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Written by Duana
(Click here for Part 1 of Duana on Lauryn Hill.)
Like everyone else, I was of mixed emotions where the Lauryn Hill show was concerned. I was elated to be going, but I've read the reviews the past few weeks; I was worried about what would happen after the long, expectant wait finally came to a close.
I mean the long wait since I last saw her perform, but to answer the most popular question first – about three hours. That is, doors opened at nine. Ms. Lauryn Hill (as my ticket read) showed promptly at midnight. (Although if you arrive when doors open, you have only yourself to blame.) Either way, anticipation was huge.
I have long loved Lauryn Hill and was terrified to be disappointed. Back in June, (before I knew I'd actually be attending this show), I wrote an article about her imminent return. When I reread it today, here's what stood out.
A get-together with a long-lost friend. Always awkward and trepidatious... [what if] the gap between her and I is too big?
I went to Saturday's show with people I didn't know twelve years ago. Who had the same love for the music as I did but a totally different memory of discovering it. More importantly, all of us are different people now than we were back then.
This is why I cannot understand the people who are whining that she didn't only play her old songs, word-for-word. Do you want everything the same forever? I know, songs are associated with memories of a certain time. But if all you want is to feel like you're in college again, you can always play "Come On Eileen" and jump around.
But of all people, one of the most talented MCs and lyricists of our generation is the one you want to keep in a box?
So, to outline what people are so upset about: Early in the show, Lauryn – who seemed totally coherent and funny and engaged, so that rumour is obsolete – pointed out that some classic songs were reimagined. Cut to renditions of "Lost Ones", "Ex Factor", and "Zion" that were old and new. Old lyrics, completely new tunes. But she broke each one down, mixing and re-improvising at length ('Ex=Factor' was 15 minutes long) until she'd created something totally original.
This is where I turn into a music snob, so beware. To me, this was amazing. Finding a whole new tune that fit the lyrics? Inspired. She often cued her band or singers live onstage, exhorting them to go faster or finish with a drum riff. It was obviously not rehearsed – which means she's completely in the moment, knowing when to finish what's happening. This is not a musician on autopilot. And there were clues – in what seemed like a totally new song, there were hints of familiar riffs. Finding them (like the "marching marching marching marching" part of 'Zion') became a game.
It was basically a jam session. Nothing about it felt stale, or rehearsed. You could see her get particularly jazzed about something that went well, and brush past a cue or a riff that didn't land the way she wanted.
I don't go to tons of live music. Not like some people do. But isn't this the point? Spontaneity? Stuff you can't hear on the album? A performance only remembered by the people who are there, one night only?
Why are we trying to turn this artist into her own CD?
The show started thinning out about halfway through. Perhaps it's not an accident that that's when the hits came out. Loyal fans who stuck around enjoyed an hourlong celebratory dance party. You know that end sequence in 'Sister Act Two' where they're all joyfully singing and carousing around the stage, L. Boogie among them? Yeah, I lived it Saturday night.
Old Fugees. Older Fugees. A heartbreaking rendition of "I only have eyes for you". Then, as my friends and I danced harder than ever, and got weird, sidelong looks from people around us – 'Killing Me Softly'. 'Ready or Not'. 'Turn your lights down low'. She closed out with "Doo Wop", because of course she did.
It wasn't a reimagining of 'Miseducation'. It was a magical mystery tour of her career. How are we complaining about this? Even from a business standpoint, she's got to get people interested in what she'll do next. Right?
The show was amazing – possibly my best ever – but it wasn't perfect. I couldn't hear her over her band sometimes. I would have appreciated a little more intro to the stuff she sang – why or how she re-did it or still likes it. Now that we're both a lot older, I would have loved a little more reassurance that Lauryn and I still have some things in common. Just like when we were young.
But I know this much – she needs to do something different than when she was 23. Be someone different than she was 12 years ago. Not erase that person, but not be chained to her either.
Who can't relate to that?
(In closing, yes, she did wear a hell of a lot of makeup. She also carried, and used, a sweat-rag the whole time she performed. So…maybe A is to mitigate B?)
