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Goldman Sachs is joining the numerous firms who have been very bullish on Netflix. Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. gave the stock a buy rating and wrote that Netflix, currently valued at $41 billion, could become a $100 billion dollar company by 2020. Morgan Stanley hiked the target price to $750 from $620 and reiterated an ove... |
These optimistic projections rely on Netflix attaining international success, but last week Motley Fool analyst Adam Levine-Weinberg wrote that while Netflix has been making great investments to increase international appeal, these investments have left Netflix in the red, running at a negative cash flow and with meage... |
Netflix”s seven-to-one stock split will take place Tuesday, with its Q2 earnings report the next day. Netflix has projected that it would add 2.5 million subscribers in the second quarter. |
U.S. stocks surged, with major indexes up by more than 1 percent, as Greece and its creditors reached a deal, keeping the country in the Eurozone and revitalizing international markets. In exchange for a three-year loan program, Greece must increase taxes and pass reforms by Wednesday. |
Apple shares grew 1.93 percent, or $2.38, to 125.66, as the Wall Street Journal reported that the Cupertino tech giant makes up 92 percent of the entire smartphone industry”s profits. This is up from 65 percent a year ago, and despite that fact that Apple only accounts for 20 percent of total smartphones sales around t... |
Google jumped up 2.81 percent, or $15.62, to $571.73, as controversy has sprung up regarding the Mountain View company”s Android Photos app. David A. Arnott from Upstart Business Journal reported that even after deleting the Photos app from his phone, the app was still uploading photos to the cloud without his permissi... |
Speaking of cybersecurity, Adobe was up 1.05 percent, or 85 cents, to $81.44, as the San Jose company said it is working on a patch to fix exploits in Flash that resulted in the highly public attack on Hacking Team. |
Facebook shares were up 2.44 percent, or $2.15, to $90.10, as the Menlo Park social network”s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, publically denounced Flash on Twitter, saying he hopes that Adobe announces an “end-of-life” date for Flash, as this will be the “only way to disentangle the dependencies and upgrade the wh... |
Fitbit was up 3.28 percent, or $1.38, to $43.48, as the Wall Street darling has more than doubled its initial public offering and continues to receive bullish recommendations from firms. |
Pandora was up 1.6 percent, or 24 cents, to $15.28, as research firm Vetr upgraded the stock from strong sell to sell, with a current target price of $13.40. |
Yelp shares were up 2.02 percent, or 70 cents, to $35.43, as Northland Securities downgraded the stock, lowering the target price to $29.50 to $35.00 with an underperform rating. |
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley”s biggest companies: Up 29.61, or 1.59 percent, to 1,896.91. |
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 73.81, or 1.48 percent, to 5,071.51. |
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 217.27, or 1.22 percent, to 17,977.68. |
And the widely watched Standard & Poor”s 500 index: Up 22.98, or 1.11 percent, to 2,099.60. |
I proudly support Melissa Ackison for the United States Senate. Melissa is a proud American who wants to represent the republic. She is a small-business owner and not a career politician whose only agenda is advancing their political career. |
Ackison is a thoughtful and compassionate person who will listen to and engage with the people she represents. She will advocate for the republic and what is in the best interest of all people, not just the select few. |
In the private sector, Melissa has built several businesses from the ground up. She has worked in human resources internationally and domestically. |
Ackison focused on employees and labor relations, organizational design, and policy implementation. Like many other small businesses, the failed policies of Washington have hurt her business and she is ready to fight back. These government policies are intrusive and unnecessary. The Affordable Care Act is one of these ... |
The establishment doesn’t represent the people anymore, which is why President Trump is in office. We need more of this in Washington and Melissa Ackison can do this for us and defeat Brown. |
I urge voters in our great state of Ohio to stand with us. Stand up against career politicians and vote for a woman who will fight for us. Melissa Ackison for US Senate. |
All Ohioans should know about a power grab in Ohio. State Rep. Bill Reineke of Tiffin, representing Sandusky and Seneca counties, has introduced legislation (HB 512) to consolidate three education departments into a new Department of Learning and Achievement. |
The director would be appointed by Gov. John Kasich. |
The legislation retains the state superintendent and the state school board, but takes away most of their power. Currently the state school board consists of 19 members of which the governor appoints 8 already. We the People are able to elect 11 of them. |
