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Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth ... none of them were a match for the unassuming 35-year-old from Turin, who some will claim is a "robot" but is, in fact, rather more consistent and reliable. |
Meanwhile, Ryan Fox secured his best golfing major finish at The Open, finishing in a tie for 39th. The 31-year-old New Zealand No 1 improved with each round to end at two-over par. Yesterday, Fox shot a one-under 70 to improve 22 places. |
"I'm happy but a little frustrated as well. The last two days could have been significantly better. I made my fair share of par putts but left a few birdies out there on the greens but that's golf and Carnoustie has always had my number," said Fox. |
It was another crazy Sunday at Carnoustie, this Angus links which does not so much have a penchant for drama as a junkie's addiction to the stuff. Granted, the ridiculously clinical nature of Molinari's closing stretch did not afford this spectacle the mania of 1999 with Jean van De Velde and all that, or indeed, the m... |
Molinari, who lives in London with his wife and two children, had the temerity to birdie the 18th, that monster of a par four for a 69 and an eight-under total and that basically took the title out of the reach of American Xander Schauffelle, who ended up two shots behind in a tie for second with McIlroy, Rose and coun... |
While the rest blew leads, Molinari continued to bubble, recording an incredible 16 pars and two birdies on a day when the wind played havoc. And what made his success all the more remarkable was that he compiled it in the presence of Woods, just when he was contending once more on the final day of a major. |
As Woods stormed into the lead around the turn and the galleries went into apoplexy, certain they were bearing witness to a special piece of golfing history, Molinari remained steadfast and carried on reeling off the pars. |
On Twitter, his brother Edoardo - who he played with in the 2010 Ryder Cup - was imploring him to retain his composure. It was like asking the tide on the nearby North Sea to carry on going in and out. Molinari, the metronome, had been in pressurised situations with Woods before, most notably the final singles match of... |
Frankie, as he is known, kept his cool on that occasion to ensure the half point which completed the Miracle of Medinah and here he was again; puffing his cheeks now and again, but in the main, sending tee shot after tee shot down the fairway and then approach after approach into the green and, when missing, allowing h... |
There were no bogeys on his scorecard and none of the other 79 players who made the cut could claim the same. |
It was a deserved victory in every facet and although not a household name, it was far from unexpected on the range. He warranted his new standing as world No 6. |
Molinari, always one of the best ball-strikers on Tour, has been red hot since May, when he fended off McIlroy down the stretch at the BMW PGA Championship. In his last two starts, he won the Quickens Loan National - which Woods himself promotes - and was second at the John Deere Classic a week ago. |
Naturally the question will be "what will this do for Italian golf?" - yet just as importantly in the short-term is what this means for Europe. This ended America's stranglehold of the majors, ending their proud streak at five, and that will please Thomas Bjorn as much as the fact that Molinari has guaranteed himself a... |
Anybody for another Woods-Molinari rematch? |
Woods was as gracious as ever in defeat, and that must have been difficult after his 71 left him on five-under and in a tie for sixth. It is his best finish in a major in six years but it promised so much more. Woods double-bogeyed the 11th, bogeyed the 12th and notwithstanding the late roars of a mini rally with birdi... |
Molinari has an English swing coach in Denis Pugh, an English putting coach in Phil Kenyon and an English performance coach in Dave Alred, the former guru of Jonny Wilkinson. They should all bask in Woods' praise: "That was really, really impressive." Enough said. |
This morning in metals news, the U.S. and China trade tariff jabs, the steel import market share numbers for June are in and thyssenkrupp CEO Heinrich Hiesinger offers his resignation just days after the German firm’s finalization of a merger deal with Tata Steel. |
At midnight, $34 billion of the U.S.’s previously announced $60 billion tariff package on Chinese goods went into effect. As previously indicated, China responded in kind, placing $34 billion in tariffs on American goods. |
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute’s (AISI) report on steel imports in June, import permit applications were down 3.7% compared with the previous month. Steel import permit applications for June totaled 2,894,000 net tons (NT). |
The countries with the largest finished steel import permit applications in June were: South Korea (206,000 NT, up 88% from May preliminary), Japan (134,000 NT, up 11%), Germany (105,000 NT, down 25%), Taiwan (103,000 NT, up 32%) and Vietnam (88,000 NT, up 18%). |
It’s been a busy week for the German steelmaker. |
Heinrich Hiesinger, CEO of thyssenkrupp AG since 2011, has offered up resignation just days after the German company finalized a merger deal with Indian firm Tata Steel, Reuters reported (the deal would merge the firms’ European operations to create Europe’s second-largest steelmaker, behind ArcelorMittal). |
“Today I informed the Supervisory Board that I would like to step down from my position as CEO of thyssenkrupp,” Heisinger said in a prepared statement. “I take this step very consciously to enable a fundamental discussion in the Supervisory Board on the future of thyssenkrupp. A joint understanding of Board and Superv... |
