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Ancient calendar
Scholars believe that as early as 3000 B.C., the once-nomadic people on the British Isles used Stonehenge to create a rough calendar that they needed for farming.
With radio signals controlling her solar wristwatch, a Berkeley physicist times her life to the second whenever she's in her native Munich, delighting when she walks out on the metro platform just as the train arrives.
"I want to know the exact time. I want to know it's two minutes and 22 seconds past one," said Birgitta Bernhardt, a Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist who is researching the smallest units of time ever measured — quintillionths of a second.
Bernhardt laughs when she talks about her fixation, but as fellow citizens of the digital age, we all share it to some degree. Seconds matter — to us, to our society, to our economy — more than ever. Technology has made it possible to do so many tasks from anywhere, and so quickly, that growing numbers of tiny moments, each with its own value, fill our days in a way new to our human experience.
We may not know the length of a quintillionth of a second, but sometimes it seems as though work, family and play bring us a seamless flow of quintillions of tasks every day.
In the 19th century, the railroads forced towns to synchronize their clocks — until then all ticking on their own local time set by the noon sun. Today, the technological drivers of our global economy are bringing the whole Earth into sync.
UC Berkeley professors teach online classes with assignment deadlines set on global Greenwich Mean Time. Call center employees in Manila clock in as the sun rises in New York. A sleeping watch salesman in Carmel bolts awake for a 1 a.m. call from Hong Kong about a rare Rolex, and a Palo Alto tech CEO holds a 6:30 a.m. conference call with a French client whose clock says it is 3:30 p.m.
The railroad has come again.
Seven days a week for more than 25 years, John Bonifas opened and closed his jewelry and watch shop in Carmel-by-the-Sea, rarely taking a day off.
But when he stepped onto Ocean Avenue at day's end, he left his business and his customers at the door.
His 30-something sons Josh and Kris aren't behind the counter at Fourtané every day, but they are open for business day and night, all week long.
"If I really need to get some info from my brother on his day off … I'll call and text several times," Kris said.
Josh specializes in vintage Rolex watches, understated pieces of history that evoke nostalgia for a pre-electronic era. But with clients and suppliers calling from all time zones, prices in the thousands of dollars, and smartphone cameras and websites moving the timepieces at a dizzying pace, his job embodies the fragmented, global time of the modern economy.
The digital age that threatened to kill the mechanical watch business instead brought it new life — and made it intensely competitive.
"If I don't pick up the phone, it just goes to the next person within two minutes," he said of the risk of losing a deal.
So Josh keeps his iPhone close. An important call could come in at 1 a.m., interrupting his sleep; in the second quarter of a college football game in Mississippi; in a hospital delivery room.
It's a family joke that minutes before his daughter's birth, he was on the phone, making a deal.
"I got the lecture that I'm not ever present any more, which is true," he said. "I'm always distracted on some level."
The mobile workplace has definite advantages — chief among them, not having to go into the office on the weekends, said Steve Hoover, CEO of the Palo Alto-based technology company PARC, the legendary Xerox research center that inspired Apple's first computer.
"The fact that I can take my daughter to her dance class and work for 15 minutes while she's doing her class, that's great," he said.
But figuring out how to negotiate their time with these newly blurred boundaries is a challenge for the 38 percent of college-educated Americans who do at least some work from home each day. That number is growing and double what it was a decade ago.
"It's not so much the time, it's that you've got to switch your head from your work world to your personal world in these microslices," Hoover said.
What if you sneak a look at your phone while your wife is away from the table and see a troubling email? he asked.
"Can you push it out of your brain and focus on where you're at?"
Hoover observes that the blending of our work and personal lives returns us to the unceasing labor of our agricultural past when the cows needed to be milked every day.
That old way of life is still in effect at the 12-acre Retzlaff Vineyards in Livermore. But unlike the Bonifas brothers, who have some control over when and where they conduct business, the natural clock governs the vintner's work.
"Mother Nature dictates when we do it and how we do it," said winemaker Bob Taylor, echoing farmers going back tens of thousands of years.
In early September, a test of his merlot grapes brought a surprise: The berries were the precise balance of sugar and acidity that demanded immediate picking, days earlier than expected and just after the chardonnay harvest.
That moment is hard to predict and impossible to ignore.
"I thought I was going to have a few days to catch my breath," the 80-year-old vintner said in the middle of a 16-hour work day and seven-day week.
But once the harvest is over, the pace of life relents, and Taylor cherishes the downtime that so many of us find elusive.
