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The West has mostly been beaten up this season by its counterparts in the East, going 8-12 against the much higher profile division.
Again, the Bulldogs are an exception so far. They are tied with Kentucky at a game behind No. 1 Tennessee in the overall SEC championship race.
They close the regular season at Florida and No. 18 Vanderbilt and at home against LSU.
'Sometimes you hear about our league being down,' Stansbury said. 'Well, maybe we're not as heavy at the top. That doesn't change how good our league is at the bottom.
The Ratings Percentage Index hasn't been kind to the West teams. Arkansas (35), Mississippi State (41) and Mississippi (45) all appear to be in NCAA tournament bubble territory based on those power ratings.
Auburn (128), Alabama (132) and LSU (176) � which has already fired coach John Brady � aren't even making strong cases for the NIT. Some Bama fans have been clamoring for Gottfried's ouster.
Maybe that kind of pressure helps explain why he screamed and raised his hands in the air in celebrating Wednesday night's win over Arkansas.
'This profession will drive you a little batty sometimes,' Gottfried said.
So will the SEC's wild West.
The division's two newest coaches are learning that quickly. Ole Miss is 14-0 in nonconference play, but hasn't won an SEC road game and seems far removed from that Top 25 ranking earlier this season.
'We just can't seem to get it done on the road,' second-year coach Andy Kennedy said.
Arkansas coach John Pelphrey is only one win shy of the school mark of 19 wins for a first-year coach. But the Razorbacks have dropped four of five.
Pelphrey is confidently predicting a solid future for his program, maybe even the near future.
Auburn's Lebo thinks the Razorbacks have the best chance of joining Mississippi State in the NCAA field from the West.
Shane Black Helming Magna Classic "Death Note"
Shane Black's fantastic 2005 directorial debut, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," went a long way toward relaunching Robert Downey Jr.'s career. Now he's finally ready to direct again.
Black will helm an adaptation of the bestselling magna tale "Death Note," about a kid who finds himself in possession of a notebook with the power to kill.
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects -- and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight f his noble goal... or his life?
“It’s my favorite manga, I was just struck by its unique and brilliant sensibility,” Black told Deadline. “What we want to do is take it back to that manga, and make it closer to what is so complex and truthful about the spirituality of the story, versus taking the concept and trying to copy it as an American thriller."
Black will oversee script development with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry, the same team with who hes's working on the upcoming "Doc Savage."
The New York City Council voted Wednesday to impose new taxes and regulations on an array of tobacco products, to bar their sale in pharmacies and to curb the sale and use of electronic cigarettes.
The package, which has the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, will raise the price floor on a pack of cigarettes to $13 from $10.50, and smokeless tobacco and shisha packages to $17 from $8. Retailers that sell individual cigars would have to charge at least $8.
The legislation will also establish a new 10% tax on loose tobacco, cigars, cigarillos and tobacco-laced shisha, and direct the revenue toward public housing. Manhattan Councilman Corey Johnson, who sponsored several of the bills, argued the danger of tobacco use justifies the hikes.
"Tobacco use kills an estimated 12,000 New Yorkers a year," said Johnson, who chairs the council's Committee on Health. "This is unacceptable."
The new laws will also raise the cost of a cigarette retail license from $110 to $200, and bar the sale of tobacco products from pharmacies. The drug-store chain CVS stopped selling tobacco on its own three years ago.
The bills also include statutes establishing a new parallel licensing system for e-cigarette retailers, and caps the number such stores at half their current density—but allows the decrease to occur through attrition. E-cigarette dealers will not be able to sell other tobacco products.
Finally, another set of bills will outlaw the use of e-cigarettes in the halls, lobbies and other shared spaces of apartment buildings with fewer than 10 units. Vaping in the common areas of larger buildings is already illegal. Bronx Councilman James Vacca, who sponsored the legislation curtailing indoor e-cigarette use, defended his bill even though studies have not yet shown second-hand e-cigarette vapors to be as dangerous as smoke.
"I will err on the safety of the person who does not want cigarette smoke of any type in their presence," Vacca told Crain's.
Critics have pointed out that raising taxes on tobacco results in more black-market sales. Perhaps half of all cigarettes smoked in New York City are smuggled from places where taxes are lower.
But opponents have found little traction in the City Council, forcing them to resort to efforts beyond traditional lobbying.
