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LOL... I just read the prognosticator's (jjdude1) thread referred to at the end the PAX panel and it's both amazing and chilling how it's played out from then until now.
The big story for us is that after the humble beginnings of having two RBN-launch tracks as a little duo-collaboration back in 2010 (as James William Roy), over the past year we've released a debut album as The James Rocket ("Launch") and are gigging around NYC as a live act in 2013.
I suppose my other major RBN achievement for the year is that I haven't had to hardly do anything as a moderator: the community does pretty well in policing itself, maintaining standards, and is surprisingly civil about it! :) Three cheers for three years to HMXLachesis for much credit in that department, as well! ;)
Here's to RBN: Long May She Reign!
Hugs, kisses,
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Happy birthday and thanks HMX! We'll keep tryin' to make you proud!
The RBN is proof that just because you havnt heard the song on the radio doesnt mean its not good or fun to play. IMO the RBN is a large factor as to why Rock Band prevailed over those other music game competitors. Glad to see its lasted 3 years and all hopes that Microsoft allows it to last for a long time to come.
I started work on RBN on my first day at Harmonix, and it was an absolute blast. I got to talk to every different department at Harmonix and learn how DLC was made, how our games worked with the consoles, how we submitted DLC to Microsoft and Sony (and Nintendo...). And then I got to build it, and met a bunch of people who would become my good friends and co-workers.
Later, through RBN I met Jonathan Coulton, and Miguel from Rock Gamer, and Ethical Paul and Markleford and Apples, and Darren from Furly (who later wrote the music to Bastion); and HMX friends who are now alumni, on to great things elsewhere: Jeremy and Caleb and Brakely, Dizzyboy (who was working as office help at HMX and got a job on our Audio QA deparment because of RBN).
And of course Lachesis, who I think is perhaps the only person who embraced and loved RBN even more than me, and has such a passion for it that it wouldn't be the same without her.
There were so many other people that showed up, I'm sure I'll forget someone and for that I'm sorry. Trust me when I say that the people I worked with, within and without Harmonix, were the highlight of my time on RBN. I love what I do now, but RBN is always going to be my baby.
So thank you. Thank you all. YOU ALL did this, together. It's awesome. I am full of awe.
No specific stories but I have loved the stuff coming out of RBN since day one.
I have downloaded and played ever single demo* to see if I wanted to get the song. Still do. A lot of bands I never heard of are now favorites. Every week. In the time RBN has been out, my RBN purchases have been about double what the regular DLC has been. It has been a fantastic avenue for discovering new bands, getting older favorites, and for music in general. Even with the regular DLC ending, RBN is still there, and I will be content.
I guess I do have a story - it has become a weekend tradition that I download all the demos during the week, then the wife and I sit and I play the demo and we rate each one, and decide what to buy that week. I have a spreadsheet with a list of all the songs, and our ratings. So if I have lots of extra points, I can go back and buy the stuff that was good, but maybe not good enough for the amount of money that week. The wife and I really enjoy that.
Bands discovered:
Scratching the Itch
Amberion Dawn
Bang Camero
Children of Nova
Inkubus Succubus
Parry Gripp
Rose of Jericho
Christina Maria Magenta
Fallen Angel
Free Spirit
Jukebox the Ghost
Van Friscia
Anarcy Club
Halcyon Way
Powerman 5000
And that is just bands I bought 3 or more from - the fantastic and sometimes quirky singles like 50,000 Unstoppable Watts, Tadpole Search and Rescue and California have been great.
Things I didn't expect to see in RB
Jonathon Coulton (Volume of material)
Buckner and Garcia
Gov't Mule
The classical stuff
* - to be honest I dislike Death Metal Growl, so if I see a song with devil heads on instruments but 0 or 1 on vocals, I just listen to the sample instead of play it. I hear grunt grunt, I delete the demo... but I do download every demo there. :D
Well, I finally listened to Devin Townsend from the RBN. And his stuff is freakin awesome! Had to get that album on my iPod quick. Haven't found much else as good, but I'm definatley looking.
Anyone got any more DT albums to recommend that I get on my iPod.
I was really excited to hear about Steve Vai being on the RBN when it started when I was on the Wii and hoped that the Wii got his tracks and the Wii did get some and I bought them that instant. Now being a 360 player, it's even better because I can find the real hidden gems that most people will never buy.
Artists Discovered:
Devin Townsend
Perfect Hero
The Myriad Burial
Children of Nova
Parry Gripp
and many more. Here's to hoping for MANY more tracks and many more awesome artists.


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Foods are the best source of nutrients. Regular meals and snacks can provide all the nutrients most preschoolers need.
While many young children are picky eaters, that doesn't necessarily mean that they have nutritional deficiencies. Many common foods — including breakfast cereal, milk and orange juice — are fortified with important nutrients, such as B vitamins, vitamin D, calcium and iron. So your child may be getting more vitamins and minerals than you think.
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- Supplements: Do kids need them? U.S. Department of Agriculture. http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/nibbles/supplements.pdf. Accessed May 17, 2012.
- Vitamin and mineral supplementation in kids. American Medical Association. http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?volume=163&issue=2&page=192. Accessed May 17, 2012.
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I built a constellation from my bones,
strung it up like laundry,
and evening hauled it over the tar-black pines.
And now my constellation veers, a swarm of stars
useless for navigation;
with no Polaris to guide you and your dozing
shipmates toward a new island of honey.
I concentrated my constellation,
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Muhler holds off Smith for the win but Savage secures the points championship.
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(Dacono, CO - 10-15-2011) On one of the most entertaining race nights of the season at Colorado National Speedway #95m Cris Muhler battled side by side with #31 Rick Smith to take the Purifoy Chevrolet Championship Night I. However it was #74 Dan Savage that earned enough points to secure the 2011 CNS track championship in the Gillet Vet Late Model division.
