An early signing period creates challenges for football. It is difficult to fit another signing period around the football season. Signing prospects before coaches are fired and hired will increase the number of releases requested. An early signing period has to be early enough to have advantages over the first week of February, but not so early that it accelerates recruiting in football. To accomplish this requires placing the early signing period at a good spot on the calendar, moving the existing regular signing period and making some changes to the NLI itself....

The Lung Flute currently has clearance for both diagnostic use (because it aids in the collection of sputum samples) and therapeutic use (because it facilitates effective airway clearance). How It Works According to the manufacturer, when you blow vigorously through the mouthpiece of the Lung Flute, your breath moves the reed inside, which causes airway vibrations deep within the lungs. These vibrations subsequently help loosen your secretions, making them easier to cough up as they pool in the back of your throat....

Last week’s trip–which also included a stop at the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, tea with the queen at Buckingham Palace and a shopping spree along London’s Portobello Road–was more symbolic than substantive. Though Clinton continued nudging the parties along the route to peace, there was little solid progress. The new Assembly still faces collapse if three issues aren’t resolved: the nature and extent of reforms to the province’s police force, the pace of British military de-escalation along the Irish border and the question of how the IRA should dispose of its weapons....

Until Nov. 7, the streets of Chicago will be filled with Beatrice Sumlins in a show of organizational force unseen in presidential elections since the first Mayor Richard Daley helped clinch John Kennedy’s victory in the state in the desperately close 1960 campaign. This time the race is almost as tight, and Illinois may be just as critical to the Democrats: by some polls, Gore’s lead statewide is down to 2 percentage points....

The Trump International Hotel, located just a short distance from the White House, in Washington, D.C., was this year converted into a Waldorf Astoria after the Trump Organization agreed to sell the lease on the Old Post Office building to CGI Merchant Group for a reported $375 million. Trump opened the hotel in 2016 just a few weeks before he was elected president. During his time in the White House, the hotel was a focal point for Trump’s political world, used by diplomats, lobbyists, embassy staff and meetings for the former president and his family....

The franchise-tagged Saints superstar was locked up to a long-term deal, both Graham and the team announced on Tuesday morning. Both sides were facing a 3 p.m. CT deadline to hammer out a multi-year contract. Otherwise, Graham would have played through his one-year tender for 2014 at around $7 million. That number would have been around $12 million had Graham won his grievance to be designated as a wideout instead....

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that Putin had signed a decree for Chubais’ dismissal, according to Russian news agency Tass. Chubais’ dismissal came after he reportedly resigned from his post on Wednesday over his opposition to the Russia-Ukraine war. An anonymous source informed Bloomberg of his resignation and said he had already left Russia, with no plans to return. Chubais is the most high-profile Russian official to leave his post since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war over a month ago....

A Word on Circadian Rhythms There are multiple internal processes that are externally influenced by our environment. Earth has a 23 hour and 56-minute daily rotation that provides predictable patterns of light and temperature, food, and predator activity. Through adaptive evolution, these patterns influence the metabolism and behavior of nearly every organism on the planet, including humans. The term circadian describes the approximately 24-hour cycles that are generated independently of these external influences....

Charlie Company “Quick Reaction Force” (QRF) sets out to rescure the embattled Rangers, stopping at the airport to assemble a ground convoy. En route, QRF column in ambushed at the K-4 Circle. The lightly armed soldiers retreat to the airport under heavy grenade fire. U.S. commanders persuade gun-shy Pakistani and Malay officers, who have tanks and armored vehicles, to organize a rescue mission. After 4 1/2 hours of deliberations, 400 troops depart from New Port....

The campaign began before Weinberger was charged with a crime. The major players were Washington attorney Robert Bennett and William Clark, former Reagan national-security adviser and interior secretary. A fellow Californian and longtime friend of Weinberger’s, Clark was the campaign’s political strategist. Bennett’s legal team first tried to head off indictment last spring by contending that Weinberger, a behind-the-scenes opponent of the arms-for-hostages swap, was actually an American hero. At 75, in failing health and with an ailing wife, he made a poor prosecutorial target, Bennett argued....

