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PdaNet updated to hide unauthorized tethering [Jailbreak]
PdaNet, the popular (and free) tethering app in Cydia, has been updated to mask unauthorized data tethering. This comes after carriers like AT&T have started cracking down on iPhone owners who use MyWi to tether without losing their unlimited data plan.
AT&T has been flagging any packets that appeared to come from a secondary device before sending out a notice to users. PdaNet prevents this by using a method of masking packets sent through the network so your carrier can't tell if the data is coming from a device other than your iPhone.
The app also includes features like USB tethering and basic Wi-Fi security in addition to controlling the broadcast channel and WiFi signal strength, just like MyWi. You can either use the free version, or upgrade to the full version for $15.95 (limited time deal, normally $29) to access secured websites.
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PdaNet updated to hide unauthorized tethering [Jailbreak]
That's a complete lie. I've used well over 12GB for the past few months and I haven't received anything from AT&T. I picked up MyWi's trial because we were not going to have Internet for 3 days and the day after I used MyWi I got dinged for tethering.
Learn your information before opening your mouth.
I use approx 7gb a month but only 1gb on tether, just to download e-mails on the run, 15 minutes after downloading via e-mails via PDANET I got the text. Havent used it since but will upgrade now and start again.
Odds are strong that high usage throws up the initial red flag since that's the easiest thing to notice. After that they probably watch those flagged user for signs of tethering.
There is no guaranteed, to hide you by using tethering... But at&t they flag those hot and huge data usage specially for those have unlimited data plan for the following reason:
1. If you used too much data each month, AT&T will flag your account regardless of tether usage.
2. Your account is already flagged and marked as hot account.
Matthew, this is only a tech blog... no need for hostility. Second, I am speaking from experience. I was grandfathered with an unlimited iPhone data plan from the 1st gen iPhone. I too used incredible amounts of data, ranging from 5GB to 17GB, the entire time I've had my iPhone(s). It wasn't until 3 weeks ago that I received a message from AT&T saying that they were going to switch me to an appropriate tethering plan. Funny thing is – I've never tethered…. Moreover…. I've never Jailbroken my phone.
I use MyWi and have not received any notifications from AT&T. I also have only gone over 2 gb in a month once since using it. I'm with those saying it's the amount of data usage that's triggering the notification. Also, it's been well over a couple of months since we heard people are receiving the notices. Has anyone actually been converted to a tethering plan against their will yet?
I'll let you know if it is MyWi in about a week. When stranded at the airport this weekend, I used MyWi on my iPhone to teather to my iPad. I then used my iPad to watch my DirecTV during the Osama news. I burned through 600MB in about 45 minutes.
I got dinged by AT&T yesterday for the first time. The agent guaranteed that they did not use usage as a detection method and said he regularly uses >15gb per month without tethering. He also repeatedly said there are 240 people who have fought the accusation and AT&T was able to prove all 240 had tethered. I agreed not to tether in the future so as not to lose my unlimited plan. Not sure if this guy was full of it but thought I'd share my experience.
I don't doubt for one minute that they're flagging packets from other devices. But, maybe once they find them, they then look at that customer's data usage. Perhaps those who are tethering with well below normal usage are being left alone (maybe not). I've never used more than 200MB total per month in three years with any iPhone. If some of that is from my tethering, I don't see a problem when others are burning through 15GB with their mobile devices alone.
I guess time will tell.
I have been using this new PDANET version with hide for a few weeks... but I still got the email and text from AT&T. I was even using the "Level 2" hide function. AT&T's method of detection appear better than the block. My typical usage was around 3Gb, so amount of data is not the primary gauge. There appears to be no option for just "a little" tethering.
Have you been in contact with the PDAnet developer? It would be interesting to hear their take on your report.
TIPB- it would expect the developer to withold info on their technology, but perhaps this report would be worthy of a followup interview with them. Have they made changes in recent days that would have pevented Clayman's problem?
Clay man- when was the last time you updated your PDAnet?
How is it stealing service? My Mom is on the 3 GB plan for $30 dollars a month. She was tethering using MyWi and only was using 2.5 GB of her 3GB data cap. But she still got the text, and email from AT&T saying they were going to switch us to a tethering plan.
With that being said, how is it any different than putting say 3 Gallons of fuel in my car and Shell, or Exon, or BP telling me I can only drive a certain distance....DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!! Its data that I have paid for, if i was abusing it by going over then charge me for the overage, but if I am staying within my limit of my 3 GB cap whats the freaking problem AT&T?????????!!!!
Stopped using PDANet a long time ago. It was too buggy. TI found a better & cheaper solution as well.
How is it theft? The service is paid for, what difference does it make what device was used to access the service. That'd be like the cable company charging you per TV in your house. If anything, multiple surcharges for the sane service is illegal. That said, AT&T does reserve the right per the user agreement to charge for enabling tethering. But really there is no legal backing to support their double tariff practices.
I think most people realize that those on the unlimited plan who are tethering (especially things like laptops) are abusing their contracts. However, it seems crazy to me that those on a metered plan, ie 2gb etc, would be forced to by ANOTHER 2gb, just to use tethering, regardless of how much they actually use. If I've bought 2gb of data, I should be able to use that however I like since I'll have to pay for overages regardless since it is not costing AT&T anymore. If I've bought unlimited iPhone data, it seems reasonable to require it be used on that device, since every byte I use reduces AT&T's profit.
I agree. I probably tether for ten minutes, a couple of times per month, just searching the web when I'm with clients. I haven't been contacted (yet), and I believe it is because I don't abuse it.
Why would AT&T want someone like me, who never even gets near 300MB per month, to switch to Verizon just for using a tethering app for 100MB a month?
