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Rick Beato is a YouTube personality, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and educator whose career in the music industry has spanned several decades. Based out of Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, Beato has produced for and worked with such bands as Needtobreathe, Parmalee and Shinedown and has lectured on music at several universities.
Beato is now known for his YouTube channel, Everything Music, where his content focuses on music production, song analysis, ear training and interviews. He creates and and posts several videos a week. He has over three million subscribers for Everything Music.
“I’m a big believer in music programs in public schools. I have a new Gibson signature guitar, and all the proceeds from my part of it go to a charity called Save the Music that Gibson works with, donating money to public school music programs.”
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Rick, let’s talk first about your dreams and aspirations as a child and why you became interested in pursuing a career in music.
Rick Beato: I grew up in a family where, on my mom’s side, two of her sisters were music teachers. Her brother was a bass player, and my grandfather was an amateur guitarist. My dad was a very avid music listener, especially jazz. He was a record collector. Even though he wasn’t a musician, he loved music. So in both sides of my family was a deep love of music, and I started taking lessons on the cello when I was in third grade and ended up playing all the way through high school. I switched to the bass, and then I picked up guitar. The bass was in sixth grade, and then I went to the guitar the summer of eighth grade. Then I just kept going.
I got my undergrad degree in classical bass, got my master’s in jazz guitar. Music has just always been part of my family. I’m from a big family of seven. My younger brother and I both play the guitar. So I’ve never thought of doing anything else.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Well, with seven, you certainly have a band (laughs).
Rick Beato: Exactly right.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: You grew up in Fairport, New York?
Rick Beato: Yep. It’s a suburb of Rochester.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Were there any great musicians in that area?
Rick Beato: Yeah. Chuck Mangione’s from Rochester. Drummer Steve Gadd is from there. There are a lot of great musicians from Rochester, some not well known but just incredible players in the update New York area. The Eastman School of Music is there. So the town I grew up in, Fairport, is where a lot of Eastman faculty members and kids lived. We had a really robust music program with 11 fulltime music faculty for the town I lived in, which was amazing. Everybody had private lessons, and it was very highly valued and still is.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Were you a session musician?
Rick Beato: I played on many sessions as a producer, but I never really played as a session player other than people would ask me to play on their records occasionally. But I was a session player in that, as a producer, I played on pretty much every record I ever did. So I guess I was a session player.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Did your son, Dylan, have anything to do with you starting a YouTube channel?
Rick Beato: Well, I put up a video on my Facebook page of my son. He’s got what seems like perfect pitch, and it became a viral video. I mean, I didn’t have many people that followed me, only my family on Facebook, but it ended up getting over 20 million views. It got written about by a bunch of online press outlets. That was about six months before I started my channel.
When I started my YouTube channel, I had about 40 subscribers or so, mainly family members, because that’s when I used to post videos of my kids like everybody did early on in YouTube. But I started in the summer of 2016, so it was kind of related to my son. I had a few videos of my son on my channel when I first started, but I haven’t had him on my channel in years.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: For those who have not seen your YouTube channel, give me some examples of the topics that are discussed.
Rick Beato: A lot of my earlier videos were based on teaching music, music theory, improvisation, ear training. I would do film score breakdowns of film cues. I would do jazz guitar videos, things like that. In 2018, I started a series called “What Makes a Song Great,” which were essentially breakdowns of multitracks of famous songs in all different genres of music. Then I would do music critiques, and I have interviews on my channel. It’s really all encompassing in all different genres, all types of players. I’ve done over a thousand episodes in six years.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: It’s very well done.
Rick Beato: Thank you.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Do you ever talk politics or discuss topics not related to music?
Rick Beato: No. I don’t do anything but music on my channel.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Most YouTubers have pesky trolls. Is that a problem for you?
Rick Beato: Not really. I have very little things like that. When people disagree with me, it’s because I haven’t chosen their favorite band in one of my Top 20 lists or something like that.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Some of your videos get hundreds of thousands views.
Rick Beato: Yeah. I must pick the right topics, I guess, to talk about (laughs).
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Is there a secret formula to being a successful YouTuber?
Rick Beato: I just talk about things I’m interested in, and it seems like a lot of people are interested in the same things I am.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: You seem to have a good time, and it’s obvious you love what you’re doing. So I believe that resonates with the viewers, and it just might be one part of your success, the other being excellent content, of course. Are your kids into music like their dad?
Rick Beato: Yeah. One of my daughters plays violin, and one plays the guitar. Dylan plays the oboe. So all three of my kids play music. I try to work on it as much as I can with them, try to sit down with them at night and work on stuff. It’s really fun for me to do that.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: One of your passions is arts education?
Rick Beato: Yes. I’m a big believer in music programs in public schools. I have a new Gibson signature guitar, and all the proceeds from my part of it go to a charity called Save the Music that Gibson works with, donating money to public school music programs. I’m a huge believer in those programs since I had such a great public music education.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Who’s your favorite guitarist of all time?
Rick Beato: It’s always changing, I’d say, depending on who I’m listening to at the time. I love all the people I grew up listening to from Jimi Hendrix to Brian May to Jimmy Page to Peter Frampton. I’m a big Jeff Beck fan and Eddie Van Halen fan. I like Neal Schon from Journey. I have the jazz players that I love like Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Pat Metheny. Joe Pass is a huge favorite of mine.
I love rock, jazz and blues guitar. I love country guitar and people like Tommy Emmanuel that have combined all the different things, kind of like a Chet Atkins thing, along with jazz, rock and blues. So there’s just so many guitar players that I’m a fan of like David Gilmour. I’d hate to boil it down to one person. I’m really influenced by a lot of different players.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: You were having some problems last year with copyright issues. Is that still going on?
Rick Beato: Well, you know, the thing about any of these social media platforms is that certain artists don’t want their music played on certain platforms. The Eagles block just about everything. Bands like Guns N’ Roses block everything. Jimi Hendrix’s estate blocks things where you can’t use the music. You can’t use it for teaching purposes or commentary or anything. I guess you could, and you could fight for it. Bit it’s not worth doing.
It’s improved a lot over the last few years. I’ve made a lot of videos about people that block. There’s a difference between people who have content ID claims where they monetize the video and make the money from that, which I don’t have a problem with. But it’s the blocking where they do automatic takedowns when you make a video and spend 15 hours on it, then YouTube takes it down. You can fight them, but you fight them at the risk of having your channel taken down theoretically.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Our friend, bassist and session musician Leland Sklar, has made many videos on blocking issues.
Rick Beato: Oh, yeah. I know Lee very well. At the beginning of his channel, he had the takedowns, and he’d call me up. I’d say, “Lee, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s a crap shoot with it. You don’t know really until you post the video.” He was like, “I played on those records!” He’d get so mad. Then he’d get on and post a video about it. I didn’t have any guidance for him, Melissa, on it because I’d say, “Lee, I don’t know until I post the video what is going to happen either.” I had a fair idea of the people that would do it.
But a lot of times, it’s a case by case thing. I’ll give you an example. There was a TikTok video with the song “Dreams,” Stevie Nicks stuff, off of Rumours. The guy in the video was drinking Ocean Spray cranberry juice riding a skateboard. I had a video on “Go Your Own Way.” I had done a breakdown of the song, and it got taken down. Now, the difference between the two songs is that my song was written by Lindsey Buckingham, and the other one was written by Stevie Nicks. She has a different policy for social media and doesn’t care if her songs are used, and Lindsey did. The funny thing is my song got taken down a couple of years before. After her song got this huge resurgence, all of a sudden, my song got unblocked on YouYube (laughs). So I’m not sure if there was any relation to it, but I had to think that maybe it had something to do with it. So people are changing their minds on it, I would say.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Ann Wilson didn’t want her songs played at certain political rallies, so there’s another part to that.
Rick Beato: I understand. I don’t begrudge anyone for making decisions on how they want their music to be used. It’s just up to them. Some of the music like the James Taylor things that Lee was having taken down, James had no control over it. He had sold his catalogue apparently. I think this was what Lee had told me. My thing about it is that when using the music to make a video that introduces an old song typically to a younger audience, it just affects the people’s relevancy. When nobody’s talking about someone because their music’s not being used on social media platforms, eventually people forget about them. Nirvana has 25 million listeners on Spotify. Jimi Hendrix has seven million. Now, granted Jimi Hendrix hasn’t put out anything since 1970, but Queen has 40 million monthly followers. If your music isn’t out there, people forget about it.
People get inundated with so much new music all the time. If you look at Stranger Things, a Netflix show, it introduced people to Kate Bush, and her song had a massive comeback. A lot of the 80s songs are played on that show and Cobra Kai, which is another big Netflix show. My kids are familiar with all these 80s songs because they hear them on these TV shows that they watch.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Exactly. What do you think about Spotify?
Rick Beato: I use Spotify. I mean, I subscribe to Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music, and I’ll tell you why. I use all three because essentially me paying the 12 bucks, or whatever it is, for each one is about what I used to spend on albums in a year, if you think about how much albums cost. Let’s say you’re buying three albums a month. That’s about the cost of the three subscriptions. Even though that money gets divided amongst the people that have the most plays, it’s still a way for me to put money back into the musicians’ hands for using their music because it has value, and it’s important to me to pay for music.
I think it’s so easy to have streaming platforms where you just turn it on, and you take the music for granted that you can listen to anything. I think that, to some people, makes it have less perceived value because it’s so ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. So I think streaming is good, but these companies pay so poorly to the writers that it’s not really a profitable model, I don’t think, for the streaming companies.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: You brought up music in the 1980s. Some songs during that time and in the 60s and 70s had problematic content that certainly would not have radio airplay these days.
Rick Beato: And there’s plenty of content now that wouldn’t have gotten airplay back then. So I think it works both ways. I did a couple of live shows recently, and I talked about the show Dark Shadows that was on when I was a kid from 1966 to 1971. For the people that were younger, they didn’t know about it. It was a horror soap opera that came on at 4:00 in the afternoon for a half hour and had all this really dark, esoteric, 20th century music. It was about vampires, werewolves and witches. It was a very weird show for that time period, but I didn’t think anything about it.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Nor did I (laughs).
Rick Beato: Right? And it came on at 4:00 in the afternoon. But that particular show absolutely informed by taste in music because I got used to hearing this really dissonant 20th century music, and I liked the sound of it. It was scary and mysterious, and I think that’s why I was drawn to film scores and things like that later on. So I think it really expanded my ear.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: You’re correct in saying that there’s content now that wouldn’t have been playing on the radio years ago. But back then, we never thought about it just like we never thought it was weird to watch a horror soap opera on television.
Rick Beato: That’s right. I always wanted to make a video about the song “Operator” by Jim Croce, “Can you help me place this call?” What does that even mean? “See the number on the matchbook is old and faded.” What’s a matchbook? “You’ve been so much more than kind. You can keep the dime.” What does that even mean? (laughs) Then you have to say, “Well, there used to be these things called phone booths. It used to be a dime to make a phone call.” What? It’s such a great song, but the context of it now makes no sense.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: Right, and we just start singing along.
Rick Beato: Right. I love it when you go back and listen to some of these 70s lyrics, the things that were talked about in lyrics back then. I think about Gordon Lightfoot songs like “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Who would ever write a song like that nowadays? This eight-minute long song that’s a poem about a shipwreck becomes a huge hit. You couldn’t even imagine something like that being heard today.
Smashing Interviews Magazine: What’s the future look like for YouTube, Rick?
Rick Beato: I think that there’s an emphasis, not just on YouTube, toward short-form content. Companies are really investing more in their short-form content, reels on Instagram, Shorts on YouTube, obviously TikTok. YouTube is now making it where you can monetize the Shorts, the things that would be the equivalent of TikTok. You make very little or no money on TikTok. You can’t monetize it. I think that’s a very smart thing for YouTube to do. It takes different kinds of content to have work when you make long-form videos like I do.
I have a pretty good Instagram following that I do things I call “Quick Lessons,” and I enjoy it. I do these 40-second guitar lessons, and it’s really fun. I think that’s the future of YouTube. I think short-form content is the future of all social media platforms. I mean, frankly, my wife and kids like YouTube Shorts, and they’re not on TikTok. I don’t know if they watch the long-form videos or some of those people may not even make long-form videos. So the future of that now is mastering short-form content. It’s interesting. It’s a challenge, but it’s fun. Challenges are fun.
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US midterms 2022: Democrats’ hopes of keeping House fade as counting continues – as it happened – The Guardian US

