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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Bouillabaisse de Poulet - French Chicken Stew with Fennel and Saffron - Blue Monday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Fall is wonderful in its abundance. In a scant few weeks prices will again begin to rise, but for now, the fruits and vegetables with which I love to cook are affordable and encourage generosity in the kitchen. Once our first rains fall, I put away the recipes of summer and replace them with those that speak to cooler weather. It's time for robust soups and stews and casseroles. It is especially time for bouillabaisse. Most of us think of bouillabaisse as a heady Mediterranean stew that's made with fish and served with grilled bread and thickened with rouille, a red pepper mayonnaise. Julia Child and Patricia Wells both take the elements of that classic bouillabaise, but replace the fish with chicken and make what they call a "bouillabaisse de poulet." The results are delicious, perfect for family and friends who enjoy checkered tablecloth fare. The dish should be assembled a full 24 hours before serving. It takes that long for the flavors of the Pernod and fennel to permeate the chicken. The good news is that all the work is done the day before the dish is cooked and you really are free to enjoy the company of your family and friends. Like many old French recipes, this one, designated peasant fare, requires the purse of a prince to assemble. Pernod, fennel bulbs and saffron come dear, but they are absolutely necessary for the success of this dish. For what it's worth, this is one of my ten favorite meals. If you decide to make this, your mindset must be "in for a penny, in for a pound." You will not regret it. Here's the recipe. Bon appetit!
Bouillabaisse de Poulet...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, inspired by Marie-Louise Auteli and Patricia Wells
4 tomatoes, peeled, cored, seeded, and chopped
2 large onions, quartered
4 garlic cloves, crushed
4 large fennel bulbs with feathery leaves attached, coarsely chopped
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup Pernod or other licorice-flavored aperitif
Generous pinch of saffron
Small handful of fresh thyme, or several teaspoons dried thyme
4 bay leaves
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 chicken legs with thighs attached, skin removed
1 pound waxy potatoes, peeled and quartered
2 cups chicken broth
1) One full day before serving, combine tomatoes, onions, garlic, fennel, olive oil, Pernod, saffron, herbs, and seasonings in a nonreactive large covered casserole or Dutch oven. Stir to blend. Add chicken and stir to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours to blend seasonings.
2) One hour before cooking, remove chicken from refrigerator. Stew chicken in its marinade, covered, over medium heat, stirring from time to time, for about 30 minutes. Add potatoes and chicken broth and simmer until potatoes are cooked, an additional 30 to 45 minutes. Taste for seasoning. Serve in warmed shallow soup bowls. Yield: 4 servings.
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54 comments :
- Prema said...
wow yummy,delicious...
- September 18, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- pam said...
Wow! This sounds amazing!
- September 18, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- cocoa and coconut said...
So glad to see a French recipe here! It looks fantastic Mary..perfect for fall. Plus, I've never seen bouillabaise with no seafood...so interesting.
- September 18, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
this sounds so beautiful :)
- September 18, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- Martha said...
I've made this as well (Ina's recipe) and it is a great first meal of fall. I'll have to fix this when our temps cool off and I'm back in the kitchen -- but I'll try your recipe this time!
- September 18, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Allie and Pattie said...
Mary, European "peasant fare" is, as far as I am concerned, the most comforting and flavorful food for the body AND soul that can be found. I fully expect to love this as it reads beautifully. Thank you
xoxo Pattie - September 18, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Tiffiny Felix said...
So wonderful! I love the fennel and I love that you make it a day ahead of time. Very nice :)
- September 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM
- aipi said...
that looks hearty..wonderful combo of ingredients!
US Masala - September 18, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
Simple peasant food is one of my favorites!! And this looks just perfect, I wish I could take a bite from the computer screen!
- September 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- Renée said...
This looks amazingly delicious! I think saffron makes everything so rich. Thanks Mary, happy Sunday.
- September 18, 2010 at 11:55 PM
- Monet said...
I love dishes that are affordable and can (should) be made ahead. I imagine that allowing the ingredients to soak and mingle for 24 hours makes such a difference in the final product. Can I please have a bowl of this right now?
- September 19, 2010 at 12:56 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Nice & flavourful dish...
- September 19, 2010 at 1:05 AM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
This looks hearty and delicious- just right for fall!
- September 19, 2010 at 1:14 AM
- Katerina said...
You can't go wrong with chicken, that's the truth. I love the herbs in this dish.
- September 19, 2010 at 1:55 AM
- My Little Space said...
Mary, this recipe looks very simple and delish! I'm saving it for later use. Thanks alot. Btw, thank you for your nice comment you made earlier. You're being so supportive & encouraging. I'm really appreciate it. Gosh, I wish I know what am I doing. Well, what the heck! I've nothing to lose, right? I'll try my best. Thanks again. Hope you're enjoying your day.
Cheers, Kristy - September 19, 2010 at 2:04 AM
- Jeannie said...
I love stews, so much more healthier the meat so tender...this looks like a great dish!
- September 19, 2010 at 4:23 AM
- Cherine said...
A comforting delicious stew!!
- September 19, 2010 at 4:26 AM
- Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...
this look so comfort and yummy!
- September 19, 2010 at 5:14 AM
- Rita said...
Boullabaise de poulet is a new concept for me. Looks wonderful and comfort food up a notch.
- September 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Joanne said...
I love a good make ahead meal, especially one that gets better with time. This sounds like it's full of delicious ingredients and flavors!
- September 19, 2010 at 6:53 AM
- The Words Crafter said...
This peasant fare looks pretty good from here! I love soups, stews and casseroles in cool and cold weather. You brought back lots of good memories....
- September 19, 2010 at 7:44 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
Ah bouillabaise! It is expensive to make but one doesn't need to leave a big tip--thus being able to afford the saffron! Thanks for a perfect fall dish.
Bonnie - September 19, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- Larissa said...
Beautiful! This looks like a great, more affordable way to eat one of my favorite dishes.
- September 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
This would smell just heavenly simmering on the stove! I hate how fennel is SO expensive around here though, but it's definitely worth the splurge!
- September 19, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Diane said...
I have everything in the house other than the fennel, so this looks like I will be shopping for that one item on Monday. Diane
- September 19, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Katie@Cozydelicious said...
What a perfect fall dish! It has suddenly gotten cold here and all I want is yummy, warming stew. I love the fennel here.
- September 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- PeggyR said...
That sounds devine! Now that I'm back to cooking and the weather has cooled down I will definitely try this!
- September 19, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Bakericious said...
looks delicious.
- September 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Claudia said...
What a gorgeous, gorgeous dish. I love cooking with fennel more every day. I love the combination of summer and autumn. Just like the days.
- September 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Create. Snap. Eat. said...
Goodness, I love your diversity in the kitchen.
- September 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- lynn said...
that looks so comforting and delicious - served in the most perfect bowl too!
- September 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh that looks so wonderfully hearty and warming! A beautiful stew! Too bad it's still in the low 100's here. Hard to get excited about warm comforting foods when it's that warm....I guess we could turn up the AC and pretend though!! :)
- September 19, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Lucie said...
Mmm! A great heart and soul-warming stew for cool fall days. I always find the association of fennel and anise liqueur spot on.
- September 19, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- StephenC said...
I'm with you when it comes to shifting over to cooler weather foods. We're just getting there here in Denver. Bouillabaise is, for me I guess, a fish dish. I look forward to making my first cassoulet, perhaps with chicken and sausages. You are one amazing chef (don't be modest, you deserve that moniker).
- September 19, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- June said...
Incredible Mary. I can't wait to make this and I agree that it's lovely to put away summer foods and warm up the kitchen!
