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Wales will be aiming to climb to the top of their Euro 2024 qualifying group when they host Armenia on Friday.

Manchester United have ended their interest in signing Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur this summer, feeling that the money it will take to lure the England striker to Old Trafford is unrealistic.The United manager, Erik ten Hag, had made the player his primary summer target and is disappointed that it has fallen through, but understands the club cannot go past a certain point when it comes to the transfer fee and the overall package for a 29-year-old, who has one year left on his contract.

Man United could make their move to sign Goncalo Ramos in the January transfer window.Manchester United Football Club return in a little over a week, with a Carabao Cup game against Burnley in the offing.Shortly after that match, the January transfer window opens.Erik ten Hag is no doubt plotting moves for potential Cristiano Ronaldo replacements, though that's easier said than done, particularly in the mid-season window.

As summer weather begins, and bare arms and legs start to appear across the country, and people start to worry about their beach body, maybe falling for claims that a particular diet or workout can achieve wonders in just a few weeks.This is not only impossible there is no diet or exercise that can transform your body so quickly it's unhealthy at its core.

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* Critics Call City's Proposed Camping Ban "Impossible to Comply With"
"I think expecting people to be able to comply with packing up tents and carrying away all their belongings every morning at 8 am is really unrealistic," one service provider said.

A proposed ordinance that would effectively ban daytime camping in Portland drew five hours of public testimony, but no vote Wednesday, May 31.After a first reading, the Portland City Council is expected to vote on the ordinance Wednesday, June 7.Mayor Ted Wheeler's office introduced the camping ban proposal, which would prohibit sleeping or placing tents within 250 feet from schools or child care centers, parks, public right-of-ways, and other designated "no camping" areas from 8 am to 8 pm.

The honeymoon for Lincoln Riley and USC is over, the adoration and goodwill earned from a stunning 11-win season squandered suddenly in a Dallas debacle two months ago.The concerns that arose out of that Cotton Bowl defeat still remain.But as USC opens spring practice Sunday, so do many of the players who kept USC in contention for the College Football Playoff, chief among them a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback.

A christmas miracle for the Toronto Maple Leafs this year would be a Stanley Cup, but even in our wildest dreams that seems unrealistic.As much it feels like the Toronto Maple Leafs will never win a Stanley Cup in your lifetime, it'll happen, eventually.One of these years, a miracle is going to happen and Bay Street is going to be filled with a blue-and-white parade, but I can't make that type of bold prediction, yet.

Not too long ago, it was easy to imagine Dodgers outfielder/first baseman Cody Bellinger commanding a Judgian contract when he hit baseball's free agent market.As a lanky, easygoing kid from Arizona, Bellinger entered the L.A. system as a fourth-round teen in 2013 and started showing off prodigious power pretty much as soon as he got his feet wet.

Eviction notices have been sent to thousands of Afghans brought to the UK during the Kabul evacuation, warning that they will become trespassers if they fail to leave Home Office accommodation by the end of August.The refugees, who came to the UK via the government's resettlement schemes, were told they must start searching for private rented accommodation because the government could no longer help with housing.

Home to 8.8 million people as of 2020, New York City is by far the most populous city in the U.S.And the mass of the buildings needed to support all those residentsand the work they doreally adds up.New research published on May 8 in Earth's Future suggests that the weight of the city itself is pressing down on the land it occupies and contributing to local sea-level rise that increases flood risks.

The future of ground-based astronomy is bright.And that's bad.The sky is rapidly filling with fast-moving satellites reflecting sunlight and zapping astronomers' detectors.It is, after all, exceedingly difficult to see faint galaxies in the distant cosmos when someone is shining a flashlight down your telescope.

The San Jose Sharks took a massive step toward a potential rebuild with the trade that sent Timo Meier to New Jersey.While the past few years have been riddled with questions about what direction the team was planning to go, it seems that general manager (GM) Mike Grier has finally set the team down a path.

