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The Hornets would receive Matthews, a high-level starting shooting guard that has shown plenty of tread left on the tires, and a young wing in Justin Anderson to grow. |
The Mavericks would receive a defensive stopper in Kidd-Gilchrist that is still only 23 years old and Jeremy Lamb, a scoring guard who is also younger than 25 that can eat up plenty of minutes among the Mavericks’ young core. |
After floating between 10-day contracts in the NBA for two years, Sean Kilpatrick caught on with the Brooklyn Nets late last season, appearing in 23 games for the Nets and averaging 13.8 points per game in that stretch. |
Now, Kilpatrick is the team’s third-leading scorer on a two-year deal with the second year unguaranteed, though the Nets are sure to bring him back. |
Were the Hornets to acquire Kilpatrick, they would almost certainly shed some money towards the cap, as Kilpatrick’s deal is worth a little more than $2 million over the two seasons. He’s quietly become one of the league’s best contracts on the worst team. |
His line of 14 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game on .421/.353/.844 shooting puts him on par with Oklahoma City Thunder guard Victor Oladipo, a much more heralded player. |
Admittedly, Oladipo is three years Kilpatrick’s junior, but the University of Cincinnati product would be a low-cost upgrade for the Hornets. |
This trade would free up about $5 million in cap space for the Hornets and give the Nets some badly needed shooting. |
The Nets very may well want a pick, which may change the pieces of this trade a bit, as maybe Brian Roberts and a second-round pick would be more appropriate for Kilpatrick in that scenario. |
Kilpatrick showed his scoring potential earlier this season, as he rung up 38 points on the Los Angeles Clippers in November. |
CEDAR CREEK, N.C. — A man drowned in a trailer in Cedar Creek, officials say, according to WTVD. |
The drowning occurred on Riverland Drive, which is off Tabor Church Road near the Cape Fear River. |
Lt. Sean Swain, a spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, said rescue workers and deputies could see the man’s body through the trailer window but could not get the body out due to the fast-moving water around the trailer, WTVD reports. |
Swain also said Wednesday that deputies went to the man’s home earlier to tell him about a mandatory evacuation, but he refused to leave. |
Tony Scott has a mile-high stack of projects on his plate and seems about as interested in talking Top Gun as Fred Phelps is in reasonable discourse, but that might not stop Paramount from trying to light a fire under him to make Top Gun 2. Word now is that, after years of rumors that would (hopefully) put Tom Cruise b... |
Vulture says that the studio hasn’t just talked to Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer, but that it wants Christopher McQuarrie to draft a script. |
Here’s the important bit: Tom Cruise is reportedly good with that hire (the two have a past together with Valkyrie) and has agreed to take a small part in the film, “provided it’s not too ‘obvious’ a part.” Which means, basically, that we won’t see Maverick training new pilots. Hooray for that, at the very least. |
Vulture recaps comments made earlier this year by Jerry Bruckheimer, who said that the role played by military pilots is quite different now than it was twenty-five years ago. That is, there’s a lot less potential for dogfighting (not so many Russian MiGs to fight of late) and a lot more bomb-dropping. That means a rat... |
Vulture mentions two other reasons this might go forward. One is the light tarnish on Jerry Bruckheimer’s star. He’s had a string of duds (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, G-Force, Prince of Persia) and might be lured back to Paramount after a long run at Disney. And the other is David Ellison, the 27-year old wunderkind fin... |
First came a successful summer tasting. Then came the cans. Now, the former soldiers behind a Savannah, Georgia-based craft brewery have another reason to raise their glasses. |
Service Brewing Co., owned by West Point graduate and former Army Capt. Kevin Ryan, was named 2014’s business “Newcomer of the Year” by Business in Savannah, which profiled the brewery’s four-person team: Ryan, former captain and master brewer Dan Sartin, retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 and assistant brewer Jeff Hyatt,... |
Earlier this month, Ryan took his show on the road to the Army-Navy game, providing beer at the Tailgate for Troops charity event in exchange for donations. The event raised $10,000, according to a Facebook post from the group, which will benefit Homes for our Troops. |
Know any other veteran-owned or -operated breweries around the country giving back to military causes? Drop us a line. |
The high-octane video for South Korean popstar PSY‘s song ‘Gangnam Style’ has broken YouTube’s record for the ‘most liked’ video ever on the site. |
Racking up a whopping 2,234,180 likes, Guinness World Records reports that the video has overshadowed former most liked video, LMFAO‘s ‘Party Rock Anthem’, which has 1,574,963 likes, as well as Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ which has 1,327,147 likes and Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’, with its 1,245,641 likes. |
