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With world population growing to 10 billion by 2050 and a rapid increase in standards of living, the extraction of Earth's mineral resources to support those growing demands is not sustainable. |
The continuing use of these resources -- ranging from lithium, iron, and rare earth elements to copper, uranium, and gold, among many others -- must be carried out in a way that minimizes environmental impacts to ecosystems and impacts to human health while enhancing societal benefits. |
Environmental, economic and social impacts of mining in developing countries. |
This symposium is being sponsored by the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, and co-sponsored by the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy, both at Stanford University. |
Gannett is expected to generate revenues from the deal of $45-$55 million, Taboola Chief Executive Adam Singolda said. |
REUTERS - U.S.-Israeli firm Taboola, whose technology directs users to related content on the Internet, said on Wednesday it signed a three-year exclusive strategic partnership with USA Today publisher Gannett. |
Founded in 2007, Taboola developed a "content you may also like" widget. Usually at the bottom of web pages, it allows people to click to other articles or videos and lets publishers, marketing companies and agencies leverage Taboola to retain users on their site and monetize their traffic. |
Singolda said that Gannett's web pages will be personalized and other content it offers will be tailored to what users want, based on its own algorithms. |
For instance, those who prefer video will see more video links, while those clicking from Facebook may see links in the middle of the page rather than the bottom since Facebook users tend to glance at articles and go back, he noted. |
"The entire page will change and the type of content will be different," Singolda said. |
Taboola, which has deals with other media companies, has so far raised more than $157 million in private money and is estimated to have a value of more than $1 billion. It said 86 percent of the United States sees Taboola on a monthly basis. |
In May, China's Baidu made a multi-million dollar strategic investment in Taboola. |
Kobe Bryant missed a shot from the wing. Then another. Then one from the lane. Then another. Then one from just off the free-throw line. |
Then another. Then one from beyond the 3-point arc. Then another. |
Bryant’s misses climbed to 15 in a row, a sellout crowd groaned with ever-increasing intensity and the Lakers sank farther behind the injury-depleted New Orleans Hornets on Saturday afternoon at Staples Center. |
Somehow, some way, Bryant and the Lakers fought back. They erased a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and he sank the go-ahead 3-pointer with 20.2 seconds remaining in what turned out to be an 88-85 victory. |
Pau Gasol led the Lakers with 21 points and 11 rebounds, Andrew Bynum added 19 points and 10 rebounds and Ramon Sessions had 10 points and 10 assists. Bryant scored 11 points on 3-for-21 shooting, including a 1-for-8 mark from beyond the arc. |
It was agonizing, gut-wrenching stuff to watch as Bryant failed to sink a basket in the game’s first three quarters. |
Bryant eclipsed his previous streak of misses, which was 13 in a row Dec. 28, 2010, against the San Antonio Spurs. He also hadn’t been scoreless in three quarters of a game in which he played at least 20 minutes since March 28, 1998, against the Utah Jazz. |
How could he stick with it? How could he maintain his confidence? More to the point, how could he deliver with the game on the line? |
Bryant, in fact, displayed no hesitation in launching a 3-pointer from 25 feet with the Lakers trailing 85-83 after New Orleans guard Greivis Vasquez shanked a 3-point try from the corner with 37 seconds remaining. |
“If I would have missed that shot, everybody would have killed me,” Bryant said after shooting a career-low 14.3 percent. “It was a two-point game and we could have easily thrown the ball to Drew or Pau. |
“You have to have that kind of attitude, that kind of determination or stubbornness, and that’s what gets teams over the hump to win championships or multiple championships. To hell with criticism, to hell with what people may say. |
Bryant’s shooting recently has been a source of some concern for the Lakers. He went into Saturday’s game having made only 28 of 81 attempts in the past four games, leading many to wonder if fatigue was to blame. |
Bryant is averaging a league-leading 27.9 points on 42.1 percent shooting. |
“Fatigue might have had something to do with it, but I had good shots,” he said. |
Saturday marked the first game in a stretch of six in eight days for the Lakers, who return to Staples Center tonight to face the Golden State Warriors. So, there’s no rest in sight for Bryant and the Lakers, who play their next four games at home. |
