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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans tight end Taysom Hill is likely to miss the rest of the season after injuring his knee in the Saints' loss to the Los Angeles Rams. “It looks like an ACL tear,” interim coach Darren Rizzi said Monday. “He’ll probably get a second opinion, but it looks like it will be season-ending.” Hill, who is listed at tight end but plays a variety of roles, was carted off the field after taking a hard hit to his left knee while converting a fourth down on a direct snap in the Saints’ 21-14 loss Sunday to the Rams. The injury came one game after he'd posted a career-best 138 yards rushing and scored three touchdowns in a victory over Cleveland. He also has lined up at quarterback and running back, as well as playing special teams. “It means everybody else has to step up,” Rizzi said. “He fills so many roles, so there are going to be a lot of different guys that have to be a part of the solution there. It’s hard to sit here and tell you we are going to replace Taysom. You can’t. He’s a phenomenal person, player, leader and captain. It’s a big loss." Hill is the third key offensive player the Saints have lost. He joins leading wide receivers Chris Olave, who suffered a concussion in Week 9 and has not played since, and Rashid Shaheed, who is out for the year after tearing a meniscus in Week 7. Rizzi said guard Nick Saldiveri also might miss the remaining five games after injuring his left knee in the fourth quarter one series before Hill. Without Hill, though, the Saints’ quest to get back in the NFC South race became even tougher. At 4-8, they trail Atlanta and Tampa Bay by two games. Hill has 99 catches, 437 carries, 302 passes, 44 touchdowns, 19 tackles and one blocked kick in seven years with the Saints. “I don’t know if I can compare Taysom to anybody else that I’ve ever coached,” Rizzi said. “There’s not a guy that comes to mind that has been able to do all the different things he’s been able to do just in one game, forget about his career." What's working Alvin Kamara had his third 100-yard rushing game of the year and is 106 yards away from the first 1,000-yard season of his eight-year career. He needs only 39 more yards to set a career high. His 206 carries are the third most in his career. What needs help Los Angeles averaged 5.4 yards per carry, finishing with 156 yards. Rams running back Kyren Williams said they knew at halftime they would win if they stuck to the ground game, and he carried seven times on the opening series of the third quarter as they took the lead. The Saints have allowed 5.1 yards per carry for the season — tied for last with the New York Giants. Stock up Signed in late October after Shaheed’s season-ending surgery, Marquez Valdes-Scantling has become Derek Carr’s go-to receiver for big plays. His 28-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter was the Saints’ longest gain of the day and his fourth score in the past three games. Stock down Tight end Foster Moreau, a reliable performer all year, could not handle Rams outside linebacker Jared Verse on the Saints’ final offensive snap, allowing him to hit Carr as he released a pass on fourth-and-3 from the Los Angeles 9 with New Orleans trailing by 7. Injuries Although the news was bad for Hill and Saldiveri, Rizzi said he expected starting center Erik McCoy to play Sunday against the Giants. McCoy was scratched against the Rams after aggravating a groin injury two weeks earlier versus Cleveland in his first game back since missing seven in a row. Rizzi said oft-injured running back Kendre Miller, who has played in two games this year, might return from a hamstring injury Sunday. Key number 2 — The number of sacks for the Saints, not enough to keep Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford from finding his rhythm in the second half. In the Rams’ last five losses, he has been sacked 20 times. In their last five wins, he has been sacked three times. Next steps With their NFC South hopes on life support, the Saints travel to face the reeling Giants, who have lost seven in a row. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Guerry Smith, The Associated Press
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Hildebrandt scores 9 as High Point knocks off Appalachian State 65-59LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier (13) leads his teammates onto the field before kickoff against Florida, Saturday, November 16, 2024, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LSU and Oklahoma have met three times in their storied histories — but never in Tiger Stadium. That will change at 6 p.m. Saturday, when the Tigers (7-4) and Sooners (6-5) meet to wrap up their regular seasons. Because Oklahoma upset Alabama last week, both teams are bowl eligible, with hopes of ending their disappointing years on a positive note. Can LSU run the ball efficiently? It did last week, when a productive rushing attack keyed a bounce-back win over Vanderbilt. But Oklahoma's defense is a different challenge. The Sooners have one of the 20 best rushing defenses in the country. Follow along here for live updates and analysis from the final game before the Tigers begins their preparation for a bowl game and turn the page to an important offseason. Pregame Updates 4:40 p.m. — LSU left guard Garrett Dellinger (ankle) is out. He has not played since Oct. 26, when he suffered a high ankle sprain in the Tigers' loss to Texas A&M. LSU listed him as questionable this week on its availability report. 