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The Football Association’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, has acknowledged it still has more to do to ensure equality and diversity in the game as it begins the search for a new chairman following Greg Clarke’s resignation on Tuesday. Clarke stepped down after his description of “coloured footballers”, among other remarks about gay and female players, […]
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There’s bad news for parents who frequently plop their kids in front of the TV to give themselves a break: It might actually end up leaving moms and dads more stressed. Why? Because the more television that kids watch, the more they’re exposed to advertising messages. The more advertising they see, the more likely they […]
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U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell in early November due to the outcome of the presidential election and a resurgence in COVID-19 infections and deaths, weighing on the economic outlook, the University of Michigan said on Friday. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index dropped to 77 early this month from a final reading of 81.8 […]
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Ricardo Pimentel may not have had an ark to ride out the storm, but he’s being hailed as something of a modern-day Noah nonetheless. As deadly hurricane Delta bore down on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula tearing a path of destruction directly to his door, Pimentel herded hundreds of animals—including more than 300 dogs, numerous rabbits, chickens, […]
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Joe Gomez has undergone surgery to correct the knee injury that he suffered in England training on Wednesday. Liverpool say the operation to the tendon was a success and that he has avoided ligament damage. Although the club do not want to put a timeframe on his recovery, they have not ruled out the possibility […]
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A growing body of evidence supports the effectiveness of mindfulness approaches to promote positive changes in health behaviors. New neurobiologically based models of “mindful self-regulation” help to explain the how mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) work to help people make healthy behavior changes, according to a review in the November/December issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry. Mindfulness […]
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Alphabet GOOGL.O CEO Sundar Pichai has apologised to Europe’s industry chief Thierry Breton over a leaked internal document proposing tactics to counter the EU’s tough new rules on internet companies and lobby against the EU commissioner. Pichai and Breton exchanged views in a video-conference call late on Thursday, the third this year, according to a […]
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Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. Early overclocking endeavors involved soldering and replacing crystal clock oscillators, but that practice quickly evolved into changing system bus speeds via motherboard DIP switches and jumpers. Internal clock multipliers were introduced but it didn’t take long until those were locked […]
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The area surrounding the Gjellestad Viking ship burial in Norway was found to contain an extensive and traditional funerary, feasting, and religious complex of outstanding significance, ground-penetrating radar scans revealed. The finds transform the understanding of the site as one containing an isolated grave to representing the regional center of Viking high-society. Remains of three […]
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Gio Reyna followed his father and mother onto US national soccer teams, showing an insightful passing ability similar to his dad’s, and the Americans tied Wales 0-0 in an exhibition at Swansea on Thursday night. The match ended a 10-month layoff caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Reyna, who has gotten regular playing time at Borussia […]
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