"You talk about time," he said. "Here's a thought for you. A lot of really wise people put together a book they called a Bible. It said that you need to take off at least one day a week and think about other things. We ignore it at our peril."
Ancient calendar
Scholars believe that as early as 3000 B.C., the once-nomadic people on the British Isles used Stonehenge to create a rough calendar that they needed for farming.
The first pendulum clock
Invented by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, this precise clock was the most accurate timekeeper for centuries until the 1930s. Its disadvantage was that it had to be stationary to work.
Time zones established
Railways forced a shift from local time — with each town setting its own clocks — to standard time. In 1883 railways adopted Standard Railway Time, creating four time zones in the United States. (Standard time was not established in U.S. law until the Standard Time Act of 1918.).
The atomic age
Timekeeping is no longer based on the Earth's movements in relation to other planets, but on the atomic clock, which counts the hyper-regular switching of cesium atoms (or other elements) between two energy levels. The clock would gain or lose about a second in around 100 million years. Because of such accuracy, atomic clocks have become the most accurate timekeepers to date.
Advent of smartphones
Many of us use phones to keep time. But more than that, smartphones fundamentally have changed how we see and organize our time, blurring the line between work and home and slicing our days into smaller and ever-more efficient units.
It's hard to fully relax and lose track of time when reminders are everywhere you look, said Kathleen Kilroy-Marac, an anthropology professor who taught a course on the "Anthropology of Time and Memory" last year at Sarah Lawrence University.
At just 6 years old, her daughter would often ask, "Are we running late?"
Her college students, too, seem to have internalized the minutes ticking by on their smartphones. They rarely find themselves "lost in the flow of time," a phrase social scientists use to describe the state of being immersed in a project or daydreaming.
"In a way, there's a constant awareness of time that produces a sort of anxiety," said Kilroy-Marac, who is now at the University of Toronto.
She remembers having a much different sense of time when she was growing up. Fond memories of daydreaming while watching telephone poles going by her back-seat window come to mind when she thinks of family vacations.
Now, she said, "There's always something to insert into the time. Being bored is made out to be the worst possible thing you could be."
Each morning, Krupa Ramasesha puts on dark glasses and slips behind a heavy, black curtain in her basement laboratory at UC Berkeley.
Along with Bernhardt — the German physicist obsessed with telling precise time — the UC Berkeley scientist is taking the slicing of time to an extreme, trying to capture the movement of electrons in quintillionths of a second.
Paradoxically, their work is slow and painstaking, requiring the scientists to immerse themselves deeply in the "flow of time" Kilroy-Marac describes.
Text messages and emails to Ramasesha languish for hours while she is in the attosecond lab measuring moments too tiny to comprehend. Her world of lasers, mirrors and vacuum chambers leaves no room for the split-second interruptions and diversions that punctuate time outside the lab.
"We don't even know if the sun is out or not, or if it's raining," she said.
But after hours of uninterrupted — no cellphone, no iPad, no outside communication — work on subatomic time, she re-emerges into the beeping, humming, jumping electronic world, checking her friends' Facebook posts, emailing her parents in Bangalore, half-watching TV.
Bernhardt also lives an electronic social life, setting spur-of-moment meetups with friends and video-chatting with relatives nine time zones away. ("Sleep well," her grandmother concludes when it's noon in California.)
Although she sometimes feels that life is too rushed, her research could lead to computers and phones 20 or even 50 times faster than now, says the attosecond lab's principal investigator, Stephen Leone.
Despite her work pursuing inconceivable increments of time, Bernhardt has trouble imagining how humanity will be able to keep up with the speed of information.
In a decade or two, she predicts, "we will have a retro phase where we think of the good, old values." Of 2013.


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I don't know about you, but I like baking my own birthday cake. I can make exactly what I want exactly how I want it.
This birthday was no exception.
It seems like I crave a different cake every year. Last year, it was all about carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. This year, I went in a completely different direction--oatmeal cake with broiled coconut topping.
It might not sound spectacular, but it is. Oh, how it is. The cake is moist and rife with cinnamon, while the topping consists of crunchy toasted coconut and rich caramel goo.
Can we please talk about the pool of bubbly caramel goodness at the bottom there?
Good googa mooga.
I hope I got that piece.
Yeah, I was satisfied--it was a good birthday. I'm sorry there's no money shot of a piece, but every time I cut a slab for myself, I simply couldn't pause for even a second before digging in.
Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut Topping
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 1/4 cups boiling water
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Coconut Topping:
1/2 cup milk
1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup butter
1 cup flaked coconut
For the cake, preheat oven to 325F and grease a 9x13" cake pan.
