With many live music favorites heading to LOCKN’ this weekend, fans have been eager for any news about live streams of the festival. This morning we got our first news on that front, as SiriusXM Jam ON revealed plans to stream live from the festival all weekend long. It seems that the audio streams won’t be the only way to tune in, as festival organizer and jam scene impresario Peter Shapiro is doubling down on his own enterprise with a free video stream on FANS.com.Though FANS.com has been in beta testing for years now, the Shapiro-run platform is set to make its official launch with interactive live streams from this year’s edition of LOCKN’ Festival. The website itself is something of a Facebook for live music fans, where users can integrate their current social media settings to track favorite artists. Fans can also input past concerts and communicate with others about them as well, serving as an important tool to further one’s love of live music. You can read all about it in the New York Times.“We wanted to make LOCKN’ accessible for music-lovers of all types, no matter where they are,” said Peter Shapiro, Founder, FANS.com and co-founder of LOCKN’ Festival, in a statement. “Tuning into the LOCKN’ livestream on FANS.com will allow everyone to celebrate the music and experience it together.”Naturally, to start everything off, Shapiro will offer a free stream to his own festival, complete with interactive features that will allow you to communicate with other FANS.com users during the performances. The stream starts with performances from tomorrow night, including Vulfpeck, Umphrey’s McGee, Ween and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Other bands like Phish, Phil Lesh & Friends, Tedeschi Trucks Band, My Morning Jacket and more will also be featured throughout the weekend. The stream is powered by Nugs.net and Qello Concerts, two leaders in online music streaming.In addition to the stream, FANS.com will also interacting with fans on the LOCKN’ site, using contests and giveaways to incentivize sharing photos and memories on the new platform. Don’t miss your chance to win great prizes! You can find out about the stream, contests, and more by heading here.Check out the full streaming schedule below.THURSDAY:Vulfpeck – 7:30pm ETUmphrey’s McGee – 8:30pm ETWeen – 10:00pm ETJoe Russo’s Almost Dead – 1:00am ETFRIDAY:Donna the Buffalo – 11:00am ETMoogatu – 12:00pm ETTurkuaz – 12:30pm ETVulfpeck – 1:30pm ETWhite Denim – 2:30pm ETCharles Bradley & His Extraordinaires – 3:30pm ETWeen – 6:00pm ETPhish – 8:30pm ETJoe Russo’s Almost Dead – 1:00am ETSATURDAY:Keller Williams’ Grateful Grass – 10:30am ETDJ Williams Projekt – 12:00pm ETMoon Taxi – 12:30pm ETTwiddle – 1:30pm ETGalactic w/ Lee Oskar – 2:40pm ETHard Working Americans – 4:10pm ETBrandi Carlile – 5:40pm ETPhil Lesh & Friends (ft. Jon Fishman, Page McConnell, Anders Osborne, Joe Russo & The Infamous Stringdusters) – 6:40pm ETTedeschi Trucks Band – 8:20pm ETMy Morning Jacket – 10:20pm ETLettuce – 1:00am ETSUNDAY:Keller Williams’ Grateful Gospel – 10:30am ETThe Dharma Initiative – 12:00pm ETDoobie Decibel System – 12:30pm ETTwiddle – 1:00pm ETThe Wailers – 2:00pm ETChris Robinson Brotherhood – 3:00pm ETPhil Lesh & Friends (ft. Chris Robinson Brotherhood w/ special guest sit-in by Gary Clark Jr.) – 4:45pm ETGary Clark Jr. – 6:15pm ETPhish – 8:30pm ET read more

Speaking to a crowd at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed smiled when an audience member asked: Did Thomas Jefferson love Sally Hemings?It’s a familiar question for Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a history professor with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She has heard it at most every event she’s attended since she wrote “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” about Jefferson’s relationship with his slave and the way scholars have treated it. The book was published in 1997.“I find it hard to believe that [Jefferson] would have just a purely sexual relationship with someone over the course of 38 years, and have seven children with her,” Gordon-Reed said. In addition, there “aren’t any other stories of him being with any other person.”The strong turnout at the Ed Portal’s final faculty lecture of the fall proved the enduring interest in both Jefferson the man and in his relationship with Hemings. In his introductory remarks, Robert A. Lue, the faculty director of the Harvard Allston Education Portal and HarvardX and a professor of molecular and cellular biology, said Gordon-Reed provided “a wonderful perspective” on history.“We have the opportunity tonight to hear from someone who changed a view of a particular part of history,” Lue said. “In addition, she has had a profound and broad impact on our understanding of our own history.”For almost two centuries, many historians rejected the idea of a relationship between Jefferson and Hemings. With “American Controversy,” Gordon-Reed wanted to explore the double standard imposed on the stories of enslaved people.“Typically, when you see someone who’s oppressed, you pay attention to the victim,” she said. “The victim’s story matters. But here, the victim’s story didn’t matter: [The focus was] on the victimizers. There are lots of reasons to admire Jefferson, but there’s no question that as a slaveholder — as was Washington, as were many other people — they were oppressing a people.”Gordon-Reed’s “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” published in 2008, won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. In it she used Jefferson’s highly detailed daily records to trace the experiences of the Hemingses across three generations, beginning with the life of Sally’s mother, Elizabeth. Shortly after the book came out, DNA evidence linked ancestors of the Hemings family to Jefferson, transforming his legacy into something much more complex.Rodin Shaw Cole traveled to Allston from the South End to hear Gordon-Reed speak. “I came because I read ‘The Hemingses of Monticello,’ and it made that whole story real for me — it put the whole story in perspective for me,” he said.The visit was his first to the Ed Portal. “I’m surprised that [Gordon-Reed] was so accessible. This was really a very pleasant event.”Gordon-Reed said she was grateful for a chance to connect with a group from all walks of life. “It’s a great idea. It builds community, and opens the possibility for people to talk about this subject.” read more

The government has set aside Rp 60 trillion (US$3.69 billion) from the endowment fund for education (LPDP), among other financial resources, to finance the nation’s battle against the COVID-19 outbreak.Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Tuesday that the government may use the endowment fund if needed, adding that it would also use accumulated cash surpluses (SAL) and funds from public service agencies (BLU) for non-debt financing.“These three financing sources will use funds from government agencies. We are being extra careful,” Sri Mulyani told reporters over a teleconferenced briefing. “We will use the safest financing sources at a minimal cost.” “We will also optimize the use of SAL to reduce financing from the market, as we also have cash in hand,” the minister said, adding that the three sources would reduce new government debt.The state budget now targets to secure Rp 1.76 quadrillion in revenues, lower than the Rp 2.23 quadrillion previously set in the 2020 budget, according to newly enacted President Regulation (Perpres) No. 54/2020 on the 2020 state budget revision issued on April 3. Most of the revenue, around Rp 1 quadrillion, will be sourced from new debt issuances.Read also: Indonesia announces Rp 405 trillion COVID-19 budget, anticipates 5% deficit in historic moveExpenditures have jumped to Rp 2.61 quadrillion from Rp 2.54 quadrillion previously targeted. Priorities include spending for health care, social safety nets and relief efforts for small and medium businesses battered by the COVID-19 outbreak.Center of Reform on Economics (Core) Indonesia research director Piter Abdullah said that the government’s plan would not have much of an impact on scholarships from the endowment fund because not all of it will be spent.“During this emergency situation, the fund will be used to finance fiscal stimuli to combat COVID-19,” Piter told The Jakarta Post. “But not all of it, so the scholarships will continue.”Topics : read more