Aloisi’s two pre-seasons at the Queensland-based club have been marred by ownership uncertainty, delayed player and staff payments and various other hurdles in terms of player recruitment and preparing for an A-League campaign. With the South Australian’s contract expiring at the end of the 2016-17 season there had been some speculation he would be lured home to take over at Adelaide United should Guillermo Amor leave the Reds. But after Roar managing director Mark Kingsman told The Courier-Mail this week that Aloisi “will be with our club next year”, the 40-year-old coach confirmed on Thursday that staying in Brisbane is his preferred option....

Former Republic of Ireland international Keane has been heavily linked with a move to the A-League after leaving LA Galaxy, with Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory’s coaches both expressing interest in his signature. But Aloisi, who played alongside Keane at Coventry City, insists side will not be able to firm up any interest in the 36-year-old. “I said [last week] I hadn’t spoken to him,” he said on Friday at a press conference....

Alpha blockers work by keeping the hormone norepinephrine (noradrenaline) from tightening the muscles in the walls of smaller arteries and veins. This allows vessels to remain open and relaxed to improve blood flow and lower blood pressure. Alpha blockers are also used to treat other illnesses, including: Enlarged Prostate (benign prostatic hypertrophy) Pheochromocytoma (a type of hormone-secreting tumor) Peripheral artery disease (poor circulation, usually in the legs) While other medicines are usually tried before considering alpha-blockers, for some patients they represent an important treatment option....

The MLS All-Star team was finalized with 13 players being added to the Fan XI released last week. Projecting FIFA 18’s player ratings Chicago Fire coach Veljko Paunovic - who will lead the All-Star team at Soldier Field on Aug. 2 - chose 11 reserves, while MLS commissioner Don Garber added two standout performers. U.S. national team forward Jozy Altidore, who will join Toronto FC teammate Sebastian Giovinco on the roster, and Mexico and LA Galaxy midfielder Giovani dos Santos were among Paunovic’s selections....

With 10 minutes to play in the opening period, the Spain international pulled up with a hamstring injury and had to come off the field. 17/2 for Newcastle & Liverpool to draw 0-0 Morata was replaced by Willian as Antonio Conte opted for the Brazilian ahead of back-up striker Michy Batshuayi, with Eden Hazard moving to centre-forward. The 24-year-old has been in red-hot form for Chelsea, scoring seven goals in seven appearances in all competitions this season after making a €62 million move move from Real Madrid in the summer....

Since then, many officials, from mayors through presidents, have done so, and recently the large Washington audience at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual Francis Boyer Lecture did so. Wilson, who has recently retired from UCLA, gave Washington, a proudly practical city, a demonstration of the unity of theory and practice. He offered a theory about why America is materially better off but spiritually worse off than it was not long ago....

It must have stung. After all, Katzenberg reinvented Disney, not only with animated wizardry but live-action winners like “Pretty Woman.” Now, while Hollywood celebrates a record-breaking summer with such blockbusters as Universal’s “Jurassic Park” and Warner Bros.’s “The Fugitive” (generating $326 million and $166 million at the box office, respectively), Disney has fallen off the charts. its biggest moneymaker in 1993 so far has been the year-old “Aladdin.” Farther from home, the huge Euro Disney park outside Paris is hemorrhaging money....

HANTA VIRUS: Spring cleaning might bring on this sometimes deadly disease, which was found in just four states in 1998 and has now spread to 26. Some of the 28 cases confirmed in 1995, and the 20-plus expected to be confirmed for 1996, have been linked with people cleaning up mouse messes left in their attics and summer cabins. PLAGUE: Yes, new buds mean the Black Death is among us, especially in New Mexico, where about 80 percent of these rare outbreaks occur....

It’s got all the elements for a major publishing event: great drama and ground-breaking historical significance. Sound too good to be true? Yes, say some scholars. The circumstances surrounding Jacob’s manuscript are questionable. The translator, David Selbourne, a former political-philosophy professor at Ruskin College in England, says he got access to Jacob’s manuscript on two conditions: that he keep the identity of the owner a secret and that he keep the original from anyone else....