- September 19, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
This is the perfect flavorful fall dish!! I love fennel :)
Sues - September 19, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- Umm Mymoonah said...
French chicken without any doubt it will be definitely full of flavours.
- September 19, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Carol said...
Looks so delicious! I love a good chicken stew, so hearty and such delicious flavors!
- September 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Looks great!
- September 19, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh bouillabaise de poulet sounds good, I'm ready for some fall comfort food:)
- September 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Faith said...
What a hearty, warming meal! This is truly perfect for a fall evening, Mary!
- September 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Joyti said...
Wow, that looks so delicious and comforting...
- September 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Yesterday in the way to our oneday tour I saw the first tinge of the fall colour the trees started to get....They are looking so lovely...
Loved the stew....the fennel and saffron must be made it more flavoured and delectable.... - September 19, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- D said...
Mary, the recipe sounds delicious. This is the time, rainy days and cooler evenings, when our thoughts turn to soups and stews.
We still have greens; the fennel is gone; and I'm praying for a miracle on these green tomatoes. ;) Fried green tomatoes aren't so bad. - September 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- The Glamorous Gourmet said...
That looks divine! Thanks for sharing the recipe - I love this type of dish - Cheers:)
- September 19, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
I so love fennel and saffron both and this stew looks just amazing! ;-)
- September 20, 2010 at 3:05 AM
- LifeRamblings said...
that looks tantalizing. Happy Blue Monday!
- September 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- bj said...
What a beautiful dish served in a beautiful bowl...very pretty, Mary.
- September 20, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- SmilingSally said...
I love that bowl, Mary.
Happy Blue Monday! Check out my book giveaway. - September 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- SmilingSally said...
It's always better made a day ahead. I love that bowl, Mary.
Happy Blue Monday! Check out my book giveaway. - September 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Kim, USA said...
I agree with you Mary, Fall is abundant in every way. Love this recipe and will try to cook it. Thanks for sharing good recipe. Happy Monday!
Blue jars - September 20, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- FOODESSA said...
Never had the chance of trying fennel and saffron together...with chicken, it must be very revealing ;o)
Ciao for now,
Claudia - September 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM
- Donnie said...
That looks so delicious and your bowl is perfect for Blue Monday.
- September 20, 2010 at 8:03 PM
- mia xara said...
Hi Mary, this is a very tasty stew!! Till now, I thought bouillabaisse was a typical fish dish!! Have a good week,XO
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Princeton University trustees Jan. 28 approved a 5.6 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid in adopting an operating budget for 2012-13 that includes a 4.5 percent increase in tuition, to $38,650.
Provost Christopher Eisgruber said the increase in the financial aid budget will maintain Princeton's commitment to full access to its education to any student who is admitted, regardless of ability to pay and without the need for loans.
"One of Princeton's defining commitments is its promise to ensure that a Princeton education is affordable to every student," Eisgruber said. "All students who receive financial aid are insulated from any increases, because aid packages are automatically adjusted to compensate for changes in fees, so Princeton's scholarship budget will once again rise more rapidly than the fee package."
The increase in the financial aid budget for 2012-13 to $116 million continues a trend in which Princeton's scholarship spending has outpaced fee increases for a decade. As a result, the average "net cost" for Princeton students today is lower than it was in 2001, even before adjusting for inflation. During the past 15 years, Princeton's average annual fee package increase has been among the lowest in the nation, and in two of the previous three years, the percentage increases in the fee package were the lowest in more than 40 years.
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The Student Health Plan fee will rise from $1,620 to $1,850, reflecting the need to offset rapidly rising medical costs.
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The fee changes are included in a 2012-13 overall balanced operating budget of $1.5 billion adopted by the board at its Jan. 28 meeting. The budget proposal, based on the recommendations of the Priorities Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community, was presented by President Shirley M. Tilghman. The committee, which has served for four decades as the mechanism for recommending fiscal and programmatic priorities, includes faculty, students and staff.
Eisgruber noted that the operating budget has benefited from a 21.9 percent return on investments by the University's endowment in the past fiscal year, as well as University-wide cost-savings initiatives. Following the recent global economic crisis, the University successfully completed a two-year $170 million reduction in the operating budget, and all academic and administrative units achieved or surpassed their budget reduction plans, he said.
"Despite this good news, the University budget continues to reflect lingering impacts from the recent recession, and the Priorities Committee was able to recommend a balanced budget only through continued financial discipline and a planned draw on one-time reserves," Eisgruber said. He added that the committee has stressed the need to eliminate its draw on one-time funds as soon as possible and begin rebuilding strategic reserves that it relies upon to recruit new talent, fund new initiatives and respond to economic adversity.
Eisgruber said the Priorities Committee's work was influenced by the prospect of continuing uncertainty in the U.S. and international economy, as well as pressures upon federal support for sponsored research.
"One lesson learned from the great recession was that the University needed more effective mechanisms to identify opportunities for budget efficiency and to enhance management practices," Eisgruber said.
Eisgruber said SUMAR ("Strengthening University Management and Resources"), a committee that meets regularly to design and implement cost-saving strategies, has during the past year and a half tracked about 60 proposed initiatives that are expected to save more than $13 million annually from departmental budgets and central accounts. SUMAR's five highest priorities this year are vehicular fleet management, computer server consolidation, new financial and budgeting tools, absence management for staff members, and controlling the costs of health care benefits.
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The budget includes a total of $500,000 to fund high-priority initiatives in internationalization, health and well-being, and public safety.
The high-priority initiatives that will receive funding include:
- increasing the dispatch capacity in the Department of Public Safety to strengthen public safety response and enhance critical security protocols;
- hiring an additional staff member in the Office of International Programs to help students find placements overseas and to address risks they may face when abroad, develop new courses and programs abroad, and assist in managing international summer internships;
- maintaining the heavily used fitness equipment in the Stephens Fitness Center in Dillon Gym and extending the opening hours; and
- expanding the use of background checks in the hiring of all University employees other than faculty members, while suggesting a study of the potential expansion of the program to include members of the faculty.
Eisgruber said the University will continue to focus on fiscal discipline while pursuing its key priorities, such as launching new initiatives; preserving its commitments to generous financial aid, superb teaching and world-class research; and retaining the human capital — students, faculty and staff — crucial to its excellence.
"The University accordingly must continue to seek out creative ways to find efficiencies and reduce expenditures," Eisgruber said. "Most importantly, the University must concentrate its resources on the priorities that are most crucial to its mission."
The Priorities Committee report is available for download in PDF format as well as from the Office of the Provost.

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Starting on Sunday, Jan. 27, retailers will be allowed to tack a surcharge of up to 4% onto your tab if you want to pay with a credit card. If that sounds like a lot, you're right. Happily, though, it's unlikely to happen very often.
For years, card issuers have been making lots of money off so-called interchange fees. Until financial regulators and lawyers dragged this obscure term into general discourse, most people had no idea what an interchange fee is. (Still don't? It's the fee, typically about 2%, that a store pays your bank when you use a credit card at checkout.) For low-margin businesses like supermarkets as well as mom-and-pop stores that don't have the clout of their big-box brethren to negotiate lower rates, these fees cut into profits in a big way.
But in a contentious legal ruling that is still being disputed, a U.S. District Court determined last year that merchants are allowed to pass along the cost of those credit-card interchange fees to customers. Consumer advocates say permitting surcharges is a slippery slope. "If a national sales tax of 2, 3, or 4 percent were being proposed, everyone would be up in arms," ConsumerWorld.org founder Edgar Dworksy points out on his site.
But take a deep breath. You can avoid the fee by using a debit card, for one thing. And there are laws prohibiting these surcharges in 10 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.
