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Winter weather blocks view of meteors.

Today's storm also will serve as a celestial show-stopper, with clouds likely obscuring remnants of one of the year's larger meteor showers.

After unseasonably warm temperatures over the weekend and high temperatures in Reno on Monday exceeding 60 degrees, another storm is headed for the region today.

Rain and winds gusting up to 55 mph are expected in the Reno-Carson area today, while light snow in the mountains should intensify through the day into tonight.

It's really a "run of the mill" December storm, but it represents a change, said Alex Hoon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno.

"It's definitely a return to a more winter pattern," Hoon said.

Along Sierra ridges, winds today could gust in excess of 100 mph. Snow levels are expected to start high but lower to Lake Tahoe or below later in the day.

Up to 18 inches of snow might fall along the Sierra crest, with 6 to 12 inches expected above 7,000 feet. Several inches of snow are possible around Lake Tahoe.

"The snow is going to accumulate pretty fast," Hoon said. "It's definitely going to cause some travel issues.

Pomplamoose helps local schools

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Pomplamoose helps local schools.

He online success of a Marin County musical duo on YouTube is translating into thousands of needed book donations for school students in Richmond.

Book donors, in turn, get to download the Christmas album by Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, known to their fans as the act Pomplamoose.

Pomplamoose sold some 100,000 songs online last year, and the YouTube video channel PomplamooseMusic has almost 210,000 subscribers who track releases by the duo.

Tyler Hester, a ninth-grade English teacher at the Leadership Public Schools charter high school in Richmond, has been close friends since college with Conte and Dawn and suggested leveraging the group's online popularity to bring books to low-income students.the site's donation counter showed 3,708 donors sending 4,179 books.

The Richmond Book Drive site has full details about the donation/download offer and a link to amazon.com, which has a wish list of needed books. Donors make a purchase, put the Leadership School as the delivery address and then are directed to a "thank you" page where they can download the Christmas album in return.

WEST COUNTY NOTES: A new group dedicated to stemming the tide of violence among young men is holding a kickoff event at 4 p.m. today at Peter's Rock Deliverance Temple Church of God in Christ, 4739 Foothill Blvd. in Oakland. One of the founders of the Grieving Mothers Unite group is Peggy Walker, of Richmond, whose son, Carlnell Walker, was killed in 2006 as he prepared for his junior year at Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta.

Organizers want to reach out to other mothers who have lost their children to violence and hope they will come to hear and further the group's goals, which include helping victims' families cope with the loss and providing assistance and guidance to young people trying to break out of the cycle of violence.

Crystal Bowersox: The Reality Rocks

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Crystal Bowersox: The Reality Rocks

Many past "American Idol" contestants have milked personal sob stories to increase their likability factor, but during Season 9, runner-up Crystal Bowersox only needed to rely on her immense talent to get all the way to the finale. She kept much of her personal life tightly under wraps during the show, but still, viewers couldn't help but detect a depth of pain and hard-won life experience behind her quiet, steely exterior.

When I recently got the chance to interview Crystal over at Sony Music headquarters in Los Angeles, talk about her goal to not make a typical "cheesy" Idol album and the possibility of her crossing over to the country market soon led (around the 4:30 mark in the video below) to a heartfelt discussion about her album's "here I am, this is my story, take it or leave it" statement song.

It's definitely autobiographical. I never want to talk about my mother poorly because she did the best she could...She was a single mom of three kids. That is not easy...We were poor and she would get frustrated and she didn't know how to deal with her emotions, and she'd turn to drinking and things would get physical a lot in our house growing up...There was constant chaos, cops on the lawn, physical fights and stuff. A lot of my youth was very dark and ugly. But I don't see 'Farmer's Daughter' as a dark song, because for me it was healing.

Crystal Bowersox

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Crystal Bowersox.

Crystal Bowersox captured our hearts on American Idol, and her career is definitely taking off thanks to the show. With her debut album, Farmers Daughter, finally being released, Crystal Bowersox is an all-American success story that everyone should feel inspired by.Here are five things you may not know about Crystal Bowersox’s untold story.

1. Crystal Bowersox didn’t tell American Idol producers her whole story, because she didn’t want America voting for her because they felt sorry for her.

2. Before American Idol, Crystal Bowersox dug through garbage cans for food and slept on park benches.

3. When her son was born, she couldn’t afford a crib, so he slept in a Moses basket on her nightstand. (Crystal did say that her son is getting a race car bed this Christmas.

4. Some of the lyrics on Farmers Daughter suggest that she was the child of an alcoholic, and was abused.

5. Crystal Bowersox admits that her upbringing was “dark and ugly.”

Be sure to get Crystal Bowersox’s new album, Farmer’s Daughter. It’s sure to be a hit!

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The Results of the UFC 124 Matches.

UFC 124: GSP Vs. Koscheck – UFC 124 takes place in Montreal tomorrow. Maybe if you’ve visited the site with our speakers on this week you’ve heard about it. Josh Koscheck is going to beat Georges St. Pierre. How do you like that Montreal? It will be a hometown crowd for welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre as he takes on.

UFC 124: Dana White Says Pay-Per-View Will Do “Record Business” – UFC 124: When Dana White talks, people usually listen. And the UFC president has said that he expects UFC 124 to do “record business.” At the pay-per-view’s press conference yesterday, White said that Montreal’s Bell Centre will be packed with more than 23,000 fans and rake in more than $5 million at the gate. The current records for a UFC event are UFC 66 in Las Vegas ($5,397,300 at the gate.

UFC 124 Fever and Weigh-In Results – The official weigh-in of UFC 124 fighters was concluded last night. Check out their official weights and statistics and how the crowd reacted.

