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This week, America's long-running and virtually unchanged gameshow Jeopardy! is featuring "Power Players," which on Monday and Tuesday meant famous people in the arenas of news, politics, and books.
This week, America's long-running and virtually unchanged gameshow Jeopardy! is featuring "Power Players," which on Monday and Tuesday meant famous people in the arenas of news, politics, and books.
The worst question, by far, is, "What do you do for fun?" You can rack your brain looking for answers that make you sound cool (Fire-eating? Sword swallowing? Homemade stick and poke tattoos?), or you can own it. The internet is rightly celebrating Jeopardy! contestant Margaret Miles for doing the latter.
Jeopardy!—the ideal show for a weeknight drinking game with your parents—has suddenly determined that Canadians may no longer compete in its battle of mind and wit. This new regulation is curious since host Alex Trebek holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship.
Monday night's episode of Jeopardy! was one for the books, a modern day proof of "age before beauty," in which middle-aged nice-looking man named Sean went head-to-head with a younger hottie named Tom. Sean may have won the prize, but Tom—well, Tom won America's hearts.
It's always been unclear whether Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is at all amused by the long-running Saturday Night Live sketches about his show, the ones that depict him near the point of tears or a dangerous fit of rage when dealing with the dumbest celebrity contestants in the world. Judging by Wednesday night, though,…
Behold, the future! The year is 2090 and it has a message for you: "You've wasted your time on earth."
This Jeopardy contestant tried. He really did try.
A producer's request to re-shoot a segment on Jeopardy! following the complaint of a child contestant's mother left show host Alex Trebek steaming mad.
We've finally made it to the big time, you guys. ::wipes away tear::
Tuesday night's episode of Jeopardy—which is definitely trolling us with their pop culture categories—featured one about Beyoncé.
Monday night's Jeopardy! had a "What Women Want" category, but instead of featuring things women actually want—paid maternity leave, to finally adopt the ERA—it had herbal tea and good-fitting jeans. (It wasn't even a celebrity edition.)
America, meet your new queen: her name is Julia Collins, and if she wins her 20th consecutive round of Jeopardy tonight, she'll sit alone as the second-winningest player in Jeopardy history.
Jeopardy contestant Sandie Baker is currently on a six episode winning streak, having, thus far, racked up $140,200 in winnings. Past big winner Arthur Chu (the third most successful Jeopardy contestant ever) is starting to get scared, but her ability to terrify Chu and retain countless trivia facts are only part of…
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 26: TV personality Alex Trebek (3rd R) and hosts of 'The Five' (L-R) Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld attend FOX News' 'The Five' at FOX Studios on February 26, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Happy Black History Month, everyone, courtesy of last night's all-white College Jeopardy panel! In the second round of play, the contestants sailed through five of the categories—including "International Cinema Showcase," "Weather Verbs," and "Kiwi Fauna"—but avoided the sixth like the, ahem, black plague. That…
Nothing that surprising, apparently, as sociologist Thomas Linneman's research, which was gleaned from him examining patterns in uptalk using Jeopardy contestants. After those 100 episodes, he concluded that uptalk can reinforce gender norms, based on the divide in when and how often male vs. female contestants…
On last night's episode of Jeopardy, a contestant, Fidelito, was penalized for mispronouncing "Elaine" in a question about Julia Louis-Dreyfuss' character from Seinfeld. Except Fidelito didn't really mispronounce the name; he just doesn't have a rock-solid American accent (as if such a thing definitively exists). But …
Of course that's his favorite book — how couldn't it be; look at that kid!
The latest gristle from the Today show rumor mill: Matt Lauer might just give up on the morning news all together and become the new host of Jeopardy. Blink. Blink.
This week on Jeopardy's "Teen Tournament" a question came up about the name of the sequel to Cats & Dogs. Poor Raya gave an answer that will haunt her for the rest of her life, but you can't blame her. With an answer like "Kitty Galore," Trebek was obviously setting her up for a fall.


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Israel has released its official report on its flotilla raid that occurred in May.
Nine pro-Palestinian activists died and ten Israelis were wounded in the incident.
"We found that there were some professional mistakes regarding both the intelligence and the decision-making process and some operational mistakes," the report's author, retired general Giora Eiland, told reporters at a Israeli defense ministry briefing where declassified sections of the report were discussed.
However, investigators say there was no major failure in the showdown at sea.
The lead investigator says Israel's navy should have had a backup plan for stopping the ship when it was discovered the activists on board were violent.
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In the winter of 1906 I was called on to investigate a household epidemic of typhoid fever which had broken out in the latter part of August at Oyster Bay, N. Y. The epidemic had been studied carefully immediately after it took place, but its cause had not been ascertained with as much certainty as seemed desirable to the owner of the property.
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A bipartisan group of state lawmakers and law enforcement officials this morning threw their weight behind legislation to require South Carolina to report people judged to be mentally ill to a national database for firearms checks.
The bill, which was first discussed in detail Monday by state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, D-Charleston, was drafted in response to an episode involving Alice Boland, the 28-year-old Beaufort woman who the police said bought a gun legally despite her mental illness and tried to shoot an Ashley Hall school official.
During a news conference in Columbia, Attorney General Alan Wilson, Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen, Lexington Police Chief Terrence Green and a handful of legislators addressed the legislation that would amend a law guarding the privacy of mental commitment and treatment records.
