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Fashion Collection Southall – Party Wear Clothes
Fashion Collection Southall – Party Suits For Ladies and Men
Fashion Collection Southall is a Pakistani Clothes Store in Southall Specialising in Casual/Formal Dresses and Party Wear Clothes For Men, Women and Kids.
We Stock Ladies Party Wear, Men's Kurtas, Children Suits, Mens and Boys Sherwanis, Mens Suits, Jackets, Kurtis, Pagdi, Ladies Party Wear Dresses and Girls Frocks & Skirts.
We Also Have an Indian/Pakistani Tailor in Our Shop Specialising in Made to Order Suits For Ladies and Gents.
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- Karachi Collection Southall
- Anarkali Shopping Centre Southall
- Address: 33 The Broadway, Southall, London, UB1 1JY, England, UK
- Telephone/ Mobile Number: 07848821703
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Technology will overtake jobs to an extent and at a rate, we have not seen before. Artificial intelligence is threatening jobs even in service and knowledge-intensive sectors. This begs the question: are robots threatening to take your marketing job?
In California, there is a robot that can make 360 burgers per hour. It makes it faster, better and cheaper. The only thing a human person has to do is to feed the machine with raw materials and clean it in the evening.
Futurists describe the not so distant future where robots and advanced software has taken over many of today's jobs. One of the most obvious areas is automation of transportation. And much more than the public transportation.
Companies such as Google and Volvo have come a long way with self-driven cars. Mercedes is in the game too. In the not so distant future, all trains will be operated without drivers and we are close to the – somewhat scary – scenario of sending robotic aircrafts into the blue sky.
Artificial intelligence: From quiz winner to doctor
Artificial intelligence is now able to perform complex tasks, which includes understanding connections and make decisions. One of the drivers of this trend is IBM and their supercomputer Watson. Some years ago, Watson won the world championship in Jeopardy. Today the same Watson has been promoted to work as a doctor.
Watson can – in less than three seconds – read 229 million texts in the latest science and come up with a diagnosis.
Initially, Watson will assist doctors to make better decisions. But one can easily imagine Watson providing consultations and diagnoses independently.
Think about Watson in a marketing context. Think about market research, research for content. Think about competitive analysis. Think about ROI calculations. The areas of application are many. But thankfully Watson has not developed an emotional intelligence. Yet.
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Artificial intelligence in medicine, insurance, investment
IBM's artificial intelligence have mostly advanced in medicine, but there are constantly new features and markets. In the insurance and investment advice areas, you will be able to communicate with a personalized digital consultant who continually gets better acquainted with the customer. Perhaps marketers can learn something about relevant dialogue here?
A spokesperson from IBM said that they work with a partner on a legal ecosystem that can assess cases involving winning probability, examine precedent, research and summarize many pages of material.
Think about your marketing job. If artificial intelligence and robots can do the jobs of lawyers and investment advisers, it seems straight-forward to be able to do the job of a marketer, don't you think?
What exactly is a human job?
The benefits of artificial intelligence are obvious. Massive productivity gains while a new layer of personalized services from your computer – whether that is a burger robot or Dr. Watson. But artificial intelligence has a bias. Many jobs will be lost.
A few years ago a study from the University of Oxford got quite a bit of attention. The study said that 47 percent of the US labour market could be replaced by intelligent computers within the next 20 years.
The losers are a wide range of job categories within the administration, service, sales, transportation and manufacturing.
This author thinks that marketing will – and perhaps should – be affected as well. It seems there are many marketing functions, which can be handled better by a "robot". In fact, many businesses have already started using artificial intelligence, machine learning and marketing automation techniques to improve productivity and the customer experience.
This development is expected to grow fast. There are different predictions about the timing, but by 2030 there will be very few tasks that only a human can solve.
"At Markedu we are considering how to create marketing training programs for robots. We expect these marketing robots to complete courses faster than the speed of light!"
Before long we should – or must – redefine what exactly a human job is and the usefulness of it. How we as humans can best complement the extraordinary capabilities of artificial intelligence.
In a marketing context, we'll need to understand how it can help humans working alongside robots. How we can best use artificial intelligence to our advantage.
If at Markedu we had our very own Ms. Watson marketing assistant, I can think of hundreds of ways to use that to our advantage; searching and proposing great marketing expert speakers and trainers, researching for blog articles and reports and so much more. In my opinion, our Ms. Watson wouldn't steal any jobs. On the contrary, I believe she would allow us to create more jobs. Jobs that would be focused more on the human emotion as a way to be more relevant and attract more business.
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Patrick's Sunglasses began in 2006 as an independent vendor's kiosk adjacent to the 405 freeway near Bothell, Washington. Originally based off the somewhat less-traveled 705 in eastern Tacoma, co-founder Pat Ilsum jumped at the chance to relocate to a Seattle-area branch. In Tacoma, Ilsum was situated behind a Wendy's and briefly, oddly, underneath Ashley Furniture. Also, his new spot allowed him a position directly off the exit ramp, where his only competition was "Black Chris", who sold flags and blankets. And weed.
When Patrick's middle child, Michael, came on as intern in 2007, the business changed it's title to P. Ilsum and Sun, a play on both the duo's product and legal relationship. Although Michael's duties at the time were cruelly limited, he slowly took on greater responsibility and soon had a more substantial hand in the enterprise. Then he actually lost his hand in a rope fight.
Quite literally "making a run for the border," a handless, sweatpanted Michael Ilsum was out-and-out sprinting over Canadian lines when he was stopped by local music and sunglasses enthusiast Phil Elverum. Known for his very persuasive, combative personality, Elverum took the vulnerable, sexually-novice Ilsum under his dark, overtly manipulative care. Commanding Michael to take on his name of Philip, Elverum sent the all-but-enslaved protege back to Bothell with specific instructions. Michael/Philip was to unseat his father, install himself as a sort of puppethead interim ruler while all-the-while Elverum would surreptitiously control the entire business, as well as Michael's "new" life. It was very weird.
Thankfully taking the command to "eat [your] father alive" as simply metaphorical- despite Elverum's repeated, frantic insistence on a straight-up insane, face value interpretation- Michael/Philip successfully- and bloodlessly- shepherded Patrick to much less substantial duties within the family business. Eventually marginalized to the point of extreme personal disinterest, power was easily transfered to Elverum by way of M/P's proxy. Moving quickly from sunglasses and croakies to pamphlets and breathless audio rants, the freshly christened PW Elverum and Sun became the primary outlet for its owner's deeply troubled worldview.


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Fried Veal Liver with Onion Soy Sauce
Ingredients for 4 portions
Per portion: 1198 kJ / 286 kcal
Preparation time: 45 mins
Wash the onions and cut them into thin slices. Heat up the oil in a pan. Sauté the onions until they turn golden brown. Add the stir-fry sauce and the chicken stock, then continue to simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Then add the butter and stir well.
Cut the liver into 150 g slices and season lightly with salt and pepper. Then coat in flour. Heat up oil in a frying pan and sauté the liver on both sides. Then arrange on a plate with your choice of side dish (e.g. salad, vegetables, wok-cooked vegetables, mashed potato & carrot, rice, potatoes) and pour the onion sauce over it. Garnish with chopped parsley.


