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| Top uncommitted prospect makes college choice at HoopHall Classic | SPRINGFIELD– V.J. Edgecombe, the top uncommitted college basketball prospect in the country, committed to Baylor at halftime of the Montverde Academy-Prolific Prep game on Sunday night at the HoopHall Classic.
Edgecombe is a consensus five-star recruit, ranked fifth in the class of 2024 by ESPN and sixth by 24/7. His final two schools were Baylor and Duke.
Edgecombe joins Hillcrest Prep small forward Jason Asemota and Montverde Academy point guard Robert Wright III in Baylor’s 2024 class.
A 6-foot-5 Bahamian combo guard with jump-out-of-the-gym athleticism, Edgecombe scored 14 points on 5-of-14 shooting with five rebounds, three assists, two blocks and a steal to earn player of the game honors in a Long Island Lutheran loss against Christopher Columbus on Saturday afternoon. He plays once more at the HoopHall Classic, against Arizona Compass Prep on Monday at 3 p.m. |
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| Mass. State Lottery winners: 2 $100K prizes won or claimed same day | Two $100,000 lottery prizes were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Friday.
One of the winning tickets was sold at Lanzilli’s Fuel on Bennington Street in East Boston. The $100,000 prize was won during Friday’s night’s “Mass Cash” drawing, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery’s website. The winning numbers were 11, 12, 17, 30 and 31.
The other $100,000 prize was won from a “$100,000 Extra Play” scratch ticket bought for $2 at Mahant Border Bets & Butts in Attleboro.
In Mass Cash, the odds of winning $100,000, the top prize in the game, are one in 324,632. To play, participants must select five numbers between one and 35, either manually or randomly by using the lottery computer system. Each play costs $1. Drawings are done every day at 9 p.m.
In $100,000 Extra Play, the odds of winning $100,000, also the top prize in the game, are one in 2.016 million.
The winners of the $100,000 prizes were not the only lucky lottery players in Massachusetts this week. On Friday, the winner of the Mass Millionaire Holiday Raffle grand prize claimed his $1 million reward. On Thursday, there were five $100,000 prizes won or claimed, with four won during the daily Mass Cash drawing. On Wednesday, a $500,000 grand prize was claimed from a crossword-style scratch ticket game. On Tuesday, a player won a $25,000-a-year-for-life prize from the multi-state drawing game “Lucky for Life,” and on Monday, New Year’s Day, a player who went to a sandwich shop won a $100,000 prize.
Every day, the State Lottery posts online a list of all the winning lottery tickets worth at least $600 sold or claimed in Massachusetts. There were 849 total tickets worth at least $600 sold or claimed Friday, including 21 in Springfield, 26 in Worcester and 60 in Boston. |
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| Congress Must Act to Eliminate Hepatitis C - The New York Times | But nearly a decade later, at least 2.4 million Americans remain infected with hepatitis C. About two in five people with hepatitis C don’t even know that they have the virus. Of those who do, many do not have access to the cure. Congress has an opportunity to turn this ongoing human tragedy into a public health advancement, by providing support for a five-year project to eliminate hepatitis C in the United States. But the time available for approval is growing short.
Hepatitis C progresses slowly. Over years, the virus causes fibrosis of the liver that can result in cirrhosis, esophageal bleeding and liver failure requiring transplantation. Hepatitis C is also the leading cause of liver cancer, responsible for half of the 40,000 annual liver cancer cases in the United States. Each year, about 15,000 Americans die from hepatitis C, many in their 40s and 50s. Given the safe and effective cure available for the last nine years, the correct number of deaths in 2023 should be zero.
Put simply, we are squandering one of the most important medical advances of the 21st century. It’s time to eliminate this threat to the health of Americans.
It’s no secret what has gone wrong. The cost of curative medications remains stubbornly high, so many insurance companies and Medicaid programs have erected barriers to coverage, requiring, for instance, abstinence from drugs and alcohol before people can receive treatment, referral to a specialist, or that the patient already shows liver scarring. Relatively few doctors offer treatment, and many sites where people at risk come for care do not even offer testing, let alone the cure. The result is that fewer than one in three people diagnosed with active infection get timely treatment.
After stepping down as N.I.H. director in 2021, I was asked to serve as the acting science adviser to President Biden. I learned that many other countries — including the United Kingdom and Australia — have taken great strides toward hepatitis C elimination. Egypt is essentially there. Will the United States be last? That can’t be the right answer. So I was delighted when in March, President Biden came out in favor of a five-year program to put the United States on track to eliminate hepatitis C. |
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| Red Sox mailbag: When will the Red Sox start spending like they used to? | We’ve hit roughly the halfway point of the offseason, and with Winter Weekend and likely a few more moves still to come before spring training, now is as good a time as any to empty out the mailbag and answer your questions.
Today we’ll cover the Red Sox payroll, potential trade scenarios and how a couple of newcomers could factor into the big league equation.
When will the Red Sox start spending again like they used to? Or are those days over? — Ben I.
This is a question I hear from Red Sox fans a lot, and it’s especially worth addressing given the recent reports that ownership set a budget of $225 million last year and has been squirrelly about payroll this winter. Basically, what exactly would “spending again like they used to” actually look like, and what would constitute an acceptable payroll for this club?
Traditionally, the Red Sox have ranked in the top five for payroll throughout John Henry’s ownership, and according to year-by-year Associated Press data, the Red Sox ranked top five in 19 of the past 22 seasons. They ranked second to the Yankees in five out of six seasons between 2002-08, one of the most successful runs in team history, and boasted the No. 1 payroll in 2018-19.
But lately that’s begun to change. Since 2019, the Red Sox have been surpassed by numerous other teams, with the club dropping to sixth in 2022 and to 13th in 2023, by far the worst mark relative to the league in recent franchise history. According to Red Sox Payroll on Twitter, the club finished with a payroll of approximately $225 million this past year — meeting ownership’s reported mandate — and while that isn’t far off from the club’s biggest spending seasons, it still falls far short of the investments made by other organizations in recent years, notably the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers.
So if the Red Sox are going to spend like they used to, they need to pick up the pace.
In order to get back into the top five, the Red Sox will probably have to carry a payroll of at least $250 million. Even if that doesn’t approach the ludicrous spending we’ve seen from Steve Cohen and the Mets, it would at least put the club back on par with the Yankees, Dodgers and Phillies.
So, that’s it, right? Well, not quite. The other factor to consider is timing, and while going over the luxury tax threshold hasn’t deterred the other big clubs, there are valid baseball reasons why the Red Sox might want to stay below for one more year before pushing their chips to the center of the table.
Besides the luxury tax payments themselves, clubs that go over the luxury tax suffer draft pick penalties, most notably in terms of the compensatory picks they get when a high-profile free agent leaves. If a club is below the tax threshold, they’ll get a pick between the second and third rounds, while if they’re over it’ll drop to between the fourth and fifth.
The penalties get stiffer for each year a club is over the threshold, and if the difference of a few rounds doesn’t seem significant, remember that the Red Sox acquired top outfield prospect Roman Anthony with an early compensatory pick in 2022. Had they been over the tax he’d likely be playing for a different organization.
Given that this team is coming off two straight last place finishes and is probably still more than a year away from championship contention, it wouldn’t be outrageous for Red Sox ownership to want to hang below the tax threshold at least one more season. If that’s their goal, then they should approach the $237 million tax threshold — maybe leave a small buffer for midseason acquisitions — and ready themselves for a big push starting in 2025.
But if this season’s payroll comes out to $225 million again — or worse, even lower — then red flags should go up all across New England and the team will have some explaining to do.
What implications does potentially moving on from Kenley Jansen have on the bullpen? Who would replace him? — Justin Z.
So this question comes amid reports that the Red Sox might be looking to slash payroll before targeting some of the remaining free agents more aggressively, and Kenley Jansen is someone who has been floated as a possible trade chip to help accomplish that.
Personally, I think that’d be a bad idea and would be completely self-defeating, but let’s say they do deal Jansen and unload his $16 million remaining salary. What then?
The Red Sox have a couple of internal options who could slot into the closer role. The top candidate would seemingly be Chris Martin, who just put together one of the best seasons by a reliever in team history after posting a 1.05 ERA over 55 appearances. He occasionally held down the fort in the ninth inning when Jansen wasn’t available, but he also has only 12 career saves, so it might be better not to mess with a good thing and leave him to dominate the eighth.
If not Martin, the Red Sox could also turn the closer job over to Tanner Houck or Garrett Whitlock, both of whom have held the role in the past. Houck earned eight saves during the summer of 2022, including six in a two-week span in June, before injuries derailed his season. Whitlock unofficially became the guy late in 2021, though he still typically threw two innings at a time rather than follow the traditional save-situation blueprint.
The Red Sox could also add from outside the organization, perhaps signing free agent closer Jordan Hicks, but hopefully this entire conversation proves moot. Jansen is one of the best closers in baseball history and the Red Sox would be better off with him locking things down at the end of games rather than trying to outsmart themselves to save a few bucks.
Who in the minors is absolutely untouchable in trade talks? — Paul Z.
Nobody.
Seriously, at this point in the Red Sox competitive cycle, the club shouldn’t hesitate to do whatever it takes to improve the big league roster. And while I’m not advocating that Craig Breslow gut the farm system, the organization has amassed enough young talent that the Red Sox shouldn’t shy away from a bold move if the right guy is on the table.
Look at the infield. Right now the Red Sox have Rafael Devers, Trevor Story, Vaughn Grissom and Triston Casas under team control for the next four years and beyond. Perhaps Marcelo Mayer could push his way into that group as well, but even if he does that still leaves standouts like Nick Yorke, Chase Meidroth, Blaze Jordan and Mikey Romero with their paths potentially blocked.
The same is true for the outfield. Masataka Yoshida will probably be around for four more years and the club could still add another big bat, which would potentially leave only one spot for Jarren Duran, Ceddanne Rafaela, Wilyer Abreu, Roman Anthony and Miguel Bleis.
Even if all of those players blossom into stars — they won’t — there just isn’t going to be enough room for everyone.
If there is anyone who’s probably the least likely to go, it’s probably Brayan Bello and Kyle Teel. Bello because he represents exactly the type of young pitcher the organization is trying to add more of, and Teel because he’s a one-of-one within the Red Sox system who could potentially be catching in the majors by the end of this season.
But as for the others, why not pick two, three or four and maximize their value now? That way you can strengthen the club while still leaving enough talent to build with later.
Where does Tyler O’Neill fit into the Red Sox plans this season? — Ed H.
It’s difficult to say without knowing how the outfield is going to ultimately shake out, but assuming nothing changes I think it’s safe to say we’ll see O’Neill playing a lot in left field.
As of this writing Boston’s best lineup would likely have Yoshida primarily at designated hitter, O’Neill in left field, Jarren Duran in center and Wilyer Abreu in right. If the Red Sox were to sign Teoscar Hernandez then he might bump Abreu from right field, but in either case O’Neill would still see regular time.
Two of O’Neill’s most valuable qualities are his defense — he won both of his Gold Gloves while exclusively playing left field for St. Louis — and his bat against lefties. He has a career .816 OPS against lefties compared to .765 against righties, so it’s a safe bet that whenever the Red Sox face a lefty we’ll probably see a lot of lineups that include both him and Rob Refsnyder. And if there’s ever a righty who is particularly weak against lefties, maybe that’s when O’Neill will sit and the Red Sox will load up on lefties with Yoshida, Duran and Abreu in the outfield.
Again, a lot could change here, but I’d bet O’Neill will play just about every day.
Bryan Mata either makes the 26-man roster or he’s gone. What do you foresee? — Josh B.
I think Mata is probably going to get traded. It’s really hard to see how he’ll crack the opening day bullpen given all the other arms vying for spots, and with Justin Slaten also needing to make the roster, the Red Sox will probably need to prioritize the guys they can stash in Triple-A.
That’s why they cut Mauricio Llovera loose, but I also think Mata has enough value that he could be included as part of a larger deal.
Mata has the kind of stuff you can’t teach, and a guy who can throw 100 mph gas out of the bullpen is something that will be of interest to a lot of clubs. The trouble is his command has been terrible and his extensive run of injuries has hampered his development to the point where he’s now out of options and essentially has to make the team or be designated for assignment.
If Breslow eventually swings a deal for a starting pitcher or another outfielder, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Mata were included as the second or third prospect to sweeten the pot. If not, I suppose he’ll go into spring training and compete for a spot like everyone else. Maybe the club’s new pitching infrastructure could help unlock his potential and turn him into a late-game weapon, but personally I have my doubts and wouldn’t get my hopes up about seeing him pitch for the Red Sox, this year or maybe ever. |
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| More Hostages Were Released From Gaza | Gao Zhibin and his daughter left Beijing on Feb. 24 for a better life, a safer one. Over the next 35 days, by airplane, train, boat, bus and foot, they traveled through nine countries. By the time they touched American soil in late March, Mr. Gao had lost 30 pounds.
The most harrowing part of their journey was trekking through the brutal jungle in Panama known as the Darién Gap. On the first day, said Mr. Gao, 39, he had sunstroke. The second day, his feet swelled. Dehydrated and weakened, he threw away his tent, a moisture-resistant sleeping pad and his change of clothes.
Then his 13-year-old daughter got sick. She lay on the ground, vomiting, with her face pale, her forehead feverish, her hands on her stomach. Mr. Gao said he thought she might have drunk dirty water. Dragging themselves through the muddy, treacherous rainforests of the Darién Gap, they took a break every 10 minutes. They didn’t get to their destination, a camp site in Panama, until 9 p.m.
Mr. Gao said he felt he had no choice but to leave China.
“I think we will only be safe by coming to the U.S.,” he said, adding that he believed that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, could lead the country to famine and possibly war. “It’s a rare opportunity to protect me and my family,” he said. |
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| Thanksgiving Travel Days Expected to Be Busiest in Nearly 20 Years | More holiday travelers will pack airports and highways this Thanksgiving as a drop in airfare and gas prices stokes the nation’s busiest travel time of the year.
Even as travel demand holds strong, a severe weather forecast threatens to cause flight delays and traffic jams across swaths of the country. Transportation experts are urging people to be patient and to expect delays.
“For many Americans, Thanksgiving and travel go hand in hand, and this holiday, we expect more people on the roads, skies and seas compared to 2022,” Paula Twidale, senior vice president of AAA Travel, said in a statement. “Travel demand has been strong all year.”
AAA, the automobile owners’ group that also tracks air travel, expects that 4.7 million people will fly between Wednesday and Sunday. That is an increase of 6.6 percent compared with last year, and the highest number of Thanksgiving air travelers in nearly two decades. |
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| Blacklisted on the West Bank, Basel Zayed has settled into his new musical home in Boston | Once courted to be a Palestinian Authority-sponsored pop star, Zayed found himself on what he calls a “very long blacklist.” In 2016, he and his family moved to Boston, where his wife is from. Zayed was surprised and delighted to discover that the region is full of musicians who are fellow masters of Middle Eastern music, and he’s started to collaborate with them in both traditional and Middle Eastern jazz contexts. His highest-profile Boston show to date is a sold-out Global Arts Live presentation at the Crystal Ballroom at the Somerville Theatre on Jan. 18 that will combine his own poetic songs with the virtuosity of the traditional improvisatory Arabic musical form maqam .
Ask Palestinian singer, songwriter, and oud player Basel Zayed what brought him to Boston, and he talks about an album he made in 2009. One song, “The IDF are Victorious,” was a critique of the Israeli military. When his producer was driving the new CDs from Israel to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where Zayed lived at the time, Zayed says an Israeli soldier saw the title and confiscated the CDs. Things were not any easier on the West Bank. Zayed attempted to play his song “Doleh (Statehood),” a sardonic jab at the Palestinian Authority, at a New Year’s festival at the end of 2011. He says authorities stopped him mid-song and gave him a choice: Stop singing or go to jail.
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The show was announced months before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the current war in the region. “I haven’t actually played any music since it started,” says Zayed, sitting in the Arlington office where he has a psychotherapy practice.
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“Once or twice I actually took out my oud and tuned it a little bit, but mostly I’ve just been glued to the news, like every other Arab actually in the world,” he says. “The saving grace has been opening this office and seeing patients, because it’s allowed me to focus and concentrate on clinical work.”
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Zayed grew up going between family in the Old City of Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was involved in singing and arranging church choral music as well as learning Arabic styles. “That division in social life provided me some diversity in the way I learned a lot of my musical skills,” he says. Zayed played piano until an uncle visiting from America brought him his first oud. His jazz influences took hold when he won a scholarship to study music therapy at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
As a teenager he played an event in support of famed Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife, who had been indicted on blasphemy charges for singing lyrics by the poet Mahmoud Darwish that invoked the story of Joseph as told in the Koran. Later Zayed would meet Khalife and the two would share a festival stage in Lebanon. “With that, all of these doors started opening,” recalls Zayed.
Last summer, Zayed played a few local club shows with a Middle Eastern jazz project he calls Radio Suba, named for a Palestinian village near Jerusalem that was depopulated in 1948. Zayed says the band imagines what a modern radio station would sound like if anyone still lived there. Some of the Radio Suba material will be performed at Thursday’s concert. Joining Zayed will be musicians who are part of the rich Boston-area Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music scene: percussionist Fabio Pirozzolo and bassist Tino D’Agostino, both of whom are from Italy, pianist Utar Artun and violinist Bengisu Gokce from Turkey, and fellow Palestinian Rami Abu Olaya playing ney and flute.
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Like so many of those personally impacted by the current war, Zayed alternates between silence, anger, and sorrow. Noting that he hasn’t posted about the war on social media, Zayed says, “This interview is my first statement. And my statement is: no statement. I just don’t know what to say. It’s hurtful and it’s painful.”
Later in the interview Zayed notes the long history of Jews, Christians, and Muslims living as neighbors in the Middle East. “And I think it’s time for there to be a peaceful transition, and a peaceful resolution to the situation. As a psychotherapist I know that when someone does something violent, you don’t take them down, you go and sit with them and try to understand what made this happen. What’s happening now is a massive act of collective punishment, and it just isn’t fair.”
Most of the music Zayed plans on playing consists of love songs and instrumentals that might be heard at a wedding, funeral, or graduation. He’s hoping to include, as a dedication to slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, his musical arrangement of “Absence,” a poem by Mahmoud Abu Hashhash “that doesn’t talk about violence, it talks about absence, and how people can disappear from our lives, and how hard it is to navigate fate and loss, especially when that loss is perpetrated by someone else.”
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Noah Schaffer can be reached at noahschaffer@yahoo.com.
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| Appeals court maintains most of Trump gag order in federal election subversion case | CNN —
An appeals court has largely upheld the gag order against former President Donald Trump in the federal election subversion case, saying he can be barred from talking about witnesses as well as prosecutors, the court staff and their family members.
But the court said the gag order does not apply to comments made about special counsel Jack Smith, a change from the original gag order.
Friday’s lengthy opinion came from all three judges who heard Trump’s appeal at the DC Circuit Court nearly two weeks ago, and was written by Judge Patricia Millett.
“Mr. Trump’s documented pattern of speech and its demonstrated real-time, real-world consequences pose a significant and imminent threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process in this case,” the appeals court wrote.
The court said that Trump’s campaign for the 2024 presidency “does not alter the court’s historical commitment or obligation to ensure the fair administration of justice in criminal cases.”
“We do not allow such an order lightly. Mr. Trump is a former President and current candidate for the presidency, and there is a strong public interest in what he has to say,” the court said. “But Mr. Trump is also an indicted criminal defendant, and he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants. That is what the rule of law means.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated. |
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| Drier but colder week ahead - Boston News, Weather, Sports | After yet another soggy Sunday, drier weather is back in the forecast this week, but not without chilly December air.
Temperatures starts seasonably mild on Monday, with a stiff breeze for the afternoon and a slim chance for a spot shower.
Conditions look pretty good for holiday decorating outdoors midweek with less wind in the forecast, but you’ll probably need the jacket, hats, and gloves. |
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| Von Miller turns himself in after arrest warrant issued (report) | \Von Miller turned himself into the Glenn Heights police in Texas on Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, according to WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez. The Bills star was booked into DeSoto regional jail and later released after posting his $5,000 bond.
According to WFAA, police responded to a “major disturbance” at Miller’s home in the Dallas are on Wednesday morning. Miller allegedly assaulted his pregnant girlfriend and left before police arrived. The outlet also noted that a “charge of assaulting a pregnant person is a third-degree felony in Texas.”
ESPN obtained that affidavit for Miller’s arrest warrant, which stated an argument between the couple started Wednesday morning over concerns about the victim’s travel plans. She left the room they were in and “slammed the door” to another room, upsetting Miller, who yelled at the victim to “get out”. The victim attempted to leave, but Miller “pushed and shoved her.” The affidavit also stated that Miller “applied pressure to her neck for three to five seconds” with one hand, but it didn’t impact the victim’s ability to breathe.
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The victim told Miller she was going to call the police after he stomped on her laptop and pulled her hair as she tried to grab it from the floor, per the affidavit. Miller grabbed the woman for a second time and pushed her on a couch used both hands to put pressure on her neck.
The woman was treated for minor injuries, per The Dallas Morning News, and did not go to the hospital.
Miller is in his second season with the Bills. The team confirmed they were aware of an incident involving linebacker, but didn’t go into any details.
“This morning, we were made aware of an incident involving Von Miller. We are in the process of gathering more information and will have no further comment at this point,” the Bills said in a statement.
The investigation is ongoing. |
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| 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured In Dorchester Rollover Crash: State Police | BOSTON, MA — Two people are dead and one more is seriously injured in a rollover crash in Dorchester overnight Thursday, Massachusetts State Police said in a statement shared on social media.
The crash occurred on Morrissey Boulevard shortly after 3 a.m., according to police. The two dead and one injured were all occupants of the car, as was a fourth person who sustained only minor injuries.
Morrissey Boulevard was shut down for several hours but has since reopened. |
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| Nikki Haley Ramps Up Her Case Against Trump in New Hampshire | Nikki Haley might have come in third in the Iowa caucuses, but as she campaigns in New Hampshire for its first-in-the-nation primary next week, her attention is squarely focused on only one rival: Donald J. Trump.
Ms. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Trump, has begun fine-tuning her argument against her former boss, trying out new jabs and unleashing a new attack ad right out of the gate. She has also stepped up her efforts to frame herself as Mr. Trump’s top rival, announcing that she would no longer participate in primary debates that don’t include him.
In recent remarks and in a new television ad, Ms. Haley paints Mr. Trump and President Biden as two sides of the same coin: politicians past their prime who are unable to put forth a vision for the country’s future because they are “consumed by the past, by investigations, by grievances.”
At a campaign rally on Wednesday in Rochester, N.H., she fended off Mr. Trump’s attacks on her immigration record, warned voters not to believe his ads against her and reminded them that it was Mr. Trump who had wanted to raise the age for Social Security eligibility and had once proposed increasing the gas tax. |
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| How Viral Infections Cause Long-Term Health Problems | Every day, Davida Wynn sets herself one task: Take a bath. Or wash the dishes. Or make an elaborate meal. By the end of the chore, she is exhausted and has to sit or lie down, sometimes falling asleep wherever she happens to be.
“Anything beyond that is truly excruciating,” Ms. Wynn, 42, said.
Her heart races even during small tasks, and she often gets dizzy. At least once a month, she falls at her home outside Atlanta. Once she badly bruised her face, and another time she banged up her knee.
Ms. Wynn was infected with the coronavirus in May 2020, when she was a nurse in a hospital Covid unit, and became so ill she was put into a medically induced coma for six weeks. Ever since, her bloodwork has indicated that she is experiencing extreme inflammation, a hallmark of autoimmune disease.