SAN JOSE - Sharks general manager Mike Grier attended the recent IIHF World Junior Championships in Canada and just like everyone else, was blown away by the unbelievable performance of Connor Bedard."It's a 19-year-old tournament," Grier said Friday."For a kid to go in there and do what he did as a 17-year-old.

Boston Red Sox prospect Shane Drohan rode a scintillating start with Double-A Portland over the first month of the season to a recent promotion to Triple-A Worcester.But the 24-year-old left-handed pitcher received a little bit of a wake-up call in his Triple-A debut Thursday night at Polar Park.After allowing five earned runs total in six starts with the Sea Dogs this season, Drohan yielded that many to the Leigh Valley IronPigs in five innings of works.

There were plenty of rumors swirling around Xander Bogaerts and his free agency on Wednesday.The San Diego Padres have seemingly jumped into the sweepstakes for the four-time All-Star while Scott Boras, Bogaerts' agent, shot down another report that the shortstop severed ties with the Boston Red Sox.

If you lower your expectations, the argument goes, then you won't be disappointed by your partner.Is this advice really helpful?Dr. Donald Baucom, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, studied marital expectations for a decade.He found that people get what they expect.People with low expectations tend to be in relationships where they are treated poorly, and people with higher expectations tend to be in relationships where they are treated well.

Actress Eva Green was sometimes unrealistic with her expectations and wanted to hire expensive staff for an independent sci-fi movie that was later shuttered, the film's director has told the High Court.The Casino Royale star, 42, is accused of making excessive creative and financial demands and having incompatible expectations with the budget of the film A Patriot, which was shut down in October 2019.

If you'd asked most Braves fans and followers alike what the team's priorities were ahead of the 2022 Trade Deadline, chances are that few of them would've readily listed bullpen help.So, naturally, bullpen help is exactly what they got.Expensive, but effective, bullpen help, in the form of Raisel Iglesias.

The Holiday season is upon us!Wow, hasn't this year been exciting!?For me, it was as exciting as the last two years, but that's me.All of this apart, the holiday season is exciting, and we all look forward to it, but many still struggles, especially during the holidays.While many of us might look forward to vacation time, time with family and friends, gift-giving, and all those delicious meals, some people might find holidays emotionally and mentally draining.

KIVSHARIVKA, Ukraine - Not far from this village on the east bank of the Oskil River, Ukrainian forces have hit a wall of Russian resistance as they try to extend a counteroffensive that just two months ago was sweeping across nearby lands at a stunning clip.Andriy, a soldier with Ukraine's 92nd Mechanized Brigade, was not sure what to say on a recent day, when a group of Ukrainian intelligence officers showed up and asked about his unit's push toward Svatove, a small city in Luhansk region occupied since March.

The allure of an ambassador's life is obvious: wielding government power and throwing parties for influential people in a far-flung location.The Diplomat, which premiered last month on Netflix, highlights the glamour while omitting the drudgery of the job the memos, press engagements and red tape.In the show, Keri Russell plays a U.S. ambassador to Britain named Kate Wyler, who spends her days managing international crises with quippy retorts.

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.Sign up to get it by email.As a heat wave sweeps through large swaths of Australia, the authorities are on high alert for drownings as Australians flock to the beach to cool down.Australia is a country of swimmers and beachgoers, where many children are corralled sometimes unhappily, if you're anything like me into learning at least the basics of how to swim and float.

As most Braves' fans already know, Ozzie Albies has always been a better right-handed hitter than left-handed hitter.This is nothing new.For his career, Albies has a 146 wRC+ batting right-handed and a 93 wRC+ batting left-handed.The gap has always been there and has always been rather large.From the first day he showed up, right up to this very moment, this has been true.

The Miami Heat have shown themselves to be a smarter, more adaptive, more disciplined team during this second-round playoff series.What bothered me most of all, however, was how much fight they showed through the first four games than our New York Knicks.Miami got to every loose ball, grabbed every key rebound, while the guys in orange and blue seemed to treat this series like a pre-season home-and-home.