It would create a database of people who have been ruled by a court to be "mentally defective" or who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. The courts and the State Law Enforcement Division would be responsible for maintaining the public records, then submitting them to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
The attorney general said that such a law would come at a minimal cost to the state because the system is "federally aided."
"If this were a gun restriction, I would be against this," Wilson said. "This is a reporting bill."
Wilson said he had been in contact with firearms enthusiasts who support the bill. He mentioned how he was shooting at a gun range Monday, his day off. The National Rifle Association also has given its input, he said, but has not discussed its position publicly.
The group at this morning's announcement included Stavrinakis and Rep. Eddie Tallon, R-Spartanburg, another co-sponsor.
Tallon said he had received a number of phone calls since plans for the legislation were announced. He explained to his constituents, he said, that the bill would not restrict the Second Amendment rights of people with legitimate reasons for owning a firearm.
Sen. Greg Hembree, R-North Myrtle Beach, said he expected a companion bill in the state Senate also to garner widespread support.
Boland bought a .22-caliber pistol three days before the police said she showed up at the downtown Charleston school despite facing a felony charge in 2005 for threatening to fatally shoot the president. The charge later was dropped after Boland pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Boland was sent to a federal prison facility for the mentally ill and was forcefully treated with anti-psychotic drugs.
Lawmakers said that the proposed bill would require the state to relay such a case to the federal database, which would have prevented Boland from buying the firearm at a gun shop. They stressed that the bill would not target people such as veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder unless a court has made a ruling of incompetence.
Instead, Rep. Andy Patrick, R-Hilton Head Island, said it would ensure that "those that are on a pathway to violence ... are prevented from ... going out and purchasing a firearm."
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(CA) Nota Bene Baroque Concert: Bach Meets Frederick The Great (13 may 2012)
Location: The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener ON, CA N2H 2L9
"The 1747 meeting between Frederick the Great and J. S. Bach inspired the creation of Bach's "Musical Offering". Our concert features music by Bach, Frederick and Frederick's court composers, combined with readings that explore the titanic aesthetic and cultural shifts taking place at the same time. Featuring guest artists Emma Elkinson on Baroque flute and Colin Fox as narrator. …"
(IE) Cork International Choral Festival (2-6 may 2012)
(BE) Outhere April Newsletter (01 may 2012)
(CA) Opera Today: Opera Atelier Review by Leslie Barcza "Armide - Jean-Baptiste Lully" (19 apr 2012)
(NL) Alfonso Marin, Lutenist and Valeria Mignaco, Voice
(FR) PRINTEMPS DES ARTS de Nantes et du Grand Ouest Concert: "Le tourbillon des sentiments dans l'Italie du XIIième siècle" (20 jun 2012)
Location: Cité des Congrès, 5, rue de Valmy 44000 Nantes, FR
The European Festival of the"PRINTEMPS DES ARTS de Nantes et du Grand Ouest" announces the concert of June 20th 2012 "The Swirl of Emotions in XIIth Century Italy" featuring Philippe Jaroussky, contratenor; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto; Artaserse Ensemble.
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"In March 1783, the readers of Cramer's Magazin der Musik could read about a certain 'Louis van Betthoven', a 'boy … of most promising talent', whose first published work was being advertised as 'nine variations for the pianoforte, written by him on a march, engraved at Mannheim.' The piece in question was the Dressler Variations, WoO 63, and it marked not only the beginning of an illustrious career, but also the start of Ludwig van Beethoven's lifelong involvement with variation form, culminating almost forty years later in the monumental Diabelli Variations for solo piano, and – in another field – the third movement of his Ninth symphony. …
(US) Bach Society Houston Concert: "Bach Vespers" (6 may 2012)
Location: Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard at Greenbriar, Houston TX, US
"The Bach Society presents Bach Vespers this Sunday, the final event of its 30th Anniverary Season, featuring the Bach Choir and Mercury Baroque under the direction of Artistic Director Albert LeDoux. The centerpiece of the program is the cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20. This opening work of Bach's first complete annual cycle of cantatas for Leipzig is particularly colorful and dramatic. Also on the program are motets by Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of Bach's students, and Thomas Stoltzer. The season ends as it began, with the Geistliche Chormusik of Heinrich Schütz, whose sublime motet So fahr ich hin zu Jesus Christ is the perfect response to Bach's fiery cantata. Soloists are Rebecca Henderson, alto; Patrick Perez, tenor; and Carlton Ford, bass. The guest organist is Hyun Jyung Seoh. …
(US) ArkivMusic Newsletter (01 may 2012): Great Deals on Naïve Label
(US) Tudor Choir 2012-2013 Concert Season
From the latest Tudor Choir newsletter (19 apr 2012)
"THE TUDOR CHOIR CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY with a five-concert subscription series of four concerts at historic Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle's University District, where the choir is a resident ensemble, and a Thanksgiving weekend concert at Town Hall. Concert programming will include Tallis' 40-part Spem in alium and Allegri's legendary Miserere, as well as the choir's annual Christmas concert, this year with brass quintet, at the end of December. The season also will see the release of a new Tudor Choir CD--disc of Tudor polyphony that will be previewed in the season opening concert. …
(US) American Bach Soloists (ABS): New Subscriptions for the ABS 2012/13 Season available May 4 2012
(IT) LIM Antiqua "Antiquarian Booksellers, Autographs, Manuscripts, Music Books"
For those of you interested in acquiring early music manuscripts, books, or collecting autographs, you may be interested in visiting the LIM Antiqua website.