Read more: Muhler holds off Smith for the win but Savage secures the points championship.
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(Dacono, CO - 09-17-2011) On Mike's Hard Lemonade night at Colorado National Speedway clean green flag racing was the theme in every division as Rick Smith took the late model main, Lee Kemmit won the Sportsman division, Kyle Clegg was first in the legends, and Harold Evans won the ERA Supermodified feature event.
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text: Home Politics Is White Privilege a Myth? Virginia Senator Jim Webb urges an end to government diversity programs, saying that they hurt deserving whites and benefit people not entitled to them. This is a debate we should have, but can we? By: Terence Samuel Posted: July 28 2010 6:28 AM 0 Here is what I anticipate: Jim Webb, the senior senator from Virginia, will soon be both vilified and lionized in the ''media'' for attacking affirmative action as wrong-headed and divisive. And one result is that the intense conversation we've endured in recent days about race in the wake of the sacking of Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is now headed for overtime. In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, Webb asserted that affirmative action programs, which he and most everyone else now refer to as ''diversity'' programs, have strayed from their original intent and today do more to hurt white Americans and harm the country than they do to redress past racial injustice. ''I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship,'' Webb writes. ''Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.'' The piece is headlined, ''Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege.'' The notion that white privilege is a myth will surely ignite a backlash among many black Americans, who will say that there is nothing mythical about the advantages that being white bestows in America. Alternately, Webb will be hailed as a hero and a truth-teller among those who see the racial landscape in America so vastly altered in the last 50 years that the idea that whites continue to have any inherent advantage based on race is at least outdated and, more likely, a perverse, intentional corruption of the truth. People will argue that white privilege is a social conceit intended to gain political and economic advantage -- the race card, in common parlance. One hundred fifty summers ago, in July 1860, in one of his last speeches as president and one that helped create the climate for war, James Buchanan told a group of anxious Democrats at the White House that the only way to save the Union was to let Southern slave owners take their "property" into the new territories of the West. Northern abolitionist agitators had no right to dictate otherwise, he said. "The sovereign states of this Union are one vast partnership. The territories were acquired by the common blood and common treasure of them all," Buchanan said. "Each state, and each citizen of each state, has the same right in the territories as any other state and the citizens of any other state possess. Now what is sought for at present is that a portion of these states should turn around to their sister states and say, 'We are holier than you are, and while we will take our property to the territories and have it protected there, you shall not place your property in the same position.' " The argument today seems so ridiculous and so wrong that it seems unimaginable that it could have been made by a president of the United States. But it is one more historical example of how the long-running debate about race has been one of monumental misunderstanding about what is important to the other side. Blind to the injustice of slavery, Buchanan was passionate about preserving the rights of Southern planters. Five months after that speech, Lincoln won the White House, and four months later, the Civil War began. He acknowledges all the important points his opponents will make: The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. But Webb's brief will sound like a counter-narrative, in large part because it dismisses the idea of white privilege. For many black Americans that will end the conversation, but his argument is not with black Americans. "Where should we go from here?" Webb asks. "Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end." I read the piece with interest because Webb came to mind earlier this week as we bumbled through the Shirley Sherrod USDA firing debacle. Advised to look at the whole speech, I listened to Sherrod talk about a historical partnership between poor blacks and whites in the South and thought of Jim Webb. 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....There is a different class of reader, though. They feel that their relationship with a book, its characters and the author is too intimate to share. "The pursuit of reading," Virginia Woolf wrote, "is carried on by private people."
Ms. Stead remembers having had especially intense feelings about books when she was young. "For me, as a kid, a book was a very private world," she said. "I didn't like talking about books with other people very much because it almost felt like I didn't want other people to be in that world with me."
Particularly with the books we adore most, a certain reader wants to preserve the experience for reflection, or even claim the book as hers and hers alone. Lois Lowry, an author of books for children and a two-time winner of the Newbery for "Number the Stars" and "The Giver," said she recently read that Katherine Paterson, also a two-time Newbery winner and now the national ambassador for young people's literature, had named "The Yearling," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, as the most influential book of her childhood. "I felt a twinge of 'no fair, that's mine!' " Ms. Lowry said. "I hastily backed off from that feeling because I know and love Katherine, and it's O.K. that we share the same book." ....
Katherine emailed me gracefully that she felt the same twinge when she saw that I had named "The Yearling" in Anita Silvey's recent book. No, mine! she thought briefly—which just goes to show that both Katherine and I can revert with no warning to the mentality of nine-years-olds: scrappy and self-absorbed. It serves us well, I think; but it is probably a good thing we didn't choose—let me think—psychiatry or the priesthood as a profession.
A friend is here with me in Maine---she's a Harvard professor, working on a paper due Feb 1st. Her dog came with her; and while the dogs play and hang out together, she works on her laptop in one room and I on my laptop in another. Then we get together for dinner. A good workable system.
Yesterday afternoon she took a break and went out on snowshoes. When she came back, she brought with her a chunk of top-layer snow that she had broken off behind my barn in order to show me the animal tracks on it.
Here's a photo:
...Lentil-fleece soup, anyone?
Just for the record, French lentils are quite small. I had bought some last summer because I had a good recipe for a French lentil salad, actually. But there is a limit to the number of French lentil salads one can eat in a summer, and so I had a supply of French lentils in the pantry here in Maine.
Then they disappeared. Until yesterday when I put on...or TRIED to put on..these boots. The left one fit fine. The right one....
...well, it was full of French lentils.
...Take me out to the ballgame....
