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OBAMA TO FOCUS ON CYBERSECURITY IN HEART OF SILICON VALLEY 06
OSCAR RACE IS ALL ABOUT TIMING (EXCEPT WHEN ITS NOT) 14

DRONES RULE: PROPOSED RULES FOR COMMERCIAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT 22
DRAWING AND PAINTING IN THE DIGITAL TOUCHSCREEN ERA 32
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OBAMA TO
FOCUS ON
CYBERSECURITY
IN HEART OF
SILICON VALLEY
Responding to unprecedented data breaches and

cyberattacks, President Barack Obama is trying to
spark alliances between policymakers who want
to regulate the online world and tech innovators
who traditionally shun Beltway bureaucracies.
In Californias Silicon Valley on Friday, Obama
was participating in a White House summit on
cybersecurity and consumer protection, joining
hundreds of administration officials, tech and
other CEOs, law enforcement officials and
consumer and privacy advocates. The focus is on
encouraging every player to do better at sharing
information that can help the private sector
prevent and respond to costly and potentially
crippling threats to the security of their online
networks.
Obama was delivering the keynote address at the
daylong event, as well as leading a round-table
discussion with a group of business leaders.
J.J. Thompson, CEO and managing director of

Rook Security, a consulting firm founded in San
Jose, California, said the symbolic significance of
the gathering could not be overstated, despite
its dog and pony show aspects. The summit is
being held at Stanford University, a hub of tech
innovation.
Cybersecurity is at the forefront of everyone
in America right now, from the Beltway to
California, Thompson said in an interview.
Jeff Zients, a top economic adviser to Obama,
said a goal of the summit is to drive home the
message that strong cybersecurity can provide
companies with a competitive edge.
Cybersecurity is not a problem for just one or
two sectors of the economy, he told reporters.
All industry sectors and types of businesses face
cybersecurity risks.
Numerous companies, ranging from mass

retailers like Target and Home Depot to Sony
Pictures Entertainment to health insurer Anthem,
have suffered costly and embarrassing data
breaches in recent months. The Twitter feed of
U.S. Central Command, which oversees military
operations in the volatile Middle East, was
hacked recently, while the White House reported
detecting activity of concern last October on
the unclassified computer network used by
White House staffers.
While a growing cadre of information
security experts have for years grappled with
cybersecurity as online communications boomed,
their concerns have largely been downplayed.
But with record public and private sector data
breaches last year - the Identity Theft Resource
Center found that 85 million records were
exposed last year - the discussion has moved
from the tech geeks to policy wonks.
And the federal government itself is struggling:
cyberattackers trumped terrorists as the No. 1
threat to national security, according to an annual
review by intelligence officials last year.
The Obama administration wants Congress to
supersede an existing patchwork of state laws by
setting a national standard for when companies
must notify consumers that their personal
information has been compromised. Obama was
signing an executive order Friday to encourage
members of the private sector to share
information about threats to cybersecurity with
each other and with the federal government, but
he also wants Congress to pass legislation.
What we as an industry, spanning across public
and private sector security teams, need to
improve on is breaking down the silos of `how
and `to whom threat data and threat intelligence
is being shared, said Barmak Meftah, president
of the San Mateo, California, cybersecurity
startup AlienVault.
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Stanford is in the heart of the Silicon Valley, home

to Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel and most other
tech leaders. The valley is also a national hub
of innovation, with the most patents, venture
capital investment and startups per capita in
the U.S. The university launched a $15 million
initiative in November to research the technical
and governance issues involved in maintaining
security online.
A sore point for the private sector is that while
most states require them to report breaches, the
federal government isnt required to publicize its
own data losses.
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OSCAR RACE IS ALL ABOUT TIMING

(EXCEPT WHEN ITS NOT)
Timing is everything in the Oscar race. Except

when its not.
This years Academy Awards field has done
more than most to upend traditional rhythms of
Hollywoods awards season, a normally finelytuned red-carpet ballet. Not my tempo - the
indelible line from J.K. Simmons music instructor
in the best-picture nominated Whiplash - has
been the seasons mantra.
The critical favorite, Richard Linklaters
Boyhood, was the front-runner for much of
the season, only to be seemingly usurped by the
industrys choice, Birdman (or the Unexpected
Virtue of Ignorance), which swept the guild
awards. Momentum - the most cherished,
carefully sought ingredient in any Oscar campaign
- has been elusive, just as the normal parameters
of awards season appear to be shifting.
Boyhood (six nominations) and The Grand
Budapest Hotel (nine nods) were released early
in the year, long before most Oscar movies were
even in the blocks. At the same time, the other
end of the calendar no longer seems so safe.
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Of the last three movies to debut - Selma,

American Sniper and Unbroken - only one
emerged as an awards juggernaut. The timing
was perfect for Clint Eastwoods Iraq War
sensation, which was eagerly embraced by
conservative America, leading to record-setting
box office in addition to six nominations. But
Selma, which director Ava DuVernay completed
shortly before its Christmas Day release, didnt
catch on with awards the way many expected.
The reasons could be numerous, and certainly
many read racism into the films snubbing
(though it landed two Oscar nominations,
including best picture). But the lesson of Selma
in Hollywood was more straightforward: It arrived
too late to sufficiently screen for the industrys
guilds or to solidly stake its place among the
top contenders.
A lot of companies, including us, should open
a lot of these films a lot earlier if we can in that
last quarter of the year because it becomes
so freaking crowded, says Michael Barker, copresident of Sony Pictures Classics, which this
Oscar season, landed 18 nominations, its most
ever. A lot of these we couldnt open earlier
because they werent ready.
Last year, Barker faced a similar choice with
Bennett Millers Foxcatcher, a film originally
slated to be a fall 2013 release. But with Miller
needing more time to edit, SPC chose not to
rush it out, instead debuting it to acclaim at the
Cannes Film Festival (where Miller won best
director), setting it on a path that eventually led
to five Oscar nominations.
Sony Pictures Classics has had success with
a handful of summer releases that were still
remembered by the Academy Awards (notably
Woody Allens Blue Jasmine and Midnight in
Paris). But every film is different, Barker noted.
After acquiring the Alzheimers drama Still Alice
at the Toronto Film Festival in September, SPC
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immediately slated it for a December release,

seeing the strong response to Julianne Moore
lead performance. Now, Moore is considered a
shoo-in for best actress.
Paramount Pictures had good reason to rush
Selma. The film was bursting with relevance,
arriving while protesters were flooding the streets
over the Eric Garner and Darren Wilson grand
jury decisions.
The same timing that may have hurt Selma
didnt have the same effect on American
Sniper partly because Eastwoods film was
finished far in advance and so it had no trouble
getting screeners to guilds, many of which vote
in December.
The thing is that no one wants to peak early.
Oscar season shares much with president
campaigns, where candidates fear entering the
ring too soon. But being the last to jump into
turbulent award season waters with a holiday
release now appears risky, too.
When the Oscars were at the end of March, a
December release was advantageous, but not
any longer, due to a number of factors, primarily
the calendaring of the ballots, busy holiday
schedules, colliding releases, etcetera, veteran
awards season consultant Tony Angellotti said in
an email. Two films released early on, `Boyhood,
and `Budapest, have successfully weathered all
seasonal bends and curves.
If either were to win best picture, it would be the
first film released before the fall to take the award
since 2009s The Hurt Locker (a June debut) and
only the fourth pre-autumn best-picture winner
in the past two decades. (The others were 1999s
Gladiator and 1995s Braveheart.)
Angellotti believes the biggest winners from this
awards season may be the fall film festivals in
Telluride, Toronto and New York - the launching
pads of the majority of awards-seekers. Its the
route Fox Searchlight took with Birdman and
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last years winner, 12 Years a Slave.

Its a delicate dance: trying to create buzz but
not so much that the inevitable backlash topples
chances come Oscar voting.
Nobody wants to be the early frontrunner
because they know that its so difficult to sustain
that position, says Scott Feinberg, awards analyst
for The Hollywood Reporter.
Feinberg believes the guilds may be urged to
delay their voting periods to accommodate later
releases. But he thinks few films will emulate the
releases of Boyhood or Budapest: Whats
still true is voters get very excited toward the end
of the year when these highly anticipated, much
discussed movies start screening.
Either way, the clock has almost run out on this
years nominees. Oscar voting ends Tuesday.
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Image: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
DRONES RULE:
PROPOSED RULES FOR COMMERCIAL
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
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Drone on, the government says.

Just not through the night sky. Or close to an
airport. Or out of the operators sight. And
probably not winging its way with a pizza or
package, any time soon.
Long-anticipated rules proposed Sunday will
open an era in which small (under 55 pounds)
commercial unmanned aircraft perform routine
tasks - crop monitoring, aerial photography,
inspections of bridges and cell towers, and much
more. But not right away. Final rules are probably
two to three years away.
And when they are in place, they may include
a separate category with fewer restrictions for
very small drones, likely to be defined as less
than 4.4 pounds.
The Federal Aviation Administration released
a variety of proposed requirements for
commercial operators to meet, such as passing
a knowledge test administered by the agency
as well as a federal security check. The small
drones could travel as fast as 100 mph, at
altitudes of 500 feet or lower. Flights over
people except those involved in the drones
operation would be prohibited.
We have tried to be flexible in writing these
rules, said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.
We want to maintain todays outstanding level
of aviation safety without placing an undue
regulatory burden on an emerging industry.
The agency is researching technology that he
hopes will eventually enable small drones to
fly safely beyond the sight of operators, Huerta
said. He emphasized that introduction of
commercial drones into the national airspace
will be a staged process. The government is
also looking ahead to how larger drones might
be allowed to fly in airspace shared by manned
aircraft, for example, he said.
One of the key safety concerns is that without a
human on board the ability to see and avoid
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other aircraft is limited. Another concern is

