Use the list below to browse NPR’s recommendations for the Best Music of 2011. You can also download the full list as a .pdf file. NPR Music’s 50 Favorite Albums Of 2011 Recommended by NPR Music Staff Adele, 21 Alexandre Tharaud, Scarlatti: Sonatas Antlers, Burst Apart Ashton Shepherd, Where Country Grows Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Chamber Music Beirut, The Rip Tide Beyonce, 4 Bombino, Agadez Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver Book Of Mormon, Cast Recording Bright Eyes, The People’s Key Brooklyn Rider Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass Captain Black Big Band, Captain Black Big Band Civil Wars, Barton Hallow Colin Stetson, New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges Cormorant, Dwellings Davila 666, Tan Bajo Demdike Stare, Tryptych Donnacha Dennehy, Gra Agus Bas Ebene Quartet, Fiction Eric Church, Chief Frank Ocean, Nostalgia, Ultra Fucked Up, David Comes To Life Girl In A Coma, Exits And All The Rest Glenn Jones, The Wanting Gretchen Parlato, The Lost And Found James Blake, James Blake Joseph Calleja, The Maltese Tenor (Decca) Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place June Tabor, Ashore Kendrick Lamar, Section.80 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine La Vida Boheme, Nuestra London Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony 2 (Mahler, Jurowski) Los Rakas, Chancletas Y Camiseta Bordada Miguel Zenon, Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook PJ Harvey, Let England Shake Radiohead, King Of Limbs Roots, undun Shabazz Palaces, Black Up Sonny Rollins, Road Shows Vol 2 St. Vincent, Strange Mercy STS, The Illustrious Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972 Tom Waits, Bad As Me Tommy Guerrero, Lifeboats & Follies tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l Wilco, The Whole Love Wye Oak, Civilian
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) ? Hungary hopes that credit rating agencies Fitch and S&P will wait for the results of its talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) before taking any rating action, a top government official said on Sunday.
The country, whose economy is seen among the most vulnerable in central Europe, returned to the IMF for help after more than a year without a financing backstop, only to see its debt downgraded to “junk” by Moody’s this week, triggering a market selloff.
The right-of-center government, which called the downgrade part of a speculative attack against the country, performed a dramatic about-face and agreed on Friday to mend ties with the EU, the IMF and the country’s banks to stabilize the economy.
Hungary expects to conclude the talks on a precautionary arrangement by late January or early February, to draw what it called a safety net around its currency and bond markets amid the turmoil in the euro zone.
“We are not playing the Turkish game,” Economy Ministry State Secretary Zoltan Csefalvay told Reuters in an interview, referring to the stop-go game which helped Turkey retain market confidence some years ago.
Hungary is also on the brink of non-investment grade credit status at both Fitch and Standard & Poor’s, both of which attach a negative outlook to their ratings.
“I hope that the two agencies will wait for the negotiation (with the IMF) and what the outcome will be and how this safety net will help Hungary in this turbulent time,” Csefalvay said.
He said the spike in government bond yields, which rose above 9 percent across the curve on Friday, was temporary and said he was confident the yields would recede.
“I think it is an immediate reaction and certainly we should wait how the market will react on it,” he said. “As we have seen in other countries, it will stabilize at a lower level.”
He said it was up to the National Bank of Hungary as to whether it hikes interest rates at its next policy meeting on Tuesday, even if a hike would further hinder growth.
“The central bank is independent in Hungary,” he said. “If it (hikes rates), it is the independent decision of the National Bank of Hungary. We accept it.”
RATE HIKE
The government has criticized the central bank’s rate increases between November 2010 and January 2011, which brought rates to their current 6 percent level.
The rate has been unchanged since January, but in the wake of the downgrade analysts expect the bank to hike the rate by 25 to 200 basis points on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban ended aid negotiations with the IMF last year in what he said was an economic “freedom fight.”
Although it has been forced back to the international lender the government has insisted it will aim for as much flexibility on economic policy as possible during the talks.
However, Csefalvay said Budapest would not shy away from discussing controversial policies, including windfall taxes on banks, as well as other policies that hurt the financial sector, such as mandatory below-market exchange rates to repay foreign currency mortgages.
“We can discuss certainly … these crisis taxes, the bank levy or the FX mortgage repayment scheme, whether this is right or not,” Csefalvay said. “But all of Europe faces new problems and to solve these we need risk and burden sharing.”
