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Visiting a black hole? Allow plenty of time
200,000 years - at least
If you fancy taking a quick trip to the heart of a black hole be sure to allow plenty of time, since an international team of boffins has discovered that even the last leg of such a jaunt could take up to 200,000 years.
Yup, according to an investigation of the "internal motions of gas surrounding the nucleus of the active galaxy NGC1097" (47m light years distant in the southern constellation Fornax), "material as it descends into the core of a galaxy hosting a large black hole... will take about 200,000 years to make a one-way trip through the inner regions of the galaxy and into oblivion."
Or, in fact, longer than the average Northern Line tube trip from Edgeware to Stockwell, as our London readers will be amazed to read.
The team behind this revelation - made up of Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, UFRGS, Brazil; David Axon and Andrew Robinson, RIT, USA; Alessandro Capetti, INAF-Turin, Italy, Alessandro Marconi, INAF-Florence, Italy; Rogemar Riffel, UFRGS, Brazil, and Claudia Winge, Gemini Observatory, Chile - used Chile's Gemini South Telescope and "sophisticated spectroscopic techniques" to probe clouds of material within 10 light years of the galactic centre - presumed home of the black hole.
Specifically, the scientists "measured the streaming motions toward the black hole by using two-dimensional spectroscopy to capture spectral data at several thousand points surrounding the nucleus of the galaxy". The technique is known as "integral field spectroscopy", which "takes light from many different parts of the telescope's field simultaneously and splits the light from each region into a rainbow or spectrum of light".
The upshot of it is, as team member Thaisa Storchi Bergmann of Brazil's Instituto de Fisica put it: "The resolution of this data is unprecedented when you look at how we were able to isolate so many different points around the nucleus of this galaxy and acquire a spectrum for each point at once.
"This paints an incredibly detailed picture of the region around the black hole and gives us a new glimpse at something we could only imagine before."
Project top dog Kambiz Fathi of Rochester Institute of Technology further explained: "It is the first time anyone has been able to follow gas this close to the supermassive black hole in the center of another galaxy.
"The work of our team confirms the main theories that have never been observationally confirmed at this level. We have been able to show that it is possible to measure these velocities down to these scales."
The velocity in question is, the team reckons, 52 kilometers (31 miles) per second - the speed at which spiral arms were pulling gas towards the nucleus at around 1,000 light years from the centre.
That's still a way out from the black hole's core, and a good few years from a final dateline with destiny. Fathi expands: "When we extrapolate our last data points, about 30 light-years from the black hole, this is where we find that it would take about 200,000 years for the gas to travel the last leg of its one-way journey to the supermassive black hole."
There's more background detail to the team's work in the press release here. The research findings will appear in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. ®


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"Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting" (Barnett Newman).
Ever since the de-differentiation of the genre of Minimal and Conceptual Art, sculpture has become a cultural term in itself; sculpture has not only re-articulated the terminologies of space and objects by opening itself to media such as photography, video and language, but also changed its status from media-reflection and self-reference to an operative structure. The term "performative" applies to sculpture as it addresses its own frame of reference, investigates it but also understands it as potential action: in the specificities of material, place and time, the perceiving subject, object and surroundings coincide and contingently relate to each other in their eventfulness. "Architecture" as both concrete, designed space and socio-economic and identity-establishing structure becomes the focus of attention in two ways: as an instrument of post-industrial subjectivization through hegemonic structuring of spatial experience it is, in advanced sculptural practice, both an object of study and a venue of social criticism by means of art.
The theoretical foundation for the sculptural practice of performative art, based on Minimal and Conceptual Art – Happening, Installation, architectural intervention, Performance, Process Art, Research-Based Art, Institutional Critique, Relational Art – is developed in talks, groups and one-to-one conversations. Flexible working methods and concepts spanning different branches and media shall promote the development of autonomous critical confrontation of art. The investigation of economic, socio-political, institutional place-specific structures - establishing gender roles and identities – in art history and in current happenings are the focus of attention. In the field of production, students are supported in their technical-material work on their projects through individual counseling and practical introductions. We lay special emphasis on the collaboration of students and their cooperation with other Academy classes.

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Idaho Fish and Game will be host an open house to discuss big game hunting seasons and proposals for upcoming season.
The meeting is from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at the Best Western Plus in Coeur d'Alene.
The Best Western Plus was formerly known as the Coeur d'Alene Inn, and is located on the corner of Highway 95 and Appleway just north of Interstate 90. Anyone interested in big game seasons is encouraged to come at any time during the open house.
Fish and Game employees will be there to discuss big game seasons and answer questions. Questionnaires will be provided for attendees to complete.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will set final big game hunting season rules at their quarterly meeting in Boise on March 18. Questionnaires completed at meeting and online throughout the state will be provided to the Commissioners prior to setting seasons. In addition, a public meeting will be at 7 p.m. on March 17, during which anyone can directly address the commission in person.
Season proposals are posted on the Fish and Game website; individuals may comment as well. The website provides an opportunity for people to review the proposals and provide comments without having to travel to a meeting. Depending upon the year and the proposed changes, as many as 500 comments are received from the Panhandle Region alone on the website.
Additionally, 650 people who have attended a big game season public meeting in the Panhandle over the past several years will receive an email containing season summaries and asking for comments.
Two years ago, Fish and Game mailed out a questionnaire on hunting seasons in Unit 1 to a random selection of Unit 1 elk hunters. The process provided a statistically valid cross-section of hunters' opinions and proved to be a very valuable tool to help in decision-making. That effort is being expanded this year, and 1,000 hunters who purchased hunting licenses in the Panhandle Region will receive a survey in the mail. Their comments will help make decisions for the 2013 seasons.
Proposals Similar
Current season proposals in the region are similar to last year. No changes are proposed for general season for elk, white-tailed deer, or mule deer. There are a few minor season changes proposed for deer and elk controlled hunts.
The controlled hunts that were put in place last year had a longer opportunity to hunt antlerless elk than previous general hunt seasons. Permit numbers were kept fairly low. The proposal for 2013 controlled elk hunts includes an increase in permit numbers from 200 each to 300 each for Units 3 and 5.
A new controlled hunt for antlerless elk is proposed for Unit 3 within one mile of private property. This hunt would allow 50 hunters to hunt with any weapon for antlerless elk December 1 through 31.
The controlled hunt for extra antlerless deer, white-tailed deer only, in Unit 1 is proposed to increase from 250 to 300 permits and allow any weapon hunting from October 10 to December 24. The hunt description would allow hunting only within one mile of private land. For purposes of this hunt, corporately owned timberlands would not be considered private land.
The proposed changes to deer and elk controlled hunts would offer additional hunting opportunity and address depredation concerns.
