Mariano
@Mariano
473 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
What Kind of Sports Parent Am I?
What Kind of Sports Parent Am I?The recent fight among parents at a youth baseball game in Colorado is just one more episode in what seems to be a growing trend. There are many possible explanations for why this kind of thing keeps happening, many of them by now familiar:...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Cameron Bancroft finally summons a pitch for the Ashes
Recent Match Report - Sussex vs Durham, County Championship Division Two, 1st InningsBothChris Jordan and Cameron Bancroft have played eight Test matches. No one knows if either will play any more. Jordan squeezed his allotment into 12 months whereas Bancroft's five-day c...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Synovus Announces Pricing of Series E Preferred Stock Offering
Synovus Announces Pricing of Series E Preferred Stock OfferingCOLUMBUS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV) (“Synovus”) today announced it has priced a public offering of 14 million shares of its 5.875% Series E Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpet...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Chris Stirewalt: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren 'in a lunatic derby'
Chris Stirewalt: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren 'in a lunatic derby'Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., are trying to outdo each other with their campaign promises, according to Chris Stirewalt.Sanders and Warre...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
(We Didn't) Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…Yet
(We Didn’t) Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…Yet – Reason.comWe don't know what will happen next in Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today is in Riyadh—rarely a happy portent for U.S. foreign policy—talking up a "global coalition" against Iran, as President Donald ...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
CableLabs Kicks Off Pursuit of DOCSIS 4.0
CableLabs Kicks Off Pursuit of DOCSIS 4.0DOCSIS won't live forever, but it appears that the technology is nowhere near its last legs.CableLabs is moving ahead on DOCSIS 4.0, a set of next-gen specifications for hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks that will repackage some rec...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
US economic plan for Mideast peace gets chilly reaction
US economic plan for Mideast peace gets chilly reactionFILE - In this Saturday, June 22, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The economic component of the Trump administration's long-awaited Midea...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
How much wealth should billionaires donate? All of it
How much wealth should billionaires donate? All of itNo problem! Just sign in with Facebook or Google to get started.If you have an older Salon account, please enter your username and password below:Copyright © 2018 Salon Media Group, Inc. Reproduction of material from an...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Mood Neurons Mature During Adolescence
Mood Neurons Mature During AdolescenceResearchers have discovered a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala – a key center for emotional processing in the brain – that stay in an immature, prenatal developmental state throughout childhood. Most of these cells mature r...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar – TechCrunch
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under fire in recent years: Sri Lanka and Myanmar. In a blog post on Thursday evening, Facebook said that i...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
The VCs behind Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency – TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Sadly, Equity co-host Alex Wilhelm is out this week, but for good reason: He’s getting married this weekend. Fortunately, we had the esteemed ...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
World Cup Central: Hashmatullah bounces back ... for the sake of his mum
Jun 18, 2019ESPNcricinfo staffJune 18Hashmatullah Shahidi will never forget Old Trafford and Old Trafford can never forget Hashmatullah.Hit flush on the side of his helmet by a Mark Wood short ball when on 24, Afghanistan's top-scorer ignored his broken helmet and the doc...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
EPA rolls out one of Trump’s top efforts to save coal even as industry declines
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday one of President Donald Trump’s biggest efforts yet to rescue coal, even as projections show the industry in a downward spiral largely due to market forces rather than policy. The agency unveiled the long-aw...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
NASA’s OSIRIX-REx probe sets a space record with a close orbit of weird asteroid Bennu – TechCrunch
If you follow space news at all, you may have heard of ‘Bennu’ – the near-Earth asteroid that has a slim (but higher than most) chance of colliding with our planet sometime nearly 200 years from now. The asteroid is notable for many reasons, including the recent discovery...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
'Nothing to correct': Donald Trump Jr. returns to Senate panel to testify privately about Russia...
President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., on Wednesday began closed-door testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose members were set to ask him about his awareness of an aborted plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.The Republican-led committee...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Three financial stocks to buy as big banks rally, investors say
Financials are surging for the second day in a row, coming back from their deep May sell-off.The rally is just getting started, said Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer, who upgraded the diversified financials industry group over the weekend. "This is a pl...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Opera launches a ‘gaming browser’ with Twitch integration – TechCrunch
“You’re probably asking, ‘what is a gaming browser?’ ” Opera PM Maciek Kocemba says in the opening of the Opera GX introduction video. Fair enough. My first thought when the Norwegian browser company mentioned the concept to me was something akin Google Stadia, with remot...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
West Ham should sign Jansson | Sportslens
Manuel Pellegrini may be in need of a centre-back this summer, with West Ham potentially losing up to two defenders ahead of the new season. Winston Reid has an uncertain future after ...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
American Airlines extends cancellations from grounded Boeing 737 Max to Sept. 3
American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX jets sit parked at a facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., May 10, 2019. Photo taken May 10, 2019.American Airlines/HandoutAmerican Airlines said Sunday that it is removing the Boeing 737 Max from its schedules through Sept. 3, a sign that th...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
EPA chief attacks the media in speech to agency science advisers
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, chose to go “off script” Wednesday morning when he warned the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) against trusting the media. “I caution you to be careful what you read in the media,” Wheeler said, c...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
West Ham fans react to Roberto signing | Sportslens
West Ham have completed their first signing of the summer after the club announced the signing of Roberto on a free transfer. The Hammers needed to sign a back-up goalkeeper for Fabian...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
South Africa look to Plan B and C without Dale Steyn
9:55 AM ETAs far as a Plan A goes, South Africa's is a decent one: put Dale Steyn, Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi into an attack together, throw in Imran Tahir and sit back. As far as not being able to call upon your Plan A goes, two days out from your first match in a Wor...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Supreme Court allows Indiana abortion law governing disposal of fetal remains, but won't revive...
Abortionrights activist gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court to protest against the recent abortion laws passed across the country in recent weeks. Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Washington, D.C.Aurora Samerio | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted an ...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
Everything is F*cked: Reflections on Hope and Travel with Mark Manson
Everything is F*cked: Reflections on Hope and Travel with Mark Manson We use cookies to en...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - over 5 years ago
More than 1,100 former Home Fundraising staff made redundant
More than 1,100 members of staff have been made redundant after an attempt to sell Home Fundraising fell through, documents filed with Companies House have revealed. The door-to-door agency Home Fundraising announced it was going into administration in March, with its joi...continued
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