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NEW ORLEANS - Singer Beyonce said she sang along to a pre-recorded track at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, but delivered a stirring a cappella version of the U.S. national anthem at a Super Bowl news conference on Thursday.
She also said would be singing live at the half-time show of the National Football League championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens at the Superdome on Sunday.
Beyonce's performance of the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Jan. 21 inauguration ceremony sparked a debate over whether she had lip-synched her performance in Washington.
"I am a perfectionist and one thing about me is that I practice until my feet bleed and I did not have time to rehearse with orchestra," the Grammy-winning artist said on Thursday.
"It was a live television show and a very, very important emotional show for me and one of my proudest moments, and due to the weather, to the delay, due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking the risk.
"It was about the president and the inauguration and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is very common in the music industry, and I am very proud of my performance," she said.
Beyonce, 31, one of pop music's biggest celebrities, surprised the media on Thursday by asking them to rise at the start of her news conference and launching into a solo version of the U.S. national anthem.
After the applause in the room died down, she asked the hundreds of media representatives, "Any questions?"
Asked if she planned to sing live during the Super Bowl game, annually one of the most-watched TV events in the United States, the singer said: "I will absolutely be singing live. This is what I was born to do, it is what I was born for."
The NFL also said that Jennifer Hudson would perform "America the Beautiful" with the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting in December.
Alicia Keys will sing the national anthem before the game's kickoff, while other artists, including OneRepublic and Matchbox Twenty, will be part of the televised pregame show.
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TRENDY TOTS: When Nathalie Christen Genty couldn't find suitable clothes for her sons, now eight and nine years old, she knew what to do. She started Melijoe.com, an online boutique — her preferred method of shopping — selling designer collections for infants, boys and girls. Based in Paris, Melijoe.com recently launched an e-commerce site in the U.S. selling 4,000 new styles from 60 brands each season, including Chloe, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Junior Gaultier, Missoni and Young Versace. An additional 40 brands are on the way. Genty dresses her two daughters, ages one and two years old, in her own high-end image, convincing designers to design miniature versions of their popular adult styles. Other moms want to dress their girls in "mini me" versions of their own looks, Genty said. "Mimi me does very well in sales," she added. "We had the exclusive for Dolce & Gabanna's wedding dresses, which was a mini me collection. We have an excluisve for Marc Jacobs' Little Marc mini me line in France and the worldwide exclusive to Liu Jo by Kate Moss. Aston Martin just launched a kids' line. We try to provide an adult approach to the kids' market that's very fashion-oriented. I focus on the 'wow' pieces." Melijoe, which ships to 80 countries, posted sales of more than $10 million last year. The company received financial support from OSEO, France's state innovation agency that has helped fast-growing companies grow abroad.
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With no end in sight to the euro zone debt crisis, events in Athens and Rome are likely to dominate investor sentiment over the coming days.
Whether it is Berlusconi hanging onto power or the talks over forming a new government in Greece, it will be impossible to ignore the euro zone debt crisis.
Analysts at HSBC have been looking at what they call the "risk on – risk off paradigm" which they believe has been the dominant feature of the market since the start of the financial crisis back in 2007. Their analysis does not make good reading, unless you are betting on risk off.
"The recent events in the euro zone have caused the risk on – risk off paradigm to strengthen even further. Over the last week it has almost become a caricature of itself: we saw extreme euphoria on the back of a purported bailout package followed days later by intense despair induced by the prospect of a Greek referendum," said David Bloom, Global Head of FX Strategy at HSBC in a research note.
"These dramatic shifts in sentiment led to rollercoaster moves in risk asset prices," Bloom said.
With cross-asset correlations at an all-time high according to HSBC, Bloom says market participants are comparing the current Greek crisis to Lehman Brothers and has this warning for investors: "Market stresses are currently far worse than after Lehman and the event which people are worried about has not even happened yet!"
"Despite this, perceptions about the possibility of the event are already driving markets to an unheard of level," said Bloom.
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Branca doesn't let one pitch define career
Ralph Branca never could escape from Oct. 3, 1951. On Wednesday night at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., the former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher relived the day again. He was on hand with his wife, Ann, and son-in-law, Bobby Valentine, for a screening of director Andrew Muscato's 2013 documentary, "Branca's Pitch," which details Branca's life both before and after New York Giants legend Bobby Thomson hit the home run that would become known as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World."
The film is something of a companion piece to Branca's 2011 book, "A Moment in Time." It follows Branca and ghostwriter David Ritz as they work on the book, which features Branca's memories and baseball footage. Ritz is an eccentric character who has written more than 50 biographies with celebrities, including Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin. Ritz was a 8-year-old Dodgers fan living in Newark, N.J., "crying his eyes out" when Thomson hit his home run, and he adds a unique perspective to the film.
