THE transfer window is shut for now - but what moves could be happening in January?
Here's the latest in the Starsport Transfer Zone.
New Arsenal signing Mesut Ozil has been accused of moving to the Emirates for the money.
Ozil could be joined by Luis Suarez at Arsenal too in January.
They are still on the lookout for a top-class striker.
Manchester United fans have expressed their anger at chief executive Ed Woodward and have demanded for him to be sacked.
Andre Villas-Boas has hinted that Gareth Bale forced his own way out of Tottenham.
Iker Casillas was offered to Arsenal last month - but Jesus Navas has pleaded with him to join Manchester City.
Nani has ended speculation surrounding his future by signing a new five-year deal at Manchester United.


CEBU’S top amateur golfer Lloyd Jefferson Go shot a 69 in the fourth and final round of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and closed out the four-day tournament at the Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore yesterday at fourth place among hundreds of golfers from 40 countries.
Go, a former ace junior golfer of Cebu Country Club (CCC), shot a total of 270 from rounds of 65, 67 and a pair of 69s. Go was three strokes behind eventual winner Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, who carded a 65 in the final round to steal the win.
Go was one shot shy away of tying the runners-up Rayhan Thomas of India and Keita Nakajami of Japan, who both carded 269 for a joint second place in the 10th edition of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, which started last Oct. 4.
Go, ranked 149th in the World’s Amateur Golf ranking, paced the field after the second round but lost it in the third.
He played superb golf in the opening round, scoring 65 built from seven birdies against two bogeys to take an early lead after the first round. Go continued to played well and hit five birdies and two bogeys for a 67 to share the lead with China’s Cheng Jin after the second round.
Go fired 69 in the third round and entered the final round with aggregate score of 201. He had a one stroke lead over Japan’s Nakajami and Kanaya. Thomas and Thailand’s K.K Limbahasut were also in striking distance with 203.
Kanaya shot 65 in the final round and had seven birdies against two bogeys to steal the thunder from the Filipino golfer. Kanaya had a string of birdies in hole Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 6 before adding another in the back nine at hole Nos. 14, 15 and 16.
It was a solid start for Go in the final round, hitting two birdies at the first three holes but he fell with bogeys in hole Nos. 8 and 13. He birdied No.16 and parred the final two holes.


The Washington Marriott is defined by its large amount of convention and meeting space—although, guests would never know it from the small foyer. After walking through the lobby, guests reach the two-story center of the hotel and a maze of trendy seating areas; an escalator leads to the second floor, where 80 percent of the hotel’s space is taken up by banquet rooms.
While the lobby and its lounge areas have fun layouts, shapes, and prints, the second floor is a all professional. The hotel specializes in extravagant table settings, banquet cuisine, and the variety of event-room types—classroom, conference, meeting, or reception.
Guest rooms aren’t too spacious, but are contemporary, sleek, and functional.
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The mouse has become a mountain lion and she is ready to roar.
Penrith is no longer just a place the hordes pass through to visit that glamourpuss, Miss Blue Mountains and her Three Sisters.
Penrith has, for a long time now, been a destination in her own right.
During the past few decades many young families have turned off the Great Western Highway and set up house along the beautiful Nepean River. They wised up, realising that the great Australian dream was way more affordable out west. They settled down and had kids, and those kids, when they were little boys, played rugby league. Not only for Penrith, but for places such as St Marys, Windsor, Richmond and St Clare.
Now those little kids are the backbone of the mighty Penrith Panthers. They have grown up to become mountain men, and their families and friends who grew up with them, watched them, and nurtured them, are just as much a part of this grand final as the players themselves.
This grand final in particular has been a long time coming. In the 12 years since Greg Alexander led the Panthers to their first premiership, in 1991, Penrith has changed. It has gone from a working-class suburb clinging to the fringes of Sydney to being a vibrant community fuelled by hope, passion and a desperate drive to be respected.
But the success of the Penrith community was not always reflected in its football team. During that time it has not always been easy to be a Panthers fan.
Penrith have been my team since 1982, so it is not often moments like these come along. I chose them as my team as a nine-year-old kid devastated by the demise of the Newtown Jets. I cheered for the Jets because they were captained by my hero, Tommy Raudonikis. I didn't identify with Newtown itself - hell, I didn't even know where it was, but I idolised Raudonikis.
I didn't choose the Penny Panthers for any one particular player. It certainly had nothing to do with their colours - back then they were the chocolate soldiers with stripes in the distinctly unfashionable hues of poo brown and white. It was for me a matter of being proud of where I lived. I was born and raised in Windsor, so it made sense to cheer for a team that trained and played a few minutes' drive from home. Penrith was way closer to Windsor than Newtown, and as a result I spent many a Sunday afternoon at Penrith Park with my dad, cheering on my team.
They very rarely won back then, but I didn't care - I was at an age where a bucket of hot chips was a soothing balm to any hurt caused by a loss. By 1991 I did care, though, and I care again this weekend. While I no longer live in Windsor, my family still does and I still identify with the area. Growing up in the west makes you value the sense of community that comes with the struggle to make ends meet. There are no free rides out there, and anyone who succeeds has earned it.
That's what this football team represents - the struggle to succeed not so much against the odds, but against everything and everyone. A team that was the laughing stock of the league last year has got its act together. Yet despite some brilliant form, and the presence of excellent players, many rugby league experts are still not prepared to back Penrith for tomorrow's grand final.
And that is fantastic. The best way to get someone from the west to succeed at something is to tell them they can't.
Back in '91 after the Panthers' historic grand final win, Royce Simmons pledged to have a beer with everyone in Penrith. I bet Craig Gower would repeat the feat if Penrith win tomorrow.
Somehow, having a beer with everyone in Penrith sounds so much more real than having a latte with everyone in Bondi.


Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Wildlife officials in Florida said they rescued a young bald eagle found with a bad case of poisoning in the trash at a waste facility.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Wednesday the juvenile eagle was discovered by staff at the waste disposal facility and summoned wildlife biologists to the scene.
The FWC biologists were able to capture the eagle in a net and take it to the Alachua County Sheriff's Office, which was able to transfer the ailing bird to an animal clinic.
The eagle, which was suffering from a form of poisoning, was later transferred to the Eye of the Eagle Wildlife Sanctuary, where it will be rehabilitated for eventual release, the FWC said.


The PlayStation Classic was announced earlier this year. The console would come pre-built with twenty selected games that Sony felt like giving some love to. Of course, the method of which they managed to fit that many games into the console was with the help of emulation. Rather than doing what Nintendo did for their own mini-consoles and create their own emulator, Sony just used a pre-existing one instead labeled PCSX ReARMed.
The news was spread thanks to the founder of the Video Game History Foundation in a tweet.
People had different reactions to the use of the fan-made emulator in an officially licensed product. Some felt the action was hypocritical due to their lawsuit back in 1999 against the Bleem Company. The suit alleged the company’s Bleem! (Best Little Emulator Ever Made) emulator was violating their rights by attempting to sell a commercial product without their consent. The suit went on until 2002 where Sony ended up losing but, the Bleem Company allegedly sold the emulator to Sony and they subsequently shut it down. Other reports claim the business went under due to the legal fees.
A large difference between Bleem! and PCSX ReARMed was the two’s licenses; Bleem! was a commercial product while PCSX is entirely open-source. The license’s difference means it wasn’t being sold to anyone but, instead was open for anyone to acquire. That even includes Sony who is using the product commercially.
What is your take on this? Do you think it’s hypocritical for Sony to use a pre-existing emulator or not?


Ed Helms: Tag Me In : Ask Me Another Actor Ed Helms shares a toothy secret kept from The Office producers. Plus, Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield helps with a game about summer jams. This episode originally aired on June 15, 2018.
Actor Ed Helms shares a toothy secret kept from The Office producers. Plus, Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield helps with a game about summer jams. This episode originally aired on June 15, 2018.
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NBC's long decline in prime-time has likely affected the "Today" show, giving it less visibility among viewers. The network's executives say that "Good Morning America" does particularly well when it features members of the "Dancing With the Stars" cast from ABC's prime-time lineup.
"The `Today' show is now stagnating from what I would call the arrogance of being No. 1," she said. "That will happen to anybody. You stagnate because you're No. 1 and think you don't need to change."


