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The action switched to the other end as a long ball found Dons’ man-mountain Akinfenwa who headed narrowly over from a few yards out. |
Reds went close to scoring on 70 minutes when Della-Verde’s free-kick was nodded into the area by Bond and Joe McNerney’s back-header flew over the bar. |
Wimbledon took the lead with seven minutes to go when Paul Robinson rose to head in a cross from the right to delight the sizeable home support to send home the 403 excellent Reds fans disappointed. |
REDS: Rose, Oyebanjo, Ashton, McNerney, Bradley, Dunne; Edwards, J.Smith (Deacon 90), Bond, Della-Verde (Young 83; Barnard (Fenelon 78). |
Artist's illustration of an "isolated neutron star"--a neutron star that does not have an associated supernova remnant, binary companion or radio pulsations. |
Amind-bogglingly huge buildup of "vacuum energy," which would occur injust milliseconds, could lead the stellar remnants known as neutron stars toinstantly collapse or explode, scientists now suggest. |
Whatis often thought of as the empty vacuum of space is actually filled withghostly energy and virtual particles wavering in and out of existence, abizarre prediction of quantum theory that numerous experiments have proventrue. |
This"vacuumenergy," as scientists call it, is usually thought of as extremelyweak at best. But theoretical physicists in Brazil suggest that the immenselypowerful gravitationalfields of neutron stars could "awaken the vacuum," causing itsenergy to build up exponentially very quickly. |
Theyare extremely dense but are usually only about 12 miles (20 km) in diameter and1? to three times the mass of the sun. A sugar cube-size piece of neutron starmatter can weigh as much as a mountain ? about 100 million tons. |
Tolearn more about how gravity might affect empty space, theoretical physicistDaniel Vanzella of the University of S?o Paulo in S?o Carlos and his colleaguesmodeled the gravitational fields of neutron stars. |
Theextraordinary density of neutronstars means they possess incredibly strong gravitational pulls that warpthe fabric of space-time, distortions that could drive up vacuum energy. |
Surprisingly,the researchers found the vacuum energy in the neighborhood of a neutron star could?keep building exponentially, depending on the size and mass of the neutron star. |
Thiscould rapidly cause the vacuum energy to exceed the neutron star's combinedmass and energy. The neutron star could then either collapse to form a blackhole or explode and shed a significant fraction of its mass ? the intricatecalculations as to what exactly might occur are not yet complete, Vanzellasaid. |
?Thescientists' model analyzed the effect of gravity on a so-called "scalarfield" that could represent anything from a simplified version of theelectromagnetic field to an as-yet-undiscovered particle. |
Onepotential criticism is that the researchers do not know of any specific fieldwith the features to cause this "vacuum awakening." |
Still,"95 percent of the energyof the universe is in forms which we don't know what they are ? they aregenerically called 'dark matter' and 'dark energy,'" Vanzella toldSPACE.com. "In principle, there is plenty of room for new oryet-to-be-discovered fields in nature." |
Ifastronomers ever do see these kinds of dramatic changes in neutron stars, thediscovery could shed light on a hitherto unknown kind of force, Vanzella said. |
Bythe same token, if scientists detect neutron stars that are stable despite conjecturedforces, they can rule out the existence of those forces. |
Thescientists detailed their findings in the Oct. 7 edition of the journalPhysical Review Letters. |
I think Hellboy has a certain psycho dynamic, where occasionally he has to prove that he's the lion, has to roar, and I think he struggles with his own masculinity. But I don't think he needs that as much as maybe those other movies. I have a bit of a different take on his capability or his slickness. I sort of think t... |
David Harbour comments to the Happy Sad Confused Podcast (via JoBlo) are pretty fascinating. Although Hellboy has always been a flawed (and therefore relatable) comic book character, it's interesting to see how David Harbour will explore the character's trademark attitude and alpha personality. While Ron Perlman was th... |
All things considered, it's probably for the best that the new Hellboy franchise will be unique to the previous two entries. Hellboy II: The Golden Army arrived back in 2008, so it it's been under a decade since audiences saw the big red guy on the silver screen. The comparisons between the two franchises will no doubt... |
It should be interesting to see how other characters are changed up when Rise of the Blood Queen arrives in theaters. The film is already shooting for an R rating, which will no doubt bring a more foul mouthed and violent versions of the cast that the previous two films. So far the role of Trevor Bruttenholm has been r... |
Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen is set to arrive in theaters sometime in 2018. In the meantime, check out our 2017 release list to plan your next trip to the movies, and catch David Harbour when Stranger Things releases its second season on October 27, 2017. |
Firefighters put their lives at risk in more ways than one on the job. They obviously put their physical safety at risk, but so too their mental health. |
