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The Vancouver Canucks hold a team option on Rick Tocchet Thomas Drance of The Athletic: The Vancouver Canucks hold a team option for head coach Rick Tocchet next season and a team source said the Canucks view Tocchet as their head coach for next season and that they intend to exercise the option. Tocchet has stated he doesn’t want to talk about his contract situation right now as they’re focusing on the playoffs. “I think it’s better to wait, for me, so we can really sit down and talk, because I have no time to talk about my contract, in…

BBCPhilomena says she’s “furious” about the closure of the Morrisons cafe in QueensburyIt’s Friday lunchtime at a Morrisons in Queensbury, north-west London, and the in-store cafe is busy.At one table, a teenager tucks into a ham sandwich while on the phone with a friend. She stays for well over half an hour.At another, an elderly couple chat over a hot meal, while a queue of customers steadily forms at the till.But this is one of 52 cafes set to close – including others in London, Leeds, Portsmouth and Glasgow – announced this week in a cost-cutting drive that the supermarket…

In the world of traditional finance, evaluating a company’s success usually means tracking revenue growth, earnings per share, or return on equity. But what happens when the core of a company’s strategy isn’t selling products or services, but accumulating Bitcoin? That’s the question facing a new class of Bitcoin treasury companies. These are publicly traded firms whose central mission is to acquire and hold Bitcoin over the long term. And to understand whether they’re succeeding, we need a fresh set of tools. This article introduces those tools—new key performance indicators (KPIs) designed to evaluate how well a company is executing…

Ross McClelland says to know the Big Yin has seen his stand-up is incredibleRosco McClelland has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly “Spirit of Glasgow” Award at the city’s comedy festival.The Glaswegian comic received a special video message from Sir Billy as he picked up his award.Referencing a joke McClelland tells about slugs in bins, Sir Billy told him: “Congratulations to Rosco McClelland – the slug nudger! Well done.”The award was announced at the festival’s comedy gala show, which was held at the King’s Theatre.McClelland said he felt thrilled and honoured to lift an award named after and judged by…

MS Dhoni (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: MS Dhoni on strike. 20 runs needed off the last over. The weight of expectations from thousands of roaring CSK fans. A nightmare scenario for any bowler, but Rajasthan Royals’ medium-pacer Sandeep Sharma rose to the occasion with nerves of steel.Defending a total against the ultimate last-over finisher is no small task, and the tension was palpable as Sandeep was handed the ball for the final over. He started with a wide, adding to the drama, but what followed stunned the Guwahati crowd into silence.On the next delivery, Sandeep bowled a low full toss,…

In a recent update, a University of Minnesota-Twin Cities graduate student was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The student was detained at an off-campus residence on Thursday, according to a letter sent by the university to its students, staff, and faculty. The letter stated that the university is actively working to gather more details about the incident and, in such cases, takes steps to ensure that affected students have access to internal support resources such as student legal service and international student and scholar services, as reported by CBS News.The school stated it was unaware of the incident…

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed by clearing their legal records. This decision also extends to the former crypto exchange employee Gregory Dwyer. The group had previously buy themself in by pleading guilty in 2022 to violating the Bank Secrecy Act for inadequate anti-money laundering measures through crypto. This BitMEX pardon is another big moment for the crypto industry, displaying Trump with his growing support for Web3. The co-founders faced charges in 2020 for failing to implement proper know-your-customer or KYC and anti-money laundering protocols, resulting in fines and…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The global non-fungible token art market has been experiencing an up-and-down swing since its inception in 2020, evolving from niche enthusiasm to mainstream frenzy before facing a brutal steep decline. An in-depth analysis has revealed that the NFT art market has fallen by over 90%, with its trading volume falling from $2.9 billion in 2021 to just $23.8 million as of Q1 2025. In this article, we shall discuss what went wrong. NFT Art Sales Fall In Q1, Down +90% Since 2021 On March 27, 2025, DappRadar,…

Created on October 30, 2020 So far this week, the Japanese yen has advanced 0.64 percent against the US dollar, continuing with a three-week gaining streak.The demand for safe-haven currencies has increased lately as coronavirus cases continue increasing in places like Europe and the United States. In Japan, the total number of reported coronavirus cases topped 100,000, as cases continue surging on the island and amid the reopening of the economic activity. More than 1,700 deaths have been linked to the virus. Globally, 44,878,011coronavirus cases have been reported as well as 1,180,914 total deaths.On Sunday, the Bank of Japan published…

Once, the Unit­ed States was known for send­ing forth the world’s most com­plained-about inter­na­tion­al tourists; today, that dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion arguably belongs to Chi­na. But it was­n’t so long ago that the Chi­nese tourist was a prac­ti­cal­ly unheard-of phe­nom­e­non, espe­cial­ly in the West. That’s an impor­tant con­tex­tu­al ele­ment to under­stand when con­sid­er­ing the work of pho­tog­ra­ph­er Tseng Kwong Chi, who trav­eled around Amer­i­ca tak­ing pic­tures of him­self at var­i­ous rec­og­niz­able mon­u­ments and land­marks while wear­ing a suit most com­mon­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Chair­man Mao. The fig­ure that emerged from this project is the sub­ject of the new Nerd­writer video above. “He called…