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Citing the tragic avalanche Friday that claimed at least 13 lives, Discovery Channel on Sunday canceled "Everest Jump Live," an historic event in which wingsuit flier Joby Ogwyn was to summit Mount Everest and jump off on live TV.
The deadly avalanche, the single-worst disaster in the iconic mountain's history, swept through the Khumbu Icefall above Mount Everest base camp as Sherpas were installing fixed ropes in preparation for the climbing season, which was just getting underway.
About 50 climbers, mostly Sherpas at work, were engulfed in a cloud of snow and ice over the area. Originally, 12 Sherpas were reported dead, four were reported missing, and six were reported injured.
On his Facebook page, Ogwyn wrote, "I am safe at base camp, but I have lost my Sherpa team in the avalanche [Friday]. These men were the salt of the Earth. Far better men than me. My heart is broken."
It was unknown how many Sherpas were in Ogwyn's team for "Everest Jump Live," which was scheduled for May 11.
Laurie Goldberg of Discovery Channel emailed this statement to GrindTV Outdoor on Sunday:
"In light of the overwhelming tragedy at Mount Everest and respect for the families of the fallen, Discovery Channel will not be going forward with 'Everest Jump Live.' Our thoughts and prayers go out to the whole Sherpa community."
The future of the project beyond this year remains uncertain, as does the 2014 climbing season on Mount Everest.
The New York Times reported Sunday that the Sherpas, who make Mount Everest expeditions possible by setting ropes and carrying equipment, are considering going on strike because of the meager compensation the Nepali government offered families of the dead.
On Sunday, disappointed at the Nepali government's offer of 40,000 rupees, or about $408, as compensation for the families of the dead, some Sherpas gathered at Everest's base camp proposed a "work stoppage" that could disrupt or cancel the 334 expeditions planned for the 2014 climbing season.
Such a strike would be unprecedented, according to Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, who has pressed the government to increase the compensation package to $1,041 per family. He added that Sherpas were divided over whether to continue scaling Everest.
The dispute "has not yet been resolved," he said.
The tension promises to heighten on Monday, when groups of Sherpas plan to carry the bodies of their dead colleagues through the streets of Katmandu, Nepal's capital.
The avalanche occurred above 20,000 feet, more than 2,000 feet above Mount Everest base camp in an area considered the most dangerous part of the climbing route up the 29,035-foot mountain. The Khumbu Icefall has constantly shifting and falling ice, so it's already a recipe for disaster, nevermind an avalanche.
"A cliff of snow, like a house, came directly toward us, and many were killed at the same time," Kaji Sherpa told The New York Times from a hospital bed in Katmandu, Nepal. "There was nowhere to escape. If there was an open field, we could have dropped the baggage and escaped. But there was snow all around us that could have easily fallen if we stepped on it. So we were helpless."
Everest is no stranger to disasters. Its worst previous tragedy occurred on May 11, 1996, when eight climbers disappeared in a massive snowstorm. That catastrophe was detailed in Jon Krakauer's bestselling book Into Thin Air.
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The families of British soldiers have demanded that Gordon Brown should be questioned at the Iraq inquiry tomorrow about why British troops were killed in vehicles that continued to be used despite concerns over their safety.
Brown appears before the Chilcot inquiry with the panel under pressure to question him about whether he failed to provide enough money for British forces in Iraq while he was chancellor.
Last night it emerged that some families who lost loved ones in Iraq wanted Brown questioned specifically over why the Snatch Land Rover continued to be used, claiming it was clear it provided inadequate protection against bombs.
The Times reported a letter to Chilcot from a lawyer acting for the mother of Phillip Hewett who died in a roadside bombing in 2005. In the letter Hewett's family wrote: "We ask that you question Mr Brown about decisions he took as chancellor of the exchequer regarding funding of the Iraq war in light of evidence heard by your inquiry.
"Specifically, was he aware of concerns around the lack of armoured vehicles and did he receive any requests for funding (particularly in the period 1997-2006) to purchase armoured vehicles? What concerns, if any, were raised with him about the use of Snatch Land Rovers?"
More than 30 British service personnel have been killed while patrolling in the Snatch Land Rovers, which were designed for use in Northern Ireland.
They are now being replaced by other vehicles. Brown appears before the inquiry tomorrow after several earlier witnesses, appeared to say that Treasury financial constraints affected the quality of equipment available to British service personnel sent to Iraq. One of those witnesses was the former defence secretary at the time of the start of the conflict, Geoff Hoon.


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1. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPSAlessandro Rossi Feb 8, 2007 8:43 AM (in response to Billy~Verreynne)You get the wallet errors when you're using the connection not while you set its parameters and that is why if you can't connect throught the proxy you don't get errors about the wallet.
The error about the proxy configuration anyway is quite strange to see inside a function accepting a string, so I think it could be a possible misshandled exceptioin.
If you didn't do it yet,I suuggest you to verify if you can connect to that proxy with a simple utl_tcp.open_connection(), or that the string you passed is in the right format.
If that works, I suppose you have enought reasons to open a TAR on metalink.
Bye Alessandro
2. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPS474972 Feb 8, 2007 9:19 AM (in response to Billy~Verreynne)Hi !
please give all your variables type ( request, proxyServer ... etc ).
Try to use this in SQLPLUS ' replace the param values
SELECT utl_http.request(p_url, p_authent_login || ':' || p_authent_password ||'@' || p_proxy,'file:' || p_wallet_path, p_wallet_pwd)
This is a simple way to check if the WEB SERVER reponds in HTTPS.
p_authent_login, p_authent_password -> is for your proxy
3. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPSBilly~Verreynne Feb 8, 2007 9:56 AM (in response to Alessandro Rossi)> The error about the proxy configuration anyway is quite strange to see inside
a function accepting a string, so I think it could be a possible misshandled
Well, the command sequence is correct as far as UTL_HTTP documentation goes and numerous samples on the Net.
It also makes sense ito how this works via web browsers :
- first set the parameter (including the proxy to use)
- start the request (e.g. type in the URL in the address bar and press enter)
- the browser is challenged by the web server and pops up a Basic Auth username & password box
- username and password are enterred and submitted
- the web browser passes the that to the web server and the web proxy server accepts and executes the URL (contacts the actual server in the URL)
So the following code sequence does not seem wrong to me:
This sequence btw works fine for HTTP.
-- enter URL and submit (note that this goes to the proxy) request := UTL_HTTP.begin_request( url ); -- provide auth details to the proxy UTL_HTTP.set_authentication(request, proxyUser, proxyPass, 'Basic', TRUE ); -- the proxy now passes the request through to the actual web server and we get a response response := UTL_HTTP.get_response( request );
The only additional complexity is now adding another setting up front - the wallet. And making a HTTPS request via the proxy instead of a HTTP one.
The basic auth is also for the proxy server. It challenges the web browser. Usually it will be the destination web server that challenges the web browser. According to the docs that is the purpose of the for_proxy parameter - which when set provide the response to the Basic Auth challenge to the proxy.
All this works fine with HTTP...
What puzzles me is that if I introduce an error on purpose using HTTPS, I get a meaningful error message - but only when not using a proxy. E.g. I use a wallet without the necessary certificate. I'm told that by UTL_HTTP.
However, when the only change is to make use of a proxy, the error becomes a seemingly meanless number/value error.
Which is why it seems to me that the error has something to do with the proxy and HTTPS combo - before it even gets to using the wallet.
As for opening a TAR on Metalink.. I'm not sure how quick they will be able to provide a meaningful answer/workaround on this. After all, I expect that they do not have ready-to-use R&D environments to test HTTPS without a proxy, with a proxy using no authentication, and with a proxy using authentication.
Am trying to set this up myself first to isolate the problem and determine if this is indeed a bug or not.
4. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPSBilly~Verreynne Feb 8, 2007 10:02 AM (in response to 474972)
SELECT utl_http.request(p_url, p_authent_login || ':' || p_authent_passwordHmm.. I will try, but I doubt that this will solve the problem.
||'@' || p_proxy,'file:' || p_wallet_path, p_wallet_pwd) FROM DUAL;
The exact same sequence of code (including opening the wallet), works via the proxy to a website via HTTP.
However, when the URL is changed from HTTP to HTTS, the funny error results. And this occurs before the proxy authentication. I.e.
