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With all the murkiness that has been present in the UFC lightweight division for what feels like forever and a bottle of Proper No. 12, | the sport really needs someone to save it from slipping any further into madness.
Justin Gaethje may not be the fighter to save it, but it sure would be damn entertaining to see him try.
Gaethje is the definition of a fan’s fighter. He’s the fighter who understands that putting on a show is just as valuable, if not more valuable, than putting himself in the best position to win.
He’s the fighter who can wrestle you to death but would much rather stand and trade, wading through your shots so we can land his own.
He’s the fighter who’s willing to put himself in danger and take risks if it means finding a way to end a fight.
Also, he’s the fighter who understands his own worth but also isn’t interested in picking and choosing opponents, so you know UFC must love the guy. Well, provided he doesn’t complain too loudly |
For the second time in a month, Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to the hospital due to complications from a feeding tube in her stomach | .
Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, called 911 just before 11 a.m. Tuesday after he noticed bleeding from a feeding tube that was surgically implanted last month.
"She's in the hospital at UCLA," said her husband, Frederic von Anhalt. "It's a little worse (than last month)."
Gabor's publicist, John Blanchette, said her personal physician came to her Bel Air home and determined that the feeding tube in her stomach had come loose again, resulting in an infection.
"He called for an ambulance to UCLA and she was taken back to the hospital, her home away from home these days,'' Blanchette said.
He said it was the third time the feeding tube had dislodged since being put in, resulting in infection.
The 94-year-old actress has been hospitalized repeatedly since falling out of bed and breaking her hip in July 2010. Her right leg was amputated |
If Senator Elizabeth Warren thought that releasing her DNA test results showing Native American ancestry would neutralize a Republican line of attack, she was wrong.
| The test — part of her strategic preparations for a likely presidential campaign — did not placate President Trump, who has mocked Ms. Warren as “Pocahontas” and once promised $1 million to a charity of her choice if a DNA test substantiated her claims of Cherokee and Delaware heritage. And her announcement of the results angered many Native Americans, including the Cherokee Nation, the largest of the country’s three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.
DNA testing cannot show that Ms. Warren is Cherokee or any other tribe, the secretary of state of the Cherokee Nation, Chuck Hoskin Jr., said in a statement. Tribes set their own citizenship requirements, not to mention that DNA tests don’t distinguish among the numerous indigenous groups of North and South America. The test Ms. Warren took did not identify Cherokee ancestry specifically; it found that she most likely had at least one Native American ancestor six to 10 generations ago.
Ms. Warren defended herself by saying she was |
This week the American Federation of Teachers, our national union, proposed a new tool in teacher evaluation: a sort of "bar exam" for teaching | that would be required for anyone entering the profession. The rigorous exam would be based on a combination of content-knowledge and understanding of emotional and social factors in learning. As an added component of certification, teachers would be required to spend a year in "clinical practice" as a student teacher--a sort of teaching apprenticeship that I've long felt was lacking in training for our profession. In tandem with the new exam and the longer period of student teaching, education programs themselves would become more rigorous, requiring higher grade point averages for successful admission and graduation.
While some teachers will understandably balk at the idea of being evaluated by standardized tests, I'm surprised to find myself rather enamored of this set of ideas. For starters, by standardizing the requirements for certification across all states, teachers will be more easily able to obtain national board certification--reciprocity can be streamlined across all states (right now there's no rhyme or reason to which states have reciprocity with each other, and |
NASHUA–Oliva Joseph Beaulieu, age 88, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, February 4, 2019. He was the husband | of Clare (Donnelly) Beaulieu, with whom he spent 60 wonderful years of marriage.
Born in Taunton, Mass. on December 18, 1930, he was the son of the late Alphonse and Alma (Maltais) Beaulieu, who emigrated from Quebec in the 1890s. An exceptional student-athlete, Oliva was drafted to play professional baseball at the age of 16, but chose to pursue his education. He was later offered a football scholarship to Brown University, but had to decline because even the incidental costs of an Ivy League school were beyond his family’s limited means. Instead, he attended the newly founded Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., commuting by bus (or hitchhiking) between home, school, and a full-time job he held to pay his tuition. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in English, the first member of his family to achieve that distinction. He remained a proud and active |
ISLAMABAD, Apr 26 (APP):The fifth Pakistan-Japan High Level Economic Policy Dialogue was held here on Thursday, emphasizing the | need to give a new impetus to the economic and commercial ties between Pakistan and Japan.
According to a statement issued here, Secretary EAD said that enormous opportunities were available in Pakistan in the wake of sustained economic turnaround and improved security environment.
Dilating upon the investment opportunities in the country, he elaborated that Pakistan’s investment policy, characterized by steady liberalization, privatization and deregulation, was one of the most liberal and investor-friendly in the region.
definitely be a timely intervention to emphasize upon the strong relationship between the two countries.
dialogue on trade and investment issues.
Japanese side expressed that they would facilitate the Joint Government Business Dialogue, which was planned to be held later this year.
Both sides noted the need for further enhancing Japanese investment in Pakistan keeping in view the improved economic environment.
For future Japanese investment, the Pakistani side identified the emerging sectors of automobile, auto parts, electric cars, electronics, solar panels, chemicals and plastics. Japanese side highlighted |
Rooney Mara has picked up a big role as Tiger Lily in the movie version of Peter Pan, but the casting has drawn a massive controversy online | .
The news that the white actress would be playing Tiger Lily, who is Native American, were met with immediate curiosity online. The casting of Rooney Mara was compared to the selection of Johnny Depp to play Tonto in The Lone Ranger, which itself was controversial.
The opposition to Mara has grown more organized in the days after her casting was announced. The hashtag #NotYourTigerLily started trending on Twitter, and more than 5,000 people signed a petition through Care2 to protest the casting.
Rooney Mara and her casting seems part of a larger issue in Hollywood. Many filmmakers and actors have taken up the cause to call for better representation of actors of color.
Disney has a difficult history with the character. In its 1953 Peter Pan movie, Tiger Lily’s father was portrayed in red face.
Some critics have taken issue with the role of Tiger Lily, calling it an insensitive portrayal of Native Americans.
Disney has tried to deflect the controversy over Rooney |
How can creatives produce top-notch work in a hurry while adhering to increasingly strict deadlines set by brands?
The speed at | which we all produce and expect things in 2014 is incredible. Most of us no longer have the virtue of patience. But then why do we need this when most things in the 21st century are instant? It has been found that 47% of consumers expect a webpage to load in two seconds or less and up to 87% of us will abandon a site if we experience this full delay. It seems we can't spare seconds, let alone minutes.
Similarly with design, creatives are no longer cutting and sticking letterforms in the dead of night in order to send them by post the next day. Of course not, we have Macs, CMD+Z and email. But not only are we expected to design more quickly we're expected to produce killer ideas and concepts faster. The question is, what's the effect of a speedy outcome?
A while ago I listened to a talk by Paul Smith at the Design Museum, where he's currently holding his exhibition: Hello I Am Paul |
In 2018, the stock market suffered the worst December since the Great Depression. We see the headlines on the internet, we hear about it on the | news, even our President is talking about it. So what does this drop in the stock market mean to your clients, and what might you do about it?
Since November 2009, the stock market has generally gone up, but 2018 marked the first year that we recorded a loss in nearly a decade. For most investors, this recent downturn in the market is expected. The severity, though, is catching many investors, especially those close to or in retirement, off guard.
We are also witnessing very unusual levels of volatility in the market, with erratic swings going up and down 1 to 3 percent in a single day of trading. This volatility only adds to our fears of losing money and not getting out of the market in time. So what can your clients do in the midst of all this volatility and market loss? Consider buying a fixed indexed annuity.
2018 represented the first year since 2008 that the S&P 500 finished lower than it started. The losses were sustained in the last 90 |
He was everything Mariners fans might remember when he was here – fast, efficient - only better.
The trade now seems absurd. Fister was | sent to Detroit along with reliever David Pauley in exchange for pitchers Charlie Furbush and Chance Ruffin, outfielder Casper Wells and then-third base prospect Francisco Martinez.
Of what the Mariners received in return – only Furbush is contributing to the major league club. Wells was designated for assignment after failing to make the team. Ruffin – once thought to be a future closer - is trying to re-invent himself as a starter in Double A. Martinez is his center fielder in Jackson after being converted to the outfield and never hitting as expected.
And Fister? He was 3-12 with a 3.33 earned run average when he was traded in 2011. Down the stretch for the Tigers that season, he went 8-1 with a 1.79 ERA in 10 starts and one relief appearance, helping them reach the playoffs.
Last season, he posted a 10-10 record with a 3.45 ERA and helped the Tigers reach the World Series.
After |
If the White House wants to know which foreign leaders support presidential candidate John Kerry, it should check with the CIA, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | said yesterday.
Although the intelligence agency is prohibited from domestic spying, Mr. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, suggested that the CIA knows which countries support Mr. Kerry through surveillance at the U.N. building in New York.
“All we have to do is go down the list of members of the United Nations to find out where the support is. The CIA knows it. They work for the president. They can give him the names of all of those countries,” Mr. Kennedy told “Meet the Press” in an interview yesterday.
Mr. Kennedy was “alluding to the well-known fact that the CIA and other domestic intelligence agencies have a good handle on what is discussed at the United Nations,” his spokesman Jim Manley said after the interview.
The Washington Times surveyed embassies of key countries opposing the U.S.-led war in Iraq — including France, Russia, Canada and Mexico — and embassy officers said there had been no meetings |
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This assertion was followed by short supportive quotations beneath a rogues gallery of Israel’s security establishment: three | rows of pictures, the top one of Six former Israeli IDF Chiefs of Staff, in the middle five former Shin Bet heads (internal security agency), and on the bottom five former heads of the Mossad (international intelligence agency). To be sure this is an imposing array of top Israeli officials together indirectly expressing their collective dismay with respect to the Likud government led by Netanyahu turning its back on the two-state solution. As such, it is an impressive expression of Israeli elite and informed opinion, but whether it reflects a consensus with political leverage either here in the United States or in Israel seems doubtful. At minimum it conveys the strong impression that an influential part of the Israeli establishment has lost confidence in the Netanyahu leadership to protect Israel’s vital interests, and this is itself significant.
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The London practice – working with local firm Bovenbouw Architectuur – defeated an undisclosed shortlist of international teams to win the prestigious | city centre commission.
The project will transform a former béguinage – a Flemish building type similar to a convent or almshouse – into a landmark new 6,800m² public space and home for the university’s architecture faculty.
