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Sound Tribe Sector 9, more commonly known as STS9, began in Atlanta in 1996 in the midst of the rise of the mid-1990s “jam band” scene, but since their inception, there hasn’t been a category that fully encapsulated just what the band was about. And even though mixing a live band sound with electronic elements has become increasingly common on the festival scene, there still isn’t a band that is quite like STS9. When meeting up with the band I asked them about how they felt about the rise in having more live elements being introduced into EDM and if they felt like they were a big part of inspiring this wave.
“It seems as such.” replies a laughing Zach. “We feel grateful. A lot of our contemporaries from Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob and I think the list kind of goes on [have spoken about the inspiration STS9 had on their sound]. There’s a new artist every day saying kind of ’We do this because our first kind of gateway into this kind of world was STS9.’ So you know we feel very grateful and blessed to be a part of a movement.”
Movement, collection, tribe. These are the words that are used to describe the band. Throughout our interview they often refer to themselves as being a smaller part of a larger picture. The vision of STS9 and the way they see themselves and speak about their place in the world around them is very humble. Part of what has made this band almost impossible to categorize and definitely impossible to replicate is the band’s core belief of never categorizing themselves. While preparing for my interview, I came across the very first STS9 interview published. The interview (also with Zach and Jeffrey) was conducted by Bob Wiely after a show on Feb 26, 2000 and published by Surrender To The Flow magazine.
Bob Wiely: How do you feel about the term “Organic Techno” being used to describe your music?
Zach: I don’t think anything should really be labeled. I think it’s a good term in the fact that its not what we set out to do… but its kinda what has cosmically happened just through playing music and listening to the connection of it. I guess kinda organic techno, but I don’t know if I would use techno.
Jeffrey: It’s not bad, it doesn’t hurt me. It’s so much more then that… that’s just an element of it.
Bob Wiely: What would you label it?
Jeffrey: That’s hard, it’s different every night. Its true fusion I guess, without too many tags. It’s just whatever comes.
Zach: I have a hard time describing it. How would you describe it? It’s almost like classical music in the fact that we have songs that are 35 minutes long, like a lot of other “jam bands” and the fact that they are not so much jams but movements, understand? For example tonight we opened up with the second part of the last song. Everything is really interchangeable, like our song frequency. Labeling just turns me off. We read articles and people say just that “fusion, techno, blah blah blah¦” and we’ve not yet come up with what it is and can be instead of using other genres not that we are creating our own it’s like you have to go see it instead of just reading about it. We’re still working on our label I guess.
During our interview, as we began speaking about how their sound has been perceived and labeled over the years. Zach shared what he felt was the best description of their music ever told to him in an interview, “We still use this one to this day, if we’re talking retro. One of my favorite quotes from an interview was when an interviewer tried to explain [our sound] ‘Going to see STS9 is like driving down the road at a hundred miles an hour with your hair caught on fire.’ I can get that.”
And even though electronic music fans (perhaps more than fans of any other style of music) take pride in categorizing the music they are listening too and forming their own communities based on which of the genres they listen too, STS9 seems to be the exception to the rule.
Music isn’t the only medium in which STS9 has pushed the use of the available technology as it has evolved over the years. When it comes to the internet, the concept of social media and using technology to interact with their fans and help build connections amongst them STS9 was also way ahead of their time. Way before artist began using Facebook groups to create interactive fan clubs and even before MySpace was founded in 2003, STS9 used their website as a primitive social media platform. As early as 2000, STS9 fans could go to the band’s official webpage to connect with the tribe in a forum-like section of the webpage called: the Lowdown.
During my interview with Zach and Jeffrey, I set the intention of really reminding the band about the early days, get an idea of how they have changed throughout the years, and try to get a sneak-peak into how they may evolve in the future. Looking at the early editions of their website to now, one of the biggest changes seems to have come in the way the band presents itself to the world. As ahead of their time the band was, first glance of STS9’s website presents a lot of information and ideas that are fascinating and interesting, but ultimately distracting from the site’s role in promoting the band’s music.
Early on in the band’s career, STS9 was steadfast in presenting themselves as an artistic collective at the forefront of musical experimentation. The Mayan culture played a heavy part in the creation of this atmosphere. According to early editions of STS9’s website, the ancient Mayans thrived in the ninth sector of 13 in the middle of the Central American rain forest. While Europe was in the Dark Ages, the Mayan culture mapped the stars and calibrated harmonic frequencies to converge the Earth toward resonance. And it was this idea of harmonic frequencies that inspired Sound Tribe Sector 9.
A visit to the band’s official site today is a very different experience than it was in 2000. There are no references to the Mayan culture and perhaps more sadly, the Lowdown has been removed as well. When I asked Zach and Jeffrey about the links on their old site and if the Mayan’s still had a presence in their life and music, Zach and Jeffrey were both quick to jump in on the somewhat touchy subject with Zach saying “I mean yeah,” as Jeffrey simultaneously said “In its own way.” Zach and Jeffrey both took turns sharing their thoughts on the real influence the Mayan philosophy had on the band, and why it has taken a smaller role as time has passed. Jeffrey said, “I think it became less cultural and more planetary. [In the beginning] it was kind of our gateway into just trying to understand [our place in the world]. That influence was a part of our youth, and expression, and is still part of us. Just not as overt.”
Zach adds, “Yeah, I think it [the Mayan influences to their site and music] kind of originated because of the lunar calendar. The concept, not even really a concept, but the feeling [of the Mayan culture] was that idea of being more harmonious with planet Earth. And just to expand on what Jeffrey was saying, at that time in our youth we were kind of bombarded with ‘time is money.’ From management to record labels, [Every conversation was] ‘money, money, money.’ And the concept of harmonious ‘time is art’ and ‘use your time just to make art, be creative, and be authentic in that way.’ I think that that was the biggest takeaway and some of the resonance that we had with that whole thing.”
Jeffrey continuing his thought adds, “And being introduced to Jose Arguelles [founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time], getting to know him, and to have his samples in Artifact. So to have that connection was great … Honest answer, it [the Mayan influences] became such a big thing about what people are talking about. I think for us it became ‘Time is Art’ and that was the big takeaway. We spend our time creating. And [while that] was a big inspiration, to be so labeled and with a cultural thing… I think we just kind of took that to a more personal level. We want people talking about the music, and when you’re an original authentic band it’s hard for people to understand.” In order to clarify things, the band has made a concerted effort to make sure the music is the main focus: of the official website, the live shows, and even the conversation. “We promote the Tribe as art – that’s the vision,” Zach says. “We’re more inspired than we’ve ever been. It’s like a river, and when it flow’s it really flows. And right now we’re flowing.”
One thing hasn’t changed over the band’s 20 years of making and performing music, and that is the emphasis on not only creating art but creating art as a family. As a tribe. The band held their first ever festival, Wave Spell Live, in the small northern California town of Belden last August. During a solo DJ session, Zach brought a very special surprise guest artist to the stage. His daughter, Isis.
When asked if she would be joining them in the future Zach gave the enthusiastic answer, “Absolutely! Yeah. We have a lot of plans. A lot of plans. A lot of fun things. My daughter is fierce. It was actually her idea. I’m just the vessel for her right. To support her in her aspirations. It’s insane. She’s six. And the reason she didn’t come down [for the Los Angeles show] is she’s auditioning for Alice in Wonderland. She has a voice lesson two times a week, and then she’s in this program called All About Theater and she wants to be the Queen of Hearts. That’s her goal. She’s fierce. We’re trying to raise a strong child.”
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In spite of the exciting prospects on bringing his little girl into the STS9 fold, Zach isn’t unaware of the influence festival culture has and foresees a time when her presence in the scene probably won’t always be as innocent as jumping onstage and jamming with her father’s band. During the interview, Zach was laughing and began to cover his eyes with his hands as if to block out a future mental image when saying “She’s gonna be the 18-year-old at the festivals. Naked, hula hooping and someone’s going to be saying ‘she has a father’. And I’ll have to say ‘that’s me.’” And while Zach may not be looking forward to that particular scenario, the main thing I took away from the anecdote was that STS9 plans to stick around, creating art, and sharing the vision of the tribe for many years to come.
