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Jets GM John Idzik said QB Tim Tebow either was or was not in the mix for the starting job.
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Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome will speak at the NFL’s career development symposium.
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The Bengals are looking for a change-of-pace back to pair with BenJarvus Green-Ellis.
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The Browns are adjusting to the wrinkles new defensive coordinator Ray Horton’s bringing.
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An uncertain future makes the Steelers likely to look to the draft for WR help.
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The Texans hosted league officials as part of their Super Bowl bid.
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Jaguars TE Marcedes Lewis plans to make his presence felt in a new offense.
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Many expect the Titans to load up on linemen in this draft.
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The Broncos are set at WR for the present, but are looking for some young ones to develop.
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Chiefs WR Jon Baldwin is making a good first impression in minicamp.
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The Raiders finalized their preseason plans.
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Chargers S Eric Weddle is impressed with the way new coach Mike McCoy is taking charge.
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The Cowboys haven’t drafted many QBs, but they may need to add a young backup in the draft.
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Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul should be one of the keys toward making the Giants more consistent this season.
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Eagles DE Vinny Curry and OLB Trent Cole are having to make weighty adjustments to a new scheme.
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The Redskins may have to find a starting safety in the second round.
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Bears coach Marc Trestman was encouraged by a lack of mental errors during his first minicamp.
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Former Lions K Errol Mann died at 71.
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The stage could be set for the Packers to trade down and add some picks.
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The Vikings are buying some adjacent properties in Winter Park with an eye toward expanding their facilities.
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Are the Falcons looking to move up in the draft to take a CB?
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Former Panthers K John Kasay has taken a job as athletic director at a local high school.
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There are those who think Notre Dame LB Manti Te’o would be a fit for the Saints with the 15th pick.
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The Bucs have a decidedly mixed track record in the draft in recent years.
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Former Cards great Larry Centers continues to add to the ways he helps the team as he’ll announce their second-round pick.
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Former Rams G Tom Nutten was instrumental in the training of draft prospect Menelik Watson.
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The 49ers are impressed by the work put in by QB Colin Kaepernick this offseason.
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Seahawks GM John Schneider spent 45 minutes talking about draft plans with reporters, even though he doesn’t pick until 56th.
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I think Manti will be a bust. If not a bust, he’ll be mediocre LB at best and lifetime special teamer.
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Well, oakland does start vacation in October…..
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Luck saying he needs to improve is similar to a dehydrated person saying they need water. Luck would be a better architect than QB. colts fans should be prepared to watch their team lose no less than 10 games.
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Griffin is far superior even with 2 surgeries on his knee.
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Hey lucks neck. Luck might go down as the G.O.A.T. He probably will be near it in the end. Griffins on the fast track out of the league.
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LAS VEGAS -- Two days after Warner Bros. announced plans to back Blu-ray Disc -- a decision that could prove pivotal in the high-def disc format battle -- Sony CEO Howard Stringer thanked the company and other Blu-ray Disc backers for supporting the format.
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"As you can probably guess, all of us at Sony are feeling blue today," Stringer quipped as he took to the stage at a news conference at the International Consumer Electronics Show here. "But that's a good feeling."
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On Friday Warner Bros. said it would stop issuing its movies on HD DVD later this year and go solely with Blu-ray Disc. Warner had been the only major Hollywood studio to back both formats, and with its shift exclusively to the Blu-ray Disc camp, leaves just Paramount and Universal as backers of HD DVD.
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"I'd like to thank Warner for making the decision to release in Blu-ray their home video and to [Time Warner CEO] Jeff Bewkes and [Warner Bros. Entertainment CEO] Barry Meyer for making the decision, as they said in their press release, in the long-term interests of consumer and customer," he said. Stringer also took the opportunity to thank Blu-ray's existing backers for being "true blue all the way through."
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The comments were Stringer's first since Warner announced its decision. He didn't say anything further on the issue, which has been the buzz of many of the news conferences held Sunday by major consumer electronics makers ahead of the show's official opening on Monday.
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Earlier Sunday the main backer of HD DVD, Toshiba, said it remained committed to the format and that talk of its demise was premature. "We've been declared dead before," said Jodi Sally, vice president of marketing for digital audio and video products at Toshiba America Consumer Products, at a Toshiba news conference.
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See PC World's  ongoing coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show at our CES InfoCenter.
