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Fox has been growing very steadily and is on plan for 2009, said Director of Sales Kurt Schleicher and Director of Marketing Jim Anfuso.
"It was a tough Spring/Summer for everyone, but since Fall 2009 has delivered, business has been much better, reorders are good, and we're very optimistic about the fourth quarter," said Schleicher.
New for Fox for Spring 2010 is a global swimwear line. Fox will launch 16 swimwear styles that range from $74 to $89 that boasts the Fox DNA with logoing and more of a motocross vibe than a surf vibe. Anfuso said they've also added more technology like the "quad-stretch" fabric technology into their board shorts for men and women.
Last year, Fox did an exclusive swimwear line for PacSun which is their number one account. The line did so well, Fox is taking it globally. Fox has only been in PacSun for five years, and was one of PacSun's top three brands last year.
For Spring 2010, Schleicher said Fox Inc. will continue to focus on their key retail partners.
"Our marketing discussions start with retail so we go the extra mile from athlete tours, in-store promotions, getting in the field with retailers and special online promotions," said Anfuso.
Fox will not change pricing and will concentrate growth within existing accounts like PacSun, Tilly's, Glik's, Zumiez, Scheels in the Dakotas, and West 49 in Canada. They will be planning conservatively, but sticking to strategies that have been working.
"We have a very controlled distribution. We're one of the least major distributed brand in action sports, which has increased demand and improved sell-through for us," said Schleicher. "We do that because we're a private company and we don't have to post numbers for Wall Street so we can grow at our own pace and when it's right."


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The Festival
"Taken both together, the cask festival and awards offered a neat summation of where the brewing scene in B.C. is at… It was a sensational, inspirational showcase of brewing talent and what beer can be."
– Jan Zeschky, Vancouver Province, October 16, 2012
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The BC Beer Awards & Festival
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Vancouver, BC (June 24, 2015): The 6th Annual BC Beer Awards & Festival is set to return to Vancouver on Saturday, October 24, 2014 from 4 - 9pm at the Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial Drive). The signature consumer tasting event of BC Craft Beer Month, this festival celebrates the very best in craft brewing from across the province. A one-day only event, it features both the BC Beer Awards ceremony hosted
by CBC's Stephen Quinn and a craft beer festival with over 50 breweries and new this year - cider. Also returning will be our community booths, craft beer focused vendors and our Brewers Challenge! Last year the BC Beer Awards brought the bitter Purl forward as an experimental cask competition. 2015 has been dubbed by the craft beer community to be the "Year of the Sour Beer" and we have challenged BC's Brewers to create something puckering (or not so puckering).
Early Bird tickets are $30 (plus tax) for the BC Beer Awards & Festival are available August 26, 2015 until September 30, 2015. Regular priced tickets are $35 (plus tax) as of October 1, 2015.
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The BC Beer Awards & Festival (BCBA) has become one of the most anticipated beer tasting festivals in the Lower Mainland. We will be returning to the Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver) again this year as this venue has been the perfect location for our event for the past three years.
Tickets for the BC Beer Awards & Festival will go on sale Wednesday August 26th at the Early Bird price of $30 via BCBeerAwards.com. On October 1, 2015 tickets will be available for $35 (plus taxes).
Last year's BC Beer Awards judging drew over 460 unique entries from over 60 BC breweries and brewpubs, with winners selected in 17 distinct categories. Judges included certified beer judges, cicerones, sommeliers, journalists, as well as noted beer and food lovers. The BC Beer Awards adheres to standards set by the Internationally recognized Beer Judging Certification Program (BJCP).
The mandate of the BC Beer Awards is to reward excellent beers even if not brewed exactly to strict style guidelines. Secondary is ensuring that every beer brewed in BC can be entered regardless of whether it fits in a style or not. Craft Brewers across the province are well-known for their innovation and creativity, something that the BCBA organizers are keen to help celebrate. With 22 new breweries having opened in BC in 2014 and an estimated 20 opening in 2015, we're set to hit 100 craft breweries in BC this year!
The exclusive media sponsor and sponsor of the People's Choice Award is CBC Vancouver. The BC Beer Awards & Festival would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. This year we have Tap & Barrel, Chrislan, and Direct Tap on board. Would you like to be a sponsor? Please contact Rachaal Steele for more information.
For more information on our event please visit BCBeerAwards.com or follow the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Raise a glass and enjoy!
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A beloved tiny, partly blind and flightless owl stolen this week from a New Jersey avian rehab center has been returned.
Officials with The Raptor Trust in Long Hill say Simon, an eastern screech owl, was returned unharmed Friday night.
A good Samaritan had told them that the bird would be returned if no charges were filed. Lauren Butcher, the trust's education director, tells The Daily Record of Parsippany that officials don't believe that person was involved in the abduction, which apparently happened late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Butcher says Simon was a little dehydrated and undergoing fluid therapy Saturday, but was expected to make a full recovery. He will be shielded from the public this weekend so he can calm down.
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Welcome to Designer Cakes by Paige
Sugar coated kisses and candy floss wishes
Designer Cakes by Paige specialises in creating bespoke designer cake creations for a variety of special occasions – including birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and corporate. Newly relocated to Great Western Road in the west end of Glasgow, Designer Cakes by Paige award winning cake designs is the perfect place to arrange your perfect cake.
Designer Cakes by Paige is proud to be associated with Hamleys Toy Shop in St Enoch Shopping Centre, Glasgow.
Whether you are looking for a bespoke wedding cake, 3D cake, birthday cake or corporate cake, we can help you here at Designer Cakes by Paige. Browse our website or use the search bar at the top to view our selection of cake creations. Can't find the cake you'd like? Contact us and discuss with us your dream cake.
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As usual, we have some fine ass Euro girls for you today. We start off in the park with a little stroll and then off to the apartment. One girl has a nice bubble butt and the other has giant knockers that bounce all over the place. These girls dont waste time jumping all over the cock and riding hard. HOTTTT!
