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It's Now Their Time

... focus on the 2017 team is no doubt Ogbuehi and his bookend from the 2015 draft, right tackle Jake Fisher. Despite getting benched last season at right tackle, the extremely gifted Ogbuehi has his fans and Lewis is one of them. “Just his ability to play. He’s a guy we evaluated in college coming in and the things he’s done for us,” said Lewis, who doesn’t want to hear how he’s more suited for the left side. “I don’t buy all that. That’s what (Ogbuehi) said. I think he’s got to become a player. He’s got to spend the time. It’s the first time he’s had an offseason where he can work and go through the whole regimen and hopefully a whole training camp.”. Ogbuehi has chosen to spend it at the toughest place possible,  Jay Glazer’s MMA camp, a gym  that focuses on the mental game in a sea of physical tests. “Everybody has an opinion of Ced. Ced just has to be Ced, come back and play football,” Lewis said. Ogbuehi and Fisher have a combined four starts at those spots, but Lewis and offensive line coach Paul ...

Spacex Hopes To Launch A Recycled Rocket. Can It Cut The Turnaround To A Couple Days

... plans to launch a commercial communications satellite using that same booster. The use of a recycled rocket will represent a milestone for the young private space industry, potentially ushering in an era of cheap space flight. Reusability is key to Space X Chief Executive Elon Musk’s larger plans to colonize Mars, as well as to increase the company’s launch cadence. But to make it work, analysts say, the inspection and refurbishment process will need to speed up and prove it is cost-effective. Space X’s ultimate goal is to require little to no refurbishment of the first-stage rocket boosters between flights, resulting in turnover times close to those of aircraft. “The basis of the business plan for reusable technology is that you’ll be able to lower the cost of each launch by a considerable factor if you’re able to save from having to build yet another first stage,” said Marco ...

A 20-mile Long 'spacescraper' Dangling From An Asteroid

... the interaction of the tether with the atmosphere, winds, etc. Then I think it actually gets simpler when you anchor it on the ground.” The jet stream, for example, could buffet the tower at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. And if anything went wrong, a crash could impact more than just the sky dwellers. In the event of a tether snap near the asteroid, the loosed cable could whip around the Earth, wrapping itself over the entire globe 1.2 times. The impact and collapse of a 20-mile building wouldn’t be good news either. Despite its risk and impracticality, Mc Dowell sees some value in at least discussing the proposal. “It is a fun idea that gets engineers and architects thinking outside the box, which is its purpose,” he says. “For an actual implementation, I think it's a bad idea.”. It’s a sentiment famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson would agree with. Lamenting a shift in innovation from large works of engineering to app and web development, he sees science fiction and big thinking like the Analemma Tower as playing an important role in inspiring engineers and project planners. “I worry that our inability to ...

Westinghouse Says It’s Bankrupt, A Blow To Nuclear Industry

... Japan. Some Japanese business leaders fear the sale will further erode Japan’s place in an industry it once dominated. After writing down Westinghouse’s value, Toshiba said it expected to book a net loss of $9.9 billion for its current fiscal year, which ends on Friday. “We have all but completely pulled out of the nuclear business overseas,” said Toshiba’s president, Satoshi Tsunakawa. Of the huge loss, he added, “I feel great responsibility.”. Bankruptcy will make it harder for Westinghouse’s business partners to collect money they are owed. That mostly affects the US power companies for whom it is building reactors, analysts say. It is unclear whether the company will be able to complete any of its projects, which in the United States are about three years late and billions over budget. The power companies — SCANA Energy in South Carolina and a consortium in Georgia led by Georgia ...

Yes, It’s Strange That Colin Kaepernick Doesn’t Have A Deal Yet

... being punished on at least some level for his political outspokenness. Other QBs as good as Kaepernick usually get signed. There are a couple of ways we can judge whether it’s unusual that Kaepernick is still waiting for NFL teams to call. One is to see how long into free agency it usually takes for a quarterback of Kaepernick’s quality to find a new team. Director Spike Lee implied in an Instagram post a week ago that similar QBs are usually signed by now. He’s right. To investigate Lee’s claim, we started with a list of all free-agent QBs who changed teams since 2012 (the first free-agency period under the NFL’s current collective bargaining agreement ), courtesy of our friends at ESPN’s Stats & Information Group. Then for each quarterback, we plotted his Total Quarterback Rating (QBR) from the season before his free agency — to get a sense of how well he played — against the number of days that elapsed between the start of his free agency and his signing. Last season, Kaepernick posted a QBR of 55.2 — which is not ...