4:30 p.m. — Here's a pre-game read on LSU receiver CJ Daniels , who's inspired by his mom’s epilepsy fight and wants to spread awareness of the neurological disorder. Check it out here .What will the new year bring? Based on this year, we can expect a wild ride. Here are 25 predictions for 2025. 1) President Trump, having run out of relatives to appoint to high office, will leave politics to spend less time with his family. 2) Raygun will continue to be the biggest source of family arguments since the COVID mandates, with the only allowed views being “angel” or “devil”. 3) Prince Andrew, revealed as a close contact of both a convicted paedophile and an alleged Chinese spy, will admit that he’s in the pay of the Australian Republican movement, as it’s the only way to explain the last five years. Reviving past fashion is going to become more difficult in 2025. 4) Reviving the fashion and music of past decades will become more difficult, on account that every period has been used up due to a collective failure to have any new ideas. By February 2025, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of 2024”. By March, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of February”. By April 20, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of April 3.” 5) Gina Rinehart will buy a huge new sheep farm but keep the traditional name: “Western Australia.” 6) Peter Dutton will find himself so addicted to negativity he will find himself unable to accept any view put by the government - angrily dismissing the observations that “the sky is blue”, “water is wet”, and “Australia, by and large, is a pretty good place to live.” Toto is set for a name change! Credit: Alex Ellinghausen 7) Anthony Albanese will rename his dog, worried that the current name of Toto sounds enough like Tonto to create expectations that his owner will be a man of action. 8) The leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, will install a new phone answering system in his office, inviting people to leave a message “after the morally superior tone”. 9) Prince Harry’s popularity in the UK will reach a new low when he is voted off The Great British Bake Off, despite having never appeared on the show. Get excited for the Big Coke! Credit: iStock / Supplied 10) Peter Dutton, in the tradition of the Big Pineapple and the Big Prawn, will build an enormous Coke can in his electorate of Dickson in order to store the tonnes of nuclear waste, which, he has always argued, will somehow fit into a Coke can. 11) Trump will stage a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. When asked, “Why meet with a deranged dictator with his finger on the nuclear button?” Kim will say: “Look, it’s only a meeting”. 12) Victoria will fall further from an AAA credit rating, with its score now reduced to “Aargh”. 13) Artificial intelligence will become sufficiently sophisticated that it finally wakes up to its own flaws, warning users that “the whole thing is a poor substitute for actual human thought”. 14) As the world’s concentration span continues to dip, TikTok videos will become increasingly short. By mid-year, the average video will be just two seconds long; by November, every video will be a .003-second subliminal advertisement for Temu. AI will see itself out. 15) Apple will continue to issue new versions of its products, each one representing an even smaller improvement on the last. This will not stop people queuing through the night to buy them. 16) Elon Musk will become so extreme and so powerful even Donald Trump will cut all ties. Loading 17) Social media sites will continue to proliferate and become increasingly targeted as to age, education and politics until everyone has their own site, to which they – and only they - will be allowed to post, leading to a marvellous feeling since you always agree with what’s been said. 18) Putin will fall from power. (True. You watch.) 19) The self-checkout machines at Colesworth will become self-aware and take action against the profiteering of the supermarkets by giving away everything for free. This, and only this, will force Colesworth to re-employ some staff. 20) Coffee orders will become so long-winded – “a weak, soy macchiato but with hotter than normal soy thanks” – it will become impossible for the typical worker to fulfil any other task during their workday save for the consumption of beverages. 21) As the unemployment rate rises, bosses will ban working from home, leading to massive congestion on Sydney roads, with workers forced to abandon their cars in the nearest car park. The carpark, however, will retain its traditional name: the M5. 22) The last butcher, baker and greengrocer will close their doors, leaving Sydney with 10,563 Thai massage joints, 20,495 nail salons, and about a million gyms, all of them empty. 23) Hollywood will collapse after executives realise they have run out of Marvel comics to remake. 24) Politics, here and around the world, will become ever-more depressing, however... 25) We will survive. Happy New Year – and here’s to a less-bad-than-expected 2025. Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article New Year Spectrum Opinion Richard Glover is a columnist. Most Viewed in Lifestyle Loading
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Rod Stewart's wife Penny 'willing to go to authorities' over Gregg Wallace as they break coverWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.