Here are some background notes regarding LIM Antiqua: …
(CA) Early Music Fredericton Concert: "The Couperin Dynasty" (6 may 2012)
(UK) Dunedin Consort & Players Concerts: Brandenburg - Cantata Series (4,6 may 2012)
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Concert Hall, Perth UK (04 may 2012)
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh UK (06 may 2012)
Dunedin's final season concerts complete the Brandenburgs set with the impossibly virtuosic Brandenburg concerto number 2 for Trumpet, Violin, Oboe and Recorder. Bach's Cantata BWV 174 is one of those gems that show how Bach re-invented his own music, in this occasion his Brandenburg concerto no 3.
(DE) La Riverenza Dance Workshop: "Dances from Purcell's Fairy Queen" (17-20 may 2012)
Location: Dortmund, Germany
"In 1692, Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" was premiered. Henry Purcell used Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream as a template for the Baroque opera. Philippa Waite has choreographed several songs from the "Fairy Queen" into dances that are taught in this workshop.
Experience in Baroque dance is required for this course."
(US) Unquiet Thoughts Blog: "Saturday morning quote #49: Count Bardi"
(From a recent Unquiet Thoughts blog post)
"… This morning, we dip into the writings presumably authored by Giovanni de' Bardi, Count of Vernio (1534 – 1612), from his correspondence with Giulio Caccini (1551 – 1618). Bardi is credited by posterity as a cheerleader for the simpler, more dramatic and expressive monody that led to what we have come to know as Baroque music, in opposition to the headier polyphony that characterized much music from the 16th century. …"
(US) Parthenia, a Consort of Viols Concert: Musica Universalis (5 may 2012)
Location: Picture Ray Studios, 245 West 18th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) Manhattan, New York NY, US
Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will present Musica Universalis - Musical Invention in the Age of Discovery, on Saturday, May 5 at 8:00 PM at Picture Ray Studio, 245 West 18th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) in Manhattan. Special guest will be renowned viol virtuoso Sarah Cunningham.
Repertoire will be selections from the late 15th and 16th centuries by Thomas Stolzter, Heinrich Isaac, Vincenzo Ruffo, William Cornish, Christopher Tye, Robert Parsons and William Byrd.
(US) Harmonia Early Music Interview: "Catching Up With Jacques Ogg" by Wendy Gillespie (12 apr 2012)
"Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist and conductor Jacques Ogg visited Bloomington, Indiana in January and joined me [Wendy Gillespie] for a conversation about his role as artistic director for Lyra Baroque Orchestra (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) and his experience of being a student of the late Gustav Leonhardt.
Jacques also shares his thoughts about early keyboards and points out some of his more "interesting" recordings. …"
(IT) Libreria Musicale Italiana (LIM): New Releases
A reminder that you may want to browse the pages on the Libreria Musicale Italiana (LIM) website as there have been many new early music titles added to their online catalogue.
Here are a few of the new titles found on their site: …
(US) ArkivCD Reissue Alert April 18, 2012
(IT) Accordone Newsletter (19 apr 2012)
(From the latest Accordone newsletter, the concert listings for the month of May and June 2012)
Background notes of Accordone: "Guido Morini and Marco Beasley founded Accordone in 1984, motivated by a great passion for the music before Bach, for original instruments and for a new musicological approach to problems of interpretation. At the heart of their work is Italian music for voice and basso continuo from the 16th and 17th centuries. The voice of Marco Beasley, immediately recognizable for its beautiful timbre, in perfect stylistic balance with the instruments which accompany him, is the ideal companion for the profound knowledge of instrumental, improvisational and compositional questions cultivated by Guido Morini, and make Accordone a unique ensemble on the European scene."
The following are the next May, June 2012 concerts: …
(US) Amherst Early Music Memorial Day Weekend 2012 (25-28 May 2012)
"Kick off the summer with a weekend of small and large ensembles on an idyllic retreat center campus in rural Connecticut. The Amherst Early Music Weekend Workshops are smaller, more relaxed versions of the summer festival. Take classes in a variety of subjects for most of the day -- repertory, notation, technique, and ensembles -- and in the evenings enjoy all-workshop group sessions (kind of like Collegium at the Festival) and a Sunday night faculty concert. There's also English country dancing and the companionship of your fellow musicians."
(FR) Les Passions Orchestra at Montauban Concert(s): Te Deum et Messe en ré de Jean Gilles (1668-1705)" (1-2 may, 26 aug 2012)
Temple des Carmes - Montauban (82) (1 may 2012)
Cathédrale St Etienne - Toulouse (31) (2 may 2012)
Abbatiale Saint Robert de La Chaise-Dieu (43) (26 aug 2012)
Les Passions - Chœur de chambre Les éléments
Solistes: Anne Magouët, Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Jean-François Novelli et Alain Buet
Direction Jean-Marc Andrieu
"Continuing the exploration and restitution of works of the choirmaster of the Cathedral of Toulouse – Jean Gilles, Les Passions offer the third and final part of this great enterprise of critical acclaim.
