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Tinder, the popular online dating application, says it is taking steps to better secure the privacy of its users by encrypting some of its data.
Match Group Inc., the company that operates Tinder, told Sen. Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenNSA dumps millions of phone records collected by telecom companies Hillicon Valley: NSA deletes call records | Tinder swipes right for encryption | Mueller seeks new delay in Flynn sentencing Tinder says it's boosted data security with encryption MORE (D-Ore.) in a letter dated Wednesday that its swiping data and images on the application are better protected against malicious hackers looking to access such information."We take the security and privacy of our users seriously and employ a network of tools and systems to protect the integrity of our platform, including encryption," wrote Jared Sine, general counsel for Match Group.
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GRAY -- A shipment of medical-grade marijuana allegedly bound for Louisiana from California was intercepted by State Police Thursday, resulting in the arrest of two men living in a Thibodaux apartment on drug charges.
State Police Troop C spokesman Gilbert Dardar said local troopers were contacted Wednesday by authorities in Mendocino, Calif., and notified that a "large amount of marijuana" was en route from a private delivery service to 2316 St. Bernard Road, Apt. E.
The package, Dardar said, was addressed to Matthew Zugsberger and "contained three large bags of marijuana."
Troopers agreed to take delivery of the marijuana in an attempt to further the investigation, he said.
Troopers and Thibodaux Police intercepted the shipment and conducted an undercover operation.
They searched the apartment and discovered 951 grams, or 2.12 pounds, of marijuana in Zugsberger�s possession, police said.
That marijuana included the 934 grams initially discovered in California, one of 12 states that allow marijuana possession and use for certain medical maladies.
In jurisdictions where it�s legal, a doctor typically prescribes the drug to treat nausea.
Medical marijuana is illegal in Louisiana.
Zugsberger, Dardar said, admitted that he paid $6,000 per pound for the marijuana, which "appeared to be very high quality with a much higher THC content."
In addition to the marijuana, troopers also discovered 11 grams of alleged hashish oil and $4,640 in cash.
Another man, identified as Michael Mahoney, was at the apartment. He received summons to appear in court on a charge of marijuana possession for the gram that authorities allegedly found on him.
Zugsberger was arrested and charged with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. If convicted, he faces up to six months in jail for a first offense.
Zugsberger claimed to have a medical-marijuana license from California, Dardar said, noting that it�s illegal to possess medical marijuana from California outside that state. Furthermore, he said, patients in that state are only allowed to possess small amounts of the drug.
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Kill Jealousy at the Source
I am having trouble trusting my husband. I am an extremely jealous woman and I get furious at even the idea of him looking at another woman. We fight about it almost daily and it is really putting a strain on our marriage. How do I get over the fact that my husband will find other women attractive?
Reno, Nevada
Dear Jealous,
It's understandable that you might feel jealous at some point in your relationship. In fact, jealousy can be a good thing – it can be utilized to make us remember how much we love our partner. Without jealousy, we wouldn't be as inclined to want commitment and closeness and we do when there is the possibility of a threat from other women/men.
However, unreasonable jealousy is always a result of poor self-esteem. That may sound a bit harsh – or maybe not even sound accurate, but I assure you, it is true. However, that should be good news – your jealousy is not warranted!
To me, jealousy is a bit like any phobia – if one has a fear of spiders, they feel as though the spider is going to harm them in some way, but logically one knows that it won't. Phobias are generally characterized as a debilitating fear of something that we logically know isn't harmful. If you knew that your husband wouldn't ever stray, and you have been guaranteed of it – would your fear subside? Or would you still feel insecure?
The best antidote for jealousy is to bolster one's self esteem. How you do that is up to you. I find it best to figure out what traits we feel insecure about, and then change them. If you feel overweight, start a weight loss plan. If you feel undereducated, take some classes. Analyze the women you feel threatened by, and figure out what it is about them that threatens you. Then become that – not in a way where you stop being true to yourself, but in a way that embellishes that part of you. Generally if we are jealous of someone, it is because there is a little part of us that is dying to be seen, but we feel we are not "good enough" or that it is just not "us". There are always ways to implement these characteristics, even if it is not in the way others implement them. For instance: if you are jealous of a woman who is a great singer, you shouldn't necessary sign up for karaoke, but consider singing in the shower when your boyfriend is in the next room. Let that part of you out, even if it's in a small way.
As for the jealousy, treat it in the same way they treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. When you feel the obsessive need to be jealous, just stop. Don't give it another thought. Say to yourself, "Nope, we don't have those thoughts any more. I'm choosing to think about something else."
It may take a while but I assure you, if you keep working on your own self-esteem and stop giving your jealousy your time and energy, you will begin to feel better.
Best of luck.
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Returning for its second season, HBO's fantasy hit is sexier, bloodier, and more epic than ever. (And it's not just for nerds anymore)
Might we see the dragons?" asks the Spice King.
Daenerys Targaryen stands on a sunbaked hilltop outside the city gates, considering the request. Streaked with dirt, her lips cracked, clothes in tatters, she's the exhausted leader of a warrior tribe that's been wandering the desert wasteland for months. She has three priceless dragons, true, but they're just vulnerable infants — easy to kill, or steal.
"If you don't let us in," she says, "all of us will die."
"Which we shall deeply regret," he replies.
In a nearby tent, Game of Thrones executive producer Dan Weiss intently watches Emilia Clarke, the 23-year-old British actress playing Daenerys who barely had any professional experience before being cast on HBO's breakout fantasy series. The production team is gathered in the Croatian mountains outside Dubrovnik, having constructed a massive, ancient-looking gateway. "We really need to sell that if she doesn't get into the city, she's truly screwed," Weiss explains.
