it ' s always jan
there' s cast trouble with janis paige' s
it' s always jan .
daniel kitson in “it' s always right now, until it' s later. ”
friendship meets its test when the boy friend jan' s roommate brings home falls for jan .
jan, josie and pat hatch a plot to get jan' s agent married off. but
the patient who falls :
it' s always a trade - off
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it' s always right now, until it' s later the monologuist daniel kitson returns to st. ann' s warehouse in brooklyn with this show .
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after blowing her emergency fund on a demo recording, jan and friends are feeling desperate and destitute. but then henry cooper, jan’s manager ,
lead to sing in a musical. even better for jan, mansfield wants an unknown voice specifically instead of a known face. so begins jan’s journey
jan' s curiosity is aroused when she begins receiving gifts and flowers from an unknown admirer .
jan' s daughter is stagestruck. [ ta / 21apr56 long island city ny star journal ]
irate neighbors in jan' s apartment house demand that couple with a crying baby be evicted, but jan takes an interest in the child and solves the problem .
due to a phone slip - up, pat, jan’s roommate, mistakenly gets a call from someone named seymour. the ensuing chat goes so well jan recommends pat go
jan' s friends try to find a suitable husband for her. [ ta / melbourne age ]
an employee walks through the lobby of google' s washington headquarters, jan. 8, 2015 .
with gustavo dudamel during jan' s lectures for the los angeles philharmonic beethoven series, october 2015 .
the eleventh season of it' s always sunny in philadelphia premiered january 6, 2016 on fxx and concluded on march 9, 2016. it consists of 10 episodes .
the next episode of always sunny, “ the gang goes to a water park, ” airs jan. 11 at 10 p. m. on fxx .
jan envisages spectacular success when a writer promise to write special material for her .
jan swafford, michael tilson thomas, and james sinclair during a recording of ives' s fourth in chicago .
a theater review on monday about “it’s always right now, until it’s later, ” a one - man show by daniel kitson at st. ann’s warehouse in brooklyn, misstated the word of which mr. kitson asks, “who among us doesn’t really enjoy” it? it is “toboggan, ” not “bobsled. ”
a film - maker and photographer by profession, browning first read it “more in visual terms” but has re - read it many times, and “i always find different things about it” .
jon' s roommate pat brings home a boy friend who promptly falls for jan. the situation becomes more complicated when
because she thinks she has neglected her daughter, jan turns down a lucrative engagement .
ordered. his patient is josie, but he' d rather consult with jan .
“mum used to get fed up talking about it, ” says browning. “she did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel. because she always said it was a study in jealousy. ”
jan meets a happy - go - lucky man who reminds her of her late husband .
jan finds herself becoming interested in the handsome beau. [ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
21 - jan - 1956 cbs / 21jan56 (in notice: 1955) / lp7339 .
jan and her roommate have a nerve - wracking day. [ ta / melbourne age ]
and two friends, a secretary and a model. in the first episode jan is upset about the daughter' s behavior .
‘we try not to shy away from jokes that might make people uncomfortable’... glenn howerton as dennis in it’s always sunny in philadelphia. photograph: patrick mcelhenney / fxx
“maybe that’s the lesson here, ” he sings. “things are not always that clear. we have a lot in common, but too much of it is fear. ”
harry cooper, jan’s manager, ran all the way from 49th street to tell her the demo record she cut paid off. it got her the attention of movie producer
jan is upset when her press agent releases an
item
that she and a movie star are seeing each other. jan claims she hasn' t even met her
beau .
jan is dennis' s former roommate. he is european. jan is into anonymous sex (as well as dennis). he sends dennis to use the
glory hole
with frank. and then they kick him out .
young stanley schreiber decides to leave his father' s delicatessen for a job in arabia. jan intervenes. [ ta / melbourne age ]
leonard slatkin introduces jan to the detroit symphony at the start of his residency as visiting scholar with the orchestra' s 2016 brahms festival .
and what about rebecca’s cruel streak; did she possess that? “no. but, there again, who says it was cruelty? it’s maxim’s version, isn’t it? there’s so much in that book, you know. was he lying? why is it that everybody else thought the sun shone out of her a - - -? there’s never a bad word about rebecca except from max. that’s why it runs and runs. ”
a rival agent tries to persuade jan to desert her own agent. [ ta / melbourne age ]
it’s always sunny in philadelphia returned to television wednesday night, kicking off its 12th season with what may be the series most controversial episode of its run, even for a show that' s pulled off blackface in the past .
