In today’s data-driven world, expectations and challenges are at levels not seen before by government agencies. Being data-driven is no longer an aspiration, it’s a necessity. Government agencies need to digitally transform, build data resiliency, and get more out of legacy technologies.
Being able to unify data, address risk, and run agencies more efficiently is paramount. This is why, in a landscape that is in constant flux, solutions that work with existing data environments to make more informed decisions are so important.
At its core, mission stakeholders in the public sector face the challenge of helping their agencies to make more effective decisions, including:
Strategic decisions define what an organization wants to achieve in the future. These are long-term decisions that provide the “what” and the “why” for organizations.
Operational decisions are the day-to-day calls that must be made to implement the plan and achieve the strategic outcome. These decisions define how and when the work is actually done.
Tactical decisions make the long-term strategic vision possible by breaking it down into a more short-term strategy. These show how the work should be done.
One of the biggest obstacles for public sector agencies in making any of these types of decisions is fragmented and siloed data, which prevents leaders from seeing “the full picture.” Agency leaders want to be in a position to allow automated, accurate decision-making where necessary, but they need the full data picture to make properly informed decisions when a person needs to make the really difficult calls.
Today, government agencies must be able to pivot quickly to meet evolving challenges that ensure a level playing field, detect and prevent fraudulent acts, secure borders, prevent terrorist threats, and deal with any of the multitudes of problems public sector agencies deal with every day. The ability to meet these challenges, and ultimately provide better services to citizens, relies on having a complete and contextual view of your data to enable swift, accurate decision-making.
The amount the UK central government taskforce will spend to crack-down on fraudsters.
The amount identified by the IRS in 2021 due to tax fraud and financial crimes.
At Quantexa, we help public and private organizations overcome the challenges of complex and poor data quality by helping unify their data, address risk and compliance, and see monetization opportunities.
One of the keys to achieving mission success is for government agencies to become truly data-driven. To realize this goal, data and decision-making must be employed responsibly and holistically. Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI) delivers on these objectives. CDI helps organizations to transform their data, which may contain inconsistencies or errors from manual inputs, into accurate and complete data that can be trusted.
From a strong data foundation, government agencies can build context through networked relationships, in addition to using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and improve decision-making.
Automating repetitive decisions is one of the steps governments are taking to better utilize their resources. Here’s why it’s so important.
Decision intelligence in government is a practical discipline that improves decision-making by explicitly understanding how decisions are made, and how their outcomes are evaluated and improved by feedback. To support that, it systematically adopts data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced analytics at each stage of government activity. This shifts government agencies from the dashboard reporting of lagging indicators to predictive decision support, and will help decision-makers — from front line to executives — make better, context-based, operational decisions in real time.
Fraud Analytics Lead & Head of Programme,U.K. Cabinet Office
Streamlining decision-making through automation
Effective and efficient decision-making is a delicate balance between people, processes, and technology. Automating the process for decisions that are presently repetitive and devour precious human resources to manage is one of the major solutions forward-leaning governments are beginning to explore, but it needs to be examined with the understanding that the process always works better when automation and people-driven decision-making work together.
As Gartner describes, Decision Intelligence (supported by automated decision-making) enables governments to:
Shift the focus of service delivery from reactive to proactive using live data in contextually appropriate situations.
Free up knowledge workers by reducing the effort spent doing repetitive administrative tasks or collecting data available by other means, so they can broaden their value.
Improve the quality, consistency, and timeliness of their services and decision-making.
Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence (DI) platform enables organizations to leverage low-code data fusion to unify data, build single views of entities, and use graph analytics to generate networks, and scoring and alerting frameworks, that help identify risk and opportunities at a massive scale by connecting billions of data points across internal and external data sources.
The Cabinet Office is using Quantexa’s powerful technology to join datasets together and reveal hidden connections to surface suspicious activity and help in efforts to pinpoint fraud activity.
Getting to the point of accomplishing far more with technology is not without its challenges, however. Here are some of the stumbling blocks governments worldwide are contending with.
The challenges Government agencies face
At present, data in many public sector agencies is not easily accessible. This results in employees having to manually review large amounts of data to find actionable intelligence. In addition to being painfully slow and wasting valuable hours, relying on manual reviews can easily lead to missing data points that may be critical to solving problems and promoting better decision-making.
Data on any single citizen may also reside in multiple systems depending on which branches of government they’ve interacted with. At the same time, newly digitized services are coming online that may be totally separate from existing infrastructure, making connections between data pools even more difficult.
Poor quality data
Many public sector agencies realize that the quality of the data they have is marginal, but in many cases, there is a mistaken belief that they can’t do anything about it and that it may take years to get their databases in shape. This perception needs to be flipped so that agencies realize that instead of a roadblock, the vast data lakes they control can be a valuable asset when put in the proper context to yield higher-quality data.
Information sharing barriers
Interestingly, while many governmental agency organizations embrace their uniqueness and independence, many want solutions that can help drive efficiency in their processes through data sharing across agencies. While legislation often prevents certain datasets from being brought together, there is a strategic need for more tactical one-on-one datasets for solving crimes or supporting particular programs and payments.
In the private sector, financial institutions can draw from the various databases within their own organizations to build profiles of people. This allows them to make better marketing decisions about these people and to feed them into other programs that are further downstream in their organization. They’re using technology to generate revenue, obviously, but a public sector agency might use these same solutions to solve crimes, reduce fraud or money laundering, or prevent human or drug trafficking across their borders.
Changing constituent needs
Government agencies constantly wrestle with how to enhance their constituent’s user experience when using government services online. While “know your customer” (KYC) is a common term in banking and the private sector, “know your constituents” is a role that public sector agencies for the most part have not yet embraced because they don’t have a full visualization of who their constituents are, what their needs are, and how they might better serve them. Constituent needs also change constantly, requiring the flexibility to interpret what is needed at a given time.
Throughout many government agencies, there is resistance to organizational change. Disruption to a particular way of using data is not readily embraced, despite modern solutions that could easily be deployed within the legacy infrastructure to greatly reduce the man hours currently spent on process-oriented work to divert more resources to intelligence-oriented work. Ultimately, this would enhance a public sector agency’s ability to use the huge data resources they control more effectively and efficiently.
Most governmental agencies use large dashboards and business intelligence tools for reporting. They may even be applying analytics tools to try and decipher their data. What they lack, however, is the ability to render quality information from their databases. This requires a solution that can ingest vast quantities of data across all systems, to provide a data-rich visualization of an individual or a business entity. Having this complete data picture allows governments and agencies to make better decisions based on a richer dataset or what we define as “Decision Intelligence (DI)” not just a few key data points sitting on a dashboard.
Putting Decision Intelligence to work
Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)
FIUs are dealing with deceptions that range from simple mistakes to advanced strategies to obfuscate fraudulent activities and other tactical diversions that are costing governments billions of dollars annually. Analysts need to quickly determine if a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is related to an existing case or intelligence. CDI powers government investigations with unique capabilities to:
Achieve a more unified, cohesive and dynamic view of data
Gain a 360-degree view of data to uncover hidden insights
Drive analysis through trusted data and holistic views
Make better decisions based on reliable data in context
Money laundering, estimated at billions of dollars per year, has been a huge problem for the Canadian government. The problem had become so bad that the Canadian government assigned a commission to investigate; headed by the Honourable Austin F. Cullen as Commissioner (the Cullen Commission).
A New York Times article described one example in which, “Rich gamblers from China flew in, wheeling hockey bags stuffed with tens of thousands of Canadian 20 dollar bills to play baccarat at private salons inside Vancouver-area casinos. The money was suspected to come from loan sharks connected to Chinese criminal gangs and drug traffickers. The loan sharks laundered their drug money by lending it to the gamblers, who would, in turn, repay them with clean money deposited to bank accounts in China or Hong Kong.”