The province has found mercury in soil and possibly buried metal in an area upstream from Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) Independent Nations that was identified by a former paper mill worker as a dumping ground for mercury-filled barrels.
The Environment Ministry’s findings confirm results found by the Toronto Star one year ago.
The mercury-tainted soil and the metallic underground “anomalies” were found in a clearing identified by Kas Glowacki as the area in Dryden, Ont., where he and a small crew dumped 50 drums of salt and mercury in 1972.
The province says it will dig up the clearing for more answers.
“We are continuing our site assessment and will be excavating areas where there are larger anomalies this coming spring,” said an Environment Ministry spokesperson, Gary Wheeler, in an email to the Star.
Between 1962 and 1970, 10 tonnes of mercury from the Dryden paper mill, then owned by Reed Paper, were dumped into the Wabigoon River, which flows to the two Indigenous communities in northern Ontario.
Mercury contamination, a serious health risk, has plagued the people there for decades. Dangerous and persistently high levels of mercury found in the river sediment and fish in the river system suggest there is an ongoing source.
Until recently, provincial officials had said the site was not an ongoing source of mercury to the river system. Scientist John Rudd has said that, historically, paper mills have been known to be sources of contamination long after they stopped using mercury in the paper-bleaching process.
Mercury has not been used in paper production at the site in decades, and there is no suggestion that Domtar, several owners removed from Reed Paper, is responsible for any ongoing source of mercury.
Last January, the Star and the environmental group Earthroots dug several holes in the area identified by Glowacki and had the soil tested at a lab. The holes were dug behind the riverside factory. The soil showed mercury readings up to 80 times natural levels.
In September, a provincial crew dug its own holes and in one (which the province labelled TS1 for the “Toronto Star,” as the Star had previously dug there) found mercury levels that were 240 times higher than expected natural levels in soils that were even deeper than those taken by the Star, according to a provincial report on the search that the Star has obtained.
Western University Prof. Brian Branfireun said the province’s results confirm and strengthen the Star’s findings last year.
“The deeper the soil samples, the higher the concentration,” said Branfireun, who holds the Canada Research Chair in environment and sustainability.
The province did not explain why it took one year to confirm the Star’s results.
The underground metal “anomalies” were detected in October by a government worker who scanned the area with a hand-held electromagnetic surveying device.
The Star first published Glowacki’s allegations in the summer of 2016, when he recounted that, as a 21-year-old casual labourer, he spent a week on a crew that shovelled out a vat and filled about 50 drums. At the top of the vat, veins of mercury streaked the salt, Glowacki said, adding that as he and a co-worker shovelled toward the bottom, the mercury concentrations seemed to increase.
Glowacki remembered that some drums were carelessly pushed off a flatbed truck and toppled into a pit that was lined with polyurethane sheets.
In late 2016, Ontario’s environment minister announced the province had searched for the barrels and concluded they did not exist. The government had searched an area, near that sampled by Earthroots and the Star. Before that search, an Earthroots representative asked the province to search in a larger area, which did not happen.
There are other locations on the mill property that scientists believe could be an ongoing source of mercury to the river, including the site of the old chlor-alkali plant, where mercury was used to bleach paper.
In November, the Star reported that the provincial government knew in the 1990s that mercury was visible in soil under that site and never told anyone from Grassy Narrows or Whitedog.
The Star also reported that groundwater samples taken from wells on the mill property over the years have shown extremely high mercury levels. The province’s environment ministry said it was unaware of this data until the summer of 2016, when it received a report based on historical data commissioned by current owner Domtar.


Wolverhampton Wanderers’ impressive adaptation to life in the Premier League continues to gather momentum as Raul Jiménez scored the only goal of a one-sided game to secure their first top-flight home victory since December 2011. Signed on a season-long loan from Benfica, Jiménez registered his second of the season on an afternoon when Burnley were outplayed and outclassed for long periods.
The result lifts Wolves up to ninth, following their win over West Ham prior to the international break, and leaves Burnley in the bottom three, winless in 10 Premier League matches and desperately needing a result to kickstart their season. Sean Dyche’s side have now lost four consecutive league matches and the truth is that the scoreline flattered them here.
Wolves could and should have won far more comfortably. The sight of Léo Bonatini missing a simple chance deep into injury-time, when the substitute shot wide with the goal yawning invitingly in front of him, rather summed up Wolves’ finishing. Nuno Espírito Santo, the Wolves manager, threw his arms around in disgust on the touchline, although it is Dyche, his opposite number, who has all the problems.
It was a strange game, slow to get going and half an hour before there was any meaningful goalmouth action. Then came a flurry of Wolves chances that saw Joe Hart produce a couple of instinctive saves as the Burnley goal started to live a charmed life. Diogo Jota, wriggling away from Phil Bardsley, who had already been booked for a foul on the Wolves winger, created the first opportunity by getting to the byline before cutting the ball back for Jiménez. The Mexican’s first-time shot was repelled by Hart and when the Wolves striker reacted first to the rebound, James Tarkowski was well-positioned to head off the line.
Back came Wolves again. Jonny Castro Otto’s low left-footed shot was hacked clear – the wing-back probably ought to have done better from 12 yards out and with one side of the goal wide open – and Hart then produced another stop to deny Matt Doherty, who was darting in from the other flank to meet Rúben Neves’s inviting inswinging cross. When Willy Boly volleyed inches over just before half-time, it was clear that Burnley were hanging on.
The impression was reinforced within a minute of the restart following a calamitous mistake from Bardsley that should have led to Wolves opening the scoring. Already enduring a difficult afternoon, Bardsley underhit a backpass to Hart and Jota was suddenly in the clear on the left. Jota momentarily forgot to take the ball with him, however, and that led to him squaring for Jiménez rather than trying to shoot for goal. To compound things, Jota’s pass was a little undercooked and invited Bardsley to make a desperate lunge that seemed to do just enough to put off Jiménez , who lifted his left-footed shot over the bar. What a chance.
There were, in other words, plenty of warning signs for Burnley long before Wolves eventually took the lead with a well-worked goal that carved the visitors open. Neves released Helder Costa and it was a clever pass from the winger that picked out the run of Doherty, who did well to hold off Johann Berg Gudmundsson as he angled the ball perfectly into the path of Jiménez . This time Jiménez made no mistake and guided a low right-footed shot from 10 yards in off the far upright.
Doherty really should have added a second 15 minutes from time, in a role reversal as Jiménez turned provider. Carrying the ball forward from inside his own half, the Irishman ran at the heart of the Burnley defence before swapping passes with Jiménez . One-on-one with Hart, Doherty fluffed his lines and dragged wide. Bonatini then had several chances to score after replacing Jiménez , including that gilt-edged opportunity right at the death. As for Burnley, apart from Matej Vydra’s angled volley, which was deflected narrowly wide, they created next to nothing.


New Delhi, Apr 14 () India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is "hungry" for acquisitions and is scouting for assets that can bring in intellectual property and widen market reach to further accelerate growth.
Speaking to , Chief Operating Officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam said TCS had acquired two entities -- W12 and BridgePoint Group -- last year and both of them have been integrated well with the Mumbai-based firm.
"We continue to remain open and hungry for acquisitions. We have one of the best track records in terms of acquiring companies and integrating them... the approach is that clearly, we are in the market looking for the right asset which will add certain amount of IP (intellectual property), market reach or client addition," he said.
TCS, which had acquired French SAP service provider acquire Alti SA for 75 million euros (about Rs 533 crore) in 2013, has been focussing on organic growth even as its global and domestic rivals went on an acquisition spree.
Infosys acquired consumer insights agency WongDoody for USD 75 million last year. Wipro's investment in the digital space includes entities like Designit and Cooper.
TCS, in November last year, announced the acquisition of W12 Studios (for an undisclosed amount). A digital design studio based in London, the acquisition of W12 was part of TCS' efforts to bolster its digital and creative design capabilities.
In the same month, TCS acquired the business of BridgePoint Group, LLC, a US management consulting firm (for an undisclosed sum).
Asked about the opportunities in the market, Subramaniam said there are options, especially among startups.
"Some of the startups are doing very well, blockchain is an area where lot of firms have come up. There are many who are working on future of financial services, future of cash, future of payments... so we continue to watch closely some of those technologies and startup firms, how their business models are emerging," he said.
Subramaniam asserted that if TCS found the right framework, it "will not hesitate" to make an offer.
"It has to make sense in terms of both value and the combined value of TCS and the asset that we are acquiring should really be great," he added.
The Mumbai-based company, which reported a 17.7 percent growth in profits at Rs 8,162 crore and 18.5 per cent rise in March 2019 quarter revenues to Rs 38,010 crore, continues to remain bullish about growth this fiscal.