This is from son Ben, a lawyer in Portland, Maine, who has just returned from a baseball tournament in Orlando
I played for the Boston Wolfpack, a juggernaut of a team that has won this event 5 out of the past 6 years. I have never been on such a dominant team, with players from the Pack being recruited from all over the United States. Needless to say, we won the event, with our closest challenge coming in the finals, which we won 3-0 to secure the crown. It was a great experience for me, playing alongside several ex-major leaguers who really know how to play the game the right way.
And I include it here because it takes my mind off the results of yesterday's senatorial election in Massachusetts, which is a terrible disappointment to many of us (clearly not all) and an insult to the memory of Ted Kennedy.
Here I am with Roger Sutton---he humming "Am I Blue?"...me humming "Deep Purple"...but at least we didn't CLASH and it was a nice half hour at the Horn Book booth. Timely, our colorfulness, coincident with the new and very colorful Horn Book!
I have just picked up Alfie from being bathed and groomed...not naming names, but the first groomer turned him down, saying "Too matted, I'd have to shave him"..and the second greeted him warmly, no comments about his Bad Hair, and did a great job cleaning him up:
I will say this, though: during this one day I have taken my dog for a pricey spa job; and I complained because the guy who is going to re-tile a bathroom floor called to postpone; and I took a steak out of the freezer for dinner; and I just said "Bye, thanks" to my cleaning lady; and I answered an email from my son who is in Florida for a few days ...and...and...and... fill in the blanks. I lead a very privileged, fortunate life. It is particularly apparent right now, as I see the contrast with Haiti and what the victims there are enduring. It makes a dog hair-do almost obscene.
I could add that I did go on line and sent a large donation to Paul Farmer's medical organization in Haiti. But it seems meaningless, almost. Drop in the bucket. But let us hope that there are many, many such drops and that all together we can be of some help.
I don't know anyone in Haiti. A few years ago, I did know someone who lost his son and soon-to-be daughter-in-law, who were spending Christmas in Thailand, celebrating their engagement, when the tsunami struck. My friend went there in the aftermath but was never able to find their bodies. What he found—an image that has stayed with me—was HAPPY CHRISTMAS I LOVE YOU, written in shaving cream on the bathroom mirror of their hotel room.
Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH) is a very reliable organization working in Haiti. PIH was founded by Paul Farmer and has a reputation for getting needed medical supplies/doctors on the ground quickly and is reported to waste little on bureaucracy. They already have clinics functioning in the areas needed.
Below is their call to networks around the world:"A major earthquake centered just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince has devastated sections of the city and knocked out telephone communications throughout the country. Reached via email, Partners In Health staff at our facilities in the Central Plateau report that they experienced a strong shock but no major damage or injuries. "We are still attempting to establish contact with other PIH facilities and to locate several staff members who were traveling in and around Port-au-Prince. In an urgent email from Port-au-Prince, Louise Ivers, our clinical director in Haiti, appealed for assistance from her colleagues in the Central Plateau:
'Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...
Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs
supplies, pain meds, bandages.
Please help us.'
DONATE HERE: https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake
ALA coming up
Ordinarily authors do not play much of a role at midwinter ALA conventions (as opposed to the huge summer convention where there are signing booths everywhere) but because this year's Midwinter is in Boston, I will be involved in a couple of things: at 2 PM on Saturday, an interview with Roger Sutton at the Horn Book booth (more details at Roger's blog)---he'll have a series of authors, one after another---and Sunday evening, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt dinner at which a number of authors will be briefly presenting/describing their spring 2010 books. Should be fun.
I came back from Baja with a tooth problem, a temporary crown that had broken and needed to be replaced---somehow looking for a dentist in Tecate did not feel like a great idea!--so that was done yesterday. And also Alfie went yesterday for hs bath-and-grooming appointment and was REJECTED! Turned away! The humiliation! They said he was too matted and would need to be shaved. No way are we having him shaved when the temperature outside is down in single digits. Tomorrow he goes to a different groomer who -- we hope -- will be willing to spend the time to tend his thick fur and clean him up. His hair gets matted very easily, unfortunately. But he is very patient if he is in the hands of a patient groomer.
Here is a photo from a very creative gift-giver, who gave a copy of my book CROW CALL to a friend, arranged in a basket with related things: homemade cherry pie, and a stuffed crow. What a nifty idea, which could be adapted to any number of gift books....
...though I wonder how one would deal with THE HUNGER GAMES!
I am writing this from the small town of Tecate, in Baja, California, where I am spending a week with three women friends...away from snowy New England. Here's a photo of the view from the terrace of our little casita:
As you can see, the sky is very blue and the landscape quite rugged. Two mornings ago, looking out from this very spot, I watched a mountain lion move across the tall grass in the open space behind the small tree. When I mentioned it to the staff here, they said, "Must have been a stray dog." But I know a dog when I see one. This was a large CAT, moving in the sinuous way of cats...the size of a German Shepherd, tawny gold, and with muscles in its shoulders...completely different from a dog. Later they acknowledged that there have been occasional sightings...and in fact there are signs at the entrances to hiking trails alerting hikers to the presence of mountain lions...so I feel quite certain that's what I saw.
It made me want to go back and re-read Jean Stafford's book "The Mountain Lion" which I loved in the past, and I can envision exactly where it is, in a bookcase in my Maine house.
We began our trip here with a mishap, when one of my friends fell and gashed her forehead on the corner of a chair...so there was an unplanned several-hour visit to a hospital ER in San Diego, and now she has a Frankenstein-looking stitched-up wound, but is doing fine...no concussion, no fracture.
Linda Sue Park and I have been having an e-mail conversation geared around the Newbery Medal, with this year's selection coming up; it will be published on Amazon at the time of the ALA (I'll have to find out how to get to it)... already I would like to re-write my half of it. She was more eloquent than I. Bummer. Story of my life.
