Friday, January 4, 2013
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Source: Reid, Chiefs nearing deal to be coach
01/03/13 08:40 PM, EST
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs should be quite familiar by now.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Patti Page, Honey-Voiced ’50s Pop Sensation, Dies at 85
Patti Page, Honey-Voiced '50s Pop Sensation, Dies at 85
by ANITA GATES, nytimes.comJanuary 2nd 2013
Patti Page, the apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like "Tennessee Waltz," "Old Cape Cod" and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window" made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, died on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85.
Her death was confirmed by Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, where she lived.
Ms. Page had briefly been a singer with Benny Goodman when she emerged at the end of the big band era, just after World War II, into a cultural atmosphere in which pop music was not expected to be challenging. Critics assailed her style as plastic, placid, bland and antiseptic, but those opinions were not shared by millions of record buyers. As Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times in 1997, "For her fans, beauty and comfort were one and the same."
"Doggie in the Window," a perky 1952 novelty number written by Bob Merrill and Ingrid Reuterskiöld, featured repeated barking sounds and could claim no more sophisticated a lyric than "I must take a trip to California." It is often cited as an example of what was wrong with pop music in the early '50s, a perceived weakness that opened the door for rock 'n' roll. But if that is true, and if the silky voice of "the singing rage, Miss Patti Page," as she was introduced during her heyday, was mechanical or sterile, she had significant achievements nonetheless.
"Tennessee Waltz," from 1950, sold 10 million copies and is largely considered the first true crossover hit; it spent months on the pop, country and rhythm-and-blues charts.
Ms. Page was believed to be the first singer to overdub herself, long before technology made that method common. Mitch Miller, a producer for Mercury Records, had her do it first on "Confess," in 1948, when there were no backup singers because of a strike.
The height of her career predated the Grammy Awards, which were created in 1959, but she finally won her first and only Grammy in 1999 for "Live at Carnegie Hall," a recording of a 1997 concert celebrating her 50th anniversary as a performer. Her career was also the basis of recent, short-lived Off Broadway musical, "Flipside: The Patti Page Story."
In the early days of television Ms. Page hosted several brief network series, including "Scott Music Hall" (1952), a 15-minute NBC show that followed the evening news two nights a week, and "The Big Record," which ran one season, 1957-58, on CBS. "The Patti Page Show" was an NBC summer fill-in series in 1956.
Ms. Page defended her demure, unpretentious style as appropriate for its time. "It was right after the war," she told The Advocate of Baton Rouge, La., in 2002, "and people were waiting to just settle down and take a deep breath and relax."
She was born Clara Ann Fowler on Nov. 8, 1927, in Claremore, Okla., a small town near Tulsa, one of 11 children of a railroad laborer.
Having shown talent as an artist, Clara took a job in the art department of the Tulsa radio station KTUL, but an executive there had heard her sing and soon asked her to take over a short country-music show called "Meet Patti Page" (Time magazine called it "a hillbilly affair"), sponsored by Page Milk. She adopted the fictional character's name and kept it.
The newly named Ms. Page broke away from her radio career to tour with Jimmy Joy's band and was shortly signed by Mercury Records. She had her first hit, "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming," in 1950. Other notable recordings were "Cross Over the Bridge," "Mockin' Bird Hill," "Allegheny Moon" and her last hit, "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte," which she recorded as the theme for the Bette Davis movie of the same name. That song was nominated for an Oscar, and Ms. Page sang it on the 1965 Academy Awards telecast.
Ms. Page briefly pursued a movie career in her early 30s, playing an evangelical singer alongside Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons in "Elmer Gantry" (1960), David Janssen's love interest in the comic-strip-inspired "Dondi" (1961) and a suburban wife in the comedy "Boys' Night Out" (1962), with Kim Novak and James Garner. She had one of her earliest acting roles in 1957 on an episode of "The United States Steel Hour."
In later decades her star faded, but she continued to sing professionally throughout her 70s. Early in the 21st century she was performing in about 40 to 50 concerts a year. In 2002 and 2003 she released an album of children's songs, a new "best of" collection and a Christmas album.
Ms. Page married Charles O'Curran, a Hollywood choreographer, in 1956. They divorced in 1972. In 1990 she married Jerry Filiciotto, a retired aerospace engineer, with whom she founded a New Hampshire company marketing maple syrup products. He died in 2009. Survivors include her son, Danny O'Curran; her daughter, Kathleen Ginn; and a number of grandchildren.
Ms. Page's nice-girl image endured. In 1988, when she was 60, she told The Times: "I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to."
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Delhi gang-rape accused face rape and murder charges
Delhi gang-rape accused face rape and murder charges
guardian.co.uk | Jan 3rd 2013
Indian police are set to file rape and murder charges against a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi, as further cases of sexual violence continued to be reported around the country.
The attack on 16 December on the woman, who later died of her injuries, has caused outrage across India and led to demands for tough new rape laws and better police protection for women. It has also sparked an unprecedented debate about social attitudes to women.
Protests, though less numerous than over recent days and weeks, continued on Thursday in the Indian capital and elsewhere.
Recent incidents include a politician in the north-east of the country reported to have assaulted a woman on Wednesday night and a teenage schoolgirl attacked by at least two men in the southern city of Puducherry, as well as a 17-year-old in Delhi who has accused two cousins of repeated rape.
Five men aged between 18 and 35 who were detained by police two days after the attack were expected to be charged in a new fast-track court in south Delhi, inaugurated on Wednesday to deal specifically with crimes against women.
Police will ask for the death penalty in the case. Executions are rare in India, where a "rarest of the rare" principle means that most of those who receive a death sentence are jailed for decades instead.