This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Sound check: Zach Velmer and Jeffrey Lerner from STS9 talk about the band’s past, present, and future
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Eisenhüttenstadt, April 2018
Anyway, I think I will restart my work with the Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. I am going to capture subjects in daylight with color photography; I will compile them into the Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. For that, they must be color photographs. This is because I would like to completely cast off any trace of the hand that remains with the darkroom process of black-and-white photography. The hands themselves have made the art. The hands are the others within oneself. But of course the hands are the self. Manipulation and a thing manipulated by the hands are still an extension of the hands. The world is manipulated by the hands. My Illustrated Botanical Dictionary will come to exist by cleanly severing all ties with hand-manipulation. In that sense, the color photograph is already in the other world. Release the shutter once, and everything comes to an end
Takuma Nakahira, from Why An Illustrated Botanical Dictionary
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CBS The First 50 Years (1998)
01 – See it Now with Edward R. Murrow – Edward R. Murrow (2:55)
02 – I Love Lucy – E. Daniel & H. Adamson (1:00)
03 – The Jackie Gleason Show – Jackie Gleason (2:01)
04 – The Ed Sullivan Show – Robert Arthur, Raymond A. Bloch & Minna Lewis (0:53)
05 – The Red Skelton Show – David Rose & Sammy Gallop (0:55)
06 – Captain Kangaroo – Edward White (0:50)
07 – Rex Koury & Glenn Spencer – Gunsmoke (1:36)
08 – Rawhide – Frankie Laine – D. Tiomkin & N. Washington (0:51)
09 – Wild Wild West – Richard Markowitz (1:25)
10 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents – A. Gounod (0:58)
11 – Perry Mason – Fred Steiner (1:10)
12 – Route 66 – Nelson Riddle (1:10)
13 – The Twilight Zone – Marius Constant (0:29)
14 – Leave it to Beaver – David Kahn, Melvyn Leonard & Mort Greene (1:23)
15 – The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – Max Shulman & Lionel Newman (1:16)
16 – The Andy Griffith Show – Earle Hagen (0:54)
17 – The Dick Van Dyke Show – Earle Hagen (0:41)
18 – First Half-Hour News Broadcast – Walter Cronkite (0:54)
19 – The Beverly Hillbillies – Earle Hagen (1:33)
20 – Gilligan’s Island – Sherward Schwartz & George Wyle (1:34)
21 – Green Acres – Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor – Green Acres (1:06)
22 – Hogan’s Heroes – Jerry Fielding (0:44)
23 – Frank DeVol – My Three Sons (1:02)
24 – Lost In Space – John Williams (0:58)
25 – Mission Impossible – Lalo Schifrin (0:53)
26 – Mannix – Lalo Schifrin (1:27)
27 – Hawaii Five-O – Mort Stevens (0:58)
28 – Barnaby Jones – Jerry Goldsmith (0:55)
29 – The First 60 Minues – 60 Minutes (0:17)
30 – Apollo 11 Coverage – Walter Cronkite (1:31)
31 – The Waltons – Jerry Goldsmith (1:04)
32 – The Carol Burnett Show – Joe Hamilton (0:49)
33 – Dan Rather in Vietnam – Dan Rather (0:34)
34 – Walter Cronkite Editorial on Vietnam – Walter Cronkite (3:20)
35 – MASH – Johnny Mandel (0:55)
36 – All in the Family – Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton – Lee Adams & Charles Strous (1:24)
37 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Sonny Curtis (0:57)
38 – The Bob Newhart Show – Lorenzo Music & Henrietta Music (1:05)
39 – Good Times – Dave Grusin, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (0:50)
40 – The Jeffersons – Jeff Barry & Janet Dubois (1:10)
41 – One Day at a Time – Jeff Barry & Nancy Barry (0:53)
42 – WKRP in Cincinnati – Tom Wells & Hugh Wilson (0:44)
43 – Alice – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & David Shire (1:01)
44 – The Dukes of Hazzard – Waylon Jennings (1:02)
45 – Dallas – Jerrold Immel (1:15)
46 – Knots Landing – Jerrold Immel (1:36)
47 – Walter Cronite’s Final Broadcast – Walter Cronkite (1:08)
48 – Cagney & Lacey – Bill Conti (1:17)
49 – Murder, She Wrote – John Addison (0:48)
50 – Murphy Brown – Stephen Dorff (0:28)
51 – Northern Exposure – David Schwartz (0:46)
52 – Chicago Hope – Mark Isham (0:52)
53 – Promised Land – Marc Lichtman (0:44)
54 – Walker, Texas Ranger – Stuart Wilder III & Chuck Norris (0:43)
55 – Everybody Loves Raymond – Rick Marotta & Terry Trotter (0:44)
56 – Cosby – William H. Cosby & Terry Trotter (0:42)
57 – Late Show with David Letterman – Paul Schaffer (1:23)
58 – William Paley Speaks About His Enthusiasm – William Paley (0:58)
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Dulquer Salmaan to debut in Bollywood with Irrfan Khan and Mithila Palkar
While he played the quintessential chocolate boy in OK Kanmani, the original version of the Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor’s romantic drama Ok Jaanu, Dulquer Salmaan is now gearing up for Bollywood. Born to Malayalam superstar Mammootty, the South actor is all set to play the lead in Ronnie Screwvala’s upcoming production.
The yet to be titled film will also see Mithila Palkar who gained fame with the TV show ‘Girl In The City’ and also web series, playing the female lead. She was earlier seen in the Nikhil Advani film Katti Batti. Besides the duo, it will star Irrfan Khan, although the character details of all of them are currently kept under wraps. The said film also marks the directorial debut of Akarsh Khurana with it being scripted by Hussain Dalal.
Reportedly, Dulquer Salmaan wasn’t the first choice for the role. Abhishek Bachchan was initially approached to play the part but it seems that the actor couldn’t allot dates because the schedule was clashing with his other film, JP Dutta’s Paltan which has already gone on floors.
As for the story of this untitled film, we hear that it is about a road trip of Dulquer Salmaan and Irrfan Khan who play friends. According to recent reports, the film is scheduled to go on floor by the end of August and it will extensively be shot in Kerala.
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Game: Wolfenstein 2: The New ColossusDeveloper: Machine GamesPublisher: Bethesda SoftworksReviewed on: PS4 (Review copy provided)
Captain ‘BJ’ Blazkowicz, star of Wolfenstein’s newest reboot, is not a great protagonist on paper. He has an annoyingly square head, like a child’s drawing of Superman, and consistently speaks so gruffly as to be borderline unintelligible, as if words just get tangled up in all his testosterone. It’s like Solid Snake and Christian Bale’s Batman had a really phlegmy child. He’s nothing new. Big, handsome white guys with guns and difficulty conveying emotions are not original in the world of videogames.
Ol’ BJ has one redeeming feature though. He properly hates Nazis, like an X-rated Captain American pre-heel turn. I don’t mean ‘nazi’ in the way your mate Karen from Twitter uses it to describe everyone who disagrees with her because she once followed a vegan account for a week and thinks she’s basically a communist for voting Labour. I don’t even mean a pejorative term for people who point out you can’t use basic English so you try to cover up for it by comparing your corrector to the literal third reich. No, I mean proper Nazis.
It used to always be that Nazis were a pretty stock villain. You knew where you were with a Nazi. Even Britain, a country that can’t make a single decision that doesn’t send us further down shit creek at the moment, used to be united behind one thing; Nazis are shit, mate. Recently things got a bit muddied, though. Nazis got twitter and tiki torches and started acting like they were real people who should be listened to. Some people got confused by this; are Nazis human after all? Should we hear them out?
But Nazis aren’t for listening to, lads. Nazis are for punching.
Enter Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Much of the build-up to this has been Bethesda happily trolling alt-right mouth-breathers online through their promo materials and trailers, so much so that these stings may have even stolen some attention away from the game itself. The rebooted Wolfenstein series is not only here to remind everyone what Nazis are for, though. I fully expected predecessor The New Order to be a by-numbers FPS, like CoD: Steampunk Edition. What I found instead was a game full of fun ideas and set-pieces with a strong identity, trying it’s best to do something with a fairly tired genre. Picking up directly after this, The New Colossus sees our man BJ not feeling exactly 100%. He’s frail, literally in a wheelchair at one point, and having quite a serious think about death and that.
I want to start with the less enjoyable parts of the game. This is because Wolfy 2 is indeed (spoiler alert) a great experience worthy of attention; a single player game (something that’s practically on the endangered species list these days) that isn’t demanding any money from you during the gameplay, and with a strong story and excellent characters.
First of all… the game is hard. Some of this is undoubtedly intentional; Blazkowicz believes he is on his way out from the off, and he’s a weaker soldier for it for a significant part of the game. Find yourself in a room full of Nazis and it’s easy to come a cropper unless you’re super careful with cover, which is at odds with the game constantly urging you on to be gung-ho and batter every Nazi as soon as they appear. The aforementioned wheelchair section, in which your turning speed is reduced and you’re not able to hold a gun ready at all times, is the FIRST SECTION. At least give us a warm-up here, guys. Without ruining things, he does regain some of his old strength in later parts, but by then the enemies have gotten a little stronger as well.
Some of those enemies are far tougher than they have any right to be, too. Despite wearing minimal armour, some standard-issue assailants can take a serious amount of bullets before they take a nap, while some of the bigger behemoths are total bullet sponges. Add into that the airborne drones that dart around unpredictably during every mass brawl and things can get frustrating quite quickly, even on a lower difficulty setting. To confuse things further, the game decides not to opt for the mechanic most of it’s cousins use these days; slowing down time while you choose your next gun on the weapon wheel selector. That said, you can now use the weapon wheel to dual-wield whatever you’re carrying, which is a nice touch, but a few seconds grace to navigate the sometimes sticky gun selector would have been quite nice, thanks.
What’s great about those enemies, though, is how you can just completely avoid some of them. On occasion, you’ll be confronted by a huge, Nazi behemoth robot, only to realise you can run away from it easily because they’re big and slow. I really liked having the choice that most people would probably make when confronted with a 20ft right-wing robot; to get out of there and leave it to whatever it was doing before you turned up.
The stealth doesn’t quite add up, either. On occasion while sneaking up behind a grunt they’d turn at the very last second, and spot me for all of a millisecond before I busted them up with my hatchet, which is an animation triggered by a single button press. Yet in that wordless moment they would somehow be able to raise an alarm that summons Nazis faster than a woman having an opinion online. It didn’t really wash, and seems quite unforgiving in what was already quite a tricky experience. Despite it’s protestations, Wolfy 2 is definitely a shooter; the stealth is there, but it may as well not be.
Finally, there is BJ’s vocal cords. He’s so low and gruff it’s unintentionally comical; mid-action quips and lines may as well just be fucking gargled for all the sense they make, particularly when fighting for decibels against the game’s improbably loud techno soundtrack. When the scenes arise in which the mother of his unborn children says she can’t understand him, I think she means emotionally, but she may well be talking about his appalling annunciation. Stop mumbling, you square-headed prick.
But that is the negative done with. I promise. It’s all downhill from here, or uphill depending on how you read that analogy. Because the characters and casting (even BJ with his RIDICULOUS voice) are wonderful. Following on from my time in The New Order, I chose the Fergus timeline, and was thrilled to have the hardest yet most nonchalant Scotsman (quite the achievement) in all of videogames back in my life. All of the main cast are voiced and acted beautifully, and the culmination of every caustic first meeting is a solid group of personalities you’ll miss once the credits roll.
Frau Engel takes the role of main target this time. Right from the first encounter she’s established as a completely hateful psychopath, and this is where the new Wolfy’s have always done brilliantly. They’re more than adept at eliciting the perfect emotional response; rather than being presented with cookie-cutter villains who you have to kill because the developers say so, you *really* want to take these people down, and that’s the difference between being propelled through a game rather than being dragged through it. This is built upon even further with flashbacks to BJ’s childhood, one of which was distressing in a way only cruelty to animals can be. These flashback sections are surprisingly good; rather than being poorly-aimed schmaltz they’re well acted and often funny insights into what made BJ the world’s premiere Nazi killer. Indeed, there’s even delightful new characters being introduced 4/5 of the way through, a particular favourite introduction of mine involving a fist-fight and a sniping session to the sounds of jazz clarinet.
