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MILTON — Homeowner Steve Wendt in Milton says his sun room was completely destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, and he never saw it coming.
A residence for sale down the street, at 239 Micah Terrace, also suffered damage to its roof when a tree top came barreling down.
As of late Tuesday morning, PSNH reported 75 percent of customers in Milton were still without power. Police Chief Mark McGowan said Route 75 and Route 125 were closed for a portion of time Monday night.
DOVER — City Manager Michael Joyal reported Monday night that a large tree fell and damaged a home on French Cross Road and a tree that fell on Oak Street damaged parked vehicles.
A light pole was dislodged along the Chestnut Street bridge causing the street to close by the bridge until the scene is cleared.
No injuries related to the storm have been reported.
A tree fell across David Hammond of Dover's driveway at 42 Watson Road. He says he and his family are stuck in there until PSNH comes to get them out.
He also claims his "generator investment was well worth it!"
As of noon on Tuesday, 12% of Dover PSNH customers were without power, leaving 1,913 homes without electricity due to the rain and wind gusts hitting the community Monday night.
Public schools in Dover remain closed today, but all city offices and facilities resumed regular schedules, after closing early on Monday.
RYE — Reader Beth Bronson submitted photos of her trip to the ocean on Monday as Hurricane Sandy made its way toward the northeast.
Beaches and state parks along Route 1 from Rye to the Massachusetts border closed midday Monday for the approaching storm.
Areas along Ocean Boulevard and in North Hampton have historically become impassable, according to North Hampton police, making travel dangerous as the storm surge continues to rise. People were discouraged from driving, standing or walking along the coastline there, activities that were still in full swing by early Monday evening.
ELIOT, Maine — A trampoline flew across a resident's lawn as gusts of winds built up Monday.


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Lisa Zimmermann
The most progressive big air skier in the women's scene, Lisa Zimmerman stunned the world when she was first female to land a double cork on skis at just 16-years-old.
In 2015 she was back at it again, being the first woman to land a switch double cork as well as a switch 1080 in the opposite direction. To date, no other women has landed any of these three tricks. With three World Cups and a World Championship titles on her belt and an eye on the Olympics, Lisa Zimmerman is ready to continue pushing the limits.
Birthday 02.03.1996
Home resort Absolut Park, Flachauwinkl
Discipline Slopestyle, Big Air

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The Pinwheel galaxy, M101, spins across the sky in this Hubble Space Telescope image. It is about 22 million light-years away, in Ursa Major, the great bear. Its striking spiral arms are outlined by hot young stars, some of which will explode as supernovae at the end of their short lives. [ESA/NASA]
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Not all galaxies are created equal. Many are featureless blobs of light. But others feature spectacular spiral arms that make them look like glowing celestial hurricanes. We live in one such galaxy, the Milky Way. And the constellation Ursa Major features another, known as M101.
Galactically speaking, M101 is a close neighbor — it's about 22 million light-years away. It's visible through a telescope near the handle of the Big Dipper, which is high in the north this evening. We see the galaxy face-on, so it's one of the most beautiful spirals in all the night sky.
But the spiral arms of M101 are more than just beautiful. They also serve an important function: They squeeze interstellar clouds of gas and dust, causing them to collapse and give birth to new stars. Some of these newborn stars are quite bright, so they outline the galaxy's spiral pattern.
These bright stars don't live long, though — they quickly explode as supernovae. But M101's most recent supernova, in 2011, came from a faint star that was no bigger than Earth. The star exploded when a "normal" companion star dumped gas onto its surface. Despite its diminutive nature, though, it was the brightest supernova ever seen in M101.
Stars will continue to explode in this spectacular galaxy. In fact, thousands of M101's stars must have exploded over the past 22 million years — and their light is now racing toward Earth, ready to dazzle future skywatchers.
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Wed, 12 October 2011
Lesley says everyone can get degrees in three years, credit unions are braw and communities may be the way forward. Or does she? You will need to listen to the podcast to find out.
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WOW! Why is that? It is really open source with new FreeBSD license. This can help other people write their code! I wrote it just for fun and learning some winapi of video capture. You see there are people who need this.
The "people who NEED this" are the fucking scumbag script kiddies and organized crime douchenozzles that make software like this required. Don't be fucking daft.


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Join us Friday, June 16 at 10 a.m. for our Friday Financial Forum. We will meet at the Friday Forum Room at Arvest's East Side Branch, located at 4225 S.E. Adams Rd. in Bartlesville, Okla.*
This week's featured speaker will be Clay Nickel, CPM® vice president, portfolio manager and director of investment strategy and an integral member of AWM's portfolio management team and overall money management effort.
As director of investment strategy, Clay is responsible for the development and oversight of the Investment Management Group (IMG) product line and serves as the main spokesman for IMG and the AWM portfolio management team with customers, prospects and advisors. Prior to joining Arvest in 2010, Clay was a portfolio manager for a $4 billion community bank in the Midwest and managed a $300 million investment portfolio for high net worth individuals and institutions.