I need to get a hole punched into the local firewall in order to test this code without a proxy. It seems to me that the combination of proxy and HTTPS is a problem for UTL_HTTP.
request := UTL_HTTP.begin_request( url ); <== FAILS HERE BEFORE AUTHENTICATION (and only when the URL is HTTPS) UTL_HTTP.set_authentication(request, proxyUser, proxyPass, 'Basic', TRUE);
What I do find a tad strange is this problem is not mentioned anywhere on Metalink, here in Oracle Forums, or elsewhere on the net. So either I'm doing something unique (unlikely), or am missing something else that is required to make UTL_HTTP work via a proxy using HTTPS.
5. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPSBilly~Verreynne Feb 8, 2007 11:45 AM (in response to Billy~Verreynne)Yeehaa.. problem found - after using a ssh reverse tunnel to get direct access to the net.
With the proxy eliminated, the error become apparent with the appropriate error message being displayed as oppose to the funny number/value error.
Certificate chain was incomplete. Once the additional dependent certificates were installed, it is working fine using proxy authentication too.
Hmm.. can consider this a bug of sorts. When using a proxy the exception ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error is not trapped and returned as a ORA-29024: Certificate validation failure, as is the case when not using a proxy.
6. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPSBilly~Verreynne Feb 8, 2007 12:33 PM (in response to Billy~Verreynne)Arrghh.. spoke to soon. The combination of authenticated proxy and HTTPS using UTL_HTTP does not seem to work.
Some more testing and then I will likely file a TAR on this.. sigh
7. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPS454278 Oct 18, 2007 5:12 PM (in response to Billy~Verreynne)Hi,
Were you able to get a solution to this? I have a similar problem. I am trying to make a web call to an HTTPS url, using UTL_HTTP, and am getting the following error:
ORA-29106: Cannot import PKCS #12 wallet.
There is not much available on Google or Metalink.
8. Re: Using UTL_HTTP for HTTPS724532 Jan 13, 2011 7:26 PM (in response to 454278)I too am getting a similar problem. I'm in a situation where I'm trying to retrieve the authorization certificate from a thrid-party service. The only oracle documentation I can find claims (not verbatim) that the BER-encoding is malformed or unrecognized.
I am currently looking into this. Any help would be much appreciated!


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July 24, 2013
Seeing my last blog post from February really hits me that I have no time to blog these days. I really miss it and want to get back to it. So many little life things that I want to remember and I know that my tired Mama brain won't be able to remember it all. I revamped the design of my blog. Taking down the sidebar and the blog her ads. I don't know what happened to them but theyr disappeared. Probably due to the fact that I haven't blogged in five months. Five months! So much has happened in the last five months... Maximilien turned six, L'OisiveThé turned five, the yarn portion of my business has really taken off and my kids have finished another school year.
Alixe will be starting Moyenne Section and Maximilien will be in CP (first grade) this fall. My first born in first grade already! Time is just getting away from me. How do we make it slow down?
It's been a super busy time at L'OisiveThé the last few months. Lots of yarn activities with the new classes that I started in the spring and collaborations with my friend, Cécile on crochet projects. I have started crocheting and find it very addicting.
The fact that there is only one stitch to manage at all times is very fun. I always find myself easily picking up where I left off where as in knitting it isn't always the case. My first project is The Babette Blanket by Kathryn Merrick. A twist on a classic granny square blanket. I never got tired of making the same square over and over again especially since I used 32 different colors of Koigu KPM and KPPPM.
The kids have expressed intersted in learning to knit. I started Maximilien off with a French knitting doll. He loves it. He puts it down and comes back to it regularly and just this morning before leaving for day camp he asked to do a few rows. I love seeing my children being fascinated by new things even if it makes us late in the mornings it's worth it.
I always seemed to try to not talk about work too much on my blog. I don't even really remember why... but since my life is pretty much all about working and taking care of the kids I might as well blog about both instead of just trying to filter it out. Things at the tea house are going well. We are getting ready to close for the summer holidays and that will be a nice break of the routine. We will be re-doing the floors next week and after that I will be able to spend a couple weeks without thinking too much about tea house business. Maybe just a week without thinking about tea house business... fall is knitting season and I have to get things lined up for the Marie Claire show in November. Time as I mentioned before is going by fast... in every aspect of my life.


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While the House of Representatives was conducting its own investigation into the use of aircraft, the General Board of the Navy had under way a voluminous report for the President, on the relative efficiency of airship and battleship, with a view to allotting appropriations to increase the Navy's strength. Last week, the Board, composed of seven Admirals and General Lejeune of the Marine Corps, made its report.
It summarized the limitations of aircraft as follows:
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They are the surviving connections of the past Triple Crown winners — owners, trainers and jockeys — and to a man and woman, they believe California Chrome has what it takes to win the Belmont Stakes on June 7 and become the 12th Triple Crown winner.
Patrice Wolfson, who owned Affirmed with her husband, Louis, at Harbor View Farm in Florida, ranks California Chrome above the 12 horses that failed to complete the Triple Crown since Affirmed did it in 1978. Wolfson predicts that California Chrome will win the Belmont Stakes and succeed where the previous 12 failed: Spectacular Bid (1979), Pleasant Colony (1981), Alysheba (1987), Sunday Silence (1989), Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998), Charismatic (1999), War Emblem (2002), Funny Cide (2003), Smarty Jones (2004), Big Brown (2008) and I'll Have Another (2012). Of the group, I'll Have Another is the only one that didn't run in the Belmont, having been scratched because of an injury.
"This horse has the best chance," Wolfson said. "He's unique. He's special, and we love him. We all think he's special. We all want to see a special horse win it, and he has that something special. Let's hope he shows it (June 7)."
Said Steve Cauthen, who was 18 years old when he won the Triple Crown on Affirmed: "He looks just like a freak, and he's doing things beyond his breeding. I'm looking for him to pull it off. Art Sherman is training him perfectly. I'm pretty optimistic this horse has a chance to pull it off."
Billy Turner — who trained Seattle Slew, the 1977 Triple Crown winner — still trains at Belmont Park, site of the Belmont Stakes for the last 145 years. Turner has seen California Chrome every day on the track since the horse arrived after winning the Preakness Stakes. Turner said Chrome is a much different horse than Slew, who had to be trained hard to get rid of all his "monster" energy, as Turner called it.
"He's such a nice horse," Turner said of Chrome. "He goes out and jogs or gallops and walks around, notices the crowd. He seems to really enjoy what he does.
"The thing is, nothing excites him. He won't get caught up in a speed duel, so no use sending a rabbit out for him. It boils down to him riding his race and the rider doing what he needs to do, whether it's early or late. He's proven already that he's the dominating horse in the 3-year-old ranks, regardless of how he runs in the Belmont. He would be unlucky not to win the Belmont."
All of the connections interviewed for this story praised the way that owners Steve Coburn and Perry Martin, trainer Sherman and jockey Victor Espinoza have handled the pressure of the Triple Crown grind. They agreed that a win in the Belmont and a Triple Crown title would be worth in the neighborhood of $100 million to California Chrome's connections. Dr. Jim Hill, who owned Seattle Slew, said a Triple Crown win in 2014 dollars would be worth an "unimaginable amount of money."
"A lot of it depends on whether we have some new shooters in the game, people who will make the investment in stallions and upgrading their brood mares," said Penny Chenery, who owned Secretariat.
Chenery said the Internet brought new life to the Secretariat name. She said www.secretariat.com, started in 2002, has given her a whole new career as caretaker of the legacy of one of the greatest horses of all time, whose 31-length win in the 1973 Belmont is considered one of the greatest performances in racing history. That broke a Triple Crown drought of 25 years. Now it's at 36 years.
None of the connections are in favor of the proposal to stretch out the Triple Crown season to nine weeks; currently, there are five weeks between the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.
"It's not fine with me," Chenery said. "I think it would invalidate all the records and all the times. It would make it an entirely different event. This horse has a very good chance. I'm a traditionalist. People would lose interest in it."
"It would just be awful," Wolfson said. "It's such a special group of races, and the timing is perfect. It's super the way it is, and no one should ever think of changing it under any circumstances."
Said Hill: "It's a special thing right now. And racing needs something that is really special. If there were a Triple Crown every two years, what would that do? This makes it so a super horse has to win it. Not only is it an exceptional horse that wins it all, but there must be good training, good management and good luck. All those things have to come together for it to happen."
