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Mr. Reagan is to arrive on the Indonesian island of Bali Tuesday for three days of talks that will include a meeting with Indonesia's President, Suharto, as well as discussions with the Foreign Ministers - Mochtar Kusumaatmadja of Indonesia, Ahmed Rithauddeen of Malaysia, Salvador H. Laurel of the Philippines, Siddhi S... |
1. The Browns haven't won two games in a row since 2014. |
2. The Browns haven't won a game on the road since 2015. |
Pluto says the mindset has shifted with General Manager John Dorsey. |
"He's been in the NFL for 26 years. Nineteen times his teams have made the playoffs. He's not used to all this losing. And he doesn't want his players like rookies Baker Mayfield and Nick Chubb to get used to it." |
The other interesting dynamic to Sunday's game is that the Browns will be facing former coach Hue Jackson. Days after his firing in Cleveland, Jackson was hired as a special assistant to Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. |
If Gregg Williams can lead the Browns to victory over Cincinnati, he may have a shot at making his interim title permanent. |
Meanwhile, the Browns have started their search for a new head coach with interim Gregg Williams at the helm. "If Gregg Williams goes in and beats Cincinnati and wins several more games, he's in the conversation," Pluto said. |
The View From Pluto: Is This Finally the Tipping Point for Hue Jackson? |
Frustrations are mounting within the Browns organization following this past Sunday’s overtime loss at Tampa Bay. After the game, coach Hue Jackson blasted the team’s performance, throwing blame on his offensive coordinator, Todd Haley. |
WKSU commentator Terry Pluto says it appears the game at Tampa was a tipping point for a team that keeps losing close games. |
Carl Icahn is richer than all the other billionaires advising Trump combined. |
Donald Trump offered a peek at the big changes in store for the economy on Wednesday with the selection of two controversial advisers on trade and federal regulations. The president-elect named billionaire investor Carl Icahn special adviser to the president on overhauling federal regulations. He also announced that he... |
Icahn, whose estimated worth is more than $21.6 billion, made a name for himself as a corporate raider in the ’80s, buying stakes in companies and pushing them to change direction. (“Through the miracle of public relations, he is now called a shareholder activist,” as The Wall Street Journal puts it.) Since his positio... |
Icahn Enterprises bought Trump Entertainment Resorts after it emerged from bankruptcy again in February, and Icahn was an early Trump supporter. He’s already been advising Trump on his picks for White House jobs, endorsing Steven Mnuchin to run the Treasury Department and Wilbur Ross for the Commerce Department. He rep... |
Activist fights are tightly controlled by the SEC. The agency issues rules that affect activists’ ability to do business and uses its enforcement arm to police their tactics. Activists and their corporate opponents regularly complain about the other side to the SEC. |
The successor to current SEC Chairman Mary Jo White could have to decide whether activists will be forced to disclose their stakes more quickly after acquiring them and whether those disclosures need to include derivatives such as some stock options. Business groups that argue activists put their own short-term gains a... |
Trump said on the campaign trail that “70 percent of regulations can go,” and Icahn has also argued that federal regulations are slowing the economy (though, as Politico notes, he’s in favor of some that benefit his business). |
Navarro, a Harvard-educated professor at the University of California, Irvine, became a top Trump campaign adviser, though he didn’t meet the president-elect in person until September. They began corresponding in 2011 after Trump publicly praised an analysis Navarro laid out in his books The Coming China Wars and Death... |
Tariffs are not the end game. Tariffs are a negotiating tool to get China to stop its massive cheating. If China wants access to the world’s largest market, it must play by the rules. Right now, China exploits the weakness of the White House as it continues to engage in its unfair trade practices. China will respect Do... |
Two sources who represent business interests in D.C. told CNN that incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus has said the Trump team is considering imposing a 5 percent tariff on imports. One source said they thought the idea would be dropped because it drew such fierce opposition from the business community a... |
Ouch! It’s is a very long time since Alnwick were on the wrong end of such a score-line and although there will be pain there should be no excuses or recriminations, because the truth is that on the day they were beaten by a very good, well-motivated and efficient Blliingham side operating at the top of their game. |
