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2022 Emerging Artist Award
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation established the Emerging Artist awards to support and encourage Alberta's most promising artists at an early stage of their careers.
The awards are not project grants, but designed to support the unique development needs of emerging artists whether it be supplies, further study or experiences, funding to travel for auditions, study or work, or even income replacement for non-arts related employment. Each applicant determines the investment need that would most advance his or her career.
Up to 10 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Awards are presented in the competition, which takes place every other year (even years). Each Emerging Artist Award recipient receives a medal and $10,000. (In odd years, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation presents its Distinguished Artist Awards.) The awards are presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta in a private ceremony at Government House in Edmonton.
Emerging Artists are defined as those who have mastered their art form through education or apprenticeship and are in the early years of launching a professional career. Emerging artists have created and publicly presented a modest body of independent work and are ready for the next steps in their artistic development.
Professional artists at an early stage of their careers;
Who are Canadian citizens or landed immigrants of more than two years;
Who have lived and practiced their art in Alberta for at least two years or have spent a formative period of their artistic development in the province.
Deadline: midnight February 4, 2022


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In the early stages of life, hearing is a critical part of a child's social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Even a mild hearing loss can impact on a child's ability to develop their speech and language skills adequately and can have a negative impact on educational outcomes.
In Australia, children have their hearing screened at birth, however, hearing loss can develop later without the parent or teacher being aware. Therefore, it is important to monitor for speech delay or difficulties in the classroom. If you are concerned about your child's hearing, it is advisable to request your paediatrician refer for a hearing assessment. Early intervention that is family-centred is key to help children to develop to their full potential.
Shout Hearing Healthcare tests children aged 3 years and above. We provide referrals and comprehensive reports to your GP, paediatrician, ENT or speech pathologist as required. We also assess Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) for children aged from 7 years.
Auditory processing is the ability to process, recognise and interpret the sounds we hear. This occurs between the sound being detected by the ear and the signal being received in the brain. Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) means that there is a problem with the interpretation of sounds; when the signal is distorted, the brain cannot recognise and interpret it. CAPD is a deficit with the auditory system that is not due to a disorder of cognition, memory, attention or language (e.g. autism or ADHD); although CAPD may co-exist with other disorders.
This difficulty with understanding the subtle differences in speech sounds becomes a lot worse in background noise or when the information is complex; which is why the classroom is an environment that is often challenging for children with CAPD.
What signs may indicate CAPD?
These signs may be noticed by the parents or the teacher. Communicating with your child's teacher will help to monitor if your child is struggling to understand information in the classroom.


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ED2015 Interviews ED2015 Spoken Word ED2015 Theatre ED2015 Week2 Edition
Ben Norris: Talking love, loss and motorways
By Chris Cooke | Published on Sunday 16 August 2015
In his "one-man show about love, loss and motorways" – 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Family' – writer and performer Ben Norris recounts the story of the time he took off on a hitch-hiking tour of all the places his emotionally distant father had lived – most of them just off the M1 – in an attempt to understand him better.
The resulting show wowed our reviewer, who noted that "Norris is a tremendous performer, demonstrating his skill at slam poetry through subtle rhythm and dexterous wordplay. He does this without ever breaking the intimate rapport he forges with his audience through friendly and sincere interaction". With a concept this interesting, and a review that good, we had to track down Ben to find out more.
CC: Tell us about the concept behind the show. Why did you decide to go on this adventure?
BN: The show, and the hitchhike itself, were born of the same impulse: to get to know my dad and to explore the relationship a lot of men have with their fathers. For the vast majority of my adult life my dad has been fairly emotionally unavailable, consistently a man of few words, particularly when it comes to matters of the heart or his past. I wanted to explore that past, in the hope that it would bring us closer in the present.
CC: Did you immediately know where you had to visit on this journey, or did you have to do some research? How much of it was planned at the outset?
BN: All of my major stops were planned at the start of the journey – so, all the places he had lived, plus any other places of significance to his life – and one meeting was planned too, with his best friend Marcus. But other than that, everything was left open to chance; the people I met and the conversations I had, with both strangers and other family members and friends, were all impromptu. I had some addresses and phone numbers at the outset, but that was about it. Half of these I'd secretly gleaned from the address book in my family home, many more I'd got from my nan. Very few addresses or info came from dad himself, because at that time I was too trepidatious to breech the topic of the show with him in full.
CC: Did you explain to the people who gave you lifts what you were doing? What did they make of it?
BN: I did, and most of them were really into it; both the idea of hitchhiking in general, given how rare it is these days, and also my quest in particular. Many shared stories of their own relationships with their parents, which was always interesting. People seemed to recognise the importance of talking about these things, and they really invested in the parent-child shared-narrative narrative!
CC: What does your dad think about the show? Has he seen it?
BN: He hasn't seen it yet, but he's coming to see it later this Festival. Naturally I'm shitting myself. But actually, without giving too much away, I'm not shitting myself as much as I would've been, say, two or three years ago. Our relationship has morphed and grown in ways I could never have anticipated, and the show's meaning, for me as an individual and for an audience, has morphed with it. So I think as long as he doesn't walk out in the first half an hour, it'll be fine! It sort of becomes a love letter to him, towards the end. This show is, in some respects, all the things I've hitherto not been able to say him.
CC: Did the venture bring you closer together?
BN: Well, I should start by putting in a bit of a 'spoiler alert' here! But yes, enormously so. But not really because I went to all the places he lived when he was growing up, but because I quite publicly proclaimed "I DON'T FEEL CLOSE TO MY DAD, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM" and plastered it all over the internet, assuming, naively, that my dad wouldn't ever go on my website, or read my blog, or watch my trailer. But, of course, he did. It must be quite difficult to read something like that and not be compelled to make more of an effort, which he has been doing. But a number of other factors have contributed to our relationship improving – his retirement and a change of circumstances all included – but not least of which is me realising that perhaps I'm more like him than I'd at first care to admit. It's all in the show! So it's a work in progress and I've had a lot of work to do too.
CC:What was the high and the low of the trip?
BN: You won't get this many spoilers out of me in one interview! But in short, the lows: service stations and Travelodges ad infinitum. And the highs: conversations and contact, sometimes in the most unlikely of places or with the most unlikely of people.
CC: And the best service station?
BN: There is no such thing. Apart from that really nice independent one en route to Edinburgh. Sadly my dad never lived anywhere near there so it didn't feature.
CC: Tell us a bit more about your background, how did you get into spoken word and performance poetry?
BN: I started performing poetry – or 'spoken-word', call it what you want – when I was at university. I'd been acting for about six years by then and writing for around five – mostly plays, page poetry and songs – but I wasn't aware of this wonderful hybrid. It was enormously liberating. Suddenly I had an outlet for both my acting and writing, and could keep exercising both those muscles on a regular basis and, providing you're a rigorous self-editor, with a refreshing immediacy: you could write, edit, memorise, rehearse and perform a poem in a day.
CC: You've listed this show in the theatre programme. Is that because there's more of a narrative than with a normal spoken word show?
BN: That's exactly why. I warm up for this piece like an actor, I perform this piece like an actor and – although I'm playing myself – I'm still 'playing' myself, perhaps even a slightly more naive version of myself, particularly at the outset. I didn't want people to see 'spoken-word' and think it's going to be a lot of shouting or be structured like a poetry reading. This show is the furthest thing from poem-clapping-poem-clapping you could possibly imagine. I have a lot of time for poetry readings, don't get me wrong, but they seldom engage me in the way theatre engages me, and the way – I hope – that 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Family' engages people. Also, I play a lot of members of my family and strangers I met on the road, even if it's just for a line or two. So there's a lot of funny voices. It had to be in the theatre section!