this is strictly a filler upload, as this intro has already been uploaded by someone else. this is the opening intro to the 1955 - 1956 tv series
it' s always jan
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a constellation of light bulbs glows from the stage at st. ann’s warehouse in brooklyn, where the monologuist extraordinaire daniel kitson has set up his own planetarium. in “it’s always right now, until it’s later, ” which opened on sunday night and runs through jan. 29, mr. kitson maps an earthly cosmology: the points of light in two separate lives that might otherwise be lost to the shadows .
jan is faced with a problem when she finds herself falling in love. a fun - loving irishman tries
jan is the object of a matchmaking campaign when neighbors send all unattached male friends to look her over .
the seed of the story lay in du maurier’s jealousy of jan ricardo, the first fiancée of her husband. “i know that she came across one or two letters or cards, fairly sort of harmless things, where jan did sign' jan ricardo’ with this wonderful great r, ” says browning, flourishing his hand in the air. it is a portentous curlicue that is emulated in the book .
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jan' s neighbors form a corporation to start her on a career as a movie actress. she blithely invests the money in an elaborate wardrobe ,
jan tries to comfort pat by reminding her that sometimes, the best things in life are both unexpected and outside one’s comfort zone. will this be
jan swafford' s intelligent, gracefully written biography…offers perhaps the richest and most integrated portrait we' ve yet had of brahms as man and artist .
when daughter josie comes home singing the praises of a school chum' s mother, jan takes her daughter to the night club to show josie that her mom' s no slouch either .
jan takes pity on an elderly man who sacrificed his life for his sisters. [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan and her roommate quarrel and decide to live separately, until josie provides the happy solution to their problem .
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which actually should have been titled
it' s a rotten comedy .
that is, until you mention duolingo. the little app with the friendly owl has become the absolute go - to resource for newbies trying to acquire any language. it’s free, it’s accessible and it is based on solid research. what’s not to love, right ?
it all came across as rather undistinguished, and with jan ending the show by addressing the camera and saying
good night
to the home audience, you had the feeling that the show' s personnel hardly thought it was worth taking seriously .
took elements of different popular tv series and movies from 1955 when it debuted and managed to come up with an unexceptional jumble that lasted just one year. up - and - coming starlet janis paige played a widowed single mother whose hairstyle resembled lucy ricardo (not surprisingly ,
it' s always jan
was a desilu production as was
i love lucy
) .
jan goes to orphanage to
adopt
a girl after her 10 - year - old runs away to there .
afraid of neglecting her little daughter, jan decides to refuse a lucrative singing contract, but the child' s diary proves startling. [ ta / melbourne age ]
back to the minors. anxious to save the rookie' s job and help brooklyn win the pennant, jan uses a system that all true baseball fans understand to
after saving her from getting hit on by a creepy bar crawler, pat and mrs. johnson chalk up jan’s romantic misfortunes to her job as a nightclub singer ;
right, but once you have aids, you always have aids. so you want us to do an episode where the characters have aids, and then they just don’t have aids the next episode? it’s just stuff where it doesn’t make any sense or it’s gross because, “oh, that would be gross. a condom falls in someone’s mouth! ” that’s just not funny to me. what’s funny to me is when a character wants something and the audience can relate to that desire, whatever it is. to me, when things go too far, it’s when i don’t know why the character’s doing what they’re doing. it’s not as much about the material or the subject matter, and more about when comedies have characters doing things that don’t make fucking sense. to me, that’s when it goes too far, when somebody puts their dick in something for reasons i can’t understand .
swafford' s analysis of brahms' s performing career as pianist and conductor is especially fascinating .
2017 update: duolingo' s business model is always evolving, and i feel confident that this is bringing lots of improvements and more transparency than ever. thank you, duolingo .
the aftermath of jan swafford' s after spring rain was a respectful appreciation and even a little awe. it' s a gorgeous work, rich in textures and colors and emotional tension…. true to his own words, his music
sounds only like itself .