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I reinstalled everything with mesa in it's name and xorg-x11-server. I started the bumblebee instillation steps from the beginning. I'm now getting a new error.
optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Error (3.2.1): [XORG] (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied
But AFAIK this is only necessary for the kernel drivers, i.e. nouveau. nvidia doesn't access /dev/dri/card0 I think.
So apparently there's something wron with your nvidia driver installation, or did you not install it at all now?
Anyway, try to add your user to the "video" group, you should be able to access /dev/dri/card0 in any case then.
But, if something is wrong in registering your user session with logind, you will have other problems as well, like not being able to install updates with the update applet or mounting removable media.Code::~> ll /dev/dri/card0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 0 14. Aug 10:17 /dev/dri/card0
So, please post the output of "loginctrl" inside the graphical session, run as user.
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I tried running it with Nouveau eventually because I was having such bad luck with Nvidia. I actually think the installer is failing when I try to install with Nvidia.
I looked around the log files and I can't find any way to fix this. I also don't have the command loginctrl and when I run cnf it brings up nothing. I'm going to reboot and see if anything changes.Code:Output of dkms-nvidia-340.24-16.2.x86_64.rpm %posttrans script: patching file nv-linux.h Hunk #1 FAILED at 958. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file nv-linux.h.rej ++ '[' -x /usr/sbin/dkms ']' ++ /usr/sbin/dkms add -m nvidia -v 340.24-16.2 --rpm_safe_upgrade Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/340.24-16.2/source -> /usr/src/nvidia-340.24-16.2 DKMS: add completed. ++ /usr/sbin/dkms build -m nvidia -v 340.24-16.2 Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping... Building module: cleaning build area.... make KERNELRELEASE=3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop module KERNEL_UNAME=3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop......... cleaning build area.... DKMS: build completed. ++ /usr/sbin/dkms install -m nvidia -v 340.24-16.2 nvidia: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop/updates/ Adding any weak-modules depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-uvm.ko): No such file or directory Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-3.16.0-rc7-1-desktop Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force --force-drivers "nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia nvidia" /boot/initrd-3.16.0-rc7-1-desktop 3.16.0-rc7-1-desktop *** Including module: bash *** *** Including module: warpclock *** *** Including module: i18n *** *** Including module: network *** dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/sysconfig/network/ifroute-*' /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.M41aad -a /etc/sysconfig/network/ifroute-* *** Including module: ifcfg *** *** Including module: drm *** *** Including module: plymouth *** *** Including module: kernel-modules *** Omitting driver i2o_scsi *** Including module: resume *** *** Including module: rootfs-block *** *** Including module: terminfo *** *** Including module: udev-rules *** Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules *** Including module: systemd *** *** Including module: usrmount *** *** Including module: base *** *** Including module: fs-lib *** *** Including module: shutdown *** *** Including module: suse *** *** Including modules done *** *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware *** *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done *** *** Resolving executable dependencies *** *** Resolving executable dependencies done*** *** Hardlinking files *** *** Hardlinking files done *** *** Stripping files *** *** Stripping files done *** *** Generating early-microcode cpio image *** *** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin **** *** Store current command line parameters *** Stored kernel commandline: rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia rd.driver.pre=nvidia resume=UUID=0b6abb33-9487-439d-929e-77a29b3f0bbd root=UUID=d2bad3a8-dad5-4b6f-93ce-ef4cd755e7f3 rootflags=rw,noatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4 *** Creating image file *** *** Creating image file done *** Update bootloader... depmod.... Backing up initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop to /boot/initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop.old-dkms Making new initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop (If next boot fails, revert to initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop.old-dkms image) dracut....(bad exit status: 1) -------- Uninstall Beginning -------- Module: nvidia Version: 340.24-16.2 Kernel: 3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop (x86_64) ------------------------------------- Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel. Removing any linked weak-modules nvidia.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop/updates/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. depmod.... Backing up initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop to /boot/initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop.old-dkms Making new initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop (If next boot fails, revert to initrd-3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop.old-dkms image) dracut....(bad exit status: 1) : There was a problem remaking your initrd. You must manually remake it before booting into this kernel. DKMS: uninstall completed. Error! Problems with mkinitrd detected. Automatically uninstalling this module. DKMS: Install Failed (mkinitrd problems). Module rolled back to built state. ++ popd Output of x11-video-nvidia-32bit-340.24-18.1.x86_64.rpm %posttrans script: /usr/lib/nvidia /usr/src / /usr/src /
Would you be interested in taking a look over Team viewer? I'd really appreceate it.
Heres some more info:
With Nvidia set as the driver bumblebee fails to start:
With nouveau set as the driver:Code:/usr/sbin/bumblebeed -vv [ 491.895825] [DEBUG]Found card: 01:00.0 (discrete) [ 491.895853] [DEBUG]Found card: 00:02.0 (integrated) [ 491.895860] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf [ 491.896265] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia [ 491.896280] [DEBUG]Skipping auto-detection, using configured driver 'nvidia' [ 491.896435] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modprobe started, PID 12479. [ 491.896524] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modprobe [ 491.898905] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes [ 491.898999] [DEBUG]bbswitch has been detected. [ 491.899027] [INFO]Switching method 'bbswitch' is available and will be used. [ 491.899037] [DEBUG]Active configuration: [ 491.899044] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf [ 491.899060] [DEBUG] X display: :8 [ 491.899067] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib64/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia [ 491.899071] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket [ 491.899075] [DEBUG] xorg.conf file: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia [ 491.899091] [DEBUG] xorg.conf.d dir: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d [ 491.899095] [DEBUG] ModulePath: /usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg/,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules [ 491.899100] [DEBUG] GID name: bumblebee [ 491.899104] [DEBUG] Power method: auto [ 491.899108] [DEBUG] Stop X on exit: 1 [ 491.899112] [DEBUG] Driver: nvidia [ 491.899116] [DEBUG] Driver module: nvidia [ 491.899120] [DEBUG] Card shutdown state: 1 [ 491.899261] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modprobe started, PID 12480. [ 491.899348] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modprobe [ 491.901432] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes [ 491.901463] [ERROR]Module 'nvidia' is not found. optirun status [ 627.108973] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect. [ 627.109043] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?
Code:optirun status [ 611.975412] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied [ 611.975482] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
Something went wrong with the nvidia driver installation.
I would try to completely remove dkms-nvidia and then install it again.
Some things are not done if you just reinstall it.
And try to remove everything starting with nvidia in /usr/src before you install it again.
So you are using Factory? (because of kernel 3.16rc7 and dracut)Code:sudo rm -r /usr/src/nvidia*
Btw, the current kernel is 3.16.0.
It is called "loginctl".I also don't have the command loginctrl and when I run cnf it brings up nothing. I'm going to reboot and see if anything changes.
Not really, sorry.Would you be interested in taking a look over Team viewer? I'd really appreceate it.
I never used Team viewer and don't have it installed.
I'm not even sure I could help you. I never used Bumblebee myself.
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PS: If you added those home:Knurpht repos that were mentioned earlier in this thread, please remove them again!
And remove all packages you installed from there, I saw x11-video-nvidia mentioned in one of your outputs.
