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Kai-lan is one decked out dinosaur for Halloween! A bit of food coloring, frosting & a big imagination is all it takes to make this a party time staple.
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Spoon 3 tablespoons of vanilla frosting into a plastic resealable bag. Divide the remaining vanilla in half. Tint one part beige by combining the yellow and brown food coloring. Tint the other part light purple by adding the purple food coloring to the vanilla frosting. Spoon into a plastic resealable bag. Tint the chocolate frosting black with the black food coloring. Spoon into a separate resealable bag. Seal all of the bags.
Cut the chocolate taffy rolls into 24 pieces. Shape each piece into a flat 1/4-inch oval for the eyes. Cut the white fruit chews into 12 pieces. Shape each piece into a cone shape for the horn on Kai-lan�s costume (use the photo as a guide). Place candies on a sheet of wax paper until ready to use.
Spread a thin layer of the beige frosting on top of the cupcakes and make smooth. Snip a small corner from the bag containing the purple frosting. Pipe a line across the top third of the cupcake. Pipe lines of frosting down each side of the cupcake. Fill in the top third with more purple frosting and spread to make smooth.
Snip a very small corner from the bags with the white and black frosting. Pipe the eyes on top with the vanilla frosting. Add the chocolate taffy roll ovals. Pipe the hair, eyebrows, lashes, pupils, nose and mouth with the black frosting. Pipe a dot of vanilla frosting as the sparkle in the eyes. Continue with the remaining cupcakes and frosting.
Add the white fruit chew cone as the horn on top of the cupcake.
Give an apple a Rintoo-licious makeover with some yummy dulce de leche
Little dragons everywhere will love Rintoo's too cute Halloween cupcake!
Count on your little baker to sort out the candies in this terrific Tolee treat!
A simple sheet cake gets the royal treatment with frosting & fruit chews!
Follow these 5 simple steps to make a super sweet treat
The cutest Koala you've seen on a cupcake!
They're as sweet as Hoho, himself!
The tasty treat that's fit for a tiger!
Smoothies are super with a little ladybug luck!
Kai-lan has a healthy meal all wrapped up!
Like magic, these yummy cupcakes will disappear into thin air!
Be like a brave bunny & bake this easy recipe with your little rabbit!
What's hiding under that sheet? One fin-tastic treat!
Little guppies will flip for this funny take on dessert!
These fetchin' cupcakes will stand out at your little guppy's next party!
Create bakery-worthy cupcakes that look like Max & Ruby
Charm loved ones with Dora's dainty cupcake rings on Valentine's Day!
Roll out the red carpet for the cutest cupcakes around!
Little dragons everywhere will love Rintoo's too cute Halloween cupcake!
Get your party started with Dino Dan & these delicious treats!
Count on your little baker to sort out the candies in this terrific Tolee treat!
A cupcake and a simple ice cream cone turn into an edible microphone!
It's a-Bot time for these yummy cupcakes!
Shape up with these math-minded cupcakes from Geo!
Make way for Milli's mighty good cupcakes!
Follow these 5 simple steps to make a super sweet treat
The cutest Koala you've seen on a cupcake!
They're as sweet as Hoho, himself!
The tasty treat that's fit for a tiger!
Who knew Toodee would make such a blue-tiful cupcake?
PLEX the robot rocks out in cupcake form. Go Plex! Go Plex!
These treats are as easy as A-B-C
Treasure the smiles when you make these cupcakes for your little pirate!
These Oswald cupcakes with gummie hats will be a big hit!
Move over, ice cream!
What beats a cupcake? A cupcake topped with Austin!
Your favorite guinea pig makes for a wonder-ful cupcake!
Enjoy this "serious" treat together!
No Blue's Clues birthday party would be complete without this familiar face
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is praying to multiple snow gods.
All those prayers to Ullr seem to have finally had an effect as we're watching snow flurries blanket Frisco and reading a promising weather forecast. What was it that made the difference, we wonder? Was it the lightings of Dillon and Breckenridge? The staring at the sky and fist-shaking?
Or is Ullr even the one we should be thanking? Research indicates that the Greeks also had a snow deity on hand, a goddess named Chione, who is the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind. She's not known for much, besides having a fling with Poseidon, but who knows, maybe she's hanging around Summit County these days.
Well, whoever it is, we're just happy to have more 'white gold' falling from the sky. We're more than ready to hit the slopes with some serious powder. Even our newsroom newcomers are ready to try their luck at flinging themselves downhill with sticks strapped to their feet. The real challenge, it seems, is pinning down the lingo, and learning to say it confidently ("Let's hit some powder!") rather than as a question ("I'm going to ... shred the gnar? Is that right?").

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ALAMEDA -- Whether Mike Mitchell makes his first start at strong safety won't be determined until game day as Tyvon Branch emerged from the locker room after warmups and drills and was a limited participant in practice Friday.
Branch, who has started 57 consecutive games, made it to the field after the media window had closed, and coach Dennis Allen was non-specific about how much he was able to do.
Asked if Branch's participation was a big step forward, Allen said, "It's a better step forward. It's better than he didn't practice."
Allen said Branch would be a game-time decision, and Branch, moving deliberately in the Raiders locker room, said, "I'm not sure yet, man. It's a day-to-day thing right now."
Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey did not practice with a hamstring strain and would also be a game-time decision, Allen said.
Running backs Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson (high ankle sprains) and defensive tackle Richard Seymour (hamstring) were all ruled out.
Mitchell, who has opened seven games in nickel packages but hasn't started in the base defense, is pulling for Branch but at the same time wants to show what he can do as a starter.
It's a big challenge in that the New Orleans offense features tight Jimmy Graham, a 6-foot-7 former basketball player out of Miami. He has 45 receptions for 533 yards and seven touchdowns and presents a nightmare matchup because he's too big for defensive backs and too fast for linebackers.
"I haven't seen anyone get very physical with him yet, as far as DBs," Mitchell said. "Most guys are too small, and they shy away from him. He just bodies them. I'm curious to see how he's going to handle more of a physical, skill-position guy checking him at the line."
Taken in the second round of the 2009 draft, Mitchell remains eager to validate the decision by Al Davis to select him, a choice that astonished some draft analysts who considered him a late-round pick or potential undrafted free agent.
Mitchell has battled injuries at times and looks forward to his first crack at being a full-time player. The presence of Branch, drafted the previous year, has kept Mitchell in a supporting role.
"I'm just so ready to be done with this, to show what I can do," Mitchell said. "I'm tired -- I feel like I've been held back, held back, held back. So if I get the opportunity I just want to go play good football and show the abilities God has blessed me with."
Mitchell plays with emotion and reckless abandon. He's known as a "friendly fire" threat among teammates, and Allen is hoping to see Mitchell dial it back just a bit when necessary.
"He's a very passionate player, he works extremely hard, he loves the game," Allen said. "Sometimes you've just got to slow his heartbeat down a little bit and get him to calm down. It's important to him, and that's what I like about him."
It was a situation for which there was no guide for a rookie head coach.
"You try to keep everybody informed of what's going on and be there for them in case they need something," Allen said. "You can't help but have emotions about that. It was a tough situation."
It was Curry's first game this season after coming off the physically unable to perform list. Starting linebacker Philip Wheeler received a $7,875 fine for a facemask penalty.
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Mere days after Steve Jobs announced that he would be stepping down as the CEO of the company, Apple Inc. has pulled the plug on its US$0.99 TV show rental service.
On Wednesday evening, the 56-year-old iconic co-founder of Apple announced his resignation from the company he co-founded in 1976.
Apple removes 99-cent TV show rentals
And on Friday, the Cupertino, California-based Apple announced that it will be dropping TV-show rentals from its popular iTunes media service and Apple TV.
Apple says while it has removed the facility to rent TV shows from both iTunes and its Apple TV, it will continue to offer television programs for purchase and download.
Apple has terminated the service, citing customers' lack of interest in renting TV episodes through an online store.