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In this impassioned political memoir, the man who led the U.S. Agency for International Development's democracy-promotion programs during the 2006 presidential campaign in Nicaragua details just what political nation building means at the grass-roots level. With purposeful transparency, Hendrix reveals the trail of money and technical assistance that flowed from U.S.-based nongovernmental organizations to Nicaraguans fighting for fair elections, integrity in government, a more effective judiciary, and a vibrant civil society. In his energetic efforts, Hendrix mobilized the impressive network of democracy-promotion specialists that USAID has nurtured around the Western Hemisphere. Hendrix adamantly rejects charges of interventionism and insists that his motives were not "right versus left" but rather "right versus wrong." On election day, Nicaraguan voters preferred one of the "wrong" candidates, awarding the United States' nemesis Daniel Ortega a slim plurality. Yet Nicaragua remains a vigorous, if imperfect, democracy, a work in progress that should give Hendrix some comfort.
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ARN honoured the industry’s finest on a standout evening for the Australian channel, recognising the achievements of established and emerging partners under the Big Top in Sydney.
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Encapsulating a year of great change for the local market, the highlights of the past 12 months were once again played out on the grandest stage, in front of over 650 of the country’s leading industry figures.
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Hosted by Adam Spencer, the eleventh awarding of the channel’s finest set the stage for three ARN Hall of Fame inductees; Ronnie Altit, Warren Nolan and Karl Sice.
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Keynoted by Hall of Fame inductee - Philip Cronin - the packed house at the Hyatt Regency in Darling Harbour played host to a milestone occasion.
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Reflecting the health of the local channel, more than 50 partners made the final shortlist in 2017, as well as over 20 technology start-ups from across Australia.
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The end result was the most diverse and wide-ranging partner line-up in the history of the ARN Awards, with the biggest night on the channel calendar playing host to the leading innovators of the past 12 months.
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Completing the finalist line-up, more than 35 vendor organisations were also in the running, alongside over 15 distributors.
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ARN congratulates all winners, finalists and nominees, and thanks a judging panel comprising of over 140 of the industry’s leading influencers.
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Datacom wins this award in recognition of Voice of the Customer, a series of customer feedback sessions carried out both internally and through the support of an external agency. Datacom has so far conducted 230 interviews, over 13,000 minutes of recordings and 1400 pages of transcripts, filled with customer feedback and guidance.
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Andrew Thomas wins this award for his work founding AtlasPlato, a management consulting firm focused on developing data-driven organisations. Despite launching less than 12 months ago, AtlasPlato is already competing and winning against the Big 4 in its first year of operation.
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Amazon Web Services wins this award in recognition of ‘SAP on AWS’, an initiative that included several partner enablement and go-to-market customer activities. The result is a host of local customer wins, with SAP on AWS now becoming the new normal across Australia.
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To prevent voters from approving popular ballot initiatives raising the minimum wage and paid leave, Michigan Republicans passed them as law. Now that the election is over, they’re taking it back.
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In the lead-up to the midterm elections in November, grassroots organizers in Michigan campaigned to get a higher minimum wage on the ballot. Activists for a campaign called One Fair Wage demanded that the state’s minimum wage increase from $9.25 an hour to $12 by 2022. A companion initiative drafted by MI Time to Care called for the state to mandate 72 hours of paid sick leave annually for all workers, no exception, plus an hour of extra sick time for every 30 hours worked.
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Sensing that both initiatives, which gathered more than the required number of signatures to appear on the ballot, would pass, Michigan’s Republican-controlled legislature headed off the vote on the ballot and approved the two measures as law in September. In Michigan law, the legislature is granted the power to intercept initiatives headed for the ballot and make them state law, ostensibly to save the money and resources that would go into continuing to campaign for measures that are likely to pass anyway.
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But Michigan’s legislature used this this legal shortcut not in response to the popular will of its constituents, but to use its last gasp of power to gut the laws before the new Democratic leadership (the state’s first in over eight years) takes control in January. The Republican-controlled legislature set the laws to come into effect in March 2019, giving them enough time to tamper with them before leaving office.