He noted that the crisis taxes, the bank levy and other such measures were temporary and the government was in the middle of executing reforms that he said would allow phasing out the taxes from 2013.
“The market sees some uncertainty as to what will happen when these (crisis) measures are abolished. We have more than one year to that time. We are in the middle of many important reforms, and we should push (them) through,” he said.
Csefalvay said the government would continue to pursue a growth-centered agenda even as it planned next year’s budget with a growth estimate in the 0.5 to 1 percent range, below a prior target of 1.5 percent.
However, if the cabinet sees any fiscal slippage next year, it will not hesitate to take steps to raise more revenue, much like September’s excise tax hike, he said.
(Reporting by Marton Dunai; Editing by David Holmes)
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schizophrenia or prophecy? this is a hard film to score. its at least a 4 star film, and potentially 5, so ill go in between. it doesnt have a high re-watchability factor which is my only criticism, and that isnt really a criticism because its more a product of the material then the quality of the film. this is easily one of the best films of the year, and one of the better films in the past few years. shannon and chastain were both amazing in their roles, which for chastain amazes me because she has so little experience in film, and even the supporting players around them all added wonderful performances. the subject matter is as engaging as it gets, and as i hoped for through the entire film, things are not what they seem. beautiful direction by nichols, amazing cinematography for such a small scale story, and the material was handled with perfect care. nichols, shannon, and chastain probably all deserve oscar noms, and this is the type of soul stirring film that must be seen. i havent felt like this leaving a film since “a serious man”.
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A shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargain-hunters crowded stores in an earlier-than-usual start to the madness known as Black Friday.
For the first time, chains such as Target, Best Buy and Kohl’s opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year. Toys R Us opened for the second straight year on Thanksgiving itself. And some shoppers arrived with sharp elbows.
Near Muskegon, Mich., a teenage girl was knocked down and stepped on several times after getting caught in the rush to a sale in the electronics department at a Walmart. She suffered minor injuries.
On Thanksgiving night, a Walmart in Los Angeles brought out a crate of discounted Xboxes, and as a crowd waited for the video game players to be unwrapped, a woman fired pepper spray at the other shoppers “in order to get an advantage,” police said.
Ten people suffered cuts and bruises in the chaos, and 10 others had minor injuries from the spray, authorities said. The woman got away in the confusion, and it was not immediately clear whether she got an Xbox.
On Friday morning, police said, two women were injured and a man was charged after a fight broke out at an upstate New York Walmart. A man was arrested in a scuffle at a jewelry counter at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Fla.
Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s biggest retailer, has taken steps in recent years to control its Black Friday crowds following the 2008 death of one of its workers in a stampede of shoppers. This year, it staggered its door-buster deals instead of offering them all at once.
Wal-Mart spokesman Greg Rossiter said Black Friday was safe at most of its nearly 4,000 U.S., but there were “a few unfortunate incidents.”
The incidents were attributed to two converging Black Friday trends: Crowds are getting bigger as stores open earlier and stay open later. At the same time, cash-strapped shoppers are competing for deals on a small number of gifts that everybody wants ? tablet computers, TVs and game consoles like Xbox, Nintendo 3S and Wii.
That’s a shift from years past, when there was a wider range of must-have items.
“The more the people, the more the occurrences,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with market research firm The NPD Group.
A record number of shoppers are expected this weekend to take advantage of discounts of up to 70 percent. For three days starting on Black Friday, 152 million people are expected to shop, either online or in stores, an increase of about 10 percent from last year, according to the National Retail Federation.
Thanksgiving weekend, particularly Black Friday, is huge for retailers. Over the past six years, Black Friday was the biggest sales day of the year, and it is expected to keep that crown this year, though shoppers seem to be procrastinating more every year, and the fate of the holiday season is increasingly coming down to the last few days before Christmas.
Last year, the Thanksgiving shopping weekend accounted for 12.1 percent of overall holiday sales, according to ShopperTrak, a research firm. Black Friday made up about half of that.
ShopperTrak is expected to release sales data on Saturday on how Black Friday fared, but a better picture will emerge when major retailers report their November sales figures next Thursday.
In addition to opening earlier than usual this year, some stores offered to match their competitors’ prices, rolled out layaway programs or offered more door-buster deals than last year.
Emmanuel Merced and his brother showed up at a Best Buy in New York at 3 p.m. on Wednesday so they could be the first in line when it opened at midnight Thursday to grab a Sharp 42-inch TV for $199.99, a PlayStation 3 with games for $199.99 and wireless headphones for $30.
