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Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Samba
Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Remote code execution vulnerabilities in the standard implementation of the network time protocol (NTP) can be exploited by attackers to compromise servers, embedded devices and even critical infrastructure systems that run UNIX-like operating system...
The "grinch" Linux vulnerability that Alert Logic raised alarms about Tuesday is not a vulnerability at all, according to Red Hat.
The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.
System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors.
Red Hat wants a piece of the enterprise mobile app market, so it has acquired Irish company FeedHenry for approximately €63.5 million (US$82 million).
Brian Stevens, the former chief technology officer for Red Hat, is now managing Google Cloud.
Red Hat Satellite, the software for managing fleets of servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, can now also manage copies of RHEL that run in the cloud as well.
Red Hat has developed a version of the Linux operating system that can be used to test chips and associated hardware based on the ARMv8-A 64-bit architecture for servers with the aim of standardizing that market.
Red Hat is filling out its OpenStack portfolio by acquiring eNovance, a provider of integration services, for approximately US$95 million in cash and stock.
Knowing how system administrators enjoy continuity, Red Hat has designed the latest release of its flagship Linux distribution to be run, with support, until 2024.
A serious vulnerability that could be exploited to crash TLS clients and potentially execute malicious code on underlying systems was patched in the popular GnuTLS cryptographic library.
Red Hat continues to enhance its software portfolio for helping organizations run and manage cloud services in their own data centers, adding more features to its OpenShift Enterprise software package to accommodate enterprise requirements such as po...
Red Hat said it provides commercial support for its Linux distribution regardless of which version of OpenStack its customers are using, rejecting a report to the contrary from earlier Wednesday.
What do enterprises want to see in OpenStack? With its latest distribution of the cloud hosting software, Red Hat is betting that they want a streamlined installation process and carrier-grade reliability.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – Rightware®, the leader in user interface (UI) design and implementation software, and Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, are collaborating with the innovation consulting firm RKS to demonstrate the next-generation of graphical user interfaces developed to show off the power of the Kanzi UI solution and the power of Imagination's PowerVR™ graphics technology.
This new demo is the first to fully leverage the capabilities of the Kanzi Studio. The demo is running on Imagination's PowerVR Series6 technology featuring fully integrated multimedia hardware acceleration. Demonstrations of the "Let's Get Away" demo powered by Rightware's Kanzi UI solution and Imagination's PowerVR Series6 GPU technology will be on display at Imagination's stand at MWC, Hall 7 #I110, and Rightware's stand, Hall 5 #5E90.
The demo is also the first design that Rightware has developed in partnership with the leading strategic design agency, RKS. The two companies announced that they had formed strategic partnership in Interactive Design for new and emerging market including entertainment, tablets, smart TVs and other embedded verticals.
"RKS sees Kanzi as being a significant opportunity to advance user interaction," stated Ravi Sawhney, founder and CEO of RKS. "By combining forces with Rightware, we are pushing the real-life applications of the tool while advancing the state of the art in creating new interactive experiences."
"We are extremely pleased to be able to present our new UI demo at MWC with Imagination Technology," stated Tero Sarkkinen, President of Rightware. "Over the last two months we have presented and demonstrated our Kanzi UI solution to a number of partners and customers, as well as several press and analysts, and have received very strong and positive feedback. This demonstration is a radical departure from anything currently on the market for UIs."
Kanzi solution consists of a powerful Kanzi Studio, a UI content creation tool, with a resource efficient cross platform graphics and user interface runtime, Kanzi Engine, in one complete package. This is a complete solution for rapid creation and immediate deployment of advanced 2D and 3D graphical user interfaces for mobile phones, tablets, automotive, set-top-box, smart TV, and other embedded devices.
"Kanzi is a powerful enabling technology for creating advanced UIs in the mobile and tablet markets," said Tony King-Smith, Executive Vice President, Marketing at Imagination Technologies. "When utilizing the advanced features of PowerVR Series6 GPUs, consumers are able to get a mobile experience that is generally associated with advanced desktops or games consoles. Those that visit our booth will see first hand the exceptional user experiences and innovation unleashed by Kanzi on PowerVR-based platforms."
PowerVR graphics IP cores lead the market for graphics acceleration for gaming, user interfaces, personal navigation and multimedia browsing in mobile phones.
"Imagination has a long legacy of delivering advanced graphical intellectual property, which has had an impact in the mobile and tablet market. Their technology has played a key role in driving, not just the take up of graphical applications, such as games and location-based services, but also the graphical user interfaces that manage those applications," stated Sarkkinen. "We are thrilled to be working with Imagination by providing the User Interface software technology to demonstrate the power of the Imagination's latest PowerVR Series6 GPUs.
