![]() Just be Yu Darvish and we'll take it from there. But I just want him to go out and just play. We all know he's here under free agent status or whatever. "I just want him to go play and go pitch. "I really want to try to emilerate that concern in his mind," Joe Maddon said. He hasn't pitched at Wrigley Field since May 2 and will cross the season's halfway mark with only 40 innings under his belt.īetween the big contract, the DL stints, the rough World Series starts and the outcry from fans, there is a lot of pressure on Darvish to go out there and perform. He was also on the disabled list in early May for the flu. We gotta get him back healthy first and foremost so that he can go out there and show everybody what he can do."ĭarvish has already been on the disabled list for 5 weeks for the triceps issue that first cropped up right before Memorial Day weekend. ".You definitely want to get off on your best foot. "Everybody wants to come out and show their best at all times, no matter what the contract or whether you've been here years or haven't. "I think any player would say that," Gimenez said. The veteran catcher has been on six different MLB teams in his career, including four separate squads in the last four seasons. So I think there's that element to it, but I can't speak for him."Ĭhris Gimenez - who is close friends with Darvish and has caught the pitcher dating back to 2014 - echoed Chatwood's comments about fitting in immediately with a new team in a new place in front of a new group of fans. "You just want to impress them rather than being what you've always been and why they wanted you in the first place. "I can't speak for him, but for me, maybe you do press a little bit going to a new spot," said Tyler Chatwood, who also signed with the Cubs as a free agent starting pitcher over the winter. Regardless of where he's at physically, the Cubs understand there's a psychological hurdle Darvish will have to get over at some point.Īfter all, 90 percent of this game is half mental, right? Meister, who is one of the team doctors for the Rangers and knows Darvish's history extensively dating back before the pitcher's 2015 Tommy John surgery. ![]() and had to cut it short because he reported "pain" in his triceps, not just residual soreness or tightness.Įvery team's World Series odds following 2023 All-Star GameĪs a result, the Cubs sent Darvish to meet with Dr. ![]() Then he met up with the Cubs at Dodger Stadium and chatted with Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times about how difficult the last 8-9 months have been on him psychologically since he had two rough starts in the World Series for the Dodgers last fall.ĭarvish then threw a bullpen in front of Cubs officials Thursday morning in L.A. Whenever he is able to make his return to a big-league mound, the Cubs acknowledge there is a mental hurdle he will have to get past.Īfter signing a 6-year, $126 million deal over the winter, it would be an understatement to say things have not gone smoothly for the 31-year-old pitcher in Chicago.ĭarvish looked great in his rehab stint in Class-A South Bend Monday night, but was apprehensive in his post-start press conference. He won't be able to throw for 3-5 days, but after that, he will be re-evaluated and could start throwing again next week.īy the time he gets the all-clear and then builds up his conditioning and arm strength, there probably isn't any chance of seeing Darvish before the All-Star Break. He was diagnosed with an elbow impingement and inflammation and received a cortisone shot. Keith Meister to get a second opinion on his injured arm. The Cubs received good news on Yu Darvish after beating the Twins 10-6 Friday evening at Wrigley Field.Īfter the Cubs left Los Angeles, Darvish flew to Dallas to meet with Dr. ![]()
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![]() The practical technical touches are pretty solid, as are the digital touches, which have become rather dated, sometimes cheesily so, but are conceptually nifty enough to hold your attention, especially with a flashiness that is at its most captivating during tightly choreographed and extensively staged action sequences that is itself greatly complimentary of the fluffy entertainment. Hill's and Paul Kirby's often unique art direction. The visuals of the film further keep things colorful, for David Tattersall's clean cinematography does a fine job of capturing a certain majesty to sweeping settings that in turn capture the scope of this adventure opus, and are further distinguished by Silver Cheung's, John Fenner's, John C. Graeme Revell composed a lively, but superficial and often near-painstakingly overstylized score for the predecessor, and here, even though Alan Silvestri does nothing new and gets a little overblown himself, his musical style which encompasses electronic rhythms and a few elements of neo-classicism is a little more realized in its being both lively by its own right, and complimentary to the liveliness of the film overall. The film's superiority to an already seriously underwhelming predecessor is pretty