(US) Tudor Choir Concert: Vivaldi Gloria with Seattle Baroque Orchestra (28 apr 2012)
(US) Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS) Newsletter (19 apr 2012)
From the latest newsletter from Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS)
"GEMS has been working with Juilliard's Historical Performance Program since its inception to help broaden its reach by connecting in valuable ways with New York's professional early music community. Among our projects are listing the graduation recitals offered by students about to leave the program and join our community as working musicians, and extending invitations to working professionals to attend special events at Juilliard, including their master classes, at no charge. …
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Let's go into the nitty-gritty… ODBM (Oracle Database Machine) v2 is twice as fast as version 1 when it comes to data warehousing. Compare to version 1, ODBM v2 runs OLTP traffic — "something that Netezza and Teradata can't do at all… but we can do both [i.e. data warehousing] and we do both very well" said Ellison. So what's inside?Read More >
In line with my prediction from few days ago, Larry Ellison is announcing the new Database Machine — the new version is targeting OLTP workloads and is based on Sun hardware. So what's new in Exadata that I didn't mention in the previous blog post? Ah, right — Sun FlashFire technology.Read More >
I have just released a new version of the MySQL plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager — MySQL plug-in 1.1.1. This is a long overdue bug fix release. There are no new features implemented (we have another branch in development) but just fixed number of fairly annoying bugs that I was finally able to reproduce.Read More >
The rumors are that Oracle Exadata v2 and Oracle Database Machine v2 are going to be announced within few weeks and my take is that it's going to happen at the Oracle Open World. I don't think it comes as a surprise to anyone that it will be configured with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Moving on to predictions and speculations…Read More >
Oracle RAC SIG is holding elections for its officers and it's now time for all RAC SIG members to vote. The voting is closed on 30-Sep so make sure you don't miss the deadline — go to Oracle RAC SIG web-site and click on "Elections" tab.Read More >
Are you an Oracle blogger attending Oracle Open World 2009? If so, you are invited to attend this Oracle Bloggers Meetup during OOW 2009 — a chance to meet your online buddies face-to-face in relaxed and informal atmosphere. Details here.Read More >
Arjen Lentz is in town doing his Sydney training program 7-Sep to 9-Sep and kindly agreed to drop by and talk about something interesting in the MySQL world – be it a technical topic or the state of the MySQL community eco-system.Read More >
What we are looking at during this videocast is how to troubleshoot the connectivity issues that can be caused by VIP's in Oracle RAC environment and how to diagnose cryptic Oracle error messages using SQL*Net tracing facility on the client side.Read More >
I'll be in Canberra next week presenting at the ACT Oracle User Group Developer and DBA Seminar Day on Thursday, 23 July 2009. If you are in Australian capital city, I'd be very much looking forward to see you there! The topic I will be presenting is 11g New Features Out of the Box. I presented it few times already but originally, it's based on Christo Kutrovsky's presentation from Oracle Open World 2007. Unlike many presentations on 11g new features, this session will be focused on the enhancements that often go unnoticed and not marketed widely but boost DBA productivity and are available out of the box without much implementations efforts.Read More >
The topic for this meetup is quite exciting – Oracle Exadata and everything about it. David Centellas, Senior Database Consultant from Oracle will do technical presentation on Exadata and, after the break, we will have a open forum discussion where two Oracle's Enterprise Architects, Tim Rubin and Chris Jones, will answer our questions and share thir real-world experience.Read More >


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Adi Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd
based in San Gwann, MALTA
Adi Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd. specialises in professional land use and environmental planning, environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, IPPC, land decontamination, as well as resource and waste management, urban and marine development, traffic impact assessment, retail impact assessment, social impact analysis, environmental ...
Distributor in Gzira, MALTA
BMT USA is a member of the MMM Group; one of the world's leading suppliers of process equipment with subsidiaries in over 20 different countries and manufacturing facilities in the USA, Germany and the Czech Republic. Since the beginning in 1954, the group's sterile products have been placed in Pharmaceutical, Laboratory and Healthcare facilities throughout the world. ...
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AquaBioTech Group is a leading independent aquaculture, fisheries and environmental consulting, development, testing / research and training company operating throughout the world.
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SWAN is one of the leading manufacturers of on-line analytical instruments. Every single instrument is made in Switzerland. For more information, about the company, please choose one of the corresponding topics from the menu on the left. SWAN has been a global leading provider of on-line analytical systems in the water industry. The current product portfolio ranges from ...
Technoline Ltd.
based in Gzira, MALTA
Metrohm is exclusively represented in more than 80 countries, in more than 40 of which we have our own subsidiaries. This guarantees a tight network for sales and service.
Water Services Corporation
based in Luqa, MALTA
The Water Services Corporation was set up in 1993 to produce and distribute potable water in the Maltese Islands. Some thirty-one million cubic meters of good quality water are produced annualy to cater for the needs of Malta`s 400,000 inhabitants as well as the over 1 million tourists who visit every year. Approximately fifty-seven percent of this water is produced at ...
ABT Innovia
based in Mosta, MALTA
ABT Innovia is an independent aquatic biotechnology and aquaculture research and training entity with its own dedicated Research & Development (R&D) facilities based in Malta. With a large number of biosecure testing facilities using the latest RAS technology, we are able to undertake work on a number species, ranging from coldwater Salmon, Trout and Charr, through to ...