By mid-August 1951, Branca's Dodgers had taken a 13 1/2-game lead over the Giants. However, the Giants went on a 16-game winning streak and tied the Dodgers on the final day of the regular season -- that feat become known as "The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff" -- forcing a three-game playoff for the National League pennant.
Branca started Game 1 at Ebbets Field, and the Giants won, 3-1, on the strength of a two-run home run by Thomson. In Game 2 at the Polo Grounds, the Dodgers rallied for a 10-0 win.
In Game 3, also at the Polo Grounds, Dodgers manager Charlie Dressen removed starter Don Newcombe in the bottom of the ninth inning with runners on second and third, one out and a 4-2 lead. Dressen brought Branca in to face Game 1 hero Thomson.
"The first pitch was a perfect pitch," Branca said. "A fastball that split the strike zone into four quarters, right down the middle."
Thomson let it go.
The second pitch was another fastball, up and in, that Branca had planned as a setup pitch for the curveball that was to follow. But he never got that far. Thomson turned on pitch No. 2, driving a sinking line drive into the left-field bleachers and giving the Giants the pennant.
In "Branca's Pitch," Branca, now a very technically savvy 88-year-old, watches a YouTube clip of "The Shot Heard 'Round the World." (That moniker is partly due to the baseball significance of the home run, and partly due to the fact that it took place during the first-ever nationally televised baseball game.)
"All I could say was, 'Sink, sink, sink,'" Branca said, and that sentiment is still visible on his face as he watches 60 years later. "But I knew it was gone all the way."
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Thomson became a hero. Branca became a goat.
"I was a good pitcher, but I was only known for throwing Thomson that home run pitch," Branca said. "That gave me notoriety. People say I became famous, but I say I became infamous."
Branca wrote "A Moment in Time" to tell both his side of the story and the rest of his story, and "Branca's Pitch" continues the tale. Branca is candid and endearing as he recalls his life-long love for baseball, which began as he was growing up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., the 15th of 17 children born to a family of Italian immigrants. Just two weeks after the end of the 1951 season, Branca married Ann Mulvey, daughter of Dodgers owner James Mulvey.
"I may have lost the game," Branca said, "but I still got the dame."
The documentary includes some fantastic footage of Branca competing on the game show "Concentration," as well as footage from "The Ed Sullivan Show" that features both Branca and Thomson singing stylized versions of Tony Bennett's 1951 hit "Because of You" to cardboard cutouts of the other shortly after the '51 season.
Joshua Prager -- Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the 2008 book "The Echoing Green," which details the elaborate system of telescopes and buzzers used by the New York Giants to steal signs during the latter part of the 1951 season -- is also interviewed at length in Muscato's film. Branca allegedly learned of the sign stealing from Tigers teammate Teddy Gray in 1954, but he stayed silent about it for the better part of 60 years for fear of sounding like he was "crying over spilt milk." In the film, though, he makes his feelings known. "They stole the signs," he said. "They stole the pennant."
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When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked Congress for authority to take over ailing mortgage lender Fannie Mae in July, he said the move would provide the government with a "bazooka" to fight the unraveling financial crisis. Today, government officials unveiled what amounts to an atom bomb.
Details are still being worked out. And it remains to be seen when, how — or if — the plan will work.
In a nutshell, the new "atom bomb" approach hopes to mainline a massive amount of capital into the nation's largest banks to jolt the ailing economy.
As a signal the government was using every weapon in its arsenal, the plan was announced in an extraordinary joint statement by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Sheila Bair, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and a handful of other top economic advisers of President Bush. Bush spoke separately at a Rose Garden news conference.
The centerpiece of the plan is a move by the government to partially nationalize the banking system, buying up stock in some of the largest banks.
Treasury officials said that the first purchases of stock from the nine major banks will begin within days and will total $125 billion. The government expects to spend the entire $250 billion slated for the bank stock purchase program by the end of the year.
In addition to the stock purchases, the FDIC will temporarily provide insurance for loans between banks, charging the banks a premium for doing so.
The FDIC is also guaranteeing all bank deposits for businesses.
"We're seeing a lot small banks, frankly, lose their small business accounts to much larger competitors, because of public confidence issues," Bair told CNBC after the announcement. "These smaller banks are quite viable, but this is creating a liquidity drain, losing these small business accounts."
Deposit insurance limits for consumers have been increased to $250,000.
