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 Thursday, 24 October 2002
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Health care in danger from different visions, Romanow says
Ottawa must ensure the provinces all have the same ideas about health
care or else the system could crash, says Roy Romanow, who heads a Royal
Commission looking into medicare.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
Good. Romanow's got it right.
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The luck of the audacious
Despite having just won the prestigious Booker prize, Yann Martel still sees himself as a novice, writes SANDRA MARTIN
By SANDRA MARTIN
-- A few days before he won the & 50,000 ($121,000) Man Booker prize for Life of Pi, Yann Martel joked that he would like to show up at the gala wearing a tiger skin in homage to one of the characters in his novel. At the very least, he wanted to rent a dinner jacket emblazoned with orange and black stripes. In the end, tradition almost won out. He arrived at the gala at London's British Museum Tuesday night wearing the customary tuxedo and white shirt, but then he added his own inimitable touch -- a geranium-red bow tie. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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A concept whose time has come -- again
The pretentious concept album of the seventies crashed and burned when punk came along, PETER FENIAK writes. But it seems to be making a comeback
By PETER FENIAK
-- ''I saw it as a little audio movie,'' said Tom Petty, as the rocker recently launched The Last DJ, his CD study of music-biz corruption. ''A loose concept.'' FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Take back the waterfront
The rich and powerful seem determined to rob Toronto of its finest asset. But as LISA ROCHON writes, enlightened designers from around the globe give renewed hope that a better way forward is possible
By LISA ROCHON
-- With little prodding, Toronto has become the meeting place it was named for, where people from around the world have settled, and a youth culture of rockers, wiggers and ravers can hang out and chill. All of this should add up to a happy cohabitation, except that the city is under attack by the Goths. We have them to thank for the medieval negotiations leading toward the redevelopment of Union Station. The Goths are ramming through the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport. And the Goths are robbing the city of its waterfront. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Drawing the Classical Line , Norman Lebrecht, 10/23/2002 [La Scena Musicale - News]
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Celebrating the composer behind the revolutionary
By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
-- When John Cage was a young piano student, he fell so in love with the music of Edvard Grieg that he considered devoting his life to it. It's amusing to think of the future revolutionary swooning over genial salon pieces from the 19th century. Maybe it's instructive too. Like everybody else, Cage expected music to be stimulating and pleasurable, and like every other composer, he wanted to write music that had those effects on other people. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Charles Haddad writes for BusinessWeek on Apple's financials,
comparing the effect of educational sales to that of "creative professional" sales on Apple's bottom line [Macintouch]
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A funny (and only mildly profane) QuickTime movie spoofs Apple's "Switcher" campaign with the testimonial of a web designer who found his Mac "thinking different" after its Mac OS X transformation: [switched.mov]
[Macintouch]
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Wave Mechanics To Bring UltraTools|HD to OS X
Oct. 23, 2002
-- Wave Mechanics has announced that its UltraTools plugin package will support Digidesign Pro Tools on Mac OS X by January 2003. According to information on the company's Web site, the upgrade will be free for registered users of HD-compatible UltraTools plugins and for those who purchase or upgrade to UltraTools|HD between now and the OS X release date.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Genelec Introduces Multi-Channel Monitoring System
NATICK, Mass., Oct. 23, 2002
-- Genelec introduced at AES a comprehensive multi-channel monitoring system specifically designed for post-production suites and recording studios with control rooms measuring less than 3000 cubic feet (W x D x H). The 1029.LSE PowerPak system is a tailored solution designed to simplify the process of creating a new multi-channel monitoring system or upgrading an existing stereo monitoring environment to 5.1 surround.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Musician calls RIAA on their lies in USA Today. The RIAA claims to do what it does in the name of artists. Well, artists are getting and less and... [PlaybackTime]
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Microsoft's Palladium (DRM) talk at MIT. Arnold Reinhold has posted a summary of the technical overview of Palladium that Microsoft recently presented at MIT. Palladium is... [PlaybackTime]
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Canadian companies criticized for mining operations in Congo
In a new report to the United Nations Security Council, a UN panel named
five Canadian companies as being involved in the "mineral rape" of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Color Prints, Sharper Than Ever. Laser-based photo processing machines, like those found at the local one-hour photo shop, can make even the most faded print look good. By Roy Furchgott. [New York Times: Technology]
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Band Can't Sell Own Music on EBay. People auction everything from stereo equipment to World Series tickets to used software on eBay. Why, then, did an indie musician who tried to hawk his own band's CD get fingered by the site as a copyright violator? By Brad King. [Wired News]
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