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Big Business plays with Undergang, Spectral Voices, Andy The Doorbum, and Human Dissension on Tuesday, July 5, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. $10-$14. bugjar.com; bigbigbusiness.com.
If the Giants intend to bring back Eli Manning for 2019, as has been reported, they need to consider how this is going to impact Odell Beckham Jr., arguably their best player and certainly their greatest investment.
Would Beckham want to continue playing with Manning, and would the Giants want to put up with his frustrations if he doesn’t?
For one, Beckham has criticized his quarterback’s deficiencies publicly this season, and it is hard to believe he would relish a repeat of this year’s offensive futility next year.
Two: The Giants organization prefers Manning’s predictable and steady manner to Beckham’s loquacious and unpredictable personality.
And three: GM Dave Gettleman talked potential Beckham trades last spring and reportedly took calls again at this fall’s trade deadline after signing him to a five-year extension.
Beckham is one player on a team, so if the Giants plan to bring both Manning and him back, then that’s what will happen. But Beckham also is this team’s best player, and there are just too many signs that Beckham’s ideal football team would include a different quarterback.
And meanwhile, if the Giants remain backwards enough to bring Manning back, they absolutely could be foolish enough to choose Manning over Beckham if forced to make that decision.
Even on Thursday, it was truly awkward as Beckham was prodded to be optimistic about a productive future with Manning, and he did his best to be honest but stay diplomatic.
He was asked if the offense’s recent production is a taste of what Manning and OBJ still are capable of together.
Thankfully, at least, the Giants fan base seems to have found its sanity on this issue.
The Daily News ran a Twitter poll on Thursday asking Giants fans if they had to pick only one scenario for 2019, which would they prefer: keep Eli and trade or Odell, or keep Odell and cut Eli?
A refreshing 86 percent (2,409 votes) picked cutting the quarterback, compared to 14 percent (392 votes) who just want Beckham off their lawns.
Beckham, 26, wants to be a part of a winning Giants organization, though, as long as he is a Giant. He is mostly frustrated that he hasn’t had an opportunity to help them do that this year.
What does Beckham cling to for hope?
But Beckham was understandably not interested in talking about his criticism of last week’s “game plan” in Philadelphia, or sharing if he had discussed the second half’s lack of offense with Manning, or anything that rehashed negatives of the past.
The conversation now, though, already has turned to next season. And if the Giants plan to keep Manning as their starting quarterback, they need to make sure they have their finger on the pulse of what that means for their offense and their star receiver’s ability to thrive.
DUSHORE, Pa. -- Residents of a senior center in Sullivan County are dealing with high water for the second time in a month.
Newswatch 16 was there at Sullivan Terrace Senior Center in Dushore last month when the parking lot was practically underwater, but now seniors have some added protection.
The waterfall just outside Sullivan Terrace is usually a quiet stream, but with all the recent wet weather, it’s a lot louder and stronger.
“Everybody in the building says every morning we get up, 'No! Rain again!' That's all it's been doing,” Rose Morgan said.
The borough built a makeshift wall with all the rocks that came tumbling down during the flood in August.
“The borough came in, and they dug this all out, and we do feel safer. The parking lot didn't get flooded, and they kind of opened it up,” Morgan said.
People who live at Sullivan Terrace said it's kind of like living on an island when it floods. Not only do they have to worry about the waterfall run off, but they also have to worry about Bob Kast Pond overflowing.
“We're boxed in except for that steep hill in the back, and most of the seniors could never climb that hill,” Eric Lund said.
Even the baseball field and park in Dushore looked more like a lake because of all the heavy rain.
Despite these problems, some people at Sullivan Terrace are still thankful for one thing.
“With all this flooding, we've never gotten any inside the building. It has just been an interesting thing to come out on the porch and, 'Oh! Creek is up again! Again. Again,” Lund said laughing.
Dushore and other areas in Sullivan County are expected to get more rain later this week.
People at Sullivan Terrace said they can only hope the wall holds up.
"Experts predict that by 2025 nearly two-thirds of the world's countries will be water-stressed – which is defined as demand for water exceeding availability, or when poor quality water restricts its use. This problem is even more pressing in Asia," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Robert Blake said.
"India, for example, is expected to be water stressed by 2020, just nine years from now, which could limit the growth of India's economy and global standing," he said in his remarks at the first annual Tibet Environmental Forum meeting here.
