Toronto Raptors vs Cleveland Cavaliers - Game 2 - Full Highlights | May 19, 2016 | 2016 NBA Playoffs
The Cleveland Cavaliers took a 100-60 lead into the fourth quarter of tonights Eastern Conference finals game, and thats all you need to know and all Ill say about whats happening on the court. Or at least with the basketball players on the court, because this bald-headed Cavs fan got into a funny little shouting match with Dwane Casey and had to remind him YOURE IN CLEVELAND NOW!
Our friends compatriots were so bored by the blowout that they just sorta took off and hit this reporter with an all-too understandable shrug. The ESPN crew at one point noted that there were a surprising amount of Cavs fans left.
Game 6 is Friday, and, as of publication, Game 5 isoh who cares.
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NBC wins the night with the season finale of "Law & Order: SVU."
NBC won the final night of the 2015-16 TV season. Naturally a finale-heavy night, there was a notable boost for Law & Order: SVU. The drama topped the night for broadcast with an average 1.5 rating among adults 18-49, a 17 percent lift from the prior episode.
Heartbeat wrapped its brief run with a 0.7 rating in the key demo, and Chicago P.D. fetched a steady 1.4 rating.
The third night of CBS" Price Is Right primetime specials nabbed a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 before back-to-back episodes of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.
ABC may have tied CBS for No. 2, but it marks the end of the network"s third consecutive demo win for the May sweep. With the typical Wednesday comedy block already off the air, Finding Nemo led into the last-ever Nashville. The drama was steady, if slightly improved, with a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49.
Wayward Pines returned to Fox, in line with last summer"s premiere, averaging a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49 and 3.1 million viewers. It followed the finale of Rosewood (0.8 adults).
On The CW, Arrow and Supernatural each fetched 0.8 ratings among adults 18-49 for their finales.
Trump: "Pocahontas" Elizabeth Warren is a total failure
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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren demanded in a letter Tuesday that Harvard University let graduate students unionize despite opposition from the college.
Graduate students at a number of Ivy League universities have fought to unionize. The universities, however, warn such unionization would undermine the relationship students have with their professors by making them more akin to workers. Warren, alongside a few other progressive lawmakers, demanded in a letter to Harvard President Drew Faustthat that the university end its opposition.
The work of Harvard graduate student research and teaching assistants help to make Harvard a world leader academically, the letter stated. They are part of what makes Harvard an important economic engine in Cambridge and Greater Boston. Respecting the wishes of these students to form a collective bargaining organization will help these students continue this important work.
Warren previously was a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a big advocate for union rights. The United Auto Workers has been at the forefront of the unionizing drive. This union has pushed federal officials to reverse a 2004 case involving Brown University, which prevented graduate students from forming unions with collective bargaining rights.
We believe that the relationship between graduate students and a university is fundamentally about education, not employment, Harvard spokesman Anna Cowenhoven told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Our graduate students are engaged, valued, and supported as a critical part of the learning, teaching, and research that happens at Harvard.
Cowenhoven said the university is encouraging an open debate on the matter. Graduate students could technically join a union, but since theyre not employees, they are not afforded the right to collectively bargain. A collective bargaining agreement is a special labor contract that grants unions monopoly rights over a workplace by winning a majority vote.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell and a handful of other elite schoolscame together in March, issuing a legal brief in opposition to the union challenge. Graduate students often perform a multitude of paid activities that could be considered work, like student teaching. They often get paid for these activities, though theyre not technically considering workers.
Student athletes forming unions has also been a point of debate, but both universities and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been hesitant to support the effort.
Warren did not respond to a request for comment by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Casey Anthony - Interview with Detectives after Arrest
SEMINOLE COUNTY, FL The private investigator hired in July 2008 to help the Baez Law Firm work onCasey Anthonys defense in the 2008 murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, has dropped a bombshell in court documents.
Dominic Casey claims inaffidavits filed in Anthonys bankruptcy case that her lawyer, Jose Baez, toldhim that Casey had murdered Caylee and dumped the body somewhere and, heneeded all the help he could get to find the body before anyone else did.
Dominic Casey alsoalleges an attempt was made to point the finger at Roy Kronk, the meter readerwho found the child"s body in 2008. In addition,Dominic Caseys affidavit also claims that Anthony and Baez had sexualrelations.
I arrived at Baezsoffice unexpectedly one day and once again, witnessed a n***d Casey, oneaffidavit said. When Dominic Casey confronted Anthony about it, Casey told meshe had to do what Jose said because she had no money for her defense, theaffidavit, posted online by WFLAsaid.
A request for commentfrom Baezs office made by Patch has not been answered.
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The affidavits werefiled in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division.In regard to Kronk, Dominic Casey claimed Anthony told him, We could say RoyKronk kidnapped Caylee.
