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The summer recalls are not over. Democrats Robert Wirch of Pleasant Prairie and Jim Holperin of Conover will defend their seats next Tuesday.
A giant sinkhole that emerged on the site of a collapsing mine in western Russia has been getting steadily bigger, threatening nearby village houses and the forest.
Resembling a meteorite crater at first glance, the sinkhole in the Russian region of Perm has been expanding ever since it appeared, according to photo evidence, recently reported by locals on social media.
The abyss near the town of Solikamsk dates back to last November, when its surface dimensions were some 20-by-30 meters. In nine months’ time, by the end of August, the crater has reached a stunning 122-by 125-meters wide, The Siberian Times reported on Wednesday.
The sinkhole shows no sign of a slowing appetite, as the collapsing soil keeps sucking up nearby houses. It is estimated to be about 75 meters deep, and can already be seen from space.
It lies in the neighborhood of the Solikamsk-2 mine, which suffered from underground flooding last November, the time when the sinkhole emerged. The mine is owned by the world's number one potash producer, Uralkali.
The company, however, blamed a flooding in 1995 that was caused by an earthquake, and promised the owners of the collapsed houses some form of compensation. In the meantime, they are also suspending the operations on the potash mine.
The crater’s origin is different from the natural phenomenon that is behind the craters in northern regions of Siberia, which have recently stunned scientists. Craters in permafrost regions are linked to the process of melting of soil that has gas hydrates, which leads to underground explosions.
Futures soar on heavy earnings slate; GM, Caterpillar beat Street.
U.S. stock futures were soaring Thursday morning as Wall Street prepared for the busiest day of this earnings season. By the time the day is done, 64 S&P 500 companies will have reported quarterly results. Among them are bellwethers such as Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Caterpillar (CAT).
With so much earnings action, it's easy to forget that weekly jobless claims and durable-goods orders were released this morning. Durable goods were better than expected, rising 2.6% in March vs. a revised 2.1% increase in February. And weekly jobless claims rose to 329,000 last week, up from 305,000 first-time filers the week before. And don't forget that April's manufacturing-activity report from the Kansas City Fed is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET.
Overseas, European markets were moving higher this morning, helped by an unexpected rise in German business confidence and dovish comments from the European Central bank.
Among early reporters, UPS (UPS) missed bottom-line quarterly estimates by a dime per share. Action Alerts PLUS holding GM (GM) surpassed the Street's earnings-per-share estimates on an adjusted basis. And Caterpillar bested EPS views by a wide margin.
The earnings onslaught continues after the closing bell, led by Amazon, Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Microsoft (MSFT), Starbucks (SBUX), Visa (V), Las Vegas Sands (LVS) and Baidu (BIDU).
Britain’s new home secretary has promised to do “whatever it takes” to put right the Windrush scandal, which saw immigrants threatened with deportation after living legally in the country for decades. Sajid Javid was speaking in the House of Commons hours after he replaced Amber Rudd, who resigned as home secretary on Sunday night.
“I want to start by making a pledge, a pledge to those from the Windrush generation who have been in this country for decades and yet have struggled to navigate through the immigration system: This never should have been the case and I will do whatever it takes to put it right,” he said.
The son of Pakistani immigrants, Mr Javid said his own background made him especially sensitive to the injustice suffered by the immigrants from the Caribbean affected by the Windrush scandal.
“Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They too came to help rebuild this country and offer all that they had. So when I heard that people who were long-standing pillars of their community were being impacted for simply not having the right documents to prove their legal status in the UK, I thought that it could be my mum, my brother, my uncle or even me,” he said.
Ms Rudd resigned after “inadvertently misleading” a parliamentary committee about targets set by the home office for deporting illegal immigrants. Ms Rudd initially said that no such targets existed, later acknowledging that they did but claiming to have been unaware of them. She resigned after the Guardian published a letter Ms Rudd wrote to prime minister Theresa May in January referring to the targets.
Ms May, who was home secretary for six years before becoming prime minister, said on Monday she was aware of deportation targets when she was at the home office but defended her tough stance on immigration.
Mr Javid has never enjoyed a comfortable relationship with the prime minister, whom he criticised after last year’s election for her conduct of the campaign. A Thatcherite, free market liberal who entered politics after a successful career in banking, he has shown little interest in immigration as an issue.
In the House of Commons on Monday, he distanced himself from Ms May’s approach, particularly the “hostile environment” she wished to create for illegal immigrants.
