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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University junior Marc Boutin of Westford, Mass., of the men's cross country team and senior Stephen Kostel of New Hyde Park, N.Y., of the men's soccer squad have been selected as the Judges' first two University Athletic Association Athletes of the Week for 2010.
Boutin, a two-time All-New England performer for the Judges, earned weekly UAA cross country honors for the first time in his career. He guided coach John Evans' team to third place overall at the 2010 UMass Dartmouth Shriners' Invitational on Sept. 18. Boutin covered the 8K course in 24:53, good for sixth place overall. He was just 13 seconds out of first place in a group of seven runners separated by five seconds. Running without 2009 All-American senior Paul Norton of Amherst, Mass., the Judges (ranked first in New England, 10th in Division III) finished in third place at the meet with 79, just six points behind Keene State (3rd in New England, tied for 28th in DIII) and three points behind MIT (fourth in New England, unranked nationally).
Kostel, a reserve midfielder for head coach Mike Coven's men's soccer team, had a career week, sharing UAA Offensive Player of the Week honors with NYU's Paolo Luciano. Kostel had a goal and three assists as the Judges went 2-0. In a 4-1 win over WPI on Sept. 14, Kostel matched his career total with three assists. He had helpers on each of the Judges' three second-half goals, including the game-winner in the 69th minute. Just before halftime of Brandeis's 13-0 rout of Newbury College in the rain on Sept. 16, Kostel scored his first collegiate goal. His four assists on the season are tied for second-most in the UAA. At 6-0, the Judges have now matched their win total from 2009. They are on their longest winning streak since 2000 and off to their best start since 1985.
Boutin is a 2008 graduate of Westford Academy. He is the son of George and Grace Boutin, Westford, Mass.
Kostel is a 2007 graduate of Archbishop Molloy High School. He is the son of Andrew and Janette Kostel, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

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Berlinghoff, William P and Fernando Q. Gouvea. Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others. Farmington, ME: Oxton House Publishers, 2002.
Bogart, Kenneth, Clifford Stein, and Robert L. Drysdale. Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (Mathematics Across the Curriculum). Emeryville, CA: Key College Press, 2006.
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Tuesday, September 18
Good morning, TexMessagers! Would you ever donate to Todd Akin?
Sen. John Cornyn declared political war against Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin once his "legitimate rape" comment hit the fan, and now the senate hopeful is fighting back, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, tried to talk Akin out of the race. The Missouri seat could earn Republicans a majority in the Senate, but they didn't want to do it with a man who said, "From what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Akin wasn't having it, so Cornyn and the Senatorial Committee pulled funding from the Missouri race, Politico reports.
Akin's still in the race and now he's using Cornyn's comments against him in a plea to round up funding.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Akin dubbed the Texas congressman as "party boss and Washington insider John Cornyn."
"Rather than swallowing their pride and admitting they were wrong to not help Todd Akin, Party Bosses are doubling down," the email read.
Wait, wait, it gets worse. In an interview with the National Journal, Akin's wife compared unnamed party bosses (Cornyn?) to rapists. You heard it right: rape. Again. The same subject that got the Missouri congressman in trouble to begin with.
In 1776, she offered, oppressed American colonists "rose up and said, 'Not in my home. You don't come in and rape my daughters and my … wife.' But that is where we are again."
Indeed, we are.
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Mitt is a very sincere guy but when you look at how he has mis-spoken so far, the debate could be very embarrassing for him. After the first debate we will have to see how fund raising goes for both. Unless Romney can raise a lot of money – the Republicans will concentrate on the Senate and House races and abandon the White House race.
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★ Sept. 20. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (Chairman Issa, R-Calif.) will hold a hearing focused on the inspector general's report on the failures of Operation Fast and Furious at 9:30 a.m.
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★ Oct. 22 to Nov. 2. Early Voting in Texas.
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JOPLIN, MO -- Some students at Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) have asked fellow students to sign a petition to repeal a $150 per semester student fee increase that would help pay for a student recreation center.
Malachi Blaxton, a junior from Tuttle, OK, tells The Joplin (MO) Globe that he's not opposed to the student rec center, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009. Rather, Blaxton has an issue with the fee increase, which will begin this fall, and questions how much students will use the rec center. Blaxton hoped to get between 500 and 1,000 signatures and planned to present them to President Bruce Speck and the MSSU Board of Governors later this month, the newspaper reported.
Other students support the fee and the rec center. Adam Hancock, a senior and a member of the MSSU Student Senate, tells the newspaper that students have had a voice in the project throughout the process. Hancock says surveys have been conducted, and the Student Senate has been active in the rec center's development.
Rod Surber, a spokesperson for the university, says a student survey showed overwhelming support for the rec center, which is expected to cost between $14 million and $16 million. Surber tells the newspaper that the Student Senate passed a resolution in November 2004 asking the board to make the rec center a priority. Almost a year later, the Student Senate approved a resolution asking the board to proceed with the project, the newspaper reported.
The 65,000-square-foot rec center will include a gymnasium with three basketball courts, weight machines and exercise equipment, a theater, a running track, a health clinic, meeting rooms and offices. The university plans to borrow $14 million to finance construction with student fees used to finance the bonds, the newspaper reported.


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Sunday, December 2, 2012
So You Wanna Buy The Hot Fives and Hot Sevens?
[Warning: History lesson about to commence. If you're not interested, scroll until you come to the audio samples.]
For years, it's been a battle between two releases: in this corner, the late John R. T. Davies' budget-priced work, Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, and in the other corner, Sony's more lavish package from 2000, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings.
The sets had their differences. The JSP set was transferred from private recordings, featured barebones packaging and none of Louis's other sessions from the period (except for one Butterbeans and Susie date; in fact, disc 4 of the JSP has nothing to do with the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens but instead concentrates on Louis's 1929 New York recordings). The Sony set used the original masters for transfers but the results featured more surface noise. However, Sony did include Louis's other small group sessions with Johnny Dodds, Lil's Hot Shots, Hociel Thomas and Lillie Delk Christian, making it more of a complete set, not to mention a beautiful hardback book.
And so it was...until this year. After Sony put out the box in 2000, they took the main Hot Fives and Hot Sevens and released them on three separate discs with new notes by Gary Giddins. As many of you know, I'm the Archivist for the Louis Armstrong House Museum and those individual discs are what we've sold for years. But earlier this year, our gift shop manager informed me that Sony had made all three discs AND the boxed set out-of-print. Hmmm....
Why did they do this? To make room for a brand new box: Louis Armstrong: The OKeh, Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings, 1925-1933.. I was on the inside track for this set because I had the honor of wring the liner notes for it. However, I did so without hearing a note of the new box. I was frequently asked about the sound because promotional material advertised this set as featuring the best sound quality this material has ever received. I wasn't sure what to say. The track listings of each disc were straight copies of earlier Sony single-disc releases from the late 80s and 90s but the liner notes booklet did credit new names with remastering and restoration.
I should back up a bit and talk for a second about these 1980s and 90s CDs. Well, actually let's go way back to George Avakian and the first reissues of this material, first on 78s in the 1940s and then on long-playing albums in the 1950 (anyone remember the four-volume "Louis Armstrong Story"?). George was a pioneer in doing this (he even discovered some lost tracks) and is not only a friend of mine but a hero.
