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The school district and the Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence, which partner to recognize outstanding parish teachers each year, will be forced to announce the Teacher of the Year award winners early because of changing time frames for the selection process for the Department of Education�s Louisiana Teacher of the Year award.
�It�s all to align themselves with the national Teacher of the Year announcement, they want the regional teachers to be able to participate in that process,� said Yolanda Trahan, the TFAE director.
In the past, the winning teachers have been named at the TFAE annual gala in August, along with teachers who win grants provided by the foundation for classroom initiatives.
Instead, the finalists, and shortly thereafter, the winners, will be announced Thursday at the Whitney Bank building at the intersection of Main and Roussell streets in downtown Houma at 6 p.m.
See Thursday's print and online editions of The Courier for the full version by Staff Writer Robert Zullo.
Cloud computing. The running of computer applications off remote servers, usually the Internet, is considered the next big thing when it comes to improving business efficiency. It turns out the benefits could also mean energy efficiency.
A recent study from CDW, an information technology products and services company, found that 62% of IT professionals in late 2011 view cloud computing as an energy-efficient approach to data center consolidation, up from 47% a year before. Among respondents, 65% said they had implemented server virtualization, a form of cloud computing. Those who made the leap to virtualization reported a 28% drop in energy use.
So how is this reducing energy use? According to GreenBiz.com, moving to the cloud increases telecommuting by allowing employees to more easily work remotely by running applications of the cloud, rather than internal servers. It also results in less required office space for businesses, due to this greater telecommuting and because it removes the need for internal data rooms.
A 2010 Accenture study found efficiencies through the centralization that cloud computing provides. Data centers serving multiple business clients are able to better match server capacity with usage. The shared infrastructure flattens relative peak loads, and the servers are utilized at higher rates.
The data centers also generally have their act together more when it comes to cooling, power conditioning and other server management activities that lead to overall energy efficiency. It's their business, after all.
". . .can take advantage of highly efficient cloud infrastructure, effectively "outsourcing" their IT efficiency investments while helping their company achieve its sustainability goals. Beyond the commonly cited benefits of cloud computing— such as cost savings and increased agility—cloud computing has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of many business applications."
Microsoft engaged with Accenture on the study, so Accenture compared the environmental impact of a group of Microsoft business applications run on-premise, versus on the cloud.
The results were stunning. A small business with 100 users that moved the Microsoft applications to the cloud could cut energy use and carbon emissions by 90%. Large organizations with 10,000 users saw a 30% reduction.
Before pulling the plug on your server room and looking up cloud computer services, remember that cloud computing isn't for every business. Reliability issues and information security need to be considered. Check out this New York Times small-business guide from September 2011 for an analysis of the tradeoffs.
Some of Meghan Markle’s family members back in the U.S. have been a thorn in her side since the weekend of her wedding to Prince Harry — but that hasn’t stopped her from being warmly embraced by the royal family. In fact, as E! News reports, her family drama actually helped her to get an “in” with the Windsors.
The royal family is all about propriety, dignity, and elegance. They’re the living embodiment of the United Kingdom’s centuries of history and tradition. As such, they must steadfastly avoid any embarrassment, salacity, or anything that would bring disrepute to the family.
So one might think that, once the American actress’s father and half-siblings started a coordinated campaign to drag their relative through the mud, that the Windsors would have locked her out for their own protection. But as we all know, the opposite has happened: her father-in-law, Charles, loves her like a daughter. She’s the apple of Queen Elizabeth’s eye. And she and her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, are more like actual sisters.
In fact, Meghan’s family drama isn’t just something that the Windsors collectively ignore when it comes to Meghan — it’s something that has seemingly helped her to get closer with them. One theory as to why this is the case is that the Windsors have been there, too.
It happens get over it, but since it's Meghan yall have to blow it out of proportion ????
For a family that tries so steadfastly to avoid embarrassment and negative publicity, they’ve had their fair share. There was the time that Queen Elizabeth’s uncle abdicated the throne to marry a divorced American actress — a series of events so shocking that it almost destroyed the monarchy. Then there was the time that the future King (Charles) and his wife (Diana) divorced, which at the time was almost earth-shattering in its significance to the country. Then, Diana died under suspicious circumstances.
