The acromioclavicular (AC) joint is formed by the articulation between the acromion ("shoulder tip," A) and the distal end of the clavicle (C). The term "shoulder separation" is not a great term to describe the injury, but it is most commonly used. An AC joint injury is not a true dislocation or injury of the shoulder (glenohumeral) joint, but rather a separation of the clavicle from the acromion. The injury usually results from a fall directly onto the shoulder "point" or from a direct blow to the side of the shoulder during a contact sport, resulting in compression of the shoulder girdle. AC joint injuries make up approximately 9% of injuries to the shoulder girdle (they are quite common!).
The AC joint is stabilized by the acromioclavicular ligament and AC joint capsule, and two ligaments that run between the clavicle and the coracoid, the coracoclavicular (CC) ligaments, specifically the trapezoid and conoid ligaments (see illustration below). AC joint separations result in injury to one or more of these ligaments, depending on the severity of the injury. The result is pain and instability of the AC joint with a palpable bump at the shoulder tip where the end of the clavicle may be palpable below the skin.
An AC joint injury results from a direct blow to the side of the shoulder and is often sustained from falling directly onto the shoulder tip. The injury is commonly seen in contact athletes that are prone to lateral compression against the shoulder (ex. hockey players being body checked against the boards; football players landing or being tackled against the turf). Symptoms include pain directly over the AC joint and an obvious deformity or abnormal contour of the tip of the shoulder, depending on the severity of the injury. The patient will report difficulty and pain with shoulder motion, particularly with cross-body adduction of the affected arm.
The typical shoulder "bump" seen with high grade separations is shown here.
The XRays confirms a Type V AC joint separation, with the CC distance > 100%.
Most commonly, injury to the AC joint can be diagnosed on clinical exam. The patient will report an acute injury and will have pain and bruising over the top of the shoulder in the area of the AC joint, usually with an abnormal contour or deformity of the shoulder compared to the contralateral side. In severe cases, there will be a palpable gap across the AC joint, with the end of the clavicle projecting up from the shoulder tip. The diagnosis and severity of the separation is confirmed with plane Xrays, comparing the injured and uninjured sides for grading of the injury. The coracoclavicular (CC) distance, as determined by an AP view of the shoulder, is used to quantify the grade of sprain and classify the injury (see below). An axillary lateral view or a Zanca view of the shoulder is sometimes necessary to confirm the injury depending on the direction of clavicle separation.
Injuries of the AC joint are classified according to the Rockwood Classification and graded as I through VI. An AP radiograph of the shoulder is used to measure the CC distance and grade the injury accordingly.
The Rockwood Classification of AC joint injuries.
Type I and II (and usually grade III) injuries are treated nonoperatively. Nonoperative treatment includes a brief period of immobilization in an arm sling, rest, ice, and physical therapy. An arm sling is typically used for patient comfort to limit motion of the affected shoulder for the first 2 weeks following the injury and is discontinued as the patient's pain decreases. The patient should begin physical therapy within a week of the injury, focusing primarily on regaining range of motion and strength of the affected shoulder. Rehab should focus on early range of motion, with functional motion achieved by 6 weeks. Return to sport typically occurs within 6 to 8 weeks of the injury with appropriate management. Complications of nonoperative treatment include AC joint arthritis and chronic shoulder instability. Occasionally, Type III injuries fail conservative management and may progress to Type V injuries, requiring surgery.
Historically, the management of type III AC joint injuries has been a controversial topic, with some surgeons advocating for primary surgical treatment following the injury, rather than a trial of conservative, non-operative care. Studies have shown, however, that improved outcomes of Type III injuries can be achieved with nonoperative management, avoiding the potential complications of surgery and the possible need for future surgery for hardware removal.
Treatment of grade III acromioclavicular joint injuries: a systematic review. (CORR 2007).
Practical management of grade III acromioclavicular separations. (CJSM 2008).
Decision making: operative versus nonoperative treatment of acromioclavicular joint injuries. (Clin Sports Med 2003).
Open Reduction and Tunneled Suspensory Device Fixation Compared with Nonoperative Treatment for Type-III and Type-IV Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocations: The ACORN Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial. (JBJS 2018).
Operative Versus Nonoperative Management of Acute High-Grade Acromioclavicular Dislocations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (JOT 2018).
Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Nonoperative Versus Operative Treatment of Acute Acromio-Clavicular Joint Dislocation. (JOT 2015).
Comparison of surgical and conservative treatment of Rockwood type-III acromioclavicular dislocation: A meta-analysis. (Medicine 2018).
Results of Operative and Nonoperative Treatment of Rockwood Types III and V Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation: A Prospective, Randomized Trial With an 18- to 20-Year Follow-up. (Orthop J Sports Med 2014).
Surgical intervention is reserved for patients with Type IV, V, and VI injuries. The patient may undergo coracoclavicular (CC) interval restoration through either an open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) or ligament reconstruction method. Surgery is also indicated for patient with chronic Type III injuries who have failed a conservative course of care, or progressed to a Type V injury pattern. Historically, it was thought that acute injuries were treated with ORIF and chronic injuries required CC ligament reconstruction. However, newer literature has shown no difference in outcomes in types III injuries treated surgically with ORIF after 6 weeks of nonoperative treatment versus immediate surgery.
Post-operative rehabilitation is critical to a patient's overall outcome. As a result, surgical management is not optimal for patients who are not willing to comply with their specific post-operative rehabilitation program. Following surgery, the patient is immobilized in a sling for 6 weeks with no range of motion. Patients typically return to activity around the 6 month postoperative mark. Complications of surgery include AC joint arthritis, residual pain, hardware malfunction and coracoid fracture.
Rehabilitation of acromioclavicular joint separations: operative and nonoperative considerations. (Clin Sports Med 2010).
Return to Sport and Clinical Outcomes After Surgical Management of Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation: A Systematic Review. (Arthroscopy 2018).
Surgery for Acromioclavicular Dislocation: Factors Affecting Functional Recovery. (Am Surg 2017).
General Health Status After Nonoperative Versus Operative Treatment for Acute, Complete Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation: Results of a Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial. (JOT 2017).
