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He may not make it to the Oval Office.But he will make it into the history books, at least as an asterisk.As Mike Pence formally kicks off his underdog campaign for the White House on Wednesday, he will become something almost unheard-of since the founding of the republic a former vice president running against the president who originally put him on the ticket.

Some people describe Alexis Sanchez as the worst transfer deal Manchester United have ever done.While he didn't cost a fee, given his move was an exchange for Henrikh Mkhitaryan, his salary was enormous.Injury prone, ineffective and wages that were unsettling for players who outperformed him, it's hard to think of many positives to his signing.

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Ajax's Champions League formbook since they opened Group A with a convincing 4-0 win over Rangers reads 'defeat, defeat, defeat and defeat'.Despite that dismal run, the Eredivisie leaders are in a strong position to finish third in the group and drop into the Europa League, even if they lose at Ibrox.

Earlier this week, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole became the 87th pitcher in Major League history to record 2,000 strikeouts after fanning Jorge Mateo to end the second inning, and just the eighth to achieve that milestone in a Yankee uniform.Let's dive into the history books - and, for more recent pitchers, take a trip down memory lane - and see how those previous seven came to be a part of this exclusive club.

The Cowboys appear to be done with kicker Brett Maher after Maher's disastrous playoff performance last season.What do you get when you cross an NFL kicker with the yips in the most important stretch of the year?A free agent.Brett Maher was the Dallas Cowboys' straight-shooting stud during the regular season, but no one can forget his performance in the 2022 playoffs.

Before he was moving like a tremendous machine in a literal earth-shattering performance in the Belmont Stakes, before he secured the ninth Triple Crown sweep in history, ending a 25-year drought, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in such dramatic fashion that it would be considered one of the greatest races of all time if only he didn't follow it with even greater theatrics in his next two races.

Manchester City wrote their name in the history books as one of the great teams of the modern era, winning four of the last Premier League titles.They have done this for the most part while playing with a false nine.Although he will go down in history as one of the best strikers to grace the Premier League, Sergio Aguero spent the latter part of his years at Manchester City especially under Pep Guardiola playing mostly as a false nine.

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Three previous African sides had reached the quarter-finals of the competition - but could not take that step further.

It could have been the toast of 1870s Central Park: a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed museum packed with sculptures of newly discovered dinosaurs.But when thugs with sledgehammers destroyed dinosaur models designed for the planned Paleozoic Museum in 1871, the life-size statues and their molds - and plans for the city's first dinosaur museum - were pulverized.

Portrait of Paul Rand by Sally Andersen-Bruce for Champion International  We spend a lot of time in design school studying the history of our profession and digging into the portfolios of successful designers from the past.The people that defined and shaped the early design landscape.So it's natural to respect the big names from design history-people like Paul Rand, Massimo Vignelli, Seymour Chwast-as not only a source of inspiration, but for the perceived level of fame that history has placed upon them.

Australia has cleared the way for the tennis star Novak Djokovic to seek his 22nd Grand Slam title at the upcoming Australian Open, lifting a three-year ban from the country that was imposed in January when he was deported over his failure to be vaccinated for Covid.Officials confirmed on Tuesday that the cancellation of his visa  a decision made by Australia's previous government, on the eve of the last Open  had been revoked by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.

Unlocking the Power of Voice: Enhance Your Applications with Azure Speech Services sktime - Python Toolbox for Machine Learning with Time Series In this post, we will explore key scenarios for implementing our Azure AI in your enterprise, and some of the most innovative Azure Speech features.Generative NLP Models in Customer Service: Evaluating Them, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Banking Welcome to sktime, the open community and Python framework for all things time series, such as forecasting, classification, and transformations with a familiar and user-friendly scikit-learn-like API.

With all eyes falling on the Etihad on Wednesday night, Manchester City breezed their way to the 2023 Champions League final as they claimed a famous second-leg 4-0 romp against Real Madrid.Despite being forced to settle for a first-leg stalemate as they traveled out to the Spanish capital last week, Pep Guardiola's side laid down yet another European marker as they stormed past a Los Blancos squad that failed to find any stability on their big night.

The 5 o'clock club is published from time to time during the season, and aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn't much being published.Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below.We've seen a number of reports in the media that have hinted at problems with the Josh Harris bid to buy the Commanders, and suggesting that the structure of the financing, the number of limited partners, and the inclusion of foreign investors are all potential problems.

Which way could the Commanders go with their 2023 NFL Draft selections if they decided to acquire extra capital by trading Daron Payne?A quick look at the calendar on your refrigerator reminds you that the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City is coming next month.The college all-star games are in the history books and each of the prospects had one final opportunity to impress NFL teams on the playing field.

The big question heading into Game 5 of the World Series was how the Philadelphia Phillies would respond to being on the wrong end of a no-hitter in Game 4, and Kyle Schwarber didn't waste time with a response.The former Boston Red Sox slugger had a stern response when asked about being part of the second no-hitter in World Series history.

