French Open action begins today at 5:00am EST on ESPN2! Serena Williams, Venus Williams, and Roger Federer are just some of the big names kicking things off on Day 1.
For the first time in three years, Venus and Serena Williams will enter Sunday’s French Open as doubles partners.
The sisters were granted a doubles wild card to play at Roland Garros, despite skipping the event the past two years, the AP reported. They were one of 14 doubles teams awarded wild cards.
Will Smith stopped by The Graham Norton Show with his son Jaden Smith to promote their new movie After Earth, but things took a little turn.
While performing with his son in a beatbox match, Will was surprised when Alfonso Ribeiro made a special appearance with DJ Jazzy Jeff on the turntables.
Even though he hasn’t wanted to do it in the past, Alfonso was on set and whipped out the famous “Carlton” dance in front of the crowd.
A horrifying video shows the moment a woman police officer beats a suspect repeatedly with a baton.
Officers had been called to the city’s Metro PCS store in Folsom Boulevard on Friday, after reports that a shop assistant was in danger.
As they tried to handcuff the suspect, who had tried to barricade himself inside the store, the man resisted and a violent struggle followed.
A shopper, who sent her footage to CBS13 under the condition of anonymity, filmed the moment the man was held to the ground as a police officer struck him repeatedly with her baton.
Officer Doug Morse called for more witnesses who may have filmed the incident to send in the footage to help the investigation.
By the time the suspect, a white man in his 40s, had been restrained and taken into custody, he had stopped breathing. He was rushed to hospital, but later died.
One of the police officers and off-duty district attorney investigator who had stopped to help, were also taken to hospital needing treatment, according to a police report.
The coroner has not listed the official cause of death for the suspect, who has not been identified.
Witnesses say that shoppers had tried to come to the aid of the police, who had called for back up as they struggled to subdue the man.
Read more: Daily Mail
Hands-on time: 15 minutes.
Total time: 45 minutes.Juicy grapefruit and lime brighten up these fresh and light shrimp tacos.
INGREDIENTS:
• 1 large grapefruit
• 2 cloves garlic, minced, divided
• 450g large uncooked prawns, peeled, deveined and tails removed
• ½ cup thinly sliced green onions, divided
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 lime, zested and juiced
• 1 avocado, peeled and pitted
• 8 15cm corn tortillas, warmed
INSTRUCTIONS:
ONE : Zest grapefruit and set zest aside in a medium bowl. Segment grapefruit: With a paring knife, slice off ends and remove pith, working from top of fruit to bottom. In a wide shallow bowl, use a knife to make incisions along membranes toward centre of fruit and cut segments free. Cut into bite-size pieces. Reserve juice in bowl and transfer segment pieces to bowl with zest.
TWO : To bowl with juice, add half of garlic, prawns, ¼ cup onions, chilli powder and salt; toss to combine. Cover and refrigerate for up to 30 minutes.
THREE : Prepare guacamole: To bowl with segments and zest, add remaining half of garlic and ¼ cup onions. Stir in lime zest and juice, then smash avocado into mixture with a fork or the back of a spoon to form a chunky guacamole. Cover tightly and refrigerate until needed. (Guacamole should be eaten within 2 hours of preparation.)
FOUR : Heat a large frying pan on medium-high. Add prawn mixture and sauté, stirring frequently, until prawns are pink and cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes. Spread guacamole over tortillas and top with shrimp, dividing evenly.
1 cup pineapple juice
3 strawberries
1 banana
1 tbsp low-fat yogurt
1 scoop vanilla SLM protein powder
Toss all ingredients into a blender and purée until desired consistency.
Nutrients per serving: Calories: 370, Total Fats: 3 g, Saturated Fat: 2 g, Trans Fat: 0 g, Cholesterol: 35 mg, Sodium: 55 mg, Total Carbohydrates: 68 g, Dietary Fibre: 4 g, Sugars: 46 g, Protein: 20 g, Iron: 1 mg
President Barack Obama is set to sign a bill Friday that awards the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
The children were murdered when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963.
The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award given in the United States. It is awarded to people “who have performed an achievement that has an impact on American history and culture that is likely to be recognized as a major achievement in the recipient’s field long after the achievement.”
h/t – thegrio
An AppDay mentor helps out a budding coder with her programming skills.
It’s no secret that Washington is falling behind when it comes to educating our future techs. While the state ranks fourth in the nation for tech-related companies, Washington comes in a disappointing 46th for participation in science and engineering graduate programs.
Which makes what happened on Thursday inside the gymnasium of Rainier Beach High School all the more special.
h/t – GW
Every year since 1998, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been posing a single grand question to some of our time’s greatest thinkers across a wide spectrum of disciplines, then collecting the answers in an annual anthology. Last year’s answers to the question “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” were released in This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking, one of the year’s best psychology and philosophy books.
h/t – Amazon
Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Their technology enables their partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds.
Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of their classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of their classes, you’ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. The courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you’ve really mastered the material.
h/t – coursera
It’s often said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But you can add “rehashing of the O.J. Simpson case” to that list — at least for the last 18 years.
So it should come as no surprise that a new book has been published about the 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
In 1995, a California jury acquitted O.J. Simpson of the killings. A civil lawsuit, later filed by the victims’ families, resulted in a 1997 judgment finding Simpson liable for the deaths and ordering him to pay $33.5 million in damages.
The latest installment in the Simpson library is not another “If I Did It,” in which the former gridiron great speculated on how he might have killed his former wife. Instead, the new book points the finger of guilt away from Simpson and lays the blame on his son, Jason Simpson.
“Everything we have in the book is documented. It is not theory or hypothesis. It is fact,” renowned private investigator William C. Dear told The Huffington Post about his book, “O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It.”
Dear’s 576-page “true account,” according to Amazon.com, hit the shelves today, retailing at $18 for the hardcover edition.
In the investigation into the murders of Brown and Goldman, Jason Simpson was never considered a suspect or a person of interest. The 41-year-old lives in Miami, where he reportedly works as a chef. HuffPost was unable to reach Simpson for comment Monday because his phone had been disconnected.
h/t – huffingtonpost
Areva Martin of the Special Needs Network says “there’s a void” of qualified health care officials to make the diagnosis in communities like South LA.
The study hopes to change that, and aims to recruit at least 600 African-American families who have a child diagnosed with autism
h/t – thegrio