“I think the terminology is incorrect, I think it’s a phrase that is unhelpful and does not represent the values as a country,” he said.
Mr Javid’s successor as housing and communities secretary is James Brokenshire, who stepped down as Northern Ireland secretary in January ahead of surgery for a tumour on his lung.
Like the Bollywood celebrities, television stars like Shweta Tiwari, Nisha Rawal, Divyanka Tripathi and others posted pictures from their Raksha Bandhan albums. This year's celebrations were special for Shweta Tiwari and Nisha Rawal, as it was their sons' first Rakhi. Shweta's son Reyansh was born last November. She is married to actor Abhinav Kohli and has a 16-year-old daughter Palak from her previous marriage. Shweta, 36, Instagrammed a cute picture of Palak, tying Rakhi to Reyansh. "After 16 years of falsely claiming my brothers, my daughter finally has her own little bodyguard, who loves her infinitely. Their bond is inexplicable in its own beautiful, delicate way. Seeing them love each other and grow fond of each other with every passing hour is a true boon, that I'm eternally grateful for," Shweta captioned her post. Palak, an aspiring actress, is reportedly prepping for her Bollywood debut.
See the adorable picture which Shweta posted.
Nisha Rawal, wife of actor Karan Mehra, posted multiple pictures from their son Kavish's first Rakhi. Kavish was born this year in June and is the couple's first child. "The Cutest Raksha Bandhan of my life & his first!!" read Nisha's caption. Karan and Nisha have been married for over five years. Karan is best-known for playing Naitik in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. After quitting the show, he featured in Bigg Boss 10.
Meanwhile, Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, also gave a sneak peek into her Rakhi celebrations with brother Aishwarya.
Divyanka Tripathi is married to her co-star Vivek Dahiya. The couple celebrated their first anniversary in July this year.
If you’re among those bent and exhausted by the pervasive critical postulation that The Wire and Treme creator David Simon is a genius—willows weep, because they just made it official. Simon is among the 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Genius Grant, which gives him $500,000 (dispensed in quarterly payments over the next five years) to make all the cynical explorations of bureaucracy and inner-city life his cantankerous heart desires. Simon admitted to feeling a “vague sense of guilt” about it since he receives plenty of money already, but he also believes the award will ease things considerably in his next pitch session, when he can pretty much walk in and say he plans to do a show composed entirely of Dr. John concert footage, then quell any network hesitation by slapping his “I’m A MacArthur Genius” certificate on the table and pointedly clearing his throat. Luckily, Simon’s newest areas of interest seem to be “the history of the CIA since World War II” and “a housing desegregation fight in Yonkers.” After all, he’s not stupid; he’s a certified genius.
Sam Brown, a sophmore at Eagle Valley High School, lays out a bank turn while riding the Eagle trail systems in the late afternoon on Thursday. Brown will be competing in the GoPro mountain games enduro competition next month.
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EAGLE — After Calvin Trudeau, 16, competed in his first enduro race, he was officially addicted.
It’s a sentiment shared by a handful of other young racers in the Vail Valley, and over the past year, several high school racers have been traveling together around Colorado and the surrounding states to compete in enduro races. Eagle will be hosting its first GoPro Mountain Games enduro on Friday, June 10, and these riders are eager to have a race in their own backyard.
So what is enduro? For many cross-country racers, it conjures up images of full-face helmets, body armor and burly downhill bikes. In reality, enduro races vary considerably race by race, but most have some key elements.
All feature non-competitive or lift-accessed climbs, and timed descents, which can vary from technical to flowy. An uphill and a descent constitutes a stage, and most races have several stages within a day. Some races are multiday, or in the case of the Eagle enduro, just one day. Even though climbs aren’t a “race,” the endurance part comes into play due to the sheer mileage riders cover over a day, which can be up to 30 miles when the race is over.
Enduro descents tend to be long — anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes, an attribute that also distinguishes enduro racing from downhill racing. Sam’s father, Mountain Pedaler owner Charlie Brown, said enduro is a nod to true downhill riding.
“Today, a typical downhill race is under 3 minutes long, and in enduro, some of the descents are up to 10 minutes. This isn’t a two-minute deal on a specialty bike,” he said.
That element was what drew Battle Mountain High School junior Michael Barrett, 17, to enduro racing. He’s raced cross-country since he was a tyke but discovered the sport’s gravity-loving cousin last year.
