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Fort Lean Is Already a Standout at CMJ

Karsten Moran for The New York TimesThe band Fort Lean performs at Cameo Gallery.

The typical misunderstanding about the CMJ Music Marathon is that it’s a festival devoted to indie rock. In the past, maybe, that would have been fair, but in recent years it’s bent at the borders, allowing for hip-hop, electronic music, sounds from around the globe and more.

Still, growth notwithstanding, most of the bands playing this year’s iteration of the festival would fall under that heading, even if grudgingly. That includes Fort Lean, which performed at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg on Wednesday night, one of a handful of shows it’s scheduled to play this week.
But there’s nothing indie about Fort Lean, nothing small, nothing defeatist like that descriptor can often code. This is a big band playing small rooms that, especially compared with many of the acts performing this week, feels comically out of place.
With not very much under its belt besides a great self-released EP from earlier this year — still available free at its Bandcamp page — Fort Lean is already a standout. The frontman, Keenan Mitchell, has a huge, glorious voice — washed out but not sleazy, embodying hope and triumph. He’s a classic romantic, and time and again during this show, he appeared as if he might burst.
Maybe it was just his hair, though, a springy tangle of bleached curls, just this side of worrisome — it recalled rock icons of the 1980s, a bit off for Fort Lean’s sound, which at least in part suggests the ambition of 1990s Brit pop with some of the spaceyness of 1970s American rock. Those styles coalesced during this show, especially on the explosive version of “Beach Holiday.” But the high point came during “Dreams (Never Come True),” which showed just how beautiful Mr. Mitchell sounds when he’s let down.

At a Polite CMJ, Trash Talk’s Aggression Is a Relief

Some things happen at Trash Talk shows that don’t happen at other CMJ shows. Theirs is the show most likely to start at an insanely late hour, the show where you are most likely to get punched in the head by the lead singer, the show where you are most likely to receive a flier marked #OCCUPYCMJ bemoaning the stranglehold of corporations over various aspects of the music business, from retail outlets to radio to touring.

Thursday night — oh, who are we kidding? Friday morning — Trash Talk exploded all over the tiny basement of Cake Shop, which may want to rethink the height of its stage. Its just a few inches off the ground, which made it easy for Lee Spielman and his super-long hair to fly into the crowd, or stomp into it, or for the crowd to fly into him, or try to take his microphone.

This set, part of the showcase for Life or Death PR, barely nudged past 20 minutes, with half of that devoted to song dedications and the catching of breath. Trash Talk play visceral, sprightly and surprisingly flexible hardcore, with every piston firing at top speed. At one point during the show, the band’s drummer broke either his drum pedal or his kick drum — it was tough to tell — and at least twice, Mr. Spielman’s microphone went silent, leaving him screaming to himself. At one point he was maybe quoting Waka Flocka Flame. Throughout, he remained calm, even humane, even as his body was at war.

For a CMJ that thrives on politeness — open-minded and buzz-susceptible people happily herding from one small space to the next to anoint bands they will then herd to see in larger spaces — this was more than a relief. In the context of hardcore shows, maybe it would sit in the middle, but in the context of this week, it was a declaration of aggression. It was precisely the sort of show that the TV behind the Cake Shop bar was made for. That TV is small and grainy and displays what looks like surveillance camera footage of the stage. It looked like an episode of “Oz.”

As ever, a Trash Talk show was an opportunity for masculinist ritual. The show was one circle pit after the next, and there’s was a ferocious intimacy between band and crowd. At one point, Mr. Spielman was crowd surfing (in this low-ceilinged venue, no small feat) and grabbed a fan by the hair as they screamed lyrics together; later, he allowed a fan to sing some lines, then the fan got excited and grabbed the microphone for himself, and seconds later Mr. Spielman all but tackled him to get it back.

This was easily the most communal show of the night, and probably the festival. Before the last song, Mr. Spielman wanted to share even more. “Get on the stage,” he said encouragingly, warmly even. “Get busy with me.”

Design for the Poor.

 

I write in Sunday’s Arts & Leisuresection about an ambitious and excellent design show devoted to what might seem like an unlikely topic: improving slum conditions in some of the poorest parts of the world.