Photo from Johnny Louis/Wenn.com
Lauryn Hill, Part II
Written by Duana


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I am a member of one of America's larger and still very active 9/11 interest groups. I wrote a book about it.
Called Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, it started out as something quite different. My coauthor, Dan Collins, and I sold HarperCollins in 2002 on a book about Rudy and four other pivotal, New York, 9/11 figures, but it wound up becoming my second Giuliani book by default. We thought that by 2004 or 2005, there would be a rebirth story at Ground Zero to tell, but as we approached the due date, zero had happened at Ground Zero. Some of our other original subjects, especially the Kings of the Promised Comeback, Gov. George Pataki and developer Larry Silverstein, also zeroed out. Meanwhile, Rudy, knighted for 9/11 valor by the queen and Time, was, according to the early polls, on his way from the Towers to the White House.
So we did a book that was begging to be done. Larger than Rudy, it is a catalog of everything that went wrong in the city's preparation between the two attacks on the World Trade Center, and all the screw-ups in the response that day. I am happy to report, in the Tina Brown spirit of Newsweek's cover this week, that the city under Mike Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Office of Emergency Management Director Joe Bruno has been quite "resilient" in the effort to make New York safer, in stark contrast with Giuliani's shockingly indifferent response to the less deadly warning shot of 1993, the very year he was elected mayor.
You may notice an omission on the list of vigilant New York officials. As effective as Bloomberg has been at OEM and the NYPD, he has never taken on the challenge of reform required at the FDNY, instead installing at its current helm, for example, a department functionary already faulted by former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau for his mismangement role in the lead-up to the worst fire debacle of the Bloomberg administration, the 2007 scorching of the Deutsch Bank building next to Ground Zero, which cost the lives of two valiant firefighters marching six years later in the footsteps of their fallen 9/11 brothers.
One mark of Giuliani's wilfull ignorance of the terrorist threat was that the number of NYPD detectives assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force was the same on 9/11 as it was on the day of the first bombing almost nine years earlier—a mere 16 or 17. That was in a department swollen by 5,000 additional cops hired in the Giuliani era. In a department cut by 6,000 under Bloomberg, more than 100 detectives are assigned to the task force, and they are a small part of the counterterrorism army Ray Kelly has deployed here and around the world. John Lehman, the former Navy secretary under Ronald Reagan who was the 9/11 Commission member most critical of the Giuliani preparation and response, told me that Kelly's counterterrorism force "is probably the best in the world," adding "if I was president, I would be regularly briefed by Kelly's unit."
Lehman drove New York's Giuliani-fawning tabloids nuts at a 2003 commission hearing when he took on the NYPD commissioner Kelly replaced, currently jailed felon Bernie Kerik, and Giuliani's fire and OEM commissioners, all three of whom were then working at Giuliani Partners, the marketing arm of Rudy's 9/11 legend. "It's not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city," said Lehman at the New School hearing, referring to the "command and control and communications" breakdowns on 9/11.
Like the other commission members, Lehman is now part of the National Security Preparedness Group, which issued its nine-point report card this September, isolating the most vital of the 41 commission recommendations that remain "unfinished." Ironically, the first two on this list of continuing "vulnerabilities" are precisely the ones that Lehman referred to at that hearing: "command and control and communications." The preparedness group's brief report surveys our national failings, without any specific reference to New York, the once and future prime target. The report's assiduously apolitical analysis of our inability to make real progress on the communication issue points a finger at no one in particular. But President Obama is pushing a bill that would provide a dedicated radio spectrum to public-safety agencies that literally every major law-enforcement or fire organization in the country supports and that won 21 to 4 bipartisan support in a Senate committee in June. Why has it gone nowhere so far?
Chuck Dowd, the NYPD's top communications expert, appeared on Fox News recently and blamed the gridlock "quite frankly" on "some Republicans in the House," despite support for the bill from Homeland Security Committee chair and New York Republican Peter King. Oregon Republican Greg Walden, the chair of the House's Energy and Communications Subcommittee, wants to sell the spectrum to Nextel, Verizon, and other hungry commercial buyers, arguing that public safety has enough spectrum now. As the House dawdles, the recent earthquake and hurricane proved once again that cellphones cannot be counted on in a crisis. Bloomberg is pushing the Jay Rockefeller–Kay Bailey Hutchison bill, and Kelly testified for it at a Washington hearing, contending that "a 16-year-old with a smartphone has a more advanced communication capacity than a police officer carrying a radio."
