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Tempers flared inside the Houston Rockets locker room on Saturday night. Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. and center Christian Wood reportedly got into a heated exchange with assistant coach John Lucas at halftime. Lucas, , called those two and others out at halftime for their poor play — which prompted Porter to throw something inside the locker room before leaving the Toyota Center completely. Wood stayed, but refused to sub into the game in the second half. The Rockets, after hanging with… Source link

PHILADELPHIA — Barrett Scheffler hopped in his Mazda CX-5 on Friday morning in Columbus, Ohio, halfway through a road trip to Philadelphia to see a football game. It was, at the time, two days away. In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Stacey Koneski readied her midnight-green paraphernalia. In Arizona, Jamie Barmach and his teenage children boarded a flight. In Newark, New Jersey, fresh off a red-eye from Los Angeles via Vegas, Reza Perl picked up a rental car. In Houston, on the verge of his… Source link

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday that a tornado outbreak in his state has led to 80 reported casualties with that number expected to rise as authorities continue to sift through the wreckage. “I can tell you from reports that I’ve received, I know we’ve lost more than 80 Kentuckians. That number is going to exceed more than 100,” Beshear said on CNN. Satellite imagery of Mayfield, Ky., after a tornado hit the town. (Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies, via Getty Images) He… Source link

With shipping delays mounting and cargo piling up at Los Angeles County ports, local officials are tightening the rules on , part of an effort to ease congestion of freighter ships anchored along Southern California’s coast. Beginning Nov. 1, carriers will be charged $100 per container, with the fee increasing $100 per container per day — but the fee will not be assessed until Nov. 15. Collected fees will be reinvested by the ports in programs to increase efficiency and address congestion,… Source link

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service appears to have lost another top video game industry veteran — kind of. Jack Buser, Stadia’s Director for Games and a former PlayStation exec, is moving to the company’s Google Cloud division to head up “Gaming Solutions,” according to a ZDNet report. Google confirms Buser is leaving the Stadia group for Google Cloud, providing this statement to The Verge: Gaming is an incredibly important vertical at Google and we’re seeing huge momentum… Source link

This week, we continue the conversation about Ethereum miners and how they’re preparing for changes to the reward dynamics of the network. Also, we take a look at what other asset types are popularly used on decentralized finance (DeFi) applications beyond ether (ETH).  Welcome to another edition of Valid Points. This article originally appeared in Valid Points, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter breaking down Ethereum 2.0 and its sweeping impact on crypto markets. Subscribe to Valid Points… Source link

kate_sept2004 / Getty Images Teenagers are suddenly a hot commodity in the U.S. labor market this summer, as employers scramble to fill jobs in a market where numerous industries face severe worker shortages. See: Teens Can Expect Plenty of Job Opportunities This Summer, and Wages Are UpFind: Should Teens Save for College or Retirement? Take Our Poll Nearly six million Americans between the ages of 16 and 19 are leveraging a shortage of adult workers to find jobs this summer, the Financial… Source link

The note left by First Officer Chris Dennis in a Delta plane parked at the Victorville Airport. Delta Air Lines A Delta first officer discovered an early-pandemic letter left by a fellow pilot on a parked aircraft. The note, which was written in March 2020, predicted there would be “light … at the end of the tunnel.” “Amazing how fast it changed,” First Officer Chris D. wrote more than 400 days ago. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. As the world starts to creep back to normality after… Source link

A year defined by social unrest, political polarization and a global pandemic took its toll on the nation’s collective psyche, especially the young — and the effects may linger well beyond 2021, a mental health advocate told Yahoo Finance.  Throughout 2020, crisis counselors at the Crisis Text Line held 1.4 million conversations, according to the nonprofit organization, which offers free support 24-7 via text message.  In a new report, Crisis Text Line found a higher volume of nearly 3,000… Source link

Facebook Share Twitter Share In a recent edition of the Republican business section  an article appeared concerning the decision by Verizon to divest it’s Yahoo and AOL holdings, “Verizon to see off media brands Yahoo, AOL,” May 4, page A8. The Board of Directors of Verizon approved a $3 million bonus to the current head of Yahoo to assure that he remain in place for six months. Think of the absurdity of that number which works out be about $3 thousand per hour for a 40 hour week during… Source link