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My father escaped Nazi Germany as a young child and returned to Europe in a U.S. army uniform, anxious to reduce Hitler to rubble.14:08 01.08.15 | 0 comments
Jews worldwide, and AIPAC in particular should realize that if they push the US into another irresponsible attrocity as the war in Iraq is and the world will suffer (economically) as a consequence, Jews will be blamed and this time justifiably. I am so fed up with the jewish mentality that the world is there to serve Israel, no matter how big Israel's own mistakes and crimes are, and I am not the only one. As a matter of fact, people are more and more looking at the situation in the ME this way. If the US attacks Iran, Jews will be my enemy from then on.


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De Buizerd, Langedijk
- Free Internet and free parking
Main amenities
- 12 smoke-free guestrooms
- Marina
- 2 restaurants
- 2 meeting rooms
- Daily housekeeping
- Laundry service
- Multilingual staff
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Luggage storage
- Rowing/canoeing
- Bike rental
What's around
- In Noord-Scharwoude
- Stedelijk Museum (7.6 mi / 12.3 km)
- St Laurenskerk (7.7 mi / 12.3 km)
- Waagplein (7.8 mi / 12.5 km)
- Cheese Market (7.8 mi / 12.6 km)
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Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803from £49
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 12 rooms
- Check-in time noon-10 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free wired Internet access in rooms
- Free self parking (limited)
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- Smoke-free property
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- 2 restaurants
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Fishing on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Marina on site
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 1291
- Conference space size (meters) - 120
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- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Individually decorated
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- Private bathroom
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- Hair dryer (on request)
- Cable TV channels
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
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Thomas Inskeep: Synthy pop that's the definition of breezy: light, summery, perfectly accented with a high-hat, and overall lovely.
Maxwell Cavaseno: Sounding like the wispiest Carpenters song that never was, the slightness of the disco-rock groove keeps the song locked in a soft step of sentiment and sealed-shut eyelids as the listener gets to drift along in the least visible shift of one's hips. Lula's voice sounds like polite resignation, not of defeat, but of a desire to accept and press on while the brittle rubbery guitar riff counts the seconds off.
Iain Mew: I pegged this as one of those delightful wisps of song that passes by like a breeze in the current heat, refreshing but fleeting. Then I got the chorus stuck in my head all evening.
Will Adams: Lula's thin voice is supported wonderfully; between the surf bass and morphing electric piano, I feel like I'm on a beach enjoying some pineapple-based cocktail as a warm wind lifts from the sea.
Brad Shoup: There's something Sixpence in Lula's airy delivery and the easy glide of a weird band. The low-end sounds like it stepped in gum, and the midrange sounds like a mouth harp. But they're still in service to an effervescent Lula.
Ramzi Awn: The high notes and hand claps are timed well, and the synths are pristine. It's like The Cardigans went to grad school, and graduated top of their class.
Edward Okulicz: 70s soft rock disco! Carpenters doing Dr Hook or something. Actually, if Carpenters had ever covered "When You're In Love With a Beautiful Woman" it might have been even better than this.
Iain Mew: The vocal sounds like someone muttering to themselves, which is perfect because the whole track is unapproachable and sealed. It's the sound of shutting out the world and not giving a fuck, which I guess is cool but makes it difficult to care about much in return.
Alfred Soto: It sticks to its house groove, and until I looked at the Ukranian singer's picture I mistook this track for a MNEK effort.
Thomas Inskeep: Now, this is how you make a proto-'90s house track: "Teleport" is like the deepest, 4am-iest MK remix of a Masters at Work track in '95. And there's a rap break from a guy — is it Dorn? I don't think so — who sounds like a Russian Turbo B! This doesn't sound remotely contemporary, but I don't care; house this deep gets me off every time.
Maxwell Cavaseno: About the only interesting part was the sliding pitchshift on the vocal snippet, but then it turned into that terrible screwed rap and the deep house keys came back in and we were left with nothing again.
Scott Mildenhall: Gently throbbing, continually pulsing and with enough carefully directed twists and turns on the way through to marry head nodding with brain-lodging. Dorn's nonchalance is equally enchanting, a feather-light presence on a flexible production where every element's the star, and never with too audible an effort. It is, in that sense, a bit like The 2 Bears inverted — an improvement.
Will Adams: The stock-standard deep house is all right enough, but the half-hearted vocals really sink this for me.
Brad Shoup: Daydream deep-house at first. Then he begins the monologue: loud shadows taking big gulps of the word "outside." It's remarkable frivolity, but a lot of garbage piles hide a couple gems.
Katherine St Asaph: A track that comes with its own coating of dingy sweat. Perhaps the score would go up in that sort of environment.
Ramzi Awn: Clicks bug me. Dorn's attempt at 2001 eclectro isn't misplaced, but he should have hired a chick to do the vocals.
Sophia Clara: This is my favorite song of the whole entire summer so far. It is huge and trembling and exuberant and I missed Carly Rae, I missed her so much. The verse builds and builds and you can't help but smile and then the chorus is a winner, rocketing out of nowhere: BABY! TAKE ME! TO THE! FEELING! I don't know what the feeling is but it doesn't matter, the song is a lush spinning whirlwind. I have already been taken to the feeling. This song is absurd and confectionary and I don't care, I don't care. It's like confetti thrown and spinning around in circles until you get dizzy. I'll be your sinner in secret, she sings, but it is the kind of secret that involves absolutely no shame, sinner with a huge grin on her face, probably kissing someone up against a street-lamp. It is made of magic and, possibly, kittens. We are so lucky to have it.
Moses Kim: Like a Crayola whittled down to a fine point, Carly Rae Jepsen paints infatuation first in broad strokes, then in minute details. Desire can be either a saxophone crashing through a china shop or the lingering scent of a boy you're trying to scrub out of your skin, "stuck on my body," yes, but first "stuck in my head, stuck in my heart." (There's a measured gap between all of these phrases, like Jepsen knows only how to breathe between gushes.) A feeling can be a place for somebody to take you, just as a place can evoke a feeling: lips tower over sidewalks, light the winding path back to a time when love was as easy to pick up as the coins glimmering in the gutter. There's the promise of the bridge, one weekend all it takes to turn a world to gold, and I can't help but think of my 11-year-old self, how much he needed to know that the world is bigger than a closed door and the angry voices just behind it. Maybe the highest compliment I can pay "Run Away With Me" is that, for a brief moment, it takes me back to that feeling.