Ultimately, though, consumer awareness will be the strongest deterrent against widespread credit-card surcharges. Stores have to let you know with a sign on the door if they're going to add a surcharge — although they don't have to tell you how much it is until point of sale, when you're already at the cash register. And today's retail landscape is hypercompetitive, so many stores will be hesitant to risk alienating customers by charging extra for using plastic.
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As consumers, we don't take kindly to paying fees for stuff that used to be free. Bank of America and other financial titans found this out the hard way in 2011, when they tried to impose fees on people for using debit cards and were forced to backpedal in the face of customer ire. "Customer feedback in New Zealand and Canada confirms that consumers are not willing to pay more for the same products or offerings," an article about credit surcharges on American Express's small-business Open Forum warns. In both studies the article cites, customers overwhelmingly rejected merchants that implemented surcharges.
If consumers respond in a similar fashion here — and there's reason to believe they would — surcharges probably aren't going to become common. There could be exceptions in markets where there's little competition; we've seen airlines get away with piling on fees, for instance, because there are relatively few carriers out there for all the people who need to get from Point A to Point B. Consumer advocates also say online retail could become a hotbed of surcharges because these merchants only have to disclose a surcharge when they ask about payment method — a step that's usually near the end of the checkout process. Advocates worry that shoppers will be too invested at that point to be dissuaded by the charge and will just suck it up.
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Another possible outcome if stores start passing on interchange charges is that consumers might reduce their use of credit cards. That too would probably trigger a rollback of surcharges: stores and banks, after all, know that consumers spend more when they pay with credit cards instead of cash — up to twice as much, by some estimates. And if we do use cards, we'd probably use more bank-account or prepaid debit cards, which aren't subject to the surcharge. In other words, we'd pay less in interest, which is good news for us but bad for banks. Earlier this month, banking expert Dennis Moroney told TIME that credit cards are a big profit center for banks. They're not going to let that revenue stream plummet over what's essentially a 2% or 3% annoyance tax.
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The Assembly at Jerusalem. 1David assembled at Jerusalem all the commanders of Israel, the tribal commanders, the commanders of the divisions who were in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, those in command of all the king's estates and possessions, and his sons, together with the courtiers, the warriors, and every person of substance.a 2b King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my kinsmen and my people. It was my purpose to build a house of repose myself for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the footstool for the feet of our God;* and I was preparing to build it. 3But God said to me, You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man who waged wars and shed blood. 4However, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all my father's family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, then one family of Judah, that of my father; and finally, among all the sons of my father, it pleased him to make me king over all Israel.c 5And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD's kingship over Israel.d 6For he said to me: It is your son Solomon who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him for my son, and I will be a father to him.e 7I will establish his kingdom forever, if he perseveres in carrying out my commandments and ordinances as he does now. 8Therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God: keep and carry out all the commandments of the LORD, your God, that you may continue to possess this good land and afterward leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.f
9"As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the mind's thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will cast you off forever.g 10See, then! The LORD has chosen you to build a house as his sanctuary. Be strong and set to work."
Temple Plans Given to Solomon. 11Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the portico and of the house itself, with its storerooms, its upper rooms and inner chambers, and the shrine containing the cover of the ark.h 12He provided also the design for all else that he had in mind by way of courts for the house of the LORD, with the surrounding compartments for the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries for the votive offerings, 13as well as for the divisions of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the liturgical vessels of the house of the LORD. 14He specified the weight of gold to be used in the golden vessels for the various services and the weight of silver to be used in the silver vessels for the various services; 15likewise for the golden menorahs and their lamps he specified the weight of gold for each menorah and its lamps, and for the silver menorahs he specified the weight of silver for each menorah and its lamps, depending on the use to which each menorah was to be put.i 16He specified the weight of gold for each table that was to hold the showbread, and the silver for the silver tables; 17the pure gold for the forks, basins, and pitchers; the weight of gold for each golden bowl and the weight of silver for each silver bowl; 18the refined gold, and its weight, to be used for the altar of incense; and, finally, gold to fashion the chariot:* the cherubim spreading their wings and covering the ark of the covenant of the LORD.j 19All this he wrote down, by the hand of the LORD, to make him understand it—the working out of the whole design.
20Then David said to his son Solomon: "Be strong and steadfast, and go to work; do not fear or be dismayed, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or abandon you before you have completed all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.k 21The divisions of the priests and Levites are ready for all the service of the house of God; they will be with you in all the work with all those who are eager to show their skill in every kind of craftsmanship. Also the commanders and all the people will do everything that you command."l
* [28:2] The ark…the footstool…of our God: the Lord, who was invisibly enthroned upon the cherubim associated with the ark of the covenant at Shiloh and later in the Jerusalem Temple, had the ark as his footstool; cf. Ps 99:5; 132:7. There was no ark in the postexilic Temple. Cf. note on 2 Chr 5:9.
* [28:18] Chariot: this reference is probably inspired by the vision account in Ez 1:4–24; 10:1–22.
a. [28:1] 1 Chr 27:2–22, 25–31; 11:10–47.
b. [28:2–3] 1 Chr 17:4; 22:7–10; 2 Sm 7:5; 1 Kgs 5:3; Ps 132:3–7.
c. [28:4] 1 Chr 17:23; Gn 49:8–12; 1 Sm 16:6–13.
d. [28:5] 1 Chr 3:1–9; 14:3–7; 22:9; 23:1; Wis 9:7.
e. [28:6] 1 Chr 17:11–14; 22:9–10; 2 Sm 7:12–13.
g. [28:9] 1 Chr 29:17; 2 Chr 15:2; 1 Kgs 8:61.
h. [28:11] Ex 25:9, 40; 26:30.
j. [28:18] Ex 25:18–22; 30:1–10; 1 Kgs 6:23–28.
k. [28:20] 1 Chr 22:13; Jos 1:5.
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Composer and Other News
In case you missed them, here are a few articles on composers you might enjoy. First, there was an interview-profile of Hamburg-based Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (It pays to be poor, August 12) by Gerard McBurney for The Guardian:
Some years ago, a London critic, Dominic Gill, made an interesting comparison between Gubaidulina's work and the principles of the great Polish theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski, Gubaidulina's near-contemporary and another child of the post-communist bloc. Grotowski wrote a famous book, a Bible of theatrical practice, entitled Towards a Poor Theatre; borrowing from this specific sense, Gill proposed that Gubaidulina writes "Poor Music". What Gill most probably had in mind was the striking "poverty" of the surface of Gubaidulina's music, the way she generates enormous energy and concentration using the frailest wisps of sound, breath-like sighs and moans, scraps of Russian Orthodox chant, gigantic but extremely simple unisons, shudders and tremblings like the merest moments of tension from a film score, the simplest common chords.Gwyneth Lewis wrote an article (The cruel sea, August 15) for The Guardian about how she came to write the libretto for the new opera with Welsh National Opera, The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea, to music composed by Richard Chew and Orlando Gough:
Given that the main character in the story is a corpse, the change of genre from novel to libretto presented one major dilemma - should the dead man on the beach sing or not? Characters can only live vocally in an oratorio, so I decided to be bold and make the drowned man sing. In fact, once he'd started to talk, I couldn't shut him up; he wanted to take part in a vigorous dialogue with the villagers who found him. Eventually, I decided that the villagers would only be able to hear the man from the sea when they had stopped communicating with each other completely. The children still have some imagination (and they are the first to hear the beautiful man sing) but the men and women are locked in apathetic resignation. As each of the groups reaches a crisis, they hear the drowned man, whom the villagers name Esteban. He becomes a blank canvas on to which they can project their fears and, eventually, their new hopes. The men are the last to embrace the ultimate image of disaster he embodies, but, once they face the reality of death, they give Esteban a joyful funeral, in which he's carried through the village streets like a local saint. I wrote this final scene shortly after we had returned to the boat in Ceuta, only to witness the feast day of the local saint. Two brass bands accompanied the effigy around the city and this is, musically, how I imagined Esteban's cortege.Judith Mackrell gets the story from composer John Tavener (Pump it up John, September 8), in The Guardian, about how his heart condition inspired Random Dance Company's latest show:
These two worlds would never have collided but for one shared fascination: the symbolism and physiology of the human heart. For Tavener, the obsession grew out of his own medical history. He has Marfan syndrome, a complicated heart condition, and it was while undergoing investigative surgery that he encountered the work of heart-imaging specialist Philip Kilner. Tavener was entranced by the scans Kilner showed him: "The pumping of the heart's chambers and the movement of the blood around the arteries - it looked beautiful to me, like a dance." The images made him think about an old score, Laila, that he had begun writing a few years ago, but abandoned as unworkable. It was a dramatic choral work, based on a Sufi love poem. Its storyline was passionate - "the Romeo and Juliet of the Arabian world", Tavener calls it - but he had been unable to visualise how its erotic, romantic and mystical passions could be represented on stage. "Opera seems to me dead; people having tedious conversations with each other," he says. "And it would have been particularly embarrassing seeing singers trying to act Laila."Last year, the Tavener news was about how he had a falling out with his Orthodox spiritual adviser. He is now writing music based on something other than Orthodox Christian liturgical texts.


