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Valentine, a radio host who had previously expressed skepticism about COVID vaccines, revealed on July 12 that he was diagnosed with the disease in a Facebook post. On July 14 he wrote that he felt “better and better” during the show he hosts on Nashville, Tennessee-based radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN. However, his condition deteriorated and on July 22 his family said in a statement that the radio host had been hospitalized with the disease and was in a “very serious condition....

More than 3,000 Consumers Energy customers lost electricity for two hours early Thursday morning. The outage took place from around midnight to 2 a.m. local time and affected those who are served by the Blue Water Substation in Clinton County, who are generally residents in an area bounded by West Colony Road, North Shepardsville Road, Taft Road, and Francis Road, as reported by the Lansing State Journal. The planned shutdown was due to a high-voltage transmission line that needed to be repaired....

Last week’s 3-1 defeat to Tottenham at Stamford Bridge has left the reigning Premier League champions facing what looks to be an insurmountable task to finish in the top four. Spurs’ 2-1 win over Stoke City on Saturday has moved them 11 points clear of Chelsea, who must beat West Ham on Sunday to have any realistic hope of catching their London rivals. With the prospect of Europa League football looming in 2018-19, Conte does not believe it should come as a major surprise that the season has not panned out as hoped....

The Brazilian centre-back has been in and out of Conte’s team this season, with erratic form an initial contributor to him being dropped by the Italian. But now Luiz is being forced to miss out with a knee injury, with his last performance coming against Qarabag in the Champions League on November 22. Conte is hoping that the 30-year-old is able to get over the problem soon, but he conceded that it is by no means a minor issue....

Antonio Conte saw Costa equalise versus Manchester City last week, while he also claimed the man of the match award as Chelsea beat their title rivals 3-1 in Manchester to go three points clear at the top of the Premier League table. Scottish club honour dead fan The 28-year-old forward has racked up 11 goals and five assists in his opening 14 league games of the season and Conte believes that his striker’s fighting spirit inspires his team-mates....

Stephen Frear’s memorable, invigoratingly unsentimental movie unfolds with a brash confidence of its own. Frears showed his flair for film noir in “Gumshoe” (1971), and his mastery of complex tones in movies as diverse as “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Dangerous Liaisons.” The bouncy, sardonic Elmer Bernstein score gives us our first clue to the spin Frears is putting on a classic film noir form: we’re invited, at first, to relish the black-comic heartlessness of Thompson’s seedy characters, who seem suspended in time between their ’40s prototypes and the ’90s setting....

[HTML1] When Traveller’s Tales Games first revealed that Batman ‘66 was joining the cast of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, we thought that was it – that was the big cameo for the game. Since that time, however, TT Games has continued to reveal even wackier additions to the cast, some that fit within the DC Comics milieu and others that come completely out of left field. During this weekend’s New York Comic Con, for example, TT Games revealed several new characters for LEGO Batman 3 including Darkest Knight Batman and Solar Suit Superman....

For the wired road warrior, Rowe, 37, is a hotel amenity that’s more valuable than Spectravision: a technology concierge. These pros–sometimes called e-butlers–are fast becoming a key attraction at upscale hotels. Ritz-Carlton claims to have invented the concept in 1998 at its Kuala Lumpur location; the following year it added full-time tech helpers at every property. Other high-end hotels like the Four Seasons have them in each location as well....

PixelOpus’s first game was Entwined, which was surprise-launched on the same day as Sony’s E3 2014 press conference and received mixed reviews for being a case of style over substance. With Concrete Genie, it’s clear that PixelOpus took that criticism to heart, delivering a game that’s still heavy on style, but has much more compelling gameplay to keep players hooked. Imagine any of the big “artsy” games that have released on PlayStation over the years, like Flower or Journey, except with more meat on the bones, and that’s concept behind Concrete Genie....

Some fonts that are not part of a family are also described as condensed when they are much taller than they are wide. ITC Roswell is a good example of this. Although there are several versions of Roswell, all are condensed and dramatically taller than they are wide. Why Use Condensed Fonts? Condensed fonts exist to save space. The narrow width allows more characters to be packed into a line, headline, paragraph, column, or page....

The Innovation and Competition Act’s $52 billion subsidy for onshore chip fabrication is long overdue. But trickling out subsidies through dozens of federal bureaucracies, as the House and Senate bills propose, won’t by themselves revive American high-tech manufacturing, productivity and military dominance. What’s missing is the “D” in R&D. Without a revival of the product development that links high-tech manufacturing with results-oriented research, American research will only promote industry in Asia, where public policy supports capital-intensive investment....

Mitchell, a Republican who has criticized President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine confidence in the outcome of the election, said he is fearful that Republican support of Trump’s actions could lead to “long-term harm to our democracy.” Mitchell asked the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives to officially change his party affiliation from “Republican” to “Independent” for the remainder of his time in office. The former Republican is completing his final term in Congress after announcing last year that he did not intend to seek re-election....

Memes rarely extend beyond their short shelf life as they make their rounds on social media, but Rep. Omar (D - Minn.) once again acknowledged the anime fans that tapped into her popularity during a moment of controversy. Omar is a favorite among progressive democrats and when President Trump tweeted a video of her speeches interspersed with clips from the 9-11 terrorist attacks (Omar is Muslim) anime fans pitched in with a meme that stuck: “Defend Ilhan and build her a Gundam....

Arguably the biggest superstar in all of the combat sports at the moment, Conor McGregor is set to grace the octagon in Abu Dhabi on January 23 when he takes on Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257. However, it was at a British promotion named Cage Warriors where the Irishman first made his mark as a charismatic young fighter. It was here that the magical hype and aura surrounding the former two-division champion started to build....

It all started with a random Sunday night tweet from the singer to the 56-year-old actor: MORE: Valentina Shevchenko knocks out Jessica Eye with brutal headkick Then McGregor tweeted that he’d love to host the bout: What a time to be alive. Cruise has not responded to the tweets, but if the fight does happen, Twitter doesn’t think Bieber stands a chance.

On Monday night, Frank Amedia and Mark Gonzales issued the prayer request, first reported on by Right Wing Watch, in a video published through their pro-Trump “prophetic” network POTUS Shield. The two men asked their fellow “prayer warriors” to begin praying for an hour before the debate and throughout the event. “We’re gonna have to be praying that confusion comes to the enemy’s camp,” Gonzales said, “in the cause and the questioning and all the things that are happening—if it’s not God’s agenda, we want it exposed....

Phil Valentine, a host on the Nashville, Tennessee-based radio station Supertalk 99.7 WTN, revealed earlier this month that he had fallen sick with COVID. Prior to his diagnosis, Valentine had been publicly skeptical about the need for all adults to get the COVID vaccine, including by posting a parody song online called Vaxman. The song spoke about personal freedoms around vaccination. Since being hospitalized by the disease, his family said in a statement that he plans to “vigorously advocate” for COVID vaccines....