debatable, but, make no mistake, just as a fun factor saved said predecessor, it saves this film, which doesn't have much substance or consistency, yet has plenty of flare. The film makes a lot of problematic moves, in concept and in execution, and even though entertainment value never truly abates, patience is limited by a lack of substance, and challenged by cheese, conventions and a disjointed, limply dragged out structure. More than anything, the story is superficial, and ridiculous, having a little more dimension than the predecessor's story, with less convolution, but still no real resonance amidst the often lazily inconsequential, thematically overblown plotting whose shortcomings are further stressed by missteps. This film is fun, but it doesn't quite have much as much of the momentum which saved the predecessor, and is sometimes bland, so I suppose you could say that even the entertainment value that can make or break a film like this goes a bit superficialized. Nevertheless, viewers stand to be more familiarized with this conventional story and its basic characters, for the film glosses over exposition and jars between its segments as it progresses through a narrative of broad, but disjointed scope, and yet, the final product still finds time to bloat itself with fat around the edges and aimless meanderings in order to achieve an unreasonable runtime of almost two hours. The overt fluff would be easier to get past if it was mildly original, but as things stand, what freshness there may have been in the predecessor is all but cleansed in this stereotypical action-adventure popcorn piece which hits trope after trope, formulaic set and dialogue piece after formulaic set and dialogue piece, and character type after character type. Man, this movie is unsurprisingly corny, and although the tone is arguably not quite as confused as it was in the predecessor, that just means that there's a little more balance in cheese within the fluffy humor and over-the-top action and storytelling, all backed by trite dialogue and, last, but no least, an overwrought style. ![]() It helps that this film is pretty entertaining, whether it be better than its predecessor or not, although that means that this film has stuff to turn people off, as well. Well, I guess Angelina Jolie in a silver cat suit in front of big, bold letters still sells quite a bit, as shocking as that might be. That's right, people, even though the reviews were relatively better, instead of making a whopping $274,703,340, it only made a mere. Well, this film did get better reviews than its actual predecessor, although that just means that people disliked it, rather than flat-out panned it, so, either way, one can understand why so many people were turned off by this film. ![]() "Well, rock the cradle of life!" Man, that poster has got Angie Jolie, looking hot in a silver cat suit, with the title in huge, bold, golden letters, which makes this look more like the sequel to "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", and it doesn't help that the movie is kind of hilarious in its British silliness. This time, they took out the colon between "Lara Craft" and "Tomb Raider", like Tomb Raider is the name she married into, so it's only natural that the colon now leads into talk of a cradle. ![]() ![]() We have put together a lovely pack of 18 good quality piano soundfonts which can be downloaded for free for your music production library. Join us for part 3 then, and in the meantime check out our review of FL Studio 20 here. Then you have come to the right place Here at producersbuzz we have archived and listed some of the best free to use piano soundfonts. ![]() ![]() Next time we’ll finish our simple tune and start going in depth with more FL Studio 20 features. As we show, moving the bass onto the same track as the beats makes no difference as each Pattern will play the same thing no matter where you put it on the Playlist. As a traditional DAW user, you might want to keep the beats on one ‘track’ and the bass on another, but you don’t have to. Now we have a bass and two beat parts we can start arranging and here it’s a case of dragging each Pattern onto the Playlist area. Again, you could simply use the step sequencer to fill notes in but a more flexible approach brings in the Piano Roll editor that allows you to record in notes either by drawing or playing them in. After perfecting our sounds and beats, we move onto adding a synth bass. It’s also very fast and easy to change the core sounds at your disposal, so we’ll quickly run through how to either replace a sound or edit the existing one with the many effects on offer in FL Studio 20. Many traditional DAW owners will be acutely aware that looping beats is the scourge of modern music production, but this pattern-based approach allows you to quickly and easily introduce some much-needed variation. ![]() It allows you to quickly build up a library of different patterns simply by duplicating existing ones and then editing them for some variation. The advantage of using Patterns is quickly realised when