MIAMI, Oct. 30 (AP)—Tom Bailey rolled up 108 yards in the third quarter tonight to be come Florida State's top career rusher and paced the Seminoles to a 27‐3 victory over Miami. |
F.S.U. gained a 6‐0 half‐time lead on field goals by Frank Fontes, but Bailey's heroics led to three quick touchdowns that sent Miami to its third straight loss. |
11 The 215‐pound senior ripped 157 yards to set up a 10‐yard scoring pass from Tommy War ren to Barry Smith, breaking open what had been a listless game. |
Bailey wound up with 116 yards in eight carries, raising his three‐season total to 1,600 yards. Free Pickard set the previous mark with 1,592 in 1957–59. |
Rhett Dawson's dazzling catch of a 43‐yard pass from Warren gave the Seminoles an other third‐quarter chance and three plays later David Shell leaped into the end zone from the 1 to make it 20‐3. |
James Thomas raced 30 yards after intercepting Kelly Coch rane's pass to raise the margin to 27‐3 in the third quarter. |
The bicyclist was hospitalized and released, according to police. |
MATAWAN - A man was hospitalized after a crash with a township police car while he was riding a bicycle. |
Carl Zuccaro, 58, was released from the hospital the same day, according to Lt. Thomas Falco. The driver, Detective Joseph Lovallo, wasn't injured. The incident remains under investigation and Lovallo remains on duty. |
Lovallo's 2010 Dodge was headed east on Spring Street about 8 a.m. Thursday, making a right turn onto Main Street southbound, according to a crash report. Zuccaro was pedaling south on Main Street. The car and the bicyclist collided. |
A witness told police he saw the car moving slowly as it began its turn and the bicycle moved slowly through the intersection, according to the report. The witness "believed it was not a hard hit," the report shows. |
Take a look at the crash report below and explore tips on bicycle safety in the video at the top of this story. |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Rhode Island officials say payments company PayPal has been in daily contact with them about the possibility of moving an operations center to the state. |
State Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor tells the Providence Journal (http://bit.ly/2bVVhfQ ) his team is fielding questions from the San Jose, California-based company on a day-to-day basis. |
He says Rhode Island leaders helped organize a tour of several properties around the state, including a vacant skyscraper in downtown Providence known as the Superman building. WPRI-TV reported last week about PayPal”s interest in the building. |
PayPal has been searching for a new office site after canceling plans to open a 400-employee operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina, a move in protest of the state”s law requiring people to use bathrooms matching the gender assigned to them at birth. |
Europe’s new wave of nuclear reactors will have a reliable fuel source in Spain to meet power demands. |
The only constant in energy markets is change. The dynamics of supply and demand are modulated by competition between energy types, environmental regulation and policy, geopolitical manoeuvres and volatility, and public perception of risk versus the rewards of security and affordability. |
Europe’s engagement with nuclear power illustrates these complexities. Euratom, the European Union’s co-ordinating and policy group, was established in 1957, when the overriding concerns were energy security and counterbalancing the growing US dominance in nuclear engineering. It envisioned a single EU-controlled nucle... |
About a quarter of EU power comes from nuclear, and that is expected to continue; Euratom wants 100 new stations commissioned by 2050 but these will be mostly replacing old plants that are coming offline. |
Yet the EU has little indigenous uranium fuel supply – just 3pc of demand, coming from small mines in the Czech Republic and Romania, as well as some recovered as a byproduct from other metal extraction. Kazakhstan, by far the biggest supplier, has more than 41pc of the global market. That is more than the next three –... |
Despite the range of national nuclear take-up within the EU, Euratom continues to operate as the overseer and regulator of fuel provisions. Its commitment to security and stability of supply remains one of its primary policies, and it is committed to ensuring a diversity of suppliers and the operation of long-term forw... |
Fulfilling that directive through diversity is easier when more supply choices are available, but global oversupply and political heeldragging has discouraged investment worldwide in developing new sources. Building new mines that can provide sufficient output over a period consistent with decade-long forward contracts... |
Yet new and diverse supplies are going to be needed now that the future demands of the industry are becoming clearer, as exemplified by the UK’s commitment in September to a new reactor at Hinkley Point. Non-EU markets such as China’s new fleet of 60 reactors will be coming online just as many forward contracts end. Ur... |
Even so, just because there is a uranium deposit within Europe does not necessarily mean it makes sense to develop it. An experimental project in the Swedish region of Jämtland to recover uranium from shale closed down primarily because of the poor quality of the raw material, while a large proposed open-cast mine in O... |
But where these factors are different, so is the outcome. New research into far cheaper purification techniques – specifically, sulphur-hungry bacteria bioleaching contaminants – may yet revive the effort in Sweden. And where the numbers are already good, such as at Berkeley Energia’s Salamanca project in Spain, commer... |
