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JJ Alejandro put on a show in the fourth period to help National University stay alive in the UAAP basketball tournament with a masterful 81- | 73 victory over fifth seed La Salle yesterday at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Trailing by two, 53-51, early in the fourth period Alejandro scored 14 straight points, including three rainbow shots to push the Bulldogs into the driver’s seat, 65-58, with 5:51 left in the game.
The former Mapua Red Robin spiked his fourth quarter eruption with a three point play to give the Bulldogs their biggest lead of the game, 71-62 with 3:18 remaining in the game.
The Green Archers had one more fight left in them as they were able to cut the lead to just two, 75-73 following a Thomas Torres three pointer with 44 seconds left in the game.
However, Alfred Aroga responded with a three-point play with 40 seconds left as the Archers improved to 5-7 and move half a game behind La Salle which is now toting a 5-6 record.
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Ten years ago at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, I sat across from Steve Jobs and suggested that asking a generation of music fans | raised on Napster and Kazaa to pay 99 cents a song was going to be a tough sell. He argued that for practicality and karma, people would rather pay for music than steal it and that, until the release of the just-launched iTunes Music Store, stealing had been their best option. In retrospect, we were both right: 25 billion downloads later, the iTunes Store thrives, yet the perception that music is free hasn't waned. The notion of stealing music seems quaint now; stealing implies something has value in the first place.
What Jobs and the major players in the record business did a decade ago in putting a 99-cent price on a song was to effectively attach the same value to "Blowin' in the Wind" as a Big Gulp or two loosies from a New York bodega. From 99 cents, there was nowhere to go but down. Jay-Z grabbed headlines by offering a million downloads of his new album via an |
SCOTT McDONALD is set to cap off a dream debut season with Celtic by winning a new four-year contract with the Parkhead side | .
The 24-year-old has made a huge impact since his £600,000 summer switch from Motherwell and he netted his 30th goal of the season in a 2-1 win over his former side last week.
That rising form has made him a £6million target for Premiership predators Newcastle with a host of other English sides eyeing up the Australian, above.
bidding war between Premiership sides, they are set to kick off talks with McDonald this week on extending his stay until 2012.
McDonald penned a three-year deal when he joined his boyhood heroes in the summer but is on substantially less than some of the club’s high earning flops such as Bobo Balde and Thomas Gravesen.
And, while there is no desperate need for Celtic to tie down McDonald with more than two years left on his existing deal, they don’t want to risk losing their prized asset.
McDonald could easily command a salary of £25 |
On a drizzly day last week, ducks glided along the Audubon Park lagoon, paddling past a green-and- | white wooden gazebo during the dedication of the Stanley W. Ray Jr. Meditation Area, set on a knoll surrounded by sturdy oaks and the rolling landscape of the golf course.
Light rain enhanced the serenity of the pastoral scene, perfectly in keeping with the philosophy of Audubon Park's landscape architect and the intent of the gazebo's benefactor.
"This is exactly what Stanley would have wanted," said Conrad Meyer IV, a trustee for the Stanley W. Ray Jr. Trust, which paid to redo the gazebo. Meyer's father and Ray were best friends. Ray died of a heart attack in 1970.
Abe Kupperman, 89, attended Tulane University Law School with Ray in the 1930s and spoke at Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony in the peaceful setting. "Don't be surprised. Stanley might show up!" Kupperman said mischievously.
Kupperman's family donated several benches |
Hampshire V Middlesex Cricket pre-season friendly - Jamie Fuller.
HAMPSHIRE signings Keith Barker and Jamie Fuller took seven w | ickets between them as Middlesex were reduced to 90-8 on the second and final day of their pre-season friendly at The Ageas Bowl.
Fuller top scored with an unbeaten 30 (45 balls), as Hampshire were bowled out for 102 in their second innings.
Captain James Vince (14) and Aneurin Donald (17) were the only other players to reach double figures as Steven Finn (6-0-26-2), Toby Roland-Jones (6-3-7-1), Tom Helm (6-3-17-2), James Harris (6-5-5-1) and Ethan Bamber (7-2-9-2) ripped through the home team’s batting line-up.
But Barker (6-5-4-3)and Fuller (6-2-13-4) were outstanding in reply.
Barker shared the new ball with Gareth Berg (7-3-8- |
Outside of Tom Hiddleston's villainous Loki returning in The Avengers after his introduction in Thor as the primary villain, Marvel Studios has kept | a sealed lid on any official information regarding the other baddies that Earth's Mightiest Heroes will have to battle against. In fact, we haven't really seen too much of the principal cast leaked online either.
Along with the button at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, eager fans were given their first real look at The Avengers roster during Comic-Con when Marvel released character posters for the team, that could fit together, forming a larger image. Today, we have a few more pieces of artwork, depicting the team posing together, fighting together and a little more.
The recent onslaught of set photos and videos of the final weeks of shooting The Avengers in Cleveland may at first, appear to offer plenty, but in reality we only got a good look at two heroes we already knew about with some potential spoilers regarding Loki's "army" and the vehicles they use. All of the months of production before it gave rise to no spoilers at all so there's still plenty of surprises |
Local students benefiting from UB's School Supply Drive.
At the start of every new school year the Office of Community Relations works with offices and | departments campus-wide to collect school supplies that are then donated to schools throughout the City of Buffalo.
A very popular initiative on campus, the School Supply Drive involves partnership with over 40 departments and collects over 17 thousand items provided by our generous employees. Our office distributes the supplies to elementary and middle schools in the City of Buffalo.
Baird Research Park: Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships, 1576 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst.
Baldy Hall: School of Social Work, 685 Baldy Hall.
Capen Hall: Office of the President, fifth floor reception area; Office of the Provost, fifth floor reception area; Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, 406 Capen Hall; Honors College, 106 Capen; Office of the Registrar, 232 Capen; Undergraduate Libraries (Silverman Library); Professional Staff Senate, 543 Capen; Career Services, 259 Capen; Office of Admissions, 12 Capen; 1 Capen |
Vimeo will release Spike Lee's newest film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus in a deal that highlights the increasing acceptance of online distribution for first-run | films.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Spike Lee will release his newest film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus exclusively on Vimeo, the video-sharing and rental site owned by Barry Diller's IAC Interactive (IACI in a deal that highlights the increasing acceptance of online distribution for first-run films at a time when box-office sales are declining.
Lee's Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, which was financed in part through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, won't appear in theaters for a month, giving Vimeo exclusive rights to rent or sell the film as a video-on-demand. The price of a 24-hour rental is $9.99 while a download is $14.99. Gravitas Ventures will release the film theatrically on Feb. 13.
Part of the attraction for Lee is that Vimeo takes only 10% of revenue generated by a video or film shown on its site compared to Google's (GOOG - Get Report) |
The new year is a time for clearing out bad habits and starting new resolutions, but it’s also time for a whole brand new lineup | to hit our TVs. We’ve known Daredevil would premiere a little early this year, thanks to leaks a few weeks ago, but this week Netflix took the promos a step further and released the first trailer for Daredevil Season 2. You can give it a watch, below.
The dark and ominous tone of the trailer is in a lot of ways reminiscent to the first trailer for Season 6 Game of Thrones put out a few weeks ago. Odd images from Matt Murdock’s past play out on the screen while we get some voiceover narrative from the characters on the show. The trailer ends with glass breaking thanks to a new threat, and while it doesn’t reveal a lot, it is bone chilling and at the end we learn Daredevil Season 2 will officially hit the schedule on Friday, March 18.
In addition, Marvel and Netflix have released the official synopsis for Season 2, which focuses on the additions of The Punisher, who will be played by Jon Bernthal |
SOFIA, Bulgaria – At the end of its first week in office, Bulgaria's interim government is facing its first serious | challenge with the expectation that the Corporate Commercial Bank, or Corpbank, won't repay a $150 million bond maturing this Friday.
If it doesn't, then Bulgaria's fourth-biggest lender will have defaulted on its bonds, further fueling the economic and political crisis in the European Union's poorest country.
The crisis at the bank, which has been closed since it was hit by a weeklong bank run in June, has added to the woes of the Balkan country and even prompted a rebuke from the bloc's executive branch, the European Commission.
Corpbank has been under the control of the central bank since June after rumors of liquidity shortfalls and of shady deals by Corpbank's main owner prompted clients to withdraw more than a fifth of deposits. An audit was launched and the bank's day-to-day operations were halted. |
Alexander and Sarah Hult were at a Los Gatos restaurant a few years back and undecided on what kind of margarita to order. They | were interested in trying more than one but didn’t want to drink too much. Why didn’t restaurants offer flights of cocktails the way they did wine or beer, the Hults wondered.
And that’s how the idea behind Flights, the Hults’ new restaurant and bar in downtown Campbell, was born. The couple, who also own Hult’s in Los Gatos, opened Flights in late June in the Campbell Avenue corner spot that used to be the Socialight.
Everything at Flights is served in threes, from the food to drinks. You can get a trio of margaritas — classic, strawberry and pineapple — or a set of three tropical drinks, with a mai tai to go with a frozen piña colada and a frozen strawberry daiquiri. The menu features variations of mojitos, martinis, cosmopolitans and even old-fashioneds — all served in smaller glasses on a |
In this March 3, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, speaks in the East Room of the White House | in Washington.
President Obama just gave his adopted hometown the $600 million gift of a presidential library.
The Barack Obama Foundation announced Tuesday that the monument to Obama’s legacy as the nation’s first black president will be built on the South Side of Chicago.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and chair of the Barack Obama Foundation Martin Nesbitt were due to announce more details at a press conference later Tuesday. An exact location for the park has not yet been chosen, but it will be built on one of two parks–Jackson and Washington, both of which are located just south or west of Hyde Park, the urban oasis the President and First Lady called home prior to moving into 1600 Pennsylvania.
The University of Chicago beat out bids to build the university by another Chicago school, the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as Obama’s alma mater Columbia University in New York, and the University of Hawaii located in the President’s home state. |
When I began teaching in 1992 in eastern North Carolina, I thought I would be great at it because I was going to teach Black children like me | . Turns out I overestimated the power of a single aspect of identity being enough to make me a great teacher. I was mediocre at best. Still, the students gravitated towards me because I was young, optimistic, a Northerner (making me novel), and Black—which helped me build relationships with students with more ease than my White peers. I could leverage my status as role model. I was a walking billboard for staying the course in school. I knew most of the cultural references they threw at me—except the most Southern ones because my Midwest upbringing couldn't teach me everything. The shared Black experience was worth a lot.