No changes are proposed for black bear or mountain lion, except in Units 7 and 9, where less restrictive seasons are proposed to help improve elk calf recruitment, which is particularly low in those units. In Units 7 and 9, new season dates of April 15 to July 31 are proposed. The current dog training season would be changed into an open take season.
These proposed changes will offer additional hunting opportunity and potentially increase harvest in Units 7 and 9 where spring access is often limited. These units previously closed on June 30.
The 2013 mountain lion season proposal would increase the time when dogs are allowed in most units and will offer additional hunting opportunity in Units 7 and 9. This proposal could potentially increase lion harvest. In Units 4, 7 and 9 dogs would be prohibited October 10-November 9. The 2013 proposal for Units 7 and 9 allows the use of electronic calls and allows hunters to harvest two mountain lions in those units. New lion season dates in Units 7 and 9 are proposed for August 30-June 30.
No general season changes are proposed for wolf hunting seasons for 2013.


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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Many here call this region's recent period of prolific temple building the "Central American Miracle."
It was only a few years ago that hundreds of thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Central American lands had to cross international borders and make life-altering sacrifices to worship inside a temple.
The Guatemala City Guatemala Temple was the region's first and only temple for almost two decades following its dedication in 1984. Legions of devout Mormons in Central America will forever hold a soft spot for that edifice. It became both a real and symbolic spiritual gathering place for members living from Guatemala to Panama. Still, many in the new temple district could only visit the Guatemala City temple at great expense and while enduring other practical challenges.
Then on June 4, 2000, President James E. Faust, a counselor in the Church's First Presidency, presided over the opening of the San Jose Costa Rica Temple. That temple eased the burdens for many living in southern Central America. Eight years later, President Thomas S. Monson dedicated the Panama City Panama Temple.
Since that opening almost five years ago, the number of temples in Central America has doubled. A temple was opened in El Salvador in 2011, a second Guatemalan temple was dedicated in the western city of Quetzaltenango, and, on Sunday, a temple will be dedicated in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, is expected to preside at today's event. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve will join him. The temple will be dedicated in three sessions. Ceremonies will be broadcast to congregations throughout Honduras and Nicaragua.
On Friday, President Uchtdorf hosted a breakfast at the Tegucigalpa temple offices for Honduran president Porfirio Lobo and the First Lady, Rosa Elena de Lobo. The two men exchanged gifts and discussed the new temple and the LDS Church's growing presence in Honduras.
Local leaders say the faith of the members has played a pivotal role in the Church's decision to continue to build temples across Central America. Such close proximity to temple, they add, will only increase such devotion.
"The members here are going to be blessed tremendously by the opportunity to have so many temples in Central America," said Elder James B. Martino, a Seventy who presides over the Central America Area.
His first counselor in the area presidency, Elder Carlos H. Amado, is a native Guatemalan . He noted that the Honduran and Nicaraguan membership that will form the new temple district have traveled faithfully to the temple in Guatemala City for almost three decades. Following Sunday's dedication here, their burden will be forever lightened.
"The Lord knows it's time — it was necessary to build a temple in Tegucigalpa," he said.
Elder Kevin R. Duncan, second counselor in the area presidency, saluted the grit and resilience of the members who will worship in Honduras' first temple. Many, he said, come from notoriously violent, unstable communities — but they are gentle, happy people thanks to their faith and temple devotion.
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The folks at Verizon have put up a couple of interesting apps lists. Of course there's the requisite "Must have apps", but they are taking things a step further in app recommendations.
They are providing a list of the top 25 apps from Google Play, and rating them based on battery usage, data usage, and security. The list has a few surprises, like Draw Something getting bad marks for battery drain, while HD Widgets (which most users report as using plenty of battery) gets a perfect score. They qualify their ratings like so:
A low rating means the app might negatively affect your overall experience with your device. If you see a low rating on an app you currently use or intend to download, you should review the potential areas of concern to decide if it's an app you want to have on your device.
In addition, they have created a naughty list of 13 apps that they are calling high risk because they "might have serious negative effects on your device." The nominees include favorites like Wreck it Ralph and GTA III, as well as Fruit Ninja free (but not the full version).
They mean well, and we're not going to fault them for trying, but one can't help but think some of their choices are a bit odd. We think your best bet when looking for information about a particular app is right here at AC, where the forums are filled with folks using all the awesome apps on Google Play.
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The Passover Test
What the Passover Seder reveals about interfaith couples.
A professional-looking woman in her 30s walked into a Maryland synagogue a couple of weeks ago, searching for someone to give her some advice. She is Jewish, married to a Catholic fellow, and they are "very relaxed about religion," as she chose to put it. But the kids are starting to ask about God. Since his family took them to church several times, she has decided to start bringing them to a Passover Seder, a feast marking the night when the Israelites were saved from slavery in Egypt and became a people. Maybe, she asked the executive director of this temple, you have a Seder to which I can come with the kids, so that they'll have a first positive exposure to Judaism?
But the executive director gave her advice she didn't expect: If this is your children's first encounter with Judaism, don't start by bringing them to a Seder. It is long, can be boring at times, and requires a lot of reading. Better start their schooling in Judaism with a lighter practice.
The American Jewish community has been obsessed by the roots and implications of interfaith marriage—that is, a Jewish person with a non-Jewish spouse—for more than a decade and a half. About half of Jewish Americans choose to marry non-Jews, a reality that was seen, until recently, as devastating for the shrinking minority religion. Now, it is increasingly cause for debate between the "intermarriage optimists," who think that the trend could help the Jewish community grow in numbers, and the "intermarriage pessimists," who think that it will just lead to lowering the entry bar to Judaism, watering down the faith.
Some new studies have fueled this intermarriage debate in recent months by addressing the two major concerns of the pessimists: They show a community that's growing in number, thanks to intermarriage, without watering down the faith—or so it seems.
"Intermarried Families and Their Children," a study out of Boston, shows that many of the area's intermarried couples are dedicated to "raising Jewish children": Nationally, approximately 30 percent of interfaith couples raise their children Jewish, while the Boston community keeps them Jewish at a rate of 60 percent. A follow-up study from the same source concluded that interfaith couples who claim Judaism as their religion of choice practice it in ways very similar to those of other "inmarried" Jewish families (specifically, Reform Jews).
Five traditional Jewish practices are usually used as criteria in studies tasked with assessing the viability of a Jewish community: lighting Hanukkah candles, attending a Passover Seder, fasting on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), lighting Shabbat candles, and keeping a kosher home. The first two—Hanukkah-candle lighting and Seder attendance—tend to be those with the highest levels of participation among the vast majority of Jews.