David Sheffieck: Subtly complicated, emotionally overwhelming, gorgeously romantic, and oh let's not forget the massive hooks: this is pop music at its absolute finest.
Katherine St Asaph: The Rule of (My) Internet is that one's Carly Rae Jepsen opinions are identical to one's Carly Rae Jepsen feelings, but I shat out all my Jepsfeelings early this year in one fell gush (these feelings are poop) and now nothing is left. I am trying to be objective, and it is not working. I'm not sure why the euphoric M83 synth here does nothing while the one in "Lost Boys and Girls Club" is still the best thing I've ever heard; it sounds like bagpipes, which are not me, and it sharps at the end, and the result is unlistenable. The "hey!"s evoke the Lumineers, but they're in so many pop songs anymore they may as well be sonic dust. The songwriting is still censoring for the tweens, or maybe I just got it into my memory that the lyric was "stuck in my head, stuck in my bed, stuck in my body" and prefer the post-coital bliss version. The throb is simultaneously blown to every emotional and musical height, yet it feels too restrained, unmoving. There is polish, and perfection even — the curls of lust in how Jepsen sings "run away," the gorgeous vocals on the bridge, the little stop before the chorus — but I note them, and do not feel. The cult adoration of Jepsen has hinged, since every post-"Call Me Maybe" single, on underdog appeal; but this single got the second-most radio adds this week (after 5 Seconds of Summer's brodown "She's Kinda Hot"), so time may disprove that too. Perhaps I am the problem, and some essential part of me got cauterized sometime this year when I didn't notice. But I still swoon and long to other songs, so that can't be it, can it? Whatever it is, I wish it weren't there.
Thomas Inskeep: I know that "Run Away with Me" has six credited writers and a trio of producers, but I'm just gonna assume this is mainly Shellback working with Jepsen, because it sounds like it. It's akin to some of the work he did in collaboration with Max Martin on 1989, but doesn't sound quite so clinical, so market-tested. (I love 1989, mind you.) This has echoes of '85 without sounding even remotely retro or out of time; for reasons I can't quite explain it brings to mind a bit of Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big Chair, but harnessed to throbbing popcraft that out-Moroders what Giorgio Moroder is doing these days. Jepsen's the perfect vessel for this: she understands the limitations of her voice (no melisma nor belting here) and instead goes for the emotion of the song. She may be 29, but musically, still comes off like the ultimate teenage dream. And she's killing it right now.
Isabel Cole: Carly Rae Jepsen doesn't write love songs; she writes about what lives before and lingers after love, what pulses beneath it, the swarming galaxies of desire which do not originate from the longed-for body any more than the rays of the sun emanate from our open eyes. I've never heard a song that more fully understands the element of desire which is really about the self — the way a shining someone can awaken a wish for a new self, polished and prettier, witty and strong, careening through a story big enough to earn a name the particulars of which are irrelevant, hero and sinner rendered equivalent in a schema organized around the marvelously vague dictum, take me to the feeling! Take me to a different life; take me to a world like the movies, the bad ones shining with a gloss of money like sweat, their orchestrated wildness like the immaculate moment where her voice dovetails with that sax line, so perfect it's almost silly, so vivid it's almost real. Unmake my spilled-water dialogue and ugly teeth and replace them with a racing triple beat and the loomingness of yearning made as gorgeous as it is vast. Let me live in the skin you make me feel I can claim, invincible and awake, the transient beauty of sunset colors suspended just for us, turning the world to gold. You make this seem possible: the midnight drive, the seamless rebirth, the version or vision of me brave enough to follow the choreography of passion, limbs imbued with radiant sureness if you would just give me my cue. If you would just say it. Just go. Just run away with me. You make it seem easy, so why are we still here?
Maxwell Cavaseno: That bagpipe synth thing is by far either the most ingeniously or the most distressingly terrible thing I'll hear all year, so right off the bat we're giving Jepsen 3 points for that, ok? In an age of absurdly generic records, nothing here is distracting from the human making the songs. Carly Rae spends so much of the song making her voice sound like a choir of teens, a valkyrie's bellow, and the happiest person in the world, all played by one Cheshire Cat grin-bearer of a weird Canadian.
Megan Harrington: Every time I listen to "Run Away With Me" I'm almost immediately greeted with vertigo brought on by mixing desire with longing. It's crippling, such that I can't listen to the song standing upright and when I try, Jepsen quickly levels me. Have we considered that her intent in making such an instant pop classic might be murderous?
Juana Giaimo: When you're starting a relationship, all you want to do is to be with the one you like alone. Parties may be fun, but everyone else except you two are annoying. Leaving to a city nobody knows who you are is the perfect landscape to get to know each other better. Carly Rae Jepsen understood this so she combined the thirll of starting a relationship with the thirll of a new city: its blinding lights (and what happens when they go out); all its people around you with their own life you don't know about; the emotion of running through streets you'll never see again and of living a moment you'll never live again. It's seeing the other smile only at you for one specific instant what makes you think the craziest ideas could be good ideas, like believing this could last forever, that you could make the world better or simply running away. You and I are may be foreign to the city, but it doesn't matter if it's only you and I.
Luisa Lopez: Who dreamed up that sax line? It never changes and still it grows and grows, taking hold of the entire song until every note is a pressurized rendering of desire, every verse an ode to the horrible beauty of wanting. Horrible because of its longevity, the unchanging crease of an instrument that only has one voice and goes quiet for a verse only to howl again in the chorus; but beautiful for what Carly does with it, the song she builds from the upturned earth of that line. Kiss was an album about a bouquet of sensations but at the center of it was a wicked love letter to a boy who might have loved someone else. Each song muddled through the feeling in a tiptoe way, playing coy or getting ugly only to backtrack quickly and briefly bruising into moments of intense sadness for a yearning that wrecks the body but allows the heart to bloom. In E•MO•TION, there's none of that pretense — everything is big, wounded, full of galactic joy. Opening an album with a song like this is a statement. Carly takes a moment so often embarrassing and unspoken — you make me feel like / I could be driving you all night; I'll find your lips in the streetlight / I want to be there with you — and sends it shooting into the sky. Oh, my baby! Take me to the feeling! The ugliness is unhidden and every note is too big, too much, too endless. She sings, I'll be your sinner in secret / when the lights go out and it's desperate but manageable, a neatly packaged image meant to titillate him in the afternoon but then it cascades instantly into the heartbeat howl of run away with me! run away! with! me! and what a moment that is — a love song baring its face and hideous, frantic, unashamed in the revelation; a love song about wanting something so badly your heart could swing between two points of despair; a love song not about someone but something, the road from your sinner in secret to run away with me, the feeling that lives in that space. The rest of the album could have been shit — it isn't — and it wouldn't have mattered. This song could probably save the world. There she is, a tiny voice raised like a flag in an ocean of desire. The sax line carries her throughout, from the early rush of the first verses to the way her voice breaks on the last word.
