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1997 Jun 30	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Released in the UK Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discover...
1998 Jul 2	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Released in the UK Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is the second novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. It continues the story of Harry Potter during his second year at Hogwarts...
1998 Sep 1	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Released in the US Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers h...
1999 Jun 2	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Released in the US Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is the second novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. It continues the story of Harry Potter during his second year at Hogwarts...
1999 Jul 8	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Released in the UK Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won both the 1999 Costa B...
1999 Sep 8	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Released in the US Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 Septemb...
2000 Jul 8	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Released Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on July 8, 2000. The book attracted additional attention because of ...
2001 Nov 4	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) released Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy/adventure film based on the novel of the same...
2002 Nov 15	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Film) Released Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy adventure film, and the second film in the popular Harry Potter series, based on the novel by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the...
2003 Jun 21	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Released Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth and antepenultimate novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The novel features Harry Potter's struggles through h...
2004 Jun 4	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Film) Released in the US Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by Mexican film maker Alfonso Cuarón, it is the t...
2005 Jul 16	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the penultimate of the seven novels from British author J. K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter series. Set during Harry ...
2005 Nov 18	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Film) Released Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's novel of the same name. The film was the fourth installment in the Harry Potter film series,...
2007 Jul 12	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Film) Released Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by David Yates, produced by David Heyman's compa...
2007 Jul 21	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series ...
2009 Jul 15	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy-adventure film based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth film in the Harry Potter film series. It is d...

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President Barack Obama hosts 'beer summit' for Prof Henry Gates and Sgt James Crowley - Telegraph

President Barack Obama hosts 'beer summit' for Prof Henry Gates and Sgt James Crowley

In perhaps the most unusual sitdown of his administration, President Barack Obama hosted Prof Henry Gates, a prominent black scholar, and Sgt James Crowley, a white police sergeant, for beers in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday evening.

 

By Philip Sherwell in New York
Published: 12:04AM BST 31 Jul 2009

President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, has a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., second from left, and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley at the White House Photo: AP

Mr Obama was hoping to defuse the angry racial furore that has raged since Sgt Crowley arrested Prof Gates for disorderly conduct at the Harvard academic’s own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 16.

The President has acknowledged that he fuelled the controversy when he said that the police “acted stupidly” for arresting Prof Gates after he protested vociferously about Sgt Crowley’s actions during a burglary investigation.

Mr Obama invited the two men and Vice-President Joe Biden to join him for a symbolic beer and chat and to talk over their differences. It was not, he insisted, a summit, although they met in a setting where previous presidents have often hosted international leaders.

The White House allowed cameramen to shoot some long-range pictures of the start of the meeting before they were ushered away.

The photographs showed Mr Crowley and Mr Gates in dark suits, despite the warm weather in Washington, while Mr Obama and Mr Biden opted for the choreographed casual look of white shirts after shedding their jackets.

A White House employee carried the beers out on a tray to the four men as they sat around a white table. They drank from clear glass mugs and snacked on peanuts and pretzels served in small silver bowls.

Mr Obama drank Bud Light, Sgt Crowley opted for a Blue Moon, Mr Gates chose a Boston favourite, Sam Adams Light – despite earlier indications he was going for a Jamaican Red Stripe – and Mr Biden sipped a Bucklers.

In the 30 seconds that a pool reporter was allowed to observe events from 50 feet away, Sgt Crowley was doing most of the talking and Mr Gates appeared to be leaning in, listening intently. At one point, the President laughed heartily.

The two protagonists brought their families to the White House and they toured the East Wing together before the sit-down, then met Mr Obama in the Oval Office before moving out into the Rose Garden.

Sgt Crowley had been called to investigate a possible burglary at Mr Gates’ house after the academic was seen by a passer-by forcing his way into his own home because of a broken door.

Mr Gates had claimed that he was the victim of racial profiling after he was arrested while Sgt Crowley insisted that he out him in handcuffs after coming under a barrage of verbal abuse. The charges were dropped but the police officer said he would not apologise.

The incident sparked a bitter debate about race relations in America, sucking in the country’s biracial President and distracting him from his push for heathcare reforms. Whether the beer diplomacy did anything to soothe the contretemps was not clear from the pictures.

President Barack Obama hosts 'beer summit' for Prof Henry Gates and Sgt James Crowley - Telegraph

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Paris Fashion Week: Dunhill shoots for the moon, scores

"Quantum of Solace,"

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Ooooohhh...another Neverfull gets special treatment, this time from the store in Deauville, France. Re-opened in the early part of Summer 2009, this small but quaint boutique boasts fabulous architectural elements that Normandy is famous for. Christened Villa Vuitton, it's definitely high on my agenda list for stores to visit. LVoe it!!!

If it weren't for her Cabas Piano, I would have kicked the living daylights outta her!!! He isssshhhhzzz mine!

