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Dreadful news out of Utrecht. Homage to emergency services and my thoughts are with the victims and their relatives. It is only right that our election campaign has been halted under these circumstances."
Since Crytek acquired TimeSplitters developer Free Radical, many have wondered if a fourth edition in the franchise was in the cards. Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, has acknowledged that the possibility has been discussed, but nothing is confirmed or in the pipeline at this time.
Free Radical was acquired by Crytek back in 2009 and most recently has been working on the multiplayer component of the upcoming Crysis 2. Of course, the team at Free Radical is working to finish the multiplayer component of Crysis 2 before any resources would potentially be available to work on a new TimeSplitters ins...
Those who claim to have seen into the Crytek crystal ball suggest to us that it is possible that a new TimeSplitters game could be a possibility, but until Crysis 2 is out the door and Crytek has a chance to see what kind of sales numbers it produces, don’t look for them to commit to a new TimeSplitters title. The Time...
Jason Isaacs is usually the bad guy. His best known role to date is as Lucius Malfoy, the representative symbol of decadent evil from the Harry Potter films; he was also the cruelest of cruel men in The Patriot (he burned a whole town alive in a church!), and Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Isaacs has a knack for conveying ...
Whatever reservations I have about Awake’s overall direction (and despite this episode’s general excellence, those reservations remain), I’ve never doubted Jason Isaacs’ performance. It’s one of the show’s great strengths, and the work he does here is remarkable for its restraint. Michael Britten isn’t a villain; at wo...
Enough of that for the moment, though: This was, for the most part, a great hour of television, and a fine uptick from the last couple weeks of Awake. Emma and her baby are still around, but instead of feeling like a distraction, her involvement in the story leads to another powerful scene, as Michael tries to convince...
That leaves the Short Guy, a.k.a. Ed Hawkins (played by Kevin Weisman of Alias fame). Michael first bumps into Hawkins at the fair, but when our hero finds himself stuck in Wife World, he starts hallucinating the Short Guy almost constantly. Because the Short Guy (as he repeatedly explained to Michael) is just an exten...
And then we find out that the reason Michael keeps seeing the Short Guy is that he’s Bird’s new partner, Ed, and Ed was one of the first people on the scene of the Britten family car catastrophe. Worse, Michael remembers that Ed himself is the one responsible for the accident, which means there might be some kind of co...
We got to see both therapists this week! Seems like it’s been ages. They look well.
The occasional flashbacks to the crash were well-handled; I liked Michael’s pained reaction to Hannah and Rex’s terrible impersonation of Queen.
Gah, almost forgot—is Weisman the pay-off for all the “little guy” talk in “The Little Guy”?
When CFL 2.0 was born, Blake Nill was in the delivery room.
It’s not his baby — Canadian Football League Commissioner Randy Ambrosie has famously fathered the notion of a global outreach to expand the league’s brand — but it’s pretty obvious that phase one in Mexico wouldn’t have unfolded nearly as quickly as it did without Nill’s key contributions.
The head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds, who has three Mexican players on his roster, reached out last year to Liga de Futbol Americas Profesional principal Oscar Perez, who has a home in Vancouver and whose son, Jose, now plays for the TBirds.
So well that Perez hosted him at the 2018 LFA championship game here. Nill said he was blown away by the spectacle, so he told Ambrosie all about it once he got back to Vancouver.
Ambrosie, who had already broached the international initiative with receptive CFL governors, was typically enthused, so Nill flew with Perez to meet the commissioner in Edmonton in June to talk possibilities and synergies.
They are just starting to do exactly that. A player combine and draft held here on Sunday and Monday kick-started the project that has the blessing of CFL governors, team presidents, and most GMs and head coaches. But a talent search is only a small part of a big idea, as Ambrosie likes to say.
With Nill providing introductions, Ambrosie spoke to Canadian university coaches across the country and came away convinced the CFL had to grow more than just its own revenues and fan base. The grand old league has to accept the responsibility for supporting football at all levels in Canada. And it didn’t take him long...
There are no walls in Ambrosie’s world, just bridges.
That includes the CFL Players Association leadership and its membership, of course. And there are strong feelings in some quarters that Ambrosie and the league are ignoring or at least delaying Collective Bargaining Agreement responsibilities to chase this international dream.
But who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time? The league must and can do both. Among the many items on its to-do list, the league has to present a clear vision to the players, one that includes appropriate ratio designation for the Mexican players who were drafted here on Monday.
