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The department received a complaint on Aug. 29 regarding a sexual battery incident that allegedly occurred the previous day, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The 22-year-old woman who accused Mannella told deputies the crime took place after a social gathering in a Slidell-area subdivision, the release said... |
The New Orleans Advocate reported that the woman told the newspaper the incident occurred after she attended a function at Mannella's home in the French Branch subdivision near Slidell. Mannella, whom her family has known since she was 2 years old, walked her to her SUV where he pushed her against the vehicle and tried... |
The woman said she rejected Mannella, who had been drinking. Mannella grabbed her arm and lifted up her dress, groping her in the genital area, she told the newspaper. The woman alleged that Mannella tried to push her legs apart with his body before she was able to get away after shoving him. |
Mannella has not responded to an email seeking comment. |
Two weeks ago, the Picks & Ponderings Winter Tour stopped at Gulfstream for a look at Holy Bull Day. This week, the Tour makes a return trip to Gulfstream Park. While the track cards six stakes this Saturday, four of which are graded, the focus of this piece is only on two of them. Those two races are the Donn Handicap... |
Despite the narrow choice, the two races discussed in this piece - the Donn and the Gulfstream Park Turf - are part of the "X-Country Pick Four", an inter-track pick four sponsored by XpressBet that has a $500,000 guarantee and covers the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, Donn Handicap, San Antonio Handicap, and San Marco... |
Along with Nicolle's preview from Santa Anita of the San Marcos and San Antonio in the X-Country Pick Four, it also includes an examination of the G3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes for three-year-olds. Also be sure to check out Paul's preview of the G3 Withers Stakes for three-year-olds from Aqueduct. |
Morning lines for these Gulfstream races, scheduled for February 7th, were not available at original publish time. All post times given below are those given by Equibase as these post times are purely an approximation and the track is known for running races after the advertised post time. |
Updated February 5th with morning line odds. |
Gulfstream Park -- Race 12 -- Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap -- One and One-Eighth Miles on Turf -- post time 5:28 PM ET, to air live on Fox Sports 1. |
Generically named, the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap is sometimes referred to by its initials of GPTH to differentiate it from the Gulfstream Park Handicap at a one-turn dirt mile later in the meet. The Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap has had other vanilla names in the past, but it's always been a grass race since its bi... |
Selections and analysis are "turf only". At publish time the rail is to be set 84 feet from the zero position, and the run-up distance is thirty-two feet. |
Maybe MSHAWISH needs firm turf. It looked like his form went in the dumpster in the G3 Knickerbocker, but that was over a wet "yielding" course and the last two over a firm Gulfstream course have seen the form rebound and blossom closer to the horse that was a very good fourth in the G1 Dubai Duty Free. And compiled wi... |
Longshot: It's a noticable step up from a twice-other-than allowance to a Grade One. But if you're going to jump multiple rungs, having some things in your favor makes the jump easier. If the horse's jockey/trainer team is hitting is at 29% wins/61% in the money for the thirty-one times they've united, that's a favorab... |
Gulfstream Park -- Race 13 -- Donn Handicap -- 1 1/8 miles on Dirt -- post time 5:58 pm ET, to air live on Fox Sports 1. |
Headlining Gulfstream's six stakes day is the last race of its card, the Grade One Donn Handicap. They'll go nine furlongs here, a full circuit around the Gulfstream dirt. Half a million dollars will be on the line in this event that's part of the X-Country Pick Four. This race pays homage to James Donn Sr., who purcha... |
If LEA is back from the mothballs and the same horse he was in 2014 when he won the Donn, he should etch his name among the double winners. The figures say he's as sharp as he was last year when winning the local prep to this race, the G3 Hal's Hope at a one-turn mile. There's a :49 2/5 work at Payson after the Donn, a... |
Longshot: Blah blah, Pletcher at Gulfstream. Blah blah, LEA trying to repeat. The talk centers on them, and no one is saying anything about #10 PRAYER FOR RELIEF (12/1). Maybe that's because PRAYER FOR RELIEF's last graded stakes win came in the 2013 G3 Cornhusker. But as PRAYER FOR RELIEF is a Dale Romans trainee, and... |
MART, Texas The Mart Panthers are hoping to beat Refugio Friday night at home in a rematch of last year's 2A state championship game. |
Mart is 3-1 this season and they've played well with the exception of their game against Franklin a couple of weeks ago. Friday they play the same team they beat in last year's state title game, Refugio. |
One unique thing about this year's matchup is the total transformation of the Refugio offense since that meeting in December. Kevin Hoffman says had he known that Refugio would be switching to a triple option offensive attack he may have had second thoughts about scheduling the game. He also says the Panther defense ha... |
After having lost seven of eight and falling to 10th in the Eastern Conference standings, Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird fired head coach Jim O'Brien Sunday morning, according to Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski. |
