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Jordan Eberle left the ice for the Islanders’ dressing room late in the second period but the right wing said he had just broken his skate … Per Islanders team statistician Eric Hornick, the Islanders trailed the Penguins for only 4:51 in the four-game series … Left wing Matt Martin was credited with 11 hits …Defensema... |
The Penguins’ power play ranked fifth in the NHL in the regular season but converted just once in 11 attempts in the series … After trying Dominik Simon on the top line in Game 3, Mike Sullivan started Game 4 with Jared McCann on Sidney Crosby’s left wing, shifting Jake Guentzel to right wing. “I think we need to chang... |
In the week ahead, Apple investors should expect questions about the company’s manufacturing plans to overshadow its financial performance when it releases its latest quarterly results on Tuesday. |
Apple’s gross profit margins are around 40 percent – an enviable number. That has been driven by the company managing production costs through offshore contract manufacturers such as Foxconn and forging strong brand affinity with consumers. Building its products overseas helps keep costs down while its status symbol am... |
The president would score economic and political points if the company invests more directly in U.S. manufacturing, but could there be a cost to shareholders? Assembling iPhones and iPads in America will cost more than in China. Are consumers willing to pay the difference? Perhaps Apple’s “plants,” as foretold by the p... |
While shareholders will be focused on sales of the aging iPhone 7 models and listening for any hints about the next generation, the company will have to address the intrigue created by its contract manufacturer and the president over its own American expansion plans. |
Financial journalist Tom Hudson hosts “The Sunshine Economy” on WLRN-FM in Miami. Follow him on Twitter @HudsonsView. |
Manchester Literature Festival is back for the third year running with a host of poets, novelists, journalists and thinkers in tow. An impressive 50 events are taking place during the coming two weeks, including a question and answer session with Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies (Oct 20, Cornerhouse, sold out) and an... |
The show is a riotous send-up of corporate culture, at one point focusing on a worker who has to give a health and safety presentation to himself. Yet as the writer admits himself, researching the stories complicated his feelings about the technology. |
The relationship between technology and writing is explored from another angle at the Manchester Blog Awards (Oct 22, Matt & Phreds, 7pm, £3), and again in Metro contributor Ross Sutherland’s comic lecture about computer-generated poetry, It Looks Like You’re Writing A Letter (Oct 26, MOSI, 2pm, £5). Elsewhere, Martyn ... |
Festival virgins, meanwhile, should head for The Northern on Tib Street. Hosting free gigs by novelists and poets every night of the week, it’s the perfect place to dip a toe into literary waters for the first time. |
Average Admission Price: $1.49 an hour – a bargain! |
My Rating: 9 out of 10 – Great problem solving fun. |
Madagascar 3: The Video Game is an action-adventure game that is based upon the film Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, featuring all of the main characters and most of the movie plot, which has the crew struggling to escape their Animal Control nemesis Captain Chantel DuBois, and return to their home in New York. The... |
The playable characters in the game include Alex, Gia, Gloria, King Julien, Marty, Mason, Melman, Phil, Stefano, and Vitaly – a crew that will make even the more serious of the younger fans of the movie series incredibly happy. Add to that the fact that the voice-acting and the portrayal of each of these iconic charact... |
While this is an entertainment title, it is an entertainment title that was created with some well-concealed lessons for the kid gamers who play it – lessons like the value of teamwork, and how each character has different skills and attributes that they can offer towards solving problems – a microcosm of the lessons t... |
The fun-factor for the game is quadrupled by the inclusion of the playable iconic characters from the movie! |
Game play consists of a series of inter-connected levels in which the players (plural – the game is set up so that two players can play cooperatively on the same screen) run through different European cities, collecting items and solving puzzles, and playing a variety of platform-style mini-games. The adventure that th... |
Younger players may feel minor anxiety in the confrontations with Animal Control – and if that issue comes up, parents would be well served in reminding their young gamer that in the movie the heroes win the day, so they have little need to worry. Fortunately there are more than enough feel good and funny moments to of... |
How can you not simply love a game that has these guys in it? |
Some of the puzzles and in particular the platform-style challenges (the level in which the player is shot out of a cannon and must successfully bounce off of the targets for a specific score is a good example) are levels that may require a little assistance from big bro or big sis – less likely from Mom and Dad becaus... |
