third time nothing happens and he basically says how much time to turn to the wonderrous powers of the lotus set raand he does chanting and the parody is something like if anyone is old enough to remember and the mouse before vatican two and you don't understand anything and it's mumbo jump bow and this is a parody of that. the second and third pieces before the intermission i will not introduce. i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have a great problem when they come to a concert of classical music and view it as this is supposed to be serious music. this is not serious music and i would ask to you laugh. you are welcome to laugh. you may laugh. you need to practice laughing. we can progress -- all right. now, for those of you that find laughing difficult ladies and gentlemens you can at this timtiter in a nice way andf you want to be butch about it do the manly thought. please this isn't a work

. >> in 1982 kapor founded the lotus development corporation which developed the popular lotus 123 spreadsheetny was later sold for $3.5 billion. today kapor invests in start-ups. >> i'm incredibly excited about newme. >> why do you care about a bunch of black entrepreneurs who've come to silicon valley to try to be successful? >> we have serious problems being economically competitive in the world. and we have to have everybody, absolutely everybody, who can contribute making their maximum contribution. >> you can't tell the whole story. >> okay. >> is it really true that every entrepreneur with an idea gets an equal shot? that's absolutely not true. >> there are so few women and minorities asking for money from vcs, i'm not sure if there's enough data to know if there's some sort of built-in bias. >> michael arrington is the founder of the influential website techcrunch. arrington is outspoken in his belief that success in the valley is more merit-based than any other place in the world. why do you think there are so few african-american tech entrepreneurs here? >> i don't know. and it's som

tracking crime, i'm grant lotus, kron4 news. >>> well, today's light rain is going to mean dense foge morning with that moisture on the ground. take a look at the 7:00 hour. temperatures are going to be colder to start the day. in the upper 30s and low 40s with the dense fog in place. once the sun comes up, that will start to burn off and we'll see at the 3:00 hour, high cloud coverage and warmer temperatures. tomorrow morning again, a little bit cooler. 42 in oakland, 42 in napa, 46 in san francisco, 40 in freemont and 40 in san jose. rebounding nicely into the afternoon. temperatures in the 60s for the most part. 63 down in san jose, 65 in mountain view, 62 in redwood city, and same thing in livermore. upper 50s, low 60s for the north bay, 58 in san francisco, 61 in richmond, and 61 in valejo. i take a look at the computer models and dry conditions. the 11:30 hour before the fireworks show, that's going to mean little or no fog. temperatures will be in the 40s and we should have a pretty good view of the fireworks. that is if the computer model verifies. a look at your extended for

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i'm grant lotus, kron4 news. >>> several san francisco groups are appealing a final environmental impact report for the america's cup sailing race. this comes after the city's planning commission unanimously approved the review, that was last night. environmental and community groups, though, want an expanded report, including the impact on neighborhoods near the water. plans for the america's cup include the construction of a new cruise ship terminal at pier 27 and venues for entertainment, spectator areas. the america's cup races are scheduled to start in august of next year. >>> stay with us. more news after the break. Ñx keurig has over 200 varieties from 20 leading brands, including tully's. it's the way to brew everyone's favorite cup in under a minute. way to brew. >>> new tonight at 11:00, in the republican presidential race, the frontrunners' wives are taking stage. that's driving home the contrast between mitt romney and newt gingrich. joe johnson explains. >> reporter: what usually doesn't work very well in a presidential campaign is for some guy to interrupt an event and star

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an incentive for business but so warn it could mean trouble ahead particularly the agriculture and lotus sector. a hero to some a trade to others and you as army private bradley manning accused of leaking state secrets to the whistle blowing web site we could leaks a piece at a pretrial hearing in court if found guilty he would face the death penalty or life in prison. and a u.s. court has won and to force a judgment that iranian officials including its supreme leader provided help to the nine eleven hijackers for their tongues in america ten years ago but critics say it's part of a build up campaign against iraq. more news for you in half an hour after we had to north next to explore more of russia. in russia's european northwest lies one of the country's oldest inhabited areas. with records dating back to the mid nineteenth century this is a place with a rich history a powerful medieval republic it was famed for the quality of its first of its scholarship before it was a next to the greater russian state in the fifteenth century. the region is around six hundred kilometers from moscow

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tracking crime, i am grant lotus with kron4 news. >>jacqueline: fog is really an issue out there this morning. taking a guess storm tracker for the radar we continue to see clouds streaming through the bay area. now these clouds will continue and the system has not yet passed through. we could see some great out there tomorrow we will certainly see foggy conditions. right now, visibility is not too bad. redos visible--we had reduced visibility in hayward and we will get reduced visibility again overnight. >>jacqueline: in the north bay will have under a 10th of an inch in rain. into the weekend, there will be more sunshine and warmer conditions expected. >>catherine: the kron4 news at 18 is just getting started after the break there is a big drug-bust involving students many in the bay area. and there is a decision that could affect many rumors in the nfl and nba >>reporter: i am charles clifford and we are expecting many people for new year's eve i have the details coming up. >>catherine: police are cracking down on one way that peo

