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Under the baton of Charles Dutoit the Boston Symphony Orchestra yoked the work of one composer known for taste and elegant discretion, and another known for his generous mixture of sonic possibilities.
Rules were made to be broken. That's the simplest takeaway from the Boston Symphony Orchestra's symphonic program of Mozart (Prague) and the Mahler (Fifth) Thursday evening at Symphony Hall.
Under the baton of Charles Dutoit, who has assumed direction of the orchestra not only for the remainder of the season but for a ten-day tour of China early next month, the BSO yoked the work of one composer known for taste and elegant discretion, and another known for his generous mixture of sonic possibilities.
For the former, Mozart's Prague symphony bends its own set of expectations (mainly in form, with three extended movements instead of the usual four); while Mahler, as always, contributes another outsized volume to the symphonic library. In both works, the orchestra displayed its customary virtuosity and its longstanding trust in Dutoit's guidance.
Mozart dedicated this late symphony to the city that embraced him late in life. It's a beautiful gift. After a slow introduction in the opening movement, at least half a dozen melodic lines are introduced and developed. The violins, led for this work by associate concertmaster Tamara Smirnova and principal Haldan Martinson, played with acuity, especially in the early parts of the slow second movement, where a touching line begins in the first section and gets completed in the second. The presto finale was highlighted by brightly played flute counterpoint, precisely articulated by Clint Foreman.
Mahler's Fifth breaks from his early quartet of symphonies, which in the composer's mind formed a kind of tetralogy, but remains long, adventurous and multifaceted. He molds the work into three sections, with five movements in total. All contain episodes of shifting moods, startling emotional breaks and musical richness.
Trumpets introduce the work, and principal Thomas Rolfs and his section magisterially played a significant role throughout the piece. A funereal elegy with a martial beat dominates the first movement, interrupted at mid-point by a curious carnival episode of boisterous energy, almost scary in its unexpected power. Inexplicably, the march returns: in the repeat, Dutoit chose the slowest of tempos, nearly sucking the life out of the music, creating a dejected, lugubrious mood.
It seemed like an intentional emphasis, and had its own merits. Other tempos in the performance (the extremely rapid last movement of the Prague, for instance, and the ultra-slow Adagietto of the Fifth) also bore Dutoit's personal stamp. They were meant to be appreciated, not explicated.
Balance was an issue throughout the work: a viola solo in the first movement, nicely played by principal Steven Ansell when audible, was mostly enveloped by the large horn section. An extended pizzicato interplay in the Scherzo, with a rapturous Spanish feel, also suffered from ungainly proportions.
The Adagietto fourth section, a respite of calm energy in the midst of it all, did proceed slowly but with informed interplay between harp (Jessica Zhou) and strings. The finale builds to an inevitable feeling of triumphant relief, Mahler weaving contrapuntal lines throughout the sections. Principal horn James Sommerville and the entire section were boisterously acknowledged afterward for their exuberant play.
The Mahler/Mozart program runs through Saturday evening. Dutoit leads the orchestra in two separate programs in the next week, beginning Tuesday evening, featuring Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov making his BSO debut. For tickets and information visit www.bso.org or call 888-266-1200.


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To say that bringing an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit to the silver screen was a labor of love for director Peter Jackson would be an understatement. The turbulent development period for Jackson's newest fantasy trilogy began before his massively successful Lord of the Rings Trilogy made New Line Cinema millions. Before a frame of film was shot on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, financing studio MGM entered and emerged from bankruptcy, director Guillermo del Toro developed the project for several years before bowing out due to MGM's financial turmoil, and Jackson left and ultimately returned to the director's chair. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey perfectly complements Jackson's previous trilogy but is its own beast; a sprawling, entertaining and wonderfully realized fantasy adventure bearing the distinct mark of Jackson and his New Zealand film company, WingNut Films. More action oriented and a tad less serious than The Lord of the Rings, this film is an excellent opening chapter in the planned trilogy.
The film opens with aging hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) memorializing his life in writing for the benefit of his nephew, Frodo (Elijah Wood). The majority of the film is set before the events of The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey begins as dwarf king Thrór (Jeffrey Thomas) sees an age of prosperity for his people vanish in an instant with the arrival of the dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch). Smaug claims much of the Dwarf Kingdom, and Elven King Thranduil (Lee Pace) refuses to provide the dwarves refuge, instilling in Thrór's grandson Thorin (Richard Armitage) an everlasting hate for the elves. Some years later, a young Bilbo (Martin Freeman) is duped into hosting a gathering for Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) and the thirteen dwarves on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug. The complacent Bilbo at first refuses to become the company's "burglar" but relents at the last second. Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves then begin the harrowing journey to the Lonely Mountain on a road filled with trolls, stone giants and vicious Orcs.
Jackson initially balked at returning to shoot such a massive project after spending the better part of a decade filming his Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Jackson was set to executive produce two del Toro-directed films in 2008, and Warner Brothers bankrolled several years of del Toro's preproduction work before he ultimately left the project to film Pacific Rim. The driving force for his departure was MGM's bankruptcy, which kept The Hobbit films, the last James Bond film, Skyfall, and the Joss Whedon-produced The Cabin in the Woods in limbo for years. The Hobbit was then without a director for several months before Jackson agreed to lead the project and avoid wasting the millions already spent on story and production development. In many ways, Jackson is the only director I can see adapting Tolkien's novel. A del Toro adaptation would have no doubt been interesting, but I recall the excitement I felt after learning this Tolkien property was back in Jackson's most capable hands.
Pre-production difficulties were only compounded by Jackson's near-impossible task of shooting something that lived up to The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien fans have been somewhat rough on The Hobbit, criticizing Jackson's decision to split the story into three films rather than two and bemoaning the characters and story arcs that veer from the written page. An Unexpected Journey does suffer from some of the same pacing issues that plague Jackson's earlier trilogy, and it makes a few dramatic concessions necessitated for the opening film in a trilogy. The decision to shoot the film in hyper-real 48 frames-per-second 3D is off-putting to some, as the stunning clarity makes the undeniably impressive sets look less than authentic. Whether you love or hate the look, it is clear that auteur Jackson has every right to use his massive film to introduce the future of digital filmmaking on a world stage.
Like The Lord of the Rings, An Unexpected Journey is a road film and adventure on the grandest scale. The company of dwarves is well traveled, battle hardened, and overwhelming to Bilbo, who longs for the comfort of his hobbit hole. Gandalf insists Bilbo is the right man to join the quest, though Thorin is understandingly skeptical about a stranger being introduced on his intensely personal journey. A decade after the conclusion of The Lord of the Rings saga, the special effects and production design of The Hobbit only expands on the cutting-edge digital wizardry from the earlier adventures. The majority of Jackson's production team returns here, including longtime producing partner Fran Walsh and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie. Actors Wood, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis also return, bringing the The Hobbit squarely into the Lord of the Rings universe.