Rebecca A. Gowns: Although "Run Away with Me" seems to have reverberations of other pop acts, it's really more pure and clarified; this is not Carly Rae Jepsen ripping off anyone else, but rather, Carly Rae Jepsen making the song that every other pop performer wishes she could have in her repertoire. There are equal measures of sass and sweetness; balladry and rhythm; silly retro components (like that electronic sax!) tempered with a restrained backing track; the whole song rolls out elegantly, with no melodrama. Jepsen doesn't have to push to sell this. In a pop landscape crowded with "hype," this single stands out for its bare confidence. No pretensions, no gimmicks, no wailing belting breakdown — just a damn fine song.
Alfred Soto: The opening fanfare — treated saxophone and rumbles — could be from a Wilco tune, but as soon as the chant-or-die chorus hits it's clear we're in a land that has never forgotten the reign of Charli XCX. "Run Away with Me" conjures love among the skyscrapers better than Taylor Swift's "Welcome to New York."
Anthony Easton: There is little that is hesitant or cutesy here, just a smart, well-constructed argument in favour of Jepsen being a total pop diva. The meta has kind of fallen away, maybe due to a lack of commercial success, and the brassy, almost elegant, studio spit-shined production reigns triumphant.
Brad Shoup: The pre-chorus vocal melody and the synthsax melody are twinned: they share contours, they nudge the feeling into jagged territory. And they spawn ghosts under the hammering, horizontal chorus. Jepsen's gift of gifts is her ability to conspire — there's a directness in every single she's sent out. But there's also undercurrents: of an infatuation that could destroy, of a triumph that could be on the next floor. Basically, she's more present than most anyone in pop.
Will Adams: Carly Rae Jepsen's songs work so much better when I imagine them as internal monologues, everything that one would say if anxiety didn't paralyze them the minute they walked through the door to that party they weren't planning on going to but they just had to, because they knew that one person would be there. What separates it from the rest is that this anxiety is manifested in the music. The saxophone bleats on and on, the promise of driving someone all night, but the shiver bass and cavernous reverb reinforce those knots in your stomach. Every time I listen to "Run Away With Me," I catch my breath, as if that someone is right there in the room, waiting for me to move.
Andy Hutchins: I docked a point because "I could be driving you all night" is clunky. This still seems harsh.
Danilo Bortoli: I'll be forever suspicious of albums that reach the stratosphere too soon, but I suspect E•MO•TION is simply one of those pieces of art that lives up to its name and manages to stop time. And I can't help but think that it makes all the sense in the world that "Run Away With Me" and its huge wall of sound opens the gates for Carly's world. It's inviting, adventurous and, above all, it's "perfect pop" in the truest, vaguest sense of the expression: music that is bigger than the performer and the crowd and the fan, even cathartic. While I don't think that "we can turn the world to gold" is a very radio-friendly phrase — it contains multitudes in it that demand too much from the listener — but it feels better this way. With "Run Away With Me" you get the sense that Jepsen is trying harder, feeling more and more deeply than on Kiss. Ironically, the first thing that springs to mind while listening to "Run Away With Me" is saudade, the kind of untranslatable word which defines Carly Rae's body of work so far; "Run Away With Me" is the pop music equivalent of feeling so much that you just can't put that into words. And the reason I keep coming back to this song is that, despite many of them being untranslatable, they are all we have left.
Edward Okulicz: If you could somehow take the verses of "I Really Like You," the chorus of "Call Me Maybe" and the middle-eight of this, you might have the very ideal of the perfect pop song. You'd at least have a very good one — along the lines of Taylor Swift's stunning "New Romantics" — if not for that jarring, unappetising synth-fart honk that dominates and keeps the song on the ground when Jepsen's voice wills it to fly with all its might.
Nina Lea Oishi: Not too long ago I was looking back on diary entries I'd written when I was 14 and 15 years old. Although those entries are jam-packed with overblown preteen prose, they conjured up feelings I'd totally forgotten. The terror and thrill of the discoveries that come at that age — first kisses, first drinks, first parties, first rebellions, first high school friends. The urge to fit in, the urge to belong. The sense of standing at the edge of an undefined and exciting and terrifying new world of almost-adulthood. The belief, shaped by a fifteen-year-old's smug and stupid confidence, that no one has ever felt this way before, that no one will ever feel this way again. I think that certain mix of terror and excitement is limited to that age range, and once we get older, more cynical, and more set in our ways, we forget it. Carly Rae Jepsen's true genius is that she brings it all back with her sonic diary entries, from the silly flirtations of "Call Me Maybe" to the giddy confessions of "I Really Like You." "Run Away with Me" is, gloriously, in the same vein. The beat, matched to Carly's breathless delivery, thumps with the irrational urgency that fuels first love. The lyrics are ripped straight out of distracted-in-math-class notebook musings, but the simplicity only further infuses the track with authentic enthusiasm. When Carly begs "take me to the feeling," she makes emotions into destinations, finally defining the mysterious place at the end of those late-night teenage joyrides. Sure, now that we're a bit older, we have the distance to laugh at the naïve stupidity of those years long ago. But Carly remembers what we've forgotten — the unabashed joy, the glory, the purity of that thrill. She takes us to the feeling in a way that no other pop star can.
Josh Winters: I could run away with Carly Rae to the ends of the earth solely running off the propulsive energy of that sax cutting through the ether. Literally a beam of light in this dark, cruel world.
Maxwell Cavaseno: In which Lana fully moves away from the shtickery of her pop-art sense of "the tragedy of glamour from days long passed, marred by the harsh glare of modernity" and actually makes a record that could reasonably slip into that era with little difficulty. The outro is a bit weak though.
