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Edina won events — all freestyle races — and scored points in all but two events to earn 268 total points Saturday at Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center at the University of Minnesota. Chanhassen/Chaska finished second with 205 points and Wayzata placed third with 176 points. |
Larson won the 50 freestyle (20.06 seconds), 100 freestyle (43.77), swam the first leg of the winning 200 freestyle relay (1:23.67 with Charlie Webb, Max Dow and Andrew Gray) and anchored the first-place 400 freestyle relay (3:01.76 with Gray, Gabe Baker and Keegan Duffy). |
In addition to the relays, Gray, a senior, also won the 200 freestyle (1:37.68) in a tight race with Prior Lake senior Sean Dwyer (1:37.87). Gray took second in the 100 butterfly (48.95), behind Lakeville North senior Andrew Trepanier (48.49). |
Edina had the most entries going into the meet and coach Scott Johnson talked about the full team effort. |
St. Louis Park sophomore Hayden Zheng followed up a state title in last year’s breaststroke by breaking a state record that was only hours old. Zheng won in 53.86, surprising even himself with the time. |
He broke a state record his friend Andrew Karpenko broke in the Class 1A meet in the afternoon. Zheng also won the 200 individual medley (1:48.25) after finishing third last year and 10th the year before. |
• Rochester Mayo junior Jacob Walz, a nephew of Gov.Tim Walz, swam a 47.75 split on the third leg of the 400 freestyle relay to help the Spartans finish ninth overall (3:12.12). |
• In Class 2A diving, Stillwater junior Josiah Fick won the gold medal with a 389.35 score. |
Boston finalized an extension with shortstop Xander Bogaerts for six years and $120 million. |
SEATTLE — The Red Sox are locking up another member of their championship core. |
Boston finalized an extension with shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who is scheduled to hit free agency after the season. Bogaerts is playing out his final year of arbitration eligibility for $12 million, and he’s in line for a significant raise. |
WEEI’s Evan Drellich and ESPN’s Jeff Passan report the deal would be for six years and $120 million on Sunday. The deal takes Bogaerts through the 2025 season, and he turns 33 that October. Those term effectively keep Bogaerts with the Red Sox for the entirety of his prime. |
Bogaerts was named an American League All-Star in 2016, but he actually enjoyed his best statistical season last year. He racked up new career highs in OPS (.883), home runs (23), runs batted in (103) and doubles (45). Bogaerts notched his fifth straight season of appearing in at least 135 games and continues to develo... |
Those 2018 numbers ranked Bogaerts among the elite offensive shortstops in baseball, and it’s worth noting how much less he might be paid than the player who tops the market at that position. Manny Machado signed a 10-year, $300-million deal with the Padres this offseason -- $10 million more annually than Bogaerts woul... |
The deal comes just eight days after Boston announced a five-year extension with ace left-hander Chris Sale. The Red Sox have several of their key pieces locked up through at least the 2020 season, including Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Dustin Pedroia (2021), Christian Vazquez (2021), Matt Barnes (2021), Eduardo Rodrigue... |
Bogaerts and Dombrowski both politely declined comment while leaving the visiting clubhouse at T-Mobile Park on Sunday night. Boston sides made it official on Monday. |
Regulators fail to stop the illegal activity, which persisted through 2009. British Regulators Informed of Rate Problems Timothy F. Geithner, then head of the New York Fed, contacts British authorities including Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, and Paul Tucker, his deputy, about potential problems with... |
Traders seeking favorable rates received a welcome reception from bank employees who set the benchmark. “Always happy to help,” one employee said in an e-mail. UBS: $1.5 Billion Settlement The Justice Department also filed criminal charges against two former UBS traders and secured a guilty plea from the Swiss banking ... |
“I need you to keep it as low as possible,” one UBS trader said to an employee at another brokerage firm in 2008, according to the complaint. The trader promised to pay “whatever you want. I’m a man of my word.” Royal Bank of Scotland: $612 Million Fine The Justice Department dealt another blow to the bank, forcing its... |
One trader resorted to begging, invoking a plea of “pretty please.” Another trader, after pressuring a colleague to submit a certain rate, offered a reward of sorts: “I would come over there and make love to you.” Rabobank: $1 Billion Settlement The Dutch lender admitted to criminal wrongdoing by its employees and agre... |
When one trader requested a specific rate and then expressed concern that the submitter might encounter resistance, the submitter replied: “Don’t worry mate — there’s bigger crooks in the market than us guys!” 8 Financial Institutions: $2.3 Billion Fine The European Union levied the largest combined penalty ever by the... |
