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The Nigerian spent 10 years at Stamford Bridge, working as technical director since 2011, playing a key role in the development of Chelsea’s first team and academy. Monaco 21/20 for victory at Nantes During his time at Chelsea, the club won three Premier League titles, three FA Cups, the EFL Cup, Europa League and Champions League, with Emenalo helping to shape those successful squads. And Emenalo is excited by his new venture with the Ligue 1 champions....

The natural perseverance of a butterfly is an embodiment of hope. Even when it’s trapped in a chrysalis, this insect can dig itself out. The change from a caterpillar to a butterfly represents rebirth and transformation as this insect moves from one stage of life to the next. In Chinese and Japanese culture, monarch butterflies are signs of a long and healthy life. Perhaps you’re entering a new phase of your life or gaining a new perspective....

Here are the key scoring settings for DraftKings Showdown contests: They’re full-point PPR and there are three-point bonuses for 300 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, and 100 receiving yards. The Captain pick costs 1.5 times a player’s original price, but he also gets his point total multiplied by 1.5. MORE DK SHOWDOWN: How to win a Showdown contest DraftKings Showdown Picks: Giants vs. Buccaneers $50,000 budget, need at least one player from each team....

1996 was a rough year for the WWF, as WCW’s new flagship show “Monday Nitro” was beating “RAW” in the ratings most weeks, but their biggest coup was yet to come. Scott Hall’s contract was set to expire midway through the year, and he wasn’t particularly happy with how he was being used. Although he was a multiple time WWF Intercontinental Champion, he rightly felt that others had been moved past him to the main event while he toiled in midcard matches with guys like Jeff Jarrett and Goldust for much less money....

Savers can now buy the Treasury’s popular I bonds online with automatic payments from their checking accounts. The bonds, in denominations as low as $25, are posted electronically at Treasurydirect.gov, where savers can check their earnings at any time. Granted, the returns aren’t eyepopping: these bonds are currently paying 2.57 percent. But the rates are guaranteed to rise with inflation, and there’s nothing safer than a Treasury bond, even if it’s never put on paper....

title: “Money Matters” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-31” author: “Kristina Stone” title: “Money Matters” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-06” author: “Keith Fane” Good advice, but fewer people are taking it. Adjusted for inflation, mortgage debt among people 65 and up nearly tripled from 1989 to 2004, says Zhu Xiao Di of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Financial planners deplore the trend. “Having to make mortgage payments out of retirement savings, pension or Social Security is a huge hit, financially,” says Morgan Stone of Austin, Texas....

Footage of the huge shark was shared by Billingsgate Charters, a Massachusetts company that takes customers on fishing trips. In a video posted to the company’s Facebook page on Tuesday, the shark can briefly be seen moving slowly below the surface of the water from a boat before passing out of sight. “Holy smokes!” says the ship’s first mate. “That thing is huge, dude! That’s like 15 feet! Holy cow....

Patti Baumgartner of Finley Point has taken to the streets around her home near Flathead Lake, brandishing the blower like a radar gun in an effort to make people drive more carefully. “They forget to slow down and there are lots of people that are complaining about that, they can’t walk or ride their bikes,” Baumgartner told KRTV on Friday. “I wouldn’t even attempt riding a bike around.” She said she was discussing with friends how to slow cars down, and “we decided to put me in a chair and I guess use the hair dryer as a speed thing....

That scenario unfolded at Fenway Park on Friday night, albeit with a unique twist, as Boston Red Sox slugger Mookie Betts met 10-year-old Nico Sapienza through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Sapienza hoped Betts would hit a home run, and the reigning AL MVP delivered much more than that, crushing three homers and a double in a 10-5 victory over the New York Yankees. The home runs came in Betts’ first three at-bats, against New York starter James Paxton....

Early Sunday morning, police officers in Moorhead, Minnesota, were dispatched to the Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead Mosque on a report of vandalism to the building. According to a press release from the Moorhead Police Department, officers found hate messages directed toward the Islamic faith and its followers spray-painted on several areas of the building’s exterior. Such messages include “Death to Islam,” “F**k Islam” and a Nazi swastika symbol. Video surveillance from the building captured images of a suspect wearing a camouflage jacket and dark ski mask....

The Spanish striker was acquired from Real Madrid over the summer to help fill the striking void created by international team-mate Diego Costa. Morata 2/1 to score 1st v Qarabag With the two-time Premier League title winner deemed surplus to requirements, Antonio Conte opted to invest £70 million in the highly-rated 24-year-old. His show of faith has been rewarded with three goals in five games, but club legend Zola still believes that Morata has much to work on if he is to truly fill Costa’s boots and become another talismanic presence at the focal point of the Blues’ attack....

Morata sat out last week’s 3-1 Premier League victory over Huddersfield Town due to fatigue and a back issue, with Eden Hazard leading the attack as a false nine in his stead. Batshuayi again watched on from the bench, along with the former Real Madrid striker, as Chelsea defeated Southampton 1-0 on Saturday, but the Belgium international will be granted an opportunity against the Cherries. “[Morata] is OK. He had this problem in his back before the game against West Ham and then he struggled a lot,” said Conte at a pre-match news conference....

Cruz, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the remarks in an interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday. Last week, the U.S. government ordered China to shutter its consulate in Houston by Friday, alleging that the diplomatic facility had been used for “stealing” intellectual property. Cruz strongly criticized China, blaming the East Asian nation for the novel coronavirus pandemic and raising concerns about its malign activities toward the U....

President Joe Biden’s press secretary was specific in her recent denunciation of the Russian drone attack on an apartment building in Kyiv that killed at least four Ukrainian civilians: “We will continue to impose costs on Russia [and] hold them accountable for its war crimes.” The State Department says it will crack down further on Iran. The U.S., France, and Britain also agree that Iran supplying drones to Russia violates the UN Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal....

More than 94 million ballots have been already been cast in the 2020 election as of early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Elections Project, which tracks the early vote closely. Almost two-thirds of those early votes were cast by returning mail ballots (59,961,024) while 34,045,137 were in-person votes. But the data also shows that 31,385,941 mail ballots are yet to be returned. Not all states report party affiliations, but those that do include key battleground states Pennsylvania and Florida....

Most of those confirmed cases came from an outbreak at a church in Union County, Oregon. Lighthouse Pentecostal Church opened its doors May 24 in a county that has 361 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus to date, many of which were traced back to the church. Tom Jeanne, the deputy state epidemiologist, told Oregon Live in a June 17 interview when 236 cases were linked back to the Union County church that it was “the largest single outbreak of COVID-19 in Oregon to date....

“I think we have high expectations for ourselves,” Morgan said. “Do we consider ourselves the favorite? No, I wouldn’t say so.” The U.S. international spoke to Goal on Friday as part of a #PassTheLove event held by Mondelez, maker of Ritz crackers and the official snack sponsor of U.S. soccer, in which a mural of the U.S. team will be created using soccer balls kicked into the canvass rather than a paint brush....