Scott Mildenhall: A hark back to the good old days before choruses were invented. The repetition of "our honeymoon" instead of one is a real lead weight, because it's not a particularly melodious formation, and returning to it again and again only reinforces that. The leeward drift of "dreaming away your life" is far more alluring, and befitting of a song so impressively elaborate, but there's too much treading water beforehand. Hopefully Cedric Gervais has been listening to the Susanne Sundfør album.
Katherine St Asaph: Romantic melodrama I'm not averse to, but as usual she's mistaken "haunting" for "dead" and "single" for "album track." The old scores may well be failing her; get this woman a copy of Tales of Us and 10 Love Songs. And more cellists.
Thomas Inskeep: Like a 15-second segment of Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks score looped for 6 minutes, with Nancy Sinatra cooing "coquettishly" over top of it. I defended Born to Die and Paradise heartily, but this is one too many trips to the same, bottomed-out well.
Danilo Bortoli: "Honeymoon" brings back the old Lizzy Grant days, the days of boring jazz records and blues songs about nothing really important. At least that was what she made them sound like. This time around, Lana can afford to go back to those records and those feeling of abandon and sadness (even decadence) mainly because, above all, "Honeymoon" is gorgeously constructed as a platform rather than the usual tale of the sad girl stereotype. For the first time ever, she's a performer, not a character. The phrasing is as calculated as always, but the delivery is — and this is a word that has lost all of its meaning — haunting. And I find it curious, if not ironic, how she's gone back to the music that hasn't paid off at all before in order to make this song happen.
Anthony Easton: She has such a fantastic voice, that regardless of how absurd it is, I still completely fall in love with it. This is why the sighs and mumbles on this song are much more interesting than the actual lyrics.
Alfred Soto: Well, syllables are there to be lengthened and dragged out.
Ramzi Awn: As the morally troubled professor from the TV series My So-Called Life would say, there are many truths about Lana Del Rey. One truth is that Selena Gomez's new single comprehensively beats her at her own game, rendering this perfectly gorgeous offering pale in comparison. Another truth is that by now, Del Rey has a lot of good songs under her belt. Yet another truth is that none of them have come close to hitting as hard as "Video Games" did — the only song on which she doesn't sound like her voice came out of a tin can. It's also true that Del Rey has more or less copped a plea, neither guilty nor innocent, to the general public — admitting to being the musical equivalent of Betty Draper/January Jones. It is a revelation that makes her neither more or less impressive, as a singer or character. And the final truth about Lana Del Rey as it pertains to "Honeymoon" in particular is that it is a beautiful song, and I will never need to hear it again.
Megan Harrington: What's notable about James Franco writing a book about Lana Del Rey isn't that James Franco is writing a book or that the book is about Lana Del Rey. Both seem fairly foregone conclusions. It's that in this book, only some of what's documented is supposed to take place in reality. The rest is imagined, whether by love or by fascination, it's dreamed into existence and placed alongside recorded conversations. With Lana, hidden desires, long forgotten memories, and phantasmagoria hold equal weight with the present moment, facts we can prove, and the faint pulse in her wrist. "Honeymoon" mixes memory with desire, but not in the painfully nostalgia-laced way Eliot envisioned. Instead, she's an undead temptress, vaguely familiar and vaguely repulsive all in the same bit of breathy delivery.
Will Adams: Brief whispers of percussion, scant cultural references, virtually unmetered arrangement: this is Lana Del Rey completely exposed, and the results are gorgeous. The strings curve around her vocal, which is front and center even when the braided background vocals join her for the chorus. Consistent with her tragedy, though, is that this new intimacy arrives with one of her most heartbreaking lyrics. "Honeymoon" lingers on its title, stretching as long as possible to hold onto that brief period that she knows will fade, revealing the worst in both of them.
Brad Shoup: Time will blunt the flattery in that opening line — "we both know/that it's not fashionable to love me" — but it's worth noting now. When my friend gave me Hollywood Babylon I was terrified by a photo of high walls in an empty suite. The arrangement chills me in the same way. The approach is familiar, sure, but not the cold distance the strings afford Del Rey. And not the softness of the brushes, tapping from another room. Even when she breaks out the lyrical equivalent of the star map, Del Rey is increasingly disinclined to underline the points of interest. So we have a torch song that's solely extinguished smoke, tracing precise, long lines.
Maxwell Cavaseno: Did you really just ask her to be your "Hell Yeah!"? Of all the things to personify… I just hope you don't personify how corny this song is, nor how generic the arrangement is for this mid-tempo "charmer" of a track, with all those Auto-Tuned harmonizing drones swooping in.
Edward Okulicz: Wikipedia tells me that Easton Corbin is a few months younger than me, so the only explanation for this song is that it went to record and radio with a guide vocal from some 50-year-old. I mean, when he says the song's subject is "so damn hot," I feel like I've walked in to my parents' living room to find my dad watching pay-per-view porn. He calls for a sing-a-long while sounding like he's heard it 1000 times before, so that's something I can immediately relate to.
Thomas Inskeep: It's a charmingly delivered series of clichés — I particularly like the way Corbin sings "and you're so damn hot" in his endearing twang. But it's still a series of poorly-composed clichés like "baby be my all-night-long." And WTF is "be the buzz in my Dixie cup" supposed to mean? Talk about clumsy wording.
Iain Mew: I adore the scene-setting, the closing time "so here we are" that sounds already weary in a good way, the drawling guitar turning everything into slow motion as the night winds down and he enters the hyper-awareness that comes with this being the perfect chance to set up something magical, almost feeling it already, the stars twinkling. Then he sings "you're so damn hot" and it's like a needle scratch. The rest is well done if obvious, but the song never totally recovers.
David Sheffieck: I like the bouncy, spiky guitar work here, but "It don't have to make sense/ And it don't have to rhyme" doesn't actually excuse a line that lands with as much of a thud as "But the stars are still out and you're so damn hot." Nor the warmed-over rehash of the hook's metaphors: I swear I've heard that Dixie cup line five times already this year.
