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">Paris Hilton reveals her secret to aging backwards without Botox or cosmetic surgeryThe Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) recent decision regarding WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy has far-reaching implications for data privacy and competition in the digital economy. The CCI found that WhatsApp abused its dominant position by mandating data-sharing with its parent company, Meta, and imposed a penalty of ₹213.14 crore. Perhaps, more significantly, the CCI has directed WhatsApp to cease and desist from sharing user data for advertising purposes for five years and to provide users with an opt-out option for data-sharing for any other purpose. WhatsApp has already indicated that it intends to challenge the CCI’s decision and there will undoubtedly be considerable debate on the appreciation of facts and law in this case. However, what stands out is the CCI’s careful balancing act between reviewing the competition issues arising out of WhatsApp’s conduct, while acknowledging that data protection and privacy issues are the domain of other legislation. The CCI quite correctly identifies its responsibility to ensure that data does not become a tool for perpetuating anti-competitive behaviour while acknowledging the role of India’s fledgling Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), Information Technology Act and Privacy rules. What the CCI does not do, is reconcile the potential conflict between its decision on data-sharing obligations and those contained in the DPDP. This conflict becomes evident in the behavioural remedies that the CCI imposes, which embargo WhatsApp from sharing user data that is collected on its platform with other Meta companies for advertising purposes, for a period of five years, regardless of user consent. The CCI’s embargo appears to be an effort to level the playing field, and allow Meta’s online advertising competitors an opportunity to catch up. Even assuming that a five-year embargo on sharing data for advertising is an adequate or proportionate competition law remedy, it is evident that it is contrary to the DPDPA which permits users to consent to data-sharing. It is unclear whether the CCI’s decision will preclude such users from providing their consent for data-sharing once the DPDPA has been operationalised. It’s also questionable whether the CCI’s remedy will protect Meta’s competitors, even if at the cost of its customers. The CCI’s decision does not answer this question. In fact, it neither assesses the adverse effect that such data-sharing would have on Meta’s competitors, nor does it empirically establish that such data-sharing will adversely affect either users or advertisers who rely on such data. Significantly, the CCI does not explain how a five year data sharing embargo will level the playing field, when Meta continues to face competition from a number of significant competitors. The CCI decision does however, and perhaps rather paradoxically, acknowledge the primacy of user consent to data-sharing. It requires WhatsApp to inform its users that their data might be shared with other Meta companies along with the purpose for sharing. The CCI also requires WhatsApp to provide its users with a clear opt out from such data-sharing. This blanket requirement to obtain user consent to any data-sharing, contradicts the DPDPA which permits data-sharing without consent in certain specific circumstances — example, for legitimate use in public interest, such as to protect user safety and security. This potential contradiction between the CCI decision and the DPDPA will create legal uncertainty and make it difficult for entities to comply. It remains to be seen whether the DPDPA, once operationalised, will allow for derogations from responsibilities under that law, on account of a CCI order. The CCI’s decision on WhatsApp’s privacy policy is significant for several reasons and the CCI should be complimented for having made its view on the intersection between data sharing and competition law known. However its behavioural remedies run the risk of creating legal uncertainty for all technology companies which depend on data-sharing. It also runs the risk of becoming part of a regulatory turf war between the CCI and the Data Protection Board of India once it is operationalised. Perhaps it might have been prudent for the CCI to have waited for the DPDPA’s operationalisation before tailoring its remedies. Gandhi is Co-founder and Partner; Gangal is Senior Associate, Axiom5 Law CommentsManmohan Singh: The reformist who mastered the art of wielding delegated authority
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, said a portfolio allocation of up to 2% is "reasonable" for investors who wish to hold Bitcoin, in their latest Investment Perspectives report. They begin the report by noting that "bitcoin cannot be compared to traditional assets," but from a portfolio construction perspective, Samara Cohen (CIO of ETFs) and her team suggest that the so-called "Magnificent 7" group of mega-cap tech stocks is a useful starting point. "Those stocks represent single portfolio holdings that account for a comparatively large share of portfolio risk as with bitcoin. In a traditional portfolio with a mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, those seven stocks each account for, on average, about the same share of overall portfolio risk as a 1-2% allocation to bitcoin . We think that’s a reasonable range for a bitcoin exposure." As with gold, bitcoin can be driven by sentiment, narratives and momentum – both up and down. Why not more, they ask (and answer): "Going beyond that would sharply increase bitcoin’s share of the overall portfolio risk." With approximately $11.5 trillion in assets under management (and manager of the largest spot BTC ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which holds net assets of nearly $54 billion), they are worth listening to. According to BlackRock, investors "need to think about Bitcoin’s expected returns in a different way: it has no underlying cash flows for estimating future returns. What matters: the extent of adoption ." "Bitcoin may also provide a more diversified source of return,” BlackRock said, adding: "We see no intrinsic reason why Bitcoin should be correlated with major risk assets over the long term given its value is driven by such distinct drivers." Longer term, BTC "could potentially also become less risky – but at that point it might no longer have a structural catalyst for further sizable price increases," the report said. Instead, "investors may prefer to use it tactically to hedge against specific risks, similar to gold." Launched in January, spot BTC ETFs emerged as 2024’s most popular investment vehicles, breaking $100 billion in net assets in November. As CoinTelegraph reports , these surging inflows from institutional investors could cause “demand shocks” in 2025 , driving up BTC’s spot price, according to a Dec. 12 report by Sygnum Bank. “Our analysis shows how even relatively modest allocations from this segment can fundamentally alter the crypto asset ecosystem ,” Sygnum said. The report, dubbed 'Sizing Bitcoin in portfolios', was released by BlackRock Investment Institute on Dec. 12.
ENO AND PURSUIT OF ACCOUNTABILITYBy JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70
Paris Hilton reveals her secret to aging backwards without Botox or cosmetic surgeryThe Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) recent decision regarding WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy has far-reaching implications for data privacy and competition in the digital economy. The CCI found that WhatsApp abused its dominant position by mandating data-sharing with its parent company, Meta, and imposed a penalty of ₹213.14 crore. Perhaps, more significantly, the CCI has directed WhatsApp to cease and desist from sharing user data for advertising purposes for five years and to provide users with an opt-out option for data-sharing for any other purpose. WhatsApp has already indicated that it intends to challenge the CCI’s decision and there will undoubtedly be considerable debate on the appreciation of facts and law in this case. However, what stands out is the CCI’s careful balancing act between reviewing the competition issues arising out of WhatsApp’s conduct, while acknowledging that data protection and privacy issues are the domain of other legislation. The CCI quite correctly identifies its responsibility to ensure that data does not become a tool for perpetuating anti-competitive behaviour while acknowledging the role of India’s fledgling Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), Information Technology Act and Privacy rules. What the CCI does not do, is reconcile the potential conflict between its decision on data-sharing obligations and those contained in the DPDP. This conflict becomes evident in the behavioural remedies that the CCI imposes, which embargo WhatsApp from sharing user data that is collected on its platform with other Meta companies for advertising purposes, for a period of five years, regardless of user consent. The CCI’s embargo appears to be an effort to level the playing field, and allow Meta’s online advertising competitors an opportunity to catch up. Even assuming that a five-year embargo on sharing data for advertising is an adequate or proportionate competition law remedy, it is evident that it is contrary to the DPDPA which permits users to consent to data-sharing. It is unclear whether the CCI’s decision will preclude such users from providing their consent for data-sharing once the DPDPA has been operationalised. It’s also questionable whether the CCI’s remedy will protect Meta’s competitors, even if at the cost of its customers. The CCI’s decision does not answer this question. In fact, it neither assesses the adverse effect that such data-sharing would have on Meta’s competitors, nor does it empirically establish that such data-sharing will adversely affect either users or advertisers who rely on such data. Significantly, the CCI does not explain how a five year data sharing embargo will level the playing field, when Meta continues to face competition from a number of significant competitors. The CCI decision does however, and perhaps rather paradoxically, acknowledge the primacy of user consent to data-sharing. It requires WhatsApp to inform its users that their data might be shared with other Meta companies along with the purpose for sharing. The CCI also requires WhatsApp to provide its users with a clear opt out from such data-sharing. This blanket requirement to obtain user consent to any data-sharing, contradicts the DPDPA which permits data-sharing without consent in certain specific circumstances — example, for legitimate use in public interest, such as to protect user safety and security. This potential contradiction between the CCI decision and the DPDPA will create legal uncertainty and make it difficult for entities to comply. It remains to be seen whether the DPDPA, once operationalised, will allow for derogations from responsibilities under that law, on account of a CCI order. The CCI’s decision on WhatsApp’s privacy policy is significant for several reasons and the CCI should be complimented for having made its view on the intersection between data sharing and competition law known. However its behavioural remedies run the risk of creating legal uncertainty for all technology companies which depend on data-sharing. It also runs the risk of becoming part of a regulatory turf war between the CCI and the Data Protection Board of India once it is operationalised. Perhaps it might have been prudent for the CCI to have waited for the DPDPA’s operationalisation before tailoring its remedies. Gandhi is Co-founder and Partner; Gangal is Senior Associate, Axiom5 Law CommentsManmohan Singh: The reformist who mastered the art of wielding delegated authority
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, said a portfolio allocation of up to 2% is "reasonable" for investors who wish to hold Bitcoin, in their latest Investment Perspectives report. They begin the report by noting that "bitcoin cannot be compared to traditional assets," but from a portfolio construction perspective, Samara Cohen (CIO of ETFs) and her team suggest that the so-called "Magnificent 7" group of mega-cap tech stocks is a useful starting point. "Those stocks represent single portfolio holdings that account for a comparatively large share of portfolio risk as with bitcoin. In a traditional portfolio with a mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, those seven stocks each account for, on average, about the same share of overall portfolio risk as a 1-2% allocation to bitcoin . We think that’s a reasonable range for a bitcoin exposure." As with gold, bitcoin can be driven by sentiment, narratives and momentum – both up and down. Why not more, they ask (and answer): "Going beyond that would sharply increase bitcoin’s share of the overall portfolio risk." With approximately $11.5 trillion in assets under management (and manager of the largest spot BTC ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which holds net assets of nearly $54 billion), they are worth listening to. According to BlackRock, investors "need to think about Bitcoin’s expected returns in a different way: it has no underlying cash flows for estimating future returns. What matters: the extent of adoption ." "Bitcoin may also provide a more diversified source of return,” BlackRock said, adding: "We see no intrinsic reason why Bitcoin should be correlated with major risk assets over the long term given its value is driven by such distinct drivers." Longer term, BTC "could potentially also become less risky – but at that point it might no longer have a structural catalyst for further sizable price increases," the report said. Instead, "investors may prefer to use it tactically to hedge against specific risks, similar to gold." Launched in January, spot BTC ETFs emerged as 2024’s most popular investment vehicles, breaking $100 billion in net assets in November. As CoinTelegraph reports , these surging inflows from institutional investors could cause “demand shocks” in 2025 , driving up BTC’s spot price, according to a Dec. 12 report by Sygnum Bank. “Our analysis shows how even relatively modest allocations from this segment can fundamentally alter the crypto asset ecosystem ,” Sygnum said. The report, dubbed 'Sizing Bitcoin in portfolios', was released by BlackRock Investment Institute on Dec. 12.
ENO AND PURSUIT OF ACCOUNTABILITYBy JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70
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Former Trump attorney lashes out at 'lawfare' after court appearance in Wisconsin fake electors caseThe Los Angeles Dodgers may have won the World Series in 2024, but that does not mean they are content with their roster. They could look to bring in another impact bat in free agency. While making predictions for free agents this offseason, Bleacher Report's Erik Beaston predicted that the Dodgers will sign Willy Adames despite USA Today's Bob Nightengale revealing the Boston Red Sox are interested in him now as well. "It still feels like Adames is a better fit for the Dodgers given the world champs' need at the position, but the Red Sox appear determined to get free-agent signings done this year amid mounting frustration with their recent lack of success," wrote Beaston. The Boston Red Sox had not been linked to Adames earlier in the offseason, but a new report suggests they are looking to add him and move Rafael Devers from third base. "The Red Sox also have strong interest in All-Star free-agent shortstop Willy Adames, who is willing to move to third base," wrote Nightengale. "They have scheduled an upcoming meeting and have internally discussed moving Rafael Devers off third base." Adames is the best shortstop available, but moving him to third base is not out of the question. The Dodgers would not need Adames to change positions. They need a shortstop if they want Mookie Betts to play second base. The shortstop position was inconsistent, to say the least. Betts started the year there, but moved back to right field after a stint on the injured list. Adames started 161 games at shortstop last year during a career season. Spotrac projects him to sign a $152 million deal in free agency. He hit 32 home runs, tallied 112 RBIs and 21 stolen bases last year. More MLB: Dodgers All-Star could dump LA and join Braves in free agency
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BY Nick Sabato A year ago seems like an eternity. Imagine how that feels for the Buffalo Bills. Heading into Week 13 last season, the Bills were on their bye. They lost an overtime game to the Philadelphia Eagles after blowing a fourth-quarter lead and another in overtime to fall to 6-6. A playoff berth seemed unlikely and an AFC East championship unfathomable sitting three games behind the Miami Dolphins. And then, of course, the Bills rattled off five consecutive wins to secure their fourth divisional title in a row and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs. Jump ahead to the present and the Bills enter Week 13 coming out of their bye, a 9-2 record and a four-game lead on the Dolphins. This was supposed to be the year the Bills were finally knocked off their throne, but instead, they are a win from clinching a playoff spot and a win and a Dolphins loss from another AFC East banner. While the Bills won’t need to win six in a row to get into the playoffs this time around, they might in order to get home-field advantage and the Dolphins are not quite out of the race for the division yet. This is the time to keep their foot on the gas to avoid any chance of a role reversal. A three-game stretch against the 49ers, Rams and Lions that once seemed to be daunting doesn’t look so tough on paper anymore, but it’s still crucial to come out 2-1. And then there’s the three-game homestretch against the Jets and Patriots (twice). Laugh at the final three games if you will, but the Bills lost to both teams last season and 14 of 27 games within the division have been decided by one score since 2020. And three of their five losses in the AFC East during that span have come against teams that finished below .500. “What we talk about is making sure their habits match our goals as a team and certainly their goals as an individual to be the best version of themselves when they come back,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “We're getting into the back third of the season, if you will. ... It's an important time for sure.” If there is a team to avoid a slump, though, it’s the Bills and McDermott is 7-0 coming off a bye week since becoming the team’s head coach in 2017. And by time the Bills kickoff against the 49ers Sunday, the calendar will have flipped to December and that’s when they shine. McDermott’s first three seasons were a slog in December and January, going 6-8. But since 2020, the Bills are 19-2 in those months and outscored opponents by 11.8 points per game. Some of the late-season success is because the Bills fell into precarious situations in the first half. The Bills went 3-2 in the final month and still needed help to squeak into the playoffs in 2017, then they were 7-6 and trailing the Patriots 13 games into 2021, and then, of course, last season’s run to the finish line. Avoiding a drop-off over the final six games is promising for the same reasons that Bills unexpectedly already have nine wins. This is not a roster laden with stars, but one with many players who battled for jobs during training camp, are still battling and will likely have to do so again next year. The Bills have also fostered an environment where goals and expectations are clear. And the Bills have gone out and acquired players to fit into their mold through the draft, free agency and trades. “Last time I checked, nine wins probably doesn't get you in the playoffs,” quarterback Josh Allen said after beating the Chiefs. “So going into this bye week, get to enjoy ourselves a little bit. But coming back ready. You know, a hungry team.” The Bills may also be coming back a healthier team. Tackle Spencer Brown (ankle), receiver Keon Coleman (wrist) and tight end Dalton Kincaid (knee) were not expected to be out long-term and all could return against the 49ers. Receiver Amari Cooper returned against the Chiefs and played with a cast on his left wrist, so another two weeks of rest can only help him. The Bills can open rookie defensive tackle DeWayne Carter’s (wrist) 21-day window to return from injured reserve Saturday, while the Bills expect defensive end Dawuane Smoot (wrist) back before the end of the season. And then there’s the big fish: linebacker Matt Milano. The All-Pro could make his season debut against the 49ers, but they could sit him one more game before having to decide whether to add him to the active roster or shut him down for the year, which has to be determined after the game. What Milano can bring to the Bills at this juncture of the season is unknown, especially for a 30-year-old who hasn’t played a football game in 13 months. Not only is Milano recovering from biceps surgery, but he hasn’t played a game since fracturing his leg in Week 5 last season, although adding Milano to the mix can’t hurt. “We would want to do it,” McDermott said. “If and when we're given the green light — or he's given the green light — to go about it the right way.”WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for information about an alleged scheme in which North Korean technology workers got jobs at unsuspecting U.S. companies then stole their trade secrets for ransom, with the proceeds used to fund Pyongyang's weapons programs. The U.S. State Department said about 130 North Korean workers got IT jobs at U.S. companies and nonprofits from 2017 to 2023 and generated at least $88 million that Pyongyang used for weapons of mass destruction. Part of the total was the workers' compensation from the employers, which ultimately went to the North Korean government, the U.S. said. The companies were not identified. The North Korea mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The State Department said in a statement it sought information on two sanctioned North Korean companies -- China-based Yanbian Silverstar Network Technology and Russia-based Volasys Silverstar -- that it said handled the workers. The U.S. Department of Justice separately on Thursday announced indictments of 14 North Koreans accused of operating and working for the two companies as part of the scheme. Operating from either China or Russia, the workers stole sensitive company information, including proprietary source computer code, and threatened to leak it unless the employer made an extortion payment, the government said. The 14 people were charged with wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft among other offenses. "To prop up its brutal regime, the North Korean government directs IT workers to gain employment through fraud, steal sensitive information from U.S. companies and siphon money back to the DPRK," Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement, using an acronym for the North Korean state. The people and their unnamed associates used the stolen identities of hundreds of Americans to get hired under the scheme, the government said. People in the U.S. aided the scheme by purchasing laptops or receiving laptops from U.S. employers for the fraudulent workers. The Justice Department has obtained indictments of Americans accused of operating so-called laptop farms in recent months. One North Korean IT defector told Reuters in November 2023 that he would try to get hired and then create additional fake social media profiles to secure more jobs. 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LeBron James ruled out of Lakers' game at Minnesota on Friday with foot sorenessABU DHABI , UAE , Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ADGM, the leading international financial centre of Abu Dhabi and a globally recognised hub for asset and wealth management unveiled nineteen major announcements from global financial institutions during the third edition of ADFW. These represent almost USD 635 billion in assets under management (AUM) and follow other Q4 announcements from the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock, PGIM, and Nuveen, which have also been set up in ADGM. This remarkable increase, from USD 450 billion to USD 635 billion , within a year has reinforced the centre's reputation as the region's fastest-growing and one of the world's most dynamic jurisdictions for asset management. This growth has been further bolstered by the establishment of billionaire-led family offices, including those of British businessman Asif Aziz , prominent philanthropist and financial strategist Wafic Said , and Singaporean entrepreneur and real estate leader Kishin RK, underscoring the centre's growing appeal as a global wealth management hub. Commenting on Abu Dhabi and ADGM's continued momentum, H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi , Member of Abu Dhabi's Executive Council & Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) and ADGM said, "These milestones reflect the heart of what makes Abu Dhabi so special—a shared vision of progress, partnership, and possibility. The growing number of global financial leaders and innovators choosing ADGM is a testament to the trust they place in our infrastructure, robust regulations, commitment to excellence and Abu Dhabi's reputation as the world's safest and most dynamic jurisdiction for asset and wealth management. As we welcome these new partnerships, we remain dedicated to driving the growth and diversification of the 'Falcon Economy' and creating opportunities that resonate across industries and borders. It's an exciting moment for ADGM, Abu Dhabi , and all those who are part of this remarkable journey." Larry Fink , Chairman and CEO of Blackrock praised Abu Dhabi commenting, "It's been a long journey watching how Abu Dhabi has matured as an economy. The constant innovation that I'm seeing from the economy and from the leadership. And Abu Dhabi has really positioned itself to become a leader over the next 20 years. Its psychology was different, and now it's blossoming into this magnet of opportunity. With that strength, it is now becoming a foundation for innovation." "We see a real burgeoning of entrepreneurship happening in the region and believe that the Middle East is the next big entrepreneurial hot spot. We've watched this happen before and always had our eye out on areas emerging in terms of entrepreneurship," said Bill Ford , Chairman & CEO of General Atlantic , during the second day of ADFW. Sir Paul Marshall , Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Marshall Wace said, " Abu Dhabi is such a great place. Abu Dhabi is absolutely nailing it. It's a very attractive place." Confirming their establishment in ADGM during ADFW were leading private equity firms General Atlantic, Lone Star Funds, and Investindustrial along with private credit giants Golub Capital and Polen Capital, insurance manager – Eldridge as well as leading global equity management company, Carta and hedge fund Marshall Wace . This recent wave of commitments from global financial institutions signifies ADGM's leadership in attracting the world's foremost investment firms. Reflecting this confidence and growth, billionaire-led family offices have also been drawn to ADGM, recognising it as a trusted hub for managing and growing wealth. Asif Aziz , Founder and CEO of Criterion Capital commented, " Abu Dhabi's transformation into a global financial powerhouse makes it an ideal base for our operations. ADGM's world-class infrastructure and strategic location provide unparalleled opportunities to forge partnerships that align with our growth ambitions across the UAE and beyond." Building on its role as a leading destination for global investors and asset managers, ADGM is also redefining financial innovation by advancing its digital ecosystem. A cornerstone of this effort was the launch of Finstreet, a first-of-its-kind international securities market and an ecosystem for private securities, which exemplifies ADGM's commitment to integrating cutting-edge digital solutions with its robust financial infrastructure. The week also saw a new funding round for Themis and the entry of international digital pioneers Zodia Markets, Polygon Labs, FJ Labs, Aptos Digital, Chainlinks, Astra Tech and Themis, further solidifying the Emirate's reputation as a global innovation hub. Meanwhile, FinTech Astra Tech's Quantix announcement of a landmark USD 500 million financing from Citigroup, among the largest provided to a UAE FinTech company to date, to expand its CashNow consumer lending platform. Additionally, Themis—renowned for its advanced financial crime prevention technologies—is further reinforcing ADGM's position as a hub for the next generation of financial technologies, secured over USD 9.75 million in scale-up funding, building on its success in partnerships with global leaders, including ADGM underscoring its role in advancing financial crime prevention in innovative regulatory environments. The market announcements were released during the third edition of ADFW held under the theme "Welcome to the Capital of Capital," which gathered more than 20,000 leaders and executives from across the financial services industry, which collectively represented more than USD 42 trillion in assets under management. This wave of newcomers ADFW underscores Abu Dhabi's position as a global financial powerhouse and ADGM's role as a catalyst for economic diversification, attracting top-tier talent, cutting-edge technologies, and transformative investments that are shaping the emirate's future. Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2550581/5010772/ADGM_Logo.jpg View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aum-of-usd-635-billion-at-adfw-caps-stellar-q4-as-trillion-dollar-club-flock-to-adgm-302336607.html SOURCE ADGM
OSAKA, Japan & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 12, 2024-- Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) will host an investor R&D Day today beginning at 8:30 a.m. JST in Tokyo. The meeting will focus on programs in the company’s late-stage pipeline, the transformative value they could deliver to patients, and the market opportunities they represent. “We are focused on advancing our innovative pipeline and accelerating late-stage programs to deliver sustainable revenue growth to 2030 and beyond, building upon the strong momentum of our Growth and Launch Products,” said Christophe Weber, Takeda chief executive officer. “The first three Phase 3 programs will read out in 2025, initiating a cadence of potential filings across multiple indications over the next several years.” Eight Regulatory Filings in FY2025 – FY2029 The late-stage pipeline includes oveporexton (TAK-861), zasocitinib (TAK-279), rusfertide (TAK-121), mezagitamab (TAK-079), fazirsiran (TAK-999) and elritercept (TAK-226). Combined these programs have potential peak revenue 1 of $10B - $20B. Data from three Phase 3 programs is expected to read out in 2025: oveporexton, a potential best-in-class and first-in-class investigational oral orexin receptor 2 agonist will report Phase 3 results in narcolepsy type 1; zasocitinib, an investigational next-generation, highly selective and potent oral allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor will deliver Phase 3 results in psoriasis; and rusfertide, an investigational injectable hepcidin mimetic in development with partner Protagonist Therapeutics, will have Phase 3 results in polycythemia vera. Filings for these three indications are expected in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Five additional indication filings for late-stage programs are on pace for fiscal years 2027 through 2029: zasocitinib in psoriatic arthritis; mezagitamab, an investigational anti-CD38 antibody providing rapid, selective and sustained depletion of disease-causing immune cells that could set a new standard for the treatment of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and immunoglobulin A neuropathy (IgAN); fazirsiran, an investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapy that stops the production of misfolded abnormal protein Z-AAT directly addressing the pathology of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency liver disease (AATD-LD) and; elritercept, an investigational activin inhibitor designed to treat anemia associated with certain hematologic cancers, including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Takeda recently signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Keros Therapeutics to further develop, manufacture and commercialize elritercept worldwide outside of mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including completion of antitrust reviews. “Takeda has established an exciting, late-stage pipeline of transformative therapies that we believe will deliver value to our company and, most importantly, to the patients we serve around the world,” said Andy Plump, president of R&D at Takeda. “As we continue scaling our capabilities and maximizing R&D investment to deliver the late-stage pipeline, we are also progressing an exciting early-stage pipeline, supporting a cutting-edge research organization, and focusing on creative business development across our therapeutic areas to sustain Takeda’s future and continue to meet significant unmet patient needs.” 2024 R&D Day Agenda The meeting includes the following presentations and speakers: A Global, Innovation-Driven Biopharmaceutical Company Christophe Weber, President & CEO R&D Strategy and Pipeline Highlights Andy Plump, President, Research and Development Neuroscience: Deep-Dive on Orexin Franchise Sarah Sheikh, Head of Neuroscience Therapeutic Area Unit and Head of Global Development Ramona Sequeira, President of Global Portfolio Division Gastrointestinal and Inflammation: Deep-Dive on Zasocitinib, Rusfertide, Mezagitamab, Fazirsiran Chinwe Ukomadu, Head of Gastrointestinal and Inflammation Therapeutic Area Unit Ramona Sequeira, President of Global Portfolio Division Oncology: Deep-Dive on Elritercept – Newly Announced Business Development Deal Teresa Bitetti, President Global Oncology Business Unit P.K. Morrow, Head of Oncology Therapeutic Area Unit Webcast Details A live webcast of the meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. JST December 13 (6:30 p.m. EST December 12). Presentations are available on the Investor Relations section of Takeda’s website where a video replay will be available following the meeting. About Takeda Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines. Together with our partners, we aim to improve the patient experience and advance a new frontier of treatment options through our dynamic and diverse pipeline. As a leading values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, we are guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet. 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Did you miss out on the TV deal you were hoping to score on Black Friday? No need to worry because Walmart has just slashed their prices on three of the best TVs on the market. Walmart customers can get the LG 65′′ Class 4K UHD OLED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision B3 Series for a whopping $301 off, bringing the price down to $998. While that may still seem like a big price tag, keep in mind this particular Smart TV is regularly priced at almost $1,300. This price is even better than you’ll find on LG’s site. Why choose an LG TV? It’s all about the picture. LG OLED has over 8.3 million self-lit pixels that turn on and off individually for perfect black and incredible colors, with contrast you can’t get from anywhere else but OLED. Take in the action with a native 120Hz refresh rate for smooth, lifelike movement whether you love sports, movies or games. Entertainment extras like Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and FILMMAKER MODE give you the big-picture experience straight from your couch. Enjoy outstanding picture powered by the a7 AI Processor Gen6, which uses AI to detect what you’re watching and automatically improves the picture and sound quality of whatever you’re watching. And you’ll experience less searching and more streaming, thanks to the next generation of AI technology from LG webOS23. All LG OLED TVs have NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium and VRR to further improve gaming quality. And four HDMI 2.1 inputs allow you to plug in all the devices you need for the win. The 65′′ isn’t the only LG OLED TV marked down this week . Keep scrolling to check out other sizes and prices: LG 75′′ Class 4K UHD QNED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision $1,475 (was $1,999) LG 86′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 120 Hz webOS $898 (was $1,098) LG 65′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 2160p webOS $398 (was $476) LG 55′′ Class 4K UHD OLED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision B3 Series $798 (was $1,199) LG 70′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 2160p webOS $498 (was $598) Ashley Dill covers the online shopping industry, writing about commerce. She can be reached at adill@pennlive.com . Shopping LEGO is having a massive sale, plus how to get a free gift with a $150 purchase Kate Spade Outlet is offering an extra 25% off sitewide - get a handbag for as low as $51! DSW UGG sale: Up to 40% off select styles, including the viral Mini BootieDeep Dive Into Varonis Systems Stock: Analyst Perspectives (8 Ratings)
