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The first two methods are actively discussed and implemented to various degrees. The recent commitment of G20 members (with the United States as the sole rejector) to the Paris Agreement will act to solve the source of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Sucking CO2 from the atmosphere and locking it away... |
The third method, blocking out sunlight has been controversial in the scientific community for decades. The controversy lies in the inability to fully understand the consequences of partially blocking out sunlight. A reduction in global temperature is well understood and expected, however, there remain questions around... |
Illustration of the balloon system the Harvard team will deploy to release calcium carbonate into the stratosphere. |
This is precisely why the Harvard research team intends to spray tiny chalk (calcium carbonate) particles into the stratosphere in a controlled experiment. Computer models can only go so far in predicting the impacts this geoengineering technique, it is time for a real world test. With funding in part by Microsoft co-f... |
While the potential negative effects are not fully characterized, the ability to control Earth's temperature by spraying small particles into the stratosphere is an attractive solution largely due to its cost. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report estimated that the continual release of par... |
When comparing these costs with the global reduction in fossil fuel use or carbon sequestration, the method becomes very attractive. Thus, scientists, government agencies and independent funders of this technology must balance the inexpensive and effectiveness of this method with the potential risks to global crops, we... |
Adele‘s ’21’ has become the fourth biggest-selling album of all time in the UK. |
According to data from the Official Charts Company, the soul singer’s second LP has overtaken Oasis’s 1995 record ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’. The album, which was produced by Paul Epworth, has now shifted 4,562,000 copies, meaning it just edges ahead of the Britpop-era LP from the Gallagher brothers, which has... |
Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ collection remains the UK’s biggest-selling album, having sold a whopping 5,866,000 copies, with The Beatles’ 1967 record ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in second place with 5,059,000. In third, meanwhile, is ABBA’s greatest hits compilation ‘Gold’, which has sold 5,046,000. |
Despite her impressive sales figures, recent reports have suggested that not every person is thrilled with a copy of Adele’s ’21’ – yesterday (December 28), it was claimed that the album is the most returned and exchanged Christmas gift this year. The LP, which has sold over 10m copies worldwide, was the album being mo... |
Meanwhile, Adele has reportedly trademarked her own name, after it was recently revealed that she has taken steps to ensure that her name can’t be used to sell perfume or jewellery without her consent. |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) The ”M-V-P!” chants reigned down, and Stephen Curry played every bit like one yet again. Mouthpiece dangling and shots dropping. |
He has had so many brilliant back-and-forths with Kyrie Irving in recent years, and this one will surely be added to that list among the best. |
Curry scored 49 points with 13 of those over the final 1:42 and hit eight 3-pointers, lifting the Golden State Warriors past the Boston Celtics 109-105 on Saturday night in what is already being hyped as a potential NBA Finals matchup come June. |
Irving scored 37 points on 13-for-18 shooting with five 3s, but Boston failed to build momentum from a win at the Clippers on Wednesday night and lost for the fifth time in six games. |
The NBA’s top teams from their respective conferences put on quite an entertaining show. |
Curry made a go-ahead 3 with 1:42 to play, scored on a driving layup the next time down before eight late free throws. He also made three of his 3s over the final 4:20 of the third quarter for the Warriors, who had lost the last two matchups to the Celtics and two in a row at home. The Warriors fell 92-88 at Boston on ... |
Kevin Durant added 20 points and nine rebounds for the Warriors, who haven’t lost to the same Eastern Conference opponent twice in the same season during fourth-year coach Steve Kerr’s tenure. Draymond Green had 15 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. |
Curry’s 3-pointer with 4:20 left in the third put Golden State up 70-63, he hit another at the 2:52 mark then connected once more at 2:12 as Golden State grabbed momentum heading into the final period up 80-73. |
