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LaMelo Ball wrist injury update: Hornets star listed as questionable Saturday vs. Pistons - CBS Sports
LaMelo Ball has not played for the Charlotte Hornets since March 20, when he fractured his wrist in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. At that point, it appeared as though the presumptive Rookie of the Year would be lost for the season, and the Hornets, fighting for playoff positioning, would slide to the bottom of the standings. But Ball has made significant progress since then, and now, he is officially listed as questionable for Saturday's game against the Detroit Pistons, suggesting that even if he doesn't play in that game, he will be returning to the floor in the near future.
And just as Ball's prognosis has been positive, so too has his team's. The Hornets are 10-11 since losing Ball in March. Even after losing Gordon Hayward to injury as well, they've managed to tread water in the competitive middle of the Eastern Conference. If the season ended today, the Hornets would be the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. That's not nearly as exciting as the No. 4 seed they once held, but it would at least keep them out of the lower play-in game. A single victory would be enough to get the Hornets into the playoffs against either the No. 7 seed or the winner of the No. 9 vs. No. 10 seeds.
The Hornets still have some room to climb with a healthy Ball. They have the NBA's sixth-easiest remaining schedule, and even without Hayward, they have played well enough to take advantage of those lesser opponents. Charlotte trails No. 6-seeded Boston by two-and-a-half games in the standings.
But the real story here is Ball's return. The Hornets are ultimately building for bigger things than they can realistically pursue this season. A playoff push now would be great, but most importantly, Charlotte's franchise player appears to be healthy and ready to go.
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CAPS: Satchmo has become a ball snob | Serving Carson City for over 150 years - Nevada Appeal
Chi is a cute four-year-old Chihuahua/Jack Russell mix. He is a sweet boy who gives hugs. He likes going places and gets so excited that he dances. Chi is an immaculate housekeeper and his place is clean. He enjoys walking on a leash, and he is looking for someone who will take him for a stroll. Come out and meet him.
Do dogs actually have toys they prefer? To answer that question, I did a little research, and I state unequivocally that we do have preferences and instinct plays a lot in our choices. Dogs perceive toys the same way wolves perceive prey. The texture, shape, and size determine their reactions.
Bird dogs bred to bring back ducks and other prey love to play fetch. Fetch satisfies their natural-born instinct to hunt. Dogs with high-prey drives love squeaky toys. The squeak sound sparks their urge to hunt, and it reminds them of the sound an animal would make when caught.
There are many reasons dogs like stuffed toys. Retrievers like plushy toys, because they remind us of our inborn talent for recovering duck carcasses. Female dogs, if separated from puppies too soon, use a stuffed toy to remember her puppies. Strong maternal instincts guide her behavior, and she may choose to mother her toy.
Some pups will hold their favorite toy for comfort, especially if they are nervous or excited. It is a way to overcoming distress and reinforces positive emotion. I am not a stuffed toy boy, but I have friends who have a bear, bunny, or some other stuffed toy. Most of their toys look pretty beat up!
Puppies going through teething chew on hard objects to alleviate their discomfort. Usually the toy that makes them feel better ends up being their favorite thing.
On the other end, senior dogs usually like toys that are soft and comforting. Sometimes they will bring you a toy that you played with together years ago. I guess you are wondering what I chose as a toy.
Well, I have to say my dad. He is comforting, plays ball, shares the couch, and bought me a Chuckit ball. No playing around, dad is the best!
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'We're going to be a problem to guard if we get this thing right' - Sports Illustrated
When James Borrego scanned the floor Friday evening, the Charlotte Hornets coach saw something he hadn’t witnessed in well over a month.
LaMelo Ball and Malik Monk were on the court practicing.
The two are listed as questionable for Saturday’s game against Detroit, which alone is a small victory. For a team in desperate need of more bodies to assist in their bid to end their postseason drought, potentially getting two scorers and playmakers in the fold again can't come soon enough.
"It's just great to have them back on the floor," Borrego said. "There's a lot of excitement, energy. Both guys bring us some high level playmaking, shotmaking, creation for us. Especially this time of year. This is our final stretch run, last 10 (games). Both looked good. They're questionable for (Saturday) and we'll make a determination (Saturday) at some point if both are a go. But what I can say is they both have progressed to a more comfortable level right now. Now, we'll just have to make a determination (Saturday) on what we do with (Saturday) night's game. But I was very encouraged. Our group was very encouraged to have them out there today."
Both have slowly progressed over the last week, with Ball especially increasing his activity during pregame sessions. Monk mentioned how the two also participated in a live practice on Thursday, which means they had consecutive days to test themselves.
Monk said he was able to do his normal cutting and appears confident he's fully healed from his sprained right ankle. He seems genuinely thrilled to get on the court again. During the time he was unable play, he would occasionally chat with Ball about what they were viewing on the court and how they could assist their teammates upon their return.
"For sure, that's every basketball player that's watching the game whenever they are hurt or on the sideline," said Monk, who's been out since leaving late in the second half in Brooklyn on April 1. "Talking to each other, seeing what they can do better and seeing what I can do to help him. And he's a rookie but he knows the game. He can tell me whatever he sees that I can do better and whatever he thinks I can do well in. We just throw ideas off each other the whole time. It was bad being out not helping my teammates. But it was good helping them with my knowledge, just giving them the knowledge I have."
Expect Ball and Monk to be broken in slowly.
"We are not going to run them major minutes, especially early on," Borrego said. "Their runs early won't be heavy runs. Four- or five-minute runs when we get there. Obviously we are not there yet for sure. When we do get either or both of them back, we'll ease them in. We are not going to play full minutes yet. But it's a big boost for us when that time comes, just to have that energy back. Whenever that is. Whether that's (Saturday) or within the next week, that's our hope."
