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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598794738555764868</id><updated>2024-03-12T16:54:16.491-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anton Mccue</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Patria Macon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08243855431052138664</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598794738555764868.post-8290361194772743270</id><published>2022-04-17T06:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2022-04-17T06:00:37.336-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Local veterans worried about change in disability benefits for tinnitus, sleep apnea, mental health</title><content type='html'>&lt;section class=&quot;lead-story inner post&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding: 0px 0.5em; width: 812.281px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;taxonomy&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;headline&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;NEW YORK (WABC) -- Local veterans are concerned over the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs&#39; proposal to remove tinnitus as a stand-alone disability and to change the language surrounding a sleep apnea disability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;The VA made the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thedisabilitydoc.com/&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; in February and said in an email to veterans, &quot;The proposed updates to the rating schedule for these conditions will enable VA to incorporate modern medical data and terminology to provide Veterans with more accurate and consistent decisions. Veterans who currently receive compensation for a service-connected condition in these body systems will not have their disability rating impacted when the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities is updated.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;he VA projects it will save $57.1 billion over a 10-year-period with the updates to the tinnitus and sleep apnea language.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;It doesn&#39;t sit right with us that these changes are about to occur and we are left to believe that nothing&#39;s going to happen to us,&quot; said Army veteran John Rodriguez.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;Patrick Donohue, founder of veteran&#39;s outreach group Project 9 Line in Islip, said he has been trying to get more information from the VA about what medical studies they used to make the decisions and how the VA is proposing to save tens of billions of dollars while also, &quot;more accurately compensating veterans for their service-connected disabilities.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;Donohue fears that fewer veterans will be able to get disability benefits under the new rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;To take that away or make it more difficult for any vet to get these benefits is unfair,&quot; he said. Donohue said he is troubled by the fact that he said he knows veterans who had sleep apnea tests performed recently, but the VA is not issuing a decision on their cases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;adRectangle-pos-small-inline&quot; data-set=&quot;adAppend&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;placeholderWrapper adRectangle-pos-small-inline&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;withLazyLoading&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;Long Island veteran Shaun Thompson said he had a sleep apnea test performed two months ago. He just received a letter from the VA saying a decision about whether he should receive compensation is being &quot;deferred.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;Eyewitness News reached out to the VA requesting the various medical studies on which they based their proposals, but the VA said they could not get us the information by our deadline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;The VA is also proposing a reevaluation of mental health conditions based on &quot;a more robust and holistic approach that assesses how impactful the disability is to cognition, interpersonal relationships, task completion, life activities and self-care.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia Pro&amp;quot;, Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;The proposals cannot be approved until they go through a 60-day public comment period, which ends April 18.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;originBylineContainer&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: table-row; height: 30px; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;global-caption wabc image-caption byline&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; float: none; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: middle;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;originBylineContainer&quot; 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font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;While bright lights,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;glamorous fashion,&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;and cheering fans are all hallmarks of a walk down the red carpet, Oscars beauty secrets continue to mystify us, each star’s glowing complexion more blinding than the next on Hollywood’s biggest night. But trust that there are many steps leading up to a celebrity’s major glam moment, whether it’s the Oscars or another high-profile event.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;In order to put their best faces forward, &lt;a href=&quot;https://beautytipshalk.com/&quot;&gt;celebrities&lt;/a&gt; must put in the work for a healthy, luminous finish. “Prepping the skin before makeup is essential to get that smooth, effortless glow,” says&amp;nbsp;Shani Darden,&amp;nbsp;esthetician and founder of her eponymous skin care brand. “Keeping it healthy and happy in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;&quot;&gt;weeks&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;beforehand is essential.” With this in mind,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;&quot;&gt;Vogue&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;spoke with four celebrity facialists about how they’re prepping stars’ skin for the Oscars red carpets and beyond.