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In the process, the Grizzlies validated their contrarian style by finally showing it can work against a high-quality opponent.
Denver scored 29 points in the first quarter, keeping pace with its season scoring average. But with just 18 points in the second quarter and 17 in the fourth, it was the first time this season the Nuggets failed to reach 20 points in two quarters during the same game.
"They were just more physical than us at times," Nuggets coach Michael Malone said.
Grizzlies coach J.B. Bickerstaff said, "That's the way we have to be."
Against Denver, that embrace finally paid dividends against a quality foe.
“If we’re not able to make shots and score, we want to be able to hang our hats on defense and still win games that we can’t score 95 or 100 points," Temple said. "Like J.B. said, that’s what’s going to make us unique in 2018 in today’s NBA. It’s being able to defend and hold people to 95 points or less.
Analogue’s new Mega Sg will allow users to experience retro Sega games without wires or lag, according to a press release Tuesday.
Gamers eager to experience (or re-experience) pre-Sega Saturn era games can do so in 1080p when the Mega Sg releases next year. The Mega Sg game system is compatible with the more than 2,000 games available for the Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and the Master System.
Analogue, the creators behind the Super Nt, which allows gamers to experience the 16-bit era of Nintendo, boast that its new Mega Sg “uses the most advanced retro-gaming video upscaling on the planet” and claim it offers “lagless video output.” Analogue emphasizes that the Mega Sg is not a “plug n’ play toy,” but in fact a way to preserve video game history.
Visual isn’t the only part of the experience that matters— Analogue also considered audio output to be of key importance.
The Mega Sg is compatible with Sega Genesis cartridges and Mega Drive cartridges, and includes a Sega Master System cartridge adapter with the system. If you want to play Sega CD games, an original Sega CD (also known as the Mega CD) will be required to play. The Mega Sg plugs into an original Sega CD via its edge connector, which is stealthily hidden behind a little expansion door.
Analogue will also offer adapters for an estimated $9.99 each for the Mark III, Game Gear, Sega MyCard, SG1000/1000II, and the SC-3000.
The Mega Sg system comes in four color schemes ranging from black consoles with variant button colors and one white version.
Analogue also partnered with 8BitDo to offer a matching retro M30 controller. The wireless controller is offered in black and in white, and offers 20 hours of battery life.
The Mega Sg and 8BitDo M30 controller are available for pre-order now and cost $189.99 and $24.99, respectively. The console ships April 2019 and the controller a little earlier, in February.
'We've got a rugby pitch in our garden' Jump to media player Len Jones and his wife Doreen have set up a miniature rugby pitch in their front garden.
YouTube gardener makes back yard oasis Jump to media player Ross Lee, 26, says he had no previous gardening experience when he started work 10 months ago.
A city that is turning streets into gardens Jump to media player People living in Paris are planting little gardens in the streets.
The back garden 'mini-Glastonbury' Jump to media player A music festival in a suburban garden is helping mental health patients tackle their issues.
A couple have set up a miniature rugby pitch in their front garden to raise money for charity.
Len Jones and his wife Doreen, from Mancot in Flintshire, have even made little England and Wales players to replicate this weekend's big clash in Cardiff.
The couple's neighbours are used to it - they do the same thing for most major sporting tournaments and have raised £1,300 for the Wales Air Ambulance.
Abu Dhabis first Waitrose is part of Boutiks debut in the UAE.
Boutik, the retail property brand of Sorouh Real Estate, has opened its first outlets at Sun & Sky Towers, including the first Waitrose supermarket in Abu Dhabi.
Boutik Sun & Sky Towers, which serves as the main retail centre for residents and office workers on Shams Abu Dhabi, offers more than 50 shops and food and beverage offerings including La Brioche cafe, YogenFrüzFrozen Yogurt, and the Macondo cafe experience.
Sorouh said it plans to roll out the Boutik concept at more of its developments in the UAE.
