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Seriously? The Verve wasn't available? What about Coldplay? We'd even take The Proclaimers over the Goo-Goo Dolls.
Did I hear Coach Lovie actually say "We're a good football team" in his post-game press conference? I wonder if he has any thought in his head when he says that. Does he think "Oh boy, I shouldn't say that again. I say that too much. Every year. Don't say 'Rex is our quarterback...don't say Rex is our quarterback..."
Wow, it's starting to be very apparent: If the Bears D-line plays well, the Bears win. Julius Peppers is a beast. Not a bad showing for the offensive line, either. They are run blockers.
If you pay him now, you will definitely have to pay top dollar. If he gets hurt in the next nine games, you will still have to pay him top dollar (unless it is career ending). One of the reasons for not paying him might be motivation. If he is seeking a contract, he will play better. But in this case, Forte might actually be seeking historic numbers. He's within reach of 2,000 yards. So money is less of a motivating factor. And frankly, the Bears organization is taking a black eye over this. Every week, it's a storyline. So for Angelo to continue to say "We don't want a contract distraction during the season" is kind of bogus.
Also, it's a bye week. You don't have to worry about distractions.
You know who I like? Chris Conte. Maybe it's the weird arm tattoo. But I like his style. He roughed up Kellen Winslow a bit after Winslow beat him for a touchdown. At first, it looked like Winslow was overreacting, but when you saw the replay, Conte just took a nice, petite cheap shot after the play was over. You like that in your safety.
Do you feel like Urlacher and Briggs are household characters? Fox seems to seek them out whenever they are together on the sideline or doing off-field antics. Are they the real face of the Chicago Bears? Whenever one of them makes a play, the other defenders go crazy congratulating them (especially Briggs after the interception). I ran into a NY Jets fan on Staten Island a few weeks back and he said to me, "Hey, Bears fan, eh? They are brutal. Love the defense though. Better pay Forte." So I guess that's sort of what this team is? Brutal, defensive and cheap?
So a week off. Then? Michael Vick and the Eagles. Yep, the playoff push begins. The Bears have the Eagles, Lions, Vikings, Packers, Seahawks and the AFC West left to play. Not bad.
She is Britain's richest women with a £7.4bn fortune, a £100m super yacht and the title of former Miss UK to her name. But that isn't enough for ambitious Kirsty Bertarelli.
The 41-year-old, who is listed as the UK's richest woman, is set to launch her own singing career too.
The wife of Swiss biotech magnate Ernesto Bertarelli has announced she will be releasing an album titled Love Is - a collection of songs inspired by her musings of 'real life'.
Each song is influenced by her jet-setting lifestyle with Ernesto, an America’s Cup-winning sailor.
Bertarelli is no stranger to the music world. She wrote the number one hit Black Coffee for girl band All Saints back in 2000.
She also wrote club track Hands High, which was a huge hit, playing endlessly on Radio 1’s Dance Anthems show.
She made her UK stage debut in July 2010 when she supported Mick Hucknall and Simply Red at Edinburgh Castle, where she added some glamour to the evening wearing a one-shoulder studded mini dress and matching boots.
And now, three years down the line as she gets set to launch her album, she is extremely confident that her music will touch fans on a personal level.
Speaking to The Independent, she said: 'I get inspired by life. My songs are all from real experiences and observations.
Born to a well-off family from the village of Stone in Staffordshire, she attended boarding school before pursuing a career as a model.
She was crowned Miss UK in 1988 and went on to take third place in the 1989 Miss World pageant.
The beauty queen eventually met her husband on the London party circuit and the pair married in Gstaad in 2000.
They now share their time between a plush home in London's Knightsbridge, Lake Geneva in Switzerland and setting sail on their yacht in the sunny Caribbean with their three children.
The beauty queen and her Swiss husband recently splashed out on the biggest motor yacht ever built in the UK.
The pair had the massive 96-metre, six-deck Vava II built to replace their existing 47-metre vessel at a cost of an incredible £100m.
The superyacht, the 33rd largest in the world, was built in Plymouth and boasts luxury interiors, a helicopter landing pad, lavish guest cabins and four boats to ferry passengers to shore.