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Didot, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.0285714em; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.125em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;&quot;&gt;Joanna Vargas&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;“Makeup needs a great palette for making you look perfect pre-event,” says celebrity facialist&amp;nbsp;Joanna Vargas. “Exfoliation and hydration are the key to glowing skin that you don’t have to cover too much with makeup.” Even though Vargas sees clients the day of a big event, she won’t perform rigorous extractions or heavy peels to avoid irritating skin. Furthermore, she advises clients to avoid any minimally invasive treatments, like laser or microneedling, or drinking alcohol the week of. “Drinking will make you puffy, it’s bad for your collagen, and it creates a lot of dehydration in the skin,” she says. “It’s not doing you any favors.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Container-imGeBO ftlPuP&quot; data-event-boundary=&quot;click&quot; data-event-click=&quot;{&amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;CNEInterludeEmbed&amp;quot;}&quot; data-include-experiments=&quot;true&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GaramondPremierPro, serif; font-size: 20px;&quot;&gt;Vargas, who founded her eponymous salon and skin care line, focuses on everything from her patented LED bed treatment to lymphatic drainage massages to help “sculpt, calm, and give the skin a glow.” On the day of an event, her prescribed regimen goes something like this: cleanse, exfoliate, apply a sheet mask, de-puff with a sculpting tool, use a LED device, apply a serum, and give yourself a facial massage. Her Oscars beauty secrets regimen starts with a&amp;nbsp;salicylic acid-infused cleanser, followed by a physical and chemical exfoliating mask to leave skin smooth—a formula she notes is great even for sensitive skin types. After an LED treatment, her soothing&amp;nbsp;Twilight Face Mask&amp;nbsp;adds a surge of soothing hydration, massaged in by the brand’s&amp;nbsp;Magic Glow Wand&amp;nbsp;to de-puff and reduce redness. And finally, an oil-based serum locks in moisture for smooth, supple skin.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/feeds/3648855707210767771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/4-celebrity-facialists-on-how-theyre.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/3648855707210767771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/3648855707210767771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/4-celebrity-facialists-on-how-theyre.html' title='4 Celebrity Facialists on How They’re Prepping Skin for the Oscars Red Carpet'/><author><name>Patria Macon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08243855431052138664</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598794738555764868.post-7479259070109921438</id><published>2022-04-17T01:11:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2022-04-17T01:11:27.455-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Day With Carl Craig, Detroit’s Techno Maestro</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Every time techno pioneer Carl Craig DJs, whether it’s a 5 am rave at the Berlin nightclub Panorama Bar or New York’s historic music pantheon Carnegie Hall, where he played for a sold-out crowd in mid-March, he reminds himself: “I will not show off!” Growing up in Detroit in the early ‘80s, he was a shy kid who occasionally found the courage to preen, but the girls or his friends always saw through his game. Today, at 52, Craig hasn’t forgotten those “social and mental beating[s]” from his youth. “I’ve never felt comfortable with that DJ as a Jesus-like superstar person,” he says. “I am more interested in the art of putting sounds together, so I am less of a performer but more of an engineer who happens to be all on stage.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;At a Manhattan café a few hours before the Carnegie Hall gig, which Craig played as part of its&amp;nbsp;ongoing Afrofuturism festival, the Grammy-nominated musician was ready for the first post-pandemic reunion with his Synthesize Ensemble, a quartet of keyboard players and the pianist Kelvin Sholar. His return to the DJ booth in August 2020, after nightlife was shut down for a half year, had felt like “delving back into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://technorenovation.com/&quot;&gt;energy&lt;/a&gt;;” a seated 10 pm performance—“an usually early time for me to be on stage,” he says—with his parents and siblings among the audience only doubled the thrill, even as this was likely to be a comparatively muted affair. Unlike his heavy-hitting improvised sets at clubs like London’s Ministry of Sound or Tokyo’s Space Lab Yellow, the concert at the ornate Midtown venue included low-key sheet music compositions played by the keyboard players.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Craig’s techno superstardom began at the abandoned warehouses of an economically dilapidated Detroit over three decades ago. At 18 years old, he bought his first synthesizer with his mother’s money and pieced together other equipment he needed to make electronic music through “begging, borrowing or stealing.” The robotic rhythm of Xerox machines was an influence, as well as the echoes of electrified beats booming across the Motor City’s burgeoning techno scene. Science fiction and futurism heavily occupied his vision—especially the dystopian noir universe in&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;&quot;&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;, which was “not different from Detroit with its rainy darkness and tall buildings.” Craig and his mentor Derrick May spent hours surrounded by knotted wires and piles of tools, as well as manga and comics like&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;&quot;&gt;Arkham Asylum&lt;/em&gt;, consuming art about other futures while composing their potential music.