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Drama surrounds final three F1 races of seasonNoneHumbled Australia need to defy history to win seriesThe cool part of every one of Jared Spurgeon ’s birthdays is he gets to celebrate the anniversary of making his NHL debut. That anniversary, 15 seasons later, occurs Friday when the Wild captain turns 35. I’ll never forget Nov. 29, 2010, being Spurgeon’s 21st birthday. That’s because the night of Nov. 28, knowing Clayton Stoner had gotten hurt two games before and Justin Falk had just gotten hurt the night before in Colorado, I figured the Wild would need to rush a defenseman to Calgary. Advertisement I texted a team source asking if he could tell me the callup. He wrote back, “Spurge.” I got the reply as I got into the elevator at the Calgary Marriott preparing to go to dinner. The reason why I remember exactly where I was? I wrote back, “LOL.” Embarrassing, eh? In fact, I was so convinced the source was kidding, I didn’t write or tweet the “scoop.” After all, when Spurgeon – a training camp invitee who wasn’t signed by the Islanders after they drafted him in 2008 and was a whisker from signing a pro contract in Austria – signed with the Wild in Sept. 2010, the news was barely a dot, dot, dot at the end of my notebook when I was still at the Star Tribune . So I never envisioned the Wild calling up a 5-foot-9 defenseman fresh off the Western Hockey League ice with Spokane so soon into his pro career. I figured we’d see Marco Scandella or somebody like that. Not Spurgeon. Well, here we are 14 years later, and Spurgeon is the franchise’s blue line leader in virtually every statistical category and, outside of his first two games this season, has analytically been one of the team’s best defensemen since returning from missing six games due to injury. According to MoneyPuck, the Wild are controlling play with a 65.7 percent expected goal rate with his shutdown pair with Jonas Brodin and have only allowed 1.37 expected goals per 60 minutes with Brodin and Spurgeon on the ice. That’s third best in the NHL (minimum 90 minutes). Why do we bring this history lesson up? A reminder that Spurgeon, even though he obnoxiously still looks 25 and plays like he’s 25, does in fact turn 35 Friday and only has two years left on his contract beyond this season. Because of the fact he was limited to 16 games last season and had to miss six earlier this season due to the “healing process” of last year’s season-ending hip and back surgeries, the Wild are clearly starting to plan for what life after Spurgeon could look like. This brings us to David Jiricek, the hulking right-shot defenseman who will celebrate his 21st birthday Thursday – one day before Spurgeon’s 35th birthday and 14 years after Spurgeon celebrated his 21st birthday with his NHL debut. David Jiricek with the OT game-winner! What a goal... ⁦ @DavidJiricek ⁩ ⁦ @OctagonHockey ⁩ pic.twitter.com/vRW3MoK2z8 — Allan Walsh🏒 (@walsha) November 24, 2024 If you’ve listened to my Worst Seats in the House podcast, I’ve mentioned his name a handful of times dating to before the summer as one of the Columbus Blue Jackets prospects I could see the Wild pursuing after a new GM arrived and had a chance to examine his players. The Wild have had all sorts of conversations with Don Waddell since before the draft about everybody from Jiricek and Kent Johnson to Cole Sillinger and, as you surely know by now, Patrik Laine . Advertisement Remember, the Wild thought they had a deal done for Laine, but he wouldn’t waive his no-trade and was subsequently dealt to Montreal late in the summer. A few pods ago, I mentioned Jiricek’s name again because it’s a name that I keep hearing the Wild are motivated to acquire. And I subtly hinted I’d understand the deal ... as long as a trade doesn’t include Marco Rossi . And I don’t think it would. The Blue Jackets have held talks with a significant number of NHL teams about Jiricek. One is definitely the Wild, and if they can get this done, I’d think it would be for a prospect and perhaps a pick or NHL throw-in. In terms of prospects, the only untouchables are likely Danila Yurov, Jesper Wallstedt and Zeev Buium. Would Daemon Hunt get it done? He’s the closest defenseman to being NHL ready, but with Brodin, Jake Middleton and Buium locked up into the future, he’s expendable if one assumes Buium signs after his sophomore season at University of Denver. Or maybe Liam Öhgren, the Wild’s most NHL-ready forward down in Iowa. The Wild also have a couple talented young forwards prospects like Riley Heidt and Hunter Haight. If NHLers are included in a package, Declan Chisholm is expendable once Buium arrives, and at 24 years old, the puck-moving defenseman could be appetizing to Columbus. And we know how much Dean Evason loves forward Freddy Gaudreau, although he has played well this season and if he continues to do so, his $2.1 million a year contract for three more seasons beyond this one is reasonable. The Blue Jackets were initially asking for a similar top prospect back in return for Jiricek but have since reportedly shifting to considering offers on package deals. That’s probably because Columbus, understandably, aimed high for blue-chip prospects in each interested franchise only to be rebuffed. Advertisement So why do the Wild want Jiricek, the sixth overall pick in the 2022 draft? Upside and, if he hits, a Faber-Jiricek right-shot tandem on the top two pairs for years beyond Spurgeon’s time in Minnesota. All teams covet