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On this episode of the Good Word with Goodwill, Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Vincent Goodwill is joined by Tim Cato, who covers the Dallas Mavericks for DLLS & the ALLCITY Network. The guys start with the reigning Western Conference champions, the Dallas Mavericks, who have won 8 of their last 9 games and welcomed Luka Doncic back from injury last night against the Trail Blazers. What is leading to their hot streak? How are they different from last year's team? And should their success without Luka lead them to explore trade options? Before leaving the Western Conference, Vinnie and Tim talk about what's leading to the Thunder, Rockets and Grizzlies at the top of the standings while teams like the Lakers, Suns and Warriors trail behind. Tim thinks that this is the new reality of the NBA, caused by the new CBA, and believes that it will lead to less max contracts and more teams hunting for rotation players on rookie scale deals. Finally, Vince and Tim talk about the Milwaukee Bucks, who are also 8-1 in their last 9 games. They discuss why the Damian Lillard-Giannis Antetokounmpo inverted pick-and-roll is working so well and why shooters like A.J. Green are finding success playing off of Giannis. (00:30) - How have the Mavericks righted the ship? (21:20) - Youth leading the Western Conference (36:45) - The Last Word: The Bucks are back?
Andrew Luck returns to Stanford as the GM of the football programMoney can’t buy happiness or a presidential election. Democratic donors just learned that the hard way. After a candidate loses a high-profile, competitive race, the blame game begins. There are many places to point the finger when assessing Vice President Kamala Harris’ run. She entered the race late and only after President Joe Biden had a career-ending debate implosion. She didn’t run a primary gauntlet, which meant voters didn’t know her very well. Having to endure even a token primary may have helped her improve her interview skills. She struggled to separate herself from the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration. She took a number of radical positions when running for president in 2019. The Trump campaign effectively used her own words to show voters that she was a radical leftist. But one common excuse for political failure, a lack of funding, doesn’t apply. Harris spent an astonishing $1.5 billion during her 15-week campaign. That works out to around $100 million a week. But even that understates her financial resources. When combined with Biden’s fundraising, the two Democratic campaigns had more than $2.1 billion, according to The New York Times. The Times reported the Trump campaign and Republican Party raised $1.2 billion. Money is certainly an important factor in political races. But the election results show its limits. “There is not a single expenditure in a different spot that would have changed the outcome of the race,” Bakari Sellers, a close ally of Harris, told the Times. Instead, “we had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.” Perhaps this explains why the Harris campaign spent millions on celebrity performances and social media influencers. It even paid $900,000 to advertise on the Las Vegas Sphere. All this is especially ironic given the progressive battle to limit free speech by restricting political expenditures. The far-left Brennan Center for Justice says it’s committed to a “long-term push to overturn Citizens United,” in which the Supreme Court affirmed that arbitrary limits on political spending ran afoul of the Bill of Rights. During oral arguments, the government admitted that the law in question would potentially allow federal regulators to ban books. Ouch. Despite the massive fundraising numbers, Axios reported recently that the Harris campaign is likely to conclude with “millions of dollars in debt.” There’s an old adage about politicians not being responsible with other people’s money. That’s certainly true when it comes to taxpayer dollars. In Harris’ case, it applied to her donors as well. They may have been costly, but the Harris campaign has provided the American public with valuable lessons. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Money can’t buy happiness or a presidential election. Democratic donors just learned that the hard way. After a candidate loses a high-profile, competitive race, the blame game begins. There are many places to point the finger when assessing Vice President Kamala Harris’ run. She entered the race late and only after President Joe Biden had a career-ending debate implosion. She didn’t run a primary gauntlet, which meant voters didn’t know her very well. Having to endure even a token primary may have helped her improve her interview skills. She struggled to separate herself from the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration. She took a number of radical positions when running for president in 2019. The Trump campaign effectively used her own words to show voters that she was a radical leftist. But one common excuse for political failure, a lack of funding, doesn’t apply. Harris spent an astonishing $1.5 billion during her 15-week campaign. That works out to around $100 million a week. But even that understates her financial resources. When combined with Biden’s fundraising, the two Democratic campaigns had more than $2.1 billion, according to The New York Times. The Times reported the Trump campaign and Republican Party raised $1.2 billion. Money is certainly an important factor in political races. But the election results show its limits. “There is not a single expenditure in a different spot that would have changed the outcome of the race,” Bakari Sellers, a close ally of Harris, told the Times. Instead, “we had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.” Perhaps this explains why the Harris campaign spent millions on celebrity performances and social media influencers. It even paid $900,000 to advertise on the Las Vegas Sphere. All this is especially ironic given the progressive battle to limit free speech by restricting political expenditures. The far-left Brennan Center for Justice says it’s committed to a “long-term push to overturn Citizens United,” in which the Supreme Court affirmed that arbitrary limits on political spending ran afoul of the Bill of Rights. During oral arguments, the government admitted that the law in question would potentially allow federal regulators to ban books. Ouch. Despite the massive fundraising numbers, Axios reported recently that the Harris campaign is likely to conclude with “millions of dollars in debt.” There’s an old adage about politicians not being responsible with other people’s money. That’s certainly true when it comes to taxpayer dollars. In Harris’ case, it applied to her donors as well. They may have been costly, but the Harris campaign has provided the American public with valuable lessons. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Courage, commitment and passion were all in evidence at Emirates Flight Training Academy’s (EFTA) fifth graduation ceremony, which marked the academy’s biggest cohort to date. EFTA also announced the launch of an Advanced Diploma in Pilot Licencing Training (Aeroplane) on the back of the academy’s recognition as an Accredited Training Provider (ATP) by the UAE National Qualifications Centre (NQC). The graduation ceremony was headlined by Emirates Airline, and Group Chairman and Chief Executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the Group’s senior leadership team, graduates, their families and friends, and the academy’s faculty and cadets. Sheikh Ahmed congratulated and presented certificates to the cadet graduates. He said: “Our Emirates Flight Training Academy was built on a vision and a solid strategy, and its journey so far has been nothing short of inspiring, even thrilling. The recognition by the NQC validates our commitment and our robust investments in our academy that is future-fit for the next generation. “EFTA plays a vital role in nurturing the next generation of pilots, not just for the industry in the UAE but for world aviation, creating a steady and talented pilot pipeline. It’s incredible that we are training, developing and empowering young adults to drive the future of aviation – right here in Dubai. I am confident our graduates will make their mark in shaping the future of our industry. Congratulations to the class of 2024.” After months of rigorous training on the ground and in the skies, 85 bright and talented cadets are now fully equipped to take on every aviator challenge. The cohort includes 67 UAE national and 18 international cadets. Since EFTA’s launch, 271 cadets have been transformed from school leavers with no knowledge of flying to world-class professional pilots. EFTA also honoured four cadets for their exceptional performance throughout the year. EFTA Divisional Vice President Capt. Abdulla Al Hammadi said: “We have witnessed not just a graduation ceremony, but the fulfilment of many collective dreams. After countless hours of hard work, challenges and accomplishments, our cadets have proven they are ready to conquer the skies. They have come far – both personally and professionally – and EFTA is proud to see them step into a world full of opportunities with their new and richly deserved wings. Congratulations to our graduates.” “Our new Advanced Diploma in Pilot Licencing Training will be available to all EFTA graduates and will provide a strong academic foundation for future professional pilots, complementing the exceptional practical skills they’ve developed with us. At EFTA, we continue to elevate aviation education and prepare the next generation of skilled aviators, further supporting the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and strengthening the UAE’s aviation industry.” The diploma, with 94 credit hours, paves the path for cadets to obtain Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from any university. Every cadet in the class of 2024 completed around 113 weeks of training with over 1,100 hours of ground-based and 270 hours of flight training. Located in Dubai South, the academy combines cutting-edge learning technologies and a modern fleet of 32 training aircraft to train cadets with no previous knowledge of flying. This year marked a brand new chapter in EFTA’s international journey as the academy is well on its way to achieving European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) accreditation in early 2025. With this, cadets who graduate from EFTA will receive both a GCAA and a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) licence, opening doors to exceptional career opportunities worldwide.ENTRUSTED with our readers’ deep secrets, the Dear Deidre team really have a unique insight into what dilemmas the nation is grappling with. Of course, there are some constants — cheating, differing sex drives, low self-esteem and loneliness. But some issues loom larger in certain years as new problems come to the fore. As 2024 nears an end, we take a look at what exactly our readers have been writing in about. Every year, we help thousands of people by answering every single dilemma with a personalised answer, and we’ve kept a record of the issues we’ve tackled. Relationship issues consistently come out on top, with 23 per cent of the emails Dear Deidre receives focused on romantic problems. READ MORE DEAR DEIDRE Sex came a close second, with 19 per cent of readers writing in with a sexual dilemma. Interestingly, half of every single relationship message addressed cheating. Sometimes, the unfaithful party would be writing in, otherwise a suspicious or heartbroken partner worried about their relationship . Among the emails about cheating on partners, home surveillance and doorbell cameras featured more prominently, with some partners forgetting to turn off cameras before inviting flings to come back to their homes . Most read in The Sun A growing number of readers also wrote in because, although they were separated, financial constraints meant they could not move out of the marital home. The reluctant house sharers were frustrated at being unable to move on — a trend that reflects economic uncertainty in the UK. Notable developments this year have been new requests for support with quitting vaping . Another new issue came in the form of pensioners worrying about losing their winter fuel allowance. Social media has been a common theme in all the categories. It is impossible to quantify but has had a huge impact. So many of the relationship problems relate to partners ogling scantily clad influencers or flirting with others they have met online. Plenty don’t see this as cheating but the feeling of betrayal is real for those on the receiving end. And it’s not just cheating that worries people. Time spent watching endless videos encourages weird infatuations, with one woman complaining her husband had become obsessed with the French election. Opportunity for temptation He insisted they spend their family holiday in France watching speeches — and had previously had no interest in politics . The issue of phone addiction came up, particularly for parents fretting about not only what their children were being exposed to, but also how their mobile activity was affecting their own behaviour. They asked our team for help on how to manage this. And a huge number of adults wrote in fed up with their partner, who had little interest in them but spent all hours playing online games or scrolling through their socials. It’s clear that while technology enables us to do far more and do it efficiently, left unchecked it threatens our real-world connections and provides more opportunity for temptation. Next year, I will be recording when social media, phone usage and the internet are mentioned as part of the problem, and I predict this will be a huge growth area. Below is a reader’s letter about ogling, followed by one about winter fuel allowance. I also break down what percentages of our mail different types of letter make up. Mortified after ex saw me having sex on security cam (Letter from November 14) DEAR DEIDRE: MY ex saw me having sex with a one-night stand using the camera security system he’d installed as a favour to me. I was completely unaware that he was watching this, until he turned up the next morning and got very upset with me. Originally, I was grateful for his help setting up the system, but now I feel really uncomfortable. He said he’d received an alert on his phone and checked it by chance, but I can’t help worrying he’s keeping an eye on me. He insists he hasn’t been watching and that was a one-off, but the whole experience has really unsettled me. I’m 36, my ex is 39, and we were together for eight years before we broke up five months ago. Our split was both mutually agreed, and amicable, and we decided to remain friends. We still met up and sometimes even had sex, but as we didn’t discuss what this meant I thought we were simply friends with benefits . I really appreciated still having him in my life. When I was moving house, he offered to help, knowing how useless I am at DIY. He helped put up shelves, and installed security cameras which he set up online so I could view them through an app. I knew he had access to it all while he set it up but assumed he’d log out. So when I brought a man home, I didn’t think twice. Now I feel mortified. He says he didn’t mean to breach my privacy, but I feel so conflicted. DEIDRE SAYS: Watching you have sex with another man was a huge breach of your privacy, and you shouldn’t take it lightly. As a priority, please ensure that you are the only one with access to your security system. Make sure you’re