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Fund is a problem. It's challenging to convince a sponsor to put money behind you, unless you have a body of work or renowned name in the industry.
Arranging for the fund is a battle each time. We are forever trying to find ways to fund plays. There are so many expenses involved while practising and performing, such as costumes, makeup, props, create set, rehearsal, travelling, daily expense and many others. When we don't have producers, we don't have many options...
Many times, I can't afford to pay actors for rehearsals, I feel bad, but, I don't have enough funds. Unlike cinema, here, actors end up being the most dispensable and lowest in the pay hierarchy. Those who are involved with the theatre are not for the money, but, we love the medium and love for acting. Once, the physic...
Nowadays, theatre people are finding ways to work around the problem via crowdfunding and supplementing our theatre work with theatre-related jobs.
Why is it that you take a year to come up with a play when today full-fledged commercials films are made in three months or so?
Yes, I do need time. An artist needs to grow and apt with the play. Artist can't get trained in three weeks. In movies too, sometimes the director demands a particular skill-set from the actor. It could be six pack abs, learning specific dance style, learning ascent, reading a book or understanding the life of any part...
I work with a particular form, which involves well extensive research on developing a plot. For the Shikhandi, my actors learned Kalaripayattu, Bharatanatyam, Koodiyattam and Yakshagana forms, to use them as a gesture to explain the play. It takes time, and they can use these skills set in the future. A theatre meant f...
What inspires you as an artist?
Learning inspires me. I learn from the human relationships and surroundings. Try to understand the human communication, it is need not be vocal only, but, through body language. One day I could be sitting with a vada-pao seller, or a fish seller and theatre can evolve from it for me. It's about tapping the moment, and ...
When I was younger, I wrote a lot of poetry, ideas, the stream of consciousness and kind of stuff. However, then I realise where my strength and intent lie and for that, I have to learn and read. Through it, I understand the process of elimination. What I want to do and what you I don't want to do. Learning is a never-...
Choose yourselves between classist or modernist?
In between. I think contemporary stories need to be told. It’s not that I don’t like classical drama, but it has to be a piece I can relate to the present. As a director, I like the idea of ensemble work, the multiplicity of other lives.
What are you busy with at present?
Teaching at an acting school in Dehradun. I am enjoying working with students and learning new things from them every day. Apart from it, I am working on Vineet Bhalla's Farming story. It's a political commentary and very contemporary worldview. It would be in the staged this November.
Radio Atlantic: One Nation Under God?
How tolerant and pluralistic is America when it comes to religious expression?
America prides itself on pluralism and tolerance, but how far does that tolerance extend when it comes to religious expression? Could faith in general be on the decline?
Radio Atlantic cohosts Jeffrey Goldberg (editor in chief), Alex Wagner (contributing editor and CBS anchor), and Matt Thompson (executive editor) explore those questions with Emma Green, who covers religion and politics for The Atlantic.
Bow Hill Blueberries’ business model is built on the concept of value-added agriculture – when a raw product is processed into something new with enhanced value.
At Bow Hill, that has resulted in a variety of products using blueberries: juice, dressing, jam, ice cream and more.
They use every piece of the fruit, said Harley’s wife Susan Soltes, including turning the skins left behind after juicing into a nutrient-packed powder that can be added to smoothies and meals.
Harley Soltes said the farm’s products are more flavorful and nutritious thanks to the heirloom plants inherited from the original owners. Some of those plants are more than 70 years old.
The heirloom berries possess more antioxidants than newer varieties, press into juice better and have a thicker skin that makes them easier to process, Susan Soltes said.
This comes in handy for one of the farm’s specialties – pickled blueberries.
Each of the four heirloom varieties at Bow Hill has a slightly different flavor that lends itself to a particular product.
Harley Soltes said the farm markets to customers who will pay more for a product to know where it came from and how it was made.
“The customers who come in here and actually buy our products – they get this is where they want to put their money and their value,” Harley Soltes said.
Mark Williams, the University of Kentucky professor who brought his students to the farm, said he chose Bow Hill Blueberries because its model seems accessible to young people going into farming and because the farm has developed a successful marketing technique.
All the berries at Bow Hill are grown organically and handpicked on the farm’s 5 acres each summer.
Susan Soltes said she enjoys sharing the farm’s sweet and savory products with guests. People are encouraged to tour the farm, and a walking tour is set up during the Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms.
“We have a crop that makes people happy. Everybody gets excited when the berries are coming up, and we do too,” Susan Soltes said.
