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At just 5-foot-9, Mando Guerrero just didn't have the height to be a main event wrestler in the 1970s and early 1980s. Fortunately, he found a place still in the public eye where his size was just right, though chances are you didn't notice him.
You see, since 1977, Guerrero has been working as a Hollywood stuntman.
Like many wrestlers who switched from the grunt and groan game to the acting game, Guerrero owes a debt of gratitude to the "Godfather of Grappling" Gene LeBell.
Guerrero was working for the Los Angeles wrestling office run by Mike LeBell (Gene's brother). He was a diminutive 165 pounds and was doing his best to bulk up.
"I would go every Wednesday, which was TV day, and I would work out early in the morning," Guerrero told SLAM! Wrestling. "My thing was to gain weight. In those days, we didn't know how to gain weight, the science of it today. It was just eat a lot and workout a lot. That was the main thing. Steroid taking wasn't a must. It was available, but it was just by special guys who knew what they were doing, maybe weightlifters, not wrestlers."
"Judo" Gene was often called upon as a referee for the promotion, when his own movie schedule permitted. Gene LeBell saw Guerrero's dedication and agility and spoke up. "He said, 'You will make a lot of money in Hollywood because of your size. You can be doubling women, you can be doubling children, stuff like that.'"
LeBell said he didn't have to work hard to convince Mando to make the switch to movies. Mando had already put in time working as a surveyor on a construction site, as a salesman at a Cash Way Store a Rayburn Men's Wear store.
"Well you know, they weren't making that much money unless you were traveling around, and it's living out of a suitcase. Mando was more interested in making a living," said LeBell. "I was doing stunt work and the guy is a tremendous athlete and tumbler, so I pushed him into doing stunts. I got Chavo, his oldest brother, his first job (on The One and Only), but he never continued with it. You can't be a wrestler all your life but you can do stunts for much longer. (With stunt work) you have insurance and a pension, but in wrestling if you get hurt nobody gives a darn. I've known so many great wrestlers who get too old to do the sport, and they have no money and they've got injuries."
The second son of Gory Guerrero, it seemed destined that Mando Guerrero would follow in the footsteps of his father and his older brother, Chavo Sr., and lead the way for his younger brothers Hector and Eddie, who would surpass them all in fame as world champion in WWE. But Mando had given some thought to acting. "I had gone to the University of Texas El Paso, taking drama lessons there," he said. "I'd never thought about it seriously, but it was in the back of my mind." (Besides the two years at El Paso studying dramatic arts, he has also attended Rancho Santiago College and Orange Coast College for TV production classes.)
As kids, they frequented the matches. "We lived for that last match, people are leaving and we jumped the ring. We just started carbon copying everything we'd seen. We lived for that," Mando explained. "Every second-generation wrestler that I met would live for that time, even though there were other children in the arena jumping into the ring, we ruled -- and we knew it. We used to do the same thing in Mexico."
The training that came in Texas and Mexico lead to the unique Guerrero skill set. "We came out with this dual style that we knew how to adapt real easy. So my father, with his traveling, actually educated four wrestlers that were naturals to the sport. I don't want to talk like that, but it's the truth, man."
Most of the success in his career came in Mexico or while based out of Los Angeles, where he was a mainstay for years, often teaming with his brothers Chavo or Hector. He also formed championship tag teams with Tom Jones, Carlos Mata and Al Madril.
But he found there to be a glass ceiling, a level of stardom that he just wasn't going to hit. So when Mike LeBell -- Gene's brother -- asked him to meet with a producer who was interested in making a movie about wrestling, Mando was right there.
It was 1977, and there was a Screen Actors Guild strike going on. Mike LeBell instructed Mando to get rid of the producer. "I don't want him around. All they do is call us fakers. I don't want be involved. Whatever you do, just get rid of him," Mando recalled Mike LeBell saying.
"I went into the interview with that attitude. So I started mouthing my mouth off, cussing him off. Finally I said, 'I'm sick and tired of you guys. You always come over here and say that we're fakers, that we fixed this, we fixed that. You really don't know until you start traveling with us, and really catch the essence of what this business is all about,'" Mando told the producer, who agreed, and asked to travel with the wrestlers.
When Gene LeBell found out that Mando had developed a relationship with a Hollywood producer, instead of reacting like his protectionist brother, he told Mando to ask for a SAG card so he could start working. Then Gene offered up the advice that Mando fortunately adhered to: "Whatever you do, pay the dues. Whenever you get tired of carrying it, and it's burning in your pocket, you call me and I'll tell you what to do."
"Gene came to the set one day, and he saw me sitting at the back with all the extras. He walks up to me and he says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This is where they told us to sit.' He said, 'That's not how you're going to learn. You see that camera? Where that camera goes you go. Stay out of the way, keep your mouth shut, keep your eyes and ears open and learn. After three years, come and talk to me again,'" Mando recalled.
After three years, Mando had a good resume and knew how to do some stunts, and knew some of the stuntmen. This time, Gene told him to start visiting the sets. "Little by little, I started getting calls, to do this, to do this fall, to do that fall. I learned how to do crawl work, I learned how to rappel. Now I know how to box. You start learning as you go along. I learned how to do high falls, jump around on a swing, all that, how to act in movies, how to do a movie punch, how to sell."
Gene LeBell explained the dedication needed for stunt work. "There's no instant success, and stunt work's a little different because you have to be your own agent," he said. "The shots are called by other stuntmen, so you get hired by people you know. He's a good actor, but it's a tough business to break and he's a great stuntman."
"I always divided myself between wrestling and this. I became what they called a no-show. I would work three, four months a year in L.A., and wrestling in the local areas ... then I would do stunt work like that. Then I would get myself booked, like say in Oregon, and I would go wrestling in Oregon for eight months," he said. "So obviously I wasn't doing nothing here in the movies. So I would come back down to L.A. and I'd start doing the rounds again, pick up my reputation."
Finally, Gene LeBell stepped in and told Mando's wife to keep him from wrestling. "He's never going to get settled here in this business unless he stays here and works it," LeBell told Mando's wife.
Gene put things in perspective for Mando, and made him realize that he wasn't going to be a main eventer, so he should give up the wrestling. "I will always be indebted to Gene for that, for opening my eyes."
The goal of a Hollywood stuntman is generally to not be noticed, filling in for the big star during a dangerous scene. Feel free to look for Mando in some of these films: Miracles (1986); Red Surf (1990); Eve of Destruction (1991); Falling Down (1993); Steal Big Steal Little (1995); My Giant (1998); Critical Mass (2000); Picking Up the Pieces (2000); Submerged (2000); The Shrink Is In (2001)
Mando found some similarity between his passion for wrestling and stunt work. "You cannot do a stunt halfway. You've got to shoot for it all the way, the best way you can do it in order to keep it safe, keep yourself from injury," he said. Hence, he also gets many to work as as a stunt co-ordinator and choreographer for wrestling scenes in movies.