using the Clone option from FL Studio’s many features. Open up FL Studio and you’ll be faced with an empty Pattern complete with four drum sounds, so we’ll launch straight into that and create a simple 4/4 drum pattern over four bars. You create complete tunes with this Pattern approach but, within it, the Piano Roll editor offers a familiar recording and editing environment for ‘traditional’ DAW users. Understanding just these two elements will give you that ‘Eureka’ moment, as you’ll realise that these are the core of the program. This time around we’re going to look at two of these areas – namely the Patterns and Piano Roll editor – in more depth. Subscribe to the channel here and check out MKThePlug's How I Made below.In Part 1 we introduced the five main areas within FL Studio – the Browser (for your samples, sounds, instruments, effects and so on) the Channel Rack (with Patterns for beats and notes) the Playlist (where the song arrangement comes together) the Piano Roll editor and finally the Mixer. We've also been streaming DJ sets since 2012 and with almost 2,000 videos, we've covered a wide range of styles, genres, locations and DJs, from hundreds of events around the world. ![]() How I Play Live explores the technical setups of electronic music performers such as Orbital, DJ Boring, Rex the Dog, Rodriguez Jr and more. In the first series Eats Everything, Jamz Supernova, Monki and Conducta all get behind the decks. How I DJ is a deep dive into the technical side of DJing, be it from three-deck mixing, looping, rekordbox prep and more. 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![]() ![]() For Meta Quest VR headsets, sideloading refers to the process of loading content onto the device that is not approved or verified by Meta and does not appear on the official store for Quest. Proceed with caution, then, but it’s not always as scary as it sounds. For example, downloading an unverified program from a site on the internet and installing it on Windows is technically sideloading. It can sound scary, and while you should take care when sideloading, the term also applies to everyday tech situations. ‘Sideloading’ is a term applied to content loaded onto modern computers from sources not explicitly approved by content reviewers. That will likely be the same with the upcoming Quest 3, while past updates have made the software even more powerful. There’s some setup involved and caveats to consider, but overall sideloading can make it possible for Quest 2 owners to go beyond what’s available officially for download from Meta’s servers.įor years now, we’ve found SideQuest to be the easiest way to put this content on the Quest 2, Quest Pro, the original Oculus Quest. Put simply, sideloading is how you can run content on Quest that’s not listed or even vetted by Meta. You can also stream PC VR content from the cloud via apps like Plutosphere, or install custom home environments on your Quest to replace Meta’s default options. 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I suggest using a laminator to ensure the sheets last for longer than one use. Play-Doh MatsĪnother guaranteed activity your little kids will enjoy is Play-Doh mats! You can find letter play-doh mats, as well as holiday themed ones. I would set up a station with several of these available for kids to use as they watch throughout the morning. It includes the numbers, letters, laces, and a coloring book. This lacing number and ABCs set is perfect for young kids. Kids need ample time to work on their fine motor skills, so putting these into your plans for morning activities makes sense. Working on fine motor skills is a great way to start the morning for lower elementary kids, especially kindergarten and preschoolers. Related: Ocean Dot Activities: Free Printables for Preschoolers 2. Create a packet for each child to complete before the day gets started. This is a fairly easy morning activity to set up for your kids. You have all sorts of options available from holiday related pages to letters and numbers. ![]() Grab some dot markers and let your kids complete dot-the-dot pages. 8 Morning Activities for Students in Lower Elementary 1. If you need some inspiration for morning activities, here are a few suggestion for lower and upper elementary classrooms. Other classrooms have a set morning routine many kids thrive on morning routine. Some classrooms have various options, allowing kids to select what makes the most sense of them. There are no right and wrong morning activities for classrooms. Preparing morning activities allows you to utilize your day properly and gets kids prepared for the learning ahead. Click below for the year-long bundles.Starting the day off on the right foot is a great way to get your students ready for the day. This resource is available for Pre-K, kindergarten, and 1st grade. What’s more, is that each activity comes with a “Let’s Check” slide!Įach day ends with a turn and talk, as well. You can choose to have them verbally give their answer, write it on a whiteboard, or jot it in a notebook. There are three math and literacy activities each day for students. It is a great tool if you want to bring attention to a specific item.