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Clarke brings energy in the paint and is one of the top shot-blockers in the country. Hachimura (20.1 ppg, 6.6 rbg) is a flashy offensive player who was recently named a finalist for the Naismith Award. The Knights can be vulnerable on the boards and must come up with a solution to Gonzaga's 1-2 punch. |
Fairleigh Dickinson can't lose its own identity just because it faces a national powerhouse. |
The Knights are one of the most efficient teams from beyond the arc and will need those shots to fall again. They rank fifth in Division I by making 40.4 percent from deep, and capitalized on that in the First Four. Senior Darnell Edge knocked down 7-of-9 treys and led all scorers with 33 points. |
The bad news for Fairleigh Dickinson? Gonzaga leads the nation in field goal percentage (53.2), scoring offense (88.8) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.76). |
The good news? The Knights don't have to look very far to find the winning formula. |
The Zags were shut down in the WCC final and held to a season-low 47 points in a loss to St. Mary's. The Gaels slowed down the game and forced Gonzaga into contested 3's instead of easy transition shots. |
Fairleigh Dickinson got away with 17 turnovers in the last round, but may not have that luxury again. |
In a stunning reversal of its previous decision in favor of PHH Corp., the full Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Wednesday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutionally structured. |
The fight over leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is far from over as, once again, the case heads to court. While Trump has won every battle in the courts so far, English continues to fight back. Just two days after a judge sided with Acting Director Mulvaney, English filed another appeal to the U.S... |
For the third time in the last few weeks, MERSCORP Holdings secured a victory in a Federal Court of Appeals, which upheld MERS’ mortgage assignment rights. This time, a Pennsylvania county recorder sued MERS, arguing that MERS owed the county million of dollars in unpaid recording fees stemming from the transfer of pro... |
Just days after the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a legal victory to MERSCORP Holdings, which saw its mortgage assignment authority challenged in Kentucky, MERS secured another win from the same court. |
A ruling handed down by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals hands another legal victory to MERSCORP Holdings, which again saw its authority challenged, this time in the state of Kentucky. |
In the wake of recent geopolitical events, a key construct for this year’s annual meeting was democracy and civil society. |
Amidst 3,000 most influential leaders from all walks of life, there were also 50 “Global Shapers” at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos this year. I was one of them and found Davos as invigorating and meaningful as I had imagined. The start itself was exciting; after two days of brainstorming on the... |
But things settled down; the theme of the 47th Annual Meeting was “Responsive and Responsible Leadership”. It explored some of the most pertinent questions facing business and society today, including, but not limited to, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its impact on globalisation, job creation, democracy, ethics ... |
My days usually began at six am, when it was still pitch-dark and -22 degrees outside. On the second day, I missed the shuttle transfer to the congress center and ran five kilometers, in slippery snow, to make it to a breakfast with Christine Lagarde in time. There were 10 of us in the room; Lagarde was keen to hear ou... |
It is my belief that diversity in all shapes and forms — gender, age, origin, opinion, culture, conviction — is an asset to problem-solving. One of the key challenges for the technology sector is designing products and services that help societies embrace the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution equitably. With... |
I was also part of a working group on last-mile internet connectivity. It had representatives from corporates, start-ups, governments and international organisations. We resolved to scheduling a call every month to share our concerns and outline further steps. There are some who criticise Davos for being removed from g... |
In the wake of recent geopolitical events, a key construct for this year’s annual meeting was democracy and civil society — in that context, it was energising to see the importance placed on India’s role in shaping the global discourse. Even in the context of economics, despite India’s poor ranking in the World Bank’s ... |
American cans: They're over-red, over-syrupy, and they're over here. But, which one is the Real Thing? |
The classic taste of America is appearing in Kiwi vending machines – but is it The Real Thing? |
American Coca-Cola is being parallel-imported and has appeared in one company's Auckland machines, and in several dairies. |