Infection with the coronavirus is known to leave behind a long legacy of health problems, many of which are characterized as long Covid. But mounting evidence suggests that independent of that syndrome, the coronavirus also befuddles the immune system into targeting the body, causing autoimmune disorders in some people. |
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| MLB: Boston Red Sox at Houston Astros | Weather Alert
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| See all homes sold in Suffolk County, Dec. 10 to Dec. 16 | The following is a listing of all home transfers in Suffolk County reported from Dec. 10 to Dec. 16. There were 179 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 1,506-square-foot home on Perkins Street in Jamaica Plain that sold for $725,000.
Allston
54 Brainerd Road, Allston, $325,000, 625 square feet, $520 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
233 Kelton Street, Allston, $460,000, 703 square feet, $654 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
165 Everett Street, Allston, $985,000, 1,798 square feet, $548 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Boston
56 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, $520,000, 330 square feet, $1,576 per square-foot, one bathroom.
82 Jersey Street, Boston, $550,000, 631 square feet, $872 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
11C Waltham Street, Boston, $570,000, 529 square feet, $1,078 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
105 Beacon Street, Boston, $587,000, 493 square feet, $1,191 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
174 Salem Street, Boston, $620,000, 625 square feet, $992 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
483 Beacon Street, Boston, $650,000, 480 square feet, $1,354 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
112 Pinckney Street, Boston, $675,000, 701 square feet, $963 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
351 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, $700,000, 675 square feet, $1,037 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
725 Harrison Ave., Boston, $785,000, 794 square feet, $989 per square-foot, one bathroom.
32 Temple Street, Boston, $849,000, 630 square feet, $1,348 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
474 Shawmut Ave., Boston, $935,000, 873 square feet, $1,071 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
350 North Street, Boston, $940,000, 927 square feet, $1,014 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
65 E. India Row, Boston, $940,000, 1,215 square feet, $774 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
110 Stuart Street, Boston, $970,000, 858 square feet, $1,131 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
350 North Street, Boston, $999,000, 927 square feet, $1,078 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
8 Whittier Place, Boston, $1,000,000, 1,413 square feet, $708 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
43 Upton Street, Boston, $1,055,000, 785 square feet, $1,344 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
1 Franklin Street, Boston, $1,100,000, 780 square feet, $1,410 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
29 Bay State Road, Boston, $1,200,000, 1,145 square feet, $1,048 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
350 North Street, Boston, $1,220,000, 1,174 square feet, $1,039 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
32 Traveler Street, Boston, $1,230,000, 1,247 square feet, $986 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
193 Saint Botolph Street, Boston, $1,250,000, 1,100 square feet, $1,136 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
32 Traveler Street, Boston, $1,250,000, 1,165 square feet, $1,073 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
40 Traveler Street, Boston, $1,250,000, 1,349 square feet, $927 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
110 Stuart Street, Boston, $1,265,000, 1,040 square feet, $1,216 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
257 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, $1,275,000, 1,425 square feet, $895 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
32 Fairfield Street, Boston, $1,335,000, 841 square feet, $1,587 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
104 Union Wharf, Boston, $1,380,000, 1,042 square feet, $1,324 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
44 Prince Street, Boston, $1,395,000, 1,009 square feet, $1,383 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
170 Tremont Street, Boston, $1,499,000, 1,430 square feet, $1,048 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
1 Charles Street, Boston, $1,520,000, 1,238 square feet, $1,228 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
201 Newbury Street, Boston, $1,730,000, 1,300 square feet, $1,331 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
406 Marlborough Street, Boston, $1,735,000, 1,461 square feet, $1,188 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
778 Boylston Street, Boston, $1,850,000, 1,474 square feet, $1,255 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
1 Charles Street, Boston, $1,850,000, 1,235 square feet, $1,498 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
165 Beacon Street, Boston, $1,850,000, 1,382 square feet, $1,339 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
18 Symphony Road, Boston, $1,935,000, 2,861 square feet, $676 per square-foot, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.
12 Durham Street, Boston, $1,950,000, 1,500 square feet, $1,300 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
31 Worcester Square, Boston, $2,100,000, 2,041 square feet, $1,029 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
280 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, $2,200,000, 1,106 square feet, $1,989 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
326 A Street, Boston, $2,250,000, 1,940 square feet, $1,160 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
195 Marlborough Street, Boston, $2,250,000, 1,404 square feet, $1,603 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
25 Fleet Street, Boston, $2,625,000.
28 Rutland Square, Boston, $2,830,000, 2,381 square feet, $1,189 per square-foot, two bedrooms and four bathrooms.
Brighton
22 Orkney Road, Brighton, $290,000, 490 square feet, $592 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
46 Chiswick Road, Brighton, $480,000, 493 square feet, $974 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
142 Bigelow Street, Brighton, $556,000, 1,180 square feet, $471 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
63 Parsons Street, Brighton, $615,000, 1,011 square feet, $608 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
12 Nonantum Street, Brighton, $1,000,000, 2,814 square feet, $355 per square-foot, six bedrooms and two bathrooms.
46 Lane Park, Brighton, $1,150,000, 2,074 square feet, $554 per square-foot, five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
136 Academy Hill Road, Brighton, $1,250,000, 3,248 square feet, $385 per square-foot, five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
275-277 Summit Ave., Brighton, $1,799,000, 3,510 square feet, $513 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
56-58 Murdock Street, Brighton, $2,320,000, 3,650 square feet, $636 per square-foot, eight bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Charlestown
42 Eighth Street, Charlestown, $534,900, 645 square feet, $829 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
45 First Ave., Charlestown, $550,000, 850 square feet, $647 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
3 Winthrop Street, Charlestown, $690,000, 659 square feet, $1,047 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
42 Eighth Street, Charlestown, $750,000, 1,290 square feet, $581 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
610 Rutherford Ave., Charlestown, $840,000, 1,209 square feet, $695 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
26 Concord Street, Charlestown, $1,900,000, 3,538 square feet, $537 per square-foot, nine bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Chelsea
932 Broadway, Chelsea, $344,900, 571 square feet, $604 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
932 Broadway, Chelsea, $355,900, 595 square feet, $598 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
175 Cottage Street, Chelsea, $420,000, 1,166 square feet, $360 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
30 Eleanor Street, Chelsea, $475,000, 867 square feet, $548 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
Chestnut Hill
232 Allandale Road, Chestnut Hill, $1,375,000, 2,661 square feet, $517 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Dorchester
24 Rowell Street, Dorchester, $465,000, 900 square feet, $517 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
19 Pond Street, Dorchester, $565,000, 1,020 square feet, $554 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
47 Harvest Street, Dorchester, $605,000, 930 square feet, $651 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
30 Norton Street, Dorchester, $615,000, 1,316 square feet, $467 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
604-606 Freeport Street, Dorchester, $690,000, 1,270 square feet, $543 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
173 Minot Street, Dorchester, $710,000, 1,136 square feet, $625 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
24-26 Saint Brendan Road, Dorchester, $850,000, 2,470 square feet, $344 per square-foot, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.
5 Wayland Street, Dorchester, $1,050,000, 1,992 square feet, $527 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
20 Pearl Street, Dorchester, $2,100,000, 6,142 square feet, $342 per square-foot, eight bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Dorchester Center
1111-1115 Blue Hill Ave., Dorchester Center, $324,466, 675 square feet, $481 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
88 Florida Street, Dorchester Center, $425,000, 1,000 square feet, $425 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
11 Clancy Road, Dorchester Center, $425,000, 1,372 square feet, $310 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
12-14 Branchfield Street, Dorchester Center, $499,000, 888 square feet, $562 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
41 Stockton Street, Dorchester Center, $610,000, 2,980 square feet, $205 per square-foot, five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
101 Floyd Street, Dorchester Center, $760,000, 3,212 square feet, $237 per square-foot, six bedrooms and two bathrooms.
147 Elmer Road, Dorchester Center, $800,000, 1,851 square feet, $432 per square-foot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
17 Wellesley Park, Dorchester Center, $863,000, 2,704 square feet, $319 per square-foot, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.
28 Ballou Ave., Dorchester Center, $1,040,000, 3,911 square feet, $266 per square-foot, eight bedrooms and three bathrooms.
East Boston
72 Lubec Street, East Boston, $495,000, 742 square feet, $667 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
189 Trenton Street, East Boston, $500,000, 770 square feet, $649 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
70 Lexington Street, East Boston, $550,000, 883 square feet, $623 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
869 Saratoga Street, East Boston, $570,000, 1,048 square feet, $544 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
2 White Street Place, East Boston, $590,000, 956 square feet, $617 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
226 Havre Street, East Boston, $689,000, 1,230 square feet, $560 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
44 Cottage Street, East Boston, $735,000, 1,802 square feet, $408 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
156 Porter Street, East Boston, $740,000, 985 square feet, $751 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
121 Havre Street, East Boston, $805,000, 3,576 square feet, $225 per square-foot, four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
296-296A Meridian Street, East Boston, $1,150,000, 2,686 square feet, $428 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Hyde Park
151 Washington Street, Hyde Park, $412,500, 1,129 square feet, $365 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
31 Hallron Street, Hyde Park, $495,000, 874 square feet, $566 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
74 Harvard Ave., Hyde Park, $560,000, 2,574 square feet, $218 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
148 Ruskindale Road, Hyde Park, $595,000, 1,794 square feet, $332 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
26 Lewiston Street, Hyde Park, $650,000, 1,281 square feet, $507 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
26 Massasoit Street, Hyde Park, $700,000, 1,932 square feet, $362 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
35 Brush Hill Terrace, Hyde Park, $725,000, 3,266 square feet, $222 per square-foot, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.
135 Milton Ave., Hyde Park, $810,500, 1,684 square feet, $481 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
1150 Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, $965,000, 2,092 square feet, $461 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Jamaica Plain
76 Elm Street, Jamaica Plain, $318,250, 905 square feet, $352 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
463 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, $407,000, 730 square feet, $558 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
72 Sheridan Street, Jamaica Plain, $445,000, 591 square feet, $753 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
39 Saint Joseph Street, Jamaica Plain, $460,000, 726 square feet, $634 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
15 Germania Street, Jamaica Plain, $520,000, 840 square feet, $619 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
301 Forest Hills Street, Jamaica Plain, $559,000, 980 square feet, $570 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
230 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, $580,000, 716 square feet, $810 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
127 Hyde Park Ave., Jamaica Plain, $630,000, 1,010 square feet, $624 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
21 Boynton Street, Jamaica Plain, $679,000, 947 square feet, $717 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
307 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain, $725,000, 1,506 square feet, $481 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
20 Paul Gore Street, Jamaica Plain, $725,000, 1,049 square feet, $691 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
36 Southbourne Road, Jamaica Plain, $725,000, 1,354 square feet, $535 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
70 Paul Gore Street, Jamaica Plain, $750,000, 1,280 square feet, $586 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
69 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, $930,000, 1,531 square feet, $607 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
9 Chilcott Place, Jamaica Plain, $1,230,000, 3,699 square feet, $333 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
19 Cheshire Street, Jamaica Plain, $1,595,000, 2,559 square feet, $623 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
23 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain, $2,900,000, 4,396 square feet, $660 per square-foot, three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
Mattapan
246 Itasca Street, Mattapan, $520,000, 936 square feet, $556 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
472 Norfolk Street, Mattapan, $670,000, 2,608 square feet, $257 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
586 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan, $695,000, 3,200 square feet, $217 per square-foot, six bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Revere
585 Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, $245,000, 401 square feet, $611 per square-foot, one bathroom.
60 Florence Ave., Revere, $549,000, 1,512 square feet, $363 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
314 Reservoir Ave., Revere, $550,000, 1,811 square feet, $304 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
260 Salem Street, Revere, $550,000, 1,752 square feet, $314 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
265 Fenno Street, Revere, $590,000, 1,386 square feet, $426 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
11 Franklin Ave., Revere, $670,000, 1,828 square feet, $367 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
776 Winthrop Ave., Revere, $700,000, 1,393 square feet, $503 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
75 Johnny Road, Revere, $780,000, 2,697 square feet, $289 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
19 Thorndike Street, Revere, $905,000, 2,184 square feet, $414 per square-foot, five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Roslindale
624 Hyde Park Ave., Roslindale, $245,000, 620 square feet, $395 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
391 Hyde Park Ave., Roslindale, $435,000, 1,166 square feet, $373 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
301 Poplar Street, Roslindale, $440,000, 861 square feet, $511 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
28 Fletcher Street, Roslindale, $455,000, 780 square feet, $583 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
562 Poplar Street, Roslindale, $543,000, 1,293 square feet, $420 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
30-32 Coniston Road, Roslindale, $625,000, 1,511 square feet, $414 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
44 Ramsdell Ave., Roslindale, $700,000, 1,509 square feet, $464 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
636 South Street, Roslindale, $775,000, 1,602 square feet, $484 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
847 South Street, Roslindale, $815,000, 1,724 square feet, $473 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
167 Poplar Street, Roslindale, $875,000, 2,102 square feet, $416 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
15 June Street, Roslindale, $876,000, 2,657 square feet, $330 per square-foot, three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
32 Haydn Street, Roslindale, $988,000, 3,001 square feet, $329 per square-foot, five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
43 Ainsworth Street, Roslindale, $1,208,000, 3,808 square feet, $317 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Roxbury
36 Moreland Street, Roxbury, $670,000, 3,807 square feet, $176 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
4 Montrose Street, Roxbury, $705,000, 2,519 square feet, $280 per square-foot, six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
South Boston
150 W. Broadway, South Boston, $278,949, 604 square feet, $462 per square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom.
159 W. Seventh Street, South Boston, $520,000, 1,036 square feet, $502 per square-foot, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
433 W. Fourth Street, South Boston, $660,000, 884 square feet, $747 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
360 W. Second Street, South Boston, $760,000, 1,087 square feet, $699 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
330 Dorchester Street, South Boston, $775,000, 1,047 square feet, $740 per square-foot, one bedroom and two bathrooms.
150 M Street, South Boston, $780,000, 869 square feet, $898 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
173 H Street, South Boston, $785,000, 1,039 square feet, $756 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
584 E. Fourth Street, South Boston, $870,000, 2,400 square feet, $363 per square-foot, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.
602R E. Third Street, South Boston, $1,165,000, 2,208 square feet, $528 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
327 K Street, South Boston, $1,310,000, 2,238 square feet, $585 per square-foot, six bedrooms and four bathrooms.
659 E. Fourth Street, South Boston, $1,375,000, 2,101 square feet, $654 per square-foot, five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
257 W. Third Street, South Boston, $1,575,000, 1,953 square feet, $806 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
West Roxbury
37 Hastings Street, West Roxbury, $574,000, 1,102 square feet, $521 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
16 Blueview Road, West Roxbury, $607,500, 1,726 square feet, $352 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
11 Stimson Street, West Roxbury, $630,000, 1,120 square feet, $563 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
50 Linnet Street, West Roxbury, $666,665, 1,853 square feet, $360 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
2 Goethe Street, West Roxbury, $699,000, 1,792 square feet, $390 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
41 Bogandale Road, West Roxbury, $705,000, 1,509 square feet, $467 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
193 Saint Theresa Ave., West Roxbury, $765,000, 1,387 square feet, $552 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
16 Alward Road, West Roxbury, $965,000, 1,120 square feet, $862 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
1 Cefalo Road, West Roxbury, $1,625,000, 2,923 square feet, $556 per square-foot, four bedrooms and four bathrooms.
Winthrop
800 Governors Drive, Winthrop, $290,000, 772 square feet, $376 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
800 Governors Drive, Winthrop, $330,000, 989 square feet, $334 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
100 Governors Drive, Winthrop, $350,000, 780 square feet, $449 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
258 Shirley Street, Winthrop, $401,000, 1,030 square feet, $389 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
500 Winthrop Street, Winthrop, $556,000, 984 square feet, $565 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
64 Temple Ave., Winthrop, $615,000, 1,404 square feet, $438 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
58 Banks Street, Winthrop, $700,000, 1,788 square feet, $391 per square-foot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
31 Emerson Road, Winthrop, $800,000, 1,749 square feet, $457 per square-foot, three bedrooms and one bathroom.
38 Banks Street, Winthrop, $830,000, 2,250 square feet, $369 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
169 Main Street, Winthrop, $1,350,000, nine bedrooms and four bathrooms.
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| Sale closed in Brookline: $5.3 million for a four-bedroom home | A spacious house built in 1947 located at 111 Jordan Road in Brookline has a new owner. The 3,182-square-foot property was sold on Dec. 15, 2023 for $5,300,000, or $1,666 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, an attached garage, and one parking space. The unit sits on a 0.4-acre lot.
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| F.D.A. Issues First Approval for Mass Drug Imports to States From Canada | The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the United States, overriding fierce decades-long objections from the pharmaceutical industry.
The approval, issued in a letter to Florida Friday, is a major policy shift for the United States, and supporters hope it will be a significant step forward in the long and largely unsuccessful effort to rein in drug prices. Individuals in the United States are allowed to buy directly from Canadian pharmacies, but states have long wanted to be able to purchase medicines in bulk for their Medicaid programs, government clinics and prisons from Canadian wholesalers.
Florida has estimated that it could save up to $150 million in its first year of the program, importing medicines that treat H.I.V., AIDS, diabetes, hepatitis C and psychiatric conditions. Other states have applied to the F.D.A. to set up similar programs.
But significant hurdles remain. Some drug manufacturers have agreements with Canadian wholesalers not to export their medicines, and the Canadian government has already taken steps to block the export of prescription drugs that are in short supply. |
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| Japan Becomes the Latest Country to Land on the Moon | A Japanese robotic spacecraft successfully set down on the moon on Friday — but its solar panels were not generating power, which will cut the length of time it will be able to operate to a few hours.
With this achievement, Japan is now the fifth country to send a spacecraft that made a soft landing on the moon.
For JAXA, Japan’s space agency which currently operates a variety of robotic science missions in space, this was the first time it had tried to set down on a planetary body elsewhere in the solar system. The spacecraft, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, was intended to demonstrate precision landing, within a football field of a targeted destination rather than an uncertainty of miles that most landers are capable of.
The technology could also be useful for future missions like those in NASA’s Artemis program. Japan is a partner in that program, which will send astronauts back to the moon in the coming years. |
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| Bill Belichick has become the distraction he urged Patriots to ignore | Vautour | For almost a quarter century, Bill Belichick has preached ignoring and avoiding distractions as part of his control-even-the-smallest-of-details tenure running the Patriots.
But during that time, no franchise has been more overrun by distractions than the New England Patriots.
So it is fitting with a little irony sprinkled in, that in what could be his last week as the Patriots coach, not only is there a distraction, but he is the distraction.
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In a week with 11 games that have playoff implications, a postseason-irrelevant game between the Patriots and Jets is still getting national attention, and not good national attention, because Belichick is on the hot seat. It’s an awful season that’s capped off a lousy four-year stretch.
In addition to losing, this year had a fresh set of controversies for Belichick to be pathologically secretive about. His approach to his starting quarterback made Mac Jones vs. Bailey Zappe unnecessarily chaotic and his approach to Jack Jones, Trent Brown and J.C. Jackson kept those dramas alive longer than they had to be.
Now in a season where his team is out of the playoffs, he’s asking people to believe he’s not even thinking about his own future yet. Belichick is trying to act like none of this is happening. He used the same tired topic avoidance moves that he practiced with every questionable play call or roster decision. Every player on the current roster and a hefty percentage of the former ones have been asked about Belichick’s uncertain future as well as some of the former ones.
Q: Have you had any conversations with Robert Kraft about your future with the team?
A: “Yeah, I’m looking forward to working, getting ready for the Jets here.”
Belichick’s ham-handed obfuscation, which used to seem like a power move, now looks more like taking shelter until the storm passes.
The biggest indication that some significant news is coming is that Robert Kraft has been as quiet as Belichick. If Kraft planned to keep Belichick, he could have ended these shenanigans weeks ago, the way the Jets did with Robert Saleh, but Kraft has continued to let things escalate. As a result, every conversation the Patriots owner has in his suite during games or on the sideline before them is analyzed to fill the enormous void.
Like a season winding down on a popular TV show, everyone is curious about how this cliffhanger wraps up. Will Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft stay together or will Belichick spin his career off elsewhere? The fact that the final game is against the New York Jets, whom Belichick famously left at the altar almost exactly 24 years ago only enhances the drama.
Sam and Diane or Ross and Rachel were junior varsity compared to this.
Follow MassLive sports columnist Matt Vautour on Twitter at @MattVautour424. |
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| Though the pandemic subsided, ImprovBoston never recovered | SBC codec
Audio channel type and number: Joint Stereo, Stereo, Dual Channel, Mono;
Number of frequency bands: 4 or 8;
Number of audio blocks in one packet: 4, 8, 12, 16;
Quantization bit allocation algorithm: Loudness, SNR;
Maximum and minimum bit pool used in quantization process: usually 2-53.
Some wireless headphone users note low sound quality and lack of high frequencies when using the standard Bluetooth SBC codec, which is supported by all headphones and other Bluetooth audio devices. A common recommendation to get better sound quality is to buy devices and headphones with aptX or LDAC codecs support. These codecs require licensing fees, that's why devices with them are more expensive.It turns out that the low quality of SBC is caused by artificial limitations of all current Bluetooth stacks and headphones' configuration, and this limitation can be circumvented on any existing device with software modification only. SBC has lots of different parameters that are negotiated during the connection setup phase:The decoder is required to support any combination of these parameters. Encoder may implement only a part of them.Existing Bluetooth stacks usually negotiate the following set of options which I call «profile»: Joint Stereo, 8 bands, 16 blocks, Loudness, bitpool 2..53. This profile encodes 44.1 kHz stereo audio with 328 kbps bitrate.Bitpool is a parameter that changes encoding bitrate: the higher it is, the higher the bitrate, and hence the quality. But exact bitpool value corresponds to exact bitrate only within exact profile.The bitrate is also significantly affected by other parameters: audio channel type, number of frequency bands, number of audio blocks. You can increase the bitrate indirectly by negotiating non-standard profiles, without changing the bitpool.
Bitrate calculation formula
The decoder of the SNK shall support all possible bitpool values that do not result in excess of the maximum bit rate. This profile limits the available maximum bit rate to 320kb/s for mono, and 512kb/s for two-channel modes.
Bluetooth stack modification
LineageOS 15.1 (since 31 March, 2019) and 16.0 (since May 13, 2019)
(since 31 March, 2019) and (since May 13, 2019) Resurrection Remix (since May 14, 2019)
(since May 14, 2019) crDroid (since May 13, 2019)
Where did 551 and 452 kbps come from?