In the last few years, new research has started to confirm what scholars studying multiculturalism and culturally relevant pedagogy have been preaching for years: Schools need more educators of color if we hope to succeed with students of color. Shocker! Going further, there are benefits for all students when we diversify school-based educators. Given the impact of school |
Sweden turns the page and Scandinavian noir explains why | City A.M.
EVERYONE knows that Sweden is a social- | democratic paradise, where taxes are high, the welfare state is big and everyone enjoys the benefits. That doesn’t mean it’s true. In recent years, research like that compiled in Richard Wilkinson’s and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level has painted Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbours as political role models. The reality, as always, is more complicated. Thanks to a new publication from the Institute of Economic Affairs, the other side of the story is harder than ever to ignore.
The Surprising Ingredients of Swedish Success, written by Nima Sanandaji, dissects the beneficial impact of Sweden’s recent free market reforms, such as its system of school vouchers, still, tragically, a step too far for the UK. It also traces back Sweden’s cultural strengths – its strong work ethic and high levels of interpersonal trust – to before its welfarist heyday.
Indeed, Sanandaji finds that those decades of the twentieth century when Sweden |
Guidelines aimed at keeping out frivolous bidders for privately financed and operated projects, key to fixing India’s poor infrastructure, could be | keeping newer and younger upstarts from gaining ground in the sector.
The guidelines, which were issued by the finance ministry and ratified by the Prime Minister’s committee on infrastructure in May, are applicable to the so-called PPPs, or public private partnership projects. They favour bidders who have executed large projects and cap the number of bidders at six, with the exception of power projects.
The idea was to streamline the bidding process and remove ambiguity as well as to keep out “non-serious" bidders who could resort to litigation after losing a bid.
“Earlier, each sector followed different bidding norms," says a Planning Commission official who didn’t want to be named. “Now, we have restricted it to one way."
But, opinion within government itself is divided over the merits of this policy and smaller companies say they are concerned.
“It is clearly an entry barrier," said Ankineedu Mag |
At last Washington has reached a deal that raises the debt limit and averts a default that would have been a national embarrassment and an economic and geopolitical | catastrophe. The forces shaping the deal are multifaceted and so are reactions. Mine has a number of elements.
Relief. There will be no default; no economy-damaging short-run austerity; no attack on the nation’s core social protection programs or universal health care; and no repeat, for at least 15 months, of the recent shabby spectacle. All of this was in doubt just a few days ago. It is no small thing for the administration to have reached an agreement that does no immediate harm. And it may well be that no better agreement was achievable given the political dynamics in Congress.
Cynicism. Objective observers would forecast larger U.S. budget deficits in the out-years than would have been predicted a few months ago. The economic forecast has deteriorated, and it is reasonable to estimate that even a half-a-percent reduction in growth averaged over 10 years adds more than a trillion dollars to the national debt in 2021.
Despite claims |
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Marquee performers, flashing neon lights. Cirque du Soleil and C | eline. David Copperfield’s magic. Elvis and the Jersey Boys. Mirage and Circus-Circus. Cha-ching, cha-ching. Welcome to the world’s biggest casino!
Vegas? No, the mutual fund industry.
The world’s biggest casino? Not Las Vegas, but mutual funds.
Still, the Vegas imagery captures my imagination every time, reminding me of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle’s analysis of America’s mutual fund industry, repeated often in so many memorable talks, in InvestmentNews and others since the 1970s. So let’s update Bogle’s fabulous “croupier” analogy of the fund industry; it makes us feel the red hot excitement of Vegas casinos! Cha-ching, cha-ching!!
Bogle begins by hammering home a key fact: “Investors earn a net return, after all of the costs of our system of financial intermediation. |
DUP leader Arlene Foster MLA has met with Prime Minister Theresa May in Westminster to discuss the way forward on Brexit.
Arlene Foster MLA | and Nigel Dodds MP meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May in Westminster.
The talks took place the day after Mrs May’s Brexit deal was emphatically rejected by MPs in the House of Commons, and just hours before MPs were due to vote on a motion of no confidence in the Government.
Speaking after the meeting, Mrs Foster said: “We have had a useful discussion with the Prime Minister. These are critical times for the United Kingdom and we have indicated that first and foremost we will act in the national interest.
“Lessons will need to be learned from the vote in Parliament. The issue of the backstop needs to be dealt and we will continue to work to that end.
“In keeping with our commitments in the Confidence and Supply agreement, which has benefitted every sector of society in Northern Ireland, the DUP is supporting the Government this evening so that we can concentrate on the real challenges ahead of us.
Meanwhile, speaking in the House of Commons |
The skeletal remains of the Pompeii victim.
The first major discovery at a new excavation site in Pompeii is turning out to be something right | out of a disaster movie.
Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii erupted in 79 AD, killing scores of the city’s inhabitants and famously locking many of them in the positions of their death throes. New excavations at the Royal V site, the so-called “Cuneo” area, have yielded another extraordinary scene, one that ended in tragedy for an individual as he struggled to find safety amid the unfolding chaos.
The resident, likely a male in his 30s, somehow managed to survive the initial salvo of the eruption, and was walking on a thick layer of small stones, called lapilli, when a giant stone fell on his upper torso and head. The skeleton was found on the first floor of a building just slightly above the volcanic lapilli layer. It’s likely this individual was seeking shelter as the eruption progressed, according to archaeologists working at Pompeii Archaeological Park.
Indeed, it wasn’t lava that killed people at |
"With the U.S. becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, the balance of political power may shift toward the Democrats unless Republicans increase their | advantage among a shrinking white majority, or cut into Democrats' advantage among nonwhite voters," Gallup's Jeffrey Jones said.
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- White Americans lean more Republican now than at any time in the past three administrations, a new Gallup poll finds.
While the country as a whole trended Democratic under the final years of the George W. Bush administration, it has moved the opposite direction under President Barack Obama.
But the gap between the two groups has not been larger than in 2010, when nonwhite people showed a 43-point preference toward the Democratic party, and white people chose Republicans by a 14-point advantage. At 61 points, Gallup measured the largest gap between the two ethnic groups since it began separately identifying Hispanic voters.
According to yearly aggregates taken since 1995, the percentage of white people identifying as Republican shifted as much as 14 points during Obama's presidency, compared to his two predecessors. Since Obama took office in 2008, the party identification gap |
As much as it baffles me that fax machines still exist in the 21st century, I still have a handful of business contacts who rely on | --nay, stubbornly insist on--fax machines for important business communications. While this has become rare in the tech world, where sentient beings have long since abandoned faxes for PDFs and email, many independent contractors in a variety of fields still force their clients to fax important documents.
If you’re a Google Docs user still dealing with faxes on an occasional basis, InterFAX’s new support for faxing from Google Docs is a very interesting solution that’s incredibly easy to use. InterFAX customers on all service plans can enable faxing from Google Docs in their InterFAX Settings menu. Once the feature is enabled, you just drag the Fax This bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar.
Faxing from within Google Docs is as easy as opening a document and then clicking the Fax This bookmarklet. It works on your own Google Docs files, as well as any file attachments you view |
TOTTENHAM will give Mauricio Pochettino what he wants to stay in north London.
That’s according to club legend | Chris Waddle who reckons Daniel Levy will eventually give his Argentine chief a transfer war chest.
Spurs didn’t make a single signing in the summer.
And it looks like it’ll be another quiet night in north London with Pochettino struggling for funds.
Tottenham are constructing a lavish new stadium at huge expense.
But, with Manchester United and Real Madrid eyeing Pochettino, Waddle reckons things will change soon.
“Daniel Levy will give Pochettino what he wants to stay at Tottenham and make them genuine title contenders,” he told Sportingbet.
“Pochettino could virtually walk in to any vacant manager role and Tottenham know that he will leave unless they make the funds available for him to sign top players and progress the club.
“Tottenham know how important it is to keep Pochettino at the club and they will have showed him the club's plans for the future.
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Poor maintenance contributed to a devastating C-130 crash. Here’s how the Air Force will make sure it doesn’t happen again | .
WASHINGTON — Sloppy maintenance work at an Air Force depot was at the root of a tragic crash of a Marine Corps Reserve KC-130T that resulted in the deaths of 16 service members in July 2017.
According to a command investigation and about 2,000 pages of supporting documentation, obtained exclusively by Defense News and Military Times, a corroded blade broke off of the aircraft, sliced through the fuselage, and set off a chain of events that ended with the plane splitting into three pieces and crashing into a Mississippi soybean field.
The blade was last overhauled at Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex in 2011, where civilian maintainers are responsible for rooting out corrosion and other such problems. But although the investigators found evidence that small cracks and pits were already present in the propeller blade, maintainers did not properly treat it — allowing it to grow into a long fracture.
A corroded propeller was sent through an Air Force maintenance depot but was not repaired.
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Lakewood?s Victoria Dubrowskij placed first in every event she performed in, grabbing the individual CIF title.
LAKEW | OOD – The all-around title at the Moore League gymnastics finals wasn’t hard to determine Friday night. It went to Lakewood High junior Victoria Dubrowskij, who placed first in each event.
But the team title, determined by the five highest scores out of six competitors from each school in four events, required depth more than individual talent. And it was Wilson that proved to be the deepest at Lakewood High.
The Bruins, led by Erin Duffy, Kelsea Regier and Maddy Blevin, scored 159.4 team points to finish first. Lakewood placed second with 155.25 points and was followed by Millikan (153.55), Valley Christian (150.75) and St.Joseph (149.7).
Lakewood finished the regular season at 4-0 in Moore League competition while Wilson was 3-1. After Friday’s competition, each team had a 7-1 dual meet record and they will share the league |
Rose exhibit at MOCA; 2nd Friday Art Night in LR.
When it rains, those who get rain say, it pours | . There's a rain of art coming up Friday, July 13, that will require that gallery goers choose between Little Rock, where downtown galleries will be open late for 2nd Friday Art Night, and Hot Springs, where David Malcolm Rose's "The Lost Highway: Constructions in Miniature" exhibit opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
The last shall be first: "The Lost Highway" features Rose's amazing scale models of the motels and gas stations and diners that once lined U.S. highways before the interstates took away the traffic and the business.