Turner said the whole idea of breeding a Triple Crown horse is to breed one with speed and stamina, two qualities that the Triple Crown connections say California Chrome has. The former jockeys — Cauthen; Ron Turcotte, the rider of Secretariat; and Jean Cruguet, who rode Seattle Slew — talked about the colt's "versatility" and ability to "turn it on" when asked.
"Look at the way California Chrome moved at the top of the stretch in the Preakness, and seemingly without asking, just on his own," Cauthen said. "He is like Affirmed."
Said Turcotte: "I'd like to see the horse win. I love the horse. I love the way he's training."
Chenery admires the work ethic and attitude of California Chrome's owners, Coburn and Martin.
"These gentlemen are the kind of guys who get up every morning and go to work, and they say they won't do anything differently if they win (the Triple Crown)," Chenery said. "It's a wonderful story."


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On October 14, 2011, after 19 months of review and $15 million, HHS announced what most people -- including many Members of Congress, independent analysts, and CMS' own actuary -- have known about the CLASS program since before the health care bill became law: it is completely unsustainable.
After determining that the CLASS program cannot meet the law's 75-year solvency requirement, HHS has decided not to implement this provision of the law.
We didn't need to waste 19 months of time and $15 million of taxpayer money to arrive at this conclusion. Months before PPACA became law, the warning was being sounded.
On July 9, 2009, CMS Actuary Richard Foster wrote: "Thirty-six years of actuarial experience lead me to believe that this program would collapse in short order and require significant federal subsidies to continue."
Also that month, the American Academy of Actuaries wrote to the Senate HELP Committee:
"Our actuarial analysis demonstrates that the proposed structure and the premium requirements within the CLASS Act plan are not sustainable."
In October 2009, Senators Kent Conrad, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu, Evan Bayh, Mark Warner, and Ben Nelson asked Harry Reid to strip the CLASS Act out of the pending health reform legislation.
And Kent Conrad, the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, famously called the CLASS Act "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of."
All of this was before PPACA was signed into law. So why was the CLASS Act included? Quite simply, PPACA's authors needed savings, and the CLASS Act provided a convenient budgetary gimmick.
Since participants would have to pay into the program for five years before becoming eligible for any benefits, CBO estimated including the CLASS Act would reduce the 10-year cost of the legislation by $70 billion. (Incidentally, CBO also estimated massive deficits for the program outside the 10-year window.)
By February 16th of this year, even Secretary Sebelius publicly admitted that the CLASS Act is "totally unsustainable."
The CLASS Act was doomed from the start. It should not have been included in PPACA, and it should not have taken eight months after the Secretary publicly discredited the program for the Department to pull the plug.
We have a very serious long-term care problem in this country. Costs are driving people into bankruptcy and weighing down an already over-burdened Medicaid program.
The CLASS Act should not only be shelved; it should be repealed.
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Research shows overconfidence can raise your status even if you don't have the skills to back it up. A paper on the subject by Jessica Kennedy of Vanderbilt University and Cameron Anderson and Don Moore of UC Berkeley attempts to explain this phenomenon.
The authors claim overconfidence leads to greater peer-rated social skills and greater peer-rated task ability even if your ability is average. It comes across as the demonstration of leadership, resulting in reduced anxiety for people around you.
Talkativeness and active engagement is something people with overconfidence have that people with greater ability might not. Overconfidence inspires initiative and collaboration.
— Adapted from "It Pays to Be Overconfident, Even When You Have No Idea What You're Doing," Matthew Hutson, NYMag.com.


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Travis Waller has had an incredible spring. The Anaheim (Calif.) Servite four-star quarterback has landed offers from around the country. He's moved to No. 104 in the country by Rivals.com.
Now two Pac-12 powerhouses - USC and Oregon - are showing more interest in Waller and he's definitely open to listening to both coaching staffs.
USC has two quarterbacks already committed in Ventura (Calif.) St. Bonaventure's Ricky Town and Elkton (Md.) Eastern Christian Academy's David Sills but Waller said the coaches have reached out once again and could seriously pick up in recruiting him.
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"They are back interested because from what USC has told my head coach, they want a guy that can run an offense how they did at Washington," Waller said in a text message.
Oregon missed on Allen, Texas, four-star quarterback Kyler Murray on Wednesday, when he picked Texas A&M over the Ducks and others, but Waller has been hearing from Oregon's staff for a long time.
The Anaheim (Calif.) Servite standout who shined at the RCS Southern California and many other events this offseason has been in regular communication with Oregon offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Scott Frost, who's made it clear that Waller has always been a priority.
With Murray going to the SEC, Waller could be one of the next quarterbacks in line to get offered by the Ducks. The four-star recruit said he's only had positive talks with Oregon's coaches.
"I know there's they hype saying "last resort" but I talked to (Oregon) weekly for a while now but coach Frost explained the whole situation to me so it makes more sense," Waller said.
"I did come up on their board late due to the fact that I blew up my junior year and not like others how they blew up sophomore year. They said I'm still high in their mind and I would be a great fit like how (Marcus) Mariota is."
So far, Waller has been offered by Alabama, Arizona, BYU, Cal, Colorado, Fresno State, Maryland, Ole Miss, Northwestern, Penn State, Tennessee, Utah, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Washington. Rivals.com rates him as the fifth-best dual-threat quarterback in the class.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Anyone who follows the NBA knows that post-game press conferences these days look a lot like a Drew Carey family reunion. Glasses are everywhere.
High fashion eye wear: It's not just for chemistry majors anymore.
Of all the goofy sports fashions that occur, few are stranger than this: Horn-rimmed glasses in the interview room. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant, Glen Davis, Amar'e Stoudemire, Kevin Garnett and Russell Westbrook have each shown up in glasses during the postseason, often without prescription lenses — or any lenses at all.
Little do they know it doesn't actually make them look smarter, it only makes them look like Buddy Holly. My only question is whether they buy them at a pricey eye-wear boutiques or All-A-Dollar.
Either way, I imagine Kurt Rambis is really ticked. Glasses didn't get cool until he stopped wearing them.
Such nerdiness is in direct contrast to the old days. Used to be that athletes wanted us to believe they all had 20-20 vision, if not better. In school they made fun of the guys who wore specs. Now it's the nerds who are the best players on the court. The stars don't wear glasses in games, as Rambis did 25 years ago, but they certainly do afterward.
Sometimes they'll fashion an ensemble that includes an argyle or letter sweater, jeans and a wrinkled, untucked cotton shirt.
They look like they came straight out of a 1961 high school yearbook.
This style didn't actually become fashionable for athletes until recently. Spectacles were a sign of bookishness, which wasn't highly valued in sports. Considering an estimated 75 percent of American adults need vision correction and 64 percent actually do wear glasses, it's a wonder specs haven't been more popular with the superstar crowd.
Occasionally someone actually did break through. George Mikan, the first famous big man in basketball, wore glasses wherever he went, including the court. Then there was Bob Griese, the NFL quarterback who wore specs beneath his face guard. He looked vaguely like a guy in a World War I gas mask.
Others followed, and in some cases the results were fairly spec-tacular. For instance, nobody ever called Reggie Jackson a nerd. He was Mr. October. It just so happened he had the eyesight of Mr. Magoo.
Yet for the most part, no one wore glasses if they didn't need to. Now a person can't visit a restaurant without running into some star wearing frames. James usually goes with basic black, as heavy and thick as a garden hose. Wade has been known to wear even thicker black or gray goggles, tortoise shells or flip-ups like Dwayne Wayne in "A Different World."
Westbrook has tried everything, including bright blue and candy apple red. Durant typically chooses something dark and low key.
Great, just when laser surgery starts becoming affordable to the masses, athletes are promoting myopia awareness.
Wade told South Florida Sun-Sentinel columnist Dave Hyde: "I don't know what the statement is. Everybody wants to look smarter than what they are, I guess. I don't know."Comment on this story
Businessweek recently interviewed James' stylist, Rachel Johnson, about the proper time to wear non-prescription glasses. Her response: "When you're in a business meeting or any situation in which a gentleman needs to present himself in a very serious light. It's a great way to change the way people perceive you."
Does this mean Westbrook's bonehead foul at the end of Game 4 of the NBA finals is now forgiven?
