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Twitch.tv is down, users will need to reset their passwords when it's restored
Videogame focused live video streaming platform (and new Xbox 360 / Xbox One partner) Twitch.tv is down at the moment, but even once it's restored users will have to reset their passwords and stream keys. That information comes directly from the site's official blog, which blames the issue on a caching problem with its web CDN partner. Some users are worried the site may have been hacked since prior to its shutdown, many suddenly found themselves viewing accounts that belonged to other people and now all the login information has been cleared. The company continues to state that isn't the case and belief to the contrary is related to an outdated outage message (from its original incarnation as the Gaming section of Justin.tv) but it may be worth keeping an eye on if you have an account with the site. It should be back up shortly, but apparently "10s of millions of accounts resets takes quite a bit of time."
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Wildfire grows, but teams work to save Colo. town
DEL NORTE, Colo. (AP) ? A wildfire threatening a tourist region in southwestern Colorado mushroomed to about 100 square miles Saturday, but officials said that they remained optimistic they could protect the town of South Fork.
The rapid advance of the erratic blaze prompted the evacuation of hundreds of summer visitors and the town's 400 permanent residents Friday, and it could be days before people are allowed back into their homes, cabins and RV parks, fire crew spokeswoman Laura McConnell said. South Fork Mayor Kenneth Brooke estimated that 1,000 to 1,500 people were forced to flee.
Saturday night, officials provided an estimate of the size of the wildfire burning through a rugged and remote mountainous region, but said they wouldn't have a better idea of its size until infrared imaging is done overnight.
Some business owners were being allowed back into South Fork during the day Saturday to tie up issues left unattended in the rush to leave.
Officials, meanwhile, closely monitored an arm of the blaze moving toward the neighboring town of Creede.
"We were very, very lucky," said Rio Grande County Commissioner Carla Shriver. "We got a free pass yesterday."
McConnell said no structures had been lost and the fire was still about 5 miles from the town.
The blaze had been fueled by dry, hot, windy weather and a stand of dead trees, killed by a beetle infestation. The fire's spread had slowed for a while Saturday morning after the flames hit a healthy section of forest. Fire crews remained alert as more hot, dry and windy weather was forecast.
The wildfire, a complex of three blazes, remains a danger, officials said.
"The fire is very unpredictable," Shriver told evacuees at Del Norte High School, east of the fire. "They are saying they haven't quite seen one like this in years. There is so much fuel up there."
Winds picked up Saturday afternoon and a heavy black again permeated the air in Del Norte, where a Red Cross shelter was set up for evacuees. Anticipating the mandatory South Fork evacuation would last for days, the Red Cross promised more supplies and portable showers.
Ralph and Leilani Harden of Victoria, Texas, spend summers in South Fork.
"We jumped out of the South Texas hot box into the Colorado frying pan," Ralph Harden said.
Bob and Sherry Mason bought the Wolf Creek Ski Lodge on the Western Edge of South Fork about a year and a half ago.
"This (wildfire) was in our contingency plan being in Colorado, but we didn't expect it this soon," Bob Mason said.
New fire crews, meanwhile, descended from other areas to join more than 32 fire engines stationed around South Fork, with hoses and tankers at the ready. Firefighters also worked to move potential fuel, such as lawn furniture, propane tanks and wood piles, away from homes and buildings.
The town of Creede's 300 residents were under voluntary evacuation orders as officials feared the fire could reach the roads leading out of town.
The heavy black smoke, broken up only by an orange glow over the outlines of the San Juan mountains, was so thick Friday that the plume helped keep an 18-square-mile wildfire burning 100 miles to the east near Walsenburg from spreading as fast as it would have otherwise.
Susan Valente, an on-site spokeswoman for the fire near Walsenburg, said the shade helped keep the forest from drying out in the hot afternoon sun. Residents from 300 homes remain evacuated while in the city of Walsenburg and the town of Aguilar remain on pre-evacuation notice, meaning residents must be ready to flee at a moment's notice.
"Fire conditions are prime with the combination of fuels, heat, winds and low humidity," fire information officer Mike Stearly of the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, "It's expected to be like this through next Tuesday."
There are 12 wildfires burning in Colorado that have scorched 133 square miles, which includes the Black Forest fire that destroyed 511 homes north of Colorado Springs and is the most destructive in Colorado history.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-grows-teams-save-colo-town-041754819.html
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Wallenda to cross gorge near Grand Canyon on wire
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) ? Nik Wallenda, the Florida-based daredevil, acrobat and heir to the famed Flying Wallendas circus family, is afraid of only one thing.
"I would say the only thing I fear is God," said the 34-year-old Wallenda.
He certainly had no fear of walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, riding a bike on a high wire 260 feet above the ground or hanging from a hovering helicopter by his teeth.
