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The North Node: The North Node represents the things that you’re capable of reaching in this life and the positive attitudes you have that will garner help from others to help you achieve it. It encourages you to make changes and venture into the unknown so that you can reach your greatest potential. The South Node: The South Node represents your past and where you are naturally most comfortable. It encourages you to examine lifestyle and relationship patterns from a past life that may not be serving you anymore....

Let’s face it – few things are as frustrating in fantasy than having a player score 30-some points one week and five points the next, especially if you lose both weeks. Many chalk it up to “bad luck”, and while that’s certainly part of it, there are ways to attempt to control certain factors that can go into the consistency of your team. At BigGuyFantasySports.com, I’ve developed a “Clutch Report” that calculates a player’s “Clutch Factor”....

That would give him a sense of Southwestern noblesse, duty-bound not just to work “his” people, but to protect them as well. His advisor, Carlo Rove, has explained that a system called “democracy” now gives peasants something called “the vote.” It would be shrewd, Rove said, for hacendados to grant their workers’ citizenship. That’s the best explanation I have for why Bush is in the midst of what may be a suicide mission on immigration policy—embarrassing for him and ruinous for his party....

Both Finland and Sweden submitted applications to join NATO in May, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Helsinki-based newspaper Iltalehti, the bill regarding potential NATO membership the Finnish government will put before parliament doesn’t include any opt-outs for nuclear weapons. Speaking to the paper, defense sources said Finland’s foreign and defense ministers, Pekka Haavisto and Antti Kaikkonen, gave a “commitment” to NATO in July that they wouldn’t seek “restrictions or national reservations” if Helsinki’s application is accepted....

Last week, clips from private videos began spreading on the internet of Marin, 36, dancing and singing with friends. Some politicians in her home country condemned Marin, calling her behavior inappropriate for a world leader. Some people suggested she may have been under the influence of illegal substances in the videos, but her office on Monday announced she tested negative for drugs. Women in Finland and Denmark soon began responding to what they felt was the hypocritical and/or sexist outrage over Marin enjoying herself by sharing their own dancing videos....

Police in Rotterdam, a prominent port city and the Netherlands’ second-most populous region, used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse crowds. According to the agency, officers also fired a warning shot earlier in the evening, during a confrontation with civilians. Footage of the rioting in Rotterdam saw a building, which appeared to be police station, and pair of parked vehicles set aflame by explosives. Several reports additionally noted that business establishments were looted amid the disorder....

It’s long past due and can no longer be ignored, a slice of straight talk someone has to deliver. If you have one game to win this season, are you really taking top-ranked and unbeaten Mississippi State? I didn’t think so. HAYES: We replaced the BCS for this? | MORE: 10 playoff matchups we want to see And this is the underlying problem with where we are in the process of ranking teams for the College Football Playoff....

Option 1: He could leave for the NFL Draft. Option 2: He could pass on the draft for the second straight year, return to Florida State for his senior season and join his younger brother Ricky, who is committed to the Seminoles for the class of 2016. MORE: SN Top 50 players | ACC non-con schedule rankings | BENDER: QBs line up to be league’s best This is the part where we remind you Aguayo is a kicker....

Little is known so far about the variant, which health officials identify as B.1.1.7, but it is believed to be more easily transmissible among human patients and has thus raised concerns among health and government officials after it began spreading in the United Kingdom earlier this month. According to a statement Polis shared on Twitter, the Colorado State Laboratory confirmed the mutation in a male patient in his twenties. Polis said the individual has not recently traveled and is recovering in Elbert County, southeast of Denver....

Fisher’s new contract will run through the 2018 season, the school announced Tuesday. The deal, which was agreed to during the season, is worth $21 million and is not expected to increase, ESPN’s Joe Schad reported. The No. 1 Seminoles are 13-0 this season and will play No. 2 Auburn in the Vizio BCS National Championship Monday. "We are extremely pleased with the direction of our program and believe that this new contract will assure that Coach Fisher is in place to lead the Seminoles for a long time to come," FSU athletic director Stan Wilcox said in a statement released by the school....

But even Petty, The King of stock-car racing, has never played the role of fashion model. Now, at 77, he will — sort of. MORE: Eury Jr. to lead development program | Most dramatic moments of 2014 | Best fights | Kurt Busch-girlfriend update The Petty Family Foundation, The King’s nonprofit organization, has partnered with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to host the Petty “Hot Pass To Fashion” Challenge and Red Carpet Event....

Under new manager A.J. Hinch, further improvement will be expected, with owner Jim Crane saying that finishing with a record under .500 would be disappointing. Still, the West is a meat grinder, with the reigning champion Angels, the strengthened Mariners, the reconfigured A’s and a Rangers team that cannot possibly suffer as many injuries as last year. MORE BOLD PREDICTIONS: Yankees | Pirates | Indians | Phillies | Mariners...

The series shifts back to Houston with the Astros needing just one victory to wrap up their second championship in three years. But that won’t be easy; the road team has won each of the first five games this series, and the Nationals have Stephen Strasburg on the mound. But back to Game 5. Here are five defining moments in Houston’s victory. WATCH: Fan takes home run ball to gut while double-fisting beers...

At his introductory news conference, which he was late for, he spoke in explicit terms about his personal accountability and leadership qualities. “I’m looking forward to making these guys proud,” Brown told reporters from behind a podium. MORE: Kyler Murray’s wild ride ahead But Friday’s reported controversy involving Brown and new NFL helmet rules has continued a strange few months for him. He hasn’t exactly been a model of excellence for the organization, and early indications are that he could escalate the level of drama from the Steelers while in Oakland....

The group were found to have disobeyed the national lockdown to go play with a ball on a sports court in the town of Güímar. The men then posted a picture of them all together along with the hashtag “#yomequedoenlacalle (I stay on the street) as opposed to the #yomequedoencasa (I stay at home) hashtag which is being used by authorities to urge people to follow the lockdown procedures....

Arizona (10-2) won the Pac-12 South Division with a 42-35 victory over Arizona State (9-3) on Friday to earn a spot in the Dec. 5 conference championship game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Opponent: Oregon. The Wildcats got the necessary help from Stanford (7-5) in a 31-10 win against UCLA (9-3). Arizona last won a Pac-12 championship in 1993. The Wildcats shared the title with Southern Cal and UCLA that season....

Trey Smith, the 6-foot-5, 310-pound offensive tackle from Jackson, Tenn., made his announcement Tuesday afternoon in his hometown. MORE: The full 2016-17 bowl schedule “We’re going to make Tennessee elite again,” Smith said after placing the Vols cap on his head. Smith, a five-star recruit, according to 247.com, and the No. 1 overall player on ESPN’s 300, was visited Monday by Alabama coach Nick Saban and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer for one last push before his decision....

Yet it’s fair to say the first-year coach is already exceeding expectations in South Bend and working toward beating a narrative that led the last coach to leave for LSU. Right now, Freeman has the top recruiting class for 2023 according to 247Sports.com, and Notre Dame landed 2024 five-star quarterback C.J. Carr on Thursday night. Who said the Irish couldn’t recruit like the other national championship contenders? “This is kind of what happens when you have won 10-plus games for five straight seasons,” Irish Breakdown recruiting analyst Bryan Driskell told Sporting News....