“I’m begging u, don’t forget me,” one Deutsche Bank trader wrote in an online chat to an employee at a rival bank, seeking to influence rates. “Pleassssssssssssssseeeeeeeeee ... I’m on my knees ...” UBS: $203 Million Settlement The Justice Department tore up the bank’s 2012 Libor nonprosecution agreement, saying that i... |
A settlement between the British bank Barclays and regulators may be the first in a series of cases against other banks that may have manipulated the Libor. |
A primer on the London interbank offered rate, more commonly known as Libor, which is one of the most important numbers in the financial world. |
The music industry has started contempt proceedings against Sharman Networks over the peer-to-peer software provider's failure to meet a Federal Court deadline to comply with an assets disclosure order.The recording firms filed a notice of motion on 12 April against Sharman and associated companies for contempt of cour... |
The music industry has started contempt proceedings against Sharman Networks over the peer-to-peer software provider's failure to meet a Federal Court deadline to comply with an assets disclosure order. |
The recording firms filed a notice of motion on 12 April against Sharman and associated companies for contempt of court for failing to comply with the court order made by Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox on 22 March. |
The order required Sharman to file an affidavit no later than 8 April "that discloses with particularity the description and value of all his/her/its assets wherever situated and specifying whether those assets are held by that respondent beneficially or in trust for any other person or entity." This included bank deta... |
The move came after Sharman hired a new law firm -- Piper Alderman -- to request a delay in supplying the affidavit, hours before the deadline expired. The Federal Court twice declined the company's request. |
Senior executives associated with Sharman had previously agreed to freeze their personal assets until seven days after judgment. |
The record companies had also asked Wilcox to order the respondents to file an affidavit detailing each executives' possessions. However, Wilcox opted to require only Sharman chief executive officer Nikki Hemming to make the filing. |
Sharman's lawyers argued before Justice Peter Hely in the Federal Court on 8 April that -- because the company is incorporated in the Republic of Vanuatu -- disclosing sensitive information would put its accountants in breach of the International Companies Act. |
However, Hely threw out the claim and ordered Sharman to pay costs citing the paucity of material produced, the absence of evidence of any changed circumstances and the delay in bringing the application as reasons for the dismissal. |
Hely noted that there was no reason why Hemming could not swear the affidavit. |
The case was back in Wilcox' hands and on April 15, he opted to deny the extension of time for compliance with the so-called 'mareva' injunction -- the freezing of funds or assets. He also questioned why Sharman only recently raised the issue of the International Companies Act in Vanuatu. |
"Your clients are represented by experienced senior counsels who are aware of the Vanuatu legislation referred to numerous times," he said. "This argument was never put to me. On the basis of the arguments put to me, I formed an opinion and made some orders. |
"Then to find the party ... go off to another judge seeking an extension of time on the basis of an argument that wasn't put, and wants to appeal against my order and that judge's order on something that was never put, it tends to leave a nasty taste in my mouth," Wilcox said. |
Wilcox further questioned Sharman's appeal process, saying "I don't know to what extent there would be an infringement of the Vanuatu Act and frankly, I don't care. The responsibility is on the parties to comply with the order of this court. This whole thing just seems to me to be nothing but a stalling tactic." |
Wilcox questioned why Sharman's former legal representatives did not immediately file the application after the assets order was granted in 22 March. "It is almost four weeks and now I am asked for an extension of time, so you can now appeal or seek to leave to appeal when you could have done that immediately after the... |
The contempt proceedings will be heard immediately after Wilcox releases his judgment on the copyright infringement case against Sharman. |
Donald Trump has said he is considering a Polish request to establish a permanent US military base in Poland as a bulwark against Russia, noting that Warsaw was prepared to pay “billions” for the facility. |
Trump spoke on the matter at a joint press conference on Tuesday with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, who had come to White House to press his government’s arguments for a base, which he jokily suggested could be called “Fort Trump”. |
Trump said he agreed with Duda’s arguments that Russian actions, especially the seizure of parts of Georgia and Ukraine, warranted a tough response. |
“I think it’s a very aggressive situation. I think that Russia has acted aggressively. They respect force. They respect strength, as anyone does. And we have the greatest strength in the world, especially now,” Trump said. |