Back on the summit, Daenerys' weary desperation slowly turns to anger. She's not going to show this jerk her dragons. Instead, she gives him some fire-breathing fury of her own. "When my dragons are grown, they will take back what was stolen from me and destroy those who have wronged me," she warns. "We will lay waste to armies and we will burn cities to the ground. Turn us away and we will burn you first!"
Weiss smiles, and praises her ferocity. Later, Clarke explains that shooting in the stifling temperatures helped her channel the dragon queen's despair. With her long dark hair crammed under Daenerys' blond wig, the actress had even suffered heat exhaustion the day before. "It helps being in really extreme environments," Clarke says, "because you're just battling everything."
That phrase — battling everything — could have been the mantra for Game of Thrones' second season on screen and off.
At first, ratings weren't exactly epic. Based on New Mexico novelist George R.R. Martin's fantasy-book series A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones follows the brutal quest for power among several ruling families in a sprawling mythical kingdom. Its initial 10-episode series order was considered a risky move for a premium network best known for contemporary shows like The Sopranos and Sex and the City. Though the sexy vampire drama True Blood proved that a supernatural series could succeed on the network, the high-fantasy genre was still considered so…so…nerdy. Television's last hit fantasy series was the syndicated Xena: Warrior Princess, and no TV show had ever pulled off combining swords, sorcery, and R-rated sex and violence. When Thrones premiered to lavish critical praise last April, the network granted it a quick renewal. "Our biggest goal is passionate engagement," says HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo. "And Thrones has rabidly passionate viewers." (HBO, like EW, is a division of Time Warner.) But only about 2.2 million people tuned in for the initial airing, which isn't so hot when a network spends a reported $50-60 million on a project. (Boardwalk Empire, by comparison, debuted to an audience of 4.8 million.)
Then something strange happened. Fueled by word-of-mouth buzz, Thrones' ratings went up. And up. Martin's novels leaped onto best-seller lists, moving a staggering 8.4 million copies in 2011, including his newest Song of Ice and Fire installment, A Dance With Dragons. The show even impressed the stuffy ranks of Emmy voters, scoring 13 nominations, including best drama, and a win for Peter Dinklage's swaggering turn as sharp-witted dwarf Tyrion Lannister. Counting repeats, DVR, and on-demand playback, Thrones' first season has now tallied 9.3 million viewers per episode. The acclaim transformed the cast into objects of fan worship, even beyond the feverish halls of Comic-Con, where the group was greeted like conquering heroes last summer. Taking a break from shooting season 2, Clarke was on the streets of Dubrovnik when a young stranger made a beeline toward her. "I thought he was going to ask for directions," she says. "And he goes, 'You are my khaleesi!… Mother of dragons!"' Dinklage too found himself reeling from the fan-tensity. "One woman said she named her daughter [after the Thrones character] Sansa," he recalls. "I didn't know what to say about that."
If Thrones' first year was considered a creative gamble, the second season demanded that HBO and producers double down: The new chapter has a larger cast, a more complex story, and an array of new exotic locations that required several production units often shooting simultaneously across three countries. There are more dragons, CGI-enhanced "direwolves" (played by real wolves this time instead of dogs), and a massive climactic battle. All of which called for a boosted budget — and getting that wasn't easy either. "There's so many characters and locations and story lines, so many things that are atypical in television — and for good reason," says Weiss, who writes for the show along with fellow exec producer David Benioff. "You could do this show relatively easily with twice the money that we have, then after a couple great seasons it'd collapse under its own weight and cease to exist." Which is, incidentally, pretty much what happened to Rome, HBO's last attempt at staging an epic.
Based on the second book in Martin's series, the 768-page A Clash of Kings, season 2 begins with this "simple" setup: After the death of King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy), his surviving brothers, Renly (Gethin Anthony) and Stannis (Stephen Dillane), are staking rival claims to rule the land of Westeros. Though Renly has a larger army, Stannis is aided by a mysterious redheaded sorceress named Melisandre (Carice van Houten). Also vying for power: naval lord Balon Greyjoy (Patrick Malahide); the handsome, noble Robb Stark (Richard Madden), out to avenge his father's death; and determined dragon queen Daenerys. But to rule the kingdom, one must first unseat the current king, Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), a terrifyingly psychotic teen who doesn't realize he's the illegitimate incestuous offspring of his devious mother, Queen Cersei (Lena Headey), and her brutal brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).
Oh, and we're also following dour-hunk bastard Jon Snow (Kit Harington) as he treks across the frozen northern wilderness, discovering an inbred house of horrors; and his half sister Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), who's hiding from Joffrey's thugs while traveling incognito as a boy.
It's enough scheming, deception, and fighting for a dozen TV shows (or a few Harry Potter novels). The only ingredient missing was something that most networks would consider crucial: a widely known, marketable star like Sean Bean, who graced the first season's ad campaign. Bean's honorable patriarch Ned Stark was beheaded in front of his young daughters near the end of the first season, a move that shocked even HBO executives. "I did not know the ride we'd be going on in season 1," admits Lombardo, who discovered the plot twist after ordering the pilot. "But by the time we picked up the show, I was invested in all the characters. And one of the characters that popped most was Tyrion."
The crowd stares at Peter Dinklage.
He strides across the castle's terrace as Tyrion Lannister, his battle armor scuffed, gleefully crashing his nephew Joffrey's birthday party. The boy king, stunned, says he assumed Tyrion was dead. "Death is so boring," says Tyrion with his usual dry amusement, "especially now with so much excitement in the world."
If the new season has a main character, it's Tyrion, who's been dispatched to help Joffrey manage the kingdom — a gig whose danger is matched by its perks. "He's been treated very poorly, and now if somebody calls him a name, he can have them killed," Dinklage says between takes. "So he's like, 'Hmm…looks like I can get revenge on all those high school kids who made fun of me."'