It sometimes feels like the provincial government is trying to pinch communities north of Highway 7 out of existence. |
I have written hundreds upon hundreds of columns, but as I begin this one, everything is different. |
There s erring on the side of the caution, and then there s hyperbolic overreaction to a perceived threat. |
Last week it was reported that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a doomsday bunker protecting a reserve of almost 900,000 international food crop seeds deep within a mountain in Norway had flooded in October. |
A dark wave of déjà vu shot through Minden last Thursday as water levels that had been steadily rising in the Gull River for days reached a critical point. |
Haliburton County is making a request of the province that the municipality become the ultimate approval authority for official plan amendments and there is no reason the province shouldn t acquiesce to that request. |
Richard Huffman's first four children each attended one of the Celebree Learning Centers, the child care chain he began in 1994 which now has 22 Maryland locations. |
The fifth child — Camden, now 6 — was only part-time at Celebree because Huffman's wife, Dawn, wanted to keep the boy at home as long as she could. |
"He was the last baby. It was all those mom feelings," Huffman said. |
But the parents noticed Camden was a little behind when beginning kindergarten, "and now he's playing catch up," said Huffman, Celebree's president and CEO. |
Where's the dividing line between North and South Jersey? Is Central Jersey a thing? These are central questions Jersey filmmaker and educator Steve Chernoski explored in his 2009 film, "New Jersey: The Movie." |
One debate, addressed in the film, just won't seem to die: Is it "Taylor Ham" or "pork roll?" The controversy emerges time and time again on reddit, Twitter and our own comment sections, inflaming passions and pitting North against South, brother against brother. |
With the first-ever Trenton Pork Roll Festival just in our rear-view mirrors, tensions remain high. |
Using the issue as a proxy to explore New Jersey's cultural geography, Chernoski set out again this week to map the transition from the "Taylor Hams" of the north to the "pork rolls" of the central-and-south. NJ.com talked to Chernoski about his latest project, and the state's most vexing question. |
Steve! What's going on in this thing? Explain your methodology. |
I made an anecdotal map in 2008 Taylor Ham-Pork Roll Divide when traveling for "New Jersey: the Movie." I felt it was pretty representative at the time and what recent polls have found. But hey, we're in a new era of big data and that got me thinking to get some statistics behind this eternal Garden State debate. |
I simply Googled delis, bagel shops and diners to find out what they actually call it on their menus. I obviously did not map every place. Readers can tell I lightened up away from the borderlands. I used establishments that had online menus available or places that I've been to recently and can verify what they call J... |
What does the data you've compiled tell you? |
Monmouth County has many more places that use Taylor Ham that I would've thought. I factored in some chain restaurants, but still there was this unique "Down the Shore Taylor Ham" — south of the Driscoll Bridge! |
I believe it is a reflection of how many northerners have permanently moved to the beach areas they visited as kids. Or it could also be a sign that restaurant owners cater to their tourists. |
It shouldn't be that surprising. When Rita's Water Ice moved into North Jersey areas they started referring to it as Italian Ice, because northerners didn't know what "water ice" was. |
In addition to Monmouth, the epicenter of this battle is in Somerset and Middlesex counties around the Raritan River. That's a little further south than I would've originally guessed. |
Why do you think this is such a contentious issue for people in New Jersey? |
Our identities often revolve around Philadelphia or New York City. Taylor Ham [vs] Pork Roll is something that is solely ours. That's why we will forever fight about it. |
Could you imagine if we had different regional nicknames for Springsteen? Like if people in one part of the state called him "The Boss" but others referred to him as ... I don't know ... "A Boss?" |
It might parallel the great schisms that have occurred throughout history. |
The Taylor Ham/Pork Roll demarcation is just one way to carve up New Jersey. What are some other interesting ones you've explored, and how did the north/south split end up the same or different? |
The Taylor Ham/ Pork Roll line is much farther north than other lines I've explored (like sports loyalties, old area codes, benny/shoobie or hoagie/sub). You have plenty of Yankee and Met fans who safely call it "pork roll." |
But the weirdest line that we did not cover in the movie was the fact that in South Jersey, when you buy a house, you do the closing of the sale in the office of a title company. Lawyers are not needed. Everywhere north (or east) of those lower 7 counties, you use a lawyer and close in their office. This was even a Sta... |
My daughter was born on the day of the inaugural Trenton Pork Roll festival this past Saturday. We obviously couldn't attend, but the hospital had it on the menu for breakfast. They called it "pork roll." |