Based on its findings the commission has made a number of recommendations for tighter governance affecting financial institutions, virtual assets and cryptocurrency, casinos, real estate, luxury goods, professional services and enforcement.
One of Quantexa’s customers in tax services now collects an additional $1 billion per year using Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence solution, simply because they can find the problems relating to tax fraud earlier, before refunds are distributed.
Customs and borders
Being able to assess risks quickly is critical for customs agencies. For example, a customs agency might be importing goods within a country, and they want to ensure they’re not importing any risky items—goods linked to forced labor, dangerous components, contraband, or anything that is not allowed in the country.
Quantexa’s platform allows customs personnel to take the declarations related to the imports in real time, link the declaration to all the historical data, and then create a risk score. This creates alerts for declarations where there is a very high score or high risk for a particular shipment.
When governments are addressing risks within a payment or program, they often say there is a tradeoff between processing a payment quickly and efficiently versus addressing risk and checking to ensure the payment has been made to the right person for the right amount. With modern technology, however, there doesn’t need to be a trade-off.
Government agencies can use Quantexa’s platform to process payments quickly, while ensuring payments are going to the right person for the right amount. In the past, it used to add time to make a payments if officials had to do checks and balances, and verification. Modern technology streamlines that process, so agencies can do things fast, in parallel.
National Health Services
Improper payments in US Healthcare programs alone are estimated at over $200 billion annually. Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal charges, “against 36 defendants in 13 federal districts across the United States for more than $1.2 billion in alleged fraudulent telemedicine, cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing, and durable medical equipment (DME) schemes.”
In one case recently prosecuted by the DOJ, “The operator of several clinical laboratories, who was charged in connection with a scheme to pay over $16 million in kickbacks to marketers who, in turn, paid kickbacks to telemedicine companies and call centers in exchange for doctors’ orders. As alleged in court documents, orders for cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing were used by the defendant and others to submit over $174 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare—but the results of the testing were not used in the treatment of patients. The defendant allegedly laundered the proceeds of the fraudulent scheme through a complex network of bank accounts and entities, including to purchase luxury vehicles, a yacht, and real estate. The indictment seeks forfeiture of over $7 million in United States currency, three properties, the yacht, and a Tesla and other vehicles.”
Having the ability to see a single view of data can help reduce:
Fraudulent providers re-enrolling repeatedly with slight variations of their data
Phantom providers billing for services that they haven’t provided using stolen patient data
Poor pre-payment screening, resulting in claims being paid without risk assessment
Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)
Finding ways to better use taxpayers’ funds is front of mind for every public sector agency because constituents hate the idea of any waste or misuse of what they consider “their dollars.” For example, the US Government Accountability Office reported that “agency-reported improper payment estimates for fiscal year 2019 totaled about $175 billion, based on improper payment estimates reported by federal programs, an increase from the fiscal year 2018 total of $151 billion.”
To mitigate these challenges, agencies must implement tools to enable interoperable and connected data to reduce errors from manual inputs and inconsistent data across all sources. Quantexa’s CDI platform empowers agencies to make better, more mindful decisions based on quality data to ensure that integrity is built into payments and programs to lessen opportunities for misuse or waste.
Key questions Government technology leaders should be asking
more than 33% of large organizations
will have analysts practicing Decision Intelligence (including decision modeling)
60% of government AI and data analytics investments
aim to directly impact real-time operational decisions and outcomes
As Gartner suggests, “The ability to identify, prioritize, and then model and (re)engineer decisions for improvement (i.e., Decision Intelligence) will be critical competencies for a disruption-ready and resilient organization in the future.
“As decisions become increasingly automated and augmented, engineering decisions for precision, transparency, traceability, flexibility, reusability, and explainability will significantly empower governance. This will require improved data quality, which will in turn improve:
Trust and confidence in government
Ethical and appropriate use of data
Compliance and adoption of regulations”
Key questions for government and agency leaders to consider include:
What are you doing today to improve your data quality?
What tools do you need to meet this challenge?
How well equipped is your workforce to deliver on their mission to provide better-quality governmental services in the future?
Choosing a partner with the proper expertise and innovative solutions is critical to answering these questions. Here’s how Quantexa’s platform works.
A platform for success
Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence (DI) platform is a new generation of software designed to automate or augment decisions – empowering operational teams to make faster, more accurate strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. The platform connects billions of data points across internal and external data sources, to provide a single view data hub enriched with vital intelligence about the network of relationships between people, organizations, and places.
Integrate any source at scale to build a trusted data foundation
With multi-source data ingestion, you can rapidly onboard any source – internal, external, structured, or unstructured
Using Entity Resolution, you can bring siloed, disparate, and messy data together at scale for accurate single views.
Continuously improve data quality as part of the unification process.
Reveal relationships and insights, create stronger analytics
Reveal the relationships and context of how people, organizations, places and other entities interact with each other
Generate insights that build stronger, more meaningful analytical models
Using our open and easy-to-use tools and frameworks, your teams can make use of the full power of innovative Graph, AI, and machine learning methods
Decide and act
Augment and automate decision-making for actionable insights
Automate manual, high-volume operational decisions and maximize your investments in AI for efficiency and cost savings.
Transparent models mean each decision is explainable, with full visibility for security and regulatory requirements as well as model validation and optimization purposes
Empower teams to proactively explore insights and act - making faster, more confident, and more accurate decisions.
Other solutions that can be added to address specific use cases include:
Choosing a partner with the proper expertise and innovative solutions is critical to answering these questions. Here’s how Quantexa’s platform works.
Financial crime and fraud detection
Contextualized data management solutions
Solutions for individual agencies including tax authorities, health care, customs, border control, and FWA
Ultimately, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform empowers public sector agencies to use their massive databases more efficiently by providing the means to:
Enhance data governance: Ingest large external datasets while meeting security and data privacy requirements to maximize your data across multiple use cases with a single repository
Make more informed decisions: Get a holistic view of an entity and its hidden connections to reduce false positives and make more informed and accurate decisions at every level – strategic, tactical, and operational
Increase investigative efficiency: Reduce investigative workloads by using context to generate only high-quality alerts, reduce false positives, and reduce investigation time from weeks to hours
Scale with simple integration: Augment and enhance in-house capabilities using an open architecture, which enables rapid scaling to accelerate risk detection across multiple public-sector agencies.
Optimizing data and processes to help public sector agencies operate more efficiently starts by finding the right partner. Here are some key points Gartner recommends for agencies to consider when searching for a service provider.
What to look for in a Decision Intelligence provider
Choose a partner than can, “Tie the business value and public benefit of Decision Intelligence to the agenda of stakeholders by building a concise data and analytics strategy based on continual feedback between policy outcomes and decision-making.”
Seek partners that can, “Demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency opportunities of decision intelligence by conducting pilot projects that have immediate impacts on productivity or increased levels of trust in decisions.”
Work with a proven organization that has the tools and expertise to help you, “Build a roadmap for capability development by assessing current AI and analytics capabilities across your internal and external stakeholders; this must include elevating maturity to ensure that governance is embedded in development and addresses risks.”
Finally, find a partner that can help you, “Build a data-driven organization by establishing D&A (Data and Analysis) communities and data engineering as a discipline to increase data literacy, encourage collaboration, share learning, and develop sensitivity to ethical challenges.”
At Quantexa, we’re passionate about helping public sector agencies solve real-world problems. Our seasoned team of more than 500 software engineers, data scientists and domain experts, innovators, thinkers, solution-finders, and problem-solvers bring deep expertise to help agencies:
Protect revenues and payments: find fraud and risk
Aid compliance: detect risk, drive campaigns & investigate
Render value from data: use all available data & analytics in your decisions
Build efficient operations: automate decisions & more productive staff
Create a human-centric experience: enable digital from across legacy IT
Our industry-leading Decision Intelligence Platform is live in more than 70 countries, processing billions of records and transactions with thousands of users worldwide including the UK government, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and many others. Find out more about our customers here.


