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Russia’s gas blackmail: Putin is bringing a knife to a gun fight | Business and Economy

Russia’s gas blackmail: Putin is bringing a knife to a gun fight | Business and Economy

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated the geo-economic war between his country and the West by suspending gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, citing the two countries’ refusal to pay in Russian roubles. The move, decried by the West as “blackmail”, yet again demonstrated Putin’s belief that Russia’s status as a commodities exporter will enable it to withstand and counter the…

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Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin, 50, shows off INCREDIBLE results of her 'silent face lift'

Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin, 50, shows off INCREDIBLE results of her ‘silent face lift’

Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin has showed off the incredible results of her ‘silent face lift’ – an age reversing procedure designed to improve face and neck ‘sagging’ and restore a ‘more youthful and refreshed appearance’ in your skin. Nolin, 50, received the face lift last month, and she has now shared stunning before and after photos, adding that she is very ‘happy’ with the results. The actress…

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Huron Behavioral Health fighting against mental health privatization efforts

Huron Behavioral Health fighting against mental health privatization efforts

During a recent Huron County Board of Commissioners meeting, Commissioner Steve Vaughan talked about how he spoke with some state leaders in Lansing about current efforts to privatize the state’s community mental health services. And he did not have good things to share. “There is no support to not privatize it, for the simple reason that most CMH’s in Michigan are either broke, they can’t manage…

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20 Top Internet Service Providers in 2022

20 Top Internet Service Providers in 2022

Internet service providers offer online access with a variety of technologies, speeds, and prices. That means plenty of choices for consumers. Here is a list of large ISPs in the U.S for 2022. These providers offer internet service through DSL, copper, fixed wireless, cable, and fiber. Prices and availability vary by location and are subject to change. Top ISPs of 2022 Xfinity is Comcast’s brand…

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What the first round revealed about GM Joe Schoen: Giants NFL Draft takeaways

What the first round revealed about GM Joe Schoen: Giants NFL Draft takeaways

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The bar has been set low for Giants general manager Joe Schoen. That’s one of the benefits of replacing Dave Gettleman, who went 19-46 in four seasons as GM. All Schoen had to do with his two first-round picks in the NFL Draft on Thursday night was avoid making a selection that would produce meme-worthy fan reactions, like when Gettleman took running back Saquon Barkley at…

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Improved Enterprise Sales Buoy Weaker Client Revenue

Improved Enterprise Sales Buoy Weaker Client Revenue

Kicking off our coverage of the first earnings season of the year for the tech industry, we as always start with Intel. The blue-hued blue-chip company is the first out of the gate to report their results for the first quarter of 2022, with Intel reporting something of a mixed quarter. With revenue down on a yearly basis – thanks in large part to softer client sales – Intel is no longer on a hot…

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Inside Tokyo Vice’s Problematic Source Material – The Hollywood Reporter

Inside Tokyo Vice’s Problematic Source Material – The Hollywood Reporter

In the mid-2000s, after about a decade of reporting in Japan, American journalist Jake Adelstein came upon a story that would change the trajectory of his life and career. Adelstein discovered that four major figures in yakuza organizations —Japan’s crime syndicates — had traveled to UCLA Medical Center to receive liver transplants. The most prominent was Tadamasa Goto, head of a notorious yakuza…

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Final 2023 Payment Rule, Part 1: Essential Health Benefits And Other Market Reforms

Final 2023 Payment Rule, Part 1: Essential Health Benefits And Other Market Reforms

On April 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted the final 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters alongside a press release, a fact sheet, the final actuarial value calculator and methodology, the final letter to issuers, a final quality rating system information bulletin, and 2023 application materials for qualified health plans (QHPs). The final rule…

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AMD's Zen 3+ CPUs are great, so why is no one using them?

AMD’s Zen 3+ CPUs are great, so why is no one using them?