A big measure of game play in this title involves puzzle solving – something that kids are particularly good at – which makes it completely age-appropriate to its target audience. Kids tend to think in and respond to visual ques, something that parents tend to have outgrown, so don’t be surprised – should you decide to... |
By the time you get the crew to New York for the final resolution of the game you have had massive fun, relived the high points of the movie, and rediscovered just how much you don’t like Captain DuBois, who really has very little qualities with which to redeem her if you think about it. But she plays a very important ... |
Getting shot out of a cannon is just one of the circus challenges that the game offers! |
One of the most frequent downsides to games made for kids is that they tend to be overly simple – happily this game is an exception to that rule to the point that it is actually complicated enough to keep the average adult engaged and entertained. Now, I am not sure just what that says about the presumptive differences... |
Madagascar 3 delivers a solid 20 hours of entertainment for the average gamer, though kids tend to approach games they like with an eye towards repetitive play of the sort that often causes adults to wonder how it is that they can still find a game / TV show / movie interesting the tenth time through. But they do, whic... |
After playing it through just once I find that the game earns a 9 out of 10 rating – it would have earned a perfect 10 but there are some minor bugs in it that, when they appear, require a reboot to solve them, and that cost the game a full point. |
With a moderate replay score the game earns a BUY rating, but really considering that it has the Penguin crew in it, it gets that anyway. It is a witty and clever game with some hidden educational value, and it will be an instant hit with kids. |
Parents: There is nothing in this game to concern you. It has been properly rated and will offer your kids the sort of entertainment and game play challenge that requires no adult supervision at all. |
Zach Zubia's second grand slam led the Horns to a 10-2 win. |
AUSTIN, Texas — One big inning for the Longhorns allowed Texas to avenge Friday night's loss to Kansas State. |
UT plated seven runs in the second inning on Saturday. Zach Zubia was responsible for four of those on one swing. |
It was a big day at the plate overall for the Longhorns, with 10 runs on 11 hits against the Wildcats. |
Zubia finished the day with six RBI. |
Pitcher Blair Henley picked up his sixth win of the season. Henley rolled through seven frames, striking out seven Wildcats only allowing one run on six hits. |
Texas improved to 23-14 overall and 5-5 in Big 12 play. |
UT and K-State will wrap up this series on Sunday. The first pitch is set for 1 p.m. at Disch-Falk Field. |
The European Commission will set out its views on EU treaty change by early next year noting that ideas that now seem like "political science fiction" will eventually become reality. |
The commission will put forward "explicit ideas for treaty change in order for them to be debated before the European elections," said president Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday (7 May). |
"We want to put all the elements on the table even if some of them may sound like political science fiction today. They will be reality in a few years' time, sooner than we might think," he told a conference on shaping economic and monetary union. |
While EU powers have been greatly extended - new laws allow the commission to ask for changes to national budgets - a central finance ministry, a eurozone budget and some mutualisation of debt are all considered to be part of a future new-look eurozone. |
Barroso underlined the importance of the importance EU citizens being aware of and approving the changes being made at the EU level. |
"Europe will be open and democratic, or it will fail," he said. |
The 'democracy' debate has come to the fore in recent months. Rapid policy-making - generally to give EU institutions more power - to stay ahead of the economic crisis has led to an unease that citizens' views are being bypassed. |
This feeling is compounded in bailed-out countries - Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus - where spending priorities are in the hands of officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. |
Meanwhile, fall-out from the crisis - low growth and record levels of unemployment - have led to fears that populist or extremist parties will benefit, particularly during the European Parliament elections, when voters often feel less attached to the potential consequences of their ballot. |
Barroso urged "mainstream" political parties not to "relinquish the momentum to eurosceptic or europhobic forces. You have to fight with rational arguments and unwavering convictions." |
But a comment by Portuguese finance minister Vitor Gaspar showed the level of frustration, particularly in southern European countries, with the budget-cutting priorities of Brussels and Germany, the eurozone's most influential member state. |