Billingham were still smarting from their narrow defeat by Vale of Lune the previous week and further helped by a vociferous home crowd and the familiarity with the wide synthetic pitch, Alnwick unfortunately caught the backlash. |
The morning’s heavy rain had eased to a calm, dull, greyness by the time Billingham got the game under way. Alnwick immediately found themselves under pressure as Billingham used the advantage from a knock-on to move the ball quickly. Billingham’s counter from an Alnwick clearance saw Alnwick penalised for not rolling ... |
Alnwick were unprepared for the speed and accuracy with which Billingham’s three-quarters then used the width of the pitch to move play wide to the left where full-back Husband was up in the line to run in and score behind the posts. Evans added the conversion but at 7 – 0 with only 3 minutes gone there were ominous si... |
Helped by a penalty, Alnwick briefly got into a promising position before Bird made it 7-3 from a further penalty but within 2 minutes Billingham extended their lead. |
From the re-start Alnwick were penalised for holding on and from a catch-and-drive at the ensuing line-out lock Whinn drove over with Evans making it 14 - 3. |
Alnwick battled to get back into it during the next 10 minutes but despite some hustling drives from props Greer and Philipps things just kept going slightly awry as passes were knocked-on or missed their target. |
With 30 minutes gone an Evans penalty made it 17 – 3 but they failed to capitalise on a further penalty when Bird rather mystifyingly received a yellow card, and the interval arrived without further score. |
Two minutes into the second half No. 8 Dixon powered over for Billingham with Evans making it 24 – 3, but there was a glimmer of light for Alnwick when Calum Burn took a quick tap penalty and chased his own his grubber kick to score out on the right for 24 – 8 with the conversion missed. |
That faint glimmer was nigh on extinguished when Alnwick were penalised for a high tackle and Billingham’s scrum option allowed scrum-half to pounce from close range, 29 -8 with Evans making it 31- 8. |
Hamilton came close to scoring for Alnwick but, unusually for him, spilled the ball as he was about to score and Billingham began to turn the screw with a try from flanker Burns for 36-8 with Evans converting for 38 -8. |
As the game drew towards the end Alnwick were fighting a continuous rear-guard action as they tried to plug the gaps which Billingham were exploiting but there was little they could do to stop Dixon’s second try as he blasted over from a 5mscrum for 43- 8 with the conversion missed. |
The final try came from a 5mline-out where a forward drive drew in the defence giving the backs space to put winger Hopley over for 48 8 8. Evans finished the game as he started with his conversion. |
September 27th 2018, 3:07 P.M. |
The true subject of the after-lunch exchanges in the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing has been partisanship. Rachel Mitchell’s questions, in five-minute intervals, have been speculative, but they have clearly been designed to probe whether Christine Blasey Ford collaborated with Democrats. Mitchell wanted to know who paid for Fo... |
Ford’s Democratic allies kept returning to a point she had made early in her testimony—that she had initially sent her story to her congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, when Brett Kavanaugh’s name appeared on a list of potential Supreme Court nominees but before President Trump had picked him. Her initial hope, she said, was tha... |
Whether civics without partisanship is possible anymore is perhaps the most pressing American debate of the Trump era, one that winds its way into the lives of everyday people and cleaves them away from their family and friends. But it is also, at the moment, a public-relations obstacle for Republicans, who—if the mist... |
Claude VonStroke - "The Clapping Track (Solomun Remix)" |
If you're looking for a fresh spin on something you already love, Solomun truly is that dude for you house heads. He's put out amazing remix after remix (his Foals one is a personal fave), and he just did it again. Taking on "The Clapping Track," one of the singles from Claude VonStroke's 2013 album Urba... |
ADOTAS – Ad automation technologies have advanced pretty quickly over the last year, but beyond being a ubiquitous industry buzzword, what exactly is programmatic anyway and how does it work? Whether you like it or not, software algorithms have become an integral part of the buying and selling of media. Just how quickl... |
