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Raonic was decked in a red Team Canada T-shirt, white shorts and a patriotic-looking pair of New Balance sneakers, rolling to an easy best-three-out-of-five sets win that took just 1 hour 42 minutes. Raonic overcame an early break by de Bakker and recovered from some lazy points. |
The Dutch player leaned heavily on his drop shot to try stumping the tall Canadian at the net in the second set. It worked early on, but Raonic seemed to improve his mobility and kept perplexing the Dutch player with blistering serves of more than 230 km/h. |
Sen. John McCain died Saturday at the age of 81 after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. Last September, weeks after the senator was diagnosed, Lesley Stahl interviewed McCain on his Arizona ranch. |
Editor's Note: For more from Lesley Stahl's interview with Sen. John McCain, click here. |
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain died 4 days short of his 82nd birthday. He faced death the way he faced life - with valor, honor and integrity. |
John McCain served his country for over 60 years, as a naval officer, a prisoner of war, a congressman, a six-term senator and a presidential candidate. |
Over that time, he became a national treasure -- occasionally ornery and profane, but a politician who placed principle over party and earned his reputation as a fighter and a maverick. |
In July 2017, Sen. McCain learned he had glioblastoma - a deadly and unforgiving brain cancer. Our Lesley Stahl joined him for some straight talk about how he lived his life and faced his death. |
Last summer, he invited us to his ranch just outside of Sedona, Arizona, 24 acres of old-growth trees, a family of hawks and a rippling creek that his dog Burma likes to swim in. |
He and his wife Cindy raised four children. They survived two grueling presidential campaigns, a battle against melanoma – and then this. |
Determined to stay in the arena, Sen. McCain resumed his duties in Washington. You'd never have know it, but he started his days with chemo and radiation. And then headed off to a full day of work, including chairing hearings of the Armed Services Committee. |
The senator first learned he had a problem in Arizona last July when doctors found a blood clot over his left eye after a routine check up at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. He was driving back to the ranch when he got word. |
Five days after the surgery, lab results confirmed he had glioblastoma, the brain cancer that took his life. |
It was a huge defeat for President Trump -- who had mocked McCain's Vietnam War record. |
But the fact is his personal relationship with the president had been fraught. Last summer, he wrote an op-ed saying the president is, quote "often poorly informed" and "can be impulsive." |
Lesley Stahl: How would you describe how the president is handling his job so far? |
John McCain: I think he's handling it in a fashion that is unfortunately not predictable. The one thing your friends and your enemies want is a predictable path. Lesley, he changes his, his statements almost on a daily basis. I don't know what he's gonna do tomorrow (LAUGH). So—or say tomorrow. |
The son and grandson of 4-star admirals, he was the first to admit he was an imperfect man -- though he made real sacrifices for his country. |
This story was produced by Richard Bonin. Ayesha Siddiqi, associate producer. |
Why do some local roadways have different speed limits depending on which way you’re going? Seaworld Drive between Friars and Ingraham is 55 in one direction and 50 in the other. West Point Loma Boulevard between Nimitz and Adrian Street is 40 one way and the other direction is 35. I can never remember which way is wha... |
Despite the fact that the government refuses to legalize Ocean Beach’s national pastime, it’s unlikely the powers that be have it out for you when it comes to speed limits. These stretches of road with disparate speed limits are rare, but they do happen and they are perfectly legal. Speed limits are calculated accordin... |
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Ross, Jeffery L. and Merriner, John, "Reproductive-Biology Of The Blueline Tilefish, Caulolatilus-Microps, Off North-Carolina And South-Carolina" (1983). VIMS Articles. 628. |
Malaysian authorities seized illegal copies of the latest Star Wars movie just a day after it was released in American cinemas, finding them among half a million pirated DVDs. And in Beijing, counterfeiters were selling illegal DVD copies of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, for the equivalent of $3.50. |
The copies were slightly blurry but appeared not to have been filmed in a cinema, as are many of China's imported fakes. But the copies would be tricky for English-speakers because their subtitles were from the 2003 action movie Detention, although the subtitles in Chinese were accurate. |
In the United States, the movie scored the second-best three-day weekend of all time, although the Force wasn't strong enough to prevent overall ticket sales declining for the 13th consecutive weekend. |
