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15
Dec
2009
Review of “Lost in New York”
Lost in Thought and Beauty: Review #2 for The New Face of Jazz
by: Cicily Janus
In the realm of the jazz world, it seems that artists are categorized into two different streams: Those who can and those who can’t. But I think there’s a third category that often gets buried. There are those who know how to turn their sheer will and hard work into success. In his debut album as a jazz artist, Suresh Singaratnam, who has been known as a hot young talent in the classical trumpet world, has now succeeded on all counts. His charming personality and melodic style stands out on his freshman release titled, Lost in New York. This album is truly one graced with beauty and much thought. Many artists in the jazz community, especially for their first releases, often put together albums that are compiled of single standards instead of creating a whole experience. What Suresh created with original content and panache was a body of work that tells a story of transition into modern cutting edge jazz….
30
Jul
2009
Another interview
Toronto Music Scene’s Tanya Bailey had a chance to chat with trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam who has won numerous awards and scholarships for his playing. Here’s what he had to say…read more at TorontoMusicScene.ca
15
Jul
2009
My first radio interview…
Who is Suresh? That’s what I was wondering when a West Virginia Public Radio listener suggested I listen to his album Two Hundred Sixty-One, Vol. 1… read more at WVPubcast - Blogs .
26
Jun
2009
24
Jun
2009
“The O’Reilly Procedure” from Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives
Bill O’Reilly has been
brought low by the same process that afflicted Jerry Springer. Once respected journalists, they sold their souls for higher ratings, and follow their siren song. Springer is honest about it: “I’m going to Hell for what I do, and I know it,” he’s likes to say. O’Reilly insists he is dealing only with the truth. When his guests disagree with him, he shouts at them, calls them liars, talks over them, and behaves like a schoolyard bully.…read more at Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives.
23
May
2009
Why do Indy 500 winners drink milk?
After crossing the bricked finish line on Sunday, the winner of the Indianapolis 500 will drive into the winner’s circle, be presented with a celebratory wreath and take a swig from a cold bottle of milk. The latter is one of the grandest traditions in sports, but also one of the most confusing. Why milk? Why is it in a bottle? And (this one was actually asked by a girl I knew in college) has it been sitting in the sun all day?…continue reading on Yahoo! Sports.
21
May
2009
Why Terminator Is So Creepy | LiveScience
By Jeremy Hsu,
Hollywood and robotics researchers have long struggled with the “uncanny valley,” where a movie character or robot falls into the unsettling gap between human and not-quite-human. One psychologist likes to demonstrate this by holding up a plastic baby doll and asking audiences if they think it’s alive. They say no.…continue reading at LiveScience.com
26
Apr
2009
It was fun while it lasted…..[update]
Ok, so anyone in Canada who’s looked at the classical music page on the iTunes store today has probably noticed that Two Hundred Sixty One: Vol 1 isn’t on the top 25 chart anymore. I guess I got bumped with the start of a new week, haha! Oh well, time to sell more copies and get back on there….
26
Apr
2009
Speaking of Progress…..
It’s been less than a week since we began the 261 Days campaign and Two Hundred Sixty-One: Vol. 1 has already broken into the top 25 chart for classical music on iTunes Canada. What’s even more surprising is, in less then 3 months, my recordings of Carnival of Venice and the Hindemith Trumpet Sonata are now the best selling recordings of those pieces on iTunes Canada! To everyone in Canada who’s reading this, please tell EVERYONE you know about what we’re trying to do here. If the album keeps climbing the classical charts, that’s more even exposure to help move things along toward 1,000,000.
Click here to buy the album on iTunes
Click here to learn more about the 261 Days Campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society
25
Apr
2009
A Top Interrogator Who’s Against Torture - TIME
By BOBBY GHOSH / WASHINGTON D.C.Friday, Apr. 24, 2009
He’s the special agent who came in from the cold — and waded straight into the debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and perhaps the most successful U.S. interrogator of al-Qaeda operatives, says the use of those techniques was unnecessary and often counterproductive. Detainees, he says, provided vital intelligence under non-violent questioning, before they were put through “walling” and waterboarding… continue reading on TIME.com.