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BY Nick Sabato A year ago seems like an eternity. Imagine how that feels for the Buffalo Bills. Heading into Week 13 last season, the Bills were on their bye. They lost an overtime game to the Philadelphia Eagles after blowing a fourth-quarter lead and another in overtime to fall to 6-6. A playoff berth seemed unlikely and an AFC East championship unfathomable sitting three games behind the Miami Dolphins. And then, of course, the Bills rattled off five consecutive wins to secure their fourth divisional title in a row and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs. Jump ahead to the present and the Bills enter Week 13 coming out of their bye, a 9-2 record and a four-game lead on the Dolphins. This was supposed to be the year the Bills were finally knocked off their throne, but instead, they are a win from clinching a playoff spot and a win and a Dolphins loss from another AFC East banner. While the Bills won’t need to win six in a row to get into the playoffs this time around, they might in order to get home-field advantage and the Dolphins are not quite out of the race for the division yet. This is the time to keep their foot on the gas to avoid any chance of a role reversal. A three-game stretch against the 49ers, Rams and Lions that once seemed to be daunting doesn’t look so tough on paper anymore, but it’s still crucial to come out 2-1. And then there’s the three-game homestretch against the Jets and Patriots (twice). Laugh at the final three games if you will, but the Bills lost to both teams last season and 14 of 27 games within the division have been decided by one score since 2020. And three of their five losses in the AFC East during that span have come against teams that finished below .500. “What we talk about is making sure their habits match our goals as a team and certainly their goals as an individual to be the best version of themselves when they come back,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “We're getting into the back third of the season, if you will. ... It's an important time for sure.” If there is a team to avoid a slump, though, it’s the Bills and McDermott is 7-0 coming off a bye week since becoming the team’s head coach in 2017. And by time the Bills kickoff against the 49ers Sunday, the calendar will have flipped to December and that’s when they shine. McDermott’s first three seasons were a slog in December and January, going 6-8. But since 2020, the Bills are 19-2 in those months and outscored opponents by 11.8 points per game. Some of the late-season success is because the Bills fell into precarious situations in the first half. The Bills went 3-2 in the final month and still needed help to squeak into the playoffs in 2017, then they were 7-6 and trailing the Patriots 13 games into 2021, and then, of course, last season’s run to the finish line. Avoiding a drop-off over the final six games is promising for the same reasons that Bills unexpectedly already have nine wins. This is not a roster laden with stars, but one with many players who battled for jobs during training camp, are still battling and will likely have to do so again next year. The Bills have also fostered an environment where goals and expectations are clear. And the Bills have gone out and acquired players to fit into their mold through the draft, free agency and trades. “Last time I checked, nine wins probably doesn't get you in the playoffs,” quarterback Josh Allen said after beating the Chiefs. “So going into this bye week, get to enjoy ourselves a little bit. But coming back ready. You know, a hungry team.” The Bills may also be coming back a healthier team. Tackle Spencer Brown (ankle), receiver Keon Coleman (wrist) and tight end Dalton Kincaid (knee) were not expected to be out long-term and all could return against the 49ers. Receiver Amari Cooper returned against the Chiefs and played with a cast on his left wrist, so another two weeks of rest can only help him. The Bills can open rookie defensive tackle DeWayne Carter’s (wrist) 21-day window to return from injured reserve Saturday, while the Bills expect defensive end Dawuane Smoot (wrist) back before the end of the season. And then there’s the big fish: linebacker Matt Milano. The All-Pro could make his season debut against the 49ers, but they could sit him one more game before having to decide whether to add him to the active roster or shut him down for the year, which has to be determined after the game. What Milano can bring to the Bills at this juncture of the season is unknown, especially for a 30-year-old who hasn’t played a football game in 13 months. Not only is Milano recovering from biceps surgery, but he hasn’t played a game since fracturing his leg in Week 5 last season, although adding Milano to the mix can’t hurt. “We would want to do it,” McDermott said. “If and when we're given the green light — or he's given the green light — to go about it the right way.”WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for information about an alleged scheme in which North Korean technology workers got jobs at unsuspecting U.S. companies then stole their trade secrets for ransom, with the proceeds used to fund Pyongyang's weapons programs. The U.S. State Department said about 130 North Korean workers got IT jobs at U.S. companies and nonprofits from 2017 to 2023 and generated at least $88 million that Pyongyang used for weapons of mass destruction. Part of the total was the workers' compensation from the employers, which ultimately went to the North Korean government, the U.S. said. The companies were not identified. The North Korea mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The State Department said in a statement it sought information on two sanctioned North Korean companies -- China-based Yanbian Silverstar Network Technology and Russia-based Volasys Silverstar -- that it said handled the workers. The U.S. Department of Justice separately on Thursday announced indictments of 14 North Koreans accused of operating and working for the two companies as part of the scheme. Operating from either China or Russia, the workers stole sensitive company information, including proprietary source computer code, and threatened to leak it unless the employer made an extortion payment, the government said. The 14 people were charged with wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft among other offenses. "To prop up its brutal regime, the North Korean government directs IT workers to gain employment through fraud, steal sensitive information from U.S. companies and siphon money back to the DPRK," Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement, using an acronym for the North Korean state. The people and their unnamed associates used the stolen identities of hundreds of Americans to get hired under the scheme, the government said. People in the U.S. aided the scheme by purchasing laptops or receiving laptops from U.S. employers for the fraudulent workers. The Justice Department has obtained indictments of Americans accused of operating so-called laptop farms in recent months. One North Korean IT defector told Reuters in November 2023 that he would try to get hired and then create additional fake social media profiles to secure more jobs. (Reporting by Susan Heavey and AJ Vicens; editing by Costas Pitas)
LeBron James ruled out of Lakers' game at Minnesota on Friday with foot sorenessABU DHABI , UAE , Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ADGM, the leading international financial centre of Abu Dhabi and a globally recognised hub for asset and wealth management unveiled nineteen major announcements from global financial institutions during the third edition of ADFW. These represent almost USD 635 billion in assets under management (AUM) and follow other Q4 announcements from the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock, PGIM, and Nuveen, which have also been set up in ADGM. This remarkable increase, from USD 450 billion to USD 635 billion , within a year has reinforced the centre's reputation as the region's fastest-growing and one of the world's most dynamic jurisdictions for asset management. This growth has been further bolstered by the establishment of billionaire-led family offices, including those of British businessman Asif Aziz , prominent philanthropist and financial strategist Wafic Said , and Singaporean entrepreneur and real estate leader Kishin RK, underscoring the centre's growing appeal as a global wealth management hub. Commenting on Abu Dhabi and ADGM's continued momentum, H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi , Member of Abu Dhabi's Executive Council & Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) and ADGM said, "These milestones reflect the heart of what makes Abu Dhabi so special—a shared vision of progress, partnership, and possibility. The growing number of global financial leaders and innovators choosing ADGM is a testament to the trust they place in our infrastructure, robust regulations, commitment to excellence and Abu Dhabi's reputation as the world's safest and most dynamic jurisdiction for asset and wealth management. As we welcome these new partnerships, we remain dedicated to driving the growth and diversification of the 'Falcon Economy' and creating opportunities that resonate across industries and borders. It's an exciting moment for ADGM, Abu Dhabi , and all those who are part of this remarkable journey." Larry Fink , Chairman and CEO of Blackrock praised Abu Dhabi commenting, "It's been a long journey watching how Abu Dhabi has matured as an economy. The constant innovation that I'm seeing from the economy and from the leadership. And Abu Dhabi has really positioned itself to become a leader over the next 20 years. Its psychology was different, and now it's blossoming into this magnet of opportunity. With that strength, it is now becoming a foundation for innovation." "We see a real burgeoning of entrepreneurship happening in the region and believe that the Middle East is the next big entrepreneurial hot spot. We've watched this happen before and always had our eye out on areas emerging in terms of entrepreneurship," said Bill Ford , Chairman & CEO of General Atlantic , during the second day of ADFW. Sir Paul Marshall , Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Marshall Wace said, " Abu Dhabi is such a great place. Abu Dhabi is absolutely nailing it. It's a very attractive place." Confirming their establishment in ADGM during ADFW were leading private equity firms General Atlantic, Lone Star Funds, and Investindustrial along with private credit giants Golub Capital and Polen Capital, insurance manager – Eldridge as well as leading global equity management company, Carta and hedge fund Marshall Wace . This recent wave of commitments from global financial institutions signifies ADGM's leadership in attracting the world's foremost investment firms. Reflecting this confidence and growth, billionaire-led family offices have also been drawn to ADGM, recognising it as a trusted hub for managing and growing wealth. Asif Aziz , Founder and CEO of Criterion Capital commented, " Abu Dhabi's transformation into a global financial powerhouse makes it an ideal base for our operations. ADGM's world-class infrastructure and strategic location provide unparalleled opportunities to forge partnerships that align with our growth ambitions across the UAE and beyond." Building on its role as a leading destination for global investors and asset managers, ADGM is also redefining financial innovation by advancing its digital ecosystem. A cornerstone of this effort was the launch of Finstreet, a first-of-its-kind international securities market and an ecosystem for private securities, which exemplifies ADGM's commitment to integrating cutting-edge digital solutions with its robust financial infrastructure. The week also saw a new funding round for Themis and the entry of international digital pioneers Zodia Markets, Polygon Labs, FJ Labs, Aptos Digital, Chainlinks, Astra Tech and Themis, further solidifying the Emirate's reputation as a global innovation hub. Meanwhile, FinTech Astra Tech's Quantix announcement of a landmark USD 500 million financing from Citigroup, among the largest provided to a UAE FinTech company to date, to expand its CashNow consumer lending platform. Additionally, Themis—renowned for its advanced financial crime prevention technologies—is further reinforcing ADGM's position as a hub for the next generation of financial technologies, secured over USD 9.75 million in scale-up funding, building on its success in partnerships with global leaders, including ADGM underscoring its role in advancing financial crime prevention in innovative regulatory environments. The market announcements were released during the third edition of ADFW held under the theme "Welcome to the Capital of Capital," which gathered more than 20,000 leaders and executives from across the financial services industry, which collectively represented more than USD 42 trillion in assets under management. This wave of newcomers ADFW underscores Abu Dhabi's position as a global financial powerhouse and ADGM's role as a catalyst for economic diversification, attracting top-tier talent, cutting-edge technologies, and transformative investments that are shaping the emirate's future. Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2550581/5010772/ADGM_Logo.jpg View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aum-of-usd-635-billion-at-adfw-caps-stellar-q4-as-trillion-dollar-club-flock-to-adgm-302336607.html SOURCE ADGM
OSAKA, Japan & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 12, 2024-- Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) will host an investor R&D Day today beginning at 8:30 a.m. JST in Tokyo. The meeting will focus on programs in the company’s late-stage pipeline, the transformative value they could deliver to patients, and the market opportunities they represent. “We are focused on advancing our innovative pipeline and accelerating late-stage programs to deliver sustainable revenue growth to 2030 and beyond, building upon the strong momentum of our Growth and Launch Products,” said Christophe Weber, Takeda chief executive officer. “The first three Phase 3 programs will read out in 2025, initiating a cadence of potential filings across multiple indications over the next several years.” Eight Regulatory Filings in FY2025 – FY2029 The late-stage pipeline includes oveporexton (TAK-861), zasocitinib (TAK-279), rusfertide (TAK-121), mezagitamab (TAK-079), fazirsiran (TAK-999) and elritercept (TAK-226). Combined these programs have potential peak revenue 1 of $10B - $20B. Data from three Phase 3 programs is expected to read out in 2025: oveporexton, a potential best-in-class and first-in-class investigational oral orexin receptor 2 agonist will report Phase 3 results in narcolepsy type 1; zasocitinib, an investigational next-generation, highly selective and potent oral allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor will deliver Phase 3 results in psoriasis; and rusfertide, an investigational injectable hepcidin mimetic in development with partner Protagonist Therapeutics, will have Phase 3 results in polycythemia vera. Filings for these three indications are expected in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Five additional indication filings for late-stage programs are on pace for fiscal years 2027 through 2029: zasocitinib in psoriatic arthritis; mezagitamab, an investigational anti-CD38 antibody providing rapid, selective and sustained depletion of disease-causing immune cells that could set a new standard for the treatment of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and immunoglobulin A neuropathy (IgAN); fazirsiran, an investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapy that stops the production of misfolded abnormal protein Z-AAT directly addressing the pathology of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency liver disease (AATD-LD) and; elritercept, an investigational activin inhibitor designed to treat anemia associated with certain hematologic cancers, including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Takeda recently signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Keros Therapeutics to further develop, manufacture and commercialize elritercept worldwide outside of mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including completion of antitrust reviews. “Takeda has established an exciting, late-stage pipeline of transformative therapies that we believe will deliver value to our company and, most importantly, to the patients we serve around the world,” said Andy Plump, president of R&D at Takeda. “As we continue scaling our capabilities and maximizing R&D investment to deliver the late-stage pipeline, we are also progressing an exciting early-stage pipeline, supporting a cutting-edge research organization, and focusing on creative business development across our therapeutic areas to sustain Takeda’s future and continue to meet significant unmet patient needs.” 2024 R&D Day Agenda The meeting includes the following presentations and speakers: A Global, Innovation-Driven Biopharmaceutical Company Christophe Weber, President & CEO R&D Strategy and Pipeline Highlights Andy Plump, President, Research and Development Neuroscience: Deep-Dive on Orexin Franchise Sarah Sheikh, Head of Neuroscience Therapeutic Area Unit and Head of Global Development Ramona Sequeira, President of Global Portfolio Division Gastrointestinal and Inflammation: Deep-Dive on Zasocitinib, Rusfertide, Mezagitamab, Fazirsiran Chinwe Ukomadu, Head of Gastrointestinal and Inflammation Therapeutic Area Unit Ramona Sequeira, President of Global Portfolio Division Oncology: Deep-Dive on Elritercept – Newly Announced Business Development Deal Teresa Bitetti, President Global Oncology Business Unit P.K. Morrow, Head of Oncology Therapeutic Area Unit Webcast Details A live webcast of the meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. JST December 13 (6:30 p.m. EST December 12). Presentations are available on the Investor Relations section of Takeda’s website where a video replay will be available following the meeting. About Takeda Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines. Together with our partners, we aim to improve the patient experience and advance a new frontier of treatment options through our dynamic and diverse pipeline. As a leading values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, we are guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet. 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Did you miss out on the TV deal you were hoping to score on Black Friday? No need to worry because Walmart has just slashed their prices on three of the best TVs on the market. Walmart customers can get the LG 65′′ Class 4K UHD OLED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision B3 Series for a whopping $301 off, bringing the price down to $998. While that may still seem like a big price tag, keep in mind this particular Smart TV is regularly priced at almost $1,300. This price is even better than you’ll find on LG’s site. Why choose an LG TV? It’s all about the picture. LG OLED has over 8.3 million self-lit pixels that turn on and off individually for perfect black and incredible colors, with contrast you can’t get from anywhere else but OLED. Take in the action with a native 120Hz refresh rate for smooth, lifelike movement whether you love sports, movies or games. Entertainment extras like Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and FILMMAKER MODE give you the big-picture experience straight from your couch. Enjoy outstanding picture powered by the a7 AI Processor Gen6, which uses AI to detect what you’re watching and automatically improves the picture and sound quality of whatever you’re watching. And you’ll experience less searching and more streaming, thanks to the next generation of AI technology from LG webOS23. All LG OLED TVs have NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium and VRR to further improve gaming quality. And four HDMI 2.1 inputs allow you to plug in all the devices you need for the win. The 65′′ isn’t the only LG OLED TV marked down this week . Keep scrolling to check out other sizes and prices: LG 75′′ Class 4K UHD QNED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision $1,475 (was $1,999) LG 86′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 120 Hz webOS $898 (was $1,098) LG 65′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 2160p webOS $398 (was $476) LG 55′′ Class 4K UHD OLED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision B3 Series $798 (was $1,199) LG 70′′ 4K UHD Smart TV 2160p webOS $498 (was $598) Ashley Dill covers the online shopping industry, writing about commerce. She can be reached at adill@pennlive.com . Shopping LEGO is having a massive sale, plus how to get a free gift with a $150 purchase Kate Spade Outlet is offering an extra 25% off sitewide - get a handbag for as low as $51! DSW UGG sale: Up to 40% off select styles, including the viral Mini BootieDeep Dive Into Varonis Systems Stock: Analyst Perspectives (8 Ratings)
Media Don't miss out on the headlines from Media. Followed categories will be added to My News. Anthony Albanese has said social media platforms “should pay for journalism” while discussing his government’s plan to tax tech giants if they do not make licensing deals with media outlets. Australia’s news industry has long called for digital behemoths, such as Google and Meta, to compensate it for the activity they get from reporting. The Prime Minister on Friday said it was “really important that we support journalism now.” Anthony Albanese says social media platforms ‘should pay for journalism’. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman “These social media platforms that ... essentially don’t have journalists working for them, but produce and earn revenue off that work of journalists, be it across the board, whether it’s the ABC or News (Corp) or The Guardian or The Age, they reprint it, send it out in digital form, and they should pay for journalism,” Mr Albanese said. “It’s as simple as that.” The Albanese government announced its “news bargaining incentive” on Thursday, after Meta earlier this year said it would stop paying Australian media organisations for content on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Under the plan, digital platforms generating more than $250m would need to pay a levy. The tax can be effectively refunded if they strike deal directly with media companies. Outlets have been haemorrhaging revenue for years in the wake of social media’s meteoric rise – resulting in lucrative advertising contracts being lost and traditional business models in the industry being gutted. Outlets have been haemorrhaging revenue for years in the wake of social media’s meteoric rise. Picture: NewsWire / Aaron Francis The news media bargaining code introduced by the Morrison government in 2021 resulted in Meta and Google paying up to $200m to Australian outlets. Meta has responded to the Albanese government’s latest digital crack down by claiming most users did not use its platforms for news. However, research within Australia and internationally has consistently shown that the majority of people get their news from social media. Meanwhile, Google has pledged to renew its deals with Australian media. More Coverage ‘Fatal errors’ in Dutton’s nuclear plan Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer ‘Big Australia’ problem we can’t escape Duncan Evans Originally published as ‘Should pay for journalism’: Albo pushes for hefty tax on Meta, Google under proposed news media bargaining code Read related topics: Anthony Albanese Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories Media Nine exec sacked after Christmas party A Nine boss has been sacked after an alleged incident at a work Christmas party, marking the latest high-profile departure amid the network’s culture crisis. Read more Companies Aussie music company’s huge move A growing Aussie music company has just made a massive move, taking over a popular online travel guide website. Read moreBIT Mining Limited to Hold Annual General Meeting on January 7, 2025
“Please can you drop the charges against my mum and dad so that I can keep living with my cat brothers and sisters?” That was the plea from the woman at the centre of a sensational starvation trial in a letter sent to state prosecutors. The trial ended last week, with the woman’s parents remanded in custody after being found guilty. The girl’s parents outside court last month. Credit: 9News Perth The woman – now 20, and whose identity is protected by a court order – did not want her parents to go to prison and, from what she wrote, did not think they needed to be punished. But a jury thought otherwise, last week finding them both guilty of not just starving the girl – leading to a dangerous level of malnutrition – but also of emotional abuse, due to their treatment of her as if she were a small child. The case, which was first reported exclusively by WAtoday last year , features elements of infantalisation, a “complex” psychological behaviour that is often rooted in the parents’ own emotional needs, according to Perth clinical psychologist Donna Stambulich. “Common drivers include fear of abandonment, unresolved personal trauma, anxiety about their child’s independence, and difficulty accepting the natural progression of child development,” Stambulich said. “In some cases, narcissistic personality traits may lead parents to view their children as extensions of themselves rather than independent individuals.” So what do we know about the parents, who will be sentenced over the offences early next year? The woman’s father, aged in his 40s, is a senior IT professional, who has held management-level positions in several Perth companies. He became the breadwinner of the family when his daughter was born and his wife gave up her career to be the girl’s full-time carer. A dance school teacher told Perth District Court the girl was small, even by the standard of other students. The family moved to Floreat five years ago and purchased a four-bedroom house for almost $2 million. Department of Communities staff told the court that when they visited the home to check on the girl, it looked “cluttered” and cockroaches were seen scuttling out of the front door where they stood speaking to the father. The father refused to allow them inside and, away from the jury, the court was told the house was filthy and unhygienic, with piles of used sanitary towels sitting in corners. Despite this, the father tried to convince the jury he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. While the husband was earning good money, the wife’s family were also wealthy, and the girl’s grandfather wanted to pay for her to attend a prestigious girls’ school which commands fees of up to $28,000 a year. But the parents refused, instead choosing to homeschool the girl. The mother’s relationship with the girl’s grandfather was rocky. She claimed he was abusive to her when she was a child, and would not allow him to be left alone with her daughter. However, the girl was later placed in his care by the Department of Communities, where she stayed until her 18th birthday, when she returned home to live with her parents. The mother also testified that she had little to do with her siblings, and claimed her daughter was hospitalised in part because her sister and their father had both spoken to the department about the girl’s emaciated appearance. When the mother’s sister raised those concerns with her, she cut off contact. The girl was also, for some time after her parents were arrested, placed into the care of her uncle, who soon after relinquished that care because of the parents’ “ongoing involvement”. Outside court, it was also mentioned that the girl was unable to do much for herself and needed constant care and help with day-to-day activities, such as washing and taking care of her hygiene. She was 17 years old at the time. Prosecutors said that after the woman’s own mother died, she isolated herself and her daughter from the rest of the family. None of her family came to court throughout the four-week trial. The girl was hospitalised after the Department of Communities investigated concerns from a dance studio. What the jury weren’t allowed to hear One element of the case that was kept from the jury was the suggestion the girl was wearing nappies as a teenager. Both the prosecution and defence agreed to withhold the information, but some witnesses almost blurted it out on a number of occasions. The jury was also not allowed to hear why the girl herself did not enter the courtroom to give evidence, and that seeing her so distressed almost brought District Court Judge Linda Black to tears. On November 14, the girl’s mother’s lawyer called her as a witness to tell her side of the story. It was a much-anticipated moment, but she did not make it into the courtroom. The jury was told the girl had “changed her mind”. After coming to court with a “support person”, the 20-year-old had a panic attack and could not give evidence. Black went out of the courtroom to speak with her and, on her return, confronted the mother’s lawyer Michael Perella, asking whether he had ensured the girl received her own legal advice before coming to court. He replied that he had only recommended she did. Black asked Perella whether the girl was told what to wear for the occasion by her mother , and noted she was wearing a “relatively child-like dress” and ballet flats. Perella denied that was the case, and attempted to apply to have the trial aborted because of the turn of events. Black fought back tears as she blasted the lawyer for suggesting such a vulnerable person be brought to court in the first place. “If she was shocked that her daughter was in floods of tears, [the mother] must not know her daughter very well at all,” the judge said. She refused to allow the trial to be vacated. The impacts of infantilisation “can be profound and far-reaching”, Stambulich said. “In the short term, children may experience delayed emotional development, poor self-esteem, and significant difficulties in peer relationships,” she said. “They often struggle with basic decision-making skills and age-appropriate social interactions. “The long-term consequences can be even more severe, potentially leading to chronic dependency, persistent relationship difficulties, anxiety and depression, and significant challenges in managing adult responsibilities. “Many adults who experienced infantilisation struggle with boundary setting and may have difficulty establishing their own independent identity.” During the trial The girl was 14 when this photo was taken. The trial itself may have been arduous for the jury, who were initially told it would be finished in seven days. Instead, it dragged on for weeks, in part due to attempts by the mother to have the trial thrown out twice – midway through proceedings, the court was told the woman was too unwell to attend and listen to the evidence. She was given a brief reprieve to recover, but Black insisted she return and could keep a sick bag at her side in case she needed it. They couple sat side-by-side for four weeks but did not appear to communicate once. As the jury read out their guilty verdicts, the father sat straight-faced, as he had the entire trial, while his wife sobbed, even after bring asked to stop by the judge because of the noise. Their relationship had been examined throughout the trial, with accusations of manipulation, control and verbal abuse from the husband to the wife. He didn’t deny that on the stand. But it was accepted throughout the trial that both parents loved their daughter very much. Stambulich said parents who infantilised their children often had limited insight into their behaviour and its impact. “They typically rationalise their actions as necessary protection or expressions of love and care,” she said. “ These parents may minimise or completely deny any harmful effects of their parenting style, viewing their actions as beneficial rather than potentially damaging to their child’s development.” The mother told the jury her daughter would always be her little girl. She had made sure of that by limiting her ability to grow in height and mature like a girl of her age should have, and limiting her ability to mix with other girls her age, to develop age-appropriate interests and have any level of independence. When the father of the girl was presented with photos of her looking small, frail, sick and severely underweight, he told the prosecutor she was thin but not overly so . “Do you have problems with your eyesight?” he was asked. “No,” he replied. Knowing that they were neglecting and damaging their daughter was at the heart of ensuring there was a guilty plea, state prosecutor Jehna Winter told the court. Their education, ability to comprehend when someone looks healthy and well, and their choice to ignore repeated concerns were what led to them being charged and ultimately convicted. The pair will be sentenced in January and face a maximum penalty of 20 years each.
