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Manchester United goalkeeper coach Emilio Alvarez has got fans excited that David de Gea may finally be close to signing a long-awaited new contract with the club. |
The Spaniard is out of contract in 2020, with the club forced to trigger a 12-month extension shortly before Christmas, and he is believed to be demanding around £400,000-a-week to commit his future to the Red Devils. |
De Gea reportedly wants a salary close to that of Alexis Sanchez – which his performances certainly merit – though negotiations stalled when Jose Mourinho was sacked. |
The goalkeeper is now loving life again under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, not least because his long-time goalkeeper coach Alvarez was retained – along with Kieran McKenna and Michael Carrick – while the rest of Mourinho’s staff were axed. |
After helping United overcome Crystal Palace on Wednesday night, De Gea and Alvarez enjoyed a nice sit down together on Thursday afternoon at Cibo Restaurant. |
Although Jorge Mendes is leading contract talks with United on behalf of De Gea, Dominguez – who played as a goalkeeper with the 28-year-old at Atletico – is believed to be part of his entourage too. |
De Gea and Alvarez have a very close relationship, working meticulously on the training pitch, and the goalkeeper coach thinks his countryman still hasn’t hit his peak yet. |
Dominique Whaley has gone from a virtually unknown walk-on to one of the Big 12’s best running backs. |
Whaley is listed as a co-starter with five-star recruit sophomore Brennan Clay. He is also ahead of four-star recruit Roy Finch. As the Sooners continue their quest to remain undefeated this season at the Cotton Bowl, Whaley is going to have an important role, even though he is playing without a scholarship. |
“Typically, there’s not a lot of guys that show up that have the ability he has,” said running backs coach Cale Gundy. |
Whaley went virtually unnoticed by recruiters because he did not attend summer camps in high school and he grew up in a military family. In addition, he played slot receiver his senior year while Oklahoma teammate Javon Harris was the featured back. |
He did have offers from Emporia State and Langston. But he turned them down to be a student at Oklahoma. |
Whaley scored four touchdowns in his Sooner debut. He rushed for 131 yards on 18 carries in Oklahoma’s win against Tulsa this season. |
Oklahoma center Ben Habern and linebacker Tony Jefferson were shocked when they found out Whaley was a walk on. |
He has rushed for 100 yards in two of Oklahoma’s four games and has seven touchdowns this season. That ties him for 13th nationally and first in the Big 12. He has 70 carries for 379 yards this season. Not bad for someone who didn’t start during high school. |
Whaley is tough. He runs aggressively and isn’t afraid to take hits. He was briefly out of Oklahoma’s matchup against Ball State. But he returned soon after coming out of the game and scored a 25-yard touchdown. |
Center Gane Ikard has been impressed with Whaley’s play and said Whaley hits people, rather than gets hit. |
Offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said whoever has the “hot hand” will play and get the ball. Whaley definitely has the hot hand right now. |
Clay has been battling injuries recently, so Whaley may have to step up even more this weekend when the Sooners meet the Longhorns. |
Crime doesn't pay in Lexington: The village has been ranked as the 32nd-safest small town in America by SafeWise. |
LEXINGTON - Mayor Gene Parkison recalled a case that came before him involving a man who broke into a local restaurant. |
"His comment was, 'I knew I shouldn't have gone to Lexington,'" Parkison said. |
Crime doesn't pay in Lexington. The village has been ranked as the 32nd-safest small town in America by SafeWise. |
The report highlighted the 100 safest small towns with populations between 2,500 and 15,000. |
"We're super pleased with what the report's saying," Parkison said. "If I had to look at a single ingredient, I would say our residents. They should be the ones getting the credit." |
To come up with the report, SafeWise reviewed the most recent FBI crime report statistics from 2017 and census population data. |
SafeWise is a leading resource for safety and security. |
Since all of the top 100 small towns reported zero violent crimes, the SafeWise evaluation is based on the number of reported property crimes, including burglary, arson, larceny and motor vehicle theft. |
SafeWise calculated the rate of crimes per 1,000 people in each town to make it easier to compare the likelihood of the crimes occurring in towns with vastly different populations. |
In 2017, Lexington reported 2.13 property crimes per 1,000 people. The village population was 4,683 according to 2017 Census figures. |
The safest town in America is Lewisboro Town, New York. Lexington was the third-safest town in Ohio, ranking behind No. 10 Chester Township and No. 29 South Russell, both suburbs of Cleveland. |