Standing in for the mythical Red Keep is Croatia's seaside Fort Lovrijenac, an imposing structure the Thrones team can access only by climbing 175 stone steps. Dinklage helps pass out fruit to parched crew members, which probably isn't your everyday on-the-job behavior for an Emmy-winning star. "You get that out of your head once you're back on the set," Dinklage says of the award. "I like to think it doesn't soften you."
We'll also see more of the diabolical Cersei and her sinister spawn Joffrey. "With his coronation, his malicious deeds amplify tenfold," promises Gleeson, whose character's tyranny leads to a disturbing execution in the second episode that will test even his mother's devotion. Adds Headey of Cersei: "You get a real glimpse into her guilt as a mother and her fear of what she's created…. We get to see more of her unraveling."
These beats are familiar to readers of Martin's best-sellers. Yet many other scenes this season — including Daenerys' confrontation at the city gates — will surprise die-hard fans. Jaime Lannister was captured near the end of the first season and spends the second novel imprisoned, but don't expect that story line to play out the way it does in the book. "Hey, you can't just bench me, what the hell is that?" Coster-Waldau jokes. "But it makes sense for the journey that Jaime's on. He's not in a happy place." Likewise, Robb Stark receives scant pages in Clash, but producers are bringing a forbidden romance involving him to the foreground. "If we didn't have Richard Madden on the show, teenage girls everywhere would abandon us en masse," Weiss quips. Producers won't say whether that means fans will see Madden in the buff this season during one of Thrones' infamous scenes of "sexposition" (noun: the strategic use of sexual activity to make expository dialogue more lively), though viewers can look forward to at least one returning character getting naked for the first time.
As much as producers have been willing to depart from Martin's source material, however, there's one sequence that Weiss and Benioff desperately wanted to render faithfully: a battle so enormous, it seemed impossible to shoot.
"As great as the first season was, there were a few things that were a little problematic," says Martin, a co-exec producer who occasionally writes for the HBO adaptation of his novels. "One of them was the absence of battles."
A wartime sequence had, in fact, been planned for the final episode of Thrones' first season. But it was scrapped in favor of a less costly strategy, one that TV series have used for decades when staging a large conflict: Show the run-up and aftermath, but not the actual fight. But that technique wasn't going to work this time around. "This season is about a country at war," says Benioff. "And we felt like if we didn't see the most important battle of this entire war on screen, we're going to shortchange viewers."
As told in Clash, the climactic Battle of the Blackwater (logistical-spoiler alert!) takes place at a castle. And on land. And at sea. There are ships. There are explosions. It's basically a film producer's worst nightmare, let alone anyone trying to stage the event for TV. While Weiss and Benioff pride themselves on finding creative solutions to budget issues ("One really powerful image can be stronger than six merely good images," Weiss says), this obstacle had only one solution: "We had to go begging," Benioff says candidly, "cap in hand, several times." The duo didn't get as much cash as they wanted (the show's budget rose 15 percent overall this year), but they credit HBO for never once asking if wartime scenes would increase ratings. "[The conversation] was all about why this story needs this big battle," Benioff says. Adds HBO's Lombardo: "All of it's on the screen. David and Dan are not only talented writers but they're nimble, and I think we've figured it out."
The result is a massive battle scripted by Martin himself, largely shot in a quarry in Northern Ireland. The sequence could run "at least half an episode," Weiss says. While most hour-long TV dramas are filmed in less than 10 days, the Blackwater episode took about a month of wet, muddy night shoots. Dinklage in particular was pummeled by the elements. Says Weiss, "Peter didn't have to act tired because by 5 a.m. he's had 41- degree rain pouring on him for eight hours straight."
Yet Belfast wasn't the chilliest location during the season 2 shoot. Nor was the heat in Croatia the most extreme weather endured by the cast. Did we mention…the blizzard? For Jon Snow's adventures north of the Wall, producers decided that fake snow (as relied on last season) wasn't sufficient to capture the icy wasteland described in Martin's novels. So they flew the team to Iceland (and for those keeping track in this story, that's country No. 3). There, a snowstorm hammered the production, and scenes were sometimes ruined when actors' faces would frost over within seconds. "It was guerrilla filmmaking," recalls Harington, who says he nonetheless reveled in the frigid conditions. "There was a moment when we were all on a frozen lake — you could hear this huge crack, and we all had to run off."
But the struggles will be worthwhile if Thrones comes roaring back to another round of praise, awards, and, perhaps, an even bigger audience when it premieres (April 1 at 9 p.m.). The producers are itching to dive into Martin's fan-favorite third novel, which they plan to split into two seasons. HBO executives suspect that like Daenerys' dragons, Thrones could grow into a monster, and they assure that the series would have to "fall off a cliff" not to get renewed. While Weiss and Benioff appreciate the network's confidence, they take nothing for granted. On the scenic Croatian hilltop, Weiss gestures toward the sea. "We got a cliff right here."


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Installing the openHAB demo (optional)
The openHAB comes with a demo package which have all the configuration to play with a model of a house with some rooms, lights, heating and all the stuff. It also includes some demo rules to explore the possibilities of openHAB. To install it, follow these simple steps:
Unzip the distribution-<version>-demo-configuration.zip to same directory, you've installed openHAB e.g. C:\openhab or /opt/openhab. ( le QPKG est dans : /share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/openHAB/ )
Launch the runtime by executing the script start.bat or start.sh
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WITH THE ONCOMING FESTIVITIES, the band wanted to celebrate and recognise this momentous summer with a significant compilation CD release. This was given much thought, as compilation albums are often featureless collections of songs – tracks that are already available in various guises, and perhaps made more redundant now in the digital streaming age. Crucial to the album was to record, or re-record, a track by way of 'swansong' – a new recording that would act as the lead track, and as a specific single release. Somewhere from The Story was identified as the song that spoke to that, and the band set about completely re-recording it, this time bringing out a different character to the song, as a duet featuring Bruce and Julie Fowlis. They got Calum Malcolm ('Big Wheel', 'Amazing Things' etc) in to produce it and we are really excited at the results!
