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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne made his maiden test century to provide dogged resistance as the tourists followed on Sunday on the third day of the first test against New Zealand.At tea Karunaratne was 116 not out, Angelo Mathews was 12 and Sri Lanka was 201-3, still 102 runs behind New Zealand after being dismissed for 138 in its first innings and following-on 303 behind.Sri Lanka resumed on day three at 84-0 and Kaushal Silva, was out at his overnight score of 33. Kumar Sangakkara fell for 1.

But Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimmane stopped the slide, putting on 87 for the third wicket before Thirmanne was out caught behind off Jimmy Neesham for an ultra-patient 25 which took him more than three hours to accrue.Sangakkara started the test on 11,988 career runs — needing 12 more to become the fifth player in history to scored 12,000 runs in tests. He was out for six in the first innings and a score of one in the second left that milestone still just five runs out of reach.

Sangakkara ends 2014 with 1,493 runs in tests at an average of 71 and 132 runs short of 3,000 runs in all forms of the game in the calendar year, during which he has averaged 50.He was undone on Sunday by a similar ball to the one that claimed his wicket in the first innings, with Trent Boult tempting him outside off stump and he got an edge through to 'keeper B.J. Watling.In the morning session, Southee removed opener Kaushal Silva in the first over of the day.

A hippo that panicked while being transported by truck in Taiwan jumped from the vehicle, breaking a leg and causing confused residents to report spotting a dinosaur on the loose.

Television footage showed the enormous animal lying on the road with a white fluid oozing from its eyes after it jumped through a truck window and landed on a parked car before falling onto the road on Friday.
The sound of the collision startled people nearby who flocked to see the animal and contacted the police in central Miaoli county.

One woman was quoted by the United Daily News as saying that she ran out of her house after hearing the crash and thought she saw "a dinosaur" lying on the road.The truck driver was quoted by the newspaper as saying that he saw the hippo "flying out" of the vehicle after getting spooked during the drive.

The injured animal, named "A Ho" after the Chinese name for hippo Ho Ma, lay on the road for a few hours before being put into a cargo container and taken back to its farm in central Taichung city, officials said.
Local media said the hippo was a star attraction at its farm and had even appeared in a popular television soap opera several years ago.

Speaking today at Google I/O, the technical lead for Project Ara, Paul Eremenko, showed off the progress his team has made since we saw the very early first prototypes this past April. He showed off a functional, form-factor prototype.
Which is a nerdy way of saying that for the first time publicly, we saw a modular Ara phone power on. It took its sweet time, but after several rounds of supportive applause from the audience, it booted. And froze.
But over the course of the session, the team kept at it  to get it past the boot screen (though to no avail). So not the most successful demonstration, but enough to show progress.

Eremenko also announced a challenge for developers. A $100,000 prize for a working module that lets a phone do something that a phone has never done before, along with a trip to Ara's next developer conference.
He took on the critics of Project Ara who say that it's not possible to make a modular phone that people actually want.
"We started by turning statements like 'it's impossible' into numbers," he said. By quantifying the exact things that would make it difficult, his team was able to better tackle the problem. The technical problems are many, and the Ara group is investigating new ways to solve them.
One of them are "novel" ways to handle the data transfer from the modules to the body, using capacitive interconnects and other new connectors.

Hopefully your New Year's resolution isn't to binge watch all five Rocky films, because Netflix won't be able to help you out. As usual, the beginning of a new month marks the disappearance of a lot of old films from the streaming service, and Vulture has printed a long list of which will be going away.

Its list of disappearances seems to come from Netflix itself, though it looks like Netflix may be singling out some of the biggest names rather than making a comprehensive list of everything that's going to disappear. For instance, the What's On Netflix Now? blog points out that basically every Woody Allen film (aside from Annie Hall) is going away as of January 1st, though only one appears on Netflix's list.

You can take your workout outdoors (and stop slogging through another hour on the elliptical).
But if going for a long run isn’t your thing, you can still break a sweat in the sunshine by trying some butt-kicking DIY moves.
“If you want to torch calories, gain definition and keep your metabolism up after your workout is done, then you need to use your whole body,” says Ariane Hundt, creator of Brooklyn Bridge Boot Camp.

The clothing you wear has a big impact on how confident you feel, which means you probably shouldn’t hide behind baggy clothes at the gym, either. Body-hugging clothes make it easier to see your muscles working, helping you keep your form in check.

If you’re new to this whole exercise thing, consider splurging on some stylish fitness apparel in colors and styles you love. It’s a science-supported shopping spree: Research shows that when you like what you’re wearing, you actually perform better in physical activities.

And ladies, finding the right sports bra is critical to working out comfortably. Your breasts can move as much as 8 inches — up and down, side-to-side, and forward and back — during exercise, which can be pretty painful.
In fact, one study found that 17 percent of women who experienced exercise-induced breast pain skipped a workout, reduced their exercise duration or intensity, or switched their activities because their hooters were hurtin’.
Luckily, with advances in fit, support, and coverage, there’s now a sports bra that’s ideal for every activity.

In a perfect world, sex with your partner would always be amazing, filled with rainbows and glitter and fireworks during the grand finale. But, siiiigh. This is not a perfect world, and as such, IRL sex can be messy and complicated. When that happens, the root cause usually has something to do with a guy’s nerves, booze, or even a physical condition.