Once Ball and Monk return, it will provide the Hornets with some of the dimensions that have been missing with them and Gordon Hayward all out. The offense won't necessarily have to be generated strictly by the likes of Terry Rozier, Devonte' Graham and Miles Bridges.
They can branch out, allowing Ball and Monk to also make plays for others. The options increase, making them tougher to defend.
"Well, we are much more dynamic now," Borrego said. "So we were dynamic before. We've got a little more back now hopefully when that time comes. Obviously, we are still missing Gordon. It’s just added depth to our playmaking ability. Miles has become more confident handling the ball. Obviously, Tae has been there, Terry is more and more comfortable as a playmaker. We’re going to be a problem to guard if we get this thing right. All these guys have progressed and getting these guys back is going to be significant as we make this final push. So I feel very good about where we are at.”
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Five from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2021 - MIT News
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members and 30 international associates, including five professors from MIT — Dan Freedman, Robert Griffin, Larry Guth, Stephen Morris, and Gigliola Staffilani — in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Current membership totals 2,461 active members and 511 international associates. Membership is one of the highest honors that a scientist can achieve.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Daniel Freedman
Daniel Freedman, professor emeritus in MIT’s departments of Mathematics and Physics, is also a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Institute for Theoretical Physics. Freedman's research is in quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory, with an emphasis on the role of supersymmetry. More recently, one focus of his work is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a broad framework based on the equivalence of field theories in different spacetime dimensions, one with and one without gravity.
He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1960, and his MS and PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1962 and 1964. Freedman held postdoctoral appointments at Imperial College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University before joining the faculty at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1980 he joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics, and has been jointly appointed with the MIT theoretical physics faculty since 2001.
Freedman was a distinguished alumni fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a former Sloan and Guggenheim fellow, and was named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society. He has received the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Dirac Medal and Prize, and the Dannie Heineman Prize.
Larry Guth
Claude E. Shannon Professor of Mathematics Larry Guth’s research interests are in metric geometry, with a focus on systolic inequality, and on finding connections between geometric inequalities and topology. More recently, Guth has been researching harmonic analysis and combinatorics, in relation to the Kakeya problem, an open question in Euclidean geometry that connects with restriction-type estimates in Fourier analysis and with estimates about incidences of lines in extremal combinatorics.
Guth received his BS in mathematics from Yale University, and after receiving his PhD from MIT in 2005, he followed a postdoctoral position at Stanford with faculty appointments at the University of Toronto and the Courant. He joined the MIT math faculty in 2012.
Guth received the Salem Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions to analysis, the Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics, the American Mathematical Society's Bocher Prize, and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. He received the School of Science’s Teaching Prize in Graduate Education, and was named a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris, the Peter A. Diamond Professor in Economics, is an economic theorist who has made important contributions to the foundations of game theory and mechanism design, as well as applications in macroeconomics, international economics, and finance. He has developed new ways of understanding and modeling the role of incomplete information in the economy, and its implications for analysis and policy.
Morris received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics at Cambridge University, and his PhD from Yale University. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Princeton University before joining MIT’s Department of Economics in 2019.
Morris is a fellow and was president of the Econometric Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and was a Sloan Research and Guggenheim Fellow.
Gigliola Staffilani
Gigliola Staffilani, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Mathematics, is a mathematical analyst whose research focuses on dispersive nonlinear partial differential equations. She is one of 59 new members who are women, the most elected to the NAS in a single year.
Staffilani received the BS equivalent from the University of Bologna in 1989, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1995. She held positions at Princeton, Stanford, and Brown universities, and joined MIT in 2002.
She is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. At MIT, she received the inaugural MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs by the MIT Office of Digital Learning, the Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, and the "Committed to Caring" award by the Office of Graduate Education.
Robert Guy Griffin
Robert Guy Griffin, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, is also director of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. He devotes a large fraction of the Griffin Group’s research efforts to develop new magnetic resonance techniques to study molecular structure and dynamics. He also develops high-field dynamic nuclear polarization for the study of biological solids.
Griffin received his BS in 1964 from the University of Arkansas, and his PhD from Washington University in 1969. He joined the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory in 1972, and the Department of Chemistry’s faculty in 1989.
He was awarded the Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance, sponsored by the Bruker BioSpin Corporation, for his pioneering contributions to high-resolution solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance as a whole, as well as its applications to biological systems. In particular, Griffin has developed widely used techniques for dipolar recoupling that permit internuclear distances to be measured during so-called “magic angle” spinning experiments.
He has also received the ISMAR (International Society of Magnetic Resonance) Prize, the Günther Laukien Prize for NMR research, and the Bijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research of Utrecht University.
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6 Reasons to Still Love Tech’s Big Five in a Postpandemic World - Barron's
Mac sales were up 70% in the March quarter. Apple said June-quarter sales would be as much as $4 billion higher if not for supply constraints.
Courtesy AppleLast March, amid the darkest days of the pandemic, I asserted in this space that the market had gifted investors a rare opportunity to buy tech’s five giants— Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft —on the cheap. Let me tell you why I’d buy them still.
As it turned out, all five performed better over the past year than anyone dreamed. Last week, the five reported March-quarter earnings—the fourth full quarter since Covid-era lockdowns began early last year. All five crushed Street expectations on both the top and bottom lines. As a group, the Big Five grew March-quarter revenue by a combined 41%. Over the past four quarters, they expanded revenue by a combined 27%, growing their businesses by an aggregate $250 billion.
Facebook (ticker: FB), with sales up 48%, and Microsoft (MSFT), up 19%, had their fastest growth in any quarter since 2018. Apple (AAPL), up 54%, and Alphabet (GOOGL), up 34%, had their best growth since 2012. And Amazon (AMZN), up 44%, had its best quarter since 2011.
