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Just Because New Artist Platforms Aren't Minting Millionaires Doesn't Mean These Platforms Have Failed
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As is to be expected, a small percentage of artists made thousands of dollars while many others made far, far less. Tunecore was braced for the inevitable criticism, however.
But for all those that may comment suggesting most are making less, my response is, you've got to be kidding me. These artists, all of them, are outside of the traditional system. Some are earning hundreds of thousands and some are earning $20.Well, Paul over at Digital Music News must have read nothing but the spreadsheet, because his post attempts to explain the "and this is bad because..." part (while glossing over the "something vs. nothing" angle) by pointing out that 99.9% of the artists listed make less than minimum wage.
And this is bad because...?
With the music industry democratized more artists are making more money than ever before. All of this money you are seeing is going directly into these artists' pockets; this is money they would have never ever seen before.
Now add the songwriter money on top of this money.
Someone needs to explain to me why an artist earning something vs. nothing is a bad thing, as I truly cannot understand that logic. As far as TuneCore, as I have stated over and over, it's your music that causes it to sell. It's up to you to decide if the services and fees TuneCore charges work for you.
But now, it turns out there's an even more depressing figure: 99.875% - or nearly all - of Tunecore artists are making less than minimum wage through the platform, based on revenue figures recently shared by the company.DMN takes issue with Tunecore's claim that more artists are making money than ever before, simply because "more money" doesn't equal "a lot of money." It even goes so far as to implicitly suggest that artists were better off with the old system, running through a set number of gatekeepers, by quoting Paul's (Tunecore) "democritization of music" line before asking, "But is this really true?"
And that only counts revenues - not costs for creating content or annual fees owed to Tunecore. It also assumes that Tunecore revenues are being paid to one, solo artist, instead of being divided by a group.
Tunecore CEO Jeff Price came firing back, pointing out what's wrong with arguments that new systems don't work because everybody's not making thousands of dollars.
Paul, why do you put down artists for making money? These artists did it on their own, drove every sale, earned every penny without having to give up their copyrights or sacrifice control, something never before possible in the history of the modern music industry. I published the numbers in response to statements claiming artists cannot can sell music without a major label. So why on earth are these tangible, actual results being painted as failures?Why are they painted as failures? Just ask regulars in our comment threads. These solutions "don't scale." Which tends to mean one thing: not everyone is making tons of money, therefore the system is a failure. But averaging numbers doesn't present the whole picture, as Price points out.
The "average income" formula you created may be the most useless, meaningless statistic I've ever seen. Here's an example as to why:With this "argument" broken down, what exactly is someone who points out miniscule sales numbers trying to tell the artists? Is it a backhanded attempt to paint the artist as "screwed" by Tunecore? Or is it something even worse?
An artist that makes $20 a year in music sales sits alone in a room. Average made per artist = $20. Now an artist that makes $1,000,000 a year enters the same room. Average made per artist = $500,010.
So what did we just prove exactly? Same thing you did; nothing.
The truth is, most artist don't make that much in music sales a month, and we all know it. Most make much less. So what exactly is the point of your article? Are you saying that artists should give it up, as it's a tough business? What exactly is your news story? Drop your guitar and go work at a fast food restaurant?Price goes on to point out what should be blatantly obvious, but often gets ignored during this sort of conversation: it's ALWAYS been a small percentage of artists that become very successful. This isn't new. This has always been true of the music business.
The "odds" of becoming a household name in music during your lifetime, of becoming a superstar, have always been microscopic, and we all know it. But until recently, every single one of the artists who "made it" and did not "make it" were forced through a system of gatekeepers, opinion-shapers, cultural and business guardians that took their copyrights and took advantage. Are you advocating a return to that system?Price says the best thing you can do is arm artist with as much information as possible, rather than attempting to scare them away from doing what they love with the insinuation that making music just isn't worth it.
It can take years, thousands and thousands of dollars of investment, endless hours of work and sacrifice before something finally gives and the stone wall you've been banging your head against finally cracks. Your pseudo, baseless "analysis" suggests independent artists can't "make it". Bullshit.