Such a record of royal drama could include far-less-major but still-embarrassing incidents — like Princess Anne’s affair with a married man, or any of Prince Philip’s many public gaffes. Long story short, if any family knows about dramatic affairs, it’s the Windsors.
Royal documentarian Angela Levin says that family drama is so old-hat to the Windsors that Meghan’s embarrassing relatives back in the United States were actually something of an asset to her.
As it turns out, the Windsors have even extended their love for Meghan to one of her relatives — the one relative who doesn’t continually try to embarrass the Duchess. Rumor has it that the Queen has invited Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, to the family’s Christmas dinner.
Overnight leader Francesco Molinari's hopes sunk with two double bogeys on the back nine and he had to settle for a share of fifth on 11 under.
It is the first time Woods has come from behind in the final round to win a major and it is his first Master's victory since 2005.
He is now just one behind Jack Nicklaus' record of six wins at Augusta National and three behind his fellow American's overall major tally of 18.
It caps a remarkable resurgence for Woods, who missed the 2016 and 2017 Masters with his back problems, finally undergoing back fusion surgery in April of that year.
He then capped off the season by winning the Tour Championship, his 80th PGA Tour title and this victory puts him one behind the record of 82 held by Sam Snead.
Molinari, who played with Woods in the final round as he won The Open last July, dumped his tee shot into Rae's Creek at the front of the green and walked off with a double-bogey five.
A par on the 17th left the world number 12 with a lead of two shots going up the last – only Brooks Koepka, who has won three of the past seven majors, tried to put pressure on but the American missed an eight-foot birdie putt to stay at 12 under.
Woods appeared to fluff his second shot to the 18th, leaving it well short of the green and could only chip on to 14 feet, but a straightforward two-putt sealed the win.
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A newly uncovered Apple patent suggests that the Cupertino iPhone makers still haven’t forgotten about their living room aspirations, revealing a design that looks very much like the oft-rumoured Apple iTV.
Spotted by trademark spotters Patently Apple, the filing describes a fused glass back process for housing screen tech, not unlike that already employed in the iPhone 4S, and expected to feature again in future iPhone and iPod models.
Here though, the reference is specifically made to a television set.
Jony Ive and his team are listed as the patents creators, suggesting the hardware whizz is spreading his wings to living room devices as well as those that sit in your pocket or on your desk.
It’s interesting to see Apple seemingly rolling back to a design used in an earlier iPhone handset rather than the iPhone 5 however (or whatever the iPhone 5S turns out to be) suggesting that this may now be an outdated patent. Though a glass-backed screen sounds attractive, experience with the design in iPhone handsets suggests its also weak and prone to smashing. Though a static device like TV shouldn’t be as prone to drops and bumps as an on-the-go mobile, we’d hope that Apple have given the glass a bit of a toughening up before popping it into any possible TV set, especially considering how expensive it’s likely to be.
As either, there’s no official word from Apple regarding the patent, but we’ll keep you posted should Apple ever get round to lifting the lid on their TV aspirations.
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ADDITION TO DEN. The Orlando Lions bolstered their defensive corps by signing defender Lou Karbiener to a 1-year contract. Karbiener, 26, played with the Lions for a portion of 1986 and the entire 1987 campaign. After leading Penn State in scoring as a senior in 1982, he was drafted by the NASL's Tulsa Roughnecks and the MISL's Denver Avalanche, but opted to play for the United States Olympic development team. He is the third player signed by the Lions, who begin their first American Soccer League season in April.
Like a sun-grazing comet on a deep-space trajectory, the cyberpunk movement is disappearing as quickly as it arrived just a few years ago. Moreover, the movement was hardly more substantial than a comet's fuzzy tail when it came to numbers - there were never more than 100 hard-core cyberpunks at any time before the term hit the mainstream press.
