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Palm Tungsten: You need to burn, not just cut, calories. Diet & Exercise Assistant software lets you log daily exercise routines and find nutrition info on 5,000-plus foods. $420 (with software) at palm.com. Protege 9.0: Hooks on your bike to show riding time, distance, speed (current, average and max), with time and temp–everything but a map. $44.99 at www.planetbike.com. Suunto S6: This stylish “wristop” computer combines watch, altimeter, barometer, compass, ski chrono and a PC interface....

A toned physique usually means spending hours working out in the gym to achieve your dream body. But gym fanatics are sharing a quick tip to make your arms bulge, creating a striking look through making your veins pop. A sports fan, named Shane.Pell, shared a clip to TikTok earlier this month, demonstrating how it’s done. He rolls his T-shirt sleeve up, and grabs his upper left arm with his right hand....

Outgoing fee-for-service models encourage providers to perform more procedures and fill hospital beds, driving up the cost of care without improving outcomes. Value-based care puts quality first, helping providers and patients alike. Additionally, the adoption of value-based care offers several benefits, including greater efficiency in care, as well as administration. By shifting the emphasis from managing symptoms to a more integrated approach, patients experience increased quality of care and enhanced coordination among providers with a patient-centered care team....

So, what can be expected from the Indians in 2015? Here are five bold predictions: MORE: Is ‘Major League’ the best baseball movie ever? | How many games will the Indians win? 1. Sorry, Corey Kluber’s 2014 season was incredible, as his 269 strikeouts were the most by a Cleveland pitcher since Sam McDowell fanned 304 batters in 1970, and he joined McDowell and Bartolo Colon as the only Indians starters with a double-digit rate of strikeouts per nine innings....

Polls suggest Republicans are favored to take control of the House but the contest for the Senate may come down to the wire amid close races in several states including Georgia and Nevada. “Midterm elections are normally bad news for the president’s party, which typically loses seats, and even control of one or both houses of Congress,” Robert Singh, a professor at the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, told Newsweek....

Trump remains the favored candidate to win the 2024 Republican nomination in what would be an historic and nearly unprecedented return for a losing presidential candidate. No president since Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892 has managed to return to the White House after losing reelection but Trump has some reasons to be optimistic about his chances. Here are five of them. 1. Positive Primary Polls Polling among Republicans has consistently shown that Trump is the clear favorite for the party’s 2024 nomination and his influence in the GOP appears undiminished....

The main event features Daniel Cormier defending his UFC light heavyweight title against Alexander Gustafsson. In the co-feature, former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans will square off with perennial contender Ryan Bader. MORE: UFC champions by weight class | Hendricks to miss fight | Betting preview, picks Also: Julianna Pena vs. Jessica Eye in a women’s bantamweight bout; and Ali Bagautinov vs. Joseph Benavidez in a matchup of former flyweight title challengers....

So far this season the Jets have been hanging on in the wild card race despite being decidedly weak on defense, and that was enough for the front office to reward him with a multi-year contract extension. Here are five reasons why they made the right call: He’s got experience In terms of coaching experience, you can’t do much better than Maurice. The 22-year NHL veteran is sixth all-time in games coached (1587) and seventh all-time in wins (724), behind only Barry Trotz and Joel Quenneville for active head coaches....

Oliver is a huge get for the Cougars, who are coming off consecutive 8-5 seasons. The five-star recruit is No. 6 in the ESPN300 list of national recruits for the class of 2016. He is the highest-ranked prospect in the recruiting service era to commit to Houston and first five-star recruit to commit to a non-Power 5 school in the last 10 years. MORE: FBS coach rankings, 1 to 128 | Golson heading to FSU | SN Top 25...

Cleveland took down the East’s top seed with a 132-129 come-from-behind victory at Quicken Loans Arena. An impeccable performance by LeBron James flipped the script after the Cavs had fallen behind by 15 points through the first two quarters, helping Cleveland avenge a brutal loss to Toronto earlier this season. NBA PLAYOFFS 2018: Postseason odds for tight races in East, West It was undoubtedly an exciting contest, but what does it really mean in the grand scheme of things?...