Just like they did years before, the Guerrero brothers still get called into action on occasion. As recently as July, Chavo, Mando & Hector teamed to defeated Villano IV, Rey Misterio & Haku.
He truly loves the sport, and follows today's WWE with a keen eye.
"It's the evolving of the sport. Now you have Hollywood coming in and governing the portrayal of the business. Regardless of what happens to get those two performers in the ring, it's still those two performers who should have enough knowledge, enough respect, to put on a show that's worthwhile. That takes a lot of skill," he explained, going on to praise his late brother, Eddie, who died in November 2005. "It's not that I'm a Guerrero or whatever, but sit down and compare to the matches my brother Eddie had. See the damage of the other wrestler. Eddie, there were very few wrestlers who ever got hurt with Eddie wrestling them. Eddie got hurt by many of them because they didn't know how to execute good. It's all the illusion."
Mando has even gone as far as applying for a job as a WWE road agent, hoping to share his knowledge and passion with future generations.
"I'm not saying that it's all bad, but I am seeing a lot of mistakes. I am a technician. I think it should be every detail, every step, every punch, everything's got to be down to a 'T,'" he said.
On a roll, he continued: "Every wrestler now comes into the game thinking wrestling is fake, that is why their performance is weak. Having the opportunity to work both in the pro wrestling world and the Hollywood scene, I would like to tell all new wrestlers how important it is not to cheat the ticket-paying audience. By applying the moves and holds to their full strength and striking and completing every punch with the correct timing, the chemistry between them and the wrestling fan would be real magic.
"Eddie and I would sit and dissect his matches down to every detail, such things as, would a move have better force by place his feet in a different position? Most performers are too involved in their ring persona rather than their ring performance. The connection between me and the audience is the passion of the detailed delivery of my performance. My brothers and I were taught to give the fans the truth. Eddie had a whole family that supported him. People still chant his name."
-- with files from Dave Hillhouse
Greg Oliver, and his co-author, Steve Johnson, got some flak for not including Los Guerreros in their book, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams. Well, both Chavo Sr. and Mando contribute their thoughts on opponents like John Tolos, Bull Ramos and Roddy Piper to the upcoming The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels (Spring 2007), and the Guerreros are slated for The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heroes somewhere down the road. It just goes to show that it pays to complain. Email Greg at email@example.com.


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i stroll into the office at 9:45-ish. on a typical day, i'll play madden mobile for an hour, i'll check in on my dating apps for about half an hour, i take an hour lunch, and i'll chit chat with my co-workers for about a half hour/an hour.
the rest of the time, i'll be on the phone making any necessary calls (opposing counsel or clients), sending out discovery, writing motions, or doing legal research. i'll be in mediation about once every 1-2 months, and i have a court hearing about once every month or two. i work weekends about once or twice every three months (mostly if there's a class cert motion).
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Cost of ObamaCare subsidies has increased dramatically, critics say
The cost of subsidies for those seeking government aid through ObamaCare has increased dramatically, critics say – even before a single dollar has been collected.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah wrote a letter to the administration asking why the president is already requesting 107 percent more than three years ago to pay for subsidies.
"They low-balled everything, and they knew they were not asking for enough money to actually do this," John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis said. "And so now they are coming along saying: 'Oh, we've just discovered we don't have enough money'. They should've known that from day one."
"I don't think most of America will be shocked that a government project is coming in over budget," Jim Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute said. "It's the typical story and so yeah it's probably happening in this case as well."
The remarks followed by days the administration's announcement it was easing requirements on those seeking government aid through ObamaCare, making it easier to apply for subsidies.
White House spokesman Jay Carney portrayed it as another example of flexibility.
"We have made clear all along when it comes to working with states that we are flexible with the way that they implement the Affordable Care Act," he said.
The Department of Health and Human Services quietly announced Friday it was tweaking the rules requiring those seeking federal aid for insurance coverage to prove they actually need the help.
Under the law, those seeking subsidies are supposed to have incomes no higher than 400 percent of the federal poverty line. Further, they can't have access to affordable insurance through their jobs.
The administration looked to the newly created "exchanges" -- a blend of federal- and-state run insurance marketplaces -- to verify those facts. Originally, the administration wanted to launch random checks to verify whether applicants got insurance through their jobs, and to individually verify everyone's income level.
But Reuters reports that the new rules released on Friday will give 16 states -- as well as the District of Columbia -- a pass for now on the employer-insurance verification. For those states, which are launching their own exchanges, the federal government will give them until 2015 to start random checks. The exchanges themselves launch at the beginning of 2014.
Last week the administration also announced it was delaying until 2015 a requirement that businesses employing 50 or more workers provide access to insurance.
On "Fox News Sunday," critics and supporters took very different views of the effect of that delay.
"What it's doing to keep employers from bringing on any kind of employee," said Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee. "It's been very damaging. And I think just moving it back a year is not going to undo the uncertainty that people have."
But Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said, "the vast majority of companies in this category provide health care already and they'll continue to so. But I think given the potential confusion, postponing it, not eliminating it, but postponing it for a year makes sense."
"They do it because they want to attract the best workers," said Ron Pollack of Families USA, a backer of the health care law said. "And workers are likely to be attracted to a company if you provide good benefits and good wages."


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ALA Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Spotlight
Open gaming in the registration hall Saturday, Sunday, and Monday!
- Drop by to play Guitar Hero, Wii Sports, and other fun video games. Also the place to pick up conference "blogger" and "gamer" ribbons.
- Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- We'll be in the back, across from the Internet Café. Just follow the sounds of the cheering
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IEEE Breakfast and Presentation @ ALA Midwinter
- Date: Saturday, 12 January
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WebFeat Product Launch Breakfast
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Join us for another delicious WebFeat breakfast as we unveil SMART Usage Tracker v2.0 - COUNTER compliant usage tracking, now with native database tracking capabilities!
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Breakfast with ARTstor
Join us for breakfast and learn about the ARTstor Digital Library! ARTstor representatives will present an overview of ARTstor Digital Library collections, features and tools the Offline Image Viewer (OIV), and the Images for Academic Publishing project. We will close the meeting with a facilitated discussion on the topic of access and discovery of ARTstor content and ARTstor strategies for interoperability.
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WebFeat Client Showcases - Join us as some of our clients demonstrate their customized WebFeat systems.
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TDNet Educational Sessions, Booth 1225 - TDNet Inc. will be offering a series of educational sessions in our booth (#1225). The sessions are designed to be short in length, and instructional, so attendees can quickly learn about TDNet's e-resource access and management solutions. After each session, attendees will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing to win the new Apple iPod Touch.