Continuous Loop Double Endobutton Reconstruction for Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation. (AJSM 2015).
This article was written by Andrew Dold, MD.


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The Grand Cherokee was last redesigned for the 1999 model year. This top-of-the-line model from DaimlerChrysler's Jeep division has been its highest-volume seller by far. As reported by Automotive News, sales dipped by 17.7 percent during 2001, but the 223,612 units sold still helps in keeping the Jeep brand strong in market share.
The four-door Grand Cherokee is larger than its Liberty sibling. It competes against the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, Ford Explorer, Toyota 4Runner and other midsize models, as well as luxury sport utility vehicles like the Infiniti QX4 and Lexus RX 300.
The Grand Cherokee comes in Laredo and Limited trim levels. A four-wheel-drive (4WD) Premium Overland model with a new high-output 4.7-liter V-8 engine and standard curtain-type airbags debuted in the 2002 model year. The high-output engine delivers 260 horsepower rather than the usual 235 hp. Overland editions also feature unique front and rear styling and a redwood-accented interior. Curtain-type airbags and a tire-pressure monitor became optional in 2002. Details on changes for the 2003 model year have not yet been released.
Featuring the bold upright grille that Jeep is known for, the Grand Cherokee's classic four-door SUV styling is evident even if it is more rounded than some rivals. The SUV measures 181.6 inches long overall, rides a 105.9-inch wheelbase, stands 70.3 inches tall and stretches 72.6 inches wide. The rear liftgate features a window that s... Show full review
Featuring the bold upright grille that Jeep is known for, the Grand Cherokee's classic four-door SUV styling is evident even if it is more rounded than some rivals. The SUV measures 181.6 inches long overall, rides a 105.9-inch wheelbase, stands 70.3 inches tall and stretches 72.6 inches wide. The rear liftgate features a window that swings up separately. A roof rack is standard.
All Grand Cherokee models seat five occupants. Leather upholstery is standard in the snazzier Limited Edition and optional in the Laredo. Cargo volume is 72 cubic feet with the rear seat folded. The Grand Cherokee's spare tire is mounted underneath the rear cargo floor. Standard Laredo equipment includes a CD player, rear privacy glass, and power windows, door locks and mirrors. Stepping up to the Limited model adds such features as automatic dual-zone temperature control, power front seats, heated mirrors and an Infinity audio system. The Overland models have a 10-CD changer, rain-sensing wipers, heated front seats, and a wood- and leather-wrapped steering wheel.
The standard engine in the Grand Cherokee is a 195-hp, 4.0-liter inline-six-cylinder that drives a four-speed-automatic transmission. The optional 235-hp, 4.7-liter V-8 engine teams with a five-speed automatic. For peak performance, the Overland gets a high-output 260-hp version of the V-8, which is also optional in the Limited.
The Grand Cherokee comes with either rear-wheel drive or one of two 4WD systems, which depends on the model. Selec-Trac is a full-time 4WD system that can be left in 4WD mode on dry pavement; it is standard on the Laredo. Quadra-Trac offers on-demand 4WD that distributes power among the four wheels as needed for traction; it is available on the Limited and Overland models. Both systems have a two-speed transfer case.
All-disc antilock brakes are standard. Curtain-type airbags are standard in the Overland and optional in the other models.
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Voice Comms in League of Legends
When you start to queue up in League of Legends, there's one important trait that you need to have. Play to win and only focus on yourself as a player.
Assuming you're well versed in the community, by the time you decide to play League competitively, this trait shouldn't come as a surprise; however, it's always important to remind yourself of this during times you get tilted, in order to maximize your chances of winning.
Today, we'll take a look at an oftentimes underrated method to potentially win more in solo-queue: using voice comms!
Despite continual discussion among the community since the beginning of ranked queue, Riot has yet to implement a built-in voice chat for League of Legends.
That being said, to some this doesn't hold them back from needing to communicate in ranked, and as a result you may see a player link their discord server to the team from time to time.
The question is though, should you join?
There are a couple of reasons why it could be considered especially advantageous to join a discord channel in solo-queue.
Namely, considering that most people don't do this, you're giving you and your team a competitive edge over the enemy.
While it could be argued that pings and typing in chat could amount to the similar effect of having communication, it's obvious that real time voice communication between teammates is not only faster, but more effective.
It should also be noted that in addition to having voice communication, being able to hear your teammates' voices humanizes the experience of competing with them. This, in many ways, can eliminate the toxicity that usually ensues in League when people criticise each other.
It's all too easy to forget that the people you're playing with are actual humans, and having a voice chat is a good reminder for that.
In addition to having the competitive edge, creating or utilizing a discord server while you play solo queue gives you the opportunity to network yourself with potential duo partners or friends.
You could install bots, such as a discord music bot or many others to use while spending time with others in call. In all, there are a multitude of benefits in using a discord server or any other form of voice communication while ranking up in League, and therefore it's not just recommended, but encouraged.
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Alonso pleased with fourth and new Ferrari upgrades
By Luke SmithJun 21, 2014, 11:15 AM EDT
Fernando Alonso is pleased to have qualified fourth for the Austrian Grand Prix after benefitting from Mercedes' problems during the qualifying session today.
Lewis Hamilton made a mistake on both of his hot laps in Q3, meaning that he will start the race down in ninth place. Alonso was just one of the drivers to make the most of his demise, qualifying in fourth place.
The result is in fact Alonso's best dry qualifying result of the season, having also qualified fourth during the wet session ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Despite the result, Alonso is aware that Ferrari is not normally running in fourth place at the moment, but he is very pleased with the upgrades on his F14 T car.
"Definitely it was not a normal qualifying, of which we took advantage," he explained. "It is not normal to see Hamilton behind us or Mercedes.
"Definitely the new parts that we ran in Canada and here, they seem to work fine. In Canada, the track or layout or whatever was not good for us, so we didn't to have a good race, but the new parts were better than the old ones.
"Here, again, we tested some more. They seem mostly positive, so hopefully we're moving in the right direction. We know that there's still a long way to go."