Tell them the truth: it's hard, it's going to be tough, most of you won't become a superstar. Here's the information you need to know, here are the options, it's up to you to make it happen. Go into this with eyes wide open. No promises.As he points out, the spreadsheet shows artists making thousands of dollars a month, which was conveniently ignored in order to shout, "THIS DOESN'T WORK!" 6,000 artists who would have made next to nothing (or nothing at all, if not recouped) are all making money. Things are getting better for the artist, but those who align themselves with the old system seem to think that because the music industry isn't awash with millionaires, new platforms are failures.
So some artists made a "mere $1,280" a month from digital music sales (this is a put down?). Newsflash, many made less, but had they gotten those sales while signed to a traditional record label, they'd have gotten no money and, most likely, six weeks after street date, they would have been dropped. That's the fate of 98% of the acts that came through the majors alone.
The fact is that the old systems won't work anymore and even in their prime, they weren't any better at turning artists into millionaires than the current systems. The real downside is that those who claim to be "for the artist" are often the first ones to paint the bleakest picture possible. How does that help?


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Morning has given way to afternoon.
And it's a good one for University of Miami football fans, who are awaiting the most fun game of the season: FSU.
Miami quarterback Stephen Morris, who sprained his left ankle during Saturday's North Carolina game, was out there this morning, practicing on Greentree Field -- though Coach Al Golden, who we just talked to, is definitely downplaying the situation.
Golden indicated Morris was very limited, and that all he did was throw the ball. He said he couldn't drop back -- but he did drop back-- repeatedly -- and fired the ball in the 15 minutes we watched.
He was wearing the exact same practice uniform that backup Ryan Williams wore. His left ankle was not visibly wrapped, but you can bet it was wrapped under his white sock. He stayed during the whole practice, I was told, helping Ryan Williams in the huddle and encouraging his teammates.
So, what we saw was Stephen practicing his drop-back steps, then releasing the ball to receivers. When I saw him, he was alternating his throws to Kendal Thompkins and Rashawn Scott. And, as usual, he was zipping the ball with velocity.
When the horn sounded, Morris jogged to the rest of his teammates, who had gathered to start the more intense part of practice, and we left.
Golden: "He just threw stationary. It's not a situation where he can drop yet or plant,'' Golden said. "Ryan [Williams] took all the reps. [Third-team QB] Preston [Dewey] took some as well. Again, we're moving forward with Ryan and we'll see if Stephen can in these last 72 hours do something.
"I'm not surprised that he could just stand there and throw.''
Golden was asked, ''Encouraging that he's out here, vs. not even being out there at all?"
Golden: "Yes.'
The coach said he's still swollen, though I had heard they've made progress in that area and that the swelling had subsided quite a bit yesterday. "He's in a boot if he's not here,'' Golden said. "He's back inside getting some treatment and he'll continue to do that.''
One thing we know for sure is that those FSU defenders are going to be flocking to the quarterback Saturday. We also know that Stephen Morris is a warrior.
"He's always a guy who heals from injuries quick,'' said running back Eduardo Clements. "That's the type of quarterback and leader he is. He never wants us to see him down.''
That's all for now.
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Community groups worked overtime in Queens' Far Rockaways after Sandy. Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, our federal disaster response is inadequate, and communities of color continue to suffer the brunt of our collective failures.
"You from FEMA?"
I heard that question over and over on Sunday, November 4, as I walked through Arverne, Queens with Desean Burrus, the Rockaways organizer for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). Along with a vanload of other canvassers, Burrus was going door to door, doing the kind of needs assessment that, according to local residents, no government agency had yet done.
Six days into the crisis that has been Superstorm Sandy, the gas lines still snake down Brooklyn streets and even stretch onto the highway, and churches, community centers and homes have been turned into staging areas for Occupy-affiliated activists and community groups like NYCC, the Rockaway Youth Task Force, CAAAV in Manhattan's Chinatown and many more.
Four years after "community organizer" became a slur laced with all the racial venom that Sarah Palin could invoke, it is community organizers who are doing the real relief work in New York's outer boroughs, the ones that don't make for dramatic night-time photo ops. Community organizers, whose skills extend beyond simply handing out canned goods and bottled water, to listening and talking, allowing people to vent their anger and fear, assessing what's most needed and most importantly, helping people direct that anger about being abandoned at the right people and places, to get results.
