The federal reserve raised short-term interest rates again last week, increasing the “Fed Funds” rate to 6 percent. The Fed has increased the rate seven times, a full 3 percentage points, in the past year to slow the economy and prevent higher inflation. Is the latest increase overkill? Stalking phantom inflation, will the Fed trigger a slump? The answer is that no one can tell. There’s no exact science to say when rates should and shouldn’t be increased....
The anti-Mitch crowd, fueled by the Bears’ disappointing season along with lingering bitterness that Chicago drafted Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson, is hoping general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy send the third-year passer packing and look to free agency or a talented incoming draft class for the next Bears starting QB. I say the Bears will first look to Trubisky’s fine performance last season before giving up on the QB for whom they traded several picks to move up and select....
SOS Online Backup Plans & Costs SOS Online Backup had five identical plans under the name SOS Personal that supported up to 5 computers and unlimited mobile devices that only differed in their total storage capacity. 50 GB for $4. 99 /month150 GB for $9. 99 /month500 GB for $20. 99 /month1 TB for $39. 99 /month5 TB for $159. 99 /month SOS Online Backup, unlike some other cloud backup services, didn’t offer a completely free plan....
Both plays from the talented teen keyed a sensational sweep for the Nationals. Soto hit a solo home run in the 10th inning, his second of the game, to lead the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies and a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday night. “I’ve never seen a 19 year old swing and be that patient at the plate,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “He’s 19 but he plays like he’s been in the league a long time....
Thymesia is skipping PS4 and Xbox One, which makes its Switch release that much more surprising. However, there’s a catch that Nintendo Switch owners should be aware of when it comes to picking up Thymesia on Nintendo’s home console/handheld hybrid. Thymesia on Switch will not be a native release. Instead, Thymesia will only be playable on the Switch through Nintendo’s cloud services. RELATED: Soulslike Game Thymesia Release Date Delayed...
Tattoos are commonly known as a visual medium to express oneself, but this concept is changing. A bright new idea to create a whole new augmented reality tattoo experience. The entirely new technology bridging physical and digital worlds in real time and adding an extra dimension to the body art. Using a smartphone app, you can have a tattoo that can playback. A tattoo artist in LA named Nate Siggard has come up with this concept after hearing a conversation between two friends, where they mentioned about an audio tattoo....
While the top BCCI officials have reiterated that the team director Ravi Shastri, who was drafted in following India’s lacklustre showing in the just concluded Test series against England, will be calling the shots, Indian captain MS Dhoni, on the eve of the first One Day International, at Bristol, claimed that Duncan Fletcher is still the the “boss”, thereby incurring the wrath of the board that went on to state “Dhoni has overstepped his brief as an Indian captain....
The ex-cricketer slammed Sourav Ganguly for showing ‘undue power’ and advised him to keep his focus on the Indian Premier League and Indian cricket instead. Earlier yesterday, former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly claimed in an online interview that the Asia Cup had been called off, although he did not elaborate on the details. PCB has already disregarded Sourav Ganguly’s claim Officials from both the PCB as well as the Bangladesh Cricket Board have confirmed that they are not aware of any such decision being taken....
To pull the team out of that slump, coach Dwane Casey moved third-year swingman Terrence Ross to the bench, instead inserting guard Greivis Vasquez and moving DeMar DeRozan to small forward. MORE: Midseason rookie rankings | Sources: Kobe agent after Stanley Johnson | Boston’s big plan The benching of Ross has led to trade speculation, with Toronto eager to beef up its struggling interior defense and Ross an attractive young chip who can be paired with the first-round pick the Raptors will get from the Knicks (the lesser of the picks between New York and Denver) in 2016....
The verified profile—@HealthZA—spent this morning re-tweeting updates about the global outbreak being posted to the social network by its own National Health Insurance (NHI) account. The updates included an appeal by the health minister, Dr. Zweli Mkhize, that fake news needed “to be dealt with.” But buried under the most recent wave of posts was a curious retweet, indicating the minister’s own department could also be blamed for pushing misinformation....