that the link between the operator and a
remote control aircraft can be broken, causing
the drone to fly away until it loses power or
collides with something.
Cases of flyaway drones getting stuck in trees
or hitting buildings are rampant. Last month, a
drone that its operator lost control of flew over
the White House fence and crashed on the lawn
before Secret Service agents could block it.
Even with the proposed safety restrictions,
drones can transform urban infrastructure
management, farming, public safety, coastal
security, military training, search and rescue,
Image: AP Photo/Gregory Bull
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Image: Brendon Thorne
disaster response and more, the White House

said in a presidential memorandum on privacy
released in conjunction with the rules.
The memorandum lays out measures federal
agencies must follow to guard against abuse
of data collected in their drone flights. Among
other steps, the order requires agencies to
review privacy and civil rights protections before
deploying drone technology and to adhere
to a range of controls. Personally identifiable
information collected in drone flights is to be
kept no longer than 180 days, although there
are exceptions.
Its questionable whether such steps will satisfy
civil liberties advocates, whove objected strongly
to the governments vigorous use of digital
surveillance in the name of national security. But
drone advocates were generally happy with the
proposal, although they disagreed with some of
the details.
I am very pleased to see a much more
reasonable approach to future regulation than
many feared, said Brendan Schulman, a New
York attorney who unsuccessfully challenged
FAAs restrictions on drone flights.
The agency currently bans commercial drone
flights except for a few dozen companies that
have been granted waivers. That ban will stay
in place until regulations become final, but
FAA officials plan to continue granting waivers
case by case. About 300 waiver requests are
pending and new requests are being filed
almost daily.
The proposed rules are a good first step
bringing the U.S. closer to realizing the benefits
of drone technology, said Brian Wynne,
president and CEO of the Association for
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a
trade group.
An FAA analysis points to an estimate by the
trade association that drones will create 70,000
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jobs with an economic impact of more than

$13.6 billion in the first three years after their
integration into U.S. skies.
In a big concession to industry, the FAA said it
wont require an airworthiness certificate for
small drones. The design and manufacture of
each model of manned airplanes and helicopters
go through a rigorous approval process by the
FAA before they are granted airworthiness
certificates. That can take years.
The FAA decided that drone technology was
changing so rapidly that by the time a model
received an airworthiness certificate the remotecontrolled aircraft might already be out of date,
Huerta said.
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Image: Aleksi Briclot
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NO LONGER ARE YOU STUCK WITH

JUST PENCILS AND PAINTS
For years and years, if you aspired to be a
visual artist, at least in the more traditional
sense, your task was clear - you needed to
buy some pencils, paints and palettes, set
up an easel and get practicing. In today's
digital age, though, things are much more
ambiguous. You now don't need to invest
in any artistic tool other than your iDevice,
making the most of the many creative apps
available in the App Store.
When you think about it, it shouldn't be such
a big shock that the iPad - in particular - is
commanding popularity as a replacement in
some quarters for the stretched canvas and
easel. After all, digital art is almost old enough
to count as traditional in and of itself these
days, and that 9.7-inch multi-touch display
gives you a lot of real estate to play with.
Even more importantly, a lot of developers
have worked hard to come up with apps
that allow you to reel off a masterpiece with
(relative) ease. These powerful apps enable
the brilliant replication of real life drawing
and painting textures and effects, making
them the perfect means of improving your
creativity beyond the world of real pens,
papers and oil paints.
Image: Alon Chou
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SOME ARTISTIC APPS TO TRY TODAY

If you want to get started with a bit of drawing
to see what making art on the iPad is really
like, you can't do better than Paper by
FiftyThree. That's partly because it is free
- indeed, all of the original tools on the app
have also recently been made free, meaning
that you can draw, write, sketch, outline and
color to your heart's content without having
to shell out a cent. The clean and simple to
use interface only makes your experience all
the more fun.
Alternatively, you might be a little betteracquainted with the world of digital art, and
there's no bigger brand name in that world
than Photoshop - so why not pick up the
iPad equivalent of the venerable imageediting program? Adobe Photoshop Touch
admittedly doesn't have all of its desktop
counterpart's more advanced features, but
that shouldn't be a big shock for something
that will only set you back $9.99.
The iOS app does still offer such core features
as layers, selection tools, adjustments and
filters, however, and plenty more besides.
These include a camera fill feature that allows
you to fill areas on layers with your iPad
camera, a Scribble Selection tool for selecting
part of an image to extract, Refine Edge
for the capturing of such difficult-to-select
elements as hair... there's even integrated
Google Image Search.
A TRULY ASTONISHING RANGE OF

CREATIVE APPS
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#01 Paper by FiftyThree

By FiftyThree, Inc.
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
Compatible with iPad.
#02 Adobe Photoshop Touch

By Adobe
Category: Photo & Video
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with
iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), iPad mini, iPad Air,
iPad mini 2, iPad Air and iPad mini 3.
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Image: Raphael Lacoste
Image: Marta Dahlig
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#03 ArtRage
By Ambient Design Ltd.
Category: Entertainment
#04 Procreate
By Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
Category: Entertainment
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Whatever ambitions you may have for your

digital art - modest or monumental - you are
sure to find an app in the App Store to match
them. ArtRage, for instance, takes a slightly
different approach that makes it the perfect
choice for those who hanker for the nuances
and unpredictability of real life oil paints.
What other app would allow you to squeeze
out some (virtual) paint and smear it with
your palette knife?
The intuitive and natural feel of the painting
tools that ArtRage offers makes you feel like
you're in a real art studio, experimenting with
color blends and textures on an actual canvas.
Such a dynamic feel is due to the app even
keeping track of the amount of paint on your
canvas and its wetness. It all means that you
really can create whatever painterly textures
and effects you want to create when you
choose ArtRage.
Another of the unquestioned leaders among
iOS artistic apps is Procreate. The most recent
version of this digital illustration app, 2.2, has
been optimized to make the most of iOS 8 and
the iPad Air 2, with a generous specification
sheet encompassing everything from studiograde features and groundbreaking drawing
tools to new color tools and an advanced
layering system. The latest version also has
a more streamlined interface, making an
already highly intuitive app even more so.
Image: Marek Okon
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Image: Robert Kim
Image: Tae Young Choi
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THOSE APPS YOU MAY HAVE

FORGOTTEN ABOUT...
Although Procreate represents good value for
such an app at $5.99, for one dollar less, you
do also have the option of ArtStudio for iPad,
which is quite impressive as well. It calls itself
"the most comprehensive sketching, painting
and photo editing tool in the App Store",
and backs up that billing with such features
as a flexible canvas size, custom brushes, fully
customizable stroke settings and a choice
of 16 tools. The latter includes pencil, wet
paintbrush, dry paintbrush, dots, spray, eraser
and many more.
Let's not forget, though, that iGadgets
are hardly the only devices on which the
finest digital art continues to be created.
If any evidence of that was necessary,
you'd only need to look to such apps as
the completely free to download Krita.
The desktop version can be downloaded
for Windows, GNU/Linux or Mac OS X, the
source code also being available for those
who would like to build it themselves.
Whichever of those options you plump
for, you will be rewarded with a fullyfeatured tool for digital painting and
illustration, offering every obvious feature
from CMYK support and HDR painting
to perspective grids, dockers and filters even painting assistants. You'll also get an
easy to use interface with lots of scope for
customization, as well as a wrap-around
mode enabling the effortless creation of
seamless textures and patterns.
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Image: Goro Fujita
#05 ArtStudio for iPad

By Lucky Clan
Category: Photo & Video
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Images: Jason Chan
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Add to the specification sheet the likes

of multiple brush engines and blending
modes, advanced selection and masking
tools, symmetry tools and drawing aids and
so much more, and it's clear that Krita is
a worthy addition to the already heaving
pantheon of digital illustration applications
now on the market.
THE DIGITAL ARTISTS BRUSHING

THEIR WAY TO LEGEND STATUS
If there's anything more impressive than the
latest digital apps themselves, it has to be the
art that is being created from them - and, by
extension, the artists that are making names
for themselves in the digital medium.
Those to have distinguished themselves
in the digital art field in recent years
include the longstanding DeviantArt artist
Marta Dahlig. Hailing from Poland, she
has become a popular fixture on the site
since 2003, her series of the seven deadly
sins being a particular must-see for any
current or aspiring digital artist. UK artist
Daniel Conway, meanwhile, has attracted
admiration for his impressive self-taught
digital painting portfolio.
Another big Polish talent among digital
painters is Marek Okon, who is known for
his futuristic sci-fi scenes. Then, there's
Canada-based Cris de Lara, who has built
her reputation on a broader portfolio of
digital painting subjects. Unlike many digital
artists, she has a background in traditional
oil painting, which she then transferred to
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Image: Bobby Chui
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Images: Cris de Lara
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Image: Linda Bergvist
screen-based creations in such fields as

illustration, comic books and TV.
We must also confess to being big fans of
the German freelance digital artist Lorenz
Hideyoshi Ruwwe, whose digital painting skills
have landed him work with entertainment
industry clients in the likes of video games,
movies and books. Or what about Alon
Chou, the digital painting freelancer whose
character and scene designs you might have
already seen - however unwittingly - in many
games and movies?
DIGITAL DRAWING AND PAINTING IS

HERE TO STAY
As you can see, digital art is far from the bold
young upstart these days - dare we say it, it is
rapidly building up a heritage and prestige of
its own.
Meanwhile, if you're a humble layperson
wishing to dabble in art but who is hesitant
about the heavy investment required for
a 'real' art studio and all of the messiness
and awkwardness of 'real' art materials,
you may just find that one of the many
available, professional and affordable
apps for creating digital art represents the
perfect alternative.
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
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DIDDY, SNOOP DOGG HOLD ALL-STAR

