Man from southern NJ faces criminal charges for shooting at pilot whales
By editor on February 22, 2015 Comments Off on Man from southern NJ faces criminal charges for shooting at pilot whales
NEWARK — A Cape May man surrendered to U.S. Marshals Thursday for shooting at pilot whales off the New Jersey coast, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
Daniel Archibald, 27, is charged by complaint with one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. He appeared Thursday afternoon in Newark federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge James Clark III in Newark federal court. He was released on $10,000 unsecured bond, with travel restricted to the United States, except for fishing in international waters. He is required to surrender all firearms and firearms purchaser identification cards and is prohibited from using or possessing a firearm on land or sea.
According to the complaint unsealed today: Archibald, a tuna fisherman, allegedly shot at pilot whales while aboard the fishing vessel “Capt Bob.”
Pilot whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, a statute that prohibits the hunting, killing, capture or harassment of any marine mammal. Harassment under the statute includes any act of pursuit, torment or annoyance that has the potential to injure a marine mammal in the wild.
On Sept. 24, 2011, an 11-foot, 740-pound pilot whale beached itself in Allenhurst, and died shortly thereafter. A necropsy uncovered a .30 caliber bullet lodged in the whale’s jaw. The bullet wound triggered an extensive infection that caused the whale to starve to death a month later.
Review of the Capt Bob’s vessel monitoring system confirmed that it was in New Jersey fishing waters for much of August 2011, the approximate time that the whale was shot. Also, nearly a month before the pilot whale washed ashore, defendant Archibald posted a Facebook photograph of a tuna head on a hook with the caption “thanks a lot pilot whales.”
Special agents eventually searched the Capt Bob and found a Mosin-Nagant, a World War II rifle that has not been manufactured in several decades. Forensic analysis revealed that the bullet found in the whale was similar in all general rifling characteristics to test bullets fired from Archibald’s rifle. When interviewed by special agents, Archibald admitted that he had “spray[ed]” bullets at pilot whales in an effort to chase them away.
The violation charged carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a statutory maximum fine of $100,000 or twice the gross gain or loss resulting from the offense.
Fishman credited special agents of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Law Enforcement, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Ray, with the investigation leading to the charges.
The charges and allegations contained in the complaint are accusations, and the defendant is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp Buys Shares of 191,677 NVIDIA Co. (NVDA)
Posted by Anthony Sawyer on May 16th, 2019
Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp bought a new position in NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm bought 191,677 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $34,418,000. NVIDIA accounts for 3.2% of Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 14th biggest position.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Bay Harbor Wealth Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 41.4% during the first quarter. Bay Harbor Wealth Management LLC now owns 205 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $37,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the period. LS Investment Advisors LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.5% during the first quarter. LS Investment Advisors LLC now owns 11,952 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,146,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the period. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 19.8% during the first quarter. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC now owns 393 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $71,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the period. Sky Investment Group LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.9% during the first quarter. Sky Investment Group LLC now owns 7,160 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,286,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the period. Finally, Atlas Brown Inc. grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.7% during the first quarter. Atlas Brown Inc. now owns 4,227 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $759,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares during the period. 70.03% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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In other NVIDIA news, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 5,823 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $185.00, for a total transaction of $1,077,255.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 171,783 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $31,779,855. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 14,092 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $183.33, for a total transaction of $2,583,486.36. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 20,029 shares of company stock worth $3,678,385. Insiders own 4.64% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NVDA opened at $162.04 on Thursday. NVIDIA Co. has a one year low of $124.46 and a one year high of $292.76. The company has a market cap of $96.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.70, a PEG ratio of 3.82 and a beta of 1.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a current ratio of 7.94 and a quick ratio of 6.76.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 14th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.80 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.27. NVIDIA had a net margin of 35.35% and a return on equity of 41.78%. The business had revenue of $2.21 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.22 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.72 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was down 24.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Co. will post 4.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Derby winner Country House out of Preakness
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer
After being declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby by disqualification, Country House will not run in the Preakness because of illness, ending any chance a Triple Crown this year.
Trainer Bill Mott said Tuesday the long shot winner of horse racing’s biggest event was no longer being considered to run in the second jewel of the Triple Crown after it looked like Country House was getting sick. After the horse started coughing, which Mott called unusual, blood work showed he was harboring some sort of virus.
"Hopefully just rest and a little time is going to be what the doctor ordered," Mott told The Associated Press. "Other than that, he doesn’t actually act sick. He’s kind of a big, tough horse, but there’s signs that things are not going in the right direction with him."
Country House was elevated to the winner’s circle at the Kentucky Derby in sloppy conditions Saturday after Maximum Security was disqualified for impeding other horses. His absence at the Preakness means there won’t be a third Triple Crown winner in five years. Bob Baffert-trained Justify and American Pharoah have each won it since 2015.
Country Horse is the first Kentucky Derby winner not to enter the Preakness since Grindstone in 1996. Grindstone, who was found to have bone chips in one of his knees, was the first Derby winner to be retired immediately after that race since Bubbling Over in 1926.
Because of how the Kentucky Derby went, Mott said he and those around the horse were not as disappointed by this as they would’ve been under normal circumstances.
"I guess it’s been an unusual ride anyway," Mott said of his first Derby victory. "I don’t think it hit any of us as hard as what it might have. I think we’re grateful to have the win we had and hopefully he bounces back for some races later on."
Country House joins Maximum Security in skipping the Preakness.
The 1 3/16-mile Preakness is May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Though shorter than the Kentucky Derby, the race requires a quick turnaround. Maximum Security owner Gary West didn’t want to burden his colt with the Triple Crown off the table.
West on Monday appealed the decision to disqualify the horse from the Derby, which was quickly rejected by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission because the stewards’ decision isn’t subject to appeal.
Country House was 65-1 to win the Derby, the second-longest odds in the 145-year history of the race. It was the first time the horse who crossed the finish line first was not declared the winner.
With trainer Mark Casse’s War of Will and other contenders expected to enter the Preakness, Country House likely would not have been favored to win. Even his Derby performance was a surprise.
"I thought he showed amazing improvement from his previous race," Mott said. "Even his running, he was up in the race, he looked like a different horse the first half of the race."
In a statement, the Maryland Jockey Club and the Stronach Group that owns Pimlico said Country House not running "doesn’t take away from the excitement" and that they anticipate more interest from owners and trainers to enter the race.
While the stakes barn behind Pimlico will not have a Derby champion for the first time in more than two decades, Mott said Country House is a possibility to run in the third jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes in New York on June 8. Keeping him out of the Preakness, though, was a no-brainer for the 65-year-old trainer.
"I’ve never liked training a horse that’s given an indication that he’s sick," Mott said. "We will monitor him and he’s off the training list."


Tate Promoted to President in Pryor, Okla. Region
Tuesday, May 30 at 07:15 AM
Industry veteran will serve bank's Pryor, Okla. region.
PRYOR , Okla. – Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Brandon Tate has been promoted to community bank president.
Tate will serve as Arvest’s community bank president for the bank’s Pryor, Okla., region, which includes Pryor, Tahlequah and Wagoner. He will office at the Arvest branch at 1521 W. Highway 51 in Wagoner.
Having held various roles in his banking career, Tate most recently served Arvest as senior vice president and commercial relationship manager. In his role as community bank president, he will formulate a hierarchy of objectives, standards of performance, strategies, plans, and budgets, among other duties, for the Pryor region.
Tate earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Northeastern State University, with a major in finance and minor in accounting.
Active in numerous civic organizations, Tate is chairman of the board of the Wagoner Lions Club, as well as vice president and board member of the Fort Gibson Lake Association. He’s also an active member of the Wagoner and Coweta chambers of commerce, and the Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa.
Tate lives in Wagoner with his wife, Heather, and their son.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Mafia’ 'Lost My Appetite' Blu-ray Clip
EXCLUSIVE: Mafia 'Lost My Appetite' Blu-ray Clip
— January 31st, 2013
We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming crime thriller Mafia, debuting on DVD February 5. Ving Rhames stars as crime lord Renzo Wes, who must deal with an obsessive cop (Pam Grier) determined to take him down, and is willing to break the law to do so. The plot thickens further when the cop's clean partner (Robert Patrick) gets involved. Take a look at this exclusive scene, along with the trailer.
Ruthless crime boss Renzo Wes (Ving Rhames) rules the underworld. But when he crosses a cynical, jaded cop bent on revenge (Pam Grier) she becomes obsessed with bringing him down and is willing to break the law to do it. Her partner (Robert Patrick) is a clean cop who wants to do the right thing, but when his personal life intersects with Renzo's, loyalties are tested. The three of them are on a collision course with destiny - and no one will emerge unscathed.


The company's control and monitoring system made a complex live production much smoother with intuitive control of 80 external sources.