But don't sell cyberpunks's social impact short, for insubstantial comets have long served as messengers. I suspect that cyberpunks are to the 1990s what the beatniks were to the '60s - harbingers of a mass movement waiting in the wings. Just as the beatniks anticipated the hippies, cyberpunks are setting the stage for a coming digital counterculture that will turn the '90s zeitgeist utterly on its head. This movement in the making has yet to be described, much less named, but eerie parallels between the beatnik and cyberpunk movements offer strong hints of what is to come.
For starters, both movements were given focus by literary fiction. The beatniks took their cue from a handful of "beat writers" (Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs), while cyberpunks found their identity in the cyberpunk science ction genre dened by writers such as William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, and John Shirley. Moreover, the lead works in both traditions orbited emerging infrastructures: Kerouac's On the Road played off the concrete mobility enabled by the Interstate Highway Act, while Gibson's Neuromancer portrayed a future world wrapped around vast information highways. Eager readers never realized that neither writer was really one of them: Kerouac disliked driving; Gibson banged out Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes typewriter.
Like the cyberpunks, there were never more than a handful of true beatniks - less than 120 in all before the movement hit the media in the late 1950s, according to essayist George Leonard. Leonard's descriptions of the North Beach beatnik milieu parallel today's cyberpunk culture. Word got out on the grapevine of parties at people's "pads," and, like raves, these happenings quickly evolved into underground quasi-commercial events. Just as cyberpunks carry their network identities into the physical world, the beatniks were fond of pseudonyms. "Everyone had a name, like in a Damon Runyon novel," observes Leonard. Ironically, neither group named its own movement, for just as the cyberpunks were so dubbed by a literary interloper, the term "beatnik" was coined by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.
Once labeled, both movements quickly surrendered their visual archetypes to the cultural mainstream. In 1960, youths the world over were aping the goateed, cool-shades beatnik look, while today, PDBs (people dressed in black) affecting electronic lifestyles are more numerous than network nodes. This surrender would send both movements into the black hole of history, but not before they inspired larger movements to come. Just ve years after the beatniks's demise in 1960, the hippies emerged from the Haight-Ashbury to change our cultural landscape forever.
Like cyberpunks, the beatniks were for the most part low-key, slightly mournful loners. Beatnik individualism was a sullen and stubborn reaction to the optimistic company-man materialism of the Eisenhower era, just as the cyberpunks stand in stark contrast to the antiseptic military- industrial orderliness of the Reagan-Bush years.
But Kerouac later concluded that beat also meant beatific - imbued with joy or blessedness - and it was this aspect of the beatniks that became the germ of the hippie movement, according to Leonard. "It was a time of grace," he told me, referring to the early days of the Haight-Ashbury, when it seemed that a new age of cultural consciousness truly was dawning.
Optimism and a sense of community distinguished the hippies from the beatniks, and will also distinguish the cyberpunks from the coming digital counterculture. The cyberpunk world is starkly non-utopian, serving up the same sort of intimate but uneasy accommodation with technology portrayed in the movie Blade Runner. I will bet that the digital counterculture will reject this bleak vision of a future in which technology enlarges the human spirit as a new tool for consciousness in much the same way that the hippies appropriated the psychoactive chemical spinoffs of the military- industrial complex. This new movement will be cyberpunk imbued with human warmth, substituting a deep sense of interdependence in place of lone-wolf isolationism. Cyberpunks envision humans as electronic cyber-rats lurking in the interstices of the information mega-machine; the gospel of the post- cyberpunk movement will be one of machines in the service of enlarging our humanity.
It is too early to tell what the digital counterculture will call itself, but the history of the hippies offers a clue. "Hippie" traces its origins to "hipster," slang for a cruel and cynical 1950s subculture that predated the beats. The digital counterculture thus is likely to appropriate an older term for its own, in the same way that the hippies appropriated and turned "hipster" into something entirely new. I'll bet that they call themselves something like "tekkies," consciously adopting the scornful '80s slang for nerds, stripping the word of its industrial coldness and making it synonymous with the human control of technology.
Hippies appeared in 1965, several years after the beatnik movement had gone public. Given this chronology, the tekkies will arrive sometime in the mid- 1990s, if not sooner. Watch the skies for a new comet - it will be digital, and its tail is likely to glow in Technicolor swirls. Its arrival will change our lives forever.