A few months after the initial release of AMD’s Zen 3+ mobile processors, the CPUs are still scarcely found in laptops. Only 11 notebooks are currently using AMD’s latest mobile chips. Is this slow adoption the result of supply constraints or are there other reasons why laptop manufacturers haven’t picked up AMD Zen 3+? ‘Rembrandt’ lags The AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile lineup of CPUs, code-named…

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A loss to the Knicks was the low point for the Celtics. Here’s how they rebounded into a title contender.

A loss to the Knicks was the low point for the Celtics. Here’s how they rebounded into a title contender.

Get Court Sense Bounce around the NBA with our Celtics-centric look at the latest happenings on and off the court. This wasn’t a team that was starting to get it. The Phoenix win was impressive but it was followed by two disappointing performances. One night after the Spurs loss, the Celtics had yet another chance to change their growing label as one of the league’s biggest disappointments at…

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How Hatching’s charmingly terrifying monster was brought to life

How Hatching’s charmingly terrifying monster was brought to life

Animatronics designer Gustav Hoegen has worked on some of the biggest film franchises around. He’s helped bring to life the likes of the adorable mechanic Babu Frik from Rise of the Skywalker and the towering engineer from Prometheus. But some of the most stressful experiences in his career came on the set of Hatching, a Finnish body horror movie that debuted at Sundance and premieres in theaters…

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PVM’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Receives CLIA Recertification

PVM’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Receives CLIA Recertification

Friday, April 29, 2022 We all remember the announcements that flooded our phones as the pandemic unfolded in 2020 – each new day seemed to bring with it new instructions about social distancing, mask wearing, disinfecting and limiting group meetings to smaller numbers due to the spread of the virus. As the pandemic made an ever-increasing global impact, these measures eventually affected schools…

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It’s a ‘space for people who felt underrepresented and who felt alone’

It’s a ‘space for people who felt underrepresented and who felt alone’

Molly Burke grew up viewing the internet the way the rest of us millennials did — as a refuge, as a virtual community that confused our parents and as a comfort. “When I lost the majority of my vision at 14, I lost all of my friends,” Burke told In The Know. “I no longer had girlfriends to go shopping at the mall with or have sleepovers and gossip about boys. And I just thought, I miss that sense…

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Buy These 6 No-Brainer Blue-Chip Bargains Before This Bear Market Ends

Buy These 6 No-Brainer Blue-Chip Bargains Before This Bear Market Ends

Madmaxer/iStock via Getty Images It’s been a wild year for stocks so far. Ycharts While the S&P (SPY) is down just 12% from its highs, the Nasdaq has hit -22% and fallen into a bear market. Daily Shot And the Nasdaq (QQQ) is having its worst month since November 2008, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and plunged the world into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The S&P…

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Amid Streaming Boom, Why Linear TV Appeals to Companies – The Hollywood Reporter

Amid Streaming Boom, Why Linear TV Appeals to Companies – The Hollywood Reporter

When the upfronts return to New York City in mid-May after a two-year pandemic hiatus, broadcast TV is expected to play second fiddle. Though ABC, NBC and CBS will still get their moments, Disney is expected to introduce the ad-supported tier of Disney+, while Paramount will pitch Paramount+ and NBCUniversal touts Peacock. After years of preparing to go all in on streaming, linear is no longer a…

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You Can Control Yourself Better

You Can Control Yourself Better

Photo: True Touch Lifestyle (Shutterstock) Sometimes, we make colossally bad decisions that mess up our lives for a period of time. We stay too long in the wrong job or a toxic relationship. We hang out with the wrong people, or make a risky investment that doesn’t pan out. There are times when our mistakes and failures can be traced back to a specific decision or event that threw us off…

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How AI can increase the effectiveness of point-of-care ultrasounds

How AI can increase the effectiveness of point-of-care ultrasounds

For patients who need care in rural areas, getting diagnostic testing can be a complicated process. In some cases, individuals may need to travel long distances to larger facilities to get access to necessary technology.   To address those issues, many developers have focused innovation efforts on point-of-care-ultrasound, or POCUS, devices.    As Dr. Mark Favot explained to Healthcare IT News,…

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