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let me report that jan swafford' s midsummer variations stands a good chance of long - term survival…i like it because at all points it struck me as solidly built, like a piece of furniture. the fast section is particularly vivacious, and the ending both spacious and handsome .
a 20 - year - old errand boy embarrasses jan by declaring his love for her. [ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
jan attempts to break up the engagement of her friend val and a five times married playboy. [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan soon discovers that the doctor is interested in her and not as a patient. [ ta / albany ny times union ]
experience does remind jan she can still find love 9 years after the death of her military husband. [ the janis pages ]
on a date with him. however, pat and jan know absolutely nothing about seymour; who he is, what he looks like, or even if he’s a perfect match .
frank falls out of a window and his injury makes him think it' s 2006, so the gang use it as a chance to correct past mistakes .
jan takes drastic action when her 10 - year - old daughter becomes
stage struck .
[ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
justin fox, “ at amazon, it’s all about cash flow ”, harvard business review, 2014 .
we tend to think of composers as always themselves, at least after the juvenilia: mozart always mozart, brahms always brahms, ives always ives. in reality, every significant artist begins with a distinctive temperament but still has to grow into who he or she is. for charles ives, that process was bound to be a lengthy one, because he began in a singular place and was headed in a singular direction—a direction he himself only slowly came to understand. the uproarious ragtime dances, first sketched c. 1900 - 04, are an important way station on that journey .
jan swafford' s charles ives goes a long way toward dispelling or clarifying many of the most prominent myths surrounding the life and music of perhaps american' s greatest composer…. swafford' s biography presents us with the most complete picture yet of this fascinating and often contradictory man and his music .
“it goes on and it goes on, ” says kits browning, du maurier’s son, leaning back in his sofa at ferryside, the house in fowey, in cornwall, that has been in the du maurier family since the twenties. “it’s the old cliché. it’s a bloody good story. and it still sells more than any of her other books. ” an impressive 4, 000 a month, by the reckoning of its publishers virago, and it has never been out of print .
jan gets into hot water by borrowing money from her friends. she was tricked into paying a songstress for some
special material .
titled “ the gang turns black, ” always sunny ’s season 12 opener is a racially charged musical episode with a focus on body swapping, a la freaky friday o r 13 going on 30. the always sunny crew filmed portions of the episode here in philly back in july 2016, the first time they had filmed locally in two years .
the words it' s always the husband carry a certain implication that any time a woman is murdered, her husband is the first suspect. that' s how i thought this book would go, before i started reading it. but it was 6 hours into a 10. 5 hour book before there was even any mention of husbands or marriages or murders. that' s a heck of a long time to get to the point and required some patience. up to then, it' s about three female college roommates and their antics. kate the rich spoiled bad girl, jenny t
it ’ s always sunny in philadelphia was created by rob mcelhenney. he also serves as executive producer along with glenn howerton, charlie day, michael rotenberg, nick frenkel, tom lofaro, scott marder and david hornsby. the show is produced by fx productions .
both mrs de winters were drawn from du maurier’s own character. “i always identified mum with the second, rather timid one, ” says browning. “it was totally split, because she was just as good as rebecca at the sailing and all that toughness. ”
it’s always sunny in philadelphia doesn’t always get enough credit. the fxx comedy series, preparing to launch its 12 th season, has managed to stay innovative (and hilarious) for more than a decade now, humming along as the entire landscape of half - hour television has transformed around it. it’s long been a show that thrives by pushing formal and social boundaries, using its nasty if buffoonish quintet of characters to harshly (and repeatedly) explore sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, racism—really, just about every form of hate or ignorance out there. indeed, the title of the very first sunny episode from 2005—“the gang gets racist”—still says it all .
pat invites the friends and neighbors to see a “demonstration” of jan stewart as a commercial product in a two - piece leopard bikini. the presentation
jan finds herself in the celebrity class when a publicity agent invents a romance between her and a film star. [ ta / melbourne age ]
it' s been a while since an always sunny episode has fallen flat like
wolf cola: a public relations nightmare ,
which, i suppose, is a bit of a backhanded compliment. dry, slightly hacky chapters like this one don' t happen very often. that' s a good thing indeed, though it doesn' t help make this one any funnier .
i’d say the worst plan he ever hatched – it’s tough to remember, 12 seasons in –certainly, when he talks about “the implication” in season six. that’s about as dark as it gets. he never did it, but he tried. in terms of what he’s actually done, though? i might have to come back to that one .