In any case, the studious look seems destined to stay around awhile. Which is good, if you ask me. It erases some old stereotypes. Plus, with athletes and models sporting rumpled shirts, beard stubble and geeky glasses, I figure it's now safe for me to go out in public looking exactly as I do when I first wake up.
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text: December 11, 2012 SHARE WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has updated his blog over at JRsBarBQ.com. Below are some highlights: Punk vs. @TheRock at the Royal Rumble in Phoenix will be a giant attraction especially as both talents begin to totally focus on the specific event. I'm curious to see how the build to the Rumble unfolds. Without question Paul Heyman @HeymanHustle will be an integral part of the process. @WWESheamus vs. @HEELZiggler was the best match of the night. Certainly one of the better free, TV bouts that I've seen in a good while. If I had to pick 10 guys to start a new roster, these two would be on that list. Ziggler had an MVP like night and my only concern is his body holding up considering the athletic hell it endures on a regular basis. Dolph's the kind of guy that has one basic pace and that's all out. Sooner than later Ziggler will realize that more often than not that less is more is more than a often used wrestling Cliche. Watching at home, it felt like @Ryback22 got one of his best live audience reactions on Raw. Seems like the Las Vegas native is beginning to click and will likely continue to do so. Again, some fans with zero patience want it to happen 'yesterday' but speaking from experience the process takes time. I can provide numerous illustrations of this going all the way back to the 70's when I started in the business. SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER raw "ThOUghTs:" Who Needs to Win At WWE's TLC PPV - Ryback or The Shield? 3MB Segment Cut From Raw Last Night, WWE Superstar to Acquire "Iconic" Foley Move VIDEO: The Latest WWE "Superstar Toyz" With Mick Foley 3MB Segment Cut From Raw Last Night, WWE Superstar to Acquire "Iconic" Foley Move CM PunkDolph Zigglerjim rossRybackSheamusThe RockWWEWWE Royal Rumble Have a news tip? Attended an event and want to send a live report? Submit it now!


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Home Cooks > Recipes > Slow Cooker Asian Pulled Chicken Nachos
Pulled Chicken:
2 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken breast
½ cup canned tomato sauce
¼ cup tomato paste
¼ cup Kikkoman® Less Sodium Soy Sauce
3 Tbsp. Kikkoman® Rice Vinegar
3 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. cold water
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 ½ tsp. minced, fresh ginger (or ½ teaspoon dried ginger)
¼ tsp. red chili flakes
2 scallions, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
Pickled Cucumbers:
2 Tbsp. Kikkoman® Rice Vinegar
2 tsp. honey
1 English cucumber, thinly sliced
1 bag (8 ounces) tortilla chips
1 cup finely chopped yellow bell pepper
3 ounces shredded Monterey jack cheese
Optional garnishes:
Sesame seeds, sliced scallions, cilantro and extra sauce
Place the tomato sauce, tomato paste, soy sauce, vinegar, honey, scallions, garlic, ginger and red chili flakes in the bowl of a slow cooker and stir to combine. Add the chicken and cover with the sauce. Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 2 hours.
Remove the chicken and place it on a cutting board. Shred the meat with two forks.
Mix the cornstarch and water in a small bowl and add the mixture to the sauce in the rice cooker. Cook on high for 5-10 minutes until the sauce thickens. Reserve about ¼ cup of the sauce in a bowl to drizzle on top of the nachos. Add the shredded chicken to the remaining sauce in the slow cooker.
To make the pickled cucumbers, mix the vinegar and honey together in a shallow bowl. Add the cucumber slices and let sit for 10-15 minutes.
To assemble the nachos, spread the tortilla chips out on a baking sheet. Top them with the cheese and about half of the pulled chicken (save the remaining chicken for sandwiches another day). Turn the broiler on and place the tray under the broiler for 1-2 minutes until the cheese is melted.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven and top the nachos with the pickled cucumbers, diced bell pepper, sesame seeds, scallions, cilantro and the reserved sauce, as desired.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan glory bid for title in danger
Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan trails Joe Perry by two frames going into the final session of the second round clash.
The pair shared the eight frames of yesterday's absorbing session as world number 15 Perry moved from a 5-3 first session advantage to a 9-7 lead.
The damage could have been worse for O'Sullivan, with Perry missing a number of opportunities for a four-frame lead.
The five-time world champion made a statement of intent from the start of yesterday's session, compiling a break of 93 in the opening frame, only denied a century by going in-off on the black.
Perry restored his two-frame advantage with a break of 68 and went further ahead with runs of 48 and 46 in the 11th frame.
A missed red let O'Sullivan in for a break of 66 as he narrowed the gap to 7-5, and the Rocket got the better of a safety exchange to move within one frame.
Perry responded with two flawless back-to-back frames, a nerveless 86 restoring his two-frame advantage and a 73 moving him further ahead.
Despite his superb performance, Perry will have been disappointed not to hold a 10-6 lead overnight, with O'Sullivan bringing an end to a lengthy frame and an engrossing session by clearing from yellow to pink.
Alan McManus moved 4-3 ahead of fellow veteran Ken Doherty after a gruelling first session of their second round clash.
Scottish 43-year-old McManus compiled his first Crucible century in nine years – coincidentally the last was also against 44-year-old Dubliner Doherty – as he established a 4-1 lead.
But despite struggling to find any semblance of the form that brought him the 1997 world title, Doherty clawed his way back before the session was abridged with seven frames played.
Antrim's Mark Allen starts his second round match against Neil Robertson in the £1.25million event tomorrow.
Australian ace Robertson, the 2010 world champion, said: "Mark Allen is as tough an opponent as you could get in the last 16."
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By: Carlo Ombello
I've been a huge fan of Geneva's Motor Show for a long time, but to me this year's exhibition marked a transition between the past and the future. In its last few shows I got used to my eyes bulging at the latest super-powerful sports cars, or the newest models from both mass and upper market makers, all inevitably featuring sporty versions (my favorite) with high acceleration – and fuel consumption – figures. This year was different: a slew of new electric and hybrid models flooded the Geneva "Salon Auto".
Virtually every major carmaker put on display one or more plug-in cars. What matters most, those vehicles were the ones which generally grabbed the public's attention. If style is what always attracts show-goers first, the technology lying beneath the skin is the next wonder. And plug-in vehicles are starting to deliver: from production-ready models like the Nissan Leaf EV to mind-blowing concepts as the Porsche's hybrid prototype Spyder 918, Geneva's pattern was clear.
The evidence is mounting: the automotive industry is heading full throttle towards hybrid and eventually full electric propulsion, and there is no turning back. What was shown in Geneva highlighted the car industry's increasing desire and necessity to catch consumers' attention through style and sustainability, in the attempt – made by every carmaker – to move ahead of their old and new competitors in this looming, unprecedented rush to the automobile revolution. Car 2.0 is coming, and it's the real thing, a world-changing game. So real that for the first time in many years new brands like Tesla can dream of threatening the market share of well established European makers. Some companies like Nissan-Renault got the message and skipped hybrids altogether to get ahead in the race for the bigger electric prize. Others are still shy and keep experimenting a variety of solutions. But more and more plug-in prototypes and new models are announced month after month. It's a rush that cannot be stopped anymore, and there are more reasons to its increasing pace than just competition.
China and India, not Europe or the US, will play the crucial role. They are devoting increasing funds and long term plans to developing their own renewable energy industry, smart grid and of course electric cars. We have already seen what it means to a worldwide industry, be it wind or solar to name but two, when China or India weigh in. What is it likely to happen to the car industry, when their own EVs and batteries will flood the market, and will be bought by millions of Indian and Chinese people in the first place? Without even trying to make up unpredictable figures, we can easily anticipate one adjective for their impact to the automotive market: huge.
And if Asia holds the key to the energy and car markets destiny, there is one more key ingredient to the future of cars, which is worth stressing. Electric vehicles, Car 2.0, are in their nature – and industrial/marketing development potential – much closer to IT gadgets than to traditional cars. They belong to the Information Technology market. Forget about moving parts, oil leaks, expensive engine maintenance, EVs are the next IT frenzy after mobile phones, laptops, iPods and the likes. Like any IT gadget, the main required operation will be to plug them when idle (something that's fair to say most of us are already used to). Like laptops or smart phones, EVs will be multi-tasking tools, sending and receiving data through the smart electricity grid, and even displaying messages to the public through their metal skin (seen in Geneva). But unlike laptops and phones, they will also feed power to the grid when required (turning into a nation's precious asset). Like any IT gadgets, we will keep them for as long as swapping batteries will make sense, only to replace them when a cooler, up to date model will storm the market.