The idea behind The Ones That Got Away was to try and put together a collection of songs, some better known than others, but ones that showed a side of the band, often overlooked. There are so many recordings featuring the Celtic, Gaelic, tribal sound of the band, but there was a desire to put together a collection of songs with more of a crossover/ mainstream appeal. Even thinking, at this late stage, towards pitching to a new potential audience. (It's amazing how many people come late to the party, and with all the profile that Runrig will enjoy this summer, there will inevitably be a significant tranche of newcomers.)
Some songs came from below the radar, released previously as 'B' sides – some that had under-achieved with that old bugbear, National Radio. Others are just popular songs that might have gone a bit unnoticed and deserved another day in the sun. But generally, it's a collection of Runrig's more accessible songs, ones that aspire to that clichèd industry phrase, 'radio friendly'. We hope some of you can welcome them as friends, old and new, as well. So many of you appreciated the book style format that we had for The Story album, so this follows in a similar vein. Who knows – in time it might even become a collector's item.
• The Ones That Got Away, CD Book Format, is released in the UK on 8 June.
• It appears in wallet format within a Sony Germany Box Set called Rarities, released 4 June.
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With an assortment of cadenzas. Jerome Lowenthal, piano; Carl Topilow, unnamed orchestra. LP Classics 1008 A/B (2-disc set).
My Random House Dictionary defines a cadenza as "an elaborate flourish or showy solo passage, sometimes improvised, introduced near the end of an aria or a movement of a concerto." I mention this at the outset because that's the idea behind this recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. That is, Beethoven wrote cadenzas for the first and third movements of the concerto, and since Beethoven's time other composers have offered their own. On the present album pianist Jerome Lowenthal has gathered together twenty such cadenzas by eleven different composers and presents them along with the concerto itself on two compact discs. The idea is to hear, compare, and enjoy these various cadenzas from the nineteenth century to our own. It does, indeed, make for fascinating listening, especially in the capable hands of Mr. Lowenthal.
For the benefit of those of you who may not know Mr. Lowenthal, his Wikipedia page describes him as an American classical pianist, a member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was also chair of the piano department. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. He made his debut at thirteen with the Philadelphia Orchestra; then, returning to the United States from Jerusalem in 1963, he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, playing Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2. Since then, he has performed with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuri Temirkanov, Leonard Slatkin, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux, and Leopold Stokowski. He has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir, his late wife, and Ursula Oppens, as well as quintets with the Lark Quartet, Avalon Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet.
His studies included lessons with Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia, William Kapell and Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School in New York, and Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He was a prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (1960) and the Busoni Competition, and he is frequently a judge in international piano competitions.
So, here's what we have on the two CD's under review. Disc one contains the piano concerto itself plus two cadenzas by Beethoven, first and third movements; then first and third-movement cadenzas by Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Hans Von Bulow, Johannes Brahms, and Camille Saint-Saens. Disc two contains the concerto again, this time with first and third-movement cadenzas by Frederic Rzewski, Ferruccio Busoni, Leopold Godowsky, Ernst Von Dohnanyi, and Nicolai Medtner.
As for the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote it between 1805 and 1806, premiering it in 1807 with the composer himself as soloist. For most of us, it's the concerto on the album that matters and how Mr. Lowenthal plays it because if he doesn't do it justice, none of the following cadenzas would make much difference. Fortunately, Lowenthal does do the piece and the ensuing cadenzas justice.
The concerto begins with a brief piano solo, projected with authority by Mr. Lowenthal. He handles the solo part with authority, and the orchestra provides a gentle, restrained accompaniment. But it's really Lowenthal's presence one needs to consider. He displays a complete mastery of the piano while offering an unmannered performance. You won't find any histrionics here, nothing that would set his playing apart as eccentric or showy. It is a charming realization of Beethoven, virtuosic yet reserved. As an interpretation, Lowenthal's reading may lack some color, but that isn't the point. He is not trying to impose his own personality on the music but let it speak for itself. In particular, he is trying to show and compare the various cadenzas, which requires him to be as objective as possible. So, yes, his is a fine, honest realization of the work.
Now, about those cadenzas. The first of these are by Clara Schumann. They seem steeped in high Romanticism, yet they are fairly plain and graceful, too. Although Beethoven left instructions that the third-movement cadenza be short, Schumann's is relatively lengthy (only Rubinstein's is longer). Whatever, it tends to repeat earlier material from the concerto, giving it a more unifying quality than most such cadenzas. Her pieces are quite charming.
Anton Rubinstein was among the more-controversial pianists of the nineteenth century, loved by most listeners, hated by others. His cadenzas reflect this attitude, being some of the most forceful in the collection, his third-movement cadenza seeming to go on forever.
Hans von Bulow was a contemporary of Rubinstein and an equally gifted composer-pianist who left definite, and sometimes contradictory, impressions on his listeners. Understandably, his cadenzas are also strongly enlivening.
Then there's Brahms. These cadenzas sound as though they belong in one of Brahms's own concertos yet have a sweet, touching quality about them, too. The third-movement cadenza is brief and to the point; Beethoven would surely have approved.
Disc one ends with cadenzas from Camille Saint-Saens. They seem almost impressionistic by comparison to the previous cadenzas on the album. Still, they are lovely, and Lowenthal plays them lovingly.
For the main performance of the concerto on disc two, Lowenthal gives us a new first-movement cadenza by Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938) that he wrote just for Lowenthal. However, Rzewski requested that Lowenthal play it with improvisation and spontaneity. Lowenthal says he complied, and while it's as effective a cadenza as any, it clearly betrays its modern origins in its less melodious, slightly more discordant structure. I think it works better on its own than integrated into the Beethoven work.