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Without directly saying so, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert all-but-confirmed last night that he was off the air for two days last week because his 91-year-old mother Lorna has been ill.
After dismissing some of the funnier, "wild rumors" about why The Colbert Report had suddenly gone dark (no, he didn't get an eye job), Stephen turned to the camera to say that "evidently, having 11 children makes you tough as nails ... confidential to a lovely lady" (at which point he did one of those point-at-your-nose gestures).
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We're going to hear more now about the woman taking the reins of one of Silicon Valley's most famous and challenged companies. Marissa Mayer took the tech world by surprise this week when it was announced she was taking the CEO job at Yahoo. The buzz grew louder when it came out she's pregnant and planning on working during her maternity leave.
Mayer is known for being one of Google's first employees and its first female engineer. NPR's Laura Sydell has this profile of Mayer and what she brings to her new job at Yahoo.
LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: Silicon Valley actually has its own tabloids. Marissa Mayer has often been fodder for them. They like to poke fun at her love of cupcakes and luxury. She has a swanky apartment at the Four Seasons in San Francisco and likes designer clothes. But a lot more can be said about her intelligence.
She came to Stanford University from Wisconsin hoping to become a pediatric neurosurgeon. But she discovered computers and majored in - get this - symbolic systems, which combine cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy and computer science.
Mayer spoke with me at a live event this year at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
MARISSA MAYER: And I really came to the realization that I was much less interested in cutting up brains, I was much more interested in how they worked, how they learned, how they reasoned and what ultimately could be done with computers at the time, make us all smarter and make life more convenient.
SYDELL: Mayer would end up with a Masters in computer science. When it came time to find a job, she had many offers from startups. She made a chart with the positives and the negatives of each offer. Among the offers was one from a tiny company called Google.
MAYER: And my cousin and I actually gave Google 100 times more likely chance of succeeding than any of the other startups. I gave them a two percent chance of success, where I gave all the other startups a .02 percent chance of success.
SYDELL: Mayer joined Google as employee number 20. She created the look and feel of its signature home page and developed Gmail. Lately, she's been overseeing Google's local projects, such as Maps.
Though much is made of Mayer's gender, she is often, well, like a lot of computer scientists, a little oblivious. While at Stanford, she was reading a column in the student paper about people you notice on campus but don't know their name.
MAYER: And then all of a sudden there was entry on the list that said the blonde woman in the upper-level computer science classes. And I thought, gosh, I should know who this is.
MAYER: And I was like, wait, like am I really - I mean I really had never noticed that I was the only blonde. Or I never had really noticed that I was the only woman.
SYDELL: Mayer has done a lot of mentoring to try and bring more women into her field. Right now less than 18 percent of computer science majors are women. But clearly Mayer likes challenges - from changing her major to joining Google.
MAYER: You know, that feeling at the end of the day where you're like what have I gotten myself into, and I realized that sometimes when you have that feeling and you push through it, something really great happens.
SYDELL: Mayer is clearly taking a risk in accepting the CEO chair at Yahoo. The company has been in freefall, losing 41 percent of its value in the last five years.
REBECCA LIEB: Yahoo is a very, very damaged and very confusing brand.
SYDELL: This is Rebecca Lieb, an analyst with Altimeter Group.
LIEB: I've always called it the company without an elevator pitch.
SYDELL: Lieb says Mayer definitely pushed herself by taking this job.
LIEB: CEOs don't execute. You know, she's not going to roll up her sleeves and write all the code for Yahoo. She has to create a vision for the company and then execute against that vision, and that's very different than running product groups at Google.
SYDELL: Still, many people in Silicon Valley are excited that Marissa Mayer is running Yahoo. Among her fans are many people who used to work for her at Google, like venture capitalist Chris Sacca.
CHRIS SACCA: Marissa has the gravitas to really inspire people to rally around a common purpose and a common goal. I mean, Yahoo has a very talented pool of people working there. They just haven't been all pointed in the same direction.
SYDELL: While Mayer has had many challenges at Google, Yahoo is going to be a big one. She will be its sixth CEO in four years. But none have had the kind of understanding of computers, technology and the Internet that Marissa Mayer brings to the job.
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DENVER (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers raised joints, pipes and vaporizer devices to the sky Sunday at a central Denver park in a defiant toast to the April 20 pot holiday, a once-underground celebration that stepped into the mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana.
The 4:20 p.m. smoke-out in the shadow of the Colorado capitol was the capstone of an Easter weekend dedicated to cannabis in states across the country. Although it is still against the law to publicly smoke marijuana in Colorado, police only reported 63 citations or arrests on Sunday, 47 for marijuana consumption.
"It feels good not to be persecuted anymore," said Joe Garramone, exultantly smoking a joint while his 3-year-old daughter played on a vast lawn crowded with fellow smokers.
The Garramone family came from Hawaii, among the tens of thousands who crowded into various cannabis-themed extravaganzas, from a marijuana industry expo called the Cannabis Cup at a trade center north of downtown to 4/20-themed concerts at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater. Acts included Slightly Stoopid and Snoop Dogg.
At 4:20 p.m., an enormous plume of marijuana smoke wafted into the sky above downtown Denver as rapper B.o.B. belted out his song "Strange Clouds," with the hook: "And all we do is light it up, all night/All you see is strange clouds/Strange clouds, strange clouds."
The Civic Center Park event is the most visible sign of the pot holiday's transformation. It started as a defiant gathering of marijuana activists, but this year the event has an official city permit, is organized by an events management company and featured booths selling funnel cakes and Greek food next to kiosks hawking hemp lollipops and glass pipes.
Gavin Beldt, one of the organizers, said in a statement that the event is now a "celebration of legal status for its use in Colorado and our launch of an exciting new experience for those attending."
Denver is just one of many cities across the country where 4/20 marijuana celebrations were planned Sunday.
In Trenton, N.J., speakers urged a crowd of about 150 gathered at the statehouse to push state and federal lawmakers to legalize or decriminalize marijuana and called on Gov. Chris Christie to do what he can to help medical marijuana patients. Among those at the rally was Jawara McIntosh, the youngest son of noted reggae musician and pro-marijuana activist Peter Tosh.