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As most countries in South-east Asia are still developing and have relatively weak economic foundations, climate finance is necessary for the region to take climate action. SINGAPORE – To the rest of the world, Pari Island may be just another of the thousands of islands that make up the vast Indonesian archipelago, some so tiny they do not have names. But non-profit Friends of the Earth Indonesia is fighting for more visibility for the plight of its 1,500 inhabitants, who are facing the loss of their homes and fishery livelihoods as sea levels rise. The island was partially inundated an unprecedented 10 times in 2023 by exceptionally high tides. Island communities in South-east Asia, like those on Pari, have long grappled with worsening climate impacts, but often find it difficult to access the funds they need to become resilient against floods and typhoons. Countries in the region also need assistance to phase out coal. The Indonesian island of Pari lies just above sea level, making it highly prone to flooding from high tides. PHOTO: ZVG But the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference COP29 could offer some hope, with developed countries agreeing to channel US$300 billion (S$402 billion) a year to developing countries by 2035. The ultimate aim is to raise US$1.3 trillion annually by 2035 for countries in need, through various forms of finance. But the US$300 billion core amount was criticised as woefully insufficient by climate-vulnerable countries and civil society, who expected richer countries – who were historical emitters – to commit more. It is also uncertain how the amount will be raised. While developed countries will take the lead, the COP29 decision stated that the amount will come from “a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources”. Mr Gao Xi, a research associate at the NUS Energy Studies Institute (ESI), said: “Most South-east Asian countries are coastal, making them particularly vulnerable to threats such as typhoons, floods and droughts caused by climate change. Frequent extreme weather events often result in significant financial losses and social disruptions.” In 2024 alone, the Philippines was struck by six typhoons within a span of 30 days – between October and November – killing more than 170 people, displacing more than 214,000 people and causing damage worth about 470 million pesos (S$10.8 million). While the archipelago is prone to tropical storms, such back-to-back typhoons within a month is unusual. An aerial view shows submerged homes at a village in Ilagan, Isabela province in the Philippines on Nov 18 due to continuous heavy rains from Super Typhoon Man-yi. PHOTO: AFP As most countries in South-east Asia are still developing and have relatively weak economic foundations, climate finance is necessary for the region to take climate action, added Mr Gao, with money particularly needed for clean energy generation, low-carbon transport and coastal defence. According to the International Energy Agency, Asean will need US$21 billion in investments annually from 2026 to 2030 just to upgrade its energy infrastructure. And to build resilience against climate impacts, the region needs US$422 billion until 2030. The finance outcomes from the UN conference in Azerbaijan could also benefit other developments in South-east Asia, such as the future regional power grid and carbon trading, which can also benefit Singapore. Funding the Asean power grid The funds pledged at COP29 could provide crucial support for accelerating the development of the Asean power grid. One of the region’s decades-long ambitions, the complex power interconnection will enable electricity trade across borders – for both energy security and access to greener energy. The regional ambition made progress with the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore electricity import pilot in 2022, which transmitted 100MW of hydropower from Laos to Singapore, via Malaysia and Thailand. This was later extended to include another 100MW from Malaysia’s electricity grid in October 2024, but this includes a mix of energy sources, including coal and natural gas. Singapore is also laying the groundwork for the regional grid by committing to import 5.6GW of clean electricity from Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Asean envisions a power grid by 2045, and climate finance has the potential to address the unique challenges of financing such a large-scale, multi-country initiative, said Mr Beni Suryadi, acting executive director at the Asean Centre for Energy based in Indonesia. Several key challenges make traditional financing for the Asean power grid difficult. One is cross-border investment risks, since the giant grid will involve multiple countries with different regulatory frameworks and tariffs. Another is the high upfront capital required, especially for building the grid and transmission infrastructure. The resulting long payback periods can put off traditional investors, who seek quicker returns, noted Mr Beni. Climate finance can loosen these gridlocks. These funds often come in the form of concessional loans with low interest rates, grants, or guarantees which lower the financial risks for private investors. When forms of finance like green bonds, blended finance and funding from the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank are injected into a mega-project first, the risks are lowered for private investors to participate. Blended finance refers to bringing together monies from the public sector, the multilateral development banks, philanthropies and the private sector. “This is where climate finance can step in – by bridging these gaps, mitigating risks, and enabling investments that otherwise might not materialise,” he added. As a wealthier developing country, Singapore would not be a recipient of the US$1.3 trillion, and instead would contribute voluntarily to climate finance. But the island-state would be a beneficiary, nonetheless, of the Asean power grid, which would enable it to import low-carbon and renewable electricity to reduce its carbon emissions. Singapore’s National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) said the Asean power grid would maximise the region’s diverse renewable energy potential by matching renewable resource-rich areas with those that need to buy clean energy. “By doing so, it can reduce the region’s dependence on fossil fuels, increase resilience against fluctuations in global energy markets and make progress towards our decarbonisation targets,” the NCCS spokesperson added. But while the Asean power grid is undoubtedly a worthy project, directing climate finance to it would not be straightforward, as it would be considered an electricity transmission project, said Mr Beni. Whether transmission projects are considered to be green and contribute to reducing carbon emissions is still a question to be settled. “At the moment, climate finance for transmission infrastructure projects is still nascent, while the needs are huge,” he added. The Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam. Singapore is laying the groundwork for the regional grid by committing to import 5.6 gigawatts of clean electricity from Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. PHOTO: REUTERS South-east Asia: Between the devil and the deep blue sea South-east Asia is in a tricky position when it comes to receiving climate finance as stipulated by COP29. On the one hand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia were, until 2019, among the 20 countries most exposed to climate risks, according to the Global Climate Risk Index, which is published by non-profit organisation Germanwatch. But South-east Asia is expected to continue its fast economic growth, accompanied by more greenhouse gas emissions, noted Dr Kim Jeong Won, a senior research fellow at ESI. This growth has reclassified many Asean nations as middle-income countries, reducing their eligibility for development financing, she added. Among the developing nations, the least developed countries and small island developing states are recognised as having the greatest need for support. Given the competition for funding, a significant gap already exists between the required investments and actual finance that the countries have received. For example, only 9.7 per cent of investments from the UN’s Green Climate Fund – the world’s largest fund of its kind – has been channelled to South-east Asia. Similarly, only 6.3 per cent of investments from the UN’s Adaptation Fund has been allocated to Asean countries, said Dr Kim. She added: “South-east Asian countries are expected to compete for limited bilateral and multilateral public funding with other low-income developing countries.” If they want to attract a greater share of private funding, it is vital that countries develop more innovative finance models and attractive climate-related projects, she noted. Ms Lau Xin Yi, sustainable finance lead for South-east Asia at the Carbon Trust consultancy, is looking at a newer type of finance tool called climate transition bonds. The proceeds from these bonds can be used for a wider range of decarbonisation projects, including those in hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement and petrochemicals. Despite guidelines to prevent greenwashing, Ms Lau noted that about 90 per cent of the transition bonds issued globally has been dominated by Japan’s issuances. “Climate transition bonds can help South-east Asia unlock more capital needed for its low-carbon transition. More capital will be channelled towards clean technologies, but how transition is achieved will vary across sectors and regions,” said Ms Lau. More incentives to protect Asean forests A bright spot at COP29 was an agreement on carbon trading , achieved after nearly 10 years of negotiations. Carbon trading is governed under a segment of the Paris Agreement known as Article 6, which was finalised at COP29. This means countries can trade carbon credits in two ways – either under a UN-managed carbon programme or through bilateral agreements. Singapore is currently collaborating with more than 20 countries in carbon markets, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. With Article 6 in place, NCCS said countries that do not have their own national registry to transfer credits can also now use an international registry or receive support from the UN to create their own system. “This reduces the barriers to entry, encouraging more countries to start engaging in carbon markets cooperation, including with Singapore.” Mr Anshari Rahman, director of policy and analytics at Temasek-backed investment platform GenZero, said that carbon markets can unlock financing for deserving and untapped technology, and nature-based solutions in the region. South-east Asia, which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest basin after the Amazon and the Congo, would have more incentives to protect it, if it were to receive carbon credits arising from nature-based projects. South-east Asia is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest basin after the Amazon and the Congo. PHOTO: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY Mr Olivier Levallois, founder of Hamerkop Climate Impacts, said some examples are a peat swamp conservation project in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park, and a carbon forestry programme in Timor-Leste that also benefits small-scale farmers. Singapore has also mandated that carbon project developers must contribute 5 per cent of their share of proceeds from carbon credits towards the host country’s adaptation efforts. This is another way of raising climate finance. “Considering Singapore’s position as a regional carbon trading hub, it should benefit from this early-stage excitement, with more project developers getting involved and capital flowing into carbon projects,” added Mr Levallois, who is also senior director at Chooose, a Norwegian company that helps airlines with their sustainable aviation fuel and carbon programmes. Mr Anshari noted that progress on Article 6 at COP29 helped to shore up market confidence for carbon markets, which have been under scrutiny for years. Mr Levallois said the next steps are to work towards carbon projects, set up regulatory frameworks and develop carbon monitoring methods. A crucial aspect of this process is to increase demand for credits. “The market needs to have stronger demand signal, and it is unclear yet whether companies will suddenly trust these (Article 6) mechanisms and make funding available to address their climate impacts,” he added. Mr Anshari said: “We are closely tracking the development of the infrastructure and tracking systems required to operationalise Article 6 decisions, and we expect to see meaningful progress in 2025 with the first few (carbon) projects to be registered under the (UN) by COP30 in Brazil.” Paying up for climate PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ADOBE STOCK, LIM YONG At COP29, nations set an ambitious goal to channel US$1.3 trillion annually by 2035 to developing countries to help them reduce carbon emissions and deal with the impacts of climate change. The Straits Times breaks down the layers of finance needed to achieve this target based on insights from independent experts, who suggest raising US$1 trillion annually by 2030 as the first step. 1. Developed nations (US$80 billion to US$100 billion) 2. Multilateral development banks (US$240 billion to US$300 billion) 3. Voluntary contributors (US$30 billion to US$50 billion) 4. Innovative sources (US$140 billion to US$160 billion) 5. 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“Please can you drop the charges against my mum and dad so that I can keep living with my cat brothers and sisters?” That was the plea from the woman at the centre of a sensational starvation trial in a letter sent to state prosecutors. The trial ended last week, with the woman’s parents remanded in custody after being found guilty. The girl’s parents outside court last month. Credit: 9News Perth The woman – now 20, and whose identity is protected by a court order – did not want her parents to go to prison and, from what she wrote, did not think they needed to be punished. But a jury thought otherwise, last week finding them both guilty of not just starving the girl – leading to a dangerous level of malnutrition – but also of emotional abuse, due to their treatment of her as if she were a small child. The case, which was first reported exclusively by WAtoday last year , features elements of infantalisation, a “complex” psychological behaviour that is often rooted in the parents’ own emotional needs, according to Perth clinical psychologist Donna Stambulich. “Common drivers include fear of abandonment, unresolved personal trauma, anxiety about their child’s independence, and difficulty accepting the natural progression of child development,” Stambulich said. “In some cases, narcissistic personality traits may lead parents to view their children as extensions of themselves rather than independent individuals.” So what do we know about the parents, who will be sentenced over the offences early next year? The woman’s father, aged in his 40s, is a senior IT professional, who has held management-level positions in several Perth companies. He became the breadwinner of the family when his daughter was born and his wife gave up her career to be the girl’s full-time carer. A dance school teacher told Perth District Court the girl was small, even by the standard of other students. The family moved to Floreat five years ago and purchased a four-bedroom house for almost $2 million. Department of Communities staff told the court that when they visited the home to check on the girl, it looked “cluttered” and cockroaches were seen scuttling out of the front door where they stood speaking to the father. The father refused to allow them inside and, away from the jury, the court was told the house was filthy and unhygienic, with piles of used sanitary towels sitting in corners. Despite this, the father tried to convince the jury he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. While the husband was earning good money, the wife’s family were also wealthy, and the girl’s grandfather wanted to pay for her to attend a prestigious girls’ school which commands fees of up to $28,000 a year. But the parents refused, instead choosing to homeschool the girl. The mother’s relationship with the girl’s grandfather was rocky. She claimed he was abusive to her when she was a child, and would not allow him to be left alone with her daughter. However, the girl was later placed in his care by the Department of Communities, where she stayed until her 18th birthday, when she returned home to live with her parents. The mother also testified that she had little to do with her siblings, and claimed her daughter was hospitalised in part because her sister and their father had both spoken to the department about the girl’s emaciated appearance. When the mother’s sister raised those concerns with her, she cut off contact. The girl was also, for some time after her parents were arrested, placed into the care of her uncle, who soon after relinquished that care because of the parents’ “ongoing involvement”. Outside court, it was also mentioned that the girl was unable to do much for herself and needed constant care and help with day-to-day activities, such as washing and taking care of her hygiene. She was 17 years old at the time. Prosecutors said that after the woman’s own mother died, she isolated herself and her daughter from the rest of the family. None of her family came to court throughout the four-week trial. The girl was hospitalised after the Department of Communities investigated concerns from a dance studio. What the jury weren’t allowed to hear One element of the case that was kept from the jury was the suggestion the girl was wearing nappies as a teenager. Both the prosecution and defence agreed to withhold the information, but some witnesses almost blurted it out on a number of occasions. The jury was also not allowed to hear why the girl herself did not enter the courtroom to give evidence, and that seeing her so distressed almost brought District Court Judge Linda Black to tears. On November 14, the girl’s mother’s lawyer called her as a witness to tell her side of the story. It was a much-anticipated moment, but she did not make it into the courtroom. The jury was told the girl had “changed her mind”. After coming to court with a “support person”, the 20-year-old had a panic attack and could not give evidence. Black went out of the courtroom to speak with her and, on her return, confronted the mother’s lawyer Michael Perella, asking whether he had ensured the girl received her own legal advice before coming to court. He replied that he had only recommended she did. Black asked Perella whether the girl was told what to wear for the occasion by her mother , and noted she was wearing a “relatively child-like dress” and ballet flats. Perella denied that was the case, and attempted to apply to have the trial aborted because of the turn of events. Black fought back tears as she blasted the lawyer for suggesting such a vulnerable person be brought to court in the first place. “If she was shocked that her daughter was in floods of tears, [the mother] must not know her daughter very well at all,” the judge said. She refused to allow the trial to be vacated. The impacts of infantilisation “can be profound and far-reaching”, Stambulich said. “In the short term, children may experience delayed emotional development, poor self-esteem, and significant difficulties in peer relationships,” she said. “They often struggle with basic decision-making skills and age-appropriate social interactions. “The long-term consequences can be even more severe, potentially leading to chronic dependency, persistent relationship difficulties, anxiety and depression, and significant challenges in managing adult responsibilities. “Many adults who experienced infantilisation struggle with boundary setting and may have difficulty establishing their own independent identity.” During the trial The girl was 14 when this photo was taken. The trial itself may have been arduous for the jury, who were initially told it would be finished in seven days. Instead, it dragged on for weeks, in part due to attempts by the mother to have the trial thrown out twice – midway through proceedings, the court was told the woman was too unwell to attend and listen to the evidence. She was given a brief reprieve to recover, but Black insisted she return and could keep a sick bag at her side in case she needed it. They couple sat side-by-side for four weeks but did not appear to communicate once. As the jury read out their guilty verdicts, the father sat straight-faced, as he had the entire trial, while his wife sobbed, even after bring asked to stop by the judge because of the noise. Their relationship had been examined throughout the trial, with accusations of manipulation, control and verbal abuse from the husband to the wife. He didn’t deny that on the stand. But it was accepted throughout the trial that both parents loved their daughter very much. Stambulich said parents who infantilised their children often had limited insight into their behaviour and its impact. “They typically rationalise their actions as necessary protection or expressions of love and care,” she said. “ These parents may minimise or completely deny any harmful effects of their parenting style, viewing their actions as beneficial rather than potentially damaging to their child’s development.” The mother told the jury her daughter would always be her little girl. She had made sure of that by limiting her ability to grow in height and mature like a girl of her age should have, and limiting her ability to mix with other girls her age, to develop age-appropriate interests and have any level of independence. When the father of the girl was presented with photos of her looking small, frail, sick and severely underweight, he told the prosecutor she was thin but not overly so . “Do you have problems with your eyesight?” he was asked. “No,” he replied. Knowing that they were neglecting and damaging their daughter was at the heart of ensuring there was a guilty plea, state prosecutor Jehna Winter told the court. Their education, ability to comprehend when someone looks healthy and well, and their choice to ignore repeated concerns were what led to them being charged and ultimately convicted. The pair will be sentenced in January and face a maximum penalty of 20 years each.
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As most countries in South-east Asia are still developing and have relatively weak economic foundations, climate finance is necessary for the region to take climate action. SINGAPORE – To the rest of the world, Pari Island may be just another of the thousands of islands that make up the vast Indonesian archipelago, some so tiny they do not have names. But non-profit Friends of the Earth Indonesia is fighting for more visibility for the plight of its 1,500 inhabitants, who are facing the loss of their homes and fishery livelihoods as sea levels rise. The island was partially inundated an unprecedented 10 times in 2023 by exceptionally high tides. Island communities in South-east Asia, like those on Pari, have long grappled with worsening climate impacts, but often find it difficult to access the funds they need to become resilient against floods and typhoons. Countries in the region also need assistance to phase out coal. The Indonesian island of Pari lies just above sea level, making it highly prone to flooding from high tides. PHOTO: ZVG But the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference COP29 could offer some hope, with developed countries agreeing to channel US$300 billion (S$402 billion) a year to developing countries by 2035. The ultimate aim is to raise US$1.3 trillion annually by 2035 for countries in need, through various forms of finance. But the US$300 billion core amount was criticised as woefully insufficient by climate-vulnerable countries and civil society, who expected richer countries – who were historical emitters – to commit more. It is also uncertain how the amount will be raised. While developed countries will take the lead, the COP29 decision stated that the amount will come from “a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources”. Mr Gao Xi, a research associate at the NUS Energy Studies Institute (ESI), said: “Most South-east Asian countries are coastal, making them particularly vulnerable to threats such as typhoons, floods and droughts caused by climate change. Frequent extreme weather events often result in significant financial losses and social disruptions.” In 2024 alone, the Philippines was struck by six typhoons within a span of 30 days – between October and November – killing more than 170 people, displacing more than 214,000 people and causing damage worth about 470 million pesos (S$10.8 million). While the archipelago is prone to tropical storms, such back-to-back typhoons within a month is unusual. An aerial view shows submerged homes at a village in Ilagan, Isabela province in the Philippines on Nov 18 due to continuous heavy rains from Super Typhoon Man-yi. PHOTO: AFP As most countries in South-east Asia are still developing and have relatively weak economic foundations, climate finance is necessary for the region to take climate action, added Mr Gao, with money particularly needed for clean energy generation, low-carbon transport and coastal defence. According to the International Energy Agency, Asean will need US$21 billion in investments annually from 2026 to 2030 just to upgrade its energy infrastructure. And to build resilience against climate impacts, the region needs US$422 billion until 2030. The finance outcomes from the UN conference in Azerbaijan could also benefit other developments in South-east Asia, such as the future regional power grid and carbon trading, which can also benefit Singapore. Funding the Asean power grid The funds pledged at COP29 could provide crucial support for accelerating the development of the Asean power grid. One of the region’s decades-long ambitions, the complex power interconnection will enable electricity trade across borders – for both energy security and access to greener energy. The regional ambition made progress with the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore electricity import pilot in 2022, which transmitted 100MW of hydropower from Laos to Singapore, via Malaysia and Thailand. This was later extended to include another 100MW from Malaysia’s electricity grid in October 2024, but this includes a mix of energy sources, including coal and natural gas. Singapore is also laying the groundwork for the regional grid by committing to import 5.6GW of clean electricity from Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Asean envisions a power grid by 2045, and climate finance has the potential to address the unique challenges of financing such a large-scale, multi-country initiative, said Mr Beni Suryadi, acting executive director at the Asean Centre for Energy based in Indonesia. Several key challenges make traditional financing for the Asean power grid difficult. One is cross-border investment risks, since the giant grid will involve multiple countries with different regulatory frameworks and tariffs. Another is the high upfront capital required, especially for building the grid and transmission infrastructure. The resulting long payback periods can put off traditional investors, who seek quicker returns, noted Mr Beni. Climate finance can loosen these gridlocks. These funds often come in the form of concessional loans with low interest rates, grants, or guarantees which lower the financial risks for private investors. When forms of finance like green bonds, blended finance and funding from the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank are injected into a mega-project first, the risks are lowered for private investors to participate. Blended finance refers to bringing together monies from the public sector, the multilateral development banks, philanthropies and the private sector. “This is where climate finance can step in – by bridging these gaps, mitigating risks, and enabling investments that otherwise might not materialise,” he added. As a wealthier developing country, Singapore would not be a recipient of the US$1.3 trillion, and instead would contribute voluntarily to climate finance. But the island-state would be a beneficiary, nonetheless, of the Asean power grid, which would enable it to import low-carbon and renewable electricity to reduce its carbon emissions. Singapore’s National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) said the Asean power grid would maximise the region’s diverse renewable energy potential by matching renewable resource-rich areas with those that need to buy clean energy. “By doing so, it can reduce the region’s dependence on fossil fuels, increase resilience against fluctuations in global energy markets and make progress towards our decarbonisation targets,” the NCCS spokesperson added. But while the Asean power grid is undoubtedly a worthy project, directing climate finance to it would not be straightforward, as it would be considered an electricity transmission project, said Mr Beni. Whether transmission projects are considered to be green and contribute to reducing carbon emissions is still a question to be settled. “At the moment, climate finance for transmission infrastructure projects is still nascent, while the needs are huge,” he added. The Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam. Singapore is laying the groundwork for the regional grid by committing to import 5.6 gigawatts of clean electricity from Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. PHOTO: REUTERS South-east Asia: Between the devil and the deep blue sea South-east Asia is in a tricky position when it comes to receiving climate finance as stipulated by COP29. On the one hand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia were, until 2019, among the 20 countries most exposed to climate risks, according to the Global Climate Risk Index, which is published by non-profit organisation Germanwatch. But South-east Asia is expected to continue its fast economic growth, accompanied by more greenhouse gas emissions, noted Dr Kim Jeong Won, a senior research fellow at ESI. This growth has reclassified many Asean nations as middle-income countries, reducing their eligibility for development financing, she added. Among the developing nations, the least developed countries and small island developing states are recognised as having the greatest need for support. Given the competition for funding, a significant gap already exists between the required investments and actual finance that the countries have received. For example, only 9.7 per cent of investments from the UN’s Green Climate Fund – the world’s largest fund of its kind – has been channelled to South-east Asia. Similarly, only 6.3 per cent of investments from the UN’s Adaptation Fund has been allocated to Asean countries, said Dr Kim. She added: “South-east Asian countries are expected to compete for limited bilateral and multilateral public funding with other low-income developing countries.” If they want to attract a greater share of private funding, it is vital that countries develop more innovative finance models and attractive climate-related projects, she noted. Ms Lau Xin Yi, sustainable finance lead for South-east Asia at the Carbon Trust consultancy, is looking at a newer type of finance tool called climate transition bonds. The proceeds from these bonds can be used for a wider range of decarbonisation projects, including those in hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement and petrochemicals. Despite guidelines to prevent greenwashing, Ms Lau noted that about 90 per cent of the transition bonds issued globally has been dominated by Japan’s issuances. “Climate transition bonds can help South-east Asia unlock more capital needed for its low-carbon transition. More capital will be channelled towards clean technologies, but how transition is achieved will vary across sectors and regions,” said Ms Lau. More incentives to protect Asean forests A bright spot at COP29 was an agreement on carbon trading , achieved after nearly 10 years of negotiations. Carbon trading is governed under a segment of the Paris Agreement known as Article 6, which was finalised at COP29. This means countries can trade carbon credits in two ways – either under a UN-managed carbon programme or through bilateral agreements. Singapore is currently collaborating with more than 20 countries in carbon markets, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. With Article 6 in place, NCCS said countries that do not have their own national registry to transfer credits can also now use an international registry or receive support from the UN to create their own system. “This reduces the barriers to entry, encouraging more countries to start engaging in carbon markets cooperation, including with Singapore.” Mr Anshari Rahman, director of policy and analytics at Temasek-backed investment platform GenZero, said that carbon markets can unlock financing for deserving and untapped technology, and nature-based solutions in the region. South-east Asia, which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest basin after the Amazon and the Congo, would have more incentives to protect it, if it were to receive carbon credits arising from nature-based projects. South-east Asia is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest basin after the Amazon and the Congo. PHOTO: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY Mr Olivier Levallois, founder of Hamerkop Climate Impacts, said some examples are a peat swamp conservation project in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park, and a carbon forestry programme in Timor-Leste that also benefits small-scale farmers. Singapore has also mandated that carbon project developers must contribute 5 per cent of their share of proceeds from carbon credits towards the host country’s adaptation efforts. This is another way of raising climate finance. “Considering Singapore’s position as a regional carbon trading hub, it should benefit from this early-stage excitement, with more project developers getting involved and capital flowing into carbon projects,” added Mr Levallois, who is also senior director at Chooose, a Norwegian company that helps airlines with their sustainable aviation fuel and carbon programmes. Mr Anshari noted that progress on Article 6 at COP29 helped to shore up market confidence for carbon markets, which have been under scrutiny for years. Mr Levallois said the next steps are to work towards carbon projects, set up regulatory frameworks and develop carbon monitoring methods. A crucial aspect of this process is to increase demand for credits. “The market needs to have stronger demand signal, and it is unclear yet whether companies will suddenly trust these (Article 6) mechanisms and make funding available to address their climate impacts,” he added. Mr Anshari said: “We are closely tracking the development of the infrastructure and tracking systems required to operationalise Article 6 decisions, and we expect to see meaningful progress in 2025 with the first few (carbon) projects to be registered under the (UN) by COP30 in Brazil.” Paying up for climate PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ADOBE STOCK, LIM YONG At COP29, nations set an ambitious goal to channel US$1.3 trillion annually by 2035 to developing countries to help them reduce carbon emissions and deal with the impacts of climate change. The Straits Times breaks down the layers of finance needed to achieve this target based on insights from independent experts, who suggest raising US$1 trillion annually by 2030 as the first step. 1. Developed nations (US$80 billion to US$100 billion) 2. Multilateral development banks (US$240 billion to US$300 billion) 3. Voluntary contributors (US$30 billion to US$50 billion) 4. Innovative sources (US$140 billion to US$160 billion) 5. Private sector (US$450 billion to US$550 billion) SOURCES: INDEPENDENT HIGH-LEVEL EXPERT GROUP ON CLIMATE FINANCE, UN CLIMATE SUMMIT NEWS Find out more about climate change and how it could affect you on the ST microsite here. Read 3 articles and stand to win rewards Spin the wheel nowArdelyx CEO Michael Raab sells $153,328 in common stock