the primary account holder and change your password so that he doesn’t have access. It’s completely understandable that this experience has made you question the sort of person he is. Unless you decide you can trust him completely, you would be wise to stay away. At the very least, it’s clear that the lines are blurred between you and your ex and some boundaries need to be re-established. As for your relationship with him, you need to decide if there’s any hope of a future together. If you decide there’s not, it would be best to step away so you can both move on. My support pack Moving On will help. Left freezing since losing fuel payment (Letter from December 18) DEAR DEIDRE : SINCE the Government cut my Winter Fuel Payment , I’ve been struggling to afford my bills . Now I’m forced to choose between putting my heating on or buying food, and the stress is making me unwell. I’m a 76-year-old pensioner, and live alone. Until this year, I was receiving £200 payments to cover the cost of my heating bills, and I heavily relied on it. So when the Government announced the change, I went into a complete panic. My pension is already low as it is, so without the extra payments I knew it was going to be a hard couple of months. When I contacted the council for help, they told me that, while I was eligible to apply, I had missed the deadline so now I’d have to go without. Ever since, my life has been an absolute nightmare. Now I wake up every morning to a freezing house – and no matter what I do, I can’t keep warm. The constant dread is getting me down, and I’m now struggling to cope. DEIDRE SAYS: I can only imagine how distressing this must be for you. While the qualifying week for this year’s Fuel Payment has now passed, you may still be eligible if you successfully apply for Pension Credit by December 21. READ MORE SUN STORIES Please note that you only have two days to do this, so please take action today. You may also be eligible for a £150 Warm Home Discount. You can find out more about this on the government website ( gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme ). TOP TOPICS: Relationships 23% Sex 19% Family 8% Parenting 7% Friendships 4% Workplace issues 5% Mental health 11% Health 5% Addictions 8% Bereavement 5% Sexuality 4% Other 1% SEX WOES Sex drive 43% Fetishes 16% Threesomes 12% Erection problems 11% Fantasies 7% Climaxing 4% Menopause 3% Other 4% LOVE Cheating 49% Domestic abuse 12% Addictive love 10% Broken heart 14% Online romance 6% Age gaps 5% Other 4% ADDICTION Alcohol 42% Porn 22% Drugs 13% Smoking 8% Vaping 5% Gambling 9% Shopping and spending 1%
University of Nevada women's volleyball captain Sia Liilii joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the growing controversy with transgender athletes in sports. The Mountain West volleyball tournament final Saturday pits San Jose State and transgender player Blaire Fleming against Colorado State and its star, Malaya Jones. Fleming has been the subject of controversy, with two lawsuits objecting to Fleming's presence on the team as a transgender athlete. But Jones and her teammates introduced some controversy of their own . Jones and teammates Kennedy Stanford and Naeemah Weathers knelt during the national anthem ahead of Saturday's match for the second night in a row. The three players also knelt during the national anthem ahead of a semifinal match Friday night. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM After Friday's game, Colorado State head coach Emily Kohan told reporters the players have knelt before games for five seasons. "They've knelt since their freshman year, when the Black Lives Matter movement was going on, and, in this program, we raise critical thinkers to make decisions for what's important to them," Kohan said. "And, for those three, they're Black players, and it's been important to them for five years. And they've stood their ground for saying that this is something that they believe in, and we've all supported them." Questions arose whether the Spartans would even play Saturday's match after their semifinal opponent, Boise State, forfeited a playoff match amid the controversy. But Kohan insisted her team would play the game with Fleming on the court. SJSU TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL SCANDAL: TIMELINE OF ALLEGATIONS, POLITICAL IMPACT AND A RAGING CULTURE MOVEMENT "This has been far from a regular season. We get an opportunity to play for another championship tomorrow, but we also are showing some courage to be the team that says, ‘Hey, we’re going to go out there, and we’re gonna show courage in the way we play and that this can stop with us.’ "We're not going to pass these difficult conversations on to the NCAA committee or any other team to have those crying conversations in the hotel." Colorado State has been the best team in the conference this season, and San Jose State finished second. In their first match of the regular season Oct. 3, Spartans head coach Todd Kress thanked Kohan and her team for simply participating. At the time, San Jose State had just had three matches wiped off its schedule due to forfeit over the Fleming controversy. San Jose State University Spartans head coach Todd Kress speaks with reporters after a loss in an NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball game against the Colorado State University Rams in Fort Collins, Colo., Oct. 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) "I walked up to Emily tonight, and I was like, ‘Should I say thank you for playing us?’ I seriously meant that because, of course, we're disappointed that we're losing opportunities to play, but it's not just us that are losing opportunities to play. It's the people choosing not to play us, and that's very unfortunate when it comes to these young women that have earned the right to step on the court and play," Kress said in a postgame press conference Oct. 3. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Fleming's San Jose State teammate Brooke Slusser is involved in two separate lawsuits, citing her experience with Fleming as a teammate. Slusser has alleged she was made to share living and changing areas with Fleming despite having never been told Fleming is a biological male. Slusser's most recent lawsuit against the Mountain West alleges another San Jose State teammate was present for a meeting between Fleming and Jones in which they discussed a plan to throw the Oct. 3 match in favor of the Rams, while also planning to have Slusser spiked in the face by Jones. Those same allegations were included in a Title IX complaint by former Spartans assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose. The Mountain West has concluded an investigation into the allegations of the Title IX complaint without finding sufficient evidence to support the claims. Slusser's attorney provided a statement to Fox News Digital questioning the validity of the investigation. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X , and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter . Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He previously worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