In San Francisco, thousands of revelers gathered at Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill, which has become the go-to spot for the unsanctioned festival every year.
City officials said they would be cracking down on illegal parking, camping, drug sales, underage drinking and open alcohol containers. Hippie Hill was covered in canopies as dozens of people sold pot-laced cookies, brownies and other items. Some vendors told the San Francisco Chronicle that sales were slow because so many people were peddling the treats.
Officer Danielle Newman said at least eight people face possible felony charges, but she didn't elaborate on the reasons for their arrests.
In Washington, thousands celebrated in the only other state to legalize marijuana. Events included an event sponsored by Seattle's Dope Magazine, with a $99 "judge's pass" available that included 10 marijuana samples.
Back in Colorado, University of Colorado officials closed the Boulder campus to all but students, faculty and staff on Sunday to ensure no 4/20 celebrations were held. Spokesman Ryan Huff said the tactic was working, with no arrests reported Sunday.
While the weekend was for celebrating, recent events have brought serious scrutiny to Colorado's experiment with legalizing marijuana. Denver police say a man ate marijuana-infused candy before shooting and killing his wife on Monday, an attack dispatchers heard during a 911 call the woman placed. Her death followed that of a college student who traveled from Wyoming to Colorado with friends for spring break, ate more than the recommended dose of a marijuana-laced cookie and jumped to his death from a hotel balcony in Denver. State lawmakers are debating how to increase safety regulations.
Marijuana festivities got off to a slow start on Easter Sunday. But as the clock counted down to 4:20 and crowds surged into Civic Center Park, festivalgoers noted the big changes from previous years — more merchandise and more police.
Last year's rally was cut short by a shooting that wounded three. All attendees this year had to pass through security screening, and a heavy police presence ringed the park.
"I still feel a little like a teenager," Garramone said as he eyed police patrolling the park.
Just as striking was the proliferation of merchandise, from cannabis-related gear and T-shirts to $9 roast turkey legs and $4 water bottles.
"I can just imagine how much money is being made right now," said Tina Crockett, 34, of Wichita.
The commercialism disappointed Bob Glisson, 27, who was attending his fourth 4/20 celebration in the park.
"It's all about the money now," the Denver resident complained.
Still, the scene was wonderfully surreal for Bud Long, 49, from Kalamazoo, Mich., who recalled taking part in his first 4/20 protest in 1984.
"Nationwide, it'll be decriminalized," he predicted on Saturday, the first day of the two-day festival, "and we'll be doing this in every state."
Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi in Denver, Terry Chea in San Francisco, Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., and Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.
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By Diana Helfey, The Herald
TULALIP — They were asked to inspect the net.
Maybe somehow it can be woven tighter so another little girl won't fall through, dying before she learns to twirl on tiptoes or color inside the lines or dream of being a princess or a firefighter.
It seems an insurmountable job — searching for all the potential gaps. How do you predict the unimaginable?
It happened in October down a dirt road on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Chantel Craig and her sister were left in a broken down car, going without food or water for days. The toddlers' world was restricted to the car seats they were kept buckled into. Their bodies were covered with sores, feces and maggots.
Chantel wasn't breathing. She had no pulse. She suffered, for how long no one can really say, and then her body gave out. Her sister, 3, fought to stay alive.
Chantel died from neglect, five months shy of her second birthday. Her mother, Christina Carlson, is charged with murder.
Last month, state social workers faced tough questions about their interaction with the girl's family as a team of experts reviewed the circumstances surrounding Chantel's death. The examination was required by state law. Findings were made public Thursday.
After six hours of discussion the team didn't find what the state calls "critical errors" on the part of Children's Administration employees.
Instead, the panelists made some findings and recommendations for the future, mainly focused on what child welfare workers do to locate families. There's a need for experienced social workers to handle the cases governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act and consistent review by supervisors. And the girls' case demonstrates the need to more clearly define the responsibilities of state and Tulalip tribal social workers when conducting joint investigations.
The six-member fatality review committee included a medical doctor, a Marysville police detective, a Snohomish County human services manager and three other professionals connected to social services. They asked questions of the state social worker and her two supervisors. Panelists agreed they were there because of a horrible tragedy. Their conversation, however, was tempered. They all work with families, often in crisis. They know others will slip through.
"These reviews are so important," said Cammy Hart-Anderson, the division manager for Snohomish County Human Services Department. "I volunteer as a way to assist, offering my perspective from the alcohol and drug field.
"I also believe it's a way to honor the child who died. We're trying to do something so her death won't be in vain."
The law required the state Department of Social and Health Services to convene the search mission into Chantel's death — to look for any gaps in a system that relies on cops, courts and social workers to save other people's children and to help patch together families, many affected by generational poverty, addiction and violence.
The Children's Administration, a division of DSHS, is tasked with completing a fatality review within six months after a child under state care or receiving state services dies unexpectedly, or nearly dies. The idea is to closely examine how state workers were involved with the child and family, and whether policies and practices can be changed to tighten the safety net.
"We would all love to have a system in place where we never have a child in these circumstances," said Ronda Haun, a critical incident review specialist with the Children's Administration.
The state invited a Herald reporter to observe the typically closed-door discussion. The reporter agreed not to attribute to individual participants any statements made during the process. The Herald also agreed not to report information about the child or her family that hadn't already appeared in public records. The newspaper also delayed publishing a story until the review was completed and available to the public on the state's website.
Tribal law prevented anyone from the tribes to formally participate in the review.
The committee was advised at the start that they weren't being asked to conduct a forensic, criminal or personnel investigation. They also were reminded of the complex legal framework that limits the actions of state social workers.
The courts have called parental rights natural and sacred, said Sheila Huber, an assistant attorney general who represents the Children's Administration.
"Parents have constitutional rights when it comes to the care, custody and control of their children," Huber said.
There are restrictions on when the state can interfere with those rights, she added.
State and tribal social workers had been investigating allegations that Chantel and her sister were being neglected after receiving a call from their grandmother in December 2011.
Generally the law requires state social workers to close a Child Protective Services investigation within three months. In this case, the social worker kept the investigation open for 10 months, citing concerns because of the mother's past and her lack of contact with her own family. By keeping it open, the state could offer voluntary services to the parents. In a terrible coincidence, state social workers closed the case hours before Chantel died because they hadn't been able to find her or her mother.
The state social worker last saw the girls on Dec. 14, 2011. There was no evidence then that they were in imminent danger, which would have been necessary to remove them. There also were no signs of abuse or neglect. The social workers agreed to continue to try to assist the family.
About two weeks after the first visit, the tribal social worker learned that the parents weren't seeking help for their alcohol and drug abuse problems, as they claimed they were.
The fatality review committee last month questioned the state social worker about the protocols followed to locate families. The team was concerned that there appeared to be a stretch of time that no attempts were made to find the children.
Social workers are allowed to check state databases, including the rolls for those receiving state benefits. Police generally aren't asked to get involved unless there is concern that a child is a victim of a crime.
Relatives told social workers that Carlson likely was hiding from authorities. She had lost custody of at least three other children because of her drug use and neglect, court papers said.
It is unclear if the Tulalip authorities continued to search for the family.
The Tulalips declined to participate in last month's child fatality review.
Tribal authorities sent a letter to the state, explaining that the Tribes' own laws prevent anyone from the tribes from commenting on their social service investigations. That is done to protect children and avoid stigmatizing families, tribal officials told The Herald last year.