The government's move to inject capital in the banking system follows months of efforts to get banks to borrow the money voluntarily from the Fed. Even in the best of times banks are reluctant to step forward asking for help, fearing such a move will be taken as a sign of weakness by shareholder, depositors and competitors. With the banking system in the grips of a full-blown global panic, there was an even greater stigma attached to stepping up to the borrowing window.
To break the logjam, Paulson summoned top executives of the nation's biggest banks to a historic meeting Monday and essentially told them they had to go along.
By force-feeding money into the biggest banks, the Treasury is hoping to overcome several obstacles to its effort to battle the financial crisis. Paulson's original plan — which is still ongoing — was to buy up bad loans from any bank that came forward. But under that scenario it is likely that the first takers will be the banks in the weakest position — so weak they may be beyond saving.
The weakening economy means there is likely to be less demand for lending, forcing the weakest banks to find stronger banks to merge with or buy them out. The massive injection of capital into the biggest banks may help jump-start that process, allowing the banking industry, rather than the government, to undertake the process of saving faltering banks.
Injecting money directly into banks through stock purchases will produce a more immediate impact. Each new dollar dropped on a bank's books gives it the financial reserves to lend out $10. By forcing money into the banking system, the government is hoping to break the lending logjam that has cut off borrowing to many businesses and consumers and it threatening to tip the economy into a deep recession.
The move is also designed to save otherwise healthy banks. Bair said the "overwhelming majority" of banks are still in good shape.
"What we're trying to prevent now really is liquidity failures — failures of banks that are otherwise quite healthy, have plenty of capital, plenty of loan loss reserves to deal with the challenges that lies ahead, but because of uncertainty their liquidity is draining and we don't want to close those institutions," she said. "That's what these guarantees are about — to prevent unnecessary failures."
Bernanke also underscored the need for massive intervention before the panic inflicts more damage on the financial system and the economy.
"History teaches us that government engagement in times of severe financial crisis often arrives very late, usually at a point at which most financial institutions are insolvent or nearly so," Bernanke said. "Waiting too long to act has usually led to much greater direct costs of the intervention itself and, more importantly, magnified the painful effects of financial turmoil on households and businesses. That is not the situation we face today."
While officials stressed the speed with which they had acted, the U.S. response followed similar moves by European authorities over the past week. On Sunday, the Bank of England moved to partially nationalize British banks. Several European countries already had pledged to back all bank deposits.
Those moves may have had a hand in prompting the U.S. action. Some bankers feared that if European banks were perceived as safer, U.S. depositors might shift assets to those banks.
A major component of the plan is its international scope. Though the crisis has galvanized U.S. and European countries in a coordinated effort, financial markets will be watching closely to see how well that cooperation holds up.
Opposition to direct government intervention in the United States has come from both sides of the aisle. In the debate over the $700 billion bailout plan, House Republicans attacked it as socialist interference in free markets. Democrats complained that it was bailing out rich bankers who made bad bets.
In announcing the plan, President Bush stressed that the plan doesn't signal a long-term role for the government.
"The government's role will be limited and temporary," Bush said. "These measures are not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it."
It's far from clear what the government's exit strategy will be. The history of financial panics shows that they are rarely resolved in a single moment by a single measure. The loss of confidence that underlies the current panic took years to develop; it will be months at least before some measure of confidence is restored.
But the hope is that the massive global response to the panic will prevent the kind of economic damage that has followed shocks when government was slow to act, like the prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy after that country's stock and real estate markets collapsed in 1989.
"You're getting a reaction way before you got the reaction in Japan," said Mohamed El-Erian, co-CEO of bond fund Pimco. "Therefore, there is a hope that you can save the country from 10 years of stagnant growth."


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Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.
"I still firmly believe that it's in IBM's best interests to work with us. That door will always be open," Chambers told the audience at the company's financial analyst conference at its headquarters in San Jose, California. The annual event covered a wide range of topics and revealed company executives' thinking on several issues.
IBM earlier this year announced a deal in which it will resell switches and routers from Cisco rival Juniper Networks.
Chambers and other executives spent much of the day telling financial analysts that Cisco has a window of opportunity now to become the preeminent IT and communications vendor because of the growing importance of virtualization, collaboration and video. One key move in this direction was the company's recently announced partnership with EMC and VMware. Under a joint venture called Acadia, EMC will integrate its storage equipment and management software with Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System) architecture, with VMware contributing its virtualization software.
Because of that deal, Chambers believes Cisco can achieve a central role in the data center without making storage products itself, he said. If it could have similarly formed as strong a partnership with a computing platform vendor, Cisco would not have developed its own servers, Chambers said.