Enterprises have been slow to move big data processing to the cloud, but not for lack of trying.
Most companies now use the public cloud in some form, often for SaaS applications. But enterprises have been slow to migrate big data and data warehousing to the cloud, despite cost, scalability and elasticity benefits. According to a 2014 Gartner survey, less than half of organizations with big data programs reported using the cloud in any form.
This raises the question – why aren’t more companies using the cloud for data processing, especially since concerns over security are easing and more services are available than ever before?
There’s a simple answer: It’s challenging – especially for enterprises.
Much of it depends on how your infrastructure grew up. Many digital natives, with their businesses entirely online, built cloud-based systems from the get-go.
But for established enterprises with significant investments in on-premise data centers, using the cloud requires that they learn, maintain, and integrate two environments – technically, culturally, and operationally.
At Cazena, we hear stories like this all the time.
IT leaders report they’re often surprised where the biggest cloud challenges have cropped up. The good news is that none of these issues are insurmountable, especially if you plan for them and choose the right services for your requirements.
Here are six challenges of big data in the cloud and how to overcome them.
Like men and women, cloud services and on-premises data centers are vastly different worlds – a fact often underestimated by enterprises.
Cloud services are set up, configured, and priced differently than standard servers in a data center. To start, budgeting and managing costs changes completely under the rental paradigm of the cloud versus the traditional model. Choosing and optimizing cloud infrastructure for big data workloads requires new skills that must be learned or acquired.
While it may be easy for a developer to spin up a quick experiment, it is notoriously challenging to integrate cloud services with existing systems. And that’s just setting up basic services – never mind architecture, deployment, integration, and managing the cloud.
“Lack of resources/ expertise” is now the number one challenge in cloud, edging out security in the 2016 RightScale: State of the Cloud Survey.
Experts cite major shortages in cloud architecture, developer skills, and cloud DevOps.
Related is the well-documented big data skills shortage. Big data and cloud expertise is difficult – and expensive – to find.
Many enterprises report that they have piloted the cloud for big data. But as with the weary CIO above and his “space station,” companies say they find it hard to make the cloud an integrated part of production data processes.
In addition to the complex data and system integration work, adding a new cloud environment also brings change management and operational hurdles. Enterprises report it’s more difficult for them to determine and uphold service-level agreements (SLAs) for cloud services.
How can two-second response times for business intelligent queries be delivered most cost-effectively, versus overnight batch processes? Overall, it’s a major challenge to support the cloud as they do other services.
Large enterprises that have successfully developed their own cloud analytics capabilities typically invest several years and millions of dollars in the effort.
Historically, security and privacy topped surveys of cloud challenges, but experts now say cloud providers are more secure than ever before.
Problems often result from inconsistent, ad hoc use of the cloud, or poorly-defined cloud policies, leading to human mistakes. Gartner predicts that through 2020, 95 percent of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault. The same report goes on to point out that companies should not be scared off by this statistic.
On the contrary, enterprises simply need to formally address cloud security, leaving no room for interpretation. Companies must also learn to correctly use the security features offered by cloud providers, and choose vendors that can work with their existing management systems and policies.
The emphasis is also misplaced in the well-covered issue of moving data into the cloud. Many discussions focus on how giant petabyte-sized datasets move from data centers into the cloud.
In fact, significant volumes of data like this are usually moved in physical media like Amazon Snowball or by FedEx or other ground transportation. But these are often one-time, massive transfers, not ongoing updates.
The real challenge is making data movement to and from the cloud a seamless part of the enterprise data flow. Discussions about data movement to the cloud must focus on streaming, micro-batching updates, and data pipelines. For the cloud to make an impact on production processes, enterprises must consider ongoing, two-way data movement.
Many companies want to use the cloud to collect and pre-process data, then move subsets to on-premises data warehouses. It’s not just about moving data from data centers into the cloud.
Emerging tech markets often produce wildly varying labels, capabilities, and pricing models. This is especially true for data processing in the cloud, where buyers must dig deep to understand the differences between numerous point solutions for specific technologies and broader managed service offerings.
Some services are pay-as-you-go; some are flat-rate. They include different levels of monitoring, management, and SLAs. And cloud vendors vary in their levels of operational support.
The big challenge is finding cloud providers that can fit comfortably with your existing processes.
None of these challenges warrant staying out of the cloud. With its processing power, scale and economics, cloud is the the future of big data analytics. As savvy digital natives have proven, using the cloud for analytics enables a major competitive edge.
Perhaps your biggest resource is the plethora of value-added services available today.
The cloud is no longer a DIY environment for developers. While enterprises have been slow to move to the cloud, vendors have been busy developing new services to ease the transition.
Now, it’s key to pick cloud projects carefully, choosing well-scoped endeavors that augment your overall capabilities. Find the right balance of the cloud services you source versus strategic skills you develop in-house.
Never assume any consistency across services. Evaluate each carefully with a similar requirements matrix, and use industry expertise to make sure you cover all your options.
With each service, examine and test integration capabilities upfront to determine how the solution will fit into your existing architecture.
Understand exactly what you’re getting from your cloud provider for security, and delineate roles and responsibilities for cloud management.
New services and solutions are rapidly filling the gaps between cloud and enterprise. Managed services supplement enterprise resources, while “big data as a service” offerings abstract and automate underlying cloud complexity.
These services provide alternatives to building a custom cloud data platform from scratch, allowing you to focus your resources on data strategy and data science to interpret and use data. Focus on developing the in-house skills that give you a sustainable edge.
Armed with these principles, you can successfully move big data processing to the cloud.


An open letter has been prepared and released by the deans and directors of the seven research libraries at public doctoral institutions in Virginia. It is part of an ongoing conversation with our campus communities about responsible stewardship of our investments in research.
On February 28, 2019, the University of California System announced the end of its relationship with publishing giant Elsevier, when a deal between the two could not be met despite months of negotiation. The key goal for UC was to secure open access to the research that UC faculty publish with Elsevier while containing the inflation and overall cost associated with the for-profit publisher. The scholarship produced by UC researchers constitutes 10% of all U.S. publishing, and their desideratum is to see that research openly available online at no cost to the reader.
William & Mary has a big deal journal package with Elsevier and with a few other major journal publishers such as Springer Nature, Wiley, Oxford, and SAGE. In December, W&M Libraries published the prices of our most expensive packages as part of our commitment to open dialogue with faculty and students about the high cost of information and priorities for faculty and student research. The page talks about the tension between our desire to provide access to exceptional collections and the growing realization that our current publishing system is so problematic that it’s irrational, if not impossible, to continue to pour university dollars into for-profit journal publishing at the degree we are now.
For California, Elsevier offered a renewal contract that layered new OA publication fees on top of higher costs for subscriptions, and excluded OA publishing in some of their highest profile journals including Cell and The Lancet. In the end, the two sides could not reach an agreement and no new contract was signed by UC for subscription access to Elsevier’s lineup of over 2,500 peer reviewed journals.
UC’s cancellation is one of the largest examples of a university system splitting from Elsevier in the U.S., though countries and consortia across Europe have made similar moves in the past few years. In fact, a group of national research funding organizations with the support of the European Research Council announced the launch of Plan S in the fall; this coalition of major funding agencies would insist that funded research be published in open access journals or on compliant open access platforms by 2020.
This system, however, is gradually giving way to the open access model, in which journals are supported financially by alternative means so that final, peer-reviewed work can be read by anyone, without a subscription. Even when publishing in traditional journals, researchers in most cases can request to retain their copyrights so their work can be archived in an institutional repository like W&M ScholarWorks or a subject-based repository.
Both self-archiving in this way and choosing to publish in OA journals are key to increasing access to research in the developing world, increasing readership, and disrupting the current inequalities inherent in the publishing world. Open access advocates say this is not only a more logical system for research funded by the public, but a much better way of disseminating scientific discovery. In a recent analysis of William & Mary faculty publications, journal articles that were available open access either in an OA repository such as W&M ScholarWorks or in an open access journal such as those published by PLoS, were cited 90% more than articles locked behind a publisher paywall.
The decision to put open access at the forefront of the UC System negotiation was bolstered by faculty support throughout the process as many faculty authors turned away from editing and publishing with Elsevier because of their high costs and high profit margins, history of litigation and legislative support against libraries and researchers, and aggressive acquisition and control of services and applications in all parts of the research life cycle such as SSRN, Mendeley, Berkeley Press’s Digital Commons, and Hivebench.
UC has been in the forefront of the open access trend. Its Academic Senate adopted an OA policy in 2013 whereby UC authors are required to deposit versions of their papers or links in the university’s eScholarship online repository, which currently holds more than 200,000 items available to the public for free.
What should William & Mary faculty and researchers do if they’re concerned about these issues?
To share your thoughts, ask questions, or get more information from the librarians, archivists, and staff of W&M Libraries, talk with one of our faculty liaisons. If you’re interested in going open, but are not sure where to start, learn more about open scholarship at William & Mary on our website or by emailing us.


After Brexit Vote, A Look At British Prime Minister David Cameron's Rise And Fall : Parallels The British prime minister was riding high after a sweeping election victory by his Conservative Party last year. But that campaign included a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by his wife, Samantha, speaks to the media in front of 10 Downing St. on Friday as he announces his resignation following Britain's vote to leave the EU.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron was at his political peak just last year as he led his Conservative Party to an outright majority in Parliament for the first time in more than two decades, surpassing all the forecasts.
Today, his political career is effectively over, the result of another surprise at the ballot box — the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union.
"This is how a political life ends: with a crash, not a whimper," Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in Foreign Policy. "David Cameron's place in history is now assured. He is the man who took the United Kingdom out of the European Union."
Which is exactly the opposite of what Cameron intended.
As part of last year's highly successful campaign, Cameron pledged to hold a referendum on EU membership. It was a promise he didn't have to make and didn't really want to keep. He favors a U.K. in the family of Europe, but bowed to pressure from his own party, which includes many leading Euro-skeptics.
Cameron's intent was to silence those critics with a vote reaffirming Britain's commitment to the EU. But the result has put the country on the EU off-ramp and brought an abrupt end to his six years as prime minister.
"I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union, and I made clear the referendum was about this and this alone — not the future of any single politician, including myself," an emotional Cameron said Friday morning at 10 Downing St., the prime minister's office.
He said he would step down, though he'll serve as a caretaker until a new prime minister is chosen by his fellow Conservatives. The aim is to have a new leader in place by the time the Conservatives hold a party conference in October, he said.
Cameron had successfully navigated many potential pitfalls since becoming prime minister in 2010. He was on a winning streak and had reason to think he was on safe ground with the EU referendum.
Two years ago, Cameron sanctioned a referendum on Scottish independence, and successfully campaigned for its defeat by a convincing margin.
He called last year's triumph in the parliamentary elections "the sweetest victory of all."
While not great, Britain's economy has been one of the better performers in underperforming Europe.
And despite Britain's mixed feelings about being tied to Europe, the U.K. has been a Euro member for more than four decades. Britain signed up in 1973, back when it was called the European Economic Community. Just two years later, the country held a referendum on leaving, yet voters chose overwhelmingly to stay by a 2-to-1 margin.
But Cameron miscalculated this time.
The two overriding issues were the economy and immigration, and they were closely linked.
For the young and well-educated working in London's financial community, globalization has been a roaring success, filled with opportunities. For working-class citizens with stagnant wages, immigration and EU policies were often the scapegoat.
Cameron pledged to limit immigration to fewer than 100,000 people a year. Yet the free movement permitted under EU rules meant Cameron was in no position to stop the influx from other EU countries, which accounted for more than half of the 330,000 in net migration to Britain last year.
"Perhaps one day, even David Cameron will be able to appreciate the irony of his downfall: the man who became Conservative leader promising to end the party's appetite for strife over Europe has been destroyed by his decision to feed that hunger," wrote James Kirkup in The Telegraph. "For now though, he could be forgiven for a touch of bitterness about how cruelly political fortunes can turn."


