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White Sox announce 22 minor leaguers headed to camp

On Monday, the White Sox announced their list of 22 players to whom they’ve extended non-roster invites (NRI) to Spring Training. NRIs are for minor leaguers who aren’t on the 40-man roster but have some value to the major league team. Usually a player gets invited to Spring Training for one of three reasons:

1. He’s a legit prospect and the major league coaches (and fans) want to get a look at him.
2. He’s organizational... Читать дальше...

Taylor Weyeneth is America's number two official in charge of drug policy. He's a 24-year-old former Trump campaign volunteer whose resume is singularly unimpressive: apart from being a frat brother in good standing at St John's University and organizing a single charity golf tournament, the only real jobs he's ever held were working in his daddy's chia seed factory (which closed when his dad went to jail for illegally processing Mexican steroids) and working as a legal assistant at the New York... Читать дальше...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A nonprofit organization says documents it obtained from a New Jersey college show the school wasn't "inundated" with complaints about an instructor who made racially charged comments during a television interview. Essex County College fired Adjunct Professor Lisa Durden in June after she made comments on Fox News defending a Black Lives Matter event that only invited black people. Durden is black. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sued the school, claiming it... Читать дальше...

Crawley Town head coach Harry Kewell is keen to make an impact at Notts County tonight but is aware how difficult a challenge it will be.

In 2017, the volume of payments made through bank cards for goods and services amounted to 53 trillion soums, which is about 57% of the total number of payments. This was reported by the press service of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan.

DAVOS (Sputnik) - Reports on disagreements between Russia and India in the area of defense industry cooperation are based on speculation and the two states maintain strong ties in defense cooperation and are developing a partnership on transfers of technology, Mobashar Jawed Akbar, Indian minister of state for external affairs, told Sputnik.

DAVOS (Sputnik) - Reports on disagreements between Russia and India in the area of defense industry cooperation are based on speculation and the two states maintain strong ties in defense cooperation and are developing a partnership on transfers of technology, Mobashar Jawed Akbar, Indian minister of state for external affairs, told Sputnik.

Washington, 23 ene (dpa) - El secretario de Justicia estadounidense, Jeff Sessions, fue interrogado por el equipo de Robert Mueller encargado de investigar la presunta injerencia rusa en las elecciones presidenciales en las que ganó Donald Trump, según confirmó hoy un portavoz de su Departamento.El interrogatorio tuvo lugar la semana pasada y, según el diario "The New York Times", duró varias horas.El trasfondo de la investigación son las sospechas del servicio secreto estadounidense de que Rusia... Читать дальше...

The Brazilian, who has won caps at youth level, will hope to break into the first-team at St James' Park

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The Ligue 1 leaders said the teenager suffered no "traumatic injuries" in a loss to Lyon but will not feature against Guingamp on Wednesday

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• Rupert Murdoch recently talked about an interesting idea: Facebook could solve its Fake News PR nightmare by paying legitimate media companies for their content. It's a model that's served the cable industry very well.
• Here's the problem, explains former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile: the market dynamics for social media distribution are diametrically opposed to the pay TV world in fundamental ways.
• Plus, it's too late to expect giants like Facebook... Читать дальше...

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• Rupert Murdoch recently talked about an interesting idea: Facebook could solve its Fake News PR nightmare by paying legitimate media companies for their content. It's a model that's served the cable industry very well.
• Here's the problem, explains former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile: the market dynamics for social media distribution are diametrically opposed to the pay TV world in fundamental ways.
• Plus, it's too late to expect giants like Facebook... Читать дальше...

SALEM, MASS. – Kylie Currier's (Middleton, Mass.) third period score broke a 2-2 tie as Salem State held on for a 3-2 victory over Plymouth State on Tuesday afternoon at Rockett Arena. Currier's team-leading sixth goal came 6:29 into the final period as she found herself alone in front of the crease where she netted the game-winner for her second score of the day. The Panthers' Taylor Jackson (St. Albans, Vt.) had tied the game less than three minutes earlier, when her shot in the slot deflected... Читать дальше...

A brawl at a Belgrade match in December left at least 20 injured. Five Croats who were arrested in Serbia after a massive fan brawl at a Belgrade derby last month will serve four to six months in prison as part of a plea bargain deal with the prosecutors. Lawyer Maja Trkulja said on Tuesday they are expected to serve their prison sentences in Serbia and be banned from entering the country for another five years. The group pleaded guilty to "violent behaviour at a sports event" while at the match between Belgrade rivals Red Star and Partizan. Читать дальше...

YOU GET A MINOR-LEAUGE DEAL, AND YOU GET A MINOR-LEAGUE DEAL!

The Tigers have struck a minor-league deal with 28-year old infielder Alexi Amarista, as reported by Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free-Press. The former Padre will also head to Detroit’s major-league camp for spring training.

Amarista has had a turbulent career to say the least. The veteran slashed .238/.269/.351 across 176 plate appearances as Colorado’s utility man in 2017 after signing a one-year deal with them last January. Читать дальше...

Last weekend in connection with the removal of a very warm air mass from the foreign south in Uzbekistan were exceeded absolute temperature records.

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Among the many ways that drones can transform business operations, few have received as much attention as delivering packages to consumers’ homes. Drones could allow companies to bypass the many challenges involved with the "last mile" of delivery — the last leg of the journey when a package arrives at the customer’s doorstep. Читать дальше...

A group of Syrian activists and journalists has launched a campaign calling for women in the Idlib province, the western part of Aleppo and the north part of Hama not to marry foreign fighters.

The Hearing Panel of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) concluded disciplinary proceedings against Ilya Ilyin and applied the greatest possible sanction against the athlete that is permitted (two years of ineligibility) under the World Anti-Doping Code. Although the Athlete committed Anti-Doping Rule Violations both at the Beijing and the London Olympic Games, IWF had no […]

If you didn't have a USB-C powered device last year, chances are you will before the end of 2018. That means you'll need Type-A  (i.e. standard USB) to Type-C cables to make all of your devices and chargers play nice with each other. Today, Aukey via Amazon is selling a three pack of 3-foot USB 3.0 Type-A to USB Type-C for $7.

Zerodha, technology-driven zero brokerage firm, has set target to have three million user base in three years.The company's user base grew by 204 per cent in 2017-18 compared to the last fiscal. It has now a user base of over 0.6 million.According to Karthik Rangappa, vice president (Research & Educational Services), the company plans to have three million customers on board in the next three years (say by 2020).Coin, the company's mutual fund platform that let the customer buy mutual funds online... Читать дальше...