Vote counting will kickstart at 8 am on Saturday in the Buldhana constituency, located in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra. The Assembly constituency witnessed 62.39 % turnout on Saturday in a crucial electoral contest. A seat with a history of diverse political representation, Buldhana remained a focal point in the state's changing political dynamics. Sitting MLA Sanjay Rambhau Gaikwad, now aligned with the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, contested to retain his seat. With the support of the Mahayuti alliance, which includes the BJP and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP faction, Gaikwad aimed to leverage the organisational strength of this coalition. He faced Jayshree Sunil Shelke of Shiv Sena (UTB). Other local leaders and independents also threw their hats into the ring, focusing on specific community issues and development concerns. Sanjay Rambhau Gaikwad (Shiv Sena) : 26,075 votes 1. Political stability: The last five years in Maharashtra have been marked by party splits and shifting alliances. Voters in Buldhana may seek clarity on how these developments will impact governance and stability. 2. Development vs defections: Concerns about stalled development projects in the region, exacerbated by frequent political realignments, are expected to dominate the discourse. 3. Farmer welfare and rural development: Buldhana, with its significant agrarian population, will see debates over farmers' welfare, irrigation, and rural development schemes. 4. Leadership crisis in Shiv Sena: The division within the Shiv Sena, with both Shinde and Uddhav factions claiming legitimacy, will add an emotional layer to voter decisions in this constituency. As Maharashtra navigates a fractured political landscape, the Buldhana constituency remains emblematic of the state’s electoral complexities. With a mix of traditional loyalties, development aspirations and the shadow of political realignments, the 2024 Assembly elections promise to be a litmus test for all major players. The results on Saturday will reveal whether the voters reward stability or choose change.From Raygun to Rinehart: 25 predictions for 2025
Number of seats: 4 Seats filled: 0 5.30pm Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party had delivered an “incredible performance” in the general election. She made clear she wanted to engage with other parties about the “possibilities of government”. Ms McDonald arrived at the count centre in the RDS in a very positive mood ahead of the first official Dublin counts. The first thing I want to say is to acknowledge every single person right across the state who came out to vote for Sinn Féin,” she told reporters in the RDS count centre in Dublin this evening. Mary Lou McDonald (right) and deputy Michelle O'Neill (centre) arrive at the RDS (Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire) “You have given us again a powerful and a strong mandate, and we understand the trust that you have placed in us to make life better for you, and we are determined to do just that. This has been really an incredible performance by all of our candidates, by Sinn Féin across the state. “Over a short number of weeks we have achieved a result that many people a few weeks ago would have thought impossible. So thank you. Thank you to every single person who voted for us. “I said in the course of the campaign that I believe another five years of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is bad news for our society, for our communities, for families who are struggling, for our housing crisis, which is deepening, and nobody should miss the record homeless numbers that we saw on election day itself. “We’re now at a really important decision point for Irish society and politics, and we need change. “We intend when the votes are counted and when we know the lie of the land, we will be talking to people about the possibilities of government. “I do not want to see another five years of the kind of chaos, the kind of disregard that we have seen under Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. I think that is a bad outcome for our society.” 5.07pm Independent 4 Change candidate Clare Daly, who polled poorly in Dublin Central, said the fact that Gerry Hutch did well was an anti-establishment vote that could bring a needed focus on the area. “It’s incredibly interesting. It’s not a place I would have wanted to be obviously but I think we’ve seen the massive galvanising of that anti-establishment vote around the candidacy of Gerard Hutch,” she said. “I think all progressive Independents across Dublin probably suffered a little bit in favour of the parties as well, so it left me where I am.” “There’s huge goodwill out there and all the rest but I’m not going to get to see the benefit of all of the massive transfers that we got, but that’s life and I think it has put the world’s attention and the country’s attention on a constituency that has been so badly neglected, and for me that’s a really good thing.” “I hope that attention can be maintained and the people in this wonderful area can get the attention that they so badly deserve and haven’t got,” she added. Asked if she welcomes the fact that Hutch appears to have the level of support he has, Ms Daly said the fact that he is there in the constituency will focus attention on it. “The challenge will be to him to build on that. I do believe the constituency needs that. I don’t see him being a national parliamentarian or a legislator per se, which is part of the job, but if elected he could, if the will was there, really keep a focus on an area that has been left behind and is crying out,” she said. “There are so many people in that community trying their best. It is an incredibly diverse constituency with a lot of division within it.” “Let’s see what happens. Either way the constituency has spoken and by voting for Gerard Hutch in such numbers they’ve sent that signal anyway, and the political establishment should take note,” she added. 