B.C. – Three students and one alumna from Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) were recently recognized as members of Surrey's Top 25 Under 25.
Hosted annually by the Surrey Board of Trade, the Top 25 Under 25 Awards acknowledge business- and community-minded individuals under the age of 25 who are working in or contributing to the City of Surrey in a meaningful way.
Among them are alumna Taylor Byrom, who launched her own design company out of the KPU Innovation space on Innovation Boulevard; soon-to-be alumna Sukhjiven Gill who, as an international student, is graduating at the top of her class and representing KPU internationally at business case competitions; entrepreneurial leadership student Saghi Ahmadi, who is successfully applying her education to real-world business solutions, and in her role as a lead trainer for MAC Marketing Solutions; and student Parabjot Kaur Singh, who volunteers with KPU's Department of Languages and Cultures, serves on the board of the Punjabi Language Education Association and co-hosts a children's radio show.
Fashion meets social entrepreneurship. Taylor Byrom is the owner of Taylor Hart Designs, an adaptive clothing company developed for children with complex medical needs. Using special fabrics and designs, her clothing is designed to be functional for children with feeding tubes, tracheotomy tubes, wheelchair dependency and sensory processing disorders.
A 2013 graduate from KPU's fashion and technology degree program at the Wilson School of Design, Byrom embodies the essence of what KPU hopes for its graduates. As the first alumna to work out of the KPU Innovation space on Innovation Boulevard, she continually shows her ongoing spirit for giving back to her community, and alma mater.
Byrom recently hosted her first Wilson School of Design student intern, was invited to speak at the school's 2016 convocation ceremony, and will share her insights on her educational experience as a KPU Day panelist. Her vision, empathy and compassion for children with complex medical needs drives her to build a prosperous company based on integrity, innovation and human-centred design.
A Langley fashion designer has come up with a solution to make clothes less uncomfortable and complicated for young girls ages two to five who have complex care needs.
The Jolie Hart fashion line consists of clothes with features such as welt openings or special types of pockets that are less restrictive when wearers are in a wheelchair, have a sensory processing disorder or are attached to tubes for feeding or for supplying oxygen.
"The clothing is still very wearable and very cute. The function that I put in is minimal but still very functional for these families," designer Taylor Byrom told On the Coast host Stephen Quinn.
Byrom launched this line as part of her graduation project at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
The idea came to her while volunteering with B.C. Children's Hospital and then she started to put out surveys to families with complex-care-needs children to hear what kind of clothing would be less restrictive.
She also had some people test out her clothes — such as one young girl who had a line from a special backpack attached to her abdomen all the time.
"Whenever she wore a dress, [the line] would come out the hem and then hike up the hem of her dress," she said.
"It was incredible to hear that it actually did do what I wanted it to do, and it raised her wellness level and her self-esteem level," Byrom said.
Langley designer Taylor Byrom has created a line of children's clothing for little girls with special medical needs. Using special fabrics and designs, the clothing is functional for children with feeding tubes, tracheotomy tubes, wheelchairs and sensory processing disorders.
They may look like ordinary dresses, T-shirts and sweaters, but Taylor Byrom's children's clothing serves a much greater purpose.
Using simple design altercations, Byrom's first fashion line — Jolie Hart — is fully functional with feeding tubes, tracheotomy tubes, wheelchairs and sensory processing disorders.
Created for girls ages 2 to 6, the soft fabrics, removable backs and button-up sides make dressing a child with complex medical needs one step easier.
"I wanted to do something that was helpful," the 24-year-old Langley designer said.
Officially launched on Nov. 20, Byrom has worked with BC Children's Hospital, the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, the Centre for Child Development at Surrey Memorial Hospital, Canuck Place and parent advisory groups to tailor her products to what her clients need.
"When I did the research, it actually came back that boys were more needed," Byrom said.
"That was just heartbreaking to me, being such a girly girl.
Originally, Byrom set out to be a designer for women's wear. It's a dream she's had since taking home economic classes in high school, and a career path she was following until her last year of fashion design school at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
As a class requirement, she had to write a 10-page personal vision statement on who she was and what kind of designer she wanted to be.
"I never thought I would do children's clothing, I couldn't understand why you would want to make something that you couldn't wear," Byrom said.