Among the models: the funny turreted gas station in Rixey ("Gas"), a sun-worn Navajo trading post, the Asher Avenue drive-in. Says the Hot Springs artist of the works on his website, davidmalcolmrose.com: "Who knows, in the future we may want to find our way back to the times when business leaders and community leaders shared common interests. If that |
History revs to life — and glides along the water, roars as it ignites a rocket and much more — during this year's | Gilmore Car Museum’s Speaker Series.
The series began last week and continues at 3 p.m. each Sunday through April 28 at Gilmore Car Museum, 6865 Hickory Road, Hickory Corners, MI 49060.
"It’s not just topics that might interest an automotive enthusiast. There’s so much more at the museum, so we wanted to focus on more than cars or car history. There’s a lot of that, but there’s so much more," said Jay A. Follis, director of marketing at Gilmore Car Museum. "You come and you learn so much you don’t expect to learn, and it’s fun and engaging the whole time you’re doing it."
The speakers range from a former Ford executive to an authors to a geologist, to a NASA historian to a senator and more.
Don LaCombe, who worked at Ford Product Development for 36 years, |
The Professional Online Desktop, or POD, is an online communications tool that does not try to reinvent the wheel.
POD, from Omni | Pod Inc. of New York, integrates into a non-IM environment or one that already has America Online, Microsoft or Yahoo instant messenger services. The POD works much like the other messenger programs, but it has the advantages of instant messaging over a 168-bit, Triple Data Encryption Standard, Secure Sockets Layer encrypted connection. Text within POD is nonexecutable, so it is not susceptible to most IM-based virus attacks.
Files being transferred go through OmniPod's data servers, which eliminates most bandwidth problems. Agencies that prefer to keep their data in-house can set up centralized servers.
If users already have some of the many consumer IM programs, POD will display them within the POD screen. Users are identified based on their associations, so you know whether 'Bob' is an Internet friend you met on AOL, or your supervisor on the secure network.
Administering POD is surprisingly easy. Users can download it by grabbing a 5M file |
Bonds finally backed off and sentiment cooled quite a bit.
Stocks are higher Monday on a strong manufacturing report from China and indications of progress | in the U.S.-China trade talks.
Kellogg will sell the brands to Ferrero, the maker of Nutella, for $1.3 billion.
Kellogg is nearing a deal to sell its Keebler, Famous Amos and fruit snacks businesses to Nutella-maker Ferrero, a report says.
U.S. stock futures post solid gains, boosted by the strongest reading of manufacturing output in China in at least eight months; retail sales for February lead Monday's economic calendar; Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg suggests more regulation would be a way to improve the internet; Kellogg reportedly nears deal to sell Keebler and Famous Amos brands.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., March 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) will host a live audio webcast of its 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareowners.
Uber Technologies snapped-up middle east ride-sharing rival Careem Tuesday in a $3.1 |
The Gators finished 20-11, and their 11-7 Southeastern Conference record earned them the No. 3 seed in this week’s | SEC tournament. They’ll open on Friday at 9:30 p.m. against either No. 14-seed Ole Miss, which beat UF earlier this year, No. 11-seed South Carolina, which UF both lost to and beat earlier this year, or No. 6-seed Arkansas, which UF beat earlier this year.
The story for the Florida basketball team all season has been consistency. The Gators started with a strong showing in the PK80 tournament, then lost to Florida State, Loyola Chicago and Clemson.
Florida then rolled like a tsunami into SEC play by winning its first four conference games. Then it lost to, as it turned out, the lowest-seeded conference team, Ole Miss.
A roller coaster of wins and losses followed, culminating in a 90-degree drop of a three-game losing streak with three more games to play. The Gators responded by winning those final three games and securing some momentum for the tournament and the |
Global Road Entertainment has pacted with DRG for quiz show format, Catch Phrase. Under the deal, Global Road (formerly IM Global) | has acquired an option for North and Latin America as well as China. Based on a property created by Pasetta Productions and Steven Radosh, Catch Phrase pits three contestants against each other, requiring them to identify well-known phrases and sayings contained in animated picture puzzles, in order to win big cash prizes.
It originally had a U.S. syndicated run in 1985-86 and has been a mainstay of ITV primetime in the UK for over 20 years. The recently re-booted version was renewed for a 6th cycle last month.
Global Road’s Phil Gurin calls it “a gem of a format. It is brilliantly simple, highly visual and has great play-along for the whole family.” Catch Phrase adds to the newly-rechristened Global Road’s development slate that also includes King Kong Skull Island; Cat’s Cradle; and I, Rebel as well as unscripted shows Oh Sit!, |
IT is no small achievement that the year-old UN-sponsored cease-fire between Iran and Iraq is holding, Secretary-General Javier P' | erez de Cu'ellar said in a statement marking its Aug. 20 anniversary. But while countless lives have been spared and tension has been reduced, he cautioned, there is no reason for complacency. Some 15 direct meetings, the last in April, between the foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq have failed to yield any progress on the implementation of the UN peace plan contained in Security Council Resolution 598. Mr. P'erez de Cu'ellar has again appealed to the leaders of both countries to join him in a renewed effort to achieve an overall political settlement, saying that lasting peace can be established only on the basis of no victor, no vanquished.
No new contacts are scheduled, but the UN chief plans to see both sides during the nonaligned summit meeting in Belgrade in early September.
The first steps demanded by the UN resolution are a cease-fire followed by withdrawal without delay. But Iraq raised the issues of Iran's right to stop and search ships for belligerent |
The ABC network has eliminated 15 to 20 management positions in its broadcast operations and engineering department.
ABC has commissioned an efficiency study of engineering operations by | IBM. However, Davis left the door open for more layoffs when he said he had yet to review the results of that study and “will share the findings and recommendations with all of you” when it is ready.
Preston Davis has been president of Broadcast Operations & Engineering for the ABC Television Network Group since 1993. A 31-year veteran of ABC, he spoke this week with HD Notebook.
Entertainment chief said network won't follow the crowd.
Up to 30 percent of the network’s online division is being laid off.
The cuts are happening across the Disney company.
Japan Broadcasting Corp is finalizing plans to cut its workforce by about 1,200 over a three-year period from fiscal 2006 due to a higher-than-expected rise in the number of viewers refusing to pay fees, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun has reported.
The cuts are expected to be in the newsgathering and operations sides of NBC News |
Published: March 14, 2013 at 01:57 p.m.
Updated: March 14, 2013 at 05:16 p.m. |
The Kansas City Chiefs have done a nice job picking up contributors for low prices in free agency, from Mike DeVito and Dunta Robinson to Anthony Fasano, Donnie Avery and Chase Daniel. On Thursday, the Chiefs made a bigger move.
NFL.com's Albert Breer reported Thursday that the Chiefs reached an agreement with cornerback Sean Smith. David Canter, Smith's agent, quickly took to Twitter to confirm that it was a three-year contract. Breer and NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported it was a three-year deal worth $18 million, with $11 million guaranteed.
Smith was one of our top 15 players available in free agency, but he didn't get the money he was hoping for on the open market. Like so many cornerbacks this year, Smith's market was somewhat slow to develop. He appeared to have strong interest from multiple teams before free agency opened, but the big-dollar contract that he was looking for wasn't available when free |
The 300 metre beach near the tiny village of Dooagh on Achill Island vanished in 1984.
Achill Island, Ireland: A | beach that was swept away more than 30 years ago from a remote island off the west coast of Ireland has reappeared after thousands of tons of sand were deposited on top of the rocky coastline.
The 300 metre beach near the tiny village of Dooagh on Achill Island vanished in 1984 when storms stripped it of its sand, leaving nothing more than a series of rock pools.
But after high spring tides last month, locals found that the Atlantic Ocean had returned the sand.
"It's enormously significant," Sean Molloy of Achill's tourism office told the Irish Times newspaper, recalling how the popular beach once sustained four hotels and a number of guesthouses on the west coast of the island of 2,600 people.
"Achill already has five blue-flag beaches, so we are hoping that in time it will be awarded a sixth."
The island, the largest off the coast of Ireland, forms part of the Wild Atlantic Way, a tourist trail stretching from the |
ANDERSON, Ind. - Police in Anderson are investigating after a man was shot to death New Year's morning. Authorities have identified the victim as | 39-year-old Tommie Griffin.
"To that person out there, I hope you turn yourself in because we will have justice for Tommie," said Joyce Griffin, Tommie's mother.
Griffin was found shot to death in his vehicle near Ninth and Chestnut streets at around 8:30 a.m. According to the coroner, Griffin was shot multiple times. No suspect information has been released. Police are not sure if Griffin was targeted or if this was a random act.
"This is the hardest thing I've had to deal with in my lifetime," said Joyce Griffin.
William Casey is a former sergeant with the Anderson Police Department. He is working to get a 10 Point Coalition team on the streets in Anderson.
"Prevention (is) that’s the main thing. (We want) to working with all the different organizations and groups, police departments, school system, all those agencies, not trying to reinvent the wheel just |
The debate over Brexit among UK politicians has become so toxic that the Prime Minister and leader of the opposition have more in common with each other than they | have with their own parties.
With just weeks to go before a Brexit deal needs to be signed, Theresa May's plans for leaving the European Union have hit a brick wall. Some believe that she has as little as 48 hours to reach an agreement with Brussels, or risk having to spend millions in preparation for a no-deal.
In 137 days, the UK will leave the EU, whether or not an agreement between the two has been reached. And given the deep divisions between politicians of all stripes in London and the fast-approaching deadline, a no-deal Brexit has never looked so likely a prospect.
An emergency meeting of May's Cabinet, scheduled for Tuesday, to approve the latest version of the deal has been postponed.
Barely a day goes by without a Conservative MP proposing a different version of what Brexit should look like, and whether the final deal should be put to the British people in a second referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition, gave |
Grace Virginia Porter "Cakes", 96, of Lexington Park, MD, formerly from Baltimore, MD passed away on Thursday, June 7, | 2018 in Leonardtown, MD. She was born on February 16, 1922 in Leonardtown, MD, and was the daughter of the late Grace Tolson Carroll and Douglas Carroll. Grace was the loving wife of the late Vernon Porter whom she married in Baltimore, MD.
Grace is survived by her siblings; Sarah Chase, Frances Carroll, and Paul Carroll all of Lexington Park, MD and 4 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son Cameron Porter, as well as siblings; Agustus Carroll, Charles Carroll, Talbert Carroll, Thomas Carroll, Lucy Dudley, and Helen Robinson.