Most importantly, as any other IT gadget, the learning curve of EVs will be far steeper and quicker than that of the old-fashioned manufacturing industry, leading to incredible improvements in a very limited timeframe: months, rather than years. Battery research, already in a booming frenzy, will see breakthrough results pouring in faster and faster, possibly fading away range anxiety well before EVs do become mainstream. More energy-dense, lighter and cheaper battery packs are just round the corner. The critical mass has been reached.
A lot of old-fashioned energy consultancy firms and automotive analysts, let alone the International Energy Agency, keep posting studies showing very low percentages for EVs penetration in the car market by 2020, or even 2030 or 2050 (the oil industry is particularly good at making these self-indulging long term predictions). They all miss the point: none of their projection models have built in the presence of new wildly powerful global market drivers (such as China or India, as suppliers and consumers), none of them seem to appreciate (purposedly?) the disruptive effect of even a slight under-supply of oil to the world's economy and industry. All of them, finally, underestimate how customers could suddenly decide that electric cars are what they want to buy.
Carlo Ombello is a London-based environmental engineer originally from Milan, Italy. He works in the water/energy consulting industry, and has a keen passion for renewable energy and new technologies. Carlo recently started contributing to Chris Goodall's blog Carbon Commentary, where the full version of this article is available, and will soon be online with his own blog opportunity:energy.


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Nura T. Richey, 91, of 880 Ridgeway Road died Wednesday, July 26, 2000. Mrs. Richey was a daughter of the late Ollie and Lula Smith Thomas. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Bennie Lou Banks, and by a son, Joe Davis.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Ivie Funeral Home with the Revs. Danny Greene and Bobby Hill officiating. Burial will be in Webbs Creek Baptist Church cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, Ernest Richey; a son, Ted Davis, Hartwell; two brothers, Howell Thomas and Reeves Thomas, both of Commerce; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
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Barbie Man has 2,000 Barbies and 1,000 Kens displayed in his four-bedroom home.
Stanley Colorite, who lives in Hudson, Florida, lives in a Barbie dream house. He has filled four bedrooms including a bathroom in his home with a collection of 2,000 Barbies and 1,000 Ken dolls.
The 41-year-old Colorite began collecting the dolls two decades ago. He says he spends $30,000 a year adding to the collection.
The popular toys fills up a quarter of his home and has become a tribute to Barbie.
Both he and his partner, Dennis Schlicker, collect the dolls together. Their collection is estimated to be around $80,000.
"Barbie isn't just a toy for children, she's for adult collectors too.
"I can't stop collecting – it's like a drug habit, I just can't quit," Colorite said.
The Barbie Man has thousands of Barbies, but the one he treasures the most is the 1996 Pink Splendor Barbie, valued at $1000.
He also displays the oldest Barbie ever made from 1962 and the first Wedding Day Barbie from 1963.
Colorite and Schlicker love the dolls so much that they normally attend Barbie conventions all over. They also design jewellery and curling the dolls hair in their spare time.
Despite filling up four bedrooms and a bathroom with his collection, Colorite says he plans to continue adding to this collection.
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We welcome you to unforgettable adventures-on-sea in the Faroe Islands.
There are many tours to choose from, the most popular however being the boat-tour to the renowned Birdcliffs and Grottos north of Vestmanna, the Vestmannabjørgini. This is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Faroe Islands.
We take you through narrow sounds, into deep grottoes, carved by the surf through ages, and close to the over 1500 feet high-rise cliffs where thousands of seabirds are nesting.
In the midst of this magnificent North Atlantic nature, man feels indeed very inferior, and you will understand, why Faroese culture is so deeply rooted in respect for the forces of nature!
This is a guided tour.
All passengers are insured.
We advise you to book in advance.
How to book your seats: Go to the day you want to make the tour in the booking calendar on this page. The tours for 2018 will be made available for bookings in late november.
You will see the departure times for your chosen day, and you see the price when you fill in the form.
The duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours.
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Below Deck Mediterranean sets sail for a second season in the pinnacle of yachting destinations, the Mediterranean, with a new young, attractive, and bold crew aboard the 154' mega yacht, "Sirocco." As the team travels to some of the most famous islands of Croatia, they work hard to deliver an unparalleled experience for every guest but with major growing pains from the new working dynamic, they struggle to stay afloat. Facing long hours in catering to the guests' every want and need, the crew encounters choppy waters as they attempt to juggle severe cabin fever, hierarchy struggles, and the most love triangles in Below Deck history. While each charter presents a new group of guests and a new set of unthinkable requests, the crew with varying levels of experience works to overcome their differences in order to succeed. In the end, will the team focus on their shared passion for the luxurious "yachtie" lifestyle? Or will they succumb to the tension and politics of life below deck?


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DA: We have addressed sealed documents loophole
District Attorney Phil Koss said he has changed the language his prosecutors will use when requesting search warrants be sealed. The new form sets a six-month expiration date for the seal.
The change comes after a Gazette investigation showed search warrants in Walworth County could be shielded forever from public scrutiny, allowing police to search homes virtually undetected.
�There was no attempt to have a secret form,� Koss said. �(The Gazette) found a loophole, and we quickly addressed it.�
In the old procedure, motions to seal search warrants in Walworth County asked that all documents and their existence be kept under wraps. The seal acted as a seal on itself, as if the search never happened.
The two conditions to unseal search warrants were if a criminal complaint was filed or if a prosecutor filed a motion requesting the court to open the file. If no evidence of criminal activity was found and a criminal complaint was never filed, the documents could remain sealed forever.
Koss said his prosecutors have been advised to use a new template for requesting seals on search warrants, which reads, �These documents should not be open for public inspection until criminal complaints are filed, six months have passed or until further order of the court.�
Wisconsin law does not require prosecutors to file motions to seal documents including a sunset provision. The law grants judges the power to seal documents, but there is no legislation that outlines an appropriate length of time for a seal. Though judges have final say on whether the documents should be sealed, they base their decision on the request made by prosecutors.
The Gazette began investigating the issue when details of a search warrant executed last year at a Delavan home were kept secret for one month. Area police and Walworth County�s SWAT team�some bearing heavy weaponry and equipment�executed a no-knock search at 405 Pine St.
Law enforcement officials, prosecutors and court clerks refused to comment on the operation or the whereabouts of the search warrant files. One high-ranking sheriff�s official told the Gazette that the documents had been sealed and the case remained under investigation.
Another court official said the existence of the search warrants had been sealed along with the documents themselves. Those who knew about the search could not acknowledge it had happened or disclose any details.
Later-unsealed court documents show police were seeking a stolen firearm allegedly kept by Raul R. Valadez, one of the residents of 405 Pine St. Confidential informants told sheriff�s office detectives that Valadez had taken the weapon from another man, Blake A. Kruizenga, who was allegedly displaying the Desert Eagle handgun at a birthday party in Delavan Township.
Officials found drugs and paraphernalia at Valadez�s house, but no weapon. Kruizenga�s home also was searched, and the gun wasn�t there, either.
On Nov. 11, Kruizenga told police he had thrown the gun into Lake Como. The sheriff�s office dive team searched the area but didn�t find the weapon.
The Gazette filed an open records request with the clerk of courts requesting copies of orders sealing search warrants dated Sept. 1 and later.
The request was denied. In a written response, Deputy Corporation Counsel Michael Cotter wrote that all parts of the search warrant were sealed, including the seal itself.
Bob Dreps, an attorney at Madison-based Godfrey and Kahn law firm, said Wisconsin law is unclear, and there is no standard practice when it comes to sealing search warrants. It�s not spelled out in state statutes, so each county does it differently, he said.
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Matt Barkley's career isn't about to be derailed because he misses a spring scrimmage.
Rather, Saturday will be an opportunity for the USC Trojans to further develop their backups. The Orange County Register reports that according to coach Lane Kiffin, Barkley won't see much action this weekend, but Cody Kessler and Max Wittek will.
Kiffin wants to see how well they take care of the ball and the leadership they display in the huddle.