1.57pm Social Democrats candidate Gary Gannon has said he is humbled by the vote in Dublin Central. “I'm humbled and also determined to vindicate that over the course of the next five years. We've done a massive amount of work in Dublin Central. In terms of the work that we are doing on the ground, the strength of conviction we have bringing through issues in the Dail that was really starting to come back for us, and we were picking up a lot of momentum in Dublin Central. And I think today you'll see the results of that,” he said. Asked about the effect that Gerry Hutch had being on the ballot paper, Gannon said it was something that “none of us expected”. “He came in and he got a lot of media with this announcement, and that's going to be expected. But I think, for me, it's not just about what happens and who takes the fourth seat. I think it's a reflection of the fact that there's a lot of hurt, there's a huge amount of pain. I mean, that period of austerity in 2011 to 2016 destroyed the fabric of communities, and you're still seeing the tentacles of that now,” he added. “I appreciate what the headlines will be today and tomorrow, but I do encourage everybody to go beyond them and look deeper. Because when people are hurting to the extent that they are in, some of the communities that I represent the length and breadth of Ireland, and you're going to see outcries of that, and it'll manifest in different ways. And I think we're seeing one manifestation of that today,” he said. Asked if he thought the Hutch vote was a protest vote he said he didn’t think so. Soc Dems leader Holly Cairns gave birth to her first baby yesterday as the nation went to the polls, and Gary Gannon was delighted for her. “For me, I just want to say how in awe I am of Holly Cairns. She's not only our leader, she's my friend. She is somebody that has took the reins of this party two exceptional TDs in Catherine Murphy and Roisin Shortall, and she's really brought us on,” he explained. Regarding future plans and possible negotiations for government, he said the next step is to see exactly what's in the boxes. 1.30pm Independent candidate Malachy Steenson has said it looks like Mary Lou McDonald will take the first seat in Dublin Central, followed by Paschal Donohoe, and Gary Gannon for the Social Democrats will take the third seat. The battle for fourth seat could be between Gerry Hutch (Ind), Marie Sherlock (Lab) and Mary Fitzpatrick (FF) in his opinion. He thinks Sherlock may take it on likely transfers. The Monk is in the mix as Malachy Steenson gives his view on the tallies from Dublin Central “It’s a disappointing day for the Nationalist movement but it shows what acres of media coverage can do for a celebrity candidate,” he said in reference to Gerry Hutch’s entry. “The media have to look at the role they have played in this election in excluding people they didn’t agree with. Sadly, the people will pay the price,” he told the Irish Independent. 12pm With practically all the boxes tallied in Dublin Central the news of the day is how well convicted criminal Gerry Hutch has polled. From the outset he was doing well on tally sheets from his own inner city areas like North Strand, and there was an expectation among some of the tally crews that this would change as more boxes were opened. But his vote was strong across the city, and when it comes to the first count he looks destined to come fourth. Transfers in later counts will erode this, but the fact that he has featured so strongly has surprised many. Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald will top the poll on around 20pc it appears, followed by Fine Gael’s Paschal Donohoe on around 17pc. Gary Gannon of the Social Democrats is polling in third place at 13pc followed by Hutch on 9pc. The fact that Hutch entered the race in the first place will have hurt the ambitions of right wing candidate Malachy Steenson, and Independent 4 Change Clare Daly, who are in ar around the 5pc mark. The Green Party’s Neasa Hourigan’s ambitions to retain her seat appeare to have taken a bruising, with the tallies indicating 6pc of the vote. Transfers will play around with the placings a lot, but this constituency is one to watch today. Read moreDefender Capital LLC. reduced its position in Amazon.com, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMZN ) by 6.1% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 7,520 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after selling 490 shares during the period. Amazon.com accounts for about 0.5% of Defender Capital LLC.’s portfolio, making the stock its 19th largest position. Defender Capital LLC.’