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That seems rather ambitious when you consider that at Prokhorov's price, the buyer would be paying $1 billion more than what Steve Ballmer paid for the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers are very profitable team, while the Nets lost the most money in the league during the 2013-14 season. |
Even when you add the Barclays Center to the equation Prokhorov and Rattner are running more than $20 million in the red. Given the team's high payroll, a return to profitability is not expected during the next couple of years, meaning a minority investor would have to pump in millions of dollars a year into the team o... |
Evercore, the investment banker hired by Prokhorov to sell the team, got frustrated with Prokhorov and exited stage left last month. Prokhorov didn't become a billionaire by being stupid. But I think he will have to eat some humble pie on this one. |
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and the rest check in with the Fed. |
The annual bank stress tests provide Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), and the rest of the country's biggest banks the opportunity to show the Fed they are in a healthy and safe position. This past week, the Fed revealed the results and the reaction was quite mixed. |
In this segment from Friday's episode of The Motley Fool’s financials-focused show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss Bank of America's numbers, the winners and losers, and what it all means for this week's CCAR results. |
NEW YORK, NY - This summer, share the beauty of your community with an inner-city child while enjoying a vacation in your own backyard! Join thousands of volunteer host families throughout 13 Northeastern states and Canada as they open their hearts and homes to New York City children from underprivileged communities th... |
“My family is very excited to welcome back our Fresh Air child for a third summer. We get to do all the things we love right here in our community, like swimming and hiking, but with an additional member of the family!” says one host parent. Imagine summertime without making s’mores, playing in the backyard or gazing a... |
Fresh Air children on first-time visits to host families are six to 12 years old and stay for one to two weeks. In fact, in only takes two weeks of fresh air and simple, summertime fun to help change a child’s life. Learn more here, by watching The Fund’s new video, entitled Two Weeks! |
For more information on how you can make summer special for a Fresh Air child, contact Karen Medlin at 732-308-9355 or The Fresh Air Fund at 800-367-0003. You can also learn more about the Volunteer Host Family program by visiting The Fund’s Web site at www.freshair.org. |
As the most instantly recognizable host of the Eastern Media Group's Shopping Channel (東森購物), Li Jing's face is beamed into millions of households seven days a week. And since she first stepped in front the camera to peddle jars of dried mushrooms and other popular shopping channel products, she has become a phenomenon... |
The first glimpse the public will get of the "new" Li Jing will be on Star TV, when she takes center stage and hosts an hour-long talk show based on the hugely popular Oprah Winfrey Show. |
Set to debut on Star's variety- show channel sometime in the coming months, the yet-untitled show will, according to its host, offer something for everyone and be filled with humor, gossip and plenty of real-life drama. |
"I get a lot offers to shoot programs, but I like to protect myself and be careful before saying `yes' to any offer," she said. "The new show will be funny and cover a lot of diverse and interesting themes and topics." |
Regardless of any career move Li Jing may choose to take in the future some things will, no doubt, remain the same. |
Over the past five years Li Jing (利菁) has became one of Taiwan's most talked-about and pursued celebrities. The paparazzi and gossip-column journalists follow her every move, and hardly a day goes by without her name appearing in at least one of the nation's dailies or glossy gossip weeklies. The nation is now so accus... |
She has her own fan club, she receives scores of letters offering praise and encouragement in any given week, and whenever she steps outside she's mobbed by throngs of adoring fans eager to catch a glimpse of, or cadge an autograph from, "The Queen of the Shopping Channel." |
Like so many before her, Li Jing dabbled in several fields before shooting to stardom. She was the spokesperson for a popular brand of cosmetics; she was a dancer; she was a choreographer; she appeared in television soap operas, and she also tried her hand at singing, though she readily admits today that she "doesn't h... |
But what really sets the witty and self-assured television host apart from her many peers is the fact that she used to be a he. |
"When I was young I knew everything was wrong. I had the physical desire to be a girl in my heart because I knew I wasn't like the other boys," said Li Jing. "Although I had both male and female thoughts, it was my feminine hormones that had a stronger influence on the way I acted. I hated being touched by the boys and... |
Li Jing physically and officially became a female shortly before entering the English Literature Department of Suchow University at age 19. Not everybody, however, had been forewarned. Her freshman year at university proved a grueling and uncomfortable experience. |
"I obviously looked like a women, but the [university's] paperwork still said I was a man. It was such a shock that I tried to kill myself," she said. |
It was while studying at university that Li Jing made her first tentative steps to superstardom by taking a part-time job as a model. By the time she graduated from university, Li Jing had already become a popular figure in the fashion industry. |