Thankfully, it appears that Luis Severino's road back to the Yankees' starting rotation is getting shorter, as his rehab assignment has been announced.He'll start either tomorrow or Thursday for Triple-A Scranton.A potentially electric arm like his could be a much needed boost to a team that has been, let's say, uninspiring.

The Rangers placed Ryan Carpenter on waivers yesterday, which likely ends his Rangers tenure.Fourth line centers who win faceoffs are likely to be claimed, especially by teams like Colorado who have an all-injury lineup that looks like an All Star team.Placing Carpenter on waivers more or less solidified the NY Rangers bottom six, at least that's what it looks like.

State of the RangersAs it stands today, the Rangers are barely a wild card team.We can say what we want about expected goals, shooting percentages, injuries, and whatever else ails the Rangers, but they simply aren't getting it done.All of the issues had led to the Rangers putting up just one three-game win streak and a pair of two-game win "streaks."

LUMA Partners - the investment bank of ad tech, essentially - is having a major fracture.The company is at an inflection - or at least a reflection - point.Insider notes that LUMA closed 17 transactions in 2021, but haven't announced one deal this year.LUMA's three breakaway partners also wanted a larger share of equity and commissions on sales.

Like Mario or Toad revving their karts before a race, advertisers are jostling for pole position in the lucrative gaming market, which is projected to be worth $320 billion by 2026.With over three billion gamers worldwide and record , gaming giants are keen to capitalize, too: PlayStation and Xbox are both in the running with free-to-play gaming ads.

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Brands are starting to look at video games as an inventory source, but there's no scaled programmatic infrastructure to help aggregate supply in video games.And so that's where in-game ad platform Bidstack is focusing its road map." We're moving toward being a gaming SSP, a pure tech play," Bidstack Founder and CEO James Draper told AdExchanger.

The Chicago Bulls may not own the rights to any of their upcoming picks this year, but that doesn't mean there aren't avenues to improve via the 2023 NBA Draft.Whether that means the Bulls luck out in the lottery, trade cash or assets for a pick, or swoop in to secure a top undrafted player, there are always options on the board here.

A Catholic school board trustee is pitching what she says is an inexpensive way to help students in classrooms without air conditioning beat the heat this spring.Maria Rizzo, who represents Ward 5 North York in the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), is calling on trustees to consider installing outdoor misting stations at more than 150 schools that don't have air conditioning at the board.

Y10s Have Never Been More Outraged, By Scarlett Brock Newstead Wood (Image: Scarlett Brock) As a year 10, you find teachers talking every single lesson all year about end of year examinations, mocks and GCSEs, but what they do not tell you is the shocking arrangements of such exams in some schools.The GCSE exam period is around five weeks (including half term), however, for Year 10s at certain schools in Bromley it is only as little as a measly three days to complete as many as nine exam papers.

Grammar Schools - Going Extinct?Sukhjit Kaur - Townley Grammar School (Image: Newsquest) In the UK, there are currently 163 grammar schools - schools which have been in long decline in the UK in recent years.Most of them can be found in South-East England, and are well-known for the outstanding academic results each cohort brings.

Sadio Mane could be due a return to the site of his greatest success the English Premier League in the near future should Bayern Munich seriously entertain the prospect of a bid from Chelsea.It's worth emphasising that such an offer has yet to arise from the Blues, though Christian Falk did exclusively inform CaughtOffside that the Bavarian giants would be willing to negotiate if asked'.

Bayern Munich have been active behind the scenes, targeting players and finalizing a deal for some.The Rekordmeister have recently started to look at center backs and have been linked to AS Monaco's Axel Disasi, in addition to Liverpool 's Roberto Firmino.BILD journos Tobi Altschäffl and Christian Falk ( as captured by Twitter account @iMiaSanMia) reported that Bayern are no longer in the running for those two players and have not been a topic of discussion within the Bayern office.

