![]() The album consists of longer tracks mixed with song vignettes. The debut studio album, Music Has the Right to Children, was released in April 1998. Skam issued what was considered Boards of Canada's first "findable" work, Hi Scores, in 1996. The band made another release in 1996, titled Boc Maxima it was a semi-private release that was notable for being a full-length album, and was the precursor to Music Has the Right to Children, with which it shares many tracks.īoards of Canada's first commercial release occurred after attracting the attention of Autechre's Sean Booth, of the English label Skam Records, one of many people who were sent a demo EP. Though not a widespread commercial release, it was considered of sufficient quality and worth to be subsequently re-pressed in 2002. Unlike previous releases, however, a small number of copies were also released to the public through a mailing list. Like earlier Music70 releases, it was produced in a self-financed limited run and was privately distributed, primarily to friends and labels. In 1995, Boards of Canada made their first Hexagon Sun studio release, the EP Twoism. Music Has the Right to Children (1995–2002) Later, in the early 1990s, the band had a number of collaborations and the band put on small shows among the Hexagon Sun collective, along with the releases of albums Play By Numbers and Hooper Bay, both in 1994, which, similarly to Acid Memories, were only released to friends and family and had sub-1 minute excerpts of two songs ("Wouldn't You Like To Be Free" from Play By Numbers and "Circle" from Hooper Bay) released from both albums on the EHX website. Acid Memories is the only early album the brothers have mentioned in interviews. Both albums have only been heard by the band's friends and family, except for a 24-second excerpt of "Duffy", released on the EHX website in the late 1990s. ![]() By 1989, the band had been reduced to Mike and Marcus, and they released Acid Memories in the same year. Their first known release was Catalog 3, in 1987 on cassette tape, on the brothers' own label, Music70, while Boards of Canada was still a band (it was later re-pressed in 1997 on CD on the same label). The band's name was inspired by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the government agency whose award-winning documentary films and animation they had watched as children. However, it was not until 1986 when Marcus was invited to join Mike's band that Boards of Canada was born. In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands. They experimented with recording techniques from around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. Growing up in a musical family, the brothers first played instruments at a young age. The duo did not reveal that they are brothers until a 2005 interview with Pitchfork, as they wanted to avoid comparisons with another electronic sibling duo, Orbital. Marcus dropped out before completing his degree. The brothers attended the University of Edinburgh, where Michael studied music and Marcus studied artificial intelligence. ![]() From 1979 to 1980, they lived in Calgary, Canada, while their father, who worked in construction, took part in the project to build the Saddledome. In 2012, Fact described them as "one of the best-known and best-loved electronic acts of the last two decades." History Early years (1986–1994) īrothers Michael Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born Marcus Eoin Sandison, 21 July 1971) were brought up in Cullen, Moray, on the northeast coast of Scotland. It has been described by critics as exploring themes related to nostalgia, as well as childhood memory, science, environmental concerns and esoteric subjects. ![]() The duo's work, largely influenced by outdated media and electronic music from the 1970s, incorporates vintage synthesiser tones, samples, analog equipment, and hip hop-inspired beats. They followed with the critically acclaimed albums Geogaddi (2002), The Campfire Headphase (2005) and Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). Signing first to Skam followed by Warp Records in the 1990s, the duo received recognition following the release of their debut album Music Has the Right to Children on Warp in 1998. Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a group in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s.
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Much of New England experienced the emergence of drought during the second half of 2020 with marked improvement by the end of the year. ![]() and southern to central High Plains throughout 2020 with persistent above-average temperatures and precipitation deficits in place across much of the West. Drought conditions expanded or intensified across much of the western U.S. Extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4) drought covered about 22 percent of the CONUS on December 29 - the largest extent of D3 and D4 drought since August 2012 (24 percent). Drought Monitor (USDM), drought coverage expanded throughout much of 2020 with a minimum CONUS extent of 9.6 percent occurring on February 18 and maximum coverage of approximately 50 percent on December 22. In fact, Utah's 7.23 inches of annual precipitation was 0.89 inches less than the previous record set in 1956.Īccording to the U.S. Nevada and Utah ranked driest on record for 2020 with two additional western states ranking second driest. 