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Data Visualization: Transform Raw Data Into ActionMadison, WI - The Wisconsin women's hockey team has one goal in mind this season: winning an NCAA-record eighth national championship . The past two seasons, the Badgers and Ohio State Buckeyes have split a pair of national title games, each decided by a score of 1-0. UW entered last weekend unbeaten at 12-0 when it traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to face OSU. Like the previous two national title games, the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the country split the two-game series. Despite not coming out with a sweep as the Badgers had hoped, a pair of assists by one of the Badgers' captains inched her ever closer to the top of a record that had stood for over 17 years. On Saturday evening, that record fell, as the Badgers hope that individual accolade is just one of many collected before winning the ultimate prize at the Frozen Four in March. Wisconsin Women's Hockey Center Casey O'Brien Sets Program Assists Record © Mark Stewart / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK UW hosted the St. Thomas Tommies for a two-game series this weekend at LaBahn Arena. With a pair of assists on Friday night, Wisconsin center Casey O'Brien tied the Badgers' program leader in total assists in a career. The WCHA Forward of the Month got finishes from a crafty goal by Kirsten Simms and a funny bounce off a defender's skate on a power play. That wily bounce put O'Brien in a tie atop the program record book with 138 assists, but she would soon stand alone. After O'Brien put the puck on the net in Saturday's series finale, winger Laila Edwards snuck the loose puck behind Tommies goaltender Dani Strom. To add to the drama, the officials went to the monitor to review for goaltender interference, but soon enough, O'Brien's record-shattering 139th career assist was confirmed. The fifth-year forward holds the record for most assists in a career and a single season in a Badgers uniform. In last year's campaign, the Milton, Massachusetts native became the first Wisconsin women's hockey player to record 50 assists in a season, one year removed from leading UW in goals and assists en route to the Badgers' seventh national championship. Related: Wisconsin Women's Hockey: "All or Nothing" for Record 8th National Title Sara Bauer previously held the record for most assists in a career with the Wisconsin women's hockey team. In her career, spanning from 2003-07, the UW Athletic Hall of Famer became the first Badger to win the Patty Kazmaier Award (given to the top female college hockey player in the United States), led Wisconsin to back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007, and was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 Frozen Four. Badgers Co-Captains Celebrate O'Brien's Program Record © Mark Stewart / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK "Oh, wow," was Caroline Harvey 's, O'Brien's co-captain's, unfiltered reaction earlier this week when she realized how close O'Brien was to reaching the career milestone. "Her game is just so unselfish." Aside from being co-captains, Harvey and O'Brien have been tied at the hip through the beginning of the season. The duo shared the Hockey Commission Association National Player of the Month Award for September/October. In addition to their accolades on the ice for the Badgers, O'Brien, and Harvey also shared the ice earlier this month for Team USA in a three-game rivalry series against Team Canada. So familiar with O'Brien' s ability on the ice, Harvey said the center is "always looking for the right pass, setting other people up for them to finish. And then also, she can finish herself, of course - easily." That scoring prowess, while sometimes secondary to her playmaking talent, makes O'Brien a threat from anywhere on the ice. The 2024 Patty Kazmaier Award Top-3 Finalist also sits at 11th all-time in most goals scored in a career by a Wisconsin women's hockey player - just one shy of reaching Bauer at 10th. Harvey finished her praise for her teammate by adding, "I can't wait to celebrate that when she reaches that milestone." With this group, there are sure to be more celebrations yet to come. Related: Wisconsin Women's Hockey Transfer Finds Opportunity in 6-1 Victory Stay in the loop with all things Wisconsin Badgers by visiting AllBadgers.com for more updates. Ready to join the community? Follow Athlon Sports on YouTube , Facebook , and X to join in on the conversation. You can also follow Kedrick Stumbris at @KedrickStumbris on X
What's New? Russia and Iran plan to formalize relations with the signing of a new strategic partnership treaty in the days before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. The news was broken by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who told reporters on Monday that he hoped the leaders of the two nations would sign the agreement "at the end of January," Russian state-owned outlet Sputnik reported. Newsweek has contacted the foreign affairs ministries of Iran and Russia for comment. Why It Matters The new treaty, potentially occurring just days prior to Trump's inauguration on January 20, signals an attempt by the two nations to combine their respective powers in the face of growing isolation on the world stage. Russia and Iran are members of what analysts at the Center for New American Security have dubbed the Axis of Upheaval , a group of states, which also features China and North Korea, that have increasingly positioned themselves as opponents of Western powers. The two nations have been heavily sanctioned and censured by the U.S. and its allies over the past few years, the former as a result of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the latter because of concerns over alleged, covert attempts to develop nuclear weapons as well as the actions of its military proxies in the Middle East. What To Know A treaty with Iran has been in the