So what is it? Essentially it’s the automatic online buying and selling of media through an auction-like marketplace, where potential ad buyers can shell out cash for the price of a particular ad at a given moment in time. Similar to the stock market, it allows for the rapid selling of publisher website ad inventory an... |
While programmatic solutions are currently fueling a majority of display ads online, it will soon also dominate video ad delivery. Companies like Rubicon Project, RocketFuel and RadiumOne already appear to offer programmatic video ads and today, video ad buys just got a lot simpler with YuMe’s launch today of Video Rea... |
In today’s multiscreen world, it’s imperative that brands and agencies develop cohesive, cross-device campaigns and YuMe claims Video Reach incorporates first-party audience targeting (which it touts as industry first) and SDK-integrated video inventory across online and digital devices at the same scale of traditional... |
According to a company press release, YuMe takes full advantage of traditional programmatic distribution channels, supporting brand advertisers who seek increased efficiency and reach. The availability of so many devices in the marketplace like smartphones, tablets and laptops have made it challenging for advertisers t... |
In early 2013, YuMe acquired a company called Crowd Science, which gave them the ability to run first-party surveys across their network in order to collect voluntary demographic and psychographic data, including likes and dislikes (example would be age, gender, hobbies, interests) — gauging receptivity. From the same ... |
This distinctive combination of captured information yields a powerful set of data that YuMe uses to build audience segments, delivering the most receptive and attentive audiences possible in digital video brand advertising, while allowing advertisers to move beyond the limitations of traditional cookie-based targeting... |
Yes, the algorithms are taking over. |
Previous articleYou Have My Data, Now Stop Retargeting Me! |
Peter Magowan, who helped keep Giants in S.F…. |
Nick Lammers/staff 3/1/04 Tribune Sports Giants Owner Peter Magowan watches the workouts Monday March 1, 2004 at Indian School Park in Scottsdale, Arizona where the San Francisco Giants are working out. |
SAN FRANCISCO–Peter Magowan, the longtime Safeway executive credited with saving baseball in San Francisco and leading the charge to build a downtown stadium, died Sunday at his home in Pacific Heights. He was 76. |
A New York City native who followed the franchise closely when it played at the Polo Grounds, Magowan belonged to a group of Bay Area investors who purchased the Giants in 1993 and prevented the club from leaving the city. |
As former Giants owner Bob Lurie prepared to sell the franchise to a group determined to move the Giants to Tampa Bay, Magowan, chairman and CEO of the grocery chain, and 16 others including current CEO Larry Baer stepped in with $100 million in a purchase that ensured San Francisco’s professional baseball club would r... |
Together, Baer and Magowan spearheaded an immediate effort to sign star outfielder Barry Bonds, a free agent who appeared destined to land a record-breaking contract with either the New York Yankees or Atlanta Braves. Though Magowan’s ownership group did not complete its purchase of the franchise until January 1993, Ma... |
Despite facing pushback from owners around the league and commissioner Bud Selig, Magowan and Baer worked out a six-year, $43.5 million deal with Beverly Hills-based agent Dennis Gilbert that made Bonds the highest-paid free agent in baseball history. |
After inheriting a team that finished 72-90 in 1992, the new ownership group’s high-profile acquisition of Bonds that took place five weeks before it gained approval to take over club operations completely altered the trajectory of the franchise. In his first season with the Giants, Bonds won the National League MVP Aw... |
Though Lurie tried and failed four separate times to convince San Francisco voters to approve public funds for a new stadium with Candlestick Park, Magowan understood the importance of finding a new, permanent home inside city limits for the Giants. |
In 1995, Magowan announced a plan to build the first privately-funded Major League Baseball stadium in more than 30 years. After receiving approval from the city, the Giants broke ground on a 42,000-seat ballpark in December, 1997 that cost more than $300,000 million. |
Seven years after assuming his role as President of the San Francisco Giants, Magowan’s stunning vision for a new stadium came to fruition as the franchise opened Pacific Bell Park in 2000. The name has changed twice since its inaugural Opening Day, but Magowan still belonged to the ownership group when the Giants made... |
The Giants’ commitment to privately fund a new ballpark was yet another example of a decision that earned widespread appeal in San Francisco and widespread scorn from the rest of the league. Major League owners who were accustomed to receiving public aid when building new stadiums were deeply concerned about the preced... |