Apple says while it has removed the facility to rent TV shows from both iTunes and its Apple TV, it will continue to offer television programs for purchase and download.
"iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows. iTunes in the Cloud lets customers download and watch their past TV purchases from their iOS devices, Apple TV, Mac or PC allowing them to enjoy their programming whenever and however they choose," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said in a statement to "AllThingsDigital."
Besides removing the 99-cent TV show rentals option from the company's official page promoting the Apple TV, the iPhone and iPad maker even removed the support document entitled "iTunes Store: How to rent TV shows" from the Web, instead mentioning 'Buy' your favorite TV show for $1.99 or in HD for $2.99.
Service terminated a year after launch
Last year in August Apple offered users the option to rent television shows for 99 cents from its iTunes Store, with 30 days to begin watching and 48 hours to finish watching it.
Apple introduced the service with great fanfare, after striking deal with some major U.S. networks, but as the time passed, Apple lost support from most studios, leaving only FOX and Disney ABC involved in Apple's streaming offering, and with only limited content at the typical US$0.99 price tag.


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There is no such thing as a bad run, some are just better than others!
One that never fails to get me back on track....
"The race is not the swift but thase who keep on going"
(That's a good one Ian, it got me to the podium of many adventure races.)
Here is my own contribution...
I'm a new runner. Several months ago after run-walking 3 miles with a friend who was an experienced runner she turned to me and said,
That comment just put a whole new perspective on running for me! Every mile I run now I treasure and know that I'll take each of them with me wherever or whenever I go!
Stayin' on the The Path...
"Pain is weakness leaving the body." (old military saying)
Mine is personal to me and given to me by a friend. To know him is to understand why he said this. I was going through some emotional times and i needed to get out and run this day.
I was hem-hawing around and really didn't "feel" like running.
He said this.
"Shut up and run" Meaning to shut up my mind and go run. In doing so it released a lot of stress and anxiety and i was so grateful he said it AFTER i was done. At the time he said it i was mad at him and wanted to wack him upside the head. After i was done, i thanked him and he got a hug.
Well I just scrolled through all the quotes and I'm surprised to not see a couple.
My personal favorite is
"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse."
Ann Trason
and of course
"someone may beat me, but they'll have to bleed to do it"
But I try to live by, "shut up and run"
Some of my favorites that I actually write in my planner each week as motivational tool:
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
"There is no such thing as bad running weather-only inappropriate clothing."
"Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see."
"You can never run a hill too hard-you'll collapse before hurting it."
And the one that helps push me through those difficult miles: "I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run and what they'd give to have this simple gift I take for granted and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me."
"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."-- Steve Prefontaine
"I feel His (God's) pleasure when I run" - Eric Liddell
It can't be said any better than that!
It is actually a U.S. Marines saying.
"And the one that helps push me through those difficult miles: "I runbecause I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run andwhat they'd give to have this simple gift I take for granted and I runharder for them. I know they would do the same for me."
Beautiful - just beautiful.
Asked how he's (Dr. Harvey B. Simon who has run 10 miles a day every day for 10,987 consecutive days) kept at it so long, he responds: "Left, right, left, right."
"My Sport, is your sports punishment"
We put that on our high school Cross Country t-shirts one year, after the Football team seemed to get all the attention, money and accolades. Sadly cross country is the forgotten sport in high school, yet we usually have all the scholar athletes and valedictorians.
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Several black leaders in Topeka said a Kansas State Board of Education member's use of a racial slur during a meeting last month was unnecessary and inappropriate.
Carolyn Campbell, the only black member of the board, and other black community leaders criticized board member Steve Roberts on Tuesday for using the slur at April's board meeting.
Roberts said he used the slur "clinically" during a discussion of state history standards. At the time, he noted that Martin Luther King Jr. twice mentioned the "N-word" in his April 16, 1963, letter from a jail in Birmingham, Ala. King wrote the famous letter after his arrest during a civil rights protest.
Roberts said the slur is highly offensive, but said history shouldn't be censored.


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The Taft sports teams have set up a new date for when they will face the Wasco Tigers.
Taft's boys teams will travel to Wasco on Wednesday, Jan. 23 while the girls host the Lady Tigers. The girls teams will travel to Wasco on Friday, Feb. 1 while the boys teams host the Tigers.
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The 14U Texas Bandits are currently holding open tryouts for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. We offer private facilities located in the Cypress/Tomball area, which include new, premier-level indoor and outdoor facilities. The 16U Texas Bandits, the first softball team to join the organization, got off to a late start this past season by participating in their first tournament in May; however, they quickly showed promise by twice finishing 3rd in the three tournaments in which they played and also qualified for state. The Texas Bandits are looking for dedicated players that are committed to excellence in all aspects of the game. The goals of the 14U Texas Bandits are to prepare the girls for high school ball and further develop each player to reach her maximum potential.
Both gymshoes and cleats will be needed for tryouts as players will be on turf as well as grass.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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5.240Marie Vaillant-Couturier, a gentile and member of the resistance in France, was a prisoner in the womens' camp at Auschwitz from 1942 until the end of the war. In 1946 she gave vivid and detailed evidence to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg about the atrocious conditions in the camp, the sterilisation of women, the killing of babies born to women who arrived pregnant and so on. One of the presiding was judges was an American, Judge Biddle.


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From Google Maps, the area is sizeable and with the City of Dallas code for not cutting down mature trees how can someone get by with this?
I live in Beckley Club Estates in Oak Cliff off 35/Beckley. I noticed yesterday there was a car parked in the field on Beckley that has the solar powered cell on it for warning lights in case of flooding on the road from the creek and there were 2 men chopping out the brush with machetes and a chainsaw. My concern was I thought it was city property. Come to find out the area was zoned residential and is a major forest buffer to traffic on 35 to the surrounding area. There are about 3 acres of trees in this area that are being chopped down for what we believe may be another used car lot and some of these trees have to be over 80 years old. From my past research the neighborhood is zoned residential from the DART tracks from North Shore up to where it turns commercial again up Beckley and the city never put up a rezoning sign for the community. Does anyone have any city connections to have this looked into? Google Map 120 Brookhaven, Dallas TX and view the satellite image of how large an area this is. How can people get away with destroying areas of Oak Cliff like this, McCommas Bluff and the pigs blood in the creek. Any city, state contacts our neighbors can contact would be greatly appreciated.
From Google Maps, the area is sizeable and with the City of Dallas code for not cutting down mature trees how can someone get by with this?
You should contact the city and find out what is going on. Only then can you determine if the people behind the project have met their obligations.
Yes, definitely contact the city and the appropriate city council person ASAP.
More of our great visionary Mayor's plans for 're-developing' all that wasted empty land south of the Trintiy. Walmarts and shitty carlots for all. Oh yes. And strip centers full of dynamic national chains. Are we lucky or what?
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Historic train to join arts, crafts, music at annual Bazaar
Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 6:58 p.m.
Norfolk Southern is bringing a restored 1926 Pullman passenger car via the railway at the Historic Depot for this year's annual Arts and Crafts Bazaar Saturday on Maple Street.
Entertainment schedule
10 a.m.-11 a.m.: Hendersonville Children's Choir
11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Step Child Band
1 p.m.-2 p.m.: Kontained Band with the Asheville School of Rock
2 p.m.–3 p.m.: Southern Connection clogging team
3 p.m.–4 p.m.: Emily Bodley; guitarist and vocals
4 p.m.–5 p.m.: Jim Beaver School of Music
This is the fifth year for the Historic Seventh Avenue District's arts and crafts street fair, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., but is the first time the Pullman Car will be on display at the event.
The bazaar and admission to the Pullman Car is free and open to the public.
"We are honored to have the Pullman Car come to Hendersonville," said Tara Ledbetter, executive director of Historic Seventh Avenue District.
A Norfolk Southern diesel engine car will pull the passenger car from Asheville and it will arrive to Hendersonville Friday night, a railroad official said.