They are outdated and unmaintained. And installing different packages of the nvidia driver at the same time only causes problems.
X11:Bumblebee should contain all you need.
And as I see now, the package is called "nvidia-bumblebee" there, not "dkms-nvidia", sorry.
You should uninstall "dkms-nvidia" as well if you have that installed.
Only install "nvidia-bumblebee" from X11:Bumblebee and the other packages mentioned here:
Remove all other bumblebee/nvidia packages from other repos.
Last edited by wolfi323; 15-Aug-2014 at 13:45.
Somewhere along the line I actually did a full reinstall of the OS. Its working now with various problems. The testing app glxspheres runs fine. Performance is pretty bad in the one game I tried. Simply running glxspheres the framerate doubles. But running stunt rally had really bad performance. I still have the same bug when I try to run kwin with it.
You do understand that under bumblebee you have to use
to start any process that you want to run with the NVIDIA chip. Otherwise you are still using the Intel chipCode:optirun program-name


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FINMARINET final conference was held on the 10th April, 2013 at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki.
The conference programme and presentations:
The following presentations are available in Finnish:
Mitä saatiin aikaan, menetelmien ja tulosten esittely:
Tarkentunut käsitys elinympäristöjen ja eliölajien esiintymisestä
FINMARINET has provided new information on species and their constituent communities in the Finnish sea areas. The project has collected data on animal and plant species from more than 22 000 sampling points from six study areas. In addition, the geological data acquired has involved scanning nearly 800 km2 of the seabed. The project has increased our understanding of biodiversity and focused on the location and extent of important habitats such as reefs and sand banks. In particular, we now know much more about habitat types and species from the offshore areas. This information is provided to the authorities to assess the adequacy of networks of protected areas and to guide possible further actions.
Red algae and moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in the Finnish coastal waters. Photo by Metsähallitus.
The Finnish Inventory Program for the Underwater Marine Environment (VELMU) has collected data on the diversity of underwater marine biotopes and species since 2004. FINMARINET was implemented under the VELMU umbrella from 2009 to June 2013.
FINMARINET was a joint venture by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Metsähallitus Natural Heritage Services, Geological Survey of Finland, Åbo Akademi and Turku University. The total budget was 3.4 million Euro, of which the European Union LIFE+ programme contributes 50 %.
A habitat is the area where an organism lives and breeds. Baltic Sea marine habitats are characterised by a number of abiotic variables that include light, temperature, water salinity, nutrient content, depth, exposure, bottom topography and substrate. The number of species in the Baltic Sea, particularly along the Finnish coast, is relatively low due to the young age of the Baltic Sea and due to the low water salinity. The human impact on Baltic Sea underwater habitats is significant. The marine environments are affected especially by agriculture, forestry and industrial activity.
The FINMARINET project mapped the occurrence and distribution of key species and important habitats within the project target areas. Habitats that are important for biodiversity include cold water reefs, sandbanks, coastal lagoons, large shallow inlets and bays, submarine structures made by leaking gases, esker islands as well as islands and islets in outer archipelago.
Within the project, underwater mapping was conducted in seven marine NATURA 2000 sites and in the adjacent exclusive economic zone (EEZ) waters. Bottom topography, substrate and biota were surveyed. Information on the variation of important biotic and abiotic factors in these areas was produced. Survey results were used in underwater habitat modelling.
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The newest and best in hybrid tech, bikes and emerging technologies and initiatives that will make our city cleaner and easier to get around.
The buzzing marketplace in the 2013 Sustainable City Showcase featured 120 exhibitors, ranging from an amazing line-up of hybrid cars and the latest in sustainable home products, to new season designs from sustainable fashion labels and a variety of delicious foods, such as Fairtrade ice blocks and tasty organic lamb burgers.
The exhibitors were conveniently arranged into the following zones:
- Commuting and transport
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Living a sustainable lifestyle can bring in a whole lot of riches from comfortable surroundings, lower energy bills to smart ways of living (and dying). Walk from the sustainable lifestyle city and discover a smarter and richer way of living.
The heart of the sustainable city and its fashion stores. The venue lets you explore and buy the latest fashions for summer, which make only a minimal impact on the environment with pieces made from organic cotton and make-up from natural products.
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The CW has released video clips from this week's episode, titled "Masquerade," featuring Clark going undercover to catch a killer.
Additionally, we have photos from the March 4 episode, "Scion," which, as CBR reported earlier, contains major developments in the mythos of the long-running series.
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Chloe and Oliver are mistaken for FBI agents investigating Desaad's recent string of murders and the pair are kidnapped by Desaad's minions. Desaad tries to infect Chloe with the darkness. Meanwhile, Lois tells Clark he needs to be more careful with his identity and suggests a disguise. Tim Scanlan directed the episode written by Bryan Q. Miller.
TESS SURPRISES CLARK - Lionel (John Glover) and Tess (Cassidy Freeman) go head to head in a battle for the Luthor name. Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) are stunned by Tess' latest present to them. Al Septian directed the episode written by Al Septian & Turi Meyer.


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Holiday Fair! Fair is Fair
I haven't had much of a chance to go through my shots from the 11/10 Holiday Market At Plum Creek, but it was a great time. There were about 50-75 vendors, good food, and entertainment. I even won a silent auction item (2 pies from the Texas Pie Company)
Oddly, it rained just before we got there.. and just after we left, but it was beautiful weather while we were there.
Anyhow... it's almost a week later, so I'll post up some of the shots I took in the next few days... starting with the booths:
This booth had one of my favorite games from my childhood. I don't even know the name of it... it's the yellow cone with the red plunger at the back of this photo... anyone have a name?
This woman was selling rugs and other things made using this loom. She demonstrated.
This is a hand-painted wall hanging (about 5x7") that my neighbor did. She had a booth. I'd seen Ms. Ann's painting on birdhouses before, but had no clue she was fairy-tale artistic.


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Brentano String Quartet begins Yale residency with Sep. 23 concert
— The Times (London)
The Yale School of Music presents the Brentano String Quartet on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 7:30 pm. The acclaimed ensemble will play music by Schubert, Bartók, and Mozart.
The concert opens with Mozart's String Quartet in B-flat major, K. 458, nicknamed "The Hunt" for the propulsion and harmony of the first movement. Bartók's fascinating String Quartet No. 3 follows, with what one writer has called a "kaleidoscope of coloristic effects."
Schubert's String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden," a perennial audience favorite, concludes the evening. Schubert, suffering through illness, wrote his "Death and the Maiden" quartet with the full knowledge that he would soon die.
This concert is the ensemble's first performance as the School's new quartet in residence. The members of the quartet are Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violins; Yale graduate Misha Amory, viola; and Nina Lee, cello.
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The Philadelphia Inquirer says, "The concert made it clear that these players could well be the best of the latest generation. Their level of individual technique was superb, while musical dialog necessary for rich chamber music was evident from first to last."
The concert takes place in Morse Recital Hall, located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street (corner of Wall Street), New Haven. This concert is part of the Oneppo Chamber Music Series, which is directed by David Shifrin.
Tickets start at $26, $13 with student ID, and are available at the Sprague Hall box office, by phone at 203 432-4158, or online. Subscriptions and samplers to the chamber music series are also available.