"No Red Cross, no FEMA, no nothing," Addie Patterson told us after having flagged us on the street corner, just past a generator set up on the island in an intersection where people were chatting while they charged the cell phones that didn't get much of a signal in any case. She'd moved her family, including her 88-year-old mother, down several blocks because her neighborhood was abandoned. Her second-floor apartment was OK, she said, but downstairs her neighbor had lost everything.
The flood lines on some buildings were higher than my head, and several days past the storm, some of the trash piles outside of homes were taller than me as well. First-floor apartments needed a complete gutting, with sodden couches piled up next to refrigerators and big-screen TVs. Derrick Adams, who's sleeping in his truck outside of his house, invited us in to see the wreckage; in his kitchen, a framed poem reminded us to "Relax, God's in Charge!"
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Marie Satchwell, who was outside with her children, a line of shoes stretching down the stone wall around her home, told us that "obviously" she felt abandoned by the big rescue agencies. The only attention she'd seen, she said, was a big truck that came by and dropped boxes of supplies in the street, leaving people to rifle through it themselves. While aid was hard to come by, she noted, the police were everywhere, standing outside, hands casually on guns, as hot food was distributed, or driving slowly down the streets, observing the cleaning going on.
The story of overzealous policing (in this mostly black neighborhood) was echoed by Kenyatta Hutchinson, who was staying with his wife and children at a friend's house after his place flooded. "All I see is cops, and they're still harassing us," he said. Several people on the block had reacted with concern when they didn't see one of their neighbors for days after the storm - they called the police, but all NYPD did was knock on the door and then leave. Meanwhile, he continued, the one thing not destroyed in his apartment was a flat-screen TV, but with the police patrolling after dark, he was worried about bringing the TV out and being accused of stealing his own property.
"We've got nothing but ourselves," Hutchinson said. "Where's the real help? Where's the government?"
Down the street, Doris Keel-Ade told us she'd lived on this block 40 years and considers it secure, close, safe. Neighbors everywhere were helping one another move furniture out, sharing generators and supplies. Alain Toussaint, who took me around the back of his house to show me the flood remnants on top of his SUV and the flood lines on his house nearly at his shoulders, immediately asked Burrus for information on volunteering with NYCC.
At each house, Burrus introduced himself as an organizer with a community group, shook hands, listened to people's stories, and got a name and phone number (even with spotty cell service, he's in this for the long haul, spending most of his days in this neighborhood even when flooding and winds haven't drawn the attention of much of the state to it). When, unprompted, two different residents brought up the issues in their public schools, he nodded and made notes. "We work on that too," he said.
In marked contrast, as we walked, several different carloads of volunteers - all white - arrived as we stood outside homes, chatting with residents. In one case, a woman approached with a box of food, speaking slowly as if addressing children. "I have food. Would you like some?" she said. I wanted to tell her that she was, in fact, in New York; the comparisons of post-Katrina New Orleans to a "Third World country" flew through my head and I wondered, did she think these people were so shell-shocked they wouldn't understand?
Shell-shocked they weren't, six days after the storm. They were angry and sad, determined and devastated, ready to pick up and move on, but unable really to do so with no power, no phone service, no news. Food and water distribution was one thing, gutting flooded rooms another; how does one begin the rebuilding process without access to basic technology?
"What you are doing, the feds and the state and the city should be doing, so that you know you're on a list, that you count," said Yasmin Bailey Stewart, a schoolteacher originally from Jamaica who had no problem pointing out that the whiter, wealthier areas of the Rockaways seemed to have no problem getting supplies. "Enough people are out of work now, they could get them to do it."
Headed back to work tomorrow, she told us, the storm had decreased her tolerance for standardized testing even further. "When people try to troubleshoot, they can't," she said, when all they've had is multiple-choice tests. And as for billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, she shrugged. "He thinks he's smart, but the decisions he's making are not people-oriented and it costs lives."