CC: We're a week in, what responses has the show been getting from the Edinburgh crowd?
BN: I've been incredibly touched by people's responses. Hearty laughs, a lot of tears – especially from men, which has been amazing to see – and quite a few people saying that they wanted to ring someone they hadn't called in a while as soon as they left the theatre, which is exactly what we set out to achieve at the start of rehearsals.
CC: And what's next after the Fringe?
BN: We're taking Hitchhiker's on tour around the UK next spring and/or autumn, which I'm incredibly excited about. Before that I'm making a short film for Maverick TV and Rural Media which will hopefully have a much bigger life, for reasons that I'm not allowed to talk about right now! And getting some work as a 'regular' actor too, that'd be nice too. Fingers crossed!
'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Family' was performed at Underbelly Cowgate at Edinburgh Festival 2015.
LINKS: thehitchhikersguidetothefamily.com
READ MORE ABOUT: Ben Norris | Underbelly

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County residents show concern during WALLY meeting
Abby Welsh
Members of the community had no problem voicing their concerns during the WALLY meeting after a presentation was given about the scope of the project and the future plan.
"We want this to be a discussion and for the community to let us know what answers they seek," said Neal Billetdeaux, Smithgroup JJR landscape architect for WALLY.
The Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is undertaking a feasibility study for the proposed 27-mile-long commuter rail service known as the Washtenaw and Livingston Line, or WALLY.
One of two community meetings was hosted Thursday night as step one in the feasibility study.
"This project began in 2006, when there was a proposal to run commuter trains at the existing tracks from Howell to Ann Arbor," said Michael Benham of the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority. "This would be the same idea … this would be for commuters traveling to Ann Arbor for work at the University of Michigan."
The rail cars would be wheelchair accessible.
Benham gave several examples of commuter rail operations around the country that attract people, making it a profitable transit service.
"This would allow us to help with congestion along U.S. 23," he said.
Stations would be in Howell, Genoa Township, Hamburg Township and Whitmore Lake as well as three in Ann Arbor — one by the north side of campus, one located downtown and one directly at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
"Certainly not everyone will ride this to U-M, but this again is evidence for people who would likely to be served, and the question is how many of them," Benham said.
Several community members were against using tax dollars toward commuters travel — especially if they wouldn't use the rail line themselves — asking WALLY officials to explore a pubic-private option.
Other residents want officials to seek "better technology options," explaining how there are better options out there.
Common concerns among the residents who spoke included updated statistics on commuters traveling to Ann Arbor and if the line would actually project the 1,200 riders per day WALLY officials shared with the audience, noting that even if it did, the cost to maintain the line would be more than what it would take in.
WALLY officials listened and jotted down each citizen's concern.
The study's purpose is to understand public opinion about the proposed project, determine the costs to construct it and for commuters to ride, estimate ridership and gauge community interest along the proposed line.
"This won't only provide both counties a way to bridge together, but it will also increase local property values, boost local businesses and reduce U.S. 23 traffic, which is caused by commuters," Benham said.
An interactive website that show all the results, research and documents of the project is at http://www.nsrailstudy.com. Emails can be sent to tellus@theride.org.
"I will see each and every one of these emails," Benham said.
Contact Livingston Daily reporter Abby Welsh at awelsh@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @abby_welshLD.


When saving a file in a particular format to Enterprise, a version of that file is saved. When needed, this version can be restored to make it the current version.
This article describes how to view and restore file versions using Content Station Aurora and provides background information about the concept of file versions in Enterprise.
Figure: Viewing versions of a file in Content Station Aurora.
Viewing and restoring file versions in Content Station Aurora is done through the History panel (see image above).
Note: In Content Station version 11.11 and older, this panel was named 'Versions'.
Viewing and restoring file versions in Content Station Aurora is done through the History panel of the Search results page1 (see image above) or the History panel in the Digital editor2.
1 In Content Station version 11.11 and older, this panel was named 'Versions'.
2 Requires Content Station 11.13 or higher.
After selecting a file in the Search results page or when working on an article in the Digital editor, the History panel shows the current versions and all previous versions of that file (if any, and up to a defined maximum, see below).
Restore (not available for the current file version) Using this option restores the version as the current version.
For Digital articles, the content of one version of the article can be compared with the content of its previous version. See Comparing articles in Content Station Aurora.
Note: Saving a version of a file can be done by any user of Enterprise, including users of InDesign and InCopy; it is not restricted to users of Content Station Aurora.
When is a version stored?
By default, a specific number of versions are stored per file type.
When the maximum number of versions for a file type is reached, the oldest version is removed to make place for the newest version.
Example: 10 versions of an article are saved: versions 1 to 10. The next time an article is saved, the oldest version (version 1) is removed to make room for the newly saved version.
Note for system administrators: These values can be changed by configuring Enterprise Server.
All version numbers are presented in a "major.minor" notation.
Example: Version '1.2' means major version '1' and minor version '2'.
Each time a file is saved, either the major version number or the minor version number is increased (depending on how the system is configured).
30 May 2018: Added references to the History panel in the Digital editor.
30 May 2018: Updated the list of file types for which versions are saved.
16 May 2018: Renamed the 'Versions' panel to 'History' panel.


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Q: Number of decimal digits in Oracle SQL Developer query result sheet The Date format can be customized in Oracle SQL Developer, how Decimal format can be specified?  By that I mean number of decimal digits.
In Tools>Preferences>Database>NLS we only have decimal separator, nothing else.
Thank you in advance.

A: There is no option in Preferences to my knowledge. You can use to_char function to display the decimal digits.
An example:
Try this in HR schema:
select to_char(salary,'999999.000'), employee_id from employees;

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Murrieta Rock – El Cerrito
Posted on August 26, 2014 by markeminer
Murieta Rock
From Dave Weinstein
Which leaves us with El Cerrito's top rock, a pile of blueschist that was so legendary in the years before the Gold Rush it was said to have attracted none other than the bandit Joaquin Murieta. Murieta, it is supposed, hid among the rock's gray matter, soaked up power from the heated stones, and then descended with his gang on the coaches that traversed Contra Costa Road so far below.
Today this former power spot, privately owned but much visited by the public, squats beneath brush and poison oak, smeared with graffiti and decorated with broken glass for beer bottles. Stand beneath Murieta Rock, at the corner of Arlington and Cutting boulevards, and you won't see a thing. Head north a bit on Arlington, though, and look back. Astounding!
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – c. July 25, 1853), also called the Mexican Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a famous figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Depending on the point of view, he was considered as either an infamous bandit or a Mexican patriot.
Joaquin The Mountain Robber
Controversy surrounds the figure of Joaquin Murrieta: who he was, what he did, and many of his life's events. This is summarized by the words of historian Susan Lee Johnson:
"So many tales have grown up around Murrieta that it is hard to disentangle the fabulous from the factual. There seems to be a consensus that Anglos drove him from a rich mining claim, and that, in rapid succession, his wife was raped, his half-brother lynched, and Murrieta himself horse-whipped. He may have worked as a monte dealer for a time; then, according to whichever version one accepts, he became either a horse trader and occasional horse thief, or a bandit."
John Rollin Ridge, grandson of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge, wrote a dime novel about Murrieta; the fictional biography contributed to his legend, especially as it was translated into various European languages. A portion of Ridge's novel was reprinted in 1858 in the California Police Gazette. This story was picked up and subsequently translated into French. The French version, featuring a fictional Chile-born Joaquín Murrieta, was translated into Spanish by Roberto Hyenne. He claimed to have been in California during the Gold Rush and to have learned of Murrieta there.
