February

Nhl To Celebrate 'hockey Is For Everyone' Month All Of February

... be the first time the Players’ Association and teams have collaborated with the league for the project. #Hockey Is For Everyone month begins today with diversity and inclusion initiatives every day in February. More info: __link__/793 An Xb Xki __link__/f JY 3 UOL 4 Or. — NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) February 1, 2017. "Our Clubs, our players and our fans are committed to welcoming everyone to hockey," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said to __link__ in a statement. "While the NHL family strives for diversity and inclusiveness all year long, February is Hockey Is For Everyone month, which will highlight, on a daily basis, the many ways our sport brings greater attention, heightened awareness and broader opportunities.". The initiative rolls in all 30 NHL teams for activities that “focus awareness on such areas as LGBTQ; ethnicity and gender equality; socio-economic status and those with disabilities.” Teams will host “Hockey Is For Everyone” nights ...

Holidays Guaranteed To Be Hot In February

... A guide to failsafe sun for escaping winter gloom. Wednesday 1 February 2017 10:30 BST. Click to follow. The Independent Travel. Better book quick for Tenerife – the Canary Island is filling up fast Shutterstock. Although February is the shortest month, it can often feel like the longest. Whether it’s freezing fog, cold damp days or just the wrong kind of snow, the weather in Britain can often make you want to disappear somewhere hot for a while. If you still haven’t booked a winter getaway – or a February half-term holiday – have a look at some of these ideas. Go now. Holidays in the Canary Islands are getting booked up rapidly as winter-sun-seeking tourists are wary of going to Tunisia and Egypt. And now the recent turmoil in The Gambia has put more pressure on the Spanish islands. Sovereign ( __link__ ) still has availability for 8 February at the tranquil Hotel Botanico in Puerta de la Cruz in Tenerife’s north. Set in extravagant tropical gardens, the hotel has an award-winning spa and outdoor pool. Seven nights’ B&B costs from £1,199 pp, ...

10 Best Movies And Tv Shows To Stream In February

... culture at large. Don't let the serious-minded satire fool you, though; the show was a reliable laugh riot throughout its four seasons, from memorable encounters with A Pimp Named Slickback (like A Tribe Called Quest, he explains) to the timeless and aptly-titled episode "Let's Nab Oprah." Stay woke. The Collection (Feb. 10 th, Amazon). The streaming service's latest big-ticket buy is a WWII-era period piece about a Parisian fashion house poised to rival Netflix’s The Crown for sheer opulence, U. K. division. Desperate Housewives writer Oliver Goldstick brings plenty of intrigue to the story of antihero designer Paul Sabine, on a dogged mission to re-energize French fashion under the specter of global war. He's got demons of his own, natch – like passing off his closeted brother’s ideas as his own, and some possibly unsavory things done during the Occupation as well. Historical style-porn with an agreeably pulpy plot? So hot right now. David Brent: Life on the Road (Feb. 10 th, Netflix). It's been years since clueless boor David Brent left paper retailer Wernham Hogg at the conclusion of the British version of The ...

2017 Ipl Auction Delayed Until Late February

... ahead of the auction. "If we get the roster we can start making a shortlist of players we are after as then we come to know their availability which is always a big determining factor on which players teams pick," one franchise CEO told ESPNcricinfo. This will be the last year of IPL before teams overhaul their rosters for the 2018 season. All existing player contracts will expire after IPL 2017 and it is expected most players will go under the hammer at the mega auction ahead of the 2018 season. There has been no decision yet on the player retention rules though. The current cycle of broadcasting rights, currently held by Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI), will expire after IPL 2017. Last September, the BCCI had announced that the next cycle of IPL rights would be sold via an open tender process. Eighteen companies including Facebook and Twitter bought the invitation to tender doucment for television and digital rights. The bids were meant to be opened on October 24, but the Lodha Committee deferred the process until the BCCI complied with the court ...

February 2, 2017

... from the U. S. and South Korea say the North may be testing more long-range missiles sometime soon. This is all happening as the new U. S. defense secretary, James Mattis, heads overseas to visit Japan and South Korea. They're both American allies in the region and they're both hoping the Trump administration supports those alliances and addresses the threat posed by North Korea. Earlier this week, Secretary Mattis said America was committed to defending South Korea. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE). ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U. S. military helicopters test fire on the South Korean soil, target practice. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In case we are called to fight tonight, we can. We can actually execute our mission at a moment's notice, if we're ordered to do so. FIELD: On the peninsula still technically at war, U. S. troops are key to a decade's old deterrent against an unstable armed neighbor. (on camera): U. S. troops train here 365 days a year, preparing for ...

7 February Games You Should Get Excited About

... combines card-collecting with RTS — there's a lot to like about this one. Available for Windows and Xbox One. Horizon: Zero Dawn (Feb. 28). This is an open world RPG in which you hunt robot dinosaurs. Do you really need to know more than that? You play as a badass she-warrior named Aloy. The setting is a distant future version of Earth where nature has reasserted its control over civilization and humanity is back to living that tribal life. Only now, steel "dinosaurs" walk the land. There's a story somewhere in here, but we tend to get tripped up around that whole "hunting robo-dinos" thing. Available for Play Station 4. Torment: Tides of Numenara (Feb. 28). The release timing for Torment: Tides of Numenara — which falls on the same day as Horizon and not long before Zelda and Mass Effect  — is a little rough. But the game has momentum as a big Kickstarter success and street cred as the spiritual successor to the beloved 1999 RPG, Planescape: Torment. This is one of those games we're really excited about playing. eventually. But it's ...

February Could Be Rough For Stocks

... see selloffs," says Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management. "The market weakness tends to coincide with the reality of the new president getting down to governing versus all the good feelings prior.". Wall Street's retrenchment so far this week, with two straight 100-point-plus losses for the Dow illustrates how investors can reassess the potential impact that a president's policy decisions can have on the outlook for the economy and stocks. Trump's controversial decision to ban refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, for example, has raised fears that some of his policies will actually hurt the economy by taking his focus off moves like lowering the corporate tax rate, rolling back regulations and pushing through fiscal spending that are viewed as more market friendly. "Could Trump's 'ready, fire, aim' management style and. his contentious policy directives endanger the U. S. economy?" Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at The Economic Outlook Group, wondered in a report to clients. The stock market's recent struggles come at a time when it is expensive relative to ...

Wizards Could Stay Hot With Home-heavy February Schedule

... Center. After playing 12 of their 15 January games on the road, the Thunder will play nine of their 11 February games at home. The Blazers are the only West team that doesn't play a back-to-back in February and are one of two teams (Houston is the other) with only nine games this month. But six of those nine games will be on the road and two of their three home games are against good teams (Boston and Atlanta). The Kings are tied with Oklahoma City for the most home-heavy February schedule, which starts with a six-game homestand (after returning from an eight-game trip to conclude January). In total, they'll play nine of their 11 February games at the Golden 1 Center. It's rodeo time, and the Spurs have the league's most road-heavy February schedule, with only two of their 10 games (the first two games of the month) at the AT&T Center. They'll be on the road for their last six games before the All-Star break, and then start their ...