On the site since July 15 this year, the PSY – real name Park Jae-Sang – video has been viewed 232,237,840 times. Click above the watch the insanely popular video clip. |
The ability to share timely information about threats is critical in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure. But in the power industry, exchanging data through the traditional channel, the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center, is complicated because the ISAC is managed by the North American... |
Seth Bromberger, director of the Energy Sector Security Consortium (EnergySec), has been involved in network and systems security for more than 16 years. EnergySec is a not-for-profit consortium, a member-driven organization created to foster the exchange of security information among energy asset owners, industry, and... |
GCN: How interconnected is the nation's power grid? Is it essentially a single nationwide grid? |
BROMBERGER: The power grid is regionalized; it is not a single nationwide grid. There are inter-ties between three main regions, the Western, Texas, and Eastern. |
How exposed is the grid to the Internet? |
In general, the systems used to control the stability of the grid, and the systems that are critical to the reliable operation of the transmission networks, are not publicly accessible. They may use third-party networks for data transit, but in those cases, they're linked via [virtual private network] or are otherwise ... |
EnergySec is a non-profit organization dedicated to the exchange of security information among asset owners, industry partners, and the U.S. government. It started in 2005 as E-SEC NW, which was an informal gathering of utility security, operations, and compliance professionals in the Pacific Northwest. Since that time... |
The need to share threat information has been acknowledged for years — why is EnergySec needed? |
EnergySec fills the need to share threat and vulnerability information — it’s what our organization was created to do. Because EnergySec was established by professionals who work for asset owners and understand the unique environments in which we work, the trust among the membership is inherent to the organization. Pro... |
What is the organization doing? How well is it working? |
We're sharing information and exchanging ideas, and doing it pretty effectively. We've seen rapid growth in membership over the past several months. When our information sharing portal went live in June, we anticipated it would take about a year to see a doubling of our membership. We exceeded that goal within three mo... |
The volume and quality of information being shared continues to be high. [Recently], we've seen over three dozen posts on compliance issues, new security vulnerabilities, situational awareness reports, secure code development and auditing techniques, and other items of interest to the membership. |
Has it improved security in the industry? |
We think it has, primarily by getting folks talking and exchanging ideas. Our annual summit gives members an opportunity to meet face to face with their peers in the utility space, in government, and in the security industry; we're arranging hands-on demonstrations of security products and techniques, and the ideas sha... |
You have said of information sharing, "if we can't make it work in the energy sector, it's not likely to work anywhere else." Are there any lessons here for other sectors of our critical infrastructure? |
I think there are a couple of lessons we learned as the organization grew. First is that you can't just start something like this and expect folks to jump on board. The success of our organization is due to the fact that it was a grass-roots effort from the beginning and still is, despite the formalization of some of t... |
Second, it's a unique model. EnergySec is not run by a for-profit company; incorporation came as a result of the growth beyond the original membership. We developed and continue to grow based solely on the needs of the members. The members are the organization. |
Why do we need a smarter grid? |
What people are calling the "smart grid" has benefits across the board. On the one hand, the new metering platforms, which are just one component of the smart grid, provide consumers the ability to make more informed decisions regarding their use of this resource. On the other hand, a massive deployment of smart grid t... |
Does this increase the risks? |
It really depends on how you define the risk. From a security perspective, I think it's fair to say that deployment of this technology poses new challenges for our industry. These challenges aren't necessarily new by themselves, but we've never really had to focus on them within the utility space until now. Some of the... |
Every decision has its risks and rewards; it's the analysis that's important. That is, whether it makes sense to follow a course of action and incur a specific set of risks given the benefit of that action. The best we as security professionals can do right now is to ensure that the security risks are identified in a t... |