The needs of the community that could be met immediately were: Burrus and others packed bags and boxes with food and toiletries, diapers and blankets and brought them back to the homes. Other items - like radios and flashlights - that people requested were noted for later and calls sent out depending on needs. (Later, as I caught up with other canvassers, we compared the different needs of the neighborhoods we'd been in, sometimes just blocks apart, but often vastly different in what they thought to ask volunteers for.)
It may be impractical for the federal government to have a fully staffed disaster response network in each state, and yet the massive resources that federal and state can marshal are obviously necessary as well. (No community group or Occupy mutual aid network, however awe-inspiring, can solve the current gas shortage, for example.) FEMA and the Red Cross, instead of parachuting in after the storm, would do well to form relationships with the people who do everyday social justice work in the communities most vulnerable to natural, as well as economic, disasters.
The excellent work of community groups on the ground highlights the degree to which the social safety net remains in tatters, and how even seven years after Hurricane Katrina, our federal disaster response is inadequate - and how it continues to be communities of color that suffer the brunt of our collective failures


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Maybe those notions about another major expansion of Tiger Stadium aren't such a bad idea.
LSU announced Monday it has set another record when it comes to football season ticket sales.
The school has sold 68,772 season tickets for the 2011 campaign, topping the old record of 68,650 set the last three years.
The increase was made possible because LSU added a small number of club seats for this season, raising Tiger Stadium's capacity from 92,400 to 92,542.
Even that is not enough to satisfy the demand for LSU football tickets. Brian Broussard, assistant athletic director for ticket operations, said in a statement that LSU will announce details later this month for ticket plans targeted in part at fans who couldn't get season tickets.
"The demand for LSU football season tickets is stronger than ever," Broussard said. "The requests for season tickets continue to be higher than the number of tickets that we have to offer. However, we will continue to try to find ways to help those fans who couldn't get season tickets with mini-plans or individual game tickets."
LSU sold 68,650 season tickets the last three years and has sold out of season tickets every year since 2004.
LSU reserves about 15,000 tickets for students and 7,000 for opposing Southeastern Conference teams.
How big a chunk of Tiger Stadium is 68,772 seats? Consider that the so-called "lower bowl" of Tiger Stadium (not including the east and west upper decks) seated 67,720 from 1953-78.
At 92,542, Tiger Stadium remains the eighth-largest on-campus stadium in college football, ranking just behind Georgia's Sanford Stadium (92,746). LSU's average attendance in 2010 was 92,718 for seven home games.
Coincidentally, LSU and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., now have the same exact seating capacity.
LSU opens its home schedule at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 against Northwestern State. The Tigers will play six home games in 2011, its fewest since also playing six home games in 2005.
Practice schedule set
LSU also released its preseason practice schedule Monday, running through Aug. 28.
LSU players report to West Campus Apartments starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday. Practice begins with two-a-day workouts Thursday - returning varsity at 9:25 a.m., freshman and selected returning players at 4:15 p.m.
The Tigers' first full-squad practice is set for Saturday, with scrimmages taking place Aug. 13, Aug. 18 and Aug. 23.
As is customary, LSU practices are closed except to invited guests.
LSU will hold its annual media day on Aug. 9. LSU football fan day is set for Aug. 13 and will be held from 4-6 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and the Carl Maddox Field House.
The Tigers begin normal game-week preparations Aug. 29 leading up to LSU's season opener, 7 p.m. Sept. 3 against Oregon in Arlington, Texas.
Poll watching
LSU coach Les Miles tweeted Monday that he has once again been invited to vote on the USA Today coaches' poll.
"My ballot is due this afternoon with the preseason poll coming out Friday," Miles wrote.
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It took just 1:54 of game time before Marshall Henderson hit his first 3-pointer of the game, his 61st-straight game with a 3-pointer, to break the SEC record previously held by Pat Bradley of Arkansas.
Henderson was one of four Rebels in double figures, as Ole Miss snapped a four-game losing streak with a 79-67 win over Alabama Wednesday in Oxford. He finished with 13 points, all in the first half, on 4-of-13 shooting, including 2-of-8 from the 3-point line.