The Second World War affected all aspects of life throughout the early 1940s, and America's pastime did not go unaffected.Due to a number of the league's stars entering military service, such as Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, there were many opportunities for players who remained stateside to have career years and make their mark in baseball history.

The Big Melt is finally underway in the Sierra Nevada range, and soon there will be few wild places beyond the reach of water sounds: dripping, gurgling and roaring as runoff flows from lofty peaks to sage plains below.But the whiplash change from extreme drought to epic snowpack is having very different consequences for a variety of species.

The Toronto Maple Leafs luck continues.After several years of horrible playoff luck, the Toronto Maple Leafs have gotten several lucky breaks over the last few days.Of course, the Leafs played a solid series against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but they won three overtime games that could have gone either way.

Ten games.It's just a fraction of the baseball season, but when you don't win any of those games, 10 games can feel like an eternity.Almost two full weeks without going to bed with the vague warm sensation of a win, even in an already-lost season.That's where the White Sox are, entering this evening.

GLENDALE, Ariz.- The White Sox' 5-4 victory against the Rangers on Saturday at Camelback Ranch lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes, and it felt a little long by 2023 Cactus League standards.Their first seven games had times of 2:32, 2:36, 2:33, 2:28, 2:32, 2:33 and 2:26, an expected and welcome development thanks to the latest game-changer in baseball - the pitch clock.

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Four Redmi Note 12 models were given to the international markets.Three of them have 5G connectivity.Two of them bear the Pro moniker for premium features.One Note to rule them all - the most premium Redmi Note 12 Pro+.There is a happy ending to this story; don't you worry.Unlike the Redmi Note 11 series, which brought mostly downgrades and disappointing performance, the Redmi Note 12 models will gladly fix this.

MWC 2023 is now in the history books and it's the busiest the show has been in several years, possibly stretching to the couple of editions just before the COVID pandemic.We've prepared a summary of all the key announcements from the this past week alongside hands-on coverage with some of the more interesting devices that we saw in person.

Here are more notes from Sunday's Bruins-Hurricanes game:
- In a season in which the Bruins have rewritten the history books, they collected two more records against the Hurricanes.The victory was their 57th of the season, which ties the 1970-71 club for most in a single season in franchise history.

Comparing athletes from various decades is a hard debate, but imagine being asked to compare one team to another, and they don't even play the same sport.That's precisely what happened when former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski appeared on NESN's "Ultimate Betting Show" Thursday night and was tasked with comparing this season's Boston Bruins to any of the past New England Patriots teams.

Ray Monk's Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.Brenda Hillman's In a Few Minutes Before Later.

How many people who watch the Bundesliga are concerned with the relegation zone?Not that many, especially if you're a Bayern Munich fan.But if you support a team directly in the relegation fight, then you might be excited, if not a bit disconcerted, to see that this season's relegation battle is shaping up to be one for the history books.

Hello, are (generative) pixel art inscriptions (or public blockchain "graffitis") the new warhols or tulips in 2023?The bitcon ordinals started the new craze / mania with inscriptions earlier this month, litecoin followed with inscriptions this week and can Elon Musk's Doge be left behind?

For decades after the end of World War II, the thousands of women who took part in France's resistance against Nazi German occupation in WWII rarely got a mention in the history books.Published: 2 March 2023 08:49 CET The stories of Lucie Aubrac, a teacher who broke her husband Raymond out of a lorry transporting him to a Gestapo jail, Marie Madeleine Fourcade, a Resistance leader who was smuggled to Spain in a mailbag, and Madeleine Riffaud, a sharpshooter who helped liberate Paris, were exceptional tales in an otherwise male-dominated narrative.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says he agrees with a letter by the Capitol Police chief as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Despite a chorus of widespread attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended his decision to hand over more than 40,000 hours of related security footage.

Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr may have thrown head coach Josh McDaniels under the bus, albeit inadvertently.The Las Vegas Raiders appeared to be heading in the right direction following a disastrous start to the year, highlighted by blown leads.But with the team needing to win to keep their playoff hopes alive late in the season, the Raiders blew a late 10-6 lead to the Pittsburgh Steelers and lost 13-10.

More than 430 convictions under the Hunting Act have been secured over a decade, figures reveal amid demands to strengthen the law as Boxing Day parades get under way.Labour recommitted to closing loopholes in the law and warned trail hunting  where a scent is laid for hounds to follow  is being used as a smokescreen for the illegal hunting of foxes.

More than 430 convictions under the Hunting Act have been secured over a decade, figures reveal amid demands to strengthen the law as Boxing Day parades get under way.Labour recommitted to closing loopholes in the law and warned trail hunting  where a scent is laid for hounds to follow  is being used as a smokescreen for the illegal hunting of foxes.

There are few players, if any, that have been as impactful as a member of the Nashville Predators as defenseman Roman Josi.The 6'1″ blueliner has been the Predators' captain since September 2017, and he has led it well.With his guidance, Nashville has reached new heights, like winning the Presidents' Trophy in the season immediately following its trip to the Stanley Cup Final.