Grace graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School in Ridge, MD. She moved from Baltimore, MD to St. Mary's County, MD in 2010. Grace was a cafeteria cook for Baltimore Public Schools for 20 years, retiring in 1962. Grace loved dancing, bingo, traveling, and cooking. She loved hanging out with family and friends.
The family will receive friends |
Pastor Sammy Stewart, 71, of Panama City went to be with the Lord on Thursday, October 11, 2018. He was born September 29 | , 1947 in Panama City and was a 1965 graduate of Rutherford High School. He attended the CSI Academy of Florida and received a Bachelor’s Degree of Ministry from Gulf Coast Seminar. Sammy proudly served his country for nine and a half years in the Army National Guard, followed by a fourteen year career as a law-enforcement officer. He then founded and was the pastor of Straightway Christian Ministries for 27 years.
This giant of a man became as gentle as a lamb, while sharing wisdom and great compassion to those in need. His greatest passion was his love for Jesus Christ and to minister hope to bruised and broken hearted people.
He had extreme respect for law-enforcement and held it in high esteem. He shared an impetuous love and pride in America, and prayed for our great nation and president daily!
He is preceded in death by his father, Hollis Wyatt Stewart and mother, Helen C. Everage; paternal grandparents, Versie Mae Stewart and O |
Chicago police say "the trajectory of the investigation" into the reported attack on Jussie Smollett has shifted and they want to conduct another interview | with the "Empire" actor.
CHICAGO — Chicago police say "the trajectory of the investigation" into the reported attack on Jussie Smollett has shifted and they want to conduct another interview with the "Empire" actor.
On Saturday, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi issued a statement saying: "We can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation. We've reached out to the Empire cast member's attorney to request a follow-up interview."
Smollett, who is black and gay, has said he was attacked by two masked men shouting racial and anti-gay slurs and "This is MAGA country!" He said they looped a rope around his neck before running away as he was out getting food at a Subway restaurant early on Jan. 29. He said they also poured some kind of chemical on him.
Police have been unable to find |
Mayor Pete Buttigieg might have a chance of eating away at Sen. Bernie Sanders' strong support with young voters, according to a new poll | .
Buttigieg came in third place overall in two recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, both early primary states.
Sanders is the frontrunner at the moment, but it might not last.
Sen. Bernie Sanders often boasts that he garnered more support from young voters in 2016 than President Donald Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton combined.
But a new Monmouth University poll with voters in Iowa suggests he might have a harder time making a repeat performance with this demographic in 2020.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, appears to have the potential to eat away at Sanders' support with the younger crowd.
Sanders received the most support from young voters in the poll, with 18% of those between 18 and 49 saying they back the Vermont senator. Former Vice President Joe Biden came in second with this age group, receiving 16%. Meanwhile, Buttigieg received 12% support with this demographic, which is notable given he was a stranger to national politics just a |
Hong Kong's new chief executive shakes the hand of China's president.
Hong Kong's new leader, Leung Chun-ying, was sworn | into office Sunday morning in a ceremony presided over by Chinese President Hu Jintao, as protesters burned pictures of Leung outside the venue.
Hu was making a rare three-day visit to the city to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty and inaugurate the third chief executive, replacing the recently scandal-plagued Donald Tsang.
Hu's speech in front of some 2,300 of the party faithful had the usual platitudes about Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy.
"We must stay committed to keeping a balance between adhering to the 'one country' principle and respecting the differences of the 'two systems', between upholding the authority of the central government and ensuring a high degree of autonomy of the Hong Kong S.A.R. (Special Administrative Region), between safeguarding the overall national interests and protecting the interests of various social sectors of Hong Kong, and between supporting Hong Kong in actively conducting exchanges with the |
Emirates Airline is the number one airline for premium capacity measured in international available seat kilometres (ASKMs), clocking 876 million | ASKMs per week, according to flights data firm OAG.
OAG said the popularity of the Dubai-based airline's Business and First Class cabins is primarily due to the long haul nature of Emirates fleet deployment.
Earlier this month, the airline received delivery of its 50th A380, configured with 90 First and Business Class seats, further adding to Emirates' average weekly capacity of over 191,000 premium seats.
Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline said: "When we signed up for the A380, we had a clear vision for how we would deploy these aircraft. At the same time, we also saw a tremendous opportunity to take the flying experience to whole new levels.
"We took a bit of a gamble pulling out rows in Business Class to put in the Onboard Lounge, we pushed the envelope to bring the first showers onto a commercial flight, and we made sure our inflight entertainment system in all classes offered unparalleled choice and quality. These efforts have |
Early childhood education majors earn $39,000 a year on average.
Before declaring your major, make sure you're passionate about the subject you | decide on, particularly if you're considering working with children.
Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found in their recent report, "The Economic Value of College Majors," that education majors are paid the least — specifically those specializing in early childhood education, who earn a median annual salary of $39,000.
While the paychecks are not particularly enticing, people in education find a high level of meaning from their jobs. And the satisfaction from helping others tends to outweigh the lack of pay growth.
The education field is also unique in that it provides job security. "It's high security but low wages," Anthony Carnevale, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, tells us. "So you have to ask yourself what you value — security or wages?"
Human services and community organization ranked second lowest, with a median annual paycheck of $41,000.
Choosing majors is not just about the dollars and pennies — it involves your |
The Care.data pilots have been put on hold again, as the NHS is working to create new opt-out and consent models for the programme | .
The controversial project, which aims to extract anonymised patient data from GPs to a central database held by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), was restarted this summer.
NHS England has now asked the four pilot sites – Leeds, Blackburn and Derwent, West Hampshire and Somerset – to temporarily pause the programme, according to a statement from Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group.
The pilots were put on hold after health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced at the NHS Innovation Expo that the national data guardian for health and care, Fiona Caldicott, would provide guidance on how to word a new model of consent and opt-outs for the programme.
Hunt has also asked the Care Quality Commission to undertake a review of standards of data security for patients’ confidential data across the NHS, and Caldicott will contribute to the review by developing guidelines for the protection of personal data.
The government aims for the work to be completed by January 2016. Until the new opt |
The Secret Ingredient For Better Schools: Integration : NPR Ed Richard Kahlenberg of The Century Foundation argues that it's time to take a | closer look at integration.
"Millions of poor, disadvantaged students are trapped in failing schools."
So said President Trump at the White House recently. It's a familiar lament across the political spectrum, so much so that you could almost give it its own acronym : PKTIFS (Poor Kids Trapped In Failing Schools).
Where there's no consensus, however, is on the proper remedy for PKTIFS.
The Obama administration's signature proposal was the School Improvement Grant. This was a $7 billion attempt to turn around struggling schools with some combination of replacing personnel, overhauling the curriculum, renewed teacher support and other practices.
It was one of the largest federal education grant programs ever created. There was just one problem. As a department-commissioned independent review concluded just as Obama was leaving office, it didn't work. "Overall, across all grades, we found... no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college |
How to Determine a Body's Time of Death. When someone dies and foul play is suspected, time of death is crucial to finding the person | 's killer. Determine a body's time of death by checking for discoloration, temperature and rigor. Only professionals can accurately determine a time of death, but here are the things they look for.
Check the stomach for signs of digestion. Most meals leave the stomach and enter the large intestine within three or four hours. This method is not entirely accurate for determining time of death though, as many things can have a factor in food digestion such as exercise after eating.
Determine the body's temperature, or algor mortis by inserting a special thermometer into the chest cavity. When you are alive, your body maintains its temperature of 98.6 degrees. Once you have died, your body is no longer able to do that. The body cools at a rate of one to one and a half degrees per hour until you meet the temperature of your surroundings. Again, several factors can influence the accuracy of this test, such as it being a very cold causing the body |
The kid cooks are coming back to FOX, and they can stand the heat. MasterChef Junior, season five, premieres on FOX Thursday | , February 9, 2017 at 9:00pm ET/PT. In the fifth season premiere, 40 talented junior home cooks will face off for a spot in the top 20. Watch a first-look preview, below.
Judges Chef Gordon Ramsay and Chef Christina Tosi are returning for season five of MasterChef Junior. The young culinary geniuses will cook for guest judge Mayim Bialik, as well as Julie Bowen and Muppets Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef. The grand prize includes the MasterChef Junior trophy and a $100,000.00 cash prize.
The kids are back for Season Five of the hit culinary competition series MASTERCHEF JUNIOR, premiering Thursday, Feb. 9 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Judges Chef Gordon Ramsay and Chef Christina Tosi welcome the latest crop of junior home cooks to the MASTERCHEF JUNIOR kitchen, where they will compete for the |
The City of Jackson has been directed to close four more bridges do to structural problems.
Jackson has been directed to close four more bridges because of | structural problems.
The Office of State Aid Road Construction, as part of federally mandated annual bridge inspections, told Jackson officials to close the bridges. Issues were found with timber piles, headwalls, and/or other timber components on each bridge. These closures are in addition to three bridges closed last week.
Hawthorne Drive between Sherwood Drive and Robin Drive (Eubanks Creek bridge). Detour route: Sherwood Drive/Mohawk Avenue to Council Circle to Chickasaw Avenue.
Cavalier Drive between Old Canton Road and Wood Dale Drive (Eubanks Creek Tributary bridge). Detour route: Old Canton Road to Ridge Drive/Wood Dale Drive.
Woodway Drive between State Street and Manhattan Road (Hanging Moss Creek Tributary bridge). Detour route: Manhattan Road to Cedars of Lebanon Road to State Street.
Beasley Road between Livingston Road and Northwest Industrial Parkway (Hanging Moss Creek bridge). Detour route: Livingston |
Wicked Lasers has unveiled its latest product called the Flashtorch. This isn’t a laser like we typically see from the company | ; rather this is a flashlight that has a massive 4100 lumens of light output. The light that the Flashtorch produces is white in color and the light is bright enough to do all sorts of things you could never do with a normal flashlight.
An aluminum anodized body makes the Flashtorch strong enough to survive use in harsh conditions. It uses a halogen headlamp with an expected life of 2000 hours. An adjustable reflector and heat resistant lens allows the light to be used in a narrow searchlight pattern or a wide floodlight pattern.
Wicked Lasers gives the device three power modes and power for the light comes from an internal rechargeable battery. Recharging can be performed without removing the battery and it has a lockout mode to prevent accidental usage.
