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Monaco 7/4 to win -2 handicap The Stade Louis II club have thus far negotiated the transfer window without losing more than a small handful of starters and saw Radamel Falcao at his very best last weekend as they recorded a 4-1 win away to Dijon. But Monaco have a problem. Kylian Mbappe has struck the first difficult period of his career. Mired deep in transfer speculation linking him with a €180 million move to Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain, with Manchester City also interested , before August is out, the teenage superstar will not be part of the team that plays at Stade Saint-Symphorien....

But watching Wednesday’s Republican debate at the Reagan Library, I started to wonder if McCain would really be as formidable a foe for Democrats as the data suggests–especially if he has to endure a drawn-out battle with Romney over his conservative cred. There are two reasons for this: Enthusiasm. It’s no secret that McCain has energetic enemies on the right; Rush Limbaugh, for example, recently said that if McCain “gets the nomination, it will destroy the GOP....

The DeKalb County Board of Health said the McDonald’s on Fairington Road in Lithonia had received a low score of 65 out of 100 after six violations were recorded last Thursday. The inspector found a “black mold-like substance” on some ice in the rear ice machine, the lid of an ice machine contained a “black build-up,” food items were being stored at the wrong temperature, soda nozzles had an unidentified build-up and units were “unclean with debris....

Despite being relative newcomers to Mario world, Rosalina and Luma quickly became mainstays in the franchise, practically appearing in every Mario-related game since Super Mario Galaxy, whether it’d be Mario Kart, Mario Party, sports titles or her inclusion in the growing Super Smash Bros. roster. Thanks to a very trailer-accurate McDonald’s menu from Japan, Nintendo fans were able to spot the presence of a tiny sky blue Luma that would make up the restaurant’s toy lineup when the film comes out, but what would Rosalina and Luma really bring to The Super Mario Bros....

KARE11 first reported on how Sydney Raley, 15, from Edina, sprang into action after spotting a woman in distress while at a Golden Arches branch in Eden Prairie. Sydney became aware of the issue while attempting to pass food to the woman and her daughter at the restaurant’s drive-through window. “I noticed that she was coughing profusely and her daughter just had this look on her face like sheer terror,” she told the news outlet....

OAKMONT, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy left himself with plenty of work to do to make the cut at this week’s U.S. Open after struggling to a seven-over-par 77 in the weather-delayed opening round on Friday. The Northern Irish world number three said he had not been in control of his golf swing while piling up eight bogeys and a lone birdie on the tough Oakmont Country Club layout and would need to shoot “something like 66” in the second round....

On a back nine filled with clutch shots and as much tension as a major can provide, McIlroy emerged from a four-man race to outlast Phil Mickelson and the darkness at Valhalla to capture his second straight major. McIlroy closed with a 3-under 68 and became only the fourth player in the last century of golf to win four majors at 25 or younger. The others were Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Bobby Jones, three of the game’s greatest players....

WOKING, England (Reuters) - All Formula One teams could eventually have their own virtual counterpart, while gaming can become the new grassroots of the sport, McLaren executive director Zak Brown said on Monday. Speaking at an event to promote McLaren’s “World’s Fastest Gamer” initiative to recruit a Formula One simulator driver from virtual racing, Brown told reporters the world of e-sports was to be embraced. “I don’t see how any F1 team can ignore the power of e-sports, the audience, the people it produces....

Health officials in Austin, Texas reported the city’s first confirmed case of the disease since 1999 on Monday, while issuing warnings to people who may have been exposed to the virus. The infected person is believed to have traveled on a December 17 United Airlines flight between Austin International Airport and O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Visitors to both airports may be at an increased risk of contracting the disease....

Referring to her association as a brand ambassador for sightless people’s football, the “Drishyam” actress said: “The organisers of the game need my face to get media coverage.” “I asked them why was I even needed in the game of such brilliant players, and they said that the media would not cover it if your face was not there,” she said. Shriya was speaking at a panel discussion on “Reflection of disability through media: Speak of me as I am” at National Conference on Disability organised by Sarthak Educational Trust....