But what is there to know about the Italian star? We compiled five of the most important things about the bearded wonder, from his playing style to his off-the-field interests. MORE: International soccer rivalries | Estonian team wins 31-0 | Six hated MLS teams Pirlo has been on a lot of winning teams He has a World Cup title with Italy, which came in 2006, six Serie A titles and two Champions League crowns on his resume....

Denver’s No. 1 draft pick (14th overall) in 2018, Porter, 21, missed all of what was supposed to be his rookie NBA season as he rehabbed from a second back surgery last summer. So on Tuesday night, when he sank his first NBA basket in a preseason game in Portland against the Trail Blazers, a 20-foot step-back jumper, the Nuggets bench erupted. “He’s meant to play basketball, he’s meant to do this and God’s got him,” Monte Morris, who’s been something of a mentor to Porter, told The Denver Post....

The Ajax head coach, who will join on a initial three-year deal at the end of the season, beat Paris Saint-Germain’s Mauricio Pochettino for the right to take over from interim boss Ralf Rangnick. Ten Hag has garnered widespread admiration for his work at Ajax in winning back-to-back domestic doubles and reaching the Champions League semi-finals in 2019. Indeed, he would appear to represent the ideal appointment for United: a manager renowned for playing stylish, attacking football and with recent trophy success to back up his methods....

That’s easier said than done, of course. Culture is intangible — and cultural issues are often so systemic that they aren’t easy for managers to single-handedly fix. Let’s look at why company culture matters so much, as well as five ideas businesses can implement to invest in their culture. Why does company culture matter so much? 67% of employees in a PWC survey say a company’s culture is more important than its overall strategy or operations....

The Sports Disputes Tribunal, on Tuesday, instructed the federation and KPL to nominate three persons each to discuss the composition of the league and FKF have done so. According to a letter obtained by Goal from the federation, President Nick Mwendwa, his vice Doris Petra and Nairobi NEC member Chris Amimo will be involved in talks with KPL over the same. No solution yet on expansion of 2017 KPL league...

The veteran forward was assigned to Hockey Club Kladno of the Czech 1. Liga in the Czech Republic. The Flames’ announcement came after the 45-year-old Czech native cleared waivers on Monday morning, meaning none of the other 30 NHL franchises attempted to sign him. MORE: NHL All-Stars Crosby, Gaudreau salute Jaromir Jagr “I want to thank Brad Treliving and the Calgary Flames for giving me the immense opportunity to be a part of their team and continue my NHL career this season,” said Jagr in Calgary’s press release....

The Flames appear to have lost captain (and Norris Trophy contender) Mark Giordano (upper-body injury) for some time after he left Wednesday win over the Devils. How long? Nobody is saying. MORE: Dupuis discusses blood clots | Timonen set to return Certainly, the team is talking as if Giordano is going to be out a while. Defenseman Dennis Wideman was quoted by the Flames website as saying “Anytime you lose a guy like that you have to try to pick it up by committee, it’s not going to me one guy that’s going to pick up all those minutes, it’s going to be spread around....

Her words echo the devastation felt by homeowners across the American West. A disastrous mix of drought, high winds, population growth, dead wood and federal budget cuts has sent wildfires raging out of control this summer, destroying more than 4.4 million acres, roughly the combined areas of Connecticut and Rhode Island, in 12 states. Seven firefighters and two civilians have died; scores of homes have been lost, and thousands of residents have been evacuated....

The FAA grounded incoming flights to O’Hare and Midway until at least 8 a.m, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Weather Channel predicted that “fog may lead to significant delays in parts of the Midwest, including at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports.” The National Weather Service, meanwhile, issued a dense fog advisory for Chicago, in effect until 10 a.m CST. “Areas of dense fog reducing visibility to one quarter mile or less,” the forecast stated....