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Oct. 27 5:59 PM PT6:59 PM MT7:59 PM CT8:59 PM ET0:59 GMT8:59 5:59 PM MST6:59 PM CST7:59 PM EST4:59 UAE (+1)02:5920:59 ET7:59 PM CT23:59 - Rodney Hood scored 17 points Saturday on 8-of-15 shooting as the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the Indiana Pacers 119-107. Hood pulled down five rebounds and had three assists, tallyin... |
Oct. 25 5:57 PM PT6:57 PM MT7:57 PM CT8:57 PM ET0:57 GMT8:57 5:57 PM MST6:57 PM CST7:57 PM EST4:57 UAE (+1)02:5720:57 ET7:57 PM CT23:57 - Rodney Hood scored 10 points Thursday on 4-of-12 shooting as the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Detroit Pistons 110-103. Hood grabbed three rebounds and added an assist, accumulatin... |
Oct. 24 5:32 PM PT6:32 PM MT7:32 PM CT8:32 PM ET0:32 GMT8:32 5:32 PM MST6:32 PM CST7:32 PM EST4:32 UAE (+1)02:3220:32 ET7:32 PM CT23:32 - Rodney Hood scored 10 points Wednesday, going 4 of 10 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the Brooklyn Nets 102-86. Hood pulled down three rebounds and did not have an... |
Oct. 21 4:41 PM PT5:41 PM MT6:41 PM CT7:41 PM ET23:41 GMT7:41 4:41 PM MST5:41 PM CST6:41 PM EST3:41 UAE (+1)01:4119:41 ET6:41 PM CT22:41 - Rodney Hood scored 13 points Sunday, going 6 of 12 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Atlanta Hawks 133-111. Hood pulled down three rebounds and dished out three... |
Oct. 19 7:02 PM PT8:02 PM MT9:02 PM CT10:02 PM ET2:02 GMT10:02 7:02 PM MST8:02 PM CST9:02 PM EST6:02 UAE (+1)04:0222:02 ET9:02 PM CT1:02 - Rodney Hood scored 10 points Friday, going 3 of 10 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves 131-123. Hood pulled down one rebound and dished out... |
Oct. 17 6:35 PM PT7:35 PM MT8:35 PM CT9:35 PM ET1:35 GMT9:35 6:35 PM MST7:35 PM CST8:35 PM EST5:35 UAE (+1)03:3521:35 ET8:35 PM CT0:35 - Rodney Hood scored 12 points Wednesday, going 5 of 13 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Toronto Raptors 116-104. Hood grabbed two rebounds and added an assist, ta... |
Oct. 12 5:43 PM PT6:43 PM MT7:43 PM CT8:43 PM ET0:43 GMT8:43 5:43 PM MST6:43 PM CST7:43 PM EST4:43 UAE (+1)02:4320:43 ET7:43 PM CT23:43 - Rodney Hood scored 21 points Friday, going 4 of 13 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the Detroit Pistons 129-110. Hood grabbed four rebounds and added an assist, tal... |
Oct. 8 8:03 PM PT9:03 PM MT10:03 PM CT11:03 PM ET3:03 GMT11:03 8:03 PM MST9:03 PM CST10:03 PM EST7:03 UAE (+1)05:0323:03 ET10:03 PM CT2:03 - Hood sat out Monday's preseason game against Indiana with a sore left ankle. |
Analysis: There's no indication that Hood's injury is serious, so he should be fine for Cleveland's Oct. 17 opener at Toronto. The fifth-year guard may have a chance to better his 14.7 points-per-game average of last season on a 2018-19 Cavaliers squad that lacks many proven options. |
Oct. 6 6:30 PM PT7:30 PM MT8:30 PM CT9:30 PM ET1:30 GMT9:30 6:30 PM MST7:30 PM CST8:30 PM EST5:30 UAE (+1)03:3021:30 ET8:30 PM CT0:30 - Rodney Hood scored four points Saturday, going 0 of 5 from the field, as the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Boston Celtics 113-102. Hood pulled down four rebounds and did not have an... |
Oct. 2 6:52 PM PT7:52 PM MT8:52 PM CT9:52 PM ET1:52 GMT9:52 6:52 PM MST7:52 PM CST8:52 PM EST5:52 UAE (+1)03:5221:52 ET8:52 PM CT0:52 - Rodney Hood scored 10 points Tuesday on 3-of-6 shooting as the Cleveland Cavaliers topped the Boston Celtics 102-95. Hood did not grab a rebound but had an assist, accumulating a plus-... |
Virginia State Sen. Emily Couric, older sister of NBC's "Today" show host, announced Thursday she has pancreatic cancer and will not run for lieutenant governor next year. |
Couric, 53, a rising star in the Virginia Democratic Party, said she was told of the diagnosis Wednesday in Charlottesville. |
"My doctors, family and I are now working on designing the best course of treatment to address this cancer," she told reporters. |
Couric said she will continue serving in the General Assembly. She was elected to a second four-year term last year. |
Her sister Katie Couric has been campaigning to raise awareness about colon cancer following the 1998 death of her husband, TV legal analyst Jay Monahan, from the disease at age 42. |
MELBOURNE, Australia — Abraham Ancer won last week’s Australian Open in Sydney and with his teammate Roberto Diaz is tied for second at the World Cup, five strokes behind Belgium going into the final round. |
