Johnson had five rebounds for the Eagles (10-4). Kasen Harrison shot 7 of 11 from the field, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 5 for 8 from the line to add 20 points. Kelton Talford shot 4 of 9 from the field and 10 of 14 from the free-throw line to finish with 18 points. The Bears (6-6) were led in scoring by Ahmad Robinson, who finished with 27 points and seven assists. Tyler Johnson added 19 points for Mercer. Angel Montas finished with 17 points. Winthrop plays Sunday against Indiana on the road, and Mercer visits Georgia State on Saturday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
Now that the historically nasty, contentious presidential election of 2024 is over, don’t let down your guard just yet. There’s another war percolating that most certainly could boil over come a day meant for expressing gratitude for loved ones. You guessed it: Thanksgiving. Whether your candidate won or not, there’s gonna be trouble at Thanksgiving dinner tables across America. The election results will be argued over and litigated over gravy-splattered battlegrounds until the last leftover is reheated and consumed. This means that about 75 million Americans will be saying, “Pass the gravy, my candidate was robbed” or another 75 million will be saying, “More cranberries, I’m leaving the country” — but nobody will be saying, “I totally get where you’re coming from.” To chill the room when the tempers are flaring hotter than a roasted turkey thigh, here are 10 songs and 10 movies designed to bring family peace and also ensure that all pies, pumpkin, peach or pecan, stay on the table for dessert and are not utilized as airborne missiles of political vengeance. 🎶 ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ( The Beatles ) No, it didn’t stop the Vietnam War back in 1967 when the Beatles first released it, but this hippie dippy retro-rock classic can still put a smile on the face of even the most sour election day loser. 🎶 JUST LIKE A WOMAN ( Nina Simone ) One note of caution: Simone’s delivery of Bob Dylan ’s classic line, “She breaks just like a little girl,” may be just too much emotion for some family members to take. 🎶 IMAGINE (John Lennon) There’s always the danger of some Blue Meanie relative accusing you of being a pawn in George Soros’ plan for global domination by buying into John Lennon’s sweet utopian reverie about one world at peace, and in harmony, but hopefully there’s also a fair chance there’s a cool fool on the hill grannie around to tell the Meanie to let it be. 🎶 IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD (James Brown) This James Brown soul-stirrer (which he co-wrote with Betty Jean Newsome) can appease both sides of the election aisle. Its he-man title can slide alongside such dominant male anthems as the Village People’s “Macho Man,” a Trump rally staple (yep, go figure!) but, of course, the deeper message to the dudes is that all their deals and deeds “mean nothing without a woman or a girl.” Or as Joni Mitchell would say, “Both sides now.” 🎶 CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION (Tommy James & the Shondells) Marijuana is pretty much legalized/normalized in almost all 50 states now, right? So what else is there to say? 🎶 HEAVY ON PRIDE (LIGHT ON LOVE) (Smokey Robinson) “Never mind wasting time Talking about who did who wrong Heavy on pride, light on love Give it up, baby Oh, come on, give it up, baby” This is why Dylan once listed Robinson as one of his favorite poets. 🎶 FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN (Donovan) The original peace and love troubadour has been calming down rancor, discord and bad vibes for nearly 60 years, starting with offering to clean up that broken bottle mess in the Dylan doc “Don’t Look Back.” This neat Zen ditty makes the point that no matter who won the election, it’s now time to breathe deep, dig the slowness and catch the wind. 🎶 WHAT’S GOING ON (Marvin Gaye) Gaye’s epic social anthem for tumultuous times feels and reads like it was written last week. It might make it easier to pass the biscuits and put down the butter knives on Nov. 28. “Picket lines and picket signs, Don’t punish me with brutality. Talk to me, so you can see what’s going on.” 🎶 BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND (Bob Dylan) Imagine two of the most stridently political animals in your family menagerie are at one another’s throats over the election and you drop the needle on our favorite American Nobel laureate singing, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” It’s your cue to say, “Even Bob Dylan says who the eff knows the answer, can we bring out the peach cobbler, please!!!!!!!” 🎥 THREE COLORS: RED (Krzysztof Kieślowski) This inspiring Euro arthouse film beautifully dramatizes the theme of “what unites us is stronger than what divides us” and it just might soothe the savage Democrats and Republicans in your house. 🎥 MEET THE FOCKERS (Jay Roach) Her dad’s a crazy military intelligence fruitcake who makes you feel like a refugee at the dinner table, but we can still laugh and celebrate the wacky ways that love conquers all, socio-politico prejudices and punctures all poli-sci prickliness. 🎥 MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins) The film’s lyrical and poetic evocation of how healing and compassion can transform lives will work like a charm unless it unleashes a “‘La La Land’ should have won the Oscar” argument. 🎥 GANDHI (Richard Attenborough) It’s an epic big enough to fill your 65-inch screen and intimate enough to draw your family into the story of the original What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding prophet. 🎥 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg) Since half of the people at your Thanksgiving dinner table might wish they could get on a spaceship and journey to another planet after the election, this should be a winning choice. 