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In the world of football, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have long been considered the two shining stars - the twin titans of the sport. For almost two decades, they have dominated the landscape, racking up awards, breaking records, and captivating fans around the globe. However, as we bid farewell to 2021, it seems that the era of the "twin peaks" may be coming to an end.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have announced their uniform combination for their Sunday Night Football game. The Bills on social media on Wednesday said they will don their traditional white helmets, blue jerseys, and white pants when they host the San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Sunday at Highmark Stadium. The game will be aired on NBC and Channel 2. The Bills are 5-0 when wearing that uniform combination this season, most recently beating the Kansas City Chiefs two weeks ago. While many NFL teams reveal classic or alternate uniform combinations for a game or two well before the season begins, the Bills usually announce what they will wear days ahead of each game. If you're superstitious in any way, we are keeping track of the Bills record in various jersey combinations this season. Here's the standings after 11 games: See you on Sunday night. 💯 @DeltaSonicWash | #SFvsBUF pic.twitter.com/kk22t4svxCStock market today: Losses for Big Tech pull US indexes lower Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press Nov 27, 2024 1:06 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message A sign marking the intersection of Wall Street and South Street is shown in New York's Financial District on Tuesday, Nov. 26 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) Listen to this article 00:05:15 Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Losses for Nvidia, Microsoft and Broadcom were the biggest weights on the market. Dell sank 12.2% after reporting revenue that fell shy of forecasts, and HP dropped 11.4% after giving a weaker-than-expected outlook. Treasury yields fell in the bond market. U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wednesday, as losses for several Big Tech companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% in afternoon trading, even though more stocks were rising than falling in the index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 135 points, or 0.3%, as of 3:05 p.m. Eastern time. Both indexes set records on Tuesday. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.5%. Losses for tech heavyweights helped pull the broader market lower. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slipped 1.6%. Its huge value gives it outsized influence on market indexes. Microsoft fell 0.9% Several personal computer makers added to Big Tech's heavy weight on the market following their latest earnings reports. HP sank 11.8% after giving investors a weaker-than-expected earnings forecast for its current quarter. Dell slumped 11.9% after its latest quarterly revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Gains for financial and health care companies helped counter Big Tech's downward pull. Visa rose 0.9% and Thermo Fisher Scientific added 2.3%. The U.S. economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September, according to the Commerce Department, leaving its original estimate of third-quarter growth unchanged. The growth was driven by strong consumer spending and a surge in exports. The update follows a report on Tuesday from the Conference Board that said confidence among U.S. consumers improved in November, but not by as much as economists expected. Consumers have been driving economic growth, but the latest round of earnings reports from retailers shows a mixed and more cautious picture. Department store operator Nordstrom fell 8.5% after warning investors about a trend toward weakening sales that started in late October. Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters jumped 19.1% after beating analysts’ third-quarter financial forecasts. Weeks earlier, retail giant Target gave investors a discouraging forecast for the holiday season, while Walmart provided a more encouraging forecast. Consumers, though resilient, are still facing pressure from inflation. The latest update from the U.S. government shows that inflation accelerated last month. The personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE, rose to 2.3% in October from 2.1% in September. Overall, the rate of inflation has been falling broadly since it peaked more than two years ago. The PCE, which is the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, was just below 7.3% in June of 2022. Another measure of inflation, the consumer price index, peaked at 9.1% at the same time. The latest inflation data, though, is a sign that the rate of inflation seems to be stalling as it falls to within range of the Fed's target of 2%. The central bank started raising its benchmark interest rate from near-zero in early 2022 to a two-decade high by the middle of 2023 and held it there in order to tame inflation. The Fed started cutting its benchmark interest rate in September, followed by a second cut in November. Wall Street expects a similar quarter-point cut at the central bank's upcoming meeting in December. “Today’s data shouldn’t change views of the likely path for disinflation, however bumpy," said David Alcaly, lead macroeconomic strategist at Lazard Asset Management. "But a lot of observers, probably including some at the Fed, are looking for reasons to get more hawkish on the outlook given the potential for inflationary policy change like new tariffs.” President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China when he takes office in January. That could shock the economy by raising prices on a wide range of goods and accelerating the rate of inflation. Such a shift could prompt the Fed to rethink future cuts to interest rates. Treasury yields slipped in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.25% from 4.30% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely follows expected actions by the Fed, fell to 4.22% from 4.25% late Tuesday. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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Rarely does a college basketball game provide such stark contrast between the sport's haves and have-nots as when Jackson State faces No. 9 Kentucky on Friday in Lexington, Ky. While Kentucky claims eight NCAA Tournament crowns and the most wins in college basketball history, Jackson State has never won an NCAA Tournament game and enters the matchup looking for its first win of the season. Impressive tradition and current record aside, Kentucky (4-0) returned no scholarship players from last season's team that was knocked off by Oakland in the NCAA Tournament. New coach Mark Pope and his essentially all-new Wildcats are off to a promising start. Through four games, Kentucky is averaging 94.3 points per game, and with 11.5 3-pointers made per game, the team is on pace to set a school record from long distance. The Wildcats boast six double-figure scorers with transfer guards Otega Oweh (from Oklahoma, 15.0 ppg) and Koby Brea (from Dayton, 14.5 ppg) leading the team. The Wildcats defeated Duke 77-72 on Nov. 12 but showed few signs of an emotional letdown in Tuesday's 97-68 win over a Lipscomb team picked to win the Atlantic Sun Conference in the preseason. Kentucky drained a dozen 3-pointers while outrebounding their visitors 43-28. Guard Jaxson Robinson, held to a single point by Duke, dropped 20 points to lead the Kentucky attack. Afterward, Pope praised his team's focus, saying, "The last game was over and it was kind of on to, ‘How do we get better?' That's the only thing we talk about." Lipscomb coach Lennie Acuff also delivered a ringing endorsement, calling Kentucky "the best offensive Power Four team we've played in my six years at Lipscomb." Jackson State (0-5) and third-year coach Mo Williams are looking for something positive to build upon. Not only are the Tigers winless, but they have lost each game by nine or more points. Sophomore guard Jayme Mitchell Jr. (13.8 ppg) is the leading scorer, but the team shoots just 35.8 percent while allowing opponents to shoot 52.3 percent. The Tigers played on Wednesday at Western Kentucky, where they lost 79-62. Reserve Tamarion Hoover had a breakout game with 18 points to lead Jackson State, but the host Hilltoppers canned 14 3-point shots and outrebounded the Tigers 42-35 to grab the win. Earlier, Williams, who played against Kentucky while a student at Alabama, admitted the difficulties of a challenging nonconference schedule for his team. "Our goal is not to win 13 nonconference games," Williams said. "We're already at a disadvantage in that regard. We use these games to get us ready for conference play and for March Madness." Jackson State has not made the NCAA Tournament since 2007. The Tigers had a perfect regular-season record (11-0) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference in 2020-21 but lost in the league tournament. Kentucky has never played Jackson State before, but the game is being billed as part of a Unity Series of matchups in which Kentucky hosts members of the SWAC to raise awareness of Historical Black Colleges and Universities and provide funds for those schools. Past Unity Series opponents have been Southern in December 2021 and Florida A&M in December 2022. --Field Level Media
Joe Biden begins final White House holiday season with turkey pardons for 'Peach' and 'Blossom' WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has kicked off his final holiday season at the White House, issuing the traditional reprieve to two turkeys who will bypass the Thanksgiving table to live out their days in Minnesota. The president welcomed 2,500 guests under sunny skies as he cracked jokes about the fates of “Peach” and “Blossom.” He also sounded wistful tones about the last weeks of his presidency. Separately, first lady Jill Biden received the delivery of the official White House Christmas tree. And the Bidens are traveling to New York later Monday for an early holiday celebration with members of the Coast Guard. Bah, humbug! Vandal smashes Ebenezer Scrooge's tombstone used in 'A Christmas Carol' movie LONDON (AP) — If life imitates art, a vandal in the English countryside may be haunted by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Police in the town of Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone at the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed. The movie prop used in the 1984 adaption of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” had become a tourist attraction. The film starred George C. Scott as the cold-hearted curmudgeon who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him what will become of his life if he doesn’t become a better person. West Mercia Police say the stone was vandalized in the past week. Megachurch founder T.D. Jakes suffers health incident during sermon at Dallas church DALLAS (AP) — The founder of Dallas-based megachurch The Potter's House, Bishop T.D. Jakes, was hospitalized after suffering what the church called a “slight health incident.” Jakes was speaking to churchgoers after he sat down and began trembling as several people gathered around him Sunday at the church. Jakes' daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts and her husband Touré Roberts said in a statement on social media late Sunday that Jakes was improving. The 67-year-old Jakes founded the non-denominational The Potter's House in 1996 and his website says it now has more than 30,000 members with campuses in Fort Worth and Frisco, Texas; and in Denver. Warren Buffett gives away another $1.1B and plans for distributing his $147B fortune after his death OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans Monday to hand more than $1.1 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family's foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death. Buffett has said previously that his three kids will distribute his remaining $147.4 billion fortune in the 10 years after his death, but now he has also designated successors for them because it’s possible that Buffett’s children could die before giving it all away. Buffett said he has no regrets about his decision to start giving away his fortune in 2006. At the crossroads of news and opinion, 'Morning Joe' hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting The reaction of those who defended “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Trump sounds almost quaint in the days of opinionated journalism. Doesn't it makes sense, they said, for hosts of a political news show to meet with such an important figure? But given how “Morning Joe” has attacked Trump, its viewers felt insulted. Many reacted quickly by staying away. It all reflects the broader trend of opinion crowding out traditional journalist in today's marketplace, and the expectations that creates among consumers. By mid-week, the show's audience was less than two-thirds what it has typically been this year. Pop star Ed Sheeran apologizes to Man United boss Ruben Amorim for crashing interview MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British pop star Ed Sheeran has apologized to Ruben Amorim after inadvertently interrupting the new Manchester United head coach during a live television interview. Amorim was talking on Sky Sports after United’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich on Sunday when Sheeran walked up to embrace analyst Jamie Redknapp. The interview was paused before Redknapp told the pop star to “come and say hello in a minute.” Sheeran is a lifelong Ipswich fan and holds a minority stake in the club. He was pictured celebrating after Omari Hutchinson’s equalizing goal in the game at Portman Road. A desert oasis outside of Dubai draws a new caravan: A family of rodents from Argentina AL QUDRA LAKES, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A desert oasis hidden away in the dunes in the far reaches of skyscraper-studded Dubai has drawn a surprising new set of weary world travelers: a pack of Argentinian rodents. A number of Patagonian mara, a rabbit-like mammal with long legs, big ears and a body like a hoofed animal, now roam the grounds of Al Qudra Lakes, typically home to gazelle and other desert creatures of the United Arab Emirates. How they got there remains a mystery in the UAE, a country where exotic animals have ended up in the private homes and farms of the wealthy. But the pack appears to be thriving there and likely have survived several years already in a network of warrens among the dunes. Pilot dies in plane crash in remote woods of New York, puppy found alive WINDHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot and at least one dog he was transporting died when a small plane crashed in the snowy woods of the Catskill Mountains, though a puppy on the flight was found alive with two broken legs. The Greene County sheriff’s office says Seuk Kim of Springfield, Virginia, was flying from Maryland to Albany, New York, when the plane crashed at about 6:10 p.m. Sunday in a remote area. Officials believe the pilot died from the impact. The surviving dog was hospitalized, while a third dog was not located. The flight was connected with a not-for-profit group that transports rescue animals. New Zealanders save more than 30 stranded whales by lifting them on sheets WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets. New Zealand’s conservation agency said four whales died. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. The agency praised as “incredible” the efforts made by hundreds of people to help save the foundering pod. A Māori cultural ceremony for the three adult whales and one calf that died in the stranding took place Monday. Rainbow-clad revelers hit Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s pride parade RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of revelers have gathered alongside Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s annual gay pride parade, many scantily dressed and covered in glitter. Rainbow-colored flags, towels and fans abounded among the crowd mostly made up of young revelers, who danced and sang along to music blaring from speakers. While the atmosphere was festive, some spoke of the threat of violence LGBTQ+ people face in Brazil. At least 230 LGBTQ+ Brazilians were victims of violent deaths in 2023, according to the umbrella watchdog group Observatory of LGBTQ+ deaths and violence in Brazil.
For the time being, the trees along Goodhue Boulevard will remain. The city on Tuesday withdrew its application to the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission to remove 24 trees along Goodhue Boulevard that line the south corridor leading to the state Capitol. “Lincoln’s quality of life is strengthened when our community forest is healthy and thriving,” said Parks and Recreation Department Director Maggie Stuckey-Ross. “Our department looks forward to working with the public on a plan for Goodhue Boulevard that emphasizes the safety of the public and the health of our urban canopy. The withdrawal of this application allows us to continue the community conversation and move forward together with a strong plan.” The plan, to remove the old and dying trees between A and H streets and replace them with 46 new trees along Goodhue Boulevard and an additional 24 trees at intersections along that corridor, upset many of the residents in the area. People are also reading... They worried about the loss of the tree canopy in the area and how it would affect residents' utility bills and wildlife and maintained that many of the trees have additional life in them if they are pruned, mulched and watered. City officials said the trees were old, had health issues and posed a safety risk to residents. Parks and Recreation officials had planned to use $140,000 in federal dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act to remove and replace the trees, money that must be spent by the end of 2025. In October, the city had made an application with the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the removal of the trees. In its application, city staff noted that tree removals due to poor health do not typically necessitate a certificate from the commission, but that the Goodhue tree removal project merited special consideration based on the commission’s design oversight of the corridor. Many opponents to the plan testified at the first commission meeting, and Parks and Recreation officials then attended a Near South Neighborhood Association meeting to further discuss the plan and postponed the commission vote in November. The commission was scheduled to vote on the plan Friday. Parks and Recreation officials say they anticipate continued community engagement as they develop a new plan for Goodhue Boulevard that prioritizes public safety and the health of the urban canopy. Daily Minute: Changes to mental health coverage; airlines still interested; NU Bowl Game announced. Top Journal Star photos for December 2024 Eddie Walters, dressed as the Grinch, leads the pack of runners along the Billy Wolff trail during the Santa Fun Run on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Cicely Wardyn of Lincoln adjusts an outdoor heater next to a Nativity scene during the Hometown Christmas event Sunday at the Governor's Mansion. Nebraska plays against Florida A&M in an NCAA tournament game on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Fourth grade student Lulu Kulwick carries her review worksheet to meet with her teacher during computer science class. Each student was asked to analyze how fun, challenging and easy to understand each game was, and discuss what they thought was a good aspect to the game, and what could use some work. Ben Heppner is illuminated by morning light as he waits for the start of the Santa Fun Run on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, inside the Fleet Feet store. Nebraska head coach Amy Williams (left) and Callin Hake (14) cheer for their team after a defensive stop during the third quarter of the game against Minnesota on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Members of the Lincoln Journal Star's 2024 Super State volleyball team compete in Dance Dance Revolution and air hockey while at a photo shoot on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, at Round 1 Arcade. Lincoln North Star's J'Shawn Afun (10) and Mekhi Wayne-Browne (11) battle Lincoln Southeast's Jaydee Dongrin (21) for a rebound in the first half on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at Lincoln Southeast High School. Miami's Flormarie Heredia Colon (left) and Ashley Carr celebrate a point against South Dakota State during an NCAA first-round match, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the Devaney Sports Center. Workers pull up the Capitol Christmas tree on Monday at the Capitol. The 22-foot Colorado spruce from Walton was selected by the Office of the Capitol Commission to be this year’s annual Christmas tree. Jenni Watson helps to arrange chairs for New Covenant Community Church's first service in their repaired main auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, at New Covenant Community Church. New Covenant Community Church is nearing completion of six months of reconstruction project after a fire in May damages the church. While the building was not fully consumed by fire, there was significant water damage to the main auditorium and the first floor south wing. Jack, the dog, lifts his leg on the Christmas tree that his owners David and Karen Petersen of Hickman chose as Max Novak helps them on Saturday at Prairie Woods tree farm in Hallam. Iowa's Drew Stevens (18) kicks a game-winning field goal through the arms of Nebraska's Ty Robinson (9) and Nash Hutmacher (0) on Friday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Lincoln Northwest senior Kynzee McFadden (top right) works with her teammates as they compete in an identifying game on the Anatomage Table on Tuesday at Lincoln Northwest High School. An Anatomage Table is a digital platform that allows students to perform virtual experiments on a life-size touchscreen. The table is a tool that provides an interactive view of the human body, allowing students to virtually work with different body parts. Dahlia Brandon of Lincoln tickles her 15-month-old daughter, Gema, with a stuffed animal while shopping at HobbyTown on Saturday. The toy and game store nearly doubled its sales on Black Friday from last year. Nebraska's Berke Büyüktuncel (left) and South Dakota's Max Burchill (3) reach for the ball during the first half of the game on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Contact the writer at mreist@journalstar.com or 402-473-7226. On Twitter at @LJSReist. Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. Local government reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have announced their uniform combination for their Sunday Night Football game. The Bills on social media on Wednesday said they will don their traditional white helmets, blue jerseys, and white pants when they host the San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Sunday at Highmark Stadium. The game will be aired on NBC and Channel 2. The Bills are 5-0 when wearing that uniform combination this season, most recently beating the Kansas City Chiefs two weeks ago. While many NFL teams reveal classic or alternate uniform combinations for a game or two well before the season begins, the Bills usually announce what they will wear days ahead of each game. If you're superstitious in any way, we are keeping track of the Bills record in various jersey combinations this season. Here's the standings after 11 games: See you on Sunday night. 💯 @DeltaSonicWash | #SFvsBUF pic.twitter.com/kk22t4svxCStock market today: Losses for Big Tech pull US indexes lower Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press Nov 27, 2024 1:06 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message A sign marking the intersection of Wall Street and South Street is shown in New York's Financial District on Tuesday, Nov. 26 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) Listen to this article 00:05:15 Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Losses for Nvidia, Microsoft and Broadcom were the biggest weights on the market. Dell sank 12.2% after reporting revenue that fell shy of forecasts, and HP dropped 11.4% after giving a weaker-than-expected outlook. Treasury yields fell in the bond market. U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wednesday, as losses for several Big Tech companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% in afternoon trading, even though more stocks were rising than falling in the index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 135 points, or 0.3%, as of 3:05 p.m. Eastern time. Both indexes set records on Tuesday. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.5%. Losses for tech heavyweights helped pull the broader market lower. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slipped 1.6%. Its huge value gives it outsized influence on market indexes. Microsoft fell 0.9% Several personal computer makers added to Big Tech's heavy weight on the market following their latest earnings reports. HP sank 11.8% after giving investors a weaker-than-expected earnings forecast for its current quarter. Dell slumped 11.9% after its latest quarterly revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Gains for financial and health care companies helped counter Big Tech's downward pull. Visa rose 0.9% and Thermo Fisher Scientific added 2.3%. The U.S. economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September, according to the Commerce Department, leaving its original estimate of third-quarter growth unchanged. The growth was driven by strong consumer spending and a surge in exports. The update follows a report on Tuesday from the Conference Board that said confidence among U.S. consumers improved in November, but not by as much as economists expected. Consumers have been driving economic growth, but the latest round of earnings reports from retailers shows a mixed and more cautious picture. Department store operator Nordstrom fell 8.5% after warning investors about a trend toward weakening sales that started in late October. Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters jumped 19.1% after beating analysts’ third-quarter financial forecasts. Weeks earlier, retail giant Target gave investors a discouraging forecast for the holiday season, while Walmart provided a more encouraging forecast. Consumers, though resilient, are still facing pressure from inflation. The latest update from the U.S. government shows that inflation accelerated last month. The personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE, rose to 2.3% in October from 2.1% in September. Overall, the rate of inflation has been falling broadly since it peaked more than two years ago. The PCE, which is the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, was just below 7.3% in June of 2022. Another measure of inflation, the consumer price index, peaked at 9.1% at the same time. The latest inflation data, though, is a sign that the rate of inflation seems to be stalling as it falls to within range of the Fed's target of 2%. The central bank started raising its benchmark interest rate from near-zero in early 2022 to a two-decade high by the middle of 2023 and held it there in order to tame inflation. The Fed started cutting its benchmark interest rate in September, followed by a second cut in November. Wall Street expects a similar quarter-point cut at the central bank's upcoming meeting in December. “Today’s data shouldn’t change views of the likely path for disinflation, however bumpy," said David Alcaly, lead macroeconomic strategist at Lazard Asset Management. "But a lot of observers, probably including some at the Fed, are looking for reasons to get more hawkish on the outlook given the potential for inflationary policy change like new tariffs.” President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China when he takes office in January. That could shock the economy by raising prices on a wide range of goods and accelerating the rate of inflation. Such a shift could prompt the Fed to rethink future cuts to interest rates. Treasury yields slipped in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.25% from 4.30% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely follows expected actions by the Fed, fell to 4.22% from 4.25% late Tuesday. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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Rarely does a college basketball game provide such stark contrast between the sport's haves and have-nots as when Jackson State faces No. 9 Kentucky on Friday in Lexington, Ky. While Kentucky claims eight NCAA Tournament crowns and the most wins in college basketball history, Jackson State has never won an NCAA Tournament game and enters the matchup looking for its first win of the season. Impressive tradition and current record aside, Kentucky (4-0) returned no scholarship players from last season's team that was knocked off by Oakland in the NCAA Tournament. New coach Mark Pope and his essentially all-new Wildcats are off to a promising start. Through four games, Kentucky is averaging 94.3 points per game, and with 11.5 3-pointers made per game, the team is on pace to set a school record from long distance. The Wildcats boast six double-figure scorers with transfer guards Otega Oweh (from Oklahoma, 15.0 ppg) and Koby Brea (from Dayton, 14.5 ppg) leading the team. The Wildcats defeated Duke 77-72 on Nov. 12 but showed few signs of an emotional letdown in Tuesday's 97-68 win over a Lipscomb team picked to win the Atlantic Sun Conference in the preseason. Kentucky drained a dozen 3-pointers while outrebounding their visitors 43-28. Guard Jaxson Robinson, held to a single point by Duke, dropped 20 points to lead the Kentucky attack. Afterward, Pope praised his team's focus, saying, "The last game was over and it was kind of on to, ‘How do we get better?' That's the only thing we talk about." Lipscomb coach Lennie Acuff also delivered a ringing endorsement, calling Kentucky "the best offensive Power Four team we've played in my six years at Lipscomb." Jackson State (0-5) and third-year coach Mo Williams are looking for something positive to build upon. Not only are the Tigers winless, but they have lost each game by nine or more points. Sophomore guard Jayme Mitchell Jr. (13.8 ppg) is the leading scorer, but the team shoots just 35.8 percent while allowing opponents to shoot 52.3 percent. The Tigers played on Wednesday at Western Kentucky, where they lost 79-62. Reserve Tamarion Hoover had a breakout game with 18 points to lead Jackson State, but the host Hilltoppers canned 14 3-point shots and outrebounded the Tigers 42-35 to grab the win. Earlier, Williams, who played against Kentucky while a student at Alabama, admitted the difficulties of a challenging nonconference schedule for his team. "Our goal is not to win 13 nonconference games," Williams said. "We're already at a disadvantage in that regard. We use these games to get us ready for conference play and for March Madness." Jackson State has not made the NCAA Tournament since 2007. The Tigers had a perfect regular-season record (11-0) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference in 2020-21 but lost in the league tournament. Kentucky has never played Jackson State before, but the game is being billed as part of a Unity Series of matchups in which Kentucky hosts members of the SWAC to raise awareness of Historical Black Colleges and Universities and provide funds for those schools. Past Unity Series opponents have been Southern in December 2021 and Florida A&M in December 2022. --Field Level Media
Joe Biden begins final White House holiday season with turkey pardons for 'Peach' and 'Blossom' WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has kicked off his final holiday season at the White House, issuing the traditional reprieve to two turkeys who will bypass the Thanksgiving table to live out their days in Minnesota. The president welcomed 2,500 guests under sunny skies as he cracked jokes about the fates of “Peach” and “Blossom.” He also sounded wistful tones about the last weeks of his presidency. Separately, first lady Jill Biden received the delivery of the official White House Christmas tree. And the Bidens are traveling to New York later Monday for an early holiday celebration with members of the Coast Guard. Bah, humbug! Vandal smashes Ebenezer Scrooge's tombstone used in 'A Christmas Carol' movie LONDON (AP) — If life imitates art, a vandal in the English countryside may be haunted by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Police in the town of Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone at the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed. The movie prop used in the 1984 adaption of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” had become a tourist attraction. The film starred George C. Scott as the cold-hearted curmudgeon who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him what will become of his life if he doesn’t become a better person. West Mercia Police say the stone was vandalized in the past week. Megachurch founder T.D. Jakes suffers health incident during sermon at Dallas church DALLAS (AP) — The founder of Dallas-based megachurch The Potter's House, Bishop T.D. Jakes, was hospitalized after suffering what the church called a “slight health incident.” Jakes was speaking to churchgoers after he sat down and began trembling as several people gathered around him Sunday at the church. Jakes' daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts and her husband Touré Roberts said in a statement on social media late Sunday that Jakes was improving. The 67-year-old Jakes founded the non-denominational The Potter's House in 1996 and his website says it now has more than 30,000 members with campuses in Fort Worth and Frisco, Texas; and in Denver. Warren Buffett gives away another $1.1B and plans for distributing his $147B fortune after his death OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans Monday to hand more than $1.1 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family's foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death. Buffett has said previously that his three kids will distribute his remaining $147.4 billion fortune in the 10 years after his death, but now he has also designated successors for them because it’s possible that Buffett’s children could die before giving it all away. Buffett said he has no regrets about his decision to start giving away his fortune in 2006. At the crossroads of news and opinion, 'Morning Joe' hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting The reaction of those who defended “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Trump sounds almost quaint in the days of opinionated journalism. Doesn't it makes sense, they said, for hosts of a political news show to meet with such an important figure? But given how “Morning Joe” has attacked Trump, its viewers felt insulted. Many reacted quickly by staying away. It all reflects the broader trend of opinion crowding out traditional journalist in today's marketplace, and the expectations that creates among consumers. By mid-week, the show's audience was less than two-thirds what it has typically been this year. Pop star Ed Sheeran apologizes to Man United boss Ruben Amorim for crashing interview MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British pop star Ed Sheeran has apologized to Ruben Amorim after inadvertently interrupting the new Manchester United head coach during a live television interview. Amorim was talking on Sky Sports after United’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich on Sunday when Sheeran walked up to embrace analyst Jamie Redknapp. The interview was paused before Redknapp told the pop star to “come and say hello in a minute.” Sheeran is a lifelong Ipswich fan and holds a minority stake in the club. He was pictured celebrating after Omari Hutchinson’s equalizing goal in the game at Portman Road. A desert oasis outside of Dubai draws a new caravan: A family of rodents from Argentina AL QUDRA LAKES, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A desert oasis hidden away in the dunes in the far reaches of skyscraper-studded Dubai has drawn a surprising new set of weary world travelers: a pack of Argentinian rodents. A number of Patagonian mara, a rabbit-like mammal with long legs, big ears and a body like a hoofed animal, now roam the grounds of Al Qudra Lakes, typically home to gazelle and other desert creatures of the United Arab Emirates. How they got there remains a mystery in the UAE, a country where exotic animals have ended up in the private homes and farms of the wealthy. But the pack appears to be thriving there and likely have survived several years already in a network of warrens among the dunes. Pilot dies in plane crash in remote woods of New York, puppy found alive WINDHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot and at least one dog he was transporting died when a small plane crashed in the snowy woods of the Catskill Mountains, though a puppy on the flight was found alive with two broken legs. The Greene County sheriff’s office says Seuk Kim of Springfield, Virginia, was flying from Maryland to Albany, New York, when the plane crashed at about 6:10 p.m. Sunday in a remote area. Officials believe the pilot died from the impact. The surviving dog was hospitalized, while a third dog was not located. The flight was connected with a not-for-profit group that transports rescue animals. New Zealanders save more than 30 stranded whales by lifting them on sheets WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets. New Zealand’s conservation agency said four whales died. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. The agency praised as “incredible” the efforts made by hundreds of people to help save the foundering pod. A Māori cultural ceremony for the three adult whales and one calf that died in the stranding took place Monday. Rainbow-clad revelers hit Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s pride parade RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of revelers have gathered alongside Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s annual gay pride parade, many scantily dressed and covered in glitter. Rainbow-colored flags, towels and fans abounded among the crowd mostly made up of young revelers, who danced and sang along to music blaring from speakers. While the atmosphere was festive, some spoke of the threat of violence LGBTQ+ people face in Brazil. At least 230 LGBTQ+ Brazilians were victims of violent deaths in 2023, according to the umbrella watchdog group Observatory of LGBTQ+ deaths and violence in Brazil.