The high-profile appointment comes just two months after DKA won an invited contest for an iconic new 6,720m² residential complex south of the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
DKA’s winning scheme will deliver a mix of cultural and educational uses for the University of Hasselt, including multi-functional spaces, studios, teaching spaces, an auditorium and associated ancillary rooms.
The redevelopment follows the creation of an enlarged headquarters for Hasselt’s art and architecture centre, Z33, which formerly occupied the 18th century béguinage.
DKA director David Kohn, director at David Kohn Architects, said: ‘The project in Hassel |
The city council has been accused of “losing democratic accountability” after “dissolving” its flagship locality committees after just | one year.
The four locality committees began to meet in February 2018 to “ensure a local focus is provided which responds to residents and communities”.
However, one year into the project, the meetings have been scrapped because of an “inability to properly engage with local communities”.
A leading community councillor has blasted the authority for refusing to trial the new locality model first, which he claimed “didn’t give communities a voice”.
The council divided the city into four quarters to manage some services and scrutinise local police and fire services. Conveners were appointed for each of the four committees, which have only met five times each, who receive additional salary for the responsibility.
New organisations are set to replace the committees to give local groups a stronger voice through the Edinburgh Partnership called ‘neighbourhood networks’.
The council said any replacement for the locality committees will involve more of a community-led engagement and meaningful |
With the Syrian regime losing ground in the Ghab Plain and Qaryatayn last week, the protagonists in Syria are slowly preparing for the aftermath | of the conflict. Few believe president Bashar Al Assad can prevail in the war, and even he conceded his army’s difficulties late last month.
With Mr Al Assad’s foes gaining, all eyes have been on diplomacy in recent weeks. Russian, Saudi and American officials have met in Qatar, the Russian and Saudi foreign ministers met in Moscow on Monday, and Russia mediated a recent meeting in Jeddah between the Saudi deputy crown prince and defence minister, Mohammed bin Salman, and the head of Syria’s National Security Bureau, Ali Mamlouk.
Even Iran has offered a plan for a political solution in Syria. Two things are apparent in these exchanges: Mr Al Assad’s vulnerabilities have prompted his allies to begin a process of finding a negotiated outcome in Syria that could potentially save him and prevent a power vacuum that benefits extremists; and the Syrian president has become increasingly irrelevant, his fate almost entirely in the hands of others.
Mr Al Assad’s enemies |
He’s found numerous buttons, coins, jewelry and other metal objects lost and hidden from sight for decades until he discovered them again.
| EAST LANSING – Tom Shively, also known as Treasure Tom, wants to know if you’re missing some jewelry.
Using a metal detector, he has turned up a woman’s 1978 Mason High School class ring on a silver chain, a silver ID bracelet engraved with a first name and a silver locket with a diamond and “I love you” engraved on the outside and two photos on the inside.
He’s unearthed the items at parks in East Lansing and Meridian Township in the past two years.
He wants to return them to their owners.
In January, Shively, of East Lansing, retired from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget after a 34-year career in information technology.
Treasure hunting has been a longtime passion. He got his first metal detector in high school.
I first connected with him in 2016 when I wrote about a young Holt widow who lost her late husband’s wedding band |
As the founder and director of a nonprofit animal shelter on the East Coast, Alana has spent most of the past decade caring for pets that might | otherwise be euthanized. Her work also resonates with people online—the Facebook page for the shelter has more than 1.3 million followers. But in August, she noticed something strange: A series of unfamiliar posts began appearing on the page, and no one at the shelter could say where they were coming from. For several days, Alana and her staff simply deleted them. It didn’t initially occur to Alana that her account may have been breached.
Then, in the early morning hours of August 19, a link to a fraudulent GoFundMe fund-raiser appeared on the shelter’s page, claiming the nonprofit was raising money for pets displaced by wildfires thousands of miles away in California. By the time Alana spotted the fund-raiser, it had already raised around $1,500. She quickly crafted a Facebook post alerting donors that it was fake, but it was useless. “The post was immediately removed,” says Alana |
After more than five months of excruciatingly unnecessary hype and emotional torture, Crayola has finally revealed the name of the new blue crayon | that will replace the now-retired Dandelion yellow color in boxes around the world.
Crafty colorers everywhere — get ready to grip: Bluetiful.
On Thursday morning at 9 a.m. ET, Crayola made the long-awaited announcement on its Facebook page.
In a livestream that lasted less than two minutes, CEO Smith Holland — joined onstage by 12 children wearing blue crayon shirts — yelled "BLUETIFUL," and the new crayon mascot and her polka dot tights made their first appearance.
The crayon's bio is already on Crayola's website. And apparently, Bluetiful enjoys coding apps and video games, along with a good relaxing DIY project.
A two-ish month voting process, which seemed to be more thorough than that of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election then commenced, and on Sept. 14 — more than five months after this whole ordeal was announced — Cray |
The Cauldron – A Perfect Container For My Magic.
All around my house you’ll find cauldrons. I have a large | replica of the Gundestrup Cauldron on top of one prominent altar. There’s a collection of mini cauldrons nestled on the wood burning stove. I have cauldrons filled with beans for sorting. Another with drops of Awen (okay, they are gold coloured marbles but they are Awen to me) and two in my office that I work magic with each morning. The cauldron, for me, is the perfect metaphor for the way I do my magic.
I spent years studying Tibetan Buddhism in the Gelugpa lineage. One of the central tenets of Buddhism is The Heart Sutra and it deals with Emptiness. Emptiness is described not as the lack or absence of anything but rather the potential for almost anything to arise from that emptiness. In my witchcraft, the corollary to or symbol of Buddhist Emptiness is the cauldron.
There’s never a time when my cauldrons are filled with nothing. |
My friend Stephen Smoot sent me the following, which I believe is germane to the discussion of Book of Mormon historicity.
A | note on the limits of archaeology from a post-modernist Mormon apologist … no, wait, that’s a conservative Roman Catholic priest.
Archaeology does not, and cannot, claim to know all about the places it excavates, or the people who lived there. The nature of the finds–––scattered, broken, and accidentally preserved by the fortunes of time and weather, or the oversight of ancient and modern plunderers–––requires scholars to interpret them as pieces in a large jigsaw puzzle, of which most of the missing pieces are lost for good. Through careful detective work, by suggesting models and testing them against the evidence, much can be suggested about the shape of ancient life. Writings in particular allow us to look in on the thoughts of the peoples whose charred and buried cities have been found. But in no case do we have the full story. Evidence from one ancient site often seems to contradict information gleaned from another. The task of dating |
A new study provides insight into the molecular characteristics that make a brain susceptible to anxiety and depression and less likely to respond to treatment with antidepressant medication. | The research, published by Cell Press in the January 14th issue of the journal Neuron, may lead to more effective strategies for treating depression, a major health concern throughout the world.
Although brain mechanisms associated with depression and anxiety are not completely clear, recent research has implicated a combination of stressful life events and predisposing biological factors as playing a causal role in depressive disorders. The most popular antidepressant medications, such as the commonly prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), increase serotonin levels in the brain.
"Unfortunately, more than half of all depressed patients fail to respond to their first drug treatment," explains senior study author Dr. Rene Hen, from Columbia University. "The reasons for this treatment resistance remain enigmatic. Elucidating the exact nature of both the factors predisposing to depression and the mechanisms underlying treatment resistance remains an important and unmet need."
Previous studies in humans have suggested that regulation of serotonin receptors may be linked with depression and the response to antidepressants. |
“No, I can’t think of any,” she replied. Then he proceeded to ask a few other questions about their | family history.
Debbie went through five years of infertility treatment and two years of waiting to adopt a child. Eight months after she adopted Jason, she found out she was pregnant with Jordan. Amazingly, these boys have looked almost like twins for much of their lives. As the boys have grown into young men, I cannot even tell them apart.
It was an extraordinary moment for Jason as he realized that his mom had totally forgotten he was adopted. He was simply her son, period. Ephesians 1:5 says that we have been adopted as sons through Jesus Christ. God has chosen us to be His own, adopted into His family, co-heirs with Christ. I think that God, like Debbie, probably forgets we’re adopted. He just sees us as His children.
Dear Abba Father, how precious it is that we can call You “Daddy.” Thank You for choosing me to be Your child. I am so grateful that |
Accounts of the cold fusion claims of the Czech-born electrochemist Martin Fleischmann, who has died aged 85, and his American- | French former student Stanley Pons often assert that their results could not be replicated. This implies that their original experiments, carried out at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in the 1980s were flawed. Cold fusion has since come to be commonly regarded as a delusion, but the true situation is more complicated.
The Fleischmann-Pons experiments were motivated by the idea that hydrogen fusion, the source of the sun's heat, which goes very slowly at ordinary temperatures, might go significantly faster if the nuclei involved were brought closer together, as when hydrogen is absorbed at high density in a material such as palladium. The project was more successful than anticipated: returning to the laboratory after one weekend, when the apparatus had been turned off, the pair found that so much heat had been produced that a large hole had been melted into the bench and concrete floor. As a precaution they reduced the scale of the experiment and announced their findings at a press conference in 1989.
While the original |
Netflix's new biopic about rock band Mötley Crüe is being torn apart by critics and has a 46% Rotten Tom | atoes critic score.
Indiewire's David Ehrlich compared it to "Bohemian Rhapsody," and said that it "could have been made about any one of a zillion other bands."
Brian Tallerico wrote for RogerEbert.com that the movie is something that the band wasn't: boring.
It looks like Netflix has its own mediocre music biopic on its hands, at least according to movie critics.
Netflix's "The Dirt," a biopic about rock band Mötley Crüe, debuted on the streaming giant on Friday, and has been torn apart by critics. It has a 46% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Here's how Netflix describes the movie: "In this unflinching biopic based on Mötley Crüe's best-selling book, four LA misfits navigate the monster highs and savage lows of music superstardom."
Indiewire's David Ehrlich called |
Americana duo Magnolia North are premiering their brand-new song "Into a Hole" exclusively for readers of The Boot -- and, | as a special treat, they're sharing a live performance of the song. Press play above to watch the pair play the bluegrass-tinged tune.
Country fans may recognize a familiar face in the video: Nashville up-and-comer Lindsay Lou lends her rich vocals and stand-up bass playing to "Into a Hole." Penned by band members Steve Foltz and Jennifer Middleton, the song also features fiddling from Melissa McGinley, guitarist James Dumm and Kevin Finn on drums, and is the first single from the band's self-titled debut album.