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The 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix is similarly impressive, and places viewers directly amid the ongoing adventure. Action effects are bombastic: The battle cries of the massive Stone Giants rumble throughout the surrounds, fiery projectiles streak across the sound field, and the LFE provides an impressive rumble to accompany goblins, orcs and dragons. Dialogue is always perfectly clear, and Jackson's wonderful sound design flawlessly balances dialogue with Howard Shore's score and ambient and action effects. The entire mix feels seamlessly realized and weighty, and provides a completely immersive viewing experience. French and Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital mixes are also included, as are English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
The theatrical edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released on Blu-ray in March but fans knew a fully loaded special edition with Peter Jackson's director's cut was forthcoming. This three-disc Extended Edition includes a 182-minute cut of the film, which adds roughly thirteen minutes to the 169-minute theatrical cut. Although the additions are not as extensive as the added material in the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings films (likely due to Jackson's decision to expand the Hobbit story to three films), this extended cut is the version I will revisit in the future.
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This three-disc set arrives in style from Warner Brothers. The discs are packed in a black, hinged Blu-ray case that matches the Blu-ray cases inside the Lord of the Rings Extended Blu-ray Collection. Warners forgoes its usual, boring black disc art and instead provides full-color artwork to match the older trilogy. The Blu-ray case slips inside a nice slipbox with artwork befitting the fantasy film. Also included is a code to redeem an UltraViolet digital copy of the extended cut. Fans have waited nearly a year to dive into the extensive bonus features presented here, and should be pleased with the nine hours of added content. Continuing the tradition of the Lord of the Rings bonus material, the set includes two Blu-ray bonus discs that present The Appendices Parts 7 and 8 in full high definition.
DISC ONE - The Film and Select Bonus Content
DISC TWO - The Appendices Part 7: A Long Expected Journey
DISC THREE - The Appendices Part 8: Return to Middle-Earth
This definitive Blu-ray release for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey easily earns my highest recommendation: DVD Talk Collector Series. The film, presented here with thirteen minutes of additional footage, is a largely rapturous adventure that sees director Peter Jackson take the reins of another Middle-Earth adventure. The Extended Cut additions are relatively minor, but this is the version I will be revisiting in the future. Jackson's production design is top notch, and An Unexpected Journey is a wholly entertaining ride despite a few minor pacing issues. This three-disc Blu-ray set is near perfect, presenting the film with stunning picture and audio quality and accompanied by over nine hours of worthwhile extra features. This is a must own for fans and causal viewers alike.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 9, 2012) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team used a definitive serving advantage to defeat Venezuela 25-17, 25-19, 25-12 on Monday to open the Men's Pan American Cup in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The U.S. continues Pool B action on Tuesday against Mexico at noon PT before concluding the preliminary round on Wednesday against Brazil at 2 p.m. PT.
The U.S. was led by Daniel McDonnell (Glendale, Ariz.) and Taylor Sander (Huntington Beach, Calif.), who each pocketed 12 points in the victory over Venezuela. McDonnell reached his dozen points with five kills on eight errorless attacks, two blocks and five aces. Sander recorded nine kills on 13 attacks, two aces and a block. Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) charted six kills on 10 attacks, three aces and a block for 10 points. Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) added eight points with four aces, three kills and a block. Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.) produced six points all on kills. Matt Rawson (Los Angeles) and Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) tallied three points each. Dylan Davis (Corona Del Mar, Calif.), Jordan DeFault (Lakewood, Calif.) and Kawika Shoji (Honolulu) rounded out the scoring with a point each.
As the setter, Shoji directed the U.S. offense to a 61.3 kill percent and .548 hitting efficiency with only four errors on 62 attempts. Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) totaled a team-high five digs along with five excellent receptions on 13 attempts. Sander charted seven excellent receptions on 14 attempts.
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The U.S. started Shoji at setter, Clark at opposite, Davis and McDonnell at middle blocker, and Sander and Ciarelli at outside hitter. Watten was the designated libero. Murphy started the second and third sets for Clark. Rawson subbed in the second set and started the third set. Muagututia started the third set. Ryan Ammierman (Parker, Colo.) was a sub in the second and third sets, while DuFault was a sub in the third set.
The U.S. serve routinely took Venezuela out of its game with a 14-2 ace advantage. Team USA held a 38-26 margin in kills, in addition to a slim 5-3 advantage in blocks and 18-10 dig advantage.
"Venezuelans played very well at the beginning of the match, but our good service made the difference," Shoji said.
Venezuela was led by Kervin Pinerua's 11 points, and no other player scored more than six points.
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1 - Dylan Davis (MB, 6-9, Corona Del Mar, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
2 - Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Los Angeles, Hawaii)
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9 - Daniel McDonnell (MB, 6-6, Glendale, Ariz., UC Irvine)
12 - Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
13 - Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
14 - Dustin Watten (L, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Long Beach State)
22 - Taylor Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
24 - Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Stanford)
Head Coach: Shawn Patchell
Assistant Coach: Tim Johnson
Team Manager: Nicholas MacRae
Athletic Trainer: Chad Eichten
2012 Men's Pan American Cup Schedule
Pool A: Argentina, Canada, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago
Pool B: Brazil, Mexico, United States, Venezuela
Pool A Schedule
July 9: Argentina def. Canada 25-20, 17-25, 23-25, 25-19, 16-14
July 9: Dominican Republic vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 7 p.m.
July 10: Argentina vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 1 p.m.
July 10: Dominican Republic vs. Canada
July 11: Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 3 p.m.
July 11: Dominican Republic vs. Argentina, 7 p.m.
Pool B Schedule
July 9: Brazil def. Mexico 25-15, 25-15, 25-16
July 9: United States def. Venezuela 25-17, 25-19, 25-12
July 10: United States vs. Mexico, 3 p.m. (noon PT)
July 10: Brazil vs. Venezuela, 5 p.m.
July 11: Venezuela vs. Mexico, 1 p.m.
July 11: United States vs. Brazil, 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PT)
July 12: 2B vs. 3A, 5 p.m. (Match 13)
July 12: 2A vs. 3B, 7 p.m. (Match 14)
July 13: 4A vs. Loser M13/14, 1 p.m. (Match 15)
July 13: 4B vs. Loser M13/14, 3 p.m. (Match 16)
July 13: 1A vs. Winner M13/14, 5 p.m. (Match 17)
July 13: 1B vs. Winner M13/14, 7 p.m. (Match 18)
July 14: M15 loser vs. M16 loser, 1 p.m. (Classification 7-8)
July 14: M15 winner vs. M16 winner, 3 p.m. (Classification 5-6)
July 14: M17 loser vs. M18 loser, 5 p.m. (bronze-medal match)
July 14: M17 winner vs. M18 winner, 8 p.m. (gold-medal match)


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
It's time for the fifth T-SQL Tuesday, managed this time by Aaron Nelson of SQLVariations. Once again, the deadline came up just too quickly, and I'm on the road this week, so my entry will not be too long. Aaron's topic is reporting and in keeping with my past posts, this contribution will include a history lesson.