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Families of Malaysia Airlines victims unlikely to receive compensation
The accusations that Russia bears the blame for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane by a surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine nearly two weeks ago leaves a key question still hanging: Will the already-troubled investigation produce any definitive word on who should be declared the responsible party?
The answer has very practical implications beyond the geopolitics of Ukraine's future as a united country and Russia's relationship to the Western world. It also will determine whether the survivors of the 298 dead aboard the plane will receive compensation for their loss – and from whom.
What the history of such shoot-downs shows is that none is resolved quickly, even when the nation quickly acknowledges that it shot down a civilian aircraft.
The accidental downing of an Iranian airliner by the United States on July 3, 1988, is a case in point. President Ronald Reagan acknowledged that very day that the American missile cruiser USS Vincennes had shot down the civilian airliner with 248 people on board, all of whom perished.
But he called the Vincennes' firing on the plane "proper defensive action," which the Vincennes took as it was battling five Iranian gunboats _ in Iranian waters, as it turned out. Reagan never apologized for the tragedy, and while the White House offered to make restitution on July 11 that year, its statement noted that "a particularly heavy burden of responsibility rests with the government of Iran."
It was left to the administration of President Bill Clinton to carry out the payments _ in 1996, when the United States agreed before the International Court of Justice to pay more than $131 million, of which some $61 million went to the victims' families.
Russia denies any role in the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and it seems likely that determining exactly who or what brought the plane to earth may be months away, if ever.
The plane's wreckage remains scattered across a 25-mile-diameter swath of Ukraine, and investigators have been unable to reach it because of fighting in the area. Ukraine has published audio that it says it intercepted of separatists talking about the downing of the aircraft, but the BUK missile launcher suspected in the crash hasn't been found, and Ukraine says evidence suggests it was spirited across the border into Russia the day after the aircraft was downed.
Europe and the United States announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, intended to punish that country for its continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. But that pressure isn't likely to move Russia to accept responsibility in the Malaysia Airlines disaster, experts say.
Even when the case for Russian involvement in the downing of a civilian aircraft has seemed open and shut, the country has shown little willingness to cooperate, said Louis Goodman, the former dean of the American University School of International Service and an expert on South Korea who's closely studied one of the most notorious incidents, the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 by an air-to-air missile on Sept. 1, 1983. All 269 people on board died.
From the beginning, Russia was cagey about detailing what happened, at first denying that it knew anything about the incident, even though its fighter jet had tracked the airliner for hours, Goodman noted. When it finally admitted that the airliner had been shot down, it accused the United States of sending the aircraft into Soviet airspace as a test of that country's air defenses.
The Soviet Union vetoed a condemnation from the United Nations Security Council, but the United States and others placed individual sanctions on Moscow. The International Civil Aviation Organization, the U.N. body that develops global flight practices, also condemned the attack.
Soviet officials refused to cooperate with the investigation. As a result, the plane's black boxes weren't turned over to investigators until 1992, nearly three years after the Soviet Union had collapsed. Still, no compensation was offered.
It wasn't the first time Russia had been reluctant to cooperate or to admit attacking a civilian plane. On April 20, 1978, a Russian jet intercepted and shot down Korean Airlines Flight 902 after the passenger plane strayed into Soviet airspace. The plane crash-landed on a frozen lake, and two passengers died. Russia promptly returned the survivors, saying it had thought the aircraft was a spy plane. No compensation was offered.
A rare instance of Russia making restitution came after the June 3, 1954, attack by a Russian fighter plane on a Belgian cargo plane over Austria, near the Hungarian border. The plane's radio operator was killed. A year later, after a formal protest by the Belgian government, Russia paid the radio operator's widow $10,000.
"The Russians have been much more reluctant to admit responsibility," said Charles Armstrong, a professor of Korean studies at Columbia University. "I think because they feel that it will make them lose more credibility."
Only one treaty explicitly deals with firing on civilian aircraft: the Convention on International Civil Aviation, whose Article 3 Bis was adopted in 1984 to prohibit countries' militaries from attacking civilian airliners. If one does stray into national airspace, a country is permitted only to require that it land.
But the article, "like a lot of international agreements, doesn't have a lot of teeth," said Brian E. Foont, former assistant general counsel for US Airways, who's published scholarly articles on shoot-downs.
Nothing in the convention sets out what penalties should be applied if a country downs a civilian airliner. Paying compensation for an attack is more of a tradition than a requirement under international law.
China, for instance, offered restitution when it shot down a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific plane in July 1954, Foont noted. The Chinese government, while claiming that the plane had been mistaken for a nationalist military aircraft, reportedly apologized to the British, who governed Hong Kong at the time, just three days after the attack. Five months later China paid more than $1 million to the British government.
The Bulgarian government offered payments in its currency after shooting down an Israeli passenger plane that strayed into Bulgaria on July 27, 1955. It admitted to the attack a week after the incident, after first denying that it had had anything to do with the incident, which killed nearly 60 people, Foont said. Israel declined the offer, however.
In 1973, Israel agreed to pay undisclosed restitution after it downed a Libyan plane, killing over 100 people, according to The Global Jewish News Source. A day after the incident, an Israeli minister described the downing as a "tragedy," although the Israelis defended the attack, saying the plane was asked to land and didn't comply.
More recently, the Ukrainian government shot down a Siberia Airlines plane in 2001, which prompted the resignation of then-Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk. Nearly 80 people died, and the government reportedly disbursed about $15 million.
Experts agree that national military attacks on civilian planes are rare, particularly after World War II. Attacks on commercial aircraft by irregular forces such as Ukraine's separatists are far more frequent, particularly on cargo aircraft. In those cases, restitution almost never is paid.
"There're quite a few cases . . . probably about two dozen" of paramilitaries shooting down civilian aircraft, said David Gero, who's written books on aviation accidents. In most cases, no actions are taken against the perpetrators, he said. "They usually try to rationalize that their action was justified and that they are, therefore, not responsible in any way," he said.
"It is very difficult to get an international remedy against the rebels," said Malcolm Shaw, an expert in international law and a member of the United Kingdom's Essex Court Chambers who's written about shoot-downs. That's at least in part because rebels such as the Ukrainian separatists aren't signatories to any of the international accords that assign jurisdiction in such cases.
"In terms of getting compensation, the question is where is the appropriate forum? Which international court has jurisdiction? And the answer is . . . none, really," Shaw said.
That might be different if Russia were found to have supplied the missiles that separatists used to down the plane. But with no Russian cooperation, the prospect for that seems low.
"If Russia agreed to go to, say, the International Court of Justice, and, say, you can prove that Russia had sufficient control over the rebels to be held responsible for its actions, then you could get a compensation," Shaw said. But for a case to go to that court, a country must consent to the court's jurisdiction, and Russia, he said, "is not going to accept jurisdiction."