Morocco's national soccer team is set to return home Tuesday after accomplishing the seemingly impossible feat of finishing fourth at the World Cup in Qatar.Tens of thousands of Moroccans were expected to turn out to greet the players.As the first African or Arab team to reach the World Cup semifinals, the Moroccan team, known as the Atlas Lions, made history and was one of the big success stories of this year's tournament, the first hosted by an Arab nation.

On 27 September 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, set sail in La Mora, the flagship of a huge fleet that would invade and conquer England.Now a historical society on France's Normandy coast is going to re-create the ship that launched almost 1,000 years of cross-Channel enmity.The Bayeux tapestry, a 70 metre-long (230ft) embroidered account of the Norman Conquest, depicts La Mora as a Viking-style longship with a striped red and gold sail flying the papal banner on its masthead.

He couldn't resist one last surprise.Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has made his reputation from catching the market off-guard.From his initial "bazookas" of far greater-than-expected monetary easing when he began his term in 2013, to implementing negative rates in 2016 just a week after strenuous denials he was considering anything of the sort, the veteran of central banking knows better than anyone how to pull the rug out from an oblivious market.

Keeping track of time is a purely human construct that was first invented based on the movement of heavenly bodies.We have since then refined our clocks, of course, but they all still use the Earth as the frame of reference.That won't do us much good when we start living on other planets, but thankfully we're just at the cusp of our stellar colonization ambitions.

Cristiano Ronaldo has left Man United with immediate effect, after reaching a mutual agreement with the club.Manchester United Football Club have reached a mutual agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo, meaning the Portugal international will leave the club with immediate effect.This had been coming.The Portugal international launched a scathing attack on the club a little over a week ago, with supporters patiently waiting to discover what would happen as a result.

Elton John's legendary performance at Dodger Stadium launched him into global stardom 47 years ago, and next month, his career will come full circle as he returns to Dodger Stadium with his final North American show, which will be streaming exclusively on Disney+."Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium" is a once-in-a-lifetime live, global concert event that offers fans from around the world a front-row seat to witness the groundbreaking magic of the Rocket Man back at Dodger Stadium.

Elton John's legendary performance at Dodger Stadium launched him into global stardom 47 years ago, and next month, his career will come full circle as he returns to Dodger Stadium with his final North American show, which will be streaming exclusively on Disney+."Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium" is a once-in-a-lifetime live, global concert event that offers fans from around the world a front-row seat to witness the groundbreaking magic of the Rocket Man back at Dodger Stadium.

A minister only months into the job when the Enniskillen bomb exploded near his church has described the atrocity as a potential turning point on Northern Ireland's road to peace.Six of the eleven people killed on November 8, 1987 in the IRA's infamous Remembrance Sunday attack were members of Reverend David Cupples' congregation.

PHILADELPHIA  Pitching like a Game 1 starter, the young right-hander Cristian Javier put on a clinic on a night when Houston needed something good, throwing six no-hit innings at Philadelphia to start the first combined no-hitter in World Series history.Javier's outing positioned the Astros for a 5-0, World Series-tying win in a Game 4 classic.

Raise your hand if you remember your mother or father letting teenaged you go see any movie... if it was rated PG?We see you.And you.And, yeah, you, too.Of course, what Mom and Dad didn't realize was that, back in the day, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Hollywood cranked out movies that pushed the envelope all the way to the edge.

The Independent's petition calling for a general election in Britain following the resignation of Liz Truss has hit 450,000 signatures.Ms Truss survived less than two months in No 10, consigning herself to the history books as the country's shortest-serving prime minister.Her resignation triggered the second Tory Party leadership contest in six weeks, with Rishi Sunak named as the new prime minister on Monday 24 October after receiving the backing of 202 Tory MPs.

In Week 7, Dallas Cowboys handled the Detroit Lions rather thoroughly spurred on by their defense creating five second-half turnovers.It also saw the Chicago Bears dismantling the New England Patriots in Foxborough.That combined gives this Week 8 matchup that much more intrigue.Dallas is looking to prove themselves as a serious contender in the NFC and NFL with Dak Prescott back at the helm coming off of a solid performance in his return.

Here are some of the key numbers behind the Cabinet reshuffle:  The Cabinet has become less diverse, both in terms of gender and ethnicity.Just under a quarter (22%) of all people able to attend Cabinet meetings are women.This is down from nearly a third (32%) at the start of Liz Truss's premiership, which was the highest proportion ever for a prime minister's first Cabinet.

Ms Truss held a party for ministers last night, and will host a second shindig tonight to thank her close aides, reports The Sunday Times.Liz Truss is holding a series of parties at Chequers, the prime minister's countryside residence, this weekend in a bid farewell to ministers and staff who supported her fleeting premiership.

For centuries our clan had no chief or clan parliament, so this is the start of a new era for Clan Buchanan.It took decades of genealogical research conducted by renowned genealogist Hugh Peskett to identify the new chief.The ancient clans of Scotland reunited from across the globe to crown the first Buchanan chief in more than 340 years.