The Salamanca mine is situated in a historic uranium mining region and as a result local people are well aware of the socioeconomic benefits of having an operating mine in the region – and are hugely supportive of the project. The Zona 7 deposit, which was discovered in 2015, transformed the economics of the project; t... |
While the EU energy market in general and the nuclear power side in particular have seen huge changes since the European project first took shape, the initial premise of keeping the lights on while ensuring commercial viability has stood the test of time. Energy supply policy is a remarkably complex jigsaw, and a stabl... |
There is no sane planet in which the 2012 terrorist assault, tragic as it was, justifies more probing than 9/11, the Beirut bombings or Pearl Harbor. |
The bottom line is that it won’t make any difference. The Republicans will claim that the 800 pages produced by the GOP majority on the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi are a harsh indictment of Hillary Clinton in particular and the Obama administration in general. Democrats will cite the 340 pages written by th... |
The harsh Republican report provides new impetus, if any was needed, for right wing attackers to portray the killing of Ambassador Christ Stevens and three other U.S. diplomats at the American Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 as the very worst scandal in the history of the nation. It makes life a bit easier ... |
At the same time, the minority report allows Democrats to cast Clinton as victim, both by virtue of her own candidacy and of her service under the perennially targeted U.S. President Obama. Their report paints the conduct of the Select Committee and its findings as a coordinated conspiracy that included questionable if... |
In the final analysis, the Committee did not uncover any single “smoking gun” that could rise above the tons of documents, hearings, witnesses and findings that have already buried the attack itself underneath. The Committee has already exacted its pint of blood from Clinton, when it inadvertently uncovered the existen... |
Viewed from close up, the report details inadequate security arrangements at the Consulate, wrong assessments of the dangers facing the staff there, faulty rescue plans, which the Committee concedes wouldn’t have helped even if everyone in Washington was on the ball, and the effort, totally naive or stained by design, ... |
There is no possible rational justification for holding seven separate Congressional probes on Benghazi, plus a few more on the side, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, especially when they all reach more or less the same conclusions. The attacks in Benghazi were bad for America’s image and tragic for the famili... |
More than anything else, the majority report and the minority report, taken together, reflect increasingly blurred distinctions between fact and fiction, between acceptable political behavior and total bedlam, between complex realities and complete fantasies. |
They are a sign that the center isn’t holding, even in cases of an enemy assault on Americans, and that national security has become a political wrecking ball, like all the rest. The reports provide another worrying symptom of cascading system failures across the board. From Brexit to Benghazi, en route to Donald Trump... |
Quick-cooking winter squash? You bet. When cut into small wedges it can be stir-fried in 6 minutes. This stir-fry tastes terrific with beef, pork or chicken. |
toss with vegetables. Top with nuts. Serve immediately. |
WASHINGTON — Some of America’s brightest children will visit the White House as President Barack Obama holds his final science fair to highlight work that excelled in a broad range of competitions. |
Obama began the science fair in 2010, saying the students who produce the best experiments and products ought to be recognized like the sports champions who regularly come to the White House. |
The fair on Wednesday will feature more than 130 participants, including a Connecticut student who created a diagnostic test for the detection of the Ebola virus, a New York student who found a way to improve undersea cement seals to keep offshore oil wells from leaking, and a group of middle-school students from Color... |
They say you need to walk before you can run, but they never said anything about skipping. |
Less than 24 hours after being born, a kid goat at Sunflower Farms in Cumberland, Maine. was seen hopping around and enjoying life. |
The Nigerian goat named George Washington was born just this week, but he isn’t wasting any time in finding his footing. |
Sunflower Farms is naming all of its kids after presidents and vice presidents this year. Because George Washington was the first baby goat born on the farm this year, he was named after the first president. |
“ On his first walk outside with his mom May, he leapt the whole way! Why walk when you can SPRING! Gotta love the enthusiasm of baby goats!” says the description on the YouTube video. |
While last Friday’s terrorist attack in Christchurch was the first for New Zealand, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Australia and non-resident to New Zealand says his country has been victims of violence and terrorism for more than four decades. |
Ambassador Wahidullah Waissi is in Christchurch to pay tribute to the victims in Christchurch, meet NZ authorities and members of the Afghan community in the city. |
And today are burial funerals for two Afghan-born New Zealanders - murdered in the terrorist attack on the Al Noor mosque on Deans Ave. |