Cerebrum, Axon Digital Design's customizable control and monitoring system, played a significant part in helping CTV Outside Broadcast deliver a much smoother service to its broadcast customers during this year's Open Golf Championship in St. Andrew’s, Scotland.
For the second year running, CTV was responsible for live mobile production services for both IMG Media/ESPN and The Golf Channel. To meet the demands for wider coverage, the team drew on lessons learnt in 2014 to improve the workflow and established Cerebrum as the nerve centre for routing control for this year’s event.
Hamish Greig, CTV OB's Technical Director, says: "Due to the scale of this production and the increased number of sources and destinations, particularly on the ESPN side, we needed to simplify the operation and make it more manageable. We worked hard to improve the flow of information on the technical front, and brought Axon's Cerebrum into the heart of the workflow to support us. It’s perfectly suited to this complex production environment and gave us much smoother control over elements such as tally, UMD and cameras. It truly was the nerve centre of the production.”
Live broadcasts, especially complex productions that involve a fleet of Outside Broadcast vehicles, benefit hugely from an 'always on' control and monitoring system that can deliver comprehensive system management in an easy and operator-friendly way. By linking together all the main broadcast equipment from major manufacturers, Cerebrum's advanced functionality and broad range of features simplifies multi device control onto one easy-to-use interface. It supports a wide range of devices including routers, production switchers, servers, audio desks, camera control units, receiver decoders, multiviewers and waveform monitors – using either SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or third party protocols.
CTV has equipped two of its OB trucks with Cerebrum and both of these vehicles were integral to the production of the championship at St Andrew’s.
"Primarily, we used Cerebrum for tally, UMD and multi-viewer control and monitoring, remote colour balance and the control of both the bunker cameras and the Panasonic pan and tilt cameras," Greig explains. "In total, the system supported 80 external sources, each individually pre-set on the panel. This meant that just one operator was able to manage set-ups, signal routes, QC, tally and multi viewers in a very smooth and efficient way. Cerebrum enabled our engineer to achieve tasks in minutes that previously would have taken hours to complete – that’s impressive."
Adrian Richmond, Axon’s Director of Sales UK and Africa, says CTV OB is just one of a number of broadcast companies that are realizing the benefits that Cerebrum can bring to their productions.
"The Open is a great example of how Cerebrum can make light work of large, complex events by integrating seamlessly with other technology, providing reliable, scalable and flexible control and monitoring, simplifying workflow and significantly reducing the workload," he says.
Cerebrum is fast becoming the control solution of choice for mobile production, news and studio live production, master control and remote production, with recent installations including Indonesia's 24-hour news channel Metro TV and News UK, which has installed Cerebrum in its state-of-the-art broadcast facilities in London.
Now that the Open is over for another year, CTV will be deploying Cerebrum with its OB11 production unit to cover the 2015 Ashes test match cricket series and with OB3 to deliver coverage of the upcoming Barclays Premier League football season for BBC’s The Match of the Day. Later this autumn, Cerebrum will also be helping other production companies make light work of top sporting fixtures, including Gearhouse at the US Open tennis at Flushing Meadows and Timeline’s 4K production of BT Sports UEFA Champions League coverage.


One service to rule them all
Google is making it easier for carriers to communicate over RCS
Google "hub" model allows carriers to implement RCS with ease.
RCS is a next-generation communication protocol with read receipts, group chat, support for high-definition images, and more. The goal with RCS is to bring SMS and MMS to feature parity with the likes of Facebook Messenger, and Google has been leading the charge on that front. Earlier this year, the company rebranded Messenger to Android Messages, making it the de facto messaging app for RCS.
Google is also working closely with carriers to make RCS ubiquitous on Android — the platform's answer to iMessage. There are inherent challenges involved in getting carriers to talk to one another over the protocol — over the years, carriers have built additional features into their own messaging clients as a means of differentiation. For instance, AT&T and T-Mobile both offer RCS, but their version isn't compatible with Sprint's implementation, which uses Google's recommended universal profile.
Rogers is another carrier that uses the standardized universal profile, and earlier this week the Canadian carrier announced that its RCS solution is interoperable with Sprint. To bring further intercompatibility among carriers, Google's VP of communication products Nick Fox said that the company is using a "hub" model to get carriers connected to one another over RCS. For instance, a carrier connected to the hub will be able to connect to all the other carriers also connected.
We are deploying a "hub" model, so that carriers can interconnect to the hub once to get access to all other carriers connected to the hub.
— Nick Fox (@RealNickFox) June 5, 2017
The model makes it far less cumbersome for carriers to get set up with RCS as they don't have to develop individual connections with other carriers, saving resources and time. The move should lead to more carriers adopting the messaging protocol in the future.


How Exercise May Protect the Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease
By Amanda MacMillan
Regular exercise may offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease, even for people who are genetically at risk, according to recent research.
In the study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, people who did more moderate-intensity physical activity were more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brains—a sign of healthy brain activity—than those who did less. Light-intensity physical activity, on the other hand, was not associated with similar benefits.
The study involved 93 adults with an average age of 64, all of whom had at least one parent with Alzheimer’s disease, at least one gene variation linked to Alzheimer’s disease, or both. This put them at high risk for developing the disease themselves, although none showed any cognitive impairment at the time of the study.
To illuminate the relationship between brain activity and exercise levels, everyone wore an accelerometer for a week to measure their daily physical activity and received PET scans to measure glucose metabolism, which reveals neuron health and activity, in several regions of the brain. For people with Alzheimer’s disease, these regions tend to have depressed glucose metabolism.
Researchers found that people who spent at least 68 minutes a day engaged in physical activity at a moderate level—the equivalent of a brisk walk—had better glucose metabolism in all of those regions than those who spent less time doing so.
The amounts of time spent being sedentary or doing less-intense physical activity (like slow walking) were not associated with changes in any of the brain regions studied. Vigorous activity was linked to better glucose metabolism in one brain region—the hippocampus—but not in the others.
Larger doses of high-intensity exercise may be needed to provide the benefits of just “a modest increase” in moderate activity, the authors wrote, suggesting that you don’t have to exercise to the extreme to get brain benefits. Past research comparing the brain-boosting power of moderate- and vigorous-intensity exercise has been mixed, says lead author Ozioma Okonkwo, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. But in general, he says, the evidence suggests that “light activity is insufficient, and vigorous activity might be unnecessary.”
Being able to quantify the connection between moderate-intensity activity and brain health is an exciting and important step in Alzheimer’s research, the researchers say, although further studies are needed in order to show a cause-and-effect relationship between exercise and glucose metabolism—and to demonstrate real-life benefits. (The team is currently recruiting people with concerns about their brain health for a clinical trial to help determine the right dose of exercise for people with mild memory problems.)
But Okonkwo points out that previous research has already established a connection between glucose metabolism and cognitive function. “We’re showing now that a moderate-intensity active lifestyle actually boosts neuronal function,” he says. “I don’t think it’s too much of a leap to make the argument that this probably is one of the pathways through which exercise prevents cognitive decline in middle life.”
Okonkwo says this research offers reassurance that people can take steps to protect themselves against Alzheimer’s disease, even if they are at high genetic risk. “The evidence shows that it’s never too late to take up and maintain a physically active regimen,” he says. “It also suggests that the earlier you begin and the longer you continue it, the more benefits you tend to accrue.”


Dominic Raab attempts to calm no-deal Brexit fears
The UK Brexit secretary says it is ‘very hard to imagine’ that Brussels would not act to help minimize disruption.
By	Charlie Cooper
Updated 4/19/19, 1:43 AM CET
Britain's Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab delivers his speech outlining the government's plans for a no-deal scenario | Peter Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images
LONDON — There are no plans to deploy the military to secure food and medicines supplies in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Thursday, as the U.K. government published advice for citizens and businesses to prepare for a breakdown in talks with Brussels.
Calling the documents a “practical and proportionate” approach to the threat of disruption in the event of no deal, Raab sought to debunk what he called “misinformation” about the consequences of no deal, insisting that neither the army nor air force would be called upon and that there would be no “sandwich famine.”
However, he said he recognizes the risks of no deal “in the short-term.”
Advisory documents published today cover 25 different areas, including health and medicines regulation, trade, banking and insurance services, energy, farm payments, university research and tobacco regulations.
Several of the documents raise explicit concerns about higher costs and red tape for business. The notice on trade with the EU acknowledges that traders who have never had to deal with customs declarations before will have to engage a customs broker, acquire new authorizations from the tax authority and buy the appropriate software to manage their new responsibilities, all of which “will come at a cost.”
The U.K. government now has 7,000 people working on Brexit preparations and funding is in place for another 9,000.