Vendors turned to the cheaper American version after New Zealand Coke prices went through the $2 a can barrier, without GST. But to the seasoned Coke drinker, the difference in taste is obvious. |
New Zealand Coke is made with sugar while the American drink has used high-fructose corn syrup since the 1980s, producing a syrupy flavour. |
According to the cans, the American version has fewer calories than its Kiwi cousin – 140 a can compared to 153, but more salt – 45mg compared to 36mg. |
In an entirely unscientific Sunday Star-Times taste test, six out of six people preferred the New Zealand version, calling it "stronger" with "finer bubbles", and describing the taste as "richer". |
The US version was described as "sickly sweet"and "generic". |
High fructose corn syrup is widely used in America but has been linked to obesity, diabetes, liver and heart disease. One study also found elevated levels of mercury in the syrup, which is made when "enzymatic processing" converts the corn's glucose into fructose. |
Auckland vending machine company Provender has stocked American Coke in some of its machines. |
Industry insiders say the change came about when Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand raised the price per can from about 90c in December to $1.20 early in the year and then to $2.05 plus GST. |
A wholesaler for the American Coke, who asked not to be identified, confirmed it was being imported by "a bloke in South Auckland", whom he declined to name. |
A Coca-Cola Amatil spokeswoman said parallel importing was legal. |
"While we would prefer that suppliers purchased New Zealand products, we can't control how an individual or company chooses to source product." |
She said machines maintained by the company would stock New Zealand Coke, and the ones stocking the American product would probably be confectionary machines that also dispensed drinks. |
The spokeswoman recommended buyers check for NZ-made labelling. |
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Céline Dion Is Pregnant – with Twins! |
Céline Dion’s dream to expand her family has come true. |
The singer, 42, is pregnant with twins after undergoing her sixth in-vitro fertilization attempt and turning to acupuncture to improve her chances of a pregnancy, her rep Kim Jakwerth confirms. |
Dion, mom to 9-year-old son René-Charles, is 14 weeks along. She will find out the gender of the twins next month. |
Michael Jackson struck a deal with CBS to be paid in effect an additional $1 million for both an entertainment special to be broadcast on Friday and his interview on ''60 Minutes'' this past Sunday, part of yearlong negotiations between CBS and Mr. Jackson, a business partner of his said on Tuesday. |
But Mr. Jackson's business associate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the ''60 Minutes'' interview was part of what was originally a $5 million deal to put on an entertainment special for CBS during a sweeps period and that CBS had already advanced the singer $1.5 million of that fee. |
CBS postponed the special, which was incomplete, after the authorities issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Jackson on multiple counts of child molesting. But the Jackson associate said that in renewed negotiations, CBS agreed to pay another $1 million to the star to grant the interview so that the network could finally br... |
It was unclear how much Mr. Jackson will ultimately earn from the programs. |
The associate said the talks had involved lawyers for both sides; the CBS president, Leslie Moonves; and Mr. Jackson's new advisers, Mark Geragos, a lawyer, and Leonard Muhammad, a senior official in the Nation of Islam, the black separatist group that other associates of Mr. Jackson say has become involved in his affa... |
The Jackson associate said he was speaking to the news media because he had not been paid his commission for negotiating the deal and had been denied access to Mr. Jackson since the arrival of Mr. Muhammad. |
Mr. Moonves was on vacation and unavailable for comment, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. |
Mr. Moonves is responsible for the news and entertainment divisions at CBS. The line between such divisions has become increasingly blurred at all the networks in recent years. CBS, which is owned by Viacom, was embarrassed in June when news reports said the network had hinted at possibly publishing a book and putting ... |
ABC ultimately won that interview. But ABC, along with Fox, has also paid millions of dollars for interviews or specials with Mr. Jackson, programs that straddle the line between news and entertainment. Fox has put on two Jackson specials this year, paying the star $5 million for each of those specials, according to tw... |
The interviews and specials are major sources of income for the singer, bringing in millions when the show is shown domestically and millions more when they are sold abroad. |
A journalist who participated in the making of a Fox special said all access to Mr. Jackson was commonly negotiated for money. ''He's a business, so everything he does is run like a corporation,'' said the journalist, Ian Drew, a reporter for US Weekly. ''The things he does always come back to some business deal.'' Mr.... |