Murrieta reportedly went to California in 1849 to seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush. He encounteredracism in the extreme competition of the rough mining camps. While mining for gold, he and his wife supposedly were attacked by American miners jealous of his success. They allegedly beat him and raped his wife. However, the source for these events is not considered reliable, as it was a dime novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, written by John Rollin Ridge and published in 1854.[2]
The historian Frank Latta, in his twentieth-century book, Joaquín Murrieta and His Horse Gangs (1980), wrote that Murrieta was from Hermosillo in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and that he had a paramilitary band made up of relatives and friends. Latta documented that they regularly engaged in illegal horse trade with Mexico, and had helped Murrieta kill at least six of the Americans who had attacked him and his wife.
He and his band attacked settlers and wagon trains in California. The gang is believed to have killed up to 28 Chinese and 13 White-Americans. By 1853, the California state legislature considered Murrieta enough of a criminal to list him as one of the so-called "Five Joaquins" on a bill passed in May 1853. The legislature authorized hiring for three months a company of 20 California Rangers, veterans of the Mexican-American War, to hunt down "Joaquin Botellier, Joaquin Carrillo, Joaquin Muriata [sic], Joaquin Ocomorenia, and Joaquin Valenzuela," and their banded associates. On May 11, 1853, the governor John Bigler signed an act to create the "California State Rangers", to be led by Captain Harry Love (a former Texas Ranger and Mexican War veteran).
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo
The state paid the California Rangers $150 a month, and promised them a $1,000 governor's reward if they captured the wanted men. On July 25, 1853, a group of Rangers encountered a band of armed Mexican men near Arroyo de Cantua near the Coast Range Mountains of Coalinga. In the confrontation, three of the Mexicans were killed. They claimed one was Murrieta, and another Manuel Garcia, also known as Three-Fingered Jack, one of his most notorious associates. Two others were captured. A plaque (California Historical Landmark #344) near Coalinga at the intersection of State Routes 33 and 198 now marks the approximate site of the incident.
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1 8 Free Legal and Safe Movie Streaming Sites of 2022 [HD/4K/1080p] – No Sign-Up Required
2 Tubi TV – Reliable and Trusted
3 Youtube – Safe and Without Viruses
4 Vudu – Rent Movies
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The first one on the list is Tubi TV. This is seen as the most favourite website among uses to watch online movies as it hosts a wide selection of TV shows as well as films. It carries good content with a good mixture of both old and new movies. Here you can find out popular flicks like Hostel, the hurt locker, snitch, and takedown. The best part about Tubi TV is that it comes in free on Ios, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android, and many others.
It comes with an eye-catching black theme that is very pleasing to the eyes. Moreover, the media player that is carried is the best among all the free movie streaming websites. Its media player offers users subtitles for all the videos, plus users can also forward and rewind the video by 30 seconds. Moreover, users can adjust the quality of the video. It comes in with a very decent streaming rate. While using this application, we did not face any issues related to buffering.
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In recent times, youtube has launched its movie streaming website where users can watch online movies like the terminator, IP man, Legally Blonde, and the ZooKeeper. It comes in totally free. If you're not such a big fan of YouTube, there are also some great alternatives.
On youtube, you shall be able to find more than 100 complete features length movies that make it a perfect free movie website for people who do not wish to pay extra for premium services like there on Hulu and Netflix.
You need to visit this free movie streaming website and check out the collection of free movies. Though it comes with selected content youtube plans to make its original shows and movies free from the year 2022. Thus you can expect to see a new variety after some time. Keep one thing in mind if you are living in the USA only, then you are allowed by Youtube to watch movies online for free. People who live outside the United States can check for other options on this list.
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But to see it positively, I think we can handle the ads as long as we are being provided with free movie content and that too in good quality. All the user needs to do is sign up on the website, and everything is good to go.
It comes with a vast collection of free movies as well as TV shows. It keeps on adding more items to its catalog over time. It includes anime, comedy clubs, drama, and cartoons. Its sections are all categorized properly like genre-wise like romance, action, crime, and many others.
The best thing that we find about Vudu that it carries all the popular movies like The Machinist, Drive Angry, Survivor, Resident Evil, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more.
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Sony crackle shall never fail to disappoint you if you are looking for a website that carries a vast collection of movies. This Sony-owned website asks you to sign-up, and then create a watch list, and it also recommends you to watch movies that are based on your preferences. The best part about Sony Crackle is that it carries all the popular movies that you cannot find on other websites. Users shall be able to find titles like Seinfeld, Grudge, Insidious, Men in Black, Resident Evil, Spiderman and more others on Crackle.
As it is a free movie streaming website, therefore, you are going to see ads and commercials there within while watching the content. As Crackle comes with Ios and Android applications; thus, it is easier to see free movies online when you are on the move. Keep in mind that the content on Crackle can be blocked in various countries due to licensing restrictions, but it can be accessed using the VPN or Proxy service.
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This is a new website as compared to other movie streaming sites that are mentioned in the list. Amazon owns it. The IMDb free dive service comes in free for the Fire TV owners in the United States of America.
People who live outside the US can use the Proxy network to access this website. It carries a different collection of movies and free shows that are very impressive and cannot be found easily on the other legal yet free sites that allow you to stream movies online. Popular titles that it carries include Midnight in Paris, The Illusionist, Memento, Born This Way, Quantum Leap, Legally Blonde, and many more.
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This is seen as one of the best movie streaming sites that offer users many public domain movies along with the original content. This website carries thousands of movies that are placed under various categories like action, drama, romance, horror, and many more. If you are the kind of person who loves watching TV series, then Popcornflix best serves you in that area as well. It offers original content under the banner Popcornflix original, just like Netflix.
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It comes with an elegant and clean user interface. It carries 2 categories; movies and TV series. When you scroll down, you shall be able to see sections and thumbnails that are categorized properly to surf and pick free that you want to watch online.
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Moviesfoundonline comes with several public domains on which movies are hosted. It does not upload any video or host anything on its own. Still, the content is actively curated to prevent copyright infringement, thus making it one of the best legal websites to watch free movies online. Users can find different movies like Payback, Smokey and the Bandit, The Grudge 3, The Toxic Avenger, and many more on this free movie streaming site.
Users can also find many movies from the 2010s like triple 9, common man, predestination, and many others. It carries a movie catalog that ranges from cult classics to short films and documentaries to comedy movies. It comes with an elegant and friendly user interface. You can find helpful tags there on the right side of the webpage where you can select different movies according to the year or genre. Videos can also be sorted out by top-rated, category recently added, and many more.
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Another one on the list is Pluto TV. This is an online movie streaming website that comes for free. It works much like a traditional TV. Users here can watch movies online on more than 75 TV channels that too from different categories. It is a huge disadvantage itself when you miss out on your favourite movies and shows sometimes, but it is best for those who are not able to decide which movie they should pick as the website takes care of all these things very quickly.
Now, apart from the movies, users can watch news, TV series as well as sports on Pluto Television. The best thing about this website is that it can support many popular platforms and carries its dedicated movie channel.
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20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here's how the BBC plans to grab the rest.
by Paul Sawers — in UK
There's been a few big developments on the BBC iPlayer front this year. Back in February, dedicated apps for iPad and Android were announced, whilst just last week, a new global iPlayer app for iPads was launched in eleven countries.
And as we reported earlier, a new TV-friendly version of iPlayer is launched today for the Sony PlayStation 3, with further platforms planned in the months ahead.