Metrohm AG
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Metrohm is a worldwide leading manufacturer of precision instruments for chemical analysis. In the field of electrochemical ion analysis Metrohm has been the unchallenged world number one for many years. This is reflected in the company's comprehensive product range: pH meters, ion meters, conductometers, potentiometric, thermometric and Karl Fischer titration, ...
based in B'Kara, MALTA
With more than twenty years of experience in such a broad number of expertises I can offer an outstanding quality service at the best rate in the market. Enviromed is dynamic and diverse and it also offers services overseas especially in North Africa. We have extensive experience in environmental,biomedical and laboratory equipment. We can provide you with the best ...
VAOS Limited
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VAOS Limited is a well established and service driven company focusing on the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. It designs, fabricates and installs all types of pipe work, tanks and structural steelworks ranging from individual components to complete processing systems. Along with construction our core competence lies invested in the fields of maintenance, and ...
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Casella is an ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 14001 certified company with a focus on the development and manufacture of state-of-the-art environmental and workplace monitoring instrumentation. Products include personal air sampling, real-time dust and particulate measurement, personal noise dosimetry, environmental noise measurement and real-time frequency analysis, BOUNDARY ...


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E!'s 'Live From the Red Carpet' to Broadcast from the 'American Music Awards' for the First Time
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E!'s Comprehensive Red Carpet Coverage with Hosts Giuliana Rancic and Terrence Jenkins Airs Sunday, November 24 from 7:00-8:00pm ET/PT
Most Extensive Digital Coverage Ever on Eonline (www.eonline.com), Mobile and Social (@eonline) – All The Winners, Fashions and Biggest Moments from the AMAs
E!'s 'Fashion Police: The 2013 American Music Awards' with Special Guest Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum Airs Monday, November 25 at 9pm ET/PT
Los Angeles, CA — November 12, 2013 — E!, the worldwide red carpet authority, will be broadcasting for the very first time at this year's American Music Awards on Sunday, November 24 from 7:00-8:00pm ET/PT, bringing the network's signature 'Live From the Red Carpet' to one of music's biggest nights. The special hosted by E! News' Anchors Giuliana Rancic and Terrence Jenkins will feature the biggest stars from the world of music when Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, One Direction, Macklemore, Florida Georgia Line and many others arrive on the red carpet at LA's Nokia Theatre.
E! will have nine cameras covering every inch of the carpet including the celebrity-favorite mani cam, the limo-arrival cam and full-body fashion cam, as the world's most famous rockers, pop singers, country stars, hip hop legends and more arrive in style at the annual music awards show. E! will bring all the fashions, superstar interviews and every musical moment from the AMA's when "Live From the Red Carpet: The 2013 American Music Awards" premieres LIVE Sunday, November 24 from 7:00-8:00pmET/PT.
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E!'s "Fashion Police: The 2013 American Music Awards" with Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos will recap the night's biggest celebrity fashions, hits and misses, and welcome special guest Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum Monday, November 25 at 9pm ET/PT in this one-hour special.


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Bill Gates Thinks the Government Should Have Access to Your Encrypted Data, But Only If You're Really Bad
The ticking-time-bomb scenario comes to your phone.By Samuel Lieberman
The ticking-time-bomb scenario comes to your phone.By Samuel Lieberman
Haha, what a nerd.By Jessica Roy
The world's richest man goes head-to-head with the world's favorite socialist public intellectual.By Annie Lowrey
In a game of FMK.By Joe Coscarelli
Bill Gates for your pleasure.By Kat Stoeffel
There's a $1 million grant behind it.By Delia Paunescu
He's funneling money into food research with a view toward developing better plant-based proteins that more people will want to eat.By Jay Barmann
Prepare for mutant crops.By Sierra Tishgart
Being a billionaire is hard.By Delia Paunescu
The chef cites a pizza joint in Phoenix and an Italian mozzarella bar.
Plus Bill Gates fights hunger and more, all in our morning news round-up.By Kara Baskin
Zuckerberg pledges the majority of his theoretical $6.9 billion.By Nitasha Tiku
Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only techie to get the celluloid treatment.By Nitasha Tiku
Bill Gates is still the wealthiest of them all.By Josh Duboff
Thirty-eight billionaires have signed on to give away half their wealth.By Nitasha Tiku
Plus, Russell Brand attempts to replace President Obama as the anti-ambassador to Las Vegas, on our regular late-night roundup.By Dorsey Shaw
Bloomberg is the top New Yorker on the list, with a cool $18 billion fortune.By Josh Duboff
It's another ballet dancer.By Katie Goldsmith
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How Things Change as Constitutional Rights Contract and Expand for People and Corporations
People often ask whether a proposed Seattle law such as Initiative 103 could actually impact the Supreme Court's interpretation of corporate personhood and speech rights. Well, it wouldn't be the first time a law from Washington State turned the tide of Supreme Court precedent and history in the process. In 1935, a Wenatchee chambermaid Elsie Parrish Read More


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On Tap Today: Fireworks! (part 1)
There aren't many things in this life that you can count on, but you can always count on this: If it's Fourth of July Eve, there's a big boom in Milwaukee. The U.S. Bank Fireworks bring the ooohs and aaahs starting at 9:30 tonight off Veterans Park over Lake Michigan. You'll be able to see them all over town, even if you didn't camp out to get a front-row seat.
There's lots more where that came from; most of the Milwaukee area's municipal fireworks shows are tomorrow night. »Read Full Blog Post
MSO Pops ends season with cheers, salutes in 'Patriotic Pops'
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Pops opened the final weekend of the concert season Friday with "Patriotic Pops."