"There's no question we haven't had major crime — knock on wood," Parkison said. "A big part of that for us is visibility. The (police) officers try real hard to maintain neighborhood contacts." |
Administrative Director Andy Smallstey said the police force has expanded. |
"We're fully staffed more than we've ever been," he said. |
Lexington police do vacation checks in which they walk around a person's property. |
Parkison kept going back to the residents. |
"Our population does not tolerate turning their back on things," he said. "It gives us that chance to go and check it out." |
Smallstey added, "The residents police themselves to a level that assists the police department, if you ask me." |
Village officials try to reach residents at an early age. Each school year, third-graders tour the village hall. It's more than a quick visit; the students receive education about safety. |
"We explain to them how things work," Smallstey said. |
To check out the full SafeWise report, visit https://www.safewise.com/safest-towns-america/. |
An electronic album that is utterly original and not easily forgotten. |
From Here We Go Sublime is an album not only concerned with space, but more than that -- it is concerned with infinity. For over an hour, the Field (aka Axel Willner) plays with the drone of various sounds to construct music that is constantly expanding. These songs seem incapable of being contained. Even the scant par... |
"Over the Ice", the album's opener, builds slowly and deliberately. It starts simply: all thudding beat accompanied by nearly inaudible synth notes. Then, the looped sound of a woman's voice comes in, sounding both robotic and ghostly, setting the tone for what is to follow. The song gradually adds layers of keys and s... |
The entirety of From Here We Go Sublime sounds like that. Like both a challenge for Willner and an inevitability. And perhaps what is most impressive is Willner's confidence in the face of such ambition. The production always sounds under control, never forced. He manages to incorporate basic electronic elements -- lik... |
On "The Deal", perhaps the most epic of all these epic songs, the sampled vocals raise the stakes of the song, and consequently the album. The sample gives the song a choral feel, like something one man couldn't possibly have created himself. It drives on, taking its time and drawing the listener in with its choir of a... |
"Sun & Ice" may be the album's zenith. Following the amazing "The Deal", the song soars as sounds swell and circle back around to swell and rise again. It is a song -- like many of these songs -- that earns every moment, not giving the listener the lift the song provides, but making them participate and pay attention t... |
Willner has never been shy about his love for shoegaze, and he achieves another small success on this album by incorporating that influence into his music and making it his own. As with My Bloody Valentine, the melody is not always immediately apparent in the Field's music; it is buried down in the songs a little and t... |
Data visualization artist Neil Halloran has a knack for turning incomprehensibly large and complex data sets into content that’s both coherent and engrossing. In his latest project, the filmmaker uses his skills to convey the unthinkable: the total number of deaths caused by an all-out nuclear war. |
A couple of years ago, Halloran used animated data visualizations to illustrate how many soldiers and civilians were killed during the Second World War, but he’s now turned his attention to something that’s potentially far worse—the next world war. |
In his new 15-minute video, The Shadow Peace, Halloran uses inverted population pyramids to show how global population figures and death rates are tracked over long timescales, and how these pyramids sometimes “spike” during calamitous events, such as WWII. But when projecting the effects of global nuclear war, the siz... |
The video starts off with a quick demography lesson, reminding us how many people have come and gone in human history, and how many of us are living today. Halloran goes on to predict WWIII casualties by extrapolating the effects of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, by factoring the destructive po... |
Halloran says he can’t offer easy answers for how we can best confront the challenges of nuclear weapons, particularly in the case of North Korea, but he believes his latest video is a good way to illustrate the insanity of using nukes. |
Hopefully, the current tensions between the United States and North Korea will begin to settle, but until that happens, we all have a right to be worried about our civilization’s future. |
MUMBAI: There are 110 pay and 180 free-to-air channels jostling for space on Indian cable networks, according to information provided by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India based on data collected from various multi-system operators (MSOs). |