The Next Web caught up with Daniel Danker, BBC's General Manager, Programmes & On Demand, and it seems all this activity of late is part of a much grander plan, which is to take the iPlayer beyond the tech-savvy, beyond catch-up and beyond the PC. It seems the goal is to embed iPlayer deeply within the mainstream.
Making iPlayer mainstream
Now, you may think that the iPlayer is already part of the mainstream, and some stats that Danker shared with us would suggest you're right.
The BBC iPlayer iPad app is set to hit 1m downloads this month, whilst there have been well over 300,000 downloads already for the Android app. And BBC iPlayer programme requests on connected TVs increased more than five-fold from December 2010-July 2011, growing from 579,000 to 3.1 million requests in July.
Furthermore, there have been 1.7bn programme views on iPlayer in the past 12 months, whilst there were 8m weekly viewers in the UK last month. When you put all these stats together, the iPlayer seems pretty mainstream already.
But 8m weekly viewers amounts to a mere 21% of the UK's online population. With that in mind, Danker said: "Our ambition at the BBC is to reach all license-fee payers."
So the BBC might not be firmly embedded in the mainstream yet, but it's certainly well on its way. In June 2008, 18% of iPlayer usage was women, 82% men – the early adopters, and techies. Three years later, it's almost an even split, with 48% women and 52% men. "The demographics are evolving", says Danker. "And you can see the beginnings of iPlayer becoming a mainstream product."
To take this a step further, we can expect to see some key developments made to iPlayer over the next year.
Beyond the tech savvy
As it stands, there are multiple programme-related destinations on the BBC:
• /iPlayer
• /programmes
• /channel
• /genre
• /archive
"We want to bring all these destinations together into a single destination", says Danker. "It will still be called iPlayer, but from an audience perspective today, you have to go to each of these different destinations and you get a slightly different experience."
Whilst no time frame was given for this integration to take place, it should be some time within the next year.
Beyond Catch-up
At the moment, 15% of iPlayer use involves watching live TV. This already indicates that iPlayer is more than a platform for catching up on TV shows, and this is something the BBC will be building on through other means.
If, for example, you watch an episode in a TV series through a recommendation, and you then want to backtrack and watch an earlier episode in the series, Series Stacking will let you do just that. Then there's the Collections feature. This has been discussed before in the BBC's online strategy, and it means some older programming will start to surface on iPlayer – the full of extent of this, and the time frame in which it will happen, isn't set yet, but it seems it will start pretty soon. "Collections will be themed and curated", says Danker. "This will also redefine iPlayer – it isn't catch-up, it isn't the last seven days."
You'll also note that this is similar to the Global iPlayer, which is pretty much entirely archive content.
Beyond the PC
In July 2011, 107m requests for programmes were made on a PC, but as Danker noted, a PC isn't the most natural place to watch television: "If you had to choose, it would be a TV. I think, by 2015, over 50% of iPlayer will be watched on a TV screen. It's the natural habitat for TV programmes, so we shouldn't be too surprised by that."
But let's not forget the role of mobile devices either. There has been a 46% growth in iPlayer use on mobile since December. By 2015, smartphones will have a 70% penetration in the mobile market, meaning that this will grow as a platform for watching television too.
As we've noted already, the iPad will reach 1m downloads this month, and 74% of iPads in the UK are being used to watch TV, whilst a third are being used to watch live TV.
"We are the only public service broadcaster in the UK with an iPad app that delivers live TV", says Danker. "So, we like to think that one-third is coming to the BBC."
But here's the really interesting part. The peak time for linear TV – where the viewer has to watch a scheduled TV program at a particular time – is 8pm in the UK. The peak time for iPlayer has always been around several hours after. "You watch what you want to watch on TV, and then you go to iPlayer and catch up on what you missed", says Danker.
But with the iPad, and tablets in general, this is changing. It seems that the peak viewing time for iPlayer on the iPad is moving closer to linear TV. In short, people are using tablets as TVs.
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Lorenzo holds a degree in music composition. His work "Beauty For Ashes," a composition for double quartet (string quartet and jazz quartet combined) received great acclaim as part of the grand opening concert for North Carolina's Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. Lorenzo is also an advocate of arts education. For seven years, with the group Life Force, he lectured and performed for Young Audiences of America; teaching school children of all ages the history and development of jazz. He was an assistant director of the Spelman College Jazz Ensemble, formerly the only all female African-American jazz ensemble in the United States. He teaches percussion privately and for the Fulton County Department of Arts and Culture.
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La Roux talks faking it, the joys of distortion and your name in lights
There are perks to having a single debut atop your home country's pop chart. For Elly Jackson, the young English singer behind the synth-pop duo La Roux and the irresistibly sassy "Bulletproof," these include having your name in lights. Very big lights, immediately behind you, every time you play your hometown.
"In London, the shows are massive, so for our last three shows there we had this big wall of red bulbs and floodlights that spell out 'La Roux' on stage," Jackson said during a phone call from backstage at a German festival. "It really helps; I have to fill a lot of space on the stage when we play."
The light rig won't be with her when she plays the Troubadour tonight, but she will have a number of other options for realizing her practically flawless self-titled debut, full of meticulously chintzy keyboards, joint-snapping beats and regally soulful vocals. The last time she came to L.A., the band performed as a two-piece, with Jackson prowling the Roxy stage while producer Ben Langmaid manned the electronics. Tonight, La Roux will sport an additional keyboardist and a live drummer. "La Roux," out Sept. 29, is a busy, hissing little pop record that rewards both close listening and top-down singalongs.
For Jackson, striking that balance between inventive arrangements and instant sugar was the backbone of the album.
"The hooks were the things we always worked the hardest on. We like the feeling that you're instantly rewarded," Jackson said. "But practically every sound on much of the record is distorted. We really loved the combination of these cold, tinny sounds with warm vocals."
And warm they are -- Jackson's an inviting vocalist and an adept arranger (check out the closing counterpoint melodies to "Cover My Eyes") that makes what might have been a deadpan Pet Shop Boys melange into something new and effortlessly winning. And Jackson is only getting better at cutting a kind of Annie-Lennox-via-"Knight Rider" figure at live sets.
Many young female peers of hers are playing with performance as an ethic, where artificiality is revealing in its own right. La Roux is a purposefully stylized act, from the album art on down, but the avant-garde haircuts and formidable eyeshadow in La Roux's videos are the flip side of a nuanced and evocative lyricist. Scenes like the noirish love triangle of "Quicksand," where a taken lover has "moved into my mind again, walking around rent-free," are all taken from her own life.
But it's useless to draw a line between stage and sincerity; Jackson is very good at performing as her complicated self. It's all part of La Roux and it's as easy or flinty as you want it to be.
"Whenever I'm happy, I'm always really aware of that feeling, that I'm happy to be happy," Jackson said. "When I'm down, I'm really aware of that too. The lyrics are all Elly, but onstage it's La Roux. We'd need a two-hour conversation to really figure it out."
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Just How Steep is the Fiscal Cliff?
Amid all the talk of the approaching fiscal cliff in Washington, most of the focus coming from pundits is focused on who will (or should) receive the blame. But when discussing the situation, it is vital to understand just where the federal dollars go in order to understand what needs to be done.
This short 5-minute video created by a retired accountant clearly and simply demonstrates what may be a shocking revelation to some: the federal government could shut down all of its "discretionary" operations and still spend more than the revenue they take in.
The video uses the President's own budget figures and shows how "mandatory" programs (i.e. mostly entitement programs like Social Security & Medicare along with other promised benefits like Medicaid and pensions for federal retirees) require more outlays alone than the entire $2.5 trillion in federal revenues. In short, past politicians have promised way too many goodies in order to buy the votes of large voting blocs. The problem with making so many promises to so many, of course, is that eventually you run out of other people's money.