The law firm Gerstman Schwartz Malito LLP, representing the New York Association of Grocery Stores, just penned a letter to the council accusing it of violating open meetings rules in the passage of the vaping legislation. The letter alleged that because a bill that added the term "electronic cigarettes retail dealer" to the city administrative code passed the Committee on Health on Tuesday simultaneously with the legislation establishing new regulations on such dealers, the committee must have held a previous secret meeting to arrange and ensure the passage of both measures.
Had such a clandestine meeting not taken place, the letter insisted, there would have been no way of guaranteeing both laws would pass—and the regulations could not take effect without the new terminology getting added to the city code.
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and council attorneys dismissed the claims as baseless. They maintained that both bills passed through normal, permitted and fully transparent processes in full compliance with open-meetings rules.
Purchase donuts with your real money and spend them on hurrying projects or unique items.
The game makes it pretty obvious when tasks are completed and you need to collect your money.
During game events, players work cooperatively to unlock special bonuses. When goals are met, every Tapped Out player gets a reward.
Perhaps an explanation from the developer.
Most, but not all, of the characters are voiced by their voice actors. Thankfully, this one is.
Constructing buildings can complete quest goals and also unlock characters.
Each character can perform a job to earn money and XP, at the cost of time.
Visit your friends' Springfields to help them with chores or deface their public property.
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian broadcaster of Sunday’s U.S. National Football League’s Super Bowl game said its ratings fell 39 percent from last year after a broadcast regulator ruled it could no longer substitute its commercials into U.S. feeds available in the country.
Bell Media, part of BCE Inc, said the game attracted an average audience of 4.47 million viewers across three of its main channels, compared with 7.32 million last year, when the game was only shown on its CTV channel.
The loss of viewership likely occurred as Canadians tuned in to the Fox Television feed instead, with its U.S. commercials that many consider funnier and more sophisticated.
Fox does not sell advertising in Canada, so its viewership is not measured by Numeris, the main broadcast measurement company in Canada. Fox Sports did not immediately respond to a query about its Canadian audience.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) singled out the Super Bowl in a January 2015 ruling that stopped Bell from inserting domestic ads into the U.S. feed, a practice known as simultaneous substitution.
Bell said it is halfway through a binding contract in which it pays tens of millions of dollars for Super Bowl rights, fees it is less able to recoup with the lost advertising revenue due to the decision.
BCE and the NFL have appealed in federal court to overturn the ruling.
New images of Trayvon Martin paint a dramatically different picture of the teen than the one the Martin Family wants you to see.
Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing then 17-year-old Martin, released the shocking photos and text messages as part of evidence they plan to use to defend Zimmerman when his second degree murder trial start next month.
David Mattingly is OutFront with the story.
The character references from the cell phone only point to the fact that Martin was not a 13 year old small boy who went to the store for candy. He was a young man who got into a lot of fights. It does not make it "OK" for him to be shot and killed. It only verifies that, consistent with prior behavior, he pursued Zimmerman and beat him up. Martin did not know Zimmerman had a gun. If he did he would not have started to pound him. The obvious truth is that Martin could have walked away. A sad story, he was very young to die, but he was pounding Zimmerman into hamburger. He picked the wrong person to beat up.
And that makes it ok for him to have been shot and killed?
"Killing Them Softly" is, in its own chatty and slight way, the "Unforgiven" of hit-man thrillers. It's a gritty, riveting nuts-and-bolts-of-murder tale that vividly illustrates what it is that these much-glamorized thugs do, and the gruesome, agonizing fate of their victims.
"I guess they had it coming."
"We all got it coming, kid."
The mob lawyer (Richard Jenkins) arranging all this mayhem tries to minimize the death toll, calling one target "a nice guy." The cynical Jackie (Pitt) informs him that "They're all nice guys."
There was this mob-protected underground poker game that Markie (Ray Liotta) ran. Markie's got a history of having his games robbed. And this one mug, Johnny the Squirrel (Vincent Curatola), figures a way to pull another heist and let Markie take the fall. Of course, getting ex-con Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Frankie's Aussie-junky pal Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) to do the deed wasn't the smartest move.
That's why Jackie's been called. That, and because everybody's favorite local hit-man (Sam Shepard) is sick.
Jackie figures there's a lot of work here, something he lays out to the lawyer in a couple of long, heart-to-heart talks. So Jackie brings in a subcontractor, New York Mickey (James Gandolfini). But Mickey's a mess, an aggressive drunk who holes up in a hotel emptying bottles and insulting hookers. Events are going to outrun them all if Jackie doesn't get a handle on things, tidy up.
