The winger returned from a shoulder injury to help Slaviša Jokanović’s side claim their first victory in the last seven games with a thrilling 5-4 away win over Sheffield United. He found the back of the net twice and created a goal. With the Lions set to visit Craven Cottage on Saturday, the Liverpool loanee has set sights on his team continuing in such vein, thus claiming their second home win....
While studies on mind-body treatments aren’t as prevalent as drug studies, researchers have begun to identify what actually works for fibromyalgia. What are Mind-Body Treatments? Mind-body treatments have gained more respect from the medical community in the past couple of decades, based largely on discoveries on how stress impacts your health as well as an increased understanding of the placebo effect of pain. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH):...
The findings could solve the mystery of why there is a size gap in the planets found outside the solar system between these two types of worlds. The results could give scientists a better picture of how worlds like these evolve. Caltech graduate student Michael Zhang explained in a press release from W.M. Keck Observatory: “Most astronomers suspected that young, small mini-Neptunes must have evaporating atmospheres. But nobody had ever caught one in the process of doing so until now....
Chauvin requested to have a public defender represent him as he appeals his murder conviction and sentence in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin was convicted of murder for Floyd’s death in February of this year, after kneeling on the Black man’s neck for over nine minutes on May 25, 2020. He was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison. On Wednesday, Minnesota’s high court said that Chauvin has not established that he is entitled to a public defender....
“This spread is Delta. It is all Delta,” Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told reporters on Thursday, adding that no new cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the state since last week’s initial case. Last week, Minnesota reported its first case of the new COVID-19 variant in a Hennepin County man who recently returned from a 53,000-person anime convention in New York City. The man was vaccinated and has since recovered from mild symptoms....
Burch and Cronin both join the club from the Colorado Rapids, with the former picked up through a direct trade with the Rapids, while the latter was picked up off waivers after a trade allowed MNUFC to acquire the top spot in the waiver order from the Chicago Fire. MLS Talking Points: TFC’s homecoming Minnesota gave up its natural third-round selection in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft for the top spot in the waiver order and traded Mohammed Saeid, Josh Gatt and an international roster spot to the Rapids for Burch....
Baseball America first broke the news last October that MLB was planning to cut the number of minor league teams from 162 to 120 — four per franchise — and on Wednesday, invitations went out to 119 of those teams. What does that mean? MORE: MLB free-agent tracker for 2020-21 offseason It means that MLB has evaluated every franchise — facilities, geography, politics, etc. — and picked what it felt would be the best 120 locations/teams to populate the franchises for four levels (Triple-A, Double-A, High-A and Low-A)....
Add NCAA president Mark Emmert to the list of people who don’t like Michigan’s scheduled trip to IMG Academy in Bradenton and are scrambling to keep up as Harbaugh blows by them. “There is a big debate going on among administrators right now about how to provide more time off for student-athletes so the use of spring break for practices caused a lot of people to be concerned about it, and that’s an appropriate concern,” Emmert told The State in Columbia, S....
But as people around the world are beginning to test the waters of traveling again, some airlines are exploring alternative flight routes, so to speak. “Flights to Nowhere” is a way that some international airlines are giving passengers, who might be missing the roar of a plane’s engine, a way to fly without actually touching down in a new location. “I think a lot of them sound really interesting,” Ben Mutzabaugh, Senior Airlines Editor at The Points Guy tells Newsweek....
The opening weekend results — thanks to your votes — produced a handful of double-digit seeds winning their opening-round games, but all of those Cinderella dreams died in the second round, and we didn’t have a single team higher than a No. 5 seed advance to the Sweet 16. I’m a little bit disappointed in you people for your lack of belief in the magic of March. MARCH MADNESS: Remembering Stephen Curry’s star turn at Davidson...
In 2007, decentralized renewables worldwide attracted $71 billion in private capital. Nuclear got zero. Why? Economics. The nuclear construction costs that Moore omits are astronomical and soaring; low fuel costs will soon rise two-to fivefold. “Negawatts”—saved electricity—cost five to 10 times less and are getting cheaper. So are most renewables. Negawatts and “micro-power”— renewables other than big hydro, and cogenerating electricity together with useful heat—are also at or near customers, avoiding grid costs, losses and failures (which cause 98 to 99 percent of blackouts)....
“‘Concerted work stoppages’ and strikes are illegal under Mississippi’s no-strike law…It’s simple—the taxpayers of Mississippi cannot pay someone when they did not provide the good or service they were hired to provide,” auditor Shad White said in a statement Tuesday—more than two months after first raising questions about University of Mississippi sociology professor James Thomas. Thomas, who is well known for his outspoken nature, was one of thousands of professors and students across the country who participated in a 48-hour “Scholar Strike” for racial justice after the Labor Day holiday....
“We’re at a really tenuous position right now, and we’ve become a little bit numb to the deaths,” said State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs during a Mississippi State Medical Association Zoom meeting last week. “And it’s coming for a lot of people. A lot of Mississippians are going to lose loved ones that they could’ve had many decades to live with. And some of them are going to lose kids too....
David Neal Cox’s lethal injection will take place on November 17, and prison employees are conducting once-a-week rehearsals in preparation, according to Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain. Cox, 50, pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing his wife, Kim, in 2010 in the northern Mississippi town of Sherman. Union County Circuit Court Judge Kent Smith ruled in April that Cox was adequately mentally sound to waive his appeals. Though the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel appealed Smith’s decision, Mississippi Supreme Court justices denied the appeal and affirmed the judge’s ruling....
Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen won’t allow himself to be bored, or be boring. MORE: Ranking college football coaches, 1-128 | SEC Media Days schedule While coaches from Auburn, Florida and Vanderbilt were sweating it out in front of LED lights, cameras and microphones in Hoover, Ala., Mullen was surfing. And when it was his turn to face the media Tuesday morning, Mullen showed off some impressive footwork, wearing light gray Yeezy 750 boost sneakers....
According to Montgomery, Ala. TV station WSFA, Wilson and three other individuals were stopped for speeding on Highway 84 near the town of River Falls around 9 p.m. Friday. Officers detected the scent of marijuana in the vehicle, and a K9 unit alerted police to drugs in the vehicle. MORE: What’s next for OU? | Shake up the Heisman | Harbaugh copies recruit’s prom proposal Each individual was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia and were booked in the Covington County Jail....
With 113 wins in 14 seasons as head coach, Pinkel is the winningest coach in the football program’s history. MORE: Jim Harbaugh trolling | Oklahoma State punishment | Program rankings “I want to thank Chancellor Loftin and Mike Alden for their continuing commitment and belief in what we are doing at Mizzou,” Pinkel said in a statement. “We’ve shared some pretty amazing success together over the years, and as competitors we all know there’s more to be done....
The St Louis Post-Dispatch has been highly critical of Sen. Josh Hawley for peddling falsehoods pushed by Trump that the election was marred by fraud. The publication also says actions played a role in encouraging the riots on January 6. Although he is enjoying a larger national profile for his stance, Hawley faces pressure within his state. Donors are distancing themselves from him, and local media outlets such as the Post-Dispatch are ramping up their criticism....
Netflix’s official description of the French film says it is about an 11-year-old girl who “starts to rebel against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.” The film’s release earlier this month inspired #CancelNetflix to trend on Twitter as users accused the film of promoting the sexualization of minors—an allegation that Netflix has denied. “Netflix is airing a film called Cuties depicting children being coached to engage in simulated sexual acts, for cameras both onscreen and off,” Hawley wrote in his letter to Hastings....