Given Mercedes' pace during practice, Alonso knows that, under normal conditions, he will struggle to beat both Hamilton and Nico Rosberg during the race tomorrow.
"We were 1.1 seconds behind the Mercedes this morning in practice. Now we have one Mercedes ahead and one Mercedes behind, so I don't think that everybody used their full potential."
The biggest beneficiary from Hamilton's mistake was Felipe Massa, Alonso's former teammate, who secured his first pole position since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring today.
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The Mid-Season NBA Award Report – By Cameron Heffernan
Taking a look at the obvious and not so obvious mid-season award winners in the NBA.
from blogspot.com
With the NBA All-Star break here it's time to take a look at the landscape of all that is the round ball. As we all know by now, the Lakers are the biggest surprise and one of the biggest stories in the Association, as in that they stink to high heaven sitting at 25-29 and looked like Manny Pacquiao taking a hard right against the Clippers on Thursday. Other than that the overall look of things isn't that surprising. The early surge of the Knicks had few taken aback and once they fell back to earth most were not surprised. The Thunder, Spurs, Pacers and Clippers have all emerged as contenders but the raining champs still stand as the favorite.
Even with the decline of Dwayne Wade looming and the general lackluster-ness of Chris Bosh, one man has kept this team as the number one contender in all that is basketball and he sits atop his throne of hoops surveying what is now his.
MVP : LeBron James, Miami Heat
This seems like an easy choice. Few have done what James is doing this season; a six game streak of 30 points per game and 60 percent shooting from the field, only to see it fall because he scored 39 points on 58.3 percent shooting against the Thunder. His overall splits for the season go like this:
27.3/8.2/6.9 with percentage splits of .565 (career best)/.424 (career best)/.745.
He's third in scoring, 12th is assists, 26th in rebounds, sixth in shooting percentage, and has a damn-near-record-breaking 31.46 PER (Wilt Chamberlin holds it with a 31.84). The man is destroying everything in his path while carrying one of the older and smaller rosters in the league. The Heat can't rebound and in terms of defense, it's not there, but with James they are able to find key stops, rebounds and just general fundamentals that lead to solid wins for a team. It's like having a chamber maid that cleans, cooks and jams sick dunks in the faces on naysayers. Not enough can be said about James, he truly has transformed into what we were all hoping for when a young kid from Akron over-confidently proclaimed himself as the King.
Defensive Player of The Year: Dwight Howard Tyson Chandler, New York Knicks or Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics
I see that I have two names in the headline, trust me. One is my serious pick (Chandler), the other is a homer pick that's based off some wacky statistic I heard in which I have no way to back it up but screw-it, it's blind faith time, more on that after Chandler though.
Chandler isn't putting up the prettiest statistics this year but second overall in the Eastern Conference and only trailing the Heat by four games isn't too bad for a team filled with defenseless veterans and the strategy of let's bomb it from the three and if that doesn't work we'll just post-up Melo and hope for the best.
Chandler is a one man defensive wrecking crew; though his blocks are at his usual average of 1.1, although down 0.3 from last year, he's at 11.1 rebounds per-game, 1.2 rebounds over his original clip from last year, when he won the defensive player of the year award. Chandler has A'mare as a regular forward, Jason Kidd (the East Coast version of Steve Nash at this point, great offense, a goddamn liability the size of having a monkey run a Fortune-500 company, on defense), J.R. 'I'm literally all offense and all-quit on defense' Smith and Carmelo Anthony. Chandler has a murderers' row of terrible defensive players on his team and because of his all-around and otherworldly defense the Knicks sit at second in the East and one of Three teams that stand a chance of lifting the Larry O' Brien. Oh and he was named an All-Star for the first time in his career, so there's that too.
I can almost feel the tears of Mark Cuban for letting go of Chandler.
Quickly on Garnett; someone I work with told me that the Celtics are 26th when Garnett is off the floor in defensive efficiency. When he's on the floor? They're second, only behind the Pacers.
Really, this award should go to all of the Pacers team depending on how the rest of their season goes.
Rookie of The Year: Damian Lillard, Portland Trail Blazers
This kid is where amazing happens. In his rookie year he's averaging 18.3/6.3 (assists)/3.2 on .418/.350./.856 percentage splits, he's first in points per game for rookies. assists and minutes. Drafted sixth overall – he's outperformed any expectations anyone had for him and among all-time rookie point guard performances he's already ranking among the top:
Isiah Thomas – 17/ 7.8/ 2.9 with .424/ .288/ .704
John Stockton – 11.1/ 10/ 2.5 with .471/ .182/ .736
Magic Johnson – 18/ 7.3/ 7.7 with .530/ .226/ .810
I think you get the point when Magic is thrown in there and the person you're talking about is most represented by him but with a lower rebound tally due to his size. This is really a no-contest in this category. Lillard is a the little basketball engine that can and will.
Sixth Man of The Year: Jarrett Jack, Golden State Warriors
Though the Golden State Warriors went into the All-Star break on more of a down note; losing five straight. Jack has been a main-stay in the offense with the ability to step up for oft-injured Stephen Curry, and help lead the Warriors to a 30-22 record. Some would say that Jamal Crawford is in the running for this award too, and this is more than justified. Hell, when I started writing this part, my initial reaction was, "Jamal Crawford, who else?" I researched the depth charts of a few teams that have been stunning surprises this season, like the Rockets (Carlos Delfino), Bulls (Taj Gibson and really the entire bench), Pacers (ditto), Bucks (Mike Dunleavy), Nuggets (JaVale McGee), and Hawks (anyone not named Josh Smith or Al Horford). The two that it's essentially narrowed down too here in the home stretch is Jack and Crawford.
Jack – 13/ 5.8/ 3.2 with .472/ .412/ .860 and 17.41 PER in 28.9 minutes per game.
Crawford – 16.8/ 2.5/ 1.7 with .429/ .370/ .854 and 16.57 PER in 29.5 minutes per game.
So, even though Jack is averaging three fewer points than Crawford, he is still a more efficient player than Crawford, who also portrays the utmost gold standard in being an awful defender. Being a fairly key cog in the well oiled Warrior machine is too much to not be easily handed the Sixth Man of The Year Award, it's too awesome to see a good Warriors team again.