With passage of this bill we will no longer have a voice concerning education. |
Representative Reineke’s statist thinking believes crib to career or birth to work demands a unified approach. State control of the education system not only raises the question of who shall teach, but who shall have stewardship over the child — the parents or the state. Think Common Core! |
Throughout history, rulers have aspired to use the educational system to shape their nations. Getting government agents through the door at birth is key to preparing them to be obedient and compliant tax payers with the proper reverence to the ruling class. Statists believe that the state is the family and that the bio... |
According to Judeo-Christian ethic, the family is the most fundamental social unit of civilization with the responsibility of bringing up the child. Rightfully, critics of the merger fear a “mega-agency” that would diminish the role of educators, parents, families and the general public in making Ohio’s education polic... |
Please call your Ohio representatives and senators and ask them to please oppose HB512 because Ohioans have the right to vote for and have state school board members who represent them. |
With three crippling Nor'easters battering our East Coast in quick succession, we all looked forward to March 20, first day of spring, balmy weather, and flowers in bloom. |
It's also a superb occasion to replace animal foods on our menu with healthy, delicious, eco-friendly vegetables, legumes, grains, and fruits. |
The shift toward healthy eating is everywhere. Fast-food chains like Chipotle, Quiznos, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bell, and Wendy's all offer plant-based options. Major publications and popular websites tout vegan recipes. |
Google CEO Eric Schmidt views replacement of meat by plant protein as the world's No. 1 technical trend. The financial investment community is betting on innovative start-ups, like Beyond Meat, or Impossible Foods. Even Tyson Foods' new CEO sees plant protein as meat industry's future. |
Every one of us can celebrate spring by checking out the rich collection of plant-based dinners and desserts in our supermarket's frozen food, dairy, and produce sections. An internet search on vegan foods brings rich rewards. |
The bitter Senate fight to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court plunged into deeper chaos Thursday as a top Democrat disclosed she had referred “information” about President Trump’s nominee to the FBI. |
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) issued a brief, cryptic statement about the referral, but the absence of any details only raised questions. The information came in a letter that describes an alleged episode of sexual misconduct involving the 53-year-old Kavanaugh when he was in high school, according to a person famil... |
The White House decried the move as a desperate, last-minute campaign to tear down a qualified nominee, and the FBI does not plan on investigating the matter, which erupted publicly as Democrats complained that Kavanaugh is unfit for the high court. |
The abrupt disclosure came as an intensely political battle over Kavanaugh’s confirmation continued to escalate, with a handful of moderate senators who would decide his fate deliberating on how they would vote on a nominee who could shift the balance of the court to the right for generations. |
Top Senate Republicans said Kavanaugh’s nomination remains on track, but two swing GOP votes — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have not announced their positions and face intense pressure at home to oppose Kavanaugh, injecting uncertainty into the outcome. Collins said she had lingering quest... |
Democrats have thrown increasingly charged questions at Kavanaugh as they face a furious liberal base pushing senators to do everything within their power to sink his nomination — sometimes without offering public evidence of their claims. |
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked Kavanaugh several questions in writing about gambling, including whether the judge had ever reported a gambling loss to the Internal Revenue Service and whether Kavanaugh had sought treatment for a gambling addiction. The nominee said no to both questions. |
“All of our questions were predicated on documents produced to the committee, information relayed by law enforcement, or media investigations on the subject of which we became aware,” Whitehouse said. |
But the drama on Thursday centered on the mysterious letter. |
Democrats on the committee first learned about the letter’s contents at a meeting called at the last minute on Wednesday night. The letter had been relayed to Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, by Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), two people familiar with the matter said. |
Emma Crisci, a spokeswoman for Eshoo, said she could not comment because of a confidentiality policy involving constituent casework. |
Other Democratic senators on the committee — who have, for weeks, been furious with the GOP over how they’ve proceeded with Kavanaugh’s nomination — declined to comment on the letter’s contents and the uncertainty that it caused. But privately, some Democrats had asked Feinstein about the letter’s substance as chatter ... |