Well Mr, Thanks to you, I can't stop myself from reading your blog almost daily. And thanks to you I just went and bought the damier Etole in the middle of summer. Now all I can do is wish for a cool summer night so I can start using it. I would have love to get my hands on the Bordeaux but I was told it's not being release in North American. BOOO!! Now if I only know how to tie a scraf. Never worked with anything as big as a etole before. Any suggestions would be greatly apperiated. Apprently this is what everyone is doing, so here's a picture of some of my LV goods. Keep up the good work. Awww...thanks for sharing, Erik!!! It's people like you who makes blogging about Louis Vuitton all worthwhile. LVoe it!!!

Hmmm...I do LVoe fur but the colour seems a tad bit too vermin for my taste. I received this pic from Bagaholicboy.com ages ago and it seemed to have been buried in my inbox. Well, today is the resurrection and feature of this Fall Winter bag. Made out of mink fur, this Pochette Accesoires will surely turn heads and PETA for sure!

My SA showed me the new colours for the Sprouse Leopard Stole when I was last in the boutique and I must say that I am not so wild about them. I guess I am biased because I LVoe, LVoe, LVoe the colourway on mine.

I am really liking the Pailletes Collection for Fall Winter 2009 2010. I am just so undecided if I should get one. Any thoughts?

I am always thrilled when I see a Celeb decked in Louis Vuitton whilst travelling. Here's Victoria Secret's Miranda Kerr with her Sac Chien in Monogram, Pegase in Damier and the ohhh so wonderful Mahina. LVoe it!!!

While I am roasting in 90 degree weather, Christine from Australia is enjoying her winter with her Stephen Sprouse Leopard Stole. I can't wait to use mine again for this season. That silk and cashmere is absolutely fabulous. Thanks for sharing, C. LVoe it!!!

I dunno who she is but she absolutely fabulous. LVoe it!!! UPDATE: She is Taiwanese actress An Yi Xuan. Thanks, guys!

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Feds Search Vegas Properties of Jackson Doctor

As the investigation into Michael Jackson's death continues, authorities searched the Las Vegas home and medical office of Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal doctor. (July 28)

First Person: Spaceship Firm Gets Mideast Boost

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson signed a deal Tuesday to sell a third of his space travel startup to a Mideast investment fund. Soon after, Branson took his first ride in WhiteKnightTwo, designed to launch a ship into space. (July 28)

Coast Guard rescues woman from rock

DALY CITY, Calif. An HH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco rescues a 22-year-old woman, from Pacifica, Calif., after she reported being stranded on the rocks at Fort Funston here. (Coast Guard video by Air Station San Francisco) JUNEAU, Alaska - A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, Alaska, MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew conducts a medevac for an injured hiker 35 miles southeast of Juneau, Thursday, July 2, 2009. (Coast Guard video/Air Station Sitka). Watch this video and other Coast Guard media in high resolution at http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php

History of Quacks: Who're Dr. Murray - Dr. Koplin - Dr. Klein - Dr. Nichopoulos?

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Los Angeles officials have searched the offices of a second doctor connected to late superstar Michael Jackson as the hunt for the singer's medical files continues.

On Tuesday, officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) swooped on the house of Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with the star on the day of his death last month.

Officers confiscated Murray's computer and cell phone from his Las Vegas residence as they investigate possible manslaughter charges against him.

Now a second medic is facing the police probe. Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter searched the Beverly Hills medical offices of Dr. Lawrence Koplin on Wednesday, reportedly looking for records from the medic's nurse anesthetist David Fournier.

Jackson's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, performed procedures on the star at Dr. Koplin's office with Fournier administering anesthesia, according to TMZ.com.

On leaving Koplin's offices, Winter confirmed he is "still looking for medical records involving Michael Jackson."

Listening Post

Listening Post is a ‘dynamic portrait’ of online communication, displaying uncensored fragments of text, sampled in real-time, from public internet chatrooms and bulletin boards. Artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin have divided their work into seven separate ‘scenes’ akin to movements in a symphony. Each scene has its own ‘internal logic’, sifting, filtering and ordering the text fragments in different ways.

By pulling text quotes from thousands of unwitting contributors' postings, Listening Post allows you to experience an extraordinary snapshot of the internet and gain a great sense of the humanity behind the data. The artwork is world renowned as a masterpiece of electronic and contemporary art and a monument to the ways we find to connect with each other and express our identities online.

Listening Post has been presented to the Science Museum by The Art Fund.

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Disclaimer

Listening Post features uncensored fragments of text from live chatroom data. It may occasionally include content that is unsuitable for children or which some visitors may find offensive. The material is not produced or solicited by the Science Museum, so the Museum is unable to accept responsibility for the nature of the content that the work may extract from these sources.