Most Improved Player of The Year: Jrue Holiday, Philadelphia 76ers
Improving in every statistical category, including points (up 5.5 from 13.5 last year), assists (up 4.4 from 4.5) and rebounds (up 0.9 from last years total) Jrue is lugging around an Andrew Bynum-less and Lou Williams-fled-in-free-agency-less Sixers team. They're at 22-29 and currently sit at ninth and 4 1/2 games out of the last spot. If Philly can find a way to get Bynum back I can easily see Holiday ending the season with far more superior numbers than he already has.
Well, that ends the mid-season NBA Awards report, these opinions may change as the season goes along, because, hey, it's a long freaking season. Right now though, these select few players have stood out as the top of the mountain. Especially Lebron. LeBron easily could win all of these awards except for ROY, but, hell, he's reinvented himself as a supreme talent every year that we might as well treat him like it's his rookie season anyways.
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BadAlloc Memory Flaws Found in Dozens of IoT, Embedded Devices
By Dennis Fisher
Microsoft researchers have uncovered more than 25 memory allocation vulnerabilities that affect a long list of real time operating systems (RTOS) and libraries that are used in IoT and medical devices, operational technology devices, and industrial control systems.
The vulnerabilities are all the result of the use of vulnerable memory functions in the libraries and RTOS, and attackers could use them for remote code execution. Microsoft's Section 52 research team disclosed the flaws publicly Thursday but reported them privately to all of the affected vendors, as well as the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency. Although the vulnerabilities exist in a huge range of devices, Microsoft's researchers said they had not seen any evidence of exploitation yet. MIcrosoft named the group of vulnerabilities BadAlloc.
Among the vendors whose products are affected are Amazon, Google, ARM, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, but the number of affected devices would be nearly impossible to estimate. Many of those devices likely will never be patched, and others won't be patched for months because of where they're located in OT or ICS networks.
"IoT devices because of their placement can be difficult to patch. OT devices elevate that problem to a much higher level because organizations usually can't patch unless there's an approved downtime window, and that could three or six months down the road," said Grant Geyer, chief product officer at Claroty, an OT security firm.
These types of vulnerabilities are by no means new and the risks of using these memory functions without input validation are very well known and well documented. A group of security researchers gave a talk about similar issues at Black Hat in 2002. Memory allocation bugs still emerge in applications all the time, despite many years of improvements in mitigations and input validation. The IoT and embedded systems world is a completely different story, though, and not a positive one.
"Our research shows that memory allocation implementations written throughout the years as part of IoT devices and embedded software have not incorporated proper input validations. Without these input validations, an attacker could exploit the memory allocation function to perform a heap overflow, resulting in execution of malicious code on a target device," Microsoft said.
"The common wisdom is that OT gear is this brown field, obsolete devices. But these issues show that the green field, newer gear is just as much of an issue."
"The vulnerabilities exist in standard memory allocation functions spanning widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS), embedded software development kits (SDKs), and C standard library (libc) implementations. Given the pervasiveness of IoT and OT devices, these vulnerabilities, if successfully exploited, represent a significant potential risk for organizations of all kinds."
Most of the vendors with affected products have released updates or patches for the vulnerabilities, however Texas Instruments has not published updates for its SimpleLink platform.
Claroty's Geyer said the breadth of the issues Microsoft found was surprising, as are the vulnerabilities themselves.
"What's surprising to me is how many RTOS didn't implement safety checks when using memory safety tools like malloc. The variety of devices that are affected is huge. There could be tens or hundreds of millions," he said.
"The common wisdom is that OT gear is this brown field, obsolete devices. But these issues show that the green field, newer gear is just as much of an issue and needs to be cared for, as well."
CISA has released mitigations for organizations that are not able to patch affected devices, including removing Internet exposure for control system devices.
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The supertanker was seized earlier this month off Gibraltar at the request of US authorities. (File/AFP)
Jeremy Hunt made the comments after what he described as a "constructive call" with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif
Hunt says Zarif told him Iran is not seeking to escalate
DUBAI: Britain will facilitate the release of a seized Iranian tanker if Iran can provide guarantees the vessel would not breach European sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, Britain's top diplomat said late Saturday.
The comments by Jeremy Hunt could help de-escalate tensions that have spiked in recent days. In apparent retaliation for the seized tanker, Iranian paramilitary vessels tried to impede the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, only turning away after receiving "verbal warnings" from a British navy vessel accompanying the ship, the British government said.
Hunt said he held a "constructive call" with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif and reassured him "our concern was the destination, not the origin, of the oil." Hunt wrote that Zarif told him Iran is not seeking to escalate.
The Foreign Office elaborated in a statement, saying: "This was about the enforcement of EU Syria sanctions: action was taken because of where the oil was going — a sanctioned Syrian entity — not because it was from Iran."
Ali Rabiei, an Iranian government spokesman, said British authorities would release the ship because "the tanker's destination was not what the British announced," according to state TV. Iranian officials had earlier denied the ship was bound for Syria.
A day earlier, Iran had reiterated its demands that the British navy release the tanker, accusing London of playing a "dangerous game" and threatening retribution.
The tanker's interception came on the heels of already high tensions in the Arabian Gulf as the Trump administration continues its campaign of maximum pressure on Iran.
President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers a year ago and has since re-imposed tough sanctions on Tehran's oil exports, exacerbating an economic crisis that has sent its currency plummeting.
The U.S. has also sent thousands of troops, an aircraft carrier, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the Middle East in recent weeks.
Iran recently begun surpassing uranium enrichment limits set in its 2015 nuclear deal, saying these moves can be reversed if the other parties to the agreement — Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and the European Union —come up with enough economic incentives to effectively offset the U.S. sanctions.
The Iranian supertanker, carrying 2.1 million barrels of light crude oil, was seized with the help of British Royal Marines earlier this month off Gibraltar, a British overseas territory near the southern coast of Spain.
Hunt told reporters on Saturday that he told Zarif if the U.K. could receive sufficient guarantees that that tanker was not headed for Syria "then we would be able to resolve the situation following of course, due process in the Gibraltar courts."