Byrom says it was a "serendipitous moment," as when she was writing the paper, she was also volunteering at miracle weekend for BC Children's Hospital. That's when it dawned on her that many of the children would benefit from specialized clothing.
After months of research, she created Jolie Hart as her final collection at KPU in 2013. The clothing she sells now still use those original designs, with many improvements.
Working out of Kwantlen's design lab in Surrey, Byrom creates each item by hand.
"I tried to design each piece to accommodate many needs," she said.
"I make sure to use as minimal seaming as possible, while still maintaining design, because that's a big thing for me.
For wheelchairs, Byrom has designed the backs to come off the jackets to reduce bulk while seated.
The removable backs also work well with feeding tubes, which can slip out the side, she added.
For sensory processing, Byrom uses soft fabrics and a heat press for information printed at the back of the neck.
"A big issue is the tags at the back of the neck, which bother anyone, really, without sensory processing," she said.
Byrom is now working on her spring collection, which will feature new a raincoat, as requested by one of the parent's in her advisory group.
Her fall collection is available for purchase online on Etsy, here.
For more on Byrom and Jolie Hart, visit her website taylorhartdesigns.com.
Metro Vancouver, B.C. – Between medical appointments, feeding tubes, health exams or wheelchair navigation, managing complex medical needs at an early age can take the innocence and vibrancy out of childhood.
Enter jolie hart, a new line by local designer Taylor Byrom. Not only does the line dance with playful prints and pretty designs, it works around the care needs of young girls ages two to five.
"I wanted to develop a line of clothing that lets young girls dress for their personality, not their illness," said Byrom, who first developed the clothing concept as a final-year fashion design student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Wilson School of Design.
From Langley to London, Byrom's clothes have caught the attention of families around the world. And with jolie hart's official launch this fall, the young Langley-based designer is now keeping busy at her workshop, located at KPU's research and development space on Surrey's Innovation Boulevard.
"The launch of Taylor's first clothing collection is a proud and defining moment for KPU and the Office of Research and Scholarship. It exemplifies our vision for the KPU Innovation space, which is to explore solutions to community health challenges and advance prototypes toward commercialization. There are a lot of people who will benefit from this type of specialized clothing," said Arthur Fallick, associate vice-president, research at KPU.
Moving forward, Fallick says KPU Innovation will be utilized by faculty and students currently exploring how to build dementia-friendly communities. The hub will also look at supporting other projects that, like Byrom's, began at the Wilson School of Design.
More information on KPU Innovation, as well as research and scholarship at KPU, can be found at kpu.ca/research. For details on Byrom and her line jolie hart, visit taylorhartdesigns.com.
Langley, B.C. – When you start something new, you can't be afraid to take chances. And what Taylor Byrom is starting is not only new, but life-changing for families around the world.
Earlier this year, the Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) graduate broke out on her own to break ground personally, professionally and fashionably with a line of clothing that accommodates the needs of young girls affected by complex care medical needs.
This weekend, the Langley resident will showcase her designs along with two other KPU Wilson School of Design alumni at the 15th annual West Coast Women's Show, hosted at the Abbotsford Tradex Oct. 16-18.
"I wanted to design something with a purpose. I honed that idea while at KPU. My purpose here is to create fabulous, fun clothes for girls who just want to be young girls, despite the complex medical struggles they face," said Byrom.
From Langley to London, families around the world have shown interest in Byrom's line, jolie hart. Her fall launch collection features garments that accommodate wheelchair dependency, sensory processing disorders and feeding tubes.
"At the Wilson School of Design, we encourage and support our students and graduates to pursue opportunities that affect positive change through such avenues as sustainability, ethical business practices and solving problems through apparel solutions. Taylor's collection concepts represent many of the these shared core values and we are proud to have her as an ambassador of our program," said KPU's fashion design and technology program coordinator, Andhra Goundrey.
Byrom's life-changing designs can be seen on the West Coast Women's Show main stage, sponsored by Guildford Town Centre, Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 17 at 6:00 p.m. and Oct. 18 at 3 p.m.
For more on the KPU Wilson School of Design, visit kpu.ca/design, or follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Information about the West Coast Women's Show is available at westcoastwomen.net.