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BRISTOL, Tenn. — Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano hope their recent success at Bristol Motor Speedway helps them reach victory lane for the first time this season. |
They will have prime starting spots Sunday after Kenseth qualified second and Logano third Friday for the 500-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on the 0.533-mile track. |
Both drivers have two wins over the past five races at Bristol. Another win could land Logano or Kenseth a spot in the Chase for the championship, and both drivers believe a breakthrough is possible. |
"It's been a good track for us, probably my best track," said Logano, who has won the past two August events at Bristol but struggled in the spring. "We've been really good in the fall races, but it seems like something happens every year in the spring race; hopefully, we can get through that. It's certainly not becaus... |
Standings-wise, both drivers like their position and performance. |
Logano, of Middletown, Conn., stands 48 points behind leader and defending series champion Kyle Busch in fifth place with three top-fives and four top-10s in seven starts. The Team Penske driver also has a pole at Martinsville, where his No. 22 Ford finished 11th. |
Kenseth is 88 points back in 12th with a season-best seventh place at Phoenix. He has led at least 10 laps in five races but hasn't had the finishes to show for it. |
"I've been accused at times of being a glass-half-empty guy," Kenseth said Friday, "but I feel like it's way more than half full. Our finishes haven't reflected how we've ran. There's definitely a lot of positives." |
Bristol, on the other hand, has been pretty good for Kenseth. |
Kenseth has four wins, 13 top-fives and 20 top-10s in 32 career starts at Bristol. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver led 47 laps en route to victory here last April and 149 in his August 2013 victory. His No. 20 Toyota Camry ran third and 13th in two other races with a combined 227 laps led. |
"Bristol's been a good track," Kenseth said, "but when everything's clicking and we're at our best, I feel like we can be pretty competitive just about anywhere." |
Their challenge is slowing the momentum of Busch, who has swept the past two race weekends at Martinsville and Texas. Kenseth's JGR teammate is the current active leader in Bristol wins with five along with brother Kurt, though he hasn't won here since 2012. |
Logano's focus right now is about handling his own business before concerning himself with others. |
"We're looking for anywhere we think we can get a win," he said while watching his crew prepare his Xfinity Series Ford Mustang. "We had a solid run last week. Any time you come to a race track like this, your confidence is a little bit higher. The momentum is building back up slowly, I can feel the wins are right arou... |
Patience will be needed with Bristol's tight confines that have been famous for igniting short tempers on the banking and pit road. |
Logano and Kenseth believe that trait has served them as well as their cars, though they admit it hasn't always been easy with so many cars fighting for the same small space at high speeds. |
"It's real easy to get off track," Logano said. "You've got to keep the big picture in mind." |
Starting near the front should help both drivers maintain perspective for this weekend as they aim to maintain their form here. |
Kenseth posted a lap of 127.419 mph, second only to teammate Carl Edwards (127.997). Logano was next at 127.191. |
Korean director Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ follows a young thespian recruited to serve as seductress spy for Zionists in late 1970s Europe. |
What do you get when you take Park Chan-wook, the inventive Korean mind behind the unrelenting Oldboy and prized lesbian romance The Handmaiden, and pair him up with a groovy, late ’70s John le Carré espionage plot? |
The answer lies in The Little Drummer Girl, a new miniseries that’s less interested in competing intelligence schemes than in the seductive power of playing pretend. Premiering in three parts on AMC starting Nov. 19, the six-part series brims with style and intrigue—and ranks among the best espionage TV dramas in recen... |
Florence Pugh acts as the series’ glue in the complex role of Charlie Ross, a spunky young thespian prone to flirtation with things that intrigue her—difficult acting roles, mysterious men, radical lefty politics. When we meet Charlie, she’s the star of an experimental theater production in Britain in which she plays t... |
The Israeli contingent is overseen by Kurtz (Michael Shannon), whose command over his intelligence team becomes akin to a kind of theater direction. Among the top spies under his supervision, Gadi (Alexander Skarsgard) is the most dexterous and, not for nothing, the most handsome—a chivalrous avatar of inscrutability. ... |
Meanwhile, a series of bombings targeting prominent Zionists has caused a state of emergency for Kurtz’s team. They’ve managed to trace the attacks to a particular Palestinian family who presides over a web of angry anti-Zionist soldiers. Charlie, young and passionate, is to pose as the girlfriend of one of the terrori... |
Though the setup sounds confusing, the narrative alone—the machinations of both the Israeli and Palestinian sides—is easy to follow. What’s truly complex is the theme of performance that pervades the plot: the ever-churning question of what’s real and what’s pretend. Park imbues each scene with this uncertainty—playing... |
Pugh, who burst out in 2016 with her turn as a brazen wife detained by a cruel husband in Lady Macbeth, is a fascinating screen presence, taking a role that could’ve been played as naive—the childishly cheeky ingenue—and injecting it with cool confidence and moxie. Charlie’s taste in men, as she informs Gadi early on, ... |