Individuals could also see the cost of card payments to the EU go up, the documents warn, and these transactions (covering everything from goods purchases from EU firms to Airbnb payments for holiday homes) would no longer be covered by rules that prevent businesses placing surcharges on transactions. But Raab pointed out that the problem of access to bank accounts would apply to EU citizens as well because in the event of no deal "we are not considered, strictly, an EU member state."
But he said, “I would think that was a practical issue that we should be able to resolve.”
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Much of the no-deal planning is based on a unilateral approach, but Raab said he finds it “very hard to imagine” that the EU would not cooperate with the U.K. to minimize disruption.
He said that the U.K. government now has 7,000 people working on Brexit preparations and there is funding in place for another 9,000 people to join the civil service for Brexit-related work. The U.K. Border Force is recruiting an extra 300 staff, he said, with plans “in the pipeline” to recruit a further 1,000 people.
Raab and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images
The documents say that a no-deal must not disrupt the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and acknowledge that there would be “very significant challenges” surrounding trade for Northern Ireland in the event of no deal and this represents a “unique and highly sensitive context.”
“The U.K. would stand ready to engage constructively to meet our commitments and act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland,” the trade technical notice says, and pledges to “provide more information in due course.”
On medicines regulation, the U.K. would continue to recognize drugs and medical devices approved by the EU, but sharing information on databases on medicines safety would cease in the event of no deal, the documents say. EU laws governing the regulation of tobacco would cease to apply in the U.K., but the government would seek to replicate them. However, every cigarette pack in the U.K. would need to change immediately from exit day, because the health warning photos used on them are copyrighted by the EU.
Raab also claimed that while the U.K. wants a deal, there are some “opportunities” from a no-deal outcome, including regulatory freedom, the ability to set an independent trade policy immediately, and to put in place an independent immigration policy. The U.K. would also be able to cease its payments to the EU budget.
Josh Hardie, deputy director general of the Confederation of British Industry said: “By now, few can be in any doubt that ‘no deal’ would wreak havoc on economies across Europe. These papers show that those who claim crashing out of the EU on World Trade Organisation rules is acceptable live in a world of fantasy, where facts are not allowed to challenge ideology."
Keir Starmer, Labour's shadow Brexit secretary said: “We are eight weeks out from the deadline for reaching an agreement. Ministers should be getting on with the job of negotiating a Brexit deal that works for Britain, not publishing vague documents that will convince no one."
“A no-deal Brexit has never been viable and would represent a complete failure of the Government’s negotiating strategy,” he added.
Dominic Raab said the papers published Thursday represent around a third of the total and he expects the rest to be published in batches before the end of September.
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The House Financial Reform Bill: Don't Touch the Banks, Get a Smarter Fed
03/18/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
Those who like banks that are too big to fail will love the latest financial reform proposals circulating in the US Congress. The bill put forward by Barney Frank, the chairman of the House finance committee, does little to change the current structure of the financial system.
The "too-big-to-fail" banks will be left in place, even bigger and less accountable than before. There will be nothing done to separate commercial and investment banking, so giants like Goldman Sachs will be free to speculate with money guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The main difference is that the Federal Reserve Board will be granted even more power than it has now. And, we will tell the Fed to be smarter in the future, so that it doesn't make the same stupid mistakes that gave us the current crisis.
While we all want a smarter Fed, it is not clear that the bill before Congress will get us one, even though it will definitely give us a more powerful Fed. The new Fed will be able to decide which financial firms need to be put through a bankruptcy-like resolution process, paid for with a virtually unlimited amount of taxpayer dollars.
While the bill proposes that the cost of cleaning up after a big bank failure is supposed to be paid by other big banks, in fact the mechanism laid out in the bill virtually guarantees the opposite. Rather than raising a pool of money in advance from the big banks to cover the cost of a bailout, the bill proposes that large banks would be assessed a special fee only after a failure.
To see how strange this is, suppose Citigroup or some other major bank collapsed, requiring $100bn to pay off creditors. (We actually should not need a penny to pay off anyone other than insured depositors if we were serious about the banks not being too big to fail.) Either the failed bank was acting as a rogue institution, engaging in behaviour that was far more reckless than its peer institutions, or it was doing the same thing as everyone else.
In the first case, would it make sense to tax the other large banks $100bn because Citigroup acted recklessly? If the recklessness of one bank had led to its collapse in an environment where its competitors are sound, this would imply that there had been some serious failures of regulation. Why would we tax other large banks because the Fed, the FDIC and/or other regulatory bodies had failed in their job?
Alternatively, suppose Citigroup collapses because it was doing the same thing as other banks, but was just slightly more reckless or unlucky. In this situation, which is similar to the one we faced last fall, all of the banks would be severely stressed. It would be impossible to hit them with a special fee. Could we have slapped a special fee on Citigroup and Bank of America last autumn to have them cover the cost of the failure of Lehman Brothers? At the time, imposing any significant fee would have almost certainly pushed several more banks to insolvency.
The bottom line is that this bill is almost certain to leave the taxpayers holding the bag for future bailouts. Even worse, it does nothing about the moral hazard created by having institutions that are too big to fail. There is nothing in the bill to lead creditors to believe that the government will not make good on their loans to Goldman, JP Morgan and the other banking behemoths.
There is a large and growing consensus across the political spectrum for breaking up banks that are too big to fail. Advocates of this position include former Federal Reserve Board chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan; Sheila Bair, the current head of the FDIC; and Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. There is no reason that we need financial institutions that are so big that they cannot be safely unwound without large commitments of government money.
The only people who seem to stand outside this consensus are those who hold power and are steering the process of financial reform. This is largely the crew whose regulatory failures gave us the current disaster. If they cannot learn from their mistakes then someone else will have to drive the reform process.
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Tanzania in pursuit of ICC Women T20 Qualifiers final
SENIOR national women cricket squad will be out to make the most of its last chance for qualifying for the final of the ICC Women T20 Qualifiers, Africa, as it locks horns with Rwanda in the Group A duel at the Old Hararians Sports Club in Zimbabwe today.
Senior national women cricket squad’s Fatuma Omary bowls against Indonesia in an international friendly game, which was played in Thailand last year.
The Tanzania girls will, however, not only need to grab victory over Rwanda but also pray the hosts, Zimbabwe, tumble to Nigeria in their last match, which will also be played today, if the East Africans are to book a place in the final, slated for tomorrow.
Zimbabwe, nevertheless, are strong favourites for progression to the final, given they have yet to lose a match in the Group A of the qualifiers, which also has Rwanda Mozambique and Nigeria.
Zimbabwe girls had, as of yesterday, been topping the Group A of the qualifiers with three wins in as many matches which have seen them collect six points and a net run rate of 5.617.
The Tanzania girls were positioned second with two wins and a loss, which have seen them record four points and a net run rate of 1.465.
They opened their campaign with a loss to Zimbabwe but then regrouped to record wins over Nigeria and Mozambique thereafter.
Although Rwanda have tied Tanzania on wins, loss and points, the former have been placed third as they have an inferior net run rate of -0.691.
Nigeria and Mozambique come fourth and fifth respectively in the group. Nigeria girls have recorded one win and two losses, which have seen them collect two points and a net run rate of -1.935.
Mozambique girls have lost all four matches to end their campaign with no point and a net run rate of -3.817.
In Group B, Namibia have already cruised to the final, given they have won three matches to collect six points.
Uganda, Kenya and Sierra Leone have been placed second, third and fourth respectively in the group.
In today’s match, experienced players, Monica Paschal and Fatuma Omary, will have to be in great form to catapult Tanzania to a much-needed victory.
The duo showcased scintillating displays to help their team record an impressive 10-wicket victory over Mozambique, with Fatuma nailing 26 runs not out and Monica notching nine runs not out.
Fatuma is currently placed third in the list of the event’s top run getters, having recorded 97 runs in three innings and an average of 48.50.
She is trailing Zimbabwe duo of Sharne Mayers and Modeste Mupachikwa that have registered 167 runs and 121 runs respectively in three innings.
Monica has been placed ninth in the list with 70 runs in three innings and an average of 70.00.
The Africa regional qualifying tournament for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, which started on May 5, is set to climax on Sunday.
The five regional tournaments act as a dual qualifier for the 27 teams in their pursuit for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers places taking place in Scotland between 31 August and September 7 2019 where they will join Bangladesh, Ireland, Scotland and Thailand.
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Laurent Blanc Refuses To Commit Himself To Inter Just Yet
By Kunal | October 27, 2016 | 0
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Former Paris Saint Germain manager Laurent Blanc has refused to commit himself to Inter just yet, according to AS.
Blanc, who had a trophy-laden spell during his time in the French capital, is currently being monitored by numerous clubs from all across Europe, but Italian giants Inter seem to be the most interested party, as per reports.
The Italian media is currently rife with rumours suggesting that Inter are ready to sack their current manager Frank De Boer, and have identified Laurent Blanc as the best possible replacement.