But even among those in the "intermarried/Jewish" category—namely, interfaith couples who decide to identify as Jewish—only 65 percent attended a Passover Seder on a regular basis, while more than 90 percent of inmarried couples do so. *
Arnold Dashefsky, the University of Connecticut professor who authored "Intermarriage and Jewish Journeys in the United States," found that couples who have already made the decision to join the Jewish community attend the Passover Seder in even greater numbers than the "average" Jew. Cause for "optimism." But yet another study—one that might be more optimistic because Dashefsky started with a group of already committed intermarried couples—found that "40 percent to 45 percent of young Jews with one Jewish parent attended a Passover Seder compared with nearly 80 percent of those with two Jewish parents." Good reason for the "pessimist" to raise his hand to ask some tough questions.
Being a pessimist on intermarriage is not easy these days. The Jewish community is tired of gloomy reports conveying what Steven Cohen titled "An Inconvenient Truth" in one of the most controversial studies of the last couple of years. The identity chasm between inmarried and intermarried is so wide, he wrote, as to suggest the imagery of "two Jewries." One group attends Passover Seders in high percentage—namely, the inmarried—while the other, the intermarried, either refrains from doing so or attends these Seders in much lower numbers. "A Tale of Two 'Jewish' Cities: The 2002 Phoenix and 2003 San Diego Jewish Community Studies," another study, describes lower Jewish affiliation in these cities: "Relatively low rates of Jewish congregation membership, moderate levels of Passover Seder and Chanukah celebrations, low Shabbat candle lighting, high intermarriage rates. …"
The correlation between the Hanukkah-candle lighting and the Passover Seder—the two most practiced rituals among American Jews—is interesting. Hanukkah is more popular for most Jewish groups. The reason is clear: The holiday competes with Christmas. However, the more affiliated the group, the narrower the gap between these two practices. The "highly affiliated" is the only group in which Seder attendance surpasses Hanukkah candle lighting (96 percent to 94 percent, according to the National Jewish Population Survey). For the intermarried—couples with one Christian spouse—the gap between the two practices is the widest (85 percent celebrate Hanukkah; 41 percent celebrate Passover).
But there's an even wider margin between these two groups—the one symbolizing the most contentious corner of the optimist/pessimist debate. "One issue consistently brought up by both Christian and Jewish partners was the decision to have a Christmas tree," the Dashefsky study stated. Almost 100 percent of inmarried couples do not have trees; nearly 80 percent of intermarried families sometimes—or always—have them.
To Cohen, this is yet another component of "the overwhelming evidence of very weak levels of Jewish engagement," as he told a gathering of Reform Jewish rabbis earlier this month. According to this school of thought, celebrating both the Seder and Christmas cannot be proof of Jewish attachment. But the "optimists" look at the trees and see a different forest: Family connection and cultural habits of the non-Jewish spouse are those responsible for the tendency of even "Jewish interfaith couples" to erect the Christmas tree in the winter, they say. Two ways of looking at the same data. One—the cup half full. One—as Woody Allen said in the movie Scoop—also the cup half full. With poison.
A couple of days ago, in the Wall Street Journal, there was a story about the Mothers Circle, a program for non-Jewish women raising Jewish kids. Its headline was funny but right to the point: "But Will the Chicken Soup Taste as Good?" Hundreds of thousands of such mothers (and fathers) will be sitting at the Seder table next week and asking themselves such questions. Their chicken soup might taste as good, but it will inevitably also taste somewhat different.
And there will be something different about their Seder itself, too. Passover, more than any other Jewish holy day, is the one in which Jews celebrate not their religion but this strange concept of becoming a people. This idea, of Jewish people-hood—the historic fact that Jews, for generations, didn't see themselves as just sharing their faith, but also their national fate—will be the one most challenged by the influx of people from other religions into the Jewish community.
Correction, April 17, 2008: Due to an editing error, this piece referred to "non-Passover seders" instead of Passover seders. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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BOSTON (AP) — Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, the once-loyal partner of reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, on Friday recounted multiple killings he said Bulger was involved in, either by planning them, approving them or committing them himself.
Flemmi returned to the witness stand a day after giving 15 minutes of testimony in Bulger's racketeering trial before court recessed for the day.
In rapid-fire succession, Flemmi described Bulger's alleged role in a string of killings during the 1970s and '80s when both men were leaders of the Winter Hill Gang.
Flemmi said he and Bulger sprayed a phone booth with bullets in 1975, killing Edward Connors, a bar owner, who was targeted because he was "telling people Winter Hill business," including details about an earlier killing committed by the gang.
Flemmi said another member of the gang lured Connors to the phone booth, telling him he would receive a call there at a certain time. When Connors showed up, Bulger and Flemmi were waiting for him, Flemmi said.
"We just stepped out from the side of the building — the garage — and shot him," Flemmi said, matter-of-factly. "We just fired on him."
Flemmi said Bulger emptied the bullets in a double-barreled shotgun and a pistol, while Flemmi fired seven or eight shots at Connors.
Bulger, 83, is accused of playing a role in 19 killings.
Flemmi, 79, pleaded guilty in 10 killings and was sentenced to life in prison in a plea deal with prosecutors that spared him the death penalty for murders in Oklahoma and Florida.
After Flemmi began his testimony on Thursday, the two men exchanged obscenities as court adjourned for the day.
On Friday, Bulger looked straight ahead and took notes on a legal pad during Flemmi's testimony and did not appear to look at him.
Bulger was one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives for more than 16 years after he fled Boston in 1994. He was finally captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.


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Everyday Greene & Greene
In the hands of genius, ordinary items become fine art.
By David Mathias & Robert W. Lang
Pages: 66-71
From the November 2008 issue #172
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One of the best-known quotations to arise from the Arts & Crafts movement is from William Morris. A founding father of the movement in England, Morris was part designer, part philosopher and part social activist. He famously said, "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
Brothers Charles and Henry Greene were luminaries of the Arts & Crafts period in the United States. While not involved in social aspects of the movement they did practice many of the design tenets. Charles Greene wrote of their principles for domestic architecture, that they strove, "… to make these necessary and useful things pleasurable." The Greenes turned Morris' "or" into an "and." They saw no reason that objects couldn't be both useful and beautiful. This simple idea is at the heart of their best work.
One of the Greenes' talents was an ability to make common things uncommonly beautiful. Here we will focus on very common objects indeed: doors and cabinets for the kitchen and bath. With photographs from 10 Greene & Greene houses, from modest to majestic, we'll get a grand tour of the Greenes' gift for elevating mundane elements to high art.
