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Irish Independent
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Today's top TV and streaming choices: Housewife of the Year, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Better Sister
Dragon Hearts RTÉ One, 6.30pm In 2020, Ireland's first dragon boat-racing club was formed in Dublin. Here, those who are passionate about the fast-growing sport explain why it's so important to them, revealing its impact on them both physically and mentally. Code of Silence Virgin Media One, 9pm We're reaching the halfway point of the gripping drama, and matters are about to get even more dangerous for Alison. She uncovers important information by following Braden and Liam to a building site, but begins to question the bond she has formed with the latter. Housewife of the Year RTÉ One, 9.30pm Feature-length, award-winning documentary. It takes a look back at the Housewife of the Year contest, which was broadcast annually on TV between 1967 and 1995. Some of those who took part discuss their experiences. Raiders of the Lost Ark RTÉ One, 3.30pm Steven Spielberg's perfect bank holiday film stars Harrison Ford as adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones who comes face to face with Nazis while on the trail of the Ark of the Covenant. Karen Allen co-stars. Dept. Q Netflix, streaming now DCI Carl Morck may be an excellent investigator, but there's no hiding from the fact that he's a terrible co-worker. There's the small matter of his scathing sarcasm, which has left him without a single friend in the Edinburgh police force. Then there's the rather more serious issue of him having fatally shot a young officer and permanently injured his partner. Unsurprisingly enough, following this tragic turn of events, Morck is relegated to Department Q: a cold-case unit which was created as a publicity stunt. Although the force is thrilled to see Carl go, he soon sets about assembling a group of outcasts who are all keen to prove themselves. Yes, it does sound a bit like Slow Horses, which is quite the gauntlet for Netflix to throw. Only time will tell if it's worthy of comparison. With yer man from Leap Year (Matthew Goode) essentially playing a hybrid of Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb and Jack Lowden's River Cartwright, I wouldn't hold my breath. A Widow's Game Netflix, streaming now Picture it: August 2017. In a Valencia parking lot, a man is found stabbed seven times. The city's Homicide Group, led by a veteran inspector, races to solve the case, which appears to be a crime of passion. Their investigation soon takes a shocking turn, pointing to an unlikely suspect: Maje, the victim's seemingly sweet and stoic widow, married to him for less than a year. Mission: Impossible Fest Disney+, streaming now We can never get enough of the Mission: Impossible movies, it seems. You can now watch all the prequels to the recently released The Final Reckoning if you're so inclined. Bono: Stories of Surrender Apple TV+, streaming now Behold Bono's one-man stage show, exploring the personal experiences that have shaped him as a son, father, husband and activist. Oh, and as one of the planet's biggest rock stars. If Owen Wilson's signature shtick is more to your liking, The Stick lands Wednesday. Good Boy Prime Video, streaming now In order to combat crime in a perilous underworld, a group of former medal-winning athletes exchange the podium for police badges. In an exciting, action-packed ride, Yun Dong-ju (Park Bo-gum) and his group battle a formidable criminal syndicate. Also on Prime Video, we have season 2 of The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, courtesy of producers Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne. The Better Sister Prime Video, streaming now D'you know what society needs? More portrayals of women being pitted against each other. Based on Alafair Burke's novel, however, this eight-part thriller attempts to turn things. When media executive Chloe (Jessica Biel) and her estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) are reunited after a murder, they must unravel long-buried family secrets to uncover the truth.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The Inner Circle acknowledges, Teresa K. Braden, DO as a Pinnacle Professional Member
PUEBLO, Colo., May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, Teresa K. Braden, DO is acknowledged as a Pinnacle Professional Member for her contributions to Internal and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Teresa K. Braden, DO, a distinguished physician specializing in internal medicine and emergency medicine, has been an influential figure in the medical community. With extensive experience and dedication, she has made significant contributions to healthcare, particularly in her role as Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Medical Director of Medical Education and IM Program Director at UCHealth Parkview Medical Braden earned her Bachelor of Science in medical technology and life science from Kansas State University in 1982. She furthered her education with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Kansas City University in 2002. Her postgraduate training included a residency in internal medicine and emergency medicine at POH Regional Medical Center, completed in 2007. Her educational background has provided