ATLANTA — President Jimmy Carter’s work making the world a better place will continue because of his faith, a dogged determination to leave a mark on the planet and a curious late-night dream. He left the White House in bitter disappointment and frustration in early 1981 at not having a second term because of the ascendance of Ronald Reagan. The ambitious Carter was not content to build a presidential library and rest on the laurels of a Mideast peace treaty, a nuclear arms deal with the Soviet Union, expanding national parks and reemphasizing human rights in American foreign policy. There was much left undone, in his estimation, but how to go about it now that he was out of the bully pulpit? He and his wife Rosalynn decided to leverage the prestige of his being a former president into opening doors and continuing work addressing poverty, illnesses and democracy around the world. Carter said in a 2009 interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that they realized there could be advantages in working without the shackles of congressional approvals, presidential protocols or inter-party politics. He and Rosalynn would later talk about whether he was able to accomplish more in the world through the Carter Center than he would have as a second-term president. “I think yes,” Carter told the AJC. He reemphasized his satisfaction with his decision during an August 2015 press conference. He said, in retrospect, given the choice between winning a second term or founding the Carter Center, he would have chosen the Carter Center. The well-funded and globally respected nonprofit will carry his work and ideals well into the future. The Carters dived — freelance and sometimes to the chagrin of the White House — into brokering peace between warring groups, addressing global health, shoring up human rights, freeing hostages, spreading democracy and increasing food production. It led to a passel of recognitions and awards — including his 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. The idea for the center came to him in a night-time dream of cabins built on a patch of wooded land, incongruously, within the shadows of Atlanta’s skyline, Carter told the AJC. His center was to be a re-creation of the wooded presidential retreat at Camp David, the location where he orchestrated, through stubborn refusal to accept “no” from either side, the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. He found a patch of land east of downtown, but he had to plead with his former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, who was then mayor of Atlanta, to spare the land from a proposed highway project. The Israel-Egypt peace deal was a foreign-policy coup in the Mideast that no one has come close to replicating, and Carter’s hopes of re-creating the highlight of forging peace between implacable enemies grew into the ever-evolving Atlanta institution. The Carters wrestled with what the center’s other roles should be before turning to their personal experiences with poverty in south Georgia during the Great Depression. They recalled small-town values of neighborly help and their deeply held Christian values and applied those to Carter Center work. At the center’s founding, his work focused on mediating peace between warring groups, such as helping end a conflict between Ethiopia and its breakaway region of Eritrea. “And we still do some of that,” Carter said, but the focus of the center’s work changed and shifted with world need. They looked for causes few others were working on and used their status to leverage donations and attention, ultimately tipping the balance in battles against various human ills. The Carters’ work moved into fostering democracy by monitoring national and village level elections. Carter and his staff monitored more than 113 elections in 39 countries. As president, he helped normalize relations with China, and its government invited him in the 1990s to help standardize the vast array of electoral procedures in rural areas. The Carters adopted mental health issues, something Rosalynn had worked on since their days in the Georgia governor’s mansion, as well as press freedoms, human rights and government transparency. They threw themselves into food production programs in African villages, something Carter had worked on as president. But it was a visit from an old Georgia friend and former White House staffer Dr. Peter Bourne that opened the former president’s eyes to the issues on which a lion’s share of Carter Center money is spent: the eradication of little-known but devastating diseases. Bourne continued working on world health issues after leaving the White House, but the former president had him come to the Carter Center in May 1985 to talk about Guinea worm disease. Bourne and others believed it could be wiped out, which would make it the second human disease in history to be eliminated, after smallpox. Later that year, Bourne and the Carters were together in Wales indulging in one of their favorite pastimes, fishing. Bourne told them that others had some success eradicating Guinea worm at local levels in Africa and south Asia, where about 3.5 million people were affected. They knew that once the parasitic, water-born cycle was broken, it would be wiped from the earth. But those working on it didn’t have the political clout to convince countries to get involved at the highest levels. Carter could bring that, Bourne told them. Carter thought about it a few weeks, then called Bourne to say he was in. “He has been the driving force in getting the political will necessary ever since,” Bourne said. With Carter raising the profile of the illness and money — the center’s assets were more than $925 million according to its 2020 annual report — governments and nonprofits got behind it. Guinea worm was down to 14 reported cases in 2021 in four African countries, the center said. “We analyzed every human illness on earth to ascertain which ones of those might theoretically be ... eradicated,” Carter said. And they chose four others in addition to Guinea worm. River blindness was found in Africa and parts of Central and South America. By 2015, the center’s work coordinating nonprofits and governments pushed the disease into a few isolated deep-jungle spots in Venezuela and Brazil. With a great deal of optimism, the center moved in 2014 to declare a war on eradication of river blindness in Africa, where more than 100 million people are at risk. The center also began programs for trachoma, an infectious eye disease causing blindness; two diseases carried by parasitic worms, elephantiasis and schistosomiasis; and malaria in the Caribbean. The center will carry the couple’s work well past their demise. “I think 100 years from now we will still have the Carter Center as an independent entity,” Carter said. “I hope they are still doing the kinds of good things we have done so far.” ©2024 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Visit at ajc.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Cutera ( NASDAQ:CUTR – Get Free Report ) and CeriBell ( NASDAQ:CBLL – Get Free Report ) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and profitability. Earnings & Valuation This table compares Cutera and CeriBell”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation. CeriBell has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cutera. Analyst Ratings Cutera presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 814.63%. CeriBell has a consensus target price of $32.60, suggesting a potential upside of 23.25%. Given Cutera’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cutera is more favorable than CeriBell. Profitability This table compares Cutera and CeriBell’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets. Institutional and Insider Ownership 90.7% of Cutera shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Cutera shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term. Summary CeriBell beats Cutera on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks. About Cutera ( Get Free Report ) Cutera, Inc. provides aesthetic and dermatology solutions for medical practitioners worldwide. It develops, manufactures, and markets energy-based product platforms for medical practitioners; and distributes third-party manufactured skincare products. 