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There's a lot that I've been grateful for this year, and I am happy to report that 2019 has been a pretty solid year for yours-truly (if not the world at large). I took up running, which meant I took up heavy music again, and I got slightly better at speaking Chinese, even if I couldn't use the language to tell you much except that I enjoy running. And, as the twelve months before them, and the twelve months before those twelve months, the last twelve months have brought good music. As I do every year, I've compiled a list of my favourites – not the best, just my favourites. You can find the said list below, which I hope is one you might approve of. I've included Bandcamp links where available, but all of these records are available on major streaming services. I've also written a little about each, which is something I failed to do last year. Have a browse, and have a grand 2020. Until next December, Craig.
75) The Menzingers – Hello Exile
The most reliable band in punk-rock, dialing it down somewhat. [Listen]
74) Kevin Abstract – ARIZONA BABY
A step forward for Abstract, an amalgam of creative ideas.
73) Clairo – Immunity
An honestly-honest and instrumentally inventive debut.
72) Holding Absence – ST
A debut worth waiting for, searing highs, emotional blows.
71) Mitsume – Ghosts
One for the office, polished and mellow Japanese indie.
70) Pine – PINE
Catharsis. Catharsis. Catharsis. A searing first LP. [Listen]
69) Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End of Suffering
A little bit less "Frank," but still very "Frank."
68) Big Thief – U.F.O.F
The first of two exceptional 2019 LPs from Big Thief, sky-reaching. [Listen]
67) Anna Flyaway – Tomorrow I Will Take a Knife to Your Confidence
The only record from 2005 on this list. An immensely pleasant surprise. [Listen]
66) Jimmy Eat World – Surviving
LP number and Jimmy Eat World know exactly what they're doing.
65) Lucy Rose – No Words Left
Lucy Rose at her heart-swelling best, "No Words Left" is a treasure of a record.
64) Noah Gundersen – Lover
Criminally overlooked, Gundersen improves with each new release.
63) The Black Keys – "Let's Rock"
Terrible artwork, excellent rock and roll. Never a band to disappoint.
62) Wish You Were Here – I'm Afraid of Everything
Stick To Your Guns frontman strips it back on a very humbling listen.
61) Maggie Rogers – Heard It In a Past Life
Contains some throwaway tracks, but remains a debut worth waiting for.
60) Harmony Woods – Make Yourself at Home
Melodies and hooks that lodge themselves in your brain for days. [Listen]
59) Bad Books, Kevin Divine & Manchester Orchestra – III
A quite-perfect trifecta, this their best collaborative LP.
58) Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
Atmospheric and stripped-back, Wolfe's dark-folk lingers. [Listen]
57) Forests – Spending Eternity in a Japanese Convenience Store
Just an excellent time, really. Noodly guitars, gang vocals, a bit of a mind-melter. [Listen]
56) Locket – All Out
Like old-school Mayday Parade but louder, a healthy, heartfelt throwback.
55) Origami Angel – Somewhere City
A band destined for big things. A sonic and dense listen that constantly rewards. [Listen]
54) PUP – Morbid Stuff
Toronto's favourite sons return bold as ever, and did you really think this wouldn't slay? [Listen]
53) Russian Circles – Blood Year
Instrumentally majestic. A mammoth and uncompromising record. [Listen]
52) Somos – Prison on a Hill
A band that deserve much more praise, Somos have hooks that sink. [Listen]
51) The Dangerous Summer – Mother Nature
A focused and ambitious fifth LP. "Virginia" a real highlight. [Listen]
50) Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2
The best year of Foals' career, the second of two excellent 2019 LPs.
49) Bon Iver – i,i
Glitchy and affecting, but with weak moments littered throughout.
48) Greet Death – New Hell
Album centerpiece "You're Gonna Hate What You've Done" is something quite special. [Listen]
47) La Dispute – Panorama
Their penchant for storytelling has yet to diminish – totally absorbing. [Listen]
46) Norma Jean – All Hail
A bruiser of a record, eight records in, Norma Jean are still swinging and landing.
45) Craig Finn – I Need a New War
Finn's best solo record. No-one captures the day-to-day of American existence better. [Listen]
44) Better Oblivion Community Center – ST
The dream team of Bridges and Oberst really works. A record with excellent songwriting, but also one that doesn't quite consistently meet expectations. [Listen]
43) Microwave – Death is a Warm Blanket
Long live Microwave. Record is a blast, their best yet. [Listen]
42) Slingshot Dakota – Heavy Banding
An immensely generous record, overflowing with love. [Listen]
41) Stella Donnelly – Beware of the Dogs
All I listened to for two weeks after its release. Tongue in cheek, on this list. [Listen]
40) The Tallest Man on Earth – I Love You. It's a Fever Dream
At this point in his career, the world's tallest man can do no wrong.
39) Have a Nice Life – Sea of Worry
Doesn't quite meet the heights of previous efforts, but still delivers. [Listen]
38) Knocked Loose – A Different Shade of Blue
I get it now. A record to soundtrack the angriest of running sessions. [Listen]
37) glass beach – the first glass beach album
Hopefully not the last. [Listen]
36) Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend
A powerful example of self-ownership, Hackman shines. [Listen]
35) Billie Eilish – WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO
Lavishly produced, and pleasingly refreshing dark-pop. Worthy of its plaudits.
34) Ithaca – The Language of Injury
Heavy as hell, and another home run for Holy Roar Records. [Listen]
33) Playburst – Positive Jams
A fitting title for an exuberant LP of tight Midwest-inspired emo from Malaysia. It only takes a minute. [Listen]
32) Queen of Jeans – if You're not afraid, I'm not afraid
Beautifully weird, and weirdly beautiful. A real charmer. [Listen]
31) The Japanese House – Good at Falling
"You Seemed So Happy" a standout, gorgeously mellowing. [Listen]
30) girlpool – What Chaos Is Imaginary
An album of changes, but certainly not chaotic. Fuzzy and dreamy. [Listen]
29) Josienne Clarke – In All Weather
Immaculate folk, with an abundance of heart. [Listen]
28) Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
The same band, but a little different, still writing irresistible music. The soundtrack of the summer.
27) Florist – Emily Alone
Showcasing exceptional songwriting, this is a record that transports. [Listen]
26) Mount Eerie – Lost Wisdom, pt.2
Further meditations on death, but now alongside divorce. Everum affects. [Listen]
25) Prince Daddy & the Hyena – Cosmic Thrill Seekers
An epic space-rock-opera, as creative a punk record as you'll ever find. [Listen]
24) Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
Sharon Van Etten's best record – New York City dedication "Seventeen" a highlight. [Listen]
23) Charly Bliss – Young Enough
Playful, heart on your sleeve power-pop, totally irresistible. See title track and "Under You" and then see the others until the grin proves unshakeable. [Listen]
22) The National – I Am Easy to Find
A grand and cinematic masterpiece, which keeps a listener seated under the credits roll. The loudest moments are in the small moments – "ticker-tape, ticker-tape."
21) slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain
If this the sound of Britain in 2019, it's very much fitting. Visceral and potent. [Listen]
20) State Faults – Clairvoyant
After six years out of the game, State Faults are at the top of their game. Catharsis hard to come by, but well earned by the end.
19) Tyler, The Creator – IGOR
Overlooked for Grammy AOTY, which is fairly criminal. An ambitious, genre-bending record, and one which finds Tyler at the height of his powers.