Resuming on 119-1, Joe Root’s England side failed to make their anticipated progress on a pitch of uneven bounce, reaching 182-8 at lunch with Johnny Bairstow and Mark Wood unbeaten on 28 and 0 respectively. England’s lead of 279 still looks formidable in tricky conditions favouring all the bowlers. Only three test teams have ever won by chasing more than 300 at Lord’s. Morne Morkel led the South African fightback, bowling with pace and intelligence, adding the wickets of former captain Alastair Cook (69) and Gary Ballance (34) to his Saturday victim Keaton Jennings....
From a precarious position of 90/4 in the eleventh over, Pandey and Dhoni added 98 runs for the fifth wicket and hauled India to 188. While the 28-year old kept the scoreboard ticking in his enterprising 48-ball 79, the experienced wicket-keeper batsman rolled back the clock by producing an aggressive 52 from just 28 balls. Both batsmen remained unbeaten and ensured that their fluent partnership of 98 runs from 56 balls alleviated the pressure applied by the South African bowlers....
The play occurred in the third quarter with South Carolina up 17-10 over the third-ranked Bulldogs. In the play, Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson can be seen diving low and hitting Hilinski’s knee, drawing a roughing the passer penalty and causing Hilinski to writhe in pain. However, video replay shows Anderson may have been tripped by left tackle Sadarius Hutcherson, causing him to run into Hilinski. MORE: Highlights, scores from Saturday’s top-25 games...
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard announced Monday that its Zulfiqar fleet had seized a South Korean vessel operating in the Islamic Republic’s First Naval District in the Persian Gulf “due to a series of violations of marine environmental laws” after it departed from Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jubail port. The ship, Hankuk Chemi, was said to be transporting up to 7,200 tons of oil-based chemicals, and carrying a crew of South Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Myanmar nationals....
A 1-1 draw away at Wolverhampton was followed by a 2-1 defeat at home against Crystal Palace last week, which marked the first time United has lost to the Eagles in the Premier League era. United looked lethargic on the ball for most of the game and it has become increasingly clear that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team tends to be largely ineffective when unable to counter attack at pace....
The number of grounded flights is expected to rise still further and so is the number of delayed flights, currently more than 800. About half of all canceled flights are managed by Southwest Airlines, the same company at the center of the travel chaos unleashed during Christmas time last year. The company’s Christmas woes started with a winter storm that affected several other airlines, but continued long after all others had recovered....
The same day, a peasant leader named Luis Mora was killed some 175 kilometers away at his home in the state of Merida. The prime suspects in both shootings: local ranchers battling against President Hugo Chavez’s latest land-reform plans. The ranchers deny it, but peasant leaders blame them for at least a half dozen unsolved murders in land disputes since mid-1991. Some put the death count at 40 or more in the past three years....
The American aerospace manufacturer, founded by Elon Musk, was due to launch the rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, but had to be postponed due to adverse weather conditions. The six-hour launch window was initially set for 8am ET, but has now been pushed back to 10am in order to “optimize for decreasing winds in the recovery area,” the company said on Twitter. Nasa had previously said there was a 60 percent chance of favorable weather today, with the primary concern being a thick cloud layer....
Sony’s new PlayStation VR 2 website does not appear to have any new information regarding the virtual reality headset, its controllers, or any of Sony’s release plans. The website as it stands simply collects the information previously announced in one place, with a nice graphical presentation. Since the headset for the PlayStation VR 2 has yet to be revealed, all the photos on the website are for the PS VR 2’s two motion controllers....
Earlier this week gamers received the official word from Sony that they will not be able to transfer their UMDs to the Vita. However, those who purchased PSP games via PSN (now rebranded as the SEN) will be happy to know that they can download existing titles to the Vita for free. The feature is something that PSP users were expecting - and today Sony has offered some directions on how to download your previously purchased PSP titles to the the new handheld....