As on "The Sopranos," Gandolfini has the confessional role here, playing a character paranoid about what his wife will do if he's imprisoned, a sentimental boor who is rude to one and all, but misty-eyed over past "jobs." McNairy and Mendelsohn share scenes in which the sober one tries to wring information out of the swaggering drug addict from Down Under, whose point of view is mimicked by a series of blurred images, slowed-down conversation and blackouts. Guys this nervous may be able to steel themselves, briefly, for the robbery. The consequences of that are still going to make them weepy little girls.
Pitt dials Jackie down a few notches, keeping the guy as realistic as the movie around him. This isn't "Seven Psychopaths" — murder and those who commit murder (and those who make glib movies about psychopaths) played for laughs. Jackie's encounters with associates, subordinates and victims all have a nervous edge about them. We can guess what he's capable of. He's not sadistic, not interested in making someone suffer. But he's also not sentimental, and not fond of those who wail for their mama and wet their pants when he draws-down on them. He'd rather "kill them softly, from a distance."
That "distance" is not a cop-out writer-director Andrew Dominik (working from a George V. Higgins novel) stumbles into. These characters are, to a one, lowlifes, the sort who'd steal a tip off a diner table. The deaths here are gory, gurgly and depressingly real.
But where Dominik and Pitt's previous movie together ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") was daguerreotype slow and stately, "Softly" is slow and freighted with obscure meaning. Dominik labored over the soundtrack, stuffing in vintage records, TV news clips and talking-head chatter about the 2007-2008 economic meltdown and the presidential election that followed. So, the "real criminals" get away with this sort of thing? "Hope" and "Change" are gossamer promises, because there are always guys like Jackie to clean up a mess filled with Wall Street types who "have it coming"?
That leaves "Killing Them Softly" with just a hint of the under-developed, a big metaphor not quite digested. But even that shortcoming doesn't obscure the fine, flinty performances and unflinching realism of the one hit-man thriller among many to not seem redundant, worshipful and glamorous.
One of Ghana’s sensational media mogul, Anita Erskine has stated that in spite of her achievements, she will choose her family over her career any time.
According to her, family means everything to her and no amount of money from any institution will make her choose work over family.
"I must admit that I haven’t been around all the time for my family but I am glad my husband, sisters and mother come in to help from time to time,” she told Showbiz in an interview recently.
Anita explained that although career is very important and makes one comfortable when you earn a good income, it can never replace family.
She used the opportunity to thank her husband, Regis Amaizo for being very supportive. “My husband is one of a kind. He understands me and takes care of the children when I am not around,” she stated.
Earlier this week, 3FM began teasing a new co-host for its 3FM Drive, hosted by Giovani Caleb, who joined the station after leaving EIB Network.
it was later revealed that Anita Erskine will be the new co-host of the drive show.
This is the second time Anita Erskine is pairing up with Giovani Caleb on another drive show. She and Giovani hosted Starr Drive on Starr FM before she left in 2017.
Giving reasons why she left the Starr Drive, Anita Erskine said it was crashing with most of her travels.
“I love to explore and at a point, the Starr FM job was crashing with my travels hence the reason I had to leave,” she said.
Technology is shaping the world with everything from electric cars to hyperloop. But when it comes to the real estate construction industry, it is still underserved by technology. The construction industry contributes over 4% to the U.S. GDP, and it needs to adapt to new technologies in order to automate processes and decrease dependencies on manual labor.
However, the breakthrough technologies to make construction more efficient that have hit the market within the past five years have primed the industry for disruption. Below, read three of these technologies that I have come across and how each will shape the way we approach building in the future.
No industry is as labor-intensive as construction. Since construction sites are uncontrolled (open) environments, it is most difficult to incorporate robotics, unlike in closed industrial environments. However, construction activities such as bricklaying are so repetitive and labor-intensive that the use of robotics is helpful to not only reduce costs, but also maintain quality and precision.
Very recently there have been breakthroughs in robotics for construction. One such pioneer product is the semi-automated mason — "SAM" — a bricklaying robot designed and engineered by Construction Robotics. It's the first bricklaying robot commercially available and doesn't actually replace a traditional mason. Rather, it works in collaboration with a mason, increasing their productivity up to five-fold.