And if that’s not enough work, what about attendance problems in Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver? Well, if Ambrosie doesn’t solve those this year or next, he’s in good company with the previous umpteen commissioners who couldn’t crack that nut. But because he’s a big thinker and an optimist, he suggests that an inte...
Because this Mexican foray was a success — a professionally run enterprise that generated tons of media coverage and might have uncovered hidden talent worthy of a roster spot — it’s possible the CFL league will transport this combine/draft model to Germany before the 2019 season begins in June.
What’s far more definite is that Ambrosie will meet with German, Austrian, French, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian football officials through February.
Even after that whirlwind, there would still be time to host a European combine and draft before the season kicks off.
It’s incredibly ambitious, and so is Ambrosie. He has to be careful not to burn out himself or his tiny staff. That’s on him.
But he also has to seize the moment. As B.C. Lions GM Ed Hervey said here, the league is more than a hundred years old and it’s about time.
Football in Canada needs a champion. In Ambrosie and Nill, it has at least two.
It appears likely the East West Bowl game will take on some international flavour, courtesy of Canadian Football League commissioner Randy Ambrosie’s desire to grow the sport.
Sources say more than one concept is being considered to revitalize the annual university football all-star tilt, which debuted in 2003, and each one includes a Mexican component. There are proponents of a home-and-home series between Mexican and Canadian university school teams or university all-star squads. That seri...
Sources say it could happen as early as this year.
It is thought that concept could then grow into a Four Nations-type tournament most likely headquartered in Laval, with university school or all-star teams from Canada, Mexico, the United States and perhaps Europe.
The idea is to provide a successful TV event, fill the stadium, elongate the Canadian football calendar into May and December, and both showcase and support the amateur game.
Ambrosie wouldn’t say whether the CFL is prepared to partner with U Sports to give the East West Bowl concept a makeover, but expressed his general support for the idea of strengthening football at all levels.
He said he will meet with U Sports football officials within the week to discuss how the CFL can work with them.
If it boils down to a home-and-home between school teams, the UBC T-Birds and the University of Regina are the leading contenders to play a game against either the Aztecas of the Universidad de las Americas Puebla or Tecnologico de Monterrey. If an all-star game is preferred, it would likely become a clash between U Sp...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Thursday accused Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik of interfering in the 2016 U.S. election and banned them from buying ads on its network, after criticism the social network had not done enough to deter international meddling.
RT and Sputnik condemned the decision, saying Twitter had encouraged ad spending with its sales tactics, while Russia’s foreign ministry said the ban was due to U.S. government pressure and that it planned to retaliate.
San Francisco-based Twitter said in an unsigned statement on its website that election meddling is “not something we want” on the social network. It cited a report this year from U.S. intelligence agencies and said it had also done its own investigations of RT and Sputnik.
“We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter,” the company said.
Twitter, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google have all recently detected that suspected Russian operatives used their platforms last year to purchase ads and post content that was politically divisive. Russia has denied interfering in the election.
The company said it would allow RT and Sputnik to maintain regular, non-ad Twitter accounts in accordance with its rules.
RT, an English-language news channel, accused Twitter’s sales staff of pressuring it to spend big on advertising in 2016 ahead of the election.
Twitter declined to comment on any discussions with advertisers. A former Twitter employee said the sales pitch to RT is similar to what the company uses to lure advertisers to Twitter, which has struggled to turn a profit.
On Thursday, Twitter said it may become profitable for the first time next quarter after slashing expenses and ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies, which could help to break its reliance on advertising for revenue.
Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to questions about whether they would limit Russia media ad spending.
In April, Reuters reported that RT and Sputnik were part of a plan by Russian President Vladimir Putin to swing the U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters’ faith in the American electoral system, according to three current and four former U.S. officials.
On Oct. 19, U.S. lawmakers, alarmed that foreign entities used the internet to influence last year’s election, introduced legislation to extend rules governing political advertising on broadcast television, radio and satellite to also cover social media.
General counsels for Twitter, Facebook and Google will testify on Nov. 1 before public hearings of the Senate and House intelligence committees on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
“Twitter is wisely positioning itself to be able to tell the committees that the company has taken steps to address the issues raised,” Adam Sharp, a former Twitter executive, told Reuters on Thursday.
The Russian foreign ministry said the ban was a “gross violation” by the United States of the guarantees of free speech.
“Retaliatory measures, naturally, will follow,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to the RIA news agency.