Since I first learned SQL, I've always thought of aggregation as a way of producing simple reports. Summary information was frequently all that was needed on an ongoing basis to see what was going on in an organization. Clients would want straightforward summaries of sum of sales per region or average orders per day or per month, or number of products available per category. Once a TSQL programmer was fluent with the GROUP BY operator, these simple reports could be generated very easily.
But what if we wanted just a bit more? What if we to see a summarization of total sales amount by region and salesperson, and also just by region?
Way back in the earliest versions of Transact-SQL before we had any 3rd party report writing products, any results we wanted had to be generated purely through T-SQL. We could use a clause called COMPUTE BY that allowed us to get aggregated values for any column in the SELECT list, and we could have multiple COMPUTE BY clauses for a single SELECT. This functionality gave us some ability to have multiple aggregations in a single query, but it had some drawbacks. First, we couldn't just return the aggregate information… we always had to return the detail rows also. Second, the rows that contained the aggregates ONLY contained the requested aggregates, which were based on a single column in the SELECT list; they did not include a value for the nonaggregated columns. This meant that that the result set was non-relational… the detail rows contained different columns than the COMPUTE BY rows. In fact, it was by understanding COMPUTE BY all those years ago that I learned exactly what was meant by relational result set. [COMPUTE BY is actually still in the product, even thought it produces non-relational results. However, the documentation for SQL Server 2008 indicates that it will finally be removed in the next version. ]
Having an interest in using aggregation for reporting, I was very interested in two new options to GROUP BY that were introduced in SQL Server 6.5. There were the CUBE and ROLLUP extensions. Their addition to the SQL language were described in a paper by Jim Gray in 1997, which you can read here:
This paper was a real eye-opener when I first read it 13 years ago. And it does an awesome job of explaining why a CUBE is called a CUBE. I'm reproducing one figure from this paper here, that shows the genesis of the cube, when grouping by three different 'dimensions'. The example in the paper is a car dealership, and the grouping values are year, make and color of vehicle.
Although I have not begun to explore analysis services or reporting services in any depth at all, I find that a thorough understanding of what is a cube and why we should care allows me to at least understand why these services are such powerful additions to the SQL Server product line.
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Android 4.4 won't be Key Lime Pie, but instead be named after a well-known candy bar -- Android KitKat.
Surprised? So were Googlers when the new Android statue made of giant chocolate KitKat pieces was installed on its headquarters' lawn, according to Android's senior vice president Sundar Pichai. It seems that Google and Android held its cards close to their vests on a partnership with Nestle, which was finalized in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to BBC News.
John Lagerling, director of global partnerships at Android, did say that the next Android platform was internally called Key Lime Pie (Android's nicknames are based on sweets such as Ice Cream Sandwich and Jellybean), but the team decided against it late last year. "We realised that very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie," he told the BBC.
So instead he and his team decided to name it after a late-night favorite in the Google kitchen: the KitKat.
Sure, it was copyrighted, but one phone call to Nestle's ad agency in the United Kingdom and the idea seemed to resonate with the Swiss company. Lagerling is quick to point out that the partnership doesn't involve money, only goodwill. It was only a "fun and unexpected" idea.
Nestle jumped on the idea within 24 hours of the phone call, but took a few months to hammer out details, mainly questioning Android's new operating system and its stability in case that could hurt the Nestle brand. However, Nestle was busy in the last few months creating 50 million chocolate bars in the shape of the Android robot to ship to 19 markets around the world, including the United States, Brazil, India, Japan and the U.K.
Both Google and Nestle kept the deal secret until Tuesday when it unveiled the statue, a contest to win KitKat bars and a Nexus phone, and a Nestle press release featuring the making of the Android KitKat chocolate bars.
There is something oddly sweet about this pairing, aside from the name, and the idea that two companies can decide to become marketing partners and both gain from the relationship.


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If Libraries Didn't Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending?
from the making-life-that-little-bit-more-diffcult deptAgainst the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA and PIPA, traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth: allowing people to share things � principally books in the case of libraries � does not lead to the collapse of the industry trying to sell those same things. But publishers really don't seem to have learned that lesson, judging by this article in the New York Times about the nonsensical attitude they have to libraries lending out ebooks:
In their eyes, borrowing an e-book from a library has been too easy. Worried that people will click to borrow an e-book from a library rather than click to buy it, almost all major publishers in the United States now block libraries' access to the e-book form of either all of their titles or their most recently published ones.This suggests that if libraries didn't exist, and somebody tried to set one up, publishers would use the same logic to refuse to sell traditional books for that purpose. History shows that's an absurd position, but equally absurd are the efforts of publishers to make borrowing ebooks less convenient:
To keep their overall revenue from taking a hit from lost sales to individuals, publishers need to reintroduce more inconvenience for the borrower or raise the price for the library purchaser.The article invokes the example of paperbacks published some time after the hardback edition as an equivalent situation. But that's about pricing: publishers don't try to make it "inconvenient" for people to borrow paperbacks from libraries by creating special low-quality copies that fall to pieces after a few loans (essentially what Harper Collins does with its ebooks), nor do they add surcharges to the paperback price to try to squeeze more from the libraries that lend them out.
Sadly, publishers really are thinking along these lines:
Ms. Thomas of Hachette says: "We've talked with librarians about the various levers we could pull," such as limiting the number of loans permitted or excluding recently published titles.Publishers are so obsessed with stamping out this ebook sharing scourge that they are oblivious to two likely consequences of their current approach. One, obviously, is increased piracy: if potential customers want to try out an ebook before buying it, but it's not available for them to borrow at their local library, it will certainly be available somewhere online, if they look hard enough. The risk is that having procured an unauthorized copy, they don't then go on to replace it with an authorized one.
The other problem for those publishers boycotting public libraries is evident from a comment by a librarian quoted in the New York Times piece:
Ms. Nesbitt adds, however, that many of the library's patrons aren't aware that other publishers are withholding e-books from it.If library users aren't aware that certain titles are being withheld, that means they haven't asked for them - probably because they haven't heard of those ebooks, or think they won't be interested. Keeping titles out of public libraries makes it less likely that readers will ever find out about them or change their minds. After all, as the article goes on to say, there is no lack of alternatives:
While many major publishers have effectively gone on strike, more than 1,000 smaller publishers, who don�t have best-seller sales that need protection, happily sell e-books to libraries. That means the public library has plenty of e-books available for the asking � no waiting.A familiar pattern emerges. Small, innovative publishers who are ready to adapt, reap the benefits by meeting the growing demand for ebooks at local libraries � and doubtless picking up knock-on sales as a result. Meanwhile, big, sclerotic publishers resist trying out new business models, preferring to make the use of digital formats for lending as "inconvenient" as possible � in the forlorn hope that readers will just give up and buy something. We all know how that story ends.
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(AP) -- A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, 53, was the first person convicted on charges related to Britain's phone-hacking scandal since a police investigation was reopened in early 2011.
She was found guilty last month of misconduct for phoning the tabloid and offering to pass on information about whether London's police force would reopen its stalled phone-hacking investigation.