For more information, the public should visit music.yale.edu or contact the Yale School of Music concert office at 203 432-4158.
*Please note the 7:30 pm start time, which is new for the Yale School of Music in the 2014–2015 season.
About the Brentano String Quartet
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. Beginning in 2014, the Brentano Quartet succeeds the Tokyo Quartet as Artists-in-Residence at Yale University, departing from their 14-year residency at Princeton University. The quartet also currently serves as the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In recent seasons, the Quartet has traveled widely, appearing all over the United States and Canada, in Europe, Japan, and Australia. It has performed in the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall; the Library of Congress; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; and the Sydney Opera House. In 2012, the Brentano String Quartet provided the central music (Beethoven's Opus 131) for the critically-acclaimed independent film A Late Quartet. The feature film, directed by Yaron Zilberman, starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken and Mark Ivanir.
In addition to performing the entire two-century range of the standard quartet repertoire, the Brentano Quartet has worked closely with some of the most important composers of our time, among them Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Chou Wen-chung, and György Kurtág. The Quartet has been privileged to collaborate with such artists as soprano Jessye Norman, pianist Richard Goode, and pianist Mitsuko Uchida. In spring 2013, the second of three recordings featuring the late Beethoven Quartets was released on Aeon Records. Previous recordings include a disc of Mozart (also on Aeon) and the Opus 71 quartets of Haydn. In the area of newer music, the Quartet has released a disc of the music of Steven Mackey on Albany Records, and has also recorded the music of Bruce Adolphe, Chou Wen-chung and Charles Wuorinen.
Within a few years of its formation, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 1998, cellist Nina Lee joined the Quartet, succeeding founding member Michael Kannen. The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved," the intended recipient of his famous love confession. WEBSITE »


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According to the U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2006, practitioners of Islam comprised less than 1 percent of the population of Equatorial Guinea.[1] Adherents.com, however, estimates that Muslims make up anywhere from 1% to 25% of the population.[2] Many Indians in the country are also Muslims. There is one Ahmadiyya mosque in the country.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death here in America. If you are concerned about your heart's health, you probably know that you can reduce your risk of developing a heart condition by keeping your weight down, avoiding excessive alcoholic beverages, eating a low-fat diet, and exercising regularly.
These are all great preventative measures. Yet, did you know that if you reduce the number of free radicals that your body stores or creates, you can also significantly reduce your chances of dying from a heart condition?
What Is a "Free Radical"?
When the cells in your body are over-exposed to certain things, like sunlight, cigarette smoke, or X-rays, your cells' atoms and molecules undergo a change. They each gain or lose a negatively-charged electron, turning into ions that are known as free radicals.
Atoms and molecules become unstable when they lose an electron. Thus, the free radicals will tirelessly seek other electrons in an effort to become stable once again. When this happens in bulk, the cells in your bodily tissues can become severely damaged.
Atherosclerosis: One Common Side Effect of Free Radicals
Free radicals are most commonly associated with aging and cancers, but they can spawn a host of other diseases, as well. One of the most dangerous diseases that free radicals can cause is called atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis is the most common form of heart disease, and on the surface, it is seemingly unrelated to the presence of free radicals. The predominate symptom of atherosclerosis is the development of bumps, called plaques, on your artery walls, which block and inhibit your blood's ability to flow efficiently through your arteries. As these bumps increase in size, they narrow your arteries, causing a back-up of blood. Left untreated, these build-ups can result in strokes, heart attacks, and peripheral vascular disease.
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Appropriations Wrap-Up for Fiscal 2011
With both houses of Congress in recess until September, work on appropriations bills for fiscal 2011 has stalled. While yet to be approved by the full House of Representatives or Senate, working versions of bills providing funding for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation have passed various committee stages.
In the House, the labor/health and human services (LHHS) subcommittee approved $32 billion in funding for the NIH, equaling President Obama's request and representing a $1 billion increase over fiscal 2010. On the Senate side, the same subcommittee and full Appropriations committee have, in line with the House, approved $32 billion in NIH funds, despite a last-minute attempt by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., to add an additional $1 billion to the amount. Both totals are well below the $37 billion favored by ASBMB. Members of the Senate committee acknowledged that the recommended budget was "less than what would have been desired in stronger economic times," but they expressed hope that the modest increase in funding would "mark the first of several years of growth for the NIH that, if not spectacular, are at least steady and predictable."
Meanwhile, the House appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science (CJS) approved $7.42 billion for the NSF, $500M more than FY10 and equal to the president's request. However, in the Senate, the NSF was appropriated $7.35 billion by both the CJS subcommittee and the full appropriations committee. Those two values, both of which are lower than the $7.68 billion that was recommended by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, will need to be reconciled once both full houses pass their respective bills.
It is unclear when any of these bills ultimately will be taken up by the full chambers. The upcoming midterm elections likely will put a damper on any further congressional activity before November. In addition, should Republicans gain control of one or both houses of Congress, the prospect of a lame-duck session would further decrease the probability of the bills being passed this year.


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Time Has Come Today: Recent BBQ Exploits
I've been lucky enough to be cooking some holiday meals for some friends. The last few weekends I've been smoking up a storm while the weather has remained uncommonly mild in our neck of the woods.
This past weekend, I cooked two turkeys, 2 tri tips, a few pounds of kielbasa, a pound of cheddar cheese, 2 racks of spareribs, a clove-studded, honey glazed ham, and more. The weekend before that was more turkey, a beef tenderloin, more ribs and some ribeye steaks. I've been using a mix of hickory and cherry on everything and even have made some cherry wood lump charcoal of my own. Here're some pictures of the goodies.
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In honor of #InternationalKissingDay, which falls on Thursday (so #tbt shots permitted), Miley Cyrus invites you on Instagram to relive one of the most important kisses of her life: the first one she shared with Liam Hemsworth on The Last Song set:
One engagement, one breakup, and one re-engagement later, these two are still making it work off-camera. Aw.
(Hemsworth posted this The Last Song shot of them back in September, so the #tbt reminiscing is mutual.)


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On Sunday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shared his thoughts on new US President Barack Obama's policies and comments about the South American country's government. It wasn't pretty, although it fit appropriately with Chavez's stance toward the US. The remarks are reminiscent of comments made in a January interview that compared President Obama to his predecessor. In the interview, Chavez said that Obama carried "the same stench" as President Bush, who, according to Chavez in 2006, left an aroma of "sulfur" at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly as he addressed the UN shortly after Bush. The January comment was in response to Obama's accusations that Chavez must cease his support of the terrorist organization FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia). Chavez has denied lending any support to terrorists, although he denounced FARC's classification by the Columbian government as a terrorist organization in January 2008.
Chavez's comments Sunday came on his weekly address aired on Venezuelan state television. Chavez referred to the US President as a "poor ignoramus" who "should read and study a little to understand reality." Tensions between the two countries have been high for years and were not helped by Chavez's distrust and loathing of the Bush administration. With the new president taking office in January, Chavez had expressed a hope that the two sides could rebuild their relationship. The Venezuelan president even went as far as to commit to sending an ambassador back to Washington after removing the Venezuelan ambassador last year. He has since "put the decision back in the drawer."