works for years, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, which in early 2022 claimed that a "major new interstate agreement" was being finalized, without providing specifics. In late October, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the 16th annual BRICS summit in Kazan , Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the agreement would be ready for the two leaders' signatures in the near future, and that this will "will formalize the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation and interaction in the interests of regional and global peace and security." "An agreement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran will be an important factor of strengthening Russia-Iran relations," Lavrov said at the International Conference on Eurasian Security. The new bilateral treaty will replace the 20-year strategic agreement signed between the countries in 2001 and extended in 2020 and is said to contain promises of cooperation in areas such as energy, manufacturing, transportation and agriculture, according to state-linked Iranian outlet Mehr News Agency. In mid-2023, Russian outlet News.ru noted that difficulties had arisen in constructing the new treaty as a result of Russia's alleged support of the United Arab Emirates' claims to islands in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran considers part of its territory. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the parties were still working on the "speedy completion" of the document. Russia and Iran have in the past collaborated in these economic areas while also working to bypass their respective sanctions . In October, Pezeshkian described the relationship between the two nations as "strategic and sincere," and said that economic and cultural cooperation was " getting stronger day by day ." In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Iran of supplying Russia with ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine, though Tehran has denied reports claiming it was doing so. What People Are Saying Mohammed Soliman , director of Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program, Middle East Institute, in comments to Breaking Defense in July: "A comprehensive agreement might formalize closer political ties, potentially strengthening their shared opposition to the West, particularly in light of the Ukraine conflict and sanctions. While not explicitly mentioned, the agreement could lead to further collaboration on military technology or intelligence sharing." What Happens Next? A Russian delegation led by deputy prime ministers Alexei Overchuk and Vitaly Savelev arrived in Tehran on Monday, according to Iranian media reports, where they are set meet with Pezeshkian. The new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement will be discussed during the meetings, according to Iran International . Do you have a story we should be covering? Do you have any questions about this article? Contact LiveNews@newsweek.com.
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In fact, a few of my brands have become generic names for the product category. 3 While my founder family’s feud with another business family was more than five decades old, most of their current multi-billion dollar wealth comes from the stake they continue to hold in the businesses of the same family they fought with. 4 From a single-digit Return on Equity (RoE) for more than a decade, my trailing 12 months profit of almost ₹500 crore is helping me move towards 20 per cent RoE club. 5 My stock has gone up seven times over the last five years, whereas it delivered negligible returns over the previous five years. Last week’s stock: Kirloskar Oil Engines Last week’s winner: C Hari Krishna CommentsCowboys set for Thanksgiving visit from Giants after ending 5-game losing streakTheir ages vary. But a conspicuous handful of filmmaking lions in winter, or let’s say late autumn, have given us new reasons to be grateful for their work over the decades — even for the work that didn’t quite work. Which, yes, sounds like ingratitude. But do we even want more conventional or better-behaved work from talents such as Francis Ford Coppola? Even if we’re talking about “Megalopolis” ? If Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” gave audiences a less morally complicated courtroom drama, would that have mattered, given Warner Bros.’ butt-headed decision to plop it in less than three dozen movie theaters in the U.S.? Coppola is 85. Eastwood is 94. Paul Schrader, whose latest film “Oh, Canada” arrives this week and is well worth seeking out, is a mere 78. Based on the 2021 Russell Banks novel “Foregone,” “Oh, Canada” is the story of a documentary filmmaker, played by Richard Gere, being interviewed near the end of his cancer-shrouded final days. In the Montreal home he shares with his wife and creative partner, played by Uma Thurman, he consents to the interview by two former students of his. Gere’s character, Leonard Fife, has no little contempt for these two, whom he calls “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada” with subtle disdain. As we learn over the artful dodges and layers of past and present, events imagined and/or real, Fife treats the interview as a final confession from a guarded and deceptive soul. He’s also a hero to everyone in the room, famous for his anti-Vietnam war political activism, and for the Frederick Wiseman-like inflection of his own films’ interview techniques. The real-life filmmaker name-checked in “Oh, Canada” is documentarian Errol Morris, whose straight-to-the-lens framing of interview subjects was made possible by his Interrotron device. In Schrader’s adaptation, Fife doesn’t want the nominal director (Michael Imperioli, a nicely finessed embodiment of a second-rate talent with first-rate airs) in his eyeline. Rather, as he struggles with hazy, self-incriminating memories of affairs, marriages, one-offs with a friend’s wife and a tense, brief reunion with the