Alfred Soto: Corbin sings with the confidence of a performer who thinks he's got the cleverest song of the year, but no matter how tight his jeans and puckered his lips he can't get those solos to sting or those lines to shine.
Ramzi Awn: Another addition to the list of songs that could have been on the surprisingly random Notting Hill soundtrack. Perfectly good, pop country. I'd sing along.
Brad Shoup: He's so in thrall to the track, that Dobie Gray-style country-soul, with a two-note guitar figure clearing the brush. Shame she's in the same thrall, subject to his tapioca declarations ("you know I really love to watch you dance") and his inadvertent — I guess? — entendres ("as long as it's you/babe, I'm all in"). What a waste.
W.B. Swygart: DURAN! DURAN! FUTURE! FUTURE! A harmless wodge of fluff, seemingly written by shuffling some motivational posters about to make a sentence, but the aggressive artificiality of that chorus noise is weirdly endearing. Not sure why they needed to hire Janelle Monáe to fill a role that amounts to "singing a bit quieter than Simon Le Bon," though.
Natasha Genet Avery: I can totally understand the thought process behind putting the forward-looking-yet-accessibly-retro Monáe on this track. Unfortunately, her feature is a missed opportunity– singing in unison over this trite, weak chorus could have been done by a session musician, and her 16-second breakdown feels like an afterthought. Duran Duran invite us to "step out into the future," but "Pressure Off" is an unimaginative and dated vision of what the future could look like.
Anthony Easton: Made we wonder about what a Monáe album produced by Rodgers would sound like, because this wedge of inspirational cheese does nothing for any of them. (Or for Duran Duran, but I have less invested.)
Ramzi Awn: Thank goodness for Nile Rodgers, at least somebody's doing their job. "It's up to you girl — it's time to take the pressure off" is a glimmering hook, it's too bad they didn't do more with it.
Jessica Doyle: It feels like a first draft, a prelude to fuller meditations to come — Janelle Monáe reaching back to her own experiences as an anonymous audience member lit up by the experience, or Nile Rodgers considering the problem of time passing. As for the hosts, "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise" deserves retroactive credit for being built along similar lines, but meatier.
Alfred Soto: Of course it's got a groove — that's why Nile Rodgers' name is above the credits. After the last couple years he deserves it. Despite several failed comebacks, this time Duran Duran may yet get theirs, but it'll be in spite of Mark Ronson's musty production and Janelle Monáe, who sounds blanker than Simon Le Bon.
Maxwell Cavaseno: At their best, Duran Duran have always been the most playful hybrids of post-Bowie soul-boy strut, yacht rock kosmische, and braindeadedness. In that regard, Rodgers makes perfect sense as a friend to help them give dance modernity another swing after Red Carpet Massacre was incredulously mistaken as a flop. Here, they certainly come off a bit obvious, with the fake crowd noise and dance-edit backing vocals all signs that Nile's bag of newfound tricks is becoming like when your grandpa discovers a toy that makes funny noises and bugs you with it on Sunday to keep himself amused. As per usual, Simon's lyrics are incomprehensible babbling in a suit coat, and the hook bears Monáe's underused ease with straightforward pop. Unfortunately, they decided to transition into a showcasey bridge where the cheapness of those synth strings weighs down what could've been a decent return to a Duran Duran we'd love to see, and not that stupid post-"Ordinary World" AOR midlife-crisis bullshit the world keeps loving to foist them into.
Thomas Inskeep: Considering this was produced by Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers (along with Mr. Hudson and the band themselves), this should sound even more '80s than their last album (helmed by Ronson on his own), but instead it sounds a bit like Ronson trying too hard to ape a semi-contemporary Rodgers production. tl;dr: this won't convince any Ronson haters. Simon Le Bon sounds fine. I wish he duetted with Monáe instead of handing her a brief bridge. Roger Taylor's drums, however, sound superb, deliciously crisp.
Scott Mildenhall: Amazing how Nile Rodgers is now so regularly deployed as a named credit. They could put it in italics and everything, just for added effect, but it would be unnecessary on a song where, subtly but surely, he is so key. Le Bon and Monáe help by barking a load of genericisms, and it becomes such a joyous occasion that a crowd form spontaneously to support them. It's not the future, nor the past; for the time it runs, it's unshakeably of its very own moment.
Brad Shoup: It's a shame about Simon, but "Pressure Off" gets going only when Monáe's on the chorus. Part of it is her dynamism, and a lot of it is her youth: Le Bon is such a diminished presence. Had she been in charge, it's possible Rodgers would have spent a flourish for more than his signature on the back of a check. Duran Duran did uncalled-for drama better than a lot of their superstar peers. They're just not the ones to deliver it this time.
Maxwell Cavaseno: Doherty's laying the Strummerisms on a little thick, but there's a certain weirdness to it that has me wondering if he's been checking up on King Krule; there's a certain sea-sickness that reminds me of late-period Clash, Franz Ferdinand, The Good Bad & The Queen. Even never was types like Detatchments. At the end of the day, this is still a band of capability, and the fact that in their decade of wildness they've gotten rid of the monotonous "LADS GOING TO THE PUB" charge and can finally start talking about the hangover with some ease should be noted.
Alfred Soto: For a couple of years in the early 2000s I felt like the only member of their American fan club. Not much to pine for in the ensuing decade, I'm afraid.The guitars still chatter, volubly, the rhythms still stop and start in unexpected places. In the first post-chorus verse Barat sings with clarity and force about looking at his ugly twin in the mirror; because it's The Libertines, I'm sure he means Pete Doherty, the only person who's ever been the love of his life. In short, a welcome comeback, even if we have to endure the track's wisdom. Advise them to veto that organ though.
Thomas Inskeep: It's odd to me that Jake Gosling – producer of the likes of Ed Sheeran and One Direction – produced the Libertines' first album in 11 years, because on "Gunga Din" they've never sounded more indebted to the Clash, even with Mick Jones having helmed their first two albums. This skanks like "White Man in Hammersmith Palais," a bit derivatively, but it does so well. Put it this way: this is a better Clash rip than Oasis ever did by the Beatles, if y'know what I mean.