About Imagination Technologies
Imagination Technologies - a global leader in multimedia and communication technologies - creates and licenses market-leading processor solutions for graphics, video, and display, embedded processing, multi-standard communications and connectivity, and cross-platform V.VoIP & VoLTE. These silicon and software intellectual property (IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by an extensive portfolio of software drivers, developer tools and extensive market and technology-focused ecosystems. Target markets include mobile phone and multimedia, connected home consumer, mobile and tablet computing, in-car electronics, telecoms, health, smart energy and connected sensors and controllers. Imagination's licensees include many of the world's leading semiconductor, network operator and electronics OEM/ODM companies. Corporate headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide. See: www.imgtec.com
About Rightware
Rightware® is the market leader in advanced User Interface technology, serving mobile, automotive and other embedded industries with its Kanzi® solution for rapid user interface design and deployment. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools and its renowned product portfolio includes the Basemark™ product family for various benchmarking purposes, including industry standard benchmarks for OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenCL, Android, Linux, and Windows Mobile performance measurement. Rightware is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and has offices in Saratoga, CA, Shanghai and Munich. More information: www.rightware.com
About RKS
RKS is a California-based innovation consulting firm delivering human-focused solutions with global impact. Founded in 1980, RKS utilizes design as a strategic tool advancing client's ability to focus on people's needs and aspirations while creating sustainable business results and benefits to society. Working domestically and globally and having won over 150 major design awards, RKS credits Maslow and Campbell's work as the foundation for its systematic and pragmatic set of frameworks, setting the stage for the creation of experiences that motivate and reward audiences.
Rightware and Kanzi are trademarks or registered trademarks solely owned and controlled by Rightware Oy and are protected by applicable trademark law, and may not be used to any extent without the express prior written consent of Rightware Oy in each instance. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Actress, singer and celebrity mom Jennifer Lopez was spotted rocking leather from head-to-toe outside the "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" in New York City on Tuesday afternoon.
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Check out all of our photos below and let us know what you think!
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Super fresh PHOTOS from ZOO BRNOHello!My first visit in ZOO Brno in 2012 brought you those photos *Losing weight news*Oh my. I hate dead lines for studying. I have some 10 days to study for my graduation exams and I am so stressed! And I have a bad habit to eat a lot when I am stressed so I commited few really bad eating sins in last hours. And I had no time to exercise. So I am fixing it right now!
Animal PHOTOS you ordered ;-)Hi!More people asked me to post photos of lynxes and servals, so I post them in this journal You can find Canadian lynx, bobcat, Eurasian lynx and servals here
Wonderful animals from ZOO Brno - PHOTOSHi,today I post some older photos taken by Canon Powershot S5 IS Enjoy!
Awesome cute animals - PHOTOSHello!I am still so sleepy I go to bed at 9 PM these days - so embarrasing I also had to visit a doctor today (she wanted to check my blood and such, because she did not like my weight *is very ashamed*), nurse took my blood, which is always a horror for me. Well, I hope they would not find any awful illness like diabetes or so, I am scared I came to the room and I was like: ,,Hello! I mean... you do not need to test my blood. I know why I am fat! It is because I used to eat only two big and quite unhealthy meals a day and I did not move at all! I started having 5 meals a day and I exercise - and I lost weight immediately!"And the nurse smiled and said: ,,oh, you are afraid of a needle, are not you?"Me: ,,Uh huh..."And a mystery: after two months, I have almost the same weight, I lost only few kilos but in fact, I am absolutely sure I am much less fat. I really can wear clothes which were too small two months ago. I am really 100% sure I am less fat. But why doe
EDIT - KIRIBAN IS CLOSE +fantastic animals - PHOTOHi!SORRY for update, but I would like to inform you, that kiriban is quite close usually it happens during night, so my American watchers have the biggest chance to catch it. Now it seems to be Europe's turn. Good luck! Catch my 744 444 pageviews and send me a printscreen as a proof if you want to win a feature! (no feature for porn or animal cruelty, please )I am really stressed now - I study so much but I do not remember anything Those texts are so complicated that when I finish reading, I am not able to say what it was about And those are some 6 000 pages! I feel really uneasy about it. I have no time to learn that!Also, this winter is so bad when it comes to snow I am really happy I took many photos of wolves on snow last year, because it seems that winter 2011/12 will not offer any nice photo oportunity. There is NO snow here only on mountains, but not here. I love snow, so it makes me sad Well, time for new Kiriban!Catch my 744
White wolves on snow - PHOTOSHello!Today it is time for kiriban winner feature and for photos of white wolves on snow :iconleesonlyluver: White wolves
KIRIBAN, spams and cute polar foxes - PHOTOSHi!You guys are fast - I did not plan to post a journal today, but I have to, because new kiriban is too close! So: catch my 711 111 pageviews and send me a printscreen as a proof via note, if you want to be featured I just do not feature porn or animal cruelty kiriban is really close! Spam... I noticed some official dA blog where they spoke about higher priority of fighting against spam. Honestly, there is probably something very wrong, because before dA posted it, I usually noticed only few - several spams a year. But since that post, I find spam on my dA account almost daily, sometimes even more spams a day! does it happen to you to? Those are messages like "As an anime fan, you can enjoy the best manga - LINK". It is annoying, I always report it And now... FOXES!