HIP-HOP CONCERTIN NYC
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The NBA All-Star Game is not until Sunday, but

hip-hop musics all-star team - featuring Diddy,
Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Nas and others
- played in top form at a New York City concert
Thursday night.
Snoop Dogg and Diddy hosted the show for radio
station Hot 97 at the Theater at Madison Square
Garden, which also included Lil Kim, T.I., Doug E.
Fresh and The Lox.
The multi-hour event kicked off with a video of
Marion Suge Knight dissing Diddy at the 1995
Source Awards. After, Diddy emerged as the
audience roared, performing the late 90s hit,
Victory. Knight has been charged with murder
in a deadly hit-and-run last month.
I also came here to set some (expletive) right,
as yall saw on the screen. That negative energy
started right here, right on this very stage, Diddy
said. If you about positivity, make some noise. So
thats what this is about, man. This is setting that
scene straight, as if we can go back, but we cant.
But we get to celebrate on this stage.
Instead of beef, Diddy and Dogg wanted
to promote peace among East and West
Coast rappers.
Diddy went on to perform a catalog of his hits,
getting assists from Busta Rhymes and Jermaine
Dupri at the top of the show as West and Kim
Kardashian watched from the side of the stage.
West hit the stage, too, performing Cant Tell Me
Nothing as his wife filmed him with her phone.
The outspoken rap star even directed the camera
operator filming the show, telling the person to
move around more.
More action, he yelled. This is hip-hop.
The night was a mix of old and new school - but
the common denominator was hit songs. Dre
joined Dogg - who entered the stage in an onesie
and changed three other times - to rap West
Coast anthems, while former Bad Boy Records
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signees 112, Faith Evans and Black Rob performed

alongside Diddy.
Diddy, who also changed multiple times, handed
two bottles of alcohol to fans upfront, and Dogg
even passed one man a joint.
Other guests at the show included younger
rappers, such as Big Sean, 2 Chainz, French
Montana, A$AP Ferg, O.T. Genasis of CoCo fame
and iLoveMakonnen, whose hit Tuesday was
nominated for a Grammy Award last weekend.
Nas was one of the highlights, performing Hate
Me Now and Made You Look, while Naughty
by Nature hit the stage to perform classics like
O.P.P. and Hip Hop Hooray.
Rap group The Lox and Lil Kim joined Diddy
onstage with back-to-back jams, including
Money, Power, Respect. Notorious B.I.G. videos
played in the background - as did one from
Tupac Shakur - while the crowd and rappers
danced excitedly.
A choir joined Diddy, Evans and 112 for Ill Be
Missing You, the song dedicated to the late B.I.G.
I do this song for him, Diddy said, looking to
the crowd. I know you got somebody special
up there.
But the night didnt end on a sad note - most of
the performers hit the stage to celebrate with the
classic, Mo Money, Mo Problems.
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ARE YOU A HACK WAITING

TO HAPPEN? YOUR BOSS
WANTS TO KNOW
The next phishing email you get could be from

your boss.
With high-profile security breaches on the rise,
from Sony Pictures to Anthem, companies are on
the defensive. And they want to make sure their
employees are not a hack waiting to happen.
Data show phishing emails are more and more
common as entry points for hackers. Unwittingly
clicking on a link in a scam email could unleash
malware into a network or provide other access
to cyberthieves.
So a growing number of companies, including
Twitter Inc., are giving their workers a pop quiz,
testing security savvy by sending spoof phishing
emails to see who bites.
New employees fall for it all the time, said
Josh Aberant, postmaster at Twitter, during a
data privacy town hall meeting recently in New
York City.
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Falling for the fake scam offers a teachable

moment that businesses hope will ensure
employees wont succumb to a real threat. Its
even a niche industry: companies like Wombat
Security and PhishMe offer the service for a fee.
Phishing is very effective, according to Verizons
2014 data breach investigations report, one
of the most comprehensive in the industry.
Eighteen percent of users will visit a link in a
phishing email which could compromise their
data, the report found.
Not only is phishing on the rise, the phish are
getting smarter. Criminals are getting clever
about social engineering, said Patrick Peterson,
CEO of email security company Agari. As more
people wise up to age-old PayPal and bank scams,
for example, phishing emails are evolving. You
might see a Walgreens gift card offer or a notice
about President Barack Obama warning you
about Ebola.
The phishing tests recognize that many security
breaches are the result of human error. A recent
study by the nonprofit Online Trust Alliance
found that of more than 1,000 breaches in the
first half of 2014, 90 percent were preventable
and more than 1 in 4 were caused by
employees, many by accident.
Fake phishing emails are indistinguishable from
the real ones. Thats the point. In one sent out
by Wombat, the subject reads Email Account
Security Report - Unusual Activity. The email
informs the recipient that his or her account will
be locked for unusual activity such as sending
a large number of undeliverable messages. At
the bottom theres a link that, were this a real
phishing email, would infect the recipients
computer with malicious software or steal
password and login information.
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Image: Robyn Beck/AFP
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IF YOU CLICK?
Up pops a web page: Oops! The email you
just responded to was a fake phishing email.
Dont worry! It was sent to you to help you
learn how to avoid real attacks. Please do not
share your experience with colleagues, so they
can learn too. It also offers tips on recognizing
suspicious messages.
In the 14 years since PhishMe CEO and cofounder Rohyt Belani has been in information
security, he says the industry has changed
from something a geek in the back room
was supposed to take care of to something
companies now handle at the highest level
of management. The nature of the intruder
also has changed, from pranksters to criminal
organizations and nation-states.
As the security industry developed, he said, so did
the idea of the user as stupid and the weakest
link, destined to continue to fall for phishing
attempts and other scams. Belani disagrees with
that, faulting the security industry for not better
training workers.
We posted posters in hallways, gave out squishy
balls, (made) screen savers, he said. When
was the last time you changed your password
because of a squishy ball?
While phishing training emails are a good
cautionary measure, they arent actually
going to strike at the core of the issue, believes
Agaris Peterson. He, along with large Internet
companies such as Facebook Inc., Google Inc.
and Microsoft Corp., support establishing a
standard that makes it impossible for scammers
to impersonate your bank, social network
or other business in an email. Think of it as a
verification system for emails. For now, though,
this seems a long way off.
So, at Pinnacle Financial Partners in Nashville,
Tennessee, employees will continue to receive
fake phishing emails, about one a quarter. The
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results are reported to the companys audit

committee and board of directors, said Chief
Information officer Randy Withrow. Since the
800-employee company started the Wombat
program Withrow said it has seen a 25 percent
drop in successful phishing attempts.
Workers take it very personally when they fall
for it, he said. They become apologetic and
wonder, `how did I miss it?
Luckily for Pinnacle, it was only a test.
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RAPPER DRAKE
RELEASES SURPRISE
ALBUM ON iTUNES
Drake was featured on Beyonces surprise album and now hes taking a page from her book.
The Grammy-winning rapper released a new
album called If Youre Reading This Its Too Late
early Friday morning on iTunes. It includes 17
tracks and features Lil Wayne, Travi$ Scott and
PARTYNEXTDOOR.
The release comes more than a year after
Beyonce released her self-titled album on iTunes
without announcing it. Others have dropped
albums in surprise form, from alternative rapper
Kid Cudi to Australian rockers Wolfmother to rap
group G Unit.
Drakes last album was 2013s Nothing Was the
Same, his third studio album. It sold more than
650,000 units in its debut week.
Drakes hits include Started from the Bottom,
Take Care and Best I Ever Had.
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NOW SOMEONE CAN MANAGE

YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
AFTER YOU DIE
Facebook is making it easier to plan for your

online afterlife.
The worlds biggest online social network said
Thursday that it will now let users pick someone
who can manage their account after they die.
Previously, the accounts were memorialized
after death, or locked so that no one could log in.
But Facebook says its users wanted more choice.
Beginning in the U.S., Facebook users can pick a
legacy contact to post on their page after they
die, respond to new friend requests and update
their profile picture and cover photo. Users can
also have their accounts deleted after their death,
which was not possible before.
If you want someone to manage your account
after you die, click on the upside-down triangle
on the top right corner of your page, open
settings and find security. For U.S. users there
will be an option to edit your legacy contact, who
must be a Facebook user. But you dont have to
pick someone else to manage your account. You
can also check a box to permanently delete your
account when you die.
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The person you choose to manage your

account wont be notified of your choice
until your Facebook account is memorialized.
But you can send them a message before.
Facebook will also send you an annual
reminder of your pick. This could help if the
person dies before you do, for example, or if
your friendship cools as the years pass.
If you give your contact additional permission,
they will be able to download and archive your
photos, posts and profile information after you
die. They will not be able to access your private
messages. To log into your account, they will have
to use their own Facebook login - they wont be
able to sign in as you.
Facebook accounts are memorialized at the
request of loved ones, who must provide proof
of the persons death, such as an obituary.
Facebook tries to ensure that the account of
the dead user doesnt show up as a suggested
friend or in other ways that could upset the
persons loved ones.
Facebook, which has nearly 1.4 billion users,
wont say how many accounts are memorialized,
though Facebook product manager Vanessa
Callison-Burch said there have been hundreds of
thousands of requests from loved ones to do so.
Other Internet companies also offer ways to
posthumously manage your accounts. On
Google, a tool called inactive account manager
lets you choose to have your data deleted after
three, six or 12 months of inactivity. Or you can
choose someone, such as a parent or a spouse,
to receive the data. The tool covers not just email
but also other Google services such as Google
Plus, YouTube and Blogger.
Twitter, meanwhile, will deactivate your account
if contacted by a family member or a person
authorized to act on behalf of your estate, after
verifying not only that you died but that the
Twitter account is yours, since many people dont
use their full names on the site.
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"ALL ABOUT THAT BASS" CAPS

