A former hockey agent seeks answers about CTE before it’s too late
1Jun By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments
Sports

A former hockey agent seeks answers about CTE before it’s too late

Memory, today and five years ago Chris Nilan is a quintessential Bostonian of a certain era and demographic, the type they make movies about: a tough, working-class hockey player of Irish descent, hundreds, if not thousands, of local kids wished they were just like him. He was born February 9, 1958, at Faulkner Hospital in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Henry and Leslie Nilan, a hard-working blue-collar couple who raised their four children in a strict household. Chris was still fighting his way as a child and soon discovered that he was a capable and fearless fighter. Often, he said, he stood up for others. Later, he mingled with groups of kids and young adults on the streets and in bars of Boston. He met Karen Stanley at Northeastern University and they fell in love. When ...
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The border between Russia and Ukraine that separates families is also now on the forefront
1Jun By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments
News

The border between Russia and Ukraine that separates families is also now on the forefront

However, the damage suffered by Shebekino pales in comparison to Vovchansk, which had a population of 17,000 before the war but now resembles other cities completely destroyed by Russian assaults. Kharkiv itself has been hit by glide bombs that can carry hundreds of kilograms of explosives; most recently, an attack on a hardware hypermarket that killed at least 12 people. Back in Grayvoron, Valentina remembered how she could visit her daughter and grandchildren in Ukraine exactly an hour's drive away. This was before the borders closed due to Covid and then the war. She still speaks fondly of her friends and neighbors. But even as she has soured on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — she initially supported him because of his promises to mend Kiev's relationship with Moscow — she...
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Senators see possible conflicts of interest in health care pricing tools
1Jun By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments
Health

Senators see possible conflicts of interest in health care pricing tools

In a statement, MultiPlan said it is working with Senate committees "to answer their questions and explain the costs and complexity patients may face" when choosing expensive care outside their networks. “We are committed to helping make healthcare transparent, fair and affordable for all,” the statement read. The commission's investigation reflects growing scrutiny of the New York-based company, which has remained largely out of the spotlight even as it has gained a dominant position in a lucrative healthcare sector. Another senator, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, this month asked federal antitrust authorities to investigate whether insurers and MultiPlan were conspiring to fix prices, and several health systems have sued the company, accusing it of such anticompetitive behavior. Separatel...
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BBVA formally submits Sabadell takeover bid and urges regulators
1Jun By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments
Business

BBVA formally submits Sabadell takeover bid and urges regulators

BBVA first formally presents the public takeover offer of Banco Sabadell National Commission for the Value Market (CNMV) and urge regulators. So it was in the communication sent to the market by the Vasco bank and I began to correct the clock that had marked the entity. Now a period opens in which the ATM should verify the good consensus of the various authorities to begin the acceptance period of the public takeover offer. In total, he estimates the operation will extend to today. “With this request for authorization, the information and characteristics of the offer envisaged in the previous announcement are confirmed, specifying that no changes have occurred with respect to such information”, reported the bench directed by Carlo Torresexcept as regards the authorizations re...
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Gaza offensive will last at least until the end of the year, Israeli official says: real-time updates
1Jun By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments
News

Gaza offensive will last at least until the end of the year, Israeli official says: real-time updates

US officials said Tuesday that the Israeli attack that killed dozens of Palestinians in southern Gaza was a tragedy but that it did not violate President Biden's red line of holding back arms shipments to Israel.The bloodshed came after Biden warned earlier this month that the US would block some arms transfers if Israel targeted densely populated areas of Rafah – a warning that has been regularly tested with the progress of the war. John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, said the deaths were "devastating" but that the scale of the attack was not enough to change American policy. “We don't want to see a big ground operation,” Kirby told reporters. "We didn't see it." Israeli tanks were on the outskirts of the city "trying to put pressure on Hamas," Kirby said. He also offered a degree ...
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