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So one night after they were beaten by the lowly Pistons, how exactly did the Lakers blow a 21-point lead to lose to the even lowlier Wizards? That mutiny that seems to be building among the players over coach Mike Brown? The obvious tension between Brown and Kobe Bryant? The distraction of the constant trade rumors involving Pau Gasol? What say you, Andrew Bynum:
"I was out there kind of loafing around, having a good time," Bynum said. "It caught up."
ESPN tried to suggest that Bynum made the remark to distract from the drama of the reported player revolt. But Matt Barnes reacted to Bynum's comment with some seriousness, telling the Los Angeles Times:
"That can't happen. He's an All-Star, he's one of our best players. But it's not any one person. It's a collective effort. If he's tired, we have to pick him up. We've got people that are ready to play."
Bynum's having a great year, so he doesn't deserve the Bill Plaschke bloviathon that will probably ensue. Gotta love the honesty, too. That's good hustle.
Lakers have another ugly road loss [Los Angeles Times]
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The Houston Texans found assistance in the backfield.
The team announced Monday it signed Andre Brown. The Houston Chronicle's John McClain first reported the news. The running back later tweeted out a picture of himself in a Houston cap, confirming he's now on the Texans.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport previously reported that the team met with Brown on Monday, according to a source who had spoken with the former New York Giants runner. Houston added Brown after Ben Tate signed a two-year pact with the Cleveland Browns last month, leaving the Texans without a clear-cut complement to pair with starter Arian Foster.
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Ancient Egypt
Considered one of the world's greatest civilizations with a history that spans close to 3,000 years, the period of Ancient Egypt has left a compelling legacy in the many monuments that have survived the test of time. As one of the world's six civilizations to have emerged independently, Ancient Egypt has long intrigued anthropologists and today continues to draw travellers looking to explore enormous pyramids, impressive temples, sacred chambers and treasure-filled tombs.
A Brief History
The official history of Ancient Egypt civilization begins in 3100 BC (Early Dynastic Period - c. 3050–2686 BC) when King Meni united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt. Ancient Egypt's history is then divided into three stable Kingdoms - the Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC) when the Pyramids were built, the Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC) which saw an explosion in art and literature, and the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) when many great temples were built. These Kingdoms are separated by Intermediate Periods characterised by political instability with the glory of Ancient Egypt falling into decline around 1070 BC when Egypt effectively split back into two states.
The earliest settlements of ancient Egypt concentrated on the Nile Valley at a time when the climate was much wetter and the lands much greener, and much of ancient Egypt's success is attributed to the way in which they adapted and utilized the ever-changing water levels of the Nile River with clever irrigation systems and crop production. Ancient Egypt reached its zenith during the New Kingdom under rule of some of the period's most well-known pharaohs including Tutankhamen, Ramses II, Amenhotep III and Queen Hatshepsut. The spoils of these rulers and their prosperity can be found dotted across Egypt from the bejewelled death mask of King Tutankhamen housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the temples of <href="abu-simbel-sun-festival-faq" target="_blank">Abu Simbel in the south.
With such an illustrious history there's a wealth of ancient sites to visit in Egypt from the world-famous attractions frequented by travellers from across the centuries to the lesser-known sites that remain peacefully quiet. Here's our guide to the best of what ancient Egypt has to offer.
Highlights around Cairo
Some of Egypt's most popular ancient sites can be visited from Cairo, the Islamic world's greatest city and a travel destination in its own right with Coptic churches and bustling souks.
Pyramids of Giza
The great pyramids of Giza need little introduction. Looming large on the outskirts of Cairo's outer city limits, the magnificent monuments are the world's oldest tourist attraction and the sole remaining survivor of the ancient seven wonders. For many travellers the pyramids are the epitome of Ancient Egypt while for scholars they evoke endless debate on exactly how they were built. Standing beneath them it's less easy to laugh at theories surrounding alien-intervention as the sheer size and arrangement of the Pyramids are beyond imagination.
The archaeological site of Giza consists of three pyramid complexes along with the legendary Sphinx, a large limestone statue measuring 74 metres-long with the body of a lion and a human head believed to depict Pharaoh Khafra. Of the three monuments the Great Pyramid of Cheops is the oldest and largest with an estimated 2.3 million blocks used in its construction. It's possible to enter the pyramid along a low, narrow corridor (not for the claustrophobic) that leads to the exquisitely built Great Gallery and central chambers.
Thanks to its site on higher ground, the Pyramid of Chephren often appears to be the largest of the three and similarly to Cheops pyramid has an internal burial chamber that can be entered as well as a funerary temple outside of the pyramid and causeway leading to the Sphinx. The Pyramid of Mycerinus is the smallest and known as the Red Pyramid for the rusty hue of the Aswan granite that would have once encased the lower half of the structure.
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Located in downtown Cairo, the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is home to an extensive collection of ancient artifacts spanning three millenia with over 130,000 exhibits and 40,000 more items kept in storerooms. It would take close to a year to see all of what the museum contains but thankfully the main highlights can be covered in a half day visit. Top of the list of highlights is the Tutankhamen exhibition, which includes the boy-king's solid gold funerary mask inlaid with coloured glass and gemstones, one of the best-known objects of Ancient Egypt. Other highlights include the colossal statue of Akhenaten with its striking and delicate features, and the luminous golden mask of Psusennes I.
An overview of Ancient Egypt's pharaonic civilization is displayed in the Rotunda and the Atrium with monumental sculptures from various eras while more detailed exhibits on the ground floor follow a clockwise direction and chronological arrangement. On the second floor exhibits are arranged thematically and include the famous Mummy Room (additional ticket required) where the mummified remains of eleven royals are on display.
Necropolis of Saqqara
Located south of Giza on the edge of the Western Desert, the necropolis of Saqqara is Egypt's largest archaeological site occupying an area of 7 x 1.5 kilometres. Serving as the cemetery for Memphis - the ancient capital of Egypt - for over 3,500 years, Saqqara was the final resting place for numerous pharaohs buried within 11 major pyramids, the most famous of which is Zoser's Step Pyramid. This pyramid is largely considered to be one of Egypt's earliest and dates back to 2630 BC. Originally measuring 62 metres-tall with polished white limestone cladding, the pyramid and its surrounding funerary complex are just one of many sights contained within Saqqara. Elsewhere important administrators and generals lie buried in hundreds of smaller tombs known as mastabas, which are rectangular in shape with flat-topped roofs and outward sloping sides, while the underground Serapeumcontains huge granite sarcophagi with many of the treasures found within now on display in museums around the world.