Blake said the Himalayan glaciers in the Tibetan plateau provide fresh water for over 1.5 billion people across Asia.
The glaciers feed nine river basins, including the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, which support thousands of communities, villages and cities across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
"But climate change and pollutants like black carbon, have put many Himalayan glaciers in retreat, and some will certainly be lost by the end of this century. Glacial retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that destroy life and property, and contributes to risi...
As glaciers become smaller, water runoff decreases, which is especially important during the dry season when other water sources are limited.
Climate change also brings warmer temperatures and earlier water runoff from glaciers.
This combined with spring and summer rains can increase the chance of flooding, he noted.
Across South Asia, Blake noted, water is critical to health and development. But the growing scarcity of water can also exacerbate existing border disputes, making proper management of this scarce resource even more critical.
The South and Central Asia Bureau of the State Department, he said, is working together with other agencies and in developing programs and partnerships with governments in the region to promote the deployment of clean, low-carbon energy technology – which often reduces the consumption of water by the power sector – and...
"We are also working to foster trans boundary cooperation and improve water management systems. Through our efforts we aim to conserve this important resource and improve the lives of millions of South Asians," Blake said.
In a ceremony dedicating a marker to three men bestowed with one of the nation's highest honors, organizers didn't want to forget more than 3,000 others surrounding them in the Lubbock cemetery.
"The over 3,000 veterans buried in this cemetery silently shout, 'Freedom is important enough to die for,'" said Lynda Dutton, regent for the Nancy Anderson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Dutton's organization, along with the Lubbock County Historical Commission, American Legion Post 575 and the City of Lubbock Cemetery hosted the 11th annual citywide Memorial Day Service at 10 a.m. Monday, May 27, at the city cemetery.
The event featured a Marine honor guard 21-gun salute and a brief unveiling ceremony for a historical marker honoring three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients buried in the cemetery.
The recipients are Joseph F. Knight, awarded the medal for action at White River, S.D., on Jan. 1, 1891; Herman C. Wallace, for valor in Germany on Feb. 27, 1945; and George A. Davis, for aerial combat in Korea on Feb. 10, 1952.
More than 300 people stood among the flower- and flag-adorned grave markers in Lubbock's cemetery during an event honoring men and women keynote speaker Stevan Melton praised for representing honor, values and morals in a time when such virtues are under fire.
Melton, a retired lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, said all three medal of honor recipients personified those virtues by risking their lives to save others.
Too often, he said, people chose not to see issues of morals, patriotism and values as black or white.
"I'm betting the folks we honor today did not see the world as gray," he said.
Don Abbe with the Lubbock County Historical Commission, said Lubbock County funded the black metal memorial, which will be on public display in the cemetery.
He said the Congressional Medal of Honor is awarded by the president on behalf of Congress. Currently, there have been 3,461 medals awarded since the award was designated during the Civil War.
As part of Monday's event, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts placed small American flags for the day on graves designated with a Veterans Affairs Memorial headstone or footstone.
Delivering the invocation and prayer for the event, Lubbock City Councilman Floyd Price praised the sacrifice and service of the country's fallen service men and women.
"They stand on that wall and go and protect our country to keep us free," he said. "My heart goes out to every military individual who's standing on that wall and keeping it as safe as it is."
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has set up a new research center for Parkinson's disease.
The university's Faculty of Medicine inaugurated the Margaret K L Cheung Research Centre for Management of Parkinsonism yesterday. That happened with a donation of HK$10 million from benefactor Margaret Cheung Kam-ling.
Parkinson's disease has a cluster of symptoms that primarily include slow movement, stiffness, tremors and instability.
The newly established center will conduct trans-disciplinary research for discovering therapeutics for preventing or slowing the progression of the disease.
Established along with the research center is a registry for Chinese patients who are at early stages of Parkinson's and the relatad cerebral small vessel disease.
There are 12,000 people with Parkinson's disease in Hong Kong and 1.7 million in the mainland. The prevalence for cerebral small vessel disease is even higher, affecting around one third of elderly people in Hong Kong.
Zhang Jihui, an assistant professor in CUHK's Department of Psychiatry, said the center aims to develop precise biomarkers and diagnostics to understand genetic and other causative factors with data collected by the registry.
For instance, REM Sleep Behavioral Disorder is one of the earliest symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Ninety percent of people with this disorder will develop Parkinson's disease within 15 years.
