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Barry, who has 53 caps, was also desperate to make up for England’s woeful showing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, after describing the last-16 defeat to Germany as one of the lowest points of his career. |
His loss is also a big blow to England boss Roy Hodgson, coming less than 24 hours before he has to submit his final 23-man squad to UEFA. |
Hodgson also has concerns about the fitness of Scott Parker. |
He said: “I’m disappointed to lose Gareth, but I’m sure he will have a part to play after the Euros. |
“Not only was he a member of my original 23-man squad, but he has featured prominently in the team over the last few years. |
Hodgson called up Everton defender Jagielka from his standby list instead of Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson. |
Jagielka, who has 11 caps, impressed in the friendly win in Oslo and gives Hodgson defensive options, with Phil Jones able to move into midfield if needed. |
For the last few weeks we've been testing our latest Z97 motherboards with our new i7 4790K processor. As we're testing more and more motherboards with it, we've been replacing the boards that used our older i7 4770K. In our lineup of motherboards today, we've got the GIGABYTE Z97N- GAMING 5, and it will be running at ... |
Along with this, we've got the ASRock Z97X Killer, GIGABYTE Z97X GAMING G1 WIFI-BK Black Edition, and ASUS Z97-A; all of which are using our newer i7 4790K. Along with these, we have the GIGABYTE Z97X-UD5H, and the older ASRock Z87 Killer; both use our older i7 4770K. |
Before we get into the testing, we've got to find out what's going on with the overclocking. Heading into the BIOS, and straight into the overclocking section, we see just how far we can push our CPU multiplier up. After a bit of time messing around with the multiplier, BCLK, and voltages, you can see our maximum overc... |
With our multiplier at 46x, and our BCLK slightly raised to 100.51, you can see our final overclock comes in at 4623MHz, or 4.62GHz as it's shown in our graphs here today. This overclock isn't too bad. We've seen some boards offer around 4.7GHz, while others come in at around 4.6GHz. Overall, this is pretty standard fo... |
Nvidia was quite good in keeping a secret about both the naming scheme as well as all other details regarding its upcoming Geforce launch, at least until now, as pictures of both MSI and Palit Geforce RTX 2080/2080 Ti have now leaked online. |
Published by Videocardz.com, it is not a big surprise, the pictures show MSI's RTX 2080/2080 Ti Gaming X Trio series graphics cards, MSI's Duke series RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 as well as Palit's RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 from the GamingPro series. |
The pictures do not reveal a lot of details other than most partners will be using their well-proven triple- and dual-slot coolers, as well as the fact that there is no longer an SLI connector, but rather some sort of NVLink connector and the new Type-C virtualLink connector. The pictures also show that both the RTX 20... |
The pictures also reveal that the RTX 2080 Ti will come with 11GB of GDDR6 memory, while the RTX 2080 will come with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. The box also reveals that Ray Tracing will be a big part of Nvidia's marketing, which is no big surprise considering that this is the first GPU that managed to get to that graphics "... |
There was also a leak of the pre-production PCB for the RTX 2080 board, together with the TU104-400 GPU, showing eight GDDR6 memory modules. The PCB pictures and the GPU was spotted over at Videocardz.com and originate from Chiphell.com, and these show 6+8-pin PCIe power configuration so some might stick with that as w... |
Earlier today, Nordicshardware.com broke the news that the upcoming Geforce RTX Series will be available for pre-order as early as Monday, with plenty of custom graphics cards following shortly, at least judging from the amount of leaked custom graphics cards. |
Nordichardware confirmed this with a couple of retailers/e-tailers and that these could be priced between 7000 and 8000 Swedish Kronor, similar to the current GTX 1080/GTX 1080 Ti lineup. |
Pre-orders could be limited to Nvidia Geforce Founders Edition graphics cards but custom versions should not be too far behind. |
Nvidia already announced that it will host its Geforce Gaming Celebration event at Gamescom 2018 on Monday, August 20th, promising it to be full of surprises. |
It managed to keep the details, including the naming scheme, hidden for quite a long time, and specification details, pricing, as well as details on the rest of the lineup, are still unknown. |
A case in Lawrence Municipal Court against Kansas University basketball player Brandon Rush has been continued to April 11 – after the basketball season is over. |
Rush, a junior, was supposed to appear in court this morning on charges of failing to appear in court on two other occasions for traffic violations. |
Instead, Rush’s appearance in court this morning was entered by his attorney David Brown, according to the city prosecutor’s office. His case was rescheduled before Judge Randy McGrath for 7 a.m., April 11. |
The NCAA men’s basketball championship will be played April 7 in San Antonio. |
Rush was arrested last week on two warrants for failure to appear. McGrath ordered him to be transported to the Douglas County Jail where he posted $500 bond and was released. |