REMARKABLE RISE TO STARDOM
When it was confirmed in late January
that Meghan Trainor had dethroned the
previously all-conquering Taylor Swift at
the top of Billboard's Artist 100 - a measure
of artist activity across the most influential
U.S. charts - there was little surprise. After
all, it wasn't the first time she had even
been ranked the country's top artist in this
way. Indeed, it just completed her rise to
the top on the basis of what turned out to
be one seriously empowering song about
body confidence.
We are, of course, referring to "All About
The Bass", the monster viral hit that has
topped singles charts across the world,
including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, in the
process accomplishing something much
more important: making people across
the world, particularly women, feel a little
better about themselves.
There are so many ways of measuring the
cultural impact of "All About That Bass".
You may have watched the bubblegum pop
and doo-wop number's accompanying cute,
candy-colored video and instantly been
brought to mind of all of the parodies that
have instantly made it iconic. Alternatively,
you could look to its two Grammy Award
nominations, for Record of the Year and
Song of the Year, or even just the raw
numbers - it's sold more than six million
copies worldwide.
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AN EXTREMELY EMPOWERING SONG

While Trainor is seemingly singing at first in
the song about a literal bass - "You know I'm
all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble"
- it soon becomes obvious, especially from
the video, what the true message of this feelgood track is. The 21-year old Massachusetts
native is, in fact, talking about that subject
that concerns so many of us, especially
women - body confidence.
"Yeah it's pretty clear," she continues into the
first verse, "I ain't no size two... but I can shake
it, shake it like I'm supposed to do... 'cause I
got that boom boom that all the boys chase...
and all the right junk in all the right places."
Cuddy metaphors abound throughout
the track, the reference to a bass clearly a
wordplay on the instrument's traditional
status as the support, or "bottom" of a song.
To a backdrop of a throwback soul beat,
Trainor persists in her call to empowerment
for women everywhere, through her use of
such lines as "I see the magazines working
that Photoshop... we know that sh*t ain't
real... come on now, make it stop... If you got
beauty beauty just raise 'em up... 'cause every
inch of you is perfect... from the bottom to
the top".
Add the appearance of Vine star Sione
Maraschino performing his trademark
"Maraschino Step" and plenty more
good old-fashioned fun, and you have the
ingredients for a seriously memorable song
and video - as confirmed by the immense
response from the wider world.
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THE "CRAZY STORY" OF A CHILD

PRODIGY
It's impossible to truly appreciate the story
of "All About That Bass" without also delving
into the history of Trainor herself, born
on December 22, 1993, who picks up the
"crazy story": "I'm from a little island off of
Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting
into the music business from there, but my
parents took me to songwriting festivals
because I would write and produce my own
music. And then one of those songwriting
places in Colorado, a publisher was there from
Nashville and she found me and signed me at
18 years old."
That was just a few years ago - but by then,
it had already been quite the journey for
Trainor. She had begun singing at the age of
six, and had been a songwriter since the age
of 11. As a high school student at Cape Cod's
Nauset High School, she sang and played
trumpet in a jazz band, in addition to studying
guitar - the NRBQ and Incredible Casuals'
Johnny Spampinato teaching her.
Trainor also spent four years as a singer,
guitarist and keyboardist for a local Nantucket
band called Island Fusion and in 2009 and
2010, was a student of the Performance
Program at Berklee College of Music, gaining
high marks and reaching the finals of their
songwriting competition. She had already selfreleased three albums of her own material
by the time she was 18. Eventually, after
contributing compositions for such artists
as Rascal Flatts and Macy Kate through a
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publishing deal with Big Yellow Dog Music,

she was signed by Epic Records.
THE BACKGROUND OF "ALL ABOUT

THAT BASS"
"All About That Bass" was instrumental in
landing Trainor that deal. Written by her and
songwriter and producer Kevin Kadish in
just 40 minutes, the song demonstrated the
creative chemistry between the two, based
on a shared love of 1950s music. However,
she hadn't intended to keep the song for
herself until Epic Records chairman and CEO
L.A. Reid intervened.
As Trainor recalled it: "My publisher and
everyone else said, 'It's a great song but
there's not a lot of artists who can sing this.'
And that's when L.A. Reid heard it and was
like, 'You are the artist. Be one.'" She added
of the song's gestation process with Kadish
in an interview with EW: "When he started
making the beat I freestyled, 'It's pretty clear I
ain't no five-two', and I was like, 'Girl anthem.
This is for me. Let's do it.'"
There are many other influences that one
could mention for "All About That Bass" Trainor, for instance, had approached the
sessions wanting to write a song akin to the
1958 track "Lollipop", while the doo-wop
sound was chosen due to its catchiness. This
was combined with the modern, Kadishdeveloped beat and Trainor's self-acceptance
themed lyrical ideas, and viola - a song
speaking to so many of today's women and
dare we say it, men, came into being.
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A REMARKABLE SONG AND ARTIST

It's staggering now to think that when
the song was initially being pitched to
recording labels and singers - including
Beyonc and Adele - it drew criticism on
account of its lack of a synthesizer or AutoTune. Naturally, Trainor and Kadish had
little time for such sentiments, and neither
- eventually - did Reid, who decided that
the demo would be the final version, albeit
given additional mastering. It proved an
inspired call - the song's vintage feel is very
much central to its charm.
To say that the track has made a big impact
would be quite the understatement, as
demonstrated in part by the fact that it has
been so widely parodied. One version on
YouTube rather inaccurately imagines Trainor
as a hater of skinny women, incorporating
such lyrics as "If you are super thin, super
thin, you're evil". Another posits the idea
of a singer lacking in ideas for lyrics, simply
searching for "a goofy phrase... that will
appeal to kids as well as soccer moms".
For sci-fi fans who are also partial to attractive
dancing women with considerable cleavage
- and which of them aren't? - there's even a
Star Wars-themed version of the song, with
the lyrics "I'm all about that base, 'bout
that base, no rebels". Yes, in case you're
wondering, Stormtroopers, C-3PO and R2D2 all make appearances. It takes quite an
impactful song to earn this kind of tribute.
But could there be any greater tribute to
"All About That Bass" than the profoundly
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positive effect that it has had on so many

of its listeners? We'll leave Trainor with the
last word.
Asked by EW about how people seemed to
be relating to the song's message, the artist
replied: "Oh my gosh. It makes me tear up.
These girls sent me, like, essays about how
they hated their lives and hated themselves
because of their bodies and the way people
were treating them. And they said they heard
my song and they said "Forget it, I'm just
going to love myself."
"It's insane. They'll send me pictures of
them dancing to my song, and videos. It's
amazing."
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ACTOR EDDIE MURPHY

RELEASES REGGAE SINGLE
Veteran actor-comedian Eddie Murphy is on a

different chart these days, with his latest single
rising to the top of the most downloaded reggae
songs on iTunes.
Released Jan. 27, Oh Jah Jah was inspired by
recent news events, Murphy said.
I was watching CNN about two or three months
ago and all this craziness was going on with
the terrorism and chopping off peoples heads
and then St. Louis, Ferguson. A bunch of police
brutality going on (at the) same time and I had
that progression, but I didnt have any lyrics, but I
had that groove. Id been playing that progression
for about a month and then I was watching the
news and it all came together one day, he said.
Murphy, who will appear on NBCs SNL 40th
Anniversary Special on Sunday, recently spoke
to eNews Magazine about his music, film
and comedy.
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eNews: If you were to release a reggae album

would you put it out as Eddie Murphy or would
you think of a reggae name?
Murphy: Ive got 25 years of stuff on the shelf.
I could go right now and pick six, seven, eight
reggae songs and put out a reggae album. I could
go back there and pick seven or eight country
songs and do a country album, or I could do a
regular dance/R&B album. Ive had people say,
`You should put a record out because its a good
song and if they didnt know it was you theyd
like it under a different name, but, hey, these are
my tracks and Im not hiding behind any of it. It is
what it is.
eNews: Will there be an upcoming album or any
collaborations?
Murphy: I have collaborations with all kinds of
different artists over the years. Stuff with B.B.
King, Ive recorded with Paul McCartney, Snoop,
Ive recorded with a bunch of different interesting
artists. Raphael Saadiq. As far as future
collaborations, that all has to come together
organically. As far as an album coming out, if
one of these tracks jumps off, if one of them
connects with the people digging it and I get
some momentum going, Ill put an album but Im
not planning an album until Im sure people want
to hear something. Otherwise itll stay on the
shelf for years and years. A hundred years from
now they dig through everything and Im totally
fine with them finding hours and hours and hours
of collaborations and theyll say, `We didnt even
know Eddie Murphy. Im totally fine with that.
eNews: What about any upcoming film projects?
Murphy: About two weeks ago I just finished
a movie, its not a comedy though. Its called
`Cook and its got a really strong director, the guy
that directed `Driving Miss Daisy and `Tender
Mercies, a guy named Bruce Beresford, a really
strong director from Australia. We just finished it
two weeks ago.
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eNews: Any plans on returning to

stand-up comedy?
Murphy: When I was doing stand-up it was a
hundred comedians, now its a hundred thousand
of them. So if I got onstage again Id have to be
doing something that makes me different from
all these other hundred thousand comics. My
fantasy when I think about live performances is
playing with a really strong band playing a halfhour or 40 minutes of music and having the
curtains go down then doing an hour of stand-up
comedy. Id have a really fly show if I could pull
that one off.
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REVIEW:
WHY SUBSCRIBE
TO OFFICE WHEN
SO MUCH IS FREE?
Just as I was warming up to choosing a Microsoft

Office 365 subscription over making a one-time
software purchase, Microsoft started giving
away a lot of subscription benefits for free. The
company now offers Word, Excel and others at no
cost on most mobile devices.
Its a smart move by Microsoft, but it makes me
wonder whether you really need a subscription,
which starts at $70 a year.
The subscription will appeal to people who use
Office apps on traditional Windows or Mac
computers or Windows tablets, such as the
Surface Pro 3. Those who primarily use iOS and
Android mobile devices can probably stick with
free apps. Whats right for you comes down to
whether you need a PC or can get things done
with just your smartphone or tablet. Heres what
to consider.
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THE FREEBIES
Microsofts newly released Office apps for
iPhones, iPads and Android tablets are quite
good. Microsoft offers Word for text documents,
Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for
presentations, Outlook for email and OneNote for
organization - all for free. (Access for databases
and Publisher for desktop publishing arent
available yet.)
Im writing this review on Word using an iPad
and Android tablets from Samsung and Google
- the latter with a wireless keyboard. Ive edited
documents on an iPhone and am pleased it has
the same features that are available on the iPad,
though with some menu changes to account for
the smaller screen.
Im still not totally used to the mobile apps,
especially for cutting and pasting text in Word
and inserting cells in Excel spreadsheets.
There are also missing features, such as green
underlines of potential grammatical mistakes. But
the apps include most of what I use on PCs. You
do have to sign in with a Microsoft account, but
you can create one for free.
On Apple devices, a subscription would unlock
about two dozen features, such as inserting
section breaks and tracking changes between
drafts. (Some power users might need these, but
I dont.) There are fewer features available for
Android phones and tablets, whether free or for
pay. Microsoft says the Android apps will catch
up, as well as the version for Windows phones.
Note: If you have a Windows tablet, you must
pay for Office unless youre running a lightweight
operating system called RT.
PAY ONCE, NEVER AGAIN

Cant live with just a smartphone or tablet?
You can buy Office for personal computers
and Windows tablets the traditional way, by
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paying for the software just once. For $140,

you get Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
Comparatively, an Office 365 subscription
costs $70 a year for one user, so by year three
the subscription is costing you more. Youre
guaranteed the latest version of Office, which
comes out every three years, but the one-time
fee is still cheaper.
SO WHY PAY AGAIN AND AGAIN?