Online Privacy? Forget It, Even With Vpn

... best course of action for those concerned about what's collected about them is to practice ‘digital privacy hygiene’ by giving as little information as possible when doing things online, to minimize the digital footprint available to companies, said Nuala O’Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit digital rights group. “I was asked for my phone number when buying towels recently at a home store. They don’t need my phone number! Just sell me the towels!  Companies need to do a better job about minimizing the data they’re collecting, but in the meantime we can all be stingier about what we give out,” she said. Long term, the situation could create incentives for companies to offer privacy-for-pay, “tiered pricing models that would effectively make privacy a privilege for ...

Trump’s Climate Rollback Will Hurt The Economy, Not Help It

... the labor side, the coal industry has gotten very good at automating and eliminating jobs. On the capital front, the energy companies and the banks know that coal is a bad bet. Here’s Nicholas Akins , the CEO of the $16 billion utility American Electric Power (AEP), back in December 2016: “The industry is moving forward with cleaner energy. We will not be building large coal facilities. We’re not stopping what we’re doing based on the new administration. We need to make long-term capital decisions.”. So the only discussion we should be having about miners now is how to help them as the world quickly transitions away from coal. It would be nice if our politicians prioritized job retraining, education, health benefits, pensions, and relocation services instead of making empty promises to bring back jobs that even coal bosses don’t think are realistic. Third, unchecked climate change will be incredibly expensive and disruptive. This should be blindingly obvious, but the economy is not at risk from excessive regulations on fossil fuels. No, the real ...

When It Comes To Ufo Sightings, California Is Once Again A Leader

... one would see, this was not normal and too silent and too fast to be of terrestrial origin,” the person wrote. On March 21, someone in Miramar reported to the center that they saw “rapid blinking light that appeared to grow in size, first just one light was visible then the formation became visible,” the witness wrote. “It traveled quite low at a fast speed at one point making a u-turn in the opposite direction.”. The curiosity and fascination over aliens and UFOs has created a cultural phenomenon that has translated to books, television shows and movies such as “Communion,” “E. T. the Extraterrestrial” and most recently, “Arrival.”. On You Tube, people have uploaded unexplained sightings. Two years ago, in November , video blogger Julien Solomita noticed a bright cone of light streaking across the sky in Van Nuys and began to record the object with his camera. Solomita posted his expletive-filled video to You Tube, titling it "Massive Blue UFO Over Los Angeles." More than 2.5 million ...

New Technology Allows Paralyzed Man To Move Arm By Thinking About It

... It essentially created a new connection between the brain and limb to replace the one that was broken. For the first time in eight years, the 56-year-old Cleveland resident moved his arm simply by thinking about it. He drank a cup of coffee, munched on a pretzel and fed himself mashed potatoes. "It was amazing," Kochevar said in a video published by Case Western Reserve University. "I thought about moving my arm, and it did. I could move it in and out, up and down.". "We have been able to take the electrical signals which represent his thoughts and use that to control stimulation of his arm and hand," said the study's lead author Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Though Kochevar was the first to benefit from such technology, Bolu Ajiboye said he believes it could be accessible to the general public in five to ...

The Information War Is Real, And We’re Losing It

... not what the government or the traditional media is reporting it to be. It happens after every mass shooting or attack. If you search for “false flag” and “Westminster,” you’ll find thousands of results theorizing that last week’s attack outside British Parliament was staged (presumably to bring down Brexit, which makes no sense, but making sense is not a prerequisite). Starbird’s insight was to map the digital connections between all this buzzing on Twitter with a conglomeration of websites. Then she analyzed the content of each site to try to answer the question: Just what is this alternative media ecosystem saying. It isn’t a traditional left-right political axis, she found. There are right-wing sites like Danger & Play and left-wing sensationalizers such as The Free Thought Project. Some appear to be just trying to make money, while others are aggressively pushing political agendas. The true common denominator, she found, is anti-globalism — deep suspicion ...