Resorting to name calling and other childish games is not the way to improve relations. We learned this in grade school as we used these tactics in a failed attempt to get the kid with the deli-made sub to trade for a soggy banana and generic brand applesauce at lunchtime. Maybe Chavez is the one who should go back to school.
Pulling an ambassador from the US and expelling the United States' ambassador to Venezuela does little to help the matter either. Chavez has been hailed and damned by critics around the world and has met two attempts to overthrow his government since taking over as President of Venezuela in 1998. As President Obama has made good on promises to reexamine US diplomatic policies (revealing an interest in speaking with moderate elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan and sending a video message of goodwill to Iran), he has not made a similar move toward Chavez.
This may help to get things started, but the Venezuelan President has not made matters easy. The brash manner in which he addresses and responds to the US and other governments' comments or criticisms has made diplomacy with Venezuela difficult, if not impossible. Enjoying close ties with Russia, Venezuela recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia, despite US opposition. The United States is guilty of weakening diplomatic ties with Chavez as well, recognizing Pedro Carmona as President during the 2002 coup to overthrow Chavez's rule. Neither side would like to admit it publically, but it appears that as long as Hugo Chavez is at the helm in Venezuela, establishing and maintaining a good relationship with the South American country is unachievable.
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He's a living legend, an Australian icon, and he was probably the only actor ever to play the part of Frank N. Furter without the fingerprints of Tim Curry all over it: Reg Livermore. We met Reg in his beautiful house way outside of Sydney and spend some joyful hours with him, talking about his very own interpretation of Frank N. Furter, Jim's direction of the Australian show, Frank's (invented) … [Read More...]
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Shadow Cast of Brisbane
We had the honour to meet with Brisbane's very own shadow cast Cards 4 Sorrow in one of the city's run down but utmost atmospheric cinemas, the New Globe Theatre. Despite the fact that a cover band practiced old "The Cure"-songs right next door during the entire shooting, we had a very charming and highly interesting Q&A with the cast and their fans. Luckily, the cover band stopped practicing … [Read More...]
2000 times Riff Raff: Sal
There's a guy in Australia, called Sal Sharah, who has played the character of Riff Raff more than 2000 times! Can you believe it? When we've met Kristian Lavercombe, who by the time of the interview had played Riff Raff about 750 times, Kristian mentioned "that guy from Australia, Sal, you need to see him!", so we reached out to our sources, eventually found Mr. Sharah rather quickly and invited … [Read More...]
A Morning with Nell
She's Australia's national treasure and one of the funniest and most interesting persons we've met during the entire production. We've spend an entire morning (and actually most of the early afternoon) in Nell's house in Sydney, chatting away hour by hour. The chat (and, of course, the later interview) were utmost hilarious and of highest interest for us and most likely every Rocky Horror fan in … [Read More...]
The Director!
It was a huge honour and a highly interesting morning we've spend with Jim Sharman in his studio in Randwick, Sydney. Jim shared with us all the details which led to his involvement, the development of the story, the characters, the music and the play, his thoughts about the creative team involved, the insides of directing the movie and his personal opinion of the success and the cult phenomenon … [Read More...]
Meeting Paul Johnstone
He was the understudy in Jim Sharman's very first Australian production of "Rocky Horror" in 1975, played in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Godspell", took over the role of "Eddie/Dr. Scott" in the 1978 New Zealand production (directed by Rayner Bourton!), and played alongside Mel Gibson in his iconic first "Mad Max". Why he was destined for the role of Dr. Scott in his wheelchair is only one of … [Read More...]
The Voice of Rocky: Trevor White
The first person of interest we've met during our most recent trip to Australia was Mr. Trevor White, the actual voice of Rocky in the 1975 movie version. As Peter Hinwood wasn't particularly good in singing, the production team decided to dub his voice with Australian singer/actor Trevor White, known from earlier productions by Jim Sharman. We've spend a wonderful morning with Trevor and his wife … [Read More...]
A Fresh Frank: Gary Tushaw
The Rocky Horror Company presented a new, inspiring and rather "fresh" Frank N. Furter for their current European tour of 2017. We enjoyed the show pretty much, and had the chance to meet Gary a day after his performance to discuss his personal interpretation of Dr Furter, and how a show like this need to renew itself every once in a while to keep the amazement up. It was a very interesting and … [Read More...]
Light Designer Gerry Jenckinson
We've travelled down to Folkestone to meet with Gerry Jenckinson, the light designer of the Rocky Horror Show at the Theatre Upstairs and later shows in 1973/74. Gerry showed us his original script from the show, marked with different lighting Qs, his memorabilia, and told us many interesting facts about how the show was set up. It was a warm and beautiful day in Folkestone, and we were grateful … [Read More...]
750 times Riff Raff: Kristian
Kristian Lavercombe played the character of Riff Raff more than 750 times on stage, even alongside Richard O'Brien himself. We met Kristian in his illustrious home, an old caravan in the backyard of a housing estate, to talk about who he got involved into "Rocky Horror", his experience with different audiences and hardcore fans all over Europe, and how it felt to play Riff Raff while the creator … [Read More...]
Richard Hartley
It took us three years and five trips to London to finally meet Richard Hartley. Being part of the "Original Five", who actually created the musical and later the movie, it was an utmost pleasure to spend an afternoon with Richard, talking about the early concept of the show, the lyrics and rough chords from Richard O'Brien, which Richard Hartley put into unforgettable masterpieces of music, the … [Read More...]
Shadow Casting in the UK: Gia
Not only the United States have their history in shadow cast performances, but also the United Kingdom. We've met Gia Milinovich, who formed the first London cast back in the 1980s, performed until 1992, and started back in 2016 as Frank N. Furter at the BFI Double Feature. Gia told us about the obstacles one had to overcome when starting a cast long before the internet became public, about the … [Read More...]
Mrs. Fox
After being the casting director for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", Celestia Fox moved on and became responsible for the casting of many more classic movies like Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", Polanski's "The Pianist" and "Name of the Rose". We met Celestia in her beautiful summer home in Tisbury and spend a pleasant afternoon with her (and her wiener dog, on my lap, … [Read More...]
The Legendary Make-up Artist
Peter Robb-King is a living legend. Having worked as make-up designer on "Return of the Jedi", "Raiders of the Lost Arc", "Aliens", "Matrix", "Batman Begins" and a handful of Bond-movies, he's one of the industry's leading artist. One of his first major jobs were the make-up design of Frank N. Furter and Magenta in the "Rocky Horror Picture Show". Taking over the early concepts of Pierre LaRoche … [Read More...]
Jolly old London
Once again, jolly old London awaits us for more interesting interviews and locations. Unbelievable, but it's actually the fifth time we fly into Great Britain for this particular production. In the upcoming week we'll hopefully meet composer and musician Richard Hartley, who was part of the original bunch of five, the make-up artist Peter Robb-King, casting director Celestia Fox, some long-time … [Read More...]
An Italian Job
Our last assignment for 2016 was visiting Milan, where we met the exciting members of the "Diabolical Plan", one of Europe's longest running shadow casts (since 1991!), in the Cinema Mexico, where "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" screens weekly since 1981 (!), and the beautiful "A-Team Compagnia Teatrale" who wrote and perform their own Italian interpretation of the musical. Without a doubt, Milan … [Read More...]
