On a weekly basis, I will be profiling those starting pitchers who are scheduled to take the mound in the upcoming scoring period. This is done to help you determine who to try to grab from your league’s free agent pool and/or who you should target as a player to send your FAAB funds on. Note that all the streaming options listed below are owned in less than 50 percent of leagues and could be available on your waiver wire....
The owner said Wednesday that she believes it was done because of comments she made during a recent appearance on a radio show in which she showed support for a drag queen event. Renay Gedeon, who co-owns Gedeon Farms with her husband, Mike, posted pictures on Facebook of graffiti spray-painted on the side of their home and on the garage door. The messages read: “Que” and “KKK.” Gedeon also said her fence was damaged during the incident....
Milan have been one of Europe’s busiest clubs in the transfer window, bringing in 10 new players including Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci and Portugal striker Andre Silva, while handing a bumper new contract to goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. The overhaul of Vincenzo Montella’s squad is intended to boost Milan’s chances of qualifying for the Champions League, but Pallotta questioned the club’s strategy following the takeover from Li Yonghong’s company Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux – though he later admitted some of his information may have been incorrect....
You have quite an extended streaking scene. You do any gluteal workouts in preparation? I did nothing. When you have certain physical gifts, I think you should share them. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of this body. How many takes did you do? We were out there a good couple of hours. The street they chose to do it on had these storefronts. All of them were closed for the night except this 24-hour fitness place, and all the treadmills were up against the window....
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Though the modems claim to be twice as fast as 28.8K models, they’re not, exactly–the higher speed only in one And unless the you’re dialing into the same type of modem, you won’t be able to take advantage of the new technology at all. Then there’s the problem “dirty” phone lines. The actual speed you get depends on how good your connection is. Much of the confusion springs from the fact that there are two different- and incompatible-kinds of 56K modems on the market....
Kedioski died on January 2 after being admitted to hospital in December. He lived in the city of Liverpool in the U.K. with his wife Bilyana and their 5-year-old daughter. His family and friends have since come out to insist they want to raise awareness about the vital importance of getting vaccinated. A friend of Kedioski, Robert Karalioski, has set up a GoFundMe page to send his body back to his home city of Prilep in Macedonia....
It’s a question that truthfully shouldn’t be asked: We know vaccines will not just get us to herd immunity faster, but will also curb the threat of COVID-19 mutations. But it’s a question that will continue to be asked, thanks to remarkably dangerous narratives that undercut the very demand that we all get vaccinated as quickly as possible. The promise of a vaccine isn’t just about overcoming the virus—it’s about our ability to return to life as we once knew it....
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on Monday ruled that the face mask mandate for travelers, which had been extended from April 18 to May 3 by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) earlier this month, was unlawful. The TSA said it had extended the public transport mask mandate at the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and against a background of increasing COVID cases across the country....
Speaking via video link at the TB Alliance Fighting Pandemics: 2020 and Beyond webinar, host Betsy McKay of The Wall Street Journal asked Fauci to compare the pandemic to a baseball game, and asked what the score is. Fauci replied: “We are certainly not at the end of the game, I’m not even sure we’re half way through.” Citing the current death toll, he said: “certainly we are not winning the game right now....
Now here’s another surprise: after the telephone, the fax is the most important modern office innovation to be created in the 19th century. Alexander Bain, a hard-drinking Scot, patented the first fax process in 1843. As a schoolboy, Bain scored poorly and obsessed on clocks. After he moved to London, he developed the so-called master-slave mechanism, which, among other things, synchronized systems of school clocks. Bain’s synchronization skills were indispensable for early fax technology....
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate’s comments came a month after the report was released. He said that the agency is “coming for” employees who partake in sexual misconduct and that they should be scared if they do so, he told the Associated Press. “That’s a strong approach, a forceful shift and we mean it. And it’s coming from the top. Individuals who engage in this type of misconduct don’t belong in the FBI and they certainly should not have supervisory oversight of others....
FBI agent Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, was shot and killed on Tuesday in Sunrise, Florida. Agent Daniel Alfin, 36 was also killed. The squad was serving a warrant to search the home of a child pornography suspect, David Huber, who opened fire on the agents and later killed himself before he could be arrested. “A true American hero,” were the words Wray used in his eulogy for Schwartzenberger, who had dedicated her career to investigating criminals who endangered children or exploited people online....
Decades of searching has resulted in one clear merge between Saudi nationals and three of the hijackers involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks: There was documented help provided to the hijackers when they arrived in the U.S. But that information, as well as other layers of info released Wednesday, did not clarify whether senior Saudi leaders helped devise the attacks which devastated the United States and still have ripple effects 20 years later....
The New York Post reported Sunday that FBI agents visited Shockey at his Miami home. The investigation involves an international operation allegedly headed by former USC tight end Owen Hanson, among others. Hanson is friends with Shockey and former Trojans teammate and NFL running back Reggie Bush. MORE: Best Saints of all time | Each NFL team’s most iconic play Hanson and 21 others have already been arrested in the probe into ODOG Enterprise....
The FBI considers all violent acts (and threats of violence) with a political motive to be terrorism, a senior government official explains to Newsweek. But not all acts of extremism are considered terrorism. “If an act is focused on the government, it’s terrorism,” the source says. “But if extremism is focused on private individuals or institutions, it’s considered just a crime or classified as a hate crime.” The source was granted anonymity to speak about classified matters....
On February 17 of this year, Abbott initiated a voluntary recall of its powder baby formulas, for brands including Similac, Alimentum and EleCare, that were manufactured at one of the company’s manufacturing facilities in Sturgis, Michigan. The recall was due to the presence of Cronobacter sakazakii—a rare bacteria the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) says has been found in powdered infant formula, skimmed milk powder, herbal teas and starches, and is “lethal for infants and can be serious among people with immunocompromising conditions and the elderly....
The newest hand sanitizers added to the list are: Grupo Insoma’s Hand sanitizer Gel Unscented 70% AlcoholSoluciones Cosmeticas’ Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance FreeSoluciones Cosmeticas’ Antiseptic Alcohol 70% Topical Solution hand sanitizer. The FDA says agency testing found methanolTransliquid Technologies’ Mystic Shield Protection Topical SolutionTropicosmeticos’ Britz Hand Sanitizer Ethyl Alcohol 70% The FDA indicated it found methanol in all of the above hand sanitizers. Just two weeks ago, the FDA listed nine hand sanitizers from Mexico as “toxic” to consumers....
The shot, which would be a third dose, can be administered as soon as 28 days after the two-dose regimen of the same vaccine. In a statement released on Thursday night, acting FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock explained the agency’s decision: “The country has entered yet another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the FDA is especially cognizant that immunocompromised people are particularly at risk for severe disease… people who are immunocompromised…have a reduced ability to fight infections and other diseases, and they are especially vulnerable to infections, including COVID-19....
“The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for COVID-19, to help us in the fight against this pandemic, which has claimed over half a million lives in the United States,” acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, MD, said in a statement. This marks the third authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. and the first authorization of a single-dose vaccine. The distribution of millions of doses of the vaccine could begin as early as this week....