Henderson has hit a 3-pointer in every game of his two-year Ole Miss career and ranks fourth all-time in school history with 248 career 3-pointers, one behind Keith Carter for third place all-time. He has hit multiple 3-pointers in 60 of 61 career games, with last season's game against Georgia, an 84-74 win for Ole Miss, being his only career game without multiple 3-pointers.
"It's an honor to break the record," Henderson said. When you shoot as many threes as I do, records are bound to fall."
Jarvis Summers, logging a team-high 38 minutes, led the Rebels with 20 points, his team-leading 10th 20-point game of the season. Summers was 5-of-15 from the field and 1-of-6 from the 3-point line, but he was 9-of-10 from the free throw line.
The star of the game, however, was Martavious Newby, who returned from a hand injury less than two weeks ago on Feb. 18 against Kentucky, having suffered the injury on Jan. 25 against Mississippi State. He set career highs with 15 points and 10 rebounds, his first career double-double, and provided immeasurable energy in 31 minutes off the bench.
"He was without question the MVP of the game," head coach Andy Kennedy said. "That was the Martavious Newby recruited, the guy that we thought would be energy. That's what he was. He was all over the field. He didn't hesitate. He stepped up and knocked down two big threes, and the timing of those were huge. He kept balls alive. He was without question the energy component that we were looking for to grind out a win."
Led by Newby, Ole Miss outrebounded Alabama, 42-24, including 17-7 on the offensive glass, which led to a 21-8 advantage in second-chance points. The 18-rebound advantage was the largest of the season for the Rebels. Anthony Perez (nine points) was second on the team with eight rebounds, followed by Aaron Jones (12 points) and Demarco Cox (five points) with six rebounds each.
"The stat that jumps out to me, our Achilles' heel all year has been rebounding, and we were plus-18 on the glass. Anthony had a huge one at the end. Newby kept balls alive, and Demarco Cox gave us his best minutes in a long, long time. It was a good team effort."
With the win, Ole Miss remains in fourth place in the SEC standings, tied with LSU and Tennessee at 8-7 in league play, with the fourth-place team earning the fourth and final double bye to the SEC Tournament quarterfinals.
"We have to do what we're supposed to do and that's prepare for Texas A&M, who is also in that equation, and try to go and break through on the road," Kennedy said.


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DALLAS (AP) — Former first lady Laura Bush says the George W. Bush Presidential Center is meant as much for U.S. military personnel and others as it is for her husband.
In remarks Thursday morning to some 10,000 people who gathered for the dedication of the center, Bush said the presidency is represented by the important roles played by tens of thousands of military personnel.
She also thanked many in the Bush administration who worked behind the scenes to forward U.S. policy.
She talked of moments that defined her husband's presidency, including the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. She described the aftermath as a "long season of heartbreak and healing."
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Skip to comments.Justice Department obtained records of Fox News journalist
Posted on 05/20/2013 11:24:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists.
The information follows the charge that the department secretly obtained two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a separate leak probe.
In the case involving Fox News' James Rosen, a government adviser was accused of leaking information after a 2009 story was published online which said North Korea planned to respond to looming U.N. sanctions with another nuclear test.
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Good thing Obama didn't know about this. /s
It's never a good idea to pi$$-off Roger Ailes(sp).
That is what it appears to be. According to the DOJ, Rosen (a member of the free press})is now a 'conspirator' in their eyes.
I want to know (a) the chain of command in the DOJ that pursued this; and (b) the name of the judge signing the search order.
Stinking Democrat nazis.
Freedom of the press, the due reward for journalists who report the glories of dear leader...
Hmmmm....so where were all of these crack DOJ investigators when Seymour Hersh was regularly blowing overseas intelligence operations?
DOJ = Gestapo
Don't Feed The Bears! There's no going back now. This is the land of garbage dump bears and they don't care what the government does to them as long as they get a free "picanic basket."
You know, "Rosen" could be a Jewish name. Gestapo indeed.
Who is Winston Smith?
The real Q is, will the rest of the media wake up and ask themselves, "What if it was me they targeted?". Will they start to turn on Zero and his Marxist army? Will enough reporters drop out of the Obama Propaganda Army and start doing some real reporting on this "most transparent administration in history"? Inquiring minds want to know....