And while she may be a part of the super privileged jet-setting pack, Kirsty maintains that she is still just a humble girl from Staffordshire deep down - and she wants her fans to know this.
Emergency services were called to the collision, between a car and a lorry at around 10.45pm, on the A421, westbound, just before the junction with the A6. Seven people required hospital treatment. Four have sustained serious injuries, and three had minor injuries.
Inspector Jamie Langwith, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Roads Policing Unit, said: “We are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed this collision, or who was travelling on A421 and saw a black Mercedes prior to the incident.
“We are also appealing for anyone with a dash camera who was driving on A421 at that time.
Anyone with information is asked to call Bedfordshire Police on 101, or visit the force’s online reporting centre and quote Operation Oakhurst. Alternatively you call contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
The United States has historically prided itself on its higher education system and has placed a strong emphasis on the value of a college degree. However, the benefits of a college education are reaped to lesser extents by low-income, racial minority, and/or first-generation college students. In their Century Foundation report entitled “Promoting Inclusion and Identity Safety to Support College Success” Northwestern University assistant professor Mesmin Destin and Indiana University associate professor Mary Murphy highlight the systemic challenges these students face during college, and offer a set of strategies college leaders and faculty can employ to ensure all students can thrive in college, regardless of their backgrounds. Here are their nine changes that colleges can make to foster students’ identity safety and success.
When students are first transitioning into their colleges or universities, Destin and Murphy recommend institutions have first-year experience programs in place that are both financially accessible to all students and continue into the school year. Constructing diverse groups—in line with intergroup contact theory—promotes the development of cross-group friendships as well as reduces out-group biases and prejudice.
First-year students often find adjusting to college more difficult because of pluralistic ignorance, which is the sense that everyone else around them is fitting in effortlessly. Letting students know that they aren’t alone in their discomfort is a central tenet of “Social Belonging Intervention,” which aims to normalize the struggles of transitioning into college and adapting to life on campus. Colleges that publicize transition themes and pull students together to confront them have closed achievement gaps by as much as 52 percent.
Students are sometimes not aware of work-study opportunities, loans, and grants that can help them meet unexpected costs. Publicizing these resources can help students feel comfortable capitalizing on them by taking work-study jobs, for example. At the same time, Destin and Murphy caution that institutions must be careful not to further stigmatize lower-income students, which work-study jobs such as working in the dining hall can do. Positions as research assistants or in offices such as alumni relations, admissions, or student centers provide students with valuable resources in addition to money, such as a network of connections and a knowledge of the inner workings of the college.
Rather than operate with “colorblind” institutional preferences (which can actually lead to increased racial bias by majority-group members and decreased engagement of minority-group members), colleges must work to acknowledge, accept, and celebrate multiculturalism by diversifying faculty, staff, and the student body; ingraining the value of diversity within missions and curricula; and valuing interdependence in the classroom and extracurricular activities.
Faculty members are “on the front lines” of identity safety for low-income, first-generation, and racial/ethnic minority students. To truly make classrooms safe spaces, professors must openly communicate their methods and expectations for evaluation so that poor grades are not perceived as prejudice and all students are equipped with the necessary tools to know how to succeed in a course. To go above and beyond, professors could collect course evaluations throughout a semester—rather than just at the end—to ensure the standards of evaluation are indeed being clarified and communicated in a transparent way.
As demonstrated by the Jigsaw Classroom, championing “team learning and cooperative interdependence” in classrooms has ultimately improved all students’ individual learning, motivation, and confidence; this approach has also fostered strong relationships between students of all different backgrounds. Projects in which students are forced to work with and be dependent on students who may be from underrepresented groups breaks down perceived differences and barriers, and in turn, reduces discrimination (contrasted by competitive classrooms).
Faculty members are often worried that giving constructive feedback to minority-group students can be perceived as the perpetuation of negatively stereotyping them as unintelligent or less able. These professors therefore shy away from providing feedback of substance—but in attempting to avoid conflict, they are doing a disservice to their students by failing to challenge them with feedback to conduct their best work. Destin and Murphy recommend the “Wise Feedback” method, which entails effectively communicating the meaning of constructive feedback as a learning opportunity, noting that they have the same high standards for all students, and telling the student that they are capable of meeting these high standards if they put in the work.