True to form, the internet has endeavored to name an unnamed thing, and the results are hilarious. From the people who brought you Boaty McBoatface— the Arctic research drone that has already returned some very interesting discoveriesfrom the world’s coldest abysses — here come moonmoons: moons that orbit other moons.
Moonmoons — also known online as submoons, moonitos, grandmoons, moonettes and moooons — may not exist in our solar system or any other. However, according to a pair of astronomers writing in the preprint journal arXiv.org earlier this week, the concept of a moon hosting its own mini-moon is, at least, plausible. [Top 10 Amazing Moon Facts]
“In all known planetary systems, natural satellites occur in a restricted dynamical phase space: Planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets,” the researchers wrote in their new paper (published online Oct. 9). “It is natural to ask, ‘Can submoons orbit moons?'”


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Discover recreation and relaxation at our inn in quiet Kaspardörfl in Radstadt.
In summer - starting point for magnificent excursions, hikes, and walks. You can also enjoy wonderful bicycle tours on our extensive network of bike paths. For motorcyclists, there are also beautiful routes to choose from.
In winter - in the heart of the most beautiful winter sports areas of the Tauern range.
We are looking forward to having you as guests here at "Gästehaus Brigitte" in Radstadt, with Obertauern close at hand!

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Jessica Simpson 'pens song for baby'
Jessica Simpson has written a song for her unborn baby, it has been reported.
The star is expecting a girl with her fiancé Eric Johnson and she is due to give birth next month. The couple are rumoured to have chosen the name Maxwell for their daughter. Jessica has been putting her musical talents to good use and has penned a special song for the baby.
"Jessica's even written a song called Our Little Maxi, which she sings to her baby at night," a source told In Touch.
The 31-year-old can't wait to meet the new arrival.
However, she is believed to be feeling anxious about the impending birth after her younger sister Ashlee Simpson endured a lengthy labour with her son Bronx in 2008.
"Jessica has no tolerance for pain, so the thought of going through labour scares the bejesus out of her," a source revealed before claiming Jessica may have a scheduled C-section. "She isn't 100 per cent sure, but that's the plan."
Jessica enjoyed a star-studded baby shower over the weekend.
The expectant mother was joined by Ashlee, Jessica Alba and Ellen Pompeo in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.
Jessica sparked rumours she has already chosen a name for her baby after she was spotted wearing an 'M' pendant and has reportedly ordered a host of baby clothes with Maxwell emblazoned on them.
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At Dell Technologies World last week, there was an announcement of a massive as-a-service offering.
The IT market has been lost but this will bring it back to life. IBM was the most powerful technology company when I was in school. This benefit was mainly due to a sales model that predated as-a-service.
IBM was assured of a steady, easy-to-manage income stream and customers an equally manageable cost stream by using the services first leasing model. Dell and its customers will get even better benefits.
Dell is the leader in the market and its competitors should also be aggressive in their as-a-service moves. This offering is in a sustainable lead because of Dell's size.
This week, let's talk about Apex. My product of the week is a new wireless mesh solution from Linksys.
The golden days of technology.
IBM was in its prime after I left college. When I joined IBM, the damage had already been done by executives who were removed from the technology they sold.
Things looked better outside IBM. IBM was immune to the U.S. economy and world economic problems, and it was known as the firm no one ever got fired for choosing.
Cancer was growing inside IBM as executives shifted from long-term policies that preserved IBM's annuity-like income to policies which favored selling, rather than leasing, products and away from the services-focused model that had made IBM great.
IBM terminated its CEO for the first time, hired a new CEO from the outside, and slashed its workforce, all because of the changing market and customers abandoning the company.
IBM was one of the last remaining employment-for-life companies and this was traumatic for customers and employees.
Since then, the market has been looking for stability, vendor/customer relationship, and relatively low risk of that old IBM model. It looks like Dell is bringing back a better model.
The old leasing model that IBM used in services is very similar to the new pivot back to a services model called Apex. It has the same benefits. It ties Dell more closely to its customers, and it provides a more stable revenue stream for the company. Customer satisfaction should be improved by it.
Unlike the IBM program, this as-a-service effort can adjust to customers' needs based on usage, and there aren't built-in penalties for demand spikes. You pay for what you use, but you aren't punished if usage goes up.
The cutting-edge rethinking of how to measure customer satisfaction was the basis for the NPS effort. It is unlikely that Dell will experience the same long-term problems that occurred at IBM if Dell continues to assure this effort.
When Dell went private, it put in place protections that should protect the company from being forced to make the same catastrophic moves that almost sank IBM.
If management executes this strategy, it will put Dell on the path to becoming more trusted, better regarded, more stable, and market dominant.
Dell's current leadership and NPS efforts should prevent the company from making similar catastrophic mistakes, but executive turnover will allow new execs to favor short-term gains over strategic relationships.
If you have been paying more for lower bandwidth than you really need, or if you don't have a good range of products with the same name, this solution could be just what the doctor ordered.
The Linksys Atlas Max 6E is my product of the week because it addresses a bandwidth and network crashing problem I have, and it is the most advanced mesh solution currently in the market.

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When the weather is nice with the sun shining, locals in Gothenburg flock to Slottsskogen Park. The 137-hectare park is located right in the middle of the city, which means you can explore the historic Haga district one minute, and be surrounded by trees and wildlife at this wonderful park the next. Slottsskogen is highly appreciated and well-used by the residents of Gothenburg, who refer to it as ‘the lungs of the city’ because of its expanse of beautiful woodland.
The people’s parkThis is the perfect place to have a nice picnic with your family and friends, enjoy a lazy stretch on the grass while people-watching or simply relax with a book. If you prefer some more activity there a plenty to choose from, such as playing volleyball, picking strawberries and having a game of miniature golf. The park, also known as The People’s Park, offers winding nature trails and fresh air, making it popular with joggers. No wonder, as it plays host to the Gothenburg Marathon every year.
Worth visiting both day and nightIn addition to being a fresh, green lung, the park is also one of Sweden’s oldest zoos, where you can see both tame and wild Nordic animals, like moose, sheep, goats and ponies. There is also a special children’s zoo, with free admission, perfect for curious little boys and girls and their families. As night falls, you can go stargazing at the observatory or catch an outdoor concert by the fantastic Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Staying at the comfortable Radisson Blu Scandianvia Hotel, Gothenburg you will find yourself within easy reach of everything this charming city has to offer, with the central station located only minutes from the hotel. The modern rooms have been tastefully decorated with different themes to suit different personalities, and boasts stunning views over the city’s charming canals. Coupled with a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and an on-site masseuse, this is a real treat.