The two-time NBA MVP scored 18 points in the third, shot 16 for 24 and 8 of 13 from long range while notching his second 40-point game of the season and 29th of his career in the regular season. Fans chanted ”M-V-P!” as he made two free throws with 43 seconds left, two more at the 10.3 mark, another pair with 6.9 secon... |
Plenty familiar with Golden State from three straight Finals matchups with the Cavaliers, he hit his first seven shots with three 3-pointers while Jaylen Brown converted his first four field goals including two 3s. Boston built a 34-24 lead late in the opening quarter and stayed ahead by 10 going into the second. |
He didn’t miss his first shot until a driving floater 4:16 before halftime. Irving too appreciates the push from Curry. |
Curry isn’t about to make a bold prediction about Finals time. He learned that lesson already. |
Coach Brad Stevens still doesn’t expect Gordon Hayward to play again for Boston this season as he recovers from a gruesome broken left ankle suffered early in his Celtics debut last October. |
Hayward hasn’t lost his shooting stroke as he rehabs. |
Kerr has been so impressed with the Celtics’ resiliency without the star guard. |
Celtics: Second-year F Brown, who played collegiately at nearby Cal, scored 20 points. Durant hit a 3 from the top of the arc over Brown midway through the first quarter. … Boston shot just 32.9 percent in beating the Warriors last time, including 7 of 32 from deep, but made 14 of 27 3s on Saturday. |
Warriors: Curry has made at least five 3-pointers in five straight games, one off the NBA record. ”I’m shooting 30 3s next game,” he cracked. … G Patrick McCaw missed his second straight game but said he is improving from a strained mid-back and hopes a few days before the next game will give him time to be ready. … Ro... |
Celtics: At Denver on Monday to conclude a four-game road trip. |
Warriors: At Utah on Tuesday looking for a fourth straight road win in the series. |
A 2,800-year-old wood-and-bronze brazier is back on display in Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad. |
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- More than 800 artifacts were returned to Iraq's National Museum on Tuesday, nearly eight months after they were looted during the fall of Baghdad. |
"This is a very good day in the history of the Iraqi museum" said Mario Bondioli-Osio, senior adviser to the Ministry of Culture. |
Antiquities were looted from the museum in the chaotic days after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, but the thefts are not as widespread as initially feared. |
Original estimates said 170,000 pieces had been looted from the museum. Coalition officials say a few dozen of the most important items remain missing from the museum's public galleries, along with another 10,000 other items -- most of them tiny and some of them fragments. |
Officials have said that hundreds of priceless artifacts were stored in vaults for safekeeping since 1991, and many of those have been returned. |
The FBI also assisted with the search for missing items. |
Culture Minister Muhammad al Jazaari expressed his happiness Tuesday in recovering a 4,300-year-old copper statue, a wood-and-bronze brazier and about 800 other smaller objects from different periods that were stolen in April. |
Jazaari praised the Italian-Iraqi Institute of Archaeological Sciences for buying a stolen collection of archaeological pieces with the purpose of returning the items to the museum. |
Earlier, the ministry had issued an amnesty for the return of looted artifacts. |
Museum director Donny George announced that the amnesty was still open and said Iraqis are bringing back antiquities daily. |
"The heritage of the world and mankind's history has been recovered in Iraq, thanks to the efforts of the U.S. [military police] and the Iraqi police." |
CNN's Rebecca Bouchebel contributed to this report. |
A business cannot give goods or services away or it will not stay in business very long. It is called shrinkage. |
Every retail business knows a certain amount of loss of inventory is due to shoplifters. Manufacturers have shrinkage, and some of it is due to employee theft. The cost of these thefts is passed on to consumers who pay for their purchases from these businesses. |
These are crimes and they are prosecuted when the perpetrators are caught, but customers have already paid for these losses. Businesses include shrinkage in their pricing, and it makes products more expensive than if everyone paid for them. |
Hospitals have to treat everyone who comes into their emergency rooms. All patients of hospitals pay for deadbeats who don’t pay their bills, and this cost is exorbitant for a hospital. There ought to be a law. Oh, that’s right, there is! It’s called the Affordable Care Act. |
Republicans consider themselves business experts. However, their credibility is questionable when they don’t equate the latter with the former. |