son he never knew, Fife wants only his wife, Emma — his former Goddard College student — in this metaphoric confessional. Schrader and his editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. treat the memories as on-screen flashbacks spanning from 1968 to 2023. At times, Gere and Thurman appear as their decades-young selves, without any attempt to de-age them, digitally or otherwise. (Thank god, I kind of hate that stuff in any circumstance.) In other sequences from Fife’s past, Jacob Elordi portrays Fife, with sly and convincing behavioral details linking his performance to Gere’s persona. We hear frequent voiceovers spoken by Gere about having ruined his life by age 24, at least spiritually or morally. Banks’ novel is no less devoted to a dying man’s addled but ardent attempt to come clean and own up to what has terrified him the most in the mess and joy of living: Honesty. Love. Commitment. There are elements of “Oh, Canada” that soften Banks’ conception of Fife, from the parentage of Fife’s abandoned son to the specific qualities of Gere’s performance. It has been 44 years since Gere teamed with Schrader on “American Gigolo,” a movie made by a very different filmmaker with very different preoccupations of hetero male hollowness. It’s also clearly the same director at work, I think. And Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind. The musical score is pretty watery, and with Schrader you always get a few lines of tortured rhetoric interrupting the good stuff. In the end, “Oh, Canada” has an extraordinarily simple idea at its core: That of a man with a movie camera, most of his life, now on the other side of the lens. Not easy. “I can’t tell the truth unless that camera’s on!” he barks at one point. I don’t think the line from the novel made it into Schrader’s script, but it too sums up this lion-in-winter feeling of truth without triumphal Hollywood catharsis. The interview, Banks wrote, is one’s man’s “last chance to stop lying.” It’s also a “final prayer,” dramatized by the Calvinist-to-the-bone filmmaker who made sure to include that phrase in his latest devotion to final prayers and missions of redemption. “Oh, Canada” — 3 stars (out of 4) No MPA rating (some language and sexual material) Running time: 1:34 How to watch: Opens in theaters Dec. 13, running 1in Chicago Dec. 13-19 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; siskelfilmcenter.org Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
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TOWNSHEND — The Leland & Gray boys basketball team lost their first league game against Springfield on Monday 65-42, but had a strong offensive showing from their senior Cody Hescock, which they will hope to build off as they look for their first win of the season. Hescock ended the game with 24 points for the Rebels (0-3), leading all scorers. After the Rebels graduated five seniors last year, Hescock is one of just two seniors this season, along with Ely White, who has been out since the first game with a broken nose. Spencer Claussen, who is a sophomore, joins Hescock and White as returning players who saw significant minutes last year, while junior Ryder Butynski also returns from the varsity roster last season. Against the visiting Cosmos (1-2), Rebels first year head coach Bob Culver started each of his available varsity players who were Claussen, juniors Logan Plimpton and Colin Dunleavy-Mercier, Hescock, and Butynski. White and junior Jax Meister, the other full-time varsity players for the Rebels, were out of the lineup due to injury. When White returns from injury, Culver said either Plimpton or Butynski will help give the Rebels meaningful minutes off the bench. With only five of his seven varsity players in action against the Cosmos, Culver has also pulled up some players from junior varsity, with freshmen Dakota Shippee, Frank Flood, Connor Richardson, and sophomores Lucas Gleason and Orren Styles added to the lineup for the Rebels. Culver said Flood, Styles and Richardson will provide depth at the forward position, and Shippee was pulled up in their last game to help out at guard. Gleason is also listed at the guard position. “We felt it was important to make sure they do get minutes on JV and not just sit on the bench on varsity. It’s important for these players to get those minutes, get the experience, and then if we can get them in, we get in foul trouble ... get minutes up here too. We need them,” said Culver. Something that Culver has stressed so far this year is his team playing with composure in pressure situations. The Cosmos applied a full court press against the Rebels, which is something they had a hard time with early in the game, but Culver was pleased with how his team adjusted to the pressure as the game went on. In these situations, Culver wants his team to slow the game down, and trust that they know what to do in those times. Offensively, Culver wants to base what they run on whether the opposing team is playing zone or man-to-man defense. Against zones, Culver wants his team to spread the court and move the ball with passing to draw out the defense and get everyone involved. Against man-to-man on offense Culver wants Claussen, who finished with nine points against the Cosmos, to isolate and beat his defender to force help defense and allow him to either attack the rim or pass to the open player. “I think tonight it worked out alright ... there were moments that we did it perfect, it looked beautiful, then moments we just got flustered ... and they got two points on the other end because of a silly turnover” said Culver. On the defensive side, this is something Culver said has been impacted by both injuries and the lack of numbers he has on the bench. Culver said he prefers man-to-man defense, but is also going to be mixing in some zone when necessary. He said he would like to implement some pressure man-to-man defense as well, but admitted this is difficult with having short numbers on the bench as