The US currently supplies most of the troops, about 900, for a rotating Nato battalion in Poland as part of the alliance response to Russian intervention in Ukraine and Moscow’s muscle-flexing along its western borders involving large-scale military exercises. |
Warsaw has been pushing for a larger US presence and a permanent base on Polish soil. |
Trump declared himself open to the idea, stressing that Poland would pay for the facility. |
Trump is reported to have ordered a review of costs of basing US troops in Germany, against a backdrop of poor relations with Germany. Diplomats in Washington says he is furious with German chancellor Angela Merkel about car exports and Berlin’s cooperation in the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia an... |
Duda stressed Polish willingness to buy LNG and his government’s scepticism over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which he said would deepen European energy dependence on Russia. He also pointed out that Poland was buying US Patriot missiles for its anti-ballistic defences. |
Kylie Jenner Snapchats Herself Singing! Is She Any Good? |
Could Kylie Jenner could be Tyga's next collaborator after this Snapchat video? |
The 17-year-old reality star posted a clip of her singing on Saturday, but some fans argue that she's actually just lip-syncing to her friend Pia Mia. "How many times I gotta tell ya to come over?" Kylie is seen (possibly) singing. |
Whoever the vocals belong to, they're pretty good! |
Kylie wouldn't be the first Keeping Up with the Kardashians sister to attempt a career in music. In 2011, Kim Kardashian debuted "Jam (Turn It Up)" to mixed (mostly bad) reviews. Coincidentally, her now husband Kanye West was featured in the song's music video. |
Perhaps it's time for Kim's little sister's to give music a go! |
Would you buy a Kylie Jenner album? |
Zimbabwe's government says it's broke and needs direct foreign investment to improve infrastructure. |
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in China seeking investments that his administration believes could help the country's struggling economy. Mnangagwa has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing where the two sides have signed a range of business deals. |
Economists say that this is a positive move, but warn that Zimbabwe has sometimes failed to pay back loans it has received from China. |
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Harare on the impact Chinese investment has already had. |
Miami Vice and Saved By The Bell make their way into the modern age as digital comic books. |
In their latest attempt to woo back customers, Microsoft's browser offers a trip down memory lane to its frist users and the chance to reconnect. |
Photojournalist, Robbie Kaye captures images of ageless beauty and weekly ritual in a culture that is obsessed with youth. |
How a fake memo created a groundswell of nostalgia via social media channels to instigate the return of 90's classics. |
An early cyberculture publication proposes an open source documentation project as an exploration into memory and psychology. |
You can buy a brand new Lada Niva (well, technically it’s called the “Lada 4x4") today that’s really not much different than the Niva that launched in the late 1970s. Just look at that awesome, lifted little 4x4 hatchback. It is what off-road dreams are made of. |
An elderly man was lost at Kroger on North Houk Road Thursday just before 1 a.m. Police reported he appeared to be very confused and was wandering the store. He told police he had been driving for a long time and wasn’t sure of his location. Police checked his information and learned he had been reported as a missing o... |
A woman reported a fraud attempt Wednesday afternoon at her home on Westwood Avenue. The woman told police she received an email that claimed she defaulted on a loan and, unless she paid the full amount, legal action would be taken. The woman said she had never done business with the company or taken out a loan like th... |
A boyfriend and girlfriend got in a fight at their apartment on Tanglewood Drive Wednesday night. Police learned the couple had argued about another acquaintance and separated the couple for the night. Neither party wished to press charges. |
Whether you�ve been following the developments in Iraq over the past four-plus years, blow by devastating blow, or you�ve chosen to shut them out of your mind because they�re just too complex or depressing to bear, watching the documentary �No End in Sight� will leave you floored, agape and enraged anew. |
Writer-director-producer Charles Ferguson, a political scientist and software entrepreneur making his first film, presents a clear-eyed, sobering analysis of myriad mistakes the United States has made in Iraq, starting from the original invasion in March 2003. |
Ferguson doesn�t really get into the philosophical reasons behind the war and he doesn�t tell you anything that hasn�t already been reported. But the cumulative, comprehensive body of interviews and images is just completely damning � exhaustive and exhausting, painful to watch but necessary. |
While much of the film consists of potentially dry talking heads detailing their experiences and frustrations during the occupation � from former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and retired Gen. Jay Garner to journalists, Marines and other soldiers on the ground � the combined power of their calm words has a... |