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In addition, the company provides Excel HR, a hair removal solution for all skin types; xeo, a multi-application platform for the removal of unwanted hair, treatment of vascular lesions, and skin revitalization by treating discoloration, fine lines, and laxity; and Secret DUO, two dual non-ablative fractional technologies that can be used individually or in combination to target a variety of aesthetic concerns and skin conditions on all skin types with little to no downtime. Further, it offers its products through direct sales and services, and network of distributors and direct international sales. Cutera, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Brisbane, California. About CeriBell ( Get Free Report ) We are a commercial-stage medical technology company focused on transforming the diagnosis and management of patients with serious neurological conditions. We have developed the Ceribell System, a novel, point-of-care electroencephalography (“EEG”) platform specifically designed to address the unmet needs of patients in the acute care setting. By combining proprietary, highly portable, and rapidly deployable hardware with sophisticated artificial intelligence (“AI”)-powered algorithms, the Ceribell System enables rapid diagnosis and continuous monitoring of patients with neurological conditions. We are initially focused on becoming the standard of care for the detection and management of seizures in the acute care setting, where the technological and operational limitations of conventional EEG systems have contributed to significant delays in seizure diagnosis and suboptimal patient care and clinical outcomes, as well as a high economic burden for hospitals and the healthcare system. By making EEG more accessible and enabling continuous monitoring through the power of AI, the Ceribell System enables clinicians to more rapidly and accurately diagnose and manage patients at risk of seizure in the acute care setting, resulting in improved patient outcomes and hospital and payer economics. As of September 30, 2024, the Ceribell System has been adopted by more than 500 active accounts, ranging from top academic centers to small community hospitals, and has been used to care for over 100,000 patients. While seizures are often associated with epilepsy in the outpatient setting, in the acute care setting they are commonly triggered by serious conditions such as brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, stroke, cardiac arrest, and sepsis, among others. A seizure lasting longer than five minutes is known as status epilepticus, a serious medical emergency that can lead to mortality or severe and permanent brain damage. Seizures occurring in the acute care setting tend to be non-convulsive, which makes empirical diagnosis extremely challenging. EEG, a non-invasive test that measures electrical activity in the brain and displays this activity as continuous waveforms, is the only way to definitively confirm a seizure diagnosis. However, we believe conventional EEG systems, which were designed approximately 100 years ago for the outpatient setting (Britton 2016), are insufficient to meet the needs of critically ill acute care patients as they are unable to provide the speed of diagnosis and continuous monitoring necessary for optimal patient management (Kämppi 2013; Hillman 2013; Gururangan 2016; Vespa 2020; LaMonte 2021; Eberhard 2023; Kozak 2023; Suen 2023). Conventional EEG systems must be operated by specialized EEG technicians who typically work limited hours, are staffed across multiple departments within the hospital, and face a national supply shortage (Ney 2024; Suen 2023; Eberhard 2023; Zafar 2022; Yazbeck 2019). After arrival at the bedside, which is often delayed, EEG technicians must initiate a long, complex, and labor-intensive setup process before EEG recording can begin. The EEG recording must then be interpreted and monitored by specialized neurologists, who face similar workflow and supply shortage issues, and when available, are rarely able to continuously monitor EEG recordings in real-time. These bottlenecks result in delays in both diagnosis and monitoring. This can lead to delayed seizure detection and less informed treatment decisions, which may negatively impact clinical outcomes and have been shown to contribute to a higher cost burden for hospitals and the healthcare system. We specifically designed the Ceribell System to address the limitations of conventional EEG in the acute care setting and dramatically improve clinical outcomes of critically ill patients at high risk of seizures. The Ceribell System integrates proprietary, highly portable hardware with AI-powered algorithms to aid in the detection and management of seizures. Our hardware is composed of a disposable, flexible headband and a pocket-sized, battery-operated recorder used to capture and wirelessly transmit EEG signals. The hardware is simple to use and, after approximately one hour of training, can be applied within minutes by any non-specialized healthcare professional. EEG data captured by the recorder is interpreted by our proprietary AI-powered seizure detection algorithm, Clarity, which continuously monitors the patient’s EEG signal and can support the clinician’s real-time assessment of seizure activity. In May 2023, the latest generation of Clarity became the first and only device to receive 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for diagnosing electrographic status epilepticus, and subsequently received a New Technology Add-on Payment (“NTAP”) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”). The unique features and capabilities of our system deliver numerous benefits, including: • Early seizure detection and improved patient outcomes. The Ceribell System can be deployed in as little as five minutes by any non-specialized healthcare professional with limited training required and continuously monitors the patient for seizure activity, empowering bedside clinicians to make more informed and timely treatment decisions. This results in improved patient outcomes, including shorter hospital stays and reductions in unnecessary administration of anti-seizure medication, intubation, and patient transfers. • Improved hospital and payer economics. We have demonstrated that the Ceribell System can deliver cost savings for hospitals and payers by decreasing the average hospital length of stay, reducing the over-administration of anti-seizure medication, and reducing unnecessary patient transfers. In addition, confirmed diagnosis of seizures may allow hospitals to receive appropriate reimbursement coding for the more complex and costly management of patients with multiple comorbidities. • Reduced strain on key hospital personnel. The Ceribell System reduces reliance on EEG technicians for EEG administration and enables hospitals to better manage technician infrastructure and workflow. Additionally, Clarity allows for better triage of at-risk patients, improves resource allocation, and supports more efficient workflow for neurologists. We have developed a large body of evidence that supports these clinical and economic benefits, including over 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 65 abstracts and posters. Our growing base of clinical evidence highlights the value of the Ceribell System to all key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, and hospitals of different types and acuity settings. We believe our base of clinical evidence validates that the quality of Ceribell System recordings are equivalent to conventional EEG, supports the diagnostic accuracy of Clarity, and shows that use of the Ceribell System can result in improved clinical management and care. In addition, our clinical evidence supports that use of the Ceribell System can provide meaningful cost savings to hospitals and payers, appropriate reimbursement coding for the treatment of patients with complex conditions, and reduced strain on hospital personnel. We believe that EEG has been significantly underutilized in the detection and management of seizures in the acute