There’s one other thing: Many enduro races don’t reveal the courses until the day of or the day before the race. Eagle’s three-to-four stages will be a surprise, although that hasn’t stopped people from guessing.
Mac Garnsey, of the Vail Valley Foundation, promises that the courses won’t disappoint. The GoPro Mountain Games has partnered with Big Mountain Enduro, a company responsible for a number of other races around the country, to create the Eagle course, he said.
“The goal is to maximize the time in the saddle with the most riding. The beauty is, anybody can do it. People have been riding these trails every day for the past two months. It’s stuff people are comfortable with and will probably be excited to race,” he said.
In the Pro/Open category, the race is sure to draw some serious competition thanks to a prize purse of $3,700 each for the men’s and women’s categories. There will be plenty of great prizes for amateur racers as well, promised Garnsey.
Eagle County’s young racers point out that most riders can participate in an enduro race. You don’t need a special bike, or even special skills, to participate and enjoy the race.
Sam Brown said that even though downhill-focused events aren’t the norm in the Vail Valley, enduro racing could have broad appeal.
“It’s great if you don’t like to have to climb fast, but you do like to ride up. I think of it as somewhere in between downhill and cross-country,” he said.
BERLIN (AP) — Borussia Dortmund is looking for goals, and hoping Paco Alcacer provides them.
Despite an array of attack-minded players, Dortmund has struggled to score since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang departed last season for Arsenal. The Gabon striker scored 98 goals and set up 25 more in 144 league appearances. Replacement Michy Batshuayi managed seven in 10 games before his loan spell from Chelsea was ended by injury.
Alcacer joined on loan from Barcelona on Tuesday, with Dortmund securing an option to sign the Spanish striker to a four-year deal at the end of the season.
The two-footed player could make his league debut at Hannover on Friday, a day after his 25th birthday.
With the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar and Ousmane Dembele ahead of him, Alcacer found playing time at Barcelona restricted after joining from Valencia in 2016. He still scored 10 goals in 37 appearances for the Catalan side, almost all of them as a substitute.
"The forward who plays little and scores a lot," Spanish newspaper El Pais said in November 2017.
Alcacer did enough to get Dortmund's attention.
"Paco proved his qualities during his younger years at Valencia, scoring lots of goals, and acquired special status there at just 22 years of age when he was handed the captain's armband," Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc told the club's website.
"In Barcelona, he worked alongside some of the best players in the world on a daily basis. The fact that he's now taken the decision to make a fresh start after two years is attributable to the extremely tough competition for attacking places at the club."
Alcacer is known for his work ethic, his willingness to fight for the team and his instinct in front of goal.
"He's a goleador (sharp-shooter)," Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde said of the player, who was made Valencia captain in 2016.
Alcacer has had setbacks both on and off the field, most notably the loss of his father in August 2011. He died of a heart attack as he left Valencia's stadium with his wife. They had been there to see their son score in a friendly against Roma.
Alcacer joined Valencia's youth setup in 2005 from Torrent CF, his hometown club, and went on to make three league appearances for Valencia before spending a season on loan at Getafe in 2012-13. He returned to score 30 goals across three seasons.
Alcacer, who has been given the No. 9 jersey at Dortmund, will be an undisputed starter, supported by a cast that includes wingers Marco Reus, Marius Wolf and Maximilian Philipp, as well as midfielders Axel Witsel, Mario Goetze, Thomas Delaney and Christian Pulisic.
"We're firmly convinced this type of player will be a good fit for our style of play," Zorc said.
But Dortmund coach Lucien Favre is appealing for time - both for his team and for his new No. 9.
"He has to settle in," the new coach said.
DETROIT — The head of self-driving cars for Google expects real people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.
Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles, and software that analyzes all the data. The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in Mountain View.
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public. Under legislation that Google persuaded California lawmakers to pass in 2012, self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals. Several other states have passed laws formally allowing autonomous cars on public roads without that restriction.
Google also confirmed that it has hired Roush Enterprises, a Detroit-area company that designs and builds prototypes for the auto industry, to build 150 prototype Google autonomous cars.
The CW will never be a network that draws the same numbers as any of the Big Four, but it has been picking up bigger audiences in recent years thanks to its DC comic series. Folks without access to The CW have had to go without weekly episodes of The Flash and Arrow for small screen superhero fixes, waiting until non-superhero shows like Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finally hit other streaming services to binge. Luckily for existing fans and CW virgins alike, the network's app will soon make it possible for anybody to catch episodes of CW series free of charge in a brand new way.