For example, Dual Channel mode encodes channels separately, using individual bitpool for each channel, unlike Stereo or Joint Stereo, which use bitpool for both channels. Forcing the device to use Dual Channel instead of Joint Stereo will get us almost doubled bitrate of 617 kbps, with the same bitpool value of 53.To me it feels that bitpool should be an internal variable. I assume that it is an A2DP specification design fault that bitpool value is not bound to other codec parameters and only defined as an independent negotiated variable.Fixed bitpool and bitrate values originated from recommended profile for high quality audio. But the recommendation should not be the reason to set the limit on these parameters.A2DP specification v1.2, which was active from 2007 to 2015, requires all decoders to work correctly with bitrates up to 512 kbps:No bitrate limit stated in the new version of the specification. It is assumed that modern headphones with EDR support released after 2015 can support bitrates up to 730 kbps.For some reason, all currently tested Bluetooth stacks (Linux (PulseAudio), Android, Blackberry and macOS) have artificial restrictions of maximum bitpool parameter, which directly affects the maximum bitrate. But this is not the biggest problem, almost all headphones also limit the maximum bitpool value to 53.As I've already seen in my tests, most devices work fine on a modified Bluetooth stack with a bitrate of 551 kbps, without interrupts and crackling. But such a bitrate will never be negotiated under normal conditions, with stock Bluetooth stacks.Every A2DP-compatible Bluetooth stack should support Dual Channel mode, but there's no way to force usage of this mode.Let's add a switch to the user interface! I made patches for Android 8.1 and Android 9, which add full support for Dual Channel into the stack and into developer menu, and handle Dual Channel mode as an additional «HD Audio» codec like aptX, AAC or LDAC by adding a tick to the Bluetooth device settings Here's what it looks like:This checkbox toggles Dual Channel mode which is configured to usefor EDR 3 Mb/s devices andfor EDR 2 Mb/s devices.This patchset has been merged into the following alternative firmwares:Bluetooth time division technology is designed to efficiently transmit large fixed-size packets. Data transfer occurs in slots, the largest number of slots sent in one transmission is 5. There are also transfer modes using 1 or 3 slots, but not 2 or 4. You can transfer up to 679 bytes in 5 slots, at a connection speed of 2 Mbps, and up to 1021 bytes at a speed of 3 Mbps. In 3 slots maximum amount of data is 367 and 552 bytes, respectively.If we want to transfer less data than 679 or 1021 bytes but more than 367 or 552 bytes, the transfer will still take 5 slots, and the transmission will take the same amount of time, which reduces the transmission efficiency.44100 Hz audio encoded using SBC in Dual Channel mode with bitpool = 38, 16 blocks in a frame, 8 frequency bands, produces audio frame of 164 bytes, with 452 kb/s bitrate.Audio payload should be encapsulated into L2CAP and AVDTP transmission protocols, which deduct 16 bytes of overhead from the audio payload.
679 (EDR 2 mbit/s DH5) - 4 (L2CAP) - 12 (AVDTP/RTP) - 1 (SBC header) - (164*4) = 6
What is that all for?
Can we go even further?
# setprop persist.bluetooth.sbc_hd_higher_bitrate 1
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One 5-slot audio transmission can contain up to 4 audio frames:A single packet transmits up to 11.7 ms of audio data, which will be transmitted in 3.75 ms, and we have 6 unused bytes left in the packet.If you slightly raise the bitpool, 4 audio frames can no longer be packed into a single transmission. You'll have to send 3 frames at a time, which reduces transmission efficiency, reduces the amount of audio transmitted in one packet, and will increase chance for audio stutter under poor radio conditions.551 kbps bitrate for EDR 3 Mbps was selected using the same principle: with Bitpool 47, 16 blocks per frame, 8 frequency bands, the frame size is 200 bytes, with a bit rate of 551 kbps. Single transmission can bundle up to 5 frames or 14.6 ms of music.The algorithm for calculating all the SBC parameters is quite complicated, you can easily make a mistake if you try to calculate all of them manually, so I made an interactive calculator to help those who interested:Contrary to popular belief of aptX sound quality, in some cases it can produce worse audio quality than SBC with a standard 328k bitrate.SBC dynamically allocates quantization bits for frequency bands, acting on a «bottom-to-top» basis. If the whole bitrate was used for the lower and middle frequencies, the upper frequencies are «cut off» (silenced).aptX quantizes frequency bands with the same number of bits constantly, which makes it a constant bitrate codec: 352 kbps for 44.1 kHz, 384 kbps for 48 kHz. It can't «transfer bits» to frequencies that need them most. Unlike SBC, aptX will not «cut» frequencies, but will add quantization noise to them, reducing the dynamic range of audio, and sometimes introducing crackles. SBC, on the contrary, «eats the details» — discards the quietest areas.On average, compared to SBC 328k, aptX makes less distortion in music with a wide frequency range, but on music with a narrow frequency range and a wide dynamic range SBC 328k sometimes wins.Let us consider a special case, a piano recording. Here's a spectrogram:Most energy locates in the 0-4 kHz frequencies, and lasts up to 10 kHz.The spectrogram of the file aptX file looks like this:Here is SBC 328k:It can be seen that the SBC 328k periodically completely cut off the range above 16 kHz, and used all available bitrates for the frequency ranges below this value. However, aptX introduced more distortions into the frequency spectrum audible by the human ear, which can be seen on the subtracted original audio spectrogram from the aptX spectrogram (the brighter, the more distortion):SBC 328k has introduced less distortion to the signal in the range from 0 to 10 kHz, and the rest frequences had been сut:485k bitrate was enough for SBC to save the entire frequency range, without cutting off the bands.SBC 485k produces much better results in the range of 0-15 kHz on this sample than aptX, and a smaller but still noticeable difference at 15-22 kHz (the darker, the less distortion):By switching to a high-bitrate SBC you will get sound which is superior to aptX most of the time, on any headphones. On headphones with EDR 3 Mb/s support, 551 kb/s SBC produces sound that is very close to aptX HD.Android patchset has an additional option to increase bitrate for EDR 2 mbps devices even further. You can bump the bitrate from 452 kbps to 595 kbps, at the cost of reducing the stability of the transmission in case of congested radio conditions.Just set the persist.bluetooth.sbc_hd_higher_bitrate variable to 1:Extreme bit rate patch is currently merged only in LineageOS 15.1, but not in 16.0.SBC Dual Channel is supported by almost all headphones, speakers and car head units. This is no wonder — the standard mandates its support in any decoding devices. There are a small number of devices on which this mode causes problems, but these are very rare cases.More details on compatible devices can be found at 4pda and xda-developers I made a web service that encodes audio to SBC (as well as to aptX and aptX HD) in real time, right in the browser. You can compare the sound of different SBC profiles and other codecs without actually transmitting audio via Bluetooth using this service, on any wired headphones, speakers, and on your favorite music. You can also change the encoding parameters directly during audio playback.I tried to contact many Bluetooth stack developers from Google, asking them to consider including my patches to the main Android branch—AOSP, but did not receive a single answer. My patches in Gerrit code review system for Android have not received any comments from anyone involved in the development as well.I would be glad if anyone could tell Google developers about this implementation of SBC HD for Android. The gerrit patchset is already out of date (this is one of the earliest revisions), but I will update it if developers are interested in my changes (it's not easy for me to update it, I don't have Android Q compatible devices).Users of LineageOS, Resurrection Remix and crDroid firmwares can enhance Bluetooth audio quality by ticking a checkbox in Bluetooth device settings. Linux users can also get a higher SBC bitrate by installing the patch from Pali Rohár , which among other things, adds support for the aptX, aptX HD and FastStream codecs. |
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| Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech | The Republican-led House on Thursday formally rebuked Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, for setting off a false fire alarm in a House office building in September, the latest in a series of partisan reprisals using a once-rare form of congressional punishment.
The censure resolution, which was introduced by Representative Lisa McClain, Republican of Michigan, passed 214 to 191, largely along party lines, with five members voting “present.”
After the vote, Mr. Bowman stood in the well of the House floor to be officially reprimanded. Democrats lined up in support behind him, with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts each placing a hand on his shoulders.
Mr. Bowman was caught on video setting off a false fire alarm on Sept. 30 as Democrats were stalling for time to review a Republican-written stopgap spending bill unveiled just moments before a vote. The false alarm prompted an evacuation of the building and contributed to the mayhem that day as Congress rushed to stave off a government shutdown set to begin that night. |
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| Why a Faculty Strike Looms at the State University System | Faculty members at the California State University system, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, are planning to cancel classes and strike next week as they demand higher pay and better benefits.
The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, says it will begin a five-day strike on Monday, the first day of the spring semester for most students. Walkouts are planned at all 23 campuses, from Humboldt to San Diego, which together serve nearly 460,000 students.
The strike was set after university officials ended contract negotiations last week, having offered 5 percent raises; the union is seeking 12 percent pay increases. University leaders said they were grappling with a huge budget deficit and could not afford to meet the union’s demands without resorting to layoffs and other cuts.
“We have been in the bargaining process for eight months and the C.F.A. has shown no movement, leaving us no other option” but to break off the talks, Leora Freedman, the university system’s vice chancellor for human resources, said in a statement. She added that the system had recently agreed on 5 percent pay increases with five other labor unions. |
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| Westfield Public Health Bulletin: How to calm a cough | Are you still coughing? You are not alone. It seems everyone is coughing and coughing and coughing. With all the respiratory illnesses circulating, coughs are lingering. Cases of RSV, influenza, COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses are prevalent locally and throughout the country. Whooping cough (a highly contagious bacterial infection preventable by vaccine) cases have joined in. A cough occurs when an irritant stimulates nerves that send a message to your brain. The brain directs your chest and abdominal muscles to push air out your lungs to eliminate the irritant.
Coughs are persisting for many reasons. People may have overlapping infections especially after holiday gatherings. Immunities are diminished after the pandemic. Vaccination rates are down. And of course, our society dictates that we just keep going even when we don’t feel well. Many have limited or no sick time and can’t afford to stay home or lose their job.
An acute cough is defined as lasting for three weeks and is usually due to a viral illness. Most people expect to feel better within a week and this isn’t always realistic. Pneumonia is considered when symptoms include fever, chills, shortness of breath and purulent phlegm. A subacute cough lasts three to eight weeks. A post infectious subacute cough may be due to bacterial sinusitis, upper airway irritation and inflammation and postnasal drip. A chronic cough continues over eight weeks and may be caused by but not limited to asthma, medication, acid reflux, smoking, chronic bronchitis and other more serious etiologies. Acute illnesses can also exacerbate chronic conditions such as asthma and COPD. |
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| $30,000 in luxury goods stolen from store in Newbury Street heist | Police in Boston are asking for the public's help in identifying two people who stole thousands of dollars in luxury goods from a shop on Newbury Street early Monday. Boston police said the breaking and entering incident happened at about 3:25 a.m. Monday at 47 Newbury St., which is the Valentino store. Surveillance images from inside the store show two men with arms full of handbags during the heist. About 20 handbags were stolen, with a total value of approximately $30,000, police said.A 911 caller told police a man kicked in the window of the store. Officers also reported seeing two bricks inside the store. The 911 caller said the two men fled down Berkeley Street toward Commonwealth Avenue. One man was described as a white man in his 40s or 50s, wearing a white hoodie, blue jeans, black shoes with white trim, white or yellow gloves and a light-colored mask. The second man was wearing a dark jacket and pants, a mask that covered his entire face, a dark baseball hat and white sneakers. Police said the first man fled the store with the handbags slung over his arms, and the second man threw the purses in a trash bag before fleeing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Boston police at 617-343-5619 or anonymously by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word "TIP" to CRIME (27463). Related stories:
Police in Boston are asking for the public's help in identifying two people who stole thousands of dollars in luxury goods from a shop on Newbury Street early Monday.
Boston police said the breaking and entering incident happened at about 3:25 a.m. Monday at 47 Newbury St., which is the Valentino store.
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Surveillance images from inside the store show two men with arms full of handbags during the heist. About 20 handbags were stolen, with a total value of approximately $30,000, police said.
A 911 caller told police a man kicked in the window of the store. Officers also reported seeing two bricks inside the store. The 911 caller said the two men fled down Berkeley Street toward Commonwealth Avenue.
One man was described as a white man in his 40s or 50s, wearing a white hoodie, blue jeans, black shoes with white trim, white or yellow gloves and a light-colored mask.
The second man was wearing a dark jacket and pants, a mask that covered his entire face, a dark baseball hat and white sneakers.
Police said the first man fled the store with the handbags slung over his arms, and the second man threw the purses in a trash bag before fleeing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Boston police at 617-343-5619 or anonymously by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word "TIP" to CRIME (27463).
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| Boston students to get free admission to 6 city cultural sites, Wu says | Starting in February, all students enrolled in Boston Public Schools will gain free admission twice a month to many of the city’s most cherished cultural institutions according to Mayor Michelle Wu — who unveiled the new program in her annual State of the City address on Tuesday evening.
In the final moments of her address, Wu said that starting in February, on the first and second Sundays of each month, that all Boston Public Schools students and their families will get free admission to six “treasured” city sites.
Those cultural institutions are the Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science, the Boston Children’s Museum, the New England Aquarium and the Franklin Park Zoo, according to Wu, thanking them for their participation in the program.
In a personal anecdote, Wu — the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants to the United States — recalled how her mother took her as a small child to “the big art museum downtown” where admissions were free on Tuesdays. Wu grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
She said in spite of her Mandarin-speaking parents’ quite modest financial means and challenges with English, her mother was able to feel like “the best mom on Earth because she has given her daughter the world for a day” and how it was a continued source of her mother’s pride that she was able to give these experiences to Wu.
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Wu said in announcing the program that it was now her mother’s daughter’s turn to help make kids in the city “to feel at home in the places that show them the world,” prompting a round of applause from the audience at MGM Music Hall.
Some participating institutions already offer free or discounted admission for youth and other guests on specific days and times or for those who meet certain requirements.
On their websites, the ICA and MFA note they are open for free admission on federal holidays such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth and Indigenous Peoples’ Day — though the MFA’s free admission on these days is restricted to Massachusetts residents only.
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| These Boston tourist traps are actually worth going to, Eater Boston says | If you’ve ever been to Boston, you’ve probably asked yourself if the line outside of Mike’s Pastry is worth the wait, or if the pizza at Santarpio’s is really that authentic.
Well, according to Eater Boston, these are among several of the city’s tourist traps that are actually worth checking out.
The outlet, which is known for reporting on the best places to dine in Boston, compiled a list of Boston’s “Tourist Trap Restaurants That Are Actually Good” this month.
The list is composed of classic Boston eateries that Eater Boston staff would “happily take visitors to.” Below are the restaurants that made the list:
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| My Students Can Show Us the Way Forward on Free Speech - The New York Times | My students also report that they are treading lightly outside the classroom as they take on the issues of the moment in their own spaces. They say they are more worried about causing offense with their choices of words or being found ill informed than they are about scoring points. Rather than digging in with dogmatic positions, most of them seem as unsure as the rest of us about just where the lines are.
Mainly, I think my students can remind us of the purpose of higher education and, consequently, the kind of speech culture it demands. What they have learned in my free speech class, I hope, is not just the history of laws around speech but also two different but complementary ways of navigating speech, each of them tied to a different function of the modern university.
Students go to college largely to gain knowledge that will be useful in the here and now: the workplace, the democratic public sphere and private life. Importantly, that includes how to think about all sides of a given problem. It also includes how to get along with others across differences. But neither of these tasks is done without some informal rules. In my classroom, when we are conversing about the history of speech, we are also following a series of speech protocols that we’ve worked out in practice. No one, for example, can speak on top of anyone else, and no one can personalize the conversation in ways that draw attention to individuals rather than arguments. Free speech was never imagined, even by its earliest advocates, as a free-for-all. This is something that needs to be instilled.
College, though, is also the place where one learns to question and to develop thoughtful critiques of the world one is being prepared to enter. If we think of the university as a training ground for imagining a better world — whether from a left, right, center or altogether different perspective — then a very wide latitude for speech is essential as well. Any position that has political salience in today’s discourse should be sayable on campus, whether formally moderated in a classroom or screamed on the quad. No, that does not mean we have to give space to pure expressions of hatred for any group of people or, in the example of last week, tolerate hypothetical “calls for genocide.” But it does mean we have to allow for, even encourage, the airing of varied positions on all unsettled questions, including those that turn on the expression “from the river to the sea” or the term “intifada,” like it or not.
This mixture of rules and freedoms makes for a difficult standard. It gets harder all the time as student bodies become more diverse, outside politics become more polarized, and the internet amplifies the sensational and turns the local into the global in an instant. |
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| "Emotionally Moved By The End"; Tony Award Winning Musical "The Band's Visit" Comes To Boston | BOSTON - Boston audiences are in for a transformative experience, as "The Band's Visit" takes the stage at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.
The premise is simple, a transportation mix-up strands a group of Egyptian musicians in a small Israeli town for 24 hours.
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| Mass. weather: Rain, fog to close out 2023 before dry, chilly New Years | The last full week of 2023 is shaping up to be pretty wet and foggy, according to the National Weather Service.
A foggy Wednesday morning will give way to showers across southern New England later in the day, the weather service said.
Wednesday starts with light showers, mostly in Western New England, before heavier rain arrives Wednesday night into Thursday morning, the weather service said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Periodic light rain in western New England today will become widespread across the rest of southern New England tonight into Thursday. Rainfall totals of one half inch to an inch are expected, with localized amounts up to 1.5 inches possible near the south coast. pic.twitter.com/gouL5Jn8dw — NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) December 27, 2023
The rain is expected to start after 4 p.m. in Western Massachusetts and after 5 p.m. in Central and Eastern Massachusetts, forecasters said. Up to a half inch of rain is expected throughout the state with some areas, mostly on the south coast and on Cape Cod, at risk of getting up to 1.5 inches.
Forecasters also said the fog Wednesday morning could be hard to shake as the sun rises.
“Those waking up to fog this morning should expect it may hang around until around the lunch hour,” the National Weather Service said in a statement.
While dense fog will start to lift early Wednesday morning, the entire state could experience fog until 7 a.m. Thursday, according to a hazardous weather outlook map. And that won’t be the last of it.
The fog is expected to linger through the end of the week with scattered showers lingering into Saturday, the weather service said. More light rain is expected Thursday night into Friday, and the risk for showers will continue into Saturday as well.
All the while, temperatures will be above normal with highs in the mid-to-low 40s throughout the rest of the week. Things will dry out, but also get chillier, for New Year’s Eve and New Years Day. Those conditions will follow suit for the rest of the first week of 2024, according to forecasters. |
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| Powerball: See the winning numbers in Saturdays $340 million drawing | It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to rise after one lucky winner in California won $1.73 billion in the October 11 drawing. Is this your lucky night?
Here are Saturday’s winning lottery numbers:
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| Multi family sells in Worcester for $1.2 million | A multi-unit house located at 6 Windsor Street in Worcester has a new owner. The 3,690-square-foot property, built in 1910, was sold on Dec. 15, 2023, for $1,150,000, or $312 per square foot. This three-story multi-family features a total of seven bedrooms and six baths. On the exterior, the home features a hip roof design constructed with asphalt roofing. The interior features just one fireplace.
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| Housing crisis: How Healey and Wu are handling it | Indeed, the housing crisis has finally grabbed the attention of top elected officials such as Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who both say housing is the biggest issue facing their administrations. Each has ambitious — and controversial — proposals in front of the Legislature this year that, if passed, would represent some of the bolder housing reform efforts Massachusetts has seen in decades.
Housing is in the spotlight this year. Home prices are higher than they’ve ever been, and the shortage of homes here seems to grow deeper by the day.
Here are some of the key policies, where they stand, and what you should know about them:
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Accessory dwelling units
Both Healey and Wu are pursuing the broad legalization of accessory dwelling units, otherwise known as granny flats or tiny homes. ADUs are smaller housing units that can be added to an existing residential property, either in a garage or basement, or built new in a backyard. They are widely viewed as a relatively benign way to add more density to existing neighborhoods, and have gained significant momentum in states across the US in recent years. California, for example, has permitted more than 80,000 ADUs since it started allowing them in 2016. In Massachusetts, ADUs are mainly permitted at a municipal level, and progress building them has been slow.
Healey last October included a measure in her housing bond bill that would legalize ADUs on all single-family zoned lots in the state. Communities would be able to enact some “reasonable restrictions” like setbacks from the property line. It had already been met with some resistance from the Massachusetts Municipal Association, which advocates for all zoning decisions to be left up to cities and towns. But ADUs are growing in popularity, and many communities here have started to allow them in some limited form already. That may make a statewide rule easier to pass.
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Healey’s bond bill and the ADU measure have a hearing before the Joint Committee on Housing this Thursday, the first step in what will be a long journey on Beacon Hill before a final vote. If it passes, it would be among the most significant preemptions of local zoning control in the state’s history.
A vote on Healey’s bond bill is likely still months away, as it will require significant negotiation. Some housing advocates told the Globe it would happen closer to the session’s end in July.
Wu, in her State of the City speech last week, said her administration would also allow ADUs citywide, the culmination of a pilot program that has been testing their feasibility in select neighborhoods for the last few years. Later this year, the city plans to publish pre-approved designs and make available some funding to help residents with construction costs.
Wu’s plan likely wouldn’t mean a flood of new ADUs in Boston, because there are only about 7,500 lots in the city that could fit a backyard ADU, the Globe found last year. But statewide, a broad rule like California’s could open up space for nearly 1 million new ADUs across Massachusetts.
An accessory dwelling unit was lowered by crane into a backyard in Concord. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Real estate transfer tax
Another big issue in Healey’s bond bill: a local option for a real estate transfer fee.
It would allow cities and towns to tax high-dollar real estate sales to raise money for affordable housing. Municipalities would be able to charge anywhere between 0.5 and 2 percent on sales of real estate worth more than $1 million, or the median home price in counties where that figure is above $1 million. The fee would only apply to the portion of the sale that exceeded those thresholds.
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It is perhaps the most controversial policy in the bond bill. Real estate industry groups argue the measure would discourage developers from building new housing, and that it would unfairly punish homeowners whose property has appreciated to over $1 million.
But an increasing number of cities and towns, including Boston and communities on the Cape, have asked Beacon Hill for permission to enact a transfer fee, saying it would generate millions of dollars a year for much needed affordable housing.
The policy will certainly be a flashpoint in debates over the bond bill. The Legislature has not acted on calls for a transfer fee in the past, though lawmakers may consider the policy more seriously this time around because it is part of Healey’s agenda.
Rent control
The debate over rent control is alive and well, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
Tenant advocate groups have been ramping up pressure on state policy makers to seriously consider a rent control bill as rents continue to spiral upward.
There was an effort last year from Cambridge Representative Mike Connolly to gather signatures to put a local option for rent control on the ballot for the first time since Massachusetts voters ended rent control in 1994. But that was halted amid disagreements among tenant groups about whether it was the right time to launch such a campaign.
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Meanwhile, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline — the four communities that had rent control previous to the 1994 vote — have all recently submitted home rule petitions to the Legislature asking to create their own rent control rules or have otherwise signaled support for the policy. Legislators appear unmoved, and those petitions have gone nowhere so far.
Healey, who has been cautious with her statements on rent control in the past, said last year that she would support communities that wanted to enact it. But she notably did not include any sort of rent control policy in her bond bill.
A view of the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex, which is set to be redeveloped into a mixed-use complex including both deeply affordable and market rate apartments. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Public housing
It’s not as flashy an issue as rent control or taxing luxury condo sales, but public housing presents a huge problem for Boston and Massachusetts.
Thanks to decades of underfunding, public housing across Massachusetts is in chronic disrepair, prompting health concerns and forcing housing authorities to take precious units offline. Both Boston and the state want to give new life to their respective public housing stocks.
Healey’s bond bill would allocate $1.6 billion for repairs, redevelopment, and retrofits for the state’s 43,000 public housing units. Advocates say it would not be enough to bring all of those units into good condition, but still, it would be more than double the funding allocated in the last bill by former governor Charlie Baker’s administration.
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And in Boston, Wu said last week that her administration would work to identify space to build some 3,000 new units of public housing, utilizing something of a loophole in a federal law that capped the number of public housing units the Department of Housing and Urban Development would fund back in the late 1990s.
It would be the first time in 40 years that Boston would grow its supply of public housing.
Formal housing production goals
Both Baker and former Boston mayor Marty Walsh established formal housing production goals — Baker wanted to build 135,000 new units statewide by 2024, and Walsh 69,000 units in Boston by 2030. Neither Healey nor Wu have yet done so.