In recent days, Hunt has called for "cool heads" to prevail to ensure there is no "unintended escalation."
The U.K., meanwhile, is accelerating the dispatch of the HMS Duncan to relieve the HMS Montrose, the frigate operating in the Arabian Gulf that warned away the Iranian vessels. The HMS Duncan, a destroyer, is larger than the HMS Montrose.
Police in Gibraltar said Friday they arrested four crewmen of the Iranian ship, including its captain and chief officer. All are Indian nationals.
A senior Spanish official had said the interception was carried out at the request of the United States, but later Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told parliament no other government had asked the territory to act.
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Duterte 'seriously considering' cutting ties with Iceland over UN rights probe /node/1526321/world
Iceland spearheaded a resolution that asked the UN's top human rights body to look into the Philippines' deadly anti-drug crackdown
Philippine police have killed more than 6,600 suspected drug dealers in sting operations since Duterte took office in 2016.
MANILA: The Philippine president is "seriously considering" cutting diplomatic ties with Iceland, which spearheaded a resolution that asked the UN's top human rights body to look into the thousands of deaths of suspects under his anti-drug crackdown.
Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told reporters late Monday that the Iceland-initiated resolution which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in a vote last week in Geneva showed "how the Western powers are scornful of our sovereign exercise of protecting our people from the scourge of prohibited drugs."
Panelo says President Rodrigo Duterte "is seriously considering cutting diplomatic relations with Iceland" for initiating the "grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan" resolution.
Human rights groups, however, have lauded the resolution as crucial to helping end the drug killings and bringing perpetrators to justice.
The Philippines' highest-ranking lawmaker said on Monday a UN resolution to probe the country's bloody war on drugs should be ignored, and its chief backer Iceland be investigated instead for human rights abuses in allowing abortion.
"They have more unborn babies that they have aborted or killed. There are more killings in abortion than the drug pushers who are fighting the police," Senate President Vicente Sotto told ANC news channel.
The Nordic nation lacks moral grounds to lecture the Philippines on human rights, Sotto said. "So we should disregard that resolution."
His remarks are the latest in a series of comments from lawmakers urging the government to not cooperate after the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted Iceland's resolution to investigate thousands of deaths under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drugs campaign.
Police have killed more than 6,600 suspected drug dealers in sting operations since Duterte took office in 2016. Critics and rights group said authorities summarily execute suspects, which the police deny.
"The criminals can fight back, the babies cannot. What human rights are they talking about?" Sotto said, adding that drug dealers that fight back and destroy families lose their human rights.
His comments about abortion echoed those made by incoming Senator Imee Marcos, the daughter of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Rights groups, which hailed the UN vote as a step toward accountability, point out that the bloody anti-narcotics campaign is marked by systematic cover-ups, planted evidence and impunity.
The president's spokesman on Monday warned countries not to meddle with the state's affairs.
"All incidents in the war on drugs are tallied, recorded. All they have to do is ask us, not to pre-judge us," presidential spokesman Spokesman Panelo told a regular news conference. "It behoves them to render respect to a sovereign state."
Duterte on Friday mocked Iceland as an ice-eating nation without understanding of his country's problems.
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Ngara means listen, hear, think in the language of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
This forum brings together Indigenous influencers to discuss ways of successfully creating change, particularly between opposing political, social and cultural identities. How do we communicate, mediate and move forward?
This forum will be facilitated by Professor Larissa Behrendt in conversation with Frances Peters-Little and Professor John Maynard.
As part of the MCA's Conversation Starters weekend, this free event invites you to take part in the discussion on how do we start a conversation and create change with others?
Professor Larissa Behrendt is the professor of Indigenous Research and director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a Gamilaroi/Eualeyai woman and has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues as well as two award-winning novels. Larissa wrote and directed the feature film, Innocence Betrayed and has written and produced several short films. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.
Frances Peters-Little is a Kamilaroi/Uralarai woman and research fellow at ANU. Before coming to Canberra, she was a filmmaker for the ABC and worked on more than 18 documentaries as researcher, producer and director. She is best known for her film Tent Embassy, which screened for the True Stories series on the ABC and won a Sundance Award. Today Frances spends most of her time writing, and is currently in the final stages of her book entitled The Return of the Noble Savage: By Popular Demand.
Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He is currently a director at the Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle and chair of Indigenous History. He gained his PhD in 2003, examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism. He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities, urban, rural and remote. He is the author of several books, including Aboriginal Stars of the Turf, Fight for Liberty and Freedom and Aboriginal Soccer Tribe and Aborigines.


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I thought to myself how nice that was and and how much I would enjoy flowers as well but being newly single let the thought go. That afternoon as I left the deli after lunch there was an elderly gentleman standing out front with a basket of silk roses. He was very kind and handed me a silk rose which I put in a planter sitting on my desk. How lovely that my wish had been granted and someone had given me a pretty flower! I was grateful for this gift which had come in an unexpected manner and decided it was a present from Spirit.
About a week later there was another parade of women walking down the hall carrying their fresh flowers that had wilted to the trash can. I looked at the silk rose on my desk which was still as lovely as a week earlier and had the realization that which we receive in our current physical existence is beautiful but temporary. That which we receive from our relationship with The Divine is beautiful and everlasting. That silk rose is still on my desk years later as a reminder of Divine love.


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Anyone who follows me knows how excited I am about the upcoming River City Ransom Underground, from Conatus Creative. They've been sending out some of their backer gifts lately in preparation for their full game launch. Anyone who was a backer from Crate Expectations on up was set to receive a replica NES cart featuring RCR: Underground art. Well as it turns out, it's way more than a mere replica. After opening the box, I noticed that there was in fact a board inside the cart. And as I was debating on whether or not it was just a dummy board for looks, or it actually did something, I saw on the back that it had standard NES security screws officially used by Nintendo on all their carts. So I took out my bit, opened it up and lo and behold, there was an actual board in there with EPROM chips on it. Curiosity piqued, I threw it in my NES and was playing the original classic River City Ransom, which was made using all new hardware, chips, boards, shells, etc.