You cannot take ATT to court because your contract states that you will not use the ATT data plan for any service other than your phone. However, it is possible that some of us who were grandfathered in to unlimited data plans, never signed such a contract. In either case, the ATT contract also states that if ATT decides to increase or add services to your ATT monthly Bill, you will have the option of cancelling your account, without paying for the early termination fee, plus you can keep the phone. Its in your contract, read it.
I tether, I do not pay for tethering (I think ATT is the worst company in the world and would love the chance to switch wireless services). I use PDANET with the hide feature and have not had any issues. I use anywhere from 2GB to 8Gb per month.
We sign a contract for unlimited Data,text,and calls,now they are gonna cut I service speed down after 3G to try to weed the unlimited plan out cause they didn't think of how much DATA was gonna be used in time to come.Now it's costing them money for unlimited uses.We are the ones that AT&T are try(No they have already started) to make us pay for poor service(low speeds) that isn't what we sign a agreement (contract) We auh to be offered some kind of deal,are keep our agreement. We the 5% Can we sue for a greet price for just doing this to us?As long as we made our payment for service.there got to be some way we can make them pay,they are making us pay now.please comment.All of us can together can make something happen.
What's the difference btween filling up a wheel barrel with 20 plates and carrying 20 plates 2 at a time to my table? It's still 20 plates to me.
Im on VZ and feel ATT users' pain.
I pay for unlimited data, how is it stealing if I tether? Sure I'm using it on another device, but I pay for UNLIMITED DATA - that means without limit. So if I want to let my phone run netflix all day out to hundreds of gigs, that's ok but to use 2mb of tethering to check email is stealing? The very assertion is puerile and stupid. ATT are giant tools and I am sure will face class action soon.
Hey guys I know this sounds ridiculous but I actually use about 40gigs a month reason being that besides using my laptop for netflix, you tube, and among other things, I also connect my laptop to my Xbox and play a lot online so...I'm guessing for that my usage goes up high and yes I got my text of death from AT&T about 3 weeks ago...
I got the text yesterday for the third time only this time I was being told that my account has now been "upgraded" to the data pro plan and to expect a change in my billing soon. Btw (iPhone 3GS/iOS 4.1/jailbroken/mywi/5-10gb-pr month) I called and told the lady I would have no choice but to drop my plan and she then went and checked my information( I had called and argued once before that I use alot of data just on my phone) then the lady comes back after checking and says she sees nowhere where my account has been changed and says text was prob sent to you because they figured you wanted to tether your phone. I say no and she says well the text was sent in mistake and to disregard it. Are some Att reps just thT niave or is it reAlly just fishing by Att? She also they would never change my plan without first consulting me. I'm at a loss. Seems more like a fishing expedition against hi bandwidth + grandfathered users. They wAnt you off that plan so bad cause 15$ more a month with a data cap is their new gold mine right now.
I really hope this works. I just got the JB tethering threat too. As far as I've heard Jayhonda, AT&T is sending the message to anyone with high data usage. I've read claims of people arguing that they stream netflix and hulu 24/7 and backing AT&T down with this argument. I'm wondering whether AT&T and Apple are within their legal rights to demand that we only use their products (jail breaking was upheld by the Supreme Court after all). Maybe (hopefully) AT&T is just being a greedy bully and data jacking anyone who rolls over for the man. I've paid for my unlimited data plan since the very beginning, and it doesn't seem right to me that AT&T can just demand that we only tether with their inferior yet more expensive tethering plan, which I believe is used by iPhone browsing & tethering combined. What a rip-off!!! I hope they lay off, or I will be literally forced to terminate my plan and head to another carrier. My bill is already $240 dollars a month, I wouldn't be able to afford the inevitable overage charges that AT&T is counting to extort from me. Is losing a long-time, well-paying customer (and $240 dollar account receivable) more lucrative than a few extra 20 spots a month AT&T?
Here is my issue and I really appreciate if anyone has a solution...
I installed PDAnet to my iPhone then I installed air video to my iPad (as I have a big collection of movies to watch on the go).
My iPad works fine with all Internet apps using PDANet including YouTube but not working on Air Video.
Does anyone know how I make it work??


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Quantifying Usability
Software development is built around quantitative measurements. Measurements such as the time it takes an application to load, the amount of memory used, or the load on the CPU. These measurements are all easy to calculate and are wonderfully quantitative. One of the reasons some organizations tend to discount usability (both in practice and in artifacts like the severity descriptions in bug tracking systems), is an inaccurate view that usability is an amorphous and subjective thing that simply can't be scientifically quantified and measured. That assumption is incorrect.
The usability inspection technique of heuristic evaluation, which was introduced by Jakob Nielsen [2,3,4] has emerged as one of the most common ways for professional UX designers to evaluate the usability of a software application. Heuristic evaluations are extremely useful because they formally quantify the usability of a software application against a set of well defined and irrefutable principles. Usability violations can be quantified individually: either an interface supports undo, or it does not, either an interface is internally consistent, or it is not, etc. Usability violations can also be quantified in aggregate: the software application currently has 731 known usability issues.
Additionally, by establishing a tracking system on a set of agreed upon principles, much of the debate on the level of "there is no right or wrong with UI / every user is entitled to their personal opinion / all that matters is the ability to customize" that is currently found in some development communities can be significantly reduced. Usability heuristics will help ground these debates, just as currently in software development no one argues in favor of data loss, or in defense of crashing.
Injecting User Experience Principles Into a Bug Tracking Tool
Adapting a software development team's bug tracker to capture usability issues defined by a set of specific heuristics can reshape the way developers think about usability. Just as developers currently have a shared vocabulary to describe good and bad with concepts such as performance, data loss, and crashing, usability heuristics can introduce additional concepts, like consistency, jargon, and feedback. All of these concepts, covering both the underlying implementation as well as the user interface, can now have an equal potential to impact the software application at any level of severity, from trivial to critical.
