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We were lucky to have him — the steady one, the sensitive one. The diplomat. |
The Saints have looked to the CFL for safety depth. |
The club has reached agreement on a three-year deal with Marcus Ball, who spent the last two seasons with the Toronto Argonauts. |
Ball, who was a linebacker in Toronto’s scheme, will be a safety with the Saints. Ball (6-1, 209) played safety at Memphis, where he spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons after transferring from Florida State. |
Ball notched 69 tackles and intercepted three passes for the Argonauts in 2013. He turns 27 in July. |
I would like Rafeal Bush back as well. |
Great pick up for the Saints. I’m an Argonaut season ticket holder. Ball is a solid player and will be missed in Toronto. |
Sounds like a cheaper version of Roman Harper. |
Marcus Ball kept grinding and finally made it. That’s why I tell my boys don’t stop til you just know it’s over. Too bad Reggie Ball didn’t come in the league at this time. His option capabilities may have been more appreciated. |
Pollution highlights China energy problem Jump to media player Hazardous pollution levels in Beijing call into question China's use of coal and its longer-term energy policy. |
Coal blamed as China chokes on smog Jump to media player Beijing residents have been warned to stay indoors as smog caused by pollution worsens. It has partly been caused by a huge increase in coal consumption in China over the last decade. |
China steers electric car dream Jump to media player As China's leaders meet in Beijing for the annual parliamentary session, pollution is high on the agenda prompting a renewed effort to boost the electric car industry. |
There is growing concern about the safety of China's drinking water after the number of dead pigs found in rivers around Shanghai increased to almost 14,000. |
There has been no word from the authorities about the cause of the deaths. |
The scandal is the latest environmental issue to affect China, following recent record smog levels in Beijing, and water and air pollution in villages. |
The couple, married in 2015, recently teamed to launch a production company. |
The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder is staying in business with Warner Bros. Television. |
Somerhalder and his wife and producing partner Nikki Reed have signed a pod deal with WBTV, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. |
Under the project, the couple — who married in 2015 and launched their company, Rare Birds Productions, the same year — will develop new projects for the studio behind The CW's Vampire Diaries. As part of the pact, Rare Birds has hired Tracy Ryerson as executive vp and Arianne Staples as vp, development and production.... |
With Vampire Diaries currently in the midst of its eighth and final season, the pact keeps Somerhalder in business with his longtime home at WBTV. Before Vampire, he starred in the WB Network and studio's Young Americans and had a six-episode arc on WB-turned-CW drama Smallville. |
For Reed's part, she most recently was a series regular on Fox's 20th Century Fox TV-produced Sleepy Hollow, which, like Vampire, films in Atlanta. Her role wrapped at the end of season three. The pod deal brings Reed back to WBTV after a recurring role on The O.C. |
Somerhalder and Reed previously teamed on an episode of Showtime documentary Years of Living Dangerously. Somerhalder is repped by ICM Partners, Untitled Entertainment and Morris Yorn. Reed, whose credits include Thirteen and the Twilight franchise, is repped by Paradigm, Thruline Entertainment and Morris Yorn. |
Ryerson most recently worked as vp, development at Caryn Mandabach Productions, where she developed projects for the U.S. and international markets. Before that, she served as director of development at Jerry Weintraub Productions, where she helped oversee Tarzan, Westworld, and Ocean's 13. |
Staples hails from Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s Le Train Train Productions, where she was director of development and helped shepherd pilots Good Fortune for NBC and Claws at TNT. |
We plant rocks in our street now. It’s a longish street and quite elegant in its own understated Canberra way. Not too many of John Hewson’s ‘renters’ apparently, for most people seem to take a reasonable amount of care with their yards, front and back. It’s a quiet street, most of the kids seems to have grown up and m... |
One man in particular, long retired, on a corner block, has the most beautiful lawn—bowling-green perfection. He seems modestly proud of it, in that understated Canberra way. Early summer mornings will see him, dressing-gowned usually, with a mug of tea, just looking. At the beauty of the lawn or the sun on the hills, ... |
For us, though, the early morning walks around this street are no longer merely an opportunity to review and preview our own lives and to salute those of our kind who are out and about. They have become, sadly, an audit of the damage. Some person (why do I automatically think male and young?) has the habit of driving o... |
Why does this distress me so? It is the sheer bloody-mindedness of it, I suppose, the unfairness. If you or I derive some pleasure in an orderly and mannered garden, in neat and careful work, why should someone want so needlessly to spoil it? Where’s the fun? Is the lawn-hating hoot reacting to being yanked out of bed ... |
This has been going on month after month, for at least a year now, so it is not a whim or some drunken error of judgment. It is crafted and planned and, indeed, there is considerable driving skill in some of the areas this idiot reaches. I doubt that I could drive in and out of my own front lawn, in the dark at some sp... |