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Ten states across the Southwest, Southeast and East Coast had their second-warmest year on record. experienced above-average temperatures during 2020. The five warmest years on record have all occurred since 2012. This ranked as the fifth-warmest year in the 126-year record. was 54.4☏, 2.4☏ above the 20 th century average. Based on preliminary analysis, the average annual temperature for the contiguous U.S. They put up to 10 to 16 shows during a normal week compared to most Broadway shows' eight, but the number can go up to 21 between Christmas and New Year's Day. Zapcic compared Medieval Times shows to Broadway shows, seating about the same number of people and putting on more shows a week. The horses and falcon that the show rely on also add an element of uncertainty for workers' safety, particularly for stablehands who can make $16 an hour. ![]() A knight who previously worked as a squire at the New Jersey castle made $12 an hour. Those who want to become knights and aspire to go into athletics or become a stunt performer typically start off as squires, who make "essentially minimum wage," Zapcic told the LA Times. "There should be a correlation between how dangerous their job is and how they're compensated." "The job will always be dangerous for the guys, but they should be compensated accordingly," she said. These dangerous duties have led to ankle, knee, and head injuries, according to performers in New Jersey, and knights do them all for about $19 to $29 an hour. Knights perform dangerous stunts that require them to fight with real titanium weapons and throw themselves off horses at 25 mph for the performance, Zapcic said. A call for higher wages to reflect the danger of the job The votes at Buena Park and New Jersey castles have created a domino effect company-wide, as more castles have expressed their interest to unionize, Zapcic said. Medieval Times did not contest the petitioned-for bargaining unit in New Jersey, according to Medieval Times Performers United. "The Regional Director saw through the employer's meritless arguments and correctly found that a single bargaining unit is appropriate." "Medieval Times tried to separate and divide its California workers after it agreed to a single bargaining unit in New Jersey and then lost the election by a lopsided margin," Spivak Lipton LLP attorney Nicholas Johnson said in a statement. Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament participates in the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. Medieval Times argued that knights and squires do not share a "community of interest" with the show cast and stablehands. Medieval Times delayed the union election date by contesting that only Knights and Squires should be allowed in the union, excluding the show cast and stables department, according to Medieval Times Performers United California on Aug. ![]() The Medieval Times has 10 locations across North America, including Atlanta, Ga, Chicago, Il, and Toronto, Ontario. "The company really used the time to sow the seeds of discord, create a divide within the bargaining unit, and so based off the way things were going and the people we were talking to, even though we started with a super majority of the bargaining unit, there was considerable attrition or at least so it seemed throughout the process," Zapcic said.īuena Park performers petitioned for a union election on July 22 following the vote at the New Jersey location in July, she said. The vote marks the end to a nearly four-month journey for performers at Buena Park to unionize due to delays caused by company management, she said. The vote, 27-18, was a decisive one to the surprise of some performers, including Zapcic, who plays a queen at Buena Park. The cast includes knights, squires, stablehands who handle the horses, show cast with speaking roles, and trumpeters. ![]() Medieval Times puts on two-hour performances inspired by 11 th century Spain of jousting, sword fighting, and hand-to-hand combat as guests eat a four-course meal. Low wages, dangerous working conditions, and a lack of respect from company management incited performers to fight for more job security and join the American Guild of Variety Artists, which represents some performers at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, said Erin Zapcic, a union organizer. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imagįrom queens and knights to horsemen and squires, the performers of Medieval Times dinner theatre castle in Buena Park, California, voted to unionize Thursday after months of back and forth with the company. ![]() William Elliot III, 35, assistant head knight and former magician in Las Vegas, makes the grand entrance as the red knight, along with fellow knights during a show at Medieval Times in Buena Park Friday, June 28, 2013.