Despite the failure to address the national interoperability issue, as this inter-departmental sound of silence is called, the Bloomberg administration appears to have made some progress. It has at least put into place several new ways that the FDNY and NYPD can talk to each other, though neither Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway nor a police deputy commissioner could tell me how often these new radio options are actually used by two departments that famously love to hate each other. The police have a new frequency, TAC-U, that the FDNY can access, at least theoretically. The FDNY's commissioner also boasted at one FCC appearance that the department has given 200 dedicated interoperable radios to department chiefs, but OEM handed out other interoperable radios to FDNY brass prior to 9/11, and even the chief of the department left his in his car the day of the attacks. No one ever used them, before or on 9/11.
Of course, the breakdown that hangs in everyone's collective memory about 9/11 is the warning of impending collapse from police helicopters that no firefighters ever heard because the departments operated inside radio silos. New protocols put fire chiefs aboard police helicopters, but again, that's theoretical since the choppers would have to wait at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn for the fire chief to arrive. The FDNY still has no helicopters of its own. The interoperability avenues available to FDNY field-communication units and at other leadership levels make it likely, however, that this kind of deadly autonomy will not recur.
Command and control, says Lehman—who called Giuliani's ambiguous executive order on the subject "a scandal" at the 2003 hearing—has gone from chaos to "clear lines of authority." Lehman says he would give the Bloomberg administration an "A" for "finally cutting the knot" and putting the cops in charge at most crisis scenes. "On paper, it's resolved," he says. "I don't know if that's how it's actually functioning." Peter Vallone, the longtime chair of the city council's public-safety committee, says he's scheduled hearings on precisely these two issues, unified command and communications, for Sept. 27, adding that he tried to hold the hearings the week before 9/11, but the Bloomberg administration balked. "A lot has been done and more needs to be done" on both fronts, says Vallone.
The greatest pushback came when Bloomberg put the new incident command system in place a few years ago and assigned hazmat incidents to the police, making New York the only major city where the police department is schematically in charge of hazardous-material incidents. "The FDNY didn't agree, but it has been working real well," says Vallone, though fire officials have complained that its highly skilled hazmat unit was once held at bay by police for 90 minutes when a truck tanker leaking potentially hazardous material crashed on a Bronx highway. "There are always going to be rivalries out on the street between agencies, but I think there are less now than there ever was because of this system," concludes Vallone, who is closely tied to both departments and their unions. But, added one top city official who doesn't work for Bloomberg: "Whenever there are different commissioners on the scene, it doesn't matter what any manual says. Ray Kelly is in charge, and thank God that he is."
Vallone also says OEM has "grown," as does its founder, Jerry Hauer, Giuliani's first commissioner, who left years before 9/11 to take a top emergency-response job in Washington. Hauer is skeptical about how real both the command and communications improvements are on the ground. "There is not true interoperability now," he says. "It's the culture of the two agencies that they just don't talk to each other on the radio. I've talked to many people involved now, and they say there is no communication going on." He believes Bloomberg "doesn't have the courage to stand up to Kelly," and that he's ceded authority to him on hazmat and other incidents that Kelly should not have. Hauer, who runs his own consulting firm, says that at crane collapses and other incidents, "two separate operations have gone on," with police and fire still functioning separately, an observation that Deputy Mayor Holloway stoutly denies. Holloway concedes that each department still has a "unique culture" that can produce friction, but insists the progress is real.
Wayne Barrett is a Newsweek/Daily Beast contributor and a Nation Institute fellow who is the author of several books, including Grand Illusion and Rudy! An Investigative Biography. Research assistance was provided by Emily Atkin, Matthew DeLuca, Kelly Knaub, Fausto Giovanny Pinto, and Andy Ross.

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PHOENIX (AP) — The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that he will appoint former Sen. Jon Kyl to fill the late Sen. John McCain's seat in the U.S. Senate.