Tribal social workers are allowed to share sensitive information with state social workers to assist protecting children and to provide them and their families with services. However, tribal laws don't contain provisions about information-sharing once a child has died. That conflict prevented the tribal social workers from participating in the review.
In the letter, the Tribes asked the panel to begin the review with a prayer, seeking guidance and healing. The daylong session opened with a moment of silence.
The committee acknowledged the challenge of fully understanding the history of the case without input from tribal social workers. They knew that they were only receiving part of the story and would be left with unanswered questions.
"They were asked to look at the state's work. I think that objective was accomplished by the committee," said Haun, who served as one of facilitators. "We are not in the position to review the work of the Tulalip Tribes. That is their responsibility."
The Tulalips and DSHS have an agreement sharing responsibility for child welfare investigations and providing services to Tulalip children. The agreement is meant to define the role of the state and create cooperation between the two governments.
The role of tribal and state social workers varies depending on the local agreements with specific tribes. There are additional layers of complexity because of the state and federal Indian Child Welfare Acts. The laws govern how states should respond to cases involving Indian children and spell out the tribes' jurisdiction over their children. The federal act was passed in 1978 in response to the disproportionate number of Indian children being removed from their homes and placed in non-Indian homes away from their tribes.
The Tulalips began assuming jurisdiction over dependency cases more than a decade ago. Their child welfare services program, beda?chelh, investigates all reports of child abuse and neglect. This includes any allegations that aren't accepted for further investigation by the state.
Among the main recommendations, the panelists encouraged the state and the Tulalips to revisit their local agreement for handling child welfare cases. They concluded that state social workers need more clarification about their individual responsibilities.
For example, state workers have protocols to locate families, but aren't allowed to seek out tribal families without permission from the tribes to be on the reservation.
The team also urged the state to provide more consistency and stability in the unit specifically assigned to investigate allegations involving tribal children. Social workers need to be familiar with the Indian Child Welfare Act. They should be seasoned workers. Increased stability in the unit would go a long way in building relationships with tribal social workers, the group said.
The team also recommended that if a supervisor leaves the unit, the cases should be reviewed by both the outgoing and incoming supervisor to make sure complex cases don't get overlooked. The team pointed out that the Carlson case hadn't been reviewed by a supervisor for months. They questioned whether that was because there had been a change in supervisors.
The panelists also concluded that DSHS should make it a priority to hire CPS social workers and supervisors.
Hart-Anderson said she also walked away from the review convinced that more needs to be done to offer drug and alcohol treatment resources to families.
The county used to partner with DSHS and stationed drug and alcohol counselors in local CPS offices. They were an immediate resource for parents. That program was cut about five years ago for lack of funding.
"Alcohol and drugs are so prevalent in so many CPS cases," Hart-Anderson said.
In the Carlson neglect case, she is accused of leaving her girls alone for hours on Oct. 8 while she tried to contact a drug dealer. Witnesses told investigators that the 36-year-old mother smoked heroin in the car while the girls were in the backseat. Tests showed that the surviving child had been exposed to opiates.
It is hard to fathom a parent's neglect for a child, Hart-Anderson said.
"Addiction is a very powerful disease, so powerful that some people are not capable of parenting, and their number one priority is their addiction," she said.
Social workers have an overwhelming job, Hart-Anderson said.
"As a society we don't appreciate that enough," she added.


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The thing about an Etch A Sketch is that the picture never looks real. Mitt Romney's attempt to draw one self-portrait for the Republican primaries and a different one for the general election left voters unconvinced that he knew who he was. So how could they?
Republican primaries have become Tea Party litmus tests, forcing candidates to audition for a lily-white, antiurban base that feels like Archie Bunker and Ward Cleaver in an era of Modern Family and Dora the Explorer. Romney, who governed Massachusetts as a centrist, had to sprint right to prove his "severely conservative" bona fides against primary rivals like Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, giving President Obama general-election ammunition on issues like immigration, taxes, energy and popular spending programs like FEMA. Meanwhile, for the second straight election cycle, the GOP missed a chance to seize control of the Senate when no-compromise Tea Partyers like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana beat more electable candidates in their primaries.
(Election 2012: Photos from the Finish Line)
Now it's recrimination time. After the historic GOP congressional wave in 2010, many Republicans were sure Obama was destined for defeat in 2012. An incumbent who had presided over four years of high unemployment — and whose overwhelming unpopularity was discussed as an immutable fact on Fox News and talk radio — seemed ripe for the picking. His re-election has some party leaders worried that the GOP is out of step with demographic and ideological trends, preaching to a shrinking choir. They do not want to be what Congressman turned TV host Joe Scarborough has despairingly called "the stupid party," with retro in-the-bubble ideas about rape, contraception and "self-deportation" that alienate a modern multicultural electorate.
But for all the punditry about a coming Republican civil war, it's not clear that the party really wants to change in any serious way — or that it could change if it wanted to. Even GOP elites, while concerned that winnable races are being sacrificed on the altar of extremism, suggest that the party is likely to stay the course that worked in 2010. Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a former Republican political consultant, has been a consistent voice for pragmatism over purity inside the party, but he doesn't foresee any radical shifts after Tuesday's split decision. "It's sobering that we're throwing away Senate seats. But I don't see a great schism," Cole says. "I see a very unified, very conservative party that's very alarmed about the growth of government. Who would be the generals in our great civil war?"
Superglued to the Past
Just about all Republicans acknowledge their party's demographic dilemma. The electorate keeps getting less white, less rural and less evangelical — in short, less traditionally Republican. Polls suggested that Obama was on track to receive more than 90% of the black vote and over two-thirds of the fast-growing Latino vote, while winning huge majorities among young voters, gays and single women. The homogeneity of the Republican conventioneers who nominated Romney in Tampa was striking, especially compared with the Democratic diversity on display the next week in Charlotte. It's working for the GOP in the old Confederacy, but nobody thinks that's sustainable nationwide in the long term.
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Some Republicans believe that the party needs to cut a deal with Obama on immigration reform so Latinos will stop seeing the party as a hostile force. New Mexico has morphed from swing state into blue state; Arizona may soon drift from red state to swing state. But others blame at least some of the GOP's problems with voters of color on the unusual phenomenon of a President of color. They believe the party is gradually broadening its appeal, citing rising Hispanic stars like Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and newly elected Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina GOP Congressman, argues that his party doesn't need to change its policies to pander to minorities; it just needs to work harder to sell its policies to them. "Are we more diverse now? Yes. By leaps and bounds? No," he says. "We've got to reach out to a broader array of Americans. But we've still got to stay true to who we are and what we believe."
It's the "what we believe" part that could cause Republicans more problems down the road. In the Obama era, the GOP has coalesced around an agenda that in some ways simply denies reality, rejecting the science of climate change, insisting that government (except the Pentagon) is incapable of creating jobs, denouncing debt while proposing debt-exploding tax cuts. Some of its fire breathers argued last year that shutting down the federal government and even defaulting on its obligations could be good for the economy; more recently, its leaders suppressed a Congressional Research Service report questioning supply-side dogma. Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, an accomplished fiscal conservative feared as a formidable potential opponent by Team Obama, may have doomed his primary chances with one tweet: "I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." Republican voters did, but then polls show most GOP regulars don't even believe Obama is a Christian, many doubt he is a native-born citizen, and few changed their mind after he released his birth certificate. In April 2011, the birther Donald Trump actually topped the Republican presidential-primary polls.


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WASHINGTON — In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.
Cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest, Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court. Because the phones contain so much information, police must get a warrant before looking through them, Roberts said.
"Modern cellphones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans the privacies of life," Roberts said.