The song itself is a little bit of a study in contradictions, exploring the "highs and lows" of early love, according to Foltz: "A lot of the story has to do with each of our previous experiences. We decided to shape the music in the form of a country waltz, which kept a fun and light counterpoint to what could have been a heavy |
A new book about a young, female Army officer who routinely accompanied Ranger units on raids in Afghanistan is shining a light on a select group of American | women who have made history in modern warfare.
"Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield" focuses on 1st Lt. Ashley White, an incredibly physically fit soldier who joined the Special Operations Command Cultural Support Team effort in 2010.
The pilot program was designed to train women and have them serve with Army Ranger and other special operations direct-action units so they could gather battlefield intelligence by talking to Afghan women in situations where male soldiers had been unsuccessful.
White, a North Carolina National Guard member, served in the special unit until 2011 when she was killed during a night raid on a compound in Afghanistan where a Taliban weapons maker was known to live.
White died along with the senior Ranger leader, Sgt. 1st Class Kris Domeij, and Pfc. Christopher Horns when another Ranger triggered a daisy-chained improvised explosive device, detonating a series of devastating explosions, according to the book.
"Ashley |
Towards the end of 2013, we told you that a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite release date in 2014 was a real possibility and was one | of the planned announcements at CES 2014. While we are yet to see an official announcement on the ‘Lite’ version just yet, it looks like it is coming soon since we now know what the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite US price will be.
If you thought the Nexus 7 2013 model was unbeatable value at $230, you may be blown away by what Samsung may be preparing to unleash in the next few months. The Galaxy Tab 3 Lite is definitely coming and whispers from Taiwan suggest that the US price is going to be just $130 on the market.
That is a seriously low price you have to agree, especially with Samsung planning to upgrade some of the features from the standard Galaxy Tab 3. Although not set in stone yet, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3 Lite specs may include a 1.2Ghz Cortex A9 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 3 megapixel rear camera and a bump up to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Remember that the |
SPRINT legend Usain Bolt has put his money where his mouth is. And he wants others to follow suit.
After the Usain | Bolt Foundation yesterday committed $1 million toward Jamaica's participation at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in the United Arab Emirates in March, he is encouraging other sporting figures and corporate Jamaica to lend support.
Speaking at the Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) offices at Independence Park, Bolt, 32, also announced that at his request, sports goods company Puma, which has a long-standing endorsement deal with the retired Olympian, has agreed to outfit the Jamaica team at the Games.
“I always try my best to play my part because I know how hard it is to not have it. When we got the request to give back to Special Olympics Jamaica it was an easy decision for the foundation to make,” Bolt said during his short speech.
“I urge the private sector to also come on board and give what you can because it something good — for special needs.
“We know as athletes what we go through, especially coming up — not having [running |
For all of the hype surrounding "Lob City" and the bevy of highlights Chris Paul and Blake Griffin have produced since joining forces in Los | Angeles, playoff success hasn’t been a byproduct.
The Clippers are taking aggressive measures to go deeper in the postseason this year.
Danny Granger is likely to make his debut for Los Angeles on Saturday night as it tries to beat the visiting New Orleans Pelicans for the second time this week.
The Clippers (40-20) have been one of the NBA’s top regular-season teams after acquiring Paul prior to the 2011-12 season, ranking fifth with a 136-72 record since. However, they were swept out of the conference semifinals by San Antonio in 2012 and eliminated in the first round by Memphis last year.
Los Angeles appears to be all in to advance further this season. The Clippers signed Granger on Friday, two days after his contract was bought out by Philadelphia following his trade from Indiana. They also added Glen Davis on Monday, further bolstering their bench.
Granger ranked ninth in the league in scoring from 2008-09 through 2010-11, |
Mini E (2008) The Mini E program marked the first time BMW offered an EV to the public. More than 600 hit the road in the | United States and Europe in what was essentially a real-world EV R&D program for the technology. Based on the diminutive hatch that proved Americans would pay a premium for a plush compact car, BMW throttled that mindset by requiring early adopters to shell out $850 a month (which did include a charge station and insurance) for the privilege of driving this rolling testbed. But with a 35 kWh lithium-ion battery pack taking up all the trunk room, even the 200-hp electric motor was barely enough to motivate this 3,600-pound retromobile. Lithium-ion battery packs were finally implemented, boosting range and performance in the process, and special charging stations available to owners were able to top up the cells in around three hours to provide a theoretical range of 155 miles (real-world use was closer to 100 miles). The data it gleaned from these field trials began to prove the efficacy of EVs as day-to-day vehicles, and nearly all this tech |
Egyptian police have exchanged fire with armed men as they search for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sh | arm al-Shaikh.
The Monday firefight with bedouin men erupted in the mountainous interior of the Sinai peninsula about 30km from the scene of Saturday's attacks on the coast, security officials said.
It came after police surrounded the nearby villages of Khurum and Rweissat in overnight raids, they said.
"Two Pakistanis had been staying there, and it is suspected that the bombs were assembled in this area," an intelligence source said.
Pictures of the six Pakistanis believed to have entered Egypt in early July were distributed to police stations in the Sharm al-Shaikh area after the attacks, which followed other bombings in Sinai resorts in October.
Their passports were found in an unspecified Sharm al-Shaikh hotel, police said, adding that one of them might have died in the deadly bombings, but stressing that the Pakistanis were not necessarily the bombers.
Pakistani authorities said they had yet to be approached by their |
Latest top 500 ranking of the speedy machines includes old favorites like IBM's BlueGene/L, plus a few surprises.
It was November 2000 | when the first supercomputer passed 4 teraflops, or 4 trillion calculations per second. Now, that's the minimum requirement to even show up on the latest version of a list of the 500 fastest machines.
Supercomputing, which pits the highest-end machines against challenges such as forecasting the global climate in coming decades or finding oil reservoirs underground, is a fast-changing field. The Top500 list, released twice annually at supercomputing conferences, has the most turnover compared with the preceding list yet, according to the researchers who compile it.
Many systems on the newest Top500 ranking, set to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, weren't on the list at all when the last one was released in November 2006.
But one familiar supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the Top500 List of Supercomputers with 131,072 processors, staying far ahead of its closest competitors |
As a long-time critic of the Bowl Championship Series system, this must be said. The BCS, in the final year of existence, | will get it right this season. In one corner, undefeated Florida State. The Seminoles completed an undefeated regular season run through the ACC and finished it off with a dominating performance against undermanned Duke in the ACC Championship Game Saturday afternoon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In the other corner, representing the seven-time BCS champion conference known to us all as the SEC, the Auburn Tigers. Despite the string of national success established by the SEC over the better part of the past decade, the pressure is on for Auburn to keep the streak alive. They will do so as an underdog, but perhaps they embrace that mentality and thrive when doubt is cast upon them. See Alabama and Missouri.
This year, the BCS got it right. Few will question if the best two teams are playing for the championship this season.
Florida State ripped through every opponent placed in front of them and had redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston put together a near-certain Heisman Trophy season. When faced |
It was about 7:30 Thursday morning when Defense Secretary Jim Mattis decided he needed to see his Commander in Chief.
He was "livid | " at the notion that the US was betraying an ally, two defense officials said. A military man of 40 years, Mattis felt President Donald Trump's stunning decision the previous day to pull US troops out of Syria undercut the cardinal rule of never leaving a friend on the battlefield.
The Turkish Defense Minister was already threatening to level a brutal assault on US-backed Kurdish allies and put them "in ditches" once the US pulled out. The remark set Mattis off. He had spent months trying to convince Trump that withdrawal was a bad idea and was now seeing early signs of what it could mean to US allies in the region.
A little past 3pm, Mattis was in the Oval Office, trying one last time to get Trump to change his mind about Syria. The meeting didn't last very long. The President refused to budge, and so Mattis made the only remaining choice he felt he had left— he pulled out a two-page letter he'd brought with him and resigned on |
Eagles' scoring drive was 4 plays-75 yards. It was their first TD drive of fewer than 8 plays this season.
That was | Zach Ertz's second red-zone TD catch in as many games. Had none in the Eagles' first 4 games.
That sack was his Destiny.
Destiny Vaeao with a sack. First sack since 2016, when he had two.
Destiny Vaeao with a sack! First in two years. No way the #Eagles lose.
I'm starting to think Jake Elliott has fixed whatever flaws he was having on extra points.
That body slam on Carson should have had that dude kicked out of the game!!!!
Another blatant cheap shot from the Giants.
If I had an Amazon Prime subscription I'd put on the British commentators. I know Derek Rae and Tommy Smyth from soccer... and some of you may know Smith is the Union's color guy.
This just in: The officials are allowed to call Roughing the Passer on the Eagles' opponents.
Disney with another version of Aladdin? Robin Williams stole the movie in the animated |
The replacement refs are gone, done in by their eagerness to call fouls as if they were getting paid for each one. The traveling | rule has been clarified, too, so LeBron James doesn't have to think twice when he takes off for a dunk from the top of the key.
The NBA is even trying to show fans what a foul really is, as if anyone can tell the difference.
A new season tips off Tuesday with the Lakers receiving their championship rings and teams around the NBA looking for ways to sell more tickets in a difficult economy. There's excitement about a new openness in the game itself, and a curiosity over whether the pairing of James and Shaquille O'Neal might turn out as magical as it seems.
But there's also the reality that too many conversations about the NBA tend to begin and end with the officiating. Even in an age of advanced technology, the last few minutes of too many games are decided by either fouls or non-calls that even the referees seem to have trouble explaining.
So the last thing the NBA needed was a preseason dominated by referees, no matter that |
Last week, a portion of Charlotte Street near A1A Ale works, became an archaeological excavation, something required before street work begins.
That | 's where the team discovered between five to six bone fragments, dating back hundreds of years.
"We found a radius and a small piece of skull," said Mischa Johns, a St. Augustine archaeologist.
Johns says they are remains from a very old church cemetery known as Nuestra Senora De Los Remedios, which was around between the years 1572 and 1702.
She says the bones likely belonged to Europeans of Spanish origin.
Problem is, Johns says the bones are so fractured from an 1880's gas line project, they can only narrow the age of the bones down to that more than 100 year time frame.
She says it's difficult to say what else they may find.
"We may find many more, we may find nothing else. We're not really sure what the boundaries of the cemetery was, so we don't know where we're going to get out of it and no longer find anything like that," said Johns.