Judge Adrian Fulford said Casburn's action was "a corrupt attempt to make money out of sensitive and potentially very damaging information."
Fulford, presiding at London's Old Baily criminal court, said he would have sentenced Casburn to three years in prison had she not been in the process of adopting a child.
While the tabloid did not print a story based on Casburn's call and no money changed hands, Fulford said that if the News of the World had accepted her offer, it was clear in his view that Casburn would have taken the money.
"As a result, she posed a significant threat to the integrity of this important police investigation," he said, calling it a "straightforward but troubling case of corruption."
London's Metropolitan Police said it was a "great disappointment" that Casburn, who managed its terrorist financing investigation unit, had abused her position.
"We hope that the 15-month prison sentence handed down to this officer sends a strong message that the leaking of confidential information for personal gain is absolutely unacceptable and will not be tolerated," the force said in a statement.
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Casburn admitted contacting the newspaper but denied offerindg confidential information or seeking payment.
Britain's long-running phone-hacking scandal has led to dozens of arrests and to criminal charges against prominent journalists, including Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief. Other journalists, police officers and civil servants have been questioned about whether bribes were offered, solicited or accepted in exchange for information.
The phone hacking scandal has involved allegations of illegal snooping on celebrities, crime victims, politicians and others. Murdoch closed the News of the World tabloid in July 2011 after many of its misdeeds were exposed. His media company has also paid out millions to numerous victims to avoid lengthy and expensive trials.
A News of the World reporter and a private investigator were jailed in 2007 for hacking into the voicemails of royal aides. But the newspaper denied there was a wider problem and the police investigation was closed.
Police reopened the investigation in early 2011 as new evidence emerged about the scale of the law-breaking.
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Microsoft's Big Gamble Could Be Linux's Big Shot
Oct 29, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Now that Windows 8 has made its long-awaited and widely trumpeted debut, there seems to be a fresh air of excitement and purpose here in the Linux blogosphere.
This, of course, is not to say that many of us here are particularly excited about Microsoft's new OS, per se. Quite the opposite, in fact: Many of us are excited about the opportunity Win 8 means for Linux.
"In the past the Linux has failed to capitalize on Microsoft's errors and capture new users," explained the TuxRadar crew in a new Open Ballot poll, for example. "We want to know what you think the Linux community can do this time around to bring dissatisfied Windowsers into the Linux fold.
"Is it all about the hardware, or should we emphasize the community? Should Linux users or Linux companies lead the charge? Should we target businesses or home users?" TuxRadar wondered.
Down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge, bloggers had no shortage of ideas.
'Its Interface May Seem More Familiar'
"This is the question that's often on my mind," Google+ blogger Linux Rants began.
"At this point, Linux is in an interesting position in that its interface (which before was considered 'foreign') may actually seem more familiar to the average computer user than the interface for Windows 8," Linux Rants explained.
At the same time, "our ever-present problem is still there, and that's the fact that Linux has a reputation for being hard to install and even harder to use," he added.
'Linux Lacks an Advertising Department'
"Linux needs to push OEMs to ship computers with Linux pre-installed and configured, and then those same OEMs have to be convinced to tell people about those computers -- often," Linux Rants suggested.
"The one thing that Linux really lacks is an advertising department," he noted.
"Even OEMs that support Linux tend to push it to the back shelf, where it's hard to find," Linux Rants concluded. "Linux needs to be shown to the general public and compared to Windows 8; that alone could easily double Linux's share of the market."
'Retailers Have to Wake Up'
Indeed, "today GNU/Linux runs on just about every kind of computer, from gadgets to clusters of mainframes in every part of the world," blogger Robert Pogson pointed out.
"The only problems are retail shelves in North America and Europe, where all one can find that's a PC has that other OS," he noted. "That's nothing that GNU/Linux can solve.
"Retailers have to wake up and look at the shelf-space that's stagnant with Wintel PCs not selling," he asserted. "They've had three quarters with much reduced turnover of Wintel PCs as Android/Linux is selling like hotcakes on the next aisle. Wake up and sell some GNU/Linux PCs!"
'It Won't Last Long'
Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien took a similar view, but with a caveat.
"I think there is an opening, but it may close quickly," O'Brien told Linux Girl.
"People who try Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop will hate it, but that is what will be pre-loaded," he pointed out. "If they want Windows 7, they will have to actually purchase it, which most of them have never done.
"That is where Linux has an opening," O'Brien explained.
That opening, however, "won't last long," he predicted, "for two reasons: 1) most of the Linux desktops use desktop environments that will be at least as foreign as Windows 8 (e.g. GNOME, Unity); and 2) if there is any noticeable movement to Linux, Microsoft will enable some kind of free 'downgrade' to Windows 7."
Linux distros need to concentrate "more on 'familiar' and 'works' than on being innovative," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack opined. "Otherwise Windows 8 users will take one look at Unity or GNOME 3 and simply buy an Apple."
Five Easy Pieces
Along similar lines, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet rattled off five requirements:
1. "Within five years, 100 percent of drivers must work on update, as we retailers can't sell systems that are gonna break in six months," hairyfeet began.
2. "CLI HAS to die, NO excuses," he said.
3. "A 'HELP ME!' button that will allow Suzy the checkout girl to easily connect to a volunteer to work on her system, similar to Windows remote assistance," hairyfeet suggested.
4. "NO hardware roulette!" he added. "The era of 'let the devs do it' with regards to drivers is over; it's time for the hardware makers to supply drivers -- which they can't do as long as Torvalds and friends constantly futz with the guts." Still, "if Suzy can't walk into ANY B&M and buy add ons for her computer with 100 percent confidence, you have FAILED," he said.
5. Finally, "settle on a DE and STICK WITH IT," hairyfeet concluded. "No more switching horses mid-stride, no more 'Distro A uses B, Distro Foo uses bar.' If you want to have OPTIONAL DEs that's fine, but the defaults for everybody need to be the same so that resources can be focused on making the defaults as trouble- and bug-free as humanly possible."
'Android Is What Comes Closest'
Then again, in some ways, Linux has already won over the masses, Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol pointed out.
"Not the traditional GNU/Linux -- not Arch, nor Debian, nor Puppy -- but Android, which is the best commercial Linux distribution," Ebersol explained.
"The average Joe is waiting for something like XP," he noted. "Android is what comes closest: easy-to-get apps, a big number of apps, and Google to back it up."
Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza saw it similarly.
"If Linux wants to lure more users, it can be Android," Espinoza told Linux Girl. "This is so far the most popular Linux-based system with the users, and they're the ones who give the computers a reason to exist.


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Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC), former command of the U.S. air force (see Air Force, United States Department of the ) charged with organizing, training, equipping, administering, and preparing strategic air forces for combat; it was headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base . From 1946 to 1992, SAC controlled most U.S. strategic nuclear weapons . Its bombers and guided missiles played a key role in the nuclear strategy of the cold war .
