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The Big Trail: One of very few widescreen productions filmed at the dawn of the talkies, The Big Trail (1930) was dismissed by reviewers of the day, little seen, and soon shelved and forgotten--for more than half a century, as it turned out. For movie buffs, it became a sort of Holy Grail. After all, the esteemed Raoul Walsh had directed, the early 70mm angle was tantalizing, and wasn't this the movie that was intended to make a star of Duke Morrison, a 22-year-old former prop man whom Walsh had rechristened John Wayne for the occasion? For curiosity value alone, surely it rated a look. Restored in the late 1980s and warmly embraced by film festival audiences, The Big Trail proved to be more than just a historical footnote. What were those 1930 reviewers thinking?! Wayne is fresh, exuberant, matinee-idol handsome, and irresistibly charming (only a little purple prose trips him up, and no one should have been asked to speak such early-talkie flapdoodle anyway). The scenario winds through epic settings from the banks of the Mississippi by way of the Grand Canyon to the snows of Oregon and the mountain vistas of Washington, marking both a wagon train's journey and the settling of a personal score between trail guide Wayne and Tyrone Power Sr. as a veritable ogre of a villain. The Big Trail is now an authentic classic, and a swell movie. Probably always was.
The Comancheros: Nobody made a fuss about The Comancheros when it came out in 1961, yet it has proved to be among the most enduringly entertaining of John Wayne's later Westerns. The Duke, just beginning to crease and thicken toward Rooster Cogburn proportions, plays a veteran Texas Ranger named Jake Cutter. When we first see him (in a tongue-in-cheek delayed entrance), he's catching up with a New Orleans dandy (Stuart Whitman) who killed a judge's son in a duel just after that gentlemanly practice was banned. Monsieur Paul Regret--or "Mon-sooor," as Jake insists on calling him--is not a bad fellow, let alone a badman, and it only follows that, after the requisite number of misunderstandings, he and Jake will join forces to subdue rampaging Indians and the evil white men behind their uprising. The Comancheros was the last credit for Michael Curtiz, who, ravaged by cancer, ceded much of the direction to Wayne (uncredited) and action specialist Cliff Lyons. With support from Wayne stalwarts James Edward Grant (coscreenplay) and William Clothier (camera), the first of many rousing Elmer Bernstein scores for a Wayne picture, and a big, flavorful cast including Lee Marvin (the once and future Liberty Valance), Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (in his last movie), they made a broad, cheerfully bloodthirsty adventure movie for red-meat-eating audiences of all ages. Even the liberal-pinko Time magazine had to second the salute from leading lady Ina Balin at film's end: "Take care of yourself, Big Jake ... we've sort of gotten used to you."
North to Alaska: Even people habitually hostile to John Wayne movies tend to cast an indulgent eye on the rumbustious 1960 comedy-Western North to Alaska--partly because the Alaska gold rush setting seems more exotic than, say, Texas or Arizona, and because there are no Indians to discriminate against and no macho gunplay to fret about. As for John Wayne as all-purpose icon of male chauvinism, Big Sam McCord (the Duke) spends much of the movie in a state of growing discombobulation because he has fallen in love with, and is thoroughly flummoxed by, "Angel" (Capucine), the woman he's brought back from Seattle to marry his heartsick partner George (Stewart Granger). Henry Hathaway directs in a broader vein than usual, but he hits paydirt. Even Fabian, the latest pop music idol to be dragooned into supporting the elder roughnecks, is fun, and Ernie Kovacs is droll casting as chief "villain."
The Undefeated: John Wayne, that pillar of machismo, was well aware that costar Rock Hudson was gay, yet he prized him as a boon companion, a fellow professional, and one hell of a bridge player. Each plays a Civil War commander who, after the ceasefire, leads a community of home folks into Mexico to make a fresh start. Hudson is a Southern gentleman; Wayne commanded the Yankee cavalry at Shiloh, where Hudson's brother died. Nevertheless, Rock, with his extended family, and Duke, with his troop of cowboys and 3,000 horses to sell to Emperor Maximilian, soon join forces to outgun banditos and beam paternally over the budding romance between their respective daughter and son (an adopted Indian played by footballer Roman Gabriel with Crystal Gayle hair). Lingering North-South animosities are celebrated in an obligatory communal fistfight in the Andrew V. McLaglen manner, and the showdown with both Maximilian's lancers and the rebel Juaristas is disconcertingly perfunctory.


UPDATE: Stonecutters 2018 is now a 15+ event!!!
Remove the stone of shame and attach the stone of triumph, for STONECUTTERS is back! Now in its fourth year, the biggest date on Adelaide's rock and roll calendar boasts a killer new location and its most imposing line-up yet.
This December 8th, heading up the dual-stage, outdoor/indoor party in the CBD's Fenn Place are hometown heroes BAD//DREEMS, in a rare 2018 performance. Accompanying them are slacker garage upstarts THE CHATS (fresh from conquering the country in support of Queens Of The Stone Age), SLOWLY SLOWLY (as part of a largely sold-out national tour), PIST IDIOTS and PRESS CLUB.
The party runs deep on this one, with BODY TYPE, MOANING LISA, HIGHTIME, GRENADIERS, and the cream of Adelaide's scene rounding out a gargantuan day of party.
Best of all, this epic affair will only set you back $30 plus booking fee!
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Spain's population falls as number of foreigners leaving continues to rise
Source: El Pais - Wed 20th Jan 2016
Statistic experts predict there will be more deaths than births registered in 2015.
Spain's population has dropped for the third consecutive year, partly due to continued rise of the number of immigrants leaving the country.
On January 1, 2015 Spain had 146,959 fewer people than it did on the same day the year before, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) based on information from municipal rolls. These latest figures reveal that Spain's population stands at 46,624,382 people.
The drop in the number of foreigners resident in the country by close to 300,000 is one reason for Spain's falling population. Spurred by the economic crisis, many foreigners have returned to their home countries or moved to other nations. Those who have stayed, and have been granted Spanish nationality, now fall in the category of Spaniards registered on the municipal rolls, which increased by 0.35% – or 146,884 people – over 2014.
According to preliminary figures released by the INE in June of last year, 205,870 people were granted citizenship in 2014.
Of the 4.7 million foreigners living in Spain, around 2.6 million come from countries outside the European Union. But their numbers have also dropped – by 377,000 over 2014.
But the other 2.1 million residents from EU countries increased their presence in Spain in 2014 by 82,000 compared to the previous year.
Romanians and Moroccans continue to make up the biggest foreign communities in Spain. One out of five foreigners living in Spain is from either Morocco or Romania. Because more than half are under the age of 40, these nationals are helping to contribute to replacing Spain's own aging population.
The number of births in 2014 outpaced the number of deaths by 31,678, but this was the lowest such figure seen since 2000. INE officials are predicting that 2015 will see more deaths than births in Spain for the first time since the Civil War (1936-1939).
In Spain, a person dies every 69 seconds while a child is born every 86 seconds. That means there will be 19,268 more deaths than births recorded in 2015, statistics experts predict.
They also estimate that Spain will lose about a million people over the next 15 years and that by 2063 there will be 330,423 more deaths than births.
"The number of deaths will not drop," explains Pau Miret, a researcher at the Center for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. "The generations that reach very advanced ages are growing larger each time and those that reach the reproduction age are dropping."
Besides the decline in population, the main challenge will be aging.
The average age of Spain's population will not stop rising for various reasons. First, Spaniards typically branch off from their families later in life than other Europeans. The average age is 28.9 years.
This prevents them from starting their own families any earlier. Spanish women are having their first child at around age 31.8 and the median number of children born to each woman is 1.32 while in the rest of Europe it is 2.1.
"The rate of dependency – the proportion of people over the age of 65 compared to those between the ages of 25 and 65 – will continue to rise because of falling birthrates," says José García Montalve, an economics professor at Pompeu Fabra University. "This will complicate the sustainability of the pensions system even if the unemployment rate is reduced. Everything will depend on the hypothetical improvement of productivity."