Wicked Lasers says that the light produced by the Flashtorch is powerful enough to be used for starting campfires or even frying up an egg for breakfast. The device is available right now for |
When Bikes And Cars Collide, Who's More Likely To Be At Fault? : Shots - Health News On the surface, cars seem more | likely to collide with bikers than the other way around. But when Shots looked at data from the few states where it's available, cyclists seem almost as likely to cause accidents as motorists.
When Bikes And Cars Collide, Who's More Likely To Be At Fault?
A bicyclist on the move in San Francisco.
Many of us here on NPR's Science Desk bike to work, and not just on Bike To Work Day. And like bike commuters everywhere, we delight in grumbling about the cars, trucks and buses that cut us off, drift into our lanes and honk at us.
But we'll also, mind you, tut tut at the cheeky fellow bikers who swoosh recklessly through red lights, speed down sidewalks and block crosswalks.
The tension between bikes and vehicles is evident on the streets of Washington, D.C., every day, and as bike-sharing programs allow more riders to take to city streets, more angry — |
Close, who worked at Chicago's Second City and 'SNL,' trained many of comedy's great talents including Myers, John Belushi, Tina | Fey, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
In a new film called Del, Mike Myers will portray one of his own mentors, Del Close, an early influencer of improv comedy who also was known for training many notable comic actors.
Betty Thomas (Private Parts, 28 Days) will direct the comedy, in which Myers plays the legendary teacher notorious for pushing his students to their limit. Close takes an aspiring comedian under his wing, and the relationship, which is first disastrous, eventually transforms each of them.
in the 1970s, Close coached many aspiring comedians at the Chicago improv powerhouse Second City, and in the early 1980s he served as "house metaphysician" at NBC's Saturday Night Live. Over the years, a significant number of the show's cast have been Close protégés, including Myers, John Belushi, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Tina Fey and many others. Close spent the mid- to late |
Multi-sided, user-facing IT platforms, such as those deployed inside Google, eBay, Uber and Xbox, are becoming more strategic tools for | enterprises all the time.
While they have been used publicly for more than two decades, a lot of people still don’t recognize what a multi-sided platform is. It is defined as any type of platform that creates value by facilitating the exchange of goods or services among multiple parties. Examples of this include on-demand companies such as Lyft, crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, commerce platforms Shopify or Amazon, travel and hospitality services like OpenTable, and social networks, such as Facebook.
For example, the more people that use Google search, the more data the company has, and that data is the raw material for refining its search results further. Subsequently, the greater its market share in search, the more advertisers wants their ads placed on Google to reach the largest audience. That, in turn, solidifies Google’s position as the dominant ad market, and strengthens its pricing power.
“There are several positive feedback loops in this business, and they are particularly |
The husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords spent 20 minutes believing his wife was dead after she was shot in Tucson earlier this month, he | has revealed.
Mark Kelly believed he had been widowed after seeing an incorrect news report until Congresswoman Giffords’ mother told him the politician had survived being shot in the head.
Six people were shot and 13, including Congresswoman Giffords, were injured when a gunman opened fire as the Democrat member of Congress held a meet-and-greet with constituents.
Jared Loughner, 22, was arrested shortly after the incident and is being held in federal custody charged as the lone gunman in the attack.
Speaking as his wife’s condition continued to improve, Mr Kelly told of the horrifying moment he saw a news broadcast that claimed Congresswoman Giffords had been killed.
After a procedure to remove her from a ventilator was completed successfully, Congresswoman Giffords’ condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.
Her NASA astronaut husband has been at her bedside constantly since the shooting, only leaving her to attend last Wednesday |
Airtel is offering a cashback of up to Rs 2,000 on purchase of select Nokia 4G smartphones for its prepaid customers.
| Currently, Jio is offering a cashback offer of up to Rs 2,200 on new 4G smartphones.
In a bid to counter each other, telecom operators like Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular frequently come up with new offers. Currently, Jio is offering a cashback offer of up to Rs 2,200 on new 4G smartphones. Airtel is also offering a cashback of up to Rs 2,000 on purchase of select Nokia 4G smartphones for its prepaid customers. Idea Cellular is offering a cashback of up to Rs 2,000 on purchase of new 4G smartphones appearing for the first time on Idea's network.
Airtel is offering a cashback of up to Rs. 2,000 on purchase of select Nokia 4G smartphones for its prepaid customers. According to an announcement by the company, Nokia 2 and Nokia 3 smartphones will come bundled with Airtel's Rs. 169 prepaid recharge plan offering 1GB |
Washington quarterback Jake Browning (3) scores on the last drive of the second quarter against Oregon in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. | 8, 2016, in Eugene, Ore.
Jackson did not accumulate a single yard or touchdown in week six. Instead, his Louisville Cardinals took a bye week following a heartbreaking loss to Clemson on Oct. 1. Even with a blemish on his team’s record, Jackson’s 2016 has been phenomenal. The sophomore ranks 19th in the nation in passing yards, 10th in rushing yards (first among quarterbacks) and has only played five games.
Jackson has created himself a habitat in end zones, leading the nation with 14 rushing touchdowns—the next closest is 10. The Heisman frontrunner will captain the top-ranked Louisville offense—58 points per game—against Duke this Friday.
Peppers has been the epitome of versatility this season. In Michigan’s 78-0 annihilation of Rutgers, Peppers shined with two tackles, 74 rushing yards and two touchdowns. In the early stages of the demolition, Peppers returned one of Rutgers’ 16 pun |
So rather than just writing a check for the next company in a category that seems to be taking off, Lewis and Stromberg are looking for | startups that buck the trends. (For example, Lewis told me he sees bike-sharing as a “narrative mirage” where only one or two startups are likely to be successful.) And they’ve raised a first fund of $122 million to make those investments.
The pair has worked together before at Oyster, where Stromberg was co-founder and CEO, and which Lewis backed as a partner at Founders Fund. (The startup was acqui-hired by Google in 2015.) Before starting Bedrock, Stromberg was making angel investments in startups including Hubble Contacts, Built Robotics and Lattice, while Lewis’ investments at Founders Fund included Lyft, Wish, Nubank and Canva.
At Bedrock, Lewis and Stromberg are focused on writing Series A checks between of $5 million and $10 million, though they also plan to make follow-on investments from the fund. The firm has already backed three companies |
Is a filmmaking "third coast" one step closer to happening?
On Jan. 1, Wisconsin's new 25% tax credits for the film | , television and video game industries kicked in, putting the state on competitive footing with many other leading film-incentive states.
But the state is taking its push to attract films to the next level by offering a guarantee that any movie shot in Wisconsin will receive theatrical exhibition.
Wisconsin-based Marcus Theatres has made an arrangement with Film Wisconsin, the state's film office, to offer its almost 600 screens in six Midwestern states to filmmakers as a way to help build a film economy in the state.
"Marcus Theatres will provide the foundation bookings that may lead to multiple playdates from other theater circuits in major markets across the Midwest and U.S.," Marcus president Bruce Olson wrote in a letter to Film Wisconsin. "The number and playdates will be determined by the final quality and appeal of the production."
Marcus retains the right to refuse to screen a film, but Olson said it "will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate the filmmakers' request for bookings" |
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The greatest challenge for any learning system is not the impartation of knowledge, but the use of it to change human attitudes and behaviour. That's | why web-based e-learning has been criticised in this column for lacking the power to help people modify their work habits, by showing them one-on-one how to put what is learned into practice.
However, web development company MassMedia Studios and vehicle leasing and management services company Custom Fleet may have found the answer in online business games. For 15 minutes of paid work-time per day, 430 employees have been encouraged to play online games, teaching them about their company and, more importantly, its clients.
MassMedia managing director Steve Fanale is pioneering the approach, which uses the corporate intranet, turning it into a business games platform. So far, Custom Fleet has taken delivery of three different types of game.
"The first game was a mesh between a Trivial Pursuit-type game and a Monopoly-type game," Fanale says. "People land on different clients and are then given the option to `own' those clients through multiple-choice |
Modeled after offshore oil drilling platforms, the floating design would be automatically cooled by the surrounding seawater.
Neither the earthquake nor the tsunami caused | the subsequent contamination at Fukushima Daiichi. Most of the damage came from a lack of cooling for the reactor cores when all the power was shut down. Now, MIT researchers have come up with a floating design that uses seawater for coolant, and it could help avoid such disasters in the future.
Modeled after platforms used for offshore oil drilling, the floating power plant will be located five to seven miles at sea and, in emergencies, could be automatically cooled by the surrounding water -- preventing fuel rods from melting and radioactive material from escaping.
The plant could be built in a shipyard, then towed to its offshore destination. There, it’ll be anchored to the seafloor (over 300 feet deep) and connected to land via an underwater electric transmission line. It'll include living quarters and a helipad, and when the time comes to decommission the plant, it can simply be towed away to a central facility, the way Navy carriers and submarine reactors are now. |
Spanish researchers believe using a thermographic camera can tell objectively whether a person is in love and say the technology could be developed in mobile phones.
| GRANADA, Spain (Reuters) - This student is in love. University of Granada psychology researchers can tell.
Not because she said so, nor by studying her body language. They just looked at thermographic images of her writing hand.
While staring at photos of their partner, 60 volunteers in new relationships put their dominant hand in freezing water for two minutes.
Thermal images of the hand taken before and after were then examined.
"There is a faster recovery of the hand. You can see the temperature here (on the side), so when you compare this image with the image that we have seen with (her looking at) friends this recovery is faster," said Mr Alex Moline, a researcher at the University of Granada.
Being in love increased the temperature of volunteers' cheeks, nose, forehead, and hands, by two deg C.
A control group who looked at photos of friends experienced no temperature change.
Mr Francisco Tornay, a professor of |
Three adults and six children perished in a South Memphis house fire early Monday morning in what officials called the city’s deadliest fire in nearly a | century.
One other child pulled from the home in the 1100 block of Severson was clinging to life late Monday at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Family members identified the adult victims as Carol Collier, 56; LaKisha Ward, 27; and Eloise Futrell, 61. They identified the children as Angel Mitchell, 17; Ernest Jett III, 9; Diamond Jett, 8, Alonzo Ward, 7; Kierra Jett, 5; and Precious Rose Jett, 2 or 3. Cameron Hollingsworth, who is 7 or 8, is the child at Le Bonheur.