John |
London: World stocks dipped towards the previous session’s four-week lows on Tuesday as investors continued to fret over the early removal of government | stimulus, particularly in the financial sector.
Positive US manufacturing and home sales data buoyed US stocks on Monday but investors worry that signs of recovery will lead governments to cut economic and fiscal support, a fear that has contributed to a reversal of equities’ seven-month rally.
CIT Group INC, a US lender to hundreds and thousands of small and medium-sized businesses, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, underscoring the continuing fragility of parts of the financial sector.
European shares hit four-week lows as poor results from Swiss bank UBS and a shake-up of UK banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland rattled investors.
Lloyds launched a record £13.5 billion ($22 billion) rights issue and along with RBS agreed to sell off businesses as part of a complex deal to limit reliance on government support.
“UBS just posted ugly results that bode ill for European bank results and CIT just filed for bankruptcy. |
China plans to make a big show of its newly developed naval capabilities, which include nuclear submarines and destroyers, at a parade marking 70 years of | its navy’s founding. Ten countries -- including India, Russia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam -- will deploy 20 vessels to join the naval parade. China is expected to parade 32 vessels and 39 aircraft as part of its plan to flex naval muscle.
Pompeo said the US has continuously cautioned that ballistic missile and SLV launches by Iran have a destabilising effect on the region and beyond. France, Germany, the UK and many other nations have also expressed deep concern. Recently, Iran's ministry of defence announced plans to launch three SLVs soon.
After abandoning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US President Donald Trump is trying to force Tehran to quash not only its nuclear ambitions and its ballistic missile programme but its support for militant proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East.
The sleek single-stage missile was launched on Tuesday from a mobile launcher from launch pad 4 of the integrated test range (ITR). The launch of the surface-to |
Liberals and conservatives alike harshly criticized a new Obama administration policy designed to make it harder for the government to hamper lawsuits against it by invoking a | “state secret” claim, and even the support from privacy-rights groups was tepid and cautious.
From one side, civil-liberties advocate and best-selling author Glenn Greenwald called the new policy merely cosmetic and a continuation of “the very Bush/Cheney policies” that President Obama criticized. From the other, Sept. 11 families activist Debra Burlingame said even those changes would encourage jihadist lawsuits and chill counterterrorism operations.
Such privacy-advocacy groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center said the new rules looked good, but said the Obama administration still needed to deliver concrete results - by dropping its support for several Bush-era invocations of the privilege in court and by pushing through Congress a permanent law on the matter.
On Wednesday, the Obama administration appeared to vindicate such longstanding liberal criticisms by invoking the state-secret privilege to urge U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker to toss a |
RUGBY PARK legend Ally Mitchell fears his beloved Kilmarnock are doomed unless everybody starts to pull in the right direction.
The | Killie favourite admitted it breaks his hearts to see his old club in their current predicament.
Manager Jim Jefferies is on the verge of exiting, the club are £9 million in debt, bang in the middle of a relegation dogfight and there is unrest in the dressing room towards chairman Michael Johnston.
Mitchell knows it is a recipe for disaster and is a far cry from his days when Killie lifted the Scottish Cup and were European regulars.
Kilmarnock are in a perilous position and they need to get everything sorted out, a worried Mitchell admitted.
‘’I think everyone knows the consequences of the club if they were to drop into the First Division especially financially.Scottish football certainly can t afford to lose a team of Kilmarnock s standing.
Killie chairman Johnston admitted the club could go to the wall if they were relegated and didn t have the full backing of the banks.
Mitchell admitted:’’ I saw |
Low-tech fixes are intended to increase accountability of workers and add backup systems to prevent mistakes in animal care, which had contributed to the deaths of | four monkeys.
Advice for Joseph Kennedy III from someone who has worked in the Fourth Congressional District since 1970.
The NCAA is fond of talking about its student-athletes, but MIT’s basketball team, which is playing Friday in the Division III Final Four for the first time, truly lives that dual role.
Software developers say the iPad’s new video screen will let them present images with richness and clarity that will rival the look of ink on paper.
The Boston Teachers Union launched a media blitz in hopes of convincing the public to side with them in tense contract negotiations over pay.
A community planning group will ask the Cambridge City Council to call for changes in Google Inc.’s plans for an urban campus in Kendall Square.
President Hamid Karzai insisted Thursday that the US confine its troops to major bases in Afghanistan by next year, as the Taliban declared they were suspending peace talks.
The Commodores fought off the final surge by the |
No Canadian tennis player has ever won a Grand Slam singles title, with Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic coming closest by reaching | the Wimbledon final in 2014 and 2016 respectively. But that statistical quirk could change in the near future. That’s because three of the most exciting prospects in world tennis all happen to be teenagers from Canada: Bianca Andreescu, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov. With all of them still going strong at Indian Wells this week, Tennis Podcast presenters David Law (BT Sport, BBC 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Amazon Prime Video) take a look at what makes each of them special.
Denis Shapovalov is the best-known of the trio, having beaten Rafael Nadal in 2017 and achieved a career-high ranking inside the Top 25. His form plateaued last year, but the early signs are good in 2019. He was one of only two players to take a set off Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, and it looks as though he’s beginning to mould the components of his game and |
TORONTO, Feb 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- TORONTO, Feb. 19, | 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hudbay Minerals Inc. ("Hudbay" or the "company") (TSX, NYSE:HBM) today released its fourth quarter and full year 2018 financial results and production and cost guidance for 2019. All amounts are in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise noted.
Operating cash flow before change in non cash working capital decreased to $107.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2018 from $171.9 million in the same quarter of 2017. The decrease is due mainly to lower realized prices and sales volumes for copper and zinc, partially offset by higher molybdenum concentrate sales volumes. In the fourth quarter of 2018, cash generated from operating activities was $137.3 million, which increased from $129.4 million in the same period of 2017 as cash flows from changes in non-cash working capital more than offset the factors described above. Net loss and basic and diluted loss per share in the |
JAMAL Fyfield’s 93rd-minute winning goal clinched a thrilling 3-2 victory for York City at Blue Square | Bet Premier play-off rivals Grimsby last night.
During a rampant performance that ranked alongside any this season from Gary Mills’ men, it looked like the visitors might pay for a host of missed chances when goals from Jamie Reed and Chris Smith were cancelled out by Anthony Elding and Michael Coulson.
But left-back Fyfield, who had been at fault for the Mariners’ first goal, struck from the edge of the box in front of a delirious away end.
The result was Grimsby’s first defeat in ten league games at Blundell Park.
Mills’ team, meanwhile, have entered the Bootham Crescent history books in belting style – an 11th league game unbeaten on the road breaking a record set during the 1973/4 season.
City made three changes to the side that started Saturday’s 1-0 FA Trophy semi-final, first leg win over Luton with top scorer Jason Walker |
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA -- They are the giants of the orchestra, the tall, fat guy with the deep voice stuck in the | back.
String Bass is not a glamor instrument.
they don't get much of a turn at the melody.
Solos are few and far between says Dr. Anthony Stoops, Bass professor at the University of Oklahoma.
"Although the secret is that we lead without anyone really knowing it," he smiles.
But once a year kids who play the bass come from all over Oklahoma and even Texas to take part in something another bass teacher, Mark Osborn, thought might be a good idea years ago.
Mark Osborn, who teaches strings in Norman Public Schools, recalls, "There was a need for some bass instruction on the middle school and high school levels.
The annual Oklahoma Bass Bash started in 2004 with fewer than 20 junior and high school kids.
This year there are 40.
Luke Campbell still remembers Mr. Osborn trying to talk him out of learning to play.
Luke, an 8th grader says, "Mr. Osborn asked |
Shalane Flanagan has options, lots of them.
It's been two weeks since Flanagan became the first U.S. woman | in 40 years to win the New York City Marathon, and Flanagan is beginning to think about what is next.
She could retire at 36 as one of the most accomplished distance runners in U.S. history, having made four Olympics teams, won an Olympic silver medal and 18 U.S. championships in addition to the NYC title.
She could start a family. Already co-author of a cookbook that landed on the New York Times Best Seller's list, with another cookbook on the way, she could turn to publishing.
Or Flanagan could continue training and competing with the Portland-based, Nike-sponsored Bowerman Track Club and take aim at the Boston Marathon, a race that she grew up following as a child in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
She even could make a run at a fifth Olympic team and another medal.
"It's important to me from here on out to spend time on the things that are really important to me, that give me |
The backlash against internet and hi-tech stocks claimed another high profile victim yesterday when the Japanese electronics group Fujitsu abandoned plans for the £5bn | stock market flotation of its British subsidiary ICL.
Keith Todd, ICL's chief executive, has resigned after insisting for the past two years that the business would refloat in 2000 come what may.
Mr Todd ended a 13-year association with the company on Friday by clearing his desk after the Fujitsu-dominated ICL board decided to postpone the flotation "indefinitely".
"In the light of Keith Todd's close identification with the flotation of ICL, he had tendered his resignation as chief executive," a statement from ICL said.
ICL would have been one of the stock market's largest listed technology companies but now finds itself placed amid a growing band of hi-tech businesses suffering as a result of the sharp turn in investors' sentiment.
As recently as May Mr Todd was maintaining that the flotation of ICL would go ahead and that "substantive" businesses would not be affected by the market correction.
A statement from |
As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president.
According to James B. Comey, Trump hoped that the then | -FBI director would find a way to drop his investigation of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn and help blow away “the cloud” concerning the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. When Comey didn’t, Trump changed Comey — right out of a job.
“You’re fired,” the apprentice-president bravely conveyed to Comey via the very news media he so abhors, except when he doesn’t. Was Trump’s “hope” a “direction,” as Comey testified Thursday that he took it to mean? As in, The Don hopes ol’ Jimmy does the “right” thing? Or was it simply hope? As in, good golly, I hope it doesn’t rain this weekend?
If one were a young child, one might go for the weather-forecast interpretation — because what child wants it to rain on his or her parade? |
Nokia has updated its camcorder-focused mobile phone with a new N93i version. Pocket-lint was given the chance to | have a play with the new mobile phone at CES 2007.
The good news is, from the offset that the N93i is considerably smaller than its predecessor the Nokia N93. That's not to say it isn't still on the large side, but at least it now has some chance of fitting in your jeans pocket rather than you having to rely on carrying it in a separate bag.
For all intents and purposes the design and form factor are the same as before. The phone is structured around a hinge at the top of the device, which also stores the 3.2 megapixel digital camera and swivelling the phone from this point gives you access to the phones features.