And even beyond the characters themselves, the game oozes personality all over the gaffe. Set in an alternative reality where Hitler and his gang of pricks won the second world war, forcing the USA to surrender by way of an atom bomb, it’s a little steam-punk in places, the mesh of an old world with as-yet unknown technology. Feeling somewhat under the weather, Blazkowicz can only get around by the aid of a suit of armour that looks like something from Silent Hill in 2049. There are big, far-right robots that resemble Warhammer’s Ultramarines to contend with on a regular basis. The game is also bizarrely crude and humorous at points, something much needed in amongst all the dying and reflections on mortality. Fairly happy to have you wading through hoards of genocidal maniacs one minute and make obscene references the next, it’s a jarring sense of humour that is too rarely seen in the often po-faced world of FPS. The diaries and passing dialogue you find amongst the environments is often hilarious and most importantly brief; nobody wants to read a four page extract from a journal during a shoot-em-up, but a brief excerpt here and there to build the world is largely welcome.
The problem with the world of Wolfenstein 2 is that the good bits make the bad bits far more apparent. For example, an area many of you may have seen is the Roswell town setting. Y’know, it’s the bit from the footage where everything looks like a perfect 50’s sitcom town, all Cadillacs and ice cream parlours. But in amongst that facade, there are Nazis and KKK members rolling around, sewn in amongst everything like shit in a flan. It’s an area I;d have loved to have spent more time in, but alas, immediately from this part you’re sent packing off to yet more tunnels and grey corridors, and that’s a running theme throughout; corridors and murky, dull areas. The locales do indeed ‘go places’ and by the time the finale rolls around you’ll have laid out Nazis in quite a surprising range of places, but more often than not these are a bit standard-looking. Nevertheless, MachineWorks produces a couple of surprising ways to navigate these environments at least. Rather than showing its hand right at the start, it’s over halfway through the game before you’re suddenly thrown something of a curve ball which results in BJ’s skills expanding.
VERDICT
What we have here, then, is a game contrary to the developing trend. Whereas for other big developers, the main focus is on perfecting open world environments, online communities and loot boxes *vomits*, Wolfenstein flies in the face of that. It’s a contained single-player game that’s real strength is story and personality, but also has solid and satisfying gun-feel and cathartic shooting. There are numerous set-pieces to bring a smile to your face that show real invention, all of which adds up to mean this is well worth checking out, particularly if you want to fuck up some Nazis.
And if you don’t? Well, you definitely wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Captain Blazkowicz…
9/10
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California, July 2016
America will always be a mystical place, with photos just being an additional layer on the pop-image constructed by countless films, songs, movies, tv-shows, news-flashes that form the fabric of what we mistakenly perceive to be the USA.
But there is no inner core to it, nothing we can unwrap and suddenly find the Being of America, it is only layers wrapped in layers of images of places that remain imaginary.
Maybe its different when you live there and the shop on the corner is an actual shop where you can buy stuff instead of a stand-in. But I doubt that:
What then is the Becher-project? Vectors of obscurity and mystification vs. Clarity and Enlightenment
Photography as a vehicle of enlightenment; in the very same moment, it also widens the gaps that enlightenment leaves in its wake: Is there really any revelatory impulse in the endless parade of Gas Tanks? Or is it just a reminder that the world surrounding us will always remain an impenetrable mystery, no matter how hard we look at it?
The dialectic of enlightenment as it manifests in photography; the clearest, most objective way of depicting something only heightens our awareness, that the world will always remain unreadable. While the most mystifying way of showing something often falls flat and reminds us that all we ever know is the obvious.
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Sản phẩm chính: Chung cư, Biệt thự, Liền kề và Shophouse
Vị trí Vincity Ocean Park có gì đặc biệt
Vị trí Vincity Ocean Park nằm ở đâu là câu hỏi được nhiều người quan tâm hiện nay. Theo những thông tin mà mới đây chủ đầu tư Vingroup công bố thì vị trí Vincity Ocean Park nằm trong ranh giới hành chính thị trấn Trâu Quỳ và ba xã Dương Xá, Kiêu Kỵ, Đa Tốn của huyện Gia Lâm, thành phố Hà Nội. Vincity Ocean Park được đánh giá là khu đô thị có diện tích lớn cùng với đó là cơ sở hạ tầng và giao thông thuận lợi, dễ dàng tiếp cận với các trục đường lớn và các công trình trọng điểm thủ đô. Khu đô thị Vincity Ocean Park hứa hẹn được kỳ vọng lớn về sự kết hợp hài hòa giữa vị thế và phong thủy. Tạo nên một khu phức hợp với đầy đủ tiện ích xứng tầm đẳng cấp của Vingroup.Nằm tại vị trí “vàng” của trung tâm quận Long Biên.
Vincity Gia Lâm – Huyện Gia Lâm Hà Nội không nằm tại trung tâm thành phố Hà Nội nhưng do có hệ thống cơ sở hạ tầng giao thông đồng bộ. Và nằm gần một số trục đường huyết mạch dẫn vào thành phố như Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Ngọc Lâm, Xuân Quan nên việc di chuyển vào trung tâm thành phố rất dễ dàng và thuận tiện. Ngoài ra việc di chuyển tới các tỉnh khác như Bắc Ninh, Hưng yên…rất dễ dàng.
Mặt bằng điển hình các tòa Vincity Ocean Park
Thiết kế căn hộ Vincity Ocean Park có những ưu điểm nổi bật gì?
Với mục tiêu kiến tạo một đô thị đẳng cấp đầu tiên tại khu vực phía Đông Nam thủ đô, khu đô thị Vincity Ocean Park hứa hẹn mang đến một tiêu chuẩn sống lành mạnh và tràn đầy năng lượng cho các gia đình. Thiết kế căn hộ Vincity Ocean Park rất thông thoáng và ưu việt.Với sự kết hợp giữa phong cách châu Âu cổ điển và những thiết kế lịch lãm, sang trọng.
Thiết kế căn 1 PN
Thiết kế căn hộ 1 phòng ngủ Vincity Ocean Park phù hợp với người độc thân, cặp vợ chồng mới cưới hay hộ gia đình có 1 con nhỏ với diện tích từ 30m2. căn hộ được bài trí một cách đơn giản, thiết kế mở tạo nên không gian thoáng đãng, dễ dàng đi lại, tăng sự kết nối khiến không gian cảm giác rộng hơn.
Thiết kế căn 2 PN
Thiết kế căn hộ 2 phòng ngủ Vincity Ocean Park được đa dạng khách hàng quan tâm, có cả khách hàng mua để ở, khách đầu tư. Căn hộ 2 phòng ngủ phù hợp với gia đình có 2-4 người, diện tích từ 45 – 50m2. Bao gồm 1 phòng khách, 2 phòng ngủ, 1 phòng bếp và sẽ có từ 1 đến 2 nhà vệ sinh.
Thiết kế căn 3 PN
Thiết kế căn hộ 3 phòng ngủ Vincity Ocean Park sẽ có diện tích từ 80m2 trở lên. Được bố trí hợp lý về thiết kế, căn 3 phòng ngủ sẽ có 1 phòng khách, 3 phòng ngủ, 2 vệ sinh và 1 phòng bếp. Tại phòng khách sẽ có ban công khá rộng để lấy ánh sáng vào toàn bộ căn hộ cũng là nơi để quý khách thư giãn.
Những sản phẩm chính tại Vincity Ocean Park Gia Lâm
Biệt thự Vinhomes Ocean Park
Biệt thự Vinhomes Ocean Park là một trong những sản phẩm cực kỳ hấp dẫn tại dự án Vincity Gia Lâm – một trong những tổ hợp dự án mang thương hiệu Vincity đầu tiên tại Việt Nam. Với thiết kế đẳng cấp, nằm tại vị trí trung tâm của huyện Gia Lâm, không khó để khu biệt thự Vincity Gia Lâm trở thành một trong những nơi đáng sống nhất Hà Nội.
Biệt thự đơn lập dự kiến có diện tích từ 250 – 400m2
Biệt thự song lập dự kiến có diện tích từ 120 – 180m2
Chung cư Vincity Ocean Park
Cơ cấu chung cư Vincity Ocean Park thâu tóm mọi phân khúc khách hàng đầu tư. Diện tích căn hộ vừa phải, tiện dùng cho việc ở vừa phải chính là xu hướng xã hội mới.
Căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm 01 phòng ngủ: khoảng diện tích từ 30 m2.
Căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm 02 phòng ngủ: khoảng diện tích từ 45 ~ 50m2.
Căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm 03 Phòng ngủ: khoảng diện tích từ 80 m2
Shophouse Vinhomes Ocean Park
Bên cạnh các sản phẩm như biệt thự, liền kề hay căn hộ chung cư. Các căn Shophouse Vinhomes Ocean Park có cơ hội đặc biệt về tiềm năng kinh doanh, bởi số lượng cư dân tại khu đô thị là khá lớn, việc di chuyển đi xa để mua sắm là không tiện, do đó việc mua sắm tại ngay tại tòa căn hộ luôn là sự lựa chọn hàng đầu.Dự kiến Shophouse Vincity Gia Lâm có khoảng 60 căn nhà phố thương mại với diện tích xây dựng 100m2 – 150m2. Mặt tiền nhà 5.5m với số tầng: 3,5 tầng
Liền kề Vinhomes Ocean Park
Liền kề Vinhomes Ocean Park là một trong những sản phẩm tại dự án Vincity Gia Lâm, bên cạnh các sản phẩm như biệt thự, shophouse và chung cư. Với quy hoạch lớn hệ thống cảnh quan cây xanh và hồ điều hòa rộng lớn, các căn liền kề tại Vincity Gia Lâm hứa hẹn sẽ trở thành tổ ấm lý tưởng cho mọi gia đình Việt.Dự kiến các căn Liền kề Vincity Gia Lâm có diện tích từ 72m2 – 100m2 được hoàn thiện và bàn giao thô bên trong giúp chủ nhà thoải mái thiết kế cho căn hộ của mình.