Four weeks into its initial seven-episode run, WE tv has renewed hit docuseries Love After Lockup for an expanded 10-episode second season. It’s slated for premiere in 2019.
Love After Lockup, which focuses on couples who found love when one partner was behind bars, has grown its audience each week following its premiere. The docuseries is up 86 percent among women 25-54 and 62 percent among adults 25-54 in Live+3, making it the fastest-growing new cable series this year, according to WE tv and Nielsen.
From the producers of 90 Day Fiancé, Love After Lockup follows six couples who share the emotional journey of being united for the first time after years of supervised visits, recorded phone calls, and handwritten letters, as they transition from love with one partner behind bars to daily life together and, maybe, a trip to the marriage altar. The series introduced the couples as they prepared for the big release day – and an even bigger wedding day. As most of these couples have never had unsupervised contact with one another, viewers watched as they experienced several “firsts” including dates, meeting the family and other nerve-wracking, intimate moments.
Even before the show premiered, its preview trailer went viral online, generating more than 2 million views in the weeks leading into premiere.
The renewal comes amid strong growth for WE tv, which is up in all key demos from last year — +31 percent in adults 18-49, +28 percent in women 18-49, and +26 percent in adults 25-54, according to WE tv and Nielsen Live+3.
The series is produced by Sharp Entertainment. Executive Producers are Matt Sharp and Dan Adler. Lauren P. Gellert, Kate Farrell and David Stefanou are Executive Producers for WE tv.
Love After Lockup airs Fridays at 10 PM on WE tv.
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Everybody takes interests in scandal, as long as they are not involved in it. From political corruption to fixed sporting events and everything in between, scandals draw attention like nothing else in society. Mixed martial arts has a long way to go before it catches boxing, but there have been a number of occasions when the sport has made the wrong kind of headlines due to the activities of several key figures.
The latest installment in the Sherdog Top 10 series examines the biggest scandals to rock MMA.
A finely made timepiece is, in a nice twist of irony, an anachronism. Still driven by 200-year-old technological principles of cogs, springs and flywheels, it keeps worse time than the plastic digital that fell out of your cereal packet this morning.
So, rather than reinventing said wheels, Switzerland's tweezer-wielders are keeping their time machines Alpine-fresh by tinkering with the packaging. By switching up from the usual steel or gold to high-tech, lightweight materials, a watch's case is becoming the most innovative part of the piece as a whole. Materials scientists are the watch industry's newest recruits.
Carbon fibre leads the super-light revolution, as pioneered by Richard Mille and Audemars Piguet. Its shiny black weave looks cool while reflecting the tech underpinning two of watchmaking's favourite sporting partners: motor racing and yachting.
Increasingly, the smart money is on new, proprietary composites - often stemming from the most cutting-edge sector in materials innovation, aerospace. So, trust Breitling then to boast the latest, unveiled at this year's Basel watch fair: Breitlight. It's used on the new Avenger Hurricane (£6,450) - a 50mm beast of a 24-hour chronograph that wouldn't look out of place on Batman's utility belt, yet sits on your wrist as innocuously as a Swatch.
Like a Swatch, it's plastic, but plastic as you've never known it: a polymer composite spiked with carbon fibre, similar to that used for the Glock pistol. The upshot of which is that it's 3.3 times lighter than steel, yet almost impossible to dent or scratch.
Marilyn Monroe's favourite jeweller, Harry Winston, has had a big-hitting featherweight material to its name for some years. Its "Zalium" metal alloy can be found encasing every watch launched under the "Project Z" umbrella. The latest, the Z10, has a double retrograde display, exposing its mechanism with techy panache.
The lightweight trend isn't all at the top end. Aluminium is currently having something of a moment - in the automotive as well as the watch world. Look no further than the aforementioned Swatch, whose Irony collection - so-named for its use of metal rather than plastic - gains 29 new "XLITE" models this year (from £76). The cases fuse a tough aluminium carcass with bright plastic inserts and panels.
