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MONACO (Reuters) - Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Almaz Ayana were crowned as the IAAF’s athletes of the year on Friday. Bolt completed his amazing Olympic “triple triple” of 100metres, 200metres and 4x100m relay golds at the Rio Games in August despite missing much of the season through injury and took the award for the sixth time. He clocked season’s bests of 9.81 and 19.78 to win the 100m and 200m in Rio and then anchored the Jamaican team to a world-leading 37....

Madrid became the first team to win back-to-back trophies in the tournament’s modern format with a commanding 4-1 win in Cardiff on Saturday. Allegri: Juventus will be back Juve were deservedly level at half-time after Mario Mandzukic’s wondergoal cancelled out Cristiano Ronaldo’s opener, but the Serie A champions produced a listless display after the break to allow Zinedine Zidane’s side to cruise to victory through further goals from Casemiro, Ronaldo and Marco Asensio....

“Julia Child,” by Laura Shapiro (Viking. $19.95). A slim, elegant account of Child’s journey from a file clerk on the verge of spinsterhood, to housewife, to French chef and beloved American cultural figure. Shapiro, a former NEWSWEEK staffer, writes in clear, fluid prose and doesn’t shy away from Child’s flaws and (only occasional) failures. “The Master Bedroom,” by Tessa Hadley (Henry Holt. $26). A Russian-lit professor comes home to Wales to care for her aging mother and winds up choosing between two suitors....

Thai ace Boonsak Ponsana claimed his second Singapore Open men’s singles title on Sunday after beating China’s Wang Zhengming in a hard-fought final. The 30-year-old, whose world ranking has fallen from fourth in November 2010 to 32nd, beat Wang 21-18, 21-19 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, in a boost for the Thai ahead of the London Olympics. Boonsak made a sluggish start and trailed former World Junior champion Wang 10-5 early on but he came back to win 10 of the next 12 points and claim the opening game in 25 minutes....

In the midst of all the exciting news to come out of BlizzCon 2013, including the announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion, a lead designer on Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls addressed the lack of offline play in the game. Rock, Paper, Shotgun asked designer Kevin Martens about the possible removal of the online requirement and Martens explained that it is not a change Blizzard is considering....

A massive Hearthstone patch was announced in October, which included the controversial decision to implement a seasonal reward track with select items behind a paywall. News that the infamous season pass system was creeping its way into Hearthstone rattled many fans, but Blizzard assured that “one of the goals of the new progression system is to give you more gold, more rewards, and more cosmetics for all player.” The reaction, however, was quite the opposite: players have expressed discontentment over the reduced gold, increased set size, and confusing store offerings....

A select group of fans on the Blizzard survey email list recently received a survey pertaining to Warcraft 3: Reforged. The survey’s questions were geared towards identifying what players like or dislike about Warcraft 3: Reforged, and what they would like to see change in the future. RELATED: Blizzard Fans Reminisce and Mourn as Chinese World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch Servers Close Indefinitely The survey also gauges player interest in a number of new features in Warcraft 3: Reforged....

The video, shared to Twitter on Wednesday evening, sees a group of people wearing Black Lives Matter apparel while taking part in a call-and-response that elicited cheers from surrounding protesters. “Show me what community looks like!” one protester shouts into a microphone, prompting a chorus of replies from others nearby. Music can be heard in the background of the brief recording, which surfaced online during a night of peaceful rallies that drew participation from New York City residents across multiple boroughs....

Perezhilton.com calls on ABC to fire “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Isaiah Washington in the continued fallout over his use of a homophobic slur. Lefty bloggers debate whether the liberal sector of the blogosphere constitutes a bona fide movement. See mydd.com, tmpcafe.com, atrios.blogspot.com and stevegilliard.blogspot.com for more. Can search-and-advertising giant Google be beat? Nope, says skrenta.com, arguing that competitors like Yahoo should join forces with their rival. title: “Blogwatch” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-23” author: “Maria Allen” What kind of man would make a comedy in which a plane slams into the World Trade Center?...