Amazing SNOW LEOPARDS on snow - PHOTOSHi,thank you for kind voluntary donations for free calendar (http://woxys.deviantart.com/art/Animal-photocalendar-2012-FOR-FREE-269531520) I really appreciate it! Kiriban winners will be featured next time, ok?Today I post photos of my favourite cats, snow leopards. All were taken in ZOO Jihlava with Canon Powershot S5 IS. I still have some sharp photos of nice moments, which I somehow "saved for better occassion". Ironically, I now do not feel like posting them, because although they are sharp and bright, they do not have SLR quality of shots taken with my SLR camera. There are also some very cute poses of baby snow leopard, so I might still post them later. I will consider it.Nah, bad mood here.And thank you for every , of course!
Seriously, people? And wolves - PHOTOS!Hi!I have been always curious about the number of people, who look at my journals. And new style of "favable" journals could finally show it to me. I was interested - when I post a journal, I usually have some + 400 views on my profile page. So I expected to have some 400 views on my last journals, which would confirm, that 400 persons read it. But it got some 6 000 views! it is MUCH more than my photos usually have! I can not believe this number is correct... I was told that the journal appeared in some dA news section, but I am not sure if that is a reason, because I had no special pageviews, just regular + 400, which is typical for a day, when I post a journal. I think that new visitors, who would be attracted by a journal, would probably (at least small part of them) visit my page, so I would have bigger number of pageviews So this is a mystery, really...As I said, I like my photo journals and I consider them my "trade mark", something which differs me from anot
News + fat and cute - PHOTOS of arctic foxesHello!Uchrm, I probably passed my graduation exams! Well, I see my grades, they should mean I passed! Now I only need to re-write and defend my final thesis (which is what was planned ).But studying should be over and finished! I have not realized it yet, but if it is true and I really passed today's exams (I am always nervous that secretary was wrong and she wrote wrong grades to school info system ), then my studying is totally over and finished!So if I wake up tomorrow to find the same grades as I found today, I will be happy But to be honest, in last days, I was SO nervous that I ate literally everything I could, almost biting the furniture. And I did not have a second to waste, so no bike, no exercise. So wow, more free time now, more moving now. How cool!I can not wait to be covered with sweat and to have a muscle pain after sporting once again (but it is true, I like to be "tired" like that )Thanks for support, people! Now...
Sorry, funny thief + ZOO Brno - animal PHOTOSHi!At first, I want to apologize - because of my final exams, I could not answer notes, so finally I got 15 of them! All of them should be already answered, sorry for late replies. My brain was not able to work few days before and then also after graduation exams it should be ok now.Also: sometime I might miss some of your comment's questions, sorry If you want to be 99,9% sure to get a reply from me, send me a note, please I always do my best to answer every single note. Very rarely, it can happen that I read some note minutes before leaving the flat, so I forget to answer it, but I think it is really VERY rare so once again - I love to answer questions, but if you want to be 99,9% sure to gain an answer, ask via note, please thank you!At second - wohoo after pretty long time, my photo was reposted here on dA. It was not a big deal - I stayed calm and just told the person to remove the shot. She did remove it - but funny thing came, she posted a big h
Kiriban is close, features + TIGERS - PHOTOSHello!At first, let me thank you all who donated points to me! thanks to you, I could really order a calendar, so it pleased me a lot those who donated over 100 points got their wallpaper, but I want to give a reward also to those who gave me less than 100 points, because they still helped me a lot. So below the announcement of new kiriban, you can find feature for kind donators and then photos of tigers At second: KIRIBAN!Catch my 733 333 pageviews and send me a proof via note, if you want to win a feature! it is quite close.I just do not feature porn or animal cruelty, thanks for understanding At third, SUCCESS, people! I had my first driving lesson on a regular road - I somehow was not that nervous about it, I was even looking forward to the lesson. And although I made many mistakes, the instructor told me that I was really VERY good, that my first driving was like the sixth lesson of another people. Yay! but of course I know it was just a luck of a beginn
Cable. Amazing animals - PHOTOSHi!Uah, I was about to post a journal about a damaged cable of my laptop and that my laptop will have no energy soon. But some 10 seconds before I could post it, battery really run of, so laptop did not work Now I have new cable and it should work And wow. I checked my BIM - value I got is TERRIBLE!Not only it is obesity (not just overweight, but REALLY obesity), but it is worse level of obesity there is only one worse level of BIM! it is underweight, normal weight, overweight, obesity I, obesity II and the worst obesity. I have obesity II *facepalm*I hate myself now More exercising now!