Hệ thống tiện ích Vincity Ocean Park có những điểm gì nổi bật
Các tiện ích xứng tầm được trang bị tại Vincity Ocean Park được dự kiến sẽ tương tự với các tiện ích đã có trước đây như tiện ích trường học, bệnh viện, siêu thị, trung tâm thương mại, trung tâm mua sắm, siêu thị nội thất, đồ dùng, cảnh quan xanh sinh thái…. tất cả nhằm mang tới cư dân những trải nghiệm cuộc sống trọn vẹn ngay trong khu đô thị, có thể dễ dàng tiếp cận và giúp cư dân có thể vui sống an toàn, thoải mái kết nối với cộng đồng cư dân thân thiện của mình.
Tiện ích ngoại khu Vincity Ocean Park
Bên cạnh các tiện ích nội khu cực kỳ đẳng cấp lý tưởng thì tiện ích ngoại khu Vincity Ocean Park cũng mang lại những giá trị tuyệt vời cho cư dân tương lai. Với việc nằm gần các tuyến đường lớn như quốc lộ 5 sẽ giúp cư dân dễ dàng di chuyển đến các khu vực nội đô cũng như các khu vực khác.Ngoài ra dự án còn gần với các trường học học cũng như khu trung tâm thương mại và các bệnh viện của huyện Gia Lâm điều này các giúp cư dân tận hưởng được nguồn lợi to này.
Tiện ích nội khu Vincity Ocean Park
Tiện ích nội khu Vincity Ocean Park và tiện ích ngoại khu Vincity Ocean Park bao gồm diện tích mặt nước hơn 55ha, hệ thống trường liên cấp từ mầm non đến trung học phổ thông, các tòa nhà chung cư có chiều cao từ 25-38 tầng, cùng hệ thống tiện ích đẳng cấp đồng bộ mang thương hiệu Vingroup.
Trung tâm thương mại Vinmart.
Hệ thống trường học liên cấp Vinschool.
Bệnh viên Vinmec đảm bảo chăm sóc sức khỏe
Hệ thống nước cấp ổn định, nước nóng sẵn sàng.
Hệ thống điện dự phòng mạnh tại khu vực công cộng
Nhà hàng ăn uống sang trọng
Khu đi dạo trong lành
Hầm gửi xe thông minh
Nhà sinh hoạt để cư dân tham gia hoạt động xh
Bể bơi bốn mùa ngoài trời
Hệ thống sân tập thể thao: sân bóng rổ, tennis…
An ninh tuyệt đối, hệ thống camera giám sát 24/7
Giá bán căn hộ VinCity Gia Lâm liệu có rẻ không?
Vincity Ocean Park hay còn được gọi với một cái tên khác là Vincity Gia Lâm. Hiện này đang có rất nhiều nhà đâu tư đặt câu hỏi về giá bán căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm ?. Có rất nhiều thông tin khác nhau hiện nay nói về Vincity Gia Lâm là căn hộ giá rẻ.Nhưng theo những thông tin chính xác nhất chúng tôi được biết Vincity Gia Lâm là thương hiệu bất động sản đại chúng tuy nhiên, thông tin về Vincity Gia Lâm với giá rẻ chưa hoàn toàn chính xác. Căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm được xây dựng với mục tiêu hướng tới là đông đảo khách hàng có mức tài chính ổn định và giá bán căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm sở dĩ được gọi là giá rẻ bởi những chính sách ưu đãi của chủ đầu tư. Hiện tại trên mạng đang có rất nhiều những thông tin về giá bán Vincity Gia Lâm như:
Căn 1PN: 30 – 40m2: 700tr
Căn 2PN: 45 – 50m2: 900tr
Căn 3PN: 80m2: 1tỷ2
Những thông tin này là hoàn toàn không chính xác bởi chủ đầu tư tập đoàn Vingroup chưa công bố chính thức về giá bán căn hộ Vincity Gia Lâm.
Tiến độ thi công dự án khu đô thị Vincity Ocean Park Gia Lâm
Trong thời gian gần đây câu hỏi được khách hàng cũng như các nhà đầu tư đặt ra nhiều nhất chính là về tiến độ dự án Vincity Ocean Park Gia Lâm, và có 2 từ khóa liên quan đến tiến độ dự án được tìm kiếm nhiều nhất trên mạng hiện nay đó là: Vincity Gia Lâm khi nào khởi công ? và thời gian mở bán Vincity Gia Lâm ? dưới đây chúng tôi sẽ trả lời 2 câu hỏi này cho các bạn.
Khi nào Vincity Gia Lâm mở bán ?
Khi nào Vincity Gia Lâm mở bán ? Đây là câu hỏi đang rất được nhiều nhà đầu tư cũng như quý khách hàng quan tâm nhất hiện nay, và theo những thông tin mới nhất được Vingroup công bố thì vào ngày 25/9 này dự án sẽ chính thức được giới thiệu ra thị trường.Dự kiến vào khoảng tháng 10 sẽ được chính thức mở bán.
Vincity gia lâm khi nào khởi công ?
Có rất nhiều thông tin khác nhau về thời gian dự án Vincity Gia Lâm khởi công.Nhưng theo thông tin chính xác nhất mà chúng tôi được biết dự án vẫn chưa được công bố chính thức thời gian khởi công,nhưng dự án vẫn được nhà đầu tư cũng như quý khách hàng rất kì vọng tạo nên một làn sóng mới cho thị trường chung cư giá rẻ tại Hà Nội. Dưới đây là một số hình ảnh về tiến độ thi công Vincity Gia Lâm được chụp vào cuối tháng 6/2018
Dựa trên những sản phẩm chất lượng của tập đoàn Vingroup danh tiếng thì các khách hàng hoàn toàn có thể kỳ vọng Vincity Ocean Pak sẽ trở thành một khu đô thị hiện đại với chất lượng xây dựng vượt trội, tiện ích sống đa dạng từ học tập, chăm sóc sức khỏe, vui chơi giải trí, mua sắm… cư dân hứa hẹn được thừa hưởng cuộc sống hiện đại và đầy đủ nhất.Bên cạnh đó với tham vọng mang đến sản phẩm kiểu mẫu cho thị trường nhà ở tầm trung nhưng chất lượng tầm cao, đại diện chủ đầu tư cũng cho biết Vincity Ocean Park sẽ là khu đô thị đáng sống và đảm bảo tuyệt đối về chất lượng công trình cũng như tiến độ bàn giao, mang đến sự an tâm cho người mua nhà. Mọi thông tin mới nhất về dự án Vincity Ocean Park Gia Lâm sẽ được chúng tôi liên tục cập nhật tại website: duanvincitygialam.com/
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A-Trak has dropped the ultimate “Rap Party Mix” and we’re 100% obsessing over it!
A true master of his craft, A-Trak shows off his skills, seamlessly mixing classics with some of the hottest new selects that hip hop has to offer. Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, 50 Cent, N.E.R.D., Snoop Dogg, J-Kwon, Ciara, Ludacris, Gucci Mane and many more are included in this “Rap Party Mix,” as well as some electronic dance wildcards — Daft Punk, Gesaffelstein, TroyBoi, Yehme2, etc.
A-Trak originally performed this set live from Holy Ship! and we have to imagine he set the decks on fire. No one does it quite like he does and it’s easy to hear.
“Regulate,” “Tipsy, “Goodies” — it’s all in there. As well as a “Mo Bamba” remix that will outshine all others. When it comes to quality hip hop, this mix is the total package.
Enjoy right here and let us know if you’re feeling it!
A-Trak – Rap Party Mix
Tracklist
Jay-Z -Do It Again (PutYa Hands Up)
NORE – Superthug
Clipse – Grindin
Jay-Z – La La La(Excuse Me Again)
Missy – Work It (Falcons Bootleg)
J-Kwon – Tipsy b/w Pricipleasure – Hexagonal Dab
Mary J. Blige – Real Love
Panjabi MC feat. Jay-Z -Beware
QB Finest – Oochie Wally
Nick Catchdubs – Total Clarity
Super Mario Bros Main Theme
Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott & Offset – ZEZE
Parliament – Flashlight
City Girls – I’ll Take Your Man
Saweetie – ICY GRL
Schooly D – PSK
Mobb Deep – Quiet Storm
Dr. Dre feat. Kurupt, Hittman – Let’s Get High
Ciara – Goodies
Warren G feat. Nate Dogg – Regulate
Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun
Zapp & Roger – More Bounce To The Ounce
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
Earth Wind & Fire – Brazilian Rhyme
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Gesaffelstein – Viol b/w Wu Tang Clan – Mystery of Chessboxin
Mo Bamba x Slayer – Mo Bamba (Nick Bike Blend)
YehMe2 & Ricky Remedy – H.I.T.P.
Cash Money Millionaires – Project Bitch
Gucci Mane & Ludacris – Freaky Girl
Eightball – Stop Playin Games
DJ Nehpets – Shoulder Lean juked
Justice – Let There Be Light (DJ Funk remix)
DJ Assault – Ass N Titties
Outkast – B.O.B b/w FLYz – Swag Surfin
Purple Ribbon All-Stars – Kryptonite
Meek Mill – Oodles O’ Noodles Babies
Lil Uzi Vert x Brasstracks – XO Tour Liif3 (Brasstracks Cover)
Jay-Z – So Ghetto
Royce da 5’9 – Boom
KRS-One – MCs Act Like They Don’t Know
Puff Daddy feat. Notorious B.I.G & Busta Rhymes – Victory
A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebum
Junior M.A.F.I.A – Get Money
2Pac – Do For Love (JEKEY Mayor Edit)
Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer (Wantigga Remix)
TroyBoi – Say Yeah
Full Crate – Pump Up The Jam (Remix)
Blueface – Thotiana
Shoreline Mafia – Musty
N.E.R.D – Lightning Fire Magic Prayer
50 Cent x Hasse De Moor – In Da Club On Da
Celestial Choir – Stand On The World (Larry Levan Mix)
A.A.L. – Know You
Maze & Frankie Beverly – Before I Let Go
CeCe Peniston – Finally (Louby x Cancrejo)
Gyptian – Hold Yuh
Little Vicious – Freaks
JKriv – Rainha Do Mar (JKriv Rework)
This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: A-Trak Delivers “Rap Party Mix” From Holy Ship! Jam Packed with Classics & New Hits [MUST LISTEN]
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Points to consider when purchasing immediate annuities can be a daunting task, and usually you cannot change your mind once you have made the purchase. That is why it is very important to do your homework first. Here are a few factors that you have to put into consideration when purchasing these products.