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of course, the piece is centered by this beautifully carved, crisp, opening lotus blossom, the very symbolbuddhism, the symbol of the buddha, and of course the burmese practiced a type of buddhism, theravada buddhism, which was, of course, rolled into their local interest in the natural spirits of the forest and the landscape. i've always been intrigued by the paintings, or the images. it's lovely. now, these are spirits, or divas, as they were called, and you would find figures like this in palace carvings, around the doorways of buddhist temples or palace complex^ it--it's almost certainly made for the tourist market, in and around 1890, 1900. gosh. it's a beauty. um... value... my own thought, a very healthy £500 worth of carving. oh, right. yeah, well, and thanks so much for bringing it here. it's been a pleasure. we've enjoyed seeing your gong go. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. so, you fished this out of your safe deposit to bring it to me. now, what did you think it might be? well, i thought it might be a faberge. yes. well, it comes from russia, but the real rub is that

go to this mailbox at this intersection of chapel hill this afternoon you'll find your notebook, a lotus note. so the police go in and find it in the notebook is there. after bruce sissons was meeting with a psychiatrist in washington, d.c. not far from where he was working in maryland and he confided to her psychiatrist that peak coveted and heated in the ansi is all the qualities she wanted perhaps in the life that he wanted and felt he never received from his mother so deep feelings and confessed that he had developed only recently abandoned plot to poison a kelliher -- kill her. in december 1980 he was hired by the navy at the biowarfare research institute. he was hired to work with anthrax to grumet, pyrrophyte come prepared for tests with animals. it's important to note the darbee hired bruce for that job because there was a great concern in the u.s. intelligence community at that time that the soviet union was illicitly pursuing a weapons program with anthrax even though they were the signer of the international treaty that band the use of these biological materials that fear was

i am grant lotus with kron4 news.>james: let us keep our fingers crossed because this looks like we do not have a lot coming our way. except for maybe thursday let us the latest on the forecast. >>erica: good morning james we are expecting some rainfall on thursday but i do not know that will produce no up in the sierra. we are contending with very cold temperatures out there and some fog actually forming in the north bay valleys. temperatures right now are mixtures of 20's, '30's and 40's. i will break down the numbers neighborhood by neighborhood. as return to the afternoon we see a lot of sunshine and cool conditions will continue to see the cool conditions in the overnight hours. your your temperature is right outside the door. we have 28 degrees, well below freezing for places like navato. santa rosa is coming in at 31 degrees, those are the only location stealing was below freezing temperatures. ticket downtown san francisco coming in at 46 degrees. we have 42 for those and out of you and 39, number for hayward

>>justine: grant lotus has more on how home run king found himself trying to avoid prison. >>reporter: in 2003 bay area laboratory cooperative was raided and the grand jury investigation began. in december of that year barry bonds to a grand jury that he never knowingly used steroids. fast forward to august of 2007, he became baseball's all-time home run leader. in november of 2007 he was indicted in accused of lying to the grand jury about using steroids. april of this year he was convicted in federal court for obstruction of justice but the jury is deadlocked on the three perjury charges. >>justine: to that investigation began nearly a decade ago with the focus on balco its founder pleaded guilty to distributing steroids and went to prison for four months. we talked with the main man about barry bonds and his role in the overall federal probe into steroids. >> i think that barry bonds is definitely the greatest hitter as that played the game that is why pinned him. i have enormous respect for him. the balco founder is still a big fan of barry bonds. as to whether or not h

stone is following the lotus--the story he has the latest from open.ter: oracle arena is the second oldest in the entire nba and home of the golden state warriors. owners of the warriors are shopping around for a new stadium ideas in san francisco. the owners of the warriors have said getting a new stadium is a priority since they bought the team last year. earlier this week the owners met with the san francisco mayor ed lee and giants ceo larry baer to discuss the possibility of building a new arena near at&t park. one would open at around five years, this is the first time that we have heard that the nba team is looking in san francisco and looking specifically in the area just south of at&t park. the parking lots that many of us have used are the area where there is talk of building an arena. this is something that could generate jobs and even more new businesses to the area. it is the type of move that has worked well in cities like los angeles. keep in mind, there were major renovations to oracle rina back in the 1990's and like many other profess

i am grant lotus with kron4 news. [music] >>jacqueline: after a chilly start to the day the temperatures were mild this afternoon. they were right where we thought they would be. >>jacqueline: we will still see chilly conditions overnight but i do not think we will get as cold as what we were this morning. take a look. we will keep an eye on the wind, because it really will affect how cold we get overnight. the win is expected to pick up. this frees warning will be cut down. we will see very cold conditions in places like santa rosa and elsewhere, temperatures will be warmer. we will talk about that later coming up. up near santa rosa we have freezing temperatures in the '20s, and slick roads. let us take a look neighborhood by neighborhood coming up. >>pam: coming up trash talk from members of congress. >> the senate democrat shortchange the american public. >>pam: we have the words as a tax hike could be just days away. and we shall the dramatic video of a couple taking the leap of faith right out of a second story

when they have some excess that it big we need to hold on to this excess rather than to evolve with lotus going on technologically and what is going on in terms of consumer case. was watching. again, to start to use this as an example because i am -- my head is sometimes all over the place, xylitol acropolis in nassau. of was to be ready this warrior was was a very early. cnn had a show called csn soon news. i looked. but, they're trying to attract the euro audience. they had a guy there who was john. he was wearing a sweater vest, but everything else was the same. he was looking into the camera, reading, because what talking about the same stories that everybody else was talking about and you know, in my head i don't know why, it reminded me a job in a ramsey, that it was like dressing up is kid to be something that the news director once and to be when that is not authentically who he is. that is not the way he should have been presented. if you're really trying to attract young people, do it in the voice of young people, do with a different delivery. it was exactly the same thing, but