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Gabe Vincent has provided some Heat answers, yet questions remain

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

Gabe Vincent has learned to live in the moment, including these moments as starting point guard over the past six weeks for the Miami Heat.But he also knows what’s ahead, to hit free agency in July.So, yes, also an eye to the future, a future that during last season’s playoffs appeared would come with a significant payoff, earning unprompted praise from Trae Young, but a future now somewhat clouded by an uneven season, including scoring just three points on 1-of-5 shooting in Saturday night’s road loss to the Chicago Bulls.“I think if someone told you they were in this situation and they didn’t think about it, they’d be lying to you,” Vincent said, with the Heat closing out the two-game trip Sunday night against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena. “So it’s something that definitely comes across your mind that you do think about. But I don’t think it’s something that has impacted my play, per se.”Like ma...

ASK IRA: Did Heat err in sitting out Kyle Lowry in Chicago?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

Q: There was no reason for the Heat giving Kyle Lowry Saturday off. They have been idle for days. – Paolo.A: Actually, we should have seen this coming, a back-to-back set scheduled just four games into Kyle Lowry’s comeback from a month, 15 games away due to knee pain. An argument could be made it would have been malpractice to play Kyle in both of these weekend games in Chicago and Detroit. But the remaining two back-to-backs on the Heat schedule feature an upgrade in competition, first at Toronto and then New York, and then at Philadelphia and then Washington. The question is whether the Heat would dare utilize Lowry, who will turn 37 by then, in both games of those sets. As it is, neither the play-in nor the playoffs feature back-to-back games, so it could well be that Kyle will go without a back-to-back set in his return. Still, one would have to wonder if the Heat would have fallen so significantly behind had Lowry been available in Chicago.Q: Ira, last season when ...

1 injured in house party stabbing; suspect arrested

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A man was stabbed following an altercation at a house party in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Sunday, authorities said.According to the San Diego Police Department, a verbal argument between two people broke out at a house party in the area of 1300 Privado Pl shortly before 2 a.m. Deputy suspected of DUI arrested following lockdown at Naval Base Coronado Authorities say the two people reportedly separated for a brief period before one of them returned and stabbed the other in the arm. The suspect, identified by SDPD as 27-year-old Giovanni Sanchez Zuniga, fled the scene and the victim, a 36-year-old man who has not been named, was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. A short time later, police say they located Sanchez Zuniga and arrested him. San Diego Police Southeastern Division Detectives are investigating the incident. Anyone with information related to the house party stabbing is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

Sandler to receive Mark Twain Prize for lifetime in comedy

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor-comedian Adam Sandler will be honored by comedic and entertainment royalty when he receives the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night.Sandler, 56, first came to national attention as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live.” After being fired from the cast following a five-year stint, Sandler launched a wildly successful movie career that has spanned more than 30 films, grossing over $3 billion worldwide. “Adam Sandler has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and his tenure as a fan favorite cast member on ‘SNL,’” Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter said in a statement when Sandler’s prize was announced in December. “Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry, and cry from laughing.”Sandler’s top hits include “Happy Gilmore,” “The Wedding Singer” and “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.” Although primarily known for slapstick comedy and overgrown man-child characters, S...

Russia’s Putin makes surprise trip to occupied Mariupol

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September and a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. He was shown chatting with Mariupol residents and visiting an art school and a children’s center in Sevastopol, Crimea.Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of resistance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May. Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.Putin has not commented on the arrest warrant, which deepened his international isolation despite the unlikel...

Indigenous communities leading Canada’s clean energy boom

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

CALGARY — On a wintry day last November, Daphne Kay looked up at an expanse of gleaming solar panels located on Cowessess First Nation reserve land just east of Reginaand cried.It was the mix of past and present that moved her, watching her fellow community members hold a traditional round dance to mark the grand opening of Cowessess’ newly completed 10 MW solar farm.“I thought about my grandfather, who has passed away, and how during his time he wanted us to live in a healthy way that honoured our traditions, but also brought prosperity for future generations,” said Kay, who grew up on Cowessess and, in her role as community energy specialist with Cowessess Ventures Ltd., played an instrumental role in the development of the new solar farm.“So I thought about him, I thought about my mom, I thought about all the people who were affected by residential schools. I thought about all the people who came before me, and all the people who will come after me.”Cowess...

Weekend Break at Cuddle Bunny, cuteness and more

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

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'Pantry porn' makes obsessively organized kitchens a new status symbol

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

(The Conversation) - Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. Wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks. Rows of flavored seltzer water stacked in double-decker plastic bins.In today’s consumer culture, “a place for everything and everything in its place” isn’t just a mantra; it’s big business. Nowhere is this more evident than the kitchen pantry.Most people can relate to finding half-empty cereal boxes squirreled away in the cupboard or letting produce sit just a bit too long in a refrigerator drawer.But for a subset of social media denizens, such sacrileges would never grace their feeds.As someone who studies digital consumer culture, I’ve noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub “pantry porn.”How did the perfectly organized pantry become so ubiquitous in the digital age? And what does it say about the expectations...

David Brooks: Trump and DeSantis could both lose

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

There are two different narratives running through the Republican Party right now. The first is the Trumpian populist narrative we’re all familiar with: American carnage … the elites have betrayed us … the left is destroying us … I am your retribution.On the other hand, Republican governors from places like Georgia, Virginia and New Hampshire often have a different story to tell. They are running growing, prospering states. (Seven of the 10 fastest growing states have Republican governors while 8 of the 10 fastest shrinking states have Democratic governors.)So their stories are not about the left behind; they can tell stories about the places people are leaving for. Their most appealing narrative is: Jobs and people are coming to us, we’ve got the better model, we’re providing businesslike leadership to keep it going.These different narratives yield different political messages. The bellicose populists put culture war issues front and center. The conservative governors certainly pla...

Real World Economics: A needed primer on bank failures

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:18 GMT

Edward LottermanAll of a sudden, shaky banks are back in the news.For codgers like me, 2008 isn’t all that long ago, but for a significant proportion of the economically active U.S. population, this may all be new and strange.And even many economists may wonder, is this the biblical “cloud no bigger than a man’s hand” suddenly rising out of the sea that turns into a torrent of financial failures? Or are Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, First Republic and Credit Suisse just anomalous blips that will be forgotten by Memorial Day?Who knows? As pundits by the score debate whether this is a “bailout” that incentivizes “moral hazard,” or a failure or regulation, it is clear that many intelligent laypersons don’t really understand banking. So let’s step back and review relevant basics.Banks are financial intermediaries. They link people who have money now but want to spend it later with others who want to spend now and are willing and able to pay it back l...