‘The Piano Man’ Brings Hope to Fellow Transplant Patients at Tampa General
Three days a week, he takes out the Casio and sets it on a cart. He pushes the cart slowly, cradling the keyboard with one arm, through the long hallways of Tampa General Hospital. His name is William C. Ismer. everyone calls him bill or “The Piano Man.” He is 65, a Navy veteran, a [...]
Linking Erosional and Depositional Landscapes
The surface of Earth is being reshaped constantly. Mountainous uplands are broken down by water and wind producing sediment that is moved by rivers to lowlands. Some of this sediment is deposited along the way, some is delivered to the coast and continental shelf, and some makes its way to the ultimate sink, the deep [...]
Performance Preview
Pianist brings modern touch to a centuries-old classic Photo by Andrea Bucheli Most kids don’t relish the thought of spending their entire Saturday glued to a piano bench. (It sounds like cruel, Victorian child torture if you ask me.) but that wasn’t the case for Lara Downes, who grew up in San Francisco and began [...]
Goapele at the Shrine
Photo: Ab Sesay The term bedroom music is being used in the wrong way. Critics use it to describe lonely adolescents fidgeting with synths and Apples under their parents’ roofs. no, bedroom music should be more about sex than onanism. Bedroom music better describes Goapele’s “Play.” “Come here, let me whisper in your ear / I’m ready [...]
Kia Sportage Review
2012 KIA SPORTAGE REVIEW Vehicle Style: Medium SUV Price: $35,720 (plus on-roads) Fuel Economy (claimed): 7.5 l/100km Fuel Economy (tested): 8.5 l/100km OVERVIEW the Kia Sportage was a slow seller last year, but not through any fault of its own. instead, runaway success in global markets meant supply problems for Australia. That left Sportages thin [...]
Grime and punishment: deluge victims still bailing out battered homes
There is a line scarring almost every building, post and fence along the northern and western outskirts of Bangkok. Brown, filthy and marinated in mould _ it jumps across highways and canals, staining walls, poles, pillars and fences, stretching across 30 of the capital’s districts. it is the water mark of last year’s floods, and [...]
More trees in a city bring surprising benefit, Portland study finds
tmittelstaed, you are both ignorant and in error about the nature of the dataset. Many of the data were collected from county birth records, which include information on mother’s age, race/ethnicity, education, prenatal care, and number of previous births, of those mentioned in the story. I believe the story is wrong in saying that household [...]
CBS This Morning: caffeine for the Cocoon set
There’s something about today’s morning talk shows that shouts teen programming. The peppiness, the high-def sets, the hyper-bright colors, the manic guffawing. It’s all a bit much for the more monochromatic generation. all that energy! What do they put in their coffee? Caffeine? But this morning marked the launch of this Morning, the new CBS [...]
Excerpt: Hope: A Tragedy
It’s funny: it isn’t the fire that kills you, it’s the smoke. There you are, pounding on the windows, climbing higher and higher through your burning home, trying to get away, to get out, hoping that if you can just avoid the flames, perhaps you’ll survive the fire, but all the time you’re suffocating slowly, [...]
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
The dark nights of early January, when some concert halls simply draw the curtains and put up a “closed” sign, are a challenge for audiences wanting musical sustenance before so-called normal life starts up again. this year in the UK you could find an extraordinary number of “New Year’s Day concerts” mimicking the annual Vienna [...]