18) BROCKHAMPTON – GINGER
A record about coming to terms, GINGER is full of tight hooks, creative rhymes, and a collective, collaborative wholesomeness. Offers something new on each listen.
17) Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
If "My Woman" was Olsen entering the spotlight, "All Mirrors" shatters and then reassembles it. A stunning LP.
16) Big Thief – Two Hands
Look no further than Not for the song of 2019. Big Thief are poetry in motion, Two Hands a warm, immensely absorbing record. Believe the hype.
15) Great Grandpa – Four of Arrows
"Go slow, big choices" seemed the mantra for LP2. Big choices for sure. A huge step away from 2017's "Plastic Cough," but superior in every way, "Four of Arrows" oozes heart and sincerity.
14) James Blake – Assume Form
Blake's crowning moment, four records in, "Assume Form" is optimistic where previous efforts have wallowed, soars where others only peaked their heads. Nothing is lost, plenty is gained.
13) Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs
Jessica Pratt is a diamond. The records beauty is in its minimalism, its hushed, early- spring morning dew sounds, like just waking up to traces of sunlight on frosted glass. Despite its abundant lightness, it carries an otherworldly weight, and I am rapt to be burdened by it.
12) Employed to Serve – Eternal Forward Motion
If label counterparts Rolo Tomassi released the best heavy record of 2018, Employed To Serve delivered the best of 2019. A crushing, but highly focused record, channeling its anger through lyrics which shed light on those who deserve a voice as loud as Justine Jones'. A landmark release.
11) Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
I get it now. Lana Del Rey is good, this record is good. Lyrically doom-ridden and instrumentally golden, it cushions while questioning. Still a little long though, yet is undoubtedly at its best when taken as a whole.
10) Copeland – Blushing
Unfolding like a fever dream in progress, Copeland's sixth LP, and first since 2014, is a highly-focused, lucid record. From the opening ebbs of "Pope," there seems a conscious effort to put a listener under some kind of spell, the cinematic soundscapes and cushioning vocals here almost hypnotic in convergence. It's an easy spell to fall over, and you aren't truly snapped out of it until the end of "It Felt So Real," when the female voice of the opener returns to pull you back to the surface. On emergence, things seem to have shifted somewhat, like waking up unaware which season it is. Blushing is a sinkhole record, but what you find amidst it's layers is something truly beautiful. That sonic beauty often overshadows a heavy narrative, in which frontman Aaron Marsh ruminates on the highs and lows of a relationship, the fragmentary sense of place discovered in recollection. Think "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" as a series of musical vignettes. It becomes so easy to get lost or to wander, but Blushing never loses sight of its direction. On sweeping closer Waltz on Water it all comes together in a harrowing, haunting, and truly stunning finish. You're left a little shaken, but you feel better. Kaleidoscopic, Blushing is one of 2019's finest-produced records. Enjoyed with good headphones and a quiet room, it's a floatation tank experience. An absolute joy, and one that continues to seduce long after it has finished.
9) Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated
2019 may go down in history as the year I decided to give pop music another chance. I was perhaps heading that way in 2018, enraptured by records such as Christine & The Queens' "Chris," but I committed to the genre a little more this year. If you'd told me back in January that I'd be spending most of my November listening to a Carly Rae Jepsen record, then I probably would have laughed. Ah, the fool I would have been. Dedicated, Jepsen's third record, is an immensely "listenable" listen. It's pure, undiluted pop, something to dance to, something to brighten the most Scrooge-like of moods. It's joyful and upbeat, uncompromising in the way similar releases might be. Dedicated rejoices in the sunlight of "pop," wearing its disco influences bold and bright. A record of singles, there are plenty of standouts here: opening track "Julien" jives and flaunts with the best of them; "Want You In My Room" perfectly captures the giddy excitement preceding a date, while closer "Party For One" is an unabashed anthem of self-love. Meticulously produced, with lyrics that offer a surprising amount of depth, Dedicated is a gold standard pop record. The simple fact that it managed to warm the cold dead heart of this jaded twenty-five-year-old is testament to its power. I danced. Hell yes did I dance. <3
8) Bellows – The Rose Gardener
Some context: it is 9AM, and the weather outside is something quite miserable. Further beyond the localised weather, things are equally dismal. Boris Johnson won the election that took place yesterday, and that's all the news I have it in me to read. I turn, amidst all of this grey, to The Rose Gardener, and things gain some colour. The opening notes of "Housekeeping" bleed out of the speakers on my laptop, dance up the walls like vines, and everything seems altered for the better. I find that, I too, "love this body, even when it hurts." That's the amount of comfort to be found in Bellows' fourth record, which, at its heart, is one of perseverance, trying to take for something that is doomed to end in disappointment. There is acceptance, and there is a push for growth, a strive towards optimism despite the daunting number of reasons to be pessimistic. It all slow-dances in the forest of its own vision. The Rose Gardner is expansive a lush, a divinely sub-tropical record, one which tries its hand at a few different styles across four parts, and masters each of them. There are louder moments ("Denouement"), gorgeous melodies ("Rosebush"), and indie-pop gems ("Judgement"), and each song rewards in a slightly different way. For every grey morning, there is a remedy on The Rose Gardener – a reminder that things are not so bad (even though they kind of are).
7) Martha – Love Keeps Kicking
Where would be without Martha? Probably in the exact same place, but everything would be slightly sepia-tinged and less fun. I named Martha's last LP, Blisters in the Pit of my Heart as my AOTY in 2016, and Love Keeps Kicking is a more-than-worthy follow-up. Packed full of the hooks that make the Durham outfit as irresistible as they have always been, whilst also pushing further their ability to tell stories through their lyrics, the record shows some solid growth. Timely as ever, affecting and rousing, Martha remain a shining beacon of light within the UK scene. Love Keeps Kicking is very difficult to shake once you've heard a couple of those choruses, an absolute joy, and consistently big feelings abound.
6) String Machine – Death of the Neon
Death of the Neon is a difficult record to pin down, but is all the better for its slight absurdities. For those who've been followed indie-rock / emo-revival trends over the last few years, it's a record that sounds both familiar and very new, taking a lot of what makes recent genre stalwarts such as Foxing accessible yet perplexing, and offers a different spin on that strain. String Machine are a band in very good company, in this regard. I was turned onto this record by the highly-knowledgeable folks over at The Alternative , and fell for it pretty hard shortly thereafter. Death of the Neon is a whimsical record both sonically and lyrically, all eight-legged dogs, birthday wishes, killer cars, and heavy mist. It inhales and exhales in a wholly organic way, the many complicated elements here forming a cohesive whole that gravitates between the off-kilter, avant-garde storytelling of Neutral Milk Hotel and the ensemble instrumental foliage of The World is a Beautiful Place… It's a dense, canopied record, but its many layers never really get in the way of the heart that emboldens the record so. It sounds like a labour of love, from the heavy-weighing climax of "Pit of the Peach" to the rollercoaster that is the "Death of the Neon (Pt.1, 2 & 3)." The nine songs here, and their many faithfully-honed intricacies, create a picture, pastoral and pivoting, and it makes for a record that sucks you in and swirls you around. It's just really good, is what I'm trying to say.