O'Brien was in his fourth year with the Pacers, having compiled a 121-169 total record with the team and a 17-27 record this season. |
While the Pacers have not been particularly talented during O'Brien's tenure, the core of Roy Hibbert, Darren Collison and Danny Granger was widely regarded as being worthy of nabbing one of the final playoff berths in the conference. |
That goal, though, still remains possible, as the team is just two games out in the race for the eighth and final spot. |
A decision as to who will be named interim coach has yet to be made. |
The U.K. is now actually in the process of revamping its system, he said. |
Gonzalez said the work of the task force is ongoing and it’s unclear exactly when the U.S. will see an expansive real-time payments system. Supporters of real-time payment capabilities in the U.S. see it as an improvement over the hodgepodge of options currently available to consumers and businesses. |
For example, companies like Facebook and Venmo already offer services that allow people to send payments to each other with the tap of a finger. But those services are only open to people with a Facebook or Venmo account. |
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have to open accounts with Venmo and whoever else just so I can send and receive payments with multiple people. And therein lies part of the problem the U.S. financial sector now finds itself facing. |
Traditional banks have been paying close attention to such start-ups whose mobile-payments services are putting pressure on banks to improve their own offerings. Just this month, Bank of America announced the ability for its customers to instantly send and receive payments with U.S. Bank customers. |
Which raises another issue: The Fed’s task force is designed to bring industry officials together to work on solutions. Many of these same companies may have competing interests, though. |
“One of the big challenges is: How do you ... get them to talk to each other?” Gonzalez said. |
Dell EMC put some distance between itself and runner-up Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as the market leader in both server revenue and server units shipped globally in Q2 2018, according to IDC research released Sept. 5. |
For the overall industry, worldwide server vendor revenues increased 43.7 percent year over year to $22.5 billion during the quarter. Worldwide server shipments increased 20.5 percent year over year to 2.9 million units for the same Q2. |
Dell EMC claimed 18.8 percent of all server revenues for Q2 (totaling $4.25 billion). This outperformed No. 2 HPE (16.6 percent revenue share; $3.74 billion in revenue). IDC noted that Dell EMC grew faster than the market with 52.9 percent year over year revenue growth, while HPE/H3C saw 11.7 percent year-over-year rev... |
Dell EMC also led with 19.5 percent of all server units shipped globally for Q2, shipping 132,182 more x86 server units than HPE/H3C, which experienced a quarterly loss of -12.4 percent year over year, while Dell grew 16.6 percent in year-over-year total server shipments. For x86 units only, Dell EMC share was 19.7 per... |
IBM and Lenovo came in third and fourth, respectively, with IBM earning $1.6 billion (7.3 percent marketshare) and Lenovo $1.55 billion (6.9 percent). |
Inspur, Cisco Systems and Huawei were next, each earning about $1 billion in the quarter and taking a little less than 5 percent marketshare each. |
Overall, this demonstrates the continued, massive desire for servers and the imperative nature of on-premises IT. |
Dell EMC outpaced server competitors because buyers are seeing value in Dell EMC’s differentiated 14th generation of PowerEdge servers, designed for IoT use cases at the edge to PowerEdge R940xa and R840 in the data center; they first shipped in Q2 designed as powerhouses for artificial intelligence efforts. |
In addition to traditional computing leadership, IDC noted that Dell EMC continues to be No. 1 in global HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) system sales with a 29.6 percent share (up from 21.6 percent in 1Q17), and an impressive growth rate of 142.7 percent year over year--a rate nearly twice the overall industry gro... |
Dell EMC says it is continuing to innovate by delivering industry-available composability now while leading the way in making full composability a reality for customers. HPE also offers composable infrastructure, as does newcomer Liqid and several other vendors. |
On Aug. 21, Dell EMC announced the launch of Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, the industry’s newest high-performance, modular infrastructure supporting a wide variety of traditional and emerging data center workloads. PowerEdge MX, shipping globally Sept. 12, is also the industry’s first modular infrastructure uniquely designed ... |
With five games in the books, Boston College football now has seven consecutive conference matchups left on the schedule. While the ACC has not looked like the powerhouse it has been in recent years, nothing comes easy in this league, and the Eagles (4-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) have to be prepared for a dogfight every wee... |
The next game on the slate will take place Saturday against No. 23 N.C. State (4-0, 1-0), a team that now graces the ranking that the Eagles held just two weeks ago. The Wolfpack broke into the Top 25 after a dominant conference win last week against Virginia. For the Eagles, they just hope to have their star running b... |
Saturday, Oct. 6, 12:30 p.m. |
1) BC ran 100 offensive plays last Saturday against Temple. The Eagles took their up-tempo offense to the next level on Saturday, running the most plays they have on the season, and well-above their average of 78.2 snaps per contest. However, BC was not incredibly efficient. It amassed just 423 total yards—50 yards les... |