UFC 124: Georges St-Pierre and the 10 Most Well-Rounded MMA Fighters (w/Video) – When the Ultimate Fighting Championship invades Montreal for UFC 124: St-Pierre vs. Koscheck 2, it will mark the organization’s fifth appearance North of the Border. The event will be the Bell Centre’s fourth, with UFC 115 in Vancouver rounding out the Canadian quintet. The event will also mark a possible crowning moment for UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre.

UFC 124: Fight Card Predictions and Latest News Heading Into Event – UFC 124 is just over 24 hours away, and the event will be headlined by the highly anticipated rematch between Georges St. Pierre and Josh Koscheck. It’s the UFC’s welterweight champion versus the fighter who fans love to hate. A record crowd is expected to be on hand for what should be one of the most entertaining fights of the year.

UFC 124 preview: Trash-talkers Koscheck and McCorkle get chance to back it up – Millions of pay-per-view buys back a simple fact: Trash-talking sells. Thankfully for the UFC, there’s been plenty of that to go around in the two marquee fights of UFC 124, whether it be in person, on camera, or online.

UFC 124: Josh Koscheck Addresses His “Bad Guy” Reputation – UFC 124: Josh Koscheck is undoubtedly the “the bad guy” in his UFC 124 fight against George St. Pierre in his home country of Canada. And according to Yahoo! Sports, Koscheck has definitely embraced the role . “I’m a bad guy; what can I say?” Koscheck said. “That’s what everybody believes, so I might as well go with it. I’m here to win fights, make money and be successful.

UFC 124: Josh Koscheck Addresses His “Bad Guy” Reputation – UFC 124: Josh Koscheck is undoubtedly the “the bad guy” in his UFC 124 fight against George St. Pierre in his home country of Canada. And according to Yahoo! Sports, Koscheck has definitely embraced the role . “I’m a bad guy; what can I say?” Koscheck said. “That’s what everybody believes, so I might as well go with it. I’m here to win fights, make money and be successful.

UFC 124: Josh Koscheck Addresses His “Bad Guy” Reputation – UFC 124: Josh Koscheck is undoubtedly the “the bad guy” in his UFC 124 fight against George St. Pierre in his home country of Canada. And according to Yahoo! Sports, Koscheck has definitely embraced the role . “I’m a bad guy; what can I say?” Koscheck said. “That’s what everybody believes, so I might as well go with it. I’m here to win fights, make money and be successful.

Anonymous

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Anonymous "For a number of days the websites. MasterCard Visa PayPal and others are attacked by a group of wikileaks supporters. Although the group calls itself 'Anonymous,' researchers at the DACS group of the University. The LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) software, which is used by the hacktivists, was analyzed by UT researchers, who concluded that the attacks generated by this tool are relatively simple and unveil the identity of the attacker.

If hacktivists use this tool directly from their own machines instead of via randomization networks such as Tor, the Internet address of the attacker is included in every Internet message being transmitted. In the tools no sophisticated techniques are used, such as IP-spoofing, in which the source address of others is used, or reflected attacks, in which attacks go via third party systems.

Josh Turner Biography

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Josh Turner Biography. A native of Hannah, SC, deep-voiced Josh Turner burst on the country scene in 2003 with the powerful "Long Black Train," a song Turner had written after listening to a Hank Williams box set. Sounding like a gospel-blues out of the 1940s, "Long Black Train" wrestles with the grand themes of temptation, salvation, death, and redemption, and the song quickly brought Turner national media attention. His first album, Long Black Train, produced by Frank Rogers, was released by MCA in 2003. Prior to the album release, Turner had issued two 7" vinyl singles, "She'll Go on You" and "Long Black Train," both backed with the same B-side, "Backwoods Boy." A second album on MCA, Your Man, was released in 2006 and reached number two on the Top 200.

Carrie Underwood Top Winner At American Country Awards Carrie Underwood Top Winner At American .

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Carrie Underwood Top Winner At American Country Awards Carrie Underwood Top Winner At American.When it comes to Las Vegas, Carrie Underwood is a sure bet.

Underwood won her second country music artist of the year award of 2010 in Sin City on Monday night (Dec. 7). She earned it at the inaugural American Country Awards about eight months after she won the top honor at the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.

In both cases, fans determined the winner. And when it comes to fan support, Underwood has no match. Her fans vote early and often - a holdover from her time as "American Idol" champion - and she made sure to give a shoutout to her supporters after winning six awards.

"We have had the most amazing year out on the road but we wouldn't be doing anything if there weren't people out there sitting in that audience," Underwood said from the stage at the MGM Grand, where the ACMs also are held.

"So to everybody that came out to see us [or] anybody else out here, you guys are awesome for supporting us like you do. God bless the fans."

Lady Antebellum took home four Fender Stratocasters given out as trophies and Easton Corbin finished with three wins, including breakthrough artist of the year. The two acts were tied for the most nominations with seven.

Along with artist of the year, Underwood won album of the year for "Play On" and tour of the year.

Lady A won single of the year for the trio's breakthrough, "Need You Now," and artist of the year: duo or group. Brad Paisley was voted male artist of the year and Blake Shelton and host Trace Adkins won music video of the year.

The show was performance heavy and featured Rascal Flatts and Alan Jackson performing medleys of their hits after tributes, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan teaming up on "My Kinda Party," and Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner and the Band Perry playing recent hits.

Adkins opened the show by declining to wear a pair of "meat chaps" offered by the show's producers, a la Lady Gaga's meat dress, in a pre-taped comedy skit. He also appeared to skip the monologue.

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