- For iOS and Android mobile devices, you get
extra features you cant get any other way.
- Most Windows tablets, including the Surface
Pro, require a one-time purchase or subscription,
even for basic features. The subscription also
gives you three apps you dont get with the
$140 one-time purchase: Outlook, Access and
Publisher. (You can buy all seven Office apps for
a one-time fee of $400, but the subscription is
cheaper.)
- For PCs, a $70 one-user annual subscription lets
you use all seven Office apps on multiple PCs and
tablets by signing in and out. The $140 one-time
purchase limits you to one device and four of the
seven apps.
- The subscription is a great deal for multiple
users or multiple PCs. For $100 a year, rather
than $70, you can install the software suite on
up to five Mac or Windows PCs, so you dont
have to keep signing in and out. That can be five
PCs you have, or five individuals in a household.
You can switch up the PCs as often as you like.
(A subscription also allots you an additional five
tablets and five phones, but Microsoft doesnt
really enforce that limit.)
- If you have a lot of files to store, a subscription
gives you 1 terabyte of online storage through
OneDrive, compared with just the 15 gigabytes
you get with a free account. You also get 60
minutes a month of Skype calls to anyone.
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Typically, free Skype calls are limited to other

Skype users.
THE VALUE
The days of keeping your digital life on a single
machine are long gone, and the subscription
makes it easy to manage multiple PCs. But people
tend to have multiple mobile devices, not PCs.
Microsofts giveaway of iOS and Android apps
eliminates a major need for a subscription.
Then again, Microsoft has little choice when
its competing with cheap and free apps that
recognize the Office file format. The company
would rather people stick with Office, even for
free, in hopes they will buy premium features
later. There are signs thats working: Excluding
business customers, Office subscribers grew 30
percent to 9.2 million in the last three months
of 2014 - the same period Microsoft released
its latest iPhone and iPad apps and made core
features free.
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Trailer
Movies
&
TV Shows
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Rotten Tomatoes
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The Theory of
Everything
There can be few more inspirational stories
than that of the British theoretical physicist
Stephen Hawking - and we arent even
referring to his colossal achievements in
physics. Instead, this biographical romantic
drama centers largely on his devastating
motor neuron disease diagnosis at age 21 followed by achievements that would have
once seemed inconceivable.
FIVE FACTS:
by James Marsh
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014
Price: $14.99
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1. The Theory of Everything is based on Jane

Wilde Hawkings memoir Travelling to Infinity:
My Life with Stephen.
2. Eddie Redmayne stars as Stephen Hawking,
and Felicity Jones as Jane Wilde Hawking.
3. Other cast members include Charlie Cox,
Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, David Thewlis
and Maxine Peake.
4. Director James Marsh has described
the film as a very unusual love story in a
very strange environment, a very strange
sort of landscape, and that is I think the
abiding theme of the film. It is how these
two characters, these two real people
transcend all the complications and
curveballs that life throws at them.
5. Archival images were closely studied
and reproduced to ensure the films
authenticity.
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Interview with Eddie Redmayne
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The Last Five Years

Based on the hit Jason Robert Brown musical
of the same name, The Last Five Years retells
the five-year love affair of struggling actress
Cathy Hiatt, played by Anna Kendrick, and upand-coming novelist Jamie Wellerstein, whose
role is taken by Jeremy Jordan. Or, to be more
specific, it is the couple who do the retelling.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The original musical premiered at Chicagos
Northlight Theatre in 2001.
2. It was then produced Off-Broadway in
2002.
3. The film was written and directed by
Richard LaGravenese.
4. It premiered in the Special
Presentations section of the 2014
Toronto International Film Festival.
5. Shooting took place in New York City.
by Richard LaGravenese
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2015
Price: $14.99
238 Ratings
Trailer
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Interview with Jeremy Jordan and

Richard LaGravenese
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If Youre Reading
This Its Too Late
Drake
Is it a mixtape? Is it an album? Whatever status
you give it, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late
is the latest produce from Canadian superstar
rapper Drake, its release with zero prior
announcement drawing comparisons to the
similar stunt that Beyonc pulled with her selftitled LP in 2013. It has proved itself a quick
commercial and critical hit, too.
FIVE FACTS:
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Released: Feb 13, 2015
17 Songs
Price: $12.99
1. Drake is the mononym of Aubrey Drake

Graham.
8708 Ratings
2. He was born in Toronto on October 24,

1986.
3. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Aaliyah and mentor Lil
Wayne are among his cited influences.
4. A short film for Jungle has been
released, directed by Karim Huu Do.
5. The mixtape is set to be followed by the
studio album Views From The 6.
Jungle
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Interview with Drake
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I Love You,
Honeybear
Father John Misty
You may know him better as former Saxon
Shore and Fleet Foxes member Joshua
Tillman, but for I Love You, Honeybear, the
folk star adopts the pseudonym of Father
John Misty for the second time. He has
described the release as a concept album
about himself, focusing on his relationship
with his wife Emma, as well as other aspects
of his personal life.
FIVE FACTS:
1. Joshua Tillman was born in Rockville,
Maryland on May 3, 1981.
2. He grew up in an Evangelical Christian
household, the oldest of four children.
3. Tillman has said that his childhood
wasnt a good experience and was
culturally oppressive.
4. He has said of the Father John Misty
moniker: What I call it is totally arbitrary,
but I like the name. Youve got to have a
name. I never got to choose mine.
5. Tillman has added that the new album
shows him engaging in all manner of
regrettable behavior.
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Genre: Alternative
Released: Feb 10, 2015
11 Songs
Price: $9.99
243 Ratings
Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
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Bored in the USA
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STRATFORD
FESTIVAL PLANS
TO FILM ALL
SHAKESPEARES
PLAY
Playing the mad title role in Shakespeares King

Lear was never supposed to be easy. Thats just
what Colm Feore wanted.
The classical actor chose to make his Lear
absolutely hateful and corrosive for the
Stratford Festival in Canada this past summer.
He turned 56 in the role and his Lear, recorded
on high-definition cameras, is a vigorous,
fit monarch.
If you do it properly, you should be legless and
speechless from scene to scene. And I decided to
do it that way, Feore said. It takes an enormous
amount of energy and I think a certain amount of
balls and daring to do it at all.
The same could be said for what the Stratford
Festival intends to do with the movie: It will kick
off a massive initiative to film and broadcast all of
Shakespeares plays over the next 10 years.
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Feores Lear, which hits 350 movie screens

across America on Feb. 25, leads the way, with
King John following in April and Antony and
Cleopatra in May. Three or four new films will
be broadcast each year as part of the almost $40
million effort.
The attempt to bring the complete works of
William Shakespeare to audiences around
the world is the first by a North American arts
organization and the dream of the Festivals
artistic director Antoni Cimolino, who also
directed King Lear.
For the almost 400 million people that live on
this continent, and for young people especially,
hearing the language spoken the way they speak
it is very important because then you realize that
Shakespeare is not foreign, Cimolino said. He
belongs to all of us. Its our birthright.
The company has a seven-month season
every year with about a dozen plays in four
Ontario venues performed by some 120 actors.
Performing Shakespeare is at its core - there are
usually three of four of his plays done a season.
But works also range from ancient Greek plays to
modern tales.
Feore, who has logged 17 seasons with the
company, was called on to do more than just
Lear last year. He alternated the role with
a part in the romantic comedy of manners
The Beaux Stratagem.
The actor, who has joined the Fox series
Gotham as the Dollmaker, said not doing his
Lear for eight shows a week likely made his
performance even better.
I could shred the voice. I could be physically
destroyed and emotionally completely finished at
the end of every performance knowing that I had
a day or so to recover, he said.
Cimolino will decide which upcoming shows will
be recorded after seeing how audiences respond.
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When it really works well for the audience, it

works well for the camera, weve found.
Down the line, he also hopes the possibility of
broadcasting a Shakespeare play live might be
attempted. We wanted to walk before we ran,
he said.
The live cinema event company BY Experience
is helping distribute The Bards canon. Julie
Borchard-Young, who runs BY Experience with
her husband, Robert, said theater-goers will now
be able to sample great Shakespeare productions
without having to cross the northern border.
Its not really realistic to expect audiences be
able to visit in person at all times so this is a really
great way for Stratford to reach them where they
are, she said. We hope the Stratford series will
really excite viewers across the U.S. and theyll
support it and it will have a chance to grow.
Online: http://www.stratfordfestivalHD.com
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REVIEW: SATIN ISLAND