Modifying a bug tracking system to track a heuristic evaluation of software is reasonably straightforward. Each issue needs to be able to be associated with the specific usability heuristic being violated (for example: "using the term POSTDATA in a dialog is technical jargon"). Developers encountering these keywords likely won't have any additional interface design training, so it is important that each heuristic is very clearly defined with specific examples and detailed explanations. Additionally, allowing developers to view all of the bugs in the software marked as the same type of issue, both current and resolved, serves as an effective way for them to further learn about the heuristic.
The Principles
These are the UX principles currently being used by developers working on Firefox and other projects in the Mozilla community. We are currently utilizing Bugzilla's keyword functionality, similar to how current bugs can be flagged as violating implementation level heuristics, like data loss. These principles can be added to any bug tracking that allows bugs to be tagged.
- ux-feedback
- Interfaces should provide feedback about their current status. Users should never wonder what state the system is in. [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-implementation-level
- Interfaces should not be organized around the underlying implementation and technology in ways that are illogical, or require the user to have access to additional information that is not found in the interface itself. [Source: Nielsen, Cooper]
- ux-jargon
- Users should not be required to understand any form of implementation level terminology. (This principle is a special case of ux-implementation-level). [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-control
- Users should always feel like they are in control of their software. (This principle is often the nemesis of ux-interruption, especially in cases where developers assume users want more control than they actually want). [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-undo
- Actions should support undo so that users remain in control. (This principle is a special case of ux-control).
- ux-consistency
- In general software should be internally consistent with itself, and externally consistent with similar interfaces to leverage the user's existing knowledge. [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-error-prevention
- Interfaces should proactively try to prevent errors from happening. [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-mode-error
- Users should not encounter errors because the interface is in a different state than they expected it to be. (This principle is a special case of ux-error-prevention).
- ux-error-recovery
- Interfaces should proactively help users recover from both user errors and technology errors. (A preferable case is to address through ux-error-prevention so that the error does not occur). [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-discovery
- Users should be able to discover functionality and information by visually exploring the interface, they should not be forced to recall information from memory. (This is often the nemesis of ux-minimalism since additional visible items diminish the relative visibility of other items being displayed). [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-efficiency
- Interfaces should be as efficient as possible, minimizing the complexity of actions and the overall time to complete a task. [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-minimalism
- Interfaces should be as simple as possible, both visually and interactively. Interfaces should avoid redundancy. (This principle is often the nemesis of ux-discovery since removing or hiding items deep into the interface forces the user to rely more on memory than recognition). [Source: Nielsen]
- ux-interruption
- Interfaces should not interrupt the user. Interfaces should never ask the user a question that they are not prepared to answer simply for a false sense of ux-control. In general software should only speak when spoken to.
- ux-tone
- Interfaces should not blame the user, or communicate in a way that is overly negative or dramatic.
- ux-natural-mapping
- Controls should be placed in the correct location relative to the effect that they will have. [Source: Norman]
- ux-affordance
- Controls should visually express how the user should interact with them. [Source: Norman]
- ux-visual-hierarchy
- Controls that are more important or more commonly used should leverage visual variables such as size and contrast so that they have more dominance and weight relative to other controls. (This principle is an adaption of ux-discovery).
Side Effects of Distributed Heuristic Evaluation
Today the process of heuristic evaluation is normally completed in corporations and academia by a small number of designers, who are extremely well practiced at identifying usability issues. However, it is worth noting two important aspects of the heuristic evaluation method from when it was first introduced:
First, the method of heuristic evaluation has its roots not in the functional purpose of evaluating usability, but rather in the even more basic purpose of teaching usability. We see this in Nielsen's 1989 SIGCHI bulletin: Teaching User Interface Design Based on Usability Engineering [2] that heuristic evaluation was introduced as part of the curriculum for a master's degree in computer science. This is still true today: the road to becoming a good UX designer begins with mastering the identification of well defined heuristics.
Power in Numbers
The second important aspect of heuristic evaluations is that it was quickly found that the number of evaluators played a major role in how successful it was. Nielsen wrote in 1990 that "evaluators were mostly quite bad at doing such heuristic evaluations… they only found between 20 and 51% of the usability problems in the interfaces they evaluated. On the other hand, we could aggregate the evaluations several evaluators to a single evaluation and such aggregates do rather well" [3]. The more people an organization has identifying unique usability problems in a product, the better the product will become, even if your organization already has a very strong UX team.
This practice has the potential to drive UX improvements in organizations that haven't yet fully embraced UX as part of their product development or IT processes. It helps influence and enlist engineers to create better usability outcomes by making usability testing integral to existing testing, quality control, and issue tracking systems. This approach can be a realistic, practical means of infusing better UX into companies because it embraces the way most IT organizations actually work (driven by quality control and testing) and uses tools already integral to their workflow.
Having your software development team adopt a shared vocabulary for UX principles and having them track these principles in the same bug tracking software they use for addressing all other issues can go a long way towards bridging any divide that exists between design and development teams. Adding these keywords to your bug tracking software obviously doesn't remove the need for building a very strong UX team inside of your organization, but it will put them in a position to have more influence over the software you are developing.
- Schwartz, D. and Gunn, A. 2009. Integrating user experience into free/libre open source software: CHI 2009 special interest group. CHI EA '09. ACM, New York, NY, 2739-2742.
- Nielsen, J. and Molich, R. 1989. Teaching user interface design based on usability engineering. SIGCHI Bull. 21, 1 (Aug. 1989), 45-48.
- Nielsen, J. and Molich, R. 1990. Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. CHI '90. ACM, New York, NY, 249-256.
- Nielsen, J. 1994. Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics. CHI '94. ACM, New York, NY, 152-158.