care setting and that the Ceribell System has the ability to meaningfully expand the use of EEG to the approximately three million acute care patients who we believe should be monitored for non-convulsive seizures in the United States each year. This presents a market opportunity that we estimate to be over $2 billion. In the future, we intend to leverage our proprietary database of EEG recordings and our data science and AI capabilities to expand the use of our system. We believe that our system can be deployed with novel algorithms for various indications in the acute care setting. Thus, we have begun the technical validation process for multiple additional indications, including the detection and monitoring of delirium, for which we received an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in September 2022. Based on the prevalence of these conditions, we believe expansion of our indications could represent a significant market opportunity. We are currently focused on becoming the standard of care for the detection and management of seizures in the acute care setting. There are approximately 5,800 acute care facilities in the United States that we believe could benefit from our system. As of June 30, 2024, we employed a team of approximately 70 sales representatives, including Territory Managers, who are responsible for new customer acquisition and onboarding, and Clinical Account Managers, who focus on ongoing account coverage to increase utilization and further support hospital onboarding. We intend to expand the size of our direct sales organization in the United States to support our efforts to drive further adoption and utilization of the Ceribell System. While our current commercial focus is on the United States, we have received a CE Mark for the Ceribell System in Europe, and we intend to pursue additional regulatory clearances in Europe within two to four years of this offering and, in the future, elsewhere outside of the United States. We also plan to engage in market access initiatives in attractive international regions in which we see significant opportunity. We generate revenue from two recurring sources – the sale of our disposable headbands that are intended for single patient use and a monthly subscription fee charged to our hospital customers for use of Clarity, recorders, and our portal. We have experienced rapid growth since we began commercializing the Ceribell System in 2018, expanding our headcount from over 100 employees in 2021 to over 200 employees in 2023, and have generally experienced sequential quarterly revenue growth fueled primarily by growth in active account base and utilization per active account. We were incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on August 29, 2014, under the name “Brain Stethoscope, Inc.” and changed our name to CeriBell, Inc. on August 11, 2015. Our principal executive offices are located at 360 N. Pastoria Avenue, Sunnyvale, California. Receive News & Ratings for Cutera Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Cutera and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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“Remember Michael Jordan Riding a Bus”: Rapper Chuck D Reacts to Bronny James’ G League News Using MJ’s Minor League Baseball ExampleAnother game, another set-piece goal for ’s disruptor-in-chief . Having been passed fit to start for the Gunners against West Ham on Saturday evening in the aftermath of a knock sustained after he netted their third in a of Sporting CP in Lisbon, the Brazilian centre-back was at it again at the London Stadium. Gabriel - having before the ball was delivered - steered home another expert header from a Bukayo Saka corner at the front post in the 10th minute to kick off the scoring in an incredible first half against West Ham that saw . All seven goals in Saturday’s match were notched in the first period, the first time since December 2012 and only the fourth time ever that has happened in the history of the Premier League. Leandro Trossard, a Martin Odegaard penalty and Kai Havertz had Arsenal cruising into a 4-0 lead inside just 36 minutes in east London, only for West Ham to quickly hit back twice through Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Emerson’s free-kick, before a Saka spot-kick just before half-time made it a three-goal advantage that held in a far tamer, scoreless second half after Gabriel - - was fouled by Lukasz Fabianski. His early header was a fourth goal of the season across all competitions for Gabriel, all of which have come away from the Emirates Stadium. His effort against Sporting on Tuesday created headlines for his celebration, in which the 26-year-old appeared to mimic the gesture performed by prolific Sporting and Sweden striker - and rumoured Arsenal transfer target - , who tends to run to the corner flag with his fingers interlocked over his mouth and thumbs pointing upwards. It was theorised after that game that after Portuguese winger Pedro Goncalves had mimicked the celebration of former Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka during the reigning Primeira Liga champions’ Europa League last-16 penalty shootout win at the Emirates back in March 2023. However, Gabriel repeated the celebration after scoring once more against West Ham, with many fans on social media platform X offering a possible alternative theory for his actions. Rather than place his interlocked fingers over his mouth, Gabriel did so again over his eyes - with suggestions that he is actually channeling and his famous mask, with some thinking that Gyokeres’ signature celebration is inspired by Bane, one of the Caped Crusader’s biggest adversaries in the DC Comics and film franchise. Gyokeres has never confirmed that his celebration is anything to do with Bane, but did appear to channel the character in a previous social media post. “Nobody cared until I put on the mask,” he wrote alongside a picture of himself on Instagram celebrating a goal back in the summer, in a line similar to the famous one uttered by Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. There have been many other guesses as to the inspiration behind Gyokeres’ celebration, while he previously refuted the Batman links and a joking suggestion from former Coventry team-mate Josh Eccles that it was a reference to another famous book and film villain in Hannibal Lecter. “I saw it,” he said last November. “There have been many guesses. That one, Batman and everything. No one has guessed correctly yet. “It’s kind of funny, actually. When everyone asks. Maybe I’ll tell you someday, but not today. “It was fun to come up with my own target gesture and I’ve had to do it a few times. It was a bit boring to just slide on my knees.” When asked about Gabriel possibly mimicking his celebration after scoring for Arsenal against Sporting, Gyokeres said: “He’s welcome to steal it if he can’t create his own celebration! I didn’t know he did that, but it’s fun he likes my celebration.”