"We need the European Union to respect a fundamental principle - the principle of the primacy of the national dimension of politics. The European Union must allow its member states to deliver the social goods that their citizens demand," said Gaspar. |
"We just have to look at the dramatic rise in youth unemployment, in particular in programme countries, to realise exactly what this plea means in practice." |
Statistics for youth unemployment - 58% in Greece and 55% in Spain - have led analysts and politicians to speak of a "lost generation" of Europeans. |
The issue is to be dealt at a June summit of EU leaders. On Monday the prime ministers of Spain and Italy urged the EU to adopt policies that would avoid social unrest. The two leaders said they would prepare a list of proposals - especially on youth employment - to be presented at the summit. |
To date, there is a youth employment and training scheme that has to be fine-tuned by member states while a much heralded growth pact - signed off in June 2012 - amounted to little. |
Commission chief Barroso has said EU institutions need more power over member states to fight the crisis. |
The eurozone banking union is "urgent" and should be created within the current EU treaties, German finance minister Schaeuble has said, in a U-turn on previous comments. |
EU commission head Barroso on Wednesday gave a subdued assessment of the EU, saying its biggest risk is lack of political commitment. |
After Verizon posted the update details months ago regarding an upgrade to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and the new Sense UI 5 for the DROID DNA, today we’re hearing it’s finally ready for customers handsets as both parties confirmed the news this afternoon. |
With many of the newer HTC handsets getting updated to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean lately, and some even 4.4 KitKat, the DROID DNA certainly isn’t up to speed, but this is good news for DNA owners and fans. The DROID DNA has been waiting for this upgrade for months, and it will finally get many of the major tweaks and impro... |
Android 4.2.2 and the new Sense UI will deliver many of the awesome options and features available to the HTC One, as well as all the changes from Google’s OS. A couple of the important ones are the quick settings access, HTC Blinkfeed is a big one, as well as HTC Zoe and more. |
HTC states that a first minor update is rolling out that should reportedly prep the device for this major upgrade to 4.2.2 and Sense 5, and following that will be the exciting OTA update with all the important new stuff. So users should be prepared to receive both files in separate update notifications from their devic... |
According to the Verizon Support Documents the upgrade should come in at roughly 600 MB, so users are recommended to use a WiFi connection to download and complete the task. Post update you’ll enjoy Android 4.2.2, Sense 5 with Blindfeed, as well as a new camera app, dialer, calender, and a large number of bug fixes for... |
The longtime principal of Blackman Elementary School is being investigated following a parent's complaint over students being forced to wait outside the school Wednesday afternoon as a manhunt for two escaped inmates was underway in Rutherford County. |
Bryan Omohundro said his 7-year-old daughter was locked outside of Blackman with 22 other students while Dewayne Halfacre and Jonathan Baxter were on the run. The school was on code yellow, which is a modified lockdown that restricts visitor access to the building. |
Normally, the children wait in the lobby for the bus to Rainbow Child Care Center of Murfreesboro, Omohundro says. However, after school dismissed Wednesday, they were forced to wait outside for the bus. |
"Cynthia Ford, the principal, locked the children outside for Rainbow to pick up when the school went on lockdown," Omohundro says. "She basically chose to let the children fend for themselves should the escaped convicts be nearby." |
Rutherford County Schools spokesman James Evans said a parent did file a complaint and that the matter it is currently being investigated. |
Evans said Ford was in the lobby while the children were outside and the students were being monitored. |
Halfacre and Baxter were captured Thursday morning in Smyrna. |
In an audio recording of Omohundro's call with Ford, Ford can be heard saying she was in compliance with guidelines and did what she "thought was necessary." |
Ford was appointed as the principal of Blackman Elementary in November 2000, prior to the school opening in the fall of 2001. She previously served as an assistant principal at Barfield Elementary School. |
Kaneesha Gomes, the assistant director for Rainbow Child Care Center said the center was unaware the school was on lockdown and weren't notified until the bus driver arrived to pick up the kids. When the driver pulled up, the children were sitting outside on the curb, Gomes said. |
However, Gomes said they were only monitored by a Rainbow staff member, not an employee of Blackman Elementary. |
Rainbow notified parents after learning the children were outside the school. The after-school program has received numerous complaints about the situation, Gomes said. |