With Magowan at the helm, the Giants reached the 2002 World Series before falling to the Angels in seven games. By the time the franchise collected its first championship of the San Francisco era, Magowan had already stepped down as the Giants’ managing partner. |
At the end of the 2007 season, Magowan and former general manager Brian Sabean came under fire in the Mitchell Report, an independent investigation into the use of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. The criticism came after Magowan recanted a statement he made to former Senator George Mi... |
On May 16, 2008, Magowan announced he was leaving his post as managing partner at the conclusion of the season. Magowan was succeeded by Bill Neukom, who was replaced by Baer on January 1, 2012. |
Though Magowan’s role shifted, he remained a fixture at the ballpark he helped build even as he battled various health issues. Magowan spent three months in New Orleans during the summer of 2014 receiving treatment for cancer, but returned to AT&T Park shortly after being released from the hospital to watch the Giants ... |
Magowan traveled with the Giants to Kansas City for the 2014 World Series and saw the franchise capture its third title in five seasons, a run that would not have been possible if a new ownership group didn’t fight to keep the team in San Francisco at the end of the 1992 season. |
Magowan served as chairman and CEO of Safeway for 13 years beginning in 1979. The son of Robert Anderson Magowan, a previous Safeway CEO, Magowan held a variety of different roles with the company after graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Oxford University. |
As successful as Studio Ghibli has been over the years, it hasn’t gone for the easy money of feature length sequels. That’s a pretty had temptation to avoid. Think of all the money studios have made in the last few decades by cranking out new installments of their blockbuster animation hits. Think anyone at the studio ... |
The Baron wasn’t supposed be starring in a feature length film. The original plans was a theme park wanted to commission a 20 minute short film from Studio Ghibli to run exclusively on site. Their only request is that it featured cats. Hayao Miyazaki took on the original project with the dictate that the film will feat... |
The Cat Returns has nothing to with the human characters in Whisper of the Heart. There’s a new girl at the center. Haru (Anne Hathaway) is a shy student who has the remarkable ability to talk to cats. One day she rescues a blue cat from what could have been a horrible accident. Her alert behavior gets her an immediate... |
The Cat Returns makes great use of bringing back Baron. He’s a smooth and slick as his first go around. This is not merely a chance for Studio Ghibli to market a new round of toys. He’s a lucky cat that inspired a short flick into a feature role. |
The video is 1.85:1 anamorphic. The 1080p transfer brings out the details in the marvelous fantasy world. The audio is DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 for both the English and Japanese dubs. The English version sounds more full. The French track is 5.1 Dolby Digital. The subtitles are in English, Japanese and French. |
Feature Length Storyboards with the finished audio. |
The Making of the Cat Returns (33:58) gets inside the production included tales of the theme park beginning. |
Behind the Microphone (9:03) shows off the all star voicing cast that also included Peter Boyle (The Friends of Eddie Coyle0, Elliott Gould, Judy Greer, Andy Richter (Conan) and Kristen Bell (Frozen). |
Trailers (6:37) sells the Kingdom of Cats. |
DVD with everything on the Blu-ray except storyboards. |
Shout! Factory & GKIDS present The Cat Returns. Directed by: Hiroyuki Morita. Screenplay by: Reiko Yoshida. Starring: Anne Hathaway, Cary Elwes, Peter Boyle, Elliott Gould, Tim Curry, Judy Greer, Andy Richter and Kristen Bell. Rated: G. Running Time: 75 minutes. Released: January 16, 2018. |
Chris Cannon is a writer in Vancouver. With a Tyee Fellowship for Solutions-oriented Journalism, he wrote his series "Share Tactics: Why Going It Alone Doesn't Work Anymore." |
Re-used clothing? Just wash it. |
It would be easy to mistake a "Swap-O-Rama-Rama" for a craft fair or a flea market, or, at first glance, the tragic implosion of grandma's sewing circle. Hordes of anti-fashionistas swarm dozens of tables, picking through the wreckage of each others' wardrobes, salvaging one person's forgotten attire to be reborn as an... |
The rules are simple: bring all the clean, usable clothing you want to evacuate from your closet. Pay somewhere between six and 10 bucks to the organizers and hand over your cache for sorting. Then start your treasure hunt. Rama-goers can take home all the clothing they can carry, and at most events, stations with volu... |