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Container-imGeBO ftlPuP&quot; data-event-boundary=&quot;click&quot; data-event-click=&quot;{&amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;CNEInterludeEmbed&amp;quot;}&quot; data-include-experiments=&quot;true&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Craig’s grandest node to his futuristic curiosities is perhaps his immersive light, sound, and repercussion installation&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;&quot;&gt;Party/After-Party&lt;/em&gt;, which debuted at the seminal art center Dia Beacon in early 2020. On the physical level, the musician paid homage to minimalist art pioneers such as Dan Flavin and Donal Judd with an immersive subterranean experience of light and energy for museum-goers, rather than clubbers. His dancing green and purple neons and electric tunes left the venue last summer, but Craig collaborated with Dia for a four-track vinyl release, out this summer. Extending the project onto a more familiar medium gives the artist the freedom to “push the limitations I had while composing for an interior.” The record, which features different mixes of the installation’s original 30-minute composition, furthers Craig’s flirtation with fine art and pushes the parameters of the hypnotic score outside of the physical space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-hidden=&quot;true&quot; class=&quot;ConsumerMarketingUnitThemedWrapper-kkMeXf hBFNZw consumer-marketing-unit consumer-marketing-unit--article-mid-content&quot; role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;consumer-marketing-unit__slot consumer-marketing-unit__slot--article-mid-content consumer-marketing-unit__slot--in-content&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;journey-unit&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: border-box;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/feeds/7479259070109921438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-day-with-carl-craig-detroits-techno.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/7479259070109921438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/7479259070109921438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-day-with-carl-craig-detroits-techno.html' title='A Day With Carl Craig, Detroit’s Techno Maestro'/><author><name>Patria Macon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08243855431052138664</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598794738555764868.post-8892684704826007411</id><published>2022-04-16T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2022-04-16T08:37:09.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hilton to Open 10 Lifestyle Properties by 2025</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Hilton Worldwide has signed to add 10 new properties of lifestyle brands Canopy, Tempo and Motto in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, the company announced this week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.75em; transition: opacity 250ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;In the U.S., Hilton plans to open in 2024 one Canopy and two Tempo properties in Nashville, along with a Canopy in Sioux Falls, S.D, Tempo properties in Memphis and Myrtle Beach, S.C. Hilton plans to open a Tempo hotel in San Diego in 2025.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.75em; transition: opacity 250ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Internationally, Hilton plans to open in 2023 a Canopy in Cannes, France, and in 2024 Motto properties are in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Recife.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.75em; transition: opacity 250ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://lelylifestyles.com/&quot;&gt;lifestyle&lt;/a&gt; category, Canopy is the most established of the three lifestyle brands,&amp;nbsp;having launched in 2014. Hilton has 35 existing Canopy properties around the globe and 25 in its pipeline. The company before the pandemic in 2020 indicated that corporate transient represented 12 percent to 15 percent of the brand&#39;s business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.75em; transition: opacity 250ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Hilton’s newest lifestyle brand,&amp;nbsp;Tempo, launched in 2020, and Motto,&amp;nbsp;originally inspired by hostels, launched in 2018.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.75em; transition: opacity 250ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;According to Hilton, the Canopy, Tempo and Motto signings represent nearly 20 percent of its lifestyle category’s total pipeline of 55 hotels, 55 percent of which are U.S.-based. The rest will be based in Europe and the Caribbean/Latin America and Asia/Pacific regions. The company expects these brands to more than double over the next 10 years, expanding into at least 15 new countries and territories.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/feeds/8892684704826007411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/hilton-to-open-10-lifestyle-properties.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/8892684704826007411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6598794738555764868/posts/default/8892684704826007411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://antonmccue.blogspot.com/2022/04/hilton-to-open-10-lifestyle-properties.html' title='Hilton to Open 10 Lifestyle Properties by 2025'/><author><name>Patria Macon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08243855431052138664</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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