Gov. Doug Ducey made the announcement on Twitter minutes before a scheduled news conference.
Kyl, a Republican, is currently shepherding Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kyl's appointment may make it possible for him to vote for the nomination.
Ducey, also a Republican, added the hashtag #KavanaughConfirmation to his announcement.
Ducey says Kyl has committed to serve through the end of this year and the governor hopes he will serve longer.
Either way, Kyle is expected to be a placeholder, not running in 2020, when voters will get to decide who fills the remainder of McCain's seat through 2022. Then the seat will be up again for a full six-year term.
Kyl, an experienced foreign policy hand, will be entering a narrowly divided Senate where Republicans could gain or lose seats in November.
The GOP is hoping he'll be a more reliable partisan vote than McCain, whose opposition to a partial repeal of President Obama's health care law pitched the party into turmoil last year.
Kyl is well-respected in Arizona and has been able to avoid many of the battles with activists that complicated McCain's career and that of the state's other senator, Jeff Flake, who is retiring because his feud with Trump made his re-election impossible.
McCain's widow, Cindy, tweeted: "Jon Kyl is a dear friend of mine and John's. It's a great tribute to John that he is prepared to go back into public service to help the state of Arizona."
Doug Cole, a veteran Republican consultant and former McCain aide, said Kyl was a good, safe pick.
"I think McCain would be very happy with the pick. Honors his legacy while putting some major horsepower for Arizona in the seat, at least for now," he said.
Filling McCain's seat marks a turning point in Arizona political history. That seat in particular has been held by two men who were heralded as giants of the Senate: McCain took the seat once held by Sen. Barry Goldwater after he had served in the House of Representatives.
The choice will also have political consequences for Ducey. He's up for re-election this November against Democratic challenger David Garcia.
For Republican voters who are on the fence about Ducey, a choice they dislike could cause them to withdraw their support for the incumbent or stay home on Election Day.
Arizona law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same political party to fill a seat opened by the departure of a senator.
McCain's office said an estimated 15,000 people came to see the late senator as he lay in state in the Arizona state Capitol for a public viewing several days after his death.
Nearly 3,500 people gathered at the North Phoenix Baptist Church the following day for a memorial service where former Vice President Joe Biden spoke.


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Mario Armstrong is a technology commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, explaining the world of gadgets, gizmos and gigabites through regular conservations with show hosts Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne.
Armstrong — much like the technology he loves — has always been an amalgamation of many different things: radio, TV and online media personality, motivational speaker, public servant and social entrepreneur. Through all of these media, he translates technology for non-tech audiences, covering the stories, headlines, issues, gadgets and newsmakers of the day through the lens of technology.
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Armstrong has worked in the tech industry for more than 12 years. He was the first Chief Technology Officer in Baltimore City government for then-Mayor Martin O'Malley, and served as the IT Director for the State of Maryland's Tourism Department. He currently heads Mario Armstrong Media, LLC, a technology-media company that creates content for traditional, mobile and online media outlets for syndication and offers tech consulting, digital lifestyle events and public speaking.
Stating that his passion is to bridge the digital divide between the haves and the have-nots, Armstrong has delved into the world of social entrepreneurship by starting the social network company TechTechBoom.com, and hiring 11 teenagers to develop, design, market and manage it. Armstrong is also a co-founder of the Urban Video Game Academy — an educational non-profit program that uses the allure, interactivity and development process of video games to increase students' interest and academic achievement in science, technology, English and math.
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuban faithful celebrating Christmas say they have plenty to cheer this year as they prepare for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI, the first visit by a pontiff to the Communist-run island since John Paul II's historic tour nearly 14 years ago.
The visit, expected in March, coincides with the 400th anniversary of Cuba's patron saint and follows years of lobbying by Roman Catholic officials on the island.
The timing also appears to reward the larger role the church has assumed in Cuba in recent years. Havana Archbishop Jaime Ortega personally negotiated the release of political prisoners in 2010 and 2011, and church magazines have become a forum for articles offering advice to Cuban leaders on a process of free-market reforms begun by President Raul Castro.
Castro even cited Benedict's visit in announcing on Friday that Cuba would free 2,900 inmates as a humanitarian gesture, including some jailed for political crimes.