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We have a legal duty to publish information about the way people are or will be affected by our policies and practices. We must bring this to the attention of decision makers. If we fail to do this, and operate policies and practices that adversely affect a section of the community disproportionately, we could be subject to legal challenges and financial penalties [Equality Act 2010].
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Words have caused great harm to LGBT community
The article appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday June 19, 2016.
The homophobia politicians unleashed to great effect to win votes for much of the 20th century has deeply poisoned the well
Words matter.
We live in a world where people criticize, slander and insult others in anonymous online comments, where no topic seems to be sacred and few things seem to have the ability to shock.
Instead of expounding on policy issues and engaging in meaningful debate, many politicians willingly express almost any sentiment at the loudest volume, no matter how incendiary, or inexplicable, the comment.
It is difficult to imagine any credible nominee for the presidency of the United States saying such derogatory and xenophobic things as Donald Trump says almost daily.
And yet we continue to hurtle further and further into an abyss where no matter how hurtful, nasty or violent a sentiment is, it is allowed to pass.
As a gay man I have, over my entire life, seen first-hand the power of a single word — the impact it can make in the lives of millions.
George Orwell once said, 'If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.'
The horrific shooting in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, at the gay nightclub, Pulse, offers proof of that statement.
Although it seems like ages since homophobic slurs were uttered without hesitation, it was only a decade ago that LGBT rights were used as a political football in the democratic arena.
The polarizing words that politicians used to divide the electorate against the unfamiliar LGBT community were damaging, demeaning and corrosive. Yet, that strategy brought electoral success. George W. Bush's narrow victories in 2000 and 2004 were credited to his promise to protect traditional families against the threat of equal marriage; governors and premiers across North America found success by planting themselves in opposition to the LGBT community.
Politicians have long exploited the unknown and the unfamiliar to reap electoral benefit. 'Traditional marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society,' Bush charged in his successful re-election campaign, throwing a sharp focus on the LGBT community.
And though the political landscape has shifted, the struggle continues.
The United States Senate has long tried to pass legislation protecting gays and lesbians at work, only to be stymied by the House of Representatives. In Canada, legislation that would protect the rights of transgendered people has struggled to pass.
Homophobia is a dying strain of thought, a holdover from a different political era.
But dying is a far cry from dead.
Words mattered then, and they matter now. The homophobia that politicians unleashed to great effect to win votes for much of the 20th century has deeply poisoned the well against the LGBT community among large segments of the population.
Let's make no mistake: the trenchant homophobia that remains among many religious communities must be challenged.
But the language that politicians have used for decades has been deeply harmful to LGBT people. The language against them has corrupted the thoughts of many — and violence has followed. Members of the LGBT community often find themselves the victims of physical and emotional attacks. The massacre at the Orlando nightclub is only the most recent.
LGBT people in Canada and the United States have grown up in a political minefield that has encouraged violence, promoted division and done irreparable harm to their families and the community.
It is no coincidence that LGBT people attempt suicide at a rate nearly 14 times that of the average.
It is for these reasons we must continue to be vigilant. Words are not meaningless; they are not merely expressions that can be thrown around without consequence.
The words that our politicians, our colleagues and our families choose to utter have a profound effect on the lives of so many. Public and private discourse shapes the way society perceives communities of people.
The outrageous ramblings of someone like Donald Trump can occasionally seem amusing. He launches into rants in a way that is almost comedic in its absurdity.
But if there is one lesson we should take from the tragedy in Orlando, it is that words really do matter, and language can corrupt thought.
Jaime Watt is the executive chairman of Navigator Ltd. and a Conservative strategist.


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Prior to joining BCIT, she was Metro Vancouver's first Air Quality Planner in charge of climate action, first demand side management planner, and first manager of strategic initiatives, inspiring the creation of the Sustainable Region Initiative. As founding coordinator of Vancouver's EcoCity Network, she helped bridge civil society and local government leadership on urban ecology. Her work helped initiate municipal greenhouse gas reporting, advancement of green buildings, community energy planning, and eco-industrial networking that has positioned the Vancouver region as a sustainability leader.
Her research supports the Vancouver Greenest City 2020 Action Plan, Lighter Footprint goal. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles and regularly contributes to Ecocity Insights, part of the Ecocities Emerging newsletter. Her work has received numerous awards including an Environmental Citizenship Award from the Canadian Federal Minister of Environment. Jennie is a senior associate with One Earth and a core advisor and lead researcher for development of the International Ecocity Standards. She is also the creator of the ecoCity Footprint tool that helps cities and citizens identify pathways to sustainable consumption and lifestyles.
During her tenure at BCIT, Jennie has been instrumental in developing new educational credentials in sustainable energy management, including creation of the High Performance Building Lab to accelerate deployment of zero emissions buildings. She also launched the Factor Four initiative on BCIT's Burnaby Campus, aimed at reducing energy and materials throughput 75% below 2009 operating levels. By 2018, this initiative achieved a 50% reduction in energy and greenhouse gas emissions and a pathway to zero is insight.
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Posted on July 22, 2019 by musicvstheworld
Peterborough has spawned a diverse amount of musical talent in the past forty years, everything from thrash metal to synth pop.
The newest kids on the block are this little bunch, Martini Police. Unashamedly quirk-pop, it sounds like two different bands.
On their debut EP, "11:11pm", the songs sung by guitarist/bassist Harvey Foster have a harder, more indie edge to them, whilst those featuring bassist/guitarist Megan Leigh have a softer ingredient – imagine Sheryl Crow wearing a Motown coat. Stir in some Television, Vaccines-like affected guitar and a smattering of Hot Hot Heat and you're getting close.
Stand out tracks are "Ugly" (what a bloody shame John Peel isn't alive as he'd have loved this) and "Where You Are", the musical equivalent of Galaxy chocolate.
We were reliably informed that this EP was recorded in less than 2 days and on a budget. However, the production is crisp and sprightly and we were particularly impressed by the drum sound of Donovan Jackson, always the hardest thing to get right.
It's essential to have the capacity to turn out something original and this is a big part of the deal. Martini Police are polymorphic and difficult to pigeon hole and that can only be a good thing. Even our resident Frank Cat wants to hear more!
Listen to the EP on Spotify.
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Posted on April 13, 2019 by musicvstheworld
Sunday 7th April was to be something fairly new for us – we generally go and see loud Punk and Rock bands, but we fancied something different for a change. We had listened to Don Kipper online but never had the fortune to witness them in a live setting until then.
We turned up to find a semicircle of chairs laid out near the Nave of the Abbey facing a bizarre collection of seldom seen instruments which immediately intrigued and surprised us.
Clarinet player Daniel Gouly was off to the side playing a little tune to his ancient Jewish counterparts before practically skipping back down the aisle to join the rest of the band pre-gig.
We didn't have to wait many minutes before welcoming the whole band to the stage area – a mesmerising set of characters, each an individual and impossible to take your eyes off.
They struck up their instruments… and it was quite possibly the most sublime sound I've ever heard. Each note hit every part of the inside of that beautifully dark Abbey – even Gouly had a "Wow, I've never heard anything like this before" look on his face. Truly joyful, completely triumphant.
This was the first time ever that this ancient Saxon heritage Abbey had resonated to the almost alien but breathtaking tones of the near Eastern and Yiddish scales.
There is a heavy influence of Romani Music in what they do, but don't go thinking that's all they are – there is a Heinz 57 variety hot pot of complimentary eastern styles; fascinating Jewish Klezmer, stunning Turkish love songs, energetic Northern Greek & Macedonian dances and pulsating North African rhythms.
Drummer Timmy Doyle seemed to have the look of a Baltic Norseman and played like a demon. I never realised drums could be so musical sounding, but when combined with the complimenting acoustics of the church it blew my mind.
The eccentric Ian Anderson-esque accordion and duda (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called!) player Josh Middleton and the little Jewish hat loving Gouly had an obviously special bond and worked off each other each inspiring and delighting the other in their interplay.
Tim Karp is a guitarist with subtle Jazz chops as well as a smooth Hungarian Minor byzantine scale phrases, however he really shines when picking up the 12 string oud and the haunting tones of this traditional Turkish instrument transports us to the Bosporus and Constantinople.