Overall, there are 129 pay channels as on 31 December 2008. This is based on data provided by 19 broadcasters or their distributors to the sector regulator. |
Trai has also updated the figures for digital set-top boxes in Cas (conditional access system) areas till 31 December, 2008. The number of digital STBs has increased to 767,616, up 6.95 per cent from the previous quarter. |
The DTH subscriber base, served by five private operators, has touched 11.1 million till 31 December, 2008. |
In the radio business, apart from All India Radio, there are 245 operational private FM Radio stations across India, said Trai. In the three months, September-December only nine FM channels have been launched. |
Trai said that out of 60 licensees of community radio stations, 41 are in operation. In the previous quarter (ending 30 September), there were 57 community radio station licensees, out of which 36 were operational. |
Trai also mentioned that as per the reports submitted to it, 84 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are providing broadband services in India. However, out of these 84 ISPs only 15 service providers are having a base of more than 10,000 subscribers each and these 15 service providers share 98.64 per cent of total subscri... |
Internet wireline subscribers have reached 12.85 million, as compared to 12.24 million during the previous quarter (30 September, 2008). There are 5.52 million broadband subscribers, up 12.65 per cent from the previous quarter. |
The Average Revenue Per User (Arpu) for dial-up Internet subscribers remained Rs 221.97 for the quarter ending December, 2008, while the minutes of usage for dial-up access per subscriber/month is 214.23 minutes. |
The report also suggests that there are 101.1 million wireless Internet subscribers, capable of accessing Internet through mobile handset (GSM/ CDMA), for the quarter ending December 2008. |
Trai also mentioned in the report that the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has retained its top position with a subscriber base of 6.70 million Internet subscribers at the end of December 2008 against 6.38 million at the end of last quarter. |
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With gas prices above $3 a gallon in all 50 states, will people travel less and will fewer packages be shipped because of the increased fuel costs? |
With gas prices heading in the wrong direction, companies must choose whether to eat the increases -- and lose margin -- or pass them on to customers and risk losing business. |
According to AAA, gas averaged $3.28 per gallon in January, with prices forecast to go even higher in February. UPS (NYSE:UPS), as the leading package delivery company in the United States, has a business highly affected by the price of gas -- though not necessarily in the ways you might expect. |
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), which has built its business on quick, inexpensive delivery, is one of UPS' main customers. It can see its thin profit margins erode if gas prices rise, which may force the company into making some tough choices. |
According to AAA, all 50 states had gas prices over $3 a gallon in January with Hawaii averaging over $4 and Connecticut ($3.64), Alaska ($3.64), New York ($3.63), and California ($3.59) coming in as the next four highest. The national average price was slightly lower than 2013, but February is historically a month whe... |
In 2013, the peak price average price of the year -- $3.79 per gallon -- came in February and AAA expects similar increases this year. Bad weather, however, can lead to unpredictable prices. Winter storms can lower demand, sending prices down, but they can also cause refinery shutdowns or regional shortages that cause ... |
Rising costs equals rising prices, less driving? |
"Whenever fuel costs rise, businesses generally have two choices," said AAA Public Relations Manager Michael Green. "They can either reduce other costs or they can attempt to pass those fuel costs along to consumers by raising prices." |
Green explained that there is no specific cost per gallon where companies decide to pass increases onto customers, nor is there a magic number where people decide to drive less. "Prices affect everyone differently based on attitudes and financial security. For example, a driver with a high income is not going to be as ... |
As the leading package delivery company in the United States, UPS would seem to be greatly dependent on the price of gas for its profit margins. That, however, is not the case. |
"UPS and all carriers use a fuel surcharge that passes the increase (or the decrease when there is one) on to customers," said UPS spokesman Dan McMackin. "The practice is industrywide so you'd get the same response from other companies in the industry." |
According to McMackin, the surcharge is not built into any shipping rates. The surcharge is based on the On-Highway Diesel Fuel Prices Index reported by the U.S Department of Energy for the month that is two months prior to the adjustment. |
And while UPS does not lose money when gas costs more, the company's business is affected if prices get too high. |