On Sunday, Wallenda will attempt an even more ambitious feat, even for a man who was born into a family of risk-takers.
He will bid to walk on a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon. The event, which will be broadcast on live television at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday with a 10 second delay, will take place on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.
Wallenda will walk a third of a mile across a wire suspended 1,500 feet above the river. (In comparison, the Empire State Building in New York City is 1,454 feet high).
"I respect deeply what I do and realize there's a lot of danger in it," he acknowledged on a recent day in his Florida hometown of Sarasota.
Wallenda, who is married and has three children, always says a prayer with his family prior to stepping onto the wire.
The 34-year-old is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous "Flying Wallendas" circus family ? a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats and great tragedy.
His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell during a performance in Puerto Rico and died at the age of 73. Several other family members, including a cousin and an uncle, have perished while performing wire walking stunts.
Nik Wallenda, who was born a year after his great-grandfather died, began wire walking at the age of 2, on a 2-foot high stretched rope. He grew up performing with his family and as a teen, had an epiphany.
"It's an honor to be carrying on a tradition that my family started over 200 years ago," Wallenda said during a news conference on a recent day in Florida. "When I turned 19, I told my family I was going to set out to make sure everyone in the world knew who the Wallendas were again."
Over the years, Wallenda has performed some dangerous stunts, but his walk across Niagara Falls in June of 2012 placed him firmly in celebrity territory.
Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada.
Other daredevils had wire-walked over the Niagara River but farther downstream and not since 1896.
Niagara Falls, Wallenda said, was a dream of his. So is the Grand Canyon.
But here's the difference between the two stunts: ABC televised the walk and insisted Wallenda use a tether to keep him from falling in the river. Wallenda said he agreed because he wasn't willing to lose the chance to perform the walk.
On Sunday, the Discovery Channel will televise the walk, but Wallenda won't wear a tether. There won't be a safety net, either.
He anticipates it will take him about 30 minutes to cross the chasm.
Milton Tso, president of the Cameron community, has mixed feelings about the event. While he's praying for Wallenda to succeed, he questions why the tribe is promoting a man who is gambling with his life for the benefit of tourism. He said he'll join a group of people over the weekend that is protesting the event and raising awareness on other issues facing Navajos.
"We don't need to put anybody's life in danger to promote tourism," he said. "There are other ways to do it. I would probably be a little more comfortable if the Navajo Nation implemented this safety harness for him."
For the last two weeks, Wallenda ? who has a boyish face, strawberry blonde hair and a muscular build ? has been practicing in front of crowds in his hometown of Sarasota.
Each morning and evening, he glides across a two-inch cable strung on the banks of a river. Hundreds of his local fans show up every day to watch, and talk ? Wallenda usually will stop and sit on the wire and take questions from his fans from high above.
"I'm just fascinated by the movement, the way he walks," said Loy Barker, a Sarasota resident who watched one of Wallenda's practice sessions. "He's just an amazing athlete."
Wallenda has tried to simulate different conditions he might face while crossing the gorge.
"It's very important that I train on a cable that simulates the weight, the feeling, the movement of the cable, the way it will move under my feet," he said. "We have also brought wind machines out. I've walked in 52 mile an hour gusts during Tropical Storm Andrea, with a torrential downpour. And we also brought out wind machines where we simulated 45-55 mile per hour gusts. Then I also walked in 91-mile an hour winds that day."
Only one thing could halt the planned wire walk, he says: lightning detected within a 15-mile radius of the wire.
In the meantime, he's training physically and mentally. Wallenda said the adrenaline has "kicked in" and that he's anxious to be suspended with only a 2-inch-cable below his feet.
"I absolutely will look down," he said. "And I'll enjoy the view."
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The Calling
Saul of Tarsus? path to sainthood began when a celestial light enveloped him on the road to Damascus. He heard Jesus? voice, inaudible to his companions, saying: ?I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.? The conversion experience of Father James Martin was less dramatic. Once a corporate finance grunt, he came home one night after a particularly frustrating day at the office and flipped on the television. PBS was airing a documentary called Merton: A Film Biography, about Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who had chucked his dissolute New York life to serve God in rural Kentucky. Onscreen, Merton?s face glowed with an otherworldly peace; Martin was so stressed and miserable at work that he regularly suffered stomach aches and migraines. ?I still remember his expression, so much happier than the one I saw in the mirror every morning,? the priest [or Jesuit] recalls. ?His life?the monastic life?seemed exotic, mysterious, romantic.?
A seed was planted. The next day, 25-year-old Martin unearthed Merton?s autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, at a local bookstore. It was, Martin writes in his spiritual memoir, My Life With the Saints, ?a beautiful book. ?When I finished [it] late one night and set it on my nightstand, I knew with certainty that this was what I wanted to do ? that?s what the ?call? was for me.?