Brad Shoup: "Hard won" is the adjective we're supposed to drop, I guess, but what about that "sick and tired" line? Maybe that's irony, or maybe I'm being unfair: this is a nice, reggae-haunted tribute to owning up to your shit. The refrain is generous but not sugary. There's no guarantee that things are really looking up.
Edward Okulicz: If you were bored by the stream of Clash-following Brit-skank that the Libertines no doubt grew up listening to, it's not all bad. The chorus is straightforward shouty power-jangle. Both parts remind me about how the perennially hungover people in my life are really complete bores, and how that's also true for The Libertines.
Anthony Easton: The propulsive power of the guitar is almost as interesting as how the vocals seem to move through and not over or against those sounds. It's an almost pure rock and roll record. Being from North America, where they were underhyped, for me it's a refreshing reminder of how enjoyable the work could be.
Will Adams: Between the slapdash GarageBand production and a vocalist who sounds like he yowled his mundanities into an iPhone and called it a day, I'm thinking that "House Every Weekend" is a commentary on how deep house has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for most of 2015. Pretty genius, except it still sounds like shit.
Scott Mildenhall: It was of Serious Historical Signifcance that this went to number one. As a song it's unspeakably drab, just a vocal lifted from the '90s via another contemporary house act and placed over a demo track from House eJay, but having been afforded chart-topping status it is a signpost of a time and place that can now not be washed away. More than that, it's a beacon for musical snobbery and by extension, snobbery generally. This is the UK in 2015, from one angle at least, and sociologists will study it for decades to come. If the current house moment is a moment then it obviously can't be perpetual, but this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning (it probably is nearer the end but that wasn't the quote).
Thomas Inskeep: Duke Dumont should write a sequel to the Timelords' 1988 book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) and at least make some cash off the fact that people are now xeroxing his own xeroxes of Disclosure, and getting #1s out of it. Because Disclosure > Duke Dumont > David Zowie, painfully so. And that name…
Brad Shoup: He tried to flip a tale about a shut-in, but a house song about actual houses is way too compelling, and the stuck feeling ends up too hard to dislodge anyway. A nice little mid-tempo tragedy with a ridiculous hook.
Maxwell Cavaseno: A primary school collage of bad parts, topped off by a shit vocalist. The audio equivalent of a unicycle.
Alfred Soto: To let himself go, I recommend a stronger vocal. That 808 could sure use it.
Patrick St. Michel: I like to think I'm pretty lenient when it comes to "authenticity," but not so much when it comes to boring music that has all the tension of someone debating to click "attending" on a Facebook event.
Patrick St. Michel: This is good, and I have no doubt it will be a great soundtrack for nights out and also plenty of kids struggling with crushes. What will probably make it special to a lot of people (and give Years & Years decent sales) though is something that doesn't really hit me anymore, and all I hear is a mid-tempo song with only a few solid-sounding ideas. Not my taste, but I remember plenty of songs that filled a similar void for me.
Thomas Inskeep: If Disclosure were straight-up pop and didn't sound so backward-gazing, they'd likely be Years & Years. This is an ebullient pop single that you can dance too, as opposed to dance-pop.
Scott Mildenhall: Feel Olly Alexander's nerves on the verge of revelation. It's a depiction of a moment and a feeling: a supermassive intimacy, electric blue skies reduced to backdrop for something far more fateful. His vulnerability is engrossing, but it's at that moment that he becomes powerful. The effect is slightly lost when you think that this could be about a Clean Bandit gig, but the sentiment's here, beautifully so.
Alfred Soto: We've reached a point where singers don't imitate Michael Jackson but imitate Justin Timberelake imitating Michael Jackson: Olly Alexander slathers JT's yearning middle range all over this lovely #2 British hit co-written and produced by Greg Kurstin, responsible for its trimness and efficiency. What sounds whey-voiced at first turns into a limning of unrelieved worry. By the time Alexander gets to the last "It's you who've I've been waiting to find," the emotional arc is complete. This deserves to be an American summer smash.
Brad Shoup: An open-air mix of dance-pop and AOR, with a nearly monotone chorus. If you're going to channel a modulated Michael Jackson in your verses, I'd think you're primed to let loose. Nothing really sparkles here: the streaky synths are tucked behind the disco hi-hat; the stuttering synths are just modest.
Will Adams: "Shine" stands apart from the rest of Communion, a bit more skewed toward bright, clear pop instead of the album's cloudier offerings. In isolation, it's gorgeously understated, those gated synths barely peeking through the surface. Olly Alexander's got the same feather-light timbre as Ellie Goulding, but he gives the proper power when necessary.
Maxwell Cavaseno: I can hear Olly trying to sing like Abel Tesfaye on the choruses and the bridges. Although his voice lacks the grace and always sounds forced when he broaches the higher range, the transition to the hook has great little runs. As usual the music is good, offering healthy alternatives to mildewy house TV dinners or EDM clod-plod. As much as Years & Years have had a really good go with this current album, they have a much better album in them.
Edward Okulicz: On an album of straightforward dance-inflected chart pop, "Shine" has rather more third-single-ballad from a pop act in its DNA. It sounds like if Girls Aloud's "Call the Shots" had been given to Will Young instead. Not as good, but still pretty good.
Thomas Inskeep: Apparently "post-hardcore" means sounding like a baby Soilwork — which I'm entirely okay with. The lead singer screams where appropriate, the guitars do their Yngwie Malmsteen thing, and the lyrics alternate between suitably emo ("Now, I only pray when it all goes down/I'll be surrounded by all of the ones I've loved and cared about") and utterly ridiculous ("My bedroom computer light is the only menace to my new faux wooden blinds"). They've got chops, give 'em that.
Maxwell Cavaseno: Lets see… D-Beats? Check. Overflashy metal licks? Check. Hair metal vocal arrangements that can never sit still? Check. Bad "Good Cop/Bad Cop" vox? Yeah. Heavy pitch-tuning? Oh BEST BELIEVE IT BAYBEEEE. Also, nobody's ever going to get over the Killswitch Engage breakdowns, are they? There's a lot of stuff crammed in here, to PtV's credit, to the point this is borderline Between The Buried And Me levels of overexertion, but with none of the actual ideas of unique quality to bring forward. A for effort, F for about everything else.