But pressure is mounting from housing advocacy groups to set clear targets for new construction and to help address the region’s deep supply shortage, which by some estimates is as much as 200,000 units and growing. Healey’s bond bill has several provisions that would put in place the structure to create more accountability around housing production. One of those is the creation of a formal Housing Production Commission, which would look for ways to streamline housing production and recommend policies.
And there are several bills that have been submitted by housing advocacy groups that would establish production goals.
Andrew Brinker can be reached at andrew.brinker@globe.com. Follow him @andrewnbrinker. |
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| Man arrested in woman's death at Worcester spa | The Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office is seeking to charge 28 people — who may include high-profile government officials and business executives — connected with a brothel ring it claims two Dedham residents operated in Cambridge, Watertown and Virginia.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed complaints against the suspects, who they believe to be “sex buyers,” in Cambridge District Court Monday, but no names will be released until probable cause is found, the office said in a press release. If probable cause is established and criminal charges are issued, referrals will be made to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
“Our office made it clear when we announced charges of a commercial sex ring case on Nov. 8, 2023, that the investigation was ongoing and that there would be accountability for the buyers who fuel the commercial sex industry,” Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said in the release.
The brothels’ suspected clients include elected and military officials, government officials with high-level security clearance, tech and drug company executives, doctors, professors, attorneys and scientists, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously.
Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Dedham residents Han Lee, 41, and Junmyung Lee, 30, as well as California resident James Lee, 68, with conspiracy to sex-traffic in connection with the alleged brothels. The three are accused of operating the brothels in Cambridge, Watertown and locations in Virginia close to Washington D.C. since at least July 2020.
The scheme targeted Asian women as sex trafficking victims and enticed them with luxury lifestyles, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously. The accused communicated “house rules” to the women via text messages that featured pugs.
The brothels found clients online through two websites which posted fake ads for nude Asian models, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously. The clients were verified using their personal information before being texted by the accused to set up appointments and look through a “menu” of women.
The clients paid between $350 and $600 an hour, and the accused hid hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue through personal bank accounts and peer-to-peer transfers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously. But the suspects’ lavish lifestyles and “impeccable” records kept in places such as a Louis Vuitton shoebox eventually gave them away.
The three accused ringleaders were held without bail during their arraignment in federal court last month. |
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| Vivek Ramaswamy suspends his 2024 Republican presidential bid and endorses rival Donald Trump | Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed former President Donald Trump after a disappointing finish in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.
Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old political novice who sought to replicate Trump’s rise as a bombastic, wealthy outsider, said, “As of this moment we are going to suspend this presidential campaign. There’s no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country.”
During the campaign, he needled his opponents but praised Trump as “the best president of the 21st century.” He argued, though, that Republicans should opt for “fresh legs” and “take our America First agenda to the next level.”
The approach, including his call for “revolution,” vaulted Ramaswamy into the mix of candidates vying to overtake Trump — or at least become a viable alternative. His decision to drop out, though, becomes the latest confirmation that the former president, even at 77 years old and under multiple criminal indictments, still dominates Republican politics and remains the overwhelming favorite to win the GOP nomination for the third consecutive time.
Ramaswamy’s failure also affirms how difficult it is for any Republican other than Trump to push the bounds of party orthodoxy, as the first-time candidate found little political reward for positions such as his opposition to aid for Israel and Ukraine.
The son of Indian immigrants, Ramaswamy entered politics at the highest level after making hundreds of millions of dollars at the intersection of hedge funds and pharmaceutical research, a career he charted and built while graduating from Harvard University and then Yale Law School. He brought to his campaign the same brash approach he used to coax money from investors even when the drugs he touted never made it to the market.
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| No. 2 Longmeadow girls basketball flying high, ready for its biggest challenge yet | LONGMEADOW ― Winners of nine in a row to open the season, No. 2 Longmeadow has flown out of the gates and has quickly proven itself as one of the teams to beat in Western Massachusetts
“It’s exciting,” Longmeadow coach Tim Allen said about his team’s perfect start. “As a coach you (focus) game-to-game and the girls are really working hard, they are seeing the result so far.” |
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| Opinion | On Satanic Idols and Free Speech | This claim is a Christianized cousin of the secular idea that defending the free-speech rights of those with whom you vehemently disagree is, in essence, providing aid and comfort to racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia. In this view, your role as a citizen is first to determine whether any given speech meets with your moral approval, and then — and only then — to rally to its defense.
But this is dangerous nonsense. I’m the farthest thing from a relativist. Indeed, my evangelical Christian religious convictions place me in a cohort that includes a mere 6 percent of adult Americans who hold a set of decidedly non-relativistic beliefs, including about the divinity of Christ and the authority of scripture. I’m fully aware that if the terms of debate in America were based on a religious or moral consensus, my viewpoint would be immediately chased from the public square. And in fact, much of my legal career was dedicated to protecting minority religious expression — including evangelical expression — from censorship on American campuses and in American communities. In the course of that representation, I learned three practical truths of free expression.
First, few people are more eager to take advantage of free speech rights than people who possess deep moral convictions. When you watch a furious campus debate, the last thing you think is, “Watch the relativists fight.” The combatants possess burning convictions about, say, the Gaza war, or race and justice in America or L.G.B.T.Q. rights. When I stood with Christians, Muslims, and Jews who faced exclusion and persecution, never once was I representing a relativist. These people believed in their core values so much that they refused to be silent.
Second, humility isn’t relativism, and even people who believe that absolute truth exists should possess enough humility to recognize they don’t know all that truth. I’ve been an evangelical my entire life, but my faith certainly hasn’t insulated me from error. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve been wrong. And, by the way, I haven’t learned from Christians alone. I’ve been profoundly influenced by people from virtually every ideological and religious background. I’m a better person for my relationships with people with whom I disagree. Imagine the arrogance of thinking that my tribe or my sect — which is inevitably chock-full of fallen, imperfect people — should be the arbiter of truth, much less liberty.
Third, prudent people know that they will not always rule. This is the most pragmatic case for free speech. In a democratic society, no party or movement possesses permanent power, and when you limit the liberty of your foes, you give them the power to limit your liberty the instant you lose an election. An immense amount of censorship would evaporate overnight if angry activists truly imbibed the lesson that the standard they seek to impose on others can also be inflicted on themselves. |
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| The Weekender | The meatless hamburger at Superiority Burger, in New York, is made with quinoa, chickpeas and walnuts, and represents transparency and purity of ingredients that will be popular in 2024.
Credit... Karsten Moran for The New York Times |
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| Rutgers commit Dylan Harper wants to win titles with Scarlet Knights: Im going in there to win | SPRINGFIELD — Headlining the best class Rutgers men’s basketball has ever seen is Dylan Harper.
Son of former Chicago Bulls star Ron Harper, Dylan Harper is the No. 2 player in the Class of 2024. It’s safe to say that the Harpers are a basketball family due to many of Dylan’s immediate relatives being former Division I basketball players. His parents also have coaching background, with Ron Harper spending some time with the Pistons, and his mom currently coaching him. |
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| Holyoke Community College to host first Fall Graduate Reception on Nov. 29 | Holyoke - For the first time in 77-year history, Holyoke Community College will celebrate its fall semester graduates with a special reception on Wednesday, Nov. 29.
HCC’s inaugural Fall Graduate Reception will run from 5 to 7 p.m. on the main HCC campus, beginning in HCC’s Leslie Philips Theater for the official ceremony and continuing over appetizers and activities in the PeoplesBank Conference Room on the third floor of HCC’s Kittredge Center for Business and Workforce Development.
“This will be a family-friendly event with food, photo opportunities, and fun as we recognize the accomplishments of HCC students who will complete their graduation requirements by the end of December and the fall 2023 semester,” said Sharale Mathis, vice president of Academic and Student Affairs.
According to the HCC Registrar’s Office, 172 HCC students will be fall 2023 semester graduates, many of whom will transfer to four-year schools for the spring 2024 semester. Although fall graduates are always invited to attend HCC’s formal Commencement ceremony in the spring, historically, many choose not to attend.
“Our goal with this ceremony is to celebrate our fall graduates, strengthen their connection to HCC in the hopes that they will remain engaged with the college and attend our 76th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 1, 2024,” Mathis said. “I’m excited for this. I think everyone is excited about it.”
During the first part of the event in the Leslie Phillips Theater, new President George Timmons will offer some welcome remarks, followed by student speakers Alannah Brunt, a Latinx Studies major from Springfield, and Marcos Figueroa, a Communications, Media, and Theater Arts major from Holyoke. Julie Phillips, director of Institutional Development, will welcome the fall graduates as new members of HCC’s Alumni Association.
About 5:45 p.m., students and their families will be directed to the PeoplesBank Conference Room for appetizers, activities, and photo opportunities, and to collect their free HCC swag bag.
Like spring Commencement, the Nov. 29 event will be livestreamed on the HCC website for those who cannot attend: hcc.edu |
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| DraftKings Sportsbook promo code unlocks $150 guaranteed bonus for college football title games | The last time we saw the Kansas City Chiefs, they were in the midst of a meltdown at the end of their loss to the Buffalo Bills.
Patrick Mahomes was seen slamming his helmet. Andy Reid was calling out the refs at his postgame press conference. This was after an offsides penalty wiped out what would have been a miraculous touchdown in the closing minutes.
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The problem was that receiver Kadarius Toney (who scored the touchdown) was flagged for being offsides -- by a lot. After the game, officials called it “egregious” and “beyond a warning.”
So, how can the New England Patriots avoid a similar situation? That was the question posed to Patriots receivers coach Troy Brown.
“I just teach my guys to line up legally,” Brown said. “So that’s what you teach them. Whatever, you scoot up, you scoot back or whatever it is. Just always make sure you’re in a legal formation before the ball is snapped, and that nobody’s moving around, that you’re still.”
It’s rare to see a receiver penalized for lining up offsides. In fact, it’s typical for receivers to turn to an official on the sidelines and ask if they are lined up correctly.
Toney did not get such a warning from officials. However, he did not appear to turn and consult with them, either.
“I’m not sure what happened with those guys and how that worked with them. You can always check with them,” Brown said.
Brown says it’s always helpful for receivers to try and check with officials to see whether they’re properly lined up to avoid a penalty. Officials aren’t required to give help. But it doesn’t hurt to check.
“You can sometimes check with the referee on the sidelines. Sometimes they may help you out, sometimes they may not. But you can always check with them to make sure you’re you’re good to go,” Brown said. “I did see what happened in the game. That was unfortunate for them. But that’s the call that the officials made, nothing you can do about it.”
Mahomes and Reid have both publicly apologized for their behavior following Sunday’s game. Reid, who initially called the penalty “embarassing,” has since admitted that Toney was offsides.
The Patriots are set to take on the Chiefs this weekend in a 1 p.m. matchup at Gillette Stadium. |
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| 5 Takeaways From the Appeals Court Hearing on Trumps Immunity Claim | A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington heard arguments on Tuesday in a momentous case over former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal charges for the efforts he took to overturn the 2020 election.
A ruling by the court — and when it issues that decision — could be a major factor in determining when, or even whether, Mr. Trump will go to trial in the federal election case.
Here are some takeaways:
All three judges signaled skepticism with Trump’s position.
The judges on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit appeared unlikely to dismiss the charges against Mr. Trump on grounds of presidential immunity, as he has asked them to do. The two Democratic appointees on the court, Judge J. Michelle Childs and Judge Florence Y. Pan, peppered John Sauer, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, with difficult questions.
Judge Karen L. Henderson, the panel’s sole Republican appointee, seemed to reject a central part of Mr. Trump’s argument: that his efforts to overturn his loss to President Biden cannot be subject to prosecution because presidents have a constitutional duty to ensure that election laws are upheld. |
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| Dogs belonging to Stephanie Croteaus family are up for adoption in Springfield | Dogs belonging to the family of Stephanie Croteau, the Springfield mom who died in an October car crash after her child and mother were killed in a murder-suicide in August, have been put up for adoption, a family friend confirmed to MassLive.
The Thomas J. O’Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center in Springfield wrote on Facebook Sunday that the two dogs, named Lola and Marley, are ready to find a new home. According to the adoption center’s website, both dogs are 2-year-old Siberian husky mixes.
“Marley and Lola are sweet pups that came to TJO after a number of tragedies in their lives. At the request of the family, we are placing these two beautiful pups together. They are loved dearly, and it shows in their sweet nature,” adoption center workers wrote about the dogs.
The dogs have experience with children, and will likely do well with other kids and pets if introduced properly, the adoption center wrote on its website. As is the case with most huskies, they require lots of exercise and brushing, but the adoption center said the dogs don’t have any additional medical issues.
A third dog belonging to Croteau’s family was killed along with Croteau’s 10-year-old daughter, Aubrianna Serra, and her mother, 52-year-old Kim Fairbanks, on Aug. 14 when their upstairs neighbor entered the family’s Berkshire Avenue apartment and began shooting.
Victor Nieves, 34, a close family friend who was reportedly dealing with mental health issues, then shot and killed himself.
At the time, Fairbanks was babysitting Croteau’s three children while their parents were at work. Croteau’s 12-year-old daughter was also shot during the incident but survived, and her 5-year-old son was uninjured.
According to Western Mass. News, Croteau’s 12-year-old daughter is adamant that Marley and Lola be adopted together even though it can be difficult to find a home willing to take two dogs.
“We’ve got a situation here where a family needs our help,” Lori Swanson, the adoption center’s executive director, told the news station.
Those interested in adopting Marley and Lola are asked to call 413-781-1484 ext. 2 or visit the adoption center’s website. |
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| The Biden Economy Is Doing Fine - The New York Times | Ten finance guys are drinking in a bar. Nine of them are Masters of the Universe — wheeler-dealers who make many millions of dollars every year. The tenth is what Gordon Gekko, in the movie “Wall Street,” called a “$400,000-a-year working Wall Street stiff.”
Then the stiff leaves for a while, maybe to answer a call of nature. When he leaves, the average income of the guys still in the bar shoots up, because he’s no longer dragging that average down; when he comes back, the average drops again. But these fluctuations in the average don’t reflect changes in anyone’s income.
Why am I telling you this story? Because it’s most of the story of wages in the U.S. economy since Covid-19 struck. In 2020 the average wage of workers who still had a job shot up, because those who were laid off were disproportionately low-wage service workers. Then, as people resumed in-person shopping, started going to restaurants and so on, growth in average wages was held down because those low-wage workers were being rehired. You need to look through these “compositional effects” to figure out what was really happening to earnings as that played out. |
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| Mass. State Lottery winner: $4M prize, 2 $1M prizes claimed same day | If you weren’t in Dorchester at Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters claiming a big prize on Tuesday, then where were you?
Probably waiting out the snowstorm at home, like many Bay Staters — except for three lottery winners, who claimed one $4 million and two $1 million lottery prizes on Jan. 16.
The $4 million prize was from the “100X Cash” scratch ticket game, which costs $10 to play. It was sold in Peabody from a shop called Summit Variety. As of Jan. 17, there’s just one $4 million grand prize remaining to be claimed.
One of the $1 million prizes claimed was from the lottery’s new “Gold Mine 50X” scratch ticket, which was released last Tuesday and was the first grand prize to be claimed. The winning ticket was sold in Leominster from Russell’s Package Store.
The other $1 million lottery prize was from the “$4,000,000 Bonus Loot” scratch ticket game, and the winning ticket had been sold in Dracut from a shop called Dracut Convenience.
Overall, there were at least 628 lottery prizes worth $600 or more won or claimed in Massachusetts on Tuesday, including 18 in Springfield and 32 in Worcester.
The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of all the winning tickets each day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600. |
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| TikTok star who delighted millions with cooking videos dies, report says | A TikTok creator with Massachusetts ties who delighted millions of viewers with her cooking videos died on Monday, Jan. 1, The New York Times reported. She was 67.
The daughter of Lynn Yamada Davis, Hannah Mariko Shofet, told the news outlet that her mother died from esophageal cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2019, according to her Forbes biography.
A third-generation American with four Japanese grandparents, Davis launched her series “Cooking with Lynja” on TikTok during the coronavirus pandemic, posting 3-4 videos each week.
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Her youngest child, Tim Davis, edited her videos.
“My mom was like my partner in crime,” Tim Davis, 27, told The New York Times.
Davis, who was born on July 31, 1956, in New York City, grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, according to the news outlet. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
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Her TikTok career blossomed after she posted a video in September 2020 in which the 5-foot-tall Davis made a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich while dancing.
Some of Davis’ most-popular videos include making homemade pasta with TikTok star chef Nick DiGiovanni and making berries and cream cookies. Her TikTok has accumulated more than 17 million followers.
Davis was named to the Forbes Top 50 Creators list in 2022 and was included on its “50 over 50″ list. She also won a Streamy Award in the editing and food categories in 2022. Davis also had a partnership with Osmo, among others.
Her social media accounts have stayed active after death, because Davis wanted to post videos that were already edited, The New York Times reported. Tim Davis told the outlet that he will stop posting videos once all the Cooking with Lynja videos that feature his mother are uploaded. |
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| Joe Mazzulla shows crucial evolution in Celtics blowout loss to Bucks | The Celtics suffered their first true blowout of the 2023-24 season on Thursday night in horrific fashion against the Bucks. A rested, motivated Bucks squad was awaiting a Boston squad looking to get back on track after losing five of their last eight games. Meanwhile, the Celtics arrived at their hotel in Milwaukee at 3 a.m. ET according to team sources, coming off a hard-fought overtime win over the Timberwolves Wednesday night. The Celtics had their entire roster available for Thursday night outside of a resting Al Horford but this was a weary crew that was playing their fifth game in seven nights. If there was ever a scheduled loss in the NBA, this was as close as you’ll find to it in the regular season given the travel schedule involved.
Of course, that’s not the sole explanation for Boston’s horrific 135-102 loss, a game that was over before halftime as the Bucks built up a 75-38 lead with the assistance of a 25-0 run midway through the second quarter. The Bucks are going to present the Celtics with a lot of defensive challenges this year and Boston is going to be in a heap of trouble if they aren’t hitting their jump shots against them on any night.
Still, the biggest development on Thursday night was not the loss by the Celtics itself. Instead, it was the strategic rest maneuver that Joe Mazzulla pulled in the second half. Rather than wasting minutes chasing an improbable comeback, Mazzulla simply elected to sit everyone in the second half. No starter played more than 21 minutes.
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“It’s tough,” Mazzulla told reporters in Milwaukee of his choice. “They want to play; they prepared. Again, it was my decision. It wasn’t theirs. At the end of the day, it’s my responsibility to do what’s best for them and the team. If I said, ‘Hey, you want to go out there?’ They’re going to do it. It was me. I told them and I felt like it was my responsibility to do it.”
This maneuver from Mazzulla showed shades of Gregg Popovich resting a contending Spurs squad amid a tough schedule stretch a decade ago. However, the idea of Mazzulla doing this even a year ago would have been far fetched. Back then, the rookie coach was riding his starters for big minutes in wins or losses, even playing them for long stretches in blowout wins to help them to run up big stats.
All that mileage took a toll on this group to various degrees in their loss to the Heat last postseason as they looked like a group that ran out of gas for much of the extended playoff run. One year later, Mazzulla’s attitude with minutes and the regular season has clearly shifted with this decision. Resting guys strategically is becoming more of a priority and it was evident on Thursday night more than ever. If a game is gone, Mazzulla was willing to let it go for the long game. That’s not a leap he was willing to make for much of last season.
For the Celtics to be in prime form entering the postseason this year though, this is the right mindset to have. A loss to the Bucks hurts in the standings but there’s no need to make it worse by wearing down an already tired group with more minutes. Getting ready for the Rockets on Saturday took priority once the game was out of reach even if resulted in the white flag being waved earlier than expected.
Mazzulla may not be perfect but this type of evolution in his thinking bodes quite well for the Celtics’ title chances this year. Boston can be well rested and still take home the top seed in the East in the regular season by the time April rolls around. Decisions like we saw on Thursday night should help with that process. |
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| Israeli-American Thought to Be a Hostage Was Killed on Oct. 7, Her Family Says | Judih Weinstein Haggai, a 70-year-old who was believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, was actually killed during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, her family and Kibbutz Nir Oz said in statements on Thursday.
Ms. Haggai’s husband, Gadi Haggai, had also been listed as a hostage but the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum announced last week that he, too, was killed in the attacks.
The forum said the couple were shot while on their morning walk through the fields of the kibbutz, and that Ms. Haggai had managed to inform friends that they had been injured, her husband critically so.
Ms. Haggai was, in fact, fatally wounded, and her death has now been confirmed, Kibbutz Nir Oz said on Thursday. Its statement did not specify how it learned that she had died in the attack.
The couple’s bodies are being held by Hamas, according to the kibbutz, their family and the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum. The groups said the couple were citizens of both Israel and the United States, and that Ms. Haggai also had Canadian citizenship.
President Biden said he and Jill Biden, the first lady, were holding the couple’s “four children, seven grandchildren and other loved ones close to our hearts.”
“I will never forget what their daughter, and the family members of other Americans held hostage in Gaza, have shared with me,” he said in a statement. “They have been living through hell for weeks.”
Ms. Haggai would be remembered “for the creative life she built with her husband,” her family said, adding that “their murders are a reminder for leaders everywhere to bring the hostages home now before it is too late.” |
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| USMNT vs. Slovenia: Free stream, start time, TV, how to watch soccer | The United States Men’s Soccer Team is back in action today as they take on Slovenia in an international friendly match. Saturday’s match will air on TV via TNT. Viewers can watch soccer matches for free by signing up for a trial of DirecTV. Fans can also find cheap streaming plans via Sling.
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It’s the first match of 2024 for the US men’s team as they gear up for an exhibition against Slovenia. U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter’s roster for the January matchup features a number of new faces. Team USA will be incorporating some rising talents into the mix, with 14 players set to get their first appearance for the national team.
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What time does the match start? What TV channel will it air on? - Saturday’s match will start at 3 p.m. EST from Toyota Field in San Antonio Texas. The match will air in English via TNT and in Spanish via Telemundo.
Streaming options: DirecTV | Sling | MAX - Fans can watch the match for free by signing up for a trial of DirecTV. Meanwhile, Sling offers one of the cheapest streaming options available. The match is also available to stream in Spanish via Peacock and fuboTV.
Viewers who have a cable subscription can also use login credentials from their TV provider to watch via TNT. |
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| New Hope and an Old Hurdle for a Terrible Disease With Terrible Treatments | But there is no money to be made on a drug for a condition that overwhelmingly affects the poor, and academic or public health institutes rarely have the resources to push a drug through to the end of the process, said Marcela Vieira, a Brazilian intellectual property lawyer with an expertise in drug development and access.
The global drug development system has long favored private sector firms that can bankroll experiments and diseases that afflict people with money to pay for treatments. Increasingly, new research on diseases such as leishmaniasis is coming from public sector and academic institutions in middle-income countries, particularly Brazil, South Africa, India, Cuba and China, Ms. Vieira said. The Covid-19 pandemic, during which low- and middle-income countries were shunted to the back of the line for vaccines and therapeutics, helped spur new investment into building drug development and production capacity.
“We need to do it, because no one will do it for us,” said Dr. Juliana Quintero, an expert in leishmaniasis and researcher at PECET.
The program’s research labs sit six floors up in a bulky brick building at the University of Antioquia in Medellín. On the ground floor, Dr. Quintero sees patients who arrive on buses from rural towns. She knows that few can afford to stay in the city for a month of injections; she wants a treatment she can send home with them, ideally one they can take by mouth. Because funds for drug development for leishmaniasis are so scarce, she hopes for something that will work for every one of the 22 parasites in the family that cause variations of the disease in tropical countries around the world. |
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| The restaurants Barbara Lynch is closing meant something to Boston | It wasn’t, therefore, a staggering surprise when the Barbara Lynch Collective announced in a press release Friday that it would close the high-end Menton and Lynch’s other Congress Street properties, Sportello and Drink. The company said the Butcher Shop and Stir in the South End were under agreement for sale, while No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, and the Rudder in Gloucester remained in business.
