Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, two-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Eli Manning and living legend Tom Brady are among the noteworthy members of the NFL community who have recently discussed if teams should start or sit rookie signal-callers selected with high draft picks. Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells addressed the topic this week while speaking with Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe.”Fans never consider the psychological makeup of the player you’re getting ready to throw to the wolves,” Parcells explained. “What you really have to judge is the timing and the chance to succeed. Sometimes if they don’t succeed, it destroys them. So I think you just have to see what you’re…
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At least 40 others injured, with officials in Andhra Pradesh state saying many suffered extensive chemical burns.An explosion at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state has killed at least 15 people, according to a government official. Rescue operations were under way late on Wednesday after a fire broke out at the privately held Escientia Advanced Sciences’s 40-acre (16-hectare) manufacturing unit in the state’s Anakapalli district. “Death toll as of now is 15 and is likely to go up. Nearly 40 people have been injured. Rescue operations under way,” District Superintendent of Police M Deepika told the…
New details have emerged in the death of celebrity health and fitness guru Richard Simmons at age 76. In a statement, a family spokesperson said the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office confirmed Simmons’ cause of death at his Los Angeles home in July. “This morning, Richard Simmons’ brother Lenny, received a call from the LA Coroner’s office,” spokesperson Tom Estey said in a statement issued Wednesday. “The Coroner informed Lenny that Richard’s death was accidental due to complications from recent falls and heart disease as a contributing factor. The toxicology report was negative other than medication Richard had been prescribed.…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The US Military Liaison Office at US Embassy Bridgetown hosted the annual Eastern Caribbean Security Cooperation Workshop from August 13-15, 2024; a cornerstone of the ongoing security collaboration between the United States and Eastern Caribbean partner nations, served as a critical forum for discussing and planning key security initiatives in the region. The workshop brought together US ambassador Roger Nyhus, senior defense and law enforcement officials from Eastern Caribbean partner nations, and representatives from the Florida and Virgin Islands National Guards to highlight the State Partnership Program. Also in attendance were officials from the US Southern Command…
The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Dr. Deborah M. Barasa, today hosted a delegation from The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) led by CEO Kate Hampton. The discussions focused on scaling up community health initiatives, digitization, performance management, and maternal and newborn health, all aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The CS expressed gratitude to CIFF for their support in equipping Community Health Promoters (CHPs) with kits, providing training, and establishing Primary Care Networks. Also in attendance were PS Public Health and Professional Standards Mary Muthoni, PS Medical Services Harry Kimtai, as well as other Directors and senior leadership from the Ministry…
The Neo-Apala singer described the Wizkid verse as priceless. Nigerian Afrobeats, hip-hop, and Apala musician Terry Alexandar Ejeh, popularly known as Terry Apala, has opened up about what the Wizkid verse did for their collaboration.The neo-apala singer was featured alongside Grammy-winning Afrobeats star Wizkid and street-hop sensation Seyi Vibez on the DJ Tunez-owned, star-studded song.’Apala Disco’ by DJ Tunez, who is Wizkid’s personal disc jockey, was originally released in 2019 and featured just Terry Apala on the Apala-inspired tune, a traditional genre in Nigeria.Speaking in an interview with ace media personality Quincy Jonze on Echo Room, Terry Apala discussed the…
Walker Buehler has been a Cy Young contender and an All-Star during his career, but the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher is now pitching for his job in the team’s rotation. That is obviously not how he envisioned going into free agency.Buehler struggled again on Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners, allowing three runs on seven hits in four innings of work. He received a no-decision when the Dodgers came back to win, but it was another discouraging performance against a bad offense, and it bumped his ERA to 6.09 on the season in 10 starts. The former All-Star acknowledged after the…
Questions abound about what caused the superyacht to sink so quickly when a nearby sailboat was largely spared.Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily have found the bodies of five passengers and are searching for one more as questions intensify about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed. Rescue crews unloaded three body bags from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello on Wednesday. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said two other bodies had also been found in the wreckage. The bodies of British tech…
Police Commissioner Edward Caban on Monday hammered the final nail into the coffin of an effort to punish one of his top deputies for intervening in the arrest of a retired cop charged with menacing three young men with a gun.Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey was found by a police oversight board to have “improperly influenced an arrest” by voiding charges against an ex-cop who was once one of his subordinates. The cop, Kruythoff Forrester, had been charged in 2021 with threatening the youths after he said they tossed a basketball at a security camera outside his family’s storefront in Brooklyn.…
By Armando Aliu TAIPEI, Taiwan – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gained ground in the US-PRC tech competition by accelerating the “Digital Silk Road” (DSR), the technological arm of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, formerly known as “One Belt, One Road,” – 帶 – 路). Initially introduced in 2015, the DSR initiative aims to strengthen both the technological development and the geopolitical potential of the PRC’s cyberspace capacity. As Jake Sullivan, national security advisor at the White House, highlighted in 2022 remarks, computing-related technologies (such as artificial intelligence [AI], big data, advanced…