It is important that faculty communicate a belief in all students’ ability to succeed—otherwise known as a growth mindset. As Destin and Murphy lay out for us, “A fixed mindset holds that students’ abilities are stable and unchanging; students either “have” these good traits or they don’t.” This is starkly contrasted by a growth mindset, which maintains “that students’ abilities can be developed by identifying challenges, applying the right strategies, and persisting through difficulties.” The tools that a professor has at his or her disposal to communicate a growth mindset to their students include syllabi, lectures, teaching methods, and classroom policies. Fixed mindsets are negative for all students but particularly dangerous for underrepresented students as they imply that professors believe only certain students (read: privileged) have the innate capability to succeed, consequently fueling other students’ senses of identity threat.
Mobile Hacking: How Safe Is Your Smartphone?
New instances of phone hacking seem to emerge from Rupert Murdoch’s empire on a daily basis. But are the reports of interest beyond Murdoch and his detractors? Should you, as a consumer, fear that your phone will be hacked?
Not yet. Experts say that it’s still fairly easy to hack into your phone, but unless you’re a celebrity, you’re unlikely to be a target. Don’t get too comfortable, though. The era of safe mobile computing may be coming to an end as smartphones and other mobile devices become more popular than PCs.
For the moment, however, phone hacking is the farm team version of big league PC hacking. Methods — particularly in the case of the Murdoch charges which stretch back a decade in some cases — are pretty old school. Robert Siciliano, a McAfee consultant and identity theft expert, says probably the most prevalent way people hack phones is via “social engineering,” a.k.a. lying. For instance, a would-be hacker might call you and pose as the phone company saying they need to update your account and need your password. Or the hacker might get enough of your information to call the phone company and pose as you.
Steve Santorelli, director of global outreach at the Internet security research group Team Cymru, and former Scotland Yard police officer, says that the Murdoch phone hacks probably didn’t even take that much effort. It’s likely, he says, that the victims left a default password provided by the carrier on their phone and the hackers merely guessed correctly. Santorelli says that some carriers still use default passwords. Lesson: Change your passwords often.
Once an app is installed, it can record all your calls and texts and, depending on what kind of apps you have and what you do with your phone, possibly get personal data related to banking and credit cards. There are other possibilities as well. A hacker could commandeer your phone into sending thousands of texts or making calls beyond your monthly minutes, causing you to rack up huge bills.
Such attacks are still pretty rare.”The low hanging fruit is still the PC,” says Siciliano. “If you are a criminal hacker, Microsoft’s OS is the most hacked software on the planet.” Yet that could be changing quickly. A recent survey by Flurry showed that consumers are now spending more time on mobile apps than on the web. Another by Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers estimated that combined tablet and smartphone shipments eclipsed those of desktops and laptops this year for the first time.
Security firms have taken notice. Market research firm Infonetics predicts sales of mobile security software will grow 50% each year through 2014, when it will hit $2 billion. AT&T also plans to start selling a security offering to customers next year.
The video game maker reminded investors Pokemon GO wouldn't be the massive windfall some expect.
Image source: The Pokemon Company.
What: Shares of Nintendo Co., Ltd. (NASDAQOTH:NTDOY) were down 10.9% as of 12:45 p.m. EDT after the video game company revealed the success of Pokemon Go won't have a significant positive impact on its results.
So what: More specifically, in a press release issued Friday after the market close, Nintendo noted Niantic, a U.S.-based company that developed and distributes the game, has started distributing the Pokemon Go app in Japan. And the Pokemon Company, which is an affiliated company of Nintendo and holds ownership rights to Pokemon, will receive a licensing fee and compensation for its role in collaborating in the development and operations of the massively popular app.
However, Nintendo also pointed out it owns just 32% of the voting rights of The Pokemon Company, which is accounted for by using the equity method. "Because of this accounting scheme," Nintendo explained, "the income reflected on the Company's consolidated business results is limited."
Now what: That said, Nintendo did remind investors it will benefit from producing and distributing the Pokemon Go Plus peripheral device for use with the app. But the impact of that device is already accounted for in its current financial outlook. And despite the massive early success Pokemon Go has enjoyed, Nintendo has opted not to revise that outlook for the time being.