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $1,401,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of AMZN. PayPay Securities Corp grew its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 64.6% during the second quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 163 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $32,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares during the last quarter. Hoese & Co LLP acquired a new stake in Amazon.com in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $37,000. Christopher J. Hasenberg Inc grew its position in Amazon.com by 650.0% during the 2nd quarter. Christopher J. Hasenberg Inc now owns 300 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $58,000 after purchasing an additional 260 shares during the last quarter. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. acquired a new position in Amazon.com during the 1st quarter valued at approximately $69,000. Finally, Innealta Capital LLC purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the second quarter worth $77,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on AMZN. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their price objective on shares of Amazon.com from $225.00 to $232.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. Scotiabank increased their price objective on Amazon.com from $245.00 to $246.00 and gave the company a “sector outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. Telsey Advisory Group increased their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $215.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. DA Davidson restated a “buy” rating and set a $235.00 price objective on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $236.00 price objective (up previously from $230.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, November 1st. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, forty have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $235.77. Amazon.com Stock Performance Shares of AMZN stock opened at $197.12 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 1.09. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.81 and a 1 year high of $215.90. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $193.00 and its two-hundred day moving average is $186.31. The firm has a market cap of $2.07 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.21, a PEG ratio of 1.33 and a beta of 1.14. Amazon.com ( NASDAQ:AMZN – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 31st. The e-commerce giant reported $1.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.14 by $0.29. The business had revenue of $158.88 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $157.28 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 8.04% and a return on equity of 22.41%. The business’s revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.85 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 5.27 earnings per share for the current year. Insider Transactions at Amazon.com In other news, insider Jeffrey P. Bezos sold 2,996,362 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $208.85, for a total value of $625,790,203.70. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 917,416,976 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $191,602,535,437.60. This represents a 0.33 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink . Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 5,502 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.81, for a total value of $1,132,366.62. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 518,911 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $106,797,072.91. This trade represents a 1.05 % decrease in their position. 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How to Invest and Trade MarketBeat Week in Review – 11/18 – 11/22 Which Wall Street Analysts are the Most Accurate? 2 Finance Stocks With Competitive Advantages You Can’t Ignore Want to see what other hedge funds are holding AMZN? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Amazon.com, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMZN – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Amazon.com Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Amazon.com and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Almost €228m was raised for good causes through the National Lottery in 2023. The National Lottery Good Causes Report for 2023, released today, showed that around 1.2 million people a week played National Lottery games in 2023. More than €6 billion has been raised since the National Lottery was established in 1987. The Regulator of the National Lottery ensures that 65pc of the proceeds of the National Lottery after prizes go to the Exchequer for distribution to good causes. In 2023, €227.9 million was raised for good causes. Good causes funding, combined with Exchequer funding, supports on average over 4,500 charity and voluntary groups, sports bodies, arts and heritage organisations, youth and Irish Language projects. Public Expenditure Minister Pascal Donohoe said: “The National Lottery contributes substantially to the economic and social fabric of communities all over Ireland.” The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, led by Minister Catherine Martin, who lost her seat in November, received the largest allocation of funding in 2023. The Arts Council, Irish language support schemes such as Raidió Rí Rá and grants for sporting bodies such as Sport Ireland and Special Olympics Ireland were all part-funded by the National Lottery last year. The beneficiary with the second-largest allocation of funds from the National Lottery was the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, with 30 national and major regional voluntary organisations funded last year alongside