This was not Kissinger’s secret trip to China, but it appears to be the first attempt by corporate executives to open a diplomatic back channel to Beijing. NEWSWEEK interviewed company executives and diplomats and reviewed their correspondence, reconstructing a quixotic odyssey that shows the intensely personal pressure on American executives to be “good corporate citizens” in China. Now, after 13 months of phone calls, letters and “bizarre” meetings with Chinese diplomats, the CEOs despair of seeing Jiang, and don’t even know if he’s seen their missive....

My Five Most Important Books “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. It helped me structure my novel “Waiting,” opening it to both the city and the countryside. “The House of the Dead” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A fictionalized memoir, it taught me how to describe prison life in my novel “War Trash.” “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabokov. It showed me how the distortion and misuse of English could create a style that reflects the struggle of immigrants....

My five most important books An Important Book you haven’t read: There are lots of those. Many books are easier to praise than they are to read. James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” is one of those. The book I’d most want my kids to read: “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” by Max Weber. He wrote about status groups. I don’t really expect my kids to read it, but I wish they would....

For example, primary care physicians, the general doctors who see patients for a range of care and check-ups, tend to make less than specialists who work in a particular field, according to a 2020 report from the Medical Group Management Association. If you are considering a physician career, and if money is a key factor in your decision, these top-paying medical specialties may be of interest to you. This article lists the 10 highest paid physician careers based on a 2020 compensation report from the medical network Doximity, which is based on data reported by 44,000 physicians from 2019 and 2020....

But it never happened. Instead, the world looked on dumbfounded as—in Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s immortal phrase—the “rainbow nation” was born. Recently, South Africans across the country’s nine provinces and all over the world watched as the rainbow seemed to evaporate like the myth that the cynics and the skeptics have always claimed it was. Thousands of people descended on shopping centers, making off with everything from essential foodstuffs to luxury items....

The Impulse walkout was the latest in a string of nightmarish episodes involving Russia’s decaying arsenal. More than ever, the nuclear priesthood in the West has concerns about just how much control Russia has over its nuclear weapons. Since 1991, intelligence agencies say, there have been several serious attempts to smuggle small amounts of plutonium out of the former Soviet Union. In 1995 the Russian strategic command believed for about 15 minutes that the test launch of an atmospheric-research rocket from the coast of Norway was a pre-emptive nuclear strike-and alerted Boris Yeltsin that he might have to authorize a counterstrike....

He appeared to sense that the remark would belong to a world that, before last week, many Americans hoped was long gone, or, if not gone, certainly not the one inhabited by the majority leader of the United States Senate. To the former Ole Miss cheerleader accustomed to the hyperbolic flattery and clubbiness of the Senate, his words at Strom Thurmond’s 100th-birthday party may have seemed just another tip of the hat to the old man....

Now science has validated what parents have long known: children’s food preferences are largely in their head (and I don’t mean just their taste buds). When researchers at Stanford University gave 63 3- to 5-year-olds McNuggets from a McDonald’s bag or in McDonald’s wrapping, and identical McNuggets from unmarked paper packaging, the kids said the samples–identical, remember—tasted different, and they preferred ones in the McDonald’s wrapping by a wide margin....

For now, anyway. Barghouti is on trial for directing the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and having a hand in the killing of at least 26 Israelis. In court last week, he continued to challenge Israel’s authority to try him, declaring that “no Palestinian can get justice from Israeli judges.” But while Barghouti, 44, is the biggest fish Israel has netted in nearly three years of fighting, the government is coming under increasing pressure to free him....

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OPRAH: Right. So, what we have become is a nation of idolatry worshipers. MS. WILLIAMSON: Yes, because when you think that– OPRAH: Would you all agree with that? Well, never mind. The important thing was that Oprah Winfrey just loved Marianne Williamson’s book, “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles.” Loved it so much, in fact, she gave it a grand Oprah-size plug on her syndicated talk show last month, announcing she’d personally bought 1,000 copies for distribution to the spiritually needy....