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A few months ago, Sadie became a Hallmark cliche. She likes to write cards for people and she tries her very hardest to come up with things that sound very poetic. Even though she's only seven, she's come up with some humdinger wisdom. Like the time she made a birthday card for my grandmother's 74th birthday. The front of the card said in giant letters, "HOPE COMES, HOPE GOES. HAPPY BIRTHDAY." Which to me was just a fancy way of saying, "Dude. Your old and it's hopeless. But I hope it's a good day anyway." It was so morbid that I had to issue a warning to my Granny before she even read it. But Sadie was convinced that it was the most beautiful sounding saying that she'd ever created so we let it slide.
Fast forward to this week. She's putting her poetry skills to the test again. She and Noah have decorated their ceiling with notebook scribblings.
Seriously- how does she come up with this stuff? And what does it really even mean?
Love is the biggest word? I'll have some of what she's having.
She and John Lennon could have written some great songs together.
And my very favorite- just to prove that she is still a little girl...
Kamron and Megan sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G... 'cause you know, hubs and I climb trees and make out in front of our kids ALL THE TIME!
Perhaps she'll be a Nobel Peace prize winner. Or a fantastic teacher. Or someone who never wears deodorant and sits around a campfire singing Kumbaya all day. Who knows? But for now, she's being the best toothless wonder and lovey eyed dreamer she can be.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The UMBC volleyball team has been selected to finish third in the America East, receiving one first place vote, the conference office announced in its preseason poll on Thursday afternoon. Albany, last year's regular season champion and winners of eight of the last nine tournaments, was tabbed as the favorite for the 2013 season.
"I think this is a good reflection of where we are as a team right now," said head coach Ian Blanchard, who will be entering his ninth season in charge of the Retrievers this fall. "We have the attention of the coaches around the league and by making it to the postseason the past few years we've proven that we're a contender."
Albany received three first place votes and a total of 37 points, just edging out last year's champion Binghamton (36 pts.), who received two first-place votes, and UMBC (35 pts.). New Hampshire, who placed fourth last season, garnered the final first-place vote and took fourth in the preseason poll with 29 points. Stony Brook (25 pts.), Hartford (17 pts.), Providence (11 pts.), and league newcomer UMass Lowell (6 pts.) rounded out the poll.
"The poll shows that there is plenty of parity in the conference," Blanchard said. "But in the end none of this matters until we start playing."
Looking to earn a spot in its sixth straight conference tournament, UMBC returns three all-conference selections from a year ago, including America East Co-Setter of the Year Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Mary's Academy). As a junior, McIntyre led the league in assists, averaging 9.78 helpers per set while utilizing All-Conference and All-Rookie honorees Sherelle Walker (New Freedom, Pa./Susquehannock) and Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech). As freshmen, the pair ranked third and fourth, respectively, in the league in hitting percentage.
Also returning for the Retrievers are seniors Ali Goc (Oshawa, Ontario/R.S. McLaughlin) and Hallie Carter (Huntington Beach, Calif./Edison). The two veterans have combined to play in every match for the Retrievers since coming to Baltimore as freshmen in 2010, missing only one set during that span.
UMBC posted its best-ever season in the America East last year going 8-4 in league play, tying for second-place in the regular season standings with Binghamton. In the conference tournament, the Bearcats outlasted the Black and Gold in five sets before going on to win the league championship.
The Retrievers open their 2013 schedule on Friday, Aug. 30 at the GW/Nike Invitational where they take on Ole Miss. Opening weekend concludes the following day with matches against tournament-host George Washington and in-state rival Maryland.


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A critical element in India's 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) is the generation of productive and gainful employment on a sufficient scale. The aim of such planning is to systematically absorb the growing working population in the unorganized sector of an expanding economy. This sector contributes about sixty percent of the country's GDP. Infact, it employs workers in micro enterprises, unpaid family work, casual labor and home based work on a mammoth scale. In addition, it also absorbs migrant laborers, farmers, artisans and more importantly out of school rural youth.
In the last decade, the Indian economy has witnessed a structural transformation from agricultural activities to manufacturing and services oriented activities. A distinct feature of this transition has been a substantial decline in the absolute number of people employed in agriculture. However, according to the Planning Commission, a crucial factor in the migration of the labor force from rural to urban areas is its temporary nature and occurrence only in lean agricultural seasons. Besides, this large chunk of labor force is not available to participate in the manufacturing or the services oriented activities due to severe lack of appropriate skill sets. According to the Commission, the latter reflects rural distress, driven by the fact, that more than eighty percent of India's farming households are small and marginal, tilling only less than 2.5 acres of land.
In the above backdrop, more than 700 million people are estimated to be of working age (24-59 years) in India by 2020. This indeed is a 'demographic dividend' that will also lead to a low dependency ratio compared to the rest of the world. Of these, approximately 500 million workers (including those who temporarily migrate from rural to urban areas in lean agricultural seasons) will require some kind of vocational/skill training. Besides, about 50 to 70 million jobs to be created over the next five years, (with more than 75% falling largely in the unorganized and informal stream) will too require capacity building in basic expertise.