Then there is singer Dunja Botic. Oh my. I have honestly never heard a voice so entrancing. She has an intense richness to her voice that is rare to hear. Because she sings in languages other than English, you notice it a lot more as you're not focusing so much on the words she is singing. It makes you realise the voice truly is an instrument and when practised can be something incredibly special.
I'm still stunned by what I witnessed that Sunday evening and we are so glad we chose to attend. We will definitely be seeing them again.
You can follow Don Kipper on facebook, twitter and instagram and buy their wonderful music on their website.
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Posted on July 3, 2018 by musicvstheworld
It's been 5 long years since the last Bad Religion studio album and when you are a rabid fan such as I, that's quite a wait.
So, this is the taster for the new record – and hey, guess what, there's a bit of a message not only in the lyrics but in the eloquently crafted video animation – every line of this song and every second of this video is astonishingly smart and true.
Some wank wombat on the youtube channel uttered these words: "I don't need to know a band's political views"… So why are you even watching a Bad Religion video? Duh. Their social & political opinions have been obvious throughout their entire history and are integral part of their music and philosophy. Missing the point here seems to be the order of the day for both casual punk fans and Trump voters: – this song ain't for you – it's ABOUT you! And if you're here to defend the so-called "Alt-Right", and/or to criticize the "Left", well, then, you never really understood this band at all.
As always BR are intellectual, sarcastic, ironic and satirical – the cheesy pop-ishness of the song is intentional, as is the play on words & melody in the chorus and the bridge section – upbeat, like an anthem, but mocking.
The sound and message of this fit very well alongside other such protest songs like Come Join Us or American Jesus. Musically the band has altered their sonics since the True North album; Brook's intricate drum barrage has been replaced with something more heavy hitting and weighty, whilst the guitars snarl and slash like Cap'n Crunch. Jay Bentley's wonderful Entwistle-like bass run at 2.09 is an ebullient addition to the melee.
I want a new album… I want it quick.
by Richard Mackman
Posted in Music Reviews, New Music, New Releases | Tagged bad religion, brett gurewitz, brian baker, greg graffin, jamie miller, jay bentley, mike dimkich, punk, the kids are alt-right | Leave a comment
Grand Ole Otley: Ryan Hamilton & Tony Wright, Nottingham, 9th June 2018
Grand Ole Otley – Ryan Hamilton & Tony Wright, Saturday 9th June 2018, The Bodega, Nottingham
Words: Richard Mackman
Photos: Fi Stimpson
We didn't quite know what to expect from from what turned out to be a very personal and intimate gig this evening – a small gathering of around a hundred or so enthused and genuinely fascinated souls, many of which clearly owned the new Pledge-released album and knew the material.
Wright & Hamilton's voices pair and blend with a natural compatibility. Wright's deeper and very English northern inflections compliment Hamilton's higher and southerly American accented phrasings.
Standout songs from this pot pourri collection (there was NO setlist, just a tatty collection of notes, lyrics and scribblings propped up on two music stands) include the rambunctious "Family Tradition", "Whiskey River", the cover of Jagger & Richard's "Wild Horses" and the best ever version of "Jolene" – never much cared for the original but Tony's interpretation brought a genuine emotion to the whole thing.
Ryan's genuinely endearing smile and warmth of personality comes through constantly during this show; being a performer, an artist, a gifted musician is something he is, not just that he does. In contrast, Tony's pithy, brash northern and sarcastic British jocularity makes for a brilliant double act between the pair – an unusual acoustic country mutation – Yorkshire meets Texas! And you know what, it fucking works!
Inter-song banter is a series of hilarious punchlines; these two are clearly very good buddies and feel very comfortable in each other's company.
To quote the words of Mr Hamilton himself – "music is togetherness" – and in those moments, in that place, this evening we had a ton of that.
You can buy Grand Ole Otley on iTunes.
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Gig Review by @INeedDirection : Jesca Hoop, 27th Oct 2017, Birmingham @JescaHoop @hareandhounds
Posted on December 8, 2017 by musicvstheworld
Reviewed by and photos taken by Tracey.
An exquisite creature, Jesca Hoop steps delicately and somewhat precariously onstage in an elegantly outlandish outfit: all Victoriana ruffles atop an aptly hooped skirt, part rigid corsetry, part deconstructed birdcage. As if such a cage could hope to contain this rare Californian songbird.
Beneath the lattice grid of her skirt is a perfect black lycra silhouette; an alluring metaphor for being able to see beyond the top layer to the bones beneath. Her songs, ethereal folk tales, murder ballads, sorrowful love potions and incantations, are far more than the sum of their parts. More than just her pared back guitar style and trilling, quivering voice. They fill the room and seep into your psyche.
Opening with the title track of her latest album "Memories Are Now", her voice sends a hushed chill across the small pub room, candles flickering on bistro tables occupied by a silent, awestruck crowd of a hundred or so. She commands the stage with an understated sense of theatre but in an ocean of calm. The stage lighting, though, is a little harsh for so slight a figure and her delicate features are illuminated in blue for the entire set lending an extra otherworldly charm to the proceedings.
It was with curious excitement that I bought my ticket for tonight, not having seen her live before and having mainly only listened to her collaborations with Guy Garvey or Sam Beam. Her band tonight are one half Californian and one half Texan. She, of course, now lives in Manchester. For 9 years she declares dolefully. But she thinks Birmingham is colder and darker than Manchester and that's why we invented Heavy Metal. In Manchester, she tells us, they only sing sad songs. But are we happy she asks? We Are. Probably happier than Manchester. We're happy and yet her mournful songs get under your skin. 'Hunting My Dress' (which she jokes should be renamed 'Where's My Skirt') is bittersweet, stark and haunting. And the cold, bitter refrains in 'The Lost Sky' stab at your heart, all prickled staccato.
There is no easy exit from the stage at the Hare and Hounds and after the last song of the set, she stays at the back of the stage pretending to be invisible whilst trying to bite off an irritating hangnail she'd bemoaned a song earlier. She appears to be having a conversation with herself. Gesticulating, questioning, replying. On her return to the blue spotlight for the inevitable encore, she dedicates the next song to a musician friend; a well-known drummer familiar to most in the room who is recovering from a stroke. This is news to us; we are suitably dismayed. She prays for good news, wipes away a tear and sings the beautiful 'City Bird'. After the gig, I searched for news of said drummer's fate. Nothing. Not a peep. Did she make it up? Does she feature a different drummer in each city of her tour? Does she have some strange Spinal Tap tendency to kill off drummers? Anyway, I digress. For her finale, she sings a swooning a cappella song:
"You're sitting out there / Did you know what you were in for? / The change in the air / When you stepped through the door"
There is a reverential hush in the room – a perfect silence. She'd had a brief inaudible exchange with her band mates in-between songs earlier on in the set and then looked back to us and apologised, "Sorry I forgot you were there. Do you ever do that? Wake up from a strange dream and you're not where you thought you were?" Yes totally, I do that. And no, I'm not sure we did know what we were in for, nor do we know when we shall awake from this strange and beautiful dream.
Posted in Gig Reviews 2017, Guest writers, Music Reviews | Tagged birmingham, gig, hare and hounds, jesca hoop, Live Music, memories are now | Leave a comment
Album Review: The Empty Pages @theemptypagesuk
Posted on November 11, 2017 by musicvstheworld
Reviewed by Pete, Edited by Fi
I was so pleased to hear some good friends from Peterborough and Stamford playing music that they have created themselves, having previously seen and heard the guys play some fabulous covers whilst calling themselves "The Overdubs". I was intrigued to hear what has been achieved when they decide to put pen to paper.
"The Empty Pages" is certainly a diversion from what I normally expect from them. The album consists of 10 tracks created in the Country style not normally associated with our boys, although I always knew that they were well capable of playing any style that they choose to play, given the eclectic range of the covers band.
All songs are by Kieran Wade, who is also highly accomplished on lead guitar, and also adds some backing vocals to Stuart Hendry`s excellent singing, Stu also plays rythmn guitar, the two working as accessories to each other, producing superb results.
Sean Dunmore is awesome as ways on the drums, and holds the band together with great timing and rhythm. He also adds some fabulous backing vocals when required.