Revenge of the Sith sold US$108.5 million ($154 million) in tickets for Friday to Sunday, taking its total to $US158.5 million ($223.7 million) since it opened. Its four-day haul surpasses the US$134.3 million ($190 million) tally of 2003's The Matrix Reloaded. |
The record is held by Spider-Man, which opened to almost US$115 million ($162 million) in 2002. |
Critics also say his revolution’s boasts are misleading because pre-Castro Cuba already ranked high in some indicators. Before 1959, Cuba had Latin America’s lowest infant mortality rate and the third-highest per capita gross domestic product, said Carmelo Mesa-Lago, an emeritus economics professor at the University of... |
Some experts also argue that Cuba had help notching those achievements — as much as $6 billion in annual Soviet subsidies it received from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Cuba’s place in the U.N. Index plummeted from 61st out of 160 countries in 1992 to 89th out of 173 in 1994, three years after the subsidies ended. It w... |
Cuba’s health indicators clearly rank among the best in the region. |
Life expectancy at birth in 2014 stood at 78.2 years — up there with the United States at 79.5. And the island today has many times more doctors, about 76,000, than before the Castro revolution, which numbered about 6,400. At the start of the revolution, there was just one doctor per 1,058 people. Decades later, the co... |
“The Cuban health and education systems unquestionably were major accomplishments of the revolution,” said Max Lesnik, an exile broadcaster in Miami who is sympathetic to the revolution. |
Yet some of the “advances” require some context. For example, Havana rightfully boasted that its infant mortality rate for 2007 of 5.3 per 1,000 births was one of the world’s lowest. But figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show Cuba ranked 23rd in the world in 1960, and 27th in 2004. The CI... |
And the best medical care is available only to senior officials and dollar-paying foreigners, not ordinary Cubans, said Dr. Julio Cesar Alfonso, who practiced in Cuba from 1992 to ’99 and now lives in Miami. He cited the contrast between two hospitals where he worked, CIMEQ in Havana and a provincial hospital in the no... |
CIMEQ, which treats many top Cuban officials and foreigners, has air conditioning and private suites, Alfonso said. Patients in Cárdenas, meanwhile, must bring their own bed sheets, and cots are lined one next to the other. |
A 2007 report by Katherine Hirschfeld, a professor at the University of Oklahoma who spent several years in Cuba, said islanders have a dim view of their healthcare system, even though it’s free. |
Edward Gonzalez, a long-time Cuba watcher with the Rand Corp. in California, said there’s also evidence of government manipulation of some of its health statistics. Cuban medical authorities regularly encourage abortions of unhealthy fetuses, he said, and hospitals do not report births until the second day, thereby exc... |
In 2007, the year for which the most recent figure was available, Cuba had 248 hospitals, all public, according to the Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba website. In 1958 the country had about 320 private and public hospitals, according to a study published by the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuba... |
And almost half of the 74,000 doctors Cuba has produced today are estimated to be serving abroad, many in Venezuela or Bolivia, creating shortages at home. In 2014, Cuba deployed 256 medical professionals to West Africa to help combat a major ebola outbreak. |
An April 2008 article in the Cuban magazine Bohemia reported shortages of doctors and medical supplies, and a lack of proper hygiene in some clinics. A 2007 survey by the Juventud Rebelde newspaper of 22 dental clinics revealed inadequate treatment of patients and shortages of supplies. |
In the field of education, Cuba today has one of Latin America’s highest literacy rates — 99.8 percent — and its students regularly score high on regional and worldwide math and science comparisons. All schools are free and attendance is mandatory until the 9th grade. In 1950-51, there were 7,614 schools in Cuba, but b... |
Yet literacy before Castro already stood at 76 percent, the second highest in Latin America after Argentina. Under the Castro government, many books are banned, history textbooks carry only the government’s version and many recent university graduates say they see no future at home. |
Many young architects, doctors, engineers, nurses and teachers who arrived in South Florida since 2000 said they earned more in tips as waiters and bartenders than in their professions. |
Among problems cited in a Juventúd Rebelde report in 2008 was an “exodus”’ of teachers away from the profession. The shortage at one point forced authorities to use as teachers youths still studying to be teachers themselves, some as young as 17. A report submitted to the National Assembly in July 2008 said more than h... |
As for general welfare, the picture is not much better. |
