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CARSON, Calif. (Friday, February 24, 2012) - LA Galaxy defender Omar González will be driving the Galaxy Caravan – Countdown to Kickoff, so to speak, as González is scheduled to attend four different fan stops this weekend. That's four different opportunities for fans to meet the 2011 MLS Defender of the Year– two on Saturday and two more on Sunday.
González will first be appearing at The Home Depot in San Pedro (2115 N Gaffey St., San Pedro, Calif.) this Saturday from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. He will then head to the LA Convention Center (1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Calif.) for the Cal South Soccer Nation Expo to be at the LA Galaxy booth from 2 – 3:30 p.m.
On Sunday, González will start at the Cal South Soccer Nation Expo from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and then head to the Northgate Market in Norwalk (11660 East Firestone Blvd., Norwalk, Calif.). He will be signing autographs from 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
At each stop, fans will have the opportunity to meet González and pose for photos with the 2011 MLS Cup, as well as pick up the official Caravan t-shirt, courtesy of adidas, bag, magnet schedule and preseason roster card.
Additionally, on Saturday, The Home Depot will provide a free workshop for kids on how to build their own soccer ball sports rack and have various representatives on hand to get fans ready for the upcoming spring gardening season. 98.7 fm, L.A.'s Rock Alternative music station, will also be present to liven up the atmosphere.
The 2012 LA Galaxy Caravan, presented by The Home Depot, is scheduled to make Fan Stops throughout the Southern California area as the club prepares to defend the 2011 MLS Cup Championship. For more information about the fan stops, and to see the complete Caravan schedule, please visit www.lagalaxy.com/caravan.


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Perhaps it's to be expected now. Maybe that's simply the Kings' method of operation. No question, they've become comfortable when facing a deficit. No doubt, they're the kings of the comeback during the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs.
"We got away with one," defenseman Willie Mitchell said without a trace of humor after the Kings rallied from a 2-0 deficit to take a 3-2 victory from the New York Rangers on Justin Williams' overtime goal Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final at Staples Center.
Actually, it was the fourth time in the playoffs that the Kings erased a multi-goal deficit to win, the most since the Philadelphia Flyers had five during the 1987 postseason. That's not to mention their rallies from series deficits of 3-0 and 3-2 earlier in the first two rounds.
The Kings have balanced on a high wire from their first-round victory over the San Jose Sharks, when they became only the fourth team in NHL history to erase a three-games-to-none deficit to win a best-of-7 series. They showed no signs of changing their ways in Game 1 against the Rangers.
"(Wednesday) night certainly wasn't the start we wanted," Kings center Anze Kopitar said Thursday. "The first period was sloppy more often than not. But we've done it how many times? We came back and managed to win the game. I think that's a positive that we did pull it off.
"But we can't put ourselves in a hole against a team like that, where they keep coming and they have a lot of firepower that can hurt you pretty quick. Definitely want to have better starts in a couple of days and we'll see what happens after that."
Game 2 of the best-of-7 series is Saturday at Staples Center. The series then shifts to Madison Square Garden in New York for Games 3 and 4 next Monday and Wednesday.
The Kings want a better start than their leg-weary opening minutes in Game 1, when the Rangers pounced quickly.
The Kings looked slow and disorganized as the Rangers' picked off errant clearing passes and turned them into scoring chances. Benoit Pouliot and Carl Hagelin (short-handed) scored first-period goals for New York, stunning the Kings.
It was the second consecutive game in which the Kings trailed 2-0 in the first period, after they fell behind the Chicago Blackhawks by two goals in the opening minutes of Game 7 of the Western Conference Final on Sunday. The Kings rallied to win 5-4 in overtime.
"It's just a result of being together for a long time," Kings captain Dustin Brown said while trying to explain the ease at which the team deals with deficits. "When it gets really hard, really tough, you know the guy next to you very well. You know what he's going to do in those types of situations. You can rely on each other in ways that a team that is just forming or getting together, you don't necessarily have that trust built up to weather the storm when you need to."
There was no panic or frustration on the Kings' bench early in Game 1, according to Brown.
"We're very comfortable in any situation were in as a group," he said. "It's been said more enough that enough is a enough. We find ourselves in these holes. (But) I think we're comfortable. It's definitely not where we want to be.
"The lead, not only does it give us breathing room in the game, but emotionally (and) mentally, it gives you a breather. Not that you sit back or relax in the game, but you don't have that need to dig down deep and find a way to pull out a game again, game after game."

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The New Orleans Saints will enter the playoffs with a perfect home record on the strength of Drew Brees' five touchdowns in a convincing 42-17 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
With the Panthers squeaking past the Falcons early in the day though, the Saints will have to make their entire playoff run away from the cozy confines of the Superdome.
Here's what else we learned in the regular-season finale:
1. The Week 16 loss to the Panthers looms large for the Saints. They have averaged 34 points and 443 yards in New Orleans versus 18 points and 356 yards on the road. As the No. 6 seed, they will go on the road to Philadelphia.
2. Brees produced the fourth-best passer rating of his career and the highest he's ever had in a season in the must-win game. With six different players recording chunk plays of at least 20 yards against the Bucs, this aerial attack will enter the playoffs on a high note.
3. Pierre Thomas' 8-yard touchdown was the Saints' longest scoring run of the season. They fell below 100 rushing yards for the 11th time in 16 games. The one-dimensional offense is even more of a problem away from the Superdome, as wind, driving rain and hard snow have a debilitating effect on even the most dynamic passing attacks.
4. The Buccaneers' offense has a keeper in undrafted rookie Tim Wright. Over the past 25 years, Kellen Winslow is the only Tampa Bay tight end with a better statistical line that Wright's 54/571/5. He started just eight games.
5. Penn State athletic director Dave Joyner is flying down to Tampa, perhaps as soon as Monday, to pitch the Nittany Lions job to Greg Schiano, per NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport. Schiano has told the Bucs he wants to remain their coach, NFL Media columnist Mike Silver has reported. It's not clear yet whether Schiano's 4-4 finish will save his job.
6. The 42 points surrendered by the Bucs' defense shouldn't obscure the All-Pro caliber seasons turned in by defensive tackle Gerald McCoy and outside linebacker Lavonte David. They were arguably the NFL's best three-technique tackle and weakside linebacker, respectively.
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The Snowy Owl Cardigan is a baby/toddler/child cardigan with an adorable owl perched on a tree branch across the front.
The owl and tree branch are worked using the intarsia method.
The cardigan is knit in one piece (with exception of sleeves), worked flat.
There are both written and chart directions in this pattern. The chart is for the owl section of the cardigan.
Main Color: Madeline Tosh DK 2 (2, 2, 3, 3) skeins
Color B (tree branch): Less than 12 yards of DK weight in contrasting color
Color C (owl): Less than 6 yards of DK weight in contrasting color
Small scraps for owl eyes, if you do not want to use buttons
US 6 or any size needle that will give you the correct gauge
US size 6 double pointed needles, or your preferred knitting in the round
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Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Scrap yarn for holding stitches
Removable stitch markers or coiless safety pins to mark where you'd like to put buttons on button band
Two buttons for owl eyes, OR you can use a small scrap of yarn to stitch eyes onto the owl for a more kid-safe owl
Buttons for cardigan (button band)
Skills used:
You will need to be familiar with the intarsia method, as it is not taught in the pattern
knitting flat
knitting in the round (for sleeves)
grafting (for underarms)
picking up stitches (for button bands)
working cables (for owl)
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Best-seller that set the standard.
The Backcountry Access Tracker DTS Beacon is one of the older models that outlasted the competition due to its affordable price and easy-to-use functionality. Backcountry skiers and splitboarders quickly learn how to use the simple interface, with only one button that switches from search to send modes. The second button lets you flag multiple burial victims, an original feature for the DTS that's now pretty much standard in all modern beacons. Backcountry Access included a secure harness for the beacon and three batteries for use right out of the box.