5) American Football – LP3
Like many twenty-somethings who bought a record player in their teens, I have a particular affinity for American Football, a band who soundtracked many late-night post-college sad-jams and went on to soundtrack many more pleasant pastimes once I escaped that rut. Over two decades into their career, LP3 is, unsurprisingly, the bands third LP, and is also their best to date. The evolution of the Illinois outfit here, especially from LP2, is hugely noticeable, the musicianship on their latest record a push into new territories. The haunting melancholy still lingers, the guitars are still crisp and clean, and a weary sense of apathy still stretches itself across these songs like a picnic blanket set down in the backyard of an empty home, but LP3 manages to confidently hit majestic high after majestic high. It's a morose, plaintive listen, vocalist and guitarist Mike Kinsella reflecting on middle-age and fatherhood, the "allure of inconsequential love" ("Silhouettes"), but these more somber reflections are expressed with subreme grace. They're also very patient reflections; with the majority of songs coming in at over five minutes, and two over seven, there's room for real development, for tracks to unfold and take shape. See opener "Silhouettes" which rises from a misty flower-bed and then blooms gloriously. LP3 features some stellar guest performances also, most notably from Hayley Williams of Paramore, who contributes a delicate accompaniment on the standout "Uncomfortably Numb" – as good as "emo" could get in 2019. LP3 is a record that ignores the band's own grand mythology while simultaneously moving beyond it. It's tormented and introspective, but it's also incredibly beautiful. Add to the equation exceptional production, and you're graced with one of the most transformative listens of the year. There are moments on this record ("Heir Apparent"), ("Every Wave to Ever Rise") that sound like masterpiece paintings, every second considered, every small detail lending resonance. It's an impeccably crafted product, undoubtedly American Football, but also more than they've ever been. LP3 never fails to stun; I am happy to be stunned.
4) FKA twigs – MAGDALENE
Nobody in the universe is making music the way that FKA twigs is making music. I use "universe" here, because this is music that may well have been sent from the stars. Grounded in reality though, and inspired throughout by the historic figure of Mary Magdalene, a woman whose life legacy was diluted and reshaped by the men who turned to scrutinise her, MAGDALENE sounds like a powerful reclamation of self. Written during a period of FKA twigs' life in which she was recovering from uterine surgery and caught firmly in the headlight glare cast upon celebrity relationships by the media, her sophomore LP draws on these experiences and using them to erect a monument to her own identity. A towering achievement, MAGDALENE is determined and focused in its construction, a living, breathing embodiment of the artist at its center. twigs, though, isn't just at the center of the LP, she is the LP. Bolstered by immaculate production, which is equally as absorbing when restrained ("Mirrored Heart") as it is when full-blooded and loud ("Fallen Angel"), this is a mammoth effort. It's a consistently interesting listen, partly because of the production, but also because of the way twigs uses her quite unique voice. She flaunts across these tracks, graceful and poised, mixing in yelps, croons, highs, lows, a dizzying tapestry of sounds and styles. After somehow finding the capacity to piece together the narrative, the production, the intense fusing of the two, you find that MAGDALENE is quite comfortably in a league of its own. See singles "home with you", and "holy terrain" as a clear show of twigs' power, and then finish off with the tender delicacy of "cellophane," which is a small nudge away from shattering. That song in particular, that heartbreaking finale, still returns to me often, such is its nature, and it remains the final piece of the puzzle that is MAGDALENE, completing something particularly incredible. A mesmeric listen.
3) Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow
Oso Oso make it seems oh so (oh so) easy. On Basking in the Glow, the bands third LP, songwriter Jade Lilitri delivers more catchy and hook-filled scoops of sun-soaked catharsis, but better. There isn't a single misstep here, every track memorable, elevated by an internal narrative that struggles between wallowing and waking to something better (a God, maybe). It sounds effortless, as if these songs were always meant to sound like this and to stick the landing like they undoubtedly do. There are excellent singles here, such as "Impossible Game" and "The View," buoyant but with an undoubtedly cool level of restraint, but every track finds a way to stand-out. If I've found myself cycling aimlessly through my library this year, nine times out of ten I land on Basking in the Glow and bask.
2) The Twilight Sad – It Won/T Be Like This All the Time
The Twilight Sad have been a band in operation for over a decade now, and on their fifth record, you sense that they sound the way they were always destined to sound. Not that prior records have been lacking, or underwhelming, (2007's Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters remains a brilliant yet under-appreciated debut, 2014's No One Wants To Be Here And No One Wants To Leave a simpler but no less affecting listen), but the band have never sounded this focused, or this confident in their own purpose. From the offset, It Won/T Be Like This All The Time feels like a culmination of all that makes The Twilight Sad The Twilight Sad, possessing a cohesiveness that elevated it above all over guitar records in 2019 for this listener – by some distance, also. It pulsates and writhes like a stricken animal, thick electronics and sections of droning instrumentals and industrial synths, threatening to scratch anything that gets too close. It is quite the beast, and requires multiple listens to really unwrap. There's simply so much going on. Amidst all this noise, vocalist Stephen Graham delivers lyrics much more direct than on past records, and lyrics which are frequently bleak and unsettling. Death, abuse, threats of suicide, it's all very macabre. A lyrical theme of abuse runs throughout, on many occasions we hear of punches thrown, and at times it becomes hard to find any light here, any respite amidst the crushing weight of it all.
As such, lyrically, the record teeters between life and death, and does so instrumentally also. Frequently, Andy MacFarlane's guitars consume everything else, so dense as to become oppressive, so thick a soundscape as to become claustrophobic. If It Won/T Be Like This All The Time is against a wall, then so is its audience. It's a sensation that comes from repetition, be it repetition of those instrumental barrages, or Graham's constant questioning (this is a record full of questions). As a listener, you are being challenged, the finger is pointing at you. Confrontational, but with the intent to turn your head instead of forcing it into the ground, The Twilight Sad exercise all strength here to simply keep moving forward. The fact that they do it with such power, such confidence, is cause for praise bordering on gratuitous. It Won/T Be Like This All The Time leaves a listener breathless, dizzy with the scope of it all, a postmodern, post-punk pastiche, and it is absolutely exhausting – but exhausting in the best possible way. "It's just another heartache to me," Graham repeats on penultimate track "Let's Get Lost," and I look at the record in the same way. It's not an easy listen, but it is an exceptional listen. The Twilight Sad have never been better than they are here, and here they are absolutely devastating.
1) Laura Stevenson – The Big Freeze
And so we reach the big one, or, more appropriately, The Big Freeze. I've been trying to work out how to write about Laura Stevenson's fifth record for some time now, and I haven't yet worked it out. I'm hoping it comes to me; consider these reflections in real-time. I've been trying to find the words for a while, because The Big Freeze has been my favourite record of 2019 for some time. I don't think there was ever any doubt.
I've been somewhat familiar with Laura Stevenson for a few years now, but had never devoted a great deal of time to her music. I liked 2015's fuzzy Cocksure, and remember buying it on vinyl in a record store in Malmo, Sweden, after deciding that I was in Sweden, and should, therefore, buy a record. I found Stevenson's, which I had on my iPod, and purchased it, but it never held rotation the way it's follow-up has. The Big Freeze is a special record, one from an immensely talented songwriter, singer, and musician. Stevenson's voice, sweet like honey but possessing a low, reedy quality, haunts, and when paired with the frequently crushing lyrics here, the result is absolutely sublime. For a more-familiar listen than myself, The Big Freeze, on first listen, would have been a record marking a departure from the rock and roll swagger of Cocksure and previous releases, and opts for something far subtler, with minimal orchestration and clean, crisp guitars. Stevenson's voice comes to the forefront, her lyrics a poetry pamphlet, and for thirty-three minutes, repeated an innumerable number of times this year, has held my fully transfixed.