This time about me ;) and animals - PHOTOSHello!At first let me wish you all the best for 2012 - happy new year, people! I hope you will enjoy many amazing moments, that you will keep your beloved and you will make also new friends I wish you to stay healthy, because it is the most important thing!I also must thank you for all support you gave me in 2011 - I hope my dA year 2012 will be at least as nice as 2011, because thanks to you, that year was really great when it came to dA things! But in general, I am happy 2011 is over. It was not a good year for me and my family. Too many bad events, too many disappointments, too many days spent in hospital and even sadder places. So I hope 2012 can be a new start for something nice again.And because I am a person who loves turning points, start of the new year is a good chance to set my goals. So although some people are mad about it, let me set my New Year's resolution:New Year's resolutions1) to lose more weight. Which means to exercise and ride a "bik
Red, white or gray beauties - FOX PHOTOSHello everybody!Thank you very much for donating points - as I said, I will give a wallpaper of his/her choice to everybody who donates more than 100 points. And as several people donated less than 100, but still nice amount of points, I decided to feature all the donators. The feature will be given in next journal - thank you, donators! EDIT: omg, THANK YOU, people, I just ordered the calendar as you were nice enough to donate remaining 230 points in just few minutes. All donators will be featured in next journal! Also, dA is somehow out of order again *facepalm*I checked front page - now you can not see photos of young authors there. But you can see works in the same category (!!!) next to each other (moreover from the same author), while work from another categories, although having much more faves, are not on FP at all I hope dA will fix it soon, whole error lasts for almost two weeks and it is already a bit boring And... I have my first driving lesson o
Cute baby animals - PHOTOS!Hi!Here they go. Photos of cute baby animals.But before I post them, I feature two deviants, who managed to capture my 690 000 Kiriban. Congrats! Give them some , please :icondarkSoul4Life: :iconYlfaZophy: Pantheon Rome by YlfaZophy A Sognefjord Sunset by YlfaZophyIcelandic Sleeping Beauty by YlfaZophy Cutey by YlfaZophy My rabbit by YlfaZophyWolf by YlfaZophyArtis' Blue Butterfly by YlfaZophy Thor fran Jarsta by YlfaZophyHere they come. BABIES!
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David Letterman 'Not Worried About Jay, He'll Land on His Chin'
• "Well, ladies and gentlemen, once again, I did not get 'The Tonight Show'."
• "I'm a little worried about Conan. I'm not worried about Jay, he'll land on his chin, he always does."
• "That's not all, listen to this: today, NBC announced that they are bringing back Johnny Carson and they're putting him on at 10 p.m."
• "Because of all of this chaos, this is what's on NBC right now," and the shot cuts to a video feed of Don King and Charles Grodin sitting at a fold-up table. Watch the Video After the Jump
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- Tuesday 12 JanuaryHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Im worried about lettermen, im sure he'll fall through the LARGE gap between his teeth.
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy chuckieHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I kind of like the idea of King and Grodin taking over the NBC slot. It would be an improvement. Someone's head should be rolling in the executive suite at 30 Rock for this little fiasco, not Leno's or Conan's.
Just glad that Dave now has a new whipping boy and can get off of Sarah Palin for a while. - Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy Wish BelkinHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
There are some serious morons calling the shots at NBC.
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy THOMAS
The Only One That Loses Is The Pervert Letterman.
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- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy rlau290541
Geeze.... are they really bringing back Carson, Dave? Funny thing is,if they would show Carson reruns and I'd watch those before I would watch two bald headed morons trading inside jokes as if they're actually funny like you and that idiot Schaffer do. You are an overrated gap toothed moron, that's also a pig... but not a very funny one.
- Saturday 22 MayBy jerry
Johnny Carson was overrated.
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy gilHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Seems to me that Letterman will only fall on one of his female staffers, or so it would seem. Please, when Letterman says something funny will someone let us know. If he would spend more time telling jokes, and less time poking at REAL people in the news he would be much better off. This guy is pathetic.
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy Keith
They're all BORING! Except Craig Ferguson! He's the real successor to Johnny Carson. Ferguson has me in stitches every night. Kimmel, Fallon, O'Brien and now (dont know why) Leno are all AWFUL AND BORING! Television IS a wasteland of talentless boring people. Ferguson is a breah of fresh air, makes me laugh out loud, and is the most fun on tv! Actually, he's the only thing on all of tv, thats worth watching at all.
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy TomW
Letterman should be in jail for rape. Yeah, rape, unless of course you believe that every 24 year old secretary just lusted after his 55 year old boney butt, buck toothed, quad bypass body. Oh baby oh baby. But where are the liberal women's groups speaking out on that? And the liberal entertainers who line up to be on the program?
- Tuesday 12 JanuaryBy B.P. Dumas
Your right Tom,its really a shame theres no such thing as a time machine, the punishment lettermen really deserves is to be sent back through to the area ,now part of modern romania,then ruled over by Vlad Tepes, also notorious called vlad the impaler, would dave look so cool impaled on a wooden stake , maybe after he first was tortured for good measure. lettermen is a creep and cbs didn't have the big brass ones to fire his ass and pay him off once and for all.