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This week, the Michigan House approved an amendment to the law that would move the timeline for the $12 minimum wage phase-in back to 2030; the Senate already voted in favor last week. Adjusted for inflation over the next decade, this essentially could mean a pay decrease for some workers in the state. Amendments to the paid sick-leave law would roll the number of mandatory days back to four, and exempt businesses with fewer than 50 workers, which employ around 1 million of Michigan’s roughly 4.2 million workers. The amendments will go to Governor Rick Snyder for approval next week.
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None of this exactly comes as a surprise. When the Michigan legislature decided to head off the ballot vote for these two proposals, Senate Arlan Meekhof said that they would alter them to make them “more acceptable to the business community”–as in, not requiring them to consider the human needs of their workers. (We’ve reached out to Michigan House and Senate leadership, and will update the story if we receive comment.) The current minimum wage in the state, according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, falls below the $10.87 per hour that a single adult needs, and incredibly below the $23.12 a single adult with a child would need. The more rapid phase-in of the $12 minimum wage would certainly help close some gaps for hourly workers, and the more robust paid sick-leave policies would ensure that they wouldn’t have to sacrifice their health to do so.
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In recent years, other Republican-controlled states like Missouri have worked to stymie minimum wage hikes. This year, Missouri and Arkansas circumvented their conservative legislatures and secured minimum wage raises via ballot initiative. Without the same loophole as the Michigan legislature has to intercept the laws, these initiatives will take effect.
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While Michigan Democrats are, for the time being, unable to do anything to stop the approval of the amendments that will weaken wages and paid sick leave, there’s a chance they may not be implemented. A provision in the law that allows the Michigan legislature to intercept a ballot initiative says that the legislature cannot amend the intercepted ballot initiative in the same session–which is exactly what this legislature is trying to do. The same leadership behind the original ballot initiative effort may mount a lawsuit against the legislature, and the state’s Supreme Court will likely review the constitutionality of the amendments. Regardless of the outcome, the situation in Michigan demonstrates the extent to which conservative lawmakers will go to keep money from flowing to people in need, despite the popular demand for fairer wages and leave policies from voters across the political spectrum.
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An Israeli soldier is missing after a Palestinian group carried out an attack on a military post in which two Palestinian fighters and three Israeli soldiers died.
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An Israeli army spokeswoman said there were four Israeli casualties in the attack at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Sunday morning.
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After the attack, a small Israeli force mounted a search operation in the southern Gaza Strip near the scene of the incident to look for the missing soldier.
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Israel's military chief of staff said he believed the missing soldier was alive.
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Officials from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a small Palestinian group, said it carried out the assault as revenge for the Israeli assassination of the group's founder, Jamal Abu Samhadana, earlier this month. The PRC said that members of Hamas's military wing had also participated.
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The incident, in which PRC fighters managed to get into Israel, came days after a warning was given of an imminent attack in the area. The dawn raid was the first carried out inside Israel from the Gaza Strip since Israel withdrew from the occupied territory in September last year.
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The army spokeswoman said: "Apparently an anti-tank missile hit a tank. The clash is still in progress."
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The Israeli army said there was an exchange of fire near the crossing, which is used to bring cargo from Egypt into Gaza.
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Aljazeera received a statement saying that a number of Palestinian resistance fighters had been dropped behind the separation fence.
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However, the Israeli army said the fighters tunnelled under the border, and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons.
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An Israeli military source said seven gunmen infiltrated and attacked an armoured personnel carrier.
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Speaking to Aljazeera, Khalid al-Batsh, an Islamic Jihad leader, congratulated the Palestinians for the "brave operation".
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"The ongoing Israeli aggression and crimes against Palestinians confirm that our people would never give up and would continue resisting the occupation," he said.
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Abu Mujahid, a PRC spokesman, said: "Our fighters infiltrated the Israeli army military location near so-called Kerem Shalom.
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"They succeeded in blowing up several Israeli vehicles and clashed with Israeli soldiers. The battle is still going on. The number of fighters is bigger than any time. We have some martyrs who fell during the battle."
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He said full details of the operation would be released at a news conference later in the day.
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The operation, he said, was meant to avenge the death of the group's leader, Abu Samhadana, who was killed by an Israeli air attack on June 8. Abu Samhadana was killed shortly after accepting a senior security position in the Hamas-led government.
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The Gaza-Egypt border was closed after the attack.
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Palestinian officials said the European observers who oversee the Rafah international border told them they would not be opening the border on Sunday because they could not get into Gaza from Kerem Shalom, the crossing used by the monitors to get from Israel to Gaza.