On the one swivel is the 2.4in screen and on the other is the keypad. Additionally there is a joystick on the outside of the phone (in a very similar position to the Sayno Xacti range) and this offers video control and zoom features. There is also |
City court judges across New York state will receive a scheduled pay increase this week, boosting their annual compensation from $175,500 to $187, | 200.
Among them is embattled Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio, who remains on probation for a drunken driving conviction and has not been hearing cases since her February 2016 arrest.
The raises, which went into effect April 1, were enacted by a state commission on judicial compensation in 2015, which recommended salary increases to be rolled out over the years that followed.
Astacio was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. A state trooper testified he found Astacio's SUV on the side of Interstate 490 near Mt. Read Boulevard with extensive front-end damage and both driver's side tires flat. She was found guilty of driving while intoxicated after a bench trial in August 2016.
She was subsequently sentenced to three years of probation in July 2017 after being found to have violated terms of the original sentence to her drunken driving conviction, which was a one-year conditional discharge. Her efforts to appeal the terms of her probation were unsuccessful.
State Supreme Court Justice Craig Doran, the administrative judge for |
A leading NATO official has said that Turkey will face “consequences” if it purchases a Russian air-defense system.
� | �The principal of sovereignty obviously exists in acquisition of defense equipment, but the same way that nations are sovereign in making their decision, they are also sovereign in facing the consequences of that decision,” said Gen. Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, on Oct. 25 during a Washington meeting with a group of reporters hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
Pavel said Russian missiles cannot integrate with the NATO systems.
NATO-ally Turkey is not seeking to antagonize the U.S.-led alliance by purchasing Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles and is in talks with France and Italy to buy similar weapons, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an on Oct. 9 interview with Reuters.
Ankara’s decision to buy the Russian system has been seen in some Western capitals as a snub to the alliance, given tensions with Moscow over Ukraine and Syria, while the deal raised concern because the weapons cannot be |
Pakistan's powerful military is likely to continue its hostile approach towards India, including supporting terror activities in J&K, if Khan's PTI wrest | s power as it is projected to.
NEW DELHI: There is very little possibility of any improvement in New Delhi's ties with Islamabad if Imran Khan becomes Pakistan's prime minister as he has been "propped" by the Pakistani military, politicians and strategic affairs experts here said today.
Pakistan's powerful military is likely to continue its hostile approach towards India, including supporting terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir, if Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) wrests power as it is projected to, they said.
The flamboyant cricketer-turned-politician, 65, is set to become the next prime minister of Pakistan with his PTI emerging as the single largest party, but falling short of a majority.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and several other parties have questioned the outcome of the election results, alleging vote-rigging in favour of Khan by |
I have been on vacation in Hawaii this week waiting for the hurricane. It missed us but apparently hit the Oscars instead.
Sitting in my | beach cabana I made calls and sent emails to see if the perspective from Academy members matched the social media firestorm — and I mean firestorm — aimed at the Oscar’s additions. A new category for “Popular” film; a two-week move backward in the calendar; the telecast downsizing of some undetermined below the line categories.
On the surface I would say the Board Of Governors’ vote at Tuesday night’s meeting is a brilliant way to answer all the criticism aimed at the Oscar show, at once. What’s so bad about a new category that reflects movies ABC’s viewers actually see, OR promising a streamlined three-hour telecast not bogged down by speeches from people you have never heard of, OR shortening the endless awards season to make the Oscars a little more relevant? Isn’t this exactly what the complainers have complained about? But the way things have been going, you just had to |
Assessing The Damage After Hurricane Matthew Hits Haiti Hundreds of people were killed and thousands displaced after Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti this week. Washington Post Mexico City | bureau chief Joshua Partlow speaks from Les Cayes, Haiti.
Hundreds of people were killed and thousands displaced after Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti this week. Washington Post Mexico City bureau chief Joshua Partlow speaks from Les Cayes, Haiti.
We're going to turn now to Haiti where people are still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew which made landfall there on Monday. Tens of thousands of people were displaced because their homes were destroyed. The death toll is in the hundreds and is growing. U.N. officials are calling it Haiti's worst humanitarian crisis since the earthquake that struck six years ago. We wanted to hear more, so we reached Joshua Partlow. He's Mexico City bureau chief for The Washington Post, but he was able to get to Les Cayes, Haiti, which is on the south on the Caribbean coast. Joshua, thanks so much for joining us.
MARTIN: So what is the extent of the damage that you've seen so far? And we're hearing |
Magnus Carlsen, the world chess champion, has a great capacity for putting people at ease. Flight delays have made me an hour late, | but there he is at the top of the stairs of his Oslo home, holding open the door and saying: “It’s all right, I understand.” Yet this is, probably, the greatest player in the game, mobbed by screaming fans wherever he goes and in such commercial demand that his black cotton jacket is a veritable advertising billboard. On one breast is the logo of a law firm, on another an investment bank, on one arm an electrical company, and on the other a prominent Oslo newspaper — just some of the deals that earn him about £1m a year.
His house is a curious blend of styles. From a distance the heavy, gently sloping wooden roof and well-supported eaves suggest a traditional Swiss-style chalet. Yet the house, which has thick concrete walls, was built just 40 years ago by a Norwegian entrepreneur who was in the concrete business. Situated in Holmenkollen, in the west of Oslo, it |
They keep piling on Albert Haynesworth.
Yes, they sure do. But we’ve found even more reasons for Haynesworth | to show up at training camp for the Washington Redskins in a little more than a month. There is someone else coming after him for money – his ex-wife Stephanie wants what should legally be hers.
Unable to meet his obligations on the field for the Redskins – Haynesworth skipped mandatory minicamp earlier this month – he allegedly hasn’t met his obligations off the field either. This comes as no surprise, not with a Tennessee bank suing Haynesworth for defaulting on a $2.38 million loan and a New York stripper coming after him for million after he allegedly got her pregnant and promised to take care of her. Oh yeah, then there is the Tennessee man suing Haynesworth for a wreck he alleges Haynesworth caused in his Ferrari that left him partially paralyzed. Corey Edmonson is going after Haynesworth for multiple millions of dollars.
Haynesworth’s divorce was finalized in January, according to the Associated Press, and Stephanie Hay |
For would-be parents who are unable to have children without medical assistance, one possible option is to use an egg donor. This method involves a | donor anonymously giving her eggs to an infertile patient to help them give birth. But after undergoing the (sometimes tough) decision to have fertility treatment, hopeful-moms-to-be are faced with a second question: “Will my kid look like me?” Ovobank, a pioneering egg bank in Spain, has a high-tech answer to the conundrum — and it involves using facial recognition to match up patients to similar-looking donors.
Until now, this process was achieved by looking at the patient’s phenotypical characteristics — referring to their height, hair color, eye color, and skin color. The facial matching part was then a subjective decision made based on the doctor’s choices. What Ovomatch offers instead is a facial-recognition matching algorithm, which allows the patient to find their idea donor by snapping a quick selfie through a mobile app.
After this process is carried out, the app sends out two reports: One |
As we all know, content that takes forever to load will increase your site’s bounce rates, decrease your conversions, and undeniably scar your | bottom line. And by “forever” I mean more than a few seconds. A recent study by KISS Metrics found that page abandonment rates increase drastically after a load time of just four seconds or more.
The greater the physical distance between your users and the host servers where the content is stored, the more likely it is they’ll experience slow load times. If your site is heavy with visual content and has a national or multi-national audience, your content delivery challenges increase. You need to be able to store your content locally to ensure fast load times and positive user experience. But how?
The answer is to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Image and video optimization platform, Cloudinary today announced a multi-CDN feature that routes users to different CDNs based on geography, server load, and other parameters, ensuring quick media load time.
A CDN is a network of servers that deliver web content based on the geographic location of the |
Cisco, Dell EMC and HPE’s collective hold on the $11bn cloud infrastructure market appears to be weakening, as the | public cloud providers’ use of original design manufacturers’ (ODM) datacentre hardware continues to grow.
Synergy Research Group’s first quarter look at the cloud infrastructure sector tracks how sales of the hardware and software used to kit out hyperscale datacentres are faring, as the demand for public cloud services continues to grow.
Its findings suggest the traditional, big-name legacy technology suppliers are finding their share of the market increasingly under siege from the ODM (or white-label) supplier community, as the hyperscalers favour lower-cost, commodity hardware to kit out their server farms.
As such, Synergy’s research shows the ODM manufacturers are growing their share of the public cloud infrastructure market by around five percentage points a year, and now account for around 30% of the overall market.
As direct result, the opportunities available to the likes of Cisco, Dell-EMC and HPE to grow their collective share of the |
OLSON: For Brother David, it is grateful living that makes everything come alive.
BROTHER DAVID STEINDL-RAST, | OSB: The practice of gratefulness that I’m concerned with is grateful living. That means every moment of your life you practice gratefulness. You practice awareness that everything is gift, everything is gratuitous, and if it’s all given, gratuitously given, then the only appropriate response is gratefulness What we really want is joy. We don’t want things. We don’t want to accumulate things. We forget that, and so gratefulness can help us see that, can help us realize that.
OLSON: Though Brother David acknowledges there are many things for which we cannot be grateful, he encourages people to be open to the opportunity being given in every situation.
BROTHER DAVID: We cannot be grateful for war. That’s an unmitigated evil. We cannot be grateful for exploitation, for untimely death. But we can be grateful in every situation. The key word is “opportunity. |
TAMPA – Joshua Heiman might be a 10th-grader at Jesuit High School, but he’s already proving himself to | be a mover and shaker in Northwest Hillsborough County.
Heiman is the president of the Leader’s Club at the Northwest Hillsborough Family YMCA – having won out over three other candidates – and is the only student on the YMCA advisory board.
Heiman, who carries an almost straight-A grade point average at Jesuit, is responsible for running the YMCA Leaders Club, where the group formulates activities for community improvement, and he is looking for ideas to get teenagers more involved in the area.
Even if Heiman is the youngest person on the board, he doesn’t plan to just sit around and listen. He knows he is there to represent the teens of the YMCA, which he visits once or twice a week.