The bazaar will host 70 craft and art vendors, live entertainment, food and more including children activities and bounce houses provided by STJ.
The Pullman Car will be on the tracks behind the depot that houses the Apple Valley Model Railroad Club's intricate model train displays.
Organizers have tried to get the antique railcar to the city for about two years, Ledbetter said.
"This speaks highly of the Apple Valley Model Railroad Club and their work here in Hendersonville," she said.
The Pullman Car was converted into a mobile museum in 1971, according to Norfolk Southern's website. Inside, there will be models of 20 Norfolk Southern locomotives that were rolled out onto its tracks across the country as part of the railroad company's 30th anniversary.
The museum has traveled to hundreds of cities along Norfolk Southern tracks and has been seen by more than 1.5 million people.
There is a popular simulator inside, as well as displays and images that educate and entertain visitors of all ages.
Outside, Ledbetter expects to see thousands of attendees at the Arts and Crafts Bazaar that features artistic creations, unique crafts, grass baskets and antiques. Food will be provided by local eateries such as Daddy D's Suber Soulfood, Seventh Avenue Café and Underground Bakery.
"The event has become well-known," Ledbetter said.
The first bazaar started with a humble 10 vendors and three years ago organizers introduced live entertainment.
"It took off after that," Ledbetter said.
Last year, the event broke an attendance record of 8,000 visitors, and Ledbetter expects to see even more this year.
"It will be a beautiful day with lots of fun for all ages," she said.
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SAN JOSE -- It's not as if Marty Havlat isn't trying to work himself out of whatever "no man's land" status he finds himself in with the Sharks.
The creative flourishes are still there at times, but the 32-year-old Havlat isn't having near the success he had earlier in his career -- maybe because of a series of injuries, maybe because the north-south style of play demanded by coach Todd McLellan isn't usually his preferred route up and down the ice.
So Havlat decided the Olympic break was a good time for him to try and improve an aspect of his game.
"Marty's working on some things skating-wise," McLellan said, "and we need him to be a very important player for our organization. That hasn't changed since he got here, not one bit. He's healthy. He has to find ways to contribute and it's not always about scoring. It's what he does defensively, physically."
Neither McLellan nor Havlat would go into details about the exact nature of what Havlat was focused on, but while many of his teammates were enjoying their time away from the ice during the Sochi Olympics, the Czech native laced up his skates.
"I did a little more, but nobody stopped doing everything," Havlat said. "I think it was very important to stay in shape and just to work on stuff you think you can improve. Hopefully it's going to pay off."
In the first two games after the Olympic break, Havlat skated on one of the top two lines with Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau. But in Sunday's 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils, he was on a makeshift third line with James Sheppard and Brent Burns.
Havlat has missed 82 of the 192 regular season games the Sharks have played in the three seasons he's been with the team, mostly because of injuries though he has been a healthy scratch eight times this season alone. Overall, his production has dropped from .69 points per game in 2011-12 to .32 this season.
If the Sharks could find a taker, Havlat might appear to be a candidate to be moved before the noon Wednesday trade deadline.
But there are two major obstacles to that happening: a no-trade clause and the $5 million salary-cap hit in the year remaining on the contract the Sharks inherited when they acquired him from the Minnesota Wild for Dany Heatley on July 3, 2011.
Teams that have the salary-cap room to take a gamble on Havlat aren't likely to be the ones he might be willing to play for. Beyond that, Havlat's agent, Allan Walsh, has made it clear in the past that his client is happy in San Jose and not interested in going anywhere.


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Knitter's Review
August 4, 2005
A visiting friend asks you to teach her how to knit. You grab some yarn and a pair of needles, and before you know it, she has a miniature project on her hands.
When it's time for her to leave, she asks if she can take her work in progress home. You glance at the pair of $20 hand-turned rosewood needles in her hands and feel your blood pressure rise.
The next time this happens, consider grabbing a pair of
Crystal Palace Daisy
knitting needles, which I review this week. They're colorful, inexpensive, and ideal for beginners.
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District[Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo Uyezda]
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)
Opera in 4 acts
Libretto by Alexander Preis, based on the novelle by Nikolai Leskow
First performed on 22nd January, 1934 at the Maly Theater St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
Premiered at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet Oslo on 5th September, 2014
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 25th January, 2015
In Russian language with German and English surtitles
|Donald Runnicles
|Ole Anders Tandberg
|Erlend Birkeland
|Maria Geber
|Ellen Ruge
|Choir Conductor
|William Spaulding
|Jeanette Langert
|Jörg Königsdorf
|Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov
|Sir John Tomlinson
|Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov
|Thomas Blondelle
|Katerina Lvovna Izmailova
|Evelyn Herlitzius
|Svetlana Sozdateleva (05.02.2015)
|Maxim Aksenov
|Aksinya / A female convict
|Nadine Secunde
|Shabby Peasant
|Burkhard Ulrich
|Edward Mout (29.01.2015 | 31.01.2015 | 05.02.2015)
|Andrew Harris
|Porter / Policeman / Sentry
|Noel Bouley
|Ralph Eschrig
|Olli Rantaseppä
|Aram Youn
|Hyun-Chul Rim (29.01.2015 | 05.02.2015)
|Workman in a Mill
|Thomas Lehman
|Matthew Peña
|Tobias Kehrer
|Police Inspector
|Seth Carico
|Dana Beth Miller
|Old Convict
|Stephen Bronk
|Ghost of Boris Timofeyevich
|Sir John Tomlinson
|Chorus Master
|Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
|Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
The pivotal character of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera LADY MACBETH OF MZENSK is the fascinating businesswoman Katerina Ismailova. Despite being presented with a female character who murders her husband and father-in-law, the composer's audiences are more likely to empathise with her than condemn her. Katerina, wrote Shostakovich, was a woman who is capable of anything in the name of love. His opera traces the transformation of a woman perverted by the hardness and roughness of her environment.
The 1934 premiere of Shostakovich's second opera marked the first peak in the career of the 26-year-old composer, a trajectory that was also paralleled by musical works such as his fourth symphony. The banning of the opera four years later by Stalin, who took umbrage at musical temerity and doubtless also at the core humanist message of the piece, severely affected the reception of LADY MACBETH OF MZENSK but failed to prevent the work from being performed to rave reviews in the opera houses of the world.
Shostakovich's work is being staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by a director making his debut in Germany. In Scandinavia the Norwegian Ole Anders Tandberg is one of the best-known directors of staged drama and has come to attention in recent years directing works of musical theatre such as THE MAGIC FLUTE [Stockholm] and THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS [Oslo].
A coproduction with The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Oslo.
Kindly supported by Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.
Presented by kulturradio vom rbb, Yorck Kinogruppe, tip berlin and taz.die tageszeitung.
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Erik Huggers On Why Intel TV Makes Sense
Erik Huggers on Intel's Move Into Web TV
Objections to the notion of Intel offering an Internet video service come to mind fairly quickly, as the man leading the effort found out Tuesday. Erik Huggers is also quick with counterarguments.
In an interview after his onstage grilling at D: Dive Into Media, the former British Broadcasting Corp. executive started with the most obvious question: why is Intel the right company to try to transform television?
A major reason, he says, is Intel's unusual assets. Besides its chip technology, he points out, Intel has become a major software company, with more than 10,000 programmers. The company has special expertise in open-source programs, including Google's Android operating system.
Then there is Intel Capital, the company's big venture capital arm. It has stakes in close to 400 startups, Huggers says, including some with expertise that is relevant to the paid video service the group known as Intel Media is developing.
Combine those assets for developing technology, Huggers says, with a "dream team" of people from companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Jawbone and Rovi that have deep experience in tailoring TV experiences and marketing services and consumer devices.
"This is not a bunch of amateurs," Huggers says. "We are not asking our chip designers to engineer the UI (user interface)."
Huggers got authorization to hire the team and put them in a separate building with its own layout, operating style and furniture. He is not exactly a fan of the tall gray cubicles that characterize many Intel offices.