Blanc has a history with the Serie A club, having already made 74 appearances for them as a player between 1999 to 2001.
As per Le Parisien, Inter had made contact with Blanc’s agent, Jean-Pierre Bernes, about a potential move, and Bernes’ reply had been a positive one, as his high profile client was rumoured to be very much interested in returning to his old club.
However, new reports have now come to light, which suggest that Blanc is, indeed, keen to return to his former club as a manager – but the club isn’t Inter; it’s Manchester United.
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According to AS, Blanc is trying his best to put a hold to his move to Inter, because he’s much more interested in securing a move to England.
The Frenchman, who retired at Old Trafford as a player in 2003, is currently monitoring Mourinho’s situation with the Red Devils, as he would very much like to get himself into the contention for the Man United job if the Portuguese ends up getting sacked.
Jose hasn’t had the best of starts to his life in Manchester, and his team currently sits 7th in the Premier League table – 6 points behind league leaders Manchester City.
If Jose’s mediocre performances continue, it won’t be a shock if the United hierarchy decide to part ways with him, and Laurent Blanc will then be one of the top contenders to replace the Special One at the Theatre of Dreams.
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Posted on 31 March, 2014	in1989 after 1989 End of Yugoslavia
By Ljubica Spaskovska
A new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national dividing lines in the region?
‘New project for democratic socialism in Yugoslavia’ read the title of the resolution for the last congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. It was January 1990.
As the Yugoslav Party was writing the last pages of its seventy-year old existence, few were left who believed in the viability of the project of democratic socialism. ‘The liberal utopia which underpinned 1989’ was the idealized way the socialist East and South imagined ‘the West’ and liberal democracy. In the aftermath of the last Yugoslav party congress, even fewer could imagine that ‘democratic socialism’ could ever be resurrected as a viable political project.
Almost a quarter of a century later, however, the Slovenian ‘Initiative for democratic socialism’, the Democratic Labour Party and the Sustainable Development Party have announced the establishment of a ‘United Left’ coalition. These non-parliamentary leftist groups will present their bid for a new socialist model in Europe at the upcoming EU elections in May. While the recent wave of protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and on a smaller scale in Macedonia, have raised social concerns and acted as a vent for rebellion against the political and economic mismanagement by elites, Kosovan students at the University of Prishtina made a strong case against structural corruption and fraud, eventually succeeding in deposing the Rector.
Many of those who found themselves at the forefront of these ‘acts of citizenship’ have been young people who came of age in the post-socialist period. The Kosovan student protesters, the Macedonian activists for social justice in the leftist groups ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Lenka’, the organizers of the Zagreb Subversive Forum, and the activists in the Slovenian Initiative for democratic socialism, belong in a pool of activists groups, initiatives or centres for research that espouse progressive politics while they have sought to deconstruct the ‘liberal utopia’ of the post-socialist period. They are unquestionably part of a new political generation (or, a ‘generation unit’, to use Mannheim’s terminology) whose political subjectivities, demands and visions represent a departure from those that twenty-five years ago ushered in the post-Yugoslav era.
From the Bosnian youth magazine ‘Nasi dani’, 1988. Photo: Ljubica Spaskovska.
How to account for this sudden post-Yugoslav outburst of social discontent and the resurrection of a long-forgotten vocabulary, where social rights, democratic socialism, the working class and the dispossessed feature rather prominently? Beside the generational factor, one possible answers lies in the concluding paragraph of last month’s open letter to the international community signed by 130 scholars and academics from around the world:
“In [the] spring of 1992, Bosnian citizens staged in Sarajevo the largest demonstrations ever against all nationalist parties. They were silenced by snipers, and their voices, from that point on, ignored by the international community. This time, the world should listen.”
Indeed, the conventional narrative of the 1980s, as the climax of political skirmishing and ethnic hostility, has so far managed to conceal a major stream of critique that was silenced by the subsequent armed conflicts and progressively erased in the new nation-states. The last Yugoslav public opinion survey conducted in 1990, from a sample of 4,230 adults, revealed clear divisions along lines of ethno-national belonging.
However, there was one part of the survey where Yugoslav citizens appeared strikingly unanimous. Namely, respondents were asked if expenditures on education, culture, healthcare and social security should be reduced. 74% of Bosnians, 66% of Montenegrins, 81% of Croatians, 71% of Macedonians, 72% of Slovenes, 79% of Serbs, 80% of Kosovans and 84% of Vojvodinians said this budget should be either increased or the present level of spending should be maintained. Moreover, the survey found that the ‘democratic optimism’, i.e. a support for a multi-party system was highest among Kosovans and Slovenes (19%) and lowest in Bosnia-Herzegovina (4%). Indeed, respondents from ethnically-mixed regions expressed fears that a multi-party system would exacerbate inter-ethnic divisions.
One of the spheres where many of these debates took place during the 1980s was the Yugoslav press and, in particular, the so far scarcely researched youth press. A commitment to exposing socio-economic structural inequalities and forms of corruption, especially among top Party officials, came to define the increasingly vocal youth press that was subject as a result to ongoing bans, trials and public discrediting throughout the 1980s. This led foreign scholars to observe that:
“Of all the periodical publications appearing in Yugoslavia, it is the youth press which has proven the most consistently nettling to the authorities. Outspoken to the point of rebelliousness, the young editors […] have repeatedly ignored even the most fundamental taboos”.
Pedro Ramet, ‘The Yugoslav Press in Flux’, in Pedro Ramet (ed.) (1985), Yugoslavia in the 1980s, p.111
Young journalists tended to link these phenomena to the authoritarian traits of Yugoslav socialism, in particular the Party’s elites and their monopoly on power. In December 1984, for instance, the Croatian youth magazine Polet published an ironic call for the ‘Big, bigger, the biggest Yugoslav competition for the photograph of the most beautiful, richest, most luxurious and most unavailable house for the working class on the territory of the former Yugoslavia’, printed over a black and white photo of a big mansion. It also noted that ‘precedence will be given to the photographs which will also supply information about the location, the size, the owners and their occupation’. Four years later, the main Bosnian youth magazine Naši dani was at the helm of a big public debate which exposed the practice of building summer villas by high Bosnian political officials at the sea-side resort of Neum. One article unreservedly attacking high-ranking politicians put forward demands which could be heard in a modified form at recent protests: ‘To nationalise what had been robbed. To take away once and for all from the red bourgeoisie and give to the working class’. Finally, a similar affair burst into the open when Slovenian youth magazine Mladina accused the federal Minister of Defense of having a summer villa constructed for himself by army recruits in the sea resort of Opatija.
As the decade drew to a close and the Yugoslav sonderweg led many to believe that the multi-level crisis was a dead-end street and that violence was looming, many voices warned at the prospect of elites capitalizing on social discontent and posing as national saviours. Even regions like Macedonia, which were later spared from the violence of the dissolution conflicts, were mired in a new nationalist rhetoric and calls for prohibition of ethnic minorities’ political parties. The way the editor-in-chief of the youth magazine Mlad borec, Nikola Mladenov targeted the rise of nationalism in his editorials, both at Yugoslav and local level, captures this:
“As if it became a civic duty to propagate national tragedy and vulnerability. In place of one collectivity – the class, we are being offered another one – the nation, the easiest way of manipulating the emotions of tomorrow’s voters. The propagating of one’s one history – always the most bloody and most difficult – hasn’t bypassed us either […]”
For two and a half decades former Yugoslavs were repeatedly reminded of their national tragedies, bloody histories, or their victimhood at the hands of neighbours. They were encouraged, if not forced, to erase out of their memories and identities that other collectivity – the class. What the Bosnian student magazine Valter wrote in 1990 indeed reads like a prophecy:
“We should not have any doubts that this is a period where we’ll see a formal change of government, accompanied by strong disillusionment of manipulated voters. Because exclusive anti-communism does not imply automatic creativity; on the contrary, the motives are quite banal and easily recognisable – taking power.”
A generational shift, growing inequality, deterioration in living standards and the withering away of social rights have undoubtedly proved crucial for the emergence of a new political vocabulary and a range of demands which appear to neglect, if not transcend, the ethno-national frame. However, it remains to be seen whether the social(ist) utopia that underpins this shift is going to successfully restore some of the betrayed hopes of the late 1980s.
George Lawson, Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox (eds.), The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Ljuljana Baćević, et al. Jugoslavija na kriznoj prekretnici (Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka/Centar za politikološka iztraživanja i javno mnenje, 1991).
Pedro Ramet, ‘The Yugoslav Press in Flux’, in Pedro Ramet (ed.), Yugoslavia in the 1980s (Westview Press, 1985), p.111.
‘Veliki, veći, najveći’, Polet 292, 21.12.1984, p.10.