Ancer, who shot 65 with Diaz on Saturday, was asked whether the food had something to do with his strong play in Australia. |
Diaz said the foursomes, or alternate shot, sets up well for Mexico on Sunday. |
The India team of Gaganjeet Bhullar and Anirban Lahiri could only manage 70 on Saturday in the best-ball format, leaving them in a tie for 11th and nine strokes behind Belgium. |
Bhullar said the team is looking forward to the foursomes on Sunday. |
“The goal is just to repeat what we did and work on a few other aspects,” Bhullar said of India’s 72 in difficult weather conditions on Friday. |
Peter Karmis and Alexander Tranacher had the worst of golf days on Friday at the World Cup. But the Greeks made a 19-stroke improvement on Saturday thanks to better weather and a different format at Metropolitan. |
Karmis and Tranacher, playing foursomes, or alternate shot, during horrendous weather conditions on Friday shot 15-over 87 in the driving rain and wind. In fourballs, or best-ball, on Saturday, they shot 68 for a three-round total of 5-over 221. |
That left the Greeks in second-last place of 28 teams. Zimbabwe, represented by Scot Vincent and Benjamin Follett-Smith, rebounded from an 84 Friday to a 66 Saturday but are in last place, a stroke behind Greece going into Sunday’s final round of foursomes. |
The home side is hoping a boisterous home crowd will help them overcome a big Belgium lead at the World Cup. |
Australia’s Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith are tied for fifth, six strokes behind the Belgians. |
Chants of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi oi oi,” rang out several times from the crowd of nearly 1,000 following the Australians around Metropolitan on Saturday. |
New jobs are most likely to come from advanced medical care, financial services, tourism and transportation logistics in the next five years if the Springfield area is to reduce its traditional reliance on government employment. |
Federal, state and local government, as well as education, support more than one-third of the local work force, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Atlanta consulting firm of Market Street Services. |
While the public sector provides a stable economic base, there is limited capacity for growth, a project manager said during an update of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce’s five-year Quantum Growth Partnership campaign, usually shorthanded as Q5. |
The campaign is entering its final year. |
A final report with specific recommendations for attracting employers from targeted industries is scheduled for release in March. |
The 60-page study compared Springfield with economic trends in Bloomington-Normal, Topeka, Kan., and Rochester, Minn. |
It found that the Springfield marke relies more reliant on government than the comparison cities. |
With a year to go in the original campaign, Q5 and chamber officials said the worst recession in decades has forced changes in strategy for the next five years. As a result of the recession, the campaign is expected to fall short of its goal of 4,500 jobs created or retained in Sangamon County. |
The Atlanta-consulting firm of Market Street Services has identified four industries most likely to create jobs for the Springfield area in the next five years. But it also will mean trying new strategies, the report found. |
Here are some highlights. The full report can be found here. |
* Strengths: Medical facilities draw patients and spending from throughout the region. Strong teaching capacity at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Major medical facilities have continued to add jobs through the recession. Establishment of the Mid-Illinois Medical District provides a good basis for long... |
* Challenges: Additional research and lab space needed, aging community , potential shortage of care facilities, a highly competitive industry, possibility of additional freight and passenger rail traffic through the medical district. |
* Sample jobs and average wages compared to the nation: Registered nurses, $61,050/$66,530; pharmacy technicians, $24,970/$28,940; general internists, $140,290/$183,990; occupational therapists, $63,900/$70,680; obstetricians/gynecologists, $213,390/$204,470. |
* Strengths: Concentration of banking, finance, insurance and professional services, including large employers such as Horace Mann Educators Corp., Levi Ray & Shoup and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. Helpful in attracting support services, such as call centers, document preparation and shipping-mailing services. |
