Saturday was a very good day for the Playboo,k so I really hope that you built your lineups around our recommendations. Fading Clayton Kershaw in the evening slate proved to be genius (really just followed the numbers) and noticing that Kole Calhoun was once again hitting in front of Mike Trout also paid off in a big way. We also continued to ride the hot hand of Rockies 2B DJ LeMahieu at a significantly discounted rate....
What’s permitted and what’s outlawed in digital music? It’s perfectly legal to take CDs you purchased in a store, put them in your computer and “rip” (copy in a compressed format) the songs to your hard drive. And you are also permitted to “burn” copies of the songs onto CDs for your own personal use. But it’s not OK to get those same songs from a service like Kazaa or LimeWire and make them available on the Internet....
For eight years Bill Buford worked two jobs. During the week he edited the chic English literary magazine Granta. On weekends he ran with the soccer hooligans–young Englishmen who lost themselves each Saturday in crowds dedicated to sport, drink and astonishing violence. An American and an intellectual, Buford was revolted–and fascinated–by the bloodlust of his adopted countrymen. He went to their games, endured the profane boasting, ate the same greasy food and drank vast amounts of beer....
The Mountain Sphinx Bușteni, Romania This rock formation high in the mountains of Bucegi Natural Park resembles the Great Sphinx in Egypt. Many legends attempt to explain its origins, with some saying it was carved as a god in ancient times, others stating it was formed naturally by wind, and some even claiming that aliens used this location because it is a powerful source of the earth’s energy. Perm Anomalous Zone Molebka, Russia...
While Rachele Mussolini had previously garnered only 657 votes in the 2016 election, she was able to capture a plurality this time, receiving more votes than anyone else on the ballot. The election took place on October 3 and 4 in 1,200 municipalities across Italy. This included the nation’s four largest cities, Rome, Naples, Turin and Milan, as well as hundreds of smaller localities. Rachele Mussolini is a member of the Brothers of Italy party, a far-right group critics say is rooted in neo-fascism....
The Bush administration’s strategy against Hizbullah has consisted of a mix of isolation, belligerence and military pressure. It refuses to talk to the group or its supporters in Tehran and Damascus. Two years ago, Washington unquestioningly supported Israeli Prime Minister’s Ehud Olmert’s decision to attack southern Lebanon, Hizbullah’s stronghold. The United States provides the Lebanese government and Army with aid and has responded to the current crisis by promising to speed up delivery of weapons....
There’s no doubt that E. coli merits the publicity: studies show that it lurks in about 3 percent of meat and poultry. Typically it is carried in animal feces, which contaminate the carcass during and after slaughter. But the presence of E. coli on, say, a filet or a steak does not alarm public-health officials. The bacteria remain on the surface of the meat, where they are eradicated during cooking–even the minimal cooking necessary for a rare steak....
Not all pitchers come back from Tommy John surgery (TJS) the same way. We’ve seen the Nationals bring back young stars Jordan Zimmermann and Stephen Strasburg for a handful of starts in September after undergoing surgery a year prior, then limiting their innings the following season. The Braves initially brought back Kris Medlen as a reliever as a method of preserving his innings before putting him back into the rotation....
On Tuesday, Letetia Ware was sentenced to 11 months and fined $2,000 AUD ($1,370) for smuggling more than 2,000 garlic bulbs into the country. She faced up to 10 years in prison and and fine of up to $300,000 AUD (about $247,000). The stiff penalties come because garlic is a known host for Xylella fastidiosa, an infectious bacteria that’s lethal to hundreds of plant species. According to the Invasive Species Specialist Group, it’s killed citrus orchards in Brazil, devastated vineyards and almond trees in California and destroyed olive groves worth billions of dollars in Italy....
HintMag.comWHAT IS IT? Webzine with fashion-industry features, message boards, photos and gossip COOL FEATURE The salacious gossip page is updated every Wednesday TIME-SUCK FACTOR Medium; message boards are poorly designed, but frequented by industry insiders style365.comWHAT IS IT? Lifestyle site; includes interviews, coverage of events like the American Fashion Awards COOL FEATURE Clean design, plus links to oodles of designers’ Web sites TIME-SUCK FACTOR High. The site has links to more than 50 shoe designers....