In a Greene & Greene home, there are no unimportant details. Everyday items are crafted with the same degree of skill and care as showpiece items, and designed with the same thoughtful blending of form and function. A cabinet in a servant's area would be simple and of less expensive material, but as well constructed as dining room built-ins.
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It's only late June, but that hasn't stopped the national media from making predictions about the 2010 season.
Here's a roundup of links and what they're saying about the Eagles.
NFL.com's Vic Carucci predicts division winners and has the Cowboys taking the NFC East. He says the Giants will be Dallas' strongest competition. What about the Eagles?
Without McNabb, the Eagles suddenly look vulnerable. Kevin Kolb could eventually prove to be an outstanding replacement, but the fact he only has two career NFL starts is likely to be a problem. So is the fact Eagles coach Andy Reid will be relying on plenty of other young players.
Houston Texans offensive lineman Eric Winston would agree with Carucci. Winston pinch-hit for Peter King as Monday Morning Quarterback this week on SI.com. Here are the teams Winston has going to the postseason in the NFC: Cowboys, Vikings, Saints, 49ers, Packers, Falcons.
But Winston's got some love for the Eagles:
Philadelphia was hard to leave off but first-time starter Kevin Kolb will have his hands full. I got to know Kevin my first couple years in Houston when he was lighting up the scoreboard for the Cougars, and I like his mental makeup. I don't think the notorious Philly media and fans will bother him as much as people think it will. The NFC East simply will be tough sledding. They are all going to knock each other around this year.
Give Winston some credit for making predictions. In general, it's extremely rare for current players to do that sort of thing. He left the Jaguars and Titans off his list of playoff teams and will have to face each of those squads twice this season.
One guy who's not counting the Eagles out is CBSSports.com's Clark Judge. Judge says the NFC East is the strongest division in football and warns readers not to underestimate Andy Reid:
I don't know what to make of Philadelphia, either, other than I would never, ever, ever, underestimate Reid. Two years ago disgruntled fans and irate talk-radio hosts wanted to run him and McNabb out of town after a listless midseason tie with Cincinnati. But Reid and McNabb didn't go away, and neither did the Eagles, reaching the playoffs and making it to the conference championship game for the fifth time in eight seasons.
Let's catch up with some former Eagles who now have new homes, starting with defensive end Jason Babin.
Babin signed with the Titans this offseason and seems to be content with his decision.
"I think the biggest thing here is just that I'm getting coached,'' Babin told The Tennessean. "In Seattle, they didn't want me, didn't coach me, didn't talk to me. Here, I'm wanted. I'm getting coached. (Washburn) tells me what I need to work on and boom, boom, boom, it works.''
Babin didn't take any jabs at the Eagles in the article, and he really would have no reason to. The Birds gave him a shot last August when he was without a team and his NFL career was at a crossroads. He worked his way on to the roster, into the D-line rotation and now has extended his career. It'll be interesting to see how the Titans use him and what kind of success he has there. His teammates better get ready for some training camp skirmishes. Babin was in the middle of quite a few of those at Lehigh last summer.
And finally, Mr. Lito Sheppard. Hard to believe it was just a couple offseasons ago that the Eagles dealt him to the Jets. Sheppard spent one bad season in New York before being released and signing with the Vikings. Minnesota's system has more similarities to the Eagles' system, and former Birds assistant Leslie Frazier is the defensive coordinator there.
"I think I'm about 80-85 percent in the system right now as far as the different techniques and what I needed to work on to make that transition," Sheppard told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "I feel comfortable with my progress at this point, but there's still a lot of work to be done and I'm looking forward to it."
Hard to believe Lito's only 29. Seems like he's been in the league for 15 years.
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'Amour' takes a real look at 'happily ever after'
Reel Life mini-review: 'Amour'
Michael Haneke's "Amour" is the harrowingly realistic counterpart to every romance that ends with a "they lived happily ever after" cliché.
Haneke's sobering take on real romance is a stark and sentimentality-stripped drama in which true love doesn't turn out happily at all. Nor does the couple in the story live ever-after.
"Amour" opens with cops breaking into the upscale French apartment of retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife Anne (Emmanuelle Riva). They discover her body on a bed in a room ripe with the odor of decomposition.
The story flashes back to several months earlier as we see how happy Georges and Anne are before two strokes paralyze Anne's right side, then slowly deplete her energy, freeze her muscles and place her in a state of constant pain.
In print, this synopsis sounds fairly depressing. Maybe it does, but "Amour" proves to be a profoundly moving and unsettling testament to the film's title, for the true test of love, it turns out, isn't slaying a dragon or saving a damsel in distress. It's the courage and will to stay by your partner through the wedding vow that isn't the "in health" part.
Great French stars Trintignant and Riva give their characters a rare incandescence that instantly invites us to share in their exhaustively detailed daily experiences, even as Anne's condition deteriorates.
Riva's Anne greets her body's slow shutdown with a majestic sense of nobility. Trintignant's Georges, a frail and weakened man, conjures up an inner strength to help his wife through her exercises, to lift her into bed and to encourage her to eat.
Darius Khondji's camera work is a multilayered look at the couple's apartment world, captured in languorous static shots, broken up by infrequent tracking shots and penetrating close-ups.
Isabelle Huppert, star of Haneke's "The Piano Teacher," plays the couple's disturbingly unconcerned daughter. French pianist Alexandre Tharaud plays a charismatic musician who stops in to see his former teachers before leaving on tour.
A crucial element missing from Haneke's daring drama -- at least to American audiences -- is the real true horror of growing old and becoming sick and incapacitated: insufficient medical funds.
By making the couple in "Amour" more than financially independent (Georges has no problem meeting bills or overpaying a nurse's fee), the movie doesn't reflect the 99 percent's general experience with old age and infirmity.
Granted, "Amour" isn't about health care benefits of the elderly in France or any other place. And delving into costs would have distracted from Hanke's tilted, provocative look at what real love entails for the elderly Georges.
Most of Haneke's movies, "Funny Games" and "White Ribbon" for examples, are known for abrupt, unsettling violence, so a story like "Amour" might appear to be an aberration for the German-born filmmaker.
Yet, in its own compassionate way, "Amour" makes a perfect Haneke love story.
"Amour" opens at the Century Centre in Chicago and the Evanston Century 18. Rated PG-13 for language and a "disturbing" scene. In French with subtitles. 127 minutes. ★ ★ ★ ★
'Trouble' brews
Naperville Central High School graduate Jim Hemphill (1989) will appear in person this weekend to answer questions after showings of his feature film "The Trouble With the Truth" at Facets Multimedia, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago.
"Truth" stars John Shea and Lea Thompson as a divorced couple who discover love is a many splintered thing. The movie plays Friday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 17.