Now to be clear, these remarkable performances haven’t gone unrecognized. Since I wrote that piece, the five stocks have gains that vary from 85% for Microsoft to 135% for Apple. And while they aren’t the raging bargains of a year ago, there’s a case to be made that there are no better stocks to play the most important shifts in tech. Keep focused on these six trends:
There’s no stopping the cloud: Revenue in the March quarter was up 50% for Microsoft Azure, 46% for Google Cloud, and 32% for market leader Amazon Web Services. These businesses have become the modern data center. There’s no reason to think growth will slow any time soon. Were they stand-alone businesses, they would be the three largest enterprise-software pure plays on Earth.
PCs are back: The work/learn/play from home trend drove dramatic growth in personal computer sales over the past year. Gartner says that first-quarter PC sales were up 32%, the best growth in two decades.
It is tempting to argue for a reversal, but there is growing evidence that many companies won’t go back to their previous work styles. Shopify (SHOP) President Harley Finkelstein told Barron’s last week that he’s not planning to ever work regularly from the e-commerce software company’s Ottawa headquarters again—and that decentralizing the workforce is allowing Shopify to hire people he’d never lure to Canada. That kind of thinking will keep demand for laptops, tablets, and related accessories red hot. Apple last week said its guidance for the June quarter could have been $3 billion to $4 billion higher were it not supply constrained in Macs and iPads; Mac sales were up 70% in the March quarter. Logitech (LOGI), which makes accessories for PCs and videogames, grew 117% in the March quarter.
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E-commerce won’t slow: Amazon had 41% growth in its core online-retailing business in the March quarter, with 60% growth in third-party seller services. Shopify’s sales were up 110% in the quarter, and Finkelstein notes that e-commerce is under 25% of total retail sales in the U.S. and Canada, leaving plenty of room for growth. Finkelstein also says that in Australia and New Zealand, where economies are further along in reopening, Shopify’s customers are seeing no signs of slowing online sales. Meanwhile, Facebook this past week said its Marketplace business now has one billion users.
Advertising is back: Early in the pandemic, it looked like Facebook and Alphabet would be badly hurt by a falloff in advertising, as key verticals such as travel and retail pulled back. But that’s over: Facebook’s revenue in the quarter beat Street estimates by almost $2.5 billion, while Alphabet topped consensus by $3.7 billion. Amazon’s “other” revenue category, almost entirely its ad business, was up 72% in the quarter. As the economy reopens, retailers, restaurants, airlines, hotels, and other businesses that suffered are going to be pushing to aggressively lure back customers. And the recovery is just getting started.
Chips and dips: Apple isn’t the only company seeing supply constraints mute growth. Juniper CEO Rami Rahim last week told me that while the networking-hardware company has enough inventory to meet its guidance, lead times are stretching out. Seagate CFO Gianluca Romano notes that the company is carrying extra component inventory to cushion against shortages. Western Digital CEO Dave Goeckeler says his company has responded to growing demand for flash memory by lifting prices on a weekly or even daily basis for devices sold through retail stores or distributors—a move that contributed to blowout March-quarter earnings.
What could go wrong: Well, lots. Earnings comparisons will become hellacious. Some analysts think Apple’s fiscal 2022 sales growth could go negative. Facebook is forecasting slower second-half ad growth, cautioning that it faces regulatory issues and Apple’s crackdown on apps that track consumer activity on the web. Tech regulation is nearing the top of the Biden administration’s to-do list. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh last week said gig drivers should be classified as employees, which triggered a selloff in Uber Technologies (UBER), Lyft (LYFT), and DoorDash (DASH) shares. And Covid still poses serious threats, raging in India, Brazil, and other key markets. But I’m not backing off my original bullish call on the tech giants, just tweaking it: There are no better plays for the postpandemic world.
Write to Eric J. Savitz at eric.savitz@barrons.com
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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now - The New York Times
These new movies offer scares from around the world, including an Indonesian witch and an Irish vampire.
These new horror movies offer scares from a global perspective, including an Indonesian witch, an Irish vampire, Canadian home invaders and an American family nightmare.
‘Honeydew’
Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu.
No movie has divided horror fans in 2021 quite like this audacious fairy tale written and directed by Devereux Milburn.
After a young couple (Sawyer Spielberg and Malin Barr) get kicked off the property where they planned to camp one night, they trek through the woods and come across a house, where a kind but eccentric woman (Barbara Kingsley) invites them to spend the night in her basement. It turns out to be a very bad decision — there would be no horror movies without bad decisions, would there? — that leads to bizarre twists involving the woman’s bandaged-up son, cannibalistic rituals and surreal nightmares starring Popeye.
Detractors are right that there’s a lot familiar in “Honeydew,” from the Hansel and Gretel vibes to the grotesque family dynamics (and meals) that made “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” so bone-chilling. But Milburn puts an original spin on the familiar beats of the backwoods shock genre thanks to his hallucinatory storytelling, John Mehrmann’s unnerving score and Spielberg’s fervid performance. There’s also a wowza celebrity cameo that’ll make you do a double take.
‘Jakob’s Wife’
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When a mysterious figure attacks Anne (Barbara Crampton), the wife of a conservative small-town pastor (Larry Fessenden), it does more than turn her into a bloodsucking monster. The bite from the Master, as the Nosferatu-looking vampire is known, also awakens in Anne a thirst for the self-determination and sexual confidence she’s kept under wraps her entire marriage. Reinvented as a vamp (sorry), Anne is forced to question what it means to be a wife, a woman and a human.