a solid foundation for her successful career in her career, Dr. Braden has demonstrated exceptional leadership and commitment to improving patient care. In April 2024 she returned to her position of DIO and Medical Director of Medical Education. From September 2021 through April 2024, she has served as Chief Quality Officer at UCHealth Parkview Medical Center, overseeing initiatives to enhance healthcare quality and safety. From 2010 to 2021, she was the Director of Graduate Medical Education and Designated Institutional Officer at the same institution, where she played a pivotal role in medical education and institutional management. Additionally, Dr. Braden has been an emergency physician with Southern Colorado Emergency Medical Associates from July 2009 through September 2024 and previously served at POH Regional Medical professional affiliations include the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI), and the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP). Dr. Braden has also been recognized for her leadership within the local medical society, where she has served as ahead, Dr. Braden plans to retire from her current position within the next five years and relocate to practice as a rural physician. Her future endeavors reflect her ongoing commitment to providing care in underserved her personal life, Dr. Braden cherishes time spent with her family and holds a deep appreciation for the mentorship she received from Dr. Doyle. Contact: Katherine Green, 516-825-5634, editorialteam@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE The Inner Circle
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Officers replace drugs with fakes in Dayton methamphetamine conspiracy case
A Dayton man pleaded guilty in court Friday to a bulk methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney of the Southern District of Ohio said in a press release. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Antel Braden, 24, was mailed a package from California that had more than 3 kilograms of methamphetamine, the release said. The package was intercepted and law enforcement swapped the drugs with fakes before having an undercover agent deliver it, according to the release. TRENDING STORIES: Local industrial facility closing; over 100 employees impacted Local middle school student arrested after school threat Coroner releases cause of death for former OSU player found dead in his apartment The release says Braden received the package and then picked up his brother, 30-year-old Giovante Braden. Law enforcement made an attempt to stop Antel Braden on E. Dorothy Lane, when he fled. Braden ran a red light, causing a crash and damaging both vehicles, according to the release. The fake methamphetamine was thrown from the vehicle and both brothers tried to run from the scene before being arrested, the release says. Antel Braden pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute bulk amounts of methamphetamine. Antel Braden has not received his sentencing, but could face 20 years in prison. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Colts OT Braden Smith reveals battle with OCD, which included contemplating suicide
Content warning: This story contains references to suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide and needs support now, call or text 988 or chat with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at In the second half of last season, the Indianapolis Colts placed veteran offensive tackle Braden Smith in the reserve/non-football illness list due to what was described as a personal matter. No other details were provided. Advertisement Months later, Smith and his wife Courtney revealed what he was dealing with. In an interview with The Indianapolis Star, the couple said Braden was diagnosed with a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) so severe that he contemplated suicide, struggling to function with both football and family: 'I was physically present, but I was nowhere to be found,' Smith said in an exclusive interview with IndyStar, explaining for the first time the nature of the personal reasons that caused him to miss the Colts' final five games. 'I did not care about playing football. I didn't care about hanging out with my family, with my wife, with my newborn son. … I (felt like) was a month away from putting a bullet through my brain.' Smith reportedly suffers from a form of OCD called religious scrupulosity, which he described as an obsession with his Christian faith so severe that he agonized over every potential sin and felt a sense of impending doom over them. 'There's the actual, real, true, living God,' Smith said. 'And then there's my OCD god, and the OCD god is this condemning (deity). It's like every wrong move you make, it's like smacking the ruler against his hand. 