The White House immediately pushed back on the development as a “smear” attempt to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation, which Senate Republicans plan to complete before Oct. 1, the first day of the court’s fall term. The Senate Judiciary Committee decided Thursday to vote on the nomination Sept. 20. |
Kupec noted that the FBI has “thoroughly and repeatedly vetted” Kavanaugh through his 25-year public-service career, which includes work in the Office of Independent Counsel under Kenneth Starr, the George W. Bush White House, and his current position on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. |
The spokeswoman also accused Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of masterminding the latest developments surrounding the letter. But a Schumer aide said the senator has not had access to the letter. |
The White House did not return a request for comment specifically on the sexual misconduct allegation. |
Several officials confirmed that the letter was referred to the FBI. But the bureau does not plan to launch a criminal investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter — a probe that would normally be handled by local authorities if it were within the statute of limitations. |
Instead, the FBI passed the material to the White House as an update to Kavanaugh's background check, which already has been completed, the person said. The move is similar to what the bureau did when allegations were leveled against former White House aide Rob Porter, who resigned earlier this year after the emergence... |
Once the White House received the material from the FBI, which it did early Thursday afternoon, it sent the information to the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to an administration official. |
“Upon receipt of the information on the night of Sept. 12, we included it as part of Judge Kavanaugh’s background file, as per the standard process,” an FBI spokesperson said. The Justice Department declined to comment. |
The allegation of sexual misconduct in the letter was first reported by the New York Times. The existence of the letter was first reported by the news website the Intercept. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Thursday morning that he had not seen the letter, so he could not comment on... |
The controversy arose in the final stages of Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight, as Democrats have sought to delay the process. |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is intent on setting up votes in the full Senate for the last week of September. Feinstein’s disclosure did nothing to change the timeline, as a spokesman for Grassley confirmed that the committee vote would proceed as scheduled. |
In a chamber where Republicans hold a 51-to-49 majority, Kavanaugh will be confirmed as long as he loses no more than one GOP vote. While Collins and Murkowski haven’t announced their decisions, they have shown no signs publicly that they are struggling to get to a “yes” on his confirmation. |
When asked whether she wanted to see the letter that began the swirl of controversy on Thursday, Collins declined to respond, saying she would not make any more public comments until she was ready to announce her position. |
But her office has faced a firestorm of calls from Kavanaugh opponents, with the protests sometimes coming in a profane and vulgar manner that has been denounced by Republican senators and some Democrats. On Thursday, a three-foot-long cardboard cutout of male genitalia, accompanied by a profanity, was sent to Collins’... |
Collins had already been the target of a crowdfunding campaign that topped $1 million from anti-Kavanaugh activists, who pledged to donate that money to a Collins challenger during her reelection bid in 2020 if she voted to confirm him. A spokeswoman for Collins called it an attempt at extortion. |
As she walked into the Judiciary Committee offices Thursday, Murkowski said she had no update on her thinking on Kavanaugh. |
Among Democrats, three moderate senators who are seen as the most likely to vote in favor of Kavanaugh had also yet to make up their minds. Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.) and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) continued to deliberate Thursday, and Manchin was seeking a second sit-down meeting with Kavanaugh. |
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) dismissed the controversy on Twitter. |
Matt Zapotosky, Robert Barnes and Amy Brittain contributed to this report. |
Gov. Rick Perry says Texas has “no intention” of implementing a state health insurance exchange or expanding Medicaid now that the federal health care law has been upheld. |
Perry is writing to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to this effect, according to his office. |
The federal government is to establish a health insurance exchange if Texas doesn’t. Medicaid expansion is not required by states under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the federal health care law. |