With the mandated hospitalization insurance, the federal budget deficit will be reduced if the Affordable Care Act is kept in place. |
Val Kilmer said he would love to reprise his role as Iceman if there were ever a "Top Gun 2" sequel to the 1986 Navy pilot drama starring Tom Cruise. |
Kilmer, 53, appeared on Larry King's Hulu show, "Larry King Now," this week to discuss his ideas for possible sequels to some of his greatest movies. |
The actor said he would be interested in a "Top Gun 2," and acknowledged how much director Tony Scott contributed to the original film. Both Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer's producing partner Don Simpson have died since the first installment of "Top Gun" was released. |
"I think it wouldn't be that difficult to maintain the spirit of it," Kilmer told King. "Tony was the most generous, positive director I've ever worked for in film. He's not known as an actor's director because he's such a vivid stylist with the camera… but he really loved acting and getting the shot." |
Kilmer also pitched his idea for a sequel to 1995's "Heat," where he played a bank robber opposite Al Pacino. |
"Here's my pitch," Kilmer said. "You remember Natalie Portman in it? She's Pacino's adopted daughter, so she comes home and says, 'Daddy, daddy, I want you to meet my fiancé.' And it's me. He's retired and I come to Chicago where he's retired back to and I'm going to torture him, and then I'm going to kill him." |
Twitter users were excited at the possibility of a "Top Gun 2." |
Val Kilmer is the most underrated actor in all of Hollywood. Top Gun 2 would be brilliant. @leeferran knows what I'm talking about. |
Big news day, may have gone under the radar Val Kilmer is open for Top Gun 2 Except he'll be code name "Ice Cream Man" |
After disposing of $15 billion in real estate between 2004 and 2007, the Kuwaitis are returning to the Big Apple. |
Sources told The Post that Kuwaiti investment entity Fosterlane Management is in contract to buy 750 Seventh Ave. for $485 million. |
Atlanta-based Fosterlane once owned the Lipstick Building and sold it to Tishman Speyer Properties in 2004. It also sold 350 Park Ave. to Vornado Realty Trust. |
CB Richard Ellis brokers Darcy Stacom and William Shanahan, who are selling the Times Square area building for Hines Interests, did not return messages for comment. |
David Garrard woke up and knew something was wrong. |
His father was sitting on his bed, ready to restrain him, and he could hear his younger sister crying upstairs. |
That's when the weight of the truth fell on the then-16-year-old's shoulders: His mother, Shirley, had lost her two-year fight against breast cancer. |
"It was tough," said Garrard, the Jaguars' starting quarterback, now 32. "I was definitely shocked, because ... right before she passed, she was actually doing pretty good, and then she all of a sudden one day was sick and she was throwing up. |
"That week she just really went downhill and got to the hospital and was there for about a day, and then she passed through the night." |
Two years earlier, Garrard had listened with his family as his mother explained that she had found a lump in her breast and had gone to the doctors, who told her it was breast cancer. |
Garrard, then 14, said he really didn't understand what cancer was at the time, or the severity of the disease, but Shirley Garrard was honest with her children. |
"She sat us down and said, 'You know, there might be a time that mommy's not here,' " Garrard recalls. "I just thought, 'Well, that'll be a long time from now.' And then seeing her get sicker and sicker over the next year or so and really starting to realize that there might be a day soon that she's not even here." |
That day came on May 22, 1994. Shirley Garrard was 49. |
The mother of four - David, older brothers Anthony and Quincy, and younger sister Adrianne - was a nurse for a Veterans Affairs hospital. Garrard recalls Shirley, who divorced from his father when he was in elementary school, at one point brought a foster child into their home. |
"She was an awesome lady, with a great smile, great personality, loved everybody," Garrard said, flashing a proud grin. "A single mother that had to be firm, strict and sweet, all at the same time. |
"She really instilled a lot of things in me and the way that I grew as a person and turned into a man, and the way that I raise my kid." |
Garrard and his wife, Mary, have a 3-year-old son, Justin Thomas. |
"Even when [my mother] passed, the stuff that she taught us from an early age really stuck with us, and that was to be giving, to be kind, stand up for yourself and not be a push-over," Garrard said, "because she was a tough lady, too." |