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STARS (38-26-5) AT WILD (29-30-10)
: Dallas 9-0-1; Minnesota 3-6-1.
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This is the final meeting of four between the Stars and Wild. So far, the Stars hold a two-game lead in the season series, winning each of the last two contests. Most recently, Dallas defeated Minnesota, 4-1 at home on Feb. 24.
Minnesota is looking to stop the NHL's hottest team as it plays host to the Stars on Tuesday night. The Stars have NHL's best record over the last 10 games (9-0-1 record); however, Dallas has not won in Minnesota since Jan. 9, 2011, a span of four games.
Not that the Stars needed the extra help, but the return of captain Brendan Morrow from an 18-game injury absence on Saturday gave the team an extra boost of confidence as they shutout the Anaheim Ducks, 2-0.
Morrow factored into that victory with a power-play goal in the second period which turned out to be the game-winning goal.
"It feels good (to be back out there)," said Morrow. "I was a little nervous, I guess, that I would screw things up, as good as the guys were rolling, and Kari (Lehtonen) made sure I didn't do that sitting in the penalty box three times, so kudos to him."
The Stars currently boast a 10-game point streak and have won five straight. This recent hot streak has benefited from the success of the Loui Eriksson
-Mike Ribeiro-Michael Ryder line, which has combined for 43 points over the last 30 days – the most of any trio in the NHL over that span.
When it comes to playing against the Wild, Dallas can usually count on Ribiero to contribute, considering that he has scored a point in eight of his last 10 games against Minnesota (2-8-10).
Minnesota has struggled to win games recently, dropping five of six contests since the beginning of March. But the Wild hope to turn things during a current five-game homestand.
The Wild battled back in the third period of Sunday's contest with division rival Calgary Flames; however, they were unable to overcome the Flames in a 4-3 loss. Erik Christensen
tallied a pair of goals in that contest.
"I miss scoring. ... But it still doesn't take away the feeling of the way the game ended up," Christensen said.
Minnesota's struggles of late have not been helped by a slew of injuries that have sidelined key players including both starting goalies: Niklas Backstrom
(strained groin) and Josh Harding
(undisclosed lower-body injury).
Minnesota is 2-7-1 in its last 10 at home – a stat that the squad is motivated to improve.
"We owe our fans a good game here," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "There's been too many games in a row where we've come out flat in our own building. It would be nice if we had five or six guys that would like to win. ... We're going to be playing guys that want to play hard."
Ryder is currently on a career-high nine-game point streak (7-4-11). It's the longest active scoring streak in the NHL.
Injury Report: Radek Dvorak
left Saturday's game with a lower-body injury and did not return… The Wild are without Backstrom, Harding as well as captain Mikko Koivu
(shoulder), Pierre-Marc Bouchard
(concussion) and Cal Clutterbuck
The Stars have NHL's best record over the last 10 games (9-0-1 record). It is the first time they have earned a point in 10 consecutive games since Dec. 27, 2002-Jan. 22, 2003 when the team went 12 straight games without a loss in regulation.
"Yeah, it's been fun," Lehtonen said. "We were not doing well a month ago and then everybody started playing better. We started getting wins. With every win, it gets more exciting. The guys are smiling here and work hard. It's just a great time of year to be in it."

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Truck Tonnage Increases 2.3% in February
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Truck tonnage in February increased 2.3% compared with the same month in 2022, according to American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, marking the 18th straight year-over-year gain and the largest since October.
On a sequential basis, February’s number was up 1.2% after increasing 0.6% in January.
In February, the index equaled 118.4 (2015=100), compared with 117 in January.
ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello on March 21 said that contract freight remains strong.
“Tonnage has increased sequentially for the last three months totaling 2.9%,” Costello said. “As a result, the index is just 0.3% below the recent high in September. The fact that our index is growing sequentially and on a year-over-year basis demonstrates that contract freight continues to hold up at high levels.”
Costello pointed out that the tonnage number has remained steady and continues to increase incrementally month-to-month, rising 1.4% in January compared with 2022. Tonnage increased 3.5% for all of 2022.
“Looking ahead, we continue to see evidence the inventory cycle is improving, which means bloated stocks will stop being a headwind and eventually help truck freight volumes,” Costello said. “Increased infrastructure spending will also boost volumes heading into the summer months. However, we expect to see continued freight softness related to lower home construction and slowing factory output.”
Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 72.2% of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation, including manufactured and retail goods. Trucks hauled 10.93 billion tons of freight in 2021. Motor carriers collected $875.5 billion, or 80.8% of total revenue earned by all transport modes.
ATA calculates its monthly tonnage index based on surveys from its membership, and has been doing so since the 1970s.
While the ATA figure is up, the monthly report from the Logistics Managers' Index indicates positive growth in transportation in February but at a much slower pace. When measured against 2022’s skyrocketing figure of 75.2, the 2023 LMI was 54.7. When February’s figure is compared with January, it showed a drop from 57.6.
“February is often a low point seasonally due to the consumer spending hangover from the holidays in the U.S. combined with slowness in imports due to Chinese New Year, and that was certainly reflected this year,” Dale Rogers, professor of business at Arizona State University, said in his report. “We are hoping that they will pick back up sometime in the second quarter as retailers begin to rebuild inventories ahead of back-to-school and holiday shopping, but as of this moment, that has yet to materialize.”
Every month, researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada-Reno, in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, assemble the report. An LMI reading above 50 indicates the logistics sector is expanding; a reading below 50 indicates a contraction.
“Consumers are still spending, just in different ways than they were during the pandemic. This is most reflected in the movement away from goods and back toward services,” Rogers said. “U.S. consumers are now dedicating 33% of their spending toward goods, similar to pre-pandemic levels of 30%.”
Meanwhile, DAT Freight and Analytics said truckload freight volumes slipped in February and demand for spot market truckload services declined to its lowest level since May 2020.
DAT also said the pricing environment for truckload services weakened during the previous month, with the national average spot van and refrigerated rates declining to levels not seen since September 2020.
“Truckload volumes retreated while the spread between spot and contract rates expanded to where they were before the holidays,” DAT Chief of Analytics Ken Adamo said. “February volumes and spot rates gave carriers little incentive to move away from contracted freight.”
DAT said its Truckload Volume Index for van freight was 207, down 8% compared with January and 5% lower year-over-year. The refrigerated TVI fell to 162, 7.9% lower month-over-month and down 4.7% year-over-year. The flatbed TVI was virtually unchanged at 217 and 7.9% higher year-over-year.
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DAT said it is not uncommon for the number of loads moved to be lower compared with January in part because February is a shorter month.
DAT said the spot van rate was $2.24 a mile, down 14 cents compared with January and 63 cents less than the average contract van rate. The spot van rate in February was the lowest monthly average since August 2020 and down 85 cents year-over-year.
The spot reefer rate dropped 19 cents to $2.59 a mile, 57 cents less than the average contract rate for reefer freight. The rate was 95 cents lower year-over-year and the lowest monthly average since October 2020.
The flatbed rate fell by 6 cents to $2.70 per mile, 73 cents lower than the average contract rate and 51 cents less year-over- year.
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CIL will double capex to Rs.10,000 crore in FY16 to meet production target
State-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) will more than double its capital expenditure next fiscal to over Rs 10,000 crore to spruce up infrastructure to meet its production target of 1 billion tonnes, according to a top company executive.
In the current fiscal, the company has invested close to Rs 5,000 crore on new projects, land acquisition and procurement of equipment, while only a fraction was spent on infrastructure.
For 2015-16, CIL has firm plans to invest close to Rs 5,000 crore in infrastructure most of which will go into setting up three rail networks that can increase production by some 100 million tonnes, and another tranche will go into installing equipment that can ramp up production from underground mines. It can touch 400 million tonnes at peak capacity, the executive added.


