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WASHINGTON — President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s campaign against violent drug cartels, according to U.S. security officials. |
In Obama’s first major domestic security initiative, administration officials are expected to announce as early as this week a crackdown on the supply of weapons and cash moving from the United States into Mexico that helps sustain that country’s narco-traffickers, officials said. |
The announcement sets the stage for Mexico City visits by three Cabinet members, beginning Wednesday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and followed next week by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. |
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4. Will the Dolphins offensive line continue to be disjointed and a problem for the team? Well, without speaking to whether the individual matchups are better for the line this week -- they are -- it should be noted that Tennessee plays a 3-4 scheme on defense. And that relieves the pressure on the Dolphins guards in t... |
5. Third down conversions have been a point of emphasis for the Miami offense this week. It was a point of emphasis in the offseason and in the opener and before last’s week game against New Orleans. But the Dolphins are nonetheless the NFL’s worst team at converting third downs. They are ranked No. 32. So why? Well, p... |
(Los Angeles, CA, July 7, 2009) – Jennifer Betit Yen, of Cougar Kitten Films, has won a prestigious Award of Merit: Pilot Program from The Accolade Competition for her television pilot concept. |
July 9, 2009 - PRLog -- (Los Angeles, CA) – Jennifer Betit Yen, of Cougar Kitten Films, has won a prestigious Award of Merit: Pilot Program from The Accolade Competition. The award was given for Ms. Betit Yen’s television pilot concept La La Land, a modern-day Odd Couple, in which two opposites take on the wilds of Hol... |
The Accolade recognizes film, television and videography professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment or contribute to profound social change. Entries are judged by highly qualified professionals in the film and television industry. Informat... |
Hameed Al Husseinie College Colombo Group of 80’s has organized a Oxford Presidents Cup Inter School Invitation Football Tournament 2019 of which the Final will be held on 7th April 2019 at the Race Course Grounds, Colombo at 4.00 p.m. Thihariya Al Azhar Central College will confront Hameed Al Husseinie College Colombo... |
The Champion team will receive Oxford Presidents Trophy and Medals, and Runner up team will receive a Trophy and Medals. the third placed team will also receive a Trophy and Medals. |
President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be the chief guests. Ministers, Members of the Parliament, Provincial Councilors and sponsors will also grace the event. |
India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) reversed late Friday its order, announced earlier in the day, to restrict SMS (short message service) in the politically sensitive state of Jammu and Kashmir. |
The order, which was to come into effect at midnight on Friday, was opposed by the country's home ministry. "We have advised the DOT to withdraw the order," Onkar Kedia, spokesman for the home ministry said late Friday. |
The federal government may have changed its plan as it came under pressure from Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, according to media reports. Kedia declined to comment on why the home ministry had decided to advise the DOT to withdraw its plan. |
This is the second time that the federal government has modified its orders on the use of mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir, where it believes terrorists are misusing mobile services to plan attacks and incite violence among locals. |
In January, it revoked a ban that it imposed in October on the issue of new prepaid mobile phone connections, and the renewal of existing prepaid connections in Jammu and Kashmir. The federal government said in January it was revoking its earlier order, after introducing rules for stricter verification of users' identi... |
The order by the DOT earlier on Friday included a number of restrictions on the use of SMS in Jammu and Kashmir state, citing national security reasons. |
The DOT, for example, ordered mobile service providers providing services in Jammu and Kashmir not to deliver to mobile subscribers in the service area any SMS messages that originate outside the Jammu and Kashmir area, including from the networks of international long distance service providers. |
Separatist Kashmiri Muslim groups are demanding independence for the part of Kashmir currently under Indian control. The other part of Kashmir is controlled by Pakistan. |
It doesn't take long for the effects of extreme cold to set in. Here's how to be prepared. |
Communities across Wisconsin are being hit with near-record breaking cold temperatures this week. Wednesday will be the coldest day, when the high is forecast to be 12 degrees below zero. Simply put: It's going to be dangerously cold this week. |
