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Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 star Josh Brolin reveals if he prefers playing Thanos or Cable more. |
Who Is Cable in Deadpool 2? |
Josh Brolin will make his awaited debut as time-traveling mutant Cable in Deadpool 2, but what do fans really know about this leader of X-Force? |
Josh Brolin has revealed that Avengers: Infinity War will delve deeply into Thanos' early years as a mad titan. |
It has been confirmed that Deadpool 2 will return to Vancouver for extra scenes of Cable and the Merc with the Mouth. |
On the NBC drama “The Enemy Within,” Morris Chestnut plays an FBI agent who teams up with an imprisoned former CIA operative (played by Jennifer Carpenter) in order to take down a network of spies. There's an extra wrinkle causing tension between the two: She caused the death of someone very close to him. |
Why does John Brennan still need a security clearance? |
Phillip Phillips Named Season 11 "American Idol" |
Phillip Phillips is the new American Idol. |
The 21-year-old former pawn shop worker from Georgia now joins the ranks of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks and the seven other winners from seasons past whose careers (and bank accounts) sky-rocked after winning the Fox reality contest. |
Sixteen-year-old powerhouse Jessica Sanchez from California was runner-up. |
"It's been an honor to be up on this stage performing with these guys back here," Phillips said before host Ryan Seacrest announced the winner. |
Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez chat about performing their potential "Idol" singles. Jessica dishes on what the judges thought of her songs. Plus, the duo laughs about getting rejected from "America's Got Talent." |
The hour and 59 minutes leading up to the big reveal was peppered with live performances and an unexpected marriage proposal. Former contestant Ace Young popped the question to fellow "Idol" alum Diana DeGarmo. After some nervous laughter, she accepted. |
The two finalists also took the stage, giving Sanchez an opportunity to redeem herself—if not for the crown, for her own satisfaction—following a lackluster final performance Tuesday night, which may have sealed her second-place fate. |
She shared the stage with Jennifer Holiday to sing an impressive rendition of "And I am Telling You I'm Not Going." |
Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Aerosmith, Chaka Khan, Reba McEntire and other music industry giants also took the stage at the Nokia Theatre. |
But it was Phillips' final performance that was the most emotional. |
After learning his fate, he was handed a guitar and pushed to perform "Home," the final song he sang Tuesday night. Midway through the song, as if he finally processed what had happened, he started crying, moved away from the mic, and eventually walked off stage to embrace his family in the audience. |
Phillips beat out hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted recording contract that's sure to change his life. |
Privacy protection firm secure.me is today officially launching App Advisor, a service that aims to protect folks from Facebook apps that harvest personal and/or sensitive user data, often without their knowledge or consent. |
Secure.me says it currently analyzes 500,000 apps and has monitored the activities of 50 million Facebook users to essentially build the largest ‘App Security Network’ in the world. |
Christian Sigl, founder of secure.me, argues that we’ve gotten used to connecting apps to our Facebook profiles without thinking twice about the consequences, basically agreeing to whatever pops up. |
Through the apps.secure.me website, and a browser extension for Chrome, Safari (link coming soon) and Firefox (for starters), users get an independent, transparent overview of which apps have access to what data, and also generates warnings whenever a new app gets installed (i.e. connected to one’s Facebook profile) ei... |
More specifically, secure.me will warn users against apps that spam their friends and identify apps that contain viruses and malware. |
To grade apps, secure.me takes into account three factors: Facebook permissions, app behaviour and user ratings. Some examples: Angry Birds (high reputation), Dropbox (medium reputation) and TripAdvisor (very poor reputation). |
Through analysis, the company has found that six out of ten Facebook apps (63 percent) can post on a user‘s timeline, more than two thirds of the apps (69 percent) have access to a user‘s email address, while 5 out of 100 apps (5 percent) have access to his or her photos and videos (beyond the profile picture). |