Shop Around
There are a lot of highly-rated insurance providers today that offer immediate annuities, and at any point in time, one or two companies might be offering more monthly income for your investment than the rest, due to their own financial capacity and marketing techniques. Insurance experts suggest getting quotes from at least three insurance companies in your state, and ensuring it is on an apples-to-apples comparison for the same kind of annuity.
Safety First
Keep in mind that this is the safe part of your retirement income. Thus, you have to check the background of the insurance companies on your list. A reputable insurance company should be highly rated by renowned rating agencies such the Better Business Bureau (BBB), Standard & Poor’s or A.M. Best. If you think you will be rewarded by taking an investment risk, do that with the fraction of your retirement savings that you do not invest in an immediate annuity and put it in the stock market where there is more potential reward for taking investment risk.
Consider Inflation Protection
Inflation protection starts the payment at a lower level, but increases it once a year, usually by the inflation rate calculated by the government. Inflation protection reduces your “money’s worth ratio” by about five cents on the dollar. Considering the current economic status of the U.S., inflation protection makes sense.
Keep It Simple
Don’t accept costly add-ons, such as coupling the annuity with long-term care insurance or life insurance. These add-ons will only increase the cost of the annuity and make it difficult for you to compare insurance companies.
Consider Diversification
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. You may want to consider spreading your annuity purchase among three or more insurance companies to lessen your exposure to insurance company bankruptcy. For instance, assuming that you have about $300,000 to invest in an annuity; for every insurance company, you should get quotes on investing $100 grand, $200 grand, and $300 grand. If you invest your money in two or more companies, your total revenue might not be much less than investing all your money in one company, and you will have more peace of mind. Check to see if your state has a guarantee association that can add up to $250,000 of protection per account to protect you against insurance company bankruptcy. Most states have their own website, just Google your state name and the words guarantee association for state specific information and coverage.
Ask How Long the Annuity Quotes Are Valid
Annuity rate quotes usually have an expiration date (i.e. seven days, 14 days, etc.). A lot of insurance companies today will accept your application without funding and locking in the quote. But, you will be given up to 60 days to fund the contract.
Ask if Your Health Status will Affect Your Annuity Application
If you have a serious health condition, be sure to mention that in your application form. You may be qualified for a medically underwritten immediate annuity which will pay you a greater amount per month.
Ask What Will Happen to Your Premium Payment or Income Stream If You Die Too Early
When it comes to life only immediate annuities, the amount you paid for your immediate annuity is forfeited upon your death. But, most annuity companies nowadays offer optional riders that return the remaining unused premium dollars when you die prematurely. Thus, don’t forget to ask the refund options when you gather quotes.
Read the Fine Print
As with any crucial financial decision, it’s advisable to carefully read the fine print before you sign the dotted line. Carefully review the annuity quote or illustration. If you have any questions or concerns, be sure to address them with your agent before you purchase the immediate annuities. Keep in mind that you can’t change your mind once you’ve made the purchase.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Know that whatever your decision is, your satisfaction is always guaranteed! You have ten days (or one month, in some states) from the day your contract is sent to you to request that the insurance company refunds your full premium to you. No questions will be asked. This is known as the “free look” period, during which you can have a lawyer or a family member review the immediate annuities contract to make sure it gives you the coverage you need. For more info click here
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Fire causes death to an average of 5000 UK citizens each year; it is estimated that an 80% death rate is reported from house fires.
There are some simple steps that can and should be taken to prevent a fire from starting in your home.
The big reason for fires breaking out is often forgetfulness. People forget to turn off a heated curler or a saucepan which can be disastrous. If you leave some water to boil on a gas hob and then walk away and forget about it the water will slowly evaporate and then the pan will slowly begin to melt – this can be fatal.
Infographic – NW Domestic Fire Sprinkler Systems
People also often forget how dangerous candles can be. You should carefully position candles to decrease the chance of them being knocked over or to lower the chance of the flame touching a nearby object. Most importantly – always remember to blow them out.
Chip pan fires are widely reported in the press as being a major cause of house fires – again this is often down to carelessness. You should always keep an eye on it while you are cooking – never walk out of the room and leave it unattended.
Cigarettes are also a cause of house fires. If you imagine, smokers may accidently fall asleep on the sofa with a lit cigarette – this could be disastrous.
In case you do ever forget about an appliance or a lit candle you should ALWAYS have smoke alarms installed in your home. Experts recommend that you have a smoke alarm installed on each floor, in the bedrooms and near to the staircases. You should regularly check that the smoke alarms are still working once a month – as the batteries may have run out.
It is also advisable that you get your home electrics checked over by an electrician – especially if you move into an old home. Faulty electrics are also a cause of house fires.
Should any of the above ever happen to you, it is vital that you know what to do so you don’t panic. In this case, a fire safety course would come in extremely handy.
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It’s nearly February in 2019, but r/EDM on Reddit is just now revealing the results of their Best of 2018 voting. Right off the bat, we have to note that the subreddit boasts nearly 440,000 subscribers, and yet the most votes in any single category was 405 for future bass. That is 0.09% of the total subreddit population.
Now, let’s move on to the results. The top two comments on the thread right now are referencing the EDM circlejerk and unwanted results — well, of course! No one voted! The results of the survey skew heavily toward the main stream, not that that’s particularly unexpected, either.
Winner of best artist for big room house? Martin Garrix, no surprise there. Dance Pop? The Chainsmokers, check. Future bass? Illenium, of course. Future house? Don Diablo, who didn’t see that coming. Although, props are due to Nora En Pure for winning best artist for tropical house & commercial deep house.
It also seems that the results could have been skewed by a large influx of Monstercat fans — just look at the drum & bass and electro house categories.
All this being said, another huge congrats is due to 1788-L for nearly sweeping the midtempo bass category after only a year of being active. The only categories he missed out on went to Rezz, for best album/EP and best mix. 1788-L also won best breakout artist overall.
Curiously absent anywhere on the list? Marshmello.
See the full results below and join the conversation on Reddit here.
Bass House, G-House & Bassline (n=307)
Best Artist: Tchami (25.4%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Valentino Khan – Lick It (34.4%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Skrillex & JOYRYDE – Agen Wida (50.4%)
Best Remix: Zeds Dead x Jauz – Lights Go Down (Sikdope Remix) (31.2%)
Best Album/EP: Tchami & Malaa – No Redemption EP
Big Room House (n=322)
Best Artist: Martin Garrix (47.8%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Martin Garrix – High On Life ft. Bonn (37.7%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Blasterjaxx & Hardwell – Big Room Never Dies (32.9%)
Best Remix: Axwell /\ Ingrosso – Dreamer (Matisse & Sadko Remix) (68.4%)
Best Album/EP: Martin Garrix – BYLAW EP (68.1%)
Best Set/Mix: Hardwell @ Tomorrowland (38.4%)
Dance Pop (n=271)
Best Artist: The Chainsmokers (27.3%)
Best Original Track (Solo): The Chainsmokers – This Feeling (20.6%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Tiesto & Dzeko – Jackie Chan (60.7%)
Best Album/EP: The Chainsmokers – Sick Boy (38.1%)
Best Remix: Cheat Codes ft Fetty Wap – Feels Great (Anki Remix) (26%)
Drum & Bass (n=198)
Best Artist: Muzzy (51.6%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Rameses B – Prometheus (48.3%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Delta Heavy & Everyone You Know – Anarchy (44.3%)
Best Remix: Pendulum – Hold Your Color (Noisia Remix) (53.8%)
Best Album/EP: Muzzy – Cascade (70.5%)
Best Set/Mix: Andy C @ Rampage (36.3%)
Dubstep & Riddim (n=304)
Best Artist: Virtual Riot (45%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Virtual Riot – One Two (29.5%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Illenium & Excision – Gold (39%)
Best Album/EP: Excision – Apex (39.8%)
Best Set/Mix: Never Say Die Vol. 6 (32.3%)
Electro House (n=264)
Best Artist: Pegboard Nerds (35.1%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Stonebank – What Are You Waiting For (31.9%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Knife Party & Pegboard Nerds – Harpoon (47.5%)
Best Remix: Gammer – The Drop (Stonebank Remix) (52.9%)
Best Album/EP: Wolfgang Gartner – Medicine EP (43.7%)
Best Set/Mix: Vicetone – End of Year Mix 2018
Future Bass (n=405)
Best Artist: Illenium (43.5%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Illenium – Take You Down (35.2%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Said The Sky & Dabin – Superstar (28.2%)
Best Remix: Halsey – Without Me (Illenium Remix) (55.7%)
Best Album/EP: San Holo – album1 (39.8%)
Future House (n=263)
Best Artist: Don Diablo (34.5%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Don Diablo – Anthem (We Love House Music) (37.3%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Brooks x Martin Garrix x David Guetta – Like I Do (34.3%)
Best Remix: Martin Garrix – Ocean (Don Diablo Remix) (39.5%)
Best Album/EP: Don Diablo – Future (52.1%)
Best Set/Mix: Brooks @ Tomorrowland (41.5%)
Hard Dance (n=150)
Best Artist: Darren Styles (57.4%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Headhunterz – Path of the Hunter (37.4%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Headhunterz & Sub Zero Project – Our Church (32.5%)
Best Remix: LNY TNZ – We Go Up (Da Tweekaz Remix) (31.5%)
Best Album/EP: Headhunterz – Return of Headhunterz (59.8%)
Best Set/Mix: Headhunterz @ Defqon1 (39.6%)