Here are some tips for staying warm and avoiding injuries (like frostbite and hypothermia) from extremely cold weather. |
1. Limit the amount of time skin is exposed to cold. |
"At zero degrees, on average it takes 20 minutes for skin that has been exposed to suffer effects of the cold," said Marc de Moya, chief of trauma surgery at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin. The effects can be mild chafing and wind burn to skin turning white from lack of blood flow. |
Limit the amount of time you are outside, and cover up as much skin as you can. |
2. Be prepared. Keep a hat, gloves and a blanket in your car. |
"People leave their house and they go to their car in their garage without gloves or hat," de Moya said. "They may get in an accident and they don’t have the ability to protect themselves. That’s when people get into trouble." |
"Alcohol decreases your body's ability to create heat," said de Moya. Alcohol consumption also decreases your body's ability to feel the effects of the cold. |
4. Monitor the signs of frostbite and hypothermia. |
"If you notice your kids getting blue discoloration in the face, that means that blood is being shunted away from extremities to their core. That's a problem," de Moya said. "If you notice excessive shivering, that’s another obvious sign that your body temperature is dropping and your body is trying to make heat. And i... |
Signs of skin damage from cold start with mild chafing and red spots, then skin turns white from lack of blood flow. |
If someone is showing early signs of being cold, de Moya said to get them warm by placing them in a warm room, make sure their clothing is warm and dry, offer them a blanket and place them near a heater or fireplace. If they don't warm up within 30 minutes, go to the nearest emergency room. |
As you warm up, de Moya said, your skin should be turning red — a sign that blood flow is increasing. If your skin is still white and cold for 30 minutes after returning to warmth, you should go to the hospital. |
"When you have a lot of sweat on your skin or if you’re wet from the snow, that can accelerate the heat loss tremendously," de Moya said. |
If you're sweaty from shoveling, get into dry clothing quickly. Wearing moisture-wicking clothing can help, too. |
This means water, not beer (aka alcohol). Dehydration decreases your body's ability to stay warm. |
7. Check on your neighbors. |
"If you have neighbors who are older, and we’re going into this severely cold weather, it might be a good idea to check on them," de Moya said. Check to see if you can pick up groceries for an elderly neighbor or see if their heat is working. |
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Microsoft has seemingly admitted defeat in the digital assistant wars, with CEO Satya Nadella saying he does not want to compete with Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant. |
Rather than planning a Cortana-powered smart speaker or other device, Nadella has demoted Cortana, signaling that Microsoft wants to focus on bringing it to other platforms as a "skill". He believes users should be able to use Alexa or Google Assistant to call on the capabilities of Cortana through close integration. |
Apparently recognizing that Cortana-powered devices would face an uphill task of Sisyphean proportions to compete with other smart devices, Nadella said that offering the assistant on other platforms was probably the best move. |
He noted that Microsoft had to consider what would be the best move for Cortana: "We are very mindful of the categories we enter where we can do something unique. A good one is speakers. To me the challenge is, exactly what would we be able to do in that category that is going to be unique?" |
Would it be better off, for example, to make Cortana a valuable skill that someone who is using Alexa can call? Or should we try to compete with Alexa? We, quite frankly, decided that we would do the former. Because Cortana needs to be that skill for anyone who is a Microsoft Office 365 subscriber. |
Nadella seems happy to avoid getting involved in the creation of more hardware devices for Cortana, saying: "And you should also be able to use it on Google Assistant. You should be able to use it on Alexa, just like you use our apps on Android or iOS. So that's at least how we want to go". |
As the release date for Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII has been officially pushed to December 2017, there's plenty of time for new details to be added, and of course whispered all over the internet. The latest rumor suggests that Obi Wan Kenobi will be back to guide a new generation of Jedi, and he'll do so as ... |
Right out of the gate, the choice of Ewan McGregor to play the Force ghost of Obi Wan Kenobi is an interesting hypothetical decision. The biggest reason being that Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker never met the younger version of Obi Wan, but instead met Sir Alec Guinness' hermit "Ben" Kenobi. So to suggest that McGregor i... |
