#and he keeps on going back to charles for his enterprises and adventures and includes him. and charles has changed a lot thru him u know.

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#gay lil punch & the hand going right back into his coat pocket lol #idk what this subplot was for but. cute #mash #i guess with that episode with the french lady. she was saying how sorry she was that he isn't much of a boy at all #bc he's never carefree and never lets himself experience the whimsy. it's good 2 see him experience the stupid stuff for fun #(also that ep was like. my family won't ever accept you with your unconventional ways => reading it with DOS being closeted..... poignant) #which is why i think him + klinger subplots are so fun. klinger is impulsive and wild and sometimes v basic #and drags charles into situations he'd never find himself in. and charles seems annoyed but when hes with klinger #he lets himself be 'stupid' and enjoys doing the stupid stuff. he's not verbally nice to klinger still.. calling him dumb and all but #i think klinger is such a great guy bc he knows that's how charles expresses himself and he's just afraid to let things happen to him. #and he keeps on going back to charles for his enterprises and adventures and includes him. and charles has changed a lot thru him u know. #anyways.

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“THE more you dig right into a bit of Ives, the more enjoyment you have from it,” the pianist Jeremy Denk mentioned not too long ago, sitting at a piano inside of a rehearsal Area on the Juilliard University. “It’s like solving a puzzle.”

Then he enthusiastically deconstructed Ives’s “Concord” Sonata, untangling and detailing the themes and motifs embedded within the complex textures of the interesting rating.

Mr. Denk is going to release a disc, “Jeremy Denk Plays Ives” (Think Denk Media), that includes two piano sonatas, an esoteric choice of repertory for the debut solo album. But then, there's nothing generic concerning this adventurous musician. His vivacious intellect is manifest both equally in his playing and on his blog site, Assume Denk, an outlet for astute musical observations and witty musings, whether a lament about inedible meatballs or simply a spoof job interview with Sarah Palin.

Mr. Denk will reveal his more mainstream qualifications when he performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. one with Charles Dutoit and also the Philadelphia Orchestra commencing on Thursday on the Kimmel Centre in Philadelphia and on Oct. 12 at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Denk argues which the Ives sonatas, composed early during the twentieth century, are mistakenly categorized as avant-garde works instead of “epic Intimate sonatas with Lisztian thematic transformations.” On the relaxed listener, the audio that Mr. Denk describes while in the CD booklet as “brilliant, ingenious, tender, edgy, wild, unique, witty, haunting” can unquestionably audio avant-garde. Ives, who built his residing in the coverage enterprise, integrated jazz, riffs on Beethoven and American hymns, marches and people songs into his daringly experimental piano sonatas, full of polytonality, thematic layering and rhythmic complexity.

“It’s so splendidly in-your-face,” Mr. Denk said, demonstrating a very maniacal passage while in the “Concord” Sonata. “It’s also pretty astonishingly unsightly. There is a thing maddening about his sense of humor. Ives is continually thumbing his nose at you in a method.”

But Mr. Denk suggests that Ives’s tenderness, which he illuminates superbly In this particular recording, is underappreciated. “Ives is frequently about things recalled,” he said, “or Recollections or visions fetched from some difficult position.”

He played the harmonically misty passages in the next movement with the “Concord,” where by Ives directs that a bit of wood be pressed over the higher keys to produce a cluster chord. “It doesn’t sense gimmicky at all to me,” Mr. Denk explained. “It’s all blues in The underside. Ives knew the way to use Those people tiny clichéd bits of Americana in a means that all of a sudden will get your intestine. You can’t believe how touching it's.”

Mr. Denk, forty, has been passionate about Ives because his undergraduate days at Oberlin in Ohio, where he carried a double big in piano functionality and chemistry. “My overall double diploma knowledge was to some degree of the continuous freakout of 1 type of A different,” he claimed.

He had been a “really nerdy high school scholar” by using a constrained social existence, he stated. “Ever considering the fact that I had been a kid I planned to head to Oberlin and preferred the liberal arts. Certainly I really get rigorous satisfaction outside of drawing connections between parts and poems and literature and concepts.”