Democrats are behind in several districts needed to secure control of Congress’ lower chamber for another two years
If a president’s party can only keep one chamber of Congress, the Senate is the one to have.
The Senate is tasked with approving the White House’s nominations, including cabinet secretaries, federal judges and most crucially, supreme court justices. With Democrats holding the majority for the next two years, Joe Biden is once again guaranteed the ability to get his cabinet secretaries and judges confirmed to post across the government. That will increase the chances Biden’s legislative accomplishments – and those of future Democratic presidents – survive court challenges.
But if the House falls to Republicans, Biden’s days of big legislating may have come to an end, at least for now. The chamber’s GOP leadership has shown little interest in working with the president, and it’s unlikely any of their bills make it through the Senate and to the president’s desk. Control of the House also gives the GOP the ability to conduct investigations and issue subpoenas. Expect them to do that to officials involved in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, and to Hunter Biden.
As the results of last week’s midterm elections continue to roll out, the control of the House has not yet been decided. Joe Biden and others have deemed it unlikely Democrats will retain control of the House, though they have secured the Senate for another two years.
Here’s what else you need to know:
A federal court has blocked Joe Biden’s plan to relieve some student debt, putting the effort on hold while the administration considers other options.
Former vice-president Mike Pence has sat down with ABC News to talk more about his experience on January 6, calling Trump’s words on that day “reckless”.
Senators are pushing for a vote this week on a bill to codify same-sex marriage, saying they believe it has enough support to pass the chamber.
Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville said he will back Trump for president in 2024, if the ex-president announces.
Prosecutors say criminal charges are not expected from an investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s actions in Ukraine, in a move Giuliani’s team is calling “a total victory”.
Donald Trump on Monday attempted to revive his lawsuit against Twitter over his permanent suspension from the platform.
Trump seeks to revive fight to get back on Twitter
Former president Donald Trump on Monday asked a US appeals court to revive his lawsuit against Twitter over his permanent suspension from the platform, according to Reuters.
Trump was banned from Twitter over his role in the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. The former president was also indefinitely removed from YouTube and Facebook after the incident.
While other social media firms have not decided on whether Trump can return, the ban on Twitter was meant to be permanent.
However, when billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, questions were raised about whether that ban would be reversed. Musk had previously stated that banning Trump had been “a mistake”.
The billionaire has not made any public decisions about whether to allow Trump’s return, stating that he may leave such policy decisions to an independent board.
Senate to vote on same-sex marriage bill this week
Senator Chuck Schumer is filing a bill to codify same-sex marriage today, setting it up for a Wednesday vote.
Schumer is filing the same sex marraige bill now, setting up a Weds vote
The Respect for Marriage Act passed the House this year, and CNN reported today a bipartisan group of senators believed the bill had enough support to pass the chamber.
Prosecutors say criminal charges not expected from Giuliani raid
New York prosecutors said in a letter to a judge on Monday they do not plan to criminally charge Rudy Giuliani following an investigation into his dealings with Ukrainian associates – a development Giuliani’s team called “a total victory”.
Prosecutors had been investigating whether Giuliani should have been registered as a foreign agent due to his dealings with figures in Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 election.
The investigation, which resulted in raids on his residence in April 2021 and seizure of a number of electronic devices, has concluded, and that criminal charges would not be forthcoming.
“In my business, we would call that total victory,” Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, told the Associated Press. “We appreciate what the US attorney’s [office] has done. We only wish they had done it a lot sooner.”
Read the full story here.
Kari Paul here taking over for the next couple hours, stay tuned for updates.
Trump wasn’t keeping all those classified documents at Mar-a-Lago for the money, the Washington Post reports.
Rather, the motivation for his alleged retention of government secrets at his south Florida resort was more about Trump’s desire to hang on to keepsakes from his time in the White House, according to the Post, which cited federal investigators. That doesn’t mean he won’t face charges in the case, which is one of many inquiries the former president is involved in nearly two years after he left office.
Here’s more from the Post:

That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell, or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.
Several Trump advisers said that each time he was asked to give documents or materials back, his stance hardened, and that he gravitated toward lawyers and advisers who indulged his more pugilistic desires. Trump repeatedly said the materials were his, not the government’s — often in profane terms, two of these people said.
The people familiar with the matter cautioned that the investigation is ongoing, no final determinations have been made, and it’s possible additional information could emerge that changes investigators’ understanding of Trump’s motivations. But they said the evidence collected over a period of months indicates the primary explanation for potentially criminal conduct was Trump’s ego and intransigence.
A Justice Department spokesman and an FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. A Trump spokesman did not return a request for comment Monday.
The analysis of Trump’s likely motive in allegedly keeping the documents is not, strictly speaking, an element of determining whether he or anyone around him committed a crime, or should be charged with one. Justice Department policy dictates that prosecutors file criminal charges in cases in which they believe a crime was committed and the evidence is strong enough to lead to a conviction that will hold up on appeal. But as a practical matter, motive is an important part of how prosecutors assess cases and decide whether to file criminal charges.
The Guardian’s Kari Paul is now taking over the live blog, and will take you through the latest politics news over the remainder of the day.
Another notable Republican has reiterated his support for Donald Trump, Politico reports.
Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville said he will back Trump for president in 2024, if he announces:
Sen. Tuberville says he will endorse Trump for president when he announces. He also says he’ll support McConnell as GOP leader
He also announced that he would back Mitch McConnell as Senate minority leader, the top office available for the GOP in that chamber after they failed to win control in the midterms.
CNN reports that the bipartisan group of senators pushing a bill to codify same-sex marriage believes it has enough support to pass the chamber:
Multiple sources say the bipartisan group working on legislation to codify same-sex marriage has the votes needed for the bill to pass and is urging leadership to put it on the floor for a vote as soon as possible.

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The Respect for Marriage Act passed the House earlier this year with some Republican support. Assuming all Democratic senators vote for it, it will need the votes of at least 10 Republicans to overcome a filibuster, but it’s previously been unclear if that support exists.
Ahead of the release of his memoir tomorrow, former vice-president Mike Pence sat down with ABC News to talk more about his experience on January 6.
Here was his reaction when asked about Trump’s tweet lashing out at Pence on the day of the attack:
"It angered me. … The president's words were reckless. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem."

— Former Vice President Mike Pence, in an ABC News exclusive as he promotes his new book, rebukes Trump's tweet attacking him on Jan. 6th as the mob stormed the Capitol pic.twitter.com/PqnqUH7vbQ
In their quest to understand why they performed so poorly in the midterms, some Republicans are pointing the finger at Donald Trump, arguing he has outlived his usefulness to the party.
Writing in The American Conservative, JD Vance, a Republican who just won a seat in the Senate representing Ohio, attempted to dissuade the GOP from casting blame on the former president. He argues that Trump serves as a unifying force for Republicans and can offset Democrats’ advantages in fundraising and voter turnout that are going to make it more difficult for the GOP to win House and Senate races.
Here’s more from his piece:

In the long term, the way to solve this is to build a turnout machine, not gripe at the former president. But building a turnout machine without organized labor and amid declining church attendance is no small thing. Our party has one major asset, contra conventional wisdom, to rally these voters: President Donald Trump. Now, more than ever, our party needs President Trump’s leadership to turn these voters out and suffers for his absence from the stage.
The point is not that Trump is perfect. I personally would have preferred an endorsement of Lou Barletta over Mastriano in the Pennsylvania governor’s race, for example. But any effort to pin blame on Trump, and not on money and turnout, isn’t just wrong. It distracts from the actual issues we need to solve as a party over the long term. Indeed, one of the biggest changes I would like to see from Trump’s political organization—whether he runs for president or not—is to use their incredible small dollar fundraising machine for Trump-aligned candidates, which it appears he has begun doing to assist Herschel Walker in his Senate runoff.
Blaming Trump isn’t just wrong on the facts, it is counterproductive. Any autopsy of Republican underperformance ought to focus on how to close the national money gap, and how to turn out less engaged Republicans during midterm elections. These are the problems we have, and rather than blaming everyone else, it’s time for party leaders to admit we have these problems and work to solve them.

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[Master Duel] Anti-Spell Festival and new Duel Pass – YGOrganization

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After the expiration of the previous Duel Pass, the new Duel Pass for the next 73 days (2 days shorter than before) in Master Duel has been introduced. By leveling up the Normal Duel Pass to Level 50, you can obtain the following rewards:
-300 Gems
-30 UR points
-30 SR points
-30 R points
-27 N points
-1 Aluber the Dogmatic Icon (at Level 50)

“An Icon depicting another young man with the power of the dragon. As he makes his move, divided from the abyss, the curtain quietly rises on the tragedy to come…”
For the Duel Pass (Gold)
-100 UR points
-100 SR points
-80 R points
-80 N points
At Level 25, you can obtain a Green Icon Frame

“A Green Icon Frame reminiscent of forest trees. Cannot help admiring the hidden vitality of nature.”
At Level 50, you can obtain a Shooting Quasar Dragon Monster Art

“A dragon who embodies the light of evolution. It shall illuminate a new future when it pushes past its limits.”
At Level 75, you can obtain a Marshmallon Mate

“A monster that deflects attacks with its bouncy, marshmallow-like body. It may seem harmless, but many strangers have tasted first-hand just how painful their careless attacks can be when it strikes back.”
On the other hand, the Anti-Spell Festival has been announced for November 17th (time zones applying). As the name implies, you cannot include any Spell Cards in your Deck, but you can include Pendulum Monsters. As usual, it also comes with additional changes to the Forbidden/Limited List:
Forbidden:
All Spell Cards
Barrier Statue of the Abyss
Barrier Statue of the Drought
Barrier Statue of the Heavens
Barrier Statue of the Inferno
Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds
Barrier Statue of the Torrent
D-Boyz
Denko Sekka
Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
Jowgen the Spiritualist
Mahaama the Fairy Dragon
Malevolent Mech – Goku En
Chain Blast
Chain Burst
Destruction of Destiny
Destructive Draw
Gozen Match
Kozaky’s Self-Destruct Button
Relay Soul
Rivalry of Warlords
Royal Decree
Skill Drain
There Can Be Only One
Wall of Revealing Light
Limited:
Eradicator Epidemic Virus
Solemn Judgment
Tri-Brigade Revolt
Semi-Limited:
Ring of Destruction
Secret Barrel
Secret Blast
Solemn Strike
The following Loaner Decks are available for the event:
Overlord of the Four Dimension Dragons

“A Deck that uses “Supreme King Z-ARC” as its ace card. Use “Supreme King Dragon” monsters and Pendulum Monsters like “Magician,” to battle against your opponent and aim for Fusion Summons with effects such as that of “Astrograph Sorcerer.”
In some cases, you can use the effect of “Soul of the Supreme King” to Special Summon.
Now is the time to harness great power and rule the field!”
Evolved New Dinosaur Species