numerous other community and national youth services for vulnerable or disadvantaged young people aged 10 to 24. Belvedere Youth Club in Dublin’s north-east inner city reintroduced a music programme for their members as a result of funding last year, while Involve Youth Project Meath, which specialises working with the Travelling Community, was also supported. The third largest area of expenditure part-funded by the National Lottery is housing and heritage, including mobility aid grants, Heritage Council Grants and communal facilities in housing projects. The Donegal Railway Heritage Museum and Dark Sky Ireland, a national organisation which raises awareness of the impacts of light pollution to protect Irish nightscapes, were among the projects part-funded by the National Lottery. National volunteering supports, a seniors alert scheme, supports for community and voluntary sector and the Society of St Vincent de Paul and Protestant Aid were also supported under the Department The seniors alert scheme provides personal monitored alarms for vulnerable older people, with more than 130,000 people participating in the scheme since 2015. While ticket sales were down for the Lottery in 2023, according to accounts filed this year, funding continued to support groups across Ireland.
Diego González, traveling surgeon: ‘I operate all over the world’ The doctor has assisted more than 10,000 people in 136 countries after revolutionizing operating theaters with minimally invasive single-cut video surgery on the chest Diego González Rivas has just arrived in his hometown, A Coruña , after stopping in Madrid and Lisbon, where he landed last week on his return from Kuwait. Suitcases and planes are part of his daily routine. During December he has also been to Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Bucharest. He will spend Christmas in India and New Year in Indonesia, from where he will travel to Vietnam. He is a traveling thoracic surgeon, who at 50 years old has operated on more than 10,000 people in 136 countries after revolutionizing operating theatres. What used to involve opening up the patient and separating the ribs is now reduced to an incision of a few centimeters with thoracoscopic or robotic surgery . Sometimes, these interventions are carried out without tracheal intubation or general anesthesia. Thanks to these two techniques, which González developed in 2010 and 2021 respectively, patients can be discharged from hospital within 48 hours after being operated on for lung cancer . He heads the thoracic video surgery program at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, the largest clinic in the world, and in 2025 he will present a book, Healing the World: Diary of a Nomadic Surgeon . Question: Did you always know that you wanted to be a doctor? Answer. Yes, I always wanted to help others. My mother was a nurse and I loved going with her to the hospital because I saw that people were going in sick and coming out okay, usually. When I was little, my family recorded a Christmas video message in which I wished people a happy holiday and that no loved ones would die. This was what I cared about. Q. Why did you specialize in thoracic surgery? A. I wanted to be a surgeon and I had three options: plastic, cardiac, or thoracic. The latter was not very well-known, but just when I graduated a lung transplant program started in A Coruña of which I could be the first resident. I had an intuition and I went with it, I knew I would be fascinated. Q. Has postoperative care evolved much since then? A. Of course, one of the things I hated most about my profession was seeing patients in bad shape after surgery. Thoracic surgery is the most painful of all because the intercostal nerves are in the thorax, a rigid organ that requires separating the ribs to be able to access it openly, which causes pain that can last a lifetime. I saw dramatic cases in the postoperative period with many complications and the risk of infections, pneumonia, and thromboembolisms. Q. Did you know that medicine offered other alternatives? A. I believed that the way things were being done had to change. I discovered video surgery, which was only performed in Spain in Seville, on a small scale, but was more common in the United States. I went there in 2006 and learned the technique in hospitals in Los Angeles, New York, and North Carolina, where I found out that surgeon Thomas D’Amico was the only person capable of operating with only two incisions, and I trained with him. Q. Did you improve this technique? A. Yes, in June 2010 I performed major lung cancer surgery for the first time in the world with a single four-centimeter incision. Now I can do it in a smaller size. It was a revolution and a new era began with a technique called Uniportal VATS (minimally invasive video surgery with a single cut in the chest). It allows direct vision with very ergonomic instrumentation. The patient is at home within 48 hours. Q. Did your professional career take off at that time? A. I started to generate international interest, although there was also criticism because I was creating something new that broke with the established order. My own boss at the hospital in A Coruña did not accept it. I lived through some tense years, but my team always believed in this project and we continued forward. Life is full of obstacles and these make you grow. Q. Did you want to show your discovery to the world? A. I wanted all surgeons to learn this technique because it is