However, George is the first to admit that Columbia wasn't really thinking about pitch correction in those days. Because of that, some of those early LP reissues featured the music in the wrong key, usually a little flat. Flash forward 30 or 40 years and it's a new era: compact discs are in and now there's new technology to remaster and "process" old recordings such as NoNoise and CEDAR. In the late 80s, Columbia started a new jazz reissue program and naturally, the Hot Fives and Sevens were among the first to get reissued.
Unfortunately, for these first attempts, Columbia used a bit too much processing, causing the finished product to sound a little lifeless. On top of that, they used the original LPs as the basis for mastering meaning no pitch correction and dozens of tracks still being issued in the wrong key.
The good news was by the time they got to volume four in the series, Louis's 1928 recordings with Earl Hines, Columbia seemingly righted the ship. They continued issuing single discs of Louis's 1929-1932 big band recordings, all in very good sound (to my ears) and in the right keys. In 1994, they put out a Grammy-award winning boxed set, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring many Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. For this release, they revisited the original recordings, mastered them freshly and pitch corrected them, a big improvement over the first single CD issues.
Still, there was grumbling in the jazz community. The 1990s were almost over and the only way to get the complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens from Sony were the problematic single discs. But the new millenium was on the horizon and with it, Louis's centennial. But before Sony could do anything about it, John R. T. Davies entered the picture with three discs of Hot Fives and Hot Sevens released on the JSP label in 1999. And finally Sony answered with its aforementioned set in 2000, helmed by Phil Schaap.
For the next decade, they fought it out but now the 2000 box has been retired in exchange for the new 10-CD set. It was released in October and I finally got to listen to it and can report that yes, the first 2 1/2 discs of Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (up to "That's When I'll Come Back to You") are exact rips of the single discs Columbia put out in the late 80s and early 90s. Meaning that yes, everything's a bit too processed (to my ears) and in the wrong key. Ugh.
The set has been getting great publicity, including rave reviews on Allmusic.com and Pop Matters, neither of which mentioned any sound issues. And I'm still proud of my notes and proud of the overall set. If you haven't noticed, I love everything Louis did and I have a special love of those late 20s, early 30s big band recordings. Sony hadn't done anything with those in over 15 years. In that period, they also acquired BMG, so this new set includes Louis's 1932-1932 Victor recordings, special favorites of mine and other Armstrong nuts. So Hot Fives and Sevens be damned, the new set is a great way to get all of Louis's recordings as a leader from 1928-1933 in fine sound and at a great price. If you don't have this material, grab it.
But what of the Hot Fives and Sevens? Sadly, the new box isn't the best place for those, mainly because of the pitch issues. I am NOT an audiophile in any way, shape or form. I don't say that too proudly--I wish I had a nice sound system and the ability to hear things mere mortals can only dream of--but hey, I listen to music from the 1920s and 1930s so I'm more than all right with hisses, pops, anything in between. What I'm not okay with is when the music is in the wrong key. I don't have perfect pitch so I usually don't notice when it's a little fast or slow but when it's a good half-step slower than it should be--and I know how it should sound--that's when I have a problem. And sadly, that describes the first 2 1/2 discs of the new 10-CD Sony box.
In a follow-up to this post, I will talk more about the 1929-1933 material and why the new Sony set is an ideal way (perhaps THE ideal way) to get all all of that material in one place. But for now, because most people get hot and bothered only about the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, I'm just going to focus on them.
[Note: History lesson over.]
The next 39 (!) sound samples will naturally focus on the three main boxes: the JSP, Sony's 2000 box and the brand new "OKeh" 10-CD set. When applicable, I've also added clips from 1994's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" since you can still download it and it demonstrates how Mark Wilder of Sony corrected the original flawed discs 18 years ago only to see the flawed versions now back in print.
And I've added a fifth release that I have not mentioned yet. Back in 2007, a French label, Fremeaux and Associates, got into the act with an admirable series, "The Integrale (Louis Armstrong)." Aimed at completists, Fremeaux started with Louis's King Oliver recordings and went chronologically, including everything they could find: Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, the blues singers, Clarence Williams, the Hot Fives, Hot Sevens, big bands, etc. The Hot Fives and Sevens were included on Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 (not currently on Amazon) and Volume 5.
Personally, I've avoided the "Integrale" series. For one thing, I already had all of it but when they got to the 30s and 40s, they began including material that only my friend, the late Gosta Hagglof, previously issued and I didn't like how they ripped off Hagglof's Ambassdor discs. However, in the aforementioned online arguments, some have argued in favor of obtaining the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens through the "Integrale" series because the sound was very good and you get all the other goodies. For this blog, I borrowed volume 4, 1926-1928, I've included those samples when possible.
So let's jump in, shall we? I did not include full songs. Instead I made edits, usually ranging 30-40 seconds. In my selections, I've tried getting a little bit of everything: record openings, rideout choruses, Louis vocals, etc. I imported all of these as high-quality WAVs and did the edits in Audacity, doing no processing or mastering whatsoever, exporting the edits also as high-quality WAVs.
The first batch of Hot Fives from 1925-1926 were acoustic recordings. These have always been the most problematic because the original recording techniques were so primitive. Thus, these are usually the noisiest and also the ones that have usually been in issued in wrong keys.
We'll start with the very first Hot Five recording, "My Heart." Here it is on the new 10-CD "OKeh" boxed, featuring the original mastering from the 1980s:
Next, here it is as John R. T. Davies mastered it on JSP in 1999:
Now, here it is as it appeared on the Phil Schaap box of 2000:
I will try to refrain from offering my own opinions since this is for YOU, the consumer, to choose the one that sounds the best to your ears. (If you want to fight it out in the comments section below, be my guest!) I will point out that on the new OKeh box, it's in D while on the JSP and 2000 sets it's in Eb.
Next, from February 1926, one of the noisier records, "Heebie Jeebies." Here's the new OKeh set:
Now here's how Sony did it in 1994 for the "Portrait" box:
The JSP set from 1999:
And the Sony set from 2000:
The pitch correction on "Cornet Chop Suey" has led to it becoming one of the more controversial Hot Five numbers. When Avakian originally issued it, it was in the inglorious key of E. That's clearly not right (Louis didn't play guitar). Anyway, that version in E is the one heard here on the OKeh box:
By 1994, Mark Wilder realized that couldn't be right. With two choices--down to Eb or up to F--Wilder chose to put it in Eb for the "Portrait of the Artist" set:
John R. T. Davies also chose Eb, which is how it's issued on JSP:
However, there was another faction that believed "Cornet Chop Suey" was in F? Well, as I explained in this 2011 blog on the subject, Louis recorded the piece three more times, and each time did it in F. Why would he raise it a full step as he got older? Also, his handwritten lead sheet is in concert F. Schaap's Sony box is still the only to hear it in F, the key I, and many others, believe Louis originally recorded it in (the out-of-print Universal box from last year, "Satchmo: Ambassador of Jazz," also has it in F but they used the 2000 Sony set for their transfers of the Hot Five and Seven material):
We haven't heard Louis's voice yet, so let's compare that on these different issues. Here's the vocal on "You Made Me Love You" from 1926, first on the new OKeh box:
Next, the JSP:
And now the 2000 Sony box:
And to add a new character, here's the "Integrale"version from Fremeaux and Associates:
Hot Seven time! Everything we've heard up to this point was recorded acoustically; the 1925-1926 Hot Fives are where audiophiles really disagree about the sound quality. Beginning with the Hot Sevens in May 1927, Louis recorded electrically full-time, leading to very good sound quality, no matter the reissue. However, as you'll hear, the new OKeh box still has this material in the wrong keys. And other listeners can choose which issues they like from variables such as amount of processing, overall mix, brightness, harshness, etc., instead of just more or less surface noise.