“A “Dinomorphia” Deck that utilizes a variety of Trap Cards.
“Dinomorphia” Trap Cards, such as “Dinomorphia Domain,” that lets you Fusion Summon, require you to pay half of your LP when the card is activated, but their effects are very powerful. Their effects activated in the Graveyard can prevent damage from battles and effects. Keep an eye on your remaining LP, while making full use of Trap Cards to draw out the power of the “Dinomorphia” monsters!”
Amazing Attractions

“An “Amazement” Deck based around “Amazement Administrator Arlekino.” Many “Attraction” Trap Cards have effects to be treated as Equip Cards. The charm of these cards is that the effects change depending on whether you or your opponent is the controller of the equipped monster. The effects of the “Amazement” monsters allow you to equip them directly, so surprise your opponents with all sorts of tricks!”
You can earn medals by playing Duels and you can obtain the following rewards according to the number of medals you have:
50 to 11000 medal threshold: a total of 1900 gems
12000 to 21000 medal threhshold: a total of 20 Legacy Pack tickets
Additionally, at the following thresholds, you can get these rewards:
5500 medals: Loop of Destruction Field Parts

“Field Parts that depict destruction reincarnated. This time it seems to be the destination of the destroyed, not the destroyer.”
22000 medals: Anti-Spell Festival 2022

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Exact burial spot of St. Nicholas, inspiration for Santa Claus, discovered in Turkish church – Livescience.com

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Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered the exact place where St. Nicholas, the saint behind Santa Claus, was buried in a fourth century church.Archaeologists in southern Turkey have just uncovered the original burial place of Father Christmas himself, formally known as St. Nicholas, but whose modern nicknames of Santa Claus, Saint Nick and Kris Kringle are known by children the world over.
While researchers already knew that the saint’s body was buried in the fourth century A.D. church in Turkey’s Antalya province, the holy man’s remains were stolen around 700 years after he died, so the specific spot where he was originally interred was a mystery.
Now, clues gathered during a new excavation of this church, including the eccesiastical building’s similarity to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the placement of a fresco depicting Jesus, hint at exactly where St. Nick’s body was likely laid to rest.
Related: Possible Crusader ring depicting St. Nicholas unearthed in Israel
Located on Turkey’s southern coast, the modern town of Demre boasts the Church of St. Nicholas, built in A.D. 520 on top of an older church where the Christian saint served as bishop in the fourth century A.D. Then known as Myra, the small town was a popular Christian pilgrimage spot following St. Nicholas’ death and burial there in A.D. 343.
Very little is known about Nicholas’s life, but legends abound — he is said to have rescued three girls from prostitution, to have chopped down a demon-possessed tree, to have resurrected three murdered children who were pickled in brine, and to have gotten into a fist-fight during the First Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, according to Britannica (opens in new tab). And, of course, Nicholas was said to have frequently given away his inherited wealth anonymously to the poor, eventually leading to the legend of St. Nick as Santa Claus.
Unfortunately, in A.D. 1087, “some wise and illustrious men of Bari [Italy]… discussed together how they might take away from the city of Myra… the body of the most blessed confessor of Christ, Nicholas,” according to a contemporaneous manuscript translated (opens in new tab) from Latin by late medievalist Charles W. Jones (opens in new tab). Their plan was to “break open the floor of the church and carry away the holy corpse.” The group succeeded, carting off most of the skeletal remains of St. Nicholas, and leaving just a few bones and a broken sarcophagus in Myra.
In spite of this desecration, the church of St. Nicholas in Demre itself has survived for more than a millennium, with archaeological excavation beginning at the end of the 20th century. Through this work, researchers discovered the foundations of the earliest church, covered by many feet of sand and silt. Last week, Osman Eravşar, chairman of the Antalya Cultural Heritage Preservation Regional Board, announced the discovery of the location of St. Nicholas’s tomb at the base of a fresco of Jesus.
In an interview (opens in new tab) with the Turkish news organization DHA (Demirören Haber Ajansı), Eravşar noted that the current excavations have revealed “the floor on which St. Nicholas’s feet stepped” from the original church. “This is an extremely important discovery, the first find from that period,” DHA’s English coverage (opens in new tab) quoted Eravşar as saying.The original burial place of St. Nicholas has also been found, according to Eravşar. When the Bari contingent removed the saint’s bones in the 11th century, they also shoved some sarcophagi aside, obscuring their original location. Eravşar told DHA (opens in new tab) that “his sarcophagus must have been placed in a special place, and that is the part with three apses covered with a dome. There we have discovered the fresco depicting the scene where Jesus is holding a Bible in his left hand and making the sign of blessing with his right hand.” A marble floor tile with the Greek words  for “as grace” could mark his exact grave.
Supporting that hypothesis is the shape of the church itself. Just as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has an unfinished dome on top, so does the Church of St. Nicholas at Myra. When it was restored by Emperor Alexander II of Russia in the 1860s, the dome was never completed. This unfinished dome may have been a purposeful attempt to link St. Nicholas with the story of Jesus’s crucifixion and ascension into the sky.
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“It’s not unusual for churches to be built atop one another,” William Caraher (opens in new tab), an archaeologist at the University of North Dakota with a specialty in early Christian architecture, who was not involved in the excavation, told Live Science in an email. “In fact, the presence of an earlier church on a site has been a reason to build a church since Early Christian and Byzantine times.” 
But Caraher thinks that the marble floor tile with Greek letters could be from some other context, reused possibly in antiquity because of the common word “charis” (grace) etched into it.
Caraher noted that St. Nicholas is significant in Orthodox and Catholic traditions, with churches and chapels dedicated to him throughout the Mediterranean. “I think many people — from eager kiddos on Christmas Eve to world weary science reporters and grizzled archaeologists — have at some point in their lives hoped to get a little glimpse of the real St. Nick,” Caraher said.
Kristina Killgrove is an archaeologist with specialties in ancient human skeletons and science communication. Her academic research has appeared in numerous scientific journals, while her news stories and essays have been published in venues such as Forbes, Mental Floss and Smithsonian. Kristina earned a doctorate in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical archaeology.