Travis Stevens’s film layers feminism on top of comedy on top of vampire myth and gross-out splatter. It mostly clicks, and the reason is Crampton. With a decades-long career in out-there films including “Re-Animator,” she’s as close to acting royalty as horror gets. Here she is fearless as a woman discovering her powers within. (Stevens told the horror movie magazine Rue Morgue one of his goals was to give Crampton “her version” of Gena Rowlands’s harrowing performance in the John Cassavetes film “A Woman Under the Influence.”) Crampton’s chemistry with Fessenden, another horror vet, is the film’s activating element.
‘The Queen of Black Magic’
Indonesia has a rich tradition of horror cinema that goes head-to-head with the filmography of George Romero and Lucio Fulci. Shudder has a small but primo collection of Indonesian titles, including Kimo Stamboel’s recent reimagining of “The Queen of Black Magic” (1981).
Witchcraft is a common element in Indonesian horror films, and witchcraft is what you get in this ominous story about Hanif (Ario Bayu), a father who travels with his family from Jakarta to the remote orphanage where he was raised. Things get off to a chilling start when Hanif runs the family car over what he thinks is an animal. (Not quite.) Then his son gets spooked when he hears a story about the evil woman who’s buried behind a closed door at the orphanage. (Not quite.)
When Hanif comes across a bus full of dead children, it’s a stomach-churning sign that almost nothing seen or experienced at the orphanage — caretakers, scars, a menacing creature — is what it appears to be. Revenge, as Hanif learns, is what the supernatural world calls justice.
This is a solidly scary place to start for an introduction to Indonesian horror, as long as you’re good with berserk insects and blood galore.
‘For the Sake of Vicious’
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It’s Halloween night, and Romina (Lora Burke), after leaving her late shift as a nurse, arrives home to find a tense hostage situation unfolding in her kitchen. Chris (Nick Smyth), seething with rage and wielding a hammer, has tied to a chair the bloodied Alan (Colin Paradine), the man Chris suspects of raping his young daughter. When a group of masked invaders shows up at the door just as Romina gets a grip on the circumstances, her home becomes even more of a claustrophobic house of horrors.
With an unforgiving drive that almost never lets up during its taut 80 minutes, this Canadian action-horror hybrid is for fans of ultraviolent horror. I don’t know if the directors Gabriel Carrer and Reese Eveneshen decided to set the most chaotic moments in a small kitchen because it was in service of the story or because their low budget required it. Either way, it feels like each frame fills the screen with violence that’s so ferocious, and also outrageously comical, that watching it becomes the cinematic equivalent of diving into a packed mosh pit at a dive bar. Smyth is jaw-droppingly unglued as a dad near the end of his rope.
‘Boys From County Hell’
This goofy horror comedy is set in a rural Irish village where, according to legend, Bram Stoker was so captivated by local tales of an Irish vampire figure named Abhartach that he based “Dracula” on the thirsty bloodsucker. When a construction crew disturbs the cairn over the spot where townspeople believe Abhartach was buried, the vampire is awakened and the village becomes his hunting ground. Not even an evening cup of tea goes by without someone bleeding from the eyes.
Written and directed by Chris Baugh, this is as much a slap-happy creature feature as it is a touching dramedy about friendship and family bonds. Much of the credit goes to the actor Jack Rowan, who’s all pluck and charm as the young man who defends his blue-collar hamlet against an ancient evil. I really want to disclose the jaw-dropping weapon used against the vampire in the end, but that would be going out on a limb.
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Friday Five: Apple announces new features and big profits - Medium
Zone’s Ross Basham handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies…
1. Apple announces new features and big profits
Apple has announced its new iOS 14.5 update for iPhone and iPad, with most headlines focusing on the new App Tracking Transparency function. This means users will have to opt in if they want their online activity tracked by companies — an update that has caused a huge rift between Apple and Facebook.
Other features include being able to unlock your iPhone wearing a mask (but only if you’re also wearing an Apple Watch), new emojis (including different skin tones for the ‘couple kissing’ emoji) and diverse voice options for Siri. Apple also reported a doubling in profits in the past year, mainly thanks to a surge in iPhone sales in China.
2. UK to retool NHS app as vaccine passport
The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has announced that the UK government is retooling an NHS app as a vaccine passport for international travel. The app will provide proof that people have been vaccinated or received a negative test for the Covid-19 virus when international travel is due to resume on 17 May.
The system will be based on an NHS app used to book an appointment with a doctor rather than the Covid-19 app. However, critics have warned that the passports could put peoples’ civil liberties and privacy at risk, as the massive stores of personal data could potentially be used (or misused) beyond the scope of the pandemic.
3. Sporting world joins social media boycott
The world of sport is boycotting social media for four days this weekend as a protest against racism and discrimination online. The boycott was announced by the leading English football organisations and anti-discrimination charity Kick it Out last weekend after many footballers spoke out about the abuse they had received online.
And now sporting bodies from rugby union, cricket, tennis and cycling have announced they are joining the boycottt of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Sponsors, broadcasters and newspapers are also taking part as pressure mounts on social media companies to take decisive action to tackle abuse on their platforms.
4. ‘Self-driving’ cars on UK roads by end of year
‘Self-driving’ vehicles could be on UK roads by the end of 2021, according to the government. However, before you start picturing driverless cars zipping around town, ‘self-driving’ here means automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS), which simply controls the position and speed of a car in a single lane and is limited to 37mph.
Drivers won’t have to keep their hands on the wheel but they will have to be able to take over within 10 seconds when requested by the system, otherwise the vehicle will automatically slow down and stop. Insurers have urged caution over defining ALKS as ‘self-driving’, as there is a danger it could make motorists overconfident.