Talking to "Agent" Linnit
Even the most hard core fans of "Rocky Horror" might never have heard of this gentleman: Mr. Linnit was the talent agent of the whole creative team from the original play. Michael represented Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman, Brian Thomson and Richard Hartley, and took a fair share in producing both the stage play and the movie. And though, in our days, he's a well known producer, he still represents … [Read More...]
An Original Punk – Kevin Short
During our last trip to London, in a typical pub somewhere in the suburbs, we had the pleasure to meet writer/director Kevin Short, well known through his documentaries "Punk Strut" and "A Reel Life". Being around the King's Road some 40 years ago, Kevin is as punk as it gets. For him, "Punk" is not an invention, an art or a contemporary fashion, for him it's an attitude. Kevin was friends with … [Read More...]
Introducing Mr. Ralph Hapschatt
You have seen this guy a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. Maybe more. But do you know his real name? More or less incidentally we stumbled upon Mr. Ralph Hapschatt himself, Jeremy Newson. During the BFI Southbank event, we had the very brief opportunity to meet Jeremy and ask him a few questions about the filming, his role and the later succession of "Shock Treatment". Filming his part in "Rocky … [Read More...]
Mad Man Mike, Marty and Ruth
At the BFI Southbank Science Fiction/Double Feature event, we met infamous longtime fans and performers Mad Man Mike, Marty Fairgrieve and Ruth Fink-Winter. We had the chance to talk to them about their experience of 30+ years of shadow casting, the difference between performing in New York City, Lincoln, Nebraska or Glasgow, and why shadow casting in front of a crazy audience could truly be … [Read More...]
Both The Sun and The Mirror call him a "national treasure". Well known comedian/actor Christopher Biggins has been around on the premiere of "Rocky Horror" at the Upstairs, played a Transylvanian in the movie and toured with the latest UK-production of the show as the Criminologist. We spend a cheerful hour with Biggins at a modern art gallery and asked a lot of questions about the past and … [Read More...]
Mr. Fox
Robert Fox was the associate of Michael White and a dear friend. He was around when "The Rocky Horror Show" premiered at the Upstairs, went on to the Chelsea Classic and the King's Road, when the contracts for the US were signed, and when the film was made. His wife by than, Celestia Fox, even was the cast director of the movie. We had a charming and very interesting interview with Robert and … [Read More...]
Yet another Tranny!
We had the honor to meet legendary Gaye Brown during her (and our) visit in London, and it was a hilarious morning. Without exaggeration, we have to say it was one of the funniest and most entertaining interviews we had during the last two years of production. Who would bring their own silver cutlery to Bray Studios, just for the lunch breaks? Well, you get the idea. And that was only the first … [Read More...]
Preview at HSDFF
Even though we haven't even finished filming our documentary yet, we've received a request from the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival to show some bits and pieces of our work during the event. We are pretty stoked and honestly proud that our funny little project got recognized by such an extraordinary festival even before the work is completed. So if you're in the area during October 7 - 16, … [Read More...]
New Faces: Annaleigh Ashford
With the upcoming re-imaging of the 2016 version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", a lot of new faces will be introduced to the already established characters. Besides Laverne Cox, who plays the role of "Frank N. Furter", and Victoria Justice as "Janet", Annaleigh Ashford will succeed Little Nell Campbell as "Columbia". We met Annaleigh in a coffee bar in L.A. and had a delightful chat about … [Read More...]
The Legend
Without him, neither "Star Wars" nor "Blade Runner" probably would ever have been produced. He was the president of Twentieth Century Fox and won the Academy Award for "Best Picture" with "Braveheart". Alan Ladd, jr. is a legend in Hollywood, so we were very excited when we got invited for a chat, talking about how the studio was almost ready to pull the plug on the production of "The Rocky … [Read More...]
Interview with Gracie Otto
We met the director of "The Last Impresario" in Los Angeles and had the opportunity to talk with her about Michael White, contemporary theatrical art in England and her personal opinion about "Rocky Horror". Her in-depth knowledge, her experiences with Michael, her Australian background and the most charming way of expressing herself made this interview one of the highlights of our trip. … [Read More...]
The Weekly Insanity
They are young, they are handsome, they are energetic, and they are full of self-awareness. Some of these kids are not even 20 years old, but they go out every weekend to perform their character of choice in front of the screen to entertain the audience and give the movie a whole new dimension. We met a few of them privately and were invited to film one of their shows, which was not only an … [Read More...]
Dates with the Community
It had been some fun nights. During our stay in California we met a bunch of Shadow Cast Performers in private and attended their show later on. And we had a very funny and exciting evening with the cast and crew of K.A.O.S. Santa Ana, where we discussed the impact of "Rocky Horror" to their personal life as well as the community and the pop culture in general. Thank you guys for an unforgettable … [Read More...]
Visiting Scott Michaels
Together with his co-author David Evans, Scott wrote one the most profound and indeed most interesting books about the subject of "Rocky Horror", called "From Concept to Cult". We met Scott in his agency "Dearly Departed Tours" and spend the whole morning, and even parts of the afternoon discussing all topics related to the phenomenon. Most likely there's nobody outside the inner production … [Read More...]
Meeting "The Man"
This man is a "cult classic" himself. Lou Adler has been in the music and entertainment industry since 1959 (!), being a producer and director for many well known films and music bands. Without him, "Rocky Horror" might have suffered an early death as a though extraordinary spectacular and popular, but only limited play in London of the 70s. Lou is mainly responsible for transferring "Rocky" over … [Read More...]
Oh … oh, Brad!
We visited Barry Bostwick in his beautiful country house in the outskirts of Northern Los Angeles and had a very interesting and rather charming talk for more than two hours. Along the way we found out how an American felt in 70s London, how Barry got almost decapitated during the filming, how he got the job of "Brad Majors", what his relation to Susan Sarandon was, and why Brad is such an … [Read More...]
Birthplaces of a Cult
Where did the Rocky Horror Phenomenon start? At the Waverly in New York City? The 8th Street Playhouse? The Strand in San Diego? The Tiffany in Los Angeles? In Austin, Texas? Or Illinois? Or somewhere completely unknown to us yet? Well, we guess it'll always be hard to find out who actually started the cult exactly where and when. But what we've found during our trip to Los Angeles were very, very … [Read More...]
L.A. Shooting confirmed
We're happy to announce that our shooting schedule for Los Angeles has been confirmed. We'll hop over to California by end of May to meet some exciting cast- and crew-members from the movie and stage productions, members of the studio, a bunch of fans, and hopefully a lot of other interesting people. As soon as we got the footage on camera, we'll be able to tell you whom we had the honor to … [Read More...]
Oh, Rocky: Rayner Bourton
He's eloquent. He's funny. And he likes to talk. A lot. It was an hilarious interview with the "Original Rocky" himself: Rayner Bourton. We literally talked for hours, about the early development of the Rocky-character, the first shows, later productions and how Rocky evolved from the intelligent, talking character (yes, in the original play Rocky actually had lines), to the rather sad, moaning … [Read More...]