Analysts at the event said they think Chambers is sincere about his willingness to work with IBM. The two companies have much in common, such as their enterprise customer base, and Cisco's products could fit into IBM's offerings, said Mark Sue of RBC Capital Markets.
But the bridge has been burned between Cisco and another major server vendor: Hewlett-Packard, which once was a close partner of Cisco, analysts said. Cisco's UCS introduction earlier this year took it into close competition with HP's core server business, and HP last month announced plans to acquire 3Com, expanding its competition against Cisco in networking.
Also on Tuesday, Chambers said Cisco foresaw every stage of its recent fight to win over shareholders of Norwegian video systems vendor Tandberg.
On Oct. 1, Cisco announced an agreement with Tandberg's board to acquire the company for about US$3 billion. After signals that some large shareholders thought the bid was too low and the deal wouldn't reach the required vote of 90 percent of shares, Cisco at first defended its offer and hinted it might drop the deal if forced, but later raised its offer to US$3.4 billion.
But Cisco's management saw all that coming and mapped out various scenarios, Chambers said during a press luncheon at the financial analyst conference.
"We went into it knowing the exact challenges that we would face. ... It unfolded much like we anticipated," Chambers said.
The acquisition, which last week earned just over the 90 percent required support, will give Cisco access to Scandinavian engineering talent as well as five strong top executives, he said. "Their leadership team may be the best total leadership team we've had since the acquisition of Crescendo in 1993," Chambers said. That acquisition brought in executives such as Mario Mazzola and Luca Cafiero, who shaped Cisco's technology for years to come.
Cisco's management may not have known exactly how the takeover drama would play out, but it probably wasn't taken by surprise when Tandberg shareholders demanded more, said JMP Securities analyst Sam Wilson.
Chambers expects Cisco to buy more foreign companies in the coming years, both because the company is expected to invest in countries where it sells a lot of products and because of the strong technology potential outside the U.S., he said. Both India and China have about 600,000 engineering graduates every year, compared with about 60,000 in the U.S., he said. "We have to go where the talent is and where the startups are," Chambers said.


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Turkey with Mole Recipe
I think that turkey gets a bad wrap. Relegated to Thanksgiving, Christmas and a few dull sandwiches, turkey never really gets to live up to its full potential in this country. But in Mexico, turkey has been the star of celebratory meals since pre-Columbian times. This recipe for turkey with mole adapted from Mark Miller's Tacos simplifies a classic mole recipe. While Mole Poblano is usually an all day project, Miller makes use of jarred mole sauce and adds his own touches such as bittersweet chocolate, balsamic vinegar and raisins. You might not usually think of pairing tacos with wine, but these turkey tacos have a complexity that would be perfect with a slightly chilled glass of gamay or pinot noir.
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- 1 (8 1 /4-ounce) jar mole sauce, such as Dona Maria
- 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 6 cloves garlic, roasted
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt 3 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups water
- 8 ounces tomatoes, blackened and cut into 1/4-inch dice (see Note)
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon chipotle purée
- 1/3 cup dark raisins (do not use golden raisins)
- 2 ounces Mexican chocolate (such as Ibarra)
- 1 1/2 ounces bittersweet chocolate (at least 70 percent cacao)
- 8 (5 1/2-inch) soft yellow corn tortillas, for serving
- Garnish: toasted sesame seeds
In a large bowl, combine the turkey strips and half of the mole sauce. Cover and marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
When ready to cook, drain the turkey strips, reserving the mole marinade. In a large, heavy skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil over medium heat and lightly sear the turkey strips on both sides; set aside.
In a large, heavy saucepot, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute for 30 seconds (don't let it burn). Add the salt, chicken stock, water, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, chipotle puree, and raisins and cook for 30 minutes. Remove from the heat. Blend thoroughly and pass through a medium-mesh sieve.
Refry the sauce: In a large, heavy nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over high heat until almost smoking. Add the sauce, remove from the heat, and stir to blend. Stir in the Mexican and bittersweet chocolates, and add the sauteed turkey, the reserved mole sauce, and the remaining half jar of mole sauce. Decrease the heat to medium-low and gently simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, turning the turkey strips every 20 minutes or so. The turkey should be cooked through.
Remove the turkey from the sauce and set aside. Refry the sauce: In a large, heavy nonstick skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil over high heat until almost smoking. Add the sauce, remove from the heat, and stir to blend. Remove from the heat and pass through a medium-mesh sieve. When the turkey is cool, shred it with your hands and mix with the sauce.
Serve immediately or keep warm in the pan until ready to serve.