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that watching investigators interview the father who had forgotten the toddlers in his car because of intense pressure at work was one of the most heartbreaking things he has seen in his 46 years in law enforcement. “He didn’t mean to do it. God, he didn’t mean to do it. He’s got to live with that the rest of his life,” Lott said at a Tuesday news conference....
Recounting his son’s suffering during his time within the Saline Area Schools district just outside Ann Arbor, Adrian Iraola, who owns a restaurant serving Mexican cuisine in the area, told fellow parents and educational workers of how his son used to cry himself to sleep at night over the bullying he faced. “I remember when I went to his bedroom to say goodnight and he was crying because of the abuse he was enduring in this school system,” Iraola can be seen telling the room in video published by Fox 2 Detroit....
Fauci, who has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades, helped guide the federal COVID-19 response as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force this year. He previously estimated that herd immunity, a term used to describe widespread protection from disease when the majority of a population is formally immunized, was possible by the end of next summer....
The inquiry follows an “Outside the Lines” report in May that Driscoll’s foundation, a non-profit organization that helps wounded veterans, was being used to lend money and pay for personal expenses, including bills for Driscoll’s private company, private travel and her state and federal taxes. PHOTOS: 2015 Sprint Cup winners | NASCAR families | Most surprising champions While Driscoll denies embezzling money from the AFF, the FBI and IRS have access to the non-profit’s federal tax filings and audit reports, which in some instances fail to match by over $100,000, according to ESPN....
Vázquez, her political consultant and the president of an international bank are accused of bribery related to funding her 2020 campaign, the Justice Department said in a press release. “The alleged bribery scheme rose to the highest levels of the Puerto Rican government, threatening public trust in our electoral processes and institutions of governance,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Department of Justice is committed to holding accountable those who wrongly believe there is one rule of law for the powerful and another for the powerless....
Project Veritas founder James O’Keef said previously that agents searched his home and two others in connection with a criminal probe into how they received Ashley Biden’s alleged diary. They asked a judge to appoint a monitor, called a special master, to review the seized material to be sure that prosecutors wouldn’t see confidential files related to conversations between Project Veritas staff and their lawyers. Federal prosecutors in New York urged a judge to reject the request in a court filing Friday....
One of the first questions the FBI Director was asked was whether he knew if Rudy Giuliani—President Trump’s personal attorney—“holds any security clearance of any kind.” “I don’t know the answer to that,” Wray said. Since being mentioned in Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Giuliani has been at the center of the House Democrats’ impeachment proceedings. During the phone call, Trump appeared to instruct Zelenskiy to contact Attorney General William Barr and Giuliani for instructions regarding the investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden....
The Los Angeles Times first reported on Sunday that the FBI had uncovered the scam, which has been traced back to a broker in Australia and a supplier in Kuwait. The investigators discovered the scam because they were looking into whether the supply could be intercepted by the federal government through the Defense Production Act. The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (known as SEIU) promised at the end of March that it would make the millions of masks available, as government agencies and hospitals planned to purchase some of the supply....
Giving an update on Wednesday, FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono that the agency has already opened more than 170 investigations against those accused of storming the building in an apparent attempt to overthrow the government, warning that this is “just the tip of the iceberg.” Images and videos of the Donald Trump supporters, far-right extremists, and followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory in the halls of Congress were widely shared online following the attack, a number of whom have since been formally identified....
The 26-year-old Venezuela international previously played at Monagas in his native country’s top division, scoring 17 goals in 45 appearances for the club. Back FC Dallas at 17/2 to lift MLS Cup with dabblebet Gonzalez has made 185 appearances in the Venezuelan top flight, playing for Caracas, Deportivo la Guaira, Mineros de Guayana and Monagas. He also played 10 matches in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana during his time at Caracas....