Some analysts said transparency, rather than a ban, would have been a better approach. Unlike Facebook, Twitter allows anonymous accounts and automated accounts, or bots, making the service more difficult to police.
“Banning any particular person, group or country is just bad policy - in other parts of the world, platforms will come to be viewed as a tool of U.S. or other foreign policy and it will give authoritarian regimes more excuses to ban speech,” Albert Gidari, who as a lawyer has represented tech companies, said in an emai...
A U.S. lawmaker, Representative Adam Schiff, applauded Twitter’s move.
“Serving as a platform for free expression does not require assisting foreign powers in their efforts to push propaganda, whether by promoted tweets or other means,” Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
Building mobile networks isn’t for wimps. It takes billions of dollars in spectrum assets, physical equipment and people with the expertise to ensure that calls and data requests go through every time. But a growing number of projects are seeking funding to build open networks on the cheap — and outside of government a...
The Serval Project is the latest of these, launching with an Indiegogo campaign last week seeking $300,000 to build a mesh extender network. The Serval Project is open source software for handsets that allows them to directly link to each other to pass messages and files. While it doesn’t talk to the broader internet, ...
The mesh extender they are trying to build would sit in key locations and boost the radius of the mesh over which these phones running the Serval software can communicate. Outside of setting up networks where ones weren’t before, these networks can also relieve congestion on traditional cell networks. For example, crea...
For talking to the internet at large you’d need something like the Brck, which was created by a non-profit called Ushahidi and launched on Kickstarter in June. The project was a battery plus a variety of radios (Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G) plus Ethernet, so a person could get connectivity even in tough conditions when internet acce...
As we’ve covered before , to recreate a functioning open source mobile network requires several pieces, but many of those pieces are in various stages of development and adoption. For example, Commotion, which is a Wi-Fi-based mesh network technology that might work in conjunction with Serval. It doesn’t have a Kicksta...
Meanwhile Open Garden, which is another software project that wants to create a mesh network of connected devices, has raised outside investment and is trying to get its software on Google Glass. The goal would be to turn each Glass into a node on its mesh network. Aside from bypassing the current wireless infrastructu...
When one person was calling another person, networks had to be structured one way. Now that a phone or an increasing number of other devices can call either people or servers, we need to think about how to structure networks a different way. These projects might have started with third-world countries or war zones in m...
Columbus’ Sergei Bobrovsky, a goaltender with a history of playoff struggles, looked like his two-time Vezina Trophy-winning self in making 54 saves as the visiting Blue Jackets beat the Washington Capitals 5-4 on Sunday on Matt Calvert’s overtime winner to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference first-round playoff ...
The playoff version of Bobrovsky of years past was a confounding nightmare compared with his elite play during the regular season: 3-10 with a 3.63 goals-against average and .887 save percentage. Through two games this year, the second of which head coach John Tortorella called “one of the best goaltending performances...
The Blue Jackets had not led a playoff series until Thursday night. With “Bob” locked in like never before in the Stanley Cup playoffs, they’re two victories away from advancing to the second round for the first time in franchise history.
Game 3 is Tuesday in Columbus.
Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky makes one of his 54 saves in an overtime victory over Washington.
Golden Knights 3, Kings 2: James Neal scored the tie-breaking goal with 5:37 to play as visiting Vegas took a 3-0 lead over Los Angeles in a Western Conference first-round series.
The Kings led until Cody Eakin tied it with 13:50 left, and William Karlsson scored 21 seconds after Neal’s goal in a third-period flurry for the expansion Golden Knights.
Alex Iafallo scored his first career playoff goal in the first period for Los Angeles, which hasn’t won a playoff game at Staples Center since the Kings last raised the Stanley Cup in June 2014. Anze Kopitar added a goal with 2:04 to play.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 37 saves for Vegas, which will go for a sweep in Game 4 on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
The winner of the series will face the Sharks-Ducks series winner in the West semifinals. San Jose leads that series 2-0, with Game 3 at SAP Center on Monday night.
Penguins 5, Flyers 1: Sidney Crosby had a goal and three assists and Matt Murray stopped 26 shots to help visiting Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia to take a 2-1 lead in the East series. Game 4 is Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Crosby scored his fourth goal of the series in the first period, and Derick Brassard, Evgeni Malkin and Brian Dumoulin scored in the second to make it 4-0. Malkin and Dumoulin scored five seconds apart.
Wild 6, Jets 2: Mikael Granlund and Zach Parise scored power-play goals in the first period, and host Minnesota added four goals in the second against Winnipeg to trim its West series deficit to 2-1.