The average retirement pension is about half of a monthly salary — which averages $17 in a country where a pair of shoes can cost about $30 About 2 million of Cuba’s 11 million people currently receive pensions, according to official figures. In 2009, the Cuban government raised the retirement age by five years to cope... |
A ration card provides a basic monthly basket of food and other goods at highly subsidized prices. But most Cubans say the food rations only last seven to 10 days — and that they have to pay much higher prices for the rest of the month. In 2010, Raúl Castro, who replaced his brother Fidel as Cuban leader, called for an... |
As of 2009, about 1.2 million Cubans had a fixed telephone line, and about 1 million cell phones were in use as of 2010. Nevertheless, telephone communications in Cuba, once dismal, have improved vastly over the years. About 2.8 million Cubans have access to the Internet, which is heavily controlled by the government. |
Meanwhile, Cubans continue to flee the island. Almost 2 million island-born Cubans now live in the United States, according to 2010 U.S. Census figures. |
More than 100,000 Cubans left the island for the United States between 2005 and 2014, and after President Barack Obama ordered the normalization of diplomatic relations with Havana on Dec. 17, 2014, arrivals of Cubans in the United States appeared to accelerate. |
Most of the new arrivals said they left Cuba because they feared that normalization would bring about the demise of the Cuban Adjustment Act, the 1966 law that enables Cubans to get permanent residency after a year and a day in the United States. |
Men's beards have more germs in them than dog fur? That's what a new study from the Hirslanden Clinic in Switzerland found. |
Scientists took swabs from men's beards and compared them to samples from dogs' neck fur. |
All of the beard samples showed high microbial counts while only about two-thirds of the dog fur samples had high counts. |
Seven of the men sampled had microbes that posed a threat to human health in their beards. |
The objective of the study was to determine whether it would be hygienic to evaluate dogs and humans in the same MRI scanner. |
"As the MRI scanner used for both dogs and humans was routinely cleaned after animal scanning, there was substantially lower bacterial load compared with scanners used exclusively for humans," the study states. |
Famous for its flowers and winner of many Britain in Bloom awards, Market Bosworth is a small market town that can trace its history back to a settlement in the Bronze Age. The Battle of Bosworth took place to the south of the town in 1485. |
Do you have the cutest pet in Hinckley? |
TEMPE, Ariz. — After completing his bullpen session on Thursday morning — the test before the test — Shohei Ohtani got the official word from Mike Scioscia that he is getting the ball for the Angels’ Cactus League game on Saturday. |
Ohtani is scheduled to throw the first two innings against the Milwaukee Brewers at noon Pacific time at Tempe Diablo Stadium. The game will be televised on Fox Sports West and in Japan, where it will be 5 a.m. on Sunday. |
Although this game is certain to be one of the most watched, and most eagerly anticipated, exhibition games, Ohtani doesn’t seem to be putting much pressure on himself right away. |
Ohtani likely won’t be facing the top Brewers hitters, though. The Brewers have two split-squad games on Friday, so most of their regulars will play then, and get Saturday off. |
Ohtani’s debut as a hitter won’t come before Monday, because Scioscia said he will get the day off after he pitches. If his batting practice performance on Thursday is any indication, Ohtani could put on a show at the plate too. |
During the team’s first workout of the spring inside the stadium, instead of on the adjacent practice fields, Ohtani blasted several tape-measure homers. One of them carried over the batter’s eye in center field, which is marked at 420 feet from the plate, and 30 feet high, according to the Angels. |
After Ohtani’s blast to center field, Angels players cheered and playfully grabbed his biceps. |
“I’m enjoying fooling around with my teammates and having a lot of fun,” he said. |
Ric Ocasek of The Cars will showcase his art at Wentworth Gallery on Dec. 1, 2018. |
Ric Ocasek doesn’t give many interviews. And when he does, he’s often reticent. |
But the famed frontman of the Cars, the ‘70s and ‘80s synth-pop-art-rockers who stormed the charts with a trove of hits including “Shake It Up,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” “You Might Think” and “Magic,” can also be thoughtful and forthcoming, especially when talking about his other passion — art. |
Ocasek will visit Atlanta from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at Wentworth Gallery at Phipps Plaza, where his vibrant drawings and canvases with acrylics will be on display and for sale (the appearance is open to the public, but RSVPs are suggested via the gallery website). |
Ric Ocasek and The Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2018. |
Ric Ocasek said he's a fan of pop art. |
