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Di Stefano was at the height of his career when other stars of contemporary opera were taking their first steps. Luciano Pavarotti, who died in September, had his big international break when he stood in for Di Stefano as Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Boheme" at London's Covent Garden in 1963. At the Met, Di Stefano sang in 112 performances from 1948 to 1965, making his debut in Verdi's "Rigoletto" as the Duke. --- Vitaly Fedorchuk MOSCOW (AP) - Vitaly Fedorchuk, who briefly headed the KGB and served as Soviet interior minister in the 1980s, has died, officials said. He was 89. Fedorchuk died Friday in Moscow of an unspecified illness, said the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency. Fedorchuk, who was born to a farmer's family in Ukraine, joined the Soviet secret police in 1939 and worked in the SMERSH counterintelligence agency during World War II.
iMovie versus Final Cut Express
When I learned that I'd be part of the Macworld Video production team, I was both excited and more than a bit apprehensive. I was excited because I enjoy working in video, though it never seems I have enough time to do so, and nervous because Apple had recently (with the introduction of iLife '08) basically killed off my video production tool of choice: iMovie HD. iLife '08 includes a program named iMovie '08, but it's related to its predecessor in name only—iMovie '08 is a completely new program. While iMovie '08 added a number of interesting features beyond those offered in iMovie HD, it also removed quite a few, and more importantly to me, created a completely new paradigm for video editing. In a typical video-editing app, such as iMovie HD, you have a spot to store your video clips, and a timeline on which to place them.
Maurice DuBois
At CBS News, he substitutes as news anchor for the weekend editions of "The CBS Evening News" and "The Saturday Early Show."A Long Island native, DuBois spent seven years at WNBC-TV and co-anchored "Today in New York" before joining WCBS-TV. He also anchored many live breaking news events and hosted numerous specials on topics ranging from kids and violence, to parades and telethons. At NBC News, he substituted as news anchor for "Today" and "Weekend Today," and filled-in as co-host of "Weekend Today." He also reported for "Dateline NBC" and substituted as news anchor at MSNBC and NBC News at Sunrise.While at WNBC-TV, DuBois also hosted "Four Stories," a magazine featuring community heroes; he also hosted special programming for Court-TV called "Mind over Media," for students to understand media images.Previously, DuBois was an anchor/reporter for WFLD-TV in Chicago and KCRA-TV in Sacramento.
Archive for: February, 2008
Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy Posted in: Apple Microsoft Silicon Valley Wall Street Google Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of Google, or even go to Google's gaggle of sites, services, and features. There is now continuity between Marissa, Google and me. These are actually quite pleasant, floating images of a lower Market Street aerie, with purple walls and the home-spun smell of vanilla-laced cupcakes (supported lovingly by pleated paper).
Bunny Town!
The other 475 are mostly feral rabbits, or pets that have gone wild and probably can't be tamed again. Reno 911 The feral bunnies arrived two years ago from a shelter in Reno, Nevada, after the owner got sick and was hospitalized. People continued to drop off unwanted rabbits. But the pets weren't sterilized and eventually, there were 1600 rabbits in the woman's backyard! They had all gone feral and most were sick. "Two bunnies can produce about 100 rabbits a year," said Celeste. "She tried to take care of them but it was just overwhelming." Great Lakes agreed to take about 500 of the feral bunnies in exchange for help building a hospital and buying food, medicine and other supplies. "I believe wholeheartedly we're doing the right thing," said Tim Patino, president of the nonprofit Michigan sanctuary.
Analysis: IEA stirs old controversies
MOSCOW, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- On Feb. 25 Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev made a one-day working visit to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The presence of the foreign minister and his deputy shows the international importance of the visit in the context of Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence on Feb. 17. .
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