- Best-selling beacon for backcountry skiers and splitboarders
- Short 40m digital range in an easy-to-use interface
- Flagging option assists with multiple burial victims
- Included harness secures beacon around your chest
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This avalanche beacon has been amazing for the past 8 years! It is very user friendly and can even fit inside most snow pant pockets if you loose your harness! This was my first beacon and felt very comfortable learning the multi-burial mode. I recommend this to any levels of touring and to always take your batteries out during summer to make it last longer!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
This was the second one which seems to work great the first one was not calibrated was a bit off. Very adequate for the job,
Super simple and easy to use.
This beacon is your go to beacon for beginners and anyone looks for an awesome, simple to use beacon. Iâve had this beacon for the last 4 years and have never had a problem with it. Arrows point you in the right direction and the digits get lower as you get closer to the signal your following. Definitely recommend this BCA beacon.
Trustworthy and Easy to Use
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
First and foremost, I am lucky I have never had to use this. But in my practice and classes this beacon has been very easy to use and never skipped a beat. This beacon also always seems to be the majority in groups and a favorite among instructors. Sturdy construction, easy to carry and quick to get out and use if needed. You cannot go wrong with this. I hope no one who buys it ever has to use it in a real situation. But, why not get a good quality beacon for the chance if you do?
Easy and effective
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This transceiver is the epitome of consistent, predictable, and functional. It is intuitive and takes very little time to figure out how to use it, which translates to ease of use when it counts. Other brands may offer transceivers with more features, but I know that I feel the most comfortable skiing in a group where those around me are using equipment that minimizes the chance to mess up. This is my tool of choice for any backcountry trip.
This product should not be sold still.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Dual antenna beacon's like this are outdated and unreliable. When it comes to a partner rescue after an avalanche every second matter, and this dated technology is significantly slower than the standard three antenna beacons.
It's time to retire this beacon.
Simple but Outdated
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The BCA Tracker DTS is a great introductory beacon for someone hoping to start traveling in the backcountry. The dual antennas and easy to use button makes this a great intro beacon. Here is the caveat, this beacon's technology is now outdated. Three antenna beacons have a much more accurate transmitting and receiving signal. When you're life is at stake this is an important feature to think about spending some extra cash on. That being said, I used this beacon for 2 seasons and never had any issues with it. The harness is comfortable and easy to use. Remember, this beacon should be worn with the screen and button facing in towards your body.
Tried and True
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This has been my go to beacon for the past few years. It is incredibly easy to use, and reliable. Thankfully I have never had to use it in a real situation, but on beacon drill days it has never let me down once.
Great beacon, tried and true, read comments on revamped harness and pouch. Thing is full-proof, simple and durable. Its really not missing much at all and if you can't explain why/what's it is missing w/o personal experience in the field, then its a great beacon for almost everyone. Tracker 2 is simple and great as well. Get whatever you are comfortable with/trained with in your Avy class.
It does what it needs to do, worked well in training never had to use it in the field yet. No extra fancy features to get confused with.
Simple and reliable
Occasionally, gadgets with extra features of dubious functionality are actually cool, but, in the event of my own burial in the back country, I'm hoping that the folks searching for me will have simple, easy to use beacons in hand. The DTS's minimalist design is functional and intuitive to operate. The DTS has only two manual features, and a single display screen - there's an on/off switch on the back, a transmit/search mode button on the front, and a small digital window that indicates distance and direction while the beacon is searching.
Ultimately, the best beacon is the beacon that you know how to use, and have trained with. The DTS is equipped with all of the features a modern beacon should have - three antennae is preferable - but, two antennae or three, the beacon is only a tool, and you're only safer owning one if you can effectively use it in the event of an emergency.
Great Simple Beacon
This is the beacon I learned on, and it is super easy to read and understand. Reliable and functional!
Simplicity is key for me
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
While it doesn't have the furthest range or most technical of viewing displays, I feel that this simpleton gets the job done and at no inconvenience to the user. It's a little clunky, but that kind of comes with the territory. Hope to never have to use it, but I'm confident that if I have to I can rely on it. The simple display takes away guess work and overthinking. It shows accurate direction and distance and that's what really matters.
Used to be good
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
This transceiver is outdated and should not be for sale anymore!!! Buy a three antenna current technology model
Ole reliable! Simple and user friendly!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've had this for a few years now and I've used it quite a bit, outside of a real avy scenario (thankfully). I used it for my avy 1 cert as well as the refresher courses I do every year and just teaching friends how to properly use a beacon that are looking to explore the backcountry. Signal reads are pretty accurate, but I don't rely on them. I use triangulation to find my mock victims and I always find them, even to the point that I'm probing the actual beacon. Just the way I was taught how to use a beacon from my avy instructors.
I've buried it in snow, have thrown it into snow(for people to find), and have toured with it for a few years. It's durable! I definitely recommend it, I personally think that it is the best bang for your buck beacon. It is somewhat bulky but you get use to it to the point that you don't notice it while traveling to your sick line.
Hit me up if you have questions about gear or this beacon.
Never used it outside of training.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
and I hope I never have too, but it's been solid when used for searchs.
Bad signal reads
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I have onever of these the my wife bought for me last Christmas. I have used it 10 times. During a visit training this week it was having a hard time registering anything better than .06 when held right up to other beacons.
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Haven't used it much but so far so good
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
The Tracker avalanche beacon is great. The ease of use is the reason I selected this one to replace my old beacon. I also noticed that it has a better micro processor that my old beacon making reading come up quicker.
Straight forward
Haven't had to use this yet, but it is pretty straight forward. A great choice for the price.
Easy to use
I haven't used this in an avalanche, but this beacon seams to be the standard.
due to the fact I am German so I am used to meters... Does the beacon shows Meter or Feets? Is it possible to change the setting?
My son just moved to utah and hits the...
My son just moved to utah and hits the back country alone sometimes. I have no idea which tracker to buy for him? Would you recommend this one as a first time user?
Yes, this would be a good beginner beacon. However, it won't do any good unless he is with someone capable of using it to locate him and dig him out in the event of a burial.
I am looking at this for my son, too, who lives in SLC Utah and is in the back country alone sometimes. Maybe we could get these crazy sons to ski together?
Exchange numbers! Should always travel with a partner in the backcountry. So I've found the best entry level beacon to be the BCA Tracker 2. Its super easy to use and has a triple antenna thats much more accurate and won't get thrown off by flux patterns.
This is a great beacon but it takes practice to get used to. Tracker 2 is plug and play..
Does it come with the harness?
Does it come with the harness?
Yep! This comes with a chest harness.
I am starting to venture into the backcountry...
I am starting to venture into the backcountry and need a transceiver. Is this the one to go with for a first time purchase?
Hey Matt, This would be a great beacon to start with. Its also going to be one you can continue to use as its really easy to use and they are really durable. Any beacon is better than no beacon and this one is among one of the best in the market. Let us know if you need anything else. We are available on chat 24/7
I purchased my beacon about two years ago....
I purchased my beacon about two years ago. It will no longer turn on. Where do I go for repairs?
Hey Jim,
To get your beacon fixed you will probably want to hit up Backcountry Access Warranty at firstname.lastname@example.com otherwise if you got this through us you can always hit up our Gearheads to see if there is anything we can do about replacing it.
Is this a good beacon for mountaineering...
Is this a good beacon for mountaineering use?
The Tracker DTS is a good entry level beacon for anyone that travels in avalanche terrain. It is easy to use, reliable, and accurate. It was really a breakthrough for beacons, but it only features two antennas. There are many 3 antenna options now that increase the speed and accuracy of searches (particularly multiple burial scenarios). If you rarely find yourself in avalanche terrain it is a perfect entry level beacon. As you become more experienced using it, you may find that you wish you had several functions not available on the DTS like marking burials.
Understandably, the harness keeps the...
Understandably, the harness keeps the beacon handy, but is there any reason one could not put it in a dedicated (chest) pocket? . . . thanks (my research hasn't dug this one idea up yet)
It's not uncommon for people to have jackets and other outer layers removed or torn up in long, violent slides. Having the beacon strapped on underneath the outer layers maximizes the chances that it'll stay with you during the slide.