SAC was abolished in 1992 as part of the reorganization of the Department of Defense, and the
Strategic Command was created. The Space Command was merged into the Strategic Command in 2002. The interservice Strategic Command, also based at Offutt, now coordinates nuclear plans for both the U.S. air force and navy and oversees all U.S. nuclear forces, conducts reconnaissance for strategic targets, oversees the radar and satellites that detect ballistic missile launches, and protects military computers and networks and conducts cyberwarfare.
SAC was abolished in 1992 as part of the reorganization of the Department of Defense, and the
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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - April 2008
This month at Taricaya has been one of ups and downs with some excellent advances in some of our longer standing projects but some very sad news about our resident tapir, Winnie. I shall start with the bad news before moving on to happier reports.
During the first week of April we heard rumours that some new settlers down river had shot and killed an adult tapir and we thought nothing of it at first. However after a few days Winnie, our released female tapir, had not returned from one of her regular forays into the reserve and we started to get concerned that she had been the victim of the hunters down river. As it turned out she had been shot and whilst she had apparently strayed from the reserve it was a very sad time for staff and volunteers alike. Our closest neighbours are familiar with our work and know of the animals we have released but because the settlers were new to the area they thought nothing of finding an adult tapir on their land. Those neighbours we work with know that species such as tapirs and peccaries have been hunted locally to the brink of extinction and so to find an adult of these species so close to farms and people means that it is one of our released animals. Where hunting is a problem, not only are there fewer animals, but those that remain would never knowingly roam near human settlements, however small, due to fear of people. We have obviously spoken to the newcomers and whilst they are now familiar with the limits of our reserve and the concept of the animal release program I hope that no more of our animals stray in that direction because they did not seem as receptive as our other neighbours.
On a much happier note we had some excellent publicity for our work this month both nationally and internationally. Firstly, we were very happy to receive a film crew from France dedicated to making wildlife documentaries around the world. The series is called "Guardians of Nature" and they came to film an hour long feature on Peru. The program will contain many different aspects of Peru's rich ecology and Taricaya was chosen to feature in three specific areas; animal release, birds and our on-going diversity study and finally herpetology (reptiles and amphibians). After a brief stop in Puerto Maldonado it was straight to work and off for a very hectic yet rewarding few days of filming. This was not the first film company to come to Taricaya but it was the first that will give a true insight into some of the work that we perform out here in Peru. The footage will show Taricaya in its true form with the amazing scenery, fantastic wildlife and the dedication of staff and volunteers alike. The film will be aired later in the year on French cable and then it might well be sold to other companies around the world. On a much smaller scale but equally rewarding nonetheless I was invited to appear on local television to talk about our work and some of the projects that are benefiting the people of Madre de Dios. The interview lasted about 40 minutes and the feedback has already been very positive as local awareness of our work has been greatly increased by this excellent publicity.
This leads me nicely to a new initiative that we have been striving to implement in the nearby Ese'eja community of Palma Real. This month we have started to work in the community with a project designed to help the people keep their settlement clean. We have offered the community of around 80 families a specially designed trailer for rubbish collection. The trailer will be pulled by one of our resident donkeys at the farm and the animal has been trained over the last twelve months by the volunteers at the lodge. This month we took the 90 minute boat trip down to the community to help them build the enclosure for the donkey and next month we shall be taking the donkey and trailer. We shall start the initiative by working together with the community and spending a day collecting all the rubbish lying around. The animal will them be left in their care to be worked by the community in an attempt to help sanitation in and around their homes. This is a small project initially but the willing reception of our aid is a great sign for the future and the confidence the community will get from our commitment and our quick completion of the proposal will help us with larger projects in the future. Such projects include a pilot project with the freshwater turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) and a dam to help the community obtain freshwater on a daily basis.
Back at the lodge there was some moving around of our residents in the release program as we received a new Cuvier's toucan (Ramphastos cuvieri) and some of our juvenile residents had started to outgrow their nursery accommodation. As a result the three toucans and the smaller chestnut-eared aracari, a member of the toucan family, were moved to a larger cage where they can exercise their ever stronger flight muscles and the old toucan enclosure was given to our quick-growing pacaranas (Dinomys branickii). These comical looking rodents have a voracious appetite and had quickly outgrown their previous cage. Elsewhere the baby tapir (Tapirus terrestris) was also quickly outgrowing its enclosure and so it was moved to a bigger cage together with the young peccary. As for old friends from the release program we were happy to get several sightings of our previously released brown agoutis (Dasyprocta variegata) whilst feeding the other animals and the occasional return of our pair of scarlet macaws (Ara macao). These macaws are threatened by loss of nesting sites as they look for holes in large emergent trees such as Ironwood and Brazil nut and so it would appear that they are performing forays into the reserve looking for such a site and returning every few days to top up their energy reserves. Obviously this sort of behaviour is encouraging in that we can monitor their continued survival but it does suggest a lack of available food in the wild. This is something I have noticed as being a particular problem this year and I can only associate it with the floods of a couple of months back. It would appear that the temporary submergence in water has affected many of the plants that would normally produce fruits and seeds around this time of year and walking in the reserve it soon becomes apparent that fewer seeds and fruits are laying on the forest floor. This will only be a temporary problem as the forest will soon recover but this shortage of food has undoubtedly made this year tougher on the wildlife in and around Taricaya as the plant reproductive cycles have been interrupted, at least temporarily.
Elsewhere we have been continuing to work on the farm project and our daily observations and investigations have been as exciting as ever. We have been able to add two new species to our bird list in the White-browed hawk (Leucopternis kuhli) and the Swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) which brings our total to over 360 species for the reserve. I expect this number to increase greatly with the return of an old friend Mauricio Ugarte next month as together we hope to head out and look and listen for new species yet to be noted in Taricaya. In addition to these exciting additions I have been able to capture some of our rarer birds on camera and so the photo guide to the birds of Taricaya continues to grow also. It was just new species of birds this month as we found a new species of frog for the reserve whilst the film crew was here and although we have yet to narrow it down its classification to species level it will add to our ever increasing list of amphibians and reptiles found at Taricaya.
May promises to be our busiest month yet this year with the arrival of close to twenty new volunteers, Daniel Medina, a botanist from Arequipa, and Mauricio. Volunteers will be helping them in their respective investigations and naturally there will plenty to do elsewhere, including our continued work at Palma Real. It just leaves me to thank all staff and volunteers for their continued dedication and hard work and I look forward to an exciting update once again next month..........
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
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Whitney Houston's sad decline, which ended Saturday with her death at age 48, played out in an agonizing slow motion over two decades punctuated by pathetic images of a once-overflowing talent sapped by drugs and bad choices. We can expect a much faster-paced – and perhaps longer lasting – media circus as accounts of the circumstances of her final days and moments unfold.
But let's hope Houston is best remembered not for the her hard-to-watch descent and tragic death but for the incredible soundtrack she gave us. Her voice soared like few others, even if life later crashed all around her.
In her prime, that voice proved an irresistibly powerful pop instrument fueled by gospel and soul – and informed by an early musical education, via her mother, Cissy, a backup singer for Aretha Franklin, and her cousin, Dionne Warwick.