Martin has spent 25 years as a Jesuit, 14 of them as an ordained priest. (The Jesuits, formally the Society of Jesus, are a Roman Catholic religious order devoted to poverty, chastity, and obedience.) He is one of several top editors at Americamagazine, the country?s largest-circulation Catholic weekly, where, he jokes with some pride, his spacious corner office boasts three panelsof fluorescent light bulbs. (In Dante?s Paradiso, the more dazzlingly bright the angel, the closer he sits to God.) He also appears frequently on The Colbert Report, in the capacity of the show?s ?official chaplain,? and has contributed to Slate. ??
But Father Martin took a rather unorthodox path to the priesthood. After an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania?he?d studied finance?he worked for six years in accounting and human resources. He lived a fast life of clubbing and boozy lunches in New York City before relocating to Stamford, Conn., where the nightlife was tamer but the paychecks were fatter and the work more interesting.
How did Martin get from the often ruthless, hedonistic world of business to the Society of Jesus? What did he have to cast away?and what could he carry over?as he undertook something that was both a career gutting and a spiritual renovation?
To start at The Beginning: He grew up in a mildly observant Roman Catholic family, attending Mass on the major holidays but rarely reciting the rosary or saying grace before meals. By the age of 10, he was a Sunday school dropout.
In college, Martin went to church almost every week but avoided extracurricular clubs for Catholic students. His scattershot approach to faith persisted after he joined the corporate world in 1982.
?I was a bit of a grind,? Martin admits, using a characteristically self-deprecating term to describe his strong work ethic. He?d decided to study business because it seemed respectable and lucrative. The Wharton classes were moderately interesting. But once he entered the professional sphere, logging frequent overtime hours on painfully involved accounting projects, he found that something wasn?t clicking. Martin remembers watching his friends flip through business magazines in their free time. He couldn?t comprehend it?how could they read that stuff for fun?
He also began to notice a cruel streak in some of his supervisors, an unscrupulous selfishness that pricked him with moral disgust. At one point, a manager informed Martin that he planned to fire another man, ?Joe,? even though Joe had just earned an award for excellent performance. When Martin, protesting that the move was unnecessary and undeserved, begged the manager to show a little compassion, he got a simple answer: ?Fuck compassion.? Another time, he overheard a colleague making grossly sexist remarks about a female co-worker. He developed stomach problems from excess anxiety. ?It started to seem so circular,? he says. ?I was going to work so that I could afford food, shelter, and clothes, so that I could go to work. I remember sitting at my desk and realizing no one at Wharton had ever asked me, ?What do you want to do with your life? Are you sure?? ?
Into this fog came Thomas Merton, the priest in the documentary, whose example offered Martin a way out. But being called is one thing; answering the call is something else entirely. ?At that time, joining the priesthood would have been like becoming an opera singer or running away to the circus,? Martin says. He consulted a psychologist instead.
?What would you do if you could be doing anything?? the doctor asked him, a year or so into his therapy.
?I?d be a priest,? Martin replied.
?Well, why don?t you??
The next day, Martin was on the phone with the local office of the Jesuits.
The formation program for Jesuit priests takes its roots in the plan originally laid out by St. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the order. You start off with a two-year sprint through ?spiritual boot camp??called the novitiate?during which you learn about Jesuit history and spirituality, and perform charitable works. This period is capped by a 30-day silent retreat and officially ends when you pronounce the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Next up are ?first studies,? a two-year curriculum of philosophy and theology taken at a Jesuit university (Martin did his at Loyola in Chicago); then dawns a three-year period called the regency, devoted to work of a nonstudious nature. (Martin flew to East Africa to work with refugees.) Four years of intense theological study follow, crowned?whew?by ordination, first as a deacon and then as a priest. Last of all comes tertianship, the ultimate stage in formation, a stretch of contemplation about Jesuit spirituality that closes with another 30-day retreat. Final vows are then made, including a special vow of obedience to the pope.??
The whole process took 21 years, and Martin?s family and friends spent the early portion of that time being horrified. His parents fretted that their promising young businessman had been swallowed whole by a cult. Former colleagues at his corporate job weren?t shy about voicing their skepticism. (A typical conversation: ?You should see a psychologist.? ?I am.? ?You should see another psychologist.?) But eventually Martin?s family came to terms with his new life: ?They thought I would be lonely, which is ironic because I have more friends now than ever,? Martin explains. ?They held this old-fashioned idea of Jesuits being cloistered.?
When asked about the priesthood?s greatest challenges, Father Martin doesn?t hesitate. ?Chastity,? he says. ?It?s difficult living without sexual intimacy, the intimacy that comes with having one person you can rely on. You?re never going to be the most important person in anybody?s life.? And yet he describes the stricture as a blessing, a way of becoming close to many people at once?of more fairly rationing out finite stores of time and emotion. It?s our noble hope that we can love lots of people simultaneously, but in practice that gets harder once you start factoring in life partners. Plus, ?people open up to you quicker when they know you don?t have a sexual agenda,? Martin says. ?