To serve, lay the tortillas side by side, open face and overlapping on a platter. Divide the filling equally between the tortillas and top with crema (or sour cream) and sesame seeds. Grab, fold, and eat right away. Or build your own taco: lay a tortilla, open face, in one hand. Spoon some filling, top with sesame seeds and crema, fold and eat right away.
Note: Remove the stem of the tomato, but otherwise keep the tomato whole. Blacken the tomatoes in a single layer in a dry cast-iron or wide, heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat or on a baking sheet under a broiler until charred and blistered on all sides, about 20 minutes in a skillet or 5 minutes under a broiler.
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Confirmed?
A thread on the Steam forums seems to confirm that rumours about a new Counter-Strike game – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – are true, with commenter "Cliffe" (who is Valve designer chap Jess Cliffe) saying "Global Offensive". There have been a bunch of other references to it, on Twitter and so forth.
And update on the ESEA Facebook page reads "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive… More info in the morning." So it looks like we can expect something later today.


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A cybersecurity conference is being held in Baltimore to discuss commercial developments in the field.
Gov. Martin O'Malley and retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden are scheduled to speak at the event on Monday. Hayden is a former National Security Agency director. He also is a principal at The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm that provides consulting, business development and merger acquisition advisory services for clients in the security and government services industries.
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By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 11th June 2013
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It's about making an entrance.
Dramatic entries are a given with air travel, and airports should convey a sense of welcome and arrival to travelers landing in a new city, like the great train stations of yesteryear, says architecture critic
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That doesn't usually happen.
"An inspiring grand welcome to a place is not something you get in most of them," says Goldberger, contributor to Vanity Fair, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his architecture criticism at The New York Times and author of "Why Architecture Matters." "Most only aspire to a sense of efficiency and most don't even achieve that."
Where they exist at airports, the more impressive spaces are usually located in the airports' departure halls. Those passengers are rushing to clear security and catch flights and don't have time to appreciate their space. The arrivals hall usually doesn't inspire much.
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"When you arrive, you're shunted to a lower level to baggage claim and go through what feels like a service (exit)," says Goldberger, who regularly flies through New York and New Jersey's bustling but not very beautiful airports.
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Madrid-Barajas Airport (Spain)
The design by architect Richard Rogers for
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"He took what is really a conventional plan, and he did a traditional airport beautifully," he says. Rogers' elegant architecture includes "magnificent steel tresses and columns, and a very long concourse that gradually changes colors," says Goldberger. "The colors fade over the course of what must be half a mile. It's quite breathtaking."
Beijing Capital International Airport (China)
Sir Norman Foster has been "more successful than anyone else at rethinking the airport and designing it in a new way that pretty much works," says Goldberger. Foster's
international terminal
design in Beijing was completed in 2008 in time for that summer's Olympic Games.
Instead of a stretched-out layout or satellite terminals, Terminal 3 "is essentially two huge triangular shapes, where the points face each other and are connected by a train," he says. "That works quite well and is attractive."
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Kansai International Airport (Osaka, Japan)
Architect Renzo Piano's most remarkable achievement in this case may have been winning a design competition in 1988 for an airport that would sit on a man-made island that did not yet exist.
Located 25 miles away from Osaka, Japan (and three miles off the coast),
Kansai airport
was completed in 1994 and can handle air traffic 24 hours per day. The island is now connected to the mainland by a 2.5 mile-long, two-level bridge. The airport is lovely, but "it's more the achievement than the architecture itself," says Goldberger.
King Abdul
ziz International Airport (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Completed in 1981, Skidmore, Owing and Merrill's design of the
Hajj Terminal in Jeddah
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The firm developed tent-like structures using little energy to keep the space cool in the desert. Pictures of the terminal impressed Goldberger, which is why it's on his bucket list as an airport to visit.
"Jeddah seems like a fascinating attempt to marry the nomadic tradition of desert tents with monumental modern architecture," says Goldberger. "A seeming impossibility, but I think they pulled it off."
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Raleigh-Durham International Airport (North Carolina)
Often overlooked as an example of good airport architecture,
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was designed by Fentress Architects of Denver and completed in 2011.
Inspired by its Southern roots and its service to the Research Triangle hub of companies and universities, "it's a terminal that has a lot of wood and glass inside, a nice alternative to steel and glass," says Goldberger.
Aeropuerto de Carrasco (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Seeking to modernize and expand the airport serving Uruguay's capital, airport operators turned to native son and world renowned architect Rafael Vinoly. Completed in 2009,
the Carrasco airport's
structure seems inspired by the rolling dunes along the country's coastline.