"Obviously, when you play quarterback, you have to be a field general," quarterbacks coach Clay Helton told the Register. "You have to be able to play from the sideline; communicate that in the huddle; be able to get that out in a timely manner; get your whole team up to the line of scrimmage; make sure everybody's lined up straight; read a defense; and get all that done in 40 seconds."
Barkley has shown he can do that. The others are working in that direction, but Helton said both Kessler and Wittek are much farther along than they were last spring.
Also, in USC spring football news, Tre' Madden has moved from linebacker to running back to give the Trojans some depth in the backfield. He was a heralded linebacker recruit, but might now follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
His father was a fullback at Kansas and his grandfather, Lawrence McCutcheon, played running back at Colorado State and later with the Los Angeles Rams.


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An assistant to retiring San Jose City Manager Debra Figone was appointed Tuesday by the San Jose City Council to replace his boss as of Dec. 21.
Ed Shikada, who has been assistant city manager under Figone since June 2010, will receive an annual salary of $250,000, slightly higher than Figone's compensation level, according to Mayor Chuck Reed's office.
Shikada has helped San Jose adapt to the city's financial conditions since 2010 by working on reducing the city workforce from 7,100 to 5,300 employees and then back up to the current 5,655 positions, according to the mayor's office.
"We are fortunate that Ed is willing to step up and lead our city as we recover from very difficult fiscal circumstances and begin to restore services to our residents and pay to our employees," Reed said in a memo today to the City Council.
Shikada's position serves as the city's chief administrative officer, reports directly to the City Council and oversees the city's $2.9 billion yearly budget, according to the mayor's office.
Shikada has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii and a master's degree in architecture and urban planning from UCLA, according to the mayor's office.
He previously worked as public works director for the city of Long Beach and headed the congestion management program for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, according to the office.
Shikada joined the city of San Jose as a deputy city manager in 2003.


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Rebecca Does Multiple Interviews in One Day
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Rebecca recently took a Major Media tour in New York to knock down five interviews in one day! Fox and Friends First commented that Rebecca was very well received. Fox Magazine, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Scarborough Country will all air their own interviews on future dates. Time Magazine also received the pleasure of having a one-on-one with St. James.


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Times were I'd build an entire weekend around Daytona, Sebring and the just-completed Le Mans. If for some reason I couldn't attend the races, friends would come over to the house and, whether poolside or inside, televisions all around would...
Times were I'd build an entire weekend around Daytona, Sebring and the just-completed Le Mans.
If for some reason I couldn't attend the races, friends would come over to the house and, whether poolside or inside, televisions all around would be tuned to the race of the weekend - wine, women, song and race video. Indeed, a standing rule: no porn allowed during race time. Life just didn't get much better than that.
With the 2006 Le Mans weekend now finished, it is for the first time in years - actually, that would be decades - I did not see or seek out a single minute of Le Mans coverage, live or video tape.
Admittedly, I've been consumed by traveling and paying attention to a certain USGA championship golf tournament, but I didn't even really care at all to look for Le Mans information of any sort.
Wow, what contrast: the speed of golf vs. the speed of cars going down that long-ass, better-than-3-mile straight in Le Mans.
But, I'm so into this golf thing that I didn't learn until Monday morning - that would be the day after the finish, EDT, CDT, MDT, PDT or Prime Meridian time - of the race's major overall upset win.
Or, in a "Can You Believe It II?" moment, another major upset was posted in GT1 as well. And it would all happen at the one race I didn't attend or see. Go figure.
Wow. Who would've thunk the A10 diesel with Piro, et al, would win? I bet only the team went in thinking itself capable of winning the race. Surely no one else gave the R10 a single chance in Hades of winning that race. But, Of course, that's to be expected by a team - to believe when no one else does. Good for them.
And how about Corvette winning the GT1 class in another huge surprise?
So great were those two accomplishments that I had to spare myself further finish-list reading excitement -- such adrenaline rushes being nearly intolerable to a half-century-old body.
Just those two results are almost more than this simple mind can comprehend.
I'll bet bookmakers the world over are sobbing to no end today. Indeed, the more morbid among us might want to closely watch the obituaries as bookmakers' self-inflicted death statistics will likely take a huge spike this week, so poorly did they fare in predicting the correct winners' odds.
Speaking of betting, I'll bet all of my U.S. $23.24 that this year's Le Mans finishing order will go down in history as The Bookmakers' Waterloo, what with the huge sums of money paid out for Le Mans' surprising underdog victories.
Then, also on Monday morning, I learned the ACO has decided to put roofs on their LMP1 cars in 2010.
Before long, every sportscar will have them. Then street cars will have them, too. Roofs over drivers' heads? Surely, for additional safety reasons, they'll soon be mandating seatbelts, too.
Where is this sportscar race thing going? To Sunyata in a hand basket, I say.
Of course, there's the still-topless LMP2 class. But, why? If it's important for one class, why not another?
Nevertheless, today I'm going to out on a huge limb and predict the overall winner of the 2010 Le Mans: The Audi R(oof)14.
And I'm betting all of the above mentioned funds on that major race upset, too, because even such a meager wager will surely provide funds for the rest of my life's wants.
I'll place it as soon as I can find a bookie who's willing to enter into such an obviously idiotic wager - assuming any bookies remain in the wake of one of bookmaking's most inglorious historical moments.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports - including Ryan Airfield in the Tucson area - that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday.
The towers, which are operated by contractors for the FAA at low-traffic airports, had been scheduled to close June 15. They will now remain open at least through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year, the department said in a statement.
A bill hastily passed by Congress last month to end air traffic controller furloughs also makes enough money available to keep the towers open, the statement said. The bill gave the FAA authority to shift $253 million from accounts with unspent funds to keep controllers on the job. The furloughs at all FAA-operated airport towers and air traffic control facilities caused widespread flight delays across the country for nearly a week before Congress stepped in.
While the decision gives the small airports a temporary reprieve, FAA officials will still be under pressure to find ways to further cut spending in next year's budget.
The Tucson Airport Authority applauded the FAA's decision and thanked Southern Arizona's congressional delegation in a news release Friday.
"Having a staffed tower at Ryan Airfield means major safety and economic benefits for our entire region. In partnership with FAA, industry groups and elected representatives, TAA will continue to work to extend tower funding beyond fiscal year 2013," said Tucson Airport Authority President/CEO Bonnie Allin.
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Would anyone know if there is a history site for the Eatons stores of Canada, specifically employees around the 1924-27 era. I am looking for
information on an employee Elizabeth Maud Clay, who we believe was a pianist who played to demonstrate pianos for sale in the downtown Toronto store.
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NFL Week 13 Las Vegas Odds
(The Spread) – The point spreads for Week 13 in the NFL have been released in Las Vegas. Let's check out the odds.
Week 13 kicks off on Thursday night this week when the Falcons host their NFC South rivals, the Saints. After beating Tampa Bay last Sunday to improve to 10-1 on the season, Atlanta is currently sitting as a 4-point favorite at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. They're favored despite losing to the Saints in New Orleans just three weeks ago.
On Sunday the Bears will host the Seahawks as a 4-point favorite while the Vikings will visit the Packers as a 9-point road dog. The 49ers are 7-point road favorites versus their NFC West foe the Rams, while the Cardinals are 4.5-point underdogs versus the Jets in New York. The Panthers-Chiefs game in Kansas City is currently sitting as a pick'em, although the spread may change after Carolina beat the Eagles in Philadelphia on Monday night.
Also on Sunday, the Colts will visit the Lions as a 4-point underdog and the Bills will host the Jaguars as a 6-point favorite. The Patriots are 7.5-point favorites versus the Dolphins in Miami and the Texans will be a 4.5-point road favorite when they travel to Tennessee this weekend.
The primetime games will feature all four teams from the NFC East as the Cowboys will host the Eagles at 8:30PM ET on Sunday Night Football, while the Giants will visit the Redskins on Monday Night Football. According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Cowboys are 7-point favorites versus the Eagles and the Giants are 2.5-point favorites against the Redskins.
For a complete list of Las Vegas odds for Week 13 in the NFL, see below.