One of Heiman’s tasks is to help raise money through fundraisers and other community events involving the Leaders Club. Another is to provide volunteers for YMCA events, including Family Fun |
The world recently lost a colossal intellectual figure. The name of Professor Adebayo Adedeji resounds in critical places across the globe where | issues of regionalism, economic ideologies, engaged public administration and national and continental development constitute discourses that affect and transform lives, especially if these lives are Africans and Nigerians. In this sense, the whole of the African continent is left to mourn at a different level of loss. This is so because in the late Professor Adedeji, Africa had one solid pan-Africanist whose thinking and activities were even more solidly tied in with the postcolonial predicament and promises of the continent. Professor Adebayo Adedeji was an intellectual of many parts. He was also a Nigerian, and this was demonstrated in the seamless ways in which he was able to articulate the Nigerian economic predicament through an understanding of the larger continental debacle. This is one of the few scholars who were able to tie together the national in the regional. It is in this sense that he was both an African and a Nigerian, without any sense of contradiction involved in his fight for the economic betterment of both.
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Being told not to mention the Jussie Smollett case did not stop funnyman Chris Rock from blasting the embattled "Empire" actor at | the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night.
Smollett had claimed in January that he was attacked by two people who made racial and homophobic slurs and allegedly put a rope around his neck. He was later arrested by the Chicago Police Department for staging the attack, but the criminal charges were dropped by a prosecutor earlier this week.
Rock’s comments were met with laughter from the Dolby Theatre audience in Los Angeles. He continued by asking “what the hell” Smollett was thinking.
Smollett, nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, lost to Jesse Williams of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Smollett did not attend the 50th annual awards.
Anthony Anderson said he was happy that the charges were dropped and had hoped that Smollett would attend the awards.
“I’m happy for him that the system worked for him in his favor because the system isn’t always fair, especially |
Schools in Gavin Elementary District 37 will receive a host of life-safety repairs as voters backed a referendum proposal to fund the projects.
Un | official totals showed 1,598 "yes" votes, or 61 percent, to 1,026 "no" votes, or 39 percent, to support the measure.
District 37 in Ingleside was seeking voter approval to sell $6 million in building bonds to fund life-safety repairs and improvements at Gavin South Middle School on Route 134 and Gavin Central Elementary School on North Ridge Road over 20 years.
The work would included repairing or replacing aging roofs, asphalt parking lots, a boiler, chillers, improving science labs and extending air conditioning. Adding more secure building entrances at both schools is also on the project list. District officials said the items to be replaced or repaired are at the end of their useful lives. For example, officials said the Gavin Central roof is 20 years old and starting to leak and the 40-year-old backup boiler at Gavin South doesn't work.
The vote signals a change of heart after voters rejected a spring ballot proposal to borrow the money by establishing a " |
Zeppelin opened earlier this week in Shaw, bringing the neighborhood a karaoke bar that boasts sushi sourced from the Toyosu Fish Market in | Tokyo and yakitori skewers cooked over Japanese charcoal.
The restaurant will showcase around 30 varieties of seasonal wild caught fish and shellfish via nigiri, sashimi, and maki rolls. An early sampling includes Pacific mackerel, Japanese amberjack, sea bass, and golden eye snapper.
Partners Adrian Williams, Ari Wilder, and Micah Wilder also own Chaplin’s, the always-packed ramen spot down the street. They teamed up with revered sushi chef Minoru Ogawa for the new two-story project a few blocks north (1544 9th Street NW).
To accommodate Ogawa’s preferences, the group installed a negative 100-degree freezer that will preserve fish and keep fat intact while Ogawa ages cuts on-site. It’s the same kind of freezer used in transit from Japan.
Zeppelin’s chef frequently imports fish from Tokyo’s famed fish market.
Shrimp |
While most investors are biting their nails over the eurozone's potential unraveling and a worldwide recession, contrarian investors are seeing opportunity in Europe.
| The legendary Baron Rothschild, a great contrarian investor, reputedly recommended buying only when there was blood on the streets. There's not yet blood in Paris, but Greece has seen some rioting and bloodshed, and most observers believe the eurozone's troubles are far from over.
Financial adviser Kurt Brouwer, writing for MarketWatch, advises that this is indeed a good time buy certain European stocks. Brouwer recommends large European companies that do business outside Europe.
For instance, Nestle S.A. operates around the world. Around for 140 years, it has shown that it can survive tough times.
Novartis, a pharmaceutical firm, is another global company. It was formed when two large companies, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, merged in 1996. Their forerunners can be traced back to as early as 1758.
Royal Dutch Shell, the giant oil company, operates in 90 countries, and its predecessor originated in the 1800s.
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Buffett’s metaphors grab the reader’s attention and reduce complexity to a short sentence.
Take a page from the Warren Buffett | ’s annual letter to improve your communication style.
Analysts and Berkshire Hathaway shareholders look forward to reading Warren Buffett’s annual letter for its wit, wisdom, and insights. I enjoy it because I can always count on Buffett, a life-long student of communication, to use metaphorical references to explain complex financial topics. Once again, Buffett didn’t disappoint in his 2017 annual letter released on Saturday.
Buffett is frequently asked why 90% of his investments are made in the U.S. He answers in metaphor: “America’s economic soil remains fertile.” Buffett’s explanation could fill books, but in five words a metaphor allows him to communicate complexity, simply. And that’s the beauty of metaphor.
A metaphor is a literary device by which we describe one thing in terms of another, replacing the meaning of one word with another. Aristotle promoted the use of metaphor as an element of persuasion more than 2, |
DEAR SOS: For years I've been going to the Old World restaurant for their Veggie Burgers and love them. I've tried to | re-create them at home, with no success. Could you get the recipe for me?
DEAR SUZANNE: You and hundreds, perhaps thousands of readers have hankered for these extraordinary burgers made exclusively with vegetables and eggs, and so have we. We've tried for years to obtain a recipe to no avail. Finally, a recipe arrived from Old World Westwood in response to yet another "oh, what the heck" request. Now we can all rest assured the recipe is safely in our hands.
The recipe goes back to the peak of the health food movement some 20 years ago, when Dr. Robert Frank, a prominent Los Angeles dentist, opened Old World restaurant in an attempt to help teach consumers how to eat well nutritionally. The burger was a development of the idea that even burgers can and should be healthful. These vegetable burgers contain assorted nutrient-dense vegetables, nuts, eggs and even corn flakes for a nutrient-packed meal-in- |
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the British government struggled in the 1970s to combat the Irish Republican Army's growing terror campaign, it | had a secret tactic to undermine the IRA's efficiency, according to those interviewed for this report.
In the wake of the deaths of 234 people in 1972 alone, the British Army, according to the allegations, began recruiting Catholic Northern Irish soldiers to send home as deep cover agents.
In 1974, Willy Carlin says he was one such soldier.
"I served in the British army for nine years and was at the point where I needed to decide if I was leaving the army or signing on for the whole game, 22 years," says Carlin. "At that time I was approached by MI5 to go back to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the Republican movement and to do a job for them as a serving soldier I went back to Northern Ireland. It took a number of years to establish credibility within the Republican movement. Initially I just worked for Sinn Fein locally."
Carlin says he not only worked for Sinn Fein, the Republican political party believed to have links to the IRA, but |
The Australian flew into Heathrow at the weekend and was met by his brother Shannon, who is already a British resident. They motored up to | Leicestershire where Etheridge will be based this year, staying with his brother, who works for Triumph Motorcycles.
It is still over a month before Etheridge gets his first taste of track action but he is keen to get a feel for some of the tracks in the Premier League. And how quickly he adapts to some of the away circuits in the second tier could prove critical as Monarchs bid to win the championship crown for a third time in succession.
Etheridge told the Evening News: “I have arrived early in order to give myself plenty of time to get organised for my debut season in the UK. I’m going to take every opportunity afforded to me to get a spin on the other tracks before I get my chance around Armadale.
“I’m itching to get on my bike and get started and can’t wait to show Monarchs what I can do. They have given me a huge opportunity and I want |
SIR ALEX FERGUSON became frustrated with the commercial nature of Manchester United in his last years there as a manager.
That is | according to former Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal.
Ferguson retired from United in 2013 after 27 years in charge, during which time he won 13 league titles, five FA Cups, four League Cups and two Champions League trophies.
His hand-picked successor, David Moyes, lasted only 10 months before he was given the boot for a terribly below-par season.
Van Gaal was selected by the United board to replace Moyes, arriving in Manchester with a wealth of experience at top European clubs.
The brash Dutchman was a constant source of entertainment for English football fans and the media - even if his football wasn’t.
Van Gaal instilled an insipid, possession-based style of football at Old Trafford, but was one of the most charismatic, provocative managers the Premier League has seen.
He did, however, struggle with the club’s white-collars, many of whom have no wealth of prior football experience.
Ed Woodward, |
On Monday night, two of my sons and I saw “Avatar.” Wow. Most movies don’t blow me away | , but this one did. For one thing, this was the first movie I’d ever seen in 3-D, and it was awesome.
On Monday night, two of my sons and I saw “Avatar.” Wow. Most movies don’t blow me away, but this one did.
For one thing, this was the first movie I’d ever seen in 3-D, and it was awesome.
One of my co-workers said she’s seen movies in 3-D, but this movie’s 3-D was better.
We sat in the front row, which I think added to the 3-D experience. I felt like I could grab the things that seemed to float near me, and once or twice I felt like ducking. It even felt like the bugs in the movie were buzzing around me. The entire movie, which lasted about three hours, was worth the $8 admission I paid |
REV. JESSE JACKSONJohns Hopkins University eye surgeons say they would be glad to examine singing sensation Stevie Wonder to find out | if he is a good candidate for a high-tech eye chip implant that could restore his sight.
The singer’s friend, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said the 49-year-old superstar deserves to see again, and noted the work Wonder has done to help the blind children of Africa.
“It would be a great note to end this millennium on,” Jackson told The Post yesterday.
Jackson was present when Wonder stunned mourners at a recent Detroit funeral by saying he plans to undergo the procedure, being developed by Dr. Mark Humayun of the Welmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
The new-age procedure involves implanting a microchip the thickness of a fingernail sliver in the retina, the light-sensitive portion of the eyeball. Light and images stimulate electrodes in the chip to send impulses to the brain.
So far, people tested with the device have been able only to pick out shapes and individual letters. |
Sorry, had to be done.
I like to think it is short for "your welcome will ensure your survival when the day of the j | ellipocalypse arrives"
I have visions of the legendary "The Thing" being remade...as a documentary.
I'm curious as to how it escaped the usual 'blobomination' tag.
The XXXXXXXL orange shirt with the initials F.A. on it.
Skrill from Earth: Final Conflict?
"They then dropped Medusoid into a container of saltwater and shocked it into swimming just like the real thing."
Please, please tell me the researchers then clasped their hands together and shouted: "It's alive!", before laughing maniacally.