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Israel had closed the Rafah border, Gaza's only gateway to the world, for much of the past four days citing security concerns.
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The Israeli army issued warnings over several days last week that militants were plotting an attack at Kerem Shalom. The warning prompted EU monitors to close the nearby Rafah crossing, Gaza's main gateway to the outside world.
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Hamas ended its 16-month-old truce on June 9 after seven members of one Palestinian family were killed on a Gaza beach during a day of heavy Israeli shelling. Hamas has blamed Israel for those deaths. Israel has denied responsibility.
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Israel completed a withdrawal of Jewish settlers and soldiers from Gaza in September last year after 38 years of occupation. No Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since then.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, condemned the attack in a statement saying: "We have always warned against the danger of certain groups or factions leaving the national concensus and carrying out operations for which the Palestinian people will always have to pay the price."
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Israel closed all crossing points leading to Gaza.
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I wonder - you think the iPhone version of Safari will allow the Silverlight plug-in to install?
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(June 11, 2007) - This morning I got to watch Steve Jobs in person do his thing, complete with reality distortion field. Despite rumors to the contrary, I felt no brainwashing tug on my mind, and felt no involuntary compulsion to buy whatever it was Steve was up there selling. I was watching a charismatic CEO do a presentation on some really cool new stuff coming out from Apple.
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5,000 + attendees, the biggest WWDC in history.
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950,000 ADC members this year, which is 200,000 more than last year. To me personally, this means there is some serious momentum behind developers curious about Cocoa and developing for OS X. How many of them do you think are currently .NET Developers??
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1:4 Apple engineer to Attendee ratio. This means that THE most brilliant Apple development minds are in this building this week, and there's a crapload of them.
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I'm not sure if everyone caught it, but he made a little joke about how Microsoft hasn't caught up to speed and started delivering Universal binaries for their apps on the Mac.
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Bing Gordon from EA showed up. Starting in July 2007 Command and Conquer 3, BattleField 2141, NFS:Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be coming out natively for the Mac. Additionally, EA sports is supporting Madden 08 and PGA Tour 08.
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John Carmack (!!!! my freaking hero) showed up. The demo lighting even changed from a nice happy blue to demonic orange and red :) He didn't name their upcoming project, but there was a logo with the words 'Tech5' in several places. Their fully immersive world seemed to be infinitely customizable and he mentioned that artists could do anything they wanted to the surface of the world without impacting the performance of the game. The track he showed had 20Gigabytes(!) of textures on it.
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New Desktop. The new desktop has a semi-transparent menu bar (yes, the audience went wild) that adapts itself to whatever picture happens to be underneath it. This is not quite the same as being semi-transparent. It actually picks up the main color dominance of the underlying picture and uses that as its main color. Stacks - new feature that clean up the desktop. Basically a really interesting paradigm that allows you to "explode" the contents of a folder into a quick preview pane. Very handy for internet downloads folders. The new 3d dock is reflective of nearby content.
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New Finder. The audience went nuts at this announcement. You can search other Macs and other servers. While I personally think this is a little bit of catch-up given that Vista automatically searches other nearby Windows machines, Apple is never one to do "me too" without value add. They've incorporated dynamic DNS into .Mac so that any computer that has notified .Mac of its whereabouts is shareable over the internet. This means that you can turn on your office computer and then turn on your laptop from home and be able to drag and drop files between the two seamlessly. This will work every time since every time the Mac starts up it updates .Mac with its public-facing IP address.
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Quicklook - saw this already at the tech talk in January. Still as impressive now as it was then.
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64 Bit top to bottom - again, this isn't new to me but that doesn't lessen it's impact .What's revolutionary here isn't the 64-bit support, its the fact that there is one single version of OS X that will run 32-bit and 64-bit apps side by side. This guarantees developers that if they build their app in 64-bit mode, it is guaranteed to run on virtually every Mac out there today running Leopard.
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Core Animation - Don't need to harp on this, you folks already know how I feel about this. Its freaking fantastic.
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Boot Camp. Also mentioned Parallels and VMware here. Very nice. Full native support for Vista. New version of Boot Camp does NOT require you to burn a driver's disc, the drivers are all on the OS X DVD! This is HUGE.
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Spaces - Steve did a demo of this. I like being able to rearrange the spaces as well as the windows within them all at a glance.
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