“They got him on the life support. They said they need to give him some rest,” said Ernest Jett Sr., grandfather to all seven children. Jett got a call from his son while firefighters were still battling the blaze, and immediately drove up from Port Gibson, Mississippi.
This tragedy began at 1:23 |
Parliament’s committees have thrown their weight behind the review of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) agreement of 2002 so that | it can support development, industrialisation and economic diversification of the member economies.
The agreement - between Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland - in its current form does not enable industrial development as intended, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies explained to the portfolio committee on trade and industry and the standing committee on finance on Tuesday.
The committees were briefed by the minister as well as Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on the status of the agreement and its shortcomings. The resolution of review will go to the National Assembly for consideration.
There are six priorities that the SA government wants the review to address, when it consults with member states. SA wants the SACU establishment to continue and wants it to allow for the free movement of goods across the union through intra-regional trade.
SA also wants the current revenue sharing model between the member States to be reviewed.
A pressing matter is the current tariff setting architecture, which is |
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RIYADH: The Riyadh-based King Fahad National Library (KFNL) was picked as the best architectural work in 2015 by | global A+Award program, according to an online report.
KFNL ranked atop seven buildings selected by program officials as the best new innovative architectural buildings in 2015.
The KFNL also said that a famous architect, Eckhard Gerber’s book, “Eckhard Gerber Baukunst: Buildings and Projects 1966-2013,” highlights images of KFNL and various areas that feature the uniqueness of the structure.
The author who designed the largest library in the Middle East also designed and oversaw the design of buildings and projects in Europe, Asia and Arab countries.
According to its website, the jury picked the winning buildings in accordance with new international standards for environment-friendly structures and that meet the challenges of climate change.
The officials explained that it was the flexibility and innovation factor, and the fact that the building does not need to consume large amounts of energy, that put the building atop arbitration standards.
The officials added that all the |
“Infinity Falls will be the centerpiece of a newly themed surrounding area, fully immersing guests in a rainforest canopy,” | the park said in making the announcement. The village will also offer interactive experiences that will educate park guests about freshwater ecosystems and encounters with animals native to South America.
“We developed Infinity Falls to tell new stories that showcase the beauty and sheer power of water and the amazing wildlife that lives in it,” said Brian Morrow, vice president of Theme Park Design Experience.
The ride’s story line is that a drone exploring a jungle in South America discovered previously uncharted structures in a remote area along the banks of a freshwater river. Explorers and scientists set up base camp nearby, fell in love with the river, and set up a sustainable camp so others could learn about the jungle and the river.
The new ride should also help SeaWorld’s bottom line. While Disney and Universal have reported increased revenue and gate attendance in the last few years, SeaWorld’s numbers have dropped, largely due to the controversy over its killer whale shows.
SeaWorld Parks |
Energy drink giant Red Bull has been showing increasing interest in the dancehall culture by carrying its Culture Clash series across the globe and by helping to spread | the genre through other avenues.
In one such move, Blacka Di Danca was signed last year as an athletic ambassador for the brand.
"It's been amazing so far. It's actually been non-stop since then," he told Dancers' Paradise. "The company is falling more deeply in love with dancehall, so now I've been invited to speak more on it, than dance it."
According to the Red Bull dancehall ambassador, the brand has been engaging in deeper conversation about the culture, so much so that he has been invited to be a dancehall motivational speaker. He has even been invited to conduct dancehall classes at a number of Ivy League colleges.
Just this week, Blacka Di Danca was busy in Boston, where he led pop-up dancehall classes at Harvard University, Boston University, MIT and Berkeley.
"I sit down and have in-depth conversations with [Red Bull]. They all want to know what dancehall is |
Two international hotel operators separately said they plan to expand in the Middle East and Africa over the next five years, as part of strategies to build their | regional development pipelines.
Marriott International plans to add 100 new hotels, totalling around 26,000 rooms, across the region by 2023, while Hilton expects to open another 100 hotels in the next five years.
“This region continues to present us with opportunities to further grow and enhance our portfolio across new and established markets,” said Jerome Briet, chief development officer, Middle East and Africa, at Marriott International, in a statement to the company on Monday.
Year-to-date, the company has opened five new properties in the region and is expected to add 14 more this year, bringing its portfolio across MEA to nearly 270 properties and 60,000 rooms by the end of 2019 – a 45 per cent increase in its regional portfolio with estimated investment of $8 billion from property owners.
The 2019 openings include four planned premium hotels, including the Autograph Collection’s Sankara debut in Nairobi, Kenya; Marriott Executive Apartments in Mad |
Look: We all have bills to pay, and so do our favorite TV shows. Despite the many faults of the worst elements of its fanbase, | Rick And Morty is a brilliant TV show, and if shilling some deodorant ensures another season or two of tightly written comedy and impressively nerdy sci-fi world-building, so be it. Still, you have to commend them for this deodorant ad, in which they both totally phone it in—calling the whole thing out as a sell-out move off the bat, impassively reading the deodorant’s selling-points off a sheet of paper, fecklessly counting the money at the end—and also pack a weird amount of variety into its execution. The three spray-on deodorant monsters have a ball torturing the poor Butter Bot, who memorably never even wanted to exist in the first place.
And, in classic Rick And Morty fashion, it’s also an elaborate in-joke, mimicking the exact structure of a previous sell-out move.
Morty sure has grown in the intervening years |
ANTONIO CONTE reckons Diego Costa is the strongest striker in the world.
The Spaniard has been heavily linked with a move away | from Stamford Bridge in recent weeks with Atletico Madrid pursuing him.
But Conte has confirmed he will be part of his plans and he says he is enjoying working with the forward.
He said: “He is working very hard. He is very happy to work with team-mates and me in a new idea of football.
“The most important thing is that Diego Costa is a Chelsea player.
“He showed that he is very, very strong.
“The best in the world for me. I am sure that also when he gets into this idea of football he can score a lot of goals.
“In football, in my experience I learned that 100 per cent never exists because you don’t know what can happen in life.
“In general, in my experience as a footballer and as a manager, I learned that 100 per cent is very, very difficult to tell.
“I am sure and I am very |
State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer says his recent comments about the GOP acronym, at the Texas Democratic Convention, must be considered in context.
SAN | ANTONIO —Two Democratic members of the Texas House on Thursday declared their intentions to run for the Texas Senate seat being vacated by Leticia Van de Putte for her just-announced mayoral bid.
State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, a longtime ally of Van de Putte, issued a statement saying he will seek the Texas Senate District 26 seat that the new mayoral candiate has held since 1999.
Van de Putte is notifying Gov. Rick Perry today that she’s stepping down to run for mayor, which will force a special election.The legislative session starting Jan. 13.
Also Thursday, the Quorum Report reported that state Rep. Jose Menendez, also D-San Antonio, confirmed he would compete for the District 26 seat.
Menendez, who’s served in the House along with Martinez Fischer since 2001, hass been considering the race for several weeks.
See expressnews.com or Friday's print edition for complete coverage of the San |
Arizona State on Saturday dropped its final non-conference contest, 52-45 at Texas Tech. ASU is 1-2 for the first time | since 1999. Let's review.
Arizona State on Saturday dropped its final non-conference contest, 52-45 at Texas Tech. The Sun Devils are 1-2 for the first time since 1999.
1. ASU showed something. For most of the first half, the Sun Devils looked like they were on their way to getting routed. They had snapping issues, tackling breakdowns and a head-scratching special-teams mistake. They trailed 21-3, 35-17 and 42-24. Yet, somehow they pulled themselves together and gave themselves a chance. Yes, only wins matter. But Saturday's comeback was the season's most positive development. That's why it's relevant.
2. The offensive line still has issues. ASU made the expected changes. Sophomore Cohl Cabral started at center and sophomore Zach Robertson started at left tackle. In some ways, it backfired. Cabral’s poor snap in the first quarter led to a |
Two nights after tying a school record with 19 threes, DePaul (10-4, 2-0 Big East) used a big second | quarter run and a solid defensive outing to fend off a surging St John’s (7-6, 1-1 Big East) squad to hold on for a 76-67 victory at McGrath-Phillips Arena Saturday night.
Two nights after recording the fourth triple double in DePaul women’s basketball history, sophomore Kelly Campbell nearly did it for the second consecutive night with 10 points, 12 rebounds, and nine assists. After achieving one of her career goals, Campbell was intent on following that up with another good game focusing on the little details like rebounding.
After weathering a hot start from the Red Storm, the Blue Demons held the visitors to just two points in the final five minutes of the opening quarter to emerge with a six-point edge after the opening 10 minutes.
Similar to Thursday’s win over Seton Hall, the Blue Demons then used a big second quarter outscoring the Red Storm 29-13 to open up a 49-27 lead |
After seven years with West Lafayette Community School Corp., Rocky Killion has been selected the 2015 superintendent of the year for District 4 by the Indiana Association | of Public School Superintendents.
He is one of eight district winners. District 4 consists of Benton, Clay, Fountain, Greene, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Vigo and Warren counties. Administrators from the surrounding counties consider the qualifications and accomplishments of area colleagues and their instructional leadership.
Killion also stood out because of his financial crisis resolution.
Killion assumed his role in 2007 after working as superintendent of Lake Central School Corp. At the time, the West Lafayette district had been in deficit spending. A reduction in state funding in 2009 added to the urgency.
With help from the West Lafayette Community Foundation, the district created the Save Our School campaign. The one-time fundraiser garnered $217,000 and saved five teaching positions. A general fund referendum was passed in May 2010.
The superintendents group noted that Killion also helped produce “Rise Above the |
Thursday’s event included workshops, and several speakers including Westchester County Executive George Latimer and actor Mike Epps.
WHITE PLA | INS - Educators, politicians and community leaders who addressed a room full of black and Latino youth were defiant when they said they were talking to the next generation of citizens who would redefine what it means to be a young man of color.
The speakers were talking to about 800 students Thursday who attended a first-ever Youth Leadership Summit organized by a coalition of My Brother's Keeper communities from Westchester, Rockland and Dutchess counties.
“We want them to know that there are people out here who really care, that we want to make the investment in them so they will be a successful, contributing person in this society or the community they will eventually reside in,” said André Early, commissioner for the Department of Community Resources in Greenburgh and co-chair of the committee that organized the event.
But the My Brother’s Keeper challenge is steep.