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Did he sleep with your sister?? Rape?? Your jealous. You don't know how women are obviously, they will hook up with anyone that has money and fame. They would hook up with the Notorious Big.
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LETTERMAN IS SO DA@M OBNOXIOUS AND UGLY HE CAN'T AFFORD TO TALK ABOUT ANYONE. i CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH THIS STUPID SHOW, HE'S NOT AT ALL FUNNY
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Doctor's Orders (song)
"Doctor's Orders" is a song written by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway and Geoff Stephens which in 1974 was a hit in the UK for Sunny of Sue and Sunny; in the US the song was a hit for Carol Douglas.
Sunny version[edit]
"Doctor's Orders" | ||||
Single by Sunny | ||||
from the album Doctor's Orders | ||||
B-side | "It's Only When You're Feeling Lonely" | |||
Released | 1974 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues, soul | |||
Length | 2:48 | |||
Label | CBS | |||
Writer(s) | Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Geoff Stephens | |||
Producer(s) | Roger Greenaway | |||
Sunny singles chronology | ||||
In 1969, Roger Greenaway along with Sue and Sunny were recruited by Tony Hiller for the group Brotherhood of Man; Greenaway and Roger Cook — who had been writing songs together since 1965 as well as recording as David and Jonathan — were both house writers for Hiller's production company.
By 1973, the Brotherhood of Man's original members had opted out of the group and although Sue and Sunny had generally recorded as a team Sunny recalls that at this time "Sue decided she wanted to spend some time having babies, so I was just left to get on with things by myself. Roger Cook knew that I was going solo and rang me up to say that he had a song for me. Anyway, I went round to see him, heard the song and thought it might do something."
Sunny cut the track in November 1973 with Roger Greenaway producing while Chris Gunning provided the arrangement and conducted.
Shopped to CBS for a January 1974 release, "Doctor's Orders" gained momentum through club play but met resistance from BBC Radio, unsavoury undertones being read into the storyline of a woman consulting a doctor over intimate concerns. "Doctor's Orders" finally broke into the UK Top 50 chart dated March 30, 1974 at #42 to rise to a #7 peak on 4 May. [1] The single was also a hit in Ireland (#4) [2] and — in the summer of 1974 — in South Africa (#16). [3]
Doctor's Orders was also the title of Sunny's album released in January 1974 which, besides "Doctor's Orders", featured the Cook/Greenaway/Stephens compositions "Couldn't I Change Your Mind" and "Never Say Never" plus "Oh My Joe" (Cook/Greenaway/Tony Macaulay), "A Warm and Tender Romance" (Greenaway/Macaulay) and "Somebody Warm Like Me" (Macaulay). The album also featured the Brotherhood of Man track "Maybe the Morning" plus Sunny's renditions of the Drifters' hit "Like Sister and Brother" (Cook/Stephens) and White Plains' hit "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (Cook/Greenaway). The other tracks were "It's Only When You're Feeling Lonely" (the B-side of "Doctor's Orders"), "Don't Come Back" and "Lean on Me".
"A Warm and Tender Romance" backed with "Don't Come Back" was released as a follow-up single to "Doctor's Orders" but failed to chart.
Carol Douglas version[edit]
"Doctor's Orders" | ||||
Single by Carol Douglas | ||||
from the album The Carol Douglas Album | ||||
B-side | "Baby Don't Let This Good Love Die" | |||
Released | 1974 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Genre | Disco, rhythm and blues, soul | |||
Length | 2:58 | |||
Label | Midland International | |||
Writer(s) | Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Geoff Stephens | |||
Producer(s) | Ed O'Loughlin | |||
Carol Douglas singles chronology | ||||
The American version of "Doctor's Orders" was recorded for Midland International who ran an ad in Showbiz magazine specifically to recruit a singer to cover Sunny's UK hit for the US market: the successful applicant, Carol Douglas, was a veteran performer who had remained an unknown recording artist.
Douglas recalled when she first auditioned she was told "I sounded great, but too black. [The track's] producers wanted to capture my more melodic Pop/commercial tones which undeniably made me sound white on the radio." [4]
Douglas' version, recorded at Groove Sound Studio in New York City, was produced by Meco Monardo but because of contractual complications the production credit was assigned to Midland International vice-president Ed O'Loughlin.[5] One of the players on the session was guitarist Jerry Friedman who according to Monardo invented the "bubble guitar" effect of "playing on a single muffled note" which would become a trademark of disco music as did the "gallop" effect provided by Carlos Martin pounding the conga with his fists.