he doesn’t want to deplete the energy of his players that he needs in the game. Culver said once his team is fully healthy, he wants to implement a press on defense to help jumpstart their transition game and get easy layups as opposed to slowing down the speed of play and having to set up a look on offense. The Rebels didn’t show any full court pressure in the game against Springfield, which Culver attributed to his team’s lack of numbers on the bench. “We were just five players essentially tonight ... they had a lot deeper bench, we weren’t going to be able to keep up with them legs wise I don’t think if we tried that,” said Culver. As the season continues, Culver said that one of the biggest challenges the team will face is continuing to deal with limited personnel. This includes the next two games, as the Rebels will be without Hescock, according to Culver, starting with their home game on Friday against Grace Christian. Culver said the hardest part about missing players is making sure that everyone else is up to speed, especially those who are new to the varsity level. The Rebels host Grace Christian Friday at 7 p.m. They will close out the calendar year with a road game against Poultney on Monday at 7 p.m. “I’m looking forward to seeing what Cody [Hescock] and Ely [White] do as seniors. I’ve been working with Cody for four years now since he’s been a freshman on varsity,” said Culver. “So I’m really excited to see how he does his senior year, and how his improvement, his growth has come, and become a real leader.”What Congress has in mind for the future of the Abraham Accords
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Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te TiritiOctaFX ₹800 Crore Scam: ED Probes IPL Sponsorship And Fraudulent Trading Platform OperationsSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Spencer Knight made 20 saves, Mackie Samoskevich scored with less than a second left in the second period, and the Florida Panthers got four goals in the third to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-0 on Saturday and complete a two-day sweep. Aleksander Barkov, Sam Bennett, Aaron Ekblad, Evan Rodrigues and Adam Boqvist also scored for Florida, which won 6-3 at Carolina on Friday. The Panthers have won three straight — that streak following a stretch of six losses in seven games for the Stanley Cup champions. It was Knight's fourth career shutout, his first since Nov. 9, 2022 — also at home against Carolina. Spencer Martin made 23 saves on 28 shots for the Hurricanes, who have dropped four of their last six games (2-3-1). It was Martin's fourth consecutive start for Carolina. Hurricanes: This was the first time all season that the Hurricanes failed to get a point in the game immediately following a loss. Carolina was 4-0-1 after a defeat entering Saturday. Panthers: A big day for Samoskevich — his alma mater Michigan beat Ohio State in football on Saturday, that game ending just before the Florida-Carolina game started. The Panthers are 5-0-0 when he scores this season. Sam Reinhart had each of the four most recent Florida goals at 19:59, before Samoskevich got his Saturday. The Panthers scored two goals 11 seconds apart in the third to make it 5-0, and Yaniv Perets replaced Martin in the Hurricanes' net with 8:12 remaining. It was the second NHL appearance for Perets, who came on once in relief for Carolina last season. Ekblad's goal was his first in a span of 1,045 regular-season shifts since Feb. 20. Carolina starts a two-game homestand Tuesday against Seattle. Florida goes to Pittsburgh to start a two-game trip on Tuesday. AP NHL: https://www.apnews.com/hub/NHL
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Swansea boss Luke Williams thought his side were second best for the majority of the contest despite earning a 2-1 win at Derby. The Swans stunned Pride Park into silence with less than two minutes on the clock when Zan Vipotnik sent a bullet past Jacob Widell Zetterstrom before Ronald slotted home his first of the season in the 14th minute. Cyrus Christie brought Tom Barkhuizen down inside the box and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing dispatched the resulting penalty to cut the deficit in half and, despite piling on the pressure, Derby succumbed to a second home defeat of the season. Williams told a press conference: “We started the game very well, we were good up until we scored the second goal then we lost the grip on the game and I thought Derby were the better team. “The next thing for us we have to be able to maintain that level throughout the game and we weren’t able to do that to be quite honest today. “They made it difficult, reacted very well after the second goal and didn’t go under, far from it.” Swansea leapfrogged their opponents into the top half of the table with their sixth win of the season and took three points back to south Wales following two last-minute defeats by Burnley and Leeds heading into the match. Williams added: “We’ve recently conceded late goals but they’re a very resilient group and we saw it out in the end. “We’ve dominated games a lot but probably failed to score when we’ve been that dominant and tonight we managed to score the goals when we were dominant. “We scored the goals at the right time today.” Derby had been unbeaten in their last three matches coming into this one but Paul Warne put defeat down to a poor start. He said: “We conceded two and didn’t get close enough, weren’t aggressive enough, not enough body contact and looked soft, that’s my fault. “Maybe I didn’t message it properly. Sometimes it doesn’t come down to shape and tactics but I thought that was what the difference was. “Credit Swansea for the win but after the 25 mins it looked like we would score. I really enjoyed it, that’s the truth. I had 70 minutes of a team giving everything, I don’t think we’ve had that many attempts in the Championship this season. “It’s a rude awakening, last year we would’ve won that 4-2.”