Ben, hope this gets to you. BIG THANKS, for the answer . . . if you're in SF and looking for fellow sierra enthusiasts, say hello. BOB
Bob, I have three reasons to add to Ben's:
1. Batteries work much better if they stay warm, and will stay warmer if they are deep in your layers. This doesn't make much difference when spring skiing at +5C in BC, but can make a difference when out at -20C in the Yukon - not huge probably, but possible significant
2. If it is always in the same place, you don't have to thrash around trying to figure out which layer it is in that day or at that moment
3. (Probably the most important of my reasons) During the course of a day, you might put on and take off layers ten or twenty times (sometimes I go from three layers with shell to shirt-sleeves and back and again inside an hour)... it would be bad if the beacon ended up either getting dropped or put into your back-pack.
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure about a jacket getting ripped off during a slide, at least if it is properly zipped up as it always should be on a descent, but being in a jacket certain increases the risk of it getting smashed.
DylanBC, thanks for the input. Much appreciated . . . I went for it yesterday and (goat sale!) bought the TRACKER
Hi there, my Tracker DTS has a broken...
Hi there, my Tracker DTS has a broken battery latch. Can I send it in to be repaired, how much would it cost or would it be covered by warrenty?, cant remember how old the beacon is.
thank you,
Jason Neil, CSGA ski guide, PowderMountain Heliskiing/Catskiing
you should call BCA directly @303.417.1345, they have great customer service and probably replace it for you.
Silly question - does this come with one...
Silly question - does this come with one tracker or a pair?? And any comments on this vs the Mammut brand? thanks
One Tracker. This beacon is a little easier to use. The Mammut has more features but is also pricier. I like to carry the same brand beacon as the people I go Backcountry skiing with the most. I think the biggest thing with any beacon you purchase is to practice. Good luck!
Hi- I'm not very knowledgable about these...
Hi- I'm not very knowledgable about these beaons/trackers? i would like to get one for my son as he is planning to do some back country skiing again in BC, how do they work?
This tracker is the industry standard for beacons. Most cat/heli operations use these. In essence, when the beacon is in transmit mode, it sends a signal as to its location. Each beacon can also be switched to "search" mode to look for other beacons that are in the transmit mode. They're useful in that, if you have 2 or more people backcountry skiing, it enables one to search for the other if he/she is taken down in an avalanche and buried. They are absolutely essential to backcountry skiing.
BCA has a very good link for education on their website here:
They also have a good facebook channel that teaches you how to search, dig and probe properly here:
has your DTS trackers have receivers...
has your DTS trackers have receivers included? I would like to purchase one so if you could call me and discuss it with me.
Stock questions tend to languish here on the expert board because most of us don't work for BC. Your best bet to get in touch with a BC rep will be to click on the 'Chat Now' link at the top of the page.
I have a pair of pretty old PIEPS 2's...
I have a pair of pretty old PIEPS 2's (circa late 80's). They talk to each other just fine, but the DTS doesn't talk to either of them, or vice a versa. Is it a frequency thing, or maybe just a personal issue...
Not sure what frequency PIEPS was using back pre-1986 (when were yours made?)before the universal international standard was changed to 457 kHz. If your transceivers can't find each other from a few feet away, it definitely sounds like a frequency problem.
I can't find the specs on the PIEPS 2, so best to give them a call to see what they have to say- http://www.pieps.com/en/contact
Beacons pre-1986 transmitted at 2.275 kHz as opposed to the current standard of 457 kHz.
If your units are the older orange models, they will not work with new beacons.
does this beacon compatible in search mode...
does this beacon compatible in search mode with other beacons?
Yes. Any avalanche beacon manufactured in about the last 20 years.
It will with any beacon post 1986 when 457kHz became the international standard frequency for all manufacturers.
Im thinking of which one to get the pieps...
Im thinking of which one to get the pieps dsp or this which one is better? Or is the pieps worth the extra money.
This one should be fine. Its a solid beacon at a solid price
Alright thanks for the response, i'm going to order this one then.
How's it compare to the Mammut Pulse? Is...
How's it compare to the Mammut Pulse? Is it worth spending the extra money on the Mammut
The BCA DTS is faster. I took an AIARE 1 course where we had a number of different beacons. The Pulse got 'confused' and took significantly longer to locate a beacon during trials. I was able to beeline with my DTS 1.
Ultimately, whichever beacon you practice with regularly is the one you should use.
The mammut beacon is more accurate and faster for finding multiple people buried..
It still comes down to practice regardless what beacon you choose....
The mammut beacon is more accurate and faster for finding multiple people buried..
It still comes down to practice regardless what beacon you choose....
Having owned and used both, I prefer the Pulse for it's multi-burial capabilities and I like GUI better on the Pulse. The claim that the DTS is "faster" is BS; both are equally as fast in a single burial situation given sufficient practice with each unit.
The DTS can handle multiple burials, but we've noticed on several occasions that it gets bogged down and slows the more signals that are marked. This can be alleviated by turning the unit off and then back on again to clear the buffer, but then you lose your marked signals, and you lose time; very annoying. This is why I went with the Pulse in the end.
The best beacon is the one you are most comfortable with and have the most practice with. Any and every avy instructor will tell you that. With that being said, the mammut beacon does have a lot more features, but the tracker is easier to use. If you like have the most technologically advanced stuff, and all the bells and whistles, than the mammut is the way to go. If you want something affordable, and easy to use, you can't ask for anything better than the tracker.
Where can I take my beacon to get it fixed?...
Where can I take my beacon to get it fixed? Would any ski shop be ok?
Hey Ryan, I wouldn't count on it, and it's not a good idea. Most, if not all, shops will refer you back to BCA's warranty dept. It's one of those pesky life/death/ have somebody look at it that knows exactly what they're doing type of liability things. Here's the link to save you some time:
Ryan, the best thing to do is contact Backcountry Access. They have a pretty good warranty department, and are really good about fixing things or replacing them. The one complaint is that it sometimes takes awhile to get things back. Your best best is to go through them.
Is there any sort of breakdown of different...
Is there any sort of breakdown of different years of the tracker? Specifically models that are 5+ years old. Thanks
How do I get a new on/off dial for my...
How do I get a new on/off dial for my tracker? Mine has fractured at the stem which is in back of the dial and will not do its thing.
Hi Steve. To see if the beacon is still under warranty, go to http://backcountryaccess.com/images/TrackerWarrantyChart.pdf . After that, just call BCA customer service at 800-670-8735. If it's under warranty, then you're covered. If not, there will be a charge to cover the cost. Hope that helps!
Bruce E.
dumb ? dose the this track older analog...
dumb ? dose the this track older analog beacons as well
If the older beacon is post 1986 when the international standard of 457kHz was established.
can i use lithium batteries in this beacon...
can i use lithium batteries in this beacon in stead if alkaline ?
Lithium batteries are highly unrecommended for any beacon, including the Tracker, as the have a very short drop-off at the end. Your beacon may show 100% in the morning... then it is dead an hour later.
Also, the search mode does NOT work with lithium batteries!


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You might encounter the situation whereby you have a connection between two WebSphere MQ queue managers working successfully, confirming that network traffic can flow between your queue managers, however, when you enable SSL, you do not receive SSL related errors, and your channel appears to hang until eventually the connection times out.
There are two reasons typically responsible for this type of behavior.
The first and most common cause is that your queue manager is attempting to contact an external OCSP server to perform revocation checking of a digital certificate. This check is performed when certificates have AIA extensions containing OCSP URLs, such as Verisign and Entrust.
Note that in WebSphere MQ versions 7.0.1 and later, OCSP checking is turned on by default.
If there is no allowed route to the external OCSP server from the queue manager host, the local firewall will route the outbound tcp packets to the bit bucket without informing the sender. This leads to an eventual timeout on the sender side based on the local system's tcp settings. The default tcp timeout is typically 2 hours for most systems. Therefore, if you do not wait a full two hours before manually stopping the channel, you may never see the timeout occur.
There are a few ways to get around this issue if it is the cause of your channel staying in the binding status.
1. Enable outbound access from the queue manager to any OCSP servers needed
2. Turn off OCSP checking.
To do this, you edit the qm.ini of the affected queue manager, and under the SSL stanza, add OCSPCheckExtensions=NO
Note: You should only do this if you are sure you do not need to enforce AIA extensions checking.