And he must be a neighbour to torment us so constantly. The police cannot help in a matter like this. What, sit all night in a patrol car hoping that this will be one of the nights of his random strikes? So we plant rocks on the edges of our front lawns—not allowed, of course, fences in Canberra. |
And when I saw those images of Glenn McGrath sorting out the West Indian batsmen in that final, sad Test, why did my mind immediately turn to the terror of the turf in suburban Canberra? West Indian batsmen have always been remarkable to me for the effortless grace of their game. A loon yelling in rage, unable to take ... |
The lawns will survive and prosper, I hope. The mornings will remain a time for gentle neighbourliness. And the rocks will remind us too that we have to work a bit to preserve the gentle pleasures in this too violent, silly world. |
Michael McKernan is a broadcaster and author, most recently of This War Never Ends: The Pain of Separation and Return, University of Queensland Press, 2001. |
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The Emmy-nominee began his stand-up career on the Long Island comedy scene. |
“The King of Queens,” which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around... |
Most recently, James has worked with Netflix for “True Memoirs of an International Assassin” in 2016, and this year’s “Sandy Wexler.” He will have a new stand-up special released on Netflix in 2018. For more information, go to Twitter @KevinJames or visit KevinJames.com. |
Tickets are $39, $59, $69 and $89, and they go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 11; go online to ticketmaster.com or call 800-745-3000. |
Dutch police used dogs and water cannon early on Sunday to disperse the crowd, which threw bottles and stones. Several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said. They carried out charges on horseback, while officers advanced on foot with shields and armoured vans. |
“The world must take a stance in the name of democracy against this fascist act! This behaviour against a female minister can never be accepted,” she said. The Rotterdam mayor confirmed she was being escorted by police to the German border. |
In a statement issued early on Sunday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey had told Dutch authorities it would retaliate in the “harshest ways” and “respond in kind to this unacceptable behaviour”. |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will do everything possible to prevent Turkish political tensions spilling onto German soil. Four rallies in Austria and one in Switzerland have been cancelled due to the growing dispute. |
Zurich’s security department, which had unsuccessfully lobbied the federal government in Bern to ban Cavusoglu’s appearance, said in a statement on Saturday evening it was relieved the event had been cancelled. |
Erik Solheim was back home in Oslo last weekend, and vigorously trying to defend himself after having to resign as head of the United National Environment Programme (UNEP). He had no choice, after the UN’s secretary general himself told him he had to go. |
Solheim’s version is that he “had to go because I tried to change the UN.” He told various Norwegian media that he’d tried to launch some reforms “that someone didn’t like.” He repeated his contention that a UN report detailing and criticizing his extensive and expensive travel was full of errors, and he also claims he... |
Newspaper Aftenposten, however, reported that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reacted negatively to Solheim’s lack of humility. UN auditors determined Solheim had both ignored and all but defied the UN system that he was part of. When Solheim criticized the report, failed to express regrets or promise to change h... |
Guterres also “knew that he had Norwegian officials behind him when he gave Solheim the message on Monday” that his time was up. The two men had spoken on the phone and Guterres sent a letter that Solheim had to resign immediately. |
Aftenposten outlined other problems, though, in addition to Solheim’s constant travel and how expensive and environmentally unfriendly it was (Solheim claims it was necessary in order to meet national leaders face to face and spread his climate agenda). Some of Solheim’s staff members, for example, reportedly got bette... |
He also ran into trouble, reports Aftenposten, for agreeing to make UNEP a sponsor of the regatta known as Volvo Ocean Race, at a cost of USD 500,000. Solheim claims it was important to raise UNEP’s profile and a means for building up awareness of the problem of plastics in the seas. |
UNEP also entered into an unclear agreement with the company running Norwegian industrial tycoon Kjell Inge Røkke’s research vessel. Shortly thereafter Solheim’s wife Gry Ulverud was hired to work for the same company. That set off criticism for a possible conflict of interest. |
Other conflicts arose over UNEP’s financial support from China, and UNEP’s cooperation with China’s international Green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Critics, not least the US, claim the Chinese are using UNEP to “greenwash” its global infrastructure project, and have raised numerous questions. |
Solheim dismisses most of that criticism as well, claiming he has run into challenges from UN members who simply resist his belief that countries like China, India and Indonesia can lead the way in the future instead of countries in North America and Europe. |
The 63-year-old Solheim told newspaper Dagsavisen that he has received lots of sympathy from staff members, from embassies and international organizations. He claims he merely has worked “intensely” to put climate and environmental issues high on the international agenda. He still claims his constant globe-trotting was... |
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian woman caught carrying a large knife near the security fence of a West Bank settlement said she was planning to carry out an attack. |