These carts were limited to only 300, but apparently Conatus Creative does have about 30 left. So if you weren't a backer but you are still interested in getting this cool replica, there's still a chance. I don't think they've officially announced out how to get them yet, so keep your eyes open.
Yes I know you can already check out this video on the NES Reproductions page, but I'm posting it here for the sake of completeness.
Anyway, this is Maximilyn and myself playing through Wilford Brimley Battle – a ROM hack of River City Ransom for the NES.
About a month ago, indie game developers, Combit Studios, fellow fans of River City Ransom, announced that they will be making an official follow-up to River City Ransom. *rejoicing*They will be working closely with Million Co., publishers of 2004's River City Ransom EX for the Game Boy Advance.


In his final homily in the United States, given at the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families to a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Pope Francis talked about small miracles —"the miracle of love" expressed in simple familial gestures.
"[Jesus] asks us to go through life, our everyday life, encouraging all these little signs of love as signs of his own living and active presence in our world," he said.
It was a weekend full of miracles.
On Saturday, crowds flooded the Parkway for the Festival of Families, a concert and formal ceremony, where Pope Francis would listen to the testimony of families from around the world and offer remarks on the family.
As the crowd waited through the afternoon for the 7:30 p.m. festival to begin, one group of priests from Ohio held impromptu confessions in front of the Rodin Museum Square on the Parkway.
By 3:30 p.m., the priests had already been listening to confessions for nearly three hours.
Further up the parkway, Margaret Compagna was at a jumbotron, one of the many along the parade routes, handing out water bottles. The 74-year-old volunteer from Tacony, Pa., had been standing on two replaced knees since 9:30 that morning, there to help out and to be part of the excitement.
Later that night her fellow volunteers would help her stand on the stacks of water bottles nearly four feet high to get a view as the pope passed by.
John McAllister, a parishioner of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Gibbsboro and Director of Strategic Sourcing at Wawa's headquarters in Media, Pa., explained that the company had donated 1.5 million water bottles for weekend's events.
He, along with 100 volunteers from Wawa, had boarded a bus at 6:30 a.m. that morning, and he planned to stay on the parkway until 8 p.m. that night giving out the water bottles.
At 4:45 that afternoon, every jumbotron speaker suddenly boomed with the crash of the opening notes of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," and every face turned to the nearest screen to watch Pope Francis make his formal entrance to the Philadelphia public through the doors of Independence Hall.
From the historic national monument, he urged Americans to remember their past, a theme of his addresses in Philadelphia, where he several times held up the richness of the memory of the elderly and the important role of grandparents. In a similar way, he encouraged immigrants to the U.S. to hold on to their roots, and for Americans in general to respect their common heritage of religious diversity and freedom.
That evening, the popemobile made its first of two parades, passing by thousands of screaming faithful who became frenzied for the brief seconds when the pope was in their direct line of sight.
The Miller family, parishioners at St. Rose of Lima Parish, attended the Festival of Families: all five of them were able to be on the Parkway: Kathy, David and their three children.
After listening to the testimonies of six families from around the world, Pope Francis discarded his prepared speech and spoke joyfully about family life to the delight of the crowd.
"Forgive me, but I have to say, the family is like a factory of hope. It's a factory of resurrection. God opened this path, this possibility," he said, noting that Jesus was born into a family.
The musical performances by headliners like Andrea Bocelli, Juanes, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Aretha Franklin lasted into the night. Fireworks closed Pope Francis' first day in Philadelphia.
In Center City's parks and open spaces, whole families slept in the open air on cardboard and in sleeping bags, ready to greet the next day from the Parkway.
Sunday began early for Susan Pianoforte and her family. They were up at 3:30 a.m., leaving their home in Bucks County, Pa., at 5 to drive into Philadelphia for the papal Mass. Their early morning paid off: they had carved out a space on the Parkway as far up as a typical ticket-holder could go, with a view of the altar through a chain-link fence.
Why make the trek to Philadelphia so early to wait on the Parkway for hours?
"Because I love him so much. He is bringing me back to my church," Pianoforte said.
After suffering the loss of three of her children, she said she stopped going to Mass.
"I haven't prayed in years. Watching and listening to him brought me back. It's like a miracle," she said.
Ann Katz, a parishioner of St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Sicklerville, had also found a place close to the front of the Parkway where she settled in with her two daughters-in-law at 7 a.m. for a 9-hour wait for Mass. They were on the first PATCO train out of New Jersey at 6 a.m. that morning.
Katz remembered standing on Broad Street in Philadelphia for Pope John Paul II's visit in 1979.
As the hours ticked by, groups on the parkway prayed the rosary. Some began to sing. Others relaxed in foldable lawn chairs and waited, listening to the musical performances that took place throughout the day. The flags that line the Parkway were mirrored in the crowd below, draped over shoulders and waved in the air representing the vast diversity of the pilgrims.
After a second popemobile parade, with some watchers hanging from the Parkway's trees to get a view, the long awaited Mass finally began.


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Brendt Snedeker holed a 10-foot birdie on the 17th hole, and then tapped in for par to finish at 19-under 267. That broke the tournament record by one shot held by Mickelson (2007) and Mark O'Meara (1997), who each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy Hills was still in the rotation.
The hottest player in golf, Snedeker finally has a trophy to show for it.
In five starts this year, he already had a win, two second-place finishes and a third. He never had much of a chance against Woods at Torrey Pines or Mickelson at the Phoenix Open, who each had big leads going into the final round.
Snedeker was tied with James Hahn, a 31-year-old rookie from the Bay Area, and seized control with an eagle and three birdies on the opening seven holes. Snedeker responded to his only bogey, a three-putt at No. 9, by rolling in birdie putts on the next two holes.
He took a long gaze out at the Pacific while waiting on the 18th tee at Pebble Beach, perhaps reflecting on an amazing ride over the last six months -- winning the Tour Championship to capture the FedExCup and its $10 million prize, his first Ryder Cup team, and a blazing start to the new season.
Snedeker goes to No. 4 in the world, the highest ranking of his career and second only to Woods among Americans.