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Go & Do: Jazz pianist Harold Mabern at UNH
Catch jazz pianist Harold Mabern at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, as part of the University of New Hampshire Department of Music Traditional Jazz Series. Mabern, one of jazz's most enduring and dazzlingly skilled pianists, was born in Memphis. He was an unsung hero of the 1960s hardbop scene, performing and recording with many of its finest artists, and only in recent years has he begun to garner appreciation for his long-running legacy in jazz and the understated power of his talent. He has played and recorded with such greats as Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, to name a few. Tickets, available in advance or at the door, are $8 general admission; $6 students and senior citizens. Call 862-7222 or visit www.unharts.com. The concert will be held in the Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham.
"Light Forms," a new exhibition in the Gateway Gallery at Great Bay Community College, highlights the work of New Hampshire digital artist Harry Umen. Umen fuses his past work painting and printing on shaped transparent materials such as glass, plexiglass and mylar with computer-generated graphics to elicit an emotional response from the viewer. The work explores the interaction of virtual color and light created through small-scale constructed studio stage sets. The exhibition opens Monday, Jan. 27, and will remain on view through March 14; opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 12. The college is located at 320 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth. Call 427-7713 or visit www.greatbay.edu.
Portsmouth author Charles Underwood Jr. will sign and read from his new book, "Deadline: Captain Charlie's Bataan Diary," at the Portsmouth Public Library on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Bring a lunch to this free event from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Hilton Garden Room. This January marks the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Bataan, the first campaign in World War II. "Charlie's Bataan Diary" tells the story of Capt. Charlie Underwood, a newspaper reporter who was called up to active duty and sent to the Philippines. American forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur surrendered to the Japanese army 99 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The day of surrender began the infamous Death March. "Capt. Charlie" survived the march and three prison camps and, after spending more than three years as a prisoner of war, he boldly commandeered a train and traveled through hostile territory to reach the United States lines. He helped liberate more than 700 starving prisoners of war. The library is located at 175 Parrott Ave. Call 427-1540 or visit www.cityofportsmouth.com/library.


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Subban hosting TV special after All-Star Skills competition
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban has found a way to go beyond his more than 1.1 million followers on Twitter and 844,000 more on Instagram.
He’s hitting national television.
The 2013 Norris Trophy winner will host “P.K. Subban’s All-Star Special” Friday night on NBC Sports Network airing immediately after the NHL All-Star Skills competition, and Subban is ready to have some fun.
“It allows me to have a platform to be able to talk about things that I care about,” Subban told The Associated Press on Thursday. “It’s not all about me with the guests that we have coming on and I guess some of the promo that we give certain players and athletes and people that I’m involved with. I think it’s a benefit not only for me but for everybody involved.”
The hour-long special is part-talk show taped at the San Jose Improv with fans as the audience in San Jose, California. Subban’ guests will include Jay Leno, comedian and TV host W. Kamau Bell, country singer Lee Brice, IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe, Columbus defenseman Seth Jones and 13-year-old hockey player Ty Cornett.
The show also includes live comedy sketches by Subban along with segments featuring Subban at a jam session with Brice and a recent visit with his family in Toronto. Subban gave no hint of the topics that will be covered, saying only to tune in and watch.
“There’s definitely some things that I’m going to talk about in my monologue that I’m sure that people will get a good kick out of, and that’s the whole point of watching it,” Subban said. “Hopefully enough people think enough about the show to tune in and see the interviews with the guests, the skits that we’ve done and the work that’s been put into the script.”
Television is nothing new for Subban. NBC Sport producer Sam Flood said they learned what a great communicator the defenseman is when Subban worked the final game of the 2018 Stanley Cup Final.
“He worked well with Mike Tirico, was involved in an interview with the commissioner, and it was fun to see,” Flood said.
That led to further talks between NBC Sports Group about how to showcase Subban without interfering with his top priority, the Nashville Predators. They announced the All-Star special and “The P.K. Project” digital series earlier this month. The first episode of “The P.K. Project” just debuted giving viewers a look into his personal life.
“P.K. is doing a wonderful job working with our team to get some unique content and content that only could happen with his relationships and his personality,” Flood said.
The All-Star special and “The P.K. Project” work around Subban’s schedule. Subban said players are at the rink for about three hours a day, leaving them with plenty of free time. Away from hockey, Subban said he has plenty of other interests keeping him busy including food, fashion and television.
“Just because the person next to me doesn’t think that they can host their own show doesn’t mean that I can’t,” Subban said.
To the 29-year-old defenseman who made his NHL debut in February 2010 with Montreal, what matters is finding what works for himself. Subban knows some people might criticize him spending time on something other than his Predators’ job, which pays him $9 million a year through the 2021-22 season.
“But some people do other things because it makes them better at their job,” Subban said.
Starting his own production company — PeeK Productions — is something Subban has wanted to do for a long time.
“Now to be able to own the content that I’m doing and develop it and have a team and put out meaningful content that you can see and own it was a priority for me and my team,” Subban said. “I’m very excited about today and moving forward.”
AP Hockey Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this report.


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Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW) - An investigation continues into the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. The young woman claims it all happened on Thursday near Edison Road and Easton Road in Buffalo. She said she was on her way to school.
The girl claims she was at Langfield Market when two men snatched her up took her to an unknown location and sexually assaulted her. Her family received a call from school saying that she never showed up for class. The family then began to search.
Hours later, they receive another call from the girl. She was in tears, claiming another teen boy had found her 10 miles from her school. When she reunited with her family, they saw signs of an attack, bruises and scratches across her body.
The girl's father spoke to us but we did not want to identify him to protect the alleged victim.
"It was my daughter crying to me in tears and it was my daughter. I just wanted to know where you at. I started see scratches and wounds and hickies. I know there had been a struggle and someone had attempted to sexually assault my daughter," Victim's Father said.
The Buffalo Police Department said a report has been filed and this case is currently under investigation. If you have any information about the incident call the Buffalo Police Confidential Tip Line at 847-2255.