The New England Patriots entered the NFL Draft with a need at cornerback, and they did not wait long to address it.With the 17th selection in the first round, they added Oregon's Christian Gonzalez to the mix - giving them one of the most intriguing prospects that the position had to offer this year.

The New England Patriots recently hired Bill O'Brien has their offensive coordinator.Does this put them back in the playoff mix?The 2021 Patriots had a top 10 scoring offense and scoring defense.They won 10 games and clinched a Wild Card spot.It was an encouraging year for them, especially considering how 2020 went and the success they had with then rookie Mac Jones.

Anyone who has remotely worked in the digital product landscape must have heard some version of the phrase "design for stupid users."On calls, in meetings and in our daily conversations - the idea of simplicity is propagated using dumbed-down phrases like these.But what does it mean to design for 'dumb' users and is it worth following this flavour of product design?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media during a signing ceremony following their talks in Moscow on Tuesday.Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP TAIPEI and MOSCOW China's top leader Xi Jinping has wrapped up a state visit to Moscow, where he held nearly three full days of talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

Did you hear about the elusive new Girl Scouts cookie, the Raspberry Rally?This year was my daughter's first as a Girl Scout, and her first time peddling cookies to neighbors, friends and complete strangers.Initially, Cora, 8, was stoked to put on her Brownie vest and pull her red wagon, stacked precariously high with $6 boxes of treats, around our Santa Ana neighborhood.

The Dallas Cowboys made the huge move to acquire Houston Texans wide receiver Brandin Cooks, but it effectively took them out of the running for one player.The Dallas Cowboys learned just how much of an impact Amari Cooper had on their offense after they traded him to the Cleveland Browns ahead of the 2022 season.

Despite a talented roster, the Dallas Cowboys, once again, failed to reach the Super Bowl.Here are three galaxy brain trades the Cowboys could make to shake up their core.Last season, the Dallas Cowboys failed to reach the Super Bowl.Rookie quarterback Brock Purdy led the San Francisco 49ers to a 19-12 victory over Dallas in the Divisional Round.

This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined.Someone once accused me of being unrealistic about love's aftermath.This was in the middle of an interminable argument, one in a long series of interminable arguments.I am not really someone prone to interminable arguments, which probably should have told me something about this person and myself sooner than it did, but at the time I was experiencing a new experience and not every aspect of it was entirely unpleasant.

TikTok's new filter "Bold Glamour" has taken the platform by storm in recent weeks.It's been praised and criticized for simulating conventionally attractive features with uncanny precision.The feature is so unrealistic on me that it feels like a reminder of how AI still struggles to process "faces of color."

Some gays are adamant about having children, and some are immune to baby fever.And a recent post in the r/AskGayMen subreddit landed one Reddit user squarely in the latter camp."I think the best part about being gay is that I don't have to have children or be pressured to start a family than if I were a straight man and had a wife," this user wrote.

If you told me a year ago that the Russian army would be performing as incompetently in Ukraine as it is today, I would have responded with a sarcastic chuckle.And yet, 12 months into Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II, this is precisely what has occurred.The Ukrainians have made mincemeat of the Russians, evident in last year's successful counteroffensives south of Kharkiv and in Kherson.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA.Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Los Angeles Lakers fans and fans across the country.Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.The Lakers have had quite the comeuppance in recent weeks, especially considering that span includes a week off for the All-Star break.

Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker and Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard.Trae Patton/Trae Patton/Paramount+ One of the central themes in Star Trek: Picard has been the importance of accepting every bit of your past, so you can move forward to a new future.Which is why it's surprising that Paramount+'s new series centered on Patrick Stewart's beloved, aging starship captain Jean-Luc Picard has taken so long to learn that lesson for itself.