The show was organized by Cynthia Smith, a curator at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, which is closed for renovations for a couple of years. Hence, the exhibition is at the United Nations, where I also recall seeing a memorable display a few years ago of photographs by James Nachtwey, the great war photographer, who has borne witness for decades to just about every calamity in the world.
I mention it because I suspect that heading to the U.N. to wade through texts and videos about poverty and disease may sound like homework. But just as the eloquence and humanity of Mr. Nachtwey’s pictures made a visit to his exhibit so much more than educational, the inventiveness and scale of the projects in Ms. Smith’s show make the experience uplifting and even thrilling. It really is a thrill to discover that faced as we are with massive urban migration and rapidly expanding slums, there are big success stories that affirm the power of simple ideas.
Among the simplest is just plain listening to the clients, in this case the residents of these informal settlements, and including them as full-fledged partners in the process of design and urban renewal. Architects have spent too much time lately listening only to each other. “Basically architects have just been talking to architects,” is how Jeanne Gang, an architect and a freshly minted MacArthur Foundation fellow, put it to me the other morning.
But not all architects have been so self-absorbed, as this show points out. That’s what Ms. Smith has observed. I hope to see for myself soon some of the places she describes, especially in South America and Asia. Speaking of which, I’ve heard from some readers wondering whether and how much my new job as The Times’s architecture critic will take me away from New York — a good question.
Here’s how I look at it: New York is my hometown and the greatest subject, urbanistically, that I can imagine. It’s my pleasure, privilege and my job to cover it – all of it, not just the glamorous parts – with particular attention. But I expect to travel a lot, across the country and around the globe. After spending the last four years based in Berlin, and much of that time on airplanes crisscrossing Europe and the Middle East, I admit it’s been nice to spend my first few weeks settling back home, seeing the city where I was born and raised with (as close as I can come to) fresh eyes. There’s a lot to catch up with here. And to write about.

What Is Forex And What All The Hype About Scam Artists Forex

Forex. We see this word on the Internet these days too. Marketers have a field day selling forex systems that do not run to "ordinary people" Into the "traders mind ', despite what the false promises of a complaint. DONE! Most programs you can buy some forex online trading in forex scams . Why is it cheating? Why marketing have turned to retail forex trading (which is something of a non-institutional investor in the Forex market trades), as part of the vehicle, "the dream" can be achieved. Since the market does not it does, the Forex is destined to become a dream Stealer 21 century, many potential retailers.

This is the harsh reality. And those of you who have tried some or many of the dozens of "breakthrough strategies Forex" is not the case. Because a trader is buying a $ 97 ebook or online Forex robot $ 197 and the creation of an easy fortune. Trading has intelligence, discipline and persistence that traders learn more real cold, hard foul, painful loss.

The truth of the matter is that Forex trading as a career is a strange race. Currency trading floors are not the most important equipment investment institutions. Of course, there is room for specialists in flux, but at the end of the day, large volumes simply reflect that it is almost impossible to make money in Forex, but the transactions will be sized for speculators. Why Forex? You can go to private equity, stock trading, derivatives, complexes, such as interest rate swaps or even a career largely out of finance, as a lawyer for the family doctor or a realtor.

But many people get caught in the flood of forex dream for sale is conducted through the Internet. And it's a virus in the true sense, not only in terms of marketing. Prey on vulnerable people - those who are financially hard up, those who are compulsive gamblers or drug addicts may, people who earned their way and seek to invest their money to grow - all can become victims any forex scams Internet.

So I went to Hong Kong and I interviewed a group of traders, investors, risk managers, auditors and general managers of some research and the way I've found some people involved in Forex trading. If you really want to become a Forex trader, you must become an operator. It is not something everyone can do. "If you really want to make money by sitting in front of the screen." - CEO of private equity firm U.S. - Prior to full-time trader.

This is different than the "Forex trading dreamstealers" would have us believe, right? Connect your legal on the results and voila! You are now ready to use their own ATMs. Yes, and it was Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, it was actually Gandhi. Go rip his grandmother taught him to be a trap! Do not fool people. Negotiate like a business means you must work very hard on the development of the discipline, with the capital necessary (do not make the mistake of thinking that will make high degree of leverage, or trade mini-lots or worse, many micro-!) and lose a lot of money before finally getting his head. It's a long, painful and difficult for most traders and there are no shortcuts.