ĭuring a screen share, you can talk to your students and give them instructions based on the activity. I also wanted to point out that you can mark on the document through screen share, as well. Make sure to view the PowerPoint in presentation mode in order for it to work correctly. Simply select the file and it will open on your computer and be visible for your students to see. Remember, you’ll need to have the PowerPoint already opened on your computer for it to show up here. This option is located at the bottom of your Zoom window.Īfter clicking screen share, Zoom will open a window for you to select which file you would like to share. ![]() Once you’ve done that and your students join the meeting, you can begin a screen share. Before you start your meeting, you’ll want to open the morning message PowerPoint on your computer and minimize it. How you get the code out to students is up to you… maybe through an email to their parents or posting it in your Google Classroom, whatever works for you. Once you are given the meeting link, you’ll want to share this with your students. Which is a must!Īfter creating an account or signing in, you can host a meeting. It seems to run pretty smoothly and is user-friendly. I want to show you how easy it is to use this resource to connect with your students and I have found Zoom to be a great option. There are several video conferencing platforms out there. However, now you also have the option of conducting a morning meeting virtually. ![]() The PowerPoint, of course, can be used within your classroom each and every day. These digital morning messages are the perfect way to connect with your students, wherever they may be. I always loved this time to gather with my sweeties and quickly review a few skills and most importantly, have some meaningful conversations. With the thought of distance learning, I can’t imagine not having a morning meeting with students. Plus, they are easy to use on video conferencing platforms for virtual learning. Digital morning messages are a fun way to review and practice literacy and math skills each day. ![]() ![]() She also talked about Black female representation in comedy at the time, and how it influenced her casting process for her own series. On A Black Lady Sketch Show, I think there’s always those moments where you’re going to see something and go, ‘She did that for me,’ and that’s what makes me happy.” ![]() She told theGrio at the time, “I try to really focus on creating work that will make people feel seen and feel important and feel joyful even when we’re doing sketches that are thrillers or horror parodies. TheGrio’s Cortney Willssat down with Thede back when the series premiered in 2019. Issa Rae, who is also an executive producer, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Williams, Miguel, Skai Jackson, Laz Alonso, Ryan Michelle Bathé, Omarion, and more are also on the list of guests in Season 2. ![]() Season 2 boasts an impressive guest list, with plenty of Black A-listers joining the show. In the clip, Thede looks straight into the camera and cheekily asks the audience, “Oh you thought a pandemic was going to stop me?” HBO also released a teaser for the highly anticipated second season. Michelle Hirsch of Keller Williams held the listing Brunson was repped by Daniel Ohana of The Agency.Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, Ashley Nicole Black and Quinta Brunson land second season for their series, ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ (Credit:Dorothy Hong/HBO) An adjacent dining area connects to the custom kitchen, which is outfitted with high-end stainless appliances and an eat-in island.Ī separate wing holds all four bedrooms, including a master suite sporting a walk-in closet and luxe bath with dual vanities and a glass-encased shower, while the landscaped grounds hold the original pool flanked by a sundeck and new pergola ideal for al fresco dining. 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Her videos went viral - even sparking the mega-popular “Oh, he got monneeeeyyyyy” meme - and eventually led to a job at BuzzFeed, where the former Second City improv student created yet more popular clips on subjects like the perks of being short (she’s a pint-sized 5 feet tall, by the way).įollowing her BuzzFeed gig, Brunson parlayed her newfound fame into a stint on the first season of HBO’s Emmy-nominated “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” along with roles on ABC’s “Single Parents” and The CW’s “iZombie.” She also penned a book of deeply personal and humorous essays about her unusual path to fame, titled “She Memes Well” and, most recently, the 32-year-old actor snagged a new deal with ABC to create, write, produce and star in “Abbott Elementary,” a 13-episode workplace comedy series set in a fictional Philadelphia public school.