Andy Dearlove is ever-present with the steadying influence of that lovely bass.
1. Autumn Girl – a punchy uplifting number with great harmonies, could be a good track for dancing, or just getting into the groove.
2. Bring Me Home is a slower track with clear lyrics in the classic country style.
3. The Old Mill Lane we hear Keiran`s voice with a nice melodic tune and some great guitar pickin`.
4. The Night I Saw Her Dance back with Stu`s vocals, a lovely melody – shall we dance?
5. Looking Down From Peveril Beautiful lyrics, beautifully sung by Stu.
6. Magic 66 No vocals on this upbeat instrumental.
7. We`re Going To Go Far Easy listening in a classic country style.
8. Face In The Crowd Typical country/pop with clear lyrics and excellent guitar licks.
9. Glad To Be Free Another quicker rhythm track maybe for dancing, yeehaa!
10. Welcome To The New World Pleasant and melodic track, slowing things down to meet the end of the record.
In its entirety, the composition was performed and produced in a professional manner, the band was tight, with all four band members complementing each other very well. All in all a very enjoyable experience, well done lads, and thank you.
Buy the album on bandcamp (digital) or The Empty Pages' website (cd).
Follow The Empty Pages on Twitter and facebook.
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Gig Review: Swans, Birmingham Asylum, 24th May 2017 by @INeedDirection
Swans, Birmingham Asylum, May 24th 2017
Writer and photographer: Tracey B
Editor: Fi Stimpson
Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act I scene II:
Arial: All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure, be 't to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding, task
Ariel and all his quality.
And so stands Michael Gira, centre stage, as if on an enchanted isle, amidst his admired musical collaborators, like Prospero and his spirit, Arial, conjuring and directing his storm; arms aloft, dark brooding eyes low, conducting each swell and each lull in the soundscape that surrounds him. With gestures as bizarre as a high kick or wild whipping arms, or as slight as a raised eyebrow or a lowered hand, Gira choreographs a ballet of ballast, a tango of tinnitus. The result is a sound that's immense, immersive; a performance that's intimate and personal. For though I am surrounded by a few hundred other people, I feel perfectly alone in my reverie. From my position at the front, slightly off-centre, I can easily make eye contact with the band and I take full advantage of this with each member in turn (save for the keyboard player hidden behind a stack of amps) holding my gaze, brazen and steadfast, until it's acknowledged, maybe returned with a smile. What can I say? I'm a demanding and disarmingly direct viewer. But this is the advantage of small venues and the confrontational nature of performance works best when a connection can be made with its audience.
Though Swans are widely credited as the loudest band on earth, current decibel levels are bearable (I wear precautionary earplugs nonetheless) and my ears vibrate instead with high-tensile energy. The sound is far from unrelenting aural assault; the set employs clever nuances of sound and technique, contrasts and builds. This tour promotes Swans 14th studio album, The Glowing Man, and also serves as a farewell party to the current cast of players, a line-up established in 2010 (Gira intends to play henceforth with a revolving cast of collaborators). The set list comprises a mere 6 songs, yet lasts 2 ½ hours. Yes that's right, 2 ½ hours. Anyone aware of my views would know I usually insist brevity is the key to perfect music. And while that may hold true for pop music, it doesn't apply to the experimental arena in which Swans hold court. I'm loath to promote Sting-endorsed ideology – especially in the middle of a Swans review – but there are tantric forces at play tonight. There is something to be said for drawing out pleasure; for elongating the process to elevate the desired result. And desire is key here. Have you ever felt on the very edge of orgasm for over two hours? My skin tingles in anticipation of each chime, each harmonic touch. I am transfixed, hypnotised, breathless, wide-eyed and open-mouthed. Each note, it seems to me, is delivered with full awareness of the effect on its rapt recipients.
The structure of each song relies on a well-honed ritual; a musical Kama Sutra: The guitar begins, gentle and impassive, strumming a held chord accompanied by tender arpeggiated lap steel passes. The bass joins slowly, the back of a thumbnail rubbed erotically along the strings. My pulse throbs to a low rumble of bass drum and isolated piano chords. As the piece builds and the pace gathers, the keyboard resonates, becomes a spectrum-filling electronic choir. Lap steel and bass: a forceful assault of strings, an arduous pounding. The guitar swirls in dizzying, swelling, ascending and descending fret board patterns all pinned down by a cacophony of percussion. And Gira's voice, so vital, so primal; a wail that cries of all human emotion. And my heart thumps and my breath quickens. And. And. Oh and…
And as if to acknowledge my need for the spiritual in addition to a physical and emotional response, in one of the few gaps between songs, Gira tells a Zen story he'd heard about a monk and a tiger. A monk out walking is confronted by a tiger and in his bid to escape he runs to the edge of a cliff, his only option being to jump. Falling, he grasps onto a vine but, as he hangs, a mouse begins to gnaw at the top of the vine. Resigned to his fate of death by tiger above or the long drop below, he spots a strawberry growing from the cliff, reaches out and eats it. It was the sweetest thing he'd ever tasted. Gira says he has no particular words of wisdom to impart but to live in the present and make each moment count. Well tonight he made around 150 minutes count for everything and more. And it was the sweetest thing I ever tasted.
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The Dizzy Miss Lizzys, Charters Bar, Peterborough, 2nd June 2017 by @steverodz
The Dizzy Miss Lizzys
Charters Bar, Peterborough, Friday 2nd June 17
Writer and photographer: Steve Rodriguez
Peterborough's musical chameleon Gizz Butt rocks out Charters again with his talented The Dizzy Miss Lizzys, The Beatles and classic rock covers band.
The guys in this band, or Friday's incarnation of this band anyway, have probably been in more bands than I've had pints of beer, and it shows. Gizz on lead and rhythm guitar and vocals, Simon Martin on bass and backing vocals, Thorin 'Fozzy' Dixon on drums and a surprising guest appearance by Richard Gombault [Editor: previously of successful Peterborough band Midget] on rhythm guitar and backing vocals. Their sets are always entertaining and not a single song is given rough treatment or paid lip service to, it's full on rock from the off. Although the AC/DC Thunderstruck intro that got the lads on the table nearby chanting along at the top of their lungs didn't materialise into the full song, it gives an idea of what this band are there to do, please the crowd. That's what they do. Any classic or hit rock song is in their repertoire and to compliment all this there's a healthy dose of Beatles covers as that is how the band started, as a Beatles covers band. Sometimes the sets are split, half Beatles and half anything goes, but tonight it was all mixed in to a huge cacophony of guitar, drum and bass. There was the usual guitar solos from Gizz, but even a Fozzy drum solo made an appearance tonight, all the 'rock' ingredients were present.
Songs like Get Back, Help, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Hey Jude, All the Young Dudes, Sweet Child O Mine all blend in to the same set seamlessly and in the case of the quieter Beatles songs, all get a suitable 'turn up to 11' type treatment with heavier bluesy guitar solos and driving bass.
The personal highlight of Friday for me and possibly a few others was Firestarter, the Prodigy classic from '97. For those not familiar with Gizz Butt he was the Prodigy live guitarist during their fat of the land tour in the late 90's and has played with many household names, including Foo Fighters. Firestarter, although apparently not rehearsed much or 100% perfected, sounded spot on. Gizz is probably at his best vocally on songs like this as Punk bands are pretty much his mainstay, Janus Stark and English Dogs two of his previous bands are steeped in punk roots, albeit the former with a more metal edge.
If you haven't had the chance to see The Dizzy Miss Lizzys then go,the next time they're playing, your ears and throat will hurt but guarantee you'll remember dancing to Hey Jude with your arms round whoever…
Posted in Gig Reviews 2017, Guest writers, Music Reviews | Tagged charters peterborough, dizzy miss lizzys, english dogs, fozzy dixon, gig, gizz butt, janus stark, Live Music, midget, peterborough, richard gombault, simon martin, the beatles, the prodigy | Leave a comment
Gig Review: Skinny Lister, 3rd May, Nottingham & 4th May, Cambridge, 2017 @SkinnyLister
Posted on June 4, 2017 by musicvstheworld
Skinny Lister – Devil Heart Fight Tour with Support from AJJ band
Rescue Rooms – Nottingham 03-05-17 and The Junction – Cambridge 04-05-17
Written by Martin Tillyer, Photos by Martin Tillyer, Edited by Fi Stimpson.