And, as he pointed out during his onstage presentation, there is precedent for a computer-industry supplier to other companies changing its spots in this way: Microsoft, when it started offering the successful Xbox console, went through a similar strategy of setting up a unit with considerable autonomy.
Analysts note, of course, that the Xbox effort took a number of years, and Intel is a company about to experience a management transition (CEO Paul Otellini, who approved the Intel Media effort, will be succeeded by someone else in May). But Huggers said other Intel managers and its board of directors have supported the effort.
The mission of Intel Media–which will offer its service and set-top box under a different brand Huggers will not yet disclose–is to offer live and on-demand TV, much better navigation to programming as well as better catch-up services.
Why include a new set-top box? In large part, Huggers says, that's a necessary element to make sure that Intel can initially control all elements of the TV-watching experience.
The device, unlike most others on the market, will have a high-definition video camera and microphone that can be used for videoconferencing, watching shows together in other places, and authenticating users to serve up targeted content, he says.
In another hypothetical scenario, Huggers imagines future installments of a show like "The Voice" that involves singers not only competing together before a live audience but also chiming in their voices from home. "We could turn your living room into a studio," he says.
Will the service also exchange information with smartphones and tablets? Of course, Huggers says, after the set-top box based version has proven itself.
He has some experience starting something new from scratch, on multiple platforms. At the BBC, Huggers in 2007 launched a high-profile Internet based service and app called iPlayer, which he says started on PCs and Macs and now works on 650 computers and mobile devices, he says.
Will program suppliers license Intel attractive content? They are eager to, Huggers says, though are not yet ready to offer a la carte programming.
He shies away from stating Intel has cut any deals yet, but insists they have had plenty of early input in how Intel Media evolves. And they realize their own business has to, too.
"Everyone in the industry understands that consumer behavior is changing rapidly," Huggers says.
Related:Erik Huggers on Intel's Move Into TV
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Warrant of the Week suspect surrenders
January 4, 2013
PARKERSBURG — A woman on the Parkersburg Police Department's Warrant of the Week turned herself in on Thursday, officials said. Ashley Nichole Dowler, 23, 2022 16th St....
HOTTTTT!!!! Maybe she didn't get paid after.Working girl has to get hers.
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If she had the PIN number, then she could argue that she had PERMISSION to use the card. Not that she did, but anytime you give out your PIN to someone, you might as well just hand them your cash. Now it's a he said, she said situation. Unless she is dumb enough to admit it, it can't be proven, now can it????
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How to Make Khao Suey
Burmese chicken noodle soup – or khao suey — is a delectable spicy coconut milk broth made with boneless chicken (although you could use lamb if you want) and accompanied with a multitude of toppings. The toppings are the best part of the meal, because you can fix the soup according to your taste.
Every home has its own version, with the basics remaining the same. Usually what differs is the amount and type of accompaniments and the thickness of the soup or the amount of coconut milk used.
Continue reading at India Real Time for a khao suey recipe passed down to Rajyasree Sen from his grandmother, who lived in Myanmar.


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A Night At The Opera "The Ultimate Queen Tribute"
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Note to self: Take more photos and notes, for crying out loud. This is a food blog, after all.
1 TBSP olive oil
1 onion, diced
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 potatoes, peeled and shredded (I used the food processor)
1 carrot, shredded
salt and pepper
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/2 medium sized head of cabbage, shredded
5 cups chicken stock
1 parmesan cheese rind (optional)
1 can evaporated milk (I used reduced-fat)
1 cup gruyere cheese, shredded
In large soup pot heat olive oil. Add onion and crushed red pepper flakes and saute until onions are translucent, 5-6 minutes. Add garlic and saute for another minute or two. Add potatoes and carrot and season generously with salt and pepper and the dried thyme. Add the cabbage and the chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, add the parmesan cheese rind (if using) and simmer for about 30 minutes or until cabbage is tender. Stir in the evaporated milk and remove from heat. Gradually add the cheese a little at a time and stir until melted and creamy. Remove the cheese rind before serving.
To make the bread bowls:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Slice the top off of the bread bowl. Hollow out the bowl, leaving a 1/2" thick shell. Place bowl and lid (cut side up) on a baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Sprinkle with a little grated parmesan cheese. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly toasted.


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CONWAY, Ark. – Taryn Gregory's free throw with 3.7 seconds remaining in overtime lifted the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team to a 60-58 win over Central Arkansas (13-11) on Thursday night. It marked the second straight victory for the Islanders (3-20), who placed three players in double figures in the win.
Ashley Darley and Gregory had 12 points apiece, while Janae Blount added 10 for the road squad in the victory. The Islanders withstood a tremendous performance from Megan Herbert, who had a season-high 35 points and snared 15 rebounds in a losing effort. Verne'qua Taylor chipped in six assists while Blount had a career-high eight rebounds for the Islanders.
Entering the extra session tied at 54-54, Brandi Huff provided the theatrics. She started the scoring with a jumper to put the Islanders up two, but Tracey Parsons' two free throws knotted the score again. On the ensuing possession, it was Huff again, finishing a beautiful dish from Gregory to make it 58-56. After each team had an empty possession, Herbert connected on a jumper that made it 58-all.
With less than a minute to play, UCA held the ball in the tie game, but Courtney Duever was whistled for a travel and the Islanders had the opportunity for the last shot. Gregory drove and drew the foul, sinking 1-of-2 to put the visitors ahead. On the inbound pass that followed, Huff got the steal and hit 1-of-2 at the line to put A&M – Corpus Christi ahead 60-58 with 1.2 left. Herbert's desperation heave rimmed out and the Islanders came away with the win.
A&M – Corpus Christi opened the game with strong play at both ends, scoring the game's first seven points for a 7-0 lead. Gregory got it started with a three, then followed with a jumper, and an Ashanti Plummer putback gave the visitors a seven-point edge. The teams then went back-and-forth over the next several possessions, with the Sugar Bears trimming the lead to just three after a Julia Mason three. But the Islanders struck again, opening an eight-point lead after a Blount jumper and an Alisa Roberts three made it 17-9.
Meanwhile, it was Herbert who kept UCA in the ballgame. The senior was nearly all the offense for the Sugar Bears in the opening half, scoring 22 of their 27 points before the break. She single-handedly ran off five straight points to make it a three-point game at 22-19, then a later 4-0 run by Herbert cut the lead to 27-25.
But the Islanders closed the half on a 9-2 rally to take a 36-27 lead into the locker room. Roberts hit a jumper and followed it with a three to start the rally, then Darley added a jumper of her own to make it 34-25. After a Herbert jumper with 29 seconds left, Huff fought for an offensive rebound on the next possession, and Huff's shot at the buzzer banked off the glass and in to result in the halftime score.
The Islanders didn't let the break cool them off, as they opened the second stanza with an 8-2 run to make it 44-29. A clutch jumper by Darley and a triple from the left wing by Taylor capped off the rally. From there, the offenses for both teams slowed down, with the Islanders pushing the lead to 16 after a Blount free throw made it 49-33.
The Islanders pushed it to 51-35 when UCA strung together a 7-0 run to get the game back into single digits. Four free throws by Herbert and a three-ball from Parsons made it 51-42 at the 7:42 mark. The Islanders were able to push the advantage back to 11 after a pair of Blount free throws with 6:22 left, but the Sugar Bears tightened down defensively at that point.
UCA embarked on a 10-0 run over the next 5:32 to trim the deficit to a single point. Herbert scored four points during the rally, while Desireé Rogers added three. With 50 seconds left, Jammer hit 1-of-2 free throws to make it 54-52, but Courtney Duever hit a turn-around jumper with 30 seconds remaining to tie the score. Taylor took the ball for the last shot, but her layup in traffic came up short to send the game to the extra session before Huff's theatrics led the Islanders to the win.
The Islanders continue their road trip with a contest at Oral Roberts on Saturday night. Tipoff is set for 5 p.m. in Tulsa. Steven King will have the call of the game live on GoIslanders.com. The audio broadcast is free for all listeners.