The Hornets, who are 13-39 and in last place in the Western Conference standings, must have seemed like easy pickings for the third-place Lakers (32-20). The Hornets were without several injured or ill players, including Trevor Ariza and Chris Kaman. |
Jarrett Jack had 18 points and 10 assists for the Hornets. |
The Lakers raced to a 20-6 lead and threatened to turn the game into the runaway most in the crowd of 18,997 expected. The Lakers repeatedly picked apart the undersized and inexperienced Hornets for easy baskets. |
But the Lakers’ second unit stumbled in the closing minutes of the first quarter and the opening possessions of the second. New Orleans rallied smartly and was within 43-39 by halftime. The Hornets then did the unthinkable by surging ahead. |
Bryant kept missing, and the Hornets led by as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter before the Lakers rallied down the stretch. |
Bynum’s dunk got the Lakers within 85-82, then Bryant sank a free throw to make it 85-83 with 58.3 seconds left. |
Moments later, Bryant made everyone forget all his misses. Or so it seemed. |
November 27, 2013 1:03 PM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr. |
Almost two days after polls closed in Nov. 24 voting for Honduras’ next president, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) gave 774,757 votes to National Party presidential candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez and 623, 080 votes to Libre party candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. The two candidates had taken 34.08 percent and ... |
These elections were remarkable as the first in decades involving political parties other than the National and Liberal parties, each notable for serving Honduras’ wealthy and powerful elite. The voting served as the electoral début of the Liberty and Refoundation, or Libre, Party, offspring of the National Front for P... |
Honduras is notable currently for its 70 percent poverty rate, the world’s highest murder rate, free rein for drug traffickers and other criminal elements, deadly repression of agrarian rights activists, police corruption, a formidable U.S. military presence, and overflowing military and police power. Candidate Juan Or... |
Irregularities were not lacking this time. Unidentified assailants had killed a reported 18 Libre Party activists in the year prior to voting. On Election Day, gunmen killed five persons near a voting location in La Mosquitia in violence-ridden Gracias a Dios department. In the hours before polls opened, Globo TV and R... |
Soldiers occupied not only Globo transmission facilities but also those of other news sources. According to one report, “This military occupation affects only the media that maintained a critical posture of the military coup of 2009 and the dictatorship that followed. These same transmitters were destroyed in 2009.” As... |
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon spoke on behalf of hundreds of other international observers on hand, saying they had sees problems “related to change of credentials, possible buying of favors, and mechanisms for forcing votes that we are going to point to in a report.” In 1998 Garzon sought the arrest of Chilean dictato... |
Speaking to the press early on Nov. 25, Manuel Zelaya affirmed, “We do not accept this result, we protest against this result and reject it, because our exit polls and our counts of certified votes confirm that Xiomara won the presidency by more than 3 percent.” Rixi Moncada, Libre Party representative to the TSE consu... |
Likewise Libre vice presidential candidate Enrique Reyna Tanto denounced “fraud against the popular will [carried out through] irregular transmission of results.” He accused election officials of manipulating the scanning procedure “in order to hide their number. ” At a later press conference, Zelaya asked, “How can th... |
Designated winner Hernandez, who declared electoral victory at an early stage of vote counting, indicated the National Party will not negotiate: “The people have chosen; now we get to work.” He has begun to form his cabinet. With the first announcement of’ election results, Hernandez received congratulation from right-... |
We just received a press release from MTV announcing that Britney Spears will be opening the 2008 VMAs, and that it is an opening not to be missed. However, it will not be a performance. (A sign that she's finally making some good decisions.) Brit is nominated for three awards this year, which brings her up to a total ... |
The Euro pared the overnight decline to 1.3078 even as the International Swaps & Derivatives Association said Greece's implementation of the Collective Action Clause would trigger a credit event, and short-term rebound in the exchange rate may provide as selling opportunity for FX traders as we expect the single curren... |