5. Microsoft deletes Calibri as its font of choice
Everyone has a favourite font, and plenty of articles have been written about what your font of choice says about you (insert Comic Sans joke here). And changing that font is a serious task — just ask Microsoft, which has decided to replace its default font, Calibri, which itself usurped Times New Roman back in 2007.
Microsoft has commissioned five original custom fonts, one of which will eventually become the new default. “A default font is often the first impression we make,” said its design team. “And just as people and the world around us age and grow, so too should our modes of expression.” Why not give them all a go?
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NFL Draft 2021 Round 1 five biggest surprises: Jaguars load up on Clemson stars, Eagles-Cowboys trade - CBS Sports
Outside of the first two overall picks, there was plenty of suspense during Day 1 of the 2021 NFL Draft. While Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson were selected by the Jaguars and Jets, respectively, to kick things off, the 49ers surely wrecked some mock drafts by taking Trey Lance with the No. 3 overall pick.
Things only got more surprising from there. Justin Fields fell out of the top 10, while the Dallas Cowboys -- a team many felt would select a cornerback with the 10th overall pick -- missed out on the chance to take either of the top two cornerback prospects in the draft. Dallas was part of one of three trades that took place during the first day of the draft.
Let's take a look at the five biggest surprises from Day 1, starting with the night's most surprising trade.
1. Heated division rivals make a deal
The Cowboys, who need help on defense, appeared to be sitting pretty after watching six skill players go off the board to kick off the draft. But after the Lions took Penei Sewell with the seventh pick, the Cowboys watched as Jaycee Horn and Patrick Surtain II — the top-two cornerback prospects in the draft — were selected by the Panthers and Broncos in consecutive picks. With both of those players off the board, the Cowboys decided to trade back two spots -- with their NFC East rival Eagles, of all teams! -- while also receiving the 84th overall pick. The Eagles used the pick to select DeVonta Smith, as Philadelphia has given Jalen Hurts a new weapon to work with as he enters his first season as the team's starting quarterback.
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2. Bears move up to take Justin Fields
After watching 10 other teams pass on him, Chicago quickly moved up to take Fields at No. 11. The Bears traded the No. 20 and 164th picks in this year's draft along with next year's first and fourth-round picks to select Fields, who never lost a regular season game as Ohio State's starting quarterback. The only player in Big Ten history to throw for 40 touchdowns and run for 10 more in a single season, Fields threw for a school bowl game record six touchdown passes in Ohio State's Sugar Bowl victory over Clemson this past January. In Chicago, Fields will work alongside Andy Dalton, who led the Bengals to five consecutive playoff appearances from 2011-15.
3. Pats stand pat, but still land a QB
There was significant speculation that the Patriots would trade up in order to select a quarterback. But after the Panthers and Broncos drafted cornerbacks, that opened things up for the Patriots to be patient before selecting Mac Jones with the 15th overall pick.
"He's a guy we spent a lot of time with," Bill Belichick said shorty after picking the former Alabama quarterback. "Felt like that was the best pick at that time for us. He's a smart kid. He's been in a system that's similar to ours. We've had good conversations. We think he'll be able to process this offense. It's obviously going to take a lot of time, [we'll see how it goes].
"Cam's our quarterback. Whatever time Jarrett [Stidman] or Mac are ready to challenge and compete, we'll see how that goes."
4. Urban Meyer brings Clemson backfield to Jacksonville
While seemingly everyone had the Jaguars taking Lawrence with the No. 1 pick, not many draft analysts had Jacksonville using the No. 25 overall pick to select fellow Clemson standout Travis Etienne. Just moments after the Steelers selected the first running back taken in the draft (Najee Harris), Urban Meyer and the Jaguars selected Etienne, who scored 78 touchdowns while amassing over 6,100 total yards during his time with the Tigers. Etienne will share a backfield in Jacksonville with James Robinson, who led all rookie running backs with 1,070 rushing yards in 2020.
5. History is made
Thursday tied the mark for the the most offensive skill players selected to start a draft since the beginning of the common draft era in 1967. Lawrence, Fields, Lance, tight end Kyle Pitts (Atlanta) and receivers Ja'Marr Chase (Cincinnati) and Jaylen Waddle (Miami) tied a record that was initially set during the 1999 draft. That year, the draft started with the selections of quarterbacks Tim Couch (Cleveland), Donovan McNabb (Philadelphia) and Akili Smith (Cincinnati), running backs Edgerrin James (Indianapolis) and Ricky Williams (New Orleans) and receiver Torry Holt (St. Louis).
Pitts made even more history on Thursday night, as he became the highest-selected tight end in league history at No. 4 overall.
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Five Takeaways: Strong fourth quarter leads Nuggets to 121-111 victory over Toronto Raptors - Mile High Sports
The Nuggets walked away with another victory Thursday, defeating the Toronto Raptors 121-111 at Ball Arena.
Head coach Michael Malone recorded his 300th career victory (261st with Denver).
Fourth Quarter runaway
It was a strong fourth quarter that opened up a double-digit lead for Denver. The Nuggets shut down the Raptors in the final quarter, scoring the first 15 points and outscoring Toronto 34-26.
Heading into the final 12 minutes, the Raptors had kept pace with the Denver offense, trailing by just two points at the half and at the end of the third.
MPJ’s run continues
22-year-old guard Michael Porter Jr. led the Nuggets offensively with 23 points. He recorded the first five points of the game for Denver and shots 8-for-19 from the field and had a team-leading three makes from beyond the arc.
Prior to Thursday’s matchup, in the eight games since star guard Jamal Murray’s ACL tear, Porter took off — in a good way. Porter has stepped into Murray’s role, recording 26.6 points per game while playing over 35 minutes a game.