Radmilo Milovanović, ‘Neum ili dolje crvena buržoazija’, Naši dani 949, 2.9.1988, p.7.
Nikola Mladenov, ‘Народе македонски’, Mlad borec 1971, 07.03.1990.
Goran Todorović, ‘Sveti Ante’, Valter 28, 17.4.1990, p.2.
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How to Be a Latin Lover
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In this riches to rags comedy, an aging gigolo (Eugenio Derbez) is kicked to the curb by his 80-year-old millionaire wife, forcing him to move in with his estranged sister (Salma Hayek) and her young son. Anxious to return to the lap of luxury, he attempts to reignite his powers as a Latin Lover and win over the wealthy widowed grandmother (Raquel Welch) of his nephew's school crush. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER also stars Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Michael Cera, and Raphael Alejandro.
PG-13 (for crude humor, sexual references and gestures, and for brief nudity.)
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Critic Reviews for How to Be a Latin Lover
OK, so it will never be mistaken for vintage Pedro Almodovar or Bigas Luna, but the feel-good satire How to Be a Latin Lover nevertheless gives you less cause to be a hater than you might have expected.
Michael Rechtshaffen
Derbez brings warmth and intermittent goofy humor to this too-broad and uneven comedy. The best moments are between him and co-stars Salma Hayek and young Raphael Alejandro, who both have an easy chemistry with Derbez.
Claudia Puig
Surprisingly deft in mixing Mr. Derbez's broad but accomplished style with more ostensibly hip-absurdist Anglo modes of humor.
Glenn Kenny
Its humor is broad, but most of the jokes work for the intended audience - with a few even breaking through to more resistant viewers.
Kimber Myers
How to Be a Latin Lover doesn't know how to be a comedy-at least not a 21st century one that can get away with dopey double entendres while promoting the importance of family ties over money.
Apr 28, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Susan Wloszczyna
How To Be A Latin Lover is basically an Adam Sandler movie without the Happy Madison shingle.
Apr 28, 2017 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
It's definitely on an Adam Sandler level of humor.
Mar 11, 2019 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
Rachel Wagner
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Films like this, for more records that they break, respect, dignity and creative openness, diminish us more than what they bring us. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jan 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Sofía Ochoa Rodríguez
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By no means will this become a cult comedy classic, but it's an amusing diversion that's much better than it should be.
Louisa Moore
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The result is stupid, self-conscious, but stupid after all. [Full review in Spanish]
Jun 30, 2017 | Rating: 2/10 | Full Review…
Carlos Díaz Reyes
Vanguardia (Mexico)
It will be enjoyable to Eugenio Derbez fans but puts a rope around the Mexican comedian, about if he will dare once and for all to empty his talent into something more risky. [Full review in Spanish]
Mario P. Székely
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A horrible mess full of clichés and jokes that feel worn, despite the efforts of Eugenio Derbez to make them work. [Full review in Spanish]
May 17, 2017 | Rating: 4.5/10 | Full Review…
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You know, I started thinking of this as I was watching the movie, but Eugenio Derbez reminds me of a male version of Ellen DeGeneres. This may seem odd to a lot of people seeing as, outside of both being humans and North Americans, they really don't have anything in common. What I mean by that is that, to me, Ellen DeGeneres is an incredibly likable, but not hilariously funny person. I find her more likable than she is funny. That's not to say that she can't make me laugh, because she has, but she's the type of person that your mother would find funnier than you would. Not that that's meant as an insult or anything, but that's just the demographic her humor seems to appeal to. Her humor, for the most part, is very safe. Which, again, is not an insult, since there should be something for everybody out there. Safe humor, however, doesn't appeal to me. This is what I mean when I compare Derbez and DeGeneres. Eugenio Derbez is more likable than he is funny and, like Ellen, I think he can get away with a lot of jokes that may be on the lame side because of his likability. But, and this bears repeating, the man can make me laugh, it's just that I think it might take a little bit more effort for him than others I find more naturally funny, like Hannibal Buress or Danny McBride. With that said, I wasn't really expecting much from this movie. Reason I picked it was rather simple. I just wanted something light to watch. These are moods we all go through. Sometimes you just wanna watch something that;s low-stakes. That's why I followed up Black Panther with Sydney White when I had originally planned on watching Infinity War. After Black Panther, I just wanted to decompress. And my idea of decompressing is not watching a movie in the MCU where the stakes have never been higher, where the Avengers either defeat Thanos or he destroys the universe. That's not exactly low-stakes, if you ask me. Though, at least in this case, I think I used this movie more to watch the bad taste that Hell and Back left in my mouth. Goddamn, that movie was atrocious. This movie is infinitely better than the aforementioned piece of crap. Though it's the kind of movie where you have to go in expecting it to be exactly what it is. It's a shameless and unabashed crowd-pleaser. I don't think anyone would ever expect a movie called 'How To Be A Latin Lover' to be high art worthy of comparison to the classics like the Godfather and Taxi Driver. But, in my opinion, I feel that this movie is much better 'enjoyed' if you know what you're getting. I put enjoyed in quotation marks because, to be fair, I don't really think I'd say that this was a good movie. What I can say is that it was a very pleasant and amiable experience. I think sometimes people confuse the two. I probably have been guilty of that one time or another. I'm not gonna tell people what they can or can't enjoy, but this is the type of movie where you really have to inspect deep down. It can't all be taken at face value. Because, if I did, I'd be saying that this was good. The thing about this movie is that it is put together in a way where it will be pleasing to the masses. And, hey, I have no problem with that. As I said in my Hell and Back review, variety is the spice of life. But, at the same time, there's also the fact that this movie's script is very basic and it relies almost entirely on Derbez's charm to carry it through. And, for the most part, it works. Even when Maximo, Derbez's character, is at his most asshole-ish, Derbez finds a way to make it an endearing character trait as opposed to making you hate his character for being such a gold-digging asshole that, inevitably, is gonna hurt his nephew and break his dreams once he finds out that Maximo was only using him to score another sugar mama. I do think that, while the concept isn't exactly amazing, there's far more potential for comedy with this concept than what they do end up doing. Maximo is used to an incredibly luxurious lifestyle where he has someone to do everything for him, even swipe his tablet. So you know the type of humor that they're gonna go for once his sugar mama (who's around 80 years old) has an affair with someone younger (in this case Michael Cera and, really, I don't know if that's an upgrade or a downgrade). He moves him with his sister, whom he estranged himself from after marrying getting together with his sugar mama, who lives in a modest apartment with her young son. Maximo expects the highest quality meals, he expects his sister to clean up after him, he doesn't remember Hugo's name and, shock of all shocks, he has to do something he's never had to do before in his life...get a job. It is predictable humor at best and, really, maybe even lazy at worst. With that said, the movie is sporadically entertaining. Obviously it's not consistent, but it's decent enough to get an average rating. But I do think that the movie butters its bread more on the bond that develops between Maximo and Hugo. I'll be honest, it wasn't as nauseating as I would have expected. It's certainly better and less melodramatic and manipulative that Derbez's last major movie foray into the American film market with Instructions Not Included. And, at the same time, the character of Hugo is not annoyingly precocious. I mean, they do try to make him into an adorable little muppet but, again, for some reason, it's executed better here than in other movies. Let's just say that I didn't wanna beat myself with a sledgehammer as a result of the bond that is built between Hugo and Maximo. It's still very much a fabricated bond, though Eugenio seems like someone who would work well with kids, but it's not as bad a nauseating bond as other flicks of this kind. The acting is...fine. I mean there's no one here that delivers anything more than an acceptable performance, but it gets the job done. Rob Riggle and Rob Huebel provide the comedic relief and they're, to me, the highlights of the entire movie. I don't know what else to say, I'm running out of shit. It's a movie that goes exactly where you think it's gonna go. You're not gonna be in for a transcendent experience. But Eugenio Derbez is likable enough and he manages to carry the movie for the most part. The movie isn't exactly the most tightly scripted and structured, but it's a decent enough little movie. It's not good, it falls quite short of that, but it is a pleasant and harmless experience. This is something you can watch with your sweet little abuelita. Wouldn't recommend it, but you could do far worse. Like Hell and Back. Yea, fuck that movie.
Jesse O Super Reviewer
How to Be a Latin Lover is just like all those movies that have previously failed in the box office. Not worth watching and looking forward by its visuals this movie gives us. I think if there's numerous attempts for a film to end up this soggy and, for some weird reason, clichéd. If you literally want to watch this, unfortunately for you, you won't get much of the fun found in this film.
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Speaking of (spiritual) Sisters…
by Linda Bloom June 8, 2011
One of the things I’ve always admired about the actress Victoria Clark, now performing in her 11th Broadway production, is that she isn’t afraid to talk publicly about her faith.
Of course, when you’re playing a nun – she is now Mother Superior in the musical “Sister Act” – the topic of religion is bound to come up.