High growth areas such as manufacturing, automotive, retail, trade, transport, construction, hospitality and healthcare have the ability to provide the required expanded employment. Public private partnerships in the country are already in the process of strengthening of rural infrastructure such as Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), polytechnics, community polytechnics and vocational education in secondary schools. Workers such as technicians, welders, fitters, paramedics, tourist guides etc are to be skilled with a twofold objective- first, to close the skill gap of an already qualified workforce and second, to provide formal vocational training to those who have acquired skills informally. At the same time, maintaining the efficiency and competitiveness of those of the working age group living in rural areas and depending upon agriculture is equally critical. Hence, the need also to create employable skilled opportunities in labor intensive industries and sectors such as agricultural food processing as well as allied value chains in livestock, floriculture, horticulture etc.
No one doubts the veracity of the overarching national framework to give a jump start to the above agenda through the government driven National Skill Development Mission and the National Skill Qualification Framework. An excellent initiative is the setting up of Community Colleges based on the North American Modular Model that will impart vocational skills aligned to occupational standards determined by employer led skill councils. However, what needs to be aggressively pushed, converged and monitored on priority is sustainable livelihood creation at the grassroots in rural areas. The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) funded by the World Bank aims at the laudable review of the entire portfolio of livelihoods of each poor household by providing handholding support through livelihood collectives. Besides, it promises supplementary creation of opportunities for both wage employment and skill development for the rural youth.
Such a review under NRLM will, first and foremost, requires suitable decentralized convergence of skill development programs run by multiple central ministries including the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), especially the last mile tier of these local bodies in villages- Gram Panchayats, should be adequately empowered to provide information to the rural youth through skill inventories and skill maps on a real time basis. Herein, the Gram Panchayats' will need to have effective synergy with grassroots civil society organizations and online local employment exchanges to provide access to such information. This synergy (dovetailing with school curricula is also possible) will enable the youth in the middle and secondary school stages, to access information on labor market and skill development possibilities. Such access, infact, is crucial to the sustenance of Resource Community Development Blocks that are envisaged to act as live workable model at the grassroots under NRLM.
The Union Ministry of Panchayats Raj provides funds to local bodies in rural areas through national programs such as The Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Yojana (RGSY) and the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF). These should be targeted to strengthen and plug crucial gaps in the rural local bodies' institutional infrastructure such as the critical requirement of broadband connectivity for providing real time information on skills. Such connectivity needs to be taken up on priority in populous states like Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. These states comprise 80% of India's population including the youth from low income families in whose case low quality of educational standards coupled with a high dropout rate beyond primary school stage is a major challenge. Besides, such youth have minuscule information about or access to various options in relevant skill training and are often also unable to pay the admission fees for such training.
Infact, need based experiential skill learning supported by public sector banks/organizations in rural areas is the key to strengthen the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) being set up in all districts under NRLM to assist such youth. In this regard, the Government of Gujarat has innovated to introduce the Skill Voucher Scheme wherein a private sector agency or a government department can purchase a pre-paid voucher from the Gujarat Skill Development Mission to train the youth, including those from rural areas, in required skills. In addition, the scheme incentivizes and mobilizes the rural youth to possess the freedom to select the skill course or institute they opt to get trained in. The institutional approach herein is more market and demand driven with less stress on supply and allocation driven mechanisms. Infact, it would be a challenge to incorporate such an approach under NRLM through the institutional matrix of the National, State, District and Sub District (Block) Mission Management Units in poorer provinces of the country.
Another key challenge in the support structure of the Sub District Level Mission Management Unit under NRLM (with PRIs especially Gram Panchayats and civil society organizations as critical stakeholders) is the effective implementation of Knowledge Management, Strategic and Operational Communication Strategies envisaged. The latter are absolutely essential for both a qualitative/quantitative review and assessment of measuring the outcomes in providing access to skill development opportunities. Reaching out and involving vulnerable sections amongst rural youth in poorer states such as the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, women, disabled, migrant labor, isolated and communities living in disturbed areas is a must.
Use of Dedicated Digital Grids for organizing management information systems in the above regard may take some time to start off due to broadband connectivity constraints in rural areas. But strengthening the project facilitation teams at the Sub Block Level through use of interpersonal communication and Information, Education Communication (IEC) activities especially locally viable social media such as Community Radio can be extremely useful. The liberalized 2006 Community Radio National Guidelines of the Government of India provides licensing for civil society and voluntary organizations to assist marginalized communities especially youth in rural areas to manage, own and operate radio stations. The aim is to focus on locally relevant socio-economic development, events, businesses, services and skill employment opportunities. Besides, fifty percent of the content is to be generated in local dialects with the participation of the local community for which the station has been set up. Thus, with a transmitter having an effective radiated power of 100 Watts, the community radio station is expected to cover a range of 10 kilometers (6 miles). In addition, non-profit organizations are eligible to seek funding from multilateral aid agencies.