3 out of 5 stars to it' s always the husband, a new thriller and suspense novel set to release to the public on may 16, 2017, by michele campbell. it' s a quick - read with a few slow spot, but keeps you guessing all throughout the chapters, almost playing a bit of russian roulette with who' s behind the whole plot. why this book i saw it pop up on a few goodreads reviews. i looked on netgalley and thought it sounded like a strong psychological thriller. i was awarded the book in lieu of a fair and
over the last few years, always sunny has evolved into something more meta and self - referential, driven as much by its history as it is by original storylines. that sense of self - awareness usually keeps the show’s writing, and to a lesser extent its characters, in check. but the newly released trailer for always sunny season 12, complete with a snippet of an upcoming musical episode, raises the question: has the gang finally gone too far ?
finally, margins also derive from a company’s culture, not necessarily from the industry in which it operates or the market it serves. apple prefers high margins, and they’re willing to sacrifice market share to get them. amazon prefers low margins. it is easy to go from high to low margins: that happens if a company gets dragged into a competition for lower prices. but it is equally easy to go from low to high margins—and it is also very dangerous, because not only does it mean that you have to sacrifice growth, it doesn’t fit in the company’s culture: thus it makes people complacent and there is no way back .
it' s a great life
in the end came across as a sitcom for middle - aged men designed by middle - aged men, and even in that meager assignment it failed .
a day in the life of frank reynold' s as he tries to keep up with the gang' s newest scheme .
jan makes a record which wins her an audition with a hollywood producer, but she needs $ 500 to buy an impressive outfit. [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan is torn between loyalty and fame when a big - time agent offers her a prize engagement if she agrees to leave her present agent and sign with him .
a baseball team manager begs jan to break her spell over his pitcher, who spends every evening at the nightclub where she sings. [ ta / melbourne age ]
/ there isn’t really a need to retell the amazing story of amazon’s relationship with its investors. justin fox has done it in this
val is thrilled over her engagement to a wealthy and much - married playboy. he, however, is not too in love to overlook the charms of roommate jan .
when jan and her friends hire a male housekeeper, they become the enemies of every husband in their apartment house. [ ta / lowell sun, lowell, massachusetts ]
the trouble begins when jan and her girl friends hire a young man to keep house for them. the other women in the apartment house see how well the man does
after a whole day of striking out, jan finally lands a potential date in the form of mr. howard stone. they never become a serious couple, but the
there has even been rebecca: the musical, which had a three - year run in vienna before moving to japan, germany, south korea and sweden. “it is absolutely fantastic as a spectacle. almost as mrs danvers comes to the top of the stairs, there’s a sort of' boo’. it’s like pantomime, ” says browning. what, i wonder, might his mother have made of it? “i think she’d be delighted. it’s a very gothic version. ”
we had such a good time doing the nightman cometh, and every year since then we’ve been talking about doing another musical episode, or an episode with musical elements. i always thought it would come in the form of some kind of nightman cometh sequel or a prequel, possibly. we talk about it every year, and it just never quite materialized. this was interesting because the idea for the episode came first, and it was such an insane idea .
pictured: (l - r) glenn howerton as dennis, charlie day as charlie, rob mcelhenney as mac, kaitlin olson as dee, and danny devito as frank in “the gang turns black, ” the opening episode of always sunny’s 12th season .
it was at milton hall that she conceived of mrs danvers. “she saw this tall, dark housekeeper woman. they were always called mrs, even if they weren’t married, like mrs hudson in sherlock holmes, ” says browning. “that’s where she first saw this terribly sinister - looking lady. i don’t think she ever spoke to her, it was just a look that sunk in. ”
jan proves to be a good neighbor and a cunning organizer when tenants petition the land - lord to evict the parents of a crying baby. [ ta / melbourne age ]
pat makes a blind date and then gets cold feet about dating someone she hasn' t met. jan offers to fill in for pat, rather than disappoint the man .