Jimmy Kimmel has a special talent of finding some of the most gullible people on the planet. In a new clip for Jimmy Kimmel Live, the popular TV show host tricks Kanye West "fans" with fake Yeezys. |
In the three-minute video, Kimmel pokes fun at the exorbitant price of the new Yeezy Boost 750 Chocolate. Kimmel's team buys cheap sneakers and glues a compass and some fur on the shoes (a total cost of $14 per pair to make), and then they proceed to call the made-up shoe the "Yeezy Boost 2000." They then set up a kios... |
Every single person featured in the clip sounds ridiculous. They all believe the shoe is 100 percent authentic, and one woman is even tricked into believing the shoe gets smaller by pushing the compass in the center of the sneaker's tongue. Another guy, upon being told that the shoelaces are edible, bites the laces and... |
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Two months after horrifying kids everywhere with a chilling image of Lightning McQueen in a brutal wreck, Pixar has given us a closer look into the red hot rod’s uncertain future with a new “Cars 3” TV spot that premiered during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. |
While the trailer for “Cars 2” featured loads of exotic locales and goofy Mater moments, “Cars 3” went for intense circuit racing, “Inception”-style horn stabs and a complete lack of Larry the Cable Guy. |
In the new spot, we see McQueen (Owen Wilson) facing the possibility of becoming outdated by a new generation of Piston Cup racers. At the forefront of this new breed is Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), a sleek, black machine with a new-fangled electric engine. |
When Jackson’s incredible driving — and possibly that grisly crash — cause Lightning to question his future, he gets some help from Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo), a tech specialist who wants to help Lightning find himself again. After some rigorous training and soul searching, Lightning returns to the track to prove t... |
Along with Wilson, several cast members from the original cast will return, including Larry the Cable Guy as Mater, Bonnie Hunt as Sally and Cheech Marin as Ramone. Longtime Pixar story artist Brian Fee will helm “Cars 3” in his directorial debut, with Randy Newman returning to provide music for the film. |
“Cars 3” hits theaters June 16. Check out the TV spot above. |
They played 20 rounds on 16 courses in 11 days for $4,000. Two brothers, separated in age by almost 13 years, sampled the best golf Scotland has to offer. |
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Kevin Daly, 39, struggled to find his game. Mike Daly, 51, the sage Navy veteran of hard travel and no sleep, had some low rounds in extreme conditions. After 1,000 miles of cars, boats, trolleys, twisted ankles and broken tees, I spoke to the Daly brothers about their favorite courses, the best value, tips to planning... |
____[#image: /photos/55ad7137b01eefe207f67c45]|||Daly_Final_Image_2.jpg|||__Would you ever do a trip like this again?__KEVIN DALY: I would definitely do another golf trip, but I wouldn't cover as many hubs as we did. If I had to do it all over again, I would choose one hub and spend a full week there. Our trip was fun,... |
Cognitive neuroscientists are using the newly-developed artificial intelligence (AI) networks to enhance the understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems from which they learned: the human brain. |
In the work presented on Sunday at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Aude Oliva of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her colleagues are learning much about the role of contextual clues in human image recognition. |
By using "artificial neurons," essentially lines of code and software, along with neural network models, the researchers can parse out the various elements that go into recognizing a specific place or object, Xinhua reported. |
"The fundamental questions cognitive neuroscientists and computer scientists seek to answer are similar," said Oliva. |
"They have a complex system made of components. For one, it's called neurons and for the other, it's called units. And we are doing experiments to try to determine what those components calculate." |
In one recent study of more than 10 million images, Oliva's team taught an artificial network to recognize 350 different places, such as a kitchen, bedroom, park, living room, etc. |
They expected the network to learn objects such as a bed associated with a bedroom. What they didn't expect was that the network would learn to recognize people and animals, for example dogs at parks and cats in living rooms. |
The machine intelligence programs learn very quickly when given lots of data, which is what enables them to parse contextual learning at such a fine level, according to Oliva. |
While it is not possible to dissect human neurons at such a level, the computer model performing a similar task is entirely transparent. |
The artificial neural networks serve as "mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function," Oliva said. |
"The brain is a deep and complex neural network," said Nikolaus Kriegeskorte of Columbia University, who is chairing the symposium. |
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