In a March 28 interview with Broadway Buzz on Broadway.com, she joked about the differences between her personal Protestant and professional Catholic experiences: “You know, I’m a United Methodist and I’ve been going to my church and feeling oddly out of place after wearing the habit. I’m not kidding! I was looking for the liturgy. I’m missing all the saints and saying, ‘Where’s my rosary, what’s going on?’ I guess she’s really getting to me.”
The church she is referring to is the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, a United Methodist congregation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where both of us have been members for years. For those who tuned in to the CBS broadcast of St. Paul and St. Andrew’s Christmas Eve Service, Vicki rocked the rafters with “O, Holy Night” and was instrumental behind the scenes.
Since I’ve seen “Sister Act,” I can report that Vicki makes a convincing Catholic – so much so that she was nominated this spring for a Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical. She and her fellow cast members will be performing during the Tony Awards broadcast this Sunday (June 12).
This is not her first Tony nomination. In 2005, Vicki won the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical, along with rave reviews, for “The Light in the Piazza.”
When I interviewed her then, Vicki – a Dallas native with a music degree from Yale – talked about how church was “always the main venue for singing” as she was growing up. Her faith also helps her infuse meaning into the roles she plays. In “The Light in the Piazza,” for example, the “light” – to Vicki — signified compassion, redemption, grace and even forgiveness for Margaret Johnson, the character she portrayed.
To prepare for “Sister Act,” Vicki visited Mother Dolores, who served as inspiration for 1992 “Sister Act” movie, at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn. Mother Delores, who later saw the show on Broadway with some of her fellow sisters, helped the actress “make my character real.”
“She said, ‘Do me a favor, don’t make her pious.’ So we talked about humanity,”Vicki told Celebrity Buzz: Diva Talk on playbill.com. “She was trying to teach us about how God wants our humanity, not our divinity.”
Playing Mother Superior has allowed her to both examine her own religious beliefs and become, well, more ecumenical.
“I’m a United Methodist, where everything gets decided around the table, so there is food all the time, everywhere,” she said in the Diva Talk interview. “There is such a structure in Catholicism and so many different people that you can pray to. And learning about the saints, and learning about marriage intercession, and learning about all the different nuns and the orders, it’s just fascinating how much there is to learn.”
Vicki is not the only United Methodist-related connection to a show set in a convent. The playwright Douglas Carter Beane, another Tony nominee, was brought in to provide additional book material for the musical.
“I’m getting all the liturgy down,” he told the New York Times in February. “If you’re raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It’s sort of like you’re up, you’re down, you’re up, you’re down. It’s a continual hokey-pokey.”


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ANDREW CARNEGIE would surely have approved of David Sainsbury. The supermarket tycoon turned politician is one of Britain’s richest men. It was reported this week that he not only intends to give away at least £1 billion ($1.83 billion) during his lifetime, but to insist that his charitable foundation spend both its income and capital before he dies. Few rich donors have yet gone this far. But Lord Sainsbury’s decision is part of a broad trend among a new generation of philanthropists to play an active role in seeing that their money is well spent. Such efforts should be applauded.
In his great 1889 essay on wealth, Carnegie—a steel magnate who gave away about $7 billion in today’s money—argued that the rich had a duty to use most of their money to benefit the community, and should do so actively during their lifetimes. He took a dim view of those rich folk whose philanthropy consisted only of bequests in their wills—“men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all, had they been able to take it with them”—even arguing in favour of a tough inheritance tax because “by taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire’s unworthy life”.
Carnegie’s belief in taxing estates remains as controversial as ever, though it may come as a surprise to learn that many rich people today feel the same way. Some 120 wealthy Americans, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and David Rockefeller among others, have opposed recent Republican efforts to scrap what Republicans like to call the “death tax”.
Whether or not scrapping inheritance taxes makes sense, thoughtful and well-targeted philanthropy is clearly to be encouraged. Inevitably, controlling how donations are used is especially difficult once the donor is dead. True, some charitable foundations have played a positive role as their founders intended. Britain’s Wellcome Trust is reckoned to do a good job in supporting medical research, just as its founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, would have wished. But the effectiveness of many of the older charitable foundations is increasingly being questioned. Right-wing American critics love to point out—probably correctly—that Henry Ford would spin in his grave if he knew about the many leftish causes now funded by the Ford Foundation.
Trustees and charity professionals who run foundations after a founder’s death are rarely obliged to spend much of their capital (only 5% a year in America, for example), and may be tempted to put personal job security before the founder’s goals. There is no one (other than regulators, who may have their own agendas, and the press, who have theirs too) to hold them to account. And, says Carl Schramm, outspoken head of the Kauffman Foundation, many other foundations have “undertaken projects or programmes that were capricious, poorly thought out or just plain silly.”
So no wonder a growing number of wealthy donors are declining to leave the fate of their charity to chance. Indeed, many of today’s philanthropists—including Bill Gates, who has so far donated over $20 billion to his foundation—are, like Lord Sainsbury, intent on being far more active than previous generations of philanthropists in setting clear goals and devoting a lot of their own time and energy to seeing that their money is well spent, during their own lifetimes. This is certainly the best way to ensure that, as Carnegie put it, they do not “pass away ‘unwept, unhonoured and unsung’”.
Source: http://www.economist.com/node/4009460
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The Abolition of the Apocalypse
December 1, 2018 Radagast Uncategorized 1
Woops. Turns out Mad Max has been canceled and you’ll have to deal with the real world after all.
It’s 2018 and I’m not living in the end of the world. Energy consumption hasn’t plunged by 20% since 2015. People still drive around in cars, I still have electricity and noticed no signs of any brownouts. The supermarket shelves are stocked. In fact, last time I checked I could choose between two dozen different types of peanut butter in my local supermarket. Exploding methane clathrates have not drowned me in a megatsunami, drought induced food shortages haven’t reduced me to eating my pets, roving gangs of criminals haven’t set my house on fire, Fukushima hasn’t made the Northern hemisphere uninhabitable yet, I ate Chinese seaweed without developing cancer, I haven’t died in any government orchestrated bioattack and haven’t been lobotomized.
You’ve seen the headlines in the media, claiming that the Club of Rome was correct. They feature this image. We see food and services per capita overshooting the projection, pollution below the projection and birth and death rates below the projection. How am I supposed to pretend the models were correct? The models are going to diverge further from reality in the years ahead and then you’ll never hear about them again. This is what happens when you try to use four or five different variables to predict the fate of the entire world.
How is this possible? Wasn’t everything supposed to go to shit by now? The big mistake I’ve noticed people tend to make is their assumption that technological innovation makes the world more fragile, rather than making it more resilient. It’s easy to assume human beings are going to drop dead like flies, if you reduce us in your mental model to an animal dependent on non-renewable resources for our survival. But we’re much more than just an animal that consumes non-renewable resources. The primary mistake made by Michael Ruppert, Gail Tverberg, James Howard Kunstler, Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome before them and numerous other prophets of the apocalypse, is that their view of man is both excessively pessimistic and simplistic. If you take all the problems we’ve caused for ourselves and willfully ignore all the new opportunities we have developed over the years, of course you’re going to conclude that everything is going to fall apart. What annoys me is that these people don’t admit they were wrong. They delay their apocalyptic predictions by ten years, or they quietly move onto a different expertise. Alex Jones and his crowd quietly went from predicting we’re all going to be murdered by the Illuminati in FEMA death camps to making fun of fat blue-haired feminists.
I’m going to give you a very simple example of a new opportunity we have created, that I am convinced none of the high prophets has attempted to fit into their grand apocalyptic model: Wind turbines. You probably know wind turbines as ugly grey monoliths that inefficiently generate electricity. What you don’t know is that rows of wind turbines placed in the ocean can reduce wind speeds in hurricanes by 92 mph and reduce the storm surge by up to 79%. The modern huge wind turbines are more efficient than turbines built in the past, generating cheaper electricity and more efficiently mixing different layers of the atmosphere.
Besides countering hurricanes, they have another noteworthy effect: By mixing different layers of the atmosphere, they reduce heatwaves. Wind turbines increase temperatures during the night, but decrease temperatures during the afternoon, when temperatures are normally highest. As a consequence, agricultural yields near wind turbines tend to increase. The most useful wind turbines are located in the sea however. Here the wind turbines serve as attachment points for mussels, giving birth to new oceanic ecosystems in places that were formerly barren.
How do you even fit such complexity caused by rational actors (human beings) interacting with a complex system (the world around us) into a scientific model? How do you predict that billions of people are going to die in a world where wind turbines boost agricultural yields? This is like a group of ornithologists trying to bet which branch a bird is going to sit on because they have specialized themselves in understanding various subsystems of the overall organism. The amount of complexity involved here is so immense that you become dependent upon heuristics, rather than on complex models.