The design is intriguing to Goldberger, which is why the Carrasco airport is also on his list of airports to experience.
"I've wanted to see Uruguay because Vinoly's swooping shape looks wonderful in photographs," says Goldberger. "It looks like something inspired by Eero Saarinen's design" for Trans World Airlines at John F. Kennedy International Airport (then called Idlewild Airport).
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It's not in use anymore, but Goldberger says it still stands out as an architectural marvel. (Maybe if it was still open, Goldberger would like flying out of John F. Kennedy International Airport better.)
Designed by Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, this gorgeous terminal had a significant flaw: It wasn't built to change and grow with the growth of travel and the enormous aircraft that would soon come to Idlewild Airport, now JFK International.
"It was one of the great airport designs of all time, and it was completely unworkable for security and the volume of traffic (to come)," says Goldberger. "It remains a beautiful and incredibly inspiring building."
Matteo Pericoli mural (John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York)
No, this doesn't mean Goldberger likes flying out of the American Airlines terminal where this mural is located.
Italian architect and artist
Matteo Pericoli
was commissioned to paint a mural of the great architecture of the world on a wall at the American terminal. So while Goldberger isn't crazy about the airport, the mural "is one of my favorite things at any airport."
A pleasant experience matters, too
When Goldberger is trying to get from one city to another, sometimes his requirements for a nice airport are the same as anyone else. At the last minute, that's why he also tacked on these "fairly ordinary terminals that are nevertheless pleasanter to be in than the norm": San Francisco International Airport's newly redone Terminal 2 and the JetBlue Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
"Lots of light, nice places to eat, wide-open spaces, views of (the) field, places to work, rest, etc.," he wrote, via e-mail. "Great architecture isn't always necessary to raise an airport above mediocrity."
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning flew to New York this spring to pay his respects to Derek Jeter and David Letterman, two much-admired superstars in the middle of their long goodbyes.
"I'm sad to see some of these guys retiring," the Broncos quarterback said at the time. "I'm not far behind."
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That turnover actually helps keep Manning young at heart, coach John Fox suggested.
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"Being in the huddle," Manning said. "That's what I missed most when I was injured, I'll say that. I mean, there's no other type of unity or bond that I think any other job can provide. I know there are meetings, there are video conferences. But that huddle, because of where it takes place: it's often on the road, in the middle of the field, in front of 80,000 people, it's unique."
It's what excites him even at an age when many quarterbacks have retired to the broadcast booth or are hitting the links instead of the weights.
"When you don't play football anymore, you can broadcast, you can coach, you can be in management, whatever, but you are not allowed to go into the huddle anymore," Manning said. "That huddle is just for players. You can go into the locker room after the game and you can speak to the team, but I think any retired player would probably tell you they miss the huddle."
The way Manning has guided the Broncos to a 28-8 record over the last two years belies how far he had fallen when he was forced to sit out the 2011 season in Indianapolis and even had to look in a mirror to relearn his release point after a series of neck surgeries weakened his throwing arm to the point he could hardly grip, much less throw, a football.
Manning's reboot has turned into a blessing.
"Yeah, although I have to say, some guys might need a year off to whatever, relight to fire, whatever it may be. I didn't need a year off to remind me of how much I love football," Manning said. "But when you have it, it sure does reinforce what you kind of always thought, that I do love it."
Working with play-caller Adam Gase and new teammates has revitalized Manning.
"Sometimes it, the monotonous routine, the boredom, that pushes guys out, not the physical part of it," Manning said. "And I have been stimulated the past two years working with Adam and working with different teammates, so it does sort of keep the bounce in you, I think."
Manning doesn't view himself so much as a 17-year NFL veteran but as Denver's third-year quarterback.
"I really feel because it's a new team, post-injury, it's kind of a new me. That's how I have to look at it," Manning said. "I'm a different player from before I was injured. I'm not saying better, worse, whatever, just a different player. And so what I can compare myself most accurately to is my first season here in Denver and kind of how I am physically and how I am with my teammates and with Adam and so it's helped to have now two years to build off that baseline."
He no longer feels like a visitor in his own locker room.
"And I like going into that huddle," Manning said. "I like the guys that I get to work with. I like lifting weights, working with Wes Welker, doing a set of bench press with Jacob Tamme, I like working with the guys that I play with and I still like learning. I like being challenged by Adam every day to be a better football player. There are a lot of things that I still enjoy about it.
"And I look forward to driving over here every day. I think as soon as you go, 'Golly, I do not want to go over there today,' that's when you've got to get out."