It would be extremely beneficial to dovetail, in NRLM's communication strategy plans, setting up of community radio stations under the above mentioned innovative 2006 National Guidelines. These community run radio stations could develop a sustained linkage with the already operational livelihood collectives i.e. self help groups (SHGs) in addition to project facilitation teams active at the grassroots. Community driven programming in these radio stations could offer 'jobs' solutions. This could include identifying the unemployed in resource blocks, providing specific information about skilling and re-skilling opportunities, post placement support, counseling/ mentorship and leveraging an alumni network.
Such an information rich rural space supplemented by other social media would truly create a sensitive network support for skill development of rural youth and check their migration to urban areas under conditions of distress.
(Views expressed are personal)
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The author has failed to
The author has failed to address the menace of corruption that is plaguing India. If WB funds $100, most likely $20 would be used for actual implementation. The rest will go into political bosses. Just read somewhere at the government wants to achieve 30% enrollment in school from current 18%. We are talking about school not colleges... so if only 18% are currently going to school and remaining 82% goes to unskilled labor workforce. vocational training, ITIs and other such institutes will not be able to bring in more skilled people. So the focus should be on the elementary schooling which will aid in increasing the workforce which can be training in vocational groups, ITIs and other institutions... for this to be achieved we need to do two things.. free education,food, and health care to all children under the age of 13 (till 8th standard).. very very stringent child labor law and we should hold the administration responsible.. currently there is no responsibility or accountability so none of them care.. this needs to change....
Agree witH you if government
Agree witH you if government focus on child education & strong implementation of labour law
Definitely change india s youth skill
I agree with Sudarshan! On a
I agree with Sudarshan! On a not so unrelated note, doesn't it make sense to give the children in areas with arable lands the basic schooling (till 12th) and then special skill development related to agriculture instead of industrial training and then come up with schemes to give them a good lifestyle? If all these people move towards industrial jobs then who will grow the food? What happens to food security? Food supply vs demand, inflation etc etc?
Excellent piece of writing on
Excellent piece of writing on the topic. I disagree with the above two comments in the sense that they are mixing up too many issues with the issue of livelihoods. I invite author to join our newly formed community on livelihoods in India. Please write to me if interested. Soon our web portal in livelihoods called Insight Into Indian States (I3S)will come in to being.
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I appreciate the effort put
I appreciate the effort put by the author in giving his idea on how to face the challenge of demographic catastrophe. I see more training centers are coming up in soft skill area and not much investment has gone in for Hardware Training. According to me soft skill training is required for parents of the children so that children can learn from their parents behaviour on issues like good house keeping, time management, respecting peers and elders, honesty, taking all the family members in to confidence in decission making etc. I do not believe, 10 days to 1 month soft skill training in a training institute will change the behavious of children. This has to come from home as a culture.
I think one of the core issue
I think one of the core issue, in my view, should be focussed on creating opportunities in rural areas instead of creating skills for lob or deployment in urban areas. If we can create better opportunities in these rural areas through cottage industries - food processing, art & craft, depending on literacy in a state/district, non-voice BPO etc... We need to stop the migration from rural to urban.
I am very keen on such initiatives. Any guidance on how I can participate?
there is far tooo much that
there is far tooo much that needs to be done on the skill develop,ent front as graduates coming out of majority of indian institutions are having degrees without knowledge and this is a rather alrming trend that needs to be arrested immidtaely with concrete steps for which teacher traning is manatory and skill outsets from each course delivered have to be identified and assessment parameetrs need to be commisssioned.
Thanks for taking the time to
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and adore finding out additional on this topic. Thaks for sharing.


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Greetings puckheads. I'll be getting back into the swing of things pretty quick, so this blog will be pumping it out once I do.
Here's a quick reminder that Avs rookie camp starts Sun., Sept. 14, at 9:30 a.m. at Family Sports way out in Kansas (Englewood actually). But from where I live, in Thornton, it seems like a million miles.
Every eligible Avs rookie prospect should be there, including T.J. Hensick and David Jones.
It's free, so if you want to go, don't worry about bringing any cash. But there are lots of cool video games to play outside the rink area if you get bored. I've been known to play the pinball machine in the corner from time to time.
Adrian Dater's best-selling book "Blood Feud" is available here.
His new book "Then Morton Said to Elway: The Best Denver Broncos Stories Ever Told" is available in local stores or here.


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Famed opera star treasures the variety of roles on the low end of the vocal spectrum
Pizzetti's "Murder in the Cathedral"
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Veteran bass Ferruccio Furlanetto is empathetic to the plight of young singers.
At age 63, he has lost none of the vocal and dramatic prowess that still allows him to command the stage in the world's great opera houses. But he sees many of his younger colleagues burning out.
"We see a lot of young singers developing sickness in (vocal) cords because they are not guided properly toward the right repertoire that fits their nature," said the celebrated Italian bass in an interview before his first rehearsal for the San Diego Opera's "Murder in the Cathedral," which opens Saturday at the Civic Theatre. ■ "We are like athletes," he said. "If you are born and meant by nature to run 100 meters, you cannot run 10,000. If you do it, you are dead in one season.
"There are many beautiful voices coming up, and many of them, too many of them, get lost. They get lost on the way, get sick, they disappear, they finish in choruses. It's a sin."