And patriotic it was, beginning with the audience singing along on "The Star-Spangled Banner." »Read Full Article
'Peanuts' gang grows up in Splinter Group's 'Dog Sees God'
Was Charlie Brown gay?
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Manson's shtick tired, performance strong in too-short show
The ghoulish makeup, freaky costumes and grandiose theatricality that made Marilyn Manson such an edgy novelty in the '90s, are, in 2013, mere obligations. At least that's how they came across Friday night at a near-capacity Eagles Ballroom for the first night of Manson's 2013 U.S. tour.
There was one single visual display in Manson's show that was dramatically inspired - the sight of the shock rocker standing at a microphone under a spotlight, as what looked like snow gently landed atop a black, wide-brim hat as he performed "Coma White." But beyond that, the visual signatures were unimaginative, and often cheap. Manson looked unintentionally silly dressed like an archbishop, blasting what looked like a fire extinguisher into the crowd, during "The Love Song." A later outfit was even goofier - a Goth variation of the cop get-up from the Village People - worn without irony during the crowd-pleasing climax "The Beautiful People." »Read Full Article(4)
Skylight makes the most of bland 'Pump Boys'
In the fictionalized North Carolina being served up in "Pump Boys and Dinettes," the country music pastiche that's now open for business at Skylight Music Theatre, none of the six characters actually works much.
To be sure, designer Brandon Ribordy has stuffed this really fun, vintage 1950s set - half gas station and half diner - with props suggesting that the four pump boys might actually service cars and the two fun-loving waitresses next door might actually take and fill orders. »Read Full Article(2)
Florentine finds cozy home for 'Albert Herring'
If you're looking for the Florentine Opera Company, you'll find them in Vogel Hall for the next couple of weeks, trying something a little different.
Veering away from stage-filling grand opera, the company opened a lighthearted production of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera "Albert Herring" Friday evening, in the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts' smallest performance space. »Read Full Article


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On her latest single, Elle King says she's not "America's Sweetheart" – but between her recent engagement and chart success, she's certainly living her own kind of fairy tale.
Elle King: 5 Things About Music's Rising Star
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With a wail reminiscent of Janis Joplin, some bad tattoos (her words, not ours) and ample experience in both the brokenhearted and heartbreaking departments, Elle King roared onto the music scene three years ago.
It's a Girl for Rob Schneider
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The actor and wife Patricia welcomed daughter Miranda Scarlett on Friday evening, PEOPLE confirms
Rob Schneider Honeymoons in Taiwan
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The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aren't the only newlyweds celebrating their union this weekend.
Comedian Rob Schneider and his new wife, TV producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce enjoyed a week-long honeymoon in Taiwan after their April 23 wedding.
"Taiwan is a beautiful place where I have been many times promoting my movies," Schneider says. "When I was at the LA Dodgers' Taiwan Day, it reminded me of the island's friendly people and great foods."
Rob Schneider Gets Married!
Originally posted 04/25/2011 10:40PM
The Male Gigolo is now an honest man.
Rob Schneider, who stars in the Deuce Bigalow comedies and shares laughs in many Adam Sandler films, married television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce on Saturday in a private ceremony in Beverly Hills.
"Patricia and I were surrounded by our closest friends and family; it was the happiest day of my life," says Schneider, 47, in a statement. "We had a great time at the wedding and are looking forward to our honeymoon."
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Rob Schneider Criticizes Dina & Lindsay Lohan
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Comedian Rob Schneider has shrugged off Dina Lohan's concerns about his portrayal of her daughter on Jay Leno.
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From reading the spoilers it looks like there out to really destroy Billy and Victoria this time.
I don't know if I'm here for another go around with the gambling
It says that Billy wants to bring Victor and Newman down regardless of the cost to him.
I know this gives Burgess a good exit s/l but I don't want to see Villy destroyed to the point of no return and it seems like that's what there doing
This show is so sad,there is nobody that is happy.It's all doom and gloom anymore.What ever happened to the Y&R we use to know


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Significantly improved compared to the earlier releases, Rayman Legends takes place about a whole century after the events of Rayman Origins. The nightmares of the Glade of Dreams have multiplied and taken control of the land, and so Murphy is sent to awaken Rayman and his friends from their slumber, in order to restore harmony in the Glade of Dreams. The game runs on the same engine as its predecessor, but with improved and more detailed graphics, smooth gameplay and animations, and much better platforming and level designs. All the available characters play out well. The mini-games and unlockable bonuses will keep you especially entertained. A worthy successor of all the previous Rayman games.


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Big Time Rush to play Riverside Aug. 11
Big Time Rush, the tween pop stars who seem to have outgrown their Nickelodeon roots, are coming back to town for a 7:30 p.m. show Aug. 11 at the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.
The group, who headlined at Summerfest last year and the Wisconsin State Fair the summer before that, are on the road this summer as part of their Summer Break Tour; some dates on the tour also include Nickelodeon popster Victoria Justice, but she's not part of the Riverside gig. »Read Full Article(2)
Cold closes Oriental Theater until further notice
The cold snap has taken its toll on the boiler at the venerable 86-year-old Oriental Theater at 2230 N. Farwell Ave.
According to a spokesman for Landmark Theatres, which operates the theater, the Oriental will be closed until further notice, and at least until Thursday. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Local TV news viewership climbs as temperatures drop
There is no thermometer to measure the number of people stuck at home watching TV because of the cold.
