Chinese rhino cups set "Antiques Roadshow" record

(Reuters) - A collection of Chinese cups carved rhinoceros horn has become the most valuable find in the history of 16 years of the television program "Antiques Roadshow" in the United States

The Five Cups, believed to date from the late or early 18 17 were valued at $ 1 - $ 1.5 million on Saturday after being taken to the TV at a stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The owner, who prefers to remain anonymous, told Asia-arts expert Lark Mason began collecting cups low cost in the 1970's and had no idea of ​​the current value of the collection.

Chinese antiques have been fetching high prices in recent years, dramatically increasing the value of the collection.

"As we continue our journey 16th production season here in Tulsa, could not be more excited about this extraordinary treasure, rare, and we are eager to share with the nation," said executive producer Marsha Bemko in a statement Monday .

Three episodes produced from the Tulsa event will air the program, which airs on PBS sometime in 2012.

The second-highest U.S. assessment recorded by "Antiques Roadshow" was a collection of carved jade Chinese dishes, which are estimated to be worth up to $ 1.07 billion. They were discovered in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2009.

"Antiques Roadshow", which began as a television series in Britain in 1979 and has several international versions.
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Garrett maximizes Cowboys training camp schedule

IRVING, Texas - Jason Garrett will have the Dallas Cowboys training camp in the camp for almost as much as new rules allow.

In a lost season to be compensated, and the new coach is still trying to implement a work ethic that his predecessor, Garrett has the Cowboys tentatively scheduled to be in the Alamodome turf than four hours a day, 11 of the 14 days of camp.

Beginning Thursday, the Cowboys are supposed to have a tour 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., then a full practice 14:30 to 17:30 every day of camp. The only exceptions are Sundays, when the route will be dropped, and the last day, August 10, when there is only one tour around the world returns to Dallas for the first preseason game against Denver the following night.

The program was released hours Monday afternoon after word that the blockade of the NFL was ending. Players will report to team headquarters on Tuesday and should be in San Antonio on Wednesday.

All NFL teams are scrambling to get players in the form of football, and for kids who know each other and the playbook, so it remains to be seen how far Garrett schedule compared to other .

In any case, it will be a big change in the way he handles things Wade Phillips last year.

A lazy, ski camp is one of the reasons many believe that the Cowboys started 1-7 last season, at a cost Phillips his job. Garrett took over as interim coach and demanded more difficult the work of all. Practices became more physical and the team went 5-3 in the second half, earning him the job forever.

Things can still change, but the initial camp schedule clearly sends the message that Garrett seriously.

"Coming from last year, I think we are all anxious to start," tight end Jason Witten said Monday.

As a representative of workers in the team, Witten was the closest to the negotiations. He is happy to go to contract details of Xs and Os.

"A lot will happen quickly," he said. "The teams will have much on their plates, practice management, free agency, negotiations, but that's part of the process. My perspective is going to the field, working on his art and everything by itself. You you hope you can get the best team in place people who have to handle that -. Jason, the Jones family and all others - who have been driving, I'm sure, and have been waiting for this moment. "

The Cowboys are breaking in a new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, and several new position coaches.

As for the list, well, that is a work in progress.

The first priority is to re-sign left tackle Doug Free, who has become a free agent by the new labor agreement. He could be one of the most sought-after linemen in the market.

Teams can re-sign their own players, plus draft picks and players not selected on Tuesday. Also be allowed to begin negotiating with players from other teams, but can not sign until Friday.

Operations will also be allowed from Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Cowboys could start cutting players. Running back Marion Barber and right tackle Marc Colombo are among those that can be removed to help under the salary cap. However, the team may need more if Colombo worried about losing free.

Dallas is also expected to address the restructuring offers players like Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Miles Austin to help clear the room more PAC.
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NEW YORK COSMOS COLLECTION

Umbro and Future Shorts, the project team responsible for Secret Cinema, last night an agreement to bring a taste of New York in the streets of east London as Umbro launched in spring / summer 11 in the New York Cosmos and the collection of sportswear off the field. The launch took place before the publication of the New York Cosmos Umbro home shirt today.

Held at a secret location in Shoreditch, was the scene changed in 1970 in New York Block Party by more than 250 guests were guided through a street scene built around Pele's last game in a shirt New York Cosmos. The guests were then taken in a locker room environment, where they were exhibited in New York Cosmos movie once in his life "before they get a taste of the new on and off the Cosmos area of collection.

