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Monday, April 29, 2013
San Diego 2024 Olympics in Tijuana? How a cross-border Games could work.
San Diego 2024 Olympics boosters have included events in Tijuana, Mexico, as a selling point. The USOC is reaching out to potential bid cities, and a cross-border Olympics would be a first.
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama lobby for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics at the International Olympic Committee Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009. That failed. Maybe a proposal to hold events in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2024 will help.
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Those are questions that have surfaced in recent days as the United States Olympic Committee looks for bid cities to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.The USOC has contacted 35 cities as part of a feeling-out process.
Of those 35 cities, Tulsa, Okla., was the smallest, with only 400,000 residents. But the mayor of Tulsa is not dismissing the notion of hosting the Summer Games out of hand, despite the fact that the city would need to more than triple its number of hotel rooms (to at least 45,000) and find more than $3 billion to build infrastructure like an Olympic stadium.
"I see this as a great opportunity, I really do," Mayor Dewey Bartlett told AP, encouraged the city's success in hosting the Bassmaster Classic in February
Perhaps the most intriguing candidate was San Diego, which has submitted a joint bid with Tijuana, Mexico.
USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun said the bid "would have its challenges," according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. "We haven't looked at it carefully. We just learned about it.?
Yet the problems might not be so difficult. No Olympic Games have been shared between two neighboring host countries, but the world of soccer has been dividing is major events between countries for years. South Korea and Japan shared the 2002 World Cup, and the European Championships were held in Austria and Switzerland in 2008 and Poland and Ukraine last year.
In Euro 2012, for example, Poland and Ukraine set up special "green lines" at customs posts on the border, which allowed fans with game tickets and nothing to declare to pass through via an expedited process.
Of course, the World Cup and European Championships are spread out at eight sites over an entire month, while the Summer Olympics ? while mammoth ? want to be as compact as possible to limit travel for athletes, fans, and VIPs. Soccer tournaments are a string of big events evenly spaced out, while the Summer Games are a constellation of small events packed together in time and space.
But San Diego and Tijuana are hardly worlds apart. The driving distance is 17 miles. For the Winter Games, which have increasingly devolved into city sports (skating, hockey) and mountain sports (skiing, sliding), 17 miles would be nothing.
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WH: Anthony Foxx in line for transportation post
FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Foxx as his new transportation secretary, a White House official said Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Foxx as his new transportation secretary, a White House official said Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new transportation secretary, a White House official said Sunday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Foxx would replace outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood.
Foxx is Obama's first black nominee among the new Cabinet members appointed for the second term. The president faced criticism early in his second term for a lack of diversity among his nominees.
The official insisted on anonymity to avoid public discussion of the pick before the official announcement.
The official noted that Foxx has led efforts to improve his city's transit infrastructure to expand economic opportunity for businesses and workers. During Foxx's term as mayor, Charlotte has broken ground on several important transportation projects, including the Charlotte Streetcar Project to bring modern electric tram service to the city as well as a third parallel runway at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The city has also moved to extend the LYNX light rail system to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the official said.
Foxx, an attorney who has worked in several positions with the federal government, was first elected mayor in 2009. He also served as a member of the Charlotte City Council.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Chiefs take OT Fisher of Central Michigan 1st
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Kansas City Chiefs took offensive tackle Eric Fisher of Central Michigan to begin the NFL draft Thursday night, then Jacksonville went for Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel.
It was the first time since the 1970 merger that offensive tackles went 1-2.
Fisher became the first player from the Mid-American Conference taken to open the draft. He is the third offensive tackle picked No. 1 overall since the merger, joining Orlando Pace in 1997 and Jake Long five years ago.
Fisher is the first selection by new Chiefs coach Andy Reid and general manager John Dorsey, who entertained trade offers before selecting the 6-foot-7, 306-pound Fisher over All-American Joeckel.
After Commissioner Roger Goodell paid tribute to the first responders at the Boston Marathon bombings and the victims of the West, Texas explosion, he announced Fisher's name. It broke a string of four straight quarterbacks taken first: Matthew Stafford, Sam Bradford, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck.
This is considered a QB-weak draft.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Things You Should Know When Planning A Vacation To Vietnam
Choosing a vacation package that suits you
Although Vietnam is growing at a fast pace, it still has not developed into a concrete jungle filled with skyscrapers. It still has plenty of its old world charm about it. It is a great destination to consider when you are planning your next vacation. There are several Vietnam vacation packages available to choose from. They have adventure packages, beach and island packages, honeymoon packages, family packages, veterans packages, heritage packages and more. You can always find one that will suit you best. When planning a vacation, you have the option of choosing from pre-set Vietnam vacation packages or you could get one customized to suit you. A customized vacation package will give you the freedom of choosing the places you want to visit, sights you want to see and the date you want to travel.