Pyramids of Dahshur
Further south of Saqqara lies the royal necropolis of Dahshur, which contains some of Egypt's most impressive pyramids yet sees surprisingly fewer visitors. Dating back to the 4th and 12th dynasty, 11 pyramids once stood in Dahshur but only two have withstood the test of time - the Red Pyramid, one of the very first pyramids ever built in Egypt, and the Bent Pyramid, which has remained remarkably intact. These two pyramids mark an important stage in Ancient Egypt's pyramid-building history with the first attempt to build a smooth-sided pyramid. Although this was ultimately something of a failure with the unstable base and uneven weight distribution resulting in the 'bent' shape of the pyramid, the pair are still a breathtaking sight rising from the desert sands with dimensions exceeded only by the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Although little remains of the ancient capital, Memphis is worthy of a visit for its pivotal role in Ancient Egypt's history and for its claim to being the world's earliest imperial city. Constructed from mud-brick, Memphis has largely been reclaimed by the Nile silt with just a handful of surviving monuments including the Colossus of Ramses II, which lies on its back in a concrete shelter, and an impressive alabaster sphinx. The small open-air museum of Memphis can be visited in a short amount of time and although not nearly as impressive as Egypt's other ancient sites, the time and weather-ravaged site offers fragmented evidence of its glorious past with rustling palm groves and gardens that make for a pleasant visit.
Highlights along the Nile
The Nile River traces a route from Egypt's southern border with Sudan to its delta along the coast beside the Mediterranean Sea. The highlights covered here span the distance from south of Cairo to Luxor.
Valley of the Kings
Spread across the arid Theban Hills on the Nile's west bank near Luxor are Ancient Egypt's most famous royal tombs. Unlike the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom who were buried in the north around Giza and the Nile Delta when Memphis was the capital, the ruling dynasties of the New Kingdom preferred to be buried close to the ancient capital of Thebes (present-day Luxor). The hidden underground mausoleums were built over the course of 500 years to preserve the mummified bodies of Egypt's royal figures as well as favoured nobles and their families. After centuries of looting and tomb-robbing, most of the treasures usually buried alongside dead pharaohs have been lost but with vast chambers and wall murals, the elaborate tombs are impressive enough.
Since archaeologists first discovered the site 63 tombs have been uncovered, some of which were known to tourists as early as the Ptolemaic times (323 - 30 BC). Of these 63 tombs the most well-known is that of the boy-king Tutankhamen, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, a surprisingly intact tomb that contained fabulous treasures including the iconic golden death mask now housed in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. In recent months Egyptian officials have claimed that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb, which has reinvigorated interest in the Valley of the Kings.
In order to save the burial chambers from damage caused by roaming hands and humidity, only ten tombs are open to the public at any one time with the rest closed for restoration. Not far from the Valley of the Kings lies the Valley of the Queens where the wives of pharaohs were buried, including Queen Nefertari, in 80 tombs that have fine murals to rival those found in the kings' tombs. Entering the Theban Necropolis via the main road through New Gurna will mean you pass by the gigantic Colossi of Memnon statues that once marked the entrance to the long-lost mortuary temple of Amenophis III.
Karnak Temple
The spectacular temple complex of Karnak is Egypt's second most visited archaeological site and with good reason - a host of sanctuaries, kiosks, pylons and obelisks stand in superb states of preservation and testify to the magnitude and complexity of this ancient religious site. Dedicated to the Theban trio of gods Amun - one of the most powerful deities in Ancient Egypt, Mut - a mother goddess associated with water, and Khonsu - the moon god who marked the passage of time, Karnak comprises three separate temple enclosures that were constructed over a period of 1,300 years.
At the heart of complex stands the great Temple of Amun, a sprawling complex that measures some six acres with a Processional Way lined by sphinx statues bearing ram heads leading to the famous Great Hypostyle Hall, a man-made canopy of towering columns ornamented with hieroglyphics and carvings. This temple deserves a minimum half day for exploration thanks to its sheer size and scale and you may wish to return at night for the informative Sound and Light Show that tells the story of Karnak and the dramatic history of ancient Thebes.
Queen Hatshepsut's Temple
Within the grounds of the Theban Necropolis stands the exquisite Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, built in honour of the only female pharaoh to reign over Egypt. Set against the dusty Theban Hills in a large natural amphitheatre, the temple is instantly recognisable with its three elongated colonnaded terraces connected by long ramps. The temple would have once been reached via an avenue flanked by sphinxes with the Middle Terrace decorated with myrrh trees and water fountains, features that have now long disappeared. Of the four stone-carved lions that would have stood at each corner of the ramp only one survives today. Following the ramps from the entrance to the Upper Terrace takes you pass numerous colonnades with reliefs that depict events from Hatshepsut's life and a pair of chapels with friezes and pillared chambers. The highlight of the Upper Terrace is the row of eight giant statues of Osiris that appear to guard the Sanctuary of Amum with arms crossed and serene faces looking out across the outlying ruins.
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The Department's tentative decision would grant immunity to "oneworld" alliance members American Airlines and Japan Airlines, and separately to "Star Alliance" members United Airlines, Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways. If the decision is made final, the members of each alliance would be able to more closely coordinate international operations in transpacific markets.
In today's show-cause order, the Department tentatively found that granting antitrust immunity to each alliance would provide passengers and cargo with a variety of benefits, including lower fares on more routes, increased services, better schedules, and reduced travel and connection times. Each proposed alliance would enhance competition, particularly in transpacific markets.
On Dec. 11, 2009, the United States and Japan initialed an agreement that would establish an Open-Skies aviation relationship between the two countries once it is signed. Under the new agreement, airlines from both countries would be allowed to select routes and destinations based on consumer demand for both passenger and cargo services, without limitations on the number of U.S. or Japanese carriers that can fly between the two countries or the number of flights they can operate.
Parties have 21 calendar days to comment and seven business days to file answers. After this period ends, the Department will review all filings and then issue a final decision.
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Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., sold 31.2 million iPhones in the April-to-June period, up from 26 million in the same period a year ago, the report said. But the company's sales growth isn't keeping pace with the overall smartphone market, which grew 52% from last year.
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When Amazon launched AWS and ushered in the public cloud era, public cloud seemed to be where everyone was headed. Now that the virtual dust has settled a bit, we've seen the truth that our customers are facing: it's no longer simply about infrastructure. Whether your applications run on- or off-premises doesn't matter. What's important is that you've got a data-centric architecture that allows you to leverage innovation as soon as it becomes available. Watch this webinar and find out why you no longer have to choose between an on-premises or cloud infrastructure. The era of AND is here, and it's changing the game for your hybrid applications.
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Colin Gallagher leads product marketing for cloud solutions and converged infrastructure at Pure Storage. Before deciding to surround himself with orange, Colin had various lead product marketing and management roles most recently focused on hyper-converged infrastructure. He has been working in technology since 1987, with prior roles in pre-sales, software development, and business development. Colin holds an MBA from Northeastern University and BS degree from Georgetown University in International Relations.