Here's a picture my friend Middy just sent me. Mid and I have been friends for a zillion years, and she is the one who does the illustrations for the Gooney Bird books.
and here we are some years ago (I am prowling my hard drive, cleaning things up a bit)
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Top 10 Children's Books according to TIME:
1. Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
2. Guess Again by Mac Barnett; illustrated by Adam Rex
3. Dogs Don't Brush Their Teeth by Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner
4. Crow Call by Lois Lowry; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
...Happy Christmas
It is a lovely time here at the farm, with snow on the ground and dogs and grandchildren and gifts and food. Toys and books and cookies and football. May 2010 bring good things to the world.
Dear Author....
Here, I hope without violating her privacy, is my recent correspondence with a young girl. This is not at all the same as a simple "Your books suck" kind of letter that can be ignored. But I find myself wondering what my legitimate role is. I never want to get pulled into a political or religious discussion, though some readers seem to invite me to. I steer clear of that. And I don't want to intrude at all on family situations. In this case, I think I've said all I want to say. But I also think I would have been remiss not to grapple at all with the issues raised. I just hope this child is reasonably comfortable with my answers. And it would be great if she showed the emails to her mother. But I suppose that is asking too much.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:47 AM, XXXX wrote:
I do not think that this is
a kids book I has stuff
kids shoud not read about in it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, all
Thanks to all of you who sent comments to my post yesterday which quoted an email I had received from am 8th-grade boy. Let me just say once again that I get a huge amount of mail and 99% of it is intelligent, thoughtful and supportive.
And some is a little amusing, like the email I got recently from a young girl that said only: "i dont think kids should read this book it has bad stuff in it." I wrote back and explained that I had written 35 books and don't know which one she was referring to. (Actually, I assumed it was "The Giver' since that is the one that draws the most objection). But no. She replied that was 'anastasia has the answers, that is the one with bad stuff." I replied again, asking what she meant by "bad stuff," that I couldn't recall anything at all that might be offensive in that book; and she replied that "it talks about sex, you should read it again." Mystified, I did so, and found two references to "sex." One is when Anastasia suggests to her 8th-grade English teacher that he teach "Gone with the Wind" instead of "Johnny Tremain" and he replies that he thinks it inappropriate. She counters that it has no explicit sex in it, but he stands firm. Later in the book, an 8th-grade friend of hers paints her toenails and says that she thinks they look sexy.
So I replied once again to my correspondent that I had, on her advice, re-read the book. I told her the two places I had found where "sex" was mentioned, that I didn't think they fell into the category of "bad stuff" and that I would be happy to have my young grandchildren read the book. No response from her yet.
As for the boy who wrote yesterday's email, I just replied to him briefly that I was sorry he hadn't liked the book, that perhaps he was not mature enough yet to understand it well. (I said the same thing to another boy a few years ago, in an email, and he replied, "F___ you, lady, I'm very mature, I'm 17" His reply qualifies, in my opinion, as a good example of Quod Erat Demonstrandum)
Actually, I think the little girl was the more intriguing correspondent, because she felt strongly about something in the book, and tried hard to convince me. Perhaps that's why I replied to her at greater length. The boy? He was just annoyed that he'd been assigned a book to read, and he was being a smartass, and probably showed his friends, with some pride, the rude letter he'd written. It's an age a which disrespect is somehow a badge of honor, and the immediacy and anonymity of email makes it so easy.
...Another one....
Perhaps posting this is just masochism on my part---or misery seeking company---but this is an email I have just received from a kid. I get many, many others that are intelligent and respectful (whether they like or dislike a book) but it is hard to know how to reply to one like this. Of course it is tempting to send a reply that is as insulting and asinine as his email. But that's a lamebrain, unconstructive thing to do. I guess the best thing is to do nothing, maybe send a polite response, and hope he grows up eventually. And learns to spell, if nothing else.
my dear lois lowery,
"Snow Blankets the East"....
Snow Spreads Across Region An enormous storm piled on New York and New England after crippling the nation's capital and mid-Atlantic.
And it is true. Of course it happens every year, so we should be very blasé about it, but nonetheless the first storm is always kind of exciting, even though this one has screwed up my plans to drive to New Hampshire today to see my daughter. Later this afternoon I will make it to a neighborhood party, though---no driving involved.
This is the opening of a chapter in "The Silent Boy":
Snow! When I woke, I could feel the silence of
it. There was frost on my window, and the room was cold. It had been cold when
I went to bed, but now it was a different kind of cold, a quiet kind.
It is bitter, bitter cold in the Northeast, and my indomitable son just sent me a photo from his iPhone---he is skiing at Sunday River, where the temperature is in single digits, or even below zero. I emailed him back to PUT THOSE GLOVES ON! You never get over being a Mom.
Sunday River is 20 minutes from my house in Maine, where I hope the furnace is churning away. Nothing worse than frozen, burst pipes! We've been there, done that.
Pipes willing, weather willing, we will head up there for Christmas.
On January 10, 1919, it was 4 below zero in Maine, and there had been 10 inches of snow the day before. I only know this because of research for a book set there at that time. Imagine how much worse it was to be that cold, that snowy, in those days when heating was so much more iffy, and there were no snow blowers.
NCTE in Philadelphia
The NCTE convention was several weeks ago, and I know I have mentioned it before, but while I was later in Germany one of the teachers who had attended, and who had a book signed and a photo taken, emailed me the photograph. I intended to post it---and told her I would---but I was traveling, with my laptop, and when I got home and returned to my regular computer, the photograph remained with my traveling stuff. So, like sunglasses and folding umbrellas, it lay forgotten in some luggage until now.