"My hope is that society at large can reengage with the process of creativity, and walk away from consumerism," says Wendy Tremayne, who held the first SORR in 2002 in a friend's New York City apartment. Since turning it into a public event in 2005, SORR has expanded to dozens of North American cities. Vancouver's vers... |
Escalating thrift-store ideology into a fun, community-based event, SORR is one of several institutions that have sprung up over the past few years with the mission to, in Tremayne's words, "create something where we could not consume any raw materials... learn how to stop shopping and be given a really good alternativ... |
In terms of visibility, automobile choices get the most attention when sizing up someone's environmental commitment. It's easy to nod in approval or shake your head in disgust when seeing a Prius and a Humvee sitting next to each other at a stoplight. But how much do we notice -- for that matter, how can we tell -- wha... |
Although the clothing industry has managed to maintain a low profile in the carbon-footprint shell game, our relationship with our wearables bears as much scrutiny as our transportation and housing choices. The ubiquitous cotton, for instance, seems harmless enough -- it is a natural fiber, lacking the petroleum base o... |
But our dependence on mass-produced clothing has turned this natural material into one of the world's most devastating crops. Cotton is a $300 billion-per-year industry that accounts for two thirds of the world's clothing. Its decidedly unnatural harvesting process has made it the most toxic crop on the planet, using 2... |
The environmental effects of the clothing industry have spurred a number of more eco-friendly options, with Paris runways suddenly vogue-ing with all manner of kinder choices, from organic and sustainable cottons to soy to bamboo to an increasingly softer line of hemp. But it's impossible to manufacture for the larger ... |
"We could substitute materials with less harmful ones," says Lynda Grose, a sustainable-fashion designer at San Francisco's California College of the Arts. "But as long as the consumption of conventional fibers is increasing per capita worldwide (which it is), and as long as population is growing and increasing in weal... |
The fact is, our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of our clothing choices has lagged far behind our housing and transportation concerns. The average North American throws out 27 kilograms of clothing per year, most of which ends up in landfills regardless of how much life they have left in them. And when we b... |
Engage in "swap-shopping." Vintage shops and thrift stores not only reduce the environmental impact of your clothing choices, but provide an outlet for your own wearable throwaways that would otherwise end up in landfills. |
Trade with like-minded strangers. Efforts like Shop-O-Rama-Rama and Freecycle offer multiple lives for those impulse buys you instantly regretted. |
Host a clothing-exchange party with friends. A bag of sweaters and a pitcher of Daiquiris might score you that clever Threadless shirt your buddy likes to lord over you. |
Get creative. A little craftiness can rescue dull clothes from the landfill, and a craft-themed exchange party could rescue your friends' outfits as well. |
The solution -- buy used -- is obvious, but we are far more reluctant to purchase pre-owned clothing than we are pre-owned houses and cars, perhaps a clean-freak revulsion to donning attire that spent years brushing a stranger's skin. But it is in thrift stores and vintage shops that the battle for sustainable clothing... |
Taken as a whole, the clothing industry is one of the most environmentally destructive forces on the planet. But when you buy used or trade with friends, not only can you score finds you would never come across in retail stores, but the sunk environmental cost of those purchases reduces your closet's footprint to zero. |
As with most of our environmental attitude shifts, adaptation requires a mental adjustment that removes us from the momentum of our destructive choices. Escaping the clutches of plastic grocery store bags requires that first trip to the Safeway with our own cloth carriers. |
The same is true with a move toward sustainable clothing options. The next time you go on a shopping spree, make it a point to visit stores that offer recycled wearables. |
If every Canadian bought their next cotton shirt used instead of new, it would save five million kilograms of agricultural chemicals and 95 billion litres of water. |
We can imagine a whole suit, or a whole closet, but it's the initial thrifty buy that we all need to make. Take that first step and see where it leads you. |
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