The last years have been troubled ones for Barbara Lynch, one of Boston’s most acclaimed chefs. Many of her difficulties — as with her successes — have been self-made. The Globe and The New York Times reported on accusations of workplace abuse and harassment by employees. Kitchen staff at Menton walked off the job. Two former workers sued Lynch, alleging she shorted them on tips earlier in the pandemic. The Butcher Shop closed for summer break, then remained dark. All of this played out against a backdrop of challenges across the board for the hospitality industry: high rents, high food costs, a crushing labor shortage, a downtown altered by a pandemic.
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It is bad if people are bad to their employees. Full stop. It is bad if leaders are bad at leading, and if managers are bad at managing. It is bad if powerful people and institutions don’t take accountability for their mistakes. (And I didn’t even have to go to Harvard to learn this.) Lynch’s press release is an exercise in deflection, blaming the closures on landlords, middle management, Boston itself — everyone but the boss, whom it praises for handing out toilet paper to staff during the pandemic.
Now let’s hold some complicated realities together at the same time. Because people are complicated realities.
Lynch is one of the most talented restaurateurs Boston has produced. She can cook incredibly delicious food. She can envision a concept that’s just right at just the right moment, and make it look like she invented it, though there may be no new thing under the heat lamp. Many years ago, when I was scraping by as a temp, I convinced my visiting mother to take me to dinner at Galleria Italiana, where Lynch was the up-and-coming executive chef. It was the best meal I’d ever had in Boston. Two years later, Lynch opened No. 9 Park. She was part of a wave of chefs — Jody Adams, Todd English, Gordon Hamersley, Lydia Shire, Jasper White, et al. — who put the city on the culinary map for something beyond chowdah.
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Although No. 9 and Menton feature Lynch in high-end ambition mode, it is the middle-ground properties that show her at her actual best. The Butcher Shop, a multifunction restaurant/butchery/wine bar/market, was ahead of its time. Likewise B&G, predating a groundswell of modern, upscale oyster bars and the general all-around eating of raw things from the sea. Drink, a bespoke cocktail bar where guests ordered by flavor profile, was a game-changer right when the craft cocktail scene was taking off. Sportello, a stylish diner putting out craveable Italian-inspired food, would fit in in any city (but Lynch never looks anywhere but homeward).
These places changed the tenor of the local dining scene, remade it into something better — more interesting, forward-looking, and fun. Each had a sensibility all its own.
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Lynch is a painter. Her work, too, has a distinct sensibility. As much as she is a chef, she is an artist. For her, food is a medium; the spaces in which we consume it are a medium. Artists aren’t known for being good at keeping businesses profitable, or managing staff, or maintaining relationships, or hacking their way to health and productivity via apps, diet, exercise, and immaculate self-care. Good art, or good work, doesn’t and shouldn’t earn problematic behavior a pass. But whether we are obliged to throw the good into the oubliette in the face of problematic behavior — well, that is a question we get to wrestle with as individuals and as a culture until the end of days.
Menton, a French restaurant owned by Barbara Lynch. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
I gave Menton the maximum of four stars in a 2010 review, but I’m not sure I would have bet on its still being open more than a decade later. It was ambitious, expensive, off the beaten path, and demanding of the kind of consistency that’s hard to maintain in the best circumstances. But I will truly miss Sportello, which I recommended to so many people over the years and where the staff was unfailingly warm. I loved the Butcher Shop, where one could cozily gnaw a bone-in ribeye while drinking a generous pour of red. I hadn’t been to Drink in a dog’s age, and perhaps that exemplifies the problem, but there was a time when I was there frequently, soaking in its underground, Tokyo-esque aesthetic. I appreciated the coterie of excellent bartenders who trained there, then dispersed to make drinks and train others at bars all over the area.
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“Boston is no longer the same place where I opened seven restaurants over the last 25 years. Properties have been flipped and flipped and the landlords just want the rents that only national chains can sustain,” Lynch said in the press release announcing the closures. There is some basic truth in this, and it extends to other cities as well. We shouldn’t expect or want Boston to be the place it was 25 years ago. But we can miss the fertile climate that allowed so many independent restaurants to take root and thrive.
Devra First can be reached at devra.first@globe.com. Follow her @devrafirst. |
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| Ex-Haymarket Cafe employees claim unsafe work conditions; owners GoFundMe raises $25k+ | Growing up in Leverett, Camila Hwang-Carlos, 24, said one of her favorite traditions was a weekly “girls’ night” with her mother at Haymarket Cafe in Northampton.
But years later, when she began working at the cafe in July 2022, the business turned from a special place filled with positive memories into what she described as an unsafe working environment. |
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| RI man loses out to NC woman to become 1st Powerball millionaire of 2024 | A new episode of “Love After Lockup” will air on Friday, Jan. 12 on WE Tv at 9 p.m. ET.
The new episode can also be streamed live on Philo, DirecTV Stream and fuboTV. All platforms offer a free trial for those interested in signing up for an account.
“Love After Lockup” is said to be a spin off from WE Tv’s “Love During Lockup” as couples navigate their love lives through prison. The show will show inmates struggle to keep their love through video dates, letters and phone calls. But there’s no telling who can and can’t handle the cell wall that separates the couples.
In the new episode, “Tayler confronts Chance; Melissa reveals secret surgery plans. Tensions flare as Kerok seeks Bri’s family’s acceptance. Shavel’s shower explodes as the mothers-in-law face off again. Mike comes clean; Blaine’s confession sends Lindsay spiraling.”
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| Woman accused of posing as Boston student used identity of child in state custody as alias, prosecutors say | What would suicide by bat look like? Only a comedian would think long and hard on the subject. In “From Bleak to Dark” (Max), Marc Maron imagines it as pitiful, anguished and riotously comic. This act-out, coming at the end of a special haunted by death, operates like the scene in Hunter S. Thompson’s book on the Hells Angels in which Thompson, after spending months hanging out with the biker gang, describes getting beat up by them. It’s a perverse catharsis.
Best Online Roaster
The arch-elitist Dan Rosen has created his own critical beat on Instagram, doing stylish and ruthless insult comedy on tasteless interior design, hack décor and shallow architecture. Projecting his face over photos of celebrity homes, he displays an acute eye for overdone trends (anyone with a green kitchen should be ashamed) and a knack for the perfect put-down (“the granny couch”). He compares Chris Brown’s floors to a bowling ball, then says: “I would say it’s the worst crime he ever committed” before a pause.
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“I moved to America this year,” Sophie Buddle said at the start of her “Tonight Show” set in April. “I wanted to see it before it ends.” Then she sucked in her bottom lip and giggled. This chirpy, comic maintains a steady nervous chuckle while joking about masturbation and annoying Los Angeles types. But she knows what she’s doing, finding fresh spins on familiar subjects. She is part of a long line of cheerfully raunchy young comics, and her sneaky jokes are full of sharp elbows. When talking about the United States, there’s pity in her voice that feels like revenge for so many years of American comic condescension toward our northern neighbor.
Best Take on Crowd Work
In a short Netflix set commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Improv club, Deon Cole lays into how comics repeatedly ask audiences to do things like “give it up for the ladies.” Looking besieged, he says, “Got me wasting my claps.”
Best Response to a Beeping Cellphone
Upon hearing that familiar sound during his recent hour, Joe Pera responded in a deadpan, “You just ruined my life,” then kept it moving.
Best Impression
That the John Mulaney special “Baby J” (on Netflix) manages to live up to expectations is a feat, considering he addresses his much-publicized stint in rehab and, less so, his equally talked-about divorce. His re-creation of his star-studded intervention shows off a multitude of niche accents. And yet, he gets the biggest laughs going broad and traditional with his Al Pacino take. One distinctive voice nails another. |
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| Blocked Toilets Close Eton, Boarding School for Britains Elite Sons | “Following extensive flooding in the region, the Thames Water sewers which serve the town of Eton flooded,” the school said in a statement to The New York Times on Wednesday. “Therefore boys could not return for the scheduled start of term on 9 January, and the College has moved to remote teaching. We are in regular contact with Thames Water as they seek to resolve the situation, and we look forward to welcoming boys back as soon as possible.”
The statement discreetly avoided using the word “toilet.”
“The sewers in the center of Eton won’t cope with the arrival of nearly 1,350 boys,” it said in a slightly more frank letter to parents reported by Bloomberg and other news media outlets. It costs 50,000 British pounds per year, or about $63,500, for boys ages 13 to 18 to attend the school just outside London.
There has been significant flooding in England this month after heavy rainfall. The Thames in some places reached water levels not seen in a decade.
The utility company Thames Water had warned earlier in the week that the weeks of rainfall and high ground water levels had “put huge pressure on our sewers and pumping stations. Water is entering our network above and below ground, and flows from flooded rivers are adding to the problem in some areas.”
In a statement about the Eton closure on Wednesday to The Press Association, the company said: “We are sorry to staff and students who have been impacted. Our teams will be carrying out a cleanup in the coming days once the river levels recede.” |
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| Things to know about Minnesotas new state flag and seal | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Love it, hate it or yawn at it, Minnesota is set to get a new state flag this spring that echoes its motto of being the North Star State, replacing an old flag that brought up painful memories of conquest and displacement for Native Americans.
During the monthslong selection process, some publicly submitted designs gained cult followings on social media but didn’t make the final cut. They included: a loon – the state bird – with lasers for eyes; a photo of someone’s dog; famous paintings of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln; and an image of a rather large mosquito.
Instead, the flag design adopted in December includes a dark blue shape resembling Minnesota on the left, with a white, eight-pointed North Star on it. On the right is a light blue field that to those involved in the selection process symbolizes the abundant waters that help define the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
The new state seal features a loon amid wild rice, to replace the image of a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with a rifle at the ready. The seal was a key feature of the old flag, hence the pressure for changing both.
Unless the Legislature votes to reject the new emblems, which seems unlikely, they will become official May 11. Other states are also considering or have already made flag changes. Here are things to know about Minnesota’s new flag and seal, and how the debate unfolded.
Why this design?
The flag was designed by committee — a commission that included design experts and members of tribal and other communities of color. More than 2,600 proposals were submitted by the public. The commission picked one by Andrew Prekker, 24, of Luverne, as the base design.
The main changes the commission made were rotating the star by 22.5 degrees so it pointed straight north, and replacing the original light blue, white and green stripes with a solid, light blue field. The significance of the light blue area is up to the beholder. The original Dakota name for Minnesota, Mni Sóta Makoce, which will go on the new seal, can be translated as “where the water meets the sky.” The commission’s chairman, Luis Fitch, said that to him, the light blue represents the Mississippi River, which originates in Minnesota, pointing to the North Star.
The criticism
It’s fair to say that much of the public reaction to the new flag fell into the category of “meh” or worse when the design adoption was announced. But supporters of the new flag hope it will grow on people. It’s not like many people were particularly attached to the old flag.
Some criticism circulated by conservatives has been inaccurate. The flag does not resemble that of Somalia nor of its Puntland region.
While it’s true that both the original design and the Puntland flag had light blue, white and green stripes in the same order, the commission dropped the stripes in favor of simplicity and symmetry. And it’s a stretch to say the final version bears much resemblance to the Somali national flag, which is a solid light blue with a white, five-pointed star right in the center. The state Democratic Party chairman issued a news release taking one GOP lawmaker to task for fueling the spread of the misinformation on social media.
Two Republican lawmakers who were nonvoting members of the commission objected to putting the Dakota name for Minnesota on the seal. They said they will propose letting voters decide up or down this November. That proposal is unlikely to get traction in the Democratic-controlled Legislature. And Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon, a commissioner who backed both designs, said a referendum would probably be unconstitutional.
Additionally, Aaron Wittnebel — a voting member of the commission for the Ojibwe community — said in a minority report last week that adopting the Dakota phrase on the seal “favors the Dakota people over other groups of peoples in Minnesota.”
The praise
While the new flag might strike some critics as uninspired — and a waste of time and the $35,000 budgeted for the commission — the change is important to many Native Americans in a state where there are 11 federally recognized Ojibwe and Dakota tribes.
“Dare I say anything that’s not a Native person being forced off their land is a flag upgrade?!” tweeted Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. “Excited to have a new state flag that represents every Minnesotan.”
Democratic state Sen. Mary Kunesh, a descendant of the Standing Rock Lakota, was a chief author of the bill that launched the redesign and a nonvoting member of the commission. She said in a statement that the more than 2,600 submissions and the lively public debate showed that Minnesotans care deeply about their state.
“It was an incredible experience to see our community’s energy and passion captured in the beautiful designs they submitted,” Kunesh said. “From loons and wild rice to water and the North Star, we have captured the essence of our state in the new flag and seal. These designs honor our history and celebrate the future of Minnesota.”
One Indigenous graphic designer is already selling T-shirts online that bear the new design and say, “At least the flag isn’t racist anymore.”
Ted Kaye, secretary of the North American Vexillological Association, who studies flags and was involved in the redesign, has said the new Minnesota flag gets an “A+” from him for its simplicity, uniqueness and inclusion of meaningful symbols.
The rest of the country
Several other states also have been redesigning flags.
The Utah Legislature last winter approved a design featuring a beehive, a symbol of the prosperity and the industriousness of its Mormon pioneers. Mississippi chose a new flag with a magnolia to replace a Confederate-themed flag. Other states considering simplifying their flags include Michigan, Illinois and Maine.
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Associated Press writer Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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| 5 legends who beat Michael Jordan in the NBA Playoffs (Including Sidney Moncrief) | Michael Jordan also took his lumps early in his career in the NBA. In Jordan’s first three years in the postseason, he was swept twice and won just one game during that span. The Boston Celtics, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Detroit Pistons just had the Chicago Bulls’ number before the ‘90s.
Jordan was already a great player and a scoring machine even in his first few seasons in the NBA. Before the 1991 championship, “His Airness” averaged 32.8 PPG, 6.3 APG, 6.0 APG, 2.8 SPG and 1.1 BPG. The superstar guard had earned MVP and Defensive Player of the Year honors during that stretch. He was a six-time All-Star and the scoring champion for four straight seasons.
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Still, there were those who he couldn’t overcome or had trouble beating in the playoffs.
Here are a few players who outplayed Michael Jordan in the postseason
#5 Sidney Moncrief
Sidney Moncrief was a two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year winner who starred for the Milwaukee Bucks in Michael Jordan’s first playoff series. The seventh-seeded Chicago Bulls were the underdogs against the second-ranked Bucks.
Moncrief was the Bucks’ primary defender versus Jordan in the series. “Air Jordan” still averaged 29.3 PPG, 8.5 APG, 5.8 APG, 2.8 SPG and 1.0 BPG. He was arguably the best player on both ends of the floor but could only manage to lead the Bulls to a single win in the series.
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Sidney Moncrief’s defensive duties did not stop him from averaging 26.5 PPG, 4.8 APG and 4.5 RPG.
#4 Terry Cummings
One of Sidney Moncrief’s teammates on the Bucks team that booted out the Chicago Bulls in 1985 was Terry Cummings. Before he became a journeyman, the two-time All-Star was a big part of Milwaukee’s success in the ‘80s.
Cummings only had to guard Jordan on switches or help defense. The power forward was a thorn in the Bulls’ side as he led the Bucks in scoring (29.5 PPG) and rebounding (9.3 RPG).
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Michael Jordan’s first playoff series didn’t end too well partly because of Terry Cummings.
#3 Dennis Johnson
In 1986, Michael Jordan’s second year in the playoffs, he led the Chicago Bulls to the eighth seed in the Western Conference. Waiting for them was none other than Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics.
The Celtics were looking to avenge their painful 1985 championship loss to the LA Lakers. Chicago, on paper, looked like a stepping stone for them.
Dennis Johnson, Boston’s defensive stalwart and playmaker, was the Celtics’ first option on defense against Jordan. It was this series that Michael Jordan showed he was for real. In Game 2, he erupted for a record-high 63 points. Larry Bird called Jordan “God” in sneakers in that game.
Still, Johnson had a solid series despite the effort it took on the defensive end. He ended up averaging 19.0 PPG, 6.3 APG, 3.3 RPG and 2.0 SPG.
#2 Isiah Thomas
Michael Jordan had a 10-12 postseason record against the Detroit Pistons. Isiah Thomas was a big part of the reason “His Airness” didn’t have a winning win-loss mark against the “Bad Boys.”
Thomas’ Pistons eliminated the Bulls in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Jordan finally got over the hump when the Bulls swept Detroit in 1991. It was a game marred by the now infamous Pistons walkout.
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In 22 playoff games against Jordan, Thomas averaged 18.9 PPG, 8.3 APG and 5.1 RPG. To this day, the animosity between the two legends has only gone bitter.
#1 Larry Bird
Michael Jordan was 6-0 in the NBA Finals. He was also 0-6 in the playoffs against Larry Bird. During that six-game run, “His Airness” was stunningly great. He averaged 39.7 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 5.8 APG, 2.2 SPG and 1.8 BPG. He wasn’t the reason why the Bulls couldn’t get one single win against Bird’s Celtics.
“Larry Legend” was in his prime during Jordan’s early years. Bird averaged 27.2 PPG, 9.0 RPG, 8.5 APG and 1.5 SPG. He was one of those players who outplayed Jordan in a few games they’ve met in the playoffs.
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Bird was the biggest reason the Boston Celtics swept Michael Jordan’s Bulls in two straight seasons. |
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| Boston-based Drizly shutting down its alcohol delivery service | BOSTON — Last call is nearing for Drizly.
The Boston-based company confirmed in a post on X that it’s “slowly” shutting down its alcohol delivery service.
“All good things must come to an end,” Drizly wrote in a statement. “Orders are still open until the end of March. We’ll be sure to let you know when it’s last call.”
Drizly was founded in a Boston College dorm room more than a decade ago when one friend texted another: “Why can’t you get alcohol delivered?”
Uber acquired Drizly in October 2021 for about $1.1 billion. At the time Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, “Uber Eats and Drizly are truly the perfect pairing.”
Drizly recommended that customers order beverages on the Uber Eats app when business ultimately shuts down.
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| 3 Patriots vs. Chiefs predictions | Patrick Mahomes returns to Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon, but his weapons aren’t exactly stockpiled.
The Chiefs will be without top running back Isiah Pacheco, Travis Kelce has begun slowing down at 34, and despite having a generational talent at quarterback, no wideout on the roster has topped 700 receiving yards in mid-December. This isn’t the Kansas City offense fans are accustomed to seeing, but will it still be enough to knock off the woeful 3-10 Patriots?
Let’s get to the predictions and find out:
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1. Mixed bag for Zappe
Eyeing his third start, Bailey Zappe’s self-confidence has become very evident. He’s not afraid to take some risks and throw downfield, and against this Chiefs defense, that may be a blessing and a curse.
“You say cool, calm, and collected mentality but underneath that shell of him, he has a lot of confidence,” Zappe’s mentor Zach Kittley told MassLive this week. “You saw that. That swag and confidence he had when he threw that touchdown to Hunter Henry up the sideline (in Pittsburgh). You saw him get after it and show a lot of emotion. That’s really who he is at heart. He tries to stay even-keeled, but he has a lot of confidence. He really believes in himself.”
The guess here is that confidence crescendos on Sunday and Zappe channels his inner Brett Favre, throwing two touchdown passes and two interceptions. Zappe believers will point to the touchdowns, detractors will bemoan the interceptions, and ultimately the truth will lie somewhere in the middle.
2. Taylor Swift shows up
If readers are sick of Swift, feel free to scroll to prediction No. 3, but like it or not, she’s become a part of the Chiefs game day experience since she began dating Kelce.
The bet here is that she shows up in Foxborough, even though this game was flexed out of Monday Night Football. Gillette is the first NFL stadium she ever played, and the pop star has now headlined more than a dozen shows there.
For what it’s worth, it sounds like Zappe will be pleased when he won’t have to worry about Swift landmines anymore. After saying he wasn’t a fan of hers on Monday, he went out of his way to clarify his feelings on the pop star during his Wednesday afternoon press conference.
“Listen to the whole quote. I said I’m not, not a fan,” Zappe said. “I used to be a fan. I’m a country guy. I listen to country music. She used to be country. There was times where, of course, Taylor Swift’s country songs came on. I’d listen to it. Now she’s moved over to pop. I’m not a pop guy. So, I’m a fan. I just don’t listen to that type of music. So, just to clear that up in there.”
This is life as a 3-10 team at the bottom of the conference in December.
3. Kansas City wins
Despite their attrition on the offensive side of the ball, Mahomes still finds a way to lift the Chiefs to a victory. New England’s offensive line struggles to handle Chris Jones, Zappe gifts Mahomes a couple short fields, and ultimately, Kansas City leaves Gillette Stadium with a 27-17 victory.
Glass half full: The Patriots will still own the No. 2 overall pick heading into Week 16. |
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| Single family residence in North Falmouth sells for $6.1 million | The spacious property located at 35 Sunset Point Road in North Falmouth was sold on Dec. 15, 2023 for $6,084,000, or $1,258 per square foot. The house, built in 1998, has an interior space of 4,835 square feet. This two-story home offers a capacious living environment with its four bedrooms and seven bathrooms. The home's external structure has a gable roof design, covered with asphalt roofing. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. Additionally, the house features an attached garage.
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| Claudine Gay's resignation is a victory for conservative media | The conservative coverage of Gay was a departure from the usual partisan playbook: While there were plenty of the usual appeals to ideology over Gay’s handling of antisemitism on campus, the most distinguishing content was based on vintage news reporting. Gay resigned this week after a series of plagiarism allegations that emerged from the right.
Criticism of Harvard University from conservative quarters would normally find its audience in right-wing echo chambers. But the torrent aimed at president Claudine Gay broke through in a big way, ultimately scoring a rare direct hit against one of the premier institutions in liberal academia.
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“A great scoop can come from anywhere,” said Brian Stelter, a media reporter who previously hosted CNN’s “Reliable Sources” and was a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. “Right wing media historically has talked about others reporting, but done very little reporting on its own.”
Gay was just months into her presidency when she faced an acute crisis over her testimony before Congress in December on campus antisemitism triggered by the Israel-Hamas war. Despite calls for her resignation from outside campus, she received the backing of Harvard’s governing board, which issued a statement of support the following week.
However, her position became more tenuous when the Washington Free Beacon published additional stories that questioned Gay’s academic writings. The ongoing revelations helped fuel growing discontent among Harvard’s students and faculty — some of whom worried the university was holding its president to a lower academic standard than a typical undergraduate.
The outcome points up the complex calculus that an increasingly fragmented media landscape has created for institutions and leaders, who must figure out how to respond to critiques that may raise valid points even when they’re made to advance an agenda.
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Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School who was a former US solicitor general in the Reagan administration, stated the dilemma plainly in an interview on Dec. 20 with The New York Times.
“If it came from some other quarter, I might be granting it some credence,” Fried said of the plagiarism accusations against Gay. “But not from these people.”
Christopher Brunet, who writes a newsletter on Substack and reported some of the key allegations against Gay, said his indignation over what he saw as hypocrisy at Harvard was intensely personal.
“I was angrily blogging about academia, because I got rejected from every PhD program I applied to,” he said in an interview. “That was pretty nakedly my motivation.”