"When there is an extreme spike in fuel, we have in the past seen some trade-down from premium services to our deferred services," McMackin said. That is, customers who might have used next-day or two-day delivery opt for cheaper, slower choices. |
Amazon, which has no physical stores and is entirely delivery-based, does not directly pass on UPS surcharges to customers. That leaves the company, which had a razor thin .94% profit margin in December 2013, especially vulnerable to increased costs. |
Currently, Amazon has a wide range of shipping prices depending upon product category, speed of delivery, and whether the customer is willing to wait until an order can be shipped whole. Those prices can relatively easily be changed to reflect increased costs. But, where the company has less flexibility is its Amazon P... |
CNNMoney reported Feb. 3 that Amazon is considering raising the price of this service (which offers other goodies like free videos) by as much as $40. |
UPS and other carriers seem largely insulated from the impact of normal gas price fluctuation as long as the industry remains united in its implementation of the fuel surcharge. Amazon, however, faces a risk should it raise the price of Prime, because, even if it remains a good value, a backlash like the one when Netfl... |
In a Time article on the possible price increase, Neil Doshi, a tech stock analyst in San Francisco with CRT Capital Group, thinks most people won't mind a $20 increase but a $40 jump "might be hard for consumers to swallow." |
Still, while there might be some customers who balk at any price increase, Amazon Prime, even at $119 a year, remains a value for heavy users of the site. Assume an average per item charge of $3.99 and Prime becomes a value after 30 orders -- not a hard number to hit with a company that sells everything from books to o... |
Even at the higher price, Prime itself remains a risk for Amazon. Because the free shipping is locked in for a year, Amazon is vulnerable to spikes in gas prices driving its costs up with no means to pass them on to customers. |
Silverlake's most European-esque boutique, Lake, is giving thanks to their customers by offering 20% discounts on all shoes and boots in the store. This is a very good thing. The Rowena Avenue gem also has an ongoing seasonal clothing sale with styles by Rag & Bone, Elizabeth & James, Mike & Chris, and more. |
Now through Monday, November 30. Lake is at 2910 Rowena Avenue. 323-664-6522 for more info. |
Apple wants to be the first to bring new movies to TV. |
If you pay $14 to watch a movie in theaters, would you pay $25 to watch that same movie at home? |
The biggest tech and media companies believe the answer is yes, and they're now jockeying for position in a market that many in the industry are convinced will be the next big thing in entertainment — home access to movies shortly after they debut in theaters. |
It's an idea that's been around for a while, but one that always seemed to be a ways off. But with executives publicly teasing the idea and reports emerging of ongoing negotiations, it seems like the time may have come for a true home theater experience, movies and all. |
Apple is the latest tech player to lobby Hollywood studios for early access to movies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. A deal could let iTunes customers rent new movies as soon as two weeks after those films premiere. Usually movies are limited to theaters for 90 days. |
"The whole idea of early release and the shrinking of the theatrical release window is inevitable" |
That's something nearly every streaming service or content provider is interested in doing. Of course, Apple wants to be the first. |
"The whole idea of early release and the shrinking of the theatrical release window is inevitable," Peter Csathy, founder of of the media consulting firm CREATV Media, told Mashable. "Apple's been stymied in doing that, although it's wanted to, because the studios haven't been willing to give Apple the terms it wants. ... |
A deal like this would mark a huge change for both Apple and its competitors as well as the studios and cinema chains that act as movie gatekeepers. 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures all confirmed interest in similar deals to Bloomberg. |
According to Bloomberg, brand-new movies would be available on iTunes for $25 to $50. That's a lot more than the price of one movie ticket, but the cost could be worth it in many instances: A family deciding between heading to the movie theater or staying in; someone who lives relatively far away from a theater or in a... |
What's good for tech companies would not be good for movie theater chains. Taking the most popular new movies outside the theater could decimate profits for movie chains, which depend not just on money from tickets but on the popcorn and soda you buy while you're there. Theaters would likely have to be cut in on digita... |
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