- Bugzilla Installation List, http://www.bugzilla.org/installation-list
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I began posting usability problems to our bug tracking system. This got a lot of results. I find these systems tedious but the effort is worthwhile. This article seems to suggest installing a bug tracking software for exclusive use with usability issues. I think it is much better to use the existing tracking software that an engineering team uses. Usability and design teams often have trouble getting their ideas implemented in part due to working with different tools and systems than the engineering and support teams. I think this approach works because the issues are part of the larger list that the engineers work from and so they aren't lost and have to be addressed. The engineers also don't want to have to keep track of other lists or e-mail. Management assesses a project by the number of defects and if there are usability defects, they are still defects that get attention from management. This approach isn't fool proof. Usability defects can be assigned a low priority or closed but that decision is a formal one that requires consideration.
Another benefit of using the engineers bug tracking software is that usability issues stay alive over a lot longer period. They can be categorized into the same categories that engineers use and can be searched and so associated with related engineering issues. In the past, I have often been disappointed with heuristic evaluations. I've done them many times and the results seem so promising but then the issues aren't addressed. I think there are a number of reasons for that - a main reason being that many of the issues don't pertain to the current projects that engineering is working on. Engineers are even annoyed that the usability guy is bringing up those issues when they are so off subject. Subsequently the issues get forgotten and so even if a project comes up that would fit, everyone has forgotten that heuristic evaluation. But, if the issues are in the bug tracking system, there is a lot higher chance that they will be remembered.
I agree with you Michael. This is an excellent list. I think that those that use or are familiar with a dynamics crm system can take this list to heart. I think that good management is always the winner in a company. It starts with management and ends with customer service.
This is an excellent list of guiding UX principles. Too often our CRM managers have their time absorbed dealing with customer service issues that could have been resolved had only our reps used jargon-less communications with the customers. I suppose this is the differentiation between reps and managers, but there is no reason we shouldn't strive to make it less frequent a problem. I'm going to copy this list and share it with every rep on our SharePoint team and hopefully it will sink in.
Thanks a lot for giving the list of works about this topic. I've also read one book from which I've really learned a lot. Here is the torrent of it http://bytesland.com/view/Abbass-Data-Mining-A-Heuristic-Approach-Idea-2002-pdf-3D-Game-Programming-All-In-One-Premier-Press . I think it will be interesting for people who'd like to understand Heuristic approach better.
The reason behind listing large numbers of principals in a blog entry is not to get you to try and build that list and do it every time you are working with UX. Instead, we as bloggers build these lists to try and begin infiltrating your head with good practices. If you can take two points from this post and combine it with two points from another, all of a sudden we are helping you grow. This is not my blog, but that's how I know we feel as a community of bloggers.
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I agree with the first poster, timeyeo. 17 principles are a little bit ridiculous to expect to be practiced throughout the entire field. It does make it harder to pinpoint and therefore classify whatever issues may or may not arise. It also makes both teaching and learning more difficult. I do believe that a lot of these principles can be put into segments, or larger categories, to help them be understood as well as retained. I enjoyed the article greatly. Would love to hear thoughts on measurability of success, though!
this is great for me as a UX designer to evaluate alternatives and clearly categorize benefits. As an addition to the bug tracker, 17 categories works for me on a drop down list. I don't think anyone not UI related would read past the general "UI/UX" bug category,so most people except me won't care most of the time about which of the 17 subcategories applies to this UI/UX bug traker entry. what I want to use it for is internal TQM analysis and find out what categories are consistently ommited from most of the web site I'm working on. In general I can say the site could be enhanced with "ux-minimalism" to my IT head and then point out examples if needed to support my claim or make ROI based arguments for why "UX-minimalism" should be improved and what expected measurable results such as faster reading time of each page and increase in conversions or 3% less bounces by implementing "UX-minimalism" strategies on the home page at a cost of 5 hours work. etc.
I appreciate any effort in furthering our field, but I see several issues with what's proposed in this article:
1. 17 principles are a tad too many
- WIthin a group of experts, communicating fluently using these 17 principles would be challenging, but doable. Communicating these 17 principles with non-UX, non-tech members of the team: near impossible; even if you made it through all 17, they've already forgotten most of the earlier ones.
- 17 principles also creates a lot of pain classifying the issues discovered. Classifying the issues now becomes work in and of itself.
2. How measurable are these principles?
- Let's take minimalism, for example. To measure something accurately, what and how we measure it has to leave nothing to interpretation. A litre of water is a litre of water. A kilo of rice is a kilo of rice. A minimal interface is......wha?
Yes, these principles create a vocabulary that we can use to describe and talk about the issues we discover, which is important. However, I feel we need to narrow down the set to a smaller group of key measurable attributes. Attributes may differ across mediums, but the outcome should be the same: looking at the measured outcome of the quantified evaluation, we should get a sense of what the product evaluated is doing well and where we should improve.


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The Music Faculty seeks to inform music majors of important issues regarding the health and safety of singers and instruments. We are committed to providing information in general music majors meetings as well as applied lessons and ensemble rehearsals. A section on hearing protection and vocal health is provided below. More information for instrumentalists is forthcoming. Please note that the information that follows is advisory in nature and not a substitute for medical care from a licensed physician.
Protecting Your Hearing
For information regarding the protection of hearing health please click on the document below titled Protect Your Hearing Every Day. This document is provided by the National Association of the Schools of Music and the Performing Arts Medicine Association. Download the NASM-PAMA Hearing Loss Guide here.