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Choir Boy
By Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Mike Payette. Until Nov. 19 at the Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E. canadianstage.com or 416-368-3110
When this show sings, it soars.
“Choir Boy” is set in an elite African-American prep school and intersperses acted scenes with soaring performances of gospel hymns and pop songs. The expert work of co-musical directors Floydd Ricketts and Dawn Pemberton, movement director Natasha Powell and a stellar quintet of young actors playing the schoolboys makes these frequent musical interludes the production’s highlights.
Director Mike Payette further leans into the power of music by adding sung and hummed underscoring to scenes and transitions.
Those scenes themselves, and the show’s plotting, are not always as strong. The play explores queer Black identity under pressure, a prevalent theme in playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s work, which includes the film “Moonlight” (for which he co-won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay) and the “Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy.
Premiered in London, U.K., in 2012, “Choir Boy” was nominated for four Tony Awards for its 2019 Broadway run (and won one) and has since been extensively produced across the U.S. and elsewhere. (Payette directed its Canadian premiere at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre in 2018.)
As in his other work, McCraney’s use of language is beautiful and the presentation of contrasting modes of Black masculinity offers welcome representation at a major Toronto theatre (this is a co-production between Canadian Stage and Vancouver’s Arts Club). But the grand scale of the Bluma Appel Theatre does not best serve the play: it’s hard to create intimacy in a space that large and the lengthy scene changes (however enlivened by the music) put even more air in a story that lacks dramatic momentum.
Pharus (Andrew Broderick) is brilliant, gay, and held back by the social pressures and rules of Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys. The play opens with him singing the school song at commencement, a gorgeous rendition by former “Canadian Idol” competitor Broderick that cuts off suddenly and unexpectedly.
It turns out that fellow student Bobby (the riveting Kwaku Okyere) whispered a double-barrelled slur at Pharus, exposing an animus between the two students that the play goes on to explore. Pharus tells Headmaster Marrow (Daren A. Herbert) what happened but won’t reveal the identity of the whisperer, opening up key themes of honour, principle and responsibility.
The production plays into the comedic potential in many exchanges, which adds to the entertainment value but makes it challenging for some relationships to develop credibly: Pharus is so much the witty match for Marrow that it’s hard to understand how authority functions in the school.
McCraney might be attempting a broader comment by making the fissures within this school a microcosm for the pressures on Black communities more broadly but, if so, that aspect of the script could use more development. So too could the character of a senior white teacher, Mr. Pendleton, who comes back from retirement to lead a creative thinking course and improbably becomes supervisor of the choir. While Scott Bellis plays him ably, Pendleton functions mostly as a plot device.
That said, the conversations in his class offer some of the play’s richest material, which the young actors dig into beautifully. What if, as Pharus proposes, spirituals did not in fact contain encoded messages for slaves (or what the character, in a display of McCraney’s linguistic flair, calls “slave escape 007 plans”), but are still of value because they offer joy?
Broderick’s Pharus offers the argument with dazzling conviction, Okyere’s Bobby balks in ways that further illuminate his character and their classmate David (David Andrew Reid), an aspiring pastor, offers more patient counter-argument.
Savion Roach as Pharus’s straight ally roommate AJ shines in two-hander scenes with Broderick, and Clarence “CJ” Jura is lovable and funny as Bobby’s sidekick Junior. A plot twist around betrayal and violence complicates the relationships between the characters and contributes to an ending that’s unresolved in resonant ways.
McCraney did not make it easy for a production team in writing scenes that cut quickly between classrooms, hallways, offices and — most notably — a communal shower room.
Designer Rachel Forbes’ intelligent set frames a central playing area with two two-storey units with balconies that allow for scenes to take place on multiple levels and, memorably, areas for the actors to stand back from the action and accompany it vocally. However elegantly Payette has staged the frequent set shifts, they slow down the action and add to a long one-act evening.
But the songs, the songs. “Keep your Eyes on the Prize,” “Rockin’ Jerusalem,” “Motherless Child” and many more: the cast sings them gorgeously and the stagings are electrifying. Even as high school LGBTQ-focused stories grow more prevalent in popular culture (as in “Sex Education,” “Heartstopper” and “Young Royals” on Netflix alone), the musicalization of this story as well as its focus on Black queer youth is what sets it apart.

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Tenants Booted From Startwork Studios As Landlord M. Fishman Closes Low-Cost Artist Hub In Logan Square – Block Club Chicago

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Startwork Studios tenants were recently given 30 days to vacate the premises. "It's kicking out the little people who made the neighborhood what it is," one said.
LOGAN SQUARE — A Logan Square art studio that for several years provided small yet affordable spaces to local artists and creatives trying to grow their businesses is shutting down.
Building owner Mark Fishman, the most well-known property investor in Logan Square, recently gave Startwork Studios‘ remaining tenants 30 days to vacate the premises, effectively shutting down the low-cost artist hub at 3323 W. Diversey Ave.
The shutdown has left some artists and makers scrambling to find work space heading into the busy holiday season. Others moved out months ago after property management failed to properly address building issues, they said.
Current and former tenants said Fishman’s company, M. Fishman Co., didn’t give renters enough time to move out and find new spaces. Startwork was one of the few remaining affordable artist studios in the area, offering rents of $300-$700 per month.
It was not immediately clear why the studios are closing. Fishman and his property manager didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.
“It’s sad that there are not a lot of places for artists that are affordable,” said Nors Beatriz, who’s being forced to move out of Startwork at the end of November after six years. Beatriz makes jewelry and sells crystals under the moniker Mojo Owl.
“In the middle of Logan Square that was a nice space, and it could’ve been really great if they had kept the space up, but artists are just being pushed and pushed more and more,” Beatriz said.
Fishman owns dozens of buildings in gentrifying Logan Square and has faced widespread criticism over the years for hiking up the rent and forcing out renters and business owners.
But Startwork, which opened sometime after Fishman bought the corner building in 2010, was unlike his other real estate projects in that it was geared toward budding artists who otherwise couldn’t afford work space.
Along with Mojo Owl, the studio was home to an array of burgeoning makers, including paper goods brand Hello Paper, vintage clothing dealer Prèmos Chicago and interior design firm Sarah Montgomery Design.
The lofted spaces were small, with some tenants renting just 175 square feet of Diversey Avenue window frontage. Utilities were included in the rent prices.
Beatriz, who’s also a reflexology healer, rents two spaces for a total of $300 per month, using them as a workshop during the week. Her studio, filled with crystals and handmade jewelry, is open to shoppers on the weekends.
Earlier this month, Beatriz received a call from M. Fishman’s property manager, who said she had to be out within 30 days, Beatriz said. Beatriz’s lease isn’t up until March.
The property manager also said Beatriz owes M. Fishman $1,300, but Beatriz said she’s paid her rent in full, and she doesn’t know where that figure came from.
“I was like, ‘You’re not even giving me much notice. You’re not giving me 90 days notice,'” she said. “It’s basically the start of the holiday season and I’m booking shows. I was really looking forward to selling out of this space during the holidays. She was like, ‘Sorry, we got to close this space.'”
Franchester Williams, who runs a photography studio and media company specializing in headshots and family photo shoots, also recently received 30 days’ notice to leave after two years in the Logan Square building, she said.
Williams said it was difficult to leave her $300-per-month studio, which was affordable and served as a positive refuge in her life as she navigated personal hardships.
Williams packed up her photography equipment and moved out Halloween weekend, just a couple days after receiving word from M. Fishman’s property manager the studio was closing as she was gearing up for a busy holiday season of photo shoots.
“I’m really going to miss my space. It’s real inconvenient,” Williams said.
Williams is doing photo shoots on-location until she can find another comparably priced work space, she said.
“It’s already hard as a small business owner, but then to get uprooted, it sucks,” Williams said. “If the building got bought out, that’s fine, life happens. It would’ve been great if they gave us more time. I rushed my stuff out of there that weekend but other people weren’t that fortunate, and I do feel bad for them.”
Building ownership hasn’t changed since 2010, when Fishman’s company bought the property, according to Cook County property records.
Startwork is one small part of the massive building, which sits at the corner of Milwaukee, Kimball and Diversey avenues and is occupied by shops and businesses such as vintage furniture store Dial M For Modern, Boulevard Bikes and hair salon Good Beauty.
Exactly how many artists rented out of Startwork is unclear, but current and former tenants said the studio’s occupancy fell short of expectations over the years and some spaces sat empty for more than a year.
Some tenants said they left months ago due to issues in the building that went unaddressed by management.
Over the past two years, the building flooded twice and part of the ceiling collapsed, damaging renters’ furniture and personal belongings, current and former tenants said.
Beatriz said she spent a couple hundreds dollars fixing up her space after her desk and vintage cowhide rug were destroyed by falling debris. Fishman rejected requests for reimbursement, she said.
Sarah Montgomery, of the interior design firm Sarah Montgomery Design, said two of her rugs were ruined in one of the floods and the landlord refused to pay for the damage. Montgomery moved out shortly afterward.
“I was ready to move on and move up, so it all worked out. But when the ceiling collapsed, I felt like, ‘I gotta get out of here,'” Montgomery said.
“For Rent” signs have gone up at Startwork in recent months, an indication new businesses could replace the artist studio. Fishman and M. Fishman officials didn’t respond to questions about what’s next for the Diversey Avenue building.
For current and former tenants, the closure is yet another symbol of gentrification in Logan Square, a force that has made it harder for artists and creatives to thrive in the neighborhood.
“It’s kicking out the little people who made the neighborhood what it was,” Williams said.
Resigned to her fate, Beatriz is hosting weekend sales through the end of the month to clear out inventory and make the move easier. She said a couple people have offered her temporary work space since she posted about the eviction on social media.
“I’m hopeful. You just kinda have to pivot. I guess this is a pivot,” Beatriz said. “Maybe it’s a blessing to finally get away from Fishman. I didn’t think they were as terrible as people said, but when push comes to shove, they really don’t give you much notice.”
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Is EQ Resources (ASX:EQR) A Risky Investment? – Simply Wall St