Angela Robert manipulates on-screen 'hands' in an operating room.
A surgeon turns from his patient in the midst of his procedure, and waves his hands through a blue beam of light beside him.
The motion triggers a series of menus, allowing the doctor to manipulate real time images, providing a 3D look at the catheter being placed near the lung.
The imaging diagnostics, known as Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) isn't new.
It's the space-age way the surgeon is manipulating them without touching a thing.
The Touchless Interaction with PACS System saves surgical time in scrubbing up and reduces the chance of infection, according to Nishant Uniyal, software designer for NZ Technologies, which created the device.
The technology will likely be featured in surgical rooms for clinical testing at Vancouver Hospital in the next year or so, Uniyal says.
It was unveiled at the opening of Surrey's Health Tech Innovation Hub, designed to link medical technologies with local universities, the private sector and Surrey Memorial Hospital.
There are currently 43 companies at the City Centre building, according to CEO Dianne Watts. She also says there's a sizable waiting list for space at the hub.
Next door to the touchless imaging system is the Hub's Artificial Intelligence room. There, Conquer Mobile's CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Aaron Hilton uses an iPad to create a 3-D scan of a person's head.
The scan works for any part of the body, is measurement perfect, and will be used to create ideal fitting prosthetic limbs.
Imagine, Hilton said, being able to scan someone, and instantly have that image available to a 3-D scanner which will actually create the limb .
He said it will cut down the cost and time involved in obtaining prosthetic limbs.
Conquer CEO, Angela Robert, works with a headset which creates a real operating room feel. The headset will be used to train surgical staff how and when to hand the correct instruments to doctors.
Called PeriopSim, the headset simulates real surgical conditions, and hones the speed at which correct instruments are provided to doctors.
The key to being great at it is handing surgical equipment before the surgeon has to ask for it, Robert said.
The hub was abuzz on Thursday during its grand opening, where several groups where showcasing their health industry gear.
There was a company that created a wheelchair with airbags in case it tipped, saving the person in it from serious injury.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University alumna Jolie Hart had playful clothing designed for girls with medical challenges.
On display was an orange top, with pre-made holes to accommodate any medical tubing a youngster might need.
The Health Tech Innovation Hub is part of the city's vision of Innovation Boulevard, a connection between local universities, the private sector and Surrey Memorial Hospital. It is located at 13737 96 Ave.
What are your primary responsibilities at your job: Computer design, tracking current trends, creating tech packages for our factory partners and managing the inventory of samples for the east and west coast.
What is your favourite part of your job? I love creating and manipulating prints and graphics; it's always a challenge and keeps each season different.
How do you like to unwind/handle stress? I love to watch movies — pop in a DVD of a popular series and I'll watch the whole disc! I always have music playing on the iPhone and hanging out with friends and family tops the list.
Who is the most famous person you've ever met? I was interviewed by Steve Darling on Global BC Morning News!
If you had a time machine and could have lunch with anyone living or dead, who would it be? My Nana — she was my number-one fan. She didn't get to see me graduate but I know she'd be very proud of my journey, the past and for what's still to come.
Where does your inspiration come from? I'm inspired by people's stories. During my volunteer experiences with BC Children's Hospital, you hear stories of hope and courage. Rosie, a toddler who is tube-fed, was one child who compelled me to look at fashion differently. Fashion should have a purpose; to be beautiful as well as meaningful in someone's life.
Where do you see yourself in one, five or 10 years? Jolie Hart, my own line of clothing for little girls like with complex care needs, will launch!
What are you most proud of? I am proud of Jolie Hart and the impact it has had. Jolie Hart is not only about designing and creating fashionable clothing that meets the specific care needs of little girls; it's as much about raising awareness that all children and families should be able to access clothing that is functional for complex needs. Parents shouldn't have to use scissors to cut an opening in a shirt for a tube. We can do that – Jolie Hart does that.
Greatest advice for life? Wow, I'm just starting so for me it's all about looking forward and being open to new experiences. Take every opportunity that comes your way— don't be afraid to put yourself outside of your comfort zone.
Favourite Kwantlen moment? Who in fashion design wouldn't say The Show! The Show is the exclamation mark at the end of our four years of hard work and accomplishment.