I do love it when we get to read about the more fun research that is going on around the globe. There are plenty of future practical applications for this sort of tech, but for now, it is just great to know that someone somewhere is being given the budget to make stuff like this work!
..brigade will attempt to squash this idea before it goes an further. And |
It’s an obvious one, but President Higgins had an undeniably good week. From his very own town crier to Boris’s | home-made biscuits, Higgins’s State visit to the UK was a major success.
He made several speeches during the historic five-day trip, the first-ever State visit by an Irish president to Britain, including one at a banquet in Windsor Castle and another to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
He then raised a toast to “a creative cooperation and a sustainable partnership between our countries and our peoples; and to valued neighbours whose friendship we truly cherish”.
All eyes were on the PAC again this week as its cross-party members subjected Rehab executives to a seven-hour grilling about the group’s finances.
The Taoiseach loves a good photo op, so he was in his element while taking part in the State visit this week. Aside from donning his best dickie bow for the banquet at Windsor Castle, he got to sit beside former British Prime Minister John Major at a concert in the Royal Albert Hall.
The news that € |
Between iLife ’06 and ’08, the timeline view was removed from iMovie. Instead of being displayed in a timeline, the | video wraps around like text on a page. If you have iMovie ’11, there’s a way to get back the original timeline view, where the video is in one scrollable line.
Fire up iMovie ’11 and open up a project. The first thing you’re going to want to do is swap the project view and the events view so that the video you’re editing is along the bottom of the screen. To do this, click the ‘Swap Events and Projects’ button on the middle toolbar — it’s the one that looks a bit like a refresh button.
Once you’ve done that, there’s one more step. Just underneath the middle toolbar, on the right-hand side of the window, there’s a new button introduced in iMovie ’11 — it looks like a row of boxes. This is the ‘Single-Row View’ button. Click |
Cary, North Carolina, lies in the heart of the Tarheel State’s Research Triangle, an area that encompasses the campuses of | Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina as well as multiple private-sector research operations. A city of roughly 140,000, Cary is pretty high-tech in its own right, with almost 90 percent of its citizens having access to the Internet. Cary welcomes visitors and has a wide array of hotels to accommodate them.
This three-story, 140-unit Cary hotel is only 7.5 miles from center-city Raleigh and 22.5 miles from the heart of Durham. Each of its rooms and suites features cable/satellite TV, wireless Internet access, desk/work area, free local phone calls and clock radio. Other hotel amenities include a seasonal outdoor swimming pool, 24-hour exercise facility, complimentary breakfast, business center and laundry facilities.
This nine-story, all-suite hotel is only a short drive from both Research Triangle Park and the Weston Parkway Business District, where many of America’s largest companies have offices. Guests staying in |
Detectives are investigating a number of possibilities "everything from a single perpetrator to some type of gang activity" in the deaths of | 12 women and one fetus whose remains have been found on the Far Southwest Mesa during the past month, Police Chief Ray Schultz told the Journal this week.
n A man who strangled a prostitute in December 2006 and was fatally shot by her associate while he was trying to move the woman's body.
n A prisoner incarcerated in the state. Schultz would not say why the person was in prison.
n Someone who "had something against prostitutes" or who "thought they were doing the Lord's work by killing these people."
The chief didn't say whether some of those possibilities are simply theories or that they involve specific individuals. He continued to keep most details of the investigation close to the vest, including previous cases detectives are looking into and whether any other evidence has been found with the bones.
There are other leads, and police are keeping all possibilities open, the chief said.
The body count stands at 13, and police believe the dead adults may all have been women who lived a |
On the holiday HD sales front, there’s good news and bad news, and good news and bad news.
The good news is | that a lot of retailers reported larger crowds than anticipated on Black Friday and through at least part of the first official weekend of the holiday season, and some shoppers were buying at sharp discounts.
The bad news is that this heavy concentration of shopping could indicate that once the big discounts are gone (and at least some of them already have vanished), any big-ticket buying could stop fast. Both CNBC and ABC News report this week that while some of the crowds did not die down appreciably after Black Friday, some of the sales numbers did.
The other good news is that “estimated” sales in general (electronics, clothing, etc.) on Black Friday rose as much as 3 percent over last year’s Black Friday, according to ShopperTrak. But the bad news is that last year’s Black Friday represented an 8 percent jump over the previous year.
Specific sales data on HD/Blu-ray products are not yet known (nor will Black Friday |
Has it been confirmed where he pays his taxes, he might not come under the jurisdiction of the Japanese taxation authorities. We don't know the wording | of any contracts referring to his employment or the benefits he receives, or where those benefits are paid Everybody seems to have made up their minds about his guilt, how quickly he has been replaced at Nissan without even a conviction of any crime. The timing here, maybe the upcoming proposed merger, which Nissan was objecting to, could come into the equation.
Basically suspected of understating his income - a white collar crime? I guess that’s an arrestable offence in Japan unlike here but being in custody for up to three weeks doesn’t sound helpful either.
Japanese judicial system quite different to our own.
It has nothing to do with his taxes.
In Japan, high income earners like Ghosn, 50% of his income goes to tax. He might have thought his income was not enough for his work after tax. Ghosn is one of the top business managers in the world. Top athletes in MLB and NFL are getting more than him. When I |
When the Onion's groveling, sniveling Board of Directors approached me with the idea of hiring someone to act as supreme imperator of | all advertising-related matters, I was so shocked and enraged by their presumption that a fulminating cascade of bilious ichor shot forth from my nostrils. I appointed those spineless puppets to carry out my wishes, not to display any sort of initiative or independence what-so-ever!
However, once I had demoted my Director of Marketing to boot-black, I began to see that the idea had some merit. A supreme plenipotentiary of advertising would be extremely use-ful, after all, particularly if the man in question had the courage and backbone to kowtow to our advertisers at every opportunity, bravely sacrificing our journalistic standards to the slightest whim of any distiller, fried-meat purveyor, or slattern-clothier with enough capital to purchase space on our back page. That, if you ask me, is the sort of flexible, biddable leader this Republic is begging for!
Therefore, I am |
Whether we think trust in God is necessary or not, we can choose to trust one another and be confident in our best intentions.
Since I | write so much about religion and faith I don’t usually try to nail it down, no doubt because I have doubts there are firm definitions in these matters.
Charles offered one use of the word. He said, “I have faith you are a good person.” That use of the word is quite different, so we agreed to continue the conversation.
I appreciate that, but suspect that’s not what most people mean when they use the word faith.
He grew up thinking that faith and belief were attached to a particular religion. His thinking changed over the years as his questions increased and “the church didn’t seem to welcome my questions.” He felt that he lost his faith and stopped attending church.
Though I usually don’t use the word faith in the same way Charles does, I’m right with him on the way to “live faithfully” in the sense he describes.
There are a number |
You only have to worry about orange dog caterpillars in the larval stage.
Only in pest control will you find the following three words | strung together: orange dog caterpillar. Although the orange dog caterpillar (Papilio cresphontes Crame) might serve as one of mother nature’s grand irony’s, for it morphs into the beautiful swallow tail butterfly upon maturity, it’s no understatement to say this citrus-sucking, leaf-chewing pest has an appearance just as hideous as its name implies. With dirty-white mottled blotches that resemble bird droppings dripping off its light-brown body, the orange dog favors citrus trees, especially small specimens, and makes short work of their foliage. You can kill orange dog caterpillars the old-fashioned way, by crushing them, or by using a naturally occurring bacteria, such as bacillus thuringiensis.
Pull a suspect caterpillar from the tree and examine it to confirm you have an orange dog infestation. Orange dog caterpillars measure between 1-1/2 and 2 |
Secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, Jeremy Wright, promises to “do more” to increase broadband speed and mobile | coverage across the UK.
Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday (1 October), Wright highlighted the importance technology plays in the 21st century, but warned that everyone must be able to benefit from it.
The digital minister, who has only been in post for a few months following prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle, said he is proud of the party making superfast broadband available to 95% of premises, but added that it’s “not much comfort” for those 5% not covered.
“But technology is changing all the time and we must have infrastructure that can support whatever we will need in the future.
“That’s why we are investing in 5G mobile technology and developing what it can do,” said Wright, referring to the government’s plans for the West Midlands to become home to the UK’s first round of 5G trials, with connectivity hubs planned in Birmingham, Coventry |
Los Angeles Times sportswriter Andy McCullough talks with sports columnists Dylan Hernandez and Bill Plaschke as they break down the Dodgers' | World Series Game 2 loss.
Let's preface this with a reminder that Dave Roberts' decision-making process remains a mystery.
What's known is that Roberts receives input from Andrew Friedman's analytically inclined front office before games on the situations he might encounter and how he should respond. Less certain is the degree to which Roberts is expected to follow the blueprint.
Roberts says he has autonomy, but transparency is not a trademark of the Dodgers' organization.
The point is that Roberts might not be entirely responsible for the choices he has made in this World Series, which the Dodgers trail two games to none. Maybe Friedman, general manager Farhan Zaidi and the army of number crunchers employed by the Dodgers are equally at fault.
Except the details have become insignificant. Regardless of how the decisions are being made, they're not working.
The single-most important at-bat of the 4-2 defeat to the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 on Wednesday night |
Google began Project Ara in 2013 to create phones that users could upgrade or customize by adding or swapping out various modules.
Google's Project Ara smartphone | initiative, which began in 2013 with the concept of designing a phone platform that would incorporate a wide array of camera, audio and other modules as desired by users, has been suspended by the web giant.
The suspension of Project Ara was reported in a Sept. 2 story by Reuters, "as part of a broader push to streamline the company's hardware efforts," according to two sources who have knowledge of the decision. "The move marks an about-face for the tech company, which announced a host of partners for Project Ara at its developer conference in May and said it would ship a developer edition of the product this autumn," the story continued.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the report to eWEEK on Sept. 2 but declined further comment.
But while Google may not move forward with Project Ara on its own, "the company may work with partners to bring Project Ara's technology to market, potentially through licensing agreements," one of the sources told Reuters.
The Ara phones centered on a |
It turns out that the Association of US Catholic Priests, a group representing around 1,000 clerics, is meeting in St. Louis.
| The association will be voting on whether lay people could have more voice in the church. As well as how bishops are selected.
Although, the biggest issue will be whether the church will allow married men into priesthood. Many members believe celibacy should be optional for Catholic priests.
Well, I suppose any group can vote on any topic. But after the votes are counted, what happens next? Why not vote on who’s going to win the World Cup? That vote would be equally likely to determine the result.