'Anyone who types a message in a chat room and hits "send" is calling out for a response. Listening Post is our response.' Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin

Monument to the present¹  - the sound of 100,000 people chatting

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's Listening Post immerses us in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, or singing out, a fluid play of real-time text fragments. The fragments are sampled from thousands of live, unrestricted internet chatrooms, bulletin boards and other online public forums. They are uncensored and unedited. Stray thoughts resonate through the space in sound and voice as texts surge, flicker, appear and disappear, at varying sizes and speeds, across a suspended grid of over 200 small electronic screens. An ambient soundtrack accompanies the activity with isolated pulses reminiscent of computer modems, clatterings, footsteps and the beeping of mechanical answering machines. At intervals darkness and silence take over, creating momentary pauses before Listening Post continues with its next movement.

The artists' starting place for Listening Post was simple curiosity - what might 100,000 people chatting online sound like? Hansen and Rubin agreed that the project should have a strong social component, so whilst initial research centred on statistical representations of websites, they rapidly moved towards concentrating on actual language from chatrooms, 'from which a kind of music began to emerge... the messages started to form a giant cut-up poem'.

The piece responds to a special moment in history. At no other time since the birth of communications technologies have ordinary people - independent of news channels, corporations or political parties - had the opportunity to exchange views so immediately and on such a large scale.

Every day, at every hour, hundreds of thousands of us go online to meet friends, exchange news and share thoughts. Listening Post interrogates this phenomenon by continually drawing down fragments of these online discussions, including them in its cycle of orderings, siftings and filterings - so that, in the artists words, it turns 'public chat room data into an experience that conveys the yearnings of people out there to connect with each other'.

The patterns identified by the artists allow Listening Post to build up a multi-sensory 'portrait of chat'. Some of its movements concentrate on the most common first words of new postings - 'I am...', 'I like...', 'I love...' - which themselves speak volumes for the ways in which we choose to identify ourselves online. Others list least-used words or work in topic clusters, arranging selections from thousands of simultaneous conversations by content and revealing emerging topics of the day, the hour, or indeed the moment. From the profound to the frivolous or personal, from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, Listening Post presents us with whatever is occupying our collective thoughts right now.

The result presents a 'sculpture' of the 'content and magnitude' of online chatter. Through Listening Post Hansen and Rubin provide us with insights into the vast scale of online social activity, and the gradations of human expression which exist within it. Our assertions, opinions, hopes and dreams, extracted from their original contexts but otherwise unaltered, are given sharper, different and wider meanings which range from the poignant to the absurd. The mundane is rendered monumental and the monumental mundane as Listening Post levels the politically volatile with the light-hearted, lecherous, plaintive, expressive and banal.

The power of Listening Post emerges from the artists' skill in pooling their combined philosophical, artistic and technological interests to achieve an exceptional distillation of collective interests as well as 'the content and patterns evident in different information channels'. Mark Hansen's computer programmes collect, sample and process thousands of live online public conversations which are then sorted by theme, while Ben Rubin's voice-synthesiser tones and sound effects respond to shifts in the data streams, carefully building up the musical score. Together these activities go beyond simple redisplay or reinterpretation of data patterns, to create something 'that expresses the meaning of data gathered from the internet'.

As a work of art and a piece of technological ingenuity in its own right, Listening Post is hard to categorise. An extraordinary investigation into the meaning and malleability of statistics, it combines a Minimal art aesthetic with the elements of chance and randomness common to experimental art from the early 20th century to the present day. But its engagement with media technologies and sophisticated data-analysis techniques differentiates it from traditional visual art. It relies not on the found objects of Modern Art but on found data and extracted thoughts - the very unstill lives of a hundred thousand active minds. Listening Post is an acknowledged masterpiece of electronic art; it references issues and themes central to software and interactive art, while subverting notions of interactivity. By anonymously drawing from active public places on the internet for its raw material, using thousands of expressions from thousands of unwitting online contributors, it repositions the point of interaction to the point of source rather than the point of encounter. It is itself as much a voyeur as the gallery audiences to whom it performs its findings.

Listening Post has a finite life span. The messaging phenomena that it feeds upon were enabled by the evolution of networks and mass access to continual bandwidth over HTML bulletin boards and internet relay chat (IRC). Changes to the text-based nature of these environments - the proliferation of video, graphics and animation - are in turn bound to radically change the content sources that Listening Post relies on, perhaps even rendering it silent one day.

For now, and as long as the sources it depends upon are available to its constant trawling, Listening Post remains an astonishing, awe-inspiring and strangely humbling 'instrument of mass, if random, surveillance and a chapel to the human need for contact'.²  Hansen and Rubin's creation can at times seem like a modern-day oracle, a snapshot of the text-based internet as we know it today or a monument to the ways we find to connect with each other online.

Hannah Redler, Head of Arts Projects

Listening Post has been presented to the Science Museum by The Art Fund.

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