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"It's crazy, man, just to see the energy, just to see the support. All these millions of people are here for one cause," he illustrated. "Everybody is out here. I got a couple of homies who drove from Atlanta, who flew in from Atlanta. The kids are out here. The clubs are crazy, the parties. It's big."
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.: No. 9 West Virginia and the Big 12, perfect together.
Geno Smith and the fast-moving, high-scoring Mountaineers proved they fit right in with their new conference, outracing No. 25 Baylor 70-63 on Saturday in the Big 12�s highest-scoring game ever.
Smith tied a conference mark with eight touchdown passes and narrowly missed another one with 656 yards passing.
Smith outdueled Baylor�s Nick Florence, who broke Heisman Trophy-winning predecessor Robert Griffin III�s school record with 581 yards. Florence threw for five TDs.
School, conference and Football Bowl Subdivision marks all got rewritten in this one.
The game also set a record for the most points scored in a game involving a team ranked in the Associated Press poll. The previous mark of 124 was set in No. 12 Oklahoma�s 82-42 win over Colorado in 1980.
How wild was it? Smith, the early Heisman front-runner, had more TD passes than incompletions (six). He finished 45-of-51 and still doesn�t have an interception this season.
�Can you please tell me how you can improve on that?� West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said.
Maybe not on offense, but both defenses have plenty of work to do.
West Virginia amassed a school-record 807 yards and the teams combined for 1,507 yards of offense and 67 first downs. Six receivers had at least 100 yards receiving.
The Bears� Terrance Williams set a Big 12 record with 314 yards receiving. The old mark was set minutes earlier by West Virginia�s Stedman Bailey, who had 303 yards and a school-record five TDs.
Williams� 8-yard scoring catch brought Baylor (3-1) within 70-63 with 3:08 left.
But Dustin Garrison ran for 17 yards on third down and the Mountaineers ran out the clock to snap Baylor�s nine-game winning streak, the second-longest in the nation.
The combined 19 touchdowns tied an FBS mark, last reached when Navy beat North Texas 74-62 in 2007. That matchup set the FBS record for most points in a regulation game at 136.
Baylor, meanwhile, tied an FBS mark for the most points scored by a losing team.
Among the other records, Smith set school single-game marks for completions, yards and touchdown passes.
Bailey and Tavon Austin became the first FBS teammates with 200 yards receiving since 2007.
Going back to the Orange Bowl, West Virginia has scored 10 touchdowns three times in its last five games.
�Statistically, it�s my best game ever,� Smith said. �But I think it�s more about the team, and I think it just lets us know that we�re going to have to battle it out every week against some really tough teams in the Big 12.
West Virginia went ahead for good early in the third quarter, but Baylor almost always had an answer.
Traffic acquisition costs are eating into Google's profits.
Google spends a lot of money to get its ads and websites in front of people. The Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) company pays publishers a percentage of revenue to use its ad products on their sites. And it also pays Web browser developers, namely Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), to make its search engine the default when users type a query into the address bar. It calls these expenses "traffic acquisition costs."
During the first quarter, Google's traffic acquisition costs (TAC) as a percentage of revenue from its network members' sites skyrocketed 2 percentage points, from 68% to 70%. Overall, TAC increased 13% year over year, which is in line with what would be expected, but a larger percentage of those TAC are going to publishing partners, which should worry investors.
As Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat noted several times on the company's earnings call, Google has higher TAC on mobile than on desktop for its own sites. That's largely because it gets a higher percentage of revenue from distribution partners on mobile compared with desktop.
Google's own Web browser, Chrome, has a pretty hefty share of the desktop market. The only browser with a share higher than its 31.3% is Internet Explorer, which still commands half the market, according to NetMarketShare. Google only pays distribution costs for about 5% of browsers on desktop.
Apple is much more dominant on mobile, however, which means a higher percentage of traffic to Google's search engine comes through Safari. Google reportedly paid out $1 billion to Apple in 2014, with the revenue share reaching 34% at one point in time, according to Bloomberg.
Over the past few years, while mobile Internet browsing blew up, desktop browsing increased as well. However, in the past few months, desktop browsing has started to decline, dipping 7.6% in January, 2% in February, and 6% in March, according to data from comScore.As more traffic moves to mobile, Google has to pay more to its distribution partners such as Apple.