BY TOM MCCARTHY IS
DAZZLING, FUNNY
Satin Island (Knopf), by Tom McCarthy

Events! If you want those, youd best stop
reading now. So proclaims Tom McCarthys
Satin Island, a rather dazzling array of sentences
and paragraphs and snippets of memory and
thought that arent quite sure where they are.
The cover of Satin Island bears a number of
possibilities: it could be a treatise, an essay, a
manifesto, and so on, but each of these is crossed
out, leaving only A Novel. Anyone familiar with
the history of the novel should get that joke.
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And Satin Island is very funny; intellectually,

culturally, uncannily funny, in that way that
absurd, dystopian stories about hyperbureaucracy are funny - think Terry Gilliams
Brazil, and youre halfway there.
U. (You? Or perhaps Ulysses?), is a corporate
ethnographer, a job title that at once makes
no and yet total sense, tasked with writing The
Great Report. What I want you to do, his boss
says, is name whats taking place right now. He
dismisses U.s questions about form and audience
as secondary. It will find its shape.
As the novel opens, U. is stuck at the airport in
Turin, reading flight departure screens and TV
screens and the news on his laptop, following
multiple threads at once, from a football match
to the airports layout, a skydiving accident to an
oil spill, while his colleagues text him about work
and his girlfriend pings him on Skype.
Its a normalized scenario made weird, an
anthropological exercise. What meaning is gained
from these exchanges of information? How does
one determine the quality, let alone quantity, of
that meaning?
U. latches onto both the oil spill and the dead
parachutist, finding in them metaphors for
his work, his friends cancer and government
conspiracies. In my favorite part of the book, he
fantasizes about delivering a lecture arguing that
oil spills are nature perfected: When oil splatters
a coastline, Earth wells back up and reveals itself;
natures hidden nature gushes forth.
Those familiar with McCarthys previous work will
recognize these themes; Id wager that anyone
unfamiliar but interested in, say, the architecture
of information in the 21st century, both as the
novels subject and its structure, would find this
book thoroughly engaging.
Online: http://www.randomhouse.com/
book/203430/satin-island-by-tom-mccarthy
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Astronomers have their own version of the

single person's dilemma: Do you wait by the
phone for a call from that certain someone? Or
do you make the call yourself and risk getting
shot down?
Instead of love, of course, astronomers are
looking for alien life, and for decades, they have
sat by their telescopes, waiting to hear from
E.T. It didn't happen, and so now some of them
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want to beam messages out into the void and

invite the closest few thousand worlds to chat or
even visit.
Others scientists, including Stephen Hawking,
think that's crazy, warning that instead of
sweet and gentle E.T., we may get something
like the planet-conquering aliens from
"Independence Day." The consequences, they
say, could be catastrophic.
But calling out there ourselves may be the

only way to find out if we are not alone, and
humanity may benefit from alien intelligence,
said Douglas A. Vakoch, whose title - for real - is
director of interstellar message composition at
the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, and until now it's been mostly a
listening-type thing.
This dispute - which mixes astronomy, science

fiction, philosophy, the law, mathematics and a
touch of silliness - broke out Thursday and Friday
at a convention in San Jose of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
And this week several prominent space experts,
including Space X founder Elon Musk and
planet hunter Geoff Marcy, started a petition
cautioning against sending out such messages,
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saying it is impossible to predict whether

extraterrestrial life will be benign or hostile.
Vakoch is hosting a separate conference
Saturday at the SETI Institute on the callingall-aliens proposal and what the messages
should say.
The idea is called active SETI, and according to
Vakoch would involve the beaming of messages
via radar and perhaps eventually lasers.
We've been inadvertently sending radio and TV
signals out to the cosmos for some 70 years though less now, with cable and satellite sending
shows directly down to Earth. In fact, each day
a new far-off planet may be just now catching
the latest episode of the 1950s sitcom "I Love
Lucy," said astronomer Seth Shostak, a senior
astronomer at the SETI Institute.
There have been a few small and unlikely-towork efforts to beam messages out there in the
past, including NASA sending the Beatles song
"Across the Universe" into the cosmos in 2008.
NASA's Voyager probe recently left the solar
system with a "golden record" created by Carl
Sagan with a message, and the space agency's
New Horizon probe will also have greetings on it
by the time it exits the solar system.
But what scientists are now talking about is a
coordinated and sustained million-dollar-a-year
effort with approval from some kind of science
or international body and a message that
people agree on.
It's an "attempt to join the galactic club," Vakoch
said. He assured a crowd of reporters: "There's
no danger of alien invasion from active SETI."
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But as a science fiction author, as well as an

astrophysicist, David Brin thinks inviting aliens
here is a bad idea. Even if there is a low risk of a
nasty creature coming, the consequences could
be extreme.
"I can't bring myself to wager my grandchildren's
destiny on unreliable assumptions" about
benevolent aliens, Brin said.
Brin noted that European explorers brought
slaughter and disease to less technologically
advanced people in the Americas more than 500
years ago. He called for the science community
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to put efforts on hold for an ethical and scientific

discussion on "why it won't go the same way as
between Cortez and the Aztecs."
As Brin, Shostak, Vakoch and others sparred at
a news conference, 84-year-old Frank Drake
sat in the back quietly. Drake, a pioneer in
the search for extraterrestrial life, created the
formula called Drake's Equation that scientists
use to estimate the chances that other life is out
there. More than 40 years ago, Drake and Sagan
beamed a message into space to look for aliens,
a first for Earth.
It was a short message from the Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico, and it was aimed
at a star cluster called Messier 13. It will take
25,000 years to get there, Drake said.
"The probability of succeeding is infinitesimally
small," Drake said, rolling out calculations about
the incredible amount of time it takes messages
to go back and forth and his estimate that the
average civilization will last only 10,000 years.
So why'd he do it? Curiosity, Drake said. And it
doesn't matter if our civilization is gone by the
time E.T. answers, if he does.
"We get messages from the ancient Greeks and
Romans and Socrates all the time, long since
gone. Still valuable," Drake said. "We're going to
do the archaeology of the future."
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The official sign-up season for President Barack

Obamas health care law may be over, but
leading congressional Democrats say millions of
Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a
second chance.
Three senior House members strongly urged the
administration Monday to grant a special signup opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will
be facing fines under the law for the first time
this year.
The three are Michigans Sander Levin, the
ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means
Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim
McDermott of Washington, and Lloyd Doggett
of Texas. All worked to help steer Obamas law
through rancorous congressional debates from
2009-2010.
The lawmakers say they are concerned that
many of their constituents will find out about
the penalties after its already too late for them
to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment
ended Sunday.
That means they could wind up uninsured for
another year, only to owe substantially higher
fines in 2016. The fines are collected through the
income tax system.
For the many families who may now be about
to pay a penalty, there should be an opportunity
to avoid both further penalties and to obtain
affordable health insurance, said Doggett.
This year is the first time ordinary Americans
will experience the complicated interactions
between the health care law and taxes. Based on
congressional analysis, tax preparation giant H&R
Block says roughly 4 million uninsured people will
pay penalties.
The IRS has warned that health-care related
issues will make its job harder this filing season
and taxpayers should be prepared for long callcenter hold times, particularly since the GOP-led
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Congress has been loath to approve more money

for the agency.
Open enrollment period ended before
many Americans filed their taxes, the three
lawmakers said in a statement. Without a special
enrollment period, many people (who will be
paying fines) will not have another opportunity to
get health coverage this year.
A special enrollment period will not only help
many Americans avoid making an even larger
payment next year, but, more importantly, it will
help them gain quality health insurance for 2015,
the lawmakers added.
So far, administration officials have deflected
questions about whether an extension will be
granted. Health and Human Services Secretary
Sylvia M. Burwell has authority to grant special
enrollment periods under certain circumstances.
Supporters of the law say an extension would
mainly help low- to middle-income uninsured
people, the same group that Obamas coverage
expansion was intended to serve. But Republicans
may criticize it as another tweak to what they see
as unworkable Obamacare.
The health care law imposes fines on uninsured
people whose incomes are deemed high enough
to enable them to afford coverage. The goal is to
broaden the pool of insured people, helping to
keep premiums in check for everybody.
The law also offers subsidies to lower the cost
of private coverage for people who dont have
job-based health care. That financial assistance is
provided through a new tax credit.
Although the tax credit subsidies cover most of
the premiums for many people, the coverage
requirement and the fines that enforce it
remain deeply unpopular. And the cost of being
uninsured in America is going up significantly.
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For 2014, the fine was the greater of $95 per

person or 1 percent of household income above
the threshold for filing taxes. That fine will be
collected when taxpayers file their 2014 returns.
But this year the fine will jump to the greater
of 2 percent of income or $325. By 2016, the
average fine will be about $1,100, based on
government figures.
Polls show that many taxpayers are unaware of
the potential financial exposure.
Floyd Cable, a real estate agent from Wichita
Falls, Texas, said the escalating fines were part
of the motivation for him and his wife to sign up
last week. Both are self-employed, and stretching
to pay health insurance premiums has been
a struggle.
We have been going without insurance the
last couple of years just because the rates are so
astronomical, Cable said.
But they were also concerned they could wind up
on the wrong side of rising penalties. And, being
in his early 60s, Cable said he recognizes the value
of having health insurance against unexpected
illness. An extension would probably help people
still on the fence, like he was.
Anything that could be done to give people more
time to sort through this, is not only a good move
for the administration, but just makes common
sense, Cable said.
Since both the subsidies and penalties under
the health law are administered through the tax
system, some experts have urged the Obama
administration to permanently schedule sign-up
season to overlap with tax-filing season.
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FIFTY SHADES
TIES UP A COOL
$93 MILLION DEBUT
The heat on Fifty Shades of Greys blockbuster

debut cooled ever so slightly as the final four-day
weekend numbers were revealed on Tuesday.
The R-rated movie, which cost only $40 million to
produce, took in $93 million from 3,646 locations
across the long Presidents Day holiday.
Although initial estimates put the four-day gross
at over $94 million, director Sam Taylor-Johnsons
adaptation of EL James steamy best seller still
took the crown for best February opening ever,
unseating the 2004 record set by The Passion of
the Christ.
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Matthew Vaughns R-rated comic book