Mr. Denk explained himself to be a “practice maniac,” but his horizons have prolonged considerably beyond the apply area since Oberlin. When nibbling a massive bit of chocolate cream pie at an Upper West Facet diner near the condominium he has rented due to the fact about 1999, Mr. Denk referred to his blog, contacting it “an surprisingly excellent outlet to release tensions of one form or Yet another.” He claimed it had drawn new listeners to his concerts. An avid reader of liberal political weblogs, Mr. Denk desires of creating a classical music Model of Wonkette, he reported, but that might be not easy to do devoid of offending individuals. And he attempts to steer clear of offending persons, he extra, while he did not long ago write-up a rant about plan notes.

Mr. Denk, who phone calls himself “an actual Francophile,” is gentle-spoken but intense, his dialogue peppered with references to numerous “obsessions”: espresso, Ives, Bach, Proust, Baudelaire and Emerson.

He went off on “a Balzac mania” a number of years in the past, he claimed.

“That was a perilous time, and almost everything in everyday life seemed drawn outside of a Balzac novel,” he extra. “I misplaced about three decades of my lifetime to Proust. I’m guaranteed it improved anything, including my playing.

“Sooner or later my supervisor was like, ‘Dude, You should deal with your occupation and receiving your stuff together.’ ” At that point, Mr. Denk claimed, “I had been bringing Proust to conferences.” He extra: “I’m unsure I really experienced a occupation route. I had been just undertaking my Odd issue, which most likely gave the impression of a disastrous nonroute to a lot of the individuals that have been viewing around me. I don't forget some exasperated conferences with my management, Nevertheless they were incredibly affected person and faithful, which I’m insanely grateful for.”

Mr. Denk grew up in Las Cruces, N.M., amongst two brothers, a son of audio-loving nonmusician parents. His father, who's got a doctorate in chemistry, has actually been (at diverse occasions) a Roman Catholic monk plus a director of Laptop or computer science at New Mexico Point out College.

Mr. Denk continues to be hooked on the chili peppers of Las Cruces, he said, seemingly only fifty percent joking: “The red and the green and The full spirituality of chili peppers. It’s nonetheless a large part of my everyday living. When I go house I go to this true dive and obsess in excess of their eco-friendly meat burrito.”

When not on tour, Mr. Denk spends time with his boyfriend, Patrick Posey, a saxophonist as well as director of orchestral things to do and preparing at Juilliard, wherever Mr. Denk been given his doctorate, researching with Herbert Stessin. Mr. Stessin recollects owning been impressed by “the maturity and intensity” of Mr. Denk’s participating in and remembers him as “an extraordinary university student who absorbed things pretty promptly.”

Mr. Denk said he “was in class permanently” until finally “at some time I made a decision to believe in my own instincts.” Now he teaches double-diploma undergraduates for the Bard Higher education Conservatory of Music. The pianist Allegra Chapman, who researched with him, explained he was “worried about quite a bit greater than the notes about the web site, constantly mentioning literary and historic references.”

“Now I attempt to technique songs within a more holistic viewpoint,” she additional. “He is incredibly passionate. He used to bounce around the area and bounce about and wave his arms. It was really enjoyable. He tried to get me to think about the music that has a sense of humor.”

This blend of passion, humor and intellect, so vibrant in both equally Mr. Denk’s enjoying and his creating, is what distinguishes him, according to the violinist Joshua Bell. The 2 have already been normal duo companions because 2004, when they carried out with the Spoleto Competition United states.

“You obtain the mental musicians or people that have on their coronary heart on their own sleeve without having a number of musical imagined,” Mr. Bell reported, “but Jeremy manages to accomplish each, Which’s great. Now we have lots of arguments in rehearsal, and that is the fun component at the same time. The very fact we don’t generally see eye to eye keeps issues clean and would make me problem anything I do.”

Mr. Bell, whose options of repertory are generally additional regular than those of his much more adventurous colleague, mentioned he wasn’t normally an Ives enthusiast: “Having a good deal of contemporary tunes I’m somewhat cautious. Despite Ives, right up until I read Jeremy. He just delivers it alive. He has this sort of a terrific creativity, and nothing at all is done randomly.”

