The band, who are still supporting their most recent release, Eat the Light, will also release a remix album on December 16th with tracks by TWOGOOD, Oliver Nelson & Tobtok, Roisto, Luke the Knife, Fare Soldi, and hakibros. Stream the first single, TWOGOOD’s remix of “Fearless”, below. Funky electronic jam band Lotus has added a slate of new 2017 tour dates. Kicking off on January 20th and 21st with a two-night run at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA, the band will head to Asheville for another two-night run on January 27th and 28th. They’ll then make their way to the West Coast for a seven-show stint, hitting cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, OR, and more.See below for a full list of tour dates from Lotus, integrated with previously announced performances. More information can be found here.Lotus 2016-2017 Tour DatesNovember 25 & 26 – New York, NY – Playstation Theatre (w/ Spectacle) [Tickets]December 2 – Punta Cana, DR – Dominican HolidazeDecember 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory (w/ theNEWDEAL)December 30 & 31 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE (30th w/ RJD2 & 31st w/ Pigeons Playing Ping Pong)January 13 & 14 – Washington, DC – 9:30 ClubJanuary 20 & 21 – Atlanta, GA – Variety PlayhouseJanuary 27 & 28 – Asheville, NC – Orange PeelFebruary 2 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly UpFebruary 3 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda TheatreFebruary 4-5 – Tucson, AZ – Gem & Jam FestivalFebruary 7 – Reno, NV – Cargo @ Whitney Peak HotelFebruary 8 & 9 – San Francisco, CA – The IndependentFebruary 10 – Portland, OR – Crystal BallroomFebruary 11 – Eugene, OR – McDonald TheatreFebruary 18 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium Lotus will make their way to the Playstation Theatre in the heart of New York City’s iconic Times Square for a two-night Thanksgiving weekend run on November 25th-26th. You can purchase tickets to the run here. read more
Wynton Marsalis will continue his lecture series this month, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Sanders Theatre on Sept. 26.Marsalis, the managing and artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center, is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader, educator, and advocate for the arts.Marsalis’ lecture, “Setting the Communal Table: The Evolution of the Jazz Orchestra,” will illustrate the relationship of written to improvised music and solo to ensemble playing, showcase important and unique musical techniques, and provide philosophical and communal insights. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. and will be live streamed at Harvard.edu/livestream.“Focusing on the Jazz Age and the Swing Era, we will delve into the history of orchestral jazz, identify some of its main objectives, investigate its social victories, and showcase the significant musical breakthroughs in its evolution,” Marsalis said. “I look forward to returning to Harvard with the outstanding musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.”Marsalis’ lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” is sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost. The series launched in April 2011 before a capacity crowd with “Music as Metaphor,” a two-hour journey through the history of American music, punctuated with performances by bluegrass and jazz musicians. He returned to campus in September 2011 with a team of dancers for his second lecture, “The Double Crossing of a Pair of Heels: The Dynamics of Social Dance and American Popular Musics,” which traced the evolution of American social dance from the Charleston to the fox trot and the tango to the twist. His third lecture, “Meet Me at the Crossroad,” in February 2012 examined the roots of American music. He returned to campus in April for “At the Speed of Instinct: Choosing Together to Play and Stay Together,” an examination of improvisation.“During his inspirational appearances at Harvard, Wynton has shown us time and again how music captures the human experience in a way that connects us to something larger than ourselves,” Harvard President Drew Faust said. “He has a gift for educating people about the value of the arts, and his series of lecture-performances has been a vital contribution to the conversation about the arts on campus.”In addition to his lectures, Marsalis has engaged in dialogue with students throughout the University and community, taught master classes at a local high school, engaged in a panel discussion about education and the arts at the Graduate School of Education, and spoke at the Harvard Innovation Lab about the artist as an entrepreneur.A native of New Orleans, Marsalis is one of the nation’s most highly decorated cultural figures. In addition to winning nine Grammy Awards, he was the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music.His international accolades include honorary membership in Britain’s Royal Academy of Music, the highest decoration for someone not a British citizen, and the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest distinction. He has more than 70 albums to his credit, which have sold more than 7 million copies, and three albums earned three gold records.Marsalis is also the first major jazz artist to perform and compose across the full spectrum of jazz, from its New Orleans roots to bebop and modern jazz. He has expanded the vocabulary of jazz by creating an expansive range of music for everything from quartets to big bands and symphony orchestras, and tap dance to ballet and modern dance. He was recently named a CBS News Cultural Correspondent. Harvard awarded him an honorary doctorate in music in 2009.Tickets for Marsalis’ lecture at Sanders will be free. They will become available for the Harvard community on Sept. 17 and for the public on Sept. 19. For information on obtaining tickets, visit the Harvard Box Office website. Learn more about Wynton Marsalis. read more
