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Top TV Shows Today, Jan 11: Vanderpump Rules, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser

Our Top TV Shows Today, January 11 are: Vanderpump Rules. Today: Social. 8:00 pm. BRAVO. From Wikipedia: Vanderpump Rules follows Lisa Vanderpump as she divides her time between her home life and hectic business. It also encompasses the employees at SUR as they work on building their futures plus the drama that occurs between them.

The cast of Vanderpump Rules.

Our second choice is for The Bachelor. 8:00 pm. ABC.

And our last recommendation is for The Biggest Loser. Today’s episode: Taste Test; Keep on Truckin’. 9:00 pm. NBC.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Top TV Shows Today, January 11 Video: Vanderpump Rules

Famous Birthdays Today, Jan 11: Cody Simpson, Mary J. Blige, Emile Heskey, Kyle Richards

He’s great, fantastic and everything else. He’s Cody Simpson and he’s our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, January 11. Cody Robert Simpson was born in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Cody Simpson!

Famous Birthays Today, January 11: Cody Simpson at the Aria Awards 2013 in Sydney Australia.. Source: flickr. Author: Eva Rinaldi

Take every opportunity that comes your way and most importantly have fun with it.

Cody Simpson

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I’m always saying yes.

Cody Simpson

More famous birthdays today, January 11: Mary J. Blige, R&B singer born in New York City in 1971; Emile Heskey, soccer player born in Leicester, England in 1978; and Kyle Richards, one of the Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Well, it’s a bad day here but we wish them all the best and happy birthday. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, January 11 Video: Cody Simpson – New Problems (Official Video)

Longmire season 5 is coming with longer episodes and a positive look

Longmire season 5 is coming on Netflix in the second half of this year. What we can expect from the upcoming episodes? Writer Tony Tost, who has been updating fans on Twitter, promises a good story, full of new adventures but optimistic.

Longmire season 5 is coming

Some rumors were saying that Longmire Season 5 will be gloom, doom, and pain, and many followers were disappointed. Tost advised fans against believing anything they read and the only truth is that the upcoming season will provide the answers to the major questions left during Season 4 finale. Especially about the identity of the intruder that cut the romantic meeting between Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) and Donna Sue Monahan (Ally Walker.)

Longmire TV show

Who is the intruder? Walker Browning (Callum Keith Renni) or Jacob Nighthorse (A Martinez)? Another person? We need to wait and see!

Anyway, Longmire season 5 will have longer episodes, around an hour-long. Thus, they will allow a deeper narrative. Because definitely, the show needs more air time to give the story more profundity.

What do you think? What do you expect from Longmire season 5? Tell us your opinion now!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

** Longmire TV show focus on Walt Longmire, a Wyoming county sheriff who returns to work after his wife’s mysterious death. He is assisted by his friends and his daughter while he investigates major crimes within his jurisdiction. Have you ever seen Longmire? It’s worth!

Longmire season 4 was made available for viewing online via Netflix streaming on September 10, 2015. A success! And on October 30, 2015, Netflix announced that it had renewed the show for a fifth season. Everybody is excited and waiting for it! A modern Western full of thrilling moments!

Artist SH Raza exhibits his latest works at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi

Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of paintings by veteran artist SH Raza. The exhibition includes some of the latest works by the artist that highlight his continuous engagement and experimentation with the formal elements in painting. In his encounters with the movements of Western Modernism as an artist who spent many years in France before moving back to India, he has successfully evoked elements from Tantrism (of Indian Scriptures) in tandem with the brush strokes inspired from Expressionism.

Nirantar by artist SH Raza

In the current series of paintings, one can witness the subdued color compositions emerging from a central circle (Bindu) which has defined a huge body of his work. The Bindu has been a prime motif in Raza’s paintings and it highlights his interest in symbols, energy, birth and rebirth. The simplicity of the form allows for a regeneration of compositions with different colors and techniques.

Another thread in Raza’s works has been an interest in the landscape, and in one of the works, he brings together the gestural strokes of his landscape with the black Bindu and uses text to form a narrative about the black Bindu as a lover who has come from the sky to the earth upon his request. Raza continues to challenge the boundaries of his own art with these powerful and playful series of paintings.

Artist SH Raza exhibits his latest works at Vadehra Art Gallery. From 15 January to 24 February, 2016. D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi.