For the time being, the trees along Goodhue Boulevard will remain. The city on Tuesday withdrew its application to the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission to remove 24 trees along Goodhue Boulevard that line the south corridor leading to the state Capitol. “Lincoln’s quality of life is strengthened when our community forest is healthy and thriving,” said Parks and Recreation Department Director Maggie Stuckey-Ross. “Our department looks forward to working with the public on a plan for Goodhue Boulevard that emphasizes the safety of the public and the health of our urban canopy. The withdrawal of this application allows us to continue the community conversation and move forward together with a strong plan.” The plan, to remove the old and dying trees between A and H streets and replace them with 46 new trees along Goodhue Boulevard and an additional 24 trees at intersections along that corridor, upset many of the residents in the area. People are also reading... They worried about the loss of the tree canopy in the area and how it would affect residents' utility bills and wildlife and maintained that many of the trees have additional life in them if they are pruned, mulched and watered. City officials said the trees were old, had health issues and posed a safety risk to residents. Parks and Recreation officials had planned to use $140,000 in federal dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act to remove and replace the trees, money that must be spent by the end of 2025. In October, the city had made an application with the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the removal of the trees. In its application, city staff noted that tree removals due to poor health do not typically necessitate a certificate from the commission, but that the Goodhue tree removal project merited special consideration based on the commission’s design oversight of the corridor. Many opponents to the plan testified at the first commission meeting, and Parks and Recreation officials then attended a Near South Neighborhood Association meeting to further discuss the plan and postponed the commission vote in November. The commission was scheduled to vote on the plan Friday. Parks and Recreation officials say they anticipate continued community engagement as they develop a new plan for Goodhue Boulevard that prioritizes public safety and the health of the urban canopy. Daily Minute: Changes to mental health coverage; airlines still interested; NU Bowl Game announced. Top Journal Star photos for December 2024 Eddie Walters, dressed as the Grinch, leads the pack of runners along the Billy Wolff trail during the Santa Fun Run on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Cicely Wardyn of Lincoln adjusts an outdoor heater next to a Nativity scene during the Hometown Christmas event Sunday at the Governor's Mansion. Nebraska plays against Florida A&M in an NCAA tournament game on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Fourth grade student Lulu Kulwick carries her review worksheet to meet with her teacher during computer science class. Each student was asked to analyze how fun, challenging and easy to understand each game was, and discuss what they thought was a good aspect to the game, and what could use some work. Ben Heppner is illuminated by morning light as he waits for the start of the Santa Fun Run on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, inside the Fleet Feet store. Nebraska head coach Amy Williams (left) and Callin Hake (14) cheer for their team after a defensive stop during the third quarter of the game against Minnesota on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Members of the Lincoln Journal Star's 2024 Super State volleyball team compete in Dance Dance Revolution and air hockey while at a photo shoot on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, at Round 1 Arcade. Lincoln North Star's J'Shawn Afun (10) and Mekhi Wayne-Browne (11) battle Lincoln Southeast's Jaydee Dongrin (21) for a rebound in the first half on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at Lincoln Southeast High School. Miami's Flormarie Heredia Colon (left) and Ashley Carr celebrate a point against South Dakota State during an NCAA first-round match, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the Devaney Sports Center. Workers pull up the Capitol Christmas tree on Monday at the Capitol. The 22-foot Colorado spruce from Walton was selected by the Office of the Capitol Commission to be this year’s annual Christmas tree. Jenni Watson helps to arrange chairs for New Covenant Community Church's first service in their repaired main auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, at New Covenant Community Church. New Covenant Community Church is nearing completion of six months of reconstruction project after a fire in May damages the church. While the building was not fully consumed by fire, there was significant water damage to the main auditorium and the first floor south wing. Jack, the dog, lifts his leg on the Christmas tree that his owners David and Karen Petersen of Hickman chose as Max Novak helps them on Saturday at Prairie Woods tree farm in Hallam. Iowa's Drew Stevens (18) kicks a game-winning field goal through the arms of Nebraska's Ty Robinson (9) and Nash Hutmacher (0) on Friday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Lincoln Northwest senior Kynzee McFadden (top right) works with her teammates as they compete in an identifying game on the Anatomage Table on Tuesday at Lincoln Northwest High School. An Anatomage Table is a digital platform that allows students to perform virtual experiments on a life-size touchscreen. The table is a tool that provides an interactive view of the human body, allowing students to virtually work with different body parts. Dahlia Brandon of Lincoln tickles her 15-month-old daughter, Gema, with a stuffed animal while shopping at HobbyTown on Saturday. The toy and game store nearly doubled its sales on Black Friday from last year. Nebraska's Berke Büyüktuncel (left) and South Dakota's Max Burchill (3) reach for the ball during the first half of the game on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Contact the writer at mreist@journalstar.com or 402-473-7226. On Twitter at @LJSReist. Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. Local government reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
Ambarella, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial ResultsBancroft Fund Ltd. ( NYSE:BCV – Get Free Report ) insider Mario J. Gabelli sold 1,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.74, for a total transaction of $26,610.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 28,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $496,720. This represents a 5.08 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website . Bancroft Fund Trading Up 0.3 % BCV opened at $18.24 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $17.84 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $16.76. Bancroft Fund Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $14.51 and a fifty-two week high of $18.64. Bancroft Fund Announces Dividend The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 30th. Investors of record on Friday, November 22nd will be paid a $0.32 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 22nd. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.02%. Institutional Inflows and Outflows About Bancroft Fund ( Get Free Report ) Bancroft Fund Ltd. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by GAMCO Investors, Inc It is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC. The fund invests in the public equity markets. It primarily invests in convertible securities including convertible debt and convertible preferred stocks. The fund invests in stocks of companies across market capitalization. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Bancroft Fund Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Bancroft Fund and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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Eddie Howe insists “there is more to come” from Newcastle star Alexander Isak. The Swede is challenging for the crown of best striker in the world with his current scoring streak of 11 goals in 12 games... and rivals like Erling Haaland out of form. Isak has scored seven goals and made two assists in his last nine league games and Howe wants that form to continue to grab a rare win at Old Trafford on Monday. Isak is being helped by prolific winger Jacob Murphy who has six assists for the season... only behind Mo Salah and Bukayo Saka in the top flight. Boss Howe said Isak’s “cool, calm” attitude keeps his stock rising, and vowed to keep pushing his goals talisman to even greater heights. He said: “There is a lot more to come from him. Our job is to help him deliver that. Of course the main responsibility is for Alex to keep his focus, ignore the plaudits and keep helping the team not be selfish. It is about Newcastle and he plays his part. “He is what you see on the pitch. He doesn’t get overly emotional which for a striker is a great quality because that coolness you see and calmness in front of goals is part of his personality, part of what he is. He seems to have an extra half a second when other players don’t. "With Alex the beauty of his attitude is that he wants to improve. We give him information and he is responsive. He is not a closed shop. He is in no way thinking he has arrived at a certain place. He knows he has to keep adding to his game. The challenge is great for him to keep scoring freely as he is now. Everyone else can say where he is in the pecking order of world football. "His game is in a good place at the moment. My job is to not sit back and appreciate that, my job is to try and find areas he can improve, push him towards that and never stop pushing him. He has all the ingredients in there and football never stops evolving and changing and he has to evolve with it.” Newcastle have won only once in 29 games at Old Trafford in the Premier League era, in 2013 with a Yohan Cabaye goal. Howe reckons the three away games in nine days, including a trip to Spurs and Arsenal , will define where they will finish this season, with Champions League places up for grabs. Howe added: “It is great for the Premier League. That you never quite know what will happen. Unpredictability brings excitement. The challenge for us is to be the team who is consistent, a team who can produce results when not expected. We are going into a run of games now which will really test us and will be one of the deciding factors on where we will finish. We go to some tough away grounds but we look forward to those and try to maintain our good form. “It will be down to our attitude firstly. Man U is a fixture we should try to attack and keep our rhythm and be the best version of ourselves. We will try to grab it if we can.” Newcastle (4-3-3): Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Gordon, Isak, Murphy Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Amazon's Prime Video is broadcasting the Premier League Boxing Day round of fixtures on December 26-27. Each match can be streamed free with an Amazon Prime subscription or by signing up for an Amazon Prime 30-day free trial .
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Arkansas WR Andrew Armstrong declares for NFL draft, skipping bowlIndependent Senator Lidia Thorpe has claimed she wasn’t told the Senate rules after she was suspended for throwing torn-up documents at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and flipping the bird as she exited the chamber. Ms Thorpe's suspension came after she clashed with Ms Hanson over questions regarding the citizenship of independent senator Fatima Payman on Wednesday. The firebrand Senator has remained unapologetic and said on Thursday, “No one tells me the rules around here until I break them”. “I think they make it up as they go along, and that is part of the problem,” she told the ABC. The comments appeared to refer to her having been censured by the Senate earlier this month for yelling “f**k the colony” at King Charles during an official ceremony. Ms Thorpe also tore up those censure documents at the time. “It seems like there's one rule for white people who get away with racism and there's one rule for us when we call that out,” Ms Thorpe said. “We're the ones that are the naughty little black girl again and that's OK if you want to call me that and call me disruptive. “But I will not stand there, or sit there and be silent when people of colour are being attacked with racism.” The former Greens Senator has consistently challenged Ms Hanson, whom she has accused of using racist rhetoric to further her political agenda. “We all have a responsibility to stamp racism out. Senator Hanson gets away with so much. She is a convicted racist,” she told the Today show. The federal court ruled this month Ms Hanson had racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi when she told her to “p**s off back to Pakistan”. During the Senate clash, Ms Thorpe invoked the insult and told Ms Hanson to “go back to where you came from”, according to the One Nation Leader . The clash occurred after Ms Hanson questioned independent Senator Ms Payman’s legitimacy to serve in the Senate. Ms Payman, born in Afghanistan, has been unable to prove having renounced her citizenship due to the Taliban rule of Kabul. “The documentation is not good enough. It would not be good enough for anyone else here in this place,” Ms Hanson said in the Senate. In response, Ms Payman said Ms Hanson should “pack her burqa and go to Afghanistan and talk to the Taliban about this”. She went on to label Ms Hanson “vindictive, mean, nasty” and said “you bring disgrace to the human race” before Ms Thorpe entered the fray. Ms Thorpe tore up documents regarding Ms Payman's Senate eligibility and tossed them at Ms Hanson before she stuck up her middle finger and left the chamber. She doubled down on her actions during her ABC interview on Thursday and said “I would do it all over again”. “I am not one to stand or sit silent and allow this to happen. I would do it again. I ripped up the letters that Hanson wrote to the Senate, calling on pay man to be investigated,” she said. “That (questioning Ms Payman’s eligibility) is an act of racism and we need to stamp that out as a nation, otherwise we will continue to be divided.” Ms Hanson said she was “pleased” that Ms Thorpe had been suspended after she had shown “aggression” to “many senators in this place”. Amid rumours Ms Thorpe could storm the Senate despite the suspension, she said “This suspension actually allows me to hang out with the people and go protest on the lawns”.
NEW YORK — Eager to preserve President-elect Donald Trump's hush money conviction even as he returns to office, prosecutors suggested various ways forward — including one based on how some courts handle criminal cases when defendants die. In court papers made public Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney's office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books. The proposals include freezing the case until Trump is out of office, or agreeing that any future sentence wouldn't include jail time. Another idea: closing the case with a notation that acknowledges his conviction but says that he was never sentenced and his appeal wasn't resolved because of presidential immunity. The last is adopted from what some states do when a criminal defendant dies after being convicted but before appeals are exhausted. It is unclear whether that option is viable under New York law, but prosecutors suggested that Judge Juan M. Merchan could innovate in what's already a unique case. "This remedy would prevent defendant from being burdened during his presidency by an ongoing criminal proceeding," prosecutors wrote. But at the same time, it wouldn't "precipitously discard" the "meaningful fact that defendant was indicted and found guilty by a jury of his peers." Expanding on a position they laid out last month, prosecutors acknowledged that "presidential immunity requires accommodation during a president's time in office," but they were adamant that the conviction should stand. They argued that Trump's impending return to the White House should not upend a jury's finding. Trump wants the case to be thrown out in light of his election. His communications director, Steven Cheung, called prosecutors' filing "a pathetic attempt to salvage the remains of an unconstitutional and politically motivated hoax." Trump has fought for months to reverse his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors said he fudged the documents to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier. He claims they didn’t and denies wrongdoing. Trump portrays the case as a political attack ginned up by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other Democrats. Trump's legal team argues that letting the case continue would present unconstitutional "disruptions" to his upcoming presidential term. Trump's attorneys also cited President Joe Biden's recent pardon of his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted of tax and gun charges. Biden complained that his son was unfairly prosecuted for political reasons — and Trump's lawyers say he was, too. Trump's lawyers argued that the possibility of a jail sentence — even if it's after he leaves office — would affect his presidency. Prosecutors suggested Merchan could address that concern by agreeing not to put him behind bars. It's unclear how soon Merchan could decide what to do next with the case. He could grant Trump's request for dismissal, go with one of the suggestions from prosecutors, wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump's parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court, or choose some other option. Trump, a Republican, takes office Jan. 20. He was scheduled for sentencing late last month. After Trump's Nov. 5 election win, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed the former and future president's sentencing so the defense and prosecution could weigh in on the future of the case. Merchan also delayed a decision on Trump's prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds. A dismissal would erase Trump's conviction, sparing him the cloud of a criminal record and possible prison sentence. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office. The hush money case was the only one of Trump's four criminal indictments to go to trial. Since the election, special counsel Jack Smith ended his two federal cases, which pertained to Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and allegations that he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. A separate state election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, is largely on hold. Trump denies wrongdoing in each case.Bush footy players beware: you're about to run into a former Canberra Raiders 120 kilogram beast in what could go down as the signing of the off-season for country clubs across Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited access . Login or signup to continue reading All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue The Canowindra Tigers have lured Shannon Boyd out of retirement to get him on the field in the Woodbridge Cup side. The club confirmed his signing late on Tuesday night, announcing his deal to be a player-coach alongside Ron Lawrence. Boyd was one of the most feared props in the NRL when at the peak of his powers. He played 125 games in the NRL and five Tests for Australia in a career that ended prematurely because of injury. The fact he's now just 32 years old should strike fear into weekend rugby league players out west given Boyd's reputation for being an NRL bruiser. He burst into the NRL in 2014 and was one of the best front-rowers in the game when he was at the Raiders before he moved to the Titans in 2019. He played just two seasons before moving home to Cowra. "Shannon brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the club, having played 125 games in the NRL, also playing for Australia for the Kangaroos," the Canowindra Tigers said on social media. "We are stoked to have Shannon and his family join our club, and are looking forward to a successful season ahead." Boyd, who played alongside Lawrence during his days with Cowra Magpies more than a decade ago, hasn't played since his retirement from the NRL in 2020. The Cowra junior was one of the most destructive props in the world at his peak, helping lead the Raiders to a preliminary final in 2016. Shannon Boyd, Paul Vaughan and Jack Wighton. Photo: Gareth Gardner His efforts gained the attention of Australian coach Mal Meninga, who picked Boyd as part of the Kangaroos' Four Nations squad the same year. Having settled back in the region following his retirement, the 32-year old's playing comeback four years on is a boon for the Tigers. Canowindra enjoyed a stellar 2024 season, falling just short in muddy conditions in the grand final against Manildra Rhinos. He could potentially form part of a strong forward pack alongside Lawrence, Charlie Frendo and Nathan Barlow. 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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a shareholder filed a class action on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wolfspeed, Inc. WOLF securities between August 16, 2023 and November 6, 2024. Wolfspeed is a global semiconductor company focused on silicon carbide materials and the fabrication of devices for power applications. For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Wolfspeed, Inc (WOLF) Misled Investors Regarding its Revenue Projections According to the complaint, defendants provided the public with revenue projections that depended on the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility ramping its production to meet and/or exceed demand for its 200mm wafer product. Defendants provided these overwhelmingly positive statements to investors while, at the same time, concealing material adverse facts concerning the true state of Wolfspeed's growth potential and, in particular, the operational status and profitability of the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility. First, to meet its publicly stated projections, the Company would have to cancel or otherwise indefinitely suspend planned future projects such as the facility in Saarland, Germany. Second, the Company would have to terminate a significant portion of its workforce (approximately 20%) and shutter the Durham fabrication facility. Plaintiff alleges that on November 6, 2024, Wolfspeed announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 and unveiled guidance for the second quarter well below expectations. While defendants had repeatedly claimed that 20% utilization of the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility would result in $100 million revenue out of the facility, defendants now guided to a range 30% to 50% below that mark. The Company attributed its results and lowered guidance to "demand ... ramp[ing] more slowly than we originally anticipated" as "EV customers revise their launch time lines as the market works though this transition period." On this news, Wolfspeed's stock price fell from $13.71 per share on November 6, 2024, to $8.33 per share on November 7, 2024, a decline of about 39.24%. What Now : You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Wolfspeed, Inc. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by January 17, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP : Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Wolfspeed, Inc. settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Contact: Aaron Dumas, Jr. Robbins LLP 5060 Shoreham Pl., Ste. 300 San Diego, CA 92122 adumas@robbinsllp.com (800) 350-6003 www.robbinsllp.com https://www.facebook.com/RobbinsLLP/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/robbins-llp/ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/6e2a3cda-6c15-4240-9c27-2fcf37e35629 © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.How to save money on new car models this holiday
Robbins LLP Urges WOLF Stockholders with Large Losses to Contact the Firm for Information About the Wolfspeed, Inc. Class Action LawsuitArkansas receiver Andrew Armstrong said Tuesday that he is entering the NFL Draft. Later in the day, a school spokesman told reporters that Armstrong will skip the Razorbacks' bowl game. The destination isn't yet known. Armstrong led the Southeastern Conference in both receptions (78) and receiving yards (1,140) but caught just one touchdown in 11 games this season. His catches and yardage were both second-most in Arkansas history behind Cobi Hamilton, who had 90 receptions for 1,335 yards in 2012. "It's been a journey for the books and I wouldn't trade it for anything because it has made me into the man I am today," Armstrong said of his Razorbacks tenure in a social media post. "... I will never forget all the moments that were shared here in Fayetteville." Armstrong played two seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce before transferring to Arkansas ahead of the 2023 season. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, he caught 134 passes for 1,904 yards and six scores. --Field Level Media
PurpleVine Drives TCL's Successful Entry into the HEVC Advance Patent PoolBrody Mace, 13, of Stockton Springs almost didn’t get to go hunting for deer this fall. He broke two major bones in his right arm at school while playing football about six or seven weeks before deer hunting season began. Brody was in a full arm cast and couldn’t even bend his elbow. He and his dad Josh Mace were afraid his arm wouldn’t heal enough to get the cast off for hunting. But just before the season opened, the doctor put Brody’s arm in a removable cast so that he had more movement with his hand. Brody went from the disabled list to having family bragging rights with one well-placed arrow from his crossbow. The family owns 9 acres on Cape Jellison in Stockton Springs, where the Maces hunt. They had seen a particular buck on their game camera early one morning. It had bedded down in a nearby thicket. There are old apple trees that the deer and other animals and birds like to frequent in that area, so it’s a good place to watch for game, Josh said. The Maces were a little late getting to their hunting spot, so they weren’t sure if they might spook some deer. But they cleared a spot, set up their blind, cleared some branches out of their expected shooting lane, set up Brody’s crossbow on its shooting stand and settled in to wait, hoping a deer would show up. During the last 45 minutes of daylight, Brody was looking through his crossbow scope into the woods and saw a deer rack. “Dad, big buck! Big buck!” his dad recalled Brody whispering. The buck was looking right at them, Josh said. He got out a range finder to figure out the distance, but was having trouble focusing it because he was breathing so hard, he said. There were a few trees to work around, but they waited for the deer to take just one step and it would be enough. Brody dropped the buck at 45 yards with his crossbow. Brody said he was shaking really hard after, and Josh said he got as much of a rush as Brody did, watching his son shoot his big deer. The eight-point buck weighed 205.4 pounds, qualifying Brody for the Big Buck Club, which is a distinction that his father hasn’t earned in 27 years of hunting. Josh has been hunting since he was 10 years old. This wasn’t Brody’s first deer. He has shot two does, a spike horn buck and a six-point buck with his crossbow. He also has killed turkeys with a crossbow. Brody fishes too and this year caught a 41.5-inch-long striped bass. “Every time he goes, he gets big fish, turkeys, deer,” Josh said. “After this deer, he rubbed it in to Dad.” Josh has killed a bear, but Brody hasn’t yet. Brody thinks he may try regular archery next. His favorite part of the hunt was seeing the deer’s rack through his scope, Brody said. A taxidermist is doing a head and shoulders mount of the deer for Brody. The teen plans to hang his prize buck in his bedroom.
Ambarella, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial ResultsBancroft Fund Ltd. ( NYSE:BCV – Get Free Report ) insider Mario J. Gabelli sold 1,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.74, for a total transaction of $26,610.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 28,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $496,720. This represents a 5.08 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website . Bancroft Fund Trading Up 0.3 % BCV opened at $18.24 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $17.84 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $16.76. Bancroft Fund Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $14.51 and a fifty-two week high of $18.64. Bancroft Fund Announces Dividend The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 30th. Investors of record on Friday, November 22nd will be paid a $0.32 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 22nd. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.02%. Institutional Inflows and Outflows About Bancroft Fund ( Get Free Report ) Bancroft Fund Ltd. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by GAMCO Investors, Inc It is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC. The fund invests in the public equity markets. It primarily invests in convertible securities including convertible debt and convertible preferred stocks. The fund invests in stocks of companies across market capitalization. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Bancroft Fund Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Bancroft Fund and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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Eddie Howe insists “there is more to come” from Newcastle star Alexander Isak. The Swede is challenging for the crown of best striker in the world with his current scoring streak of 11 goals in 12 games... and rivals like Erling Haaland out of form. Isak has scored seven goals and made two assists in his last nine league games and Howe wants that form to continue to grab a rare win at Old Trafford on Monday. Isak is being helped by prolific winger Jacob Murphy who has six assists for the season... only behind Mo Salah and Bukayo Saka in the top flight. Boss Howe said Isak’s “cool, calm” attitude keeps his stock rising, and vowed to keep pushing his goals talisman to even greater heights. He said: “There is a lot more to come from him. Our job is to help him deliver that. Of course the main responsibility is for Alex to keep his focus, ignore the plaudits and keep helping the team not be selfish. It is about Newcastle and he plays his part. “He is what you see on the pitch. He doesn’t get overly emotional which for a striker is a great quality because that coolness you see and calmness in front of goals is part of his personality, part of what he is. He seems to have an extra half a second when other players don’t. "With Alex the beauty of his attitude is that he wants to improve. We give him information and he is responsive. He is not a closed shop. He is in no way thinking he has arrived at a certain place. He knows he has to keep adding to his game. The challenge is great for him to keep scoring freely as he is now. Everyone else can say where he is in the pecking order of world football. "His game is in a good place at the moment. My job is to not sit back and appreciate that, my job is to try and find areas he can improve, push him towards that and never stop pushing him. He has all the ingredients in there and football never stops evolving and changing and he has to evolve with it.” Newcastle have won only once in 29 games at Old Trafford in the Premier League era, in 2013 with a Yohan Cabaye goal. Howe reckons the three away games in nine days, including a trip to Spurs and Arsenal , will define where they will finish this season, with Champions League places up for grabs. Howe added: “It is great for the Premier League. That you never quite know what will happen. Unpredictability brings excitement. The challenge for us is to be the team who is consistent, a team who can produce results when not expected. We are going into a run of games now which will really test us and will be one of the deciding factors on where we will finish. We go to some tough away grounds but we look forward to those and try to maintain our good form. “It will be down to our attitude firstly. Man U is a fixture we should try to attack and keep our rhythm and be the best version of ourselves. We will try to grab it if we can.” Newcastle (4-3-3): Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Gordon, Isak, Murphy Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Amazon's Prime Video is broadcasting the Premier League Boxing Day round of fixtures on December 26-27. Each match can be streamed free with an Amazon Prime subscription or by signing up for an Amazon Prime 30-day free trial .
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Arkansas WR Andrew Armstrong declares for NFL draft, skipping bowlIndependent Senator Lidia Thorpe has claimed she wasn’t told the Senate rules after she was suspended for throwing torn-up documents at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and flipping the bird as she exited the chamber. Ms Thorpe's suspension came after she clashed with Ms Hanson over questions regarding the citizenship of independent senator Fatima Payman on Wednesday. The firebrand Senator has remained unapologetic and said on Thursday, “No one tells me the rules around here until I break them”. “I think they make it up as they go along, and that is part of the problem,” she told the ABC. The comments appeared to refer to her having been censured by the Senate earlier this month for yelling “f**k the colony” at King Charles during an official ceremony. Ms Thorpe also tore up those censure documents at the time. “It seems like there's one rule for white people who get away with racism and there's one rule for us when we call that out,” Ms Thorpe said. “We're the ones that are the naughty little black girl again and that's OK if you want to call me that and call me disruptive. “But I will not stand there, or sit there and be silent when people of colour are being attacked with racism.” The former Greens Senator has consistently challenged Ms Hanson, whom she has accused of using racist rhetoric to further her political agenda. “We all have a responsibility to stamp racism out. Senator Hanson gets away with so much. She is a convicted racist,” she told the Today show. The federal court ruled this month Ms Hanson had racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi when she told her to “p**s off back to Pakistan”. During the Senate clash, Ms Thorpe invoked the insult and told Ms Hanson to “go back to where you came from”, according to the One Nation Leader . The clash occurred after Ms Hanson questioned independent Senator Ms Payman’s legitimacy to serve in the Senate. Ms Payman, born in Afghanistan, has been unable to prove having renounced her citizenship due to the Taliban rule of Kabul. “The documentation is not good enough. It would not be good enough for anyone else here in this place,” Ms Hanson said in the Senate. In response, Ms Payman said Ms Hanson should “pack her burqa and go to Afghanistan and talk to the Taliban about this”. She went on to label Ms Hanson “vindictive, mean, nasty” and said “you bring disgrace to the human race” before Ms Thorpe entered the fray. Ms Thorpe tore up documents regarding Ms Payman's Senate eligibility and tossed them at Ms Hanson before she stuck up her middle finger and left the chamber. She doubled down on her actions during her ABC interview on Thursday and said “I would do it all over again”. “I am not one to stand or sit silent and allow this to happen. I would do it again. I ripped up the letters that Hanson wrote to the Senate, calling on pay man to be investigated,” she said. “That (questioning Ms Payman’s eligibility) is an act of racism and we need to stamp that out as a nation, otherwise we will continue to be divided.” Ms Hanson said she was “pleased” that Ms Thorpe had been suspended after she had shown “aggression” to “many senators in this place”. Amid rumours Ms Thorpe could storm the Senate despite the suspension, she said “This suspension actually allows me to hang out with the people and go protest on the lawns”.