Robert Lewandowski scored his third hat-trick of the season as Bayern remained five points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, with Arturo Vidal, David Alaba, Kingsley Coman (two) and Arjen Robben also getting on the scoresheet. And Ancelotti, who has now won 591 of his games as a head coach, acknowledged that even he was left astounded by the quality on show at the Allianz Arena. Tuchel always had faith in Auba...

A statement from the Ministry of Antiquities said the boy pharoah’s outer coffin was taken to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on July 12 for “restoration and preservation.” This is the first time authorities have carried out work on the coffin since it was discovered almost a century ago, in 1922. “Preliminary examination carried out on the outer coffin inside the tomb revealed that it was suffering from general weakness and it had also developed cracks in its gilded layers of plaster, especially those of the lid and base,” a statement from the Ministry said....

Saqqara is a vast ancient burial ground—located south of Cairo—that once served the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. An archaeological mission led by Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, uncovered the artifacts near the base of Saqqara’s Bastet Temple—which is dedicated to the worship of cats, AFP reported. Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany said the cache includes 75 wooden and bronze cat statues of different sizes; mummified cats inside wooden boxes decorated with hieroglyphics; and wooden statues of other creatures, including an apis bull, a mongoose, an ibis, a falcon and the Egyptian god Anubis in the form of an animal....

The findings challenge accepted wisdom that assumed migration at the north end of the continent mimicked that in the south. “We always assumed that what was happening in South America was true in North America. Now we need to revise that,” co-author Mark Hubbe, Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University, said in a statement. “We need to stop talking about the settlement of the Americas. We should talk about the settlement of North America and the settlement of South America as very different....

Come on, who are we kidding? This case was never meant to click along nice On Thursday Juror No. 2, a 25-year old African-American flight attendant, asked to speak to the judge. “I can’t take it anymore,” she told him, distraught-and apparently adept at recalling good movie lines. She then allegedly went on to complain that three white deputy sheriffs were causing problems, and issued an ultimatum: either remove them or she would walk....

The point is, extra points are too easy, and even Andersen, one of the game’s best-ever kickers, recognizes that. The NFL Competition Committee, according to NFL.com, is considering making the most predictable result in football a bit tricker. The idea being floated is to make the extra point 43 yards long, with the ball placed at the 25-yard line. It’s currently placed at the 2-yard line. Andersen told Sporting News that “they should do it in preseason and see what the responses are and how it affects the flow of the game and outcome of the games....

Johnson, a seven-time Pro Bowl selection, was reluctant this past offseason to remain in Houston, but apparently has had a change of heart. MORE: Snyder is ‘befuddled’ by RGIII’s performance | Clowney moved to IR “I don’t want to play for nobody else,” Johnson told the Houston Chronicle on Thursday. “I’ve been here for 12 years. It don’t think it would feel right (to be anywhere else).” Johnson, 33, hopes that his 15th season will be his last with the team that drafted him third overall in the 2003 draft....

The 24-year-old who joined ‎Tamer Tuna’s men from league rivals Karabukspor on January 16, made an instant impact on his league debut but could not rescue his new team from defeat. In the 14th minute, Fernandao headed the hosts in front. After the restart, Poko made his bow as a 58th-minute substitute for Tayfur Bingol, and immediately found the back of the net courtesy of an assist from Adis Jahovic....

Andrew Bradshaw, the 32-year-old mayor of Cambridge, is charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn, prosecutors announced on Monday. Bradshaw is accused of creating multiple accounts on Reddit and posting nude photos of a woman he was previously in a romantic relationship with, according to a news release from the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor. Bradshaw allegedly created the accounts using variations of the woman’s name and birthdate....

In less than 12 minutes inside the ring at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in the San Diego suburb of Indio, Cancio’s world changed instantly. He stopped Machado in the fourth round to become the WBA (regular) super featherweight champion. “After the fight, I was grabbing a beer with my coach and a group of guys came up to me wanting me to take pictures with them,” Cancio told Sporting News....