However, this strategy isn't unheard of, as another rumor pertaining to Star Wars: Episode VIII has hinted at Hayden Christensen coming back in some sort of capacity. Whether it's a flashback or a Force ghost is yet to be seen, but if Rian Johnson and his team are looking into bringing Christensen back into the Star Wa... |
The legends of the past have been resurfacing in the Star Wars universe, promising an all out conflict between the dark and light sides of the Force. If some familiar faces start to resurface with said history, Star Wars: Episode VIII could be a story focused on the cyclical nature of history, and how if we're not care... |
Lawrence Kasdan is an Obi-Wan-like figure in the “Star Wars” universe, having worked on the screenplays for “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi” and, later, “The Force Awakens.” So when Lucasfilm first began exploring the idea of a spinoff film centered on a young Han Solo, he was the first person they calle... |
With “Solo: A Star Wars Story” — directed by Ron Howard and starring Alden Ehrenreich as the rakish smuggler — now playing across the country, The Times sat down with the father-and-son team to talk about the enduring appeal of the Solo character, the project’s bumpy history, the surprising appearance of a once-dead vi... |
Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca in "Solo: A Star Wars Story." Jonathan Olley / Lucasfilm Ltd. |
When you were first approached about five years ago with the idea for this project, was there anything more to it at that point than “young Han Solo”? |
Lawrence: No, that was it. I was reluctant to do anything, but Han is my favorite character so I said, “Hmm.” But I was given total, complete free reign to do whatever I wanted to with Han. |
Back when you were working on “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” had you ever given much thought to what Han’s backstory might have been? |
Lawrence: No. To me, all character writing is you take a little DNA and you project what the rest of that person is, what shaped him. And the DNA of Han is in the cantina scene [in 1977’s “A New Hope”]. What excited me about Han starts right at that scene. He’s a full character who wanders into this movie and he’s all ... |
Jonathan: If you dig deep enough, George [Lucas] has given reams of discussion on every topic, and some of it is really interesting and cool — and some of it found its way into the movies that Larry wrote back in the ’80s in such elegant ways. “I won her from you fair and square” is just a great line that implies all t... |
Lawrence: Right. He’s not a baby, but he hasn’t been formed — and he’s going to continue to be formed right up until he falls off the bridge in “The Force Awakens.” [Director Akira] Kurosawa said the villains are completely formed; the heroes are evolving. And Han is a real hero. |
When Phil Lord and Chris Miller were initially announced as the directors of “Solo,” a lot of fans took that as a sign that this would be the first full-on “Star Wars” comedy, sort of a “21 Jump Street” in space. Was that ever actually on the table? |
Lawrence: I didn’t see it that way because they committed to our script. |
Jonathan: They didn’t see it that way either — and I think if they were in the room with us now they would adamantly say that was never their intention. That wasn’t the movie they were making. |
The reason we were excited about them, and the reason they were a great fit for this, is that they were both incredibly funny and they had this visual inventiveness that you see in “The Lego Movie.” The comic ideas in the images were so clear that it felt like a great marriage to us with this character. And what they d... |
A trailer for "Solo: A Star Wars Story." |
With everything that was reported about their replacement by Ron Howard, some fans will inevitably watch the movie and try to figure out who did what. |
Lawrence: [dryly] I can’t get that far. My brother used to say, “I’m going to tell you something, but it’s oversimplified and therefore false” — and that’s stuck with me my whole life. You understand why things are reported that way, but you don’t accept it as being the truth. |
At the end of this movie, Han shoots Beckett first, which a lot of fans will take as a nod to the fact that Han originally shot Greedo first in “A New Hope” before Lucas changed it in a later “special edition” re-release. How important was that moment to you? |
Lawrence: It’s very important for me. It’s one of the few things that I just wanted resolved. And Jon was with me 100%. Because it’s the way it was. |
Jonathan: It’s such an important thing about the character: This is a guy who lives in a world where you need to be able to do that. The thing about “Han shot first” speaks directly to the moral ambiguity element. We wanted to make a “Star Wars” movie that existed in a universe where Han could shoot first and where cha... |
Lawrence: Which is really the one that George created and had second thoughts about. |
Have you talked to Lucas about that? |
Lawrence: Well, he loves this movie. He saw it before the premiere, and he has really embraced it. |