He enjoys the challenge of creating creative yet results-oriented, "no fluff" marketing and tries to get as many miles as possible on his bicycles each year. He can be found on Twitter as @worldc3.
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Usher in the Modern Era of Data Protection: Intro to Pure Storage ObjectEngine
Apr 2 2019
21 mins
Shawn Aquino, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Pure Storage
As valued Pure Storage customers, you're already in the midst of an evolution that is the Flash-to-Flash-to-Cloud (F2F2C) approach to modernizing data protection.
Attend this webinar to learn about our newest solution, ObjectEngine, the enabling technology that makes F2F2C a reality:
- What drivers are fueling Flash-to-Flash-to-Cloud interest
- Why legacy architectures come up short
- Which key ObjectEngine features advance your F2F2C agenda
About the speaker:
At Pure Storage, Shawn Aquino is a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, focusing on Rapid Recovery solutions that include FlashBlade, ObjectEngine and 3rd party backup products. Prior to Pure, he was a Senior Product Marketing Manager overseeing the Information Governance solution portfolio at Veritas Technologies LLC, and this included marketing Enterprise Vault, the #1 enterprise information archiving solution. Prior to Veritas, Shawn held senior product marketing and product management roles at Symantec, Commvault, HP and Veritas Software. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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Effortless Cloud Data Protection with Purity CloudSnap
Apr 2 2019
20 mins
Syed Amin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Pure Storage
In a hybrid world, enterprises look to leverage the public cloud for data protection. However, existing solutions are typically complex, inefficient, and costly. In this session, you will learn how Purity CloudSnap delivers simple and built-in cloud data protection in FlashArray. We will also discuss how the unique metadata architecture of Purity snapshots allows CloudSnap to deliver efficient backup and restores. A demo of Purity CloudSnap will highlight how snapshots can be easily offloaded to S3 in Amazon Web Services.
About the speaker:
Syed Amin is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at Pure Storage, specializing in on-prem and cloud-based data protection solutions, which include Pure Storage products such as CloudSnap to AWS & Azure, and Snap to NFS.
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Best Practices for Kubernetes on VMware vSphere
Apr 2 2019
56 mins
Jon Owings, Principal SE at Pure Storage
Kubernetes is the platform of choice to deploy cloud native applications and services in the public or private cloud. How can you get started with Kubernetes on vSphere? What are the best practices and lessons learned running Kubernetes in a virtual environment? What tools and solutions can enable your own "as a Service" model for on premises private cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud? We will look at solutions such as Kubeadm, Kubernetes Anywhere, and Pivotal Container Services.
About the speaker:
Starting off in 2007, Jon Owings, Principal SE at Pure Storage, used ESX to save end of life servers when no one knew how to reinstall the applications. Over the next few years was a post sales engineer/architect of VMware & VDI solutions. Jon spends time working in the lab and with customer POC's at Pure Storage. Today, Jon works with customers transitioning to the next generation of applications, orchestrating cloud native storage as a service for container (Kubernetes/Docker) environments. Jon shares his learning and knowledge on his blog, blog.2vcps.io.
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Active-Active Stretched Cluster Solution for VMware Environments
Apr 2 2019
32 mins
Don Kirouac, Technical Marketing Engineer at Pure Storage
Learn about how ActiveCluster, Pure Storage's synchronous replication and stretched cluster solution, can be used in VMware vSphere environments to deliver zero Recovery Time Objective. Different use cases like vSphere Metro Storage Cluster and vCenter Site Recovery Manager will be discussed. What they are, how they are different, and how they can be used together. Best practices and considerations will be described for vSphere HA to effectively use ActiveCluster will be outlined as well as the inner workings of the FlashArray Storage Replication Adapter support for ActiveCluster with SRM.
About the speaker:
Don is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Pure Storage. His responsibilities include FlashArray features such as ActiveCluster and Async Replication as well as FlashArray Performance. He has over 20 years of experience supporting storage network switches, systems, and storage technologies through various roles in solution delivery, architecture, pre-sales, corporate systems engineering, and technical marketing. Don studied Computer Mathematics and Economics at Keene State College and Clark University.
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Unleash the Benefits of VVols with Pure Storage
Apr 2 2019
54 mins
Cody Hosterman, Technical Director of VMware Solutions at Pure Storage
With the release of VVols 2.0, enterprise HA features now enable customers to use VMware integrated array-based snapshots to address the performance limitations in VMware SnapShots. The Pure Storage FlashArray support for VVOLs 2.0 and VASA 3.0 enable VM Granular Storage, Storage Policy Based Management, Non-Disruptive Upgrades, and a Highly Available VASA provider, all managed via vCenter. The benefits of VVols 2.0 are compelling and migration with FlashArray is EASY!
About the speaker:
Cody Hosterman is the Technical Director of VMware Solutions at Pure Storage and will be leading the discussion. Cody's areas of focus include core ESXi storage, Virtual Volumes, vRealize (Orchestrator, Automation and Log Insight), Site Recovery Manager and PowerCLI. Cody has been named a VMware vExpert from 2013 through 2017.
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Untether your SDDC with VVols and vSAN Interoperability
Apr 2 2019
34 mins
Vaughn Stewart, a VP of Technology Alliance Partners at Pure Storage
Customers seek common management and orchestration of their SDDC across diverse infrastructures. Join Pure Storage and VMware as they discuss the interoperability between VVols and vSAN.
This session will cover Storage VMotion migration, disaster recovery automation with Site Recovery Manager, vRealize automation and monitoring and Storage Policy Based Management across diverse storage fabrics and architectures including AFAs, HCI and the public cloud.
About the speaker:
Vaughn Stewart is a VP of Technology Alliance Partners at Pure Storage. He helps organizations capitalize on what's possible when pairing memory-based storage technologies with traditional and next-generation applications. Prior to Pure he spent 13 years in various leadership roles at NetApp and has been awarded a U.S. patent.
Vaughn strives to simplify the technically complex and advocates thinking outside the box. You can find his perspective online at vaughnstewart.com and in print; he's co-authored multiple books including "Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing."
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10 Lessons Learned from AI Initiatives in Financial Services
Dec 12 2018
29 mins
Andy Price, Financial Services, Pure Storage
The Financial Services industry is no exception to the hype around Artificial Intelligence. Join our webinar and walk away with 10 lessons from our multiple experiences with AI engagements in the Financial industry.
