The Bosnian has been locked in talks with the Premier League outfit, with personal terms said to be holding up the finalisation of a switch to Stamford Bridge, while a deal for Giallorossi team-mate Emerson is looking close to completion. Di Francesco appears to be none the wiser regarding his club’s transfer business, however, with the Italian questioning the justification behind allowing a first-choice player to exit the club in January....

Self-Exam While there is no official screening test for oral cancer, many experts and professional groups, like the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, recommend periodic oral self-exams. Here are the steps you can take to perform a self-exam. Of course, if you detect anything suspicious, like an abnormal lump or sore that bleeds easily, be sure to call and make a prompt appointment with an ENT doctor. Step 1: Look into a mirror with a bright light and remove any dentures....

Clippard, who turns 31 this month, went 5-4 with a 2.92 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 64:31 K:BB ratio and 19 saves in 71 innings with the Athletics and Mets last season. He will receive a $4 million signing bonus, $4.1 million salary in 2016, and $4.15 million salary in 2017, Fox Sports reported. A two-time All-Star, Clippard owns a 2.50 ERA over the past three seasons but saw his walks rise and his strikeouts fall in 2015....

The news was announced by the BBC today, September 10. “She died peacefully early this morning. She was at home with her family who have asked for privacy at this difficult time,” her agent told the broadcaster. Born Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, the British actress was born in Doncaster in 1938. She rose to prominence playing Emma Peel in the espionage TV series The Avengers from 1965 to 1968 before going on to play a Bond girl in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969 alongside George Lazenby as 007....

Now, it would seem, some American military analysts think the same reasoning should apply to the whole Middle East. In June, retired lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters, an essayist and thriller writer, published a provocative column in the Armed Forces Journal—with an even more provocative map attached —and it has been cropping up in policy debates ever since like a bomb in a Three Stooges movie. Under the headline “Blood Borders,” Peters argued that “the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region’s comprehensive failure isn’t Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats....

At a rum-fueled lunch, Lodge and his high Brahmin wife, Emily, informed me that they had been influenced not by Harriman, who was at the time assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs, but by a young newspaper reporter named David Halberstam. When the Lodges arrived in Saigon in the early summer of ‘63, they suspected that all the diplomats and generals in the American embassy were either in denial or deceiving themselves and their masters in Washington....

But the despondency reflected in the comment can be applied more generally. The destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon comes at a delicate time in the evolution of the technologies of surveillance and privacy. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, our attitude toward these tools may well take a turn that has profound implications for the way individuals are monitored and tracked, for decades to come....

Known as the “Twitter files,” these threads have unveiled conversations that show security officials were in contact with the social media giant before its takeover by the company’s new CEO Elon Musk. Promoted by Musk, the conversations have been presented in chapters by a team of freelance journalists in an attempt to shine a light on the company’s decision-making, including the suppression of news stories and the suspension of public figures like Donald Trump....

However, some fans think that champion Mayweather actually knocked out the YouTuber at one point but held him up to continue the fight. One brief snippet from Sunday’s fight, which took place in Miami, is going viral on Twitter on Monday morning. It appears to show the 26-year-old unconscious after a hit from Mayweather. Sports account Foot Basket, tweeted the moment with the caption: “Floyd Mayweather actually knocked out Logan Paul, but held him up during the fight to carry it through 8 rounds....

Last week, Motherboard’s Jason Koebler revealed that tens of thousands of Americans received mailings of the mystery seeds in July, with documents obtained from states like North Carolina recording hundreds of reports. Documents from state agencies record a range from responses, with some people eating the mystery seeds, or planting them in their gardens, while others called 911. Plant labs in Utah and New Mexico identified a variety of shipped seeds, including amaranth, rose, mint, sweet potato, clovers, onion, cucumber, alfalfa, corn, hollyhock, spearmint and daisy seeds....

In the wake of Les Bleus’ defeat to Argentina on penalties, the former midfielder could not offer a definitive answer on his plans, with many expecting the 54-year-old to step down following the tournament. France great Zinedine Zidane has been waiting in the wings, having previously expressed a desire to take charge of the national team. However, the ex-Real Madrid coach will have to be patient a little longer: Deschamps has agreed a new contract with France that will run until the next World Cup in 2026....

This article describes the difference between the two terms and provides a few examples of each. Dose and Dosage Definitions The American Medical Association (AMA) Manual of Style is the definitive guide on medical writing and style. It assigns dose and dosage specific meanings. In other words, a dose is simply an amount of a medication you take at one specific time. The dosage is the dose, or amount of drug, plus when and how often to take it....

Learning more about their distinctive symptoms and underlying causes can help you better understand how chronic bronchitis and emphysema differ. Symptoms As both conditions affect the lungs, both chronic bronchitis and emphysema are marked by similar symptoms of shortness of breath and wheezing, but there are some differences, particularly in the late stages of the diseases. Symptoms Specific to Chronic Bronchitis Chronic bronchitis causes inflammation in the bronchioles of the lungs....

But it’s the 21st century. There’s got to be a better way to do dental impressions, right? The Traditional Impression Alternative Dental impressions are very common procedures used in dentistry, but if you are one of the many patients that absolutely can’t stand to have the traditional impression material (alginate) sit in your mouth, you will be glad to know that there is an alternative. Digital impression systems, such as the Lava Chairside Oral Scanner by 3M, Sirona’s CEREC, and the Cadent iTero system, take digital “impressions” of the teeth instead of the gooey impression material that’s long been used to obtain the final impression for a crown, bridge, or veneer....

On Saturday, Sooners quarterback Dillon Gabriel was hit in the head while sliding on a scramble to the left by linebacker Jamoi Hodge, and had to leave the game. Hodge was ejected from the game for targeting. Prior to his injury, Gabriel had completed 7-of-16 passes for 126 yards without any touchdowns or picks. He entered the contest with 1,089 passing yards with 11 touchdowns and no interceptions, while completing 66....

Which makes it ironic that Dion Waiters, who was added in a recent three-team trade, wanted to wear No. 13. Luckily for Waiters, the Thunder had the foresight to stop him from choosing the number. MORE: Waiters trade another attempt to replace Harden | Phil has NYK where he wants it | NBA Mock Draft Waiters — and nearly every wing acquired in the past three years — had been charged with replacing some portion of what Harden offered....

China’s most sacred institution–education–has fallen off its pedestal. The system is no longer immune to the kind of pervasive corruption that affects the rest of Chinese society. When Beijing instituted market-oriented school reforms in the mid-1990s, cutting subsidies and loosening state control, it aimed to increase competition, efficiency and educational opportunities. But inadvertently, it also opened the floodgates to corruption. From preschools to postgraduate programs, educators are fast becoming businessmen–and education itself is turning into a commodity whose value is cheapened in the process....

That was the Bush administration’s analysis of the world’s nervousness about going to war in Iraq. And what’s interesting is not just the sense of parental concern that lies behind it (“One day they’ll grow up and see just how dangerous the world is.”) It’s the driving sense of leadership–a duty to lead–that represents this president’s conviction politics. For the Bush White House, it’s an endless loop of self-justification: The more our allies are nervous, the greater the need for our leadership....

Yet as you pick up the newspapers or tune into cable news, there is no escaping the dismal facts of life on the ground. On Tuesday a car bomb detonated outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, just two days after a suicide bomber struck at the hotel headquarters of U.S. security officials, killing eight people. For the moment, the administration is blaming the media for this parallel universe. The negative picture of Iraq has been painted in the twisted minds of news executives and their liberal allies....