Report: DOJ Investigated Fox News Reporter in 2009 Leak Probe
"I'm not saying it's unprecedented, but I can't think of a case in which this has ever happened before," said Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume.
Fox News' executive vice president of news, Michael Clemente, released a statement defending Rosen. The statement issued Monday afternoon is below:
"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press."
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Cameron Mackintosh's legendary production of Boublil and Schnberg's Les Misrables is a global stage sensation, seen by 70 million people in 51 countries and 22 languages around the world.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misrables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption - a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
Ex-convict Jean Valjean is hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.
Featuring the songs "I Dreamed A Dream", "Bring Him Home", "One Day More" and "On My Own" - Les Misrables is 'The Show of Shows' (Newsweek).
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BOOKING PERIOD: Until 2 March 2019
PERFORMANCE TIMES: Monday - Saturday: 7.30pm, Wednesday & Saturday: 2.30pm
RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 50 min (including one intermission)
AGE RESTRICTION: Recommended for children aged 7 or over; children under 5 will not be admitted.
VENUE: Queen's Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 6BA, UK


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The third time may be the charm for Gainesville and the Trey McIntyre Project. The contemporary ballet company returns to Gainesville at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Phillips Center.
The third time may be the charm for Gainesville and the Trey McIntyre Project. The contemporary ballet company returns to Gainesville at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Phillips Center.
Not that Trey McIntyre Project wasn't a hit the last two times they performed here — 2009 and 2011 — quite the opposite. As such, and as part of UF Performing Arts' 20th anniversary celebration, Trey McIntyre Project is reprising "Leatherwing Bat," which it featured on a 2009 local bill, along with two works that are new to the Phillips stage.
"Leatherwing Bat" is set to music of Peter, Paul and Mary. From his 2009 interview before the company's performance here, artistic director Trey McIntyre said, "It's from the album Peter, Paul and Mommy — that's a children's album. It was kind of the soundtrack of my childhood. I think I played it and listened to it for hours at night.
"I revisited it many years later, cause I happened upon it on iTunes," he continued. "And I started feeling the same things that I had as a kid listening to it. And I thought that was an interesting starting point to work from — the idea of things that stay with you throughout your life, when you're very young to when you're an adult."
It seems McIntyre's latest variation on that theme is "Ladies and Gentle Men." The work is inspired by the 1970s children's album, book and TV special "Free to Be ... You and Me".
In the Phillips Center's program notes for Wednesday's performance, McIntyre writes that his work is "not a literal rendering of the meaning or spirit of the original ('Free to Be'). Rather, it is my interpretation of how the songs and stories made me feel as a child ... and their influence on me as a man and artist."
About the piece "Ladies and Gentle Men," Dance Magazine wrote: "Featuring a cast of three men in suits and ties and three women in poufy bright-colored dresses, the piece manages to find freshness and vibrancy in rough-and-tumble moves, while coping with material that nobly cheerleads for ... letting each person's individuality emerge triumphant."
Between "Leatherwing Bat" and "Ladies and Gentle Men" on Wednesday is "Bad Winter." It begins with a female solo that leads into a pas de deux for two additional dancers.
In a video on the company's website, Trey McIntyre Project artistic director and founder Trey McIntyre explains the making of "Bad Winter": "Something we have sometimes are open rehearsals — we call them 'Behind the Scenes.' There was one I made over the summer, while we were at White Oak. It was something about the timing of it — I was having a really hard time for myself in my personal life. And usually with those Behind the Scenes, I just grab a piece of music, go on in the room, and go on instinct. I don't really prepare. So what came out of that was a reflection of what I was feeling and going through myself. And I liked it.
"I was able to revisit it, expand upon it, and finish it up," McIntyre continues. "I think people are kind of fascinated with how I come up with music to use, so people are always suggesting music to me. This music in particular just came from a friend — it was something he'd just sent me a few days previous."
The music used is two pieces from The Cinematic Orchestra, as well as Arthur Tracy's "Pennies from Heaven."
"In some ways the piece is kind of a diary," McIntyre says in the video. "I think for me it will be a record of this period in my life."