after a phone call with seymour, jan tries to convince pat, sight unseen, to try going out on a date with him. she has absolutely no idea what he
actual rating: 3. 5 stars it' s always the husband by michele campbell is a 2017 st. martin' s press publication. the interesting choice of title and the gorgeous cover aroused my interest in this novel. in my opinion, the storyline idea, albeit decent and promising, is not uncommon when it comes to the mystery fiction. the surprising aspect of this book given the genre it belongs to is the sophisticated and elaborate writing style. when i read the couple next door, for example, i was bitterly disap
sam walton meant it: each year, suppliers had to lower their price, or else they were out. and as related by charles fishman’s
meredith levinson, “ amazon’s it leader leaving huge customer service infrastructure as legacy ” (an article about rick dalzell), cio, 2007 .
jan draws up a list of rules for her boyfriends to adhere to, but finds that mike allen is only too prepared to abide by them. [ ta / melbourne age ]
the provocation for jan swafford' s piano quartet they who hunger was the plight of the homeless…though the subject matter is not discernible in any overt way, the piece has a world - weariness that is no doubt expressive of the composer' s feeling. otherwise, the music is jaunty with motoric rhythms, lyrical and bluesy .
the way the show is described often is “wow, these guys don’t care. ” but that’s not true. i don’t think the show would work if it were truly hateful. it’s one thing for the characters to be misinformed, ignorant or bigoted. it’s another thing for the show to be misinformed, ignorant or bigoted. we can only do so much to educate ourselves about what it’s like to be a black person in america, and eventually you have to talk to someone who has actually been there. we try not to shy away from jokes that might make people uncomfortable, but never at the expense of being sensitive to people’s real life experience .
jan steward is showered with flowers and gifts by an unknown admirer, who turns out to be an elderly man who has absolutely no interest in her. [ ta / gettysburg times ]
fed up with all the creeps and pub crawlers, jan decides on a whim to get married. the problem is, she has no idea what she wants in a husband. and
this is, as ever, uncharted territory for always sunny. in its effort to maintain relevance and freshness after 11 solid seasons, the show is now headed down yet another precarious path, one that could either demonstrate its deft satirical touch once more or end at a place that’s more callous than clever. no matter, it should be fascinating to watch—a testament to sunny ’s rather remarkable continued significance, 12 years in .
it’s always the husband by michelle campbell is a 2017 st. martin’s press publication. i loved the title of this book because it is sort of a running joke - right? so, i had to see which way the author would spin such a story with this title. unfortunately, this book was a stinker. if not for the need to find out who was going to be murdered and whodunit, i probably would have marked it as a dnf. therefore, because i am very behind on my reviews, i’m not going to spend a great deal of time writin
michele campbell’s debut, it’s always the husband —is a suspenseful and intriguing twisty
whodunit
and
howdunit
of dark secrets— a web of deceit, keeping you guessing to the final conclusion. three college roommates at carlisle college in new hampshire — aubrey, jenny, and kate are linked by a tragedy. each girl has their own desires, dreams, fears, and troubles. the complexities of friendship and acceptance. love / hate relationships. kate is the wild rich girl with a father’s connections
the concert really got down to business with jan swafford' s highly evocative after spring rain played by the indianapolis symphony orchestra at the contemporary music festival. the exquisitely scored work is rich in mood and atmosphere, spare and transparent in sound and lyrical in effect .
google is no longer a technology company, it’s a search engine. the search technology was developed a decade ago. it’s a bet that there will be no one else who will come up with a better search technology. so, you invest in google, because you’re betting against technological innovation in search. and it’s like a bank that generates enormous cash flows every year, but you can’t issue a dividend, because the day you take that $ 30 billion and send it back to people you’re admitting that you’re no longer a technology company. that’s why microsoft can’t return its money. that’s why all these companies are building up hordes of cash, because they don’t know what to do with it, but they don’t want to admit they’re no longer tech companies .
farhad manjoo, “ i want it today: how amazon’s ambitious new push for same - day delivery will destroy local retail ”, slate, 2012 .
the customer’s point of view is actually embedded in many parts of amazon’s culture and operations. according to brad stone’s the everything store, all external communication, including that of the company towards investors, are made as if they’ll ultimately be read by the customers — which they eventually are. also, all internal documents tend to be written from the customer’s point of view, which helps amazon making decision - making more efficient. quite simply, focusing on the customer is amazon’s big idea: it helps in making decisions in the face of urgency (“is it in the customer’s best interest? ”), and it attracts the superfans the company needs to make its user community more engaged .