So, let's begin with the hot rideout chorus on the very first Hot Seven, "Willie the Weeper," first heard on the OKeh box:
Next, the JSP:
The 2000 Sony box:
And bringing up the rear, the "Integrale" (and as you'll hear, Fremeaux and Associates didn't do any pitch correcting either):
Now, for a first: FIVE different versions of the same song, "Weary Blues." Up first, the OKeh box:
Next, "Portrait of the Artist":
The JSP:
The 2000 Sony box:
And the Integrale series:
After the Hot Sevens, Louis recorded another series of Hot Five dates in the latter part of 1927. By this point, the new OKeh box finally gets the material in the correct key, putting it on even footing with the others. Like I said earlier, this happens fairly early on disc 3 of the 10-CD set so don't write off the new box, especially if you already have the 1925-1927 Hot Fives and Sevens, but are looking for the big band stuff in one fell swoop. I'm starting with "Put 'Em Down Blues," which opens with an unaccompanied break by Kid Ory's trombone. You can really hear the differences in approach with the level of noise behind the trombone and also the brightness of the mix. Here's the OKeh box:
"Portrait of the Artist":
Sony 2000:
And Intregale:
The last phase of Louis's Hot Fives and Sevens is the glorious series of 1928 recordings with Earl "Fatha" Hines." "Weather Bird" is the pair's remarkable duet number and has been issued a thousand times. Here it is on the OKeh box:
And on the "Portrait" box:
The JSP:
And finally, the 2000 Sony box. I'm sharing this on a tip-off from the great jazz musician/scholar Allen Lowe, who has said he's not a fan of the 2000 Sony material, naming "Weather Bird" as its prime offender because of a big ol' scratch heard near the beginning. I, admittedly not an audiophile, never noticed it until Allen pointed it out. This, too, might be a fatal flaw for you or you might not notice it either:
And finally, though the 1928 material survives in pretty great sound, occasionally, different transfers lead to different levels of noise on the remastering. "No One Else But You" is a prime example. Here's five excerpts and you can hear the surface noise or general quality vary from transfer to transfer. You know the drill: first, the OKeh box:
"Portrait of the Artist":
Sony in 2000:
And Integrale:
And there you have it. Hopefully, this helped a little bit if you don't have this material yet and even you already do. There is no right answer--it's up to YOUR ears. When having this conversation with a musician friend in New York a few weeks ago, he stopped me in the middle of my iPod "A/B" comparison game, walked over to his records, pulled out a 1940 Columbia reissue of some Hot Seven material on 78 and put it on his record player. And even though they weren't in the right key (his player only played 78 rpm on the nose), my goodness did they sound good (I never heard Pete Briggs's tuba so crystal clear). He didn't care about pitch correction, he cared about clarity and to him, you couldn't top that 78 and after hearing it, I kind of agreed. So follow your own ears and whatever you decide, enjoy the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, aka the most important recordings of the 20th century (and please leave comments--I'm sure this is a discussion that could go on for years).
For those who want to go a little further, next time, I'll concentrate on the OKeh box vs. the JSP sets for the 1929-1932 big band recordings. Til then!
13 comments:
- Richard Basi said...
About My Heart, you wrote the Okeh has it in D, while the other two have it in D. Did you mean to write a different key here or am I mistaken? It's just the way it reads. Great blog!!
- December 2, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Ricky Riccardi said...
Will fix it first thing in the morning, Richard...meant Eb. Thanks for keeping me honest!
Yours in Pops,
- December 2, 2012 at 9:59 PM
- Phil Lynch said...
1. I have a hard time listening to the Hot Fives for any length of time due to ear fatigue - the high end and the noise wear my ears out, approaching discomfort. (I own the JSPs, btw.) So I need to Five and Seven myself in small doses. Also, the prominence of the clarinet in the mix - so similar to the trumpet in range, I'd really like Mr. Dodds to take about three steps back from the horn/mic.
2. Pitch is an issue, as is "groove." I'm a trombone player, so Muskrat in G or A-flat matters, but so does the feel you get at a slightly faster tempo. I've read Norman Field's essay and am a believer that some early Fives play in the wrong key if not adjusted for. E to F (Cornet Chop Suey) and G to A-flat make total sense. Unfortunately I like my jazz a bit slower and walk-able, but that wasn't the direction they were moving then, apparently.
- December 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM
- Phil Lynch said...
1. Sorry for the double post, here, but I went home and listened. I was wrong on the ear fatigue thing - there are no highs to speak of! Must just be the hiss and the mix (read "loud, squeaky clarinet").
2. Sure do appreciate the bass and beat we get in the Sevens.
3. "Weather Bird" is one of those records that cheers me when I despair about humanity. If a species can produce that, it can't be all bad.
4. This is really quite a post when I think of the time that must have gone into it. Thanks, and be well!
- December 3, 2012 at 7:56 PM
- jacethecrowl said...
I listened to 'em all, and prefer the JSP in every case (though not sure how I'd do in a blindfold test!). Man, that new OKeh "Heebie Jeebies" is lifeless, but I must say that set's "You Made Me Love You" sounds the most correct -- that is, the others seem too fast to these ears (and it's not just what I'm used to hearing, though I may still be dead wrong on the intended tempo). I've always got by with the JSP and Portrait sets, and find them both very listenable -- lucky for me, as the OKeh lacks punch and the Sony seems needlessly shrill. Relieved to know I don't have to buy this material again, though I'm missing out on your notes and probably handsome packaging...
- December 4, 2012 at 12:02 AM
- J.A.W. said...
Thanks for the blog, very informative. By the way, "millennium" is spelled with 2x n. Just thought I'd mention it.
- December 6, 2012 at 8:29 PM
- Richard Basi said...
Yes, I'm afraid my first post-graduate job involved proof-reading. Yes, I am one of those people lol!