Fans of the asymmetric horror game “Dead By Daylight” have raised over $500,000 for charity, developer Behaviour Interactive announced in a forum post on Tuesday.
Behaviour launched the Charity Case in 2017. It’s a collection of 26 cosmetics the team made in collaboration with “Dead By Daylight” content creators. All of the revenue made from the DLC goes to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, a global nonprofit that seeks to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of psychiatric and mental illnesses.
“At the end of October, members of the ‘Dead by Daylight’ team attended the Foundation’s annual Symposium and Awards ceremony. We were able to see first hand their direct impact on the lives of people living with mental illness,” it added.
The developer is now expanding the fundraising initiative by making the Charity Case available on consoles. It’s available now for all Xbox One players and for PlayStation 4 players in North America and Japan. Behaviour said it’s actively working on making it available for PlayStation 4 owners in Europe as well.
“Dead By Daylight” is a 4v1 horror game where one person plays the role of a serial killer and the others play Survivors trying to escape. It launched on PC in 2016, and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2017.


COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s police used batons to disperse hundreds of supporters of losing presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka on Thursday, police and a Reuters witness said, in a second day of protests against his arrest.
Tensions have risen on the island since former army commander Fonseka was arrested on Monday by military police on charges of engaging in politics against his president while still in uniform.
“Police are beating the protesters with batons,” said a Reuters photographer at the scene of the protest in a Colombo suburb.
Fonseka had appealed to his supporters to remain calm, his wife told reporters, after visiting the former general in detention.
Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa worked together in ending the 25-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists last year, but fell out soon after.
The army general ran against Rajapaksa in a presidential election last month, but was roundly defeated, after which he accused his former commander-in-chief of rigging the vote.
The government said Fonseka had conspired against the president and would face a court-martial.
Police detained eight people following the protest on Thursday, spokesman Prashnath Jayakody said. “When the police asked them to move away from the main road they clashed with police,” he said. On Wednesday, eight people were injured in clashes between supporters of Fonseka and government activists.
The street protests, strikes and labour unrest could have a ripple effect on Sri Lanka’s $40 billion economy, which is poised to grow over 6 percent this year due to post-war economic optimism and high foreign investments, analysts say.
Sri Lankan shares fell for a third straight session on Thursday on the growing political uncertainty, traders said. The bench mark index was down 1.3 percent.
“Foreign investors will slow their investments looking at the present situation,” said an analyst on condition of anonymity.
Earlier this week, Rajapaksa dissolved parliament ahead of schedule and called elections in April, hoping to build on his own victory in the Jan. 26 presidential poll.
On Thursday, the European Union urged Sri Lankan authorities to ensure the rule of law and safety of candidates and campaign workers. The United States asked the government to protect the rights of opposition supporters and the press.
The United Nations said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had discussed Fonseka’s arrest with Rajapaksa in a telephone call and expressed concern about the events.


It is time for The Huffington Post (in conjunction with IAC) to reap the rewards of more than one year's worth of work. Today marked the launch of news parody site 23/6. The site attempts to go the route of The Colbert Report, pretending to be conservative, but portraying stupidity. They get the stupid part right, but the funny but falls far short of the mark.
The site is allegedly attempting to reach "young news junkies and comedy fans" through its coverage of completely made up news and what it thinks is viral video. I guess no one told Ariana and Co. that for a video to be viral, you should probably think about allowing off-site embeds.
The president of programming for IAC says that the team took over a year to settle on it's approach to how to convey news in a humorous manner, and settled on what he's dubbing an "up-to-the-minute topical comedic reaction to news and current events." Again, the only problem with this is that as best I can tell, none of the news reports feature actual news, instead centering around stories like Mukasey and Leahy "awkwardly meeting at Home Depot where Mukasey purchases a watering can." There's plenty of actual news to parody and report rather snarkily on. A blog full of fake news must be spot on in its invective and satire, or otherwise it just appears juvenile.
Another winning idea put forth by 23/6 is a mock 527 group advertisement entitled Swift Kids for Truth, where kids make up negative stories about presidential candidates. It's appears to be satirizing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads, but fails on the funny by several measures, not the least of which is the lack of timeliness. The last Swift Boat advertisement ran in late 2004, and were refutations of actual stories told by Senator Kerry, instead of wild and ludicrous allegations that even a child could see through.Then again, we shouldn't be surprised that the Huffington Post should try so hard to come up with something relevant and hip, yet fails miserably. This is the political blog that hired an ex-CBS executive for its new CEO (the irony being that political blogging bought it's reputation debunking CBS anchor Dan Rather's fake news about President Bush's less than spotty military service record).
All this from the creative team behind the blog that keeps raising venture capital and keeps climbing the ranks. Perhaps they should quit while they're still ahead, and focus on a market they actually seem to know how to pander to, because funny they're not.


Feb. 26 (UPI) -- During a meeting at the White House Monday, President Donald Trump told U.S. governors that the National Rifle Association is on their side -- a meeting at which the president said school safety is a top priority.
Trump held a "business session" with the governors for their annual winter meeting to discuss gun violence and a slew of other issues.
Governors in attendance included Florida's Rick Scott and Kentucky's Matt Bevin -- who dealt with a school shooting last month that left two students dead.
Trump said at the meet that he will "write off" bump stocks -- with or without the help of Congress -- and proposed a revitalization of mental institutions.
"We're going to have to start talking about mental institutions," Trump said. adding that "in the old days" it was easier to commit people who acted "like a boiler ready to explode."
He added that he'd discussed with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre making it easier for law enforcement to take firearms from the mentally ill.
"Don't worry about the NRA," Trump said. "They're on our side."
Trump said several of the governors in the meeting were "so scared" of the NRA, but acknowledged that the leaders would have to "sometimes" fight against them.
Trump also said he would have confronted the school shooter in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month, even if he hadn't had a weapon.
"I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too," he said.
When the president opened the floor for ideas, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said they needed "a little less tweeting, a little more listening." He also said he'd listened to teachers who don't want to train to carry firearms in classrooms.
Last week, Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference he favors allowing teachers and school administrators to carry firearms on school grounds -- a prospect he said could have averted the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
On Monday, first lady Melania Trump addressed a group of predominantly female spouses attending a luncheon for the National Governors Association meeting.
"Before I begin I want to be sure we take a moment to reflect on the horrific shooting in Florida," she said. "Our continued thoughts and prayers go out to all who were affected by such a senseless act. As a parent, I cannot imagine the kind of grief and tragedy like that brings."
"I have been heartened to see children across this country using their voices to speak out and try to create change. They are our future and they deserve a voice."
At the Governors' Ball Sunday night, Trump had also said school safety tops the list of priorities.
"We're going to have a lot of meetings," he said. "We're going to have some very important meetings. We'll be talking about Parkland and the horrible event that took place."
Trump also acknowledged other issues with the governors on Monday, including the opioid crisis.
Many governors shared their experiences during the breakout session of leveraging education, data, and science to begin initiatives within their respective states to combat the drug epidemic.


Americans overwhelmingly oppose media consolidation, but the FCC is poised to further relax media ownership rules.
Since 1996 an unprecedented spate of media mega-mergers has made it difficult for anyone to know which conglomerate owns what outlet, even in our own cities and towns. Meanwhile, aspiring media giants that don’t appear on the map–corporations such as Clear Channel Communications (which owns around 1,200 radio stations and provides programming for 5,000 others), Tribune Company (the only corporation to own a newspaper and broadcast television station in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) and Sinclair Broadcast Group (which owns, operates, programs or provides sales services to fifty-eight television stations in thirty-six markets)–have aggressively lobbied Congress and worked the courts to eliminate the few remaining ownership caps. If The Nation runs a twentieth-anniversary consolidation chart in 2016, they want to be on it.
Unfortunately, most Americans no longer need a map to know that consolidation has degraded the media ecosystem on which the nation’s democratic and cultural life depends. During the past decade, as chains and conglomerates took over locally owned and -operated newspapers, radio stations and television stations everywhere, Americans experienced the downside of concentration firsthand. The local reporters, veteran TV anchors, producers and live DJs who once provided the stories, sights and sounds that made our hometowns feel like home have become endangered species in the age of Big Media, replaced by the same wire copy, digitally voice-tracked radio programs, video news releases and other canned content that runs in every market, coast to coast.
No one, except the owners of conglomerates, benefits from concentrated control of local media, and in the past decade public outrage over the costs of consolidation has helped turn the embryonic media reform movement into the nation’s fastest-growing bipartisan political project, uniting progressives from MoveOn.org and Common Cause with conservatives from the Christian Coalition and the National Rifle Association, and everyone in between. When former FCC chairman Michael Powell tried to gut the nation’s already feeble media ownership restrictions in 2003, he set off a torrent of popular dissent so strong that some 3 million letters of complaint, written by members of an expansive bipartisan coalition, poured into the capital over the next two years, while citizens packed town halls in big cities and small towns to protest.
This summer it’s prime time for the media reform movement once again. On May 26 the Senate confirmed Robert McDowell’s appointment as the third Republican commissioner on the five-member FCC. Like the current chairman, Kevin Martin, McDowell is a former Bush campaign worker, and he pledges to eliminate the “cumbersome underbrush of unnecessary government regulation.” Analysts expect that chairman Martin will soon initiate a new process to further relax media ownership rules. Since Americans overwhelmingly oppose more media deregulation, Martin’s success depends on whether he can work with Congress to change the laws quickly and quietly, without stirring up much public debate. If Big Media has its way, the policy decision that will help shape the future of democracy in America will be made without any democracy at all.
Eric KlinenbergEric Klinenberg is associate professor of sociology at New York University. Fighting for Air, his forthcoming book about how Big Media broke the public's trust and unleashed a movement for reform, will be published by Henry Holt in 2007.


