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Unai Emery's side were looking for an 11th straight win in all competitions. |
Xhaka was playing in an unfamiliar left-back role that Hoddle before the game said he could make his own. |
The Gunners struggled to make many clear-cut opportunities in the first half in Lisbon and the hosts had the better chances. |
Head coach Emery prides himself on his defenders playing out from the back but on a couple of occasions it did not work out. |
Xhaka looked for a cross-field to a team-mate pass from his left-back position but inexplicably sent the ball out for a corner instead. |
And Holding gifted former Manchester United winger Nani with a chance with a slack ball out from the back. |
And Hoddle was not impressed with those two moments when analysing at half time. |
“It’s an in-between performance with the ball and without the ball,” the former England manager said of Arsenal on BT Sport. |
“They’ve not really created enough with the ball, which we were saying they can do this season. |
“And certainly defensively some of the defending has been decent, but some of it’s been awful. |
“They’ve put pressure on themselves. |
“This is poor technique from Xhaka, goes with the outside of the left foot and puts pressure on themselves again giving a corner away. |
“This is awful play from Holding, he’s had a decent game defensively in the air. |
Lance Hoyt: I Could Have Been A WWE Main Eventer - Wrestling Inc. |
This week on the show, the guys spoke with Lance Hoyt, who fans maybe remember from his run with TNA, competing in the WWE as Vance Archer or seen him recently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. |
Lance spoke about his career in the business from working in the Texas indy's in the early part of the last decade, breaking into TNA, his run with WWE and his position now working for NJPW and much more. Highlights are below. |
The constant start-stop nature of his programs in TNA and WWE and does he feels he was never given adequate time to impress and his thoughts on WWE's ECW. |
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It still has the feel of a new ballpark. Monday's Indians' game against the New York Yankees, though, will be the 20th home opener played at Progressive Field. |
The stadium was known as Jacobs Field -- after former Indians' owners Richard and David Jacobs -- from 1994 until 2008, when Progressive Insurance bought the naming rights. |
The Indians made the short, downtown-move south to Jacobs Field after playing in Cleveland Municipal Stadium from 1932-93. The mammoth park, which was located where Browns Stadium stands, was originally called Lakefront Stadium. The Tribe played home games both there and at old League Park through 1946, before Clevelan... |
Let's take a brief look back to the five most memorable home openers at Progressive Field. |
The first game played at Jacobs Field was on Saturday, April 2, an exhibition contest between the Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates. Two days later, the first official game was played before a sellout crowd of 41,459, after President Bill Clinton threw the ceremonial first pitch and Ohio Governor George Voinovich and Indi... |
Sandy Alomar's eighth-inning single broke up Johnson's no-no, and three batters later, a two-run Manny Ramirez double tied the game, 2-2. The Tribe fell behind again in the 10th, but knotted the score on Omar Vizquel's RBI fielder's choice. The Indians won it in the 11th when Eddie Murray doubled with one out and score... |
The temperature was 44 and the wind at 16 miles per hour when the first pitch was thrown, but much chillier five hours and 14 minutes later for the Indians and their remaining fans from the crowd of 43,190. The 16 innings set a big league record for the most played in a season opener, surpassing the 15 innings in two p... |
Former Indians first baseman and manager Mike Hargrove was called "The Human Rain Delay" as a player because he took so long to get ready in the batter's box. On this day, that experience served him well. Indians' starting pitcher Paul Byrd had allowed no hits in 4 2/3 innings before, as Plain Dealer Indians' beat writ... |
to the White Sox, with 16,789 in attendance. |
Jim Thome is the Indians' all-time leading home run hitter, with 337, and his 13 career walk-off homers are the most in big league history. In this game, he slugged his third walk-off, a three-run clout off Angels' closer Troy Percival in the 10th inning. A crowd of 42,707 greeted the Indians, who had begun the campaig... |
Another walk-off homer, Travis Fryman's three-run clout in the 10th-inning, capped a comeback win before 42,798 fans. The Indians had trailed, 2-0, until Enrique Wilson tied the game with a two-run homer in the eighth inning. Cleveland had opened the season with six games on the road, five of them wins. |
Which Indians home opener at Progressive Field is the most memorable? |
Kenya's Lawrence Cherono and Ethiopia's Worknesh Degefa took home the men's and women's first place awards at Monday's 123rd Boston Marathon. |
NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson stepped out of his No. 48 car and into running shoes, finishing with a time of 3:09:38 on Monday at the 2019 Boston Marathon. |
On April 15, 2014, after sending a distress signal, a South Korean ferry capsized off the country's southern coast, an incident that killed about 300 people. |
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want his death sentence overturned, saying the judge should not have allowed the trial in the city. |
The son of a Boston police captain was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for plotting a terrorist attack for the Islamic State, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. |
Google is celebrating what would have been the the 131st birthday of Canadian long-distance runner Tom Longboat with a new Doodle. |
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a nine-month, 422 million-mile journey. |
"High School Musical" star Zac Efron greeted sibling Dylan Efron with a hug at the Boston Marathon finish line. |
American Desiree Linden was the women's champion and Japan's Yuki Kawauchi led the men Monday at the 2018 Boston Marathon. |