"The biggest challenge on the picture actually came after we made it," Hemphill told me. "Shooting the film was relatively easy as far as independent movies go, because I had an excellent cinematographer and great actors.
"The challenge is trying to get a small, character-driven film released and noticed when you're competing with movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and have multimillion-dollar marketing budgets."
Hemphill, who earned his bachelor's degree from Chicago's Columbia College and his master's degree from the University of Southern California, will host showings this Friday through Sunday. Go to facetsmultimedia.org for details or call (773) 281-9075.
'Mindless fodder' sells
As you probably know, "Texas Chainsaw 3-D" made a killing at the box office last weekend, knocking off competitors such as "Django Unchained," "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
Variety reporter Andrew Stewart reported this, along with the observation that the biggest demographic flocking to see "Chainsaw Massacre" was young women.
So, I emailed Stewart to confirm that girls, not boys, were driving the box office engine of "Chainsaw."
"Young women have long been the biggest supporter of horror films," he wrote. "I suppose it makes sense if you think about it."
I asked Stewart for his guess on why "Texas Chainsaw 3-D" (not screened for critics, of course) came in No. 1.
"'Chainsaw' likely benefited from being mindless fodder after the holiday glut of more serious awards fare," Stewart wrote.
Mindless fodder? Hey, that means "Gangster Squad" has a shot at No. 1 this weekend, doesn't it?
'Head Games' rolls
The After Hours Film Society presents Chicagoan Steve James' disturbing documentary "Head Games" at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highland Ave., Downers Grove. The doc takes a hard look at the immediate and long-terms effects of concussions caused by athletes playing sports.
"Head Games" producer Steve Devick will be there Monday night to talk about the movie, accompanied by soccer player Mary Rounce and her mother Laura Rounce to discuss the firsthand effects of sports-related concussions. General admission costs $9. Go to afterhoursfilmsociety.com.
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Cindy Garcia Still Attacking YouTube Over Innocence Of Muslims Film
from the the-striesanding-continues dept
"This guy totally gets us."
Well, Garcia and her team are back for more, and now they appear to think that YouTube is responsible for identifying the copyright holder of the film in question. The story reportedly goes something like this. Garcia phones up the attorney for Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (or whatever his name is this week) about a settlement offer and said attorney tells Garcia that she needs to contact the holder of the copyright on the film, which is not Nakoula (I have no idea if this is true). Then her lawyers emailed Timothy Alger, an outside consultant for Google.
"I have just been informed by Nakoula's attorney that Nakoula...DOES NOT OWN the rights to the film and will not claim copyright ownership on the rights to the film," Armenta wrote. "We believe it is YouTube's burden to identify the correct copyright holder, in light of Garcia's allegations that she owns the rights to her dramatic performance."I can't imagine why YouTube should have the burden of copyright ownership discovery. How would they even go about doing that? In any case, Garcia's lawyers are citing the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube to put their handling of DMCA takedown requests in the spotlight. But there's a problem with such a citation, in that Google's position during the trial went in exactly the opposite direction on the question of copyright ownership being determined.
During the appeal in the Viacom case, Google's lawyers argued forcefully for a strict knowledge standard in determining an ISP's copyright liability. Google wanted copyright holders like Viacom to bear the burden of sending takedown notices because they were in the best position to determine what is infringing and what is not. "There's no central depository of copyrights," said Google's lawyer during the appellate hearing.What Garcia's lawyers are attempting to do is to show that YouTube has been willing in the past to be quick with their takedown trigger fingers and are not responding similarly in this case. The difference, of course, is that Garcia is claiming ownership on something in which the law is, if I want to be extremely generous to Garcia's lawyers, ambiguous. To be less generous, the caselaw I referenced earlier determined that Garcia does not have any takedown rights over her performance, which is why YouTube is refusing to take the film down. And, as a California judge did once already, another judge has refused to issue an injunction to remove the film. In fact, that judge mentioned what I've been saying since Garcia first started her arm-waiving:
But on Thursday, the judge denied her request for a temporary restraining order, citing the fact that the alleged infringement commenced almost three months ago.Where was Garcia and her team of kinda-lawyers when this film was first released? It was out for months before the controversy began and the fatwas were issued. If this was an infringement on her performance, why was it only after the media picked this story up that such infringement was alleged by Garcia?
The only logical answer is that until the negative press began, Garcia didn't care. Which means she's using DMCA notices, not because of any legitimate copyright claim, but rather in an attempt to stifle free speech.


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The Pilgrim unified basketball team opened up its regular season last Wednesday with a road game against East Greenwich, with the Avengers pulling out the victory.
The Pats still have a long season ahead, though, with six regular season games remaining. Their next game will be on Wednesday at home against Toll Gate at 3:30 p.m.
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(Reuters) - Pitney Bowes Inc has won the dismissal of a securities fraud lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors by not disclosing problems in its businesses that in 2007 caused it to miss financial projections for the first time in seven years.
District Judge Vanessa Bryant in Hartford, Connecticut, said the mail processing equipment company had included appropriate cautionary language in its regulatory statements and on conference calls that warned investors about the risks.
"A company need not be prescient, it need only be aware of its business environment and warn of factors and circumstances present in its business environment which could affect the company's results," she wrote.
Matthew Broder, a Pitney spokesman, said the company is pleased with the decision.
Samuel Rudman, a partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd representing the plaintiffs, declined to comment.
The lawsuit was filed in October 2009 and led by the Labourers' Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada, and sought class-action status.
The plaintiffs alleged that the Stamford, Connecticut-based company and certain executives were aware of adverse factors that were hurting Pitney's financial results, but chose not to disclose those problems and potentially boost financing costs on a $500 million debt offering in September 2007.
Among the alleged problems was declining revenue in its U.S. mailing segment as fewer customers than expected converted to digital from analog mail meters; failure to offer new products to preserve market share; failure to meet internal sales projections; and customer dissatisfaction.
The plaintiffs said the misstatements took place between July and October 2007, when the company reported disappointing results that sent its share price down 15 percent to $39.93 from $46.99 the next day.
In her 77-page decision Friday, Bryant said the plaintiffs "failed to adequately plead that any problem area had already come to pass at the time the statements were made."
The case is NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund v. Pitney Bowes Inc, et al, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, No. 09-01740.
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Lynsey Sharp will be the sole British entrant in women's 800m, beating off four other athletes with the 'A' standard
The British Olympic Association today revealed the list of 71 athletes who will represent Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.
Many athletes had been automatically selected after the Olympic Trials, after finishing top two in their event and being in possession of an 'A' standard.
Other events, meanwhile, were left open as athletes were given a chance to chase further qualifying marks in the lead up to the deadline.