Churches across Cuba were holding Christmas services Sunday. Outside the Cathedral in Old Havana, retiree Rogelio Montes de Oca said he was counting down the days to Benedict's arrival, and praying that the pope would have the strength to go ahead with the visit amid reports the 84-year-old spiritual leader has appeared unusually tired in recent months.
"We have faith in God that we will be allowed to have this treat," said Montes de Oca, 72. "Not every country will have the chance to see him physically and receive his blessing."
Religious leaders and others who have spent time with Benedict recently say they found him weaker than they'd ever seen him. He has stopped meeting individually with visiting bishops, and has begun using a moving platform to spare him the long walk down St. Peter's Basilica.
Still, the pontiff has rallied in the past on grueling trips, and Cubans said they were hoping he will be able to see as much of the island as possible. When John Paul II visited in 1998 for a five-day trip, he was met by multitudes as he toured the eastern metropolis of Santiago and the central cities of Santa Clara and Camaguey.
"I am so happy Cuba is getting a second visit by a pope," said Gilberto Sigarti, a musician who was praying before a statue of the island's patron saint, the Virgin of Caridad del Cobre. "John Paul II's visit was a great joy."
The last papal visit to Cuba broke down walls that had existed between the church and Fidel Castro's government since the early days of the revolution, when priests were harassed and sometimes arrested, and the state formally declared itself to be atheistic. Authorities discouraged Christmas celebrations, closed religious schools in 1962 and barred Communist Party membership to people of religious belief.
A lot has changed since John Paul II's visit.
Instead of Fidel, Benedict will meet with younger brother Raul, 80, who has had a much less stormy relationship with the church and has even looked to church leaders for advice on some of the economic changes he is pushing. Benedict will also find an island much more at ease with religion than the one visited by his predecessor.
In today's Cuba, Catholicism is practiced openly — even by many Communist Party officials. Many Cuban Catholics mix the faith with aspects of the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion. Evangelical churches are also on the rise on the island.
Even with Christianity's increased role, Christmas is a subdued event in Cuba. There are no sales in state-owned shops, and virtually no Christmas ornaments or decorated trees on display in public, in contrast to the ubiquitous signs celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the revolution, which takes place Jan. 1.
Cubans traditionally get together for a family meal on Christmas Eve, though a feast of pork leg, yucca and black beans on New Year's Eve is more widely and enthusiastically celebrated.
Benedict's visit is a pilgrimage to honor the Virgin of Caridad del Cobre, the patron of Cuba. A relic of the virgin has been traveling around the island this year. The pontiff has not given exact dates for his trip, but the Vatican has indicated it will be in March, shortly before Easter. The pope also will make a stop in Mexico on his Latin American swing.
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Traveler's Checklist: Bryce Canyon National Park, Winter Edition
Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on December 13, 2010 – 1:37am
A mid-winter's visit to Bryce Canyon National Park won't disappoint. Photos by Kurt Repanshek.
Though summer draws the bulk of Bryce Canyon National Park's 1.2 million annual visitors, a strong argument can be made that winter is a more fascinating time to visit this red-rock icon. The sharp contrasts between fresh-fallen snow, cerulean skies, and the park's red-hued amphitheaters are spectacular.
Southern Utah's national parks all are red-rock wonders. Zion National Park features towering cliffs of stone. Arches National Park showcases a one-of-its-kind collection of stony arches and windows. Canyonlands National Park is a maze of canyons, and Capitol Reef National Park offers a sprawling rockscape. Bryce Canyon, on the other hand, is much, much more intimate and, in some manners, more curious geologically.
Not quite 36,000 acres in size — little more than a tenth the size of Canyonlands — the drawing card of Bryce is its namesake amphitheater crowded with hoodoos and goblins that erosion has sculpted from the pink underbelly of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Whether you gaze down upon the amphitheater, or stroll through it, the features known as Thor's Hammer, Queen's Garden, Natural Bridge, ET, Indian Princess, and the Warrior, just to name a few, fire your imagination and cause you to marvel at nature's artistic side.