And now here it is, me and Michelle Hudson from Louisiana. Nothing at all unusual about this photo, but it represents so well the many, many teachers who travel long distances (often, I think, at their own expense) and bring such enthusiasm with them --- for books --- that it is very heartening for authors. We love being reminded of what happens to the books when they leave our hands, and to talk to the teachers who use them in classrooms, who care so much about individual children,
Thank you, Michelle, and every other teacher like you, for all that you do.
The Little Princess
I received an email announcing that The Junior Library Guild has chosen my upcoming book, The Birthday Ball, as one of their Spring 2010 selections. They asked me to write a short essay abut the origin of the book for inclusion in their catalogue. A tough task because the book is a light-hearted romp set in a palace and populated by various royal characters, plus chambermaids and kitchen staff, and preparations for the upcoming 16th birthday of the princess. No deep inner meanings, no meaningful theme, just pure fun---and nothing wrong with that but it is hard to write an essay about it.
Then I remembered my own granddaughter's 6th birthday, for which I gave her royal garb: a fake ermine cape, a fake diamond tiara, the whole princesssy outfit. I looked through old photos for that ten-years-ago event, and found this one, which I included in my essay (though I don't know if they'll have room to print it in their catalogue).
Instead of writing about the origins of the book, I simply wrote about how young girls---at least this young girl of my acquaintance---identify with princesses and their milieu. In the book, Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her luxurious life and longs to be a peasant. My little granddaughter, at six, would have traded her peasant life for a palace, I'm sure.
Of course she is now 16 (see previous post!), the age of the princess in the book, and her priorities have changed a bit!


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Best back-to-school laptop backpacks
We're not going to lie. The backpack is a tough look to pull off, especially if you're a both-straps-on type. Anytime we see an adult wandering the streets or coffee shops of Manhattan looking like a harried high schooler, we cringe a little bit. That said, the one place you can get away with it is when you're actually in school--hence our perfectly timed collection of back-to-school laptop backpacks.
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Best and worst hairstyles of 2013
Celebrity beauty looks made headlines this year. Super short cuts topped the news, but that wasn't the only trend creating a buzz. Punk looks turned haute, peroxide blonde became the color of the moment, and braids reached an unprecedented level of artistry. Here, we look back at the most memorable hits and misses. For more year-end roundups, check out the Best and Worst Red Carpet Looks of 2013.
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From the good, the bad, to the just plain bizarre, we've rounded up the top 13 hits and misses to grace the red carpet this year. For more year-end roundups, check out the Best Hairstyles of 2013.
Kate Middleton's $1,000 hair makeover
=Hairdresser Rossano Ferretti can expect plenty of business following my news that the Duchess of Cambridge booked in to his luxury hair spa for a marathon six-hour session recently.
Selena Gomez tries out short hair and bangs. You like?
Selena Gomez with short hair? Behold the evidence at the KISS FM Jingle Ball last night.
12 beauty lessons we've learned from celebrity sisters
Having a sister means stealing each other's clothes and fighting over the bathroom mirror. It also means enjoying two wardrobes and sharing new beauty-product tips and tricks. Here, our five favorite sets of celebrity sisters and the beauty lessons we've learned from them.
Over and out: The 9 style trends to retire in 2014
Most regrettable trends come with warning signs: Do your teeth set off metal detectors? Are your lashes prone to tangling? Are your shoes ugly and uncomfortable? Here is this year's crop of bad fads.
Brow rehab: Reshape your eyebrows
Restoring botched brows can be a major pain in the...arch.
7 hair tips from the stylist who gave Jennifer Garner this amazing blowout
In order to cope with the intense feelings of jealousy I experienced when seeing Jennifer Garner's flawless hairstyle last week, I decided to contact the stylist responsible for the look, Kylee Heath, and find out what exactly she did to produce these glorious results.
MAJOR hair color news: Big changes for Duchess Catherine, Pamela Anderson, and Sienna Miller
Apparently, every celebrity in the world decided to dye her hair over the last few days—or at least Duchess Catherine, Sienna Miller, and Pamela Anderson did.
Do THIS one thing to amp up your little black dress, courtesy of Victoria Beckham
It was the chicest family night out ever in London yesterday, as Victoria Beckham hit the red carpet, along with her ADORABLE sons, Brooklyn, little fashionisto Romeo, and Cruz, to support the premiere of the soccer football documentary Class of '92, featuring superstar dad David. And she looked perfect as always—in Victoria Beckham, of course.
Pez shoes, Pez shoes, Pez shoes! Camilla Elphick's first shoe collection is delicious
There will always be a special place in our hearts for Pez—the completely absurd and impractical oblong candy that children are somehow meant to be patient enough to dispense, one by one, from a creaky plastic spring-loaded drawer contraption—and a newly minted shoe designer Camilla Elphick, a Cordwainers College graduate, has tapped into our oral fixation.
Sienna Miller debuts pink hair
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This film is contradicted by science and fact.
I wonder if the movie explains how the law of gravity is broken, and all that fracking fluid flows uphill through several thousand feet of rock to pollute the aquifers, as the watermelons claim? I bet not.From the previews I saw, it looks like they are going to make the argument that natural gas will flow through that rock to the surface, spontaneously ignite, then burn all the family farms down.Idiots.
The silliness doubtlessly derives from its re-written ending after the government issued its report that exposes the fraudulent foundation of "anti-fracking" propaganda...IIRC, while the filming was being done. They´re trying to make lemonade...morphing to corporate evil versus the honest world.
Guar Gum - it´s one of the chemicals pumped into the ground in fracking.It is usually used in salad dressing.
Fox News reported that Dubai has a substantialfinancial interest in this movie.Shut down drilling in the US so they can sell us natural gas!
"Matt Damon"--Matt Damon (Film Actors Guild)
If this movie is getting middling reviews, it really must be a stinker. Like imagine the reviews if the movie were pro-fracking.