For all the latest on Islanders Women's Basketball, follow the team on Twitter (@IslandersWBB) and Facebook (IslandersWBB).


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Director of Athletics Scott Lazenby has announced two promotions within the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Department of Athletics' senior staff. Jason Hall has been promoted to Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Administation, while Matt Brady has been elevated to Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations.
"I'm proud to announce the promotions of Jason and Matt within our athletics department," Lazenby said. "Both of them are valued members of our senior staff, and have made outstanding gains in their respective areas since they arrived at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Islanders Athletics is lucky to have them in our department and I look forward to their continued growth in their positions."
Hall began his tenure at the Island University in October 2011 and was promoted to Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Administration in May 2012. In his time at the university, he has improved the efficiency in the department's operations, team travel and chaired the women's basketball coaching search that led to the hiring of Royce Chadwick. Hall has also worked closely with Lazenby to bring stability to the Islanders Athletics staff.
He came to the Islanders after serving as Associate AD for Compliance and Student Services at Armstrong Atlantic State in Savannah, Ga., and has worked in compliance at Eastern Illinois, Syracuse, Florida State and Florida A&M. He has also worked at Belmont University, his alma mater, where he directed the university's sport administration master's program.
Brady came to A&M-Corpus Christi in November 2010 as the Director of Media Relations. In his time at the Island University, he has revamped the athletics website, GoIslanders.com, upgraded the department's video production with the formation of the Islanders Broadcast Crew and built the Islanders' social media platform from scratch.
Prior to coming to the Island University, he served as assistant director of media relations at Indiana University, where he worked with the Hoosiers' baseball and football teams. He has also had stints at Northeastern University, Amherst College and Eastern New Mexico University.
For all the latest on Islanders Athletics, be sure to follow the official Instagram and Twitter accounts (@Go_Islanders) and like the department's Facebook page.


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BOULDER - Colorado Parks and Wildlife is investigating whether any crimes were committed by two police officers tied to the death of an elk in Boulder, and the police department has launched an internal investigation.
Boulder police confirmed Thursday that an on-duty officer shot and killed the bull elk late Tuesday but didn't file a report with his supervisors or notify dispatchers. That officer has been placed on leave.
City officials say a second, off-duty officer took the elk home "to be processed for meat."
The officer who shot the elk said it was limping and appeared as if it needed to be put down, but resident JoOnna Silberman told the Daily Camera the animal wasn't limping when she saw it a few hours before it was killed.


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Venice grad wins award for structure meant to reverse global warming
Published: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 2:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 2:41 p.m.
VENICE - When asked whether his almost science fiction-like ideas for the future will ever be feasible, architect Derek Pirozzi mentions the 19th century writer Jules Verne.
For more information about Derek Pirozzi and his winning architectural ideas, go to derekpirozzi.com and evolo.us.
In the 1860s, Verne fascinated his fans with then seemingly impossible tales of men rocketing to the moon. As NASA later proved, Verne's imagination turned out to be a century ahead of his time.
Perhaps Pirozzi may be the Jules Verne of architects. This month, he received international recognition for his idea for a massive, moveable Arctic research lab that, hypothetically, could reverse global warming.
"Is it feasible? I don't see how it would be infeasible in the next several decades," Pirozzi, 27, said. "Who knows? Look how much we have developed from 100 years ago."
Pirozzi, a graduate of Venice High School and the University of South Florida, earned first place in the architecture magazine eVolo's latest annual competition for "outstanding ideas for vertical living."
The International Skyscraper Competition received 625 projects from 83 countries.
"He was very proud to represent the United States," his mother, Donna Pirozzi of Nokomis, said.
The second and third place winners are from France and China respectively.
As a boy growing up in the Venice area, Pirozzi knew he wanted to build things.
"He was always interested in architecture," his mother remembers. "When he was about 7 or 8, he would draw house plans. He was always into Legos."
Pirozzi's first and futuristic submission to the eVolo competition is surely no Lego house. It dazzled the judges by taking 21st century architecture to a new level — the Arctic, to be specific.
"As a Florida native, ideas and concepts involving passive cooling methods are a constant feature in my design proposals," said Pirozzi, who works for the Olson Kundig architecture firm in Seattle.
Pirozzi presented a design for his "Polar Umbrella," a moveable research facility made of steel and other materials that he thinks could help preserve the polar ice caps.
"We must begin to cool the Earth's surface once again by reducing heat gain in our vulnerable arctic regions," said Pirozzi, who believes melting polar ice could cause "far-reaching global climate change."
Pirozzi designed a buoyant, modular structure with "the core and certain fabricated elements built off site, then assembled in place."
The structure would be immense, its diameter equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building and its height about half that of the Manhattan landmark. Pirozzi sees several of them being built, installed and moved around the polar ice caps.
Each structure would feature an immense, umbrella-shaped canopy that would reduce the warming effect of sunlight on the Arctic surface below.
A polyethylene piping system within the canopy would pump salt water and expose it to sunlight.
"The vast abundance of salt water is used to produce a renewable source of electricity through the osmotic power facility housed within the core," Pirozzi said.
Dredged ocean water would be frozen and returned to thicken the ice caps around the structure's base.
Pirozzi's vision for this remote power plant and freezer gets even more extensive. He says the mushroom-shaped structure with a desalination plant could include research facilities, perhaps staffed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as dormitory-style housing. It could even generate revenue as an eco-tourism attraction.
Whether Pirozzi's vision becomes a reality even he cannot predict. Having just started his job in Seattle two months ago, Pirozzi has no immediate plans to pitch his concept elsewhere. Now that it has caught the attention of his profession around the world, though, it could get other minds working along similar lines.
Meanwhile, Pirozzi keeps thinking not about the Great White North but of Florida.
He is engaged to Mallory Brandow, who also attended Venice High and USF and is now teaching in Tampa. His mother works for the Venice Chamber of Commerce and his father, Dennis, at the Venice Post Office.
"The Gulf Coast of Florida will always be my home," Pirozzi said. "In the near future, I intend to move back to the Sarasota area to start my own office. . . . It is my life's goal and ambition to come back to the area and bring a style of design that becomes a distinct Florida vernacular."
Given all the sunlight, sand and surf around here, one wonders what unique, self-sustaining prototype for Florida's future Pirozzi could come up with next.
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SANTA CLARA -- Niners defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has an intimate knowledge of many of the Baltimore Ravens that he is charged with game planning against for the Super Bowl. Just how much of an advantage that gives the 49ers, Fangio isn't tipping his hand.
"There are a few players that are still there, Rice and Flacco," Fangio said Wednesday. "But they have had a change in coordinators there. A couple of the offensive linemen are still there from when I was there. I don't think it's a big advantage."
Just the same, quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice, and several others, were around Fangio for at least two seasons with the Ravens from 2006-09, when Fangio was the special assistant to the head coach all four years and the linebackers coach, as well, the final season.
There has to be some things that Fangio can pass on to his troops from what he gleaned watching Flacco and Rice in practice and games for so long.
"Probably not as much as you think," Fangio said. "A lot of that's overblown."
Fangio left the Ravens for the defensive coordinator position at Stanford under Jim Harbaugh in 2010.
Harbaugh was hired by the 49ers in 2011, and one of his first moves was bringing along Fangio as his new defensive coordinator here.


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It's small for a museum -- just a couple of rooms that, put together, may not even make one decent-sized family room.
So I'm not sure we expected much walking into the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia. I wasn't even sure if the place was big enough to hold a sign with the entire name. I figured a tour would take about 15 minutes, tops.
An hour and $30 worth of PEZ dispensers later, my wife, three kids and I were posing for pictures in front of the world's biggest PEZ dispenser.
The PEZ museum is one of the most delightful places in the Bay Area to take kids, partially because of those expectations and partially because of what's inside: one of every PEZ dispenser ever made and an owner with a bit of a twinkle in his eye who tells you he's not in this for the money.