The center also aims to predict and monitor disease progression from the early stages of Parkinson's in the Chinese population through the registry, Zhang said.
Additionally, the research center is also equipped with the SAR's first custom-built multiphoton microscope to study the cause and development of cerebral small vessel disease.
Owen Ko Ho, associate director of the center, said the device allows researchers to measure the neuronal and neurovascular changes in animals. That means a researcher can observe the changes in the nerve cells and blood vessels of animals to understand more about cerebral small vessel disease.
Chan Wai Yee, pro-vice-chancellor of CUHK, said the establishment of the center is timely given the expected increase of Parkinson's disease with an aging society.
Benefactor Cheung has high hopes, saying she hopes to see research breakthroughs.
Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said that the newly commissioned Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS Veera will help the Coast Guard to monitor the maritime boundaries more effectively and will also add to their strengths.
The Pakistani aircraft retreated after Indian Air Force scrambled its Sukhoi-30MKIs and Mirage 2000 fighter jets in response, sources added.
The SBI-led consortium of lenders has asked parties to submit EoIs between April 6 and 9.
Terry Yu doesn’t watch much television and he doesn’t cook, but he’s currently appearing on the Food Network.
Unclear how he was discovered, Yu, a pharmacist at the California Health Care Facility, received an email last June asking him to apply for a spot on “Worst Cooks in America,” a show featuring chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence trying to make cooks out of those who are kitchen challenged.
The unassuming man who had never taken a selfie, much less recorded himself, is a bit overshadowed by some outsized personalities on this, the 15th season of the series that was filmed during the summer in New York. Yu, nonetheless, advanced past the first round when one contestant was eliminated a week ago and returns...
Without cable access, he planned to watch himself on Episode 1 with a friend, but her power went out during Sunday’s storm. He managed to watch it on his computer through the Food Network, a “surreal experience,” he said.
This week’s episode features Yu and the other 13 contestants making pancakes and an English breakfast.
“Who would have known breakfast would be more involved, other than toast and butter?” Yu said.
Breakfast in his home, if there is a breakfast, consists of a protein shake or maybe some cheese.
This from a guy who grew up in his parents’ south Stockton Chinese delicatessen, where his clumsiness in the kitchen had him operating the cash register and engaging with customers.
A graduate of Lincoln High School, Yu graduated from University of the Pacific’s School of Pharmacy, but at the same time, studied fashion design at San Joaquin Delta College.
He attempted to pursue both careers, fashion because it was his passion, pharmacy because it satisfied his immigrant parents, who wanted him to study something more academic.
Just after earning his pharmacy degree, he won an internship with designer Isaac Mizrahi.
Yu returned to California, living in Stockton and working part-time as a pharmacist and pursuing fashion design in San Francisco.
Twenty years ago, he became a full-time pharmacist but still dabbles in fashion design.
His dining room is his studio, where he designs and sews. His kitchen cabinets are storage areas for books and other things.
Food — and cooking — just aren’t a big part of his life.
When casting directors and producers viewed his two-minute audition video and conducted a Skype interview with him, though, something caught their attention.
He can’t reveal how far he made it in the show, but he made it through the first week, although his air time was limited. Each of the 15 contestants was required to prepare a favorite dish.
Yu prepared what he calls Afghan eggs, which an Afghani friend, a tailor in San Francisco who has sewn some of his creations, made for him.
The fashion designer in him focused on the presentation, and although his dish wasn’t shown during Episode 1 of the series, Yu said it looked good.
Yu said his time on the show taught him some things about cooking, although he hasn’t cooked since his work on the show ended.
“If I had to cook for somebody, it would be something special, for an occasion. I would I cook for them and try to cook something delicious and spectacular and of the heart,” he said.
Prior to appearing in the show, he would not even have attempted to cook.
Cooking just isn’t one of his interests. He prefers reading or designing or visiting friends or going to museums.
It’s the people he met that he most values from his “Worst Cooks in America” experience.
This guide provides an overview of searching for books at Stanford.
You can find most books (print and e-books) and media at Stanford by using SearchWorks Catalog.
If you want to search for articles, choose "ARTICLES +" from the pulldown menu next to the search box.
To find a book using its title, simply enter the title in the search box and click on the pull-down on the search button to select title.
To find an e-version, click the option for "online" from the access menu in the left column on the results page. Select the title you need and click on the link in the record next to "online" to read it.