For most visitors, Bryce is a one-day adventure, as the 18-mile long Rim Road leads to all the major overlooks that provide dramatic views into the canyons down below.
But this small park deserves a closer, more attentive inspection, for its wonders are in the nuances that wind, rain, ice and snow have created, and even in the shadows it casts.
And you want solitude? Winter delivers that wholesale to Bryce Canyon. During a recent trip I had the Upper Inspiration Point Overlook to myself. I glanced down upon Natural Bridge, with two others. I had Farview Point to myself. I walked the Queen's Garden-Navajo Loop Trail (minus the Wall Street section, which is closed in winter) with my own thoughts. I watched the sun come up from Bryce Point with a hardy Texan and his two tripod-steadied cameras.
Of course, weather-wise winter can be mercurial at Bryce. One morning I awoke to -5 degrees Fahrenheit, the next to 19 degrees. The first day saw an afternoon high around 30 degrees or so, the next day saw the mercury climb to about 40 degrees.
So, with all that in mind, here's a checklist to help you navigate a wintry visit to Bryce Canyon.
* Pack with weather's vagaries in mind. In other words, bring layers. Be able to add or subtract by the hour. And if you're planning to watch the sun rise from Bryce Point, don't plan to stand there in jeans. It can get dangerously cold before the sun rises, and you need to be ready for those conditions. A pair of shell pants with an under layer of fleece pants is good for your legs, while a base- and mid-layer topped by a warm coat (down-filled is nice!) is great. And don't forget a warm hat and gloves, as well as a good, stout pair of lug-soled boots. Sneakers run the risk of earning you frost-bitten toes, and lack traction.
* Speaking of traction, it's not a bad idea to invest in a traction device of some sort. Snow falls on the overlooks and trails, and many, many, many feet compact that snow into hardpack as well as ice. It doesn't take much to go slip-sliding away, and with the sharp drop-offs in some areas of Bryce Canyon, just one slip could be detrimental to your well-being. I've trusted my health to YakTrax for years (although there are similar versions of these devices out there). No worries if you can't find them at home, as they're sold in the park's Visitor Center.
* If you're determined to watch the sun rise from Bryce Point, and to enjoy the illumination of the main amphitheater, plan on driving to the point between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. (in the Visitor Center they post the next day's sunrise, so use that as a gauge). Since it possibly will be very dark, as opposed to somewhat dark, when you reach the point's parking lot, you might feel good toting a flashlight to see where the best footing is on the way to the overlook. Just keep the beam pointed on the ground in front of you, as some photographers might already be on the overlook and using long exposures to capture the dawning day. A misguided beam of light would not go over well in that situation. Also, don't be late, as sunrise can be fleeting. The day I went there was a good expanse of cloud cover, and when the sun finally climbed above the horizon at roughly 7:18 a.m., I had all of 18 minutes to capture the spectacular digitally before clouds covered the orb back up.
* Consider bringing a tripod and a remote shutter release. The low light conditions require a very steady hand to get a blur-free photo.
* Think strategically. Do you want to watch the sun rise? If not, sleeping in certainly is good. But if you do, a good approach would be to get up, go to the point, enjoy the sunrise, and return to your lodging (more on that in a bit) for breakfast and regrouping for the rest of the day. If you're not an early riser, after breakfast you might want to head to the far southern tip of the park and backtrack from there, taking in Yovimpa Point, then Rainbow Point, then Black Birch Canyon, Ponderosa Canyon, Aqua Canyon, Natural Bridge, Farview and Piracy points, Swamp Canyon, Bryce Point, Inspiration Point, Sunset Point, and Sunrise Point.
That way you end your day close to your lodging, as opposed to 18 miles away.
* Drive cautiously between stops. The park speed limit ranges generally between 30 mph and 40 mph, and in winter snow- and ice-covered patches demand a bit less gas.
* Although it's winter, don't forget, or neglect, sun block and water. The sun can be harsher in winter due to the reflective snow, and the dry air, and high elevation (Bryce Canyon ranges from 6,600-9,100 feet) can leave you lethargic and suffering from the altitude if you're coming from far below. Water helps combat the dryness.
