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Returning back to the ART stage to direct, Matthew Refermat has assembled a strong ensemble featuring company alumni Jordan Levin (AMERICAN IDIOT) as ‘Leo Max Frank’ and Melissa Levin (AMERICAN IDIOT; HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS THEN KILL THEM) as his wife ‘Lucille’. Tim Goehrig (CARRIE; RUST BELT GROTESQUE) also returns to ART/WNY’s stage as ‘Governor John Slaton’ with Nick Lama (JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR; BEHANDING IN SPOKANE) as the prosecuting attorney ‘Hugh Dorsey’. Making their ART/WNY debut Marisa Caruso as ‘Mrs. Frances Phagan’ with Lucas DeNies, Christopher Cummings, Brittney Bassett. and Elise Vullo as ‘Mary Phagan and Brandon Williamson as “Newt Lee’ as well as Talia Mobley (HEATHERS) rounds out the ensemble. Donald Jenczka (HEATHERS, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, MEET ME IN ST LOUIS) returns to ART/WNY as the music director.

After this insightful episode I fully expect to be hearing about the dangers of Dihydrogen monoxide in future programs. Did you know for example it has been found in water supply pipes to all mayor cities in Australia.

Director Candice Kogut has assembled an outstanding leading cast featuring, alumni Madalyn Teal (JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR) as ‘Veronica’, company newcomer Joe Russi as ‘JD’, ART/WNY choreographer-in-residence Carly Luksch as ‘Chandler’, alumni Kelly O’Hara (JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR) as ‘McNamara’, with ART/WNY debutantes Talia Mobley as ‘Duke’, Parker Welling as ‘Kurt’, Jake Grear as ‘Ram’ and Kaeli McGinnis as ‘Martha’, ART/WNY alumnis Katy Miner (HELLO AGAIN, FIRST LADY SUITE) as ‘Mrs Flemming’, Nick Lama (A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR) as ‘Ram’s Dad’, and Rich Kraemer (THE UNDERPANTS, FLOYD COLLINS) as ‘Kurt’s Dad’ will round off the leads. Ensemble includes ART/WNY first-timers Noah Allen, Robert Barksdale, Allison Barsi, Amanda Barsi, Claudia Calieri, Joseph Lotocki, Michael McCormick, Quinn McGillion , Jenna Pilecki, Lucy SanGeorge and Elizabeth Teal.

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‘Cryptocurrency could well be the backbone of the future digital economy. It depends on low-cost energy and we can provide that with our abundant hydrocarbon energy,’ he said.”

Saturday, March 16th: The Town Pants with special guests: The Probables – St. Paddy’s Day Party -Doors: 8:00pm, show: 9:00pm -Tickets: $17 ADV/$22 DOS -Ages: 18 Immediately following the 2018 sold

Shi Qixuan, a 17-year-old boy who spent a couple of years in Guangdong and Xiamen as a child, wanders in. On his phone, he shows me the free software he has downloaded to “jump the wall” and look at mainland-blocked sites when in Xiamen. All three of the students use similar software. “Though it’s still slowed down sometimes,” Shi says. To keep in touch with Chinese friends, they use WeChat, a mainland app; for their Taiwanese friends, it’s the Japanese app Line. (There is an affection for Japan in Taiwan—another, not insignificant, difference with China. Taiwanese remember the Japanese mainly as relatively benign colonizers of the island from 1895 to 1945; in popular memory, they are much better behaved than Chiang’s Nationalist government which followed them.)

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While I was in London, Friston gave a talk at a quantitative trading firm. About 60 baby-faced stock traders were in attendance, rounding out the end of their workday. Friston described how the free energy principle could model curiosity in artificial agents. About 15 minutes in, he asked his listeners to raise a hand if they understood what he was saying. He counted only three hands, so he reversed the question: “Can you put your hand up if that was complete nonsense and you don’t know what I was talking about?” This time, a lot of people raised their hands, and I got the feeling that the rest were being polite. With 45 minutes left, Friston turned to the organizer of the talk and looked at him as if to say, What the hell? The manager stammered a bit before saying, “Everybody here’s smart.” Friston graciously agreed and finished his presentation.

“There was a vegetable,” Luo says, and Yang begins to nod, vigorously. “There was a vegetable called dalu mei, ‘mainland little sister.’ That’s what they used to call us. It wasn’t a good thing,” she adds. “There was that—and they would overcharge us when we went to buy vegetables at the market.”

“And so I kind of saw that as a silver bullet. It’s not exactly a silver bullet, but I would say it’s as close to one as we could have gotten,” he said.