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That presented a huge opportunity to Lobi Stars to climb above the Jos-based club in the rankings and they grabbed it by the scruff of the neck. They secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over MFM which has now raised them to the top of the NPFL table. Meanwhile, nothing is fixed at the moment. A lot could still change as clubs from the Nigerian top flight are scheduled to play another round of matches this midweek....

These are not new ideas. Price’s remedies have been an article of faith among well-intentioned liberals since the publication of William Julius Wilson’s “The Truly Disadvantaged.” Oversimplified – a temptation Price resisted – the argument becomes: if only black children had better schools and “role models,” and if only there were “good” jobs to replace the manufacturing work lost, blighted urban neighborhoods would bloom anew. Unfortunately, reality suggests otherwise....

He might be closer to the sunset of his glittering career than he is to its sunrise, but even today, the man from Ranchi overshadows everyone in his vicinity with the glory of his light. He might not be the captain of the Indian team anymore, but he’ll be its torch-bearer till he plays for the side. He might not be the prime batsman that he was anymore, but when he walks out to bat, he still infuses belief in an Indian fan’s mind....

It shouldn’t be a surprise. Slavery and racism are woven into the history of our country. Even the U.S. Constitution, perhaps the most profound and foresighted political document in human history, required an awkward workaround to deal with slavery—agreeing to count slaves as 3/5ths of a human. It’s impossible to look at that compromise with modern eyes and not be revulsed. It took the bloodiest war in American history to defeat the Confederacy and end slavery....

To do so, you have to rely on a third party software. Using Adobe Reader or any other PDF reader can do the trick, but it can also slow down your system. Well, not anymore! If you are running Windows 10 and you want to convert an image to PDF or view a PDF format file, Microsoft’s got the best solution for you. To convert an image to PDF, follow these steps: Open the photo that you want to convert in default Windows 10 Photo App....

A Wii expansion for Nintendo Switch Online seems particularly lucrative, though, because the Switch and the Wii have a couple important things in common. Both of them are wildly popular in a way that few other Nintendo consoles have managed to achieve, and both of them experiment with motion controls in their own ways. Those special similarities make NSO the perfect platform for Wii games. While not every game from the Wii is easy to put on another console, there’s plenty of classics from that era that would be valuable additions to NSO....

Boomers may be horrified, but for the 25-to-35 generation, “The Brady Bunch” is both camp and comfort zone. The show ran from 1969 to ‘74, when TV families were still functional (even if real ones weren’t) and a teenager’s worst nightmare was braces, not AIDS. It’s a flashback to a pre-ironic age when it was OK to be uncool, to get excited about a family potato-sack race. Unlike those other sitcom movies (“The Addams Family,” “The Beverly Hillbillies”), “The Brady Bunch” isn’t just about a TV show....

Azra Jafari, an Afghan politician and human rights activist, who was the sole woman co-author of the country’s 2003 constitution and in 2008 became her nation’s first female mayor, has watched all this from exile in the U.S. with growing despair. “We were a working democracy for 20 years and during this 20 years we were hopeful,” she tells Newsweek. “Now, we have nothing. What we worked on for 20 years is reduced to nothing....

To get back to the Super Bowl, Rodgers needs to beat the 49ers in the postseason for the first time. That will not be easy knowing the Packers won a 30-28 thriller in Week 3. That’s going to bring out a career-long narrative involving the future Hall of Fame quarterback. Rodgers is a Chico, Calif., native who grew up rooting for the 49ers, and several of the key narratives about his NFL career with Green Bay have involved San Francisco....

Rodgers and his team started the game brilliantly and should have been up by three scores had running back Aaron Jones not fumbled near the goalline. The Packers quarterback, during his weekly spot on ‘The Pat McAfee Show’, had a message for the fans who were not necessarily happy with the final scoreline. Rodgers stated that the Buccaneers are a good team and that not many others will take them down this season....

Aaron Rodgers’ offseason drama culminated with an eye-opening press conference and a return to training camp with the Packers (and a new contract). But those who doubted that Rodgers was considering retirement aren’t taking the man’s word for it. Speaking with Dan Le Batard, the Packers quarterback revealed just how close he was to walked away from the game instead of walking onto Lambeau Field for his 14th season as Packers starter:...

Now, it looks like the survival horror title isn’t coming any time soon, or possibly at all. While developers haven’t officially canceled Abandoned, a new report indicates that developers may not be actively working on the game. RELATED: Abandoned Developer Reveals Story and Character Details According to Gamespot, several people close to the project confirmed that Abandoned is on hold due to a lack of funding. Project lead Hasan Kahraman said Blue Box is working on a playable prologue to help finance the game....

WICB president Dave Cameron, along with all 18 directors of the board, will sit down with four regional prime ministers including CARICOM chairman Perry Christie of the Bahamas to discuss the state of the game, reports CMC. The abandoned tour of India last October is one of three items up for discussion with the reform and governance of West Indies cricket and the relationship between the CARICOM Committee on Cricket Governance and WICB....

SMITH: Did you really start out at A&E running a copy machine? RAVEN: More or less. I had worked in theater and film, and I offered to fill in for somebody who was copying scripts and answering the phone. When I give advice to people starting out in their careers, I always say, “Just get your foot in the door and do the best job you can.” Very often, women graduating college or business school are told not to take a job that’s administrative, but I learned a lot working as an assistant....

Biden blasted former President Donald Trump and other “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to democracy during a fiery speech in Philadelphia on Thursday. The speech, which many Democrats praised as being a sharp rebuke of Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims, further soured the relationship between Republicans and Biden, who has long touted his ability to work with them. “But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans....

Abu Dhabi will be very disappointed with their performances so far this season. They’re yet to register their first win of the season, having lost as many as five Emirates D10 League matches and are currently placed at the bottom of the points table. They will be eager to win this match and get their first win of the season. Fujairah, on the other hand, are having a tremendous season so far, having won six of their seven matches....

The war in Sierra Leone is the longest war, the bloodiest war and the ugliest war of this decade, and yet this is a war that has been fought essentially in the dark. It has been virtually ignored by the U.S. government and the media. After a 10-hour meeting, Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Cpl. Foday Saybana Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, agreed to a ceasefire effective May 24....

That’s because the deal is set up as an asset purchase, and J&J is paying with cash. That makes the purchase price tax-deductible to J&J. The deal is taxable to Pfizer–but as we’ll see, J&J’s tax savings exceed Pfizer’s tax costs. By my math, J&J stands to save $440 million in federal and state income taxes annually for 15 years. I’m using my own numbers because J&J wouldn’t provide any....

Jim’s family farms 960 acres of land around Dale City, Iowa, and has since the 1850s. They live on the South Raccoon River, which flooded two times this summer, pretty much destroying their corn and soybean crops; 220 acres were completely under water. The rest of their crops were severely damaged, and their fields were left littered with tree stumps and silt. Now Jim is not sure what he’ll feed his cows this winter....

In a survey released by The Economist/YouGov on Wednesday, 34 percent of respondents said that they did not vote in the election. Another 34 percent said they voted for President Joe Biden, while 31 percent voted for former President Donald Trump and 1 percent chose another candidate. Many did not take part despite being registered to vote, with 79 percent of all respondents indicating that they had registered. The poll was conducted online among 1,500 U....