Ferruccio Busoni won first prize in a competition with, among other things, his Beethoven cadenzas, and they helped launch his career. They are among the more vibrant of the cadenzas on the program.
Leopold Godowsky was another important pianist-composer of the early twentieth century, and his cadenzas struck me as being rather ornate, well embroidered as it were. They are a little more showy than the others, perhaps because Godowski himself enjoyed impressing his audience with his own skills.
Finally, we get the cadenzas of Ernst von Dohnanyi and Nicolai Medtner, both composer-pianists of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Of the two, Dohnanyi appears more to adhere to Beethoven's original ideas and Medtner to stray off to his own ground. Lowenthal admits that Medtner's cadenzas are his favorites, and while I cannot entirely agree with him, certainly Lowenthal gives them a worthy showing in bravura style and refinement.
Producer/editor Alan Bise and engineer Bruce Egre made the recording in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007, and LP Classics released it in 2014. The sound comes across beautifully balanced, not only left and right but among the instruments, with no frequencies standing out or recessed and the piano realistically centered, neither too close nor too distant. Smooth and polished, the sonics are half the pleasure one gets from the album, the piano well defined amidst a lightly reverberant acoustic.
To listen to a brief excerpt from this album, click here:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (CD review)
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John J. Puccio, Editor, Publisher, Reviewer
Understand, I'm just an everyday guy reacting to something I love. And I've been doing it for a very long time, my appreciation for classical music starting with the musical excerpts on The Big John and Sparkie radio show in the early Fifties and the purchase of my first recording, The 101 Strings Play the Classics, around 1956. In the late Sixties I began teaching high school English and Film Studies as well as becoming interested in hi-fi, my audio ambitions graduating me from a pair of AR-3 speakers to the Fulton J's recommended by The Stereophile's J. Gordon Holt. In the early Seventies, I began writing for a number of audio magazines, including Audio Excellence, Audio Forum, The Boston Audio Society Speaker, The American Record Guide, and from 1976 until 2008, The $ensible Sound, for which I served as Classical Music Editor.
Today, I'm retired from teaching and use a pair of bi-amped VMPS RM40s loudspeakers for my listening. In addition to writing the Classical Candor blog, I served as the Movie Review Editor for the Web site Movie Metropolis (formerly DVDTown) from 1997-2013. Music and movies. Life couldn't be better.
Karl W. Nehring, Contributing Reviewer
For more than 20 years I was the editor ofThe $ensible Soundmagazine and a regular contributor to its classical review pages. I would not presume to present myself as some sort of expert on music, but I have a deep love for and appreciation of many types of music, "classical" especially, and have listened to thousands of recordings over the years, many of which still line the walls of my listening room (and occasionally spill onto the furniture and floor, much to the chagrin of my long-suffering wife). I have always taken the approach as a reviewer that what I am trying to do is simply to point out to readers that I have come across a recording that I have found of interest, a recording that I think they might appreciate my having pointed out to them. I suppose that sounds a bit simple-minded, but I know I appreciate reading reviews by others that do the same for me -- point out recordings that I think I might enjoy.
For readers who might be wondering about what kind of system I am using to do my listening, I should probably point out that I do a LOT of music listening and employ a variety of means to do so in a variety of environments, as I would imagine many music lovers also do. Starting at the more grandiose end of the scale, the system in which I do my most serious listening comprises an Onkyo C-7030 CD player, Legacy Audio StreamLine preamplifier, Legacy Audio PowerBloc2 amplifier, and a pair of Legacy Audio Focus SE speakers augmented by a Legacy Point One subwoofer. I also do a lot of listening while driving in my 2016 Acura RDX with its nice-sounding ELS Studio sound system through which I play CDs (the ones I especially like I rip to the Acura's hard drive so that I can listen to them whenever I want) or stream music through the system using my LG G7 ThinQ cell phone, which features surprisingly sophisticated audio circuitry. For more casual listening at home when I am not in my listening room, I often stream music through the phone into a Vizio soundbar system that has remarkably nice sound for such a diminutive physical presence. And finally, at the least grandiose end of the scale, I have an Ultimate Ears Wonderboom Bluetooth speaker for those occasions where I am somewhere by myself without a sound system but in desperate need of a musical fix. I just can't imagine life without music and I am humbly grateful for the technology that enables us to enjoy it in so many wonderful ways.
Bryan Geyer, Technical Analyst
I initially embraced classical music in 1954 when I mistuned my car radio and heard the Heifetz recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. That inspired me to board the new "hi-fi" DIY bandwagon. In 1957 I joined one of the pioneer semiconductor makers and spent the next 32 years marketing transistors and microcircuits to military contractors. Home audio DIY projects remained a personal passion until 1989 when we created our own new photography equipment company. I later (2012) revived my interest in two channel audio when we "downsized" our life and determined that mini-monitors + paired subwoofers were a great way to mate fine music with the space constraints of condo living.
Visitors that view my technical papers on this site may wonder why they appear here, rather than on a site that features audio equipment reviews. My reason is that I tried the latter, and prefer to publish for people who actually want to listen to music; not to equipment. My focus is in describing what's technically beneficial to assure that the sound of the system will accurately replicate the source input signal (i. e. exhibit high accuracy) without inordinate cost and complexity. Conversely, most of the audiophiles of today strive to achieve sound that's euphonic, i.e. be personally satisfying. In essence, audiophiles seek sound that's consistent with their desire; the music is simply a test signal.
Mission Statement
It is the goal of Classical Candor to promote the enjoyment of classical music. Other forms of music come and go--minuets, waltzes, ragtime, blues, jazz, bebop, country-western, rock-'n'-roll, heavy metal, rap, and the rest--but classical music has been around for hundreds of years and will continue to be around for hundreds more. It's no accident that every major city in the world has one or more symphony orchestras.