Based on the pictures of the gathering available on other websites, they are on average elderly priests. How is it relevant if malformed 50's-60s-70s era priests don't agree with priestly celibacy? Young priests do not agree with them. They are not relevant within the Church, which is why they crave secular media to promote their message. It's not the norm for priests' groups to seek secular media publicity.
Wonder if such |
An infographic depiction of the epic battle between "Michael" and "Jacob"
When it comes to the most popular names for baby boys in the | United States, "Michael" long held sway. For most of the 1960s, and then on throughout the '70s and '80s (and almost all of the '90s!), the given name of Mssrs. Jackson and Jordan, Kors and J. Fox, was the most common in the land. And then, in 1999—probably under the influence of boredom and/or Y2K fears and/or Prince songs—Michael fell, ever so slightly, in the rankings. The go-to name for so many decades' worth of American boys was forced to give up its crown to the new name-leader: Jacob.
You may have seen the amazing GIF of the nation's most popular girls' names that Becca wrote about last week. Today, Deadspin's census data GIFmaster, Reuben Fischer-Baum, has published the male version of that image: a single GIF depicting the evolution—or the lack thereof—of American boys' names |
It used to be—back when the easiest superhero joke was to make fun of Adam West’s Batman—that everyone fretted over making | more realistic superheroes. Okay, I say “used to,” but we all know that the fear of making something campy has never, ever left most studios’ psyches. FX’s Legion, however, isn’t interested in avoiding capes and camp. It’s interested in avoiding violence as the only ending.
When I wrote the script I assumed it was set in present day and in our world, and I think the network assumed that too. Then when it came time to make it I thought about it more as a fable on some level and I realized I wanted to make something subjective. Which is to say this whole show is not the world, it’s David’s experience of the world. He’s piecing his world together from nostalgia and memory and the world becomes that. I found myself watching A Clockwork Orange and Quadrophenia and a lot of ’60s British films. Yet there are |
More than eight months have passed since the introduction of India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST), are form intended to revamp the | entire taxation system and stimulate economic growth. What’s more, existing economic initiatives, such as “Make in India”, are getting a boost from the new tax regime, at least for the most part.
What exactly is the “Make in India” initiative?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched “Make in India” on Sept. 25, 2014, with the primary goal of making India a global manufacturing hub by encouraging both multinational and domestic companies to design and manufacture products within the country. The initiative takes aim at increasing production capacity, stimulating job creation, and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) as well.
While the initiative has been successful in positioning India as a global investment destination, FDI surged even more with the introduction of GST, increasing FDI by more than 40 percent. Other aspects, both positive and negative, of the interplay between “Make in India” and GST are also coming to light. Let’s take |
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plunged headlong into the fall campaign Friday on a two-track mission to convince Americans that the GOP nominee is not | only the right man to fix the economy but an all-around leader for the nation. Romney, hoping to project an aura of leadership, surveyed storm damage in Louisiana and declared "people down here need help."
President Barack Obama made plans for his own visit to the Gulf on Monday. And the president served notice that he will use his powers of incumbency to make Romney's mission hard: He underscored his record as commander in chief by paying a visit to troops at Fort Bliss in Texas, exactly two years after declaring the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
"Today every American can be proud that the United States is safer, the United States is stronger and the United States is more respected in the world," Obama declared, a throng of soldiers in fatigues providing the backdrop.
Fresh from the Republican National Convention, Romney met up with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal south of New Orleans, his motorcade passing by flooded homes and submerged gas stations as residents stood |
No. 1 most overpaid actor of 2014: Adam Sandler brings in $3.20 for every dollar he is paid.
No. | 2 most overpaid actor of 2014: Johnny Depp brings in $4.10 for every dollar he is paid.
No. 3 most overpaid actor of 2014: Ben Stiller brings in $4.80 for every dollar he is paid.
No. 4 most overpaid actor of 2014: Ryan Reynolds brings in $4.90 for every one dollar he is paid.
Actor Adam Sandler has topped the annual list of Hollywood’s most overpaid actors for a second year in a row.
The “Waterboy” star only brings in $3.20 in profit for every dollar he is paid, according to the list compilers at Forbes magazine.
Coming in at number two is Johnny Depp, whose “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise has grossed $3.7 billion at the global box office, but other films including “The Lone Ranger” and “Dark Shadows” have fared terribly forcing Depp |
Opposition parties in South Africa are demanding an investigation.
The artists say that the rabbit is “their trademark”.
“ | There was nothing I could do. I was alone in a very dangerous situation,” Thamasanqa Jantjie has told a South African newspaper.
The deaf community in South Africa is outraged by the error.
Madiba will lie in state for three days in Pretoria where heads of state, celebrities and the general public will view the open casket.
The Gala fans backed their star striker and Emmanuel Eboue tonight.
The station has been criticised for its decision.
Up to 100 world leaders and 80,000 people are expected at the FNB Stadium today.
Here’s what else will happen in South Africa this week as the country says goodbye to its former leader.
Heads of state and government have been arriving ahead of tomorrow’s State Memorial Service. President Michael D Higgins is representing Ireland.
From inspiring a nation to Rugby World Cup success to his stunning appearance at the 2003 Special Olympics.
Freed from prison six |
For some, the term "free clinic" conjures up visions of a small, sparse, medical office with few accoutrements short of | an exam table, stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. United Way of the Virginia Peninsula's focus on Community Health has helped expand that vision through its support of two local state-of-the art free clinics providing primary and chronic medical and dental healthcare and prescription medications for the unemployed and working uninsured.
Community Health is just one of three “Impact Areas” adopted by local United Ways in support of United Way Worldwide’s effort to build stronger communities by improving health, education, and self-sufficiency. On the Peninsula, United Way targets program funding toward community health strategies that are prevention-based to provide long-term benefits, lower costs, and decrease emergency room visits. The Gloucester-Mathews Care Clinic and Lackey Free Clinic are just two examples of how United Way funds are improving healthcare for local residents.
The Gloucester-Mathews Care Clinic (GMCC) last year served approximately 2,000 unemployed and uninsured residents with diabetes, hypertension, asthma, |
The FINANCIAL -- Mercer has launched two personal insurance products that, in a first for New Zealand, include a benefit for Mercer KiwiS | aver customers.
The new products - Mercer LifeProtect, providing insurance for death and terminal illness, and Mercer BillProtect, which covers the inability to work due to redundancy, illness or injury – are underwritten by Cigna Life Insurance and each include Mercer SaverProtect, for Mercer KiwiSaver customers, according to Mercer.
This means that a Mercer KiwiSaver customer holding either LifeProtect or BillProtect can claim a monthly contribution of $200 to be paid into their KiwiSaver scheme account under the terms of their policy if they can’t work due to accident, illness or redundancy.
Martin Lewington, Managing Director of Mercer New Zealand, said, “Mercer SaverProtect provides insurance against the long-term impacts of short-term financial hardship for our KiwiSaver customers holding LifeProtect or BillProtect.
“Longer-term considerations such as retirement needs have typically been out of sight, out of mind for people experiencing |
The public spat over the appointment of Mr Gopal Subramanium as a Supreme Court judge is uncalled for. No one need be a judge | in his own cause. There are enough people who believe that Subramanium is the most eminently suited candidate to be an SC judge.
There is widespread support for him across the spectrum. So, where is the need for him to flutter his wings and splash water all around? There is bound to be collateral damage, not only to the institution of justice but also himself.
This incident to a great extent exposes the inadequacy of the system of appointment of judges.
Many years ago, Justice Krishna Iyer had said: "There is no structure to hear the public in the process of selection. No principle is laid down, no investigation is made and a sort of anarchy prevails."
Dr B.R. Ambedkar had warned against judges selecting judges.
He said: "To allow the Chief Justice practically a veto upon appointment of judges is really to transfer the authority..., which we are not prepared to vest. The authority for appointment of judges must vest with the |
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says the province is not banning natural gas in Ontario.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has distanced herself from a draft | plan to wean the province off natural gas, the same day a major Calgary-based distributor of the fuel took shots at the Liberal government's sweeping climate blueprint.
Earlier this month, The Globe and Mail obtained a 57-page document outlining a $7-billion Ontario government climate change strategy to dramatically cut the province's carbon footprint. According to the report, a key plank of the plan is new building code rules that will require all homes and small buildings built in 2030 or later to be heated without using fossil fuels, such as natural gas.
However, on Thursday in Edmonton, Ms. Wynne spoke to the controversy about that aspect of the yet-to-be-released climate-change strategy.
"Let me be clear," she said. "We are not banning natural gas and have no intention to force people off natural gas."
Hours before Ms. Wynne participated in the joint press conference with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley on Thursday, Enbridge Inc. chief executive officer Al Monaco |
Oh, Oscar season! You are a time of heartbreak! We recently brought you the trailer for Carol, a smoldering story of taboo | love between two women in mid-century Manhattan, and now we bring you The Danish Girl. Based on the book of the same name by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is a fictionalized account of the real life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender confirmation surgery, and we have been anticipating its release since that striking photo of Eddie Redmayne as Elbe started circulating back in February.
Elbe was born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener, and before transitioning lived well as a famous artist with her wife, another famous artist named Gerda Gottlieb (Alicia Vikander). As we see in the trailer, Gottlieb accidentally causes Wegener to realize her true self by having the artist pose for a portrait. (Apparently, the original model just never showed up.) From that moment, as we see, their partnership is tested in ways neither of them could have anticipated.
If you're operating under the illusion this movie isn� |
FORT WALTON BEACH � Shane Nicholson and Brandon Castelin served them up. Sean Hoffstatter knocked them down.
Showc | asing a deft scoring touch in the final third, Hoffstatter made the most of two tailor-made assists and Choctaw celebrated Senior Night and closed out the regular season with a 2-0 win over rival Fort Walton Beach at Joe Etheredge Stadium.
Defensively, the Indians didn�t allow a decent shot on frame all of Friday night. Castelin, Luke Hambleton, Isaiah Hawkins, Peyton Johnson and Colin Shannon didn�t allow anything over the top or out wide, and goalkeepers Jose Mendoza (first half) and Austin Wilson (second half) were never challenged.
Offensively, the only thing prettier than Hoffstatter�s pair of goals were the passes that set them up.
The first came in the 20th minute from Nicholson, who � a night after delivering five assists in an 8-0 win over Bay � took a pass from the Indians� side of the midfield line, beat his man up the left |
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