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Armando Salguero: Difference between building and perpetually rebuilding. And which the Dolphins do.
Talent acquisition is typically an ever-changing exercise because different NFL offseasons present both different problems and opportunities. Except the Miami Dolphins too often make this exercise a run on the treadmill ... ...Covering the same ground offseason after offseason. Dolphins fans should be familiar with this. They’ve seen it. And chances are good they’ll continue to see it this offseason. Consider that last year the team was supposed to have solved its quarterback problem by drafting Tua Tagovailoa in the first round. We got our quarterback. We’re done. Except if the Houston Texans...
Miami Herald
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Mike Bianchi: Dear Tiger: We miss you at The Arnie
ORLANDO, Fla. — I took a temporary detour on my drive to Bay Hill on Thursday for the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Instead of taking a left down Apopka-Vineland, I stayed straight on Conroy-Windermere and went a mile up the road so I could drive by the gilded gates of Isleworth. You see, whenever I drive by Isleworth, it always reminds me of Tiger Woods. It always reminds me of nearly two decades ago when I first moved to Orlando and I’d drive by those iron gates and my two young daughters would giddily start yelling, “That’s where Tiger lives! That’s where Tiger lives! Daddy...
Orlando Sentinel
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Rory McIlroy grabs early lead in quest for 2nd Arnold Palmer title; DeChambeau a shot back
ORLANDO, Fla. — Rory McIlroy watched Tiger Woods make mincemeat of the par 5s at Bay Hill on his way to a record eight wins at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. To capture his second API in four years and end a 16-month stretch without a victory, McIlroy aims to ride the momentum of a masterful opening round by following Woods’ winning formula. “The way he played this course was, he played it very conservatively, he took care of the par 5s,” McIlroy said. “That was usually good enough to get the job done. So, sort of take a little bit of a leaf out of his book.” McIlroy went off script during Th...
Orlando Sentinel
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Californians should wear 2 masks when going out in public, Newsom says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New state health guidelines announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday recommend that Californians wear two cloth masks or one filtered mask when going out in public to prevent the spread of COVID-19. That’s a more rigorous safety precaution than the Newsom administration announced in June when it handed down a statewide order directing people to wear face coverings in indoor public settings. “We are encouraging people basically to double down on mask wearing, particularly in light of all what I would argue is bad information coming from at least four states in this countr...
The Sacramento Bee
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Disciplinary histories of 83,000 NYPD cops made public online after court battle
NEW YORK — Disciplinary records for more than 83,000 active and retired cops were posted online by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Thursday — with thousands more set to be made public soon by the New York Police Department. The records, going back to Jan. 1, 2000, have long been shrouded in of secrecy, which critics say provided cover for misbehaving cops and department brass who too often looked the other way or let them off with a slap on the wrist. Their release was several years in the making, with police unions fighting to prevent information covered by Section 50-a, the law that s...
New York Daily News
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Susan Tompor: Social Security scammers now text pictures of phony badges
So you just got a text from Social Security and the guy even tried to reassure you that he's the real deal by texting you a picture of his badge. Should you feel that things are on the up-and-up and respond? The scammers who are out to steal your Social Security number and your money now have a new game going. They're not just spoofing phone numbers out of Washington. They're now impersonating someone from Social Security by sending photos of government badges. The crooks have created fake versions of ID badges that many federal employees use to gain access to federal buildings. "The scammers ...
Detroit Free Press
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COVID-19 death rate 10 times higher in countries where majority of adults are overweight, new report says
The death rate from COVID-19 is much higher in countries where the majority of adults are overweight, according to a new report. The World Obesity Forum determined that, by the end of 2020, the mortality rate from the coronavirus was about 10 times greater in countries where more than 50% of the adult population is overweight compared with nations where less than half of adult residents met that criteria, the study released Wednesday shows. Included in the study was data from more than 160 countries, researchers said. “As we show in this report, increased bodyweight is the second greatest pred...
New York Daily News
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‘QAnon Shaman’ says he stormed Capitol to ‘bring God back into the Senate’
The man known as the “QAnon Shaman” said he was only trying to spread good vibes and the word of God when he broke into the Capitol — and even stopped a brazen thief from swiping muffins from the break room. Jacob Chansley, 33, who made national headlines for donning horns, face paint and a fur hat during the Jan. 6 riot, said in his first interview from jail that he was hoping to “bring divinity, and to bring God back into the Senate.” “I sang a song. And that’s a part of shamanism. It’s about creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber,” the Arizona man said in an interview that aired T...
New York Daily News
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Susan Tompor: Social Security scammers now text pictures of phony badges
So you just got a text from Social Security and the guy even tried to reassure you that he's the real deal by texting you a picture of his badge. Should you feel that things are on the up-and-up and respond? The scammers who are out to steal your Social Security number and your money now have a new game going. They're not just spoofing phone numbers out of Washington. They're now impersonating someone from Social Security by sending photos of government badges. The crooks have created fake versions of ID badges that many federal employees use to gain access to federal buildings. "The scammers ...
Detroit Free Press
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California’s ‘I-5 Strangler’ Roger Kibbe was strangled to death, coroner says
SACRAMENTO, Calif — The serial killer known as the I-5 Strangler was strangled to death in his cell early Sunday morning. On Wednesday, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office released the results of an autopsy on Roger Reece Kibbe, an 81-year-old convicted murderer from Citrus Heights who was serving consecutive life sentences for raping and strangling seven women across Northern California in the 1970s and ’80s. “A forensic autopsy was performed at the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. The cause of death was manual strangulation and the manner of death is homicide,” deputies said in Wednesday’s...
The Sacramento Bee
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