Combine oats and boiling water, stirring to blend well. Let stand 20 minutes.
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars. Add the eggs, vanilla, and cooled oatmeal mixture, beating until well blended.
In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Add to the creamed mixture, beating until smooth.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake 30-35 minutes.
While the cake is baking, prepare the topping. Combine the milk, butter, and brown sugar in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Stir in the coconut. When the cake comes out of the oven, poke several holes in it with the tines of a fork and immediately spread the topping over the hot cake. Turn the broiler on and return the cake to oven for 4 to 5 minutes, or until the coconut is nicely toasted. Although it's probably best to let the cake cool before cutting into it, no harm is done in digging some out immediately, topping it with a large portion of butter pecan ice cream, and shoveling it into one's mouth. No harm at all.
April 17, 2009
birthdays and broiled bliss
Yum74 comments:
- Sarah said...
Happy birthday, Grace! I applaud any cake that has bubbly caramel goodness at the bottom!
- April 17, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said...
Hope you had a great birthday Grace! And I'm sure there is absolutely no harm in topping anything with butter pecan ice cream and shovelling it into one's mouth :P
- April 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Amanda said...
I'm drooling, Grace! What are you doing to me??
Happy Birthday, girl. I hope this year brings nothing but happiness--and ooey, gooey caramel! - April 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
That shot of the caramel has me a little light-headed. Delicious! And, Happy Birthday!
- April 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- oneordinaryday said...
Happy Birthday to you!
I'm just the opposite though - I'm almost 41 and I still love for my mom to bake my birthday cake. It was the same one every year and I've missed not having it. Since we don't usually see each other around my birthday, I haven't had it in years. Sob.
http://oneordinaryday.wordpress.com/ - April 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
Happy birthday to you...happy birthday to you...happeeeee birthdaaaaaay dear Graaaaace... Happy birthday to you & many moooooore!
Your birthday cake sounds yummy! Love caramel goo! :)
~ingrid - April 17, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- Pam said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE! I know what cake I will be baking for my birthday this year. It looks FANTASTIC, BEAUTIFUL and TASTY! It deserves all caps!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- kat said...
Such a great looking birthday cake!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Anonymous said...
YUM!!!!Drew would love that cake!!We bakers enjoy our own cakes, yes we do! I had to chuckle at your "gooda mooga", my hubs has always called something that is really good, "Schmooga mooga"!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Marjie said...
Before my girls went to college, they would get up at 5AM to bake me a birthday cake. And they always made something not too sweet, because they know I don't like frosting too much. It's great that you get to choose your own cake, and I'm with you on wanting plenty of caramel goodness. Happy Birthday, Grace!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:26 AM
- Linds said...
Umm can I just say, "yum". I am imagining myself not even cutting a piece but just digging into the cake with a fork- delicious! Hope you had a happy birthday!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
Hope you had a wonderful birthday!
This cake is my favorite cake that my Mother used to make and I plan on making it again in a week or so.
It is the best cake ever and who could resist taking a peice as soon as it's frosted! - April 17, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Jessica said...
Oh my goodness, that cake sounds absolutely delicious! Wow, I definitely want to try this. I hope that you had a very happy birthday!
- April 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Julia from Dozen Flours said...
This combines two of my favorite desserts: oatmeal cookies and German Chocolate Cake coconut filling! And topping it off with butter pecan frosting?!? You're brilliant!!
And I'm with you -- I always bake something for myself for my birthday. People at work think I'm nuts but whatever. I know what I like! - April 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Sara said...
At first when I saw the picture I thought it was going to be german chocolate. But oatmeal cake is even better!
- April 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I've never heard of oatmeal cake! Oatmeal and caramel and cinnamon AND coconut? I'd eat that anytime!
- April 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Gloria Baker said...
Grace This look absolutely yummy!!!xGloria
I love caramel and cinnamon! Gloria - April 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
sweet charlotte!
this is a cavity in the making!
and then you want to top it with butter pecan ice cream? hold me! - April 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
see how mesmerized I was? I didn't even get to say:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear friend! - April 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- La Cuisine d'Helene said...
Happy Birthday! I've never baked my own cake but I'm thinking of starting doing it. This looks so yummy.
- April 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Happy Birthday! what a creative cake! I always have multiple cakes for my birthdays, and at least one of those cakes is baked by moi :)
- April 17, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Jeff said...
How much would it cost to have you bake this for me for my birthday? Looks and sounds amazing!
Happy birthday! - April 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM
- Melanie said...