- December 7, 2012 at 3:26 AM
What a great post, thank you for all your work here. It raises, in my mind, some interesting questions about how sound recordings that go out of copyright (as these have in Europe) get preserved and distributed in the 21st century and beyond. As a librarian myself, I cheer the concept of the public domain, and for texts like those of Charles Dickens, there is no real worry that the words will degrade once they go out of copyright. Sound recordings of course must be stored, and as new technology becomes available, remastered or otherwise restored. As we see with Sony here, sometimes the parties who actually own the physical originals treat them with less care and put out poorer product than labels who pay nothing to licence them. Maybe I haven't spent enough time looking, but I have yet to see an essay or argument that addresses how we might best deal with public domain sound recordings. I want companies like Mosaic to have an incentive to do their fabulous box sets (their masters of the 1936-1937 Django Reinhardt material blow away everything else I've heard, including the JSP editions), but on the other hand, lots of historically significant recordings are economically basically worthless to the large conglomerates who own them, and it seems like we could use some kind of foundation to step in and offer to house the masters, restore them where appropriate, and perhaps make them available to the public via Archive.org or some other distribution system. For an artist like Johnny Dunn, it's probably not even worth it to Sony to make his Columbia records available via iTunes and Amazon download, as all of 400 people worldwide would probably buy them. If they were to be made available to the public via archive.org (and perhaps they have been...I haven't checked) they might start turning up in films, remix culture, etc. and the world might get a little better for it.
- December 7, 2012 at 9:34 PM
- rpm_bln said...
The two newer releases on In-Akustik (ASIN: B007MS9COI) and "The Complete Masters 1925-1945" on Emarcy/Universal (ASIN: B005NNJL3Q) have "Cornet Chop Suey" in the key of F.
But the 2008 Sony/BMG Intl. release (ASIN: B0018BF1FY) has "Cornet Chop Suey" in the key of E-Flat.
You would presume the 2 in F are sourced from the 2000 Sony set, yet ironically the 2008 Sony/BMG must be from another master as it is still in E-flat. Anybody guess as the the source of the above masterings?
- July 28, 2013 at 1:21 PM
- rpm_bln said...
The two newer releases on In-Akustik (ASIN: B007MS9COI) and "The Complete Masters 1925-1945" on Emarcy/Universal (ASIN: B005NNJL3Q) have "Cornet Chop Suey" in the key of F.
But the 2008 Sony/BMG Intl. release (ASIN: B0018BF1FY) has "Cornet Chop Suey" in the key of E-Flat.
You would presume the 2 in F are sourced from the 2000 Sony set, yet ironically the 2008 Sony/BMG must be from another master as it is still in E-flat. Anybody guess as the the source of the above masterings?
- July 28, 2013 at 1:21 PM
- rpm_bln said...
I was all right with the JSP French CD set... until I found the Italian 5-record set on vinyl "Satchmo, 1926-1928, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five and Hot Seven and Savoy Ballroom Five" on Joker from 1981. No idea what masters they used, but the surface noise is almost non-existent, yet the highs are full and clear. Highly recommended if you can find it. Here is a link to Discogs with the track list: https://tinyurl.com/k5e9ojt
The aforementioned ear fatigue does not happen with this LP set, sounds so good it hard to believe the recording was made so long ago... enjoy!
- September 13, 2013 at 12:46 PM
- Jordi said...
Thank you Ricky for this nice blog.
After a life-time of listening Hot fives & Sevens, these are my final conclusions:
1.-Columbia LPs L.A. Story. They have here and there pitch problems. However, some cuts of vol 3 (i.e west end blues, weather bird) they are OK (to my ears) and very clean.
2.-Sony Cds: first generation have a non-musical telephonic sound. Sony box: non-natural,overdone high end, hiss, extreme ear-fatigue after a continued listening.
3.-JSP: John RT Davies, wins them all in all (musicality, EQs, ambiance, equilibrium between instruments,presence of the second line (piano, tuba, etc), tone of L.A trumpet (cornet), tone of clarinet, tone of trobone). My only doubt would be some cuts of JSP vol 3 (west end blues)who present surface hiss (probably due to original source).A nice alternative may be W.E.blues of "Portrait of the Artist", very nice and clean and very similar (to my ears) to the Columbia L.A. story LP vol 3. (Probably the same source??)
- October 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM
- Karl said...
I have a recording entitled"The 25 greatest Hot Fives & Hot Sevens", transfers by ASV LTD. Made in England, can anybody tell me about this? And I'd like to know what would be the best version on vinyl (33rpm). Thanks!
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'Human beings are just animals," says Kristen Stewart. "It's about fiercely living and squeezing every single drop out of life and not denying any aspects of it."
Despite her up-and-down personal life, Stewart is not talking about herself or any dramas that have tabloid headlines attached to them. Instead, she's mulling over her explicit scenes in "On the Road," opening Friday.
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1 Do you remember when you first read "On the Road?"
It was on a reading list at my school. I remember it was literally next to "The Scarlet Letter" and "Catcher in the Rye." Those books would have been cool, too, but I wanted to choose the most different one and went for it. I had the greatest time of possibly my whole academic career reading this book. I just aligned with that period in the book and kept thinking, "Wow. I love these words."
2 What spoke to you in those words?
I loved that the book told me that it was my job to choose what my life was going to be. It was a conscious choice because life doesn't just happen to you. It told me that you have to use every second in life. You can't get complacent and let life pass you by. The people in this book were aggressively living. Also, it wasn't about what happens to them in the end. It was about what happens to you in the middle, too.
3 So there were a few good life lessons here?
The book also tells you if something is driving you crazy, don't deny it. Just hold on. Figure it out. Don't let anything overwhelm you or sweep it under the rug. Again, these people in "On the Road" faced life head-on.
4 Is Marylou your most daring character?
I didn't want to just play the wild, sexy, girl. Yes, she's daring, but my favorite thing about taking this character on is that she's self-aware and completely not self-conscious. She's someone who can harness her fears in life although she's not above emotions like jealousy.
5 Do you miss Bella? Is it strange after all these years of "Twilight" films to think you'll never do another?
The most difficult thing I've ever done is to go off to another project like "On the Road" wondering if Bella would still stay with me. I didn't take many other projects while we were doing "Twilight." In the end, Bella didn't stick with me more than any other character. Of course, there are people who so genuinely love the "Twilight" movies and books that they've said, "Every single time I see you in a movie, you're still Bella to me." It doesn't bother me. I just say, "Fantastic, you're a big Bella fan. I can totally relate. I'm a fan of Bella, too." I do think people assume that I'm Bella. I have to prove to them that I can do other things and that she was just a character.