Secure.me has received backing from several investors, including T-Venture, the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. |
The company has offices in San Francisco and Munich, Germany. |
Let's face the truth: anyone with a gun can be a "bad guy." What we need is fewer guns, period. |
Since the December 14, 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that claimed 27 lives, children no older than five or six, there have been more than 900 gun-related deaths in the United States. It’s in this context that President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden and children from the country who wrote lett... |
These are the types of common-sense gun control reforms Americans want to see. A Pew Research survey finds that 85 percent of the public favors backgrounds checks for private and gun show sales, 80 percent support for preventing those with mental illness from purchasing a gun, 67 percent support for a federal database ... |
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was deservedly mocked for his suggestion that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” but most popular reforms reflect exactly that thinking. Let’s be honest: we’re not having a conversation about how to most effectively reduce gun violence, but rather about who... |
For instance, there is broad public support for preventing people with mental illnesses from owning guns. The New York law includes a provision requiring therapists to report to authorities any clients who they think are “likely to engage in” violent behavior. Could this provision prevent those desperately truly need m... |
But we aren’t concerned with protecting people from themselves. We want to protect us from them. |
That’s why background checks for gun purchases have so much popular support, even across ideological lines. We want to identify the people who might do harm before they have a chance and deny them access to guns. Basically, keep the guns out of the hands of bad guys. But what constitutes a bad guy? How do we know? |
Because if you were to ask Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, they might say the bad guys are Army veterans with ties to white supremacist groups. If she were still alive, you could ask 22-year-old Rekia Boyd in Chicago, killed by a gunshot to the head while hanging out with her friends, she may have told you it’s off-duty... |
What we’re attempting to enact at this point are a number of measures aimed at preventing mass killings. It’s a laudable goal, and maybe it’s all we can do for the moment. However, those dying in the streets in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, and Oakland, those being murdered by abusive husbands, or even peop... |
We must pass some legislation aimed at reducing gun violence because we can’t afford to do nothing. Even as we become a less violent society overall, gun deaths are an epidemic. But what’s on the table isn’t going to end gun violence, though it may placate some of our fears. What we have to face is, entrenched in our c... |
It’s a big question. But so long as we ignore it in favor of the simplistic binary of good guys vs. bad guys, we will be a nation in mourning, asking ourselves time and time again, “How do we put an end to gun violence?” The wrong question will always lead us to the wrong answer. Maybe it’s time we start asking ourselv... |
For more on President Obama's proposal, read George Zornick: Obama Goes Big on Gun Control. |
DANBURY -- In the minutes after the Abbott Tech boys basketball game Tuesday night, Rick Paez and Anthony Henry both called their team's effort a bit "sluggish." |
"Like coach said in the locker room, all the coaches were sluggish and all of the players were sluggish," said Paez, Abbott Tech's senior guard. "Off a huge win without practicing, we just had to come out and do our thing." |
Memo to the rest of the area: if this is what Abbott Tech can do when sluggish, watch out. |
Coming off a championship 24 hours earlier in The News Times Tip-Off Classic tournament, the Wolverines used an offensive outburst to cruise to an 88-66 victory over Capital Prep Tuesday night. |
Henry led the Wolverines (3-0) with a career-high 34 points and Paez added 23 in the win. Together, the duo totaled 65 percent of their team's offense. |
With the Blazers' defensive game plan keying on Wolverines senior center Joe Groski, Henry shouldered much of the first-half load, exploding for 24 first half points. |