NEW YORK — Eager to preserve President-elect Donald Trump's hush money conviction even as he returns to office, prosecutors suggested various ways forward — including one based on how some courts handle criminal cases when defendants die. In court papers made public Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney's office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books. The proposals include freezing the case until Trump is out of office, or agreeing that any future sentence wouldn't include jail time. Another idea: closing the case with a notation that acknowledges his conviction but says that he was never sentenced and his appeal wasn't resolved because of presidential immunity. The last is adopted from what some states do when a criminal defendant dies after being convicted but before appeals are exhausted. It is unclear whether that option is viable under New York law, but prosecutors suggested that Judge Juan M. Merchan could innovate in what's already a unique case. "This remedy would prevent defendant from being burdened during his presidency by an ongoing criminal proceeding," prosecutors wrote. But at the same time, it wouldn't "precipitously discard" the "meaningful fact that defendant was indicted and found guilty by a jury of his peers." Expanding on a position they laid out last month, prosecutors acknowledged that "presidential immunity requires accommodation during a president's time in office," but they were adamant that the conviction should stand. They argued that Trump's impending return to the White House should not upend a jury's finding. Trump wants the case to be thrown out in light of his election. His communications director, Steven Cheung, called prosecutors' filing "a pathetic attempt to salvage the remains of an unconstitutional and politically motivated hoax." Trump has fought for months to reverse his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors said he fudged the documents to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier. He claims they didn’t and denies wrongdoing. Trump portrays the case as a political attack ginned up by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other Democrats. Trump's legal team argues that letting the case continue would present unconstitutional "disruptions" to his upcoming presidential term. Trump's attorneys also cited President Joe Biden's recent pardon of his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted of tax and gun charges. Biden complained that his son was unfairly prosecuted for political reasons — and Trump's lawyers say he was, too. Trump's lawyers argued that the possibility of a jail sentence — even if it's after he leaves office — would affect his presidency. Prosecutors suggested Merchan could address that concern by agreeing not to put him behind bars. It's unclear how soon Merchan could decide what to do next with the case. He could grant Trump's request for dismissal, go with one of the suggestions from prosecutors, wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump's parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court, or choose some other option. Trump, a Republican, takes office Jan. 20. He was scheduled for sentencing late last month. After Trump's Nov. 5 election win, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed the former and future president's sentencing so the defense and prosecution could weigh in on the future of the case. Merchan also delayed a decision on Trump's prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds. A dismissal would erase Trump's conviction, sparing him the cloud of a criminal record and possible prison sentence. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office. The hush money case was the only one of Trump's four criminal indictments to go to trial. Since the election, special counsel Jack Smith ended his two federal cases, which pertained to Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and allegations that he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. A separate state election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, is largely on hold. Trump denies wrongdoing in each case.Bush footy players beware: you're about to run into a former Canberra Raiders 120 kilogram beast in what could go down as the signing of the off-season for country clubs across Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited access . Login or signup to continue reading All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue The Canowindra Tigers have lured Shannon Boyd out of retirement to get him on the field in the Woodbridge Cup side. The club confirmed his signing late on Tuesday night, announcing his deal to be a player-coach alongside Ron Lawrence. Boyd was one of the most feared props in the NRL when at the peak of his powers. He played 125 games in the NRL and five Tests for Australia in a career that ended prematurely because of injury. The fact he's now just 32 years old should strike fear into weekend rugby league players out west given Boyd's reputation for being an NRL bruiser. He burst into the NRL in 2014 and was one of the best front-rowers in the game when he was at the Raiders before he moved to the Titans in 2019. He played just two seasons before moving home to Cowra. "Shannon brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the club, having played 125 games in the NRL, also playing for Australia for the Kangaroos," the Canowindra Tigers said on social media. "We are stoked to have Shannon and his family join our club, and are looking forward to a successful season ahead." Boyd, who played alongside Lawrence during his days with Cowra Magpies more than a decade ago, hasn't played since his retirement from the NRL in 2020. The Cowra junior was one of the most destructive props in the world at his peak, helping lead the Raiders to a preliminary final in 2016. Shannon Boyd, Paul Vaughan and Jack Wighton. Photo: Gareth Gardner His efforts gained the attention of Australian coach Mal Meninga, who picked Boyd as part of the Kangaroos' Four Nations squad the same year. Having settled back in the region following his retirement, the 32-year old's playing comeback four years on is a boon for the Tigers. Canowindra enjoyed a stellar 2024 season, falling just short in muddy conditions in the grand final against Manildra Rhinos. He could potentially form part of a strong forward pack alongside Lawrence, Charlie Frendo and Nathan Barlow. 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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a shareholder filed a class action on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wolfspeed, Inc. WOLF securities between August 16, 2023 and November 6, 2024. Wolfspeed is a global semiconductor company focused on silicon carbide materials and the fabrication of devices for power applications. For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Wolfspeed, Inc (WOLF) Misled Investors Regarding its Revenue Projections According to the complaint, defendants provided the public with revenue projections that depended on the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility ramping its production to meet and/or exceed demand for its 200mm wafer product. Defendants provided these overwhelmingly positive statements to investors while, at the same time, concealing material adverse facts concerning the true state of Wolfspeed's growth potential and, in particular, the operational status and profitability of the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility. First, to meet its publicly stated projections, the Company would have to cancel or otherwise indefinitely suspend planned future projects such as the facility in Saarland, Germany. Second, the Company would have to terminate a significant portion of its workforce (approximately 20%) and shutter the Durham fabrication facility. Plaintiff alleges that on November 6, 2024, Wolfspeed announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 and unveiled guidance for the second quarter well below expectations. While defendants had repeatedly claimed that 20% utilization of the Mohawk Valley fabrication facility would result in $100 million revenue out of the facility, defendants now guided to a range 30% to 50% below that mark. The Company attributed its results and lowered guidance to "demand ... ramp[ing] more slowly than we originally anticipated" as "EV customers revise their launch time lines as the market works though this transition period." On this news, Wolfspeed's stock price fell from $13.71 per share on November 6, 2024, to $8.33 per share on November 7, 2024, a decline of about 39.24%. What Now : You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Wolfspeed, Inc. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by January 17, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP : Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Wolfspeed, Inc. settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Contact: Aaron Dumas, Jr. Robbins LLP 5060 Shoreham Pl., Ste. 300 San Diego, CA 92122 adumas@robbinsllp.com (800) 350-6003 www.robbinsllp.com https://www.facebook.com/RobbinsLLP/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/robbins-llp/ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/6e2a3cda-6c15-4240-9c27-2fcf37e35629 © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.How to save money on new car models this holiday
Robbins LLP Urges WOLF Stockholders with Large Losses to Contact the Firm for Information About the Wolfspeed, Inc. Class Action LawsuitArkansas receiver Andrew Armstrong said Tuesday that he is entering the NFL Draft. Later in the day, a school spokesman told reporters that Armstrong will skip the Razorbacks' bowl game. The destination isn't yet known. Armstrong led the Southeastern Conference in both receptions (78) and receiving yards (1,140) but caught just one touchdown in 11 games this season. His catches and yardage were both second-most in Arkansas history behind Cobi Hamilton, who had 90 receptions for 1,335 yards in 2012. "It's been a journey for the books and I wouldn't trade it for anything because it has made me into the man I am today," Armstrong said of his Razorbacks tenure in a social media post. "... I will never forget all the moments that were shared here in Fayetteville." Armstrong played two seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce before transferring to Arkansas ahead of the 2023 season. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, he caught 134 passes for 1,904 yards and six scores. --Field Level Media
PurpleVine Drives TCL's Successful Entry into the HEVC Advance Patent PoolBrody Mace, 13, of Stockton Springs almost didn’t get to go hunting for deer this fall. He broke two major bones in his right arm at school while playing football about six or seven weeks before deer hunting season began. Brody was in a full arm cast and couldn’t even bend his elbow. He and his dad Josh Mace were afraid his arm wouldn’t heal enough to get the cast off for hunting. But just before the season opened, the doctor put Brody’s arm in a removable cast so that he had more movement with his hand. Brody went from the disabled list to having family bragging rights with one well-placed arrow from his crossbow. The family owns 9 acres on Cape Jellison in Stockton Springs, where the Maces hunt. They had seen a particular buck on their game camera early one morning. It had bedded down in a nearby thicket. There are old apple trees that the deer and other animals and birds like to frequent in that area, so it’s a good place to watch for game, Josh said. The Maces were a little late getting to their hunting spot, so they weren’t sure if they might spook some deer. But they cleared a spot, set up their blind, cleared some branches out of their expected shooting lane, set up Brody’s crossbow on its shooting stand and settled in to wait, hoping a deer would show up. During the last 45 minutes of daylight, Brody was looking through his crossbow scope into the woods and saw a deer rack. “Dad, big buck! Big buck!” his dad recalled Brody whispering. The buck was looking right at them, Josh said. He got out a range finder to figure out the distance, but was having trouble focusing it because he was breathing so hard, he said. There were a few trees to work around, but they waited for the deer to take just one step and it would be enough. Brody dropped the buck at 45 yards with his crossbow. Brody said he was shaking really hard after, and Josh said he got as much of a rush as Brody did, watching his son shoot his big deer. The eight-point buck weighed 205.4 pounds, qualifying Brody for the Big Buck Club, which is a distinction that his father hasn’t earned in 27 years of hunting. Josh has been hunting since he was 10 years old. This wasn’t Brody’s first deer. He has shot two does, a spike horn buck and a six-point buck with his crossbow. He also has killed turkeys with a crossbow. Brody fishes too and this year caught a 41.5-inch-long striped bass. “Every time he goes, he gets big fish, turkeys, deer,” Josh said. “After this deer, he rubbed it in to Dad.” Josh has killed a bear, but Brody hasn’t yet. Brody thinks he may try regular archery next. His favorite part of the hunt was seeing the deer’s rack through his scope, Brody said. A taxidermist is doing a head and shoulders mount of the deer for Brody. The teen plans to hang his prize buck in his bedroom.
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The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions more follow online in nine languages , from English to Japanese. On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats , such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon . But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming to my house?” and, “Am I on the naughty or nice list?” “There are screams and giggles and laughter,” said Bob Sommers, 63, a civilian contractor and NORAD volunteer. Sommers often says on the call that everyone must be asleep before Santa arrives, prompting parents to say, “Do you hear what he said? We got to go to bed early.” NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War , predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics . Here’s how it began and why the phones keep ringing. The origin story is Hollywood-esque It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. A boy called. But he reached the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war. Air Force Col. Harry W. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list. “He went on a little bit, and he takes a breath, then says, ‘Hey, you’re not Santa,’” Shoup told The Associated Press in 1999. Realizing an explanation would be lost on the youngster, Shoup summoned a deep, jolly voice and replied, “Ho, ho, ho! Yes, I am Santa Claus. Have you been a good boy?” Shoup said he learned from the boy’s mother that Sears mistakenly printed the top-secret number. He hung up, but the phone soon rang again with a young girl reciting her Christmas list. Fifty calls a day followed, he said. In the pre-digital age, the agency used a 60-by-80 foot (18-by-24 meter) plexiglass map of North America to track unidentified objects. A staff member jokingly drew Santa and his sleigh over the North Pole. The tradition was born. “Note to the kiddies,” began an AP story from Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, 1955. “Santa Claus Friday was assured safe passage into the United States by the Continental Air Defense Command.” In a likely reference to the Soviets, the article noted that Santa was guarded against possible attack from “those who do not believe in Christmas.” Is the origin story humbug? Some grinchy journalists have nitpicked Shoup’s story, questioning whether a misprint or a misdial prompted the boy’s call. In 2014, tech news site Gizmodo cited an International News Service story from Dec. 1, 1955, about a child’s call to Shoup. Published in the Pasadena Independent, the article said the child reversed two digits in the Sears number. “When a childish voice asked COC commander Col. Harry Shoup, if there was a Santa Claus at the North Pole, he answered much more roughly than he should — considering the season: ‘There may be a guy called Santa Claus at the North Pole, but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction,’” Shoup said in the brief piece. In 2015, The Atlantic magazine doubted the flood of calls to the secret line, while noting that Shoup had a flair for public relations. Phone calls aside, Shoup was indeed media savvy. In 1986, he told the Scripps Howard News Service that he recognized an opportunity when a staff member drew Santa on the glass map in 1955. A lieutenant colonel promised to have it erased. But Shoup said, “You leave it right there,” and summoned public affairs. Shoup wanted to boost morale for the troops and public alike. “Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t care about Santa Claus,” he said. Shoup died in 2009. His children told the StoryCorps podcast in 2014 that it was a misprinted Sears ad that prompted the phone calls. “And later in life he got letters from all over the world,” said Terri Van Keuren, a daughter. “People saying ‘Thank you, Colonel, for having, you know, this sense of humor.’” A rare addition to Santa’s story NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler, who wrote “Santa Claus: A Biography.” NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of Santa’s story and views it through a technological lens. In a recent interview with the AP, Air Force Lt. Gen. Case Cunningham explained that NORAD radars in Alaska and Canada — known as the northern warning system — are the first to detect Santa. He leaves the North Pole and typically heads for the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. From there he moves west, following the night. “That’s when the satellite systems we use to track and identify targets of interest every single day start to kick in,” Cunningham said. “A probably little-known fact is that Rudolph’s nose that glows red emanates a lot of heat. And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org , that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, Mountain Standard Time. People can call 1-877-HI-NORAD to ask live operators about Santa’s location from 6 a.m. to midnight, mountain time.
NORAD's Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kidsTEHRAN – The 14th Conference on Management of Technology and Innovation is scheduled to be held on January 8 and 9 in Tehran. The Iranian Association for Management of Technology (IRAMOT) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been established with the aim of promoting education, training, and research in the fields of technology and innovation management. On the sidelines of the conference, an exhibition on innovation and technology will be held. Attracting over 1,000 companies and institutions engaged in innovation and knowledge-based economy, the exhibition will serve as a platform for recruiting human forces in these institutions. This exhibition is supposed to be a job fair for students of science and technology policy, and technology management. It will be an opportunity for networking and attracting experts in the technology and innovation ecosystem. Founded in 2003, IRAMOT is the country’s top scientific association, with over 5000 members. The association brings together the best of industry and academia in the field and conducts various activities including organizing conferences and workshops, publishing newsletters and books, as well as acting as a national information exchange hub on teaching and research issues in MOT. The IRAMOT Annual Conference stands as the premier gathering of leaders from industry, academia, and policy-making in the fields of Innovation and Technology Management across the West Asia. Each year, this prestigious event attracts over 500 participants, facilitating invaluable discussions and insights on the latest challenges and trends in specific sectors. High-ranking managers from national and international companies actively engage in expert panels, sharing their perspectives and experiences to drive forward the conversation on innovation and technology management. According to the 2024 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ranking in knowledge and technology output, as well as business sophistication has improved from 55 and 117 in 2023 to 49 and 110 in 2024, respectively. Also, the country’s ranking in market sophistication and infrastructure has risen by two positions from 19 and 97 in 2023 to 17 and 95 in 2024. The Global Innovation Index ranks the world’s leading economies according to their innovation capabilities. According to this year’s report, Iran ranks second among the countries of the Central and Southern Asian region, unchanged compared with the last two years. India and Kazakhstan ranked first and third, respectively. Iran ranks 5 among the 38 lower-middle-income group economies, which has improved compared to the 2023 ranking (6). As stated in the 2024 edition, over the past four years (2020-2024), the statistical confidence interval for the ranking of Iran in the GII 2024 is between ranks 56 and 80. Iran performed better in innovation outputs (48) than in innovation inputs (85) in 2024. Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the report ranks Iran first in Market capitalization, and Trademarks by origin. It ranks 3, 5, 8, 17, 19, 23, and 35 in Software spending, Gross capital formation, Graduates in science and engineering, market sophistication, Domestic market scale, Intangible asset intensity, and Tertiary education, respectively. Iran (Islamic Republic of) ranks highest in Market sophistication (17), Knowledge and technology outputs (49), Creative outputs (52), and Human capital and research (64). The GII has ranked Tehran as the world’s 38th–largest science and technology (S&T) cluster this year, down from 35 last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the UN’s WIPO. MT/MG
It came as a surprise that President Joe Biden unconditionally pardoned his son Hunter, a convicted felon, after repeatedly vowing that he would not. For the past few months, each time Biden or his press secretary was asked whether a pardon was in the cards, they both emphatically said no. So much for one of the president's favorite lines, "I give you my word as a Biden." Hunter, who was facing a potential sentence of years in prison for tax evasion and lying on a federal firearms application, is now free to pursue his career as a middling painter of overpriced art. I admit that when I first heard the pardon news, I thought, "Good for you, Joe! Why should you follow the rules when no one on Planet Trump does? Let the people who voted to return a sex-offending, defaming, defrauding felon to the White House get a tiny taste of their own medicine." On second thought, however, it's more complicated than that. How can any of us be outraged at the way Trump and those in his circle seem immune from the consequences of their malign actions if we applaud Biden's pardon of his son for crimes he has either been convicted of or pleaded guilty to? How can we be outraged that Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner received $2 billion from the murderous Saudis if we think it's perfectly fine for Hunter Biden to be paid millions of dollars for sitting on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that was under investigation for corruption while his father was vice president and overseeing White House policy on Ukraine? The real outrage is the general lack of accountability for the illegal, unethical or immoral behavior of children born into wealth and privilege whose only "talents" are their ability to exploit their proximity to powerful people. Nepo babies gonna nepo baby. Hunter Biden was charged with lying on a gun purchase form, having claimed on penalty of perjury that he was not using drugs when, as he recounts in his memoir, he was a raging coke and meth addict. He was also charged with evading more than $1 million in taxes, which he has since paid, along with penalties and interest. Was he unfairly singled out? Maybe, but he still broke the law. As President Biden stated in announcing the pardon, "Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions." All true, which is why the government originally offered Hunter a deal that would have allowed him to avoid prison. He was to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his 2017 and 2018 taxes on time, and to agree to a diversion program that would allow him to avoid prosecution on the charge that he lied when he bought a handgun in 2018. But a federal judge put the plea deal on hold last year, saying she did not want to "rubber stamp" an unorthodox and complex agreement that was reached without her input. Republicans piled on, filing an amicus brief complaining that the deal was too lenient and that the investigation was tainted by political interference from the Biden administration. At that point, with the plea deal in tatters, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to the case. A month later, in September 2023, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened his sham impeachment investigation of the president, claiming Biden lied about his knowledge of his son's business affairs. The House's eventual report basically found that Hunter used his daddy's name to enrich himself. Yawn. Last summer, after a salacious trial that, as the New York Times put it, "made painfully public Mr. Biden's crack addiction, reckless behavior and ruinous spending," a federal jury found Hunter guilty of three felony counts related to the gun application. In September, Hunter Biden avoided tormenting his family with another trial by pleading guilty to nine federal tax charges. "There has been an effort to break Hunter -- who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution," President Biden's statement said. "In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me -- and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough." Hunter may have been singled out for prosecution, but Hunter did in fact screw up. And President Biden, who has often said that Americans in the Trump era are engaged in a "battle to save the soul of the nation," has shown that he, too, will warp justice for his own ends. I thought he was better than that. Robin Abcarian Robin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. The views expressed here are the writer's own. -- Ed. (Tribune Content Agency)
By Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of contamination, but its authors are standing by their conclusions and warn against using such products. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Chemosphere , experts from the nonprofit Toxic-Free Future said they detected flame retardants and other toxic chemicals in 85% of 203 items made of black plastic including kitchen utensils , take-out containers, children’s toys and hair accessories. The study initially said the potential exposure to chemicals found in one of the kitchen utensils approached the minimum levels the Environmental Protection Agency deemed a health risk. But in an update to the study, the authors say they made an error in their calculations and the real levels were “an order of magnitude lower” than the EPA’s thresholds. The error was discovered by Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society in Canada. In a blog post, Schwarcz explained that the Toxin-Free Future scientists miscalculated the lower end of what the EPA considered a health risk through a multiplication error. Instead of humans being potentially exposed to a dose of toxic chemicals in black plastic utensils near the minimum level that the EPA deems a health risk, it’s actually about one-tenth of that. Though Schwarcz said the risks outlined in the study aren’t enough for him to discard his black plastic kitchen items if he had them, he agreed with the authors that flame retardants shouldn’t be in these products in the first place. “The math error does not impact the study’s findings, conclusions or recommendations,” said Megan Liu, a co-author of the study who is the science and policy manager for Toxic-Free Future . She added that any traces of flame retardants or toxic chemicals in cooking utensils should be concerning for the public. Flame retardants are getting into commonly used items because black-colored products are being made from recycled electronic waste, such as discarded television sets and computers, that frequently contain the additives. When they’re heated, the flame retardants and other toxic chemicals can migrate out. If you’re wondering whether your old black plastic spoon or other utensils are a part of this group, Liu shared some more guidance. It’s nearly impossible to know whether a black plastic product is contaminated. That’s because these products that include recycled e-waste don’t disclose a detailed list of all ingredients and contaminants in the product. Liu said it’s also unclear how many types of flame retardants are in these black plastic products. Some of the products that researchers tested in this recent study “had up to nine different harmful chemicals and harmful flame retardants in them,” she said. Anytime you’re looking for the type of recycled plastic a product is made of you’re going to look for a number within the chasing arrows (that form a triangle) logo. Recycling symbols are numbered 1 to 7 and we commonly associate the numbers with what we can toss in our blue recycling bins. The 1 through 7 numbers stand for, respectively, polyethylene terephthalate, high-density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), low-density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene or Styrofoam, and miscellaneous plastics (including polycarbonate, polylactide, acrylic, acrylonitrile butadiene, styrene, fiberglass and nylon). The study found higher levels of toxic flame retardants in polystyrene plastic, which is labeled with the number 6, said Liu. There isn’t a definitively timeline of when recycled electronic-waste started to be incorporated into black plastic products specifically, but e-waste started to get recycled in the early 2000s, Liu said. The way computers, cellphones, stereos, printers and copiers were being disposed of previously was to simply add them to a landfill without reusing salvageable parts. But as the National Conference of State Legislatures notes, electronics production required a significant amount of resources that could be recovered through recycling. Recovering resources such as metals, plastics and glass through recycling used a fraction of the energy needed to mine new materials. However, the study pointed out that flame retardants and other chemical contaminates have been detected in and near e-waste recycling facilities, in indoor air and dust at formal e-waste recycling facilities in Canada, China, Spain and the U.S. It also noted contamination in soil samples surrounding e-waste recycling sites in China and Vietnam. The safest nontoxic material options for kitchen utensil are wood and stainless steel. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who could use a little mental health break. And we mean that, whether it’s in the form of an actual holiday respite or simply anticipation of the season finale of “Shrinking,” which premieres Christmas Day. Star Luke Tennie drops in for this week’s Guest Spot to discuss his character’s arc and much more. Plus, find streaming recommendations for your weekend and a list of what Angelenos were watching in 2024. ICYMI Must-read stories you might have missed Magical Santas, meet-cutes and dueling Donna Kelce roles: Hallmark’s best holiday movies : From tried-and-true romance tropes to the holiday magic of Santa, we tell you which Hallmark holiday movies are worth watching this year. Ice sculptures and a prayer to Taylor Swift: Behind the scenes at ‘Virgin River’s’ big wedding : Mel and Jack, the couple at the center of Netflix’s romance series, have finally tied the knot. The cast and crew discuss how the two-episode wedding came together. With ‘The Six Triple Eight’ and others, Netflix should embrace the power of the TV movie : Netflix is campaigning “The Six Triple Eight” for Oscars. But its true-life story and wider streaming release are a reminder of the social history of the TV movie. Did ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ create a ‘perfect’ finale? We discuss : Times staff writer Tracy Brown and television editor Maira Garcia break down the finale of FX’s vampire comedy, their favorite moments and what made the series so special. Turn on Recommendations from the film and TV experts at The Times “Rose Matafeo: On and On and On” (Max) If you’re missing your annual dose of Rose Matafeo’s perfectly judged romantic comedy, “Starstruck,” let me recommend her new stand-up special as a form of replacement therapy. As with her Max series, which veers knowingly between longing for togetherness and repulsion at it, “On and On and On” analyzes the Kiwi comedian’s relationship (and other) travails with almost forensic precision; it is, after all, based on a 16,000-word “unhinged manifesto” written in the Notes app on her phone. In the absence of sexual fireworks with Nikesh Patel, the primary draw here is Matafeo’s canny sense of the way technology shapes human behavior, from what we Google in incognito mode to the performance of Instagram-friendly whimsy to the pitfalls of online relationship coaching. To hear her uproarious, provocative takes on Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson, though, you’ll have to see her live. — Matt Brennan “Wonder Pets: In the City” (Apple TV+) Reviving the delightful “Wonder Pets!” (2006-2016), a through-sung semi-operatic photo-and-art-animated series in which a trio of small animals travel the world saving baby animals in distress. Changes have been made — the original guinea pig, duckling and turtle have been replaced by a snake, a bunny and a different guinea pig, and the preschool from which they operate, once the children have gone home, is now located in a little house between two brownstones in New York City. The “Phone Song” (“Answer the phone! The phone is ringing!”) has gone. But much else is the same. The lessons that are dispensed, learned twice each episode, first by the Wonder Pets and then by their juvenile clients — a porcupine whose quills have stuck it between two trees, a mountain lion stuck on a cliffside, a woodpecker with its beak stuck on a tree (there’s a lot of stuckiness) — fall under the specific category of problem-solving and the more general category of making children feel good about themselves. And teamwork still makes the dream work. — Robert Lloyd Guest spot A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on — and what they’re watching When your popular streaming series is concluding its second season just as your new film is launching itself into the Oscar race, the to-do list can get ... daunting. Luckily for Luke Tennie, that series is the therapy dramedy “Shrinking” (Apple TV+) so he’s more aware than ever of the “tools” available to those struggling to break bad habits. (Or more serious struggles, as in the case of his character here, Sean, and in “Nickel Boys,” about an abusive Florida reform school.) Tennie stopped by recently to discuss what healing looks like for Sean, what he’s watching and more. — Matt Brennan READ MORE: Jessica Williams is ready for the unexpected, even on the 405 Freeway What have you watched recently that you’re recommending to everyone you know? “Gladiator II,” “Monkey Man” [Prime Video] and “Severance” [Apple TV+]. Narrowing it down to just three hurt, but I’ve enjoyed each of those tremendously. What’s your go-to “comfort watch,” the film or TV show you return to again and again? For film, it’s “Chef” [ multiple platforms ]. For TV, it’s “Abbott Elementary” [ABC, Hulu]. Season 2 delves deeper into Sean’s PTSD, in particular with a much talked-about sequence in which he seems to solicit a brutal beating after a fight with his father. Obviously, therapy is an ongoing process, but what would a “healed” Sean look like to you? A “healed” Sean is a Sean no longer looking for a fight, a Sean who stops running from his family and friends in fear of hurting them because he has the tools to manage his anger, and a Sean who moves out of his therapist’s house . We all know he is not supposed to be there, but if and hopefully when he does leave, that’ll be a huge sign of his growth. What’s a bad habit or frustration in your own life that you think Jimmy and Paul would be useful to help you work through, and how do you think they would advise you? Sometimes I get a “freeze.” When there’s too much to do, I can find myself sitting in silence for a while instead of starting one of the things on my to-do list. They’d probably give me “tools” — a practical thing that I can say or do to move me through the issue and reestablish control of my actions. It’s a guess, but I’ve seen them do it with Sean, so it feels like a good guess! Break down Times staffers chew on the pop culture of the moment — love it, hate it or somewhere in between If you’re lucky, the end of the year brings time to binge on titles you may have missed — including titles you may have missed last year . Streaming service Kanopy ‘s analysis of the most-watched titles by L.A. Public Library users, provided exclusively to Screen Gab, contains a bunch of worthy ideas, especially if you want to make sure you have the last set of Oscar contenders squared away before you move onto the next one. Below, find the ranked list of 2024’s most popular titles, with our past digital coverage of each film. — Matt Brennan 1. ‘Past Lives’ (2023): “This is at once the loftiest and the most grounded love story I’ve seen in some time, a movie that feels lingering and contemplative in the moment but is over as quickly (too quickly) as a drink with a long-absent friend.” — Justin Chang 2. ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023): “Less a whodunit than a who-spun-it, ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ which won the Palme d’Or at [the] Cannes Film Festival , spends two-and-a-half hours demolishing the very idea of empirical, observable truth.” — Chang 3. ‘ Dial M for Murder’ (1954): “If we believe Alfred Hitchcock, his “Dial M for Murder” is a production-line film he could have “phoned in.” To meet a studio commitment, he took only 36 days to shoot it, all but a half-dozen shots on the same set. “There isn’t very much we can say about that one, is there?” he told interviewer and fellow director François Truffaut. “I just did my job, using cinematic means to narrate a story taken from a stage play.” Right. And wine is just spoiled grape juice. — Steve Emmons 4. ‘ Possession’ (1981): If you are a bit of a jealous person like I am, then get ready for your worst nightmare. “The Exorcist” meets “High Fidelity,” “Possession” portrays a husband’s (Sam Neill) descent into madness as he tries to find out why his wife (Isabelle Adjani) suddenly left him. It quickly becomes clear that she’s having a feverish sexual affair with someone ... or more precisely: something. Adjani gives one of the most powerful female performances I have ever seen on screen, and has deeply influenced my own horror work forever. — Fede Álvarez 5. ‘Jules’ (2023): Marc Turtletaub’s film follows Milton (Ben Kingsley), the sort of small-town figure who attends city council meetings to kill time, after a UFO and accompanying alien — the titular alien, as it were — crash land in his backyard. With Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris as the nosy neighbors who bond with Milton (and Jules) while the government closes in. — Matt Brennan 6. ‘Talk to Me’ (2023): “If Regan MacNeil were to go skittering backward down the stairs today, would her onlookers scream in terror or whip out their phones — or both? The question comes to mind more than once during “Talk to Me,” a viscerally effective supernatural freakout in which demonic possession isn’t just an abomination but an addiction, a recreational pastime and sometimes even a viral event.” — Chang 7. ‘She Came to Me’ (2023): It had been six years since writer-director Rebecca Miller’s last feature, an HBO documentary about her famous father, the late playwright Arthur Miller. And another two since her previous fiction film, 2015’s “Maggie’s Plan,” starring a pre-”Lady Bird” Greta Gerwig . So when Miller’s latest, the wistful, delightfully unstable romantic comedy “She Came to Me,” premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, some in the press described it as her comeback. But that’s not how she perceives things. — Tim Grierson 8. ‘Punch-Drunk Love’ (2002): “‘Love is strange,’ the old rock lyric insists, and it’s never been stranger, more unsettling and more exuberantly unexpected than in the daring high-wire act Paul Thomas Anderson shrewdly calls “Punch-Drunk Love.” — Kenneth Turan 9. ‘Perfect Days’ (2023): “In the pantheon of films about people and their jobs, “Perfect Days” suggests a riff on the iconic “Superman” tagline: You’ll believe a man can enjoy cleaning public toilets.” — Robert Abele 10. ‘Blackberry’ (2023): “It’s a strange sensation, watching “BlackBerry,” to find yourself rooting for morally compromised screamer Jim (Glenn Howerton is simply dazzling in the role) and the iron-fist enforcer he hires as chief operating officer, Charles Purdy (Michael Ironside). ... Howerton is also far and away the most charismatic performer onscreen, and you’re unable to rip your eyes away from him.” — Katie Walsh
Lautaro Martinez ended a near two-month goal drought as Inter Milan closed to within one point of Serie A leaders Atalanta by sweeping aside Cagliari 3-0. Martinez had gone eight matches since last finding the back of the net against Venezia on November 3 but after Alessandro Bastoni opened the scoring in the 54th minute, the Argentina international struck in Sardinia. The Inter captain took his tally against Cagliari to 10 goals in as many games after 71 minutes before Hakan Calhanoglu capped an excellent night for the visitors from the penalty spot a few moments later. Inter’s fifth-successive league victory led to them temporarily leapfrogging Atalanta, who reclaimed top spot but saw their lead cut to a single point following a 1-1 draw at Lazio. Gian Piero Gasperini’s side were grateful for a point in the end after falling behind to Fisayo Dele-Bashiru’s first-half strike, only drawing level with two minutes remaining thanks to Marco Brescianini. Lautaro Valenti’s last-gasp strike condemned rock-bottom Monza to a 10th defeat in 18 matches as Parma edged a 2-1 victory, while Genoa defeated Empoli by the same scoreline.