The communities and school districts around the country that have accepted the My Brother’s Keeper challenge |
BRENTFORD co-director of football Rasmus Ankersen says the Championship club will be eyeing promotion again next season but won’ | t be governed by short-term thinking after appointing unheralded Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen as head coach.
Dijkhuizen replaces the popular Mark Warburton - who guided the Bees to the playoffs last season - at Griffin Park next term.
And while Warburton’s departure irked some fans, Andersen insists that doing away with conventional wisdom can see Brentford pushing for promotion again next term.
He said: “There’s a lot of sayings in football: why would you fix something that’s not broken but we think it’s important all the time to try and improve things and that also sometimes involves changing things that seem to be working.
And while promotion remains the goal, Ankersen claims that Dijkhuizen will not come under pressure if Brentford struggle in the early stages of next season.
He added: “It would be stupid not to try and do better than last season |
Lennox Head sporting groups and concerned residents opposed to aspects of a plan for the villages main recreational reserve are staging a rally this Saturday, March | 1.
The Lennox Head Combined Sports Association (LHCSA) is urging locals to dress up in their favourite sporting gear for the Help Save Williams Reserve event at the reserve from 11.30am to 1pm, with a free sausage sizzle and entertainment.
The rally is aimed at stopping the encroachment of a proposed skate park into the existing sporting area of the reserve as well as ensuring a management plan is formulated for the reserve, with relevant community consultation.
In a flyer circulated throughout Lennox Head, the association says it supports Ballina Shire Councils plan to integrate the skate park into the proposed community centre planned for the reserve but wants the reserve to remain an active sporting field for all.
The LHCSA says it also supports the use of the reserve for temporary overflow car parking to accommodate the peak use of the community centre, provided the future use of the reserve is controlled by a management plan.
Councils Lennox Head Strategic Plan aims to eventually remove all |
The Carol Burnett-penned memoir Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story is being adapted for the big screen at Focus Features | , per news from The Hollywood Reporter.
In her 2014 book, the legendary comedian looking back at her life as a working mother, actress and producer through the lens of her relationship with her late daughter Carrie Hamilton. Unfortunately, Hamilton died of pneumonia at age 38 in 2002.
Tina Fey (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Eric Gurian will produce through their Little Stranger production banner, along with I, Tonya producer Steven Rogers. Burnett also will produce through her Mabel Cat Productions along with Fey, Gurian and Rogers. Jeff Richmond will serve as executive producer.
The screenplay comes from brothers Ian and Eshom Nelms, though no director or cast has been named at this time.
Burnett has been keeping in the public eye, as last year saw the launch of A Little Help with Carol Burnett, where she was joined by a group of the most honest and unfiltered people in the world – a gaggle of straight talking, entertaining 5 |
A federal investigation has found that Tesla's Autopilot is partly to blame in the fatal crash of a Model S last year.
Joshua Brown | was killed in May 2016 when his Tesla crashed into a tractor-trailer in Florida while the self-driving software was active. Brown had not tried to control the car in two minutes, and the Autopilot didn't brake to avoid the collision.
The Tesla Autopilot wasn't designed for the road Brown was driving on, and drivers are expected to watch the road and take control as needed. Tesla Autopilot is not designed to handle the entire job of driving.
The investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board criticized Tesla for allowing Autopilot to be activated on roads it can't handle, and for how it determines whether drivers are engaged. It monitors wheel torque, and a driver could have a hand on the wheel without paying attention to the road.
The NTSB researchers noted that decades of research has shown humans are bad at monitoring automation systems. They may be lulled into complacency, and trust the Autopilot too much.
"We've found limitations |
UNITED NATIONS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China prevented a U.N. Security Council committee on Wednesday from blacklisting the head | of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which said it attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir.
The United States, Britain and France asked the Security Council’s Islamic State and al Qaeda sanctions committee to subject JeM founder Masood Azhar to an arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze. The 15-member committee operates by consensus.
China placed a “technical hold” on the request, according to a note from its U.N. mission to the committee, seen by Reuters. China gave no reason for the hold, which places the request in limbo.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Thursday that the Security Council has specific procedures for naming a person or organization on the terror list.
In a statement late on Wednesday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs vowed to pursue “all available avenues to ensure that terrorist leaders who are involved in heinous attacks on our citizens are brought to justice” |
Lufthansa will cut 130 flights on Monday, and 41 flights each day thereafter, despite the end to a strike over the weekend. |
The cancellations could be reduced in the coming days as the airline decreases the backlog of flights, an airline spokesperson said on Monday.
But it could also take up to two weeks for the airline to get its schedule back to normal after ten of thousands of Lufthansa workers walked off their jobs during the strike last week.
Lufthansa cancelled about 130 flights daily on Saturday and Sunday, roughly the same number of cancellations in the final days of the strike that ended with Saturday morning's early shift. The continuing cancellations are due to a contingency plan the airline put into place to deal with the strike, the spokesman told German news service DDP.
Lufthansa estimates a total of 2,000 flights will have been cancelled due to the strike led by trade union Verdi.
Lufthansa employees walked off the job on July 28 amid an ongoing wage dispute with the company. A tentative wage deal announced on Friday would raise wages for |
Props to Google for working with the hip glasses maker Warby Parker in an attempt to make its wearable A.I. goggles more stylish, | but it will take a lot of social acceptance of robot aesthetics before a face-computer looks cool.
Props to Google for working with the hip glasses maker Warby Parker in an attempt to make its wearable A.I. goggles more stylish, but it will take a lot of social acceptance of robot aesthetics before a face computer looks cool. Despite trading out the metal frames for Warby Parker's signature horn-rimmed look (shown at right), Google Glass will still have one feature that will make them look bizarre: "They have a tiny screen that appears much bigger from the wearer’s perspective than it does on the frame," as The New York Times's Claire Cain Miller explains it. It's hard to see that part going away anytime soon, since it's the gateway to the connected-computing part of the device. Total lens integration would make it better. But, it can't be too close to one's face, or else the wearer can't properly see all those |
With over 400 startup investments and 150 plus exits Fabrice Grinda is unquestionably one of the most experienced entrepreneurs and investors on the planet today. | If anyone knows what it takes to build a scrappy and scalable startup, and how to cash in on one, it’s got to be Fabrice. In a new episode of the DealMakers podcast he pulled back the curtain on his biggest mistakes and how to hit home runs, again and again as an entrepreneur and also as an investor (listen to the full episode here).
Super angel, and startup entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda has built and sold multiple companies, as well as investing in some of the most successful ventures you wish you had been in earlier. Those include Palantir, Airbnb and Alibaba Group. Joining the world’s top M&A experts, startup fundraisers, and angels, Fabrice gave an exclusive interview with the DealMakers podcast detailing how he got started, what he’d do differently now, and how he picks the entrepreneurs that receive his investment.
After finding his passion for tech with his first PC at ten years old |
n the evening of Aug. 11, 1834, a crowd of anti-Catholic demonstrators, most of them laborers, gathered outside the gates of | an Ursuline convent and girls' school in what was then Charlestown. As the night drew on, about 60, many with their faces painted like Indians, broke into the convent, forcing the nuns and their students to flee, and, after ransacking the buildings, set them afire while local firefighters stood by.
It was the most notorious of a series of anti-Catholic incidents that occurred in Boston in the years after 1820, when Irish immigration to the city was sharply increasing. The incidents were sparked by the economic fears of Yankee laborers -- and fueled by the incendiary sermons of preachers including Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
In "Fire and Roses," the attack on the Ursuline convent has received a passionate recounting from Nancy Lusignan Schultz, a professor of English at Salem State College. In her account, it is not the rioters or the city's social leaders who take the leading role |
We must hold countries accountable for economic abuses just as we do for torture.
The Human Rights Watch report is part of a growing effort to broaden | the agenda of the human rights movement. In recent years both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which for decades focused exclusively on political and civil rights, have begun to address issues like child labor, gender discrimination and the impact of globalization in their reports. New groups like the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), launched in 1993 by three Harvard graduate students, have emerged to advocate recognition of an array of economic and social rights that are affirmed in the Universal Declaration yet have long been relegated to second-class status.
At a time of rising inequality and growing concern about the consequences of unregulated global capitalism, making the right to education, shelter and other basic necessities coequal with civil and political rights is not only long overdue; it may also be the only way for the human rights movement to recapture the power and urgency that faded somewhat after the end of the cold war. In much of the world, after all, the struggle for access to basic necessities like education and medical care has become |
Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall does not like public scrutiny. She does not like dealing with the media. And she does not | like being questioned about the things that happen in her agency.
Hall is her own worst enemy.
When the Clarion Ledger was reporting on a string of unrelated deaths throughout MDOC prisons, Hall and MDOC officials were about as uncooperative as possible. For the longest time, Hall refused all interviews. MDOC spokesman Grace Fisher released very little information and seemed put off that we — and other media outlets — were reporting on the large number of deaths during a single month.
None of our reporting and none of the reporting we saw from other media outlets ever even implied, much less outright said, a conspiracy of mass neglect by MDOC linked the deaths of unrelated inmates across multiple prisons, but Hall said such a narrative grew in the public and on social media because of news reporting that was somehow both misinformed and due to MDOC being in an "era of transparency" by putting out so many press releases on the deaths.
The truth is that Hall's secrecy and refusal to |
PEORIA, Ariz. — Aside from the attention he gets because of his talent as a pitcher, Yusei Kikuchi is well | aware his first season in the majors will be subject to additional scrutiny.
Kikuchi's rookie season is something of an experiment, an attempt by the Seattle Mariners to see whether pitchers coming to the major leagues from Asia should be handled differently in their first season. The team will regulate Kikuchi's innings while making sure he starts on a regular five-day rotation, even if that means some outings are kept very short.
"As a player you want to go out there every start and perform and pitch one more inning, one more out," Kikuchi said through an interpreter. "But the front office guys, the GM the (manager) are taking an importance in me and making an adjustment to the states. I'm really happy about that and thankful for that."
By using a deliberate approach, the team and Kikuchi's representatives believe they can help ease his transition from pitching in Japan, where starters typically throw once a week, and in the process hopefully cut down on the arm problems |
Clashes between riot police and demonstrators have erupted in Bahrain for the fifth day in a row as the activists demand the release of Sheikh Ali Salman, | the head of the largest Shiite opposition party in the Kingdom.
Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd following a rally that started after prayers at Manama's Mumen mosque.