'Another bad move like that and you're out of here.'' The Smiths reportedly got baptized last May, but Braden's case only worsened to the point where he was incapable of focusing in film study and told Courtney he was planning to retire. After speaking with the Colts, he was placed on an antidepressant and a mood booster and given time to go to therapy sessions. Advertisement Braden reportedly worsened to the point that Courtney changed the combination to their gun safe and avoided leaving him alone with their 10-month-old son, Wyatt. The next step was to check him into an intensive mental health facility in Colorado, but he only made minimal progress. Braden Smith dealt with something far more serious than football last year. (Photo by Bailey Hillesheim/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The turning point was reportedly when the couple learned about a psychedelic called ibogaine, a substance banned in the United States as a Schedule I drug. The drug was administered as part of a five-day treatment in Tijuana, Mexico and Braden described the experience as intense: 'Ibogaine, it legitimately resets your brain,' Smith said. 'Imagine your brain as a ski slope, and you create all these grooves, from all these trails that you're going on, and they keep getting deeper and deeper and deeper. Those are the habits that we create, and over time, like, it's not going to be possible to create a new trail, because that one is so deep. Ibogaine literally will clear off those, like, the receptors in your brain.' The treatment reportedly worked as well the Smiths could have hoped. Braden felt like he had a "blank slate" mentally and underwent three hours of OCD-specific treatment per day for two weeks, and is still doing one session per week. Advertisement He said he no longer does compulsive prayers and recently received a mild 12 out of 40 on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, after previously scoring a severe 28. He reportedly intends to return to the Colts, who continued to pay him while he was on the reserve list and helped get him support he needed. Indianapolis reportedly restructured Smith's contract over the offseason from $16.75 million in salary to $8 million with $3 million in incentives. He has been a member of the team since it selected him in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
New York Times
26-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
How Braden Smith became a different kind of center of attention for Purdue: ‘He makes us go'
Bruce Parkinson knows good point guard play when he sees it, and from the stands at Westfield High School in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Purdue's all-time assists leader — at least at the time — could see Braden Smith had the goods. Thing is, to appreciate how Smith could command a basketball court so completely as a passer, scorer and defender, you really had to see it live. During Smith's breakout junior season, the pandemic-induced suspension of in-person recruiting made that impossible for college coaches. Advertisement Parkinson has never been one to meddle in his alma mater's business or pester Boilermakers coach Matt Painter and his staff with recommendations. But he made an exception with Smith, the son of not one but two basketball coaches. 'I was trying to explain a little bit further about the atmosphere he grew up in with (parents) Jenny and Dustin (Smith) and their basketball backgrounds, and the kind of people that they were,' said Parkinson, a four-year starter for the Boilermakers in the mid-1970s. 'Such a high-quality family. Now people are seeing the dedication he has to the game.' This decade of excellence for Purdue basketball — nine straight NCAA Tournaments as a No. 5 seed or better — has largely been defined by big men, from towering centers Isaac Haas and Matt Haarms to burly forwards Caleb Swanigan and Trevion Williams and peaking with 7-foot-4 two-time national player of the year Zach Edey. Under Painter, Purdue has become a metronome of a program, clicking off six Sweet 16 appearances in the past eight years. This time, though, it's Smith, an undersized iron man and All-American orchestrating one of the country's most intricate offenses, who has the tone for the Boilermakers' Sweet 16 run. 'The way that he controls the game is just different than anybody else,' Purdue power forward Trey Kaufman-Renn said. To upset top-seeded Houston and its relentless, chest-to-chest defense on Friday night in the Midwest Region semifinal in Indianapolis, the Boilermakers will need another giant effort from the 6-foot Smith. 'He has a lot of pressure. He's our main ball handler, and we trust him to do a lot of different things,' Purdue assistant coach and former point guard P.J. Thompson said after Saturday's win over McNeese. 'I always talk to him about how to dominate the game from the shoulders up. So Braden is a unique, special player, and I'm glad he's on our team.' Dustin and Ginny Smith met at Arkansas Tech, where they played Division II basketball — Dustin a point guard and Ginny a shooting guard. They moved to Indiana when Braden was about to turn 4, and both became coaches. Ginny Smith was an assistant and then head coach of the girls' team at Westfield High for a total of 13 years, and Dustin Smith still runs a local AAU program. Advertisement Of course, Braden grew up with a basketball in his bassinet, but he also played baseball, football and soccer. By around the fourth grade, Ginny Smith said, Braden decided he wanted to focus on basketball. He was a good player but a small one, weighing about 125 pounds as a high school freshman. When school shut down in the spring of 2020, Smith made basketball a full-time job and went about the work of changing his body. He and Westfield's strength and conditioning coach would meet every day at a makeshift garage weight room. 'He lived in the gym, lived in the weight room,' Ginny Smith said. 