Furlanetto has never gone against his true nature. It's obvious from his speaking voice that he's a bass. And although he's been able to effortlessly sing baritone roles, there's no question about his vocal identity.
"I wouldn't like to be anything else," said Furlanetto. "I wouldn't like to be a tenor. I love to be a singer, of course, but also to be an interpreter. Apart from (Verdi's) 'Otello,' they don't have much. They have only the usual silly lovers and beautiful singing.
"OK, wonderful. OK. But we have that, too. The (bass) aria in 'Don Carlo' is probably the most beautiful aria in the entire drama, so we are not badly treated by the composer. Plus, we have these amazing standard roles where you have to be an actor, a singing actor. This doesn't happen in many other vocalities. Yes, baritones maybe. But I love to be a bass."
The bass is at the bottom of the vocal spectrum, but composers have given it a surprising range of roles, from monarchs to buffoons (with a fair number of fathers, grandfathers and villains mixed in).
Furlanetto is now focusing on a handful of these roles: Philip II in "Don Carlo" (which he just finished singing at the Met and will sing next month at Covent Garden), and the title roles in "
He also keeps "Simon Boccanegra" in his repertoire and is hoping the San Diego Opera's production of the "Murder in the Cathedral" will lead to a revival of the seldom-seen opera and allow him to further explore the role of Thomas Becket. Becket's 1170 assassination inspired a 1935 drama by T.S. Eliot, which then inspired the 1958 opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Both the
"I like beautiful roles where there is a wide space for acting," Furlanetto said. "Thomas Becket is much less known (as an operatic role) than King Philip, or Boris or Don Quichotte, but it doesn't offer anything less as a character. So it is really a wonderful privilege to do it."
Furlanetto has sung virtually all of those roles with the San Diego Opera, where he performed for the first time in 1985, when the company's new general director, Ian Campbell, engaged him for Verdi's "Oberto." Campbell had first encountered him at the Metropolitan Opera, where Campbell was briefly assistant artistic administrator before settling in San Diego.
"He had the physical stature and he was impressive on stage," said Campbell, who is directing "Murder in the Cathedral." "But there was a warmth in the voice that he carried right through to the top. And I found it had a personality. You cared about the sound. There was this extra dimension. It wasn't just a good voice singing nicely; there was something more that came through."
Furlanetto credits that "extra dimension" to the time he spent with the legendary stage directors of a previous generation, among them Franco Zeffirelli ("in his good years"), Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, as well as the work he did with conductors including Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein and, in particular, Herbert von Karajan.
The legendary von Karajan, music director of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival, engaged Furlanetto as an understudy in a televised production of "Don Carlo." Then he put him onstage at the last minute when the scheduled bass was unable to sing.
"Fifteen minutes before the opera was going to start, I went to his studio," Furlanetto said. "He told me, 'In the aria, you sing it the way you have always sung it and I will accompany you.' And he did, because I didn't have one single minute of rehearsal onstage."
It marked a turning point for Furlanetto. Before that, he had always been slightly nervous onstage; but he had absolutely no nerves on that occasion. And the performance propelled him to another level of international attention.
"When the curtain closed at the end of the final performance, I was a bit dizzy in that moment," he said. "My concentration collapsed and I realized what had happened to me. In 12 hours my life had changed just like that.
"I feel sorry for my young colleagues that today there doesn't exist anybody like Karajan. He was the super god, someone from another planet in comparison with all the others. He could change your life."
Trying times
Now Furlanetto looks around him and he sees only mortals, and incompetent mortals at that, particularly among stage directors.
"We're living in the time of superficiality, approximation and incompetence," Furlanetto said. "We are constantly getting directors who are from the movies, or from Broadway, or from anyplace that is not opera. And they consider opera directors, the real ones, out of fashion.
"It is an artistic depression that is awful, and it starts most of the time from the top — from the artistic directors of the theater who are not today coming from the roots; they are going for people who are able to find money rather than cast an opera."
Although he feels for a younger generation used and abused by such directors, Furlanetto's stature and experience allow him the luxury of singing only with people he respects and who share his view of the artist as "a filter between the composer and the audience."
And when that filter works, there are moments like he experienced in "Don Quichotte" in 2009.
"After the death, at the end of the opera, I went out immediately (in front of the curtain) alone," he said. "And I saw 3,000 people jumping to their feet.
"That's the most (satisfying) experience you can have as a singer.
"Because there is no money, no glory, no nothing but that — to have the knowledge that you have delivered the message."
Voice lessons: Singers and the art of singing
If you really want to hear "The Voice," don't bother watching TV. It's opera season, and the San Diego Opera is bringing in more than a dozen singers whose pipes will blow away anything you've seen on the tube.
This year, we're going to focus on four of them, representing each voice type (soprano, mezzo-soprano/alto, tenor and bass), and talk to them about their craft.