Restart your queue manager after making changes to the qm.ini.
The second most common cause of channels remaining in binding status once you enable SSL is that ICMP messages are not able to flow between the sender and receiver hosts which would normally contain MTU messages. This type of traffic is needed when MTU Path Discovery is enabled on your systems which is used to negotiate TCP packet sizes between the sending and receiving queue managers.
Once you turn on SSL, packet sizes are often much larger because they contain certificate data during the certificate handshake phase. If the packet size is too large for the receiving end of the connection to accept, the packet is dropped. Since the sending side is not able under this circumstance to receive the ICMP message from the receiving end telling it to reduce its packet size before resending the packet, the sending side sends the same packet again. This behavior continues until the socket times out.
You can resolve this in one of two ways.
1. The preferred method is to allow ICMP messages to flow between both endpoints. Refer to your system documentation for further information.
2. You can reduce the MTU value to a value both systems can accept. Changes to MTU values usually require a system reboot in order to take affect.


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According to Mike Garafolo of the FOX Sports, Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee will miss three to four weeks because of a hamstring injury suffered last night.
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Silver processing, preparation of the ore for use in various products.
Silver has long been valued for its white metallic lustre, its ability to be readily worked, and its resistance to the corrosive effects of moisture and oxygen. The lustre of the pure metal is due to its electron configuration, which results in its reflecting all electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths longer than 3000 angstroms (3000 angstroms is in the ultraviolet range). Thus, all visible light (that is, light with wavelengths between 4000 and 7000 angstroms) is effectively reflected, conferring the white colour.
Silver (Ag), like gold, crystallizes in the face-centred cubic system. It melts when heated to 962 °C (1,764 °F). With a density of 10.49 grams per cubic centimetre, it is the lightest of the precious metals. It is also the least noble of the precious metals, reacting readily with many common reagents such as nitric acid and sulfuric acid. Metallic silver can be dissolved from gold alloys of less than 30 percent gold by boiling with 30-percent-strength nitric acid in a process referred to as parting. Boiling with concentrated sulfuric acid to separate silver and gold is called affination. Both these processes are used on a commercial scale for separating silver and gold.
Silver was discovered after gold and copper about 4000 bce, when it was used in jewelry and as a medium of exchange. The earliest known workings of significant size were those of the pre-Hittites of Cappadocia in eastern Anatolia. Silver is generally found in the combined state in nature, usually in copper or lead mineralization, and by 2000 bce mining and smelting of silver-bearing lead ores was under way. Lead ores were smelted to obtain an impure lead-silver alloy, which was then fire refined by cupellation. The best-known of the ancient mines were located at the Laurium silver-lead deposit in Greece; this was actively mined from 500 bce to 100 ce. Spanish mines were also a major source.
By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores had discovered and developed silver mines in Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru. These New World mines, much richer in silver, resulted in the rise of South and Central America as the largest silver-producing areas in the world. For the recovery of New World silver, the Patio process was employed. Silver-bearing ore was ground and then mixed with salt, roasted copper ore, and mercury. The mixing was accomplished by tethering mules to a central post on a paved patio (hence the name of the process) and compelling them to walk in a circle through the mixture. The silver was gradually converted to the elemental state in a very finely divided form, from which it was dissolved by the mercury. Periodically, the mercury was collected and distilled to recover the silver, and this was subsequently refined by cupellation. Cyanidation processes supplanted the Patio process in the late 19th century; by that time, the Moebius and Thum Balbach electrorefining processes had been introduced.
In the mid-19th century a large silver deposit was discovered in Nevada. This resulted in the United States becoming the world's largest silver producer until the 20th century, when it was surpassed by Mexico and South America (particularly Peru). By the early 21st century, Mexico, China, Peru, Australia, and Russia had become the world's leading silver producers.
Although some silver-bearing ores contain silver as their largest metal value, virtually none has silver as its main constituent. A typical ore might contain 0.085 percent silver, 0.5 percent lead, 0.5 percent copper, and 0.3 percent antimony. After flotation separation, the concentrate would contain 1.7 percent silver, 10 to 15 percent lead, 10 to 15 percent copper, and 6 percent antimony. Approximately 25 percent of the silver produced comes from ores actually mined for their silver value; the other 75 percent comes from ores that have as their major metal value either lead, copper, or zinc. All these ore minerals are sulfides; typically, lead is present as galena (PbS), zinc as sphalerite (ZnS), and copper as chalcopyrite (CuFeS2). In addition, the mineralization usually includes large amounts of pyrite (FeS2) and arsenopyrite (FeAsS). The silver mineralization is usually argentite (Ag2S), proustite (Ag3AsS3), and polybasite [(Ag,Cu)16Sb2S11].
Of the world's reserve base of silver mineralization, more than half is held by the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Mining and concentrating
Silver-bearing ores are mined by open-pit or underground methods and then are crushed and ground. Since virtually all the ores are sulfides, they are amenable to flotation separation, by which a 30- to 40-fold concentration of mineral values is usually achieved. Of the three major types of mineralization, lead concentrates contain the most silver and zinc concentrates the least.
Extraction and refining
The specific extractive metallurgy processes applied to a silver-bearing mineral concentrate depend on whether the major metal is copper, zinc, or lead.
From copper concentrates
The smelting and converting of copper sulfide concentrates result in a "blister" copper that contains 97 to 99 percent of the silver present in the original concentrate. Upon electrolytic refining of the copper, insoluble impurities, called slimes, gradually accumulate at the bottom of the refining tank. These contain the silver originally present in the concentrate but at a much higher concentration; for example, a silver content of 0.2 percent in the sulfide concentrate can result in a slime containing 20 percent silver. This is smelted in a small furnace to oxidize virtually all metals present except silver, gold, and platinum-group metals. The metal recovered, called doré, generally contains 0.5 to 5 percent gold, 0.1 to 1 percent platinum metals, and the balance silver. This metal is cast to form anodes and electrolyzed in a solution of silver-copper nitrate. Two different electrorefining techniques are employed, the Moebius and Thum Balbach systems. The chief difference between them is that the electrodes are disposed vertically in the Moebius system and horizontally in the Thum Balbach system. The silver obtained by electrolysis usually has a purity of three-nines fine; on occasion it may be four-nines fine, or 99.99 percent silver.
From lead concentrates
Lead concentrates are first roasted and then smelted to produce a lead bullion from which impurities such as antimony, arsenic, tin, and silver must be removed. Silver is removed by the Parkes process, which consists of adding zinc to the molten lead bullion. Zinc reacts rapidly and completely with gold and silver, forming very insoluble compounds that float to the top of the bullion. These are skimmed off and their zinc content recovered by vacuum retorting. The remaining lead-gold-silver residue is treated by cupellation, a process in which the residue is heated to a high temperature (about 800 °C, or 1,450 °F) under strongly oxidizing conditions. The noble silver and gold remain in the elemental form, while the lead oxidizes and is removed. The gold and silver alloy thus produced is refined by the Moebius or Thum Balbach process. The residue from silver refining is treated by affination or parting to concentrate the gold content, which is refined by the Wohlwill process.
From zinc concentrates
Zinc concentrates are roasted and then leached with sulfuric acid to dissolve their zinc content, leaving a residue that contains lead, silver, and gold—along with 5 to 10 percent of the zinc content of the concentrates. This is processed by slag fuming, a process whereby the residue is melted to form a slag through which powdered coal or coke is blown along with air. The zinc is reduced to the metallic form and is vaporized from the slag, while the lead is converted to the metallic form and dissolves the silver and gold. This lead bullion is periodically collected and sent to lead refining, as described above.
From scrap
Approximately 60 percent of all silver produced is used in the photographic industry, and the metal can be recycled from spent photographic processing solutions and photographic film. The solutions are processed on-site electrolytically, while film is burned and the ashes leached to extract the silver content.