But when asked if the company received a bump in TAC from a major renewal deal -- hinting at a deal with Apple -- Porat dodged the question and repeated her answer that mobile TACs are higher than desktop. So it's unclear if Apple has already renewed a deal with Google at a higher rate, or if that's a threat that still looms large.
While more search traffic is moving to mobile, Google also saw a jump in programmatic advertising on its network partners' websites. Programmatic advertising allows businesses to buy ads in real time using computer software to make the ad purchase. The process allows businesses to finely tune their ad targeting, which enables them to receive better return on investment.
In January, Google rolled out its Programmatic Guaranteed program, which allows advertisers to buy a guaranteed number of impressions on a publisher's website. This may have contributed to a bigger than usual rise in programmatic advertising, which Porat says also sees higher TAC than its standard display ads.
Programmatic is only going to become a larger part of Google's business. according to a survey from AdRoll, 66% of marketers plan to increase their programmatic ad spend in 2016. The number of businesses spending more than half their ad budgets via programmatic ads more than doubled last year, after doubling the year before.
As programmatic becomes a larger part of Google's business, TAC will become a larger part of its gross revenue. Combined with the shift to mobile, and a potential squeeze from Apple if it renegotiates its distribution agreement, Google could start to see its TAC rise faster than anticipated. While the growth of mobile has led to strong top-line growth for Google, the shift away from desktop browsing and the trend in programmatic advertising will result in slower bottom-line growth going forward.
BOSTON, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Santander Bank today announced the opening of its newest branch in the Bronx located on 220 East 161st Street – the Bank's third branch in this community. The Bank will hold a grand opening celebration this afternoon where Santander executives will officially open the branch and present checks totaling $12,000 to two local non-profit organizations – the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco) and Bronx Works Inc. The branch at Grand Concourse Plaza is one of the 10 new retail branches Santander has committed to opening in low- to moderate-income communities and communities of color as part of its "Inclusive Communities" plan, which outlines the Bank's five-year, $11 billion commitment to lending and community development across its northeastern U.S. footprint.
"Santander knows how important it is to contribute to our communities and invest in the people and organizations that make up the neighborhoods where we live and work," said Elsie Leon-Cruz, region president for Santander's Metro New York/Northern New Jersey region. "To improve financial futures of residents in underserved areas, banks need to be easily accessible and convenient with approachable team members who are personally connected to the community." She added, "With three branches now open in the Bronx, Santander is well positioned to be the bank of choice for local residents and businesses looking for personalized financial guidance and attention from a company that is also committed to giving back to the community."
The Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco) is a community development organization founded on the idea that all people deserve healthy, vibrant communities. The $2,000 grant from Santander will support the organization's Bronx Cook Space program, which provides commercial kitchen space and technical assistance to help entrepreneurs launch small food businesses. Santander team members continue to volunteer their time at Bronx Cook Space, offering their financial know-how to support local small business owners.
Bronx Works Inc. helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well-being and made a difference in the lives of over 45,000 Bronx residents in the past year. From toddlers to seniors, Bronx Works feeds, shelters, teaches, and supports its neighbors to build a stronger community. Santander's $10,000 grant will help support the organization's successful community-based programs.
Santander's new East 161st Street branch features a modern interior design aimed at improving the customer experience with a welcoming, open layout, several meeting spaces and a comfortable meeting "nook" where customers can meet privately with our bankers to discuss their financial needs. The branch also has a "help bar" that provides a casual gathering area for waiting and quick conversations. A 24-hour zone with two full service ATMs is also available at the branch for customer use after bank hours.
"I welcome Santander Bank opening another new branch in our great borough, providing quality banking and financial services to our neighborhoods," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. "We live in a fast-paced world, and access to banking institutions has become more important than ever. Santander Bank has a great reputation of emphasizing the importance of personal banking and promoting local economic development, which is why I am grateful that they continue to expand their presence throughout The Bronx and welcome them to our borough's business community."
The branch manager and her team are available Monday through Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to assist existing customers as well as those who would like to learn more about Santander's products and services.
Day one of the bail hearing of a man accused of killing a Phoenix woman and her two daughters is set toget underway.