right-shot defensemen, and Jiricek is a two-way blue liner with a heavy shot who plays hard and would bring much-needed size to a blue line that doesn’t have a ton of it. While mobility has long been his weakness, Jiricek is a decorated junior player with lots of international experience and success. Have him work with Andy Ness, the Wild’s skating guru, and perhaps Ness can do wonders for Jiricek. Plus, we know Faber is a world-class skater, as are Brodin and Buium. If Jiricek’s skating is an issue, a left-shot like Brodin or Buium in the future could act as a safety net. Jiricek was named the Best Defenseman of the 2023 World Junior Championship while helping lead Czechia to a silver medal. In a league where it’s extremely different for teenagers to function, Jiricek had 38 points in 55 games his first-year pro with AHL Cleveland in 2022-23. That was the same year he was assigned to the world juniors. Columbus 6th overall pick David Jiricek’s game-tying goal with a bomb from the point that sent Team Czechia to OT. This team is a very special group... ⁦ @DavidJiricek ⁩ ⁦ @ehshockey ⁩ ⁦ @OctagonHockey ⁩ pic.twitter.com/xDZIwm6JlX — Allan Walsh🏒 (@walsha) January 5, 2023 Last season, after the then-Blue Jackets’ coaching staff was limiting his ice time or sanctioning him to the press box, Jiricek was assigned to the Monsters, helped them make the playoffs with 19 points in 29 games and then was a huge contributor toward the Monsters getting to the Eastern Conference final with 11 points in 14 games. Evason is now Columbus’ coach and nothing has changed in terms of Jiricek’s NHL usage, which surely could be considered a red flag when you consider this is the third staff that didn’t feel he was NHL ready. But the D coach, Steve McCarthy, is a staff holdover, so maybe that partly explains why Jiricek has only played six games, averaging 11:12 a game. WHAT A FINISH. 🚨 Jiricek sends it to OT 🚨 Svozil send us home 🗣 @TonyBrownPxP pic.twitter.com/eS6Rxc0r3z — Cleveland Monsters (@monstershockey) March 17, 2024 Wednesday night in Rochester, Jiricek played his third game for Cleveland since being reassigned. He had a goal and assist, including an overtime winner with a long reaching poke of Owen Sillinger’s centering pass. If the Wild do get this done, it may actually make sense for the team to initially assign him to Iowa. The Wild have had a strong start to this season and the blue line has played well, yet Jiricek has only played six NHL games and three AHL games this season. Advertisement It wouldn’t be fair to the team or to Jiricek to put him right into the NHL lineup until he can get his game in order with huge minutes at even-strength and in all special teams situations. That can only happen initially in Iowa. So we’ll see what happens here, but in the past few days, I’ve seen a lot of questions from Wild fans why the Wild would even be interested in a right-shot defenseman when the Wild are playing so well and the blue line is largely set this season. It’s because while Spurgeon may look like he can play forever, he won’t, and the Wild are trying to set up shop for after his time in Minnesota comes to an end. (Photo of David Jiricek: Jeff Curry / Imagn Images)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions spent three months scoring at a historic rate. Now with the weather changing outside, they’re winning with old school football, too. Jahmyr Gibbs rushed for two scores , David Montgomery added a third TD run and Detroit's increasingly stingy defense kept the Indianapolis Colts out of the end zone on Sunday, leading the Lions to their ninth straight win, 24-6. “This is, whatever it is, 10 quarters without allowing a touchdown and the three last games in the second half we're not allowing it,” coach Dan Campbell said. “We talk about it all the time — limiting points, play physical style, shut down the run — we were able to do that.” They've been doing it all season in their greatest run in decades, but have been more effective lately and it has shown. The Lions improved to 10-1 for the first time since 1934, their inaugural season in the Motor City. They own the league's longest active winning streak and are 6-0 on the road this season. While the Lions have scored points by the dozens all season, Campbell's preference for physical football means they're equally capable of grinding out wins with the combination of a ball-control offense and an ascending defense that propelled them to this win. Gibbs finished with 21 carries for 90 yards on a day Goff went 26 of 36 with 269 yards and no touchdowns. And for the third straight week, all against AFC South foes, the Lions had a second-half shutout. “If you can win on the road, you're normally a pretty damn good team,” Campbell said. “And we can win on the road.” The Colts (5-7) found out the hard way by losing their second straight home game and for the fourth time in their past five games. Anthony Richardson had another up-and-down game , going 11 of 28 with 172 yards while rushing 10 times for 61 yards. But it was Indy's inability to finish drives with touchdowns that again cost the team. That flaw was evident right from the start when Richardson took the Colts inside the Lions 5-yard line on the game's first series and settled for a short field goal when they couldn't punch it in. “We've got to take advantage of our opportunities,” Colts coach Shane Steichen said. “This league comes down to inches, it comes down to yards and you've got to take advantage of those