"PEZ, to me, is almost the perfect childhood toy," said Gary Doss, who opened his museum in a Burlingame storefront 18 years ago. "It's a toy that gives you candy."
Hard to argue with that kind of logic.
Doss owned a computer store in the same space two decades ago when he went to an antique show and discovered some old PEZ dispensers. He started buying them and bringing them to work to display. Suddenly more people were coming in to see his collection than to have computers fixed.
"I said, 'What a silly thing to collect.' And, 20 years later, it's still silly," he said.
Silliness hasn't stopped Doss from making a living selling PEZ dispensers and giving tours of his museum, which not only holds PEZ-related memorabilia, but also Lego figures, antique toys and a wickedly wonderful "Bad Toys" display, showing off various toys that have been banned over the years (including a 1951 "Atomic Energy Lab," with which kids could do their own experiments with four jars of real -- real! -- radioactive material).
As I wondered how Doss could possibly live off a PEZ museum, a steady stream of families came and went. Everybody gets a guided tour at the PEZ museum, which includes an explanation of the name (PEZ comes from an Austrian company that initially made only peppermint candy, or "Pfefferminze." Take the first, middle and nearly last letter and you get "PEZ."). You'll also see old PEZ dispensing machines, and learn that early PEZ dispensers didn't have heads and that every U.S. president from Teddy Roosevelt on has been depicted as a PEZ dispenser.
There are PEZ dispensers that cost 99 cents and one from the 1950s worth $350. Doss also owns the world's largest PEZ dispenser, as confirmed by Guinness World Records. It's an 85-pound snowman that's almost 8 feet tall and can hold 6,480 PEZ.
And there would be no eBay without PEZ dispensers, according to Doss, who tells the story of Pierre Omidyar, a Silicon Valley man who started a website for his wife to buy, sell and trade PEZ dispensers that eventually became eBay. (The story has been disputed on various websites, which doesn't deter Doss from telling it anyway.)
There is a PEZ dispenser for everyone. While my kids picked out various Disney figures and whatnot, I found one featuring the Death Star from "Star Wars." I couldn't see any reason why that shouldn't go home with us.
"It's fun to eat candy out of a planet-killer," Doss said, ringing me up.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayArea NewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.
The Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia: Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, 214 California Drive, Burlingame. 650-347-2301, www.burlingamepezmuseum.com. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for kids (4-12) and seniors (older than 65), free for kids under 4. Free for everyone the first Thursday of every month.
Parents need to know: There's not a lot of space inside, so it might be a good idea to carry smaller children instead of trying to bring in strollers. The museum may not be worth a long drive by itself, but it's an excellent place to stop while driving to and from San Francisco or another destination nearby.
Nearby eats: Christie's Restaurant across the street is a popular local diner. The food is good and reasonably inexpensive, with a menu featuring plenty of breakfast and burger-fry combinations, plus hot sandwiches and salads. Nearby are a number of other American, Asian and Mexican restaurants.
-- Tony Hicks


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This convenient gym sack is an easy way to stow and access your stuff. The drawstring closure makes it simple to store or retrieve whatever you need. Bag also has a screen printed Nike logo and Inter Milan team badge on the front. Limited lifetime guarantee.
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Martha Speaks is an animated series on PBS KIDS. Aimed at viewers between the ages of four and seven, Martha's educational goal is to teach kids new words. The series stars Martha, a beloved family dog. She is accidentally fed alphabet soup — this gives her the power of speech and the chance to speak her mind to anyone that will listen.
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Jock Safari Lodge is currently participating in and sponsoring a demographic study of lions in the Kruger National Park. The study will help us to understand the impact of bovine tuberculosis on lion populations and is conducted by the highly efficient team of the Kruger National Park.
Jock sponsored a satellite collar that was fitted onto the dominant female of the Jock pride. Rangers share vital information on the pride with the researchers as we view them almost daily. Whenever the opportunity arises we invite guests to participate in the research. There is currently an estimated 1684 lions in the Kruger National Park. This is just our small contribution to ensure that lions roam the vast wilderness of the Kruger for many years to come.
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VAIL - Imagine a bunch of your favorite uncles and cousins gathering on the front porch during a sunny afternoon to swap stories and songs you know by heart and love. That's what Season of Song is like.
It's a 30-year class reunion that Morris Lawrence put together.
Lawrence knows a guy who knows J.D. Souther, who knows Jimmy Webb, who knows David Wilcox and Beth Nielsen Chapman. They know a guy who knows a guy who knows Dala and Elephant Revival and before you can say, "That's a great line. Can I use it?" they all decided to head to Vail.
This is Lawrence's first Season of Song. He talks like a songwriter when he describes it.
"The journey has been very educational," he said. "It's our first one out of the gate. More than once we entered a room that was completely dark. We had no idea where we were going."
But here they are.
"It could be a stretch for people to get their heads around something like this, but once they experience it, it's going to be something they'll want to do next year with a different group of songwriters," Lawrence said.
Songs and stories
Every story is a song and every song is a story.
You'll hear songs you recognize, and the stories that go with them from the people who wrote them.
J.D. Souther has had 14 No. 1 hits and will be on stage with Jack Tempchin and Jimmy Webb, who wrote what might be the best girl-getting line ever, "I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." Put Glen Campbell's voice to it and let the swooning begin.
Souther is a star performer in his own right, and he and Tempchin wrote songs that you'll swear the Eagles penned, except they didn't. These guys did.
David Wilcox has been writing songs since he was in college 30 years ago. His songs still come from the same place.
"I get them from the future. I can gradually craft a song that has wisdom I'm gaining. I learn from the person I am becoming," Wilcox said.
Wilcox and Beth Nielsen Chapman's concerts are musical conversations, trading songs back and forth with lots of spontaneous reaction and improvisation.
"We surprise each other and take the emotional direction of the song before and go from there," Wilcox said.
"Rusty Old American" dream is about a beige and green 1958 Oldsmobile and Wilcox's ability to fix things himself.
"I can communicate with automobiles. I've saved a lot of money because I replaced the right part first," Wilcox said.
His song "End of the World Again" is a jab at the End of the World Glee Club who has given up because everything is such a mess, they say.
Wilcox fired back by scheduling a one-day End of the World Tour, Dec. 22, in Asheville, N.C., where he lives. That's one day after the Mayans predict the world is supposed to end.
After three decades he likes what he's writing right now.
"If I play a bunch of songs for people who've never heard me before, the ones they always like best are the new ones," Wilcox said. "I used to think that every time I finished a huge writing binge that might be the last set of songs that would come out of me. But it's not that way at all. It's got to happen. It's a natural thing. I think that way."
Remembering Pete
Michael Tomlinson, one the festival's performers, was playing in Oysterville, Wash., a couple of summers ago.
"It's a quaint strand of town built on sand, the whole village barely above the level of high tide," he said.
Pete was 6-foot-4-inches tall and 93 years old, erect and proud, and in the front row of that night's full house.
Tomlinson introduced "Wild Horses Run," talking about how, when his father was dying, he'd sing the line, "How I wish I was young, heading out on the wide open plains where I was born."
He played and sang it well, closing his eyes and letting the applause wash over him. He opened his eyes to see Pete stand, stride toward him and opened his arms wide, enveloping him and his guitar in a genuine hug that had him grinning wildly. As the applause surged, Pete reached for the microphone and quietly told the crowd, "That song just brought me back to the golden days of my boyhood, and nothing has done that in a very, very long time."
"Chills shot up my spine and tears rose in my eyes," Tomlinson said. "I just knew I'd never again play 'Wild Horses Run' without thinking of Pete."
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Revisiting the Myths of the Dot-Com Boom
For those of us around long enough to remember — and for those familiar with the legend — the dot-com era of wildly speculative initial public offerings, ill-fitted mergers and acquisitions and office masseuses seems like a painful lesson about capitalism run amok.