To be fair, keep in mind Nintendo stock is still up more than 60% over the past month thanks to optimism for Pokemon Go. And Nintendo has insisted it's only keeping its current forecast intact "for now," suggesting a possible increase could be forthcoming as Pokemon Go sustains its momentum as it launches in new regions. But considering that impact is almost certainly smaller than most investors have assumed, I can't blame them for taking at least some of their recent profits off the table.
2016 has not been a great year for Samsung, and it doesn’t look like it will be getting better anytime soon. The company just recalled 2.8 million of its top load washing machines, because the machines can basically fall apart during use.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on Friday. The agency explained, “The washing machine top can unexpectedly detach from the washing machine chassis during use, posing a risk of injury from impact.” That is, well, not good!
According to CNBC, Samsung has received “733 reports washing machines experiencing excessive vibration or the top detaching from the washing machine chassis.” There have been nine reported injuries so far, including a broken jaw and injured shoulder.
This isn’t the first time people have experienced problems with Samsung’s washing machines. Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit against Samsung was filed because people’s washing machines were apparently exploding.
Exploding? Hmm... doesn’t that ring a bell? Yes, it does! As I’m sure you remember Samsung recently issued a complete worldwide recall because its Note 7 phones were spontaneously bursting into flames. Samsung dragged its feet on the recall, first issuing replacement phones, but those caught on fire too.
The first option is a free in-home repair that includes reinforcement of the washer’s top. Consumers who choose the in-home repair will receive a free one-year extension of the manufacturer’s warranty, regardless of the age of their washer. The free in-home repair is not available for mid-control washers at this time.
If you own a Samsung washing machine, here’s where you can check to see if your unit is included in the recall. We’ve reached out to Samsung and will update this post if we hear back.
Yes, it’s true. Kendrick Lamar returns with his surprise release untitled unmastered., which went to digital retailers on Thursday night. The project, which follows his 2015 Grammy-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly, is comprised of eight untitled tracks recorded between 2013 and 2016.
TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith announced plans to drop something new from one of his artists this week. Some expected it would be music from ScHoolboy Q, SZA, or Ab-Soul, but instead, he decided to release something from TDE’s golden boy. Prior to this, fans including LeBron James tweeted Tiffith and urged him to release the untitled Kendrick tracks.
untitled unmastered. comes after Kendrick’s explosive Grammy performance last month, where he debuted one of the untitled tracks. He also performed another song on “The Tonight Show” in January and premiered another on Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” in 2014.
Download King Kendrick’s latest on iTunes and stream it below via Spotify.
DENVER (AP) — The Boston Red Sox have traded reliever Manny Delcarmen and cash to the Colorado Rockies for minor league pitcher Chris Balcom-Miller.
The Red Sox have faded in the AL playoff race while the Rockies headed into Tuesday night's game trying to stay close in the NL wild-card chase.
Delcarmen was 3-2 with a 4.70 ERA in 48 games for Boston this season. The right-hander has been especially tough on lefty hitters, holding them to a .165 batting average.
The 28-year-old Delcarmen has been a key member of the Red Sox bullpen for several years, and pitched in Boston's sweep of Colorado in the 2007 World Series.
Balcom-Miller is a 21-year-old righty. He went 6-7 with a 3.31 ERA in 19 starts at Single-A Asheville this season.
In Theatres Everywhere February 17th 2012 -- An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the valiant men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitment to country, team and their families back home. Each time they accomplish their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist to the deadly terror plot, which stretches from Chechnya to the Philippines and from Ukraine to Somalia. The widening operation sends the SEALs across the globe as they track the terrorist ring to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they engage in an epic firefight with an outcome that has potentially unimaginable consequences for the future of America.
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — John Kerry has broken Hillary Clinton’s marks for miles traveled and total flight time as secretary of state, the State Department indicated on its website Monday.
The latest trip also took Kerry’s log of flight time to more than 2,088 hours, or 87 days. Clinton amassed 2,084 hours, or 86.8 days, of travel.
Kerry, who was hobbled this year by a broken leg, still has a way to go to catch Clinton’s mark for countries visited. Having shuttled regularly between several favorite destinations — Paris, London, Geneva, Jerusalem, Amman — he has only been to 77. Clinton went to 112.