Jan. 20: Tenor Stephen Costello (Tonio in "Daughter of the Regiment"):
Feb. 10: Mezzo-soprano Nadia Krasteva (Delilah in "Samson and Delilah"):
Today: Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto (Thomas Becket in "Murder in the Cathedral"):
April 14: Soprano Latonia Moore (Aida in "Aida")


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At 14 I stood chest-deep in a cold swimming pool with a scuba tank strapped to my back. The mask covering most of my face, I plunged my head below the surface in an effort to learn what it feels like to be able to breathe under water, step one in training for scuba diving certification. I looked around the pool, seeing only the legs of the instructor before I lunged upward for air. As I wiped the chlorine from my eyes the instructor asked, "what happened? Why didn't you just breathe?"
I had grown up around water, learning to ski not long after learning to walk, but breathing under water just felt strange, unnatural.
Yesterday, some 15 years later, I had a similar experience. A popular social networking site was abuzz about the "deep web," this seemingly mythical internet underworld supposedly filled with drug lords, pedophiles, hackers and hit men. I spent much of my evening reading blogs and forums that explained that the websites that are searchable by search engines such as Google make up just 1% of the content on the Internet. But just out of plain sight, accessible only through certain browsers, is an internet wasteland, an underbelly to the web where old websites go to die. Because this part of the web is difficult to access, it has become a hub of vile and illegal activity, the Internet's subconscious.
Part of me wanted to believe that it was hyperbole. Surely there weren't actually child porn ads and forums for posting murder requests out in the open. But I, like most of society, was so very naive.
I work in technology, so I had to find out if this place was real. After all, it was a digital adventure, and hopefully it would show that the web is a wonderful place. I downloaded software that makes my on-line activity nearly impossible to track, a necessary step for accessing these sites. I configured my computer according to the strict instructions I had found in these forums so that I would be protected against hacking attempts. And with all of this software strapped to my proverbial back, I plunged into the deep web.
There is no way to find sites in the deep web, so everything is shared organically through forums. I accessed one such directory that was mentioned in one of the articles I had read. As I clicked just a couple links to see what this world contained, I had the same feeling I experienced underwater as a 14-year-old. I had been there too long, I couldn't breathe, and it just didn't feel right. With enough knowledge to prove that this world does indeed exist I closed my computer so I could compose myself.
My hands shook as I realized just how disgusting this world really is. Like most middle class Americans my world is sheltered, walled off by a genuine desire to believe that there is order, that people, for the most part, are good. But what I learned is that, given the opportunity to remain completely anonymous, people will participate in horrific things.
I believe in liberty as much as the next guy, but something has to be done. What are the governments of the world doing to regulate this massive underground market? Children are being abused because the images of that abuse are currency in the deep web, being traded for cash, drugs and services while the children suffer alone. Lives are being ruined, and no one is talking about it.
I urge you to stay away. I have purposely avoided using the names of programs or websites so as not to tempt you to go looking. Not only is most of what you will find illegal, it will leave you shaken.
Write to your Congress-person or a human rights organization and ask what is being done to combat this epidemic. As long as society pretends it doesn't exist, the more lives will be ruined.
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The battery that caught fire in a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 in Boston earlier this month was not overcharged, but government investigators said there could still be problems with wiring or other charging components.
An examination of the flight data recorder indicated that the battery did not exceed its designed voltage, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a statement.
NTSB investigators are continuing to look at the battery system.
They plan to meet today with officials from Securaplane Technologies Inc, manufacturer of the charger for the 787s' lithium-ion batteries, at the company's headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said.
"Potentially there could be some other charging issue," Nantel said.
Even though it appears the voltage limit was not exceeded in the case of the Japan Airlines 787 battery that caught fire on Jan. 7 in Boston, it is possible that the battery failures in that plane and in an All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane that made an emergency landing in Japan last week may be due to a charging problem, according to John Goglia, a former NTSB board member and aviation safety expert.
Too much current flowing too fast into a battery can overwhelm the battery, causing it to short-circuit and overheat even if the battery's voltage remains within its design limit, he said.
"The battery is like a big sponge," Goglia said. "You can feed it with an eye dropper or you can feed it with a garden hose. If allowed, it will soak up everything it can from the garden hose until it destroys itself."
There are so many redundancies and safeguards in aviation that when an accident or mishap occurs, it almost always is the result of a chain of events rather than a single failure, he said.
Shares in GS Yuasa, which manufactures the batteries for the Dreamliner's advanced electronics systems, were up 0.95 percent to ¥318 in Tokyo trade yesterday.
The Japanese firm is just one of many contractors in a complex global chain that led to three years of delays before Boeing delivered its first 787 to ANA in 2011.
"Engineers from the FAA [US Federal Aviation Administration], Boeing and our aviation bureau started a probe this morning that is mainly focusing on GS Yuasa's production line," Japanese Transport Ministry safety official Yasuo Ishii said.
"They are checking on whether there have been any issues in the production process. We still don't know what caused the battery problem and so we are looking into all possibilities," Ishii said.
Ishii said the inspection does not mean authorities think GS Yuasa, headquartered in the western city of Kyoto, Japan, was to blame for the problems.
The Japan Airlines plane caught fire on Jan. 7 while it was sitting on the tarmac at Boston's Logan Airport.