🎥 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Robert Wise) Sometimes, the only person that everyone will listen to is the person who isn’t beholden to anyone. Michael Rennie’s alien and his charismatic robot companion are calm, smooth and patrician, with Rennie’s hair so perfect you can only ponder what kind of salons they have on his home planet. “Day” is the ultimate “can’t we all get along” message movie. 🎥 THE FISHER KING (Terry Gilliam) Just as Paul McCartney knew “The Fool on the Hill” could speak words of wisdom everyone would understand, screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and director Gilliam knew that a parable about a deranged homeless man and a cold-hearted media star could warm even the chilliest of hearts. 🎥 NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao) Since none of the politicians seem to address the epidemic of homelessness, you can still rally your dinner companions to engagement and compassion on this day when hundreds of thousands of Americans have no table to eat at or argue around. 🎥 BIG (Penny Marshall) After these endless months of bad debates, indictments, assassination attempts, recalibrated campaigns and billions of dollars’ worth of advertisements, everyone in the family is ready to celebrate the discovery of their inner child. 🎥 BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (Reinaldo Marcus Green) This is the movie that garners the ganja slot occupied by Tommy James on the playlist. Once everyone in the house is mildly buzzed, time to watch the biopic of the man who helpfully explained, “Never make a politician grant you a favor. They will always want to control you forever.”
Gov. Jared Polis digitally reached across the aisle last month by for Health and Human Services Secretary by President-elect Donald Trump. As an advocate who seeks bipartisan paths to advance public health policy, I welcomed the willingness to build a bridge with the incoming administration. However, when you ask Colorado voters of all political stripes, he was building a bridge to a dangerous place. When the governor posted that RFK Jr. “helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make Americans healthy again,” it reminded me of the oddest moment I’ve experienced at the Colorado state Capitol. In 2020, I was testifying in support of legislation to improve immunization rates among school-aged children. The bill was a modest compromise made with the governor and others, after a version from 2019 that included immunization mandates was defeated at the governor’s behest. Nonetheless, the chamber was swarmed with anti-vaccine activists who had been mobilized by figures including Kennedy. As I stood after finishing my testimony, an unwelcome chin was perched on my right shoulder from behind. It belonged to an opponent of the bill, who whispered in my ear, “sweet dreams ...” There was nothing problematic about the governor’s description of his successful partnership with Kennedy in defeating our bipartisan bill – that was accurate. The problem is that many of Kennedy’s views are well outside both the scientific consensus and bipartisan mainstream, and the health of Americans may suffer as a result. In Colorado, that’s already happening. Child immunization rates in our state are falling, putting kids at needless risk for illnesses that we had nearly driven into oblivion. In the 2022-23 school year, Colorado ranked 45th in the nation in kindergarten coverage rates for measles, at 86.8%, below the 92-94% community immunity threshold. Meanwhile, Coloradans support even stronger action than what’s currently being applied to protect children, as about three-quarters of voters believe that “before being able to send their children to schools and childcare centers, parents should be required to have them vaccinated for contagious diseases,” per a survey conducted this month by a bipartisan polling team for the organization I run, Healthier Colorado. President Eisenhower said, “every parent and every child should be grateful” when polio was essentially eradicated during his presidency over six decades ago. Now, even that vaccine is under attack by Kennedy, drawing the ire of polio survivor and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell. This adds to a string of dangerous and disproven positions taken by RFK, Jr., including the false linkage between vaccines and autism. We must not go back to proliferating the diseases of yesteryear, and a bipartisan majority of voters are pointing the way forward on health issues at the state and federal level. Here in Colorado, we have experienced the nation’s largest net decline in Medicaid enrollment since the pandemic, with more than half of that decline resulting from state bureaucratic failings. People who qualify for Medicaid are being excluded from coverage, leaving them without access to health care, and putting health providers into a financial bind with an increase in uninsured patients. Fortunately, 78% of Colorado voters, including over 68% of Republicans, are in favor of investing taxpayer dollars to fix this problem. Colorado can benefit from a strong working relationship with the Trump administration in selected areas, and Governor Polis is wise to pursue one. However, Coloradans reject Kennedy’s fringe views on vaccines, and a plurality believes that “doctors and scientists” have “too little” influence over public health policy. This isn’t an elitist view, it’s common sense – only 28% percent of Coloradans with a high school education or less think that doctors and scientists have “too much” influence. Poll after poll shows that Polis is on the right track with his successful effort to save people money on health care. Moreover, this month’s poll showed alignment with the sentiment expressed by the governor and Kennedy about the influence of the pharmaceutical and processed foods industries, as about 7 in 10 Colorado voters agree. On these and other issues, we can take a pragmatic approach that moves us forward, not backward, so we can improve people’s well-being and save lives.