2012 NFL Week 13 Las Vegas Odds & Over/Under Totals
301 New Orleans +4 (55.5)
302 Atlanta Falcons –4
339 Seattle Seahawks +4 (38)
340 Chicago Bears –4
341 Minnesota Vikings +9 (46.5)
342 Green Bay Packers –9
343 San Francisco 49ers –7 (41)
344 St. Louis Rams +7
345 Arizona Cardinals +4.5 (36.5)
346 New York Jets –4.5
347 Carolina Panthers PK (39.5)
348 Kansas City Chiefs PK
349 Indianapolis Colts +4 (51.5)
350 Detroit Lions –4
351 Jacksonville Jaguars +6 (44.5)
352 Buffalo Bills –6
353 New England Patriots –7.5 (51.5)
354 Miami Dolphins +7.5
355 Houston Texans –4.5 (47.5)
356 Tennessee Titans +4.5
357 Tampa Bay Buccaneers +7 (51)
358 Denver Broncos –7
359 Pittsburgh Steelers
360 Baltimore Ravens
361 Cleveland Browns +1 (45)
362 Oakland Raiders –1
363 Cincinnati Bengals +1 (46.5)
364 San Diego Chargers –1
365 Philadelphia Eagles +7 (46)
366 Dallas Cowboys –7
367 New York Giants –2.5 (51)
368 Washington Redskins +2.5
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Sunnyvale, Calif. - Marvell has built a generation of controllers for systems based on MIPS or PowerPC processors. The Discovery II line includes three devices for 64-bit MIPS-based processors (MV64340, MV64341 and MV64342) and three for PowerPC-based subsystems (MV64360, MV64361 and MV64362).
Apps range from from sophisticated core routers, wireless basestations and switches to high-volume embedded applications like storage networking and imaging systems. With dual PCI-X and multiple Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the controllers are said to enable Fibre Channel, iSCSI and Serial ATA storage apps.
All the devices also have I2C and interrupt controllers.
The six Discovery II system controllers incorporate a 100-Gbit/s crossbar switch with any-to-any connectivity and support nonblocking concurrent transactions among peripherals at full bus speeds. Each is packaged in a 724-ball PBGA, and priced from $49 to $99 in high volume quantities.
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City of Orlando Family Assistance Center announced
ORLANDO, Fla (WOFL FOX 35) - Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the City of Orlando, in partnership with federal, state, local and community agencies has opened the Family Assistance Center (FAC) to address the immediate needs and provide information, support and resources to those directly affected by the Pulse tragedy.
Services will be available to family members of the deceased; those suffering physical and emotional injuries; club staff and patrons and others directly impacted by this tragedy.
Services available include:
· Air Travel
· Child And Family Services
· Consulate Services
· Counseling/spiritual Care
· Crime Victim Services
· Funeral Services
· Ground Transportation
· Health Care Assistance
· Identification Documents
· Language Translation
· Legal Aid
· Lodging
· Medical Examiner
· Senior Services
More Information can be found on the City's website at Cityoforlando.net/FamilyAssistanceCenter. For questions, citizens should call 407-246-4357.
Hours of Operation for the FAC::
· Wednesday, June 15, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
· Thursday, June 16, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
· Friday, June 17, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
· Saturday, June 18, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
· Sunday, June 19, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Future hours of operation will be determined.
Camping World Stadium, formerly known as Orlando Citrus Bowl
1610 West Church Street, Orlando, FL 32805
Individuals visiting the FAC should park in Lot E, entrance off of S Tampa Avenue, west side of stadium. Visitors must then enter into Gate E, take the elevators to Level 2, and check in with FAC staff just outside the West Indoor Club. Staff will be available to guide visitors.
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This entry comes to us from Cool Capture group member senorita, who could use your help in figuring out what instrument she photographed:
To be honest, I am not sure what musical instrument this is but I love this shot. The object belongs to the people I rent from. Anyone know the name?
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Stuart Neville is having a TwitFic ghost story contest! Fun for all Twitterers.
Ghosts of Belfast TwitFic Contest: Scare me in 124 characters or less for prizes!
As you may be aware, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST will be published in the USA by Soho Press this Thursday, the 1st of October. I'll be embarking on a US tour (details here) to celebrate the launch, so please come and say hello if you're near any of the venues.
The other thing that happens in October is, of course, Halloween, when our thoughts turn to the ghostly and ghoulish. We all have our own personal ghost stories, so how about you share yours as part of a special Twitter contest? Here's how it'll work:
Go to your Twitter account (you do have one, don't you?) and tweet your own experience of a ghost, along with the hash tag #GhostsOfBelfast so I can find it. That leaves you 124 characters to tell your story. The shorter the better, the scarier the better, the funnier the better.
The contest will close at midnight on 31st of October 2009, and I will choose ten finalists. Each of those tweets will be re-tweeted by me and the good folks at Soho Press (or linked to a special page on my website if they're too long). The finalists will then be put to the vote on via Twitter, and the top five will each win a signed copy of THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST, as well as be featured on the home pages of StuartNeville.com and GhostsOfBelfast.com. What's more, whoever gets the most votes of all wins one of the last remaining copies of THE SIX, my limited edition signed and numbered short story collection - only fifty of these will ever be printed!
So, here are the three simple rules:
1) Tweet your scariest, funniest ghost story in 124 CHARACTERS OR LESS.
2) It's VITAL that you remember to include the hash tag #GhostsOfBelfast or your entry won't be seen.
3) Tweet it before MIDNIGHT 31st OCTOBER.
You can enter as many times as you like, but each tweet must be a different story. So, get tweeting, and good luck!
And from our dear friend Writtenwyrdd:
CHANNEL YOUR INNER LOVECRAFT! In honor of the upcoming pagan new year (Samhain, aka Halloween) I'm going to hold a contest.
WE'RE GOING TO BE WRITING HORROR. 500 to 1,000ish words of spec fic horror, poetry or prose, humorous or creepy. (You can go over 1,000 words, but please not by too much.) And no slasher horror pretty pretty please.
AND YOU GUYS GET TO VOTE ON THE WINNER. We'll have voting on the entries after it's all over. I might even submit something, but if I should luck out and win I'll give the prize to the runner up.
DEADLINE is October 31st, naturally.
SUBMISSIONS. Send your submission to me in the body of an email, single spaced. Addy: writtenwyrdd (at) earthlink.net Heading should read "Chthulu contest submission." Be sure and include the name you want me to use on the post. I won't be naming individuals during the voting round, but at the announcements round. MORE THAN ONE SUBMISSION IS ALLOWED, BUT SEND THEM SEPARATELY. (Please keep it to two, though. We don't want to stack the deck.)
PLEASE REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD. I WANT AT LEAST TWENTY ENTRIES. Because the prize is cool. It's this cute fellow, cuddly Chthulu.
Eek, isn't the prize just the cutest thing you've ever seen?! Too bad I don't write spec fic.


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Steve Rennie was a record executive and artist manager for more than a decade before he decided enough was enough. He wouldn't take on clients– no new bands. That was before he found Incubus.
Several years and millions of albums later, Rennie manages just one band, Incubus.
Despite the band's success Incubus now faces the same challenges as any other trying to find an audience. The playing field has never been more level. Bands, labels, managers, agents, publicists; everyone is forced to rethink the game. This is where Rennie's gregarious nature comes in.
Rennie is arguably one of the most forward-thinking managers in the business. He understands which old school promotions methods still work and which don't. He has opinions on which digital strategies produce measurable results and which are wastes of time and money. And he wants to share this knowledge with you free of charge with no strings attached. Steve Rennie pulls no punches. No topic is off-limits, ever.
With the kick-off of his web series and community-driven website, Rennie aims to be the Dr. Phil of the music business. His series is designed to help musicians and industry hopefuls get their heads in the right place to do something great in the music business. He intends to answer every question with no sugar-coating, as "Renman" says, "absolutely no bullsh*t."
In an interview with CBS Local, Rennie explained what inspired him to launch the website and series as well as how he aims to help every band that wants to help themselves.
"For about thirty years I've had people coming in and saying 'hey man, can I ask you about this, can I ask you about that?' My wife's saying so-and-so's son wants to get into the music business, can you sit down and break it down to him? So, the light just came on and I just said, 'you should just do this. Stop talking about it and start doing.'"
You've had a very successful run with Incubus. How much credit do you owe Incubus for your success?