House (Other) (n=148)
Best Artist: Gorgon City (36.4%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Calvin Harris – One Kiss (59.1%)
Best Original Track (Collab): MK & Jonas Blue – Back & Forth (35%)
Best Remix: Odesza – It’s Only (VIP)
Best Album/EP: Gorgon City – Escape (63.5%)
Best Set/Mix: Bonobo Boiler Room NYC (68.9%)
Melodic Dubstep (n=333)
Best Artist: Seven Lions (49.8%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Seven Lions – Dreamin’ (34%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Excision & Illenium – Gold (Stupid Love)
Best Remix: Seven Lions – Calling You Home (Crystal Skies Remix) (30.2%)
Best Album/EP: Seven Lions – Start Again EP (70.4%)
Best Set/Mix: Seven Lions @ EDCLV (55.1%)
Midtempo Bass (n=204)
Best Artist: 1788-L (41.7%)
Best Original Track (Solo): 1788-L – Pulsar Beam; Rezz – Witching Hour (28.5%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Rezz & 1788-L – H E X (64.8%)
Best Remix: Illenium, Said the Sky & 1788-L – Sound of Where’d U Go (VIP) (49.7%)
Best Album/EP: Rezz – A Certain Kind of Magic (67.6%)
Best Set/Mix: Rezz – Nightmare on Rezz Street (55.4%)
Trance (n=192)
Best Artist: Armin van Buuren (41.8%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Alpha 9 – Sleepwalker (30.2%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Armin van Buuren x Shapov – Our Origin (24.1%)
Best Remix: Gabriel & Dresden – Only Road (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Best Album/EP: Above & Beyond – Common Ground (44.6%)
Best Set/Mix: Above & Beyond ABGT300 (55.8%)
Tech House (n=154)
Best Artist: Chris Lake (36.4%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Fisher – Losing It (70.7%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Chris Lake & Green Velvet – Deceiver (44.9%)
Best Remix: Au/Ra – Panic Room (CamelPhat Club Mix) (52.9%)
Best Set/Mix: Chris Lake @ EDCLV (63.4%)
Techno (n=70)
Best Artist: Adam Beyer (27.6%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Cirez D – The Glitch (34.5%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Adam Beyer, Green Velvet & Layton Giordani – Space Date (50%)
Best Remix: Jon Hopkins – Singularity (ANNA Remix) (46.2%)
Best Album/EP: Enrico Sangiuliano – Biomorph (44.2%)
Best Set/Mix: Adam Beyer b2b Cirez D @ SoHo Miami (35.6%)
Trap (n=291)
Best Artist: RL Grime (48.5%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Odesza – Loyal (35.8%)
Best Original Track (Collab): The Chainsmokers & NGHTMRE – Save Yourself (34.6%)
Best Remix: Ekali & ZHU – Blame (NGHTMRE Remix) (43.2%)
Best Album/EP: RL Grime – Nova (52.4%)
Best Set/Mix: RL Grime Halloween VII (45.1%)
Tropical House & Commercial Deep House (n=226)
Best Artist: Nora En Pure (37.6%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Noisestorm – Crab Rave (63.9%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Kygo & Sandro Cavazza – Happy Now (54.5%)
Best Remix: Bazzi – Beautiful (EDX Ibiza Skyline Remix) (29.3%)
Best Album/EP: Sigala – Brighter Days (31.6%)
Best Set/Mix: Kygo – Kids In Love Tour Set (64.2%)
Progressive House (n=206)
Best Artist: Arty (43%)
Best Original Track (Solo): Deadmau5 – Monophobia ft. Rob Swire (54.4%)
Best Original Track (Collab): ZHU & Tame Impala – My Life (32.5%)
Best Remix: Above & Beyond – Northern Soul (Spencer Brown Remix) (37.4%)
Best Album/EP: Pryda – Elements (36.1%)
Best Set/Mix: Eric Prydz @ Tomorrowland (39.4%)
Other Genres (n=213)
Best Artist: Virtual Self (61.1%)
Best Original Track (Solo): RL Grime – Pressure (42.1%)
Best Original Track (Collab): Big Gigantic & NGHTMRE – Like That (45.9%)
Best Remix: Virtual Self – Angel Voices (77.5%)
Best Album/EP: 3LAU – Ultraviolet (34.7%)
Best Set/Mix: Virtual Self (70.2%)
Miscellaneous (n=349)
Best Live Performance: Odesza (42.3%)
Best Festival: Tomorrowland (46.5%)
Best Breakout Artist: 1788-L (32.1%)
Best Album Art: Odesza – A Moment Apart (Deluxe) (35.7%)
Best Content Creator – Sidewalk Talks (41.1%)
Post of the Year: Ekali describing different genres (40.8%)
Best Radio Show: A State of Trance (34.6%)
Best Compilation Album: Monstercat Vol. 5 (45.3%) Best Social Media Presence: Dillon Francis (34.1%)
Best Label: Monstercat (64.3%)
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Day two of Bassnectar’s Deja Voom is done, and it’s certainly staying interesting. After porn star Adriana Chechik was filmed performing oral sex on an attendee in the crowd on Thursday night, the resort is now cracking down on drug use after “some unfortunate incidents.”
“[…] the resort has informed us that they are required to be proactive in enforcing Mexico’s zero-tolerance policy with enhanced security measures including the use of specially-trained dogs,” the notice reads. “Please be aware that you may see increased security within the entire resort including all Deja Voom events and activities effective immediately through check-out.”
Heads up if you are at #DejaVoom — Drug dogs are potentially being brought onsite and a 0% tolerance policy is now in effect.@CID_Presents @bassnectar @dejavoom pic.twitter.com/5EZ0SeKIis
— Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) March 2, 2019
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Chicago-based booking agency Almost Famous adds, “be careful, drug dogs searching rooms now. Flush what you got.”
Deja Voom be careful drug dogs searching rooms now. Flush what you got #edm #edmfamily #dejavoom
— AF Squadron (@AlmostFamousInc) March 2, 2019
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According to Riviera Maya News, “a 25-year-old American man was arrested at a Riviera Maya hotel after he was seen by hotel staff delivering drugs to another hotel guest,” which could have prompted the increased security.
The man, who was referred to in the report only as Gates N, was found with “$1,000 USD in cash, 86 transparent pills with cocaine, two glass jars with the same substance and a blue bag that contained 909 empty capsules.”
Deja Voom concludes tonight with performances from Bassnectar, Digital Mystikz, Bukez Finezt, Digital Ethos, Dirtybird Players, and more.
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A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers).
— Susan sontag, the image world 1973
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What was once one man’s real, living nightmare is going down in history as the most legendary anecdote to come out of Fyre Festival. Of course, we’re talking about the notorious dick sucking story from Netflix’s Fyre documentary.
As people draw lines comparisons between Hulu’s documentary and that of Netflix, there’s a clear line in the sand between one versus the other. One describes event producer Andy King‘s near run-in with a penis to get trucks full of Evian water across the boarder.
“Billy [McFarland] called and said, ‘Andy, we need you to take one big thing for the team.,” King explains on-camera in the newly released Fyre documentary. “And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve been taking something for the team every day.’
“He said, ‘Well, you’re our wonderful gay leader and we need you to go down, will you suck dick to fix this water problem?’ And I said, ‘Billy, what?’ And he said, ‘Andy, if you will go down and suck Cunningham’s dick, who is the head of customs, and get him to clear all of the containers with water, you will save this festival.’”
This is the same guy who admits he would break into tears whenever he was alone for a second, as Fyre became more and more out of his control. King was fully prepared to go down, to the festival site and otherwise, if it meant keeping the festival afloat — and more importantly, the thirst of attendees quenched. Thankfully, customs let the water go with no dirty deeds done, but the festival failed miserably anyways. Still, this guy is some kind of hero.
“Can you imagine, in my 30 years of career that this was what I was going to do?,” he says. “I was going to do that, honestly, to save the festival.”
Naturally, Twitter’s commentary about the dick sucking story is on point. Never forget.
#FyreFestival
dividing my life into before and after getting to the dick sucking portion of the fyre fest documentary
— david bynch (@soalexgoes) January 19, 2019
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imagine sucking dick for fyre festival
— Big Chungus (@broazay) January 20, 2019
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At first I thought the Netflix #fyre documentary wasn’t as good as the Hulu one…but then I got to the dick sucking story
— Married In MedSchool (@MarryNMedSchool) January 19, 2019
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Fiji water I’d understand but Evian? That’s out of control
— Mands (@mandszzz) January 20, 2019
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Straight up cannot believe that guy almost sucked dick at customs for barrels of Evian water to keep the fyre fest going, that is so dark
— Alison Segel (@OnlineAlison) January 20, 2019
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Aye I know the Netflix producers were filming dudeass talking about potentially sucking dick for Fyre Festival like “Hulu ain’t got this THATS for sure”
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When songstress Lena Horne arrived in Manhattan in the early 1980s from Hollywood to perform her one-woman Broadway show, “The Lady and Her Music,” she decided she was going to return to her hometown for good. She began to look for a place to buy.
Her friend, the model and socialite Jane Holzer, better known as “Baby Jane” for her role as Andy Warhol’s muse, proposed Ms. Horne move into her building, a co-op in the Lenox Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side called the Volney. The former hotel, with its limestone facade and canopied entrance, was built in the 1920s and had been home to notable artists and writers, including Dorothy Parker.
Ms. Horne had faced challenges finding a home in the past, when many Manhattan co-ops weren’t welcoming to African-Americans. In an interview, singer Harry Belafonte said he had previously rented a penthouse apartment to Ms. Horne in the 1960s at a building he purchased at 300 West End Avenue. He had purchased the entire building and turned it into coops because the previous landlord wouldn’t allow African-Americans to live there, he said.
Ms. Horne ultimately bought a fifth-floor apartment at the Volney—and eventually four others. She combined the first unit with an adjacent one to create one apartment with a large living room, dining room and two bedrooms, according to Ms. Horne’s daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. Ms. Horne later bought another unit to use as an exercise room and then one as a guest suite and extra wardrobe space for her many evening gowns. A fifth unit became a private office, where her secretary worked.
Ms. Horne died in 2010, and two of her fifth-floor apartments were sold for a combined $1.1 million in 2014. Now, Ms. Buckley is selling the last of her mother’s add-on apartments—the one used as an office—for $825,000, according to her real-estate agent, Tamer Howard of Douglas Elliman, who is listing the property in association with Kevin Dees of the Agency in Los Angeles. The for-sale unit has one bedroom and one bathroom.