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Key Takeaways They say great minds think alike — or maybe they land on similar ideas because they are observing the same world all around them. Every year, as my team and I curate the absolute best books of the year, we discover some themes across the 1000-plus submissions we consider. We call them themes — and they reflect a combination of the cultural zeitgeist of what's happening in business today and the hot topics on the minds of entrepreneurs and business professionals right now. Among books published this year, we read about the importance of calm and overcoming anxiety, climate solutions, putting generosity first, reevaluating the human condition in an age of AI, the power of quiet leadership and many more. Read on to see the trends we spotted and some of our thoughts on how they might be relevant for you as we head into 2025 and beyond. Related: 6 Books to Help You Keep Your New Years Resolution 1. Calming anxiety and burnout After a divisive election year, a rise in anxiety and growing awareness of mental health at work, this year, there has been a slate of books focused on what to do about burnout at work. Some advocated working less, while others focused on productivity hacks . From destressing to conquering anxiety, the idea of calm in work and life became an urgent topic, and this reality was reflected through books aiming to offer desperately needed help. 2. Math mindedness Can math explain the world? This year, math minds took center stage to offer perspectives on everything from how AI actually works to how it powers the most popular games in the world. Geography, geometry, statistics and even models of thinking got the numbers treatment as this group of books put math back into the spotlight and argued that understanding the world, making new friends and shifting our perspective all come down to better understanding math. 3. Good aging If longevity exploded in 2023, then this year offers a correction to books focusing on how we live instead of just techniques for living longer . Alongside the longevity topic, many new books this year shifted to offering insights on how to be old successfully. From loving mid-life to living a wonderous life of purpose, the new theme around aging seems to be enjoying the time you have, whether it lasts a century or less. 4. Rethinking higher education As the workplace shifts and the costs of higher education continue to spark debate, a range of books this year offered either a commentary on the higher education experience or a suggestion for a compelling alternative to the traditional four-year college experience. As more young people consider alternative paths to success, the college question is accelerating and will likely spark much more continuing dissent and conversation over the coming year and beyond. 5. Generosity first Perhaps in response to a world that feels as though it rewards toxicity, several books this year put generosity and the idea of generous leadership front and center. Fostering a friendly team dynamic, maintaining hope instead of becoming cynical and living life by giving more back were all key themes that stood out this year as authors offered a more optimistic prescription for how to live and work that reminded us about the too easily forgotten power of actually caring for one another and why doing it may be the key to prosperity and happiness. 6. Saving humanity Last year, the big theme with AI-focused books was all about designing AI in more human ways and reducing bias or other potential issues with the technology as it gains widespread adoption. This year, that trend continued, but many books took a decidedly more philosophical turn as they pondered human existence in a world ruled by AI. Will we exist or be necessary? Is our demise inevitable? As we live through a new technology age, these questions have received a renewed sense of urgency and attention as many books have helped reimagine what it will mean to be human in an increasingly automated future. Related: 5 Books That Paved My Path to Entrepreneurial Success 7. The female lens For the past several years, there has been a growing number of writers turning their attention to the previously neglected female perspective on many different topics. This year, that feminine lens focused on the history of women on Wall Street, memoirs from female trailblazers like Connie Chung, female-first branding techniques, and the exploration of women's role in creating the crossword puzzle. Along with offering a gendered correction to decades of male-centered perspectives on history, this new range of books provides the stories of previously neglected female heroines from history who deserve to be remembered. 