Most controversial of all though, is the inclusion of Lynsey Sharp. The 800m runner does not have an 'A' standard, while two other Britons – Marilyn Okoro and Emma Jackson – achieved the mark this year, and Jemma Simpson and Jenny Meadows both have 'A' standards from last year.
But Sharp threw a spanner in the works when she won the Trials race, as Okoro and Jackson struggled and missed out on automatic selection. The Scot added further weight to her chances when winning a silver medal at the European Championships last week.
In selecting Sharp off the back of having just the 'B' standard, it meant that UKA could not select any of the four athletes with the 'A' standard. Okoro – who earlier today tweeted "I'm quitting" – has been included in the 4x400m.
Elsewhere, there were other notable inclusions and omissions. Athletes with two 'A' standards from last year – including UK 100m champion Dwain Chambers and former world 1500m silver medallist Lisa Dobriskey – have been added to the team. 400m runners Lee McConnell and Nigel Levine only have one 'A' standard each, but have been given a spot in the individual event as they had been named in the relay.
Others, though – including Gareth Warburton in the 800m and European bronze medallist Danny Talbot in the 200m – have not been named on the team, despite satisfying the IAAF selection criteria by having one 'A' standard.
Chambers, who will compete in both the 100m and 4x100m, is not the only athlete with a drugs past to be included in the team as Carl Myerscough has been selected in the shot. Up until April this year, both athletes were still subject to a lifetime Olympic ban set by the BOA, which has since been lifted.
In other events, Stuart Stokes was selected over Luke Gunn in the 3000m steeplechase, while Andy Turner and Rhys Williams grabbed the third and final spots in the 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles respectively, two of the most competitive events in the country.
Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis are among the biggest names in the team and will carry with them the heaviest weight of expectation. Farah has been named in both the 5000m and 10,000m, while Ennis goes in the heptathlon and has only been included in the 100m hurdles as a back-up.
100m: Dwain Chambers, James Dasaolu, Adam Gemili
200m: James Ellington, Christian Malcolm
400m: Nigel Levine, Martyn Rooney, Conrad Williams
800m: Andrew Osagie, Michael Rimmer
1500m: Andy Baddeley, Ross Murray
5000m: Mo Farah, Nick McCormick
10,000m: Farah, Chris Thompson
3000mSC: Stuart Stokes
110mH: Lawrence Clarke, Andrew Pozzi, Andy Turner
400mH: Jack Green, Dai Greene, Rhys Williams
High jump: Robbie Grabarz
Pole vault: Steve Lewis
Long jump: Greg Rutherford, Chris Tomlinson
Triple jump: Phillips Idowu
Shot: Carl Myerscough
Discus: Abdul Buhari, Brett Morse, Lawrence Okoye
Hammer: Alex Smith
Javelin: Mervyn Luckwell
Decathlon: Daniel Awde
50kmW: Dominic King
4x100m: Chambers, Dasaolu, Ellington, Gemili, Mark Lewis-Francis, Malcolm, Danny Talbot, Simeon Williamson
4x400m: Richard Buck, Green, Greene, Luke Lennon-Ford, Levine, Rooney, Rob Tobin, Williams
100m: Anyika Onuora, Abi Oyepitan
200m: Margaret Adeoye, Onuora, Oyepitan
400m: Shana Cox, Lee McConnell, Christine Ohuruogu
800m: Lynsey Sharp
1500m: Lisa Dobriskey, Hannah England, Laura Weightman
5000m: Julia Bleasdale, Barbara Parker, Jo Pavey
10,000m: Bleasdale, Pavey
3000mSC: Eilish McColgan, Parker
100mH: Jessica Ennis, Tiffany Porter
400mH: Eilidh Child, Perri Shakes-Drayton
Pole vault: Holly Bleasdale, Kate Dennison
Long jump: Shara Proctor
Triple jump: Yamile Aldama
Hammer: Sophie Hitchon
Javelin: Goldie Sayers
Heptathlon: Ennis, Louise Hazel, Katarina Johnson-Thompson
20kmW: Johanna Jackson
4x400m: Child, Cox, Emily Diamond, McConnell, Ohuruogu, Marilyn Okoro, Nicola Sanders, Shakes-Drayton
What a brave and correct decision to choose only Lynsey Sharp for the 800m
Agreed re Lynsey sharp.
Warburton should have been selected though.
Kilty or Talbot???
It's rare that I agree with the selectors, but I think they've got it right this time. Lynsey has amply proven her racing ability and had to be included, unfortunate though it is for the others. Okoro may be bitter but she blew it when it mattered, and Meadows can hardly be at her best after being out all season. Rimmer too has a proven racing ability and, despite not being 100% at the trials, nearly made it. Warburton (although a fellow Welshman) has been up and down and has not shown his ability to go through the rounds. Who'd be a selector?
Why no Jade Nicholls in the discus? She has achieved two b standards since April 2012
Lynsey Sharpe earned her selection with two great racing performances at the trials and Europeans, the selectors have made a brave and inspired choice here. However, they have got it completely wrong with Dwain Chambers. He is not performing at the required level, is not likely to do so in the future, and to cap it all is a convicted drug cheat. He should not be allowed anywhere near the Olympic Stadium and I look forward to seeing him fail to qualify for the final.
I absolutely agree with Running Dive here. I am pleased to see Lynsey Sharp in the team as a reward for her dedication recently, but am also disappointed for the athletes left out as a result of a wonky rule. But all the athletes know the criteria at the start of the season and should be striving to achieve the required level and make selection automatic (funded or not).
I also would have liked to see Chambers and Myerscough omitted from the team, neither deserve their place on current form and their selection is a cop out by UKA I feel (unwilling to take the flak from the media perhaps). UKA have been quite prepared to omit women sprinters who aren't up to the standard individually or the relay squad (the relay squad qualification is a separate issue), so why include men sprinters who aren't up to the standard either – presumably because of the higher profile of Chambers thanks to the low standards and understanding of sports reporters in the media (newspapers and TV and Radio).
Apart from that I think UKA have chosen a team of athletes that will deliver exciting and committed performances even if they don't actually get to finals or win medals (better than I expected from UKA I must admit!)
I agree with Kevin. Everyone should be allowed a second chance, even murderers and rapists, so why not an athlete who made a dumb decision several years ago, and has shown remorse. Get real folks, people make mistakes.
Chambers has served his punishment, give the guy a break. Even murderers are freed after being punished. And as far as him being not good enough, I don't see you criticising those he beat in the trials.
Lynsey sharp, a spot on selection
Incorrect decision IMO, she hasn't ever run sub-2!