Ives’s piano sonatas, Mr. Denk mentioned, “are in a way like animals that don’t wish to be tamed.”

“Each individual efficiency needs to be so distinct,” he included, a person purpose he was to begin with hesitant to file them. Like Bach, he said, Ives leaves quite a bit to the performer’s creativeness.

A wonderful interpretation of your “Goldberg” Variants at Symphony Area in 2008 discovered Mr. Denk’s profound affinity with Bach. Mr. Denk will complete the do the job and Books one and 2 of Ligeti’s Études at Zankel Corridor on Feb. sixteen.

To keep the “Goldberg” Variations fresh, Mr. Denk is incorporating new fingerings, he stated, “to reactivate the link involving my brain and my fingers After i’m enjoying it.”

“I believe it’s an actual magical put If you have the muscle mass memory,” he extra, “even so the Mind is ahead from the fingers.”

Switching the fingerings is one method to avoid routine, he explained. “I get real pleasure from producing in a very fantastic fingering. It is actually like relearning the piece, and it tends to make you not acquire any Observe as a right.”

The musical philosophy Mr. Denk relates to Bach, Ives and other repertory is probably best summed up in that website submit on system notes: “I’ve never been a major enthusiast of your ‘Picture how revolutionary this piece was when it absolutely was composed’ college of inspiration. For my dollars, it ought to be innovative now. (And it's.) Whatever else the composer might have meant, he or she didn’t want you to definitely Believe, ‘Boy, that have to happen to be interesting back again then.’ The most basic compositional intent, the absolute ur-intent, is that you Enjoy it now, you enable it to be take place now.”

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Stephanie Lawal, Day #17

The Real Junk Food Project is something really special.  I had dreamt of something similar for a long time, but the idea pops in and out of my head with a voice that tells me that it is impossible, or that I wouldn’t even know where to begin. TRJFP rescues food from supermarkets, daily.  This is food that is perfectly good, but as this world must operate by “sell by” dates, whatever is left beyond that date gets trashed.  Landfills are expanded, and while good food is put to rot, people go hungry.  In reality there is an even longer chain of waste, if you think about  ALL the resources used to grow and distribute this food, and that is not taking into account any monetary subsidies that might exist to expand these landfills and keep people hungry.  Also, think of the political stories and implications of this.  Feeding our landfills is an extremely expensive process.  This brings to mind a book that I read for my cooperative enterprises class this summer, where Charles Eisenstein states something that seems to me both obvious and profound.  He says that one of the great problems that we have in this uber-capitalist society that monetizes everything is that we have a narrative that emphasizes scarcity - that makes us believe we are living in a world of scarcity, when in actuality we live in a world of abundance.  In my eyes, The Real Junk Food Project epitomizes this idea.  Still, they can only feed handfuls of people at a time.  Apparently, they also give away produce and such from their hub.  Still, they only take what they think they will be able to use.  They set up pop-up cafes a different church in a different neighborhood, daily (weekdays).  Churches are just such a great space resource - offering a free or low cost space for dining, as well as a kitchen to cook and clean in, and to store or utilize dishware and utensils. This project differs from any soup kitchen that I have seen, in that it is on a pay-as-you-will basis, with small lidded buckets set up at different stations.  No one knows who gives or how much is given individually.  There are many regulars.  Some are as we say lately, “food insecure,” while others are popping in for a tasty and inexpensive lunch.  This location was just up the street from the Table Tennis Club, so several people from there popped in.  The process is dependent on volunteers who are only obligated to dedicate any 2 hours of the 9am - 3:30pm period, but most stay longer and are also regulars.  This experience also differed from my own experience with a particular soup kitchen in NY, in that the volunteers prepped the meals (so much peeling and chopping) and cleaned up afterwards (so many dishes!), as well as helping to serve and eke out time to sit down and eat lunch themselves.  At one point I noticed an elderly lady giving someone a back rub.  I thought this was a friend of hers, until later when she came by and gave me my own.  She refused one in return.  Apparently this is just something she does.  I was touched. No pun.  The menu that day included: carrot and parsnip soup, roasted ham, a nut roast, roasted squash, potatoes and carrots, as well as fruit salad, and a bread and butter pudding with a custard sauce.  I’m sure I’ve forgotten something, but I can assure you that it was all delicious.  

