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2023-07-01 23:46:36

Anthony Duclair was traded from the Florida Panthers to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.

In return for the 27-year-old forward, the Panthers got forward Steven Lorentz and a fifth-round pick in the 2025 draft.

Duclair still has one season left on the three-year contract he signed with the Panthers on July 15, 2021, and might become an unrestricted free agent next season.

He had nine points (two goals, seven assists) in 20 games last season, before adding 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in 20 playoff games during the Panthers’ run to the Stanley Cup Finals .

The Quebecer had set personal highs for goals (31), assists (27) and points (58) in 74 games in 2021-22.

Video: CAR@FLA, #4: Duclair scores following 41 seconds

Selected by the New York Rangers in the third round (80th overall) in the 2013 draft, Duclair has 261 points (122 goals, 139 assists) in 490 regular season games with the Panthers, Ottawa Senators, Blue Jackets of Columbus, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Arizona Coyotes and the Rangers. He also added 14 points (five goals, nine assists) in 34 playoff games.

Lorentz, 27, has one more season left on the two-year contract he signed with the Sharks on July 22. He might become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the next season.

He had 19 points, including 10 goals, in 80 games with the Sharks last season.

Video: SJS@EDM: Lorentz ties the breakaway

Drafted in the seventh round (186th overall) by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2015, Lorentz has 40 points (20 goals, 20 assists) in 192 career regular season games with the Sharks and Hurricanes. He added three assists in 16 playoff games.

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2023-07-02 01:49:47

Appreciate the African style at home (seeking common development and sharing the future · special report on the 3rd China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo)

On the first day of the public opening day of the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, nearly 40,000 citizens visited the pavilions of various countries

On July 1, citizens selected their favorite African specialty products in the exhibition hall.Photo by Zou Lin, all-media reporter of Changsha Evening News

Changsha Evening News, July 1st (all-media reporter Zhou Huixia) Drink a cup of Rwandan coffee, compare your heart with a rabbit made of Kenyan roses, show off the new malachite and sapphire in the circle of friends, and take your children to practice with exhibitors Foreign language… July 1st is the first day of the public opening day of the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo. Enthusiastic Changsha people enjoyed a full-fledged African flavor at their doorstep.

They come for all kinds of African specialties. Compared with the purchasing exhibition for professional visitors in the previous two days, the Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center on that day, several exhibition halls integrating the image display of the country of honor and merchandise exhibition and sales, are undoubtedly the most popular places, and all kinds of visitors from afar Featured products are naturally the protagonists that everyone is eager to understand.

“In the last exhibition, we only brought one type of coffee for women, which was loved by Chinese consumers. This time, we brought three types of coffee with different flavors, and four types of our local tea. I hope you like it.” In front of a showcase in the Rwanda National Pavilion, Shubi and Sharma, foreign students who can speak Chinese, enthusiastically introduced the products to Zhang Na, who runs the cafe, which attracted passers-by to stop and listen frequently, sip a small cup, and then endured Can’t help but get a pack.

Zhang Na is undoubtedly a professional shopper, and has tasted coffee from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and other countries. In her opinion, the exhibition in front of her house includes accessories made of coffee, spices, wood carvings, shea butter, and various mineral gemstones. It brings African specialties known or unknown to Changsha citizens to Changsha, so that everyone can enjoy Get a close look at Africa and enjoy the taste of Africa.

Big and small tambourines sounded, and African students in traditional costumes danced enthusiastically. Many foreign faces seemed to come to them from the picture album, which aroused the strong interest of the children who visited the exhibition. Many exhibition areas have been turned into English corners and French corners. With the encouragement of their parents, the children boldly communicate with each other in foreign languages, from product chats to customs, from introducing tourist attractions in their respective cities to sending invitations to each other through WeChat, The understanding of the land of Africa has increased a bit.

The reporter learned from the organizers of the event that nearly 40,000 citizens visited the expo on the first day of the opening day. Through this open platform, it is full of African flavor.

Source: Changsha Evening News

(First trial: Luo Jianglong Second trial: Jiang Jun Third trial: Wang Yaqi)

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2023-07-02 01:25:10
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Created: 07/01/2023 09:01

By: Regina Wolf

The minimum wage is to rise once more: the minimum wage commission has now agreed on a sum. Six million workers get more salary.

Germany – Employees in Germany are currently not allowed to earn less than 12 euros per hour. From 2024, this statutory minimum wage is to be increased once more. On Monday (June 26) the Minimum Wage Commission named a specific sum.

