The Argentine enjoyed three prolific seasons in Naples, netting 91 times in 146 appearances. De Laurentiis’ craziest quotes He improved his goal return year on year, with his final campaign delivering 38 efforts and a second place finish in Serie A. It was, however, the season prior to that which saw the striker struggle on penalty duty and fail to inspire Napoli to better than a fifth place standing....
Australian Federal Police found the eastern brown snake in the basement carpark of the facility and secured it in a box until a snake catcher arrived to remove the dangerous reptile. While waiting for the snake catcher, a Duty Sergeant ran the box through an X-ray machine to confirm that the snake was indeed trapped inside. The scan, showing the curled up serpent, was shared in a post on Facebook this morning....
Unity Organizations Deaf and Hard of Hearing Alliance. This group is a lobbying voice for all of the deaf and hard of hearing organizations regardless of their respective missions. Deaf Organizations These organizations are generally associated with deaf people, although hard of hearing people are welcome to join. Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA). The Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA) provides support to late-deafened adults. Deaf Women United. Deaf women can join this national organization....
The Texans somewhat surprisingly fired head coach Bill O’Brien on Monday afternoon after an 0-4 start to their season. They also fired general manager Bill O’Brien. (They were the same guy, by the way.) A bevvy of confusing trades and questionable roster construction over the tenure of GM O’Brien — which started in 2019 — left Texans fans shaking their heads and doing spittakes while reading the breaking news on Twitter....
Heading into this offseason, if you go back to the LeBron James free agency mega-summer of 2010, there was only about a two in five chance that a noteworthy free agent (defined for our purposes as one given a contract worth more than $7 million annually) would leave his current team to join a new one. There were 76 “major” free agents in the five summers going back to 2010, and only 29 changed addresses....
Raul on Pulisic: ‘I love his game’ Yedlin, who plays for Championship side Newcastle United, was unavailable for his club’s match against Reading on Monday. And after the game, Newcastle coach Rafa Benitez provided an update on Yedlin. “Yedlin didn’t realize he had the problem against Brighton," Benitez told reporters. “We protected him against Huddersfield, but he had to come on. “But he was complaining, and you could see that maybe it would be one week or two weeks....
But “brag” might be a strong word. Already many candidates are playing the expectations game–as in, uh oh, maybe we didn’t do as well as we hoped. Some of this is smoke and mirrors. Hillary Clinton types, for example, are spreading word that she might be beaten by Barack Obama again when it comes to primary fund-raising, while Obama aides, off the record of course, are putting the onus on Hillary, talking a sad story about how tough it is to compete against the Clinton money juggernaut....
On Monday, hundreds of angry parents at a board meeting voiced their opposition to allegedly sexually explicit LGBTQ+ books. After the parents refused to calm down, the meeting was ended. Although the venue was heavily policed, the parents ignored law enforcement officers’ requests and booed and jeered speakers advocating for the books. “We don’t see the educational merit in these books,” some parents reportedly said, according to Firstpost, a news site based in India....
That anonymous Times reporter had no way of knowing that what he saw was only the beginning of a bloodletting that eventually claimed the lives of one of ever five Southerners, who marched off to battle. By the war’s end, Americans would be forced to revise practically every idea they had about death, and the trauma was so profound that its effects can be felt even now. The horrific Civil War body count, estimated at 620,000 dead, is a well-known statistic....
Lead prosecutor Joe Ownby told NEWSWEEK that he will not call any witnesses in the morning when state District Judge Belinda Hill asks him to begin presenting his case for punishment. Ownby says the egregiousness of her crime–drowning her five children in the family bathtub on June 20 of last year–is evidence enough that she deserves to die by lethal injection. Yates was convicted Tuesday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of three of her children....
The day of my meeting with David and Charlie marked a new era for Masterpiece Cakeshop in more ways than one. For one thing, from that day to this, I became the primary person to answer the phone. I felt a responsibility to protect my employees from the horrific calls that began to flood our shop. The phone was already ringing when I unlocked the shop door the next morning, and it kept ringing pretty much nonstop....