High-grade jewelry scrap is usually realloyed on-site rather than being refined. Jewelry sweeps, the fine dust generated in the polishing and grinding of precious metals, are usually smelted to form an impure silver, which is electrorefined. Because of the much lower value of silver scrap, recycling techniques applicable to gold (e.g., cyanidation of low-grade scrap) are uneconomic for silver. Low-grade silver scrap is instead returned to a smelter for processing.
The fire assaying techniques described above for gold are equally applicable to silver. In order to determine the silver content of a fire assay bead, the bead is first weighed, then boiled with 35-percent-strength nitric acid to dissolve its silver content, and then weighed again. The weight loss defines the silver content, and the remaining residue contains the gold. In order to ensure complete dissolution of the silver, the silver content of the bead should be at least 60–70 percent. A process routinely employed in the fire assaying of gold ores is the addition of silver prior to fusion of the ore in order to ensure that the silver content of the final bead is high enough to dissolve. This is called inquartation, and the separating of silver and gold by leaching with nitric acid is referred to as parting.
The metal and its alloys
Even silver that has been fully work-hardened, either by rolling or forging, gradually recrystallizes, even at room temperature. This greatly softens the metal, making it susceptible to scratching and marring. To maintain hardness, therefore, other metals are added to form alloys that are harder, stronger, and less prone to fatigue.
The best-known copper-silver alloy is sterling, which is 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper. (In England sterling silver is traditionally identified by the hallmark of a lion passant.) Coin silver is an alloy of 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper. For jewelry and ornaments, 85–90 percent silver (and the balance copper) is frequently used. Dental alloys of 60–70 percent silver, 18–25 percent tin, 2–14 percent copper, and 0.5–2 percent zinc are amalgamated with varying quantities of mercury to form the filling materials for cavities in teeth.
Silver and alloys of silver and copper, although stable in air, tarnish in the presence of sulfur. In order to improve tarnish resistance, silver alloys with at least 40 percent palladium added are created for telephone relays, circuit breakers, and other electrical switching equipment. In order to obtain the lustre and corrosion resistance of silver on other metals and alloys, silver electroplating is practiced. Cyanide-based baths are most commonly employed.
Because silver has the highest electrical conductivity of all metals, it is used in alloyed form for electrical contacts. Palladium and nickel improve the metal's chemical resistance to oxidation and sulfidation as well as its resistance to corrosion.
Silver brazing fillers are the most frequently used precious-metal fillers. They are suitable for brazing nearly all steels and nonferrous metals except aluminum, magnesium, and titanium. A typical brazing alloy composition is 50 percent silver, 34 percent copper, and 16 percent zinc.
Chemical compounds
Between 25 and 40 percent of industrial silver is consumed in the production of the photosensitive chemicals silver chloride and silver bromide. These silver salts are prepared by adding sodium chloride or sodium bromide to a very pure solution of silver nitrate. The highly insoluble silver chloride or silver bromide then precipitates from solution. All processing takes place in the absence of any light.
Silver oxides (both Ag2O and AgO) serve as the cathodic materials in silver-zinc primary and secondary (i.e., rechargeable) batteries. The high energy density of the primary batteries (as measured by available electrical energy per unit weight) is responsible for their employment as miniature power cells for cameras and timepieces.
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Spain: IberiansMining for silver continued at the Tinto River, expanding up the Guadalquivir valley to the area around Cástulo and to the coast around Cartagena. The scale of extraction at the Tinto River was enormous, and the Phoenician and Iberian workings built up more than six million tons…
Spain: The Atlantic trade…paid in solid gold and silver. Far from seeing this trade as an opportunity for Castilian industry, the Cortes (parliament) actually petitioned the crown in 1548 to prohibit exports to the Indies, which, they claimed, were raising prices in Castile. The government did not accept this petition, but Castile had…
Australia: The economy…were predominantly the decade of silver; western New South Wales proved richest, and in 1883 Charles Rasp, a German migrant, first glimpsed the varied riches of Broken Hill. The silver, lead, and zinc ores found there were to make that city almost fabulous and to prompt the establishment of Broken…
history of Latin America: MiningSilver mining was the successor, and it became the main export asset of the central areas until the time of independence. Here too the encomenderos were the greatest investors and mine owners in the beginning, but their dominance was short-lived. Silver mining was the type…
Mexico: Resources and power…the world's leading producer of silver, which has long been the most valuable metal extracted there. The major mining area during the colonial period was the so-called Silver Belt, a region that extended from Guanajuato and Zacatecas in the Mesa Central to Chihuahua in the Mesa del Norte, with outposts…
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text: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 New Podcast Discusses 'Vital' Information In APTA's new podcast, Pump UpThe Cuff: The Importance of Monitoring Vital Signs, Cecilia Graham, PT, PhD, and Diane Clark, PT, DScPT, focus on the importance and necessity of routine monitoring of vital signs by physical therapists. Graham and Clark discuss what is meant by vital signs based on the definition provided by Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking and why physical therapists should be concerned about patients' vital signs. The podcast also includes a patient scenario to help illustrate the importance of monitoring vital signs. A transcript, video, and PowerPoint accompany the podcast. Comments In the past, I never took vital signs in outpatient unless I saw "signs and symptoms" of a problem. Lately I'm working with a greater population with diabetes and other comorbidities, and I'm taking the routine to check vital sings in all my patients. It was to my surprise, that I catch a few "young patients otherwise healthy and without S&S" with blood pressure so high I couldn't perform treatment and referred them to the ER (readings with diastolic pressures over 120). This has changed my practice and now I check vital signs in ALL patients prior to start any treatment. Posted by Cecilia Orazi on 8/21/2011 8:24 PM Thanks for sharing your experiences, Cecilia. Your comments provide a great example of the importance of monitoring vital sign, even in a young, apparently healthy population. Cecilia Graham and Diane Clark Posted by Cecilia Graham on 9/21/2011 11:25 AM


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IRVINE — Both coaches came in wanting to mix things up. And, well, the rematch of the 2012 NCAA men's volleyball final between defending champion and top-ranked UC Irvine and visiting USC on Friday certainly delivered in that department.
The No. 8-ranked Trojans, who were swept in their season opener at UC San Diego on Thursday, turned the tables to stun previously unbeaten UCI, 25-21, 25-23, 27-25, in front of 1,726 at the Bren Events Center.
For the Anteaters, who won the season-opening UC Santa Barbara Invitational and improved to 4-0 by topping No. 4-ranked Pepperdine in three sets on Tuesday, it put an end to talk of an unbeaten season. UCI, a unanimous preseason No. 1 nationally after winning its third NCAA title in six seasons last spring, is 1-1 in the MPSF.
USC, which received a lift from sophomore Corona del Mar High product Joey Booth, laced a jump serve into the conventional wisdom formulated about the two programs by back-row observers.
"I don't believe that you have to fail to learn," UCI first-year coach David Kniffin said after his team posted a .183 hitting percentage, 98 points worse than the Trojans. "But there's no question that we grow from this. We should grow every time we step on the court. The one thing I think this might do for us is remind us that any team in this conference can win any night."
UCI inserted freshman Kyle Russell into the starting lineup for sophomore Zack La Cavera at opposite, after La Cavera had a match-best 16 kills and hit .577 against Pepperdine. In addition, Connor Hughes started at outside hitter, in place of fellow junior Jeremy Dejno.
USC, with Booth making his first career start (he had three career kills coming in), took a while to find its rhythm. The Trojans overcame first-set deficits of 13-10 and 16-14 to eventually pull away.
Kniffin replaced starting junior middle blocker Collin Mehring with freshman Jason Agopian to begin the second set and eventually substituted for every starter except senior All-American outside hitter Kevin Tillie and sophomore libero Michael Brinkley.
Agopian (five kills on seven swings for a .714 hitting clip), sophomore Travis Woloson (productive serving) and La Cavera (seven kills, two fewer than team leader Tillie) all added a spark. But ultimately, UCI never collectively ignited for more than sporadic scoring streaks.
The biggest UCI surge came in the final set, when the 'Eaters rallied from a 22-15 deficit to tie the game at 24-24. But USC finally closed it out on its sixth match point and silenced a suddenly raucous crowd, as sophomore middle blocker Ben Lam earned the final two points on kills.