About The Artist:

Born in 1922, SH Raza has created his own text for modernism creating a large repertoire of symbols, colour, tonalities, extended spaces and the vocabulary by incorporating international sensibilities. Images from nature and specifically the forests of Madhya Pradesh retain a prominent place in his mind long after he left India in 1950. He left for Paris on a French Government scholarship and studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1950 to 1953. He maintained an intense and powerful bond with the forests, rivers and parched earth of India. In 1940s when Raza was pursuing his diploma at J. J. School of art, images of the large metropolis of Bombay became his first source of inspiration. He evolved from painting expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones and from his fluent watercolours of landscapes and townscapes executed in the early 40’s he moved towards a more expressive language painting landscapes of the mind. Raza abandoned the expressionistic landscape for a geometric abstraction and the Bindu series. His experiments were influenced by the new medium of acrylic, with which he began his new approach and experiments on canvas. His canvases from the 60s and 70s can be viewed as works in transition of both using abstraction and figurative and the way of treating the canvas.

Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: the perfect attire

A Dinner Table at Night, 1884, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. John Singer Sargent

the perfect attire

their lives

now the imitation

of their wardrobes

lives of meticulous perfection

lives of appropriate attire

not too low

not too high

not too anything

lives of soundless severity

coiffed and polished

and neatly crisply put away

for another day

to be shown displayed

at the right time

the right place

with the right people

the passion of their

life now relegated

to the accessories

on the table of marriage

a touch of red here and there

in just the right spot

artificially lit

dimmed at the switch

coloring flaws invisible

a crystalline heart empty

except for special occasions

holding a bouquet of

life plucked from the earth

life within bounds

the decanter of life’s experiences

only partially drunk

not too much

not too little

just right

he has his place

she, hers

and never the twain to meet

but for the neat linen fabric

of the dinner table

he feigns not his disdain

of her of their life together

his chair turned and open

ready for quick retreat

for his withdrawal

from her

from them

and she

she has her place

and lives it well

pulled tightly against

the hard surfaces of her life

of their marriage

the hard surfaces of him

her neck strained

strained from the

strained reality of

their marriage

of her strained existence

the downward slant of

facial expressions painting

the family portrait

with vague memories

of youth’s precious jewels

held in place by the smallest

most discreet remnants of

sparkle in the imitation locks

and her porcelain hands laid in

perfect unison perfectly

grasping the holy sacrament

in covert defiance of dionysus

and so they sit in silence

indifferent apathetic silence

in their indifferent marriage

their indifferent lives

dressed in their

perfect attire

of

black

~

Famous Birthdays Today, Jan 10: Hrithik Roshan, Rod Stewart, Tamina Snuka, Carissa Alvarado

Well, our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, January 10 is for the Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan. He was born in Mumbai, India in 1974. He’s handsome and a great actor. From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Hrithik Roshan!

Famous Birthdays Today, January 10: Hrithik at the launch of Rado watch. November 2013: Source: Bollywood Hungama

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it’s for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

Hrithik Roshan

It’s not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don’t look in the mirror at all, and I’m getting there.

Hrithik Roshan

More famous birthdays today, January 10: Rod Stewart, a great voice, a great guy, singer born in London in 1946; Tamina Snuka, wrestler; and Carissa Alvarado, pop singer born in California in 1991.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

You shouldn’t be in the music business if you’re posing.

Rod Stewart

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I’ll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It’s never been easy for me.

Rod Stewart

Famous Birthdays Today, January 10 Video: Dheere Dheere Se Meri Zindagi Video Song (OFFICIAL) Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor | Yo Yo Honey Singh

Belfast exhibitions. GROUPSHOW seeks to offer up an alternative mode of representation

Belfast exhibitions. GROUPSHOW seeks to offer up an alternative mode of representation. From 14th January to 13th February, 2016. Opening; 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

Belfast exhibitions. GROUPSHOW

Re-positioning the notion of privacy within the slippages and misreadings of history and interpersonal relationships, ‘G R O U P S H O W’ questions the legitimacy of the group show-format as a potential space for productive exchange.

Acknowledging a tendency in artists to deny they are part of something recognised and defined by others, the exhibition seeks to offer up an alternative mode of representation within an initially restrictive curatorial format.

The attempt to work is the work itself. Unresolved is the better way; a series of loose connections that seem to work together – or will do for now.

The exhibition is more or less the result of the sum of all these parts.

Curated by Phillip McCrilly.

Stuart Calvin; Christopher Campbell; Erin Hagan; Brónach McGuiness; Sinead McKeever; Paul Moore; Sharon Murphy; John Rainey; Michael Sheppard.

Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU, Northern Ireland.

Aidan Turner is smart playing as Philip Lombard in ‘And Then There Were None’

Aidan Turner rocks once again. ‘And Then There Were None’ is a British drama thriller miniseries broadcasted on BBC One from 26 to 28 December 2015. Turner plays as Philip Lombard, an amoral man very different to Captain Ross Poldark, but his performance is so good as this last one.

Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard in ‘And Then There Were None’

In 1939, eight people are invited to an isolated island by a Mr. and Mrs. Owen. All of them are going to be haunted by their past crimes. Philip Lombard is accused of murdering 21 men in East Africa for diamonds. A crime he admits and openly justifies. In fact, he is the only one among this sordid group of assassins who confesses his crime from the very beginning. He is strong and knows the consequences of killing. According to him, life is for resolute people.

Aidan Turner plays smart. His expression is always calm but we feel the horror around us. Nobody can escape of this hell in Devon, England. A great performance!

Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard in ‘And Then There Were None’

The three-part program was written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Craig Viveiros. ‘And Then There Were None’ is based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name.

Despite criticism ahead of the program’s launch from the Daily Mail that the production diverged from Agatha Christie’s idea, ‘And Then There Were None’ received critical acclaim. And it was a ratings success for the BBC, with the first episode netting over 6 million viewers and the two subsequent episodes netted over 5 million viewers.

Have you seen this miniseries. Don’t miss it! It’s worth!

Aidan Turner in ‘And Then There Were None.’ Take a look!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

“Ten little Injuns standin’ in a line,

One toddled home and then there were nine…”

HBO News. Drama series Vinyl debuts Feb. 14

HBO DRAMA SERIES VINYL, FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS MARTIN SCORSESE, MICK JAGGER AND TERENCE WINTER, DEBUTS FEB. 14, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

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Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Terence Winter, Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, John Melfi, Allen Coulter And George Mastras Executive Produce; Winter Serves As Showrunner

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Richie Finestra, the founder and president of American Century Records, is trying to save his company and soul without destroying everyone in his path. With his passion for music and discovering talent gone by the wayside, and American Century on the precipice of being sold, he has a life-altering event that reignites his love of music, but severely damages his personal life.

From Academy Award® winner and Emmy® winner Martin Scorsese (“The Departed,” HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”), Golden Globe winner and Emmy® nominee Mick Jagger (HBO’s “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown”) and Academy Award® nominee and multiple Emmy® winner Terence Winter (“The Wolf of Wall Street”; HBO’s “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire”), VINYL is a ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business of 1970s New York at the dawn of punk, disco and hip-hop.

The HBO drama series kicks off its ten-episode seasonSUNDAY, FEB. 14 (9:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT) with a pilot directed by Scorsese, from a story by Rich Cohen & Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, and teleplay by Terence Winter and George Mastras, followed by hour-long episodes debuting subsequent Sundays at the same time.

VINYL stars two-time Emmy® winner Bobby Cannavale (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”), as Richie Finestra, SAG Award nominee Olivia Wilde (HBO’s “Doll and Em”) and multiple Emmy® winner Ray Romano (“Everybody Loves Raymond”). Scorsese, Jagger and Winter executive produce along with Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, John Melfi, Allen Coulter and George Mastras. Winter serves as showrunner.

Richie Finestra’s wife, Devon (Olivia Wilde), a former actress and model who was part of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene in 1960s New York City, is now a suburban mother of two. Richie’s personal and professional crises put additional stress on their relationship, inspiring a desire to return to her Bohemian roots.

Meanwhile, as head of promotions and a partner at American Century, Zak Yankovich’s (Ray Romano) experience in the industry and hundred-dollar handshakes make him an invaluable part of the company, though he works in Richie’s shadow. Their professional relationship is strained by disagreements over how to guide the company through the music landscape of 1973.

Other series regulars include: Ato Essandoh as Lester Grimes, Richie’s first client in the early 1960s; Max Casella as Julius “Julie” Silver, head of A&R of American Century, who struggles to stay hip and relevant in the young man’s game of rock ‘n’ roll; P.J. Byrne as Scott Levitt, company attorney and junior partner at American Century, whose legal maneuvering and abrasive personality continually test Richie’s patience; J.C. MacKenzie as Skip Fontaine, head of sales and partner at American Century, whose savvy and sometimes questionable business practices inflate American Century’s profits; Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Ingrid, a member of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene in the 1960s, and a former friend of Devon and Richie; Juno Temple as Jamie Vine, an ambitious A&R assistant at American Century, who uses her keen abilities to blend into the various subcultures of the New York music scene; Jack Quaid as Clark Morelle, a junior A&R executive with misguided ambition; James Jagger as Kip Stevens, founder and lead singer of The Nasty Bits, a raw New York City rock band; and Paul Ben-Victor as Maury Gold, Richie’s mentor and owner of Rondelay Records.