Is it snowing where you live? We want to see your snow photos! Send the photos to onlineideas@pressdemocrat.com. Please be sure to include your name and where you live.
Storm clouds gave way to bright blue skies Tuesday, revealing ridgelines and hillsides blanketed by a fresh and rare covering of snow from one end of Sonoma County to the other.
Pat Cruz, a wine educator at the Locals Tasting Room in Geyserville, looked out the window about 3 p.m. Tuesday and saw a dusting of snow on Geyser Peak.
It was the latest dramatic shift in winter weather, beginning with near 70‑degree days in late January followed by heavy downpours and cold days with highs in the 50s as February got underway, leading to the unusual snowfall.
Sonoma County missed any serious collisions from icy roadways, the CHP said. But Lake and Mendocino counties saw numerous crashes throughout the day, according to CHP and fire reports, as drivers lost control and flipped, skidded and spun.
In Mendocino County, a gas tanker overturned about 6:20 a.m., blocking Highway 101 in Leggett. By Tuesday afternoon, about 1,500 gallons of gasoline had spilled and Mendocino County environmental health workers had responded, according to the CHP.
The highway reopened to one-way traffic after 5:30 p.m.
CHP Officer Joel Skeen said ice‑related crashes continued into the afternoon across Lake and Mendocino counties, including a non‑injury crash involving a Middletown school bus. And on Loch Lomond Road and Siegler Springs Road, a vehicle and a county snow plow collided, Skeen said.
A fatal crash early Tuesday in Sonoma County didn’t appear to involve weather conditions. Napa County had no apparent major problems from slick roads, the CHP said.
The forecast calls for sunny to partly sunny skies through Thursday, with rain returning Friday, but no snow expected in the area.
National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Anderson said the agency heard reports of snow at elevations as low as 300 feet, and a Press Democrat reader reported a dusting of snow in Freestone, at 220 feet. The last time it snowed that low in the Bay Area was in 2011.
Petaluma resident Henry Ptasinski went outside his home Tuesday morning and snapped a picture of snow covering Sonoma Mountain. By 4 p.m., it was gone, he said.
“It’s kind of nice to see and I wouldn’t mind seeing it again occasionally,” he said.
You can reach Staff Writer Randi Rossmann at 707‑521-5412 or randi.rossmann@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter@rossmannreport. You can reach Staff Writer Andrew Beale at 707-521-5205 or andrew.beale@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @iambeale.


Long before the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded as a Spanish-Colonial outpost in the early 1700s, native peoples inhabited the dark basalt canyons in the shadow of the volcanoes known as the Three Sisters, and considered them sacred places of worship. While the area appears to be a barren wasteland, the land is rich with medicinal and edible plants.The first inhabitants left a record of their passing in thousands of petroglyphs carved into the volcanic rock. The area encompassing the petroglyphs is now known as Petroglyph National Monument. When visiting the monument, get the most from your visit by packing a few extra items in addition to sunscreen and water.
Trails at the national monument are on natural surfaces and may be uneven, steep or narrow. The Petroglyph National Monument website suggest wearing shoes with ankle support, such as hiking boots, to prevent twisting an ankle or going down with a misstep. High-ankled footwear can also help protect you from a bite from a rattlesnake, which are common in the area. Soles should be thick enough to prevent stickers, cactus spines or sharp rocks from penetrating and stabbing your foot. Treaded soles will prevent slipping on slick or gravelly surfaces. Closed toes can also be helpful, to prevent you from stubbing your toe on uneven surfaces as you move between the petroglyphs.
You can walk your dog as you hike volcanic loops near the Three Sisters volcanoes or explore the Petroglyphs of Rinconada or Piedra Marcadas canyons. With the exception of Boca Negra Canyon and the park's public buildings, dogs are welcome, provided they are on a 6-foot leash and stay on designated trails. Keep your dog close to make sure it does not dig into animal burrows, chase birds or other wildlife, or damage plant life. Bring along bags to pick up your pet's feces, and dispose of them in a waste can. Federal law requires you to keep your pet leashed in a national monument, not allow it to disturb wildlife, and not leave its waste behind.
With more than 25,000 petroglyphs at the national monument, you'll find plenty of things at which to snap your shutter. In addition to the ancient artwork, the surrounding areas offer scenic vistas of the Three Sisters Volcanos. From March through May you'll see desert cactus dress in showy blooms of vibrant color. Other desert plants wait until late summer or early autumn to bloom. You're free to use your camera or video recorder anywhere in the park. Commercial photographers using a model or set must obtain a special use permit from the rangers station.
You won't want to leave your cell phone behind when visiting the Petroglyphs Naitonal Monument. While strolling around the park, you'll see signs for "Park Ranger Audio Tour." Dial the automated tour phone number, 505-353-3004, and enter the number of the site you are at. If you have a smart phone, the tour will send you a message with a link that can alert you when you are near points of interest. The link also offers a visual overview of the tour segments, an interactive map and links to more information.


The Henry Royce Institute is the UK’s national centre for advanced materials research, innovation and commercialisation. The Royce works collaboratively with industry and academia to accelerate the innovation of materials systems in order to create economic and societal benefit. With its hub at the University of Manchester, the Institute has spokes at eight partner institutions: the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory. The £235m institute will allow the UK to grow its world-leading research and innovation base in Advanced Materials science.
Based at Manchester, you will work closely with the academic Core Area Champions and will have direct responsibility for leading business engagement activities covering your assigned research core areas. You will work as part of an integrated team across Royce Partners to proactively identify and drive the commercial exploitation of materials research. You will play a crucial role in driving activities including establishing and coordinating national core area community networks, and identifying and delivering Royce facilities access models.
The University of Manchester is supporting the Royce in attracting the best possible talent to maintain a stable and secure business development team into the future. The posts will be attached to the University’s Business Engagement & Knowledge Exchange Team and seconded out to the Royce. During this period, line management will be through the Royce’s Head of Business Engagement. The two teams will work closely to ensure sharing of best practice, strategy and training.
You will have excellent leadership skills, being a self-starter, with demonstrable experience of driving successful business engagement activities delivering value to industry. You will be able to move confidently between industry and academic settings to successfully drive a robust pipeline of activities. You will be comfortable working to targets and flexible to ensure proposals are delivered to short deadlines. The role requires good customer relationship skills which continue into delivery. A strong scientific or engineering background with knowledge of Advanced Materials research is required.
You should clearly demonstrate within your supporting statement how your skills and experience can contribute to one or more of the Royce’s core research areas.
Vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Adrian Toland, Head of Business Engagement on 0161 305 8382.
Technical support: 0161 850 2004.
Closing date: 28 March 2019 at midnight.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.


Building located in the middle of a vast redevelopment project for the site formerly occupied by Stockholm’s South railway station. The main building is semicircular, forming a plaza with a diameter of 180 m (600’), accompanied by two blocks on the South side and a further three blocks on the avenue leading off to the west. The 8-storey complex includes a total of 310 apartments. The lines of the façade have considerable subtlety and purity, deriving from the Nordic classical tradition. The project also served to introduce Sweden to techniques of precast architectonic concrete more sophisticated than anything previously seen in the country. The program includes 310 apartments, underground car park, retail arra and offices.


Today, President Obama appointed Vivek Kundra federal chief information officer, which is a new administrative position in the U.S. government. Kundra, currently the District of Columbia’s chief technology officer, will be in charge of policy and strategic planning of federal investments in information technology. Kundra, 34, has previous experience as an executive at the DC-area software and IT firms Evincible and Creostar.
As it turns out, Kundra also has a connection to a Seattle tech startup. Since 2007, Kundra’s group in the DC municipal government has been using a data-visualization package from Tableau Software, based in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Kundra’s group used Tableau’s product to create charts and graphs for its CapStat program, which has received a fair bit of attention as a way to present trends and analysis to the general public on municipal issues like crime, disaster response, school security, and city maintenance. The program is one of the ways in which Kundra has been recognized in his efforts to make the workings of the DC government more transparent.
Here’s how the Tableau connection came about. Back in early 2007, a DC data analyst named Phil Heinrich was asked to look into patterns of ambulance deployments across the city. He came across Tableau on the Internet, tried it out, and signed up as a customer. Pretty soon, he was using Tableau’s software to help the mayor of DC, Adrian Fenty, monitor city departments more effectively.
As we’ve reported previously, Tableau raised a $10 million Series B round last September from New Enterprise Associates, and has been signing up customers and selling its wares at a record rate. The company was founded in 2003, and has been profitable since 2007.
Tableau isn’t the only Seattle startup with a tie to the Obama administration, either. Blist, based near Pioneer Square, was tapped by the Obama-Biden Transition Project in January to manage and publish interactive lists of donors on its website, Change.gov.