His inner HR manager has found an afterlife of sorts, as a dispenser of professional tough love. Not infrequently, Jesuit brothers present him with human-resource-related dilemmas. (?How do I deal with very sweet employees who waste too much time chatting with each other?? was a query a few years back. ?What would you do if you ran a McDonald?s? Tell them to get to work,? Martin replied.) He is thankful that his time in the business sphere taught him the secular virtues of setting goals, working hard, and being efficient. Such values have a place in faith, too: St. Ignatius, he observes, ?basically ran a multinational corporation?he had to hire and fire, train recruits, raise money, and get things done.? Occasionally Martin finds religious institutions too forgiving of lackluster performance. Holy folk tend to mistake niceness for competence. Still, he says, ?the corporate world could learn a lot from the religious one in terms of the dignity of every human person.?
My Life With the Saints highlights an almost preternaturally apt Whitman quote: ?Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)? Martin?s story is a collecting basin for contradictions: the earthly and the sacred, the supposedly pre-ordained and the supposedly freely chosen.
He looks at his second start with a kind of double vision. On one hand, he felt bored and unhappy in the corporate world, intellectually intrigued by religious life and desperate for escape?that?s the natural explanation. But he proposes a supernatural narrative, too, in which God fills his heart with longing, ?the happy inability to think of anything else.?
S?ren Kierkegaard dubbed the man who can hold two paradoxical ideas in his mind at once and still remain at peace the ?knight of faith.? In Martin?s case, perhaps we should just call him ?Father.??
This month, Slate is sharing stories of people who started over?like budget wonk Ina Garten,?better known as the Barefoot Contessa?in our "Second Acts" Hive. We want to hear your tales, too. Please hit the "Enter your proposal" button or?go here?to submit your story about starting over.
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Judge OKs 'Wannabe cop,' 'vigilante' to describe Zimmerman | The ...
Prosecutors may refer to George Zimmerman as a ??wannabe cop? and a ?vigilante? in their opening statements, a judge presiding over Zimmerman?s case ruled Friday.
The prosecution is also allowed to describe his actions as ?profiling,? but may not use the words ?racial profiling? after Seminole district Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that prosecutors may employ any language they feel appropriately describes their evidence, although the defense requested that they avoid ?inflammatory language,? according to The Miami Herald.?
Judge Nelson did not issue the most anticipated order ? one which would allow the all-female jury to hear expert testimony on the implications of the frantic 911 call made during the lethal?Feb. 26 struggle.
Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman, contends he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense. He has been charged with second-degree murder.
Opening statements will take place Monday morning.
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FAA investigating jets' close call over NYC
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why two airplanes came too close to each other over New York City last week.
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport came close to a Shuttle America Embraer E170 departing from LaGuardia Airport at around 2:40 p.m. on June 13, the FAA said in a statement Friday.
The planes were about a half-mile apart horizontally and 200 feet vertically, the FAA said. The required separation is 3 miles horizontally or a thousand feet vertically.
The FAA said the aircraft were "turning away from each other at the point where they lost the required separation." Both aircraft landed safely.
Delta declined to give details, including the number of passengers on board, pending the FAA investigation. The Shuttle America jet was operating as a Delta Connection flight and is equipped for 69 people. The Delta 747 can hold 376 passengers.
Jason Rabinowitz, editor of the aviation news website NYC Aviation, reviewed air traffic control audio and radar tracking data and concluded the pilots and controllers acted professionally in an unusual sets of circumstances brought on by strong winds.
"The traffic controllers did a very good job," he told The Associated Press, noting that traffic is extremely heavy at the two airports. "It was handled very well. ... They did take immediate action to prevent anything from happening in very unusual circumstances."
The close call happened because the Delta jet and an American Airways flight preparing to land on a parallel runway broke off their approaches to JFK almost simultaneously, he said.
The American flight was instructed by the control tower to make a right turn and attempt another landing. When the Delta pilot seconds later said he needed to circle, the tower told him to make a left, Rabinowitz said.
That left turn put the Delta jet closer to departing traffic from LaGuardia. The Delta pilot then turned right hard, but 747s aren't "the most nimble aircraft in the sky," Rabinowitz wrote, and that allowed the Delta and Shuttle America airplanes to wind up too close to each other.
Rabinowitz said there was a moment the two aircraft were at nearly the same altitude and headed for each other, but the controllers and both pilots were aware of the conflicting traffic and both jets were turning away from each other.
The Delta flight originated in Narita, Japan; the Shuttle America was heading for Jacksonville, Fla.
Rabinowitz said he doubted passengers were aware of the situation.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/faa-investigating-jets-close-call-over-nyc-171640270.html
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