The Harvard University Native American Program in conjunction with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology will host a visit and public talk by Kevin Gover (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma), director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.Gover is a former professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He also served as the assistant secretary for Indian affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1997 to 2000. During his years as a practicing attorney he focused on federal Indian law, environmental and administrative law, commercial transactions, and legislative affairs. He was most recently highlighted in the Washington Post Magazine’s Lifestyle section on September 18, 2013.His public talk, “Changing the Narrative: American Indians and American Cultural Myth,” will take place on Wednesday, October 9, at 6 p.m. in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. A reception will follow in the Wiyohpiyata Exhibit at the Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue.The Harvard University Native American Program, an interfaculty initiative under the Office of the President and Provost, brings together students, faculty and scholars for the purpose of advancing the well being of Indigenous peoples through self-determination, academic achievement, and community service. read more
Students with less than 20 minutes to eat school lunches consume significantly less of their entrées, milk, and vegetables than those who aren’t as rushed, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.The study appeared online today in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.“Many children, especially those from low-income families, rely on school meals for up to half their daily energy intake, so it is essential that we give students a sufficient amount of time to eat their lunches,” said Juliana Cohen, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Merrimack College, and lead author of the study.“Every school day the National School Lunch Program helps to feed over 30 million children in 100,000 schools across the U.S., yet little research has been done in this field,” said Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Chan School and the study’s senior author.While recent federal guidelines enhanced the nutritional quality of school lunches, there are no standards regarding lunch period length. Many students have lunch periods that are 20 minutes or less, which can be an insufficient amount of time to eat, according to the authors.The researchers wanted to examine the effect of lunch period length on students’ food choices and intake. They looked at 1,001 students in six elementary and middle schools, with lunch periods ranging from 20 to 30 minutes, in a low-income urban school district in Massachusetts, as part of the Modifying Eating and Lifestyles at School (MEALS) study, a collaboration between Project Bread and Harvard Chan School. They analyzed the students’ food selection and consumption by monitoring what was left on their plates at the end of the lunch period.The researchers found that students with less than 20 minutes to eat lunch consumed 13 percent less of their entrées, 12 percent less of their vegetables, and 10 percent less of their milk than students who had at least 25 minutes to eat. While there were no notable differences between the groups in terms of entrée, milk, or vegetable selections, those with less time to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit (44 percent versus 57 percent). Also, there was more food waste among groups with less time to eat.Waiting in serving lines or arriving late to lunch sometimes left children in the study with as little as 10 minutes to actually sit and eat. The researchers acknowledged that while not all schools may be able to lengthen their lunch periods, they could develop strategies to move kids more quickly through lunch lines, such as by adding more serving lines or setting up automated checkout systems.“We were surprised by some of the results because I expected that with less time children may quickly eat their entrée and drink their milk but throw away all of their fruits and vegetables,” said Rimm. “Not so — we found they got a start on everything, but couldn’t come close to finishing with less time to eat.”Jaquelyn Jahn, a master’s student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard Chan School, was a co-author.The study was funded by a grant from Project Bread and Arbella Insurance. Cohen was supported by the Nutritional Epidemiology of Cancer Education and Career Development Program. read more
Akins and Browning teach science in Berrien County. But during July, they’re seeing science in action on the Tifton campus of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.Akins, Browning and 10 other science teachers from Irwin, Tift, Turner and Worth counties are participating in the Georgia Industrial Fellowship for Teachers program.GIFT allows teachers to tag along with real scientists and mathematicians and see firsthand some practical applications of the very things they teach in their classrooms.”It’s a win situation for both groups,” said Susan Reinhardt, a UGA education program specialist. “Scientists become aware of the needs and expectations of teachers. And teachers understand the importance of producing more students interested in science.”Teachers in the program are charged with taking this experience back to their students and showing them that science is more than just lectures and textbooks.The program was developed by Georgia Tech in 1991. Since then, more than 80 organizations and universities have provided this opportunity to 750 teachers in 44 Georgia school systems.GIFT, for the most part, has been offered