Today's boom, we're told by influencers such as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, is much different. The companies are on solid financial footing and have sales. The deals are either immediately productive or, at the very least, reasonable, affordable gambles.
Mr. Andreesson's firm, Andreesen Horowitz is doubling down on the assessment. It just raised $1.5 billion on a fourth fund for startups.
"We're not in a bubble and there is no frenzy," said Scott Kupor an Andreesen Horowitz managing partner on Thursday.
It's a view that's reinforced by some recent research. In January, University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter published a paper that highlighted the valuation differences between the dot-com IPO boom and today's environment.
Mr. Ritter's is one of the voices that's drawing a distinction between the bad bubble of yesteryear and the companies going public today that have "demonstrated an ability to generate sales, and with the exception of Twitter, profits," he told the Journal in October.
But take a step back from both eras, I'd offer that the bad times of yesteryear weren't that bad and that the good times of today aren't that good.
Take, for instance, the myth that the majority companies that debuted in that era, roughly from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, struggled, underperformed and, most vividly remembered, went belly up.
While it's true the list of failures from that era is long—delivery services such as Webvan, Kosmo.com, eToys and pets.com, to name a few—the list of successes is impressive: Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo They're not only still around, but have returned huge sums to investors even using the benchmark of their heady initial valuations (Amazon is up 19,000%, Yahoo, 2,500%, eBay 2,885%)
And the list of companies founded in that era, including Google, Shutterfly, Priceline.com, eHarmony, is equally impressive.
Likewise, today's myth that companies are coming to market with more reasonable valuations, a point Mr. Ritter tries to make, is questionable. While Twitter Inc., LinkedIn and, after a rough start, Facebook have delivered on their promised profit growth and stock performance, there have been some notable flops: online game maker Zynga, Chinese networking website Renren, daily deal website Groupon and online services marketplace Angie's List Inc.
All of them jumped out of the gate and eventually struggled to regain their initial valuations. (Zynga is down 51%, Renren, 12.9%, Groupon, 66%, Angie's List, 23%).
Another main myth about the dot-bomb era is the deals. Everyone points to AOL Inc.'s acquisition of Time Warner —with its massive job losses, disastrous stock performance and unrealized synergies—as the textbook example of poor deal making in business schools. But many mergers turned out OK.
Microsoft bought Hotmail in 1997 for $400 million. It was a little expensive, but gave Microsoft an essential email capability it was lacking. Online auction house EBay bought payment systems PayPal Inc. for $1.5 billion in 2002. Both those deals look fairly prescient today.
Time will tell, but it's doubtful all of today's deals will stand up as beneficial to investors. Facebook, for instance, has spent $22 billion on photo sharing service Instagram, text messenger service What's App and now, virtual reality headgear maker Oculus. That's a lot of money to recover from three companies that so far haven't generated profits. Microsoft Inc. took a big gamble in buying Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion last year. Google Inc. bought Motorola's handset business for $12.3 billion two years ago and then sold it to Lenovo Group for $2.91 billion in January. Google kept some valuable patents, but that's a striking loss in value nonetheless.
As these deals and offerings show, each era has been marked by expensive risk taking. Some have paid off. Some haven't. But labeling the dot-com era as bad and today's era as good oversimplifies the situation and ignores the nature of technology in the markets. Selling pet supplies or pizzas over the Internet aren't bad ideas in themselves. But they can seem like bad ideas depending on the myths we've created around them.


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Many people believe that if a good wireless sensor node is built with a good radio, a good wireless sensor network can be built. Although a good sensor node/radio is an important part of the whole wireless sensor network, this is not whole story. The characteristics of a "good" sensor network include: scalability, reliability, responsiveness, mobility, and power efficiency.
A "sensor node" is just a very small part of the wireless sensor network. There are more important design challenges that go into making a network "good." To build a good wireless sensor network, all of the above factors must work in harmony. The challenge is that this harmony can be difficult to achieve. The complex inter-relationships between these factors is a balance; if these factors are not managed well, the network can suffer from overhead that negates its applicability in the real world.
A. Scalability
Scalability refers to the ability of the network to grow, in terms of the number of nodes, without excessive overhead. This is an important real-world requirement where networks must support more than the small handful of nodes typical in a pilot implementation.
This is due to the network overhead that comes with the increased size of the network. In ad hoc networks, the network is formed without any predetermined topology or shape. Therefore, any node wishing to communicate with other nodes should generate more packets than its data packets – i.e. "control packets" or "network overhead." As the size of the network grows, more control packets will be needed to find and keep the routing paths. Moreover, as the network size increases, there is higher chance that communication links get broken in communication paths, which will end up with creating more control packets. In a small network, the amount of control packets is almost negligible. But when the network size starts increasing, the overhead increases rapidly. Since the available overall bandwidth is limited, the increase of overhead results in the decrease of usable bandwidth for data transmission. As the network size grows further, there will be very small amount of bandwidth left for application data transmission.
B. Reliability
Reliability is the ability of the network to ensure reliable data transmission in a state of continuous change of network structure. Typically there is an inverse relationship between scalability and reliability in ad hoc wireless networks; as the number of nodes in the network increases, the more difficult it becomes to ensure reliability.
This scalability characteristics of ad hoc networks described above imposes an interesting question on the reliability of the network. Since an ad hoc network is designed to automatically adapt itself to a changing environment or interference, it will issue more control packets when it faces dynamics. More dynamics in the environment will increase the number of control packets and, at some point, the network cannot sustain the amount of overhead caused by the dynamics, which will result in less reliability of data transmission. This breaking point will show up earlier in a large-sized network. So, network scalability and reliability are closely coupled and typically they act against each other.
C. Responsiveness (and Latency)
Responsiveness is the ability of the network to quickly adapt itself to changes in topology. To achieve high responsiveness, an ad hoc network should issue and exchange more control packets, which will naturally result in less scalability and less reliability. In general, the latency of packet delivery in dynamic environment decreases in the network with high responsiveness.
D. Mobility
Mobility refers to the ability of the network to handle mobile nodes and changeable data paths. Generally, a wireless sensor network that includes a number of mobile nodes should have high responsiveness to deal with the mobility. So, it is not easy to design a large scale and highly mobile wireless sensor network.
E. Power Efficiency
Power efficiency – the ability of the network to operate at extremely low power levels – also plays an important role in this complex equation. A typical method for designing a low-power wireless sensor network is to reduce the duty cycle of each node. The drawback is that as the wireless sensor node stays longer in sleep mode to save power, there is less chance that the node can communicate with its neighbors. This will decrease the network responsiveness and may also lower reliability due to the lack of the exchange of control packets and delays in packet delivery. In addition, a more complicated synchronization technique will be necessary to keep more nodes in low duty cycle, which may also affect scalability.
F. Managing the Design Tradeoffs
The complex issue of managing these tradeoffs comes down to how the communication overhead can be minimized while maintaining the network reliability and responsiveness. As explained above, there are many conflicting factors involved in the design of wireless sensor networks, and there are always tradeoffs. When choosing a wireless sensor network for an application, careful consideration of the balance of these factors within the context of the needs of the application is critical.
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Leucadia to Buy Jefferies: Leucadia National is buying Jefferies Group in a deal that will give the securities firm a new owner with deep pockets at a time of rising investor concern over the funding sources and business model of investment banks. [WSJ]
Complex Voting Puts Glencore-Xstrata Merger at Risk Xstrata effort to seal a merger with Glencore has run into several unexpected obstacles since it was unveiled nine months ago. [WSJ]
Brink'sys Sale Now Isn't Right Step: Responding to a letter from disgruntled shareholder Shamrock Holdings, security-services firm Brink's Co. said a sale isn't the right move for the company now. [WSJ]
Hertz Is Willing to Shed Some Airport Locations: Hertz has tentatively agreed to shed about a dozen U.S. airport locations in a concession aimed at winning regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of car-rental rival Dollar Thrifty, according to people familiar with the talks. [WSJ]
GM Nears Deal for Ally Assets: General Motors is closing in on a deal to buy Ally Financial's European and Latin America operations for around $4 billion, a person familiar with the talks said. [WSJ]Sherwin-Williams: The top U.S. paint maker said it will buy privately held Mexican paint company Consorcio Comex for about $2.34 billion in cash, including debt, to boost its distribution in the Americas. [Reuters]
Julius Baer to buy 20 percent of Italy's Kairos: Swiss wealth manager Julius Baer said on Monday it will buy 19.9 percent of Italy's Kairos Investment Management as part of a deal between the two firms to create a leading onshore wealth management group in Italy.