'I lived in the kitchen preparing so much food just to try to get some weight on him.' To bulk up, he was eating like a football lineman twice his weight. Ginny Smith said Braden was taking in between 7,000-7,500 calories a day, with protein shakes on top of each meal, plus small meals and snacks in between. 'When I say to you it was disgusting, it was legitimately disgusting,' Ginny Smith said. 'There were times I would be watching him eat, I would almost gag because I'm like, 'Where's he putting this food at?' 'It's almost comical now. I feel like we've done some damage. I watch him as a junior in college and he eats such small meals. He's like, Mom, I just can't eat a ton at one time. And I'm like, well, you're probably traumatized.' Ginny Smith said Braden put on 30 pounds from his freshman to junior year. Now listed at 170 pounds, Braden still looks far from imposing behind his thick brown beard, but a case can be made that no player in college basketball carries a heavier load. Smith played all 40 minutes in the NCAA Tournament's first two rounds against High Point and McNeese to push his season average to 36.9 minutes per game, 11th in Division I. No other player left in the tournament ranks in the top 50. Advertisement 'He's the top of the scouting report now, which is a different thing than when it was Edey and others,' Parkinson said. 'When he comes down the floor, and he gets a one-high ball screen by Trey (Kaufman-Renn) and they overplay that, somebody jumps out. Then it's another one, and then it's another one, then he drives. He plays almost every minute and his intensity level, he's not just waiting. He's the conductor of everything that's happening on offense and defense now.' On Feb. 28, in a victory against UCLA in Mackey Arena, Smith had eight assists to pass Parkinson's mark of 691 and become the Boilermakers' career leader. That Smith ended up in West Lafayette, Ind., is a testament to the stability and consistency of a program that has had two coaches over the last 44 years. Dustin Smith grew up in Indiana and was a childhood friend of Austin Parkinson, Bruce's son and a Purdue player under coach Gene Keady in the early 2000s. By March 2021, Braden Smith had eight Division I offers, all mid-majors and none from Indiana schools. He hadn't committed to Belmont, but Ginny Smith said Braden seemed to be headed in that direction. That month, Purdue assistant Micah Shrewsberry left to become head coach at Penn State, and Boilermakers commit Jameel Brown decided to follow him to State College, Pa. That sent Purdue looking for a guard. 'I jumped right into watching film of about five or six guys, and (Smith) was the only guy that wasn't nationally ranked, but he looked the best on film,' Painter said. 'I like watching film, but I want to see you in person. But we couldn't do it at that point (because of COVID-19 restrictions). I trusted some other people in the business after watching him that he had that competitive gene and that he was tough and he was a leader and that he can really, really pass the basketball.' Those other people: Bruce and Austin Parkinson, who is now the women's basketball coach at Butler and is still close with Ginny and Dustin Smith. Advertisement Austin Parkinson goes way back with Purdue assistant coach Paul Lusk and Painter. Parkinson said he got a call from Lusk inquiring about Smith and told him the kid was a 'no-brainer.' Parkinson believed Smith was an ideal fit for Purdue's system, which requires the point guard to read defenses and decipher where the openings and favorable matchups will be within set plays. 'He's one of the best passers I've ever seen,' Austin Parkinson said he told Lusk. 'This is a match. This is a perfect situation.' Then Bruce Parkinson spoke to Painter, too. Things moved quickly from there. Ginny Smith said one Zoom call with Braden and the Purdue coaches was all it took to win him over. She forced him to sleep on it, but within a couple of days he was committed. 'Even though it was a short courtship, it's been a great relationship,' Ginny Smith said. As a senior, Smith led Westfield to its first sectional championship and became the first player from the school to be named Indiana's Mr. Basketball. Since arriving at Purdue, Smith has started every game he has played, running Painter's offense. 'We have probably 10 words per play, and just understanding the term and definition of each of those words (is challenging). Each word obviously has a meaning and an action,' Smith said. 'So you take it in order. It's complicated at first. I started to get good at it my freshman year, so I understood it.' Now he's mastered it. He is calm amid chaos, manipulating defenses and maneuvering his teammates into open spaces. 'It's incredible what he's been doing,' freshman Gicarri Harris said. 'He knows all his reads, where to find everybody. It makes it a lot easier for me to play with him. He's very vocal, too. He'll let you know if you're doing stuff right or doing stuff wrong. He'll let you know, get you in the right spot.' Advertisement Smith sits second in the nation in assists at 8.6 per game. He is also second on the team in scoring (16.0) and, maybe most impressive considering his size, second in rebounding at 4.5 per game, proving you don't have to be a giant to be the center of attention for Purdue. 'He makes us go,' Painter said. 'There's no doubt about it.'