adaptation Kingsman: The Secret Service also
exceeded expectations in its first four days in
theaters, bringing in $41.8 million from 3,204
locations, helping to solidify an overall recordbreaking Presidents Day weekend at the box
office. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian
theaters Friday through Monday, followed by
distribution studio, gross, number of theater
locations, average receipts per location, total
gross and number of weeks in release, as
compiled Tuesday by Rentrak:
1. Fifty Shades Of Grey, Universal,
$93,010,350, 3,646 locations, $25,510 average,
$93,010,350, 1 week.
2. Kingsman: The Secret Service, 20th Century
Fox, $41,761,512, 3,204 locations, $13,034
average, $41,761,512, 1 week.
3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of
Water, Paramount, $40,007,494, 3,654 locations,
$10,949 average, $103,140,055, 2 weeks.
4. American Sniper, Warner Bros., $18,779,843,
3,436 locations, $5,466 average, $306,478,136, 8
weeks.
5. Jupiter Ascending, Warner Bros.,
$33,876,593, 2 weeks.
6. Paddington, The Weinstein Company,
$63,963,867, 5 weeks.
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7. Seventh Son, Universal, $4,841,540, 2,874

locations, $1,685 average, $14,111,980, 2 weeks.
8. The Imitation Game, The Weinstein
Company, $4,179,402, 1,551 locations, $2,695
average, $80,311,825, 12 weeks.
9. The Wedding Ringer, Sony, $3,707,333, 1,456
10. Project Almanac, Paramount, $3,300,551,
weeks.
11. Black or White, Relativity Media,
$17,882,673, 3 weeks.
12. Still Alice, Sony Pictures Classics, $2,076,621,
502 locations, $4,137 average, $4,994,406, 5
weeks.
13. The Boy Next Door, Universal, $2,003,705,
weeks.
14. Taken 3, 20th Century Fox, $1,265,978, 691
15. Old Fashioned, Freestyle Releasing,
$1,083,308, 224 locations, $4,836 average,
$1,126,199, 2 weeks.
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16. Birdman, Fox Searchlight, $1,030,070,

weeks.
17. Selma, Paramount, $1,250,195, 566
18. The Theory Of Everything, Focus Features,
$904,301, 466 locations, $1,941 average,
$33,339,004, 15 weeks.
19. Big Hero 6, Disney, $890,686, 317 locations,
$2,810 average, $219,482,366, 15 weeks.
20. Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics, $705,539,
weeks.
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TIGHTER ONLINE
CONTROLS IN
CHINA POINT
TO WIDER
CLAMPDOWN
Working out of a Beijing office full of video game

designers from around the world, Chinese-born
Pin Wang and his startup Substantial Games
should be the face of the innovative, forwardlooking China that the countrys leaders say they
want to build.
Pin and his team are attracting investors from
across China while launching online games full
of swords and sorcery that they hope will dazzle
global eyeballs. But for several weeks, Pins
team has struggled with a decidedly down-toearth problem thats hit countless companies
nationwide: Theyre unable to access their email,
shared documents and other online services
blocked by Chinas Internet censors.
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Something that should take 15 seconds takes

three or five minutes, and it screws with the way
you flow or you work, Pin said. We dont have
the resources to move because were a startup.
But we talk about it all the time.
Chinese controls on information have tightened
and loosened over the years, but Pin and others
are feeling what many say is Chinas most severe
crackdown in decades on how people learn
about the world around them, talk to each other
and do business.
On the Internet, in college classrooms and in
corporate offices, the Chinese Communist
Party has raised the virtual wall separating the
most populous country from the rest of the
globe. Experts say it reflects a distrust of outside
influences that the party thinks could threaten its
control on society.
Companies that have depended for years on
virtual private networks, or VPNs, to get around
Chinese online censors and access business tools
have seen those channels squeezed or shut down
since the start of the year.
Academics who have long helped Chinese
authorities distill foreign ideas into public
policy have been told to watch what they say,
especially about so-called Western ideas that
clash with party doctrine. And many foreign
companies that were welcomed into Chinas
booming economy have seen their offices
raided by investigators and been forced to pay
record fines in antitrust investigations.
Despite Chinese government pledges to create an
innovation economy that leads the world, China
ranked 22nd out of 50 countries, between Ireland
and Spain, in a global innovation index released
this month by Bloomberg financial news service.
To have the best educational system and
the best university has nothing to do with
how many high-rises you have and how many
good dining halls you have, said Rowena
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He, a Harvard University lecturer. The most

important thing at the core is the intellectual
freedom that makes up life in a university and
academia, she said. But instead of opening
up to reforms, we see the opposite.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua
Chunying responded to the concerns of foreign
businesses by pointing to a U.N. report showing
China became the worlds top destination for
foreign direct investment in 2014.
Hua also echoed previous government arguments
that people online needed to first obey Chinese
regulations on healthy Internet use.
As long as foreign companies in China observe
the Chinese law and refrain from undermining
Chinas national security and consumers interest,
China will protect their legal rights and welcome
their business expansion, Hua said.
The tighter controls reflect instability within
the party as President Xi Jinping shakes up the
political landscape in a much-publicized anticorruption campaign thats netted thousands
of government officials, said prominent China
scholar Perry Link. The strategy echoes back to
the political purges of Mao Zedong, the founding
father of the Peoples Republic of China, Link said.
Since Xi Jinping has come in, the clampdown
has been stronger and more unidirectional than
anything since the Mao era, Link said.
Professor Xia Yeliang was among the first to feel
the consequences when the economics faculty of
prestigious Peking University voted to expel him
in October 2013. Xia had long been an advocate
for democratic reforms in China and helped draft
Charter 08, a bold call for sweeping changes to
Chinas political system.
Xia said more than 20 professors in China have
been expelled or otherwise disciplined for
their political teachings since Xi came to power.
Through my colleagues, I can sense that the
ideological controls are getting much tighter, said
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Xia, now a visiting fellow at the libertarian U.S.

think tank the Cato Institute.
In that political climate, the government sees
the Internet as a top threat and has responded
by building a ubiquitous system for censoring
what people in China can see online. Xi presides
over the powerful Central Internet Security and
Information Leading Group, which formed after
he took power.
The list of controls grows every month.
Late last year, Chinese censors finally blocked all
Google services after the U.S. company refused
to cooperate with them in 2010. This month,
officials required that all Chinese blog and
chat room users register with their real names
and promise in writing to avoid challenging
the political system. In the coming weeks,
new cybersecurity regulations will reportedly
require foreign companies to turn over sensitive
intellectual property and submit their products to
security checks.
The party has paid especially close attention to
the microblog Weibo and censored messages
that touch on sensitive subjects, said Rogier
Creemers, a research officer at Oxford
Universitys Programme for Comparative Media
Law and Policy.
Weibo has become a venue for chaotic
discussion, and part of the effect it had was it
essentially meant the party had lost the initiative
and couldnt say what got into the public sphere,
Creemers said.
The latest moves are in line with Beijings
longtime approach to regulatory change: It eases
control on commercial or other activity, sees how
it develops and then promotes aspects it wants
while suppressing those it doesnt.
Chinese Internet users, for example, still are avid
consumers of social media, e-commerce and
video streaming sites, even if the censors are
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always lurking, said Dali Yang, faculty director of

the University of Chicagos center in Beijing.
This is a society with a tremendous level of
information, people who are very well educated
in terms of actual information and they know of
history going back centuries, Yang said.
Still, while Chinese leaders see the Internet as
a source of prosperity and jobs, they are willing
to give up commercial gains to enforce political
controls. When the government clashed with
Google, people in the industry warned that
driving out the U.S. search giant would hurt
Chinas development.
Walling off Chinas Internet has allowed some
local websites such as search engine Baidu and
Weibo to prosper in the absence of foreign
competition. Other local companies, such as Pins
startup, chafe at the restrictions.
Foreign entrepreneurs and companies,
meanwhile, are trying to figure out whether
the costs of doing business in China outweigh
the benefits of tapping the worlds secondbiggest economy.
Rich Chinese also are looking to leave the
country. A survey by the British bank Barclays
last year found that 47 percent of more than
2,000 high-worth Chinese are hoping to move
within five years. The poll found that their
top reasons were greater educational and
economic opportunities for their children and
overall economic security.
Beijing is an attractive place to be because of the
amazing talent, said Beijing-based entrepreneur
Nils Pihl, who heads the database startup
Traintracks. But its getting harder for us to stay,
and my social feed is full of other CEOs saying
theyre worried they will have to leave.
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MSNBCS
BRZEZINSKI TO
HOST EVENTS
FOR WOMEN
The NBC Universal News Group is launching a

series of live events where Morning Joe host
Mika Brzezinski offers empowerment tips to
women, a venture that illustrates an effort to find
revenue-raising activities outside the traditional
definition of news.
The tour, loosely based on Brzezinskis book
Knowing Your Value, will begin in Philadelphia
in April. Subsequent stops will be in Washington,
D.C., Chicago, Boston and Orlando, the network
said on Tuesday.
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Brzezinski said she frequently hears from women

inspired by her book, where she describes
fighting to close a salary gap between her and
co-host Joe Scarborough. Shell be part of each
conference, which will feature women offering
strategies to be more successful at work, personal
finance, health and wellness.
Through its partnership with Kara Swisher and
Walter Mossbergs Re/code, NBC has some
experience running live events.
NBC Universal also produces programming for
elementary and secondary schools.
Like many news organizations, NBC Universal
is looking for ways to make money beyond
advertising within television news programs. Not
only is there increased competition online for ad
dollars, ratings troubles have cut into revenue
for shows like Today and Meet the Press,
and now Nightly News faces a threat with the
suspension of top anchor Brian Williams.
For the health of the news industry, we need to
keep evolving our business model, said Elisabeth
Sami, a senior vice president in charge of business
development at NBC Universal.
Brzezinski, who is releasing another book,
Grow Your Value, this spring, organized one
conference on her own, in Hartford, Conn., and
was heartened by the response.
Even successful women can use help in fighting
for themselves in the workplace, including nutsand-bolts advice on body language and what to
wear while seeking raises, she said.
If you do a conference in New York City, you
see your friends in the audience, and you see
the people we have on the show and then you
see a few women who look a little lost - and
they walk away feeling that what they aspire to
is even further away than what they thought,
she said. And thats not how you want to have a
conference. The women in Hartford ... walked out
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joyful, excited about going to work the next day