Īllen J. ![]() Indeed, TikTok may be the only social media network that is thriving. It says everything you need to know that Reels and Shorts often include the telltale watermark revealing that the videos were made on TikTok. These include one-in-a-lifetime clips captured on the fly, but also-more importantly-inventive flights of inspired filmmaking, comedy, cooking, commentary, character-building, parodies, memes, even video essays (and, yes, viral dances). But the algorithm only enabled the true secret of TikTok’s success: the countless creators making a bid for your For You page with a dizzying array of compulsively watchable videos. TikTok’s distinguishing feature has always been its algorithm, which is eerily effective at taking the clues we give it-basically, what we watch and how we interact with it-and surfacing an endless number of videos keyed to our inner desires (one user even wrote that the app realized she was bisexual before she did). Many of the writing opportunities I’ve been given since then have been thanks, at least in part, to that video. It was viewed over two million times and opened up an entirely new phase of my career, allowing me to leave my job and go full-time with my own newsletter about internet culture. One afternoon last August, I made a video about an article I wrote. I’m one of those in-between people, and making TikToks still changed my life. It’s also a tool for makers-casual, professional, and everything in between. It’s easy to forget that TikTok isn’t only a portal for viewers. But not even Instagram, owned by Facebook’s behemoth parent company Meta, has achieved anything like TikTok’s influence: In September 2022, documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal show, Instagram users spent 17.6 million hours a day watching Reels-while users spent 197.8 million hours each day watching TikTok. YouTube followed suit with Shorts that September, and Snapchat launched its Spotlight feature in November. The internet was fun again, and the deeper I fell into TikTok the more I withdrew from Instagram, which had become sterile, and Twitter, which was growing more toxic.Ĭompetitors have scrambled to replicate TikTok’s success, and in so doing, created a cacophony of algorithmically-determined short-form videos. I covered, in real time, the decline of the traditional influencer-mainly women and men on Instagram who modeled enviable lifestyles and were paid to promote products-and the rise of TikTok “creators,” artists and entertainers who reminded me of the early stars of YouTube. I started a new role at a news website dedicated to the internet. Entertainment suddenly moved online, and coverage of digital culture exploded. Convincing my editors that they were worth covering was difficult-until movie sets were shut down and TV shows went on hiatus. Growing up, I went to YouTube more than I ever turned on the TV, and knew there was an entire community of internet users whose online behaviors and creations were going largely undocumented. I was an entertainment news writer when TikTok first launched, but always tried to sneak in stories about the internet. For many, it quickly became a lifeline, a chaotic and creative substitute for the culture and connection that lockdown had decimated. And then the pandemic hit, and over 115 million new people around the world began using the app in just a few weeks. Its stars were gaining millions of followers, but little recognition outside the app. Before March 2020, TikTok was still somewhat of a niche interest. ![]() ![]() Walking home, high off the brief hit of human interaction that I would nurse for another few months, I realized this sidewalk chat was the first time I had encountered TikTok outside of my phone. We all had our first laugh when someone made a reference to a TikTok sound-an audio clip that gets used repeatedly in different videos-that had recently gone viral. The handful of people who gathered there had not socialized in real life for months, owing to the pandemic. The weather was nice, and the store had put together a makeshift wine tasting outside. One Friday in spring 2020, I made my weekly trip to the wine store around the corner from my apartment in Brooklyn. This article was updated on May 18, 2023. The recent news of QBD 2020 losing support has left users questioning - will there be a QuickBooks Desktop 2023? The good news is yes - QuickBooks Desktop Premier Plus 2023 was released in September 2022. It’s easier to maintain one web-based platform that all users can utilize instead of building different products to fit specific requirements.Ĭan you still buy a desktop version of QuickBooks? Intuit has stated that QuickBooks Desktop is being phased out gradually, and they eventually want to move entirely to QuickBooks Online (QBO). That means you will lose all add-ons, including the popular Payroll Service, and there will be no more updates or critical fixes. QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2020. ![]() The long answer: Intuit are sunsetting some versions of QuickBooks Desktop (QBD), and it might be possible for some users to keep accessing it -though it is not recommended.įrom May 31st, 2023, Intuit will stop supporting these QuickBooks Desktop 2020 versions: Many users have been wondering if QuickBooks Desktop is going away forever. Is QuickBooks discontinuing Desktop version? Or find yourself a rebound, get back on that QuickBooks horse and ride off into the sunset with QuickBooks Online. From here on, you have two choices: curl up on your couch, dive into a tub of ice cream, and binge on Sandra Bullock movies. ![]() And we all know what that means - a breakup is inevitable. You’ve probably already heard that QuickBooks Desktop wants to take a break. ![]() We guarantee to have the lowest prices on Universal Studios Orlando vacation packages. 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