* Challenges: Lack of undergraduate/graduate financial programs, limited connections at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport, changes in federal regulation and continued uncertainty in the financial industry. |
* Sample jobs and average wages compared to the nation: Insurance claims/processing, $38,090/$35,7740; financial managers, $98,630/$113,730; insurance underwriters, $61,530/$63,380; loan officers, $72,820/$63,210; brokerage clerks, $38,790/$42,750. |
* Strengths: “Springfield, the capital of Illinois, is a hotbed of tourism.” Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has expanded the Lincoln sites’ already strong draw. The $346 million in tourism spending in Sangamon County in 2008 was second only to Cook County in Illinois. Strong local tourism and visitors program. |
* Challenges: Limited options outside of history and educational tourism; industry still recovering from the recession. More development of arts and entertainment options. Lack of direct flights between Springfield and major cities. |
* Sample jobs and average wages compared to the nation: Tour guides and escorts, $28,330/$25,990; public-relations managers, $98,250/$101,850; amusement-park attendants, $23,560/$19,450; food-service managers, $38,280/$51,400; retail sales, $22,800/$24,630. |
* Strengths: Central location to major Midwest markets, including Chicago and St. Louis. Rail and interstate access. Combination of higher education, community college and technical-school facilities. |
* Challenges: Extremely limited air-freight and multi-modal capacity, shift of manufacturing from Midwest to the southeast United States. Shortage of ready industrial sites and relatively small work force available. |
* Sample jobs and average wages compared to the nation: Long-distance truck drivers, $38,070/$39,260; packaging handlers, $19,770/$21,780; computer-controlled machine operators, $42,330/$35,570; industrial engineers, $67,880/$77,090; welders, $46,940/$36,630. |
Face detection, which consists of finding the approximate center points of faces in a digital image, is one of the most notable problems in computer vision, a field of research that deals with image understanding. Considerable progress was obtained in the first decade of this century, and, these days, algorithms for it... |
Let us suppose that you find yourself interested in learning about the state-of-the-art advances in face detection. After a quick look at the Wikipedia article for it, whose text is lacking in objectivity and credibility, you might decide to ask for some help from Google Scholar or Microsoft Academic Search. The first ... |
Incidentally, there are. You can restrict your search on Google Scholar for results that were published only this year: 45,700. “Keep calm and carry on,” the popular Internet meme reminds you. Try excluding patents and citations. 39,600 results. Sigh. Let us see what Microsoft Academic Search has to offer: a list of 59... |
The flooding of academic articles is not a problem per se. Except in rare counterexamples suitable for philosophical discussions, when it comes to knowledge, the more, the better. |
The issue is quality, of course. Is it too easy to publish? Not really. Everyone who ever tried to publish something, even in non-mainstream venues, knows that reviewers are not the kindest of people. In fact, gratuitously hostile reviews are not uncommon. Yet the best scientific works in any topic are obscured by sket... |
To mention two numbers, in the United States about 20,000 doctoral dissertations were produced in 2009. Considering the subset of biological sciences, by 2006 only 15 percent were in tenure positions six years after graduating. Most of them end up as post-docs, until they publish enough to get onto tenure track, or go ... |
This overflow of academic articles makes research very difficult while diluting the impact of existing articles. |
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Shortly before 19 elite firefighters perished in a raging Arizona wildfire, commanders thought the crew was in a safe place. No one had heard from the Granite Mountain Hotshots for 33 minutes. The crew didn't contact commanders, and commanders didn't radio them. |
It's not certain why the crew left what was believed to be a safe spot on a ridge that the fire had previously burned and, apparently seeking another safe location, unknowingly walked to their deaths in a basin thick with dry brush. At the time they died, an airtanker was circling overhead, confused about their locatio... |