to teachers in and around metro Atlanta, Savannah and Augusta, Reinhardt said.”I’ve seen this program work for many years,” she said.This is the first time, however, it has been offered to teachers south of Macon. The teachers will spend time with UGA scientists from animal and dairy sciences, entomology, horticulture and plant pathology, along with researchers from the National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory and U.S. Department of Agriculture.It’s a paid experience for the teachers, Reinhardt said. A grant provided the funding, along with money from the participating school systems.Both Browning and Akins said the sciences often don’t get the funding or attention they deserve. And getting students interested in science can be difficult to say the least.Armed with a bag full of new ideas, though, they believe they can change this and spark the interest of their science students this fall.”We want to turn the students on to science,” said Akins, a sixth-grade teacher for 12 years.”This has given us the avenue to ideas we can utilize in the classroom,” said Browning, a 10th-grade teacher for 22 years. “We want to interest the kids in science so that they might want to pursue a career in science.”They hope to dispel the stereotypical “Hollywood-image” of the scientist, Browning said.”It was a real eye-opener, for instance, to see so many females are involved with the actual field research,” Akins said. “Science is not just a male-oriented program anymore.”Akins said many people in south Georgia don’t realize the value of the research conducted by scientists like the ones on the UGA Tifton campus.”We are very fortunate to have this resource here in Tifton,” she said. “I’d love to come back every year to see what trends are currently in science.” read more
Here’s the thing about paddling with sharks. It’s really freaking scary.That might sound obvious, but I had underestimated the scariness of said sharks until I found myself in a sea kayak paddling through a salty bay off the coast of Florida, mere feet from two sizable predators on a feeding frenzy. We’re talking about a couple of four-footers, fins exposed going to town on a school of fish about 10 feet from my boat. It was like Shark Week.After they finished their snack, they turned and started swimming for my boat. Suddenly, the kayak felt really, really small. And tippy.Because this isn’t a Shark Week episode, the sharks quickly realized my plastic tube wasn’t food, and swam away. Still, the rest of the day, I paddled with one eye on the water surrounding me, looking for dorsal fins. Every mullet that jumped was a great white. It was an incredible experience, but one that had my nerves frazzled.As soon as I docked the boat, I headed straight to the bar for medicine. Luckily, I was in Florida, where it’s always summer and there’s always a rum punch being served in a plastic cup. Rum punch is a glorious thing after a shark encounter. Any doctor will tell you this.Florida is also the land of Cigar City Brewing, one of the Southeast’s most well-respected breweries. Cigar City is super famous for their Hanahpu, an imperial stout that’s so damned good, it practically causes riots on its release day. Seriously, there was so much mischievous behavior from the massive crowd at last year’s Hanahpu release, Cigar City had to offer refunds and considered canceling the release party altogether.They also do a killer IPA, called Jai Alai, which is that weird game featured briefly at the beginning sequence of Miami Vice. Know what I’m talking about? This is the beer I moved to after I got bored with the rum punch. Jai Alai (the beer, not the game) packs a wallop of juicy citrus, and comes across as more tangy than bitter. It’s one of Cigar City’s year-round beers, and if you live in Georgia or Virginia, you should seek it out at your favorite bottle shop.I had a few Jai Alai’s that day, sitting at the bar in Florida, recounting my shark encounter over and over to anyone who would listen. Yes, the sharks got bigger every time I told the story. And more numerous. And more ferocious. But that’s the natural evolution of shark stories, right? read more
The House Financial Services Committee passed a host of NAFCU-backed regulatory relief bills out of committee yesterday following a two-day mark-up that addressed Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) improvements and tailoring of regulations to limit burdens on affected institutions. One approved bill would also raise the CFPB supervision and examination threshold from $10 billion to $50 billion.“We thank Chairman [Jeb] Hensarling and the committee for recognizing the regulatory burden facing today’s credit unions and for advancing legislation that would provide some regulatory relief,” said NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger. “We are pleased to see a number of these bills get bipartisan support and look forward to continuing to work with lawmakers as these bills now await House action.”NAFCU Vice President of Legislative Affairs Brad Thaler sent a letter to the committee on Tuesday, urging action on the regulatory relief measures that would help credit unions. 9SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr continue reading » read more
Log in with your social account LOG INDon’t have an account? Register here Linkedin Facebook Forgot Password ? Google State-owned enterprises are keen to meet the military’s needs for locally made equipment as instructed recently by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, with some of the defense firms still filling previous orders.State-owned weapons and armored vehicle manufacturer PT Pindad recently secured contracts from the Defense Ministry to make 625 million rounds of ammunition for delivery later this year, president director Abraham Mose told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.The firm was also finalizing a contract for the purchase of its recently released Maung 4×4. Pindad aimed to produce 500 of the light tactical vehicles to be delivered to the ministry by the end of this year, he added.The plan emerged after Defense Ministry Prabowo Subianto personally tested the tactical vehicle in Sentul, West Java, on July 12. The move was apparently a follow-up after Jokowi told his mi… Topics : #Defense defense alutsista #Pindad Pindad PT-DI PT-PAL read more