In the autumn of 1974, Midland International issued test pressings of Douglas' "Doctor's Orders" to New York City discos where the positive response led to the track's rush release that November, with 100,000 units being sold the first week — mostly in the New York City area — and sales of 200,000 reported by 30 November 1974, the date of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on which Douglas' single debuted at #79 to debut on the Top 40 that December on its way to a #11 peak (#9 R&B) in February 1975.1 "Doctor's Orders" also reached #2 on the disco chart which Billboard had recently launched.[1] The eventual U.S. sales tally for "Doctor's Orders" was cited as 900,000 units — 300,000 in the New York City area.
Also in February 1975, Douglas' "Doctor's Orders" hit #1 in Canada's RPM and #4 in France. The UK success of the Sunny original did not preclude a January 1975 UK release of Douglas' version: this was not a success, but "Doctor's Orders" would afford Douglas a Top Ten hit in Italy (#8), New Zealand (#6) and Spain (#2), with her version also charting in Australia (#31) Belgium and Germany (#37). In June 1975, Midland International reported that global sales of the Carol Douglas single "Doctor's Orders" totaled one million units.
- 1The track ranked on the Easy Listening chart at #42.
Other versions[edit]
- Patsy Gallant had a Canadian single release concurrent with the Carol Douglas version of "Doctor's Orders": Gallant's version reached #83 on the Canadian chart.
- Giti Pashaei, Persian singer, covered the song with Persian lyrics called "Owje Parvaz" (meaning: Flying as high as possible) on 1975.
- Québécois singer Anne Renée had an April 1975 single release of the French rendering "Le docteur m'a dit": Rene Angelil - then married to the singer - produced the disc and spoke the "Allo" heard in its intro.
- Sheila recorded the French rendering "C'est le coeur, les ordres du docteur" in 1975: like the Carol Douglas version "C'est le coeur..." peaked at #4 in France.
- The song was rendered in Finnish by Lea Laven as "Viittiks Tulla Takas" on the 1975 album Lea.
- Reggae singer Pluto Shervington covered "Doctor's Orders" on his 1975 release "Pluto", released by Wild Flower, a subsidiary of Federal Records, Jamaica.[2]
- "Doctor's Orders" was a 1988 UK single release for Lisa Carter (#78 UK). [6].
- Sabrina remade the song for her 1988 album Super Sabrina.
- In September 2005 Girl Talk - comprising Barb Jungr, Claire Martin and Mari Wilson - recorded "Doctor's Orders" for their eponymous 2006 album release.
- In 2008, Jane McDonald recorded "Doctor's Orders" for her Jane album from which it was issued as a single which did not chart.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 82.
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/Pluto-Pluto/release/5233413


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'When I want to bring the house down,'' my friend M. T. said the other day, ''I make a soufflé. And when I really want to bring the house down, I make two.'' When she goes for the latter, she serves something like a rib roast with a cheese soufflé for the main course and individual chocolate soufflés for dessert. ''I mean, you're mixing those egg whites, you might as well go on.''
We were talking about the stuff that really impresses folks around a dinner table and feeling a little guilty because a soufflé is so damn easy. I remember a time before I knew this, when I was still in college and blown away by the sight of someone making a soufflé in his actual home. (As opposed to the old-fashioned French restaurants I'd been to, where the waiter would come out before you even ordered and ask if you'd like to have a chocolate or Grand Marnier soufflé for dessert.) My host, D. Gorton, was a photographer for The Times who had lived all over the place, and he really knew how to cook. He fried perfect crispy whitebait for an hors d'oeuvre and made roast duck for an entrée, and at the end, he outdid himself with two soufflés, raspberry and chocolate. They were gorgeous, one a deep pink, the other a rich mahogany, both dusted with powdered sugar and barely shimmying in their dishes as they were brought out from the kitchen. More than 20 years have passed since then, and I have eaten and made a whole lot of soufflés, but I'm still impressed by the memory. M. T. is right -- a soufflé is guaranteed to bring down the house.
In my own house, soufflés were not on the menu. My mother had plenty of dazzlers in her repertory, but I never saw her whip up a soufflé. Maybe, like me, she thought they were too hard or too last- minute. In her soufflé dish she always put something called ''mock cheese soufflé,'' a cheesy bread pudding that is really, really good -- and beyond simple -- but, as the name suggests, not a soufflé.
Anyway, soufflés are not hard -- and they don't even have to be last-minute. The recipes for almost all of them, both sweet and savory, allow you to make the base as much as a day ahead and to fold in the beaten egg whites just before baking. Julia Child swears you can even wait an hour after the whites have been added before baking it without doing any damage. Simply pour the batter into the dish and put an empty pot or kettle on top.
Only three things are really important in making a soufflé. First, the egg whites should be beaten until they are smooth and shiny and about seven times their volume, at which point they should hold stiff peaks. The best way to achieve this is with a standing mixer. (Snobs who tell you to beat the whites with a wire whisk in a copper bowl only want to torture you -- it is impossible to tell the difference.) Second, fold in those egg whites fast. Spend way less than a minute on the process or you will beat out the volume, which is the whole point. And finally, when it's done, get the soufflé to the table. You have a maximum of four or five minutes before it deflates. It will still taste swell, but you'll lose a bit of that crucial bringing-down-the-house factor.