As much as everywhere I go and it is discovered that I am on this wild adventure, people have so many questions about this fellowship, about me, about the U.S., and some share fond memories of visiting NY, even if for a few hours.  That day Jim, who was serving at the tea station, told me stories of his one night in NY in the 50′s when he was passing through on a military mission.  He was chased out of Harlem, and told off at Idlewild Airport (lol) for asking which direction was Times Square.  One of the other volunteers pulled me away so that I could eat my food, as Jim would have gone on forever.  He was so delighted to tell his stories.  As I had stood serving soup, two people asked about my ethnicity.  The man who asked if I was Nigerian was himself from a small Caribbean nation (I forget where), and the woman who asked if I was Jamaican was black with a French accent.  She also had vitiligo, and asked me questions about my skin in the way that sometimes strangers do in NY that would seem off-putting, but is usually not.  Oddly, she did not offer any kind of skincare advice, which is what I am used to.  In fact, right now in the Bronx there is a man presumably walking around with a tube of cream in his pocket to give to me at the off chance he runs into me again at the corner coffee cart.  In any case, the black identity seems to be defined here quite distinctly as being of either African or West Indian descent.  My assertion that we are all of African descent would probably not be welcomed, but it’s not much welcomed anywhere.

The lecture that night was fine. An engineering take on different ideas of energy sources and storage.  My notes may have had some witty quotes, but the main thing I took away was that we cannot be thinking of just one type of energy source for everything.  Electric cars may be nice, but electric planes and cargo ships are not feasible.  I was probably spacing out about some of the suggestions, but I swear the speaker/newly appointed professor did put things in terms that even I could understand.  I wasn’t in the mood to stay for the reception this time.

Regarding renewable energy, I should mention that Brighton has an off-shore wind farm that is visible from it’s wonderful hilltops.  I am told that the farm has only been in existence for a couple of years, but has already helped to reduce energy costs.  I’m not sure how or to whom that savings is implemented, as I keep exhausting my electricity supply at my flat. *sigh*

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'This is just the start': China's passion for foreign property

“China is so large,” marvels Victor Li, using his palms to rely all the cities he has flown to over the last 365 days to satisfy with coins-rich Chinese shoppers inquisitive about buying right into a real-lifestyles recreation of London Monopoly.

Li, a director of worldwide mission advertising for the usa real property massive CBRE, is predicting a surge of japanese funding in British homes over the following decade, as increasingly affluent Chinese language investors collect a flavor for worldwide belongings.

“I assume its miles just starting,” says Li, of the quantity of cash pouring into property round the world from mainland China. “You do the figures: China has a population of 1.4 billion. In case, you target best 1% of China’s population, that’s 14 million human beings – so it’s already nearly Londons.”

Sitting in his workplace overlooking Hong Kong’s skyscraper-dotted Victoria Harbour, Li estimates that just three% of capability Chinese language traders in foreign places assets have thus far been determined – which means an honestly untapped goldmine lies over the border in mainland China. “China is a huge marketplace, ?” he says. “They’re getting wealthier and wealthier.” Victor Li in his Hong Kong workplace Facebook Twitter Pinterest Victor Li in his Hong Kong workplace

Wealthy Hong Kong traders have been ploughing money into British bricks and mortar for decades, snapping up off-plan apartments at weekly belongings fairs which can then be rented, flipped, held as investments or used as second homes.

“I’ve one [London property] in Canary Wharf, one in Town Island, one in Wembley Park, one in Elephant and Fort,” said one investor depend-of-factly at a current expo in Hong Kong’s elegant Mandarin Oriental Resort, as he eyed a new development close to the Thames Barrier in E16.

However, many real-estate retailers and assets experts in east Asia accept as true with a brand new wave of investment is just getting underneath manner, as mainland investors broaden a flavor for international real property, consisting of postcodes up and down the United Kingdom. Advertisement

“Our thesis – and this is supported by using quite a lot of proof – is that during many approaches the global Chinese language funding adventure is probably simply starting,” says Charles Pittar, chief executive of Juwai. Com, a website that aims to pair mainland customers with assets builders in places inclusive of Australia, the usa and the United Kingdom.