April 1, 2019, 8:48 a.m. |
(1) Matt Sydal & Jushin Liger beat Dalton Castle & Ryusuke Taguchi. |
(3) IWGP Jr. Hvt. champion KUSHIDA beat Kazarian in a non-title match. |
(4) Tanahashi & Honma & Michael Elgin & Moose beat Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall) in an eight-man tag match. Moose pinned Hall. |
(5) Bullet Club (IWGP IC champion Kenny Omega & the Young Bucks) beat Shibata & ReDragon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) in a six-man tag match. |
(6) The Briscoes beat Bullet Club’s Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. |
(7) ROH World champion Jay Lethal & Naito (w/EVIL) beat IWGP World Hvt. champion Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI. The top champions started the match, drawing dueling chants from the crowd. |
(8) Tomohiro Ishii beat ROH TV champion Roderick Strong to capture the ROH TV Title. Ishii nailed a brainbuster to win in just over 20:00. |
With Taylor Swift exclusively releasing her new video "Delicate" on Spotify last week, it would appear that her tiff with the music streaming giant is officially over. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday that ending the feud took some time and travel by both parties. |
"I went to Nashville many, many times to talk to her team, spend more time directly explaining the model, why streaming mattered. And the great news is I think she saw how streaming was growing. I think she saw that fans were asking for it. So eventually when the new album came out, she came to Stockholm and spent some... |
In 2014 Swift pulled her entire catalog of music from Spotify because she felt the company wasn't fairly compensating artists. |
"But look, I mean, for me, first off, like I – I should have done a much better job communicating this. So I take full ownership for doing that," Ek said of the controversy. |
Spotify, the world's largest music streaming site, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday morning. It launched with a direct listing of shares, which removes the traditional role of investment banks, meaning existing Spotify shareholders can sell stocks directly to the public. The company says the goal is t... |
Ek, who started the company at 23, said the idea for Spotify came from wanting to find a way to get all the music he wanted, legally and affordably, while compensating the artist. |
"So now we're like a decade into that journey, and I really just feel like we're in the second inning. So while this is obviously a big day and I'm very proud of my employees, I really just feel like we're in the early days, not celebrating the end days as so many other companies are doing," he said. |
The betting public may have dismissed her at odds of 16-1, but the 4-year-old daughter of Broken Vow was nothing short of impressive when she began her outside rally from fifth in the seven-horse field. |
"She loves it here, she just loves this surface," Dale Romans said. "The race was quick enough up front and set up just right for us." |
Sassy Image, with Robby Albarado up, covered the distance in 1:21.01. Hilda's Passion faded to second after clocking the opening half in :44.68 and was three-quarters of a length clear of Amen Hallelujah in third. |
EXCLUSIVE: Nicole David, a stalwart talent agent for Triad and WMA, is leaving WME. She is not retiring, but hasn’t yet figured out if she will resurface as an agent or a manager, or a producer for that matter. David has been an important figure for women in the industry, rising to prominence at a time when there weren... |
David started her career in acting and is still a member of The Actors Studio. She also voiced the role of the bespectacled sleuth Velma in the animated Hanna-Barbera series Scooby-Doo. She has also helped launch a lot of careers, giving early jobs to an impressive list of women that includes Stacey Snider, Hylda Queal... |
Tekashi69 was recently transferred to a new facility, while he awaits trial after being arrested for alleged racketeering offences. |
It has now been claimed the FEFE rapper, also known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, was moved from general population of a tough Brooklyn prion because he was he was ‘gangster checked’ by a member of the Crips. |
An insider reportedly told TMZ the 22-year-old was confronted by ‘inmates affiliated with the Crips’ when he arrived at the jail, on 19 November. |
They state an inmate stepped up to him, telling him he ‘better understand who is in charge’, with staff quickly intervening. |
Tekashi’s lawyer, Lance Lazzaro, explained the rapper – real name Daniel Hernandez – ‘was being threatened in jail. However, he was not scared nor did he request being removed. |
It was previously stated the rapper was moved to a new facility – which is used to house witnesses who co-operate with police – over security reasons, after he was denied bail. |
Papers state Tekashi waited in a car outside an office building while his associates robbed some of the rapper’s rivals, in April. An AR-15 style rifle was also allegedly recovered at his Brooklyn home in September. |
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