"He was pretty dominant offensively inside," Abbott Tech coach Jon Nadeau said after the game. "They really tried to take away Joe, and Anthony really stepped up." |
After the Wolverines missed their first five shots, Henry tipped in his own miss to start the game's scoring. And Henry had the momentum-building play of the half and perhaps the game. |
With six minutes to play in the second quarter, Henry reached around and stole the ball from Capital Prep's Wynton Borders. |
He drove all the way down the court and went up emphatically with a one-handed slam, sending the home crowd into a frenzy. |
"It was really a good play," Henry said of his dunk. "It kind of changed the tempo of the game." |
Abbott Tech used Henry's dominant first half play to build a 52-33 lead at halftime. But things didn't go as smoothly coming out of the locker room, when Capital Prep mounted a comeback. |
On the heels of freshman point guard Kahlil Dukes, the Blazers used a 21-13 third quarter to cut the deficit to 11 heading into the fourth. |
Dukes led Capital Prep with 32 points, 14 of which came in the third quarter. He converted a four-point play in the quarter and ended it with a jumper. |
"I've never seen a kid do that," Nadeau said. "A couple times he got good, clean looks, but most of the time we had a hand in his face." |
But Paez made sure the Wolverines' lethargic play didn't carry over into the fourth quarter. After Abbott Tech had built the lead back up to 16, Paez hit three 3-pointers in a row to give his team an 82-57 lead, putting the game out of reach. |
"I didn't really feel like I was doing well in the beginning (of the game)," Paez said. "I just found my stroke in the fourth quarter." |
Putting the game in perspective off his team's tournament win on Monday, Nadeau was more than thrilled with the way his team showed up. |
"We're happy," Nadeau said. "To be able to turn it around after 24 hours and have to go at it again is tough. We did well." |
CAPITAL PREP (66): Kahlil Dukes 10 6-7 32; Jordan Carter 0 0-0 0; DeWayne Wynn 5 0-1 11; Robert Hales 0 2-2 2; Derrick Sarfo-Darko 0 0-0 0; Wynton Borders 2 0-0 5; Brandon Marshall 6 0-0 12; Everton Robinson 1 2-2 4. TOTALS: 24 11-12 66. |
ABBOTT TECH (88): David James 0 0-0 0; Rick Paez 8 0-0 23; Rodney Riley 0 0-0 0; Jordan Maldonado 0 0-0 0; Travis Wilson 2 0-0 4; Mike Shannon 0 0-0 0; Dwayne Richardson 3 1-3 9; Antoine Scott 1 3-4 5; Anthony Henry 14 5-8 34; Danny Coakley 0 0-0 0; Joe Groski 4 5-7 13. TOTALS: 32 14-22 88. |
3-POINT GOALS: CP--Kahlil Dukes 6; DeWayne Wynn; Wynton Borders. AT--Rick Paez 7; Dwayne Richardson 2; Anthony Henry. RECORDS: Capital Prep 2-2; Abbott Tech 3-0. |
SHELTON -- Fire gutted a two-story woodframe house on Walnut Tree Hill Road early Thursday. |
The house was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after 9 a.m., according to Fire Marshal Jim Tortora. |
Damage is estimated at about $400,000 and the structure was totally gutted, he said. "We have no cause yet, but it doesn't appear to be suspicious," Tortora said. |
He said a smoke detector alerted the homeowner, Newell Jones, 92, to the fire. |
Tortora said Jones and a friend who checks on him daily were having breakfast when the smoke alarm went off. They both made it out of the structure safely. |
Newell Jones is the brother of Philip Jones of Jones Family Farms. "He's doing OK," said Terry Jones about his uncle. |
Jones said he was "out in the fields" when he got word of the blaze. |
"I rushed there to make sure he was all right," Terry Jones added. "The firefighters did a terrific job." |
Jones said his uncle built the house at 557 Walnut Tree Hill Road himself about 50 years ago and had lived there ever since. |
He said his uncle would be staying with a relative who has a house nearby. |
The fire, which was discovered about 9:04 a.m., was under control in about 30 minutes, Tortora said. |
Tanker trucks supplied water since there are no fire hydrants in the area, he said. Monroe also responded with a tanker truck, he said. |
Nichols and Derby fire companies were called in on standby while city fire crews were busy at the scene, he said. |
Erik Nitsche (1908 – 1998) was a pioneer in the design of books, annual reports, and other printed material that relied on meticulous attention to detail and the elegance of simple type. Nitsche was born and studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, and moved to the United States at the age of 26, where he had a successful car... |