Brunet, a former reporter at the Tucker Carlson-founded website the Daily Caller, cowrote a key article on the Gay allegations that was published on Dec. 10. His fellow author was Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who has hailed Gay’s resignation as “the beginning of the end for DEI in America’s institutions,” referring to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Their article on Rufo’s Substack newsletter alleged Gay plagiarized sections of her PhD dissertation by improperly paraphrasing sections from other works and not using quotation marks around what appeared to be borrowed material.
Brunet said he’s been writing about academic misconduct for years. He had previously written pieces critical of Gay, but those articles never gained any traction. So he turned to Rufo.
“I needed the platform, I needed firepower,” Brunet said. “I brought the plagiarism to him and I was like, ‘Look, I have this story, would you be interested in working on it together?’ And he said yeah.”
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The day after Rufo and Brunet published their article, the Washington Free Beacon — which boasts that it covers “the enemies of freedom the way the mainstream media won’t” — published a story that alleged Gay plagiarized fellow academics in four papers she authored.
But many mainstream news outlets did not publish the allegations of plagiarism until after the Harvard Corporation — the university’s highest governing body — acknowledged them in its statement supporting Gay on Dec. 12. The board said it had conducted an independent analysis and “found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct.” However, it noted Gay had requested several corrections on attribution to two articles.
Interestingly, the impetus for that review had been a media request from the New York Post, which had not yet published any articles about the plagiarism allegations.
The matter, though, was not settled. The Free Beacon published two more articles that detailed additional plagiarism allegations in Gay’s writings.
That the plagiarism allegations against Gay originated from conservative outlets, rather than from mainstream media, wasn’t a huge shock to Susan Walker, an associate professor of journalism at Boston University. She said she’s not sure that “any major news outlet would be reviewing the citations and footnotes of a Harvard president’s dissertation or published academic journal articles.”
Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium said he continued to follow the story in part because “it matters what a massive and heavily publicly subsidized research university is doing.”
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“I think it is relevant what standards it holds its own employees — its own president — to, especially if those standards diverge from the standards to which it holds its own students.”
It wasn’t the first time Sibarium broke a big, national story. In addition to his scoop on Gay, he’s broken news on guidance from the Food and Drug Administration that allowed states to apportion COVID drugs based on race.
In a November article, Politico reported Sibarium is “providing Old School, shoe-leather reporting from a conservative point of view,” with the caveat that, politically, he’s not conservative.
Sibarium said that he believes Gay’s resignation and the plagiarism allegations against her will only increase scrutiny on higher education.
“I’m sure there will be more academic scandals that surface, at least partly in response to this,” Sibarium said. “And I am interested in covering those.”
Mike Damiano of the Globe staff contributed to this story. |
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| You Can Buy Hemingways Typewriter. But Would You Use It? | Like when Mr. Soboroff backed out of a deal with the actress Angelina Jolie, refusing to part with Hemingway’s typewriter after she agreed to pay $250,000 for it. While reports at the time indicated Ms. Jolie was the one to walk away, Mr. Soboroff said he canceled the transaction when he learned that she intended to give the machine to her husband, Brad Pitt, for him to use. Mr. Soboroff might have allowed Mr. Pitt to bang away on Harold Robbins’s or Mae West’s machines, he said, but Hemingway’s typewriter was sacred.
“At that time, I could have used the money,” Mr. Soboroff said. “But nobody’s touching that one. Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter? No chance.”
Now someone else will get the chance to own it, because after two decades bearing the responsibility of protecting, insuring, exhibiting and shipping the typewriters all over the country to promote their legacies, Mr. Soboroff, 75, no longer has the energy for it. And he could still use the money. |
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| Trump wins Iowa, Fox News Decision Desk predicts DeSantis will take second place | Trump predicts ‘tremendous night’ in Iowa caucuses
DES MOINES, Iowa – Former President Donald Trump is optimistic about his showing in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, which lead off the Republican presidential nominating calendar.
“I think we’re going to have a tremendous night tonight. The people are fantastic. I’ve never seen spirit like they have,” Trump told reporters as he departed the Fort Des Moines hotel on Monday afternoon.
Trump is the commanding front-runner in the polls in Iowa and in national surveys in the GOP nomination race as he makes his third straight White House run. He made history last year as the first former or current president to be indicted for a crime, but his four indictments, including charges he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, have only fueled his support among Republican voters.
Trump stood at 50% support or higher in a slew of polls over the past month in Iowa. Additionally, he was at 48% support in the final Des Moines Register/Mediacom/NBC News poll of likely Republican caucusgoers that was released Saturday night. Former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are battling for a distant second place in Iowa, stood at 20% and 16% in the new survey, respectively.
The closely-watched and highly-anticipated survey, conducted by longtime pollster Ann Selzer, has a well-earned tradition of accuracy in past GOP presidential caucuses, and it is considered by many as the gold standard in Iowa polling.
As he departed the hotel, Trump also noted that “we’ve won it twice as you know.” He appeared to be pointing to his carrying Iowa in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. But Trump narrowly lost the Iowa Republican caucuses eight years ago to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The DeSantis and Haley campaigns and their top surrogates and allies in recent days have been spotlighting the high expectations Trump faces in Monday night’s caucuses and have framed anything under 50% support for the former president in Iowa as a setback.
"I think it's going to be bad for President Trump if he doesn't come in over 50. He's not meeting expectations that the media and the polls have been putting out for the past several months," Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds – the top DeSantis surrogate in the Hawkeye State – argued in an interview Monday morning on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
However, Trump and his campaign are taking aim at the high expectations he faces in Iowa.
"No one has ever won the Iowa caucus by more than 12%," Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita told Fox News Digital on Saturday. "I think the public polls are a little rich."
Trump, speaking with reporters on Sunday, said "there seems to be something about 50%."
"I think they're doing it so that they can set a high expectation. So if we end up with 49%, which would be about 25 points bigger than anyone else ever got, they can say, he had a failure, it was a failure. You know fake news," he argued. |
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| Red Soxs most recent trade addition scheduled to appear at winter weekend | Outfielder Tyler O’Neill, who the Red Sox acquired in a trade with the Cardinals on Dec. 8, is one of 20 players scheduled to appear at Winter Weekend Jan 19-20.
The event will take place at MGM Springfield and MassMutual Center.
Triston Casas, Jarren Duran, Trevor Story, Garrett Whitlock, Chris Martin, Tanner Houck, Wilyer Abreu, Brennan Bernardino, Connor Wong, Zack Kelly, Reese McGuire, Chris Murphy, Nick Pivetta, Ceddanne Rafaela, Rob Refsnyder, John Schreiber, Enmanuel Valdez, Josh Winckowski and Brandon Walter also are scheduled to attend.
The Red Sox noted that the list could be updated as the event nears.
Boston sent right-handed pitchers Nick Robertson and Victor Santos to St. Louis for O’Neill, a two-time Gold Glove winner.
The 28-year-old finished eighth in the NL MVP voting in 2021 when he batted .286 with a .352 on-base percentage, .560 slugging percentage, .912 OPS, 34 homers, 26 doubles, two triples, 89 runs, 80 RBIs, 15 steals, 38 walks and 168 strikeouts in 138 games (537 plate appearances). The 2021 season marks the only year he has appeared in more than 96 games. He has been on the injured list 12 different times since 2018.
Red Sox alumni scheduled to attend are David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez, Wade Boggs, Dennis Eckersley, Carlton Fisk, Fred Lynn, Lou Merloni, Jim Rice and Luis Tiant. |
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| The Sunday Read: How an Ordinary Football Game Turns Into the Most Spectacular Thing on TV | Listen and follow The Daily
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Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.”
Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, Brian Melillo, an audio engineer for NBC Sports’ flagship N.F.L. telecast, “Sunday Night Football,” arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening’s game against the Detroit Lions. It was a big occasion: the annual season opener, the N.F.L. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by the winner of last season’s Super Bowl. There would be speeches, fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship banner. A crowd of more than 73,000 was expected. “Arrowhead is a pretty rowdy setting,” Melillo said. “It can present some problems.”
Broadcasting a football game on live television is one of the most complex technical and logistical challenges in entertainment. Jody Rosen went behind the scenes of the mammoth broadcast production. |
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| 4 Takeaways from another Bruins blown lead, OT loss | Matthew Stafford vs. the Lions. Mike McCarthy vs. the Packers. Tyreek Hill vs. the Chiefs.
The NFL’s wild-card weekend is all about reunions and some rematches, too.
Stafford leads the Los Angeles Rams to Detroit to face his old team where he spent 12 seasons and didn’t win a playoff game.
McCarthy’s Dallas Cowboys host Green Bay, the team he led to a Super Bowl title with Aaron Rodgers 13 years ago.
Hill and the Miami Dolphins head to Kansas City, which won one Super Bowl with the dynamic wide receiver and one without him last season.
The upstart Houston Texans take on the Browns for the second time in three weeks and they’ll have sensational rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud under center for this one while veteran Joe Flacco aims to continue his remarkable journey from semi-retirement to Cleveland folk hero.
The Buffalo Bills ride a five-game winning streak into their matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who won their last three games and got the help they needed to get into the postseason.
Lastly, the Monday night game features two teams who just met in the playoffs two years ago and faced each other in Week 3. The defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles slump into the playoffs after losing five of six following a 10-1 start. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won five of their last six to clinch a third straight NFC South title.
Three of the six games are within a 3-point spread, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Pro Picks looks to carry momentum from a strong regular season into the playoffs.
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CLEVELAND at HOUSTON
Line: Browns minus 2 1/2
Flacco is 4-1 since the Browns (11-6) called him off his couch to become the team’s fourth starting QB this season. Myles Garrett has led the NFL’s No. 1 defense but the Browns are a different team away from home. They gave up the most points in the NFL on the road this season, 29.6 per game.
Stroud, who sat out a 36-22 loss to Cleveland in Houston on Dec. 24, came back from injury to lead the Texans (10-7) to a victory with another impressive performance in an elimination game last Saturday night at Indianapolis.
Houston couldn’t stop Amari Cooper in a 36-22 loss in Week 16. He had 11 catches for a franchise-record 265 yards. Expect Texans coach DeMeco Ryans to find a way to slow down Cooper but the Browns will still emerge on top.
BROWNS, 24-20
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MIAMI at KANSAS CITY
Line: Chiefs minus 4
Patrick Mahomes and the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs (11-6) sure missed Hill this season. Mahomes couldn’t overcome mediocre wide receivers and Kansas City slipped to a No. 3 seed. Mahomes will still most likely have to play his first career road playoff game at some point if the Chiefs advance but they’re home Saturday night and it’ll be cold.
Tua Tagovailoa and the high-octane Dolphins (11-6) missed out on the No. 2 seed by losing their last two games. They couldn’t do much against Kansas City’s stingy defense in a 21-14 loss in Germany in Week 9.
This one should come down to the final minutes.
CHIEFS, 23-22
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PITTSBURGH at BUFFALO
Line: Bills minus 10
Josh Allen and the Bills (11-6) have come a long way since they were 6-6. They’ve won five straight games, including a road victory last week in Miami for the AFC East title.
They won’t have to face superstar edge rusher T.J. Watt, who is sidelined with a knee injury. The Steelers (10-7) are sticking with QB Mason Rudolph, who has led them to three straight wins.
Bills coach Sean McDermott and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin have a strong connection going back to playing football together at William & Mary.
No. 7 seeds are 0-6 vs. No. 2 seeds and have been outscored 196-123 since the NFL added the extra playoff teams in 2020.
The Bills should run away with this one.
BILLS, 30-17
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GREEN BAY at DALLAS
Line: Cowboys minus 7 1/2
Dak Prescott and the Cowboys are 8-0 at home so overcoming a two-game deficit in the standings and beating out Philadelphia for the NFC East title was crucial for them.
The Prescott-CeeDee Lamb connection has been on a roll this season for Dallas (12-5). Micah Parsons and a tough defense will make things difficult for Packers QB Jordan Love, who makes his first career playoff start.
The teams have met eight times in the playoffs, each winning four games.
Three straight wins to close out the season put the Packers (9-8) in this position, but Dallas has won six games at home by at least 20 points or more.
COWBOYS, 31-20
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LOS ANGELES RAMS at DETROIT
Line: Lions minus 3
The Rams (10-7) enter the playoffs as a dangerous team in a season that started with low expectations. Sean McVay has won a Super Bowl, but this could be his best coaching job yet.
Stafford has been outstanding for much of the season. Rookie receiver Puka Nacua and running back Kyren Williams have been revelations. On the defensive side, star tackle Aaron Donald is having another excellent season.
But the Lions (12-5) matched a single-season franchise record for victories and won a division title for the first time in 30 years. Former Rams QB Jared Goff has led a powerful offense that could be missing rookie tight end Sam LaPorta, who has an injured knee. Goff may have to depend more on Amon-Ra St. Brown and his running backs.
UPSET SPECIAL: RAMS, 27-26
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PHILADELPHIA at TAMPA BAY
Line: EAGLES minus 3
The talk in fickle Philly is whether coach Nick Sirianni should be fired despite going 34-17 in his first three seasons and almost winning the Super Bowl last year. Jalen Hurts has regressed, the defense is struggling and there’s some finger-pointing in the locker room.
The Buccaneers (9-8) barely managed to get here with a 9-0 win over lowly Carolina last week, but they’ve played inspired ball over the past six weeks.
Baker Mayfield revived his career in Tampa and Mike Evans and Chris Godwin could give the Eagles’ beleaguered secondary trouble. Rachaad White has become an all-purpose back for the Buccaneers and he can create matchup mismatches.
Still, the Eagles (11-6) are the more talented team. They dominated the Buccaneers on the road in a Monday night game in Week 3 and have a chance to start fresh in the playoffs.
BEST BET: EAGLES, 26-18
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Last week: Straight up: 11-5. Against spread: 11-5
Final regular season: Straight up: 168-104. Against spread: 144-118-10.
Best Bet: Straight up: 9-9. Against spread: 6-11-1.
Upset Special: Straight up: 8-10. Against spread: 10-8. |
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| Update to Four Infants found in Freezer on East Broadway Last Year | A person whose body was found in a basement apartment in Lawrence Tuesday appears to have been killed, according to authorities.
Essex County District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Lawrence Acting Chief of Police William Castro announced in a press release Tuesday evening they are investigating an apparent homicide but assure people there is no “ongoing threat to the public.”
Lawrence Police were called to a basement apartment at 243 Salem St. for a well-being check at about 7:48 a.m. Dec. 26. Officers found an unresponsive person who was pronounced dead at the scene, the press release said.
Officials did not name the person or indicate the gender, although NBC10 Boston has reported sources told the media outlet the body was that of a woman.
Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and the Lawrence Police Department are investigating the death as “an apparent homicide.” Officials did not anticipate releasing any other information Tuesday night. |
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| Arts Beat: Tickets on sale for short plays, Big Broadcast, symphony shows | Reggie Wells, who parlayed a background in fine art into a trailblazing career as a makeup artist for Oprah Winfrey, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Michelle Obama and other Black celebrities, died on Monday in Baltimore. He was 76.
His death was confirmed by his niece Kristina Conner, who did not specify a cause or say where he died.
For Mr. Wells, every face was a canvas to explore. One of his most famous clients was Ms. Winfrey, for whom he worked as a personal makeup artist for more than 20 years at the height of her television career. |
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| Trumps Classified Documents Inquiry | Molly Michael, a former assistant to Donald Trump, told investigators he had instructed her not to tell them about classified files he kept at Mar-a-Lago: “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
By Maggie Haberman and |
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| In Israel, U.S. Aide Denies Talk of a Rift Over Gaza War | Days after President Biden said Israel was losing support for its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, the president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on Friday played down differences between the two allies after meetings with Israel’s top leaders.
“We’re not here to tell anybody, ‘You must do X, you must do Y,’” Mr. Sullivan told reporters in Tel Aviv, the latest emissary from the Biden administration to visit Israel to discuss the war.
His remarks came on the same day that the Israeli military said its soldiers had accidentally killed three Israeli hostages in what it described as an “active combat zone.” During fighting in Shejaiya, a neighborhood in Gaza City, troops “mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat,” the military said in a statement. “As a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed.”
The military said it realized the error during checks in the area and “suspicion arose over the identities of the deceased.” |
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| North Jersey Towns, Already Swamped, Brace for More Heavy Rain | Several New Jersey communities were bracing on Friday for more rain and flooding after a winter storm earlier in the week caused several rivers in the northern part of the state to overflow.
North Jersey was predicted to get up to 1.5 inches of rain Friday night, adding to the residual flooding still lingering in the area, the National Weather Service said. Some areas along the Passaic and Raritan Rivers remained underwater after the heavy rains on Tuesday. Even in places where flooding had receded, the ground was still saturated, the Weather Service said.
On Friday afternoon, Gov. Phil Murphy warned residents of the affected areas that the Passaic River was already “well above flood level” and expected to rise another one to two feet by Sunday. In messages posted online, Mr. Murphy urged residents to follow local officials’ guidance and to avoid driving Friday night.
Inspecting flood damage in Little Falls in Passaic County on Thursday, Mr. Murphy said at a news conference that more needed to be done to address the chronic flooding that plagues many New Jersey towns. |
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| Tag: Lewiston, Maine mass shootings NBC Boston | The last of the 13 patients that arrived at Central Maine Medical Center after the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine has been released from the hospital. As it has become tradition, the person was released with CMMC employees applauding their exit during their sendoff. The patient now prepares to continue his recovery at home, just before Christmas. “This is an… |
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| Chinas Economy Grew Last Year, but Strains Lurk Behind the Numbers | Car production set records in China last year. Restaurants and hotels were increasingly full. Construction of new factories surged.
Yet China’s economic strengths conceal weaknesses. Deep discounts helped drive car sales, particularly for electric cars. Diners and travelers chose cheaper dishes and less expensive hotels. Many factories ran at half capacity or less because of weak demand inside China, and are working to export more to make up for it.
China’s economy grew 5.2 percent last year as it rebounded from nearly three years of stringent “zero Covid” pandemic control measures, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Wednesday. During the final three months of the year, output rose at an annual pace of 4.1 percent.
Longer term, China’s growth is slowing. High debt, a housing crisis that has undermined confidence, and a shrinking and aging work force are weighing on output. |
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| How Do You Respond to a Young Person Upset by Racist Jokes at School? | Within that small cocoon of privacy, I’ve had a young woman sob in my arms after saying: “Those girls you wrote about must have felt so heard. But nobody listened when it happened to me!” I’ve heard the stories of young people who were the targets of everything from racist remarks to violent bullying. I’ve fielded questions about free speech and the role anger plays in the emotional health of victims.
“I did not want to write about my experiences with racism,” Jeena Ann Kidambi, an eighth grader from Framingham, Mass., wrote in an essay about the girls, Ana and A., featured in the Times article because they were targeted by the racist Instagram account. Like A., she wrote, “I did not want to dwell on those memories. However, by writing this essay and embracing my emotions on the subject, I gained closure and released myself from anger’s chokehold.” (The essay won a contest in her school district sponsored by the Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival at Framingham State University.)
At one school, a girl spoke so softly that I had to lean close to hear her. Haltingly, with her eyes fixed on the ground, she asked how people could make amends for a harm they caused if the person harmed wouldn’t speak to them. She didn’t tell me what she had done, but I could see that it haunted her — both the guilt over the injury she had caused and the fear she would be punished in perpetuity.
I think about this girl often, wishing I had a better answer to give her. At every school I visit, I remind students that they are works in progress, that during their teenage years they will both be harmed and cause harm, and that they have the capacity to survive both. And each time, I walk away struck by how vulnerable they are to forces that they neither created nor control.
Dashka Slater is a writer in California with a focus on teenagers and criminal justice. Her book “The 57 Bus,” a New York Times best seller, was based on an article she wrote for the magazine in 2015 and went on to win a 2018 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. |
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| Pat McAfee Apologizes Over Role in Aaron Rodgers-Jimmy Kimmel Feud | Pat McAfee on Wednesday apologized for airing comments that Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made toward Jimmy Kimmel on McAfee’s ESPN television show a day earlier suggesting the late-night talk show host had a connection to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“Some things obviously people get very pissed off about, especially when they’re that serious allegations,” McAfee said. “So we apologize for being a part of it. I can’t wait to hear what Aaron has to say about it. Hopefully those two will just be able to settle this, you know, not work-wise, but be able to chitchat and move along.”
Speaking on his weekly Tuesday appearance on McAfee’s television show on ESPN, Rodgers, a four-time winner of the N.F.L.’s Most Valuable Player Award, suggested that Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC, was acquainted with Epstein, who was accused of having sex with minors and in 2019 died by suicide while in jail. Epstein was a longtime friend to powerful politicians and business executives, and the names of some of his associates are expected to be publicly released soon in court documents.
“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, really hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers said on McAfee’s show. Kimmel denied the allegations on X, formerly known as Twitter, and threatened potential legal action against Rodgers. |
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| Police: Man accused of killing officer, National Grid worker intentionally tried to hit other officers | Police claim a New Hampshire man facing charges in connection with the death of a Waltham police officer and a National Grid worker also tried to “intentionally” hit other police officers while he was running from officials Wednesday.
Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, N.H., crashed through a worksite on Totten Pond Road at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, killing Waltham Police Officer Paul Tracey, 58, and a National Grid worker, identified in court as Roderick Jackson, 36, of Cambridge, and injuring two other utility employees, authorities said. |
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| What time, TV channel is Michigan vs Washington football game on? Free live stream, CFP championship spread, odds (1/8/2024) | All eyes are on the Michigan Wolverines and Washington Huskies this Monday night in college football’s championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Michael Penix Jr. and JJ McCarthy have led their teams this far and don’t plan on slowing down. McCarthy was 213 of 287 (74.2%) for 2,630 yards and 19 touchdowns to four interceptions this season, adding 57 carries for 146 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Penix entered the Sugar Bowl with 4,218 yards and tossed 33 touchdowns to just nine interceptions.
Penix and the Huskies beat Texas in that one while McCathy and the Wolverines beat Alabama in the Rose Bowl to get to the CFP title game.
Fans looking to watch this college football bowl game can do so for free on fuboTV, which offers a free trial (as well as RedZone, for you NFL fans) or on DirecTV Stream, which also offers a free trial. SlingTV has promotional offers available, as well. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.
Who: Michigan Wolverines vs Washington Huskies
When: 7:30 PM ET, January 8, 2024
Where: NRG Stadium, Houston
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Surge of betting for CFP semifinals, but short of setting records
By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The combination of a strong College Football Playoff field and the semifinals being on New Year’s Day sparked a surge in betting, but not to the level hoped for by sportsbooks.
There was anticipation records would be set, but the semifinals being played on a Monday likely kept that from happening.
“Last year’s numbers were really disappointing as the games were played on (New Year’s Eve),” Jay Kornegay, vice president of race and sports operations at Westgate Las Vegas, said in a text message. “This year with the game on NYD, plus the name brands participating, we expected huge numbers. We almost doubled last year’s handle but didn’t set a record. We’ll have to wait for these games to be played on a Saturday before we discuss records.”
The national championship between Michigan and Washington for the national championship will be Monday in Houston.
Both teams got there by surviving scintillating semifinals. The Wolverines used a defensive stand to beat Alabama 27-20 in overtime and the Huskies watched a two-possession lead disappear before finally denying Texas late for a 37-31 victory.
Joey Feazel, who heads college football betting for Caesars Sportsbook, said betting was up for the semifinals largely because more states have legalized sports wagering. But he said the average bets were up.
HUSKIES GETTING LOVE
Michigan is a 4 1/2-point favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook, but it’s Washington that is driving the early action.
The Huskies are getting 64% of the bets and 62% of money to cover the spread, and 73% of bets are on Washington to win outright. The handle, though, is evenly split for the money line, which lists the Wolverines at minus-194 ($194 to win $100) and plus-160 ($100 to win $160) for Washington.