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Houston's self-titled 1985 debut album produced three No. 1 singles, each offering different windows into the wonders of Whitney. "Greatest Love of All" showed us a balladeer in full command not only of her instrument, but of her audience, proving herself an unusually mature performer at age 21. She elevated "How Will I Know" beyond pop confection, imbuing it with a sense of urgency that belied the bouncy tune. "Saving All My Love for You" provided a first tantalizing taste of how high Houston could take us, reaching seemingly impossible octaves in leaps and bounds.
The album, with its melding of influences and mass audience appeal, emerged as a worthy successor of sorts to Michael Jackson's 1983 "Thriller," the greatest pop package of them all. Her first album also led to more hits for Houston, and presaged perhaps her greatest recorded performance: turning a Dolly Parton country ballad called, "I Will Always Love You," into a towering epic – the kind of song kids who weren't even born when it came out sing on auditions for "American Idol," never beginning to approach Houston's majesty.
The song proved the showstopper of "The Bodyguard," the film that established the buoyant beauty as a potential long-term movie star. The flick was release in 1992, the same year Houston married Bobby Brown. We all know the story from there: Denials and eventual admissions of drug use. Rehab stints. The horrendous and humiliating "Being Bobby Brown" reality show. Embarrassing performances. Comeback albums reaching varying degrees of success, but never approaching her earlier triumphs.
Houston's sudden death following a drawn-out downfall comes only months after another prodigious talent, Amy Winehouse, succumbed to her own demons. As with Winehouse, Jackson and too many other great performers who died too soon, Houston's death threatens to overshadow her talent in life. There's a danger that with time, Houston, who died two decades after reaching the dual pinnacle of talent and fame, will be better remembered as another cautionary tale of the pitfalls of celebrity, rather than for a storybook rise that would be unbelievable, except for the recordings she left us.
What her weaknesses, Whitney Houston has earned her spot in pop history for a voice that was her greatest strength of all.
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Vanessa Hudgens & Austin Butler: Sunday Church Couple!
Vanessa Hudgens is red hot while stepping out for church with her boyfriend Austin Butler on Sunday (December 30) in Hollywood.
Earlier in the day, the 24-year-old actress and her 21-year-old boyfriend grabbed a bite to eat at a local sushi restaurant.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vanessa Hudgens
Earlier in the week, Vanessa and Austin were seen having dinner at Club 33 with Sarah Hyland and her boyfriend Matt Prokop.
In case you missed it, Vanessa made it on JustJaredJr.com's top 25 actresses of 2012 list.
20+ pictures inside of Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler stepping out together for Sunday church in Hollywood…
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Director Justin Lin, who is currently busy filming the sixth entry in the Fast & Furious franchise, is lining up a bit of a departure for a future project. Per Vulture, the Fast Five helmer is in talks to direct the racially charged drama L.A. Riots. The project has been in the works for years, and originally Spike Lee was set to direct the pic before postponing the project due to budget issues. Now it appears that Lee is off the film altogether, and Lin may be the guy to finally get this thing into production. Hit the jump for more.
The story centers on the 1992 riots in Los Angeles that erupted after a jury acquitted four LAPD officers accused in the beating of Rodney King, which was caught on video. The riots lasted over six days and left 53 people dead. This is certainly touchy subject matter, and Lin isn't exactly the first person that comes to mind when thinking of directors to bring the events to the big screen. Though his recent output is geared towards entertainment fare—Fast & Furious, Annapolis, Tokyo Drift—Lin initially burst onto the scene with his crime drama Better Luck Tomorrow. That film was highly praised for its portrayal of Asian American youth culture, so I actually think Lin is an interesting choice to helm L.A. Riots.
Vulture reports that the existing script was written by John Ridley (Red Tails), but it's unknown if Lin will be working from that screenplay or if he'll start from scratch. When the project lingered in development, Lee railed against Universal's decision to balk at his $35 million budget for the drama proclaiming, "How can you scale back the LA riots?!" Lin has a healthy relationship with Universal on the Fast & Furious films, so hopefully he can get the film made for the budget he needs.
Though I think it'd be a fine move to have Lin helm L.A. Riots, there's no guarantee we'll see the film anytime soon. Lin is busy with Fast & Furious 6 for the time-being, and there's also been talk of a seventh installment not far behind. He's also attached to Lone Wolf and Cub and an adaptation of the play Chinglish, so who knows what he'll choose for his post-Fast 6 project.


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A massive prescription drug diversion racket recycled more than $500 million in high-end secondhand drugs, paid for by Medicaid, through an underground interstate network and resold them as new to unwitting customers at pharmacies, law enforcement officials in New York charged yesterday.
Prosecutors accused more than 40 individuals with scheming to buy costly drugs for asthma, HIV and schizophrenia worth $1,000 or more a bottle at steep discounts from Medicaid recipients in poor city neighborhoods, relabel them and then launder them through corrupt distributors in the Southwest back into the retail market at full price.
Displaying pictures of heaps of the roughly 30,000 bottles and 250,000 loose pills seized in raids piled up like multicolored jelly beans, officials described the diversion scheme as "bad medicine" -- "obscenely" profitable and dangerous.
"People with real ailments were induced to sell their medications on the cheap rather than take them as prescribed, while end users of the diverted drugs were getting secondhand medicine that may have been mishandled, adulterated, improperly stored, repackaged and expired," said Janice Fedarcyk, the top New York FBI agent.
Federal agents began investigating the black market operation in late 2010 based on informant tips, but NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said fortuitous police work -- like a Bronx traffic stop that led to the discovery of 2,000 bottles of AIDS medicine -- also helped.
The 48 individuals charged Tuesday included several networks of "collectors" -- who trolled pharmacies and bodegas in Washington Heights, the Bronx and elsewhere to find sick Medicaid recipients willing to sell their drugs.
The defendants, 16 from New York and New Jersey and others from as far away as Florida and Texas, also included low- and high-level "aggregators" who paid multiple collectors for their hauls, used lighter fluid to remove patient labels, and replaced damaged manufacturer labels with counterfeits.
At the top of the pyramid: so-called corrupt distributors who bought from the aggregators and resold to licensed distributors. Prosecutors charged several men associated with a distribution operation in Sugarland, Texas, and prosecutors said others were under scrutiny.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference that no beneficiaries, whose prescriptions were paid for by Medicaid, were charged.
He said they were likely people in such "dire straits" that a few dollars were more important than the medication. Kelly said they would sell a drug like the HIV drug Kaletra, listed by Medicaid at $650, for as little as $50 a bottle.
No pharmacies were charged either, but Bharara responded to questions by emphasizing that the investigation is ongoing. "Pharmacies have an absolute responsibility . . . to not look the other way," he said, adding, "You should expect other shoes to drop."
One complaint filed Tuesday said the corrupt distributors in Sugarland received more than $9 million over a six-month period from a licensed national drug distributor in St. George, Utah, which in turn did $8 million in business with a New York-based pharmacy management business specializing in AIDS patients. Both companies were not named.