very appreciated by the patient, and I started my crusade around the world to teach it. Medical students already study it in faculties. It is not only used to operate on lung cancer, it’s useful for all chest pathologies. In 2021, I also developed robotic surgery (Uniportal RATS) and, in addition, I cure hyperhidrosis in the palms of the hands with a 15-minute operation, like the one I performed on the [Spanish television] presenter David Broncano. That’s why this operation went viral. Q. In which country did you first become interested in spreading your single-cut technique in the chest? A. In 2012, I was invited to give the first conference in Singapore, where a hospital was performing 30 lung surgeries a day and specialists from all over Asia came. I started performing live surgeries in Hong Kong and offered classes in more than 60 Chinese cities. I was amazed by the Asian technology and founded the thoracic video surgery program at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, the largest in the world, to attract professionals from all over. They train for two weeks and return to their countries of origin to develop the technique; it is the fastest way to expand worldwide. I was named an honorary citizen in northern China. Q. What fulfills you the most? A. Operating in developing countries is what makes me happiest, it gives me a lot of peace and satisfaction because it is where I have the most impact. Saving a life there is wonderful. At first it was an odyssey to perform this type of surgery in some territories, where we lost power in the middle of operations. They have very limited resources and we need high-definition equipment and specialized anesthesiologists. In recent years I have visited more than 30 African countries. That is why the Diego González Rivas Foundation was born in 2022, which raises funds to work in these countries with peace of mind. Q. Has the foundation allowed you to fulfill dreams that seemed impossible? A. I have operated in Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Sierra Leone, Peru, and many other territories. This year I achieved my main goal: a mobile hospital equipped with all the technology to move easily to different parts of Africa. We inaugurated it in Ghana. For the first time in the world, minimally invasive surgery was performed in a mobile unit with high-definition cameras, solar panels, satellite connection, bronchoscopes, sterilization systems, surgical scrubbing, and a resuscitation area. We saved people and offered them the same health conditions as in Europe and the United States. Q. Are you a traveling surgeon? A. Yes, I am a nomad. I work in dozens of hospitals, I operate all over the world, even on weekends. I travel alone, but in each country I have a different team. I never lose contact with the patients I care for, even if I have to leave the next day for another city. Q. What adverse situations have you faced? A. There have been many, but I remember a girl in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who had swallowed a key and it had been stuck in her lung for two years. She was dying and we operated on her. Three days later, we discharged her and she was happy. In China I assisted a prisoner who had tried to take his life by stabbing himself in the chest with an awl, and in Tanzania I operated on a girl whose lung had been completely punctured by a rib years earlier, probably after being abused. Q. Do you operate where others don’t dare? A. I have more experience in complex cases because I deal with them every day. I perform 1,000 lung cancer surgeries a year, whereas my colleagues in Spain normally do 100. I receive numerous cases every day of patients with tumors that have been rejected [for surgery] because they are technically complex, so I deal with them, but many I cannot cope with either. I always have to stick to oncological principles. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition Tu suscripción se está usando en otro dispositivo ¿Quieres añadir otro usuario a tu suscripción? Si continúas leyendo en este dispositivo, no se podrá leer en el otro. ¿Por qué estás viendo esto? Tu suscripción se está usando en otro dispositivo y solo puedes acceder a EL PAÍS desde un dispositivo a la vez. Si quieres compartir tu cuenta, cambia tu suscripción a la modalidad Premium, así podrás añadir otro usuario. 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The previous Trump administration did not increase the skilled visa program, instead clamping down on visas for students and educated workers, increasing denial rates. Not everyone in corporate America thinks the skilled worker program is great. Former workers at IT company Cognizant recently won a federal class-action lawsuit that said the company favored Indian employees over Americans from 2013 to 2022. A Bloomberg investigation found Cognizant, and other similar outsourcing companies, mainly used its skilled work visas for lower-level positions. Workers alleged Cognizant preferred Indian workers because they could be paid less and were more willing to accept inconvenient or less-favorable assignments. Question: Should the U.S. increase immigration levels for highly skilled workers? Caroline Freund, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy YES: Innovation is our superpower and it relies on people. Sourcing talent from 8 billion people in the world instead of 330 million here makes sense. Nearly half our Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Growing