Shira Stoll, a Multimedia Specialist for the Advance/SILive.com, is the filmmaker behind the "Where Life Leads You" documentary and the Staten Island Holocaust Survivor series.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When the door opened, I saw Goldie, one of Staten Island's Holocaust survivors, standing in a pink-and-black suit with an intricately designed black fashion hat.
She had the biggest smile on her face.
"How was your day today?" I asked.
"Today was wonderful. I went to the JCC," she replied. "I'm a lifetime member."
As I was setting up in preparation for our interview, Goldie waited patiently, and kept a smile on her face the whole time.
Then we started. "So where were you from?"
And for the next hour and a half, she told me her heartbreaking story.
She lost her parents and siblings in Auschwitz. She was transferred to another concentration camp, Stutthof. And then there was her shocking account of her liberation, which she was so brave to tell.
"And that's my life story," she said in conclusion.
I asked to see some photos of her grandchildren. Her face lit up. "All my grandchildren call me every Friday," she said. "Friday I'm very busy."
She showed me a huge photo of her entire family, with all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
And that compelling interview, which took place in January of this year, was not the last time I was in Goldie's company.
I presented her video testimony when she was honored in April at Young Israel of Staten Island, a synagogue in Willowbrook. Goldie and I also participated in a Q&A session together with Advance Executive Editor Brian Laline during the 2018 Woman of Achievement luncheon in April. And I met her again in June at the annual Cafe Europa event -- a celebration of Staten Island's Holocaust survivors -- at the Jewish Community Center on Manor Road.
Perhaps the most enthralling aspect of Goldie is her riveting, vibrant personality. And I will never forget the adorable love story she continues to embrace with her late husband, Heshy.
We invite you to watch Goldie’s story in the above video.


PINK'S husband has a warning for any looters hoping to ransack homes left vacant in the evacuation zones of the California wildfires - try it and you'll be shot.
Former pro-motorcycle racer Carey Hart issued the ominous warning on Instagram, saying looters should "think twice" before coming into Malibu.
The message was paired with a photo of masked gunmen behind a sign that says: "Looters will be shot on site".
Looting in the evacuation zones is a major issue in the wake of the Woolsey Fire.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that it was dispatching teams of officers to handle the situation.
The department said in a release: “We have experienced some looting activity during the past two days. Southeastern Ventura County is within a declared disaster area.
Hart, meanwhile, encouraged Americans to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
He wrote: “It's unfortunate that some people take advantage of others in a crisis. While the Malibu fires have been burning, some locals have been fighting off and defending their property against the fires.
Actress Ireland Baldwin, just one of a number of celebrities ordered to evacuate, was even met by a police officer when she tried to return to her home to gather more possessions.
She was accused of looting, and also took to Instagram to voice her displeasure.
Thieves know most homeowners have evacuated, and power outages have turned off security systems on many properties, creating prime conditions for looters.
In one instance, two potential looters were arrested dressed as Forest Service personnel as they attempted to capitalise on abandoned California homes.
Pink, real name Alecia Moore, and Carey were forced to flee their beachside property in Malibu although their home reportedly escaped the flames.
At least 435 buildings north of Los Angeles have been lost in the fires and 250,000 have been evacuated.
National Guard troops were due to arrive on Wednesday to help search for victims in the charred, ash-strewn ruins where the northern California town of Paradise stood, before it was erased in the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in state history.


From death by micrometeorite to living without gluten, Gizmodo has explored more than 50 everyday scientific mysteries throughout this year. Here are our ten best.
Going gluten-free is all the rage these days. It's the diet of choice for Hollywood starlets and health nuts alike; supermarket aisles are packed full of products touting their lack of the stretchy protein. But for a lot of people, the gluten-free lifestyle may do more harm than good.
Deep water and the unprotected human body don't play well together—like, at all. But what if there were a way to get around the body's chemical limitations, a means of deep diving without the bends or lengthy decompression? Actually, there is. And we've almost figured out how to do it without killing ourselves in the process.
Today I found out what happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator. Exhibit A: Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, a Russian scientist who has the distinction of being the only person to ever stick his head in a running particle accelerator. Shockingly, he also managed to survive the ordeal and, all things considered, came out without too much damage.
Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented sunscreen. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection—screw it up and you could get burned.
How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?
So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies.
Android updates have taken forever to reach most phones for years. So what the hell? Why hasn't the problem been fixed? And who's to blame here? We asked Android manufacturers, carriers, and Google what the hold-up was. And what a tangled web we found.
Turns out, being blown out of an airlock and turning into a meat popsicle after succumbing to hypoxia isn't so bad. At least, not when compared to the multitude of other deadly maladies that await you in the depths of space. Here are just a few ways that interplanetary exploration is conspiring to kill us all.
Getting foreign gadgets to play nice with the local power grid is a nightmare any time you travel internationally. Here's why every country on the planet (except yours) totally screwed up indoor wiring.
What's the Deal With Creatine?
Creatine has been wildly popular since the 1990s. It's touted as a shortcut to gaining lean muscle mass, and packed into everything from supplement pills and powders to sports drinks. But how does it work, if at all? Is it even safe? Allow us to demystify this strange chemical beast.
Before the age of the internet, you likely never noticed some of the keyboard symbols that you now use all the time. Most of us still don't know the actual history behind these now-ubiquitous symbols, the reasons they exist, or how they ended up in your email addresses and URLs. It's actually fascinating once you start digging. It turns out that type itself dates back to the early days of civilization. So even in cyberspace, there are a few paleolithic surprises.


Ashkelon, the Lachish Region, Netivot, the central Negev and locations bordering on Gaza were alerted by sirens early Thursday, after an all-night Hamas barrage of 150 rockets. Two women were injured by a direct hit in the Eshkol region – one gravely, at first light, before they could reach a shelter. The Ashkelon-Sderot rail service is discontinued until further notice.


Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms.
Nearly 90 percent of that increase is concentrated in the 50 richest Members of Congress.
Two years ago, Roll Call found that the minimum net worth of House Members was slightly more than $1 billion; Senators had a combined minimum worth of $651 million for a Congressional total of $1.65 billion. Roll Call calculates minimum net worth by adding the minimum values of all reported assets and subtracting the minimum values of all reported liabilities.
According to financial disclosure forms filed by Members of Congress this year, the minimum net worth in the House has jumped to $1.26 billion, and Senate net worth has climbed to at least $784 million, for a Congressional total of $2.04 billion.
These wealth totals vastly underestimate the actual net worth of Members of Congress because they are based on an accounting system that does not include homes and other non-income-generating property, which is likely to tally hundreds of millions of uncounted dollars. In addition, Roll Call's tally is based on the minimum values of assets reported by Members on their annual financial disclosure forms; the true values of those assets may be much higher.
While wealth overall is scattered fairly evenly between the two parties, there is an interesting divide in the two chambers. Democrats hold about 80 percent of the wealth in the Senate; Republicans control about 78 percent of the wealth in the House.
And as protesters around the country decry the supposed consolidation of wealth in America, the trend can be seen starkly in Congress, a comparison suggested by American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar Mark Perry. The 50 richest Members of Congress accounted for 78 percent of the net worth in the institution in 2008 ($1.29 billion of the $1.65 billion total); by 2010 the share of the 50 richest had risen to 80 percent ($1.63 billion of the $2.04 billion total). The pie of Congressional wealth got bigger, and the richest Members are getting a bigger slice.
But there is still plenty to go around. Overall, 219 Members of Congress reported having assets worth more than $1 million last year; subtracting the minimum value of their liabilities brings the total number of millionaires in Congress down to 196 — again not counting any value on their homes or other non-income-producing property. If one were to assume that every Member of Congress has $200,000 worth of equity in real estate, the total number of millionaires would rise to 220 Members, just more than 40 percent of the Congress.
As with the general U.S. population, a few exceedingly wealthy people skew the averages for the rest of the membership. But still, by almost any measure, the average Member of Congress is far wealthier than the average U.S. household.
For example, dividing the total wealth of Congress by the number of Members creates a mean (average) net worth for each Member of about $3.8 million (excluding non-income-producing property such as personal residences). By comparison, for the rest of the country, based on statistics released by the Federal Reserve, average household net worth is around $500,000 this year (including personal residences), according to David Rosnick, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
But a handful of Members of Congress are worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — the richest Member of Congress this year, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), is worth a minimum of $294 million, meaning that McCaul's own wealth has the effect of raising the average of every Member of Congress by about $500,000.
So a better number for comparison is the median, the number where half the group is above and half the group is below. For Congress, the median net worth in 2010 was about $513,000. For regular households, the Federal Reserve Board pegged that number at about $120,000 in 2008, and that number this year is probably around $100,000, Rosnick said.
While it is hard to make an exact comparison between Congress and the rest of the nation, what is clear is lawmakers "are all a lot richer than anything you would call a typical American," Rosnick said.
12 percent." That is about half the increase Congress achieved during the same time period.
The cautionary note in any Congressional wealth analysis is that significant changes in apparent wealth of Members do not necessarily represent an actual change in net worth.
For example, Rep. Darrell Issa reported this year that his 2010 assets were worth at least $295 million, nearly double what they were the year before. The reason for the change appears to be in part because the California Republican moved some properties from a single account into separate accounts. An account that Issa had listed as having a minimum value of $50 million in 2009 dropped to a minimum value of $25 million in 2010, but he added 11 accounts with a minimum combined value of $38.2 million. Even if none of the actual account (or property) values increased, the minimum value of those assets on paper rises by $13.2 million, or more than 25 percent.
Alan Ziobrowski, a professor of real estate at Georgia State University, has produced studies of Congressional investment patterns indicating that lawmakers in both chambers tend to fare better in their investment portfolios than the average American, in part because "[t]here is no doubt in my mind that they are trading in some way on information that is there."
But he also points out that the Membership of Congress has turned over since 2008, making it difficult to compare wealth over time. "You've got different people," he said.
In the aftermath of the 2010 elections that swept Republicans to power, about 20 percent of the Members included in the 2010 survey were not included in the 2008 survey.