While Media Molecule has only produced eight games, each one of those games were well received by the gaming community. LittleBigPlanet remains to this day an iconic and influential piece of gaming history. However, one of the people responsible for the creation of the studio has decided to step down. RELATED: Dreams Player Creates Incredibly Realistic ‘Walk in the Park’ Earlier today, founding member of Media Molecule, Alex Evans, decided to leave the development studio in pursuit of other career opportunities unrelated to game development....

Medicare is becoming proactive by designing programs that address these very issues. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) believes doing so will reduce healthcare costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries alike. More importantly, it will help to promote public health programs that keep people healthier longer. Social Determinants of Health Care Healthy People 2020 is an initiative taken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the goal to decrease preventable diseases and injuries, eliminate healthcare disparities, improve quality of life, and promote health for all people....

“The finances of both programs have been significantly affected by the pandemic and the recession of 2020,” the trustees said. Previously, Social Security was projected to be unable to pay full benefits in 2035. Now, the date has been moved up by a year, but Medicare’s date remains the same as estimated last year, according to the AP. The two programs have been under intense financial pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and the retirement of millions of baby boomers....

The writers stood bunched together on either side of the horseshoe formation, leaving a comfortable gap in the middle for a certain star baseball player to answer questions without being too crowded. MORE: Why the MLB offseason still has a ways to go No, this group was not assembled for Shohei Ohtani, the Angels’ prize acquisition. His unveiling was set for Wednesday in Tempe, about 17 miles to the southwest....

That’s when Arch, the son of Cooper and nephew of Peyton and Eli, and his Isidore Newman (La.) team will take on Booker T. Washington (La.). Arch is a sophomore and regarded as one of the top quarterbacks in the Class of 2023 after a standout freshman year at the same high school attended by Cooper, Peyton and Eli. Arch’s high school coach told ESPN they just want to “let Arch be Arch....

To do this, he and his team created a platform with a network of Black designers who have been vetted by experts. Meaningful Gigs works with employers, and will hand-pick design teams from its network. The startup is on a mission to use data to guide people toward their full potential. “The reason that is the mission is that it comes from my own personal story as somebody that doesn’t have a very traditional background, I have always been fascinated with what makes somebody reach their full potential,” Coleman told Lifewire in a phone interview....

[HTML1] Acting in the video game medium is a funny ol’ thing. Performances are usually a collaboration between voice actors, motion capture actors and animators, so it is hard to pin point exactly where one starts and the other one ends. Names including Jennifer Hale, Nolan North, Mark Meer and Troy Baker have become synonymous with the medium, and even then, the majority of their voice work isn’t coupled with their own physical performance....

Players male and female alike, from adults to young children, dribble between cones, curl in long-range free-kicks and even perform tricks with tennis balls. Where Dembele fits into Pep’s revolution Soccer Assassins is not just for show, though; it is Gildea’s popular coaching school and the Facebook and Instagram pages are his means of spreading his gospel and attracting new clients, rather than an end in themselves. That gospel has an ever-increasing group of followers - both real-life and online - seeking an education they do not receive anywhere else....

Rosemary Grant, 32, who runs the social media account @ghostlyarchive, has a master’s degree in library science and an enthusiasm for cemeteries, specifically those with recipes that people have put on tombstones. These recipes have made Grant a viral celebrity. The woman, who comes from Washington, D.C., said it was more common than people realized, telling Zenger News: “I interned at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C., and was working in their archives when I first heard about them....

We didn’t see enough soccer to hate what we saw. It hardly ever was on television, and almost no one’s high school sponsored the sport. We hated it because everyone else said they hated it. We played baseball, watched football on TV and hated soccer. It was the American way. PHOTOS: Players’ fancy World Cup digs | Tournament field | See the Brazuca We knew who Pele was, and he seemed pretty amazing....