Rajeev Lee, Sorouh's retail director, said the launch of Boutik Sun & Sky Towers was a key milestone in the development of the growing community on Reem Island.
"An attractive retail mix plays a very important role in the lifestyle experience, and in the development of a vibrant community. We have been careful in selecting a diverse mix of retail elements that cater to the needs of our residents," he said.
Boutik is also being rolled out at other Sorouh developments, including Al Rayyana, and in a new mall in Al Ain.
At Al Rayyana, a 1,500 unit residential apartment development, Boutik will feature 27 retailers.
The largest space will be occupied by Maybury, a new concept deli-supermarket which will be another first in Abu Dhabi.
Boutik Al Ain, with over 185 retailers, will also offer a cinema, dedicated family and kids entertainment centre and multi-cuisine food court.
It also includes Carrefour as its hypermarket, a health and sports club and top fashion outlets.
Scientists have mapped the boundary globally between the Earth's crust and its mantle - the so-called Moho boundary - in unprecedented detail.
They used gravity measurements from the European Space Agency's Goce satellite to model its location.
The famous "discontinuity" lies some 10-70km below the surface and marks a sharp change in rock properties.
It was first identified by the Croatian geophysicist Andrija Mohorovicic in 1909.
He determined the boundary's existence from the distinct behaviour of seismic waves produced by shallow earthquakes.
Goce can be used to sense the Moho's depth because it is able to detect subtle variations in the Earth's gravitational field.
These differences result from the uneven distribution of mass inside the planet - a signal that also reflects the major shift in rock density that occurs at the boundary.
"At the Moho, there is a discontinuity between the compositions of rock - there are rocks of different density," explainedDr Daniele Sampietro from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
"The crust has a smaller density while the mantle has a bigger density. And since the change in density means there will be a change in mass, I can use Goce to observe the Moho."
The new global map shows clearly that the boundary's depth is greatest under the big mountains, and at its shallowest under the oceans.
Today's scientists recognise the interface to be where familiar surface rocks of predominantly basaltic or granitic composition give way to peridotites.
These rocks comprise magnesium-rich, silicon-poor minerals such as olivine and pyroxene and are rarely seen at the surface.
Getting a clearer picture of where the discontinuity lies will aid the study of plate tectonics, the mechanism that explains how the Earth's rigid outer shell moves and is recycled into the planet's interior.
The information is likely also to be useful to those seeking new oil and gas resources, by making it easier to discern deep geological structures.
There are places, such as in Cornwall in southwest England, where chunks of ancient Moho have been thrust to the surface, but it remains a key quest for scientists to drill down and retrieve pristine samples of rock from either side of the discontinuity.
Such a venture is more likely to happen under the oceans because that is where the crust is thinnest.
An attempt was started in the early 1960s (Project Mohole) but was soon abandoned because of the high cost of meeting the engineering challenge.
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (Goce) was launched in 2009. It flies pole to pole at an altitude of just 255km - the lowest orbit of any research satellite in operation today.
The spacecraft carries three pairs of precision-built platinum blocks inside its gradiometer instrument that sense accelerations which are as small as one part in 10,000,000,000,000 of the gravity experienced on Earth.
This allows it to map the almost imperceptible differences in the pull exerted by the mass of the planet from one place to the next - from the great mountain ranges to the deepest ocean trenches.
It was already known last week the Eagles would finish last, but they didn’t finish as the lone winless team. Western Kentucky blew a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter last week and finished 0-12, too.
Alabama sealed No. 1 after convincingly defeating Florida, 32-13, in the Southeastern Conference championship.
Last week was filled with great finishes, including last-second wins by Texas, Cincinnati and Arizona, but the best finish came in Champagne between Illinois and Fresno State.
Not only did Fresno State score with 2 seconds left (reviewed and upheld), but coach Pat Hill decided to go for two and the win. What ensued was a near sack, which turned into a tipped ball that ended up in the hands of a lineman, who ran it in for the conversion for a 53-52 victory over Illinois.