"I don't think we really found our rhythm," Kniffin said. "As I looked at our team, I don't think we had the same poise that we've had in previous matches. We have the ability to put several different lineups on the court and be competitive … As a team, we know that we're going to need a full team effort and, unlike last year, we don't have a lot of seasoned guys that can come off the bench. So, we have to season them in the early part of the year."
USC, however, tenderized UCI's previously potent offense by winning the blocking battle (13-12 after a 4-0 edge in Game 1), benefiting from superior setting from sophomore Micah Christenson (39 assists, five blocking assists and a .565 setting percentage), strong attacking from its middle blockers, and some stellar defense, to celebrate on the Anteaters' court.
"[Christenson] is our leader, but the other guy who came in and played great was Joey Booth," USC Coach Bill Ferguson said of Peter Ueberroth's grandson, who also played at Sage Hill School. "We made the decision to start him on the bus ride here. [Previous starter] Christian Rivera tweaked his thumb [Thursday] so we needed Joey to play outside, and we figured why not? He was at home in front of his home-town fans and he came out and played a phenomenal match.
"I don't know if it was Irvine's best performance, but I'm certainly proud of our guys and they way they responded to [Thursday's loss]. We did not talk about winning or losing [Friday], we talked about character responding and what our level of effort was going to be."
Robert Feathers, a 6-foot-8 sophomore middle blocker, had a match-best 12 kills (hitting .526) and also led the winners with six block assists.
"We're a young team and we've had our troubles," Booth said. "But we worked on our side of the net. Feathers was great in the middle tonight, our setting was great, and our passing was great tonight. We had all the pieces."
And Booth was gratified to have done his share.
"I've been fighting for this spot for a while and once I saw the opportunity, I had to take advantage of it," Booth said.
Kniffin said defense was the key for the Trojans.
"Mostly, they came in and gave us great defensive volleyball," Kniffin said. "[USC] played great defense and when teams do that, hitters get frustrated and they get a little impatient. That caused us to play a little bit outside of ourselves. And when we play outside of ourselves, I think we lose a lot."
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Beth Sleeper Roybal was 10 when her older brother, John Sleeper, 12, was shot to death on Nov. 12, 1973, in Niantic, Conn. As a child, she said she felt guilty, as he was the only boy. She wondered why it hadn't been her. John's birthday came about a week after he died, and Beth had already purchased presents for him: a wooden airplane kit and a frog bean bag. She remembers being embarrassed that the presents weren't good enough. Her brother was dead, and she was left holding toys.
Last week, Beth's father, Dave Sleeper, of Hermon, described the grief of losing his son and how, every time he hears another child has died, he loses his son again. Beth, the youngest in the family, is now 49, has been married for 26 years and has six children of her own. Her perspective, having experienced the horror and loss as a child, is one of continued awe for her parents and understanding of what other children go through when their loved ones die.
The child's view is what she thought of first when she learned of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. "My first thinking wasn't about the parents. It was the other kids, what they saw, what they lived through," she said. Her prayer for the families, she said, is that they are able to follow a path of healing similar to one her parents set for her and her older sister, Kim: creating a semblance of normality but not being afraid to cry together, accept and reach out for help, talk about what happened, show affection and never quit.
She described her parents as extraordinary. "I don't mean that because any one thing they did was extraordinary," she said. "It was the ordinary, everyday, moment-by-moment survival that made the difference. It was crying together as a family. It was all four of us sleeping in Mom's and Dad's bed for days. It was Mom and Dad getting out of bed every day, even when they didn't want to. It was them letting Kim and me ask questions and crying with us afterwards. It was them praying for us to survive. It was them determining that we would survive as a family. It was them never giving up."
The day of John's death is still scattered in Beth's memory, as it happened nearly 40 years ago, and she was young. But she has pieced together her own recollections with what her family says happened. She was home when a family member of the 15-year-old shooter burst in and said John had been shot. She ran with Kim to the house, located just a block away, where John had been playing.
She didn't find out until later that her mother, Anne Sleeper, had taken off running before Beth ever made it out the door. Beth never saw the ambulance and didn't know until later that her mother rode in it, with John, to the hospital. She didn't know until later that John was dead. She just remembers being in the neighbor's house and trying to comfort the shooter, who was unconsolable. She remembers the shooter's mother thinking the situation wasn't real, that it was a prank of some kind.
Family friends picked up Beth and Kim and eventually brought them home, where their parents were waiting. Beth remembers being in the front door of the house, looking up. She remembers her parents crying and then sitting on her father's lap, with all four of them on the couch. She thought she knew what had happened, but she wasn't entirely sure. If they had told her, she hadn't heard it, she said. So she asked her father, "Did John die?"
"I can't imagine how hard it was for him to have to say, 'Yes,'" she said.
A year later, when Beth was 11, the family moved to Hermon. At the time she didn't want to leave her friends and come live in a farmhouse in Maine, but looking back she said it helped the family heal. Moving "was helpful for Mom and Dad because I think it was so painful in the house with John everywhere you turned," she said.
Now living in Virginia Beach, Va., she said she's learned over time that pain lessens but never goes away. "I would have liked to have seen how he would have been," she said. "I would have liked to have had a big brother … I'll miss him my entire life. That will never change."
She's also learned from her parents' example how to persevere. "When my husband was at war in the Marine Corps, and I had our second child without him, and moved without him, I knew it would be all right," she said. Twenty years later, her husband was laid off in 2009 during the recession and a year later went to Afghanistan to work in telecommunications as a civilian contractor. Instead of staying six months, as they planned, he ended up staying two years and four months.
"We were all right because we had to be, because you get through stuff, and you get a little tighter as a family," she said.
And losing someone you love changes how you perceive the loss of others, she said. It builds empathy. She's seen it with her parents, how they reach out to those who are sick or experience deaths of loved ones. They do it quietly. They don't hold back, knowing how short-lived the opportunity to care for someone may be.


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After using the recently introduced Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for a number of projects, I thought it would be fun to talk about how all these wonderful tools we develop in the Database Tools group can be used together to improve our productivity as Software Developers and explore some of numerous integration points of Oracle Application Express, Oracle SQL Developer and the new Data Modeler.
So on Wednesday, September 9th, I will actually have to opportunity to demonstrate these tools as the speaker at the NYOUG Web SIG meeting, which happens to take place here in my New York office, at 520 Madison Avenue. We'll look at how to create new and enhance existing database models with the Data Modeler, then build an APEX application on top of these data structures and use SQL Developer to browse APEX information and to remotely debug your APEX application's PL/SQL code. If you happen to be in there area, please stop by, additional information can be found here:
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An investigation of the FBI's handling of the events leading up to the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009, concludes that agents made a series of mistakes, failing to follow up on important questions and to share information widely enough.
"We do not find, and we do not suggest, that these mistakes resulted from intentional misconduct or the disregard of duties," concluded William Webster, the FBI's former director who led the investigation. "Indeed, we find that each special agent, intelligence analyst, and task force officer who handled the information acted with good intent."
Click here to read the full report (pdf)
Most of the shortcomings have been previously disclosed, and some resulted from a lack of training and of understanding military nomenclature. For example, agents in San Diego, who were investigating al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, noticed on December 17, 2008, that Nidal Hasan, who would become the Fort Hood shooter, sent al-Awlaki an e-mail asking about soldiers who kill fellow military personnel with the aim of "helping muslims fighting jihad."
Related: Judge delays Fort Hood shooting hearing over Hasan's beard
The San Diego agents decided against sending out a broadly disseminated message that would have alerted the system that a member of the US military was communicating with a known al-Qaida terrorist. The agents noticed that a summary of his military records said Hasan was a "Comm Officer," and they assumed it meant he was a communications officer and might have access to the system that would contain such an alert message. In fact, the abbreviation meant Hasan was a commissioned officer.
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The report also says agents in the FBI's Washington field office failed to follow through more aggressively to the leads developed in San Diego. Part of the problem, the report said, was that the FBI received only glowing accounts from the Department of Defense about Hasan's career. Agents were never told that he was actually considered a poor performer who was often on probation.