Vocal Health and Safety
Singing is a physical activity and each choral rehearsal and applied voice lesson will begin with stretching exercises that deprogram the negative postural/alignment habits of the day and establish healthy ones. Healthy vocal production is encouraged each day as singers are instructed to sing with a relaxed laryngeal position and remember to sing vowel sounds that are spacious, high, and forward. Each choral rehearsal begins with core vocal exercises that encourage singing-on-the breath, bringing head-tones down into the sound, and keeping vowel sounds spacious, high, and forward. These techniques are then reinforced in the choral literature. Healthy singing is a daily focus and students are encouraged each day to learn as much as they can about this topic.
By learning and demonstrating proper vocal technique (including warm-ups) and care of the body and vocal instrument, students will demonstrate knowledge and awareness of potential health and safety issues that may be encountered in their work as professional singers, voice teachers, and conductors. Students will also demonstrate understanding of potential performance injuries and pedagogical techniques to prevent such injuries. In addition to what is learned in applied lessons, students are also encouraged to enroll in MU 270: Vocal Methods and Pedagogy for more in-depth information on these topics.
Adjunct Music Instructors
Prospective music majors seeking a scholarship from the Music Department must use the audition/interview process for that purpose. Scholarships are offered on a first-come-first-served basis and are awarded according to talent, skill level, academic achievement, potential and need.
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May 1- 1:00 PM
The TMC Chorale is a performing ensemble for both music majors and non-music students. The main purpose of this group is to survey representative literature from the major Western historical periods and to survey contemporary literature which reflects a world music influence. For performance purposes, the group will present mainly sacred music and some secular music for school functions, churches, conventions and high schools. The Chorale will tour England and Scotland in March 2015.
Community Choir is an ensemble which is an elective choral program for the general student body and members of the community. Choral masterworks are presented with an orchestra. Recent works include Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Rutter's Requiem and Magnicat, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Te Deum, and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer. (fall semester only)
Chamber Singers is an auditioned vocal group of 12-16 singers for both music majors and non-music majors. The main purpose of this group is to expose students to small ensemble literature from the major Western historical periods as well as vocal jazz and popular styles.
Musical Theatre is a course in performance and stage technique for singer/actors through study and performance of selected musical theatre and operatic literature. (spring semester only)
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Right-hander Wade Davis will make his first start against his former ballclub on Sunday afternoon, as the Royals square off against the Rays in the finale of a four-game series.
Davis was acquired in the offseason from the Rays, along with Elliot Johnson and James Shields, in exchange for four Royals prospects, including Wil Meyers and Jake Odorizzi.
Davis, who is 3-5 with a 5.37 ERA through 13 games, said he will treat it like any other start.
"I'm doing what I usually do to stay relaxed," Davis said. "They've got a good offensive team."
Davis will be opposed by right-hander Roberto Hernandez. The Royals won the first two games, 10-1 and 7-2, but the Rays took the third with a 5-3 victory on Saturday.
"The thing about Wade is he's got a big arm," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "We'll see early on what he's got going on. He's got a great curveball. He's got a nice changeup, but he's got a great curveball, slider and fastball. The big thing with him also is whether or not we can build up some pitches on him or not. If he's really sharp with his command, he can be very tough."
Shields defeated the Rays earlier in the season and Johnson hit a three-run homer against them on Thursday night, so the Rays are expecting Davis to have a strong start against them, too.
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Catcher Salvador Perez extended his hitting streak to 11 games on Saturday with two hits, including a solo home run to left-center field in the seventh inning -- his third of the season.
Perez holds the franchise record for longest streak by a catcher with 17 games last season from Aug. 22 to Sept. 13.
Perez ranks second in the American League for hits by a catcher behind Joe Mauer of the Twins.
Rays: Cobb hit by liner, suffers mild concussion
Rays starting pitcher Alex Cobb was hit in the right ear by a line drive off the bat of Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning on Saturday. Cobb was carted off the field and was immediately transported to Bayfront Medical Center.
Accompanied by team physician Dr. Michael Reilly, head athletic trainer Ron Porterfield and teammate David Price, Cobb was diagnosed with a mild concussion after all tests came back normal.
The speed of the ball coming off Hosmer's bat was measured at 102.4 mph. Cobb was conscious the entire time en route to the hospital.
Cobb pitched 4 1/3 innings allowing just two runs off of four hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
Worth noting
• Royals pitchers ended a 13-game streak of allowing three or fewer runs in Saturday's 5-3 loss.
• Matt Joyce hit home runs in consecutive games against the Royals with his solo shot to right field in the fifth inning on Saturday after hitting his third career leadoff jack on Friday.
• The Rays scored four of their five runs off of home runs on Saturday.
Kathleen Gier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sugar is the only condiment New Hampshire forbids by law from being served in containers with holes larger than the magically safe size of 3/8 of an inch. Restaurants can serve you a bowl of tartar sauce, ketchup, or mustard, but not a side bowl of sugar for your tea or coffee. Bars can set out bowls of peanuts, popcorn or pretzels, but fine restaurants may not set small ramekins of sugar on their tables. They have to serve it in packets or pourers, just as diners and pizza joints do.


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I, (and my wife) have the honor to be "American parents" to a couple of young South Asians ... one (Muslim) from Karachi. (The other from India, but Christian)
Both came – as Doctors -- to our city for their Medical Residencies, both are brilliant and educated, but their English lacks "perfection". They still have valid opinions.
We visited India a couple of years ago ... but have no desire to see Karachi NOW. Long ago, I was in the north ... Peshawar and Islamabad (when it was the "young Capitol") ... and enjoyed the country. Now ... not so much I think. To blame "the West" is absurd. Our "son's" grandparents made the bloody migration from India to Karachi in 1948 when it was a half HINDU city!! Was it "the West" (other than the Brits who drew the lines) who caused Hindu/Muslim violence?
How about the violence in the Philippines – or in Sudan?? Is that because of 9-11 and George Bush?
That most of the readers' comments here exhibit the sheer state of denial these buffoons revel in, bespeaks the lost hope of any civilizing of this once sparkling city.