Feazel said money from casual bettors is on Washington at Caesars locations on the 4 1/2-point spread, but there is money from the professional bettors coming for the total, causing it to drop from 56 points to 55 1/2.
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“I think just the respect Michigan’s defense has,” Feazel said. “So not a lot of movement yet. Usually, we don’t see a big movement until day of for these type of games. But right now the public is remembering the dominating Washington performance and they’re betting Washington in this one.”
INJURY HAS LITTLE EFFECT
The uncertainty over whether Huskies running back Dillon Johnson, who has been battling a foot injury, plays is of little consequence to the betting line. Coach Kalen DeBoer said he expected Johnson to play.
Feazel said Michigan’s strong run defense helps lessen Johnson’s impact on the betting line.
“I think we do tend to see sometimes when someone’s announced as out, you’ll see just some line movement whether it’s warranted or not,” Feazel said. “But in this case, I don’t see much of a difference between this running back and the backup running back, at least for how Washington’s going to want to play this game, how they played against a good defense in Texas. I don’t expect the running game to really make that much of an impact for how this game is going to play out.
“If (quarterback Michael) Penix was out, it would be huge.”
GIVING PROPS
Different sportsbooks will have proposition bets for the title game, but not to the level of the Super Bowl. That’s largely because some states don’t allow prop bets on college athletes.
Some of FanDuel’s prop bets include:
— Penix’s passing over/under is 292.5 yards. That total is 190.5 for Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
— Wolverines running back Blake Corum’s rushing over/under is 105.5 yards.
— Huskies wide receiver Rome Odunze’s receiving total is 91.5 yards.
— A touchdown in each quarter is minus -200.
— For those wanting to take a flyer, Michigan is plus-6500 to win by at least 43 points and Washington is plus-5,500 to win between 31 and 36 points.
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Strength vs. strength for CFP title: Michigan’s stingy pass D faces Washington QB Michael Penix Jr.
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
The College Football Playoff national championship game between No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Washington is a contrast in styles and a matchup of strength versus strength when Michael Penix Jr. faces the Wolverines’ defense.
“You get a schematic, professional-style matchup and to me you get the Baltimore Ravens versus the Kansas City Chiefs,” said Fox analyst Brock Huard, who has called games for both teams this season. “The Huskies in purple masquerade as the Chiefs and the guys in blue masquerade as the Baltimore Ravens.”
Michigan (14-0) is a 4 1/2-point favorite over Washington (14-0), according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
WHEN WASHINGTON HAS THE BALL
Getting pressure on Penix is difficult. Washington’s offensive line won the Joe Moore Award as the best group in the country and tackles Troy Fautanu and Roger Rosengarten provide excellent edge protection.
When teams do pressure Penix, he is often unfazed. In the Sugar Bowl, Texas didn’t sack him once in 38 pass attempts and while it might have looked like the Longhorns got almost no push, they actually registered 16 pressures, according to Pro Football Focus. When pressured Penix was incredible, completing 60% of his passes at 10 yards per attempt.
“Can Michigan strike up enough interior pressure and edge pressure to actually get to Penix, not just make him uncomfortable? And then can the safeties and cornerbacks find those layers of wide receivers and force Penix to make the impossible throw ... and not give (the Huskies) any gimmes,” college football data analyst Parker Fleming said on The AP Top 25 College Football Podcast.
Texas got most if its pressure from the interior with powerful tackles T’Vondre Sweat and Byron Murphy II. Michigan is deeper up front and better off the edges. Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter gave Alabama fits in the Rose Bowl by making it difficult to identify what was coming from where. Minter succeeded Mike Macdonald, who left Michigan and coach Jim Harbaugh to work for Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
Huard, who played quarterback at Washington, said Michigan’s defense will test Penix and Huskies offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb as problem-solvers.
“It’s an NFL-type defense, which is a matchup mindset, which is change the picture pre- and post-snap, which is make it very difficult on the quarterback to read and react,” Huard said.
Washington’s veteran offensive line has allowed only 11 sacks for a team that throws it as much as any in the country. And while the Huskies’ deep passing game can be spectacular, Penix and Co. are good all over the field. If there is a play to be made, the Huskies usually make it.
Penix targeted receivers Rome Odunze, Ja’Lynn Polk, Jalen McMillen and Germie Bernard 20 times against Texas and completed 19 passes for 411 yards.
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Michigan’s secondary plays an aggressive style, led by star cornerback Will Johnson and versatile nickel back Mike Sainristil. The Wolverines don’t concede anything. They want to force opponents to make difficult completions. No team is better at making the difficult look easy than Washington.
Here’s the wildcard: Michigan has the third-best pass defense in the country by opponent efficiency rating (101.52) and has allowed seven touchdown passes, fewest in the nation.
But the Wolverines have faced only two offenses ranked in the top 20 in pass efficiency (Alabama and Ohio State).
“Michigan is elite defensively, but they’ve gotten to feast on horrific, horrific offenses in the Big Ten,” Huard said. “So from a stress test, Michigan has not seen anything the likes of Washington’s offense.”
Meanwhile, Washington has faced only one top-30 pass defense: Oregon, twice. Penix completed 64% for 8.2 yards per attempt with five touchdowns and two interceptions.
WHEN MICHIGAN HAS THE BALL
Strength vs. weakness.
Michigan runs the ball a lot and efficiently, and can do it in critical situations.
Washington’s run defense isn’t good (86th in the country at 4.40 yards per carry allowed), but Penix and the offense are so effective that opponents often can’t or don’t stick with it.
Texas’s running backs averaged 6.8 yards per carry in the Sugar Bowl against Washington, but had only 18 carries as the Longhorns seemed to get impatient early and then were scrambling to come from behind late.
Michigan is committed to the run with Blake Corum, who leads the nation with 26 touchdowns. Even in a game they trailed for much of the second half against Alabama, the Wolverines had 30 runs and J.J. McCarthy threw 27 passes.
Washington’s defense, outside of edge rusher Bralen Trice, who had two sacks in a ferocious performance against Texas, doesn’t have much high-end, NFL-type talent. The Huskies do have a knack for getting big stops late in games — which helps explain how they have won each of their last 10 games by 10 points or fewer.
Michigan and Washington have thrived off dictating the way their games are played. Michigan makes its opponents try to out-grind them. Washington makes its opponents try to keep pace.
“I really don’t expect there to be many wasted possessions,” Fleming said, “and we might get this really weird mismatch with these long plodding rushing drives and scoring and Washington coming out and scoring in four or five plays.”
RUSSO’S PREDICTION: Michigan 34-26.
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| More than 100 flights canceled at Boston Logan Airport amid strong storm winds | A woman who fell through the ice while trying to save a dog were both rescued on Friday, the Concord Fire Department announced.
At around 10:40 a.m., the department received a call from a passerby about a 26-year-old woman who fell through the ice at a pond near Balls Hill Road, according to a statement.
The passerby guided 10 firefighters who arrived to rescue the woman. When they found her, she and the dog had both pulled themselves from the ice to the edge of the water, the fire department said.
She and the dog were wrapped in blankets, while firefighters treated her for hypothermia. The woman was placed in a Stokes basket stretcher and carried by firefighters for a quarter-mile while they navigated through steep terrain and trails to reach a clearing.
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A fire department RTV then drove her to an ambulance, which took her to a nearby hospital. The dog was taken to a nearby veterinary hospital.
“Our firefighters worked swiftly and professionally to help this woman and dog get to safety after falling through the ice, and we are happy that they are alright,” said Concord Fire Chief Thomas Judge. “We would like to remind members of the community that our recommendation is to stay off the ice, but if you choose to do so, to proceed with great caution and be prepared.” |
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| Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94 | Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, a French historian at the forefront of a scholarly movement that sought to understand the past from the bottom up, by probing the beliefs and psychology of anonymous peasants and priests rather than the exploits of triumphant generals and rulers, died on Wednesday. He was 94.
His family confirmed the death, according to Agence France-Presse and other French news organizations. The magazine L’Obs said he died in Paris.
In a statement from the Élysée Palace, President Emmanuel Macron of France called Mr. Le Roy Ladurie “one of our greatest historians,” adding, “His work truly extended history’s domain — the discipline was enriched because he was able to invent new tools, new approaches, and new subjects.”
A prolific and eminently readable scholar, Mr. Le Roy Ladurie was most familiar for his books “Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error” (1975) and “Carnival in Romans” (1979), both of them best sellers and instant classics on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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| Events across New England honor life, legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Boston News, Weather, Sports | BOSTON (WHDH) - Events will be held across New England Monday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Martin Luther King Day.
On Sunday, hundreds of area residents attended the second annual MLK Embrace Honors: Friends & Family Sneaker Affair, which encouraged hundreds of attendees to wear their “flyest formal attire – tuxedos, gowns and sparkles – paired with their favorite sneakers for a night of self-expression, food, cocktails, live performances, and other special surprises.”
The celebration marked a year since The Embrace was unveiled on Boston Common. The Embrace memorializes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s time and powerful presence in Boston. Symbolizing the hug Dr. King shared with Coretta after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The annual MLK breakfast will be held Monday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center at 9 a.m.
Stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest on area Martin Luther King Day events.
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DAVID WILLIAMS. WCVB. STORMTEAM 5. NOW SPORTSCENTER 5 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FRENZY. WELCOME TO OUR WCVB CHANNEL FIVE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FRENZY BEFORE THE TURKEY WAS SLICED AND YOU SAT DOWN TO EAT, THERE WAS FOOTBALL TO BE PLAYED ALL OVER THE COMMONWEALTH AND WE’RE EXCITED TO BRING YOU ALL THE ACTION. LET’S START WITH THE 32ND ANNUAL MATCHUP BETWEEN THESE TWO POWERHOUSES THIS YEAR. THEY MEET AGAIN IN THE SUPER BOWL NEXT WEEK. ANGEL SALCEDO GETS US STARTED AT SAINT JOHNS PREP AND XAVERIAN. WAS A TRADITION THAT GOES BACK ALMOST THREE DECADES. THE XAVERIAN BROTHERS, HAWKS PLAYING AGAINST THE SAINT JOHN’S PREP EAGLES ON THANKSGIVING. BOTH TEAMS HAVE HAD THIS GAME CIRCLED ON THEIR CALENDAR SINCE THE START OF THIS YEAR. NOW EVEN MORE SO BECAUSE IT’S A PREVIEW OF THE DIVISION ONE SUPER BOWL COMING NEXT WEEK IN GILLETTE STADIUM. THIS GAME GOT COOKING EARLY. HERE’S MIKE O’CONNOR. HE PUNCHES IN THIS RUN FOR SIX BUT THE EXTRA POINT SNAP WAS BOBBLED SO THE HAWKS LEAD SIX ZERO. THE EAGLES RESPOND THE VERY NEXT DRIVE QUARTERBACK DEACON ROBILLARD KEEPS IT DOWN THE SIDELINE AND THE SAINT JOHN’S PREP TAKES THE LEAD. 7 TO 6 BACK AND FORTH WE GO. HERE O’CONNOR AGAIN. THIS TIME HE BREAKS DOWN THE RIGHT SIDELINE FOR A MASSIVE 60 YARD RUN. THIS WOULD LEAD TO A TWO POINT CONVERSION THAT PUTS THE HAWKS AHEAD 14 TO 7 GOING INTO THE HALF, START OF THE SECOND HALF. HERE’S ROBILLARD AGAIN, THIS TIME ON A QUARTERBACK READ OPTION. HE TIES THE GAME AT 14 FOR THE EAGLES THE EAGLES SCORE AGAIN TO MAKE IT 21 TO 14. AND AT THIS POINT THE HAWKS OFFENSE REALLY STARTED TO STALL. BUT HERE’S HENRY HASSELBECK BREAKS TWO TACKLES, SHAKES ANOTHER DEFENDER OUT OF HIS SHOES AND TAKES IT ALL THE WAY FOR SIX. THE POINT AFTER IS BOTCHED, THOUGH, SO THE HAWKS WOULD STILL TRAIL 2221. SO WITH JUST SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK, THE STAGE IS SET FOR THIS. NUMBER 43 LUKE BELL DRILLS THE FIELD GOAL AS TIME EXPIRES. IT’S A VARIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL BEAT SAINT JOHN’S PREP 23 TO 21. I DON’T THINK HE HAS A NERVOUS BONE IN HIS BODY BECAUSE HE DOES IT IN PRACTICE. WE JUST GO OUT AND KICK NOW. I DON’T KNOW. I DIDN’T HEAR HIS KNEES KNOCKING. MAYBE THEY WERE ONCE ONCE I’M BACK THERE, I DON’T DON’T REALLY HEAR ANYTHING. JUST JUST WAIT FOR THE BALL TO GET SNAPPED AND JUST KICK IT. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO THIS SCHOOL, THIS COMMUNITY MEANS SO MUCH TO THEIR COMMUNITY. IT’S SUCH A GOOD RIVALRY. SO WE KNEW COMING IN HERE, ALL PREPARING ALL WEEK, JUST, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO TAKE THIS WIN. AND, YOU KNOW, OUR GUYS DID IT TODAY. WE GET TO SEE HIM ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SUPER BOWL AT GILLETTE. SO JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT ONE. NOW, THESE TWO TEAMS HAVE COMBINED FOR FIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE LAST DECADE. WE’LL SEE WHO HAS THE PRIVILEGE OF MAKING IT SIX NEXT WEDNESDAY IN WESTWOOD, ANGEL SALCEDO WCVB SPORTSCENTER FIVE ANGEL. THANK YOU. HOCKOMOCK LEAGUE RIVALRY IN FOXBOROUGH IN MANSFIELD, STARTING OFF WITH THE SCORE FOR THE HORNETS FUMBLE RECOVERY INTO THE END ZONE BY NUMBER 44 WIDE BULLDOG. HIS TEAMMATES AS THEY CELEBRATE INDEED THEY SHOULD. IT’S THANKSGIVING AND FOXBORO THOUGH WOULD RESPOND. WARRIORS DRIVING MARK MARC GASOL IS GOING TO DROP BACK. HE’S GOING TO THROW IT DEEP AND HE’S GOING TO THROW IT INTO THE END ZONE. TOUCHDOWN CATCH BY NOLA GORDON CLOSE ONE FOXBOROUGH WINS IT 30 TO 17. WE STAY SOUTH OF TOWN FOR A RIVALRY FEATURING ONE TOWN THAT USED TO BE PART OF THE OTHER. NORWOOD WAS ONCE SOUTH DEDHAM, THE TEAM SQUARED OFF ON TURKEY DAY TRI VALLEY LEAGUE BATTLE AT NORWOOD DEDHAM MARAUDERS STRIKE FIRST AND SECOND. IT’S THE SAME COMBINATION BOTH TIMES. QUARTERBACK JOSEPH JAFFREDO HANDS IT OFF TO AJ PERNET 12. NOTHING DEDHAM BUT BUT THE MUSTANGS WOULD COME BACK UNDER TWO MINUTES TO GO. MATTY MAHONEY IS GOING TO FIND BRIAN DEARBORN WIDE OPEN. TOUCHDOWN NORWOOD WINS IT 15 TO 12. WAY DOWN SOUTH, A PONTIAC WITH FACING OLD ROCHESTER REGIONAL AND THE LAKERS STAR RUNNING BACK NUMBER 19, BRODY JOLLY HAD A HUGE DAY, 104 YARDS RUSHING WITH THREE RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS. ONE PUNT RETURN FOR A TOUCHDOWN, HELPING OPPONENT WIN IT 36 TO 21. WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO COME, INCLUDING WINCHESTER AND WOBURN, A RIVALRY THAT DATES BACK TO 1891, BUT BEFORE WE GO, WE LEAVE YOU WITH THE NEEDHAM POWDERPUFF TEAM CELEBRATING A VICTORY A DAY AGO OVER WELLS.
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| Condominium sells for $1.1 million in Reading | The property located at 8 Sanborn Street in Reading was sold on Nov. 16, 2023 for $1,050,000, or $850 per square foot. The condominium, built in 2019, has an interior space of 1,235 square feet. This apartment features two bedrooms and two bathrooms. On the exterior, the house is characterized by a flat roof design. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system.
Additional units have recently been sold nearby:
In June 2023, a 1,197-square-foot unit on Woburn Street in Reading sold for $615,000, a price per square foot of $514. The unit has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
A 1,768-square-foot unit at 1 Charles Street in Reading sold in August 2023, for $588,000, a price per square foot of $333. The unit has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
On Charles Street, Reading, in November 2023, a 1,838-square-foot unit was sold for $602,000, a price per square foot of $328. The unit has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
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| Boston residents watching Squares + Streets housing plan closely | I have attended three presentations of Boston’s proposed Squares + Streets initiative where the objectives and structure of the plan to standardize the zoning process for neighborhood business districts have been clearly presented ( “Growth squared,” Business, Jan. 9). This plan will benefit not only the businesses in these areas but also the many thousands of Boston residents who desperately need relief from the continued escalation of rental costs. The city is to be commended for moving this project along quickly despite the resistance of some of the usual suspects who continue to oppose necessary change.
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I am all in on the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s proposal to modernize the city’s zoning code with its trendy Squares + Streets project. But I question whether the housing activist who characterized opposition as coming from “wealthy homeowners” is being fair to the community organizations that have held their neighborhoods together for years at their own expense and on their own time.
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| Bruins rookie will sit vs. Islanders | Matt Poitras will be out of the Bruins lineup for the second time in eight days when they play against the Islanders on Friday on Long Island.
Jim Montgomery, whose leash has been growing shorter with his rookie center, said the decision not to play Poitras is part of a rest plan for the 19-year-old.
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“Poitras is coming out as planned with the maintenance plan we had put in place for him, the load management,” Montgomery said.
Jesper Boqvist, who was called up from Providence before Wednesday’s game but didn’t play, will be in the lineup on Friday. Trent Frederic will move to center with Poitras out.
Poitras sat for the first time last week against Buffalo and Montgomery explained that the Bruins were trying to proceed smartly with him. Montgomery has limited his play in key spots late in games. |
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| Transit police nab man accused of trying to smash ATM with shovel - Boston News, Weather, Sports | BOSTON (WHDH) - Transit police arrested a Boston man accused of tying to smash his way into an ATM with a shovel at Ashmont Station.
Officers responding to a report of a person trying to break into an ATM with a shovel around 6 a.m. Saturday learned the suspect had fled in a vehicle, which was later spotted on Dorchester Avenue, according to transit police.
The suspect, whose name was not released, was taken into custody.
No additional information was immediately available.
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| National Bacon Day ushers in Californias new animal welfare standards | Sign up for The Meltdown, a weekly newsletter highlighting the latest apocalyptic dramas, debunking climate myths, and sharing sustainability hacks, all while arming you with information to hold polluters and the government accountable. Enter your email to subscribe.
On the first day of the new year, California’s Proposition 12 animal welfare statute will go into effect.
The groundbreaking new law, also known as the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative, sets new standards for how certain farm animals are treated. It ensures animals have more space and bans the sale of non-compliant products.
In particular, the law will effectively ban California’s pig gestation crates, which are basically cramped areas that confine pregnant sows for months at a time. The law also prohibits businesses from selling eggs, pork, and veal from animals housed in conditions that don’t meet the newest standards.
The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation challenged the law in the U.S. Supreme Court but lost 5-4.
However, Congressional Republicans hope to pass the EATS Act, which would likely end Proposition 12 and other animal welfare laws nationwide, not that there are many. The law ensures that businesses can participate in interstate commerce without being hindered by other state laws.
The conditions and ways in which pigs are treated are often described by animal rights campaigners as cruel and exploitative. Most don’t live long, and the ones that do spend most of their lives in horrible conditions, especially sows.
Multiple undercover investigations have shown the horrific conditions inside multiple types of pig farms, where even the minimal laws and regulations are flouted.
Female pigs, or sows, are artificially inseminated and give birth to large litters while confined in small gestation crates that completely restrict their movement for months at a time, according to a report by The Humane League, a Maryland-based animal rights group. The sows will spend most of their fertile lives in the creates, which are just big enough for their bodies. Once they are no longer needed, they are euthanized.
The sows exhibited natural maternal instincts, noted the report, yet experienced distress when separated from their piglets at just three weeks, much earlier than the 10-to-17-week period seen among other types of pigs outside of farms.
Male piglets undergo painful castrations, often without anesthetic, to alter the smell and taste of their meat. Similarly, pigs’ tails are clipped also without pain relief to prevent tail-biting in cramped conditions. Ear notching is another painful practice used for identification in overcrowded farms.
The pigs are bred to grow rapidly, reaching market weight in six months. This fast growth leads to health issues like arthritis, and they often endure long, harsh transport conditions to slaughterhouses without food or water, leading to illness or death.
At slaughterhouses, pigs face inhumane killing methods, sometimes remaining conscious during the process. A typical slaughterhouse will kill more than 1,000 baby pigs every hour, according to the Humane League report. Because of the speed at which the pigs are killed, activists say it’s not guaranteed they are entirely dead when lowered into boiling water to remove hair.
While the vast majority of Americans eat bacon, approximately 268 million in 2020, many are unhappy about how the pigs are treated. Among pork-buying Americans, 66% found the use of gestation crates objectionable, according to a 2021 study. Over 50% were also not happy about the tails of piglets being clipped. Nearly 80% said they’d instead buy pork from a company that committed to ending the confinement of pregnant pigs.
Despite the well-known and awful conditions pigs are forced to live in and the subsequent public disapproval, very few states have pig welfare statutes in place.
By 2026, ten states will have a gestation crate ban. That will cover less than 8% of the U.S. hog breeding inventory.
But if EATS passes, those bans may be repealed. |
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| AP Exclusive: Americas Black attorneys general discuss race, politics and the justice system | The American legal system is facing a crisis of trust in communities around the country, with people of all races and across the political spectrum.
For many, recent protests against police brutality called attention to longstanding discrepancies in the administration of justice. For others, criticism of perceived conflicts of interest in the judiciary, as well as aspersions cast by former President Donald Trump and others on the independence of judges and law enforcement, have further damaged faith in the rule of law among broad swaths of the public.
Yet many Black attorneys understood the disparate impact the legal system can have on different communities long before the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. Many pursued legal careers and entered that same system to improve it, with some rising to one of its most influential roles, the top enforcement official: attorney general.
There is a record number of Black attorneys general, seven in total, serving today. Two Black attorneys, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have served as U.S. attorney general. And the vice president, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman elected attorney general.
In that same moment of increased representation, the U.S. is gripped by intense debates regarding justice, race and democracy. Black prosecutors have emerged as central figures litigating those issues, highlighting the achievements and limits of Black communal efforts to reform the justice system.
The Associated Press spoke with six sitting Black attorneys general about their views on racial equity, public safety, police accountability and protecting democratic institutions. While their worldviews and strategies sometimes clash, the group felt united in a mission to better a system they all agreed too often failed the people it’s meant to serve.
A spokesperson for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, did not respond to multiple requests for an interview.
All interviewed attorneys general are Democrats. Each attorney general discussed how their backgrounds informed their approach to the law.
“I loved math, and I thought I was going to become an accountant. Clearly, that went a different direction as life happened,” said Andrea Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts. She soon began a career providing legal aid in her community because “most of my childhood was entangled with the criminal legal system.”
Anthony Brown and Kwame Raoul learned from their fathers, who were both physicians and Caribbean immigrants. Raoul, now the attorney general of Illinois, said he learned “to never forget where you came from and never forget the struggles that others go through.”
Brown’s father drew satisfaction from knowing that he made a difference in people’s lives and taught him the importance of public service. “I saw that every day as a kid growing up,” said Brown, a retired army colonel now serving as attorney general of Maryland.