remember too that you don’t just want to assess the candidate. you want them to fall in love with you. really. you want them to have a great experience, have their concerns addressed, and come away feeling like they just had the best day of their lives. interviews are awkward because you’re having an intimate conversation with someone you just met, and the candidate is in a very vulnerable position. it’s always worth investing time to make sure they feel good at the end of it, because they will tell other people about their experience—and because it’s the right way to treat people .
meanwhile, the company’s engineering staff had apparently been killing itself to transform amazon’s large it infrastructure into a collection of web services. it was not an easy task. in his now famous “platform rant”, former amazon employee steve yegge detailed what it took for amazon to deploy its current it architecture. everybody had to work incredibly hard to deploy the new web services while ensuring continuity of operations. multiple unexpected pitfalls were spotted along the way. the legendary and frightening rick dalzell, amazon’s cio at the time, had to whip everybody for years to make sure that the radical it upheaval was achieved on time at a mastered cost .
frank goes off the rails, singing to dee that he’s going to say words he hasn’t “had the chance to say before” now that he is black, like “homie, ” “bro, ” and “my man. ” dee draws the line when frank says he’s also going to say the n - word, which frank laments because “it’s probably the only chance i’ve got to say it. ”
pat returns home just after 2 in the morning. it’s presumed that she realized seymour may have been the plumber from earlier in the day, but all pat
* * 3. 5 stars * * it’s always the husband is a hybrid of domestic drama, family saga and a hint of psychological thriller featuring 3 friends all of whom are randomly horrible. seriously. each in their own way horribly entitled and whiny. still they were utterly compelling. this is a story about people getting exactly what is coming to them – i enjoyed it thoroughly on that level and was rather nastily gleeful when a certain death happened. i found it to be a page turner especially from the half way m
jan swafford' s music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including the symphonies of st. louis, indianapolis, and the dutch radio; boston' s new - music groups musica viva, collage, and dinosaur annex; and chamber ensembles including the peabody trio, the chamber orchestra of tennessee, and the scott chamber players of indianapolis .
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swafford' s is a thoughtful and sympathetic telling of ives' s life…thoroughly researched and fun to read…what makes this book so valuable is swafford' s skill in weaving the strands of all these areas of knowledge into a cohesive fabric. it is as close as we may come for quite some time to a complete ives .
the gang dances their way to the wiz at 11th and market for the final exterior shot of the episode, which features a philly electronics store dressed up as it' s always sunny ’s the wiz. the store, however, is closed, and the group pleads with a man to fix their vcr, to which he responds by calling the police. with that, charlie believes he has learned the lesson the group must learn to turn white once again .
now why is this not a huge problem with the app? the thing is it seems to be what millions of people want. people enjoy the gameplay aspect of duolingo so much that its user base grows every single day. and there’s no arguing with the masses. maybe the gamification aspect is an ineffective gimmick, but it does make language learning accessible. i would argue that it doesn’t make it more fun, but if a label says “game” on it, you’re just more likely to try .
here is the thing: i don’t love duolingo. in fact, i don’t get it. i want to enjoy using this little app. i want to be part of the club of people who sit in a doctor’s waiting room levelling up their vocab, but somehow i just don’t get it. in today’s post, i’m going to try and give you some insight into what it is that is making duolingo so unattractive to me. and by unattractive, i don’t just mean that i personally don’t want to use it. it’s that i actively stay away from recommending it to people as their first language learning contact. when someone asks me how they can get started learning a new language, i don’t want them to start with the duolingo app. why ?
jameel jaffer, director of the aclu' s center for democracy, that it was astonishing the nsa would even ask technology companies to grant direct access to user data .
watch the wild moon of rancho cucamonga, a radio - style play by joshua fagin, in which jan' s readings of excerpts from his beethoven biography are interwoven with a story of two prickly old friends. also involved are excerpts from beethoven recordings by andrew rangell that helped inspire the play .
an aside: in 1969, as part of a serendipitous crosscountry trip, jan swafford and jan gippo (later piccolo with the st. louis symphony and swafford publisher) stood on a cliff in the middle of grand canyon at sunset, arguing about whether the scene in front of them was best expressed by ives' s fourth (swafford) or brahms' s fourth (gippo). the idea that swafford would eventually write biographies of both those composers would have been incomprehensible to them both. the canyon trek was the beginning of a lifetime of hiking for reasons more inspirational than athletic .