When I was young, I heard it said that only intellectuals could appreciate classical music, that it required dedicated concentration to appreciate. Nonsense. I'm no intellectual, and I've always loved classical music. Anyone who's ever seen and enjoyed Disney's Fantasia or a Looney Tunes cartoon playing Rossini's William Tell Overture or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 can attest to the power and joy of classical music, and that's just about everybody.
So, if Classical Candor can expand one's awareness of classical music and bring more joy to one's life, more power to it. It's done its job. --John J. Puccio
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A sprain occurs when ligaments are stretched or torn beyond their normal range. Ligaments are tough bands of fibrous tissue that connect bone to bone. Sprains occur in the ankles, knees, wrists, and thumbs. The ankle is the most common joint to be sprained.
A strain occurs when a muscle or tendon is stretched or torn beyond its normal range. A tendon is a fibrous cord of tissue that connects muscles to bones. The lower back and hamstrings are the most common muscles to be strained.
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So we assigned students to groups. The groups vary each week but are reminded they will submit group evaluations in which each student would evaluate themselves and others in the group. They are also told that the evaluations contribute to final grade. We did not make an attempt to direct how the students would work together but left it up to themselves. The group evaluations work well in keeping students contributing. However there were always a few students who did not contribute to the group. My evaluation system only really works toward the end of the semester.
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Google Devises On-Body Detection Feature for Added Security to Smartphones
Google Devises On-Body Detection Feature for Added Security to Smartphones
Published on : Mar 23, 2015
Google is soon going to introduce new feature "on-body detection". This motion-sensitive feature will keep your Android phone unlocked till the time it is in your hand or in your pocket. With the accelerometer the device will be able to detect the location of the phone, such in the hand or in the pocket and then lock it accordingly. The principle idea behind this feature is that the phone will be automatically locked once it is away from you, thus preventing the chances of data falling into wrong hands.
The Android Police stated when the user unlocks the phone, it will stay so till the phone is held in the hand or kept in the pocket. When the user puts away the phone, it will get locked and will only open to the set password. The report further added that the only drawback is that once the user hands over the unlocked phone to someone else, it will not lock again. So far, the feature has only been designed to understand the owner's hands or the owner's pocket.
This security feature was first seen in Nexus 4 which runs on Android 5.0.1 Lollipop. In the future the feature will work on all the gadgets that are above Android 5.0. User can switch to the on-body detection feature from smart lock section in the security settings. The catch is that the user needs to get this feature from Google Play Services version 7.0.97.


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France ... It all Started with the Glimpse of a Turret (#TheMidsummerGarden)/
It all started with the glimpse of a turret, you see. I was on a walk near Chalus, France, headphones in listening to my audiobook), striding along narrow roads that weaved through lurid green fields and acres of chestnuts forests, when over the barbed-wire fence I spotted this old castle.
It wasn't grand. Indeed, it looked almost abandoned. But for this Aussie girl, it seemed almost ridiculous that I could come across this forgotten castle just plonked in the middle of the paddock. It was as if the world had moved on to better things, and these crumbing stones walls, a barn and perfectly solid castle were still standing there, waiting ... for what?
Later, I came back with my family and we toured these grounds of Chateau de Brie. We stood in the barn that sheltered people during the Crusades, learned that none less than Richard the Lionheart had stayed and feasted there. I crouched and ran my hands over the wide oak floorboard in the oversized banquet hall, and admired the marble fire surrounds. Traced the lines of the worn steps spiralling to the top of the turret. At the top of the front turret was a tiny room, the guide had nicknamed 'The Maidens Room'.
And I started thinking, who loved here? Was it a maid or a noble maiden? Was she trapped or was she free? Perhaps she slept here the night before her wedding?
And then I looked out the wIndow at the abandoned garden below, and imagined it in midsummer, with a party in full swing. A wedding perhaps, with a banquet ....
And suddenly, I knew I had to tell a story about a banquet prepared from the garden below. Set within the grounds of this castle. Nothing too fancy, but utilitarian and strong. Like my main character, a cook. A herbalist ... a gardener. Someone who would lose herself for hours at a time in the chestnut forests beyond the walls of the castle ...


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Native American EducationPublished Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Cronkite News, AZ PBS, report on Native American Education includes interview with Julianne Keams, a Navajo student at MCC and Quimbie Gonnie, Miss Native MCC, who is studying construction management. Report at minute 10:48.