In a separate incident on Wednesday, an ANA flight made an emergency landing in western Japan after a cockpit message warned of battery problems and a burning smell was detected in the cockpit and cabin.
An investigator in Japan said on Friday that the burned insides of the plane's lithium ion battery show the battery received voltage in excess of its design limits.
Since then, all 50 787s that Boeing Co has delivered to airlines' fleets have been grounded, and the manufacturer has halted deliveries of new planes until it can address the electrical problems.


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Walmart's entry into the U.S. retail banking market is "inevitable," says Robert Manning, a finance professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and CEO of the Responsible Debt Relief Institute.
Manning teamed up with the Filene Research Institute to produce a report on the implications for credit unions of Walmart obtaining a bank charter.
"Walmart will enter with high levels of capitalization, a clean slate of performing loans, and a carefully coordinated and well-funded marketing campaign that will appeal to the populist, anti-Wall Street sentiments of working and middle-income households," Manning says. "If you're a financial institution and you're not preparing for Walmart now, it could be too late."
"The long-term risk is that maybe—not tomorrow, but eventually—Walmart is going to win this battle and get the bank charter it has wanted for a long time," says Filene Research Director Ben Rogers.
And just like so many small retailers who disappeared once the super stores opened in towns across the country, Walmart "could then begin the process of replacing every branch in its stores with its own bank branches," Rogers says.
Walmart's CU branches
Not everyone, however, sees Walmart as a threat. Some credit unions see Walmart as an opportunity and enjoy a healthy business relationship with the retailer. These credit unions have branches in Walmart stores and—for the most part—have been able to compete effectively in a retail setting.
"Walmart is an environment where people are used to seeing things on sale, getting deals, and moving quickly," Rogers says. "If your credit union can do all those things, you're set up well. But most credit unions are used to working in a branch environment where things don't move as quickly and are not quite as convenient."
For credit unions willing to adopt a retail mindset, Rogers says Walmart stores offer high foot traffic that can boost brand recognition, acquire new members and expand the share of wallet with existing members. Emphasizing products that Walmart currently doesn't offer, such as savings accounts and consumer loans, is likely to pay off.
Walmart is a big organization and if it sees a market opportunity it will exploit it," Rogers says. "But in the near term, there are a lot of advantages to be had by partnering with Walmart."
Credit unions with Walmart branches praise their relatively low start-up costs, the opportunity to reach thousands of current and prospective members every day, and the cooperation of Walmart store managers and employees. But not all Walmart branches are equally successful, they admit, with return on investment varying by location and local demographics.
To succeed in a Walmart or retail environment, credit unions suggest you adapt operations by:
♦ Cross-training staff to cover the varied demands of walk-ins;
♦ Extending hours on weekdays and weekends based on branch usage patterns;
♦ Making greater use of kiosks, with lower reliance on teller counters and offices;
♦ Adopting a retail mindset, including activities and giveaways that offer opportunities for friendly interaction with shoppers in store aisles;
♦ Building knowledge of store layout and services to offer information to shoppers in the branch or in the aisles;
♦ Forging strong relationships with store managers and staff, including MoneyCenter employees, with presentations at employee meetings and special membership offers; and
♦ Offering short-term promotions that reflect stores' seasonal sales themes and emphasize strong visuals to appeal to shoppers passing by.


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The City Council held off making a decision about beer sales at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena Tuesday.
The council pushed back a decision on alcohol sales at the arena to allow the city to do further investigation on the matter, Mayor Tom Davis said.
In January, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control determined Tahoe Sports Entertainment is not entitled to a permit to sell alcohol because of its operating agreement with the city.
City Attorney Patrick Enright has recommended the council remove the revenue from alcohol sales from the city's contract with TSE to allow the ice arena to continue to sell beer.
The ice arena is allowed to sell alcohol under an interim permit for several more months, Davis said. The city will not collect receipts from the sale of beer at the ice arena, a small percentage of total revenue, under the temporary license, Davis said.


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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons golf team placed second Tuesday in the Time Warner Racer Classic after weather conditions forced the cancellation of the second day of play.
Only the first round scores for the seven-team tournament were counted after rain and cold forced stoppage of the second round. Two LU players finished in the top 10. MacKenzy Carter tied for fifth with a 79. Savanna Schubert scored 80 to tie for seventh.
Murray State fired a team score of 312. The Lady Bisons shot a 321 at Miller Memorial Golf Course in Murray, Ky.
"The conditions were very tough," Lady Bisons coach Buddy Harston said. "I am extremely proud of the way they hung in there and kept playing."
Rounding out the team scoring for the Purple and Gold were Miriam Parker and Sami Khan who each shot 81 to tie for 11th and Danielle Grace with an 85.
Harston cited the extra work by his players on their short games for much of the success.
"It is beginning to pay dividends," Harston said. "Their basic fundamentals are more polished.
"MacKenzy Cater and Miriam Parker have improved their chipping the most. Chipping is the defense of golf."