Yesterday, Dec. 7, 2015, 81 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged in value from $47.20 to $44,583,000.00.
Rock Mitchell, who is Vice President at UFP Technologies, sold 10,000 shares at $23.12 on Dec. 7, 2015. Following this transaction, the Vice President owned 53,235 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 15.81% with the 10,000-share transaction.
The average volume for UFP Technologies has been 12,300 shares per day over the past 30 days. UFP Technologies has a market cap of $164.1 million and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. Shares are down 6.49% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
UFP Technologies, Inc. designs and converts foams, plastics, composites, and natural fiber materials and provides solutions to medical, automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, aerospace, and defense markets in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 22.3. Currently, there is 1 analyst who rates UFP Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
Meltzer Carol, who is General Counsel at A-Mark Precious Metals, sold 1,000 shares at $15.00 on Dec. 7, 2015. Following this transaction, the General Counsel owned 25,000 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 3.85% with the 1,000-share transaction.
The average volume for A-Mark Precious Metals has been 18,500 shares per day over the past 30 days. A-Mark Precious Metals has a market cap of $106.2 million and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. Shares are up 57.47% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. operates as a precious metals trading company worldwide. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.31%. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.5. Currently, there is 1 analyst who rates A-Mark Precious Metals a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
TheStreet Quant Ratings rates A-Mark Precious Metals as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally high debt management risk, weak operating cash flow and poor profit margins. Get the full A-Mark Precious Metals Ratings Report from TheStreet Quant Ratings now.
Mccranie J Daniel, who is Director at Mentor Graphics, bought 10,000 shares at $17.61 on Dec. 7, 2015. Following this transaction, the Director owned 34,705 shares meaning that the stake was boosted by 40.48% with the 10,000-share transaction.
The average volume for Mentor Graphics has been 1.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Mentor Graphics has a market cap of $2.1 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer software & services industry. Shares are down 19.57% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
Mentor Graphics Corporation provides electronic design automation software and hardware solutions to automate the design, analysis, and testing of electro-mechanical systems, electronic hardware, and embedded systems software. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.24%. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.9. Currently, there are no analysts who rate Mentor Graphics a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Mentor Graphics as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full Mentor Graphics Ratings Report from TheStreet Quant Ratings now.


Giving a new thrust to Novell's 14 years of commitment to India, the company opened its largest engineering facility outside the U.S. recently in Bangalore. The new India Development Center (IDC) at Bagmane Tech Park delivers interoperable Linux platform and integrated IT management software. The company will invest about $100 million in the country in the next three years.
The new facility with a capacity to house 700 employees will support the company's global engineering initiatives with responsibilities for several products and technologies, including SUSE Linux enterprises, ZENworks, identity and access management solutions, and Novell's Open Enterprise Server. Though the company has key technical talent in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the Czech Republic, the IDC represents Novell's largest concentration of technical talent outside the U.S.
The Norwegian company Tandberg, a provider of tele-presence, high definition videoconferencing, and mobile video solutions is betting on Indian market. As a part of the move, Tandberg has kicked off its first R&D center in India.
The new facility in Bangalore will create new intellectual properties for Tandberg’s next generation video communication solutions. The facility, currently with 11 employees, can accommodate 80 engineers.
Tandberg has a headcount of 1300 worldwide, with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. The company, which claims to be having a sizable share in the $1.2 billion video conferencing market globally, is scouting for local partners in India and South East Asia in the areas of mechanical designing and contract manufacturing.
Intersil, a NASDAQ-listed designer and manufacturer of analog semiconductors is charged to expand its presence with its new design center in Hyderabad. With the addition of the new facility of Intersil Analog Services, located at the HiTech City, the company further carries on with its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.
"This facility will help in attracting top design talent into our organization," said Carlos Laber, Vice President, Worldwide Technology, Intersil. In the last two years, the company that has filed about six patents is working on areas such as power management for chips, and next generation products such as multi-cell battery chargers for hybrid vehicles. The company has generated revenues of $15 million in India this year and expects to ramp up to $55 million by 2011.
MindTree Consulting, a global IT and R&D Services Company has changed its name to MindTree Limited. Over the years, MindTree has emerged as one of the fastest growing IT and R&D Services provider, offering its services across a range of technology and industry domains.
"The word 'consulting' in our name did not reflect the entire range of services we offer our customers. While MindTree is one of the first companies to offer consulting-led IT services, we are Intellectual Property-led in our R&D Services," said Ashok Soota, MindTree Chairman and Managing Director. The company that started in 1999 is co-headquartered in the U.S. and India.
The change in the name of the company is in line with its strategy towards the next phase of growth called MindTree 2.0.
Now stolen laptops can be tracked! The Mumbai based Micro Technologies has launched India's first laptop tracking system to locate stolen laptops.
The company’s software, named Micro Lost Notebook Tracking System (LNTS), is embedded on notebook hard drives and is tracked as soon as it is connected to the Internet. P. Sekhar, Micro Technologies Chairperson points out that 97 percent of expensive laptops that are stolen are never recovered and 57 percent corporate crimes are linked tothese thefts.
The LNTS software that uses the Windows Explorer platform is available online, with prices starting from Rs.600. When downloaded, the software automatically installs itself and remains hidden in the laptop and connects to an embedded monitoring system the moment the laptop logs on to the Internet. The LNTS saves all data connected to the user’s online activities, which can only be accessed by the company's technician.
The U.S. data communications products manufacturer Patton Electronics has started its Indian subsidiary operations from Chennai.
"In India we want to serve the middle market by providing data communication solutions for enterprise use. Patton has a strong foothold in VoIP solutions and we see a great need for these solutions in the Indian market," said Andreas Danuser, Director, Patton India.
With its India operations, the company hopes to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region. Initially, the India subsidiary houses the marketing and the technical support operations and the company also plans to set up an R&D center and a manufacturing unit to it.
Privately held, the company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The company was established in 1984 and has over 1000 products, 500 customers, and 200 distributors in its portfolio.
The company known till now as i-flex solutions is to change its name to Oracle Financial Services Limited. The Board of Directors of i-flex solutions has approved the proposal, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals. The proposed new name reflects the company's close strategic and operational alignments with its parent company Oracle, an enterprise software provider that owns 81 percent of the company. The new branding strategy demonstrates the synergy of scale, resources, expertise and efficiency across the two organizations.
The current management team under N.R.K. Raman, CEO and Managing Director, will continue to run the operations of the company.
Imageworks India, the Indian arm of Sony Pictures Imagework, has opened its new facility in Chennai. The Chennai facility will work with the Culver City facility in executing the visual effects of seven Hollywood films now under production.
Imageworks has done the visual effects for Spiderman, Monster House, Stuart Little, The Chronicles of Narnia, and several other academy award winning films. With the films like Ghost Rider, Beowulf, and I Am Legend in its latest list, the company is presently working on a film called Hancock.
The facility with its current 90 employees would be scaled up to 180. Founded in 1992, Imageworks - a component of the U.S.-based Sony Pictures Digital Production - acquired 50.1 percent stake in FrameFlow (India) Private Ltd. last year at a cost of $5 million. Globally, Sony Imageworks is doing business worth nearly $7 billion and has captured 37 percent of the box office for visual works globally.


Pakistan will seek a change of fortune when they play South Africa in the first of five one-day internationals at St George's Park on Saturday.
Pakistan's batting will be strengthened by the inclusion of Mohammad Hafeez, and Shoaib Malik.
South Africa have based their World Cup plans on picking four specialist bowlers but have yet to settle on a batting all-rounder to fill the crucial number seven position.