Although mishandling of the drugs presented risks, Bharara said there was no evidence so far that anyone was harmed by a secondhand drug.
How the scheme worked
Medicaid beneficiaries filled prescriptions for monthlong supplies of drugs at pharmacies and used Medicaid benefits to pay for them at little or no cost to themselves.
The beneficiaries, usually AIDS patients, sold the bottles of medications for cash to "collectors" at pharmacies, street corners or bodegas in Upper Manhattan or the Bronx.
To maximize their profits, the participants in the scheme dealt with the most expensive drugs, such as the HIV medication Atripla, which has a Medicaid reimbursement of $1,635 a bottle.
The collectors sold the bottles of pills to "aggregators" who then sold them to other aggregators farther up the distribution chain who bought and amassed large amounts of pills.
The highest level aggregators then sold the drugs to nationwide distribution channels. They controlled wholesale prescription drug distribution companies that sold the drugs to pharmacies and other wholesale prescription drug companies.
Pharmacies then dispensed these resold drugs to unsuspecting consumers.
Source: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York


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text: A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5360 Title: A Framework for Consent-Based Communications in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Author: J. Rosenberg, G. Camarillo, Ed., D. Willis Status: Standards Track Date: October 2008 Mailbox: jdrosen at cisco.com, Gonzalo.Camarillo at ericsson.com, dean.willis at softarmor.com Pages: 31 Characters: 70658 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-sip-consent-framework-04.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5360.txt SIP supports communications for several services, including real-time audio, video, text, instant messaging, and presence. In its current form, it allows session invitations, instant messages, and other requests to be delivered from one party to another without requiring explicit consent of the recipient. Without such consent, it is possible for SIP to be used for malicious purposes, including amplification and DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. This document identifies a framework for consent-based communications in SIP. [STANDARDS TRACK] This document is a product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working Group of the IETF. This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team USC/Information Sciences Institute


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Originally posted 8/25/2012. Updated 3/9/2013.
Released: 25 August 1998
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) 1. Intro 2. Lost Ones (5/30/98, #27a RB) 3. Ex-Factor (1/2/99, #11a US, #4 UK, #1a RB) 4. To Zion (with Santana) (1/2/99, #63a RB) 5. Doo Wop (That Thing) (10/3/98, #1 US, #3 UK, #2 RB, sales: 0.5 m) 6. Superstar 7. Final Hour 8. When It Hurts So Bad 9. I Used to Love Him 10. Forgive Them Father 11. Every Ghetto, Every City 12. Nothing Ever Matters (with D'Angelo) (1/2/99, #20a RB) 13. Everything Is Everything (5/8/99, #35 US, #19 UK, #14 RB, sales: 0.5 m) 15. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 16. Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (6/13/98, #35a US, #10a RB) 17. The Sweetest Thing (with Refugee Camp Allstars) (4/5/97, #61a US, #18 UK, #2a RB)
Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, 0.6 UK, 15.6 world (includes US and UK)
Peak: 14 US, 2 UK
Review: Lauryn Hill had distinguished herself as "most distinctive voice" AZ and "social heart" AMG of the rap group the Fugees, but "few were prepared for her stunning debut." AMG It sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, was a number one album in the U.S., and landed her eight Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. She took "seventies soul and made it boom and signify to the hip-hop generation." RS
Miseducation "is infused with African-American musical history." EW Not only does Hill serve up an "Aretha Franklin–caliber vocal," TM but she "has the funky grunt of vintage Stevie Wonder" EW and "recalls the moral fervency of Bob Marley" EW as well as the "uptown soul of Roberta Flack." EW However, "Miseducation is no withdrawal from the nostalgia bank." EW She also keeps things current, collaborating with R&B superstars like D'Angelo and Mary J. Blige, and "flowing from singing to rapping, evoking the past while forging her future." EW Her "verses were intelligent and hardcore, with the talent to rank up there with Method Man" AMG and "she could move from tough to smooth in a flash, with a vocal prowess that allowed her to be her own chanteuse (à la Mariah Carey)." AMG "If her performing talents, vocal range, and songwriting smarts weren't enough, Hill also produced much of the record, ranging from stun-gun hip-hop to smoother R&B with little trouble." AMG
While she wasn't shooting for a blockbuster, "she clearly realizes the benefit of wrapping even the harshest rhetoric in mesmerizing grooves." EW "The swinging sermon" RS Doo Wop (That Thing) was a chart-topper which also was "an intelligent dissection of the sex game that saw it from both angles." AMG That song's line, "How you gonna win if you ain't right within?' also "turns out to be the defining question of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." TM
Doo Wop (That Thing)
"You can hear and feel the messages she tries to get across about God, love, motherhood, and life." CS The album was "a collection of overtly personal and political statements." AMG On To Zion, which features Carlos Santana, about putting her family before her career. She also "speaks eloquently on how the creators of urban music could use a moral compass," TM putting the industry – including her own former bandmates and record execs – for putting "more emphasis on the bottom line than making great music." AMG
"Yet the beauty of the album lies in Hill's ability to make her self-righteousness ravishing." EW She made "an album of often astonishing strength and feeling" EW which is "a perfect blend of hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and soul." CS It is "one of the best solo female albums ever recorded." CS
Resources and Related Links:
- DMDB page for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Lauryn Hill's DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry
- AMG All Music Guide review by John Bush
- AZ Amazon.com review by Rickey Wright
- BL Blender Magazine's 100 Greatest American Albums (10/08)
- CS Consequence of Sound Top 100 Albums Ever (9/15/2010)
- EW Entertainment Weekly The New Classics: Music (6/18/2007)
- TM Tom Moon (2008). 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. Workman Publishing Company, Inc.: New York, NY.
- RS Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time


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The cafe is in a really nice location. There are only a few seats in there, at a front counter that runs along the window, and it's right across from one of the leafy parts of Nakajima Park. It's a pretty nice, chilled view having a big green park right across from the cafe, and one that you don't get often in Sapporo.
Normally at any independent cafe I wouldn't want to give my opinion on the coffee without trying a real, hot coffee. But hell, I'm wrapping this blog up soon and it's sweltering summer at the moment, so I only got an iced coffee I'm afraid.
But I think iced coffee can tell you a lot about the place too. Most iced coffee tastes terrible, like a cold mockery of that wonderful drink, and it's only very rarely that I find a good iced coffee. But Smooch goes into the very short list of places that do an iced coffee that you might order for a reason other than Japan's hideous summer heat. Also, it's served in a hipster-friendly jar, as you can see.
You can buy all sorts of beans there, the coffee was good, the food (including little cornbread rolls) looked very nice (I want to go back and try it), and if you're looking for a coffee shop around Nakajima it's worth checking out. It's on the map, so go take a look!


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Filters for black and white photography perform a variety of filtration effects including contrast control, enhanced skin tones, tonal corrections and more dramatic landscapes.
Although originally intended for use with black and white film, these filters can also be used as a creative tool in color imaging.