For the study, researchers at Charles University in Prague interviewed 960 men, ages 15 to 88. They asked them a bunch of questions about their sex lives, like whether they are prone to premature ejaculation and how long their sex sessions typically last.
Then, on an even deeper personal level, they asked them to describe their relationship with their mothers growing up, and how old they were when they first fell in love. The idea behind the entire set of questions was to see just how much a guy’s psychological state impacts his physical one.

So, the results? It turns out that dropping the “L” bomb later in life, as well having a strained

“The association of poorer current sexual function with (historical) older age at first being in love might suggest some enduring conflict regarding sexuality and/or intimacy,” they write in the study. And as for the mother thing? “One explanation for this finding is that psychogenic factors (when a physical illness stems from an emotional stress) may play a more important role,” they say.
So basically, if a guy has intimacy issues stemming from childhood in any way, it could impact his sexual performance later in life.  

Of course, this study was merely associational, and did not prove cause and effect — which means that falling in love later and/or having a bad relationship with your mother as a child doesn’t necessarily cause you to have more sexual dysfunction down the line. 
But what we do know for sure is that this study is in line with a whole slew of previous research on the psychology of sex, the majority of which has found that, for the most part, sex is waaaaay more psychological than we realize.

“Some folks have trouble focusing on the moment during sex due to stress/anxiety, overactive minds, trouble letting go, and relaxing. Others have more serious psychological issues which may impede intimacy — and it’s important to tease out which camp you belong to,” Rachel Sussman, LCSW, a relationship

Aamir Khan is the perfectionist. Appearing as a child actor in 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat', Khan began his professional career 11 years later. Aamir's first success came with 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'.

He made his debut as a film producer with 'Lagaan'. Aamir made his directorial debut with 'Taare Zameen Par'. In 2008, Aamir displayed a great six pack in 'Ghajini' which became a huge hit.

In some ways, we're all cyborgs, fusions of human and technology. We put on artificial skins to protect us, store our knowledge on hard disks, and replace our voices with text on a screen.

Some of us are melded in more literal ways — I have magnetic and NFC implants in one hand, and there's a community of "biohackers" pushing the limits of DIY body modification with built-in earbuds and health monitors. But there's only so much you can do in a home lab or workshop.

Instead of revisiting them for this week's Top Shelf, we looked for companies on the cutting edge of design and biotechnology, figuring out how to fix and improve our bodies.

Tandon and her co-founder Sarindr Ick Bhumiratana believe the answer lies in treating the body like a renewable ecosystem: instead of finding replacement parts, you grow new ones.

At their Harlem laboratory, I found a fridge full of incubating bones-in-progress — fragments of dead bone and live stem cells held in a plastic case. The bone scaffold, stripped of any cells, can be cut into exactly the right shape; over the course of about three weeks, the stem cells will grow around it, creating something that's theoretically just as good as the original.

Personal medicine could be the future of much more than bone grafts. At Autodesk's experimental workshop in San Francisco — a playground of sewing machines, construction tools, and high-grade 3D printers — synthetic biologist Andrew Hessel is careful not to oversell his project. But simply put, he's trying to cure cancer.
Hessel is working on Autodesk's Project Cyborg, a software platform that the company hopes can become as important for nanoscale research as AutoCAD is for drafting. Where modeling programs can send their data to 3D printers, Project Cyborg is working with DNA printing, where machines put down layer after layer of genetic base pairs instead of plastic filament.
The human genome has over 3 million base pairs, but Hessel is focusing on something much smaller: a virus that contains only around 5,000.

There was never any question this week that I would be spending part of my Christmas watching The Interview. When it was announced the morning that the film would get an online release at 10 a.m. PST, without missing a beat I yelled to my mom in the next room (who I am currently visiting for the holidays) that we would have to cancel a day trip we had planned.

Welcome to the hot take workshop: when a story snowballs to the proportion that the Sony hack and near-non-release of The Interview has, a certain kind of professional easily becomes a slave to the feeds and the whims of the individuals at the center of the story.

But having now finally watched Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and screenwriter Dan Sterling's film, I can confirm with confidence that the least important element of the story of The Interview is The Interview itself.

The Good The 2014 Tesla Model S gets the most range of any electric car on the market, and in Performance Plus trim, hits 60 mph in 4.2 seconds.
The car offers balanced handling in the turns and plenty of grip. Owners get free fast charging at Supercharger stations.
The Bad The Model S lacks advanced driver-assistance features, such as adaptive cruise control or a blind spot monitor.
The Bottom Line The Tesla Model S not only looks good, it drives exceedingly well while running with electric efficiency, but we would like to see more of the driver-assistance features found on comparably priced cars.

Today Boost Mobile announced that it will begin offering the ZTE Speed, a 4G LTE handset that will cost $99.99 off-contract.

The ZTE Speed features a 4.5-inch LCD display and runs Android 4.4 KitKat. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and a 2,000mAh battery, and has 4G LTE connectivity.

For your photography needs, the device sports a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing 2-megapixel shooter. Additional features include HD voice and Bluetooth 4.0.

Boost also reported today that it will sell the Lumia 635, a $99.99 Windows Phone handset already available from the carrier's parent company Sprint, as well as from AT&T and Cricket Wireless.

The phone will come in a bold cyan color and is available now online. Virgin Mobile customers can purchase it as well (in white), and you can find it in Boost Mobile retail stores beginning January 9.