Indeed, market participants are now turning their attention to Portugal as the government continues to face high financing costs, but it seems as though more will need to be done in Greece as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that the EU should not rule out a third bailout package for the troubled econo... |
The British Pound slipped to a fresh monthly low of 1.5606 as market participants scaled back their appetite for risk, and the sterling may face additional headwinds during the week as the economic docket is expected to reinforce a weakened outlook for the U.K. As the GBPUSD fails to maintain the range-bound price acti... |
The greenback extended the advance from the previous week, with the Dow Jones- FXCM U.S. Dollar Index (Ticker: USDOLLAR) rallying to a fresh monthly high of 10,011, and the reserve currency should continue to retrace the decline from earlier this year as the fundamental outlook for the world's largest economy improves.... |
Rises for the first time since July. |
Falls back from the highest since February. |
Largest contraction since 1Q 2009. |
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley thought better of flattening Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers when the two teams squared off Sunday afternoon. |
He had Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers completely defenseless up in the air, ready to pound him into the ground, but he brought him gingerly back onto two feet. |
We're surprised and glad that he thought twice because it could have gotten ugly. If Fairley had gone through with it, it could have ended with a serious injury to Rodgers and a fine or suspension to Fairley. So it's probably for the best that he didn't carry through with the tackle. |
Delta Air Lines has just figured out a way to make flying slightly less annoying–or at least lessen the likelihood that you’ll end up with a stranger’s head in your lap. |
The Points Guy reports that the airline will limit how far passengers can lean back on some domestic flights. To make the knee-saving change, the airline will retrofit its fleet of 62 Airbus A320 jets starting on Saturday to reduce the coach seat recline from four inches to just two inches. |
It’s not just coach passengers that will have to cope with change: First-class seat recline will decrease from 5.5 inches to 3.5 inches. |
The airline claims it just wants to make flying more comfortable, but traveling skeptics will be forgiven for thinking this is a precursor to the airline shoving in more seats and further reducing legroom. According to The Points Guy, though, the airline has no plans to do so yet. |
Instead, it seems to have recognized that travelers on the shorter domestic flights are busy working on laptops or watching TV on their seat-back screens, two activities that are hampered by the person in front of you who suddenly slips into a full recline. It’s annoying when you’re catching up on old episodes of Adven... |
Anyway, well done, Delta. Our knees thank you, and hopefully other airlines will follow. Now to just get rid of people who order tomato juice with Biscoff cookies and expect us not to stare at them in horror. |
Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, revealed in a recent interview that his company, now valued at $25.5 billion, actually began as a roommate search site. |
Chesky sat down with Reid Hoffman during a class at Stanford University — video was uploaded to Medium by Chris McCann— and talked about Airbnb's origins. |
After college, cofounder Joe Gebbia convinced Chesky to leave his job and move to San Francisco to form a startup with him. He had $1,000 to his name, which was not enough to pay rent, but they had an idea. |
There was an international design conference coming to SF, and on the event page it showed all of the nearby hotels were completely sold out, Chesky explained. They had an idea that the designers coming to attend the conference needed a place to stay — they had no money — so what if they created a bed-and-breakfast for... |
They called their creation "air bed and breakfast" — the origins of the Airbnb name — and ended up roping in three people to stay on air mattresses. At that point, they realized that they might have a profitable idea on their hands. |
They brought on now cofounder and CTO Nathan Blecharczyk and focused on the core idea of "What if you could book someone's home just like you could book a hotel room, anywhere in the world?" But the trio wasn't thinking about it like a hotel just yet. |
In fact, they started building a different product — a roommate search tool, Chesky said. They worked on it for several weeks before checking the URL roommates.com and realizing somebody had already solved that problem. |
But the main disappointment for Chesky was going home and telling his parents what he did for a living. |