Some elite US universities favor wealthy students in admissions decisions, lawsuit allegesDucks starting to ‘play with an identity’ ahead of hosting OttawaOn June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter invited reporters up to the White House roof for a ceremony to inaugurate the installation of 32 solar water-heating panels. America was in the midst of an energy freak-out, with long lines at gas stations and not-crazy fear that the U.S. economy was going to be starved by its dependence on foreign oil. And Carter was paying the price: his approval rating was 28 percent, the lowest of his presidency. On that summer day, Carter acknowledged that “some few Americans have reached a state of panic.” But instead of pandering to Americans and promising more oil and gas, he challenged them, insisting that “America was not built on timidity or panic.” Carter announced that he was committed to spending more than $1 billion “to stimulate solar and other renewable forms of energy,” in the expectation that within two decades 20 percent of the nation’s energy would be generated by solar power. “In the year 2000,” Carter told the crowd on the rooftop that day, “this solar water heater behind me... will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy.” Then he added, prophetically, “A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.” Obviously, America did not take the road toward clean energy that Carter pointed toward on that day. In 1979, the U.S. relied on fossil fuels for about 90 percent of primary energy consumption. Today, fossil fuels still provide about 80 percent of the power consumed in America. But America’s failure is not Jimmy Carter’s failure. In fact, Carter had a visionary understanding of the road ahead, which only grows more profound with each passing year. “President Carter belongs at the top of any list of the greatest environmental presidents in American history,” says Gus Speth, chairman of Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality and a pioneering figure in the environmental movement. Editor’s picks The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time It is a fair claim. Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark off to explore the West, vastly expanding scientific knowledge of the natural world. Teddy Roosevelt was a rugged outdoorsman who created more than 190 million acres of new national forests, parks, and monuments. Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” plan was also responsible for the creation of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. Impeached crook Richard Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Barack Obama passed the Clean Power Plan and signed the Paris Climate Agreement. Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will funnel $370 billion into climate and energy projects over the next decade. But it was Carter who first addressed the essential fact of our time, which is that modern life as we know it today has been both created by and is being destroyed by our entanglement with fossil fuels. “The challenge facing this country is the moral equivalent of war,” Carter said in 1979. He was talking about the threat from OPEC oil producers to strangle the U.S. economy with high oil prices, not the threat of rising CO2 pollution to cook the planet. But it hardly mattered. He was the Greta Thunberg of the 1970s, saying bold, politically blunt things about greed and consumption and fossil fuel addiction that nobody wanted to hear. And this was all the more remarkable because he was not a Swedish teenager. He was the President of the United States. Carter grew up barefoot and poor on a farm in southwestern Georgia. The farm had no electricity or running water, no diesel-fueled tractors, and of course no air-conditioning. He sweated in the fields with the other farmhands and felt the red dirt between his toes. He fished in the nearby rivers and lakes and learned to castrate a pig before he was old enough to drive and ate family meals of slaughtered steer brains mixed with scrambled eggs. But Carter was also a pragmatist. When he was 11, his father installed a windmill on their farm, giving them running water for the first time and showing young Jimmy the power of renewable energy. In the Navy, he became a nuclear engineer and risked his life to defuse a meltdown in an experimental nuclear reactor in Canada. Related Content Jimmy Carter, U.S. President and Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 Trump EPA Pick Lee Zeldin Is Fossil Fuel’s Inside Man The Battle Against Trump 2.0 Begins in the States Green Energy Depends on Copper. 40 Billion Pounds Are Under an Apache Holy Site He also happened to be president during an energy crisis, when many Americans first woke up to the political and economic consequences of their fossil-fuel powered lives. As gas stations shut down in the 1970s and prices spiraled, Americans were at once terrified and angry. “Carter understood the dangers of fossil fuels from the geopolitics of it, which smacked him upside the head,” says Dan Dudek, a former senior economist with the Environmental Defense Fund. “How much of an environmental motivation he had for his actions is tough to say. But does that matter?” Whatever Carter’s motivation may have been, his record on energy and environmental issues is clear. In his four years in office, he signed 15 major pieces of environmental legislation, including the first toxic waste cleanup and the first fuel-economy standards. His two major legislative accomplishments, the National Energy Act of 1978 and the Energy Security Act of 1980, transformed the energy landscape of America. “So much happened in his four years and we still live with his administration’s effects today,” says Michael Webber, the Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources at the University of Texas, Austin and the author of Power Shift: The Story of Energy . Among other things, the legislation created the Department of Energy, which elevated energy to a cabinet-level priority and dramatically increased funding for energy research and development. The legislation also began the deregulation of gas and power sectors, which opened the door for cheaper, cleaner power. “The decarbonization and decentralization that is well on its way in the electric utility industry today can be credited in large part to the policies started in the Carter Administration,” says James Van Nostrand, a law professor at West Virginia University and author of The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution. Van Nostrand points to the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 (PURPA), which was part of the National Energy Act and broke up the power of electric utilities and encouraged competition in electricity generation markets. “All the competition that currently exists in the wholesale power markets can be traced back to the original incarnation of PURPA in 1978,” says Van Nostrand. PURPA also encouraged small power production facilities, primarily cogeneration and hydro. “A lot of what we know about distributed energy resources can be traced back to encouraging cogeneration, which is a much more efficient way to generate electricity, by capturing the waste heat and using it for some other industrial process,” says Van Nostrand. PURPA also required state regulators to think differently about how electricity is priced, encouraging time-of-use rates and requiring utilities to use load management techniques, which we now know today as demand response, to reduce energy usage. None of this came without a fight. “The influence of the oil and gas industry is unbelievable,” Carter once complained, “and it’s impossible to arouse the public to protect themselves.” Although Carter’s biggest accomplishments were in transforming the energy landscape, he also did more to protect America’s wild places than any president since Teddy Roosevelt. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980), which Carter engineered through a clever usage of executive power in the Antiquities Act, provided various levels of protection to 157 million acres — an area roughly the size of California and Oregon combined. Carter’s energy and environmental legacy is not unblemished or uncontroversial. Gus Speth credits Carter for halting a headlong rush to build a new fleet of breeder reactors for electricity generation. “He stopped the plutonium economy before it could get started,” Speth argues. But other energy experts fault Carter for banning the reprocessing of nuclear waste, which essentially killed the evolution of nuclear power in the U.S. “As our one and only nuclear engineer president, he gutted the American nuclear industry forever with his decision not to reprocess nuclear waste,” Webber says. “He knew too much and the risks that reprocessing would enable loose weapons grade materials in a decade rife with terrorism made him nervous; we pay the price for that today.” Carter is also responsible for the Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 , which Webber calls “one of our worse energy policies ever.” Webber argues that the legislation banned new natural gas power plants, leading to the development of 80 gigawatts of coal instead. “That’s had huge greenhouse gas and air pollution consequences that still live with us today,” Webber says. On climate, Carter understood the threat of rising CO2 pollution as well as any scientist of his time. “Carter had started studying the issue in 1971,” biographer Jonathan Alter has said. “I found in his files from when he was governor underlinings in the journal Nature about carbon pollution and global warming. Other politicians played golf — Carter played tennis — but he was reading scientific journals. That’s how he got his jollies.” By the time Carter took office, the risks of climate change were becoming well-documented throughout the federal government. Barely six months into Carter’s term, Frank Press, the President’s science adviser sent him a memorandum summarizing the threat from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the warming that would result from it. “The urgency of the problem derives from our inability to shift rapidly to non-fossil fuel sources once the climatic effects become evident not long after the year 2000; the situation could grow out of control before alternate energy sources and other remedial actions become effective.” Although Press did not call for emergency action, he advised Carter that “we must now take the potential CO2 hazard into account in developing our long-term energy strategy.” Other climate reports followed, including one in 1979 by a group of top scientists headed by meteorologist Jule Charney, titled “Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment.” The Charney report, which is now remembered by historians as a prime example of how well scientists understood the threat of climate change nearly a half-century ago, stated that when the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere doubled, the planet would most likely warm by three degrees Celsius — a calculation that is remarkably close to the best estimates today. “A warming ... will probably be conspicuous within the next twenty years,” the report read, calling for early action: “Enlightened policies in the management of fossil fuels and forests can delay or avoid these changes, but the time for implementing the policies is fast passing.” Another report at the very end of Carter’s presidency by the White House Council on Environmental Quality reached similar conclusions. None of it was news to Carter, who directed the National Academy of Sciences to prepare a comprehensive, $1 million analysis of the greenhouse effect. “Carter was the first leader anywhere in the world who considered [climate change] a problem,” says Alter. Although Carter talked about the risks of rising CO2 levels in several speeches, he never launched a campaign to directly confront climate change — in part because he was too consumed with the energy crisis in real-time and in part because he was too consumed with the politics of getting re-elected. If he had won a second term, would he have sounded the climate alarm? It would have been a complicated call for Carter, if only because he had backed coal — the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels — and synthetic fuels as a way to get off imported oil. But it’s hard to imagine that Carter would not have pushed global warming forward as a major issue. “It’s been enormously frustrating to realize that if we had started with Carter and continued after his administration, we could have been on a smooth trajectory to reduce fossil fuel use,” Speth says. “If that had happened, we could be getting out of the fossil fuel business right now. But, of course, that’s not what happened.” What happened was Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the anti-Carter, a president who saw consumption as next to godliness and economic growth as a religious force. He ripped the solar panels off the White House roof and they ended up on a farm in Maine, at the Smithsonian, and at a solar exhibit in China. He cut clean energy research and reduced taxes on oil and gas and made America safe again for fossil fuel barons. “The big oil companies finally have a friend in the White House,” the New Republic reported soon after Reagan took office in 1981. And in many ways, America has never looked back. Carter had imaged that by 2020, America would be creating 20 percent of its electricity from the sun. The hard reality: In 2022, solar generated about 3 percent of U.S. electricity (all non-hydro renewables — wind, solar, biomass, geothermal — generate about 14 percent). Even more disturbing is the fact that U.S. CO2 emissions are about the same today as they were in 1976 when Carter took office. If you consider historical emissions, the U.S. is by far the largest contributor to the climate crisis. And without U.S. leadership, the climate crisis has only accelerated. From 1980 to 2019, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere grew from 339 parts per million to 419 ppm. “America’s energy policy of the last four decades is the greatest dereliction of civic responsibility in the history of the Republic,” Speth argues. Carter himself never gave up the fight. When he was 92, he installed 3,852 solar panels on his land in Plains, Georgia, which create enough electricity to power half of the town. It was a powerful reminder, if such a reminder were needed, that when Carter installed the solar panels on the White House in 1979, he had been right about the direction the world was going, even if he had been wrong about the timing. Perhaps the most enduring aspect of Carter’s legacy on energy and the environment is that it forces us to remember that where we are today has been a choice. Carter did his part, both as president and as a citizen. It’s not too late for us to do ours.
Patriots now in control of No. 1 pick in 2025 NFL DraftBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Cam Carter hit five 3-pointers and finished with 23 points, Vyctorius Miller added 20 points and LSU never trailed Sunday night in a 110-45 win over Mississippi Valley State, the Tigers' 21st consecutive victory when scoring at least 100 points. LSU's 65-point margin of victory was its largest since the Tigers beat Grambling by 75 (112-37) on Nov. 20, 1999 and is the third biggest against a Division-I opponent in program history. The 110 points were the most by LSU since a 119-108 win over North Florida on Dec. 12, 2015. Carter scored 11 points — including three 3-pointers — in the first six minutes to make it 18-6 and LSU led by double figures the rest of the way. The Delta Devils went 0 for 6 from the field and committed five turnovers as LSU scored 17 consecutive points to take a 28-point lead with 7:44 left in the first half and led 55-13 at halftime. The Tigers allowed the seventh-fewest points in a half by an opponent in program history. Mississippi Valley State (2-11) is averaging 46.2 points and is winless with a scoring margin of minus-44.2 in 11 games against Division-I opponents this season. LSU (11-2) has won three games in a row since a 74-64 loss to SMU at the Compete 4 Cause Classic in Frisco, Texas, on Dec. 14. Jordan Spears and Daimion Collins added 15 points apiece for the Tigers, who shot 66% (46 of 70) from the field and made 12 3s. Alvin Stredic led Mississippi Valley State with eight points. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketballHighway 11 NB reopens after snowstorm blasted the region, stranding motorists