"At the end of the day there's no manager that was better than the band they were working with. There's no jockey that was better than the horse they were riding. And that's certainly the case here. But I'll also say that from my experience from working with not just Incubus but working with other bands who I believe had an equal level of talent and were getting play on radio, that what happens after you make the music, the decisions you make, have a huge impact on whether a band gets to the level of that they can get to. Like a good basketball couch, you gotta have players, but I think there's something to be said for a manager or coach getting their players in the right head-space to make the kinds of decisions that they need to make."
"The things that I'm going to talk about in this series can apply in any business, simply, they're life things. Inspiration."
Touch on old school management vs new school.
"In the old days, if you didn't get radio, if you didn't get press, if you didn't get TV, you were 100% f**king dead, period, end of story, lights out. And you still need all of those elements in the mix but when you're talking about square one, just starting off, you've got a band, you've written a song and you're starting to play some gigs and you want to get your story in front of people, there has never been a time in my lifetime where you have the ability to tell the story on your own terms and have an opportunity to put your best face forward to people that might help you get to those other levels."
"What was amazing over the last couple years as technology has ramped up to the point where you can do TV-level webcasts, you can touch people around the world where in the past it was all about one market at a time and you had to have somebody in the market all the time. The Internet has made all those borders disappear.""
So, on this webcast, you'll have guests?
"First we're launching the website, and a few weeks afterwards, we'll begin our web series. We're gonna have a weekly webcast where I have a few friends of mine, musicians, people working in a place where they could actually help somebody, and I'm gonna get them to share and take calls from real people in the real world. And now all of sudden bands have a chance to get some real advice from people that have actually been in there and that have some track record of success as opposed to Snoop's bro who just might just be rollin' splifs, part of the posse and doesn't really add anything to the equation"
"There could be a thousand bands and five decent managers and that's never changed since I've been in the business."
Why have you chosen to only manage one band?
"I think If I were like some of my contemporaries, I'd have 25 bands and I'd be an emotional wreck and I wouldn't have time to do something like this."
The Renman Music and Business website officially launches June 15th, 2012 with the web series following by a few weeks.
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French-Backed Malian Forces Advance on Gao
by VOA News January 26, 2013
French officials say French-backed Malian forces have recaptured the strategic city of Gao, an Islamist militant stronghold in the country's north.
The French defense ministry said Saturday that a contingent of troops from Nigeria and Chad was moving into the city to help maintain stability. The ministry also said the city's mayor, who had sought refuge in the capital, Bamako, was returning.
VOA correspondent Idrissa Fall, who is in Mali, says the military intervention in Gao is significant because the city had become a haven for rebel groups.
'Gao is the most important city in northern Mali. Gao was a kind of capital for the Movement for the Unity of God and Jihad in West Africa and also a capital for Ansar Dine. It was the former capital of the MNLA, those rebel Tuaregs who proclaimed independence,' Fall explained.
Earlier Saturday, French and Malian forces regained control of Gao's airport and a nearby bridge. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the forces used an air and ground operation to cut off the logistic and transportation capabilities of the militants.
France began a military offensive in Mali earlier this month, after rebels who seized control of much of the country's north, last year, began pushing toward the capital, Bamako. The rebels have been imposing a strict form of Islamic law on civilians.
Hundreds of troops from West African nations have begun arriving in Mali to help with the intervention.
In another development Saturday, journalists toured the central of Konna which was liberated from rebels earlier this month. Some residents said the French-led intervention had resulted in civilian casualties.
On Friday, French-backed Malian forces fought rebels in Hombori, a town about 250 kilometers from Gao. Also, local officials said the militants bombed a strategic bridge near the border with Niger.
As military operations continue in Mali, defense chiefs from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS were holding an emergency meeting in the Ivory Coast to discuss Mali's unrest.
A VOA reporter in Abidjan, on Saturday, said Ivory Coast Defense Minister Paul Koffi Koffi stressed that ECOWAS officials were determined to take the lead on intervention in Mali as soon as possible.
Fall says the arrival of the build-up of West African forces in Mali has been moving at a slow pace.
'Here, people are waiting for the deployment of these African troops and their arrival is really not that much,' said Fall. 'The Senegalese are here. The Nigerians are here, Benin and Togolese but the deployment of the African troops is very, very, very slow.'
ECOWAS has been discussing plans to send roughly 3,000 troops to Mali as part of a U.N.-backed mission.
Also, African Union representatives have been meeting in Ethiopia to discuss Mali's unrest. The head of the U.S. delegation ((Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Don Yamamoto)) told VOA a political solution is needed alongside military operations in Mali in order to bring stability to the country.
The U.S. has been providing logistical support and equipment to foreign countries involved in operations against militants.
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PIERCE Brosnan and Emma Thompson take the leads as the fiery divorcees who reluctantly join forces to plot a jewellery heist in this latest big-screen comedy.
Richard Jones (Brosnan) and his ex-wife Kate (Thompson) are crippled by loneliness in their unfulfilling separate lives.
He is poised to retire to the golf course with best friend Jerry (Timothy Spall) while she reluctantly agrees to blind dates organised by Jerry's well-meaning wife, Penelope (Celia Imrie).
But when, shortly after the couple's daughter Sophie (Tuppence Middleton) flies the nest for university, Machiavellian French businessman Vincent Kruger (Laurent Lafitte) plunders the pension fund of Richard's company, leaving the Joneses on the brink of financial ruin.
Trekking to Paris to confront Kruger ends so badly that Kate suggests they steal the hulking diamond necklace Kruger's unsuspecting fiancee (Louise Bourgoin) is set to wear on their wedding day.


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that's some list ... diverse, to say the least! They are not all up there with my favorite recordings, but if I could say those were the top 10 recordings that I had played on, I would pretty much be ready to die and go to heaven. Great stuff, thanks for posting.
That was a good read. And as an old guy, I can appreciate all of those songs.


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Inequality is such a ridiculous concept, yet remains prevalent in our society to this day. One can't make an argument based on reason or fact why anyone different from themselves, be it color, creed or gender, should be treated differently or given different standards, positive or negative. But while the developed world has made some tremendous strides in the way of equality in recent years, it was less than fifty years ago that women were being treated as second class citizens. Set in that world, Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham tells the story of the women who helped change everything.
Set in 1968 at the Ford Dagenham car plant in England, 187 female employees have grown tired of being compensated less than their male counterparts for equal work. Led by a woman named Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins), the women machinists decide to strike and refuse to resume working until they are properly compensated. A dramatization of real events, the events that transpired facilitated the equal pay movement immensely and helped put some of the first laws regarding the subject on the books.
Though the film occasionally falls into some shallow traps, it does a wonderful job recreating the atmosphere of the decade and mixes moods quite well, treating the serious subject matter with proper gravitas and allowing the funnier moments to be just that.
In regards to the performances, the two standouts are Hawkins (unsurprisingly given the role) and Bob Hoskins, as a manager at the Ford plant who commiserates and assists the women in their effort. Hawkins, who won a Golden Globe for her performance in the film Happy-Go-Lucky, plays the fictional O'Grady perfectly, never really bursting with confidence, instead acting like a real human being would act if thrown into the situation. Hoskins' Albert Passingham is simply a terrific supporting character, providing the film with a great deal of humor without stealing the spotlight away from his female co-stars. His presence also helps balance the film, as he is only one of two prominent male characters that doesn't come across as either a chauvinistic ass or two-faced scum.
As suggested above, one of the film's greatest assets is its humor. While not nearly as surprising as the laughs found in Rabbit Hole, the film could have easily been a militant look at the events that transpired in the late 60s, but is more engaging and entertaining as more lighthearted fare. That's not to say that the film doesn't have its fair share of drama, but it's a nice mix.
If the film has one glaring hole, it's the relationship between Rita and her husband (Daniel Mays). As you can probably guess, Rita's involvement with the strike takes a toll on their relationship, but it is because of that predictability that it sours the film. Though the relationship is meant to make Rita into a more well-rounded character, it doesn't really work because the husband is so two-dimensional. A fellow worker at the Ford plant, it's his job to be supportive until Rita's work begins to affect him, at which point he simply becomes overly passive aggressive. It's not a crippling aspect, but certainly one that didn't need to be explored as heavily as it was.
Though a great deal of progress has been made, a glass ceiling still exists for most women (and let's not even discuss how women are treated in the world's less developed countries). Perhaps all we need for full gender equality, however, is another push like the one made by the women of Dagenham. Though not without its faults, Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham sports some terrific performances, has a great period-piece feel and a real story to tell.
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