Team’s Sale Reflects Growing Links Between Pro Sports and Gambling

The proposed purchase of the N.B.A.’s Dallas Mavericks by a casino operator is the latest sign of how fully leagues have embraced the gaming world.For years, professional sports organizations like the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball prohibited liquor companies…

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Fate of Billions for Opioid Victims From Sacklers Rests With Supreme Court

The court will decide whether Purdue’s owners can gain permanent immunity from future opioid lawsuits in exchange for payments up to $6 billion.In 2014, when the first opioid lawsuits were filed against Purdue Pharma, Tiffinee Scott’s daughter was still years away…

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Best movies of 2023

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As usual, they are in the order I saw them (more or less), not ranked ordinally.  And sometimes there are reviews behind the link, sometimes by me: Knock at the Cabin, theology all over this one. Return to Seoul (NYT review).…

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What a wonderful world: Nature’s role in the net zero transition

From carbon sequestration in forests to the protection of biodiversity, nature-based solutions can play a key role in mitigating the impacts of climate change. At BusinessGreen's recent Net Zero Festival 2023, broadcaster Charlene White sat down with several leading figures in…

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*Napoleon*

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You can’t treat it as a normal movie with anything contextualized or explained.  Nope.  Rather think of it as a crazed male fantasy (the director’s?  Certainly not mine) about one particular way of living, presented large and vivid on the screen,…

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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales decrease to 679,000 Annual Rate in October

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by Calculated Risk on 12/02/2023 02:11:00 PM At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:• New Home Sales decrease to 679,000 Annual Rate in October• Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.9% year-over-year in September; New all-time High • Freddie…

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Why Do We Stay In A Job When We Are Not Happy? Insights To Help You Get The Career You Deserve

For some people, it’s hard to understand why people they know will constantly complain about their jobs, and yet they don’t take any action toward changing the situation for themselves. They go on and on about how they are mistreated, or…

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The Fallout From Musk’s Profanity-Laden Attack on Advertisers Isn’t Over

Shares in Tesla fell despite the release of the Cybertruck pickup on Thursday, and some brands are still steering clear of X.Questions continue to swirl over Elon Musk’s outburst against advertisers, delivered Wednesday at the DealBook Summit.Haiyun Jiang for The New…

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COP28: 120 countries back goal to treble renewables capacity, but fears grow over 1.5C goal

The COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai kicked up a gear today, as governments backed a raft of new targets and initiatives aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition, including headline commitments to treble renewables capacity and phase out unabated coal power.…

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The Financial Paradox Blocking Efforts to Fight Climate Change

Finding money for fossil fuel plants is much easier than financing clean energy projects, especially in developing countries.The annual United Nations climate change conference is underway in Dubai, and swirling around the COP28 negotiations is a complex, acrimonious, international fight over…

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Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink

A nationwide shortage of controllers has resulted in an exhausted and demoralized work force that is increasingly prone to making dangerous mistakes.One air traffic controller went into work drunk this summer and joked about “making big money buzzed.” Another routinely smoked…

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Immigration Backlash

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In a new paper Ernesto Tiburcio (on the job market) and Kara Ross Camarena study the effect of illegal immigration from Mexico on economic, political and cultural change in the United States. Studying illegal immigration can be difficult because the US…

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Links 12/2/2023

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Elusive De Winton’s Golden Mole Rediscovered in South Africa After 90 Years The Animal Rescue Site (Nippersmom). After a slow start, sandhill crane raised in captivity released into the wild to join other birds AP How are wildlife officials preparing Coloradans…

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