The bowl games have been announced, with the exception of a strange scenario in which Temple will either play UCLA or Army in the EagleBank Bowl, pending the results of Army’s game against Navy on Saturday. If Army wins, it’ll play Temple. If Army loses, UCLA will play Temple.
Brewster's Liars (tv show) is an American sitcom about a boy named Marius Brewster (Todd Bridges) being raised by his foster parent (James Avery). The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984 to September 7, 1986 and again in first-run syndication from October 30, 1987 to May 27, 1988.
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The filibuster may be unconstitutional, creating as it does a mechanism for a Senatorial veto.
One thing's for sure: Filibusters are also pre-constitutional. They are even pre-colonial.
The original filibusters were pirates of the Caribbean, and the contemporary Senate procedure continues to bear traces of the word's origins in the disruptive and lawless practices of the privateers who boosted the goods of ships traveling under Spanish sail. Later, the word came to describe an American movement with a base in the pre-Civil War South to seize Spanish West Indian and Central American lands and goods in the name of Manifest Destiny.
The word derives from a Dutch term for pirate and began to be applied to efforts "to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent a vote on a bill" in the in the 1850s, according to the Senate Historical Office. It is believed to derive from the Dutch word vrijbuiter, which means "to plunder," with vrij meaning "free" and buit meaning "booty."
And booty, according to Michael Sheen, a retired Chicago English teacher who writes the WordMall blog, means "collective plunder or spoils" such as "household goods seized and carried off" by armies.
These "freebooters" or "filibusters" traveled under no nation's sail -- they used various iterations of the Jolly Roger, instead -- and often sought to "privateer" goods and gold being transported by Spanish ships in the Caribbean, from slaves to gold. The word to describe them was first recorded in English in the late 16th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Filibustering first took on a political meaning in the early 19th century when it was transferred from pirates who seized goods to individuals who sought to seize goods, land -- and states.
In the 1800s, the term took on new meaning, referring to a group of adventurers who, without the consent of the American government, tried to assume power in a number of Latin American and Caribbean countries. Filibusters were intent on overpowering the 'lesser peoples' despite neutrality laws that forbid Americans from privately engaging in warfare with other countries.
Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Mexico were all victims of filibusters from 1830 to 1860.
Famous filibusters were larger than life characters such as Narciso Lopez, a Venezuelan-born soldier who, aided by sympathetic Southern money, liberated Venezuela from Spanish rule. He then attempted three times to free Cuba.
William Walker, a southerner from Tennessee, annexed parts of Mexico and named himself president. In his proclamation of control over Lower California (then part of Mexico), Walker explains why the territory was rightfully his, an explanation that neatly sums up the filibuster movement.
Thus abandoning the peninsula, and leaving it as it was "a waif on the waters," Mexico cannot complain if others take it and make it valuable. On such considerations have I and my companions-in-arms acted in the course we have pursued. And, for the success of our enterprise, we put our trust in Him who controls the destinies of nations, and guides them in the ways of improvement and progress.
Despite the vehement objections of the Mexican government and the anger of the U.S. authorities, many Americans thought this was a triumph for filibustering. However, Walker eventually gave up, finding it too difficult. He was tried by the U.S. and acquitted.
Perhaps it is appropriate given the history of the filibuster movement that the longest filibuster in U.S. history came from a Southern senator, the late Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who held out for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. After all, according to PBS, "The filibuster cause was successful largely thanks to a strong support base in the South" where "parades were held in their honor, songs written and their adventures glorified."
ATLANTA (AP) � A federal appeals court in Atlanta will hear arguments in a legal challenge to a Florida law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test, and the ultimate outcome could affect similar efforts in other states.
Florida's law, adopted in 2011, required welfare applicants to pay for and pass a drug test to receive benefits. It was in effect from July through October last year before it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge who said it may violate a constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The American Civil Liberties union filed a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of a 35-year-old Navy veteran and single father who sought the benefits while finishing his college degree but refused to take the test because he said it stigmatizes the poor.