I would never see this movie but it was filmed in my childhood hometown - we always said it iwas a town that time forgot and it was probably perfect for the movie setting. Anyway, I might have to see it for nostalgia´s sake.
Look, there has been natural gas in peoples wells for decades along before oil and gas exploration or frac´ing. It happens naturally. Second, there is not enough energy to thousands of feet vertically from the reservoir to the groundwater. We are lucky to have a vertical frac of 200´.
Absolute and utter lies, from top to bottom.The town in west Texas, where the water coming out of the faucet ignites in flames, is always used as an example of fracking pollution.Total lie. It is due to naturally occurring natural gas seepage into the aquifier. The situation has existed since before 1940. There were numerous US government studies done at the time, and a Farm Bureau publication was provided to local farmers advising them that they had to use an elevated gravity water tank with an air break to vent the gas.All this was 40 years before fracking was developed.Damon is lying fool


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- 03/20/2014 Shannon Lecturer Jeanette Rodriguez
- Ethicist Speaks on Catholicism and Social Issues, Feb. 28 & March 1
Nazareth Celebrates MLK Day, Jan. 21
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- CFS Events
In addition to many weekly opportunities for meditation, prayer and yoga, this month's featured HIGHLIGHTS include:
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The Center for Spirituality encourages reflection on personal beliefs; it assists students to discover and develop their spiritual identity within an enthusiastic and supportive community.
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More than a year after the state shut down her Eatonville boarding home and revoked her license, Jodi Becker was sentenced Wednesday to 75 days in jail for her role in mistreating a patient and stealing from the state.
The Puyallup woman pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree criminal mistreatment, six counts of first-degree theft and one count of Medicaid false statement for falsifying information given to state regulators about her hiring practices.
In addition to the 75-day jail term, she was sentenced to six months of community supervision and a year of probation. She also must pay $146,078 in restitution.
The state shut down Becker's Eatonville Manor in 2011 and barred her from providing paid care to vulnerable clients for 10 years.
A second person accused of mistreatment, nurse practitioner Joanne Hardtke of Tacoma, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of third-degree criminal mistreatment and was barred for five years from caring for vulnerable patients receiving government-funded long-term care. She also must pay a $3,000 fine.
Prosecutors said Becker and Hardtke were taking care of a state Department of Social and Health Services client from December 2008 to April 2009 but did not prevent the patient from developing painful pressure sores. The patient later died, though the death was not directly linked to their mistreatment.
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So which package out of 50000 Debian packages should I install on my phone to fix this? My phone actually runs Ubuntu in a chroot, btw!
No navigation? When what about barcodes and QR codes? Is there a simple scanner app with integrated search functionality for this in one of the 50000 packages?
>As goes for Debian, there are so many packages I enjoy there the picking random ones is just stupid. Good luck with that.
That goes for the 500000 apps in the Google Play. People enjoy their favorite games and tools even though they may seem stupid to you.
And yes, you have to provide comparable number of applications to attract users and vendors.
Free is too expensive (Economist)
Posted Apr 2, 2012 6:51 UTC (Mon) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]
As for desktop debian you should check out Marble, it is already competitive with Google maps where I live, and I believe it is ported to N9/N900 and can give you off line maps. http://edu.kde.org/marble/ Quite astonishing when it has had little to no funding, and everything including maps is free.
As for Qr-code, did you know that generating qr-codes is built into the clip board tool in KDE, so that you can generate a qr-code out of everything on the clip board with a click? One of hundreds of useful features I miss on any proprietary desktop.
Keep an eye on plasma active. With little funding, no devices, it still already is quite capable. If devices with it comes with GPS, you can expect work on free navigation software to catch on. I do believe devices will come with camera, so I am willing to bet that barcode/qr-code reader will follow at some point if it is not already there. And yes plasma active is already distributed by kubuntu as debs.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 7:23 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Nope. N9 uses common app-store approach with solid packages, N9 does NOT use .deb-files-with-dependencies approach for software packaging.
>As for Qr-code, did you know that generating qr-codes is built into the clip board tool in KDE, so that you can generate a qr-code out of everything on the clip board with a click? One of hundreds of useful features I miss on any proprietary desktop.
So I want to scan QR/bar codes with my camera, recognize them and search information based on it. There are tons of 'useless' Android apps that do this.
Certainly, there should be at least one mega-useful Debian QR-scanner among these 50000 packages, right? (Well, no, I've just rechecked it)
Note, I'm thinking as a typical user.
>If devices with it comes with GPS, you can expect work on free navigation software to catch on. No, I don't expect it (after 10 years of waiting). Navigation requires licensing of map data which is complicated and expensive.
So far, the only freely available map is OpenStreetMap which is woefully inadequate.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 7:57 UTC (Mon) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]
I see you are not satisfied with openstreetmap. I beg to differ. With the progress it has had, I already find it useful, and within reasonable time it is set to rival any proprietary map. Then finally we may go over to a more productive model where just about anybody can develop a navigation app. But for free navigation apps to catch on, we need devices in peoples hands. The Vivaldi is the first device, openmoko was a nice attempt but never got functional enough to count.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 22:06 UTC (Mon) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]
Posted Apr 2, 2012 22:31 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
I might use a free program for the sake of freeness, but normal users would cry and run away in horror from something like gpsdrive. Have you actually checked it? It can't do even a quarter of what a good navigation system should be able to do.
But let's go further. Why would something like gpsdrive need full Debian package management system?
Posted Apr 3, 2012 8:13 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
The best OSM navigation tool I've found is called OSMAnd but it's still quite painful. Terrible address/city lookup, poor route selection (sometimes abysmal), difficult UI. I wish I could rely upon it but I just can't. I'm using Google Maps all the time.