6-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 Wentworth Gallery, Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta. Open to the public, but reservations requested at wentworthgallery.com or 404-233-0903. |
Every election, some famous writer composes one of those open letters to the new president. Having seen none this time, I took a crack at my own. |
Somewhere in the galaxy, not far away, live people, land, and animals working together in healthful and happy synchronicity. They don’t look all the same, and neither does the food they grow; diversity is their strength. It’s closer than you think; in fact, it’s right here on earth. Find it in the small among us; possi... |
You know, you’ve been really great, and I mean great, really fabulous, taking small into huge …and your cabinet too, that ol’ Goldman Sachs family reunion. Y’all made lots of money on BIG, congrats. But guys, as much as we don’t need a behemoth, unregulated financial world, we don’t want a food system that’s too big to... |
I run my own business. I follow the economy, read the news, and even try to make some of my own. I pay taxes like all the other stupid people. I’m invested in the outcome of America. |
You’ve said “no one can ever be too greedy,” but my father, Ed Stec, he taught me differently. You say your beauty is being very rich, but I say the beauty of your people is threatened if big and greedy always win. |
Lighten up Prezy, I’m just talkin’ food here. Since you are the smartest man with the highest IQ (your words), you know the business model for food is all wrong. Big Ag & Big Food doesn’t work. It never has. |
We manufacture food like we do pencils and socks, and you know that’s unacceptable. Our get-big-ship-everywhere-or-get-out system processes the hell out of food widgets and glues them back into fortified fodder. Prezy, it’s Fake Food, and it fails because real food is perishable, freshness matters, and we shouldn’t stu... |
And you don’t like fat. |
Beef in Chief, since you are more honest and your women more beautiful (your words your words), I know you’d prefer all your people; your whites, your African Americans, your Mexicans and Asians, to look this way. We have to clean up the American diet so that when you view us – we please you. I write today in my high h... |
Small is beautiful for food. Just don’t ask “why” to your choice for Secretary of Agriculture, former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, a guy who looks like he hasn’t eaten a vegetable in years. (By the way…do you call him “fat piggie” too, or is that just a pet name reserved for women?) With a background in fossil fuel-f... |
So here’s where I come in. |
1) Know your Farmer, Know your Food, offering grants, loans, and new business to local and regional farmers, ranchers and food businesses, and connecting consumers to local food. |
2) The Healthy Hunger –Free Kids Act that supports healthier standards for the National Schools Lunch Program, promotes vegetables and whole grains to our children, and sponsors educational efforts like seasonal vegetable & fruit of the month. This act is up for reauthorization POTUS. Remember, beauty is calling. |
3) MyPlate, replacing the Food Pyramid with half a dinner plate of fruits and veggies. #FakeFood-wants-fried-and-frozen. |
4) Farm Bill 2014, which for all it’s imperfections, did include more money for SNAP fruit and vegetable purchases, and financial support for Know your Farmer, Know your Food. It funded part of the $1 billion given by the USDA to local and regional food projects since 2009, and help double U.S. farmers markets, from 4,... |
So, Ye Who Had The Most People At An Inauguration Ever, I say with a smile that we are gonna’ come after yo’ boodie like a northern Michigan mosquito if you and Sonny start eliminating these good programs that support family farmers and regenerative, high-vibe food systems. The country doesn’t benefit by four companies... |
Law and Order, let me close by saying we are watching. Strengthening our REAL FOOD system is homeland security at it’s finest. |
There are things that unite us more than divide us and food is one of them. |
To that end, say hello to a better tasting party in town; and we serve more than tea; nonpartisan citizens joining in support of good federal food policy and good food jobs. |
We might call ourselves the Food Party…and what do ya’ think of this tagline? |
Readers: The time is NOW for citizenry. Choose your issue and make yourself heard. If it’s food, there’s a study-action group forming - Fed Food & Farm Bill 2018 Indivisible. Citizen foodies gathering to study federal food policies and plan coordinated responses against legislation and executive orders that only think ... |
Listen to Politics and the Dinner Table, CUESA’s super panel on political issues affecting food and agriculture, like climate change, immigration law, and trade partnerships, and learn how you can help. |
* “Walmart” - Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming, Stec, CTM / Cordero PhD., with Phil Howard PhD., 2008. In 2017, Dr Howard adds Heinz Kraft to this list. |
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