The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says 'The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.' When we think about how risky a company is, we always like to look at its use of debt, since debt overload can lead to ruin. Importantly, EQ Resources Limited (ASX:EQR) does carry debt. But the real question is whether this debt is making the company risky.
Generally speaking, debt only becomes a real problem when a company can't easily pay it off, either by raising capital or with its own cash flow. If things get really bad, the lenders can take control of the business. However, a more frequent (but still costly) occurrence is where a company must issue shares at bargain-basement prices, permanently diluting shareholders, just to shore up its balance sheet. By replacing dilution, though, debt can be an extremely good tool for businesses that need capital to invest in growth at high rates of return. The first thing to do when considering how much debt a business uses is to look at its cash and debt together.
Our analysis indicates that EQR is potentially overvalued!
As you can see below, at the end of June 2022, EQ Resources had AU$4.53m of debt, up from none a year ago. Click the image for more detail. However, because it has a cash reserve of AU$1.72m, its net debt is less, at about AU$2.80m.
According to the last reported balance sheet, EQ Resources had liabilities of AU$9.65m due within 12 months, and liabilities of AU$7.31m due beyond 12 months. Offsetting these obligations, it had cash of AU$1.72m as well as receivables valued at AU$2.32m due within 12 months. So it has liabilities totalling AU$12.9m more than its cash and near-term receivables, combined.
Given EQ Resources has a market capitalization of AU$65.4m, it's hard to believe these liabilities pose much threat. Having said that, it's clear that we should continue to monitor its balance sheet, lest it change for the worse. The balance sheet is clearly the area to focus on when you are analysing debt. But it is EQ Resources's earnings that will influence how the balance sheet holds up in the future. So if you're keen to discover more about its earnings, it might be worth checking out this graph of its long term earnings trend.
Over 12 months, EQ Resources made a loss at the EBIT level, and saw its revenue drop to AU$4.1m, which is a fall of 10%. We would much prefer see growth.
Not only did EQ Resources's revenue slip over the last twelve months, but it also produced negative earnings before interest and tax (EBIT). To be specific the EBIT loss came in at AU$5.0m. When we look at that and recall the liabilities on its balance sheet, relative to cash, it seems unwise to us for the company to have any debt. So we think its balance sheet is a little strained, though not beyond repair. Another cause for caution is that is bled AU$9.6m in negative free cash flow over the last twelve months. So in short it's a really risky stock. The balance sheet is clearly the area to focus on when you are analysing debt. However, not all investment risk resides within the balance sheet – far from it. These risks can be hard to spot. Every company has them, and we've spotted 3 warning signs for EQ Resources (of which 1 can't be ignored!) you should know about.
If, after all that, you're more interested in a fast growing company with a rock-solid balance sheet, then check out our list of net cash growth stocks without delay.
Find out whether EQ Resources is potentially over or undervalued by checking out our comprehensive analysis, which includes fair value estimates, risks and warnings, dividends, insider transactions and financial health.
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Slightly overvalued with worrying balance sheet.
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John Aniston on Working With Daughter Jennifer Aniston and His Favorite Days of our Lives Memories – Yahoo Life

Legendary actor John Aniston passed away at the age of 89 on Friday, November 11, 2022. In honor of him, we’re resharing this 2015 interview from the set of Days of our Lives in which he opened up about his life in front of and behind the camera.
At 82 years young, John Aniston has an extra skip in his step. Thanks to powerful story lines and snappy writing, Days of Our Lives’ Victor Kiriakis has never been more fun to watch, whether he’s hurling insults at Theresa or coming to the aid of Caroline. Now, the acting vet (who has starred in 40 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and other theater productions) is celebrating 30 years as the powerful Kiriakis patriarch on the NBC daytime drama—not including the handful of appearances he made as Eric Richards on the show in the early ’70s.
In person, the Greek-born actor (and Penn State graduate) has Victor’s commanding presence and whip-smart quips, but he is also a master storyteller who has a soft-spot for all the actors on the show. Over the course of an hour, we sat down with Aniston in his dressing room to talk about his famous mustache, location shoots gone awry, and whether daughter Jennifer will ever make a cameo in Salem.
Glamour: Who was your first scene with on Days of Our Lives?
John Aniston: Everybody. It was a big fundraising affair at the country club, and they had an auction. There was a photograph, and they started bidding on it. From the back of the room, you hear a voice, and it’s Victor saying, “One million dollars.” That was my entrance.
Who do you remember working with most in the beginning?
You’re really pressing me. [Laughs] I think Peggy McCay because one of the first stories we did was when I found out Bo was my son. I had a lot of scenes with her and Peter Reckell. Peter and I got along famously, and Peggy and I had been on Love of Life together in New York. She was the original leading lady on that show, so we had a lot to talk about.
What has been your favorite story line of Victor’s?
It depends on what’s going on in the scenes. I’ve had a lot of stuff in recent years because they made him sort of a bitch and he has these snappy lines, which are a lot of fun to do.
What do you remember about going to Greece for Justin and Adrienne’s wedding?
It was too short! Drake Hogestyn and Genie Francis came too. Wally Kurth was there, and Judi Evans. The exteriors of the church were shot in Greece, but the interiors were shot at Saint Sophia’s in Los Angeles.
It was my wife’s first trip to Greece, I think. The first day we were there we had the day off, so we went to Delphi and stopped in this little village. My wife drank some water from this water fountain that featured a lion spitting water. Big mistake. She got horribly sick. And then the next day, they were supposed to send me a limo to take me to another place, and we were supposed to have first class accommodations, but the limousine turned out to be an Oldsmobile station wagon. At the last minute, the PR lady from NBC wanted to come with us, so we had to put her in the car and all of our luggage in the same car too. I was sitting with my knees up to here, and they had to basically pry me out of the car. Then we get there, and there was a dental convention, so there were no first class rooms.
This is better than a soap opera.
They figured, “How do we get first class rooms?” So they chartered yachts for the crew, the actors, etc. We were on a 70-feet schooner, which is a luxurious boat under most circumstances if you’re on vacation in Greece with a bathing suit and a deck. But there were three showers on board, and one of them was on the deck, and there was no hot water. They said the water was “refreshing.” We did a shot of me arriving on my yacht at three in the afternoon, so at least we got that [for the show]. Then we go to the boat, and the stateroom is very small. So we unpack, go up on deck to have a drink, but there’s no ice. They brought us some crushed ice, but half-way through dinner I get deathly ill, obviously, from the ice. Sherry didn’t get sick, probably because she didn’t have anything in her body from the night before when she was sick. Then we get back from dinner, and the bus is there with everybody else.
Someone went into town and found accommodations in a class B hotel, which was quite nice. Sherry’s packing, and I’m just totally out of it. So she goes down to finish packing, and they take me up to the hotel, put me up into bed, and my poor wife has two suitcases, in a city she’s never been to, and has no idea where we are. It took her an hour before she finally ran into somebody and they could tell her where to go. So then when we finished the rest of the shoot, and that went pretty well, but then we had to leave immediately. It was not a wonderful trip, but it was still a good trip. I enjoyed it.
Have you always had the mustache?
Yes. Actually, when the part of Doug Williams came up, I auditioned for the part, and they asked if I would shave my mustache, but I was hesitant. Finally, we agreed I would shave my mustache. And then they didn’t give me the part. I was pissed! [Laughs] Then about two weeks later they called me and said they had another part they would like me to do and said, “Can you please grow back the mustache?” It wasn’t for Victor, but some other guy [named Eric Richards]. They had me come in to this story with Bill Horton. I was the prison doctor that treated Bill Horton very badly. I came from Hell’s Kitchen in New York and clawed my way through medical school, while he came from a family that handed everything to him on a silver platter, so I tried him like shit. The audience hated me. One woman attacked me in a supermarket one day. She said, “What are you doing?! Bill Horton is a wonderful man! He has never hurt anybody in his life!” Funny. It was at the Ralph’s supermarket in Sherman Oaks.
When the role of Victor did come along, you had the mustache, right?
Right. I’ve never shaved it since then.
How are you most like Victor and how are you least like Victor?
I look like him! But he has a lot more money than I do! And a much different lifestyle.
Are you a savvy businessman like him though?
Yes, I’m savvy. I’m just not rich like he is.
I would say you’re living comfortably though.
Yeah, very comfortably. The first question I ask anybody that wants to manage my money for me is, “Are you rich?” Because if you’re not, why the hell should I listen to you?! You should have a lot of money! The business managers that are good don’t want to talk to you unless you have a couple of million dollars.
What story line made you most anxious?
I dreaded a couple of them when we were doing a voyage to…we had a 200,000 gallon tank on stage four here. I just know we spent a lot of time in the water. I can’t for the life of me remember the story line. [Ed. note: It was the Cruise of Deception in 1990].
Who has been your favorite leading lady to work with?
I’ve been so lucky on this show with the leading ladies I’ve had. Every one of them have been fantastic. The ones that I have now…Suzanne, Lauren Koslow, Louise Sorel, Arianne Zucker, Deborah Adair, Judith Chapman. They are all phenomenal actresses—really exceptional.
Have you ever taken anything of Victor’s for your own house?
I have a couple of suits. [Laughs] The last suit I bought was from my first wedding, and that was such a disaster I haven’t bought one since.
A lot of now famous actors auditioned for Days of Our Lives when they first started out. Julia Roberts comes to mind. Would you ever ask your daughter, Jennifer, to come on the show even for an episode so dad and daughter could work together?
We sort of worked together on Search for Tomorrow. She was an extra. [Laughs] She was 13 or 14 years old. I had her down at the studio one day and Jane Krakowski was on the show and Jennifer was in the green room and met Jane and they were talking.
But have you asked her to come to Days?
No. But, yeah, [it would be cute]. There’s elusion to Victor’s staff…
So she could play a Kiriakis staff member.
Yeah, she could, but all we have is the butler. And you never see the butler.
I think NBC would make an exception in this case.
You think so?
Yeah, I do. [Laughs] The ratings would go through the roof.
OK. [Laughs]
Jessica Radloff is the Glamour senior West Coast editor and author of the New York Times best-selling book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series. You can follow her on Instagram here.
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Hideo Kojima Reveals He Is Interested in Creating Films and Music – GameRant