* Where to stay? Unfortunately, the Bryce Canyon Lodge and its surrounding cabins are closed in winter. Unless you're planning to camp in the park's North Campground, the closest accommodations are found at Ruby's Inn, a complex that dates to the early 20th Century and which, despite the Best Western branding, has remained in the same family, the Syretts, all these years. This sprawling establishment has just about everything you could need — hundreds of rooms, restaurant, grocery, liquor store, beauty salon, digital photo lab, gas station, auto repair shop, and gift shop. Staying here in winter is inexpensive. From November 1 to March 31 they offer a "Winter Warmer Special;" stay one night at the regular rate, and each additional night is half-off. With rates starting at $46.63, it won't set you back a lot to stay at Ruby's.
* Consider a full-moon snowshoe hike with a ranger. These events are free and open to 60 visitors, but you have to get a ticket at the Visitor Center to join the hike. Tickets are available at 8 a.m. the day of the hike and go quickly — sometimes the line starts forming at 7:30 a.m. At least one full-moon hike is scheduled this winter, on December 20. This could be a particularly popular event, as it's scheduled to coincide with a full lunar eclipse.
* Check the park newspaper to see if any star-gazing events are scheduled during your stay.
* There are roughly 30 kilometers of groomed cross-country ski trails — most surrounding the park on adjoining national forest lands. However, there also are a small number of XC trails in the park. Skis, as well as snowshoes, can be rented at Ruby's if you don't have your own. This is a great way to see another side of Bryce Canyon — the forested one — and get some exercise at the same time.
* For more information on Bryce Canyon, check out the Bryce Canyon Natural History Association. It offers a number of helpful publications, such as Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments, Shadows of Time — Geology of Bryce Canyon, and Bryce Canyon Auto and Hiking Guide. By supporting this organization you help promote "the education, research and interpretive programs" of its public land management partners in the Colorado Plateau Region.


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Heralded as Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to television, Ringer couldn't hold onto its audience. The show's been cancelled after one season and 22 episodes.
As Ringer begins, we meet Bridget (Gellar), a former stripper and recovering alcoholic who's witnessed a murder and goes to stay with her estranged twin sister Siobhan (also Gellar). Her sister disappears so Bridget takes Siobhan's place and soon realizes that her sister's life was more complicated than her own. The TV series also features the talents of Nestor Carbonell, Ioan Gruffudd, Mike Colter, Tara Summers, Kristoffer Polaha, Zoey Deutch, Justin Bruening, Billy Miller, Jason Dohring, Nicole Anderson, and Gage Golightly.
Considering the amount of promotion that The CW put behind it, Ringer's premiere had to viewed as a bit of a disappointment. It registered a 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.84 million total viewers.
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In week two, the demo dropped a whopping 25% to a 0.9 rating with 1.94 million. Week thee remained stable but week four plunged 33%.
Over the course of the season, the ratings fluctuated but also dwindled downward. They fell as low as a 0.4 rating (several times) with as few as 1.05 million viewers.
With very few hours of primetime real estate to fill, it just didn't make sense for The CW to renew Ringer for a second season. They've cancelled the show and the last episode aired on April 17th. Since it wasn't expected to be a series finale, several storylines were left up in the air.
What do you think? Are you disappointed that Ringer has been cancelled and won't be returning for season two? Why do you think the ratings declined? Was it too hard to follow or just not interesting enough?
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This interactive tool estimates how many calories are burned during common activities. The food you eat is measured in calories. The energy you use every day is also measured in calories. You are using energy all the time, even at rest. The more vigorous the activity and the longer the time you do it, the more calories you burn.
Adapted with permission from: Ainsworth BE, Haskell WL, Herrmann SD, Meckes N, Bassett Jr DR, Tudor-Locke C, Greer JL, Vezina J, Whitt-Glover MC, Leon AS. 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities: A second update of codes and MET values. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2011;43(8):1575–1581.
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Obama, Hill leaders fail to solve shutdown impasse
Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday after a White House meeting among President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders yielded no signs of progress but plenty of evidence that Democrats and Republicans remained riven over a dispute that has idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers and curtailed services nationwide.