"There is much that cannot be known about the crew's decisions and actions" because of the gap in communications, the report concluded. |
Ted Putnam, a former investigator for the U.S. Forest Service, said the report didn't go far enough to dissect the decisions made by the firefighters. When the crew members went silent and did not notify anyone they were changing locations "there's an active failure there," he said. |
"I don't want another family to deal with this," she said. |
Investigators described what became a chaotic day in which a fire that two days earlier caused little concern bloomed into an inferno that incinerated pine, juniper and scrub oak in an area that hadn't experienced a significant wildfire in nearly a half century. |
Other firefighters working on the blaze who pick up the transmission are confused, hearing the urgency in the Hotshot's voice and chain saws roaring in the background. They believed the crew was in a safe spot. |
He's assured an airtanker is coming. |
"We don't know that information; we don't have it," lead investigator Jim Karels said. "That decision process went with those 19 men." |
Protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Mo, Aug. 20, 2014. |
Watching the events unfold in Ferguson, Missouri, I can’t help thinking about the Holocaust and post-war Germany. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I’ve spent years watching Germany wrestle with its dark past. It’s just one of many places that have made efforts to understand and compensate for a difficult histor... |
We’re accustomed to looking abroad for examples of such processes. But maybe — especially in light of racial tensions once again revealed in Ferguson — it’s time for us to begin thinking about what “transitional justice” could mean for the U.S. |
Like many nations, Americans are reluctant to see ourselves in the same light as human rights abusers elsewhere. And yet our history includes a number of glaring atrocities, including the genocide of Native Americans and slavery and its aftermath. But the United States lags behind other societies in its efforts to conf... |
What, exactly would that entail? Justice means more than putting perpetrators on trial. The transitional justice process also encompasses methods focused on the victims and the wider society, such as truthseeking, memorialization, education, institutional change, and material compensation — that is, actions that seek n... |
A first step in the process seems simple: official acknowledgment. Yet societies are often hesitant to admit historical wrongdoing. Armenians have been trying for decades to get Turkish authorities to acknowledge that they were the victims of an organized crime. To understand what this means, I’ve tried to imagine what... |
Apology often accompanies acknowledgment. Both Australia and Canada have recently apologized to their aboriginal populations for decades of removing children from their families. German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s famous gesture in Warsaw in 1970, when he fell to his knees before a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising,... |
Yet the U.S. has never officially apologized for slavery or Jim Crow (and a 2009 “apology” to Native Americans, slipped into a Defense Appropriations Act, made little impact). Nor are there memorials to slavery or to the Native American genocide on a scale similar to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berli... |
One reason societies often resist officially acknowledging wrongdoing is the fear of being held financially accountable. Even years after the fact, victims or their descendants may ask for the return of confiscated property, bank accounts, or uncollected insurance claims, as they have in the case of the Holocaust, East... |
Financial reparations are in fact the most direct way to compensate victims for past suffering. |
Germany was able to pay millions to survivors of the Holocaust who suffered quantifiable harm, and continues to do so (my father received a small monthly check that made an enormous difference, especially to a penniless new immigrant in the 1950s who had lost his entire family in the Holocaust; my mother, not a survivo... |
Transitional justice demands recognition that fulfilling responsibilities to the past requires more than merely lip service from a perpetrator society. Crimes against minority groups in any society bring benefits to the perpetrator group, and compensating for them can necessitate material sacrifice. But remorse often e... |