For the past decade (since Bruce Perens was working with the Tiger data in 1999?), the year of solid Linux/OSM navigation has seemed pretty close. Just like the year of the Linux desktop, it's only a couple of years out! Too bad it seems to be constant time to completion.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 23:08 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
OSM has a cyclemap view and all sort of related tools and sites because it can be re-sused in much more versatile ways than google maps. e.g http://cyclestreets.net for cycle route planning anywhere in the UK.
Google's draggable routing tool is still very cool, but it is very car-centric, and OSM is a much better map for most purposes I need.
I have a tomtom device which illustrates the advantages of OSM. The maps that came with it 8 years ago are now _very_ out of date. I can pay a small fortune to get newer ones, or I can switch to an OSM-based nav tool. Not quite as slick interface but totally uptodate maps forever more at no cost. That's a big deal.
Posted Apr 3, 2012 0:58 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Commercial map providers often use data from official sources, so it's consistent everywhere. Quite often that requires obtaining various government licenses to work with it and/or converting complex formats.
This is not cheap, so applications have to be sponsored somehow. Through ads or maybe through direct sales.
Posted Apr 3, 2012 7:25 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]
It's not so great in other areas, though.
The OpenStreetMap maps for Germany are, by now, widely considered superior to anything available on the commercial map market. Some loose ends need to be tied up but on the whole things are looking not at all bad.
Posted Apr 3, 2012 16:41 UTC (Tue) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
Mapping is the canonical example of something that is better crowd-sourced than done commercially. Getting data from official sources is about governments providing data in open formats.
I sometimes wonder why you post here - you don't really seem to believe in the idea of collaborative effort or free software at all. You just keep telling how much better commercial OSes and commercial map providers and massive phone companies are, when the point is that those entities can use and contribute to open data and free software too if they want and we all get better stuff.
Where are these places where the OSM mapping data is poor? I'd expect such places to be getting quite thin on the ground now. Clearly there is more data to add to OSM so that it is good for all purposes (such as motorway lane details for turn-by-turn style nav, speed restrictions) but no doubt that is all ongoing at a rate of knots.
For the last Debconf (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) it was notable that so far as Google or Deutsche Bahn were concerned the place was empty and devoid of roads or trains. OSM had excellent detailed mapping. That seems to be true for many 'lesser' countries where the big providers can't be bothered.
Posted Apr 3, 2012 17:44 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
And so on. I've been burned a couple of times by the OSM, so I won't use it for anything important (like getting from point A to point B in time).
So no, maps are definitely not something I'd trust to Wikipedia-style development. Now, maps based on official geodata with wiki-style corrections would be great. And we actually have it in Russia ("folks' map" by Yandex).
>I sometimes wonder why you post here - you don't really seem to believe in the idea of collaborative effort or free software at all.
I certainly do. Only an idiot would deny the success of the Linux kernel (btw, I hate the combination 'Linux kernel', sounds too much like 'ATM machine').
However, I'm not blind and I can see where the _non-commercial_ community development model fails. It usually fails in tasks that require a lot of drudgery and/or interaction with real users.
Linux kernel by now is not non-commercial, it's developed by for-profit companies as a way to avoid developing their own completely new OS. Besides, Linux is hardly boring at all.
OSM might actually be picked up by companies which need reliable mapping data but which don't want to pay to develop it from scratch and/or license it. That's arguably already happening (Apple is using OSM in one of their products).
But no company bets on Linux desktop right now. And unfortunately, a lot of desktop-related development is very boring stuff. Like keeping compat wrappers for old API or making sure you don't break anything with new updates. So we see the result - a lot of wonderful new development with no regards for backward compatibility and regressions in functionality.
A similar problem - there are no good tax/accounting packages for Linux. Just our favorite grumpy editor.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 22:55 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
No idea about QR codes - there is something called zbarcam that decodes qr codes from a video device. Is that what you mean?
It is true that a lot of android and iphone 'apps' are little more than a URL. It does turn out that those are popular though, and we probably should do more to make such things easy to come by on linux desktops. It seems tome that this is actually a problem of organisation - how do you find what you want in half-a-million bits of software?
Posted Apr 2, 2012 23:18 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Navit or tangoGPS?
Still no good. The first thing you need to have good navigation is to have raw data. Not just maps (OpenStreetMap slowly becomes better here), but traffic data (including historical traffic data), photos of complex interchanges, etc.
This data is rarely available for free: either it needs to be sold for money or it may be supported via ads.
Which basically excludes distros out of the equation immediately.
As Cyberax said: I might use a free program for the sake of freeness, but normal users would cry and run away in horror from something like gpsdrive.
Not because the program is not any good, but because the lack of data makes it sub-standard.
The same with QR-codes, NFC, etc: it's trivial to write program which parses QR code, read NFC or does something like this. And, again, I might use a free program for the sake of freeness, but normal users would cry and run away in horror because they don't need to just read the QR code. They expect that program will do "something sensible" with data (if it's URL it must be opened, if it's a vCard it must be added to address book, etc). If I touch phone with my metro ticket Simple? Yes. Boring? Sure. But this makes it actually useful for Joe Average! Similarly with NFC: yes, I can probably find program which will read data from card, but will it show number of trips you have left on subway ticket like "useless" Android's app?
Posted Apr 3, 2012 15:29 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I hope Apple's OSM usage[1] will accelerate OSM's coverage.
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I can't be the only person reading and enjoying this series, can I? I believe it to be hands down the best book coming out today, but it looks like no one's talking about it here.
Doesn't anyone else like good comics?
I can't be the only person reading and enjoying this series, can I? I believe it to be hands down the best book coming out today, but it looks like no one's talking about it here.
Doesn't anyone else like good comics?
I gave it a solid go, the first six issues, and while I liked it and found its presentation cleaver. I didn't like it enough to continue it. Just felt like it was taking to long to get to its point. I wish it the best but it just isn't for me.
