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The course was conducted by Scott O’Donell, AIFF Technical Director Academies and Director of Coach Education. The course enables the instructors to conduct AIFF grassroots courses across the State in association with the State FAs for future grassroots leaders in Maharashtra. WIFA and AIFF have developed a strategic plan for grassroots football in line with the AIFF grassroots strategic plan which aims to create more grassroots leaders, promoting the AIFF grassroots philosophy and giving as many children (6-12 years) as possible, an opportunity to play the ‘Beautiful Game‘....

Despite beginning their qualification campaign with a defeat to Cameroon, Herve Renard’s men bounced back with victories over Malawi and Comoros to recapture their form. Although they were held to consecutive draws by third-placed Malawi and bottom-placed Comoros in the reverse fixtures, Morocco sealed first place with a resounding win over Cameroon in their final game. The Atlas Lions were knocked out in the group stages of the FIFA World Cup in Russia last summer, but played an attractive brand of football, earning a commendable point against Spain and narrowly losing out to Portugal and Iran....

Monday night, the Blue Devils played in a game against Tennessee State most notable for the return to activity of center Harry Giles, rated by many as the No. 1 prospect in the 2016 recruiting class, from a knee injury that ended his high school career and a minor surgery that delayed the start of his freshman season at Duke. However, Tennessee State’s exceptional defense forced Duke to work hard for every point....

“I can’t breathe” resonates here, as on countless occasions half a dozen soldiers have pinned me down, grinding my face into the concrete, and it was all I could say. What the officers did to George Floyd has shocked the conscience of America, but it is painfully familiar to me. The U.S. has become desensitized to state violence, provided it happens out of sight and is done to brown-skinned people....

Harriot, a senior writer for The Root, took issue with the assertion Buttigieg made during his mayoral campaign in 2011 that many minority children have not seen the payoff from education. “Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them,” Buttigieg said. “You’re motivated because you believe that at the end of your education, there is a reward; there’s a stable life; there’s a job. And there are a lot of kids—especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods, who literally just haven’t seen it work....

“This is a very serious health problem. Nobody is trying to minimize that,” Azar said in an interview with Fox News. “It is a very serious public health threat to the people of the United States, and that’s why President Trump from day one has been aggressive with a whole of government approach and will continue to do so,” he insisted. Then, just a few minutes later, Trump weighed in with a tweet, suggesting inaccurately that coronavirus (or COVID-19) is less of a threat than the common flu....

Between November 6, 2012, when Obama was elected to a second term as U.S. president, and January 25 , 2013—six weeks after the attack on a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people dead—an estimated 36,142 more handguns than expected were bought in the state. That amounts to a rise of 55 percent, according to a study published the journal Injury Epidemiology. The purchases were linked to a 4 percent increase in injuries—approximately 290—in the following year throughout the whole of California, the authors believe....

Ranking GOP committee member Rep. James Comer (Ky.) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (Wisc.), the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on National Security, expressed concerns that Ghani may have “embezzled from accounts funded by U.S. taxpayer funds” in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday. “The United States must do everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled by President Ghani,” Comer and Grothman wrote....

Dhoni’s batting has been criticised by cricketing experts for the past few years, as the 37-year old has not been able to perform consistently. In this Asia Cup as well, he was not able to convert the chances given to him with the bat, although his performance behind the stumps with the gloves was quite impressive as usual. With the World Cup approaching in just a few months from now, there is not much time left for him to regain his form, and the management has to take a bold decision....

Relics are items that can be lifted by heroes and stored in temples in the game to give a player an advantage of some kind for the rest of the game. While many relics aren’t that helpful, some can make a huge difference to resources or unit stats, and if players happen across one they’re better off bringing it back to their base if they can. Arrows Of The Alfar Especially for defensive players, the Arrows of the Alfar can be a huge bonus....

Toyota is developing a system called Guardian that uses a dashboard camera to check to see if a driver falls asleep. It’s part of a growing movement to increase automation in vehicles, but some experts say we’re a long way off from cars that are safe enough to fully drive themselves. “I’ve been a bit of a skeptic of full automation in terms of the timelines,” MIT professor John Leonard, who is working on Guardian, said at a recent MIT Mobility Forum, according to the news release....

The enduring popularity of Tetris, as well as its status as a retro game with a simple, easy-to-understand gameplay loop, has made it into the perfect avenue for players to showcase their talents by recreating Tetris in other games such as Minecraft or – in this case – for programmers to develop an AI that plays through the game with increasingly better efficiency. More often than not, this efficiency far exceeds that of a normal human player – allowing players, programmers, and other interested parties a completely different glimpse into their favorite games of old....

Walmart is releasing an app that uses AI to let you try on clothes at home. It’s part of a growing effort to use computers to take the guesswork out of online apparel shopping. “While the virtual try-on trend has been growing in fashion for some years, rudimentary solutions allowed customers to see very roughly how a garment would look on their body, but not how it would fit,” Vadim Rogovskiy, CEO of 3DLOOK, a company which produces virtual try-on software, said in an email interview....

Heading into the 2022 NFL Combine, Hutchinson and Thibodeaux have built-in strong cases. Where Thibodeaux was thought to be a no-brainer first overall pick at the beginning of last college football season, Hutchinson has cast aspersions on that notion. Todd McShay has said teams have concerns about Thibodeaux’s “motor,” concerns that they certainly don’t share with regard to Hutchinson, who built an entire brand at Michigan behind his undeniable will to win (and the stats to back it up)....

Both Aimar and coach Lionel Scaloni had dropped into the Indian camp to have a chat with the Indian players. “We would be happy and would like to play other Indian age groups teams as well. The U-20 Indian National Team players played well with lot of passion and the players ran a lot during the matches,” Aimar, regarded by many as one of the most elegant Argentine players after Diego Maradona, said....

Despite their pretty atop Group-F, Cameroon have been far from their best and Clarence Seedorf has demanded more from his team as they look to defend their crown. Key Match Facts Benin have not won a single AFCON game in their history. Cameroon are unbeaten in their last 8 games at the AFCON. (D4 L4) Both teams are unbeaten in the tournament so far. Cameroon have 5 shutouts in their last 6 AFCON games....

The Hagia Sophia served as the seat of the ecumenical patriarchate for the world’s Orthodox Christians for almost a millennium, until Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II converted it into a mosque following his conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The cathedral’s conversion then was meant to send a clear message that Christians were to be treated as subservient to their Muslim overlords, and—be sure—that is exactly Erdogan’s message, now. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, knew well the symbolism of the Ottoman practice of converting churches following conquest....

And that is by design. More from DRF: All your racing needs | All-access Belmont package | Real-time updates Stung by well-founded criticism that the track botched last year’s Belmont Stakes, including a dangerous and chaotic scene outside the grandstand in the aftermath of California Chrome’s fourth-place finish in the race, Belmont Park will cap attendance for this year’s Belmont Stakes at 90,000. That is well below the official record of 120,139 for Smarty Jones’s Triple Crown attempt in 2004 (that figure, announced by Belmont, is not universally accepted in the sport due to per-capita wagering figures that were well below historical rates)....