One of the most important aspects of successful transitional justice, therefore, lies in illuminating not only the victims’ suffering, but the ways in which an entire society continues to bear the burdens of history. This helps elevate an important point: correcting injustice may require affirmative steps. The U.S. gov... |
Belinda Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. This piece originally appeared on The Weekly Wonk. |
As President Barack Obama prepares for the first State of the Union Address of his second term, one which will primarily be focused on economic issues, fewer than half of Americans (45 percent) approve of how he's handling the economy, while more (49 percent) disapprove. |
Overall, Mr. Obama is performing better with 52 percent of Americans now approving of the job he is doing as President, while 38 percent disapprove. |
Mr. Obama's approval rating has remained fairly constant over the past year, though it rose as high as 57 percent in December. Only 12 percent of Republicans approve; 86 percent of Democrats do. Just under half of independents approve. |
On the other hand, the President enjoys particularly strong support for his handling of terrorism - 57 percent approve, while 31 percent disapprove. |
The practice of using unmanned drone aircrafts to attack suspected terrorists in foreign countries - a policy begun by the Bush Administration and expanded under President Obama - enjoys widespread and bipartisan support. Seven in 10 Americans favor using drones to attack suspected terrorists abroad, including most Rep... |
Cooperation between Republicans and Democrats? |
Looking ahead, Americans are not especially optimistic that there will be more cooperation between Republicans and Democrats in the next four years than there was during the President's first term. Just 17 percent think there will be more cooperation, 22 percent say less, and 58 percent say cooperation will be about th... |
Director of Marketing at Forum One, leading global marketing and outreach to the world's most influential nonprofits and foundations. |
As individuals and consumers, we are certainly inspired and influenced by celebrities, from Hollywood celebrities to thought leaders, because they make us aware of ideas and trends through their elevated presence in the media and reputation in their field. But some of our biggest influencers are the people we interact ... |
A well-known example of this is in how Zappos uses its employees to do online product video demos, rather than professional actors or models. By using real people, who give their personal opinions about their company’s products, the company was able to directly correlate a boost in sales, according to The Wall Street J... |
When it comes to your organization’s brand, your employees are the real people behind your brand. Why they work for you and believe in your mission is key to how your customers and constituents see you as well. In the social media world, real people play a huge influencer role, from sharing a photo of themselves using ... |
1. Provide a social media policy for your employees to follow. |
A social media policy is a great resource for employees across the spectrum, from those who are extremely social media savvy and engaged to those who rarely use it. Providing your employees with a good sense of how you expect them to conduct themselves online protects your brand reputation and allows them to amplify it... |
A social media policy may include what is acceptable, what is not and what company hashtags you recommend they use when speaking about your brand on social channels. |
2. Launch an employee advocacy program. |
As your greatest advocates and assets for sharing your organization’s story and culture, take the opportunity to run word-of-mouth campaigns. Put the power in their hands by allowing a small but diverse team of employees to lead this, and develop materials and ideas for staff to use. Supporting this program should incl... |
Also, and very importantly, make incentives clear. Acknowledge and praise those who are contributing to the initiative. This will, in turn, allow you to expand your efforts and impact. |
3. Track and share metrics of success. |
• Top Contributors: These are the employees most engaged in promoting your brand on social media. |
• Reach: This measures the extent to which content shared by your employees is getting out. |
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