Wrangler News: She Loves MePublished Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Mesa Community College Music Department presents an intimate and touching show, featuring music by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler On The Roof) and book by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret). Considered by many to be the most charming musical ever written, She Loves Me is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance. Via Wrangler News. She Loves Me - Wrangler News.pdf
MCC Announces Improved T-Bird Athletic Booster ClubPublished Monday, October 17, 2016
My News Mesa reports that The Mesa Community College Athletic Department has launched a re-vamped T-Bird Athletic Booster Club. MCC announces improved T-Bird Athletic Booster Club - MyNewsMesa.pdf
Arizona@Work Earns $3 Million for Youth ProgramsPublished Monday, October 17, 2016
"At Mesa Community College, we have students that start their studies but end up dropping out," said Sheila Paul Shedd, associate director at the workforce division with the Maricopa Community Colleges. "We are working with the county counterpart for workforce, ARIZONA@WORK, on a project to engage the students using the youth services resources. Via AZBigMedia. ARIZONA@WORK earns $3 million for youth programs _ AZ Big Media.pdf
MCC Among Colleges Laying out a Welcome Matt for Newly Displaced ITT StudentsPublished Monday, October 17, 2016
Wrangler News reports that Mesa Community College has joined its 10 sister campuses Valleywide in responding to the recent closure of three ITT Technical Institute locations, offering help to the now displaced ITT students as they transition into a new educational environment. Michael Voss, the college's dean for career and technical education, is quoted. ITT Students Welcome.pdf
Phoenix College Football Offers HopePublished Monday, October 17, 2016
MCC is mentioned as "powerhouse" football in USA Today. Boivin_ Phoenix College football offers hope.pdf
MCC Team Shop Now Open for Thunderbird FansPublished Friday, October 14, 2016
My News Mesa reports that the Mesa Community College Athletic Department has announced the opening of its official online merchandise shop. MCC Team Shop now open for Thunderbird fans - MyNewsMesa.pdf
Review of All in the TimingPublished Thursday, October 13, 2016
A review of MCC Theatre production All in the Timing by PHXStages and Talkin' Broadway. PHX Stage.pdf and Link: Talkin' Broadway, PDF:Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews, Phoenix - _All in the Timing_ - 10_13_16.pdf
Latino Town Hall 2016 Group Registration-City of Mesa, MPS & MCCPublished Thursday, October 13, 2016
The Mesa Latino Town Hall is a one-of-a-kind event in the East Valley that has received in-kind and financial support from a cross section of organizations in our community including, but not limited to, Mesa Community College, Mesa Public Schools, City of Mesa, SRP, Mesa Arts Center, The Arizona Republic, among others. Oct. 22, 7 a.m. Events.KYMA.com. Latino Town Hall 2016.pdf
Jim Hill: A Day in the Life of a Police OfficerPublished Thursday, October 13, 2016
MCCCD Public Safety Officer Jim Hill describes a day in the life of a police officer for the Scottsdale Independent. Jim Hill_ a day in the life of a police officer _ Scottsdale Independent.pdf


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Since this morning we are back in the northern part of the world again. The upwind beating which takes place since over 1500 nautical miles is hurting Lifgun a bit. The generator still makes problems and I couldn't figure out from where exactly the problems are coming. The watermaker was leaking, in particular his feed pump was leaking - this I fixed maybe in the afternoon. Everything which is not tight like hell is becoming loose. And it seems that we have another 850 miles of upwind sailing. But anyways, overall the situation is stable and it seems that we are on the right track. To be honest : Im tired of the banging, of the heel angel, of the noise - but no choice so far. We do around 160 miles every 24 hours, which is not bad, especially with the waves you find out here. Sleeping is almost impossible, its so hot and humid - every couple of hours you need a ventilation and dry break outside. The piracy situation seems to be stable. So far nothing happend. As usual I believe in the fact that the most storys are fairytales - but we will see what will be at the Horn of Aden.....
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Overseas bond issuances by Indian companies and banks more than halved to $2.60 billion in 2016-17, compared with $5.72 billion in the year before, data from Bloomberg showed.
Overseas bond issuances by Indian companies and banks more than halved to $2.60 billion in 2016-17, compared with $5.72 billion in the year before, data from Bloomberg showed. ICICI Bank, Glenmark, Adani Ports and NTPC were among the borrowers. Overall sluggish demand for funds, comparatively lower cost of borrowing in India and higher hedging costs were a dampener and kept Indian companies away from the foreign markets. Industry experts expect the trend to continue in the current fiscal as well.
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The average yield on the 'AAA' three-year corporate bond in the domestic market was around 7.59% in FY17, lower than an average of 8.36% in the previous financial year. The average yield on the 'AAA' five-year bond was 7.72% in fiscal 2017, against an average of 8.42% in FY16.
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On the other hand, corporate bond issuances via private placement in the domestic market was `5.5 lakh crore in fiscal 2017, up from `4.6 lakh crore in the previous fiscal, according to Sebi data.
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Posts Tagged 'Openbsd'
g++ warnings on OpenBSD: "strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()" and "strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat()"
strcpy() and strcat() related warnings on OpenBSD with gcc/g++
I have a box with OpenBSD 4.5 installed. When compiling c++ programs using g++, I get following warnings:
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.47.0: warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.47.0: warning: strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat()
Well, "Unix Programming Tools" from Stanford's website says:
"Getting used to compiles that produce "a few warnings" is a very bad habit".
I asked the reason for these warnings on ##c++-basic on irc.freenode.net. The guys there suggested me some options (e.g. -Wno-deprecated, -Wno-deprecated-declarations)
Then somehow this thought strike my mind. What if this has something to do with 'propolice'? OR What if this is OpenBSD related issue (?) OpenBSD strives hard to be secure. Although, not all OpenBSD packages go through rigorous security audit, but then gcc is something that is likely to be 'modified' to fit OpenBSD's goals. So, I asked this on #openbsd (at freenode). Here's the IRC log:
AmberJ> Why does gcc/g++ outputs 2 warnings: "strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy() [and the same with strcat]"….Is it because openbsd has propolice enabled?
….because I don't seem to encounter those warnings on other OSes with propolice disabled
AmberJ: it's a linking warning, you'll only see it when you link something that uses strcpy() etc
oenone, But why those warnings pop up only on OpenBSD ?
AmberJ: because other OSes don't have the warnings in their version of libc
I updated this info to ##c++-basic. IRC-log:
AmberJ> That's it! I hope that is the answer to my original question
jps_77, SukhE metabol Leoneof` thanks all 🙂
AmberJ: that was a retarded reply that you got in #openbsd
try in #gcc
I then tried at #gcc as suggested(at freenode). IRC log:
AmberJ> Why does gcc/g++ outputs 2 warnings: "strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy() [and the same with strcat]"….Is it because openbsd has propolice enabled?