The first time I saw and heard Skinny Lister was as support for Frank Turner along with Will Varley in November 2015 at Rock City – these artists are all on the Xtra Mile Recordings label.
Since that date, I have also had the pleasure of seeing them headlining on the first part of the Devil Heart Fight tour in 2016 and then as support for the Dropkick Murphys in London in January 2017.
As soon as the dates for this year's UK tour were announced I ordered tickets for both of the shows being reviewed here, from this you can gather that yes I do like their music and I also had an idea what to expect from them.
The support – The AJJ Band from America – were new to me, having only seen one video clip on YouTube. "Goodbye, Oh Goodbye" comes over as a very quirky American pop type track. I have to say that having now seen them live they are so much more than that.
The Rescue Room gig was sold out and the room was nearly full for the AJJ set, some of crowd had obviously seen them before and knew what their shows were like.
As they came out it was obvious that there was kit sharing going on as the drummer was using Skinny Lister's kit. I think that this was a good thing as they are then not forced to be cramped up onto a stage and left with no room to move and also allows for a quicker change over between bands, some of the more well-known bands should perhaps take note of this.
AJJ are touring as a four-piece band and start off with "Cody's Theme", the first track on their latest album "The Bible 2" which soon had the crowd moving around. They then played through a mixture of back catalogue and new songs that varied in pace, the slower numbers having the crowd listening to the thoughtful lyrics which showed the band's observations on life. They are definitely a tight band and have the audience hooked; the energy they show is highlighted near the end of the set with the singer doing forward rolls around the stage. Anyone that likes Will Varley and Beans on Toast would definitely enjoy this and I know I will go to see them on their next tour.
The room fills up to capacity as we wait for Skinny Lister to come on with most having already seen them before; it was good to see people in the crowd that we had met previously at the Bodega gig last October, it feels like a big friendly party is about to start and it does with as they come onto stage to start off with "Wanted" the first track off Devil Heart Fight, a real upbeat punchy number. They then proceed in the usual Skinny Lister party mode through tracks take from all of their Album releases with the majority of them from Devil Heart Fight (9), Down on Deptford Broadway (7) and Forge and Flagon (6).
Mid set they fitted in a new song "Thing Like That" which still has the typical Skinny punch too it, could well get to be a crowd favourite once more people know the lyrics.
There is a variance in pace as they slow down for some very soulful vocals from Lorna on tracks like "Bonny Away" sounding reminiscent of Sandy Denny.
Skinny Lister certainly entertain with a flagon of rum passed out among the audience (sad to say that the Flagon had disappeared at the end of the night).
Party George, Lorna and Max's dad, was in the crowd and Lorna set off to see him going crowd surfing in a dress, she certainly is one very brave lady.
Scott Milsom the double bass player is certainly fitting in well having replaced Michael Camino – although I will miss his crowd surfing with the double bass.
They ended up with a three-track encore "Beat it from the chest", "Hamburg Drunk" and "Six whiskies", a track that should be played at the end of the night in any pub (it is on the playlist in my local).
It was interesting to go to The Junction 2 in Cambridge to see both bands the following night to see if they could party just as hard, this gig wasn't sold out, this was possibly because of the band Alabama 3 playing in The Junction 1 next door.
Both bands produced sets that were of the same excellent quality as the night before with some variance in the setlist order. Skinny Lister had to resort to sending a bottle of rum into the audience due to the replacement flagon they had obtained needing to be cleaned out before it can be used.
The Skinny Lister audience is growing and I think they will soon be having to tour in larger venues, take your chance to see them in these smaller more intimate ones whilst you still can.
Both bands are very approachable and always spend time talking to the audience after the show, helping out with the merchandise sales and signing CD covers
Skinny Lister are a really hard working band and will be appearing at various festivals over the summer and continuing the Devil Heart Fight tour into Europe later in the year.
They are definitely worth seeing live – go to see them if you get the chance.
http://www.skinnylister.com/
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Interview and Gig Review: The Virginmarys, Rock City, Nottingham, 15th March 2017
Posted on March 21, 2017 by musicvstheworld
We met up with Ally and Danny from The Virginmarys before their gig at Rock City. Here's what they had to say…
Fi: So guys, how did you meet?
Ally: Dan and I met years ago, we were at college together and it was a really bad course. It was a music course and it had just started out. Dan and I were kindred spirits where we were like 'well who can I realistically play with on this course?' I ended up moving in with Danny and his family and we have jammed ever since.
Danny: Yeah, we pretty much passed the course at my house. We got on well with the guy who was running the course, bless him, the course must have killed him because when we first turned up and he was bright-eyed and dead happy and buzzing and I think there was loads of money from the lottery that had been put into it. By the end of it, we'd go up to him and ask if we could record it at mine and he would be so stressed out with the others he would be like 'yeah yeah go ahead' and it was great.
Ally: We always had this dream of being a band, travelling around and we've had a few different bass players since we started. Matt has only recently left, due to it just being the right move for him. It's hard work being in a band not making much money if you have a family. You kind of ask yourself where it's going, and you have to really want to do it.
Fi: How do you know Ross?
Danny: I have known Ross for years, in Macc you know everybody. If you went there people would look at you like 'who's that?' I've always known him and he's a wicked bass player. He knew the songs inside out. We invited him to a gig and he played for us, and he knew the songs already.
Fi: When did you get your recording deal and what was your first release?
Ally: We got spotted on a platform like Myspace (before Myspace existed) then we got signed to some guys from LA. They thought 'we just need to develop them, sprinkle a bit of glitter on then we will sell them on'. It's hard to maintain your integrity and keep playing the music that you love and that you believe in. You kind of fail as a band depending on what type of character you are, there is only so long you can play what your hearts not in or you're gonna give up or its gonna backfire.
Richard: You remind me of some very cool bands from the late 90s such as China Drum, Three Colours Red and Cable. Who were your early influences?
Ally: I think when I was a teenager I was always listening to the Beatles but as I got older and started picking up guitars, I kinda started getting into Three Colours Red and the Wildhearts. I like rock and punk. There's just like a realness to it. I got taught by a guy who did blues. I love Fleetwood Mac and BB King and I always go back to it.
Fi: What do you sing about? What inspires you to put pen to paper?
Ally: It's a communication. You are expressing yourselves in the only way – it's kind of like a medium that seems more effective, more appealing than just speech. I was always shy as a kid, and musicians helped me with their way of expressing themselves. It would be a lot different if I only had a microphone, not instruments, and I had to do a comic routine. You have to have a persona type thing. For inspiration, it's what's going on in the moment. It's a bit like a diary, and its a form of communication that helps you get thoughts across.
Danny: Our new song is called Donald Trump! (Not really…!)
*Laughter*
Richard: The world appears to be going to hell in a handcart at the moment. Do current world events at home and abroad affect what you say in your songs?
Ally: Yeah, they kinda are what you write songs about. We have made a conscious effort with this new material to give people hope and not say how rubbish everything is. The only way it will change is people switching on and realising the power they have. We have got a lot of younger people coming to our gigs – listening and understanding they are the only ones who can change what is happening.
Danny: The first record we did we were playing a lot of classic rock clubs, but the last album wasn't necessarily purposefully against classic rock but there are more different scenes now so since then there's a different crowd coming on board instead of just blues rock fans. Rock is pretty broad and we've got a good mix of people coming along.
Fi: Do you guys find you need to have regular work as well as the band?
Ally: Bits and pieces here and there.
Danny: We seemed to have more money before we signed with labels and stuff – because you have to give away your money!
Maddy: What are the most memorable shows you've done to date?
Danny: Leeds and Reading on the main stage last year was pretty big, really cool for both of us. New Model Army always stand in my mind, they were amazing. It was a proper eye opener. We drank too much on that one, so we just stood there shaking and wishing we hadn't. Justin came over and said their fans are like one band fans so they took a while to warm up to us.