Rush had been cited on Oct. 19 for speeding and in December 2006 for driving on the left of a roadway and not having proof of insurance. |
Alcohol: The Key to Good Health? |
Today I want to comment on a news piece from the New York Post about Dr. Malcolm Lloyd, a physician who seems to be recommending daily alcohol consumption as a preventative for a variety of ailments from the common cold to Alzheimer's and certain cancers. He also seems to be indicating that people who drink regula... |
I know that there have been numerous publications exploring the correlation between alcohol consumption and heart health. For example, we all know that a chemical compound found in wine called resvesterol, is a potent antioxidant that has been shown to complement the stability of a healthy heart. |
However, there have been many other studies that have clearly demonstrated increased cancer rates a• especially breast cancer a• in women who consume moderate amounts of alcohol. |
Now trust me, I am not, by a long shot, a person who doesn't enjoy a good drink once in a while. And I do acknowledge that there are cultures in various parts of the world where alcohol is an integral part of the local cuisine. However, these are also the cultures where healthy servings of vital nutrients, vegetab... |
But here in the U.S., we are a "fast-food nation." For the last 3-5 years, we've been hearing about how the obesity rate has reached epidemic proportions - affecting both adults and our children. |
Americans also deal with high rates of depression - another disease that when coupled with the effects of alcohol can have disastrous results. |
We also have to remember that alcohol has addictive properties that for some folks can completely ruin the chances of future health and longevity. |
I know that everyone is looking for an excuse to justify their daily cocktail, but I find it irresponsible for one physician to give us a free pass to drink myself to "an everlasting life." |
David R. Williams received his BS from Denison University in 1975, his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1979 under the mentorship of Donald I.A. MacLeod and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill in 1980 with John Krauskopf. He is currently William G. Allyn Professor of... |
Dr. Williams' research marshals optical technology to address questions about the fundamental limits of spatial and color vision. His research team demonstrated the first adaptive optics system for the eye, showing that vision can be improved beyond that provided by conventional spectacles. His team also showed that ad... |
After seven rounds, the FCC's latest 5G wireless spectrum auction (auction 102) has drawn bids totaling $429,753,635. After day one of the auction March 14, the total was $304,359,080, so that translates to $125 million more bid in less than two additional days of bidding. |
New York continued to draw the highest bid--$7,391,000--with the round-eight bid starting at $8,131,000. |
Auction 102 is a two-phased auction, beginning with a so-called clock auction, in which the FCC ticks up the price after each round until there are no more bids. Bidding is on generic blocks, with a follow-on auction to determine the specific frequencies, as there was with the FCC broadcast incentive auction. |
There are 2,909 licenses up for auction in the 24 GHz (millimeter wave) band. |
The initial license periods are not to exceed 10 years. There are also build-out requirements—so the spectrum can't be warehoused but must be used as advertised. There are also bidding credits for rural service, small businesses and tribal lands. |
It could have been the discovery of the century: a 30-foot-long body of a monster on the bottom of Loch Ness, spotted by a scientific survey. |
But Nessie hunters have been left disappointed this time, after the remains were identified as a long-lost 1970s film prop. |
The 30ft model is thought to have sunk after the shooting of The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, starring Sir Christopher Lee and directed by Hollywood great Billy Wilder. |
It was found on the loch bed during the latest survey of the 755ft (230m) deep stretch of water. |
A marine robot named Munin is being used to explore areas that have not been reached before. |
A spokesman for VisitScotland, which is supporting the project, said: "Operation Groundtruth has uncovered a recognisable creature. |
"Although it is the shape of Nessie, it is not the remains of the monster that has mystified the world for 80 years, but a star of the silver screen." |
Discoveries already made in Loch Ness include a crashed Second World War bomber, a 100-year-old fishing vessel and parts of John Cobb's speed record attempt craft Crusader, which crashed at more than 200mph in 1952. |
In a further blow to monster hunters, early survey findings have revealed that claims made earlier this year about a "Nessie trench" in the northern basin of the loch are incorrect. |
More precise underwater evidence shows there is no anomaly or abyss at the location. |
Loch Ness has been notoriously difficult to survey in the past due to its depth and steeply sloping side walls. |
Munin can map vast areas to depths of 4,921ft (1,500m) and has been used in the past to search for downed aircraft and sunken vessels. |
Loch Ness project leader Adrian Shine said: "Because Munin can dive and navigate itself safely at great depth, it can approach features of interest and image them at extremely high resolution. |
"We already have superb images of the hitherto difficult side wall topography and look forward to discovering artefacts symbolic of the human history of the area." |