Zak Podkaminer of Construction Robotics told me, “Construction will benefit from robotics in work that is dangerous, is repetitive, and where heavy lifting is required. [In] high precision work such as complex designs and patterns, robotics will provide a significant time savings allowing for more digital fabrication and provide architects more creative flexibility."
While just the thought of machines replacing humans sounds alarming, the technology of collaborative robotics that can work alongside humans in order to prevent accidents and save lives is one I'm happy to see is likely here to stay.
A good site analysis is the foundation required before any construction project can be started. In parts of the developing world, access to high-quality imagery via Google Maps is a struggle that increases the dependency on a manual workforce to gather on-site data before construction. Especially when it comes to retrofitting an old building or adding solar panels to an existing building, good-quality images captured by machine can reduce a lot of human hours spent measuring a building.
Enter drone photography. The use of drones in construction allows users to map a site and create two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional images. Since most of the advanced drones use a coordinate-based system, it is possible nowadays to achieve absolute accuracy in measurements, although it is expensive.
Deep Chakraborty, CEO of ENACT Systems, told me, “While the use of drones is proliferating now, the construction industry lacks good software platforms and tools that can process such images rapidly and simplify the analytical activity.” Drone-image processing software programs are already simplifying image usability, and vertical-specific software platforms are now adopting the use of such drone image processing to simplify workflows for solar field professionals. The next two to five years will bring more sophistication to the use of drone imagery in construction.
While the world is closer to a paperless and fully digital management structure, quite a lot of the construction industry is still maintaining physical binders, logging responses in Excel, using fax machines and picking up the phone for even the smallest exchanges of information.
Project collaboration tools are transforming how the construction industry operates by making communication between various parties seamless, with some tools also offering a centralized storage of all project related files. Dustin DeVan, CEO of Building Connected, told me, “Before the hammer hits the nail, hundreds and sometimes thousands of businesses communicate with one another to set budgets and decide who’s working on what." Digitizing these processes is a no-brainer for the industry moving forward.
Overall, this technology is being rapidly adopted by the construction industry and the companies who do not quickly adapt will find themselves less competitive in the market.
Monday was the deadline to file your federal and state taxes. But if you live in New Jersey, you won’t actually be done paying off your full tax burden for another couple weeks.
Tax Freedom Day—the day when New Jersey workers have earned enough money to pay off all their federal, state and local taxes, falls on April 30—according to a report on NJ101.5.com. That places New Jersey 49th among the 50 states, and means residents here work about two weeks more per year to pay off their taxes than most other Americans. April 16 is the day the country as a whole has earned enough to pay its tax burden, according to the report.
In New Jersey, it takes residents about 82 days to earn enough to pay their federal taxes, and another 43 days to pay state and local taxes.
Tax Freedom Day is a day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay its federal, state and local tax bill for the year. For 2019, Tax Freedom Day is April 16, the same as it was in 2018. But for some individual states, it’s much later.
The New Jersey Schools Development Authority was created with the best intentions: to completely fund construction and renovation in 31 of the state’s poorest school districts. But over the past two decades, the SDA and its predecessors have been plagued by political misconduct that is putting its future—and constitutionally mandated mission—in peril.
Cory Booker Still a Top-Tier Candidate in a Crowded Democratic Presidential Field. Here’s Where He Stands on This New List.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, in the middle of the pack according to polling and with less campaign cash coming in than several of his rivals, continues to be one of the Democrats rated as most likely to win the party’s 2020 presidential nomination.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a case that sought to overturn a New Jersey law banning conversion therapy—a medically discredited practice of attempting to change a child’s sexual orientation from gay to straight.
Democrats and Republicans agree on something: Hunting deer is A-OK in the Garden State.
Rutgers University administrators and representatives of the school’s faculty union are scheduled to face off at an all-day bargaining session Monday that union officials called “critical” as professors weigh whether to call the first faculty strike in the state university’s nearly 253-year history.
Former state Sen. S. Thomas Gagliano died on Saturday night, according to colleagues. He was 87.
Ohio officials purchased two new planes for the governor and other state leaders to travel on official business.
The state spent $9.6 million and traded in two used planes to get the new aircraft this month, The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1DEl9Qe ) reported. It bought a new, nine-passenger Beechcraft King Air 350i for $5.4 million, and a six-passenger King Air 250 for $4.2 million.