We get all sorts of products sent to us and today we would like to shout out about the ‘Kitsound BoomBar Bluetooth Speaker’, we will not whisper and we will not be an echo, because this is all about sound and power so please sit up and take note of our hands-on review. When we go on holiday we all want to travel light, when sitting in the garden we need something quick and easy to pull out so that we can all listen to music, please read on to see what we think of this cool looking portable speaker.
There are so many speakers that you can buy nowadays some expensive, some very cheap and many in the middle when it comes to the price, if you like the sound of a price that is right in the middle and what we class as a budget audio device then please read on about the Kitsound BoomBar Bluetooth Speaker.
The Kitsound BoomBar is a cool looking Bluetooth wireless stereo speaker that allows the user to connect smartphones, tablets, MP3 devices and so much more wirelessly without any hassles. You can even connect to your laptop or desktop PC using the cable included. The iPhone 5 already has an impressive sound but like many smartphones they are just not powerful enough and this is where wireless speakers come into play.
Portable Wireless Speaker, Plastic stand, Carry Case, Charging cable and 3.5mm to 3.5mm double end cable for connecting to laptops and PC’s.
Lightweight portable Bluetooth speaker, In-Built Microphone for hands free conference calls, High quality soft-touch finish, Up to 10 metre working range, Up to 10 hour playing time, High Quality sound, Carry case for added protection, and Stand function.
Just looking at it one would think it would not sound that good, but the overall slim curved design looks awesome. One of the main issues when choosing a portable speaker is how you can travel about and leave it lying around without it getting damaged, we can say thanks to the carry case it comes with you need not worry at all because the case itself is sturdy and built with quality in mind.
The sound is very good indeed, ok you will not get the super bass sound like you can expect from a Bose wireless system but then you will not have to pay the price for the BoomBar like you would a Bose system. The sound is pure and crisp, and very good indeed for listening to music outdoors; the price is also very good at around Â£35. The rechargeable battery looks like one of those you would find in a smartphone, which means they will be very easy to replace.
On full volume the Kitsound Boombar will distort, nothing too bad but yes it loses its crisp quality, but then you would expect that with such a small budget friendly portable speaker system.
Bluetooth Version: V2.1 EDR, Output: 2 x 2w @ 85db SNR, Working Distance 10 metres, Playing Time: 10 hours and Charging time: 3 hours.
We have reviewed the Logic 3 i-Station TTV Rotate speaker dock and we have to say that the Kitsound BoomBar is far better on all levels, and in that we mean price, looks and even sound. Pairing devices with the BoomBar is very easy indeed and offers a rich sound, ok not the top bass most users want but good enough and well worth the money.
This speaker does not only play your music or video sounds, you can also take calls and speak to the person on the other end thanks to the built in mic, it is a great little speakerphone. It comes with a free carry case so you need not worry about getting it dirty or damaged, this is a great little buy.
You can find the Kitsound Boonbar online for around Â£35 via sites such as Amazon, Totally Gadgets and so many more. Please do visit this Google Search page and choose the right online store that suits you, there are plenty to choose from.
thanks for review i am looking to buy a new wireless speaker and may go for this. I liked the look of the logitech mini boombox but read some bad things about it.
The battery using the numbers in the picture is a standard Nokia battery so easy replacements / spares can be bought.


Zimbabwe's government is accusing the western media of fabricating stories to create what it calls a climate of anxiety and alarm in the country.
Zimbabwe's Information Ministry singled out the U.S. Cable News Network, saying the network is trying to orchestrate a campaign of falsehoods to build international hostility toward Zimbabwe.
In a statement Thursday, the ministry also mentions several Western freelance reporters by name, including Peta Thornycroft, who contributes stories to the Voice of America.
It warns the reporters to stay away from security forces and to limit their time with an unnamed opposition politician who it accuses of giving them information. It says that if they do not, the government may be forced to act against them.
The United States and the European Union have been strongly critical of the Zimbabwean government's recent crackdown on political opponents. Several African nations have also expressed concern.
Zimbabwean police arrested and assaulted dozens of opposition supporters this month following an anti-government rally in the capital, Harare.
Several countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia, have threatened to increase sanctions against Zimbabwe and to take the issue before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Dissent has been rising in Zimbabwe as citizens try to cope with shortages of food and fuel, and inflation of more than 1,700 percent.


Morgan and Morrow. Dickson and Bruin.
Highlights: Burt (A) 1-1; Fujita (TJ) 3-4, 2B, RBI, 3 R; Kiyohara (TJ) 2-3, 3B, RBI, SB.


Google is joining Facebook in bringing greater transparency to its political advertising tools in India as the world’s largest democracy gears up for general elections in the coming months.
The search giant today said it will introduce an India-specific Political Advertising Transparency Report and make available a searchable Political Ads Library in the country in March of this year, a month ahead of the general elections.
These moves will allow any individual to check who is purchasing election ads on Google’s platform and how much money they are spending on it, the company said. Google also said it has updated its election ads policy for India.
In line with Facebook’s efforts, Google said it is now mandatory for advertisers who wish to run election ads in India to provide a pre-certificate issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI). They can also produce a certificate by an entity that has been authorized by the ECI, Google said.
The company, whose Android operating system powers most smartphones in the country and whose search service sees little to no competition, said it will also verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms. The verification process will begin on February 14.
Additionally, Google said it is making it easier for Indians to cast their vote in the upcoming election. For the Lok Sabha Election, Google said it will make electoral information from the EIC and other authoritative sources easily discoverable on Google Search. More than 850 million Indians are estimated to participate in the general elections.
Today’s development comes two months after Google made a similar commitment for European Parliament elections. Tech companies are facing mounting pressure from governments to become more transparent and assume responsibility for the influence their products and services have on democracies.
Facebook, which announced a similar program for India last month, began offering users in the U.S. information about buyers of political ads through a series of changes in 2017. In the years since, Google has also stepped up its efforts to prevent misinformation and meddling. Just how much the two have learned from the U.S. presidential election in 2016 could now be tested in India, one of their largest markets.


Kendrick Perkins knew there was a possibility he might be suspended from Game 5 against the Atlanta Hawks tonight.
The Boston Celtics center, who appeared to step on the court in front of the bench area during an altercation Monday night, was going to do whatever he could to avoid a punishment.
Apparently, Perkins� prayers were answered as the NBA decided not to suspend either him or Hawks forward Marvin Williams, who put a foot on the court in front of the Atlanta bench.
The league also did not punish Celtics forward Kevin Garnett or Hawks forward Zaza Pachulia, who were involved in the on-court skirmish during the second quarter of Game 4 in Atlanta.
League rules prohibit players on the bench from going onto the court, and the possibility existed that Perkins and Williams would get suspended like members of the Phoenix Suns were for a similar incident in last season�s playoffs.
�I thought I was on the court before all the fighting started,� said Perkins. �I was cheering on my teammates before it all started when they were getting an offensive rebound. If they look at the replay, they�ll see that.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers said his players are reminded numerous times about stepping on the floor when something happens on the court.
Garnett hit Pachulia with a forearm, and then appeared to make some incidental contact with referee Eddie F. Rush when the altercation was being broken up.
There have been several incidents during the series, and Rivers understands how tense things get during the postseason.
�I can give all the speeches I want to,� he said. �You can show film of fights and how to react and how not to react. The game�s emotional.
�I think for everyone outside the game, it�s so easy to say, �Just step away.� Well, you�re not playing and you probably never played. It�s very difficult in that situation.
�I think I�m excitable, but I�ve got a decent calm. I�ve been in three or four of them as a player and right afterwards, I felt like a dunce,� Rivers said. �But at that time, there�s nothing in me that thought it wasn�t the right thing to do.
Rivers placed second to Byron Scott of the New Orleans Hornets in the voting for the NBA�s Coach of the Year award.
Rivers had 23 first-place votes and 242 points to Scott�s 70 first-place votes and 458 points.
�I don�t care about that,� said Rivers. �I think he should have won.
Rivers was Coach of the Year with the Orlando Magic in 1999-2000.
The last Celtics� coach to win the award was Bill Fitch in 1979-80.
The Celtics were impressed with the noise generated by the crowds in Atlanta in games 3 and 4. The Hawks usually draw less-than-capacity crowds that aren�t boisterous.
�Obviously, we�ve been in the league a long time and played in Atlanta numerous times,� said Garnett. �That�s the first time I�ve ever seen an atmosphere like that. Atlanta�s atmosphere is usually not like that.
�That tells you about home-court advantage and what it brings, and the opportunity it brings. That crowd was into it like our crowd was into it.


What about a healthy and oh-so-cool shrimp salad for a hot summer day? Shrimp and lettuce? That doesn’t sound very interesting at all, but wait a minute, isn’t there something else you could add to jazz this up just a bit?
Smoked bacon, slow cook the bacon until it is crispy, crumble it and add a big handful.
What about homemade garlicky croutons? Just cube crusty, locally made French bread, toss in garlic butter, and maybe a pinch or two of oregano and bake until crispy.
Avocado, garden fresh local tomatoes, pistachio nuts, boiled locally sourced, farm fresh eggs, capers and not to forget a delicious homemade garlic mayonnaise.


(CBS Local)– Ever wonder what kind of music people on your family tree would listen to? Spotify and Ancestry are here to help answer that question.
For $99 users have access to the ancestryDNA program to explore their family tree and a new concept of playlist curation based off one’s roots. Tracing family history to access listening habits will encourage exploration for users to share a “soundtrack of heritage” says Danielle Lee, Spotify’s Global Head of Partner Solutions.
While unique and inventive, this experience is completely optional. Ancestry also provided a statement to reassure users that Spotify does not have access to the DNA of any customers.
However, Twitter demonstrated a mix of reviews since the partnership launched last week. More than 10,000 people have signed up so far.


Anston Cricket Club joined thousands of cricketers across the world to pay tribute to Australian batter Phil Hughes after his tragic death.
Hughes (25), was 63 not out when he was struck on the neck by a bouncer last month. He died two days later.
Hughes, who also played for Hampshire, Middlesex and Worcestershire, was hit by a delivery from bowler Sean Abbott.
His death stunned Australia and the funeral was broadcast live to millions of people on national television and on big screens in major cities.
During his brief test career Hughes played in 26 tests, where he hit 1535 runs in 49 innings.