I do not imply that the climate models we have are wrong. Instead, the climate models we use tend to emphasize the huge range of uncertainty. If your scientific models can’t predict whether a doubling in CO2 will warm the world by three degree or by six degree Celsius instead, then you’re admitting that you’re dealing with a complex system the overall behavior of which is neigh impossible to predict. More importantly, the models can’t be used to predict how changes in our climate will affect our civilization, except under extreme conditions. Instead we should primarily base policy in cases like this on simple heuristics. One of such heuristics is the precautionary principle. If we’re radically changing the composition of the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace, it would be wise to stop carrying out such destabilizing actions in a complex system.
Attempts are made to look at the collapse of various pre-industrial empires, to extrapolate conclusions for our own current situation. What’s generally missed however, is that the fragility of these civilizations tends to be a consequence of their complete reliance on a limited number of variable conditions and a near inability to react to changes in their environment in a productive manner. As a simple example, consider that we live in the first civilization in human history with access to reliable contraception and abortion. A decline in our standard of living is now generally met with a reduction in fertility. It’s much easier to envision catastrophe in societies where a temporary abundance of food leads to the birth of a dozen children per woman than it is in a society where we can voluntarily reduce our numbers.
When it comes to food production, we have to comprehend the simple fact that almost all cases of starvation in recent history have been associated with war and political instability. People die of hunger, not because of a lack of food, but because they live in conditions that isolate them from the global economy. In the middle of a war zone we find ourselves unable to deliver food aid to people who are hungry. Biafra-child became a term associated with a child with a swollen belly, but Biafra was a Nigerian region placed under a severe military blockade. We live under conditions of food abundance, we throw away vast amounts of food and feed perfectly edible human food to animals. Almost ninety percent of edible tomatoes have to be thrown away due to their appearance, simply because consumers won’t buy ugly tomatoes. If we live under such circumstances, how can you imagine starvation to occur?
The economy is disrupted by sudden catastrophes. It adjusts itself to slow catastrophes. This is in contrast to previous eras of history, when slow catastrophes could not be adequately responded to. If the fish you ate slowly went extinct, you died out together with them. What happens to us when we can’t find fish in the ocean? We migrate to other food sources. In 1978, China produced 60,000 tons of mushrooms. In 2002, China produced 8.2 million tons of mushrooms. Today China is an industrial powerhouse, the world’s second largest economy. This is what happens in a society that is flexible and capable of grasping new opportunities when old ways of doing things become unsustainable.
What people forget, is that ancient civilizations did not have the opportunities we have. Trying to apply simplistic mathematical models to our way of life is bound to set you up for embarrassment in the future, because technology has allowed human beings to respond to scarcity in one area by migrating to alternative ways of sustaining themselves. The Mayans, the Rapa Nui, the vikings in Greenland and all these other historical civilizations reduced to poor analogies in the minds of those praying for a catastrophe did not figure out how to grow shellfish and seaweed on ropes in the ocean, mushrooms on cow feces or rotten logs, meat in Petri dishes, Quorn in fermentation vats or tomatoes in Dutch greenhouses kept warm with waste-heat from nearby industrial facilities. They had two or three traditions on which the bulk of their economy depended and if those traditions became threatened by ecological exhaustion or environmental changes then they went down with the world around them.
I’m not claiming the world is a paradise, or that it is soon to be a paradise. I’m claiming that preparing yourself for a global catastrophe means setting yourself up for disappointment. There’s a rough global transition underway, in some places it will be very rough. One thing that hasn’t changed from the past is that those places that will face the roughest transition are the places that refuse to transition to new ways of life. If people in West Virginia were to think that an economy based on coal production can be sustained, they would set themselves up for catastrophe. The lowest hanging fruit was exploited long ago, so today mountain tops are removed to mine the last easily accessible coal. Some grass is then sown and people will insist the mountaintop has been ecologically restored, even as the soil has become toxic and barren.
As another example of the problem, consider India. India simply doesn’t have enough accessible coal to develop an industrial economy for one and a half billion people. Much of the coal it does have is located under people’s houses and farmlands. If this nation were to pursue industrial development in a manner akin to that of Europe in the past, catastrophe would ensue. Keep in mind that I’m not just referring here to a lack of coal. India also doesn’t have sufficient cold water to power the turbines that drive a coal plant. A nuclear power plants or a coal plant needs cold water to cool the device, the warm water is then dumped into the local river or ocean, where it can kill the fish or rapidly evaporate. Half of all water consumption in India is caused by power plants right now, it’s not hard to envision what would happen if India pursued the same path of economic development as Europe did in the past.
This ties into another point I wish to make, which is that the different horror scenarios people envision tend to cancel each other out. In particular, the business as usual scenario of the IPCC envisions a world destroyed by global warming long after it has surpassed ecological limits that would destroy our civilization in the first place. In its business as usual scenario, the IPCC envisions global CO2 emissions tripling by 2100. How exactly is this supposed to happen? Am I supposed to ignore that the Netherlands has exhausted more than half of its natural gas reserves? Am I supposed to ignore that those same climate models suggest the Middle East will be too hot to survive in within a few decades? Am I supposed to pretend that India will dig up coal located underneath cities or in the middle of the desert and keep its turbines cool with water it won’t have due to the droughts caused by global warming? If you blindly extrapolate one or two variables without considering how they interact with the rest of a complex model, you’re going to get absurd results.
Trump and other incompetent leaders are willing to sacrifice the rest of the world to sustain their own outdated model of society for a few more decades, but they fail to comprehend that they’re merely setting their nations up to become the world’s laughing stock. The kind of selfishness Trump endorses is a form of selfishness that eventually blows up in your own face. If you don’t want to transition your own society to using electric vehicles, you’re going to be buying your electric vehicles from Chinese companies. If you want to open the coal mines again, you’re going to find yourself faced with a polluted nightmarish landscape, children born with birth defects and a resource crisis when it becomes too expensive to dig up the coal. It’s in people’s own direct interest to transition to a renewable way of sustaining their economies, because they will eventually be forced to transition out of necessity.
My expectation is that we’re going to dramatically overshoot two degrees of global warming, but in contrast to what people assume, it’s not going to cause a global catastrophe, because the models used to predict catastrophe tend to assume that civilization is a placid actor utterly dependent on the stable conditions of the Holocene rather than an anticipating self-augmenting agent that adjusts to changing global conditions. If we notice the coral reefs around us are at risk of dying during an oncoming heatwave, we respond by spraying atmospheric sulfur into the atmosphere. If we notice shellfish are struggling to grow due to ocean acidification, we grow seaweed next to them to reduce the effect of ocean acidification.
What matters more than anything else is avoiding technological, cultural and political stagnation. We need to avoid the mentality that makes people deny new insights that happen to contradict their own ideology. When new observations contradict your limited model of the world around you, it’s your model that is flawed, not the observations. Those who choose to embrace stagnation, end up embracing their own death. If Brazil under its new president chooses to embrace the cattle industry and sacrifices the Amazon rainforest, what happens to Brazil’s economy when lab grown meat is introduced to every supermarket? We’ve seen in the Soviet Union what happens to societies that cling onto an outdated economic model that doesn’t function. The denial of Darwinian evolution which was seen as politically incorrect lead to Lysenkoism, as people began to believe that rye can spontaneously transform into wheat and weeds can transform into actual crops. This lead to food shortages, the Soviet Union became dependent on American food exports.
Today libertarians and conservatives see global warming as a politically incorrect fact. They cling onto obscure scientists who predict a coming ice age, or any other nutcase who allows them to deny the existence of negative externalities. Guess what’s going to happen to them when reality turns out to disagree with them, when it turns out that you can’t cling onto an inherited mentality forever and the world is not spontaneously transformed into a paradise by embracing your own selfishness a la Ayn Rand? If Brazil wishes to sacrifice its rainforest it will face consequences just as catastrophic as anyone else who chooses to deny the abundance of evidence that implores him to divert from business as usual.
Catastrophe is not inevitable, it’s merely what happens when you close your eyes and press down the gas pedal with a brick wall ahead. There are people who feel like doing that, who just want to watch the whole world burn. They get exactly what they’re hoping for, but you tend to regret it when it actually happens. Consider for example, the Iraqi Baathists who helped ISIS conquer Mosul. These were relatively secular Sunni Arab Muslims, filled with anger and resentment against a society now dominated by Shiites. They ended up paying for it in the form of a society blown to smithereens and now governed by Kurdish people. My expectation is that most Americans who voted for Trump will similarly come to regret it.
Moving on from the apocalypse
My suggestion would be to leave your apocalyptic fantasies behind you. There’s nothing wrong with preparedness, but focus on preparing yourself for problems that can actually happen, rather than preparing yourself for a sci-fi catastrophe that seems nice in your head. As an example, you might wake up one day with fifteen minutes left to flee before your whole village is incinerated in a forest fire. However, you won’t spend two years in an underground bunker eating stored food waiting for radioactive dust to sink into the soil.