I'm using gcc 3.3.5 (propolice)
Ofcourse, I'm using OpenBSD 4.5
AmberJ: that sounds a lot like OpenBSD broke it. (they invented those l forms)
noshadow, Someone at #openbsd mentioned: "Other OSes don't hae similar warnings because other OSes don't have the warnings in their version of libc"
AmberJ: yes, that's a possible place where they could have put those uncessary warnings.
noshadow, ok ty 🙂
though the warning is really the wrong way round. why strcpy is usefull often, strlcpy is always always misused…
Ofcourse, you can feel the 'anti-openbsd' feeling in the air 😉
In the end, the folks at ##c++-basic suggested me that I try to install a newer version of gcc i.e. 4.x (mind you, gcc/g++ 3.3.5-propolice is the version that is shipped with OpenBSD 4.5) and if this problem persists (Is this really a problem? Read this. I suppose the warning is apt.), they suggested that I try to compile gcc from source.
More soon.
OpenBSD Docs
All the OpenBSD related (official and unoffcial by various users) documentation will be linked here. I plan to move this one to my website once I'm done with it's layout.
man pages
Adobe Flash on OpenBSD
I personally prefer to download youtube etc. videos first and then watch them using Mplayer etc. but here are some useful links if you really want to use Adobe Flash on OpenBSD:
Update 1: swfdec (http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/) is also an option other than gnash on OpenBSD (or atleast it seems so) although I have not personally tried swfdec).
Update 2: http://www.bluelife.at/blog/articles/20100724-geckomediaplayer_as_Flash_Alternative_for_YouTube/
Planning to rearrange stuff. Soon.
Recursively search sub-directories in a directory to delete a file with a specific name
@Windows OS users: Sometimes when a malware simply installs itself recursively in all the sub-directories (starting from root i.e. C:) with the same name, you need to delete each file. Manual deletion is not usually possible when there are thousands of malware files. This could prove useful to you.
And yes, use some 'better' OS if you can.
On ##unix at irc.freenode.net, someone (justinko) asked a question that goes like:
Que: How to recursively search all sub-directories in a directory to delete a file with a specific name?
Answer: Rather than providing only the answer, I prefer putting the complete IRC log here (mind you, 'justinko' and 'Riviera' are the nicks of persons involved in this conversation):
justinko how do I delete a file in every sub directory?
justinko im in a directory that has directores, and inside those directories there is one file that needs to be deleted
Riviera with a particular name?
justinko yes
justinko I know the exact file name
Riviera okay
Riviera find directory/ -type f -name 'exact_filename' -exec rm -f -- {} +
justinko is find a command?
Riviera yes
justinko the sub-directories are all named differently
Riviera some finds (actually I only know about GNU find) even have the primary -delete
Riviera yes
Riviera i figured
Riviera The find command I gave you recusively checks all files in the "directory/" hierarchy for files with the name "exact_filename",
Riviera executing the command "rm -f --" with the found pathnames as parameters.
Riviera recursively*
Riviera If you want to learn more about find, read this: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind
Riviera note that some of the examples given there are related to the bash-shell.
justinko damn that worked
Riviera I'm glad :)
justinko what is - type f ?
justinko I know rm -f is "force remove"
Riviera restricts the filetype to "ordinary files"
justinko k
justinko what does {} mean?
Riviera so that even if you'd have directories with the same name as the files you wish to remove, would be left alone
Riviera when find starts the command given after the -exec primary
Riviera (which, in this case, was "rm")
Riviera it replaces the {} with the pathnames it found.
Riviera the + says to put many of them
justinko amazing
Riviera with a \; instead of a +, one rm would be started per file
justinko are you a system admin by job?
Riviera but since rm can remove more than one file at a time ... using "+" is more efficient
Riviera no, i'm not :)
Riviera i study humanities ,)
Riviera am sorry, need to leave now, quite late here :)
Riviera nite :)
justinko thank you for the help!
Riviera :)
Quoting tobiasu (#openbsd at freenode IRC)
Recently I was logged in to #openbsd at freenode and this conversation started:
kleanchap: Do they have OpenBSD as VM appliances?
viq: "they" ?
tcccp: The letter boys?
tcccp: 😉
Bink: kleanchap, no
_obook: kleanchap: you can use cd46.iso for a simple net-installation
_obook: kleanchap: in a Vmware or VirtualBox VM
kleanchap: either
tobiasu: it sucks in both, forget it
tobiasu: virtualbox/vmware is the new god of IT it seems
tobiasu: everybody masturbates to their altar
Quoting tobiasu:
Virtualbox/Vmware is the new god of IT it seems. Everybody masturbates to their altar.
Are you a programmer or a lawyer?
Before starting, let me tell you that I'm a programmer 🙂
I recently found out Thomas Pfaff's (#openbsd nick: tp76) website. The home page reads like:
$ wc -l license/ISC license/GPL | head -2
In the end it says: "Are you a programmer or a lawyer?". I guess I should be tagged 'programmer' (I always prefer ISC or BSD license). What about you?


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Brandon Flowers and co to play several US dates
The Killers have announced their first live shows of 2009 in support of their forthcoming album 'Day And Age'.
The band will kick off their tour in Denver on January 17 and play shows across the US including one at New York's Madison Square Garden on January 25 and at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House on January 31. They'll wrap up the tour in Grand Prairie, Texas on February 4.
The Las Vegas quartet's third studio album 'Day And Age' is due out in the US on November 25.
The tour dates are:
Denver, CO Magness Arena Ritchie Center (January 17)
Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium (19)
Chicago, IL UIC Pavilion (20)
Ypsilanti, MI EMU Convocation Center (22)
Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre (23)
New York, NY Madison Square Garden (25)
Boston, MA Agganis Arena (26)
Fairfax, VA George Mason University Patriot (28)
North Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues (29)
Atlanta, GA Atlanta Civic Center (30)
Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House (31)
Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater (February 2)
Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center (23)
Grand Prairie, TX Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie (4)
–By our Los Angeles staff.
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