Sabrina Ferreri with an 89 and Sarah McFarlin with a 91 played as individuals and were not part of the team score.
Harston is especially encouraged by the mental preparation of his players.
"We have a saying that `Advanced technique is fundamentals mastered'," Harston said. "They are doing a better job of paying attention to the smallestdetails like ball position, hand position, alignment and weight distribution.
"And by setting up the same way each time it is giving them confidence to strike the ball solidly."


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Although it's probably completely against Fifa regulations, Japanese luxury toilet maker Toto has turned one of its commodes into what has to be the greatest soccer goalie ever. It's a step-up from the company's Poop-Powered Toiletcycle. But as impressive as it is, it's still pretty useless as far as toilet innovation goes.
The toilet itself stays locked in the middle of the net, but deflects shots using a spring-loaded cannon inside that fires a soccer ball of its own. A pair of high speed cameras mounted to each goal post take care of tracking and targeting, and the system can calculate the trajectory and final position of a ball in just 0.1 seconds. It's even capable of deflecting shots coming in at speeds of almost 100 mph, which is remarkably impressive given it was originally designed to just dispose of human waste.
[TOTOxtoto via Spoon & Tamago via The Verge]


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We'll be seeing a lot more of this in the coming months. The Kansas City Star takes a look at Aaron Rodgers and his role on the Packers.
was impressive in relief of an injured Favre last Thanksgiving in Dallas when he came off the bench and completed 18 of 26 passes for 201 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions in a loss to the Cowboys.
And he has impressed the coaching staff with his presence in the locker room during the start of the offseason program.
"I'm excited for Aaron Rodgers, but I'm excited every year," said McCarthy, who guided the Packers to a 13-3 record and a berth in the NFC championship game last season after two nonplayoff seasons. "This business is incredible because every year is so distinctly different. Every team is a different team. Every season takes on different obstacles.
"We feel like we've been planning for this. Personally I thought we were a year away from life after Brett, but we're prepared for this."
Rodgers has a three-year jump on his competition, and the organization intends to keep winning with him. Veteran Craig Nall, a backup for most of the last five years, will not be brought back.
"You hope that when the names change the foundation is set and guys come in and play the way they're supposed to play," Philbin said. "Our expectations are high. You hope the Green Bay Packers' offense has somewhat of an identity and guys understand what the expectations are."
McCarthy does not envision changing the offense to suit Rodgers.
"Our offense will be very similar to last year's approach," McCarthy said. "Aaron has a top-level arm in the NFL. There's not a throw that I would not be comfortable with him making. None of that will change.
"It's important for Aaron to take over the huddle, command it. It's different for every quarterback, so that's something that our players are aware of and already used to. He'll be able to be in charge from day one. … To replace a legend like Brett Favre, I definitely feel he's the right guy for this task."


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Sophia Grace + Rosie Perform 'Starships' + 'Domino' on 'Ellen'
Those precocious British cuties are at it again. Sophia Grace and her sidekick Rosie appeared on 'Ellen' to perform their sassy rendition of Nicki Minaj's 'Starships.' They're fellow pink lovers, so the little lasses are Minaj-approved.
Dressed in their uniform of princess dresses and tiaras, Sophia Grace and Rose danced, sang and shuffled and by the end, they ladies were outta breath. Singing and dancing is hard work on a small body. It's a good thing they didn't perform any of the other more explicit songs on 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' or they might get their mouths washed out with soap.
But with Sophia Grace and Rosie, it's always a Pink Friday.
Ellen asked the girls what they love most about America, to which Sophia dramatically said she loves everything and spun in circles to demonstrate said love. She tends to like everything in superlative fashion, like sweets, which she talks about it the sit down portion. SG had her makeup and nails done for her ninth birthday party, too! Adorbs.
As for Rosie, she loves "singing and dancing." We love how she is the quiet strength of the duo.
The girls also performed 'Domino' by their fellow Brit Jessie J. The ladies are the best pint-sized karaoke tandem we know.
Watch Sophia Grace + Rosie Perform 'Starships'
Watch Sophia Grace + Rosie Perform 'Domino'
Watch Sophia Grace + Rosie on 'Ellen'


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Discover at your own pace the Australian Workers Heritage Centre - a place of reflection, within this museum styled complex, visitors can journey through exhibition space which celebrates the extraordinary legacy of working Australians telling a vitally important part of our nation's history through its working life via interactive displays, film, photographs, artefacts and recreated historical work settings.
Sited in the grounds of the former Barcaldine State School, many of the original structures have been re-invented into exhibition space. Historical work places of yesteryear, including a one teacher school, police watch house and railway station, have been relocated to the Centre from throughout Queensland.
Home of the "Young-Un' an enduring legacy - this offspring is the only direct descendant of the Heritage listed 'Tree of Knowledge' - symbolic of the Shearers Strike of 1891.
Set in over two hectares, the Workers Heritage Centre has been designed with the weary traveller in mind. Beautifully landscaped gardens and shady trees surround a sparkling bore fed billabong creating a cool outback oasis, with the convenience of picnic, barbecue and playground facilities.
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