and feeling that they had really tangible pieces
of advice.
Johnson & Johnson is the lead sponsor of the
tour, joined by other companies like Prudential,
JetBlue, Tivo, Milly and NBC Universal owner
Comcast. There are no plans for NBC News
employees to hawk products during the event,
Sami said.
News personnel need to make sure they are
not creating conflicts of interest when they get
involved in these other ventures, said Aly Colon, a
professor of journalism ethics at Washington and
Lee University.
Generally speaking, youre at your best when
youre doing what you normally do, Colon said.
Anytime you extend beyond that you have to
take care because youre going to affect how
people see you as a news organization. The news
groups are always better off, in my opinion, when
you stick to the news.
Sami said the goal is to be as transparent as
possible and make sure we get it right.
The MSNBC.com web site will maintain a Know
Your Value link with content and the ability to
live stream some of Brzezinskis events.
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NY FASHION WEEK:
NAOMI CAMPBELL
WOWS ZAC POSEN
CROWD
The eNews Magazine is all over New York Fashion

Week, from its runway fashions to celebritypacked events. Heres what some AP writers are
seeing:
ZAC POSEN HEARTS NAOMI CAMPBELL
What does a runway queen wear? A ruby glitter
ballgown, of course.
Naomi Campbell had Zac Posens crowd
collectively uttering that fashion word of all
words - wow - when she closed his Monday
night show in the flocked taffeta bustier number
against the grandeur of Vanderbilt Hall in Grand
Central Terminal.
Compared to a sea of muted grays, blues and
blacks on other runways- and the gloom of
winters deep freeze - Posens show of color
was a welcome sight. It included a range of
reds, emerald green, plum, burnt orange and
sparkly disco silver in a column gown done up
in bugle beads that glistened under the halls
stately chandeliers.
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And Campbell wasnt the only royalty in the

house. Rihanna selfied with Lee Daniels and
sat front row with Mary J. Blige, while Christina
Hendricks and Coco Rocha beamed from their
prime seats. Uzo Aduba and Katie Holmes were
also among Posens guests.
Of the runway, Posen said in a backstage
interview he was looking to mix and match
his muses for fall. He worked in stretch jersey,
included more day looks and ran with a `70s vibe
in sparkle. And there was mink, in scarves tied
close to the neck, a coat and a bright orange top
paired with a long loose skirt of a similar shade.
We wanted more fluidity on the runway. I was
feeling the glamour of Grace Kelly meets the spice
of Chaka Khan. I draped most of the collection
myself, on weekends. In my quiet moments, the
affable designer said.
So whats on Posens mind for the Oscars? Its not
all about the red carpet.
Im a big film geek, he smiled, declaring his love
for Birdman.
I dont believe in pushing hard for red carpets.
Getting something on a red carpet shouldnt have
to be a notch every awards show, he said.
What else might be up for Posen? Theres a
documentary in the works about his life. And
the avid home chef who delights followers
on Instagram with his recipes and hashtag of
CookingwithZac may just do a cookbook. He likes
thinking up new recipes in the same way he likes
taking fabric to a mannequin.
Finding your ingredients is like finding a
great fabric, he said. Both are sensual in the
same way.
-Leanne Italie
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A COLD BEER -- AND `90s COOL -- AT RAG &

BONE
Let no one underestimate the power of a cold
beer and some spicy nuts to raise the spirits of
a weary Fashion Week crowd. Often an 8 p.m.
show feels like one too many on a freezing day,
but the mood inside Rag & Bones Fall/Winter
show Monday night felt truly jovial. Did we
mention they were offering beer?
As for the clothes, designers David Neville and
Marcus Wainwright channeled a `90s vibe with
lots of layering, including interesting combos like
a slip dress over skintight trousers with a huge
parka on top. Colors were bright - especially a
nice spicy orange - and there was a refreshing
anything goes with anything vibe.
Especially noticeable were satiny slips (silk
charmeuse, actually) in all sorts of styles - slip
dresses, slip skirts, even a slip jumpsuit. These
came in luscious colors like licorice and chocolate.
The designers, whose guests included actor
Dylan McDermott, dancer Lil Buck and of course
Vogue editor Anna Winter, also used innovative
projections on the rooms massive walls, covering
up windows on one side and showing constantly
alternating angles of the show in progress. There
were close-up runway shots, long-distance shots,
and most enticingly, inside-the-wings peeks
at models getting primped just before being
ushered onto the catwalk.
Shoes came in fun colors like bright yellow and
orange, and included Mary Janes and comfy
loafers. Parkas were huge and inviting, especially
given the weather. All in all a very user-friendly
show - and, did we mention the beer?
-Jocelyn Noveck
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TOY MUSEUM ANNOUNCES HALL

OF FAME FOR VIDEO GAMES
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The museum that houses the National Toy Hall

of Fame is establishing a World Video Game
Hall of Fame.
The Strong museum in Rochester says the
video hall announced Tuesday will recognize
electronic games of all types: arcade, console,
computer, handheld and mobile.
The toy hall of fame will provide the model
for the video version. Anyone will be able
to nominate a video game, and an internal
advisory committee will choose finalists.
An international selection committee of
experts will choose inductees from there,
based on four criteria: icon-status, longevity,
geographical reach and influence.
Nominations for the inaugural class are being
accepted through the end of March.
The Strong has been preserving and collecting
video games and artifacts for years through
its International Center for the History of
Electronic Games.
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REVIEW:
LIN-MANUEL
MIRANDAS
HAMILTON IS A
ROLLICKING SHOW
It sounds screwy and yet here it is - a hip-hopbased musical on Alexander Hamilton, the first
treasury secretary of the United States.
Over-hyped? Perhaps. But this almost three-hour
show, with some 50 songs, reprises and song
fragments - is also rollicking, messy, and earnest just like Americas founding.
The new musical reunites the team from In the
Heights - director Thomas Kail, choreographer
Andy Blankenbuehler and Lin-Manuel Miranda,
who wrote the shows book, music and lyrics, and
stars in the title role.
Structured chronologically and, in a brilliant
stroke, narrated by Aaron Burr, the man who
would kill Hamilton, the musical opened Tuesday
at the Public Theater with money on it finding
a bigger home at some point. It stresses the
orphan, immigrant roots of the $10 Founding
Father without a father, his vices and ambition,
and his almost Greek tragedy of a death. Its
clever and ambitious, yes, and also in need of
some editing.
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Its the kind of show that Broadway insiders are

already applauding: Edgy without being scary,
historical without being dry. Its hip-hop with
a masters degree. Could it be the thing that
rescues Broadway?
Its true that Miranda seems to be one of those
unique artists who manages to mashup disparate
worlds. Hes fluent in Sondheim and Tupac, and
has a sly, smart sensibility. Hes like that cool-nerd
slouched in the front row of AP History class with
his hand permanently in the air. But theres a
danger here of putting too much on an already
overstuffed Hamilton.
The Public Theater even tries to equate Mirandas
embrace of common speech with Shakespeares
in its program note. Really? Will generations really
celebrate the rhyming of mello and Monticello?
Or quote Hamilton to John Madison? Hey,
turn around, bend over, Ill show you where my
shoe fits.
The standout performances are Leslie Odom Jr.
as Burr; Phillipa Soo as Hamiltons wife; Renee
Elise Goldsberry as Hamiltons sister-in-law; and
Daveed Diggs as a sarcastic Thomas Jefferson (his
Marquis de Lafayette in Act One isnt as strong).
And Brian dArcy James, as a foppish and peevish
King George, sings three songs to his former
American colonies like a jilted lover - Youll
be back, he croons - and will have you crying
with laughter.
The show is inspired by a Ron Chernow biography
- the historian actually gets a bio in the Playbill
- yet is filtered through Mirandas cultural and
musical world.
And what a world that is: The songs range from
breezy pop to rap battles to gospel to sexy
R&B. Hip-hop fans will hear shards of lyrics by
Notorious B.I.G., Lauryn Hill and LL Cool J, like little
Easter eggs. The sparse wooden-and-rope set by
David Korins has a revolving center, which, if you
think about it, is a perfectly appropriate turntable.
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The audience will get a tremendous amount

of information about Hamilton. Did you know
he had a thing for his sister-in-law? And theyll
also get too much about the smaller moments
in American history. The Whiskey Rebellion,
anyone? The Battle of Monmouth?
When everything works, its thrilling to watch.
The Room Where It Happened is a real feat
of choreography, performance and stagecraft,
led by Odom, who is an anguished, multidimensional Burr. The Duel Commandments
is a clever riff from the Notorious B.I.Gs Ten
Crack Commandments, and Satisfied
is a Rashomon love moment led by a
glorious Goldsberry.
Miranda and Kail clearly know when to go big but
also when to bring it down. Soos song Burn
is a heartfelt ballad with the only special effects
being real flames. But the final duel pitting Burr
and Hamilton has both men with guns drawn,
dancers spinning, the stage turning - its like a
John Woo film.
But so much churning also creates a series of
stuttering Act One would-be closers, unnecessary
tunes like One Last Ride and one that was oddly
marooned: Hurricane, with new information
about Hamiltons childhood, sounds like a tentpole number but curiously ends up at the threequarter mark.
Hamilton is nothing less than a reclaiming of
Americas founding story, a retelling of the 18th
century story by a nontraditional cast wearing
vests and cravats and singing about dropping
knowledge.
In its own way, its a revolution, all right.
Online: http://www.publictheater.org
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