The bedroom in the for-sale unit.
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Ms. Buckley, an 80-year-old nonfiction author, is keeping the main apartment, where she lives with her husband, journalist Kevin Buckley.
Although Ms. Buckley never lived in the main apartment with her mother, she recalled Ms. Horne’s distinct tastes and lifestyle. “Her bedroom was always red. She loved red,” Ms. Buckley said, noting her mother’s rouge-flecked wallpaper. “She slept late. She would go to bed about 3 a.m. when she was working and then wake up at 3 p.m. in the afternoon and have a big steak or something.”
Ms. Horne’s furniture was often imported from Europe and included statement pieces, such as a small Louis Vuitton trunk with SS France ocean-liner stickers inscribed with her married name, Lena Horne Hayton. Ms. Buckley said her mother and her second husband, the composer Lennie Hayton, had married in Europe in 1947 because, at the time, interracial marriages were still illegal in California. They kept their marriage a secret for several years and always traveled aboard French ships to Europe because they didn’t discriminate.
Ms. Horne’s two children, Ms. Buckley and her brother, Teddy Jones, who died in 1970, were from her first marriage to Louis Jordan Jones, of Pittsburgh.
“That marriage lasted three years because my father had a high-stakes bridge habit and a girlfriend he never got rid of,” Ms. Buckley said.
The trunk, and many other personal items of Ms. Horne, were sold at the auction, with the trunk fetching more than $8,000. Ms. Buckley held onto some items, which are on display in her apartment, such as a bust of her mother by Peter Lambda.
Ms. Horne, born in 1917, spent her early years in a townhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “There were two townhouses on the street when she was born,” Ms. Buckley said.
Ms. Horne relocated to California in the 1940s to headline a new nightclub on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, and was quickly scouted by producers at the movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She appeared in movies and musicals, such as “Cabin in the Sky” in 1943. She wasn’t typically cast in leading roles and rarely interacted with other actors on screen so that her appearances could be cut out for audiences in the segregated South.
Ms. Horne was relieved to return to New York and loved her home at the Volney, a short stroll to her favorite Fifth Avenue stores, her daughter said. “She would walk down to Bergdorf’s,” she added. “People sometimes would recognize her and just smile, and she loved that. She loved that it was New York and people didn’t make a fuss.”
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Game: Yomawari: Midnight ShadowsDeveloper: Nippon Ichi SoftwarePublisher: NIS AmericaReviewed on: PS4 (Review code provided)
Nippon Ichi Software is back with a new terrifying addition to their Yomawari series titled Midnight Shadows, a Japanese survival horror video game. This dramatic tale takes you in the footsteps of two lost elementary school girls, Yui and Haru, as you traverse your hometown to find one another. But it’s not as cute as it first appears; something evil is lurking in the dark, they’re out to get you and there’s yokai closing in on every side. Fighting for your life inside these killer, thriller nights, are you up to the challenge to find each other in the darkness? Even I was unprepared for what I was about to experience…!
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Whilst Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a sequel to its predecessor Night Alone, the story that is about to unfold is an entirely separate entity, meaning that no previous experience is required in order to get the most from this game. In fact, if like myself you have no prior knowledge then this will only make the following hours all the more harrowing for you! To put my personal opinion out here and to help set the tone, I don’t feel the PEGI 12 age rating is appropriate to the graphic scenes depicted within; at the very least I would suggest 15 onwards to avoid any nightmares. Heck, even at 28 I didn’t really want to face this alone in the dark and was repeatedly told off for my constant shrieking…
Set in a seemingly quaint Japanese town, summer vacation is coming to an end and two young girls, Yui and Haru visit the mountaintop to watch the evening fireworks together. Sounds nice right? During the display, Haru explains that this is the last time they will be able to watch the fireworks together as she will soon be leaving town. As sadness sets in, night envelops the town in darkness. As the girls journey home, something lunges at them from the shadows to attack and the two girls find themselves lost and separated in the dark. Alone and afraid, the girls must brace themselves for the terrors of the night and face the darkness to reunite and make their way home.
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Bizarrely, the game opens up with a specific set of instructions: turn off all the lights and focus your attention solely on the screen, even going so far as asking you to promise. I had intentionally not looked into this game at all in order to heighten my experience, and placing my judgements on the cover art and cute chibi character styles I thought to myself, this can’t be that scary… Well, I was about to eat my words. I proceeded to turn off all the lights, close all the blinds and turned up the volume before placing myself in front of the TV with my eyes and mind focused. As the dark screen lingered I had a sense that something was about to happen, you know, like when you are asked to watch one of these seemingly innocent videos but then after a while something scary jumps out at the screen. Well, that didn’t happen. I was left slightly disappointed by this and thus began the story. Boy oh boy was I wrong, I wasn’t disappointed for long… After a brief opening explaining the mechanics, I was totally unprepared for what was about to happen! What greeted me next was one of the grimmest and morbid scenes I have ever witnessed and left me agape in shock for a good 10 minutes trying to comprehend the horror that had just unfolded. It’s an experience that has shook me and will stick with me for a long time.
Japanese horrors are the only ones that seem to invoke the most emotions from me. Whilst western horrors mostly involve gruesome looking characters and scary moments, most often I find them lacking in leaving an impression. Nippon Ichi Software, however, have exceeded my expectations and have mastered the perfect horror by invoking our most innate fears. One way they have achieved this is by creating the perfect ambience. There is no musical score here, only the calls of the night that make hairs stand on end and hearts pulsate. As you explore the town you can hear the rustling of the trees, the leaves and crunchy gravel underfoot, the cicadas song and the electrical hums of street lamps and vending machines. As you explore an abandoned mansion, floorboards creak, doors slam and windows rattle. All of these are familiar frights from our childhoods, and whilst you may think you have grown out of them, it’s amazing how the darkness pulls you back. Under the cover of night, the yokai come out with wails of suffering voiced in Japanese such as Yonkai Baba or Teke Teke that particularly creeped me out. As these various yokai inch ever closer to you as you wander the town, your heart will pulsate through the speakers, increasing in rhythm as they get closer whilst the screen throbs. In turn, my own heartbeat would begin to go crazy and it was soon hard to distinguish if it was more mine or the games.
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When it comes to visuals, they have also done an exceptional job in heightening our experience. The game itself has a beautiful painted art style with kawaii chibi illustrations, using parallax scrolling at certain scenes to create gorgeous depth and add great immersion to the game. I will admit, I especially squealed when a spider complete with webbing popped out in the foreground hindering my visibility! The quality is a little pixelated, especially when zoomed in once undercover but overall this added to the charm. Frame rate was often solid, only dipping on the odd occasion but this was hardly noticeable and did not interrupt gameplay. It really is a beautiful game, especially with the rare burnt, blood like sky.
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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows owes its big horror success to how well the team have implemented the evocation of our innate fears, especially if the opening instructions are up-kept by the player. The ambience, coupled with the impairment of our visual senses in the dark has a huge impact on our human psyche. Despite our evolution from our ancestors, we still rely on our visuals to protect us. Black represents darkness, but it is not the darkness itself we fear, rather it is what the darkness conceals that may bring us harm. The gameplay utilises all of this to create a terrifying experience, despite the somewhat simplistic mechanics. Throughout the game, you will change perspectives between Yui and Haru, though most of the story unfolds through Haru’s eyes, with Yui’s scenes connecting the development between chapters. The goal is to find Yui, and for reasons unbeknownst to me, Haru takes it upon herself to explore the town at night. Seriously, this little girl has GUTS! She is so unbelievably courageous; despite being scared and alone her desire to find her friend urges her on. The game plays upon our perceptions of night, and even though you should know your own town well, under the cover of darkness everything is different. You may walk the same path every day, but at night it always seems unfamiliar and scary.
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As little girls, there is no combat to be found and demons cannot be fought. Armed with only a flashlight, you must explore the streets alone. The map starts off more or less empty, completing over time in childish scribbles as you traverse your hometown. It’s actually rather detailed sketching for a young girl, with landmarks and areas of interest marked down. Loneliness is instilled with every step you take as you travel alone and what’s worse is that you are far from alone, as a plethora of yokai and mononoke roam the streets. Each one has unique characteristics steeped in Japanese lore and will require different tactics to evade. As you explore with your flashlight you will come across a glimmer on the ground representing an item that can be picked up. These are split into collectables, key items and usable items, some with a limit on how many you can carry at a time. As you cannot fight the yokai you will have to find other ways around them, and some will block your path forcing you to find an alternative route or signalling an area which can’t be reached until a later point. Items such as rocks or paper planes can be used to distract the yokai, whilst some will force you to run for your life. As you run, a stamina bar represents the duration you can last before exhaustion slows you down, so it’s best to pace yourself where you can. If running isn’t an option, nearby bushes or police signs are good places to hide until the yokai retreats, but these moments are tense as your heart goes crazy. Sneaking or turning off your flashlight is also an option and can help in avoiding detection.
Other useful items you can collect are coins which can be used to save your game at nearby telephones or as offerings at Jizo statues. Though you might expect these coins to be rare, they are actually in plentiful supply which might make things a little too easy. These points are always good to check, as being captured by a yokai will result in instant death and will take you back to your last save point. Luckily any items you collect will still remain with you, which whilst easy does save all the hard work you just put in. The Jizo statues are also useful to use as teleportation to various sections of the map. Making your way through these streets fills you with anxiety, and as the fear sets in it can be hard to push forward, yet I found the story so compelling that I could not avert my eyes and I had to push on. I have to find Yui and I must see where this story will end, I constantly told myself. I perished many a time, but I could not stop pushing forward on these puzzling streets; with trial and error I would persevere to the end! Charms were particularly handy for facing certain situations, granting abilities such as running for longer which was perhaps the most useful.