Famous game designer Hideo Kojima reiterates his oft-repeated desire to create movies, in addition to revealing music production ambitions and more.
Hideo Kojima wants to expand his entertainment portfolio beyond gaming, the famous video game designer said Saturday. While giving an acceptance speech at this year's edition of the Anan Awards in Japan where he won an accolade for culture, the 59-year-old reiterated his oft-repeated desire to go into the movie business, in addition to confirming he's equally interested in producing music. The ex-Konami designer also suggested that neither ambition should interfere with his continued involvement in Kojima Productions.
Kojima's love for the seventh art is a well-documented fact, not least because his seminal work on the Metal Gear Solid series was largely inspired by movies. His adoration of film was also the driving force behind many creative decisions made during the development of Death Stranding, whose main cast mostly consisted of well-known movie and TV industry veterans such as Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, and Lea Seydoux. Over the years, Kojima cultivated friendships with a number of high-profile Hollywood directors such as Guillermo Del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn, the latter of whom even gave him a cameo in his trippy 2019 Amazon TV series Too Old To Die Young.
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Kojima appeared in good spirits at this weekend's Anan Awards 2022, which took place in the An An magazine's home city of Tokyo. He took to the stage by jokingly asking whether he's allowed to be "among such gorgeous young people" before accepting a culture award in the shape of a golden panda designed after the magazine's eponymous mascot and reiterating his ambition to expand into "fields like video and music."
While Kojima received dozens of accolades over the course of his long career, yesterday's honor was unusual in the sense that it came from a popular women's weekly magazine and not an organization focused on gaming or general entertainment. As such, this award is yet another testament to his success that has long been seeping into the mainstream. His acceptance speech also dovetailed with the fact that Kojima Productions opened a TV and music studio in Los Angeles late last year.
According to previous insider reports and Kojima Productions' own communication, the company currently has at least two games in active development. One of them is a Death Stranding sequel that's believed to be a timed PS5 exclusive, same as its predecessor. The other is a cloud-based horror game called Overdose, which is rumored to be exclusive to the Xbox Cloud Gaming platform.
Kojima's company announced its partnership with Xbox Game Studios in mid-2022, vowing to deliver a game based on a never-before-seen concept that will also leverage Microsoft's latest and greatest cloud technologies. A few weeks ago, Kojima himself doubled down on that promise, stating that the upcoming project will transcend traditional media to the point that it could mean big things for both movies and games.
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Why KPOP's Playbill Is Unlike Any Other Playbill – Playbill

In a first for Broadway, the show’s program is partially in Korean.
The November Playbill for Broadway’s KPOP is special. Though the opening night Playbills feature three different covers honoring the show’s various characters, it’s what lies between the covers that may surprise audiences. In a rare occurrence, this Playbill is bilingual. 
KPOP began previews October 13 at Circle in the Square Theatre (where it will open November 20), bringing the music and world of K-pop and Korean culture to Broadway. To reflect the musical and its international cast, the title pages are presented in both English and Korean.

Helen Park, who co-wrote music and lyrics for the show, shared with Playbill, “Our show KPOP is bilingual, just like how so many K-pop songs are both in Korean and English. Music, particularly pop music, transcends language, I believe, and has the power to bring people from different languages and cultures together. And that is the essence of our show.”
Continues Park: “As someone who grew up in both Korea and America, I’ve always had this pressure to conform to one language and culture or the other. There were less opportunities for both very different cultures to coexist in perfect harmony, and I think K-pop music and culture has created this magic where you feel that it’s okay to be bilingual. It’s okay to express your emotion through music, whether it be with English or Korean lyrics, or both. I found this quality of K-pop music to be so warm and welcoming. My hope is that whoever comes to see our show, whether it be Korean and American, or anyone from any culture, can feel included, seen and welcomed for who they are, and feel the array of emotions and story that music communicates to all of us.
“To honor all of this, it felt right to include both English and Korean title pages in our Playbill.”

Conceived by Jason Kim and the Woodshed Collective, KPOP features a book by Kim with music and lyrics by Park and Max Vernon, as well as music production and arrangements by Park. It made its world premiere at Off-Broadway’s Ars Nova in 2017, winning three Lucille Lortel Awards including Outstanding Musical.
KPOP follows superstars, one solo artist and two music groups, who risk everything for a one-night-only concert as they face personal struggles that threaten their careers. 
And as a special treat for fans, the show has three covers for the musical’s November Playbill. Solo artist MwE, played by K-pop singer Luna, stars on one cover in a cloud of red fabric. Before Luna was an idol for the K-pop group f(x), she performed in musicals in Korea including Legally Blonde. She now makes her Broadway debut as a fictional K-pop singer battling with industry executives.
READ: From K-Pop to KPOP: Luna’s Worlds Collide in Her Broadway Debut

KPOP features a fictional K-pop girl group RTMIS. Originating the roles on Broadway are Min, Kate Mina Lin, BoHyung, Julia Abueva, and Amy Keum. Abueva reprises her role from the Off-Broadway Ars Nova production of KPOP for her Broadway debut. Min, Lin, BoHyung, and Keum are also all making their Broadway debuts.
Like Luna, Min and BoHyung arrive on the Broadway stage from the K-pop world; Min is a former member of girl group Miss A while BoHyung previously performed as a part of SPICA. Along with another former SPICA member, BoHyung is now one half of the K-pop duo KEEMBO.