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MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid conceded three goals in a Spanish league game for the first time this season but still managed to beat Sevilla 4-3 on Sunday with Antoine Griezmann's double helping to make it nine wins in a row for Diego Simeone’s in-form side. Third-place Madrid restored its three-point lead over fourth-place Athletic Bilbao, which beat Villarreal earlier Sunday. Rodrigo De Paul gave Atletico the perfect start when he lashed home a stunning opener in the 10th minute. However, goals from Dodi Lukébakio, Isaac Romero and Juanlu Sanchez put Sevilla 3-1 up early in the second half and Atletico, without the vocal support of some home fans in a dispute over tickets, seemed lost in an unusually quiet at Metropolitano Stadium. Simeone’s side, though, is known for its resilience and it was not long before the fightback began. Griezmann reduced the deficit in the 62nd minute and 17 minutes later, after Simeone made five substitutions in a quarter of an hour, Samuel Lino got the equalizer with a low shot from 30 yards. Griezmann himself got the winner in stoppage time to consolidate Atletico’s third place. The Madrid club now has 35 points, one behind city rival Real and three behind league leader Barcelona. “We struggled to get into the game,” Griezmann said. “We missed the support of the fans behind the goal. But in the end we managed to come back.” Fourth-place Bilbao beats Villarreal Athletic Bilbao consolidated fourth place with a comfortable 2-0 win over Villarreal, the team immediately below it in the table and one of its closest rivals for a Champions League spot. Aitor Paredes put Athletic ahead when he glanced home a corner kick in 14 minutes and Iñaki Williams made it 2-0 midway through the second half. It was the fourth consecutive league win for Athletic but the victory was marred by a silent protest from an organized fan group. The group refused to sing or chant in response to a rift between it and the club president, who reported threats to police earlier in the week. Several Athletic players expressed solidarity with the president and the team did not salute the fans behind the goal after the match. “It’s a very sad win and a time for everyone to pull together,” club captain Óscar De Marcos said in comments reported by newspaper Marca. “The silence was notable during the game but we need to keep doing our job.” Earlier Sunday, Real Sociedad won for the fourth time in a row, beating Leganes 3-0 at the Butarque stadium near Madrid. Three days after his extra-time goal gave Sociedad a 1-0 win at fourth-tier Conquense in the Copa del Rey, Brais Méndez scored again to give the visitors an early lead. Substitute Ander Barrenetxea’s first goal of the league season doubled its lead 10 minutes from time and then Mikel Oyarzabal added a third in stoppage time. It was only the fourth time in 16 matches that Sociedad has scored twice in a league game and the win lifted it into sixth, above Osasuna, which drew 2-2 with Alaves. Alaves took only 37 seconds for Kike Garcia to put the team ahead with a diving header. However, Ante Budimir and Rubén García scored early in the second half to put Osasuna in front before Kike Garcia got his second of the game to tie the scores at 2-2. The point was the first for new Alaves coach Eduardo Coudet but still leaves it in 15th place without a win in five games. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated PressCredit union pledged donations to support student-athletes for each Boise State first down in 2024 BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the official credit union of the Boise State Broncos, Mountain America Credit Union continues its support of BroncoLife through the First Down donation program. Through this unique program, the credit union committed a donation to BroncoLife for every first down completed by the BSU football team in 2024. This year, those first downs added up to $15,000, which will help BroncoLife continue its mission of empowering student-athletes to reach their full potential both in school and on their future career paths. A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link. 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The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions more follow online in nine languages , from English to Japanese. On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats , such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon . But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming to my house?” and, “Am I on the naughty or nice list?” “There are screams and giggles and laughter,” said Bob Sommers, 63, a civilian contractor and NORAD volunteer. Sommers often says on the call that everyone must be asleep before Santa arrives, prompting parents to say, “Do you hear what he said? We got to go to bed early.” NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War , predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics . Here’s how it began and why the phones keep ringing. The origin story is Hollywood-esque It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. A boy called. But he reached the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war. Air Force Col. Harry W. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list. “He went on a little bit, and he takes a breath, then says, ‘Hey, you’re not Santa,’” Shoup told The Associated Press in 1999. Realizing an explanation would be lost on the youngster, Shoup summoned a deep, jolly voice and replied, “Ho, ho, ho! Yes, I am Santa Claus. Have you been a good boy?” Shoup said he learned from the boy’s mother that Sears mistakenly printed the top-secret number. He hung up, but the phone soon rang again with a young girl reciting her Christmas list. Fifty calls a day followed, he said. In the pre-digital age, the agency used a 60-by-80 foot (18-by-24 meter) plexiglass map of North America to track unidentified objects. A staff member jokingly drew Santa and his sleigh over the North Pole. The tradition was born. “Note to the kiddies,” began an AP story from Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, 1955. “Santa Claus Friday was assured safe passage into the United States by the Continental Air Defense Command.” In a likely reference to the Soviets, the article noted that Santa was guarded against possible attack from “those who do not believe in Christmas.” Is the origin story humbug? Some grinchy journalists have nitpicked Shoup’s story, questioning whether a misprint or a misdial prompted the boy’s call. In 2014, tech news site Gizmodo cited an International News Service story from Dec. 1, 1955, about a child’s call to Shoup. Published in the Pasadena Independent, the article said the child reversed two digits in the Sears number. “When a childish voice asked COC commander Col. Harry Shoup, if there was a Santa Claus at the North Pole, he answered much more roughly than he should — considering the season: ‘There may be a guy called Santa Claus at the North Pole, but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction,’” Shoup said in the brief piece. In 2015, The Atlantic magazine doubted the flood of calls to the secret line, while noting that Shoup had a flair for public relations. Phone calls aside, Shoup was indeed media savvy. In 1986, he told the Scripps Howard News Service that he recognized an opportunity when a staff member drew Santa on the glass map in 1955. A lieutenant colonel promised to have it erased. But Shoup said, “You leave it right there,” and summoned public affairs. Shoup wanted to boost morale for the troops and public alike. “Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t care about Santa Claus,” he said. Shoup died in 2009. His children told the StoryCorps podcast in 2014 that it was a misprinted Sears ad that prompted the phone calls. “And later in life he got letters from all over the world,” said Terri Van Keuren, a daughter. “People saying ‘Thank you, Colonel, for having, you know, this sense of humor.’” A rare addition to Santa’s story NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler, who wrote “Santa Claus: A Biography.” NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of Santa’s story and views it through a technological lens. In a recent interview with the AP, Air Force Lt. Gen. Case Cunningham explained that NORAD radars in Alaska and Canada — known as the northern warning system — are the first to detect Santa. He leaves the North Pole and typically heads for the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. From there he moves west, following the night. “That’s when the satellite systems we use to track and identify targets of interest every single day start to kick in,” Cunningham said. “A probably little-known fact is that Rudolph’s nose that glows red emanates a lot of heat. And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org , that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, Mountain Standard Time. People can call 1-877-HI-NORAD to ask live operators about Santa’s location from 6 a.m. to midnight, mountain time.
NORAD's Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kidsTEHRAN – The 14th Conference on Management of Technology and Innovation is scheduled to be held on January 8 and 9 in Tehran. The Iranian Association for Management of Technology (IRAMOT) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been established with the aim of promoting education, training, and research in the fields of technology and innovation management. On the sidelines of the conference, an exhibition on innovation and technology will be held. Attracting over 1,000 companies and institutions engaged in innovation and knowledge-based economy, the exhibition will serve as a platform for recruiting human forces in these institutions. This exhibition is supposed to be a job fair for students of science and technology policy, and technology management. It will be an opportunity for networking and attracting experts in the technology and innovation ecosystem. Founded in 2003, IRAMOT is the country’s top scientific association, with over 5000 members. The association brings together the best of industry and academia in the field and conducts various activities including organizing conferences and workshops, publishing newsletters and books, as well as acting as a national information exchange hub on teaching and research issues in MOT. The IRAMOT Annual Conference stands as the premier gathering of leaders from industry, academia, and policy-making in the fields of Innovation and Technology Management across the West Asia. Each year, this prestigious event attracts over 500 participants, facilitating invaluable discussions and insights on the latest challenges and trends in specific sectors. High-ranking managers from national and international companies actively engage in expert panels, sharing their perspectives and experiences to drive forward the conversation on innovation and technology management. According to the 2024 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ranking in knowledge and technology output, as well as business sophistication has improved from 55 and 117 in 2023 to 49 and 110 in 2024, respectively. Also, the country’s ranking in market sophistication and infrastructure has risen by two positions from 19 and 97 in 2023 to 17 and 95 in 2024. The Global Innovation Index ranks the world’s leading economies according to their innovation capabilities. According to this year’s report, Iran ranks second among the countries of the Central and Southern Asian region, unchanged compared with the last two years. India and Kazakhstan ranked first and third, respectively. Iran ranks 5 among the 38 lower-middle-income group economies, which has improved compared to the 2023 ranking (6). As stated in the 2024 edition, over the past four years (2020-2024), the statistical confidence interval for the ranking of Iran in the GII 2024 is between ranks 56 and 80. Iran performed better in innovation outputs (48) than in innovation inputs (85) in 2024. Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the report ranks Iran first in Market capitalization, and Trademarks by origin. It ranks 3, 5, 8, 17, 19, 23, and 35 in Software spending, Gross capital formation, Graduates in science and engineering, market sophistication, Domestic market scale, Intangible asset intensity, and Tertiary education, respectively. Iran (Islamic Republic of) ranks highest in Market sophistication (17), Knowledge and technology outputs (49), Creative outputs (52), and Human capital and research (64). The GII has ranked Tehran as the world’s 38th–largest science and technology (S&T) cluster this year, down from 35 last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the UN’s WIPO. MT/MG
It came as a surprise that President Joe Biden unconditionally pardoned his son Hunter, a convicted felon, after repeatedly vowing that he would not. For the past few months, each time Biden or his press secretary was asked whether a pardon was in the cards, they both emphatically said no. So much for one of the president's favorite lines, "I give you my word as a Biden." Hunter, who was facing a potential sentence of years in prison for tax evasion and lying on a federal firearms application, is now free to pursue his career as a middling painter of overpriced art. I admit that when I first heard the pardon news, I thought, "Good for you, Joe! Why should you follow the rules when no one on Planet Trump does? Let the people who voted to return a sex-offending, defaming, defrauding felon to the White House get a tiny taste of their own medicine." On second thought, however, it's more complicated than that. How can any of us be outraged at the way Trump and those in his circle seem immune from the consequences of their malign actions if we applaud Biden's pardon of his son for crimes he has either been convicted of or pleaded guilty to? How can we be outraged that Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner received $2 billion from the murderous Saudis if we think it's perfectly fine for Hunter Biden to be paid millions of dollars for sitting on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that was under investigation for corruption while his father was vice president and overseeing White House policy on Ukraine? The real outrage is the general lack of accountability for the illegal, unethical or immoral behavior of children born into wealth and privilege whose only "talents" are their ability to exploit their proximity to powerful people. Nepo babies gonna nepo baby. Hunter Biden was charged with lying on a gun purchase form, having claimed on penalty of perjury that he was not using drugs when, as he recounts in his memoir, he was a raging coke and meth addict. He was also charged with evading more than $1 million in taxes, which he has since paid, along with penalties and interest. Was he unfairly singled out? Maybe, but he still broke the law. As President Biden stated in announcing the pardon, "Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions." All true, which is why the government originally offered Hunter a deal that would have allowed him to avoid prison. He was to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his 2017 and 2018 taxes on time, and to agree to a diversion program that would allow him to avoid prosecution on the charge that he lied when he bought a handgun in 2018. But a federal judge put the plea deal on hold last year, saying she did not want to "rubber stamp" an unorthodox and complex agreement that was reached without her input. Republicans piled on, filing an amicus brief complaining that the deal was too lenient and that the investigation was tainted by political interference from the Biden administration. At that point, with the plea deal in tatters, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to the case. A month later, in September 2023, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened his sham impeachment investigation of the president, claiming Biden lied about his knowledge of his son's business affairs. The House's eventual report basically found that Hunter used his daddy's name to enrich himself. Yawn. Last summer, after a salacious trial that, as the New York Times put it, "made painfully public Mr. Biden's crack addiction, reckless behavior and ruinous spending," a federal jury found Hunter guilty of three felony counts related to the gun application. In September, Hunter Biden avoided tormenting his family with another trial by pleading guilty to nine federal tax charges. "There has been an effort to break Hunter -- who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution," President Biden's statement said. "In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me -- and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough." Hunter may have been singled out for prosecution, but Hunter did in fact screw up. And President Biden, who has often said that Americans in the Trump era are engaged in a "battle to save the soul of the nation," has shown that he, too, will warp justice for his own ends. I thought he was better than that. Robin Abcarian Robin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. The views expressed here are the writer's own. -- Ed. (Tribune Content Agency)
By Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of contamination, but its authors are standing by their conclusions and warn against using such products. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Chemosphere , experts from the nonprofit Toxic-Free Future said they detected flame retardants and other toxic chemicals in 85% of 203 items made of black plastic including kitchen utensils , take-out containers, children’s toys and hair accessories. The study initially said the potential exposure to chemicals found in one of the kitchen utensils approached the minimum levels the Environmental Protection Agency deemed a health risk. But in an update to the study, the authors say they made an error in their calculations and the real levels were “an order of magnitude lower” than the EPA’s thresholds. The error was discovered by Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society in Canada. In a blog post, Schwarcz explained that the Toxin-Free Future scientists miscalculated the lower end of what the EPA considered a health risk through a multiplication error. Instead of humans being potentially exposed to a dose of toxic chemicals in black plastic utensils near the minimum level that the EPA deems a health risk, it’s actually about one-tenth of that. Though Schwarcz said the risks outlined in the study aren’t enough for him to discard his black plastic kitchen items if he had them, he agreed with the authors that flame retardants shouldn’t be in these products in the first place. “The math error does not impact the study’s findings, conclusions or recommendations,” said Megan Liu, a co-author of the study who is the science and policy manager for Toxic-Free Future . She added that any traces of flame retardants or toxic chemicals in cooking utensils should be concerning for the public. Flame retardants are getting into commonly used items because black-colored products are being made from recycled electronic waste, such as discarded television sets and computers, that frequently contain the additives. When they’re heated, the flame retardants and other toxic chemicals can migrate out. If you’re wondering whether your old black plastic spoon or other utensils are a part of this group, Liu shared some more guidance. It’s nearly impossible to know whether a black plastic product is contaminated. That’s because these products that include recycled e-waste don’t disclose a detailed list of all ingredients and contaminants in the product. Liu said it’s also unclear how many types of flame retardants are in these black plastic products. Some of the products that researchers tested in this recent study “had up to nine different harmful chemicals and harmful flame retardants in them,” she said. Anytime you’re looking for the type of recycled plastic a product is made of you’re going to look for a number within the chasing arrows (that form a triangle) logo. Recycling symbols are numbered 1 to 7 and we commonly associate the numbers with what we can toss in our blue recycling bins. The 1 through 7 numbers stand for, respectively, polyethylene terephthalate, high-density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), low-density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene or Styrofoam, and miscellaneous plastics (including polycarbonate, polylactide, acrylic, acrylonitrile butadiene, styrene, fiberglass and nylon). The study found higher levels of toxic flame retardants in polystyrene plastic, which is labeled with the number 6, said Liu. There isn’t a definitively timeline of when recycled electronic-waste started to be incorporated into black plastic products specifically, but e-waste started to get recycled in the early 2000s, Liu said. The way computers, cellphones, stereos, printers and copiers were being disposed of previously was to simply add them to a landfill without reusing salvageable parts. But as the National Conference of State Legislatures notes, electronics production required a significant amount of resources that could be recovered through recycling. Recovering resources such as metals, plastics and glass through recycling used a fraction of the energy needed to mine new materials. However, the study pointed out that flame retardants and other chemical contaminates have been detected in and near e-waste recycling facilities, in indoor air and dust at formal e-waste recycling facilities in Canada, China, Spain and the U.S. It also noted contamination in soil samples surrounding e-waste recycling sites in China and Vietnam. The safest nontoxic material options for kitchen utensil are wood and stainless steel. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who could use a little mental health break. And we mean that, whether it’s in the form of an actual holiday respite or simply anticipation of the season finale of “Shrinking,” which premieres Christmas Day. Star Luke Tennie drops in for this week’s Guest Spot to discuss his character’s arc and much more. Plus, find streaming recommendations for your weekend and a list of what Angelenos were watching in 2024. ICYMI Must-read stories you might have missed Magical Santas, meet-cutes and dueling Donna Kelce roles: Hallmark’s best holiday movies : From tried-and-true romance tropes to the holiday magic of Santa, we tell you which Hallmark holiday movies are worth watching this year. Ice sculptures and a prayer to Taylor Swift: Behind the scenes at ‘Virgin River’s’ big wedding : Mel and Jack, the couple at the center of Netflix’s romance series, have finally tied the knot. The cast and crew discuss how the two-episode wedding came together. With ‘The Six Triple Eight’ and others, Netflix should embrace the power of the TV movie : Netflix is campaigning “The Six Triple Eight” for Oscars. But its true-life story and wider streaming release are a reminder of the social history of the TV movie. Did ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ create a ‘perfect’ finale? We discuss : Times staff writer Tracy Brown and television editor Maira Garcia break down the finale of FX’s vampire comedy, their favorite moments and what made the series so special. Turn on Recommendations from the film and TV experts at The Times “Rose Matafeo: On and On and On” (Max) If you’re missing your annual dose of Rose Matafeo’s perfectly judged romantic comedy, “Starstruck,” let me recommend her new stand-up special as a form of replacement therapy. As with her Max series, which veers knowingly between longing for togetherness and repulsion at it, “On and On and On” analyzes the Kiwi comedian’s relationship (and other) travails with almost forensic precision; it is, after all, based on a 16,000-word “unhinged manifesto” written in the Notes app on her phone. In the absence of sexual fireworks with Nikesh Patel, the primary draw here is Matafeo’s canny sense of the way technology shapes human behavior, from what we Google in incognito mode to the performance of Instagram-friendly whimsy to the pitfalls of online relationship coaching. To hear her uproarious, provocative takes on Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson, though, you’ll have to see her live. — Matt Brennan “Wonder Pets: In the City” (Apple TV+) Reviving the delightful “Wonder Pets!” (2006-2016), a through-sung semi-operatic photo-and-art-animated series in which a trio of small animals travel the world saving baby animals in distress. Changes have been made — the original guinea pig, duckling and turtle have been replaced by a snake, a bunny and a different guinea pig, and the preschool from which they operate, once the children have gone home, is now located in a little house between two brownstones in New York City. The “Phone Song” (“Answer the phone! The phone is ringing!”) has gone. But much else is the same. The lessons that are dispensed, learned twice each episode, first by the Wonder Pets and then by their juvenile clients — a porcupine whose quills have stuck it between two trees, a mountain lion stuck on a cliffside, a woodpecker with its beak stuck on a tree (there’s a lot of stuckiness) — fall under the specific category of problem-solving and the more general category of making children feel good about themselves. And teamwork still makes the dream work. — Robert Lloyd Guest spot A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on — and what they’re watching When your popular streaming series is concluding its second season just as your new film is launching itself into the Oscar race, the to-do list can get ... daunting. Luckily for Luke Tennie, that series is the therapy dramedy “Shrinking” (Apple TV+) so he’s more aware than ever of the “tools” available to those struggling to break bad habits. (Or more serious struggles, as in the case of his character here, Sean, and in “Nickel Boys,” about an abusive Florida reform school.) Tennie stopped by recently to discuss what healing looks like for Sean, what he’s watching and more. — Matt Brennan READ MORE: Jessica Williams is ready for the unexpected, even on the 405 Freeway What have you watched recently that you’re recommending to everyone you know? “Gladiator II,” “Monkey Man” [Prime Video] and “Severance” [Apple TV+]. Narrowing it down to just three hurt, but I’ve enjoyed each of those tremendously. What’s your go-to “comfort watch,” the film or TV show you return to again and again? For film, it’s “Chef” [ multiple platforms ]. For TV, it’s “Abbott Elementary” [ABC, Hulu]. Season 2 delves deeper into Sean’s PTSD, in particular with a much talked-about sequence in which he seems to solicit a brutal beating after a fight with his father. Obviously, therapy is an ongoing process, but what would a “healed” Sean look like to you? A “healed” Sean is a Sean no longer looking for a fight, a Sean who stops running from his family and friends in fear of hurting them because he has the tools to manage his anger, and a Sean who moves out of his therapist’s house . We all know he is not supposed to be there, but if and hopefully when he does leave, that’ll be a huge sign of his growth. What’s a bad habit or frustration in your own life that you think Jimmy and Paul would be useful to help you work through, and how do you think they would advise you? Sometimes I get a “freeze.” When there’s too much to do, I can find myself sitting in silence for a while instead of starting one of the things on my to-do list. They’d probably give me “tools” — a practical thing that I can say or do to move me through the issue and reestablish control of my actions. It’s a guess, but I’ve seen them do it with Sean, so it feels like a good guess! Break down Times staffers chew on the pop culture of the moment — love it, hate it or somewhere in between If you’re lucky, the end of the year brings time to binge on titles you may have missed — including titles you may have missed last year . Streaming service Kanopy ‘s analysis of the most-watched titles by L.A. Public Library users, provided exclusively to Screen Gab, contains a bunch of worthy ideas, especially if you want to make sure you have the last set of Oscar contenders squared away before you move onto the next one. Below, find the ranked list of 2024’s most popular titles, with our past digital coverage of each film. — Matt Brennan 1. ‘Past Lives’ (2023): “This is at once the loftiest and the most grounded love story I’ve seen in some time, a movie that feels lingering and contemplative in the moment but is over as quickly (too quickly) as a drink with a long-absent friend.” — Justin Chang 2. ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023): “Less a whodunit than a who-spun-it, ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ which won the Palme d’Or at [the] Cannes Film Festival , spends two-and-a-half hours demolishing the very idea of empirical, observable truth.” — Chang 3. ‘ Dial M for Murder’ (1954): “If we believe Alfred Hitchcock, his “Dial M for Murder” is a production-line film he could have “phoned in.” To meet a studio commitment, he took only 36 days to shoot it, all but a half-dozen shots on the same set. “There isn’t very much we can say about that one, is there?” he told interviewer and fellow director François Truffaut. “I just did my job, using cinematic means to narrate a story taken from a stage play.” Right. And wine is just spoiled grape juice. — Steve Emmons 4. ‘ Possession’ (1981): If you are a bit of a jealous person like I am, then get ready for your worst nightmare. “The Exorcist” meets “High Fidelity,” “Possession” portrays a husband’s (Sam Neill) descent into madness as he tries to find out why his wife (Isabelle Adjani) suddenly left him. It quickly becomes clear that she’s having a feverish sexual affair with someone ... or more precisely: something. Adjani gives one of the most powerful female performances I have ever seen on screen, and has deeply influenced my own horror work forever. — Fede Álvarez 5. ‘Jules’ (2023): Marc Turtletaub’s film follows Milton (Ben Kingsley), the sort of small-town figure who attends city council meetings to kill time, after a UFO and accompanying alien — the titular alien, as it were — crash land in his backyard. With Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris as the nosy neighbors who bond with Milton (and Jules) while the government closes in. — Matt Brennan 6. ‘Talk to Me’ (2023): “If Regan MacNeil were to go skittering backward down the stairs today, would her onlookers scream in terror or whip out their phones — or both? The question comes to mind more than once during “Talk to Me,” a viscerally effective supernatural freakout in which demonic possession isn’t just an abomination but an addiction, a recreational pastime and sometimes even a viral event.” — Chang 7. ‘She Came to Me’ (2023): It had been six years since writer-director Rebecca Miller’s last feature, an HBO documentary about her famous father, the late playwright Arthur Miller. And another two since her previous fiction film, 2015’s “Maggie’s Plan,” starring a pre-”Lady Bird” Greta Gerwig . So when Miller’s latest, the wistful, delightfully unstable romantic comedy “She Came to Me,” premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, some in the press described it as her comeback. But that’s not how she perceives things. — Tim Grierson 8. ‘Punch-Drunk Love’ (2002): “‘Love is strange,’ the old rock lyric insists, and it’s never been stranger, more unsettling and more exuberantly unexpected than in the daring high-wire act Paul Thomas Anderson shrewdly calls “Punch-Drunk Love.” — Kenneth Turan 9. ‘Perfect Days’ (2023): “In the pantheon of films about people and their jobs, “Perfect Days” suggests a riff on the iconic “Superman” tagline: You’ll believe a man can enjoy cleaning public toilets.” — Robert Abele 10. ‘Blackberry’ (2023): “It’s a strange sensation, watching “BlackBerry,” to find yourself rooting for morally compromised screamer Jim (Glenn Howerton is simply dazzling in the role) and the iron-fist enforcer he hires as chief operating officer, Charles Purdy (Michael Ironside). ... Howerton is also far and away the most charismatic performer onscreen, and you’re unable to rip your eyes away from him.” — Katie Walsh
Lautaro Martinez ended a near two-month goal drought as Inter Milan closed to within one point of Serie A leaders Atalanta by sweeping aside Cagliari 3-0. Martinez had gone eight matches since last finding the back of the net against Venezia on November 3 but after Alessandro Bastoni opened the scoring in the 54th minute, the Argentina international struck in Sardinia. The Inter captain took his tally against Cagliari to 10 goals in as many games after 71 minutes before Hakan Calhanoglu capped an excellent night for the visitors from the penalty spot a few moments later. Inter’s fifth-successive league victory led to them temporarily leapfrogging Atalanta, who reclaimed top spot but saw their lead cut to a single point following a 1-1 draw at Lazio. Gian Piero Gasperini’s side were grateful for a point in the end after falling behind to Fisayo Dele-Bashiru’s first-half strike, only drawing level with two minutes remaining thanks to Marco Brescianini. Lautaro Valenti’s last-gasp strike condemned rock-bottom Monza to a 10th defeat in 18 matches as Parma edged a 2-1 victory, while Genoa defeated Empoli by the same scoreline.
