That means Stanley Cup playoff tickets are now on sale in Music City, thanks to a 4-3 road victory over the Washington Capitals. MORE: Ducks float in | Fabulous Forsberg scores again | Bruins goal comes with a kicker The Preds clinched their first playoff berth since 2011-12 a few minutes before the Anaheim Ducks became the second Western Conference team to qualify. The Ducks won 3-2 on Long Island....
LAS VEGAS – According to final division odds posted by the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, there are only three divisions that figure to have competitive races in the second-half of the season. The Nationals and Dodgers are massive 1-to-10 favorites to win their respective divisions and the Royals are 1-to-7 favorites to win the AL Central. Here’s a look at a few divisions to see if any value can be squeezed out before these odds are taken off the board when the first pitches of the second half are thrown on Friday....
Prednisone belongs to a group of drugs called synthetic glucocorticoids, also called corticosteroids or just steroids, which act to raise your body’s adrenal hormone levels and reduce inflammation. It is best used as part of your overall treatment plan alongside other drugs to manage RA pain, such as those that work to slow the progression of the disease. When the symptoms of RA are exacerbated, prednisone is highly effective at relieving pain....
The woman, who was identified only as Nasria, spoke to Voice of America (VOA) on Friday about her experiences since U.S. forces left Afghanistan on the August 31 withdrawal deadline. The 25-year-old had traveled to the country in June to visit family and get married but is now stranded there with no apparent way to get home. She was referred to only by her first name for safety reasons....
Open Enrollment for Individual or Group Health Coverage Individual health insurance plans that include maternity coverage are available through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance exchanges (and directly from major medical insurance companies, outside the exchange). And employer-sponsored health plans also cover maternity care. But you can only enroll in those plans: During open enrollment for individual/family plans, which runs from November 1 to January 15 in most states. For employer-sponsored coverage, the employer sets their own open enrollment window....
The NYPD was called to reports of an assault at a Lower East Side apartment at 8:20 p.m. on Thursday and found the woman with a bullet wound in her neck. Her 8-year-old son was also at the home, but unharmed. An update issued by the police department this morning announced that officers had apprehended their prime suspect, a 28-year-old man believed to be the woman’s boyfriend. He had reportedly fled the scene on foot....
Revadim was a popular site for early humans because of its abundance of wildlife and flint with which to make tools, according to the authors of a study published in Scientific Reports. The study was written by PhD student Bar Efrati and Prof. Ran Barkai of TAU, along with Flavia Venditti from the University of Tubingen in Germany and Prof. Stella Nunziante Cesaro from the Sapienza University of Rome....
While the former’s destination remains up in the air because of his well-documented refusal to take a pay cut on his $18.7 million-a-year after-tax contract, the latter is edging closer to a move to Arsenal. With Aaron Ramsey moving to Juventus as a free agent, the Gunners have a gaping hole in midfield and Unai Emery believes Ceballos is the ideal replacement for the Welshman. “We have been speaking about the possibility to sign one player on loan,” Emery said during his pre-match press conference ahead of Arsenal’s game against Real Madrid on Tuesday....
Paul Eaton, a former two-star U.S. Army major general, told NPR about his concerns that the U.S. military might be “compromised” by competing claims of who won the election and who it should take orders from. He said he was worried that some members of the military might not understand “who the duly elected president is.” “If that is not a clear-cut understanding, that can infect the rank and file, or at any level in the U....
To lighten your load and simplify things on draft day, we’ve created the Ultimate Cheat Sheet to serve as a complement the 2018 Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide. It’s concise, organized, easy to follow and helps to answer the primary questions on everyone’s mind once you step into the war room – who do I draft and when do I take them? If you’re in an auction, it also answers the question of how much to bid....
Redditor ThanosCommunistWife wrote about the frustrations in the subreddit r/antiwork in a post that has been voted on over 53,000 times. The post has now been locked, after the Redditor received a bunch of “nasty comments,” she told Newsweek in a message on Reddit. The 27-year-old explained that she works 40 hours a week as a preschool teaching making $16 an hour. While that is “incredibly low” she said, it is on the higher end for teachers in the area and she is able to make more due to her master’s degree....
What’s striking is that among the various prescription drug categories, for example, non-opioid painkillers, sedatives, stimulants, and psychotherapeutics, 4 out of 5 prescriptions filled by pharmacies are opioids that are abused yearly by 9.3 million people, in which 57.1% are from individuals with prescriptions. This article further discusses addiction, addictive prescription drugs, signs of addiction, and treatment options. Causes and Risk Factors Anyone can develop a substance abuse disorder, and it can occur at any time....
President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed the World Series champion Red Sox for the team’s visit to the White House to commemorate their 2018 title. “Each Red Sox player is a shining example of excellence living out an American sporting tradition that goes back many generations, from the open fields of our rich farmlands to the vacant lots of our cities,” Trump said. “Baseball is truly America’s pastime.” MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN...
Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday night, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addressed thousands of raucous supporters and the nation at-large at the Chase Center. The projected winners looked to push back on Trump’s claims of voter fraud and move the country forward following Election Day. Biden vowed to form a diverse White House cabinet and thanked African-Americans for supporting him in overwhelming numbers on November 3. Biden said Americans as a whole “are good people” and can accomplish anything if they work together....
Police last week served Jadue, 36, a subpoena as part of what national soccer association ANFP said was an investigation into how it allocates salaries, only hours after Jadue announced that he was taking a 30-day leave for medical reasons. MORE: Lessons for U.S. World Cup qualifying match | FIFA panel upholds Blatter appeal “The trip is confirmed. He traveled to Miami last night,” an ANFP spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday, without providing details about why Jadue was in the U....
Mukherjee, whose five year stay at the Rashtrapati Bhawan will be coming to an end in the next fortnight, had started this competition in the memory of his late father Kamada Kinkar Mukhopadhyay in his constituency Jangipur and since then it has regularly featured in the Kolkata based youth teams’ calendars. ALSO READ | WHO IS THE NEW KERALA BLASTERS COACH? In front of a chock-a-block crowd, Mohun Bagan U-19 defeated their arch-rivals East Bengal 1-0 with the goal coming from Debanna Chakraborty, an academy product who had participated in the U-16 I-League last year....
Gambling in general is a hot-button issue in the U.S. that most states are only recently starting to embrace. Political gambling has to date been a step beyond what even the most eager states are willing to fight for, and it comes with potential legal ramifications. While West Virginia has reportedly been considering the merits of election wagers, FanDuel’s move to accept wagers Wednesday was apparently the result of miscommunication....
The Presidents Cup is played with 30 matches with a mix of foursomes, four-ball and singles matches. Each match is worth one point, but if a match is tied after 18 holes, each team will recieve a half point. The magic number for one team to secure a victory is 15.5 points. Thursday and Saturday morning will start with five foursome matches. A foursomes match is played between two U....