8. Finding purpose T his year, a big topic for many books focused on finding your passion and purpose. Rather than living a rudderless life, people of all ages are seeing reminders of living a life with purpose and leaving a legacy they can be proud of. Whether it was finding your passion or avoiding despair (seasonal, political, environmental or otherwise), these hopeful books offered to help you rediscover your purpose and to live it more intentionally every day. 9. Climate solutionism In past years, many books about global warming and climate change both chronicled the problem as well as aimed to offer legislative or advocacy solutions. This year, a new perspective emerged regarding "solutionism." In other words, many books provided the prescription for us actually to fix some of the human-created global environmental problems. At least this positivity focuses on what to do next instead of dissecting and assigning blame for how we got here. 10. The citizenship imperative After a contentious election season , several books this past year aimed to help Americans rediscover their democracy and what it means to be citizens. From teaching young people about the latter to explaining topics like migration or free speech to more controversial calls to overhaul and rethink the Constitution itself, the idea that we all need to better understand and perhaps reimagine the fundamental beliefs of our government was a timely and urgent focus of many titles this past year. 11. Quiet leadership In what might seem like the ultimate irony, several counterintuitive books this year focused on the quieter side of leadership. From embracing silence to increasing cultural intelligence and focusing on the softer side of management, the conclusion seemed to be that the noisier the world gets, the more effective leaders who buck this trend and embrace their quiet side might actually be. 12. The friendship antidote A year ago, a range of books explored the loneliness epidemic and offered a dire warning of the negative health and emotional effects of isolation. This year, the antidote took the main stage in the form of encouraging people to forge and solidify more friendships. These books offered encouragement, tactics and perhaps most importantly, a reminder that having strong friendships requires investing the time to make them work.The state Attorney General's office is expected by the end of the week to release video footage from body-worn cameras of staff at Marcy Correctional Facility who were involved in a violent attack that left one incarcerated man dead earlier this month, sources told Spectrum News 1. Robert Brooks, 43, died Dec. 10 after a violent encounter with multiple correction officers at Marcy, an all-male medium-security facility in Oneida County. Over the weekend, Gov. Kathy Hochul directed state Department of Correction & Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello to fire 14 correction staff involved in the attack on Brooks, who was serving a 12-year sentence for stabbing his girlfriend in 2016. "Law enforcement professionals must be held to the highest standards of accountability, and I am committed to providing New Yorkers with the transparency they deserve," state Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Saturday. A coroner has not yet released Brooks' cause of death. Sources say state lawmakers visited the facility ahead of the video's release, adding the footage is gruesome and state officials are concerned about public backlash. Brooks was hospitalized Dec. 9 after multiple correction officers allegedy beat him while he was handcuffed. He died the following day. The incident remains under investigation by the state Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation. James' office will release the footage voluntarily, as state law does not mandate the video to be released. State law requires the office to investigate every incident where a civilian dies as a result of an encounter with law enforcement, including a correction officer. The officer may be on or off-duty, and the person who died may be armed or unarmed. “On behalf of the Office of the Attorney General, I offer my sincere condolences to Mr. Brooks’ family and loved ones," the attorney general said. Over the weekend, leaders with the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, or the state correction officers' union, said they reviewed video footage that only captures a small portion of the incident. "What we witnessed is incomprehensible to say the least and is certainly not reflective of the great work that the vast majority of our membership conducts every day," according to a statement from NYSCOPBA on Sunday. "...What transpired at Marcy Correctional Facility is the opposite of everything NYSCOPBA and its membership stand for. When this footage is released to the public, it will undoubtedly draw comparisons to other high-profile incidents of violence involving law enforcement. This incident has the potential to make our correctional facilities even more violent, hostile, and unpredictable than ever before. Our members will face heightened challenges as a result, and any efforts to improve their working conditions and quality of life will be overshadowed by this incident. "This incident not only endangers our entire membership but undermines the integrity of our profession. We cannot and will not condone this behavior."
