OKLAHOMA CITY — The 2015 Championship Season for the ASA/USA Junior Olympic (JO) Program is coming to a close as over 1,200 teams will head to the ballpark this week on their journey to claiming a 2015 ASA/USA Softball National Championship the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)/USA Softball announced today. With over 40 JO National Championships taking…
Pureed pastry may not sound appetizing, but Sweden is preparing to road test such a ‘dish’ as part of a new 3D-printed food project which aims to make higher-quality mushed meals and improve elderly people’s nutrition. The number of adults who have trouble chewing or swallowing increases with age, resulting in a serious risk of…
Epic Games, known for developing the highly popular Fortnite, has received an “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau, though the rating might not be an accurate reflection of Epic’s customer service. The BBB allegedly granted the rating due to unanswered customer complaints, stating that 279 complaints have been filed against the business, but 247 have…
After several months of verbal sparring and rumor, the hotly anticipated debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson has been arranged, with the philosophers scheduled to go tete-a-tete later this year. Announcing the intellectual bout in a YouTube video on Thursday, the media-savvy Peterson said he would face off against the reclusive Slovenian Marxist in…
Anti-EU populists have triumphed in regional elections in the Netherlands, robbing the governing party of its senate majority in a vote held two days after a suspected terror attack in Utrecht. The Forum for Democracy supports “Nexit”, the Netherlands leaving the EU, and is virulently against immigration and anti-Islam. It is led by Thierry Baudet, 35,…
Kristi Lane Sinclair didn’t know what to expect when she set up her first meeting with members of the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre for a project she’d be working on. So to put her best foot forward, she brought coffee and muffins — only to realize that everyone she was meeting with was…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation launched the first-ever world rankings for softball, across both men’s and women’s disciplines. The newly implemented world ranking system tracks the performance of a country’s National Team in the Softball World Championships, including junior and top-tier levels, over a three-year period. The WBSC Softball Competitions Commission…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia later this year to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters, describing the strategic ties between Moscow and Beijing as exemplary. Relations between Russia and China have already become a model of cooperation between major world powers, Yi noted, expressing hope that the bilateral…
Major floods across much of Iran have left 19 people dead and more than 90 injured, blocking roads and triggering landslides with warnings of more heavy rain to come, emergency services said Monday. Such a widespread flood threat is unprecedented in arid Iran, which until 2018 was dealing with decades of drought. Seventeen people were…
People tend to get sick more often in the winter when the temperatures drop and it’s harder to avoid those indoor germs. But why do some people seem to get sick every few weeks, even if they’re eating healthy, exercising, and getting enough sleep? Here, experts break down what might be causing that reoccurring illness….