Former New York Cosmos goalkeeper Shep Messing attended screening of an idea of the Cosmos, after experience of the film, said: "Let's play the Cosmos can be described as a dream, I played the best team most famous players in the world in the world, was a wonderful experience when I felt the Cosmo is back in my heart skipped beat me. I can not wait to see the team back to camp and enjoy the atmosphere again. "

As part of the rebirth of the club, Umbro has applied his philosophy adaptation celebrated with a performance of the new football field and the line of the life on and off the pitch for the club New York Cosmos. By placing the original Modern Library New York Cosmos together, the design team was inspired by Umbro team New York Cosmos from 1977, worn by Pele and their star players during a particular season in which he played the game like Pele most recent professional. The influence of this legendary shirt you can see in the game back home in the center of Spring / Summer 11 Collection.

The largest number took the important properties of the original uniform Cosmos and placed on classic silhouettes sports Umbro, adjusting the character Cosmos for a collection of sportswear off the field. Spring / summer 2011 New York Cosmos series will be available from March 2011, all inspired by the legacy and promise of the New York Cosmos and brought with Umbro match the style of English football. Umbro.com

Trevor Cairns, International Director of Marketing at Umbro, said: "We wanted to examine another way of presenting the new spring / summer 11 collection Cosmos. Answer the audience through the history of the New York Cosmos, and then enter the Renaissance was a great how to tell the story and introduce the new cosmos in the field and off the field collection. "
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SL vs AUS : ICC World Cup 2011

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WordPress blogging service by: huge DDoS attack

WordPress.com blogging service has suffered a "major" Distributed Denial of Service attack. Many high-profile blogs, or just paralyzed most available Thursday. IT Blog Watch, bloggers speculate about political motives.


Our blog host, is currently under a denial of service attack. It is almost impossible to access the backend TechCrunch for the last 10 minutes (everything seems stable now) and users have received a "letter to the consultation were disabled, we will reduce everything online as soon as possible" error message.

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WordPress.com currently suffers from a very large Distributed Denial of Service attack, which affects the supply in some cases. The size of the attack, several gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.

We are working to mitigate the attack, but due to extreme size, it is quite difficult. At this point, everything should be back to normal that the attack has been reduced, but we are actively working with our suppliers of current measures to prevent such attacks affecting connectivity in the future.

We carry VIP priority sites in this effort and, as always, you can contact xxxxx@wordpress.com the last update. We will also update this post more information as it becomes available

WordPress does not mention the attacks (DDoS =! Anonymous) and I contacted the founder Matt Mullenweg for more information. WordPress.com is currently 30 million publishers, including EDP personalities, CBS and TechCrunch, and is responsible for 10% of all sites in the world. WordPress.com even see around 300 million unique visits per month.

Updated: Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says that this is the biggest attack WordPress.com has ever seen, and is likely to be politically motivated:

"This is an ongoing DDoS attack that was large enough to affect all three of our data centers in Chicago, San Antonio and Dallas - it is currently disabled, but it is possible, there is s' ignite again later, we are taking proactive measures to implement.

This is the biggest attack and more sustained than we have seen in our past 6 years. We think it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs, but we are still investigating and have no conclusive evidence yet. "
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Wes Leonard dies: basketball player from high school collapsed after winning move

Western Michigan high school basketball player collapsed in court and then he died to make the game-winning shot against the cap of his team's perfect season.

Fennville High School basketball player Wes Leonard, 16, died late on Thursday, Dutch hospital spokeswoman Deb Patterson said. Cause of death has not yet been determined.

"It is difficult to assimilate," teammate Shane Leonard Bale, told The Holland Sentinel. "It's like someone in your family, you know?"

Paramedics performed CPR, first Leonard was pronounced dead at the hospital, said Patterson.

Leonard scored the winning layup in a 57-55 victory in overtime on Bridgman to cap 20-0 season of Fennville. He fell to the ground after teammates and the fans stormed the field.

"Of course, amid the celebration, I think shocking is just the word" Superintendent Fennville Dirk Weeldreyer said the paper before ambulance Leonard left school.

Leonard was also a quarterback for the football team in high school.

It is the second athlete to die in Fennville 14 months. Wrestler Nathaniel Hernandez died in January 2010 after suffering a seizure at home after participating in a wrestling match in high school. He was 14 years

In an interview with the Sentinel in Tuesday's practice, spoke Fennville coach Ryan Klingler how Leonard was a great effort to succeed, and he looked bigger picture. "
"That's what makes it a little differently. It takes care of your body better than anyone, probably have never driven," said Klingler. "He hung out on his own in the weight room. There is a bit special."

Fennville is about 200 miles west of Detroit.

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Gentle giant spokesman for high-calorie burger chain Heart Attack Grill dies at just 29

Massively obese promoter Heart Attack Grill, serving burgers, shamelessly high-calorie potato chips and died at the age of 29



Friends say 6 feet 8 inches and 575 pounds Blair River died of pneumonia after the flu.

greatest sign of life is known to promote the gut-busting restaurant in Arizona, the vast menu of unhealthy burgers, shakes, and potatoes cooked in lard.

