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  • Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon

    Nay Aung is the founder of Oway, a tech startup in Yangon, Myanmar. He used Taste Cafe as his unofficial office when he started his company -- in part because it was one of the few places in Myanmar with a stable Internet ...

  • BART To Relax Rush Hour Bicycle Ban For 5 Month Trial

    OAKLAND (CBS SF) — BART’s board of directors voted to lift a ban on bikes aboard rush hour trains for five months Thursday night and may make the policy change permanent, according to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. ';Today’s BART decision is a momentous occasion. For years people on both sides of the Bay have had to contort their lives simply because they needed to ...

  • Museum of Californias natural science wing reopens

    The yellow-bellied marmot is poised in its diorama, backed by sweeping vistas of the high Sierra. Rustic twig chairs sit on the porch of a mock Curry Village cabin, ready for real-life rocking. A brand-new ancient redwood grove stretches to the ceiling just steps from a sea lion in full roar on a sandy shore, not far from replica Lake Merritt light poles, artfully dribbled with an epoxy-clay ...

  • Chez Panisse to reopen with $2500-per-person dinner

    BERKELEY -- One of the Bay Area's most famous restaurants is set to reopen June 21, nearly four months after a fire destroyed parts of the building.Chez Panisse, the renowned eatery founded by Alice Waters, an icon of the California cuisine movement, will open its kitchen once again with a celebration on the day of Summer Solstice. The event will double as a fundraiser for new education ...

  • NHL Los Angeles 3 San Jose 0

    Jonathan Quick made 24 saves in the Kings' 3-0 defeat of the San Jose Sharks Thursday, giving Los Angeles a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. Quick's seventh career playoff shutout brought the Kings their 13th consecutive home win. The Sharks had beaten the Kings in back-to-back games in San Jose. Los Angeles aims to finish the series with a Game 6 win in San Jose ...


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A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) was Andrzej Wajda's directorial debut, the first of an unintended trilogy of films made in the late 1950s (including 1957's Kanal and 1958's Ashes and Diamonds) about the Polish resistance against the German occupiers during World War II ... ...

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  • 5.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Northern California

    A preliminary 5.7 earthquake struck in Northern California on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the quake was centered 6 miles west northwest of Greenville, and 26 miles southwest of Susanville.Initial reports said the quake, which struck at 8:47 p.m., was a magnitude 5.9. A 5.7 magnitude quake is considered moderate, but has the potential to cause considerable ...

  • GameDay Should The Strike Zone Be Automated

    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — So I'm listening to the Giants game the other day and the broadcasters were remarking about the umpire's strike zone. "He likes the low strike," was the comment. The conversation evolved into the different strike zones of various umpires, some high, some low, some outside, some inside. Really? Is that what they refer to as the "human ...

  • Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Members

    The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to change 103-year-old policy that turned away and kicked out openly gay scouts. Stephanie Chuang ...

  • Delays Revealed In Rescuing Longshoreman At Port Of Oakland

    OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Nearly a week after a longshoreman’s body was found inside his sunken pickup at the Port of Oakland, authorities reveal there were numerous delays in the efforts to rescue him. The longshoreman was in his truck when ...

  • Homeless in Silicon Valley

    Investigative journalist Bill Moyers takes a look at poverty and the homeless in Silicon Valley despite the area's tremendous wealth creation over the past decade from Google, Facebook, Oracle and ...

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