Andrew Logan
More or less incidentally we had the honor to meet Mr. Andrew Logan, the famous sculptor, performance artist and jewellery-maker. Andrew is a reliable contemporary witness due to the fact that he was an active part of the creative bunch of artists in London of the early 1970s. Andrew was friends with Nell Campbell, Richard O'Brien and later Patricia Quinn and thus was able tell us lots of … [Read More...]
40th Anniversary at Royal Albert Hall
We were invited to attempt the 40th Anniversary Screening at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It was an amazing event with more than 5.000 visitors, a lot of celebrities on the red carpet, a Q&A session with Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell, hosted by Rufus Hound, and a cosy Meet & Greet party afterwards. … [Read More...]
Just two Trannies …
We travelled from the heart of London to the outskirts of Dorset to meet with Lindsay Ingram in her beautiful country home, almost at the rough shores of the English Channel. And we had an enchanting morning with Annabel Leventon in Regent's Park. Both ladies were part of the crew of singing and dancing Transylvanians, and both had lots to talk about the play, the production of movie, all the … [Read More...]
Mr. Michael White
We've got the honor and the privilege to meet the man, without whom nothing ever would have happened: Mr. Michael "Chalky" White. Due only to his initial investment into the play and his later involvement into the production, "Rocky Horror" was able to be born and to conquer the world. We spend a few hours at Mr. Whites home, had a nice chat and were able to browse through his enormous treasure of … [Read More...]
Interview with Peter Suschitzky
He's not only David Cronenbergs cameraman of choice and the DoP of "Star War - The Empire Strikes Back"; Peter was responsible for capturing Jim Sharmans visions onto film. And he did it very well, even though he was quite young and not too experienced, as he had only eight or ten films prior to the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Director of Photography on his role. We met Peter in his country house … [Read More...]
She's exciting. She's gorgeous. And she's fiercely amazing! We spend more than two hours just chatting with Patricia Quinn, and honestly, it was one of the most interesting interviews we've ever done. There's most likely nobody in the whole world who can tell you more about Rocky Horror than Pat does. Starting off with the creation of the characters during the early stage rehearsals, throughout … [Read More...]
Frank revisting his Castle
Well … almost. But we don't want to hide this beautiful picture from you, as we have met Jennifer DiMatteo at the Picnic, did an amazing interview with her and captured this gorgeous picture. Jenn, by the way, is a member of the famous New York shadow cast community, who performed a stunning Frank N. Furter during the Rocky Horror Berlin event this year. … [Read More...]
Rocky Horror Picnic Show 2015
So many lovely people, with costumes and make-up out of this world! Thanks to wonderful Stephanie Freeman and her husband David, we were invited to join the annual Rocky Horror Picnic Show at the famous Oakley Court, the original shooting location of the movie. And it was fun! We met the everlasting members of the UK-fanclub Timewarp, talked to whole families dressed in floorshow-outfits or as … [Read More...]
Principal Shooting: London II
After a delay of only six months, we finally got back where it all began - to jolly old London. Our shooting schedule was tight but well prepared: The Rocky Horror Picnic Show at the Oakley Court, a meeting with Pat (yes, this one), Peter Suschitzky (yes, that one), a dropping by at the Royal Court Theatre and onto Kings Road, an interview with the one and only Michael White, and some further … [Read More...]
Rocky Horror Berlin
Thanks to Max Mayhem and Louis Schneider from the Freiluftkino Rehberge, we got the chance to shoot the incredible 40th anniversary shadow cast performance of Rocky Horror Berlin. It was a crazy night, with lots of fun and a ton of exciting interviews. Funny though, we met the Frank N. Furter incarnation Jennifer DiMatteo from New York incidentally only a day afterwards in England. But that's … [Read More...]
40th Anniversary Remake
Tempers are running hot on the net, following Fox' latest announcement of a remake. Some fans do look forward to a 2015-TV version, others are going so far as to open online petitions against a remake. We will, indeed, look closely onto this upcoming production and hopefully get in touch with both the producer Lou Adler and director Kenny Ortega soon. … [Read More...]
New Shooting Dates
We are happy to announce some new shootings dates which have been confirmed just recently: We'll be filming prior and during the screening of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at MAGAZIN Filmtheater, Hamburg on January 29th, and we will be at the Rocky Horror Picnic Show at Oakley Court, organized by the timewarp.org.uk (thanks to Stephanie). Hope to see some of you there. … [Read More...]
Exclusive Original Costume Design
As a courtesy of Sue Blane, we are very happy to present a TRHP-exclusive picture of an original costume design for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. During our interview, Sue was so kind to open up her locker and show us some never before seen, rather early designs for the different shows and the movie. This drawing shows the full costume for the Floorshow scene of Janet, some parts of Rocky (right) … [Read More...]
Interview with Terry Ackland-Snow
Did you know that the art director of the Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1974 is the very same man who designed the original Batmobile for Tim Burtons iconic movie "Batman" 15 years later? During our interview with Terry Ackland-Snow at Pinewood Studios we gathered lots of very interesting facts and trivia first hand. Soon we'll be publishing some bits and pieces of this exciting conversation. … [Read More...]
Fabulous Sue Blane
We had an amazing time in Southern England with original costume designer Sue Blane, and a very interesting interview with Terry Ackland-Snow, the production designer of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Additionally we had the chance to shoot at the original filming location Oakley Court and nearby Bray Studios. Soon we'll post some bits and pieces of our newly acquired footage, so stay tuned. … [Read More...]


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"Guardians of the Galaxy" looks like it's getting a rewrite. Marvel Studios has tapped screenwriter Chris McCoy to rewrite a well-regarded draft by Nicole Pearlman of the 2014 film. Although McCoy has not yet been credited on a feature release, three of his scripts have appeared on Black List, the annual index of the top unproduced screenplays.
Opens August 1, 2014
Comic Book Movie has posted a photo gallery of Hugh Jackman with a giant beard and long hair on the set of "The Wolverine." CBM further reports that one of the scenes in the film shows Logan heading into town to buy camping gear.
Opens July 26, 2013
"Arrow" producer Marc Guggenheim spoke with IGN about the show and discussed, among other things, whether Batman could make an appearance in Starling City.
"Oh, my hope is that we can use him at some point," Guggenheim told IGN. "I think that plagued the 'Smallville' showrunners more than it plagues us because, obviously, the Dark Knight Trilogy is over. They're not available to us yet. My hope is that they'll be available to us at some point. That would be awesome. No question, that would be absolutely awesome. But I don't know. That's above my pay grade."
Additionally, io9 uncovered some recent "Arrow" casting information that actress Emily Bett Rickards has been cast in the recurring role of Felicity Smoak -- a character who was originally in the supporting cast of DC's "Fury of Firestorm." Smoak dated, and later married, Ed Raymond, who was Ronnie Raymond's father.
Premieres this fall on the CW
IGN spoke with Alexis Denisof about his role as Thanos' right-hand man in the post-credits scene in "The Avengers" and whether he'll appear again.
"Obviously, it was amazing to be a part of that -- and that's about all I can say," Denisof told IGN. "I know that there are some very cool conversations happening about where that team of superheroes is going to go and who they're going to be dealing with and places that they go. Now you know my character's a villain, so, yeah I'm as excited as everybody else."