As a side, while they read the prestigious Economist, pity they still can't grasp basic English writing skills.
It is just part of a planned conspiracy to cause bloodshed in Karachi, everyone knows that which elements are involve in extortion in Karachi, it is a conspiracy to make innocent people fight each other and try to give bad name MQM.
MQM has never been involved in extortion, actually others political parties scared of MQM because it has 90 percent mandate of this city and they know very well if MQM came into the power would stop their black marketing.
ANP,PPP, TTP and STPP these parties involved in extortion in Karachi and also coexist with criminal gangs, tacitly supporting Lyari's dominant gangsters (PAC) and Rabbler elements. They have destroyed peace of Karachi.
MqM is third largest democratic and peace loving political party of Pakistan; who believe in equality in every field of life for everyone. majority of mqm member are professional educated middle class.Liari people amman/ANP,JI PMLN and ppp are the real main culprit.
MQM has its roots among common people of Urban Sindh specially in Karachi. It is wrong perception that they are involved in any sort of crimes (violence, extortion, etc.).
In Karachi only out of Karachi elements are committing crimes. ANP, PPP, PMLN, Jamat-e-Islami, PTI, JSQM, PAC & Haqiqi are the real criminals in Karachi.
The only so called political party MQM which is actually a terror militia and a armed org declared a terrorist org twice by the Canadian court , the only group which is having more weapons and explosives than Taliban , the only party in pakistan that is not taregetted by the Taliban why ? MQM is taliban affiliated criminal org targeting ANP a peaceful political party and Pashtun ethnic group particularly . The only party whose criminal head is outside pakistan and ordering for terror from london , the only human rights abusers are the MQM
LOL liar, tell that much lies that you can defend before Allah on the day of judgement! :P
being a reputed newspaper , the article is not worth to be read .
i think dozens of criminals have been arrested by police and intelligence agencies admitting their crimes and their affiliations to the mqm and trained in india .
basically innocent Pashtuns are being targeted in karaci by the mqm gangsters to make their hold strong on the city and occupy it for extortion , ecnomist needs to have better journalists and atleast follow the local media in karachi that what actually is going in the city .
In Karachi criminals were being openly supported by political parties like People's Party and ANP and Also Jamat islami know as well TTP. The reason of backing of the criminals & well-known gangsters can easily be found out by watching an interview of Zafar Baloch and Zulfiqar Mirza who explicitly claimed that they were given weapons so as to take over the control of Karachi from MQM.
This statement wasn't given much notice but it was actually clearly suggesting the fact that political parties such as PPP & ANP and JI. want to prevent MQM running the city, although MQM is the only party that has 90% mandate of this city,
I would like to also inform the writer that MQM was very vocal against extortion mafia running from this same area, for last many years. Business community of Karachi were found standing side by side with MQM leaders against extortion networks. If MQM is taking extortion, why the business community does support it? But People's Amn Committee and Lyari Gangs including some ANP groups have always been involved in extortion, MQM has never been into any such thing in Karachi and around in Pakistan.
Very true article. Unfortunately no newspaper or TV channel dares to write or broadcast truth about Karachi. From two decades Mafias are involved in Karachi, they call them self politician, But actually they carryout all criminal activities and terrorism in Karachi. We have seen that on 12th May 2007 and now on 22nd May 2012. So many incidents can't be reported few lines. MQM is the pioneer terrorist party; who introduced BORI BAND LASH (dead bodies found in bag) and extortion culture in Karachi. Now ANP and PPP are following MQM's trends. None of three cares about Karachities. They all are in Provincial and Federal Government since last 4 years. Thousands of Karachities died in violence and target killing. None of the murderer got caught.
People of Karachi want change; MQM's guns are on their heads. If there is free aand fair election there will be no MQM any more.
Perhaps you need a dictator again?
A city that probably never sleeps !
Brilliant article.
It's a fact that criminals were being patronised and openly supported by political parties like People's Party and ANP. The reason of backing of the criminals & well-known gangsters can easily be found out by watching an interview of Zafar Baloch, who explicitly claimed that they were given weapons so as to take over the control of Karachi from MQM. This statement wasn't given much notice but it was actually clearly suggesting the fact that political parties such as PPP & ANP want to prevent MQM running the city, although MQM is the only party that has 90% mandate of this city, due to which local bodies elections have always been delayed time and time again - had elections been held MQM would easily come into power and start running the administration of Karachi. I would like to also inform the writer that People's Amn Committee and Lyari Gangs including some ANP groups have always been involved in extortion, however MQM has never been into any such thing - considering its leadership has close ties/contacts with the local businessmen / traders. It wouldn't have been possible had MQM been involved in extortion.
Crime and politics are two different things, but in Karachi some criminal gangs enjoy patronage of some political parties because of loose structures and vested interests of these political parties.
In Lyari the massive support for PPP and deep rooted criminal network co-exist separately for decades. It is for the last 4 years when these two things start overlapping one another.
May be, the operation may have pleased the coalition partner MQM. But in reality it was started after assassination of an old fellow of PPP ( Former Deputy Mayor of Lyari Town) by these criminals, for organizing a rally in support of Prime Minister. Otherwise MQM was very vocal against extortion mafia running from this same area, for last many years. Business community of Karachi were found standing side by side with MQM leaders against extortion networks. If MQM is taking extortion, why the business community does support it?
Haven't noticed any statement, where MQM complained of being target of any government action. But have noticed many statements where MQM demanded action against terrorist involved in killing of its workers. Just in 3 days after end of Lyari operation, more than 6 of its workers were gunned down in different areas of city for unknown reasons.