There’s an episode of 30 Rock in which Jack Donaghy takes a job with Homeland Security and gives a stirring speech to Congress so that his office can get pens. Finally, a large box of pens arrives–but it’s filled with only the caps. Government is, by its nature, slow and bureaucratic. But network technology can cut thr... |
Later in the day, Dash put a challenge to another Innovation Uncensored speaker, Nike CEO Mark Parker, during the Q&A. He asked if Nike would be willing to share geographic data about where it sells shoes in order to help researchers fight childhood obesity by strategically placing playgrounds where they are needed mos... |
To see more video highlights from Innovation Uncensored, visit this page. |
Discuss the event and submit questions to the speakers at the Innovation Uncensored Facebook page. |
WASHINGTON — It’s a high-stakes political dumpster fire the likes of which a Canadian scandal junkie would only dare dream. |
A white governor in the birthplace of American slavery admits to wearing blackface in college as part of a Michael Jackson costume — and, in so doing, momentarily considers demonstrating his moonwalk skills on live television. Days later, the attorney general admits he, too, blackened his face for a college party in th... |
Meanwhile, the lieutenant governor — a black man and the successor to Gov. Ralph Northam, had the governor opted to resign over a yearbook photo he now says isn’t of him — suddenly finds himself a possible impeachment target, thanks to searing sexual assault allegations from his own college years. |
Welcome to Virginia, which has been pulling focus of late from the facepalm-worthy defiance of President Donald Trump, and where Northam found himself apologizing yet again Monday for referring to slaves as “indentured servants.” Indentured servants were bound to masters for extended periods but not treated like proper... |
With the top three Democrats in the state suddenly embroiled in scandal, the pressure on Northam to quit has eased, adding to the intrigue about a state where the sort of conventional political wisdom that makes sense elsewhere in the U.S., particularly in the nearby District of Columbia, doesn’t always apply. |
“In Virginia, politics is pretty steady, if that makes sense,” said Ernest McGowen, a political science professor at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va., the capital of a state where Democrats often hold decidedly conservative views. |
A Washington Post-George Mason University poll published Sunday found an even split among respondents who were asked whether Northam should step down from his post. Remarkably, a majority of African American respondents — 58 per cent — said he should remain in the job, compared with 37 per cent who said he needs to go. |
That indicates two things aside from support for Northam among black voters, McGowen said: fear of the impact the scandal could have on Democratic efforts to win back the White House in 2020, and the possibility that in Virginia, white politicians with blackface backgrounds actually don’t raise that many eyebrows. |
“If the average African American has no expectation of Northam to be good on race issues, or particularly African Americans in the south, it is not surprising that a privileged white guy in the 1970s and 1980s would put on blackface or be (photographed) next to a Klan costume,” he said. |
The Post poll found a small majority of respondents accepted Northam’s apology, compared with 42 per cent who did not, even though a whopping 73 per cent said they found his explanation hard to believe. |
On Feb. 1, Northam — confronted with a personal yearbook profile that featured a photo of a man in blackface standing next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan outfit — admitted he was in the photo and apologized. A resignation seemed imminent. But the next day, he rescinded his admission, attributed the photo’s publication on... |
Asked why he’d initially said publicly he was in the photo, Northam admitted to having dressed in blackface for a 1984 dance contest. A reporter asked if he could still moonwalk. |
Just days later, Attorney General Mark Herring admitted he, too, had worn blackface while dressed up as the hip-hop pioneer Kurtis Blow during a 1980 college party. |
And Lt.-Gov. Justin Fairfax, the second-most powerful Democrat in the assembly, was accused of sexually assaulting two women — one at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, the other in 2000 during his time as a student at Duke University. Fairfax has denied the allegations, refused to step down and dema... |
A draft impeachment resolution against Fairfax circulated over the weekend, but Democrat lawmaker Patrick Hope backed away Monday, saying more conversations were needed. Media reports suggest Democrats are divided over whether the allegations are grounds for impeachment, and fear the optics of proceeding against Fairfa... |
“If Fairfax is forced to step down and actually does, there could be the perception that racism is OK, or at least it is better than sexual assault,” said McGowen, noting that Northam and Herring have both admitted to and apologized for their actions, while Fairfax denies the allegations against him. |