Rounding out the trio of covers is one of the show’s fictional boy band F8. John Yi, Kevin Woo, Eddy Lee, Joshua Lee, Abraham Lim, James Kho, Jiho Kang, and Zachary Noah Piser play the roles.
Eddy Lee and Piser have both previously graced the Broadway stage. Lee served as a replacement in Hamilton as part of the ensemble and a swing, for the roles of Samuel Seabury and George Eacker, and as an understudy for Alexander Hamilton. Piser made his Broadway debut as a replacement for the role of Boq in Wicked before joining the cast of Dear Evan Hansen where he served as a replacement understudy for the roles of Evan Hansen, Jared Kleinman, and Connor Murphy. He later served as an alternate for Evan before a history-making run as the first Asian-American to play the role full-time on the Broadway stage.
Two actors who are also returning to KPOP after previously starring in the Ars Nova production are Yi and Kang.  Both are making their Broadway debuts alongside Joshua Lee and Kho, as well as screen actor Lim (Clickbait, The Boys) and Woo, who is a former member of K-pop group U-KISS.
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Six PGA of America Members Earn PGA Master Professional Designation – PGA.com

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Arturia's instruments and effects are 50 percent off until December 6th – Yahoo Finance Australia

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Now might be a good moment to splurge on music-making tools. Arturia is running a Black Friday sale that offers 50 percent off its “flagship” virtual instruments, effects and software. The 33-instrument V Collection 9 set has dropped from $599 to $299 for newcomers, while FX Collection 3’s 26 effects plugins are $199 instead of the usual $399. And if you’re looking for an accessible synthesizer, Pigments is down from $199 to $99. The promo runs until December 6th, and you’ll get personalized offers if you already use the company’s products.
We’ve considered these tools to be valuable even at their regular prices. V Collection 9 offers a range of pianos, classic synths and other instruments that offer substantial flexibility, including new items like a Korg MS-20 emulator and the cinematic Augmented Strings. FX Collection 3 brings vintage distortions and lo-fi effects. Pigments, meanwhile, encourages you to create synth sounds from scratch with the help of extras like a distortion module.
You can use the V Collection and Pigments tools by themselves, but all of the software on sale can work with other digital audio workstations through support for formats like AAX, Audio Unit, NKS and VST. With these discounts, Arturia’s audio packages could make more sense if you’re either new to music production or determined to expand your toolset for the lowest price possible.
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Mr. Master Rebrands Radio Industry Compliance Software – Radio & Television Business Report

Mr. Master, known for compliance and content distribution software used by radio stations, has changed the name of its Automation Import Manager software (AIM) to AIM Premium and its MediaShooterPro software to AIM Basic.
“The name change reflects the prominence, success, and growth of the AIM brand within the radio industry,” the Los Angeles-based company says.
Effective immediately, Mr. Master’s software options are now combined into a single product suite with two different tiers under the flagship AIM name. AIM Premium helps radio stations increase their revenue, productivity and transparency by both delivering and automatically processing network spots, makegoods, and shows into automation systems.
AIM Premium also helps stations reach 100% ad compliance, provides affidavits within 24 hours, and offers real-time analytics. “While AIM Premium focuses on both processing and delivering ads and show content, AIM Basic focuses exclusively on the delivery of ads
and show content,” Mr. Master says.
Stu Jacobs, CEO of Mr. Master, says, “When we launched AIM back in 2013, we knew we were ‘revolutionalizing’ compliance in the radio advertising industry. Now, nearly a decade later, this rebranding reflects AIM’s place in the industry as the gold standard for processing and delivering station content. If a station needs help delivering its on-air and advertising content, Mr. Master offers AIM Basic. If a station needs both the delivery, processing, and proof-of-performance of its ads and on-air programming content, Mr. Master offers AIM Premium.”
As part of this rebranding, Mr. Master has launched a new website at www.mrmaster.com.
The rebranding announcement comes as Mr. Master announces renewal contracts with Alpha Media, Townsquare Media, NRG Media and SummitMedia.




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Amex's newest Centurion Studio lounge opens in Columbus, Ohio – The Points Guy

Travelers flying out of Ohio’s capital city will have a new place to refuel and relax in the airport. Today American Express and its Centurion Studio partner Escape Lounges is opening the doors on a new lounge inside Columbus John Glenn International Airport (CMH), providing an airport respite for select cardmembers.
Located at Columbus’ B concourse near Gate 32, this lounge is just the latest expansion of Amex’s partnership with Escape Lounges, as part of its growing list of Centurion Studio locations that have sprung up in recent years at mostly mid-sized airports. Just a few weeks ago, TPG got a first look at another recently-opened Escape Lounges Centurion Studio location at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL).
As Amex continues to scale up its Centurion Studio portfolio, this addition to its network in Columbus figures to be good news for Ohio travelers waiting to catch a flight.
At 2,800 square feet, this lounge is certainly smaller than what travelers will find when visiting some full-scale Centurion Lounges; the future largest-in-the-world location at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) will be a whopping 26,000 square feet upon its expected opening in 2023.
Still, this Escape Lounge location in Columbus is a great place for guests to escape the chaos of the concourse and enjoy some great amenities anchored in Ohio’s food and beverage scene.
“From a curated menu to excellent customer service, this lounge will help travelers unwind and recharge as they await their flight,” Escape Lounges U.S. president Kevin Shier said.
Inside the lounge, there are plenty of tables for members to sit and have a meal, along with high-top bar seating that’s a prime spot for some planespotting.
You can also relax in one of the club’s dark leather chairs with an easy view out the window.
On top of plenty of power outlets, high-speed Wi-Fi and a digital library for guests, the Escape Lounge in Columbus will have activity packs for children available.
However, there's a good chance that what you'll come away from this lounge remembering most is the food and beverage, as is often the case with Centurion Studio locations. On top of premium wine, beer and spirits, this Escape Lounge will feature coffee from Columbus area coffee shop and retailer One Line Coffee.
Meanwhile, visitors will get to enjoy some dishes the lounge is featuring in collaboration with well-known Columbus area chef and restaurant owner Avishar Barua — recognized by many from past appearances on the television series Top Chef. Barua owns local restaurants Joya’s and Agni.
Columbus serves nearly 50 destinations with nonstop service. While mostly serving domestic destinations including key airline hubs, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines fly nonstop from Columbus to Cancun and Air Canada has flights to Toronto.
The B concourse where this Escape Lounge is situated is served by Air Canada, American, Spirit and United.
Certain cardmembers have complimentary access to this lounge, including those with The Platinum Card® from American Express and The Business Platinum Card® from American Express.
Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card and Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card members also receive complimentary access to the Centurion Lounge when flying with Delta.
Amex Platinum card members can currently bring in two free guests, though the guest policy is changing in 2023.
On top of complimentary access for Centurion members, one thing that makes the Escape Lounges different from Centurion Lounges is that even non-member travelers can purchase a day pass, which goes for $40 if booked in advance or $45 at the door.
This Escape Lounge in Columbus will be open each day from 5:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
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Lions finally master this big step in rebuilding process – Detroit Free Press

Lions finally master this big step in rebuilding process  Detroit Free Press
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Meet the local DJ who keeps Death Valley rocking for Clemson football games – The State

Meet the local DJ who keeps Death Valley rocking for Clemson football games  The State
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