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Cheney's deceit vs. Dean
Talk about the pot calling the kettle scorched. When Vice President Dick Cheney said that Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean was "over the topâ€? in his recent remarks about Republicans, is it possible the vice-president had forgotten his unprecedented bout of swearing at Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor?And this from a political leader who has repeatedly misled the American public on matters concerning the war in Iraq, includÂing his latest whitewashing of the increasing violence, saying as he did, that the insurgency was on its "last throes.â€? Give us a break. This is the same guy, of course, who held secret meetings with the captains of power generation facilities to set the national energy agenda, but wouldn't make those hearings public because he didn't want Americans to see how closely tied the national energy policy was to those corporations' bottom line. There's also little doubt that he was closely behind the scenes when Halliburton (at which he was CEO before being elected to the vice-presidency) was awarded no-bid military contracts in the Iraq war — contracts that later came under fire for being inflated, wasteful and a rip-off of precious military dollars that went to Halliburton stockholders — while U.S. soldiers were without sufficient armor and with too few support troops. And this is the same guy who has tried for years to minimize the ill-effects of asbestos exposure on human health and limit the liabilities on asbestos-producing industries, including one he headed, from victims who have died or become seriously ill because of its hazardous effects.It's outrageous, actually, that Cheney, one of the neo-cons who has pushed the Bush administration's irrational vision of military dominance across the globe, can call Dean "over the topâ€? and not be jeered off the island. And then a minor footnote: When Dean says that the Republican party is a bunch of white Christians, he's being impolitic but he's also citing the facts. According to a recent ABC-Washington Post poll, 74 percent of those who said they leaned Republican also said they were white Christians. For comparison, 51 percent of Democrats say they are white Christians. Dean did go too far when he said "many Republicansâ€? haven't done an honest day's work in their lives, but that's peanuts compared to Cheney's swearing on a figurative stack of Bibles that Iraq was loaded to the teeth with hidden weapons of mass destruction and was threatening to launch them our way without the slightest provocation. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, remember, were based in Afghanistan, not Iraq, despite the false ties that Cheney, President Bush and others so relentlessly tried to make. If Dean's over the top, at least he's miles above Cheney, who has been wallowing in the mire with corporate lobbyists and misleading the public on issues that have sunk this nation's standing to new lows, squandered the national treasury, and put the lives of U.S. soldiers in unnecessary jeopardy — that's what happens when an administration overstates a perceived threat, pushes ahead without international support, underestimates the number of troops needed for the job and overstates the reception American soldiers would have once the aura of freedom faded and the current state of foreign occupation,  insurgency and daily havoc took hold. It was clearly predicted by others, just not by those within this administration.But who gets chastised in the mainstream press? Dean, while Cheney's deceptions are swallowed with praise by those too blind to see.


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The Texas A&M Aggies run practice in preparation for their January 4th, 2013 AT&T Cotton Bowl match up against the Oklahoma Sooners.
DALLAS – With the rainy weather in the Metroplex, the No. 9 Texas A&M Aggies took their New Year's Eve practice indoors to Highland Park High School.
The Aggies got a surprise to start practice with current Los Angles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who was completing a workout at the place where he starred in high school, on hand to greet the team. The Dallas native turned down a scholarship to play baseball at Texas A&M in 2006 when the Dodgers selected him as the seventh overall pick in the MLB Draft.
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Michelle Obama is on the cover of the new issue of Vogue looking very much like an icon of American fashion. She's sporting her new bangs and a cerulean sheath next to a vase of cherry blossoms that are just beginning to open. Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter interviewed both her and President Obama, but it's Mrs. Obama who's the focus here. She dominates the word count of the article inside, and the cover readout is, "How the first lady and the president are inspiring America."
Is she running for something? Hillary-Michelle (or Michelle-Hillary?) 2016!
OK, it hasn't escaped our attention that "Hillary-Michelle" has been a hot search term this week. There's no real reason why that's so, in the sense that there isn't a speck of news on this front. The whole notion of Hillary Rodham Clinton teaming up with Mrs. Obama in a journalists' dream team seems driven by speculation, idle and otherwise.
But what struck us about the Vogue piece was the degree to which it promoted the first lady and examined the nature of first couplehood.
Yes, it's a fashion magazine: None of its readers want to see those old photos of the president in dad jeans or read about why the United States is hesitant to help Syrian rebels. Instead, the article inside frames the Obamas not as the first African-American first family, but as a symbol of today's highly involved parenting style – a husband and wife who focus after-work energy on their kids and think about how they complement each other's personalities.
They're helicopters parents with a Marine helicopter, in Mr. Van Meter's telling.
"They are ... exemplars of a new paradigm – the super-involved parenting team for whom being equally engaged in the minutiae of their children's lives is paramount," he writes.
The thing we find interesting about this is the generational question it raises.
In the piece, the Obamas talk about the old Washington they're not part of, the Georgetown dinner-party/Kennedy Center box/Middleburg weekend crowd. Actually, they talk about not being part of it because it no longer exists.
Congressional families don't live in Washington anymore: Lawmakers face tremendous pressure to scurry back to districts and home states on weekends. Also, the president and top leaders of the other party don't socialize because the city's too partisan.
And then there's the broader reason: They also don't socialize because parents in modern families don't have time for that.
"The culture in Washington has changed in ways that probably haven't been great for the way this place runs," Mr. Obama says at one point.
As anyone who's watched today's sitcoms knows, the center of the modern family is the mom. The dad may be president, but he's probably still a bumbler at heart. Thus the first lady notes that the small apartment her husband rented when he was a US senator once caught on fire.
And she draws a laugh from the press handlers assembled to watch the interview when she notes that the leader of what used to be called the free world is the sort of guy "who still boasts about, 'This khaki pair of pants I've had since I was 20.' "
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Busan Neighborhoods • Guseo-dong
Guseo-dong Pictures
A residential area a couple of train stations north of the PNU campus.
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The Bluffton Bobcats found themselves on the wrong end of the score at halftime Friday night.
It made them angry.
"They got punched in the mouth," said Bluffton head coach Ken Cribb. "They responded. They punched back."
Down 14-7 at the half, the Bobcats scored 35 unanswered points for a 42-14 win over Region7-3A opponent Cane Bay High. Bluffton's record stands at 7-0 overall, 3-0 in the region. Cane Bay fell to 4-3, 1-1.
Bluffton's defense shut down Cane Bay's relentless running attack in the second half.
Meanwhile, the Bobcat offensive line gave quarterback C.J. Frazier plenty of time to distribute the ball to his arsenal of scoring weapons.
Frazier threw three touchdown passes in the second half. Adding one from the first period, he now has 26 TD passes on the season to lead all quarterbacks in the state.
The Cobras scored first on a 30-yard touchdown pass down the right sideline from quarterback Brandon Hall to wide receiver Montez Powell.
However, that was one of few passes attempted by Cane Bay in the first half.
Running was the Cobras' stock-in-trade on offense with senior Anthony Enos carrying for slightly more than 100 yards on 40 carries.
After the initial Cobras score and an exchange of punts, the Bobcats tied the game at 7-7 with 4:01 left in the first period.
Frazier found wingback Eric Boyles wide open over the middle for a 35-yard touchdown completion.
Frazier also connected with Boyles for a 23-yard gain on the 60-yard, 4-play drive.
Cane Bay took the ensuing kickoff and started grinding out yardage on the ground, controlling the ball for almost 7 minutes.
The Cobras took a 14-7 lead with 9:18 remaining in the half on an 8-yard TD run by Enos.
The play capped a 59-yard, 14-play drive for the Cobras that featured only one pass.
"It was a good game plan," Cribb said. "They knew to keep the ball away from our offense."
The Bobcats hurt themselves with penalties, including two personal fouls for roughing the snapper on punt plays that gave the Cobras automatic first downs and continued drives that had otherwise stalled.
A motivated Bluffton defense forced a Cane Bay punt on its first possession in the third quarter after tackles for loss by linebacker K.J. Ford and defensive tackle Josh Black.