we’re slowly leaving that world dominated by business consultants and financial markets, in which it was so important to focus on one’s core business. on the contrary, the new conglomerates prove that it has become critical to diversify business models for at least three reasons :
michele campbell is a graduate of harvard college and stanford law school and a former federal prosecutor in new york city who specialized in international narcotics and gang cases. a while back, she said goodbye to her big - city legal career and moved with her husband and two children to an idyllic new england college town a lot like belle river in it’s always the husband. since then, she has spen
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laurence olivier immortalised the moody figure of maxim in alfred hitchcock’s oscar - winning 1940 film. “mum loved it. she thought it was great. ” olivier had originally wanted to play opposite vivien leigh, “but it would be ridiculous because if vivien leigh played the second mrs de winter, she’d have fired mrs danvers on the first morning, ” chuckles browning. instead, joan fontaine excelled as the naïve innocent caught in mrs danvers’s sights .
it also opens the possibility of communications made entirely within the us being collected without warrants .
thanks to jordan hanley and st. martin’s press for the free, electronic arc of this novel received in exchange for an honest review. “it’s always the husband” is the newest novel by author michele campbell. the novel tells the story of aubrey, jenny and kate - three roommates at a prestigious east side college who are very different and yet quickly develop a tight, intense friendship. twenty years later, when kate falls from a bridge, rumors spread throughout the small town that she killed hersel
aubrey, kate, and jenny meet at prestigious carlisle college in new hampshire. aubrey is a poor scholarship kid who is desperate for approval. jenny is a self - righteous overachiever who is always cleaning up everyone’s messes. kate is a charismatic new yorker who draws aubrey and jenny into her web. the three become “bff, ” but they are more like frenemies than true friends. the trio takes part in a scandalous event their freshmen year that binds them together for life. fast - forward 20 years later, and their secret leads to murder. it’s always the husband just didn’t work for me. i feel like this book has potential—i like the premise, but something is lacking –i’m not sure if it is the unlikeable underdeveloped characters, the uneven plotting, or the slow pace, but i couldn’t embrace this book .
i kind of regret killing alanna ubach’s character roxie in season seven. she was just so funny, and it was such a funny character. i know the fans responded to her too, but just from our perspective there’s a part of me that wishes we hadn’t killed her. i’m sure we could discover that she’s alive, and it wouldn’t be that far outside the realm of possibility. there’s also a lot of times i actually regret killing dennis and dee’s mom in season two, because that was a really funny character. and i find the longer we go on, the more we have a desire to do at least a few episodes here and there that feel grounded in the emotional reality of the characters, and when you want to do that it’s nice to have family members to draw on .
ah, the curse of consumer markets. consumers are merciless, ready to deprive a company of its profit, even to force it into bankruptcy, if it’s the only way for them to obtain lower prices. this was not obvious before the advent of the internet, because
it was an episode where the gang turns black, basically. and we sort of had this idea that it would kind of be a wizard of oz thing, and we realized that had been done a number of times in the past – a lot of sitcoms have done wizard of oz - type episodes. but we’ve always done our own version of sitcom tropes in the past, so we weren’t totally put out by that. it occurred to us that maybe it should be a musical, but we didn’t do that, we wrote the episode at first as a straight episode, and we realized that a lot of the subject matter in that episode in particular was difficult – we’re essentially tackling the idea of what it’s like to be black in america. but we also recognize that we’re three white dudes, and it’s a little sketchy to have an opinion about what it’s like to be black in america when you’re just a bunch of white guys. although we do have black writers, the show is still ultimately our show, and the characters are all white. so we knew there had to be some kind of an angle – this would be a lot more fun, and a lot more digestible, if we turned it into a musical .