“We condemn these brutal terrorist attacks on peace-loving New Zealanders in Christchurch and we believe there is no place for violence and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand and in any other parts of the world,” Waissi says. |
“But Afghanistan has constantly been a target of terrorism. For the last few years, we have been losing around 10 to 15 people every day to international terrorism. |
“When we first heard of the attack in Australia, no one knew why but wondered how it could happen in such a peaceful environment as New Zealand. We never initially realised it was a terrorist act. |
“Then when it was announced as an act of terrorism, it was just another assault on people, now in this part of the world. It is realized that the international terrorism and extremism doesn’t know borders, race, religion or country. Those who commit such brutal acts, do not believe in any religious values and principle... |
Four Afghans have been treated in Christchurch hospital for gunshot wounds. |
Ambassador Waissi also endorsed the brave actions of Abdul Aziz who fought the terrorist at the Linwood mosque preventing many more deaths. |
A public vigil will be held around the Masjid Al Noor mosque for the first prayers there since the attack tomorrow afternoon. |
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"A day after four European Union members of the UN Security Council strongly criticized Israel's decision to speed up construction of settlements." |
"EU ambassador to Israel Andrew Standley on Thursday submitted a formal protest to the Foreign Ministry over evacuating Bedouins and tearing down Palestinians' houses in the E1 area near" Ma'aleh Adumim settlement. |
"The significance of this development is not only the creation of a greater Jerusalem that controls the center of the West Bank, but the emergence of Israeli Occupation territorial contiguity, that effectively eliminates the two state solution." |
"ICAHD has long cautioned about the emergence of a greater Jerusalem linking the Judaization of East Jerusalem and displacement of Bedouins in E1, with the development of Ma'aleh Adumim, all the way to the Jordan Valley." |
On December 20, Washington vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israel's latest settlement expansion plans. In response, all 14 other SC members rebuked America's decision. |
Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin called the move "historic." Dismissing a 14 - 1 vote, Washington called the SC divided. In fact, nearly the entire world's on one side, America and Israel on the other. The same's held earlier for decades. Palestinians are denied justice. |
Israel denounced EU members' criticism. A Foreign Ministry statement said they should refrain from "interfering" in Israel's "internal" affairs, and focus solely on restarting peace talks. |
"Israel's continuing announcements to accelerate the construction of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem, send a devastating message." |
"There is one delegation which would not want to hear anything about it, any kind of statement, which believes that somehow things will sort of settle themselves somehow miraculously out on their own." |
Standley expressed profound concern over deteriorating conditions in Israeli controlled Area C. He cited increasing numbers of home demolitions to make way for settlement expansions. |
E1 is located between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. Israel plans developing Mevasseret Adumim neighborhood. At issue is establishing territorial contiguity and creating a greater Jerusalem by Judaizing Palestinian neighborhoods. |
All 27 EU foreign ministers protested after learning about deteriorating conditions on the ground, including growing Palestinian distress and Israel's intention to relocate 2,500 Jahalin tribe Bedouins near Ma'aleh Adumin to an Abu Dis village garbage removal site. |
Two weeks ago, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, expressed deep concern in a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. |
"We're dealing with preliminary work. No one is being evacuated at this stage and there is no Israeli conspiracy or plot. Israel is a state of proper conduct, and when we have plans we will not conceal them from anyone and update the international bodies." |
He lied like Israeli officials always do. Plans include Judaizing East Jerusalem entirely. Palestinians will be displaced even though they're citizens and hold city IDs. However, they're revokable for anyone living outside city boundaries long enough or assuming another citizenship, even temporarily. |
In mid-December, a new border crossing opened in East Jerusalem's Shoafat neighborhood. Days later, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said Palestinians with Israeli ID cards should relinquish their residency rights. |
In addition, work is underway on separate Israeli and Palestinian roads between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumin. At issue is separating Palestinians from Israelis to facilitate building Mevasseret Adumim. The new road system will connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem. |
"The municipal boundary of Jerusalem and the route of the separation fence must be identical to allow for proper administration of the city." In other words, doing it involves total Judaization because changing the boundary means canceling Palestinians' residency. |
"We are Jerusalemites. We're used to Jerusalem. If something like that happens, everyone will want to move to within the city. People will live on the street if they have to." |
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