Deadline reports actress Jennifer Ehle is currently in negotiations to join the cast of the upcoming "Robocop" reboot. Ehle, a two-time Tony award winner, would be portraying Liz Kline and join a star-studded cast including Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Oldman, Hugh Laurie, Abbie Cornish and Samuel L. Jackson.
Opens August 9, 2013
A new "Dredd" poster hit yesterday, depicting Karl Urban as the titular Judge with a city in flames behind him.
Opens September 21
"Total Recall" opens today and actress Kate Beckinsale, who plays Douglas Quaid's wife Lori in the film, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her role as a villain.
"I don't think she has any idea she's a bad guy," Beckinsale told THR. "I think she thinks she's a good guy like all the best villains. And she's got that slightly insane quality of not being able to see, necessarily, the big picture."
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Africa and the Bass : South Africa
Some of the world's most inventive bass playing can be found in Africa's modern pop music. While some players have gotten a share of the international spotlight, most of the continent's great bassists have remained unsung heroes. Over several issues, we'll focus on four of Africa's most bass-obsessed countries—South Africa, Cameroon, Congo, and Zimbabwe—and find out how Africans have been taking the instrument to new places.
"There's no good music without bass," says Bakithi Kumalo, the South African bass guru, matter-of-factly. "Especially if you're gonna play African music. The drums might be the heart of African music, but the bass is its body. The bass surrounds the music."
Home to over one billion people, over 50 countries, and over 1,000 local languages, the immense diversity found within Africa makes it difficult to generalize about the continent and its music. But there is little doubt that Kumalo is right: There is a special place for the low end in Africa. African bassists are rarely content to sit back, lock in with the kick drum, and outline the harmonies. The bass plays a more active melodic and rhythmic role in African music, often dancing around the beat in counterpoint to the rest of the band and leaping around the neck to execute slippery 16th-note licks. And African bass is usually pushed way up to the front of the mix for all to appreciate.
For the most part, bass instruments were not a part of traditional African ensembles before colonization. There wasn't any need for them; the bottom-end support of harmonic movement was a fundamentally European musical concept. One exception is the ground-bow, known as the kalinga in Southern Africa. It was made by tying a long gut string to a tree sapling on one end and anchoring the other in the ground, using the earth itself as a resonator. The player adjusted the pitch by pulling on the sapling and changing the string tension, a design that reappeared in the Mississippi Delta in the form of the washtub bass.
Musical ideas may have flowed from Africa to the Americas during the slave trade, but they went back the other way in the 20th century as Black American sounds came to Africa on LPs and over airwaves to influence music in the motherland. In the 1950s, a variant on the washtub bass sprung up in the sprawling townships of apartheid South Africa: the tea-chest bass, a one-string instrument made from the big plywood boxes used throughout the former British Empire to ship tea. The teachest was used to accompany kwela, a sort of stripped-down jazz played on pennywhistles and guitar. A few elite dance orchestras boasted upright basses, but the instruments were far too expensive for most South Africans.
The country's greatest bass innovator was also literally the first black man in South Africa to own an electric bass. In 1962, more than a decade after Leo Fender rolled out the first P-Basses, Joseph Makwela bought a second-hand instrument from a white South African session player. He soon became the bassist for the Makhona Tsohle Band, which backed artists on the Mavuthela record label, the "South African Motown" that crafted the soul-inflected, electrified pop sound known as mbaqanga (see Ex. 1). Makwela's style would profoundly affect future generations of bassists. "When we started to hear Joseph Makwela, it blew us away," says Bakithi Kumalo. "We had no idea what he was doing. It was incredible."
Under mid-tempo, four-on-the-floor drum grooves and sunny I-IV-V progressions, Makwela would pick heavy, rhythmic lines full of melodic fragments played high on the neck, characterized by a trebly, attack-heavy tone. However, what stands out most in Makwela's lines are the slides: up and down the neck, inflecting nearly every note and giving the instrument an almost human voice. According to Kumalo, voices may have been his inspiration. "I think Makwela's lines came from a capella vocals," he says, referring to the all-male choral groups ubiquitous in South Africa. "He would listen to the guy singing on the low end, and just grab the part."
After Makwela, Bakithi Kumalo would become the country's most renowned bass man. Growing up in Johannesburg on a mbaqanga diet, he would later translate South African ideas to international rock on Paul Simon's Graceland [Warner Bros., 1988], a classic bass album that prominently features Kumalo's meaty fretless Washburn 820. He bought the bass simply because it was the cheapest one he could find at the time, but with those big slides engrained in his musical DNA, it was a perfect fit.
Kumalo seasons his playing with tasty, finger-busting licks, showing an evolution of Makwela's high-register melody concept; listen to the fills on Paul Simon's "Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes," for example (see October '07 for a transcription). For Kumalo, it's all about playing the right thing at the right time. "When I play fills, I don't think about a lot of notes. I think about singing the song. It's like you are answering and telling them, 'Hey, I hear what you say, here's some of my stuff.'"
You could call it call-and-response—and that's one of the oldest African musical ideas around. —Marlon Bishop


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I love recipe development. I could spend all day experimenting in the kitchen (and often do) and I can only think of two drawbacks; washing up and wasting food when experiments fail. Fortunately, the Husband is a bit of a human waste disposal unit and, assuming it's still edible, he'll often eat my failures anyway. As for the washing up, I am growing to accept it as a necessary evil (and when I just can't face it, I throw everything in the dishwasher!). From today, I am officially emerging from a work induced blog-hibernation. If you count all the writing and recipe development I've been doing over the past few weeks, on top of my day job, I must be working about 100 hours a week! Fortunately, I've found the time to have a wee break and, to celebrate this time off, I have baked a cake...
Spiced Apple and Pear Cake
I called this 'Garden of England Loaf Cake' in the title, because that's what this is, a celebration of the abundant produce that I am fortunate enough to find on my doorstep in Kent. I realise that these fruits aren't quite in season yet, but there are some fanastic juice producers here whose juices are available year round. I used Clearly Juice, but Moor Organic and Owl House Fruit Farm are also made in Kent, while many orchards make and sell their own juices in farm shops around the county.
125ml pressed apple juice
125ml pressed pear juice
1/2 cup golden caster sugar
1 tbsp molasses sugar, or molasses syrup
1 star anise
1/2 cinnamon stick
120g margarine
2 large eggs
115g natural yoghurt
240g gluten free plain flour mix
1 tsp baking powder
- Pour the juices, caster sugar, molasses, star anise and cinnamon stick into a saucepan and bring to the boil, do not stir. Allow to bubble gently until the sugar has dissolved, then boil rapidly for 5 minutes to reduce by about half. Take off the heat and leave to cool.
- Remove the star anise and cinnamon stick (or strain, if the spices have broken up) and measure 125ml of the cooled syrup and pour into a large bowl.
- Add the margarine, eggs, yoghurt, gf flour mix and baking powder and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth.
- Pour into a greased and lined 2lb/900g loaf tin, and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C, for 40 minutes, until a skewer come out of the middle cleanly.
- Turn out and cool on a cake rack.
If you have any leftover syrup, it will keep for about 5 days in the fridge (or pour into an ice cube tray and freeze) and is great added to a hot toddy or ginger tea!


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