Happy Birthday! I'm with you on the making your own cake thing. It's just too fun not to, and that oatmeal cake looks divine - well actually, the frosting looks divine and I'm sure the cake was amazing, too.
- April 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Katie said...
Happy Birthday! I have never heard of an Oatmeal cake but I will have to give it a shot.
- April 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- Mrs. L said...
Not sure about the oatmeal cake but the broiled coconut topping sounds wonderful.
- April 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Bunny said...
Oatmeal cake with broiled frosting is one that I make at the restauant and trust me it's a winner with the customers, they love it!! I have know doubt yours is fantastic !!
- April 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- Melanie said...
wow...that looks amazing! Enjoyed my visit to your blog! :)
- April 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- Cheryl said...
Happy birthday! That's one of my all-time favorite cakes. You can't go wrong with it!
- April 17, 2009 at 6:22 PM
- Lisa said...
I'm still working on liking coconut but I wouldn't mind trying a slice just for an excuse to get into the Butter Pecan Ice Cream. That is one of my very favorite flavors!
- April 17, 2009 at 6:22 PM
- unconfidentialcook said...
Who wouldn't make this...if they'd had the recipe. Thanks, and happy birthday.
- April 17, 2009 at 6:51 PM
- Emily said...
Yummy! Happy birthday, Grace!
- April 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Sophie said...
Awesome bday cake for an awesome baker! This is a flavor combo I've gotta try! happy BDAY!! :D
- April 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- KJ said...
Droool, droool! Happy Birth...drooool!
- April 18, 2009 at 3:35 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
MMM oatmeal cake, caramel.. Delicious. I hope you had a most wonderful birthday..
- April 18, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- OhioMom said...
Your cake sounds delish, glad you had a good birthday :)
- April 18, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Hornsfan said...
Happy Birthday Grace! This cake would make anyone happy for their birthday, that delicious coconut and caramel, mmm!
- April 18, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Mary said...
Happy Birthday! And wow that cake looks amazing!
- April 18, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Louise at Livin Local said...
Happy Birthday! And um, is the cake really necessary when all I really want is a spoon to scoop up that gooey roasted goodness on top?!
- April 18, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Leslie said...
Happy happy birthday!!!
Love your cake. Delish - April 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Elyse said...
Happy Birthday!!!! I'd make my own cake too, if it meant making a cake that looks this good. I love all of the wonderful flavors and texture that you've paired together. What a perfect birthday cake!
- April 18, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Jeanne said...
Happy birthday, fellow Aries! That cake sounds heavenly, especially the coconut on top - and what a surprise to hear it contains cinnamon ;-)
- April 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM
- Lori said...
OMG can you hearing me reeling with laughter. I copied down this exact recipe from my Aunt in Pennsylvania on Easter Sunday. How funny is that? OK now I like, gotta make it!
Happy Birthday Grace. - April 18, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- Lo said...
I had to pause when I read this post -- oatmeal cake?
But, then I perused the recipe... and I'll bet this is totally stellar. Oatmeal... brown sugar... what could be better?
Happy Birthday! Hope it was all you hoped! - April 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- kim said...
Happy Birthday to you Grace! I adore an oatmeal cake and this looks wonderfully delicous....You have inspired me to start making my own birthday cake-that way I have a chance of having two cakes to eat.
- April 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- noble pig said...
Happy Birthday! Love the cake, cause I love oatmeal and coconut...wow!
- April 19, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Maria said...
Happy Birthday to YOU! Hope it's a great one. I am loving your cake, nice choice!!
- April 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- L*Joy said...
happy birthday to you!
an oatmeal cake sounds hearty, moist, and lovely. thanks for sharing. - April 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM
- Laura said...
Happy Birthday! And I don't blame you for baking your own cake--it looks spectacular!
- April 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM
- foodhoe said...
Happy Birthday indeed! Hope there was enough goo to make each bite delicious, it sounds really good, especially hot out of the oven and with ice cream.
- April 19, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- MaryBeth said...
Happy Birthday my friend....I so agree with you on making my own cake. Yours look out of this world good!
- April 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Jessica@Foodmayhem said...
Happy Birthday! You sure know how to treat yourself girl.
- April 20, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- Pamela said...
Good God, that cake looks fabulous!! Hope you had a very happy birthday!
- April 20, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- La Bella Cooks said...
Happiest Birthday to you. Your cake is awesome, I definitely would make this each year!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Jaime said...
happy birthday grace!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Niki said...