The new CW app will make the network's current library available on a variety of streaming platforms. Roku, Chromecast, AirPlay, AppleTV, Xbox, and Amazon Fire TV will all make it possible for people to stream CW content on a screen bigger than phone or tablet. But don't worry, you'll be able to get all of this loveliness on your phones and tablets, too. The announcement seems to indicate that the episodes will be available soon after airing, presumably in the next day or so, although it's possible the five-episode cap will still exist. The CW app will give also access to sneak peeks, digital content, and trailers.
News of the app update comes just as The CW is on the verge of kicking off its 2016 - 2017 TV season, and news broke a few months ago that Hulu did not lock down a deal to continue streaming the network's shows moving forward. Instead, the shows' respective seasons will debut on Netflix after their completion. So for Hulu subscribers, there's no longer a worry about catching up in case of an exploding DVR.
There are three new shows in the works on The CW that might benefit from the new viewing option. No Tomorrow and Frequency will debut in competitive Tuesday night and Wednesday night time slots, at times when audiences may not be inclined to check out The CW over the live programming on the bigger networks. The convenience of the app update may help the new shows build an audience. Riverdale may enjoy a boost as well when it premieres in 2017.
The update should also be fantastic when it comes to existing shows. The CW's DC universe has grown to include a whopping four shows on four nights in a row, and some fans may not be able to tune in Monday - Thursday at 8 p.m. ET every week. Three of the four shows share a universe, and a ginormous crossover is in the works. Viewers may need to watch every episode of each of the series to understand what's going on in any of them. Considering that the Flashpoint story is going to extend beyond The Flash in 2016 - 2017, the entire DC universe may get pretty confusing for anybody who can't catch every relevant episode as it airs live. The CW app could be super helpful on the superhero front.
Only time will tell if the CW app update works as intended. All the networks have been increasingly desperate to set up streaming services, but not all of the streaming services have done well with consumers. Hopefully the app update does the trick for those of us who like to catch up on our CW without needing to watch it on a tiny screen. Be sure to check out our fall TV premiere schedule to see when all the CW's shows will be back on the airwaves in the near future.
Drugmaker Merck says it's bought a Swiss biotech company developing cancer drugs as part of its strategy to be a top player in cancer, one of the hottest pharmaceutical research areas.
Merck & Co., based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, will pay up to $110 million upfront to OncoEthix. The privately held company could receive further payments of up to $265 million if it meets targets for testing and product approval.
The deal gives Merck ownership of an experimental treatment called OTX015 that could be the first in a new class of drugs that block proteins involved in cancer cell growth and survival.
The drug demonstrated effectiveness in early-stage testing of patients with blood cancers, and OncoEthix last month began initial patient testing against five different types of solid tumors.
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The difference equation (Eq.(5.1)) is often used as the recipe for numerical implementation in software or hardware. As such, it specifies the direct-form I (DF-I) implementation of a digital filter, one of four direct-form structures to choose from. The DF-I signal flow graph for the second-order case is shown in Fig.5.1a. The direct-form II structure, another common choice, is depicted in Fig.5.1b. The other two direct forms are obtained by transposing direct forms I and II. Chapter 9 discusses all four direct-form structures.
If Talisman Prologue is any indication of how the full version of the classic fantasy board game will pan out, then fans are in for a real treat when Talisman Digital Edition launches this summer. Until then, they can re-learn the ropes in this single-player boot camp.
The board game Talisman ate up a great deal of my time and money in the late 80s - early 90s. The core game is a race to the center of the board to retrieve an artifact called the Crown of Command. Players take on the role of one of a number of fantasy archetypes, each with their own special skills and statistics. The board is littered with special events, cards are drawn, encounters are resolved through dice, items are bought — it's more complicated than checkers, but not quite Risk.
What Talisman Prologue does is give players a board, ten characters to choose from (most of which must be unlocked) and a series of quests to complete on the board. It's still Talisman, with its gold and curses and followers and random battles, but instead of getting to the center of the board you're charged with taking out a group of bandits, or obtaining weapons — tasks easily completed by a single player.
There are times the game's multiplayer-based mechanics falter — losing a turn hardly makes a difference when you're the only person playing, and being forced to drop your followers and equipment isn't so terrible when there's no one else to pick them up. Prologue is a little clumsy that way.