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Best type engine with Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v cylinders. make Inline 4 more unique. This car runs on Petrol and it has Not Found framework empowered. The engine size is about 1598 cm3 or 97.5 cu-in.
Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v has 16 Valves. With a compression ratio of 10.5, the car has a maximum torque of 135 Nm or 99 lb.ft @ 3400 rpm. The highest torque limit is 135 Nm or 99 lb.ft @ 3400 rpm. Another cool feature is that the car has FWD drive wheels. Last but not least, this car has 5 speed Manual Transmission Relations1st Gear Ratio: 2nd Gear Ratio: 3rd Gear Ratio: 4th Gear Ratio: 5th Gear Ratio: Reverse Gear Ratio: Final Drive Ratio: Transmission Gearbox.
|Name of the Car||Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v|
|Type of Engine – Cylinder Number||Inline 4|
|Code number of Engine||X16XEL|
|Types of Fuel||Petrol|
|Fuel System||Not Found|
|Engine size – Displacement – Engine capacity||1598 cm3 or 97.5 cu-in|
|Bore and Stroke||79.0 x 81.5 mm3.11 x 3.19 inches|
|Valves Number||16 Valves|
|Ratio Of Compression||10.5|
|Horsepower – Output – Maximum Power||100 PS or 99 bhp or 74 kW @ 6200 rpm|
|Maximum torque||135 Nm or 99 lb.ft @ 3400 rpm|
|Drive wheels – Traction – Drivetrain||FWD|
|Number of Speeds – Gearbox Transmission||5 speed Manual Transmission Relations1st Gear Ratio: 2nd Gear Ratio: 3rd Gear Ratio: 4th Gear Ratio: 5th Gear Ratio: Reverse Gear Ratio: Final Drive Ratio:|
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Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v works Not Found on Economy, Highway. It needs Not Found on Economy, City road. However, The car has a Fuel Tank whose capacity is 52 L 11.4 UK gallons 13.7 US gallons gallons.
|Fuel Consumption – Economy – City||Not Found|
|Consumption of Fuel||7.8 L/100km 36 mpg UK / 30 mpg US|
|Consumption of Fuel – Highway – Economy||Not Found|
|Capacity of Fuel Tank||52 L 11.4 UK gallons 13.7 US gallons|
|Emissions of CO2||181 g/Km (estimate)|
Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v Performance, Including Consumption, Capacity, & Other Specs
|Top Speed||190 km/h or 118 Mph|
|Accelaeration ( 0-100 km/h)||11.5 s|
Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v Aerodynamics, Size, Weight and Dimensions
Opel Astra F 1.6i 16v’s body will come with Not Found. There are a total of Not Found doors. The accurate length of this car is 405 cm or 159.45 inches inches as well as the width is 169 cm or 66.54 inches. Height of the car is 141 cm or 55.51 inches. The front axle length is Not Found. In the other hand, rear axle length is Not Found.
The front brakes have Vented discs whose dimension of the discs are Discs (- mm) and Rear Brakes also have Discs where the dimension of the discs are about Drums (- mm). It also have 175/65 R14 tyres on the Front Wheels whose width is Not Found. And it has 175/65 R14 tyres on the Rear Wheels whose width is 7 A ½”.
Without occupants or baggage the weight of the car is 1030 kg OR 2271 lbs. The ration of Weight and Power is about 10.3 kg/hp. Well, Not Found steering are available on this car. This car’s Front Suspension consists of Independent. McPherson. coil springs. anti-roll bar. I Rear Suspension it consists of -.
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|Number of Doors||Not Found|
|Wheelbase||252 cm or 99.21 inches|
|Length||405 cm or 159.45 inches|
|Axle of Front||Not Found|
|Rear Axle||0 Kg or 0 lbs|
|Maximum Towing Capacity Weight||–|
|Aerodynamic drag coefficient – Cx||Discs (- mm)|
|Front Brakes – Disc dimensions||Drums (- mm)|
|Rear Brakes – Dics dimensions||175/65 R14|
|Rims Dimension – Front Tyres||175/65 R14|
|Rear Tyres – Rims dimensions||Not Found|
|Width of Fronth Wheels||Not Found|
|Width of Rear Wheels||1030 kg OR 2271 lbs|
|Weight of Curb||10.3 kg/hp|
|Output Ratio of Weight Power||360-1200 L|
|Capacity of Boot / Trunk||Not Found|
|Steering||Independent. McPherson. coil springs. anti-roll bar|
|Suspension for Front||–|
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Breast raise can appropriate some perceived flaws, as nicely as carry and tighten your breasts. If the surgical procedure is best for you, discuss to a healthcare skilled corresponding to a plastic surgeon. Breast tissue is eliminated and reshaped after the incisions are made to achieve the specified breast form. The areola and nipple are normally moved higher on the breast. Excess pores and skin is trimmed to create a more defined look.
Our plastic surgeons can help decide the best way to lift the breasts. It is important to mark the patient previous to surgery for optimum outcomes. The degree of the nipple is the vital thing to mastopexy. The nipple must be above the fold in most patients. This is a major problem that can be tough to fix, so do not place the nipple too excessive.
The Process Is Performed
You’ll be sore for a quantity of months after the surgical procedure, which might be both pink or red. It can take about six weeks for your nipples, areolae and breast skin to be numb. The breast tissue might be lifted by the surgeon after eradicating further skin. If you are getting implants, the surgeon Breast augmentation will close and bandage your breasts. Patients have to avoid average to intense workouts for a minimal of a couple of weeks to be able to forestall blood clot. Patients have to take sponge baths until the end of the primary week for the reason that compression clothes cannot get wet.
When less than 2 cm of NAC elevation is required, the circumareolar method is most well-liked. When NAC elevation is between 2 to 4 cm and the base diameter of the breast requires modification, the circum vertical technique is preferred. When the degree of NAC elevation exceeds 4 cm and significant reshaping of the breast is required, a clever sample mastopexy is used. Mastopexy of the breast is indicated when there could be an asymmetrical breast. The oncoplastic procedure of the higher breast leads to superior displacement of the NAC with no noticeable volume loss. It is advisable to delay the mastopexy in order to assess the degree of modification required.
A breast carry will not change the volume of your breasts, but the breasts could seem smaller after the process to realize, larger, rounder and tighter breasts. Your breasts will be wrapped in a support garment after the procedure to help decrease swelling and assist them through the therapeutic process. A tube could additionally be put beneath the pores and skin to assist drain excess blood or fluid. You will wear an elastic bandage or a surgical bra after the surgery.
The location of the nipple may be decided with the help of the digital fold. Once the proper nipple location has been decided, use the appropriate method to draw the relaxation of the pores and skin incision. The inferior restrict of the vertical incision ought to be 3 5 cm above the breast and inframammary fold to avoid extension of the scar onto the chest wall. To the standing affected person, the plastic surgeon reveals the mastopexy plan to the chest, breasts and torso. Mastopexy is a plastic surgery procedure for raising sagging breasts on the chest of a girl by altering the size, shape and elevation of the breasts.
augmentation mastopexy could additionally be beneficial when sagging can’t be corrected by implants alone. Excess skin is trimmed away, the breasts are lifted to sit larger on the chest, and the nipple and areola are adjusted during mastopexy. The breasts may be made bigger by adding augmentation with implants. The pedicle of the nipple areola complicated is determined by the degree of elevation of the nipple areola complicated. The superior pedicle strategy gives the surgeon more procedural flexibility in determining the situation of the breast implant, nevertheless it limits the degree of elevation of the nipple.
If you are considering a surgical breast lift, one approach to see if it will assistance is to place a pencil beneath your breast and see if it stays there. Patients will be capable of go out in public one or two days after surgery. Four weeks following surgery, vigorous bodily activity is restricted. Breast asymmetry is normal after the surgical procedure as a result of most ladies have asymmetrical breasts before surgical procedure. The general look of the breasts is tremendously improved after surgery, but there are stillsymmetries that exist.
What Does A Breast Lift Look Like?
The perfect body image is what may be achieved with cosmetic surgery choices. Mastopexy is a breast carry that removes extra skin and tightens the encompassing tissue to boost the breasts. Mastopexy, additionally known as a breast lift, is an operation during which a surgeon places your nipple greater on your chest wall. They tighten the encircling tissue by removing extra pores and skin.
The areola skin is brought down to make room for a model new breast. The areola has a vertical line extending from the nipple space to the decrease crease of the breast. A breast raise just isn’t a simple operation, but it’s usually protected if performed by a professional plastic surgeon. There is always a chance of a reaction to anesthesia.
There Are Issues
With or without augmentation, minor ptosis can be corrected. The cerclage techniques described by Benelli can be utilized to appropriate grade 2 ptosis. The vertical scar mastopexy procedures can be used to treat moderate grade 2 ptosis. Severe grade 2 ptosis and grade 3 ptosis usually require inverted T incisions.