Some of the best and best-known Iraq documentaries so far have come from the perspective of individuals, including �Gunner Palace� and �The War Tapes,� about U.S. troops immersed in combat, and the Oscar-nominated �Iraq in Fragments� and �My Country, My Country,� about the effects of war on civilians. By now, enough ti... |
Culling from more than 200 hours of footage (with editors Chad Beck and Cindy Lee), Ferguson presents some basic facts that explain how the situation deteriorated so vastly, so rapidly. With help from narrator Campbell Scott, we are told that the U.S. military was never ordered to stop the looting that broke out right ... |
Following the creation of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, or ORHA, under Garner�s leadership, which had practically no existing structure in place, not enough people and barely any who spoke Arabic, L. Paul Bremer was sent to Iraq to take over those same duties under the newly designed Coalit... |
And as nearly everyone in the film attests, it was Bremer�s fateful decisions that led to the most severe damage. Bremer, an ambassador and friend of President Bush�s who had no experience in the Middle East, had never seen combat, spoke no Arabic and knew nothing about postwar reconstruction, promptly broke up Saddam ... |
What�s so astonishing about watching all these bits of history is not merely that they happened, but that they were only the beginning. Seeing Rumsfeld at a news conference, dismissing the proliferation of civilian violence with a flippant, �Stuff happens,� as if the sky were falling, may have made for vaguely amusing ... |
Once again, Yahoo is testing a search results page layout and interface incredibly similar to the Google Search user interface. |
Note, Yahoo tested something similar back in January, where I laid out the old and the new interface, so you can compare notes over there. |
Also, we know Yahoo also was caught testing Google powered Yahoo Search results a few weeks ago. |
Yahoo, Bing and Google are always testing, in fact, I can probably write 5-10 blog posts per day on their tests. |
He could make a big impact. |
There's no love lost between these two! |
Southampton’s difficult summer could be about to get even more fraught as reports suggest Bayern Munich are eyeing a move for goalkeeper Artur Boruc. |
Southampton will make a swoop for Chelsea goalkeeper Hilario or Tottenham shot-stopper Heurelho Gomes if temporary No.1 Paulo Gazzaniga falters while deputising for injured Artur Boruc. |
Artur Boruc has apologised to Southampton’s supporters after his gaff allowed Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic to score after just 13 seconds. |
Ahhh, the international break. About as welcome to a Saints fan at the moment as a Pompey fan at a Mensa meeting. The reason for that being that Saints are in terrific form and the games can't come fast enough. |
There has been much optimism in the Saints camp this summer, and with additions of Dejan Lovren and Victor Wanyama the fans have started to talk about pushing up the Premier League table. But Wednesday's friendly with German Champions League side Schalke 04 may have wound us all back in again from our uncharacteristic ... |
David James has emerged as a possible replacement for Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who has finalised his £3million move to Fiorentina. |
Scott McDonald missed the chance of the game and Artur Boruc pulled off two impressive saves as Celtic and Rangers played out a goalless Old Firm derby at Parkhead. |
Arsenal will make a move for Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc in the summer if he fails to regain favour at Parkhead. |
Celtic keeper Artur Boruc has been told to quit the Scottish champions for Newcastle – by his Poland coach. |
Celtic manager Gordon Strachan will stand by under-fire goalkeeper Artur Boruc by keeping him in his side for tonight's Champions League clash with Villarreal. |
Artur Boruc's blunder blew the title race wide open as Celtic failed to record a 13th successive Clydesdale Bank Premier League victory with a 2-0 defeat at Hibernian. |
Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc has escaped with a £500 fine and a severe reprimand over gestures he made to Rangers fans during the last Old Firm derby. |
Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc has been called to appear before the SFA disciplinary committee over an alleged gesture made to Rangers fans during last month's Old Firm derby. |
Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc has been axed from the Poland national team after allegedly breaking a curfew following a friendly in Ukraine. |
Keith Anderson (Nov. 24, “How the American Dream died”) uses the phrase “privileged superiority” — claiming it is the only reason for homeless, hunger, hate, lack of health care and the reason why so few have so much. |
Most of us, as I did, leave home with the knowledge our parents, family and school gave us and little more. We find a way to make a living, raise a family of decent, honest, hard-working, unselfish people who accomplish the same or a bit more. That’s the way of most of our citizens live, and nothing about it suggests a... |
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