This applies to all the people who imagine their own apocalyptic model to be more realistic too. You won’t be sitting by yourself with a couple of friends on your permaculture farm as all of us in the city die of hunger because we were too dumb to grow our own food. If something would genuinely happen that destroyed the society you live in, armed thugs with guns would visit you and seize your harvest. More likely than not, what happens instead is that you spend the next few years struggling to break even, before moving on with your life and applying for an office job. That’s how it works out, because that’s how I’ve seen it work out numerous times.
The biggest problem with the back to the land fantasy is that it tends to mean isolating yourself from society, which is always a bad idea equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot. It might be seductive to become a hermit and renounce the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s smart or virtuous. One day you’ll realize that for every ten guys willing to spend forty hours a week with their hands in the dirt for the privilege of living in a cold black mold-infested shack, there are three girls willing to do the same.
I enjoy gardening, but I don’t enjoy it so much that I want to devote my whole life to it. I cultivate San Pedro cactuses, Salvia Divinorum and a few other plants, but the rest of my day is spent doing other things that I enjoy. If you want to devote your whole life to your permaculture farm, you’ll find yourself no longer enjoying gardening, not earning money and isolating yourself from society. There is also an intrinsic problem of privilege inherent to the “sustainable” back to the land movement. We city-dwellers don’t “choose” to live in the city because we’re mindless consumer drones brainwashed by material wealth. We live here because we can’t afford to own giant plots of land where we inefficiently produce food in a labor-intensive method dependent upon people willing to volunteer for us out of ideological considerations. Most people would enjoy living without having neighbors, but that means wasting resources.
Yes, you, the PDC guru in his sustainable bio-dynamic permaculture farm dependent on WWOOFers willing to work for free for the “experience” are in fact privileged. You might be deeply aware of the tragedies inflicted on Native tribes who lived in harmony with their environment, but you seem to turn a blind eye to all those “mindless consumer drones” who live in “unsustainable” cities not because they’re greedy and wicked, but because they have limited budgets that don’t allow them to live in accordance to your green delusions. The world is better off with a thousand office workers on bicycles than a single anarcho-primitivist traveling in his diesel pickup truck to his permaculture farm. In fact, the majority of studies show that Western people in cities have a smaller environmental impact than rural people. We can walk to the supermarket, we can take our bicycle to work and we can keep our radiator low because we share a wall with our neighbors. We live in communities, whereas you live in neofeudal palaces.
Put this idea of catastrophe out of your head. In the real world, it’s not fun when society fails, it’s miserable. It doesn’t mean hunting deer on abandoned highways. It means ISIS in Syria running child sex-trafficking rings. Do you really want to make the world better? Sell your farmland, take the money and donate it to charities that deliver birth control to women in Congo. You don’t do that because it takes away your own sense of agency, whereas growing your own sweet chestnuts or shiitake mushrooms that you couldn’t sell for a profit if your life depended on it makes your life part of a grand narrative in which you are like Noah building his arc, as the rest of the world has slipped away into decadence and will soon be destroyed as a punishment for its wickedness.
In the fake world, the world of our imagination, collapse can mean whatever we want it to mean. Put your creative effort there, there where it can genuinely have an impact. There are thousands of people around the world, who have made simulations of the collapse of civilization that are a thousand times more fun than the real thing. Rather than preparing for the world to become worse, spend your time building things that make the world better. You will meet other people who value the same things as you.
Why would you endlessly browse news headlines and spend money on stored food, if you can play the Flame in the Flood? Why would you watch another boring documentary about Peak Oil, if you can watch A Boy and his Dog? There is an open-source procedural roguelike called Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, where you can hunt and gather food in a forest and drive over zombies with stolen vehicles in the destroyed remnants of the city. If you want everything to go to shit, it’s already here for you and you’re welcome to help make it better.
In my mind I can build an apocalypse where negligibly senescent resurrected neanderthal women harvest oysters from underwater concrete skycrapers and radioactive blind albino rats inhabit dark abandoned metro tunnels where they nibble on green-glowing genetically manipulated mushrooms. In the real world apocalypse, gangs of militants in South Sudan and Syria mutilate and abuse children. If you’re really that utterly convinced that everything is soon going to hell in a handbasket that nothing I can say can convince you otherwise, don’t spend your days stocking up on stored food. Buy a pack of cyanide pills and go on with your life.
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Uhm, well written, convincing, and certainly full of common sense! I will summarize what i think in just a few lines. I suppose it all boils down in how much faith in humanity you have. I mean, your line of reasoning depends on believing in a rational man that somehow do the right things and learn from past mistakes. Well i don’t know if i can fully agree with this, on the contrary there are sufficent things happening around the world to show that greed and selfishnes are more developed traits than foresight in the human species at large, but i certainly hope you are right! But as much as i don’t think it will all end up in a zombie apocalypse, paper like this http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/ paints a certainly less distant but equally bleak scenario for the years to come (without touching other equally important aspects of what is going awry like that of the rampant loss of privacy and data of the population).


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Anchorage Concert Association Announces Ten More Shows of Upcoming Season Lineup
Comedy, classic Broadway, and even a hip-hop orchestra will inspire Alaskans
ANCHORAGE, AK – Anchorage Concert Association, the state’s largest arts and entertainment presenter, is pleased to announce 10 more shows from its 2019/2020 season line-up: Latin bluegrass band Che Apalache (Sept. 20), hilarious comedy group The Improvised Shakespeare Company® (Oct. 11-12), Hawaiian songbird Kalani Pe’a (Jan. 31), the finger-snapping The Doo Wop Project (Feb. 15), innovative chamber musicians PUBLIQuartet (March 7), fiddler extraordinaire Eileen Ivers (March 21), hypnotic hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj (April 4), a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. We Shall Overcome (April 10), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I (April 21-26), and YouTube sensation The Piano Guys (May 2). All shows will be at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
Argentina meets Appalachia with Che Apalache, a four-person string band based in Buenos Aires, with members from the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina. Singing in Spanish and English, they perform everything from bluegrass standards to Latin roots music, and originals that blend the best of both. Sept. 20, 2019, in the Discovery Theatre.
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® takes a suggested play title from the audience, and then improvises a two-act Shakespearean masterpiece. Plots could feature star-crossed lovers, sprites, fools, sword-play, and plenty of witty insults. Each performance is both a world premiere and a closing night. Oct. 11-12, 2019, in the Discovery Theatre.
Like the warm waters that surround his home in Maui, the music of Hawaiian singer Kalani Pe’a comforts, relaxes, and transports audiences into peacefulness. The two-time Grammy winner sings in Hawaiian and English – hitting notes as high as Mauna Kea’s peak. Jan. 31, 2020, in the Discovery Theatre.
The Doo Wop Project sings classic tunes and today’s hits in the finger-snapping, close-harmonies style of doo wop and features stars of the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys, Motown: The Musical, A Bronx Tale, and more. Feb. 15, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.
Providing a fresh take on classical music, PUBLIQuartet performed a 90-minute improvised soundtrack to a live presidential debate on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in 2016. March 7, 2020 in the Discovery Theatre.
Awe-inspiring moments continue with fiddler Eileen Ivers, whom The New York Times called “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin.” March 21, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.
Oakland’s Ensemble Mik Nawooj, led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, subverts expectations with a multi-genre crew of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, drums, bass, an opera singer, and profound rhymes from mesmerizing MCs/lyricists Do D.A.T. and Sandman. Combining classical techniques and method sampling, EMN creates awe-inspiring arrangements that have been called “the cutting edge of hip-hop” (Huffington Post). April 4, 2020, in the Discovery Theatre.
We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a searing, soul-stirring soundtrack to the civil rights movement. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and actions, and the movement’s struggle for equality and justice, this show ties together a living lineage of African-American music and culture that includes traditional and modern gospel, soul, jazz, classical, Broadway, and spirituals. April 10, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.
One of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s finest works, The King and I reminds audiences why they love Broadway — a classic opposites-attract romance, bold musical numbers, and lavish costumes and sets. Set in 1860s Bangkok, this musical marvel tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher who travels to Siam to teach his children. Their clash of wills leads to compromise – and eventually love – through iconic moments and memorable songs like “Getting To Know You,” “Whistle a Happy Tune,” and “Shall We Dance.” April 21-26, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.
With their serendipitous start in a small-town Utah piano shop, four dads set out to make a positive impact all over the world through music videos. That shared purpose struck a chord, and their stunning, self-made videos parlayed The Piano Guys into more than 1 billion YouTube views, six albums, a PBS special and a concert empire, including two sold-out shows in Anchorage in 2014. May 2, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.
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