But Prologue is, of course, a prologue — a taste of things to come. Once the quests are complete, players will have an excellent grasp of the game mechanics coming in the full multiplayer version this summer for mobile and PC.
Talisman Prologue isn't the most faithful digital translation of a fantasy board game ever made, but it certainly suggestions that one's on the way.
Despite being priced rather modestly for a supercar, the McLaren 720S has pretty much been unbeatable on races, crushing opponents, ICE and electric alike, with devilish ease. While McLaren seems to have accidentally made the 720S Tesla Model S P100D-proof, the automaker appears to have forgotten to make the vehicle Richard Hammond-proof.
The Grand Tour host and former Top Gear presenter has a long history of unfortunate car accidents. During the filming of the second season of The Grand Tour alone, Hammond ended up driving a Rimac Concept One supercar off a hill, resulting in a fiery blaze that he fortunately escaped. During the latest episode of the hit Amazon series, however, it was revealed that the Hamster just had another incident, and he ended up claiming a McLaren 720S as a result.
As noted in a Jalopnik report, it quickly became evident that Richard Hammond drove two different McLaren 720S during his segment on the show. When questioned about why he ended up driving two vehicles for the segment, Hammond admitted that he actually wrecked the first 720S he was driving, all because of one incredibly silly mistake.
As noted in a recent CarScoops report, Hammond explained that he accidentally ended up filling the supercar’s fuel tank with water. The Grand Tour host further explained that he noticed the Mclaren 720S’ fuel was running low. Thus, when he saw a jerry can in the area, he took it upon himself to refuel the British-built hypercar killer.
Hammond’s latest incident fortunately did not end with the former Top Gear host being injured. If any, it all made for a pretty funny, albeit expensive story about a silly mistake that ended up killing a hypercar killer. For his feat, however, fellow The Grand Tour host Jeremy Clarkson awarded Hammond with the “Lack of Continuity Award,” which, of course, came in the form of a five-gallon water container.
With his new movie, The Four Seasons, Alan Alda becomes a triple threat. A longtime actor and sometime screenwriter -- including his last picture, "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" -- he now adds directing to his bag of tricks.
And pretty good tricks they are. "The Four Seasons" is a friendly film, with high spirits and good intentions. I only regret that it lapses into vulgarity at times, and that its limits are so narrow -- cramping the characters, and undermining its own attitudes. If you don't agree with Alda's assumptions about the basic cheeriness of modern life, you won't find much to admire here. But if you can sympathize with the social momentum that keeps the characters going no matter what, you'll enjoy their antics.
The story centers on three married couples, all middleaged and locked into the same sort of lives. They have been friends forever, and Alda plunges us into their camaraderie, following them through the four seasons of the year, accompanied by the "Four Seasons" of Vivaldi -- baroque music being a must for today's Hollywood heartwarmers after the Vivaldi of "Kramer vs. Kramer" and the Pachelbel of "Ordinary People."
The characters have lots of fun, and they tackle a few problems. The worst crisis happens when one of the gang (Len Carion) divorces his wife (Sandy Dennis) and marries a sweet young thing (Bess Armstrong) who's toom young, and possibly too sweet, to fit in with the others. The issues here are real and poignant: Does the group stay loyal to Sandy Dennis, now launched on a new life of her own, or shift to Bess Armstrong, who seems like a nice kid? Alda doesn't probe the situation very deeply, and he allows its sexual overtones to lapse into bad taste. But the basic dilemma is true to life, as they say, and easy to identify with. "The Four Seasons" is involving even when it fails to get below the surface of its romantic peccadillos.
The film would have more resonance if it weren't so keen on entertaining us all the time. I have no quarrel with fun, but we never see these people at work , or even at home, wrestling with the tedium of everyday life. Alda whisks us from one vacation or outing to another, painting the entire picture in the cozy colors of sun, sea, and snow. We don't even see the couples asm couples: They're a perpetual menage a six, wholesome enough, but so homogenized that even the characters begin to complain after a while.
It's a very calculated picture, really, with every "spontaneous" effect programmed within an inch of tis life, and a hopelessly hokey finale. Don't expect profundity, or even the carefully contrived angst of a "Kramer" or an "Ordinary People." Instead, look for a lot more laughs than Hollywood "people pictures" usually offer. Alda has kept his sense of humor, and his TV roots have paid off, too: The level of ensemble acting is high, as on the better prime-time sitcoms. It's no "MASH," but there are quite a few chuckles among the many sighs and occasional tears.