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MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid conceded three goals in a Spanish league game for the first time this season but still managed to beat Sevilla 4-3 on Sunday with Antoine Griezmann's double helping to make it nine wins in a row for Diego Simeone’s in-form side. Third-place Madrid restored its three-point lead over fourth-place Athletic Bilbao, which beat Villarreal earlier Sunday. Rodrigo De Paul gave Atletico the perfect start when he lashed home a stunning opener in the 10th minute. However, goals from Dodi Lukébakio, Isaac Romero and Juanlu Sanchez put Sevilla 3-1 up early in the second half and Atletico, without the vocal support of some home fans in a dispute over tickets, seemed lost in an unusually quiet at Metropolitano Stadium. Simeone’s side, though, is known for its resilience and it was not long before the fightback began. Griezmann reduced the deficit in the 62nd minute and 17 minutes later, after Simeone made five substitutions in a quarter of an hour, Samuel Lino got the equalizer with a low shot from 30 yards. Griezmann himself got the winner in stoppage time to consolidate Atletico’s third place. The Madrid club now has 35 points, one behind city rival Real and three behind league leader Barcelona. “We struggled to get into the game,” Griezmann said. “We missed the support of the fans behind the goal. But in the end we managed to come back.” Fourth-place Bilbao beats Villarreal Athletic Bilbao consolidated fourth place with a comfortable 2-0 win over Villarreal, the team immediately below it in the table and one of its closest rivals for a Champions League spot. Aitor Paredes put Athletic ahead when he glanced home a corner kick in 14 minutes and Iñaki Williams made it 2-0 midway through the second half. It was the fourth consecutive league win for Athletic but the victory was marred by a silent protest from an organized fan group. The group refused to sing or chant in response to a rift between it and the club president, who reported threats to police earlier in the week. Several Athletic players expressed solidarity with the president and the team did not salute the fans behind the goal after the match. “It’s a very sad win and a time for everyone to pull together,” club captain Óscar De Marcos said in comments reported by newspaper Marca. “The silence was notable during the game but we need to keep doing our job.” Earlier Sunday, Real Sociedad won for the fourth time in a row, beating Leganes 3-0 at the Butarque stadium near Madrid. Three days after his extra-time goal gave Sociedad a 1-0 win at fourth-tier Conquense in the Copa del Rey, Brais Méndez scored again to give the visitors an early lead. Substitute Ander Barrenetxea’s first goal of the league season doubled its lead 10 minutes from time and then Mikel Oyarzabal added a third in stoppage time. It was only the fourth time in 16 matches that Sociedad has scored twice in a league game and the win lifted it into sixth, above Osasuna, which drew 2-2 with Alaves. Alaves took only 37 seconds for Kike Garcia to put the team ahead with a diving header. However, Ante Budimir and Rubén García scored early in the second half to put Osasuna in front before Kike Garcia got his second of the game to tie the scores at 2-2. The point was the first for new Alaves coach Eduardo Coudet but still leaves it in 15th place without a win in five games. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated PressCredit union pledged donations to support student-athletes for each Boise State first down in 2024 BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the official credit union of the Boise State Broncos, Mountain America Credit Union continues its support of BroncoLife through the First Down donation program. Through this unique program, the credit union committed a donation to BroncoLife for every first down completed by the BSU football team in 2024. This year, those first downs added up to $15,000, which will help BroncoLife continue its mission of empowering student-athletes to reach their full potential both in school and on their future career paths. A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link. 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Kaligis can certainly use all the support he can get, especially an embrace and some encouraging words from the opposing coach. No. 22 Syracuse (9-3, No. 21 CFP), led by national passing leader Kyle McCord, is a 17-point favorite according to BetMGM in Friday night's Holiday Bowl against the depleted Cougars (8-4), whose season has nosedived since mid-November. After beating future Pac-12 opponent San Diego State 29-26 on Oct. 26 at Snapdragon Stadium, coach Jake Dickert, quarterback John Mateer and the rest of the Cougars were 7-1 and about to jump into The Associated Press Top 25. Now the Cougars are barely recognizable as they return to Snapdragon. Dickert was hired away by Wake Forest, Mateer transferred to Oklahoma and running back Wayshawn Parker left for Utah. Numerous coaches, including the offensive and defensive coordinators, are gone, and more than 20 players have entered the transfer portal. The Cougars, who lost their last three games, are a prime example of how college football's rapidly changing landscape can dramatically affect a program. “Going into the ins-and-outs of the game tomorrow doesn’t matter,” Kaligis said. “We are who we are, we have what we have. I know that’s for both of us.” Kaligis said players who entered the portal after Dickert left can suit up Friday night. “I know we came here with 98 guys. That's who we’re going to show up on the field with.” Kaligis said relationships between players and coaches are more important than ever, even if there's less time to develop trust “and coach them the right way.” “When a staff (member) leaves and guys get in the portal, it’s because of the relationships they have garnered with their position coaches. When that position coach isn’t guaranteed he’s going to be there, that’s who that young man trusts,” Kaligis said. “I’ve been doing this for a long time," he added. "What’s been hard for me, I spent 13 years at Wyoming, I saw three graduating classes. I remember I was the longest-tenured coach there. To see them all the way through. When I came to Wazzu, I was their fourth D-line coach." The Cougs improved to 8-1 by beating Utah State 49-28 on Nov. 9 but then lost three straight, including to Oregon State in the de facto championship game between the two teams left in the Pac-12. They also lost to New Mexico and Wyoming, two of the Mountain West teams that weren't invited to join the reconstituted Pac-12 starting in 2026. McCord, who transferred from Ohio State, rewrote the Orange's record book this season with 4,326 yards passing, 29 touchdowns and 367 completions. He's well within range of breaking Deshaun Watson's ACC single-season record of 4,593, which he set in 15 games in 2016. A win will give Syracuse 10 wins for the first time since 2018 and just the third time since 2000. Brown can become the second Syracuse coach since World War II to record 10 wins in his first season, joining Paul Pasqualoni, who did it in 1991. In their final regular-season game, the Orange rallied from a 21-0 deficit for a 42-38 win against then-No. 6 Miami that knocked the Hurricanes out of ACC title contention and ended their College Football Playoff hopes. McCord threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns. “We want to go out and have a good game,” Brown said. “We have an opportunity of winning 10 games, which means you’re starting to become a successful program, right? Our players haven’t had a chance of winning a bowl game. So there’s a lot of things that are on the line for us to really be able to build our program and being able to move forward.” This will be the teams' second meeting. Syracuse beat Washington State 52-25 in 1979.Social media users are misrepresenting a report released Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general's office, falsely claiming that it's proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The watchdog report examined a number of areas, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. Claims spreading online focus on the report's finding that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who had been tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the events. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes paced up and down the Chiefs’ sideline, yelling toward everyone yet no one in particular. His first-half pep talk, a waste. His body, bruised. His frustration, public for all to see. If you didn’t know any better — if you didn’t check the date on this column — you might have guessed I ripped the scene from Christmas Day a year earlier. Except for just one tiny detail. The Chiefs won. They beat the Las Vegas Raiders 19-17 on Friday at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, and for all of the close, funky conclusions that have defined this season, we have a masterpiece: a botched snap. A year after the Raiders robbed the Chiefs of a Christmas Day celebration, they gifted them a victory when center Jackson Powers-Johnson snapped the ball before quarterback Aidan O’Connell expected it. Nick Bolton pounced on it. That’s how the Chiefs just beat the worst team in football. Look, the Chiefs are still a very good team, but with the record of a very great team requesting to be judged on the curve of the very best teams the league has to offer. That’s not some unfair grading system we invented for them — it’s how they judge themselves. Been that way for a while now. And about the only positive thing I can offer from Friday’s game — other than, you know, the win — is to wonder if perhaps the outcome will convince Raiders owner Mark Davis that head coach Antonio Pierce is a good fit for the job. The Chiefs’ offense gained just 4.9 yards per play, the third-worst mark among the 12 teams to play the Raiders this season. The Chiefs defense allowed 6.9 yards per play, 1.3 more yards per play than anyone had allowed the Raiders this year. Chiefs coach Andy Reid botched a fourth-down decision in which he elected to put the end of the game in the hands of that defense, rather than his quarterback. Everyone shared some blame. But for all of that, there are no bigger concerns than the root of Mahomes’ outburst. Left tackle. For the third time this year, Reid benched his left tackle in-game, enacting a full-on state of emergency that sent Joe Thuney, an All-Pro guard, to protect Mahomes’ blindside. To hell with it, Reid apparently said, and who could blame him? Starting left tackle Wanya Morris, who doubles as the replacement for the first guy KC benched this season, allowed 11 pressures and a career day not from Maxx Crosby, but from K’Lavon Chaisson — who had eight pressures, per Next Gen Stats. A ticket-taker slows traffic more efficiently than Morris slowed the Raiders’ navigation to his quarterback. On three occasions, Chaisson reached Mahomes is less than 2 1/2 seconds. Those plays were over before they started. “He’s playing against a couple of good players,” Reid said of Morris. “But you gotta do better than what we did there.” At one point, visibly frustrated, Mahomes stretched out both arms from his sides and turned his palms skyward, as if to ask the very question that will hover over the rest of the Chiefs’ quest for the NFL’s first three-peat: What now? Well, it sure seems like one of the most important players to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl hopes just became someone who hasn’t put on a football uniform in more than 11 months — someone who has never put on a Chiefs uniform. D.J. Humphries, you’re up. After spending the past 11 months out of football — not even a practice since his ACL injury with the Arizona Cardinals last December — the Chiefs have little choice but to ask Humphries to step into one of the most important jobs in the sport. A risky solution. I’ll listen for others. The Chiefs have survived subpar left tackle play in this era. They’re almost stuck with it, given the constraints of their salary cap paired with their draft position falling at the end of every round. Donovan Smith was below average a year ago, even if time has elevated that memory. Heck, Cam Erving protected Mahomes at one point. They’ve managed. This is different. They aren’t even giving Mahomes a chance. Before the season, I could not offer you a single example of a left tackle flat-out whiffing on an edge rusher. I’m sure it’s happened. I don’t remember it. Today, if asked for that example, I would reply with a question: Which one? Morris continually elected to just try to punch at Chaisson. He came about as close as a 58-year-old boxer on Netflix. To Morris’ credit, and this will be dismissed more quickly than it should, he remained by his locker as media entered the room after the game. He took every last question he was asked. “There’s no better time to learn than when you get your (rear-end) beat,” Morris told me, and he did not say rear-end. “It sucks to get your (rear-end) beat, but when you get your (rear-end) beat, you can have two responses: You can lay down, or you can get back up and try something new. I’m going to get back up and try something new.” What’s becoming obvious: The Chiefs cannot afford him that chance. They cannot afford their second-round pick, Kingsley Suamataia, that chance, either. A year ago, the Raiders supplied the Chiefs a wake-up call: They’d better take the rest of the season seriously if they intended to make another Super Bowl run. This year, the wake-up call is how drastically one position can derail their plans. On a first-half drive Friday, Mahomes completed a no-look pass to tight end Noah Gray for 26 yards. A few plays later, tight end Travis Kelce lateraled a ball to running back Samaje Perine for a first down. Three more plays later, Mahomes absorbed a shot to the chest but managed to somehow flick a pass to receiver Justin Watson, who made a contested catch for a touchdown. A no-look. A lateral. A contested catch, which this team almost never makes. That once comprised the look of a team showing off. On Friday, it comprised the requirements for scoring. It was the recipe for the only time the Chiefs reached the end zone. Those plays I glossed over? They were interrupted by the constant pressure. Even the touchdown should have been interrupted by the pressure. A miraculous throw, really. But the Raiders — and that outburst — illuminated something in the process. Even a franchise savior has a limit. ©2024 The Kansas City Star. Visit kansascity.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Saturday congratulated his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren for the JMM-led INDIA bloc’s spectacular win in the Assembly polls in the eastern state. Stalin, in a post on ‘X,’ said: “Congratulations Hon’ble @HemantSorenJMM and our #INDIA bloc for a historic victory against all odds! Despite relentless misuse of power, vendetta politics, and countless obstacles created by the BJP over the past five years, @HemantSorenJMM has fought back with courage and determination.” Congratulations Hon'ble @HemantSorenJMM and our #INDIA bloc for a historic victory against all odds! Despite relentless misuse of power, vendetta politics, and countless obstacles created by the BJP over the past five years, @HemantSorenJMM has fought back with courage and... Also, he said: “The people of Jharkhand have reposed their faith in inclusive leadership. This is a resounding victory for democracy and secularism!”( MENAFN - Investor Brand Network) Central banks around the world have been ramping up their accumulation of gold, creating one of the most significant market shifts in years. Over the last two years, governments added over 2,000 tonnes of Gold to their reserves ( )-a pace not seen in the last 20 years. While economic headlines often focus on inflation or interest rate cycles, this relentless accumulation of gold reveals something deeper: a global move to hedge against uncertainty and challenge the dominance of traditional reserve currencies like the U.S. dollar. For investors, it raises an obvious question-if the... Read More>> NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to MUX are available in the company's newsroom at About AINewsWire AINewsWire (“AINW”) is a specialized communications platform with a focus on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (“AI”), including the technologies, trends and trailblazers driving innovation forward. It is one of 70+ brands within the Dynamic Brand Portfolio @ IBN that delivers : (1) access to a vast network of wire solutions via InvestorWire to efficiently and effectively reach a myriad of target markets, demographics and diverse industries ; (2) article and editorial syndication to 5,000+ outlets ; (3) enhanced press release enhancement to ensure maximum impact ; (4) social media distribution via IBN to millions of social media followers ; and (5) a full array of tailored corporate communications solutions . With broad reach and a seasoned team of contributing journalists and writers, AINW is uniquely positioned to best serve private and public companies that want to reach a wide audience of investors, influencers, consumers, journalists, and the general public. By cutting through the overload of information in today's market, AINW brings its clients unparalleled recognition and brand awareness. AINW is where breaking news, insightful content and actionable information converge. To receive SMS alerts from AINewsWire, text“AI” to 888-902-4192 (U.S. Mobile Phones Only) For more information, please visit AINewsWire is powered by IBN MENAFN26122024000224011066ID1109033813 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.
Devendra Fadnavis Is PM Modi's Favourite, Says Mother Sarita FadnavisThe world has become a touchscreen phenomenon and youngsters these days are fuelled by instant fame and money, but such a desire is not sustainable, philanthropist and author Sudha Murty said on Saturday. Addressing an event at a private university here, Murty urged the graduates not to chase instant fame but instead develop a mind of curiosity and learn from mistakes while trying new things ethically and legally. Assembly Election Results Live Updates Maharashtra Election Results Jharkhand Election Results Bypoll Election Results "The whole world, for that matter, has become a touch screen phenomenon or syndrome. You touch the screen, you get something, you play or you read... touch the screen, you get the reply. All of you think life is a touch screen. "No, it is not true. Youngsters like you are always fuelled by instant fame and instant money. That is not sustainable. Instant fame, nobody gets," the Rajya Sabha MP said. She advised the student to remember that life does not run on Facebook likes and dislikes, or followers or influencers. "You have to make your mind healthy along with your body," she added. 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The philanthropist said she failed miserably many times but learned a lesson from every failure. "As long as it is right legally and ethically, try new things, and from failure learn new things," she said. Murty recalled that she learnt the greatest philosophies in life from the poorest people who did not know English. She also observed that children today are not connected to the people, especially the poor. "India does not mean software, it does not mean Bollywood, it is not only money. India means those people who will perish without your help. And you are the catalyst in this improvement of our country," she said. "Your life after here should be guided by your own conscience. But life is not that difficult. It will not be that easy either. It will somewhere be in the middle," Murty told the graduating students at the 6th convocation ceremony of Anant National University . Murty, who is married to the co-founder of tech giant Infosys N R Narayana Murthy, observed that creativity is a basic sign of progress and helps cut the boredom of the mundane world. "For creativity, you require great imagination... Imagination should be built up with children, and you can imagine as much as possible depending on your strength. And that you should do at home as parents," she said. She said there was no shortcut to success other than hard work. Disappointments are also needed in life as one becomes a "soft" person without resistance, she added. Murty urged the graduates to help others saying it gives tremendous happiness. She also said that one should know technology, otherwise one will perish. Assembly Election Results Live Updates Maharashtra Poll Results Highlights 2024 Jharkhand Poll Results Highlights 2024 (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — Cornelious Brown IV threw five touchdown passes, Donovan Eaglin ran for 105 yards and two scores, and Alabama A&M defeated Mississippi Valley State 49-35 on Saturday. The Bulldogs scored 21 points in the third quarter to break free from a 28-all tie at halftime. All three touchdowns came on passes by Brown. He hit DJ Nelson for 35 yards, Donovan Payne for 9 yards, and Keenan Hambrick for 13 yards. Alabama A&M led 49-28 heading to the final quarter. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Is a Lost Decade Ahead for Stocks?
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Kaligis can certainly use all the support he can get, especially an embrace and some encouraging words from the opposing coach. No. 22 Syracuse (9-3, No. 21 CFP), led by national passing leader Kyle McCord, is a 17-point favorite according to BetMGM in Friday night's Holiday Bowl against the depleted Cougars (8-4), whose season has nosedived since mid-November. After beating future Pac-12 opponent San Diego State 29-26 on Oct. 26 at Snapdragon Stadium, coach Jake Dickert, quarterback John Mateer and the rest of the Cougars were 7-1 and about to jump into The Associated Press Top 25. Now the Cougars are barely recognizable as they return to Snapdragon. Dickert was hired away by Wake Forest, Mateer transferred to Oklahoma and running back Wayshawn Parker left for Utah. Numerous coaches, including the offensive and defensive coordinators, are gone, and more than 20 players have entered the transfer portal. The Cougars, who lost their last three games, are a prime example of how college football's rapidly changing landscape can dramatically affect a program. “Going into the ins-and-outs of the game tomorrow doesn’t matter,” Kaligis said. “We are who we are, we have what we have. I know that’s for both of us.” Kaligis said players who entered the portal after Dickert left can suit up Friday night. “I know we came here with 98 guys. That's who we’re going to show up on the field with.” Kaligis said relationships between players and coaches are more important than ever, even if there's less time to develop trust “and coach them the right way.” “When a staff (member) leaves and guys get in the portal, it’s because of the relationships they have garnered with their position coaches. When that position coach isn’t guaranteed he’s going to be there, that’s who that young man trusts,” Kaligis said. “I’ve been doing this for a long time," he added. "What’s been hard for me, I spent 13 years at Wyoming, I saw three graduating classes. I remember I was the longest-tenured coach there. To see them all the way through. When I came to Wazzu, I was their fourth D-line coach." The Cougs improved to 8-1 by beating Utah State 49-28 on Nov. 9 but then lost three straight, including to Oregon State in the de facto championship game between the two teams left in the Pac-12. They also lost to New Mexico and Wyoming, two of the Mountain West teams that weren't invited to join the reconstituted Pac-12 starting in 2026. McCord, who transferred from Ohio State, rewrote the Orange's record book this season with 4,326 yards passing, 29 touchdowns and 367 completions. He's well within range of breaking Deshaun Watson's ACC single-season record of 4,593, which he set in 15 games in 2016. A win will give Syracuse 10 wins for the first time since 2018 and just the third time since 2000. Brown can become the second Syracuse coach since World War II to record 10 wins in his first season, joining Paul Pasqualoni, who did it in 1991. In their final regular-season game, the Orange rallied from a 21-0 deficit for a 42-38 win against then-No. 6 Miami that knocked the Hurricanes out of ACC title contention and ended their College Football Playoff hopes. McCord threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns. “We want to go out and have a good game,” Brown said. “We have an opportunity of winning 10 games, which means you’re starting to become a successful program, right? Our players haven’t had a chance of winning a bowl game. So there’s a lot of things that are on the line for us to really be able to build our program and being able to move forward.” This will be the teams' second meeting. Syracuse beat Washington State 52-25 in 1979.Social media users are misrepresenting a report released Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general's office, falsely claiming that it's proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The watchdog report examined a number of areas, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. Claims spreading online focus on the report's finding that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who had been tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the events. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes paced up and down the Chiefs’ sideline, yelling toward everyone yet no one in particular. His first-half pep talk, a waste. His body, bruised. His frustration, public for all to see. If you didn’t know any better — if you didn’t check the date on this column — you might have guessed I ripped the scene from Christmas Day a year earlier. Except for just one tiny detail. The Chiefs won. They beat the Las Vegas Raiders 19-17 on Friday at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, and for all of the close, funky conclusions that have defined this season, we have a masterpiece: a botched snap. A year after the Raiders robbed the Chiefs of a Christmas Day celebration, they gifted them a victory when center Jackson Powers-Johnson snapped the ball before quarterback Aidan O’Connell expected it. Nick Bolton pounced on it. That’s how the Chiefs just beat the worst team in football. Look, the Chiefs are still a very good team, but with the record of a very great team requesting to be judged on the curve of the very best teams the league has to offer. That’s not some unfair grading system we invented for them — it’s how they judge themselves. Been that way for a while now. And about the only positive thing I can offer from Friday’s game — other than, you know, the win — is to wonder if perhaps the outcome will convince Raiders owner Mark Davis that head coach Antonio Pierce is a good fit for the job. The Chiefs’ offense gained just 4.9 yards per play, the third-worst mark among the 12 teams to play the Raiders this season. The Chiefs defense allowed 6.9 yards per play, 1.3 more yards per play than anyone had allowed the Raiders this year. Chiefs coach Andy Reid botched a fourth-down decision in which he elected to put the end of the game in the hands of that defense, rather than his quarterback. Everyone shared some blame. But for all of that, there are no bigger concerns than the root of Mahomes’ outburst. Left tackle. For the third time this year, Reid benched his left tackle in-game, enacting a full-on state of emergency that sent Joe Thuney, an All-Pro guard, to protect Mahomes’ blindside. To hell with it, Reid apparently said, and who could blame him? Starting left tackle Wanya Morris, who doubles as the replacement for the first guy KC benched this season, allowed 11 pressures and a career day not from Maxx Crosby, but from K’Lavon Chaisson — who had eight pressures, per Next Gen Stats. A ticket-taker slows traffic more efficiently than Morris slowed the Raiders’ navigation to his quarterback. On three occasions, Chaisson reached Mahomes is less than 2 1/2 seconds. Those plays were over before they started. “He’s playing against a couple of good players,” Reid said of Morris. “But you gotta do better than what we did there.” At one point, visibly frustrated, Mahomes stretched out both arms from his sides and turned his palms skyward, as if to ask the very question that will hover over the rest of the Chiefs’ quest for the NFL’s first three-peat: What now? Well, it sure seems like one of the most important players to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl hopes just became someone who hasn’t put on a football uniform in more than 11 months — someone who has never put on a Chiefs uniform. D.J. Humphries, you’re up. After spending the past 11 months out of football — not even a practice since his ACL injury with the Arizona Cardinals last December — the Chiefs have little choice but to ask Humphries to step into one of the most important jobs in the sport. A risky solution. I’ll listen for others. The Chiefs have survived subpar left tackle play in this era. They’re almost stuck with it, given the constraints of their salary cap paired with their draft position falling at the end of every round. Donovan Smith was below average a year ago, even if time has elevated that memory. Heck, Cam Erving protected Mahomes at one point. They’ve managed. This is different. They aren’t even giving Mahomes a chance. Before the season, I could not offer you a single example of a left tackle flat-out whiffing on an edge rusher. I’m sure it’s happened. I don’t remember it. Today, if asked for that example, I would reply with a question: Which one? Morris continually elected to just try to punch at Chaisson. He came about as close as a 58-year-old boxer on Netflix. To Morris’ credit, and this will be dismissed more quickly than it should, he remained by his locker as media entered the room after the game. He took every last question he was asked. “There’s no better time to learn than when you get your (rear-end) beat,” Morris told me, and he did not say rear-end. “It sucks to get your (rear-end) beat, but when you get your (rear-end) beat, you can have two responses: You can lay down, or you can get back up and try something new. I’m going to get back up and try something new.” What’s becoming obvious: The Chiefs cannot afford him that chance. They cannot afford their second-round pick, Kingsley Suamataia, that chance, either. A year ago, the Raiders supplied the Chiefs a wake-up call: They’d better take the rest of the season seriously if they intended to make another Super Bowl run. This year, the wake-up call is how drastically one position can derail their plans. On a first-half drive Friday, Mahomes completed a no-look pass to tight end Noah Gray for 26 yards. A few plays later, tight end Travis Kelce lateraled a ball to running back Samaje Perine for a first down. Three more plays later, Mahomes absorbed a shot to the chest but managed to somehow flick a pass to receiver Justin Watson, who made a contested catch for a touchdown. A no-look. A lateral. A contested catch, which this team almost never makes. That once comprised the look of a team showing off. On Friday, it comprised the requirements for scoring. It was the recipe for the only time the Chiefs reached the end zone. Those plays I glossed over? They were interrupted by the constant pressure. Even the touchdown should have been interrupted by the pressure. A miraculous throw, really. But the Raiders — and that outburst — illuminated something in the process. Even a franchise savior has a limit. ©2024 The Kansas City Star. Visit kansascity.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Saturday congratulated his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren for the JMM-led INDIA bloc’s spectacular win in the Assembly polls in the eastern state. Stalin, in a post on ‘X,’ said: “Congratulations Hon’ble @HemantSorenJMM and our #INDIA bloc for a historic victory against all odds! Despite relentless misuse of power, vendetta politics, and countless obstacles created by the BJP over the past five years, @HemantSorenJMM has fought back with courage and determination.” Congratulations Hon'ble @HemantSorenJMM and our #INDIA bloc for a historic victory against all odds! Despite relentless misuse of power, vendetta politics, and countless obstacles created by the BJP over the past five years, @HemantSorenJMM has fought back with courage and... Also, he said: “The people of Jharkhand have reposed their faith in inclusive leadership. This is a resounding victory for democracy and secularism!”( MENAFN - Investor Brand Network) Central banks around the world have been ramping up their accumulation of gold, creating one of the most significant market shifts in years. Over the last two years, governments added over 2,000 tonnes of Gold to their reserves ( )-a pace not seen in the last 20 years. While economic headlines often focus on inflation or interest rate cycles, this relentless accumulation of gold reveals something deeper: a global move to hedge against uncertainty and challenge the dominance of traditional reserve currencies like the U.S. dollar. For investors, it raises an obvious question-if the... Read More>> NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to MUX are available in the company's newsroom at About AINewsWire AINewsWire (“AINW”) is a specialized communications platform with a focus on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (“AI”), including the technologies, trends and trailblazers driving innovation forward. It is one of 70+ brands within the Dynamic Brand Portfolio @ IBN that delivers : (1) access to a vast network of wire solutions via InvestorWire to efficiently and effectively reach a myriad of target markets, demographics and diverse industries ; (2) article and editorial syndication to 5,000+ outlets ; (3) enhanced press release enhancement to ensure maximum impact ; (4) social media distribution via IBN to millions of social media followers ; and (5) a full array of tailored corporate communications solutions . With broad reach and a seasoned team of contributing journalists and writers, AINW is uniquely positioned to best serve private and public companies that want to reach a wide audience of investors, influencers, consumers, journalists, and the general public. By cutting through the overload of information in today's market, AINW brings its clients unparalleled recognition and brand awareness. AINW is where breaking news, insightful content and actionable information converge. To receive SMS alerts from AINewsWire, text“AI” to 888-902-4192 (U.S. Mobile Phones Only) For more information, please visit AINewsWire is powered by IBN MENAFN26122024000224011066ID1109033813 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.
Devendra Fadnavis Is PM Modi's Favourite, Says Mother Sarita FadnavisThe world has become a touchscreen phenomenon and youngsters these days are fuelled by instant fame and money, but such a desire is not sustainable, philanthropist and author Sudha Murty said on Saturday. Addressing an event at a private university here, Murty urged the graduates not to chase instant fame but instead develop a mind of curiosity and learn from mistakes while trying new things ethically and legally. Assembly Election Results Live Updates Maharashtra Election Results Jharkhand Election Results Bypoll Election Results "The whole world, for that matter, has become a touch screen phenomenon or syndrome. You touch the screen, you get something, you play or you read... touch the screen, you get the reply. All of you think life is a touch screen. "No, it is not true. Youngsters like you are always fuelled by instant fame and instant money. That is not sustainable. Instant fame, nobody gets," the Rajya Sabha MP said. She advised the student to remember that life does not run on Facebook likes and dislikes, or followers or influencers. "You have to make your mind healthy along with your body," she added. 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The philanthropist said she failed miserably many times but learned a lesson from every failure. "As long as it is right legally and ethically, try new things, and from failure learn new things," she said. Murty recalled that she learnt the greatest philosophies in life from the poorest people who did not know English. She also observed that children today are not connected to the people, especially the poor. "India does not mean software, it does not mean Bollywood, it is not only money. India means those people who will perish without your help. And you are the catalyst in this improvement of our country," she said. "Your life after here should be guided by your own conscience. But life is not that difficult. It will not be that easy either. It will somewhere be in the middle," Murty told the graduating students at the 6th convocation ceremony of Anant National University . 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ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — Cornelious Brown IV threw five touchdown passes, Donovan Eaglin ran for 105 yards and two scores, and Alabama A&M defeated Mississippi Valley State 49-35 on Saturday. The Bulldogs scored 21 points in the third quarter to break free from a 28-all tie at halftime. All three touchdowns came on passes by Brown. He hit DJ Nelson for 35 yards, Donovan Payne for 9 yards, and Keenan Hambrick for 13 yards. Alabama A&M led 49-28 heading to the final quarter. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Is a Lost Decade Ahead for Stocks?
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