2) Dillon racked up 161 yards in just over one half of play before exiting in the third quarter. He was on pace for an even bigger day, but he did have 28 carries by this point. The Eagles have been feeding Dillon, and he was on pace for over 40 totes last Saturday. It begs the question if the talented sophomore is bei... |
3) The Eagles are 15-for-18 in converting red-zone trips into touchdowns this season. BC has been very consistent and creative in the red zone in recent weeks, relying on a blend of hard-nose running, play-action, and trickery, which occurred last week when Jeff Smith took a pitch and tossed it to quarterback Anthony B... |
1) Ryan Finley has led the Wolfpack to victory so far by throwing for 1,313 yards in his first four games, while posting eight touchdowns compared to just one interception. Finley is a graduate student and has looked as comfortable as ever in his fifth collegiate season. |
2) The offensive line has done a great job protecting Finley so far, allowing just two sacks in four games. The starting unit features three seniors who have also paved the way for running back Reggie Gallaspy Jr.’s five touchdowns on the ground. |
3) Larrell Murchison racked up three sacks and four tackles-for-loss last week against Virginia. The transfer from Louisburg College, who redshirted last season, is coming into his own at defensive tackle, replacing the star-studded defensive line from last year’s Wolfpack team that is now playing on Sundays. |
The two sides met at Alumni Stadium last season on Nov. 11, 2017 when the Wolfpack was also ranked No. 23. It was the fateful game where Brown sustained his season-ending knee injury in the first half of action. Darius Wade came in to lead the Eagles, and Dillon rushed for 196 yards, but it was not enough as a fourth q... |
It cannot be understated what Dillon means to this team and how he affects BC’s offensive philosophy, as well as the defensive strategy for opposing teams. With Dillon in the backfield, teams will typically load the box and bring down their safeties to help out with stopping the run. This opens up the opportunity for d... |
Ben Glines looked solid replacing Dillon against Temple, running for 120 yards of his own. But if Dillon cannot go on Saturday, it would most likely be a committee between Glines, freshman David Bailey, and passing-down specialist Travis Levy. If this trio can pick up the slack and force N.C. State to play the run, BC ... |
On the other side of the ball, much of last of the struggles of last week’s game should be taken in context, as Lukas Denis was ejected in the second quarter for targeting. This altered BC’s defensive gameplan, as Addazio typically uses the versatile Denis at both safety and corner, leaving him with fewer options after... |
Special teams continues to doom the Eagles as well. Michael Walker is an electric return man, but he has had trouble holding onto the ball of late. Extra point misses and punting miscues also contribute to this unit that has looked dreadful so far. If this is the game where BC’s special teams unit figures it all out, i... |
BioWare is working on “some secret ‘Dragon Age’ stuff,” and it will talk more about it in the coming months, general manager Casey Hudson said in a blog post on Thursday. |
“‘Dragon Age’ is an incredibly important franchise in our studio, and we’re excited to continue its legacy,” he said. |
“Dragon Age” executive producer Mark Darrah also hinted in January that developers are “hard at work” on a project involving the popular role-playing game franchise. |
Hudson also potentially dropped a hint about future “Mass Effect” content. “We announced one of the things we’ve done recently (a 4k enhancement to ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ on Xbox One) but as we alluded to in our N7 Day video, that was just a small part of the plans we’re making for ‘Mass Effect’ going forward,” he sa... |
The rest of the post mainly talked about BioWare’s upcoming online RPG “Anthem.” Now that the game has passed its alpha milestone, Hudson said the team is doing final tasks and changes, along with a “ton” of testing and bug-fixing. They’re also doing what Hudson said is one of his favorite parts of game development — t... |
“Anthem” launches on Feb. 22 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Hudson said the team is working on entire seasons of post-launch content. “It’s scary and exciting to work on something on this scale and complexity, but we’re doing everything we can to make sure it’s an amazing experience for you,” he said. |
In case you missed it, treasury bill yields went negative yesterday (to -0.03%) which means investors were willing to lose money in order to own them. This is a very rare occurrence. |
Even simply keeping cash under your pillow would earn a higher return, in either an inflationary or deflationary environment. So negative yields, no matter how small, clearly don't make any investment sense. |
When this happened back during the end of last year, Post-Lehman, one potential reason was that institutional investors were so panicked that they simply wanted to protect the value of their capital as much as possible. The only way to do that within their scope of options was to buy U.S. treasury bills, even if they h... |
Yet investors certainly aren't as panicked as they were last year. So what's going on this time? |
Across The Curve: Typically as the year end approaches clients tend to unwind profitable trades and reduce balance sheet. I think that some of that deleveraging process has created new piles of cash and that money needs a place to park. |
Others are preparing to beautify their balance sheet by having some pristine government paper on the books over year end. Some of that trade has begun as investors purchase paper which will carry them into 2010. |