What's the last book you read? The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
What's currently on your iPod? Tegan and Sara, Taylor Swift, Pink, Phillip Phillips; it's all rather varied.
Little girls want to be pretty, fun and special.
Special for who they are, not for a medical condition.
Through her volunteer work, fourth year Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fashion Design student Taylor Byrom found a deeper empathy for the children and families dealing with complex care needs.
Her recognition of the unique needs of certain kids led to the creation of Jolie Hart, an adaptive clothing line named after her grandmother, specifically for girls aged two to six.
It's obviously something parents are interested in as the line hasn't even launched and Byrom has already received a request on her site for similarly functional clothing for older girls.
The Kwantlen Polytechnic University's fashion design program will have its graduate fashion show on April 17 at the River Rock Show Theatre. Byrom will be one of the 35 students to show their designs on the runway.
What started as designing clothes for paper dolls grew into learning to sew and a love of fashion. Now, preparing to graduate, Byrom is combining function and wellness into her whimsical clothing designs.
Little girls experiencing sensory disorders, wheelchair dependency or the need for feeding or tracheotomy tubes are part of what the Jolie Hart line accommodates.
Through the use of hidden openings and special plackets, tubes are easily managed. Breathable organic cottons, the ability to widen necklines and no tags ensures comfort with the clothing even when the situation may be far from comfortable.
The Fall 2013 line includes 15 pieces in dresses, tops and jackets.
To find out more about the fashion show, visit www.kwantlen.ca/theshow.


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GST Effect On Diwali 2017..
Deepavali reminds everyone of crackers. Without any age barriers people of all age groups fires crackers on Deepavali as a part of celebration. But crackers sales are not upto the mark though the festival is nearing. Sources say that the reason behind less sales in central govt imposed GST of 28% which increased the rates by 35 to 40% when compared to last year. Businessmen say that the sales of crackers gone down because of high prices and heavy rains. But the cracker shops are ready with variety of traditional and fancy crackers.


California's Gold host Huell Howser passed away in Palm Springs Sunday of natural causes, KCET confirmed on Monday.
The TV icon, best known for his enthusiasm and folksy demeanor, was 67 when he died at his home just months after retiring due to health concerns.
Howser made a name for himself as a reporter for Entertainment Tonight and CBS news. He went on to specialize in programs dedicated to small towns, landmarks, and places of interest in California.


Pemberton's Jacob Field and his dad get to spend a day with Wayne Gretzky.
A lucky lottery ticket, bought in Pemberton for $5, is giving a nine-year-old local hockey player the opportunity of a lifetime.
In less than two weeks Pemberton's Jacob Field is heading to Vancouver to spend to the day with Wayne Gretzky.
To say this young hockey player, who plays Atom House league in Whistler, is excited to hang out with the best hockey player in history is putting it mildly; he is counting down the days in his journal and his autobiography of Gretzky is getting packed in his overnight bag in the hopes "The Great One" will sign it.
His dad Murray, who plays for the Marmots in the adult recreation league and referees in the league too, is also invited. Both father and son have been playing the game since they were five years old.
And maybe they'll get a few hockey tips too, he laughs.
Jacob's mom Tricia Field bought the lucky lottery ticket in the summer. When the Fields scratched it they found out they had won $2,010… and the chance to spend a day with Gretzky.
They found out in November that they had won that too.
Tricia said she bought the ticket because the money went to support amateur sport in B.C. The tickets are part of a suite of lottery games offered by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation in celebration of the 2010 Winter Games. The games are expected to generate an estimated $20 million for amateur sport in B.C. over the next six years.
With two kids heavily involved in sports, including hockey, soccer and K1 ski racing, the lottery ticket was a natural choice.
This father and son team don't know what's waiting for them on Dec. 12. They are staying at the Pan Pacific in Vancouver and having breakfast with Gretzky at 7:30 a.m. They are also getting fitted for skates. The day ends at 11 p.m. It just so happens that Gretzky's team, the Phoenix Coyotes, are playing the Canucks that night.
Whatever happens, Field said he hopes Jacob can learn a thing or two from the sports legend.
And who better to teach him that, he added, than Wayne Gretzky.