He now heads off to a vacation on Maui before returning for the stretch run leading to the Masters. Winning a major is the next step for Snedeker, a 32-year-old from Nashville who has emerged as a veritable threat wherever he plays with a confident putting stroke and a dramatic increase in hitting fairways off the tee.
Hahn wound up with a 2-under 70 and tied for third with Jimmy Walker (66) and Kevin Stadler (65). The day wasn't a total loss for Hahn. He previously tied for fourth at the Humana Challenge, and his tie for third gets him into Riviera next week. He hasn't missed a cut this year and is already 11th in the FedExCup standings.
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In his first outing on the Champions Tour Rocco Mediate took home the trophy with a two shot victory over Bernhard Langer and Tom Pernice Jr. at the Allianz Championship.
He finished the tournament at 17-under 199 and became the 16th player to have a winning debut on the Champions Tour.
Mediate's 4-foot birdie putt came after Tom Pernice Jr. missed a 5-footer at No. 18 that could have forced a playoff.
Mediate started the day with a three-shot lead, lost it by the 14th hole, but regained it when Pernice bogeyed the par-4 17th from a greenside bunker. Mediate protected that lead with a birdie on the par-5 closing hole.
Pernice, who had a final-round 70, finished tied with Bernhard Langer for second place. It was Langer's fourth top-three finish in this event in the past five years. Langer won here in 2010.
Mediate won six PGA Tour titles and also lost a memorable playoff to Tiger Woods in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
Mediate shot a course-record 61 in the second round on Saturday.
Mark O'Meara and defending champion Corey Pavin were both six shots off the lead.
STERNE WINS JOBURG OPEN
Richard Sterne cruised to his first European Tour title in more than four years, winning the Joburg Open by seven shots.
Sterne shot a bogey-free 64 to finish with a tournament record total of 27 under at the Royal Johannesburg & Kensington golf course and win by the largest margin in tournament history.
Fellow overnight leader Trevor Fisher Jr. faltered on the final day, allowing Sterne to finish well clear of Charl Schwartzel in second. Fisher eagled the first but sank to a 1-over 73 that dropped him to joint sixth, despite sitting five shots clear of the field with Sterne at the start of the final round.
Fisher eagled the first but sank to a 1-over 73 that dropped him to a tie for sixth, despite sitting five shots clear of the field with Sterne at the start of the final round.
The victory was Sterne's first since the 2008 South African Championship, and represented a major milestone for the 31-year-old player, who led at the halfway stage of last week's Omega Dubai Desert Classic before finishing second to Stephen Gallacher.
Ricardo Santos of Portugal matched Sterne's final-day score of 64 to earn a share of third place alongside Chilean Felipe Aguilar (67) and South African George Coetzee (67).
TEENAGER MAKES HISTORY
Teenager Lydia Ko became the youngest winner of a women's European Tour golf event when she took victory at the New Zealand Women's Open in Christchurch on Sunday.
The New Zealander cried with joy after winning her third professional title from 12 events at the age of 15 years, eight months and 17 days.
Ko, who made a three-foot putt on the final hole to finish on 206, one ahead of American Amelia Lewis, beat the record set by South Korean Amy Yang, who was aged 16 years, six months and eight days when she won the Ladies Masters in Australia as an amateur in 2006.
Ko became the third amateur to win on the women's European Tour, after Gillian Stewart, at the 1984 European Open, and Y
Ko, already number 38 on the world professional rankings, now heads for the Australian Open in Canberra, which starts on Thursday.
Triple major champion Padraig Harrington and 2011 U.S. Masters winner Charl Schwartzel will join world number three Luke Donald in the field for next month's Malaysian Open, organisers said on Monday.
Harrington, up to 47th in the rankings after finishing tied-ninth at the Phoenix Open on Sunday, last appeared in Malaysia in 2006 and ended a two-year victory drought in October at the elite four-man Grand Slam of Golf event in Bermuda.
Matteo Manassero of Italy has also confirmed his participation in the March 21-24 tournament he won in 2011.
Rory McIlroy has formally committed to play in the Houston Open, which takes place two weeks before The Masters.
The two-time major champion and current No. 1 player will make his third start in the event and his first since 2010. This year, as part of his ''6 Bags'' charity drive, McIlroy will use a bag emblazoned with the logo of Chinquapin Prep, a Houston-area school for disadvantaged youth. The bag will be auctioned off through McIlroy's foundation and all proceeds will go to the school.
Louis Oosthuizen and Lee Westwood are among the other top international players committed to play in Houston.
Nike, the Beaverton, Ore.-based company announced on Monday that David Duval, who became the first to win a major championship using Nike clubs when he captured the 2001 British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, had re-signed with "the Swoosh" for 2013.
Duval, who split from Nike in 2010, spent 29 weeks as world No. 1 in 1999 and won 13 PGA TOUR titles between 1997 and 2001. But following the 2001 season, Duval's game hit a rough patch due in large part to a number of nagging injuries.
Over the past 10 seasons, Duval's finished inside the top 125 on the money list only once; he also made just 12 cuts in 41 PGA TOUR starts over the last two seasons.
The U.S. Open at Merion will be the shortest course for a major championship in eight years.
USGA executive director Mike Davis said Merion, which has not hosted a major since 1981, will be 6,992 yards on the scorecard. The last major course that was under 7,000 yards was Shinnecock Hills for the 2004 U.S. Open, which played 6,996 yard. Merion will be the shortest since Southern Hills, which was 6,973 in 2001.
Retief Goosen won both those U.S. Opens.
The USGA decided to cut down on tickets because Merion, located near Philadelphia, is not a big piece of property like Bethpage Black or Pinehurst. The USGA will take a financial hit compared with other venues, but it felt it was worth it.
The Canadian Women's Open will be looking for a new title sponsor after CN announced a change in its golf involvement. CN instead will expand its sponsorship of Canada's national junior golf program. .
The Scottish Open will be the first regular European Tour event to be shown live on an American network. NBC Sports plans to show 2 1/2 hours of live coverage from the final two rounds at Castle Stuart to complement Golf Channel coverage. A Golf Channel spokesman says the European Tour has agreed to push back starting times on the weekend because of the five-hour time difference.