VisitScotland chief executive Malcolm Roughead said: "We are excited to see the findings from this in-depth survey by Kongsberg, but no matter how state-of-the-art the equipment is, and no matter what it reveals, there will always be a sense of mystery and the unknown around what really lies beneath Loch Ness." |
Has Loch Ness Monster moved to the Thames? |
High-volume builder Hayden Homes has its eye on a prominent property near the corner of Reed Market Road and 15th Street in southeast Bend. |
The land is zoned for residential use and could hold as many as 92 units of single-family or multifamily housing, said Karen Swenson, senior planner with the Community Development Department. |
At a recent pre-application meeting with city planners, Hayden discussed two development concepts: one with 83 single-family lots, the other with 51 single-family lots and 41 units in a multifamily building or buildings, according to city documents. |
Hayden isn’t the first developer to look at the Luderman property, but the company’s plan is more straightforward than the last concept presented by a potential buyer, Swenson said. |
The Luderman property was listed on Loopnet for $4.5 million. The listing notes that the land was one of the last large development opportunities inside the Bend city limits, prior to the urban-growth boundary expansion, and it’s near the Larkspur Community Center, home of the Bend Senior Center and a future pool and f... |
While Luderman Landing wouldn’t be the largest subdivision Hayden has started during Bend’s real estate recovery, it is significant for southeast Bend because of its proximity to the roundabout at Reed Market and 15th and commercial property at that corner. “The traffic feasibility study for ingress and egress is going... |
When freight trains cross Reed Market on tracks just west of the Luderman property, traffic backs up all the way to Pettigrew Road, Dorofi said. So the first question area residents will have is how residents of a new neighborhood would access Reed Market, he said. The city would limit the entrance and exit on Reed Mar... |
Hayden, which mainly builds single-family housing, would have to file a master plan that includes open space in the form of parks, pavilions or bike and pedestrian paths, if the company were to pursue the multifamily building concept, Swenson said. |
Hayden has planned five new subdivisions in Bend since 2010, Wooderson said. Several of Hayden’s projects are on the east side of Bend, including Leehaven off Neff Road, Butler Crossing at 1500 Butler Market Road and Pettigrew Place, northeast of Reed Market Road. |
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been blatant in its support of rightwing forces, including the Haitian police, and has been systematic in carrying out human rights abuses against the poor people of Haiti, supporters of Aristide and his Lavalas party, writes Ben Terrell. |
As Kofi Annan moves on to life after the UN, it’s important to look at the less-discussed ‘regime change’ which the Bush administration engineered with Annan’s help. The outgoing secretary-general’s supporters argue he did what he could to register disapproval of the Iraq invasion, but in the case of Haiti, he actually... |
MINUSTAH, the UN mission to Haiti, was put in place to support the illegal post-coup regime which ousted the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. Countries participating in the UN’s Haiti mission, whose mandate is currently up for renewal, curried favour with Washingto... |
Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and a former UN human rights observer in Haiti, points out that ‘until 2004, the UN, for good reasons, only deployed peacekeepers where there was a peace agreement to enforce. Only in Haiti has the Security Council deployed blue helmets to en... |
Since February 2004, thousands of non-violent activists and other civilians have been killed, arrested, tortured and exiled by the post-coup regime, which the UN mission in effect was set up to support. This essential fact rarely appears in media analysis of Haiti, so few in the US understand why some have taken up arm... |
I witnessed a 24 August UN operation in Simon Pele (a community bordering the sprawling seaside shantytown Cite Soleil) which was stunning in its disregard of the dangers of using heavy calibre weapons in a densely populated area. Such operations had been carried out in Simon Pele throughout August in a UN campaign to ... |
One of those shots killed a young man whose mother I spoke to four days later. Adacia Samedy told me how her son Wildert was fixing a radio on the roof of their family home when UN snipers shot him in the operation. Ms. Samedy told me, ‘My message to the UN is: Thank you for killing my son. I don’t see the sense in the... |
Another family, that of wheelchair-bound civilian William Mercy, told me they were similarly ignored by the UN after a raid on their section of the Bel Air neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince. Brazilian UN troops swept through the alley outside their home in June 2005 and shot the top of Mercy’s head off, later killing sev... |
I interviewed an older gentleman who was moving his family out of the area, which he told me holds nothing but misery for local youth. I asked him about armed groups the UN claimed it was fighting. He said, ‘I can’t say anything about that,’ but that many people had been shot and killed by the UN in the neighbourhood. ... |