The ability to win races is far more important than fast times. Look at all the Russian women, for example, who run spectacular times in Russia and later fail at championships.
I have to say that I agree with the decision to selection of Lynsey Sharp, hard as it may have been. With Jenny Meadows' achilles tendon flaring up on the flight to Helsinki, alarm bells must have been ringing in the selectors' heads. I`d be surprised to see her in action at all this year. Marilyn Okoro let herself down again in the trials with her primary school pace judgement and Emma Jackson didn't deliver when it mattered either, as sadly she too is carrying an injury. I agree with skimpton above the Warburton should have been selected on the merits of his single A standard time. Making him chase the standard in his heat and semi at Helsinki did him no favours at all, particularly as that came on the back of a strength-sapping trials just days earlier.
Great, gutsy decision regarding Lynsey, good luck in London and to all those missed out, I hope you use it to spur you on in the future.
So sad that British champions with qualifying standards have not been selected.
shame on you Mr van Commenee.
no Irozuru or Byres – young talent ! And MLF good enough for the relay yet Warburton and the likes of Kilty/Talbot aren't good enough?
I have very few nice thing to say about this selection. As a 25 year old former athlete I really feel for all of those who haven't been picked to go, knowing how much this Olympics means to them. Yes the Lynsey sharp selection is horrible and obviously feuded by UKA's favouritism, but there is also many event where we will not have either the full 3 athletes or no athletes at all.
Look at the men's 200m, we have three people who aren't going with the A standard, Gareth warbaton in the 800m, a choice between chris Thompson and Tom Farrell in the 5k and Samson oni in the high jump. And that's just the men.
Hattie archer, Katie byres and Abigail irozuru all could of been part of this years team. In the shot and discus we are not going to be represented by anyone however Eden Francis has the B standard in the shot and both Francis and jade Nichols have the B standard in the discus.
Even though the selectors claim they are only taking Boole who can compete, let's be honest, most of our athletes will not make it to the finals and I'm betting that we will take no more than 6 medals this time round, so why the hell are we leaving so many out of our home Olympics?
There's nothing brave about the decision. Sharp has proved herself a championship performer, Okoro hasn't. Meadows has but she hasn't raced all year while Jackson's best times were achieved early in the season (a traditional problem with British middle distance runners). Simpson was unlucky with injury but Sharp is marginally faster. It's not a controversial decision it's the correct one in the circumstances. I wish her all the best.
How can they say you have to run an A standard and then select and athlete who hasnt! Yes she is running well but it makes the whole selection process a bit of a joke. There needs to be more defined rules rather than selectors favorites! Missing athletes in other events who have run A times (hatti Dean, kilty!) And not taking anyone in events where athletes have achieved B standards! Olympics on home soil… Take a FULL team!!!! It at least gives athletes experience for the future, how can we expect them to improve and compete against the best without the chance!!!
I personnaly think they should have given Marylin a chance in the Euros, Im not sure why they didnt. I think she is the only athlete with a Anyway they didnt therefore I cant see any other choice other than to pick Lynsey. Beaten them all, ranked higher and beaten Jemma twice, Emm is injured, Marylin messed up the trials, Jenny hasnt run this year and is injured. I think she is very very lucky in terms of circumstances have allowed her to be in this position (Im not sure how many athletes with her PB would have won Euro silver and gone to the Olympics with a B standrad when there are athlets with and A – think her PB to date would have ranked her 5-6 for the last 5 years in GB) but they way its turned out she deserves to go and I think the selectors were pretty much left with no choice. Good luch to her.
I'm not up to speed on the rules, please help. Why couldn't Lynsey Sharp AND two others not be selected?
Because she did not have the A standard. If more than 1 person is selected they must have the A.
Olympic Rules. You can select up to 3 athletes for an event who have the 'A' standard time, OR you can choose one athlete only who has the 'B' standard time. Therefore you can't take a 'B' standard athlete and an athlete with the 'A' standard. Sharp only has a 'B' standard.
It's worth remembering a similar dilemma four years ago. Trials winner, rising star and 'B' standard holder Perri Shakes-Drayton was overlooked in favour of 'A' standard holder, experienced international and trials runner-up Tasha Danvers. Most people thought Shakes-Drayton a better bet. They were proved wrong. It will be interesting to see what transpires this time, now the selection committee have gone the other way.
The main point this whole process has highlighted is the absurdity of some of the criteria itself and the inconsistency across the board. There are athletes in Team GB who are not in the same league as Meadows and Okoro, yet they will get their Olympic vest. Meadows and Okoro (if we ignore the token relay pick) won't. The men's marathon is a perfect example. We have one two men selected with B standard times and one with the A. Yet, the criteria will not permit selecting any A standard athletes alongside a B standard in the women's 800m. Bonkers.
It's worth remembering a similar dilemma four years ago. Trials winner, rising star and 'B' standard holder Perri Shakes-Drayton was overlooked in favour of 'A' standard holder, experienced international and trials runner-up Tasha Danvers. Most people thought Shakes-Drayton a better bet. They were proved wrong. It will be interesting to see what transpires this time, now the selection committee have gone the other way.


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Sox rally late to top O's, 4-3
By MATTHEW CARROLL
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— Dustin Pedroia delivered a game-tying, two-run double in the seventh inning, and pinch hitter Mike Carp came through with an RBI single an inning later as the Boston Red Sox came from behind to win their fourth straight game, 4-3, over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.
John Lackey pitched into the eighth inning and Jacoby Ellsbury had two hits and two stolen bases for the Red Sox, who won for the seventh time in their last 10 games to maintain a 2 1/2-game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays for first place in the American League East.
Chris Davis hit his major-league-leading 47th home run of the season, and Manny Machado also went deep for the Orioles, who lost for the third time in four games to fall 7 1/2 games behind Boston.
The Red Sox were held in check by Bud Norris until they broke through against Baltimore's bullpen in the seventh.
Francisco Rodriguez surrendered a leadoff double to Stephen Drew and a single to Ellsbury. Darren O'Day came in and got Shane Victorino to line out before yielding Pedroia's double to left that barely scored Ellsbury from second, tying the game 3-3.
The Red Sox then strung together a two-out rally against Tommy Hunter (3-3) in the eighth.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia doubled off the Green Monster and later scored on Carp's flare that barely sailed over the outstretched arm of third baseman Machado.
Koji Uehara pitched a perfect ninth for his 14th save in 17 opportunities.
Lackey kept the Red Sox in the game by holding the Orioles to three runs on seven hits over 7 1/3 innings, striking out four and walking one.
Craig Breslow (4-2) pitched two-thirds of an inning for the win.
One night after scoring 13 runs on 14 hits, Boston was silenced by Norris.