Letitia James, the New York attorney general, said she came from “humble beginnings” and was “shaped by those who know struggle, pain, loss, but also perseverance.” Aaron Ford, the attorney general of Nevada, attributed his achievements “because the government helped in a time of need to get to my next level.”
And Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, was raised on stories of his grandparents organizing Black voters in Louisiana at the height of Jim Crow, when they endured bomb threats and a burned cross at their home.
“That’s who raised me. Because of that, I have a sensitivity to people who are being punished for trying to do the right thing. And that’s what we dedicate our work to. And there’s a lot more to it,” Ellison said.
On reducing disparities in the criminal justice system
The American criminal justice system is plagued with well-documented inequality and racial disparities at every level. And while an outsized portion of defendants are people of color, prosecutors are mostly white. Many Black prosecutors entered the legal profession to bring the perspective of communities most impacted by the system into its decision-making processes.
“If we are in these roles, I think people expect, and rightfully so, that we will take on criminal legal reform, that we will take out bias that exists in criminal or civil prosecutions, that we will focus on communities of color and do it in such a way that recognizes those communities are often overpoliced and under-protected,” Campbell said.
Efforts at reforming the justice system have been mixed. The disparity between Black and white rates of incarceration dropped by 40% between 2000 and 2020, according to a September 2022 report by the Council on Criminal Justice. But while the number of people incarcerated overall across that period slightly fell, policing and sentencing policies vary by state, leading to divergent realities across regions.
Brown has made reducing Maryland’s high rate of Black male incarceration his “number one strategy priority.” Maryland has the highest percentage of Black people incarcerated of any state, though Southeastern states like Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have higher total populations of incarcerated Black people.
He created a civil rights division in his office and obtained greater powers from Maryland’s general assembly to prosecute police-involved killings and bring such cases under civil rights law.
Both Brown and Campbell said that such reform efforts were in pursuit of both improving equity and law enforcement.
Better prison conditions and fairer justice systems, Campbell argued, reduce issues like recidivism and promote trust in the justice system overall.
“You can have accountability while also improving the conditions of confinement,” Campbell said.
On addressing police misconduct
For Ellison, improving outcomes in the legal system can’t happen without ensuring fair and equitable policing across communities.
“We want the system of justice to work for defendants and for victims both. And there’s no reason it shouldn’t,” Ellison said. He believes involvement from attorneys general is “probably” needed “in order for it to happen.”
Ellison, who successfully prosecuted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for Floyd’s murder, doesn’t believe such a high-profile case of accountability for police misconduct, by itself, signaled a meaningful shift in police relations with underserved communities.
“One of my big worries after the Floyd case is that now people get to say, ‘Well, you know, we convicted that guy. Move on,’” Ellison said.
Ellison reflected on how his experience as a Black man informed Chauvin’s prosecution. “I knew right off that, based on my life experience, they’re probably going to smear (Floyd),” Ellison said, referencing the various tropes he had expected the defense to use. “If I hadn’t walked the life that I walk, I’m not sure I would have been able to see that coming.”
He also noted that no federal policing legislation had been passed since the national protests in the wake of Floyd’s murder. That didn’t mean progress had not been made in Ellison’s eyes, who pointed to various states and local reforms, including in Minnesota, which have enacted higher standards on police training, reforms on practices like no-knock warrants and instituted chokehold bans.
Such changes were often facilitated by Black lawmakers and law enforcement officials. Raoul recalled working on police reform measures with Republican legislators, several of whom were former law enforcement officers.
“Being a Black man in a position of power during that particular time gave me a voice where I was able to get unanimity,” Ford said.
Campbell doesn’t see public safety and racial justice as mutually exclusive.
“You can absolutely make sure that we are giving law enforcement every tool they need, every resource they need to do their jobs effectively, while at the same time taking on the misappropriation of funds, police misconduct, police brutality. All of that can happen at once,” she said.
On protecting democracy and the rule of law
On issues such as voting rights and election interference, Black prosecutors have also drawn national attention for litigating cases examining potential election fraud and voter disenfranchisement.
“I took an oath of office when I got elected to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Nevada,” Ford said. “And I didn’t know that literally meant we’d be protecting democracy in the sense that folks would be pushing back on the legitimacy of our elections and undermining our democracy.”
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, his office litigated six lawsuits against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and allied groups, which argued without evidence that widespread voter fraud had corrupted Nevada’s elections.
In November, Ford’s office opened an investigation into the slate of electors Nevada Republicans drafted that falsely certified Trump had won the state’s votes in the Electoral College. The lawsuit is the latest in a string of efforts by prosecutors at all levels of government to pursue potential criminal wrongdoing by Trump and his allies in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Two Black prosecutors, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in New York, are prosecuting cases on related issues, as is a special counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. The efforts have not come without criticism. Trump has lambasted James, Bragg and Willis with language often evoking racist and stereotypical tropes, such as using terms like “animal” and “rabid” to describe Black district attorneys.
James, who has sued Trump in a civil fraud case in which she argues the real estate mogul misrepresented the values of his assets around the world in financial statements to banks and insurance companies, said Trump tends to use his multiple legal entanglements “as a microphone” to sow more distrust for governmental institutions.
“He unfortunately plays upon individuals’ fears and lack of hope and their dissolution in how the system has failed them. That’s why he’s garnered so much support,” James said of Trump.
“He claims he wants to make America great again, but the reality is that America is already exceptional,” James said. “It’s unfortunate that we are so polarized because of the insecurities of one man.”
On public safety and community needs
Public safety, the cost of living and other material needs are top of mind for most Americans since the coronavirus pandemic caused a spike in crime and economic anxiety. Attorneys general have broad mandates in administering resources, meaning they often can be nimbler in responding to pressing challenges than legislators.
“You don’t solve crimes unless you have communities that trust that they can go to law enforcement,” said Raoul, the Illinois attorney general. “And people don’t trust that they can go to law enforcement if they think that law enforcement is engaging in unconstitutional policing.”
Ellison and James both said a top priority was housing. “We’ve sued a lot of bad landlords,” Ellison said. James said she was focused on real estate investors buying large amounts of working- and middle-class housing across her state, as well as cracking down on deed theft and rental discrimination in New York City.
Ellison has also established a wage theft unit in his office, which he says was informed by the experience of Black Americans.
The prosecutors learn from each other’s crime-fighting techniques but aren’t uniform in their strategies. Ford said he “can’t just do a cut and paste job” for constituencies as diverse as his. But Raoul, for instance, has spearheaded a crackdown on retail store theft in Illinois that Brown has begun to emulate in Maryland.
“We do have significant authority to do a lot at once,” Campbell said. “Divisiveness” at the federal level has prompted many people to turn to local and state officials for action, she said.
On increasing Black representation among prosecutors
Even as the number of high-profile black attorneys in the legal system has risen, many Black lawmakers, district attorneys, attorneys general, and judges are often still a barrier breaker in their communities and, in some cases, the country. While the interviewed officials say they stay in touch with all their peers, they also lean on their fellow Black attorneys general in unique ways.
“Keith Ellison and I served together in Congress. He was an inspiration to me when I was making the decision to move from Congress to the attorney general,” Brown said. The group is in frequent communication through texts, calls and even joint travel domestically and abroad as they build working and personal relationships with each other.
“We have a little group and we’re in regular communication. We boost each other up. We stick with each other and celebrate each other a lot,” Ellison said.
The group views that collaboration as increasingly necessary due to a rising amount of litigation specifically aimed at issues of great interest to Black communities, several attorneys general said.
“There’s an assault going on, an intentional assault against opportunities for the Black community at large and on diversity and inclusion,” Raoul said.
Raoul cited lawsuits against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in areas ranging from higher education, contracting and employment opportunities as evidence of a “coordinated, well-funded assault on opportunity,” he said.
“We cannot be found asleep at the wheel.”
The group also uses their growing size and shared perspective as Black Americans to influence other attorneys general across the country.
“We know that we collectively force a conversation in the (attorney general) community at large simply by us being there,” Raoul said. “That’s not to say we don’t debate with each other, and that’s healthy as well. But we force a conversation that needs to be had.”
James dismissed her barrier-breaking accolades as “nothing more than historical footnote.”
“All that history means nothing to me nor to anyone else. People only look for results,” James said. “Every day I wake up and make sure that I still have this fire in my belly for justice. Sweet, sweet justice.”
Being the first, James said, “doesn’t do anything to feed my soul.”
For most Black attorneys general, the work is ongoing.
“If we’ve made a change, it’s been incremental. I think it would be a little presumptuous of us to think we’ve changed the system,” Ellison said. “We might be changing the system. Hopefully, we are.” |
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| Hallmark Christmas Movies: How to watch premiere of My Norwegian Holiday | Are you even in the holiday spirit if you’re not watching cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies every night in December?
This season, Hallmark has a handful of new films dropping, including “My Norwegian Holiday” on Friday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. ET. Fans looking to check it out can do so for free (Christmas came early?) by going to fuboTV and signing up for a free trial or by going over to Philo for their free trial.
From Hallmark’s website:
“JJ, grieving the loss of her grandmother and seeking dissertation inspiration, stumbles upon an unexpected holiday destiny. Meeting Henrik, a Norwegian from Bergen, their connection deepens when he discovers she has a troll figurine from his hometown. To explore the troll’s history and her grandmother’s ties, JJ agrees to join Henrik on a journey to Norway. In Bergen, they’re drawn into Henrik’s family Christmas and wedding traditions, with his sister’s wedding the day before Christmas Eve. JJ embarks on a holiday adventure, uncovering the troll’s origins and finding her own path to healing, love and family. Starring Rhiannon Fish and David Elsendoorn.”
Hallmark is also promoting three other new Christmas movies this holiday season, in addition to “My Norwegian Holiday”: “A Not So Royal Christmas” staring Brooke D’Orsay and Will Kemp; “Christmas With a Kiss” starring Mishael Morgan, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Jaime M Callica and “Magic in Mistletoe” starring Lyndie Greenwood and Paul Campbell. |
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| Seizing Darfur Region, Paramilitary Forces Are Accused of Atrocities | Bodies littered the road out of El Geneina, a town in western Sudan, as Dr. Rodwan Mustafa and his family sped down a bumpy road that led to the border with Chad and, they hoped, safety.
A day earlier, rampaging Arab militiamen had grabbed Dr. Mustafa by the neck, accusing him of giving medical care to enemy fighters. That was his signal to run.
Racing toward the border with his family in a car, he saw chickens clucking over the bloodied corpses of those who hadn’t fled in time. A camp for displaced people stood empty, burned to the ground. He spotted a dismembered hand on the roadside.
“The smell of death was everywhere,” said Dr. Mustafa, who made it to a refugee camp in Chad and spoke by phone from there. |
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| Luna Luna: A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag | What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous?
The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought so. This was the amusement park staged in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987, where nearly 30 professional artists including Basquiat, Hockney and Dalí designed the rides. About 250,000 people attended that summer — families, children, students, hipsters seeking reprieve. But shoestring funding and a thwarted tour let the production sit, disassembled and forgotten in storage, for 35 years.
Now, at a staggering cost nearing nine figures, about half the attractions have been restored, beautifully, and arranged for the public in a new show in Los Angeles titled “Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy.” |
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| Restaurant News for the Week Ending November 26, 2023 | Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist whose cool, meticulous melodies helped give structure and power to bossa nova, the samba-inflected jazz style that became a worldwide phenomenon in the early 1960s, died on Dec. 16 in Rio de Janeiro. He was 90.
His daughter, the singer Kay Lyra, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was sepsis.
Alongside Antônio Carlos Jobim, Mr. Lyra was widely considered among the greatest composers of bossa nova. Mr. Jobim once called him “a great melodist, harmonist, king of rhythm, of syncopation, of swing” and “singular, without equal.”
Mr. Lyra was part of a loose circle of musicians who in the 1950s began looking for ways to blend the traditional samba sounds of Brazil with American jazz and European classical influences. They often gathered at the Plaza Hotel in Rio, not far from the Copacabana beach, to discuss music and hash out ideas. |
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| Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? | “If you’re going very fast, and then suddenly you’re not, the floppy parts of your body — your intestines, your kidney, your liver — will keep going,” Kuhls told me. “That’s just plain physics.” She went on: “And our brain is floating in our skull, surrounded by fluid. But what if the skull bounces around or the car roof caves in and connects with the driver’s head? It might not look like it, but that person is probably bleeding to death internally. You don’t have much time to save them.”
At Shock Trauma, Kuhls worked alongside a surgeon named Carl Soderstrom, who was an unusually committed chronicler of data. When evaluating patients, he made it a point to collect information on everything from the size and scope of their wounds to the number of intoxicants percolating in their systems. “It was inspiring, because it added another dimension to the work we were doing,” Kuhls says. “Like, here’s a way to quantify the immense consequences of crashes. Here’s how we can demonstrate the toll of an issue that had become extremely real to me.” It was one thing, Kuhls believed, to talk about a rollover wreck that broke a 13-year-old girl’s neck. It was another to be able to prove that dozens more children were being injured in similar crashes every year. |
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| What Happens to My Body During Dry January? | Q: What are the health effects of Dry January? Can cutting back on alcohol for a month have long-term benefits?
Champagne, eggnog, mulled wine — for many, the holiday season is a time for celebration, which typically involves copious amounts of alcohol. So it’s no surprise that an estimated 15 to 19 percent of U.S. adults in recent years have pledged to participate in Dry January, or “Drynuary,” in an effort to atone for their December choices and, hopefully, slightly unpickle their livers.
There’s been little research into what, exactly, a month off alcohol can do for your health. And the benefits will depend on how much and how frequently you drank before, said Danielle Dick, a professor and director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center. |
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| ESPN BET promo code MASS: Bet $10 on Jets-Browns, unlock $250 NFL bonus | FOXBOROUGH – Pharaoh Brown has seen this situation play out before.
In 2017, he was on a 6-10 Oakland Raiders team that saw head coach Jack Del Rio get fired after the season. In 2019, he was on the Cleveland Browns and that 6-10 season ended with head coach Freddie Kitchens being fired. In 2020, he was on a Houston Texans team that saw Bill O’Brien get fired after a 0-4 start. The next season, he was still there when Houston finished 4-13 and fired head coach David Culley.
During those difficult seasons, Brown said it was easy to tell which head coaches were rattled by the media and how distracting it got when they started to act differently during times of adversity.
This 2023 NFL season may very well end with head coach Bill Belichick being let go from the Patriots after finishing with a 4-13 record. Brown noted that Belichick, unlike previous head coaches, never changed this season.
That’s one reason why the veteran tight end appreciates his time with arguably the greatest head coach in NFL history.
“He just has a good way of being level-headed in the highs and the lows, the good things and the bad things. I can respect that just being able to say who he is – even through this year being one of the rougher years, he never changed,” Brown said. “He never changed the process. I’ve been in some bad situations, some bad seasons and you see the coaching staffs, with the media talking about they might get fired and then, they start changing stuff and start acting differently. You can respect men who stick to who they are. That goes a long way. Great coach.”
If Belichick’s time with the Patriots is over after 24 years, it certainly didn’t end like anyone hoped it would. On Sunday, the Patriots lost to the New York Jets, finishing with their worst record since the 1992 season.
Before the clock hit zero, several Jets players were making snow angels. It was an embarrassing ending to a historic run by one of the greatest in football history. Although this 2023 season was a failure, players say they’ll exit this season being grateful to have been coached by Belichick.
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Belichick left his mark on newcomers
Ezekiel Elliott will look back on his time in New England fondly despite the poor results.
The reason is Belichick.
“I feel very lucky. I feel very lucky to have played for the best coach ever,” Elliott said. “You can tell just by the way he attacks every day. By the way, he demands excellence from everyone and everything he does from top to bottom. He loves to coach. He’s going to coach you up. I’m just very appreciative to be able to play for him.”
Elliott was one of the most high-profile free agent signings for the Patriots this season. He was part of a new group that also included Mike Gesicki. The veteran tight end, who’s a free agent, said he enjoyed playing for Belichick so much that he hopes to be back with the Patriots head coach.
“Incredible. Hopefully, there’s more time to make more memories in the future with that,” Gesicki said. “In terms of this year, it was awesome. It was incredible. Great experience. He was everything that you could imagine and more.”
This season, the Patriots also added several new players to the roster who only received a small taste of what it was like to be coached by Belichick. That included cornerback Marco Wilson, who came to the Patriots on Dec. 28, and cornerback Alex Austin, who signed on Nov. 2.
Both defensive backs said it was an honor to be in the same building.
“Man, looking back it’s been a blessing,” said Austin. “One of the greatest coaches of all time. Just learned every day from him, sitting in the meeting rooms, getting every coaching point. It’s been a blessing to have been taking coaching points from the greatest coaching points ever.”
“It was amazing, honestly,” added Wilson. “That was the main thing I was excited about when I came out here. He’s a hell of a coach. The best coach in the NFL in history, honestly. It’s been amazing to have a coach with that type of knowledge, that type of experience. You really feel like you can learn and do things that will make you successful.”
Belichick’s humor surprised players
In the past, it’s been said that players don’t have fun in New England. Although that’s been disputed by many former players, it’s also something that was on the mind of Gesicki when he signed with the Patriots this offseason.
That’s why he was so surprised to learn that Belichick has a dry-wit sense of humor that often has his players cracking up. Gesicki discovered that players could have fun playing for the Patriots – even in a difficult season.
“You guys see him at the press conferences, where he’s just answering the questions, but he does have personality. It was cool to see that,” Gesicki said. “He jokes around. You hear all the nonsense, where it’s like ‘no fun,’ but that’s not what it is. It’s a lot of fun and I made a lot of good memories.”
“He’s got a sense of humor,” added Wilson. “He’ll crack a joke every now and then. That’s the funny part about him.”
On Sunday, following their loss to the Jets, players said they’ll leave this season with good memories of Belichick. Another reason is his sense of humor. Considering that Belichick often goes viral for his non-answers, players came away surprised by just how often they found themselves laughing at their head coach.
“I was expecting a great coach and that’s what he was, but I didn’t expect him to be as sarcastic and funny with the way he coaches,” said Elliott. “He’s going to get on you, but he’ll build you up at the same time. That’s what we all need and want as football players.”
“I think that surprised me, too – his sense of humor,” added Austin. “He’s a guy who’s for the players as well. As long as you love football and show up to work every day, I feel like he’s a great coach.”
Players leave disappointed
The 2023 season didn’t go as anyone hoped inside Gillette Stadium.
The coaching staff and front office were confident that this year’s team would be more competitive than the 2022 season. As disappointing as that 8-9 year was, it paled in comparison to what happened this fall.
On Monday, Belichick is expected to meet with owner Robert Kraft to discuss his future with the franchise. There are people inside Gillette Stadium bracing for major change.
For the players in the locker room, it’s disappointing.
“I ain’t really like the flack he’s been getting. It’s up to us to execute,” safety Jabrill Peppers said. “When the plays show up, you have to execute. You can’t put that on coaches. From man to man, we know we didn’t do what we had to do this year. That didn’t mean we didn’t work hard. That didn’t mean we didn’t come in week in and week out expecting and playing to win. We just didn’t execute and the ball didn’t roll our way. We have to own that.”
When the game ended on Sunday, several players found themselves reflecting on the season and what it was like to have been coached by Belichick.
One of those players was Wilson. The linebacker had one of the best seasons of his career in 2023. He said he took a seat after the game was over and thought about how lucky he was when it hit him that he played for Nick Saban at Alabama and then Belichick with the Patriots.
“It’s been great. It’s been bittersweet. Just after the game, I took some time to sit by myself for a minute to reflect on the year,” Wilson said. “It’s been amazing to have played under coach Belichick, one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game at this level. it’s always dope when you get a chance to play for the greatest college coach and arguably one of the best NFL coaches as well.”
The Patriots loss on Sunday snapped a 15-game win streak against the Jets. The season ended with the most losses for a Patriots team since 1992. This year’s team also locked in a top-3 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
As horrible as the results were, players still left Gillette Stadium grateful for their head coach in what might have been his final game with the Patriots.
“It’s been amazing. Arguably one of the greatest coaches to have ever done it,” Peppers said. “I’ve learned so much from him. He pushed me in ways I haven’t been pushed before. I’m just mad we couldn’t get a W for him.” |
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| New Bedford teen dies after thrown from car in Dartmouth Friday | Two people were hospitalized after they were hit by a car in Pittsfield on New Year’s Day, according to the Pittsfield Police Department.
Both pedestrians were hit by a 2014 Toyota Corolla, being driven by a 23-year-old Pittsfield man, near 55 West Housatonic St. around 2:47 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, Pittsfield police said on Facebook.
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The pedestrians, a 34-year-old man and woman, were brought to Berkshire Medical Center with serious injuries. The woman was later brought to Bay State Medical Center where she was listed in critical condition, according to police.
So far no charges have been announced. The crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Anthony Dayton of the Pittsfield Police Deptartment at 413-448-9700 ext 543. |
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| Another ex-Patriots QB named starter after Broncos bench Russell Wilson | Jarrett Stidham was the second ex-Patriots quarterback to be named the starter for Week 17. Jacoby Brissett will start under center for the Washington Commanders after leading them to three touchdown drives in a near-comeback over the New York Jets on Christmas Eve, and Stidham is taking over for Russell Wilson for the Denver Broncos’ final two games of 2023.
Denver still has a chance, albeit slim, to make the playoffs. So benching Wilson with two weeks to go seemed questionable at first. But Wilson’s benching isn’t because of his performance despite not living up to expectations of his five-year, $245 million contract.
If Wilson were to get injured, and the injury was severe enough that would hinder him from passing a physical in March, the Broncos would have to pay him $37 million, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday. That would also include paying him his guaranteed $39 million.
The quarterback won’t be inactive, though, and will serve as Stidham’s backup.
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Reports have suggested that the Broncos will try to move on from Wilson after this season. By benching him and trying to eliminate risk of injury, it will provide Denver a little more financial flexibility when it comes to its roster.
Stidham found himself in a similar position last season when the New Orleans Saints benched Derek Carr for the 2019 fourth-round pick. He started two games — his only NFL starts — and threw four touchdowns and three interceptions.
The Broncos host the Los Angeles Chargers on New Year’s Eve. |
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| 2023 All-Western Mass. Girls Cross Country: Selections announced for fall season | MassLive announced its All-Western Mass. teams for girls cross country on Dec. 28. Take a look at the first and second teams in Class A and Class B below:
Class A |
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| Timing out our next storm - Boston News, Weather, Sports | Good morning! It’s a cool to chilly start. Today will be mild with a lot of clouds. Scattered showers arrive later today ahead of a storm that will bring us heavy rain and strong wind.
Here’s a look a the timing of the heavy rain and potential wind gusts.
A trough will rotate in some energy to promote a few showers Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the upper 30s/low 40s the rest of the week.
-Meteorologist Melanie Black |
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| Inflation Holds Roughly Steady Ahead of Fed Meeting | Inflation data released on Tuesday showed that price increases remained moderate in November, the latest sign that inflation has cooled substantially from its June 2022 peak. That’s likely to keep the Federal Reserve on track to leave interest rates unchanged at its final meeting of the year, which takes place this week.
The Consumer Price Index came out just hours before the Fed began its two-day gathering, which will conclude with the release of an interest rate decision and a fresh set of quarterly economic projections at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, is then scheduled to hold a news conference.
Central bankers have embraced a recent slowdown in price increases, and Tuesday’s data largely suggested that inflation remains lower than earlier this year. Overall inflation climbed 0.1 percent on a monthly basis, making for a 3.1 percent increase compared to a year earlier.
That was cooler than 3.2 percent in October, and it is down notably from a peak above 9 percent in the summer of 2022. |