Nearly a year’s worth of rain fell on the California national park in just three hours, and caused severe damage to surrounding areas, the NPS said in a statement, calling it a “historic event.” The NPS expects roads within the park to be closed for “days to months depending on the severity of damage.” “The heavy rain that caused the devastating flooding at Death Valley was an extremely rare, 1000-year event,” Daniel Berc, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Las Vegas, said in the NPS statement....
In a statement to Newsweek, the Democrat wrote, “Given the political divisions currently facing our country, I believe that every presidential nominee and every member of Congress must be committed to a new era of bipartisanship. That is the standard the overwhelming majority of Americans expect and deserve.” “With respect to Representative Haaland and her confirmation hearing, while we do not agree on every issue, she reaffirmed her strong commitment to bipartisanship, addressing the diverse needs of our country and maintaining our nation’s energy independence....
In a post to Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable? (AIBU) forum on 28 September, user ScrawlyEmbroidery explained she’d initially rejected the woman due to a 10-year gap in her résumé. After a friend told her she was “discriminating” against stay-at-home moms, the poster has been questioning her decision—despite the applicant demonstrating a “lack of professionalism” during the recruitment process. Research shows that taking a career break to care for children can have a negative impact on a woman’s career....
In July 2001, on the way to his junior year of high school, fresh off consecutive Ohio state championships with Akron’s St. Vincent-St. Mary High, LeBron James competed at Sonny Vaccaro’s ABCD Camp. I watched him play one game, then sat down and wrote this: MORE: What do these top prospects need to do to be No. 1? “The first thing that came to mind upon watching him was this: Magic Johnson’s head on Michael Jordan’s body....
The announcement was made eight days after George Floyd, a black man, died while in police custody in Minneapolis. In reaction to his death, protesters gathered across the U.S. in what quickly became one of the largest collections of civil rights demonstrations in recent memory. “George Floyd should be alive,” MDHR Commissioner Rebecca Lucero said in a news release. “Community leaders have been asking for structural change for decades. They have fought for this and it is essential that we acknowledge the work and commitment of those who have paved the path to make today’s announcement possible....
Wannee Jiracharoenying, 58, had not been seen since October 18, when she reportedly visited a temple in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Woraphan Jiracharoenying, 59, the victim’s brother, raised the alarm on Sunday having not heard from his sister for two weeks. Police then searched Wannee’s apartment. It was then the woman’s rotting corpse was found. She was covered in lime powder, her head was covered in a plastic bag and her hands and feet were tied, reported the Chiang Rai Times....
The authors of the paper published in the journal eNeuro exposed mice to what they described as a low dose of radiation of neutrons and photons over a six month period. They set the amount at 18 Centigrays (the unit used to measure the dose of radiation absorbed) with a rate of 1 mGy/day over the course of the study. This appeared to change how the neurons in their hippocampus (which deals largely with memory) worked; and fiddled with nerve impulses on pathways in the hippocampus and cortex....
From Pyongyang to Washington, a lot of very important people were asking the same question. Hwang’s defection was not just a crack, but a gaping chasm in the faCade of North Korea’s regime. Hwang was one of the chief architects of North Korea’s homegrown philosophy of juche, or self-reliance. He was a confidant of Kim Il Sung, the late Great Leader, and helped ensure the smooth succession of his son Dear Leader Kim Jong Il in 1994....
Much of the funding went to weapons suppliers, according to the study, which demonstrated how U.S. reliance on contractors for war-zone duties set Afghanistan up for mission failures. In conflicts the U.S. became involved in after 9/11, military contractors hired by the DoD were given major war-zone logistics like operating fuel convoys and staffing chow lines. Contractors also carried out critical work like training and equipping Afghan security forces that would later fall to the Taliban at stunning speed....
