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The EuroHockey Championships 2023 came to an end today with Netherlands claiming the women’s and men’s title and securing direct qualification to the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Netherlands women were the reigning champions and defended their title against Belgium in the finals, to lift the continental championship, for a record 12th time! Dutch men followed suit, defending their EuroHockey title, in a tense final against England.

Mönchengladbach, Germany

All times GMT +2

Men

27 Aug 2023 10:00     FRA v AUT (Pool C)                 4 - 3
27 Aug 2023 12:30     BEL v GER (3rd/4th Place)     2 - 0
27 Aug 2023 15:00    NED v ENG (Final)                   2  - 1   Watch the men's Final free on the Olympic Channel here

Pool standings

Women

26 Aug 2023 12:15     ENG v GER (3rd/4thPlace)     0 - 3
26 Aug 2023 14:45    NED v BEL (Final)                   3 - 1 Watch the Women's... Читать дальше...

Sympathy for the Devil – Frightfest 2023 Movie Review 

Director: Yuval Adler

Writer: Luke Paradise (Screenplay)

Cast

• Nicolas Cage (Willy’s Wonderland)
• Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop)
• Alexis Zollicoffer
• Camerone Lee Price (1923)

Plot: After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear ...

The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) Summit held last week in Johannesburg was “positive and productive”, with member nations focused on how they can support each other’s development and a rules-based multilateral system, business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busi Mavuso writes in her weekly newsletter. “The striking feature of the sessions I attended was the common challenges that the Brics nations face. Ministers from Brazil, India and China spoke... Читать дальше...

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The company has an array of partnerships and activations as well as a new spot, “Sports Are Always in Season.”

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The conventional wisdom asks: How can Donald Trump simultaneously participate in all these criminal trials and run for president? The question misses the point of Trumpism, of the creation and propagation of those famous “alternative facts” of which Kellyanne Conway spoke lo those many years ago, and of the power of fascist spectacle over its adherents. The trials are the campaign. To Trump’s followers, nothing else will matter.

In 1962, a 33-year-old freelance writer who had little institutional or academic standing published a book widely credited with helping inspire the creation of Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start, and food stamps—representing the commitment of the federal government to a war on poverty. No one expected The Other America to have such an effect, including its author, Michael Harrington, who insisted he’d be pleased if it managed to sell a couple of thousand copies. Instead, boosted by a glowing review in The New Yorker... Читать дальше...

The immensity and destruction of the 2018 wildfires in Sonoma County, California left a visceral impression on Mark Freed. He was 54 and had recently moved to the area with his then-wife to escape the crowded city of San Francisco; he’d never lived through a wildfire season before. The walls of flame “make you feel like an ant,” he said. “You don’t feel human, you’re just a thing to burn.”

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Plus, what to do about a friend with unlimited phone restrictions.

GP surgeries will face economic sanctions if they do not provide patients with adequate services if Labour come to power, according to the shadow health secretary.

Photo by Joe Sargent/NHLI via Getty Images

A youngster who made his NHL debut last year and has taken big strides rockets up our countdown

Today’s default should be ‘conspiracy curious,’ as ‘conspiracy theorist’ sounds a lot like a synonym for responsible citizen — someone who is paying attention and has earned the right to question everything.

Caitlyn Jenner's daughters Kylie and Kendall won't be cut out of her multimillion-dollar will, with insiders dismissing rumors the trio's estranged.

Republican candidate Nikki Haley's social security agenda is both terrible politics and immensely difficult to defend as sound policy.

Instead of lifting Donald Trump’s trade barriers, the Biden administration has embraced industrial policy, offering huge subsidies to domestic manufacturers

Ratepayers have asked why municipal employees have been allowed to rack up debt for services, when ratepayers are threatened with court action

Network assurance tools, which use advanced analytics to optimize and automate network management, are becoming an essential component in every network team’s toolkit.

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The specialty chemical maker Aurorium, formerly known as Vertellus, has informed Indiana authorities that it will close its pyridine chemical plant in Indianapolis. The facility employs about 159 people. Pyridine is used to make vitamin B3 and herbicides such as paraquat. The firm closed part of the plant in 2016, while it was in bankruptcy. It is the only pyridine facility in the US and, according to the Vertellus website, the world’s largest pyridine producer. Читать дальше...

The new system is just the latest in an array of services the community hospital is offering to make their patients feel welcome regardless of citizenship status as Chicago’s migrant population has grown to over 13,500 in the past year.

The number of free and reduced-fare transit pass-holders in the Chicago area dropped sharply in 2022, falling by about 23% from the prior year.