Red 23A
Light red filter producing contrast effects that darken sky and water, as in more dramatic architectural photography. Not recommended for flesh tones.
Red 25
Create dramatic sky effects, emphasizing cloud contrast for landscapes. Simulate a moonlit scene at midday with slight underexposure. Use with infrared film to yield extreme contrast with skies, turn foliage white and cut through fog and haze.
- Medium red filter
- Darkens blue sky creating dramatic contrast between sky and clouds
- Creates greater contrast between foliage and flowers
Red 29
- Excellent copying filter for blueprints
- Used in scientific photography.
- Use with Polarizer for dramatic black and white effects


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Megan Abbott Discusses Noir at the Dryden
- Rita Hayworth as Gilda
If you haven't heard the name Megan Abbott
you probably aren't paying enough attention to modern crime-literature. With five novels published and one on the way Abbott is being heralded as one of this country's premiere mystery writers and it's easy to see why. These aren't your everyday mysteries but instead real pulp masterpieces that have a retro vibe that is both a great callback to mid-century noir literature and also wholly original to Abbott.
For the past two months the Dryden Theatre at the Eastman House has been showcasing classic noir films and this Thursday we are extremely lucky to have Megan Abbott in person to discuss noir and to introduce the classic film Gilda
. Gilda
tells the tale of a cheater and gambler played by Glenn Ford and his love/hate relationship with ex-lover Gilda, played by Rita Hayworth, who happens to be married to his new boss.
So, grab your copy of Queenpin
and come to the Dryden this Thursday to discuss film noir and bask in the brilliance that is Megan Abbott.
See you at the Dryden!
Thursday, February 10 2011, 8:00 pm Gilda
Edgar-winner and noir scholar Megan Abbott will be on hand to talk about Gilda and her work beginning at6:30 p.m
Jeff Mason is a technical communications specialist for Lenel Systems International. He serves on the Eastman Young Professionals' Steering and Outreach Committees.


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UPDATED: GM and Toyota Vehicles Dominate IntelliChoice's 2013 Best Bets List
Multiple Chevrolet and Lexus vehicles are featured on IntelliChoice's 2013 Best Bets list, which features vehicles projected to have the lowest cost of ownership in different segments. Of the 15 models listed, General Motors and Toyota had five models each while Acura, Audi, Lincoln, Porsche, and Subaru each had one.
The vehicles were evaluated against other 2013 models already on sale in various segments, factoring in depreciation, fuel costs, financing, insurance, maintenance and repairs, plus government fees over a five-year period. IntelliChoice analyzed data from automakers, government agencies, and third-party sources to rank the vehicles. The 2013 Best Bets list will be updated at the end of the year after the remaining 2013 model year vehicles have been released. Overall, IntelliChoice will evaluate more than 1800 model, makes, and trim levels for consideration in Best Overall Value of the Year awards, which are given in January.
"As manufacturers continue to move up the release dates for some new model year vehicles, we feel it is important to provide consumers with a mid-year update of our cost of ownership analysis," said Eric Anderson, ownership cost database supervisor at IntelliChoice. "Initial purchase price is an important factor, but there are many other data points to consider when evaluating total cost of ownership over several years."
UPDATE: IntelliChoice has provided more information on how the Best Bets awards are organized. Since not every 2013 model year vehicle is out yet, the Best Bets may include multiple awards for one segment and none for another depending on whether any vehicle in that class has strong enough ownership costs. We're told the biggest surprise for this year's list was the Acura RDX. Thanks to its redesign -- and an engine change -- the revised crossover earned a place on the list, whereas it received a Below Average rating for the 2012 model. For those wondering about the Chevrolet Avalanche, the truck's discontinuation does factor into the site's decision, but its ratings remain high enough to again fill a space on the list.
For those who don't want an especially expensive new vehicle, several of IntelliChoice's 2013 Best Bets carry a base price at or below $40,000 including the Acura RDX, Audi A3 TDI, Buick LaCrosse, Chevrolet Avalanche, Chevrolet Tahoe, Lexus RX 350, and Subaru Outback 2.5i.
Here are IntelliChoice's 15 choices on the preliminary Best Bets list for 2013 models:
Acura RDX
Audi A3 TDI
Buick LaCrosse eAssist
Chevrolet Avalanche
Chevrolet Tahoe
GMC Yukon
GMC Yukon XL 1500
Lexus GX 460
Lexus LX 570
Lexus RX 350
Lexus RX 450h
Lincoln MKT
Porsche 911
Subaru Outback 2.5i
Toyota Land Cruiser
Source: IntelliChoice


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I have stayed in parking lots but I never get the restful sleep that I get in a safe campground. Campgrounds are usually quieter, safer and you get hookups.
We also don't use public lots (or no-service campgrounds either) if it is warm enough to want air conditioning. It seems pointless to run the generator for hours to power the a/c if there are campgrounds available along our route.
manufacturing company employee parking lots
DW and I own a commercial building our tenant uses for manufacturing. In the last three years, rv occupants looking for a place to overnight have stolen power and water, dumped their black tanks into the storm sewers on the lot causing us all kinds of epa issues, dripped engine fluids in large quantities on the asphalt requiring expensive repairs, threatened plant workers when asked to leave, and destroyed fences and locks. Police have found mobile drug labs set up in the lot on weekends. We are now forced to pay for overnight security to patrol the parking lot at night, just to keep overnighters away and our tenants safe.
I prefer using Cracker Barrel for overnight parking to the Wal-Mart type stops. We generally will have dinner, and most likely breakfast, in their restaurant where we ask permission to park there. We have never been refused, and usually the manager will suggest which side of the building to park on for a quiet nights rest.Cracker Barrel does provide RV parking, but the spaces are usually not long enough to accommodate an RV with a toad. However, their back lots are seldom over utilized, so they offer the quietest and less obtrusive parking. I never use slides and/or levelers unless absolutely necessary. I don't think I would even consider deploying slides/levelers in a Wal-mart parking lot. JMHO
It has gotten so expensive just to stay over-nite in a commercial campground and even some of the Federal, State and County campgrounds had to raise their rates.
When I first go into RVing one of the reasons was to eliminate or reduce my accommodation expenses. While motel and hoteling it that was my biggest expense. While travelling through Maine last month I saw campgrounds advertising rates of $60.00 per night!!!! I don't need water or electricity or sewer. If I was going to use all their services I don't mind paying a reasonable rate ... but just to park for the night?? It is ridiculous!! I absolutely refuse to pay those kinds of rates. Fortunately there was a Walmart nearby. Conversely when travelling through Kentucky last December I came across a motel/campground that offered RV parking for $5.00 per night. This included 15AMP electric service. I would have paid double for that service.If the campgrounds want to capitalize on the transient travellers then they really need to offer some reasonable rates for those looking for just a place to park overnight.
I certainly agree that an overnight, parking only rate would be nice ....
EMPORIA!!!!!!!Have you driven around Emporia?
Hows Jellystone Park Camp Resort. That was the address he referred us to. $35 to 41 a night depending on the season.
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