Thus this time around it appears there is simply too much money that wants to sit tight and look respectable come year-end. Which means that we shouldn't read too much from the negative T-Bill yield and this will eventually rebound back to at least 0%, once the year-end regulatory dance comes to an end. |
Warner Bros.-owned, Asian-focused OTT platform DramaFever announced today that it has signed a three-year deal with Korean pop culture producer and distributor CJ E&M to produce a slate of original series through the latter’s production division Studio Dragon. |
The deal was unveiled on Wednesday at the Broadcast World Wide convention in Seoul by Craig Hunegs, president of business and strategy for Warner Bros. Television Group. The news was first reported by Variety. |
Under the terms of the deal, DramaFever and Studio Dragon will develop and produce two original dramas over the next two years. |
It’s not the first partnership between DramaFever and CJ E&M. In July 2015, DramaFever signed a licensing deal with CJ E&M that included the exclusive distribution rights for eight Korean TV dramas and at least 10 feature films. |
The deal resulted in last January’s launch of the the CJ E&M Movie Channel, featuring close to two dozen Korean films, subtitled in English, available exclusively to premium subscribers of DramaFever’s OTT video network in the U.S. and Canada. |
Founded in 2009 by Seung Bak and Suk Park, DramaFever offers consumers SVOD access to content from more than 70 producers and broadcasters located in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The company was acquired by Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank in 2014 and soon after began expanding its content offerings with or... |
Star Wars x adidas Originals Campus 80s "Wampa" |
The Star Wars and adidas Originals collection has spawned some interesting sneakers but none more interesting than the Campus 80s "Wampa". Basing a sneaker on a hairy beast is one thing, but successfully pulling it off is another and thats exactly the case. A horse hair upper is used to replicate the icy fur of the bea... |
The DeKalb County Board of Health is advising everyone to take steps to prevent mosquito bites this fall. Individuals should take particular care when doing yard work, such as raking and gardening. Mosquitoes will continue to bite, even when, temperatures go as low as 50 degrees. |
Five DeKalb residents have been diagnosed with West Nile virus this year. Infected mosquitoes transmit the virus when they bite humans. |
Reduce mosquito breeding in your yard by eliminating standing water in gutters and items such as planters, toys, wheelbarrows and old tires. |
Discourage mosquitoes from resting in your yard by trimming tall grass, weeds and vines. |
Rake up fallen magnolia leaves. |
Make sure window and door screens fit tightly to keep mosquitoes out of your home. |
Keep water containers like rain barrels and cisterns from breeding mosquitoes. Use screens or mosquito larvicide products. A larvicide is a chemical that kills mosquitoes before they are old enough to fly. |
Reduce outdoor exposure at dawn and dusk, when the mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus are most active. |
On skin, use an insect repellent containing DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or IR3535. Apply according to label instructions. |
Spray clothing with products containing permethrin. |
Wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and socks when outdoors, particularly at dawn and dusk and in areas with large numbers of mosquitoes. |
It's easy to make mistakes when working on plumbing. Luckily, it's easy to fix those mistakes, too. |
Plumbing can be one of the hardest projects you tackle in your home. Although a water leak could be just an annoyance, a gas leak is a serious danger and one that needs addressing immediately. These are the five biggest plumbing mistakes along with the best ways to avoid these common pitfalls. |
You go to install a new gas range or gas dryer and mismatch iron pipe threads and flare compression threads. For a more in-depth look at the problem, go here. |
Inevitably, this leads to a leaky gas connection, a fire hazard. The safest thing you can do is buy a gas connector kit that already has the specialty fittings you need to make gastight transfer from the wall to the appliance. |
While we’re on this topic, have a look at these videos by plumbing parts manufacturer Brasscraft. They’re excellent. |
Don’t forget to prime PVC pipes and fittings before gluing the pieces together. The primer strips away solvents and dirt and breaks down the glossy outer layer of plastic, softening it. When glue is applied, the two plastic surfaces are fused together, forming a watertight joint. |
You can only opt to skip the primer if you use a combination glue/primer product such as this one. But if you intend to use this on a plumbing job for which you’ve pulled a building permit, ask the town’s plumbing inspector if it’s acceptable before using it. |
When tightening two hex fittings together, you need two wrenches, one on each fitting. |
Without two wrenches, you won’t be able to adequately tighten the connection. You’ll overtighten one side of it and under-tighten the other side. When tightening a hex fitting to a pipe, hold the pipe with a pipe wrench like this. Or use a V-jaw tongue-and-groove plier like this famous model from Channellock. |
The wheel on a tubing cutter will eventually get dull and when that happens, it will either leave a rough edge (which can lead to an improper joint, and a leak) or you’ll have to overtighten the cutter to make it cut, forcing the tubing out of round, and the result is the same: a leak. |
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