The majority of the summer harvest is frozen, which allows the farm to continue to produce juice and other products throughout the year.
For the past eight years, Harley Soltes said new products have been added almost every year. Next up is experimenting with fermented vinegars and probiotic drinks.
Moving forward, Harley Soltes said they are looking to expand the processing side of the business. The farm has reached capacity as far as land goes, he said, but he is hoping to buy heirloom berries from other farms to add to Bow Hill’s products.
some of the gains after weak U.S. data sapped risk appetite.
markets kept demand for perceived riskier currencies alive.
Canadian dollar on Monday as it was a holiday in Canada.
Skiers hit the slopes at Ski Roundtop Mountain Resort in York County to help send cancer downhill. Central Pennsylvania’s chapter for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society hosted its 10th Annual Ski4Life in Warrington Township on Saturday. The eight hour ski and snowboard marathon raises money to find a cure for Leukemia, ...
In its 10 years, Ski4Life has raised close to half a million dollars for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Well, not to be discouraged, I went home to visit my parents that night for dinner and my dad, John Sullivan, said that his Greek friend, Leo P. Michaelides, his partner and our neighbor, was having a very good year. I sort of listened and kicked that around in my head and decided to call Leo in the morning.
I went over and picked up the check, ran up to Sister Gladys Marie’s office, who couldn’t believe what happened in two days, and then I contacted the head engineer for the medical center. We decided to put it right up the flagpole so all could see it during the Christmas season.
That was 36 years ago, and it still is like a beacon during the Christmas season. Merry Christmas!
Ann T. Whitehurst of Fresno, the mother of three sons, does case management for National Insurance Companies and is a singer and actress. Write to her at atwhitehurst@att.net.
Begley took the seat with an almost 8,000 vote majority.
A by-election win for Democrat Jon Ossoff in Atlanta, Georgia, would be a major blow for Trump.
For the first time since 1982, the UK government gained a by-election seat from the opposition.
The result caps a miserable year for Zac Goldsmith after losing the London mayoral election and quitting the Conservative party.
The abuse victim has won a seat on the Seanad’s Industrial and Commercial Panel.
The Labour Seanad candidate is coming under pressure over her refusal to debate.
The email was sent to every TD and Senator overnight by the independent Seanad by-election candidate Jerry Beades.
The party is considering its options.
Cahill said she spent a lot of time considering how she would manage the nomination if successful.
The Belfast woman has been nominated for the position by Joan Burton and Alan Kelly.
The party’s ethics officer Karl Deeter said he is trying to find out what happened.
The campaign claimed to be “non-party”, but was run by Renua activists and endorsed Renua candidate Patrick McKee.
Bobby Aylward was elected early this morning.
The Tánaiste is on the by-election campaign trail in Carlow-Kilkenny.
Patrick McKee is set to be announced as the new party’s candidate in Carlow-Kilkenny tomorrow.
It comes after two rallies were held yesterday demonstrating against the jailing of five water protesters on Thursday.
The Fianna Fáil TD has defended Micheál Martin’s leadership this morning.
The country’s newest TD was busy on the farm, but he’s now arrived to a rapturous reception at the Roscommon count centre.
The former MEP upsets the odds and beats Sinn Féin’s Cathal King by around 500 votes.
As the meters begin to tick, the candidates are battling for votes even though some see the outcome of this by-election as a foregone conclusion.
Someone ‘pulled a Ming’ and the issue of Roscommon Hospital just isn’t going away… Here’s what went down in the RTÉ studios last night.
Kunming - Chinese authorities suspect Muslim separatists from the restive western region of Xinjiang orchestrated the brutal knife attack at China’s Kunming Railway Station Saturday night, killing dozens and injuring more than 130 people.
Urumchi - A deadly fight developed when police tried to apprehend members of the Uyghur underground believed to possess illegal weapons in Xinjiang, a territory occupied by China since 1949.
In a press release, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has announced that for Monday July 5, the've organized demonstrations at Chinese foreign missions to commemorate and protest last year's events in Urumchi, East Turkestan (called Xinjiang by China).
As was attempted in Australia last year, Chinese authorities have now tried to suppress a film at the current International Film Festival in Palm Springs.
Uyghur human rights groups are receiving e-mail virus attacks as well as “impersonation attacks,” which claim to be from their organisations but are fake and aimed at embarrassing them or misrepresenting their work.
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The security questions every IT leader should ask of their server vendor before embarking on an IT transformation.