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Nasdaq Hires 'Dark Pool' Architect: An architect of the biggest U.S. "dark pool" is joining one of the bank-owned trading venue's primary competitors, Nasdaq OMX Group, to oversee sales of its stock-trading technology products. [WSJ]
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No Individual Charges in Probe of J.P. Morgan: The SEC doesn't intend to charge any individuals in its planned enforcement action against J.P. Morgan for the allegedly fraudulent sale of mortgage bonds. [WSJ]
Jailed Banker Is Rare Prize for Prosecutors: When Jerry Williams walked into a federal prison in August, the U.S. government got a small win in its efforts to put people behind bars for crimes tied to the financial crisis. [WSJ]
Drama Over Detained Ship Intensifies: Argentine sailors, whose ship has been detained for more than a month in Ghana by a hedge fund seeking repayment of a debt, drew guns last Wednesday and threatened to shoot port workers attempting to move their Navy boat, according to a lawyer for the port. [WSJ]
Advent International: The U.S. private-equity firm has raised 8.5 billion euros ($10.8 billion) for its latest fund, one of the largest pools of capital raised for buyouts since the financial crisis. [Reuters]
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VAIL - More than 50 vehicles were tangled up in crashes and Interstate 70 was closed most of Monday afternoon as a heavy storm rolled through the Rockies.
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The storm dumped more than a foot of new snow on some ski resorts, and hammered Vail and Beaver Creek. Loveland reported a foot of new snow Monday, and Copper Mountain reported 10 inches.
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By deadline Monday, no serious injuries were reported from the multitude of automobile wrecks, although three people in a Summit County were banged up enough to be sent to the hospital, according to Lake Dillon Fire Rescue.
After closing I-70 around 1:30 p.m., the Colorado Department of Transportation reopened both lanes in both directions by 5:15 p.m. Monday.
"We were seeing blizzard conditions. We had such poor visibility and that was most of the problem motorists were experiencing," said Mindy Crane, Department of Transportation spokeswoman.
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No injuries were reported from that one either, said the Colorado State Patrol.
Several other cars were involved in other wrecks as the storm created blizzard conditions and practically eliminated visibility.
Interstate 70 was closed most of Monday afternoon between Georgetown and Vail. Westbound I-70 also was closed at briefly at Floyd Hill east of Denver because of accidents.
Conditions were so bad that the Department of Transportation highway camera at the Eisenhower Tunnel was covered with ice.
"It started on the east side of Eisenhower Tunnel and just kept getting worse," said Ashley Mohr, Department of Transportation spokesperson for the region including Eagle County. "Folks were going too fast for the conditions."
Road conditions were improving by the minute late Monday afternoon, said Trooper Nate Reid, public information officer with the Colorado State Patrol.
By late Monday afternoon, the Department of Transportation had started opening lanes and traffic was moving slowly.
Reid said he'd like to emphasize moving slowly.
"We'll say the same thing you always hear. Give the person in front of you plenty of room. Don't get in a hurry," Reid said. "We think we have to pass that semi truck. But if that truck is chained up and moving up the hill, relax and settle in behind it."
Closing the interstate gives the tow truck drivers plenty of room to remove disabled vehicles, and Colorado State Patrol time to investigate the crashes, Reid said.
"It's a mess but we're getting through it," Reid said.
By the time you read this, Mother Nature will have done her part to clean it up. The forecast calls for clear skies and daytime temperatures in the 30s and low 40s through Thursday night.
Even with recent snowstorms, Colorado's snowpack remains at 72 percent of normal and 90 percent of last year's readings, said the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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13.12.2012 - French drug giant Sanofi has hired one of the most prominent researchers from the US National Institutes of Health as its CSO and deputy to President Global R&D.
Gary Nabel will be responsible for coordinating Sanofi's scientific direction for biologics, vaccines and animal health. An immunologist and virologist, Nabel came to the NIH in 1999 to head the newly formed Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "I am very excited that Dr. Nabel will join Sanofi's R&D organization", said Dr. Elias Zerhouni, president of global R&D. "Our challenges today require that we re-invent our R&D model. Gary's experience will be invaluable to help us achieve this goal.
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"Sons of Anarchy" will roar back into action on Sept. 10, the FX cable network announced today.
The sixth season of the edgy motorcycle drama will kick off with a 90-minute episode at 10 p.m. and will continue to air at 10 on Tuesdays thoughout the season.
Season 6 of "Sons" begins with Jackson "Jax" Teller's (Charlie Hunnam) leadership of SAMCRO uncontested, now that he has framed Clay (Ron Perlman) for the murder of Damon Pope. But his family life is suffering from his single-minded pursuit of John Teller's vision. Jax must find a way to keep Tara (Maggie Siff) from going to prison for conspiracy to commit murder while rebuilding his club and breaking from the cycle of violence and greed that ultimately led to his best friend's death.
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SEATTLE -- Pro Bowl linebacker NaVorro Bowman and guard Mike Iupati sustained serious injuries in the 23-17 loss to Seattle on Sunday that would have kept them out of the Super Bowl.
Bowman injured his left knee on a controversial play in the fourth quarter, and the preliminary diagnosis is that he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, coach Jim Harbaugh said.
"To see him go out like that, it's not supposed to be like this," linebacker Patrick Willis said. "Sometimes we don't know why things happen the way they do, but we'll see in time. He's going to be all right."
Bowman totaled a team-high 14 tackles Sunday. On the Seahawks' second series, he stopped Marshawn Lynch for no gain on third-and-1, and Bowman ended the first quarter by sacking quarterback Russell Wilson on third down.
Iupati fractured his left ankle while blocking for Anthony Dixon on a fourth-and-goal, 1-yard touchdown dive that gave the 49ers a 10-0 lead with 10:03 left in the first half. Adam Snyder replaced Iupati after the injury.
Said Harbaugh: "I asked what happens if I do challenge it, and (referee Gene Steratore) said, 'You lose a timeout and we won't review it.' "
Harbaugh didn't plead his case further in his postgame news conference, noting the 49ers gained possession when the Seahawks botched their ensuing fourth-down play with another fumble.
"I can't say it had any factor in the game, because of what happened on the very next play," he said.
A year ago, Harbaugh fumed after the Super Bowl loss about officials failing to call defensive-holding and pass-interference penalties. After losing the 2011 season's NFC Championship game to the New York Giants, Harbaugh did not agree with a "forward progress" call that nullified a potential fumble recovery by Bowman.
In Sunday's finale, the 49ers were penalized seven times for 65 yards. The Seahawks had eight penalties for 66 yards.
"On the last drive we had enough time, we were driving down," Boldin said. "We started with three minutes, we had all three timeouts, so there was no need to rush. We put ourselves in great position. Unfortunately we threw an interception at the end."
Smith accounted for two of the 49ers' four sacks of Wilson. "It's frustrating, but we lost to a good team," Smith said. "We'll take it from where we can and move on."
"We knew it was going to be tough in the run game early, but we stayed with it,'' Seattle center Max Unger said. "I thought we dominated the run game."
The 49ers did not allow a 100-yard rusher during the regular season, but this time Lynch broke through for a biggie. On a third-and-1 play with just over 10 minutes left in the third quarter, Lynch took an inside handoff to the left, cut back to the right and rumbled his way for a 40-yard touchdown.
In six career playoff games, Lynch has rushed for six TDs and has four 100-yard games.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers.


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