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As far as the 2br 1ba configuration is concerned, it boils down to how many people do you want to carry overnight, and how many bathrooms do you want to CLEAN and maintain.
Personally I'd PREFER the roomy 2/1 configuration over some ex-rental that slept 12 persons and had two or three tiny bathrooms to maintain.


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This effect is both humorous and surprising, and captures your audience right away with the familiar character of Pinocchio. You explain that his nose grows every time he tells a lie, and as you are talking the nose visually grows longer. Your audience will be suspicious of the picture, so they are doubly shocked when you remove the picture from the frame, and allow them to confirm that it is nothing more than a single sheet of printed paper.
Show a picture frame to your audience. The picture in the frame is an illustration of Pinocchio. When you make a magical gesture, Pinocchio's nose visibly grows longer, and then shrinks back to its original size. When you remove the picture at the end of your performance, there is only one picture inside the frame, and it is examinable by your audience. They will be unable to find anything unusual with the illustration, even though they saw it altered in front of their eyes.
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Buzzer Beaters: The Heat Go For 28 Straight, Baseball's Most Valuable Franchises and More
Today's top sports stories:
Can the Chicago Bulls end the Miami Heat's 27-game winning streak tonight? Derrick Rose still isn't back for the Bulls, but this is still one of the tougher matchups the Heat has left on their quest to surpass the Lakers' record 33-game streak. [ESPN]
The most valuable baseball franchise, unsurprisingly, is the New York Yankees at $2.3 billion. Check out Forbes magazine's list of all 30 teams' values, revenue, and operating income. You know, if you're into that sort of thing. [Forbes]
Longtime announcer Tim McCarver, um, announced that 2013 will be his last year in the booth. McCarver is beloved by many, loathed by some, but undoubtedly has left his mark on baseball broadcasting. [S.I.]
The U.S. Men's National Team earned a hard-fought point in Mexico City's famed Estadio Azteca last night, drawing with Mexico by a score of 0-0. This leaves Team USA in very good position in their six-team World Cup qualifying group. [Stars and Stripes F.C.]
The NCAA Tournament returns on Thursday. Check out this preview of all the Sweet 16 action. [GuySpeed]


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Wine and food predictions for 2011Posted by Martin Field on 18 December 2010 in Food and Wine
Predictions for 2011
For what it's worth, I reckon that in 2011, Australian wine drinkers will get over their flirtation with New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
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Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Indian skipper M.S. Dhoni Thursday blamed another "disappointing batting performance" for the loss against Pakistan in the crucial second one-dayer at the Eden Gardens here, which allowed the visitors to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
"Our bowlers did well to restrict them to 250 runs but our batting was disappointing. The key was to keep wickets in hand but we could not do that, which cost us the match," Dhoni said post the 85-run loss to Pakistan.
Putting onus on the "senior batsmen", the skipper rued that his batters failed to soak in the pressure and consolidate the innings.
"When the seniors, the experienced guys are not performing, it puts pressure on the juniors. It is important that the seniors stand up and take responsibility as also guide the juniors."
"While chasing, we lost too many wickets and with nearly 180 of the last 30 overs required, we were never in the game. The need was someone standing up and soaking up the pressure and consolidate the innings. Unfortunately we failed to do so," said Dhoni.
He also said that the Pakistan target of 250 was "chaseable" and credited his bowlers for their effort.
"Our bowlers bowled well to bring us back in the game and restricted them to 250. It was a chaseable target but our batsmen failed to apply. As a batsman, you need to keep out the good balls and if you are not able to do that you lose your wicket," he said.
Dhoni though refused to put the blame on any single individual and conceded it was tough facing the media after repeated losses.
"It is a difficult time for us but we cannot blame any individual. It is team sport and the whole team needs to take the responsibility. We need to be calm and take decisions accordingly. After the loss we are all emotionally charged and it is not the right time to take any decisions," added Dhoni.


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The promised scenario sounded so efficient: Ever-improving technology would allow a continuous exchange of data between buyer and seller. Customers would post their requirements for goods and services to the cloud, and suppliers would respond with their offerings. The marvel of electronic procurement would dramatically boost productivity as reliance on human involvement declined.
For retail commodity purchases, e-commerce has indeed revolutionized the landscape, with U.S. e-retail sales growing about 10 percent a year and expected to reach $279 billion by 2015, Forrester Research estimates.
But such gaudy statistics obscure the reality that, in many industries, the vision of technology rendering humans redundant has fallen short. No matter how sophisticated the tools, certain transactions still depend on person-to-person interaction. Particularly in industrial procurement, customers continue to value and benefit from solid relationships with their suppliers—with technology merely providing assistance.
Consider that personal relationships offer four crucial attributes—flexibility, responsiveness, trust and creativity—that technology does not.
Flexibility: In industrial procurement, the exception is often the norm. Typically, the purchasing agent is seeking either non-standard components or standard products with unique specifications. Or when standard components might be satisfactory, the agent may be seeking a guarantee of stepped-up delivery.
Decades of experience has shown us that while software systems and business algorithms may excel in black-and-white transactions, they don't do well when negotiation and flexibility are required. In negotiating unique specs and lead times, only humans have the capacity and flexibility to navigate the gray-area challenges.
Responsiveness: Every customer wants responsiveness, and every vendor claims to deliver it. But it's another area in which technology pales—which is why the recorded prompts for virtually every customer service line include the option to push 0 for an operator. And consider how many times that operator seems too poorly trained or equipped to solve the customer's problem.
Delivering responsiveness means grasping and anticipating the complexity and nuance of a customer's requirement, perhaps even when the customer himself isn't entirely sure what product or service will meet his need. Delivering responsiveness requires a commitment of time, attention and information sharing that many find challenging.
The responsive supplier will listen actively to understand the requirements that define the purchase and to convey the parameters that govern the supply. The responsive vendor also will ask probing questions to ensure that each party clearly and completely understands the other's position. Responsiveness also involves sharing information and acquired knowledge that may help avert an oversight or miscalculation. Finally, true responsiveness requires mutual empathy and mutual acceptance of the shared benefit of a successful transaction.
Trust: The keystone of every successful transaction, trust nourishes confidence and security, promoting and encouraging ongoing business opportunities.
Charles Green, co-author of "The Trusted Advisor," contends that "actions, not words, are the only language of trust." In business, he writes, trust is earned when "you are perceived as working to achieve your goals through helping others achieve theirs (and when) you are seen as focusing on the longer-term relationship rather than the immediate transaction."
Developing and earning mutual trust and professional respect can be a painstaking process. And while technology may assist humans in their journey toward trusting relationships, it certainly doesn't supplant those humans.
Creativity: Many product innovations and refinements introduced by leading manufacturers originated with their suppliers, whose engineers and designers marshaled the expertise and motivation to deliver a better product. As a supplier, generating the ideas that enhance your customer's products enhances your value.
Again, trust is crucial for creating an environment in which such creative exchanges of ideas and experiments will thrive.
In industrial procurement, cultivating an enduring business relationship—a series of interactions distinguished by consistently high levels of flexibility, responsiveness, trust and creativity—takes time and continuous energy. It also requires the supplier to clear high bars: to tell the truth, to truly listen, to offer one's best advice regardless of who benefits, to share one's knowledge, to practice civility and to consider compromise to promote a mutually beneficial outcome.
Author Harvey Mackay put it well: "The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different."
James M. Terhune is owner, president and CEO of T&T Materials Inc., a Rochester Top 100 firm that delivers customized procurement solutions to the U.S. government, prime corporate contractors and private industry.
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Saturday, 11 May 2013 07:35 AM
SEOUL, South Korea — A former top South Korean presidential spokesman who was dismissed for what officials called a "disgraceful incident" while accompanying President Park Geun-hye on her visit to the United States is denying media reports he sexually molested a female intern during the trip.
Park's office said she fired her chief spokesman, Yoon Chang-jung, this week because unspecified actions he committed marred South Korea's national dignity. The presidential Blue House did not elaborate.