Patrick St. Michel: The little EDM touches offer a nice reminder that this form of teenage melodrama rock has evolved a bit. The overwrought poetry reminds that they are sticking to their roots.
Brad Shoup: I'm on a pop-punk bender at the moment, so while this has all the imagery you shouldn't get within 500 yards of per court order and a killer chorus, too much time is spent thrashing in the breakdowns and bridges. But goddamn, I'm ready for that Coheed record now!
Ramzi Awn: If anything could relive the glory days of Korn, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole and hits from the bong, this would be it. Who knew? I don't think my parents ever really knew what I was up to in my best friend's basement in high school, and I hope they never do. But "The Divine Zero" comes pretty close to summing it up.
Alfred Soto: I'm not the audience, but this works fine as scouring agent: the yells are good punctuation, the chord changes well-timed.


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DBP is reinforcing its efforts towards the sustainable development of Agusan del Norte with its support for key development projects in the province.
The bank has recently signed a P364.6-million term loan facility with the Butuan City Water District (BCWD) to finance the construction of a deep well, rehabilitation of booster pump station, acquisition of brand new hydraulic backhoe excavator, and other initiatives that will enable the water district to better serve the water supply requirements of 234,193 consumers. The project is expected to also minimize health risks brought about by waterborne diseases due to the use of highly-corroded pipes. The rehabilitation of the booster pump station is likewise expected to increase and stabilize water pressure in highly elevated barangays while the deep well will serve as an alternative source of water and avoid interruptions of water supply in the city.
The bank has likewise signed a P200-million term loan with the provincial government of Agusan del Norte for the construction of its new provincial capitol which will be located in Cabadbaran City. The new government center is expected to create an atmosphere conducive to business transactions, improve the provincial government's efficiency of service, and stimulate economic activity in the City and neighboring municipalities. The envisioned two-storey modern edifice to be constructed on a 14.7-hectare lot with a total floor area of 6,000 square meters is also seen to represent the economic growth of the province.
DBP will continue to strengthen its partnership with the public and private sectors in the provision of basic services and infrastructure investments in the countryside.
IGLF wins outstanding CSF partner award
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Comments Thread For: Stevenson Confident He Can Beat, Knock Carl Froch Out
Canadian puncher Adonis Stevenson (19-1, 16 KOs) is very confident that he has what it takes to defeat IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KOs). The IBF ordered both sides to reach an agreement by January 15th or purse bid will take place. Stevenson likes the aggressive style of Froch and see that as a big advantage for himself.
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Stevenson is loving these headlines he's writing with his name alongside Froch's
I hope Froch vs Kessler happens, thats the fight I want to see, not so much this one
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Stevenson is getting in the way of a great fight between Froch and Kessler... lol he's going to get brutally knocked out..
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I don't see much potential in him or why he would be able to beat Froch but can't blame him for trying to make it happen now at 35.
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hes a puncher so hes you cant count him out entirely. however based on his last fight which didnt impress me at all im even more certain than i was before froch will knock him out.
still im all for it, stevenson has earned his title shot so it really doesnt matter what the likely outcome is, froch has to get in the ring and do the job. fights arent fought on paper they are fought in the ring.
you have to take stewards death into consideration too, as missed as he will be in the corner i think the motivation he will give an already tremendously motivated stevenson will help him even more. and its not like there isnt other good trainers at the kronk. froch will be fighting stevenson at his very best, as hungry as he could ever be and ready for his biggest test at age 35.
again im going for froch but i want to see the fight. more than kessler for sure, thats easy work for the cobra.
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If Stevenson comes to Nottingham he's going to get blitzed by Froch in front of a hyped up, boisterous crowd roaring Froch's every punch.
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Trust me Froch will get knocked out fast if he takes this fight and he knows it. Believe me he will never take this fight. Kessler is sparring compared to Stevenson. But hey never know.....Carl might be dumb enough :-)
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I think Froch gives Stevenson a boxing lesson from start to finish.
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This is all the latest evidence of the new consumerization of IT in which people's laptops, tablets and smartphones are part of their work-day tech arsenal. Although this may save a company some money in hardware expenses and allow greater flexibility for employees, it brings with it a host of concerns, with security at the top of the list. Additionally, as companies produce an ever-increasing amount of data that's pushing network and bandwidth capacity to its extremes, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is becoming a popular solution to these concerns and as an effective platform for a BYOD policy.
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For any enterprise, IT concerns are a challenge. Robust storage space, strong security, quick access and a reliable network are what employees expect and need to do their jobs. When a business grows, IT responsibilities grow as well, and scaling up means increasing pressure on what may be an already stressed system.
Desktop virtualization has emerged as a way of solving these concerns in a dependable and flexible way. Its structure allows users to log into a centralized database that provides a virtual desktop to employees where data is accessed and stored. VDI also allows a greater potential for collaboration and productivity among employees since everyone has access to the same data and can keep it up to date continually. This is particularly effective for large-scale operations such as hospitals or universities where many people may be accessing the same data to review or edit.
Also, in this kind of system, if a laptop or device is lost or stolen, security won't be compromised since no data is stored on the device itself. As long as an organization is large enough to gain a benefit from VDI, and has the budget to support hiring a dependable VDI vendor, such an implementation can provide a significant boost to overall IT network performance.
BYOD accelerating VDI adoption
With BYOD becoming so widespread, enterprise companies have had to look at the negatives as well as the positives. This means that in addition to seeing what it could do to improve its efficiency, companies have to face the security weaknesses that BYOD presents. Hundreds of employees with various unprotected devices all accessing sensitive information is a full-blown IT nightmare.
As mentioned above, VDI combats this problem by preventing any data from being saved to an actual device, and allowing the device itself to serve as a gateway to the data, not a storage spot. VDI adoption is also gradually being implemented as more success stories of real-world use come about in health care, education and urban planning.
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When a company hires a new employee, it may be hiring that person's technology as well. This may lead to saving costs and increasing productivity, since the employee will be using a device and operating system she's already well acquainted with. Any security concerns can be alleviated with a VDI implementation, which can also provide a variety of other advantages as well. The IT field is undergoing constant evolution as new strategies are devised, and VDI is just one of these innovations, so taking an assessment of your company's network is the first step in understanding how VDI could improve data access, storage and security throughout your organization.
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