Five years after the Boston Marathon bombings, several survivors have found a number of ways to help others who've been through life-changing traumas. |
Ethiopian runners led the pack of the elite men and women at the 2018 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-mile race Sunday. |
Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz flashed a "Girl Power" shirt when he met Aly Raisman Thursday at Fenway Park. |
Dunkin' Donuts has entered into an unusual partnership with an activewear retailer for an unlikely crossover product -- running shoes. |
Twin brothers, one of whom a former public school teacher, were arrested Thursday on charges of stockpiling explosive materials and manufacturing bombs. |
A California runner is training to break a Guinness World Record by running the entirely of the Boston Marathon while facing backward. |
Two pressure cooker bombs exploded without warning during the 2013 Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, killing 3 people and injuring 183 others. The bombs were placed near the finish line, along Boylston Street. They exploded at 2:50 p.m. EDT (18:50 UTC), about 12 seconds apart. Doctors treating the injured have removed... |
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Boston Marathon bombing." |
Eighteen months after the tragic death of Paul Walker at age 40, his younger brother Cody misses the man he looked up to all his life – and is working hard to continue the Fast & Furious star’s legacy. |
Still grieving the loss of his oldest brother, Cody, 26, a paramedic, has stepped in as brand manager for Paul’s disaster relief organization Reach Out Worldwide. |
Asked how he hopes Paul is remembered, Cody is openly emotional while marveling at the outpouring of love his brother received after his death. |
As you have slogged through this week in anticipation for the biggest Redskins game that our fair city has seen in some time, you might have found yourself experiencing a wide range of emotions. |
First, you were probably nervous, then anxious, then wary, then apprehensive, then kinda sleepy, then worried, and then concerned. All reasonable feelings. |
That's why it pains me to pile on and tell you that tonight's game between the Redskins and Cowboys is now officially a must-win for both teams. Winner wins the NFC East, loser goes home. |
The Chicago Bears' 26-24 victory over the Detroit Lions has rendered the Redskins' back-up plan -- clinching a wild card spot even if they lose to the Cowboys by way of both Chicago and Minnesota losing -- obsolete. No pressure. |
Greg Abbott defended more than $5 billion in public school funding cuts in fighting hundreds of school districts in court. |
By W. Gardner Selby on Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. |
Wendy Davis made a claim about Greg Abbott defending billions of dollars in education cuts. We rate it Half True (Davis campaign advertisement, Dec. 3, 2013). |
When Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott visited a Dallas-area school district, the leading Democratic aspirant cried foul. |
"As Greg Abbott visits a Plano ISD school today it’s unlikely that he will apologize to students for defending school budget cuts and fighting against their school district in court," state Sen. Wendy Davis said in a Dec. 3, 2013, post on her campaign website. |
"Greg Abbott’s actions speak louder than his words. While I fought against over $5 billion in unconstitutional budget cuts to our public schools," Davis said, Abbott "wasted taxpayer funds to defend those cuts in court." |
Davis, a Fort Worth state senator, helped force a special legislative session in 2011 by filibustering, and temporarily delaying, a decision by the revenue-strapped Republican-majority Legislature to reduce education funding by more than $5 billion through 2012-13. |
And did Abbott, the state’s attorney general, defend the cuts in court? |
That’s been acknowledged. Abbott was quoted during his Dec. 3, 2013, Plano visit as telling the Dallas Morning News the reason he’s defending the cuts is because the Legislature passed them and it’s his job to defend them. "The attorney general in Texas takes an oath of office to defend the laws passed by the legislatu... |
That news story came to our attention in an email from Davis’ campaign spokeswoman Rebecca Acuña, who responded to our request for the basis of Davis’ statement with a document listing web links to additional news stories as well as legal filings by Abbott’s office in defending the school funding system in the latest r... |
A vital issue in the original trial, the Statesman said in a news story posted online Oct. 20, 2012, was the charge by two-thirds of the state’s school districts accounting for three-quarters of Texas students that the state was failing to ensure that districts had adequate resources to bring students up to what lawmak... |
Texas districts have litigated how the state funds the schools for decades. Each time, expert lawyers told us, the state attorney general has defended the existing law just as Abbott has in the latest legal battle, which is expected to resume in early 2014. |
That’s in keeping with the duties of the attorney general as specified in the Texas Constitution, which says the attorney general "shall represent the state in all suits and pleas in the Supreme Court of the state in which the state may be a party." |
Lawyers representing groups of districts in the latest lawsuits each said it would be unusual for an attorney general not to defend a state law and related legislative decisions. |
Buck Wood of Austin, who has long represented property-poor districts in school finance suits, said deputies to Abbott "vigorously defended" the law during the latest trial before Dietz. |
Austin lawyer Rick Gray, representing some 400 districts in the latest litigation, said he could not recall any attorney general backing down from defending the school finance system through the decades of court battles. |
David Thompson of Houston, who represents districts (including the Austin one) serving more than 1.8 million children, stressed that Abbott’s office has defended the constitutionality of the funding system and the legislated cuts, not necessarily speaking to whether the spending reductions were good policy. "The attorn... |