Pittar’s company, which lists 2.five million homes and calls itself China’s largest worldwide real-property internet site, estimates that in 2014, Chinese language outbound investment into residential and industrial assets changed into extra than $50bn (£38bn).

“I wager the key is: what is it going to grow to be?” Pittar says. “Our view is that … it may be developing to somewhere round $200bn [annually] over the subsequent 10 years.”

And Britain, in spite of its choice to depart the ecu, is anticipated to be one of the key focuses, he adds. “The United Kingdom marketplace, particularly post-Brexit, is genuinely choosing up.”

Pittar strains mainland China’s hunger for overseas assets back to the flip of the century, just before China’s access into the sector Alternate Enterprise signalled the state-of-the-art section of its integration into the global financial system. However, the outflow of money has amassed pace over the last decade, and is ready to develop in addition as center-elegance investors from 2d- and third-tier cities get in on the sport.

“It’s a big marketplace now, But it’s miles probable to be anywhere from two to 4 times the size in 10 years’ time,” Pittar says. “The interesting component Approximately China is that there are 168 cities with more than a million human beings. So this is just any such big market.”

Li, who specialises in London properties worth as much as £4m, is of the same opinion with the perception that Brexit is supporting to boost up the growth in hobby inside the United kingdom: “A number of my clients at the start of the yr, they said: ‘Good enough Victor, allow’s wait, wait, wait.’ And then, once they located out About Brexit and [the] sterling got here down more than 10%, I got greater calls – they need to head returned into the market. It’s lots of saving,” he says with a smile. The testimonies you need to read, in a single handy electronic mail read extra

Consistent with Pittar, Chinese who purchase assets distant places have four main motivations: investment, way of life, emigration and training. Many are looking for a foothold in the United kingdom, in which they wish their kids will pass on to study. “Some human beings are buying for his or her own family to use it,” says Li, “A few are shopping for to diversify, A few are shopping for because they want to own a property for funding – and Some human beings are buying for prestige, to say: ‘I personal a chunk of assets in London.’”

Crucially, he says, London is likewise visible as a comfy vicinity to keep money that buyers need to move out of China, to shield against the devaluation of the Chinese language currency, the yuan. “Humans in mainland China, they want to get their money out … They trust that cash out of China is secure cash. And London is a safe-haven to park that money.”

The 50-yr-vintage property salesman made his first foray into mainland China in 2001, pitching a slice of Lambeth’s St George Wharf to would-be traders at a 5-star Hotel on Shanghai’s answer to Oxford Road.

Humans in mainland China, they want to get their cash out. London is a safe-haven Victor Li

Over the past year by myself, Li has made nearly 20 such trips, jetting out from his base in Hong Kong to cities together with Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu to fulfill with cash-flush Chinese language shoppers.

“This one is Macau … This one is Shanghai,” he says, flicking thru snap shots on his phone of new seminars wherein he marketed luxury London tendencies which include Clipper Wharf in E1 and Carrara Tower on Metropolis Avenue. Commercial

Li says Some mainland traders agree to shop for flats instantaneous. “If They are fascinated, they reserve the unit – they simply use a credit score card. They have Union Pay, Credit card or Visa: £5,000.”

Many of his mainland traders are actual-property tycoons who have made a fortune from their u. S. A.’s financial boom, and now “just need to take the earnings, cash out and flow A number of their wealth foreign places”.

But Pittar believes the story of regular, middle-elegance buyers is extra big than that of China’s globe-trotting, Ferrari-riding elite. “What we examine in the newspapers is constantly About the very rich Chinese language who come and buy a £5m, £10m, £15m property. But the middle class is key. How large is the center elegance? It could be one hundred twenty million. We generally tend to think it’s probably in the direction of one hundred fifty million.

“When they’ve got someplace to live in China, the fact is that the home marketplace is quite luxurious, so that’s why They’re searching greater for international opportunities. Like anybody who wants to hold their wealth, diversification is vital.”