Near the bullet-riddled dwelling from which he was pulling out furniture was a church pockmarked by gunfire from UN forces. A Haitian journalist told me the UN claimed there were armed gang members in the church, but that, given the seriousness with which residents feel about Catholicism, no armed combatants would use ... |
Most poor adults in Haiti have strong memories of death squad terror during the first anti-Aristide coup in 1991–1994, which killed around 5,000 people. That history was frequently referred to as a ‘Solidarity Encounter With the Haitian People’ which Lavalas activists staged in Port-au-Prince in August 2006. The confer... |
Haitian revolutionary leader Touissant L’Overture once wrote that any effort by plantation owners to reimpose slavery ‘would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it’. |
Rene Civil, a Lavalas leader who spent much of the coup period in exile, struck a similar chord at the solidarity encounter, when he said: ‘The people of Haiti, who believe in freedom, who have tasted freedom, will never accept this criminal, slaving system.’ Civil also denounced the global system ‘which causes economi... |
Rene Civil was arrested shortly after I saw him speak at the conference, on charges Brian Concannon describes as ‘dubious’. Initially claiming that Civil was just being brought in for routine questioning, the authorities have moved the activist to Port-au-Prince’s downtown penitentiary. Dissidents in Haiti both fear fo... |
Eyewitness reports said a wave of indiscriminate gunfire from heavy weapons began about 5 a.m. and continued for much of the day. Referring to UN soldiers and Haitian police, Cite Soleil resident Rose Martel told Reuters, ‘They came here to terrorise the population. I don’t think they really killed any bandits, unless ... |
The 22 December operation was partly in response to a sustained campaign of rightwing pressure which blamed alleged gang leaders in Cite Soleil for kidnappings in Haiti. But Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, coordinator of the September 30 Foundation, an organisation which supports victims of the first and second coups against ... |
But a year later, the police, the judiciary, and other ministries in Preval’s government remain controlled by coup figures, and major media are run by rightwing elites. Though Preval helped achieve the release of prominent political prisoners such as Annetee Auguste (‘So Anne’), Yvon Neptune, and others, hundreds of po... |
But UN representatives seem disinterested in anti-Lavalas violence. A study published on 30 August 2006 in the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’ concluded that in the 22 months after Aristide’s removal there were 8,000 murders and 35,000 sexual assaults in the greater Port-au-Prince area alone. More than 50 per ... |
In early January, Brazilian Major General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos became the fourth commander of the UN force in Haiti (consisting of 8,360 total uniformed personnel, as of 30 November 2006). Dos Santos said, ‘We are going to work in the same way as we have worked before. Nothing has changed about our mission or our ... |
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine and other activists point to the unabated UN killings of civilians in their campaign against a renewal of the MINUSTAH mandate. |
Ben Terrell is a San Francisco-based writer who has visited Haiti four times since the 2004 coup which drove the democratically-elected Aristide government from office. |
(AP) — Soaring over Jupiter’s poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system’s largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops. |
The final leg of the five-year voyage ended Monday when the solar-powered Juno spacecraft fired its main rocket engine and gracefully slipped into orbit around Jupiter. |
Mission controllers celebrated when Juno sent back radio signals confirming it reached its destination. |
“We’re there. We’re in orbit. We conquered Jupiter,” Juno chief scientist Scott Bolton said during a post-mission briefing. |
In the weeks leading up to the encounter, Juno snapped pictures of the giant planet and its four inner moons dancing around it. Scientists were surprised to see Jupiter’s second-largest moon, Callisto, appearing dimmer than expected. |
The spacecraft’s camera and other instruments were switched off for arrival, so there weren’t any pictures at that key moment. Scientists have promised close-up views of the planet when Juno skims the cloud tops during the 20-month, $1.1 billion mission managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
How much water exists? Is there a solid core? Why are Jupiter’s southern and northern lights the brightest in the solar system? |
Juno braved a hostile radiation environment to reach Jupiter. Engineers prepared by housing the spacecraft’s computer and electronics in a titanium vault. Even so, Juno is expected to get blasted with radiation equal to more than 100 million dental X-rays during the mission. |
Headlines for August 17, 2016 | Democracy Now! |
Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has used a base in western Iran to carry out airstrikes in Syria. The ministry reported the strikes hit targets in Aleppo, Idlib and Deir ez-Zor provinces. The strikes are the first Russia has carried out from a third country since it began its military intervention in Syria’s civil wa... |
We’ll have more on Syria after headlines with Dr. Zaher Sahloul, the founder of the American Relief Coalition for Syria. |
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