Karachi urgently need a major clean up operation by hand of non political person, otherwise this injured city badly injure Pakistan economics.Presently all political parties and gang mafias thinking for their own not for Pakistan,petrol is adding in fire my providing drugs,financial help and providing mass destruction weapons to gangster by different anti-Pakistan international agencies and political support by Political parties.
How many Nobel Prize winners has India, a predominantly Hindu country of 1.2 billion people, produced??
Not a lot ! -
But we claim a lot more then ALL of Islamia put together
What exactly is islamia? And why would you ignorantly
treat it like a monolithic entity. Very well: to answer your question only 5 Indians have won a no el prize after it's creation. Only 4 actually ethnically Indian, and one who was actually in India.
Unlike the other racists on this thread I won't say this lacking in due to hinduism keeping India back because that's untrue and ridiculous. I will point it towards the setback of post colonialism, lit in resources, and funds. I am confident that with time in the next 100 years we will see many more Indian Nobel
Prize winners.
We will agree on that there is always racism on these sites.
But then racism comes from history as well.
the overall history of Pakistan does not compare too well with the overall history of India.
and most people would agree with statement.
However - on present day matters - all you have to do is look at what is happening and you will find some very important problems in Pakistan.
The question is - Are these problems surmountable?
Not in my mind.
and therefore I would always recommend to India - keep away from Pakistan as much as possible.
Muslims constitute over 20% percent of the global population, Jews constitute approx 0.02% and yet the Jews have won close 150 Nobel prizes whereas the Muslims have won around 6. Either Muslims are genetically inferior or As I would like to believe their religion is holding them back. There is not a single Muslim country which is secular or treats minorities with equal rights.Don't quote Turkey as an example. In turkey minorities constitute around 1% you don't discriminate unless there is a sizable chunk to feel threatened by/Be an eye sore. No other Religion is as intolerant to criticism as Islam. If you compare religion on the Parameter of promoting violence Islam would be at one extreme end when compared to Jainism or Buddhism.I am not promoting Jainism,Buddhism or Judaism all I am trying to say Culture and religion matter and Islam is probably one of the most virulent barbaric relic we are still having around
This is a fairly unfair assessment. Nobel prizes have been won most by westerners those Jews
being in the West by your rubric subsaharan Africa which is primarily non Muslim
and similarly deficient in Nobel prize accolades must then be due to genetic inferiority. Careful, hitler- your racism is showing ;-)
Ah Chia
This is what you said
"This is a fairly unfair assessment. Nobel prizes have been won most by westerners those Jews"
Perhaps you meant 'won by more Westerners THEN jews"
If that was your real statement, then it shows you up to be very silly and totally unable to avoid the evidence.
Here let me say -and I am a hindu
In high contradiction to their population numbers, they take the noble prizes in overwhelming numbers.
In effect we find some really arrogant and some very humble Jews. We find that their numbers spread across the spectrum. However they will always get my respect because of what they have done for humanity- in every respect.
At a time of honesty we must make it very clear that ALL the Islamic cultures are well known for their lack of reading and writing skills.
It is all well known that Islamic cultures have a tendency to copy BUT never to initiate.The evidence is always going to show up in the noble prizes.
And surely you realise that at the very beginning of every Islamic empire one always finds the first Emperors are truly liberal, BUT they are always followed by fanatics who eventually end up in breaking up the empire.
For the Mogul empire we find the truly liberal Akbar and the eventual fanatical Aurangzeb at each end of the spectrum !
Lastly - This tendency to violence is found in every Islamic culture that is NOT dictatorial. So please don't feel left out !
Although a solid attempt your premise is somewhat moot since you misread my comment...
I didn't say Nobel prizes have been won by more westerners than* (not
then my friend). I was responding to the arrogant and unfair statement by gowrishankar that Jews have had more Nobel prizes than Muslims. I was pointing out that those Jews had
Those prizes in the west. That ethnicity and religion are not at play for this phenomenon but distribution of wealth, resources, and the post colonial mess. In his remark, he was implying
that Religion seems to be the only thing at play when attaining Nobel prizes. Which is obviously false. By his standard Africa and Asia (india and china included) are genetically
inferior to the west due to lacking number of
Nobel prizes.
As for your ignorance on Islamic contribution to science and knowledge you should make a preliminary search of Avicenna, IbnRushd, al ghazali, and other Muslims
Who made great contributions to the world while Europe was busy burning witches and thinking the sun revolved around the earth.
It really is a pity that people like you - who I am sure are good and genial - can have such extreme and denigrating misinformed views about a culture that makes up over 20% of
the world. The lack of harmony comes not as a surprise.
Jews got Nobels in the west because western culture allows for people to develop no matter what their ethnicity is + jews are willing to accept or adapt to local culture. Those Jewish winners were also not following traditions of their ethnic group strictly. Same could do muslims in the West if they stop following irrelevant cultural customs.
Can you provide evidence that these guys were throwing stones in pillars symbolising devil? Or did not drink from a glass in which there was wine before? They probably did not as they were interested in things that really matter. They were also reading and translating ancient Greek etc scholars. They could spend their life learning Koran by heart - but then they would have not contributed to what is really "human".
Hear, hear chjya! We in the West who actually know something about various world cultures know that for most of the three-thousand-year or so history of Western civilization, the West learned its mathematics mostly from the East.
The great mathematicians of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, of ancient China and India, and finally throughout the Islamic world (which spread over so many of the other great mathematical cultures) were doing brilliant stuff that the West happily borrowed (if it was wise enough to do so, which was not always the case.)
"Arabic" numerals and the concept of the number zero actually were created by ancient (and non-Muslim) Indians, but the critically important field of algebra _was_ dreamed up by the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish mathematicians who flourished under Arab Muslim rule while Europe was seeing its economy deteriorate from one of the world's best to one of its worst (and Europe's literacy rates became horrible, too.)