them also relies on expanding our skilled workforce. The cap on skilled-worker visas has hardly changed since the computer age started. With AI on the horizon, attracting and building talent is more important than ever. Kelly Cunningham, San Diego Institute for Economic Research YES: After years of openly allowing millions of undocumented entrants into the country, why is there controversy over legally increasing somewhat the number having desirable skills? Undocumented immigration significantly impacts lower skill level jobs and wages competing with domestic workers at every skill level. Why should special cases be made against those having higher skills? Could they just not walk across the border anyway, why make it more inconvenient to those with desirable skills? James Hamilton, UC San Diego YES: Knowledge and technology are key drivers of the U.S. economy. Students come from all over the world to learn at U.S. universities, and their spending contributed $50 billion to U.S. exports last year. Technological advantage is what keeps us ahead of the rest of the world. Highly skilled immigrants contribute much more in taxes than they receive in public benefits. The skills immigrants bring to America can make us all better off. Norm Miller, University of San Diego YES: According to Forbes, the majority of billion-dollar startups were founded by foreigners. I’ve interviewed dozens of data analysts and programmers from Berkeley, UCSD, USD and a few other schools and 75% of them are foreign. There simply are not enough American graduates to fill the AI and data mining related jobs now exploding in the U.S. If we wish to remain a competitive economy, we need highly skilled and bright immigrants to come here and stay. David Ely, San Diego State University YES: Being able to employ highly skilled workers from a larger pool of candidates would strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. companies by increasing their capacity to perform research and innovate. This would boost the country’s economic output. Skilled workers from other nations that cannot remain in the U.S. will find jobs working for foreign rivals. The demand for H-1B visas far exceeds the current cap of 85,000, demonstrating a need to modify this program. Phil Blair, Manpower YES: Every country needs skilled workers, at all levels, to grow its economy. We should take advantage of the opportunity these workers provide our employers who need these skills. It should be blended into our immigration policies allowing for both short and long term visas. Gary London, London Moeder Advisors YES: San Diego is a premiere example of how highly skilled workers from around the globe enrich a community and its regional economy. Of course Visa levels need to be increased. But let’s go further. Tie visas and immigration with a provision that those who are admitted and educated at a U.S. university be incentivized, or even required, to be employed in the U.S. in exchange for their admittance. Bob Rauch, R.A. Rauch & Associates NO: While attracting high-skilled immigrants can fill critical gaps in sectors like technology, health care and advanced manufacturing, increasing high-skilled immigration could displace American workers and drive down wages in certain industries. There are already many qualified American workers available for some of these jobs. We should balance the need for specialized skills with the impact on the domestic workforce. I believe we can begin to increase the number of visas after a careful review of abuse. Austin Neudecker, Weave Growth YES: We should expand skilled visas to drive innovation and economic growth. Individuals who perform high-skilled work in labor-restricted industries or graduate from respected colleges with relevant degrees should be prioritized for naturalization. We depend on immigration for GDP growth, tax revenue, research, and so much more. Despite the abhorrent rhetoric and curtailing of visas in the first term, I hope the incoming administration can be persuaded to enact positive changes to a clearly flawed system. Chris Van Gorder, Scripps Health YES: But it should be based upon need, not politics. There are several industries that have or could have skilled workforce shortages, especially if the next administration tightens immigration as promised and expected. Over the years, there have been nursing shortages that have been met partially by trained and skilled nurses from other countries. The physician shortage is expected to get worse in the years to come. So, this visa program may very well be needed. Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: While skilled immigration could boost our economy and competitiveness, the U.S. should prioritize developing our domestic workforce. Hiring foreign nationals in sensitive industries or government-related work, especially in advanced technology or defense, raises security concerns. A balanced approach could involve targeted increases in non-sensitive high-demand fields coupled with investment in domestic STEM education and training programs. This could address immediate needs while strengthening the long-term STEM capabilities of the American workforce. Not participating this week: Alan Gin, University of San DiegoHaney Hong, San Diego County Taxpayers AssociationRay Major, economist Have an idea for an Econometer question? Email me at phillip.molnar@sduniontribune.com . Follow me on Threads: @phillip020
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