Crowds of community members have promised to come out in their numbers again in support of the family of slain mother, Jane Govindsamy and her daughters Denisha and Nikita.
Collin Pillay was arrested hours after their bodies were discovered in their flat on Longcroft Drive.
During Pillay's last appearance, the State Prosecutor told the court that they believe the murders were planned and premeditated - but Pillay's attorney asked for a postponement saying they weren't aware of an additional robbery charge and needed time to read through the charge sheet.
Cookie Edwards, who's with the KZN Network on Violence Against Women says cases like these remind them of how important the fight against gender-based violence is.
"The murders of the mother and her two daughters is like a slap in the face. It wasn't so long after August 1 - the #TotalShutdown March. For me, it's a sense of power and control over women. They are not only abusing but they're taking women's lives and young girls," Edwards said.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest desert on Earth. It receives only a few millimetres of rain every year, and many areas of this desert have been known to go decades without a single drop. The Desert is over 100,000 square kilometres in size and is located between two mountain ranges, the Andes and the Chilean Coast Mountains. Its hyperaridity is explained by the fact that it is high enough in elevation to prevent the transport of moisture from either the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.
It was previously assumed that hyperaridity would result in a decrease or a complete lack of microbial life. But scientists including Dr. Alessandro Airo from the Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technical University of Berlin, found evidence of the presence of a metabolically active microbial community in the Atacama Desert. Microbial life can remain dormant for long periods of time, even hundreds of years, but become metabolically active following any increase in moisture. In 2015, the researchers experienced a surprisingly significant rainfall of 8 millimetres shortly before collecting soil samples for their experiments. The resulting increase in activity proved that microbial life can indeed exist in such a harsh environment.
The understanding of microbial life in the Atacama Desert can serve as a working model for Mars. On that planet - where the environmental stresses are even more extreme - microbial life could also exist in a dormant state beneath the planet's surface. Although it does not rain on Mars, the planet does experience some moisture events that could bring microbes to life.
Why do we have wax in our ears?
AMARILLO -- Xcel Energy has received calls from customers reporting attempted scams in the Texas Panhandle over the past few days.
In recent scam attempts reported from customers in Amarillo, Canyon and Borger, scammers are impersonating Xcel Energy agents and telling customers that a serviceman is on his way to disconnect their electrical service for nonpayment, according to a news release from the company.
"The scammers are demanding payment over the phone in order to prevent disconnection, and offer only one option for making payment – a prepaid debit card," the release states.
The recent scam attempts follow a familiar pattern of scams that have cropped over the past several years, both in Texas and New Mexico.
Xcel Energy officials urge customers in either state to be familiar with the scammers’ tactics and avoid providing any personal or financial information over the phone.
Customers who are behind on payments will receive a printed disconnect notice in the mail before any other attempt to collect is made.
Xcel Energy also offers multiple options for making payment. If customers receive calls demanding payment under threat of imminent loss of service, they should hang up and contact Xcel Energy to verify account status. Residential customers should call 1-800-895-4999. Business customers should call 1-800-481-4700.
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the average American adult male. Metal objects such as the mock eyeglasses and belt buckle (top and center of the phantom) test the detector's function.
Whatever happened to the reset button?
Early in the life of the Obama administration we were treated to one of those cheesy "made-for-TV" moments that was just about too corny even for our exalted medium.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travelled to Geneva to meet the Russian foreign minister and pressed the reset button.
A real-life big red button, symbolising a new start, a better relationship.
As it happens, her translation was a bit awry and the Russian word on the button could mean "overcharged".
Now, "highly charged" might be the more appropriate phrase. The relationship seems to have been rebooted again and it has gone back to a much older, even Cold War, format.
The Russian leader says protesters have been stirred up by the Americans. The Americans say Russia is ignoring democratic norms.
Make no mistake. This is no accident.
Hillary Clinton has not been caught out by a stray question in an unguarded moment. She has repeatedly gone out of her way to call the Russian elections "unfair" and "rigged".
There is something of a stark contrast with Obama's reaction to other democracy movements. He was painfully slow to support protesters facing far worse abuses in Iran.
Some saw him as slow to support the anti-Mubarak protest in Egypt. He certainly did not rush to speak out about the crushing of protest in Bahrain.