Police captured the woman, 32, outside the settlement of Emmanuel in the northern West Bank. The woman told police that she planned to use the knife to carry out a stabbing attack. |
The arrest comes a day after two Palestinians carrying large knives were arrested trying to infiltrate the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus. The attempts come just days after the first yahrzeit for five members of the Fogel family who were murdered as they slept in their home in the West Bank community o... |
On her way into Lady Gaga’s artRave ‘The ARTPOP Ball’ at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Paris Hilton met Famous Sparkle, a drag queen who sees Paris as her muse and aspires to be her doppelganger. |
Famous, who has a bit of a ways to go before she becomes a doppelganger, became a fan girl when she met Paris and was definitely star stuck. Paris, however, maintained her calm throughout the interaction, seemed happy and even agreeed to take several pictures with Famous and her friend. |
A grid developed by Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University outlines 15 different paths to change. |
A grid developed by Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University outlines 15 different ways that behavior can change. Behaviors are classified by duration – one time, for a defined period of time (i.e., 30 days) or for the long-term (from now on), and by the nature of said behavior to t... |
We felt this grid had implications for anyone looking to better understand behavior – and specifically what actions may need to be encouraged or taken in order to reach an ultimate goal; be it personal (from eating more vegetables, to cutting out beef from a diet, to becoming a vegan, for example – to marketing (the pr... |
After falling behind rival Google in the online realm, Yahoo is looking to turn things around in the quickly growing mobile phone market. |
The Internet company used the CTIA Entertainment & IT cellular show in San Francisco Wednesday to share a few announcements that it hopes will lay the groundwork for a successful expansion into mobile, including a new social communications service for the iPhone and an expanded development platform for developers. |
It's still early yet in mobile, and the dollars at stake pale in comparison to online ad revenue. But Yahoo, which has been building up its mobile offerings for years, is intent on capturing the potential opportunity created by 3 billion mobile users worldwide. |
"We want to create and enable a mobile ecosystem for billions of users," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo's Connected Life division. "We're turning everyone that uses voice today into a mobile data user." |
Boerries said its oneConnect service, a social address service that marries a cell phone contacts list with social networks, is premiering on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The service, which is available now in the Apple App Store, allows users to pull their friends and contacts together into one application, enabling the... |
Yahoo also is expanding a new development language to help developers build applications easily for mobile phones. Using a language called Blueprint, which Yahoo took five years to build, developers can create applications and Web sites at once that will run on a variety of operating systems and devices. |
The applications can work through Yahoo's Go mobile information service, or they can be built directly for mobile phones that can handle them. |
AT&T said Monday that Yahoo is being used as the default search engine on its MEdia Net portal. Yahoo's oneSearch service will allow customers to get news, weather updates, Flickr photos and online information from MEdia Net Portal. |
Yahoo's moves are intended to keep pace with and exceed archrival Google. Google is developing its own mobile operating system called Android, which make its first appearance later this year with T-Mobile. |
The online search leader also is reportedly close to securing a deal with Verizon Wireless to be its primary Web search provider. And it continues to offer mobile applications for a wide variety of mobile phone platforms, including a search tool made for BlackBerry phones, which was announced Wednesday. |
So far, Google is enjoying a lead in mobile search similar to the one it has online. It commands 61.5 percent of the online search market compared with 20 percent for Yahoo, according to Nielsen Mobile and comScore. |
But analysts said it's still early in the game, with ad revenue much smaller than online, although it's expected to jump in the years to come. That's why Yahoo is so intent on taking the fight to Google in mobile. |
"This is a critical push for Yahoo so they don't cede that area as well to Google," said Roger Entner, an analyst with Nielsen IAG. "This is the new growth area. If you're not playing here, you can pack up and go home." |
The YouTube user who recreated the Full House opening in Grand Theft Auto V is back to corrupt yet another one of your innocent childhood memories. |
This time merfish has recreated the opening theme to the PBS cartoon Arthur, and everything's pretty chill and then suddenly it's not, because someone's taking a shotgun blast to the back. |
He also made this video showing the real Arthur opening and "Grand Theft Arthur" side-by-side. |
Ricki Noel Lander is Pats owner Bob Kraft's attractive young lady friend. So when she decided to audition for an Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn movie and needed a stand in for Wilson, she obviously thought of the aging owner. Enjoy, but don't enjoy too much, because Kraft throws a mean punch. |
He's Friends With Mitt Romney! |
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