Anthony Sottile and Brian discuss changes that would be cool for pytest, even unrealistic changes.These are changes we'd make to pytest if we didn't ahve to care about backwards compatibilty.Anthony's list:


The import system
Multi-process support out of the box
Async support
Changes to the fixture system
Extend the assert rewriting to make it modular
Add matchers to assert mechanism
Ban test class inheritance


Brian's list:


Extend assert rewriting for custom rewriting, like check
pytester matchers available for all tests
Throw out nose and unittest compatibility plugins
Throw out setup_module, teardown_module and other xunit style functions
Remove a bunch of the hook functions
Documentation improvement of remaining hook functions which include examples of how to use it
Start running tests before collection is done
Split collection and running into two processes
Have the fixtures be able to know the result of the test during teardown

This is a super brief blog post responding to an issue that we got on the PyPy issue tracker.I am moving my response to the blog (with permission of the submitter) to have a post to point to, since it's a problem that comes up with some regularity.It's also documented on our page of differences between PyPy and CPython but I thought an additional blog post might be good.

The dwindling Blue Dog Coalition includes the remaining Democrats who oppose abortion rights and marriage equality.Blue Dog Coalition members from left, Representatives Henry Cuellar, Mike Thompson, Jim Costa, Stephanie Murphy and Brad Schneider hold a news conference on tax reform on October 4, 2017.Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call The Democratic Party's conservative Blue Dog Coalition has been slashed in half due partially to a disagreement within its ranks over efforts to attract more members, Politico reported on Tuesday, with a number of corporate lawmakers insisting on preserving the Blue Dogs' "longstanding legacy" and name despite its reputation as a "Southern 'boys' club'."

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As the Los Angeles Dodgers continue their search for a center fielder, one potential option emerged when Bryan Reynolds requested a trade from the Pittsburgh Pirates due to contract extension negotiations seemingly reaching an impasse.The 27-year-old remains under team control through the 2025 season by way of salary arbitration, and the Pirates have shown little-to-no interest in making a trade thus far.

The Dodgers' need for an outfielder is well known by now.Ideally, LA ends up acquiring a star-level centerfielder capable of matching or improving upon the production Cody Bellinger has generated over the last few seasons.A top target for the Dodgers is Pirates All-Star outfielder Bryan Reynolds.The 27 year old outfielder has spent his entire career with Pittsburgh, earning one All-Star berth along the way.

Berkeley is required to plan for nearly 9,000 new homes by 2031.Credit: Kelly Sullivan Update, Jan. 18: Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani has introduced a set of amendments to the Housing Element that would address some of the concerns pro-density groups have raised about Berkeley's plan.The proposed changes were posted online Tuesday afternoon.

Prior to the Rule 5 Draft, the 40-man roster stood at 33.Now it's full.Actually, its been full for awhile but that point was driven home when the Mets re-signing of Adam Ottavino became official and they had to release a player.William Woods, a reliever picked up on waivers from the Braves on Nov. 18, was the player who lost his spot to Ottavino.

From busking on the streets of London, to becoming a platinum-selling songwriter and supporting Ed Sheeran on his stadium tour, Cat Burns had a pretty incredible 2022.It was all thanks to Go, a defiant break-up song she first released three years ago, but which found a second life on TikTok,


A slow-burning smash, it entered the chart at number 57 last January, gradually moving upwards until it peaked at number two in June.

2022 was a very different real estate year from 2021.Last year, San Francisco homes were selling in 16 days on average - and 72.9% of those homes sold above listing price.In 2022, that craziness ended, as factors such as rising interest rates and a downturn in the tech market returned power to the homebuyer in the second half of the year.

Monday night may have just seen the Los Angeles Clippers' biggest win of the season, as they beat the Boston Celtics 113-93, becoming the only team to hold Joe Mazzulla's squad to under 100 points in the process.There were many smaller reasons as to why that happened on this specific night, but as Kawhi Leonard put it in trademark fashion after the game, it simply came down to being able to get their best guys healthy and on the floor.