casino slots with free spins Ismael Bennacer believes Milan ‘managed’ their emotions well in a , as he feels they could’ve also ‘conceded’ in a second half that saw the Giallorossi create dangerous chances. The Algerian midfielder returned to action four months after a serious injury and was ‘happy’ to be back, as he replaced Filippo Terracciano at half time and played the remaining 45 minutes. “I’m very happy to be back on the field, it was important for me because I worked really hard,” Bennacer told reporters at a post-match press conference “It’s never easy to recover from injuries like this. “It was a bit of a special match for me, we didn’t lose focus and managed our emotions well. We could have gone ahead, but we could have conceded a goal as well, in the end, we didn’t lose. “We have to look ahead because there’s an important goal to prepare for in the coming days. The 27-year-old had played his only minutes under coach Paulo Fonseca on the Serie A debut day against Torino and was back in what may have been the last game in charge for the Portuguese manager. Asked if he has found ‘problems’ in the team, Bennacer conceded they have ‘lost continuity’ and need to recover their ‘winning spirit’. “I won’t say there are problems within the team,” the midfielder continued. “We have new players, some of them young, and it’s up to us more experienced players to push the team. We’ve lost some continuity, but we need to find our winning spirit again. “For this, we just need work, patience, and the will to look forward.” The Rossoneri have won just two of their last five Serie A games and now sit eighth in the standings.Dear Abby: Mother unsure how to handle aftermath of son's accidentTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. , Dec. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) will present at Citi's 2024 Global Healthcare Conference at 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday , Dec. 5, 2024. 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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A lawyer for former U.S. Rep. TJ Cox of California said the Democrat will plead guilty to two counts of fraud and pay $3.5 million in restitution after federal prosecutors alleged he perpetrated multiple schemes involving businesses he was involved in. Attorney Mark Coleman told the Fresno Bee on Wednesday that Cox wanted to avoid trial and had reached a plea deal that dismissed 24 of the 26 charges he has faced since 2022 . “It’s very stressful for him. It’s very stressful for his family, and he wanted to get it behind him,” Coleman said. At the next hearing in January, Cox will enter guilty pleas to wire fraud and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, the Bee reported. He agrees to pay $3.5 million in restitution and will be required to provide records of his financial standings once his plea changes, according to the deal. He is also subject to whatever sentence and fine is determined to be fair by the court. Prosecutors said Cox stole more than $1.7 million in diverted client payments and company loans and investments. They also alleged Cox created false records and a fraudulent loan guarantee in order to secure a $1.5 million construction loan through a sports nonprofit for improvements at Granite Park, a sports complex in Fresno. “Anytime you’re in business there are thousands of transactions, and people sometimes make shortcuts and it’s something he had to deal with,” Coleman said about the charges. The counts that were dismissed included wire fraud, money laundering and campaign contribution fraud. Prosecutors previously said that without the plea deal, Cox faced prison time and fines ranging from $250,000 to $1 million depending on the count, according to the Bee. The charges date back to business Cox was conducting in 2018, documents show, as well as during his time in Congress. Cox was elected in 2018 by beating out incumbent Republican David Valadao for the seat that covered Kings County and parts of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties. Valadao retook the seat from Cox in a 2020 rematch. The Associated PressMandya : In separate road accidents that took place in Mandya district yesterday, three engineering students and a woman and a girl were killed while two others have sustained serious injuries. Malavalli: In the first case, three engineering students were killed on the spot while another sustained serious injuries when a truck hit the car in which they were travelling near Nagegowdana Doddi Gate in Malavalli taluk. The deceased have been identified as Pranav (22), Adarsh (23) and Akarsh (22), all fourth semester students at Bangalore Institute of Technology (BIT) in Bengaluru and natives of Challakere in Chitradurga district. The injured has been identified as Hrithik and all the four students were on their way to Talakad in the car when the accident took place. When the four students were proceeding near Nagegowdana Doddi Gate in Malavalli taluk, a truck coming from Kollegal side rammed into the car, killing the three students on the spot and leaving another student seriously injured, who has been admitted to the Government Hospital. Dy.SP V. Krishnappa, Circle Inspector Mahesh and staff, visited the accident spot, conducted mahazar, preliminary investigation and a case has been registered at Mandya Rural Police Station. In the second case, a woman and a girl were killed on the spot while another sustained injuries when a truck rammed into the scooter they were travelling near Mahadeshwarapura village on Srirangapatna-Jewargi Highway yesterday early morning. The deceased have been identified as Shilpashree (34), wife of Shivannegowda of Neelanahalli village in Pandavapura taluk and Sandhya (17), daughter of Pradeep of Neelanahalli village. Shilpashree’s mother Shylaja, who has sustained serious injuries