The Islamic world is recognized by all reputable Western scholars as one of the great civilizations of history. It is true that the Islamic world today is going through what the great British world-historian Arnold Toynbee would call a "Time of Troubles." But it will come out of it eventually, just as the West came out of its, and be one of the world's most intellectually successful civilizations -- just as it has been for most of its existence.
It is not the religion that is barbaric; it is the many so- called followers who call themselves Muslim but do not follow THE CREATOR's commands for they have not studied Islam & THE HOLY BOOK. Money & Love for the Dunya has brought us to this "jungle". The scholars & teachers, when they start seriously to teach THE CREATOR's command with devotion to all the people the correction to society will begin to surface, tolerance, peace, love, understanding, justice & all the good that decent people desire will come to surface. It is indeed a long road to that goal.
Lack of education &proper training in Pakistan, incl Karachi, has made the " unread" lose their sight of the goal of PURPOSE OF LIFE, leaving themselves to be victimized by the " Money loving" opportunists in politicians (religious & non-religious, residents & non- residents). Those few who have acquired knowledge & stayed in or returned to the country reflect the good in humanity; just imagine the good UNIVERSAL education, un-hindered & un- politicized, in Pakistan & other Muslim countries can bring to all societies. Again, a ver long Road to that goal.
May our conduct change positively to bring PEACE & JUSTICE to all societies, as we develop a need for Goodness, & start to FEAR our CREATOR's wrath for disobeying HIM. The fault is in all of us, not in the DIVINE teachings/commands.
May Peace prevail everywhere.
Islam has succeeded in eradicating the unwanted elements of western decadence from the Pakistani people - alcohol, sex and rock music. Instead these unwanted elements are replaced with anger, hatred and violence, much more in-line with the virtues of Islam.
You're ignorance and bigotry is dreadful. Islam has little to do with what's going on in Karachi - especially in this case. The city has been in political turmoil for decades, as indicated by this article (your comprehension skills may be even more dreadful) have been due to political discord - not religion. The reality is that before 9/11, Islamic extremism was unheard of in Pakistan, especially in Karachi. That itself is a recent development in light of anti-western sentiments. What this article is addressing has no more to do with religion than does the violence caused by Basque nationalism and the ETA in northern Spain. People like you are a blemish on society and only add to the problems of this already complex. You have the ability and resources to learn about the world around you, but you elect to remain ignorant, bigoted, and racist. Cheers, arse.
>{That itself is a recent development in light of anti-western sentiments}
Oh Yeah ! anti-western sentiments ... must be that. Why else would they kill each other so wantonly, if not for their anti-western sentiments ?
Muslims constitute over 20% percent of the global population, Jews constitute approx 0.02% and yet the Jews have won close 150 Nobel prizes whereas the Muslims have won around 6. Either Muslims are genetically inferior or As I would like to believe their religion is holding them back. There is not a single Muslim country which is secular or treats minorities with equal rights.Don't quote Turkey as an example. In turkey minorities constitute around 1% you don't discriminate unless there is a sizable chunk to feel threatened by/Be an eye sore. No other Religion is as intolerant to criticism as Islam. If you compare religion on the Parameter of promoting violence Islam would be at one extreme end when compared to Jainism or Buddhism.I am not promoting Jainism,Buddhism or Judaism all I am trying to say Culture and religion matter and Islam is probably one of the most virulent barbaric relic we are still having around
Dude! are you aware of the fact that ALL of these groups/political mafia are Pro-America? These ALL are front-line allies of US in its WAT.
Clearly the complexity of geopolitics eludes you my myopic friend. There is more to it than "turban head bad! White man good!". The wanton civil unrest between Islamists and moderates in this country has been generated largely by the 9/11 fiasco and the propensity for the western allied
Moderates to help the west. Thus-the Islamists which are anti west target these moderates. You support the west, the west kills us with drone attacks, we kill you for supporting the west.
The intricacies of this geopolitical schema is far more complicated than OMFG ISLAM IS BAD. It's as manifestation of stunned mental acumen to simplify happenings in the world and no different than the idiocy of these Islamists who preach America = evil. Word of advice: if you think something is so simple and straight forward in geopolitics: you're probably deficient in the gravity of the issue - because it never is.
I like to look at the scene in front of me. and I find it wanting.
I think about islam past - and whilst there seems to have been some amount of glory there, it does not stand the analysis of an eye-glass.
But the present is what we are worrying about - and at present I see most of the Intolerance and hate coming out of the Islamic parts of the world.
Looking around - I don't see anything but a developing tolerance in South America, or Australia or North America, and Europe.
Some of these lands are POSSIBLY going backwards because of the perceptions of hate that they see coming towards them, or the naked statistics of crime emanating from islamic people.
I look to Central Asia - and i see nothing that inspires me... But I do see a number of things that are revolting.
In the North of Africa - a continent that started life peacefully, The Islamic areas are a shambles ( The only other place is the Congo)
Back to asia ( forget the very obvious racism that has taken root in The Arabian areas and the Central asian republics)
In asia I see not much of a hope at all. Looking at the flagship of Saudi Arabia - all I can say is that it is the land of the half-blind, and self satisfied income families.
Going East, with a little hope sprinkled in Dubai, there is not much going in the East that would inspire anyone.
The exceptions are Malaysia and Indonesia. Both those benign places have started giving up to extremism.
Mostly the converts in China seem to go to the Protestant Churches - NOT to islam.
The talk about a large number of Converts to Islam does not do the religion any good, because Islam demands death in return for apostasy. Whatever increase you get in Islam, you only get because of a high birth rate, and number of converts from the jail houses of the West.
Is this a religion that fetches mine or anyone's respect?
Is it a religion that initiates a lot of hate? Certainly isn't Hinduism nor Budhism, nor Christianity.
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