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JUPITER, Fla. -- The Tigers needed time last season acclimate to new positions and teammates, evidenced by its 16th-ranked defense in the Major Leagues.
Eighth-year infield coach Rafael Belliard said he took part in 20 interviews last year when Miguel Cabrera shifted from first to third base, making room for free-agent acquisition Prince Fielder. Detroit later acquired second baseman Omar Infante in a trade with the Marlins in July, further altering its infield.
"Cabrera played shortstop when he was young," said Belliard, who spent 17 seasons as a Major League infielder. "He has good hands and good arms. He worked a lot and hard to be where he is now, and I think he played pretty good defense last year."
Entering Saturday afternoon's game against the Cardinals, the Tigers ranked third in all of spring baseball with a .986 fielding percentage, committing 11 errors in their first 21 games, with five of them credited to players no longer in Detroit's big league camp.
Since spring schedules differ for each player, it can be tough for the projected infield to get enough work in together. Against the Cardinals on Saturday, shortstop Jhonny Peralta made the trip to Roger Dean Stadium, but Ramon Santiago started in place of Infante. Peralta made a throwing error in the first inning of a 3-0 win.
Belliard makes sure Peralta and Infante turn 15 to 20 double plays apiece before every home game, and in the next 10 days before Opening Day, he hopes to have them put in extra work.
"I like to work around the bases and in the cage," Belliard said. "It's a repetition. We try to make the routine plays so every time we turn double plays -- if we get two -- the starting pitchers stay in the game longer. That's why we work a lot on them."
Christina De Nicola is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Various reporters covering the Nationals reported a bit earlier that Max Scherzer took a ball off his face during a bunting drill this afternoon. Which is not what you want.
The good news: Scherzer seems to be OK and, at the moment anyway, Dave Martinez believes that he will be able to take his scheduled start in the second game of tomorrow’s doubleheader against the Phillies.
The bad news: if Scherzer’s on-mound intensity is any guide, that ball is gonna have some awful things done to it once Scherzer gets out of the trainer’s room.
UPDATE: Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post is hearing from sources that Max Scherzer may have a broken nose. He is undergoing further tests. It’s unclear whether a broken nose would force Scherzer to miss a start.
UPDATE: Yep, it’s broken:
Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler will be placed on the 10-day injured list due to fatigue in his right shoulder, Newsday’s Tim Healey reports. The roster move is retroactive to July 12. Steven Matz will open up a two-game series in Minnesota, starting in Wheeler’s place on Tuesday.
As Healey notes, the soonest Wheeler can return is July 23, which would give him at most two starts ahead of the July 31 trade deadline. Wheeler has frequently been brought up in trade conversations as he can become a free agent after the season and the 42-51 Mets have been freefalling.
Wheeler, 29, owns a 4.69 ERA with 130 strikeouts and 34 walks across 119 innings of work this season.


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We've had two lovely days here and about time! I even got to sit out with my breakfast on our little decking area. It always makes me want to use lovely summer colours and this is my modern take on a traditional ikat pattern mixing it with contemporary sharp lines. The art print is available on society6 and I'm working on accessories or, at least, I will be when I get all my hundreds of poppy heads out the garden. Never had so many in my life!

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There have been many famous royal wedding dresses that have been created throughout history and drawn attention. Sometimes, the greatest inspiration has come from celebrities, whose weddings are highly publicized and shown on television.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana official engagement portrait. The photos were released at the time their engagement was announced, which means they were taken during the period of intense speculation surrounding Lady Diana.
DRESS DETAILS A 25 foot train accented Diana's ivory Emanuel gown, made of 40 yards of silk taffeta, five extra copies were made as backups. For good luck, a small diamond studded gold horseshoe was sewn into her gown.
Diana, Princess of Wales and 9 other iconic brides. Lady Diana Spencer was born 1 July married 29 July divorced 28 August and died 31 August 1997 (aged The dress was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel.


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After a messy breakup, Leigh Holloway is ready to start her life over. Until her parents put the family home on the market and call her back for one final, memory-making Christmas. The last thing she wants to do is deprive her mom of the perfect holiday, so she’ll lie ... more >
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The ... more >
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?
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Annapolis, Maryland, 1948 Frances Dumfries is the perfect admiral’s daughter. She runs the household, hosts the parties, and never falls for the midshipmen surrounding her. Having fun or putting herself first is definitely not on her schedule. And she doesn’t want anyone—particularly not a man too handsome and kind for ... more >
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Noel Gallagher may be his own worst critic after slamming his some of his own performances from his Oasis days.
The 53-year-old rock legend has slammed his past performances when he sang alongside his 47-year-old brother Liam during their chart topping heyday.
The boys enjoyed two decades of success as Oasis when their band was active between 1991 until their bitter break-up in 2009.
But the Where Did It All Go Wrong? singer says his performances on stage during his time in the band leave a lot to be desired as he reflects back on his past career in the band.
He told the Mail on Sunday: “When I played guitar in Oasis I used to think I looked like Jimi Hendrix some nights.
“Then you see the footage and I was just shuffling around.”
At their peak, Oasis played to more than quarter of a million people over two nights during their two-night Knebworth gigs in 1996.
However, it seems the stage set up for the band was as lifeless as Noel’s performances.
He explains: “We had cardboard backdrops. We were not in it to push the boat out.”
Oasis fans who have long hoped the boys may reunite to play live again look set to wait a lot longer.
Back in February, Liam claimed the band had been offered £100 million to reform – but said Noel turned the offer down.
He made the announcement via social media, tweeting: He tweeted: “We’ve been offered 100 million pounds for a tour still not enough for the greedy soul oh well stay young LG.”
While in March, Liam made allegations that Noel’s wife was holding up reunion hopes during a Twitter Q&A with fans.
A fan tweeted him, asking: “Hi Liam, do you know why Noel hates oasis reunion so much??????”
Liam responded:”I’ve told you before he’s rite up for it but you know who won’t let him as she doesn’t like oasis music [sic].”
While the “you know who” appears to be a dig at Sara, who Noel married in 2011 two years after Oasis split.
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Rostock. The topic of home ownership is now being discussed again in politics, after having been virtually absent from the public debate for more than a decade since the end of the homeowner's allowance in 2006. The federal government has launched a new subsidy, the baukindergeld, since 18. September 2018 it can be applied for. The baukindergeld provides an equity subsidy for families with children. Per child, the government contributes 1.200 euros can be used to repay the real estate loan. The subsidy only applies to the purchase or construction of owner-occupied housing – and it will only be granted this year and next year. In other words, if you want to receive the building subsidy, the purchase contract or the building permit must not be dated later than 31 december 2009. December 2020.
The grand coalition has also planned, but not yet decided on, a kfw guarantee program. "The guarantee program would be a great help for many homebuyers," says stonehedge head nedeljko prodanovic, "because if the kfw were to guarantee the buyer, he would have to put up less equity when buying a home."The required equity ratio is a hurdle for most potential home buyers. While real estate financing would in principle be affordable for many households due to the favorable interest rates, not all of them manage to save up enough equity capital. A rule of thumb is that you should be able to raise 20 percent of the purchase price yourself – for an apartment costing 250.000 euros, that's still 50.000 euro.
As a result, the federal government is considering lowering ancillary purchase costs. Incidental purchase costs consist of land transfer tax, notary fees and, if applicable, broker commission, and cannot be financed by a normal real estate loan. The federal ministry of justice is currently drafting a bill for a so-called "bestellerprinzip", which would exempt buyers from the brokerage commission. The bill is expected to be drafted in the first quarter of this year, but whether it will actually become law is not certain.
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Industry creates new jobs
Rostock. "2018 far exceeded our expectations". Construction companies once again noticeably increased the number of revolutions at the end of the year – also thanks to comparatively good weather conditions – and further boosted revenues.These were the words of dieter babiel, chief executive officer of the main association of the german construction industry, when he commented on the economic indicators for the construction industry published in the latest edition of the "aktuell zahlenbild".
According to the report, the companies in the main construction trade generated construction-related sales of 127 billion euros in 2018. Euros, 11.3% more than in 2017. The HDB had originally forecast a nominal plus of 6%. Despite the stronger price increases in 2018, to which cost increases for construction products and the significant collective wage increase would have contributed significantly, there would still have been an increase of 5.4% in real terms.
"In order to handle the additional production, construction companies have increased their workforce by 25.000 to 837.000 employees increased on average in 2018. Since its low point in 2009, the sector has thus added more than 130 new homes.000 new jobs created," is how babiel described the labor market situation in construction.
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Rostock. The real estate market is booming, prices for residential property continue to rise. This is shown by a current report of the council of real estate experts. "One beneficiary of high-cost purchase rates is the feds. Because higher real estate prices mean more revenue via land transfer tax," says florian becker, managing director of the bauherren-schutzbund e.V. (BSB).Politicians must now push ahead more efficiently with their plan to promote housing construction. Consumers becker recommends to pay special attention to hidden costs.
8.2 percent more than last year, the average purchase of a used property costs, according to the report. To avoid unexpected costs adding to the burden of financing, homebuyers should look closely. "If you buy a cat in a bag, you run the risk of considerable additional costs after the purchase," warns becker. For example, a modernization backlog could be paid dearly shortly after purchase. An independent expert can help assess the condition of the building. In any case, buyers should not allow themselves to be put under pressure. Those who rush into a purchase contract without checking it out are often blindly walking into a cost trap that can burden them for life."


Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert announced Wednesday that Cong. Chip Pickering will serve as a member of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hastert said the committee will seek a fair and balanced investigation of the facts.
"We have an opportunity to improve what the government did right and correct what the government did wrong. I appreciate the tremendous resources of the federal government, but I also have seen frustrations with policies and bureaucracies," said Pickering.
The other Republican Select Committee members are: Tom Davis (VA), Chairman; F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (WI); Harold Rogers (KY); Christopher Shays (CT); Henry Bonilla (TX); Steve Buyer (IN); Sue Myrick (NC); Mac Thornberry (TX); Kay Granger (TX) and Bill Shuster (PA).
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement Wednesday in response to Speaker Hastert’s selection of Republican Members to serve on the select committee to review the relief response to Hurricane Katrina:
“The Speaker is not listening to the American people; they have unequivocally said they want an independent commission to find out the truth. They do not want a partisan whitewash of what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
I will not appoint any Democrats to participate in this sham. Instead, Democrats have proposed an independent commission, based on the rigorous and effective example of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
I ask the Republican Leadership to join me in supporting an independent commission to determine what really went wrong in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. The American people expect and deserve nothing less.”


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Remember a few days ago I tweeted about Baywatch Day? Well we decided to do a feature on the 10 most memorable characters from the show, my faves were Eddie and Shauni, once they left I stopped watching, even though the red swimsuit sporting life guards ran on, and on. *Lol*
I grew up in Southern California and whenever friends and family would visit they’d want to go straight to the beach. After a while you’d see the disappointment on the faces of all the boys when they didn’t see any lifeguards who looked like Pamela Anderson running around in red swimsuits on the beach. This was all thanks to one of the biggest television shows of the 90s – Baywatch, which at it’s peak raked in 1.1 billion viewers. This past Monday (also known as Baywatch day) marks 23 years since the show premiered!
For all you Baywatch lovers here’s a look at some of your favorite characters.
David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon
Mitch was the lieutenant lifeguard and the only character who was there throughout the series making it impossible to talk about Baywatch and not think about Mitch.
C.J. Parker in a red swimsuit jogging slowly on the beaches of Los Angeles = all the men in the world going into a tizzy.
Shauni was a newbie lifeguard who was scared of saving people but it didn’t matter because she had seasoned lifeguard Jil Riley mentoring her.
Eddie had a tough life and put that energy towards being a good lifeguard, he moved to Australia after marrying his lady love Shauni.
The sensible Stephanie was an experienced lifeguard who also got into a serious relationship with Mitch which didn’t end well.
Matt was most well-known for his relationships with C.J & Summer.
C.J Parker’s best friend Caroline moved in with her sister Stepanie and became a lifeguard after having a rocky relationship with her ex-husband. Caroline later fell in love with the very dreamy Australian Logan Fowler.
Cody wanted to be an Olympic swimmer but due to a health issue he couldn’t pursue the dream, the next best thing? Become a lifeguard and date C.J Parker and Lani McKenzie.
As Mitch’s son Hobie grew up around the sun, sand and drama that took place at the beach.
Michael was the only cast member who was actually a lifeguard in real life, he started off as a consultant to the show and later become an actor.

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Experience the wide variety of poetry brought to you by the queer contemporary publishing imprint, Fourteen Poems over the course of 4 weeks. Learn new skills in writing and performing poetry, with Remi Graves, Jack Cooper, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Reece Lyons.
Each weekly evening class will focus on a different aspect of the art-form, with a chance to hear poets read their work and reflect on technique and meaning-making in a relaxed forum.
Explore the natural world as a space for queer intimacy. How does a queer person interact with an undulating landscape? What freedoms or restrictions does the outdoors present for queerness? Using poems by Derrick Austin, Mary Oliver, Seán Hewitt and others we’ll unpick the potential for connection, introspection and freedom in nature. What does an open field invite from us? How can we learn more about ourselves in the presence of the sea? We’ll write our own poems to begin the search.
Remi Graves is a London based poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, Remi’s work has been commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral, Barbican and BBC Radio 4. Remi has led courses at The Poetry School and facilitates in schools and community spaces around London. Remi has performed at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Tate Modern and more. Remi’s debut pamphlet with your chest was published in 2022 by fourteen poems.
Week 2 (09.03.2023 | 6.30 - 8.30 PM): Creative constraints / Jack Cooper
The hardest part of writing a poem is starting in the first place. When you can write about *anything*, how do you settle on *something*? In this workshop, Jack Cooper will share how prompts and a personal ‘word bank’ can act as hooks that catch your imagination, letting you put pen to paper when you feel creatively blocked. He will touch on the Japanese literary tradition of Uta-awase, guide attendees through writing exercises that will generate new poetic ideas, and explore how contemporary poets such as Ellora Sutton responded to prompts.
Jack Cooper is a science communicator with a background in biomedical research. His poetry explores a breadth of topics, but he has a soft spot for writing about science, science fiction, local history, and the Saints. His unpublished collection, ‘Break the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing’, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2022. His poetry has been discussed on BBC Radio 4, commissioned by the Science Museum and Poetry Society, and performed at the V&A. The Poetry Society educational resource “We Are Cellular” uses his poetry to teach senior school students about metaphor and cell biology.
In this workshop, we will be debunking the myth between the ‘page vs stage’ divide within poetry and teaching poets how to perform their work to captivate an audience. Reece will demonstrate her personal approach, which lies somewhere between acting and being yourself, sharing techniques on how to incorporate acting techniques, such as Psychological Gesture by Chekhov, into poetry performances. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase their work and receive constructive feedback from Reece and other participants on how to strengthen their performance skills and better engage with their audience, whether it be for poetry slams or promoting their work.
Reece Lyons is an award awinning transgender actress, writer and poet based in London. In 2018, she was a Roundhouse Poetry Slam Finalist, where her poem ‘I am a Woman and I have a Penis’ went viral, accumulating over 4 million views online. In 2020, she appeared alongside legendary poet Professor Benjamin Zephaniah on the BAFTA award winning spoken word TV show, ‘Life & Rhymes’. In 2020/21, she was cast as the lead role in Travis Alabanza’s one woman show, ‘Overflow’. A hilarious and devastating tour of women’s bathrooms which debuted at the Bush Theatre to critical acclaim and was later streamed online in over 22 countries. In 2022, Reece won an Off West End Theatre Award (OFFIE) for her Lead Performance in the show.
Week 4 (23.03.2023 | 6.30 - 8.30 PM)The Stolen Erotic / Oluwaseun S Olayiwola In this workshop we’ll read through some erotic poems, discuss some “touch-y” topics when it comes to eroticism, and use other poet’s as guides through which we may enact a more erotic playfulness and syntax in our writing. We’ll conduct some exercises “stealing” some forms from other poets, as well as have exercises to generate our own poems.
Oluwaseun S Olayiwola is a poet, critic, and choreographer living in London. His poems have been published in Oxford Poetry, Tate, and bath magg with forthcoming publications in the PN Review and Poetry Review. In 2023, he placed 2nd in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. His criticism has been published in the Telegraph, Poetry School, and the TLS. Seun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.