Republicans, meanwhile, have been having a field day. |
Erica Cole turned a personal tragedy into a new business idea. |
Erica Cole is proof of the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. |
A senior at the University of Iowa, Cole, 22, came back to Iowa City different for the fall semester. The chemistry major had lost her leg in a car accident in May while visiting Colorado. |
Months later, with the support of UI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center and various business-pitching competitions at the university, the Cedar Rapids resident started her own business called No Limbits. |
Cole's idea was simple: with 3D printers, make custom and affordable covers for prosthetic limbs. A cover sized like a leg can look more natural under clothing. Or, customers can take Cole's cover as example. She made herself one that makes the prosthetic look like a stained-glass window: silver-framing dotted with ref... |
"The questions from people stopped being, 'How did you lose your leg?' to, 'That's so cool, how did you get that?" Cole said. "That shift really helped me through my healing process because being pulled back to that moment of the accident every day was tiring." |
Kimm Harris, a lecturer at the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC), and a leader of the Iowa Startup Games, urged Cole to participate in various business pitching competitions at UI last semester to share her idea for No Limbits. Harris said she could see Cole's passion for the project." |
“We all have ideas, we walk around with them and then see someone do it and say ‘Gosh, I should have done something.' Erica is that person who takes her ideas and sees them through," Harris said. |
On Nov. 13 and 14, Cole participated in the JPEC's Rose Francis Elevator Pitch Competition, where individuals or teams pitch business ideas to judges. She won first place on day one and day two of the competition, earning a $10,000 and $2,500 in cash prizes for her new business. Weeks later, she won the three-day Fall ... |
“She's truly, truly remarkable. I think when people see what Erica has done, it helps others a lot," Harris said. |
The idea of starting her own business was not something Cole had even dreamed about before she got a prosthetic leg, but she did already have the entrepreneurial drive and knowledge-base to do so. |
For years, Cole has worked as a costumer as a side hustle of sorts. Working with fabrics and the thermoplastic worbla to design Renaissance fair costumes and cosplay outfits for others, she knew the ins and outs of design. |
As a chemistry major heading to graduate school at Colorado State to study radiochemistry, she knew how to do research and think of innovative ways to solve problems. |
She approached life without her left leg in a similar way. When she got her prosthetic leg in September, Cole set out to solve the problems she was having with her new limb. |
She learned to walk again. She had been a ballroom dancer, so she set out to dance again. "I like seeing the look on people’s faces when I come onto the dance floor," Cole said. |
But it was the reaction of others that would keep her reflecting back on the car accident. Since health insurance didn't cover anything except the functional prosthetic, it was clear she was wearing one even while wearing pants because she didn't have anything filling out her pant leg. |
"I kept getting these strange looks and questions when people noticed I was wearing a prosthetic leg,” Cole said. "Checking out in the grocery store, the clerk would ask what was wrong with my leg. A barista at a coffee shop would say, 'Looks like you have a hitch in your step.' It wasn't easy." |
Cole took her costuming skills and went to work. She heat-formed a piece of plastic around her right leg to get the sizing right. She then decided to do something colorful with the cover and made the stained glass design "because that's cool," she said. Working with Beratek Industries of Cedar Rapids and its 3D printer... |
Before all of this, Cole had never been a part of programs at JPEC. When Harris and Cole first met, Harris urged her to compete in their fall semester IdeaStorm Week, where people from across campus and ideas — nonprofits, artistic projects, health initiatives and product services — can come and take a basic business i... |
"Of course Erica won that. She blew us away," Harris said. "She had not done anything here before and look what she did." |
That began Cole's roller coaster of a semester at UI, where she won competition after competition. |
Harris said examples like Cole are why they make events like IdeaStorm and pitch competitions open to everyone at UI, whether they are taking business classes or not. |
The money will be a serious boost to Cole and No Limbits. She said with the money, she'll be able to finish prototyping by the end of January and hopes to get a 3D printer around the same time. If all goes according to plan, she'll be able to launch the website for her business where people can order designs in mid-Mar... |
Even when she graduates UI, Cole will have support from JPEC and UI. Harris said that graduates can get additional support for up to a year after graduating. The school also tries to connect alumni who may be in a similar field. |
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