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Really enjoying this series. I get why someone wouldn't like it, but it ticks all right boxes for me. Sort of a bummer knowing that I'm the only one reading it at my LCS.
I'm certain that there are things about it that I'm missing, so wanna put some of those secrets out there?
I'm digging this series too. Anyone notice there's going to be a bit of Mind MGMT in the next Darkhorse Presents? Any clue what this is going to be and how it ties into the core story?
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Not sure how it will tie in - I got to talk to Matt at NYCC and he said it was something DH wanted him to do (but I'm sure it will be good).
I love picking this up monthly.
Did you check out these? They were mentioned in the letter column of the zero issue.
Sadly I'm the only one at my shop who reads it as well. One of my favorite series being published right now.
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I've read the first issue and loved it. I've got all the remaining issues except the 2nd on it's way to me in my last online comics order. I was planning on getting the trade if I liked the first issue, but considering there will be material added to the singles that won't make it to the trades and actually more importantly this title might very well need the monthly support, I've decided to add the singles to my order lists from now on.
The only problem is that I've been reading comics for so long, that it's been ingrained in my system that I will be unable to read the ones I've bought before I can find the 2nd issue somewhere. :D
You can buy the second issue from TFAW
Here's a link
On topic: I've read the first two issues, and I like it, just haven't had any time to buy the rest, because of all my Christmas purchases
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Love the writing, but find the artwork really off-putting. I just don't think it mesches well with the story. It's like looking at a Peanuts Sunday strip with a Hitchcock story laid over the top.


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BEST OF WARNER BROS. 20 FILM COLLECTIONS: MUSICALS Set for Release Feb 12
Warner Home Video,
Warner Home Video will release two new DVD box sets early in the first quarter as part of their 90th Anniversary initiative running throughout 2013: The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collections: Best Pictures (January 29) and The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collections: Musicals (February 12).
One of the most respected, diversified and successful motion picture studios in the world, Warner Bros. began when the eponymous brothers -- Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack -- incorporated on April 4, 1923. Four years later, the release of The Jazz Singer, the world's first "talkie," set a tone of innovation and influence that would forever become synonymous with films passionately produced, selectively acquired, carefully preserved and impeccably curated for both the casual and ultimate movie lover to enjoy forever.
The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collections will be released throughout the year in five separate sets. Each features a gem-packed collection of 20 essential movie classics in five major genres: Best Pictures (January), Musicals (February), Romance (April), Comedy (July) and Thrillers (September). A booklet will be included in each Collection which contains photos and synopses of all the films in the set. Each set will sell for $98.92 SRP.
The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures Warner Bros.' library, the world's largest, contains more Best Picture Oscar winners than any other studio with 22 wins (all 22 award-winning films are included in The Best of Warner Bros. 100 Film DVD Collection streeting the same day). The films in The Best of Warner Bros. Best Pictures will be divided into three chapters on 23 discs: A New Era (1929-1949); The Golden Years (1946-1959); and The New Classics (1975-2006).
Included are:
Broadway Melody of 1929 1929
Grand Hotel 1932
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 1935
The Life of Emile Zola 1937
Gone With The Wind 1939
Mrs. Miniver 1942
Casablanca 1942
Best Years of Our Lives 1946
An American in Paris 1951
Around the World in 80 Days 1956
Gigi 1958
Ben-Hur 1959
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Chariots of Fire 1981
Amadeus 1984
Driving Miss Daisy 1989
Unforgiven 1992
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
Million Dollar Baby 2005
The Departed 2006
The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Musicals The films in The Best of Warner Bros. Musicals won a combined total of 29 Oscars, including three Best Picture Winners and 9 winners for Music (Score and Song). The collection will be divided into three chapters on 21 discs: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1927-1951); The Music Makers (1951-1964); and Now, That's Entertainment (1967-1988).
Films included are:
The Jazz Singer |
1927 |
Award for Special Award to Warner Bros. |
Broadway Melody of 1929 |
1929 |
Award for: Outstanding Picture |
42nd Street |
1933 |
The Great Ziegfeld |
1936 |
Awards for: Actress; Dance Direction; and Outstanding Production. |
Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Awards for: Music; and, Music - Song |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
1942 |
Awards for: Actor; Music; and, Sound Recording. |
An American in Paris |
1951 |
Awards for: Art Direction; Cinematography; Costume Design; Music; Best Motion Picture; and Writing. |
Show Boat |
1951 |
Singin' in the Rain |
9152 |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
1954 |
Awards for: Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture. |
A Star Is Born |
1954 |
The Music Man |
1962 |
Award for: Music |
Viva Las Vegas |
1964 |
Camelot |
1967 |
Awards for: Art Direction; Costume Design; and, Music. |
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory |
1971 |
Cabaret |
1972 |
Awards for: Actor in a Supporting Role; Actress; Art Direction; Cinematography; Directing; Film Editing; Music; and Sound |
That's Entertainment |
1974 |
Victor, Victoria |
1983 |
Award for: Music. |
Little Shop of Horrors |
1986 |
Hairspray |
1988 |
The year-long celebration will also include several stand-alone releases of new-to-format classics on Blu-ray for the first time, including The Jazz Singer, all three James Dean films (East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), Cabaret and Academy Award Best Picture Winners Grand Hotel (1932), Mrs. Miniver (1943), and Driving Miss Daisy(1990).
Fans are encouraged to visit www.bestofwb.com for all content and a richer integrated experience.
The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures
Street Date: 1/29/13
Pricing: $98.92 SRP
The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Musicals
Street Date: 2/12/13
Pricing: $98.92 SRP
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., commands the largest home entertainment distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Video and New Line Cinema.
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