Restaurant founder Jon Basso celebrated today Gentle Giant said there was much more to the former state wrestling champion of the cartoon, he has played.

He described the river as a creative genius ideas included a warning on the front door of the restaurant of the Surgeon General, asked: "Will you be if you come to this stage, it will kill you."

Appetizers describes the anti-highway and tips for visiting defibriliator door.

"We all have a very, very short on this earth, and the measure of a man is how he left the world after he was here, and I can tell you that Blair river was my friend," Basso said.

And 'the river was also the idea that someone allowed to eat over 350 pounds for the free dinner in Chandler, Arizona, where some of the offers are great at 8000 calories.

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Bangladesh vs West Indies live - stream Cricket World Cup 2011

Over 20 million Americans watch Bangladesh vs West Indies have several ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 social security numbers online (NRS) score associated with their names highlighted in the commercial documents, according to a new study announced in December from the Google ID Analytics, Inc. The study found that instead of serving as a unique identifier, more than 40 million SNA is associated with several people.

6.1 per cent of Americans have at least two social security numbers associated with their name. More than 100,000 Americans have five or more social security numbers associated with their name.

Dr. Stephen Coggeshall, Chief Technology Officer at ID Analytics said. "Most of these cases of overlap is probably due to a simple typing error rather than deliberate falsification. However, organizations are exposing themselves and their customers at risk if they rely solely on the NHS to verify a person. "

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First Strike map pack for the PS3 version of Call of Duty

four new multiplayer maps - Berlin Wall, the discovery stage and Kowloon - Zombies and a new level called Ascension. It is priced at (£ 11.49 / € 14.49).

If you do not want to pay, you can increase Treyarch community manager Josh Olin Twitter page, which has been dishing some codes free downloads this morning and promised more to come.

In parallel with the first strike of DLC, last update patch 1.7 the game, came to make the following corrections and improvements.

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Protests spread in the city of Puerto capital of Oman

Beirut, Lebanon - Protesters blocked roads and meetings held Monday in Oman, a country normally quiet, oil-rich along the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula, while the three-day events require political reform and improved living conditions extended to Muscat, the capital. Protests in Oman, the latest country to join the wave in the Arab world, stressing the depth of discontent against the dictators and monarchs long. It also suggests that the demonstrations could spread to other Persian Gulf countries.

In the northern port city of Sohar, where the protests began, protesters blocked roads to the port, Oman second in an industrial zone including a refinery and an aluminum plant, two witnesses in Sohar, agencies New said. They also put a supermarket on fire and clashed with police.

The protesters also camped three days in the city's main square, called Kurra Ardiyah Roundabout, despite efforts by police and the army to push them out, lives in Sohar, said in an e-mail.

Television images showed a small number of demonstrators gathered in Muscat. Peaceful demonstrations in appearance.

In an attempt to defuse tensions, the envoy of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who ruled for four decades since seizing power from his father, delegates at Sohar on Monday to negotiate with the protesters, but the results of these meetings is unclear. He also promised to give more power to the legislative council, according to ONA, the news agency of the state.

Council of Government of Oman has issued a statement Monday condemning the "sabotage" and said that peaceful protests have been in "the legal rights of citizens." A YouTube video shows hundreds of men walking towards the roundabout Kurra Ardiyah and chanting "No to sabotage" and "Long live Oman."

Monday clashes came a day after a deadly clash between demonstrators and police in Sohar. There was conflicting testimony about the toll. Reuters quoted a local doctor, said six people were killed Sunday. The state news agency said Sunday that two demonstrators were dead, but revised to a Monday.

On Sunday, demonstrators waved banners demanding higher wages, lower prices and the abolition of all taxes. They are also demanding an end to corruption and trial of all the ministers, according to residents.

Shortly after the violence, Sultan Qaboos has issued orders on Sunday to create 50,000 jobs, ONA reported. He also ordered that the equivalent of $ 386 per month to be given to all job seekers.

Governments in various Gulf countries have announced reforms and financial assistance in recent days to try to stem public anger in the call center on social networks for shows.

In Oman, the event's organizers created a Facebook page called "March 2 to raise the dignity and freedom" to encourage demonstrations across the country beginning Wednesday. This has attracted more than 2,300 users.

At the same time, some in Oman that did not challenge the reign of Sultan Qaboos, but was simply the improvement of living conditions. "The Sultan of Oman love and respect and consider him a father to them," wrote a commentator on Facebook.
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