Euro minimum wage – around six million employees should get more salary

Until the decision was made, the level of the new minimum wage was kept secret, as was the dpa reported. On Monday (June 26), the Minimum Wage Commission made up of employer and employee representatives in Berlin proposed:

The minimum wage is to be raised to 12.41 euros.

Sea dpareport, according to the latest information from the Federal Statistical Office, around six million dependent employees (15 percent) are employed in the low-wage sector. Around 5.8 million people benefited from the minimum wage increase.

The minimum wage will increase to 12.41 euros on January 1, 2024. (symbol photo) © Zoonar/Stock Photos/Imago

More minimum wage – increases planned for 2024 and 2025

Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) had already announced the minimum wage increase. The new regulation is planned for 2024.

As early as April, the minister said picture on Sundayg: “Work must be worthwhile. That’s why there will be another minimum wage increase next January.”

On January 1, 2025 there will be another increase. Then the minimum wage should rise to 12.82 according to the Commission’s proposal.

Dispute over minimum wage: employee representatives demand 14 euros

According to the Minimum Wage Commission report, the decision was not unanimous. The workers’ representatives on the Commission complain that the increase is too small.

In a corresponding statement, it is said that, according to the union representatives, “the minimum wage should have increased significantly, at least to 13.50 euros.” The employers and the chairwoman of the commission refused to do so.

They are also demanding that the EU minimum wage directive be implemented in national law by the end of 2024 at the latest. Accordingly, the minimum wages in the European Union should reach at least 60 percent of the median wage for full-time employees. This would correspond to a minimum wage of at least 14 euros.

More salary in the low-wage sector – the minimum wage was already increased in 2022

The statutory minimum wage had already been increased several times in 2022. Most recently, on October 1, 2022, it rose from EUR 10.45 to EUR 12.

Important to know for employees: The minimum wage is a gross wage. How much of this remains net depends on factors such as the respective tax class, the number of children, etc. (Finanz-News on RUHR24).

According to the Federal Ministry of Labour, the general statutory minimum wage is intended to protect employees from unreasonably low wages. The declared goal is that everyone who works full-time can also “make a decent living from it”.

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2023-07-01 22:54:00

We were impatiently waiting to see where this troublemaker Dillon Brooks would land following the Grizzlies, exasperated by his behavior and his level during the last Playoffs, decided not to keep him. It is finally the Rockets who will welcome one of the most entertaining players of his generation.

Did you dream of it? Houston did.

Many people dreamed of seeing LeBron James’ best friend land in a quagmire not possible with a delirious salary, just to have a good laugh. And for that, what better than to rally the Rockets with their 56 backs more concerned with the latest Paco Rabanne perfume or Paris Fashion Week than with basketball? Not much actually. Of course, we magnify the features, but behind the humor, there is always a part of truth.

Come on, enough joking: Dillon Brooks will experience his second career franchise by signing with the Rockets for $ 80 million over four years, via a sign and trade (allowing Memphis to nab a big trade exception). A nice contract despite his last Playoffs which have tarnished his reputation. Between his abyssal level in attack, his untimely verbal battles but too rarely followed by facts and his dodging of the media, the Memphis front office lost patience with the Canadian and told his now ex-player that he would not be preserved. Houston thus engulfed itself in the breach and proposed 20 million per season with the rear clivant.

Free agent G Dillon Brooks has agreed on a four-year, $80 million contract with the Houston Rockets, his agent Mike George of @OneLegacySports tells ESPN. Rockets have now landed two targets in free agency — Fred VanVleet and Brooks. pic.twitter.com/dJHLWvwFjX

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2023

We laugh, we laugh, but on a misunderstanding, this trade can make sense for these young Rockets still too soft in defense and who are sorely lacking in experience.

After adding Fred VanVleet, 2019 NBA champion with the Raptors, to their lineup, the Rockets are bringing another guy with Playoff experience who, as we remember, is capable of putting up his fifteen points every night while defending well. By plugging the right wires into the right outlets and making amends, Dillon Brooks can do great service. He can even be one of the locker room leaders and yell at those prepubescent teenagers who mess up. Of course, there are a lot of “ifs”, but that’s surely what prompted the Rockets to take the gamble with this player who has become persona non grata in the NBA. A big job awaits Ime Udoka to channel Dillon Brooks, in addition to Jalen Green, Kevin Porter Jr. or Jabari Smith.

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Source text: Adrian Wojnarowski

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