Acquired at the trade deadline from Houston, the right-hander surrendered one run on four hits over 5 1/3 innings with seven strikeouts and four walks.
Baltimore took a 1-0 lead in the first when Machado beat out an infield single and scored on a double by Davis.
Machado then made it 2-0 in the third with his 12th homer of the year, belting an 0-1 offering from Lackey over the Green Monster in left field.
The Red Sox cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Victorino, who drove in a career-high seven runs Tuesday. Norris preserved the lead, though, working out of a bases-loaded jam by striking out David Ortiz and Daniel Nava to end the threat.
Davis, who had hit only two homers in his last 11 games, led off the sixth with a solo shot to center, his fifth against Boston this season.


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A: You can convert your TTA files to the popular MP4 format.
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A: The TTA to MP4 Converter download for PC works on most current Windows operating systems.
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A: Input File Formats: 3G2, 3GP, 3GP2, AAC, AC3, DTS, AIF, AIFF, AMR, APE, CDA, FLAC, M4A, M4B, M4R, MO3, MOD, MP+, MP1, MAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, SHN, SPX, TAK, TTA, WAV, WAVE64, WMA, WV, IT, XM, PLS, OFR, OFS, S3M, M3U and CUE. Output File Formats: 3G2 (audio track), 3GP (audio track), AAC, AAC for iPod/iPhone/iPad/iTunes, AC3, AIFF, ALAC (Apple Lossless), FLAC, M4A (MPEG-4 audio), M4B (MPEG-4 audiobook), M4R (iPhone ringtone), MP2, MPC, MP3, MP4 (audio track), APE, OGG, WAV, WMA and any ACM Encoder.
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A: People Convert TTA files To MP4 format for various purpose, however, most of them Convert TTA for the two common ones, first the TTA files are too large, they want to save some space, second their portable devices do not recognize TTA format at all, but these devices are capable of playing MP4 files without any compatibility issues.
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A: This is a good question, but unfortunately, the short answer is YES. Since MP4 is a lossy audio format.
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A: It's easy! Just click the TTA to MP4 Converter download button at the page. Clicking this link will start the installer to download TTA to MP4 Converter free for Windows.
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A: TTA (The True Audio) is a free lossless audio codec associated with True Audio Software. TTA can scale audio files down to about 30%-70% of their original size, and the compression runs on multichannel 8, 16 and 24-bit data of WAV tracks.
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A: MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. The only official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, but many have other extensions, most commonly .m4a and .m4p. M4A (audio only) is often compressed using AAC encoding (lossy), but can also be in Apple Lossless format. M4P is a protected format which employs DRM technology to restrict copying. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. While the only official filename extension defined by the standard is .mp4, various filename extensions are commonly used to indicate intended content: MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard .mp4 extension. Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. This is especially true of non-protected content. MPEG-4 files with audio streams encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as were sold through the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension. iTunes Plus tracks, that the iTunes Store currently sells, are unencrypted and use .m4a accordingly. Audiobook and podcast files, which also contain metadata including chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, can use the extension .m4a, but more commonly use the .m4b extension. An .m4a audio file cannot "bookmark" (remember the last listening spot), whereas .m4b extension files can. The Apple iPhone uses MPEG-4 audio for its ringtones but uses the .m4r extension rather than the .m4a extension. Raw MPEG-4 Visual bitstreams are named .m4v but this extension is also sometimes used for video in MP4 container format. Mobile phones use 3GP, an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 12 (a.k.a. MPEG-4/JPEG2000 ISO Base Media file format), similar to MP4. It uses .3gp and .3g2 extensions. These files also store non-MPEG-4 data (H.263, AMR, TX3G). M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio and is a filename extension used to represent audio files. The existence of two different filename extensions, .MP4 and .M4A, for naming audio-only MP4 files has been a source of confusion among users and multimedia playback software. Some file managers, such as Windows Explorer, look up the media type and associated applications of a file based on its filename extension. But since MPEG-4 Part 14 is a container format, MPEG-4 files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing the .m4a filename extension, which is used for MP4 containers with audio data in the lossy Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or its own Apple Lossless (ALAC) formats. Software capable of audio/video playback should recognize files with either .m4a or .mp4 filename extensions, as would be expected, since there are no file format differences between the two. Most software capable of creating MPEG-4 audio will allow the user to choose the filename extension of the created MPEG-4 files.
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A lot has been written and assumed about Genevieve Jones's background over the years. Tongues have been wagging since she broke into the elite New York social scene with a vengeance. Armed with a jaw-dropping wardrobe of designer wears and a crew of famous fashion friends to boot, Jones immediately became the center of attention with the paparazzi capturing her nightly excursions and outfits. With no apparent occupation, it was inevitable that the haters would come running with flamed torches in hand ready to crucify Jones for being a pretty face with influential friends. The backlash got so bad after a 2006 Teri Agins's profile on Jones' that the petite "It Girl" returned home to Baton Rouge until all the drama died down. Today, Jones is still one of the most photographed women, but she's put to bed the debates over her lack of talent by launching a glam jewelry and bag collection that has, like herself, become a hit seemingly overnight. Her intricate pieces and bags have adorned the likes of Rihanna, Kate Moss and Kim Kardashian. We're glad all the hoopla and speculation about our favorite stylista are pretty much dead, so now we can turn our focus back to the reason Jones caught our eye in the first place and that's her amazing personal style. Blessed with the kind of lithe frame that is made for designer frocks, Jones, who has been a muse to designers like Zac Posen, hardly ever plays it safe when it comes to fashion. She draws inspiration from a myriad of styles like lady-like chic, retro vintage, minimalism and femme fatale to infuse lots of individualistic charm into her revered ensembles. With no one style to call her own, it's not surprising that Jones's closet is made up of diverse designers with contrasting aesthetics. Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Rodarte, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Thakoon and YSL are all in the mix. One thing you'll most likely never find are jeans. Jones is a perpetual dressed-up kind of gal, so anything as casual as denim doesn't register with her. Instead, Jones clearly gravitates to off-beat dresses in dizzying prints, high-waisted shorts, and skirts all in sky-high hemlines to show off her game. No matter how sexy her silhouettes may be, Jones quirky approach to fashion always adds a dose of whimsy to her looks. Take for instance when she paired a shrunken, leather varsity jacket with an opulent brocade mini for a playful take on luxury or her affinity for wearing ankle socks with her sandals. There are few women who can pull off Jones's looks. While mini's are in constant rotation in her wardrobe, recently we've been spotting Jones looking effortlessly elegant in floor-sweeping, maxi skirts. No matter what the details of Jones's past are, one thing's for sure, we're completely infatuated with this style maven. Read More:
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