The court chose not to extend earlier rulings that allow police to empty a suspect's pockets and examine whatever they find to ensure officers' safety and prevent the destruction of evidence.
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The Obama administration and the state of California, defending the cellphone searches, said cellphones should have no greater protection from a search than anything else police find.
But the defendants in these cases, backed by civil libertarians, librarians and news media groups, argued that cellphones, especially smartphones, are increasingly powerful computers that can store troves of sensitive personal information.
In the cases decided Wednesday, one defendant carried a smartphone, while the other carried an older flip phone.
Roberts said the comparison to packages of cigarettes and other items that were at issue in the earlier cases is not apt.
A ride on horseback and a flight to the moon both "are ways of getting from point A to point B, but little else justifies lumping them together," he said.
Authorities concerned about the destruction of evidence can take steps to prevent the remote erasure of a phone's contents or the activation of encryption, Roberts said.
One exception to the warrant requirement left open by the decision is a case in which officers reasonably fear for their safety or the lives of others.
The two cases arose following arrests in San Diego and Boston.
In San Diego, police found indications of gang membership when they looked through defendant David Leon Riley's Samsung smartphone. Prosecutors used video and photographs found on the smartphone to persuade a jury to convict Riley of attempted murder and other charges. California courts rejected Riley's efforts to throw out the evidence and upheld the convictions.
The court ordered the California Supreme Court to take a new look at Riley's case.
In Boston, a federal appeals court ruled that police must have a warrant before searching arrestees' cellphones.
Police arrested Brima Wurie on suspicion of selling crack cocaine, checked the call log on his flip phone and used that information to determine where he lived. When they searched Wurie's home and had a warrant, they found crack, marijuana, a gun and ammunition. The evidence was enough to produce a conviction and a prison term of more than 20 years.
The appeals court ruled for Wurie, but left in place a drug conviction for selling cocaine near a school that did not depend on the tainted evidence. That conviction also carried a 20-year sentence. The administration appealed the court ruling because it wants to preserve the warrantless searches following arrest.
The justices upheld that ruling.


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You've heard the word "server" thrown around a lot, but usually in the context of web sites or big companies that have a lot of data to store. In reality, a server can be just as useful in your home. In this guide, we'll walk through how to create your own server at home that you can put in the closet and leave on 24/7, ready to do any streaming, downloading, or backup you might need at a moment's notice.
Update: Ubuntu has become a much heavier OS over the past few years, so it's no longer the ideal option for a home server. You could use a lighter-weight version of Ubuntu like Xubuntu, or a more basic distro like Debian. There's also a lot of home server-oriented software out there that will be easier to set up, like Amahi. Read more about your options here before taking the plunge.
Why Do I Want a Server in My House?
A server, for those that don't know, is just a computer that stores data and "serves" it to other computers on a network, and it can be immensely useful in your house. It's a great place to store your backups, store your media for streaming to all your devices, or even act as an always-on, low-powered computer for seeding torrents and downloading other files.
We've shown you how to create your own network attaached storage device with FreeNAS before, but while FreeNAS is perfect for tiny, low-powered machines, and it doesn't come with a lot of customizability. If you want to do anything beyond what's included, you have to go through a lot of complicated steps. Ubuntu, on the other hand, gives you the freedom to install a ton of different apps, which means you can use your server for just about anything. Plus, it's dead simple to set up, even if you've never used Linux before.
Here, we'll show you how to put together an Ubuntu-based server, connect it to the other computers in your home, and then go through a few examples of how you can use it as a backup machine, a media server for your music, movies and TV shows, and as a dedicated BitTorrent box.
What You'll Need
You can install many different versions of Ubuntu using many different methods, but for today, we're going to go the easiest route possible. All you need is:
A PC with a minimum of 512MB of RAM and a 700MHz processor to act as your server (1.6GHz if you want to stream videos). You'll probably want to use ethernet instead of Wi-Fi, too, since it's much faster. An old computer will work fine for this, though you can also build a dedicated, cheap system if you don't have an old PC lying around. Note that an old PC will use up more power, and may cost you more in the long run—but it's a good way to test everything out and see if a home server is right for you.
The Ubuntu live CD, available here.
Enough storage space to hold whatever files you want on your server. Again, you might be able to get by with whatever old hard drives you have lying around, though if you're storing a lot of media you may need to go buy some new drives with a lot of space. I, for example, have a 2 TB drive dedicated to movies and TV shows, a 1 TB drive dedicated to backups, and a 500GB drive dedicated to music.
A router with DHCP reservations or static IP addresses (almost every router has this capability). This isn't required, but it's definitely preferred. If you don't have this, managing your server can get pretty annoying, since its IP address will change when you reboot it.
A spare monitor to set up your server. You'll only need this in the initial building stages to set up your drives and apps. When you're done, you can just stick your computer in a closet without a monitor, but for the setup, just use one of your existing monitors or just hook it up to your TV with a spare VGA cable.
We're going to just use the regular Desktop version of Ubuntu for this as opposed to the Server version. It's much easier to set up, and should still run fine on any remotely recent computer. We'll also be installing Ubuntu to one of our storage drives, so you'll need to set aside 5GB or so of space for it. If you wanted to, you could install it on a persistent flash drive, but that's only really useful if you're going to swap out drives often, so most people shouldn't have to worry about it.
Once you've gathered up all your materials and installed your hard drives, read on to see how to set everything up.
Install Ubuntu and Prepare Your Drives
We're going to install Ubuntu on one of the hard drives storing our data. It should only take up about 5GB, so it doesn't particularly matter which one—but you'll probably need the drive to be empty before you install Ubuntu. You can copy all your data back afterwards. Grab the Ubuntu live CD here, and either burn it to disc or, if your server-to-be doesn't have a disc drive, burn it to a flash drive instead.
When it's done, insert the CD or flash drive into your server and boot it up. If it isn't set to boot from CD or USB automatically, you may have to go into your BIOS and change yout boot disk priority to include USB drives at the top of the list. You may need to refer to your computer's instructions for how to do this, but you can usually get to the BIOS by holding the Delete key as it starts up, or whatever key is listed on your computer's startup screen.
Once you're booted into Ubuntu, just choose "Install Ubuntu" from the menu, and choose your desired hard drive from the list when prompted. Remember, you want the drive to be empty before you install Ubuntu, so it doesn't overwrite your data. Also, when you create your user, make sure you set Ubuntu to automatically log you in. You don't want to have to type your password every time you reboot your server.
Once Ubuntu is done installing, I recommend installing TeamViewer—that way, you can put your server in the closet and manage it from your main PC instead of whatever temporary setup you're currently using.
Next, we'll set up our hard drives. We're going to want to format these drives as ext4 to make Linux compatibility easy, so if they have any data on them right now, you'll want to copy that data somewhere else. We're going to erase them and start from scratch.
Start up your server and open a terminal. Run the following command:
sudo apt-get install gparted pysdm
These are the tools we'll need to work with our drives. Next, click on the Dash (the purple button at the top of Ubuntu's dock), and search for GParted. Click on it to start it up. You should see a list of your drives in the dropdown at the top-right corner of the screen. Choose one of your other drives (not the one that has Ubuntu installed), and then go to Device > Create Partition Table. Click OK, and then select the "unallocated" partition. Press the "New Partition" button in the upper right-hand corner, and format it as ext4. Label it whatever you want (like "Media" or "WindowsBackup"), and click Add. Then, click the green check mark in GParted's toolbar. It will format your drive. Note which drive it is on your system (e.g., /dev/sdb
or /dev/sdc
) and repeat this process for your other drives.