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This game has certainly put me through my paces. I have lost count of the number of times I have shrieked as a yokai jumps out from nowhere, or the screen is enveloped in complete darkness. I have been a nervous wreck, especially after being chased by Mr. Kotowari with his relentless effort to cut me. The story has gripped my heart, and yes, I have cried. By the time I had completed the game I had suffered through 10 hours of horror, filled with despair yet great appreciation for such a heart-wrenching experience. Now I just need to play through the post-game to go back and find all the collectables and read further into the dark mysteries that haunt this town…
VERDICT
A tale of harrowing terror and enduring friendship! Despite inflicting such horrors upon me, this tale is one filled with not only despair but inspiration. Haru has been so inspiring; if she can push on through all of what she’s been through then surely I can face my fears too! This game will give you all the feels: fear, sorrow, anger and frustration, but overall I was left with a deep admiration over the bonds these girls share and the lengths they were willing to go through for each other. This game is a testament to how easily we can be gripped by our innate emotions, yet no matter what happens we can somehow find the strength to go on. I can’t wait to see where Nippon Ichi Software will take us next!
9/10
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The issue, Possibility of Perfect Research, brings up some significant issues on a research yield or research process. What is research? What is the total premise of research? Why research is started? How research is directed? How research is assessed? What is flawlessness? Is flawlessness during research process reasonable? What is viable research the executives? What is research paper? We will try to address the previously mentioned inquiries.
Oxford Dictionary characterizes research as, a cautious investigation of a subject, particularly so as to find new actualities or data about it. A research is either synopsis of data or assessment of some effectively found data. Truly, research includes “looking once more” the subject what others have composed on it. A research is mix of data, assessment, and development. Initially, it gives data on a specific subject or matter, also, assesses the previous research or audits significant writing, lastly, the new work includes some creative angles, both pragmatic just as applied.
Man is mix of three essential substances, i.e., body, brain, and soul. Human exercises are molded by physical needs, mental impulses, and soul desires. At physical level, a significant physical need is recreation or unwinding. At mental level, a significant mental impulse is interest. Once more, at otherworldly level, a significant soul desire is flawlessness. The different reasons of research are physical interest for more recreation, scholarly push because of instinctual interest, stickler yearning of soul because of imbued inclination of soul towards flawlessness. The very establishment of human life systems is subsequently extreme premise of research, with the goal that research will proceed until the end of time. There isn’t probability of ideal research in any order.
Life has two levels, individual and group. Aggregate life is authoritative plan of pioneers and devotees. Establishments are inescapable part of aggregate life. A foundation works under the stewardship of pioneers. Pioneers start different projects to keep up their power over adherents or to keep up going great of organizations. A devotee may alter her perspective towards initiative by virtue of static, poor, and degenerate administration. The answer for formal or non-performing institutional arrangement is presentation of developments, both reasonable just as pragmatic. Thus, developments are acquainted from time with time. The very establishment of development is inception of new and new research. So as to keep up the texture of aggregate life, pioneers (social or monetary or political) starts research now and again. At scholarly level, the led research is inclined towards flawlessness however for all intents and purposes it accomplishes just a reasonable yield because of different requirements, monetary and non-money related, forced by pioneers.
A research is led by savvy people. Intelligent people/Scientists are imaginative gathering of a general public. They get thoughts from numerous life occasions, every so often. The gathering of thought is exceptional psycho-social quality of educated people/researchers. A thought resembles a seed of a plant. They think-reevaluate on it and survey the practicality of thought. Finally, they are sure towards profitability of their thought. They independent/mastermind assets for thought acknowledgment. Sharing of thought with business visionary (social or monetary or political) is a significant advance for asset course of action. A thought acknowledgment movement is self-flawlessness of scholarly/researcher. It is significant that proactive methodology of a business person or society towards new thoughts is essential for the emergence of scholarly innovativeness.
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Vivek Oberoi talks about his Tamil debut
The pan-global blockbuster status of S S Rajamouli’s Baahubali has given South Indian cinema a renewed legitimacy in Bollywood. Bollywood actors are making a beeline for Tamil and Telugu cinema. Even Mr Bachchan will be seen in a Telugu film soon.
Two weeks ago it was Kajol in Soundarya Rajinikanth’s screechy and hysterical Tamil film VIP 2. Last week it was Vivek Oberoi who makes his debut in Tamil cinema with the eagerly awaited Ajith starrer Vivegam.
Vivek Anand Oberoi (that’s how he likes to be known now) is very excited about his Tamil debut and his maiden opportunity to speak in Tamil on screen for the first time.
Says Vivek, “Yes, this is my Tamil debut! I am quite excited by the challenge. Speaking in Tamil was a challenge but I enjoyed the experience. I learned to appreciate the language and its nuances. It’s always challenging to act in a language not native to you but because of the fabulous role and the scale of the film, it was well worth the extra effort.”
Apparently Vivek was keen to do his own lines and was even assured that he would be allowed to speak for himself on screen.
But the dialectic fastidiousness of South Indian cinema is well-known.
Vivek Oberoi promised to deliver. Says a source, “In the South Indian cinema the accent and pitch are of paramount importance. No matter how well a North Indian actor speaks his or her lines in Tamil or Telugu it still doesn’t sound authentic. Before Vivek, Aditi Rao was keen to do her own Tamil lines in Mani Ratnam’s film. But she was not allowed.”
Vivek Oberoi plays Ajith’s best friend and has some really punchy dialogues to deliver. Says Vivek, “I play an international spy who is also best friends with Ajith Kumar’s character. Aryaan, my character is trained like a lethal weapon himself and is also a genius at strategy and counter strategy as a spy. I had a great time working with Ajith and the team.”
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By Mark Nelson President Nelson Water:
With more than 30 years’ experience in the residential and commercial water treatment space, Mark Nelson is a Class 1 Drinking-Water Operator and a CBWA (Canadian Bottled Water Association) Certified Plant Operator. As founder and president of Nelson Water in Ottawa, Mark focuses on dealing with challenging water treatment system designs for problem water. He also heads the largest water bottling plant in the city of Ottawa with a delivery network throughout the Valley.
Hard water is a common issue throughout Canada and North America. While it is not considered dangerous to health, hard water can be problematic in a variety of ways around the home. So, here we’ll explore how to determine if your home has hard water and what you can do to correct the issue.
The Problems With Hard Water
Hard water contains high levels of minerals, specifically calcium, magnesium, and possibly iron. While these minerals are considered essential for human health when in significant quantities in your water, it can create a number of issues around your home. Hard water minerals accumulate to cause scale. This can be visible around fixtures such as shower heads and taps, but it can also be hidden inside pipes and water using appliances. Unfortunately, this scale not only impedes water flow, but it can also create energy efficiency problems, as the scale accumulates around heating elements, forcing appliances to work harder. Eventually, this scale build up will compromise the lifespan of your appliances, forcing premature replacement.
Hard water can also cause problems with laundry, dish washing, and bathing. You may notice spots on your glassware, your whites may look dull and gray, or your skin may feel dry and itchy. All of these issues are related to hard water. The hard water minerals interfere with the lather capabilities of soaps and detergent. This impedes cleaning and may create a scum that is difficult to rinse. This soap scum can even remain on your skin and hair, causing itchy, irritated skin and dull, hard to style hair. If you have experienced any of these issues, it is likely that you have hard water and you’ll need to determine the level of hardness in your water.
DIY Testing
If you’re unsure whether your home is affected by hard water, there is a simple way to perform a DIY check. This can be performed at home to determine if you need to take further action. You’ll need some pure liquid soap and a clear water bottle.
First, fill your container, such as an empty plastic bottle, approximately a third of the way to the top with tap water.
Add approximately ten drops of your liquid soap into the container. Pure liquid soap will work best for this. Any soap labelled as detergent will contain additives that can affect the results of this testing, so try to stick to pure soap varieties, such as Castile soap that does not contain perfumes or dyes.
Put the lid on the container and shake for at least ten seconds. You want to mix the soap and water in an attempt to make bubbles.
Once you’ve shaken the bottle, it’s time to check the results. If you can see a decent amount of soap suds on top and nice, clear water underneath, your water is relatively soft. If your bottle doesn’t contain many suds even after a vigorous shaking and the water looks cloudy, it is a good indication that you have hard water.
If preferred, you can keep adding more soap and shaking to continue this test. Just remember the more soap needed to create bubbles, the greater your water hardness.
The reason this test provides insight into your water hardness is that the hard water minerals prevent soap from creating suds and cleaning effectively. The sap binds with the dissolved minerals to form a cloudy liquid that will leave a residue on your dishes, shower, clothing, hair, and skin.
Detergents are formulated with additives to create suds in hard water. This is why these products shouldn’t be used in the above test. Unfortunately, even if you’re using these products, you’ll still need to use increasing quantities in hard water to get those all important suds.
Accurate Water Testing
While this DIY test can provide you with some information, it is not completely accurate. This test will highlight a hard water problem, but it won’t provide a precise number of the water hardness level of your supply. This test highlights a need for more accurate water testing.
A water treatment expert can provide this form of testing. The technician is equipped to test water for the hardness level, pH, total dissolved solids and other possible contaminants. This testing can be tailored to check for the contaminants that are common in your geographical area. For example, if you live in a rural area, it is a good idea to check for nitrates and other chemicals associated with agricultural runoff. The technician can help you to identify the underlying cause of any water problems you may be experiencing, such as strange tastes, odours or aesthetic qualities, such as strange colours.
Treatment Options
Once you have had accurate testing performed, your water technician can help you to understand the testing results and guide you through the treatment options. If the only water quality issue is high hardness levels, a water softener is likely to be the best choice. These devices use ion exchange to replace the magnesium and calcium with sodium ions. This immediately creates softer water to eliminate any hard water issues around your home.
If you have more extensive water quality issues, you are likely to need other types of water treatment. For example, Reverse Osmosis systems can be used to eliminate up to 99.9% of waterborne contaminants. This is a particularly effective treatment method for heavy metals, minerals, bacteria, and viruses. Unfortunately, the semipermeable membrane in RO systems can be vulnerable to clogging and damage if you have high total dissolved solids. In this scenario, you may need to introduce a pre-filter to remove any sediment and larger particles of dissolved solids before it is passed through the RO membrane.
If you have concerns or questions about your water quality, you should consult a professional water quality expert. An experienced professional can perform on site water testing to check for hard water and other contaminants before recommending the treatment options best suited to your water conditions.
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