Then Frazier went to work, throwing a 10-yard touchdown pass to Dimitri Lowry that tied the game at 14-14.
The Bobcats forced a three-and-punt situation on Cane Bay and quickly scored again on a 3-yard run by Jerry Scott that put them in the lead for good.
Another Frazier TD pass, 23 yards to Marquis Webber, made the score 28-14 at the end of the third period.
Bluffton made two symbolic statements to put the game out of reach early in the fourth quarter.
The defense, with its back to the goal, stopped a Cane Bay drive on the 8 yard line and Bluffton took over on downs.
On the very next play Boyles took a handoff and sprinted 92 yards for the decisive touchdown.
Bluffton capped the night's scoring with another Frazier-to-Lowry connection with 4:09 left.
Cane Bay 7 7 0 0 - 14
Bluffton 7 0 21 14 - 42
6:46 CBHS-Montez Powell 30-yard TD pass from Brandon Hall. (George Anderson kick.) CBHS 7, BHS 0.
4:01 BHS-Eric Boyles 35-yard TD pass from C.J. Frazier. (Mallie Sprouse kick.) CBHS 7, BHS 7.
9:18 CBHS-Anthony Enos 8-yard TD run. (Anderson kick.) CBHS 14, BHS 7.
7:38 BHS-Dimitri Lowry 10-yard TD pass from Frazier. (Sprouse kick.) CBHS 14, CBHS 14.
3:51 BHS-Jerry Scott 3-yard TD run. (Sprouse kick.) CBHS 14, BHS 21.
0:24 BHS-Marquis Webber 20-yard TD pass from Frazier. (Sprouse kick.) CBHS 14, BHS 28.
6:11 BHS-Boyles 92-yard TD run. (Sprouse kick.) CBHS 14, BHS 35.
4:09 BHS-Lowry 6-yard TD pass from Frazier. (Sprouse kick.) CBHS 14, BHS 42.


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Part 1: Interview with Professional Cake Baker Anne Heap, owner of Pink Cake Box
Cakespy: You mention that growing up, your mother was a great source of baking inspiration. What recipes or cakes were special in your childhood?
CS: You left a job in advertising to pursue your dream of baking.
AH: Yes!
CS: How did this decision come about?
AH: While working in advertising, I started selling cookies and brownies to a local gourmet shop. They sold really well - so I decided to sign up for an amateur class at the French Culinary Institute. When I went for a tour, I fell in love, signed up for the professional pastry arts program....and quit my job the next week! It was definitely a leap - but I'm so happy that I did!
CS: Is Pink Cake box open to the public, or by appointment only?
AH: We're by appointment only. Customers come in for tastings and consultations.
CS: How is running a cake business different than you might have expected?
CS: How has running a cake business changed how you look at cake?
AH: I don't look at it as dessert anymore - that's for sure! It's much more than that....a centerpiece, a sculpture...a piece of art.
CS: Other than cake, what other types of goodies do you make at Pink Cake Box?
CS: You've done some pretty unusual themes--like the "Rescue me" wedding cake (photo left) we read about on your blog recently. Is this a trend--brides feeling more freedom to have a more "fun" cake?
CS: What are your most popular flavors these days?
AH: Red velvet with lemon cream cheese filling, chocolate fudge cake with raspberry chambord filling and vanilla cake with hazelnut frangelico are three of our most popular flavors for weddings. Chocolate with oreos and cream or peanut butter fillings are really popular as well.
AH: The most basic and yet integral part is baking a good cake. It's so important that the cake and filling taste delicious - so our recipe development is crucial. Using quality products like Vermont butter and Belgian chocolate is also important.
CS: Here's something we've always wondered: is your "cake" handwriting when you letter a cake different than your regular handwriting (on paper etc)?
AH: My cake handwriting is the same as my regular handwriting...when I'm trying to write neatly :) When I'm writing quickly - I can' t even read my own writing sometimes!
and about you and for fun...
CS: Is cake ruined for you as a dessert since you make it so often? Or do you still enjoy eating it?
AH: No it is definitely not ruined. My favorite is red velvet - so I take a little nibble quite often!
CS: What is your favorite type of dessert?
AH: Cookies. Warm and gooey right out of the oven. Especially chocolate chip.
CS: Has there ever been a dessert that you tried to make but couldn't get right? What type?
AH: I don't think there is....but maybe I'm not adventurous enough :)
CS: Be honest. If you had to choose between pie and cake, and could only eat one or the other for the rest of your life, which would it be?
AH: Hands down cake. If I wanted fruit for dessert, I'd eat an apple. :)
and to cap it all off...
CS: Any advice for those wanting to pursue their own dreams and start a cake business?
AH: I'd recommend getting an internship or job at a cake shop to see the daily ongoings and what life is like owning a cake business. After that, I'd suggest doing some cakes for friends and family to get started. You can read my post on How to Get Started in a Baking Career for more info.
CS: What is next for Pink Cake Box?
AH: That's a great question! If only I knew! We'd like to start some decorating classes.....and possibly branch into retail. We'll keep you posted!
Part 2: Interview with Cake Apprentice Christine
Cakespy: You started at Pink Cake Box fairly recently. What is your job description and responsibilities?
Christine Lindstrom: At first I started out as an intern over the summer, which involved tasks that one would imagine an intern would do - I did dishes, I cut up the fifty pound block of butter, and learned the basic recipes.. etc. As time went on, having a background in fine art, I started to help decorating. I'm only at Pink Cake Box part time right now while I'm finishing my undergraduate degree in fine art at Monmouth University, so I'm mostly there on weekends. There are always so many random things to get done when I'm there, so I suppose I don't have my own set of responsibilities, but I do get to show off my artistic skill pretty often. It is definitely always a team effort though. When I'm there we're either putting the finishing touches on cakes, cupcakes or cookies before they get shipped out, or starting to make sugar pieces to go on orders for the weeks ahead. It can get pretty crazy!
CS: How is working at a commercial bakery different than you might have expected? Or, is there anything about it that might surprise us?
CS: What is the best part of working at a cake bakery?
CS: Would you say that you eat cake more, or less, now that you work there?
CS: What was one of the most fun jobs you've worked on at Pink Cake Box?
CS: What, to you, is the coolest part of cake making?
CL: I always think it's amazing how much structure and planning goes into every cake. Back when I was starting to bake on my own, I had no idea how much goes into these beautiful creations that cake designers put out there. It was always so intimidating and exhausting to me because I would try to do everything all at once. When it comes down to it though, the most daunting projects
and about you and for fun:
CS: What are you doing when you're not decorating and making cakes?
CS: What are some of your favorite desserts?
CS: Red Velvet and Carrot cake are facing off in a barroom brawl. Who's gonna win?
and to cap it off...
CS: What are some of your ultimate baking dreams or goals?
CS: But more immediately...what are you hoping for in your easter basket?
Are you in the Denville area? Lucky you! Why not seek out your next special occasion cake at their studio (by appointment only please)? Pink Cake Box, 18 E. Main St., Ste 101, Denville; online at pinkcakebox.com.