While we get a deep, stylized sense of characters’ passion—sexual passion between lovers; violent passion between enemies—Park keeps the story’s politics at a distance. The narrative may be built around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the series is careful about not taking sides, a tactful choice for a world in w... |
In one early scene, perched on a hill by the Acropolis at night, Gadi and Charlie bend and contort to cast giant shadows on a stone wall. At this point, Charlie doesn’t yet know what sort of spy scheme she’s in for—the real-life world of shadowy figures and illusions, people with whom she must conceal all but a silhoue... |
It’s a fitting aesthetic for a story that, in every scene, requires at least one person on screen to be engaging in some sort of deception. “This is your debut in the theater of the real,” Gutz tells Charlie once she’s signed on to perform under his direction. She puts on a dazzling show. |
More than 1,100 health care workers—including 900 New Yorkers—received training Friday to better their abilities to treat opioid addiction. |
The training took place as part of the 1199SEIU Institute for Continuing Education. Participants included nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technologists and medical records coders. The union and nonunion participants were from New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., in addition to New York. |
To date, more than 1,700 workers have completed the training. |
"This gives me more background, more information and the ability to have a more intelligent conversation with my patients," said Paul Nelson, a substance-abuse clinician at Mount Sinai's Addiction Institute and a union member who participated in the training Friday. |
Nelson is certified as a credentialed alcoholism and substance-abuse counselor. But the training, he said, is beneficial even for health care workers who work regularly with substance-abuse patients. |
During the training, pharmacists covered the use of naloxone, a medication to reverse opioid overdose. Other topics included co-occurring disorders and hospital management of overdoses. |
Nelson said it was helpful to hear the perspectives of participants from many different areas of health care work. |
"When I dispense opioid medication, I educate my patients on the prevention and treatment of addiction and safety concerns of opioid use," Cally Pitsillos, a registered pharmacist at Rite Aid and a union member, said in a statement. She added that the training was important to her because she wants "to prevent my patie... |
The training, which was free for union members, took place at John Jay College in Manhattan. It was broadcast to seven locations in New York and Massachusetts, as well as on the web. |
Mini is using Twitter to offer consumers the first-ever “Tweet to Test Drive” on-demand car delivery in lieu of a dealership visit. |
Instead, the dealership will come to the consumer in the promotion, which is being facilitated by experiential technology platform Fooji. The offer will be available exclusively in San Francisco and Los Angeles from Oct. 30 to Nov. 30. Vehicles available for a test drive are the Mini Countryman and Mini Countryman plug... |
The process is straightforward: Consumers tweet #MinionDemand to @MiniUSA, and receive a link to sign up. They then enter delivery information and schedule the test drive. After they submit the order, a Mini representative will arrive at their door during the scheduled time frame. |
This is the first time MIni has used Twitter in this way. Besides the tweets, there is a paid promotional push via Twitter, per a Mini spokesperson. |
Brands are continuing to find new and creative ways to connect with audiences on Twitter, according to a Twitter spokesperson. |
Twitter audiences are a strong demographic to engage, according to research cited by the company. They tend to be leaders, not followers, with 44% self-identifying as being “leaders,” and 43% saying they “often take initiative in social situations” vs. 35% and 31% when compared to the general Internet population. |
Two out of three non-Twitter users say “Twitter users are among the first to know the latest news and information,” and 52% of people say a person on Twitter made them aware of new brands or products for the first time. Two out of three says Twitter users influence purchases of their friends and family. |
Asian equities mostly rose on Thursday, with the exception of Shanghai and Seoul, as investors took heart from a turn in oil prices and after the Federal Reserve said it was confident in the U.S. economy. |
Overnight, U.S. stocks surged, with the blue-chip Dow marking its best session of the year, after Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in her last news conference of 2014 that the Fed is unlikely to start its rate hike process for "at least the next couple of meetings." The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.7 percent, while t... |
Another positive boost for markets comes in the form of a recovery in oil prices, after U.S. data showed falling crude inventories. U.S. crude futures were little changed above $56 a barrel on Thursday. London Brent crude for February delivery was untraded yet, after settling up $1.17 at $61.18. |
China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index lagged behind its regional peers on Thursday following the release of falling new home prices for November, which pointed to a persistent property downturn despite efforts by authorities to energize the market. |