The state has appealed that decision to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which is set to hear oral arguments in the case Thursday. The federal appeals court will decide whether a preliminary order blocking the drug testing should remain in place pending the outcome of the broader legal challenge.
Florida argued that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, is meant to ensure family stability and child welfare during times of financial crisis and to prepare parents to get and keep a job so the assistance is temporary. The state argues drug use by recipients undermines those goals. "TANF dollars must be spent on TANF's purposes � protecting children and getting people back to work," said Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
The ACLU argues drug testing is considered an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The laws also make unfair and unfounded assumptions about welfare recipients, the ACLU argues.
Georgia is one of the states watching closely as Florida's law winds its way through the courts. Georgia lawmakers passed a similar law this year, but Gov. Nathan Deal put it on hold until the challenge to Florida's law is resolved.
Arizona, Missouri, Utah, Tennessee and Oklahoma have also adopted laws to test at least some welfare applicants or recipients, according to NCSL. But those states took a more cautious approach, opting for some sort of screening process for and requiring tests only from those they have reason to believe are using illegal substances.
The traditional Mediterranean diet provides substantial protection against type 2 diabetes, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
The Mediterreanean diet is rich in olive oil, grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and fish, but low in meat, dairy products and alcohol.
Current evidence suggests that such a diet has a protective role in cardiovascular disease, but little is known about its role on the risk of developing diabetes in healthy populations.
The SUN prospective cohort study involved over 13 000 graduates from the University of Navarra in Spain with no history of diabetes, who were recruited between December 1999 and November 2007, and whose dietary habits and health were subsequently tracked.
Participants initially completed a 136 item food frequency questionnaire designed to measure the entire diet. The questionnaire also included questions on the use of fats and oils, cooking methods and dietary supplements.
Every two years participants were sent follow-up questionnaires on diet, lifestyle, risk factors, and medical conditions. New cases of diabetes were confirmed through medical reports.
During the follow-up period (median 4.4 years) the researchers from the University of Navarra found that participants who stuck closely to the diet had a lower risk of diabetes. A high adherence to the diet was associated with an 83% relative reduction in the risk of developing diabetes.
Interestingly, those participants who stuck strictly to the diet also had the highest prevalence of risk factors for diabetes such as older age, a family history of diabetes, and a higher proportion of ex-smokers. This group of participants was therefore expected to have a higher incidence of diabetes, but this was not the case. If fact, say the authors, they had a lower risk of diabetes, suggesting that the diet might provide substantial protection.
The major protective characteristics of the diet include a high intake of fibre and vegetable fat, a low intake of trans fatty acids, and a moderate intake of alcohol. In addition, a key element of the diet is the abundant use of virgin oil for cooking, frying, spreading on bread, and dressing salads.
The authors conclude by calling for larger cohorts and trials to confirm their findings.
As Michel suggested, I have the pleasure/burden of being the editor who takes first crack at selecting which book authors to interview for Tell Me More. There are no hard and fast rules about which titles get airtime and which don't - but, we do observe a few self-imposed guidelines.
1) The book has to matter.
This does not mean the book has to be written by a president or a Nobel prizewinner. It can be a light-hearted summer read that speaks to our audience.
2) Two chapters and out.
The book has to prove its worth by the end of the second chapter. If it hasn't grabbed me by then, well, I am not going to bother reading the rest of it. Every now and then, all I have to do is read the first page. I keep waiting and hoping to fall in love with a freshly published book after only the first paragraph.
If the subject of the book happens to coincide with or complement a story that is hot in the news right now, then its chances of getting on air are much improved. Right now, for instance, I would kill for a good biography of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
4) More non-fiction than fiction.
We believe it helps to hear from an author who has taken a long and hard look at an important story in the news.
The book has to stand out in a crowd. Sounds trite, but it is true.