18
Apr
2009
How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates - TIME
Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks. They are not desperate bandits, experts say, rather savvy opportunists in the most lawless corner of the planet. But the pirates have never been the only ones exploiting the vulnerabilities of this troubled failed state — and are, in part, a product of the rest of the world’s neglect. (Read “No Surrender to Thugs.”)…continue reading on TIME.com
18
Apr
2009
Italian Scientist, Turning 100, Still Works - NYTimes.com
ROME (AP) — Rita Levi Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said Saturday that even though she is about to turn 100, her mind is sharper than it was she when she was 20…continue reading at NYTimes.com.
17
Apr
2009
17
Apr
2009
YOU Might Be Canadian!
By PHRED DVORAK
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.
The April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children…continue reading at WSJ.com.
17
Apr
2009
GM Engineer proposes a standardized plug for Electric Cars
By Gery Kissel
Energy Storage Systems Engineering Specialist
Next week during the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference in Detroit, the SAE J1772™ Task Force will continue its work by committee to standardize the components that will soon become part of one of the most common driver interactions with a plug-in electric vehicle - plugging in and charging the battery.
In order for plug-in electric vehicles to become part of the mainstream, a plug-in “ecosystem” must be in place when vehicles like the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle hit the market. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid…continue reading on GM FastLane .
17
Apr
2009
Twitter Gets the Oprah Treatment - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
It is the universal sign of a new idea going mainstream: Oprah Winfrey is bestowing her endorsement on Twitter.
The woman who can single-handedly send a new product or book flying off the shelves has just joined Twitter. She has not yet written a tweet, but more than 30,000 followers have already signed up to follow her every 140-character thought, and the number is growing. Rumor has it she will write her first tweet on Friday, when she isdedicating her show to Twitter…continue reading at NYTimes.com.
16
Apr
2009
Catching Up With the Cosby Kids - Yahoo! Buzz
by Mike Krumboltz
In the 1980s, “The Cosby Show” owned Thursday nights. A big part of the show’s success was the crew of kids who populated Heathcliff Huxtable’s household. Now with one of the Cosby alum developing a reality show, we thought it high time for a Web check-in on all the kids…and man, there were a lot of ‘em. Here they are, ranked in order of Search popularity….continue reading on Yahoo! Buzz.
16
Apr
2009
New York Times cuts sections to save money
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Times Co’s flagship newspaper plans to eliminate several weekly sections and cut freelance spending to save millions of dollars in annual costs, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.
The Times’s moves, which it also reported through an article on its website on Thursday, is the latest effort to cut costs by the strugglingnewspaper publisher.
“Taken together, these moves will save millions of dollars — savings that would otherwise have to come out of payroll,” Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote to employees on Thursday…continue reading on Yahoo News.
16
Apr
2009
For all the iPhone & iPod Touch users out there…..
Undercover can help you locate any lost or stolen iPhone or iPod.
Upon registration, you will receive your own Undercover account at https://www.retrievemyiphone.com. Every time the Undercover application is launched, the phone’s location and IP information is stored in your account. You can then login to your account to track the device.
If your iPhone is lost, you can set a message that will be displayed to the finder when he launches Undercover. In the meantime, Undercover will transmit your phone’s location….continue reading at Orbicule.com
15
Apr
2009
Spam uses as much power as 2.1m homes
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by Richard Wray
Internet users have long known that spam emails - offering everything from cheap medicines and sex aids to get-rich-quick schemes - are an unwanted annoyance, but new research suggests that they are also hugely damaging to the environment.
More than 80% of the world’s email traffic is now spam and the transmission and receipt of unwanted email gobbles up 33bn kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, according to anti-virus software specialist McAfee. That is the equivalent of the electricity used by 2.1m US homes….continue reading at The Guardian .