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Two powerful conservative groups reacted with scorn Sunday to a newly unveiled American Crossroads initiative, dubbed the Conservative Victory Project, that plans to work against Republican primary candidates it views as unelectable.
Crossroads president Steven Law told the New York Times that Crossroads allies are creating the new organization to oppose candidates such as former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, who lost a once-competitive Senate race last year. "There is a broad concern about having blown a significant number of races because the wrong candidates were selected," Law said.
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Both the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund – two of the most prominent groups that have boosted candidates on the right – mocked the new initiative as yet another hapless establishment-side attempt to muzzle the GOP base.
Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, branded it the "Conservative Defeat Project."
"The Conservative Defeat Project is yet another example of the Republican establishment's hostility toward its conservative base. Rather than listening to the grassroots and working to advance their principles, the establishment has chosen to declare war on the party's most loyal supporters," Hoskins said. "If they keep this up, the party will remain in the wilderness for decades to come."
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Club for Growth spokesman Barney Keller essentially responded by pointing to the scoreboard in recent primaries in which conservative insurgents have prevailed and emerged as influential GOP leaders.
"They are welcome to support the likes of Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and David Dewhurst," Keller said of the new Crossroads group. "We will continue to proudly support the likes of Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz."
The Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund spent tens of millions of dollars in the 2012 cycle, in large part to boost ideologically sympathetic candidates in primary elections. Crossroads was the heaviest spender on the GOP side last year but did not get involved in nomination fights.
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Crossroads strategists have signaled for months that the group will engage in GOP primaries in the 2014 cycle, but only now is the battlefield of competitive races beginning to take shape. Law told the Times that the Iowa Senate race, where strongly conservative Rep. Steve King is mulling a bid, could be a first target, suggesting King has a "Todd Akin problem."


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with Linux. I was genuinely interested, but I'm not jumping through the hoops for a Windows refund. Sticking with my EEE 900A.
The summer hols are over, and it's back to school for the kids. Or to college, for the older ones. Whatever their age, though, your offspring - perhaps even you yourself - are likely to have their eye on a new computer for the new term. And with prices never being lower, there's no longer a financial reason to restrict junior …
I have just purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 and am delighted with it. Compared to my Lenovo X200, it is considerably lighter and has 6 - 7 hours battery life in normal use. I didn't find the touchpad required undue pressure but as I detest any type of touchpad I use a small wireless mouse. Although there is a SIM slot I haven't been able to make 3G work yet; I suspect my model (M33D3UK) doesn't support it. However, if you are prepared to work with WiFi instead, then it is great value at £279.00 (from Lenovo UK on-line)
Large hard drive? Fast wireless? Why? so you can use it as a small laptop? So you can install some redmondware on it? For me price/value for money and weight are far more important.
And while we are at it why choose the ASUS that has a fancy touchscreen to compare to all the others that don't? Was it so you didn't have to choose it as the best?
... is HDD format. I am more than happy to have a smaller HDD in my Aspire One if it means I get the flash based drive. Yes, it's smaller, but I worry much less when it comes to chucking it in a rucksack and commuting. Y'know, that thing Netbooks were originally developed for.
So we're still trying to squeeze all fashioned technology in to a smaller format. Gigs of this and gigs of that. Instead of us techno geeks sitting in a lab expounding on how well this works, shove some of these steam engines into the hands of teenagers and students along with an iPad and see what happens... Wipe out! Already seeing a sea of change in device registration at my University! Not saying Apple will be the only one, but they are the first. Get with it guys.
For me, the ideal size is 11.6/12", 1366x768, good enough to type all day; I also need something Linux ready (even if now all netbooks pay the redmond tax), as I won't be using MS bloatware on something that is supposed to be light and fast. I'm still using my 1101HA even if Intel seems to be unable to support the GMA500 chipset, but I'll be looking for a non-intel alternative soon, and would love a comparative review of the 11.6/12" netbooks out there!
I had a go of a netbook and I'm not impressed. It was too small to do anything except casual web browsing. It was a Sony but had a pretty poor glossy screen.
What is up with the poor quality screens? the non-widescreens were flicker free before the change.
I'm going to find a mini 9 to have a look at, it's more compact size might excuse the cheapness of it.
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I haven't tried it yet (my Dell Mini still has the 8.04 install on it), but reportedly there's FINALLY an easy overlay for Ubuntu 10.04 to add GMA500 support. It's the same old drivers, I don't know if they patched them to work with newer XOrg that 10.04 has, or if they just replace 10.04's XOrg with the older one that works with the GMA500 drivers. But who cares? Either way, pain-free GMA500 support on 10.04.
@Sir Wiggum, ahh yeah Windows Crippled Edition. I'm sure the students will LOVE that 8-).
I think you know this but for the record crippled edition disables changing the screen background, disallows changing the visual appearance and audio theme (i.e. startup and shutdown sound and such), removes Aero Glass, removes DVD playback support, removes Media Center, removes multi-monitor support (so if they hook the machine up to a projector for a project it mysteriously won't work) plus some other somewhat less important stuff. I would like to note right here Ubuntu -- even the netbook edition -- will let the user do all this including the fancy semi-tranparent window borders and such (there's an extra download for DVD support usually, although if you buy a Dell with Ubuntu they include the codec preinstalled.)
I am glad to see that for you the drivers in Ubuntu 10.04 are pain free. I can assure you that for me (jbernardo @ubuntuforums), Lucazade, Yves, etc., it has been all but pain free to force the old psb drivers to work with 10.04. We patched them, repackaged them, got more patches from Mandriva, Fedora and others, and finally have a driver that has vaapi (1080p video acceleration) and some 3D working. Still, it is like squeezing a fuel guzzling, outdated, huge, american car engine into a Fiat 500. There is a limit to what you can do, and it won't ever work as well as a new, designed for the purpose engine. And the new Intel EMGD drivers are even worse, a binary only crap that only works on Meego and Fedora 11.
Seems like they can't even copy Nvidia's binary driver strategy...
I bet the external VGA port will still mirror the primary display though. As anyone who's ever had to hurriedly hook up a laptop to a projector will vouch, although it's not the most flexible approach, it's the one most likely to work without most of the audience walking out with boredom waiting to see a video rather than a magenta rectangle.
Couldn't the netbooks come with a proper version of W7, with Aero disabled - or even with XP - for the HUGE majority of people who want a PC that works the way they expect?
If you only want a netbook for internet access then a low-spec Linux box is a great choice but is that the most useful thing for school/college? I don't want to buy my kid a netbook so they can spend all day on Facebook at school...


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Vehicle Break-In Epidemic Hits Missoula, Authorities Searching for Suspects
Missing items from vehicles on Short Street and Juneau Drive are just the latest instance of a rash of vehicle break-ins in Missoula County. The break-ins occurred over Mother's Day weekend and may have concurred with a drinking party.
"A resident on Short Street, which is over by the Orchard Homes area on South 3rd Street West, observed that there were some vehicles parked at the end of the road on Short Street and it appeared that there was some underage drinking party," said Missoula County Sheriff's department spokeswoman Paige Pavalone. "So the person documented a bunch of license plates, and she later discovered that her vehicle had been broken into."