Tips that can help you save money
When planning a vacation or trip to Vietnam, here are some tips that might help you save some money. Book your air tickets well in advance (at least 4 months or more) as this is normally the time airlines start to discount tickets. Travelling in a group could offer you better discounts on air tickets, hotels and attractions. Get tips and advice regarding cheap Vietnam travel packages and accommodation from a friend or a person who has visited the places you are planning on seeing. What someone has experienced personally will be a lot more helpful. Travelling during the off-peak season or visiting a place that is not so popular with tourists is another way of saving money.
Useful tips on what not to carry to Vietnam
If you have already decided on what type of holiday you want from the choice from the Vietnam travel packages available and how you are going to travel within the country, here are some tips and advice on what is illegal there and what not to carry to the country when you are visiting the country. Illegal drugs and weapons are prohibited. Anyone caught with them are dealt with severely and could even be sentenced to death. Carrying any anti-government propaganda or literature is not allowed and you can be heavily reprimanded. For example: if you are carrying a map of the country ensure that the expanse of water next to Vietnam reads as the Eastern Sea and not the South China Sea as this could be considered as anti-government material. Carrying pornography is illegal in Vietnam. Avoid wearing expensive jewellery or carrying any expensive electronic items and these can easily be robbed. If you must carry these items, ensure the straps are thick and they are carried across the body. Keep your mobile phone in a pocket with a zipper. If you need to use the phone dont stand facing the street when using it turn towards the inside, as it could be snatched out of your hand easily by a thief on a bike.
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FBI says more tests may be needed to probe ricin potency
By Susan Cornwell and Marilyn W. Thompson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI said on Thursday that more tests may be necessary to determine the potency of a granular material identified as ricin that was packed into letters sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge.
Last week, the FBI said laboratory testing had confirmed the presence of the toxin in the letters. But FBI spokesman Chris Allen said Thursday he was reluctant to say all tests were complete because "they may be doing more tests on it as the investigation is ongoing."
The Centers for Disease Control said Thursday it had finished its evaluation of the material and sent the results to the FBI and other agencies. She said the CDC could not discuss its analysis because the investigation is continuing.
In Mississippi, the FBI continued its pursuit of the case after last week releasing its original suspect, a man who was arrested after preliminary field tests of the letters detected the chemical agent.
"I can confirm that the CDC did receive samples of material for testing. We have completed the tests and reported the results to partners, including the FBI," CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said.
Ricin, which is made from castor beans, is a poison that can be deadly to humans and is considered a potential terror weapon, particularly if refined into an aerosol form.
Letters addressed to Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and Democratic President Barack Obama were retrieved last week at off-site mail facilities before reaching their intended victims. But the discovery added another layer of anxiety as authorities dealt with bombings at the Boston Marathon.
After preliminary tests of the letters proved positive for ricin, the material was sent to the CDC, which houses labs used to analyze suspicious materials in cases deemed a possible public health threat.
An FBI agent testified in court in Mississippi that the ricin found in the letters was in a crude form and looked like castor beans ground up in a blender, according to press accounts. Experts have said ricin in this form would have a low potency.
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, a 45-year-old Elvis impersonator they had accused of sending the ricin-laced letters. The case was dismissed "without prejudice," meaning the charges could be potentially reinstated if warranted.
Authorities searched the house and business address of a second Mississippi man, Tupelo martial arts instructor Everett Dutschke, but he has not been charged in the ricin case. On Thursday, agents searched a private residence where a friend of Dutschke's lives. The friend is not a suspect in the case, according to the Northeastern Mississippi Daily Journal.
Milton Leitenberg, senior research scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at the University of Maryland, said that the vast majority of ricin cases since the 1960s have involved crude ricin preparations made from recipes published in manuals and on the Internet.
"You could ingest this crude stuff, swallow a couple of tablespoons and you'd probably vomit, but not much more," Leitenberg said in a telephone interview.
To do more harm, he said, "you have to make a good material, and then you have to get it someplace." A material like that described in the ricin court hearing would pose little danger, Leitenberg said.
In an earlier case, CDC researchers conducted a detailed analysis of ricin found in February 2008 in a Las Vegas hotel room. They found it to be in a primitive form - apparently concocted with castor beans from a recipe in a publication called "The Anarchist Cookbook."
Another expert who was at the CDC during the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in the United States, said it took a lot of skill to purify ricin and make it into a serious threat.
"There is a difference between being about to build it and disseminating it and making someone sick. It truly looks like someone has done an initial stage," said Sean Kaufman, now at Emory University.
(Reporting By Susan Cornwell; Additional reporting by Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-says-more-tests-may-needed-probe-ricin-231556269.html
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