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(Replay) How to Modernize your Private Cloud
Oct 30 2018
45 mins
Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology at Pure Storage
Pure Storage presents how to simplify private cloud operations with FlashStackTM. During this presentation, Pure Storage will discuss the advantages of FlashStack including:
- Why clouds providers deploy disaggregated architecture and the benefits compared to hyper-converged
- Evergreen Storage as a Subscription
- Operational simplicity enabled by a no trade-off storage architecture
- How to meet the performance and availability needs of tier-1 workloads at they price point of tier-2 VMs simultaneously from a single platform
- How operational simplicity allows cloud admins to manage storage in a cloud infrastructure
- Discuss the depth of Pure's integrations with vSphere and Public Cloud providers
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Redefining Storage for the Post-Data Lake Era
Oct 30 2018
14 mins
Roy KIm, FlashBlade Product & Solutions Marketing, Pure Storage
Data is the fuel for the modern enterprise. Yet most data is stored in silos, out of reach of analytics and AI applications. The storage industry is largely to blame for offering legacy solutions like data lake and data silos that lock them away. It's time for the storage industry to step up and deliver a fresh architecture for the modern era. At Pure Storage, we call this new architecture, data hub. Listen in and learn more.
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Big Data Analytics: What is Changing and How Do You Prepare?
Oct 25 2018
46 mins
Ivan Jibaja, Tech Lead, Pure Storage; Joshua Robinson, Founding Engineer, FlashBlade, Pure Storage
Learn the origin of big data applications, how new data pipelines require a new infrastructure toolset and why both containers and shared storage are the fundamental infrastructure building blocks for future data pipelines.
We will first discuss the factors driving changes in the big-data ecosystem: ever-greater increases in the three Vs of data volume, velocity, and variety. The data lake concept was originally conceived as a single location for all data, but the reality is that multiple pipelines and storage systems quickly lead to complex data silos. We then contrast the legacy Hadoop applications, which are built only for volume, and the next generation of applications, like Spark and Kafka, which solves for all three Vs. Finally, we end with how to build infrastructure to support this new generation of applications, as well as applications not yet in existence.
About the Speakers:
Ivan Jibaja, Tech Lead, Pure Storage Ivan Jibaja is currently a tech lead for the Big Data Analytics team inside Pure Engineering. Prior to this, he was a part of the core development team that built the FlashBlade from the ground-up. Ivan graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on systems and compilers.
Joshua Robinson, Founding Engineer, FlashBlade, Pure Storage Joshua builds Pure's expertise in big-data, advanced analytics, and AI. His focus is on organizing a cross-functional team, technical validation, performance benchmarking, solution architectures, collecting customer feedback, customer consultations, and company-wide trainings. Joshua specializes in several data analytics tools, including Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and TensorFlow.
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Jumpstart Your AI Initiative: Building Blocks for Infrastructure
Oct 11 2018
60 mins
Ramnath Sai Sagar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Pure Storage
The existing "Do-It-Yourself AI" solutions involve enterprises to procure, integrate, test and continuously perform maintenance of hardware and (open source) software - all by themselves. In the process, they lose valuable months to jumpstart their AI initiatives and underutilized their resources during this crucial phase.
In this session, you will get the best practices for the design and deployment of AI infrastructure, and learn how to build an AI platform that will deliver faster-time-to-insights and enable your data scientists to be more productive.
Ramnath is Senior Manager, Product Marketing for AI and Deep Learning at Pure. Previously, he worked as a Marketing Manager at Mellanox Technologies, leading the market development activities for "ABC" - AI, BigData & Cloud. Before that, he was the RDMA Solutions Evangelist and led Cloud & Big Data strategy at Emulex. Prior to joining Emulex, he worked in two of the most prestigious research labs in Europe - Brain Mind Institute at EPFL, Switzerland and Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. He has 15+ publications in leading conference and journals.
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From Experimentation to Insights: Building an End-to-End Deep Learning System
Sep 27 2018
61 mins
Tony Paikeday, Dir of Product Marketing, NVIDIA Deep Learning Systems; Roy Kim, Dir of Product Solutions, PureStorage
Every organization wants to infuse the power of AI in its business. From development to production training, you need an end-to-end AI workflow that's optimized for the rigors of deep learning, that offers predictable performance as your neural network models and datasets grow. Attend this session to get insights into use cases, best practices and architecture examples that can help you and your data science team get started now, accelerating your path from experimentation to business insights.
About the Speakers:
Tony Paikeday is the Director of Product Marketing for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Systems, responsible for the world's first portfolio of AI supercomputers for enterprise - NVIDIA DGX Systems. Tony was previously with VMware, managing product marketing for the Horizon 7 portfolio and focused on key enabling technologies, including GPU virtualization and software-defined data center. Prior to joining VMware, Tony was at Cisco, building its data center solutions marketing practice focused on desktop and application virtualization. Prior to Cisco, he held business development roles at Nortel working with enterprise and service provider accounts, after having started his career as a Manufacturing Engineer for Ford Motor Company. Tony holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto.
Roy Kim joined Pure in 2017 as Director of Product Marketing for FlashBlade. Previously, Roy led product marketing at NVIDIA for deep learning, HPC, and enterprise analytics industries. Roy has Masters of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) accelerates possible, transforming businesses in ways previously unimagined. The company's disruptive, software-driven storage technology combined with a customer-friendly business model drives business and IT transformation for customers through dramatic increases in performance and efficiency at lower costs. Visit www.purestorage.com to learn more.
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AVB opens door to Spurs striker signing
Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has rubbished claims that Jermain Defoe needs surgery, but he has admitted he may still dip his toe in the transfer market for a striker.
Spurs' shock FA Cup exit at Leeds on Sunday exposed a flaw in the make-up of Villas-Boas' squad as he was forced to start with attacking midfielder Clint Dempsey as his lead striker in the absence of Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor and while he insists he can plot a path to success this season, it seems he is eager to bolster his options in the next couple of days.
Even though he has ruled out an expensive move for Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo and distanced himself from rumours linking Spurs with a bid for Celtic's Gary Hooper, Villas-Boas seems to be open to a new hit-man being added to his ranks.
"We are happy to take the risk and stay with the strikers we have at the moment, but that doesn't mean we are not looking at other possibilities," stated the Tottenham boss, who has again been linked with Brazilian forward Leandro Damiao in recent days.
"We have had good news on Defoe's injury and it is not true that he will require surgery, so this is extremely important for us and I am also extremely happy with the way Clint Dempsey is playing in the forward position.
"The goal that he scored on Sunday against Leeds showed that. It was a striker kind of goal and he made the run in the first place to score. Obviously, he hasn't been used too often in this position in England, but it doesn't mean he can't play it."
Meanwhile, Villas-Boas is considering handing Lewis Holtby a debut at Carrow Road on Wednesday night following his arrival from Schalke, even though he has only had one training session with his new Tottenham team-mates.
"We rate the player very highly and we managed to get him at a good price," added Villas-Boas. "It was always a question how much Schalke wanted for the player. There was a willingness to come early. We had a chance to bring him and we have added him to the squad.
"He is an extremely talented midfield player, used to playing in different positions and is an excellent addition. He has only had one training session, so we will decide wisely if it's appropriate for him to play."