Up and down the street other cars were broken into as well. Pavalone said items such as pocket knives, vehicle registration papers, backpacks and cash had been stolen. Sadly, the Short Street break-ins make something of a trend.
"Outside of the Short Street/Juneau Drive neighborhood, Cap De Villa off of Ridgeway Drive in Lolo was also hit, the 4,000 block of North Avenue West in the Target Range neighborhood (was hit), the Missoula County Fairgrounds parking lot was hit, and the 9,000 block of Highway 10 East between Bonner and Turah was also hit with vehicle break-ins over the weekend," Pavalone said.
It is not clear if all of these break-ins are linked, but they do share one striking similarity. In every case, the vehicles broken into had their doors unlocked and material goods visible from outside of the vehicle.
Authorities recommend everyone to lock their home and vehicle doors, and to avoid keeping valuables inside of vehicles.
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The see-saw events of yesterday – with strong hints from parts of the political establishment and Egypt's military that Hosni Mubarak was planning to step down, followed by a politically tone-deaf presidential address that enraged the legions of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square – have set the table for a tense Friday in Egypt.
The events of the past few days have put the Egyptian regime in a strange twilight. Mubarak remains formal president, defying the protesters, but Omar Suleiman, who for years was presumed to be the military's preferred choice of successor, is increasingly powerful.
The military is showing flickers of overt political independence – its statement on Thursday said the Supreme Council would remain in "continuous" session until the crisis passed – but appears well short of making a break from the regime.
Mustafa Kamel al-Sayed, a political science professor at Cairo University, says the powers Mubarak has formally retained are also crucial. "Omar Suleiman can't change the government, can't reshuffle the cabinet, can't dissolve the two houses of parliament, and can't amend the Constitution by himself," he says at a protest of Cairo University professors planning to march to Tahrir Square.
He points out that the powers Suleiman doesn't have relate precisely to the main demands of the democracy demonstrators. "So I think this is a temporary retreat from Hosni Mubarak. He's given something up that he can take back at any time."
Obama says Mubarak's speech not enough
Confusion seemed to reign overnight in Washington as well. CIA boss Leon Panetta said during the day yesterday he expected Mubarak to step down. After Mubarak's speech, which he condescendingly described as a "father's dialogue with his sons and daughters," President Barack Obama put out one of his most strongly worded statements on the situation in Egypt that amply reflected the lack of clarity in Mubarak's words.
"The Egyptian people have been told that there was a transition of authority, but it is not yet clear that this transition is immediate, meaningful, or sufficient," Obama's statement reads. "The Egyptian government must put forward a credible, concrete and unequivocal path toward genuine democracy, and they have not yet seized that opportunity."
On Thursday the military convened its Supreme Council for only the third time in Egypt's history and without Mubarak, who would ordinarily chair such meetings, present.
Following the meeting, the military released an ambiguous statement that Egypt's democracy protesters took to mean that the Army was willing to step in to remove Mubarak from power for the good of the nation and would then seek to guide the nation towards democracy and fair elections.
But late this morning in Cairo, the military released a statement – read this time by a civilian, not a man in uniform as yesterday's – that appeared to throw their clear support back to Mubarak. They said they would ensure that the promises of the president would be carried out and endorsed his formal handover of many of the powers of the presidency to Vice President Suleiman.
'They're protecting the system'
Mr. Suleiman, a former spy chief and general whom many protesters view as responsible for state torture and as fiercely loyal to Mubarak, has already been governing Egypt in all but name since he was appointed vice president by Mubarak two weeks ago.
If Mubarak was hoping his formal endorsement of this de facto arrangement would satisfy demonstrators, who are demanding that he immediately step down, he was proven wrong.
"Yesterday we thought the military was pointing out that Mubarak's power was destabilizing Egypt, and that to step forward to remove him would be done for the sake of the nation," says Salman, a young protester manning one of the barricades in Tahrir Square near the Egyptian museum. "Now it seems it was all a bluff and they're protecting the system."
State of emergency still in place
Last night, Mubarak's speech provoked howls of rage in Tahrir.
Some of the demonstrators related to the more than 300 protesters that died at the hands of the Egyptian police and regime-paid thugs in late January, had to be physically restrained by their comrades as they thrashed about and urged protesters to immediately march on Mubarak's palace in Heliopolis and provoke a confrontation.
The clearest demand of the protesters – that Mubarak end his 30-year rule of Egypt – was denied. His promised amendments to the constitution to allow political freedom, set presidential term limits, and guarantee fair elections, have not yet been delivered on and have been a part of state rhetoric for a decade at least.
More ominous for the protesters still was the military's statement today that the emergency law, which has allowed Mubarak to circumvent the limited protections of the Egyptian Constitution whenever he sees fit, would be struck when "conditions permit." That's been the government's position on the emergency law since Mubarak took power in the wake of Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981.
Braced for confrontation
Now as tens of thousands in Tahrir Square pause for the Muslim Friday prayer, Egypt is braced for confrontation. A greater number of shops than usual were closed in central Cairo this morning (part of the Egyptian weekend) as average Egyptians wondered if an outpouring of rage could follow the prayers.
Small groups of protesters were in Heliopolis, the Cairo suburb that's home to the presidential palace, but a massive military and riot police presence made it seem unlikely that a march on the palace would be successful.
Why so many conflicting signals on Thursday? Some analysts in Cairo said it appeared that Mubarak believed by sowing some confusion, followed by new half-measure concessions, he could reduce support for the protest movement. The president is also known to be a very stubborn and proud man, and presented himself as one of Egypt's aggrieved parties in his speech last night.
"I never sought power or fake popularity. I trust that the overwhelming majority of the people know who Hosni Mubarak is," he said. "It pains me to see how some of my countrymen are treating me today."
On Tahrir Square many protesters believe the president is in fact seeking to spark an outpouring of violence that can be used to discredit the movement and crackdown protesters.
"All I can think of now is that Mubarak is provoking us," says Salman, who'd never participated in politics until he rushed to help protesters for the battle for Tahrir on Jan. 28 and has been there volunteering for most of the time since.


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Diffusing the view, Kimberly Queen, below. Tolerates full baking sun or part shade, and she's not a shaggy mess unlike the Boston fern.
On perfect axis with the porch door, below, she diffuses the view in too. Aka, double axis.
The lattice? Regular, common, off the shelf, a disaster for any home but, in context, understandable here. This home was rescued and is the Cultural Arts Center in Douglasville, Georgia.
Back to the lattice. For pennies more special order panels with thicker wood slats, they look custom.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
The fern stand is real, and almost a century old. Been decades since it held a fern. Pics taken earlier this month at the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival in Douglasville, GA.


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Clever Clowns
Product Information
|Snap together clowns to build shapes.
|Popular Playthings
|Games - Children, Classic Favorites
|Cardboard and Plastic
Product Description
This popular clown troupe was one of hundreds of colorful plastic toys that filled the counters of dime stores across America in the 1950s. Just join the clowns together by pushing the small balls on their hands and hat into the notches between their feet to make all sorts of clever groupings. Each blister-card includes 12 snap-together clowns.
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