opportunities. We've had issues down in the red zone and you have to look at the tape and clean it up.” Detroit made Indy pay dearly for its offensive miscues. Gibbs' 1-yard TD run on the Lions' second series made it 7-3 early in the second quarter and after Indy settled for another short field goal, Montgomery spun his way across the goal line for a 6-yard TD and a 14-6 lead. Detroit's defense made sure that was all the scoring punch it needed. “Those players, we've been around each other long enough, they've been around each other to know exactly what we're looking for,” Campbell said. “We have an identity about us. We know the critical factors as they pertain to winning, and those guys take that stuff serious.” Gibbs' 5-yard TD run late in the third quarter gave Detroit a 21-6 lead and they closed it out with a 56-yard field goal midway through the fourth. Amon-Ra St. Brown caught six passes for 62 yards for Detroit while Michael Pittman Jr. had six catches for 96 yards for Indy despite leaving briefly in the first half with an injured shoulder. Gibbs' first score extended Detroit's league record to 25 consecutive games with a TD run, including the playoffs. He's also the third Lions player with 1,000 scrimmage yards and 10 TDs in each of his first two pro seasons with Detroit, joining Billy Sims and Barry Sanders. Gibbs and Montgomery have each scored at least one TD in the same game nine times. Lions: Things got ugly during a third-quarter flurry. Receiver-punt returner Kalif Raymond (foot), left tackle Taylor Decker (right leg) and Montgomery (shoulder) all left in quick succession. Raymond and Montgomery did not return. Decker did. CB Carlton Davis II left early in the fourth with what appeared to be a left knee injury. Colts: Indy deactivated left tackle Bernhard Raimann (knee), forcing the Colts to again use three rookie linemen. Receivers Ashton Dulin (ankle) and Josh Downs (shoulder) both left in the second half. Downs returned, Dulin did not. Lions: Host Chicago in its traditional Thanksgiving Day game. Colts: Visit New England next Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL

Some 140 years after its first trailblazing luxury train chugged out of Paris’s Gare de l’Est bound for Constantinople, the Orient Express is having something of a rebirth. Arguably the most interesting in a flurry of announcements from the brand is the launch of Orient Express Silenseas, a new collection of yachts that are a collaboration between three French giants: global hospitality group Accor, luxury goods titan LVMH and shipbuilders Chantiers de l’Atlantique. Orient Express Corinthian is the world’s largest sailing yacht. The finished product looks like the lovechild of the fanciest superyacht and the most elegant sailing boat. The first yacht to be completed, Orient Express Corinthian, which at 220m long, with three 100m-high sails, is the world’s largest sailing yacht, won’t be taking paying guests until 2026, but the first images of its interiors have been released. Luxury hotel groups such as Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons and Aman have all announced launches of luxury yachts this year . But while they may be fabulous, they are smallish cruise ships, not yachts. Evrima, for example, the first in the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, offers 224 suites. Then there’s Four Seasons, whose first “yacht”, when it launches in 2026, will have 14 decks and 95 suites. With just 50 cabins, Aman at Sea, which launches in 2027, is the closest of the offerings to a superyacht and also in scale to the 54-suite Orient Express Corinthian. But what Orient Express Corinthian has that none of the others do is sails. The interiors team took inspiration from classic French liners such as SS Normandie. There’s something much cooler and more adventurous-seeming about a great big yacht with sails than an all-bling one with just an engine. This is something that hasn’t escaped Jeff Bezos, who spent $500 million on his three-masted boat Koru , which at 127 metres was the world’s largest sailing yacht – until now. Inspired by the golden age of the French Riviera, Orient Express Corinthian has been designed by French architect and designer Maxime d’Angeac, who has also worked on a new Orient Express train that will launch in France around the same time. The two will combine on certain itineraries. Sustainability was central to the design process, seen through the minimal use of leather, no plastic and lots of walnut wood panelling. “The pillars of Orient Express are art deco, geometric patterns and strong colours, which both train and boat have,” says d’Angeac. “Train interiors can be much darker as this makes them feel cosy and luxurious. The boat [has] much more space and height, so its design feels more Riviera, like a villa on the Côte d’Azur. I’ve also replaced the really small windows you usually get in yacht cabins with huge, durable windows.” Orient Express Corinthian will have five restaurants, eight bars including a speakeasy, two swimming pools including a lap pool, an amphitheatre cabaret space and a private recording studio. In-room spa treatments and meditation sessions will also be available. The boats will spend summers in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic and winters in the Caribbean, with dining, shopping and cultural experiences offered at multiple stop-offs along the way. Sustainability has been at the forefront of the design process, as has working out how to be beautiful but