The lawyers each added that while it’s an attorney general’s duty to defend the state and actions taken on behalf of the state, he or she also has discretion to settle cases. |
Our search of news stories and Abbott-issued press releases yielded no sign of Abbott personally appearing in the courtroom during the latest school funding trial. At our request, Catherine Clark, an administrator for the Texas Association of School Boards, reviewed her notes from the trial. By telephone, Clark said sh... |
We asked a spokeswoman for the attorney general, Lauren Bean, if Davis is correct that Abbott has defended the 2011 cuts in the school funding lawsuits. By email, Bean said yes, Abbott’s "office defended the law in court." In a follow-up email, she listed court rulings specifying the attorney general has an exclusive r... |
Davis said Abbott defended more than $5 billion in cuts in public school funding in fighting hundreds of school districts in court. |
That’s factually correct as far as it goes, but this claim is missing important details and context in that the state attorney general has a legal duty to represent the state in challenges reaching the Texas Supreme Court, which the latest school finance lawsuits are expected to do. It would be unusual for an attorney ... |
We rate this partly accurate claim as Half True. |
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. |
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What's In Your "Oops Box"? |
Was unlimited mobile data access a bad idea from the start? Or should it have been held back until the infrastructure could cope with it? |
I think we can safely say that, though the iPhone 4 has brought the media much joy in the past month with the 'Antennagate' reaching its peak on Friday, the iPhone has killed unlimited mobile data access. |
O2 UK, my mobile network - and broadband provider also - started the Mexican wave of capping mobile data usage to 500MB, 750MB or 1GB per month, depending how much you pay for your contract. AT&T called it a day on its own unlimited tariffs, and Verizon appears to be following suit also. |
A Mexican wave, you say? Yes, because unlimited mobile data will be back. It'll just take a while. |
The "exponential demand" for data on smartphones was kickstarted by the initial release of the iPhone. Since then, over three years ago, mobile devices have been increasingly getting better, faster, capable of much more - but the demand for social networking and sharing photos especially has increased too. |
So don't for a minute think I'm blaming the iPhone: I'm not. I'm not even blaming the devices manufacturers, or the end-user. In fact, I don't really blame anybody, but if I had to personally point a finger - it would be at the mobile operators themselves. |
They should never have allowed unlimited mobile data access until they were in a position where they could offer it. We're talking a full roll-out of 3G, supported and bolstered infrastructures and the stability to provide a surge of data on-demand when it's needed, particularly during events like the New Year. |
The networks can't cope with the data traffic, thus it needs to cut people down by incurring extra charges: charges of which will hit the younger person most. |
I noticed in New York the high speeds of data I could access on my BlackBerry, yet the calling quality (mostly through AT&T) was atrocious. Dropped calls and crackling on the line: I finally realised first-hand what my colleagues have been going on for all this time. |
I return to the UK and a little difference, but not by much. During the subsequent few weeks, I realised how poor my cell reception was and the quality of the line had significantly decreased. A few days later, I suffered my first dropped call on this network which I have been with for eight years. |
I knew at this point how dire the mobile network operators were in. |
The mobile operators allowed unlimited mobile data plans because they thought they could, by offering incentives to prospective customers. Now, it's the reverse in that existing O2 customers can hold on to the unlimited data usage whereas new subscribers cannot. |
The mobile network operators now need to work on one simple thing. Beef up your infrastructure and get it up to a capability where users can swamp the system with data happily and freely, and allow unlimited data access back. |
Unlimited mobile data: Was it a bad idea from the start? Or should it have been held back until the infrastructure could cope with it? Your comments are most welcome. |
Boston-based Visible Measures, a startup specializing in measuring internet video, has raised a $13.5 million second round led by Mohr Davidow Ventures, with participation from previous backer General Catalyst Partners. The company raised $5 million from General Catalyst in early 2007, bringing its total raise to $18.5... |
This space of eaves dropping on users behavior to provide greater metrics to advertisers is really starting to pick up steam. We profiled two other companues, pudding media and adchemy that are doing similar things in different platforms but there seems to be a big push into the space. |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced two former Ford Motor Co. executives to prison for helping agents of the country’s former dictatorship round up 24 Argentine union workers who were tortured and held in military jails. |
The courtroom was crowded with some of the victims and family members, some of whom broke into tears and hugged after the sentencing for crimes against humanity was announced. |
The court said that factory manufacturing director Pedro Muller and security manager Hector Francisco Sibilla targeted workers and gave information to security agents for their kidnapping and torture after the 1976 military coup. |
Muller was sentenced to 10 years and Sibilla to 12 years. Santiago Omar Riveros, a former chief of the army’s fourth battallion, was sentenced to 15 years. He is already serving time in another case for human rights abuses. Sibilla and Riveros are Argentines and Muller was described in the initial indictment as a Czech... |
The men, all in their 80s or 90s, deny wrongdoing and can appeal. |
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