Would you rather I lied? I did not. But it is better that you read this now than later.

what is forex

Forex is simply a change of currency. When you need to do this? When traveling abroad for vacation or business. You have to change your money in your country's currency to the currency of the country you are visiting. This exchange can be used to explain what the currency is about.

When you reach the money-changer, you can see the currency pair on the board shows how much you get for the amount you want to change. When you change money, you do not make the re-Forex Trading. You can buy or sell money you have.

Now, the Forex market is huge. And 'the largest financial market in the world. 4 trillion daily volume of trading in the Forex is much higher than the stock market, which is 74 billion the value of the volume traded each day. That's why you hear a great opportunity to pay? If we can only take a small number 4000000000000 that every single day, it would be great?

Now we say it is very different from the stock market or forex is the future as an interbank market. This means it is an OTC market where there is no single universal exchange for a given currency pair. This market operates 24 hours a day five days a week. The exact time will vary depending on the forex broker you use.

This is the European session. When finished, the Asian session or U.S. session start. So no need to wait for the free market to start trading as necessary to stock trading.

How can currency trading? It is very simple. What you need to do is find forex brokers that you feel comfortable. The corridor will provide the software to install the trading platform on your computer. Obviously, you have to have a stable internet connection for trading. Once your account is verified, you can go ahead and fund your account. Unlike brokers allow different minimum deposit. Some go as low as $ 100 to open a micro account, but that can not be a good idea. Choosing a broker is one of the most important Forex trading, as facilitated diffusion through the corridors are all different. So choose wisely. Just for your information, I choose FX Primus, a runner who is audited by Ernst & Young.

In the end, you should know that a lot to do with the ability to earn a high risk. This is very true, and forex, and starters, there are risks out there, the market only the amount you're willing to lose. Do not start trading and to put all your money immediately.

Money Management For The Exchange Of Foreign Currencies

Money management is a strategy that investors were not used to produce the greatest amount of interest to generate value. Its purpose is to reduce the number of companies and individuals to spend a non-significant items, which are pools of raw materials, long-term portfolios, and the standard of living. It ensures that the money spent is worth it.

Money management, when used in investment management, dealing with high-risk investors take in situations where there is no certainty. Helps answer the question of how much wealth the investor is positioned so that an investor satisfaction is maximized. It 'also behind the success of futures and exchange system actions.

The key to successful trading is money management. Having a trading plan teaches discipline to stick with the intention of creating a balance between greed and fear and feelings. Most investors are reluctant to invest, but they do not know what to do when they come in the Forex market. Coming with a business plan and following it, an investor is guided on what to do if uncertainties arise.

The concept of investors manage their properties in the concept of management. Investors are attracted to the Forex currency trading because of the leverage it provides. A huge amount of money can be earned even if the investment is low. You can import all of the balance, more capital is applied. The total can be reduced, but also reduces risks for investors for losses.

The amount at risk on a trade, depends on the investor's financial objectives, in terms of size, risk taking, and how the amount is in the commercial. Approximately 5% -7% on a trade by trader risk is generally conservative. This type of risk requires accurate inputs and outputs, or a larger amount of capital. By increasing the risk that the investor can take market fluctuations more and more influence. Remember that if he / she has a higher percentage of risk tolerance for losses he / she must obtain a performance equivalent to that of return loss. Risk tolerance of 50% of the loss means that you must have a 100% return to get the 50% loss of return. The ultimate goal should be realistic, if the investor wants to assume more risk.

Stop-loss is also important to manage their money. The investor must know when to stop trading. He / she is a pre-stop and is disciplined enough to keep it. Setting an arbitrary arrest is usually a bad idea. Stops must be set a stop price that fits the nature of the market. If the size behalf of the investor's risk tolerance is too small for the market risk is necessary, then he / she has to find other markets for his / her trading plan is suitable.

In brief, a trading plan should be in order for the negotiation of investors to succeed. The percentage that an investor must be willing to risk a trade should the market and your trading plan / her. The investor's risk tolerance and the size of the account must match the market is trading in investors. By focusing on two factors brings balance to the commercial and guarantees, to some extent the success of the investor's exchange operations.