"The House could act today to reopen the government and stop the harm this shutdown is causing to the economy and families across the country," the White House said in a written statement after the session. In a jab at the GOP-led chamber, it added, "The president remains hopeful that common sense will prevail."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, complained to reporters that Obama had said anew that "he will not negotiate." Boehner made clear that curbing the health care overhaul that Obama pushed into law three years ago remains part of the price for returning 800,000 furloughed federal workers to their jobs and resuscitating programs ranging from feeding pregnant women to staffing Internal Revenue Service call centers.
"All we're asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under Obamacare," Boehner said, using the name Republicans often use for the 2010 law.
Wednesday's lack of progress did little to dispel the widening impression that the dispute could persist into mid-October and become tangled with an even more consequential battle. The Obama administration has said Congress must renew the government's authority to borrow money by Oct. 17 or risk a first-ever federal default, which many economists say would dangerously jangle the world economy.
The shutdown stalemate is already rattling investors. Stock markets in the U.S. and overseas faded Wednesday, and Europe's top central banker, Mario Draghi, called the shutdown "a risk if protracted." Leading financial executives met with Obama, and one, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, said politicians should not use a potential default "as a cudgel."
On Thursday, Republicans planned to continue pursuing their latest strategy: muscling bills through the House that would restart some popular programs.
Votes were on tap for restoring funds for veterans and paying members of the National Guard and Reserves. On Wednesday, the chamber voted to finance the national parks and biomedical research and let the District of Columbia's municipal government spend federally controlled dollars.
Democrats demanded that the entire government be reopened, and the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made clear that the GOP's narrower bills have no chance of survival. They said the strategy showed that Republicans were buckling under public pressure, with Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., saying groups like veterans were being "used as a pawn in this cynical political game."
Republicans countered that Democrats were being inflexible and were to blame for the continued closure of programs the GOP was trying to reopen. A favorite target was Reid, who has made clear that the Senate will be a graveyard for the Republican effort.
"The Senate's refusal to work with the House is an all-time low," Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., said.
Reid told reporters that Obama and Democrats are "locked in tight" on not diluting the health care law. And the White House said that during his meeting with congressional leaders, Obama repeated his refusal to negotiate over extending the government's debt limit. The White House said Obama believed it was Congress' job "to pay the bills it has racked up and spare the nation from a devastating default."
In an interview afterward, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., scoffed at the president's stance.
"He can't get his way exactly the way he wants it because he doesn't control the entire government," McConnell said on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report."
Democrats continued lambasting Boehner and freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the tea party hero who has helped sell fellow conservatives in both chambers on keeping the government shuttered until Obama retreats on his coveted health care law.
"Sadly, he's become a puppet," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said of Boehner, "with Ted Cruz pulling the strings."
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and other House conservatives said they met with Cruz and other Senate conservatives Wednesday to update each other on what was happening.
"We think we just have to keep talking about our message, which is real simple: 'Treat people fairly,"' Jordan said.
Republican leaders and many rank-and-file GOP lawmakers, especially in the Senate, had been reluctant to link demands for curbing the health care law to legislation keeping government open, concerned that voters would blame Republicans for any shutdown.
But Wednesday, Republicans solidly opposed an unsuccessful Democratic move to force the House to vote on a Senate-passed bill keeping government open until Nov. 15 without any strings on the health care law.
"Now that we've jumped off the cliff, lit ourselves on fire, we've entered the valley of death," said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who has criticized the conservatives' strategy. "So now we've got to keep running and we have to hold together."
The House has approved legislation keeping the entire government funded through Dec. 15. It also would impose a one-year delay in the health care law's requirement that individuals buy health insurance, which would threaten to cripple the program, and block federal subsidies for health coverage bought by lawmakers and their staff.
As the politicians battled, mail continued to be delivered, air traffic controllers remained at work and payments were being made to recipients of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment benefits.
Halted were most routine food inspections by the Food and Drug Administration and loan approvals for many low- and middle-income borrowers by the Housing and Urban Development Department.
Only 3 percent of NASA employees were on the job, while 86 percent at the Homeland Security Department were working.
The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said 70 percent of civilian workers at the CIA and other intelligence agencies he controls were furloughed. He warned Congress that the national security risk "will accumulate over time."