The reaction to Russia is all the more puzzling as many around Washington will tell you the only really close relationship Obama has with a foreign leader is with President Dmitry Medvedev.
I turned to Matt Rojansky from the Carnegie Endowment for his assessment of what has happened.
He thinks the relationship has gone downhill as both the US and Russia enter a tricky electoral cycle. Goodwill has been exhausted.
The reset produced results, but what he calls "the low hanging fruit" have already been plucked.
There was the START treaty, an important agreement on narcotics and terrorism and an agreement to allow military traffic through, avoiding Pakistan.
But the deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia programme at the Carnegie Endowment says they are now stuck on America's insistence on a missile defence system.
The US says it is about protection against Iran, but Russia fears it is aimed at undermining their defence. He calls it "a load-bearing wall" which could crush everything else beneath it unless it is propped up.
Russia is going back to the old days, producing weapons it does not really need and putting weapons amidst European Union countries in the strange Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Mr Rojansky told me that he thought as failure became more likely both sides were keen to portray the other as awkward customers, as an explanation for why no agreement has been forthcoming.
But he also thinks US policy-makers see fewer risks in criticising Russia than foes like Iran, or friends like Bahrain.
And in the perceived absence of terrible consequences they default to the position of supporting democratic protesters.
It will take serious negotiations, after the big elections of 2012, to sort this difficult relationship out and I guarantee those talks will be free of cheesy visual aids.
Is Gwyneth Paltrow "Newsstand Suicide"?
They hate you! They really hate you!
The Entertainment Weekly issue with the stars of Iron Man on the cover hit newsstands today. Funny thing: Gwyneth Paltrow ain't on it. Why? Because, apparently, she kills covers.
The three stars who do grace the cover -- Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johanssen, and Mickey Rourke -- certainly have their appeal and will no doubt attract newsstand sales, but Gwyneth Paltrow is, like, an A-lister, right? Well, maybe not. That would be forgetting the now-infamous Vogue cover she did last summer. You know, the one where she looked like an ice-queen-slash-space-alien? That one. Conde Nast confirmed it to be the company's worst-selling issue since 2001, only moving 350,000 copies off the newsstand.
Those kinds of figures were no doubt at the top of the editors' minds at Entertainment Weekly when they made the call not to put Paltrow on the cover -- fearing her, as the Post reported, to be "newsstand suicide." Which is definitely something that the folks in print just can't take a chance on these days.
Just a couple of weeks ago Paltrow made headlines with the latest episode in her long history of bashing America.
"(Spain) is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," said Paltrow.
"Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their BlackBerries on."
Could it be that she's finally paying the price for years of biting the hand that has made her fabulously wealthy?
Some other celebrities that most folks wouldn't take a chance on right now? Hilary Swank, Jennifer Connelley, and Katherine Heigl, all of whom have graced the worst-selling list for various other fashion mags over the years.
And the whistle goes. What a second-half effort from Everton. There will no doubt be further questions about that late penalty shout, but at the end of the day City didn't do enough to win this.
Is that a penalty?! No! Raheem Sterling falls under a sliding tackle from John Stones but the referee points for a goal-kick. Late drama! It looked a decent shout, but it isn't given.
Everton have another rare effort as Romelu Lukaku heads wide. Three minutes of injury time has been added.
No, they can't as Joe Hart punches away. The ball actually went out of play before swinging back in from the corner. What a waste. Back to defending lads. City are coming.
This a second-half rarity. An Everton corner, which comes after the referee waved play on following a Yaya Toure foul on Leighton Baines. Surely they can't nick a winner?
The City players are falling over themselves in desperation to find a winner. David Silva and Sergio Aguero collide in the box before the latter chips over the goal from a very tight angle. Time ticks on. Nine minutes and counting.
City simply cannot find a way through the dark blue wall in front of them. They have had 10 corners now, the latest of which is swung in by David Silva but headed out by Ross Barkley.
Everton have barely been in the City half since the break. Gael Clichy chips over a cross that Jesus Navas meets but heads wide. Another half-chance goes begging as we close in on the final 10 minutes.
Everton's defence is doing a sterling job. They are firmly on the back foot but are getting in front of everything to hold City at bay. Kevin de Bruyne fires way over from 25 yards. It is the Belgian's last act. Here comes David Silva. Can he provide the spark?

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