The property sector was largely lower; Gemdale tanked 3 percent while Vanke closed down 2.6 percent. Brokerages pulled back sharply after rallying for the past sessions; Founder Securities and HuataiSecurities sold off over 8 percent, respectively. |
China Railway Construction rose the maximum allowable 10 percent on news that China signed a memorandum of understanding with Serbia and Hungary on Wednesday to build a new rail link between Belgrade and Budapest by mid-2015. |
Gaming stocks are in focus on news that Beijing is cracking down on multi-billion dollar illicit fund flows into Macau. Melco Crown dipped 1.4 percent while Sands China and Galaxy Entertainment rose 2.2 and 3.2 percent each. |
Carmaker BYD Co fell by more than 45 percent in Hong Kong, while shares in Shenzhen fell by the 10 percent daily limit amid concerns that it's losing market share to foreign rivals in China's auto market. |
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 got a fillip from a weaker currency on Thursday, reclaiming territory above the 17,000 level, as dollar-yen marched towards the 119 handle. |
As a result, blue-chips majors like Canon and Toyota Motor made gains of 1.7 and 1.5 percent each. Sony rallied nearly 5 percent, unaffected by reports that North Korea was behind a cyber attack on Sony Pictures which has resulted in the studio pulling all plans to release its comedy "The Interview." |
Nissan Motor notched up 0.9 percent despite ordering the recall of more than 80,000 vehicles sold in Mexico to check for potential defects stemming from air bags made by Japanese company Takata. |
Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan kicks off its two-day monthly meeting today and will release its last policy decision for the year on Friday. The central bank is widely expected to keep monetary settings unchanged and offer a slightly brighter view of the economy on tentative signs of recovery from recession, Reuters quot... |
"The yen is seeing a bit of weakness heading into tomorrow's BOJ meeting results. Whether this is the beginning of a sustained recovery for Japan remains to be seen, but as long as the USD maintains its upward trajectory, that's one step of the way there for the Nikkei," said IG market strategist Stan Shamu. |
Australia's S&P ASX 200 index entered a two-day winning streak, hitting a one-week high of 5,265 points earlier in the session, as the Fed's upbeat economic assessment and an uptick in oil prices lifted trading sentiment. |
Oil and gas producer Santos climbed 5 percent while Oil Search bolstered 4.4 percent. Resource miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton settled 2.5 and 1.9 percent higher, respectively, while Fortescue Metals raked in a 6.4 percent gain. |
The hardest-hit stock was Flight Centre Travel Group, which plummeted over 9 percent after issuing a profit downgrade. |
Meanwhile, the Australian dollar moved off multi-year lows to trade at 8,127 to the dollar at 1410 SIN/HK, seemingly unaffected by declining house prices in the mainland. |
South Korean shares retreated from an intra-day peak of 1,919 points to end Thursday slightly below the flatline as blue-chips lost grounds. |
Posco reversed openings gains to finish 0.5 percent lower while Samsung Electronics ended flat. Hyundai Motor tumbled nearly 1 percent as a weak rouble threatened to undercut profit margins in the Russian market. |
Cheil Industries, which is the holding company of Samsung, closed up 6.6 percent after doubling its listing price of 53,000 won on its market debut. The initial public offering is said to be the third biggest ever in South Korea and shares were over-subscribed 195 times. |
Meanwhile, shares of Korea Gas eased 0.1 percent on news that South Korean prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for its CEO Jang Seok-hyo over bribery and breach of trust. |
NORWELL - Ppolice are asking for help identifying two women suspected of stealing thousands of dollars by swapping tags on high-end purses. |
Police Chief Ted Ross said the women bought the purses at a T.J.Maxx store in Framingham and then affixed their price tags on much cheaper purses, which they would then return for cash at a T.J.Maxx in Norwell. Ross said the women pulled the trick at least three times in March and May, netting between $4,500 and $5,000... |
Police have released surveillance images of the women and are asking anyone who recognizes them to call detectives at 781-659-7979. |
Proof of your English proficiency must be included with your application materials. Test results issued directly to students are not considered official and will not be accepted. Only Official Score Reports can be accepted. |
Students applying to a Exchange or Partner Agreement program must have the equivalent of a 2.75 GPA or above. Some university programs require a 3.0 GPA for admission. |
Ever wonder why roller coasters can make even the strongest of stomachs feel like they're turning inside out? Or why, as you seemingly dangle dangerously upside down, you never quite feel like you're actually upside down? And did you know that some of the force you feel along the way has the potential to "cause brains ... |
President Donald Trump will announce curbs on US firms doing business with the Cuban military and tighter rules on travel to the island on Friday during a visit to the spiritual home of the Cuban-American exile community. |
Trump will appear in Miami's Little Havana at a theater named after an anti-communist veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion to launch a move that will begin to roll back his predecessor Barack Obama's outreach to Havana. |
US officials told reporters that he will announce a prohibition on "financial transactions" with Cuba's military-backed tourism conglomerate GAESA, a body which might otherwise have hoped for a windfall from long absent American visitors. |
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