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why, then, are consumer companies so dominant in the digital economy? the reason is that it is so difficult to scale up operations selling to business customers. as written in a previous issue, “enterprise markets may be a trap: fedex sells to companies because it’s expensive (no ordinary individual can pay for it on a regular basis); and it’s expensive because its scalability is limited by the absence of user participation on an enterprise market. ” this is why there are very few giant, fast - growing tech companies that are 100% old - style enterprise when it comes to selling: palantir technologies comes to mind as a rare exception .
jan swafford began writing music as a teenager in chattanooga, tennessee. he was then a trombone player aspiring to become a high school band director, which as he then understood it was the pinnacle of a musical career. by the time he left for harvard in 1964, he was determined instead to be a composer—an endeavor he had little knowledge of beyond the desire to pursue it. at his high school graduation he conducted his wind ensemble piece the class of' 64, a work recalling bits of pomp and circumstance, walton' s crown imperial, and random other band pieces. it was declared
promising .
so after wwii the response of music and the other arts to the postwar zeitgeist was inevitably varied and contradictory. as always, some of the leading ideas came from europe, especially since some of the most influential european artists were now working in the u. s. partly inspired by their presence, schoenberg and stravinsky each had legions of american disciples .
written and performed by daniel kitson; designed by susannah henry and mr. kitson; technical director, jon meggat; lighting by rob pell - walpole and mr. kitson. presented by st. ann’s warehouse, susan feldman, artistic director. at st. ann’s warehouse, 38 water street, dumbo, brooklyn; (718) 254 - 8779; urltoken. through jan. 29. running time: 1 hour 30 minutes .
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in typical body - switching move form, though, it turns out the episode wasn’t entirely made up. as old black man passes by a mirror in the apartment, scott bakula’s reflection appears .
a large part of amazon’s history could have been predicted by those who already studied wal - mart. like wal - mart, it is an uncommon company that achieves superior performances and creates a lot of value for both its stakeholders and the economy as a whole. but like wal - mart, it inspires more and more doubts as to the real amount of good that it does for society .
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a pleasant update of the 1937 movie of the same name which starred cary grant and constance bennett and produced two sequels, 1939' s
topper takes a trip
with bennett returning and 1941' s
topper returns ,
with joan blondell playing bennett' s role .
i cannot tell you how much i dislike the computer voice. it doesn’t intone, it doesn’t emote, it’s just blank. a blank canvas of words coming at me. who learns a language for that? languages are about people. i wish they’d play and work with snippets from media shows or real people’s recordings. just think of the big efforts audio lingua and rhinospike are making in this area, and you can see that automated heartless computer voices really don’t need to be used in automated language instruction .
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when the nsa reviews a communication it believes merits further investigation, it issues what it calls a
report
. according to the nsa ,
over 2, 000 prism - based reports
are now issued every month. there were 24, 005 in 2012, a 27% increase on the previous year .
your iphone is now encrypted. the fbi says it' ll help kidnappers. who do you believe ?
this new always sunny musical looks even wilder than the strangely brilliant “ nightman cometh, ” the series’ first stab at a song - and - dance episode. the surreal premise, in a nutshell: the all - white gang has turned black, first indicated when they see “themselves” reflected in a mirror. (each character’s doppelganger is played by an actor of color, although the show has actually explored blackface before .) and it sounds as if it’s not shying away from the politics of the scenario: “when you’ve just turned black, and you can’t switch back, ” goes one verse sung by dennis (glenn howerton), “well you gotta go and find out the rules. ”
the words it' s always the husband carry a certain implication that any time a woman is murdered, her husband is the first suspect. that' s how i thought this book would go, before i started reading it. but it was 6 hours into a 10. 5 hour book before there was even any mention of husbands or marriages or murders. that' s a heck of a long time to get to the point and required some patience. up to then, it' s about three female college roommates and their antics. kate the rich spoiled bad girl, jenny the townie & good girl, and aubrey the poor naive one who idolizes and follows kate like a lapdog. some years later, their relationships have changed quite a bit although they still consider themselves tied to each other because of a major tragedy that occurred in college. i must say that kate was a detestable character. how the other two put up with her is hard to fathom. the pace picks up a lot in the second half, and the ending felt somewhat rushed. the author actually gives us several suspects to ponder. the murderer' s identity may come as a surprise, and then again, maybe not.
it 's always jan is an american situation comedy starring janis paige , which aired on cbs in the 1955-1956 season . it was the lead-in program at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday evenings to the first season of the long-running western , gunsmoke , starring james arness . 
it's always jan is an american situation comedy starring janis paige, which aired on cbs in the 1955-1956 season. it was the lead-in program at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday evenings to the first season of the long-running western, gunsmoke, starring james arness.
it's always jan is an american situation comedy starring janis paige, which aired on cbs in the 1955-1956 season. it was the lead-in program at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday evenings to the first season of the long-running western, gunsmoke, starring james arness.