CBS got high ratings when it broadcast a Michael Jackson special in November 2001 and had an option to show another special, a CBS spokesman said. According to the Jackson associate, the CBS senior vice president of specials, Jack Sussman, then negotiated a new special for $5 million and advanced the star $1.5 million. |
A CBS executive involved in the negotiations confirmed that he had negotiated a new entertainment special but said only about $1 million was advanced. |
Both CBS and the Jackson business associate said that Mr. Jackson had failed to record the show, effectively rendering the $5 million deal moot. CBS tried to recoup some of the money it had advanced by offering another $1 million in exchange for an interview by the correspondent Ed Bradley of ''60 Minutes'' last Februa... |
But when Mr. Bradley arrived at Mr. Jackson's home, the Neverland Ranch, Mr. Jackson refused to do the interview until he got the payment, said the business associate, who said he was present, along with Mr. Sussman and lawyers for both sides. |
''Michael was in his room,'' the associate said. ''Ed Bradley had set up. Basically Michael wanted to see the rest of the money. Bradley kept saying, 'Don't worry, we'll take care of it.' Michael said he wouldn't do the interview unless they paid. It came to a stalemate. But they didn't want to put anything in writing.... |
After two days of waiting, Mr. Bradley left without the interview. |
A CBS executive also said that Mr. Jackson had canceled the interview because he had wanted money for it and that CBS would not pay it. |
Plans were reinstated for the entertainment special instead, and work on a music video in Las Vegas was nearly complete when police descended on Neverland Ranch at the end of November, and CBS postponed the show. Mr. Jackson was eventually charged with seven counts of child molesting involving a boy who was an overnigh... |
The latest round of negotiations resulted in an agreement to do the aborted interview with Mr. Bradley, an airing of the special without the still-incomplete music video and another $1 million to Mr. Jackson, according to the Jackson associate. |
The UK's privacy watchdog has warned that plans to create a 'super ID database' may lead to the creation of a national identity number for every Scot by default. |
In what critics claim is a devastating blow to SNP proposals, the head of the Information Commissioner's Office in Scotland has called for "suitable safeguards" to be put in place for the plan to give more than 100 public bodies the right to request access to an NHS database containing private information about individ... |
Under the proposals, access would be granted to the HMRC, which would use the information to help build up an accurate database of Scottish residents ahead of the devolution of powers over income tax to Holyrood. |
Other bodies that would be entitled to request access to records and update the database include the police, airports, Quality Meat Scotland and Scottish Canals. |
However, in a response to a consultation, Ken Macdonald, Assistant Commissioner for Scotland and Northern Ireland at the Information Commissioner's office, said the proposals could be in breach of European rules and he called for a Privacy Impact Assessment to be carried out. |
He went on to raise concerns that extending the database through the use of postcodes, which could be added without the consent of an individual, would be "a shift away from the current consensual model". |
"The ICO has concerns as to whether there is a sufficient public interest justification," Mr Macdonald said. |
"We do advocate against the creeping use of such unique identifiers to the extent that they could become the national identity number by default. |
"If we are to have a national identity number, this should be the subject of proper debate and be accompanied by suitable safeguards. It should not just happen by default." |
Critics of the plan said that the comments from Mr Macdonald were "a devastating blow" to the proposals. |
The Liberal Democrats, which strongly oppose the plan, are planning to force a vote over the issue in Holyrood tomorrow. |
The party's leader, Willie Rennie, said: "Their damning submission to the Scottish Government's consultation backs our calls for work to be undertaken immediately to assess the full risks of proposals to expand access to 120 public bodies and to create a unique reference number for each person. |
"Scottish Liberal Democrats will make clear in our debate this week that such significant proposals warrant full scrutiny by Parliament through primary legislation. It would be nothing short of an insult to generations of civil liberties campaigners if we allowed ourselves to sleepwalk towards a national identity numbe... |
The database which Ministers propose to open up includes people's names, addresses and dates of birth as well as information on services they use from various public bodies. |
Organisations which would be able to access records under the database include sportscotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Cairngorms National Park Authority. |