Lastly, before you share your drives, you'll want to make sure they mount automatically every time you start up your server—otherwise, if you ever reboot, you won't be able to access them. To do this, open up the dash and search for Storage Device Manager. Start it up and find your drives in the left sidebar. For each one, click on it and choose "OK" when prompted to configure the drive. Give it a name (again, like "Media" or "WindowsBackup") and click Apply. Repeat this process for each drive. They should now automatically mount at startup. Reboot your server to make sure they do what they're supposed to—if they're mounted at startup, you should see little "eject" icons next to them in your file browser as soon as you start it up. If they don't have eject icons without you clicking on them first, go back to the Storage Device Manager and make sure you did everything correctly before continuing.
Share Your Server's Drives with Your Network
Your new server can do a lot of things, but first and foremost, it's going to "serve" files to your other computers. So, once we have our data on the server, the first thing we'll want to do is share those drives with the rest of our network.
To share a folder or drive, open up a terminal and run the following command:
gksudo nautilus
This will start up Nautilus (Ubuntu's file manager) with root permissions, which we'll need to share our drives. Next, right-click the drive in the left sidebar, and choose Properties. Go to the Share tab, and check the "Share this Folder" box. The first time you do this, Ubuntu will probably prompt you to install the Windows file sharing service. Install anything it asks you to, and then restart your session when prompted. This won't restart your computer, it'll just turn on the sharing feature. Remember to go back and check the "Allow others to create and delete files" and "Guest access" checkboxes after Windows installs these services.
Then, give your share a name (like "Media" or "WindowsBackup") and check the "Allow others to create and delete files in this folder". When prompted, click "Add the permissions automatically" checkbox at the bottom. This will make it easy to access that folder from other computers on your network. Click "Create Share" and say yes when it asks you to automatically add the necessary permissions. Repeat this process for your other drives.
Note: If you aren't using the traditional GNOME environment, you may not have these options in your file browser. You can set up your shares very simply from the command line, however, using these instructions (which work with Debian and Ubuntu).
When you're done, you'll need to create a password for all of those shared drives, so you can access them from any computer (and so other people can't). To do this, just open up a terminal and type the following, replacing whitsongordon
with your own username:
sudo smbpasswd -a whitsongordon
Then type and re-type a password of your choice when prompted.
Now, head over to your main computer and check to see if the folder was shared properly. On Windows, open up Windows Explorer and click on "Network" in the left sidebar. Your server should show up in the list, and if you double click on it, you'll be asked for a username and password. Use the ones you just created, and it should give you access to your folder, with all the data inside. If you're on a Mac, just open up Finder and go to Go > Connect to Server and type in smb:\\192.168.0.11
, where 192.168.0.11
is the IP address of your server. Remember, you'll make your life a lot easier by setting up DHCP reservations or a static IP for your server. Then you can type in your username and password to connect to your files.
Windows users can also mount these shared folders as network drives on their computer and give them their own drive letters for easy access. To do so, just right-click on the share you want to mount. Then click "Map Network Drive" to give it its own drive letter. It'll sit in the left sidebar of Windows Explorer, perfect for quick and easy access.
Repeat this process for every folder or drive you want to share from your server. In my case, I've shared the two drives I listed above, named "Media" and "Backup". Your drives will obviously vary, but read on for some cool ideas of what you can do with your new server.
Three Cool Ways You Can Use Your Server
Sharing your drives is fine if all you need is a place to store your files, but your server can do so much more. Here are some ideas.
Back Up Data From Your Main Computer (and From Your Server)
If you aren't already backing up your main computer, you should. We recommend using a program like Crashplan to back your data up to the cloud, but your server can be a great backup location too—provided you have your really essential files stored somewhere else online, like Dropbox (or if you want a secondary backup that's easier to access—after all, you should always have more than one backup).
Crashplan is a great option because it not only allows you to back up your PC to your server, but also allows you to back up your server to the cloud. This is particularly useful if you're storing important things on your server that aren't stored anywhere else. I, for example, have my whole photo collection stored on my server, and want to make sure it's backed up with Crashplan.
So, download Crashplan on your server (there's a Linux version available) and set it up as described here. You can then back up certain folders on your server to Crashplan's servers, and/or use your server as a Crashplan "Destination" for your other computers.
Stream Media to All Your Devices with Plex
If you have a sizeable collection of movies and TV shows, your server is a great place to stash them. Not only does it free up space on your other computers, but with a bit of magic, you can stream those videos to your computers and mobile devices with almost no effort, so your media is with you wherever you go. The easiest way to do this is with the Plex media server.
To set it up, just run the following commands in a terminal:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex.list
Add the following line to the text file:
deb http://www.plexapp.com/repo lucid main
And then run the following two commands in a terminal:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install plexmediaserver
When it's done installing, the media server will start running. You can add or remove media from your library from any computer, which means your work with the server is done. Just head to any computer and type 192.168.0.11:32400/manage
, where 192.168.0.11
is the IP address of your server. To add movies, just click on "Movies" and navigate to the drive or folder on your server where your movies are stored. If they're stored on another drive, you'll find them under /Media/[Name of Drive]
Once you've added your media, Plex should automatically organize it into a library for you. The easiest way to stream it to your other devices is to go to Preferences > MyPlex and set up an account from the Media Manager interface. Then, download the Plex app for iOS, Android, Google TV, or your other computers and sign in with your MyPlex account there. You should see your whole library, available for streaming wherever you are. And, any time you want to edit your Plex library, you can do so by going back to the Media Manager web interface from any computer—no need to futz with your server.
Plex is our favorite media streaming app, but it isn't your only choice. If you just want to share your media with the computers in your house, you can easily add your server's shared media folders to XBMC on another computer, or set up a music streaming service like Audiogalaxy or Subsonic for a more music-focused experience.
Set Up BitTorrent for Always-On File Sharing
BitTorrent is great, but it's far more useful when it's always on. Maybe you want new movies and TV shows as soon as they're available, or perhaps you're part of a private tracker that requires you to seed all the time. Whatever your needs, you can use your server to run BitTorrent 24/7 and monitor it from any computer in your house.
We're going to use our favorite BitTorrent client, Deluge, to get this done. To install Deluge, just open up a terminal window and run:
sudo apt-get install deluge deluge-web deluged
When it's done installing, fire it up by going to the Dash and typing in "Deluge". Once it starts, to to Edit > Preferences > Plugins, and check the WebUI box. The "WebUI" option should show up in the left sidebar; click it and check "Enable Web Interface" and "Enable SSL". You can change the listening port to whatever you want, but we'll leave it at 8112 for this tutorial. This is how we're going to monitor our torrents from other computers.
To access the web UI from another computer, type the following in your browser's address bar:
Where 192.168.0.11
is your server's IP address. It'll ask you for a password. The default is deluge
, though it'll prompt you to change it to something new right away, which you should do. From then on, you can add new torrents, monitor existing ones, and change any torrent-related preferences right from this web UI—no need to dig out your server. Just be sure to set Deluge to download torrents to one of your shared folders, so you can access those downloads when they finish.
Lastly, click on the Dash and search for "Startup Applications". Click on it, and press the "Add" button. Name it "Deluge Daemon" and enter deluged
for the command. Click Add and close the window. This will ensure that Deluge starts up every time you reboot your server.
Don't forget to anonymize that BitTorrent traffic with a proxy service like Private Internet Access, or a VPN like one of these. You also set up programs to automatically download TV shows and movies, or even install a Usenet client on your server too.
This isn't the only way to set up a home server with Ubuntu, but it's certainly the easiest. These instructions should get you started, but once you're set up, the world is your oyster. If you've already put together a home server before, let us know what you use it for in the comments.