Ally: Our fans are a bit like that too – they all meet up before shows and stuff.
Danny: New Model Army's fans make a pyramid on each others shoulders, I thought it was a rave when I saw it. We got a good reception from them and they still come and see us. Skunk Anansie were great -Mark the drummer found out my cymbals broke and gave me his, and gave me a snare drum too!
Fi: What was it that inspired you to do the People Help the People tour?
Ally: That was just an idea that came from the fact you can actually do something. We got like two tonnes of food by the end of it. It was more about the people getting together and doing something to help. It was awesome that so many people donated. It feels like you're brought up a certain way, moulded through a system and certain things don't seem possible, but they are and you can do it. It was amazing of you to get involved – we relied on people like you. It was really cool.
Richard: Punk rock has always traditionally been the music of resistance. What have you guys taken from Punk rock?
Danny: It's always been a big part of us playing, it is such a broad term. Whenever we have a photo shoot or videos or record an album, we always think about what we want to sound like – bands like The Clash. It's cool but honest.
Ally: I hope there's always going to be a place for Punk, I'm hoping that something slips through the cracks and more people listen to it again, because it is brilliant. We wouldn't have found it unless we listened to certain things then I wouldn't have opened my mind. It inspired me to go on a search to express myself – people should always try to do that.
Fi: What other English bands do you rate at the moment and would recommend to us to check out?
Danny: We have a band on – it's the first time we've requested a band so we've got The Hyena Kill, from Manchester onwards, that we chose. The Wytches are really cool.
Ally: There aren't that many rock bands. I've been listening to a lot of soul and disco at the moment, it makes stuff feel passable.
Fi: What are your plans for the rest of 2017 and beyond?
Ally: We will release a lot of music on EPs and a new album. The reaction has been amazing. You can sometimes just get lost in this world of thinking it's going to be great and this is going to work, but it's hard to plan, you just get lost in the jargon and nothing really happens.
Danny: Divides went really well -it was amazing to work with Gil Norton, we all love him. It's weird to think he's such good friends with Ally, that he'll just call up for a chat. That album was awesome. We would probably still be promoting it now, but after Matty went we started to write new stuff instead of using Divides – it just feels right to do new stuff now.
Fi: Thanks guys – looking forward to hearing the new stuff and to seeing you on stage very soon indeed!
Gig review:
The Virginmarys are very difficult to pigeonhole, as are their audience. There is the feral energy of punk rock, some kind of blues sludginess going on and an immediately focused intensity that only a three piece band is able to present you with.
Ally Dickaty's voice at times reminds me of Dan McCafferty of Nazareth. There is a brash yet melodic sensibility to their songs and a tightness that puts the hairs up on the back of your neck.
Drummer Danny Dolan, apparently suffering from a ferocious chest infection, lays into his traps with the same sort of panache you'd expect from a rockabilly drummer, sometimes standing up and being hunched over his kit. I imagine he gets through a fair few cymbals!
Bassist Ross Massey, the new boy, presents a Flea-like figure, a skilled fingerstyle player who exhibits a commanding persona stage left.
We get 18 songs, several of which I'm not familiar with, but the sign of a great band is that it does not matter – the energy and delivery entice you in.
Highlights for me include opener "Dead Man's Shoes", the China Drum-esque "Just a Ride", "Free to Do Whatever They Say", "Ends Don't Mend" and finale "Bang Bang Bang".
There is something very timeless, working class and 'English' about what they do. Hearing Ally's M-accent in the songs is very endearing, a refreshing change from that American whine we are all too familiar with.
The Virginmarys are a very likeable band and one that you can be reassured I will see again this year.
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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Council-OKs-new-parking-rules-4333421.php
Council OKs new parking rules
By Mike Morris
Updated 2:18 pm CST, Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Houston's off-street parking rules got more flexible with the approval of City Council on Wednesday.
Rewritten for the first time since 1989, the ordinance loosens rules on how close parking lots must be to a building's front door, makes it easier for businesses to share parking, allows substitution of bike parking for car spaces, cuts parking for historic buildings and allows the creation of "special parking areas" so neighborhoods can create new rules tailored to their needs.
The vote was 14-2, with Council members Helena Brown and Jerry Davis opposed, and Andrew Burks absent.
"The goal was to have a more flexible ordinance so that as we densify as a city, particularly in the inner city inside Loop 610, that we have more flexibility and we recognize changing demographics, changing lifestyles and the increasing presence of mass transit," Mayor Annise Parker said. "It really allows for the opportunity for targeted solutions for neighborhood problems going forward. I'm very excited about that."
Added to the changes Wednesday was an amendment, suggested by Councilwoman Melissa Noriega, that will allow businesses within a quarter-mile of a transit station to get a 20 percent reduction in parking requirements if they build to city guidelines for development in transit corridors, meant to encourage pedestrian-friendly environments.


Every year, ESPN has a theme song that accompanies all of their college football promos and they are songs that can get anyone hyped up at any time. On Tuesday, ESPN revealed its new theme song and it is pretty awesome for the upcoming season.
This year's song is performed by X Ambassadors and Tom Morello, who is best known for his time with Rage Against the Machine.
The song, "Collider," is certainly a great way to get any fan pumped for the upcoming college football season.
The college football season has been graced by the sounds of those like Fall Out Boy's "Centuries" and this song definitely tops the ones of the last few years. It should be fun all year long.


Our original QD display kit from Nanosys Inc.
Top: Viewed under regular room lighting.
Bottom: Viewed while illuminated by UV light.
For the original QSTORM project (2010-2015), we used a set of quantum dot vials in a special display case from Nanosys Inc. (sold by Cenco Physics) for stage presentations and hands-on demonstrations to show museum visitors the beautiful, bright colors emitted by these tiny nanocrystals. Over several years of constant use, we noticed the quantum dots were no longer as bright as they used to be and needed to be replaced. Last year, we discovered that Cenco Physics had discontinued this product and Nanosys was no longer making QDots for these kinds of display kits, so we needed to find a new supplier. While there are a number of companies out there supplying quantum dots for research purposes, we had trouble finding a company that sold a display kit like the one we were looking for. We wanted to show an array of bright colors, but also have the QDot vials packaged for easy handling and to be safe for use around our museum visitors.
Our new QD display kit from NN-Labs.
I'll let my colleague, Megan Litwhiler, tell you more about that in a future blog post. Stay tuned!


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Can a catwalk-inspired fashion collection save Marks & Spencer?
With a lineup that references 90s minimalism and Isabel Marant, M&S is about to unveil its most fashion-led look for years. Will it turn the store's fortunes around?
From the M&S collection: limited edition jumpsuit and waistcoat; dress; top and trousers. Photograph: M&S
Jess Cartner-Morley
@JessC_M
Wed 13 Nov 2013 02.30 EST
A "hero piece" is a fashion term for the one seasonal item that can pull your wardrobe out of the doldrums. This is usually hyperbole – except, perhaps, in the case of Marks & Spencer.
Last week, when M&S released disappointing results showing a fall of 1.3% in sales between July and September compared with the same period last year, bosses were quick to point out that the first fashion range to be masterminded by ex-Jaeger boss Belinda Earl was only on sale for the last three weeks of that period.
In other words, the famous £85 pink coat, the breakout star of the M&S autumn collection, may yet save Marc Bolland's bacon.
Earl's second collection, unveiled to the press this week and scheduled to "drop" from January, makes it clear that M&S is pinning its hopes on fashion more than ever. Influences from the catwalk are stronger than they have been in years. A silk bomber jacket emblazoned with Japanese-style herons looks like a nod to the Jonathan Saunders bombers that flew straight from his London fashion week show to every fashionable wish-list. And – canny, this, because fashion's lines of succession no longer run only from catwalk to high street – the high profile of Isabel Marant, thanks to the hype around the H&M diffusion line, is represented by a shrug-on, paisley-print casual jacket (£59), which nods to the £199 beaded jacket in the about-to-launch H&M Isabel Marant collection – a smart move, since only a tiny proportion of shoppers will get their hands on the H&M Marant pieces they want.