Unlike any other record in 2019, The Big Freeze has worked its way under my skin and stayed there. There are many reasons for this, but separating them seems to dilute things somewhat. Primarily, what draws me in here, is Stevenson's honesty in songwriting, the manner in which she writes about herself and the world around her. It could be the oceanic sense of distance that stems from opener "Lay Back, Arms Out," or the unflinching approach Stevenson takes to documenting her experiences with self-harm on "Value Inn," which is so stark, so bleak, yet is also so gentle instrumentally. The suggestion that one may be falling apart has never sounded so totally whole. Those waves that Stevenson sings about in the verses, they are the guitars breaking over her voice in the chorus, those lights and fluorescence the shimmer of her own voice in the dark. It's visually and sonically striking, and it also means that only two songs in, The Big Freeze has your full attention. You're locked in that Value Inn also, but you are not there alone. So you go deeper and, in doing so, are immediately embraced by "Living Room, NY," a song so large and so painfully human that it tugs at you from all directions. This third track contains my favourite moment of many favourite moments on The Big Freeze – when Stevenson sings the title, knowing all the weight it carries. I've broken out in goosebumps just thinking about it. Both intimate and somehow universal, "Living Room, NY" swells towards a magnificent finish, and on its finishing, I have to take a minute or two to pull myself back together. Like many songs here, it is heart-breaking in delivery, unfathomably vast. Like a deep ocean, you sink, and then somehow end up floating. That Value Inn room loses all of its gravity, everything spirals, coalesces, and then the air-con clicks on, and sets you back down on a hard mattress. Three tracks in, just three tracks, I am both reassured and a little broken. Also, I find that I do not know how to write about fourth track "Dermatillomania."
Here we skip ahead, to birds, to "the teasing blink of a plane." I will write about birds – "Hawks" specifically.
Can we go back to the minute we skirt through the rain,
hanging, halting, suspended like hawks under planes?
Can we say it's unending and I'll say the same?
Remind me when my mind, it starts to go.
The seventh track on The Big Freeze is only ninety seconds long but stretches on into eternity. Those birds, cast free of the land, I listen to this song and I find that I can see them. There's a strong sense of clarity seeping throughout this record, despite all of the emotional turmoil. Dirty beaches, pristine oceans, birds above both. What Stevenson does so well here, is she makes every song a snapshot, lends every line resonance. If you listen just closely enough "Hawks," you hear the radiators of Stevenson's childhood home (where the record was recorded) hissing. It's a small space, you sense, if you extended your arms, you'd touch faded wallpaper. If you push delicately, probe a little, the wall threatens to let the world back in. You don't want to yet. Cocooned within it, The Big Freeze invites you to listen closer, and rewards each and every time. It could be the way that "Hawks" leads so beautifully into the quietly huge "Big Deep," which then leads into the transcendent "Low Slow." The second half of the record, from "Hawks" onward, blurs spectacularly, like a montage it rushes by, giddy as a child, but you hardly notice its speed, quite lost in the cinema of it all. "Low Slow" is a slideshow, it is majestic. Here, Stevenson's voice takes on a whole new dimension – powerful, uncompromising, absolutely mesmeric. During the final minute, it trembles, rises like those hawks themselves, so finely tethered, so close to parting. "Brace yourself and fall into the air" she sings at the death, climbing up the octaves like they are the stairs she references in the first verse. What she reaches at the top is a panoramic view – everything glows impossibly, candlelight in a vacuum.
I reel myself in, just as Stevenson does, when the record closes with "Perfect" – a meditation on the passage of time and the occasionally overwhelming sensation of being present. We find her three minutes from the closing notes, sitting in the driveway of her childhood home, reflecting on the summer she tried to break a Guinness world record. What's admirable is not that ancient attempt, but the way Stevenson lets it vibrate so vividly in the current moment, the past meeting the present, the world unchanged but also completely changed. Amidst all that change, amidst all the darkness of time's passing, there's still hope, still light, even if it needn't filter in past pulled shutters. "I'll be alright by myself tonight" she tells her listener, tells herself, that last line and everything built up across the nine tracks prior shifting once more into focus. It is too much, right then, and I edge close to tears, fight them back, like I am that child, and not an adult trying to write about music. What The Big Freeze does, is it makes everything it touches and addresses so totally apparent, so visible. It peels the wallpaper right off, it lifts the lid, and the world is allowed to rush back in. As Stevenson sings on the opener, "there's a sweetness to that." It is understated, it is triumphant.
It is five days until Christmas, it is cold in this apartment, but I am warmer just for thinking about The Big Freeze. It radiates heat, I get closer, I curl up inside these songs and make myself small. It has seeped inside the cracks of my year like water, and provided life to soft moments, elevated everyday mundanities. Walking around the lake with it feels somehow like affirmation, every coffee shop a train station. I look back on my year, just after "Perfect" draws to a close, and it has been an easy-enough year. I have spent the entirety of it living in China, often doing things by myself, half the world away from family and close friends. I have seen places I never expected to see and have done things I had never expected to do. I have stayed in my fair share of "Value Inns," stared into my fair share of mirrors, and I have thought a lot about my Grandmother, who passed away last year when I was also elsewhere. I have known that I wouldn't likely be returning to my own childhood home during these twelve months and have maintained relationships through computer screens and WhatsApp messages. The time difference means I am not very good at this, and sometimes there is a sense of isolation. There haven't been many lows. I guess that, more than ever, I am grateful for artists like Laura Stevenson, who pour so much of themselves into their music, who are capable of making something so beautiful that it makes this twenty-five-year-old isolationist feel so close to something so enormous. More than any record in 2019, The Big Freeze has made me grateful, it has made me feel whole.
I think that I have written about The Big Freeze, if not necessarily the way I intended to, but it was hard to write about The Big Freeze. If I fail to do it any justice, I would like you to know that I want so badly to do it justice. It is so much bigger than any words here could make it sound.
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REVIEW: Skyfall (2012)
When a hard drive with the identity's of undercover MI6 agents is stolen M's (Judi Dench) past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack James Bond (Daniel Craig) must hunt down the mysterious and deadly Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), no matter the cost.
Skyfall is a good-looking film. Standout moments include the static shot of Bond and Patrice (Ola Rapace) fighting in Shanghai. They are silhouettes with blue lights behind them and not only does it look really cool, you can actually see and follow the fight much more easily than when fights are shot with a lot of close ups and quick cuts.
New characters are introduced in Skyfall – or rather old characters with new faces. Q (Ben Whishaw) is much younger than the previous incarnation and allows for interesting commentary for the new age of espionage. Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) is definitely a twenty-first century version of the character and is awesome.
The action sequences in Skyfall are brilliant. Whether it's a one on one hand fight, a motorbike chase across the roof of the Grand Bazaar or a tense foot chase through the London underground – everything is shot clearly so you can actually see what's happening as well having great music to make the action even more exciting and fun.
While the action in Skyfall is international, starting out in Istanbul and going to Shanghai and Macau – it feels more of a small, personal Bond film with chases around London and the finale in Scotland. Having a lot of the action set in the UK made the stakes feel higher and Silva more of a threatening villain. Also having Silva being like a darker version of Bond allowed for an interesting dynamic between the two of them and between Silva and characters like M and Q.
I think the thing I like about Skyfall the most is that it has some great characters and gives established characters like M and Bond more depth but it still has that sense of fun without going into the realm of cheesiness. It has a great take on the world today and how we see the secret service and the threat of terrorists, it's one of those Bond films that really feels like it is set in its time and reacting to the real world threats and fears. I think the best Bond films are the ones that aren't too outlandish and are "realistic and gritty" but still have the quips and the fun.
Skyfall is a beautiful looking film but it's also action-packed, fun and has some great characters – Skyfall is definitely one of my favourite Bond films, and my favourite Daniel Craig-Bond film. 5/5.
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