also functional. For example, there is hardly any leather, no plastic and lots of walnut wood panelling, which as well as being elegant and warm is durable and lightweight. The team examined classic French liners such as SS Normandie for inspiration. There are lovely details at every turn: a long, daybed window seat that lifts up to reveal a wooden games box stocked with chess, dominoes and playing cards; luxurious velvet headboards and bathrooms lined in the most decadent-looking Violetta Calacatta marble with crimson walls behind. All of this will be accompanied by Orient Express service, with butlers on hand around the clock. The luxurious bathrooms feature Violetta Calacatta marble. Sustainability was central to the design process, seen through the minimal use of leather, no plastic and lots of walnut wood panellingThe luxurious bathrooms feature Violetta Calacatta marble “The in-room bar,” replies d’Angeac, when I ask him to name a small detail he particularly likes. “When I arrive at a hotel, I’m always excited to see what has been chosen. We are still deciding but I can tell you it will be the best artisan cocktails and chocolate, as opposed to big names. We will simply use small French companies offering the best things.” Silenseas is also debuting groundbreaking wind-harnessing technology that has been 20 years in the making: SolidSail, a rigid, foldable carbon sail and mast system that will provide more than 50 per cent of the yachts’ propulsion. “Wind technology is the future of cruising, everyone knows that,” says d’Angeac. “We can’t just go on producing bigger and bigger boats with enormous polluting engines. Using less gasoline is really important to us, so we will adapt our routes to ensure we follow the wind, which will all be part of the experience.” This hybrid system will combine wind power with an engine running on liquified natural gas (LNG – typically at least 85 per cent methane). While LNG is by no means the perfect option, it is much cleaner than other fossil fuels such as coal, gas or oil, so makes for a better alternative while the infrastructure needed to handle fully renewable energy is still being developed. It was said that Orient Express founder Georges Nagelmackers was first inspired to design a luxury train on a transatlantic crossing to America in 1867, revelling in its luxurious suites, social scene and general grandeur. “I think he would have gone into luxury cruising eventually, had he not died so young,” says d’Agneac. Either way, this feels like a full-circle moment. The Telegraph, London

TEHRAN – In an interview published on Sunday, Ali Larijani, an advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, announced Iran is preparing to respond to Israel following the regime’s October assault on Iranian territory. The interview conducted by the Tasnim News Agency followed Larijani's trip to Lebanon and Syria, where he met with top officials from both countries to convey the Leader's message regarding the regional situation. During the discussion, Larijani emphasized the importance of responding adequately to the actions of the Zionist regime. He acknowledged that while some may argue that certain provocations from Israel may not warrant a significant response, it is crucial for Iran to maintain a posture of deterrence. "This is an important issue, and the relevant officials are closely monitoring the situation to ensure that the response given to Israel possesses the characteristics necessary for effective deterrence," Larijani stated. He further elaborated that military officials have deliberated various strategies in response to Israel's actions. Israeli warplanes fired missiles at military installations inside Iran from Iraqi airspace on October 26, taking the lives of 4 Army personnel and one civilian. Ayatollah Khamenei has said Iran will deliver a “tooth-breaking” response to the aggression. Iran has directly attacked Israeli positions in the occupied territories twice this year, once in April and once in early October.

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NoneDemocratic congresswoman Katie Porter obtained a temporary restraining order against her ex-boyfriend on Tuesday. She accused him of harassment , including alleging she had a sexually transmitted disease, forcing her to submit test results proving otherwise. In August 2023, Porter, a California Democrat and prominent political figure, ended her relationship with Julian Willis, citing struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues. Despite moving out of her home, Willis allegedly launched a campaign of harassment against Porter, her family and colleagues, threatening her reputation and safety, Politico reported. On November 26, Porter filed for a temporary restraining order in Orange County Superior Court, detailing over 1,000 attempts from Willis to harm her public image, including threats to report her to Child Protective Services. Willis also claimed that Porter had genital herpes, forcing her to submit test results to the court proving she did not have any STDs. Ultimately, a judge granted a temporary restraining order requiring Willis to stay away from Porter, her children and her workplace until a mid-December hearing later this year. Willis denies Porter's allegations, claiming that she is trying to prevent him from pursuing legal action and going public with his claims. Porter's legal team is expected to present further evidence at the December hearing. Originally published by Latin Times