For this period in the company's "life," it's all good.
Trey McIntyre Project, which is based in Boise, Idaho, hits Gainesville fresh off of performances in Chicago and Salt Lake City.
Earlier this year, the company toured East Asia as part of DanceMotionUSA, a cultural diplomacy program run by the US State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs along with Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Through the program, Trey McIntyre Project toured China, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam. And earlier this month, the company hosted Korea's National Contemporary Dance Company members for joint performances at BAM and other sites across the U.S.
Tickets for Wednesday's performance are $20 to $35, available by calling 392-2787.


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Little Emma A Story by Géza Csáth
NOTE: In 1919, only months after escaping from an insane asylum, Géza Csáth had swallowed poison and died. He was thirty-one. Before succumbing to insanity and suicide, Csáth had been a student at Budapest Medical School, a music critic writing on Bartók and Kodály, a neurologist at a prestigious Budapest research clinic, a country doctor, and a soldier in World War I. Ten years before his death he'd begun smoking opium, and within a year was an addict injecting morphine and Pantopon. "Immeasurably loathsome and despicable" is how his diary describes the junky existence: "…in my weak and forever veiled voice, my steady staring in the mirror, my cynical and shrunken penis, my drawn face, my witless conversation, my impotent, lazy life, my suspicious behavior, my insolence with which I lengthily disappear into the WC, my stupidity…. I also think that I stink, because with my sense of smell impaired, I can no longer smell the stench of my poorly wiped asshole or the mouth odor caused by my rotting teeth."
The twenty-four pieces in Opium and Other Stories*—selected by Marianna D. Birnbaum, professor of Hungarian literature at UCLA, and translated by Jascha Kessler and Charlotte Rogers—represent about a quarter of Csáth's short fiction, most of it completed during the early years of his addiction, before the outbreak of war and the political reorganization of Central Europe. In "Matricide"—characterizing the two sadist sons who murder their widowed mother, then steal her jewelry to present to a young whore as a gift—Csáth writes what could pass as a précis for the fiercest of the Opium stories: "Their curiosity over the mystery of pain was insatiable." The executioners in Csáth's theater of punishment—their destructive gusto, their bestial pleasure, their delirious excitement in the violent moment—lead one to comparisons with the adolescent scenarists of Musil's Young Torless, Gombrowicz's aging perverts in Pornografia, and Mishima's ghoulish fantasies in Confessions of a Mask. "The butcher's coming with his great big knife," chirps the coarse fifteen-year-old peasant housekeeper to the barnyard pig at the start of "Festal Slaughter," and by the time he leaves he's made not only sausage out of the sow but overcome and impregnated the young girl. The brawny butcher with the bloody knife, the red-faced brute with the wild fists, the abominable lunatic and his madness—just a few of the agents of horrifying upheaval who sweep in upon Csáth's innocent sufferers and make their settled lives "a house into which Torture has moved."
"Little Emma" may be the most horrifying story, and the most teasingly allusive: "In the Penal Colony" redreamed to be performed by children—children spellbound by the spectacle of submission to violence and the weeping of the condemned broken by punishment. "The new teacher used a cane…. This was exciting…. The class would watch the beating…. I stood on my toes so as to miss nothing of the sight…." Given the seething feelings and adrenalin addiction of the children in "Little Emma," their volatile eruptions of bitterness and…
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English translation copyright © 1979 by Marianna D. Birnbaum, Jascha Kessler, and Charlotte Rogers. Reprinted by permission of Columbia University Press.


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We have long been confident that China's policymakers could steer the nation towards sustainable growth – no matter how rough the road. But has stock-market turbulence, excess debt and the industrial slowdown forced us to change our view?
Excessive leverage in the system, coupled with over capacity in a number of sectors, represent two of the major risks that China is facing. On top of these domestic issues, capital flight and pressure to maintain the renminbi at what is probably an overvalued level – which requires spending hard-earned reserves – put China's policymakers in an unenviable position.