He led Denver with 35 minutes Thursday.
Porter ranks 14th in the NBA in points during that stretch. He also enjoyed a career-high (39 points) in a victory over the Houston Rockets on April 24.
Bench scorers
Toronto relied heavily on its starters. Each of the five starters played at least 32 minutes, led by Khem Birch, who had 20 points in 36 minutes. Long-time Raptors star Kyle Lowry also had 20 points and forward OG Anunoby recorded a team-high 25.
The Raptors bench combined for just 19 points. At the other end, Denver took advantage of its 20-point lead in the fourth quarter and used nearly its entire lineup. The Nuggets bench pitched in with 48 points. Austin Rivers (11), JaMychal Green (15) and Shaquille Harrison (11) all had double-digit point totals.
Clippers in sight
Winners of four straight, the Nuggets (42-21) suddenly trail the L.A. Clippers for third in the Western Conference by just half a game. The Clippers have lost two straight.
With Denver sitting in fourth, its current playoff matchup (if the postseason started today) would be against the defending NBA champions, the L.A. Lakers.
Jokic doubles up
In what has become a pattern this season and during his career, Jokic recorded a double-double. The M.V.P. hopeful had 19 points and 11 rebounds for his 55th double-double in 2021 and 247th of his career.
Jokic played 28 minutes and shot 8-for-13 from the field.
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All Ball sports: A line is drawn, from Kaepernick to Chauvin - Easy Reader
by Paul Teetor
Colin Kaepernick and Derek Chauvin will go down in the history books together, but for very different reasons.
One took a knee during the national anthem in principled protest.
The other gave a knee during an arrest made with mindless malice.
One is a woke football player who led his team to the Super Bowl, then sacrificed his career to draw attention to the issue of systemic police abuse of black people.
The other is a brain-dead, incarcerated ex-cop who didn’t have the God-given common sense – or even a sense of self-preservation – to realize he was suffocating George Floyd when Floyd told him 27 times that he couldn’t breathe and then called for his mama with his last breath.
Nor did Chauvin realize it when the murder was complete after six minutes. Floyd lay silent and lifeless with Chauvin’s knee on his neck for another 3 minutes and 29 seconds.
Unknowingly and unintentionally, in the process of killing Floyd Officer Chauvin completed what Kaepernick started just five years ago: he made the once-fringe issue of police abuse of black people into a national, mainstream issue.
Former Mira Costa High students Nia Marshall, Malachi McMahon, Dalia Feliciano, and Jemal Williams lead a Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality at the Manhattan Beach pier on June 2, a week after George Floyd was killed. Photo by JP Cordero
Now, after repeated showings of the video footage of a callous Chauvin defiantly ignoring the warnings of distraught bystanders that he was killing Floyd, not even Donald Trump and his sycophants can pretend there is not a police brutality problem that needs to be fixed – for the benefit of everyone, not just black people.
You wouldn’t know it from watching mainstream TV news, but there are plenty of white people – indeed, people of all skin colors – needlessly gunned down by out-of-control police who act like they’re trained to escalate tense situations instead of defusing them. That’s why Floyd’s arrest and subsequent murder was the inciting event behind the George Floyd Police Reform bill sponsored by Congressional Democrats and backed by President Joe Biden.
When the history of the modern social justice movement is written in the not-too-distant future, historians may well draw a direct line from Kaepernick’s “take a knee” stand against police abuse five years ago to the almost-universally acclaimed guilty on all counts verdict this week against Chauvin after his murder-by-knee-on-neck of Floyd.
Cultural analysts can tackle the linkage question and debate whether Chauvin’s conviction is just another moment in America’s long and troubled racial history – slavery, Selma, four little girls, Rodney King — or an inflection point for a 21st century social justice movement that is gaining steam by the day. As always with the incremental course of history, time will decide that debate.
But in a sports world with a growing focus on social justice, there was no debating the cause-and-effect link between Kaepernick’s activism and Chauvin’s multiple convictions this week.
While some Fox News hosts continued to debate the reasons for the verdict – aging frat boy Tucker Carlson actually argued that the jury returned a guilty verdict only because they were frightened by left-wing threats of riots – sports figures spoke with what seemed like one voice.
Since we live in Los Angeles, let’s start with Lakers star LeBron James, who tweeted one very appropriate word: “ACCOUNTABILITY.”
Former Lakers great Magic Johnson was a little more verbose: “Thank God…. guilty! Justice has been served.”
Others were more ambivalent, less triumphant. Naomi Osaka, the best female tennis player in the world, tweeted out a thoughtful response that mirrored the feelings of millions of her fans: “I was going to make a celebratory tweet but then I was hit with sadness because we are celebrating something that is clear as day. The fact that so many injustices occurred to make us hold our breath toward this outcome is really telling.”
Others, like Chargers wide receiver Joe Reed, were still angry even after the verdict was announced: “Throw the key away.”
A day later, something happened that would have been inconceivable when Kaepernick started his movement back in 2016.
Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis – son of the legendary Al Davis, who politically was slightly to the right of Genghis Kahn and Attila the Hun – used the team’s official website to tweet out: “I can breathe 4-20-21.”
Some Raiders fans objected, saying the team’s owner had no business aligning himself and his team with Floyd and his family. But Davis stood firm and refused to delete the tweet. Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, publicly thanked him for his support. “For the first time in almost a year, our family has taken a breath. And I know that goes for so many across the nation and globe, as well. Let’s take this breath together in honor of my big brother, who couldn’t. Let’s do it for George.”
Just when America seemed to be reaching a broad consensus that this was indeed a case of police abuse of black men, exactly the type of recurring problem that Kaepernick had pointed out over and over until it cost him his career, all hell broke loose once again over the issues of cops and violence and race.