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Svetoslav Todorov has signed a new one-year deal with Charlton Athletic.
The Bulgarian international striker, 29, last played for Charlton in October against Plymouth and missed the rest of the season with a knee injury.
Addicks manager Alan Pardew said: "I know he wants to prove to Charlton fans that he can make a big contribution to the club."
Charlton recently handed skipper Matt Holland a new deal and snapped up Mark Hudson from Crystal Palace.
After months of testing with tens of thousands of mobile guinea pigs, T-Mobile today announced a May 31 debut for Digits, a new technology that lets customers use the same phone number across a variety of internet-connected devices as well as add multiple numbers to one phone.
T-Mobile also revealed a crucial detail that it didn’t discuss when it first announced the service back in December: price. T-Mobile COO Mike Sievert said users can put their phone number on multiple phones or devices for free, the company’s “favorite price.” Adding a second number to a phone will cost $10 a month, but...
All T-Mobile customers will automatically be upgraded to Digits. The company says Digits will work with any device, from smartphones and tablets to computers and smart watches, and even old-school flip phones. Digits works across multiple carriers like AT&T and Verizon, and users can also log in on various internet bro...
Once users put their number on a device, they will be able to access calls, texts and voicemails the same way they can jump around with emails and programs like Google Hangouts and Facebook Messenger. That also means when someone calls, all devices will go off in a cacophony of notification.
Through testing the service, T-Mobile said it learned how customers most want to use Digits. One of the most popular functions was the ability to text from PCs, but users also favored a variety of specific uses for the service.
T-Mobile said more than 30 million people carry at least two devices — a personal phone and a work phone, for example. Digits lets people put their personal and professional lines on the same phone. It could also help businesses move to a mobile-first model, where a business’ central number can go to multiple employee ...
T-Mobile said Digits is also a good fit for those who want multiple devices for specific situations — such as a small, rugged phone for outdoor adventures, a big tablet for travel and a smartphone for business.
Sievert called Digits the 21st century answer for the landline. But there are still plenty of landlines out there — 58 million, according to T-Mobile — and many users in the Digits testing program said they would happily cut that cord if they could keep the shared number.
T-Mobile says Digits is a good option for people have to put their number out there to a lot of strangers, such as an eBay seller, or someone using online dating websites. If something goes south it is easy for a Digits user to change that second number without disrupting their business or personal lives.
“If you ever want to cancel or change out your second set of Digits for a new number for any reason and ghost everybody you gave that old set to, we can take care of that for you,” Sievert said.
President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that Fox News host Shepard Smith should be working at CNN along with two of the network’s weekend anchors, Arthel Neville and Leland Vittert.
Were @FoxNews weekend anchors, @ArthelNeville and @LelandVittert, trained by CNN prior to their ratings collapse? In any event, that’s where they should be working, along with their lowest rated anchor, Shepard Smith!
AR: You may not know the name Shigeru Miyamoto, but I guarantee you know his babies -- a portly mustachioed plumber called Mario, and a burly ape who goes by Donkey Kong are just two of his world famous creations.
Without his characters -- and without Miyamoto -- Nintendo would almost certainly not be what it is today: a super power in the cut-throat world of computer games.
Miyamoto took some time out of his day to talk, and play, with Talk Asia.
AR: Mr Miyamoto welcome to Talk Asia! Now many people would say that you've got this dream job, you get to design games every day and you also get paid for it at the end as well -- take us down the path that led from you when you first started out as an artist to the job you have today.
SM: When I started my career at Nintendo, there was no such thing as video game making at the company. There was not a clear style of video games yet. When I joined the company, I only wanted to be involved in making toys or entertainment products. Soon afterwards I came across video games. But at the time in those ear...
I specialized in industrial design, so I was primarily drawing things to do with video games or creating boxes for them. But I was lucky enough to get a job that involved creating games right from the beginning, right from the planning stages. The first game that I was involved in developing was Donkey Kong. It was onl...
AR: And you know better than anybody almost that in your industry a single game can revolutionize the entire gaming industry -- and you experienced that with Super Mario Brothers which invented the side scrolling adventure. How does it feel to think back to that time and to realize that you're a part of something like ...
SM: I have enjoyed creating something that is unique, something others have not done. I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve. I often get inspiration from seeing the reaction from users playing games like Super Mario. For in...
My staff and I are motivated not by trying to out-sell whatever happens to be in the market, but rather trying to develop something that is totally unique. I think it's important that we enjoy that process. To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it. This is the way we work and h...

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