 

Episode #1: “Pilot”

Debut: SUNDAY, FEB. 14 (9:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT)

New York City, 1973. Together with his partners, Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale), president of American Century Records, is on the verge of selling his struggling company to German Polygram, in a deal that includes an impending distribution agreement with Led Zeppelin. But after a disastrous meeting, it’s clear that the sale is in jeopardy.

Heading home to Greenwich, Conn., Richie takes a detour to an unplanned reunion with Lester Grimes (Ato Essandoh), a musical artist with whom he has a complicated history. With thoughts of Lester weighing on him, Richie heads to the office, where, in addition to the Led Zeppelin situation, he learns of another problem: Bombastic Frank “Buck” Rogers (Andrew Dice Clay), owner of a chain of radio stations, is about to boycott American Century due to a perceived slight by one of the label’s artists.

In crisis mode, Richie gives his A&R department the mandate to find new acts, prompting office assistant Jamie Vine (Juno Temple) to bring in The Nasty Bits, a proto-punk band unlike anything anyone has ever heard.

Meanwhile, Richie enlists thuggish independent promotion man Joe Corso (Bo Dietl) to help with the Buck Rogers situation. After a three-day coke binge, Corso summons the sober Richie to Rogers’ home, where things go horribly awry.

Despite American Century’s troubles, Richie learns that Polygram has agreed to buy the company after all. That night, with both Lester and the Buck Rogers debacle on his mind, he goes violently off the wagon, trashing the den of his Connecticut home and severely jeopardizing his relationship with his wife, Devon (Olivia Wilde), and their two children.

Richie ultimately finds himself coked out and on his own, drawn by a crowd of young people to the Mercer Arts Center in Manhattan, where he sees The New York Dolls perform, a night that sets him on a completely new course.

Story by Rich Cohen & Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter; teleplay by Terence Winter and George Mastras; directed by Martin Scorsese.

VINYL will also be available on HBO NOW and HBO GO.

Video: VINYL Season 1 TEASER TRAILER (2015) Martin Scorsese HBO Series

 

Tech. UK Cybersecurity Startup Crypta Labs Appoints Dr Helen Marsden to Advisory Board

Dr Helen Marsden

Crypta Labs, an award winning UK-based mobile security company developing a Quantum (True) Random Number Generator used to seed encryption on mobile devices, has appointed Dr Helen Marsden to its Board of Advisors.

In her capacity as a board adviser, Dr Marsden will draw upon her extensive experience working on research and development projects, as well as her experience in liaising with partner academic, government and pan-government institutions. Dr Marsden also takes a keen interest in how technology (particularly mobile) can be used to improve healthcare, believing that data security is of crucial importance in this arena, saying, “The Internet of Things has a huge potential to revolutionise healthcare, but with it comes with the potential for sensitive data security breaches and even malicious hacking of devices, with potentially fatal outcomes. Recent examples, such as the FDA warning on Hospira infusion pumps and the disabling of the wireless capabilities of Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s pacemaker, indicate an increasing awareness and concern around medical device vulnerabilities. Manufacturers of technological devices have a responsibility to design security into their system from the outset.”

Dr Marsden said of her appointment, “It is a pleasure to be working with such an innovative technology company, to develop a truly unique product at the cutting edge of cybersecurity.  The security challenges presented by the Internet of Things is an issue which needs our full attention, and I believe Crypta Labs are best placed to deliver an effective solution.”

Dr Marsden’s professional background is scientific, having worked in both pharmaceutical corporates (GSK, Merck KGaA) and academic institutions (the Medical Research Council), specialising in clinical research. More recently, Dr Marsden has developed her scientific expertise for a more commercial application, and is founder and director of Angel investment and consultancy group, HI-ventures, which supports SMEs by designing and implementing clinical research activities.

Commenting on the appointment of Dr Marsden as a Board Advisor, Crypta Labs’ CEO Joe HQ Luong said, “We are thrilled to have Helen joining the Advisory Board at Crypta Labs. Helen brings with her over 13 years’ experience in both the government grants sector and helping tech startups. She joins us a critical time where we are looking to launch our product this year.”

ABOUT CRYPTA LABS

Crypta Labs is a mobile security startup, developing a Quantum Random Number Generator; this is a true random number using the quantum property of light. Random numbers are used to seed encryption. Crypta Labs is the only company in the world, that they know of, which is commercialising the QRNG on a mobile device.

– Winner Cyber Security Awards for Cyber Security Startup of the Year 2015

– Finalist at the Citi Mobile Award Challenge 2015

– TechUK and InfoSec Top 10 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Startup 2015

– Cambridge Wireless Discovering Startups Finalist

Crypta Labs is currently fundraising through Angels Den to build their own Quantum Random Number Generator.