This time it was the outcry over a police officer shooting and killing a black 16-year-old knife-wielding girl in Columbus, Ohio, named Ma’Khia Bryant.
Right smack dab in the middle of all the new controversy were two long-time sparring partners: Lebron James, normally so sure-footed with his public comments, and Trump, still seething from the time LeBron called him “a bum” three years ago.
This time LeBron tweeted out a picture of the Columbus cop, Nicholas Reardon, with the caption “YOU’RE NEXT!” along with the hashtag #Accountability!
Naturally, Trump immediately claimed LeBron was threatening violence against the officer. Of course he was doing no such thing, merely pointing out that Reardon could face the same legal accountability that Chauvin had.
But since Trump had spent years successfully confusing his fan base with tweets that Kaepernick’s take-a- knee movement was all about dis-respecting the flag while ignoring his real message that it was done to protest police brutality, he figured he would try to run another mis-direction play.
The world’s most self-involved but least self-aware man couldn’t resist the chance to take a shot at his long-time nemesis: “LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA,” Trump, who is banned from Twitter for making false statements and inciting violence, attacked LeBron in a prepared statement sent out to the media. “His racist rants are divisive, nasty, insulting and demeaning. He may be a great basketball player, but he is doing nothing to bring our country together.”
Realizing he had been a bit premature with his warning to the cop, LeBron deleted the tweet because, he said, “it was being used to create more hate.”
He then issued a new tweet: “Anger does none of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!”
Trump has tweeted more than 60,000 times since he started on Twitter in 2009. Most of his tweets have been “divisive, nasty, insulting and demeaning” to someone and sometimes to everyone. And they did nothing to bring the country together.
It’s often said that you can judge a man by his friends. But the reverse can be just as true: you can judge a man by his enemies.
By that standard, LeBron is a superstar off the court as well as on it.
And Kaepernick is too.
Lakers facing a Brutal Reality
The Lakers with Anthony Davis back but still without LeBron James are like the Pelicans when AD was their star from 2012 to 2019: a middle of the pack team with playoff possibilities but no chance of being a championship contender.
This reality became painfully obvious once again after AD’s first two games back this week with the Lakers after missing 29 straight games. He scored only 4 points on 2 for 10 shooting in his much-anticipated return, a bad loss to the Dallas Mavericks and their mega-star Luka Doncic. He played slightly better in his second game, a 108-93 Saturday night loss to the very same Mavericks. Still, he hit only 5 of his 19 shots – making him an ugly 7-for-29 in the two games — and was clearly several weeks away from playing his best basketball.
And with only 3 weeks to go until the playoffs start on May 22, we still don’t know exactly when – or even if – LeBron will actually put on the purple and gold uniform again. The team is now 7-11 without him.
That means that without those early season wins piled up when both their stars were active and playing well, the Lakers would already be out of playoff contention. As it is they have fallen to fifth place in the ultra-competitive Western Conference, and are actually in danger of falling to 7th place or even lower if they don’t start winning soon.
That would put them in the precarious position of being part of the play-in system designed for the 7th to 10th place teams to fight it out for the last two playoff spots. A single loss in the play-in tournament could end their season right there without even getting a chance at the real playoffs. Without LeBron, that fate is a distinct possibility.
Bottom line: the Lakers are now a long-shot to make it to the Finals, much less defend their NBA title. Right now, Brooklyn – coached by Manhattan Beach’s own Steve Nash – has to be the heavy favorite to win the whole thing.
If the Lakers had a firm idea when LeBron will be back from the high-ankle sprain he suffered six weeks ago, they would say so. That means his rehab is not far enough along to zero in on a date.
His absence was conspicuous in the Saturday night loss. The raw truth in the NBA is that winning teams all have one common denominator: a dominant star who can get the ball in crunch-time and create a shot for himself or, if he is double-teamed, for an open teammate. Guys like Doncic for the Mavs, Kawhi Leonard for the Clippers, Nikola Jokic for the Nuggets, Donovan Mitchell for the Jazz, Kevin Durant or James Harden or Kyrie Irving for the Nets, and of course LeBron for the Lakers.
In that second loss to the Mavericks, the Lakers opened up a 15 point first-half lead that gradually evaporated. By late in the game, the teams were tied several times and the game came down to each team’s play-maker having to make plays.
For the Mavs, the 6-foot-7, strong-as-an-ox Doncic was magnificent, throwing in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and finding teammates for open lay-ups several times. For the Lakers, all they had was pint-sized point guard Dennis Schroeder trying to use his jet-fighter quickness to get to the hoop and find an open shot or an open guy. He got his shot swatted several times, and in just the last 3 minutes it went from a close game to a 15-point Lakers loss.
AD, for all his multiple talents as a top-10 NBA player – great rebounder, great defender, great post-up player, good 3-point shooter – is not a shot creator. His most natural role is as LeBron’s wingman, the guy who gets the set-up pass when LeBron is swarmed by defenders and has the skill-set to finish the play.
The brutal reality: Even with AD back, the Lakers are not serious contenders.
Only LeBron can make that happen.
And time is getting short.
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Five charged in snatching at gunpoint of Lady Gaga's dogs - Reuters
Five people have been arrested on charges stemming from the violent theft of two bulldogs belonging to pop star Lady Gaga and the shooting of a dog walker during the pets' abduction in Hollywood earlier this year, authorities said on Thursday.
Four of the five suspects were known street gang members, while the fifth was the woman who reported she had found the dogs and safely returned them after a reward was offered, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
The two bulldogs, named Koji and Gustav, were dropped off unharmed at an LAPD station on Feb. 26 and turned over to the musician's representatives two days after they were snatched at gunpoint by two strangers in a car. read more
The dog walker who was accosted, 30-year-old Ryan Fischer, was shot in the chest by one of the suspects as they grabbed the two bulldogs, but he survived. A third Gaga-owned bulldog out walking with Fischer at the time escaped and was later found safe by police.