The Head and the Heart to headline Riverside Theater
The Head and the Heart is heading back to Milwaukee.
The Seattle-based folk rock sextet--which first impressed Milwaukee audiences with a 2011 set at Turner Hall Ballroom that outshined main act Iron & Wine--is headlining its biggest room in Milwaukee to date. The band will play the Riverside Theater April 5, with autoharp-playing singer-songwriter Basia Bulat opening. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: Seriously, you want to go outside TODAY?
If you're going to brave the frigid weather, perhaps you should spend it inside a movie theater watching Golden Globe best picture nominee "American Hustle." Photo by Francois Duhamel. »Read Full Blog Post


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The federal government almost shut down Friday, not over fiscal policy but over concerns of taxpayers funding abortion. We don't.
"If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does," said Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona.
Well, no. Abortion constitutes 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does. More than 90 percent of the organization's services, 96 percent if you prefer specifics - Kyl, apparently, does not - are for contraception, cancer screening, detection and treatment of sexually transmitted disease, and other health issues. Kyl's office later said the comment was "not intended to be a factual statement."


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From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of every visitor to a political website? No, but that didn't stop it from trying.
In a report released today, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston tells the story of a bogus federal subpoena issued to independent news site Indymedia.us, and how the site fought back with EFF's help. Declan McCullagh at CBSNews.com also has the story.
The report describes how, earlier this year, U.S. attorneys issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Indymedia.us administrator Kristina Clair demanding "all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us" for a particular date, potentially identifying every person who visited any news story on the Indymedia site. As the report explains, this overbroad demand for internet records not only violated federal privacy law but also violated Clair's First Amendment rights, by ordering her not to disclose the existence of the subpoena without a U.S. attorney's permission.
Because Indymedia follows EFF's Best Practices for Online Service Providers and does not keep historical IP logs, there was no information for Indymedia to hand over, and the government withdrew the subpoena. However, as the report describes, that wasn't the end of the tale: Ms. Clair wanted EFF to be able to tell the story of the subpoena and shine a light on the government's illegal demand, yet the subpoena ordered silence. Under pressure from EFF, the government admitted that the subpoena's gag order had no legal basis, and ultimately chose not to go to court to try to force Ms. Clair's silence despite earlier threats to do so.
This story is an an important example of how government abuses breed in secrecy, and an argument for Congress to step in and require meaningful reporting about how the government uses its surveillance authorities. How often does the government attempt such illegal fishing expeditions through internet data? How many online service providers have received similarly bogus demands, and handed over how much data, violating how many internet users' privacy? How many of those subpoena recipients have been intimidated into silence by unconstitutional gag orders?
We don't know. And until Congress exerts stronger oversight, we can't know, except in those occasional instances where a brave online service provider steps up, pushes back, and tells the world. We encourage other online service providers to follow the example of Indymedia.us and Kristina Clair by standing up for their users' rights when the government secretly overreaches. If you're an ISP, a web host, an email provider, an app developer, a Web 2.0 start-up or any other kind of online service provider and you receive a government demand for your users' data, please call a lawyer. If you don't have a lawyer, call EFF.
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The Long and the Short of My Columbus Presentation14 03 2014
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Presenting in Ohio Next Month20 02 2014
Just a reminder that I'll be making a presentation to the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable on March 12. Here's a summary:
Irvin McDowell's Plan and Other Bull Run Misconceptions. This program will explore what the presenter feels are popular misconceptions surrounding the First Bull Run campaign, with primary focus on the Union army commander's intentions up to the early hours of July 21, 1861. We will discuss how we have come to know the story of Bull Run as we know it, various primary sources and secondary accounts of the campaign, treatments by historians and institutions, the general interest (or lack thereof) of Civil War enthusiasts in the details of the campaign, and other related – or even unrelated – topics. As always, the audience will likely play no small role in the content of the program as it progresses.
I'm looking forward to this. It will be the first time I talk about my thoughts on what McDowell really intended when he set out from Washington for Manassas. It's not what you think. Just gotta figure out how to set it down on paper and slides. You see, this is a very complicated case. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Oh man, my thinking about this case has become very uptight. Let's just hope I can get things straight by then.
Check out the details at the COCWRT website.
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Off the Record, On the QT, and Very Hush-Hush1 08 2013
I've been waiting for a chance to use another James Elroy quote, and here it is! I just heard through the grapevine that a manuscript has been submitted to a university press – a First Bull Run campaign study that the editor indicates is "long, deeply researched, and extremely well written." Can this be the type of study I called for in the roundtable article in Civil War History a while back?
It's starting to sound like I'm advocating a big campaign study featuring coordinated coverage of the social, political, and military aspects of the campaign in context and detail, with an emphasis on how they all impacted what was to follow, and I guess I am. I think it would make for a fascinating read.
Let's hope this is it. Having some idea how the process works, I'm guessing it will be a couple of years before we see anything (as late as 2016, the 155th anniversary, perhaps.) But I could be way off on that. And no, I don't know the writer's identity. Refer again to the title of this post.
In other news, the program I will present to the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable (and talked about here) continues to evolve and I've decided to actually write this one up. I'll share some bullet-points with you all later, but won't make the big reveal until that evening, of course. Again, the program will focus on McDowell's plans: what he expected, what he intended, and how and why we seem to miss the mark today when it comes to evaluating them and him.