A sixth alleged attacker has said he is a juvenile and thus cannot, under Indian law, be charged with the other accused. Authorities were conducting medical tests on him to determine his true age.
Altamas Kabir, the Indian chief justice, said the accused should be tried swiftly, but cautioned that they needed to be given a fair trial and not be subjected to mob justice.
Police officials told the Guardian they were "taking maximum security precautions" to avoid "any mishap" when the accused are finally brought to the court. Hearings are likely to last several weeks, they said.
Four other fast-track courts are planned in the capital to hold trials in sexual assault cases, which often get bogged down for years in India's notoriously sluggish court system.
The country has a chronic lack of judges. Even if there were no new cases, it would take courts decades to clear the backlog of hundreds of thousands across the country.
The new courts will work to provide swift justice "so that the message is sent to all and sundry that these matters are going to be dealt with seriously", Kabir said.
Indian states are also introducing new measures to combat sexual violence. In the northern state of Bihar, officials have asked the police to complete investigations in all 500 pending rape cases and charge the accused.
Many cases never reach court in a country where there is intense social pressure against families reporting sexual assaults and where women are often blamed for the attacks they suffer. When women do report rapes, police often refuse to file charges and pressure the victims to reach a compromise with their attackers. An investigation by the news magazine Tehelka revealed widespread misogyny among officers.
Delhi police on Wednesday started new training sessions for thousands of investigating officers.
In a sign that official attitudes towards such behaviour might be changing, authorities in the state of Punjab dismissed two police officers and suspended a third last week over accusations that they delayed investigating a reported gang rape and harassed the victim, who then killed herself.
A number of other cases are being re-examined, with a 16-year-old case in the southern state of Kerala involving the alleged gang rape of a teenager over a period of weeks by more than 40 men now to be heard by India's supreme court.
Women's activists hope that the rape and killing of the university student last month will mark a turning point in India's attitude toward women. The victim, whose name has not been revealed, was attacked after boarding a bus with a male companion after watching an evening showing of the film Life of Pi. The vehicle was a charter bus that illegally picked up the two passengers, authorities said. The driver was among the six arrested.
The pair were attacked for at least an hour as the bus drove through the city, even passing through police checkpoints during the assault. They were eventually dumped naked on the side of the road. The woman, who was assaulted with an iron bar, suffered severe internal injuries that eventually caused her death on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore.
Media reports say police have gathered 30 witnesses, and the charges have been detailed in a document running to more than 1,000 pages. Police also detained the owner of the bus over allegations that he used false documents to obtain permits to run the private bus service.
The Bar Association said its lawyers would not defend the six suspects because of the nature of the crime, but the court is expected to appoint attorneys to defend them.
Since the attack, women have held near-daily protests and candlelit vigils in New Delhi, demanding action to stop the daily harassment they face, from groping to more violent attacks.
The Indian supreme court was on Thursday also expected to hear a petition demanding that Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges be suspended from office.
Six state lawmakers are facing rape prosecutions and two national parliamentarians are facing charges of crimes against women that fall short of rape, said Jagdeep S Chhokar, an official with the Association for Democratic Reforms, which tracks political candidates' criminal records.
The petition from retired government administrator Promilla Shanker also asks the court to force the national government to fast-track thousands of rape cases across the country.
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Airport screeners discover more than 1,500 guns in 2012
Airport screeners discover more than 1,500 guns in 2012
by Aaron Cooper, cnn.comJanuary 3rd 2013
Washington (CNN) -- Passengers are not allowed to carry guns onto airplanes, yet the Transportation Security Administration finds hundreds of weapons each year.
In 2012 more than 1,500 firearms were discovered by screeners at airport checkpoints, TSA spokesman David Castelveter said. That is an average of more than four weapons a day.
A total of 1,320 firearms were found in 2011. Many were loaded, and some had rounds in the chamber.
"We do assume that the vast majority of weapons that come through are (from) people who didn't know they couldn't carry them on or were not aware they were in the bag," Castelveter said.
Through the end of November, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport led the nation with 80 guns found.
The top five airports also included Dallas/Fort Worth International with a total of 75 firearms, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with 50, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston with 48, and Denver International Airport with 36.
Read more: FBI gun background checks hit record highs
It's not clear whether the increase in the number of guns found in 2012 is due to more people traveling with weapons or TSA screeners and new screening technologies doing a better job of finding them.
When firearms are found at a checkpoint, the TSA calls local police who determine whether the passenger should be arrested, ticketed or have their gun returned.
"They can be permitted to take the weapon back to (their) car and come back," Castelveter said. "If it is illegal (to have the weapon in that locality), then it is confiscated by law enforcement."
Under TSA rules, guns are allowed in checked baggage in locked, hard-sided containers. They must be unloaded and declared to the airline, and passengers must follow local gun laws.
Guns, ammunition, firearm parts and even realistic replicas cannot be carried on the plane.
Guns are not the only weapons banned from the passenger areas of planes. The TSA blog highlights a wide variety of prohibited items discovered in carry-on bags.
Poll: Majority favors gun restrictions
In the first week of December, passengers tried to take 40 stun guns through checkpoints. The next week, a walking cane with a sword inside was found, and in the week before Christmas, a spear gun was discovered. In addition, four inert grenades were found inside carry-ons.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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Bryan Armen Graham: Once steady and stable, Andy Reid ended up simply stale
12/31/12 08:49 PM, EST
The good book says pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Maybe that's why supporters of the Philadelphia Eagles -- a guarded lot via generations of conditioning, perhaps the most wounded fan base in sports -- recoiled so fervently nearly a decade ago when team owner Jeffrey Lurie declared his franchise, in defiance of a championship drought extending to the Eisenhower era that long predated his arrival, "the model of what NFL franchises want to be."
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