"Dozens of people... including women and children, were arrested,"Bahrain Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement. Arabic news sources also reported injuries.
The protest movement demands the release of the opposition leader of the Al-Wefaq party. Before the Thursday’s rally in the capital, protests centered on the villages surrounding Manama.
Salman was arrested on Sunday and charged with seeking to overthrow the ruling Sunni family. A number of countries including the US and Iran have expressed concern over the detention of the opposition leader.
The country's Interior Ministry have banned further protests scheduled to take place on Friday, as Bahraini security forces continue suppressing the Shiite-majority population. Bahrain’s leadership has relied heavily on other Sunni monarchies in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia.
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SOUTH BEND – Brian Kelly said it is not another DeShone Kiser/Malik Zaire situation. The Notre Dame football | coach said if he needs two quarterbacks to beat Michigan, or any other opponent, he will play two.
Book came off the bench in the Citrus Bowl and led the Fighting Irish over LSU 21-17, completing 14-of-19 passes for 164 yards and two touchdowns. Wimbush was still the No. 1 quarterback, and has remained so.
Yet memories are fresh of the 4-8 record of two years ago. Wounds are fresh, too, judging from tweets by Kiser and Zaire during the Citrus Bowl that were critical of Kelly switching QBs.
Zaire surprisingly replaced Kiser in 2016 during a 17-10 loss to Stanford.
Kiser was chosen in the second round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. As a rookie, he started 15 games and passed for 2,894 yards, 11 touchdowns and a league-leading 22 interceptions for the 0-16 Browns. He has subsequently been traded to Green Bay.
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Good news: Your teenage sons and daughters have doubled their productivity over the last year.
No, they're not doing twice as much homework or | eating double servings of vegetables. Young teenagers are, however, sending twice as many text messages on average compared with 2011.
Ofcom’s latest annual report on children’s media habits shows that those ages 12-15 are averaging 193 text messages each week, more than double last year's average of 91. Of that group, girls tend to send about 35% more messages than boys.
"Children’s take-up and use of different media is growing at a rapid pace, with some areas such as texting and smartphone ownership fast outstripping the general population," said Claudio Pollack, Ofcom’s consumer group director.
The study also shows that the era of television's monopoly on children's attention may be waning as Internet usage equaled children's self-reported television time. Each activity garnered about 17 hours per week. The children also said it was their cellphones, not their TVs, that would miss the most if forced to give them up |
CAMP MABRY, Texas -- A line of nominees stand, patiently adjusting their uniforms and silently reciting memorized answers as they wait to | be interviewed. On the other side of heavy conference room doors, panels of senior noncommissioned officers review documents and prepare a series of questions to ask each awaiting member. This distinguished panel is charged with identifying the Outstanding Airmen of the Year for the Texas Air National Guard.
The Airman of the Year award recognizes outstanding Guardsmen for superior leadership, job performance, community involvement and personal achievements. Five individuals were selected from the 136th Airlift Wing to move forward to Austin, Texas, Jan. 11-13 to compete for the state title.
The official ceremony took place on Jan. 13, and in the Airman category, the wing’s very own Senior Airman Benfer took first place for the Texas Air National Guard. He will move forward to compete at the national level for the entire Air National Guard.
Maj. Gen. David McMinn, commander of the Texas Air National Guard, presided over the official ceremony at Camp Mabry. |
HedgeFundLIVE.com— Monday, April 18 was one of the wildest Mondays we have seen in a while. In the pre | -market, S&P released that it is lowering its outlook on the U.S. credit rating/debt. On that piece of news, the market sold off aggressively before the bell and the decline continued after the open as well. By about 11a, the S&P futures were down about 28 handles. Any panic selling must have died down pretty quickly because the market began to recover after seeing the low tick of the day at 11:05a. In fact, the ES closed 81bps off its low. I looked for all days since 2000 when the Spooz closed down on a day in which it traded in a >25 handle day range and bounced off its low by at least 75bps. I also included a criteria specifying that the market was in a downtrend, defined as when the 8D moving average is below the 15D moving average. This scenario has played out 81 times, or roughly 2.9% of the time. Then, I examined what tends |
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office deputy stopped the pursuit when the suspect turned southbound onto the northbound lanes of I-25.
A | 49-year-old Fort Collins man died in a head-on collision with a semi-truck after he drove the wrong way down Interstate 25 on Wednesday night while trying to flee from police, according to Colorado State Patrol and Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
About 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, a Larimer County Sheriff's Office deputy attempted to pull over a vehicle at East Mulberry Street and Greenfield Court for a traffic stop, but the driver failed to stop, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
A check of the vehicle's license plates revealed it was associated with a man wanted for a felony warrant.
The deputy pursued the vehicle eastbound on East Mulberry Street to I-25 at speeds reaching 55 mph, according to LCSO. The suspect then started to turn southbound onto I-25 from the northbound off-ramp.
The deputy attempted a slow-speed PIT maneuver to stop the driver from turning into oncoming |
Out in deep space, our universe of heavenly bodies is a riot of glorious colors and fantastical shapes. But you won't know that by looking | at the night sky, which, even in the clearest weather when it's dotted by seemingly endless stars, is a minimalist study in black and white. That's because the eye is unable to perceive colors when the source of light is small and faint.
One man has done much to show that objects in deep space have astonishing colors.
David Malin, the photographic scientist at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales. has been photographing celestial objects in the night sky for about 20 years through the observatory's telescope, one of the largest in the world. His photographs give a stunning view of stars, nebulae and distant galaxies that is virtually a compendium of art through the ages: from the somber chiaroscuro of Rembrandt and Caravaggio to the rich gold of Titian, from the Expressionism of van Gogh to the glowing hues of Turner, from the Post-Impressionism of Gauguin to the modernist target |
Also, letters on immigrant history myths; complaints about roadside trash in Sussex; and a lack of good alternatives to Trump.
The lack of civ | ility over political differences in the early 21st century is eerily reminiscent to another dark period in American history, the years leading up to 1861. George Santayana is credited with the wise advice that those who do not learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
On May 19, 1856, Massachusetts’ U.S. Senator, Charles Sumner, a Republican, espousing his party’s anti-slavery platform, gave a two-day impassioned speech that later was dubbed, “Crimes Against Kansas.” On the Senate floor, Sen. Sumner’s speech personally attacked Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas and South Carolina Sen. Andrew Butler, the two Democrats who co-authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, for continuing a westward expansion of slavery.
South Carolina’s U.S. Representative, Democrat Preston Brooks, a relative of Sen. Butler, reacted to this speech by viciously can |
New York: While Vitamin D helps in promoting bone health, a new study suggests that it may also promote greater insulin sensitivity, thus lowering glucose levels | and the risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.
The study, conducted only on women, showed that vitamin D supplementation was found to be negatively associated with high glucose levels.
In addition, habitual exposure to the sun also provided the same association, demonstrating that vitamin D deficiencies are associated with high blood glucose levels, said the study, published in Menopause: The journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
“Although a causal relationship has not been proven, low levels of vitamin D may play a significant role in Type-2 diabetes mellitus. Vitamin D supplementation may help improve blood sugar control, but intervention studies are still needed,” said JoAnn Pinkerton, Executive Director at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Furthermore, a previous study has also found that vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk of potentially fatal lung attacks in some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
For the study, the team from |
Mathew D. Mulhern, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Deputy Director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, Office of | the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He advises and directs selected study, development and fielding activities tasked directly by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is responsible for the development and deployment of significant upgrades to the Integrated Air Defense System now operational around the National Capital Region. Other responsibilities include technical integration of Department of Defense classified activities, and the representation of these activities to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Congress and the White House.
Mr. Mulhern was commissioned into the U.S. Marine Corps following graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980. After completing The Basic School and flight training he was designated a Naval Aviator in August 1982. As a Naval Aviator, he served multiple operational tours in the F-4 Phantom and FA |
When all major infrastructure projects are facing delays and cost escalation, the venture to build three new bridges on the Shitalakkhya, Megh | na and Gumti rivers is making good progress. All of them are expected to be completed by the December 2018 deadline, and setting an example, will cost less than what was estimated in the development project proforma (DPP).
The High Court upholds death for 15 convicts while commuting the penalty of 11 others – all of whom were sentenced to death by lower court in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder cases.
Coming down heavily on the chief justice for comparing Bangladesh with Pakistan, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she is not scared at all with such a threat and this is not tolerable either.
Legendary Bangla film actor Razzak passes away at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 76.
Ericsson employees in Dhaka demonstrate at their office premises protesting laying off of 50 employees, what the company says are in line with company policy.
Six youths have allegedly gang-raped two schoolgirls in Sujanagar of Pabna and then |
The veil is thin and the deceased are near—are you ready to delve into the magic this year?
Producers of Tarocco and | Animalia, the Fox & Beggar Theater returns to the Bywater with a special Halloween performance: Pulcino: A Day of the Dead Carnival. Featuring two music stages, live face painting, dancers, circus and fire performances, food vendors, carnival booths, and twelve ornamented Día De Los Muertos altars, designed by local artists and stationed throughout the landscape. It’s an event not to be missed! And the 21+ evening is expected to sell out…but here at Xpress we have a pair of tickets that could be yours! For your chance to claim these tickets, tell us this: what’s your favorite part Halloween/Samhain/Día De Los Muertos? Comment below by Friday, October 23 at 2 PM and you’ll be entered to win!!
Live music by Asheville’s Juan Benavides Group, Hot Point Trio, One Leg Up, Dub Kartel, Byrdy, |
SYDNEY: Australia opener Matt Renshaw is a doubt for the series-opening test against Pakistan after suffering a head injury in a tour | match in Dubai.
Renshaw, who has a history of concussions, exited the match against a Pakistan ‘A’ side after being hit by a pull shot from batsman Abid Ali when fielding at short leg on Sunday.
Renshaw was wearing a helmet when he was struck in the side of the head. He pulled it off immediately and sat with his head in his hands before being examined by medical staff.
He came off the ground for further checks and was replaced in the lineup by Marnus Labuschagne.
Opening batsman Aaron Finch said Renshaw was in good spirits, but the selectors are likely to be cautious about playing the Yorkshire-born 22-year-old in the first test starting on Sunday.
Renshaw suffered concussion in a warm-up mishap before a Sheffield Shield match for Queensland in March and was subbed out of the game.
He was also withdrawn from a 2017 test against Pakistan in Sydney |
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