We believe China's leaders recognise the mistake made by stimulating the economy during the financial crisis and are clear in their intention to reduce overcapacity by initiating supply-side reforms. The problem is that this will inevitably result in a further industrial slowdown, and, we calculate, several million new unemployed people. If China can weather this slowdown in the medium term – and we think it can – this structural economic change should support growth based on market demand and environmental exigencies.
We have been waiting for this to happen for the last several years. It is starting late, in the middle of a global industrial slowdown and where Chinese leverage is very high. The rebalancing that needs to take place is of epic dimensions and the economy still adds too little value to its production. State-owned enterprise reform, which we have focused on in an earlier commentary, and the reduction of excess capacity represent important steps towards a more efficient economy, but will result in job losses restraining consumer purchasing power and making the transition from an investment led to a consumption led economy somewhat more difficult.
New industries and ageing workers
Chinese leaders are focused on fostering innovation, intellectual property-based products and services, and seeing domestic businesses move up the value chain in order to maintain a decent level of growth. China's key position in the global electronic supply chain, not to mention its status as the world's second-largest economy, suggest that it will continue to progress towards these objectives. However, its lack of an open financial system, and the absence of a cluster of experienced angel investors to support innovative technologies, will make competing with Silicon Valley - not to mention Taiwan - a tough challenge. In addition, a weak external environment will provide little support from exports. Finally, demographics have turned from a tailwind into a headwind, as the population ages and the economy passes the Lewis point, meaning that the advantages from urbanisation will become much harder to come by.
What to do with the renminbi?
China, therefore, faces difficult policy choices. If the central bank decides to let the renminbi find its own level (which could be between 5% and 35% lower) all at once, it could boost China's competitiveness but would serve a deflationary shock to the rest of the world, wreaking havoc on China's trading partners and thereby negating any real benefit. Recently, we have been reflecting on how China will weigh the cost of releasing this shock against the prospect of spending (perhaps most of) its foreign-exchange reserves defending the currency. According to some estimates, $700bn to $800bn has already left the country in 2015 and more could follow if greater capital controls are not put in place. We understand the attraction of letting the currency float freely and find a "natural" equilibrium, wherever that may be.
Our response
We believe that China's problems are not insurmountable and that its policy makers have the necessary tools to deal with them. It may take time for the volatility in the markets to recede; particularly since the risk of a serious devaluation of the renminbi cannot be ruled out. Multilateral pressure to maintain an orderly depreciation of the currency, however, is difficult to handicap. Therefore we have decided to adopt a neutral weight and stay with our existing Chinese positions, which include a number of exporters and fundamentally strong companies which we think will weather the storm, should it occur.
The views and opinions contained herein are those of Hermes Emerging Markets, and may not necessarily represent views expressed or reflected in other Hermes communications, strategies or products.
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2-6-13 Local Digest
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VCSU Basketball Travels to Jamestown
The Valley City State University basketball teams continue their rivalry with Jamestown today at the Jamestown Civic Center.
The No. 19 Vikings and Jimmies play starting at 5:30 p.m., when the women's game tips off. The mens game starts at 7:30 p.m.
The mens teams from the schools have split the season series at 1-1 this year, with Valley City winning at home last week. The Viking women lost 81-64 to the Jimmies last week in their only meeting of the season.
Like the T-R at Facebook.com/VCTimesRecord or follow sports editor Scott Schlaufman on Twitter (@ScottySchlauf) for scoring updates during the games.
VCSU Men Ranked No. 19th Nationally
The Valley City State University mens basketball team broke the top-20 of the NAIA Division II mens basketball poll, getting ranked No. 19 in the poll released Tuesday.
The VCSU women received votes in their poll, but fell out of the top 25. Jamestown is ranked No. 13 and Mayville State is at No. 18.
Maple Valley Girls Drop in Poll
The Maple Valley girls basketball team dropped to No. 8 in the new Class B basketball, released Monday.
The Raiders dropped four spots after losing last week to Central Cass, who is ranked No. 10 in the new poll.
The Maple Valley boys and LaMoure/L-M boys both received votes in their poll.
Other local basketball scores
Maple Valley boys 54, Sargent Central 43
LaMoure/L-M boys 70, PBK 38
Lisbon 55, Barnes Co. North 44