has been admitted to a private hospital in Mysuru. READ ALSO 14 Karnataka Bn NCC adopts Sir MV’s statue at Mandya Shilpashree and Shylaja were to go to Tirupati and Shylaja’s daughter Sandhya was taking them on her scooter to drop them at Pandavapura when the speeding truck carrying onions, which came from Nagamangala side rammed into the scooter killing Sandhya and Shilpashree on the spot and seriously injuring Shylaja, who was rushed to Pandavapura General Hospital, where she was provided first-aid and later shifted to a private hospital in Mysuru. Shylaja has two children and Sandhya was her second daughter who was pursuing her 2nd PUC. Dy.SP Murali, Sub-Inspector Pramod and staff, who rushed to the spot, conducted an inspection and shifted the bodies to the Government Hospital mortuary. Former Minister C.S. Puttaraju and MLA Darshan Puttannaiah visited the mortuary and consoled the family members and relatives of the deceased, who had gathered in large numbers in front of the mortuary. A case has been registered at Melukote Police Station. MandyaJosh Allen, Bills crush Jets, secure No. 2 seed in AFC

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Yes, both Musk and Ramaswamy have put their careers on the line to make a political stand, and Musk in particular has put on Republicans to reject a to keep the government open. However, the fact that DOGE’s acronym itself is a — so seldom a good sign when Elon is involved, it must be noted — makes one wonder whether this is just another way for Republicans to make empty promises to slash big government while sustaining it through compromises and backsliding. Thus, if DOGE is going to be effective, it’s going to have to be brutal. Like, Milton Friedman brutal. In 1999, a little under three years after President Bill Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and also a little under three years after Clinton proved he had no intention of following through on the limits, the libertarian Nobel laureate economist sat down with Peter Robinson, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University — a body which Friedman, at the time, was part of as well — for an interview for Robinson’s show “Uncommon Knowledge.” Toward the end of the episode, Robinson — a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan , “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” — asked Friedman about a bit of “cabinet remodeling,” or what he’d do if he had his way with the (then) 14 cabinet-level departments there were. “Now, 14 is a lot for television, so I just want to go right down the list quickly and have you give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down, keep them or abolish them,” Robinson said. Department of Agriculture: “Abolish,” Friedman said. Department of Commerce: “Abolish,” Friedman said. Department of Defense: “Keep.” Department of Education: “Abolish.” Department of Energy: “Abolish,” although said he would “accept that energy ties in with the military.” “Well, then we shove it under defense,” Robinson said. Department of Health and Human Services: “There is use for some public health activities to prevent contagion[s]” and the like, he said. “So you keep the National Institutes of Health, say, and the Center for Disease Control,” Robinson said. No, Friedman wouldn’t: “Those are mostly a research agency. No, no, that’s a question about whether the government should be involved in financing research, and the answer is no.” However, the answer isn’t easy due to contagions and other such matters, so Robinson said “We’ll eliminate half the Department of Health and Human Services.” This, Friedman agreed to. : “Out.” “Oh, didn’t even pause over that one,” Robinson said, as Friedman smiled. “But Housing and Urban Development has done an enormous amount of harm,” Friedman said, insisting to pause a little bit. “My God! If you think of the way in which they’ve destroyed parts of cities under the rubric of eliminating slums.” Department of the Interior: “Well, given the problem there is that you first have to sell off all the land that the government owns — but that’s what you should do. ... The government now owns something like one third of all the land in the country, and that’s too much,” Friedman said, adding it should go down to almost zero. However, they should own government buildings, so maybe a very, very, downsized Department of the Interior would suit Friedman’s likings. Department of Justice: “Oh yes, keep that one.” (Friedman died roughly 15 years before he could to come to know the words “ ,” it must be worth noting.) Department of Labor: “No.” Department of State: “Keep it.” Department of Transportation: “Gone.” Department of the Treasury: “You have to keep it to collect taxes.” (Not that Friedman was much fond of that, but thems the breaks of where we were at, financially, even back .) : “You can regard Veterans Affairs as a way of paying, essentially, salaries for services of those who have been in the Armed Forces. But you ought to be able to get rid of it, you should be able to pay off [lump sums]” and dump the department. He was then asked what he would do if he were dictator for a day. Milton Friedman was as good as it gets. — Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) “No, no, I don’t want to be made dictator,” Friedman said. “If we can’t persuade the public that it’s desirable to do these things, we have no right to do them.” With all due respect to the occasional rhetorical flourishes of the president-elect, this is the proper attitude. And while it’s way beyond what DOGE will likely recommend, Musk and Ramaswamy will have to understand they’re coming into a swamp where this continuing resolution is hardly the biggest piece of pork they’ll have to deal with: Ever seen a bigger piece of pork? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Yes. There are now 15 cabinet-level departments thanks to Homeland Security’s creation after 9/11. It’s now so effective that it can’t stop record numbers of illegal immigrants from crossing our borders, far more than ever before it was created. But then, this shouldn’t be a surprise. People gasp when conservatives talk about eliminating the Department of Education. All right, then: That department was created in 1979. Have our schools gotten any better, our students any smarter since then? The Department of Energy was created in 1977. To the extent that America has gained any level of energy independence since then, it’s been through private-sector innovations like fracking — something the Democratic candidate for president once endorsed banning and which the . If one half of the DOGE duumvirate thinks is the biggest piece of pork he’ll ever have to send back to the kitchen, in other words, he really ought to start watching what Milton Friedman was saying 25 years ago, then realize how much things have gotten since then. We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. .

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She previously worked in various roles in Ramsey County from 2018 to 2023 and has worked in policy, administration and community services roles for more than 25 years. She has held leadership roles with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the state department of human services, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sarabia has a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago. Related ArticlesMonolithic Power Systems, Inc. ( NASDAQ:MPWR – Get Free Report ) announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 13th, RTT News reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be paid a dividend of 1.25 per share by the semiconductor company on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $5.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.82%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. 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TD Cowen cut their target price on shares of Monolithic Power Systems from $1,100.00 to $975.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, October 31st. Oppenheimer reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $900.00 target price on shares of Monolithic Power Systems in a report on Monday, November 11th. Loop Capital raised Monolithic Power Systems from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $660.00 target price for the company in a research note on Monday, November 18th. Stifel Nicolaus raised their price target on Monolithic Power Systems from $1,000.00 to $1,100.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, September 27th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC decreased their price objective on Monolithic Power Systems from $950.00 to $600.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, November 22nd. 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Florida woman sentenced to life for zipping boyfriend into suitcase, suffocating him A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse. Circuit Judge Michael Kraynick imposed the sentence Monday in Orlando on Sarah Boone for the 2020 killing of 42-year-old Jorge Torres. A jury deliberated only 90 minutes Oct. 25 before convicting Boone of the second-degree murder of Jorge Torres after a 10-day trial. Boone had insisted she was herself a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Torres and had pleaded not guilty. Already buried under snow, Great Lakes region expected to see more stormy weather this week Some storm-weary residents of the Great Lakes region have seen continued snowfall and are facing the prospect of even more accumulations this week. Lake-effect snow continues to fall on parts of western New York that were already blanketed with a foot or more over the past four days. Lake-effect snow warnings are in effect through Tuesday night in parts of Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. Snow fell in western Michigan overnight, and heavier, persistent snow of up to a foot was expected to follow into Monday. Meanwhile, Alaska's capital got more than a foot of snow over the weekend. The National Weather Service says the wintry weather is stronger than Juneau usually sees this time of year. Stock market today: Rising tech stocks pull Wall Street to another record NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks pulled Wall Street to another record amid mixed trading. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Monday after closing November at an all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1%. Super Micro Computer, a stock that’s been on an AI-driven roller coaster, soared after saying an investigation found no evidence of misconduct by its management or the company’s board. Retailers were mixed coming off Black Friday and heading into what’s expected to be the best Cyber Monday on record. Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market. Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year's biggest day for online shopping Consumers in the U.S. are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to make the most of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon on Cyber Monday. The National Retail Federation coined the term for the Monday after Black Friday in 2005. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routine, Cyber Monday continues to be the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to steady discounts and a fair amount of hype. Several major retails actually started their Cyber Monday promotions over the weekend. Consumer spending for the online shopping days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday provides an indication of how much shoppers are willing to spend for the holidays.

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