Meanwhile, a voluminous, quilted, drop-waisted, sleeveless dress seems to echo the "cloud" dress that Victoria Beckham made the best-known piece in her diffusion collection, when she wore it herself, hot off her New York catwalk. (Differences include the neckline, and the £45 M&S pricetag.)
The M&S customer wants fashion. When Earl showed her first collection in May, she was keen to focus on the upgrade in manufacturing quality and shopping experience – but press and consumers picked up, instead, on the Céline-esque pink coats and the JW Anderson-ish windowpane checks.
"Our customer wants fashion, and it is important that we show that we are confident in our expression of fashion," says Earl. "We need to demonstrate to her that we at M&S are part of fashion." One of Earl's shopfloor changes has been to introduce more dressed mannequins, to break up the racks of clothing and suggest outfit ideas. "They have been incredibly successful," says head of design Neil Hendy. "We keep having to re-style them, because whatever we put on the mannequins sells out." The M&S Christmas advert has a notably high fashion content this year – the standout line, after all, is Helena Bonham Carter complimenting Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on her shoes.
As it happens, next spring is a tricky season in which to depend on catwalk trends to get cash tills ringing. The fashion shows did not produce many trends that lend themselves to an easy sell. Many of the trends are abstract and intellectual. A vogue for "avant blande" and deliberate understatement; a revival of 90s minimalism; a craze for prints inspired by street or abstract art – none of these are box-office gold in the way that, say, "50s sex kitten" or "power dressing in pastels" would be. But Earl and her team have made a clear decision to back fashion rather than fall back on "timeless classics".
The most prominent colour on the M&S shopfloor next season will be white. Usually thought of as impractical and unflattering, it is a bold choice for a brand that must dress women of all shapes and sizes – and whose customers have high expectations of longevity and durability from their purchases. A long-line pencil skirt with a woven texture has a high waistline, so that it can be worn with a matching waist-length sweater to make a modern two-piece suit. The too-cool-for-school 90s minimalism look is also surprisingly strongly represented, in lean cutaway dungarees, several covetable sleeveless jackets and lightweight parkas, and a spaghetti-strap silver slip dress that resembles the Liza Bruce one worn famously bra-less and with black knickers by a young Kate Moss back in 1994.
But, just in case fashion proves not to be the knight in shining armour of the M&S story after all, Earl has a Plan B up her sleeve. A recurring theme of the collection is the summer coat. There is a notch-lapel version in mint, a subtle echo of that famous pink; an oversized lightweight grey tweed jacket; a smart lemon-yellow duster; and a British-made white trench. One of these is likely to appeal to every customer, at some point next spring. When all else fails, you can always rely on the unreliability of the British weather.


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It's been four years in development, but it looks like Microsoft's Office developers have used their time well. Office 2007, in any of its eight editions, is quite a new broom and the top-of-the-line Enterprise edition includes all five main applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access - as well as some very useful extras. The fundamental change in the new Office is the way you interact with the main programs: this is down to the Ribbon. Gone are the standard menu bar with toolbar beneath and instead you have a series of tabs, each showing panels of icons with the most commonly-used tools and functions on them. Switching between tabs gives new sets of icons and the Ribbon is bolstered by the mini toolbar, which fades in near your mouse pointer for making format changes. After a few minutes you start to get the idea of the Ribbon and for most functions it proves a lot quicker to use than the old interface. There are some idiosyncrasies, though. Why has the file menu become an Office button in the top left-hand corner of the screen and why is the default Ribbon tab labelled Home? These seem to be changes for change's sake. Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 uses the XML file format for consistency across all the main applications, though it still differentiates them with .docx, .xlsx and .pptx filetypes. Files are automatically compressed with Zip compression. With all the work concentrated on the interface, the feature sets of the main applications haven't changed as much. Word, Excel and PowerPoint all offer themes, like super styles, covering colours and design elements as well as typography. Switch themes and the look of the entire document changes. Many formatting and layout alterations you make in the big three apps can be previewed by hovering your mouse pointer over the style, font, colour or whatever selectors. New fonts are supplied with Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and widely used in Word, along with a new default line spacing of 1.15 lines.


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NRI techie launches new OTT platform for viewing movies without any need for subscription
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A Boston-based non-resident Indian is all set to launch an OTT platform service where viewers could watch movies without the need for a subscription
Great news for all those who don't want to miss out on any new movie release. Ranjit Kollu, a techie born in Vijayawada, and his childhood friend, Venkat who lives in Hyderabad, have come up with a new digital Over-the-top (OTT) platform called Hit.movie, that is going to enable viewers watch movies of their choice at the click of a button. The platform also allows producers to directly publish their films and have control over the number of countries it can be screened to.
"It is a simple platform, whereon one can buy a ticket and watch a movie of his choice – on mobile or tablet or laptop or television or a home theatre. All that one needs to have – is an internet connection. One doesn't have to subscribe to the platform, unlike in the case of other OTTs like Netflix, Amazon or Zee-5, where one has to take subscriptions monthly, half-yearly or annually," said Ranjit, speaking to Hindustan Times.
An OTT platform is a service that lets someone deliver video and live stream feeds to any internet-enabled device. The video content can be delivered and monetized without the help of any third-party platform like cable or satellite pay-TV providers. All that a customer require are a high-speed internet connection and a connected device that supports apps and browsers. Popular services that use OTT technology include Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney Plus, HBO Now, iTunes, and many others.
Ranjit Kollu's Hit.movie is also essentially a producer-friendly OTT platform, where they don't have to sell their digital rights, like they have been doing with other OTTs.
"They don't need to give up their ownership rights and there are no middlemen," Ranjit said.
He explained the process in detail: producers have to fill in some forms describing the movie details, submit KYC (Know Your Customer) documents, pay the listing fee and upload the Master File of the film on the site.
Ranjit's platform will then verify the documents and contents. If approved, the film could be released for streaming within 72 hours of uploading. He also stated that Hit.movie would take up the job of digital marketing and publicity for the films uploaded on the site as well, adding that movies could be streamed in over 150 countries.
"It is for the producers to decide whether he wants the film to be streamed across the world, or a select few countries or only the native country," he said.
The platform also promises content security, so that there would be no copyright issues and stream films up to 4K HDR cinematic quality. Ranjit assured that Hit.Movie works on all major browsers and the apps are available for Google TV (Android TV), Apple TV and Firestick among others.
He feels his platform will benefit small budget films most because these films do not find theaters for release nor do the big OTT platforms give them any preference. Moreover, it could be a bonanza for overseas audiences who do not get viewing access to these films on their local OTT platforms, he added.
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Jimmy Fallon's New Beat: The Least Tortured Comic in Showbiz Takes Over the Tonight Show
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When Jimmy Fallon was in kindergarten, his teacher complained to his mother, Gloria, that he was running and smiling too much. "At a parent-teacher conference, they always have to find something," says Gloria. "I let it go."
Good call, Mom. At 39, her boy is still moving fast and smiling constantly. Inside his Rockefeller Center office on a mid-January day, the former Saturday Night Live star is bopping about to Bruce Springsteen's new album, High Hopes, in preparation for the rocker's fourth appearance on NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. (He and the Boss will rework "Born to Run" to spoof Gov. Chris Christie's Bridgegate scandal, a segment that quickly joins Fallon's exploding canon of viral hits.) Dressed in a striped shirt and jeans, Fallon is both disarmingly open and seriously cheerful. "I wake up happy," he declares. He proudly shows off framed photos, including one of his 2007 wedding to film and TV producer Nancy Juvonen, 46, and shares an iPhone video he shot that morning of the couple's 6-month-old daughter, Winnie, enthusiastically gumming mashed potatoes in her high chair in their downtown Manhattan apartment. "She's the best baby," he gushes, explaining that Winnie is named after Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, where he proposed to Juvonen, and because "she's a win-win." The couple tried for five years to have a child before turning to a surrogate, a period Fallon says was "rough. I was doing everything—injecting Nancy, drinking Chinese herbal tea, sleeping upside down. It's just tough." Now he's relishing family life. "She's so juicy and fun," he says of his daughter. "She squeals and chirps. Honestly, you'd think we're in a Disney cartoon."