Villas-Boas has confirmed that Defoe will play at Norwich on Wednesday night after he missed Sunday's FA Cup exit, but midfielder Tom Huddlestone will miss the trip to Carrow Road after picking up an injury in training.
He has also opened the door for Jake Livermore to make a move to QPR in this transfer window after confirming his midfielder has been given a chance to make a decision on his own future.


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U.S. Medical Office Buildings: A Cure for Market Volatility
CBRE presents its first-ever report on the U.S. medical-office market and its potential as a real estate investment to weather any economic downturn based on a combination of demographic trends, technological advances and an emphasis on cost-efficiency. Key findings of our report include:
- The 65+ population, which currently accounts for the highest per-capita health care spending by far, will nearly double by 2055.
- Cost containment is driving health care industry consolidation and fueling demand for less expensive delivery settings, such as medical office buildings and urgent-care facilities, as well as new technologies that can produce better patient outcomes at lower costs.
- Absorption of medical office space has outpaced new supply for the past seven years, lowering the segment's national vacancy rate to 8% as of Q1 2017.
- Rising investor confidence in medical office space has resulted in increased transaction volume in the segment, which reached nearly $10 billion for the year ending Q1 2017 and pushed cap rates to a record-low average of 6.8%.
To learn more about how the medical-office market is becoming increasingly appealing to investors, please download the full report, or for more information contact CBRE's Healthcare Real Estate Services or CBRE's U.S. Healthcare Capital Markets Group.


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How to transfer contacts from BlackBerry Q10 to Sony Xperia Z3+ D6533
Transfer contacts from your BlackBerry Q10 to the cloud server
In our guideline we will introduce PhoneCopy.com service which supports many phones from almost all manufacturers, including BlackBerry Q10, and can be easily used to synchronize data between two or more devices.
Download an application PhoneCopy for Blackberry.
Choose your username and insert your email address, where we will send you a confirmation email that you will need to activate your account.
Now you can synchronize contacts from your Blackberry 10 to PhoneCopy.com.
Your contacts will be synchronized in few seconds.
And now it's time to transfer data to your Sony Xperia Z3+ D6533
Download PhoneCopy for Android to your Android phone, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.
Run the app, fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy. In case you are Premium user, you can upload SMS as well.
After successful login, press "Advanced & Account". Select "One-way sync" and after choose "Server >> this device".
Contacts from server will be copied to your phone in few seconds.
Once everything is done, check your data on the web. Login to PhoneCopy webpage and you will see brief review of all data transferred from your device. With another mouse click, you can review the change of each particular item.
Some additional tips:
Contacts can be then transferred to another device (eq. iPhone, other Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). You can always edit your contacts in your online account. Also, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you have deleted between two synchronizations.


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Sheriff: Log rolls over, kills boy in Washington
LILLIWAUP, Wash. (AP) — A 12-year-old Washington state boy on a Boy Scout trip has died after a log that he and his friends were pushing down a hill caught his jacket and rolled over him.
The Kitsap Sun reports (http://is.gd/sA1MHM ) that the boy and three friends were trying to roll the log down a rocky slope Saturday into Lena Lake in the Olympic National Forest, across Puget Sound from Seattle.
Initial reports had said a tree had fallen on him.
Jefferson County sheriff's Deputy Joe Nole says the victim was on a Boy Scout trip with nine other boys, including his 14-year-old brother, and four adults, one of them his father.
Nole said the victim's brother stayed with him while the other boys ran to get help from the adults.
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Settlers in the area engaged in the grazing of animals, farming, mining, and trading. Enoch Bryan describes the town in 1892:
. . . around the houses scattered over the seven hills lay the commons over which the town cow peacefully browsed. College Hill, then called Mechanic's Hill, now the principal residence district, was covered with bunchgrass sod interspersed with the sun flower and lupin. There was not a tree in sight.
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Find 2019 success here at Serious HQ by applying for one of our current vacancies:
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🌱 Now that we're surrounded by settled dust (and colder days) our collective attention begins to turn to #EOTR2020. We were lucky enough to be joined by four incredible headline acts this year, but who's sitting atop your wish list for 2020?
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Nick cave, Angel Olsen, Anna calvi, David Byrne, Mono, camille o Sullivan, suede, comet is coming.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Bauhaus / DIAT
Bon Iver, Mac DeMarco, Swans?
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Kurt Vile
My Morning Jacket
Hope Sandoval.
Devendra Banhart.
Thank you.
Young Fathers, Fka Twigs, Little Simz , Nick Cave and Murder Capital have to come back
Kurt vile aldous Harding weyes blood low thee oh sees spiritualized pavement
angel olsen, swans, and pavement (pls)
PJ Harvey
Get Nick Lowe on the garden stage. His current work stands just as high as his more popular work. A strong live entertainer and an end and unending wit to boot.
Any of Angel Olsen, Ride, MBV or King Gizz would be some amazing and suitable EOTR headliners.
Conor Oberst (preferably with the rumoured reforming Bright Eyes), IDLES, War on Drugs, PJ Harvey, Kevin Morby, Wolf Alice, Sharon Van Etten and in the never gonna happen, Nick Cave and a reformed just for EOTR Neutral Milk Hotel.
swans, angel olsen, david byrne, death grips, shellac, fka twigs, ought, sleater kinney, u.s. girls, skee mask, hailu mergia!
The algiers
Could do with being stronger than this year - first one I've missed for years based solely on the line up.
Ghost Office Joe Gilson
Camera Obscura.
John Murry.
Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Caroline Polachek, Holiday Sidewinder, Weyes Blood, Bat For Lashes, Hatchie, Kelsey Lu - any of these would be wonderful!
There is many mentioning Angel Olsen and Nick Cave, I agree with those. I would also like to see Big Thief in the garden and Sharon van Etten.
Aldous Harding, Floating Points, Maria Sommerville, John Maus, Bill Callahan (even though he did it two years ago).
Nick Cave, Mazzy Star, Supergrass
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🌱 The twenty-tens coming to an end in just a couple of months have got us all nostalgic around here, so we've put together a list of our favourite tracks from exactly 10 years ago.
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Nice selection. Would have added The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio, Liars - Scissor and Big Bio - Shutterbug as well. Obviously Joanna Newsom would feature if she was on Spotify


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Heath Huston is mortally injured. His family, all of humanity, has been totally consumed, amalgamated by Tetaldian robotic conquerors. There is no hope. So who will save the asses of the universe this time? A drink is poured, a rocket ship ignited, and a cigar lit-a new Fear Agent will rise.
Four super champions of sci-fi pulp-Rick Remender, Mike Hawthorne, Tony Moore, and John Lucas-reunite, one final time, one final drink. Also includes a special Tales of the Fear Agent by legendary creator Hilary Barta!
* 32 FULL pages of COMIC-BOOK ACTION!
The final tale of the last Fear Agent begins here!
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