Anthony was 25 when shestood trial in herdaughters death in 2011. The child was reported missing in the Orange County area,sparking a well-publicized search that ultimately ended with the discovery ofthe toddlers body in 2008.
Investigatorscharged Anthony with first-degree murder, manslaughter and aggravated childabuse in Caylees death. She was, however, acquitted on the more seriouscharges but convicted for providing false information to law enforcement. Thejury seated in the case was selected in Pinellas County and was transported toOrange County to hear the evidence. Judge Belvin Perry Jr. drew the jury poolfrom the Tampa Bay area county because of concern the Orlando area wouldproduce a tainted selection, a previous Patchstory noted.
Anthonysacquittal sparked outrage across the country and many in the Tampa Bay areatook part in the Porch Lights on forCaylee Marie Anthony campaign launched on Facebook in the daysimmediately following the jurys July 5, 2011, verdict.
Fact: the world is full of horrible sad people who get off on policing womens bodies. Fact: they will always be with us, like roaches. But if there is any note of satisfaction to be found in the unending chorus of c**p that women have to put up with, its in the sound of ladies, increasingly, refusing to endure this nonsense. Every time a woman or girlmakes a declaration that she doesnt give a d**n what strangers think of her body, surely the angels sing. And right now, they sing for Anne Hathaway and Amy Schumer.
On Ellen this week, new mom Anne Hathaway, promoting Alice Through the Looking Glass, discussed her eight-week old son and her halting steps back to the outside world. Ive been out of the house a couple of times, the woman who won an Academy Award for playing a starving person admitted. Ive been to the gym. I went to the gym three times. Hathaway, who looked gorgeous in a dark halter dress, said that she goes to a gym with people who resemble Thors trainer the people who have too many muscles to be in The Avengers," she said.
Yeah, I work out with 5- pound weights, but I pushed a baby out of my body, I feel good right now. So I dont care what I look like, I feel great, Hathaway added.
Then she recounted that she told a trainer at the gym that shed recently become a mother, and Im expecting him to say the thing that you say when someone says that youve had a baby. If somebody says, I had a baby 13 years ago, you say, You look great. That is what you do. That is the etiquette. So I say to this guy, I had a baby seven weeks ago. And he goes, Oh, trying to lose the baby weight?"
Hathaway paused, to let the inanity of the comment reverberate to the audience, before saying that shed mustered up her dignity and told him No, its a little bit too soon to worry about weight, Im just trying to regain my strength. Then, she admitted, she cried a little.
As Hathaway demonstrates, the appropriate response to a woman whos just had a baby is congratulations and praise. The expectation the she surely must, after delivering into the world a new human being, want to get her body as bikini-worthy as possible as quickly as possible, is frankly nuts even if its one celebrities themselves perpetuate with their inevitable sexy postpartum magazine covers.
Yet increasingly, Hollywood moms are pushing back. Last year, after welcoming her second daughter, Kristen Bell told Elle, I find the baby weight conversation to be a very stale topic. Who really cares? Just be healthy, dont beat yourself up, and have fun with your kid. The only way pressure is lifted is if we choose not to accept it any longer. I think thats what I did. And on Mothers Day, Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett, whose entire career was built on her formidable body, posted an abs flaunting photo on Instagram of her loose, stretch-marked and two kids later midsection.
But G*d knows a woman need not have given birth to be scrutinized for and unapologetic about her body. Elsewhere on Instagram, giver of zero effs Amy Schumer posted on Tuesday a photo of herself wading in the ocean in a one-piece bathing suit. For context, recall that last month Schumer was surprised to find an old Glamour feature on her repurposed for the magazinesspecial plus-size edition a move she publicly called them out for doing without asking or letting me know and it doesnt feel right to me. And earlier this month, she yet again addressed the issue of existing in the world in non supermodel-shaped corporeal form, in a brilliant sketch with Lena Dunham on the horrors of clothes shopping if youre above a toddler size 3.
This time around, she accompanied the photo with the message to the trolls that read, I hope you find some joy in your lives today in a human interaction and not just in writing unkind things to a stranger youve never met who triggers something in you that makes you feel powerless and alone. This is how I look. I feel happy. I think I look strong and healthy and also like miss trunchbull from Matilda. Kisses!
Funny, self-deprecating and yet not self-loathing, with a devastatingly spot on assessment of what fuels bottom feeding commenters check, check, check!
Yes, there will continue to be moments for many of us when we will judged for not being a photoshopped version of femininity, and there will be times we, like Anne Hathaway, may want a cry a little over it. But like Schumer, we can also pause to consider that emotionally healthy people dont berate women for not being sufficient masturbation fodder for them. And we can work out in the gym or jump in the ocean without anybodys permission or approval.