Merced said he likes camping out for Black Friday and figured he saved 50 percent.
“I like the experience of it,” said Merced, who plans to spend $3,000 to $4,000 on gifts this season.
To be sure, not every place was full on Black Friday. With so many major stores opening at midnight, many people stayed up late and shopped early. Then there were those who stuck to their normal routine of going to stores that opened later Friday morning. That left a lull in the hours just before and after daybreak.
At a Target on Chicago’s North Side, crowds were light four hours after the store opened at midnight. And door-buster deals, including the typically quick-to-sell-out TVs and game systems, remained piled up in their boxes. Shoppers pushed carts through mostly empty aisles while thumbing through circulars, and employees in Santa hats roamed the store. There was no Christmas music ? or any music ? playing.
Rebecca Carter, a graduate assistant, began Black Friday shopping at 11 p.m. on Thursday and left Target around 4 a.m. carrying a bag full of pillows. Carter said the crowds were noticeably lighter this year as she and a friend picked up a 32-inch TV for $180 and a laptop for $198, along with toys and pajamas.
“It’s quiet,” she said. “It was shocking.”
Melody Snyder of Vancouver, Wash., had braced herself for anarchy when she got to Walmart at 6 a.m. but was pleasantly surprised when she pulled into the parking lot.
“I got here and thought, `Where is everyone?’” said Snyder, who found some Barbies and other toys sold out but was still able to find gifts for her three kids.
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Retail writers Mae Anderson and Anne D’Innocenzio are in New York. Sarah Skidmore in Vancouver, Wash., Christina Rexrode in Cary, N.C., Ashley Heher in Chicago and Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg, Fla., contributed to this report.
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Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, not seen, address reporters during a news conference following their meeting in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, not seen, address reporters during a news conference following their meeting in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, right, and Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group address reporters during a news conference following their meeting in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, right, and Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group address reporters during a news conference following their meeting in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, right, and Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group addresses reporters during a news conference following their meeting in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
BEIRUT (AP) ? An Arab League committee on Thursday gave Syria 24 hours to agree to allow an observer mission into the country, or it could face sanctions that include stopping financial dealings and freezing assets.
The bloodshed in the country continued, with activists reporting at least 15 people killed, including civilians and security forces.
Thursday’s threat was a humiliating blow to Damascus, a founding member of the Arab League. It comes as international pressure mounts on President Bashar Assad to stop the brutal crackdown on an uprising against his regime. The U.N. says has at least 3,500 have been killed since mid-March.
Syria is the scene of the bloodiest crackdown against the Arab Spring’s eruption of protests. Deaths in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have numbered in the hundreds. Libya’s toll is unknown and likely higher than Syria’s, but that conflict differed: Early on it became an outright civil war between two armed foes.
The Cairo-based Arab League called on Damascus to agree to an observer mission by Friday, or else the League will meet Saturday to decide on sanctions. In a statement released after the committee met, the group said punishment could include ceasing trade with the Syrian government apart from strategic goods that affect the Syrian people. Other sanctions could include stopping flights to Syria and ending dealings with Syria’s central bank.
The Arab League already has suspended Syria’s membership over the bloodshed and Syria’s failure to abide by an Arab peace plan it signed.
Thursday’s meeting took place in a hotel rather than at the League’s headquarters in the central Tahrir Square, where there have been clashes between Egyptian security forces and protesters calling for the ruling military to step down.
Also Thursday, the European Union said protecting civilians caught up in Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protests “is an increasingly urgent and important aspect” of responding to the bloodshed there.
Alongside the diplomatic efforts, violence continued, with clashes reported between troops and army defectors near the town of Rastan and in Houla, both in the restive central province of Homs. The province has been one of the most volatile regions throughout the uprising.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said the toll included at least four civilians.
“Protection of civilians in Syria is an increasingly urgent and important aspect of responding to the events in country,” Maja Kocijancic, an EU spokeswoman, said in a statement.
The 27-nation bloc stopped short of endorsing French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe’s call for EU-backed humanitarian corridors to allow aid groups a way in.
Juppe called the situation in Syria “no longer tenable” and accused Assad’s regime of “repression of a savagery we have not seen in a long time.”
He told France-Inter radio he was in contact with partners in the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Arab League about the possibility of setting up the humanitarian corridors.
Juppe suggested that aid groups like the Red Cross could use the corridors to bring medical supplies to cities like Homs.