taken positions at Optinel Systems and Aurora Networks, respectively. |
longtime president of Zenith Electronics Corp.'s Zenith Cable Products. |
president of engineering at AT&T Broadband. |
The Mystery of a Buryat Lama Documentary Movie trailer HD Synopsis: The documentary film «THE MYSTERY OF A BURYAT LAMA», directed by Elena Demidova, tells a story of one of the most famous lamas, Pandido Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov. |
His body is recognized as one of the sacred Buddhist objects of Russia and is being kept in the Ivolginsky Datsan. |
The Buddhist monks approach him as a living person. |
Itigelov was born in 1852 and began his religious education at the age of sixteen years. |
In 1911, he was appointed the twelfth Pandido Khambo Lama as the Head of Russian Buryat Buddhists. |
Between 1913 and 1917, Itigelov was prominent in the spiritual life of Russian Empire. |
He took part in the Tercentenary celebrations of the House Romanov and opened first Buddhist temple in St. |
During First World War Itigelov presided over the society of "Buryat brothers", an organization helping the Russian army. |
After October Revolution, Itigelov resigned as head of the Buddhists. |
In 1927, aged seventy-five years, he asked other lamas to begin meditation ceremonies and funeral rites, since he said he was about to die. |
Itigelov left a testament asking to be buried as he was at the time of his death, sitting in lotus posture. |
On September 11, 2002, Itigelov's body was eventually exhumed in the presence of the leaders of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia and transferred to Ivolginsky Datsan. |
Which mature tech play is a better buy at current prices? |
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are often considered "mature" tech plays. The two companies mainly compete in different industries, but investors often buy them for stability and income instead of aggressive growth. |
But over the past five years, investors have clearly favored Microsoft over Cisco. Microsoft rallied nearly 110% during that period, while Cisco rose just over 50%. Past performance never guarantees future returns, but we should still see why Microsoft outperformed Cisco by such a wide margin, and whether it's still th... |
Cisco is one of the largest networking hardware vendors in the world. Sales of routers and switches generated nearly half its revenue last quarter, but both businesses have slowed down in recent years because of market saturation, competition from cheaper hardware vendors, and the rise of software-defined networking (S... |
Cisco has been trying to offset that slowdown with heavier investments in higher-growth markets such as cybersecurity, collaboration tools, and wireless technologies. It then bundles those services together with its networking hardware in cost-effective packages for enterprise customers. |
Microsoft's vast ecosystem includes Windows, Office, the Xbox, Surface devices, and a wide array of cloud and IT services. Its biggest revenue drivers are Windows and Office -- which are being challenged by free operating systems (Android, Chrome OS, iOS, OS X) and free productivity tools such as Google Drive. |
Microsoft countered those challenges by making Windows 10 a free upgrade, expanding its free Office 365 services, developing iOS and Android apps, and investing heavily in Azure, its cloud platform. Azure lends out storage and computing power to businesses, lets companies create apps online, and serves as the backbone ... |
How fast are Cisco and Microsoft growing? |
Cisco's attempt to pivot toward higher-growth businesses hasn't sparked impressive growth. Its revenue stayed flat at $49.2 billion last year, up 3% excluding the sale of its set-top-box business to Technicolor, and it's expected to slip 2% this year as reported before rebounding 2% next year. |
The company's revenue fell 3% as reported during the first half of 2017 (2% after excluding the Technicolor deal). During that period, its switching, routing, and data center revenue all fell year over year, while its security business, bolstered by a series of acquisitions, posted 13% growth. Its wireless and collabor... |
Microsoft's total revenue fell 2% to $92 billion last year because of waning Windows OEM sales, its free Windows 10 upgrade plan, and a shift away from Windows Phones. But looking ahead, Microsoft's revenue is expected to rise 5% this year and 8% next year, fueled by the growth of its commercialized cloud services -- O... |
Those cloud services achieved an annual run rate of over $14 billion, up from $9.4 billion a year earlier. That growth indicates that Microsoft's goal of generating $20 billion in cloud revenue, nearly a fifth of its total revenues, by 2018 is likely to be achievable. That growth should offset waning sales of Windows l... |
Hardware is generally a less profitable business than software, and Microsoft's operating margin was once much higher than Cisco's. However, Microsoft's higher investments in cloud growth, the writedowns on its mobile business, and its use of free software to gain more users have taken a toll on operating margin. Meanw... |