Smartwatches may be (temporarily) snatching all the attention from "proper" watches, but for now at least, proper watches are proving that the use of high-tech materials can keep them relevant in the 21st century, as well as "smart" in their own right.
English clubs will consolidate their position as the richest in the world thanks to new broadcast deals that will be finalised in the coming weeks, according to the accountants who monitor football revenue across Europe.
Premier League clubs already contribute seven of the top 20 richest clubs in the world and five of the top 10, according to the latest analysis published by Deloitte on Thursday, but they believe English dominance could grow.
Real Madrid and Barcelona again top the Football Money List, which ranks teams based on revenue generated, with income of £414.7 million and £390.8 million respectively. Manchester United (£320.3 million) are the highest-ranked English club in third, followed by Chelsea (fifth, £261 million) Arsenal (sixth, £234.9 million) and Liverpool (ninth, £183.6 million).
Tottenham (13th, £144.2 million) and Newcastle (20th, £93.3 million) complete the English representation. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs are the only English clubs ever-present in the Deloitte global top 20 in all six years it has been produced.
Manchester City were the biggest movers in the list, climbing from 12th last year to seventh, thanks to an £80 million leap in revenue, driven largely by a 51 per cent increase in commercial income from deals primarily with Abu Dhabi-based companies including airline Etihad.
Everton, Sunderland, Aston Villa and Fulham were all just outside the top 20, which is based on figures for the 2011-12 season, but could be among English clubs breaking through when a 70 per cent increase in television revenue arrives, starting next season.
The Premier League has already agreed a £3 billion three-year domestic deal with Sky and BT Vision, and international rights close to being finalised could add more than £2 billion more to the total.
Dan Jones, a partner at Deloitte and editor of the Football Money List, said the new deals should cement English dominance.
“If you look forward a couple of years and factor in the new Premier League television deal, it could be that half of the top-20 are English in a couple of years time, and all 20 could be in the top-40,” he said.
Jones said that the boost to English clubs’ earnings should help them cope with the financial fair-play rules required by Uefa, and potentially in the Premier League.
“If you look forward a couple of years and factor in the new Premier League television deal, it could be that half of the top-20 are English in a couple of years time, and all 20 could be in the top 40,” he said.
“From the point of view of FFP, if the goal is to balance the books then the more revenue you earn the easier it should be to do that. The Premier League television deal should allow English clubs to control costs while still spending enough on playing staff to remain competitive.
Manchester United target Ilkay Gundogan is on the verge of signing a new deal with Borussia Dortmund.
The German midfielder has frequently been linked with a move to Old Trafford, but newspaper Bild claim he is set for an extended stay under Jurgen Klopp.
Former Chelsea target and Barcelona star Sergio Busquets has signalled his intentions to join a Premier League club.
The Spanish midfielder has been linked with a £55m move to French champions PSG in recent weeks, but told the Guardian that England is his preferred destination.
Porto president Pinto da Costa has reiterated that Colombian striker Jackson Martinez will leave the club should his £30m valuation be met.
The Metro suggest Arsenal are leading the chase for the 28-year-old, and if Arsene Wenger's effusive praise is anything to go by - the Gunners will make an offer.
Liverpool are gearing up for a surprise bid for Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech.
The Reds' need for a shot stopper has subsided in recent months, but according to the Telegraph, Brendan Rodgers would 'love to sign' the 32-year-old.
Man Utd, Manchester City and Chelsea target Lionel Messi is reported to be interested in a shock move to Paris Saint-Germain.
Former Barcelona team-mate Abidal said Messi required a fresh challenge in an interview with French television programme Telefoot.
Barcelona sporting director Ariedo Braida will fly into Turin to scout French international Paul Pogba in action.
According to Calciomercato, Braida is so impressed with Pogba's development, he is willing to skip watching his own side in action against Manchester City.
Chelsea midfielder Thorgan Hazard has left Stamford Bridge to join Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach on a permanent basis.
Chelsea have released a club statement wishing Hazard the best for the future, it read: "Chelsea Football Club wishes Thorgan well for the future and will continue to monitor his progress."

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