In an interview days afterward, Fischer said he had suffered "a very close call with death."
Gaga, who was filming a movie in Rome when her pets were taken, had issued a public plea on social media for an "act of kindness" to bring them home, and offered a $500,000 reward.
Los Angeles police said on Thursday that detectives "do not believe the suspects were targeting the victim because of the dogs’ owner."
"However, evidence suggests the suspects knew the great value of the breed of dogs and that was the motivation for the robbery," the statement said.
Three people - James Jackson, 18, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27, were charged with one count each of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and second-degree robbery. Jackson, the accused gunman, also was charged with assault and a weapons offense, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
The woman who claimed to have found the dogs, 50-year-old Jennifer McBride, and a fifth defendant, Harold White, 40, were each charged with being accessories after the fact. McBride also was charged with receiving stolen property, while the elder White was additionally charged with illegal possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.
“This was a brazen street crime that left a man seriously wounded,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. “We have alleged very serious charges in this case and have faith that justice will be appropriately served as this case unfolds in court.”
All five defendants pleaded not guilty on Thursday afternoon and were ordered to return to court on May 11.
Jackson was held on $3 million bond, while bail was set at $1 million each for Jaylin White and Whaley, according to Los Angeles City News Service (CNS). McBride's bail was set at $10,000 and she was ordered to submit to electronic monitoring under house arrest. Harold White's bail was set at $35,000, CNS reported.
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Five new COVID-19 deaths reported for Wasilla - Homer News
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Monday reported 12 new deaths of Alaska residents with COVID-19 and one new death for a nonresident with COVID-19. All of the deaths were identified through death certificate review over the past several months.
Five of the deaths were Wasilla residents, one was a Mat-Su resident who died out of state, four were Anchorage residents, and the others were a Fairbanks resident, a Bethel resident, and an Aleutians West Census Area resident. The nonresident case was of a man in his 50s who died in the Aleutians East Borough. Several of the deaths were of people under age 60, including a Wasilla man in his 20s who died out of state, a female Mat-Su resident in her 40s who died out of state, a female Anchorage residenet in her 30s who died out of state and a male Anchorage resident in his 50s.
Statewide, DHSS reported 138 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday for the Monday, April 26 period, eight of which were among nonresidents. On the Kenai Peninsula, Kenai had two new cases and Homer had one. Elsewhere in the state, Fairbanks had 40 cases, North Pole had 20, Wasilla had 24, Anchorage had 19, the Fairbanks North Star Borough had 11, Palmer had five, Ketchikan had two, and there were one each in Big Lake, Chugiak, Delta Junction, Juneau, Nome and Utqiagvik.
The southern peninsula remained in the high alert level this week, according to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District dashboard. There have been 20 reported resident positive cases of COVID-19 reported in the past 14 days, with seven in Anchor Point, 10 in Homer and three in the other Kenai Peninsula Borough south location.
There have now been a cumulative total of 64,916 COVID-19 cases in the state of Alaska, according to state data. Of those, 2,731 cases have been among nonresidents. A total of 341 Alaska resident deaths have been related to COVID-19, while five nonresidents have died with the disease while in Alaska.
Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The alert level statewide is high, with 21.62 cases per 100,000 people. That compares with the national average of 16.24 per 100,000. On the peninsula, the alert level also is high, at 19.03 cases per 100,000. The alert level for the central peninsula is 23.71 per 100,000 and for the southern peninsula is 10.21 per 100,000. The Mat-Su has the highest alert level in the state at 40.21 cases per 100,000
As of Tuesday, there were 37 people being hospitalized in Alaska for COVID-19, as well as twp additional persons being hospitalized for a suspected case of the virus. According to the state’s hospital data dashboard, 3.6% of all people hospitalized in the state are being hospitalized for COVID-19. One person is on a ventilator.
There have been a cumulative total of 1,463 Alaska residents hospitalized for COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic.
According to the South Peninsula Hospital’s tally of positive cases through April, on the Kenai Peninsula there have been 4,224 people who have tested positive for COVID-19, with 710 in the hospital service area, 79 in Anchor Point, 19 in Fritz Creek, 493 in Homer and 119 in other small villages or census areas on the southern peninsula.
As of April 27, the hospital has done 21,628 tests, of which 20,956 were negative, 533 were positive and 139 are pending.
Free COVID-19 tests are offered 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week at the lower level of the South Peninsula Hospital Specialty Clinic, at 4201 Bartlett Street, Homer. Please use the Danview Avenue access. Please call and pre-register before coming if and when possible.
Testing is also available through the SVT Health & Wellness clinics in Homer, Seldovia and Anchor Point. Call ahead at 907-226-2228.
In Ninilchik, NTC Community Clinic is providing testing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The testing is only for those traveling, symptomatic, needing testing for medical procedures, or with a known exposure after seven days. Only 20 tests will be offered per day. To make an appointment to be tested at the NTC Community Clinic, call 907-567-3970.
On the central peninsula, testing is available at Capstone Family Clinic, K-Beach Medical, Soldotna Professional Pharmacy, Central Peninsula Urgent Care, Peninsula Community Health Services, Urgent Care of Soldotna, the Kenai Public Health Center and Odyssey Family Practice. Call Kenai Public Health at 907-335-3400 for information on testing criteria for each location.
In Seward, testing is available at Providence Seward, Seward Community Health Center, Glacier Family Medicine and North Star Health Clinic.
Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@homernews.com.
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