Juppe first made the proposal after meeting with the leader of the opposition Syrian National Council on Wednesday.
France, Syria’s one-time colonial ruler, was the first country to formally recognize Libya’s opposition in an early stage of Moammar Gadhafi’s crackdown on protests, and France played a prominent role in the NATO-led campaign of airstrikes against Gadhafi’s forces.
Last month, Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria. They have argued that NATO misused a previous U.N. measure authorizing the use of force to protect civilians in Libya to justify months of air strikes and to promote regime change.
They expressed fears that any new resolution against Syria might be used as a pretext for a similar armed intervention.
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Associated Press writers Maamoun Youssef in Cairo and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.
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>>> in egypt tonight, news of a truce between police and protesters after days of blood shed in and around tahrir square. meantime there are new developments involving three american teens being held in an egyptian jail. for the latest we turn to amon in cairo tonight. good evening.
>> reporter: good evening, savannah. it’s been a week of deadly protests and thousands remain in tahrir square behind me. they are calling for a million man march on friday that is going to be a political showdown between the protesters and the military rulers. it was the front line of intense fighting all week long. this street off of tahrir square, the site of day-long battles between egyptian security forces and protesters that continued late into wednesday evening. by thursday morning, a shaky truce seemed to be sticking. the military erecting a barrier to separate the two sides. the fighting on the street may have stopped, but the political standoff still continues. battered but still determined, protesters are demanding the military immediately hand over power to a civilian government. not so fast, says egypt ‘s military rulers, refusing to take their marching orders from the tahrir protesters. they say the path to democracy begins with monday’s parliamentary election, which this general says will take place on schedule. but the military has made some concessions, apologizing publicly for the killing of protesters and releasing some of those detained in the fighting. among those ordered freed on thursday, three american university students shown here on state tv. they were arrested, accused of attacking security forces . charges that were later dismissed. award-winning egyptian filmmaker who was detained during wednesday’s fighting and prominent egyptian american activist, who was also detained tells of a terrifying ordeal.
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>> reporter: a sense of calm returning to the streets tonight along with anxiety over egypt ‘s future. savannah, the military has been under intense pressure ever since an interim government resigned. this evening nbc news has learned they have appointed a new prime minister to form an emergency cabinet, but the protesters aren’t convinced he’ll be given the power he needs to
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A former elementary-school principal in Iowa has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting he secretly set up a camera in the boys? bathroom in his school to produce child pornography.
Robert Burke of Dubuque pleaded guilty in August to one count of producing child pornography. The activities took place at the Sageville Elementary School in Dubuque.
Chief US District Judge Linda Reade rejected a request by Mr. Burke?s lawyer that he receive a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years. The lawyer had argued that Burke cooperated fully with federal agents once his crimes were discovered. He stressed that his client never physically touched a child in a sexual manner.
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In addition to the 30-year prison term handed down on Monday, Burke was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and to serve 20 years? probation upon release from prison. No restitution payments were ordered.
Burke told federal agents that he installed the video camera in January of this year. He was arrested in early June.
Officials were able to identify 59 boys who were photographed while standing at a urinal in the public-school bathroom. A number of other victims could not be identified, according to court documents.
Burke saved the recorded videos from his secret bathroom cam and stored them on computer drives at his home.
His activities were discovered after an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in Washington downloaded eight images of child pornography from an IP address that authorities later traced to Burke?s home computer.
During a raid at Burke?s home, agents found 32,000 images and over 12,000 videos of child pornography. According to court documents, most of the images had been obtained by Burke from the Internet and depicted prepubescent boys.
Agents also uncovered conversations that Burke had on an online chat forum frequented by those interested in obtaining and trading child pornography. During one chat, he allegedly said that he had depictions of ?some boys peeing at urinals.? Burke said the files were not ready for sharing ?right now,? according to court documents.
He is quoted as adding: ?Let me know if you?re interested, and I?ll get those files ready.?
A forensic examination of Burke?s computers showed no evidence that any of the school videos had been shared on the Internet, federal officials say.
?As an elementary school principal, Burke was in a position of trust and authority over his students,? US Attorney Stephanie Rose said in a statement. ?He took advantage of that trust, and he used his position of authority to exploit the children he was supposed to protect.?
She added: ?Although Burke victimized many young children and caused tremendous concern to the entire community, the harm in this case might have been even worse had law enforcement not intervened when it did.?
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