Happy Birthday!! Funnily enough, I'm the complete opposite: I demand someone make me the exact cake I want on my birthday. But maybe that's because it's my mom and she's a good cook so I trust her! Hope it was as yummy as that caramel goodness looks!!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Tabby said...
Hope you had a wonderful birthday! That cake looks delicious!
- April 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- Albany Jane said...
Happy Birthday!
That cake looks so moist and good. I can't wait to give it a try! - April 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Robin said...
Hi Grace I feel like I have dropped off the face of the earth! Great cake here- haven't made it in a while but I do have some oatmeal around here to fix that!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Linda said...
Happy Birthday!!! I'm with you...I love indulging and baking my own b-day cake... your cake looks and sounds (gooey = yum!) delicious.
- April 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- Shelly said...
Hope your b-day was great, Grace! I'm with you on making your own b-day cake. That way you're sure to get what you like!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM
- Foodie with Little Thyme! said...
Yum and happy birthday!
- April 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- Unknown said...
Happy Birthday Day!
- April 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Sandi @the WhistleStop Cafe said...
Of course you deserve your most favorite cake on your most special day.
- April 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Kathy - Panini Happy said...
Happy, happy birthday, Grace! Hope it was a great one! :-)
- April 21, 2009 at 12:53 AM
- Peter M said...
Happy B-day Grace...with you making your own cake...no one can screw it up!
- April 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Cottonpickinfarm said...
Happy Birthday, Grace!
My grammie (now 93 years old) use to make this "Lazy Dazy" Cake often. It's her daughter's favorite cake, and your picture looks exactly like our family favorite. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!
www.cottonpickinfarm.blogspot.com - April 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- LilSis said...
Happy Belated Birthday, Grace! I'm behind on my reader since I celebrated my birthday ALL weekend long! Hope you had a great one! The cakes looks amazing. I LOVE coconut on top of a cake!
- April 21, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- Nic said...
A bit late, but hope you had a great birthday! The cake is wonderful!
- April 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- LyB said...
Happy belated birthday Grace! I hope you had a fantastic day. Judging by that cake, it looks like you had a delicious time. :)
- April 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- DK said...
My goodness, you are loved! Sorry this is late, but Happy Birthday.
- April 24, 2009 at 7:02 PM
- Karen Brown Letarte said...
Hey, Grace-- 3 things
1. The cake-- it's divine, and I want some. NOW.
2. Happy birthday! Did you know that April and May are the months with the fewest people born in them?
3. Did I mention my birthday is coming up soon? June. Hint hint hint ;)
:) K - April 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- Vera said...
Grace, Happy Birthday once again! What an original cake to celebrate such occasion!
- April 27, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- kimberleyblue said...
I love a good coconut topping like that! Look perfectly cooked too.
Hope you had a great birthday!!! - April 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Chef E said...
Happy B-Lated Birthday, and Wow, that cake is amazing, that is because it does look good, and you made it...I am not the baker my mother was...
- May 3, 2009 at 3:05 AM

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CHICAGO (AP) - A federal agency said Tuesday it is investigating the injury of a fire-blowing stilt-walker who was burned during a dress rehearsal at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
A compliance officer from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has already visited the opera, said spokesman Scott Allen. The agency will interview witnesses, performers and employees to determine exactly how the accident happened and whether any safety regulations were violated.
Wesley Daniel suffered second-degree burns around his mouth during a dress rehearsal Monday for "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg." Journalists invited to watch the rehearsal said the 24-year-old performer had to swig flammable liquid and spit it onto a torch he was holding. They described him staggering off stage and falling to the floor.
Daniel's father told the Lyric's deputy general director, Drew Landmesser, on Tuesday that although his son's mouth was burned, his throat and lungs are fine, the opera said. Daniel was expected to be discharged from Loyola University Medical Center on Thursday.
"The news from Wesley's dad was that everyone seemed to be doing just fine and was relieved," Landmesser said.
The Lyric said the fire-blowing stunt had been approved by the Chicago Fire Department, but it has now been removed from the production. Landmesser said the opera is cooperating with OSHA.
Daniel was wearing a flameproof costume and mask during the dress rehearsal, Lyric spokeswoman Magda Krance said. A staff member used a fire extinguisher to put out flames onstage, according to witnesses and journalists present.
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First name: Rosena,
Age: 40 yo,
City: Macon (GA)
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Age: 40 yo,
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First name: Herminie,
Age: 24 yo,
City: Nampa (ID)
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First name: Mahera,
Age: 41 yo,
City: West Haven (CT)
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City: Brooklyn Park (MN)
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