Phil Mickelson has chosen to opt out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Mickelson confirmed this week that he will not be in the field of 64 for the season's first World Golf Championship later this month.
Mickelson will instead take a trip with his family, as his three children are out of school during the event week.
Mickelson skipped the event both last year and in 2010, and next week's Northern Trust Open will mark the fifth straight event in which he has participated.
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Yieldex CEO Talks About Jumping Into The Automated Guaranteed Pool
by Sarah Sluis // Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 – 5:00 am
Earlier this year, Yieldex – mostly known as a yield-management, forecasting and pricing tool for the largest publishers – expanded its focus with an automated guaranteed product. About a third of Yieldex's customers use it.
eMarketer has predicted programmatic direct will grow from $800 million this year to $8.57 billion by 2016. Two weeks ago, Rubicon bought two smaller players in the space, iSocket and Shiny Ads, and rumors abound that Google is months away from entering the market itself.
CEO Andy Nibley has been with 8-year-old Yieldex for four years, over which time it's tripled its number of employees to 70, he said.
"We've been growing revenue an average of 40% a year for the past several years. It's a software-as-a-service business, so we have 65-70% in gross margins, which is nice," he explained. "We've broken into profitability last year, a year and a half ahead of schedule."
Nibley talked to AdExchanger.
ADEXCHANGER: If you're growing revenue 40% a year, is that going to be from gaining market share among the top publishers, or something else?
ANDY NIBLEY: We see the market as the comScore 200. We have 50 now, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, CNN, NBC, CBS, Hearst, Scripps. There's still a lot of room to grow there.
We also have new products and upsells and our new automated guaranteed product offering.
How does automated guaranteed work for Yieldex?
It's kind of a logical evolution of our product line. If you think of other industries, like the financial services or travel, you start with a lot of data, and then you build an analytics capability on top of that so you can analyze the data and see what's happening.
Ultimately with those analytics you can see the history, and you can see the future, and you can begin to forecast what's going to happen in the future. That's what we've done in the ad tech so far. The last part is transactional. Now that you have all this intelligence, how do you transact based on that knowledge? That's automated guaranteed.
What's different about Yieldex's automated guaranteed product?
Two competitive advantages we have over anyone else in that space is, one, we have this blue-chip list of the biggest publishers who have the best inventory that the buy side wants to purchase.
Two, no one else has the accurate forecasting and analytics layer that we have. Buyers want to know they're getting a placement on that premium publisher's site that they can count on, that no one is going to outbid them, that it's a locked-in deal and guaranteed.
How do other competitors get around that issue of forecasting availability?
They don't. And we know what we have is so valuable because they're always asking if they can have our forecasting. Why would we give them something that we've spent tens of millions of dollars developing?
Is your forecasting based on historical data, or is it more predictive analytics?
Both. We take in five terabytes of data a night and 130 billion impressions a month. We take all of the data in from ad servers, order management systems, DMPs, SSPs. Then we allow the publisher to look back historically, as far as they want to go back, and look at their sell-through rate, eCPM, slice and dice however they want.
Then they can look forward 15-18 months and see what is likely to happen with the inventory, how much they're likely to have to sell, and how many available impressions are they going to have for this particular product at this date in the future.
We have patented algorithms that figure that out, and we emulate the ad server. We know how ad servers work and how they serve up ads. Our chief strategy officer is arguably the guy who invented the ad server. He was at NetGravity, which was bought by DoubleClick and bought by Google.
What's on your product road map?
Cross-channel optimization is big, digital video is big and continuing to build out our automated guaranteed product line. Those are the three major ones.
Businesswide, it's expansion into Europe. We think Europe is an enormous market, and we have five clients there so far. We've only just started in Asia. We built the business in the states brick by brick, and we'll do the same there. By all indications, there's tremendous opportunity.


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Celtics' Gordon Hayward fractures left hand, leaves game vs. Spurs
By Kurt HelinNov 9, 2019, 7:18 PM EST
Gordon Hayward has having a bounce-back season, looking much more like the guy the Celtics thought they had signed out of Utah — coming into Saturday, he was averaging 20.3 points per game while shooting 44.4 percent from three, with 7.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. He's been their best playmaker for others this season.
Now he's going to miss a chunk of time — Gordon fractured his left hand against the Spurs.
#NEBHInjuryReport Gordon Hayward has been diagnosed with a left hand fracture after an x-ray examination and is out for the remainder of tonight's game against San Antonio.
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
According to the Celtics: Gordon Hayward has been diagnosed with a left hand fracture. Here's the play where it happened: pic.twitter.com/Vwd3FpJsfS
It was an innocent play, but it could have long-term repercussions for the Celtics.
Right now there is no timeline for his return, and how fast it goes will depend upon what bone is broken, how severe the fracture is, and whether or not it requires surgery. It is Hayward's off hand but it's likely he would miss three weeks at the minimum, and maybe much more (Stephen Curry is out three months with a fracture of his off hand that required surgery). Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN had this update.
Boston's Gordon Hayward will see a specialist on Monday to determine need for surgery on fractured left hand, agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN. If needed, surgery will take place Monday. Timeline on a return is unclear until then.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 9, 2019
For Boston, this likely means a lot more Marcus Smart and Semi Ojeleye.
Hayward, of course, missed his entire first season with the Celtics after a catastrophic leg injury. Last season he was back on the court, but not yet the All-Star and borderline All-NBA player the Celtics thought they had signed. This season Hayward had finally started to look like that guy again.


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Each week in Division Rivals is an entirely competition, and you can earn rewards at the end of every week. Your weekly score determines your rank within the Division, and a higher rank means a better choice of rewards when each competition ends.
Every win in Division Rivals not only gets you closer to the next Division, it also takes you one step closer to the Weekend League. An overhauled FUT Champions qualification system awards you points to use for qualification into the Weekend League. When you have earned enough points, you can redeem them to enter the current Weekend League, or hold onto them to use for future qualification, so you can decide which weekend you want to play in. Re-qualification to the Weekend League also works differently; each Weekend League win also earns points that can be used to enter into future Weekend Leagues.