Fatherhood isn't the only major change in Fallon's life. Starting tomorrow night, he's taking over as host of one of the most venerable and profitable programs in television history: NBC's Tonight Show. It's a marquee job, a still-shiny feather in the tail of the struggling Peacock network. Tonight's last host, Jay Leno, who stepped down Feb. 6, maintained the show's No. 1 position for most of his 22-year run (minus the awkward eight months when Conan O'Brien had the gig); last year he drew more than 3 million viewers on weeknights at 11:35 p.m. Earlier hosts are TV legends: There's frisky founder Steve Allen (1954–57), mercurial Jack Paar (1957–62), and quick-witted Johnny Carson, who reigned for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1992. "I understand how big this job is," Fallon says, "and I don't want to let people down."
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He will bring to the show the same boyish enthusiasm and creative drive that are the hallmarks of his successful run as host of Late Night since 2009. That program, which follows Tonight, has become known for Fallon's skillful impressions of celebrities, satirical sketches, and musical spoofs, plus his knack for cajoling famous names to join him in being silly. He persuaded Brad Pitt to yodel, President Obama and Mitt Romney to slow-jam the news, and Tom Cruise to crack raw eggs on his noggin.
"From the very beginning, he looked like he was having a good time," says veteran talk show host Dick Cavett, who has become friendly with Fallon. "He's accepted; he's liked. His chances [on Tonight] are as good as you can get."
Comedians are notorious for often being miserable human beings off-camera, insecure and misanthropic. Not Fallon. "He's definitely a unicorn in that village," says Juvonen. This is a man who, knowing his wife is an epic John Denver fan, paid to have a brick with her name on it and the words "Happiness Is a Choice" placed on a path leading to a statue of the late singer in Colorado. (When it's her turn for gift-giving, Juvonen heads to Williams-Sonoma. Fallon loves his gourmet gadgets, including a sous-vide machine and a device that both steams and purees vegetables, which he uses to make baby food for Winnie.)
Credit his geniality to a happy childhood and continuing close family ties. "I grew up Irish Catholic," says Fallon, "and being Irish means parties, fun, singing, drinking. That's where I started performing."
James Thomas Fallon Jr. was born in Brooklyn 11 months after his sister, Gloria, a humor writer. The family soon moved to the town of Saugerties in upstate New York. "We wanted to raise the kids in the country," says his homemaker mother. (His dad, now retired, was a repairman and then a technical writer for IBM.)
Young Jimmy was doing impressions by the age of 2. (Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library)
Little Jimmy began mimicking stars early. "We have him on tape at 2 doing Jimmy Cagney, going, 'You dirty rat,' " says his mom. By age 7, he was watching Saturday Night Live with his parents, reenacting sketches and dreaming of becoming a cast member. "I'd do Dana Carvey voices," says Fallon, who also loved Chevy Chase and John Belushi in SNL reruns. As a high school senior, he won first prize at a contest for amateur impressionists at Bananas, a comedy club in Poughkeepsie. Arlene Jamison, who owned the club with her husband, says Fallon showed up with his act inked on his palm and running up his arm. "He was nervous but had all that energy that he still has. And he was sweet as can be," she recalls.
He emceed at Bananas on weekends and honed his comedy chops while attending the College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y., where he majored in computer science before switching to communications. With his parents' blessing, he left school 15 credits shy of graduating in 1995 after a manager who'd seen his tape urged him to come to Los Angeles. "If it didn't work out, he could always make up his credits," says his mom. (In 2009 St. Rose granted Fallon his degree as well as an honorary doctorate.)
In L.A., he couch-surfed, took comedy and acting classes, gigged at clubs, and told anyone who'd listen that his goal was to be on SNL. At his second audition for the show, in 1998, he made longtime producer Lorne Michaels laugh with his sly impression of SNL alum Adam Sandler. Boom! Fallon snared his dream job at 23.
With Tina Fey on 'Saturday Night Live' (Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
"I learned so much there," he says fondly of his six years at SNL, which included Weekend Update duty alongside Tina Fey. "At 11:30, you have to do a show. You have to let go of whatever happened that week and be focused and swing for the fences." It's a lesson he's mindful of to this day. Come taping time, "The blinders go on. I'm here to entertain. That's my job."
After SNL, he tried Hollywood. "I knew I wasn't strong enough to do drama," he says. "So I'm like, yeah, I guess I'll do a comedy." When Taxi (2004) and Fever Pitch (2005) both failed to open big, his career went icy cold.
Doing "The Evolution of Mom Dancing" with Michelle Obama on 'Late Night,' Feb. 2013 (Lloyd Bishop/NBC)
There was a bright spot: He met Juvonen while making Fever Pitch, which she produced along with her business partner and his costar, Drew Barrymore. "She was beautiful," Fallon says of his future wife, smiling widely at the memory. "It was a cold, rainy day on the set in Boston and she had blond hair and was wearing white pants and she really stood out on this gloomy cobblestone street." Juvonen was drawn to his upbeat charm."We listened to music, hung out," she says. "He made me feel safe and cute and fun." It wasn't until months later that their friendship turned romantic. "We were in London, selling the movie, and I went, 'God, I missed you,' " recalls a still clearly besotted Fallon. "And she said, 'I missed you, too.' From then on we were just in love. It was the best thing that ever happened to me."
With his wife, Nancy Juvonen, in 2013. When they travel, he says, "she drives and I DJ the music." (D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)
They weathered the fallow period in Fallon's career together. "You're a little depressed that you're not wanted," he says of his Hollywood phase. "We'd go out to bars, have drinks, and I'd sing with the band." Was he drinking too much? "It wasn't like I was blacking out or getting into fights," he says. Adds Juvonen, "It wasn't like, 'Head to rehab.' He was just trying to figure out what's next."
What came next was a well-timed call from Michaels, a mentor and friend since Fallon's SNL days, offering him the Late Night gig (Michaels is the show's executive producer). He said Fallon would be a natural; he was right.
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After a move back to New York and five successful years at Late Night, Fallon is now primed for Tonight. This time, the passing of the torch is being handled with more finesse than in 2009, when Conan O'Brien briefly held the job. Fallon and Leno are friendly: "We talk like twice a month," says Fallon, "and Jay has given me a lot of advice." (Leno suggested that he expand his monologue from five minutes to 10 and make it more news-focused.) Fallon will be presiding over Tonight from the refurbished Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center, the same studio where Carson did the show before relocating to Burbank's warmer climes in 1972. Returning Tonight to the Big Apple was one of Fallon's conditions for saying yes to the job, along with installing Michaels as his producer. "I love L.A.," he says, "but New York is alive at night."
A month before his Tonight debut, Fallon—who'll be bringing along his Late Night writers, crew, and house band, the Roots—says, "We're ready to go. You could just flip the switch now." First on the couch as guests are Will Smith and U2; as for future dream interviews, he's got his eye on Queen Elizabeth and Pope Francis. "I'd make it fun for them," he promises. (But can he get either to yodel?)
He knows that many viewers will catch him on Tonight via DVR or online, but he's hopeful that millions will tune in to the actual late-night telecast. "When I was a kid, I'd ask my parents, 'Can I stay up and watch Johnny Carson?' It was a big treat. Now some kid can ask, 'Can I stay up and watch Jimmy Fallon?' " he says, as if he still can't quite believe it. "I want to give the best I can."
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Iúlia Víktorovna Martíssova (en rus: Юлия Викторовна Мартисова) (Velikie Luki, província de Pskov, 15 de juny de 1976) va ser una ciclista russa, professional del 2000 al 2013. S'ha proclamat Campiona nacional en ruta el 2005 i el 2008.

Palmarès
 2001
 Vencedora d'una etapa al Trofeu d'Or
 2004
 Vencedora d'una etapa a la Gracia Orlová
 2005
  Campiona de Rússia en ruta
 Vencedora d'una etapa al Tour de l'Aude
 2008
  Campiona de Rússia en ruta
 Vencedora d'una etapa al Tour féminin en Limousin
 2012
 Vencedora d'una etapa a la Volta a Adiguèsia

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