Jonathan: On one of the first days we were in London when Ron had taken over, George came out to set. He was going to stop by and spend, like, 20 minutes, and he spent, like, four hours. He just loved being there with Ron shooting on the Millennium Falcon. You could see him finding some real pleasure in it again, which... |
The appearance of Darth Maul at the end surprised a lot of people who have only seen the “Star Wars” movies because he dies in the prequels. Until I googled it, I didn’t know he’d been brought back in “The Clone Wars” TV series. |
Jonathan: Larry was in the same boat. |
The thing I’ll say about it is that he’s a character that, like Darth Vader, worked on a primal level for people. He touches on something fundamental in our psyche, and in those three movies, he, to me, was the most powerful bit of psychological imagery. I think that’s why fans were drawn to him and why the canon was e... |
This movie definitely leaves some plot threads that could be explored in future sequels. Do you have ideas of where you’d like to see things go from here? |
Jonathan: We have thoughts definitely. We wanted to leave it as pregnant with dramatic possibility, and with people that you wanted to see, as it could be. For me, as fun as that Chewie entrance is, I think seeing Han and Chewie with Jabba [the Hutt] could have equal amounts of fun. I would go to that movie in a heartb... |
Lawrence: And it’s certainly not the debt that he owes Jabba in “A New Hope.” There’s ten years of business dealings. |
Jonathan: It’s going to be a long, complicated relationship between those two guys. And [Emilia Clarke’s] Qi’ra is not done in Han’s life. So yeah, we’d love to tell more stories there. |
Joe Bray-Ali is running for City Council in Los Angeles in CD1. |
The 2016 election taught us a lot about how voters think. |
For example, there were several times during the Trump campaign when analysts said that he'd gone too far — that things he'd said or did would turn voters off. |
But today, much to the surprise of those analysts, we call him "President Trump." |
Keeping that in mind, behold the curious case of Joe Bray-Ali, an LA City Council candidate who seemed to have the wind at his back until last week when his internet history came back to haunt him. |
But Bray-Ali was quick to respond to the controversy, flinging open his closet doors, and proceeding to toss his skeletons pell-mell in front of voters. |
Bray-Ali is set to face off against incumbent Gil Cedillo for his spot at the helm of District 1, which includes cities like Highland Park, Echo Park, and Mt. Washington. |
Cedillo is widely seen as the establishment politician, making Bray-Ali's venture into the race intriguing for many. The LA Times even endorsed him. But Bray-Ali would go on to lose that endorsement late last week. He now faces calls to drop out of the race. |
In the age of the "outsider" candidate, will voters look past Bray-Ali's faults? |
The short answer is probably not, says USC associate professor of political science Christian Grose. |
"I doubt it. It has raised his profile. It may raise his profile for other things beyond the City Council race, but for this specific City Council race I think it hurts him and helps Cedillo," Grose says. |
SpaceX also has the second mission for the Falcon Heavy scheduled for April, 2019. There should be a third Falcon Heavy mission a few months later. If NASA is serious about completing the Exploration Mission-1 in June 2020, then SpaceX could be the only option. The Space Launch System will not be ready for its first la... |
DC Comics has released the following new 5-page preview/teaser of Action Comics new creative team of writer And Diggle and artist Tony S. Daniel, debuting with April's issue #19. |
Lex Luthor is in jail and his battlesuit is back in action. But if he's not wearing it, who is? |
The military is shifting its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on Africa, put decision-making authority in the hands of commanders in the field, and expand the ability to use lethal force against suspected terrorists, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on F... |
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters that Mattis outlined the new rules of engagement during back-to-back briefings for Graham and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the panel. Graham added that he supported Mattis's plans, and that the secretary had pledged to work more closely with lawmakers to keep th... |
"The war is morphing," Graham said. "You're going to see more actions in Africa, not less; you're going to see more aggression by the United States toward our enemies, not less; you're going to have decisions being made not in the White House but out in the field." |
Graham said that other changes to the Pentagon's counterterrorism policy would include the adoption of a "status-based targeting" system for suspected terrorists, meaning troops will be able to use lethal force against a suspected member of a terrorist organization even if that person does not pose an immediate threat. |
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