The Surfers Paradise sub-penthouse at 2903/18 Enderley Ave sold for $1.75 million earlier this month.AN opulent beachside sub-penthouse with panoramic views of Surfers Paradise has fetched $1.75 million.CoreLogic recorded the sale of 2903/18 Enderley Ave as the fourth highest on the Gold Coast last week.The 268sq m skyhome is on the 29th floor of the Artique building, offering stunning views of the ocean and city skyline from every angle. The view from the wraparound balcony.“It was just the little things like adding in a bigger shower and having the media room closer to the kitchen,” Mr Gordon said.The apartment has three bedrooms, a study or media room, three bathrooms, and an east-facing wraparound balcony spanning 41sq m.CoreLogic records show Mr Gordon bought the property for $1,706,970 in November 2008.Mr Stevens said he had noticed more interstate buyers from the east coast looking for penthouses on the Coast in recent months.“(About) 80 per cent of the transactions I’ve been doing … have been coming from Sydney and Melbourne,” he said.“I just don’t have enough to sell with the demand that we have at the moment.” Even the bathroom is luxurious! The panoramic views can be admired from every angle. More from news02:37International architect Desmond Brooks selling luxury beach villa17 hours ago02:37Gold Coast property: Sovereign Islands mega mansion hits market with $16m price tag2 days agoThe perfect kitchen to cook up a storm.Harcourts Coastal agent Tolemy Stevens marketed the property, describing it online as an “elegant trophy residence” that was “as close as they come to absolute perfection”.He said it had about 25 inspections throughout the six months it was on the market before the buyer snapped it up.“The purchasers were from Melbourne, they’re going to use it as a private holiday home for friends and family,” Mr Stevens said.“Due to the vendor purchasing elsewhere still within the area, they were happy with the price to move on.”Sellers Nick Gordon and wife Andrea told the Gold Coast Bulletin when they listed the stylish apartment in October that it had been their home-away-from-home for the past decade.“The sunshine brought us to the Gold Coast and since buying here, the city has been our top travel destination for 10 wonderful years,” Mr Gordon said.The New Zealand couple bought it off the plan but customised the design to better suit their lifestyle.Some of the changes included a more versatile layout and a splash of marble in the bathroom. One of the three bedrooms. Relax and watch the world go by. read more
The Irish Times 16 September 2019Family First Comment: Mary Cannon is a consultant psychiatrist and professor of psychiatric epidemiology and youth mental health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland…“There is now a strange paradox in society. Our politicians, media and celebrity influencers are increasingly conscious of mental health, particularly among the youth, and that it is a priority area. However, those very same people are likely to view cannabis as harmless or beneficial, despite the growing body of scientific evidence to the contrary… The public and legislators need to hear the other side of the story, free from the influence of cannabis industry lobbyists. We cannot sell our young people’s mental health for a quick buck.”#saynopetodopeAbout one in five Irish todo15-16-year-olds report using cannabis. That means one in five adolescents are using a drug that can have a multitude of demonstrably negative effects on their short- and long-term mental health at a time when their brains are at the peak of their development.Until relatively recently, cannabis use among Irish adolescents was in decline. In 2003, 17 per cent of 16-year-olds said they had used the drug in the past month; that number dropped to 7 per cent in 2011. The reverse began soon after. While there’s no single reason for this, one possible explanation is that the percentage of teenagers who view cannabis as “low risk” increased from 10 per cent in 2011 to almost 20 per cent in 2015.As a society, we have come to view cannabis through rose-tinted glasses. Contrary to increasingly common belief, cannabis is not a harmless panacea, and it can be addictive. An estimated one in six who start smoking or ingesting cannabis before the age of 18 become dependent.While the effects of alcohol and tobacco on physical health are well known, the public do not seem to be aware that cannabis can be toxic to young people’s developing brains. Over the past couple of decades, numerous scientific studies have shown that cannabis use in young people significantly increases the risk of developing mental health problems.There is strong evidence that cannabis use increases the risk of depression and anxiety in young people. The risk of youth suicide increases three-fold. There are a large number of studies now showing that cannabis use causes psychosis.The risk of developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia is particularly high in people who start using high potency cannabis during adolescence; it is estimated that 50 per cent of all new cases of first-episode psychosis in Amsterdam are due to cannabis.READ MORE: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/cannabis-use-by-young-significantly-increases-mental-health-risks-1.4018819Keep up with family issues in NZ. Receive our weekly emails direct to your Inbox. read more