Once you've got the hang of it (refer to ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' or ''Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home'' for techniques and basic recipes), making soufflés is great fun. You can add almost anything to them: cold poached eggs hidden in the batter of a cheese soufflé make a soufflé Vendôme; glacéed fruits soaked in kirsch transform a vanilla soufflé into soufflé Rothschild. Creamed or sautéed lobster, shrimp or crab meat is fabulous added to a cheese soufflé (I like cheddar best with crab), as is a bit of ground ham.
What I love about them the most is that they lend themselves to such creative menu combinations. The late, great Bill Blass, whose taste in food was as unerring as his taste in fashion, often served a cheese-grits soufflé with crusty roast beef, and a sour-cream-and-chive soufflé (the recipe is in Nan Kempner's ''R.S.V.P.'') with smoked salmon. A blue cheese soufflé is a perfect savory dessert when accompanied by pears poached in port. Two wonderfully versatile soufflés are the garlic soufflé and the goat cheese soufflé from Alice Waters's ''Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.'' They are even easier than most, and not as grand since they are cooked in gratin dishes, but they are delicious. I once served the goat cheese with a fresh ham and curried lentils, and the garlic is wonderful with a thyme-roasted lamb.
Of course, there are few combinations more elegant than a cheese soufflé with a green salad and a cold glass of white wine. When M.T. and I want to pretend we have lives that we don't, we put on nice dresses and go to La Goulue or Payard, both of which have excellent versions of that exact menu. There's something very civilized and ladies' lunch-y about it -- in fact, the first luncheon I ever gave consisted of my mother's mock cheese soufflé and a chicken salad made with preserved ginger and mango that I'd found in Vogue. I invited some men to my lunch, but in ''James Beard's Menus for Entertaining,'' there's a chapter called ''Ladies Only,'' in which one menu features a crab soufflé flavored with a bit of tomato paste and Cognac (Beard loved Cognac), and another has an apricot soufflé for dessert.


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text: Fenway at 100: Love it, revere it, blow it upBy Mike Downey, Special to CNNUpdated 2:52 PM ET, Fri April 20, 2012Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosWelcome to Fenway Park – The scoreboard before the game between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays during the home opener on April 13 .Hide Caption 1 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosFans celebrate opening day – Fans gather before the home opener.Hide Caption 2 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosPlayers sing the national anthem – The Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays line up for the national anthem during the home opener.Hide Caption 3 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosThe 'Green Monster' – Fenway Park's "Green Monster."Hide Caption 4 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosFenway Park in 1912 – General view of Boston's Fenway Park in 1912 shows stands full of fans.Hide Caption 5 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosFenway Park in 1912 – Red Sox supporters in the stands at Fenway Park before the start of the 1912 World Series.Hide Caption 6 of 7Fenway Park celebrates 100 years 7 photosFenway's first pitch – The first baseball pitched at the April 20, 1912, grand opening of Fenway Park.Hide Caption 7 of 7Story highlightsBoston's Fenway Park opened 100 years ago today on April 20, 1912Mike Downey says insulting Fenway Park is practically a hate crime in the Boston areaDowney on Fenway: "I believe its time has come and gone"He'd love to see "a new, pristine, up-to-the-minute place to watch the Sox"Is it OK to not like Fenway Park?Can you say so without sounding as if you're the kind of guy who would love to break in and trash Buckingham Palace, the Louvre, the Vatican, the Taj Mahal, Graceland, Disneyland and Hogwarts? Is there anyone from New England who would go, hmmm, maybe you're right? Or would everyone there like to see you sentenced to 20 years in Shawshank for insulting Boston's baseball park, which in that corner of America is considered a hate crime?Samuel L. Clemens (no relation to Roger), aka Mark Twain (a plain-talkin' Midwestern indigene like myself), once wrote of a certain Massachusetts metropolis: "One of the most engaging peculiarities of Boston is her reverence for her traditions, her relics, her antiquities." He was referring to her Massacre, not her ballpark, but I think he really nailed her.Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Connecticut, as good a place to get sick and kick a bucket as any. (A great many insurance agents there.)Two years later, damn near to the day, a new Boston place of business opened its gates to the public. April 20, 1912, turned out to be a big day in that city's history, even if most of the folks from the Fenway district 100 years ago were still talking about a big tub in the Atlantic that went down with poor Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on it.I am pleased to acknowledge that Fenway Park's centennial is upon us. I am less pleased to confess that -- at the risk of offending any Red Sox fan who feels as if you have just spat on his or her great-grandfather's grave -- what I love about Fenway is, to be perfectly frank with you, nothing.Just WatchedWhat makes Fenway Park specialreplayMore Videos ...What makes Fenway Park special 01:47PLAY