However, Microsoft's improving sales growth and its use of buybacks, totaling $14.8 billion in shares repurchased over the past 12 months, are expected to lift earnings by 7% this year and 10% next year. That earnings growth will fund its forward dividend yield of 2.4%, which is easily supported by a payout ratio of 69... |
Cisco uses more moderate buybacks, totaling $2.7 billion over the past 12 months, to boost its earnings amid flat sales growth. Its earnings are expected to rise 1% this year and 5% next year. Cisco pays a higher forward dividend yield of 3.5%, which is supported by a payout ratio of 54% and has been raised annually fo... |
Microsoft trades at 31 times earnings, which is slightly higher than its industry average of 29. Cisco trades at 17 times earnings, which is much lower than its industry average of 25. Microsoft's enterprise value-to-sales ratio of 5.5 is also more than double Cisco's ratio of 2.7. |
I think Microsoft's still a good long-term investment, but Cisco is the better mature tech play at current prices. Its growth rates aren't as impressive, but its margin expansion, higher dividend, and lower valuations all indicate that it's a smarter play for a lofty market. |
“In order to justify being on a premium service, it had to be huge,” Kurtzman said Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour. He added that when he and fellow EP Bryan Fuller realized that the demands of production would require the premiere of the show to be delayed, they approached CBS CEO Leslie Moonv... |
The “Discovery” premiere ended up being pushed twice — from January to May, then from May to September. With the first delay, Fuller stepped away from his role as showrunner and from day-to-day involvement in the series. |
Kurtzman said that much of the original vision that Fuller — a fan favorite who began his writing career on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” — brought to “Discovery” has been preserved. |
Harberts pointed to multiple details — such as the design of the Klingon makeup and ships — that came straight from Fuller. |
Harberts also talked about the revelation, made at Comic-Con, that lead character Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa Martin-Green, was raised by Sarek and Amanda Grayson, Spock’s parents. |
“Much in the way that they did with Spock and Sarek in the films and on the show, we’re able to tell father-daughter stories and particularly to drill down on a Vulcan raising a human and how that affects her,” Harberts said. |
“Star Trek: Discovery” will launch Sunday, Sept. 24 at 8:30 p.m./7:30c on CBS, though that time is approximate due to NFL football and “60 Minutes” also airing that night. The series premiere will also be available on-demand on CBS All Access and the second episode of the series will be available on the service that sa... |
You’ve just released your first single Untouchable, how has the response been? |
It’s been really positive – the single launch was amazing, we managed to secure Blue Bound and Isle of CC to support us. The vibe was electric, everyone was dancing and we all loved it as a band. I think it was our best performance to date. |
Tell us about the music you are inspired by. |
I wouldn’t say it was a genre but more so artists. My biggest inspirations are Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, D’Angelo and Ella Fitzgerald. They tell a story with their voices and they all have their own energy and vibe. That’s what I like to do with my own music and I hope that’s what people can take from it. |
There are seven of you all, how does this affect the writing process? |
It’s Thomas (our guitarist) and I who are the sole songwriters. When I joined the band most of the instrumentals were already in existence, so I just listened to what was already there and then wrote melodies and lyrics with Tom’s help. Zara and Emma, our backing vocalists were able to help with the harmonies, so in es... |
Who are your three main inspirations are as a band? |
Everyone has their different inspirations musically and when that comes together it creates a really nice sound. But speaking on behalf of the band, I would probably have to say Betty Davis, Sly And The Family Stone and Funkadelic. |
What’s been the biggest show you have played to date? |
Probably the single launch at Patterns and the Green Door Store. Most of the gigs we’ve played have been so different, but I enjoy most of them as people always seem to get into it and dance and have a good time. From every gig you seem to learn something and get a bit more confident each time. I am excited to see wher... |
You’ve recently changed your name to Moxxy, meaning a “force of determination, drive or character”, do you think this best represents the personalities of all members and the band itself? |
Definitely. It took us a long time to find a new band name. We talked about it for a couple of months as we knew we needed to change it because our previous name Hush was already a band name. It was when Turlough, our bassist suggested Moxxy that we all thought it was just perfect and seemed to work really well with us... |
Your voice is soulful and powerful. Who are your main vocal inspirations? |
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