Jets defenseman Tyler Myers, who scored his second goal of the series in the second period, exited with an apparent leg injury after he was checked by Mark Foligno and caught his skate at the bottom of the boards.
Game 4 is Tuesday in St. Paul.
Briefly: Forward Ilya Kovalchuk, who played the past five seasons for a Russian team in the KHL, came off the NHL’s voluntary retirement list and became an unrestricted free agent, the Canadian website TSN reported. Kovalchuk, a three-time NHL All-Star and three-time Russian Olympian, played for New Jersey from 2010 th...
The flash memory market was $11.7 bln in 2003. This market is projected to grow by 34.
The flash memory market was $11.7 bln in 2003. This market is projected to grow by 34.6% to $15.8 bln in 2004, but will decline by 1.8% to $15.5 bln in 2005. It will rebound and grow by 3.2% to $16 bln in 2006 and by 14.7% to $18.3 bln in 2007.
For over 20 years, I have been honored to be your public servant. As a Routt County planning commissioner for 10 years, then as your elected two-term county commissioner, I worked hard and effectively to build a balance between development, private-property rights and the environmental protections that we count on for ...
Serving as your first state representative for House District 26 was also a great honor. I focused on the things that our communities needed to thrive: affordable housing, adequately funded public education, transportation, good jobs, quality health care and a clean environment. During my time in the state house, it be...
I sponsored bipartisan efforts to investigate why health insurance companies were holding us hostage, forcing us to pay outrageous premiums, limiting our choice of doctors and tinkering with the price of prescription drugs. As the health care situation became more acute, I realized that we had to make a bigger impact o...
On May 4, 2017, Scott Tipton voted to make health care matters worse, not better. His vote to take health care insurance from 23 million Americans was no solution. Coloradans wrote and called him, warning that this would raise their premiums and strip coverage from 45,000 of their neighbors. As he’s done so often these...
We need health care that is affordable and accessible for all. Colorado’s Western Slope has the dubious distinction of having the highest premiums in the country. That’s not acceptable. My opponent likes to discourage us from trying to fix it by suggesting wild cost estimates from a Koch Brothers-funded think tank. But...
Our district is beautiful and filled with creative, compassionate, hard-working people. I can’t help but dream big when I think about our future. We need to invest in broadband and water infrastructure, transportation and renewable energy. All of these bring good-paying jobs to our district. Tipton and his friends in C...
As your representative, I want to hear your concerns and help find solutions because that’s what this job is all about. I will be accountable to you, and I will bring back accountability to Washington. Our country needs Congress to act as a check and balance, not as a lapdog that covers its eyes in response to corrupti...
Megatel Capital Investment, Megatel Homes’ capital markets division, announced it has promoted Kris Masias to serve as the company's vice president, sales desk and operations.
"Kris Masias, a seasoned and talented financial services professional, has proven to be a key asset to our company," Megatel Capital Investment Executive Vice President and Managing Director William Hoppe said in a statement.
"Kris’ organizational and management skills coupled with his decade of experience in the industry position him as the ideal person to help drive Megatel's strategic growth initiatives," he added.
Masias has been in the financial services industry for 10 years and previously held the position of vice president of sales, central territory/RIA channel at Megatel. Prior to joining Megatel, he served as a regional vice president of sales at Voya Financial.
Along with Masias’ promotion, Megatel announced it is promoting Stormi Mills to operations and client relationship manager. Mills joined Megatel in February of this year and served as an operations administrator for the company before taking on this new role. She has more than 10 years of experience in the operational ...
B2B: Are Current Land Prices an Incentive for the New Investment?
During last two years we have seen many real estate investors leaving Russian market. Substantial decrease of prices in respect of land plots provide good opportunities for new acquisitions for industrial companies and foreign investors present in the Russian market for decades who now face new localization of producti...
Recent reform of the Civil Code is aimed at making legal environment more friendly for foreign investors in terms of introducing good faith requirements in real estate transactions and providing additional remedies to purchasers. We have already advised on asset deals under Russian law providing for representations and...
The government has confirmed plans to end bursaries for student nurses and midwives from next year, sparking anger across the health sector.
Replacing bursaries with loans would free up about £800m a year to create additional nursing roles by 2020 and help more students enter the profession, according to the Department of Health.
However, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the changes were unfair and risky, while the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) argued that the move threatened the future of maternity services in England.

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