Jeannette Neumann | (TNS) Bloomberg News The Nordstrom family is joining forces with a Mexican retailer to take its namesake department store private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion, including debt. Related Articles Business | New shoplifting data explains why they’re locking up the toothpaste Business | Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus Business | For some FSA dollars, it’s use it or lose it at year’s end Business | Celebrate Hanukkah at these 3 events in Hampton Roads Business | Heavy travel day off to a rough start after American Airlines briefly grounds all flights The founding family is betting that the century-old retail chain will be more successful without the scrutiny and demands of the public market after shares in Nordstrom Inc. plunged 40% in the last five years. During the same period, the S&P 500 rose 84%. As part of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2025, the family and Mexican department-store chain El Puerto de Liverpool SAB will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Nordstrom. The Nordstrom family will have a majority ownership stake in the company of 50.1%, with Liverpool owning 49.9%. Nordstrom common shareholders will receive $24.25 in cash for each share of Nordstrom common stock they hold under the terms of the agreement, the company said Monday. That’s roughly in line with where shares were trading on Monday. Shares in Nordstrom fell as much as 1.3% on Monday in New York. The company’s stock was up 33% so far this year as of Friday’s close as reports of a take-private deal boosted the stock price. The board’s acceptance of the offer underscores Nordstrom’s decline from its peak and its subdued growth prospects. In 2018, the board rejected the family’s bid to take the company private at $50 per share as too low. Nordstrom’s annual revenue, including income from credit cards, peaked at $15.9 billion in the fiscal year ended February 2019. The company was hit hard by Covid-19 and has never returned to its pre-pandemic highs. Nordstrom is expected to report $14.9 billion in total revenue at the end of the current fiscal year, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts. Other department-store chains in the U.S. have also struggled as shoppers pivot to online competitors such as Amazon.com Inc., or brand-specific stores such as Louis Vuitton. Executives at Macy’s Inc., for example, are shrinking the company’s store fleet to cut costs, while the owners of Saks Fifth Avenue bought Neiman Marcus Group earlier this year. During the past couple of years, investors had hoped that Nordstrom Rack, its off-price chain, could help buoy the company’s growth prospects and compensate for sluggish sales at the more upscale flagship chain. Shoppers flocked to competitors such as TJ Maxx, seeking deals as inflation soared post-pandemic. But Rack’s performance has been spotty. It stumbled when executives tweaked their strategy and stopped offering as many high-end fashion brands at a discount. Rack reversed course and sales have bounced back. Company executives have focused on opening more Rack stores in recent quarters, boosting revenue. In November, Nordstrom raised the lower end of its annual sales guidance after revenue was better than expected at Rack and the flagship chain. But the outlook is still weak, highlighting the attraction of going private: The company is forecasting that annual sales, including credit-card revenues, will be flat to up 1% versus last year. The take-private deal will be financed through a combination of rollover equity by the Nordstrom family and Liverpool, cash commitments by Liverpool, up to $450 million in borrowings under a new $1.2 billion ABL bank financing, and company cash on hand. The board also intends to pay a special dividend of up to 25 cents a share in cash contingent on the deal closing. The transaction must be approved by holders of two-thirds of the company’s common stock shareholders and the holders of a majority of the shares not owned by the Nordstrom family or Liverpool. Erik and Peter Nordstrom, who are members of the company’s board, recused themselves from the vote, which unanimously approved the transaction. “On behalf of my family, we look forward to working with our teams to ensure Nordstrom thrives long into the future,” said Erik Nordstrom, chief executive officer of Nordstrom. Liverpool, run by descendants of a French shareholder group that dates back more than a century, is one of Mexico’s most important department store chains, with an ornate flagship location in the capital’s historic center. The $7 billion publicly-traded company has ventured beyond Mexico in recent years, acquiring a stake in Latin American retail operator Unicomer in 2011 and attempting unsuccessfully to acquire control of Chile’s Ripley SA in 2015 before turning its eyes to the U.S. with the Nordstrom investment. Max David Michel, part of Liverpool’s founding family and one of the richest people in the country, retired as head of Liverpool’s board earlier this year. (Updates to include what stock is trading at versus the offer price.) ©2024 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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