But barring unforeseen circumstances, Kerry almost surely will pass Condoleezza Rice’s record of 1.06 million miles in the air. His current travel rate has him doing so early next year.
The State Department updates its travel data for the secretary after each trip’s conclusion.
Subscribers report slowdowns, problems viewing pages in third system breakdown in a week.
Comcast on Thursday confirmed that its high-speed Internet service experienced another temporary outage Wednesday evening, marking the third system breakdown in a week.
Like the previous two incidents, affected Comcast users experienced slow Web page loading times or could not view pages at all. Comcast said the problems began on Wednesday evening at 5:30 p.m. PDT, and that network access was restored nearly five hours later.
"We're doing everything in our power," said Comcast spokeswoman Jeanne Russo. "We have a team of experts to quickly resolve this issue. We apologize to customers for any inconveniences they are experiencing."
Irate customers, however, vented their frustration about the outages on Comcast's user forums and other message boards.
"The worst thing is that Comcast has kept us in the dark for a week as to why the bills keep coming, but we have no Internet service at all," one CNET News.com reader wrote in an e-mail, referring to the three separate service outages over the past week.
Wednesday's downtime came after a similar three-hour outage on Tuesday and a six-hour blackout last Thursday. All involved issues with the cable giant's domain name servers, which translate and route Web page requests from users. Although Internet applications such as instant messaging could continue to operate, all Web site requests either did not respond or were sluggish.
A Comcast spokeswoman on Wednesday said Tuesday night's outage was first noticed about 6:30 p.m. PDT and service was restored about three hours later.
"We were able to identify the situation right away," Russo said. "We are working with the (hardware) vendor to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Russo on Wednesday said Tuesday night's outage was the result of an issue involving its domain name servers. She declined to identify Comcast's hardware vendor.
Michael Spoonauer, a software engineer and Comcast customer from Quincy, Mass., noticed the issue Tuesday evening when Web site requests continued to time out. He said Comcast's support representative told him the network was experiencing an unscheduled outage due to server maintenance.
Spoonauer bristled at Comcast for not informing its customers about the outage, and added that the company's Web site offered little information about why the service was down again.
"I would consider it to be corporately responsible to send a message to customers saying what happened, why it happened and what they're going to be doing to prevent it," he said. "It's not too much to ask from a company."
Comcast, the nation's largest broadband Internet access provider, reported 7 million subscribers at the end of 2004.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, on the eve of the final presidential debate, we take on Donald Trump's claims of a media conspiracy. Also: A tight race in Nevada as Democrats try to win back the Senate, a look at how voters are feeling about the economy, the looming humanitarian crisis in Iraq, a country that accepts refugees with open arms, and teaching politics during an unusual election.
Is the media fair to Donald Trump?
Some newcomers running for EVSC Board are confused by reasons civic leaders gave for sending a letter endorsing the three incumbents.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Some newcomers vying for a seat on the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. board are confused by reasons civic leaders gave for sending a letter endorsing the three incumbents in November’s election.
The letter was sent earlier this month to constituents soliciting campaign donations to re-elect current board president Rance Ossenberg, At-Large; vice president Chris Kiefer, District 1; and Andy Guarino, District 2.
Dated Sept. 14 and titled “Support Strong Schools!” the letter asks for donations in support of those three current board members.
“We are committed to helping them raise sufficient funds to run a competitive race against their challengers,” the letter reads.
Behind the effort are Bob Jones, Old National Bank; Linda White, the former CEO of Deaconess Hospital; former congressman and current Vectren executive Brad Ellsworth; USI trustee and insurance agent Harold Calloway; Brian D. Hancock of ONI Risk Partners; and Patrick Shoulders, an attorney who represents the school corporation and also serves as an IU trustee.
Ann Ennis, who is running for one of two District 2 seats on November’s ballot, said the letter with a “powerhouse of signatories” was odd.
Ennis learned of the letter from someone who was asked to sign it and from an acquaintance involved in local schools. After reading it, she said it was a “bizarre scenario,” and she found the language confusing.
“It's interesting that those who signed it seem to leave a hole in the school board as they endorsed three incumbents but leave the fourth open position empty,” Ennis said.