Washington's Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, Officer Araz Alali, said the department was investigating a report of misdemeanor sexual abuse, but he could not comment further. A police report obtained by The Associated Press says a woman told police that a man "grabbed her buttocks without her permission" on Tuesday night at the W Washington D.C. hotel. The police report does not describe the circumstances or identify the accuser or suspect, except to say that the suspect is 56. Yoon, who is 56, wasn't named in the report.
South Korean media reports said the woman is a Korean-American in her early 20s who worked for Yoon as part of an internship organized by the South Korean Embassy in the United States. The mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper, citing an unidentified acquaintance of the woman, said Saturday that Yoon sexually groped her at a hotel bar on Tuesday and asked her to come to his hotel room the next morning and demanded sex. The paper said friends of the woman later reported Yoon's behavior to police.
On Saturday, Yoon denied the allegations, telling a news conference that he only tapped her once on the waist, not the buttocks, as part of gesture to cheer her up after drinking alcohol with her and their driver for about 30 minutes.
Yoon said he arranged the brief drinking session because he felt sorry for adamantly scolding her several times for allegedly neglecting her duties, including having his vehicle ready on time.
"I'm deeply repenting that I didn't know about American culture," Yoon told a televised news conference. He said he wants to console her and ask her to understand that he meant only to cheer her up, rather than sexually abuse her.
Yoon also said that he did not call her into his hotel room and that he would seek to take legal action against media outlets that carried inaccurate reports about him over the scandal.
The incident could be a domestic blow to Park after an otherwise widely praised appearance in Washington.
She traveled to Washington seeking a show of unity with her country's top ally at a time of high tension with rival North Korea, which unleashed a torrent of threats against Washington and Seoul in March and April. Her performance during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama and in a speech to the U.S. Congress won praise in Washington, but her spokesman's firing could cause her political problems in Seoul.
Park, who was inaugurated in late February, faced bitter opposition in her first month on the job to policy proposals and her choices for top government posts, many of whom withdrew amid corruption and other claims.
During the news conference, Yoon offered a public apology, saying that a controversy involving him posed damages to Park's U.S. trip.
Yoon, a conservative columnist before joining Park's team last year, is disliked by many progressives in South Korea's fiercely divided political and social landscape. And Park, who was elected in December, has long faced claims from opponents of being aloof and an "imperial" decision-maker. She is the eldest child of late President Park Chung-hee, who led South Korea for 18 years in the 1960s and '70s and is both denounced for human rights abuses and praised as a strong leader.
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Microsoft today will detail the features coming in its third major update to Windows Phone 8, now called Update 3 but previously known by the internal moniker GDR3. Update 3 will be made available for free to existing handsets over the next several months, as you might expect. But the good news is that the firm will also allow developers--really, anyone--early access to Update 3 starting tomorrow.
So why now? Update 3 will of course be included on new handsets, starting with some exciting new models that Nokia will announce next week. So this feature set serves as a general preview, if you will, of some of the new features we can expect on those devices.
Mile-high view
Update 3 is an important step for a platform—Windows Phone 8—that was designed to have a not-so-speedy 18 active month life cycle. It increases the build number of the OS to 8.0.10512.
According to Microsoft, Update 3 had three main engineering goals: Enable a new generation of incredible Windows Phone 8 devices, enhance the platform with new capabilities for current users and partners, and improve overall quality.
Major new features
Update 3 delivers the following improvements to Windows Phone 8.
Bigger screens. Update 3 allows Windows Phone 8 to be used on screens of 5- to 6-inches, enabling so-called "phablet" handsets.
1080p. Update 3 also allows hardware makers to deliver devices with 1920 x 1080 (1080p) screens. Such a screen provides room for room for six small-sized live tiles horizontally instead of four, as is the case with today's screens. Built-in apps and hubs like Mail, Photos, People, and Music & Videos will also be "carefully scaled" to take full advantage of the additional on-screen real estate.
Quad-core processors. While today's Windows Phone 8 handsets are limited to dual-core processors, Update 3 will add support for the Qualcomm 8974 quad-core processor.
Driving Mode. A new feature called Driving Mode works with a connected Bluetooth device to limit notifications on the lock screen—including texts, calls, and quick status alerts, Microsoft says—until you're safely parked. You can configure Driving Mode to send automatic replies to people who call or text while you're driving.
Mobile Accessibility. One of the big complaints about Windows Phone is that its accessibility features are decidedly lacking. With Update 3, Windows Phone 8 picks up a suite of apps called Mobile Accessibility that seek to improve this situation. Apps include a screen reader for blind and visually impaired as well as tools for the hearing-impaired that help with notifications like alarms, calendar events, and low-battery warnings.
Tethering improvements. The Internet Sharing feature in Windows Phone 8 is being updated to include a special pairing mode for use with particular PCs that uses Bluetooth to make the connection: No more manual entry of passwords.
Better ringtones. With Update 3, you can use custom ringtones for more events, including instant messages, emails, voicemails, and reminders. You can also configure custom ringtones for contacts for text messages. (Previously, you could only do so for phone calls.)
Screen rotate lock. Yep, you can now lock the screen rotation, just like a real smart device.
Improved storage management. While GDR2 added the ability to automatically manage "other" storage in the Phone Storage settings app, Update 3 now provides a new category view that shows exactly what apps and other items are using up that space.
Manually close an app. Now when you access the App Switcher multitasking screen (by pressing and holding on the Back button), you will be able to manually close an app using a large and obvious close ("X") button.
Wi-Fi access during Setup. In the current version of Windows Phone 8, you cannot connect to a Wi-Fi network during Setup, so you must have a cellular data connection to add a Microsoft account. With Update 3, Wi-Fi configuration occurs before this step, solving a major complaint, especially for those of us buying no-contract phones like the Lumia 520 where a cellular connection is not guaranteed.
How you can get Update 3 this week
OK, so Update 3 is obviously a big deal, and everyone is excited that new handset users will get it soon. But what about existing Windows Phone 8 users?
As before, you can simply wait to get Update 3. Microsoft will offer it to wireless carriers for testing and delivery as before, and most will cause us to wait months and months before we can actually access the update.
Microsoft is also announcing a new Windows Phone Preview Program for Developers, which it says is designed to give developers—cough—early access to upcoming releases so that they can test their apps before release. This is exactly what Apple does with its own iOS developer program, which costs $99 per year. Indeed, this summer, I downloaded 7 Beta releases of iOS 7 between its June announcement and the October release.
Microsoft's Windows Phone developer program, however, is just $19. Which is quite a bargain. But you don't actually need a full $19 dev program membership. To qualify for the Windows Phone Preview Program for Developers, you can also use an App Studio account—which is free—or simply be lucky enough to otherwise own a developer-unlocked phone. (This typically requires a Windows Phone developer program membership.)
So if you don't feel like spending $19, head on over to App Studio and register.
Here's how it will work.
Visit the Windows Phone Preview for Developers web site (this will become live later today) and accept the terms and conditions. Then, download the Windows Phone Preview for Developers app, which installs from the Windows Phone Store directly onto your phone over the air. This app lets you opt-in new updates directly from your phone. Then, simply visit Phone Update in Settings and check for updates. Voila!
Microsoft notes that the version of Update 3 you download this way will only include Microsoft's code, and not the handset maker and carrier firmware, driver and other software updates that will be added to the public release. And when you participate in this program, you can only move forward with regards to updates: There's no going back. Furthermore, it's possible this update will void your wireless carrier warranty.
Given the history of Windows Phone, I suspect few will care about any of this.
Information for developers
For actual developers, Microsoft will provide Update 3 emulator images for Visual Studio in the next three weeks. But there are no new APIs in the update, so there will not be a corresponding SDK release. Truth is, there really isn't much that you need to do to get your app ready for Update 3. Which, of course, is what makes the release of the Windows Phone Preview Program for Developers so delicious.
That said, there are a few things to be aware of. The background audio memory cap increases from 20 MB to 25 MB for phones with 1 GB of memory or more, for example. The Internet Explorer and WebBrowser control viewport has changed because of the new resolution support. And of course with 1080p resolutions supported, you may wish to provide higher-resolution graphical assets in your apps.
So there you have it. Good news all around. What a welcome change.


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