Even the sports scene has been mixed; the cricket World Cup final was a bore, and golfer Jean van der Velde’s collapse in the British Open wasn’t even funny. Sure, there have been bright spots, like Lance Armstrong’s victory over cancer and the Tour de France (though the French press did its best to ruin that), and America’s triumph in the women’s football World Cup, which did wonders for sports bras....
The Raptors recorded an impressive 105-92 triumph on the road to the Golden State Warriors on Friday in Game 4, putting them 3-1 up as the Finals switch back to Canadian soil. However, while Toronto are suddenly on the brink of dethroning the two-time defending champions, Leonard - who scored 36 points while also contributing 12 rebounds - is taking nothing for granted. “It’s not over yet, so I can’t say that we’re better,” the 27-year-old told the media....
The whole notion of music and art and intellectual property is changing. People have been downloading copyrighted music for a couple years now for free, so they think they have the right to do it. But it isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. And you only have that privilege because the record industry let this stuff get totally out of control. This is an argument about intellectual property. Right now we are talking about music....
Thanks to its portless design, the Craob X claims to be only 7mm thick and weigh just 1.9 pounds. To put this into context, the thinnest laptops, the Acer Swift 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, are about 9.9mm thick. Even the iPhone 13 at 7.65mm is bulkier than the Craob X. However, hardware experts don’t think a laptop as slim as the Craob X would be functional. “I don’t think it’s possible to make a laptop device that thin without technology to replace the battery,” Alex Lennon, founder of Dynamic Devices, told Lifewire over email....
When I was a kid I had been interested in the chemistry of photography, and I had my mother’s Box Brownie [camera]. I used to process down in the cellar, but I never thought of it as an artistic thing, although the only things I could do at school were paint and draw. They used to cane me for not being able to spell. In those days they just thought you were an idiot [if you were dyslexic]....
That was one of the few pictures Life didn’t get. Everything seemed possible for the magazine in its glory days: its photographers peeked into the human womb to show fetuses, and they were there on the beaches of Normandy as American troops invaded and in Buchenwald when the death camp was liberated. Life virtually invented photojournalism–and, with a stable of photographers that included Alfred Eisenstadt, Philippe Halsman, Margaret Bourke-White and David Douglas Duncan, it set a standard of excellence that has never been matched....
Richard Hatchett, the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a partnership of public, private, philanthropic and civil organizations that finance and coordinate the development of vaccines, made the comments during American Public Health Association panel discussion last week. Hatchett, who previously served as the chief medical officer and director of the U.S. Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority (BARDA), said he believes it is “very likely” a COVID-19 vaccine will be developed....
Italian voice actor Pietro Ubaldi originally voiced the Goron Champion Daruk in Breath of the Wild. Daruk features as one of Hyrule’s old champions, who failed to stop Calamity Ganon 100 years before the events of Breath of the Wild take place. Like the other fallen heroes Revali, Mipha, and Urbosa, Daruk can guide Link on his quest to restore all the Divine Beasts to their former glory and save Hyrule....
An itchy left hand might indicate you’re about to lose or pay a lot of money. An itchy right hand might mean you’re about get good luck or news too. [2] X Research source Pro tip—scratch the numbers off lottery tickets with a piece of wood instead of your hand for luck. Losing money isn’t always bad—if your money or service goes to a good cause, you’ll be rewarded later. [4] X Research source...
He is expected to be sidelined for the rest of his sophomore season, Indiana said when updating his status later that day. MORE: Ranking the best Hoosiers of all time “This is a very tough outcome for our Indiana team, but most importantly for James,” coach Tom Crean said in a statement. “He is establishing himself as one of the most elite guards in the country this season. I feel terrible for him and he has a tough road ahead of him but it is one he has been down before and we fully believe that this process will lead him to have an incredible future in the game at Indiana and well beyond....
Ahead of the fifth edition of ISL, a new set of rules that allows a club’s assistant coach to be promoted to the position of the head coach even if the coach is not an active AFC Pro License holder, have been introduced. These rules give us a better understanding of how an assistant coach of an ISL club can be promoted to the position of head coach. It bodes well for clubs like Bengaluru FC because as per the new set of rules, they can appoint former assistant coach Carles Cuadrat as their head coach....
A win will take Bengaluru temporarily to sole ownership of top spot, and Carles Cuadrat has promised that his side will give a reaction to their disappointing 2-0 loss against Mumbai City FC last week, when two schoolboy errors, from Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Harmanjot Khabra, gifted Mumbai the win. Odisha are in fabulous form, with four wins on the bounce, but the champions are not a side who often get bettered at their own Fortress....
As they face an in-form ATK Mohun Bagan, Jamshedpur FC will need to approach the game with all guns firing to stand any chance of a win. Their attack this year has shown much promise, scoring four important goals in the first three matches. The improved attack has given the team a chance to compete against their seemingly better-organised opponents. Jamshedpur FC defenders, Stephen Eze and Peter Hartley have been a fragile link....
Bengaluru FC had a chance to start off on a perfect note as Cleiton Silva released Deshorn Brown into a lot of space. Brown had time on his hands but he powered it high and wide to lose out on a glorious opportunity. Thereafter, it was all Mumbai City FC as Raynier Fernandes came up with the first major chance. Raynier delivered a dangerous cross but Gurpreet Singh Sandhu got enough connection to push the ball away from the onrushing Bipin Singh....
Chennaiyin FC started the season with a win against Jamshedpur FC and then drew against Kerala Blasters. Clearly they needed to do a lot of work. Yesterday, the game started with high intensity. But both the teams were reluctant in conceding, resulting in a cagey affair. The first half ended with the scoreboard reading nil-nil. The second half saw both teams being more aggressive in their approach, which led to more openings....
While Tavares gets to return home to play for his childhood team, one that is now loaded with offensive talent and might represent Toronto’s best chance to end its five-decade Stanley Cup drought, the Islanders are left empty-handed and looking for a way to start over. The whole thing has to be depressing for Islanders fans. For nine years, they got the best hockey of Tavares’ career and were never able to build a competent team around him that could get within a stone’s throw of a championship....
Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani pointed to what happened when Al-Qaeda used Afghanistan as a base to plot the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S. as to why isolation is bad policy. Qatar’s policies and perception have been closely observed since the U.S. withdrawal because the oil-rich nation has played a large role in war-torn Afghanistan. “If we are going to disengage and not to engage with them [the Taliban], I think again we are committing the same mistake that we did in 1989…when we abandoned Afghanistan, the Afghan people,” al-Qahtani said....
The Rabbinate’s disapproval follows the release of a letter last week from a group of Orthodox Sephardic rabbis in Israel which approved of video conferencing specifically for this year’s Passover as a way for families to virtually convene despite pandemic-related social distancing measures. The Orthodox Sephardic rabbis’ letter stressed the importance of children bonding with grandparents as a way to keep close ties to Judaic tradition. The letter also said that video conferencing during Passover could help “remove sadness from adults and the elderly, to give them motivation to continue fighting for their lives, and to prevent them from succumbing to depression, which might cause them to despair of life....
Sami Hureini said that the settlers wielded clubs and stones, which they threw at cars and homes during the attack on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Several of Mufaqara’s residents were wounded during the incident, including one four-year-old boy, Mohammed Bakr, who Hureini said was hospitalized after sustaining a head injury. An Israeli rights group released footage of the attack, showing several of the settlers with scarves wrapped around their faces and shirtless....