The Open Rights Group and the The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations have also strongly opposed the proposal to open up the database, warning against the possibility of personal data falling into the wrong hands, while concern has also been expressed about the cost of the project. |
Scottish Government sources insisted that no decision had yet been taken over whether to push ahead with the creation of the database, following the closure of a consultation last week. |
Advocates of the move believe changes will improve the quality of data held in the register, aiding academic research. Supporters say it will also help in tracing certain people, such as children who are missing within the education system and foreigners who receive NHS treatment in Scotland and leave the country with ... |
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "The consultation has now closed - we are considering the responses carefully and will respond in due course. Identification of Scottish taxpayers and administering the tax are matters for the UK Government and HMRC. |
"The NHS Central Register has existed since the 1950s, and is already used by local authorities and health boards under strictly controlled arrangements, to ensure they are dealing with the right individual and to prevent mistakes being made. |
"The Scottish Government is opposed to the introduction of ID cards." |
Fifth in the Ruth Galloway series opens with eighteen-month-old Kate answering the phone in that special way familiar to many parents. After that brief moment of levity, the mood turns somber, as Caz has called. Ruth and Carol, who always went by “Caz” back in their university days and still does, haven’t spoken in yea... |
A friend of theirs and seemly invincible with a great future, Dan Golding, has died in a fire. He was working at Pendle University, which happens to be one of the new startup universities that seem to be everywhere these days. Pendle University would be far removed from Cambridge and Harvard, which is what they all exp... |
The shock of his death is soon compounded by the arrival of a letter from Dan. Already upset, his written request to call him about his discovery of bones that could be of the legendary “Raven King” shakes her to the core. What he was afraid of, as he says in the letter, she does not know. Is it possible that that fear... |
Within days, she is contacted by the Department Chair at Pendleton University, Clayton Henry, and is invited up to Lancashire to examine the bones. Not only can Ruth and Kate have a summer holiday of sorts in Lancashire, she can examine the bones and see where DCI Harry Nelson grew up. Her friend, Cathbad is not only g... |
A Dying Fall: A Ruth Galloway Mystery is an intense and gripping read. While the main storyline briefly explained above is far more complicated there are several complicated secondary storylines are also present in the work. Characters continue to evolve, as do relationships and situations, and provide much of the seco... |
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Channing Tatum to Direct Gambit If It Ever Actually Happens? |
The long-gestating Gambit movie may be making one last desperate push toward production as Channing Tatum now wants to direct the movie himself. The X-Men spin-off centered on the fan-favorite, card-throwing Cajun has been caught in the ugly depths of development hell for years now. But Tatum's unwavering desire to get... |
According to a new report, Channing Tatum has parted ways with his management team at UTA and Management 360. Buried within that report is the news that he is now thinking about stepping into the director's chair, in addition to starring in the lead role, for Gambit. This comes after several different, big-name directo... |
There is a lot to consider with this news. For one, Channing Tatum would be making his directorial debut and that means Fox would be taking something of a pretty huge gamble as, even on the low end, Gambit would be an expensive movie to make. Early on, it was actually budget issues that were said to be getting in the w... |
But at this point, there may be few other options available. With the Disney merger of Fox closing in, many of the Marvel projects that Fox had been developing, including the Deadpool spin-off X-Force, have reportedly been shelved. Filmmakers would be understandably wary of joining a project of this scale with so much ... |
The report notes that there is still no start date and that the project is "still being worked on." As we previously reported, any projects that have already started filming by the time Disney takes over will be finished. Others that were in development will move forward at their discretion. Given that the plan is to f... |
Gambit to Shoot in Early 2019 Before Disney Takes Over Fox? |
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The perfect winter wardrobe is equal parts cozy, part warm, and stylish. Here, the hat, gloves, scarf, coat, sweater, and boot from J. Crew that will make your winter easier. |
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