(Library of Congress) – Map of Mud Island drawn in 1788 showing incomplete fortifications; destroyed by British bombardment in the fall of 1777. By the 1930s, development of the Philadelphia Municipal Airport used dredge spoils to flatten and expand the land, eventually connecting Mud Island to the mainland. |
From 1876 to 1884, the Philadelphia District Office of the Corps of Engineers took custodial responsibility of Fort Mifflin. During the Second World War, the Army stationed anti-aircraft guns at old Fort Mifflin to defend the nearby Fort Mifflin Naval Ammunition Storage Depot (NASD) and the United States Philadelphia N... |
Trump’s executive order regarding refugees has prompted a Canadian to ask us how a major NYC refugee story, that is significant in Canada, is regarded here. |
Red Hook WaterStories has some information on how blacks who fought for the redcoats went to Canada, but no more. Anyone have history on this? The Wikipedia page for the anniversary “evacuation day” has some colorful history; but as is often the case, the maritime story is absent. |
HMS Jersey (1736) 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy at Plymouth Dockyard, launched on 14 June 1736. |
If you have a steady hand, an eye for detail, and a love of latitude and longitude, Bellerby and Co. would like to hear from you. The London-based company is one of the world’s few remaining traditional globe-makers, and they’re looking to take on an apprentice. |
While the astrolabe is effective for determining latitude on land or calm seas, it is less reliable on the heaving deck of a ship in rough seas. The mariner’s astrolabe was developed to solve that problem. The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History in Texas, United States, contains the world’s oldest mariner’s as... |
When scientists like Simon Conway Morris discover a new animal, they get to name it. He and his colleagues in China don’t seem to give compliments where they aren’t deserved. |
USCoastGuardNortheast – 25 January 1940; The #OceanStation program was formally established under orders from President Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S. Coast Guard, in cooperation with the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), was given responsibility for its establishment and operation. |
The program was first known as the Atlantic Weather Observation Service and later by thousands of Coast Guardsmen who served after World War II as the “Ocean Station” (OS) program. Cutters were dispatched for 30-day patrols to transmit weather observations and serve as a SAR standby for transoceanic aircraft. The progr... |
The idea of a stationary weather ship was proposed as early as 1921 by Météo-France to help support shipping and the coming of transatlantic aviation. |
A weather ship, or Ocean Station Vessel, was a ship stationed in the ocean as a platform for surface and upper air meteorological observations for use in weather forecasting. They were primarily located in the north Atlantic and north Pacific oceans, reporting via radio. In addition to their weather reporting function,... |
The main deck of the Mary A Whalen (historic tanker; Portside New York) is clear thanks to hero shovelers Ahmed ElHusseiny, Maria Del Carmen Clegg, Matthew Thomas Perricone! (Mary A Whalen via Facebook) Hope you saved their phone numbers, Carolina! |
You don't have to be the Earl of Grantham to own your own British country estate. But it helps to have a royal-sized fortune to burn. |
With this week's premiere of the third season of "Downton Abbey," we decided to take a look at what it costs to buy, own and maintain a grand estate in the U.K. |
"And for hunts, you need gamekeepers, one or two at the very least," he said. |
Total annual cost for the staff would be anywhere between $600,000 to $1 million a year. |
Then there all those leaky rooves and crumbling gargoyles. Everyday repairs on your estate or castle will set you back another $100,000 a year or so. |
He said many clients spend $6 million to $8 million on renovations, though some spend much more. |
In the end, the total bill for keeping an estate is upwards of $1.5 million or more. |
Sweeting said some buyers don't realize the full costs of owning a country estate until a year or two into ownership. Knight Frank, he said, spends a lot of time educating them on the costs and time before sales. |
"It can be a bit of a shock," he said. "We try to educate them on all the costs involved." |
One country estate he's selling, called Bletchingdon Park, in Oxfordshire, features a classic Georgian house with 24,000 square feet and 127 acres. The price: $52 million. |
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