He didn't want to say he was unemployed, so he told them he was an entrepreneur, he said. That was when he learned that being an entrepreneur and being unemployed was just a difference in "mindset." |
He told them he was working on the "air bed and breakfast" idea, and after giving it some thought, he decided that they should go back to the drawing board and dothe idea. |
You can read notes from the full interview between the two here. |
November 15, 2017 This is not your regular music video – it's a six-minute, miniature epic inspired by "Pleader," the closing cut on alt-J's album Relaxer. |
August 31, 2017 The band performs a track from its latest album, Relaxer, live in the studio for KCRW. |
June 6, 2017 The trio joins host Bob Boilen to share some of the songs they love by other artists, including music from Radiohead, Metronomy and Death Grips. |
June 2, 2017 The band's sound is hard to pin down: It's somewhere between folk and electronica, the words sometimes poetry, sometimes prose. |
June 2, 2017 alt-J's new album, Relaxer, is thick with literary allusions and steeped in folk traditions. To get deeper into these inspirations and influences, the trio walks us through the album, song by song. |
May 30, 2017 Gus Unger-Hamilton and Joe Newman tell Ari Shapiro about their songwriting process, how alt-J put its spin on a classic folk song and how the band has progressed over the years. |
March 6, 2017 The rock band teams with Wolf Alice singer Ellie Worsell for a West African-inspired song of love. |
September 23, 2014 Hear songs from the Mercury Prize-winning British band's new album, This Is All Yours. |
September 2, 2014 Watch alt-J perform songs from its as-yet-unreleased new album, This Is All Yours in the band's first concert without departed bassist/guitarist Gwil Sainsbury. |
August 27, 2014 NPR Music and WFUV present the quirky, intoxicating English rock band alt-J live in concert on Sept. 2, performing songs from its new, unreleased album, This Is All Yours. |
June 18, 2014 The Mercury Prize-winning band will return in September with a new album, This Is All Yours. The first song from that album, "Hunger of the Pine," is as adventurous as ever. |
March 14, 2013 The Mercury Prize-winning band from Cambridge, England, capped NPR Music's SXSW showcase in Austin. Watch them dig deep into their one and only album, An Awesome Wave, in front of a packed house. |
PIKETON — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has postponed his visit to the southern Ohio home of a former Cold War-era uranium plant. |
Perry was slated Monday to visit the cleanup site of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon. In a statement, he said he had to be at a Cabinet meeting Monday in Washington but hoped to reschedule the visit. |
Ohio’s U.S. senators, Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown, have urged Perry to get a firsthand look at the cleanup work and its role in the region’s economy. |
Commissioners from four southern Ohio counties wrote to Perry asking for continued funding for the cleanup, which produces some of the best-paid jobs in an area with high unemployment. However, Piketon’s mayor expressed concerns about a possible onsite waste disposal facility. |
CAMPBELL — Police in Mahoning County say two people have been arrested after a body was discovered inside a freezer. |
The body was found in a home in Campbell on Saturday, but police believe it had been moved from Youngstown. |
Investigators believe the body is female. A coroner is working to identify the remains and determine a cause of death. |
A man and a woman were arrested over the weekend and are scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including abuse of a corpse. They are being held at the Mahoning County jail. |
The home where the body was found is not owned by either suspect. |
LOUDONVILLE — Authorities say a small plane crash-landed in a northern Ohio field, leaving the two men on board with minor injuries. |
Investigators say a father and son from Maine experienced engine trouble while flying Sunday evening and tried to land in a field near Loudonville. The two-seat aircraft skidded and flipped upside down in another field. |
The men were able to climb out of the aircraft and were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office said it wasn’t immediately sharing details about the pair. |
The Ashland Times-Gazette reports that the Federal Aviation Administration was expected to continue an investigation into the crash on Monday. |
MEDINA — The Ohio Highway Patrol says two men have died after their car swerved off the road and struck a utility pole and a tree. |
Police say the driver, 30-year-old Martin Davis of Lodi, and a passenger, 29-year-old Kevin Scholz of Redding, California, were both killed in the crash Sunday in Medina County. |
Investigators believe the car was speeding when it veered off the road. Police also believe alcohol was a factor in the crash. |
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