Peter Thiel: being contrarian & right, AI, Elon, drug reform, overrated trends & wealth polarization
While billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been grabbing headlines for his reported support of Hulk Hogans lawsuit against Gawker (as well as his backing of Donald Trump), one of his investment firms has shown interest in something thats a lot less contrarian: batteries.
On Wednesday, battery startup Stem announced that its raised a new round of $15 million, led by Mithril Capital Management, a fund co-founded by Thiel and Ajay Royan to invest in tech startups that are growing quickly. Mithril is reportedly out raising a second fund of $600 million.
A battery from Stem to help building owners lower electricity bills.Photo courtesy of Stem.
Stem buys batteries from battery giants like Panasonic and Samsung, then installs them in the basements or backyards of companies buildings. The startup then uses smart software to shift the energy load of the building over onto the batteries when the power grid rates are high.
With this battery tech, Stems customers like Wells Fargo WFC, Safeway SFY, Whole Foods WFM, and Reliance Steel RS can lower their monthly energy costs significantly. Energy geeks call this type of battery application behind the meter, and its seeing growing interest from businesses with a lot of facilities and high energy costs.
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Utilities can also work with Stem so that they can shift the energy loads of buildings that plug into their grid over onto batteries during peak times of day, like a hot summer afternoon. In this way, they have another option for how to manage the demand on their grids.
Stem is one of only a couple startups that won huge deals to work with utility Southern California Edison to use batteries to help the utility manage its grid. Stem plans to deploy a whopping 85 megawatts of batteries to Southern California Edison customers by 2021. For comparison, there were only 221 megawatts of energy storage deployed in the U.S. in 2015, according to GTM Research.
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Stems business model relies on the recent drop in the costs of lithium-ion batteries, which began when these rechargeable batteries became the de facto choice for most cell phones, laptops, and many gadgets. Now battery giants like Samsung and Panasonic are investing in growing their manufacturing, and dropping the costs, of these batteries to be plugged into the grid, paired with solar panels and used to power vehicles, like Teslas electric cars.
With this funding Stem has raised $105 million to date ($68 million in the Series C round). Other investors in Stem include Japanese conglomerate Mitsui, Germanys RWE Supply & Trading, the Angeleno Group, power giant Iberdrola, GE Ventures, the investment arm of GE GE, Constellation New Energy, and Total Energy Ventures, the investment arm of French oil giant Total TOT.
Stem will use the funds to grow its customer list. The company says its battery tech has been installed at 440 facilities in California and Hawaii.
Other companies that are competing with Stem include Green Charge Networks, Greensmith Energy Management Systems, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Tesla TSLA, and even GE. Earlier this month, French power company Engie acquired an 80% stake in Green Charge Networks.
Updated at 9:30 AM PST on May 25th to correct that Stem raised $68 million in its series C round and $105 million in total.
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Stocks finished off their highs of the day, but still ended in strong form Friday as the S&P 500 gained 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average could not avoid a weekly loss, extending its weekly losing streak to four, but the blue-chip index rose 0.38%. Thanks to some soaring semiconductor names, the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.2%.
The dollar rose for a third consecutive week amid ongoing speculation the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates next month, but on Friday investors paid the most attention to retailers and technology stocks.
And that theme explains why Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS) and Dillards, Inc. (NYSE:DDS) are three of todays best stocks.
Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)
Shares of semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials surged 13.8% on volume that was more than quadruple the daily average after the company forecast a fiscal third-quarter profit of 46 to 50 cents a share.
Analysts are expecting AMAT to earn 36 cents a share. AMAT said it expects net sales to rise 14% to 18% from the second quarter.
In its fiscal second quarter, AMAT earned 34 cents a share on an adjusted basis on revenue of $2.45 billion. Analysts expected AMAT to earn 32 cents on sales of $2.43 billion.
Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (DKS)
Dicks Sporting Goods saw its shares climb 5.1% on almost triple the usual turnover after the stock earned two upgrades from sell-side analysts.
Goldman Sachs upgraded DKS to a buy rating with a $53 price target, implying significant upside from Fridays close. Morgan Stanley chimed in as well, lifting its rating on DKS to equal-weight from underweight.
Dillards, Inc. (DDS)
Department store operator Dillards fought off a slide after a disappointing earnings report to finish higher by 5.8% on heavy volume.
In its most recently completed quarter, DDS earned $2.17 per share, well below the $2.52 a share Wall Street estimate. Same-store sales for DDS declined for a third straight quarter, reports CNBC.
DDS reported a same-store sales decline of 5%, double what analysts expected.
At the time of this writing, Todd Shriber did not own any of the aforementioned securities.