That toughness showed through in her battle with cancer. It was two years that Garrard describes as a blur, as his mother went through the lows of radiation and chemotherapy treatments and the highs of seeming at times to be on her way to full recovery. |
"When she had her mastectomy, they thought they got it then, and she was actually doing really good," he said. "And then they found it had spread into other areas." |
That's when she began chemotherapy and radiation treatments. |
"She started losing her hair and always being sick and always being tired," Garrard recalls. "There were points during it where it looked like 'OK, she's going to be fine. She's getting healthy. She's back on her feet and out working in the yard, doing stuff that she normally would do before.' And then it would just be... |
"And there was no rhyme or reason to it." |
One such unexpected turn occurred not long before she died. Garrard said he was the only one at home with his mother when she suddenly became so ill that he feared he might have to drive her to the hospital himself, despite the fact he didn't yet have a driver's license. |
"I really didn't think about calling 9-1-1 or anything like that. I just thought, 'Man, I might have to drive,' " Garrard said. "I had already taken courses and stuff, but I didn't have my license." |
Memories like that one helped lead Garrard to create the David Garrard Foundation, which received its 501c(3) status in July 2009. |
One of the foundation's focuses is to help local children who have been impacted by breast cancer, particularly those who are financially disadvantaged. |
"I think he started this foundation as a way to honor his mother's legacy, but also to help children who were much like he was when he lost his mother," said Heather Surface, director of the David Garrard Foundation. "David was one of four children. ... The family didn't have a lot of money and his mom, she was a singl... |
"His focus is to make sure that children locally have that same kind of support." |
Recently, Garrard has been working with Baptist Health to raise funds for and promote its newly opened Hill Breast Center. |
Marlene Spalten, executive director of Baptist Health Foundation, said one of Garrard's best tools as a fund-raiser is his own story. |
"When he tells that story, it really inspires those of us who have not had that tragedy in our lives, and gives us an idea of how it must have felt to an adolescent to have his mother go through that and succumb to that in the end," Spalten said. "He's really an excellent speaker and a very sensitive person. As tragic ... |
Surface said the foundation has a particular interest in helping to create a Kids Zone at the Hill Breast Center to cater to children of breast cancer patients. |
In May, the foundation, which also focuses on Healthy Lifestyles for Kids and Crohn's & Colitis, hosted its first official event, Fishing for the Cure, a tournament designed to raise funds for families impacted by breast cancer and/or Crohn's disease. |
Garrard was diagnosed with Crohn's, an intestinal disorder, in 2004. |
Garrard has also been participating this month in the NFL's "A Crucial Catch" campaign to promote breast cancer awareness and early detection. Along with other NFL athletes, Garrard, who suffered a concussion last week against Tennessee and will miss Sunday's game at Kansas City, has worn pink gear, including cleats an... |
Garrard and his wife will participate in a Bright Holidays campaign, which offers support to children, including financially disadvantaged children impacted by breast cancer and/or Crohn's, during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. |
"With the David Garrard Foundation, I think that's something that can be a legacy left for [my mother]," Garrard said. "I really feel like I should do things to keep her name going and keep her legacy alive." |
My 12-year-old son and I very much enjoyed Sam Whiting's article on Daron Rahlves ("The Rahlves Identity," Jan. 27). My son has skied with him. But why is Bode Miller so underrated by the press and apparently by Whiting? He is having an exceptional year, unless you think that leading the overall World Cup standings is ... |
Please consider the above comments in a positive light. |
I enjoyed reading the article on Daron Rahlves, with the exception of one sentence. It begins "After Bode Miller delivered his typically disappointing run ..." Sam Whiting is certainly not the only journalist who seems to enjoy bashing Miller at every opportunity. It may be a lack of understanding of ski racing at the ... |
Eleven years ago I gave birth in the front seat of a Toyota Camry still parked in the driveway, a near-spontaneous birth following what is called "precipitous labor." It was 5:30 a.m. in December and pitch-black out. My husband could not tell whether the baby he had just caught was male or female. With our lack of medi... |
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