VIDEOIf you love it, love every single thing about it, good for you. I am very sorry, but not all of us do.All right, now here comes the disclaimer where I give you a lot of yada-yada about how much I do like the city of Boston itself, the community, the Commons, heck, the whole Commonwealth, and have never in my life spent a bad hour there.I have no grudge against the Red Sox in any way, shape or form. I am not a Yankees guy. I have admired the pride of New England folk ever since Hester Prynne took a high hard one, oh about letter-high. I have long liked Sweet Baby James and Marvelous Marvin and Tip and Yaz and Eck and El Tiante and Oil Can and Big Papi and the Pops and the Pats. I even thought for a few years that "Boston Legal" was the best show on TV.If I belabor this point, it is out of self-preservation.SI: A lyric to the little bandboxI am no Boston basher by nature and have no desire to be branded as one. I was a ChiSox child, but liked the BoSox just fine. The first game Dad took me to was Sox vs. Sox, and darned if Ted Williams didn't wallop a home run. So did the pitcher, a guy named Jerry Casale whom I never laid eyes on thereafter.To earn a living (if you can call it that), I got a newspaper job.I have been to Fenway a couple dozen times. I saw Pudge behind the plate and Dwight in right. I interviewed Dom DiMaggio once. I interviewed Ted's kid, the one who deep-froze him. I became a Hall of Fame voter who did not vote for Jim Rice. I didn't care much for Bill Buckner, so I didn't much care when that ball went through his legs. I was in St. Louis on the 2004 night when the Red Sox took the World Series to reverse the Bambino curse.I wrote about Harry Frazee selling Babe Ruth to New York for $100,000 so he could back a show called "No, No, Nanette." I promptly got a note from Harry Frazee III, saying no, no, that was a big fat lie because his grandfather did no such thing. "His theater money went into baseball," I was told.When the park first went up, Bostonians undoubtedly felt like Kubla Khan must have when a stately pleasure-dome he did decree. For 1912, Fenway Park must have been such an architectural marvel, you'd think Howard Roark of "Fountainhead" fame designed it. I am sure the washrooms had indoor plumbing and everything modern. The seats in the grandstand were so large, they could comfortably accommodate men as large as 5-foot-5.Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National. I applaud the fact that the cute bandbox at 4 Yawkey Way, Boston, 02215 is now the oldest venue for a professional athletic team in these United States.It is in the news for turning 100. Willard Scott and Smuckers will no doubt salute it. It is also in the news becase of an outspoken, outlandish, outstanding (choose one) opinion expressed by a young fellow by the name of Luke Scott, a designated hitter (one of those post-1912 things) for the Tampa Bay Rays (ditto), who had the temerity to say of Fenway Park: "As a baseball player, going there to work, it's a dump."Whoa, did his spit hit the fans.You'd have thought he compared Fenway to the quake-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant. You know, in a keep-out, run-for-your-lives kind of way. I grant you that it didn't help the kid's popularity any that Scott went on to say of Fenway's fans that "they're ruthless, they're vulgar, they cause trouble, they talk about your family, swear at you ... who likes that?" Uh, not me. The Real Housewives of New Jersey, maybe, but not me.I neither adore nor abhor Fenway, but I believe its time has come and gone. I have seen the Yankees, Tigers, Giants, Orioles, White Sox and others erect fine new ballyards for future generations to enjoy. They have done so over the objections of every stubborn cuss who insists that his or her grandkids and great-grandkids must attend the old park just because I did and, oh, I love it so. Come on. Let the kids of April 20, 2022, and 2032 and 2102 have a pristine, up-to-the-minute place to watch the Sox, a place to create memories of their own.Yes, yours is a "real" ballpark. I enjoyed the scene in "Moneyball" in which the team's owner takes Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) to the park to absorb its beauty. It was such a sweet scene in that true story, I almost wish it were true. Boston's boss interviewed Billy at his Florida home, not at the park.SI: Baseball's oldest venue -- and still its bestI have been Googling a few interesting observations of late, finding quotes from ex-Sox who love the team, love the fans but, yes, may God forgive them, would love a new park. I see the Massachusetts junior senator, Scott Brown, is taking a teasing about expressing his fondness for Fenway on its 100th anniversary after having devoted considerable effort at the beginning of this 21st century to having the Red Sox build a new park next door to the Patriots' one 'way out in Foxborough. It was apparently an error on his part, for those of you scoring at home.A "dump," the word the Tampa Bay boy used, is a tad harsh. Bright gents like the baseball expert Peter Gammons and the Chicago columnist Rick Morrissey have applied that same tag to Wrigley Field in recent times, absent of malice. It is not about dissing the Cubs or their fans. It is about reminding them that the park has crummy plumbing, hungry rats and crumbling concrete. It is about ballplayers who must shower, shave and dress in locker rooms about as roomy as a Kardashian's closet."Baseball's Most Beloved Park" it reads on a sign by a Fenway doorway, or at least it did the last time I was there. 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