But the blood business costs China dearly. A cultural aversion to giving blood has fostered a seller’s market that all but guarantees disaster. Most donors are poor migrants struggling to make ends meet. Some sell sex as well as blood, and some are drug addicts. Even government clinics reuse the needles used to draw blood. And only a third of the nation’s blood supply is screened for HIV contamination. Now, finally, officials have begun acknowledging the crisis....

Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta found what is known as hyperviscosity is linked to COVID-19. In general, this can happen for a number of reasons, including a rise in components of blood plasma—such as red and white cells, platelets or proteins—or because red blood cells are misshapen. Reports of blood clots in COVID-19 patients are “increasingly prominent,” even in those who are given drugs to prevent them, said the authors of the research published in the journal The Lancet....

NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said he hopes the Galleri blood test will be a “gamechanger” for early cancer diagnosis, with the potential to save many lives. The blood test will be offered to 165,000 people in England from mid-2021, the vast majority of whom have no signs of the disease. NHS England hopes the test may prove particularly useful at detecting early signs of cancers that are hard to spot and so have worse survival rates, such as head and neck, ovarian, pancreatic, oesophageal, and some blood cancers....

This article provides a list of blood vessels that, when injured, cause a stroke. Blood Vessels of the Brain Carotid arteries: The carotid arteries are in the front of the neck and provide the majority of blood supply to the brain, particularly the front of the brain. Carotid arteries are in the neck, so they are more accessible than blood vessels in the brain itself. This allows doctors to evaluate the health of the carotid arteries using equipment such as Doppler ultrasound to see whether the carotid arteries are narrow or have large amounts of cholesterol build-up....

The Vin Diesel-led superhero action movie, based on a Valiant Comics series about a super-soldier revived by nanotech, first published in 1992, was released on March 13, 2020. On Thursday Tom Rothman, Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, announced Bloodshot will be releasing digitally for $19.99 on March 24 to try and recoup its potential losses according to entertainment news organizations like Deadline. RELATED: Friends Reunion Special Delayed Due to Coronavirus...

Originally crowdfunded back in May 2015 when the former lead of Castlevania Koji Igarshi left Konami to pursue game development on an independent level, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’s stretch goals at the time for the studio included ports for the game to both the Wii U and PlayStation Vita. Just last year, the team decided to surrender the attempt for a WiiU launch in return for bringing the game over to Nintendo’s newest console, the Switch....

Ninja Kiwi is still adding new maps regularly at different levels of difficulty, and while not every map is a winner, there are some completely unique and great maps that change the course of the gameplay entirely. 7 Candy Falls While there are a lot of levels based on various ideas and properties, the Willy Wonka-inspired level is surely the best homage in all of Bloons TD 6. Candy Falls is set on a pink track over a chocolate river which allows for plenty of buccaneers and monkey subs without taking up all the farming space potential....

Cheng’s line of argument won him an acquittal in a lower court in February (the high court is hearing similar but separate charges). But it’s rare if not unprecedented to hear the PLA accused in open court. Since Chinese President Jiang Zemin ordered the military to abandon its myriad business dealings in 1998, the PLA has by and large divested itself of retail businesses. When officers have been suspected of crooked activities, they have often been able to escape before being arrested: executives of 32 PLA-related companies–all of them officers with the rank of major-general or higher–have fled China since 1998....

Toronto announced during the game he was taken out as a precaution with hamstring tightness. The 37-year-old signed a one-year deal worth $5million before the season with the Blue Jays. So far this year he has been a bargain as he has batted .278 with three home runs in 92 at-bats. 0 votes

Bluesound Debuts Pulse Soundbar+ Bluesound is a brand that is consistent in delivering exceptionally high-quality audio. The latest in its line of audiophile quality devices is the Pulse Soundbar+, which it has just released. As you will have guessed by the name, the Pulse is a soundbar. But it is more than just that, as it comes with so many fantastic features. You’d be hard-pushed to find a soundbar that can match the Pulse Soundbar+....

Ahead of his 15th fight in UFC, Bobby Green spoke with Aaron Bronsteter of TSN MMA and talked about how ‘chaos’ has been a lifelong companion of his, both inside and outside the Octagon. Bobby Green: “Life is chaos for me” Bobby Green had his share of struggles, being in and out of foster homes for much of his life. His parents could not be there for him, as his mother had issues with drug addiction and his father was in prison for a large part of his childhood....