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Making Progress12 07 2013
I am making progress on a program I will present to the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable next spring. Yes, you heard that right, next spring. One of the luxuries of not doing a lot of these presentations is I have plenty of time to prepare. I'm taking a different tack with this one. For the most part my narratives have been mostly extemporaneous based on fairly rough outlines and PowerPoint slides. In fact, the last one I gave had no slides at all, just some notes but also a few pretty long passages from books and some articles I wrote previously (that one was interesting and I had really very little idea where the road would lead, though I was pleasantly surprised.) I decided quite a few months ago, when I got the invite from COCWRT, to open a Word document on my desktop and put down thoughts on the presentation as they entered my head, and so far I'm pretty pleased with what's taking shape. Now the question is: do I want to write this up in the form of a "paper" and build a slide presentation around it? This is a different approach in a couple of ways. First, when I've done PowerPoint presentations in the past, they've typically driven the narrative. In this case, the slides will serve more as support. Second, I've never before had a "script" for my programs. I've never really read a "paper", though I think my program on Patrick O'Rorke for the Gettysburg Foundation back in 2011 came pretty close, but the bulk of that program consisted of his letter home on the Battle of Bull Run. "Paper Reading" is something I find not so appealing as a consumer, and as a presenter I really prefer give and take during the program as opposed to a structured talk with questions afterwards. For this program, which contrasts a well established, familiar story line of First Bull Run with what really happened (or, at least, what I think really happened and why I think it), I think I'll write the "paper" and look at my options afterwards. One thing for sure is I won't be using the future tense when speaking of past events – I promise. Irvin McDowell intended to do some things, he did other things, but he will not BE doing anything ever again.
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Rufus Barringer Civil War Roundtable, Pinehurst, NC, 4/18/201329 04 2013
About 45 people showed up for my presentation to the Rufus Barringer Civil War Roundtable in Southern Pines, NC (the area is generally Pinehurst.) This presentation was a first for me, though I have spoken to the group on two other occasions. Program director and friend Tonia (Teej) Smith asked me to speak to the membership on blogging. That's a pretty general topic, but also one which I wasn't sure I could speak about for an hour without repeated use of "I" and "me." As I developed the program it turned into a look at what I call The Future of Civil War History From a Slightly Different Point of View. I really had only a very general idea of the outline of the program, and hoped it would foster a give-and-take with the audience, since they are the very sorts of folks I feel will be playing a big role in that future. OK, I did have to use "I" and "me" a good bit.
Drawing on some writing by Garry Wills in Henry Adams and the Making of America, Ken Noe, James Ellroy, John Huston, the Coen Brothers, and some of the pieces I've written here over the years, we examined the changing landscape of "history" in the digital age. I compared our recent and future times with that of the "gentleman historians" of the 19th century, and we discussed how digital archives and the web in general have lessened to some extent the barriers to research. And we talked a bit about how those in the room could get started in participating in the process. There were plenty of questions and lots of enthusiasm, and an encouraging line of folks who wanted to carry on the discussion after my time was up.
On Friday Teej and I made a trip west to Salisbury, NC, site of a wartime Confederate prison and the grave of Col. Charles Fisher of the 6th NC, who was killed in action at First Bull Run. Here are a few photos of his grave in the Old Lutheran Cemetery.
You can see more photos of the trip to Salisbury on Bull Runnings's Facebook Page. The image of the group at the top of the page is "flipped", but you can see it in its proper orientation on Facebook.
As always, Teej and RBCWRT president "Harry" Hilgrove treated me top rate. If you're in the area on the third Thursday of the month, check them out in Southern Pines.
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Updates15 07 2012
Once again real life has infringed upon my hobby, and I haven't been able to come up with any posts lately. If you're not already doing so, please be sure to follow me on Twitter and Facebook, as I frequently put stuff up on those outlets (look in the right hand margin of this page and make the appropriate clicks to follow.)
I've been notified that my regular reviews in brief column (it's been known by several names over the years) in Weider History Group's America's Civil War magazine has run its course. These things happen, in fact have happened before, and will continue to happen in the magazine business as formats change. I'm thankful for the opportunities editor Dana Shoaf has provided. On a happier note, I have been asked to write reviews on single titles, and my first one will appear in the issue of Civil War Times that will be in process in August.
I also mentioned earlier that I'll be speaking to the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable in 2014. I've been putting together a few notes for that presentation and am really pleased with how things are going. We'll be covering a lot of assumptions that are generally accepted as fact concerning the campaign that may not be quite accurate. OK, make that flat out wrong. It should be fun, and if your group is interested you can contact me at my email address to the right or send me a message on the Book Me, Danno! page.
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Book Your Airline Tickets and Hotel Rooms Now!!!7 06 2012
I'll be appearing at the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable on March 12, 2014. The program is tentatively titled: "McDowell's 'Plan' for Bull Run: Brilliant, Sound, or Something Less?", though I may go with the shorter "Irvin McDowell and the First Bull Run Campaign: What Was He Thinking?" If you're a regular reader of this blog, or if you attended my tour of the battlefield for the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College last June, you know that my thoughts on this diverge sharply from what is generally accepted. This doesn't mean my theories are any better or worse than anyone else's. It just means mine are right and their's are wrong.
I'm looking forward to seeing and meeting many thousands of you there! And if you're looking for a speaker for your group, drop me a note at my email address at right or leave a comment under the Book Me, Danno! tab.
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