Īll of Brunson’s success - she’s been named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment,” and one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Gen” rising young stars of 2020 - has now led to the purchase of what looks to be her first residence, an unassuming albeit charming $1.5 million home in the suburban San Fernando Valley community of Valley Village.ĭescribed in the listing as an “iconic original Palm Springs-inspired midcentury modern residence with an L.A. Back in 2014, burgeoning West Philadelphia comedian Quinta Brunson moved to Los Angeles, snagged a day job as an Apple store technician and self-produced the comic Instagram series “The Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date” in her spare time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jay’s strange sense of humor appears regularly, like when he builds a perfect woman who “had an ass like Rosa Acosta” and “smelled like strawberries” on “Rough Love,” or when he’s absorbed by the flaws of Western civilization on “Run and Hide.” The rumors have been justified. Jay’s lines are clever and self-reflective, and his references are evergreen: “Fuck Bill O’Reilly and Rudy Giuliani,” he passionately raps on “New Illuminati.” It’s rewarding to be swept up in his aura, and to feel the magnitude of every strategically placed interlude, every space where the beat rides endlessly, and every roughly mixed verse. Somehow the record doesn’t suffer from the delay, if anything the often drumless production-heavy on somber piano melodies and lush samples-is timeless. When a slightly unfinished version of Jay Electronica’s Act II appeared this October, it had been a little over a decade after its initial slated release, and most fans had given up hope on it ever actually coming out. It was an album that was rumored to be rap’s next opus before it even materialized. Jay Electronica: Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) The old world that Dogleg wrote about sucks in its own way, but it’s the world they deserve. You air-drum the little hitch in “Fox” again and again across your steering wheel you throw your chest forward in your home-office at all the perfectly executed half-time breakdowns you do isometric lunges while Stoitsiadis sings about disintegrating. We’re left to sit alone and imagine what these songs should be doing. The fact that Melee conjures a year so different from the one we got is part of why it leaves such a mark: The histrionics of emo aren’t just dramatic, they’re now science fiction. Singer-songwriter Alex Stoitsiadis was supposed to be hollering his hooks over melodic post-hardcore guitars in roiling 250-cap clubs, and the scenes of heartbreak he described were supposed to be playing out for listeners in real life. –Simon ReynoldsĪ band’s impact shouldn’t be hypothetical, but here’s Dogleg, the debutants of Michigan emo, whose breakout year mostly took place in the imagination. Twice as Tall triumphs not so much for its substance but as a shimmering surface, a landslide victory for the politics of pleasure. ![]() “I no be politician/Me no like no politics,” Burna insists-and that rings true. But these Fela-like or Marley-esque moments tend to melt into the glide-and-glisten of the sound. ![]() Lyrically, Burna muses on fame, destiny, and, on “Monsters You Made,” the legacy of colonialism in Nigeria. The historical sweep of the music is equally broad, not simply focused on this-minute sounds but spanning decades of influences and collaborators-the latter ranging here from ancestral icon Youssou N’Dour to nineties legends like Timbaland and Diddy, to recent stars like Stormzy. Rhythmically, Burna’s Afro-fusion sound connects homebase Lagos to Kingston, Atlanta, and London. As befits an artist obsessed with being a superhero, Burna Boy’s music is thoroughly posthuman: much of its succulence comes from how the singer’s lilting cadences mesh with Auto-Tune. Afrobeats is a prime example of the future-pop that actually transpired, a hyper-digital sound far easier and oozier on the ear. Twentieth-century listeners imagined the music of the next millennium as a harsh, mechanistic grind or a frenzy of twitchy glitches. Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal Baby can jump from whining about middle-school crushes to name-dropping denim brands to attempting to encapsulate one of the most tense and unjust moments of our lifetimes. The final addendum came in June: the protest anthem “The Bigger Picture” is a jarring inclusion on an album that isn’t overtly political-and that also makes it perfect. Instantly, it felt more like an unfocused, loose, and chaotic mid-aughts Lil Wayne mixtape with memorable tracks like “All In,” where the flexes are brilliantly batshit (Lil Baby threatens to wreck his Lambo truck just to prove, to no one in particular, that it’s not rented). But with the addition of six songs on the deluxe edition in May, the record kicked dirt on the arbitrary and outdated rules of rap albums. In February, it was a memorable yet conventional 20-track Atlanta rap album. It’s taken time for Lil Baby’s My Turn to grow into the beautiful, sprawling mess that it is. ![]() |
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