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning flew to New York this spring to pay his respects to Derek Jeter and David Letterman, two much-admired superstars in the middle of their long goodbyes.


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The small town of Montuïri hosts one of the few archaeological museums on Mallorca. It is dedicated to the excavations of the nearby (more…)
Ses Talaies
On my route to the centre of the island I stopped by at a site I know since it crossed my way by chance several years ago. It's one of the around five hundred Talaiotic sites known on Mallorca.
Ses Talaies is a wonderful place. The old cyclopic walls surrounding a circular Talaiot that has obviously been excavated professionally (trenches still discernable) are sticking out here and there in between the 'modern' rubble walls limiting the parcels of land.
The fields close to the Talaiot are full of objects on the surface esp. pottery. One of the old walls is attached to the Talaiot providing ground for dense vegetation of wild olives and almond trees.
I spend about an hour in the shade at the foot of the Talaiot making up my mind on an abstract I submitted just before starting the holidays.
Why that?
I'm invited for a conference in Cairo in October to deliver a keynote on building archaeology and its methods that are supposed to be strongly influenced by modern technology. For many good reasons the organisers of conferences want to have a summary of what will be presented months before the actual event – this summary is also known as an abstract and it has strong implications for the authors. Mostly you have to summarise first and write the talk later. Not always easy especially when you're asked to contribute something basic and well thought on the methods of an archaeological discipline.
I usually start with a mindmap. It's a handmade drawing with keywords. The main topics show up early. This basic concept is then complemented with arguments also interconnected with arrows etc. In the end it doesn't look good, but it's sufficient to derive a summary.
I have this mindmap with me, so in very relaxed moments I take it out and look at it and bits and pieces of how to communicate the different arguments come into my mind being written down instantly.
People who know me might find in surprising, but it's still all by hand. I tried to use mindmapping software tools , but it's not really working out.
So at least I did something quite typical for an archaeologist today…
Please note: When I visit sites that are not prepared for visitors I
- do not climb on walls
- do not pick up anything (not even pottery from the surface)
- and, of course, don't take anything with me
To keep the archaeological record intact is extremely important. Ses Talaies might be subject of full archaeological investigations in several decades only. We have no idea about techniques applied in the future. The past twenty years most certainly only offer a glimpse on the changes to come.


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I spent some time tonight mucking around in the WGR audio vault, and found these recent tidbits.
– Andrew Peters has been bartending at Pearl Street this summer as a fundraiser for the Center for Missing & Exploited Children. For his last gig this past week, he invited along Roy-Z, Paetsch, Mair , Paille and Kaleta to help out and sign autographs and mingle. I would've loved to have seen these guys trying to bartend.
– It sounds like the boys are slowly starting to trickle back into town. Paetsch mentioned that he and the guys he's skating with at the Pepsi Center are now up to 5 weekly on-ice workouts. The same guys mentioned as Peters guest bartenders are the core of the little Sabre skating group, with the addition of Marty "Chatterbox" Biron in net. In addition, we also have Breaking! Timmy! News! Patches reports that Timmy is now back in town and skating with them, and looks to be in the best shape of his career. Which, of course means that Timmy will have a tragic toenail clipper accident at training camp and be out for half the season.
– Not in the WGR audio vault, but still highly informative and entertaining, was this article regarding the Michigan State Pro Hockey Camp. MSU opens its doors for a week to its famous NHL/AHL alumni for a week in August. They spend time with the MSU coaches, working on plays and conditioning. And of course, who shows up at this event? Our very own Ryan Miller, who looks darn good. It looks like the offseason agreed with him, and that he was able to relax and bulk up (and lose a pair of shoes, if the first picture in the camp's gallery is any indication).
– Also, Michael Phelps hosting SNL could either be the best thing ever or the best trainwreck ever.


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- Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:08 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: get real AR is not going to be a star
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- Views: 6533
By all accounts AR is still drifting and disappearing out there. He seems to really believe he is a three. Coaches think he is a four and he isn't going to play that much until he actually plays like a four. He may end up wandering in the league, having a flash here and there but never really fulfil...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:43 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Monta's good start
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8088
At one time I thought he should be traded. Didn't like his game and his attitude as it seemed to be on the court. But now all seems changed and I enjoy watching him as he seems to have come out of the darkness of Nelson's shadow and into the light. Sure, he would have to be traded for some HOF cente...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:43 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: What Will Be the First Big Move Under the New Ownership?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2962
Naw, Riley is good. There is no magical person to do a better job. Smart is off to an excellent start. It is doubtful the trainer is responsible for rolled ankles and such. Don't know if he didn't treat Lee properly. They pretty much all have the same information, so he probably did what all trainer...
- Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Show of Hands: Who actually thought this team would be 6-2?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5385
Last night exposed our bench in my opinion. We have a excellent starting 5, but they are young and will be turn over prone untill they get more experience, and start to get familiar with how to play with eachother well. It takes about one season for a team to start knowing the little details about ...
- Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: Game Threads
- Topic: Game Thread: Warriors @ Chicago Bulls 2010-11-11
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4934
I would be truly shocked if the Warriors were to win this game. Bulls have had two nights off while it'll be the 4th game in 5 nights for the Dubs...the bench will have to step up in this game. Yup. Everyone seems to be saying the reserves are the weak point, so for pride and to show they belong, h...
- Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:19 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Lin & B.Wright tonight
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1179
I wondered why Lin was put in so early since he didn't play much previously. Just read ESPN and they said it was Asian Heritage night and many Chinese reporters were at the game. Smart realized that and it all worked out. Luckily Lin did well. It would not have been good if he really sucked that nig...
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:52 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Lin & B.Wright tonight
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1179
It was good to see Lin really looking confident, playing fast and being productive. He will be really valuable if he can spell Curry and Ellis, especially if Ellis is hurt for awhile. Back-up point is such an important position. Lin was successful at upping the tempo which made for a better game and...
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:32 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Never give a sucker an even break
- Replies: 2
- Views: 919
The Ws played into the awful game plan of the hard to watch, sullen Pistons. If the other team sucks, as the Pistons do, and your team can't hit the outside shot, then go into Nelson mode and run their butts off the court. It might even wake up the team and get the shots dropping. It is good to be a...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:04 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Coach Keith Smart
- Replies: 3
- Views: 986
The coaching has been....magnificent. That's a superlative for sure, but true. I'm so glad one of those retread coaches who were being discussed didn't get hired. Just see a whole different attitude out there now, so refreshing. Even when Smart was furious, and he was really mad at Lee, he just got ...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:09 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Ok, I'm stoked
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1967
Beating the Jazz at their own ugly game. Out rebounded, out everythinged them except probably for shooting percentage. This is indeed impressive. Beat them in the paint and in 2nd chance points. Unreal. Another thing that is interesting is the foul thing. Note that the Ws, even AB, aren't getting th...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:45 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: Monta Ellis Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 77
- Views: 8383
With new coaching, change of ownership, new players, its good to see Monta excelling. Although its early in the season I think it continues. Man trying to defend Monta last year was almost impossible, but things make sense now. Go Monta go Warriors. Yup, things have changed. He is turning into a su...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:33 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: What a difference David Lee makes!!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3333
He is certainly a big part of this team's clear improvement. And, when all the new guys, the hold-overs, the coaches all really mesh he should get even better. We haven't seen the pick and roll yet, or a real relationship with Curry, one that will surely come. And, his outside shot has sucked pretty...
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:29 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: What beat the Grizzlies...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1836
on top of substitution, I think Smart is allowing these guys to play and learn through their mistakes. No short hooks. Smart is realizing that you can win withouth your bench, regardless how bad Vlad has been shooting you have to continue to rotate him in because he can spread the floor. Same thing...
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: What beat the Grizzlies...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1836
Nelson had the same insane substitution policy when he had full squads. Remember the players in the doghouse, those "not ready to play". He substituted mostly because of foul trouble, not for fatigue. There were all those late-game narrow losses because they couldn't play. No defense, as m...
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:24 am
- Forum: Warriors Basketball
- Topic: What beat the Grizzlies...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1836
The Grizzlies are big, mobile and good. The Ws weren't shooting well. In years past they would have lost that game last night. What won it this time? Sure, there is the vastly better rebounding, the vastly better defense, but the final push was fueled by...... Substitutions!!! Nelson would have left...
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Poreč Historical Festival – Giostra
Poreč Historical Festival – Giostra gathers over 250 participants in costumes who, throughout the 3 festival days, evoke for the spectators life in the Baroque period thus making it a unique festival in Croatia. This cultural, educational and tourist manifestation stems from historical facts, so most of its events are connected to the 18th century. The central festival event, which also gave Giostra its name, is a knight tournament Giostra, reconstructed from the rules of a tournament held in Poreč in the year 1745.
You will be greeted by:
- Gorgeous ladies and handsome gentlemen in baroque costumes
- Baroque music
- Knight tournament
- Historical knights' camp (military encampment)
- Local produce and old trades
- Poreč 18th century local fauna
- theatrical performances
- Drummers
- Flag jugglers
- Swordsmen
- Street entertainers.
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